00:00:02 ◼ ► He goes I'm going to give you three and a half to three and then the suffering to have concepts for collapse. [TS]
00:00:18 ◼ ► and I always wondered why it's always always a round number I want to do something different. [TS]
00:00:25 ◼ ► but they're not supposed to be created they're just supposed to be so I can synchronize stuff. [TS]
00:00:32 ◼ ► Yeah I just need to express your creativity in every possible venue that you can but in the meantime three cops [TS]
00:00:41 ◼ ► and functional though a very functional should have clap is taking you're your own hand [TS]
00:00:48 ◼ ► If there's going to be a half clapped out the half class not arrive home with a finger [TS]
00:00:58 ◼ ► Shall we start by wishing a happy New Year to all the hello internet listeners after this podcast of twenty fifth Dane. [TS]
00:01:06 ◼ ► Our first podcast ever is not in the twenty four chain it is almost I guess a year anniversary for us because we [TS]
00:01:13 ◼ ► started in January sometime last year I did we get me started you think it will now. [TS]
00:01:17 ◼ ► Now you're going to make me look it up I think we started I'm going to say it was like January thirtieth was our first [TS]
00:01:23 ◼ ► episode something like that. Accompli we've been doing this that long. Yeah this is this is almost like a year now. [TS]
00:01:31 ◼ ► I was so good. January thirty first twenty fourteen. Well you should first excite me you are wrong. [TS]
00:01:40 ◼ ► Let's not do best did well happy I'm not going to pretend to wish you a Happy New Year because we do not lie to our [TS]
00:01:53 ◼ ► You invited the Mrs and I out for New Years Eve in London because you were here for a period. [TS]
00:02:00 ◼ ► Reasons and yeah you wives and us all went out to dinner and rung in the New Year. [TS]
00:02:06 ◼ ► You made me stay up late with a glass of beer the normally really want to do you spring some who do witchcraft on me as [TS]
00:02:12 ◼ ► well because you were running a bit late for dinner and like I was like Where are you man where I am [TS]
00:02:18 ◼ ► and then you sent me this weird text where I had to like accept something you know I hate accepting things I don't [TS]
00:02:24 ◼ ► understand but then I got to watch a little C G P Grace symbol move around on a map [TS]
00:02:29 ◼ ► and I could follow you like crossing bridges and walking around London was amazing. [TS]
00:02:34 ◼ ► This is one of the new features of I O S eight is the ability to temporarily share your location with somebody else. [TS]
00:02:42 ◼ ► when you get that red update badge on your i Phone you might want to click it because then I can do things like send [TS]
00:02:48 ◼ ► you my location for the next hour so you can see how close we are to actually making it across the demilitarized zone [TS]
00:02:55 ◼ ► of London where they shut down the inner part of the city is like police checks and dogs [TS]
00:03:00 ◼ ► and all kinds of crazy stuff to get in and you can see us trying to traverse this area [TS]
00:03:07 ◼ ► It was good fun like and then you crossed you cross the bridge and I was like you know I love bridges [TS]
00:03:12 ◼ ► and I was watching you get closer to it and then I could screen capture the moment that you actually on the bridge [TS]
00:03:21 ◼ ► So I for meeting up in the future I'll try to always remember to share my location as I come I come I just have it all [TS]
00:03:30 ◼ ► I'm not willing to extend that level of intimacy in our relationship at this stage or more likely ever. [TS]
00:03:38 ◼ ► What places do you go that you wouldn't want me to know that that's not the point it's just if you're sharing it [TS]
00:03:44 ◼ ► If you're sharing your location with someone it feels a bit like God is looking down upon you from the sky all the time [TS]
00:03:50 ◼ ► I don't I don't like it it feels it feels almost claustrophobic to have your location track twenty four hours a day [TS]
00:03:55 ◼ ► seven days a week that's why I don't do it what was it like for that like you know fifteen minutes or so when you say. [TS]
00:04:00 ◼ ► No I can going to share my location with Brady just so he knows how close I am to dinner so how does that change the [TS]
00:04:05 ◼ ► way you warp core like a you conscious of that eye in the sky for those fifteen minutes [TS]
00:04:10 ◼ ► when you're scurrying along the bridge trying to get to me before dinner starts now of course I view that as a courtesy. [TS]
00:04:15 ◼ ► This is this is like the more modern equivalent of sending text messages every few minutes. [TS]
00:04:20 ◼ ► I'm approaching the bridge I've crossed the bridge I'll be right there oh I'm right here right now you don't know I [TS]
00:04:25 ◼ ► don't isn't the text messages you can just see where I am now didn't before they used to have a little bit more awkward [TS]
00:04:30 ◼ ► way that you could do it when I go on when I go travelling you know on a business trip [TS]
00:04:35 ◼ ► or show this summer event I'll share my location with my wife so she knows where I am [TS]
00:04:45 ◼ ► Like then that is different then I'll share my location but not not normally but what about [TS]
00:04:53 ◼ ► and then she would have been worried about you suddenly you went to a cave with gun toting destine [TS]
00:05:03 ◼ ► Sometimes you can disappear off the map and that's fine that's fine. Maybe they should get life in that cave. [TS]
00:05:11 ◼ ► Shared the did you enjoy dinner it was one of those kind of taster menu things where they bring you out lots of little [TS]
00:05:19 ◼ ► and some of it was pretty pretty London so why don't you tell people what you mean by pretty London you know it was all [TS]
00:05:27 ◼ ► like you know Posh names that we didn't understand like the Jews use even this like flavored frothy air [TS]
00:05:35 ◼ ► and you know like a shot glass of foam followed by some piece of meat the size of a five pence coin so I was a little [TS]
00:05:43 ◼ ► bit worried when you first I mean the details about this dinner because it was a multi-course dinner. [TS]
00:05:50 ◼ ► and I assumed that they meant actual meals for the different courses like they were going seven for males. [TS]
00:06:00 ◼ ► Just going to be stuffing ourselves until we can possibly eat and they keep bringing food in it's just more [TS]
00:06:12 ◼ ► when they actually do is bring you tiny portions of overly fancy food spread out over a long period of time [TS]
00:06:22 ◼ ► and you know if anybody is ever in a situation where they think over going to have a fourteen course meal for you Don't [TS]
00:06:35 ◼ ► So it was you know I have I have been to one of these before a quite famous restaurant in Nottingham [TS]
00:06:41 ◼ ► and my friend had been to and I was even more it was something like fourteen courses [TS]
00:06:48 ◼ ► and his wife had gone to McDonald's on the way home because they had not enough so I went to I went to that one [TS]
00:06:58 ◼ ► and likewise had I was on New Year's Day thought I wasn't hungry at the end I felt like I had enough food because quite [TS]
00:07:05 ◼ ► rich that so they bring in you know if you go this way did you get a McDonald's on the way. [TS]
00:07:14 ◼ ► You can go get a McDonald's on the way how did you get anything on the way I think I think [TS]
00:07:26 ◼ ► I don't so I don't feel that it was a very small amount of food that I was I was surprised I was surprised [TS]
00:07:38 ◼ ► but I assure you I assure you it didn't cost the same as a small tiny amounts of food. [TS]
00:07:46 ◼ ► but you can buy an enormous amount of ramen noodles for very little money so that is like the volume of food is [TS]
00:08:01 ◼ ► Historically in terms of times I have stayed up until the midnight roll over this is very few and my whole life really. [TS]
00:08:10 ◼ ► Oh yeah I'm not a I'm not a stay up until midnight kind of guy you sleep at midnight sometimes. [TS]
00:08:19 ◼ ► No it did I don't think I've ever slept through a change out of that one I was working through that one [TS]
00:08:26 ◼ ► but I don't want to know what were you doing working through it I was a journalist it was like all hands to the pump my [TS]
00:08:39 ◼ ► and that we were completely overstuff So really I was just wondering around the centre of Adelaide [TS]
00:08:45 ◼ ► and I don't think I actually had to do any work but I was I was technically at work [TS]
00:08:50 ◼ ► but yeah well you slipped through that one. Wow I will never I don't think I've ever slept through what it's like. [TS]
00:09:04 ◼ ► I'm not I to be clear I'm not to pooling it I know I don't you know this holiday is an interesting if you need it you [TS]
00:09:25 ◼ ► and then from school I went into teacher training and then from teacher training I went in to being a teacher. [TS]
00:09:39 ◼ ► and so that's why I feel like my mind has always been a bit off kilter from New Year's Eve I feel like I should be in [TS]
00:09:46 ◼ ► the in the summer maybe the New Years Eve takes place I think that this changeover is a is a strange time for the [TS]
00:10:00 ◼ ► Think up with my notion of of when things happen or when I try to think backwards in time. [TS]
00:10:04 ◼ ► I'm always thinking in terms of academic years I'm not thinking in terms of calendar years. [TS]
00:10:09 ◼ ► That's what I'm going to go a bit of a limb here and a shame you're not a big fan of New Year's resolutions [TS]
00:10:19 ◼ ► but I feel like that is that is separate from that is separate from the New Year's holiday. [TS]
00:10:25 ◼ ► I think New Year's resolutions are dumb and ineffective for the most part. But do you make news resolutions braiding. [TS]
00:10:34 ◼ ► I just I don't know I've only really seriously done it once with any kind of effectiveness [TS]
00:10:40 ◼ ► but can you share with your one affected one was a more was what it was like a big fitness weight loss sort of regime [TS]
00:10:51 ◼ ► and you know go into a like that you know hardcore calorie counting and stuff like that but I do totally [TS]
00:10:58 ◼ ► and I do totally understand them and I think. I see a lot of merit to them like I understand the psychology of them. [TS]
00:11:05 ◼ ► That kind of clean slate mentality really works for me in them because you know we pour that before with the swearing [TS]
00:11:20 ◼ ► and if you've got some something you want to do like say not eat cheeseburgers right. [TS]
00:11:25 ◼ ► Like I'm never going to do that because I was and I think was eating cheeseburgers [TS]
00:11:29 ◼ ► and I want to say three days ago so what's the point of not eating one now that near Is this really natural time to [TS]
00:11:34 ◼ ► sort of be able to sort of reset back to zero and think almost like I've never eaten a cheeseburger [TS]
00:11:42 ◼ ► when January three comes in you're a cheeseburger you've ruined as well eight hundred more. [TS]
00:11:47 ◼ ► But I do I do think it gives you this kind of a natural time to reset the counter to zero [TS]
00:11:54 ◼ ► and I think that's what it is with most things I think it's just it's just this natural it's this. [TS]
00:12:00 ◼ ► Will reset switch on I was completely arbitrary. Of course not of course I understand that but I get it. [TS]
00:12:09 ◼ ► It was a it was a was a very magical moment that click over of the calendar even as like a little kid I remember we'd [TS]
00:12:21 ◼ ► and then as soon as a new year started it was like it was this magical thing and we would run around [TS]
00:12:27 ◼ ► and do everything like I'm the first person to touch this tree in nine hundred eighty four I'm the first person to [TS]
00:12:35 ◼ ► I'm the first person to pet the dog in Nineteen Eighty-Four I'm the first person to do it [TS]
00:12:40 ◼ ► and like it was like you know you would like these pioneers and everything was new and of a horse you grow out of that. [TS]
00:12:47 ◼ ► I mean if you like either I didn't go running around at midnight the other night and start touching trays and stuff. [TS]
00:13:00 ◼ ► and I can see why someone like of your disposition would say you know I think this is completely irrational. [TS]
00:13:07 ◼ ► I get it it's not it's I would say it's not that it's a rational it's just that it it holds no. [TS]
00:13:21 ◼ ► I am New Year's Eve neutral it doesn't it doesn't affect me where like Christmas I just like Christmas [TS]
00:13:27 ◼ ► and there's no rational reason why I just do it. It just pulls on my mind in this particular way. [TS]
00:13:40 ◼ ► and so yes that's why I don't often bother staying up for it because I'm also just terrible at staying up late anyway [TS]
00:13:48 ◼ ► and as it has done. I know that when I do it it totally messes with my sleep schedule for a very long time. [TS]
00:13:54 ◼ ► And so that's another reason why I don't I don't like to do it because I find it's staying up late at all. [TS]
00:14:07 ◼ ► and so that's why I'm often not always super super into New Years is the receipt G.P. [TS]
00:14:13 ◼ ► Grey equivalent of New Year's resolutions for so many people new year is the time that I will join the gym or get fit [TS]
00:14:20 ◼ ► or stop smoking not that's their that's their victory point to say OK From this point on I'm going to get my act [TS]
00:14:29 ◼ ► Do you have some weird lines in the sand or lost points or moments that you can use as jump off to a new [TS]
00:14:40 ◼ ► You know I've talked about this a little bit before but I am I am a big believer in this but I guess. [TS]
00:14:55 ◼ ► Put it I'm not a I'm not a huge believer in goals but I am a huge believer in system. [TS]
00:15:02 ◼ ► I have two levels of reviews that I do the ones that I think are probably closest to a New Year's Eve kind of thing is [TS]
00:15:09 ◼ ► I do a relatively big review every three months where I'm kind of looking at OK what is the situation in my life. [TS]
00:15:20 ◼ ► What are things that I want to improve and over the past few months what has worked in my life [TS]
00:15:27 ◼ ► and I consciously take some time out to think about that kind of stuff like you know it's not a huge deal this isn't [TS]
00:15:33 ◼ ► you know an afternoon of I have a couple of documents some outlines that I used to keep track of this stuff is a bridge [TS]
00:15:40 ◼ ► invented by date but I like it at the end of the calendar month cycle always do this on the last day of the month [TS]
00:15:45 ◼ ► or do you just kind of say Oh it's been about three months let's let's open the document I have a little reminder that [TS]
00:15:51 ◼ ► pops up every three months in Omni Focus. So there is why is that funny. Why is I just didn't I didn't you. [TS]
00:16:00 ◼ ► Maybe that you have this reminder every three months going up saying sit down and review your life. [TS]
00:16:04 ◼ ► Well the reminder is actually to then create an instance of a template of all the things that I like to do during that [TS]
00:16:11 ◼ ► three month review so that with a reminder the reminder pops up when it says it says run quarterly. [TS]
00:16:20 ◼ ► or so little things that I like to run through on the review. So that's that's that is the mechanics of it. [TS]
00:16:28 ◼ ► but I like three months because I think it is it's a conceivable amount of time a year is almost too long as a human to [TS]
00:16:39 ◼ ► But I feel like you can get a decent sized project done in three months if you really want to [TS]
00:16:46 ◼ ► or you can't you can make a reasonable amount of progress in something like personal fitness in three months. [TS]
00:16:56 ◼ ► but if you're thinking about health goals like there are there's a lot of progress a person could make in a year with [TS]
00:17:03 ◼ ► but then it's also that that your your goal is so far away as like this cheeseburger today doesn't matter where I can [TS]
00:17:11 ◼ ► eat this you know in a year I'll be looking great. But right now I can do this other thing. [TS]
00:17:16 ◼ ► What do you think New Year's resolutions are necessarily all about. He is my goal and I will reassess how I did. [TS]
00:17:22 ◼ ► Next New Year's Eve I just think it's I think New Year's resolutions of the time that people say OK From this day [TS]
00:17:31 ◼ ► onwards the first of January I'm going to implement you know System X. As you would call it. [TS]
00:17:36 ◼ ► Yeah I agree with you I don't think necessarily that people are thinking about it in the same way. [TS]
00:17:40 ◼ ► I'm just talking about why don't I do a yearly review system because I almost think it's it's too big of a chunk of [TS]
00:17:52 ◼ ► So when you sit down in the afternoon and look at these points in this template or whatever it is [TS]
00:18:04 ◼ ► or do you then say OK it's time to implement the plans they had and you know what what's what happens after the. [TS]
00:18:13 ◼ ► This afternoon review one of the biggest levers for change is trying to tinker with my daily schedule [TS]
00:18:24 ◼ ► And it's like this is actually been a very big project for me ever since I became self-employed. [TS]
00:18:30 ◼ ► I guess two years ago now is is trying to figure out how to make this work in a reasonable way. [TS]
00:18:40 ◼ ► and in my personal life in a way so that like my my work life doesn't totally consume everything else that just comes [TS]
00:18:47 ◼ ► down to like OK or how much time I'm going to spend on various things when am I going to try to do those things [TS]
00:18:52 ◼ ► and it sounds silly but it takes a long time to kind of learn about yourself and realize you know what what works [TS]
00:19:00 ◼ ► and what doesn't work so I would say that those reviews the biggest actionable outcome from them. [TS]
00:19:05 ◼ ► It is things like adjustments in my schedule of when am I going to attempt to do certain kinds of work and [TS]
00:19:11 ◼ ► when am I going to not attend to do other kinds of work is a change to the famous E G P great daily schedule like a big [TS]
00:19:22 ◼ ► or is this something that's constantly being changed like a little out there yeah I know this is this is just constant [TS]
00:19:27 ◼ ► Also I always want to be clear with people I blow past my schedule on a very regular basis. [TS]
00:19:36 ◼ ► Why is it that on some days I just seem totally incapable of getting into the groove of the schedule another day. [TS]
00:19:46 ◼ ► but like I thing I eventually tuned into it is like my breakfast needs to be really consistent because not having [TS]
00:19:54 ◼ ► things go really smoothly just during breakfast time is a very high predictor of the rest of the day. [TS]
00:20:07 ◼ ► So that's that's kind of these review review times are a good good time for me anyway to try to think about how it is [TS]
00:20:16 ◼ ► and what is not effective so that I guess that's the closest thing that I have to something like a New Year's Eve But [TS]
00:20:21 ◼ ► it is really every three months that I do this. The self the self if you say you get four New Years Eve a year. [TS]
00:20:28 ◼ ► but I don't have to stay up until midnight on any of them because that would be terrible with Harry what if it does you [TS]
00:20:41 ◼ ► and you make it all the way until January third and then wait until next year. I mean is that your system. [TS]
00:20:52 ◼ ► I mean suffice to say it is nothing like your system but you must do some kind of long term planning. [TS]
00:21:03 ◼ ► but I don't think I don't really think there are I just life just kind of just going down the stream of life [TS]
00:21:14 ◼ ► Yeah and I think that's pretty much is like yeah and then things happen and you react to them [TS]
00:21:23 ◼ ► and you think oh you know you start saying things further ahead along the stream you think you know what I could [TS]
00:21:36 ◼ ► and it's on the other side of the river so you make sure you stop paddling over to the left so you get to that tree. [TS]
00:21:42 ◼ ► But I definitely don't treat life like you do like you know things just come along and I just react to them [TS]
00:21:50 ◼ ► and make the most of them and you know I'm not it's not like I wake up in the morning [TS]
00:21:57 ◼ ► and think I wonder what career I'm going to have today. Like I do and I do plan things right. [TS]
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00:24:19 ◼ ► Right now that is a couple of days before New Year's Eve every year they announce something called the new year's [TS]
00:24:30 ◼ ► or a brand of thousand people maybe over a thousand people that are going to are safe on us. [TS]
00:24:38 ◼ ► and these can be things that I guess most people won't understand the all these weird titles like C B E's an M B E S N [TS]
00:24:44 ◼ ► O U B A S and they just to be clear just to be clear here who is giving out these honors. [TS]
00:24:50 ◼ ► Well there is confusion about it. Essentially ninety nine point nine percent of them. [TS]
00:25:02 ◼ ► when the owners are actually given out they kind of given in the name of the Queen and it's usually the queen [TS]
00:25:30 ◼ ► and think it's all a big royal thing when obviously the link is there and the historic link is there [TS]
00:25:36 ◼ ► but it's not really a royal thing writes a political thing which is probably even worse. [TS]
00:25:41 ◼ ► Yeah and obviously there's always controversy because there's always a lot of there's always back scratching [TS]
00:25:48 ◼ ► but for people if people have heard of anything they've heard of knighthoods in the you know that is the top Ana That's [TS]
00:25:55 ◼ ► the big one. If there's a thousand say about nine hundred eighty of them will be there. [TS]
00:26:10 ◼ ► or a dame who would now become a dame if they're a woman they're kind of they're the big ones. [TS]
00:26:21 ◼ ► and that is Professor Martin volleyer Koff who is the frizzy head chemist who appears in a large majority of my [TS]
00:26:32 ◼ ► I was given a knighthood and he has now been upgraded from Professor Polyakov to Cimatron. [TS]
00:26:45 ◼ ► I was lucky enough to find a little bit early because a few people are allowed to find out early for obvious reasons [TS]
00:26:51 ◼ ► and we made a video that could be released the moment the announcement was made so I had to know a little bit early [TS]
00:26:58 ◼ ► but on the I think it was the thirtieth or the light on the twenty ninth it was made public [TS]
00:27:20 ◼ ► and is for his services to chemistry that was going to ask what it was he must know if it was mainly for his services [TS]
00:27:27 ◼ ► to chemistry he's also for a few years now being a real ambassador for British science as the foreign secretary of the [TS]
00:27:33 ◼ ► Royal Society right. He was the reason that you had to go to India a few years ago. [TS]
00:27:37 ◼ ► Yes yes this is true but actually if I call this up I didn't have this ready but the thing that was very interesting [TS]
00:27:44 ◼ ► and like in when when you get not what they give you a little write up about why you're getting up [TS]
00:27:55 ◼ ► and I don't know if this is the first principle a cough is an organic chemistry is work to be take. [TS]
00:28:04 ◼ ► and his work in engaging the public with chemistry has been recognized internationally including through the periodic [TS]
00:28:10 ◼ ► table of videos on You Tube The You Tube videos actually got a mention in his like official citation [TS]
00:28:19 ◼ ► and so I wonder if this is the first time that You Tube has been mentioned in an officially in a not hood I don't know [TS]
00:28:26 ◼ ► but that's an interesting question there must be some way that the text of all of these is available. [TS]
00:28:31 ◼ ► So yeah you could grep through that and find out if you too was ever mentioned before. Yeah. Someone should do that. [TS]
00:28:38 ◼ ► But anyway so that was that was a nice it was really nice for the for his work on the You Tube videos [TS]
00:28:42 ◼ ► and of course because because the You Tube video is a kind of the most gimmicky thing about mountain right. [TS]
00:28:48 ◼ ► That's that has been latched onto by the media said they not posters all around Nottingham said you know You Tube prof [TS]
00:28:55 ◼ ► Website sort of had crazy had huge profits not good so he's sort of become this You Tube nights now. [TS]
00:29:02 ◼ ► So although I think that's a bit naughty and slightly diminishes his accomplishments as a chemist. [TS]
00:29:10 ◼ ► I've been a little bit cheekily have to say as well because obviously the You Tube component is the only component to [TS]
00:29:17 ◼ ► It's steak Rice is pretty and so well done well done to mountain written about it on a blog and there's a video [TS]
00:29:26 ◼ ► and if people want to find any more about it I'm sure Grayling cut off in the notes and stuff [TS]
00:29:33 ◼ ► and that's the other question of course is did you get any kind of lesser title for your role in his youtube fame I [TS]
00:29:42 ◼ ► or something I don't know what people object to that does that make me like his squire if you are the wife of a [TS]
00:29:52 ◼ ► and because because mutton is kind of my my You Tube husband some people have said maybe I should take the name Lady [TS]
00:30:14 ◼ ► and I cannot I cannot emphasize enough that that I don't I do not think the you cheap thing is that large a component [TS]
00:30:22 ◼ ► of why he's got a knighthood but it's still been very disturbing very flattering and yes [TS]
00:30:27 ◼ ► but still lady Brady I was going to say almost oh yeah there was one more thing I want to say about actually [TS]
00:30:33 ◼ ► and that was I have been making You Tube videos long enough to know what kind of you people are like well enough to [TS]
00:30:45 ◼ ► and whatnot you know people saying on a rubbish day has been surprisingly little of that much less than I anticipated [TS]
00:30:58 ◼ ► And one thing I expect a lot of people to cite and a few people did is the very famous [TS]
00:31:04 ◼ ► and amazing Richard Feinman who in a You Tube clip many people watch said that he does not like honors [TS]
00:31:11 ◼ ► and he does not agree with on as he thinks they're you know I think they're rubbish. [TS]
00:31:16 ◼ ► I'm familiar very familiar with even used in a video myself that clip of a fireman saying that that's funny I mean I [TS]
00:31:21 ◼ ► can think of that upset my head I totally love everything about Simon and I've read everything about him that I can [TS]
00:31:32 ◼ ► FINEMAN I can remember that one off the top it was it will be curious to clip in that famous B.B.C. [TS]
00:31:42 ◼ ► and some people of us later that he talks about how his father used to make you know military uniforms [TS]
00:31:51 ◼ ► Anyway it did get me thinking because I love Richard Feynman and I could watch him for hours [TS]
00:32:00 ◼ ► Type you know he was a performer and I think he kind of did cultivate his kind of maverick image a little bit [TS]
00:32:09 ◼ ► It did get me thinking and I therefore looked this up because obviously firemen did win the Nobel Prize [TS]
00:32:16 ◼ ► and he did accept of the Nobel Prize. He didn't say I don't want you fancy honors in the middle. [TS]
00:32:26 ◼ ► So it made me think well how do you justify this what did he say when he accepted the medal and I went [TS]
00:32:32 ◼ ► and looked at some speeches and in particular a speech he gave at the at a banquet the Nobel Prize banquet [TS]
00:32:39 ◼ ► and I really recommend people read it because it puts a completely different twist on his attitude to Ana's heat it [TS]
00:32:48 ◼ ► when he won this prize lots of people started talking about his work and it really inspired a lot of people [TS]
00:32:55 ◼ ► and the last thing he said at the end of this space and you can go and write it on the Nobel Prize web site he said. [TS]
00:33:00 ◼ ► And so you Swedish people with your honors and your trumpets and your king. Forgive me for I understand at last. [TS]
00:33:15 ◼ ► They can generate a good feeling even love among men even in lands far beyond your own. [TS]
00:33:22 ◼ ► And for that lesson I think you and I and that thing that fine men landed talks about that. [TS]
00:33:33 ◼ ► and saying how excited they are for so Mountain lives being people all around the world people from the US You know I [TS]
00:33:39 ◼ ► don't completely understand your honor system and how this works but I'm so happy that mountain has become so Matt [TS]
00:33:49 ◼ ► and I think we mustn't forget that honors their abilities to sort of inspire and foster goodwill if given properly [TS]
00:34:04 ◼ ► and things it's sometimes it's nice to see people we care about recognized publicly agree one other little bit of news [TS]
00:34:18 ◼ ► OK amongst the good news we have had another significant plane crash in the year by the way a few people been sending [TS]
00:34:27 ◼ ► and things showing that this year just ended was actually the best year on record for a plane crash fatalities it was [TS]
00:34:37 ◼ ► So despite having some very famous very high profile very unusual plane crashes it was quite a sight to be flying [TS]
00:34:45 ◼ ► around. Presumably this is you know not including before planes existed I imagine they were very safe planes. [TS]
00:34:53 ◼ ► but we did end with the Asia crash another one another one in that neck of the woods going missing in the sea I think. [TS]
00:35:00 ◼ ► It's about one hundred sixty people on a did you know that this day was just one got past the great great food. [TS]
00:35:06 ◼ ► I don't hear about any of these plane crashes this is not it was not a question of getting past the radar. [TS]
00:35:12 ◼ ► I only hear about plane crashes when you tell me about plane crashes just the first you know of this [TS]
00:35:17 ◼ ► I know nothing of what you speak so you don't like once a day or something go on to something like the B.B.C. [TS]
00:35:33 ◼ ► During this period of time in particular I have barely been on the internet at all so I'm particularly unconnected to [TS]
00:35:41 ◼ ► but in my normal daily life now I would I would do everything with just I just want to go on to the just in the morning [TS]
00:35:52 ◼ ► or has there been someone really famous die don't you don't think to check that I never go on to sites like C.N.N. [TS]
00:36:01 ◼ ► Just to check stuff that that is never part of my routine it wouldn't even occur to me to be part of my routine again. [TS]
00:36:08 ◼ ► If anything in my life serves that function it would be going on to read it which is usually something I don't do until [TS]
00:36:15 ◼ ► and even then if you know what you're doing with settings I cure my Reddit experience so that I'm not subscribed to [TS]
00:36:22 ◼ ► things like world news or politics or any of these things so I can miss I can miss quite a lot. [TS]
00:36:28 ◼ ► Maybe it's because I'm a journalist and maybe and you know and love so many people in my life are journalists [TS]
00:36:34 ◼ ► but you seem like such an aberration to me like that seems freakish to me that people exist. [TS]
00:36:41 ◼ ► That at no point will look at a newspaper look at a news website they won't watch the news at dinner time just to see [TS]
00:36:48 ◼ ► what happened during the day but I'm sure I'm sure there are many many people like you and I'm and I'm the freak. [TS]
00:37:03 ◼ ► but even hearing that now that you won't even look at a news website during the day. Amazes me. [TS]
00:37:15 ◼ ► I do I do occasionally come across people like me and then we feel like kindred spirits [TS]
00:37:24 ◼ ► or other what should we talk about let's talk about how we don't watch the news. Yeah. [TS]
00:37:28 ◼ ► It's a bit like in the early two thousand if you didn't have a television this was a thing that you could discuss with [TS]
00:37:33 ◼ ► but it was like oh I don't own a television neither do you overall I talk about how our lives are different because we [TS]
00:37:38 ◼ ► Whereas now it's much more common because the Internet and television have been merging together [TS]
00:37:45 ◼ ► But yet it's just funny that you mention it because it would never even occur to me to go to C.N.N. [TS]
00:38:00 ◼ ► I find it funny that you would even expect me to be aware that because that to me seems like the game is going to sound [TS]
00:38:07 ◼ ► but in the grand scheme of the year a relatively minor news event I can imagine if you had to go back [TS]
00:38:14 ◼ ► and pick the ten biggest news stories from the year that would not that would not make the list. [TS]
00:38:23 ◼ ► Yeah right so that's that's why I'm saying it's like I find it surprising that you would think that I would be aware of [TS]
00:38:29 ◼ ► and it's like no I there is no channel through which this would come into my life as I've said before if you know C.N.N. [TS]
00:38:40 ◼ ► You know they have to fill a whole page worth of stuff on the front on their website every day no matter what happens [TS]
00:38:45 ◼ ► and when it when you go there there's always going to be something they want you to be concerned about [TS]
00:38:49 ◼ ► and it turns out you don't have to be concerned about any of it I don't think reporting on a plane crash in which a [TS]
00:38:54 ◼ ► hundred sixty people die is like feel like that's like another thing I'm not saying it's filler [TS]
00:38:59 ◼ ► but I'm saying like there's always something there there's always something there. [TS]
00:39:03 ◼ ► But anyway so tell me about the plane crash or speaking of speaking of filling headlines and this plane crash. [TS]
00:39:09 ◼ ► I don't know if I've talked to I have talked about this before on the podcast actually so apologies if I have if I have [TS]
00:39:16 ◼ ► but this did remind me of it just now. You missed this flight that crashed was cold. Q Zed eight five zero one. [TS]
00:39:25 ◼ ► Now is a real mouthful not very catchy. Not very easy to remember when the you mean is that the number designation. [TS]
00:39:33 ◼ ► Right because the site like that you know it was like you that I ate five I won from some place in Indonesia right [TS]
00:39:46 ◼ ► and that is a real mouthful that designation and I think that counts against counts against [TS]
00:39:51 ◼ ► and makes a quick one makes a hard hasn't it doesn't give you give it like an iconic name [TS]
00:40:00 ◼ ► Was told to me by a subeditor a newspaper when I was when I was in Uganda some plane had crashed [TS]
00:40:05 ◼ ► and we were preparing a report and the first thing he said to me was what was the plane flight number you know [TS]
00:40:12 ◼ ► and he didn't ask you know how many people have died or where that where was flying to or from [TS]
00:40:20 ◼ ► and he said that's the first thing any kind of new subeditor asks because straight away that becomes like the iconic [TS]
00:40:26 ◼ ► thing of any crash it was flight you know what were the Malaysian ones code M H M H three seventy [TS]
00:40:38 ◼ ► and there was the first thing the headline writers want to know is that I can stop creating their page [TS]
00:40:43 ◼ ► and they look at it striking this Air Asia one he said eight five zero one it's just too many numbers [TS]
00:40:49 ◼ ► and not a nice combination of letters and. People won't remember that one for that reason. [TS]
00:40:55 ◼ ► In this the point at which news organizations as opposed to brand it with some some version of their own. [TS]
00:41:02 ◼ ► Yeah Air Asia crashed half strophe and then they keep calling it the crash yesterday. [TS]
00:41:09 ◼ ► Well you know as I go work in newspapers this is the snow pocalypse right and then we do NOW YOU'RE A Oh yeah. [TS]
00:41:16 ◼ ► Orton aids like a tat like Lockerbie or something like that or a need to write and this is yet this one is lacking. [TS]
00:41:24 ◼ ► but is lacking that it's lacking a kind of sums I'm terribly sorry for newspaper writers the world over that this this [TS]
00:41:38 ◼ ► UL right here is a sympathetic man so I think you as well as usual thank you to everyone who tweeted me insane as a [TS]
00:41:44 ◼ ► crash happens I feel like this kind of merchant of death now that everyone wants to a soon as I think [TS]
00:41:51 ◼ ► and that's certainly not a situation I hope it's going to create bedtimes two engine plane crashes [TS]
00:42:10 ◼ ► I wonder how many people think like a plane crashes in there like a MUST tweet that that guy with the Aussie accent [TS]
00:42:16 ◼ ► from how they went and then tell him because but you know you get all those tweets. [TS]
00:42:21 ◼ ► Yeah you know is going to need to undergo I haven't the one first and I have no data. Go and do an analysis. [TS]
00:42:41 ◼ ► We actually haven't done a follow up from the PO We have a Christmas special bump a Christmas special [TS]
00:42:54 ◼ ► That was a long that was a long editing job at the people who want to see a long editing job it was you actually posted [TS]
00:43:06 ◼ ► Now a normal person would have sped that video up so people could what you do the edit quite quickly. [TS]
00:43:21 ◼ ► It's ten times faster than I was doing it you can even watch the video if you think I can edit that quickly. [TS]
00:43:35 ◼ ► but you know I wonder if anybody watched the whole point if you could have twenty times and made a half an hour long [TS]
00:43:48 ◼ ► when you timelapse up like I've done this before with a couple video games I put up a time lapse stuff. [TS]
00:43:53 ◼ ► It's a delicate balance between having it go quickly and having it go so quickly that you don't get any sense of what. [TS]
00:44:01 ◼ ► and I've I found that I think because of the way I have described as a because I'm using a lot of keyboard commands [TS]
00:44:08 ◼ ► and from from watching the screen stuff just seems to me to cut out and move it jumps around very quickly [TS]
00:44:17 ◼ ► Was as fast as it could go before it just became in comprehensible they are all I have posted videos before of myself [TS]
00:44:25 ◼ ► editing editing films and I've always made a much much quick out like in the end you know one or two minutes long [TS]
00:44:34 ◼ ► and I guess what I was trying to achieve was just a sense of just a sense a feeling a sense of a sense of how big a job [TS]
00:44:47 ◼ ► If you had a different agenda in a way you almost wanted people to be able to follow individual actions to do it to [TS]
00:44:54 ◼ ► some extent and get a little bit more of a fine grained idea of what you were doing. [TS]
00:45:01 ◼ ► but you want to you want to convey a lot more information than I certainly ever did. [TS]
00:45:05 ◼ ► Yeah that's certainly the case because I do get people asking me what the editing is like [TS]
00:45:10 ◼ ► and I thought oh it would be better to send something like this so somebody can see [TS]
00:45:14 ◼ ► and do three cuts of the show I do a very rough first cut a the one that takes forever is the second cut which I think [TS]
00:45:27 ◼ ► and listening for hours I think it's kind of good to be able to send people a link [TS]
00:45:30 ◼ ► and particularly on You Tube because you can start the video at any time send them a link to the second cut so people [TS]
00:45:36 ◼ ► can get a good sense in just like a minute or two of watching that second part of how much editing happens. [TS]
00:45:50 ◼ ► I was I was trying to make it as fast as possible but you can still make out individual actions [TS]
00:45:55 ◼ ► and see see what's going on so it is it is slightly more informative for people who might intend. [TS]
00:46:00 ◼ ► Really care about that stuff in a lot of feedback from people saying I spend way too much time editing it [TS]
00:46:04 ◼ ► but that's as long as that's as long as it takes for me to do as I said I didn't watch it all because it's an hour long. [TS]
00:46:09 ◼ ► Yeah I don't want to sting myself as well so I'm sure people who are really into the podcast will will like getting [TS]
00:46:16 ◼ ► and I know some people have watched it in its entirety because I said so in the comments I'm not sure I believe that [TS]
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00:47:55 ◼ ► Jew are you OK with your phones I can hear your phone going off in the background. [TS]
00:48:02 ◼ ► and then you have it on the table so I can hear your phone I can hear it distracting you. You slow down. [TS]
00:48:07 ◼ ► Hang on a second and let's let's stop follow up for a minute because you did tell me earlier today [TS]
00:48:20 ◼ ► and that you know really I'm really I'm going to talk about that so let's talk about that right now. [TS]
00:48:28 ◼ ► and throw away on to the bed of the hotel room that I mean if I'm doing this broadcast thing well before further I am [TS]
00:48:35 ◼ ► terrified at this moment because I know that my my phone or my i Pad are somewhere in my office right now [TS]
00:48:45 ◼ ► and so of course now I'm worried that they're going to start messaging me that if I hadn't just thrown my phone so [TS]
00:48:54 ◼ ► but my office is a total mess because I was just redoing everything so I don't I don't I don't know where they are [TS]
00:48:59 ◼ ► easily and so now I am worried that this is going to be looming over me while we're having this conversation. [TS]
00:49:04 ◼ ► Oh don't worry because I wouldn't be too bothered by I would have to give you. OK. What do you want to talk about. [TS]
00:49:10 ◼ ► About texting and one of the things that I have found recently this is just been on my mind. [TS]
00:49:14 ◼ ► I have people who I would instant message with who are in different time zones than me. [TS]
00:49:27 ◼ ► or it's people who I don't even know where they are in the world because they travel a lot and so I have [TS]
00:49:36 ◼ ► and where there is a non-zero amount of uncertainty about what the heck the time is where these people even are. [TS]
00:49:44 ◼ ► And then of course there's also just the question of are they awake or are they not. [TS]
00:49:56 ◼ ► when you think that they may be asleep. In their time zone. OK What are your thoughts on this. [TS]
00:50:09 ◼ ► My answer is No you should not text someone when you think they are asleep OK. I think that is bad manners. [TS]
00:50:24 ◼ ► and by extension I message none of this applies to e-mail direct messaging on social media things I talked about it was [TS]
00:50:31 ◼ ► fine yet to two persons phone in for me in particular this is an I Message question because everybody I know uses an i [TS]
00:50:38 ◼ ► Phone but I don't get it the conversation is broad enough. I presume that Android devices work in a similar way. [TS]
00:50:43 ◼ ► In my head I would NEVER message someone before nine am and probably after. Ten pm depending on who's right. Nine P.M. [TS]
00:50:59 ◼ ► Even depending on my relationship with the person that I know one after ten pm Right I shamed after ten pm is a good [TS]
00:51:05 ◼ ► shot someone wants to is in bed right and I know and I am a foreigner and I am I think of as personal time as well. [TS]
00:51:16 ◼ ► I was told I was wrong about that the other day though I got a text message the other day at seven thirty in the [TS]
00:51:20 ◼ ► morning from someone and I was like I was late because I'm to sleep at that time and I was outraged [TS]
00:51:27 ◼ ► and I said to my wife can you believe it can you believe someone sent a text message at seven thirty A.M. [TS]
00:51:31 ◼ ► and I was told that was stupid and I was living in fairy land because I live in the world. [TS]
00:51:40 ◼ ► Well I don't you know I don't realize that most people are up at seven thirty A.M. [TS]
00:51:44 ◼ ► So my wife admonished me for that and told me so maybe my nine A.M. Time is a little bit a little bit. [TS]
00:51:53 ◼ ► or whatever the exact time is before a certain time of morning you should not take someone [TS]
00:51:58 ◼ ► and after a certain time in the evening. You should not text someone. That's OK It is a little thing here. [TS]
00:52:05 ◼ ► Your conversation with your wife reminded me of one of my top three favorite comedies ever is Curb Your Enthusiasm with [TS]
00:52:22 ◼ ► but there is a running gag throughout the show about the acceptable cutoff time to call someone [TS]
00:52:28 ◼ ► and this is the fundamental from that you just ran into is there is no universal agreement on this [TS]
00:52:34 ◼ ► but everybody kind of feels like whatever their time is of that is the universal time. [TS]
00:52:40 ◼ ► So your nine am is like Oh of course not before nine A.M. but Not everybody agrees with you. [TS]
00:52:50 ◼ ► Yes but but but for you when you say ten P.M. For me I feel like ten pm is way too late. [TS]
00:52:57 ◼ ► Yeah that's what changes that's what that's what changes but I think that people with kids [TS]
00:53:02 ◼ ► and stuff I would never I would never text that like that but yeah I mean that's the not time when it's hot. [TS]
00:53:09 ◼ ► Yes Immediately we run is this is you where there is no there is no agreement there are there is some agreement like no [TS]
00:53:22 ◼ ► Yeah it depends it depends on the person and I think no one would think before seven A.M. Was acceptable. [TS]
00:53:41 ◼ ► At the absolute limits but for me it's more I personally would not go outside the nine I am and pm window. [TS]
00:53:50 ◼ ► OK Well regardless of the specifics which can never be nailed down right up to that although we are trying by [TS]
00:53:56 ◼ ► themselves it doesn't mean you can try as much as you want it doesn't matter because you just. [TS]
00:54:00 ◼ ► You can't this is like you can you can say with with ninety five percent certainty that that a person will agree [TS]
00:54:08 ◼ ► and go of course until midnight it's totally fine. There's always going to be someone who disagrees. [TS]
00:54:15 ◼ ► I feel partly like you which is this is like the stance that I have had for a long time is the same thing about trying [TS]
00:54:26 ◼ ► What time is it for them and not message outside of ninety five percent certainty intervals. [TS]
00:54:40 ◼ ► and the reason that I want to shift to you can just message anybody at any time is because the technology has changed. [TS]
00:54:48 ◼ ► So I think I'm still very much thinking of instant message in the same way that I would think of as calling someone's [TS]
00:55:00 ◼ ► and you are old enough that we lived in a world where people would call the landline telephone [TS]
00:55:07 ◼ ► And this is where this whole notion of oh don't call people after or before certain times starts to come from. [TS]
00:55:12 ◼ ► But it's different when you transition to personal devices as opposed to a house phone. [TS]
00:55:20 ◼ ► and why I was mentioning Apple in particular is because the i Phone has all of these options for letting a person [TS]
00:55:32 ◼ ► And the biggest deal with this is the auto Do not disturb mode which we've touched upon in the past [TS]
00:55:43 ◼ ► and they get to set whatever they think are their own acceptable hours from start to think about is can I assume that [TS]
00:55:51 ◼ ► enough people know how to use their own phones that it is perfectly fine to message people when you would. [TS]
00:56:00 ◼ ► Even that they would be asleep because you can also assume they have decided how they wish to receive communications [TS]
00:56:12 ◼ ► when they get up in the morning they just see it this is this is this is what I'm feeling conflicted about I'm all [TS]
00:56:24 ◼ ► Well actually I just came to mention one specific scenario before we before we go for you go ahead. [TS]
00:56:30 ◼ ► So my specific scenario is people in America message me when I am asleep happens to me to write [TS]
00:56:45 ◼ ► It is super convenient for everything but somebody living in the worst time zone in the world. [TS]
00:56:49 ◼ ► California messages me from their perspective in the evening. But it's I don't know three in the morning in London. [TS]
00:57:01 ◼ ► and this is where I feel particularly conflicted is OK I was asleep and they messaged me [TS]
00:57:11 ◼ ► But now it's eight in the morning and I'm looking at my phone and they have some question. [TS]
00:57:17 ◼ ► Can I message them back even though I know because they're in a terrible time zone they're almost certainly asleep [TS]
00:57:22 ◼ ► right now I feel like the answer to that question is yes I can message them back at that point even though I'm almost [TS]
00:57:35 ◼ ► I think my phone just think my phone just went off on the bed as he said but I look I understand I understand. [TS]
00:57:43 ◼ ► But here's the problem OK. We're all spread all over the world right. My family live in Australia right. [TS]
00:57:52 ◼ ► Some members of my family are very sick at the moment. Some members of my family in the U.K. [TS]
00:58:07 ◼ ► or something unpredicted who knows if someone you love is going to be in the middle of the night in another country be [TS]
00:58:21 ◼ ► and I want to be woken up you know this is a good thing about technology that if something happens in the strata that I [TS]
00:58:26 ◼ ► want to know about and it's four in the morning mob will wake up and I will put on my trousers and get in a car [TS]
00:58:33 ◼ ► and get to Australia if I have to as quick as I can I want I want that option if something happens in the U.K. [TS]
00:58:40 ◼ ► I want people to be I would call me right now I know you can find your settings so this co can get through this person [TS]
00:58:47 ◼ ► can get through in this person caught but who's going to be the person that calls me or text me [TS]
00:58:52 ◼ ► when something unforeseen happens I don't. What if the person who I think should call me is the one. [TS]
00:58:59 ◼ ► and someone else is trying to call on their behalf I don't know whom I don't know what's going to happen. [TS]
00:59:04 ◼ ► I would rather depend on people's good manners and them knowing what counts as important [TS]
00:59:08 ◼ ► and not important rather than depending on a bunch of filters and technologies are set up to decide what's important [TS]
00:59:16 ◼ ► and if the price I pay is occasionally getting a text in the middle of the night from someone who was a bit [TS]
00:59:21 ◼ ► inconsiderate. Well maybe maybe I'll pay that for a while longer but I think we're setting. [TS]
00:59:28 ◼ ► I don't want to live in a world where I'm I'm contactable especially at this time especially at the moment especially [TS]
00:59:36 ◼ ► as you know the people I love I love and care about getting a bit older and I never know when [TS]
00:59:42 ◼ ► when that call is going to come and you know and my thing goes up in the middle of the night [TS]
00:59:45 ◼ ► and I sometimes think it's going to be one of those calls you know and then I look down [TS]
00:59:49 ◼ ► and it's just some jokey text might like oh I'll do it I don't like about it and you know [TS]
01:00:00 ◼ ► No setting up filters for things I can't predict I don't know how do you respond to that. [TS]
01:00:07 ◼ ► Well I would respond to that in that you can set the settings differently for instant messages [TS]
01:00:25 ◼ ► Yes whoever else is calling you demands your attention right now. And yeah almost everybody all saying S.M.S. [TS]
01:00:32 ◼ ► To your saying S.M.S. Is have moved in the hierarchy into almost into a Mao territory. Well I would say yes. [TS]
01:00:43 ◼ ► and precisely where it is always it's always been there that great it's always been between those two. [TS]
01:00:52 ◼ ► I disagree with that I mean for me for me I would say I message is is one step below phone calls [TS]
01:01:06 ◼ ► and I'm very aware that I treat a phone call like it's an emergency. We should put a three some five. [TS]
01:01:12 ◼ ► You occasionally call me and I always feel like oh Christ there must be some problem. [TS]
01:01:21 ◼ ► But my response whenever anybody calls me is there must be there must be some problem right now. [TS]
01:01:38 ◼ ► when I answer because she can tell I am in I am in basically tree aaj mode and soon as I pick up the phone. [TS]
01:01:46 ◼ ► OK how I how urgent is the problem that is about to be presented to me. Oh it's no problem at all. [TS]
01:01:53 ◼ ► and her hands are full so she you know she told Siri to call me so she can ask me about something. [TS]
01:02:00 ◼ ► Or a few seconds where she can tell I'm like right do I need to drop everything immediately and run [TS]
01:02:18 ◼ ► but there are there are so many different ways to contact people it's hard to know how other people arrange their own [TS]
01:02:34 ◼ ► and this is partly why I like I feel like as the as you get an increasingly large number of ways to communicate with [TS]
01:02:42 ◼ ► and as the uncertainty around all of these different methods increases the only rational solution to this is to assume [TS]
01:02:57 ◼ ► And so that that the notion of trying to project yourself into the mind of the other person is more [TS]
01:03:14 ◼ ► and assume that the other person is receiving it in the way that they wish to receive it. [TS]
01:03:18 ◼ ► That I have found him I thought the problem is though that there are some people in my life who treat S.M.S. [TS]
01:03:24 ◼ ► Messages incredibly casually right like you know I don't use them just send you know great jokes or something right. [TS]
01:03:31 ◼ ► And there are other people who I think would convey a very serious important information to me by S.M.S. [TS]
01:03:41 ◼ ► Can you give me a call when you when you have the chance out of some weird politeness. Right. [TS]
01:03:47 ◼ ► So and and I don't know who's going to do what and when in that way. So I haven't I I think S.M.S. [TS]
01:04:00 ◼ ► When they were only attached to your mobile phone number for that reason because fewer people have my mobile phone [TS]
01:04:08 ◼ ► As to if they have your email address has gotten a bit sticky but I think it's pretty safe for you to ashame. [TS]
01:04:20 ◼ ► and you could say well you could apply this rule to this person and that rule to that person and do all that [TS]
01:04:30 ◼ ► I think you can pretty safely assume that I don't I think you can pretty safely assume you are one of the few people [TS]
01:04:36 ◼ ► who would be able to control your incoming and outgoing communications to that fine grain level of data. [TS]
01:04:45 ◼ ► and this is why I think it's kind of a conflict because it's going to going back to one of our previous discussions we [TS]
01:04:57 ◼ ► and so yes I am pretty certain because I am very very fidgety about my contactable settings I go in [TS]
01:05:04 ◼ ► and flip all the switches about who is going to cause it to ring under what circumstances you know [TS]
01:05:09 ◼ ► and if I don't know the person just mute and block them forever I don't even want to hear about it you know [TS]
01:05:14 ◼ ► and dump all the voice mails into the garbage immediately or you know I I do fiddle with all of that stuff [TS]
01:05:29 ◼ ► Yeah but at the same time I feel like I can't be the only person who's wondering about times to send text messages [TS]
01:05:35 ◼ ► and I feel like if if someone is going to change anything on their phone I feel like the Do Not Disturb settings would [TS]
01:05:45 ◼ ► Well I guess I guess I do not believe in the Do Not Disturb because because of that scenario I laid out I don't I don't [TS]
01:05:53 ◼ ► and so that that yeah I agree with you is like the emergency phone call in the middle of the night scenario is. [TS]
01:06:01 ◼ ► and it is the one reason why a person may choose to leave on their phone at all the time now I have done my best with [TS]
01:06:08 ◼ ► the settings so that the right people can theoretically contact me in an emergency [TS]
01:06:12 ◼ ► but I do know that like one once you set up filters there are ways this can go wrong where a person wants to get in [TS]
01:06:22 ◼ ► and I I take the the other approach to this which is well I know I'm going to accept the damage in these in these rare [TS]
01:06:37 ◼ ► And once again you don't know what the situation is of anybody you're trying to contact. [TS]
01:06:50 ◼ ► and his name is destine from Mordor every day who is a particular matter every day text every minute because I know he [TS]
01:06:58 ◼ ► doesn't seem to sleep I feel like you know he's almost certainly awake at any point in time but it is tricky [TS]
01:07:05 ◼ ► and I just let it definitely listen I was laying on the line now I'm going to start messaging you back whenever [TS]
01:07:10 ◼ ► and you better have figured it out on your phone because you in particular if you message me I see it in the morning [TS]
01:07:19 ◼ ► And also he does he does text hours because but I imagine he also keeps on ours you know. [TS]
01:07:28 ◼ ► and I'm really grateful to have friends across the world who want to contact me so I'll pay the price. [TS]
01:07:34 ◼ ► Oh yeah you know you have text at a time but I agree like you know I message for me is relatively sacred [TS]
01:07:41 ◼ ► and the number of people I have on there is precisely because it is important so you know it's like I have family I [TS]
01:07:48 ◼ ► have a few friends I have people from random acts of intelligence like all you guys like you can message me whatever [TS]
01:07:53 ◼ ► like that's totally cool. But it does it does still because people are spread out. I find this. [TS]
01:08:00 ◼ ► Certainty is large I don't know what will happen now that destines are they going to get really [TS]
01:08:07 ◼ ► Or he's going to get really excited and start texting us afore I had like all the time [TS]
01:08:20 ◼ ► I now realize someone in a Strat years dead or destined to send me a picture of some food or something. [TS]
01:08:32 ◼ ► but maybe it's not a Another big problem for messages like a phone call from a rival like I'm assuming it's an [TS]
01:08:39 ◼ ► emergency I know it's not an emergency OK Well that was a tiny moment of panic for no benefit whatsoever. [TS]
01:08:44 ◼ ► I agree with you but I find myself more and more sliding towards the default opinion that I [TS]
01:08:50 ◼ ► or other people know how to use their phones and I'm just going to assume that that's the case. [TS]
01:08:55 ◼ ► And even if i'm pretty sure the person's asleep I think it's OK to message them back if they ask me some question [TS]
01:09:02 ◼ ► but I don't know I don't know I would be genuinely curious to see people's thoughts on this in the Reddit because I [TS]
01:09:12 ◼ ► You are raising in a different context which does I say create a greater dilemma and that is your replying to messages. [TS]
01:09:19 ◼ ► Yeah you're not sitting there thinking I'd love to send Brady a text is now an appropriate time. [TS]
01:09:23 ◼ ► You're switching your phone on suddenly a whole bunch of old texts are coming through yet from from your blog from the [TS]
01:09:30 ◼ ► doc period and now you've got to reply to them all and your strategic thinking at what time can I reply to what one. [TS]
01:09:45 ◼ ► I think I currently have a set now at one pm Are you a joke so a text won't get to you until one pm first [TS]
01:09:51 ◼ ► and in the morning most of the time not so I have my do not disturb kicks on at nine pm and I think does not end. [TS]
01:10:00 ◼ ► I'm always fiddling with it whether it's going to be noon or one P.M. The next day but it's always one of those two. [TS]
01:10:05 ◼ ► Well I wanted to come to you in the mansion say well then you can call me and I went to my blog from phoning me [TS]
01:10:13 ◼ ► and I'm sure if you like special person list I have to look at that old look at it now as I told you I don't know where [TS]
01:10:19 ◼ ► my phone is where you must know if I'm on it I don't I don't actually know what do you need what do you need to call me [TS]
01:10:35 ◼ ► but you've done this always happens to be in the afternoon to tie this back to our previous conversation [TS]
01:10:41 ◼ ► but this will have it of mine is one of the things that I did instill after the quarterly reviews. [TS]
01:10:47 ◼ ► If I noticed that it's like I've gotta protect my mornings from any kind of distraction whatsoever. [TS]
01:10:57 ◼ ► and so I like messages are just a distraction so I don't want to see anything come through until the afternoon [TS]
01:11:03 ◼ ► and I'm out in the afternoon and I rarely get any kind of useful work done between maybe one pm [TS]
01:11:10 ◼ ► and four pm just a dead zone of nothing good gets done and so that's a perfect time for messages to come through to me. [TS]
01:11:23 ◼ ► but I really know how to make me feel very very unspecialized sometimes pretty you are one of the most special people [TS]
01:11:30 ◼ ► Yeah well I was for twenty one pm and four PM Yeah but that doesn't mean that I need to hear from you immediately. [TS]
01:11:37 ◼ ► Immediately in the morning I would never text you before and I'm not I am OK I don't I don't doubt that [TS]
01:11:48 ◼ ► I tell you what we're making we're making a royal mess of this for those handful of superfans that make those really [TS]
01:11:54 ◼ ► cool mind maps of these episodes. Yeah I like this graph is going to be a complete. [TS]
01:12:00 ◼ ► You just back reference to the earlier conversation this this is this is going to be a total mess but [TS]
01:12:05 ◼ ► and we haven't finished follow up and we didn't even start it we started it and then we did one. [TS]
01:12:10 ◼ ► We did well not everyone. Now you are a sorry flowchart makers who is not very helpful. [TS]
01:12:16 ◼ ► Just to wrap this up you are right that precisely because I know how to handle the Do Not Disturb settings on my phone [TS]
01:12:23 ◼ ► and some other contact settings I end up causing for myself much more of a problem because I'm always seeing messages [TS]
01:12:35 ◼ ► but I still think that it is equally applicable for something is popped into your head [TS]
01:12:49 ◼ ► and who I have open instant message invitations to that is higher up on my my priority queue than then something like [TS]
01:12:57 ◼ ► So people email me it might be two weeks before I get back to you but I'm probably going to reply to you [TS]
01:13:08 ◼ ► So that's why they're just different the different protocols is crazy short window that you've made in which people can [TS]
01:13:14 ◼ ► possibly context works for me. Don't you miss like now what. Whatever you're about to say the answer is no. [TS]
01:13:28 ◼ ► It's like spontaneity and unexpectedness like like but I have a window for my spontaneity. [TS]
01:13:34 ◼ ► Sometimes it's not just a funny joke from someone when you win expecting it or a nice surprise [TS]
01:13:40 ◼ ► or just a break from the drudgery of something it's like oh I wasn't expecting that call that time down my my [TS]
01:14:10 ◼ ► and I think it's few Tionne point someone on the Reddit who either lived in Hong Kong or lived in [TS]
01:14:16 ◼ ► and then pointed out that this is almost certainly the bridge that I was talking about last episode [TS]
01:14:28 ◼ ► and looking at these pictures I feel like yes almost certainly this is where I crossed [TS]
01:14:35 ◼ ► and as you can see from the photograph it is a weird bridge because it really does look like an airport terminal on the [TS]
01:14:42 ◼ ► And speaking of bridges lots of people have been submitting their own lists of five bridges some people playing written [TS]
01:14:55 ◼ ► Can I just say I really enjoyed it and got rid of people that have gone to that trouble. [TS]
01:15:01 ◼ ► You know I would look at him over the bridge followed by memories of that in the show. [TS]
01:15:05 ◼ ► Like most people I've become a bit cynical about like you know lists and list videos in quick bites [TS]
01:15:10 ◼ ► and you know thirteen celebrities who look good naked in a lot of stuff and all this sort of thing [TS]
01:15:16 ◼ ► but there is still something from your childhood about making lists that like Rico hire embraced [TS]
01:15:25 ◼ ► and it would be like my top five notebooks would be my top five of everything like you know five favorite colors in my [TS]
01:15:34 ◼ ► and I do I do like making top fives you know kind of a high fidelity style thing like making lists is good as long as [TS]
01:15:42 ◼ ► it's not done in a click Baity way so thank you to those people that have got in the spirit of making your five pages. [TS]
01:15:53 ◼ ► We spoke about The Hobbit the last episode and I talked about how I was making a few notes on my phone. Oh yes yes. [TS]
01:16:00 ◼ ► And a lot of people were outraged that my phone was switched on in the cinema. Can I just say that's fair enough. [TS]
01:16:12 ◼ ► OTOH I don't know where that puts me on my people trying to contact me an emergency to learn I don't believe you should [TS]
01:16:19 ◼ ► have you sign on the cinema I think this was a very special case because I was seeing this film for work. [TS]
01:16:25 ◼ ► I deliberately sat away from people so I wouldn't distract them it was the only way I could really make notes because I [TS]
01:16:46 ◼ ► and the notes were pointless anyway because that's the thing that really breaks my heart. [TS]
01:16:53 ◼ ► I just want to kind of in some ways take a bit of a you know me a coper and fed session of Donna. [TS]
01:17:06 ◼ ► and I do agree with them to put it on the record I also use my phone to take notes when I was watching the Hobbit [TS]
01:17:12 ◼ ► but I specifically in my first class movie watching experience which we discussed last time which I've been trying to [TS]
01:17:22 ◼ ► when a lot of feedback from people I know in my life asking about the separate movie theater experience I like Oh you [TS]
01:17:28 ◼ ► have to do this if you if you if you are ever going to go through the hell of watching a movie in public you need to do [TS]
01:17:37 ◼ ► the upgraded movie experience I feel like you're so late to the party though it's like you're some guy who just said do [TS]
01:17:42 ◼ ► you know want to stand outside the cinema where you can also buy like drinks in Philly before you go in I never even [TS]
01:17:52 ◼ ► Evy I would just say yeah I am I am really something else. Well talk about being late to the party or something else. [TS]
01:18:05 ◼ ► and that these things these things that they are very slow to enter my media consumption. [TS]
01:18:10 ◼ ► Q The way I have things algorithmically laid out but I know what I've been pushing the movies on everybody [TS]
01:18:23 ◼ ► when I had my phone on there was nobody behind me to be distracted and so you really do plan ahead. [TS]
01:18:30 ◼ ► I you know of course I mean you don't just you don't just show up and leave and the phone is really rude [TS]
01:18:40 ◼ ► You yell at everybody in the theater I don't you know I was describing I was just great. [TS]
01:18:48 ◼ ► and then I suddenly put on the record there. I also used my phone to take notes so I think that is it for follow up. [TS]
01:18:54 ◼ ► Yeah we have fun when you finish the follow up and nearly an hour and a half and with that and then a few tangents. [TS]
01:19:04 ◼ ► but I'll skip some of them for another time because yes we did say we were going to have a shorter show [TS]
01:19:08 ◼ ► but there were a couple things I want to quickly bring up it has to be a shorter show [TS]
01:19:12 ◼ ► but do you want to mention objectivity I would like to mention that. OK. Yeah I'm starting a new channel. [TS]
01:19:20 ◼ ► If there's one thing you need Brady It is more channel it is a new channel for the New Year. [TS]
01:19:25 ◼ ► It's it's going to be a series of videos called objectivity which Gray will link to in the show you know it's not very [TS]
01:19:36 ◼ ► I'll put a link on my Web site which is Brady Haran dot com The Gray will put something in the show tonight which [TS]
01:19:41 ◼ ► should be a better way to find it because you already hopefully somewhere near them that has been problem naming it [TS]
01:19:53 ◼ ► but it's going to be a bunch of videos about objects and we do not discuss this for a lot actually. [TS]
01:20:00 ◼ ► Learn a bit about this is as yeah I feel like I've been very interest in this project because you've been telling me [TS]
01:20:04 ◼ ► about this for a while so I feel like I have known a little secret long before anybody else which is surprisingly fun [TS]
01:20:13 ◼ ► and I am very interested to see how this channel turns out because particularly I think the thing that may be [TS]
01:20:19 ◼ ► interesting to people is that this is going to be much more you in the videos than other stuff like periodic videos [TS]
01:20:28 ◼ ► Yeah so I am very curious to see how this how this turns out and how you you do that [TS]
01:20:35 ◼ ► and historical objects which I could not imagine a more Brady channel then perhaps this one [TS]
01:20:41 ◼ ► but it seems somebody that's kind to you as well because it's going to be like in you know vaults and cards [TS]
01:20:52 ◼ ► and stuff in your house you are really interested in sort of history in the stories of things and that [TS]
01:20:57 ◼ ► and that's going to be a bit of that. So I I think I think I think you'll like it. [TS]
01:21:05 ◼ ► Yeah there's like a little taser video already on the channel that went up in December [TS]
01:21:10 ◼ ► and then within a day OTOH hopefully of the pod cast going up the first proper video about an object will also go up. [TS]
01:21:18 ◼ ► I won't give away what it is yet but it's something really really cool. Will you tell me offline. [TS]
01:21:32 ◼ ► Dave you favor and if you like that channel subscribe to and if you don't just kind of keep your mouth shut [TS]
01:21:38 ◼ ► and things like that might leave a negative comment or tell everyone how bad it is just so I like your honesty there. [TS]
01:22:00 ◼ ► Different but it's being filmed and edited by a mate of mine called James Hennessy who is very talented [TS]
01:22:10 ◼ ► but the prettiness of his filming will be cancelled out by the occasional appearance of my face. So. [TS]
01:22:20 ◼ ► but it's going to be it's going to be interesting so you know to get doing it all this for years I've been going into [TS]
01:22:32 ◼ ► and you think oh my goodness this is so much stuff here I should be making a video about all of this stuff. [TS]
01:22:37 ◼ ► So objectivity is a little taste or attempt at that at just taking this these disparate random amazing things [TS]
01:22:46 ◼ ► and making films about them and I think they will be quite a science bent to it you know because it's me. [TS]
01:22:52 ◼ ► So so mostly because objects from the history of science and discovery in the natural world and and what not [TS]
01:22:59 ◼ ► and I hope to have visit various places and have different people in the videos and. [TS]
01:23:07 ◼ ► It'll be six months at least and at the end of six months I think we'll see whether or not it's worked or whether [TS]
01:23:12 ◼ ► or not it's been a spectacular disaster you know this is this is I know I'm a big fan of the stuff you try a little [TS]
01:23:19 ◼ ► experiment you see how they go you know the ones that work to keep going in the ones that don't you kill is history. [TS]
01:23:28 ◼ ► or that they don't work well enough times that's happened to me a few times after I started a couple of channels that [TS]
01:23:32 ◼ ► have been started growing and people have wanted more but for reasons of time or resources [TS]
01:23:42 ◼ ► when you're going to do more you know psychology science psychology channel more of that philosophy channel and [TS]
01:23:47 ◼ ► and I want to and I can say you know some stopping doesn't always mean they failed but. [TS]
01:24:00 ◼ ► So yeah so thank you for giving me a little added I'm going to charge you the normal rate for that way rather than [TS]
01:24:10 ◼ ► All I'd like to end on something more pointless because that is the spirit of hello internet. [TS]
01:24:29 ◼ ► Mrs Gray a machine but will keep it to miss is great at the moment but why do you put kisses on the end of messages. [TS]
01:24:46 ◼ ► when I put a kiss on the end of a well you're asking me if I put kisses on the end of text messages [TS]
01:24:57 ◼ ► and I had more than other people is that what you're asking to shape she put to she sign off a text with a kiss. [TS]
01:25:16 ◼ ► This isn't going to mean a lot to you because you're not you're obviously I think you're outside the norm here [TS]
01:25:21 ◼ ► but I think we're suffering from a kiss inflation on text messages because as I said I put a sign off my text message [TS]
01:25:30 ◼ ► to my wife with an axe in his ear I say luck and I know you like a kiss and a hug. [TS]
01:25:35 ◼ ► Not many people do use the hug Lima it's kind of bit of a thing if I'm a person of interest [TS]
01:25:41 ◼ ► and I've never gotten a hug from you and the funny thing is I don't put I don't do it to memory [TS]
01:25:46 ◼ ► and I was like I'm just feeling upset now I wouldn't want to bother you I get it till one pm anyway [TS]
01:25:53 ◼ ► and you know the hug moment has gone by the time the tech against my maid may have changed but anyway you know with me. [TS]
01:26:04 ◼ ► and I don't think I would ever be counting the kisses that somebody like That's just craziness. [TS]
01:26:11 ◼ ► We live in completely different. Look I'm not saying Kiss is on the on the text messages are important. [TS]
01:26:19 ◼ ► I'm going to send you a set number of kisses at the end of all of our text messages. [TS]
01:26:27 ◼ ► or added from them that's one of the things oh yeah if I only send you two kisses in the future you will know that I'm [TS]
01:26:40 ◼ ► or not because I am going to have to make some macro that just auto add the four kisses at the end of each because I'm [TS]
01:26:48 ◼ ► but that's what I mean the reason why becoming meaningless that life I think at some point at some stage like you know [TS]
01:26:57 ◼ ► and that is the only thing I can relate this to is the old e-bay feedback that had plus inflation so people would say a [TS]
01:27:15 ◼ ► Well this is exactly what's happened and that happens with the way schools are rated [TS]
01:27:18 ◼ ► and stuff too doesn't like everyone you know and school Max you know getting suddenly you had to get [TS]
01:27:24 ◼ ► and then I get on I wasn't what you'd say I don't even know if it's if it if it happens people have to tell me but [TS]
01:27:30 ◼ ► when I was leaving teaching there was talk that they were going to be introducing a double star Mark so it was [TS]
01:27:38 ◼ ► basically the beginning of an infinite number of stars to represent how awesome you are. [TS]
01:27:46 ◼ ► and one of the boards was going well we're going to introduce a double star with a really exceptional students [TS]
01:27:52 ◼ ► and so you don't need to do this. That's I guess that's what's going on here. If inflation is what's in the. [TS]
01:28:00 ◼ ► Like I think it's a really interesting like I can imagine someone writing quite interesting article about it [TS]
01:28:05 ◼ ► and you know you made a brilliant parallel with the A plus plus inflation on a bet I like that's a really interesting [TS]
01:28:15 ◼ ► and I think that's a good go to metaphor the kids these days will really be right on top of e-bay in the name of these [TS]
01:28:21 ◼ ► Yeah that's exactly what what this is like if it happens I'd like I think I just find interesting I find it interesting [TS]