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it's Monday februari 13 2012 it's the 404 show on cnet I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Wilson tang mmm that what I'm Justin you this is the show we're getting to the bottom of this these shenanigans shenanigans that wouldn't call Janet shenanigans are that's a really meaningful word that's when you know someone serious when they use the word shenanigans what are we talking about here talk about the live stream event or the weekend there's a lot of stuff to knock them there's nothing nothing has nothing happened to Megan god you're insensitive what do you mean such a prick about a pretty you yeah you are what Lexi the definition is you're a picture you weren't this a pathetic when Michael Jackson died i'm not a pathetic it said cracking jokes I'm not crack jokes racket you guys so it's not funny at all you know I get tired of uh like I thought I got about all these things especially who Twitter and push notifications like is it it almost it's scary to look down at your phone now like you know every time you get one of these notifications obviously if you don't know when you use the best way this weekend and that was just like a you know it happened when we were actually about to go out for dinner and have some fun with some friends and you know I'm sure it was just so depressing it it said for sure what I ruin the evening well we talked every one yeah the Grammys were pretty said to what I find what I find a weird is not even you know uh her specific death what's crazies like every week now there's these trends on Twitter uh celebrities who are not dead right and that's becoming a problem that's when you know that Twitter is way too popular uh because all the idiots are out there and every stupid person who's ever had any stupid ideas like and how do these things are they propagated by the last week it was Kim jong-un got assassinated by ninjas ninjas but it's always like someone we was like Morgan Freeman Jeff Goldblum yeah George Lopez these all ball these people are alive and well right but Twitter for like eight hours a day kills a celebrity that's not really dead do you ever back in 2010 I feel like there was a rumor that Whitney Houston had actually overdosed um well that it does have a weird fortune well let's not lie to ourselves it's not unbelievable that that would have she's had issues for a while but nobody expected her to be to pass away at relatively young age of 48 definitely young for sure us really said there is a tech angle on this though so obviously after she died people went to places like Amazon and iTunes to buy her greatest hits album and it became number one immediately on both of those I would easily mad right but then soon afterward it actually jumped the price jump sixty percent whoa on amazon and itunes yeah it went from around 787 originally so there's like 12 62 that's the price when generally things are sort of like in the bargain bin run itunes the bargain bin price is like about eight dollars right right which is probably why it's because no one really purchased that all i mean everyone had the ultimate connection collection already and then i guess and they bought it more on twitter and the headline was like itunes is trying to trying to capitalize on the unfortunate death of a miss houston right that turns out not to be sort of like itunes apple's fault yeah it was something else right it was sony's issue sony hike the price up up well sony owns all the rights okay Houston's catalog and I guess when they saw the house and sales rising they raised the cost of the wholesale price he's not raised because of the individual can't you not do that isn't that Aaliyah whatever the heck means you want to help your own if you're on the right thing I thought you could not do that under certain certain circumstance elite you could but the government can stop it come into you can raise the prices the equivalent of a hurricane in the entertainment it is entertainment industry but nobody's you know nobody's gonna die with I because they're not gonna listen to what Houston I understand the difference but still but that is pretty effed up it is not more than F it's okay that's beyond after peti Reddy Oh Jesse were heard of Winston see I will always love you this morning in the pre-show is like white what is Adi good just make that up the bodyguard yes I know that's all like and you have like puzzled look on your face I don't know that part I know the chorus the one that's you know what I was like just one know the one shows one note yeah that's really good oh stop you called Adele addley last week that no no sorry you didn't know what good will was so that how is that a win they're both in the kid at a loss for me I was that a den 11 freeze I remember yeah don't forget are you smart who's talking over here what's that are you smarter than a 5th grader sometimes occasional is to be a pop culture genius ah dude don't don't you dare I that is not the case here I want to dance with somebody someone that is my favorite whitney houston song well it's not you know it's not very manly of me but I don't care because it's a great song I slid across the kitchen floor in the speaking of high school who and Twitter that doesn't know anything so there's this kind of meme going up somebody did a search for who is Paul McCartney okay during the Grammys man and it returned dozens upon dozens of tweets presumably from somebody who's probably under 10 and Adele uh who is like who the f is Paul McCartney see I don't blame I don't blame a young person for not knowing i blame their parents for not telling them who that's that the pair I mean you're ten I mean I guess someone who's ten should have heard of the Beatles yeah you would imagine you would imagine I oh my goodness this is just we're just scrolling through a seemingly endless list of people asking Twitter who is Paul pry the same people who say rest in peace you know Wayne Brady as you know like it's it's ridiculous how man it's stupid there should be a total sort of censorship on Twitter you should be able to pet you have to pass some sort of a GED equivalent to be user to it right there are a lot of people on Twitter last night when Chris Brown came out uh that went to Twitter and said oh man this is kind of messed up but I'd like Chris Brown beat me like that what a trending thing I saw there was a whole list of stuff on buzz feed about people just saying that you know various iterations of that phrase I we put the furniture yeah I think I let him beat me no I offer i wiII for American you are weep for our culture because I absolutely like refuse to have watch or you know pay anything or anything Chris Brown relates crazy people like call me crazy but I would like Chris Brown beat me up any day see now I feel like they may be a joke I don't know me cry don't know I'd like Chris Brown beat me up anytime that they all say the same but these are all crazy women right these are the women that make it okay its various way I'm serious they by saying that you are not your you're throwing yourself under the but how could you do that to your gin how dare you represent your gender though Scott cheeky though it is Twitter you think it's fair I I mean half the crap I say what do you know one my talking about eighty-nine percent of the self I sands witter the whole website now my to come in it's not some sort of self-promotion threat it's something completely useless I could go in one year now the other way and then I've lost everyone it's weird because you would imagine given like all the articles and all the warnings of like Oh Twitter's public and if you ever want a job don't tweet anything that stupid you could always go back and deletes them Twitter yeah we should really only last for a week you should be able to specify an expiration date after each tweet weather service we found that day yeah I forget what it's called but it should be ingrained in the Twitter service right I'm cuz does not you ever want to go back to and read your old tweet oh I was sometimes I mean about 300 hours ago you know like no way the only reason why is for people to call you out on something you can yeah that's what I'm saying they should all be transitive it's only designed to backfire nothing good can come of that having a complete you know an anthology of your tweets yeah speaking of Adele uh do you want to talk about your newfound love of man artists i I've known about her she's not like news to me I took me a really long time to learn about Lady Gaga that I will admit I was way behind the curve oh she was kind of sort of but I went say underground but like she was popular amongst like a certain small crowd yeah won't even know if you can say that I have no idea but what was what I thought was really cool about Adele was that when she wants you thanked her doctor would like yeah because Roger throat sir yeah and like you know it was it wasn't anything like you know it was just like hey guess what this guy fixed me up thanks right she's awesome what a sweetheart really cool looks relatively normal oh god she is painfully norm yeah that's the weird thing it's like you it's a shock here music you expect her to just because she's so passionate like they have some sort of uh just very distinctive look and she just that's almost the reason why I feel like a lot of people like physically normal or her she just her demeanor her attitude of right next door she just looks like she's awesome she's slowly Osborne to me whenever I know better think twice she has a British accent no no physically I don't know she just reminds me of her oh she's much more attractive than Kelly Osbourne yeah well have nothing against Kelly Osbourne have you ever cried to any of Adele songs you know but i understand it out here it's like that tier note yeah you know what I mean absolutely if there's something about that song and they make fun of it on Saturday Night Live to have you ever seen that women like you yeah they all the window washers cry yeah like pans across are pretty good it's pretty good yeah well actually I'm speaking of that there's an article in The Wall Street Journal this came out last Friday but I wanted to talk about it uh a British psychologist is kind of analyzed a bunch of tracks including Adele Someone Like You and he realized that a lot of those passages have a similar characteristic and they all contain this musical device called appoggiatura wasn't I know you're a big classical music fan this is Marcia not sure what our tour is appoggiatura is basically an ornamental note that clashes with the melody and creates a dissonant sound to wear those conflicting tones create an emotional response in the listener Wow um and so you find these types of notes in sounds like someone like you also in uh what's that Eric Clapton song tears in heaven oh yeah yeah of something like that or yeah and everybody hurts all those kind of songs that invoke that really strong tier drinking reaction they all contain appoggiatura don't you think it's it's that's only part of the equation though I mean the context you know the context of the song I mean her beautiful voice doesn't make me cry right but there's so much passion in let me Jenny when Christian no I wanna elevates you want to correct things I don't cry from your singing to Adele I can cry I can't know I've read I have cried there was one too no I cried and but I can understand / appreciate that emotional sort of trigger that happened it's a really sad song she's talking about this guy who's broke up with and she it's really sad yeah and she's young so you know like what young love is a bit you know it's your very emotional no does it to me is that like she most of the song is really quiet and then in crescendos and then all of a sudden the chorus just goes up and when she laughs she lasts out that course you can I've never I'm not sure there's a song where you can understand how emotionally affected the artist is yes in a chorus because when she belts that out it's like Jesus I'm is supposed to be watching you seeing this this is a very intimate moment that maybe you should be having with yourself yeah wow it's it's it's beautiful well do you guys have songs that that invokes that reaction out of you is there one particular song weather associated with someone situation or an ex-girlfriend or something that makes you really just I don't know man I don't need to come on I'm thinking of like College it's getting in the dark ages ya know when things were real real black yeah okay well i don't know i don't have a specific song though it's all like it's all like nonsense pop punk sort of stuff 90's music does bring me back to the moment with that song there's okay i got you know i got a song is it collective soul or soul asylum they don't run away train no no I runaway train which one when he's on the edge of the building um how does it go the world I have known oh this console yes oh yeah that's a good one so I walk the gonna step to the what about the sand below said that sir that's a very good hi this is a little person I would say it's music but like things like uh I can't watch medical dramas anymore like I don't like I with other so nonsensical the general really like with my zynga other like I can't I just are understandable I don't sound like it's weirder stuff that i watch house all the time before and then now like I turn it on it's sort of like is it how science fiction a lot of it is but a moment somebody she's like tumor I'm right no just I definitely understand that Wilson I thought you were gonna say the UH the opening music to when you turn on an apple macintosh computer is like a child every time I you know I get when it when you know when you could feel like yourself getting teary-eyed you like that do I love it I do love it yeah Fleetwood Mac landslide that one don't get it right come on Bonnie Raitt I can't make you love me really oh these are like kind of old songs too yeah it hurts me I think um here's a heaven I guess that's why they call them dear heaven especially when if you know there's about as kid right Elton John I guess I'm a bit guess that's why they call the blues that you said song yeah yawn or going towards the movies that's stupid don't ever cry is there anything like a movie I get weird emotion at weird times like you might see if this is stupid but I'm just gonna be honest with people if I see like certain scenes from like sporting events to that like I have emotional attachments as a child too yeah like the first time like the miracle and yeah like stuff like that guy's gets me a little teary-eyed because like I wasn't alive but I can appreciate the emotion right okay you know like the first time I saw a green day I remember I was like twelve oh wow I cannot believe I'm seeing these guys cried at the show I was like teary-eyed for a second yeah a little bit cry if I was at a show right now and I look to my side and I saw 12 world kid crying I would cry I'll cry yeah I'll try looking at him I feel like oh my god is your first time seeing yes Ben that I've known before using been a lot of rain good job you know what seeing gets me every time and over actually being in the theater as a kid and crying during this movie somewhere out there in the movie and americantale Bible yeah yeah some more others when him and his sister separated on their different countries and they're looking at the moon and singing to each other said by james ingram and Linda Ronstadt ah yeah that's def it's not very sad then there's that seen whether on the soap box right there like on drifting away on doing oh my gosh it's tough man won't you make it over like thinking yeah the ranking yeah I guess but that is said but you cry at wally and that's unacceptable what libels bible is much sadder nothing much sin ya know what was crying our future though or up up ahead opposite opposite talking about old movies we are jumbo we're bumming literally everyone had not imagine if you guys watch SNL this weekend I did actually i'm close the verizon 4g uh yeah LTE gonna get that was a layer it was pretty good and it sort of puts in perspective the world that at least we go to every single day like we're seeing that talking about like that you know droid xyboard just like for some reason seems normal right but then you step out into reality like oh that's the reason why people don't see I didn't think the commercial was that funny I thought the slogan at the end was funny words i'm using old peoples engine whatever that was funny right that was funny because that's definitely true these poor people i'm glad that people are finding realizing this finally in the nomenclature how long have we been saying yeah ridiculous oh so confusing how dare they attempt to it wine is one day we're gonna be that guy see haven't see I know I know we're biased because we're young now I can't imagine a future where we don't understand technology but don't forget people who were in their 70s and 80s and grew up you know without you know without even television yeah you know it's like they I don't think it said I don't understand what it means is that they don't just they just don't care if they don't know parents find out what it is and I don't blame the party I don't give a crap either who would blame them yeah blame who could blame a 75 year old for not knowing 4G LTE right they don't need to be downloading thing are just song their psyche they're alive I don't know about that I'm dude a life expenses gone up it's a big deal there never fish to fry in their priorities there's sales going on local grocery stores they need to conserve they're worried about their children and their grandchildren people in a yard there's kids driving by their house that they need to yell at you know like you know when I visited my grandma playing those streets my grandma has a cell phone yeah she didn't know if she uses any more like even to meet the fact that she was using a cell phone at one point was just blowing my mind how dare we lay this responsibility like that she even has a strength to push down on at all what I'm saying oh and that's not what I'm saying all right grandma back and I you know but they all get golf right they'll understand go that's a complicated game it's true give him some little bit of credit oh boy um you know let's get to some calls because we got to go short shows on Mondays you guys know the situation let's let's handle some of these time to show the love a jig 6404 cnet I need a good cry it's been a while yeah don't cry you do this after the show hey for four guys this is Chicago from Lucca was having dinner with my girlfriend when she told me that she'd never seen the fifth element much to my horror immediately after we went to dinner i wrenched over to best buy and purchase it made her wash it over at her house hmm to my horror and she was underwhelmed no muss begins my new search for a new girlfriend I mean I can't disagree with this guy he brings up a decent question though do you think that fifth element holds up now to people that had never watched it in this big questions good question i'm bias I'm gonna say yes yeah I am you watch stuff I mean it revokes that sort of nostalgia like it's hard to divorce you know like oh when I saw it back then how awesome it was right to how I'm feeling right now so i know i'm pretty sure uh the okay the scenes where he's driving the cab some of those probably look a little suspect but today standard the action scenes are still really good actions really good all the like the fly throughs all the the establishing shots of you know New York and way in the future yeah I think that looks good still milla jovovich still ha still huh that's never gonna change he'll make it for a second yeah all right let's uh let's respect that move on down to the frame oh I know I know exactly the timecode know all the coordinates oh man no just yeah you know look it was a nice run you didn't have to go your other separate ways I'm sorry if you get a breeze she cared about you she would pretend to like it that's how you I don't got a problem her not having ever see on the movie got a problem with her seeing it and then you know not long that she enjoyed she saw how passionate you were sick and good bro for this is an diego from stephen i was actually just calling in regards to your friday show and he had a gut man on and i actually wanted to comment on a throwaway comment that Justin seemed to make about what earbuds he used he mentioned that he uses I guess the ultimate years 18 earbuds and I have a crappy twenty dollar pair of earbuds so I figured I'd check them out and if they're the right ones that are listed on the logic website it looks like there's thirteen hundred dollars so I was kind of wondering how someone who lives in a shoebox apartment and survive solely on Domino's Pizza was able to afford thirteen hundred dollar earbuds well that's why he is in a jam down no it's like a chicken in the egg hunt it's true so uh what we were talking about last week was in ear monitors these are custom earphones that you can get from an audiologist that's a jewel of your ear there thirteen hundred dollars 1350 when the words monitor or in the name of the device like that generally means that it's actually like alright so what would explain the situation how do you have these mm well an ultimate ears bus broke down in front of the scene analysis and splaying out earphones everywhere no I mean I've been testing them out for review on that uh you know we showed a picture of Steve's pair I think he had one from a different company yeah they all cost this much money these are usually reserved for musicians or the one percent like anyone that really really really cares about their music but generally had three pairs because for my tears I threw mine away they got my way when I just rip them in half and throw away these are everyday it's a contact yeah yeah poppin tags these are really crazy sounding i mean i wish i could have you guys hear them but they're custom wont to my ears they have six different drivers in each ear it's crazy you could hear the artists heart beating yeah which which are the ones i have the ten eyes you have vidya 10v eyes yeah those aren't cheap either i think those are 350 400 or what they're amazing what's the price you recommend for like most people out there were like you can expect to spend I mean that's and it looks pretty decent good sound okay eighteen hundred dollars a lot of money you can spend a buck fifty under buck fifty and get really good quality alright anywhere you have it straight from the horse's mouth yeah that horse is mounted a beautiful horse next call hey it's Brooklyn from jimmy and i'm calling about friday show with the steve on and you guys talk about bands with some longevity and so you guys were saying how hard it was think it so much i can't believe that you guys had to get you to and I got imagine it you know whether you love them or hate them you gotta admit that they're pretty general very loud knocking but that's a innovative stuff over the years agomovies different types of blood be invented himself I don't know just throw that out there love yeah we didn't forget punctuated with that okay I'll be the first to admit Joshua trees a good record notes it is a good record but I hate you too yeah oh my god do I dislike them so much so much they're not but they're no no I did that's not fair to say is it not though Wilson if it's not don't you know if he's no longer whoa no rug like it come on I don't dude it's not my cup of tea man i don't i'm not a big I think Nickelback is more what white stuff than you two yeah and just because they're making soundtracks to musicals now doesn't mean that they're still making good music right like we're talking about artists that have continually made albums right build upon each other grow evolve I think most people our age or I guess us we could collectively say like we are constantly surprised that they continue to be my platinum I'm very surprised that they find as much success as they currently do I think they just it's just like it they got one or two songs that are good it's like Tyler Perry he's gonna continue coming out with stuff somebody managing it's gonna make with four billion dollars at the box off right I don't know if you'll be trying to these and buying the albums I mean I know they're important to a lot of people they are I don't see that I never really i think that jut like i said joshua tree good record also 20 years old that record in probably more yeah so I yeah I don't know would not employ you two up with Michael Jackson though in terms of Quran no no way nowhere near each other the one dude calls himself the edge not sure I feel about that either yeah bono look it was charitable I guess yeah I think it makes me believe he's charitable yeah right you know who's made consistently good music and um you guys might not agree with this Mariah Carey yeah my carry-on still makes gonna take anything away from her yeah yeah if you did in the 80s in the 90s whatever the next decade was hot whatever yeah it's called seriously good all right okay we want to forget yeah oh man talk about some tearjerkers Mariah Carey had a few she did one sweet day Oh whoo boys too many cry huh all right well that's gonna do it for us today short show Monday comes to an end well we'll be back tomorrow so don't worry call us up 866 404 cnet or you can email us at the 44 at cnet com check out the blog every day comment away that's where we really you know get all of our great feedback and that's the 40 Ford sina.com tell us what songs make you cry I want to know yeah I want to know what makes you cry I want to know what pulls it those hard string yeah all right we'll see you guys tomorrow I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Wilson Tang I'm Justin you it's the 404 high-tech lowbrow have a great monday see you tomorrow