Episode Transcript
[00:00:08] Speaker A: Hello, and welcome to 404, site not found for September 25, 2024. I'm Liam, and as always, I have Alyssa with me.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: I'm here.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: You are here. And we actually slept late this morning, kind of.
I have this bad habit of waking up at three in the morning and then making lots and lots of noise in the house.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: I was surprised when the alarm went off and there was still a. Liam. The first words out of my mouth where you're still here.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: You haven't laughed.
Which. Yeah, I don't know how to take that, really. I mean, it's like, no, no, I'm still here. Haven't left.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: Literally. Just meant it in terms of you're still in the bed, you haven't wandered off to somewhere else in the house.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: No.
So today I had a couple things. First of all, I want to thank the engagement. We've gotten so big. Thanks to people like Paris. Is it Paris?
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Paris Piers. I'm not sure. I do apologize if we were saying it all wrong.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: I don't know. Just making stuff big. Thanks to Martin.
Oh, and Paris. Paris said the length was perfect.
All right, so thank you.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: And thanks to Nick for looking at the audio a little bit.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Thanks, Nick. Hopefully this is better. We have put a dead mink.
It looks like you shoved the recorder into a mink.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: It really does.
And they were not kidding when they said Harry.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I. Hairy or furry or furry, but it's something. It does look like there's a small rodent living on top of the zoom h one e now.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: And thanks, Andre.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: Yeah. So Andre apparently is doing this, too, now.
I was. He was like, yeah, me and Kirsten are gonna try this. And I was like, is this the week for Couples podcasts? And he was like, wait, you guys are doing one, too? So he gave us a listen. Also heard from. Let's see, we heard from Mike. We heard from Martin.
We're working on transcripts. So that is a whole hullabaloo right now that I'm trying to work through. But if you listen to us on Apple podcasts, which we are on Apple Podcast now, you can get a transcript, I believe. I don't know how that works.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: I'll have to check later and see.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: How I have to figure out that. But you're supposed to have transcripts. So a couple things for today. First is, I think AI is going to kill us all.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: Great way to start.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Google has launched notebook LM, and it is really scary.
You can take data and have your data summarized, which is cool. What's a little scary is you can also have it create a two person conversational style podcast.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: And so, yeah, we may be out of this gig.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: Google's we'll do it for us. We'll just write notes and Lethemena doesn't.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Really quite sound like us, but, you know, that's okay.
We sound different anyway. It's early.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: We do, so. Yeah, I heard that too. Hey, Liam sounds different. Liam's not awake yet.
So we're going to play a quick clip of this Google notebook. Lm having a conversation about the great toy robbery. Readme specifically here. This is a clip of it discussing the game's story and kind of ripping on naughty McNaughterson, which is actually, I'm not gonna lie, kind of funny. So here goes the clip.
[00:03:41] Speaker C: So tell me more about naughty McNaughterson, the kid who's brave enough, or maybe crazy enough, to try and pull off this Christmas caper.
[00:03:48] Speaker D: Well, what's really interesting about naughty is that they don't just throw you into his shoes, right? The game actually gives you a glimpse into, like, his motivations for doing this whole thing.
[00:03:58] Speaker C: Okay, so why does he want to steal all the toys?
[00:04:00] Speaker D: Well, the manual mentions how Santa kept passing him over year after year.
[00:04:04] Speaker C: Ouch.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: That's rough.
[00:04:06] Speaker D: Yeah. Even denying him a new pair of socks.
[00:04:08] Speaker C: You know, that reminds me of this one Christmas when I was a kid. I really, really wanted this one action figure. I mean, I'm talking years of begging for this thing.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: What happened?
[00:04:18] Speaker C: Christmas morning rolls around, I go to unwrap my presents, and all I find is this hand knitted sweater. Don't get me wrong, I loved my grandma. But in that moment, I totally understood Noddy's pain. Like, I got why he's going for the grand toy heist, right?
[00:04:33] Speaker D: There's a certain sense of justice to it.
[00:04:35] Speaker C: Almost totally. So how does naughty even get to the north pole?
[00:04:39] Speaker D: Well, according to the manual, he builds himself a plane out of tinfoil.
[00:04:43] Speaker C: You're kidding. Tinfoil?
[00:04:45] Speaker D: That's what it says.
[00:04:46] Speaker C: Ok, so maybe his methods are a little unorthodox.
[00:04:48] Speaker D: A little bit, yeah.
[00:04:49] Speaker C: But you gotta admire his ingenuity, you know, that go getter spirit.
[00:04:53] Speaker D: Absolutely. And this is where I think the game's social commentary starts to come into play. Is naughty just a mischievous kid, or is he something more?
[00:05:03] Speaker C: Ooh, I like where you're going with this.
[00:05:05] Speaker D: Is this a subtle critique of consumerism, maybe? Or the disappointment some kids feel when their holiday wishes don't come true?
[00:05:13] Speaker C: Ooh. Maybe the great toy robbery is really a commentary about, like, the pressure kids feel to fit in, especially around the holidays.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: Ah, what a great clip. Wasn't that good?
[00:05:23] Speaker B: It's crazy how good that does. Also, we ran some tech manuals in it.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: I just. I loved listening to that. How about you? That was incredible.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: Out of this world and creepy. Yeah, it breathes. I don't like that. It breathes.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: So again, I am a big, like, blow out the secrets. We didn't actually listen to that. We just popped it in on post.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Recording, so you'll hear it. We heard it last night.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: We heard it last night.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: We're good.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: Yeah, well, she heard the super egg hunt one and was just like, I'm good. And then we ran some tech manuals through it for a product. And actually, I'm not going to lie, was very impressed with how it described something and why the something was so revolutionary.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: It's truly vague. But worse, there are certain things that.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: We can't talk about. One of them is work, and so we don't like to talk about what we do or where we work.
I mean, yeah, we don't really talk about Bruno.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: I think people kind of get the idea, but it's better to not publicize that. Super far and wide and crazy.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: No.
So, question for you all. What would you like on this podcast? We've thought about doing demos of different things. One thing is the washer and dryer that are controlled via an app.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: We have Samsung ones, so I'm sure it's been demoed before, but I thought it'd be kind of a neat thing to drop in a podcast. What would you want from this podcast? I mean, really, it's for you. We make it, but you listen to it. So what would you find interesting? What would you find informative? Do you like the length of the podcast? They're very short form. Are they nice and digestible? We don't want to make stuff that's too long.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll say.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: We.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: We can't promise that every idea will be incorporated.
Yeah, you can't. There's so many and a lot of great ideas, but can only do so much. And depending on if, you know, say someone wants to see a demo of an item, do we already have that item? How difficult would it be to procure it? How expensive?
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. If you're like, can you demo the Ferrari H class lmnop? No, I can't get one of those.
Can you demo flarp? Yeah, maybe.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Absolutely.
My parents were here last weekend, and my stepdad found the flarp and actually, first mom found it goes, what's this? Mega fart putty?
And then my stepdad immediately jumped on. That was like, how does it work?
[00:07:57] Speaker A: How does it work? Yeah, I love that. How does it work?
Also, I should do. I think when we do these, I should also do weather updates. So we had some rain and storms last night. They missed us. It is like a balmy 59 degrees. It is a little damp outside, but it feels good. There's a little bit of a breeze. Hopefully you're not hearing it because of the dead mink, the dismembered mink sitting on top of the recorder. If so, I'm gonna be really angry because that cost me like $40 for the whole kit.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, because you can't just buy the windshield. You have to buy the entire set.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Well, you can buy a dead mink on Amazon, but I got the entire set because, like, I wanted the dead mink and the dead marmot and the dead chinchilla. You know, he's only kidding.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: There's one came with one windscreen.
[00:08:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: And, like, a couple other.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: And it's not really a dead chinchilla.
Yeah, I did, years ago, was hanging out with some people and they had a pet chinchilla, and I'm petting him, and I'm just like, you'd make such a nice coat. And they're like, give our chinchilla back.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: Chinchillas shed like crazy.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: They really do.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Like, you walk away with it.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: Wait, can you say that on the podcast?
[00:09:15] Speaker B: Yeah, chinchillas shed.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: Oh, sheddeene. Oh, okay. Yeah, they do.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: If you walk away with a handful of hair. If you let me finish my sentence, you probably would have understood that I didn't use a different word.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: That's not what I heard. Okay, all right, all right. My hearing is getting bad.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Hopefully transcript will understand what I actually said and not try to be like a star. Star.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: It's not the first time this has happened.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: No, this is about the 11th time. So, yeah, we'll try to record these every couple days for you guys. Let us know what you'd like us to talk about. We are here for you or something. So until next time, thanks for listening. Oh, yeah. We never did a listener line, so it seems like Mastodon is the best way. So lworks games on Mastodon.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: There's the bus.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Oh, here's the bus. So every morning, I would assume not on the weekends, because that would be really weird.
There's some kids down the street that the bus picks up. And there you go. It's picking up the kiddies to go to school. And it's early. It's like 640 something right now.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And it will drive. Once it picks them up, it will drive by our house right about. No.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Excuse you.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: Bye.
[00:10:43] Speaker C: Bus.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: There's the bus.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: I have this silly, dumb habit of waving at the bus.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: I know they can't see me, but.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: Well, that's real entertaining for our listeners.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: That's why I described that. I wave at the bus.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Alyssa waves at the bus.
Alyssa gleefully waves at the bus. Yeah, you need, like, an adjective or something.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: It's gotta be all flowery.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. All right. Well, speaking of flowers or. Wait. No. Thanks for listening to today's podcast. We will see you all back here soonish.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: Bye, now.
[00:11:23] Speaker A: Goodbye.
Goodbye.
