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I need to get psyched there we go get the video you crave at scene at tv.com it's Friday I'm excited for for time ladies gentlemen I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm most obtained I'm Justin you and this is the show where we're gonna live to 200 thanks to Steve Guttenberg ladies right Steve found the Fountain of Youth and it comes in the form of the singularity yeah excited everybody that doesn't know what the singular what is the singularity for people who were yeah big mouths rakers well it's funny because we were talking about him with Ken Lee who was on our show a few weeks ago about the transcendent man the documentary coming out about him when when humans transcend biology which is you know my plan for the future that's my retirement playboy nanobots you gonna be working forever listen to be 200 you're gonna work at least hundred I want to know what Kurzweil says about how to live to 200 how can it okay his idea is that technologically one day we're going to be able to overcome aging and disease and what 9 we're gonna live forever because of nanomachines and drugs and all sorts of things this is way off no no no this is tomorrow okay that's that far okay like it's not that far but I honestly don't believe that this is gonna happen really I don't why is it eventually it's gonna no no I mean 2045 is desync wow that's not far at all but 2040 such a hard life time silent corner I think you'll live longer Steve is 85 Steve is a very young 40 right by 20 like even by 2080 like 10 years from there's gonna be synthetic blood I believe that I and the synthetic blood is gonna have so much better oxygen carrying capability that that's gonna be you feel better in I'll buy that little upgrade yeah what why are you so scared I'm so skeptical for two reasons okay one there's a law the universe that says that everything that is ordered hmm heads toward disorder right right so if there's Megan's Law in the universe will always increase right yeah okay second lifespans have increased yeah but they've plateaued for people in developing countries before it developed countries really yeah until these technological changes well I mean you know a hundred three hundred years ago average person lives like what 30 40 and now we're like easily double if not triple the times right but we've kind of plateaued around eighty or ninety because of a lot of our technological sort of things like we you know smoking right so we eat and whatnot Poisson process cell phones cancer so that's my thing and I don't even I don't really like the idea of everybody living forever I think it's awful that's that forever it's 200 years yeah what would your ideal death age be then Wilson know if you just want to live to 200 why we don't want to live to 200 yeah I understand all that but if you were a hundred and you had the body and the mind of a 40 year old yeah you'd be happy with that right but there's something about the the finiteness of life still finally you're not gonna live forever it's 200 this is a very stupid conversation I'm just saying by the time I live to 200 you probably have technology to make me live to 500 hundred we can kill you any day but the real story is that you were and that he thinks that like there's gonna be like little micro nanobots yeah in your fixing you up making meat making you do things you know and yeah and you gotta work so we're gonna be side but that's not you know with technology and so and yeah and the singularity is is that by then compute by 2045 long before 25 but by by 2045 computers will we have human and levels of intelligence they can just build themselves they don't need someone to design them and build them anymore hmm they can do their own well they think their process they can create original thought and humans are basically completely out of the loop well that's gonna be a bummer because then we're gonna need like Morpheus is gonna be out there having sex with whoever you want you know virtual sex I want you to tell me anything you can imagine you're gonna have to do anything you're just gonna sit in a little room yeah everything you want everything even cross-species pollination everything that's what I want cuz you want to go down with the dolphin you haven't had anything till you're with a queen bee buzzing get that buzz go with your honey forget in the house in the Wow how do you get past that stinger though that thing must hurt it's a virtual my mom about the show this finger is part of the base against sexual deviance all all right well then move on to a story for coming soon this is what happens when burgers on my show you know it's the show becomes really strange we get any amount of see yes yeah and we need a stray away from that can't have that anyway Steve Guttenberg runs the audio philia blog on cnn.com you recently came back from the New York Auto Show but I was reading your blog about it didn't sound like you were very excited about I was there too and you weren't that improv are smart I was there for the cars yeah so so would be with it overall did anything impressive well I was in it I was in a 250 thousand dollar Bentley right and they were really nice to me very nice people at Bentley and they sat me in his car and I gave me CDs to play and stuff and it was lame yeah it was just like it was car stereo and you think that the too much water yeah like they would actually have a good audio system it had an a name a high-end audio company name yeah real high and it was it was awful that is actually that the most fun was a Mini Cooper actually they had a $500 sounds it was better than the Bentley I would enjoy Wow better than Bentley that's better than bad that is interesting anything would you say it was weird so then I went from from Bentley to rolls-royce uh-huh it may be the Bentley people called ahead or something but they wouldn't let me sit Oh now were you rude to the Bentley people when you heard it no I didn't tell them I thought it sucked okay so I want to know like what were you listening for because I was at the Auto Show and well this year the attendance was way lower than okay yeah it was like three people walking around still not a question with like how do you judge the quality okay hey you know what Steve I heard cuz my friend my roommate is actually a audio engineer and he's going to school for it and why you he was telling me that yeah is it a hard program no people don't hire my roommates not listen I mean I hate to say this but good enough yeah anyway he was telling me that the standard CD that all you know audio engineers used to test the systems huh is Michael Jackson actually have you heard that off the wall I've never once yeah I heard that was like these standard CD that you know everyone uses I supposedly it's really really well done in the recording process and sort of start with thriller with his solos yeah what do you listen as you do you have a CD that that you use every time to test audio I have okay stuff that I worked on them you know yeah I work for you know company okay let's generalize a little bit okay I'm buying a new stereo system for a pair of speakers what should I be listening for well the first and most obviously go to see Netcom first but the second thing is you know like where do I yeah store yeah you're gonna go to a store ok yeah I'm stumbling over the store you bring music with you right no really well it you think sounds good and you play it and the very first thing you're you're listening for is is the quality of voice okay whatever we know what voice sounds like it sounds natural okay it sounds like a human being it's right bends down like that it doesn't have what we call a cupped hand coloration it sounds like that sound like they give it like a teeny because they lose the bass is it yeah because they don't make any bass they're just a bad design what's the what's the thing I should listen for after the voice then you should listen to whatever bass it makes depending I think it is and I would say that speed the speaker shouldn't be should be bigger than let's say eight inches high okay twelve inches would be even better I mean the bigger the bigger the Box all things being equal they're not a really good thing okay you know well I was gonna say cuz a lot of if you go into a Best Buy nowadays you find these speakers and they're like you know two inches across yeah supposedly it sounds amazing sound yeah yeah for sure you know I never that's not true is it like no it's not true really little really little speakers I would say anything under four inches is really a little okay almost never sound it's amazing we've we've never actually had Steve on to talk about this is great no it's actually funny because we had Jasmine France the senior editor for digital audio and phone yeah and she was telling us about some headphones huh and we were talking about how another senior editor Donald Bell had actually gotten molds done of his ear yeah I had special headphones made out of those worlds right have you ever done that yes how is the experience it must be awesome remember here candling yes I remember that how could we forget it hasn't worked how can we forget that well I tried the ear douching and that's why the candle is very healthy no I think my ears are too clogged oh you were saying something about like Asian wax like is different than normal I definitely read that somewhere someone sent it into us it was a listener that email okay told us that different but the question was I just wanted to hear about your experiences really with the custom earphones okay yeah they take a syringe mm-hmm this big syringe filled with this molding stuff and they stick it really far interior it's extremely income that's a second has you getting turned on this is really strange so they just shoot that bring your ear yeah well it's it's that this when they're shooting yeah it's the stickiness thing because it has to be all the way in yeah you got a really mold there like pushing into your brain yeah and I'm like I think if you're in far enough it's like you're touching my brain what material is it that they use to inject into your brain to make it some kind of multiple plastic okay so they they stick the thing the the syringe and as far as it needs to be then they shoot in the plastic yeah mm-hmm and then they put a thing on it to pop it out oh and and then it takes like five minutes for it to solidify right sort of a semi-liquid oh that's gross Wow Oh before they put it in they put a little piece of gauze so that it doesn't actually stick to your eardrum which I you know buy you dinner before you go in wash me down the first time I ever had in my ears well that was a long time ago hmm it stuck in my ear Oh and the and the skin that's in the inside of your ear canal is extremely thin for sure and it constantly you know that sounds awful so anyway when they took out the mold it tore this don't worry I said you know or ears it's a big part of what the hell yeah that's only my you know moneymakers I was scarred from well with the custom moldings that I'd imagine that to be really really expensive like is it oh whatever then you have to go to the you were reviewing it I want to review the thing about the customs is that they seal your ear so much better than right it's normal in your thing it's a perfect fit in your ear right I can they a pair of custom shoes made yeah it's not a perfect fit actually because your ears the canal does changed its shape relatively it's significantly but the audio quality actually does improve yeah for sure and just sealing out more and more noise mmm what a manically makes things right okay all right let's take a break I just feel like I need to stick my finger in my ear now yeah some reason we're gonna take break when we come back we have more with Steve Guttenberg we got to talk about we're talking about can see the show not the show our hatred of cats cats cats Meyer is the man we'll be back in a second so stick around also calls from the public and when we come back this is the 404 Elmer effers the show where we all sing song around the world across the nation and in your hometown stay connected with your community CBS radio's award-winning all news stations bring you up-to-the-minute coverage on everything you need to know listen live online 24/7 at CBS radio calm back with Steve Guttenberg how's it going yo you know what you don't have decided we need more call backs yeah but a lot of voicemails but not enough call backs 1-866 404 CNET you say hey this is Jeff from Hoboken well you don't say that say where you're really Jeff and you're listening to the 404 the show where we love blood coming out of our ears or something like that anything random you know make it count and it'll get played and then you can tell your friends that you listen to it yeah BAM internet superstar do it you do it alright calls from the public time time to show the love for scenic calls from the public sponsored by Steve Guttenberg earwax shine for a better shine how often do you clean out your ears because we were talking about it is your livelihood you do this for a living so you have to take good care of them right oh I treat them like babies yeah so you clean them out like this once a week nothing larger than your elbow going and that sounds good to me let's listen to these voicemails this one's gonna go out to Wilson better dude from FSU Oh a 404 you know what I hate the quiet policy in the computer labs here at FSU okay I want to spend my time listening to a podcast while being forced not to laugh I'll just listen to bol oh that's so good Internet I'm gonna ask I'm gonna put this up there were you at the uggles B Union okay that's not anybody but you and anybody from F is you actually you should I got I had my FSU shirt on you're gonna stop by like four people in the on the way home it's amazing how many underachievers they're on this next call someone's 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for free oh really so I don't know next voicemail this is about IMDB hey guys it's the end from Saskatoon calling Justin I do feel your pain about being the sole member of the 404 without an IMDB page but if you go to resumes imdb.com you can actually put up your own for 250 per month might have been in I don't know how desperate you are but if you really are desperate you might as well give it a try anyway yeah so just G yeah yeah I don't think I'm that desperate I don't even know you could do that I had no idea about that but either the legitimacy of IMDB just plummeted in my head how many fake people are though I would imagine it's you know denote it with like she's cheating yes they do are on the official IMDB you'd have to reference everything yeah I'm gonna have my name as a starring role in the new Transformers bumblebee I think I think Steve Guttenberg the actor pays that that fee I would imagine read his star is so faded and that you know you were the first let's be honest give me a blur and the pronunciation if your last name is different he's the same you supposed to be made a Guttenberg joke last night on 30 rock yeah we didn't watch that please don't give it away last voicemail this is kind of ridiculous yeah for a full crew and during deepest darkest Africa here with an exclusive audio clip of a new species of Jose Aldo a la table service emeritus what the hell was the Africa or Transylvania Africa sounded like it did sound a little vampiric yeah yeah I don't know about that pretty good kind of scary but you know so we turn that into another ringtone not bad so we're here with Steve Guttenberg audio fili AG blogger for cnet.com and caddy and cat had it what's up with that what now I want to come out and say that I share your hatred of cats where did this come from well we have a bad cat many cat so I was married the first time the first first and we have this thing we used to sleep on the floor and we had this cat or my wife had a cat when I met her so we have this cat okay and the cat would stay on the radiator that was at the foot of the bed uh-huh and it would just sit there and wait and just in in wait uh-huh and then it would pounce on my Middlesex on his junk on your John like on his junk yeah almost the poor like the cat would and then able to fellate you yeah what song would be so like when you're sleeping no it would just jump on your yeah nuts Oh what's up your mic highly trained - yeah no but it's sure the cats suck though they do they know I mean you know what I used to be a cat hater but my last house that I lived in had a cat and you know what don't whatever about it depends if there's a cat with an attitude problem yeah I'll get that you never hear about the cat that saved someone's life no cats yeah you sure about the cat that let you drown in the freaking pool I agree with you you know I grew they didn't care about hear about that's are apathetic that's a great part about a cat is that you don't you just own it yes the reason why you have a pet is because you want that unrequited love you easily get it you know you don't own with it you don't own a cat you just happen to lose you yeah yeah but that's your roommate almost you know dog dogs gonna come and save your life yeah you have to clean up after yeah pretty much don't even thank you for it they just live there and cats have a bad stigma to they have like a cat lady thing no one likes them you know no one lack cats are bad - they are they have this cat and you know what it would do to prove its dislike for me it would it would take a dump in the shower yeah while you were in it no okay so just feel like oh won't you deal with that yeah just deal with that my shower kind of looked like an awful apartment and everything was crumbling so there's a lot of griten you know junk unless it was possible the cat guide can confuse saying its defense so all we're trying to say is don't everybody yeah there's no story behind no story there let's get into a noose to do one story at least one let's let's here just I want to talk about this like well secret tweeting right it's great a couple Twitter stories um first of all actually I wanted to bring this up well it's a little bit of a self-promotion but Jeff you and I went to subway yesterday yes and I got a little bit of a surprise I don't know if you guys are big subway fans but they used to have the five dollar menu and a ton of sandwiches used to be on it including the Italian BMT which is in my opinion the best stands for biggest medias tastiest right it's got all the meats and cheeses on it they recently took it off the $5 footlong list now it's like seven bucks for it's a lot of money it's a lot of money to Patrol they know that there is a recession there's a huge BMT following that's really upset about it so what I did was started the first-ever twitta ssin a petition to get back the Italian BMT on the five-dollar subway list and I made a Twitter for it it's twitter.com slash bring back the BM T so if you guys want if you guys share my passion for that sandwich go go there we'll follow all of that Twitter it's a big deal Steve have you ever you eat at Subway or what many years many years ago yeah Steve I want you to join Twitter why respect you know I almost know nothing about what do I get get anything it's I think you have I could get on the petition I think of a few funny things to say and to get that little dosage of Guttenberg ISM you know I never thought I'd hear Jeff endorsing Twitter I know you know why because you hate Twitter yesterday was a big cuz you watched Oprah Oprah changes my life daily but no no no what happened was we talked about the you know the hockey story yesterday right and then our buddy from Puff Daddy the Yahoo hockey blog he hits me up on Twitter after we talked about it that's awesome he's a is he gonna continue I hope so pretty cool so now you're a big Twitter saying I'm just saying I think there's a lot of people who it's definitely self promoting which is kind of hard to get over initially you know I mean but if you just Twitter out cool you know cool links that you find on the Internet do you guys get emails from people who read your stuff on Sina sure no sometimes I do if it's like a printer question or like a follow-up question a review I'll do is I kind of feel like I already have Twitter in that way that I could you know these emails from strangers asking me but nobody knows anymore like personally you know like you're gonna send a message to someone personally emails are kind of old-school yeah they're kind of dated so now what is this with the with the twittering at our understand what exactly does it mean in how can you do it in why should I do it it's kind of like top secret right so if you guys have been to that web so secrets are so secret yesa post secret was a site where you could just send them secrets and they would put it up anonymously this is the same thing you can anonymously tweet a secret so for example like you just send this tweet to the website they'll put it up for you a couple examples of that are I've enrolled in night graduate school party partly to spend less time around my wife which is messed up this mess people just don't tweet like really depressing stuff like when I'm in the when I'm alone in my car I cry oh it's kind of like almost like f my life a little you would like f my life Steve you would really it's basically a place where people can just put on their most depressing stories my life is you know my girlfriend some of these tweets are ridiculous you guys want to hear really depressing is the worst this is really depressing I had a child when I was fifteen that I've only seen a picture of and none of my family knows about it it's ruined my life terrible this one is my husband left me seven months ago and I can't stop using sex to try and get guys to love me I mean if you have a confessional to make or something to get off your chest you can go to secret tweet comm and post your secrets no I think they're real hopefully it's secret though because that's the thing is that like people are doing this rut and the site claims that it's not recording your name or your IP address or anything I'm pretty sure this is you I started maintaining heroin again Oh should have signed my name afterward the thought of it alone makes me cry but I won't stop the money for it Steve's would be my cat keeps jumping on my crotch at night but I don't stop him because I love it so much Mike I secretly like it I could use the p-word yeah love's the pudding steve anything else you want to leave us with today besides that amazingly awesome shirt maybe something about chocolate man that's sure to me don't put it in your ear don't put in sound advice from the author of audio fili act Steve Guttenberg check out his audio feeling act blog on cnet.com click on over the blog section there you're like the first one listed yeah I think it's just cuz it's alphabetical but still thanks for coming on was a lot of fun always always having fun with Steve Guttenberg guys leave us a voicemail 1-866 404 CNET or you can email us the 404 at cnet.com i've got a few guests lined up for next week so you could be psyched about that any women it's been a while yeah it's been way too way too long and we have Andy levy from that's happening awesome gonna be a good week yeah fantastic and everyone have a great weekend it's going to be so hot I'm staying in I'm gonna be shittin like 80 90 degrees on Monday yeah 89 degrees New York isn't it's not something you're so glad to just know about it's just yeah I love that spring came went in three days this time next week though it'll be cooler I promise okay alright everyone have a great weekend and happy birthday to Phil Ryan yeah my birthday the words of Phil Ryan stay out of trouble and don't hurt anyone do it alright we'll see you guys on Monday I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Wilson tang and I'm Justin you it's the 404 thanks again to our good buddy Steve Guttenberg we'll see you soon man all right all right bye-bye no pudding