H.I. #22: 16-hour Search for Wallpaper

[@beempboomp]

Grey's laugh is contagious & slightly evil

[@VampireSquirrel]

I really love Brady's random stories

[@anamikarai7240]

Rachel Evans I feel bad for Brady when he has to explain cricket things to grey.....

[@Saturn-uz6jc]

We all do.

[@mattvillegas6355]

"Handshakes are ok, I'll bring hand sanitizer." Grey was 5 years ahead of the rest of us

[@pescecanella4742]

Yeah, listening to this after 2020 has a peculiar layer to it.

[@RobMilnes]

At 54 minutes in, the buildings across the river are general dynamics electric boat. I used to work there. Not sure what made me look at the screen at that time.

[@crispylemon2983]

where is the video taken?

[@lampshade1304]

How's that going to fit on a shelf?

[@George_Azeria]

Your name doesn't match your picture.

[@theeutecticpoint]

Lampshade They discuss this in a later episode, Grey goes to the US and gets a whole bunch of footage during the trip, so he decided to include some of the footage of his trip, or he decides specifically to take footage to include, one of those.

[@MEHCAKEISAWESOME]

+theeutecticpoint Which one?

[@SamForViceroy]

The rolling shutter effect on things in the foreground is interesting.

[@bobpaul2593]

Fr

[@awepicness]

listening to these podcasts makes doing spanish homework much more enjoyable

[@perrincalzada9131]

Ethan Weber I know this comment was made three years ago, but I am quite literally doing my Spanish homework as I’m listening to this.

[@Smoldepressedboi]

I know that this was 6 years ago, but how did your homework go?

[@pescecanella4742]

Same here with Chinese characters (called hanzi).

[@SaltySparrow]

Sounds like Grey needs an Android. You can move the icons where ever you want.

[@imme313]

danekarl True, but I think he would get very upset about the youtube app

[@aurelia8028]

Totally agree. Especially Samsung phones are a million times better than Apples. Grey can never come up with an argument that would make me change to an iphone no matter how rational, logical and in the right he think he is.

[@michaelmoccio2225]

He has good reason to stay with apple since he is so deep into Apple's architecture owning a mac and iPad. I find Samsung phones and android better overall (coming from a guy who switched to Samsung from apple a couple years ago)

[@JordanBeagle]

Haha, yes

[@MK.5198]

I like to go and read the last sentence of a book. Entirely free of context, so when I get to it, the sentence I knew already makes so much more sense when given the proper context of the entire work before it. It makes endings much more satisfying for me I think.

[@damiansuarez8935]

I thought I was just crazy

[@ArnavRanadeKingOfArnavlandia]

@@damiansuarez8935 same lol

[@JordanBeagle]

That's an interesting point

[@dik4316]

Thanks for uploading them so far apart, that I forget the content and can experience it as if for the first time. Much love

[@DPadGamer]

I quite like Grey's iphone background / setup.

[@h2theibrid]

I always thought of "He's like a loose cannon" as a reference to the person operating it, not waiting for orders from above (the brain) and just firing off at will (mouthing off without thinking/starting a fight). Essentially a self-destructive personality which causes problems because of their lack of foresight. Cool to hear other takes on the expression

[@fictionmyth]

18:59 Grey turns on his "informative" voice from his videos. Which, I think after hearing it used here, is his condescending, matter-of-fact voice. I'm totally kidding but it really did sound like the way he starts talking in one of his videos. Like, "here is a really neat fact that you should know..."

[@Omni0404]

+Corey Carnes I dig that too, he uses it on the adverts sometimes as well. Total ear candy :3

[@bbseal6174]

Most of your problems with the iphone can be solved by switching to android. Hehe

[@ThatGamerDude9000]

I know, I am over 3 years late to this discussion (started with H.I. #1 a few months ago and am slowly working my way up to the most recent), but I've got a Motorola/Lenovo G4 Plus, and let me tell you, that thing is huge (just a sliver smaller than the iPhone 6Plus)... but I love it. I love having screen real estate. I keep most of my main apps in 5 folders at the bottom with a clock/calendar/temperature widget at the center of the 5 folders. I usually keep my pinky at the bottom of the phone pointing towards me for stability, with the ring, index, and middle finger curled around the back to the other side of the phone. Everything I usually need is at the bottom, but whenever I need to check the notifications/quick settings bar, I just curl my pinky up with the rest of my fingers, and I get the extra reach I need to swipe down at the top of the screen. It's easily a one handed phone, and I have small hands. As for pockets, I have never had an issue. But then again, due to the perpetual frozen hell that is upstate NY, I usually wear a jacket which provides me with ample pocket space.

[@qoaa]

Jeez, Android you can put icons anywhere or you have choice to not put the icon on screen. You can install app but not place icon on home screen or any home screen. You can change icons to any size/or swap with your own.

[@user6122]

thats pretty cool!

[@Vendavalez]

Listening pretty late, I know. But here is a comment on the subject of reading the last chapter of a book before getting there naturally. I have some form of attention disorder. I don't want to do a self-diagnosis, but I know that I have a harder time staying focused on things than those around me. Without getting into too much detail about that, I will pretty often read the last chapter of a book as soon as I notice myself having a hard time focusing on the story, especially with books that I have to read say for a class rather than something I am reading for pleasure. If I read a whole chapter and, immediately after reading it, I can't remember anything about it, I will take a break and then make a real effort to focus on reading the last chapter, trying to remember every detail about the ending. Then I try to connect wherever I was in the story to the ending and try to guess how the author would have written the connection between where I was to the ending. It has really helped me to keep focused on stories I had lost interest on because I would read them to test the accuracy of my guesses rather than the interest I had lost, or probably never had, in the story.

[@pikerpoler]

At 47:30 when Brady says he didn’t actually mean it, I believe him, and I think Grey is still deciding.

[@MagnusSkiptonLLC]

Why would C.G.P. Grey even need a phone? Isn't he just always networked in, being a robot and all?

[@EmperorTigerstar]

1:04:00 I'm right handed and use my iphone in my left hand.

[@ratewcropolix]

noob

[@General12th]

@@ratewcropolix ultimate cringe compilation

[@eloujtimereaver4504]

I use an android so that I can customize my home screen. I have four folders on my home screen, they are in the corners, and organized by function. No dock, docks are bad. Pens no longer leak Brady.

[@K-o-R]

32:14 _takes deep breath_ "SNAPE KILLS DU--" _is shot_

[@twi1875]

K.o.R that’s deserved

[@KemaTheAtheist]

47:38 The beep made that way more funny to me than it should be. ROFL. 1:24:37 YES!

[@naota3k]

1:38:51 Hey I live there, that's my station! Seems like the MTA East-of-Hudson line traveling North to New Haven. I've only ever gone South, to NYC, though.

[@naota3k]

(It's quite a beautiful station these days, I think it was under construction at the time.)

[@FTE99699]

just loved the part about home screen layout - good to know that I'm not alone. However I went on step further with cleaning up the home screen: first page is completely empty, and my most used apps live in folders in the dock. all other stuff is on page two, again organized in folders.

[@giga-chicken]

59:00 The LG G Vista and G3 are too large to use with one hand. They are actually such a pain to one-hand that they come with a built-in setting to shrink the screen towards one corner so you can reach everything with one thumb.

[@teamjh14]

47:38 There's something strangely gratifying about this moment...

[@warlockd]

Fist bumps. Less surface area, less sanitizer and you can sanitize on the sly rather than the full hand with a hand shake.

[@RachelMUssery0]

Grey....get cases for your tech that hold things Wallet cases Case for your iPad with a stylus spot Cases!

[@darkwood_8224]

30:30 Warriors is a super-duper-duper long series. I worry that I won't finish it before I die, and I am on the last book of this sub-series. They are writing MORE sub-series. Read them now, and maybe you'll finish before you'll die. Or they'll just write more after you die which would be SOOOOOO sad.

[@OgienChomik]

I have to say at the start of the video loop the buildings look so weathered and worn down and... Not... Pretty? That it ends up making a loop back around and it looks really beautiful and cool!

[@patbates13]

Last time i listened to this i was on bus ride from hong kong to China. Slightly different view from the bus window but a very suitable visualization.

[@imme313]

For the wallet problem I would like to suggest the following: wallet and phone in front left pocket; keys, pen and stylus in front right pocket.

[@superboy829]

For those who like Grey's wallpaper, I found the exact same one in full size. Link: hdwallpapersbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/low-poly-wallpaper-images-50.jpg Enjoy!

[@macornman]

Im left handed and use my phone exclusively in my right hand. Never noticed until you brought it up.

[@eomoran]

I too am a right handed person yet will use my phone with my left hand. Although I’m on the 13 pro max now so when typing I’m using both hands. The six plus is almost comically small in comparison

[@CountFlandy]

Good to know that I'm not the only one that has to check his pocket every few hours. I'm like paranoid I'd forget something. Good work folks!

[@velikiradojica]

Emptying the wallet is a pain. I have 1 debt card, 1 ID, 1 driver's licence, 1 car registration, 2 different bus passes and 1 student's card and I can't remove anything.

[@LittledudeJrr]

I should watch these podcasts when they are coming out. I live in (near) huntsville, sad day.

[@Rumu11]

“May you live in interesting times” is definitely a curse after 2020 >.>

[@morinc75]

This quickly turned into one hell of a first world problem rant ... my iphone is too big and the icons aren't right and my wallet goes in the front and those keys are too much! someone get Mr. Grey a inter dimentionnal pocket ! :p

[@NoPowerintheVerse]

I spent 4 years arguing with someone at work about it’s vs its, because it was in the pre smart phone times.

[@TobyCowles]

Brady rode a train through Stamford CT? I basically live there, wonder where he was going and why he was there.

[@daltonriser1125]

its weird hearing apple guys when i'm a samsung guy

[@anirudh_iyer]

Dalton Riser iOS users baffle me... Android is simply so much more customisable

[@onemadhungrynomad]

i love that you left brady's story in. so funny.

[@chrisworrell7629]

I like how he talks about the automated proximity lock on the door. he gets stung by that idea in a future podcast XD.

[@re.liable]

Depending on what happens to the story if I get spoiled, I might actually get excited to continue reading it. This happened to me with Attack on Titan

[@Abou_El_Ela]

I actually don't dislike Grey's wallpaper. It's neat and simple

[@Felipemelazzi]

CGP Grey is my favorite robot

[@noahr2854]

At 3:27 I totally expected Grey to cut out the story like he said he would after all the buildup...

[@Bp1033]

I can relate to Grey's wallpaper issues. Carbon fiber is a good wallpaper.

[@allanjohnson8951]

Hearing grey swear was weirdly cathartic

[@saberwolfcdw]

Android lets you put any icon anywhere you want. it is great thing.

[@theraginmexi]

Accuracy > Lies

[@dan200smx7]

THIS VIDEO IS NOT OF A DESK TOY AND I'M TRIGGERED

[@TheWolfboy180]

watches are now classified as desk toys - Daniel Anderson 2017

[@chase0734]

I just realized that the part where Grey does a bunch of stuff when Brady was talking was in a animation BEFORE this podcast. Erg...

[@yosayoran1]

I have a problem with you assuming apple are still the trendsetter in the smartphone scene. The last trend they started was in the days if the phone 4, and not really that even. Anyway, Iphone and it's 1 button system makes for a horrible 1 hand expirience. You should rally consider trading it for an android or going back to a 5s.

[@johnconacher7602]

Did they get the idea for the superbowl game from How I Met Your Mother? That episode where they all spend the day trying to ignore the superbowl result? Probably.

[@Dracounius]

I wonder if you have considered a wallet case for your iPhone CGPgrey? it was my solution to the "where am I going to put all my things" problem.

[@VampireSquirrel]

I don't know anyone who won the Superbowl since 1998

[@doake25]

Greatness is achieved by doubling down on strengths, not by mitigating weaknesses. A lot of people don't think about that.

[@konradkubiec]

I want to see animations form this part :D So many awesome topics to animate (pockets dilema, keys and bags) :D

[@FrostknightVideos]

I so agree with Grey on the having loads of apps on your phone, your a disgrace if you can't organise your apps properly

[@derekknochel7138]

haha grey my background is a completely black photo I took by covering the camera.

[@Felipemelazzi]

Is it just me or is this the episode so far where they diverge the most?

[@azlhiacneg]

So, where are we on the Brady-Grey scoreboard now?...

[@pescecanella4742]

6 years ago someone was a caveman for not having touched an iphone 6, while I am also a working adult over here in 2021, I have never had an iPhone.

[@theworldstallestengineer3806]

Cargo Pockets. You need cargo pockets.

[@SirDominic]

oh god a video i actually want to watch all the way through :S May i ask what the journey is? i have gathered its in the US but thats as far as my knowledge extends unfortunately :(

[@theeutecticpoint]

Dominic Ransom There are a few indications that pop up that it's New York, for example the "metro-north railroad" rail-cars early on are New York. There are others like Billboards and such.

[@alleeum]

He's showing part of the Amtrak train journey from New York City to Boston -- bits along the beginning of the Connecticut coastline (Stamford, Bridgeport, New London, etc.), although slightly out of order.

[@SirDominic]

thank you very much

[@sjmww1235]

did grey miss parenthesis in the description? I am supprised that a robot would miss something so obvious

[@sirnate9065]

I am left handed and use my phone with my right hand in almost every circumstance.

[@timwenger601]

Same

[@xassbit]

Grey, lots of points for effort, but you might want to search for rolling shutter issues... On the other hand, it looks interesting, so I don't know... keep shooting!

[@dom_h]

***** I thought Brady does the videos for the podcasts. Is rolling shutter really an issue?

[@OululainenIhiminen]

***** Well, looking at the skewed railing: Yes. But it isn't too bad here. Also, didn't grey mention in some episode that he got things to make videos like these from the apple store?

[@numberphile]

***** it's an interesting feature

[@dom_h]

UselessBread Well Brady buys all the toys to record. It would be reasonably likely that Brady recorded this while travelling to that math billionaire recently, as that was near NY. Brady also has the more expensive camera gear, that you could mount on a tripod. Will you reveal the answer Numberphile ?

[@xassbit]

***** Grey said he has bought a tripod and was experimenting with video for this channel. Also I don't think Brady would leave the footage almost unprocessed like this.

[@SpiDeRReal]

So the Random Acts of Intelligence already happened? :/

[@Orzien.]

SpiDeRReal these are way behind, check out: www.hellointernet.fm/

[@MrWolf57]

SpiDeRReal I think these are about 10 episodes behind the actual podcast on iTunes and on their website.

[@damion0068]

SpiDeRReal This made me have a Sad :(

[@SpiDeRReal]

I was aware these are behind, but wasn't aware it was *that* far behind until I googled... because I was just recently looking for someone to go visit the Space & Rocket Center and had hoped to enjoy more bang for the travel buck. So I posted hoping others notice too and don't start excitedly planning for it? ^_^

[@damion0068]

SpiDeRReal Unfortunately I was unaware that the KZbin posting are so far behind.

[@babygorilla4233]

sitting around practicing lockpicking when the people on my podcast start talking about keys

[@marlonyo]

so grey values accuracy over happiness

[@academicned6236]

ha, i also watch the finale one year after it originally aired

[@christopherbalfe7282]

Well it's about freakin' time!!!!

[@7000_Skeletons]

I'm right handed but I hold my phone with my left hand because I'm using the hand I'm more comfortable with to press on it.

[@equitime77]

I know they wont read this but being ambidextrous I use my phone with which ever hand I feel like using at the time. So I could be technically counted as using my phone with my left hand.

[@spacekettle2478]

"The very notion of a Spoiler alert for the Presidential Debate is kinda ridiculous" Wait, I thought that was a US reality TV show. ... Wait... so you're saying the US is an actual country?

[@DanielSultana]

buy that key thing already, if you move houses, you can reinstall it in your new house

[@ssamerica3062]

32:50 Spoilers (kind of) for the CW's Arrow, Super Girl, and young justice: Ok I remember an instance happening to me with a show I used to watch called young justice. I never finished it apparently although I remember it being an amazing show but there is this one episode that got really heavy and I was thinking to myself "This isn't happening, I mean this can't be real right there is still more of the show". So I skipped to an episode in like the season after the one I was on because I really hated the sad tragic endings to stories and like the show would be so fundamentally changed by the outcome that the rest of it just wouldn't be good. Luckily I didn't have to deal with an experience like that until way later (I was watching arrow and super girl Ironically, and all of the characters I liked either "died" or left and predictably both shows were worse off as a result). I still haven't finished any of those shows btw. Apparently Netflix took off Young justice before it was finished and I'm still watching DC legends but it is so slow and painful to watch because of similar issues.

[@saftydance2]

I always feel bad when the shaving advertisements come up, I'm always going to have five hairs to shave.

[@joelwall4471]

I think live tweeting is acceptable during Eurovision as its so long

[@SamIreland]

Is it just me or are there no closing brackets in the description? I'm going crazy.

[@meezabunny]

About to go on a 21 hour road trip. Which episodes of HI do you guys think I should take with me?

[@loke5052]

Take en all xD

[@AuroDHikoshi]

OvarianLumps 2.6 days of Hello Internet... You'd get through episode 1 to 14 and a bit of 15... episode 26-36?

[@bbseal6174]

Jailbreak your iphone. You can use invisible icons that don"t do anything that way.

[@kacee3472]

Wait, what??? I was like absent-mindedly playing a game on my phone as I listened to this and Grey was like I only know one person and I don't know them in real life who is right handed and uses their left hand with their phone, I literally thought 'who does that?' looked down, realized I was using my left hand (and I'm right handed) to play this game and was so confused, like I didn't even really pay attention to the fact I did that... I tried using my right hand, and just like couldn't very well, I almost dropped my phone. I am trying to think about it, anyone I know who is right handed uses their right hand. I don't think I know any people who use their left hand with their phone. Wow! I'm confused. I just can't believe I never noticed I did that!

[@kacee3472]

And I have so few icons too. I have so little on my home screen, and it is so organized too. My parents and friends have so much stuff everywhere I drives me crazy. And I have folders and stuff. It is so organized. And only one page, I do not have more than one page ever.

[@kacee3472]

I looked at the picture in the description of Grey's background, it is actually very nice. I think if I didn't have my cat, who I miss, he went missing after being beat up by my brother's dog (and as gruesome as this sounds, is probably dead), as my background picture, because it reminds me of my awesome cat, it would probably be something similar to what Grey has.

[@kacee3472]

Oh, the red badges on Brady's. That bugs me a lot.

[@kacee3472]

Brady has too many badges and folders and icons and just... eww.

[@Eclectic-Sheep]

1:25:46 dreaded pocket reshuffle

[@Eclectic-Sheep]

1:26:13

[@daltonriser1125]

i'm almost always 2 handed phone holding

[@DerrickJolicoeur]

Hey Grey! Get a Crabby Wallet! : )

[@zirconcrystal1869]

Wait…if this is out…does it mean A NEW EPISODE OF HELLO INTERNET IS COMING OUT SOON? :::::::DDDDDD OMG CANT WAIT

[@preuenthegreat518]

with my phone i only have one page, and then instead of apps i have every tile be a folder which i stick my apps into.

[@Disinf3ctant]

i hate carrying stuff! I only carry my ID and bank card. I have a wallet in my car with all the other cards I have along with my house keys. so at anytime I only have two cards in my phone case a tiny proximity key for my car.

[@kacee3472]

at like 19:16 does it sound like something was cut out? It sounds a bit odd between like one sentence and the next... maybe that's just me though...

[@kacee3472]

actually more like 19:17 or 19:18

[@kacee3472]

definitely like 19:17

[@william5018]

You do realize these are edited

[@usmn._.m]

well shit now i wanna see what grey looks like but i also don't wanna ruin the image in my head

[@llgla]

Grey, try cargo shorts/pants. Additional pockets. =D

[@yasminafarih3681]

I try not to put anything in back pocket. Easier to rob.

[@SomeOne9217]

Whats the word he uses at 19:12 "distances which are to english people _____."

[@nathanh755]

I thought they were gonna say Huntsville Ontario (Canada)