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it's Wednesday May 7 2014 a Mario nuñez and from our CBS studios in New York City welcome to the 404 what's up everyone thank you for tuning in to the 404 show I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Justin you I hope you guys are having a great day today we sure are we got a lot of stories to get to and some emails some interactions yeah and what we got going on today man I like to show yesterday I did 21 because I didn't have to deal with it but two is just a really funny episode photo was too right I realized he's gonna kind of break your balls that much the first time Marc Maron was on the show he seemed kind of nice he was really low key and I feel like the second time around the fact that he was a little bit meaner is a good thing I thought that probably means he was trying to run you through the wringer yeah he likes you and you can clearly take it well that's what I would I mean that's how my gorgeous dick well he's definitely like that's illegal pretty prickly right he's a little rough but like I'll be totally honest yesterday was one of the my favorite interviews I've ever done really definitely I had so much fun doing that yeah so a lot of people emailed and they were like it was good an awkward but like awkward but some people were saying was kind of awkward I think because if you don't know who mark mayor razon you're like why is this guy burn so much about what's behind the T sure sure sure sure he kind of blew us up who's funny though it was really funny and he found my contact solution which I've actually been looking for I nice that's good at least someone got something positive out of that damn I um no I really did enjoy it i thought it was awesome I like I said I I don't think I've had more fun interviewing somebody and I i don't know maybe people like didn't get it where it was sort of this like joshing around thing yeah but you're totally right like I only really bust balls people who I who are like and that's all I do like for my friends all I do is make fun of them I don't even like care like I don't ask them how they're doing it's just non stop making fun that's how his podcast is too sure basically sitting down for an interview with marc maron is like getting into a fight with your girlfriend or boyfriend or your essay whatever I'd much rather interview mark Mayer and then fight with my secular it always starts off really angry and you say things you don't mean and then eventually towards the end of the 45-minute interview you just start feeling like the okay what are we both going to work on he outlook I mean I know it was all good spirited cuz he wrote me after any sites like that was fun he's like I'm a ballbuster you could take a that's great it's cool yeah so I I had a blast I really can't be any happier now that way so yeah go back to yesterday show and listen to it and I I got emails from people who said like look I've never listened to your show on gathering I'm as I've never listened to show but that was great oh cool yeah thought so if we can get one new listener from yesterday yeah that's all I care about if I had been sitting up here if it was me or REO I feel like we would have pulled the jack black in high fidelity and just taking one of his microphone thing like I newegg site i nothing went off course yesterday yeah nothing happened yesterday where I was like oh I didn't but I was a curveball I was perfect you can't let too much time pass after his insult before your time back I thought I was on even up with him right yeah I think I didn't I think that was the best part of that it was fine you can probably hear my laughter in the background yeah that episode which is either good but I heard of while we were shooting yeah I like it or not I'm there but seriously such a blast I had such a good time within go back and listen to yesterday's show all right back to reality what do we have cooking today alright so today we have a bunch of episode of bunch of stories i'm really excited to talk about we talk about zapping your brain with spark plugs to improve your video gaming skills okay totally normal that sounds fine um then we're gonna talk about how jack black is playing to single-handedly bring everybody back to vinyl I'm really excited to talk about the jack white word I said Jack Black that's a second jack black referee yet I dartium Jack White although jack black is very talented me is he's a great musician um then we're going to talk about a start-up that's straining the relationship between the rich and the poor even more in San Francisco that's already a really strange relationship but they're basically auctioning off public spaces will tell you how they're doing that why people are pissed off about it then we'll talk about some video game news Nintendo continues to post devastating losses bed is really really bad so in advance of e3 which is coming up we're going to talk about maybe what we can expect from the company and then we're gonna finish up a story about Ed Boon who's the creator of mortal kombat he's been tweeting out some sort of mysterious numbers right we've been talking about like cryptography lately and and numbers and things so he's doing his own an extra mystery for you guys the end of this the episode today great and then some emails will get to if we can let's dive right in yeah alright so electroshock therapy you haven't really heard about it in a while she was look around upon usually frowned upon but still being used to treat depression and schizophrenia is it realize you sure yeah in this country in this country yeah but I mean obviously it's done with a lot of anesthesia and clinicians looking around two to make sure you're okay okay it's not a DIY I think you don't just shock yourself yeah they don't like make it chomp down on a wooden spoon no wait I did yeah I keep seeing the vision of like American Horror Story yeah in my head when I when I hear shock the wait I haven't watched that the second season they did that a lot they just hook people up to like yeah it was like it's crazy insane asylum and they thought they could like shock the madness out of people right I think it works I don't know if it's a placebo thing or just forcing people to concentrate but right either way hobby is the right they're always trying to take a DIY approach to things and in this case a small group of interested parties they're learning how to zap their own brains using this sounds crazy but a battery with alligator clips connected to a circuit and two kitchen sponges those sponges are attached to a simple sweatband you know that you could buy it any sports store they rig that up put it on their head and then using that battery they'll actually send electrical pulses into their own brain doc you don't want to do that and it's this is funny in this picture it's great Achilles he's just like I love being shocked yeah and that's the thing is when you imagine people doing this I don't know for me I'm always imagining like some like meth head or coke ad in a basement somewhere in the middle of America but this is actually professionals select sort of middle-aged professionals um that's that's being profiled here in this homebrew so I mean I think it's fair that we separate like you know electroshock therapy yeah from DIY like brain stimulation hmm like one thing like if you've ever gone through physical therapy there's what do they call a machine oh the chiropractic machine with a strap the thing that like stimulates your mother's right but actually we're kind of talking about here sort of yeah we're not talking about actual like yeah yeah that's an extremely the Looney Tunes version and there's now that you don't like you know take off machine come right from your skull yeah exactly right so there's a big difference here yeah so this is we're talking about 2 milliamps of electricity which is less than a 9-volt battery right and anyone who's ever licked a 9-volt battery before perfectly healthy just saying my childhood was weird yeah it's not that bad so you're basically sending 2 milli amps of electricity through the part of your brain that controls reaction time which is a prefrontal cortex among other things besides the reaction and we're talking about here is hopefully with doing this and this is what a lot of the proponents of it say that it can help with memory loss or things like rapid learning if you have a you know a big test coming up in your student you can shock yourself into studying better and some are taking it to alleviate chronic pain depression even things like stroke recoveries you're losing movement or things like that they're hoping that shock therapy can help with alongside physical therapy and it's working you know a lot of academic papers and that's what this wired article is talking about scientists and doctors are starting to consider it again as a significant way to research alternative health methods but they're sort of taking a summer taking it upon themselves to build a community out of it and even try to make money on it yeah that's always what's going to happen you know they're going to be like oh this will cure your XYZ yeah yeah so click on this other link that I put in the run down when I talk about others capitalizing on it I found this one product in my research for this and it's called the c1 where was that did the transcranial direct current stimulation for gamers yeah so it's called the folk us and you can go to FOC dot us the focus o folk us one of us yeah of and so they're basically capitalizing on what they call tDCS that transcranial direct current stimulation okay and you can see it in this picture here the company is marketing an electroshock headset for gamers it's basically a headband that you know attached to those frontal lobes to increase the plasticity of your brain of your brain and make synapses fire faster by overclocking it hopefully reducing your reaction times and increasing your skill level and playing video games okay let's be honest how many of these if they sold a lot Noah yes what is wrong with you yeah it's crazy what are you doing buying a shock machine for video games well so they had a first round of funding right and they were offering pre-orders they sold out the first batch of 300,000 then there was a second batch of 300,000 they also manufactured after that those all sold out immediately to and now you can pre Doria third the hell's our logo doing there yeah we've written about it too uh scary part what pisses me off is that they're there they're passing it off as overclocking your brain yeah yeah it's basically like we've talked about transhumanism in the past is making yourself sort of a machine cyborg right this is the first step in that the cool thing about this is the way they market it so not only do they say that while you wear the headband and you're playing it will increase your skill level when you take it off your brain sort of remains in this neuro plasticity mode which means even after you remove it your brain is still hardwired to learn faster according to what their marketing says okay so sounds kind of cool you know if you can increase your intelligence even after you take it out more reaction time right reaction time yeah technically that I think the thing that's uh worth noting here is that there able to skirt FDA policies but you know advertising it as a video game Oh accessory and so a lot of DIY tDCS proficient are using this but not for video games are using it to increase their memory or for the stroke stuff everything we talked about earlier it's not expensive it's 250 now it's expensive that expensive i mean it's less than the over if your brains less than the oculus there's nothing that if it works and I mean I don't know talk about just video game accessories in general I just don't like the the way they're advertising yeah they're saying use the Force let the force of electricity excite your neurons into firing faster okay when i read that i read Oh shock your brain that's not something I want to do yeah if with an iphone app that's connected to it by bluetooth 30 day money back guarantee so if you're not completely a vegetable by the end of the month yeah you can get your money back the technology isn't necessarily what worries me it's how small the manual is and the fact that people can control this themselves yeah like there's so much room for error here at the first death is going to be coming really soon for really whoa I don't know if we should say that no I mean like what if you get wet or something in your using this with that fry your brain or it could all just be BS right like maybe the electro shocks aren't enough to do anything I think all the tools no I definitely think that's the case yeah right this is like the equivalent of like you know those bracelets people wear right well over it like help their balance yeah they think there's like some magnet like the the polar magnets of the planet are gonna make them like right walk better yeah you've seen that people in malls like kiosks they have those on that did you like a series of tests like oh look check it I can't put your arm down there wearing this band right exists because they've already pushed around at once you know the force I mean we're in agreement this is like the same category right maybe I mean I would there no no like if I'm gonna buy with this BS that they're shoveling yeah I'm gonna need testimonies from like MIT people yeah right we're the like yet freakin makes you uh the susceptible to learn better yeah have faster reaction time you could say that any bozo being like you know if you're like pulling an all-nighter and it's four in the morning then a couple electroshocks to keep your focus yeah it's probably gonna do you good even if it doesn't do anything to your brain just to keep you paying attention and not falling asleep I put this in the same category as the magnetic bracelets which are complete and the stuff were like people you know I am I once had a friend who want to quit smoking oh yeah and he tried he couldn't do it mmm so he went and got shocked okay I'm like a guy ruins yeah just something like some guy in a garage with Queens and explain to my friend that the nicotine receptors are located conveniently behind your ear lobe and he got shot yeah right got shocked reco I need to stop smoking it's not clearly that's but it's not the fact that your receptors in your ear it's the fact that you are doing something traumatic and you are like introducing this very radical and unconventional process into your life that I think acts as what you said a placebo effect and says okay I'm gonna quit smoking yeah I'm gonna do whatever or my brain is gonna fire quicker or it develops this response to where you know like if he every time you think about smoking you remember this pain that you felt and maybe that would was not even pain like he said it didn't hurt at all it was it was like that massaging thing for the physical therapy yes Cole want it's some sort of like stimulus I know what you mean I have no ideas to sell it as a workout thing yeah yeah they really work your build up his abs out you have patches in like you can sit on the couch e popcorn and be working yeah does that work no it doesn't work that worked everybody would be blending I guess there is some sort of benefit in physical therapy yeah definitely for people that have tight muscles or things like that from sitting in a right office chair all day that might be BS 2 i'm about chiropractic it really feel like the entire practice of chiropractic work is BS you're not gonna really hear a big argument for me on that I mean both of us have seen a lot of chiropractors for different reasons no I've never been you haven't seen one might as we've talked about this days went to one I below minutes into the appointment I like leaned over like stays disguise yeah and she's like I know but it's free so I'm just gonna hang out it'd be better if they did all have that like soft Asian music playing with like the waterfall great on my dream catchers everywhere yeah like they take the holistic approach with and just went full on clinical went clinical with there's none of dudes wearing white lab coat yeah that would make it a little bit more confidence you're gonna lie to me give me the whole package yeah sell it to me yeah don't wear kimono when you come out exactly and don't like say like before you enter my room gotta take off my shoes and like wash my hands in this special water yeah yeah yeah but the machine I feel like they just hook you up to that so they don't have to be in the room to see you react to the yeah it's it's not good either way we're talking up this stuff's yeah category it's not going to kill you but it isn't doing anything you want a big stimulus you want a big kick in the ass drink a double espresso that is guaranteed to make you more responsive and write a little more hyper right like that's like when I need to pick me up before a hockey game I take a shot of espresso and yeah it works I can explode my heart but either way every once in a while and that desired result yeah a little bit of Ritalin never hurt anybody either that I can't endorse okay caffeine I can um so that's transhumanism let's move on to a subject a little less serious Jack White so Jack Wyatt has a label called third man records right and anybody who's read stuff about the white stripes or Jack White's record label third man he's all about vinyl I mean he's really single-handedly pushing pushing it back into the mainstream so what's really cool about this record label third man is that apparently they don't put out CDs at all you can't buy CDs of any of their albums just records or digital releases only all right I feel like that's what it should be yeah and is I putting out 45 still he's putting out singles it's really cool stuff um but we're talking about his next album that he just announced called Lazzaretto mmm it's coming out on May tenth so pretty soon and uh last month they'd previously announced a special package version called the vault the vault version that included special artwork and a 40-page hardbound book some really cool extras but now they've announced an even crazier ultra LP version that's what they're calling it it's cool the ultra LP version that's seriously for the biggest vinyl geek in your life sorry I think you might be stoked about this as much as i am so there's a video that goes along with this announcement it takes Jack White nine minutes and 10 seconds for him to describe all of the specific details and features you'll get with it but I'm gonna break it down with you because nobody wants to watch 10 minute video about that especially if Jack White yeah here the coolest thing is about it first the weird thing about this vinyl is that side a actually has backward grooves so you start the record off by playing it closest to the label okay right normally you start on the edge side a starts towards the label still have to play it in reverse and then it comes back out okay which is cool i mean the song is itself aren't in reverse so how it appears on the record okay to me that's pointless well okay like nothing cool about that really well it's like it you changes nothing here's why it's cool okay because um you know how on the leeward school you know how like on the last song when you put it closest to the closest to the label once the record finishes on one side it kind of just continues to loop back and forth it's called a locked groove right right and the locked grooves normally there so that the needle just jump out into the little room in the needle yeah yeah so it just kind of continues back and forth on this locked groove well he put the locked groove on side a on the outermost edge and then he put a little sound bite on that so once you get to the edge of side-a which is the on the outermost it'll kind of just play this infinite loop of a little sound bite that's cool it's really cool you could do that in the middle to you can do that in the middle too but just the fact that it kind of plays from the inside I was just yeah yeah sure you got did you have to have the the record go in the opposite direction great yeah yeah the record I think the record goes in the opposite no no I don't think it does wouldn't know it sounds like it's just the way was cut yeah that it also the group will follow yeah it still goes off so yeah same direction right inside to the odd okay um kind of confusing to explain but that's pretty cool it'll play that little tone forever here's the other thing so on side two when you flip it over the first song on side two actually has two different intros that lead into the same part in the middle that's cool the first part is acoustic the second part is electric so depending on where you drop the needle on the outermost groove or the one directly next to it you'll either hear the intro played electrically with amps or acoustically with an acoustic guitar it's really cool so no matter what you do no matter which you choose they'll eventually converge into the middle of the sauce awesome but normally yeah really awesome that's red and then finally this is I think the coolest thing there's actually two hidden tracks underneath the center label on both sides of the record Wow so if you drop the needle directly onto the paper itself it'll play these hidden songs through the paper it'll play through the pain yeah crazy right but here's even nuttier thing is one side of the hidden track is 78 rpms right okay normally a records played at 33 rpms this one plays at 78 RPM this but when you flip it over the other hidden track on side B is 45 rpms so this record all together technically has three speeds you can play it it's got three speeds yeah 3 that's amazing so nuts right it's very cool I mean he's clearly unlike this vinyl kick yeah but I just I mean I'm into it I don't you know I don't know a lot of people who sell record players yeah I mean for those who do have a good place it's I feel awful to heal is that it's the novelty is in paying more attention to it having all the details you get with the labels and the artwork and the inserts this just adds way more fun to it and it's only 20 bucks yeah so you can pre-order for twenty bucks that's you know less than the cost for what you would pay it a lot of use vinyl stores only Jack why can get away with this yeah all right so cool um it's funny to bring that up because i was looking today at one of my favorite bands mastodon and they have a their new record they're doing like this massive pre-release for and it's like a seventy dollar thing and it's two LPS yeah that's cool and I'm just like everyone's into that into that movement now yeah and it's cool because a lot of those albums will come with a ticket to the show in ready so you'll get both and then when you go to this show itself a lot of the merch tables will include special press vinyl like colored vinyl sold only at that show that's pretty cool too it is cool I mean it's I don't know I'm just a fan of anything limited edition when you say something is limited edition I will buy I don't care it's one of two million i'll still get into it as long it's labeled so I just uh I don't know if I'm like you know ready to like change the whole way I listen to music around yeah it does feel good to start paying for keys finally oh I'm like I'm not even know we are generation I will say to keep abroad got away with you know not paying for music for 20 years 25 years so if you could put a little bit of my back is that what it is we're just like this whole big guilt thing basically I feel like I'm taking it off my shoulders one record this doesn't absolve you of all your frickin transgressions not me o our so yeah I mean a lot of these bands are doing that and I'm not gonna like I was super intrigued when I saw the macedon thing look at this it's like to 180 gram LP vinyls for exclusive lithographs derived from album artwork yeah and then you get the CD as well the digital version yeah that's pretty rad man that's a crazy-looking cover right oh my God look at the artwork is bonkers oh Christ all the drugs in the world can explain where this came from wait go up as let's say that you're getting it you're gonna get an advance copy of the next release they put out no so mean so you'll get uh you get the two shooting two records right that's what the to 180 gram LP means right yeah that was that bottom uh notes say the download of another album oh you'll get another so they'll give you a digital version of one of the songs before its release ah so the next single own this way right okay God 70 bucks though that's a lot of money all right yeah two records doesn't have nine minutes worth of features like Jack White this is very cool man I'm into it Brad yeah all right there you have it so what's next you want to talk about San Francisco I do I think this is really awesome man not only is that place literally sinking into the ground it's also sinking economically right now it's not a good place to be in San Francisco unless you have a ton of money yeah it's super expensive there there make it's starting to make New York look affordable yeah the rent is actually cheaper in New York than it is in san fran I never thought I'd see the day where in other cities having cheaper rent yeah yeah neither so listen to this an Italian company is testing a new service in SF called monkey parking and monkey parking lets drivers auction off their parking spot before they leave through an app so if you're about to leave a busy mall or something before you you know back out of the parking spot you fire up this app you can charge anywhere between five and twenty dollars there's buttons for each denomination you just hit twenty bucks then everyone else gets to see the open parking spots for sale in your area if you're sick of looking for one just hit that 20 and then it will link up between your phones and you're ready to pull in after that the pyramid scheme yeah basically and it may be illegal it's I don't know if it's illegal it doesn't to me this doesn't matter if it's illegal yeah cuz it's kind of silly difficult to find what if the pyramid scheme because if this were like pervasive everywhere you would just get the money back from selling your spot after oh the last guy would get jacked when the demand for pardon goes down breasts there's no one willing to pay for his or spot or I could just see it becoming a thing where people just go and hoard parking spots before like a big game or something like I say a playoffs game like for the Giants sure like yeah they would just go and take 20 spots an auction off make to you know it's it's pretty bad it is pretty disgusting yeah what they're trying to do like I get it it's it's like taking the whole I call like the web three-point oh with like uber and fresh direct and all that stuff like yes sir you're taking that and you're like exploiting that to the to the end of its you know yeah it's a commodifying every party life is like Airbnb you know everything for every brigham about April upon him some oxygen would you like to buy the essay all right coming today pages son of a bitch right we're gonna come to Beijing here we have one cubic foot of free clean air get out of here what about so like what if I'm coming out of the mall and whatever happened to the whole like I'm gonna follow this guy to his car razmik no I already sold it to that Buick behind you yeah yeah or what if you pull up to a spot and it's a compact and you have a truck and you've already paid twenty bucks for it oh you're really really foolish hairs here you know like they won't forget swooped yeah that always happens i've done that to people before big dick oh you're the worst kind of driver come on I've never done that yes you have oh don't drive first step is admitting it I think for the city they're worried that it's gonna take money away from potential spots with parking meters yeah and the parking meter money is used to go back into the infrastructure for the city to billboard lanes and things like that well that's where parking monkey the worst name our game doesn't matter it's the worst name ever is the worst name ever you've ever come up with yeah italian company it's terrible they should give a cut back to the city yeah cisco if they don't want to look like total assholes people are already so pissed off about corporate buses from google and things like this yeah an attack parking in where the muni bus is pull up to pick people up there already pissed about that and then silicon valley in general boosting the prices of rent and stuff like that so what we're saying is moved to san fran yeah yeah that's what we're saying you're gonna get in a fight coming back from the airport that's the takeaway it's getting insane over there it's not now when i was in singapore by the way side note on parking they have parking down to a science there it's very organized so every structure you have or parking lot whether it's public or private they all have a digital sign Lamar key in the front that shell that shows you exactly how many spots are left brilliant and then when you pull in there are arrows that are directing you to the closest spot to you more brilliant yeah and then that number ticks down but each spot also has lights above them that turn red or green depending on if they're full or empty so you can see immediately even if you don't have a sign in front of you as we look like it looks like this right looks like this a little bit little green spot over the brilliant what this is why we can't have nice things it's so f is this not here in this country why is this not in New York the hardest place on earth to park a car and they're everywhere too I don't know it's great you don't have to worry about pulling in somewhere in finding a lunch circling and circling maybe that's why it's called parking monkey because you feel like a monkey after you've circled a lot so many times still the worst name ever man it just is not really good to be Nintendo these days yeah I you know it's getting worse and worse and worse and they just put out their earnings last 12 months Nintendo has lost four hundred and fifty seven million dollars the Wii U has only sold two point seven two million units in the last 12 months at this rate they could potentially run out of cash it used to be like oh they have so much cash in the bank it doesn't matter they can do this for 50 years now that it's exponentially rising in terms of losses they can really see like a wall at the end of this tunnel that is insane so last quarter nintendo sold how much 310,000 yeah we use we use which is not a LAN trast that to the PlayStation 4 which sold seven million since last November yeah that is crazy it's insane the 3ds is doing pretty well but um you know they're only for cat forecasting 3.6 million wii u sales in this current fiscal year i wonder if it's an issue with marketing and not just television commercials ever see a lot of those butts across the board yeah so i want i went into a gamestop the other week to my friend to buy Mortal Kombat and I noticed that all of the advertisements for like work for like titanfall or were for playstation 4 xbox one and then they had like a very very small Wii U section well there's a bad games yeah and there were no games for it at all in addition just not being demoed either you know like there were consoles for both of those but there was no wii u demo mhmmm I don't know I'm sure maybe that's like a very small part of it but you think it's a marketing deal I think it's everything I think the games are not worth paying 50 bucks for I think the software on the system sucks in terms of like the firmware it's a big clunky controller that note that has terrible battery life and is completely alienating to anyone who picks it up um it's the it was debuted in an awful way it was debut too early in my opinion people didn't know the you know the way they described it to the press people didn't realize you know if it was a wee attachment or a brand new console altogether more the mainstream media outlets didn't get it it's bad it's really really bad and I don't think there's a way to save wii u if I'm Nintendo I mean they've got a few highly anticipated games coming down the pike they have zelda coming out and maybe one or two other gems like another mario game it's my brother's smash brothers coming out later this year they're in a lot of trouble I say pull the plug on with you yeah yeah I say could focus on on the 3ds the one thing that does appear to continue to make money and just cut your losses because at this point it's it's worse because they're still like in denial about it especially when we meet with them and they're like here's why we use future's bright no man it's not it really isn't yeah I don't know like my chai if I told like 12 year old 10 year old Jeff this was going to happen in 2014 yeah he got he'd cry for a few days it's got to be an issue with simplicity right I feel like everybody likes Nintendo because it's easy to play you know you could just pick up a game like a mario game and know how to play it but with this there's such a big learning curve there haven't they're they're going through like an identity crisis right now they're not competing with Nintendo it with the Sony and Microsoft they're just not in their league anymore yeah uh they they bail out at e3 press conferences two years in a row now and you know people are sort of wondering like what they're saving grace but their move is and I don't think they know either speaking of finances i read an article about how sony is actually really close to just getting bankrupt all of sony um with me you know the Sony gaming division the only one that's turning a profit records are my like electronics and but yeah their televisions for example their music has gone down I read one report that there's about 75% close to going bankrupt in the next few years that's correct which could lead to a sale of the Sony gaming division off to someone else off to someone else maybe Nintendo should buy microsoft will look that that was always like this amazing theory like Oh Nintendo just merged with like Google or you know or Apple or Apple or whatever it is and then you that that's the thing and they're like I've we've said in the past there a very prideful company they you know they Dale never really admit defeat I think they really need to merge or make a phone like make an android phone yeah a Nintendo android phone I would buy that oh yeah with a game controller buildings were built in and access to the entire vault of Nintendo software do a netflix tile rental thing where I can do for five dollars a month I can buy and I can play any Nintendo game like there are so many ideas and they just haven't innovated man they haven't done anything to keep up nachos with Microsoft and Sony but with everyone that is just every single day cutting away at their market share it's sad because everybody wants them to win to have an excellent public perceptible love ninten I loved in 10-11 play video games I like seeing the characters it's crazy and they just can't get it together they can't get it together it's very strange uh their marketing is just not where it should be but where some marketing is where it should be this is a really interesting campaign being run by Ed Boon one of the creators of mortal kombat yeah you know i'm not gonna get into like specifics of what he the product he's actually promoting but he's doing something really cool he's sending out these sort of cryptic tweets that all have numbers in them yeah he started out with saying how many days are in a leap year in February right and then he that was 29 and he started counting out 28 and then he said man I love the Simpsons and linked to a Simpsons video with the number 27 in it he's counting down to son thing and the countdown he set to expire a few days before e3 2014 so just what is he leading up to we don't know is it a new game involving you know his company nether realm they make mortal kombat they made injustice gods among us which is a DC Comics fighting game really good stuff is he ready to announce another fighting game I would think so hmm but I just thought the way he's going at it pretty sick the hype is thick yeah apparently Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed that he's working on a mortal kombat project could that be what mr. ed boon is counting down to its possible another monica another more do that reboot that mortal kombat reboot reboot best fighting game i played a decade been playing planet sick right amazing so good so I'd love to see you know what's happening and we'll all find out in just 27 short days cool all right let's get to a few emails ah we got a lot of contact we're still freaking people out across the planet about the UVB hidden messages number stations all that stuff this I thought I wanted to read because it was kind of like a no-brainer and I just thought it was funny that someone was telling us this Kevin writes in and says hey I'd never heard of that UVB 76 signal before but after listening to that show I immediately thought of the movie contact yeah with Jodie Foster yeah we've heard of that we've got that he said the idea of that movie must have come from UVB 76 and it's ignora yeah so kind of kind of had that in the back of her head yeah a little bit Paul writes in about that emer effort would have called to be called you a mother effing i don't know i think he is just really excited about the concept we were talking about putting headphones into the jacks of every arm rescue right she goes in 30 seconds you guys effortlessly hit all of my movie points my wife loves going in the movies I don't for all the reasons Justin had mentioned loud kids and adults sitting next to a stranger for three hours the texting idiots etc and sticky floors off and you added that what it sticky floors a problem for you yeah I hate sticky floors I mean know and enjoy sticky floors but i'm not i'm not avoiding movie theaters because they have sticky floor it's just soda it's it's you know that guy soda it's know what's a lot of thinking that's not what I was thinking imagine how much of that I was totally no I swear that's not what I was thinking you know I was thinking it was is like uh like dried butter that like the liquid butter have you seen that station they have at the Battery Park movie theater there was yeah but I mean that like so we saw this pump station right next to the like we're all the condiments are and they have this like butter reservoir yeah of the pump itself is so long that you can push it down for like a solid 45 seconds and just have streams of this liquid butter coming out it is so there was this girl that was literally just like holding a bucket underneath pressing down and like moving a bucket or like it was salsa yeah for like a solid minute you just watched its cracked in I'm sorry man you know the guy to my left is talking about how gross a butter you know fountain is but I look at what you eat man it's not much different she probably cleaned off that you should clean that thing out over the course of an hour and a half and if you have measured that in a cup I'm sure it would be I don't know so holy earlier down oh my god okay bacon sandwich Larry I'm sure there's no butter in that process hava jizz all right either way we totally identify he says um he agrees the battery park city AMC is legit that's the only place i go it's tolerable but yeah we're hitting first world problems here forever oh so Ken sent us an email about the same thing and he was telling us about how in Korea they've opened up beats by dre collaborative movie theaters I didn't see that when i was there but he says that all the seats have their studio headphones built in just like we talked about and then they all have one time sanitary ear pads that you can wear on and soon after really about your wax problem solved yeah it's a collaboration between cinema chain and korea called cgv and beats electronics overall bootleg beats by action that's how that for ya is that I think Chinese China has all the bootlegs Korea might be okay Korea's legit but that sounds pretty cool if we can get that going with non beats by dre headphones maybe a sound cancelling yeah I just and you know it is though the second that happens then the phones will start to like really annoy you and stand out more oh yeah there's just no way of getting around it users have to wait two weeks for the movie to come out on blu-ray yeah that's how long its second and then finally Kylie writes in and says I've got two cents to add to the numbers stations conversation my friend posits that these number stations were originally created and still used to brainwash Russian prisoners I know background like he has no further detail that's it thinks that I think they might be messages to Russian covert missions or even signals into space as a we're out here message sorry we out here not we're out we're out here yeah still sounds creepy as no yeah it's it's creepy for sure I need some citations on those claims I mean that they're not bad but and claim anything yeah maybe a little more about we don't need horses you don't need a background check or a reference or source to claim anything nice yes 10 points if you know what that's from finally some programming notes that we need to tell you fine people about I lied I lied I lied to you I lied to everyone I lied to the entire internet Katie linendoll had to cancel again tomorrow again it's two lives she's lying a lot to us she promises that she'll be back so right now we've got her tentatively scheduled for the week after next or perhaps the end of next week we're still emailing back and forth don't worry she's not cancelled for good she is coming at some point also Andrew W K that is a week from today with a live musical performance as well go to our subreddit and participate in the thread we've got going it's called Andrew W K is coming back and we need your help help us come up with ideas that we can pitch to Andrew WK as he is making up this song on the spot he doesn't want them before he's gonna do it all live he's going to come up with it off the dome off that amazing head of hair dome okay so that's going to be a lot of fun we'll have him on one week from today I am so psyched to have him back I'm very excited too also mr. Morgan Spurlock is in our very immediate future he'll be back as well as Reggie Watts for the first time on 40 for that is all coming up later in May early June so there's a lot to look forward to on the 404 yeah people want andrew WK to sing about me being skinny fat your fear of the Sun Arielle's production work and then getting lost in the swamp just like those are some of the themes that people have been required I think we've got a song there so that's just a few of them if you want your own email us or contribute to that thread there you go and just to remind you that's at reddit com / r / the 404 hit that little subscribe button you'll get updates whenever we have a cool thread in that subreddit that's going to do it for us shoot us an email the 404 at cnet com follow us on facebook instagram or twitter and all that crap we're back here tomorrow hope you have a fantastic Wednesday until then I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Justin you I'm Arielle ninia this has been the 404 show high tech lowbrow see you guys tomorrow you