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it's friday may 18 2012 you tune into a very short but special episode of the 404 i'm jeff bakalar and I'm Justin you this is the show where we'd rather have an IPA like a 30-year something to get us drunk so that we don't have to think about Facebook going public anymore yeah yeah rather have OPP you know me did not think you would get that reference but I'm proud of you my chama child of the 80s and I know there sell me short I know my hip hop roots hip hop son I think that came out in the 90s them way before there was ever a myspace way before there was ever a facebook so the big news today Facebook opens up i think they opened up at 42 dollars a share valued at one hundred and sixteen point six billion yeah drop in the book as far as I'm concerned you know why I don't care about this I mean I do care cuz obviously it's a huge IPO and offering but doesn't really have anything to do with any of us because we're poor it's like looking into a buffet window right just like seeing other people indulge themselves in piles of money it's like Macaulay Culkin in the home alone 2 when he's walking down the streets of Manhattan and he call he can do is peer into the window right and see people having good times when he himself is just basically a homeless kid yeah that's how he's gonna really sad it's pretty sad uh you know you chase bank account open at the same time as like in the news story about Facebook to happen to me this morning oh you had it open it's very depressing well I just happen to be checking my account and frowny face yeah um I understand where you're coming from I put a little link up in the in the top of the run down there yeah show you how it's an image how I try to invest in facebook this morning they did not work it wouldn't take more money I said take my heavy let me do it nope that's not working did not work so those sixty dollars remain in my pocket yeah and you know we had a Jill Schlesinger here from see MoneyWatch trying to explain it to the stupid people like us who don't get it who don't understand how this works and a lot of her advice you know she really dumbed it down so we can understand a lot of her advice was like wait you know was just sort of weight because you're not privileged enough to have dibs on this from the Gecko right even after all the vanguards of the world are done selling their shares do you think that you're even going to invest in it because by the time we get to it probably like fifty dollars I'm someone share I'm still bitter over all the money I've invested in friendster in my space so there's no way there's no way I'm getting into bed with facebook yeah you know all that yahoo stock I've got years ago they're really not helping it's just not gonna last this morning we tweeted out uh you know this is something we're trying to do every morning now hashtag ask 40 for you ask us we answer you uh Vicky at link blue says how interested are you in this Facebook IPO thing also do you think Facebook will change for better or worse mmm now that are more put on our thinking caps here for better or worse it's a tough thing to really predict let's be totally brutally honest we don't know no I know I think it's safe to say we're facebook will only get worse from here with I have always thought Facebook is god I'm a big believer and I think we share this feeling that Facebook has been getting progressively worse since like the movie came last I Facebook got better I was there like it always worse there's never been a new feature where I'm like oh they got it yeah the second I started seeing more pictures and more stuff you know it starts turning into things like myspace yeah um it's too complicated now yeah it used to be cool it used to be all right right used to be underground make sure Facebook used to be understood so long history for college kids only yeah that dot edu as a high school kid started getting facebook profiles and then it was over alt and there's the death of fun we need to start looking for the next Facebook to invest in right and now it's too late it's jumped the shark yeah I started a vet inte R accenture capitalist feel like pinchers will be over before it even starts yeah I don't know we don't know anything about what's going to happen all right but you know that's just the little news for you vest in our startup Cooper Cooper good the goop or groper grow and grow / 2 that's not bad reserved both everyone needs a hobby um so we don't have a lot of time today we're just going to focus on all interactive relationships with our listeners we really enjoy everyone writing in to us Dustin writes in and says hey I've got a new Pig his name is notorious b.i.g yeah here's his webcam ladies and gentlemen meet the new mascot of the 404 notorious b.i.g he's not in his pen though now he's there he sleeps I think oh is that that lives of that lack right here all the met oh there is it's probably the pig all kidding aside now I know where it's like you live like a pig where that comes from because this guy's one messy mrf look at him yay you live like a pig that'll do Pig yeah that'll do I guess so so all right thanks notorious b.i.g and he does better close up shot of a pig it does he's got to zoom in a little bit if he can he's kind of cute though I feel I could see him just snuggle up in that little blanket over there like little yeah thank you Peter but it wasn't even the pig hahahaha hahahaha look at it just sitting there not moving like an inanimate oh I love webcams and I miss those yeah I'm gonna set up my own webcam you know webcams are fun they're making a comeback what should we point our webcam at we should have one too she pointed at your microwave and just see what comes in and out of that disgusting portal there that would be pretty good yeah you know everyone at my half refrigerator watch me jam things in there Oh disgusting um okay we have an email from you yeah you're too filthy they are you it's just gonna be dominos leftovers going in Vegas has I've ever seen in the East Coast me yeah you live it up and reeking little girl a condo bro it's not like I'm living in some mansion and colts neck or something the what percent sure um nick says now this is gonna make you feel super old for multiple reasons he says hey for four crew my name is Nick well I'm a little fifteen-year-old and today for the first time I ever played Super Mario what on Super Nintendo for the first time now so if he's 15 okay and we were what was super Nutella on like 90 sure like that she wasn't even born yeah I remember when Super Nintendo came out alright so he so he says this is the oldest video game I've ever played and I was wondering what the oldest video game you all have ever played can you bring up his screenshot that's at the bottom of his uh his technical thing right there okay so let's look at it it's a photo of Super Mario one right but it's not even the original NES version is the super mario all-stars version which is basically it intends been doing it for 20 years yeah they just slapped on new graphics and make it look better that's not even the original dude you're playing the reboot but that's fine you're 15 you don't know any better yeah um it was but I hope you're able to keep your attention focused on this boring game that you're playing I really want to know what you think about it though neck to be to be serious which oldest game I've ever played there's probably a couple months ago when I was at the pinball arcade I was able to play pinball machines from the fifties right so I mean you're talking you know almost 70 year old machines there um I played the first Mario birth like the first first Mario Brothers game on NES at the Museum of moving image wait timeout you're talking about the NES the home comp yeah yeah the home quite why does your first exposure was at a museum with that uh no no that was that that's like the oldest game I played recently but okay I think it's turtles in time turtles in time the original NES good job but yet that's what makes me feel old when I go to museums and you start seeing these consoles there with you know like descriptions of like Oh Nintendo was a Japanese multinational companies to make playing car yeah actually used to make button mashing consoles there's something really really upsetting about that yeah they had like a Sega Genesis with the original sonic game 2 with animal description kids in awe to play it holding a console backwards like children of the 80's and 90's themselves was just three button and that was more than enough yes crew unique oh no Nick we appreciate the the email man that's did you guys ever played the old mario brothers before it was super mario brothers on Atari yes when that was basically there was like the PAL button in the middle I it was just pipe so you could go all you know on one side come out the other yeah right that was just call i think that was just called Mario Brothers yeah I think so yeah I remember playing that would buy you I played pong on the original atari okay babysitter had it the first Atari this is not even like a kitchen like like hipster thing when it's after no I know this is like 9088 1987 yeah yeah when it was like cool davon Atari for sure you know I find it interesting because my dad introduced me to Atari when I was I want to say like three or four yeah whatever it was but that was it like that was the extent of his video game sort of appreciation because after that it was just like pew right over said how much do you think the Atari cost when it came out original wats good question i really want to hook that up I'm curious I remember we had space invaders we had like Missile Command uh-huh and then I started playing a lot of in television do you know what in television television was a similar sort of apparatus like Atari but the controllers uh looked like TV remote controls that you slid in this plastic overlay right ok so each game had its own plastic overlay look it up if you and show a photo if you can what was it called again in television just like like intelligent but in television sounds really familiar yeah when I see it and when you put it there yet fired up on the screen here so basically what it was see that little like keypad yeah you basically put in a plastic slider over that or maybe it was in this room there was rich and like you know if you're playing baseball like number one was swing number two was you know cat whatever the hell no man look I mean how many consoles have wood paneling like let's really get right down to it you know your old freaking school yeah when you're not only your console but your station wagon is rocking the world with like that Foley would hold ugly gold oh that like just creep gold and then like other remote has a while like a cord attached to it does it look like it's some sort of freaking pulse hello dialing telephone dude so I just looked it up on a touch-tone the original atari 2600 when it came out in 1978 it costs two hundred dollars in hell for two hundred dollars that's a lot of 199 dollars so how much is that for with inflation oh my god probably yeah so six five four million dollars yeah came with two joysticks in a combat cartridge also with the exclusive wood paneling oh man yeah for two hundred dollars a lot of money back then my baby said it was ready to it I mean I feel like with inflation occasions like a hundred percent since then yeah Prison Mei don't know I don't know but it's like a four-hundred-dollar verges now that's ridiculous think about it I mean you know the current generation consoles they all came out they were four or five six hundred bucks right you know people are ready to plumb plunk down a lot of money and I was reading a survey that says people are still ready willing and able to spend that same amount of money this next generation they're ready to do it except for nintendo consoles no one wants to pay more than three bucks for a new nintendo console go figure arm you know i mean i wish we could go longer we really have to stop short wait what i know we have this video voicemail you wanna play one video voicemail okay let's get to as many as we can uh this one is from who real quick I don't know guy he'll say his name okay I think he's drunk oh alright that's fine we throw for its Jose here Jose Justin Richard hopefully everything is going good just hanging out here watching the kings game oh nice one right now yeah so we're doing good I got my are you here in my hometown of Alhambra California yes anywhere we have the best Asian wedding yeah you do all the weddings are Asian anyways haha true good luck Jeff hopefully you see you here now lay with those Devils and all right man that's six out but yeah do you hope for both of us for sure i mean i'll be at neath if the devil's do make it to the finals the Kings will they're up three nothing in their series um if the devil's make it man i'll be there at the staple center i'll be at my side of the stadium yeah exactly beat me up kicking you when you're down Oh camber is the best that's so cool so thank you jose for that uh that video voicemail was awesome we only have a few seconds left let's plate can we fit in one more we have to go sure all right 404 guys this is Chicago from Luke oh just listening to your episode about Game of Thrones and HBO and all that and I really think that if HBO starts offering like a pay-per-view service I think that's what Jeff was talking about comcast will literally burn their headquarters down if they did that because their relationship even though as prestigious as HBO is is to symbiotic and you know even though like the first season of Game of Thrones is on like Amazon video on demand right now I still think that as far as pay-per-view is concerned the providers will never ever let that happen yeah he's right let's be honest he's right um but like we said we didn't know exactly what that relationship was the HBO sort of provide a relationship is but either way man I just I don't know there's got to be a better way also the video voicemail saying that game of thrones is available for three dollars an episode right on on iTunes I don't know I just really want to come out and then we'll talk more about it on Monday but a lot of people wrote in and gave their two cents on on what it's like right guys we're so sorry we have to end early a special episode of reporters roundtable is coming up obviously to discuss the entire facebook IPO and all that good stuff just make you realize how much money you don't have I guess that'll do it for us 866 404 Cena is a number to call or you can email us the 404 at cnet com see what happens when you send in a video voicemail you get it played right away make sure you do that record yourself throw it up on youtube and send us a link we will be back on Monday yes brand new weaker shows until then have an awesome weekend we'll see you soon I'm Jeff Bakalar and I'm Justin you it's for for high-tech lowbrow we'll see you guys on Monday have a great weekend you