00:00:07 ◼ ► Three in the you're so predictable you say OK now I would like eleven collapse eleven classes how many I want. [TS]
00:00:20 ◼ ► You're so compliant. I guess what by the way. Well listen I've got something here for you. Yeah. [TS]
00:00:30 ◼ ► Have you finally decided to have some sort of liquid refreshment in front of you while we are recording not just one I [TS]
00:00:38 ◼ ► have just opened a third of a day like a third of a bottle of water a very adult type with a very small amount left in [TS]
00:00:53 ◼ ► and chili flavored Danish Like you I was kindly given on a recent trip to Copenhagen [TS]
00:00:59 ◼ ► but won't possibly drink because I cannot stand the taste of licorice. But they were very kind to give it to me. [TS]
00:01:06 ◼ ► So excluding the alcoholic drink you really have one and two thirds of the drink in front of you. [TS]
00:01:13 ◼ ► That's about and I know you're trying to make it sound impressive to make up for your lack of sustenance last time [TS]
00:01:24 ◼ ► But the trees are there for an emergency that would be quite an emergency. How is R.J. Is she all right. [TS]
00:01:36 ◼ ► and Lulu downstairs together they seem to be getting along well already sometimes snuggles up [TS]
00:01:42 ◼ ► and goes to sleep under there which is exceptionally cute you have already answered the question that I was going to [TS]
00:01:48 ◼ ► have for you when that I had feedback from several people who wanted to know how the two dogs were getting together [TS]
00:01:54 ◼ ► but you have already answered this with sound like they're getting along quite well. So what you are getting messages. [TS]
00:02:02 ◼ ► Basically that that was from my parents they could not believe that on the last episode that you did not specify how [TS]
00:02:08 ◼ ► the dogs were getting along they were very concerned about how Lulu was handling the whole situation. [TS]
00:02:17 ◼ ► She your parents by the way can just email me if they want to know anything of the them that I will answer their emails [TS]
00:02:23 ◼ ► send the pictures out to all that stuff you know I will tell you I know you well so they might take you up on that that [TS]
00:02:32 ◼ ► Lulay obviously being a big Greyhound looks ridiculous next to tiny little ot the child [TS]
00:02:55 ◼ ► If what you wish for been a follow up from Matt from the extravaganza finale to me recently. [TS]
00:03:11 ◼ ► but the one thing I just wanted to bring up was some people on the Reddit came up with the term for what we were [TS]
00:03:18 ◼ ► talking about which was last time we were discussing Otto as a potential word to describe self driving cars [TS]
00:03:25 ◼ ► but that I kept saying it has a linguistic conflict with German and as I have also heard since then Dutch [TS]
00:03:32 ◼ ► and a few other languages use auto as their word for car and the term for this or four words that sound the same [TS]
00:03:54 ◼ ► But the example that I particularly like is from a Dutch advertisement that they have on the page. [TS]
00:04:04 ◼ ► and next to her there are the words Mama die die die and in Dutch that translates as Mom I want I want I want [TS]
00:04:15 ◼ ► and it is a yogurt commercial so the child is actually requesting yogurt not the death of her mother [TS]
00:04:21 ◼ ► but DI is an example of false friends there for those two words before I bring up the pronunciation of your good versus [TS]
00:04:30 ◼ ► bad can I just ask because it's not immediately jumping into my mind was a cold false friends. [TS]
00:04:37 ◼ ► That's that that term doesn't immediately make sense to me as why does it is obvious to you I think that the friends is [TS]
00:04:45 ◼ ► supposed to be friends as opposed to be like a hominem they're their friends because these words sound the same. [TS]
00:04:52 ◼ ► So you would assume that they mean the same thing you know they had their false friends that's the way I interpret it. [TS]
00:04:59 ◼ ► Maybe that was really obvious to everyone but it wasn't it wasn't to me I think it sounds better than false hominids. [TS]
00:05:05 ◼ ► I did it I think I just don't think that's a good term for I don't know I feel like we have a consistent theme on the [TS]
00:05:12 ◼ ► show being displeased with the words for something and then trying to come up with our own words. [TS]
00:05:18 ◼ ► Do you have if you have an alternative to just make sure you are not referring I don't think Shanae like that could be [TS]
00:05:23 ◼ ► like a thing we do one day. Like Aaron dictionary because that's what we're working towards ultimately here isn't it. [TS]
00:05:27 ◼ ► Basically a week if we keep this up long enough there will be a large enough vocabulary of hello internet specific [TS]
00:05:34 ◼ ► words on the topic of autos of all the of all of your firmly held positions on this pod cast. [TS]
00:05:43 ◼ ► That seems to be the one that so far has brought the most disagreement even from your fans. I can use that term. [TS]
00:06:02 ◼ ► Well again it is on my insistence that everybody uses this this word this is this is my pet or this [TS]
00:06:08 ◼ ► and this is my push I should say for the word in English to describe self driving cars [TS]
00:06:13 ◼ ► and yes I read through all the Reddit comments and I see this does drive people kind of crazy [TS]
00:06:19 ◼ ► but just like on our podcast in the red it I was also asking can people give me specific reasons why they don't think [TS]
00:06:29 ◼ ► And every example that I saw just seemed incredibly contrived of where this could possibly cause any kind of conflict [TS]
00:06:37 ◼ ► so you know I remember now because I like your position on this because your position is it's only a problem if it's [TS]
00:06:57 ◼ ► and right to can just be a general well what are we talking about here kind of vagueness. [TS]
00:07:05 ◼ ► I guess we need to change the Dutch word for I want to then because there's a lot of confusion there over whether [TS]
00:07:11 ◼ ► or not people are requesting things or instructing death to their conversational Q. [TS]
00:07:32 ◼ ► This is going back to the river looping back into safe argument with my son. I've heard of it or remain unconvinced. [TS]
00:07:41 ◼ ► I CAN YOU ARE YOU are a better person because you are more concerned that I most certainly am not. [TS]
00:07:51 ◼ ► and I said I was brought up saying you know you get to be in a strata that I've gradually had slipped out of me by the [TS]
00:08:00 ◼ ► Like they say you look at you you obviously have not had that slipped out of me I don't think this is just come up very [TS]
00:08:11 ◼ ► Yeah there probably is there probably is a bit of yogurt consumption in this house. [TS]
00:08:15 ◼ ► My wife likes them so that this is not this is not come up but I would stick with yogurt yogurt. [TS]
00:08:21 ◼ ► Sounds ridiculous to me. I think you have to be very posh to pull that off. Now speaking of things that are ridiculous. [TS]
00:08:30 ◼ ► You did what can only be described as a ridiculous job in trying to market at the last podcast. [TS]
00:08:39 ◼ ► Yes Yes Not only was it at the end of the podcast but for some crazy amount of blank space [TS]
00:08:51 ◼ ► You probably edit this that knowing you said let's just forget about it and you know it is it is true. [TS]
00:08:57 ◼ ► Here at the start of season three might be a good time to inform people that we have very excellent. [TS]
00:09:11 ◼ ► and then I mean honestly just just through my own mistake I accidentally had this enormous amount of blank space at the [TS]
00:09:23 ◼ ► And so I do not know how many people actually got there. I will say we still sold a bunch of T. [TS]
00:09:29 ◼ ► Shirts but I'm betting that there are a lot of people who just who missed that part of it. [TS]
00:09:34 ◼ ► So I do apologize for my terrible editing skills though I do have one tiny thing to say in my defense which is that I [TS]
00:09:44 ◼ ► have been trying out overcast lately as my main pod cast client I have a kitten I did write a little article on my own [TS]
00:09:53 ◼ ► blog recommending people use particular podcast clients because I see all the time people in the Reddit say. [TS]
00:10:04 ◼ ► And this is this is just the worst possible experience you could ever have listening to a podcast. [TS]
00:10:09 ◼ ► You should totally get a podcast client. If you aren't listening to the sound of my voice on one right now. [TS]
00:10:34 ◼ ► but overcast has a feature which cuts out the majority of all of the silent spaces to kind of make the podcast [TS]
00:10:42 ◼ ► So I'm going to partly blame overcast because it would make it harder to notice that there was a big gap of silent [TS]
00:10:52 ◼ ► but overcast doesn't cut out all of that so I do have to acknowledge that it was also a large part just my own stupid [TS]
00:11:00 ◼ ► fault so I apologize for my terrible editing skills. We'd like to thank Harry's for their support of this podcast. [TS]
00:11:08 ◼ ► Now you've heard me talk about Harry's before I use their race as myself they're making great shaving products [TS]
00:11:17 ◼ ► Now the whole business was born from the frustration of buying shaving blades at local shops where they not only cost a [TS]
00:11:23 ◼ ► fortune but a lot behind security barriers like the crown jewels or something with Harry's it's all easier cheaper [TS]
00:11:38 ◼ ► but now they've also got a foaming shave Joe at an aftershave moisturizer which I'm always being told to use apparently [TS]
00:11:48 ◼ ► Now I've actually had a chance to try the gel and moisturizer yet because of a new just been launched [TS]
00:11:52 ◼ ► but you can find all the details on the Harry's website which by the way is also a really cool Web site. [TS]
00:12:03 ◼ ► when you check out that's H.-I isn't how the Internet you get a five dollar discount on an already really great price [TS]
00:12:11 ◼ ► and the Internet Wizards will know that you are listening to this podcast and apparently that's good for everyone. [TS]
00:12:23 ◼ ► and especially some of the kits because they're not really nice gifts they do a really good job with the packaging [TS]
00:12:27 ◼ ► and boxes and things so if you've got someone you want to buy a present for it's worth a look. [TS]
00:12:45 ◼ ► There's been there's been a lot of news happening in the last couple of weeks actually. [TS]
00:12:50 ◼ ► Can I cannot drop in a place of yes. Yup sure it wasn't on our list but it is quite easy it even made national news. [TS]
00:13:09 ◼ ► and oh yeah yeah people know I work with the University of Nottingham chemistry department on periodic videos they are [TS]
00:13:17 ◼ ► building a new chemistry building a really expensive state of the posh building and. [TS]
00:13:24 ◼ ► A few days ago now it caught fire and burned to the ground. It was it was seventy percent complete. [TS]
00:13:33 ◼ ► and if I happened not no one was hurt that this building that I've been really proud of I'm really looking forward to [TS]
00:13:43 ◼ ► Burnt to the ground and it was such a spectacular fire that it was on the news and people around the world e-mailing [TS]
00:13:49 ◼ ► and messaging about it they all thought it was the actual proper chemistry building where we do all our filming [TS]
00:14:04 ◼ ► But then you do it and they're going to rebuild it but it's going to give it away now and no one was hurt [TS]
00:14:17 ◼ ► and how long it's going to take to rebuild. I think I've been doing for over a year now. [TS]
00:14:23 ◼ ► Second time around I guess because certain foundations are in place and presumably they affected [TS]
00:14:30 ◼ ► but they still don't know how the fire started what caused it with the design changes need to be made [TS]
00:14:42 ◼ ► but they're already coming out very strongly saying it's all going to it's going to happen again. [TS]
00:14:50 ◼ ► I just post a video today which Grahame linked with the professor talking all about it so if people want to find out [TS]
00:14:56 ◼ ► more and see some pictures and footage of the fire they can they can have a look at that. [TS]
00:15:01 ◼ ► But just for people in Boston people who might know about it and know that I have a a loose association there. [TS]
00:15:08 ◼ ► That's what happened it wasn't the main chemistry building is the main message it was it was a new building. [TS]
00:15:13 ◼ ► You went up with that in the show that's for people to see the fire the really big story is we're recording now [TS]
00:15:19 ◼ ► and something we discussed in the last episode is the Scottish independence referendum. [TS]
00:15:34 ◼ ► and on the off chance that you haven't already seen this on the news which seems probably unlikely. [TS]
00:15:43 ◼ ► and I think the last time I thought about it was about fifty five percent no to forty five percent yes on independence. [TS]
00:16:05 ◼ ► It's sort of not my business which way Scotland goes I don't have a vote I don't think I should have a vote [TS]
00:16:12 ◼ ► and it is a decision that the Scottish people are to make and should really have any input in that [TS]
00:16:20 ◼ ► but it was funny because last night I happened to wake up at about three in the morning [TS]
00:16:29 ◼ ► and I was happen sometimes now that I'm an old man of integrity we should on the podcast [TS]
00:16:37 ◼ ► and neighbours would have loved me talking really loudly in the main room of our flat until morning. [TS]
00:16:49 ◼ ► Well anyway so when I was awake I happened to then remember oh right the Scottish independence referendum. [TS]
00:16:58 ◼ ► So I went online to check and basically at the point that I checked it was initially you know was in the lead [TS]
00:17:11 ◼ ► Yes And at that moment I found myself thinking like boy I really realize right now how much I don't want this to happen [TS]
00:17:20 ◼ ► you know it's always different when when things are real like it's easier to be neutral [TS]
00:17:29 ◼ ► and as we said last time even though we don't live in Scotland that would still affect us quite a lot. [TS]
00:17:36 ◼ ► I was getting a little nervous that maybe this would actually tip over into a yes vote again if that's what Scotland [TS]
00:17:49 ◼ ► but there is a trick sometimes if you are deciding between two options where Tell me if you've heard this before [TS]
00:18:08 ◼ ► and as soon as the coin is in the air you kind of instantly know which of the two you actually wanted to be [TS]
00:18:21 ◼ ► I've not heard yet so sounds familiar of my head I can I can imagine that being the case that I have definitely done [TS]
00:18:28 ◼ ► this and I'm always surprised that it works because you are on this watching sport. [TS]
00:18:34 ◼ ► and I don't have a sort of preordained allegiance to one of them people who I say who are going to be going for in the [TS]
00:18:40 ◼ ► big game and I never really know. And as soon as the game stops that you know within the first second of the game. [TS]
00:18:47 ◼ ► No I just know who I want to win not because of anything that's happened it's just it just crystallizes in my head. [TS]
00:18:56 ◼ ► It seems like there's some funny architecture in the brain that refuses to consider things until they are actually real [TS]
00:19:03 ◼ ► and then suddenly says we're going to make a decision on this and boom here's our decision. [TS]
00:19:09 ◼ ► when the results were actually coming in it was crystallize that I was a very strong if you know if I can control the [TS]
00:19:18 ◼ ► when I woke up this morning the first thing I did was check the news and see what the situation was [TS]
00:19:24 ◼ ► and I was relieved that the vote came in as you know I'm glad that Scotland has chosen to stay. [TS]
00:19:32 ◼ ► when we spoke about it last time I felt that we probably both had that ever so slight bias even they were even though [TS]
00:19:39 ◼ ► as we both say it's not really our business. I've almost went a little bit the other way. [TS]
00:19:48 ◼ ► and some people who didn't follow particularly closely the polls for quite a long time we're making it look like it was [TS]
00:20:00 ◼ ► Week before the referendum happen the polls started to close and then started to look like maybe the U.S. [TS]
00:20:14 ◼ ► So I started thinking about it seriously and I think thinking through the repercussions and how I felt about it [TS]
00:20:21 ◼ ► and I think I can manage to convince myself that it wouldn't be as bad as I thought [TS]
00:20:26 ◼ ► and I actually started to see you know I started looking for positives to some of them were very selfish positives. [TS]
00:20:36 ◼ ► and by the time the vote was happening yesterday I was actually thinking actually will be a really good thing if they [TS]
00:20:50 ◼ ► when the results did come through you know it was a it was a no Scott going to Stang part of me was relieved I guess like [TS]
00:21:00 ◼ ► But another part of me thought this is a missed opportunity because the saying May you live in interesting times. [TS]
00:21:06 ◼ ► I think there's something to be said for being around I think would be a really exciting to be living in the United [TS]
00:21:15 ◼ ► I remember a friend of mine many years ago happened to be in Berlin when the Berlin Wall came down [TS]
00:21:20 ◼ ► and always talked about how exciting it was to be there and be part of history and [TS]
00:21:24 ◼ ► and I'm not comparing this to the Berlin Wall coming down but you know there's something to be said for being around [TS]
00:21:32 ◼ ► And instead you know they don't say May you experience status quo that that's what we're going to experience. [TS]
00:21:42 ◼ ► but I'm curious before I before I move onto Parr what are your what were your selfish reasons for wanting a yes vote. [TS]
00:21:54 ◼ ► But I'm curious what your selfish reasons are for wanting hours coming up with all sorts of all sorts of tenure. [TS]
00:22:00 ◼ ► Things I mean give me a couple I'm curious. Well I mean I wouldn't mind the pound weakening just at the moment. [TS]
00:22:08 ◼ ► Oh yeah that is because of a little income coming from the U.S. and I'm taking an absolute hammering on that. [TS]
00:22:15 ◼ ► So that's a very short term kind of a you know there are many things other than the vision of vision the risk [TS]
00:22:22 ◼ ► and effect currencies. I took his US cheque at the bank today on the day that the pound strengthened by four percent. [TS]
00:22:30 ◼ ► I don't know I think a lot of the things that are out it's more a case that are lower you know I was clutching at [TS]
00:22:39 ◼ ► and I think it's exciting Scotland today a separate country you know visiting it would be a slightly different experience [TS]
00:22:47 ◼ ► and I go to Scotland a reasonable amount and I think it would add a degree of excitement to think of it. [TS]
00:22:54 ◼ ► Clinician I was thinking Oh I like that I live in the same country is Edinburgh and yes and the Highlands but then [TS]
00:23:00 ◼ ► and then I thought well that's stupid because I love Paris to it doesn't matter that Paris isn't part of the country I [TS]
00:23:06 ◼ ► live in the mountains to go there and in fact it's more exciting to go there when it's a different country. So. [TS]
00:23:13 ◼ ► So I think the main thing is I just think it would have been an interesting thing to live through. [TS]
00:23:21 ◼ ► I cannot tell a really tangental story here is that over time you know go ahead get out [TS]
00:23:41 ◼ ► And let me have a sit here here's Brady story people love drinking fountain parka and spare my blushes. [TS]
00:24:02 ◼ ► Many many are used to there was barely time to silently drinking my coffee just to show I do drink silently like I had [TS]
00:24:20 ◼ ► and I was there with I was traveling with an ex-girlfriend of well she was my cargo for at the time she is now an [TS]
00:24:26 ◼ ► ex-girlfriend and we read something in the paper always saw somewhere that there was going to be some boats [TS]
00:24:35 ◼ ► or something happening on the river and we thought you were going to have a look at that [TS]
00:24:41 ◼ ► and we'd only been traveling around and going to the temples and doing all the tourist things that you do in Bangkok [TS]
00:24:45 ◼ ► and we thought I don't think I can handle another day walking around in the crazy city. [TS]
00:24:50 ◼ ► Let's just go to an air conditioned shopping center and buy some T. Shirts and that's what we did. [TS]
00:25:00 ◼ ► and it turns out these boats on the water thing was this special thing that only happens like once every ten years [TS]
00:25:08 ◼ ► or something where there's all these special barges and gold and boats and things like that that belong to the king [TS]
00:25:16 ◼ ► and they get them all out in this huge flotilla and the king himself gets on his grand [TS]
00:25:21 ◼ ► but that only comes out once in a blue moon and all of the paper to the city come and cheer [TS]
00:25:26 ◼ ► and it's like this incredible once in a lifetime thing that people travel the world to go [TS]
00:25:30 ◼ ► and say because it's so incredible and it happened to be on while we were in Bangkok and we didn't go on say it. [TS]
00:25:39 ◼ ► And ever since then I have often thought like Don't miss out on interesting things because you're lazy [TS]
00:25:47 ◼ ► or because you want to maintain the status quo or have the easy path and maybe it's that way with Scotland. [TS]
00:25:53 ◼ ► Like it seems like all if Scotland is showing off it could be bad for us and bad things could happen. [TS]
00:26:01 ◼ ► But maybe we also met a really interesting thing and something to tell your grandkids about. [TS]
00:26:06 ◼ ► I remember when Scotland broke off I was there I was living in England at the time and all this happened [TS]
00:26:13 ◼ ► And I suddenly thought Scotland lazing must just be an exciting thing like the boats on the river [TS]
00:26:21 ◼ ► and it would be a shame to miss it because of what happened and what happened in our lifetime now is that crazy. [TS]
00:26:28 ◼ ► You've been very quiet. I just I am so angry about the drinking thing now. Sometimes I don't understand your stories. [TS]
00:26:43 ◼ ► Wait wait so you didn't see a thing in Bangkok which could have been interesting so Scotland should be independent [TS]
00:26:55 ◼ ► But isn't that same logic and I don't go and don't bring in previous conversations that just come to mind [TS]
00:27:01 ◼ ► and I didn't mean to tough it out because I was trying to follow the the metaphorical thread. [TS]
00:27:13 ◼ ► I can sort of say in my head like really often you know a lot of people don't do things [TS]
00:27:25 ◼ ► or they don't want to disrupt their plans they already have or they don't want to disrupt their life [TS]
00:27:29 ◼ ► and I think nine times out of ten when you just when something does happen or you do something [TS]
00:27:35 ◼ ► or change happens it's for the best. You know you and I could both be living in the cities we were born in. [TS]
00:27:45 ◼ ► and say no that's changed let's let's change our surroundings and do something different [TS]
00:27:49 ◼ ► and you can easily just stay where you are and think what life is OK here and I could move to England [TS]
00:27:54 ◼ ► or move somewhere else and it could all go wrong. But we did and I think. Turned our on. [TS]
00:28:07 ◼ ► I just it just suddenly occurred to me I think it could be just even just as a spectator it could be exciting if [TS]
00:28:23 ◼ ► but talking about talking about change does bring us back to to one of the points which is that I don't necessarily think [TS]
00:28:33 ◼ ► And now of course well that's because the Westminster politicians got so scared that Scotland were going to leave they [TS]
00:28:49 ◼ ► Very strange especially if you're an American. The way this whole system is set up. [TS]
00:29:04 ◼ ► Politics because unlike a country like America where the founders got together and they wrote out a document [TS]
00:29:11 ◼ ► and they said OK well here are the rules and this is the way this is going to work [TS]
00:29:15 ◼ ► and here is how much power the states have and here is how much power the federal government has [TS]
00:29:22 ◼ ► or we have amendments it happens everywhere all at once. A parliamentary government like the U.K. [TS]
00:29:28 ◼ ► Nothing like that you have this this just stack of papers that goes back a thousand years [TS]
00:29:49 ◼ ► and you also end up with I mean some of the things like that I've been researching is like these ruled it happened [TS]
00:30:00 ◼ ► Or the circumstances under which it comes back and I like the thing that people get mad about [TS]
00:30:05 ◼ ► and my videos are sometimes i don't show whales on the map but when I show the U.K. [TS]
00:30:11 ◼ ► and That's because for a while Wales was just subsumed into England and then it reappeared years later [TS]
00:30:20 ◼ ► and because of that you have this weird collection of what are the rules in these particular places [TS]
00:30:27 ◼ ► and do evolution now is used to talk about what local powers do the various four countries England Scotland Wales [TS]
00:30:42 ◼ ► but they have different levels of power like say like Scotland controls its own education system whereas the way I was [TS]
00:30:50 ◼ ► education system is controlled from England and right of married into the English one. [TS]
00:30:54 ◼ ► Right which is where like when I got qualified to teach in England I was automatically qualified to teach in Wales [TS]
00:31:01 ◼ ► but not Scotland. If I if I wanted to teach in Scotland I would have to go through another process to get approved. [TS]
00:31:14 ◼ ► and the what is it the National Trust like the store. There's all of these things which you think are U.K. [TS]
00:31:31 ◼ ► and Northern Ireland have some power but not as much of Scotland and the thing that seems almost crazy [TS]
00:31:43 ◼ ► and say wait a most people living that is in England the most powerful one being gracious given it doesn't make any [TS]
00:31:49 ◼ ► sense at all when you explain it but you have to remember these are all particular circumstances [TS]
00:32:00 ◼ ► Power in terms of devolution in terms of what can they control that the U.K. National parliament can't override. [TS]
00:32:14 ◼ ► and say look let's let's make this consistent between the four countries of the U.K. [TS]
00:32:19 ◼ ► and How much power are they going to have and what is the national What should be handled at the national level [TS]
00:32:32 ◼ ► and I'm very interested in this I might my mind is a topic I have thought about very often of doing a video on because [TS]
00:32:43 ◼ ► but it seems like it is definitely overdue for some kind of change with how how the power is distributed whether [TS]
00:32:54 ◼ ► Yeah that's that's usually the term that it uses is making it into a formal federalized system which as a general [TS]
00:33:07 ◼ ► National parliament would be limited to things that concern all four countries so maintaining the military maintaining [TS]
00:33:13 ◼ ► the currency but it would not be responsible for things like the education system. [TS]
00:33:20 ◼ ► How the health system is handled in each of the countries in that that would be up to them as individual pieces. [TS]
00:33:32 ◼ ► I think there is a lot that could be improved and may very well be improved if we are going going forward [TS]
00:33:41 ◼ ► Give Scotland the additional devolution powers that they were promised during the referendum. [TS]
00:33:48 ◼ ► and leaving the union is more interesting then maybe that's going to be a whole bunch of laws [TS]
00:33:54 ◼ ► and federalization things past that stands. Yeah sure it'll be an interesting I guess if you're. [TS]
00:34:00 ◼ ► Not interested in that kind of stuff it sounds uninteresting I agree yes of course Scotland leaving is much more [TS]
00:34:11 ◼ ► I was listening to the radio and the other thing that's been discussed obviously is if this happens [TS]
00:34:16 ◼ ► and they start going down this kind of federalization route there are other things to be considered as well. [TS]
00:34:21 ◼ ► For example the north of England which also feels quite sort of separate from the London Westminster bubble. [TS]
00:34:31 ◼ ► There's talk about will power some powers be devolved to the regions of England as well so I guess there's a bit of [TS]
00:34:41 ◼ ► and all the sort of interest groups in parts of England are all sort of crying out now as well saying well if we're [TS]
00:34:46 ◼ ► going to start doling out powers to people can we have a bit more control over destiny [TS]
00:34:51 ◼ ► and not just be controlled by London. Nigel thing isn't it. You know oh I mean this is this is you know a lot of. [TS]
00:35:02 ◼ ► I often think that it's much it's often much less about a particular left right divide as it is often a major [TS]
00:35:28 ◼ ► But there's no way to deny it that that the handling say transportation in the north of England is an entirely [TS]
00:35:35 ◼ ► different question than how do you handle transportation in zone one of London the absolute center of the city. [TS]
00:35:49 ◼ ► and that depending on how the federalization would work out I think it would totally make sense to say the North of [TS]
00:35:55 ◼ ► England has devolved powers to handle certain things that make sense for that region to handle. [TS]
00:36:00 ◼ ► Then it doesn't make sense for all of England to vote as a single block and what I think is that the U.K. [TS]
00:36:05 ◼ ► Is actually quite lopsided with London because if you you know roughly sixty million people in the U.K. [TS]
00:36:13 ◼ ► And again Ball Park ing it you can say there's about ten million people who live in the London Metropolitan area [TS]
00:36:19 ◼ ► and so you have a country with like one sixth of the population broadly speaking lives in the capital city that that [TS]
00:36:27 ◼ ► gets to a very strange system when you're trying to work out well what's what's going to happen [TS]
00:36:32 ◼ ► when you're voting on particular issues so I could definitely I could see a very reasoned argument for those places [TS]
00:36:40 ◼ ► but this is always the problem you know in home patter that are where you are like oh you know I grew up in New York [TS]
00:36:47 ◼ ► New York State politics was always the same problem right it was the downstate area which is Long Island [TS]
00:36:53 ◼ ► and New York City versus everybody else which is upstate just as rural wasteland of cows [TS]
00:37:07 ◼ ► but this is just this is just the problem that you have. He said that he will relieved that Scotland voted no. [TS]
00:37:21 ◼ ► OK OK the most selfish reason is it feels like I got out of a homework assignment which was having to redo my U.K. [TS]
00:37:34 ◼ ► No no no but you see that currency reason might only that situation can change over the course of months [TS]
00:37:49 ◼ ► and so the thought of having to redo that was not a pleasant thought I'd look at the one they think some of the [TS]
00:38:01 ◼ ► The thought of trying to redo that again was very unpleasant it's a bit like it's a bit like remaking Star Wars like [TS]
00:38:10 ◼ ► what am I going to do I'm going to go back and well you know I really wanted Northern Ireland to shoot first [TS]
00:38:18 ◼ ► and I'll never be the same kind of thing that the original was so I just I was not looking forward to doing that so if [TS]
00:38:34 ◼ ► but not that it is one of my selfish reasons I thought oh man who took it didn't care today. [TS]
00:38:41 ◼ ► I'll give you that up this is like like a school snow day like man I just cut it out of a whole bunch of work out [TS]
00:38:46 ◼ ► and I want to do it if they had voted yes. How soon would you started work on the new video. [TS]
00:38:53 ◼ ► I would have had to wait until I knew what the situation was going to be again because of my production cycle. [TS]
00:39:01 ◼ ► I cannot really make a timely video so I would probably wait until it was really sorted out what is the relationship [TS]
00:39:11 ◼ ► I could answer a bunch of the questions I would want to answer in the video I wouldn't want to do anything that was [TS]
00:39:18 ◼ ► Had Westminster officials not given you sort of off the record break things in anticipation of you having to remake [TS]
00:39:24 ◼ ► No unfortunately unfortunately not now though I did have I did have a plan which I've had ever since I even heard about [TS]
00:39:31 ◼ ► the Scottish independence referendum which was now of course it won't happen so I can talk about it on the show [TS]
00:39:44 ◼ ► or three years because I would if the independence referendum had gone yes I was going to go all in on a campaign to [TS]
00:39:52 ◼ ► preserve the design of the Union Jack and to not remove the blue elements from it and I. [TS]
00:40:00 ◼ ► As I was going to make a video promoting this I was going to have a website I was going to try to arrange write to your [TS]
00:40:06 ◼ ► local minister campaign because I thought I would if if this does happen if there is independence I am very strongly [TS]
00:40:17 ◼ ► but that that has that has not occurred so I don't have to do that's another bit of work that I got out of that was [TS]
00:40:24 ◼ ► or was this just your passion for flags was that you know the touristic this is just my passion for flight you know I [TS]
00:40:34 ◼ ► Well I mean this is this is this is the weird scale of things right like I did mention before [TS]
00:40:42 ◼ ► and compared to many of the other things on my on my list that is not going to be as popular as other stuff can [TS]
00:40:57 ◼ ► and I would really want to keep things the way they were with the flag I felt I felt really strong. [TS]
00:41:14 ◼ ► You know honestly I don't remember if I cut that or not it sounds like something I would cut didn't go anywhere. [TS]
00:41:20 ◼ ► Yeah well most of my stuff doesn't go anywhere but you keep some of it. Sometimes I do have. [TS]
00:41:24 ◼ ► Yeah I did like the last amazing story about the one I looked up more about on a vacation once [TS]
00:41:39 ◼ ► In one nine hundred ninety nine there was a strategy had the referendum about becoming a republic in ditching the [TS]
00:41:50 ◼ ► but I think it's pretty fair to say that the majority of Australians want to become a republic. But the referendum. [TS]
00:42:06 ◼ ► but a lot of people certainly think the reason it failed was because the pro republican movement had their vote split. [TS]
00:42:14 ◼ ► when it was put to a vote the only option Australians were given was to have a president appointed by a two thirds [TS]
00:42:23 ◼ ► majority of the parliament the elected representative so it wouldn't be a popularly elected president it would be an [TS]
00:42:33 ◼ ► Right so my dear Prime Minister we're not different to a prime minister actually brain is meant many many countries [TS]
00:42:41 ◼ ► have again mindblowing three Americans. This kind of president role which is very separate from a prime minister. [TS]
00:42:47 ◼ ► ROVE Yeah well one of the head of one is a head of state and one of them is the head of government. [TS]
00:42:53 ◼ ► and this was a little bit different to that I don't think this Astrarium president would've we still would've had a prime [TS]
00:43:03 ◼ ► How about a lot of the pro republican movement didn't want that they wanted a popularly elected president not the [TS]
00:43:11 ◼ ► and because of this split those people who didn't vote for the Republican cause it wasn't the Republic they wanted [TS]
00:43:18 ◼ ► and I think the anti Republic people quite clever and engineered it to happen that way. [TS]
00:43:31 ◼ ► or not there's any element of any element of sort of sabotage of the Scotland vote went on Hughie who sort of had some [TS]
00:43:44 ◼ ► but it doesn't seem to doesn't seem quite that way to me it seems like that this is more of an accurate reflection of [TS]
00:43:54 ◼ ► There was a fear mongering towards the end with a saying of Scotland if you leave you know your economy is going to [TS]
00:43:58 ◼ ► collapse and all that. This is going to lave and you have to pay more for a loaf of bread and things. [TS]
00:44:07 ◼ ► when I thought about doing a Scottish independence video the one the one fact that I always thought was pertinent to [TS]
00:44:17 ◼ ► when we were talking about the last time before the vote the push for Scottish independence was always partly hinge ing [TS]
00:44:28 ◼ ► and this is this is what Scotland was sold as a basically we are going to leave the United Kingdom [TS]
00:44:34 ◼ ► and then you know there's a special velvet ropes off section for Scotland to enter immediately into the European Union [TS]
00:44:41 ◼ ► and the European Union parliament was really clear that this was not the case that Scotland would have to go through [TS]
00:44:49 ◼ ► the regular process just like everybody else and that was that was one factor they always felt was a bit. [TS]
00:44:56 ◼ ► Played down by the yes to independence movement is is oh you know oh don't worry Scotland is not going to be by herself [TS]
00:45:04 ◼ ► on the world stage Scotland Scotland is going to be part of this massive European Union [TS]
00:45:10 ◼ ► and the European Union was well well well well you know we have a lot of problems already with small countries that [TS]
00:45:19 ◼ ► and you know maybe we're going to want to test you just like all the others to see if this brand new zero year old [TS]
00:45:25 ◼ ► country can handle itself before we actually want to lead it into the European Union. [TS]
00:45:35 ◼ ► but I think that that is a very relevant facts that would change people's votes because yes if it if the European Union [TS]
00:45:45 ◼ ► and that is totally changes the situation of how how do you actually want to vote. [TS]
00:45:52 ◼ ► But as many people pointed out in the Reddit discussion which I just want to highlight what I was saying last time [TS]
00:46:00 ◼ ► Details and this making me wonder if if the people who are in favor of it were trying to scuttle it. [TS]
00:46:05 ◼ ► Many people rightly pointed out that not having details for your plan is also just the correct debating tactic. [TS]
00:46:18 ◼ ► For example you know if you are the minority party you say oh we want to improve the health care situation in our [TS]
00:46:24 ◼ ► but you don't give details about it because you want people to go along with well of course I'm for improving the [TS]
00:46:35 ◼ ► And you don't say what the specifics are because you don't want your opponent to be able to shoot down why your reasons [TS]
00:46:46 ◼ ► It's like decreasing the surface area of exposure by not mentioning specific So yeah I am with you from from everything [TS]
00:46:53 ◼ ► that I can tell unlike what it sounds like happened with the Australian vote or unlike what happened with the the U. K. [TS]
00:46:59 ◼ ► Vote on the voting system itself and this seems like it's a pretty genuine reflection of what the people wanted [TS]
00:47:12 ◼ ► and that this seems an accurate representation of the will of the majority of Scottish people. [TS]
00:47:18 ◼ ► Where is the line drawn for groups of people that can just decide to leave a country. [TS]
00:47:29 ◼ ► and I'm not for a second suggesting that Scotland doesn't have the right to have this vote. [TS]
00:47:45 ◼ ► and saying OK Brady in my house here is you know leaving the United Kingdom where where where is this line drawn this [TS]
00:47:53 ◼ ► is this is just like it sort of like my oh my how many countries are there video it. [TS]
00:48:00 ◼ ► It is very hard to know precisely where these lines are drawn and there is no way to to clearly define this. [TS]
00:48:16 ◼ ► I'm always very interested in groups trying to break off from from their main countries [TS]
00:48:24 ◼ ► and one of the things I find endlessly fascinating is speculating on independence movements that failed in the United [TS]
00:48:35 ◼ ► or various groups in the United States try to break away from that country as a whole and were unsuccessful. [TS]
00:48:41 ◼ ► And if you look at the North American continent it has the lowest countries per Continental ratio of anybody of to less [TS]
00:48:55 ◼ ► but I think it really just comes down to a question of Is your group large enough that it is able to exert its will on [TS]
00:49:09 ◼ ► or just through cultural means that like that is the bottom line is your group able to do this. [TS]
00:49:16 ◼ ► And some groups are and some groups aren't. I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think we're there yet either. [TS]
00:49:22 ◼ ► Sorry Brady. We'd like to thank the people all of the dot com for Again supporting hello internet. [TS]
00:49:33 ◼ ► But while I've not yet admitted is that one of my nicknames for her is audible dot com I'm honestly not joking my wife [TS]
00:49:40 ◼ ► and I will even ask have you taken all the Buddha called that far away yet but anyway [TS]
00:49:45 ◼ ► and after that besides providing a nickname for my dog or dog Kong is the leading supplier of audiobooks [TS]
00:49:53 ◼ ► and of audio entertainment on the web. If there's something you'd like to listen to they will almost certainly have it. [TS]
00:50:00 ◼ ► Now look I've been dying to recommand but Gray's been hoping all the old ads is one called the human spy Matt Hague. [TS]
00:50:08 ◼ ► I'm reluctant to say too much about it because it's a book that really is best is to jump into blind [TS]
00:50:14 ◼ ► Basically it's about aliens experience of trying to understand why we do the things we do. It's very funny. [TS]
00:50:27 ◼ ► Anyone familiar with my number file videos will especially see why I like certain parts of it [TS]
00:50:32 ◼ ► but I can assure you it's not a mathematical book this really is a book for everyone. [TS]
00:50:40 ◼ ► I've been in touch with the author about appearing in one of my own videos some stage [TS]
00:50:44 ◼ ► and he says he might do it so that be RICO Now if you go over to Bill dot com You can of course download the humans [TS]
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00:51:17 ◼ ► That's all aboot dot com slash hello internet. And thank you to them for supporting our podcast. [TS]
00:51:28 ◼ ► and I love technology podcasts although we don't consider this to be a technology podcast [TS]
00:51:37 ◼ ► Yeah so this is this is this episode is basically one hundred percent topical I think because a bunch of stuff has just [TS]
00:51:43 ◼ ► happened either exactly today or in the past couple of days and we want to talk about all of it. [TS]
00:51:50 ◼ ► and then we have a few technology things that that we'd like to talk about the Kindle. [TS]
00:51:55 ◼ ► Yes the Kindle I feel like and I feel like I should have a Kindle corner on. The show came about that all the time. [TS]
00:52:05 ◼ ► and so Amazon has announced a new Kindle which I was I was wondering if they were going to come out with a new one as a [TS]
00:52:13 ◼ ► kind of slow with the releases on that which makes sense there are two very different product [TS]
00:52:16 ◼ ► but the code is about code. OK So the official name is I have to look at it is a Kindle. [TS]
00:52:27 ◼ ► but I am just going to call it the Voyager because I know that is exactly what I'm going to call it every time. [TS]
00:52:32 ◼ ► Anyway so let's just cut to the chase where I don't try to struggle with this every time it's the Kindle Voyager. [TS]
00:52:47 ◼ ► when I think into Voyager I think Janeway is what I think I don't think the probe that I hear Voyager I you know I [TS]
00:52:57 ◼ ► Yes Amazon enough is I think just yesterday I think I have I know nothing about it I'm not saying I did not know it [TS]
00:53:03 ◼ ► happened until you told me what does it look different. OK so I can't remember the last time I just feel it. [TS]
00:53:12 ◼ ► but I think we decided that you have the Kindle Paperwhite that's OK so I had to say when you have yes. [TS]
00:53:19 ◼ ► OK OK so the Kindle Voyager is basically the improved version of the paper white if you look at it it is the same size. [TS]
00:53:32 ◼ ► It has roughly the same bezel around the edge but they have made it a little bit lighter [TS]
00:53:39 ◼ ► and they have improved some of the complaints about the Kindle Paperwhite count on stopping a taste to get straight to [TS]
00:53:50 ◼ ► Let's get to justification of testosterone to talk about the rest of it but all right [TS]
00:54:02 ◼ ► OK so I hear oh there's a new there's a new Kindle how exciting this is what I originally you know in my heart of [TS]
00:54:10 ◼ ► hearts thought their their their Phone announcement was everybody was looking at that video going OK [TS]
00:54:15 ◼ ► or a new Kindle right because I knew I wanted to see. Now that I hear here is the real deal. [TS]
00:54:20 ◼ ► Now if you watch some of their promo videos they have a very carefully selected big bold images that show left [TS]
00:54:39 ◼ ► and people have sent me screen shots all the time so I might look at the stuff stop sending me screenshots of left [TS]
00:54:45 ◼ ► justified text on your Kindle because when when a publisher puts their book on Amazon service [TS]
00:54:53 ◼ ► when they format the book they have the option to force left justify the text so it is not an option on the Kindle they [TS]
00:55:03 ◼ ► can just specify this text needs to be left justified and all reasonable book publishers do that. [TS]
00:55:16 ◼ ► and I just want to kiss the author for having that that be the case. And so I look at their promo video is like huh. [TS]
00:55:24 ◼ ► Well isn't that interesting you seem to be showing off your your left justified text. [TS]
00:55:31 ◼ ► and if you look closely at a bunch of the screen shots you can totally see that it is the full justified text [TS]
00:55:37 ◼ ► abomination on every Kindle that has come before with those same saying Oh those silly spaces so odd shapes [TS]
00:55:44 ◼ ► and yes with with with if you if you if you read a book that has big words in it you're going to have big spaces on [TS]
00:55:50 ◼ ► your lines and it just looks the thing that I always have in mind when when I'm reading a book on the Kindle is [TS]
00:56:00 ◼ ► Bases are just much bigger it's like the narrator in my head has to slow down to read that part. [TS]
00:56:09 ◼ ► and on top of that Amazon doesn't recognize em dashes as proper punctuation so if you have a word dash you know clause [TS]
00:56:22 ◼ ► and so you'll end up with some stupid stupid line that has half of it is blank space so pretty. [TS]
00:56:28 ◼ ► Anyway the thing I'm not clear about are you saying that this is new to the Voyager that the publishers can do this [TS]
00:56:35 ◼ ► let's justify this I haven't always been the case. OK even on my paper every once in a while I get a book that is left. [TS]
00:56:43 ◼ ► Did you not know this before look at this new information to you because you did you never brought this up before. [TS]
00:56:47 ◼ ► I never brought it up because it is it wasn't worth bringing up a trivial number of books like you it we did it why [TS]
00:56:57 ◼ ► OK it just is so so rare that it's not worth mentioning. Thank you. It's also is there a change with the Voyager. [TS]
00:57:05 ◼ ► and then now I have to dig through every screenshot every video of this thing anywhere on the Internet [TS]
00:57:14 ◼ ► The great disappointment that I'm expecting which is an image of the setting screen [TS]
00:57:19 ◼ ► and sure enough there is no option for the justification at all it's the same crummy settings screen on the current one [TS]
00:57:27 ◼ ► there isn't a way to turn on less justification and I am I am terribly sad about this. [TS]
00:57:33 ◼ ► Now the thing that I have to say though is that I am also not terribly surprised by this because [TS]
00:57:45 ◼ ► But let's just say I have been contacted since our first complaining about the Kindle show by people who are within the [TS]
00:58:08 ◼ ► and stuff like that that that basically I guess what the hell I'm Dan so I can see them [TS]
00:58:12 ◼ ► or some that like you need to know something awesome and the the the and I'm going to be a bit vague here [TS]
00:58:19 ◼ ► but the information that was conveyed to me is that basically won it one of two states is the case. [TS]
00:58:30 ◼ ► The Amazon the people in charge of the Amazon Kindle software are either unaware of left justification which is [TS]
00:58:44 ◼ ► or the other thing that was conveyed to me is that they are indifferent to this as an issue in general which is even [TS]
00:58:53 ◼ ► worse because if someone is unaware you have the hope of changing their mind if they are indifferent. [TS]
00:59:00 ◼ ► There is absolutely nothing that you can do so I was since these people contacted me and [TS]
00:59:07 ◼ ► and then since the Voyager came out I was hoping that maybe something had changed which is why I was looking for all [TS]
00:59:12 ◼ ► the setting screens and trying to find everything that I could but I was not surprised [TS]
00:59:16 ◼ ► when I discovered that no full justification is still the abomination that we all have to live with you have to let you [TS]
00:59:31 ◼ ► Well here's the thing what could have been yeah it could have been some technical reason [TS]
00:59:37 ◼ ► but it could have been some technical reason which is which is totally understandable. [TS]
00:59:42 ◼ ► But there you are saying is the new information the it's a big exclusive what you've been told in the car park here is [TS]
00:59:52 ◼ ► but I think this is interesting to me because it is it is confirmation that like I said before you have to try this. [TS]
01:00:00 ◼ ► I feel it about like what is what is going on inside another entity what are their reasons for yelling something [TS]
01:00:07 ◼ ► and this is confirmation to me about a certain aspect of that. Yes there are forces at play here. [TS]
01:00:13 ◼ ► There are forces at play here is just indifference. OK how is that is that is that is interesting information. [TS]
01:00:21 ◼ ► And so what I'm going to say now what was also conveyed to me a little bit more than that it was the second meeting of [TS]
01:00:30 ◼ ► Yeah well I was I was planning on doing more with this at some point in the future [TS]
01:00:40 ◼ ► but one thing that they are quite good at is being relatively sensitive to their customer service I get is pretty good [TS]
01:00:47 ◼ ► compared to most other companies and that is that is always kind of a Jeff Bezos. Make the customer happy rallying cry. [TS]
01:00:59 ◼ ► but the biography that was written about him the everything so it was interesting. [TS]
01:01:03 ◼ ► But it was conveyed to me that basically the customer service people will report feature requests [TS]
01:01:24 ◼ ► and if you are in America so that you can call the Amazon Kindle customer support please call them if you are on my [TS]
01:01:32 ◼ ► side and let them know that you are dissatisfied with the horrific type hogger fee of the Amazon Kindle [TS]
01:01:39 ◼ ► and that you would love it if they would consider adding left alignment as one of the options to the text. [TS]
01:01:46 ◼ ► So I'm going to put that information in the show notes if you are on board with me on this one. [TS]
01:01:53 ◼ ► and made that request so that is something else that I would just like to put out there in the universe. [TS]
01:02:00 ◼ ► I on the other hand would prefer you support Asia yet you know the varieties it can I can I ask you a question just to [TS]
01:02:20 ◼ ► but I should have said book authors I think is is really the case I think whoever is typesetting that particular book [TS]
01:02:28 ◼ ► and I had to manually set it to be left justified is that is it is one or the other [TS]
01:02:33 ◼ ► or is this something you can toggle between. That's what I'm not understanding you. [TS]
01:02:37 ◼ ► You have no choice over how the text is displayed either way you can say OK this is left justified [TS]
01:02:46 ◼ ► Yeah they're all there is there is no way to on left justify it you know not what you want for some reason you you are [TS]
01:02:56 ◼ ► and you have received as beautifully typeset book you can't press the button to turn it back into the horrible normal [TS]
01:03:01 ◼ ► way which you know you know you maybe you want that and I think there should be an option to do that. [TS]
01:03:08 ◼ ► So yes anyway that that is kind of what the main thing about the Kindle that I want to say is that I was hopeful [TS]
01:03:21 ◼ ► but like a total idiot I pre-ordered it anyway because I do like my Kindle should I mean Amazon the people to be loving [TS]
01:03:37 ◼ ► Well I don't know if that would be I don't know if I would be more effective because that is just so distributed. [TS]
01:03:56 ◼ ► and some of them are saying I'm going to left justified because I think that looks bad. [TS]
01:04:00 ◼ ► It sounds unfair to be blaming Amazon Amazon and giving these publishers both abilities [TS]
01:04:13 ◼ ► but here is the way the way that it technically works is that if you do not manually specify an alignment OK It [TS]
01:04:27 ◼ ► and specifying alignment is without a doubt more of a pain in the butt because you have to be mindful of the chapter [TS]
01:04:36 ◼ ► headers or different sections of the book that you might want to be differently aligned. [TS]
01:04:45 ◼ ► and here are the chapters Here's everything that's not a chapter just make it look good [TS]
01:04:54 ◼ ► So that's why it is it is not quite not there's not quite the right way to look at it you can't think of a book that [TS]
01:05:02 ◼ ► Somebody showed me that some of them to screen shot the one I remember was a Malcolm Gladwell outliers was left [TS]
01:05:08 ◼ ► justified taking I don't remember off the top of my head the book that I have seen because again it is it is just so [TS]
01:05:17 ◼ ► but I do want to remember your listeners I normally don't ask for you to send me things [TS]
01:05:34 ◼ ► Sometimes you will come across a passage that is just comically awful and if you are this is on your paper [TS]
01:05:42 ◼ ► or on any of the Kindle devices that you use I would like you to send me screenshots of horrific examples of what [TS]
01:05:51 ◼ ► and I have a little project for that at some point so they request from me to you. [TS]
01:06:02 ◼ ► But there's no way that I could I could do this on my own so I would I would I would need help from the internet for [TS]
01:06:08 ◼ ► what I have in mind. Do you want to talk about any other features of the new Kindle or is that really where it's at. [TS]
01:06:16 ◼ ► and one of the reasons why I did pre-order it is that it has added not exactly buttons [TS]
01:06:28 ◼ ► and that was one of my big complaints with the paper white was that they took away the buttons on either side of the [TS]
01:06:35 ◼ ► and instead you have to tap the page like it's an i Pad So that's one of the reasons why I thought who I'm going to get [TS]
01:06:42 ◼ ► this I'm a little bit doubtful because of this weird pressure thing like Why don't you just make it a button. [TS]
01:06:49 ◼ ► But I'm willing to give it a try and see how that works. That's talk Apple man. That's where it's at. [TS]
01:07:03 ◼ ► What do you want to talk about so let's start with the new i Phones So we've got two new phones we got that we got the [TS]
01:07:11 ◼ ► the i Phone six and six Plus. Yes those are the two new ones from Apple and both bigger than the five. [TS]
01:07:21 ◼ ► Again we are not a tech as we were this is not us professionally talking about stuff is is that we are people who use [TS]
01:07:29 ◼ ► Apple products and I guess are interested in what is coming out what the new things are probably more so than you [TS]
01:07:37 ◼ ► but well we don't think you're pretty interested you know. I'm pretty surrounded by Apple stuff. [TS]
01:07:43 ◼ ► So the interesting thing about these of course is that there's been speculation for a long time about Apple making [TS]
01:07:50 ◼ ► and there was expected that this would be quite popular the demand for these would be quite high. [TS]
01:07:57 ◼ ► And you saw it but this morning I. They happen for various boring paperwork tax reasons. [TS]
01:08:03 ◼ ► I happen to be around at The Regent Street Apple store here in London which is a huge Apple store [TS]
01:08:11 ◼ ► and according at least to some of the employees I've spoken to there it is either the most [TS]
01:08:17 ◼ ► or one of the most profitable Apple stores in the world which I can believe I mean it's it's right in the center of the [TS]
01:08:25 ◼ ► main shopping district but anyway I happen to be in the area and the line was incredibly long so I actually went [TS]
01:08:37 ◼ ► and it took me about I think the video is three minutes long to walk from the beginning to the end of the line which [TS]
01:08:43 ◼ ► doesn't sound too bad but there is this whole section where they thread the line through a park [TS]
01:08:48 ◼ ► and you can't even get into the park unless you have one of these little tickets from the Apple people there. [TS]
01:08:57 ◼ ► but it is easily twice as long as it looks because of the people packed into the big spiral line in the center of the [TS]
01:09:05 ◼ ► park so what did everyone think when you're walking past with a Go Pro in their face. [TS]
01:09:09 ◼ ► So no I was not the only person like these are media circuses news people everywhere and professional camera people. [TS]
01:09:17 ◼ ► You can't be on this line and not expect that you are part of a media event. Yeah. [TS]
01:09:23 ◼ ► So the six is big and the six plus is bigger again. So they've gone up a size and then gone up artist. [TS]
01:09:32 ◼ ► I can't remember the numbers four point seven and something I it's I can never remember the size of the screens [TS]
01:09:39 ◼ ► and the only thing you need to know is sort of like each is you know I don't know roughly an inch bigger than the one [TS]
01:09:49 ◼ ► and the six in the six plus in each is kind of like an inch bigger on the diagonal. [TS]
01:09:54 ◼ ► But I can never remember the exact specifications. Has he gone and had a look at them or the Regent Street store. [TS]
01:10:00 ◼ ► but they handle it very well because they filter all the people into one side for the people who are buying the phone [TS]
01:10:07 ◼ ► but if you just want to go look the whole rest of the store is still available to you like normal. [TS]
01:10:14 ◼ ► and because no one's seen the sizes before I had to guess about which side do I think is the size of them. [TS]
01:10:26 ◼ ► and see if my guess about what I would want was right. You'd already pre-ordered you committed. [TS]
01:10:30 ◼ ► Yeah you can cancel it hasn't shipped yet but I just want to see do I need to cancel my order [TS]
01:10:35 ◼ ► and change my mind maybe I'll be wildly convinced convinced otherwise. So I went in I took a look around. [TS]
01:10:42 ◼ ► It's interesting because I was a holding back a thought that I had until I saw the phones in person [TS]
01:10:49 ◼ ► but unfortunately this guess was correct which is that putting the size aside for a second. These i Phones. [TS]
01:11:00 ◼ ► Are the ugliest i Phones Apple has ever made. Really they are hideous looking in person. [TS]
01:11:21 ◼ ► when I saw them in the store I thought nope this is just as ugly as I thought it was what it is it is it just because [TS]
01:11:32 ◼ ► but you know if you've seen pictures of them right yet I can't remember why I just thought they were the same as the [TS]
01:11:41 ◼ ► and if you go to Apple dot com a fuller picture of what they look like so you know we're talking about here [TS]
01:11:46 ◼ ► and I want to paint a word picture for you I'll put the link in the notes to to some images a man on his hunting [TS]
01:11:54 ◼ ► and taking him to get your Brady typing you know how do you pack. Yeah I think so I've got them. [TS]
01:12:00 ◼ ► Yes they look a bit different there actually did a bit more sort of roundy like yeah that different Europe they're [TS]
01:12:07 ◼ ► OK So the first i Phone I ever owned the i Phone four which in my mind is still the iconic most beautifully designed i [TS]
01:12:21 ◼ ► It was it was smaller it had the glass front on the glass back which were shattered tast it but looked great. [TS]
01:12:31 ◼ ► and I define member around London seeing lots of people who had this gorgeous spiderweb pattern across to the back of [TS]
01:12:45 ◼ ► Yeah and then the i Phone five was a refinement of that not my favorite but I still felt look quite good. [TS]
01:12:56 ◼ ► Yeah I bet we'll get used to that and so I spent you know they look they look like you know like a Samsung phone [TS]
01:13:03 ◼ ► or something to me in that direction. Now my reaction seeing it in person was it just looks cheap. [TS]
01:13:11 ◼ ► Something about that round edge I think just makes it look kind of junky I don't know a better way to describe it you [TS]
01:13:19 ◼ ► know I'm not an A not familiar enough with them for some phones to say it looks like a Samsung phone. [TS]
01:13:24 ◼ ► I just think the around it looks terrible I always like the really sharp edges of the four. [TS]
01:13:30 ◼ ► Much better than the rounded edges of the three. And so I'm also making it more like a toilet making childproof. [TS]
01:13:38 ◼ ► and they are holding it in your hand it does have that same kind of feeling like Oh you don't think I'm grown up enough [TS]
01:13:44 ◼ ► for this sham furred adage you know you have to round out the edges so that I don't hurt myself with my brand new phone [TS]
01:13:54 ◼ ► and bigger I don't know it's just makes the phone look dumber in this way that is hard. Too hard to specify. [TS]
01:14:03 ◼ ► and I think it looks even dumber on the bigger one like it looks it looks not great on gets like a child's toy it like [TS]
01:14:15 ◼ ► Yeah thinking this is a topical show we're recording this on the afternoon of the first day that they have ever been [TS]
01:14:21 ◼ ► available so it's and I wouldn't have seen it if I didn't happen to be in the area so the second thing was [TS]
01:14:29 ◼ ► but they do something about the back material also feels worse I mean it's supposed to still be aluminum just like the [TS]
01:14:35 ◼ ► regular phones are but it feels more plasticky and I know they're always messing around with the materials [TS]
01:14:45 ◼ ► That's again the word alloys you know like always mixing it with different material to get different properties. [TS]
01:14:54 ◼ ► when I touched it I could immediately feel oh the specific heat capacity of whatever alloy they have chosen is [TS]
01:15:10 ◼ ► And if if you are you know if you're around if you're in a castle made of stone you touch the wall the walls are cold [TS]
01:15:20 ◼ ► or you know Styrofoam board you touch the walls and they are kind of room temperature and I was aware of that [TS]
01:15:40 ◼ ► but I think the thing that to me drags it from not great design into what I would say is fugly territory is the antenna [TS]
01:16:02 ◼ ► when I saw it in person it was worse than I would have ever imagined it is so hideous to look at [TS]
01:16:11 ◼ ► Actually handling the phone is everyone was complaining that the camera lens is separate is a little bit elevated from [TS]
01:16:25 ◼ ► Honestly there's no big deal at all but that is the one thing on the phone where everybody was worried about that [TS]
01:16:30 ◼ ► and I look at that thing. Doesn't matter at all this is I make a final picture saying I'm looking for more pictures. [TS]
01:16:39 ◼ ► when they're out there which I think is not entirely an honest way to represent it [TS]
01:16:46 ◼ ► and you're worried about the camera bulbs don't worry about it all it is very slight in person [TS]
01:16:53 ◼ ► Doesn't make a difference the thing that I could not believe is that those antenna spaces of the lines on the top [TS]
01:17:03 ◼ ► If you run your finger over it you can clearly feel the seam between the back and that antenna space [TS]
01:17:17 ◼ ► So already the back feels cheaper with and and then you run your finger across the top of it [TS]
01:17:22 ◼ ► and you can very clearly feel those antenna bands as distinct from the rest of the phone. [TS]
01:17:28 ◼ ► And so I thought Man Apple thumbs down on the hardware design of this phone like I never never thought I'd have to say [TS]
01:17:37 ◼ ► Now I just I think they are they are hideous hideous i Phones I mean their physical look so I was pretty disappointed [TS]
01:17:46 ◼ ► in that. I mean I use Apple stuff all the time but this is I think this design look is not good not good at all. [TS]
01:18:00 ◼ ► Do you have a guess about which one I ordered I think I know I was just doing it for the fans. [TS]
01:18:06 ◼ ► Or do you think can you order the six. Yes I did order the six over the salt the smaller one. [TS]
01:18:16 ◼ ► My guess was that six plus would be way too big for me and that was just confirmed in the store. [TS]
01:18:33 ◼ ► and their little trick of double tapping the home button to make the icon slide down so you can reach them all. [TS]
01:18:39 ◼ ► I don't need to add two extra taps to every step for everything that I want to do so that was my prediction I use my [TS]
01:18:50 ◼ ► Oh the bigger i Phone does have a lot of cool features like it it does rotate sideways in a way that the regular one [TS]
01:18:59 ◼ ► but its size is just a total deal breaker for me so I went with the six as the one that I have ordered [TS]
01:19:10 ◼ ► And I'm glad that I did because I feel like all of my previous i Phones I have reluctantly used a case [TS]
01:19:23 ◼ ► and the i Phone six I feel like this thing is too hideous to not cover up with a case I have an i Phone five [TS]
01:19:34 ◼ ► and I'm feeling like I'm a veggie for any sign. We think less of me if I go for a five S. [TS]
01:19:40 ◼ ► but Would that be stupid I know it's sick I know it's not a good performance but I just want to unlock has more fun [TS]
01:19:51 ◼ ► and so I would not think less of you at all and so I am I'm getting the six partly because my wife has a great design. [TS]
01:20:05 ◼ ► and so says she's she for a long time has looked with it with envy on the fingerprint scanner the Touch ID five S. Has. [TS]
01:20:16 ◼ ► and so I am getting a new phone because she is getting a new phone so this is why I am getting the six you could get a [TS]
01:20:29 ◼ ► but the thing is ever since I got the five I have actually never really liked the size of the five as it is always [TS]
01:20:40 ◼ ► That's exactly it is it is bigger but it was only bigger in one dimension it was just taller [TS]
01:20:55 ◼ ► I am hoping that I mean like why am I buying the six if I think it is so hideous why don't I just buy my wife a five S.. [TS]
01:21:03 ◼ ► I am hoping that I find the slightly bigger size more convenience for a bunch of stuff that I do. T.J. [TS]
01:21:11 ◼ ► You talk about work things here work things that I do so very often I find myself out [TS]
01:21:15 ◼ ► and about in the city I always have my phone on me and sometimes I do want to do some work on the phone [TS]
01:21:31 ◼ ► but that also means a ton of that stuff I can do on my i Phones So there is much for me to do. [TS]
01:21:41 ◼ ► but if Apple has had in addition released a new phone that was the same size as the old i Phone four I would have [TS]
01:21:52 ◼ ► bought that because I would prefer a smaller phone and so I feel like I'm in a I'm in a weird. [TS]
01:22:04 ◼ ► but not big enough to feel like I can be really productive on it so that's why I am interested in trying the slightly [TS]
01:22:13 ◼ ► but I would totally go back to the i Phone four size phone if that was an option I wouldn't even hesitate about that if [TS]
01:22:30 ◼ ► or you want to touch ID which I do have to say is a feature that really changes how you interact with the phone [TS]
01:22:36 ◼ ► and then the much much more convenient to use and a lot of ways so I don't think that is crazy or unreasonable. [TS]
01:22:44 ◼ ► OK Is that what you're going to do are you going to get a five S I think after I mean I'll go have a look in the shop. [TS]
01:22:51 ◼ ► I just like a small and sleek you know I like you know I want to be like a lightsaber. [TS]
01:23:01 ◼ ► and sleek really well just like not so that's not slick I mean I you know I think there are signs yes there are you [TS]
01:23:08 ◼ ► comparing it to a sword I guess it's small and sleek compared to a non collapsible sword is that the comparison. [TS]
01:23:15 ◼ ► Yeah I think if let's say there's a lack sleek things they're cool they're very cool [TS]
01:23:21 ◼ ► but if you actually look at a lightsaber close up they're kind of control he does you start telling me to look a lot so [TS]
01:23:30 ◼ ► We'll take a look at the wander into the great story of you angry like last time with the monkeys. [TS]
01:23:39 ◼ ► when I got my first job is like a newspaper cadet there was comic book stories to go to all the time they have of [TS]
01:23:49 ◼ ► and there was some guy in Adelaide he used to naive to make replicas a lot saber handles he will [TS]
01:24:00 ◼ ► Because Return Of The Jedi light saber that the remade went first and I used to look at it and discovered it. [TS]
01:24:07 ◼ ► Something terribly and I went home and told my dad you know I love it I love it so much [TS]
01:24:13 ◼ ► and he didn't want to get on it but because like a hundred bucks or two hundred bucks [TS]
01:24:22 ◼ ► but also what an incredible amount of money then considering I now had like a full time proper job [TS]
01:24:27 ◼ ► but I didn't I still hadn't psychologically realized that I had a full time proper job I hadn't realized I had money in [TS]
01:24:36 ◼ ► and so it was the first time I spent like a couple of hundred dollars on something just like to indulge myself [TS]
01:24:42 ◼ ► and I went and I pour water and I feel guilty by not like I feel like everyone in the world was watching me [TS]
01:24:51 ◼ ► but then I came home with it getting a bus home from town with a lot saber in your pockets if anything to do with it. [TS]
01:24:57 ◼ ► But anyway so I'm very aware of sort of the weight and size of a lot so because this was an exact exact replica [TS]
01:25:02 ◼ ► but gosh I'd love to I still have it. I still have it somewhere and I didn't even need to ask if you still have it. [TS]
01:25:09 ◼ ► How could the fight is have it here in England I think if I do I will send you a picture of me with it. [TS]
01:25:17 ◼ ► If I can find that song so I'm well aware of the dimensions of our lives and I'm sorry for for that. [TS]
01:25:32 ◼ ► Somehow reminds me of it's a kind of cool sleek thing in my pocket where is these the six looks like a big black Fisher [TS]
01:25:42 ◼ ► and the feel of it doesn't quite seem right to me I wish I could be more articulate about this [TS]
01:25:54 ◼ ► Look I don't mean that the design is done but it looks like the phone is somehow stupider. It's that I've done. [TS]
01:26:00 ◼ ► It's just I don't know what is this is the rounded corners is that hideous antenna is the material it's everything [TS]
01:26:14 ◼ ► but in the meantime I'll be covering it up in the application some kind of ashamed of us. [TS]
01:26:28 ◼ ► and I often marvel at their ability to talk about like the button on the side of an i Phone for like two hours. [TS]
01:26:35 ◼ ► Yeah and I sometimes laugh at the end of it I can't believe I was going to spend all that time talking about it. [TS]
01:26:49 ◼ ► We are just total average dudes talking about what you think about the new i Phone whereas you go back in the in the [TS]
01:26:56 ◼ ► and you can listen to the great mute switch debate of twenty twelve which is spread across four [TS]
01:27:03 ◼ ► or five episodes on many different shows about let's discuss the true nature of the mute switch that is pro level Apple [TS]
01:27:13 ◼ ► analysis we will never reach that kind of look at today and compare it to a light saber. Probably not. [TS]
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01:29:04 ◼ ► We did catch up here in the wake. I happen to be in London and we went to dinner which was lovely. [TS]
01:29:15 ◼ ► but I did ask you what you thought of the new Apple Watch and you refused to talk about it with me. [TS]
01:29:25 ◼ ► and you didn't you didn't like well like I said What do you think of Apple what you told me what happened I said we [TS]
01:29:37 ◼ ► and then immediately what proceeded to happen was you talk to my wife about the phone for the whole time [TS]
01:29:55 ◼ ► That's what it was you know you never never came back and everything just now was. [TS]
01:30:08 ◼ ► and honestly honestly I'm dying to know what are you really being sarcastic now because you know talking about Apple [TS]
01:30:17 ◼ ► I seriously this is the best for last because I'm really really curious about what you think about the Apple Watch [TS]
01:30:29 ◼ ► Yes I did I did watch the announcement live which I try to do I don't always catch it alive but if I can I'm happy to. [TS]
01:30:44 ◼ ► and since I've been following it for years I know the cast of characters who come up on stage. [TS]
01:30:57 ◼ ► I didn't say you know usually I have a lot of choice when an Apple event happened. [TS]
01:31:02 ◼ ► Well this is part of my as I mentioned last last episode part of my failed project to stay off of Twitter [TS]
01:31:17 ◼ ► and I would say I was determined to get through the Apple keynotes without tweeting and without looking at Twitter. [TS]
01:31:26 ◼ ► I thought no no you know what I'm going to do this this is part of my resolution I'm going to stick to it. [TS]
01:31:32 ◼ ► But then of course if anyone who watch slides already knows what happens which is that during the first thirty minutes [TS]
01:31:37 ◼ ► of their presentation they were Apple with having horrific technical problems. The stream kept dropping out. [TS]
01:31:43 ◼ ► Harry is Lee It was dubbed in Mandarin for a good long time and I don't know what was going on there [TS]
01:31:53 ◼ ► But of course then I'm thinking well I'm having a hard time watching this live but I want to know it. [TS]
01:32:00 ◼ ► Going on and I follow people on Twitter who are almost certainly in the room in California where this is happening [TS]
01:32:07 ◼ ► And then of course this is like a drug addict maybe I'll just take one hit of heroin only just open [TS]
01:32:15 ◼ ► But I was I was restraining myself I was trying not to comment on everything like I normally do [TS]
01:32:22 ◼ ► OK so some point in the presentation they unveiled the wearable we'd all been waiting for. Yes that's right. [TS]
01:32:29 ◼ ► But the apple watch not to the i Watch yet have you know watch which is going to be hard to say I will I will try what [TS]
01:32:35 ◼ ► was what was your immediate impression before we get into the nuts and bolts of the day for analysis. [TS]
01:32:46 ◼ ► and this is partly because of the eight I don't know if I'll be able to find it for the show notes [TS]
01:32:55 ◼ ► I think maybe a year ago or so where they were talking about wearable technology and. [TS]
01:33:10 ◼ ► He was and is that there's a lot of things that are going on in the world of sensors and this is entirely true. [TS]
01:33:16 ◼ ► If you follow technology there's a bunch of stuff that's happening right now with making sense there is much more [TS]
01:33:22 ◼ ► ubiquitous and much more cheap and this is why there's this big push about recording Health Statistics [TS]
01:33:27 ◼ ► and recording all kinds of stuff because it's getting really cheap to put sensors everywhere [TS]
01:33:32 ◼ ► and so I was kind of hoping that Apple would have a different something different then a watch kind of based on his [TS]
01:33:44 ◼ ► when it was revealed of the watch my initial reaction was oh I was kind of hoping I don't know what they would have [TS]
01:33:49 ◼ ► but some sort of in a band with a bunch of sensors built in or you know who knows what they're going to do. [TS]
01:34:03 ◼ ► but if you're asking for my initial thought it was a little bit of disappointment because I was thinking maybe it's [TS]
01:34:09 ◼ ► something I haven't thought of and then it's a watch. But that was that was very fleeting. [TS]
01:34:16 ◼ ► and then it's like OK well Apple now show me show me in your apple the way this thing that you have made. [TS]
01:34:28 ◼ ► I'm not saying any moving imagery of this watch at all at the scene of these pictures of the what do you I don't know I [TS]
01:34:35 ◼ ► I have looked at pictures of and I looked on the Apple site and so are all the different colors and different bands [TS]
01:34:39 ◼ ► and things like that. OK So that's my level of do you have any reaction to watch it. [TS]
01:34:47 ◼ ► I'm completely underwhelmed and really underwhelmed and I've not seen it in real life and I've not seen on a hand. [TS]
01:34:54 ◼ ► Yeah I don't think anybody seen it in real or the people who were there have seen a real man it's not [TS]
01:34:58 ◼ ► and it's not in the stores I've also because I haven't watched the video I've not yet seen on a hand. [TS]
01:35:02 ◼ ► I imagine it looks a bit boxy and that's not what I think watchers should look like [TS]
01:35:07 ◼ ► and I although I don't wear a watch face to face I have a great interest and love of watches [TS]
01:35:20 ◼ ► So you look at you look at the poppy design and you think that's not something that you would wear. [TS]
01:35:30 ◼ ► I think that was and from what I can tell that looks like a nice touch and there are still a bit of innovation [TS]
01:35:50 ◼ ► Also as you know there is there is a particular watch that I do want that I've been coveting for ten fifteen years now. [TS]
01:36:05 ◼ ► I I don't think I type I don't think I ever go to an airport without drooling over the Amiga Speedmaster professional. [TS]
01:36:18 ◼ ► and I'm a very particular kind I like because not only is it just a very nice looking watch it is also the watch that [TS]
01:36:30 ◼ ► and we've never really talked about it much on the podcast I don't think and I'm sure we will sometime in the future. [TS]
01:36:34 ◼ ► At length if I could persuade you but I am very very passionate about the Apollo program [TS]
01:36:46 ◼ ► and I'm a great collector of things Apollo related so I've always really fancied having one of those watches [TS]
01:36:54 ◼ ► but they're very expensive and we also touched on the fact I don't take very good care of things right [TS]
01:37:06 ◼ ► but giant leap for Brady to buy one of them yet. So if I'm going to spend a large quantity of money on a watch. [TS]
01:37:18 ◼ ► and I will do it in fact if anything the best thing about the release of the Apple Watch is really motivated me to [TS]
01:37:25 ◼ ► perhaps buy one of those watches and I've been spending a lot of time online looking at them the last few days. [TS]
01:37:30 ◼ ► Much more time than I have been looking at the Apple Watch but I still look at the price [TS]
01:37:36 ◼ ► and think that's had to just because I was I really like what Casio calculator watches and things like that. [TS]
01:37:42 ◼ ► Yeah that the thing is I mean there is typically are these watches there in the what the the two thousand to three [TS]
01:37:49 ◼ ► thousand four thousand pound range that's kind we're talking this is a major media watch yes yes. [TS]
01:37:55 ◼ ► Which is no doubt about it. Very expensive yes. Watch as we may come back to later. [TS]
01:38:04 ◼ ► when you say very expensive people can think Rolex is thirty thousand dollars forty thousand dollars for a large I mean [TS]
01:38:14 ◼ ► I spend so much and I spend I spend more on hard drives than I do than I could on that watch [TS]
01:38:20 ◼ ► and I could wear the watch every day and get great pleasure from it as opposed to my hard drives crash [TS]
01:38:25 ◼ ► and there is nothing but misery. Yeah. Spend more money. Yeah another reason I should get it. [TS]
01:38:34 ◼ ► But anyway that's not we're not here to talk about I make a spade must've been anyone from a nigger is listening [TS]
01:38:39 ◼ ► and they want to get some. They want to do an ad on the show. Cash would not be required. [TS]
01:38:56 ◼ ► I mean what if they said to me well I already have a watch and I do have a very nice watch. [TS]
01:39:07 ◼ ► I think that probably would have had about three I think you could you could talk about it forever. [TS]
01:39:15 ◼ ► When we left it with your first impression being slightly underwhelmed by only fleetingly [TS]
01:39:20 ◼ ► and then giving them a chance to make their case yeah OK you know I've been next so here as we've just touched upon the [TS]
01:39:27 ◼ ► Apple Watch. I'm very interested in the Apple Watch but they have a very difficult case to sell this to me. [TS]
01:39:37 ◼ ► And step one is as we just mentioned I already wear a watch so right out of the gate Apple is not competing for unused [TS]
01:39:47 ◼ ► space on my wrist. Apple is competing to replace a thing that already exists on my wrist. [TS]
01:40:00 ◼ ► For this process to start yet so I was watching the whole presentation kind of with that in mind. [TS]
01:40:07 ◼ ► Is Apple going to be able to convince me to swap my current watch for the Apple Watch. [TS]
01:40:14 ◼ ► So either as I'm watching it Apple has to be clear they have a very early announce this you know that they have said it [TS]
01:40:21 ◼ ► is available for sale early twenty fifteen which knowing Apple they'll push back until summer twenty fifteen [TS]
01:40:33 ◼ ► So it can be quite a long time before the fact this thing actually comes out which resulted in some parts of the [TS]
01:40:39 ◼ ► presentation being a bit vague. Yes And so one of the key ones which is I couldn't resist from mentioning on Twitter. [TS]
01:40:48 ◼ ► Well Apple the longer you don't tell me about the battery life of the shorter I'm going to assume this battery life is [TS]
01:41:00 ◼ ► when they ended they finished talking about the watch and they never mention the battery life once. Yeah. [TS]
01:41:06 ◼ ► Does this last forty five minutes how long does how long does this watch do I have to just have a plug in all the time [TS]
01:41:13 ◼ ► Is it possible they don't know yet is it possible they're trying to invent some new battery in the next six months. [TS]
01:41:20 ◼ ► when we're recording this that we mentioned before that the usual Apple pod cast crew you know grouper and A.T.P. [TS]
01:41:27 ◼ ► I don't I haven't listened to any of their shows that are out so this might be the section on the watch might be [TS]
01:41:35 ◼ ► but if they found out any of the details I have listened to eighty page first one on the watch. [TS]
01:41:49 ◼ ► and my guess is it is very possible given how early they are announcing this that Apple doesn't actually have a [TS]
01:41:54 ◼ ► realistic X. Doesn't have a realistic idea of what the battery life actually will. [TS]
01:42:01 ◼ ► but they hinted very strongly in the presentation that it will need to be they will need to be charged every night [TS]
01:42:10 ◼ ► But this is this is strike one because I have already have so many devices that I need to charge every night [TS]
01:42:21 ◼ ► and on my checklist is a couple of things I want to make sure are plugged in at night so that when I [TS]
01:42:27 ◼ ► when I start the next day everything is fresh and going you know I'm starting to even fall out of love with politics. [TS]
01:42:35 ◼ ► Yes this is what we talked about as the frustration and that thing is maybe you know once a week or you know [TS]
01:42:53 ◼ ► and so I have to make sure that my i Pad is charged in because often I just grab it in the morning and then I go out [TS]
01:42:58 ◼ ► and I'm working wherever in the day and maybe I have access to electric socket maybe I don't. [TS]
01:43:05 ◼ ► and then secondly I have this pair of bluetooth headphones that I adore that I totally love the Jaybird X bluetooth [TS]
01:43:15 ◼ ► headphones they are amazing they're the best bluetooth headphones I've ever used. Jaybird feel free to get in touch. [TS]
01:43:23 ◼ ► If you can keep track and everyone but but but they have to be charged every night. Yeah. [TS]
01:43:35 ◼ ► and then in addition to that I have my Fitbit and my Kindle which need to be basically charged on a weekly basis [TS]
01:43:42 ◼ ► and I have a reminder for that as well as like this is getting to be a bunch of things. And as dumb as it sounds. [TS]
01:43:51 ◼ ► It's like the difficulty of this is exponential it doesn't seem like adding one more is a pain [TS]
01:44:04 ◼ ► and I was traveling so I already have three hundred able to totally agree with the Fitbit cable I have a lightning [TS]
01:44:12 ◼ ► and I'll tell you I keep getting terrified that one of my devices is going to be out of sync with that micro U.S.B. [TS]
01:44:18 ◼ ► Kindle Voyager I'm looking at you right I was trying to find on the web page. They said oh it charges by U.S.B. [TS]
01:44:29 ◼ ► Cable so this is this is immediately a kind of strike against the watchers like you are going to be a hassle with this [TS]
01:44:43 ◼ ► but the thing the thing with technology is the real question is what benefit does it provide. [TS]
01:44:49 ◼ ► Because I'm willing to charge it charge up all the things that I currently have because the benefit they provide me [TS]
01:44:54 ◼ ► outweighs the hassle of the charging I get says it like this is how the universe works [TS]
01:44:58 ◼ ► and so now as a sale I don't know if that's one of the fundamental laws of the I believe you have the four fundamental [TS]
01:45:12 ◼ ► and then immediately after that it is the benefit a device provides you is greater than the hassle of charging it. [TS]
01:45:21 ◼ ► It's governed by greater confidence that's fixed so that this another watch trying to sell me on its utility yet so I'm [TS]
01:45:31 ◼ ► Now another strike against the watch for me in particular is I'm looking at I think OK what does it do. [TS]
01:45:37 ◼ ► And at least as they present it right now it does some interesting fitness tracking stuff which is great [TS]
01:45:47 ◼ ► and my Fitbit is going to outcompete the watch because my Fitbit also does silent alarms which I use in the morning to [TS]
01:45:56 ◼ ► sometimes wake up without disturbing my wife so I can cook. That's my pajamas and wake up. [TS]
01:46:02 ◼ ► And well the watch can't do that because the watch is going to have to be charging overnight. [TS]
01:46:10 ◼ ► and then the rest of a large portion of the thing that the watch can do I would say are related to communication [TS]
01:46:34 ◼ ► I would've thought that was a big deal until I saw how hideous the i Phone six was and maybe that's Apple's plan right. [TS]
01:46:41 ◼ ► We're going to make this i Phone so ugly everybody wants an i Watch or an apple watch. [TS]
01:46:55 ◼ ► and the beautiful I watch can actually if you're going to have a face of your communication that we that we are. [TS]
01:47:03 ◼ ► So as you have been frustrated with sometimes the number of notifications I receive on my phone to begin with is almost [TS]
01:47:13 ◼ ► That's kind of curious to see how many things have I actually allowed access to notification. [TS]
01:47:22 ◼ ► Yeah messages can make my phone beep Omni Focus can make my phone beep if the navigation is on that can make my phone [TS]
01:47:32 ◼ ► And that has to be easily easily be ninety five percent of the notifications I ever receive on my phone. [TS]
01:47:39 ◼ ► To top it off to make it worse I use the Do Not Disturb feature to even disallow those notifications every day starting [TS]
01:47:52 ◼ ► The following day so there's only even an eight hour window in which my phone can theoretically beep to begin with. [TS]
01:48:01 ◼ ► Notifications for me with this watch also is not like I am not sold on this because it is not something that I use to [TS]
01:48:12 ◼ ► You're the last person I'm going to call for help I should you should know by now that I am not the person to call if [TS]
01:48:17 ◼ ► you need help with things. I will help you but it has to be asynchronous and cannot be immediate. [TS]
01:48:26 ◼ ► That's exactly right that's exactly what you let me know a month in advance about something I might possibly be there [TS]
01:48:31 ◼ ► if you need something at seven thirty in the morning you better be calling somebody else [TS]
01:48:46 ◼ ► and you feel like you don't need a whole lot of notifying Basically I have almost no use for notifications as it is so [TS]
01:48:54 ◼ ► Now I don't think it is fair to say that the watch is all about notifications because again Apple is a little bit [TS]
01:48:59 ◼ ► and clear and exactly what the capabilities are again because maybe they don't know precisely themselves [TS]
01:49:06 ◼ ► but there were definitely some cool things with regards to ways to communicate with other people who have Apple watches. [TS]
01:49:14 ◼ ► There's a way to tap the screen of the Apple Watch to make somebody else's Apple Watch vibrate very slightly. [TS]
01:49:25 ◼ ► And one thing that I did think was very cool was doing walking navigations with a watch. [TS]
01:49:32 ◼ ► So if you set a destination you know I want to walk from here to the royal Royal Albert Hall the watch will do that [TS]
01:49:39 ◼ ► navigation. But by using a vibration feedback on your wrist so you don't need to look at it. [TS]
01:49:45 ◼ ► I don't know exactly what the mechanism is but they said it's different vibrations for whether [TS]
01:49:49 ◼ ► or not you're supposed to turn left or right or go straight at an intersection and I thought that is great [TS]
01:49:55 ◼ ► and that is a feature that I can totally see using because sometimes when my wife and I are walking around play. [TS]
01:50:06 ◼ ► but I don't want to have my headphones in for the Bluetooth navigation you know while we're just relaxing [TS]
01:50:13 ◼ ► and so I thought hey I can easily see on a vacation doing something like setting the walking directions to the hotel [TS]
01:50:25 ◼ ► or away from the hotel kind of ambient awareness of where is the hotel in relation to me. [TS]
01:50:34 ◼ ► but still if my watch vibrated to tell me to turn left I'd still want a visual map. [TS]
01:50:40 ◼ ► But for reassurance I'm not sure I'm going to just find that out. Now they're well not too new for me. [TS]
01:50:47 ◼ ► I'm just I'm just trying to like run through as an action is presentational what might I possibly do [TS]
01:50:53 ◼ ► and that was one thing that jumped in mind immediately and then I could use walking directions to either my wife [TS]
01:50:59 ◼ ► and I are going someplace and I want to make sure that we're headed in the right direction [TS]
01:51:18 ◼ ► So I think it's coming pretty clear to the conclusion that the Apple Watch does not in that presentation have anything [TS]
01:51:28 ◼ ► and buy this I can't think what it looks like he sort of hinted at a thing that presentable face of the i Phone [TS]
01:51:34 ◼ ► but I think it suffers from that same rounded childlike goofiness that the i Phone six is suffering from. [TS]
01:51:48 ◼ ► It reaches the heights of OK I think it looks OK It doesn't look great it doesn't look awful. [TS]
01:52:03 ◼ ► but it's sickness still gives it away as you are wearing a tiny computer on your wrist and you are a nerd. [TS]
01:52:13 ◼ ► I own they have a lot of the different bands which do look like they put a lot of time in there and they're great [TS]
01:52:20 ◼ ► and they do have different faces that you know that you have the gold watches which I want to get back to as often so I [TS]
01:52:40 ◼ ► but maybe it's Motorola I think the Motorola three sixty Yeah that's a slightly better looking watch that Moto three [TS]
01:52:47 ◼ ► sixty six fat I think it's still fat but I think circular makes it look much nicer. [TS]
01:52:58 ◼ ► and people make fun of the Moto three sixty because there's a little bit of blackness at the bottom where the image [TS]
01:53:03 ◼ ► can't go all the way around because the way the screen is designed seems relatively trivial [TS]
01:53:13 ◼ ► But here here's what I want to come back to you about the kind of summing up thoughts on the watches this [TS]
01:53:22 ◼ ► And it's becoming clear to me as it goes on that this is this is not a product for me and that's totally fine. [TS]
01:53:32 ◼ ► You know that everything has to be custom made for me although it would be nice if it was. [TS]
01:53:37 ◼ ► But watching this I had a similar feeling to when I watched the first i Phone keynote which was the same. [TS]
01:53:51 ◼ ► This is undeniably something cool and I also don't doubt that lots of people will find it very useful. [TS]
01:54:00 ◼ ► Phone was the same thing it didn't tick the boxes that I needed to take in order to feel like I can justify that [TS]
01:54:05 ◼ ► purchase. Yeah but the key thing about both the i Phone and the Apple Watch is that they are not regular devices. [TS]
01:54:18 ◼ ► They are tiny computers and so what really defines these devices is the software that runs on them. [TS]
01:54:28 ◼ ► And so when I got my first i Phone is really my first i Pod Touch but just list keep it simple [TS]
01:54:38 ◼ ► The reason that I bought it was entirely because of a single piece of software which was the to do list manager I used [TS]
01:54:47 ◼ ► at the time it was called Remember the Milk and they came out with an app for IO S. [TS]
01:54:52 ◼ ► That allowed you to have all of your to do's in your pocket and then you could update it [TS]
01:54:56 ◼ ► and it would synchronize back and you know everything would just work on your computer and in your pocket. [TS]
01:55:03 ◼ ► And the instant that came out this equation shifted from that was your killer. Yeah. [TS]
01:55:09 ◼ ► Suddenly the calculus is I am going to get an enormous amount of value out of this device [TS]
01:55:15 ◼ ► and everything else about it it's a phone it's an instant messenger and it can do none of that is relevant. [TS]
01:55:25 ◼ ► Remember the Milk device in a does nothing else because that was a valuable thing. [TS]
01:55:34 ◼ ► and I have a date at some point in the future you know I don't know when that's going to be. [TS]
01:55:42 ◼ ► when Apple opens us up to third party developers someone is going to come up with a piece of software that working with [TS]
01:55:50 ◼ ► the limitations of the watch is incredibly valuable in a way that I am not thinking of currently [TS]
01:56:00 ◼ ► but I feel it is even though I absolutely love the watch that I wear on my wrist now it is inevitable because of the [TS]
01:56:13 ◼ ► My current watch for this space on my wrist because software gets better and more useful over time [TS]
01:56:20 ◼ ► and the utility function of my current watch is a horizontal line that never improves it's high it is really high [TS]
01:56:27 ◼ ► compared to the Apple Watch but it does not grow you have to watch don't step or watch can tell you the times. [TS]
01:56:36 ◼ ► It also has the problem that I can't wear it in the shower and I can't take it to the gym. [TS]
01:56:48 ◼ ► and then immediately from the shower go into a sauna right incredibly steamy hot environment [TS]
01:56:59 ◼ ► or the pool I just imagine the Apple Watch exploding under those environmental constraints. [TS]
01:57:05 ◼ ► I can't imagine what you think about me wanting to get a watch that requires winding up and then you watch. [TS]
01:57:10 ◼ ► No I'm I'm OK with that you're OK well I know what watches are mailed jewelry in some ways and the. [TS]
01:57:22 ◼ ► A jury falls into a category everything that is not its utility is not measured entirely based on what it does. [TS]
01:57:30 ◼ ► Yeah futility is also partly this intangible function of how do you feel about it. [TS]
01:57:35 ◼ ► How do you like it how do you like the way it looks and the routine of winding a mechanical watch. [TS]
01:57:43 ◼ ► I think that can be part of the enjoyment of the watch a relational Yeah there's one thing he said. [TS]
01:58:00 ◼ ► Yes but just to talk about some of the differences. The watch is more out there. It's more of a fashion thing. [TS]
01:58:11 ◼ ► and I think in terms of something that looks nice on your wrist as hard as I've tried in my opinion and my taste. [TS]
01:58:19 ◼ ► This is a real retrograde step for watches it's like this is this would be a step backwards for anyone who has a watch [TS]
01:58:27 ◼ ► They would be having something that looks less nice on their wrist in my opinion the i Phone didn't feel like that the [TS]
01:58:33 ◼ ► i Phone didn't feel like an abomination against all the telephones around at the time. [TS]
01:58:49 ◼ ► and the other thing is you know they aren't going to like an improvement on phones the Apple Watch almost feels like an [TS]
01:59:03 ◼ ► and does all these things I feel like they've got a tougher job they've got a tough job [TS]
01:59:15 ◼ ► I think if anybody has a watch that cost more than a hundred dollars on their wrist the Apple Watch almost certainly [TS]
01:59:32 ◼ ► And I saw a few people on Twitter actually made a comment we want to skip to the i Phone four version of this one that [TS]
01:59:46 ◼ ► and also at you know as time goes on they will be able to reduce the thickness they'll be able to change various [TS]
01:59:53 ◼ ► features about it and so that that kind of stuff will start I think allowing the watch to chip away at. That X. [TS]
02:00:12 ◼ ► and battery technology is getting better although very slowly at some point they'll be able to fit them. [TS]
02:00:19 ◼ ► The electronics of an apple watch in the same casing in design size of any other watch on the market today. [TS]
02:00:46 ◼ ► when Apple releases a new product I know this is just personal taste and some people hate Apple but usually [TS]
02:00:55 ◼ ► It looks like it's fashionable right now or even looks like it's tomorrow's code thing. [TS]
02:00:59 ◼ ► But look like an i Pad or MacBook or even most of the i Macs and things like that. You look at it and. [TS]
02:01:11 ◼ ► and you think Man that's just so cool it looks like it was designed by someone from five years in the future and [TS]
02:01:17 ◼ ► when I have come back and given it to us but all of it all fell out of the two thousand and one spaceship [TS]
02:01:23 ◼ ► and it landed on the watched the Apple Watch It was a bit like it was designed by someone in the one nine hundred [TS]
02:01:32 ◼ ► and it's a bit embarrassing it's a bit like no that's not that's not what the cool watch. [TS]
02:01:38 ◼ ► Everyone's going to be wearing looks like that's what you imagine that might look like if you were back then [TS]
02:01:43 ◼ ► but it lingers in the curtain of the comparison it is almost the history of the future of what people thought it was [TS]
02:01:52 ◼ ► Yeah so I'm on time disappointed in that respect you know I'm not disappointed to watch as I said I really like watches [TS]
02:02:05 ◼ ► but they haven't they haven't made something that looks cool no matter what it does [TS]
02:02:16 ◼ ► and I think I don't want that on my wrist I don't covet that you know I have a i Phone five I have a MacBook so I kept [TS]
02:02:46 ◼ ► The price which had some for some reason had never really crossed my mind Apple said something something like Apple [TS]
02:02:54 ◼ ► want starts at three hundred and fifty dollars and it was four hundred dollars I don't remember exactly. [TS]
02:03:00 ◼ ► And they do that with every product they say oh it starts at whatever and sometimes they tell you what it goes up to [TS]
02:03:09 ◼ ► when they said that in my mind I felt like all of the other products where they say oh i Pad starts at five ninety nine [TS]
02:03:16 ◼ ► and maybe the most expensive one then mentally you think of it so I could double that price gets me to the most [TS]
02:03:27 ◼ ► or with the computers like the IMAX you feel like OK I could probably go three times. [TS]
02:03:34 ◼ ► and with their crazy ones the mac pros which I do covet their beautiful little cylinder computers I don't have a [TS]
02:03:42 ◼ ► definitely would love to have those ones it's like OK this can go up to maybe ten times the base price. [TS]
02:03:50 ◼ ► That's kind of the mental range that I was thinking and I'm looking at those watches [TS]
02:03:53 ◼ ► and I was thinking OK let's say it's three fifty and my mental My mental projection was. [TS]
02:04:02 ◼ ► So maybe the most expensive version of this that a person can possibly get is three [TS]
02:04:12 ◼ ► And yeah yeah like OK I'm going to go all out I want the gold one and I want the fanciest bands that they have [TS]
02:04:22 ◼ ► and I was mentally projecting I probably like three I have four thousand dollars something like that [TS]
02:04:29 ◼ ► The group that wrote this piece where he's trying to speculate about what is the upper price that the Apple Watch can [TS]
02:04:34 ◼ ► possibly be. And he found out that one those gold watches are not gold plated they are solid gold all the way through. [TS]
02:04:45 ◼ ► Which puts the resource cost of them at something like ten thousand times what are the minimum [TS]
02:04:55 ◼ ► and comparing it to the price of a Rolex is another high end luxury watches sort of like we were talking about at the [TS]
02:05:07 ◼ ► He had this line which I copy pasted because I had just loved it I think it's great he says. [TS]
02:05:23 ◼ ► and he give the number he throw the number there saying he wouldn't be surprised if the top price was thirty five [TS]
02:05:30 ◼ ► thousand dollars for the gold watch with the best band which when I read it I swear I gasped out loud [TS]
02:05:38 ◼ ► and I felt like I need to sit down to write that never even crossed my mind that it would be possibly that expensive. [TS]
02:05:47 ◼ ► and OK She actually she is much more interested in the Apple Watch than I am she she was a presentation about who I [TS]
02:05:55 ◼ ► Yeah I will probably be starting with that sports band one of the you know three fifths. [TS]
02:06:00 ◼ ► One day not today to talk too long. We have wanted to discuss a little bit about the mac vs P.C. [TS]
02:06:06 ◼ ► or Mattresses Android world which is an interesting thing that is just unavoidable online. [TS]
02:06:18 ◼ ► and I cannot imagine the freak out that is going to happen if Apple does announce the price [TS]
02:06:38 ◼ ► and I feel like that is now actually one of the things I want to know the most about the watch. [TS]
02:06:42 ◼ ► It adds to the cache of it like part of part of the thing I love so much about that [TS]
02:06:49 ◼ ► It's the thing that stops me owning it but it also is the thing that it's one of the. [TS]
02:06:54 ◼ ► It's one of the things I like about it like OK like it makes it say it's more exclusive you know and it's. [TS]
02:07:19 ◼ ► and demand it answers a lot of questions about the pricing of various things but supply [TS]
02:07:25 ◼ ► and demand gets really weird when you start talking about luxury goods that are not necessarily supply constrained. [TS]
02:07:41 ◼ ► Yeah and it seems like it is crazy but there are points on that that pricing curve if you're a company [TS]
02:07:51 ◼ ► or you can say you know we're going to triple the price of this item like this luxury watch knowing full well. [TS]
02:08:04 ◼ ► but we're still coming out ahead because we have we've sold it to these very this very small group of people who can [TS]
02:08:13 ◼ ► Apple doesn't need to sell a lot of thirty thousand dollar watches to the huge amount of money on those things I mean [TS]
02:08:22 ◼ ► you think how many phones does Apple need to sell to make fifteen thousand dollars in profit. [TS]
02:08:29 ◼ ► Or how many one dollar apps does Apple need to sell to make fifteen thousand dollars vs pure profit versus selling one [TS]
02:08:44 ◼ ► Can I just say because I know this is going to happen so a nip in the bud to those people who are going to ride on [TS]
02:08:50 ◼ ► either the veranda or send me a message saying Hey Brady you're not going to believe this [TS]
02:08:54 ◼ ► but my dad bought me a lamp Strongs Omega space from a second hand shop in Ohio and when he gave it to me [TS]
02:09:03 ◼ ► and now it sits on a shelf in my bathroom I gotta say to those people I'd rather not know. [TS]
02:09:18 ◼ ► You know I mean you know Armstrong's as in the Smithsonian anyway you know. Interesting fact interesting fact. [TS]
02:09:27 ◼ ► Speedmaster professionals Sorry about the little clock in the lunar module was malfunctioning for timing how long they [TS]
02:09:38 ◼ ► Neil Armstrong left his watch in the module as almost like the official clock of the craft [TS]