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Podcast Summary: The Changelog - Episode: It's a Peccadillo Circus (Friends)
Overview In this episode of The Changelog, hosts Mat Ryer, Jared Porcenaluk, and Adam Stacoviak engage in a lively discussion filled with humor, tech insights, and playful banter. The episode covers a variety of topics including programming techniques, AI's role in interviews, and nostalgic mentions of older technology like floppy disks.
Key Highlights
Segment 1
Introduction and Sentry Discussion
- Introduction to Sentry: Jasmine Casas from Sentry discusses the popularity of the Session Replay feature, which aids developers in troubleshooting UI errors by allowing them to replay user sessions.
- Integration with Alerts: Sentry's new feature embeds replay videos directly into issue alerts, streamlining the debugging process.
Segment 2
Return of Mat Ryer and Musical Interlude
- Mat's Piano Skills: Mat Ryer returns and surprises the hosts with his piano playing, prompting discussions about musical skills compared to coding abilities.
- AI in Coding Interviews: The hosts debate the use of AI tools in coding interviews, discussing whether it's beneficial to leverage such tools or if it undermines the assessment of a candidate's skills.
Segment 3
The Truths and Lies Game
- Game Introduction: The hosts play a game of "Two Truths and a Lie," where each participant presents three statements, and the others must guess the lie.
- Mat's Statements: Included claims about AI creating new colors and proteins, alongside a mythical story about a train in China breaking the sound barrier.
- Jared's Statements: Featured headlines regarding Meta's sponsorship of TikTok posts and a humorous take on Miyamoto's son questioning his parenting after playing Super Mario 64.
- Adam's Statements: Discussed the US nuclear arsenal's use of floppy disks until 2019, slime molds aiding Tokyo's rail system design, and a Raspberry Pi GPU announcement.
Segment 4
Philosophical Discussions
- Socrates and Memory: The conversation veers into a discussion about Socrates' views on writing and memory, prompting thoughts on how modern tech impacts our cognitive abilities.
- Cultural References: Various cultural references, including *Good Will Hunting* and *Scary Movie 2*, are made to highlight points about memory and miscommunication.
Segment 5
Awards and Recognition
- Open Source Medal: Mat shares his experience of receiving an open-source award for his work on the Testify package, emphasizing the importance of community contributions in the realm of software development.
Segment 6
Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up
- Matt’s Musical Summary: A comedic musical summary is performed by Mat, encapsulating the episode’s themes and light-hearted nature.
- Closing Remarks: The hosts encourage listeners to tune in next week for more episodes, thanking the sponsors and promoting the upcoming content.
Key Takeaways
- Importance of Community in Open Source: Recognition of contributions in open source is vital, as reflected by Mat’s recent award.
- Evolving Role of AI in Development: As AI becomes more integrated into coding practices, discussions around ethics and practical use cases are increasingly relevant.
- Nostalgia for Past Technologies: References to floppy disks and older technologies underscore how rapidly the tech landscape has evolved, and the emotional attachment many developers have to these tools.
Conclusion This episode of The Changelog delivers a mix of humor, insightful discussions on technology, and engaging games that reflect the camaraderie and playful nature of the hosts. The blend of technical content with light-hearted banter makes it an enjoyable listen for anyone interested in software development and open source communities.
Next Episode Tune in next week for more engaging discussions, including special guests and new tech topics!
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:14Welcome to changelog and friends, a weekly talk show about trailer spoilers. Thanks, as always, to our partners at Fly. Over 3 million apps have launched on Fly, the public cloud built for developers who ship. That's us, and that's you. Learn more at fly.io. Okay, let's talk.
0:41Well, before the show, I'm here with Jasmine Casas from Sentry. Jasmine, I know that session replay is one of those features that just once you use it, it becomes the way. How widely adopted is Session Replay for Sentry? I can't share specific numbers, but it is highly adopted in terms of if you look at the whole feature set of Sentry, Replay is highly adopted. I think what's really important to us is Sentry supports over 100 languages and frameworks. It also means mobile. So I think it's important for us to cater to all sorts of developers. We can do that by opening up Replay from not just web, but going to mobile.
1:18I think that's the most important needle to move. So I know one of the things that developers waste so much time on is reproducing some sort of user interface error or some sort of user flow error. And now there is session replay. To me, it really does seem like the killer feature for Sentry. Absolutely. That's a sentiment shared by a lot of our customers. And we've even doubled down on that workflow because today, if you just get a link to an issue alert in Sentry, an issue alert, for example, in Slack or whatever, integration that you use. As soon as you open that issue alert, we've embedded the replay video at the time of the error.
1:54So then it just becomes part of the troubleshooting process. It's no longer an add-on. It's just one of the steps that you do. Just like you would review a stack trace, our users would just also review the replay video. It's embedded right there on the issues page. Okay. Sentry is always shipping, always helping developers ship with confidence. That's what they do. Check out their launch week details in the link in the show notes. And of course, check out Session Replay's new edition mobile replay in the link in the show notes as well. And here's the best part. If you want to try Sentry, you can do so today with$100 off the team plan.
2:28Totally free for you to try out for you and your team. Use the code CHANGELOG. Go to century.io again century.io
2:55well matt is back but with no guitar no no i thought i'd switch things up a little bit And what I've done is I've brought my piano, look.
3:11Love it. I didn't know. Actually, I did know that you played piano because I think you sent me a few piano tunes throughout the days, but I kind of forgot. I know. I'm better on the piano than I can't really play the guitar. Oh, you fooled us. Yeah. I just learned some tricks. You don't need to learn how to play. It's like coding. You don't have to learn how to code. You just have to learn a few tricks. That's right. The interview. You have to trick the interviewer that you know how to code. I've been an imposter for a very long, very long time. Right. You can't code, but you can leak code. You know, that's all you need.
3:45Yes. I mean, genuinely, though, we are seeing an uptick of people using ChatGPT in interviews. Oh, really? Yeah. What do you do? Like, what's your stance on that? Would you allow that or no? That's a good question because to a certain extent, it's like, well, I want to know how much you know about this craft but also i want to know what you can do and let's be honest if you're going to be doing you're going to be using some assistance yeah and so why not just use the assistance while you're doing the interview i guess i would leave it up to the interviewer what would you do matt well i'm with you i think uh they are part of the tool chain that we have so use it i mean are we really interviewing people to find out what they know in their brain now or what they can do, like what they're able to produce.
4:35Yeah, I think it depends on what you want. He just repeated exactly what you said, Jared. He did. He made me feel smart by just saying it back to me. Is that a trick of yours? Well, I'd say in a British accent, that's what makes it sound smart. He makes it sound even better. It's like he one-ups me by just saying it back with his accent. Not fair, Matt. How about this idea? Okay. Okay. We just add a flag to people's column. You know, like I'm interviewing Matt. Matt is AI-assisted. Cool. That's it. Right. Just be honest about it. Yeah. I'm actually quite cool with being AI-assisted. I'm not cool with just AI.
5:11If you're interviewing an AI, come on. Yeah. Come on, Meta. You don't want to be replaced. You want to be assisted. Yeah. I mean, I'm a humanist, man. Okay. See, I feel like you're joining my team over here because I've been saying this for a while. Yeah. Assisted is the way to be. I'm happy to have you. I think AI-powered. view you know like i think human plus ai equals better but ai plus ai equals disaster for now i gotta say for now i gotta say for now some people are avoiding using ai ethically because they're not happy with the copyright that was all right um so they're sort of opting out of it from an ethical point of view and they really are kind of giving themselves a disadvantage you know so all credit to them for it really for that but yeah if if your mission is to just get stuff done yeah ai assisted i'm in yeah i'm very popular to say that you know well let me if ai or the llm this chat is the evolution of what we had which compares well to google have you had an issue with people googling things no you have not it's actually expected yeah now right but in the beginning people did they said you have to do this you're not allowed to use google you've got to do this and then some places i think some places still do that it's like the whiteboard interview this is interview process only though right you're thinking interview process only okay so if we go past the interview i'm totally cool with i want to know what your potential is and what resources you can leverage so i think of like two things resourcefulness and resilience right those are double r's right there that's the quintessential pair let's just say it's double r's it's the quintessential pair why did you stop that was getting so good it's just a jingle in case you need it in case that comes up again in case there's another quintessential pair that also starts with r yeah that was a pretty good abstraction actually you didn't say the words so there you go yeah we can reuse it adam think of another couple of r's later okay i'll keep going so i think it was socrates it could be wrong on the details of the individual but there is a very prominent philosopher slash academic i think it's socrates who was against writing things down publicly he came out and said we shouldn't write this was like the advent of writing perhaps right the two r's yeah writing and writing and And he just thought that we would lose our brains, like we would stop being able to remember things.
7:51And I recall when programmable phones were picking up and you no longer had to memorize people's phone numbers. And there were some folks who were kind of offended by that because there was a social dynamic to like whose numbers do you have memorized? It kind of shows who's important to you in your life. And there's certain people like, I'm just going to remember your phone number. And, you know, 10 years later, they're all off that. they're all done yeah it's over with purged why would you want to remember full numbers if you don't have to so yeah i feel like some of it's the the more typical just don't move my cheese kind of stuff yeah i get it i get why people it was like it with calculators in in my i remember my cousin wasn't allowed to use a calculator in one of his exams but i was younger and we were allowed to use calculators and he was outraged um i mean it was an english exam so it didn't help but still
8:47sometimes your jokes don't go down so well don't worry don't worry it's alright just a little one for me there I like how you console yourself I was just over here thinking how I just missed a huge opportunity when I said the two R's writing and writing because there actually were three R's if you recall in early education it was reading writing and arithmetic and that's not even a joke that's what they called it i mean it is a joke but it's hilarious yeah and i missed that opportunity so i'm just recovering that and getting it in there for the record get it in there i'm gonna close the loop too for you yeah so socrates you are you were correct yes it says the philosopher most famously known for being up against writing things down is socrates yes i got it through his student plato's writing writings, Socrates expressed concerns that writing weakens memory and can lead to a false appearance of knowledge rather than true understanding.
9:47Yeah. And it goes on to say that he believed that writing was not an effective means of communicating knowledge. He was saying that from a place of privilege, though. He had Plato to write all this stuff down for him. Come on. Yeah, right? Some of us plebs have to write our own things down. It was about being face to face, it seems like it is. As to him, face to face communication was the only way one person could transmit knowledge to another. Yeah. It seems a little one-sided. Now, see, here's the thing, though, is that world was so much different. Oh, yeah. The amount of things you could know about was so finite compared to now.
10:18When did he live? I don't even know. Forever ago. 470 BC. Gosh, so. I just feel like I asked that question so I could tell you. I didn't. I actually was typing it in. If you predate Jesus, it's a long time ago, right? I mean, come on. That's right. Yeah. But I get this, you know. um when i when i'm communicating with somebody who is i don't know let's say there might be an idiot okay um present company excluded no yeah not you no no definitely not nobody nobody on the change log uh on the change log platform as far as i'm concerned fair yeah and you know i want to just go on the record saying that no but um it's kind of a nice clue when you're when you're texting with somebody or talking to them like you get clues about what's going on and you sort of lose a bit of that if things are augmented um but we want everyone to be the best version surely and we want everyone to have the best chance so i've got to come down on the side of that but yeah and there's apple intelligence adverts that show this one guy and he just like normally would say yeah light it up yeah what yeah i'm walking here that kind of character and uh gosh and then And Apple Intelligence changes it to be like, oh, I believe I was traversing the walkway before your vehicle approached.
11:37You know, it changes it into something that sounds. I have to interrupt this amazing story due to not paying for software. Loopback has introduced some noise because we needed to use Loopback to combine your piano and your microphone into a single one. Yeah, there's a Loopback going on. And because you haven't paid for it, which I'm cool with, they are not. That's the problem. Oh, it's on purpose. It's on purpose. That's cheeky. So I'm remembering this now. Adam, good job of identifying this. This is a good, it's not shareware. What is it called? It's like trialware moved by them. Destructiveware.
12:09Yeah, it's kind of annoying. You can use it, but it will destroy your work. Maybe right here we can insert one of those a few minutes later, and then we come back. A few minutes later. There you go. We are now back from the noisiness of Loopback and destructiveware. yeah you were saying that what were you saying well first of all i don't know if loopback need to be doing that um you know i get it a free trial and then you want to pay for it but it's a bit cheeky isn't it what did it sound like to you the worst white noise just like yeah really loud white progress we got louder and louder to the point we couldn't hear you at all i think they should give you like a seven day or a 30 day i mean that was like a 45 minute trial maybe maybe be less yeah probably less but we are fans of rogue amoeba software but not necessarily that particular move they did right there yeah that was not cool and whatever story you were telling matt i'm sure it was hilarious i don't remember now i don't either yeah should we just move on yeah i think we should yeah let's move on to the to the good stuff here we go let's tell each other some lies oh gosh i've got a lot for you you want to do these now let's explain what we're doing here matt matt this was your idea it's similar to a game i play on jsparty called head lies where i do a similar thing except for just one person so i'm very excited because i've never actually gotten to participate i've always been just the host and today i'm a participant so take us away matt this was your idea what are we going to do so we've got um two truths and one lie and these are tech headlines right so we have to say the three and then you've got to be able to figure out which is the lie and which ones are the trues so each of us has brought three and we'll each go in turn telling all three and then the other two people have to try to detect the lie you want to go first you're the guest be our guest ai has created new proteins that didn't exist before that's number one that's number one yeah number two uh there's a train in china has broken the sound barrier a train in china has broken these are headlines these are the same like summaries well that's what headline is i know right now sometimes okay keep going my version of this is not the same what news what's preferred news outlet i'll try and adapt it to the bbc obviously yeah okay okay keep going and then number three um ai has actually created a new color again that was a summary not okay so ai has created new proteins new protein there's a super ai has created a new color brand new color that's never been thought of before okay and then the train one i think that one's true it's going faster than the speed of sound that is not that hard there's cars that have done it it's quite fast though i mean a train doing that is significant but you know it's china they got how fast is this sound barrier mark what 4 10 sounds like a question for a robot not a human it's uh i think it's about 700 miles an hour right from memory but i could be i mean now we're gonna maybe cars haven't done it planes have done it not cars 770 approximately yeah i take that back i don't think a car has ever done that one two three nine kilometers per hour that was cool quite fast maybe those cars out in the desert where they're just like yeah i think they have broken it i'm just waffling back and forth yeah the rocket car yeah yeah i think they have okay so airplanes definitely break it then but has a train in china broken it probably i think they would figure that out yeah could be okay so i'm going with ai has created a new color i think that's impossible you just all the colors exist all you gotta do is get the right hex code hex codes aren't the be all and end all of color jared just well for me they kind of are oh you are more of an hsl guy hey did you know that yellow that you look at on a screen is a lie it's not the same as yellow if you're looking at a yellow flower that's why i'm picking that one as a lie yeah i just i don't trust colors adam what are you thinking man i'm still just thinking about these trains breaking the sound maybe they haven't be loud wouldn't it imagine waiting for a train and that one zooms past and bursts your ears that's the one i think is a lie i think that's the lie one you think the train one's a lie yeah i think the train was a lie so you and i both agree that ai creating new protein sounds like something that they would be doing with it totally plausible yeah what about ai creating a new color totally plausible how so don't all colors exist and they just need to be hex coded just we'd need to be discovered yeah i think it's a discovery thing i mean invent and discovers he did say invent oh okay well yeah but i gave a summary not a headline i just clearly you didn't give a headline the train is a lie all right so adam's going with train i'm going with color matt uh is there some sort of like a prelude song that you'd play on the way up to this yeah probably i would have thought so Have you ever considered a super fast train?
17:23How about one that'll blow your ears out and destroy your brain? Yeah, super loud, baby, loud. That one was true. Yes. Congratulations, that one was true. I'm afraid the color of a blooming thing. As Jared said, the colors all exist Yes! So we can't be that one Adam looks pissed, but he's fine He's fine Love it. Congratulations! I will concede that it's more plausible for the train to have broken the sound barrier than it would be to invent a new color. However, I thought I had some prior knowledge to the Shinkansen, which is the most famous bullet train. Oh. And I knew it's max speed because my son was such a fan of trains when he was, you know, growing up, like three, four, five.
18:26Still is a fan. But we actually, like, studied high-speed trains for a while. They're just, like, just for fun, you know? Yeah. At, like, a four-year-old level, not, like, an academic level. And none of them had broken the sound barrier. No, none of them did, and they were all in, like, the 400 range. So 700 and something is quite faster than 400, obviously. And imagine a train. Here's the thing with this speed train that you've got to think about. You have to consider so much further in the distance the dangers that are there. If you've got passengers on these trains, that's the whole point of them.
18:58They're passenger trains. And you go from here to there really, really fast. It's like the time to break or the time to stop is so much distance that you have to have like the proper real way to have this distance and stuff as i just thought it was like less likely i thought well you know find a color pick color plus you won't hear it coming you know that's right no because it's it's faster than sound yeah exactly it beats the sound to you that's actually i don't believe so i think you would still hear it coming i was just joking i also think you'll hear it but you'll hear it a little bit later than it would arrive delayed yeah i was going to say delayed they can't hear themselves could you hear yourself going too fast if you're going faster than sound could you hear yourself inside the train the air is not moving that fast i suppose so they'll be fine but yeah if you were just traveling that fast there's weird physics around that right like you know if you're in a moving vehicle and you throw a baseball up in the air and you can catch it but then if you throw it out of it then it's still travel i don't know how it works but like you start to break your brain thinking about that wind resistance there friction elsewhere there's inertia there's wind resistance there's lots of things going on yeah because the ball is traveling at that speed as well relative to you so you can right it's it's starting place is already that speed yeah it's already going dead fast even though but you don't notice it like much like us we're like turning around on this globe at like how many miles per hour but we have no idea yeah seven i think it was seven miles per hour we're traveling around the world oh that's not that fast oh one day per hour no one hour per hour oh yeah finally i landed on something closely correlated and true okay i have my two truths and a lie okay and let's see if you all can guess which one is the lie number one now these are going to read more like headlines because you know i follow directions around here um but that's neither here nor there number one as tiktok ban looms meta is sponsoring tiktok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Instagram.
21:01That's number one. Number two, developer fires entire team for AI now ends up searching for engineers on LinkedIn. Number three, Miyamoto's son, this is Nintendo's Miyamoto, Miyamoto's son was so bad at Super Mario 64 that he questioned his parenting. There you have it, two truths and one lie. What are you guys thinking? That first one sounded long for a headline, but again... Oh, now you're judging mine after those summaries you provided? Oh my gosh. Well, you know, headlines have skewed more conversation in the last five years. I think I know the answer to this, but Adam, what do you think? Can I hear them again, please?
21:46As TikTok ban looms, Meta is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Instagram. number two developer fires entire team for ai now ends up searching for engineers on linkedin number three miyamoto's son was so bad at super mario 64 he questioned his parenting man they're all terrible they're all terrible yeah but which one is not true two of those are true by the way two of those are true i'm thinking the last one's not true miyamoto's son yeah i don't know why okay i can't give any more credence to ai here in this podcast so far although we'll see yeah i'm gonna go with that one though the ai one because i can't say ai but what i can do is spot when jared's being a cheeky monkey i think he's uh i think it's a joke it's quite okay funny that someone would fire all their team and then do they use ai to search linkedin for people though at least probably well you could read the rest of the article on techgig.com.
22:54Oh, it's real. Because I got that headline from techgig.com. That is a true headline. You are both, well, sorry. Oh no, I foreshadowed. You are both incorrect. It's not Miyamoto's son. It's not LinkedIn. The lie is as TikTok ban looms, Meta is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Instagram. I made that up. Wow. I think that could easily be true, right? Right. Actually, it's kind of a good idea. Yeah, or if TikTok would let them. Maybe they are doing it, but no one wrote the headline. Yeah. Anyways, I feel bad for you guys. Sort of. Like I just hoodwinked you. Yeah. That's all right.
23:33That's the game, though. Adam looks doubly mad. I'm just angry about most things, you know. That's the game, Jared. Don't feel bad. Do you feel bad in Monopoly when you like taking money off your kids? Honestly, Matt, when I tell people I feel bad when I'm beating them in a game, I'm not really feeling bad. I just say that because I just feel like it's the appropriate thing. Oh, that's sweet. That's a lie then. I vote that one. Finally, he gets one right. Okay, Adam, why don't you do your turn and share with us some truths and lies. I'm bringing one close to home, really, that goes back to Matt's world in a way.
24:13I've got three headlines. Uh-huh. Two that are true. And then one that's false. That's interesting. Why have you done that? Just so you're aware. Okay. Okay. Which order should I read them in? Should I read the true ones first or the false one first? Read the false one first. You have to mix it up. Okay. Here we go. If you read the false one first, I'm sure to get it. This is the false one, just so you know. U.S. nuclear arsenal relied on eight-inch floppy disks until 2019. Oh. Number two. So, scientists used slime molds to help design Tokyo's rail system. Number three, Raspberry Pi is due to announce an SBC-style GPU to compete with NVIDIA.
25:01Okay. Okay. That's good. So, can you say the middle one again? Slime molds? Yes. Scientists used slime molds to help design Tokyo's rail system. I don't know what one of them is. I don't either. I'm not sure what slime molds are. Like slime from Ghostbusters? Slime? Slimer? Yeah. What do you think they got him in to help consult? I got headlines only. I got no context here, okay? These are headlines only. I'm just trying to figure out if it's real or not. If it's Ghostbusters based, I'm going to assume it's a lie. Sorry we're late on the project, but hiring Slimer was a big mistake. The office is an absolute state, and he's contributed nothing.
25:43I won't tell you this, but I'll give you the details later. You're going to love this. I got more context. Oh, he's going to give us details later. So that one, he's got an actual article. I've ruled it out. That's true. Which one's true? The slime mold. Okay. Because you just said you have an article on it. No, I didn't say on that one. I was, another one. It was a whole different one. You just changed the subject and then told us you had information for us. Yeah, I was thinking about something different. I was contextually somewhere else, you know? Okay. What was the first one again? Gosh, which, okay, yes.
26:12US United States US nuclear arsenal You know where the United States is too right Jared Do you know where it's at? The US? Okay Matt do you know where it's at? Yeah but I thought you were just saying us Us nuclear arsenal relied on It is bad That you call your country us Here we go Oh it's like AI Us nuclear arsenal relied on 8 inch floppy disks until 2019 8 inch floppy disk those are the big ones yeah yes not even the save icon is it that no no no in fact that won't work for you you know how far does the 8 inch go back because i remember floppies but i never used an 8 inch it was always a three and a half inch i do i have handled an 8 inch one i have had one in my hand and they are floppy like they this is why they were where the name floppy disk came from because i understood from the three and a half inch ones they weren't floppy they were rock hard because they were plastic so plastic hard i suppose they weren't made of rocks the but the uh the actual bigger the bigger ones the eight inch ones i think they're eight inch they were actually floppy actually no i'm thinking five and a half i don't think i've seen eight either i mean it's a big old disc yeah yeah it's a big you do some damage with that i wonder what capacity and how much you could probably less than the five and a half probably hope so no I don't know because it was that direction of travel wasn't it that's true but I think they got better at density or something you know smaller storage space over time I could easily be using it for some reason in an old antiquated nuclear something for the viewing audience Jason displace this and we'll see this is a visual audio audience only i'm sorry just imagine what eight inch five and a quarter and three and a half looks like i'm screen sharing with our friends here jared and matt as you know my friends our friends hello and on the left you have the eight inch in the middle you have the five and a quarter i believe is it five and a quarter yeah i was saying at five inch that's got the quarter in there yeah and then the three and a half down the very far right and i think you're correct matt saying that one is uh more of a plastic hard i think you said plastic card that's the three and hard yeah he said rock hard rock hard well compared i've had the middle one the five and a thingy five and a quarter and they were just very floppy difficult to digest yeah us nuclear arsenal relied on eight inch floppy disk the one on the far left i think that's false i think you made that up i mean eight inch but it's a nuclear arsenal not a nuclear power plant but arsenal like actually firing nukes yeah they have these antiquated systems though don't they and they don't change them and this is a tough one what was your third one again raspberry pi soon to announce sbc style gpu to compete with nvidia now what's an sbc style gpu single board computer okay a single what computer yeah you know that the sbc is like super cool because like you have this tiny little thing and it's a single board computer and so they're going to compete with nvidia like you're going to be doing inference on these things or something i mean i can speculate some if you'd Like, I think what I would say is, like, it's probably going to pair up with, like, the Raspberry Pi type thing.
29:33Because the Raspberry Pi doesn't, it has GPU in it. It's, like, not super amazing, you know? It does some stuff. You can do a media center on it, but not, you probably can't transcode 4K very well. Or at least multiple streams. So, I think those things have become popular. and so my guess, if this is true, of course, is that this SBC style GPU will pair up with a Pi to give you more GPU in this fanatic way of doing smaller computers, basically. Versus, let's just say, the most recent, the RTX 50 or whatever, like 5090 or 5090 or whatever they just released. That thing is huge. It's got three fans in it.
30:15Who wants that? you want a gpu that's smaller sbc style i'm not trying to overly sell this or anything but i'm just saying you know like this could be a truth oh yeah it could be yeah exactly it could be a true for yeah it's not true i think it's not i think that's that's what i'm going to pick as the lie the raspberry that's what you're choosing is the lie yeah okay tell me why well i can believe the us having some old systems and you need you know it still happens to need big big old disk the i don't know the point of raspberry pi is all very low tech lo-fi stuff they do have some bigger bits but sure i don't know yeah maybe they're trying to diversify uh and you think what is the what's the lie for you jared well i wrote off the slime molds because i think you were looking at the article or talking about it which means i didn't think about it very critically but i'm still thinking that that's true okay the raspberry pi story is exactly the kind of story that you would make up so i'm leaving i would make up yeah for a game no yeah i mean for yeah not just for in life like the guy just okay but i'm not sure where you'd see a report on the u.s nuclear system and their floppies like to me that just seems like like is that a news is that a was that news recently the uh well to go back to our our initiative here we were told by our new friend here.
31:43Hello. Obscure tech headlines. These are clearly obscure tech headlines. And so I scoured the internet. Oh, you're saying that was a headline from 2019. Well, it doesn't matter when it came. No, they did this until 2019. It doesn't mean that they... The news is new. Yeah, I just don't understand. Maybe there's like a FOIA request on the nukes. Right. The documentation on nukes. I can't confirm where I've gotten this information, okay? I just want to applaud you on your ability that put together three pretty good ones. Okay, thank you. Whereas you didn't like mine, and I fooled you utterly. I'm liking yours.
32:17Matt, I feel like you're about to break into some sort of song. Please do. Yeah, not really. Please stall for me.
32:28Tell me which one's the lie, please.
32:35It's a mini song. Is there more? No, no, no. Well, there's another verse. I like this. Are you a fan of Mario Kart? Oh, no, sorry, not Mario Kart. Mario Party. Yeah, yeah. Hang on. I'll just do the second verse. Ready? Yeah. I said please. That's it. It's not great. Yeah, that was kind of weak. It's not a hit, you know. They're not all hits. That was an album track. Yeah. Interstitials. You didn't say please, though. I was thinking you'd write us something about eight-inch floppies, but we can definitely move on. I'll save in that for later. which one is the lie if i met a game this and my goal is to win yeah i won the first round by uh guessing matt's and adam missing it i won the second round by fooling both of you and so if i merely tie in round three i've kind of taken it all so i'm gonna go with matt i'm gonna say the raspberry pie is false you made that up it's so plausible though right it's really good yeah it's really good I actually want I want that to be true
33:48why lie about the raspberry pie why don't you tell the truth amen I don't know if you know the rules but you kind of did it good Adam you did Go at them.
34:11You did it good.
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36:31here's the thing this is cool right this other truth one the slime mold okay what is the slime mold deal okay so they they put bits of food to represent Tokyo's various population centers on a map and then they let a slime mold which is supposed to be smart right like it's you know genius basically which naturally seeks the most effective paths between food sources grow and so this thing determined the network that could be a very plausible very efficient path what so they use slime molds to help design tokyo's rail system this is true oh to design it see i thought they were building it with slime molds to help design tokyo's rail i know but i didn't pay close enough attention that's amazing i think at a headline level you think that they use the slime mold to mold the train track kind of thing that's what i was thinking i understand that and then obviously us nuclear arsenal rely on eight floppy disks until 2019.
37:23This is a recent headline. Really? And the details behind this is that the Air Force finally modernized systems that ran on ancient hardware around 2019, but not before plenty of raised eyebrows in the tech circles. Why? Because they're using 8-inch floppies. Because they're using 8-inch floppy disks. Well, they do now then. They've gone on to normal 3 1⁄4. No, they must have jumped up to 3 1⁄2 inch. And then, you know, honestly, I just was like Like, I like Raspberry Pis. They're cool. NVIDIA and GPUs are all the rage. And I just heard a headline, basically, if you're a CPU maker, you're getting into GPU making.
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38:06If you're a GPU maker, you're getting into CPU making. NVIDIA has CPUs coming out, and Intel has GPUs coming out. So, like, they're flip-flopping, right? So, what's the other thing out there that's maybe going to do this? Raspberry Pi. and an SBC style GPU that attaches to these other smaller things would be totally cool. Yeah, it would be cool. If they do it within a year, should we come back and take Jared's points off him then? Yeah, I think so. I'll concede those points. Well, they're going to hear this, right? They're going to hear this. Right, this is pretty much like market research for them.
38:42We should totally be doing this. Like, let's get rid of these agent floppy disks that we were thinking about. Yeah. And let's do these SBC style GPUs. Yeah, that's good. I think we should take a moment to mourn that eight-inch floppy... Oh, it's happened. Whoops. It's happened. Freudian slip. Eight-inch floppy disk. It's happened. Try it again. It's a family show, Matt. It's a family show. Normally, I'm the one that has to be told that. Floppy disk manufacturer, you know, that company that had the contract forever. That they could just keep selling their floppy disks to the government at some astronomical price, you know?
39:26After probably 40 years of that one big contract, they finally had to stop printing money and get a real job. How many, what's the N plus on the floppy disks do you think they had? N plus? Yeah, like how many in reserve do you think they had to have to ensure the US arsenal, the US nuclear arsenal was, you know, safe? How many floppy disks? Well, they probably didn't think they were going to need it until recent events. And then they're like, you know, we actually should make sure this stuff works. Let's get a hundred behind this. N plus a hundred, you know? Yeah. We got the one in the drive. We're safe.
40:06Then we got 99 others sitting over there waiting just in case. I wonder what's on the disk then. Like a code, you think? Or like a key, like a GPG key or something like that. Got to be, isn't it? Not going to be like source code for the missiles or something. Let's, yeah, let's speculate this system. What could it actually do? Yeah. If it ran on this hardware, like, is it running? Is the program, is it like a USB version of a software that runs on the USB, but instead it runs on the floppy? Well, it used to boot off of a floppy, so maybe it's actually like the, boots into memory? Right. It boots into memory and then runs off the memory.
40:45All right. Right, so this floppy gets put in, the program is accessible, it boots into memory, boom goes the us arsenal. Yeah. Nuclear arsenal. Yeah, probably that. So the 8-inch floppy originally stored 80 kilobytes in 1971, and then it went up to 256, eventually maxing out at 1.2 megabytes. The 5.25 introduced in 1976, single-sided, single density, 160K. and then they figured out double density 360k eventually they did a double sided double density 720k and then double sided high density 1.2 megabytes so they finally made their way back up to the 8 inch maybe this is why the u.s nuclears are just like we're cool with the 8 inch man three and a half inch introduced in 1980 started at 720k double sided high density 1.44 that's the most common and then extra high density 2.88 megabytes this is making me think of a museum is there a place in the world where there's like a technology museum that isn't somebody's random basement or some weird absolutely there is there is yeah we were there i don't know if we're sure if we were there in the building together adam but i've been there it's in the valley in san diego right i mean san jose yeah it's called the computer history museum is that what it's called it's really cool i thought we were there together adam maybe i was there with somebody were we there together maybe we were i think we were it must be ancient history then uh well there is no ancient computer history because computers aren't ancient we haven't been to san francisco together i would say in about eight years it feels like at least six yeah if you go to computerhistory.org yes the computer history they have they have actually a pretty cool instagram as well that i've checked out where they still post stuff regularly and they have new stuff coming in i'm trying to find the actual address of the place to confirm you're saying it's in san diego it's in mountain view i think we're there together adam mountain view california so i didn't know i've been to mountain view was that when we were out to see user testing maybe yeah that might be right my brain was a little scattered we were doing something brand new with high stakes so what weed yeah totally that's what i can't remember i said high stakes oh wait that still works oh yeah it's just a steakhouse oh wait that's like the dispensary yeah high stakes is where you go afterwards yeah uh yeah i did have some other raspberry pi lies okay let's hear them do we need a theme tune for raspberry pi lies raspberry pi lies writes itself it does doesn't it really let's see if it does what key should it be in you pick a key any key a p it should be in p oh that's not one that's not one how about uh a minor yeah uh that's a minor what do you think adam higher or lower
43:50uh higher always as you know he likes high stakes
43:57I want my Raspberry Pi lies, baby, feed them to me. I want to think that they're making GPUs or gonna sell themselves to China. Tell me where we're gonna be in a thousand years' time. But tell me through Raspberry Pi lies. Well, they weren't really full-on lies. They were more like directions that I didn't flesh out. So I was thinking, uh, I was thinking, uh, drones, like a Pico drone, like make your own drone from a pie. Uh huh. Like a Pico drone. Yeah. I want that. And then I was thinking like, like something solar because I was like, well, you know, these things are so small. You want them to be in obscure places.
44:54Yeah. Like what if I wanted to switch like a WRT switch that's running open source stuff that's not like power accessible? I have a battery maybe or like a power pack. What if it was solar power powered, you know? So I was thinking like something solar that direction. Yeah. That's about it. I'd have gone for the US military disks if you'd said either of those two. That's true. Then I was thinking, well, GPU, that's in the headlines now. it's CES recent so there you go the challenge with solar is you need so much surface area well if it's small though like let's say if it's sub 5 watts which is what it would probably be like probably sub 2 watts it's just a switch and maybe wifi how much surface area do you need for that probably not much I mean the size of a Pi probably Pi Solar could you imagine this Pi Solar Raspberry Pi if you're not listening to this podcast for ideas should be yeah you should be yeah i mean here you go i like the drone idea i kind of want a phone case that's got that on it so i can if i do find i've lost my phone around the flat i can press a button on my watch yeah and it just flies to me yeah that'd be cool i mean it might slice some people on the way well there's some really small drones out there so i'm back uh i want to say about six about six or so years ago maybe seven years ago i got into like the early days of drones right they're expensive they still kind of are expensive now but there was these really small ones you could buy on amazon and they're like tiny like little toy things something that'd be kind of cool to build a drone from a pie but you probably can do that already you know all you need is a case and a compute and then i suppose servos and stuff like that to do the motors yeah i just need a good old fast fan yeah yeah one fan go up i see ya what's next is this show just based on truths and lies is there more well we finished haven't we yeah i won is this a show did you jerry you wouldn't that didn't you i would say that uh i should get some points too because you know i you know i let you in yeah alright you can have some of Matt's points yeah I mean I don't need them he's not going to use them I can't spend them in this country the exchange rate is terrible for points on game shows that's why you don't get many Brits appearing on American shows we should have prizes and then just give them to me at the end yeah if you win what can we give as a prize well I tell you what Jared you can master this episode how about that it'd be fun I can do that it'll be fun you know put him some applause and congratulations sounds maybe like that confetti like the you know that one yeah we should reach out to loopback though and rogamiba to see if they want to sponsor the show they should we should have an episode that's just white noise until the check clears that's right yeah this show brought to you by rogamiba brought to you by you know it's a shame it's that sound it could have been a lovely little ditty or you know a snoop dog track i'll tell you what licensing fees you know i do think it'd be kind of cool to augment whatever's being done and like if you were speaking now you're not matt now you're snoop dog like you said you know or they could do the charlie brown parent thing like you just aren't wah wah wah that would actually be pretty cool that'd actually be kind of funny yeah good marketing because you could probably use it you know like an unintended consequence like next thing you know like right or bad marketing because people won't upgrade they're just like i want the charlie brown sound that's right so good and where'd you get that well this free trial of rogamyba software called loopback just go get it it's free that'd be cool that's good marketing more ideas for these people holy boy i know well you're an idea guy oh man have you or someone you know been a victim of identity theft maybe you've been harassed on the internet maybe you've been stocked, maybe you've been doxxed.
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51:21One other thing we could talk about was just to throw some flowers at Matt. In addition to your amazing piano skills, I hear you recently won an award yourself, didn't you? I did, yeah. Can you tell us about this? Is this true or is it a lie? No, this is true. I couldn't believe it. I was going to have you tell the story and have Adam guess, but you've already ruined it. This is true. Well, I've said it's true. I mean, if I was lying, that is what I would say, to be fair. that is true if i have ruined it it is true yeah it's completely ruined go ahead tell us a story this is like uh now this was the open uk uh which is an organization that uh works and celebrates um open source software and i think because of um a little package i wrote with a friend of mine called testify you may have heard of it have you heard of it adam i do declare it's a version of testifying that is declaring testifying has voided the answer cool well you know i've heard of it matt have you well from you on go time yeah i don't stop banging on about it to be honest yeah you just won't shut up about it yeah actually well i found out from jonathan amsterdam from the the go team at google it's the most imported package go package in the world by about three times or something wow so it's like an assertion package that helps you you know assert equal write some tests yeah it helps with your testing doesn't go have that stuff built in well it deliberately doesn't and what you what you're told to do really by the go team is to write native go code and that's your test and there's nothing new for someone to learn you don't want to do that well i just wasn't used to it um and i was used to these assertion library and it you know it turns out i mean it's the you know it's the third most imported go oh it's the most imported go package by three times or whatever turns out i think people want that but there's a there's a weird little rub around when you pass variables into methods in certain cases it can change and so you don't really want that happening if you're in your test suite stuff is that called shadowing or something like this i don't know honestly um okay it's like a go piccadilly or is this like a programming thing it's a go specific piccadilly yeah yeah yeah did i use that word right i have no idea i doubt it uh probably not i've been using words wrong all day yeah maybe you meant piccadilly which is perhaps yellow sauce it's not that either but it's real yellow and not computer fake computer yellow unless you're seeing it on a computer yeah i can't you can't be trusted any longer you've been telling these you can't trust yellow no no i'm just googling piccadilly see if it's a real thing it's a place in in london there's an area oh that's right it's like a square yeah isn't it a square no it's a circus what's a circus it's a circus is where the elephants are yeah so there's a circus in london called piccadilly piccadilly that's and this is where like elephants stand on their two heels and then the lions jump through yeah it's very popular tourist attraction is it a circle i think it's not really like much of a circle but it probably was originally okay is that what a circus is a circle i've only put that together talking to you now i mean i always say the u.s audience here we don't know what a circus is unless it's you know barnum and bailey's that's the best circus in the world that's right so you're not doing a very good job explaining why piccadilly is a circus no i i can't help it you also call it a place a place So we're very confused.
54:52Matt, Adam, are you confused? I'm also confused, but something else. So I'm at this, tell me if you know this URL, okay? GitHub.com. I do. Yep, yep. Slash. Oh, hold on. Strictor. Say what? Nearly. Does that ring a bell to you, Matt? Stretcher. Stretcher. Oh, is this Testify? Yeah. That's the company that we, that's the startup that we had when we made Testify. so we put it in the company name not my own personal name uh now i'd be world famous had i you already are you won an open source award oh yeah i forgot i didn't finish telling you that i got a medal they sent me a medal what color was it uh golden oh golden that's that's first place gold it's first yeah i think everyone gets that though it wasn't like a race but there you go so yeah it was the open uk honors new year's honors list and genuinely it is quite nice to get that normally i don't win things like that but quite honored to get it really what do you think is that stretcher.com spelt this funny way s-t-r-e-t-c-h-r.com what do you think is there well i know that we let the domain expire and someone else got it so yeah that's why i was confused i think what do these folks have to do with testify for go because it's a it's a stretching company like you go there and you get stretched what's that so i was thinking like matt what is going on with your software what did you write this for to be stretched well originally this was like a mongodb style api so for web and app developers you'd be able to just start posting data to restful endpoints they didn't have to exist and it would create the restful uh you know the data it would just persist it and then when you get it and get the list it would all just work so that was the idea for app for make development quicker and gives you like a back end um so kind of like a schema list data store thing and the idea was describing what your idea was not this stretching idea they've got yeah i see you've said it sounds like they're going to stretch you like yeah they're doing something different altogether does it but we i need to make sure that that domain name is not on the project.
57:11It is. That's how I found it. It's on the GitHub organization. I'm going to go and change that. Yeah. I would definitely change that because that's confusing. I don't think anybody cares. I guess actually three times as many other folks who download or install any packages or whatever you call them in their Go programs and software care. But they're not on your org looking at what URL goes back to the source for Stretcher. No, but it is a concern. And I checked the emails to make sure that there were no emails that were, you know. I would do this, though. I would first email these folks at the new Stretcher, and I will let them know that you've been promoting their stuff for a few years now and that there's royalties to be paid.
58:01Okay, yeah. Yeah, I'd let them know that first prior to doing it Take a screenshot and share that with them. And then say, I've since stopped, but you owe me back pay. Maybe I could take that payment in stretches. So they could just come and just. That's right. I'm willing to barter. I could use a stretch. Or a body stretch. Can I close the loop on Picadillos? Please do. Have you guys ever seen the movie Good Will Hunting? Yeah, at least once. So Robin Williams' character, Sean, tells Will this story about how his wife farts in her sleep. oh yeah she farts and will cracks up about it it's he she sometimes she farts so loud she woke herself up oh right yeah yeah i've done that and they're laughing about it and sean says uh that's the stuff that i remember because she's died she's dead right right and that's not a spoiler because that's like the start of the plot so trailer spoiler can you have a trailer spoiler it's probably in the trailer trailer spoiler okay and he and he says you know that's the stuff i remember you know the fact that she farted in her sleep which is funny and he says little things like that yeah but those are the things i miss the most the little idiosyncrasies that only i knew about that's what made her my wife when she had the goods on me too she knew all my little peccadillos and he goes on from there he's referring to idiosyncrasies and he uses the word peccadillos and i just assumed that that was a word but i can't find that word anywhere else except for when Robin Williams said it.
59:36As you two were talking about stretching or something. I'm not sure what you guys were talking about. How would you spell that in your version of it, Jared? Well, I spelled it like Piccadillo Square. Or sorry, Circus. Or Circle. And that was wrong. But according to this website here called WikiQuote, it's spelled P-E-C-C-A-D-I-L-L-O-S. You sort of know what it means, even though it's not a word. You totally know what it means. actually it is a word i was probably just spelling it wrong all right a small sin or a fault a slight trespass or offense a petty crime a trifling fault so that's what i was talking about with go you know it was like this little sin of go right shadowing variables and stuff come on and not having built-in test assertions yeah well the go team actually testify is banned at google at google i can excuse oh is it and you don't use it anymore i know that yeah i do use it because there's lots of projects that use it but not in new stuff yeah i don't because um i just have a smaller version which is on my own github just called is and it's just like three or four methods the the you know testify has so much power in it it's one of those things where if you're a pro user and you're doing a lot of testing testifies for you and it's super popular so probably a bunch of people came by and added their own little peccadillos yeah and they fixed it so now there's armadillos in it everything all kinds of dillows yeah um yeah so many dillows we did have the policy we had a policy of anybody that contributed a pr was added to the project so this was like an experiment really which i probably regret only because it meant that it just blew and it blew up it ballooned the api is enormous now did they get awards too or what happened there did you even mention them who oh mention who exactly exactly i don't know who i've slandered there because i genuinely didn't hear it yeah did you matt when you took this open source award this medal this gold medal yeah did you mention all the little people that helped you along the way like all these contributors the picadillos yeah of course i did i mean i didn't give a speech anywhere but i said it i said it to myself out loud in the mirror oh there wasn't a speech this wasn't like an award show or something no it's just oh man i was hoping to like you know put the footage up and stuff that'd be nice well we could make that let's do it right now let's you should do an acceptance speech that you could send to them oh that's a lot of pressure this is good you can say i would have improvised it anyway matt here is your award for being great in open source go wow thank who do you want to thank i just want to thank all the little people first um they're tiny or they're really far away either way but they helped you know and you don't have to have contributed a lot to open source like i have with testify the most important project in the world i think jared was there were your words maybe you know but thank you very much for this uh lovely medal and um you know i'd like to thank thank all my family as well i'm holding it because it came on a ribbon so i'm just holding it up um yeah and you know keep open sourcing everyone bye that sort of thing that's our thing yeah not bad yeah now if you had to do that in song yeah for instance yeah what would that sound like i'd only have one hand because i'm holding the medal we'll just go strong hand only okay hold my strong hand hold my strong hand
1:03:09I want to thank all the little people. I don't know why you're so tiny. But you helped me make this project by tapping things in on your tiny keyboard. Oh, baby, one day you'll be big. Thank you for my award Thank you for my award Thank you for my lovely medal Speaking of medals Jer, were you referencing like I was Scary Movie 2? At which point? When you said take my strong hand No, I was laughing at you because I know you said that previously during a Pound of Fine game after Taylor Trosh gave you that little hand at Strange Loop. That's right. And you held the little hand up and you said like take my strong hand.
1:04:16That's what I was laughing because I knew that was a callback and I knew Matt didn't know that was a callback so I was also laughing for that reason. Still got it. I still got my hand. He still has his. It's there. There it is. Take my strong hand. So this is a scary movie too. quote it's actually a mandela effect oh it's not actually in there yeah people largely i'm talking like a massive population strongly emphatically believe that he said take my strong hand who in the in the movie i'd have to show the clip i don't know the person's name but he actually said what take my little hand why the hell think you said strong then exactly mandela effect bro but why i don't know why mandela effect happens it just does huh yeah a lot of people believe i mean there's a lot of people who like i believe it i remember that you just told us he said that like five minutes ago i know but he didn't the truth is that he said take my little hand huh you take my little hand.
1:05:26I didn't know a lot of people watched that movie and had commentary on it. It's a lot of people. Yeah, it's a very popular unpopular film. I mean, it's a scary movie too. Yeah, exactly. Come on. It's a sequel. That's exactly my point. You're making my point for me. Come on now. I could imagine you saying, you know, when Darth Vader says, Luke, I am your father. He never says that. Well, that's a shame, honestly. And that's a shame. That's what everybody thinks he says. Why? So why does everybody else believe that? It's Mandela effect mandela effect because it's kind of like what he should have said if george lucas was a slightly better writer i love that compression though right like you don't have to explain anything besides mandela effect that's just it that's right that's the the beauty of memes and compression but mandela did exist right he's not part of the mandela effect is he well he's the inventor of it unbeknownst to him are we talking about nelson mandela who are we talking about Nelson Mandela.
1:06:19Yeah. So to my knowledge, this is what I know about it. The Mandela effect came about because there was a large, again, a large population of people who emphatically believed that he had passed away years before he did not pass away. So he passed away much later, truthfully. But people believed he had died many, many years before that. And there's a lot of people. And they're like, I remember seeing the headline. I remember seeing the news reports, et cetera, et cetera. Meanwhile, he did not. And so this birthed this, I suppose, the name to the phenomenon that seems to have happened throughout history where you, a large population, misremembers or has memory of an alternate dimension.
1:07:02Oh, right. Now, if you go back to the. Oh, right. Like that was just a totally normal thing to say. What's the thing? I'm trying to remember what the. Somebody else would be a scientist here would know what I'm talking about. It's the, there's a place over in your area, Matt, in the European region, I suppose, where they have like this. In CERN? Yeah, CERN, this collider. Yeah, yeah. Tell me, what's it called again? The CERN Particle Accelerator. CERN Particle Accelerator. There you go. It's Particle Accelerator. I like the way he says it. So they believe that when this began to happen, it started to create fractures in timelines and like alternate realities.
1:07:39Now, I don't know how plausible this is, but it's crazy as all get out there, right? Like you're smashing particles together and you're rippling time and space and whatever. And Mandela effect. There you go. I should have called it the Jimmy Carter effect, you know, because I thought he was dead a long time ago. Me too. Turns out he made it to 100. That's why tomorrow I'm not celebrating. I'm saying, you know, like everybody's going to mourn. I'm like, listen, the guy had a good life. He died twice. Yeah. I witnessed one of these. There was a guy. He still is a guy called Frances Campoy who was big in the Go community.
1:08:12um i think he works at apple now yeah um he's great i love him actually um i should text him probably yeah anyway uh text him right now uh yeah and then while you do that sing and accepted a medal so we never finish your story we were in after some go conference he was talking about seeing freddie mercury in barcelona and my friend david anandez who i did machine box project with he was like yes i was there i saw that too and it turns out there was and then there was a guy there who was a big nerd on queen and freddie mercury and he said no it can't have been because he died the year before well they were like no no no no it was and and so yeah they they they had they had it the mandela effect that's one of those moments where you think that perhaps you're in great harm you know like you're in harm's way do you well it's like it's like a twist at the end where you're Like, wait a second, the call's coming from inside the house?
1:09:11Oh, yeah. Like, it couldn't possibly be, he's been dead for years. And you're like, because, you know, you just had lunch with him, for instance. Right. And you have the refrigerator door open, and as soon as you close it, ah, jumpscare. And his hook is hanging on the rearview mirror of your truck. I knew what you did last summer. I knew it. I know what I knew. So, Freddy. Exactly. Oh, my gosh. Oh, the two Fs. Oh, yeah. both freddies reminds me of a song the one about two r's how'd that go oh no there's no memory there's no memory double i don't remember it either it's actually triple reading writing arithmetic it's good isn't it why is he not singing we keep prompting him to sing but he won't do it you know that kid in on on that movie where bruce willis is dead the whole time trailer spoiler and also in the whole film he's dead he's dead the whole time and then they show you watch the movie at all if you know right right yeah by now you know i think that ship has sailed i'm gonna go back and re-watch that movie actually that's a great movie by the way if my kids are listening to this stop right now actually a few seconds before this because we're gonna watch that together and i don't want them to be spoiled yeah yeah yeah but they love the matt ryer episodes tell them now to stop listening a minute ago i just did but i know dang it it's great i have to go back in time we can edit that yeah you edit myself in in the future actually it's in the past depends on how you think about it okay but yeah good movie i do remember that jared i think you should talk to your kids and not rely on communicating with them through podcast i'll consider it i'll take it under consideration yeah no but the little kid's like i see dead people and it's like yeah everyone can they don't go invisible when you die that's not a film you this is not a film kid and i'd be if i was the bruce willis in that i'd be saying that to him i'd be like what are you talking about mate of course you can see dead people wait uh did you see then who was it it was a comedian that told this story about this film did matt just take his joke and act as if it was his own no no no but it reminds you of it because they said it was oh it was uh nate bregazzi and we love him because he's a very tasteful comedian he doesn't have to cuss or yeah he's clean he's hilarious you know egregious at all he said it was more plausible to the listening and watching audience that his wife didn't want to talk to him than him being dead that was a version of his punchline it was more plausible that this woman was ignoring him for a year the whole film basically ignoring him completely than for him to be dead yeah what a shame no no it's a good point what a shame so here's what I would like to have in life I'd like to have a Matt GBT, which is, of course, a musical intelligence that could answer my beck and call.
1:12:10Like if I had to say like, hey, Matt GBT, could you summarize this podcast? You know, because that because GPTs can summarize, man. Oh, yeah, they're good at that. And sometimes they can summarize in musical fashion if they happen to be a musical Matt GBT. I see. Could I have one of those? Yeah, I think so. OK. What key would you like it in? by the way this is a flex because i'm you say the key and then i really play it in that key and then the listening audience musical people understand this but for me it's just more like stress because i don't know any more keys i already gave you a minor and i don't know the other ones yeah i mean and adam said p that was a joke that was b is that a good one is that the same as a minor no it's not the same c major matt what's the best key for a summary uh that's a good question um probably E flat if we're just being honest which we haven't been well thank you for joining us I hope you had a good time baby cause I know that I did, I had a lovely time
1:13:19now it's time to go and get some R &R take it down, have a relax and play some Super Mario. If you got an ancient floppy disk on you, yeah, then you'll be fine when nuclear war breaks out. And if you want to know how to make it out alive, I suggest you get the slime mold to show you how. This, this is a family show Yeah, but how many kids listen, I don't know Probably not that many Not yet anyway, not yet anyway And now we've had a good time, yeah We're going for some high stakes after this I like high stakes This is my strong hand Take it please Take my strong hand And I'll take you to CERN And we'll discern If they've broken the universe And next time we'll see you On the changelog and friends
1:14:52This is the end
1:15:08And now for some loopback white noise
1:15:20Not bad.
1:15:25Great job, Matt. I actually think now that you've done that white noise, I think they stole that from you. Yeah, I think they ganked your white noise, bro. You should get some licenses from them. Yeah. Bye, friends. Bye, y 'all. Thanks, Matt. Bye. Thank you. Take my strong hand.
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