Entertainment, like anime and movies and such
Stole your prime sub. Stole another prime sub. That one hurt. Kiwi. That hurts so much.
Speaker 1:I just hit record, and I'm in so much pain right now. Kiwi.
Speaker 2:Kiwi. Hi. I'm Kiwi.
Speaker 1:Come back, Kiwi. Okay. So we're gonna talk about Kiwi to start this episode because we record these episodes on Twitch, on Dax's Twitch.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I used to stream on Twitch. I used to be a bit of a streamer. I was somewhat of a streamer. What am I thinking of? I'm thinking of a movie reference there.
Speaker 2:I'm somewhat of a streamer myself. You're talking about Spider Man meme.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that what it is? Yes. That's it. Yeah. I'm somewhat of a streamer myself.
Speaker 1:So I used to stream on Twitch a few weeks ago. And we we do this on Dax's channel, but it's like a lot of the same people that were in my channel because me and Dax are friends. So, like, we all cross pollinate. Well, Kiwi is this very mysterious figure in Twitch chat and on Twitter and Discord and wherever else. And Kiwi always comes into Twitch chat just saying Kiwi.
Speaker 1:If I talk too much about Kiwi at this point, is everyone uncomfortable? Is Kiwi uncomfortable? You okay? Okay. It's so he's got the best, like, he or she, I don't know, got the best personal branding ever because it's just so mysterious and, like, I need to know more about Kiwi.
Speaker 1:Or or they'll just say, I'm Kiwi. Like, that's the first message. And, like, it'll come every day and just say, I'm Kiwi. But then then I got to know Kiwi on Discord, and Kiwi has all kinds of good insights. DAX level insights, really.
Speaker 1:Woah. Kiwi has been pouring it out in the Discord DMs, and I appreciate it a whole lot, Kiwi.
Speaker 2:Wow. You're the best.
Speaker 1:But oh oh, but the reason I'm so torn and and I've been just destroyed at the beginning of this episode is Kiwi just prime subbed to to Dax. And if you don't know anything about Twitch, which I didn't like a year ago, Prime subs, you get one of them. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, which everyone in the world is, you get one free subscription on Twitch. You get to give to a streamer. And it's like, it's a special little gift that you can only give one of.
Speaker 1:And Kiwi just gave it to Dax and it ripped my little Grinch heart out. Okay. I'm done. That's all I have to say about Kiwi.
Speaker 2:As low as you are, I am very high right now. I'm enjoying your pain. I am enjoying your suffering. This is a great moment for me to ripping him or her, you don't know who they are, away from you.
Speaker 1:Okay. Well,
Speaker 2:thank you for that.
Speaker 1:Well, that was a that was a good start. What are what are we gonna talk about? I need a Larabar, actually. Can we talk about how, you eat Larabars because of me?
Speaker 2:No. I started that trend and then you
Speaker 1:got What?
Speaker 2:Started eating them.
Speaker 1:Because of me. Theo eats Larabars now. I saw somebody else. Sam ordered Larabars. It's just spreading.
Speaker 1:Alan orders Larabars.
Speaker 2:Wait. Sam who?
Speaker 1:Sam Hulik. No. I always get them mixed up. Huckabee. Hulik the one that didn't do Mass
Speaker 2:Effect. Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, Sam. Yeah. That's how Sam is known now to me. There's the one who did the Mass Effect.
Speaker 2:Mass Effect Sam is a big SST user. He's like, when I first joined SST, he was doing a big migration and, like, all of like, almost every day for, like, a couple weeks, that was, like, me helping him. That was
Speaker 1:one of my first memories of working
Speaker 2:at SST. And then I was like, wait, what? He did the music for Mass Effect and he has all these awards and That's wild. Yeah. It's really crazy.
Speaker 1:It's like Tomo. Yeah. It was like thirty or thirty seconds to Mars? Yeah. Did I mess that up?
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm terrible at pop culture.
Speaker 1:But he's, like, super into programming. Like, he's fully, fully in. Yeah. He's, like, all bought in. I mean, if I was if I spent that much time with Jared Leto, I'd
Speaker 2:probably wanna switch careers also. What?
Speaker 1:Tell me something about Jared Leto because I don't know anything about him.
Speaker 2:Google Image Morbius.
Speaker 1:Do I need to turn off the Google safe search filter? No. What is this? What is it? Morbius?
Speaker 1:M o o. O o
Speaker 2:r b I u s. Jared Leto is like the lead what is he? I don't know much about this. He's like the Mars. He's whatever.
Speaker 2:He's like the face. He was like the face What or
Speaker 1:am I looking at right now?
Speaker 2:And he got super into acting and I swear every role he's been in has just been like,
Speaker 1:look at everyone in chat going crazy. What in the world? So I I thought he was an actor that got into music because I didn't know him is Musa Mars. I think
Speaker 2:it's the other other way around. Yeah. And then I just always I would I've just always found every role he's been in to be like I it feels like he's trying too hard to be an actor, if that makes sense. Yeah. He played the Joker and then that was also it's also this is like the weirdest Joker thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2:Like, everyone has done it better than him.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Okay. Well, I wish I hadn't googled these images because that's that's pretty freaky. That's a Marvel movie? It's a Marvel movie?
Speaker 2:Well, okay. So here's a funny thing.
Speaker 1:Disney is showing us this?
Speaker 2:No. No. There's a clear line here. At some point, Fox had a bunch of Marvel rights. Things like X Men, they had Spider Man for a while.
Speaker 2:And then Marvel blew up and became insane, like the rest of Marvel blew up. But Fox still retains rights to like the worst characters. So they they just every once in a while, make, like, a much shittier movie to just to, like, try to, like, cash in on the hype. Yeah. Sonya and Spider Man, sorry.
Speaker 2:There you go. Morbid, Morbius. Now you know that.
Speaker 1:What's Morbid? Said Morbius. It's just a meme. Like, there's just there's just a meme going on that because from the trailers in the
Speaker 2:movie, everyone knew it the worst movie ever. But now there's like this joke where people pretend like it's their their favorite movie. Okay.
Speaker 1:Where do you like, I feel like I'm pretty plugged in on the Internet. Where how do you keep up with all this stuff? How do you keep up with all the pop culture and
Speaker 2:stuff? I'm believing I just on Twitter and nowhere watch a ton of okay. So I watch a ton of movies. I guess I have TV going on all day. All day I have TV.
Speaker 1:Are you serious? Wait a minute. Seriously? You didn't know this about me? No.
Speaker 1:Wait. Hang on. Wait. Wait. Wait.
Speaker 1:Wait. Like cable TV?
Speaker 2:No. No. No. Just like TV shows. I'll have TV shows going.
Speaker 1:Like what kind of TV shows? Tell me or what channels? That's what I remember from TV is like, Yeah. There's What channels are
Speaker 2:you No one's doing channels. Honestly,
Speaker 1:there really aren't channels anymore. Is that a serious
Speaker 2:It's funny I'm making fun of you, but I actually miss channels. I'll explain why in a second.
Speaker 1:Wait. If there's not channels, what are there? There's not there's really not channels. You just
Speaker 2:find the show you want you wanna watch and you just watch every episode.
Speaker 1:Like on Netflix?
Speaker 2:On Netflix, or like, you know, I have my own special setup.
Speaker 1:Wait, woah, we can't just gloss over that. What's your own special setup? What is that supposed to mean?
Speaker 2:So there's there's two things. There's a company called Plex, which is they're just like a straight up normal tech startup somehow. I mean, they've been around for a while and they make a ton of money. They like operate exactly a tech company, but technically it's like a server software that like runs your own Netflix effectively. But they don't help you get the content.
Speaker 2:So that's why they're not illegal. But they do everything like making it so the apps work on Chromecast, on Apple TV, on your phone, you can cat like, they do all of that. But it's against your own content and it's up to you to figure out where to get the content. Even that part is like crazy productized at this point.
Speaker 1:So So what are you watching right now? Like what's on in the corner? That's more interesting than me?
Speaker 2:Well, at this moment, no. I'm not watching anything at this moment.
Speaker 1:We shut all the time.
Speaker 2:No. When I'm working all day, not when I'm
Speaker 1:We're working.
Speaker 2:Can't when I'm streaming. Work. We're working. You know what I mean? When I'm typing the keys to make the code dignity.
Speaker 1:It's very important to me that this is working because when my wife comes in and she's like, what do you do all day? I'm working.
Speaker 2:I mean, is this
Speaker 1:is Talking to Dax. This is work. You know how they're kind of working, you know, know, know, But what do you watch? Like what shows are on?
Speaker 2:So I've so I've been doing this for ten years. So I've pretty much have seen like everything. I've seen everything, like seen stuff multiple times. I've seen like
Speaker 1:Why have you done everything for ten years? Can we talk about what was going on two
Speaker 2:years That's when I became an adult. And when I became an adult, was like, these are these are all my habits and I'm gonna
Speaker 1:I'm gonna stick with them forever.
Speaker 2:I'm honestly out of, like, anything mainstream. I've, like, watched every, like, really good mainstream thing.
Speaker 1:You would be. Yeah. Because you've
Speaker 2:been doing it for so long and you know, there isn't so much. And I've seen so many things multiple times, like I just can't rewatch stuff anymore.
Speaker 1:You watch like indie films and like stuff that's in other languages you probably do?
Speaker 2:I don't really watch any I I watch So when I'm working, I watch TV shows. I don't really watch movies, sometimes I will but it's just TV shows. But I'll I'll I've seen just like all of the best British comedies, all like the just like foreign stuff, like I've found all this Mighty Boosh? I don't think I've heard of that. What's Mighty Boosh?
Speaker 1:The Mighty Boosh? I mean, that's from when I used to watch stuff in British comedy. British comedy is something. Yeah. Very good.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say very different. But very good. Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 2:Very different. I never
Speaker 1:heard Greg. I'm old Greg. You've never heard of this? Nothing? No.
Speaker 1:It's pretty dumb. There's like a giant gorilla. I don't know. It's you should look into it.
Speaker 2:Diamond boys and
Speaker 1:the Concords. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Flight of Concords is is very good. I've seen that twice.
Speaker 1:Okay. There we go. Wait, you've seen it twice. There's like a it's it's not like one thing, right? No.
Speaker 1:I've seen the whole
Speaker 2:show every episode
Speaker 1:twice. Watched all of it through twice.
Speaker 2:Anything good, I've seen more than once. Yeah.
Speaker 1:What? How in the world? You do this while you're working?
Speaker 2:Every single day, like hours and hours of time for me to do this. So it adds up.
Speaker 1:I guess I used to like listen to Audible books while I worked.
Speaker 2:Exact same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And like you only pick up on certain parts but it's like it just kinda washes over you and if you do it enough hours, like, you get enough from it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And you just get better at kind of paying attention to both. So right now, it's funny someone in chat guessed it. So I haven't seen a bunch of like good anime shows which, you know, I was gonna make fun of me since I bring this up. So I start I've started watching, this one called Attack on Titan, which I'm almost done with.
Speaker 2:But it's been like my thing for this past week. These things only last a week.
Speaker 1:So anime?
Speaker 2:Yeah. It it's it's very good. It's actually the perfect thing to watch in this way because my only criticism of it is the pacing is insanely slow. There's like this really interesting mystery at the heart of it and you're like trying to like figure out what's going on. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it is like, they're like, before they reveal a secret, they like talk about how they're gonna reveal it
Speaker 1:for like thirty minutes. Then they're
Speaker 2:like, don't reveal it, it's the next episode. So it's great to just throw in the background.
Speaker 1:So anime, I I feel like there's a ton of people in our sphere, like in the web Trash. Dev space. Okay. Yeah. Trash.
Speaker 1:I mean, Prime? I don't know. Like, there there's like waifu backgrounds. I know what that means.
Speaker 2:I get that whole thing. I I I'm not into that. I hate how everyone has other backgrounds than Neo vam. I don't get it. It I don't like looking at
Speaker 1:So I don't get any of it. I don't get the culture at all. Could you please explain to me what is the draw of anime? Why do people get sucked into it?
Speaker 2:I okay. So I have seen have you seen Miyazaki's movies?
Speaker 1:No. I have no idea what that is. Okay.
Speaker 2:So for a western audience, that's typically how they experience.
Speaker 1:For me Western audience.
Speaker 2:From my like, what's that?
Speaker 1:That's just funny to me.
Speaker 2:It's like,
Speaker 1:for you westerners, you're gonna have to I guess you're also
Speaker 2:Including myself. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've seen a bunch of anime movies, but just like the stuff that makes it over here. And typically, that's like this guy, this studio called Studio Ghibli. They've won Oscars, like, just fantastic movies, incredible animation. And I've always really liked it. Mhmm.
Speaker 2:And I think it it like, that stuff is one genuinely good and two like appeals to a wide audience. And through that, I've like watched some other movies that are also like highly ranked and like kind of related to that. But I haven't gotten to the TV show stuff as much. At the end of the day, it's just it's not any different. It's just like another TV show.
Speaker 2:There's some like stylistic things that are a little bit consistent across them, but they can be about all sorts of stuff. They can be about like crazy fantasy stuff, they can be about sci fi, they can be about all kinds of stuff. I am noticing with this one that there are some like specific styles that didn't like this pacing thing, I think might be a little bit thing that's common like where and these these are like things in the show like a little bit dramatic like, characters are always going on these really serious rants but they're like screaming while they say and they're like kinda crying at the same time. It's there's there's
Speaker 1:some like stylistic things but overall, it's just like,
Speaker 2:you know, another TV show.
Speaker 1:Okay. Is it just like the cartoons in Japan and then we all got hooked on them? Like, is this what kids on Saturday morning watch in Japan? No. Not it's not for kids, I don't think.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's not Like
Speaker 2:like the one I'm watching around, was crazy violent and like super dark. There's some like scenarios in there that like like crazy, accidental, like think make you think like a lot Really? Type of So, I mean, they could be for kids and
Speaker 1:that kid's like, this stuff just goes over kids' heads,
Speaker 2:so I wouldn't notice. But it is, like, insanely violent, so I don't think it's made for kids.
Speaker 1:Okay. So the I thought you were headed I I just knew knowing you, like, was a direction you were headed with that where you were like, there's this guy who brought anime over to America to Western audiences, and it's the mainstream stuff. That stuff's no good. I only watch the stuff that's hardcore, like, only people in Japan
Speaker 2:enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Like this
Speaker 2:with anime. Like, I don't get why that's
Speaker 1:this is being ascribed to me. Neil Vim, Arch Linux, keto, CrossFit. So many things. Thing is not
Speaker 2:even my that's good. I just go to a
Speaker 1:CrossFit gym. Like, that one doesn't even count. That means you're no. It does count. If you go to a CrossFit gym, that is the whole thing.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:That's all anybody who's in CrossFit, that's all they can claim. They go to the CrossFit gym. You are lumped in with all of
Speaker 2:them. I just go there because it's the closest gym and I can walk
Speaker 1:to it. I can run to it. That's the only reason I go there. But it's like a totally different kind of workout, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Like I don't do the classes anymore. I did I did it initially to show Oh,
Speaker 1:you just work out on their equipment.
Speaker 2:Because they have like two open gym sessions every day, like two or three. So I just go there and I all their equipment is the type of
Speaker 1:stuff I like
Speaker 2:to do just stuff on on this the Flipping tires.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:No. Gotta flipping tires.
Speaker 1:Just like flinging chains around? Is your
Speaker 2:Okay. I'm gonna hang up. Good try. You can stick me with the other stuff, the NeoVam and the Lennox. The CrossFit one, not so much.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But
Speaker 2:you're kind of off. But I I love I love mainstream stuff. Like, I love, like, just mass appeal. In terms of entertainment, I love just mass appeal, like, just turn your brain off stuff. I also like just really, really good stuff as well.
Speaker 2:I like both. I just like it all. I wanna have it all.
Speaker 1:Do you like, like, stuff that wins Oscars? Like, do you like the movies that are, like, critically acclaimed but people are, like, I don't know, I didn't get it.
Speaker 2:I have this weird relationship with them where I almost always like them when I watch it but I, like, never wanna watch one. But, like, if I'm somehow in a situation where I'm forced to watch one, like, I love it. But, like, it's never the thing. Like I always want like the junk food but I do like the good stuff as well.
Speaker 1:Oh, just like the simple do you like watching like comedy movies? Like just stupid dumb comedies?
Speaker 2:I feel like comedy movies like don't even exist as much anymore. I feel like it just
Speaker 1:Oh, really? It just doesn't it's not even a thing.
Speaker 2:I think something about I think blockbusters, those like big action serious blockbusters make so much money that I just don't think studios do comedies as much. I mean, they still do. It's just they just go straight to they're like more for like watch at home type of thing.
Speaker 1:So I don't like I don't like the big action movies either. Casey loves watching just stupid comedy. She doesn't wanna think. She just wants to maybe laugh a few times, and that's it. I like, like, intense dramas.
Speaker 1:Like or like, not sci fi, but like what would you call the movie Inception? Like, that's like Mind fuck. Yes. That kind of movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Those are my favorite. I like to think a lot and then still not get it.
Speaker 2:Those are my favorite movies too. So those are definitely my favorite. Because I think I think they're a mix of two where they're like, they are really good but it doesn't feel like it feels approachable just to throw on. Yeah. But again, I just like the basic good stuff.
Speaker 2:Like, I love all the Christopher Nolan movies.
Speaker 1:He's my favorite director.
Speaker 2:Oppenheimer Wait. Which one has he
Speaker 1:Christopher Nolan. What's he made?
Speaker 2:He did, Inception. Sorry.
Speaker 1:Oh, Inception.
Speaker 2:Did you say Inception or did you say I just said Inception. Oh, okay. Sorry. This is Shutter Island. Never mind.
Speaker 1:You said it's the Shutter Island. What is that?
Speaker 2:You would like it.
Speaker 1:It's like Inception.
Speaker 2:It's like
Speaker 1:that same category. It's it's just the DiCaprio's in both and
Speaker 2:I mix it up and it's similarly like a Manfuck movie. Yeah. He's mean, I I think
Speaker 1:he would love all
Speaker 2:his movies, basically. If you like Inception, all of his movies are like that. And my favorite movies are are by him.
Speaker 1:So I would I would like some more movies like I'll send you a list. Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. I I just
Speaker 1:don't ever We haven't watched movies in like the last five years at all.
Speaker 2:And your kids will get into them at some point, right?
Speaker 1:I think so. I don't know. Most of my oldest is eight now, and I feel like he's probably old enough. I I talked about taking him to the movies, like a little date night. And instead, we what did we do instead?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Casey had a different idea. Like, Casey's not super into movies. So I grew up like, we always watch movies at home and went to the movies. Casey, not into them, feels like it's a waste of time.
Speaker 1:So we don't watch movies. We compromise. I'm just kidding. I really don't care anymore. I like, at first, was like, but movie theater, it's so fun.
Speaker 1:The smells and the sights.
Speaker 2:I can walk my movie theater. I love it.
Speaker 1:Are you serious?
Speaker 2:Yeah. We just
Speaker 1:walked there. Okay. Miami.
Speaker 2:It's nice.
Speaker 1:Not all
Speaker 2:Miami. Just this is
Speaker 1:a Well, just like living in a city. Just like you live in a populated area. That's the sometimes I'm like, why doesn't everybody live in The Ozarks? This is amazing. It's quiet.
Speaker 1:It's cheap. I have fast Internet. And then I remember, like, people can walk to movie theaters. That's probably fun. You can't walk to anything in The Ozarks.
Speaker 2:Going back to anime thing, again, for me, I was saying this while you were peeing, it's just like, because I've seen so much stuff, when I find like a new, like, area of entertainment I haven't explored, it's like very exciting for me because I'm like because for me, the struggle is always, I actually at this point can't really work without having something on. So if I don't know what I'm watching, I waste like thirty minutes trying to figure out what I'm watching. It's always a frustrating experience. Now I found this like area of entertainment that, you know, I I haven't explored at all. Just like, I just have a giant list of things to
Speaker 1:go through. Yeah. Where are you getting that list? Are you like asking trash?
Speaker 2:You know what? ChatGPT is actually really amazing for this. Because because I can I can like have kind of interesting interactions with it? Because I can say like, so I asked it, about this show I'm watching Attack on Titan. I was like, what are some criticisms of it?
Speaker 2:Because I was curious to see if other people picked up on the same thing and it did list like the pacing, a bunch of things that I had issues with it. So then I could specifically ask for like, what are other shows that are the things that I liked about it, here's the stuff I didn't like about it, while the other shows that, like, you know, fit that criteria. Yeah. And it and it's pretty good. Like, at worst, has been
Speaker 1:just googling randomly and at best, it finds, like, kind of tailored stuff to me. We we've done the same for, like, books. My son loves reading, like, big long book series. So we're like, oh, he read all of the magic tree house. What else is there like it?
Speaker 1:And there's, like, 10 different series that he's branched into. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I wanna explain really quick. The last episode, I ended it by saying, what did I say? Love you, bye, or see you? Love you what did I say?
Speaker 2:Love you, bye.
Speaker 1:Love you, bye. That's because Dax made a tweet. I feel like I should explain this because it was just a weird ending. Otherwise, people are like, what do you what? Dax made a tweet where he went to the what was it?
Speaker 1:You went to the I think the vet
Speaker 2:the vet called me.
Speaker 1:The vet called you and they gave you really good news about your dog. And then when you were getting off the phone,
Speaker 2:you said love you bye.
Speaker 1:I thought that was so funny.
Speaker 2:Yes. And it was
Speaker 1:I was like, love you bye. Love you bye. Maybe say the bye loud enough, it'll like cancel out the love you.
Speaker 2:She had no reaction. She was just like,
Speaker 1:okay, bye.
Speaker 2:Was like,
Speaker 1:I know you hurt me. I actually I hate being around people. I I'm more and more convinced I have, a social disorder. Sorry. That was heavy for what we're just we're just talking.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna I'm gonna say the most, like, first world problem thing ever. So I'm gonna preface it
Speaker 1:Yes. With that right now.
Speaker 2:When I lived in New York, I had a doorman. I've I lived in two different buildings with doorman. Okay? Mhmm. And this is a quote of this is like a luxury thing to have in your life to have someone to, like, greet you, get your packages, like to like handle your packages, like just Sounds call some things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It is the worst thing ever for me because every that means every single time I leave my apartment, I have to say a greeting or say something. Yeah. And for someone like me who always gets tongue tied, I always said the dumbest stuff. It would be anything like, I would say good morning.
Speaker 1:See you, Yeah. Love
Speaker 2:would say something like that. Or I would they would give me they were like, have a package. I'd be like, thanks, you too. Like, just every single time. Maybe like 50% of the time, I was saying something weird.
Speaker 1:And then you get in your own head about it because you know it's coming. You know at the bottom of the elevator, you're gonna talk to the door and then you're like And I just stopped leaving my apartment.
Speaker 2:I just stayed in my apartment and I just stopped leaving.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Yeah. I mean, I don't leave my house, but not because I have a doorman.
Speaker 2:You should get one. It's called a butler, I think.
Speaker 1:Can you have a doorman at
Speaker 2:your house?
Speaker 1:I'm surprised you don't have butler to be honest. Standing outside a butler. Okay. Yeah. If there were butlers in the Ozarks I could find you don't know how hard I've looked for good help around here.
Speaker 1:Like, we wanna hire a personal chef or, like, make all of our meals. Just like every single meal, we don't wanna think about it. We don't wanna clean up after it. We don't wanna buy the groceries. We just wanna, like, hire somebody.
Speaker 1:It is so hard. That's another thing. If we lived in Miami, I'm sure we'd just be like, I don't know, personal chefs are us. We'd go to the store and pick one up.
Speaker 2:Is that what you do?
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's how works in cities.
Speaker 2:There's people at stores you can pick up. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like, I'll take that one in the green shirt. Yes. No. We can't we've tried. We wanna hire people to do lots of things around here.
Speaker 1:We got the means. First world. Problems. Can't find people. So if you live in the Ozark I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna do
Speaker 2:that. I'm
Speaker 1:not solicit.
Speaker 2:I'm not moving to the Ozarks, Adam.
Speaker 1:No. Meant, like, if someone's listening, there's people that listen to this. I don't know if you knew this is not just a phone call. Did I tell you? I actually put these on the internet.
Speaker 2:Oh, well, do? The comment about the thumbnail from last time?
Speaker 1:The thumbnail.
Speaker 2:Remember someone was like, oh, Dax. You like,
Speaker 1:use a stupid picture
Speaker 2:of Adam and a serious picture for yourself. And I
Speaker 1:was like, nope. Adam did that to himself. I did. I just wanted to mix it up. I was like, all these look the same.
Speaker 1:I gotta do one that looks totally different.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And I did good.
Speaker 1:I did one totally different. Yeah. It was good. Did we finish the conversation about anime? I feel like most of this conversation has been about anime.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm watching it. Make fun of me.
Speaker 1:No. I'm not making fun of you.
Speaker 2:Not you.
Speaker 1:Don't make fun of people.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. Yeah. There's a crowd.
Speaker 1:Yeah. The the whole anime thing, I don't make fun of it because I don't understand it. I want to understand it so I can make fun of it, but I need to understand it first. So if you could just give me like a primer, just like here's the first thing just watch this and you'll understand anime, that would be great.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing. I actually think I could give you great guidance on this. The moment I do, there's gonna be a thousand nerds that show up that are gonna be like, no, that's stupid. Like, that's not that's not real anime.
Speaker 1:It's way too western. That anime. That's too mainstream.
Speaker 2:The stuff you like, like the you said you like Inception, like those, like think people call them cerebral. They're cerebral movies.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes.
Speaker 2:There is a lot of stuff in
Speaker 1:the anime category that is that I leans towards that.
Speaker 2:So I like that kind of content. I think I've exhausted like movies and like just normal TV shows that
Speaker 1:do that. That's like it is my Yeah. Favorite stuff. So that's why I'm onto onto this. Is there like a favorite TV show that's cerebral that you could point me to?
Speaker 1:A cerebral TV show? Anything from the last 10, probably haven't seen it.
Speaker 2:So I I love the first season. There's a show called Love, Death, Robots. The fur it's a first it's it's it's telling me an anthology. So they basically take
Speaker 1:Hang on. What's an anthology? What's an anthology?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:What is an
Speaker 2:But I'm I'm gonna guess
Speaker 1:based on what it is.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say it,
Speaker 1:just gonna try to guess. You did say the word and you didn't know.
Speaker 2:Because because it says it and it's like, Love Death Robots, an anthology series or whatever.
Speaker 1:But I think I think what it means is I just caught you. You were just gonna go. I
Speaker 2:was gonna explain it. Every episode is unrelated. It's like there's just like 10 different unrelated stories with 10 different animation styles. Okay. And, there like a lot of them are very good and very like thought provoking.
Speaker 2:There's one called Zima Blue which is like it's only like ten minutes, you just go watch that.
Speaker 1:Zima, you said, like, the drink? Yeah. Was that a drink?
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah yeah. It is like the deepest thing I've ever seen in my whole life. It was like, it was like, it like stuck with me forever. Like, me and Liz have seen it twice and like
Speaker 1:Really?
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's it's like it's like very thought provoking. And a few of them a few of them are
Speaker 1:Xima Blue, did you say? Yeah. Xima Blue. Okay. I think I know of another anthropology anthology.
Speaker 1:What was it? Anthology? Is Black Mirror an anthology?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. I've heard of this. You're right. So this is it's definitely what
Speaker 1:yeah. Black Mirror fits in this category. Have you seen a bunch of Black Mirror?
Speaker 2:There's a new season coming out.
Speaker 1:I've seen I think I've seen one Black Mirror. And so Casey hates my wife. Casey hates, like, dark things. Doesn't like Yeah.
Speaker 2:Light Mirror's pretty dark.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And she told me to watch Black Mirror. She had watched one or two of them, and she's like, you would love this. And she liked it, which I had heard from other people, it's super dark. You would not like it.
Speaker 2:There's some episodes that aren't most episodes are like dystopian, but then there's some that are like really like, they make you feel good at the end.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah. There's a few
Speaker 1:I generally like to feel good at the end.
Speaker 2:I don't like to feel bad at
Speaker 1:the end after watching something. It's like, why did I do that? Could have got on Twitter. I just wouldn't feel bad.
Speaker 2:I talk about watching sports when I care.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Okay. So the Miami Heat loss in the finals. How many Miami Heat games would you say you watched this this year, Dax?
Speaker 2:Maybe like four.
Speaker 1:Oh, you really watched some games? The four I finals
Speaker 2:went to two in person.
Speaker 1:And went to two heat oh, yeah. That's right. Saw the picture.
Speaker 2:Yeah. No. Because Liz's family has season tickets. So it's like and just ends up being like a random thing to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Okay. So you are kind of a heat fan. I made fun of you when you're like, oh, the heat loss, feel bad for me. I'm like, I don't feel bad for you because you don't care about sports.
Speaker 2:I
Speaker 1:Apparently.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I don't really care about sports. You're right. Like, I just I just don't care about watching sports, but, you know, I got sucked in.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Did you like any New York teams when you lived in New York? Did you, like, go to Yankees games?
Speaker 2:No. I never really cared. There's also two New York teams, so there's like
Speaker 1:In like every sport, right? It's like Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's always like that's like diluted for me when the whole city is
Speaker 1:not like all in on one thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's that little green light behind you?
Speaker 1:There's a little green dot. Looks like a Christmas light.
Speaker 2:That's my electric longboard and it's a it's a charger. It's a charging light. My electric longboard.
Speaker 1:Okay. What is a longboard? And then we'll talk about what an electric longboard is.
Speaker 2:A longboard is like a skateboard except it's longer and the wheels are bigger. So it's not optimized for tricks because it's heavy. But it is optimized for going fast, staying really stable and it's a great transport transportation device.
Speaker 1:Like instead of a bike, you like ride it to town?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So when I first moved to New York, I got a normal longboard and it's super useful because it just increases the range that you can go in fifteen minutes by a lot. So I pretty much could go anywhere on my longboard as long as it wasn't cold. And then a bunch of electric longboards started coming out where the exact same thing is on a longboard except a battery attached to the bottom and motors on both back wheels. And that comes with brakes also.
Speaker 2:Thing can hit like 30 something miles an hour.
Speaker 1:Have you ever hit anybody?
Speaker 2:I've gotten seriously hurt once. Not seriously hurt,
Speaker 1:but Like you ran into something?
Speaker 2:A person. You
Speaker 1:ran into a person?
Speaker 2:This 100% was not my fault. So
Speaker 1:Does insurance cover collisions with long boards?
Speaker 2:No. Probably not. Okay. I I don't I don't have, like, vehicle insurance on my life.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I would think
Speaker 2:so. Okay. So in New York, there's something called the West Side Highway, which is incredible because it's a highway that goes all the way down the West Side, and there is a completely separate bike lane. It's like a two lane bike lane. It's not even it's not even like attached to the main road.
Speaker 2:There's like, it's like completely separate off to the side.
Speaker 1:Oh, nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You can just zip down there. And it's like, all bikes go up and down there. It's beautiful. It's on the water.
Speaker 2:The whole way up and down is like parks and trees and it's really nice. One of my favorite things to do in New York, either walk up and down the West Side Highway or long board down. But it's just, it's for bikes and for long boards and for vehicles. Someone stepped into it without looking like Oh. Five feet in front of me and I dodged him.
Speaker 2:I actually actually didn't hit him. I, like, grazed him. I dodged him. Like, I, like, swerved around him, but then I couldn't retain my balance and just supermanned out. Like, flew into the air and
Speaker 1:then I
Speaker 2:landed and just, like, scraped scraped my elbows. And I was on my way to go see Allen because we're gonna play basketball. Yeah. And I and and I showed up and was just, like, covered in blood and I was like, yeah.
Speaker 1:So probably not playing basketball or or were you just, like, unguardable now because people don't wanna touch you, you're just covered We did a
Speaker 2:little bit, but I was like, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I can't imagine even going even going, like, on a bike 30 miles an hour sounds hard. I can't imagine standing on a board going that fast and not just falling off.
Speaker 2:It's it's it's this complicated thing where, you're usually not going top speed always and quote unquote falling is just like stepping off of like a four inch lift off the ground. It's not like a bike where you're like, kind of like, it's a complicated thing you're shoving to. So if
Speaker 1:I got into a situation, usually I
Speaker 2:could just like step off and then, or I hit the brakes and step off. It like, it actually wasn't
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:It wasn't that sketchy. The other time I got hurt was, I hit a pothole because I wasn't paying attention, which was really bad to
Speaker 1:me. Oh. And Were you watching something? Were did you have your shows up?
Speaker 2:This is a super embarrassing story. Ready? Ready for the most embarrassing story ever? Uh-huh. Let me set the scene.
Speaker 2:So I am 25 years old, maybe 24, 25. Uh-huh. I am in New York and I work in tech and I'm very much a software engineer and that's my whole identity. Okay? So and of course, I'm riding electric longboard.
Speaker 2:Very this is all
Speaker 1:Of course.
Speaker 2:This is all fitting, right? Of course. I'm a tech guy, this weird mobility device that I'm using. I am wearing a backpack because all of our engineers wear backpacks and Uh-huh. My stuff is in there.
Speaker 2:So I go and I hit this pothole. And then when I fall, my backpack flips open and all my stuff flies out. So not
Speaker 1:only did I fall,
Speaker 2:all my contents flew out. Guess what flew out?
Speaker 1:Oh, no.
Speaker 2:A MacBook because I'm a software engineer. A MacBook
Speaker 1:flew Oh, out
Speaker 2:no. And two bottles of Soylent. And I was like Fuck.
Speaker 1:That's like the biggest meme ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I know.
Speaker 1:Was like, man, if someone
Speaker 2:this is literally a scene out of Silicon Valley. Like, someone got this on camera. It's like Wow. Just the most embarrassing situation ever.
Speaker 1:You did the Soylent thing.
Speaker 2:For for me, it was like a good breakfast option slash, like, if I'm like in between things, like, it's like a good, like, way to, like, get my calories.
Speaker 1:But Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Uh-huh. So Sure.
Speaker 1:We'll go with the breakfast thing. Uh-huh. Was it a Herschel backpack? Was it a Herschel backpack? A
Speaker 2:Herschel backpack. It it wasn't it was one that it wasn't like the normal one though. Was the one that had the like, had the flip thing on the back, which is why it flipped open when I fell.
Speaker 1:I love this story so much. You you've gotta tell that story in some kind of like, I don't know, a tweet thread or something. Do you have any pictures of your stuff laying on the ground? No.
Speaker 2:Okay. I still have a little bit of a scar.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow. Left a scar.
Speaker 2:And and also, I guess who helped me, this, like, big tough construction worker.
Speaker 1:Here's your soilent little boy.
Speaker 2:He like giving me, he had, like, a bandage randomly and he like
Speaker 1:Oh, wow. Yeah. Very helpful. Hey, what's going on with Reddit before we get off here?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think so. Heard it like ten years ago. So Yeah. Me too. But I mean, I don't use it, but I've heard that like I don't know.
Speaker 1:Is it like ending? Is it over?
Speaker 2:It seems I mean, think didn't
Speaker 1:we talk about this a little bit
Speaker 2:in the last podcast? I wanna I don't think But
Speaker 1:Did we? Oh, maybe. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1:Okay. Then never mind. I'll listen to our podcast and I'll get caught up. I'm sorry. I don't remember.
Speaker 2:It has ended.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'm thinking of something else. I thought I didn't know anything about this. So maybe I just wasn't listening to you because Twitch. I'm sure you were
Speaker 2:For sure.
Speaker 1:Twitch.
Speaker 2:We talked about the weird stuff Twitch was doing. And then
Speaker 1:Yeah. And we talked about Reddit. Stuff. Oh, okay. Well I
Speaker 2:don't know. I don't know much. So The API pricing going Oh, no. We did talk about it. We did
Speaker 1:talk about Oh, we talked about a p APIs. Yeah. People charging Why is everybody all of sudden charging for APIs?
Speaker 2:Just just This
Speaker 1:is like is
Speaker 2:not free. The cookies companies isn't taken over by dummies. I think that's really
Speaker 1:it. Okay. Okay. Episode 30 in the books. 30.
Speaker 1:That's a nice round number. Nice even number.
Speaker 2:We are halfway to our goal. Wait. Our goal
Speaker 1:is 60?
Speaker 2:I'm I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:I just wanna see
Speaker 2:a reaction.
Speaker 1:You talking about that last episode, Doofus? I don't remember that either. Where was I last episode? Alright. Let's get up here.
Speaker 2:Alright. See you.
Speaker 1:See you next.
