Never used Twitter, don’t care about TV ads at all and boxing does nothing for me, wonder why I watched this but I did.

I think around 2010 the mantra of "never believe anything on the internet" somehow got lost, and people started believing everything on the internet.

Why is Marina wearing a fluffy cushion cover?

It's called Dunbar's number

To be fair though, without social media I would never have known I was a snowflake

Thumbs up #801! ENO!

I'm finding Bluesky. 5 days ago I signed up - still no followers

Oh my god I’m laughing SO hard, Winston Churchill!!!!! Headache! Like tennis!!! Like Robocop!

I like the Chanel dancing on the moon advert from a few years ago.

I remember when the plane landed on the Hudson and someone in a nearby building took a phone photo and put it up on Twitter. This was a pivotal moment where the press learned something for the first time on social media in such real time, rather than the rest of the world finding out the news from the press.

Who is the ghost behind Richard?

For once you're both wrong on the BlueSky social media thing. Yes of course it will degenerate and people will migrate again. But like KZbin and podcasts etc etc, people are being given agency in their own lives. Not enough but, if the 80s Reagan/Thatcher era destroyed community, social media rebuilt it. You are sitting as media professionals saying "I prefer creating content in this media rather that media": 99% of people never got to create any content medium before. Cacophony is better than no voice for anyone but snotty professionals.

Oh my God! Marina owns my heart. I love it when she says this whole boxing match is just a sorry spectacle.

Best way to arrange books:- Height first, then genre, then author and then co-ordinate the colours so that they are aesthetically pleasing-perfect

Thanks for the forecast! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

Richard is correct. It was a fun cultural moment and anyone who thinks its tarnished boxing lollllll

The loss of hope is one of the most profoundly disappointing problems of contemporary culture.

Forget the fact it came out of Tyson's mouth, but he's dead right about legacy. That's just ego.

Steve Baker is the man to give you a lesson in reality, Richard, but people turn their backs.

Katie Taylor does care

While I agree on the by size/height thing - we don't all have acres of shelf space and bookcases have large and small shelves - am I the only one who noticed the problem with Richard's color-coded system? His own books have different colored spines. So does he take the set of his own books - designed as he said to work as a decorative whole - and scatter them throughout his home?

Best Xmas ad ever kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHmoe5mIo7yseK8

Marinas celebrity cash grab boxing match would have to be against Guy Ritchie.

I think the argument that Boxing has always been a circus so what we witnessed with Paul vs Tyson is fine and Jake Paul should be congratulated for basically hype! Sits weird with me! It seems like the argument concludes that it was a good thing because they made money and people watched. By that standard Jake Paul should fight a Tiger next because we’d all watch and he’d make money if he survives. Joe Louis used fight in carnivals when he was retired and down on his luck. I not sure if that was a good thing. I think we forget that sport and boxing in particular was something that became an alternative to a terrible life for the under privileged and in educated. A millionaire who can afford to have a go at being a boxer and throw crumbs to the real retired champions of the sport. Who became champions through hard work and dedication. ..Legacy may mean nothing to Tyson but he didn’t say that when he beat Larry Holmes for Mohammad Ali. I think we do live in an era now that is like the film idiocracy. Everything means nothing

I think not enough people look at where their time spend is. Phones tell you where you spend your time on apps. Most people would be surprised how much time they really spend on apps Vs how much time they think they spend.

As SNL said Tyson and Paul joined together and defeated everybody watching.

My favourite Christmas advert: Wes Anderson's train ad for H&M.

As an employee of [a supermarket] I think Marina’s comments on staff morale were very perceptive. My organisation has had at least two Xmas adverts over the last decade which have been very misjudged in terms of how they play to staff, which has dented morale or at least been a talking point in the workplace.

Appreciate the clips from the Coke ad because I will never see it organically. I pay for my youtube and any other streamer I used so I don’t see ads. The only place I’m exposed to ads these days is audio versions of podcasts and I fast forward through those pdq.

I joined twitter just to follow a few comedians, and get a few jokes every day. It was fine at first when you only saw the folks you followed. Then twitter kept pushing accounts at me, often political, often controversial. If I blocked them, then I just got pushed another almost identical accounts, just as political, just as controversial. I eventually left, and just stuck with Facebook. Now I've quit Facebook. Cold turkey, baby.

35:37 Yes, well, I'd not listen to this podcast except by watching it on my device. It's the watching and listening together that makes it for me😎

I do see a benefit to social media within the chronic illness community. There is some misinformation but also it will have saved lives and helped loneliness. Especially for us 'zebra' patients. 💜

Boxing purists obviously detested the Tyson paul fight. They hated it because of what it was and they hate Jake Paul for who he is, not because it isnt a circus. Its the fact that entertainment and money has corrupted the view and is full of arguments that osman espouse

I know this is primarily an audio product but the jumpy editing on KZbin is maddening.

Not Twitter again. This podcast is obsessed with it. I wish they’d talk about actual entertainment

Tyson and Paul manage to successfully defeat the audience

Lidls music video last year was yhe best ever 😂

A good reason to cancel Netflix :)

Trump's election has given millions hope.

Richard has a point about these type of gimmick 'fights', being a long tradition in Boxing. I can remember a fight Ali had with a Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976. Of course it was a farce, Inoki spent most of his time on his back, kicking Ali's legs (it was calculated he hit Ali's legs 107 times). This 'fight' was declared a draw. Ali was heavyweight champion at the time and along with his win against Foreman two years earlier and the brutal Thrilla In Manila obviously contributed to his later health problems. In fact his later problems with thrombosis are attributed in part to the Inoki farce. I hope Richard was being sarcastic when he mentioned 'lovely emo' tunes in Christmas adverts. Classic songs (in some cases) ruined by a breathy usually female singer. The absolute nadir for this was Lily Allen's version of Keane's Somewhere Only We Know. I didn't think it was possible to make Keane even more wetter and insipid, but Lily managed it. Next year's John Lewis ad, a heart warming tale of Christmas, soundtracked by Crass's Do They Owe Us A Living (course they 'flippin' do), sung by Ellie Goulding.

Tell your 'ghost' producer in the reflection behind Richard to wave next time, he looks as bored as the people Marina was describing 🤣

I just watched the ai coke ad and I hated it! No humans just uncanny valley animals. How on earth did this get a 5.9?

Bluesky is supposed to kick out the nasty trolls and not allow hate speech. We'll see if they can do it.

The old Holidays are coming Coke ad will always be my favourite Christmas advert. Thsts when i could start getting excited when i was at school

That "fight" was pretty much elder abuse. And yes, this is just the start of making a WWE version of boxing.

"Let's end on an up" - talks about fucking adverts like they aren't a cancer.

I think that Richard's comments are totally accurate. I'd take it even further, the migration from the "old" to the "new" happens in every facet of life, and content is no different. Start with Indigenous forms of communication like Song Lines all the way to streamed and always available content. Social media is just another form of content, like books, movies, TV and live performances. I know people will say books are different, but they are not; they are just content of information from a person's perspective. As people get older, they just realise that it doesn't really matter what, what does matter are the relationships they have with other people. Anyway, we can't change it and never will as it is"The Human Condition".

I found myself visiting Twitter less and less over the last few months as it became more and more of a bot-infested trough of misinformation and hate. It's exactly what happened with Facebook a few years back and I haven't been there since I can remember. It wasn't a conscious decision really, it was just the Musk effect.

How shitty a human being do you have to be to get in a boxing ring with a convicted rapist and STILL be the heel that everyone wants to see get ktfo'd

Marina & Richard skate over the technical balls-up which was the most serious problem with the Tyson-Paul kerfuffle. The same underlying causes around the Netflix technical architecture will also be problematic with the Netflix news service that Richard predicts. Basically, Netflix stores normal programmes and films in different countries around the world, ready for local delivery. They cannot do that for live events like sport and news.