H.I. #89 -- A Swarm of Bad Emoji

[@JustOneAsbesto]

6:29 The early beginnings of Brady's career as a journalist. That one little contest for a diary set the entire course of his life.

[@mdbee5]

24:10 The dials tuned just right sounds like a Douglas Adams joke. In the narrator of the Hitchhiker's Guide voice: "But in fact the dials were tuned in just right for the small insignificant people of earth at exactly Thursday at a half past noon sometime in 1994 of October. But as all things are in the universe it quickly righted itself' and things continued as usual.

[@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547]

Underrated comment

[@JoshuaJCrawford]

I am also loving how many episodes are coming out lately!! Also as I am watching and listening it sounds like Grey is the shoes and Brady is the Lego box

[@rikrikonius1301]

Grey's notebook scribbling idea reminds me of something my Cultural Anthropology prof. said in college about his house. His house used to be a church, been sold off, been converted for a few other purposes, then sold as a house. About a week after he moved in, two old priests showed up at his house and told him they had to (and these were their exact words) "make the house profane" so a person could live in it without it being a problem for the church.

[@ordinaryyoutubechannel582]

Listening in half speed makes them sound so drunk, and I love it.

[@queenofthespinach6387]

Taco Lord oh my God this is everything!

[@gwydionelliott211]

hahahaha

[@gwydionelliott211]

made my day

[@anjoujedido]

Taco Lord XD

[@tommymiguel7595]

. willll it scaaare you off will youuu beeee likeeee a frighteneeed rabbiiittt will youuuu goo intoo your hoole and not makeee any more of those truck.... thingssss?

[@mitchellwood4178]

OPEN THE LEGO SET

[@atomicmrpelly]

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[@Mr.Sparks.173]

YES! Open it! Build it! use a small knife to open one end and slip out the legos and instructions - then you can keep the empty box for display

[@labrynianrebel]

Building the LEGO set and having the pristine box as the backdrop for the display shelf is the answer.

[@HiyuMarten]

"Turns out breakfast is b*llshit"

[@mcp12300]

Acctualy, does anyone wanna expand on that? Personaly I'm always hungry when I wake up.

[@waltermcdonough]

When i got my new notebook to use as a planner, i wanted to write my school's bell schedule on the first page, but i really messed it up. Now i can finally write in it pretty carelessly.

[@peterlarson233]

Your notebook thing reminds me of my neighbor, whenever he got a new helmet for riding his dirtbike, the first thing he would do is smack it on the ground to scuff it up. That way he was never scared to get a scrape on it. The helmet's purpose is to protect your head, not to look pretty, you don't want to worry about scratching it.

[@fwank49]

Isn't dropping a helmet on the ground a bad idea?

[@peterlarson233]

Fwank49 if you're actually damaging its structure, yeah. He was just scraping up the surface a bit so it wasn't pretty anymore

[@coryman125]

I've heard artists say when they buy a new sketchbook, they'll just scribble all over the first page and then they're less scared to do sub-par sketches or reference drawings or whatever on page two. Or, on a more comical note- when we install kitchens for people and they get new floors in, we always joke that we're gonna drop a hammer so they won't be the ones to ruin the floor

[@rionkoball6957]

I had caught up on 80 episodes in like 2 months. So happy you guys have been doing this like every 2 weeks now!

[@Cyproterjoan]

Already? Damn, I'm impressed.

[@gooscarguitar]

Brady should have whispered during that Harry's ad for the ultimate in ASMR

[@chillsahoy2640]

"Do actors know t hat they're in a terrible movie?" A lot of the time it's very difficult to know how good or bad a movie is going to be until the whole thing is finished. Much of the film production works a bit like a bureaucracy, where you're in one tiny, isolated island of production and you do your part but have no idea what other aspects are also being worked on. Not just when actors happen not to share many (or any!) scenes, but sometimes what would be an 'okay' film can be turned into a very bad film when there is bad cinematography, editing, sound production, etc, and the actors generally don't have any input here so they may have done the best job they could but if other people involved in the making of the film didn't, the whole thing may end up not being very good. And sometimes it's useful to remember that actors are people who have a job. Most people have some days or projects, where they work because it gets them paid, but they're not really feeling it and may end up not giving it their best. I'm sure that many actors also do this every now and then: they star in films that don't particularly inspire them, they put on an okay performance, but ultimately it's just a thing to get over with so they can get paid and move on to a more interesting project that they can be fully invested in.

[@Huntracony]

Squarespace adds always annoy me, as someone who builds websites. Building websites is not magic, it's often pretty basic code. Especially static websites, or blogs, are very easy. And there are so many free services that can do what Squarespace does for you for free. And SEO (Search Engine Optimization) isn't something special, it's literally just telling google (and if you want bing) that your site exists, what pages it has, and what the languages of those pages are. And even those are not required, but it could make it faster. The rest Google does for you. The days of keyword spamming, and other ways to game the system are gone. What you need to do now to get high in the search rankings, is have good content.

[@naota3k]

I had a "sacredizing" experience when I bought a Samsung Galaxy S8 last year. I had lost my previous phone (Samsung Note 4) about 3 weeks earlier, and because I loved it so much, I knew I would find it, so put off buying a new phone. Ever surprisingly, I never found it, and got the S8. For the first few weeks of ownership I treated it like my own child. I bought a belt-clip for it since I work construction, and am frequently bending down, therefore bearing stress on my front pockets. I refused to put a case on it because it was so sleek and beautiful, and I felt it was worth it, even though it was obviously extremely delicate. One day at work, I went out to my car to get something and sat in the driver's seat. I did the classic, and put my phone on my lap. Got out of my car, and onto the pavement goes my gorgeous phone, face down. My heart broke, and as I picked it up I saw the glaring crack streaked across it's lovely screen. Since then, I've probably dropped that phone over 500 times, and have literally experienced other people freaking out when I did so, only for me to roll my eyes and say "it's fine, I've already dropped it like 4 times today". I still love that phone, though. :3

[@tanerflorin640]

Anyway I'm waiting to be released in my podcast app

[@CoffeeOnRails]

The mighty Nail and Gear will be protected by the even mightier battle flag! The one, the only, FLAGGY FLAG!

[@54321jcc]

Two HI's in less then ten days!? What is this madness!?!? TYVVM

[@baijokull]

I agree with the silence remover. Silence is a huge part of the meaning of a sentence. I do however not agree when it comes to the speed adjustment. I think lumping those two into one isn't quite fair.

[@alexandersmithers7392]

Grey: Breakfast is bullshit. You don't need it. *Denny's share price drops 10 points*

[@TimBowers]

Anyone else using the dark theme on youtube and wondering grey's views on it?!

[@jovan1198]

I'm using it, haven't thought about that though

[@taranhaight9985]

Hi Tim. You're a Tim.

[@jovan1198]

Oh, yeah. You are a Tim, Tim.

[@TimBowers]

Prett y sure I'm a Tim :)

[@TimBowers]

I only asked, as when viewed in my browser at work, it puts all the 'recommended videos' first, and then all the comments below them, which means a lot of people won't comment.... but I can't figure out why it does it at work and not at home (where I am now, and it's normal (but still dark)).

[@CR0SBO]

I love listening to this at 2.6x, and I love it! I agree that I can miss some moments, but I'm that used to it so my brain tends to understand anyway. It started for me while watching Star Trek Voyager (Janeway talks so slowly). I would rather consume content faster, and get more, than cut down on what I listen to/watch. Video Speed Controller for Chrome for anyone interested. EDIT: I watched The Circle sped up. I'm glad I wasted less time.

[@FreeER]

Video Speed Controller is quite useful, I managed before I found it with a little js bookmarklet but it is a bit more convenient. for anyone interested (3.5 is the default, 2.5 is the default if you type something that's not a number like 'asdf')- javascript:document.querySelector('video').playbackRate=Number.parseFloat(prompt('rate','3.5'))||2.5;

[@gwydionelliott211]

I always skip the ads but I listened to the Brady bathroom ad with great attention. It was hilarious to me I don't know why

[@oscarfriberg7661]

Love the Harry's commercial on this one! I'm tempted now :)

[@Some1ne]

3:15 - For the love of all that is holy buy a second one! You'll never regret it!

[@christiandevey3898]

good on grey for acknowledging the Toronto blue jays

[@TuetchenR]

57:30 these ads just make me want asmr videos from Brady

[@jonathanrouse]

I think this is more of an achievement of lego's awesome packaging than a need to keep a thing un-opened!

[@jonathanblackwell42]

My apologies for listening to this at a higher speed (1.5 speed)...I was on vacation for over a week and had 110 videos in my watch later queue after that and had to get through it all.

[@TheGreatSteve]

I've never watched the video so much. I usually just listen.

[@madmonkee6757]

A future without buttons = my personal hell. I'll guess I'll just always be that Luddite with a flip-phone. (Touch screen can kiss my posterior.)

[@CraftQueenJr]

Mad Monkee my dad has this thing with the loss of dashboard buttons.

[@usahenry]

Basically early on a CGPGrey + Numberphile hour long video. Woohoo!

[@narsil1984]

On the topic of american centric news : should every american know the *details* of the politics of each country? No, of course not. I think that´s not at all why people mock americans frequently. As a central European, I´m not much impacted by brazilian or south korean politics. But I sort of know when they have major political crises. Also, to me it seems perfectly normal to expect a 21st century educated adult to be able to place most countries of the world on a map, if not precisely then at least approximately, like : one should know exactly where Brazil and Argentina are, but it´s okay to only know that Uruguay and Paraguay are in between them somewhat. Similarly, I wouldnt expect everyone to place Kenya on a map... but, knowing it´s in Africa and maybe narrowing it down to "not the north" (cuz non-mediterraneans) and "not the south" (cuz South Africa is a thing) seems totally reasonable. Grey does have a point about the size of the US influencing this, but it´s not the entire reason. The US has had an isolationist policy for decades before becoming this dominant world power in the early 20th century.

[@JaggedHammer]

I listened to this episode at .75, and Grey and Brady sound like a couple of high bros cause they sound normal enough but they're still noticeably slow sounding, so they sound drunk or high. XD

[@AHAuwuOK]

A thing to note: in Poland for example Twitter is not really that popular so it's unlikely than even a huge fan from here is going to follow you there

[@XesPoint]

I love grade and brad

[@VampireSquirrel]

Just build the rocket Brady just do it

[@anamikarai7240]

Regular Hello internets for the win!

[@Ruvi5000]

56:12 In Germany, my home country, there are PSA running where you see a child in a car sleeping and with the phrase: "There's nothing better to fall asleep in safety" and then the door opens and the kid, while sleeping, get carried out of the car by a paramedic while you see the dad behind the steering wheel and there's firetrucks everywhere and stuff and then the phrase: ".. but to wake up in safety" Edit: Here's the ad in German, but you will get it anyway: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYivimeZbpKrgJY

[@utilizator500]

I am impressed CGP Grey mentioned Romania. I live in Romania and the world doesn't mention us...ever.

[@TheGreatSteve]

Couldn't internet copyright be a separate thing thereby preserving offline copyright law?

[@mcp12300]

The Great Steve enter DMCA

[@Huntracony]

I have a less extreme version of Brady's unsullied diary. I recently had to buy a bunch of notebooks for different classes and didn't want to sully the first page, because that's for important things or whatever. So they'll be empty forever.

[@Elvesflame]

I find that I am glad to use self-checkout systems mainly because I don't want to interact with the cashier or the bagger. Is that bad? Antisocial?

[@karsakasdasfa6474]

Elvesflame asocial yes. Antisocial no.

[@brandchan]

I do wish U.S. news was a little more worldly. I remember when I started watching BBC news in the mornings and being like wow I didn't know this much stuff going on in the world. Then I'd turn on U.S. news and you would hear nothing about these things (sometimes very serious things) and it shows just how ethnocentric U.S. news is. And I do think U.S. news should be mostly about the U.S. simply because the U.S. is so vast but it would be nice it get a little more outside perspective. But things like the eclipse you got to give us a break on, like that is a fun thing to get excited about. And most news shows don't do a great job of explaining science anyway.

[@moartems5076]

"A Brazilian moved to America." Damn it, do we need to rename the freaking continent to fix this?

[@juleselzd1391]

.I'm with you. I also would rather call "Americans" Unitedstatians. They have no true identity, and that's the truth.

[@aus286]

I guess staying up two more hours couldn't hurt.

[@rednax3788]

55:05 brings up a really interesting idea for an anti-drunk driving ad. They get people to drink a bit and then have them play Truck Simulator.

[@beeeesac]

Gotta say, the Huawei bee emoji is the cutest :') it's not on the list unfortunately though

[@lumberc]

Who else LOVES hello internet

[@sc-ek6qz]

BlackBear345 rawr... .!

[@Supern00bmaster]

I can see why the moon would be more impressive, but ill be impressed by the mars landing too since I'll have a chance to watch it happen

[@mwu365]

3:02 i do that with decks of cards

[@jesselong90]

I listen @ 1.5 speed... I have to admit when I listen you guys youtube videos, it throws me off!

[@ryanendersmith]

"this movie almost made me angry for taking time away from my life" - Brady

[@himbalodzodenever]

look like Grey and Brady do their homeworks.

[@OALXI]

One day, I bought a black-covered notebook. It was 3 years ago. And I've never written anything in it.

[@mcp12300]

Alexis Carroué you'll love it even more when you finish it.

[@OALXI]

MC_P_123 Yeah. But I need to begin writing stuff. Which is the difficult part. XD

[@mcp12300]

Alexis Carroué write the cornist poem andscribble it out, done.

[@ctemp3246]

I want that thing... you're not alone Brady

[@chrisparker6325]

If what Grey is saying about the % of GDP of a country is relative to the importance, and therefore knowledge, what does he know more about: Brazil (9th largest GDP in the world) or Canada (10th largest GDP in the world)

[@big0medium]

Its obvious that US media focuses more on Chinese and Japanese news over any other country.

[@rileyconklin145]

he did say ballpark estimate

[@fortheloveofexy]

And to be fair, Canada has the advantages of close geographic proximity, being one of America's closest allies and trade partners and also has a lot more cultural similarities with the US. Sharing a border and several large lakes means we get a lot more interaction with (and therefore more media coverage) of Canadian affairs.

[@thomasboys7216]

I still have my Lego Saturn V at home- haven't had a chance to build it yet. Also, there is a Lego Mars Rover as well, but it's a pain to find for a reasonable price on ebay.

[@DazeHero]

Unfortunately for the google emojis they recently switched from gumdrops which were great to their current emojis which aren't as good, looking at the previous version they had of the bee emoji in mu opinion it is much better

[@DarrenRainey]

57:40 I seen an ad for harrys on tv a few days ago which is werid considering I don't watch tv

[@WannabeCanadianDev]

Are the videos usually with a loop of something related to the content or is this an exception?

[@mcp12300]

Raenir Salazar sometimes, the episode where Brady opened his gift, that was the B-roll

[@alexstandsmart5278]

What was the context with the PewDiePie thing? I'm kind of out of the loop on this.

[@mikew1507]

I would love to hear more of Grey's thoughts on the "weirdness of the Facebook campus" and the cult like way in which these mega tech companies operate. It would be an interesting subject for the next podcast episode. By the way, I actually saw "The Circle" in a movie theater... the memories still haunt me..........

[@oscarjeans4119]

I watch lectures on 2x speed because i need information, im just here for entertainment so why would i want it to pass faster?...

[@FreeER]

lol, currently watching at 1.7x. But I _always_ watch/listen at higher speeds, (I've even listened to some at near 4x because they particularly talk slow, though it also various based on whether I'm doing something else at the time) so I feel like I've probably adjusted quite a bit to the change and can still tell. Of course, it's just speeding everything up, not arbitrarily removing silence.

[@VampireSquirrel]

I listen on .5 speed because i like when they sound drunk

[@canadalavearn]

Where is the videos back at CGPGrey

[@usp211816]

This came up on another stream and perhaps the tims can sort it out. Is Cereal soup ?

[@CraftQueenJr]

usp211816 stew.

[@TheGreatSteve]

My Lego Saturn is double mib.

[@Unbelishitable]

Would like to see topic list with timetags in the description so i could easily skip the things that I may consider boring.

[@zombieslayer1468]

hang on the lego set has 1969 pieces nice attention to detail there

[@lachlansmart2373]

Does anyone have any idea what restaurant "Big Joe's Sloppy Buns". I'm morbidly curious.

[@7000_Skeletons]

I don't know, I've been very drunk playing TF2 and not even trying to play properly yet somehow do pretty well. I'm starting to think the drink and driving thing is a conspiracy to get people to use taxis more often

[@fancytrash3593]

Im pretty sure the eclipse was called "The Great American Eclipse"

[@tommymiguel7595]

1.5 speed = Chipmunk version

[@murpheyslaw2778]

I was quite offset by the American Centric-ness of the eclipse coverage too. And I am an American that had to live through that BS.

[@HeyHeyChey]

Is this weekly now?

[@douira]

Firewatch is a nice game, very beautiful.

[@MrTridac]

Yay, Hello Internet bonanza!

[@charlesblair9786]

Petition: Get an iPhone 11 Pro for Brady

[@HiyuMarten]

I feel that sometimes, actors know they're in bad movies - but if the pay's good, who cares? :)

[@Blastercadre]

Stop drawing attention to the bee emoji ! They'll make a movie that turns 2 terrible movies into a trilogy.

[@usukandsarge]

A Swarm Of Tims

[@ExtraterrestrialIntelligence]

where is the itunes/ oh never mind

[@nathanwoerpel6392]

How long can a mint stay mint condition? *FOREVER*

[@Mike-ls3bs]

only dry mint

[@mcp12300]

Until you eat it. Stomach acid mint isn't refreshing.

[@anamikarai7240]

41 seconds and 70 bviews already 😱😱😱

[@BaryLevi]

are you a bviewer of the podcast?

[@anamikarai7240]

No actually i was just on youtube and this HI came up! Delightful suprise

[@Alex-gv2jc]

so many bveiws wow

[@DismalPerception]

Brady is Mad, MAD i say!

[@zombieslayer1468]

yes getting a strike IS a big deal let alone getting 2

[@misterkefir]

Timestamps would be just f-ing amaaazing. Thanks.

[@loc978]

huh. Grey feels about Tripadvisor the same way I feel about Facebook... minus the valuable forum for disseminating information.

[@mauritz3912]

I want Harrys to ship to Norway!

[@theeyehead3437]

x1.25 doesn't change the timings too much.

[@dezodroya]

the first cut of star wars was bad because they didnt have most of the effects and i think not even the music, not so much because Lucas was a bad editor, which he may be or may not be i dont know

[@patrickward8983]

How Black Mirror crams so much info in what around an hour can give like a decent amount of depth of character but somehow the circle finds no time to give anyone a definable motivation ugh it's a literal waste of time.

[@AloisMahdal]

@CGPGrey, about the GDP... Why GDP? If you measure by population, the number becomes ~2/3 for Brazil, ~1/32 for Czech Republic. GDP makes sense as long as you care about "what happens to GDP in the world", but if Americans should care (I know they do), shouldn't they care much more about "what happens to *people* in the world"? (I know, you said the measure is not perfect, I just feel, shouldn't the right wording be "completely irrelevant"?)

[@doomblitz1993]

Holy shit grey and brad just shitting them out.

[@Huntracony]

I live in the Netherlands, I believe the majority of people here know where Brazil is and what language they speak. Of course I don't expect Americans to know exactly location of the Netherlands, but I do expect people in general, not just Americans, to know it's in Europe, that they speak Dutch, and that it's not the same as Germany (you'd be surprised). And I'm not going to chastise you if you don't, but I do expect you to feel slightly bad about it. Like I feel slightly bad when I don't know such things about other countries.

[@courtney-ray]

Another episode already?! I'm truly shocked! In a good way. But shocked nonetheless!

[@waltermcdonough]

I don't think i follow you on twitter. wait nevermind i do, i just never check twitter

[@christiandevey3898]

same here