H.I. #86: Banana Republic

[@deathwach3]

this radio times story might be my favorite part of any podcast

[@josuelservin2409]

We need Audrey to be the official unit of measure of HI

[@logisniper9863]

Josuel Servin z " so how tall is this?" " about 60 Audreys"

[@josuelservin2409]

For bigger things we could use the mighty black stump!

[@SpartaSpartan117]

"so how heavy is this" "about 23 Audreys", "how much volume does it take up" "about 2.5 Audreys"

[@r2ubuntu815]

I tried to get this going on the reddit awhile ago, but there was some confusions over what would be the abbreviation.

[@aeriswf]

Kaushik Varadharajan AUD sounds like a good abbreviation

[@DaKnightsofawesome]

"I'm not gonna sit hear on a podcast and badmouth a dead penguin."

[@golgarisoul]

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[@lunacylunacy1217]

here*

[@__nog642]

i feel like grey still hasn't seen the word ocker spelled out, and he thinks it's actually ocka because of brady's accent.

[@nutyyyy]

It's definitely that.

[@fernandossmm]

I would've written it "occa"

[@firnen_]

Did you know Germany's Civil Code has 5 whole paragraphs just dedicated to what happens when a swarm of bees flies away, what you have to do to stay owner of that swarm, etc?

[@bradleyharan3321]

Why am I not surprised?

[@Alice-ox7pe]

yea ^

[@verward]

"yeah, you need the Rosseta stone to read those yellow papers, because they're so hard to decipher." Brady is so adorkable that he makes that joke and then immediately explains it.

[@NoriMori1992]

(spoilers) Okay but that's seriously so sweet that Grey and his wife together went out to find Brady an appropriate trophy, and even got it engraved.

[@gressorialNanites]

So... I guess I'm late to say this, but I work in a bank in the EU and what should happen with the found credit/debit card is that you should call (or visit) the bank. They will ask for the card number, and possibly a few details around when/how you found it, then they will disable the card. If it is a customer-centric bank, they will then call the cardholder to inform them and arrange for a replacement. What they won't do is get you to send them the card to possibly return it to the cardholder - if the card was in the possession of any third parties, the data on it is as good as stolen, as far as the bank is concerned. Just my two pence on the matter. EDIT after having listened further: Cutting it in half is okay, the cardholder doesn't get informed of it ASAP - but it's their damn fault, isn't it? :D Anyway, I'm real proud of Brady for not just shouting "Did anyone drop a card?" in a restaurant. That's what years of Grey-exposure does to a person I guess. :D

[@slendy9600]

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[@mmmsatisfaction7654]

Uncle Grey called us a community! I'm touched

[@nano4334]

the first episode I hear as it comes out, I just binge watched all the other ones in the last few weeks.

[@josuelservin2409]

nano®(ch), Welcome to the present!

[@beo757]

nano®(ch) now go listen to Cortex :D

[@aeriswf]

nano®(ch) same though

[@nab-rk4ob]

That sound that confirms payment scares me. It always makes me think that the payment didn't go through.

[@jonahhopkin9105]

"Surprise! It's a box of live bees!"

[@D-Exp-ent]

Jonah Hopkin that part made me laugh out loud

[@TheZerovirus1000]

The amount of effort that goes into this videos in relation with the number of views is awesome I almost feel bad for listening at the episodes in audio only

[@adisop1]

In restaurants, we call that mechanical credit card device a knuckle buster - only use it when our computers go down. Its a huge pain in the butt. Its now used to keep a record that the card was actually with the customer and the transaction was signed for. I hate using them..

[@DanielPetri]

Thanks guys!

[@Jedonai]

I live in Texas. Our HEBs have check outs and dedicated baggers. The quality of service is so much higher than the finicky self checkout.

[@sven8947]

This podcast is sooo kawaii 💠

[@sven8947]

Kaushik Varadharajan Do you understand german? 😂😂😂

[@logisniper9863]

Sir Klug von Scheiß is schieb shit? Never seen it drawn before

[@leeleeisgay]

logi sniper98 ß is a double s in german, the more you know.

[@sven8947]

It's a play on the german word "Klugscheißer". Basically someone who always corrects you and is kind of annoying

[@thevorace]

Oh my god that elaborate sting one was too good! XD

[@Saturn-uz6jc]

I bet Myke is gonna hate that Brady just revealed HI's download numbers.

[@qwertyman1511]

i would love to see a computerphile episode where the technical aspects of the voteing programs are explained. Maybe with a timline showing the advances.

[@maxmustermann9058]

The discussion about the election made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[@golgarisoul]

The Buzz is officially my favourite corner on Hello Internet.

[@amandadube156]

when you find someone's credit card, call the bank or credit company and let them know that you found it so they can deactivate it, inform their customer, & start the process of sending them a new one

[@waltermcdonough]

you can double touch the home button to scrunch the screen to the bottom so you can touch the stuff at the top (touch not press, like when you're scanning your fingerprint)

[@Heijk]

Kawaii is the word.

[@_winter7745]

Albin Heijkenskjöld He knows He was making fun of you

[@golgarisoul]

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[@alexandreduarte4448]

kawaii

[@NiLowther]

I was thinking "Moe", but Grey was probably thinking "Kawaii"

[@mattbenz99]

NiLowther Moe doesn't mean cute. Moe is a weird word to explain because there is no equivalent English word, but to give you an idea of what it means, think of the way parents feel towards their kids. It is sort of a protective feeling where you want to protect the thing in question.

[@teddyboragina6437]

I actually found a credit card once. Outside a Burger King. In Charlottetown of PEI. On the card it said "SATURN OF CHARLOTTETOWN". (saturn cards) so I just walked to the dealership and gave it to em

[@ilaribystrouska2820]

I was in a similar situation, having found someone's credit or bank card. What I did was take note of what bank had issued it, because the bank's logo was in the corner, and I took it to the nearest branch and gave it to them. I have no idea what they did with it, but it seemed like the best way to go.

[@NScott45]

22:52 you mean in-TIM-idating

[@fidur2]

About the lost card thing: there usually is a agency number/bank code (idk what is the correct name in English, but every bank agency has a specific number that you can usually check on-line in about 1 minute). If the agency is in the same city, I take the card there and handle it to a manager or something (Since the bank has your details, they can call you to come pick it up). If the agency is in another city, I cut it.

[@0o0ification]

Any 86s here? Great show Dr. Brady & Grey

[@Solitaan]

I'm the one that started the main Command Center thread for the Radio Times final :)

[@TheGreatSteve]

Their should be an award for best trophy maker.

[@motazart5961]

DUBNER: If you had a time machine, when would you travel to, why and what would you want to do there? ME: I would travel back to the first time I listened to a Hello Internet Podcast and spend all my savings on a solo transatlantic cruise and a decent pair of headphones. Don't ask me why.

[@motazart5961]

I know there is a plot hole. No comment is without sin.

[@liamwhite3522]

If I was sent through time with a time machine, I would go to when and where the group of scientists began working on the time machine, and give it to them. No one can ever build a time machine, but reverse engineering one? Well, anyone can do that!

[@autious]

Some cards say to cut them in half and send them to their banks on their back. I found one of those black american express cards once, a bit hard to cut though, the seem to be made out of some kind of metal alloy.

[@SilentTremors]

I'm having difficulty understanding this Audrey Scale, how does it convert to Bananas?

[@SuperSuperspoof]

Do you see the plaques and think "It's another person I've never heard of"?

[@ymeynot0405]

+Hello Internet I'm disappointed that the show notes didn't have those voting graphs that you were talking about. I wanted to see the Captcha curves.

[@SowerSkys1]

All moral quandaries addressed on the show from now on should be a part of a new segment called "Brady's Bench."

[@gwydionelliott211]

When you find a credit card you should return it to a branch of the bank it's from

[@Riotlight]

Come on Wiki editors. Get on and update Bradys Page it still says Co-host!

[@slendy9600]

I'm annoyed that the Tim's pirate flag isnt on the hello internet wiki page

[@Deathcap99]

It's really hard for someone to edit it permanently, because there are a lot of editors that will roll back bad edits etc. But I shall try for the wiki page!

[@TPRJones]

On the radio times thing, I'm sure next year it will either not include podcasts at all or they will make podcasts a separate category from radio. Brady may be the only Radio Times Radio & Podcast champion there ever is.

[@chillsahoy2640]

Brady: They have to lift the limits on contactless payments. 2020: You're welcome.

[@firefox5926]

20:22 " two ordinary guy's" ...... who bought a German factory...... I'm not sure if we have the same definition of ordinary here mate :P

[@marnie4629]

Maybe they took a loan and it payed off?

[@musikSkool]

I can imagine a novel about a kid that creates a super-intelligent AI and can't figure out what to do with it. He asks the AI if they can make any money on the Stock Market and the AI says that even if they make the best predictions, they can't do better than quadruple their money in a year, and since the kid has only about a thousand bucks in savings, bothering with the stock market is pointless. The reason is because there are already really good computer algorithms that are much closer to the stock market physically and have very low ping so that anything they could predict and make money off of would go through those servers, and those servers would buy the stock in a millisecond and then turn around and sell it to them for a profit, so that they made less than they thought they would. If the kid moved to New York he could make about a 6.5x increase in his money, but he can't afford to make the move, so it would be pointless. He asks the AI if it could solve cancer, and the AI analyzes the research data of 17 universities and concludes that every major lead was already being researched. Then the AI tells him that the main difficulty is scaling up the volume of testing apparatus to tackle the problem, and the difficulty there isn't the technology, it's the money. You need to monitor each individual strain of a biological system to find one that has the desired outcome, and it has to be done in real time because adding drugs to speed up the process won't work in the human body because drugs always have unintended consequences. So more machines scanning more biological systems equals more money. The kid goes to a college and is in his twenties, but he is small and most people mistake him for a teenager. He is short for his age and has a babyface. The computer that he was able to create the AI on is at the limits of the technology. He overclocked it already, but the AI complains of "headaches" when he leaves it in the overclocked state, and when he installs more ram or more than 8 cores in the processor, the AI starts making errors and coming to the wrong conclusion. It seems like there was something about the original parameters of the program he used that now the AI can't run on any other hardware. It also has a 1080ti videocard, but that is mainly for visual input so the AI can see the real world and isn't used for anything else. He was able to create the AI when he was given 1 hour of time on the University's Supercomputer in a nearby city and had it run a neural network on a particular piece of data he was working on. He had the supercomputer find him an AI that could write a program in the programming language C that was able of playing a 3D game and doing something "interesting" in the game. The "interesting" thing was to collect a certain number of coins and in that particular game, the coins were hidden inside puzzles and had side-quests that had to be done in order. Each AI was given a chance to watch someone play the game for 30 seconds, generate code, compile a program, and let that program attempt to play the game for 1 minute and get as many coins as it could. It ran this many, many times in parallel. After attempting 1 billion 7 hundred and 43 times and finding no AI that could make a program that could find even 2 of the coins, and after spending 43 minutes of his hour, the kid added a simple change to the program. He copied the sourcecode for the compiler into a default template and allowed the supercomputer to generate a modified version of that template. Which would compile a program, and that program would be able to compile and run modified code within itself. This was so complicated that the Supercomputer could only do 1 tenth as many as it should have done in the remaining 14 minutes, because he allowed the AI to watch the gameplay of it's own program, change the code and recompile the program, and then let it run again. So that in the end each AI got 10 tries to get coins in the game, instead of 1. After only 49,271 tries he ran out of time. He copied the top 100 bots to a USB drive and went home.

[@Shoutlikeatwebpunktd]

Where on reddit did the Tims discuss all these voting strategies?

[@pewlitzer4251]

Vicehost triggers Phantom Menace PTSD for me...

[@Kokorisu]

Of course, trust Doctor Brady Haran to record his engraved, self-congratulatory microphone for an hour and a half with professional equipment to use as accompanying footage for the Podcast.

[@vladimirdan1959]

Doggo and pupper too.

[@goshinbi44]

This is why you buy 3 paper shredders, 1 to figure out the tolerance, and of course, 1 is none. ;3

[@davidashton1452]

if you find a credit card, best bet is to hand it in to the nearest bank . They will have the contact info of the person and be able to contact them on your behalf.

[@whereareyou2]

Why does it end in the middle of a word? Is there a place it's more complete?

[@MultiMistick99]

I think the vote has established that you don't mess with the Tims.

[@BartvG88]

Dammit. I was playing GTA while listening to this podcast. When the razorblade commercial came up, i tried to skip it, crashing my boat on the beach. Lost alot of GTA dollars on that one.

[@ellabun]

Here at least, I am pretty sure you're supposed to call the bank and they usually ask you to stick it in an ATM so it's disabled and accounted for.

[@john11719]

Radio Times should be ashamed of themselves for being cowards

[@BlaneDaze]

11:12 Grey's wife is going to hunt Bradley down when she heard this lol

[@yasminafarih3681]

Blane Daze Bradley LOL

[@Krone37Io]

this is not even available in the official website yet? :o

[@indigoturtle5234]

Kronn Ya, I sat there refreshing the page trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

[@501lilspoon]

Kronn k

[@guitarwally1]

When you find a creditcard, why not just call the credit company?

[@Azeazezar]

Drop the "Co-" You can both be HOST! Freedom!

[@JackRSlade]

When did KZbin get up to date with the podcast?

[@abcdefg9213]

Jack Slade At least one year ago

[@JackRSlade]

Wow, I didn't even realize I have been listening to them for so long. It is just a part of my life now lol.

[@stinknus]

if you're going on Host vs Co Host. I think gotta consider where the main attention or focus is. Since there isn't a clear main focus here I think airtime is appropriate metric for determining who is the host. Compared to say Conan O'brien being the host and Andy andy Richter is the co-host.

[@SpencerTwiddy]

Grey is the king of unintentional puns

[@mapledoctor3915]

44:18 to 44:43 needs to go in HI animated

[@matthewgranato8925]

In the US, cast members can be hired and fired based on looks, while staff members cannot. You've been double suckered by Mickey!

[@paulc4629]

The Japanese word for cute is Hentai I think

[@Eclipse_102]

I shall trust you and and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" on google.

[@tophu7903]

NOPE

[@ascii_9727]

Hentai is the word for pervert, not cute

[@s02229]

What's the model that Grey got for Brady

[@ridzz]

I'm with Brady on the one handed phone user.. I much much prefer to use a smaller sized phones so that it can perfectly fit in my hand

[@NoName-tn8rq]

Geez, it's like pillow fight turning into a race war XDD

[@_-KR-_]

The pirate flag should be a crooked arm (robot arm) holding the nail, like the arm and cutlass flag.

[@kopasamsu01]

18:31- Brady is referring to Liverpool fans ;)

[@scoutofthe107th]

this shall forever be known as the banana war!

[@reNINTENDO]

I'm no expert on this whatsoever, but if it's like anything else in the US that feels archaic, the reason we can't adjust to new payment options is because some company or companies is lobbying to make it hard as hell to do. Also the country is huge, which doesn't help.

[@jackaryrootis5439]

Never left pornhub so fast

[@jackaryrootis5439]

CGP Grey doesn't it

[@bohlin01]

It definetly does

[@santosfuentes1519]

Why not just have H.I in the background?

[@amandadube156]

now you have a shame-stiffy for grey & brady

[@Bjrn-AndreasLamo]

Who said I didn't have HI in the background.

[@katowo6521]

Banana republic makes me think of btd battles

[@DeciduousClouds]

was grey thinking of "kawaii"...?

[@haemilprodde]

if you find a card - call the bank it's from??? am I right?

[@AlexisLopez-lh1op]

I'm ditching class to listen to this podcast LET'S GO

[@Dequda]

Those 2 academics would not approve.

[@501lilspoon]

C

[@ulriksteenandersen4215]

me too

[@aeriswf]

Thebestever please dont

[@ShalteuGaming]

Should you not just go to the bank that the card belongs to? they can match the sort code to the correct branch and then they can notify the owner.

[@teddyboragina6437]

credit card thing: the answer is "tell the local owner" who is the "local owner" well if you pick it up and 3 feet away someone is looking in their wallet yelling "WHERE IS MY CARD" its that guy if you find it in, for example, a McDonalds, its the front counter of McDonalds What if, however, you find it in the street? Well the card has a label on it. Visa. The answer is Visa. Call them and tell them you found a card. Only if there is no local owner do you bring it to the cops, but yes, I'd bring it to the cops. other possibilities: I once found a set of keys on the street. I did a twitter search for "lost my keys" to see if anyone local had lost their keys. they had not. so I turned it over to the cops.

[@queen_alexandra996]

1/7 HI viewers have commented kawaii. the human race was a mistake

[@bastiaanp4695]

Yes, it should at least be 6/7!

[@RiSodium]

why so short...:(

[@kedrak90]

I absolutely love the community's power. Just had to think back to the reddit april fools colour grid.

[@vladimirdan1959]

Great wars happened that day.Unfortunately,I gave up on Reddit a few weeks ago because of how toxic the political side of it is.

[@ze_rubenator]

Aren't there names on debit cards in Britain? You could just spend one minute looking up the name and finding a phone number.

[@TheDEEPPENETRATION]

They say Mr/Mrs first initial second initial last name Mr J M Smith

[@briankemery8267]

Is there not a name on all credit/debit cards?

[@sciguy98]

Brian Kemery nope. Government issued cards, pay cards (where a company gives you a debit card they load instead of direct deposit or issuing a check), and pre-paid gift cards all can be nameless.

[@briankemery8267]

Huh. More you know.

[@kris220b]

Oh sure i would love to use harries ( or dollar shave club for that matter ) but neither of them ships to more than ca 4 countries.

[@werewolfnar]

Just waiting for Brady to drop the base.

[@16m49x3]

I believe any bank can find it's cards owners.

[@jamsistired]

Two handed phone use is better and more convenient and you have a less chance of dropping it

[@nintando]

Kawaii is what grey is thinking of

[@thitherword]

I know I shouldn't care about a podcast from years ago, but does it piss anyone else off that Grey doesn't even know who Buzz Aldrin is? He literally makes videos on space and science.

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

An angry Grey is a very scary thing indeed :D

[@Evin10251]

I feel bad for Grey, he always sounds so tired in those ad reads.

[@banjoumali6553]

I love cgp2

[@nujumkey]

Im only here to hear about the competition

[@elishasummers9517]

Yeah but people working back stage aren't called cast members in theatre, they're crew. Cast is everyone acting, dancing, and singing. They're important, but they aren't called the cast.

[@vmgf1437]

Good grief guys. Call the 1-800 number on the back of the card and report it lost. Then the bank deactivates the card immediately and ships a new one out to the owner while notifying them. It's not rocket science :-) Mitchell & Webb reference :-)

[@huvidd.368]

"How does a country-mouse go shopping?"

[@copyweirdo]

28:00 self-checkout

[@waltermcdonough]

kawaii is the word that Grey is talking about

[@legosqe11]

Shredders are like Americans they have to eat more till they break.

[@morbid1.]

internet is fascinating place...