Latest / The You Project / #1719 The 57 Year-Old Teenager - Patrick Bonello
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Oh, get a team. Welcome to another installment of the
- 0:04Speaker 1: new project. Tiffany and Cook and Patrick, who's sitting somewhere
- 0:08Speaker 1: in perspective of the lunar landscape. He seems to be
- 0:13Speaker 1: hovering somewhere in a far away galaxy. TIF. Is there
- 0:17Speaker 1: any way that you can take a photo of that
- 0:19Speaker 1: to put it in the group? I don't know. Is
- 0:21Speaker 1: that possible a screenshot? Could you? Because it's I love
- 0:25Speaker 1: I love that that's not a virtual backdrop. That's a
- 0:28Speaker 1: physical backdrop that looks amazing. Hi, Patrick, Hey, crego a,
- 0:34Speaker 1: how are you?
- 0:36Speaker 2: I got there first.
- 0:38Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. I'm I'm a little bit tired.
- 0:41Speaker 1: I'm good, Like tiff was saying she'd had a little
- 0:44Speaker 1: nana and app earlier. I've had to meet someone this
- 0:47Speaker 1: morning at six thirty. I did a workshop last night
- 0:50Speaker 1: till stupid o'clock with a whole bunch of people. I
- 0:52Speaker 1: did a workshop the night before online also, you know,
- 0:56Speaker 1: first world problems. I'm very lucky, very blessed, fortunate all that,
- 1:00Speaker 1: but a little tired. And I've got a big meeting
- 1:04Speaker 1: tonight with my senior academic supervisor, who's a smarty pants,
- 1:08Speaker 1: and so I always get a little bit anxious because
- 1:11Speaker 1: I'm not a smarty pants, and I worry about what
- 1:13Speaker 1: he's going to ask me. So I'll just do thirteen
- 1:17Speaker 1: poos today and that'll happen at seven o'clock. And that's
- 1:22Speaker 1: just my body getting ready. You know, you're welcome, You're welcome.
- 1:27Speaker 2: Does your body really do that when you're nervous?
- 1:30Speaker 1: Oh? Sometimes sometimes there might be a little bit of
- 1:33Speaker 1: additional you know, bathroom work. Everybody's gone. The people who
- 1:40Speaker 1: are brand new to this show are going, what the
- 1:42Speaker 1: actual fuck? And all the old listeners are like, yep,
- 1:46Speaker 1: that's jumbo. There you goes to do it? Talking about
- 1:49Speaker 1: bodily functions.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Apparently that's a thing. I think it's a boy thing,
- 1:53Speaker 3: is it? It must be a boy thing. I remember
- 1:55Speaker 3: years ago one of my boyfriends he raced motorbikes, and
- 1:59Speaker 3: I went to that day and I remember him saying
- 2:02Speaker 3: that the bathroom always stunk because of all the nerves.
- 2:05Speaker 3: I'm like, what do you mean us everyone goes for
- 2:08Speaker 3: a nervous.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Pooh, it's it's it's real, it's real. There's a physiological
- 2:16Speaker 1: consequence of anxiety, and sometimes that's to you know, release
- 2:24Speaker 1: the chucky hostage. You know what? No, you know, I.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Was training at your gym one day, the plainer that
- 2:36Speaker 2: I would train with Andrew, he'd suddenly at nine o'clock
- 2:40Speaker 2: say I'm going to take the kids to the pool.
- 2:43Speaker 1: No, drop the kids off at the pool.
- 2:45Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. And it's like, for for weeks,
- 2:49Speaker 2: I thought he had kids. Regular didn't say it every time,
- 2:57Speaker 2: you know, to finish a training session, and I just
- 3:01Speaker 2: thought he was just jumping in the car.
- 3:02Speaker 1: And yeah, brings a new perspective to the term log on,
- 3:10Speaker 1: doesn't it. You know, you're welcome, You're welcome. There's a
- 3:14Speaker 1: computer term for you. You guys were talking when I came
- 3:19Speaker 1: on late, as I always do. Well, No, I'm on time.
- 3:23Speaker 1: You guys are always I feel like you guys turn
- 3:25Speaker 1: up early just to talk about me, and then when
- 3:27Speaker 1: I show up, it's like I've walked into a bedroom
- 3:31Speaker 1: with two naughty children and everything just goes quiet and
- 3:35Speaker 1: you both look at me like fucking meerkats. Then I
- 3:38Speaker 1: feel very nervous and a little left out. But Patrick
- 3:44Speaker 1: was talking about were you talking about something about bone earphones? Oh?
- 3:49Speaker 2: Yeah, bone conducting headphones.
- 3:52Speaker 1: What does that mean?
- 3:53Speaker 2: Well, you don't put the headphones. I mean, Tiff got
- 3:56Speaker 2: us onto this in the first place, but I forget
- 3:59Speaker 2: rather than putting the headphones in your ear, they sit
- 4:01Speaker 2: around your ear and they're pressed up against you, I
- 4:04Speaker 2: guess your jawbone, I suppose all the back of your ear,
- 4:06Speaker 2: and it's and it conducts through the bone into your
- 4:09Speaker 2: inner ear rather than the headphones being inside your ear.
- 4:13Speaker 2: It's really good because I mean, the quality isn't as
- 4:16Speaker 2: good as really good over ear headphones, so you're not
- 4:19Speaker 2: going to be listening to high fidelity music. But what
- 4:22Speaker 2: it's good for is if you're walking the dog, it
- 4:24Speaker 2: means you can hear traffic, you can hear other people,
- 4:26Speaker 2: and it's a lot safer I think if you're riding
- 4:29Speaker 2: a bike that sort of thing. So, I mean, that's
- 4:31Speaker 2: what you got them for, though, Tift, didn't you for
- 4:32Speaker 2: the gen.
- 4:33Speaker 3: For riding a pushbike?
- 4:34Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 4:36Speaker 2: I really good.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I feel like I've never heard of them.
- 4:41Speaker 2: They're really good.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Who invented that? Who figures that out? That if we
- 4:45Speaker 1: stick this, we stick this on your jaw.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Well, this go around your ears.
- 4:51Speaker 1: They work around Patrick's demonstrating now, which is probably not
- 4:55Speaker 1: great for an audio product, but.
- 4:58Speaker 2: You could describe what you're seeing th right.
- 5:00Speaker 1: So they go around your ear and then the actual
- 5:03Speaker 1: speaker bit is like at the top of your mandible.
- 5:06Speaker 2: There you go.
- 5:09Speaker 1: You're welcome. Yeah, I don't know about I know about
- 5:18Speaker 1: human anatomy. I don't know about insect anatomy and proboscis.
- 5:23Speaker 1: I've got a fucking proboscos. Don't worry about that, Jesus. Yesterday,
- 5:28Speaker 1: when it was raining in the Hampton, it was torrential.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Four people came and stood under my nose. It was
- 5:34Speaker 1: very hurtful, but I kept them all dry. So that
- 5:37Speaker 1: is important. That is important. T If what are those
- 5:42Speaker 1: headphones slash mandible phones called? If people want to look
- 5:47Speaker 1: them up and check them out, what's what are they called?
- 5:49Speaker 3: Bro? The best known brand is by a company called
- 5:52Speaker 3: Shocks s h O K S.
- 5:56Speaker 2: I believe shock Shocks.
- 5:58Speaker 3: They're really good.
- 6:01Speaker 1: How much are they couple hundred bucks?
- 6:05Speaker 2: I think I got mine for less than that different Yeah, yeah.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Patrick, you probably you probably know the answer to this,
- 6:14Speaker 1: but I I want a filter. Okay. So I've had
- 6:23Speaker 1: to do more videos lately for a range of reasons,
- 6:25Speaker 1: which is essentially that he harps just talking at his phone.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Now you might not have realized this, but I'm sixty
- 6:33Speaker 1: one and apparently I'm not handsome anymore. So when I
- 6:39Speaker 1: see the video, do you know, you know, like when
- 6:44Speaker 1: I see myself on this on Zoom, there's a bit
- 6:47Speaker 1: of a Doris Day filter. I look at myself, I
- 6:50Speaker 1: look not terrible, right, not terrible, not great, not terrible.
- 6:54Speaker 1: But then when I look at the raw unfiltered, very
- 6:57Speaker 1: very very clear iPhone fucking four D high def whatever
- 7:03Speaker 1: it is, fuck, it's hideous. So Patrick, my question is,
- 7:08Speaker 1: can I get an app that makes me look a
- 7:10Speaker 1: little bit better when I feel like, how do I
- 7:14Speaker 1: do this in my phone? What do you got your
- 7:17Speaker 1: head in your hands for?
- 7:19Speaker 3: What?
- 7:20Speaker 2: Sorry, I just want to.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Be less offensive to the people that have to look
- 7:24Speaker 1: up my face a vacillated lens.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Isn't that what they used to do in the old days?
- 7:29Speaker 1: Well I might have to No, all right, I'm not sad.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Phones do have filters on them, Like there are filters
- 7:36Speaker 2: you can put on them. I mean, when you're doing
- 7:37Speaker 2: zoom meeting. There are features within the Zoom settings that
- 7:41Speaker 2: allow you to soften the features.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Well I know that because I'm using it right now.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I'm saying when I just want to record something on
- 7:49Speaker 1: my iPhone. Whatever it is, is there a similar tiff?
- 7:53Speaker 1: You probably know better than him. I feel like he's
- 7:55Speaker 1: a dinosaur on this call.
- 7:57Speaker 3: I don't use the iPhone either, but Android definitely has
- 8:01Speaker 3: features where you can filter.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Maybe it's already got it the features in iPhone, but
- 8:06Speaker 1: I don't know how to operationalize it.
- 8:09Speaker 3: He's an interesting fact someone was talking about this morning.
- 8:11Speaker 3: Facebook is planning to remove certain filter features from their
- 8:18Speaker 3: app because people are getting too obsessed with exactly what
- 8:22Speaker 3: you're talking about. I don't know much of the details
- 8:24Speaker 3: on it. Someone just mentioned it when I was training
- 8:26Speaker 3: them this morning.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Yeah, TikTok's actually going to block teenagers from beauty filters.
- 8:32Speaker 1: So I don't want to be beautiful. I just want
- 8:38Speaker 1: to I don't want to look like a caricature. I
- 8:43Speaker 1: just want as less red blotchy skin.
- 8:47Speaker 2: Craig as your counselor, I think it's important for you
- 8:50Speaker 2: to embrace aging. Is that it happens.
- 8:54Speaker 3: Practice where you stand in front of a mirror and
- 8:57Speaker 3: you just say I love you. Tis food off your
- 9:00Speaker 3: own eyes.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Yeah I'm massive. Yeah, here's my affirmation. You're a fucking idiot.
- 9:06Speaker 1: They're my affirmations, you know. Can I just say my
- 9:09Speaker 1: affirmations are do better? That's what I tell myself.
- 9:13Speaker 2: As somebody who shaves their head every second day because
- 9:16Speaker 2: they've got nothing to kind of cover the old dome.
- 9:21Speaker 2: I started losing my hair in my late twenties, which
- 9:23Speaker 2: is a real body blow when you're a young guy, right.
- 9:28Speaker 2: I went to the same hairdresser and he did stuff
- 9:30Speaker 2: to kind of hide stuff, but eventually he said to
- 9:33Speaker 2: me one day, why don't you just shave it all off?
- 9:35Speaker 2: And I thought, oh shit. You know that's a big thing,
- 9:37Speaker 2: and it wasn't at a time when footy players did
- 9:40Speaker 2: it or anything like that. It's like you embrace being bored.
- 9:44Speaker 2: I said, okay, I will, and luckily I have a
- 9:48Speaker 2: relatively well shaped noggin, which helps, and so he shaved it.
- 9:52Speaker 2: I went back to work and the first person I saw,
- 9:54Speaker 2: one of the sales reps at work, she looked at
- 9:56Speaker 2: me and she said, oh, you look like a criminal.
- 9:58Speaker 2: It was the wor thing anybody can say. But I'm
- 10:04Speaker 2: fifty seven now, and one of the things it does
- 10:06Speaker 2: is it ages you prematurely when you go bald, but
- 10:09Speaker 2: then you get to a point in your forties and
- 10:12Speaker 2: then into your fifties where it d ages you. I think, so,
- 10:16Speaker 2: I don't know. If you look you're the probably the
- 10:18Speaker 2: smartest person from that perspective. You tell us what you
- 10:21Speaker 2: think of blokes who shave their head? Is that? Is
- 10:24Speaker 2: that anything? You know? Do you think that it doesn't
- 10:27Speaker 2: aid you after a certain point?
- 10:30Speaker 3: Maybe? I guess because you're not getting the gray hair.
- 10:35Speaker 3: I don't know, it's interesting. I've never really thought about it.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I just guess what I'm doing after, Yes, what
- 10:39Speaker 1: I'm doing next? No, it's see your locks.
- 10:44Speaker 2: But I think what you need to do, Craigo is
- 10:46Speaker 2: embrace craigo. You know, do some fows of yourself the mirror.
- 10:51Speaker 2: You know, you kiss the mirror a bit.
- 10:57Speaker 1: All right, that's enough now, I see on your list
- 11:01Speaker 1: of talking points today, we actually chatted about the Granny
- 11:04Speaker 1: one with David Gillespie, but I would like to hear
- 11:07Speaker 1: your take on it anyway. Did you just explain it?
- 11:10Speaker 2: Did I like you the Granny?
- 11:13Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 11:13Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Grannie.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Oh okay, that anti scammer Grannie that was created to
- 11:19Speaker 1: keep scammers bloody caught up online so they can't. But
- 11:25Speaker 1: I'm sure not everyone heard that what was your what
- 11:28Speaker 1: did you think about it? What was your or just
- 11:30Speaker 1: for those who didn't hear, just explain what it was
- 11:33Speaker 1: and then your take.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Yep.
- 11:35Speaker 2: So obviously phone scams are a real problem and it
- 11:38Speaker 2: tends to be older people who fall victim to that.
- 11:41Speaker 2: And a UK based tech company or like a mobile
- 11:46Speaker 2: phone company run by Virgin called Virgin Media ROH two,
- 11:50Speaker 2: they've built this AI generated I guess it's called a
- 11:53Speaker 2: scram Beta and what it does is it's just designed
- 11:57Speaker 2: solely to stall scammers. So they pick up on numbers
- 12:02Speaker 2: that the scammers must have a way to kind of
- 12:05Speaker 2: call through to a chain of numbers, and then what
- 12:07Speaker 2: they do is they just keep them busy talking to
- 12:10Speaker 2: this AI old lady, and it tricks these crims into
- 12:15Speaker 2: thinking that they are actually defrauding a real person. So
- 12:19Speaker 2: it's not just engaging it hands out bank details. It
- 12:22Speaker 2: really is clever at fooling them into thinking they are
- 12:26Speaker 2: actually talking to a real person on the other line.
- 12:29Speaker 2: And the theory being is the more time you can
- 12:32Speaker 2: waste of these scammers, the less time they'll be scamming
- 12:36Speaker 2: real people. So that's the gist of it. And her
- 12:38Speaker 2: name is Daisy and she's been taking calls for quite
- 12:41Speaker 2: a while now, and it's great. Just leverages off all
- 12:46Speaker 2: the biases that those scammers have about older people and
- 12:51Speaker 2: it's kind of used that to train the AI model
- 12:54Speaker 2: and it's just really clever at engaging with these people
- 12:59Speaker 2: and talking like an old person.
- 13:02Speaker 1: I saw this on the news and what was funny
- 13:05Speaker 1: to see was like footage of some of the scammers,
- 13:11Speaker 1: or at least audio of some of the scammers with
- 13:13Speaker 1: the Daisy talking in inverted commas, and you could hear
- 13:17Speaker 1: the frustration and the anger escalating in the scammers who
- 13:22Speaker 1: started to like started to attack her after like an
- 13:26Speaker 1: hour on the phone and started to lose their shit.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Because but I mean, what a testament to how much
- 13:35Speaker 1: this stuff has evolved that an actual human can have
- 13:39Speaker 1: a conversation in inverted commas for one hour with something
- 13:46Speaker 1: that is not a human and not know it.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Yeah, that is amazing. You're absolutely nailing it right on
- 13:52Speaker 2: the head there. It's interesting. In a survey that was done,
- 13:56Speaker 2: seventy one percent of Britons want to get revenge on SMS.
- 14:00Speaker 2: So you either have been scammed or you know somebody
- 14:03Speaker 2: who's been scammed, and you really would love to get
- 14:06Speaker 2: revenge on those people. So this aiitil plays right into
- 14:10Speaker 2: the hands of what the majority of people in the
- 14:13Speaker 2: UK what I reckon that to be pretty similar in Australia,
- 14:16Speaker 2: how many people would love to get revenge. There are
- 14:19Speaker 2: videos where these really clever people go onto YouTube and
- 14:24Speaker 2: they managed to turn the scammers against them. And what
- 14:27Speaker 2: they do is they jump on and they use security
- 14:31Speaker 2: cameras or they use the webcams built into the scammer's
- 14:36Speaker 2: own devices, and then they pinpoint. They say we know
- 14:39Speaker 2: where are, we know where you live, and it's just
- 14:42Speaker 2: great to watch them. They're pretty pretty full on when
- 14:45Speaker 2: the scammers realize that they've been caught out. But not
- 14:47Speaker 2: only did they get caught out, people know where they live,
- 14:50Speaker 2: they know where they're working, they have footage of them,
- 14:53Speaker 2: and in some cases has even resulted in some of
- 14:55Speaker 2: those big I guess effectively from criminal syndicate having to
- 15:00Speaker 2: shut down that operation.
- 15:02Speaker 1: M M. You can I ask this is related but
- 15:06Speaker 1: not specific to what we're talking about. But related? Are
- 15:09Speaker 1: you on LinkedIn? Patrick?
- 15:11Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a bit of a bugbear in my office
- 15:13Speaker 2: because I am but I have an.
- 15:15Speaker 1: Updated long long I t if you're on LinkedIn, right, yep?
- 15:20Speaker 1: What do you think of LinkedIn? In?
- 15:26Speaker 3: What respect?
- 15:28Speaker 1: Like? Do you like it? Do you think it's I
- 15:30Speaker 1: don't mind it, I use it. I'm on it. One
- 15:33Speaker 1: of the one of the things I find annoying is
- 15:37Speaker 1: and I understand that, I mean maybe I think maybe
- 15:40Speaker 1: I didn't really understand is is it just meant to
- 15:46Speaker 1: be kind of almost like an online networking thing? TIF like,
- 15:50Speaker 1: is that it's kind of mean business?
- 15:52Speaker 3: Facebook?
- 15:53Speaker 1: Yeah? Right? Because it's like, you know what I hate
- 15:56Speaker 1: is when someone goes hikrage, just wondering if you need
- 15:59Speaker 1: a little help promoting this or that, and dad da
- 16:02Speaker 1: da da da, and I you know, I don't ask
- 16:05Speaker 1: them to send me something, and so I just ignore
- 16:07Speaker 1: it because I don't want to engage in a conversation
- 16:09Speaker 1: with them.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Right, And then a.
- 16:11Speaker 1: Week later they're like, hey, buddy, just reaching out again,
- 16:15Speaker 1: just circling back, just just opening the door again. Haha,
- 16:19Speaker 1: I hope you haven't a great week all this shit,
- 16:22Speaker 1: And I'm like, nah, Like sometimes I feel like going,
- 16:25Speaker 1: if I don't answer you three times in a row,
- 16:27Speaker 1: how fucking dumb are you that you keep reaching out?
- 16:30Speaker 1: Like if I was interested, I would have said, yeah, sure,
- 16:34Speaker 1: let's have a chat. But and I don't mind people
- 16:39Speaker 1: trying to build business or all of that. I'm cool,
- 16:42Speaker 1: but they right like they're your buddy. And some of
- 16:45Speaker 1: the people that send me stuff, they're like, hey, I
- 16:49Speaker 1: can help you build your audience. And I'm a podcast
- 16:53Speaker 1: this or that, and I look at what they do
- 16:56Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, you've got seven fucking files like you.
- 17:02Speaker 1: I can help you with your speaking career. I'm like, no,
- 17:05Speaker 1: you can't, you absolutely can't. Oh anyway, so I don't know.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Me and me and LinkedIn are a little bit up
- 17:16Speaker 1: in the air at the moment. I'm not sure if
- 17:18Speaker 1: that love affair is going to continue.
- 17:20Speaker 2: I've got to tell you something really funny. You know how,
- 17:22Speaker 2: there's been all this legislation to try to stop young
- 17:25Speaker 2: kids getting onto social media. So there's a social media
- 17:28Speaker 2: band that they're trying to put into place via legislation.
- 17:32Speaker 2: And you know what the LinkedIn people said when they
- 17:35Speaker 2: were asked about this social media ban on young kids.
- 17:39Speaker 2: Their response was, we're too boring for kids to be
- 17:43Speaker 2: part of a social media band. This thought was a
- 17:46Speaker 2: crack up, They admitted, you know what, kids don't want
- 17:50Speaker 2: to be anywhere near us.
- 17:52Speaker 1: It's kind of true. I mean, well it's not. It's
- 17:57Speaker 1: definitely not a platform that's saying at kids or so. Yeah.
- 18:02Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess if they're going to ban
- 18:05Speaker 1: social media platforms, they have to ban them all. I guess.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Is that, by the way, is that actually happening or
- 18:13Speaker 1: is that still just an idea? No?
- 18:15Speaker 2: No, I think the legislation went through. They pushed it
- 18:18Speaker 2: through in a very short amount of time, and that's
- 18:19Speaker 2: caused lots of angst. In fact, because now a lot
- 18:23Speaker 2: of people are coming out of the woodwork and saying, well,
- 18:25Speaker 2: you know, this may hinder certain groups, it may cause problems.
- 18:30Speaker 2: There was a chap who I was reading an article
- 18:33Speaker 2: about who has an intellectual disability and was saying that
- 18:37Speaker 2: there are young people who use social media in different
- 18:40Speaker 2: ways than what we traditionally see social media being used,
- 18:43Speaker 2: and you could actually shut the door on ways they
- 18:46Speaker 2: can interact with people and other people who have similar problems.
- 18:50Speaker 2: So it's a tough one. But I think the legislation
- 18:53Speaker 2: went through. I hadn't been following it as closely as
- 18:55Speaker 2: I probably should have. I know that they wanted to
- 18:59Speaker 2: try to get it in for closer business, so to speak.
- 19:02Speaker 2: And now they've basically taken you know, what do they
- 19:06Speaker 2: call it when they finish up for the year? What
- 19:07Speaker 2: they finish up for the year.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Wow, I think they've gone on holiday as Patrick. But
- 19:15Speaker 1: they put the sign on the door back in January
- 19:18Speaker 1: or probably.
- 19:19Speaker 2: March mates January. It's way too soon.
- 19:24Speaker 1: But it does raise an interesting point, and is is
- 19:29Speaker 1: social media the problem underlined? Or is the way that
- 19:34Speaker 1: some people use social media the problem. I use social media.
- 19:38Speaker 1: You two both use social media. Most of our listeners
- 19:41Speaker 1: use social media, I would think, and again, of course
- 19:46Speaker 1: we're not children, but it's I don't know. Is the
- 19:50Speaker 1: answer just to take it away or is the answer
- 19:54Speaker 1: to help kids understand what is healthy what is unhealthy?
- 19:59Speaker 1: Because it's not you know, there's a million you know,
- 20:01Speaker 1: there's vapes, there's cigarettes, there's there's a million things that
- 20:05Speaker 1: kids can and do access. There's pawn there's all of
- 20:08Speaker 1: the social media platforms. It's what rather than just taking
- 20:14Speaker 1: shit away from them, by the way, I don't know
- 20:17Speaker 1: what the answer is. Maybe that is the answer, but
- 20:20Speaker 1: I feel like helping kids to make better decisions and
- 20:24Speaker 1: be more aware and more responsible, to be able to
- 20:27Speaker 1: you know, make what are decisions around you know, the
- 20:33Speaker 1: way that their life goes. I mean, you know what's
- 20:37Speaker 1: funny is, oh, should I say this? No, I'm not
- 20:41Speaker 1: going to say. But we let children make them think
- 20:45Speaker 1: about the world right now. We let children make some
- 20:48Speaker 1: very very big decisions now which are going to change
- 20:51Speaker 1: their life forever. Right But we're going to say, nah,
- 20:55Speaker 1: but you can't look at Instagram. You're fifteen. You can't
- 20:58Speaker 1: look at Instagram. You know. It's like, I don't know
- 21:02Speaker 1: that that's fixing a problem, and I'm not. It has
- 21:05Speaker 1: no impact on me. So I don't care either way.
- 21:07Speaker 1: But I just don't know that that's the solution.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Look under sixteen year olds. I look again, I'm no expert.
- 21:13Speaker 2: I don't have kids. However, one of the big concerns
- 21:18Speaker 2: is that you can go into a rabbit hole. We've
- 21:21Speaker 2: all done that with social media. I do it on
- 21:23Speaker 2: YouTube all the time. But you know that social media
- 21:26Speaker 2: rabbit hole. And I think kids are more vulnerable at
- 21:29Speaker 2: the age being under sixteen. They're not mature, but they're
- 21:33Speaker 2: exploring their world. They're exploring the world around them. They
- 21:36Speaker 2: need more affirmations and social media can be so unrealistic
- 21:40Speaker 2: in that sense. So the ex and I'm not an expert,
- 21:45Speaker 2: but you know, we keep hearing that the experts are
- 21:49Speaker 2: saying that social media is detrimental to mental health for
- 21:52Speaker 2: young people, for young kids particularly, And I mean I
- 21:56Speaker 2: know older people. I know adults who have problems with
- 21:58Speaker 2: social media, have problems spending too much time on social media.
- 22:03Speaker 2: Who you know whose whole day can be ruined because
- 22:06Speaker 2: they didn't get enough likes on their instapost. You know,
- 22:09Speaker 2: that's the type of thing that's detrimental. Now you look
- 22:11Speaker 2: at a kid, you look at a young person who
- 22:14Speaker 2: doesn't have the coping mechanisms, who doesn't have the maturity
- 22:17Speaker 2: level to be able to make or realize that what
- 22:21Speaker 2: has been said about them online just one person, you know,
- 22:26Speaker 2: they don't have the resources psychologically to be able to
- 22:30Speaker 2: cope with those sorts of things. There's got to be
- 22:32Speaker 2: something to it. You know, we're talking world leading legislation
- 22:36Speaker 2: stopping children from accessing social media. I mean, you don't
- 22:40Speaker 2: just throw that together unless there's a lot of experts
- 22:43Speaker 2: out there saying that something needs to be done to
- 22:46Speaker 2: protect kids online.
- 22:48Speaker 1: But what about the kids who are not those kids?
- 22:51Speaker 1: I get it, what you're saying is true, right, some
- 22:54Speaker 1: kids can't self regulate. Some kids they can't, but not
- 22:57Speaker 1: all the kids. It's like, you know, it's like there
- 23:01Speaker 1: are lots of guys, lots of guys who have porn addiction.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Not you, not me? Why maybe you? I don't think so,
- 23:09Speaker 1: do you know what I mean?
- 23:10Speaker 2: It's like screens going at the time, just would have
- 23:13Speaker 2: let you know, what.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Is that grunting in the background.
- 23:19Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 23:19Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I mean, I've got access to cigarettes
- 23:23Speaker 1: and booze and drugs if I want. I guess. I'm
- 23:26Speaker 1: not saying I'm great. I'm just saying when.
- 23:29Speaker 2: You know?
- 23:29Speaker 1: And why why sixteen? Why not eighteen? Why? I just
- 23:35Speaker 1: don't know, Like I don't think it's that cut and
- 23:38Speaker 1: dry or that arbitrary. And I think to say that
- 23:42Speaker 1: all fourteen year olds can't self manage or regulate, can't
- 23:45Speaker 1: make good decisions, therefore we need to take it away
- 23:49Speaker 1: from them. I don't know that this is a good
- 23:51Speaker 1: way for kids to learn. I mean, there are parts
- 23:54Speaker 1: of the world where kids are working at fourteen and
- 23:57Speaker 1: earning an income and supporting their family. Not saying that
- 24:00Speaker 1: should be a thing, but that is a thing. You know,
- 24:04Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know anyway, that's a philosophical
- 24:07Speaker 1: discussion for another day.
- 24:09Speaker 2: Complicated, complicated argument. And you're right because you know it
- 24:13Speaker 2: first came to mind to me, is what happens to
- 24:15Speaker 2: some kid who's living out in the country, who might
- 24:17Speaker 2: be on a closed Facebook support group and that might
- 24:21Speaker 2: have autism, or they could be part of the LGBT community,
- 24:25Speaker 2: and they find a perent and alone and this is
- 24:28Speaker 2: their one way to interact with people in a private
- 24:31Speaker 2: way that they feel like they've got a sense of
- 24:33Speaker 2: community online. And that is the sense for people, you know.
- 24:36Speaker 1: If you're perfect example, perfect example, I mean that's where
- 24:40Speaker 1: for some people, depending on And yes, it's like I
- 24:44Speaker 1: always say, with most things, it's not the thing that's
- 24:47Speaker 1: the problem. It's the dose. Yeah, it's the dose. You know,
- 24:51Speaker 1: like as bro clear maybe good one or two, but
- 24:54Speaker 1: thirty five not good. You know, a bit of cake fine,
- 24:57Speaker 1: seven cakes not fine? You know, two leaders of water good,
- 25:01Speaker 1: thirteen leaders of water bad. You know, like training in
- 25:04Speaker 1: the gym an hour a day good, training nine hours
- 25:06Speaker 1: a day bad. You know, it's like it depends on
- 25:10Speaker 1: the way that that whatever it is, that resource like
- 25:14Speaker 1: a gym's a resource, food is a resource. The internet
- 25:17Speaker 1: is a resource. It depends how we use it. And
- 25:22Speaker 1: I just feel like we're not teaching kids to navigate
- 25:25Speaker 1: the messiness of life. Hey, kids, life's unfair. There's going
- 25:29Speaker 1: to be there are things out there that are going
- 25:31Speaker 1: to try and fuck you over because it's in people's
- 25:33Speaker 1: commercial interest to get you addicted. So let's just teach
- 25:37Speaker 1: you about the dangers of technology addiction. Let's talk to
- 25:42Speaker 1: you about I don't know, it's just seems like there's
- 25:44Speaker 1: an opportunity there to help kids become I don't know,
- 25:50Speaker 1: more mature and more And I know there's a genetic
- 25:52Speaker 1: and a physiological component and brain development component, but you know,
- 25:57Speaker 1: there are a lot of kids in the world that
- 25:59Speaker 1: are navigating a lot, a lot harder shit than bloody
- 26:03Speaker 1: This stuff steps down our soapbox.
- 26:08Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, there you go, And all right, when's the sermon. No,
- 26:12Speaker 2: you're right, and we're not going to solve it in
- 26:15Speaker 2: forty five minutes. It's very detailed, long complicated, and parents
- 26:20Speaker 2: need to be a part of the process as well.
- 26:22Speaker 2: Responsible adults around kids who are using social media, because
- 26:26Speaker 2: when you go to the supermarket and you see a
- 26:28Speaker 2: three year old with an iPhone because it's a way
- 26:31Speaker 2: to distract them while mum's doing the shopping. You know,
- 26:34Speaker 2: that's the beginning of that connection with the screen.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Isn't it cheapest babysitter in the world, One of my
- 26:40Speaker 1: friends says, cheapest babysitter ever. I'll tell us about it.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Let's tell you one more little thing. I was reading
- 26:47Speaker 2: an article recently talking about breastfeeding mothers who are on
- 26:52Speaker 2: their phones can actually cause problems for toddlers because they're
- 26:56Speaker 2: not looking at the kid while they're breastfeeding. Yes, yeah,
- 27:00Speaker 2: that so not making eye contact, not having that direct
- 27:03Speaker 2: maternal connection with the child because there's a phone in
- 27:05Speaker 2: the way away. I thought i'd throw that went in. Sorry,
- 27:07Speaker 2: you're going to ask me something else.
- 27:09Speaker 1: I was just going to ask about the sad announcement
- 27:11Speaker 1: email that implies your friend has done that SAPs dodgy. Ah.
- 27:15Speaker 2: There's so many scams going around at the moment, and
- 27:19Speaker 2: they're getting so easy to be fooled. You know, the
- 27:23Speaker 2: reality of it is what they're doing now is you
- 27:26Speaker 2: get an email and titled a sad announcement, so it's
- 27:30Speaker 2: inferring that someone close to you has passed away, and
- 27:34Speaker 2: they're trying to use triggers that will get people to click.
- 27:38Speaker 2: You know, you might like to see the last photo
- 27:41Speaker 2: that was taken of and they name the person, so
- 27:44Speaker 2: you get an email from TIFF's email. It's like, I
- 27:47Speaker 2: can't this is terrible to tell you that something's happened
- 27:50Speaker 2: to Tiff. This is the last photo we took of her.
- 27:52Speaker 2: It's like, what the you know what I mean like this?
- 27:54Speaker 2: This is awful that you know, people are looking to
- 27:58Speaker 2: scam in the every possible trigger that can be used,
- 28:02Speaker 2: and this is just another one. You know, little things
- 28:05Speaker 2: like I'm presuming you should remember these two ladies in
- 28:08Speaker 2: that photo. You know, when I was looking through some
- 28:10Speaker 2: old fold as I found these picks. You know, it
- 28:13Speaker 2: wasn't initially my plan, but I had to change my
- 28:16Speaker 2: mind about it. Just little clever mechanisms try to get
- 28:21Speaker 2: you to do that fatal click that then leads you
- 28:25Speaker 2: down that hacking rabbit hole. It's it's so distressing that
- 28:31Speaker 2: people are using this sort of leverage.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Have you seen the one that's doing the rounds of
- 28:36Speaker 1: Simon cow You know that America's got talent. Dude, the
- 28:40Speaker 1: judge he owns I think he actually owns the whole thing.
- 28:44Speaker 1: So there's this picture of Simon Cow and it's like
- 28:48Speaker 1: got candles around us, and it's in loving memory, and
- 28:52Speaker 1: it's like he's died, and it's like there's a picture
- 28:56Speaker 1: of him and his birth date to his death date
- 28:59Speaker 1: in vert commas. I'm like, and it just came up
- 29:03Speaker 1: on my phone. I'm like, Simon Cow's did, how the
- 29:05Speaker 1: fuck is what? And I very nearly clicked on it
- 29:09Speaker 1: to open it up to read the story, and then
- 29:11Speaker 1: I went, pretty sure it's not dead, and then this
- 29:15Speaker 1: kind of looks real, but I doubt it. And then
- 29:18Speaker 1: so I just went in and I went, is there
- 29:20Speaker 1: a Simon Cow scam? And it's like, yes, don't open this,
- 29:23Speaker 1: don't you know. That's the good thing, I guess, or
- 29:26Speaker 1: one of the good things about the Internet is that
- 29:28Speaker 1: people are going to go and tell the world when
- 29:30Speaker 1: they get scammed.
- 29:31Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, if you've got an iPhone, a mac,
- 29:34Speaker 2: an iPad, you happen to be an Apple user. One
- 29:37Speaker 2: of the other recent things is that your Apple ID
- 29:40Speaker 2: has been suspended. Now, this is a tough one for
- 29:43Speaker 2: people because if you were to make purchases online, you
- 29:46Speaker 2: need your Apple ID quite often to log into the
- 29:48Speaker 2: device if you're using your iPhone to make a purchase
- 29:51Speaker 2: or whatever it happens to be. So again another trigger
- 29:54Speaker 2: point and they're over to hang on, hang.
- 29:56Speaker 1: On, are you saying the scam is they're telling you
- 29:59Speaker 1: it's been suspended or no? No, no, that's when you said that.
- 30:04Speaker 1: You just said the bad news is You're I'm like, fuck,
- 30:07Speaker 1: has it exactly? You nearly scammed me? So right, so right,
- 30:13Speaker 1: so it hasn't really been. But that's the story. Chick
- 30:15Speaker 1: your email, Craig, your account.
- 30:17Speaker 2: Might have been suspended. Let me just get that email
- 30:19Speaker 2: out natif that was an easy con.
- 30:25Speaker 1: If I click on that, and that's you want a
- 30:26Speaker 1: fucking bare skin rug, I'm out.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Dear hey, yeah, so what they're doing so it's it's
- 30:36Speaker 2: an ID, the Apple I D suspension thing. It's one
- 30:39Speaker 2: thing that Apple people are in fear of because you
- 30:43Speaker 2: can't do a lot without logging into your Apple I D.
- 30:46Speaker 2: So particularly now we've got all those big sales on
- 30:49Speaker 2: at the moment, you know, the Black Friday stuff, and
- 30:52Speaker 2: two billion people are active Apple users. So whether as
- 30:58Speaker 2: you know an iPad, you know an iPhone, So there's
- 31:02Speaker 2: a lot of people in that ecosystem. It's really funny
- 31:05Speaker 2: that I'm going to tell you this little side story.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Apple used to have this great ad and it said
- 31:11Speaker 2: Apple computers don't get PC viruses. It's like, of course
- 31:16Speaker 2: they don't get PC viruses, they get Apple viruses. I mean,
- 31:20Speaker 2: because it makes sense. If you're going to put a
- 31:22Speaker 2: virus out there, you're going to send it to the
- 31:25Speaker 2: majority of people who happened to be on PC. But
- 31:28Speaker 2: it was a really clever marketing trick to infer that
- 31:31Speaker 2: you wouldn't get a virus if you had an Apple device.
- 31:33Speaker 2: But with two billion users out there, yes, you now
- 31:36Speaker 2: are ripe as a target four scammers, and this just
- 31:39Speaker 2: happens to be one of the latest scams that's hitting
- 31:43Speaker 2: the Apple ecosystem specifically.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Excuse my aggnorance, but an Apple laptop is still a PC.
- 31:50Speaker 2: Right, No, No, it's a Mac. It runs Mac operating.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Doesn't PC stand for personal computer?
- 31:56Speaker 2: It does? But Apples aren't personal computers?
- 31:59Speaker 1: Well what are they? Impersonal max? That's bullshit, that's fucking bullshit.
- 32:05Speaker 1: It's a computer and it's yours. It's you fucking Apple tops.
- 32:10Speaker 1: It's so fucking up yourselves. It's like a cult. Apple's
- 32:15Speaker 1: a cult. Fuck your cult?
- 32:18Speaker 2: Can you say? I just asked Gemini the Google AI. Yes,
- 32:25Speaker 2: technically Apple is a personal computer.
- 32:27Speaker 1: Thank you, the end, the end, the end.
- 32:31Speaker 2: Yes, a PC is a general term for a personal computer,
- 32:35Speaker 2: and MAC is a specific brand of a PC made
- 32:39Speaker 2: by exactly exactly.
- 32:41Speaker 1: That's why all kleenex are still tissues but not moving
- 32:46Speaker 1: the deck chairs.
- 32:48Speaker 2: PC's typically run Windows, whereas max run on the mac os.
- 32:53Speaker 1: Yeah, but to my question, is it still a personal computer? Yes,
- 32:56Speaker 1: well that's a PC in a technical term. Stop trying
- 33:00Speaker 1: to be right? Will you just swallow your big Apple
- 33:03Speaker 1: ego and just fucking move on?
- 33:07Speaker 2: Oh?
- 33:07Speaker 1: Dear, tell us a house. Tell us. By the way,
- 33:10Speaker 1: everyone who's like, is that real? Do they really? No?
- 33:13Speaker 1: We don't hate each other. This is how we talk.
- 33:15Speaker 1: I love him. He's wrong, but I love him. Tell
- 33:19Speaker 1: me about I've always wondered about this virtual like VR
- 33:24Speaker 1: headsets for people who are using them for fitness purposes,
- 33:28Speaker 1: so for workouts.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you saw this story. It's kind of funny.
- 33:32Speaker 2: I do use my VR headset for lots of stuff.
- 33:35Speaker 2: And there's a game that I really love to play
- 33:38Speaker 2: called Beat Saber and by the end of the game,
- 33:41Speaker 2: you've built up quite a sweat. Now that's a problem
- 33:44Speaker 2: because they've picked up an issue with the Metaquest three,
- 33:47Speaker 2: which is the top of the range meta headset, and
- 33:50Speaker 2: it's causing problems because when people get super sweaty, the
- 33:54Speaker 2: sweat is seeping into the electronics and so Meta actually
- 34:00Speaker 2: replacing the devices, which is great. They're actually allowing that
- 34:04Speaker 2: people can send them in and get them replaced, but
- 34:06Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like there's a permanent solution for them yet.
- 34:09Speaker 2: So it just seems like for those extra sweaty people,
- 34:13Speaker 2: this can be a problem. So you know, take the
- 34:15Speaker 2: headset off, get your tissues out.
- 34:17Speaker 1: What's the game that you play? What's it called again?
- 34:20Speaker 2: I beat Saber?
- 34:24Speaker 1: Okay, Shocker Shocker? Tell our listeners what that is.
- 34:31Speaker 2: If you imagine you're standing in a day.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Before you tell us, can you just remind us how
- 34:36Speaker 1: old you are again.
- 34:39Speaker 2: I'm fifty seven years old.
- 34:41Speaker 1: That I never sorry, go on answer the question.
- 34:43Speaker 2: Thank you call me Peter. Yeah, and I do believe
- 34:48Speaker 2: in fairies. So anyway, what you're doing is you're standing
- 34:53Speaker 2: on a platform with two effectively light sabers and two
- 34:57Speaker 2: different colors. So you can imagine you got a blue
- 34:59Speaker 2: lightsaber and a red.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Lights and TIFF's losing her ship.
- 35:04Speaker 2: And when she comes over, I'm going to make her
- 35:06Speaker 2: play this and use a song, and you choose a
- 35:11Speaker 2: level of difficulty and these cubes come flying at you
- 35:17Speaker 2: and listen to the beat of the music. It shouldn't YouTube,
- 35:19Speaker 2: but it's great to the beat of the music. And
- 35:21Speaker 2: what you've got to do is you've got to swipe
- 35:23Speaker 2: down and slice the cube by swiping down or up
- 35:28Speaker 2: into the side, and you do it all in time
- 35:30Speaker 2: to music. So it's very much based on coordination and
- 35:35Speaker 2: movement to be able to continue to get through the song,
- 35:38Speaker 2: and as you get better at it, it's really quite
- 35:41Speaker 2: interesting the way your brain is able.
- 35:44Speaker 1: What you know, Can I just say, oh God, there's
- 35:50Speaker 1: something so funny I want to say, but I can't
- 35:52Speaker 1: because I can't, But I can I just point out
- 35:57Speaker 1: that no I can't. I'll get in trouble. Fuck who
- 36:01Speaker 1: knew I had a filter. Everyone's going to send me
- 36:03Speaker 1: an e mail now going what were you going to say?
- 36:06Speaker 2: What were you going to say?
- 36:07Speaker 1: We want to know It's it just seems like the
- 36:11Speaker 1: gayest game I've ever heard of. And that's because you're gay.
- 36:16Speaker 1: And it's okay. I love you and I love all
- 36:19Speaker 1: my gay friends, but I can't what really, all.
- 36:23Speaker 2: The Beat Saber people out there, it's okay. You don't
- 36:26Speaker 2: have to be part of the Rainbow Flag generation to
- 36:29Speaker 2: play Beat Saber. Really, it's good.
- 36:31Speaker 1: I'm probably going to come up and fucking love it.
- 36:34Speaker 1: You will love it, I guarantee, and then and then
- 36:36Speaker 1: I'll be out loud and proud, just on's my saber.
- 36:38Speaker 2: You will now. Look, you know, the other fascinating thing
- 36:41Speaker 2: is and I know I'm going down a rabbit hole here.
- 36:44Speaker 2: When you get to a certain level of difficulty, when
- 36:46Speaker 2: you first play it, you're really unco you know.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Look at Tiff Space. Can I just interrupt TIF? What
- 36:51Speaker 1: are you looking at?
- 36:51Speaker 3: I'm watching Beat Saber on YouTube as we speak.
- 36:55Speaker 2: What do you think? Tip doesn't look cool?
- 36:57Speaker 3: I'm just trying to visualize how this has become a thing.
- 37:01Speaker 3: That is.
- 37:01Speaker 2: But if you think of fun for you playing this
- 37:04Speaker 2: to your or Queen song or something new Lady Gaga,
- 37:09Speaker 2: doesn't matter what song you're listening to.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Again, rest my case, Queen and Lady Gaga. Is there
- 37:18Speaker 1: any midnight.
- 37:18Speaker 2: Oil floating around Jim Lincoln Park, Imagine the Wons. There
- 37:23Speaker 2: are two of my other albums that I've got on there,
- 37:27Speaker 2: but you know what, here's one that you might be
- 37:29Speaker 2: able to put some insight into. When I first started playing,
- 37:33Speaker 2: it was hard to play. But as you get better
- 37:35Speaker 2: and better, you go to a high level of skill.
- 37:38Speaker 2: But I got to a point where I couldn't concentrate
- 37:42Speaker 2: on both hands at the same time because the blocks
- 37:44Speaker 2: were moving toward me so quickly, So I only focus
- 37:48Speaker 2: on one hand by say my right hand. Now my
- 37:52Speaker 2: brain is still taking care of the left hand side.
- 37:54Speaker 2: So when you think about playing a game, say you
- 37:56Speaker 2: were playing a sport where you're using both arms at
- 37:59Speaker 2: the same time, you need to be cognitively aware of
- 38:02Speaker 2: what both arms are doing. But I've got to a
- 38:05Speaker 2: point in the game where I only concentrate on one
- 38:07Speaker 2: side and the other side of my brain or the
- 38:10Speaker 2: other side of my brain that's controlling my other hand
- 38:12Speaker 2: is just doing it without me thinking about it. So
- 38:15Speaker 2: visually I'm seeing it. I know that I have to
- 38:17Speaker 2: swipe And am I even making sense to you?
- 38:21Speaker 1: So you're telling me.
- 38:22Speaker 3: Jim in wherever that place you live is the land? Yeah,
- 38:28Speaker 3: just go to the land boxing gym and now up
- 38:31Speaker 3: a new sport.
- 38:33Speaker 1: Yeah something where yeah, something where you're hitting actual things.
- 38:38Speaker 2: If no one needs me back when I played beats saber,
- 38:43Speaker 2: that's hilarious.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Tell us about gadgets that only millennials will remember. Look
- 38:49Speaker 1: when you think from the nineties, is it?
- 38:51Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll think about the stuff that we I mean,
- 38:54Speaker 2: did you ever have a disc man or a walkman?
- 38:56Speaker 1: Sure? Did?
- 38:57Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 38:57Speaker 1: Sure?
- 38:58Speaker 2: Kids have no idea what they are.
- 39:02Speaker 1: That's because that's because they've got one million songs at
- 39:07Speaker 1: their fingertip.
- 39:08Speaker 2: But it's making a revival. The thing is cassettes. They're
- 39:12Speaker 2: making cassette players again. They're making the d players again
- 39:16Speaker 2: because kids want analog media, they want vinyl, they want CDs,
- 39:21Speaker 2: and now they want cassettes.
- 39:22Speaker 1: What do you think is like, what is the catalyst
- 39:26Speaker 1: for that?
- 39:26Speaker 2: Like?
- 39:26Speaker 1: Why would you want something that's not as good as
- 39:29Speaker 1: what they're currently is? Like from a use point, like
- 39:34Speaker 1: you what can you have ten songs on a cassette
- 39:36Speaker 1: and then you've got to record them? Then you've got
- 39:39Speaker 1: to stick it in and press play and put batteries
- 39:41Speaker 1: in it.
- 39:42Speaker 2: The mixtape? Remember the mixtape? Now, I wonder if it's
- 39:44Speaker 2: pushback against technology. I wonder if if they're I mean,
- 39:49Speaker 2: I we know young Chris who did the show for
- 39:51Speaker 2: me a little while ago. He he's into kiss and
- 39:57Speaker 2: he he's got vinyl. I brought him a record player
- 40:00Speaker 2: for his birthday. So he's fifteen and he's obsessed with
- 40:03Speaker 2: VINYLNT And that's great. The kids are doing that and
- 40:07Speaker 2: getting an interest. I mean, it's bloody expensive to go.
- 40:09Speaker 2: Have a look at what it costs for an album,
- 40:11Speaker 2: and they're not cheap. But I just thought that was
- 40:14Speaker 2: really interesting that that there is a pushback against tech
- 40:16Speaker 2: and there are kids who aren't. I mean, I've got
- 40:19Speaker 2: a seventeen year old who works for me and he's
- 40:22Speaker 2: not on social media. It's like they don't want to
- 40:24Speaker 2: be on They certainly don't want to be on Facebook.
- 40:28Speaker 2: You know, don't get a young people that was so
- 40:31Speaker 2: twenty years ago. You know, young people now they want
- 40:33Speaker 2: to be seen. They're not places where their grandparents hang out.
- 40:38Speaker 1: I've got something that I want to show you. It's
- 40:40Speaker 1: going to take me thirty seconds to get so I
- 40:42Speaker 1: want speaking of this. I'm going to go get it.
- 40:45Speaker 1: You two keep talking. I don't say anything bad because
- 40:49Speaker 1: I'll listen back timmy second.
- 40:51Speaker 2: It occurred to me, Tiff, did you hear the grandma
- 40:54Speaker 2: like AI grandma? Yeah?
- 40:56Speaker 3: And we played a little bit. Yeah.
- 40:58Speaker 2: Yeah. It was really good, wasn't it. Yeah, because I
- 41:01Speaker 2: had it all cued up ready to play. Anyway, I
- 41:05Speaker 2: just want.
- 41:05Speaker 3: To go with the phone numbers that ring you and
- 41:08Speaker 3: then hang up if you answer.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Oh.
- 41:10Speaker 2: I think they just want to check to see if
- 41:12Speaker 2: there's actually a person who's going to answer the phone.
- 41:14Speaker 3: I get those from the same but a variation of
- 41:18Speaker 3: the same number. The last three yeah, zero, yeah, zero,
- 41:24Speaker 3: And I've blocked them all the time, and if I
- 41:26Speaker 3: ever accidentally answer, they hang up.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Well, what I tend to do now is unless the
- 41:31Speaker 2: number is in my list in my phone list, I
- 41:35Speaker 2: just let it go to a message bank, and if
- 41:37Speaker 2: they leave a message, I'll call them back. If they don't,
- 41:40Speaker 2: I won't. No, it is problematic, and I tend to
- 41:42Speaker 2: get them later in the afternoon. Do you get those No?
- 41:45Speaker 3: No, I don't pay attention.
- 41:48Speaker 1: So I'm back.
- 41:49Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well you should have heard.
- 41:50Speaker 1: So I was cleaning out a draw. I'm going to
- 41:54Speaker 1: just bring it up just the top of it and
- 41:56Speaker 1: see if you can guess game Boy.
- 41:58Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh my god, it is too. It's a green,
- 42:02Speaker 2: a bright green game Boy, isn't it?
- 42:05Speaker 1: And can you see what's in?
- 42:07Speaker 2: No? I can't see what game have you got on it?
- 42:09Speaker 2: I can't believe he's taking the piss out of me
- 42:11Speaker 2: for playing Beats Saber and he's got his green fluorescent
- 42:14Speaker 2: game Boy. Dude, that's pretty excellent. I can't quite see it.
- 42:18Speaker 2: It's too small. What game are you played?
- 42:19Speaker 1: So Tetris so I got, I've got my I've got
- 42:24Speaker 1: my game Boy color with Tetris so fucking good. And
- 42:28Speaker 1: I think this I think this bad boy is about
- 42:31Speaker 1: thirty years old.
- 42:32Speaker 2: Oh they're great. Game boys are fantastic.
- 42:35Speaker 1: And how game Boy? I don't know how much this
- 42:38Speaker 1: is worth? But no one's buying it. No, yeah, I
- 42:41Speaker 1: found it. I didn't. I was going to say the
- 42:43Speaker 1: other day. I found it a couple of months ago.
- 42:44Speaker 1: I was cleaning stuff up, and I'm like, I wonder
- 42:47Speaker 1: if this still works. I turned it on because the
- 42:49Speaker 1: batteries has got to be thirty years old. Bing wow, yeah, amazing.
- 42:54Speaker 2: Yeah. See that's so, I'll.
- 42:56Speaker 1: Let you have a go of it. You're welcome.
- 42:58Speaker 2: Awesome, that'd be great Tetris is a laser discs? Did
- 43:02Speaker 2: you ever remember we had friends of ours that had
- 43:04Speaker 2: laser discs. Now, I'm not talking about CDs or Dvds're
- 43:09Speaker 2: talking about like laser dicks discs. Keeping cut that one out.
- 43:15Speaker 1: Laser dicks. Wow, that's going to be painful all round.
- 43:23Speaker 1: Laser discs for music.
- 43:25Speaker 2: No movies. They were big, yeah, yeah, not blu ray no, no, no, no, no, giant, big,
- 43:31Speaker 2: twelve inch enormous like a record like it was like
- 43:33Speaker 2: a vinyl, but it was a laser disc.
- 43:37Speaker 1: I remember ones that were size of a CD where
- 43:40Speaker 1: you could play movies.
- 43:41Speaker 2: Now, these these were these came out before the traditional
- 43:46Speaker 2: CDs and DVDs came out. The only problem was they
- 43:50Speaker 2: cost so much more than VHS tapes to make. They
- 43:55Speaker 2: were five times more expensive. I knew someone who had
- 43:58Speaker 2: like a whole collection of them, and they just didn't
- 44:00Speaker 2: take off so much. What did and it was more
- 44:04Speaker 2: than I was thinking of other gadgets that took off. PDAs.
- 44:07Speaker 2: Do you remember what a PDA was?
- 44:09Speaker 1: No, people?
- 44:11Speaker 2: Was it like a like a recorder or something that
- 44:16Speaker 2: was a personal digital assistant. So it had a calendar
- 44:19Speaker 2: in it and it had a pen. I think Hewlett
- 44:21Speaker 2: Packard made them, so it was green on it with
- 44:24Speaker 2: a little pen. Do you remember business people used to
- 44:26Speaker 2: have them?
- 44:26Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember, and they were like the size
- 44:29Speaker 1: of a pager, but a bit bigger or something.
- 44:31Speaker 2: Oh they were kind of like the size of a
- 44:33Speaker 2: more standard mobile phone, is now right right?
- 44:36Speaker 1: Did you ever have a pager? Oh? Yeah I did.
- 44:39Speaker 2: I did. I had one as a journalist, I had yep, yep,
- 44:43Speaker 2: that was.
- 44:44Speaker 1: I had a pager before I got my motor rolla brick.
- 44:47Speaker 1: I thought I was the ship, you know, and like
- 44:51Speaker 1: were like, people like, what's that. I'm like, that's my pager.
- 44:55Speaker 1: A pager, it's a pager. Is that funny? Hell, there
- 44:59Speaker 1: was a point time we're the most embarrassing bullshit. Now.
- 45:03Speaker 1: Back then was like social status points. It's like you've
- 45:08Speaker 1: got a pager. Oh yeah, yeah, I need to be reachable.
- 45:12Speaker 1: And then I had my motor roll of brick, which
- 45:15Speaker 1: was about as big as a bloody VHS player that
- 45:18Speaker 1: I carried around like some kind of status symbol.
- 45:23Speaker 2: No wonder, you've got such big guns. Those things were heavy.
- 45:27Speaker 1: Well, I remember when they I think I was one
- 45:32Speaker 1: of the well, I was one of the first people
- 45:34Speaker 1: that I knew of anyway like that when that just
- 45:37Speaker 1: come out, and I was training lots of people and
- 45:40Speaker 1: had making lots of cash, remember cash, So I just
- 45:43Speaker 1: went and bought one and it was I can't remember,
- 45:46Speaker 1: but it was ridiculous. I think it was like four grand.
- 45:50Speaker 1: It was so expensive, and it had a big rubber
- 45:53Speaker 1: aerial yep and it was literally about, oh, I don't know,
- 45:59Speaker 1: twenty I've like eight nine inches long, and it was
- 46:02Speaker 1: big and gray, and it was two dollars thirty a
- 46:06Speaker 1: minute or something to talk. It was fucking outrageous.
- 46:10Speaker 2: And you know what, you know what one of the
- 46:11Speaker 2: telcoasts was doing. I won't mention which one, but what
- 46:14Speaker 2: they used to do. No, no, no, the telco provided
- 46:17Speaker 2: Telstra at Wellster Telecom. At the time, they were charging
- 46:21Speaker 2: people who to receive the call.
- 46:23Speaker 1: Do you remember, yes, yes, yes, I remember.
- 46:28Speaker 2: So if Craig called you, it's like, fuck off, don't
- 46:30Speaker 2: call me, it's costing.
- 46:31Speaker 1: Me exactly exactly.
- 46:35Speaker 2: Can you believe they did that? See if when someone
- 46:38Speaker 2: called you can not only were you paying per minute,
- 46:42Speaker 2: they were paying for the benefit of hearing from you.
- 46:46Speaker 1: I remember when I went, I actually feel like I've
- 46:49Speaker 1: said this once on this show. I'm not sure, but
- 46:53Speaker 1: I went to the States in nine. The first time
- 46:57Speaker 1: I went to the States was with my friend Greg,
- 47:00Speaker 1: and I was going out with a girl at the
- 47:01Speaker 1: time that one time, and I rang her about I
- 47:08Speaker 1: don't know, not many times, about five times over two
- 47:12Speaker 1: weeks for about three or four minutes a call, and
- 47:17Speaker 1: then we left the hotel we're at and I think
- 47:21Speaker 1: the bill was something like five hundred and thirty dollars,
- 47:25Speaker 1: it was like, and then I got it was like
- 47:29Speaker 1: twenty one dollars a minute or something doing an international
- 47:33Speaker 1: call through a hotel room phone by the US like
- 47:40Speaker 1: and for me, I did not have any dough Then
- 47:42Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, oh my god. Yeah. Crazy.
- 47:47Speaker 2: The other thing that were doing I going to tell
- 47:50Speaker 2: you this last one was texting. Because texts used to
- 47:53Speaker 2: be expensive. They would charge say twelve cents a text.
- 47:56Speaker 2: But the reality of it is they when there was
- 47:58Speaker 2: a I don't know if was you know, a study
- 48:02Speaker 2: or not even a study, like the government looked at
- 48:04Speaker 2: what telcos were charging and it ended up they were
- 48:08Speaker 2: only it only cost them point zero something since per text,
- 48:12Speaker 2: but they were charging twelve cents a text it was
- 48:14Speaker 2: the biggest scam ever. People were just being absolutely you know,
- 48:19Speaker 2: whipped with all these bills for making calls, sending texts,
- 48:23Speaker 2: and the reality was that they just didn't cost that much.
- 48:28Speaker 1: Let's talk about this one. Let's make this the home
- 48:31Speaker 1: straight give yourself the silent treatment, Patrick, What is that about?
- 48:36Speaker 2: This has got to be one of the most interesting
- 48:38Speaker 2: gadgets that I've heard of. And initially I thought of
- 48:41Speaker 2: the Cone of Silence from Get Smart, which maybe a
- 48:45Speaker 2: lot of our listeners will remember. Do you remember the
- 48:46Speaker 2: cone of Silence?
- 48:47Speaker 1: Yeah? I love the kind of silence, that plastic thing
- 48:50Speaker 1: that came like bumpily down from the roof.
- 48:54Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one. Now, this is some research that's
- 48:56Speaker 2: been done. This is really really clever stuff because I
- 48:59Speaker 2: know you are a big fan of your noise canceling headphones.
- 49:04Speaker 2: And the good thing about noise canceling what it can
- 49:07Speaker 2: do is it allows you to get rid of repetitive
- 49:10Speaker 2: noise in the area. So it might be if you're
- 49:12Speaker 2: on a train, you don't hear the engine noise, if
- 49:14Speaker 2: you happen to be on a plane, that sort of stuff.
- 49:16Speaker 2: But one of the challenges for people as they get
- 49:19Speaker 2: older is your hearing not only gets reduced, but certain
- 49:23Speaker 2: frequencies also are cut out as well. And if you
- 49:26Speaker 2: think of going to a cafe with a group of people,
- 49:28Speaker 2: it can be really problematic to try to hear with
- 49:32Speaker 2: all the background noise going on. So this silent treatment,
- 49:36Speaker 2: basically it's using noise canceling technology. But what they're trying
- 49:40Speaker 2: to do, and what they've managed to try, is to
- 49:43Speaker 2: create a basic sound bubble around you of say two meters.
- 49:47Speaker 2: So what it is is you put these little ear
- 49:49Speaker 2: park plugs in with the people who are sitting there
- 49:52Speaker 2: around you, and everything that happens within that two meter
- 49:55Speaker 2: bubble you can hear clearly. Everything outside of the two
- 49:59Speaker 2: met bubble is noise canceled.
- 50:03Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw a video on this with exactly what
- 50:06Speaker 1: you're talking about, people at a table chatting yep. That
- 50:09Speaker 1: I'm I think is that real or is that just conceptual?
- 50:14Speaker 2: It's concept, but it's it's functional concept. So they've main
- 50:18Speaker 2: managed to make it happen. It's just a way of
- 50:20Speaker 2: now being able to implement it. But you know, this
- 50:22Speaker 2: noise canceling technology has been around for a long time.
- 50:25Speaker 2: I mean I remember seeing it on the Curiosity show
- 50:27Speaker 2: when I was a kid, the whole idea of negative soundweight.
- 50:30Speaker 2: Do you remember that show, The Curiosity?
- 50:32Speaker 1: I remember that, I remember that show. What was that show?
- 50:35Speaker 1: With all our older listeners that are Oh fuck, that
- 50:38Speaker 1: was the day of the Curiosity Show? Do you remember that? Brian? Oh,
- 50:41Speaker 1: what a great show. What about Professor Julius sum Namilla
- 50:45Speaker 1: Do you remember him? Oh?
- 50:46Speaker 2: He did the Cadbury Ads. Didn't he a glass and
- 50:48Speaker 2: a half? A full tream dairy mount?
- 50:50Speaker 1: Yeah, he used to have I forget the name of
- 50:53Speaker 1: his show, but he also had There used to be
- 50:56Speaker 1: a lot of shows for kids that were kind of
- 51:00Speaker 1: remember that show It's academic?
- 51:02Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it rings a bell yep.
- 51:04Speaker 1: Yeah. There was a bunch of shows which is about,
- 51:06Speaker 1: you know, kids using their brain to solve problems. Essentially,
- 51:11Speaker 1: we need we need those back.
- 51:13Speaker 2: What are you're not a fan of reality TV?
- 51:18Speaker 1: It depends what it is in general terms, Not really,
- 51:21Speaker 1: that depends what it is. What's your favorite all time
- 51:26Speaker 1: reality show? Patrick? And you tif too, what it like?
- 51:29Speaker 1: Do you watch any of it?
- 51:31Speaker 2: No? I haven't watched television for twenty years.
- 51:33Speaker 1: Craig go, Oh that's right, that's right. I've never I
- 51:36Speaker 1: don't think I've ever watched. I don't think I've ever watched.
- 51:40Speaker 1: Maybe there's something I have, but all those things, like
- 51:43Speaker 1: the closest thing I've watched, like in the irony is
- 51:46Speaker 1: that reality TV is completely scriptured and manufactured most of it, right,
- 51:51Speaker 1: Probably the one that's the least scripted is that show
- 51:54Speaker 1: Alone where they just chuck people in the wilderness. Right,
- 51:58Speaker 1: and you probably have seen that. Well you haven't seen that, Patrick,
- 52:01Speaker 1: but even my friend who films it. No, they do.
- 52:07Speaker 2: Oh they film themselves.
- 52:08Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, so they are a lot No,
- 52:11Speaker 1: there's no no, there's no camera crew. They have to
- 52:14Speaker 1: film themselves. So they have multiple cameras, they wear a
- 52:16Speaker 1: camera on their head, they talk all the time. They
- 52:19Speaker 1: get they get kind of equipped and they'll have like
- 52:22Speaker 1: a outside the shelter that they build, they'll put a
- 52:26Speaker 1: camera on a tree that has a wide lens that
- 52:29Speaker 1: will catch a lot of there's yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
- 52:32Speaker 1: it's true. They're in the middle of nowhere, and it's
- 52:36Speaker 1: it's I mean, these people lose like some of them
- 52:39Speaker 1: lose like fifty pounds in six weeks and near death
- 52:43Speaker 1: and they have to get medically extracted from wherever, like
- 52:48Speaker 1: they just they pull the pin on them. Some of
- 52:50Speaker 1: them nearly kill themselves to because it's a million dollars.
- 52:53Speaker 2: Oh, I see, that's the reason they do it, Because
- 52:55Speaker 2: I think it's just voyeurism to the extreme. Isn't it
- 52:58Speaker 2: like we've like curiously living through their lives?
- 53:02Speaker 1: I guess so. I mean I find people who really,
- 53:06Speaker 1: I mean, genuinely explore the outer limits of their potential.
- 53:11Speaker 1: But there's a fine line between, you know, toughness and craziness,
- 53:15Speaker 1: and sometimes it's intertwined. But even things like The Block.
- 53:19Speaker 1: I mean Bianca Chapfield, who's a friend of a friend
- 53:23Speaker 1: of mine and a friend of the show she's she
- 53:26Speaker 1: was on The Block, and I watched a little bit
- 53:28Speaker 1: of that, but I'm like, I can't.
- 53:31Speaker 3: Fuck.
- 53:31Speaker 1: It does my head in. It's because it ends up
- 53:34Speaker 1: not being about the building, but the bitching, you know,
- 53:38Speaker 1: the relationships and the you know, Donna and Brian are
- 53:42Speaker 1: not on talking terms anymore, and you know whatever, I'm like, fuck,
- 53:46Speaker 1: and how can we look at the houses that they're building?
- 53:48Speaker 1: But TIV, do you have a favorite one?
- 53:51Speaker 2: No?
- 53:51Speaker 3: I don't watch any of them, but isn't what about
- 53:53Speaker 3: that one that I also haven't really watched like goggle Box,
- 53:57Speaker 3: where you watch people watching people on TV. You're watching
- 54:01Speaker 3: people watch TV.
- 54:02Speaker 1: When I first saw that, I'm like, this is the
- 54:05Speaker 1: dumbest shit of all time. There's people like there's a
- 54:09Speaker 1: TV show of people watching TV shows. This is never
- 54:13Speaker 1: going to take off. And I don't know if that
- 54:17Speaker 1: speaks positively to the Australian TV viewing audience. And I
- 54:21Speaker 1: know some people listening now like you haven't watched it's
- 54:23Speaker 1: fucking brilliant. I don't know. Imagine sitting in your lounge
- 54:29Speaker 1: on a couch and there's a TV camera pointing at
- 54:32Speaker 1: you as you watch television. What is your thought of that?
- 54:37Speaker 1: And then who gave it the green light? But who
- 54:40Speaker 1: was clever enough to know it's going to be a
- 54:42Speaker 1: fucking ratings juggernaut? What do you know? What do I know?
- 54:46Speaker 1: I mean that's the other thing. These things obviously work
- 54:49Speaker 1: commercially or they wouldn't exist, So what the fuck do
- 54:52Speaker 1: we know?
- 54:55Speaker 2: It's funny when you think about live TV and then
- 54:57Speaker 2: you think about really well crafted TV shows. There's a
- 55:01Speaker 2: series I started rewatching called Glitch on the ABC. Did
- 55:05Speaker 2: you ever see that? No good Australia. I think it
- 55:08Speaker 2: was shot around Castle, Maine as well. It was kind
- 55:10Speaker 2: of local in Country Victoria, and effectively it happens overnight there.
- 55:16Speaker 1: You know.
- 55:16Speaker 2: It starts off at a grave at a cemetery and
- 55:21Speaker 2: suddenly people are coming out of the graves and they
- 55:25Speaker 2: don't realize they're coming out of their grave and they've
- 55:28Speaker 2: just come back to life. And it's a whole story
- 55:31Speaker 2: of what's happening in this town with may. I think
- 55:34Speaker 2: it's maybe five or six people who come back to life,
- 55:37Speaker 2: and one guy was in the First World War. Another
- 55:40Speaker 2: person only died a few years earlier.
- 55:42Speaker 1: I actually think I did watch an episode of that.
- 55:44Speaker 1: Is that Australian or American?
- 55:46Speaker 2: Australian Now it's an Australian series called Glitch and me
- 55:50Speaker 2: the shame because I've written two pilot TV series so
- 55:55Speaker 2: and spent like six six months eight months just writing
- 56:00Speaker 2: script for a pilot and the closest we got was,
- 56:04Speaker 2: you know, the program director at Channel seven showing an
- 56:06Speaker 2: interest in this script. But pretty well crafted television. Whatever
- 56:12Speaker 2: the series happens to me, yeah, yeah, it kind of
- 56:14Speaker 2: rause me the wrong way when you know, when you
- 56:16Speaker 2: talk about a TV show looking at people watching a
- 56:18Speaker 2: TV show. I just said, Man, I sweated over these
- 56:21Speaker 2: two scripts over the years, and you know, and got
- 56:24Speaker 2: my hopes up and thought, this is great, this is
- 56:26Speaker 2: going to be fantastic, and to write a TV series
- 56:28Speaker 2: and then you know, you look at reality TV. Maybe
- 56:31Speaker 2: that's why I start watching TV twenty years.
- 56:33Speaker 1: Do you know what that reminded? How dumb that is?
- 56:36Speaker 1: You know what? It reminds me of a fifty seven
- 56:38Speaker 1: year old man in his lunde room with a fucking
- 56:41Speaker 1: pretend saber cutting pretend boxers in half.
- 56:44Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to do it?
- 56:47Speaker 1: Oh the irony? Patrick? How do people connect with you
- 56:51Speaker 1: and find you?
- 56:52Speaker 2: I want to connect with me, seriously?
- 56:55Speaker 1: Who would well after today? Probably nobody, But on the
- 56:59Speaker 1: off chance that there is some broken specimen out there
- 57:03Speaker 1: who wants to in our real job.
- 57:05Speaker 2: You know, luckily I have staff.
- 57:08Speaker 1: Don't try and get some credibility now, don't try and
- 57:11Speaker 1: talk yourself up.
- 57:15Speaker 2: Shut up websites, NOOW, dot com dot au and we
- 57:19Speaker 2: can talk about VR. Come over to my place and
- 57:21Speaker 2: I'll put a set on you and we can play beatsaper.
- 57:25Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 57:25Speaker 1: I don't want to do it because I'll probably like it.
- 57:27Speaker 2: You will. I guarantee you you like it. Tiff would
- 57:30Speaker 2: love it.
- 57:31Speaker 1: I can't like Thanks Patrick, Thanks Tiff,