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comforter with this word being no no come on I don't yeah really yeah we don't need to just feel like it would taste much better with bacon that's the boring Oh what's not playing arm in the bottom it says like what's playing hit the X sometimes yeah i just happen to me too with like jam up okay you'll get clogged the place will get clogged it's wednesday jun 13 2012 four-four time i'm jeff beck alive and I'm Justin you this is the show where it could use a little more bacon it could on the side perhaps like a lot more bacon I'll have a side of bacon with a side of bacon man so you were talking to us about that well it's like an ice cream sandwich yeah bacon out in LA they love their bacon and I do too when pretty sure we're talking about you know fake bacon or fakin bacon refer to the common vernacular and turkey bacon Richard brought up yes delicious what do you like about targeting I like the fact that it's like chewy right I'm sure it's not yeah it's not does a lot of fat on it write regularly yes and the fact that you know we take a break from our Pig friends and use the turkeys to make a bacon which is fine that's just the pepper pepper corn bacon oh my god no good and the feel bad cuz we have my yellow vegetarian in the morning I makes like I want to know more about this thing you call bake yeah um bacon yeah we bring up bacon like we said last week I was man you know I looked back I was out in LA for four days and I had bacon every single day mm-hmm that's weird man every day every day but Ellenberger have over breakfast right and then my afternoon bacon sandwich hahaha hey seven friend in college that would just you'd be like let me get a bacon egg and cheese yeah hold the Bagan it would be like the age hahahaha you just have a bacon bagel yeah anyway we bring this up because Burger King announced the world yesterday that they will be bringing something called the bacon sandwich it's going to be hitting uh their stores nationwide to go along with their summer promotion man oh man there's limited pork beef and sandwiches right right and they're also introducing check this out vanilla soft surge soft serve with fudge caramel and bacon crumbles and then for good measure they're just got back an old strip of bacon on the side I don't give you a spoon that supposed to be to scoop up the ice cream with yeah I think so that was the point I bagans not strong enough to brittle it's too brittle yeah so you know I think what we're realizing now is that no one just cares anymore yeah and we're just going nuts with this the salty sweet dessert is gonna cost you 510 calories 18 grams of fat in a mind-blowing coma inducing 61 grams of sugar yeah you crazy bastard what are you eating this I'm gonna I'll split half of this let's get one yeah well eat it on the air and we'll just split it I'm down no wait what no no I have to do that 30 grams of sugar a pop yes I can't sick 61 grams of sugar I'd what like I don't know if you've ever had 61 grams of sugar in US and one so much does a can of coke ave i'ma try 30 okay yeah or 20 something 28 mm-hmm right so imagine you know putting back two cans of coke which I'm sure you're busy yeah I do that every day that's what it would be like yeah so you know when your heart is so fast that you can feel it beating in your fingernails hmm thats what its gonna feel like but most people aren't just gonna eat this sunday by itself now like right they were very can you go for another reason right they'll have a full like you know whopper right they already had an itinerary when they go in and they're like oh bacon sundae let me add that to the end of it yeah I would totally do that there is something to be said about the magical combination of sweetness and saltiness yeah that is only achieved in in very specific sort of combination gave us that bacon chocolate Caroline McCrory line McCarthy brought it was it was most bacon covered in dark chocolate and it changed my freaking life yeah so good it did I went to this place called hodad's in San Diego yeah and they do a bacon burger and the actual patty is made out of ground-up bacon bits just died and they put bacon on top of that infused with it no there's no actual like beef patty outside all-bacon and they put bacon strips on top of that good I'm in net more think about that if you're funny shoes maybe for you it's not crazy ass give the metabolism of like a 13 year old boy see me or the justin i have i've have seen you order the Justin um I I forgot how much of a piece of garbage I was out in Los Angeles I had triple fried chicken oh my god okay okay and inside like the first layer of fried was pieces of bacon too I didn't eat it like a meal I just you know took a bite of it right and then I vomited but it was with you like cuz I was so happy to be a part of it I was like oh man this is ridiculous the picture they're showing of this bacon sundae hmm I'm not gonna lie it's freaking appetizing man yeah do you know there's no way it's gonna look like this oh no it's gonna come with like a lid on it thirty percent smaller yeah and I have like a weird lid on it yeah uh I don't know what it is about bacon and sweet but I need to experience it maybe we should just make this ourselves right like you just get vanilla ice cream and now my own that should be mass-produced and certainly wanted to come from of dollars and ninety-nine cents yeah everyone's up costing yeah but I'm excited about it we you know we really appreciate weird kind of food here yeah when I was in when I was I didn't tell you guys this when I was in LA I had bacon I had I had bacon wrapped matzo balls what yep that's like always i'm not kosher though right it was the most blasphemous yeah just think about it masa dough hairdo came up with that's like I know some sort of like satanic yeah it was amazing though and i had and i shared it with another jew nine and we just ate it and laughed on your way to hell that in the face of kosher food right it was ridiculous though a matzo ball is just like a fried dough right it's not fried dough at all it's like cornmeal it's like I know about you yeah you don't know dick about it it's uh I don't how do i how do I describe it it's just this like soft sort of melee it tastes good it's the one Jewish food I've really happened to enjoy besides all the cold cuts and all it's really good but these things were just wrapped in this fried bacon it was so good anything and it tasted like sin it was magical it's really magical yeah yeah uh did you be that story couple days ago about this artist named Henry something or other that's been like frying up gadgets no I forgot about it until just now but I wanted to bring it up this guy Henry Hargreaves okay he's been cooking up tech stuff uh and photographing them as art and when you say cooking up you literally mean I really really mean dunking the iphones in dough and then like breadcrumbs and then putting it into like a deep fryer sure that makes sense check this out here this is he did he did it to a macbook he did it to a gameboy and a couple other things so let me see if I could pull this this guy's got money to burn I guess earbuds is like crappy Sony irrevocable that is so weird very bizarre is he trying to make a statement uh as much of a way as all modern art makes a statement i guess like meaning well no some modern art has a has a very clear and obvious message what do you think it would be here that we've been consuming so much rapid technology that's a go-to cliche response but I think it also means that like let's see you know we're so addicted to this stuff we might just like everything else it might as well come deep-fried as well right is like the message I think I don't know that I bet was pulling it out of my butt I don't I don't think I don't think he's really worried about money yeah just sort of frying up thousands of dollars of gadgets here it's interesting that's an interesting little uh expression there it is yeah let's move on to some stories of the day yet you to do it what do you want to talk mom so this is an interesting thing because while we were in college I know you and myself was during the days of Napster oh yeah and interesting piece from gizmodo saying that record labels are paying students to narc on other students who are pirating music yeah yeah what kind of a person would do something like this apparently a lot this is kind of disturbing but uh so a lot of record companies use anti-piracy watchdog groups right and yeah one of the big ones that they all use is one called promedia ok and that's nothing new a lot of them use it but EMI Sony universal and Warner are all putting a lot of funding into this company promedia and what they do and this was leaked by some anonymous source within the company they've actually hired 35 young watch dogs under the age of like 25 i think uh test my Hall Pass what exactly to go round they should have to wear freakin you know sling around their chest that's a larks d-bag yeah i mean look don't get me wrong stealing is bad but you don't need to have some freaking narc behind your back telling us yeah exactly what is it what is the stitches thing oh well I can't really yeah yeah oh it's true man yeah stop snitching stoneleigh 12 yeah 2012 um yeah so they're like it is watchdog group they basically crawl through like four arms and like uh piracy sites to go and hunt down these so they're like hero at their like actively seeking yeah they're like professional lurkers like really creepy stuff here um and then they'll also track down file shares on like PDP software programs like BitTorrent and then slap them with like a fifteen hundred dollar fine from their record label season like writing course them to settle out of court otherwise the threaten being sued you know so everyone will obviously threatened out of our settle out of court at a fine of apparently twelve hundred euros for warner in Universal which amounts to about fifteen hundred dollars and that's how a lot of these music record labels are getting getting their money back hey man you gotta pay your way through college somehow is all kinds of messed up yeah that's weird but I was gonna go you would you didn't order do it for free narc ever can't stand you arm this is an interesting piece and I'm glad you found it because we you know we always cover like pranking headlines more investigatory sort of journalism thread the UM ever wonder how you'd like before the days of Photoshop which were plentiful right yeah most of our modern world civilized world was a world without photoshop how did they edit Photoshop how did they Photoshop before there was Photoshop Photoshop has become like the verb for it it's become synonymous with like what Xerox or or Kleenex has become totally what's with image editing but before that before the late 80s right when Photoshop first maiden appearance yep exactly what what did they do image manipulation has apparently been around for a really long time since the Stone Age the Stone Age they were etching out different images hung to that stone but uh it wasn't called Photoshop obviously before then one could call it photo chopped huge weight lifted off my back that is the most embarrassing thing I've ever heard you say that oh yeah anyway so there's this photo forensics firm that operates called four and six and I'll bring it up on the screen here yeah please but they have a whole like I have a whole archive of you know physically manipulated photos throughout history and the way they do it is that they literally just superimpose parts of images and cut them out place them on others right like how they used to do with you know frames of film yeah you know they would literally do a cut-and-paste job yeah exactly and I didn't realize this but they do go back really really far and this one is from 1860 and they kind of describe some of the more controversial images so this one is of Lincoln I'm sure you've seen this one before it's of course in a standing upright post sure and that's actually only his original head it's actually spliced on to another politicians body um so you could see the one on the right here that they used and then on the left is my model probable it was put over the face of a prominent South Carolina politician jhansi Calhoun isn't that amazing no reason why like I wanted to see the original reality why what did it was wrong with today first body very weird this one I think you're gonna really like Jeff in 1960 the u.s. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union I was nineteen eighty that's fine nineteen sixty really they're not talking about the miracle on ice that was most certainly 1980 issue yeah they weren't it was the first olympic gold medal in hockey that could have been 19 8 i'll get maybe and maybe was 60 let me see the photo i tell you okay that's yeah that looks like it's uh this is probably bit older yeah um anyway so this was the first time uh Americans won Olympic gold and several players were actually missing when this photo was taken so they chopped out their faces from other photos and superimpose them and you can kind of see which one it is because obviously it's not as seamless as the photoshop days now yeah I mean look at this one in the middle there is a clear indication of a very poor editing job this one the left as well and I believe this one on the far right and this is most certainly not nineteen eighty what's interesting uh if you remember from CES this year uh-huh you know a photon talk yeah explain that could we find that somewhere and pull it up no I might be sorry well I'm talking about so for CES it was the last day of the show and they wanted to do a huge scene at group photo there's like a hundred of us there I maybe more yeah try to get in on this photo and I remember two people off off the dome that weren't there it was Sharon Sharon Vaknin and it was Bonnie cha and they were both not available for the photo and they got put in every bag and it's very obvious that it was worth it with that it didn't look very good it didn't look very good it was done on the fly almost like somebody did it on their on their iPad then in there but it was uh it was a pretty it was a pretty funny example maybe we'll get to them in the shown yeah a final eight I do remember marks head being like character like it was like a caricature of his normal Markel say yeah he wasn't in it either no I think you know he was superimposed to yeah I don't recall that but that's funny that's a funny example but yeah hey you know what sometimes you gotta do it you know yeah p will only remember the photos right this is this I mean I they've been doing it for a while now that there's also like political like uh motivation to photoshop people out as well like uh for example there in the article they're talking about how Stalin was sort of infamous for airbrushing his enemies out of photographs after they had fallen out of favor so like a lot of people in his camps if they eventually became treacherous uh he would take them out you know that they wouldn't exist anymore impressive smart that's how that's to me that's impressive because it's uh you know they're not just putting a face on somebody else's face removing someone from a photo yeah and and you know continuing the scene behind that to me that what would you that's impressive what would you even call that I mean now you would say clone stamp right yeah like but what was it back then like how would you fill in the water I don't know in the specific example we're looking at looks really good yeah link to all these in the show notes but that's a that's a tough job to do you know 80 years ago mm-hmm I don't know I feel bad yeah yeah how do they do that without the stamp tool the clones to have I don't I do not know um I think we'll take a break okay when we come back more 404 we'll get to some voicemails we'll get to I believe you have a video voicemail perhaps that will play was going to see if we have time also emails will get to as well so stick around a lot more 404 right after this so is it any wonder people are afraid of technology technology welcome back to the 404 not bad it's really something ty would do Ty Hyten play ty pendlebury I'm at with huge census technology I know we get complaints from people who only listen to our audio show and they say what the eff guys are you laughing about you laughing about when you come back from the break yeah that's not cool i want to share that laughter well we can't make you see anything over an audio show but we really encourage you can come back to the 40 Ford cnet com after you've listened to the show or perhaps as some sort of visual aid yeah sometimes it's it's our companion app yeah so and you can understand what we're talking about we're not gonna explain the back and I'm not gonna we're not going to read it you know off the offload you know screen there yeah not gonna work like that um are you want to do some uh some voicemails yeah let's hit up some voicemails that's calls from the public time time to show the love 866 404 cnet all right calls from the public time have you guys were you guys doing this one yeah we were yeah a couple good ones there's a hawk complimentary 20 they were lying he's one cuz I don't ya cuz the ones I listen to don't blink balls of me yeah oh the one I was listening to I guess or the couple episodes i was listening to you guys didn't do it i was like huh it all just went to crap we did a lot of them though yeah yeah that's really special and nice first one talking about walking dead let's hear it hey guys your champagne I had a quick question for Jess in regards to comic I've been reading The Walking Dead on mytouch bed I guess I primarily use it for comics and the thing with the walking dead i was able to get them all at one time and reissue wanna lay up Dorothy what 98 now however I want to get into more comics but it's the hardest and most confusing thing on the planet to try to figure out where to start with all the different remakes and revamp cuz curiously any suggestion for a series or further I you know I guess / a specific comic that you enjoyed the cheek would be easy to catch up on or you pick up on I love the huge ships a book show okay ah that's that's a tall order but I do have a few that I really really highly recommend all right you might as well yeah I'll try them it afterward hands down and I know I've said this a million times on the show uh-huh but it's all about ex machina that comic is my favorite series of all time yep it's amazing it's about um about a guy who becomes basically the first superhero in the world and eventually gets elected mayor of New York because he stops one of the planes from hitting the World Trade Center on 911 whoa yeah it's like an alternate history sort of thing okay really awesome well written uh highly recommended it's done to is like issues 1 through 50 I read it in like a month you'll be done quick and it's awesome you have one that you want uh yeah I really like a secret invasion it's mostly years old now it came out like in 2008 but I got it that's fine while ago but yeah it's still really good it's one of those crossover ones where they make like a giant super group so I think xavier's in it from the x-men Iron Man is also in this team mr. fantastic from the Fantastic Four they all get together to sort of like defeat this enemy called the scrolls yeah and things go wrong and some people get captured and I won't give it away but it's really really good okay huge too so might take a while to read you're looking for something to bite that's good another one I suggest lock and key have you ever heard of that yeah I've heard you talk about it before it's basically about this family who has to deal with a murder and ghosts are haunting them in this house that they live in in in New England it's really really out there but it's very well done and I think that's actually about to end it's been going on for like eight years and it's about to end but they do it in volumes so volume 1 was like five issues vol 2 was five issues and now the final volume 6 I believe is just about to finish it's called lock and key I loved it yeah it's really good you know with dark knight rises coming up I would also recommend going back and reading the stories like nightfall and nights and sure Batman yes and those are the ones that feature bane um for defeating Batman and then what comes afterward like uh you know I don't give too much away but it's a world without Batman right and they have to deal with that somehow there's so many amazing Batman graphic novels the long halloween yeah these are all like the classic that's an amazing one um Arkham Asylum is a fantastic one and these were actually also recommended to me by 44 listeners yeah and then we had Blair Butler on the show she got us really going on all this stuff right um if you want more email us the 404 it seemed calm and i can give some more suggestions but it's really tough i found out the hard way when you first get into comics it's like oh oh you want to read a comic okay so you read walking dead right yeah that's like enormous and nerdy almost that issue 100 and then it's like oh wait a minute there are a billion comic that you should be reading yeah it's tough to stay with the day-to-day it really is i'm reading the new Batman's like the new 52 Batman's and I'm reading detective comics and traditional Batman right they're amazing you know what's a really good one I'm a bird like being super affected by this when I was a kid is the death of Jason Todd it's call a death in the family and Jason Todd was like the second Robin yeah for Batman and it was like the first graphic novel ever read was like holy crap like there's actual like crazy violence oh it's in stories yeah um really really good stuff a member we were talking about Robin as a character um when DC was gonna come out with their first gay superhero and uh didn't end up being Robin is Green Lantern right um yet this was a really good story about Jason Todd that second one's cool so again email us we can give you more suggestions it is uh it's intimidating but you'll get through it yeah all right also wants to give us suggestions all of that read all of it for sure hundred percent um and will be a comic con tu so I'm sure we'll see like a billion more that we want to read yeah for sure that's gonna be fun um next up it's about our Apple in the fall for this is idaho from us Jeff you were talking about how you or SATA appleton or at least something in between the new Retina Display MacBook in the air but they did they oh created all of the original macbook pro lines there are a lot faster and have better graphics cards and all that fun stuff and they're like right in the middle of that like 1200 to seventeen hundred dollar price range right in the middle where you're complaining so guess what you're wrong I'm right yeah sure but I like that okay um yes you are correct they did come out with a new macbook pro on that's not the new lightweight design in the retina display but they're still heavy in there and they're like the one I have here that's like super big I need I want like a new in between version all right the air do you know what I mean yeah what would happen to you just now that you look the way you do can you cut sorry me so just throw up an image on my screen because I know that only Richard in our yoga as you can't we just talk time I look at it I know I like it do it was funny there's there's like a new meme online that people photoshopping images of the macbook pro in like the glass case with all the people foot right as it looked ridiculous this one features the UH the mr. being there right it was a bear playing with himself that's that's all that's what you want it's funny that scenario it's funny it's crazy that's good oh there it is hello guys what do they call these where there's like it's like a gift but then call yes they're called but only one part of it is moving what the hell yeah held I saw someone do it with like a train yeah and it's like this was like the hardest thing ever we read read it too yeah there's a couple and I think I think they're calling interpolated what is it something like this I don't know what it's called what are they called arm anyway that was I talking about it i'm gonna show me masturbating bear you're talking about the nick book the big book yes the macbook pro so there isn't in between e but it's not lightweight and it's not like a cinemagraph is what a cinemagraph and it's not like a it's not an in-between you know anymore it's not like I want him to come out the new macbook road they're lighter but I still wanted you know one that's more affordable and they didn't do that they dropped the price 100 bucks but they didn't really do it um all right let's go to a nonsense call this one's up next hey you before four this is jeff from idaho again um i'm trying to figure out what ships to buy at the grocery store do I get the frontier is tortilla chips or the mission tortilla chips so here's know okay so this is a big deal because toward t like have you had the mission tortilla oh yeah of course I've had the strips and they think they're good yeah you know what i really like I really uh tostitos made these for a while they were called like gold and they were like super thick they're probably super fattening as well right but they're really thicken you can really get a nice you miss all son you know what I mean like to me that's a you're gonna have a chip with stability yeah I agree if you're piling on a sauce on there my favorite tortilla chip is the have a corn chips have you had those before they sell them in California I've never seen them in New York no cuz how could they possibly sell them this they infuse each chip in soy sauce okay now I'm gonna be sick they are delicious I'd rather have bacon flavored tortilla chips but the sweetness of the soy sauce kinda counteracts the saltiness of the salt on the chip is really good I'm not going on it like it on Facebook right now good good for you that's a big freakin accomplishment what I based in Laguna Beach are they now yeah they do look good i would eat the crap out of that would i I'm embarrassed to admit something what's that I like lime tortilla chips oh me too are you doing good what is it about those man those are really something about those that its just oh it's there's like it's that it's again it's like the Saltine sweets worth right but i like how the caller was why did he call us and leave a voicemail from the computer he's slow days later he's still there what is your favorite chip I'm a big big fan of kettle cooked chips okay yes any sort of kettle cooked they're better than the fried one but is there like a flavor not brand but like because I'm a huge fan of salt and vinegar yeah I love so many that's a nice if chip because some people really hate it oh yeah do really like it there it's a tough chip to eat if you're not used to it and you're not if your palate is not prepared appropriately jaw you are in for a bad weekend yeah because that could really mess you up you're like oh my god it's it's getting in the you know the cut songs if you have like it on your tongue inside of your valve you're in front room yeah um sucks I really like ketchup chips yeah I do Canadian delight the number one Canadian export behind ice hockey is ketchup chips you can get them in I in duty-free airport yeah oh yeah gonna take it they taste really good cherrim says sour cream and onion I'm not exactly Mannion fan yeah it was never got into that unless they're ridges the Lay's Brigid's our criminals are the best yeah I'm barbecues also a favorite not a big fan of barbecue chips either yeah I like I'm under spicy barbecue but not on you yeah I'm very you're gonna Frank's redhot chips oh yeah yeah those are good nuts ones yeah oh that's too bad what's their nose in the west coast did you know that I mean everyone know that's before I came here yeah I don't know I didn't know that my head uh Doritos that were flavored like cheeseburgers yeah oh yeah we had that here yeah not like vomit awful like literally awful I could just imagine the assembly line where it's like up your turn to puke in the bag okay like that sometimes when people's breath smelt it kind of smells like an old cheeseburger it's like that it was like that yeah Oh guys I'm talking about you it said like you look at the back and it's like Oh puke okay cool mix instead how there's no bacon-flavored chips um that would create a black hole in the world yeah what is that we're not an obvious name no i don't know i don't know why they can't do that why can't they just team up with like oscar meyer and make like a bacon flavor chip i do that the world may never know french onion sun chips are the best whoa good it was real good yeah oh okay I'm hungry um nette and then finally we got a one last voicemail about the Vita post III hey guys this professor Jeff smell card hey I had a quick question Jeff based on when she saw at e3 do you think that the Vita stands a chance at somebody that owns one I'm really interested to see the system's concede just curious on your thoughts thanks alright so um yeah everyone at e3 was talking about the playstation vita it's their new portable handheld gaming system that it's been out for what excuse me like four months yeah it feels like it's already been out for seven years um I didn't really see a lot of e3 that uh that sort of painted a bright picture for the future of the vue de it's kind of unfortunate but you know uh they just don't really have a lot of games that people are getting excited about there's going to be an assassin's creed there's going to be a call of duty which i guess is a big deal but you know you really want those those sort of independent um you know uh ip's these intellectual properties if you're looking for a great video game right now i definitely recommend gravity rush because that's a unique game built just for the vita I don't know man they just had their resistance game that game is not very good it's going to be tough I think the the indie scene really needs to jump on the Vita for it to sort of develop some sort of following but I don't know man you just kind of bleak we have the photo from cnet uh CS yeah there it is so if you look almost left center there's a very blurry Bonnie cha yeah so and then direct center is Sharon Vaknin who just was clearly photographed outdoors yeah you know person is not the same context is a funny photo uh so where are you in this picture of in China back right I think oh there you are necessary yeah and I'm over here and then best week BTW brian Tong just like BTW on Jason under himself so crazy wasn't making out with the photo then yeah so uh so that's what we're dealing with there yeah so that that was the fun from CF in our Photoshop fail um but yeah I would love to see if anyone else has a Photoshop fail that they would like to share with us yeah oh these are you where's my real there and then Richard 20 y'all here are our own Richard up top yeah it's a great photo if you can't see it please the 40 Ford cnet com yeah we will link to that on me oh here's mark where's big help for Lee photoshopped it marks in there too yeah is that real like a drawing of him oh my gods bad someone just painted a minute and chris Matyszczyk to wearing sunglasses from the other photo parable from 1983 yeah all right we got to go guys thanks for tuning in again send us your photoshop fails i always i love that got to me is the best yeah you know eight six six four for Cena that's the number to call you want to leave us a video voicemail tape yourself and then upload it to youtube send us the link and we will get it on the show yeah what are you laughing at biko just my image your account yeah you god that's a that's a dirty dirty account must never be seen it must never be seen by human eyes will be back tomorrow the 44 at cnet com is the email and the four for Cena calm is the blog address we're getting a new blog page two yeah we are there's a lot of crazies a lot of cool stuff and we always say that right i mean it yeah it's on the tip it's yeah just on there's a that's tough going yeah yeah so get excited a lot more fun coming your way I'll see you tomorrow I'm Jeff Bakalar and I'm Justin you 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