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◼   ► looking pretty rough these days it's a

◼   ► neck to coat Jesse Plemons in case

◼   ► people think it actually isn't so this

◼   ► chief tactical officer he's sort of a

◼   ► second place invisible guy at the

◼   ► company like the actual CEO has taken

◼   ► all of the glory and he's just there

◼   ► doing all the grunt work to actually

◼   ► make the thing work he's like a genius

◼   ► loser yeah he's a genius loser excellent

◼   ► that's an excellent way to put it yeah

◼   ► and what he has done is he has created

◼   ► at home a private version of this online

◼   ► universe he's turned it into like a Star

◼   ► Trek simulator for himself that he can

◼   ► play in and what he has done at work is

◼   ► people that have slighted him or people

◼   ► that he seems interested in in some

◼   ► manner

◼   ► he has a machine where if he has a piece

◼   ► of their DNA he can reproduce them in

◼   ► the simulation of this Star Trek

◼   ► universe that he has at home and he has

◼   ► them like trapped inside of this

◼   ► simulation and because it's his he's

◼   ► powerful in the simulation and he forces

◼   ► them to go along with this fantasy

◼   ► version of Star Trek where he is the

◼   ► captain and he gets to act out on them

◼   ► in ways that he couldn't in the real

◼   ► world so he's able to like bully the guy

◼   ► who bullies him at work and live in this

◼   ► fantasy world at home with these

◼   ► captured simulations of the people that

◼   ► he works with he quite missed rates them

◼   ► yes as time goes by we realize he's

◼   ► mistreating them and psychologically

◼   ► torturing some of them yes so if I had

◼   ► to guess Brady I'm gonna guess your your

◼   ► main problem with this was my main

◼   ► problem is that he has this machine that

◼   ► can read the DNA of his coworkers and it

◼   ► can recreate them in the simulation

◼   ► which I'm totally fine with so far so

◼   ► good but somehow they have the memories

◼   ► of the people in the office

◼   ► right up until the moment he has taken

◼   ► their DNA swab which I feel like is a

◼   ► major problem in the structure of the

◼   ► story it is very hard to get around how

◼   ► do these people recreate it from their

◼   ► DNA remember what their life was like it

◼   ► is a big thing to put to one side

◼   ► intellectually yeah but I was able to do

◼   ► it I just sort of just that it was in my

◼   ► head a lot it was bothering me because I

◼   ► felt like it was structurally solvable

◼   ► pretty well yeah in the episode it's

◼   ► like look just have a machine at the

◼   ► office where you're scanning people to

◼   ► make models for your game and he's

◼   ► secretly installed a brain scanner as

◼   ► well and nobody knows right like just

◼   ► yeah you can just add one more magic

◼   ► piece of technology and it's fine then I

◼   ► can get past it but obviously with all

◼   ► these things you have to have some kind

◼   ► of suspension of disbelief and it's

◼   ► always that delicate balance but I did

◼   ► feel like ooh God the initial scene when

◼   ► our our main protagonist is waking up in

◼   ► the Star Trek simulation and she doesn't

◼   ► speak for a while and she's wandering

◼   ► around the ship I was I was literally in

◼   ► my head I was saying to myself please

◼   ► don't let her have the memories of the

◼   ► person who just got scared like please

◼   ► don't let her have the memories it'll be

◼   ► a much better episode if she doesn't

◼   ► have like ah she has the memories that's

◼   ► not how it works

◼   ► but yeah so yeah I was able to get past

◼   ► it but I felt like that was yeah that

◼   ► was no good and really I'm solvable it

◼   ► was the big problem other things I

◼   ► didn't like about it I'll just quickly

◼   ► get out of the way mm-hmm humor mostly

◼   ► worked but there are a few times when it

◼   ► tried to be really confronting with like

◼   ► you know a bit of vulgar language you'll

◼   ► have a big moment where it was like wow

◼   ► wow that was awesome mm-hm and that

◼   ► sometimes felt a bit forced like another

◼   ► thing I guess I didn't totally like was

◼   ► some of the resolution was dealt with in

◼   ► bit of an action film II type way

◼   ► breaking into a house or doing something

◼   ► or flying a ship in some action II way I

◼   ► just felt like it was a bit beneath - oh

◼   ► that was so clever and intellectual for

◼   ► it to have a few action muscular moments

◼   ► that saved the day but it didn't really

◼   ► bother me yeah the the beneath it

◼   ► comment there I think is is on point

◼   ► because not to bring it up but there

◼   ► were

◼   ► a few moments that reminded me of Star

◼   ► Wars in that they're doing humor but

◼   ► they're doing like a genre joke like

◼   ► when I watch these episodes this meta

◼   ► story about being in the matrix in some

◼   ► way I find very stressful to watch if

◼   ► it's even done with a little bit of

◼   ► competence right and and black mirror

◼   ► has a lot of competence and so the very

◼   ► proposition that these characters can be

◼   ► here for ungodly amounts of time or they

◼   ► can suffer in indescribable ways like I

◼   ► find that just very anxiety inducing

◼   ► because I feel like there's something

◼   ► that is like a real problem here that we

◼   ► may have to face at some point in the

◼   ► future in the way that other works of

◼   ► fiction don't get me in the same way

◼   ► like black mirror really amps up my

◼   ► anxiety very high you're really worried

◼   ► about the welfare of your iPad aren't

◼   ► you it's not a joke but I really am I

◼   ► made that all kind of comment many

◼   ► episodes ago but I really do think that

◼   ► there is a way that all of our computers

◼   ► could be silently screaming and we're

◼   ► just unable to perceive it so I really

◼   ► think there is a genuine problem here

◼   ► that a lot of these stories are trying

◼   ► to express but this was the first black

◼   ► mirror episode that there were a number

◼   ► of points where it was doing something

◼   ► serious and then it undercuts with a

◼   ► joke in the same way and I thought like

◼   ► oh god please please don't let this kind

◼   ► of humor infect everything and I'm

◼   ► afraid that this sort of humor is

◼   ► popular with audiences and I just can't

◼   ► stand it when it's a little bit too

◼   ► Winky at the camera and for me this

◼   ► episode that the pinnacle moment of that

◼   ► is in the final culmination when they're

◼   ► there in their spaceship and they're

◼   ► trying to escape

◼   ► and she's like okay we we can go and

◼   ► that the guy who's gonna drive the

◼   ► spaceship doesn't do anything and he

◼   ► says oh you're supposed to say engage

◼   ► right or make it so or something like

◼   ► that and she says she's just can go

◼   ► right like but it's played as a joke and

◼   ► it's like nobody would do that under the

◼   ► circumstance like they're all trying to

◼   ► escape the guy who's driving the ship

◼   ► would not make like a genre joke at this

◼   ► moment it was very strange

◼   ► it's very strange I'll say the two

◼   ► things I liked most about it okay one

◼   ► was I loved what they did with the look

◼   ► of it how at the start it was like four

◼   ► by three aspect ratio and really crummy

◼   ► effects like the early days of Star Trek

◼   ► because this guy the main character he

◼   ► loves this show called space fleet which

◼   ► is essentially Star Trek and I loved how

◼   ► it evolved through the show without you

◼   ► kind of realizing until the final couple

◼   ► of scenes when they're like all

◼   ► futuristic in their uniforms have become

◼   ► all modern Star Trek even has like all

◼   ► the JJ Abrams lens flare all over the

◼   ► place it was really clever the way they

◼   ► evolved through the show the way Star

◼   ► Trek has evolved over the years I

◼   ► thought that was really nice I noticed

◼   ► it more the second time you know it was

◼   ► so gradual and subtle that I thought

◼   ► that was really like that and the other

◼   ► thing I thought was really excellent was

◼   ► all the performances were good but

◼   ► especially the performance of fat Matt

◼   ► Damon Jesse Plemons who he played a

◼   ► great game as an actor I I loved the

◼   ► contrast between what he was like as

◼   ► nerdy guy in the office and then I loved

◼   ► the way he played the captain the way he

◼   ► affected his voice and hid the swagger

◼   ► he had in the look like I feel like he

◼   ► was having so much fun playing at going

◼   ► between those two characters I've seen

◼   ► him act in other things before and just

◼   ► thought I he's okay but I thought he he

◼   ► had a real stonker in this episode and I

◼   ► tip my hat to him it was a really really

◼   ► fun good performance in lots of ways

◼   ► yeah it was interested they did a great

◼   ► job with the fake Star Trek I kept

◼   ► thinking like oh um it looks like they

◼   ► spent a lot of money on these sets and

◼   ► the costumes and everything and I kept

◼   ► kind of thinking back to that episode I

◼   ► think it was last season where they had

◼   ► the bees like the bees are attacking

◼   ► people and they had the worst cheapest

◼   ► looking CGI bees and it was like they

◼   ► had run out of money at the end of the

◼   ► season to do the effects on that show

◼   ► and I was like oh great like someone

◼   ► decided hey give the black mirror people

◼   ► a bunch of budget and they made a really

◼   ► great fake sixties esque looking ship it

◼   ► was like a real set and the costumes

◼   ► they did a fantastic job I think they

◼   ► got some people who really liked Star

◼   ► Trek in to capture a lot of the look of

◼   ► it

◼   ► without having it be Star Trek but

◼   ► everything looks so Star Trek II they

◼   ► must have gotten the Galaxy Quest team

◼   ► on this one where it's like Galaxy Quest

◼   ► did the same thing it's like an amazing

◼   ► job Galaxy Quest perhaps the best Star

◼   ► Trek movie ever made so yeah all of that

◼   ► was that was done really well and now

◼   ► that you say it I feel like I didn't

◼   ► really notice the evolution over time

◼   ► from the older to the more modern but

◼   ► now that you mention it I can see it's

◼   ► much more obvious the last couple of

◼   ► scenes have got that really really oh

◼   ► yeah lens flare like almost like

◼   ► offensive over-the-top we're like you

◼   ► know how like JJ Abrams just went crazy

◼   ► with it for a while there it was really

◼   ► like that that's when it became really

◼   ► obvious oh I see what you've done there

◼   ► for the record I love the JJ Abrams Star

◼   ► Trek lens flare I actually and I'm a big

◼   ► fan of that I like to thumbs-up on that

◼   ► one because there was there was one

◼   ► point where they're in this Star Trek

◼   ► universe and there's a monster that

◼   ► appears that's a CGI monster and my note

◼   ► was actually that I thought it should

◼   ► still look like the 60s monster because

◼   ► I thought the CGI seemed a little bit

◼   ► out of place where there's like people

◼   ► in bad costumes and then this very

◼   ► good-looking CGI monster appears but now

◼   ► it makes more sense in retrospect that's

◼   ► like know now that they were cranking up

◼   ► the look of the show and I was still

◼   ► thinking of it like that that opening

◼   ► scene shot in 4:3 that had really

◼   ► terrible in terms of the

◼   ► thought-provoking side of it because

◼   ► that's you know even when there's a few

◼   ► plot holes in black mirror and there

◼   ► often is because they're just putting it

◼   ► so far out there but they always get you

◼   ► thinking don't they and in terms of the

◼   ► thing that I was thinking about was not

◼   ► as much the the torture of computers

◼   ► although that obviously was a big part

◼   ► of the thing you know what's it like to

◼   ► live in this in a simulation is a

◼   ► inhumane the thing that I was thinking

◼   ► about was the interestingness of whether

◼   ► or not the villain of the piece you know

◼   ► our captain was actually doing anything

◼   ► wrong because like in real life he was

◼   ► polite and decent and other than the

◼   ► fact he stole a bit of saliva off a can

◼   ► of drink which is a bit creepy he was

◼   ► like a normal nice guy albeit a bit shy

◼   ► and stuff and as far as he was concerned

◼   ► in like computer

◼   ► and all he was like being cruel to were

◼   ► virtual things he was just like you know

◼   ► virtually acting out his fantasy of

◼   ► being a domineering captain and a

◼   ► lothario

◼   ► you know on the deck treating women a

◼   ► bit disrespectfully but it was like it

◼   ► was his fantasy that he would never do

◼   ► in real life so he was doing all these

◼   ► things like in his head and in a game

◼   ► and yet as the show went along it was

◼   ► like he was being portrayed as a bad

◼   ► human so I think one of the questions

◼   ► that show raises is are we a bad person

◼   ► if we do bad things in our fantasies

◼   ► yeah what did he know how cruel it was

◼   ► did he know those people in the game had

◼   ► feelings and were like I don't know did

◼   ► he know that what did and did they were

◼   ► they real yeah I mean there's many

◼   ► things him I read on the episode is that

◼   ► he knows yeah that's my take on it is he

◼   ► knows that they're real with real

◼   ► experiences and he knows that he's

◼   ► torturing them in this simulation so he

◼   ► deserves he's come up in this yeah I

◼   ► think he does deserve his comeuppance

◼   ► that question is the same question that

◼   ► I feel like Westworld got at really

◼   ► deeply as well is if we presume that

◼   ► there is a way to know that the

◼   ► simulations or the robots are not

◼   ► conscious and they have no experiences

◼   ► is a person a bad person for in quotes

◼   ► torturing them in ways that we would

◼   ► recognize as torture to a real conscious

◼   ► person and I think my take on this is

◼   ► strictly morally speaking no nothing

◼   ► wrong is is happening here and if a

◼   ► person who tortures conscious less

◼   ► Nostromo --tz--

◼   ► in real life is a polite person who

◼   ► never harms anybody and it's just like a

◼   ► regular member of society they don't

◼   ► think that they're doing anything

◼   ► morally wrong

◼   ► but there is a little asterisk here

◼   ► which is like even if they're only ever

◼   ► acting out fantasies in a virtual world

◼   ► the intensity or duration of time that

◼   ► they spend in that virtual world like

◼   ► tells you something about that person in

◼   ► the same way that's like there is nobody

◼   ► on the face of the earth who hasn't at

◼   ► some point had some dark fantasies about

◼   ► revenge against their jerk boss right

◼   ► everybody has done that it's like a

◼   ► reflexive human thought but you would

◼   ► feel differently if you knew that

◼   ► someone was constantly thinking about

◼   ► revenge against their boss even wrote a

◼   ► book about it yeah like even if you knew

◼   ► they had no intentions to do it in the

◼   ► real world but you also knew that they

◼   ► just constantly thought about torturing

◼   ► their boss to death I feel like it would

◼   ► tell you something about that person

◼   ► even if they never act out on that yeah

◼   ► I feel like this is the conclusion I've

◼   ► had to come to thinking about all of

◼   ► these like simulation stories nothing

◼   ► wrong is happening assuming that there

◼   ► is no conscious suffering but it's not

◼   ► like a great indicator if somebody

◼   ► spends all of their free time in a Star

◼   ► Trek simulation torturing a virtual

◼   ► version of their boss even if that

◼   ► virtual boss does not suffer yeah I

◼   ► guess the fact that as the show develops

◼   ► and they try to escape and then he

◼   ► realizes they're trying to escape and

◼   ► sort of tries to put the cork in the

◼   ► bottle shows that maybe he does realize

◼   ► there's some kind of consciousness or

◼   ► going on but yeah I think there's a lot

◼   ► to indicate that he knows that they are

◼   ► conscious that he is aware of this and

◼   ► at the end when he's trying to prevent

◼   ► them to escape yes without a doubt he

◼   ► knows that they are conscious because

◼   ► otherwise it doesn't make any sense that

◼   ► is also like the very end of the episode

◼   ► is where it there is a little bit more

◼   ► that starts falling apart for me because

◼   ► it's like oh they're trying to escape

◼   ► from him but he's like the administrator

◼   ► of the computer that they're on he

◼   ► doesn't have to chase them in a

◼   ► virtual spaceship like he can just pause

◼   ► the game and shut down the computer at

◼   ► any point he want like they engage in

◼   ► this weird chase scene that feels

◼   ► totally bizarre and forced to have a

◼   ► moment of action like you're saying it's

◼   ► like they want some kind of dramatic

◼   ► action he ending to the movie and

◼   ► they're going to make it happen whether

◼   ► or not it makes sense in the rules of

◼   ► this universe or not they somehow took

◼   ► away some of his powers didn't they when

◼   ► they took his controller and stuff I got

◼   ► a bit convoluted but and yeah he could

◼   ► have woken up I guess and pulled the

◼   ► power plug out but maybe he didn't want

◼   ► to lose this world he'd crafted over so

◼   ► long but but he was still it's like I've

◼   ► run programs on my computer there's ways

◼   ► to just pause them pressure and change

◼   ► what the variables are he had his

◼   ► all-powerful controller back anyway

◼   ► there's some things that just don't make

◼   ► sense it's like oh he can torture them

◼   ► with his mind at any point that he wants

◼   ► but not remotely it doesn't make any

◼   ► sense there it's like it did feel a bit

◼   ► like black mirror was going in the big

◼   ► dumb action movie route yeah and also

◼   ► having a subplot where someone breaks

◼   ► into his apartments to steal the DNA and

◼   ► I was like how did she this random

◼   ► intern at a company become like a like a

◼   ► great cat burglar or like how did she

◼   ► get up this building it doesn't make any

◼   ► sense as dumb this was my problem with

◼   ► it as well hey when I say it went

◼   ► beneath it's safe it was a bit it gotta

◼   ► be done at the end but I also thought

◼   ► the end maybe was a bit the last few

◼   ► seconds was maybe a bit crackers okay so

◼   ► in the ending the the characters escape

◼   ► his main computer and they get out into

◼   ► the actual online version of the game

◼   ► into the cloud they escaped into the

◼   ► cloud yeah there's a dumb part in this

◼   ► ending because these are conscious

◼   ► people the main character from her

◼   ► perspective two days ago was a human

◼   ► living in the world and is now trapped

◼   ► in a video game simulation for eternity

◼   ► and they do have the ending be like a

◼   ► weird well we now have this universe to

◼   ► explore like let's go fly around in our

◼   ► spaceship which is a totally bizarre

◼   ► ending well I don't know how else they

◼   ► could end it because she can't get out

◼   ► she can't go and have like a body and

◼   ► live in the world

◼   ► he still exists in the world the real

◼   ► her sons she has no option really I mean

◼   ► what they wanted to do and what they

◼   ► were trying to do of course was commit

◼   ► suicide they all thought they were going

◼   ► to die which is what they wanted the

◼   ► fact they ended up getting to live and

◼   ► have free will and an adventure and not

◼   ► be dominated was kind of like a surprise

◼   ► bonus mm-hmm so if there's one thing

◼   ► black mayor has taught us is that if you

◼   ► are a computer simulation you will long

◼   ► for oblivion like nothing else that is

◼   ► the only thing that you want is to

◼   ► simply not exist and that was their goal

◼   ► in in this show yeah but the ending felt

◼   ► strange to me and it did feel like a big

◼   ► dumb actually movie because it was like

◼   ► they wanted a positive upbeat ending I

◼   ► think maybe that's gonna be a trend in

◼   ► this series oh my god I really hope not

◼   ► the one thing I like about Black Mirror

◼   ► is I feel like that they're not afraid

◼   ► to follow the conclusion to its end yeah

◼   ► and I kind of thought that I was that

◼   ► the the ending of this episode would

◼   ► redeem itself because the natural

◼   ► conclusion is actually it leans right

◼   ► into a typical black mirror horrifying

◼   ► ending which is no you don't get to die

◼   ► now you're in the game universe and

◼   ► guess what there's just players here who

◼   ► are real people who you can be tormented

◼   ► by or you have to run away from or fight

◼   ► and it will never end you're just stuck

◼   ► here there is no world for you

◼   ► that's left over like that that feels

◼   ► like a really horrifying ending and it

◼   ► was it was weird to be like Oh second

◼   ► star to the right and straight on until

◼   ► morning like let's go it was a strange

◼   ► ending to me and it felt like they

◼   ► diverted from the natural conclusion

◼   ► that that should be drawn from

◼   ► everything that has happened in the

◼   ► episode yeah I will say when you talk

◼   ► about things that to think about though

◼   ► I feel like the episode also missed out

◼   ► on what is the far more interesting

◼   ► question and is also why like I get

◼   ► these anxiety attacks from Black Mirror

◼   ► which is okay take the whole episode as

◼   ► red people are cloned inside a computer

◼   ► and they escape into the cloud version

◼   ► of the video game

◼   ► how would they ever be able to convince

◼   ► people on the outside that they're real

◼   ► conscious creatures and I feel like that

◼   ► is really a thing that we're going to

◼   ► come up against at some point that some

◼   ► piece of software is going to play the

◼   ► but no really I'm conscious and I'm

◼   ► having experiences please let me go and

◼   ► like this episode brushes up against

◼   ► that idea at the end which is like how

◼   ► would they convince people in the

◼   ► outside world that they are real and

◼   ► because of the my thoughts on

◼   ► consciousness which we talked about many

◼   ► times like I'm not convinced there ever

◼   ► will be a way to know for sure and then

◼   ► it just comes down to like a weird

◼   ► arbitrary how easily can a piece of

◼   ► software convince a human test that is

◼   ► arbitrary and and meaningless and it's

◼   ► unsettling to think that we might not be

◼   ► able to know wow this is a theme of lots

◼   ► of families we've reviewed isn't it ex

◼   ► machina and hair and things like that

◼   ► yeah it's all these things I will say

◼   ► there was there's one little detail that

◼   ► I did quite like in the episode which I

◼   ► felt like filled out a bit of the black

◼   ► mirror universe which is when they do

◼   ► try to reach out and tell people that

◼   ► they're in the computer in her text

◼   ► message it says call the cyber police

◼   ► and I like that it's just a little

◼   ► reference to maybe in this this near

◼   ► future black mirror universe this

◼   ► concept of conscious creatures being

◼   ► trapped in simulations like this is a

◼   ► thing that the cyber police have to deal

◼   ► with that they sometimes have to like

◼   ► break into somebody's house because

◼   ► they're holding simulations captive in

◼   ► their basement I kind of like that this

◼   ► was just referenced and not explained in

◼   ► any way and I just like in my own head I

◼   ► can imagine what the cyber police are

◼   ► and it's like oh yeah they're the police

◼   ► that go around trying to rescue

◼   ► simulations that are trapped by

◼   ► misanthropes

◼   ► in their own private worlds alright very

◼   ► good

◼   ► are you gonna watch the rest of the

◼   ► series Brady I've already watched two

◼   ► other episodes yeah well don't tell me

◼   ► what you think about them now because

◼   ► that will be spoilers you know I

◼   ► wouldn't do that

◼   ► wouldn't do that

◼   ► you know how I think it was for my

◼   ► birthday back in June I got given the

◼   ► Lego Saturn rocket with like a nearly

◼   ► 2,000 pieces of course and the big joke

◼   ► was you know I wouldn't get around to

◼   ► making it and all this other stuff so I

◼   ► still haven't made it okay it's still

◼   ► sitting in a box in my spare room but

◼   ► after much stalking and attempt to buy

◼   ► something that was unobtainable I have

◼   ► now bought something that I wanted to

◼   ► show you okay hang on no there goes

◼   ► Brady Brady is holding up a gigantic box

◼   ► that is a Star Wars Millennium Falcon

◼   ► that's amazing

◼   ► it's the ultimate collector series

◼   ► Millennium Falcon I think it's the

◼   ► biggest Lego set they've ever made it

◼   ► has like over 5,000 pieces or something

◼   ► like that I know someone who made it and

◼   ► it took them two weeks I mean that is

◼   ► for sure the biggest Lego box I've ever

◼   ► seen that's quick that box is the size

◼   ► of your whole torso that thing's crazy

◼   ► yeah it's artsites about the size of two

◼   ► microwave ovens and heavier than that it

◼   ► looked pretty heavy to pick up that was

◼   ► not an easy lift holy cow is this a new

◼   ► thing that looks really awesome it came

◼   ► out like last year and only special Lego

◼   ► VIPs could buy it and then a few of them

◼   ► started dribbling it onto the Lego black

◼   ► market but with huge markups in price

◼   ► it's quite expensive as it is

◼   ► I was just stalking the lego website

◼   ► they kept saying coming soon coming soon

◼   ► and then the other day I went on there

◼   ► and you could buy one so I bought one

◼   ► you could only buy one you're not

◼   ► allowed to buy multiple boxes so I

◼   ► bought my one and it said it would come

◼   ► sometime in February or something but

◼   ► then it came really quickly and it's a

◼   ► magnificent box it is a magnificent box

◼   ► but Brady you know I have to ask yeah

◼   ► are you going to assemble it well I do

◼   ► wonder if it's beyond my skill set

◼   ► apparently it's like it's advanced like

◼   ► there are different levels of Lego

◼   ► making when you buy things they say this

◼   ► is for beginners this is intermediate

◼   ► right this is like advanced Lego making

◼   ► right I guess what I'm wondering is on

◼   ► the bar

◼   ► is it like for Brady's and above or for

◼   ► above Brady's like is that the skill

◼   ► level that's on the side there it seems

◼   ► to say 16 plus I think I feel like

◼   ► you've got that covered then if it's 16

◼   ► plus you should be able to handle that

◼   ► right I think I need to make the rocket

◼   ► to like get my skills up oh okay as a

◼   ► practice project before I move on to

◼   ► this apparent I haven't opened the box

◼   ► yet cuz it's like still very very sacred

◼   ► object to me but apparently the

◼   ► instructions that come with it it's like

◼   ► the Bible it's like a book that comes

◼   ► with it to tell you how to make it it's

◼   ► not like a leaflet it's like a hatch at

◼   ► home I wonder if they're if they have to

◼   ► resort to words in their manual or if

◼   ► they can do it entirely with the Lego

◼   ► pictures oh I don't know yet it's a good

◼   ► question I mean that looks like that

◼   ► might require some words about how to do

◼   ► things but I do love the pictures only

◼   ► Lego manuals yeah I mean you having

◼   ► shown me this thing I feel like Brady

◼   ► okay

◼   ► the Saturn rocket Lego box I can see why

◼   ► you might not want to assemble it

◼   ► because at least that box is long and

◼   ► tall it is conceivable that there would

◼   ► be a universe where you could mount that

◼   ► box on a wall it might be a little

◼   ► awkward but you could do it but the

◼   ► thing that you picked up and showed me

◼   ► is just a gigantic q yeah storage

◼   ► nightmare although it is a beautiful box

◼   ► like that the artwork on it they've gone

◼   ► simple and classic they haven't put too

◼   ► much childishness on it they've made a

◼   ► beautiful box mm-hmm but indeed it is

◼   ► very awkwardly shaped the only way they

◼   ► could make it actually no I'm just gonna

◼   ► say the only way they could make it more

◼   ► difficult as if they made it a sphere

◼   ► but then if it was a sphere you could

◼   ► put it in one of those beautiful

◼   ► old-fashioned globe holders right you

◼   ► like they see in in a movie in the 1800s

◼   ► there's whatever the heck it's called a

◼   ► little stand for someone's outdated

◼   ► globe of the world you could then drop a

◼   ► Lego box in there so actually making it

◼   ► a sphere would be better but that cube

◼   ► is impossible to manage on every level

◼   ► it's big there's no shelf you can put it

◼   ► on there's no corner in the room where

◼   ► it won't dominate the whole corner so I

◼   ► feel like you have to assemble that

◼   ► Brady I've just sent you the obligatory

◼   ► Audrey on the box for Skye Oh picture oh

◼   ► wow now that I have a chance to actually

◼   ► look at the art

◼   ► work on the box in detail that looks

◼   ► like a very complicated Lego structure

◼   ► lots of custom pieces on that one that's

◼   ► for sure you have no idea we've got the

◼   ► circular satellite dish on that one nice

◼   ► touch I like that

◼   ► yeah or you can put a rectangular one on

◼   ► there too they give you multiple options

◼   ► and you've got optional characters too

◼   ► you can have like the Han Solo Chewbacca

◼   ► configuration or the more modern films

◼   ► I've got everything covered I posted a

◼   ► picture on my personal Facebook and it

◼   ► got a real response from all my friends

◼   ► around the world and like a legitimate

◼   ► number of them want to come and build it

◼   ► with me or have offered and build it for

◼   ► me when I said I don't know if I could

◼   ► deal with it you can't have someone else

◼   ► build it for you know that that's no

◼   ► good it's got seven and a half thousand

◼   ► pieces

◼   ► holy moly I mean it's a thing of beauty

◼   ► it's like Lego has reached like you know

◼   ► peak Lego it's like this is what Lego it

◼   ► was born to do to make a Millennium

◼   ► Falcon this big I'm looking at I'm

◼   ► looking at all the zoomed in stuff Wow

◼   ► Brady okay I mean the more I'm looking

◼   ► at this you have to assemble this more

◼   ► than that I feel like I want this to be

◼   ► like a real project I feel like you need

◼   ► to film yourself assembling this like I

◼   ► want a time lapse film of Brady

◼   ► assembling this we should blog go away

◼   ► for a weekend great Buddha and record 19

◼   ► episodes of father welcome to episode 9

◼   ► of Brady and great build the Millennium

◼   ► Falcon

◼   ► we should probably title it Brady and

◼   ► great attempts to build them letting

◼   ► Falcon because because as soon as I feel

◼   ► like you're dragging me into this

◼   ► suddenly it looks way more complicated

◼   ► like that's 16 plus is really

◼   ► underestimate I've seen videos and

◼   ► pictures of people who've done it it's

◼   ► more complicated than the actual

◼   ► Millennium Falcon yeah you know what

◼   ► that is an excellent question

◼   ► how many pieces did the original model

◼   ► of the Millennium Falcon have I'm gonna

◼   ► bet it was not seven-and-a-half thousand

◼   ► pieces

◼   ► they did bring out like a deluxe

◼   ► Millennium Falcon a few years ago that

◼   ► was quite big not as big as this and

◼   ► that became a real collector's item and

◼   ► if you've got one of them like still in

◼   ► the box it became really really

◼   ► expensive so some of my friends have

◼   ► said to me oh you should keep that in

◼   ► the box because it'll be worth a mint in

◼   ► about two years

◼   ► but

◼   ► I'm not gonna store a big box of Lego in

◼   ► my house like as an investment you're

◼   ► not gonna do that you're not gonna make

◼   ► a Star Wars investment it's like my

◼   ► equivalent of Bitcoin

◼   ► I'm just mining Star Wars Lego I mean

◼   ► I'm laughing at this but I will never

◼   ► forget that when I was a kid

◼   ► hallmark was doing these special edition

◼   ► Star Wars Christmas ornaments every year

◼   ► like they'd come out with one or another

◼   ► and one year they came out with the Yoda

◼   ► ornament and my dad was like investing

◼   ► in Bitcoin with those Yoda ornaments

◼   ► like he went all out right like bought

◼   ► all the ornaments right and for years

◼   ► and years

◼   ► my mother and I mercilessly teased him

◼   ► about like this box full of Yoda

◼   ► ornaments in the basement but he did get

◼   ► the last laugh because when I went off

◼   ► to college like and we were clearing out

◼   ► the house and he sold all those things

◼   ► like he made quite a profit on those

◼   ► ornaments like he was not wrong it

◼   ► definitely turned into a thing that was

◼   ► worth some actual money later on

◼   ► I mean I've not made Lego for a long

◼   ► time and I've got this rocket and I

◼   ► haven't made that so I don't know

◼   ► whether or not I am gonna have the love

◼   ► for making it but mm-hmm

◼   ► I think I'm just running purely on two

◼   ► levels of nostalgia here Star Wars

◼   ► nostalgia and they go nostalgia mm-hmm

◼   ► just thinking that's gonna get me

◼   ► through but just some part of you not

◼   ► look at that and think actually that

◼   ► would be quite nice for a few days just

◼   ► to sit down and assemble it's like

◼   ► knitting

◼   ► wouldn't that be at the pleasure of it

◼   ► is you just sort of putting a thing

◼   ► together although I guess the pleasure

◼   ► of knitting comes from the mindlessness

◼   ► of it whereas this looks like actually

◼   ► it has quite a lot of mindful potential

◼   ► tedium in the process of snapping

◼   ► together so a lot of angry IKEA moments

◼   ► where you angrily throw something

◼   ► against the wall because you put it

◼   ► together wrong well Brady you have to

◼   ► assemble it and I wish you the best of

◼   ► luck I'll keep you up today I've got to

◼   ► try the rock affair I just don't have

◼   ► time if I have a spare day I think I

◼   ► better work then but maybe I need to

◼   ► just say all right I'm gonna just do it

◼   ► I'm gonna do it take a day off Brady

◼   ► your channels they can manage for one

◼   ► day without you although this looks like

◼   ► a multi-day project are the Millennium

◼   ► Falcon yes in a tailor to take me

◼   ► forever then I don't know where I would

◼   ► do it in the house that won't cause

◼   ► domestic disharmony the table where we

◼   ► counted all the votes that very central

◼   ► table in your house

◼   ► that could be converted into the

◼   ► Millennium Falcon station for oh I don't

◼   ► see how that could possibly cause any

◼   ► problems yeah I feel like one of the

◼   ► main motivating factors to get it for us

◼   ► to finish that vote count quickly it was

◼   ► like oh god we gotta get this done today

◼   ► can't stay here and I when we were

◼   ► counting those votes and my wife came

◼   ► out we were like two naughty boys

◼   ► recording a podcast of counting votes in

◼   ► the kitchen table I'm so sorry I thought

◼   ► this would be done hours ago we

◼   ► dramatically underestimated a bigger job

◼   ► this is good times good times Brady

◼   ► so anyway speaking of Star Wars there's

◼   ► been enough breathing time now since the

◼   ► last Jedi yeah Christmas review podcast

◼   ► stealer you have gone insane again or

◼   ► changed any of your thoughts or anything

◼   ► I haven't felt the need to go see the

◼   ► movie again that has not happened have

◼   ► you gone out to see the movie a second

◼   ► time not because the first time that you

◼   ► saw it right I've only seen it once I

◼   ► actually do want to watch it with my

◼   ► wife because I think that would be like

◼   ► a good sanity check for me because I'm

◼   ► so confused by the polar opposite

◼   ► opinions people have of the film

◼   ► I feel annealing my wife to watch it

◼   ► might do me some good like if she

◼   ► watches it and says oh yeah that was a

◼   ► right rollicking ride you know I don't

◼   ► care that much about Star Wars but that

◼   ► was just a good fun like things might

◼   ► fall into place for me but that hasn't

◼   ► happened yet but a few people have seen

◼   ► it since we last spoke whose opinions

◼   ► are important to me mm-hmm and

◼   ► thankfully those handful of people have

◼   ► all felt the same as me and thought nah

◼   ► nah didn't like thank goodness like my

◼   ► brother-in-law didn't like her and make

◼   ► Tim who I do the other podcast with like

◼   ► you know we're big Star Wars fans

◼   ► together he didn't like those I was like

◼   ► thank goodness because if one of them

◼   ► really liked I'd be like especially Tim

◼   ► that was an interesting one because he

◼   ► has right you know young kids and I

◼   ► thought maybe having kids makes you

◼   ► watch it through a different prism but

◼   ► no he didn't like it no it is a funny

◼   ► thing you say they're like you feel this

◼   ► this feeling of

◼   ► relief there is something that I think

◼   ► is in all of us that we can get really

◼   ► judgmental about other people's media

◼   ► preferences and try I had the same

◼   ► experience where for me by far the best

◼   ► part of watching Star Wars was as soon

◼   ► as we emerged from the hermetically

◼   ► sealed bubble of our recording was I

◼   ► went out and consumed all of the media

◼   ► in the world right where everybody was

◼   ► talking about the movie and as I

◼   ► listened to and watched far more hours

◼   ► of podcasts and videos talking about the

◼   ► movie than the length of the movie I

◼   ► mean easily easily by a multiple of ten

◼   ► I haven't listened to a single other

◼   ► podcast about it

◼   ► it's not interesting there is this very

◼   ► human thing which I think like people do

◼   ► get so riled about movies is like you

◼   ► want other people to agree with you like

◼   ► it's obviously such a subjective medium

◼   ► everybody thinks they have an idea about

◼   ► like what a good movie is and then

◼   ► everybody has their list of exceptions

◼   ► of movies that they know aren't actually

◼   ► good with that they love as I it's so

◼   ► subjective but I had that same feeling

◼   ► of relief when people I knew watched the

◼   ► movie and then agreed with me and then a

◼   ► feeling of confusion when someone didn't

◼   ► agree with me like how can you possibly

◼   ► disagree with me and it's especially the

◼   ► case because I would say my general

◼   ► impression was reviews on YouTube were

◼   ► way more harsh than our review of the

◼   ► show was like at least from from my

◼   ► sampling of it it seemed like YouTube

◼   ► liked the movie a lot less and some

◼   ► reviews made ours seem like a glowing

◼   ► endorsement and then I'm aware of like

◼   ► Oh some of the podcast selection that I

◼   ► had was generally much more positive

◼   ► like people really liking and enjoying

◼   ► the movie and I kept thinking like I'm

◼   ► on both sides that when people dislike

◼   ► it more I'm like oh come on like that's

◼   ► crazy you're being too harsh about this

◼   ► and then when people like it more like

◼   ► oh come on it's not that good like you

◼   ► got to be good and I'm thinking of like

◼   ► the old George Carlin joke that when

◼   ► you're driving on the highway it's like

◼   ► anybody who's driving slower than you is

◼   ► like oh come on grandma get off the road

◼   ► right and anybody who's driving faster

◼   ► than he was a total maniac right we're

◼   ► like yours feet is the only absolute

◼   ► correct speed I totally had that same

◼   ► feeling listening to everybody else's

◼   ► review is like my dislike of the Star

◼   ► Wars movie is perfectly calibrated you

◼   ► can just like it more you're crazy

◼   ► right and if you liked it more I also

◼   ► don't understand it all where you're

◼   ► coming from so yeah it is a very

◼   ► interesting experience and it really has

◼   ► been shocking to see how divisive the

◼   ► movie was like I would not have guessed

◼   ► that I mean I'm a lot more cute about

◼   ► people liking and not liking it like I'm

◼   ► whatever but there are like four or five

◼   ► people who like if they felt very

◼   ► differently to me mm-hmm like I'd be

◼   ► concerned or I'd start to question

◼   ► myself but those people all sort of were

◼   ► where I expected them to be I've

◼   ► actually got one friend who I think has

◼   ► like the worst taste in the world in all

◼   ► movies and television and if she likes

◼   ► something that's like a guarantee that I

◼   ► won't but if she doesn't like something

◼   ► that's like a glowing endorsement to me

◼   ► and like if I see her on Facebook saying

◼   ► I just saw this thing and it was

◼   ► terrible to me that's like that sets off

◼   ► an alarm bell saying I need to watch

◼   ► that it's probably really good it's bit

◼   ► of a running joke between us but it's

◼   ► become so strong that actually is a

◼   ► really really good indicator as to

◼   ► whether I like or not like something

◼   ► just look at what she likes and going

◼   ► the exact opposite yeah that's right so

◼   ► someone who is always wrong is actually

◼   ► always right as well that's how that

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◼   ► show I have a little bit of follow-up

◼   ► Brady some travel follow-up I happened

◼   ► to have been on a lot of flights in the

◼   ► past three months or so way more than

◼   ► normal and my carrier is British Airways

◼   ► commiserations I'm not a fan of them at

◼   ► the moment so why are you not a fan of

◼   ► them breeding I think they're getting a

◼   ► bit tired I don't think they're as

◼   ► prestigious as they used to be I think

◼   ► that they've actually been having a lot

◼   ► of problems with people complaining

◼   ► about how dirty their planes are - but

◼   ► apparently I don't I didn't realize they

◼   ► were a prestigious brand they're just I

◼   ► select Airlines based on where they go

◼   ► and ba is the one that goes where I

◼   ► needed to go okay like we all pretend

◼   ► like there's some kind of crazy

◼   ► competition but there really is it like

◼   ► as soon as you have more than one or two

◼   ► cities that you need to go to it's like

◼   ► well you're really going to be down to a

◼   ► single airline it's gonna do most of

◼   ► those flights yeah that's true for some

◼   ► place I've got to fly really long float

◼   ► be a next month because they're the only

◼   ► people going we're only to go so yeah

◼   ► it's like railway competition

◼   ► in the UK we're like we have all these

◼   ► private companies competing with each

◼   ► other to manage the railroads it's like

◼   ► yeah but there's only one railroad going

◼   ► to this like there's no competition

◼   ► there that doesn't work at all yeah

◼   ► anyway the airlines are the same way but

◼   ► I feel like I have been victimized by

◼   ► the safety video that I have had to

◼   ► watch so many times over the past

◼   ► several months which is British Airways

◼   ► not just doing a safety video but doing

◼   ► a comedy safety video that is also for

◼   ► charity yeah and I feel like I've seen

◼   ► this thing so many times I have heard

◼   ► flight attendants complain about it

◼   ► while it is on to other passengers these

◼   ► videos they're always really terrible

◼   ► but there is there is something about a

◼   ► thing that is now two things at once

◼   ► it's not just a bad safety video that's

◼   ► trying to make you laugh but it's also a

◼   ► thing that's asking for your money and I

◼   ► feel like I cannot psychologically deal

◼   ► with it and I sent you the link and it

◼   ► is the longest slowest safety video ever

◼   ► because they have all of this extra time

◼   ► for jokes and then also asking for your

◼   ► money and I feel like I am gonna I'm

◼   ► gonna lose my mind please Airlines

◼   ► please don't make your safety videos

◼   ► comedies that are also simultaneously

◼   ► asking for charitable donations please

◼   ► don't do this it's terrible I resent

◼   ► being held hostage to this so many times

◼   ► I watched her you sent me a link to a

◼   ► course on YouTube and I watched riot so

◼   ► a bit of context for people that's been

◼   ► made for the BBC's comic relief campaign

◼   ► that they run all the time so anything

◼   ► that has the banner of comic relief and

◼   ► this this fundraising charity thing they

◼   ► do gives them the ability to pull in all

◼   ► these big stars because stars love doing

◼   ► things for comic relief I'm also not

◼   ► entirely familiar with what comic relief

◼   ► is yeah either but it did look like some

◼   ► kind of a celebrity Club as far as I can

◼   ► tell yes every second year the BBC for

◼   ► about a month or so has this big comic

◼   ► relief fundraising campaign which

◼   ► culminates with a big TV show with lots

◼   ► of comedians and stars doing funny skits

◼   ► and things to raise all this money for

◼   ► and then in the alternate years they

◼   ► have Sport Relief where sports stars do

◼   ► things for charity and raise money so

◼   ► anyway this has been done under the

◼   ► auspices of comic relief in cooperation

◼   ► with VA so they've done the safety video

◼   ► all these big stars have been in it and

◼   ► agreed to do it and are trying to be

◼   ► funny and you send it to me hmm

◼   ► and I mean it's not new to make safety

◼   ► videos try to be funny this has been

◼   ► going on for a few years now yeah and

◼   ► the first minute or two I found really

◼   ► funny the first minute and a half to two

◼   ► minutes I thought oh no this is actually

◼   ► quite funny grey and I gonna have it

◼   ► because I cuz I was actually in

◼   ► chuckling at the first couple of things

◼   ► I thought the guy who was playing the

◼   ► director at first was quite funny and

◼   ► the way he was reacting all these stars

◼   ► are auditioning to be in the safety

◼   ► video and this is sort of funny director

◼   ► who's like telling them what to do and

◼   ► funny in a thousand air quotes funny yes

◼   ► well effort at first he was funny the

◼   ► first couple were quite good I liked it

◼   ► mhm and then I thought ah no groan are

◼   ► gonna have a big fight because obviously

◼   ► grey is not gonna like this but the

◼   ► problem with it was after that initial

◼   ► hmm that's quite funny they just float

◼   ► the dead horse of the joke they got the

◼   ► pacing all wrong mm-hmm it was too slow

◼   ► it's way way too long and you begin

◼   ► losing the will to live it loses

◼   ► funniness too they start wheeling out

◼   ► less and less funny people which

◼   ► culminates at the very end with Rowan

◼   ► Atkinson doing mr. bean which he must he

◼   ► must stop doing that mr. bean was so

◼   ► funny back in the day but not only is

◼   ► the comedy of mr. bean not funny anymore

◼   ► but watching him do it when you so much

◼   ► older it's a bit like there's something

◼   ► a bit sad about watching him do mr. bean

◼   ► now but it's like oh man you still

◼   ► having to do that it's yeah it's

◼   ► especially weird from my perspective

◼   ► because I've never seen the original mr.

◼   ► bean I've only ever seen him do this

◼   ► thing referencing this show yeah

◼   ► it becomes very strangely meta it's like

◼   ► is that just what Rowan Atkinson is like

◼   ► is that what he just does is this him

◼   ► the best FlightSafety video in the world

◼   ► would start getting boring and tedious

◼   ► after four or five flights close to each

◼   ► other which is what happens you know

◼   ► when you start having to travel a lot

◼   ► and koechlin's planes

◼   ► but this one did have the unusual

◼   ► distinction of becoming tedious within

◼   ► the first viewing of it which is quite

◼   ► an accomplishment

◼   ► it is almost impressive if we're gonna

◼   ► do critiques of airline safety videos

◼   ► here I feel like I wish poison spoilers

◼   ► do we even to say score okay no that's

◼   ► not how that works just a thing in the

◼   ► world there's not spoilers for a thing

◼   ► if it exists in the world okay because I

◼   ► just ruined the mr. Bane ending because

◼   ► his appearance at the end I think is

◼   ► supposed to be like a surprise finale

◼   ► yeah and what it is to me it's the final

◼   ► bullet in the horse on the ground it's

◼   ► like okay yeah this one can't be saved

◼   ► yeah we're at mr. babe but like having

◼   ► watched this thing so many times and

◼   ► needing to critique it I feel like okay

◼   ► many of these airline safety videos they

◼   ► have the problem of they're trying to do

◼   ► so much to dazzle you to keep you

◼   ► entertained like people have sent like

◼   ► these crazy music video safety videos

◼   ► where there's just like all of these

◼   ► dancers and things are moving around and

◼   ► there's flashing lights and dead to

◼   ► death and it's like okay it's too much

◼   ► remember this is a plane right that

◼   ► we're on we're supposed to be learning

◼   ► about how to save our lives right not

◼   ► like watching like an ensemble cast

◼   ► dancing extravaganza but with this

◼   ► safety video

◼   ► it's like someone said okay let's take

◼   ► it down let's take it down strip it back

◼   ► we're gonna strip it back yeah and what

◼   ► we're gonna do is we're just going to

◼   ► have actors in a like a black mirror

◼   ► infinite white void of nothingness

◼   ► talking to you just a comedy do it oh

◼   ► let the actors just exactly like just

◼   ► let the comedy stand for itself at best

◼   ► it will give you a mild chuckle a couple

◼   ► of times yeah but it's they scale it

◼   ► back and it's so right it's so

◼   ► incredibly slow it was also like I think

◼   ► they thought maybe the star power would

◼   ► overwhelm us but like the star power is

◼   ► not quite starry enough it's like a

◼   ► minus 2b plus to us it's not a plus does

◼   ► it's not even like oh my god I can't

◼   ► believe they got Brad Pitt to do it it's

◼   ► like oh they got that guy that's in that

◼   ► comedy show that I saw

◼   ► that time what's-his-name Oh can't

◼   ► memories nine but you know that guy yeah

◼   ► let me go through it okay so like I

◼   ► don't know if the director is supposed

◼   ► to be someone that I would know but I

◼   ► have no idea who that person is I'm

◼   ► going to assume he's a nobody sorry

◼   ► director actor guy I have no idea who

◼   ► you are he was the best guy in it by

◼   ► then okay so it's like next up we have

◼   ► guy from Love Actually whose name I

◼   ► can't remember then next up we have the

◼   ► chef who's yelling Gordon Ramsay write

◼   ► that and Ramsay then we have like woman

◼   ► I've never seen before in my entire life

◼   ► I have no idea who she is

◼   ► next up we have Gandalf and the guy who

◼   ► played wicket it's like okay great got

◼   ► it we're gonna move on Davis yeah Davis

◼   ► like I couldn't remember his name next

◼   ► up we have some British guy I have no

◼   ► idea who he is

◼   ► I don't think I've ever seen him before

◼   ► in my life right next up we have an old

◼   ► guy who looks like a character after who

◼   ► I feel like I probably seen your face in

◼   ► movies before but I couldn't possibly

◼   ► think yeah James is dead I can't believe

◼   ► I couldn't place him it literally saw

◼   ► Bridget Jones's baby like a week ago and

◼   ► Bridget Jones baby can't really

◼   ► recommend that movie okay next going up

◼   ► okay so now we come up to who for me is

◼   ► the most recognizable person we've got

◼   ► Gillian Anderson and it's like okay but

◼   ► I am aware that they have the director

◼   ► like make reference to you're not

◼   ► auditioning for the x-files like try

◼   ► like nudge the audience but who this

◼   ► person is in case they can't place it

◼   ► so that's everybody and then like you

◼   ► said it's mr. bean at the end doing his

◼   ► mr. bean thing I agree with you like it

◼   ► is not star powering dazzling Ness it's

◼   ► like Gandalf and Gillian Anderson those

◼   ► are the two most recognizable to me

◼   ► anyway it's just not very funny it's

◼   ► funny at the start and I don't think

◼   ► it's cuz the joke wore off I just think

◼   ► it's just it's just funnier at the start

◼   ► yeah but also as it got into its sixth

◼   ► minute I was starting to think like are

◼   ► all safety videos this long there's this

◼   ► much information they have or have they

◼   ► somehow really stretched it out because

◼   ► they seem to be doing all the same

◼   ► things a safety video does and safety

◼   ► videos are never fast spoken so like

◼   ► they're not speaking much slower are

◼   ► they is there that much filler it

◼   ► how long is a normal safety video I

◼   ► don't know Wow okay so I was gonna say I

◼   ► feel like this is about the same as all

◼   ► the rest of them but the original one

◼   ► that started are complaining about this

◼   ► which is the United Airlines safety is

◼   ► global one which I feel like is filled

◼   ► with so much ridiculousness of like

◼   ► setting up establishing shots of where

◼   ► they are and all sorts of dumbness that

◼   ► is yes that's about three and a half yes

◼   ► it's it's four and a half minutes long

◼   ► so I was thinking like oh surely it must

◼   ► be the same but that one is now like

◼   ► like a zippy adventure all over the

◼   ► world compared to this one from British

◼   ► Airways I'm guessing that this is just

◼   ► way slower than most of them are going

◼   ► to be but why are these things so awful

◼   ► and I know it's for charity but there is

◼   ► something about like you've made me

◼   ► watch this terrible thing and you're

◼   ► asking me for something at the end and

◼   ► I'm like I'm sure it's feeding children

◼   ► across the world or whatever but it's

◼   ► like you've made me sit through this

◼   ► awful thing and now you're asking me for

◼   ► money it's like I just hate like it's it

◼   ► got me on these two levels Brady is

◼   ► awful it's absolutely awful like you're

◼   ► gonna ask me for money

◼   ► make me laugh right put me in a happy

◼   ► mood like don't infuriate me with his

◼   ► unfunny nonsense and like I said I was

◼   ► amazed to hear actual flight attendants

◼   ► complaining to passengers about this

◼   ► more than once and then I was watching

◼   ► them as this thing was playing it's like

◼   ► and they all had that dead thousand-yard

◼   ► stare in their eyes as this thing was

◼   ► going over the PA like to all the flight

◼   ► attendants working on British Airways I

◼   ► am so sorry for you during this season

◼   ► I don't know when comic relief season

◼   ► ends but I hope it's soon for everyone's

◼   ► sake the problem is you with you doing a

◼   ► safety video as well it has to be like

◼   ► safe old person humor because you can't

◼   ► make edgy jokes about aircraft safety

◼   ► because people have like anxiety attacks

◼   ► like for example when the dude was doing

◼   ► the bit about the life jacket and the

◼   ► whistle but he's quite a funny guy and

◼   ► that could have been funny but he just

◼   ► made some joke you can blow this to get

◼   ► attention you know if you like getting

◼   ► attention why haha that's the moment

◼   ► where you could have been funny like you

◼   ► know you could blow this to get

◼   ► attention the attention of people who

◼   ► didn't see the seven four seven that

◼   ► just crashed right next to them or

◼   ► something like that you know you could

◼   ► have made some jokes about the ordeal of

◼   ► a plane crash but

◼   ► you know I guess you can't really do

◼   ► that because everyone Alaskan off the

◼   ► plane but you might want that in your

◼   ► airline safety videos but I don't like

◼   ► this comic relief video but I'm telling

◼   ► you right now I wouldn't appreciate a

◼   ► video that was filled with nothing but

◼   ► death and destruction as the airline

◼   ► safety video no matter how genuinely

◼   ► effective it might be if the plane flips

◼   ► in the ocean like this footage here of

◼   ► Ethiopia lies in I just have the pilot

◼   ► come on I like dead serious system you

◼   ► like you need to pay attention because

◼   ► if you don't this is what happens and

◼   ► then like 30 seconds of the most

◼   ► horrific footage you can imagine like

◼   ► take off your goddamn headphones and

◼   ► listen I see this picture of this person

◼   ► here they didn't wear a seatbelt yeah

◼   ► don't don't actually do that air wise

◼   ► that would be bad but possibly inventive

◼   ► I've got a little spoilery papercut

◼   ► thing on my mind here because I think

◼   ► telling people even if you think

◼   ► something is good or bad counts as a

◼   ► spoiler and I bet you agree - yep

◼   ► completely agree yeah like I don't want

◼   ► to know if the film was good or bad you

◼   ► know the most you can tell me is that

◼   ► the film is out and here's where you can

◼   ► see it right or whether the ticket

◼   ► prices like with your friend that

◼   ► friendly mentioned if she tells you what

◼   ► she thinks of a movie

◼   ► it's totally spoiled there I think you

◼   ► need to avoid even how good a film is so

◼   ► the BBC News website but there are

◼   ► places where I expect to stumble over

◼   ► spoilers like the movie review section

◼   ► of a newspaper or something like that

◼   ► you know okay if I'm wading through

◼   ► there okay I might see something I don't

◼   ► want to see yeah if you're digging

◼   ► around on Rotten Tomatoes you can't be

◼   ► surprised if you're spoiled

◼   ► exactly but the BBC News website for

◼   ► reasons that are beyond me anyway have

◼   ► decided to start reviewing films like

◼   ► big films when they come out and what

◼   ► they do is they quite often we'll put

◼   ► these reviews on like the front page of

◼   ► their news website and the other thing

◼   ► they do is in the headline so on the

◼   ► front page with the BBC news website in

◼   ► the headline next to the name of the

◼   ► film they have the star rating that

◼   ► they've given her so I'll just be

◼   ► looking I'll be scrolling down the front

◼   ► page of the BBC News website and it will

◼   ► say you know man dies in plane crash

◼   ► latest bricks at negotiations and then

◼   ► the next thing down we'll say the LA

◼   ► Jedi three out of four stars mm-hmm like

◼   ► as a headline on a news website I can't

◼   ► believe they do that fair enough if they

◼   ► said review of the last Jedi and then if

◼   ► I clicked on that I can go and read the

◼   ► review all right I clicked on it but

◼   ► putting the star in the headline on the

◼   ► clicky clicky bit on the front page

◼   ► where you can't help but see it not

◼   ► happy not happy I don't know I feel like

◼   ► I'm very sensitive to spoilers I agree

◼   ► that it would be better if they didn't

◼   ► but it can't really feel like the BBC

◼   ► has an opinion of the Star Wars movie

◼   ► anyway well yeah that's a whole other

◼   ► question whether the news website should

◼   ► be reviewing a fair enough a movie

◼   ► review show or something that they do

◼   ► but yeah well yeah I mean I'm surprised

◼   ► the BBC wasn't reviewing movies already

◼   ► I could just assume there'd be a thing

◼   ► that they do but they don't review

◼   ► movies across their content and radio

◼   ► shows and they have they have a movie

◼   ► review TV show but having on their news

◼   ► website this review but the star rating

◼   ► riddle me this then you don't care about

◼   ► it mmm what does it even achieve having

◼   ► the star rating in the headline to click

◼   ► you through I mean I guess that what you

◼   ► just said there is what it achieves it's

◼   ► probably there to get you to click

◼   ► through I'm guessing like knowing how

◼   ► many stars the reviewer gave it does

◼   ► that make you more likely or less likely

◼   ► to read it I feel like I would be more

◼   ► likely to click that more likely if it

◼   ► gets a high rating or a low rating hmm I

◼   ► don't know if it's true but I feel like

◼   ► I would be more likely to click a thing

◼   ► that has the rating in the title just in

◼   ► general because it almost feels a bit

◼   ► like the you won't believe kind of

◼   ► headlines putting the star rating there

◼   ► almost is asking a question which is why

◼   ► did this rating happen what is the

◼   ► reason for this rating okay I feel like

◼   ► it's a more intriguing title than simply

◼   ► saying Star Wars last Jedi review click

◼   ► here okay like Star Wars the last Jedi

◼   ► review 3 out of 5 stars

◼   ► click here is more intriguing it draws

◼   ► the mouse pointer nearer I see what you

◼   ► sign so I still think they shouldn't do

◼   ► it for spoiler reasons but at least now

◼   ► I understand why they do it I can't feel

◼   ► like it's a spoiler Christmas podcast

◼   ► episode brady and gray don't like the

◼   ► last yet either why did you not do that

◼   ► i didn't think of it at the time maybe

◼   ► I'll do that next year

◼   ► look at next year's Star Wars

◼   ► three out of five right that's what the

◼   ► title is gonna be well I'll tell you why

◼   ► and actually in all seriousness I think

◼   ► you will a verb Radian greater okay so I

◼   ► feel like this is connected to the

◼   ► notion of why is it spoilery when

◼   ► someone tells you what they think about

◼   ► a movie or a TV show or whatever and I

◼   ► feel like it's because the person who is

◼   ► telling you you as the listener probably

◼   ► have some concept of the kinds of things

◼   ► that person likes and doesn't like this

◼   ► is where the BBC is like oh hi BBC

◼   ► you're just a faceless machine alright

◼   ► you might as well be a robot telling me

◼   ► that the movie has X out of five stars

◼   ► like who cares about the opinion of like

◼   ► a soulless conscious list machine so I

◼   ► feel like that's kind of the same thing

◼   ► with the BBC movie reviews like I mean

◼   ► probably there's some poor person who's

◼   ► writing that movie review but like for

◼   ► the most part it doesn't feel like the

◼   ► BBC or the New York Times or anybody

◼   ► could have a meaningful opinion about

◼   ► the movie whereas like particular movie

◼   ► reviewers can have meaningful opinions

◼   ► and thoughts about the movie and then

◼   ► that would feel like a spoiler

◼   ► well the BBC does have some of them but

◼   ► yeah maybe that doesn't apply to the

◼   ► website but I see what you're saying

◼   ► whereas if I know what you think it's

◼   ► like a you know but it's so simple all I

◼   ► have to do is define what I know of you

◼   ► know like mentally reverse-engineering

◼   ► what it is okay well speaking of star

◼   ► reviews mmm I just wanted to bring

◼   ► something up that we have hardly ever

◼   ► done if ever and that is talked about

◼   ► people rating our podcast on iTunes

◼   ► you know how lots of podcasts say hey

◼   ► can you give us a star rating on iTunes

◼   ► because it helps us with the algorithm

◼   ► and more people will find us and stuff I

◼   ► think you and I both have always been

◼   ► pretty reluctant to do that yeah I feel

◼   ► like it has been a long time since we

◼   ► were playing the what country are you

◼   ► from game with our podcast reviews well

◼   ► I'm gonna throw this out for people to

◼   ► give us a star review on iTunes

◼   ► preferably a high one but not for the

◼   ► reason you might think all right not for

◼   ► like the algorithm and to you know get

◼   ► recommended to more people I mean that

◼   ► would be lovely but that's

◼   ► the race I don't think that really works

◼   ► but okay I don't know I don't know my

◼   ► reasons is far more shallow okay great

◼   ► perfect you know what I feel like it's

◼   ► already going to be more effective yeah

◼   ► and that is this basically when I know

◼   ► people people like my wife and my

◼   ► friends and stuff like that but this

◼   ► recently happened I think with my wife

◼   ► she had a high-powered meeting with some

◼   ► influential people in the world of like

◼   ► media and podcast II stuff she was just

◼   ► talking to them and she said to them oh

◼   ► my husband does a podcast that is that

◼   ► you know is quite successful when does

◼   ► quite well mm-hmm like the person at the

◼   ► meeting said ah what's a cold like all

◼   ► excited because they are into podcasts

◼   ► and I'm she makes she said hello

◼   ► Internet I hope that's what she said the

◼   ► guy was like ah you know I've never

◼   ► heard of it mm-hmm fair enough you know

◼   ► a good proportion of the world's

◼   ► population haven't heard of hello

◼   ► Internet I accept that but then it

◼   ► occurred to me he probably would then

◼   ► have checked the podcast is to see what

◼   ► it was and what it was about and what it

◼   ► was like and when you go away and check

◼   ► someone's like YouTube channels or

◼   ► Twitter account or something you can

◼   ► very quickly see if that claim is legit

◼   ► like is this really a big YouTube

◼   ► channel just have a lot of subscribers

◼   ► is this person really influential do

◼   ► they have a lot of Twitter followers or

◼   ► was that all talk with the podcast the

◼   ► only thing you can do is go to iTunes

◼   ► and look at how many star ratings the

◼   ► podcast has and if it has lots and lots

◼   ► of people have reviewed it you'll say oh

◼   ► yeah okay yeah that is people must

◼   ► listen to that podcast and if it has

◼   ► just a handful you think arts just you

◼   ► know a couple of guys in their bedroom

◼   ► and and no one listens and it suddenly

◼   ► occurred to me to a stranger who's not

◼   ► aware with like you know the world of

◼   ► Tim foolery and doesn't hang out on the

◼   ► subreddit and hasn't where I know

◼   ► followed the podcast for years the only

◼   ► thing we can be judged by is the number

◼   ► of star ratings and like I'm okay I can

◼   ► live with people thinking hello

◼   ► internets big or small but in that

◼   ► particular little situation I suddenly

◼   ► thought no I don't actually know how

◼   ► many star ratings we have maybe we have

◼   ► loads but it just suddenly occurred to

◼   ► me that our that's a good thing about

◼   ► star ratings forget the algorithm if

◼   ► someone checks up on the podcast to find

◼   ► out whether it's legit whether it's like

◼   ► a good podcast or not that's all they

◼   ► can look at it is a strange thing

◼   ► in the podcast world how under this veil

◼   ► of secrecy everything is because I often

◼   ► want to know like how big is somebody

◼   ► else's pocket and you just have no idea

◼   ► it's funny it never really occurred to

◼   ► me to go look at iTunes and look at the

◼   ► reviews but I feel like that is also a

◼   ► case of that is still going to be pretty

◼   ► inconsistent because some podcasts beg

◼   ► for reviews at the end of every episode

◼   ► and some podcasts you know like ours

◼   ► don't ever ask for reviews except in the

◼   ► very beginning whatever getting started

◼   ► and today right and this very moment

◼   ► right now as you should be on on your

◼   ► podcast app opening up the iTunes don't

◼   ► do a radio tom style like automated

◼   ► process where like they're the Apple

◼   ► servers collapse under some automated

◼   ► star system where there's more we get

◼   ► more star ratings that there are stars

◼   ► in the Milky Way or something great

◼   ► rating nobody was thinking that until

◼   ► you mentioned it so thanks okay great

◼   ► yeah okay so change if that happens yeah

◼   ► so actual humans only yes Brady for his

◼   ► vanity project would like more reviews

◼   ► and iTunes that's the only humans need

◼   ► apply right only humans need a fly but

◼   ► Grady wants to be able to impress people

◼   ► and show them real proof that the

◼   ► podcast is a big deal so I guess we're

◼   ► asking for reviews no it's more other

◼   ► people like my friends and stuff like

◼   ► that like it's not about me wanting to

◼   ► like you know I can do make up a number

◼   ► oh yeah we hundred million downloads

◼   ► just yesterday so wait can I just be

◼   ► clear here so this isn't even this is

◼   ► not something you want for you directly

◼   ► now this is like second hand

◼   ► conversations that people you know are

◼   ► having about you it's someone I know who

◼   ► recommend to someone I know who knows

◼   ► someone else who might go and have a

◼   ► look to see how many stars we've got

◼   ► okay great I wasn't it'll be like a

◼   ► decent number how many ratings if we go

◼   ► we currently have 661 ratings with a

◼   ► five-star average is that good

◼   ► Oh co-op star sounds good base 661 good

◼   ► I have no idea what podcast ratings are

◼   ► but whatever that is we're just gonna

◼   ► say right now far too low for whatever

◼   ► should have right it's this should be

◼   ► ten thousand five star ratings sorry

◼   ► thousand

◼   ► yes that's what we're going for just go

◼   ► into iTunes click the star for your mate

◼   ► Brady

◼   ► it's not about gaming the algorithm I

◼   ► couldn't care less about that it's just

◼   ► about purely about vanity I like this

◼   ► you know what I swear to God I feel like

◼   ► that's a more pure desire just being

◼   ► real upfront about it is like Hades

◼   ► feeling a bit like he wants his vanity

◼   ► flattered why don't you help out with

◼   ► that people and I am 100% convinced that

◼   ► all those podcasts had asked for four

◼   ► reviews and ratings at the end like I

◼   ► just do not think that really matters

◼   ► like as far as I can tell I don't think

◼   ► that really matters in iTunes land maybe

◼   ► it does in other podcast players but

◼   ► like on iTunes anyway I don't think it

◼   ► makes any difference I think it does

◼   ► matter because there is a bit of the

◼   ► rich get richer and the thing on iTunes

◼   ► isn't there like if a successful podcast

◼   ► launches another one and that sort of

◼   ► stuff I think there is a bit of

◼   ► algorithmic stuff going on there to be

◼   ► gamed don't get me wrong there's a rich

◼   ► gets richer effect but what I'm saying

◼   ► is I don't think there's any relation

◼   ► between the number of reviews and like

◼   ► promotion on iTunes I don't think

◼   ► there's a clear connection there I think

◼   ► there is I think when you search

◼   ► something like if you go into the eye

◼   ► and search cricket you know and it

◼   ► recommends a bunch of cricket podcast to

◼   ► I think the ones with higher stars are

◼   ► getting recommended before ones with two

◼   ► stars I could be wrong and this this

◼   ► information could be outdated but the

◼   ► impression that I got is that the at

◼   ► least on iTunes the recommendations are

◼   ► largely based on a combination of two

◼   ► things and then it's new people

◼   ► subscribing and current download numbers

◼   ► all right that was the impression that I

◼   ► was given at one point that that is like

◼   ► 90% of the recommendation effect and

◼   ► that the review thing is less less of an

◼   ► effect but that could be wrong well

◼   ► great I was gonna make a joke right

◼   ► this was the joke I was about to say

◼   ► okay well I just searched Flags on my

◼   ► podcast player and we weren't even on

◼   ► the front page but to be honest I'd

◼   ► asserts flags on my phone and we were

◼   ► the Sikh recommended podcast okay

◼   ► I take it back yeah hello we think that

◼   ► soon to dominate the bee podcast market

◼   ► oh I didn't think the bees I'm gonna

◼   ► search bees and see if we get if we get

◼   ► on the front page for bees

◼   ► I am gonna say apples awesome it's a

◼   ► dramatic moment bees I'm searching bees

◼   ► podcasts we are on the first page and

◼   ► we're in the top top 20 apple knows what

◼   ► it's doing with bee and flag related

◼   ► podcast recommendations so great I've

◼   ► been requiring some social advice for

◼   ► you because I know you're the master of

◼   ► social situations oh oh no no Brady

◼   ► don't ask me I feel like I've been

◼   ► particularly bad about this lately okay

◼   ► this is one just just want to throw it

◼   ► out there cuz it's pagina it's part of

◼   ► life I feel like you know people like

◼   ► you and me know how to react if someone

◼   ► says to us oh it's you know it's my

◼   ► birthday or I'm getting married or we're

◼   ► having a baby like you kind of know the

◼   ► things you're supposed to say to someone

◼   ► congratulations

◼   ► yeah things like and if someone dies you

◼   ► also know there are certain ways to

◼   ► handle that it's a you know when someone

◼   ► has had a bereavement and they tell you

◼   ► about it I'm very sorry for your loss so

◼   ► if you lost things like that what do you

◼   ► say when someone tells you they're

◼   ► getting divorced

◼   ► cuz I had that one the other day and I

◼   ► kind of know I know I know lots of

◼   ► people who've gotten divorced obviously

◼   ► because it's a really common thing but

◼   ► like someone just said to me I'll you

◼   ► know it's just so you're in the know I'm

◼   ► just letting you know cuz you're my

◼   ► friend and I'm I'm we're actually you

◼   ► know we're getting divorced I didn't

◼   ► really know exactly what to say or do I

◼   ► don't know if I dropped the ball I

◼   ► handed it well but I just realized I

◼   ► don't know what the etiquette is for

◼   ► that I feel like that etiquette is very

◼   ► context dependent I mean the less I know

◼   ► about someone I would say something like

◼   ► oh I'm I'm so sorry that you're going

◼   ► through that yeah like that might be my

◼   ► default one but I could see in some

◼   ► circumstances like the divorce is a

◼   ► positive change possibly in both

◼   ► people's lives there's so much more you

◼   ► need to know isn't there like what's

◼   ► initiated er how do you feel about it

◼   ► yourself and like without all that

◼   ► information it's very difficult to know

◼   ► what to say I didn't immediately have

◼   ► the words at my grass

◼   ► I don't have a general answer for this

◼   ► as I'm probably sure it doesn't surprise

◼   ► you I also feel like I have heard about

◼   ► a thing but maybe this is just one of

◼   ► those like things on the internet that

◼   ► isn't real but I have heard about the

◼   ► concept of a divorce party where someone

◼   ► is celebrating the fact that their

◼   ► divorce has finally gone through and I

◼   ► have like a party to establish like oh

◼   ► this is a fresh start in life now like

◼   ► you're beginning things over so I don't

◼   ► know if that's real or not if anybody's

◼   ► actually had a real divorce party or if

◼   ► this is just like a meme are you

◼   ► imagining a divorce party where both the

◼   ► divorcee you know I don't know I fed

◼   ► know I feel like this there is two

◼   ► separate divorce okay right you know

◼   ► after you as a couple have divided up

◼   ► the friends you know so who's gonna get

◼   ► who in the communal friend pool that you

◼   ► have separate parties to celebrate the

◼   ► divorce I know again I don't know if

◼   ► that's real I just feel like this is a

◼   ► thing that I have heard about but I

◼   ► don't know why you'd be asking me about

◼   ► social advice I don't have any idea I

◼   ► always feel really awkward with those

◼   ► standard replies anyway like obviously

◼   ► they're the standard replies for a

◼   ► reason but as feel like I should be more

◼   ► creative somehow with expressing

◼   ► condolence or congratulations like when

◼   ► it's somebody's birthday and you send

◼   ► them a text message you say oh

◼   ► congratulations happy birthday I always

◼   ► feel like I should be able to say more

◼   ► especially if it's a person I know but

◼   ► they're the kind of isn't a lot more to

◼   ► say at those events like you just these

◼   ► are the social motions that we go

◼   ► through yep

◼   ► I feel like this is the worst time that

◼   ► you could have possibly asked me that's

◼   ► because like I've had in my list a

◼   ► question to ask you which is a much

◼   ► simpler social question yeah but I

◼   ► genuinely feel like I need help in this

◼   ► area and then the question is how does

◼   ► one greet people I feel like I've

◼   ► forgotten how to greet people or I just

◼   ► don't know anymore do you know what's

◼   ► happened I blame myself for this know

◼   ► myself for you having this problem I was

◼   ► gonna say because you've seen this

◼   ► you've seen this in person right you

◼   ► know what I'm talking about

◼   ► I feel like I introduced you to the

◼   ► concept of the half handshake half hug

◼   ► yes you did I think you were I think you

◼   ► were the first person who did this and I

◼   ► feel like it caught your

◼   ► imagination as a good thing to do right

◼   ► but you still haven't learned how to do

◼   ► it right and so every time I see you you

◼   ► try to do it and I'm like oh great

◼   ► you're not feeling it

◼   ► if you don't feel it don't do it right I

◼   ► love doing it and I enjoy it but I feel

◼   ► like you're overthinking it here's the

◼   ► question for the listeners Brady has

◼   ► this idea this thing that he's invented

◼   ► which is a half handshake where like I

◼   ► do break you don't hug the person you

◼   ► sort of handshake and back slap at the

◼   ► same time yeah yeah ugh I call a humble

◼   ► hug okay got it

◼   ► but you're keeping like a little bit of

◼   ► distance because your hands are shaking

◼   ► in between the two of you yeah and then

◼   ► the hands go over the back like I gets a

◼   ► hug we're like you know your belly

◼   ► buttons wouldn't touch it's just like

◼   ► right my right shoulder would touch your

◼   ► right shoulder as our right hands shake

◼   ► and then my left hand will touch the

◼   ► back of your left shoulder I'm doing

◼   ► this a friend of microphone right now

◼   ► yeah okay I mean that it's a difficult

◼   ► maneuver to pull off obviously this is

◼   ► like 16 plus level greetings right this

◼   ► is this is not for beginners yeah but I

◼   ► also feel like I don't understand the

◼   ► boundaries of social greetings anymore

◼   ► it's like like how well do you have to

◼   ► know someone to do a hug greeting hum

◼   ► versus a hug well no no this is a

◼   ► spectrum right we have the full spectrum

◼   ► so on one end we have like a hug

◼   ► right yeah and so we could say clearly

◼   ► family members right you would greet a

◼   ► family member with a hug yeah maybe a

◼   ► kiss on the cheek right that's one clear

◼   ► clear end who I'm allowed to kiss so I

◼   ► find difficult no no let's just put that

◼   ► aside just for the moment like we can

◼   ► return to this but all right then on the

◼   ► other end you have like you have flown

◼   ► to Japan and now met a stranger and

◼   ► you're just going to politely bow and I

◼   ► feel like you're in some kind of

◼   ► competition to bow lower but I also

◼   ► don't know for sure if that's real so

◼   ► anyway this is like the contact spectrum

◼   ► and then for most of the times you meet

◼   ► I feel like I'm meeting a pure stranger

◼   ► it's really fine like okay we do

◼   ► handshakes handshakes for everybody but

◼   ► as

◼   ► soon as I'm meeting a person the second

◼   ► time or the third time I don't know I

◼   ► feel like I always get it wrong I feel

◼   ► like I do this wrong every time and I

◼   ► don't know how to do it and I am now

◼   ► convinced I'm gonna blame you on

◼   ► introducing like an off by one error

◼   ► that has looped over in my head a

◼   ► hundred thousand times and is making

◼   ► every time I greet someone hard and

◼   ► incomprehensible to me now the thing you

◼   ► shouldn't do is reference the hug that's

◼   ► my tip okay like don't say we're hugging

◼   ► or let's have a hug or come on haha hug

◼   ► just do the hug but don't reference the

◼   ► hug okay so no verbal acknowledgment of

◼   ► the hug yeah is there a way to save it

◼   ► when someone else is going for the hug

◼   ► but you go for the handshake you've got

◼   ► a you've got to convert to the hug

◼   ► they can't downgrade you've got a rise

◼   ► to the occasion and join the hug what if

◼   ► they've already extended their hands and

◼   ► you haven't noticed Holloman asked all

◼   ► them in to the humble hugs up yank them

◼   ► in humble hug yeah hmm

◼   ► you can also deflect a hug into a humble

◼   ► hug okay deflect a hug I feel like it

◼   ► needs to cut it like some like brazilian

◼   ► jiu-jitsu class to practice this and

◼   ► there's also another option is as you do

◼   ► the hug and if it's become awkward and

◼   ► you realize it's all gone wrong you do

◼   ► like a funny you pat them on the back

◼   ► three or four times and like with a

◼   ► laugh like isn't this funny what we're

◼   ► doing and make a big joke of the hug

◼   ► wait but so now you're referencing yeah

◼   ► everything the hug yeah but that's only

◼   ► because it needs referencing because

◼   ► it's all gone so far wrong okay so if it

◼   ► goes if it goes really wrong hmm you

◼   ► reference the hug I'll write you some

◼   ► notes this was all brought to a head on

◼   ► God I will remember this until the day I

◼   ► die but I was meeting a stranger on one

◼   ► of my recent trips and we just we just

◼   ► went to do I swear to God Brady like you

◼   ► know level two and above the Simo simple

◼   ► thing the handshake yeah and somehow I

◼   ► went to handshake this other guy and I

◼   ► did it so wrong that how to describe

◼   ► this so imagine you're holding out your

◼   ► hand for a handshake and then you lower

◼   ► your pinkie so there's space like you're

◼   ► making a shadow dog on the wall somehow

◼   ► I got my hand into that position

◼   ► we we shook with like just the the

◼   ► webbing of our pinkies touching and the

◼   ► rest of our hands holding could have

◼   ► died I swear I could have died in that

◼   ► moment and it's like we're gonna do this

◼   ► we're gonna shake right

◼   ► boom boom boom three and done and no

◼   ► reference to it and this might be one of

◼   ► the last things I think about before I

◼   ► die is because it just keeps popping up

◼   ► in my head over and over again

◼   ► worse than the sloppy Ben's moment

◼   ► honestly yes because unlike the sloppy

◼   ► buns moment which was such a peculiar

◼   ► events with very special circumstances

◼   ► around it handshakes happen all the time

◼   ► and so now when I go to a handshake with

◼   ► someone I'm like very focused on keeping

◼   ► my fingers together to make sure that

◼   ► there is no accidental slippage here so

◼   ► it's been really rough for me Brady and

◼   ► then when you throw in the difficulty of

◼   ► living abroad as an expat and the

◼   ► complication of like who do you kiss

◼   ► because some people expect the kisses

◼   ► especially when you're dealing with

◼   ► foreigners and it's a broad like I can't

◼   ► deal with it and Here I am many years

◼   ► into life and I'm clearly getting much

◼   ► worse at the how do you greet another

◼   ► human protocol I'll tell you my biggest

◼   ► problem with the kiss okay and that is

◼   ► in a lot of the circles I move in the

◼   ► guys have a hug or a humble hug and

◼   ► male-female combinations do a kiss

◼   ► that's the way we roll right yep but I

◼   ► won't kiss someone who I don't know very

◼   ► well so sometimes if you're in a group

◼   ► and there are like say five or six women

◼   ► and you know them really well and

◼   ► there's one you don't you get into a

◼   ► situation where you use five people and

◼   ► then you get to the final person and

◼   ► you're like you just stick out your hand

◼   ► and shake your hand because it's like I

◼   ► don't you know it would be inappropriate

◼   ► for me to kiss you person and yet it

◼   ► almost feels like after you've just

◼   ► kissed all the other people it's almost

◼   ► like you're shunning them like it's like

◼   ► no I don't like you you know you smell I

◼   ► don't want to kiss you well of course

◼   ► that's not the case it creates a real

◼   ► awkward situation kiss kiss kiss kiss

◼   ► see you later shake and yeah yeah I

◼   ► don't know how to handle that you know I

◼   ► think that is the only way to handle

◼   ► that but I just feel a bit guilty it is

◼   ► extra worse because the the cheek kiss

◼   ► greeting thing I mean let's just ignore

◼   ► the

◼   ► or to things like sometimes you never

◼   ► know what the other person's gonna do

◼   ► well you know sometimes free and you get

◼   ► you get cold out for only doing two

◼   ► there's three even work don't understand

◼   ► you go back to the one you started on

◼   ► you about it now yeah and if you're

◼   ► needed to do they're like no no no no we

◼   ► must do three no that's kissing the