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it's Thursday July 19 2012 Arielle did you get me calling everyone a son of a bitch at the beginning of the show it's a 404 program on Sina TV I'm Jeff Bakalar and I'm a son of a bitch and this is the show where we're monitoring thats can you just interface mcfly no it was a sting operation what's going on everybody thanks for tuning in to our fine program first things first we got to talk a little shop with everybody getting a lot of emails complaints Yelling's bomb threats suicide notes and stuff like that from people who are complaining that our show has sounded a little weird and when I say weird I mean low but we were figuring that out it's a work in progress and we're well aware of the situation and we want to thank literally like the 50 of you who've written in and and told us that we sound like trash so we're aware we're trashing and we're fixing it it's in it's uh it's a work in progress I think today is going to sound better yeah because we were using some old compressors and stuff like that and I don't know I'm just make em work we're making it up as we go along is what I'm trying to say yeah we're changing a lot of things around here adjusting stuff you're adjusting stuff on that why uh but you know thanks to the chat room who is uh rocking out with us live here and and and making some levels work and that sort of stuff but uh we're you know we're psyched now cool and let us know you know we wanna we wanna have a ongoing conversation with you guys and you can keep us in check and uh you know Arielle is gonna turn the knobs he turns you old knob Turner many such a knob turn any thanks you are you have a mic over there too right yeah you're doing it I'm like yeah it's it's fantastic oh maybe we should suspend that from the ceiling or something yeah and get you talking all right what other orders of business must we address before we get there are than any other things you know people have been emailing us a lot about wanting stickers right and uh you know we could do that self addressed stamped envelope we can do that again that was a really huge ordeal I've gotta figure out some way to get people these stickers because we have a lot of them do a huge role the right next you over there oh that's right yeah there's a buttload of these and we have four of these four rolls yeah arm and we also need to think of a contest for people to get those trucker hats because we only have right hand of them will promised a few people from the meetup whom it who missed out yeah so if you're one of those people write us and I think about Charles II wrote aim of this arm and then I feel like we're gonna get more stickers as well this was like the comic con run of stickers so will you know we'll do something better bigger and better so hold off on that sort of stuff and will you no will address it when the time comes what else um oh we're going to give away one of those sleep doctor alarm clock Serena yesterday the renew um so we're coming up with a contest and I think we'll start it on monday and it'll run through the entire week so and also no show tomorrow because all these jerks are going to be gone air-five are you know air 50 air 5s allowed no window love with her no no love no windows sell it uh alright so so yeah so tomorrow no 404 yeah um but we'll be back on Monday and then Jill Schlesinger is gonna come on Wednesday because we had the sleep doctor yesterday so a lot of a lot of awesome things happening with the 44 I think Peter ha might show up next week cool he's got a new gig he just shows up whenever he wants to he calls he calls up in his RM downstairs could be on the show today always with the drop in don't Joe that can't stand the drop in yeah um alright let's jump right into the day's news ok again the summer sucks you know for news it's terror I think it's been terrible there's some good stuff I mean we have a whole back catalogue of like a week yeah full of news that we haven't really gotten to I wanted to start with this this happened on Monday actually we weren't here for this but a little old now still funny though uh did you about this physical assault that happened at a McDonald's no in Paris okay oui oui this is the only time as you know I'm a Spanish guy the only event I know I know I know how to speak like eleven percent of Spanish it's all cuss words to know I can I can make my way around ya bein ish glad you did say mix yeah ya think I'm alright so what it what is this uh so on a Monday the story came out about a guy getting his ass kicked at a McDonald's in Paris okay uh this was dr. Steve man he's the inventor of a wearable computer system pretty similar to Google Goggles okay it's called the what it was it called the itap have you heard about these no it's basically the same thing it's like a head mountable display that puts a tiny little monitor right in front of your eye okay that's back information you like a psychos yet just like the Google you scroll down to some of these pictures be sure the answer this is what it looks like yeah and that Steve man from 1999 huh he was with his family in Paris a week ago and he was eating right in front of the windows so that he can get a good shot of people walking by the Schultz Ortiz a right which is my French for subway stage ina okay um anyway so he was eating with his family him and his two kids and his wife when three people that he thinks might have been mcdonald's employees tried to pull off the eyepiece what they physically assaulted him because he they thought that he was spying on them okay I mean look at this look at this contraption his face right and it's not very famous person either yeah imagine looking at this guy that's half cyborg walk specially he was smiling like that as well creep yeah anyway so they beat him up try to pull off his eye pieces uh but the problem is that apparently these I pieces are somehow bolted into his head no what yes I'll hold them off like a normal pair moved his brain yeah so his brain came with it and uh he tried to produce a doctor's note which has got to be like the wussiest response to a fight yeah ever sorry I can't fight you right now I have a doctor's note I have a doctor's note that pretty much explains his medical reason for having to wear the glasses and doesn't really get clear on the details in this blog post about why right he's been uh he's been wearing these for eight years I'm sorry 13 years what so he's developed this technology himself he's kind of the originator of this heads-up display okay and there's even a wired article from back in two thousand to that sort of talks about him getting assaulted for these at walmart and uh uh yeah he basically got beaten up and now he's not really asking for you know mcdonald's to pay for it he just wants the glasses to get fixed he's not trying to sue the employees but I'm trying to look here's a witness photo and these are actually taken with the itab glasses themselves which might or might not just be a huge marketing scheme right like I was reading the story I'm thinking this might just you think this is all a this is a full made up so for him to show off how these glasses work I don't know man that's a lot of effort just to you know advertise the fact that he's got some DIY google glass things yeah so here the three perpetrators he's not gonna tie beat him up with this is the manager the manager see this guy today three has a mcdonald shirt on so it might be one of the employees oh my god this is crazy yeah so what's gonna happen with this visit it's being elevated that this guy's what like a dustpan a brew yeah that's so weird themes that be tomorrow I think he was hit over the head with a broom that's crazy too well alright well I I'm Carrie I see he doesn't deserve to get his ass handed to him like that though yeah you know we saw that video when Google glasses came out and you know that there was a guy like walking through bookstores in New York meeting up with friends talk about concerts and stuff but what you don't see is people's responses to perhaps then getting surveilled in this way you know like not everyone likes having a camera pointed at their face all the time no and just by nature of you looking at them with these glasses on people might think the wrong things they might oh well it's kind of like the first digital hate crime reported on the digital hate there's been a lot of digital hate this is the first instance of digital hate in the meat space yeah you can understand that I don't know would you feel comfortable with someone just coming up to you and possibly recording with your image I wouldn't I would just like slap it yeah wouldn't you know I wouldn't kick his ass right i mean i don't know it's it's never happened to me before yet hopefully it won't on the other hand these photos that he's taken with the camera mounted on the glasses are really high quality was gonna say they look pretty good yeah they they look all right so you know good for him so the iTap he's good might be coming to stores near you look he goes so far as to zoom into the nametag to it so we can read it he was he just like pointing like how does he xue min like catch turn the knob on us or something like that yes strange oh let's uh let's let's keep it in the fast food realm what happened with this uh Burger King employee in more fast food news because you know it's my favorite topic of conversation it is you love him and you can't get enough of it of Burger King and unfortunately burger king is the next place that we're seeing internet vigilantism vigilantism yeah however you pronounce it is happening at Burger King so on Monday 4chan you know I'm on there a lot I know for our line I thought you're more of a reddit guy I'm both yeah uh so on 4chan on Monday this guy posted a photo and maybe I could try to zoom into this you can see it better it's really disgusting can you tell what we're looking at here oh my god is that a man standing in two salad bowls yes in the salad early the lettuce container that the employees at Burger King used to fill up the birds and disgusting and it's a guy wearing shoes and standing on top of those two containers do you talk about this is the guy who needs asking yeah disgusting yeah the poor lettuce I mean that lettuce used to be discussing and now it's unedible yeah like everything else at Burger King uh so yeah he posted this photo of himself uh you know obviously a burger key employees standing on top of these containers put it on 4chan expecting people to get the lulz he didn't get the loads he got the internet vigilantism and uh like a fool you know these guys never really cover their tracks properly when they just randomly post photos to the internet right they found out that he did not extract the exif data that contained his GPS location in the photo in the photo so they were able to track that back to his location where he worked turns out it's at a burger king restaurant in mayfield heights in ohio mmm not only that but take a look back at this photo in the background you can see a couple boxes on the bottom of rack oh this is so cool and what they did was in true law and order style they like pinched and zoom their way in hey get a debt they basically zoomed enhance and found the bar code which they were able to pinpoint back to the shipping location using the manager wave heights ohio they do that the wait there must be a much higher res photo flown around they did post that because the one we're looking at is very pixelated right and it would be impossible to detect so what they did was here he were the steps right they'd use this photo to and the exif data on it to track back to the manager the manager requested a higher res of the of the UM the barcode find out exactly which employee it was I'm surprised it in scan this guy's foot size to compare to the employees that were working there at the time but that's how they found out who was and now he's fired good like he should be you know look I don't agree with necessarily some of the comments made by the 4chan errs after the fact like this is why you losers make a living at Facebook yeah cuz you don't cover your tracks well enough uh you know I don't know but he deserves what he got this is great this is why you and this is totally the the the story do not f with people who handle your food yeah it's not that's that's like rule of thumb 101 right with with with waiter you know food worker customer relationships the scary thing about this is that this wasn't just retaliation against one angry or like bitch customer yeah this was just the entire thing so I don't seem to unprovoked me then that's what the most troubling thing of all is that he's just like I'm doing this cuz I can do it yeah you know and that if this one you know Chamakh decides to put it on 4chan what about all the undocumented cases of this yeah uh I had something a lot of people are standing on lettuce in Burger King's though right I think standing although there's at least of your worries about what restaurant employees due to the food yeah on top of it just being fast food food yeah I guess others say I had a friend in high school who shall Renee remain nameless yeah who worked at a burger place called rallies okay I know okay do you know right now it's uh what I thought I did I don't it's a chain right just like Burger King and uh it's like a fuddruckers exactly I love fuddruckers man anyway going she would tell me about all like the disgusting things that these teenagers would do um because teenagers are immature in your response the ressources you expect them in these things yeah but you know the manager was really young too so they sort of condone this behavior she was telling me that a lot of times they would take the frozen burger patties right out of the freezer and have burger patty fights with them right like they would throw them at each other and they would inevitably like laying on the floor and on different like you know the refrigerator doors and things like that yeah and then they would scoop them up with a spatula that they would use on the stove and cook them up for customers okay how do you feel about that and if you think they were doing this how long I think they were cleaning the floors that they would land on forever I guess it's not as bad as the foot on the lettuce what I'll tell you why though cuz they're getting cooked right okay you're getting a hook so they're getting you know and then whatever this guy has stepped on in the path on the right Allie that's going right into your face yeah vegetables at fast food restaurants item well that's I I guess that's the lesson learn here but I mean I just I really think the that this is much worse than than the patty fight yeah you know there needs to be a thread on reddit about personal accounts from fast food workers that have messed with the food oh I don't know I don't like that at all but you know what it's not just fast I'm sure happens at every restaurant yeah you know you've seen waiting mhm you've seen the movies yeah you've seen the band-aids that have fallen off people's fingers that they find in their burger patties that doesn't happen too often yeah does everyone's all it has to happen is that the one that's it and then then it's happened in many times yeah alright we gotta take a break when we come back more 404 we'll get to some voicemails and I think we have a video voicemail to write do we uh yeah we have one from a couple days ago alright so we'll play that much more on the 44 stick around welcome back to the 404 so glad you could be here on this Thursday this is our friday because we're ending the week today no 404 show tomorrow yep man we're getting away with these like three-day work weeks one day work leash stare listening Shh all right um we're going to do calls from the public right now that sound good to everybody all right let's do it up up these are not playing oh there we go this is this is a new workflow for us ladies and gentlemen calls from the public time to show the love 866 404 scenic man that is not as easy as you think the new work though you're playing I'm playing that sound for my computer yeah that's cool how do you feel about that works for me I feel about them apples first voicemail this dude's call me a spoiled little brat I like him hey guys this is a chicago film like a longtime listener first-time caller and i decided with my first call on you Jeff he's like I'm gonna waste it on you cuz I'm wasting his voice mail the other day you guys are talking about the Back to the Future hoverboard and Jeff you actually asked why we don't have the technology to make a hoverboard are you kidding me you spoiled brat we live in a day where the biggest thing on the market is a blanket with sleeves and you want an actual hoverboard are you kidding forgive me for being positive right I tend to agree with him way let's see Lee uh hold on you spoiled brat Justin turns macom oh wait no I'm serious smack them all right guys love the show come to Chicago you guys a lot of 44 fans out here my place Justin you can have the couch and Jeff you can sleep in the bathtub yet yeah I'm gonna who in your bathtub yeah all right that's what you get for put me in the best of ya take a dump in bed though Arielle is gonna be in Chicago and he's gonna come and kick your ass no I'm kidding Brett does me no I'm not spoiled okay first of all I'm sorry don't give me this snuggie thing is like the greatest American achievement right okay we have the technology to do however bored okay no I'll defend you here I'll come back to you you were saying that you can't just make a prop of the hoverboard and release it rolling it the hover without the hover convergent origin it's a board that's false advertising certainly it's called yeah a board yeah that's elastic that's a gorgeous body cause like when we're at comic-con they had that girl demonstrating what it how it worked yeah it was like you know it doesn't have Huffer technology but it does glide across most surfaces and she literally just slid it across the right table is like it is really plastic yeah like this can also do it this is technically the same thing overboard to go hover phone you know and then she handed us this you know bar of wax and she's like be sure to wax up whatever it is you're hovering over yeah lady that is not a hoverboard yeah first definition of a hoverboard hummer it's basically a skateboard deck with it that's exactly what it is anyway plus there's plenty of technology from Back to the Future that I also want to see honestly the self growing bat you know that that he wasn't that impressive that was cool I want to see the hydrator obviously the hydrate is a big deal level 4 please hydrate thing is huge in sci-fi movies by the way I was watching doing pavilion yesterday and she just sprinkles in like some just she sprinkles in like a Thanksgiving dinner yet to a bowl so good and it comes out yeah piping hot yeah nice there's a lot of stuff from that is that what you really want though is that sound appetizing to you if it tastes the same yeah imagine hydrating your own Domino's Pizza like they do you sure can hydrate a pizza moving along before we uh quote the entire back to the visibility what can come the physical and they will do it you think we're digging around we'll do it we'll do it right in front of you um this is more talk about the stickers hey guys california from Anisha you guys are talking about hi guys got new stickers and I was wondering if we could uh send in a pre-addressed pre-stamped envelope to you guys and because it still do that thing where you send them back all right whoo like should we figure this out together collectively right now I mean the thing that sucks about them too is that look you gotta like rip them off I guess it's not why'd you get some real problems you know maybe and then what are we gonna do they hear you know yeah I don't know I guess you know it's not I don't know first world problem the self-addressed stamped envelope thing actually worked it's really not that much ever did it did these I feel like these are thicker we're not going to be able to fit as many in as we used to be able yeah plus not gonna lie check out the sticker it doesn't have the website on there if the people that were questing stickers from less in that way already know about the show I know but we want them to you know alert other people about them so you're just teasing people you're showing them but not sending them yeah we got stickers we'll figure it out yeah well usually you want to send a self-addressed stamped on yeah we're not we're not gonna turn it away how about that right okay so how about this if you want to do it you can do it and using no guarantee he'll sanibel will do it I'm just saying like if there might be a better way to do it let me also say that and there might be new stickers down there for international listeners hold off yeah because those are kind of a problem you know like it's real i'm sorry to ignore everyone i got ignoring them for now just hold off for now and then we'll figure out a better way to send those to you domestic requests only please yeah uh in the meantime I have a Back to the Future trivia question for you I know it's totally off topic but i want to see if you'll get this because i know you're huge expert is it what you are you gonna tell me which movie it is or it's a complete this sentence a quote from the movie which one though is one two or three two all right I've got to the month why say you're gonna get two out of the three blanks here okay I'm gonna waiting can I like type no no I need you to go ahead oh okay I'm gonna do that yeah here it is yeah hilldale nothing but a breeding ground for blank blank and blank filament haha you don't know I know it is like um buzz heads is one of them may be no clothes clothes that's it that's very close to the buyer she's like nothing but a bunch Hilldale nothing but I could tell you who says it's the cop yeah one of the cop it's the woman Camille cos they're getting out of the car nothing but a breeding ground for Lobos Lobos is my god and there wasn't one of them Sir creeps lowlifes no no she says something like it goes no they want to bring around for some things low lows and some things and it's not buzzards something heads butt heads no that's it grid like this is like up what did you say what zip zip is it zip it is it that's to my brain gone for something for drills Chloe grabbed for something drop trailer bows and zipheads it does start with a shirt trash does have tra in a trick it's not tramps it's tra blank blank s while you're good I'm already impressed even if you don't get this one nope you've already wonder my book I keep living as if heads yeah f is hidden I know that is if her head is different um he'll do nothing but I'm breeding ground for shrimp trunks trunk tramps trunks is very close trunk it's one letter off Trump Trang drinks tranq swag give me a high five yeah good man mother then I'm glad we waited 10 minutes on we don't waste 10 minutes are sick man hilldale nothing but a breeding ground for tranqs Lobos and zip heads and none of those derogatory terms are used not now nor will they be in three years they should man that's so awesome and I don't think the double tie thing is gonna work out happens I have a I have a sneaking suspicion that that will not survive yeah huh that is so cool I didn't cheat for the record I capitals began eye contact with a sick I'm psyched on that one man that just came out of nowhere well played sir also want to do more of the the brain teasers thing ok ok so we're so what we'll do though is uh I guess a lot of people were like oh hey you know you guys should put the teasers at the end of the episode you know so that you can answer it first thing next time good so maybe we'll start doing that next week do that if you've got a really good brain teaser send them to how can we do this because we'll all get that email I don't know we'll figure it out maybe we'll come up with them and I'll like alternate you know the three of us may be giving them out to the rest of us ok that work out for me um I think we have one more voicemail this is from I don't know what's from but it is about uh oh no I'm sorry it was another sleep doctor question that we just didn't have the time to answer yesterday ok yeah so that next time we're done with those all right thanks for calling in again that numbers 866 44 cnet uh what else we got you want to get to one more co2 the Batman thing we go okay cool yeah let's do that so um yeah it's funny like every day am i right to work i go up Park Avenue yeah right and now we see there's like a lot of crappy street art that I see on the way there sure but I think the best thing I've seen on a wall is as giant 150 foot tall mural that's actually hand painted right like we've seen all these like new kinds of advertisements that are all digital right TV screens everywhere there's very few hand painted brick wall advert Vince anymore so if you in fact that there's a documentary i watch the other day called up there okay and on the ride to work today I saw that there was a new advertisement on there for batman dark knight rises sure and actually looked it up and there is a story about how you paint a hundred and fifty foot tall Batman have you seen that on twenty-third and park it's literally five blocks yeah I've seen is it's all paint by numbers yeah it's really cool and I was kind of wondering how they did it you're right it is a paint-by-numbers game but the specifics are detailed in this article and so essentially the original artist creates it then that artwork is broken down into a really simple outline then they actually a poke holes through that and make a huge stencil out of it so they can get a rough outline of what it looks like on the wall right you know basically so they know where the elements are sure on the brick and then they use charcoal to go through the wall and make that stencil and then it takes four guys actually painting from five days in a row from sunrise to sunset these guys are like true artist that's insane the hardest working artists in the world I believe they were still doing a video yeah you know so it's not done very often this is one of the only few places the other one they have in an orchard and stanton in the lower east side yeah those are the only two that I know of in Manhattan they are so massive yeah I wonder how much the advertising space goes for that is such prime real estate it's facing south on Park Avenue I mean I like a million people must see it a month yeah you know remember the other one we saw was uh Kate Upton about that wasn't that that wasn't as big write it and that wasn't painted that was a little just a billboard yeah but it's crazy how they do this yeah what's a shame too is that goes way it goes away exactly every five to six weeks they repaint the new one what if it rains real bad while they're doing it well they put in a special clear coat acrylic over it to protect against the elements it's real I mean you want to talk about weather though these poor guys have to elect suffer through his heat wave we're going down right now we complain about having to write brisk air you know bacon sundae yeah these guys have to you know work 12 hours a day for six days in a row to get this up yeah and then it disappears I I'm blown away by stuff like that that's really cool uh in the article they talk about which celebrity they've painted the most on this wall oh who was we think that is uh wooden in autonomous recently all ryan gosling no but Chevy Jane tanning fadem chasing Tatum no none Channing Tatum yeah that senses names and worse it's uh Johnny Depp oh and they talk about what is the most difficult movie that Johnny Depp has been in to paint all one of the Pirates one uh no no it's uh Allison wunderland all his hat yeah crazy had in all the different portion a like that was the most difficult to replicate on the wall interesting yeah all before we go I want to show everyone this tweet I put up yes I wanna get everyone's opinions including you I just threw it in under that Batman story arm yesterday are for I believe Donnie Jones Danny Jones I don't know how you pronounce it I think he's like of a former uh NFL player mmm he was flying out of New York yesterday and if you're on the East Coast you saw the biblical storm that hit our region crazy it was insane my dumbass had to go play dead space 3 for a little bit so I walked out in this thing my shoes were instantly soaked my socks instantly so yeah um anyway this dude is was taking off and he was able to snap a photo of the incoming storm okay so let's this is an unbelievable photo it looks like a it looks like a quarter mile wide tornado yeah but that's just how thick the rain was my thing so what I tweeted out last night was that yet this is a great photo but isn't this the perfect example of when not to use an Instagram filter I mean come on like I can't even tell you know it's ridiculous why they did why did he do this it looks cool but you can't tell a lot of the details in the clouds or even the city because it's blurred by whatever uh yeah antique filters on this so he puts this filter on it in the New York Times retweets it and it gets like 20,000 views in a few hours that's fine but is this not the poster child for when not to use an Instagram filter but it still looks cool you know what like I would almost argue that the outline of that tornado shape might not have been as clear without the Instagram photo I mean without seeing the original but that's that's thing so basically what this leads me to say is that I think everyone should be able to see the original Instagram photo like I think you should be able to when you look at that photo in Instagram and I love this is how he did it but if if if that's what you do and and you send that after Instagram and you view it through Instagram you should be able to take the filter off see it the way it was originally taken rapport subsequently put your put a different filter on it you mean refill turret refill turret or unfiltered yeah you know there should be a button for that I agree i think that's bright this is still a good photo though are you disputing that I mean when you first saw if you didn't know that Instagram existed you'd still be impressed by the yeah I thought the falling out when I saw the photo I way occasion I went whoa yeah like that then I said wait a minute this would probably look even better if it didn't have this stupid-ass filter all right right because that pretty much negates the camera quality of the iphone that took it in the first exactly and I'm sure that's what he took it with ya you know so I I don't think he took this with the blackberry bold right you know I mean that so I don't know I think don't get me wrong at at comic-con I was rocking that filter on yeah and thing I was I was doing it I did it I did a bunch of times they like eight or nine times yeah whatever it worked out went then harlequin is one thing though right or NATO over Manhattan like that is more special and I'm and I I wonder if he's bummed out because he's like oh man I really should have taken a normal photo this yeah no one's ever gonna believe me you know I don't know that's that's that's how I think cherrim seems like they they're sort of agreeing with me I don't know people on Twitter sure what did you tweet this guy asking for the original photo ah no I just I I just tweeted him you know I i mentioned him in my tweet yeah um and then and then that all right let's get out of here what do you say okay um again get in touch with us let us know what you think about the new sort of setup we've got going on if you're listening to the or you're watching the video rather and also let us know how the audio for the audio only version sounds today we're trying out a few new things and hopefully that is improved from the last couple of days that's going to do it for us for the week again no program tomorrow we'll be back on Monday with a brand new week of five shows so get psyched for that and I believe we're going to get Katie linendoll back as well that's always fun what do you know you're glad to know that yeah so I don't tell you anything and I know I know all right 866 44 cnet is our phone number or you can email us the 404 at cnet com even get to get to the video voice mess today maybe on monday if you want to participate in that get yourself on youtube send us the link and most likely will play it on the show that's going to do it for us today we'll see you on Monday I'm Jeff Bakalar and I'm Justin you it's the 404 high-tech lowbrow we will see you on Monday have a great weekend guys you