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The 404 331: Where it's going to take a lot more than a pony

2009-04-29
get the video you crave at cnet TV com hey support for Jeff Bakalar I'm well someday I'm Justin you and this is the show where it's gonna take more than a pony to cheer Jeff up yeah it is what a downer morning so what happened to you been yea it's going on I've got all emo this morning so what happen tell this story I was outside hanging out this morning before work started enjoying the weather is a beautiful day in New York all of a sudden I turn around here comes Jeff trudging up to me with his head down there's literally a cloud over his head run directly on th doing them he is streaming down his face look like a little boy and wow he was bummed out then here's why well um you know not like anyone really follows the sport but uh last night was by far the most devastating loss yeah in a hockey game that I've ever experienced and those were or even seen in my entire life and I'm watching hockey for more than 20 okay so you know explain to people don't really watch hockey how many points are typically scored in hockey what does that have to do with it I know cuz this is important is like what happened at the end yeah basically at the end of the day we're talking about the first round of the playoffs stanley cup playoffs in hockey yeah and the Devils were winning it was Game seven so the winner takes all for the first round Devils were winning three to two reten with a minute and 20 seconds left in the game Rhett listen to his voice and they improve his voice and they didn't even make it to overtime they lost and no regulation but this would be like the football criminal like three touchdown right like a minute left no two touchdowns but you guys it must have been devastating because it was so close right you thought you had it I was getting met I was getting text messages from people saying like all I can't believe you guys did it yeah yeah you know everyone was expecting when and all the sudden they came back it was it was just devastating and it happened so quickly yeah it happened what hat what fails nothing that really failed they just you know but they like bounce off the wall they just a you know the way I got happens on tying a shoe they were space it wasn't it wasn't one play that just was like over the floogle rise just the you know they were getting pressured and yeah you know they just let up a good play Andy you were saying though that you're probably be bummed for a really long time like you could barely talk vision after the upset this loss stings more than anything I've ever experienced in any sport really and whatsoever it's that bad because you're 80 seconds away from moving along in the players releasing the way from going to the second round and in it felt like that gone yeah just and just like you close your eyes and and I was watching with a bunch of people and our jaws were just hitting the floor it was the most devastatingly heartbreaking loss I've ever experienced in the history of watching hockey and the Devils are my squad man you know I'm a big net fan too but you know hockey is just on such a different level for me and told to watch with the how that happened yeah last night was you're saying that all the cabins in the world working really upset to kevin smith was pissed Kevin Rose was pissed who the hell was not hard you said Kevin Rosa like Disney Twitter in the elevator said that Kevin Rose Twitter no I was contemplating suicide in canvas no I'll just say there's me like a dig article on it no no I some tells me is not a hockey fan yeah um yeah Kevin Smith was like on suicide watch she said I know it was bed it you know I've seen a lot of crazy stuff go on in hockey games yeah it really makes you just cherish those Stanley Cups that we have one because it's the hardest trophy to win in all of sports seven rounds for Round four well that's for best out of seven round okay yeah you know really hard you have to win 16 games to win the Stanley Cup which is like how many okay so let's be real the devil's probably wouldn't have clinched it anyway they lose in the first round or the Louisville really close by the way this is well I don't disagree with you that that was probably one of on the cup yeah they at one point in this season they did look like they could do it yeah arm you know I don't I think they're better teams in the playoffs now that had their stuff together better than the devils oh yeah it's just tough man gonna watch the rest of the play of course is the best sport in history of the world you gotta watch and I encourage everyone to watch it now you have the big you know captain penguins planes others like the big names in honey Crosby no matter who you're rooting for now now don't go it now i'm gonna go with the caps I'm gonna who the Capitals the Washington DC capital I've got their superstar that's a great no veg king yeah all right well what can we do to cheer you up cuz I don't want you be bummed out for the next two weeks unless you got a little time machine and just not gonna happen you know talk about there you go about you know it's tough it's really just tough to swallow it's a big pill to swallow um and what's even more of a bummer i was talking about it with uh Dan levy on his show yes yeah on the DL podcast and we're talking about hockey and I'm all excited going into Game seven and I was excited until a minute left in the game last night too hi ho mites to that often equal my friends who were there I people cry that's rough I heard people were crying oh man you were saying that people that you were watching it with you're on the verge of tears all were teary eyed you know you don't say hockey is it is different it's just that you know and it's it's just a different niche sport if people don't really get it I mean an upset is an upset so that I I mean I think I can sympathize with sure you know but you know I'm sorry to hear that's not what this too and I'm not gonna lie it helps when you guys are really you know sympathetic about it yeah I really doing this we don't care but it does you feel bad for me and that means a lot yeah you know I don't like seeing my friends upset so I don't know yeah but anyway let's move along yeah or I really start slipping oh maybe yeah maybe this will help you feel better genetically altered dogs that can glow in the dark we have them now according to eric franklin it's about dog crave dot sina com apparently some Korean scientists ahead the Koreans right well I'm just reading the article some South Korea South Korean scientists i'll have you know this is some king of Kim jong-il but some South Korean scientists made uh a genetically altered dog that can apparently glow in the dark under a UH under a black light well that'll help me at all because when i lose my dog I'm not run around with the black light I was gonna say I thought it was ultraviolet light not back lights oh ok ok so I I thought it was like literally the dog would burn out the yard like 30 yards away right that would be actually a really smart idea right well a bit basically I guess the articles saying that the scientists did it so they could prove like uh they could insert you know different traits into living animals and whatnot so who knows we might get you know dogs with glowing eyes next do you like kissing tails or dogs you know i'm waiting for the point when you can go onto a website and literally build your dog that would be cool you know no and a matter that i'm not a fan of it either playing God is not really funny already have a cross breeding with the puggles and the you know sure different kinds of dogs was that's one thing though like you cuz you still have to get the dogs to get down with each other yeah yes actually you know unless you can select like a turtle head your body you do a little from column a a little from column B got yourself a little turtle dog I just had a little horses ass too why not offset the head why but now that is pretty cool though I don't know it cloning all this new stuff makes me kind of excited really like how did you want cloned who would you weren't close myself there needs to be more just news on this world just to make the world needs to be more glow-in-the-dark Justin you yeah that appear what part of my body would glow in the dark down oh noes Wilson what were you thinking of uh tow you pervert yeah so it seems best buy is a very progressive company yeah this story is pretty interesting i read this today in the New York Post apparently all the best buys across this country will now have a very small vinyl section wait what why that's right what why would they do this I don't know but they're dedicating about this this really really small section I think it was like a 10-foot by 10-foot little square a little vinyl vinyl it's the vinyl look yeah it's very most New York apartments though be an eight square foot a little kiosk in each store okay just for minor foot yeah which is tiny they don't have feet better have 10 records for sale at any one time but apparently there's been a big jump in a vinyl sale since last year I feel like there was a vinyl a sort of uh revolution in the late nineties right well you know there were all those products that would uh record your old vinyls onto mp3's right red but that now we have on here ill that nobody uses I know I I need to get one of those things might go into the whole vinyl thing I don't have a turntable here I had one in San Francisco that I used sort of like intermittently but a lot of the bands that I used to listen to in the mid nineties and couldn't afford anything else other than vinyl it was all just to have that like 12 inches yeah I had a I had a vinyl uh no but are you guys like vinyl records and one yeah they sound better I think that available but i think they sound really good yeah they sound awesome but they sound good but for me especially compared to mp3s yeah well at the end of the day though it's still not even the vinyl per se as much as the amp yeah like people have shitty amps now yeah for sure I didn't have a legit audio setup either I had like a head little pair of headphones crappy years I really was not taking available the artist you have to pump up your uh your vinyl please yeah they're so crank that school needs blow into little hole in words now but the articles is kind of interesting the article saying that um you know since 2007 vinyl sales have grown 89% year after year what you think collectors thing or like an actual audio file I think people are finally starting to realize that mp3's are lacking that tangible quality you know me people like putting a record on a player bring needle on here that scratch you know I mean that was always the appeal for records I don't think that's the reason why vinyl has a new fan nobody's I think it's more people just being like you know the retro the sort of novelty yeah you know I think that's what's really appealing to people because at the end of the day nice ice break the vast majority of people don't understand that mp3's are like 90 grand equal you know missing but most people it's good enough three honest like it I mean yes mp3's don't sound that great but they don't but they're not terrible right no I mean especially if you have one that's uh with a high bitrate you know and it's not really well okay that's get to tell ya oh here we go you not to get too technical but actually had a conversation with someone about this yeah mp3's versus a C's also like you know people are like getting on to Apple about using like a see ya as an audio format mp3's actually no mad at note at any bitrate yeah you can't hear are they cut off everything past i believe it's like 16 kilohertz red so like all that that quality of like you know like a drum snare or um even like the vibration in the guitar string you lose after 16 k but most people can't hear it ya can't like a jeff apparently has like super year i have unbelievable hearing I know what's happening right now in Jersey people are crying what a baby is crying in Africa right okay people in Jersey are probably crying over that game was no not to bring that back sorry man we have got so far well Jeff we've killed your dog and here's the court hahaha but no I I think it's pretty cool that it I think it proves that people are still willing to spend money on a physical product you know because vinyl is more expensive than CDs you know these are like what $13 $12 it's a recession manwani dollars for a vinyl but apparently people are though you know with the reporting of the sales you know people are actually paying for stuff like that but I mean that was like two thousand seven what about like today yeah you you got some extra cash you really want to buy like a vinyl record like a giant coastal every want to pay their mortgage right I'm surprised about to go to business aren't vinyl vinyl records comparatively cheaper them no no no finals are always like twenty twenty-five dollars compared to a CD that's ridiculous yeah how many songs to you don't let standard set of songs yeah like 12 tracks earth I actually don't own a vinyl record player you've never owned a record player before I I used to when I don't hold on to that laser disc I whatever Wilson this guy's just got a whole collection of karaoke laserdisc CDs hey come on look at that you need good Chinese boy used every day oh I was actually flipping out when I believe you posted this year Twitter yeah but that karaoke machine yes I karaoke machine is crazy you're likely 20,000 hits yeah and you can import your own songs into this machine really and it'll take out the vocals and you can sing taught school whatever songs you want like that pretty cool no don't Jeff don't lie ya know karaoke is the lamest thing to ever happen to you let speaking of lame uh turns out the winner of the I guess I don't is the winner but the one billionth download in the Apple App Store which we talked about yesterday we've never actually talked about the app itself Brett it's called bump yes so what is this it's a it's a application where you open up the app and to iPhone users must bump their visits together therefore exchanging information right another two way to exchange contact information so you terrorist fist bump Terry yeah but before you call the Obama fitspo tactic you can do the Michelle and Brock fist bump and then yeah it'll transfer your contact information to them which i think is kind of cool but I don't know if it's worthy of the 1 million or 1 billion prize you know what did this guy even win I honestly I think it's actually a lot better than the I fart application yeah what do you think Apple would have done if that was like the right number one app or if it was like the I am rich imagine with the baby shaker amazing you know congratulations Apple you stay classy yeah yeah if your baby shake it out like how about one billions and one then just get to that one uh we're gonna take a break more baby shaking when we come back plus calls from the public oh yeah Elliot you you uh so yeah stick around guys I will try and cheer up during the break be back this is the 40 or ever f'ers the show where we all sing songs catch the all news cnet live every thursday afternoon at one pacific for easter call in toll-free triple eight nine hundred scenic and get expert advice from real people in real time so join us live four cnet live every thursday afternoon at cnet tv.com hey this is danny d from on the dl podcast you're listening to the 404 where Jeff Bakalar is a devil worshiper Oh extra sting yeah strike I'm look at this guy kiss you in a diaper I didn't realize you know it's even more messed up screw what I think honestly yeah through my feelings what about the team imagine you're that toe of the team must still be in the in the locker room they were having a locker room thinking they won didn't they right well no I got halftime they probably thought there's no halftime I mean intermission maybe the goalie should have been twittering in the middle of the game it'll suck are we turning against the devils now do we hate them no okay just I just wanted to make sure God hey hey Jeff no it's fine it's just that you know it's just a game it is a little just again it stings a little all right I believe this sword is yours mr. you know what'll help right now is a little bit of the calls from the public time to show the love a jig 6404 cnet unless this is the Commissioner from the NHL tell me apologize in overturning last nite chef I'm really sorry about that or that could didn't work out for you mr. beigel are um play a voicemail ASAP yeah it's pretty good guys Sarah from Kansas and man am I glad that I skipped work today so I can watch your show on the Internet I was wondering did anybody else catch the post-show look like Justin was looking at men and underwear oh when you finally come out man you gotta love those new cameras she's right that the new cameras do add a certain many interesting problem with these new cameras is that we have 15 of them on our face and on our kit are my monitors at any one time so they could see literally everything that I do so every time I like scratch the back of my head some jackass in the chat rooms like hey got an itchy head jokes are like Jeremy came in like adjust your crotch or anything like that without you guys it used to be we only get like you know our shoulders and up yeah essentially can't even look at men and underwear on your monitor anymore I would live in a private this is world coming to when a man can just let me uh let me clear the air right now they weren't men in wolcott they working there on teenage boys and underwear yeah they were young adolescent coed boys now what happened was I was doing some shopping yeah right on the site guilt I think I've talked about this you have yeah it's an invite-only clothing store online and uh okay they happen to sell men's underwear alongside other types of clothing and apparently somebody saw that but why do they have to be shirtless and all okay I don't know what why is it called guilt and a half naked man it good that is pretty funny actually you got me there nice and made of funny hey I don't know anyway thanks for the call one last call this is an interesting idea we've never done this hey guys my cell phone Jamaica hair I was wondering if you ever thought of a best-of episode Oh showing all your favorite or funniest moments from past episodes and then when I used to listen to bore out loud Jason how old did it all the time and damn it was pretty cool maybe members of the nerdy dirty can send in their favorite clip submissions and have a nice compilation I know my favorite would be the Justin puts a ring on it episode things all my single ladies it's dying of laughter never fails to champion of it well actually you know we've been meaning they want to do something like that but I actually never have the time to yeah we bizarre but what is it that's a great idea actually let's get the nerdy dirty yes ending clips yeah of their favorite parts of the ships do it if you guys have the equipment to do it it's pretty easy to do just go back and listen to your old episodes and if you have anything out like you know you really want to hear in a best of so then send it to us yeah we'll put it together maybe put out a CD or something I like that idea to give it like that maybe while we're single yeah here's why we are single ladies staying single with the 44 like it arm let's move along thanks everyone for the calls by the way yeah definitely um so firefox 3.5 is on its way that's right Wilson you put this in the rundown right and I special about this new one is supposedly let you you know it's got the private prawn you all right what do they call that again they call it something the uninvited see mode or something right forget what it's called I'm not exactly sure but I that's that's the most important feature my heart yeah the ocean mode whoops I wasn't doing anything this is not what it looks like I'm definitely not making love to myself but yeah you know what's weird is I downloaded the previous update Firefox and I noticed that a lot of my apps weren't working really yeah a lot of my extensions worried it would shut down like randomly Facebook was not playing well with it either a lot of a lot of random restarts and whatnot absolutely this new version what I really liked about the whole you know like Safari released the update a couple of weeks ago it's fast man really yes the new firefox has been very clear yet no it's it's ridiculous might you know all the all the pictures that have to load up in in yeah my browser pop up instantly yeah but what when they get what is Firefox gonna have the UH the windows view that Safari got remember that oh yeah yeah browsing view we can open a bunch of different windows I want I 15 watching one extender that does that what would you want in a browser like sort of like as a standard feature um I don't I like that boss mode button that would be awesome wait what was that oh I don't know just like a button that you could hit when uh you know oh when your boss comes back John Falcone walks by right BAM and then seen it comes up randomly it's just like unicorns yeah looking at unicorns here it's totally cool rizzoli involved in what I was doing it worked yeah you know I mean I'm not gonna talk about the ways that I hide how i browse internet work is we're at work right now boss is probably listening but uh yeah I don't know it's hopefully Safari has patched up all the all the agency you suppress crash all the time right but I don't know man like a try to think like what would I want yeah in a browser is fast it work yeah you know what I browse I can't really only care about the operating systems totally relevant right at this point right I just want something cool in my browser I faster a private browsing mode is awesome yes as always embarrassing when someone walks by you're like typing in the URL yeah you know my problem is that I always get items from random friends yeah and I'll send me like this giant photo of like the guy from twilight or something right and it'll be like right on my screen and then my boss will walk by be like oh I didn't know you were interested in teenage boy models yeah you know or i'll be looking at like guilt and it'll be some kid in his underwear or something and always walk by it the worst time with my run card right yeah pretty much I isn't there actually the segue to another story like a 4chan right yeah yeah this is pretty interesting so time officially named the founder of 4chan the most influential person in the world now it's its way what is working cuz like not a lot of casual people know but okay so 4chan in my opinion is the most influential group in the world it says online terms of the Internet yeah it's this forum started by this one guy and it's pretty much this free for all right everyone's anonymous on it and they the most infamous uh infamous sub category is the random okay right this is the these are the people that uh were involved with that crazy myspace suicide right they started lolcat basically um yeah they can pretty much ruin people's lives if they wanted to have that much influence on it granted that this uh you know this survey or whatever was a voting process so what they did was probably they posted the voting poll and everybody voted for this guy and now he's the most influential person in the world in front of the Dali Lama in front of like Kobe Bryant Oprah try come on rock Obama are freakin president so why why do you think he's the most influential because he if at his word I'm pretty sure these guys can do anything you know they're a bunch of hackers kids at home developers true they probably people that listen to this show they can do whatever they want that's amazing if we're and this is a great example of that they got 12 million votes the next guy after moot got 1,000,000 so he had almost eleven and a half more a million more votes than writing a person the closest next in yet ongoing so what can you find in Fortune cuz like I'm looking at the website right now and you know I see there's a big column for Japanese culture right doesn't really pretty much find whatever you want so if if you want to ask somebody to like hack this website or whatever or like f with this dude that you know I mean like you can do that like people post phone numbers and whatnot I feel like a lot of like anonymous people are from that that seem to like the other after the other forum anonymous that was doing the don't you feel like a lot of those guys are all friends yet they branched off to read their own little community but it's cool because it can be as small as like posting a bunch of pictures of cats or can be as big as really affecting you know a pole like this on a side note they have the top 21 of names here on the list people like tina fey eric cantor little Wayne little Wayne driver how's he doing the Papa jestingly enough numbers one through twenty one if you take the first letter of all of their names ah this is so strange it spells marble cake also the game was weird it's got I don't know that very strange though I don't really use anybody but we got a link to this in the in the show notes one of those I mean obviously doesn't mean i think it's just one of those really weird coincidence right i'm looking at the website right now and you can a fortune right now yeah yeah i don't think it's very NSFW yeah it's definitely not cuz like i reserved for chatting for at home but you know their actual rules to 4chan you know there's there's no child pornography loud or anything like that or or or messing with the website they got trouble for that a while ago or missing with the website yeah yeah they mess with some sports website which was actually pretty funny but uh you know this can read it could really affect people's lives in this way I think it's pretty cool and you know what they love cats to Jade you better watch out i go on record right now they're listen to this I love cats don't mess with me I mean no Jeff I think that's getting me into much trouble nature of cats um but yeah really weird stuff you know they really are sort of the controlling force on the internet yeah yeah they're like the guardians of cyberspace well I don't know how Guardians people some people would call them troublemakers I read this article on New York Times you guys should go check it out this crazy 13 page article third on yeah this guy interviewed the founder of this guy moot of 4chan and you should read it they've done a lot of really influential stuff on the internet did they get Barack elected is that what happened and it would only what happened they are the Beatles of the Internet yeah they are unbelievable stuff think yes that's it yeah that's all we have way but I'm just waiting for Wilson's obligatory that you have saying one more thing that was up to today well tomorrow is the last day that you can vote for the Cena TV on the web ease yeah oh so be sure to do that Peavy its people's vote peavey Webbie dot org so make sure you vote or come not exactly what happens if and when you guys win cuz you're you're gonna win let's be honest all I don't know not get the wear tuxedo I just ate the Paisley you're allergic to pay for your award yeah we are we gotta send ten thousand dollars for some reason why I don't know photos gratulations now give us money understand that that's like who's who in high school right yeah yeah sure let's see what happens you forget those a letter sperma knows who oh yeah I know what you guys are talking it's like it's like a high school thing like you supposedly you're like a really good student in school uh put you in a book but you have to pay again I'll do a really shitty student in school so I never even know that I wasn't even in so yeah we'll just call but I think it's like who's who's something yeah the who's who of Wilson tanks high school I just been too busy being a fortune written answers what do you think all those crazy pictures and you come from that is true though it's so true how many times a day weekend and I am with a random photo link from other than you I like I click on it the photos that are on Fortune's random site are effing hilarious some of their were doing some of them are tasteless yeah you know it's just always like a crocodile playing the piano or something no no man it's always a brand that people oh that's not random okay it's because you gotta give me that right i mean come on either way go check it out yeah you should you should definitely check it or don't check it out it gets kind of a closed community anyway yeah they don't watch yeah leave a voicemail guys 1 866 four for Cena we appreciate all the calls send us an email before for it sina.com let us know what you think of our show and yeah we love hearing from you guys appreciate it yeah maybe 4chan can get us to the top of the iTunes most popular list mmm 10 weeks with a any fortune why you're like that screw these guys back on the least the most downloaded by guessing it doesn't Social Security good can they really do i will see you at if they wanted to we'll see you guys tomorrow everyone have a great wednesday i'm jeff bakalar I'm both contain I'm Justin you support for gonna go cry be gentle you
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