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it's tuesday march twenty seventh and you are experiencing the grave podcast i'm donna bell hey barek Franklin hi buddy cha cha cha's a little stuffed up uh that'll be great you really yeah you should no no no look this is the episode where we actually just completely keep it real yeah because this is the final chapter is it yeah okay so you say final chapter what do you mean I mean this is the end of the great podcast this is it hmm there's been a hey show some respect all right no I yet the trumpet can play during the moment of silence alright but okay looks like he's saying live long and prosper yeah we brought out we brought all the toys we brought all the guys yep my um my spirit nail your friend my spirit animals Admiral shot bar over here we've got okay just came out maybe you've got it my keep on my bond oh I don't want think my space oh I keep on lost oh god he's lost his crown uh and then what's your spirit animal over there my spirit animal is uh pure evil he's a demon of the ancient world as i was telling Bonnie her right ah he's a Balrog Oh God it's pretty great um so I'm glad everyone could make it to this yes this last episode yeah we're not kidding no really I if you haven't heard the news many of the creator of the cnet podcast are hanging it up I think a lot of them are going off next week yeah you know it let's let's give you time to mourn them separately than us we're giving you a morning yeah morning morning morning plus it gives us more time to start doing the next thing yeah and then we can surprise you with extra awesomeness earlier than the other hand we can get the jump on them this basically what were why we're doing this let's be honest I've been doing this podcast for two years now pretty much just to entertain myself yeah you know yeah so you guys were entertained as a result then then bonus cool yeah that was the entire about that that was the entire office asst right it's like well if I can just talk about stuff that I like and find entertaining then other people will feel that excitement possibly through my excitement about it yeah exactly i mean it has no bearing in their life or any kind of practical use or purpose right and it's brought us this far um it has this is pretty far actually feel kind of great that we didn't get cancelled specifically yeah we got cancelled in in a collective yeah maybe they were just being nice to us and we that's what i was thinking like oh me they just really didn't want to bring it i really don't want to hurt Donald feeling holiday mine's the world to him diculous like was tied into his personality they had self-esteem really closely it's like they just kind of make it up every week not even plan it's not even a good show it's not in the first place yeah yeah listo honey I know uh yeah thanks for doing that because it helps preserve my ego yeah self-esteem yeah but there will still be the 404 so don't worry there's still plenty of good podcast around reporters roundtable still going to be around yeah it's gonna be I think retooled or something like that right little different maybe than what it is now is what I heard I think the thing to be excited about is that also take away those big scene the cnet scene at TV news com all this sixth floor cnet awesomeness that we have here is all being cranked up to 11 right yeah and we're putting ourselves into more useful and amazing purposes yeah yeah there is there is some there is a silver lining here a pretty fix over line I would say and that you just mention it no I think the thick silver lining is what we'll call this no actually I'm calling this episode 100 because we almost made it to 100 yeah yeah and that feels more worthy of a final upgrade yeah crave epic rave 82 and so 100 an episode 100 I like it alright it's clever but we did nothing special this is just another episode of crave your friends yes as such I will introduce the first topic of conversation here which I'm actually excited about this is a big kids ever wanted to connect your wiggle this is the free universal construction kit it is a universal adapter that adapts all the disparate kinds of kid block toys and construction toys together so they can all coexist and you don't even buy it you just have it 3d printed on like a maker by machine that that therein lies the free part of the free universal construction right you got to buy the leaving the printer though right yeah but that never sauce can you like go to a place that has a 3d printer and like make something if ya what that place to their places like tech shop week okay yeah yeah okay cool so you can make that happen but this is this is great I mean this is always like the law as a father of a three-and-a-half-year-old this is one of the things that big you come face to face with is that you have a floor full of toys that eventually they're all going to get mixed together yeah you know of course so instead of fighting it and trying to contain all the Legos and lincoln logs and other stuff into their separate bins when you clean it up why not just have them all just get along yeah it's one shared universe is what's going orgy of toy bits yes all weekend your kids clean but I mean you know it's this probably a weird twisted kind of perverted thrill of you know connecting a zoom into a lego right cuz it shouldn't be but it is now with this I don't want to touch this one no it's like that Hank yeah man no it's the last show and all that still away so the real doll grown-ups like playing with LEGOs and lincoln logs and korea to battle zoo yes yeah I I don't know yeah sure this this combines all that stuff but as a kid I never had a problem mixing my universes my toy universe has never had a problem with you know cobra attacking castle grayskull you know or the transformers you know defending against you know snake mountain or something like that sorry but this is a little different you couldn't you can literally abandoned by them right yeah right and they make stuff like that banging which is well you know that is it could be any to whatever you want it to be that there you go yeah I have no imagination I'm old so this is not for me that's what I'm saying I'm excited all right all right I'm also excited for this this is the fish clip believe it it's not for clipping fish believe that no it's not like a it's a it's a way to it's like a bad clip but instead of it being like a like going across a seam of the bag it just cinches it off like bunch it together yeah like a caveman you just like grab your your sack of chips and I just what is this let me clips it off will you like that rat ce o-- holds it yes and it's just like cute little fish yeah whole thing but it's apparently really tight yeah and it's really good for like freezer stuff like if you have a bag of I don't know frozen chicken nuggets or something yeah like cinches it so you don't have all that freezer burn oh yeah it makes it airtight yes okay yeah I do this all the time where it's like I will open up like a bag of frozen vegetables Justin like that instead of like even finding something to clip it I just kind of twist it yeah like hoping like Ray that it's eat off it in the bag you know hopefully holder I cram it into the back of the freezer the more likely it will stay fresh sure I'm sure that's how it work uh hopefully the actual package will freeze in that position ok don't worry about imprinted in yeah exactly yeah this is cute yeah not high-tech obviously but uh life-changing yeah and but they're kind of pricey like five bucks a pop I think but I think you get three jumps Parkman has some at his desk and they came in a package of all I know is that it just parchment is excited about this there's reason to be excited yeah if he's exactly anything you should get behind it not touching that yeah uh also exciting this goes into the make it yourself I should have put this with the the legos adapter because this is a DIY project but nonetheless let's talk about it doesn't even have a name it's like a draw bot this is like last week we were talking about that was it the draw do not I think we're talking about that last we did a little lever little draw draw do uh it was like a draw bot that like you just like hooked it up and it would draw like cute little things and response to your Twitter feed or I don't we talk about all the stuff we are in different parts you cheating on us maybe wasn't it raw deal it was a piccolo or something like that yeah the piccolo hammer right yeah there's two couple shows ago you find it so piccolo that the music miss Sherman piccolo no with a different thing anyway for you Robert piccolo bail me out oh oh yeah there you go I really build I the point I'm trying to make here is that drawing robots automatic drawing machines are a thing they're like a right thing now yeah and here's one that you can make with two old turntables you might not be using anymore you set them up in opposite directions you connect some kind of articulated pieces of wood with them and a sharpie and you get this kind of freaky to watch yeah just the kind of relax wave gotik yeah you can't program it to draw specific things right it just draws random I think it depends on what records you put on you know like if size of the rivets like Mac in the mood right yes like you could put like herb alpert on one and then h town on the other and i'm sure what with the combination like a trumpet a burrito and a boot or like a butt sound like a trumpet like a bud with a chomping coming out there and a tijuana taxi cab uh yeah so this is a high oh university student put this together and amazing that has not occurred until now yeah because it's not using any technology that you couldn't have gotten like 30 40 years ago wait yeah so good on you just goes on like that yep yep okay whatever it's you you're in the art printing business at that point you just get a little get a little stand out at the local farmers market yeah so your draw bot drawings you probably been some ception school liberals it they should be buying this from you draw tando like hemp or something like that right yeah yes use some soy based ink cheats ahem yes yeah exactly give it out in I like it um but should you not want to do that you really want to fashion your hemp drawings without the aid of technology you could be Bonnie cha hey sexy 24 hour withdrawal of technology that you subjected yourself dad but the National Day of unplugging right he took the pledge and they stuck to it all right so how how and why why is mom can I actually do this and um kind of a challenge personal challenge yeah yeah but I mean it it started at sunset on Friday and first couple of hours were rough cuz I I should have put my phone away but it was within eyesight yeah and did you instinctively grab at any point you know but I wish I'd taken an ax to your phone or something I am i bugging plugging yeah um no but I it like I was trying to like reason with myself I'm like well what if I just turn it on and not you know reply to text message you can still see them but I can just see it and pop up everyone no that's cheating yeah kept it off um I was talking with you the next day cuz you were gonna take a picture for the story and I was and actually talking with him not actually right but I wanted to bail I was like uh it was raining that day ready to use a phone no no we set it up friday before the whole she did a ring our doorbell which technically is technology yeah i'll let you have that all right yeah um but yeah that morning I was like oh I figured out a photo I can do at home I don't need Eric to take a photo but there's no way I could get in touch with you to be like I know coming out of it expecting she dead no you can send a carrier pigeon yeah so I took him over and I mean it was great it was funny and we had a good talk yeah we actually talked we did we'd just sit down and syntax each other like we usually do right now so we actually talked and conversations but it was good and the hardest part was riding the bus without my music uh-huh there was wells expiries like thousands of despair I know yeah there's no buses for sure yeah a couple buses were fine but there was one when I was going to dinner that night there's one girl telling her college friends like just drink water in between drinks and you'll be okay Oh wake up in some stranger's home again haha his drink water and then there was another guy just shouting into his phone he wasn't even arguing you just like was like look you know the guy the people who like bring their phone down in the mouth and then bring it back to the ear yeah he's on the walkie talkie was he saying over after everything he said before good money no um and then there was another guy he was just like watching a movie without the headphones on oh my god i always wonder if I'm that guy sometimes I'll you ever do this where you double check to make sure your headphone cable is like really connected in there or I dig your hands off you like i'm just making sure yeah yeah i do do that yeah i'm yeah i'm listening to or the like sometimes like party rock anthem will come on like make sure no one else can hear I'm necessity do it like totally guilty pleasures like his jacket because one of the what I mean I think it's actually me giving those people more credit than their than they're worth because I maybe accidentally they're watching the movie without with the speakers right yeah they've landed on their headphones or something and sure somehow they fell off their head and game on they have noticed it so did you find yourself being like more aware of other people using technology because of it you're like I'm at me not really like I towards the end of saturday i was like I wasn't even thinking about it were you then looking down on people for their addiction that judging man i was like no you weren't feeling a little sleepy mostly because i was trying to look out the window just riding big Oh a happy place am I gonna scaring these people when I would go give my kids no but Twista at night like I wasn't craving it as my turret you know compared to the beginning room like I need a tournament yeah so your withdrawal period lasted like a few hours yeah yeah which was surprising I want to see some like time-lapse version of this day we're like it starts off with Bonnie just like ah that it ends with her like Victorian garb and writing with like a feather and like an inkwell getting totally used and not having balladeer just looking like the envelope and like some old papyrus handcrafted envelope on some hand pressed paper letters right next year next year make sure that well I hope that is a sign of the the kind of life affirming experience that Cray podcast listeners can hell yeah and withdrawals that they'll certainly be having won this time gasps yeah yeah now you see it now they know how useful we could be and actually then the next piece i have here may actually be appropriate for them this is a manual typewriter i have this in that i do not crave category but now that I'm thinking about it in this unplugged world maybe I would crave this okay it's a little bit of an odd of an odd thing is it's being made and sold by Hammacher Schlemmer purveyor of wacky technology and when his aims wacky names um it's a actual like fully functional standard typewriter nothing there no USB ports no hooks yeah yes yes if you want by an old school typewriter again you can for two hundred dollars what's our dollar yeah wasn't honest because they can and people actually pay for this right well as much as how you can convince me anyone buys anything from the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog uh yeah I guess so I feel like it's a misguided thing to like capitalize on like the retro turntable phenomenon you know we're like hip kids are buying up turntables to listen to vinyl maybe those same hipsters are going to want to go out and buy themselves an old tiny typewriter well they would if is they get it the goodwill for like eight bucks right you know or to end it out not for a brand new one for 200 bucks that kind of ISA purpose doesn't it like I feel like most most real hipsters Donald yeah those real hipsters aren't gonna get behind something like this right they want like that vintage yeah this is kind of isn't your deer head into poser territorial especially it's like it's all encased in plastic I mean a lot of typewriters were but it's not even stretching for like an an old antique typewriter type things it looks like it was just thrown off of some IBM you know yeah yes looks like a lenovo typewriter I hope that was anything but you know if you've got no other option and we really do have a tech pakka lips that will force us to go back into the typewriter era this is what you got that's you're gonna be text messaging on this thing Elam's about yeah the faster than text messaging with my fone bone all right for our last piece for our last show thankfully we have a viewer feedback saying that we have this is from Blessid bless said send less was uh we have apparently opted to clear my throat for this one you guys have the best podcast on cnet Bonnie just added a little bit of extra to balance off the perv aspect that I love keep up the great work we will we won't oh but thank you for the note it was a lovely note and it's good to be although and this pod cat word not this podcast because we still have my favorite segments coming up here but to have this yeah this good on the last show yeah I was considered me begging for it and then you know chastising every listener for not writing in we had one yeah unsolicited yep maybe alright but now for the last time my favorite segment on grave make it obvious this time that user your mind Oh last time that'll never happen Admiral Ackbar is sad saturday oh my dear Oh sac bar uh Elmo sack bar from a very very popular series of movies star wars right mm-hmm that's that's that's his piss his pedigree and speaking of popular series of movies let's try to make a sack plan and I just yeah I failed at it ya SE sak Wars that's how to discuss that I was like Empire Strikes sack yeah there you go but he really wasn't in the Empire Strikes Back he was not he was only a material Jedi yeah yeah anyway speaking of movies cut that part um The Hunger Games came out last week and took in a hundred and fifty 2.5 million dollars in the US in the very first weekend that put it at number three for the top opening weekends of all time Wow in the US is right behind the dark knight and last year's harry potter and deathly hallows part 2 part 2 yeah please put that into two movies oh yeah pretty impressive I saw the movie on Friday uh I liked it a lot I really enjoyed it I thought it was really well-made well well acted well written it was it was surprisingly brutal with the violence because if you don't know what the premise is is basically a bunch of kids killing each other until ones left like 12 to 18 year olds killing each other it's pretty pretty awesome concept and handle really well yeah um but I didn't expect it to be this popular it is me so well might I guess my my question then is you know have have the teams taken over because this is the kind of like the twilight you know if you look at twilight let the popularity of that those movies i feel like you know if you if you make a book kind of kind of care targeted as a young adult yeah that's all you have your printing money these days I feel like Harry Potter Twilight have the tweens and the teams taken over that's my question yes no maybe what do you want to hear fan sir do you want I mean I think that it's there is always there so it that the tough part is how to capitalize on the teen economy without completely debasing the art of movie making yeah with things like Twilight sure you know and I've had to sit through those with scream 6 or whatever well then as funny to say scream 6 because the last scream came out and was a complete dud at the box office yeah because it was a is now at that at the point it is now it's like it's a throwback to your parents having seen it right it's not something you it's not something new and something you take ownership of all right it's like oh my mom was into that scream movies that's not that cool what were you gonna say but I didn't say what made you see it cuz you didn't read the books I didn't read the books um I like I what maybe see was this is you new Dark Knight was threatened you think this is about what is this gotta know your enemy man yeah um no I I guess early reviews and you know my wife she read the books and she told me what the premise was I was like okay it's battle royale it's the american version of battle royale you guys have seen oh yeah the Japanese will be better out which is based on a Japanese book I think it's japanese book um this is basically that is the did you know battle royale with um my people why people there's pretty good mix in there which another thing that was did not look that way from my trailer yeah I know yeah in that district is pretty because they like the they're all separate into different districts like 12 different districts that's pretty it just look like what you like girls hurt it's going to be doing this yes yeah that wouldn't have been different type but no let me there's a pretty good mix of you know color in the movie which I appreciate um but uh yeah it was it was the early reviews and then just the concept of it's like okay better way out sure and I was like oh there probably are not gonna go as far as that RL they don't really go as far battle right but they do get pretty brutal with the killings which I really enjoy an action was shot well and it was very suspenseful like the the kind of effects they use in every user it is the effects sparingly but they were very like story based effects we're just gratuitous sex I'm disgusting battle royale now though I know have you seen it bunny no it's um it's basically the same thing but yeah like high school kids yeah it while the hunt down to but now I saw it like the other day was just going to run a movie it's like on blu-ray now too oh is it yeah nice might have to pick that up yeah just to we can talk about it next no I was in the teenagers killing teenagers before was cool I i think though most teenagers have that kind of like apocalyptic fantasy where they're like you know what what if my what if things happen at my high school and we just have to is every kid for themselves yourself yeah and me and my trench coat mafia of like you know friends laughter like numchuck our way out of the school right yeah you know whoever gets out first lids or something like that and yeah so this is and I think that's therein lies the appeal the teenage appeals like I want to go see this played out yeah I want to see how to trip wanna see was what are the best practices as far as taking my fairly mom I feel my other students oh yeah anyway I'm not happy now yeah they go thank you everyone for tuning in these many years to the crate podcast do not mourn for us though we're already dead that was that was the that's how we were gonna do the hook at the end you know surprise everyone's already dead does pre-recorded ya know we're all going to be doing some really fun stuff and so you were if you are a cnet viewer lover of cnet and the crave blog you're going to see more of us and all of our awesomeness so stay tuned a tuned be excited continued yes but until next time yeah you