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the 404 show is supported by citi cards with android pay are you listening to our fine program on your phone well now you can pay while you listen using the same device just tap and go download the Android pay app on Google Play or visit citi com / android pay to get started android pay is available for eligible city consumer credit and debit cards well it's Friday it's July fifteenth you've made a lot of good decisions in your life Jeff shut up and just shut up no it's an abra here Allah there's an abra in our studio right now an abra and abra cadabra no just an abra don't get crazy here it's not a tears it's like a Deborah is it on right here on the desk what the what is it it's very rare how many thank you pokemon it's got four well arms two legs it's very rare and the CP is pretty high so I think we should probably take a break from the show for a minute and watch me catch this Abra I hate you the world has been taken over Jeff we live in a different world than we did last week it is a world of Pokemon why are you doing this to me it is a world of Pokemon uh the game had actually been out when I think we recorded last week but the servers were completely bored yeah we we talked about it you said you're like ah this sucks it doesn't work right exactly a week has changed not only me but the entire world for the better hard to say see certainly people are step spending more time outside for no reason it's the summer I think I think polka mangos working cuz it's the summertime yeah but even in your people have to like get to work and like be outside I agree with you that like launching the summer was a smart idea but you know I don't know well I can see this hanging around let's talk about this why it why sure it isn't the perfect storm um do you know how Pokemon how this came about how light the background works all that stuff so I know me antic the developer did a Google fit like an Android AR game yep called ingress ingress called ingress that's what it was it was like that actors last name I don't know who you're talking who's the guy from Pacific Rim uh I don't know the guy from Sons of Anarchy guy no that's that's Charlie Hunnam I'm talking about Mark Ingram nope i'm talking about this is fascinating radio right here well well where the hell is you okay god dammit what's up guys name no one cares anyway it's the game is called ingress you can research that if you want while I talk about it and basically launched several years ago it allowed people to walk around it tracked your GPS location it like earned you points as you were walking around and in certain areas what was it Idris Elba yeah really close you know that is that yes I know who did you suppose he's the man he is awesome yeah um so in this gaming rescue would walk around and for popular spots where a lot of people were walking they'd have these like hubs and you'd pick a team and you'd fight over those spots all right you'd sort if i don't really i haven't played a lot of ingress i downloaded it just like try it out in the sea people say it's better technically than pokey probably is but it's also very intimidating and speaking of someone that plays video games for a living I like was really overwhelmed and had no idea what was going on ingress right so you had basically this baseline were millions of people I think they had like two million active users or something okay um four years we're adding all this data to this system and then they flip a switch and suddenly it's a Pokemon mommy an ingress to exist but now they have this pokemon game using all that data that all those people quite like the same engine it's the same back end so so where there's a jit effectively where there's a gym in ingress there's a gym in Pokemon they're not kind of gems inning respite yeah so explain to people what a gym is I mean me explain look at people I want to say people quotes in the air sure me so there's two things with two spots in Pokemon there are poke a spots and there are gyms poke eight spots are like minor things that you might see on the street might seem like a cool mural that someone took a photo of and marked it in ingress and was like hey this is a cool spot and it becomes a poke a spot and at those points you can collect pokeballs and collect healing items there like around the neighborhood what's a pokeball you capture Pokemon and you waste them you but so when you see a pokey poke man yeah you gotta throw pokeballs at it yeah and you only have a certain amount of pokeball yes you can run out but if you stop at all the pro-gay stops it's fine everyone everyone you got I sound cool right you sound very cool what's interesting I think Jeff is that the difference between our ages is not very great you're 22 years is it yeah you're 32 I thought you were like 44 love what I'm 48 48 I know no to you yes two years but that those to you I was in the sweet spot for pokemon I was because it came out well that's what I'm saying I was 12 years I was a guillotine but you were starting to get the high school and Affleck you're in high school and you're playing pokemon you're kind of a loser but rewind two years in middle school you know you're the you're the coolest coolest definitely no I mean you were so the nerd table but there was like a lot more nerds with you playing pokemon wait do you go you end you go to like sleep away camp yes were you are you the indoor kid no I went out I did hiking and stuff you were everyone I realize I realized my mom seems to think of them the most indoor kid ever what I got really do outdoor stuff uh yeah we're sort of jumping around on topics here we'll get back yeah bad we'll get back to that in a second well it was funny because I was asking about I was talking to someone had seen it yesterday on the way to this Sony event workout last night and we're talking about Superboy camp and how like I'm sure Pokemon goes like the game of the summer camp world maybe I don't know how much ingress up people played at like camp sites right but but but that conversation evolved to us talking about how this guy was like the indoor kid oh yeah but you can play basketball and pink but he's like no I kind of just like got lost in the forest a hat I'm like why didn't really let us go off and like you're I mean we'd have free period but like for the most part like you have a very set schedules best part about a summer camp and if you didn't go there you're probably not in northeastern Jew well the best part is uh Stacey never went yeah she's filled with this endless regret really yeah did she have a choice chance to go I think the parents just did more yeah uh which was a thing I would totally send my kids summer camp my god it's like a win for both of us oh I can't wait I can't wait till he's like I don't know once the earliest you could send them I was seven years old and I wouldn't wear two months sleep way now that as a super my brother was going there so he was 10 so if that helped a little bit yeah but still like seven super early my first year I was like 11 yeah uh they actually held me back in my bunk another year cuz I was so young they're like this keep this kids he can't even brush all my friends that I made moved on all that's and I I was very upset yeah uh so yeah she's filled with all this regret sure because she never went and I always all I wrote an adult summer camp did you hit today they do yeah for people who can't afford to like not go to psych swingers yeah we're cash yes it's called like Garden of Eden yeah something like that anyway back to the poking back to Pokemon I you know that I would say if you don't know how it works it's very very competent but it's surprisingly complicated but the basics are pokemon are running around the more popular in area is like if you go into times square there's pokemon everywhere like you are surrounded by posso what generates them like how does a show sure so it's generated by by how popular in areas based on gps signals so if there's a lot of GPS signals in that area that means that pokemon are going to show up and mass if you're in the middle of nowhere they'll still show up but it less frequently okay and the official Russ fresh dick review I mean as a game I don't think it's the best game ever says it's kind of it's kind of not a great game but as a social event it is unlike anything I've ever seen happen like do you think it's more the gimmick of a our net worth a nostalgia circle so I think part of it started as the gimmick of AR it helped for like a social growth thing because people okay there's someone took a Pokemon picture of Pikachu in front of whatever the herald square or something but what it had since become is it's less about the AR and more about the fact that you have to be outside in populated areas so you'll be in a park and you'll see a crowd of people and some little shout like jiggly puff and everyone loses their goddamn minds like is that rare yeah so like yes so yeah for some people i'm sure it's not but you know if you shout it out Pokemon people will lose their minds and like just look at their phones and check around and suddenly it's a social event in Japan I get it this has been going on for many many years not for Pokemon specifically but like everyone has this culture of like playing multiplayer games with other people in hot spots and stuff like that so it's always happening always happening it never really happened here I think cuz there just weren't games that really took off that required multiplayer like we're also a way bigger country real estate yeah but even in times square u it's there or what at New York City you right where it would happen closer to you but here because everyone has a phone everyone has this popular game it's obvious when people are playing it because they like are like standing in the middle of random spaces with her phone out so it just jets generated this crazy zeitgeist moment we're like I like I walk down the street and I see oh that person is playing at that one yeah the dude in the Delhi yesterday was like what team are you on oh and you pic with you yeah you have to pick one of three teams so I'm on Team mystic and you that's how you battle over gym so a gym gets assigned to one team and you could take it from that team what is this doing to us you think I think it's I think it's cool and it's good insofar as its introducing gaming to more people and in a positive light and so far as like people are interacting with each other in ways that like the typical image of gaming is like I'm sitting at a computer alone playing my game or on my couch it's redefining redefining what you could do now the problem is all these game companies right now are probably like how do we have more Pokemon government but they can't because the ingress existed for years and years that was their beta test and no one has Pokemon right so the only game that I think could come close to this insanity is animal crossing and that's also Nintendo right but i think there's there are other universes out there like there's Disney characters there's I don't can I I think you can do like moulton Disney or marvel like imagine you did like a superhero spot or thing like but spotting is not the same as capturing and owning so you call it's the same thing you carbon and also they don't have the back end so it could do five years before we seem right this is all built on the ingress back unless Google swings at it as like hey you can use our entire in mation database or you know who telling it wasn't Yelp doing it yelp was doing a our stuff with the location alia where retail stores okay restaurants yeah you would like use the Germans on your camera to look around be like oh there's a there's Dunkin Donuts six blocks that way yeah yeah I don't know even with Star Wars and Marvel I don't know that it would be like this because there's this Universal weird appeal to pokemon that just I I I just an end the idea that you feel like you're catching things is like it's not like hey I guess my record I get it I make fun of it a great very bizarre nothing but media hits are ya Monday and Tuesday like I was all over the place I act like I don't know what it is but I am familiar with what's going on but I think like ah yeah I I realized like I have no excuse like I can't say I'm generationally detached from the from the you know sure the whole sort of excitement about it cuz I'm not cuz i know people older than me who are over the moon about as stacy buyin know we are we were a pokemon go free home yes um Dylan knows when he walks in the door yeah enough already deleted from your point it it's gotten all the average that you caught her toast we did a great game on be sketch yesterday was is this a pokemon or prescription drug oh I would have crushed that game you would not I would have cried would harsh that game I'm sorry I can't even say it like Busey on it was like whew xeon what's that's that's a prescription drug it was but like it's great i know i do i would say i know i'd certainly all of the 151 pokemon original you sure do you think you could name them no way i could I could kick name how I can name a lot of them when I would be in boring meetings many years ago as a thing to like fill my time during a boring meeting I would literally try to write down as many as I could and I got to like 133 one time oh my god cuz it's like ingrained in you like I don't need to see I can see the image of whatever it is on the screen I don't need to see a name and I know instantly what the name of that Pokemon is now further up to 100 570 or whatever they up to now I can't name all of the new ones you realize like you're opening a door here look you're letting a skeleton out knows I'm not you I did I like Pokemon you do you more than like it I really like Pokemon you aren't denying it you're at a point where it's not it's not it's not a problem mmm but it's the thing with you it it's a thing yeah I'd agree with that I'm surprised no one said anything about Pokemon at your wedding good segue look at that although i'm sure some pokemon go was happening at you i know for a hundred percent sure cuz my good buddy chris plante took a photo of our ceremony while he was catching a pokemon during the ceremony okay that's not that that's not there was a rattata sitting on some Rattata you and your Rattata Hale and Klaus yeah okay sure cool rat a little ratty there yeah that makes sense uh it was your wedding was lovely thank you so much it was uh it was a picturesque yes we lucked out on the weather day man that is a stressful once it started thinking it just ran and went very quickly but for a year you know I've talked about it like for a year I've just been like a stress monster about it and I hate having people over my apartment because I get very stressed about I like having people there yeah but the lead up to it is ado I have an adult ships and this is that times whatever and you know it wasn't even like over it wasn't like an over-the-top thing was over really hearts and stuff like that yeah I think so I said this to you yesterday and I'll say it again because I want other people to hear cuz I thought it was met see you if you want to get a good visual for what russ was like the day of his wedding yeah for the 17 seconds I talked to him during his uh his beautiful wet uh the scene in the scenes in Roger Rabbit where they give him alcohol yeah and he just like start steaming like a a whistle and his bowtie spinning and he's lifted off the ground and he's going crazy non-stop doubt that you're saying it looked like cocaine yeah it looked like you did cocaine laced with like adderall sure and speed yeah it's an adrenaline rush man I'm telling you you were he was man it looked like you were sort of like vibrating etta at an octave that the human brain couldn't comprehend it natively I just have this mentality of like trying to be a host and being very aware of like hey you know have I like seeing everybody and talk to everybody and like everyone's having a good time etc so to have that many people relying on you even though they're probably not but in my brain that's the way I think all i can do is like it's just like it's like a eradicate running and I it was K wheel it was great though I'm super happy for you you everyone looked great it was a lovely affair yeah super classy yeah it's nice real real nice setup thank you yeah everything looked good yeah very earthy you know we were in hurry in the park uh we had the ceremony outside which was cool it was a place in the bronx where like I didn't even realize existed yeah it's the new york botanical gardens in the bronx um and it's like an immaculate sort of park gorgeous its enormous like you it what I think it's it's considerably larger than Central Park it's very very large and it's just sprawling and if you ever get the chance very easy to get to from pretty much anywhere in the city you can take a train right yeah really recommend it a really cool way to spend a day and they do a really cool train show and a model train show oh that's right I remember your sampler in the winter there was a babbling brook behind your way well that was the Bronx River right behind us bronx river yeah and not a lot of bodies in it no surprisingly only six usually these two rivers for the bodies right and hudson and that's yep yeah well very good stuff we got to take a break that's right sponsor this week exciting and the rest of the month so stick around after a word from our sponsor we'll be right back the 44 show is supported by citi cards with android pay how cool is it that we live in a world where you can use the same device to listen to our fine program and buy your morning coffee groceries and more and did I mention it's a super fast way to pay just use your citi card with Android pay at the register get in get it get going download the Android pay app on google play or visit citi com / android pay to get started android pay is available for eligible CD consumer credit and debit cards hey welcome back to the 404 show this is episode 16 69 if you're keeping score at home I am that's 1669 it's crazy it's a lot of episodes done a lot yeah we've done a lot um it's it's a weird sort of thing when you've like I don't know I it's I don't know does it make you feel how does that make you feel are you proud are you surprised are you definitely surprised yes without it you can't like fathom that you've done this that many times well don't forget we were doing it daily for like six shores so sure five years yeah so that was significant yeah it like that was a big part of our of our everyday yeah uh yeah I don't know I think now it's like much more of a um just like a complementary sort of thing okay I don't know I don't know what we're going to turn this into yeah I mean you've experienced them more than most you've been yeah I don't know it's weird uh you know it's kind of like at the point now where we still have still have more viewers than I thought we would by now listeners rather and you know I'm always sort of like surprised that that and obviously very grateful and the fact that we're still able to do it and you know you just heard an advertisement like yeah people still want to put hands on the show because I'm pretty cool and yeah you know it's just read I don't know how long it'll go for I don't know uh you know what the future holds but it's I think it's a very therapeutic welcoming something I still look forward to doing once a week especially with you sharks which is the same way it is it is a nice i think it's very relaxing and enjoyable and i like that people still listen and enjoy us yeah those good stuff is pretty rad alright moving along would you get on amazon prime day would you do so now i feel like we talked about this last year has it been a year since I've been on the show it were around the the anniversary god I'm she was we gotta look at that now we'll take a look yeah because I do remember talking about I think it was amazon prime day last year and it was a total disaster cost yeah i might have been guesting or something but the yeah it was a total bust terrible things were on sale that no one wanted and everyone sort of made fun amazon for a while right because it was also like and they kind of still did this this year but they did these freaking flash sales yeah where you were saving 48 cents on something yeah and there's there is this scam thing that I know happens on steam as well where companies will increase their base price before before a flash sale happens then looks like yeah oh you're getting fifty percent off this thing but normally it's much cheaper this can of tennis balls shall never been $33 yeah so I think that happens to a certain extent but obviously there are deals to be had um I you know this was a couple days after I got married and I there wasn't you know I went on there i was thinking like well what am I gonna find that I'm like desperately gonna want and the first thing I saw was a crap ton of detergent I was like huh that's might be a good idea to have like a bunch of detergent so that was my like personally my clothes first adult thought that I didn't actually act on I didn't buy a bunch of detergent but it was pretty cheap what I did end up getting initially and I don't even know if they were flashed shells but it was stuff that I've been meaning to get was a bunch of lightning cables for my iphone and a bagel slicer oh those are the two things i bought people by the most mundane boring stuff on at prime day is what I've like my in unscientific for a survey I found that to be the case yeah well i bought a bomb brother kindle as a best man gift and i bought the so by like seven o'clock at night i was thinking like should i buy an amazon echo oh wow and i went through a very weird process in my brain so how much does it usually cost so it's usually 175 I believe okay and it was down to like 120 or what's pretty good so it was a pretty yeah 179 and it was I think down to 125 it's pretty good 120 and so pretty significant decrease and I um there was a moment I'm like very weird about that sort of stun who are very weird because I don't buy a lot of things for myself mostly because the Vice that i have is video games and I get a lot of them from work so I don't really have a lot of vices that I spend money on I don't care about clothes I don't do a lot of drinking so like I'm just like very weirdly careful about how I spend my money which I guess space it follows a certain clichés but in this case I was like you know I like did a little bit of research I'm like when I listen to Spotify at home it's a little bit of a bit of a production because I have to turn on the ps4 and I have to turn on the right input on my TV and just the idea of being like hey Alexa play Billy Joel and having that music play seems wicked and that's only like you know dan ackerman yesterday was talking about like he has his home hooked up to smart home stuff so he can be like turn on light too and it does that and that's I mean pretty cool like it never occurred to me that those were things I wanted to do but um yeah so I ended up that was that that was my kind of silly gift from amazon prime day that didn't really have any real necessity in my life but I think I'm gonna like it there's a few iterations of it which is kind of interesting kind of confusing yeah I do have I'm starting to get a maybe a tiny tiny bit of regret that you can get it they didn't get it oh why don't I think you had one August an was saying he had one yeah I know I guess I wouldn't get that when I would probably get the dot yes so the dot is just the hockey puck right at the hockey book and that plugs into an AV receiver right but I don't see it here I'm gonna leave me see ziana no Danny I it that's the book on how to use it what happens if you search for the dot as I just did I was on that we're so maybe they're sold out or something I called the dot be sure on something else I don't know but yeah the dot effectively is just the brains of the Amazon echo that you can plug in I think it has a tiny speaker in it but it does all the voice controls and everything like the echo does but it doesn't have like the giant speaker on it so you would then plug it into an input device the reason I didn't go that route is weird i don't know why it's not sure that's not so much on me land sold out or something cuz the echo showing up I mean that's not gonna be in stock for another two weekend yeah I'm not getting mine until the 27 to give you an idea um the yeah the echo is pretty cool I the reason I didn't go that route is because I didn't want to have to like it my whole purpose was like ease of use and constant availability and plugging it into an AV receiver kind of kills that because it's like you have to be on the right employee and then you right it's not this always it is always on but the audio you're not going to hear coming out of it as though it is right and always being yeah but it so I mean I don't know I I will too i will report back not gonna get it from other two weeks what else you gonna use it for though i'm gonna use it to check whether check out whether in the morning Alex every single day is like what's the weather gonna be and I have to pull them I a pit oh my god like an and-one like where's alexic getting uh there's information from what do you mean they're hooked into like a weather service so what if it's not like the most accurate weather what if it's like we just gobs well I and whether it's gonna rain that's essentially all we need dude it's all about weather underground I use on my phone I use it an app called stormy skies or something dark sky it's called what is we excellent yeah weather app I like it a lot all right let my phone darks um and it's much more detailed than the crappy built-in iphone out all right but I mean I'm gonna use it for that apparently you can have it like read news stories to you can have it load up podcasts that's pretty cool I feel like I would also use it to the Spotify thing is the most appealing thing we can tell to play anything on Spotify yes that's anything else by or Amazon Prime music if you use that or Pandora does pandora as well the it also will do the stuff where it's like instant buy stuff on amazon which is helpful I think for stuff like oh we're at a detergent or I'm very focused on detergent dish soap and you can be like an alexa order us more dish soap and it knows what dish soap you order and will instantly order that for you I think down the line the smart home stuff is really gonna take off and already is like dan told you about the lights you don't like that I don't know if I'm maybe took totally ready for it but but you've started yet like you know using voice controls is just like kind of that that's what it is like your kind of there and you can't use that what is it a nest or something for your nose that dumb camera thing oh all right yeah we do hate it though how you hate it's the worst what's what is this is drop it was originally a drop camping now nest up on it yeah okay I just put that out there I love I've talked about that enough have oh no not really I hate drop can ok I hate that nest camera it's a sucks it's not good can't see anything no or any of the I think though the quality sucks okay um it's maybe seven feet away from my router and the quality is is it better when you get closer to router know and can it be wired it up maybe yeah who the hell's gonna do that I mean quality is like how detailed do you need it to be I need to be able to see my kid while he's sleeping you can't tell i'm i just asked where it's just like oh i guess that pixel is his hand you know yeah and for me it's less the quality and more the rate of dropout like yeah i'll be watching it so you know we'll have him sleeping in the room here his room and you know we close the door and look air-conditioning's on a lot of things are on in the house now so you can't hear him crying okay I'm sure so I so we have usually method right we have we have usually like a tab open yeah with what the volume jacked up so we can hear him cry for prize or it's on our phone or an iPad and it's constantly dropping in and out yeah it's like what's going on why isn't this working it's not your neck connection no did I have great internet in the house yeah that's really bizarre so I mean I don't know maybe it's just me it's not a is it a service that you pay for every month no okay you can do that you can pay the premium and what do you get you get a suite of monitoring you know there's floor it's like Oh record any time there's movement yeah that's more of like the security camera sure thing i also have a canary okay uh cuz canary sponsor the show yeah once and they sent me one okay and I use that a lot what is that that is um it's a whole monitoring thing it looks like an echo it's like a tennis share a ball can yeah oh it sits in the corner and I use that just like peek in on the apartment every now and then so why would you have both well I'm not gonna have that to look at Dillon why cuz it's not it's also for like the temperature in the room air quality I can it can it can do a siren to like ward off you know okay undesirables or just scare Stacey when she's home oh I would never do that so mean apparently it's like is it really last ultrasonic portal thing yeah that's like supposed to scare someone crap i think it actually forces the victim to poop themselves oh cool like a brown note yet the brand-new very great yep you clearly have a smart phone a smart home thing going on then you have like way more devices than I do maybe I do maybe I should have got one oh you're disappointed I screwed up I mean whatever you treat yourself as love addicts but it's not that bad I want to get I think I want the puck though yeah I don't know how I would make it work with the mic is you're worried the sound quality will be not good yeah cuz you're an audiophile well yeah yeah and i think the the sound quality on the echo I heard I heard good acceptable acceptable which is really all i need i'm not picky I need good i need like oh this sounds good I do i do want to mention one other thing that I realized over the last few weeks is well over the last couple really this week if you are a person that just got married people will bend over backwards to help you out uh what do you mean so we stayed at a hotel the night we got married a this is okay I'm sorry I understand where you go yes good and we um you know checked in and they were lovely it was the I'll give them a plug because i thought the hotel was really hope this i would Casey nice that over here Gramercy Park Hotel Gramercy Park Hotel which is very nice I paid for in my own room they haven't give me any money but you know they hooked us up with an upgrade to the room I mean we were staying on a Sunday night so like I'm sure the demand was not super high but they gave us like a 230 p.m. check out the next day which is very late for a hotel check out that is very late and it is very generous and it was just great I mean the second we said like oh yeah we're getting you know we're gonna be there we're getting married people on the phone would be like oh oh oh we will do anything like they literally just went head over heels nuts yeah for it to help us out I'm glad they could yeah it helps when your friend Jeff makes a call yeah clearly pulling some strings also is funny cuz alex lost her hanger for her wedding dress know is I think she left at the venue is a special hunger well I mean I guess you need like special hooks Stacey on a hanger that said mrs. bakal yeah yeah I know it wasn't one of those okay it was just a generic hanger that sounds pretty lame right yes super lame okay um but the so she just wore her wedding dress home the next day we takin over home and she just like prada issues like I'll just wear it so there's a photo my Instagram of her catching a Pokemon in her wedding dress cuz ruber wasn't in the year ver be up get into the yuba car is really pretty funny and I I appreciate that she was cool with just wearing it yeah she's pretty down-to-earth lady acts chick um I could just see getting into the uber and uh uh he actually I'm 30 you guys had a night huh he didn't say anything they were my dog seen it all on the street and stuff they were good congrats and all that stuff that's pretty cool yeah so you were in like plain clothes and she was in I was in shorts a t-shirt that's like some night you guys sides dead kid just like the end of mrs. Robbins a recent graduate the graduate right where he breaks in and steals the wedding at that bride yeah we also the end of wayne's world 2 no um d Frank on Twitter ok rights in from what is this a day ago ok at Jeff Bakalar catching up on 404 episodes excuse the time machine comment but you are right and your colleagues are wrong about Casey and I says videos are awesome they're about the adventure of the moment he makes the day-to-day exciting to watch I mean I'm sure he does a lot of people d Frank did two tweets oh my convey that message ok d Frank in parentheses Casey nice that nope no mo same guy I get that there are people that really really love him and insofar as there are also people that really love pewdiepie and love all the other people on youtube not for me and that also does not discount the fact that most of it is probably sponsored so that's okay I say about that we will I know I'm sorry we don't disagree on that I i do believe a lot of his stuff is sponsored as well yes I just think he is uh although he is not entertaining he is not if it is sponsored I don't think he's indicating it in the description well anywhere in the video so he might get into some hot water well with the FTC if sponsored perhaps i would also say i would also get to this product placement spa need to be disclosed yes it does yes you cares that disclosed in like TV shows uh I'm not making excuses i'm just showing where it's a good question jeffrey i don't actually know the answer to that because i was in movies to like you'll see people drinking coke in you're like oh there's the coke probably paid for that but there's no indication unless it because i did a product placement considered the same thing as a regular commercial I don't know it may be may be that it might be the credits like furnished by but that to me is such a lame sort of footnote that nobody will pay if you are listening to this and you know the answer this how product placement is treated by the FTC and whether it's allowed without indication let us know Kylie really curious and an email post on the 44 reddit I'm really really curious good question could work if ya pulled that one out detective Jeff yep on the FTC be ok let's move things along um we have one more disco know we have two things to talk about first things first uh the nes is coming back yeah this is pretty cool so Nintendo is releasing a palm-sized nintendo entertainment system that's the original intent yes they're calling it the classic edition yes and it's coming preloaded with 30 classic nes key good games they're not like the not meet games like you know yeah real solid stuff stuff that's like not even in the virtual console as far as I'm oh well I think most of it probably most of it is but I think some of them a few are you talking the original Zelda you're saying Castlevania Mario Brothers one two and three although in super contras there but not regular con that is an interesting choice although super contra is quite good superb yeah I didn't play super seas they do have punch out but is not mike tyson's punch-out it's nice to dream which is like he looks so would it's like Mike Tyson well that was after the rain cebull situation oh right hold on let's pause for the Giant Bomb guys are getting very excited you hear this yeah they what are they playing over there I don't know Wow okay uh so yeah if you want to go through it up there's a video I put up yesterday on cnet and also a little write up that tells you all the games are gonna hit it you're getting all three original Mario Brothers it's gonna be Mario Brothers Mary brothers this is I think going to sell like gang it's coming out in the holiday and it's gonna be I think a gang busters how anything it's maybe it's a little too pricey for a stocking stuffer but late hours which is like that's a good gift for like who's not friend and you would like at this and here's the thing is guys know it's gonna sell out really well uh sell out really well well sure that's English I think this will do extraordinarily well like you said I think a lot of people have a tough time dealing with their fragmented Virtual Console stuff too yeah it's a two point where like a people can't keep track of where all their stuff all I've donkey kong on my wii but i have mario 3 on my dns it's a disaster yeah this consolidates the whole thing not to mention the people who are too intimidated even gimme a mess with Virtual Console sup we'll see a lot of value here paying two dollars a game 4 30 classic titles you get an adorable little uh NES thing which i call it like has some sort of nostalgic air blowing mechanic I don't like I don't know that it yeah you lift up little fella just like an ashtray or something like that I do I wasn't sure if it comes with a controller or not it does it does we want to control okay and the interface that it plugs into is the same thing that's on the bottom of a wii remote oh so you could plug in I don't know if you can plug in a wii remote although you probably can but you can plug in like the pro controller yeah yeah the other way that's cool you can do that but it's probably not wireless no don't wanna this is all wired ditch I'm fine with that yeah I'm finally that too I guess this is like a very portable thing it has hdmi I think a lot of people are gonna pick this up people that like haven't touched gaming in ages ryk I'll have this next to my TV just makes so much sense and like they show you a photo of the size of this horrible it's literally the size of shams hand it's hard to say it could be I have huge hands I'm thinking it's the size of like what what would you call that what's the side it looks like it's probably like six by six would be yes that's a fair I'm sure they've released the stats on how big it is I think it's brilliant Nintendo who knew suddenly what a quarter like like Moltres the legendary fire pokemon has risen from the ashes about that if i was a pokemon which pokemon would i be uh as you know tons in that's true which one would i be fraggin zoos well my gut like brings to mind Snorlax brain or lie yeah the lazy Pokemon what the why am I just one that takes naps wish that resolved hahaha that's kind of cute no x is great you as well loved well a family like Wesley image for today okay whistles whistles yeah um I am not snore like trying to think of like a lazy dick he's not doing anything I'm staying trying to think of a sweaty Pokemon species it's a species colon sleeping how's that is a sleeping type poke abilities immunity and one of his abilities is thick factor that's maybe Jeff from a few how's Monica slim oh that's the baby version of its not like are those considered two separate ones yeah two separate pokémon y so munchlax evolves into snoring like cuz you eat so much she falls asleep yeah hard to say I don't actually hard to say oh and his hidden ability gluttony yeah you're a dick what else is there uh let's see so who would Jeff be i would say i mean i will give me some identifying characteristics how you know me very well it's true so you like hockey there's obviously not a hockey poker there is not although they have run out of ideas so they're really scraping the barrel um puck dung i would how about this much hit a mutt oh my chop spell ma CH 0 p how about that let's see if that looks like jeff all right there he is oh and he evolved into a super strong Pokemon later on I mean he's not there yet he's so much oak yeah my joke is much stronger and then there's Machamp which is even stronger than that means well why is Machop me I don't know just like a charming demeanor uh you know he wants to be strong but he's not quite there yet did and they don't speak well they say their names how does machop's a mature I think he's much ha like that but like Pikachu goes pika and you've got snow relaxes snore oddish is like oddish this is all perfect representations hold on this is the child if you only see if I can hear this so this music is not from the show I don't think but he is fighting primeape there and down to dig this song togepi's in the crowd there watching him much chop and what was great about this the cartoon which we're watching now is that unlike dragon ball z stuff happened every episode with its own story it wasn't like you were waiting nine episodes for an energy ball to be charged up there was constant movement constant Pokemon here's my job this is probably no that's in game that's ink damn it I want real life Machop magician in a cartoon yeah it's hard to say um yeah I wouldn't say that the perfect representation of Jeff but that's what sprung to mind thanks bud what about me who would you say oh you don't know any Pokemon so it'd be difficult is there like a praying mantis one there is what I don't think it looks like me scyther yes sir SC no it's SC why s-sorry you know the type yeah site sir they're in kokomo that's like a praying mantis uh oh there you are there's a very skinny plant is there one that looks like Jack Skellington is there any skeleton Pokemon now they're ghost pokemon ooh but they don't look like me what's the coolest looking ghost pokemon i like gengar hangers my favorite goes gen2 are there he is uh he's not very surprising he just looks like yeah mostly ghost pokemon just look like that this like weird source or ghost pokemon dead it's unclear uh it's unclear Jeff there is scholars maintain so that's weird cuz it's like so what's the deal like all the pokemon just died and they turn into these four ghost pokemon oh there's only four yeah there's very few ghost pokemon it's not like does it go spoke much for every normal pokemon I mean there's one for like outrageous puberty and yeah senior citizenship there's sure there are old and middle um yeah this does a few ghost pokemon I like gasoline yes ladies another type of ghost police he's basically like Baltimore mom Mario Brothers um haunter is another ghost pokemon hunter involves evolves into gengar i like how Haunter doesn't have attached hands yeah Oh cubone is one of my favorite Pokemon a weeping a bellsprout was actually the pokemon i was gonna compare myself to oh my god you are bells from but you bones cool cuz he wears like a mask so oh man no the fascinating thing about cubone is that when he was first introduced his backstory in the game was the skull that he wears is actually the skull of his dead mother oh my thats dark he the tears on the skull or his tears that he's crying oh well why is he wearing his mom's skull if since changed it to be less dark and he they don't really talk about the origin of the skull but that's the backstory so my whole thing went so so when pokemon came out I like i said was 14 yeah gave it not the time of day and then when I was like 16 I started up I was a camp counselor okay and all my kids had pokemon cards no I get the cards in the game goes I never quit and I was like oh I should totally get into this cuz you're cute and I'm kind of i love japanese stuff yeah uh but then like i found that it was like a throne basting it is like through this yeah like if it wasn't turn-based and it was more like action II there are more action in pokemon games but they're not very good yeah that's a bummer yeah i like i like cuz i was always into like Marvel card collector so i thought like oh pokemon cards baby up my alley yeah you were too old by that stool yeah i guess so but the games i would say are very very good RPG like very well designed very interesting a lot of variety I i think the games are quite good and this weird there's a new one coming out in the fall it's tough for me to like really I get it yeah I understand ok finally before we say goodbye yeah I wanted to talk about bloomingdale's as a store you it might surprise you to learn that I have not stepped foot Bloomingdale's in probably 10 years so here's the thing find me someone our age who had I don't think that they exist I mean there might be like son of like oil baron person it is a very elite store it's and it's weird so I so I got a gift um uh uh you know I got a few gifts and one of the gifts you know was something that like we didn't necessarily register for but it's a very generous nice gift and we but we just don't have a place for it or a need for it so we went and this morning actually I went and returned it to bloomingdales for the store credit we're gonna put a bug I'll get yeah so i haven't stepped foot in bloomingdales i went it was like 1030 in the morning on a weekday so it was empty okay and there were countless people working there a staggering it'd be like walking to a best buy and there were people every six feet in the best buy wearing blue shirts you have you been to a best buy that's my point no it's theirs either empty yeah they're like hardly any people working they are kind you say yeah they are something they are the saddest ours is super sad day on you mentally said and like well it's bad I got said going to bloomingdales though because it's like same vibe but with way more people doing nothing but everything they sell is like forty thousand dollars yeah okay so so I went in and you walk through and there's like it's a department store there's a reason why that actually that term exists is because it has departments that so I'll get wide variety of random stuff so you go yeah clothing kitchen we're betting whatever and it's an old barn ways it's like Bed Bath you gone but everything is like way over priced and kind of crazy what was what kind of brands are in there it's like I mean I don't recognize any of these gucci problems I like they have a whole section of like polo and it's all but like the like the polo that has like the giant horsham feds lately suspense when you walking down the street like oh that guy's from Europe because he's wearing the giant horse shirt and his collars also flipped yeah exactly so like stuff like that that normal people I really don't think go and buy and ensure that but if you have infinite amounts of money that's where you go right and it just made like how long distort functionally has not been affected in hundred it seemingly a hundred years like it worked at the same way a hundred years there's only one of them in the city no I think there's a two may be okay right how is it not been affected how how does it still exist and I realized is probably a big mark up on these stores but the the Real Estate's got to be outrageous it's so much space and I just like don't know how like like they're selling like the polo shirts grow up this is this polo shirt it's just like a normal like with a little collar and slow short sleeves and well actually it's not the worst that's actually not bad oh the burberry I want is I 150 now 75 down swim is fifty dollars the one on the left is fifty dollars that's on sale yeah the bright so you're gonna spend $175 in a polo shirt like what kind of maniac are you um but I guess people just like like the atmosphere Harrods is the same thing in London it's like the atmosphere of it but how many I mean I guess you're going in and like spending a tonic scratch but I I don't know I'd be curious to see how they've done over the years and whether they're still doing okay it's okay so like it's a weird thing it's just such a huge expense to keep these stores running and staffed and all that stuff it's just I think there's only very few months they can be other in malls to like the mall that I where's that not sure not a lot of blooming are there a lot of Bloomingdale's middle America I think there at all there at our mall somewhere yeah probably oh yeah I mean they carry from the caring fred perry which is a pretty high I like fred perry but I'm where garbage close yeah so yeah I know business my land what like the days like they're like sir hope you're wearing shorts so picture it I had a box that was like three feet tall by two feet wide I mean shorts and a t-shirt and I've got a backpack on they one hundred percent that I either I was a drug dealer or a real girl that yeah or I stole it I no one was super friendly about getting me to the place I needed to get to yeah um cuz they currently thought I was not there to bunt which is true I was not there by anything now I have a bunch of credit at this store get some fred perry stuff i'm gonna maybe I'm gonna look and see if they have outdoor stuff so I can buy for my honeymoon i can buy like a like an outdoor jacket like a wind slicker or something for an outrageous amount of money ok but i did take a picture they had a 3x sighs Swan inflatable toy for the pool but like--imagine a normal Swan and expand that by three I know which was that I think it was like 18 hours hey you got some high-end stuff in there man so somewhat there's high-end people who need high-end inflatable swans it's just so much money your store it's the adobe have ever been in one it goes back to what I was saying in the beginning of the show which is like it's so the antithesis of me which is like I'm very thoughtful about when I spend money and I have a like I've research and think about it and like is this something that's the best thing but also like is it reasonably priced right and this is like the total opposite of that it's just like oh here's my checkbook I don't know how much is in my checking account balance here you go let's go nuts and it just it's just water people look some people live a different life yeah and so hopefully that makes them happy you know I bet people looking at your wedding to go this is a Bloomingdale's guy yeah that's a nice wedding yeah uh we got to get out of here 866 44 cnet give us a call leave his voicemail we're back next week with a brand new show have a have a fantastic weekend uh what else was about that the product placements though yeah if you if you're some sort of like FTC somebody knows or they'll do some research for us alright thanks again we'll be back next time follow us 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