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what's going on everyone welcome to the 404 show on this very special day the end of an era it's Wednesday December what 17th yep all day Rouge our today is okay December 17 2014 this will be the last official video version of our podcast video thing that we've been doing for a few years it's a little sad but I think it's gonna be okay it's gonna be a wreck good that's gonna work out for you maybe not someone for everyone else joining us to send us off Steve Guttenberg who better there and then the sphere himself to be here wearing his corn on the cob sure right like I know it's pretty loud you could probably hear that on radio you might be able to hear it over there Aya's Akhtar as always and then filling in for Arielle whose last video show was yesterday Richard Peterson Jen the channel in the control room filling in thanks for doing that Richard appreciate it so this is it you know and I guess it's sort of like a bittersweet thing you know how do you feel about it I know you like you sort of here almost since the beginning right so so the first time we asked you to come on video it was like I feel like you were a little apprehensive about this yeah because you know the thing about radio or audio podcasts is that it's very intimate right but this not so much and this is less so yeah it's weird a tribute the other way around I agree even see it but actually if the connection is stronger with just audio yeah we've been doing it I've done two audio only episodes in preparation for the time off we did one with Giant Bomb that'll go up on Friday talking about games and then we did a show yesterday with two TV Guide editors talking about the TV shows of 2014 and I and I like got back into the groove a little bit oh yeah you know it feels right it just feels right and I know there's a lot of people who've written into the show and they've expressed their distaste with our decision but I mean look you know it's we know what the deal is and we knew that some people would be upset and rightfully so they've stuck with us and they've earned that you know right but it's just something we kind of just gotta give it a chance what I was upset a lot of people running like we like seeing your face we were like seeing everything well like that's you're gonna see us in another videos you know we're gonna be part of a lot of you can apply those faces well anything when Howard Stern was only on the radio and when he started doing TV things change I thought it diluted it yeah it changed yes I was when it was more of the theater of the mind thing right you could imagine more and when you just saw him and you know was weird about seeing how that you never got on the radio that when he was doing all these horrible things to people yeah he was smiling right right good so when you saw it you didn't imagine that he was smiling when he was berating what's his name how about Bowie right but when he was like basically laughing as he was saying things it kind of diluted it right because it just lifts the veil on this sort of magic factor right so when it's just audio it's better yeah I mean you know everyone's like oh the future is video like yes that's exactly why we're doing this because we've been filming the future is texting like people can talk and they don't even talk they just text that's you know I know if they heard about this invention it's called a telephone they could talk well you know what I'm sure there's like I'm sure there's conversational purists that would that call the telephone a tool of the devil you know how dare you be able to speak to someone terrible that they interrupt your life he met there's no other technology that literally will like ring a bell in your in your home you right now you will pay attention to me right as opposed to being I guess the doorbell would be the other one below but at least they came to see you think they visited and they're there and they're like oh hang on you're here and I know you're hanging out with you my house hi person who's just ringing and invading my home it's just so weird when I think the phone call still happened to this day with that aren't scheduled right I'm out like why are you calling without an appointment a notification otherwise I'm like what is happening do people do that to people text can I call you yeah well I think it's a I think if it's not urgent it's it's a semi polite thing to do you don't agree so just barging in calling them unannounced is ignore someone's house and like hi Here I am look I understand where you're coming from it's more like generate comedy kind of thing but at the same time you got to respect like everyone's kind of schedule you know especially you know you work a lot you're a busy guy you don't always have time to shoot the on the phone right well those twenties are values like your thumb up and just hit that preset - I'm sorry I can't talk yeah you could I don't have to have direct communication something really important that's usually what happens with phone calls that's why it's like why are you calling because somebody's dead it's like could you just call me say everything's fine I never happened yeah bummer anyway speaking of bummers it's the end of an era today it's okay show is not going anywhere it's you know it's going way together it's just going literally seven feet you know West is what's happening you're gonna get that like chill back West vibe I'm gonna when I come back for the audio only I think it's I think you're really gonna pop then it's gonna you're just gonna shine yeah I've always said like man he's not out there enough whenever he's not I'm gonna get out right now all right so man so lead us off so I had a dream last night and you know sometimes you have a dream because you're thinking about something that's happened during the day share anticipating something you're nervous I was anticipating this you know I was anticipating sitting here talking to you oh we're the last thing you think of before you go to bed on this case no I wasn't thinking about it but in the dream I was okay so the thing is you know this is one of those hyper-realistic dreams okay I'm I'm cautiously something new right now yeah exactly the second time this is but here's question question real quick yeah we were talking before about your site uh-huh are your dreams in focus you know that's intense right but you can't tell in a dream cuz a lot of people don't even dream in color they sing I think almost nobody dreams in color right so it's not a it's not a one-to-one relationship what's weird is like what you see in your dream is not necessarily your remember about a year ago I talked about my dream where I had perfect vision because I was robbed don't know what unnerving vision is no no but in the dream I did I fantasize that I was killing people remember when I was killing people I was dropping people off a building and dropping bluetooth headphones on people's heads and watching them explode yeah so I was like 50 stories up right now you can see perfectly and I could line it up and hit them every time what a mind f that is to like understand inside your head you've never seen perfectly you simply don't know what that is and then in your own head through your mind's eye having a dream where you believe it to be perfect vision well cuz I was doing something I couldn't do it right because I couldn't see well enough to line it up anyway we digress back to yes so back to masks so in this dream here's because it's dreamlike right that's not a real thing it's fantasy it's fantasy so in this dream I'm talking to you but I'm in your dream yeah you're in my dream but you are somehow conflated into being Bill Maher okay and we're on teleMed at that we're we're on you know HBO on his show on Zuma litical II incorrect which is not his show anymore he has real time I'm sorry okay so alright so now I'm so is it a world where I'm I've taken Bill Maher's place or not I just like more mess you look like Bill Maher you because not just Bill Maher it's Bill Maher right but you but so where do I come in to play them because I still love connecting somehow you and Bill Maher in this photo of him up on the screen you know all right so we're on TV there's a studio audience right cool gun I am dressed in basically like a bathrobe with sequence like glittery shiny like a boxer all right like a boxer that's the perfect anyway yeah and we works we're we're like this actually but we're like directly facing each other okay and we're talking slash arguing about vegetable juicers and your and your guide you don't drink right you don't do it rug no you're sober is a priest from for many years and and you just this is what happened yes so we're arguing we're discussing and it's very heated discussion over vegetable juicers I your wife I am very into vegetable juice and the entire audience it's riveting riveting yeah I think there's some cat calls the thing is they're carrying on like you call out a vegetable juice and someone's like ow oh yes slow juicers especially that really that got a rise out of the audience when they're slow juicers and faster search knowledge did you think that the Bill Maher Jeff Bakalar combo guy had or could he was into it okay so I was reciprocated yeah information okay no I was saying slow juicers or this can I say yeah he said there's a yeah and he's like no no fast juicers you know high-speed juicers there's like the thing you identify if this is a faster slow start so so we you know so we're getting into this yeah and then I bring up the thing that when you when you juice and you're really healthy you're doing a lot of juice you have incredible sexual powers like super PAC super power no just extra ordinary super absolutely good super powers okay thanks and I and so I said you know enough talk bill let me just demonstrate my prowess is that wearing a robe yeah that's why I'm wearing a robe all right careful so then these beautiful women come out and disrobe me know this is his dream but it's my dream alright well hopefully your dream is like pg-13 yeah well the visuals okay right yeah all right go on so I stand up and you're completely nude what is the bill Jeff thing doing it and I'm just like okay alright I'm like man hurry all right said that we move this way yeah there's a bed it comes out of the shadow it's in there it's part of the set of course of course it okay and you know there's a woman there waiting for me was just ready to exciting ready to accept yeah and I proved to Belmar and the studio audience with great like cheering and everybody's really into it like more more and even Bill comes over yeah you know he's like okay we've got it you proved your point right right and that and then after that it gets kind of fuzzy as most dreams just as mother screams there's more and I really try to remember I started taking notes when I wrote what woke up this morning because I knew it was weird the dreams I can't remember the most like immediately started writing him down but anyway so well it was like is it really good and sounds gonna be here today that I had that tree and this because of slow juicers that gave you these matters right Oh 84 RPM interesting good to know wow you you've seen faster there's the ones that why are you putting things in there see that's the best juice that's a fast because that the vets book goes in it just gets obliterated and it gets chopped up into little pieces and then it flies out against the strainer which by centrifugal force forces the juice out gotcha so the faster it's going the more juice is extracted so that's a slower juicers going those are going at 8,000 rpm slow juice was going at 84 and it basically has a go corkscrew inside and it just slowly grinds up the vegetable and then presses it against the strain of the the stray there's a lot of sexual innuendo with pressure yeah well I'm not sure how you're gonna top that one then way to go out on top it's a big show today alright there's more let's watch I mean I start with my biggest thing yeah that's that's the key you always start with your with your clothes that I build that's what you do that no cuz you told me many times I shouldn't do these things late into this show right no start start with the finesse he may not be able to now when I start talking about like who knows what the drop-off title the second half of this story the ends as you break it up there you go okay then the juice just shows up and then I'm going to talk about the Scooby continues the sequel will be at the end of the show dream number two all right what else you got this is basically your show so we're following your lead I don't even have a frickin computer today I know I'm just calling practically naked practically naked he's getting the vapors my oh my so I want to be of my powers yeah you know here's one actually does sort of segue so I had this guy from this speaker company and has a weird name you should sort of find this it's called k VAR t cavort cavort and ampersand and bol GE now i don't know i did a blog about this guy what's his deal so he made this crazy speaker it's really skinny okay it's an aluminum - it's an aluminum - but the tiny little driver and you know he contacted me about he's emailing me saying i want to review my speakers right and then he just kept bugging me so finally I said okay send me the stupid speakers so he sends me the speakers and had a lot of stuff going on they're weird they look like air purifiers in a weird way well your face shows up when you go to Cove art and bulge there Stevi family so so anyway so he says Ben speakers but a lot of the stuff Connie's emailing me and calling me like the speakers you know I will I will I will so one day I just had them in my basement so go down to my basement I opens realize he's missing my partner Billy I have a locker my oh that's cool okay so I go and I open up the speaker as soon as I open up this trick and I take a look at this thing yeah you know this could be cool because the hole it's a skinny little tube and it's wrapped in what looks like Kevlar weave okay right these are really good I'm really glad this guy you know was bugging all the time to do this because she's a very unusual present Lisa chronology very interesting definitely an exceptional speaker for $280 right so I do the review and suddenly he's giving order he's getting crazy amounts of orders for a guy who just you know making these in his kitchen yeah so and the result of my review he saw I think two hundred and eighty pairs of them know highly unethical go on but then had a conversation with the other day and he said it's too successful I can't I can't make this business yeah he's the his his wildest dream came true right but now he can't do it he can't make them fast enough to fulfill all these orders so what does he do so what are you gonna do I mean he was asking me I thought it was asking me what I should do I have no idea but he actually came up with the solution he's gonna stop making them and then start a Kickstarter thing that always got to be the answer well in this case it is yeah it does sound like the organic perfect calling for it yeah like he can't make them right I already have a successful product right I know it's gonna do well right just help me out right all right cool I mean I I don't like it when established companies do kickstart no it's a guy in his kitchen anything so that's that's great that's good so are you gonna be like a testimonial I got to find out if I can do that yeah and I don't think you should endorse it to the point like I think you should buy it and but I think maybe it'd be appropriate for you to be interviewed about your review I think that's I think that's John so anyway I'm really excited about that every day somebody you know if you don't hear about these like organic Kickstarter's you always hear about like a good a great idea in a salad exactly this guy's got a legit product that sounds great it's good it's selling well and you simply cannot meet demand yeah good for him yeah so another really unusual speaker that I had a hand in making successful is this yeah it just sounds like you're I don't know it sounds like you're just like is it kingmaker responsible for crowning I hear it see that I have a lot of I reach a lot of people when I blind unusual products differ except someone or another people hear about and they start buying them right it's not my ego it's just the luck of being here ya know okay so your trends how should i how do i parse this am i missing so no no no no and I'm not and I'm not saying you're what you're doing is unethical it's not good saying like it's it's interesting that you're the way you sort of led into the thing their entire revenue to me well not entire yeah just a good chunk of it yeah all right but they make really cheap good stuff right much deeper than the Kivar actually so I have this new speaker called the Dayton b45 - okay thirty dollars a pair what is this the tiny little thing and pull this up here get it for the last time ever pull it get up of visual aid trying to get the speaker so they're thirty dollars okay I check a pair yeah okay there's a little bookshelf it's a little bookshelf speaker I get it and what's really interesting about it is is that it's for this little tiny thing it makes a mammoth amount of bass okay and it's it's good not great sounding speaker but the fact that they can you know make something that inexpensively that can be that exceptional right it's definitely something so they can do this for $30 for a then why the hell is not every single manufacturer doing something like that greedier their great is that it I mean but there's crap out there like you can get a $30 pair of speakers that sound like ass but these guys seem to they really do because though that this speaker that I discovered from them originally like two years ago was the b65 - right and that has like turned into a whole phenomena because that one is now $39 a bigger it's like this big and that's a great spot it makes speakers man know I can only write about my campaign but anyway so it's fun to find you know cuz I have to go through a lot of crap to find ones that are good sure most of time people send me speakers telling me how great their and they're too expensive the tower speakers only 40 bucks it's like the tower speaker that's it six five - yeah that's a buck spare that's that's still if you like it it's gonna be good it's pretty amazing I vote I mean people always like you know they write in and I call Steve does he really know what he's talking about for sure you know what I understand about being a reviewer yeah essentially you're saying in my opinion mmm this is good whether it's a movie or a restaurant or a speaker right yeah just because I think that it's good doesn't mean that you'll think it's good writer it's a movie or free wine there any heretics that you know because people write in and say in your opinion who gives you the right to say that this is good it's criticism right it's not necessarily right or wrong uh-huh it's an it's definitely an opinion it's definitely subjective but you know after a while I think you earned the reputation of pleasing a the only thing that I have is that I've heard literally thousands of speakers right life right been a big part of my life for a long time and I can write about and what cause I will claw face anyone to be an expert on anything like Roger Ebert Wow was he an expert Roger like the movie didn't mean that I'd like it exactly maybe we hated a few of my all-time favorite I always said with with with with reviewers it's like if you find a reviewer you tend to agree with with movies right well then when he likes him or she likes movies I like it you know right which other than that what if it's just reviewers like this movie doesn't mean that it should be a placebo effect to like Steve Guttenberg likes it I must like it that's they just fell under my spell right and you've clearly figured out some sort of dark magic sort of sorcery that people have been able to be transfixed by oh definitely right whatever work it's the writing X I think so it's my prose it's your prose mesmerized with the words yeah you old wordsmith so I had this friend okay I heard is he dead no very much and he was my Photoshop teacher right and he was he came to my party time x' and heard my story I was 100% disinterest in it and then about a few years a couple years ago he wound up buying a turntable okay and suddenly he became much more interested in audio and I find getting better stuff so I hooked him up with some speakers and everything and over time he just keeps going and now he he took this big plunge and bought these $4,000 speakers and this happened how did he go from the end I really care to now I gotta get to speak something happy something clicks in people with audio yeah we're like they here for the first like the first time I ever heard even like a flack album in really good headphones and heard things that I have not heard before heard you know the like the the bass like the kick on the drum that squeaking oh yeah like the pedals squeaking stuff where you're just like oh my god like this is real people using real instruments in a room somewhere right for me that I like the way you describe because that is it and you feel like that connection you're closer to being there that's really important music to you for sure that counts for a lot and now like I only really care about flack like I only want to hear a new record in flack if I hear it in like 320 mp3 I'm like all right I'm like I'm halfway there maybe well I need the flat you gave my segue to my next thing on my list right now title have you heard about title now let's tie can hook you up with Tyler is flack streaming flack streaming 24 1 yeah wait if I go so 4 people don't know flack is an uncompressed right do you know what lossless digital music format it sounds amazing right it's the huge files like one songs probably gonna like a three-minute songs maybe a couple hundred megabytes right a lot right so these guys are gonna be stream they are and it sounds really good and now I'm very interested in this what is it what's the what's like the you know the library looking like it's good not everything now it's not everything but III mean I'm looking for weird yeah fine a lot I don't find everything but I find a lot of things you've probably said that sentence a bunch in your life you walk in the store yeah no I'm looking for weird so tied up here is there is a catch oh it's not free yeah obviously that's not a catch okay because everybody wants it for free they want they want it's not supported so by you so when you say you can hook me up with title I can get your freebie all I just want to try it out can I try it right for free cuz that's all I was on my holiday guy right so it's $20 a month after you get past your free subscription that's that's a lot of scratch you just said you can't listen to can you catch for offline later or not can you download it for later no you can't see you actually you might I don't I don't use it that way but I think you you might I want to try this right now right now like when we're done okay right now all right so come t idea that was there a separate app or you have to go to the website you have to go the website you have to and there's get the free thing right I'm free through free trial and then the cern app and then there's an app I believe I don't know is it on my computer at home gosh so there's a we call when it's on your computer at home and it's an app as well I think it sounds phenomenal all right and since I buy music I not wacky I know you're caveman so when I find music on title I like so you so people are paying 20 bucks a month right then no they don't buy it I buy I like the weird other bright no there's still people who do it I told you I got a buddy who still buy CDs inexplicably I just don't get any buy CDs from Amazon which if that if you think why is that a bet well the inherent sort of life you can just buy additional right there you know sometimes the CD is cheaper than the down yeah I've seen that yes is that about well how are the ones and zeros more expensive some records okay you know I discovered this do you like James Brown at all I don't I don't dislike him I found the best live James Brown concert ever yeah and it was $4.99 for the CD on Amazon right $8.99 or $9.99 past three years right and it was great it was on my Christmas holiday guide question for you just black audio how does that compare to CD audio is it the same theoretically it's the same theoretically it's the same mm-hmm cool usually it is the same all right what do you have anything like in in well here's another one yeah it's it's sort of like title it's called Murphy Murphy yeah Murphy calm it's another black it's not if I think well I don't think is so Murphy is you take your CDs that are now oh they're discussing their cluttering my apartment yeah the ruining put them in a box you ship them real shipping to Murphy and then you can sell them online but the cool thing about Murphy is they sell downloads in flack anything you were stuff of yours a that's not cool how could you before that how does it how could I be for it but how's that okay to do why is that not okay to because they're they're ripping CDs and then selling them and they're you know what I mean like then they then they destroy the seating oh they do they say they did that's a weird thing is it not it is it's a cool thing and you can stream from them so you can take you or you cannot sell them you can just send them and stream them but only you get access and only you get access to it's weird right I'm just like why wouldn't just do your self I guess your collection if is large and yeah but yeah i mean i proofed myself and have it accessible like through my phone anyway home server so it's weird ever ever since I fell in love with flack I've become underwhelmed disappointed with the way the world treats audio in like normal application like say your car right so I have a car I have a Subaru Forester 2014 and yeah why is that Wow new car so again the car and and I want to plug into car smell still does and I wanted to plug in a USB Drive so not only am i limited to 16 gigabytes which is ridiculous like how come every car in the world just doesn't have like a terabyte sitting in between the freaking that's next year no it's not there's no one is doing that no one like there's no maybe a Tesla has a terabyte hard drive in it their terabyte hard drives are basically free for if you bought them 1 million SSD in your car the price difference should be pretty tiny to you you think of right it would be like it's like 200 bucks you know like give you if you got a terabyte SSD how much more with the car be for me 30 bucks like let's be honest you can get it you can get a half a terabyte SSD now for $200 so I'm just like why is that not it in there regardless all right it only plays mp3s and that's it Wow and it can't thing about 320 first it was Ebola now this is this is worse than Ebola I think you can hack your car if we can have to play flak well yeah why not you tell me there's no possible way that there is some kind of interface oh there's an interface for called was it obd2 underneath your steering column then you can like access everything do you not know about this is it time to hack my car aside from hooking my phone up to the car which plays flak just fine instead of me like under you know the car with wires hanging out potentially bricking not the red one you know Princeton come in a brick the red wire is the green wire exactly like I'm not trying to do that but maybe I don't know it's interesting I'm curious if people because I know I remember when I first got the car there's ways to hack like the interface you can change the typeface you can change the color you can just make it do what you want and I'm curious to see if there's a way to do that there's it's it's pretty cool what you can do alright what other stuff do you have so the iconic dead right we knew that but now this file fi IO x1 okay that I reviewed it's it's it's not as it's not as easy to use as an iPod and playlists and stuff like that it looks like an old iPod but it's fen it's phenomenal and it's a hundred bucks just play flag and it plays flat that's all I care about now box how big it's smaller than I know but how out of capacity oh it doesn't have any of you put in SD cards micro SD to 128 128 that's pretty cool it's really if and it sounds really really nice so these headphones my headphones today that I'm wearing today right kept secret under the corn sugar yeah always have that's crazy that they're always the tips that come with it but this is a company called aura Sonics okay these are called Rockets cool they're made I think in Nashville you know they're titanium earpieces they're really tiny this part I don't know what this thing is but that's the actual earpieces really tight you're like these things are great yeah how much 250 bucks these are awesome for the headphones just the tips just the tips are you got anything else that's not audio um or no no no I got the cookies oh my god you want cookies yeah this is like our send-off yeah I know oh my god thanks man my wife makes these thank you these are a yearly Guttenberg tradition mrs. Guttenberg slaves away yeah cursing banging pots and pans burning herself an accident it's amazing what she's able to put together in a beautiful little package so uh Happy Hanukkah and Christmas and New Year and fester and Festus and all that good stuff thank you thanks so much appreciate it oh good you know wrapping it up I think was good at the beginning though no a sec can you tell that part again kidding thanks so much for being here man this has been great this has been fantastic good I'm so happy I'm here for the last video 1 as as are we it's it's the end of an era but certainly not the end of having you on the program thank you for sticking with us all these years and for just really a 30 first appearance that's it I don't know for just freaking us out on a somewhat a consistent basis so what did we do the one that was about the Big Lebowski we didn't know it was entire was me Justin and um you and maybe I don't know because I remember Justin I didn't he wasn't into the movie as much right do you remember that yeah we're not doing that this year we're not doing like a lot of those but uh yeah that was a good time anywhere's know this uncompressed when you compress no see that's dope okay that'd be hilarious in one episode like a 700 game yeah anyway files every breath that's the thing that's ridiculous about podcasting is like the key in podcasting is getting the file as small as you can spoken words by the way you're okay with Marc Maron's podcast sound odd kiss oh my god it's awful doesn't sound good no and I don't know if that's because he'd have better lately though right maybe it's like better compression no I mean the sound I mean it guests alright ok did you listen to the Jenny slate anyway we diagnose thank you so much for being her all these years we look forward to seeing you in 2015 and thanks to everyone who was checking out the video all these years that's gonna do it for us we'll have a couple episodes air from now until 2015 but we'll get things back up and running after CES 2015 so figure the next time we're back is the week of January 12th sound good for everybody good all right that's gonna do it for us maybe I'll pop in a few reruns while we're gone but but yeah that's that's what's happening all right follow us on Facebook Instagram Twitter give us a call 866 404 see net until next time I'm Jeff Bakalar Amaya's actor thanks to Richard Peterson over in this in the control thank you sir thanks to skier over here and we'll see you guys in 2015 take care