 I'm just streaming where it is live. Let's go All right, I replace this battery so I can light myself again Two of them, I'll empty the third one. I'll give it to you this weekend Video turned out pretty good. I'm gonna have the panel done this weekend for sure I'm working on the slides for the and I got all the all that all right all the other video So I think I might make a I think we can still I might play netrunner on Sunday Oh, yeah, that's gonna say it'll take us ten minutes of setting up the shit and an hour because it's just like doing a panel at a con Here's the thing is I'm not sure if I want to like I started making slides But then I was like wait a minute Do I actually want to show these slides on the screen or don't want to have us look at something with more info? And then John when I actually make the video just put like lower thirds Do what's who's the guy who made the Civil War documentary Ken Burns? Yeah, do the Ken Burns thing where I showed the screenshot for the anime and slide over it That's not a bad. Well, that's it Do we want that now do we want to show all that text in the video? That's the question that you want to live stream it at all or do we just want to record a live stream? I just want to YouTube only yeah, well this live stream it, but then we'll make the video I don't want to live stream. I just want YouTube video. Okay, you don't live stream the product I guess that's good because then we can hide the You want me to gargle so I'm not gargling juice Monster, but I'll gargle this water Problem is all the news is or gaming news is or whatever or tech news is I'm talking about the voting because I voted did you vote? my Party change whatever in New York timing wait, so what party are you in? I'm technically still in the nothing Why whatever? Oh, yeah, I guess it takes basically a year in New York. It does you can't you didn't change before the election I voted I actually voted for Hillary in the primary I mean the other thing is there's no there was where I live. There's nothing to choose you got de Blasio Yeah, that's who I wanted and that's what I got. We had public advocate, which I don't actually know Yeah, so there's there's someone running against her and I looked up in both. I'll talk about in the show I did research on both of them and I can talk about who I voted for in the Democratic primary and why Okay The thing is I just needed to be in time for next year. Oh, I felt souvenir way next year is way more important Yeah Governor that's the best election governor Because that's an actual real important job and I got my vote counts and on one hand on one hand Cuomo is fighting the fascists on the federal level than the other hand. He's really fucking New York City He's he likes to pretend But you know, he puts he talks one way and walks another he says the words MTA occasionally to try to placate us That's about it. He basically says something way progressive and does something regular little Democrat style and also corrupt money guy Honestly, the only person of all the people the only person I'm sick of is Bernie Sanders like he I just kind of want him to go away at this point The person I want to go away. I mean, I guess you're talking about person on the left you want to go. Oh, yeah Let's qualify that because honestly, I want Bernie Sanders and about 51% of the entire government Now we got a bunch of people watching I'll give you a news. You don't have a news We're gonna slash out. Let's see what news there is there. It's all the stupid I it's Apple news. I'm like everything is Apple news, but we got to save it till Monday I guess I'll start audition and I didn't watch the South Park yet. I gotta do that when you're home Yeah, it's interesting because I went to the two through I went through two more pages of news They're all still Apple news. All right, let's see. I went to slash dot Apple Google it's it's all tech hyperloop Something about computers bitcoins something what's in news is not plastic something Google something Advertiser is Mad at Apple for blocking cookies. Yeah, fuck you whoever you are Hey, let's go to Google news Or go to park There's been good good stuff on park lately Like that's how I knew about the woman who threw the poop out the window and then got stuck like way before everybody else It's like the AP wire of women throwing poop out of a window and then getting stuck in it Now we got like four people watching us figure out what what to do the show on New multi-dark session 2017 does he get in the pre-production here guys? Oh nine 14. Oh my god. It's almost winter Whoop, I guess that's ready save that There you go. There's a happy dog Photoshop Jimmy Carter was flying a pirate flag on something I guess Still alive. What a badass. See you live that long Do the self-proclaimed most vile man in the world posted a threatening video What's vile about this person? I don't know. I got the creepy tag So the tags on park are one of the most accurate pieces of metadata in the world So if you see the creepy tag, you probably don't want to read that story That's that's I Want to use I want to use this news which one I said it to you. I think already I'm already out of my mail client I don't want to accidentally put my mail on the live stream because I got stuff in there What do you send me I said it is a way lot while I go send it again. Okay, the greatest headline of the last Yep I didn't actually read the article I don't need to Don't need to Greatest headline ever All right, so someone in the chat They read that food story. They said yeah, that food story was great. Yeah, and apparently we're doing Seinfeld right now Because if this is a show about nothing fun back We did a show called show about nothing like four years ago Is we're like, I don't have an idea for a show and then you were like, what if we actually do a show about nothing? Who's in that chat there? Dazzle And us fruit salt. I don't know who that is cold guy. Oh cold. Oh cold guy. What's up? There was I was thinking about him yesterday Because Because he told me the right tablecloth material to buy and I forgot I forgot what it was He told me before he's like buy this kind but I forgot what kind it was and I couldn't find it on Google I was looking for a tablecloth from a coffee table because it's all it's all gross But rather than buy a new table I can just that tablecloth I bought for board games is not great like I'm not I can just buy a new tablecloth I'm sure you'll you'll see it eventually It's Thursday September 14th 2017 I'm rimms. I'm Scott and this is Geeknize tonight. We're talking about souvenirs and such You know, we still we didn't have a good idea for what to do the show Yeah, I got like tons of like Openy bits and I got a few things the day I actually have a lot of news, but it's news. I got a save for Monday Tuesday Wednesday I don't have any Thursday appropriate news I'm gonna get more Thursday appropriate news or at least a lot of geek bites. I'm watching a lot of stuff That you're not watching so I'm watching stuff. You're not watching. Yeah You should watch a little bit of academia though because I want to I'm gonna see I'm paying for hulu right now Because South Park started yesterday. I'm gonna watch it as soon as I go home today Crush velvet is the material you're looking for I will go buy some. Thank you That's all you I'm just getting crushed velvet tablecloth. I like to drink myself in the lure anyway in the news I hope you voted and you're probably thinking wait Didn't I guess if you live in New York State? So the saddest thing we went to vote in the primary and one no one's there There were 10 poll workers there and they were all So excited that someone showed up. Yeah, yeah that we were there And so happy that we were there voting Mm-hmm, so the two choices we had were we had to vote in the mayoral primary for the Democrats Which that's actually you're voting for mayor basically. That's that's the mayoral election I don't care if you want to say you're an independent because the Democrats are more centrist than you'd like Like I can understand that but if you live in a place like New York The Democratic primaries are the elections for literally everything because Republicans ain't winning shit It's about you some districts, but yeah where you live you that was pretty much that was the vote The people you voted for are the winners. Yeah, and you might think oh, well, you know, it's just it's already decided But it's like no Look at like some of the percentages it's not like, you know one person is a hundred percent and everyone else has one It's like you'll see like oh de Blasio had like 70 or 80 Imagine that like 11 people voted in that primary. No, no, it gets down to two digits Pass the decimal point the biggest danger is like in the Democratic primaries in New York. You'll see like one normal liberal I'm not a crackpot liberal and then a bunch of fake liberals are actually really conservative or religious or weird Mm-hmm, and you can't risk one of them winning a primary because no one voted. Well, that's that happens is simple Felder So on the other side we had what public advocate I think was the other thing we could vote for which yeah So there were two people running and I looked up their platforms and their platforms are pretty much identical other than The only way to distinguish these two candidates is that the incumbent who I voted for Black woman and the person running against her is a white dude. Mm-hmm, so I voted for her cuz da She hasn't done a bet. I mean if you look at her platform is great if you look at like If you go to any sort of online community of New York City people who are you talking about local or state level politics? Basically everyone no matter what side they're on Bashes everybody who's currently in a elected position It's exactly the same wasn't you go to a match game and those are your players That you picked and during the offseason you were like yeah trade for that guy And now that they're on the field you bum yeah get out the field you bum right So that's what you see you never see a single positive thing said about anyone See if you go look up, you know, leticia online and you'll see like people talking Everyone's like oh, she's done such a crappy job. She's worthless But then it's like if you actually look at what anyone does it's like they're pretty much doing what they said they would All my representatives. It's like I was like it's like even if I thought about running It's like well, I can't even run for anything because I'm not better than any of the people Yeah, but they're all doing what I would do only better difference was that the incumbent who I voted for has a little more like her policies were more focused on social justice and The white dude his like the top of his policy list were all about small business Mm-hmm, and I feel like social justice is way more important right now for obvious reasons So yeah, the important thing is small businesses in New York are having real problems really Good my message is that if you didn't vote in the primary whatever but at least vote in the 2017 election Not because it matters because you're probably gonna only have one person like it's like they're all I basically have no choices The only choice I have is I go in and it's like choose five judges and the six judges And one of the judges is like not is a total crackpot obviously not a real judge Yeah, it's like it's like five out of these six. It's choose the five judges. You already have it's like, okay Wackamola pick the crackpot. It's almost like a capture for government This is why you got to go next year when you vote for governor because not only do you vote for governor the most important action, right? You can also maybe kick out your awful state senator if you have an awful one like Like well the next district over does I have the best one and the next district over has the worst pretty much If you don't live in the limits of actual New York City, your state's representatives are probably garbage, right? But also That's when the questions come out. Oh, yeah The questions that people don't read and vote randomly on the ones remember we're in Beacon and we voted yes MTA money And everyone else voted no MTA money And now everyone's complaining that as old as geek nights that we were living in Beacon at the time Right as old as geek nights. We voted yes MTA money back then in last decade And now this decade everyone's like MTA sucks. It's like I seem to remember voting. Yes MTA money in 2008 or something whatever year it was I don't know certainly fully fund the schools with a simple one dollar per year tax and Homer's like a taxes So yeah, another news Scott forwarded this article to me and the headline really speaks for itself What was that headline? Uranus opens and closes every day to let out planets Feel like every copywriter in the entirety of journalism was trying to craft the same headline for this story I mean it really I'm sure this is gonna tell you some story I don't I haven't read it and I don't really care about like how storms on Uranus or there's like a maybe a hole in the surface There's a storm in Uranus right now and this stuff inside of the planet that comes out for some reason You know and I saw pictures and it showed like it looked like you know Jupiter has a giant ass storm on it giant ass storm Yeah, I Do is like a picture of like a day in the life of Uranus and in one part of it Storm was there and another part the storm was gone and it was opening and closing somehow It's like you don't need to really know much more than that You're never going there not in your lifetime So there's an episode of Rick and Morty and that shows great like you haven't watched it I know but it's actually pretty great. There was some drama with that show today No involving No, the animators like making a union and the show running guy being upset So the animator union thing has been an ongoing issue not just with that show Yeah, well, that's a good time. That's a good news for Tuesday. Speaking of the Korean TV stations are on strike, too Yeah, but anyway in that episode there's this like gaseous entity that That gets named fart and that's the thing but it stands for it's an acronym for something, but you don't care No, so basically it can read minds and it but it did I don't want to get into the weeds of this episode But it turns out it's evil and it'll destroy all life in the universe if it gets its way from its home like dimension so hold it in now some already murders it and then he goes back on the stage you up with Rick and Rick wasn't there like Rick doesn't know that this thing was actually evil and then Rick's like I know you're sad you miss your friend fart, but I got good news actually found out where his kind come from and There's a portal and there's thousands of him behind this portal and we're gonna get him We're gonna bring him into our universe and he's like no you'll kill us all you'll cut and then Rick just farts and just laughs And that's the end of the episode. Mm-hmm. So yeah, Uranus Always love a good Uranus joke. Yep, just killing time before we get to the main bits and Things of the day, so what do you got so check this out? This is a time-lapse, right? But this time-lapse is 30 days I've made time lapses before of like Hurricane Sandy on my window and stuff Oh, yeah, I recorded I made time lapses of board games at PAX If anyone wants that I have a recording of like a couple hours of the hurricane Whoever this was made a 30-day long time-lapse, which like I'm just like whoa How did you yet you powered your camera for 30 days your 30 days of storage? But I guess if you're only taking like what a photo every hour or so there's plenty of time between shots to like You know change batteries or swap SD cards or who knows what you're doing. Yeah, right? We kept it, you know still you got to remember and keep it going for 30 days and line everything up make it perfect It's not easy. It's a lot of work, but this person was on a container vessel Oh, those are a good kind of I think it's star. He's the it starts the time-lapse like leaving the Suez Canal And then it goes really really far and you can basically see the whole world, you know the whole Atlantic Ocean I guess it's one of the better time lapses I've seen ever like it could be like top 10 time lapses in history of time lapses It's only gonna take you how long to watch Ten minutes, I think yeah, I think that's a good use of your ten minutes compared to whatever bullshit You were gonna do like listening to Geek nights just top this podcast right now It's definitely worth ten minutes of your time So this is just a tiny thing, but I bumped into it the other day It was really cute. It's a really short animation, and it's just Princess Peach Princess a peach pulling up a vegetable and Killing some dude with it, and that's it and it's just really cute, and I like stuff like this Okay, that's all I got is it by an animator. We know it's not by one of the like four channels that we keep Inexplicably going to you mean like piece of sheep or rice pirate No, this is Mark Hendry. All right. Well, maybe Mark Hendry's worth subscribing to let's check it out Yeah, this is like 20 seconds long in the whole rest of the video It's just like storyboards and concept and animatic and how-to and like everything. Mm-hmm. It's just really cute Okay, so yeah in the matter moment the booklet book is the fifth season I am halfway done with this book, and I just read chapter where crazy should happen I didn't think was gonna happen to the end of the book. I'm like I'm into it what I've read so far, and I'm gonna power through it over the coming weeks so we can do a show on it You know I can say about it It's doing one of those things that fantasy novels tend to do where you have one chapter about one set of characters another chapter But another set of characters and starting to go a little back and forth right see what these are people up to See what those people are up to right and usually when you have a situation like that Say a prince of nothing. Yeah, I end up carrying a whole lot about some of them Yeah, and not a whole lot about some of them. I was like, oh Kel-Momas again. Yeah, it's like another Kel-Momas chapter Then at the end when you stop give me the horse breaking you're like wait, what's Kel-Momas up to now? Yeah, but I want a Kel-Momas chapter. Well, no, I just want I just want horse breaking every chapter But anyway, I think that Kel-Momas his name is Kel-Momas considering the name of the king anyway the point is that In this book fifth season that you should definitely read it is our book club selection They have gotten to a point where I now equally care about Every single different thing they're focusing on there is hot shit moment There is hot shit going on in all of the different Lines of story and I'm can't wait for the snatch car crash to happen. I Just still can't get over I love the planet and that kind of stuff because now that I've seen that theme because there's the game Player of games planet. There's the dune planet. I'm starting to notice other planets I think the prince of nothing planet might have like literal hell inside of it Mm-hmm, so I feel like that's gonna be a thing with me now I might have to add planet with with a deal right next to weird magic system and precursor technology Yeah, if you don't have a terrible secret of space, it's terrible secret of the planet you are on yeah So otherwise this weekend unless something horrible happens We're gonna actually do something that we should talked about a long time ago because as you know For every year at anime Boston, we would do a panel called judge anime by its cover One of the two of them are on YouTube. I think a cold guy uploaded one or two. He uploaded one I uploaded two and we only stopped doing it because we skipped anime Boston and Now that there's like seven goddamn packs is to go to We've been cutting back on our non-packs conventions Mm-hmm, and I don't know if we'll return to anime Boston regularly in the future Who knows but the point is what we're gonna do four times a year I need to I guess we're gonna do the fall season in September And I forgot when I'm supposed to do this winter spring and summer ones, but someone someone will remind me We're gonna take the anime chart for what animes are coming out So in about 30 days is gonna be new animes Oh, hey, the original one got like 13,000 views and we are going to go through Each show looking only at the title the name of the studio a short description and a screenshot of promotional image and Judge what that anime is gonna be about whether it's gonna be worth watching whether it's gonna be good and then Four months from now when the anime season ends you can tell us how right or wrong we were we've been very right in the past I gotta say in order it'll be even more impressive if we actually make these predictions Every single season and we can see what our actual track record is what's gonna help is that we can even make another set Of videos at like the end of the post mortem we can do yeah at the end of a season We could be like how we did last season and then Here's the new season, but so also you farted as the worst part Usually your fart you always like oh here comes a deadly fart and I'll smell nothing What but no it smells like someone like diarrhea in the corner on the day the thing is It's definitely a fart as opposed to the seventh guest and actually I'm pretty sure this is the seventh guest In your pants because it's not going away. I'm a space traveler. What can I say we found the guilty party? But in the video we uploaded in 2013 we were Right on literally every show except we said that sailor moon crystal was gonna be good I think we actually say that we did we were like this will probably be good and we gave a bunch of reasons why Mmm-hmm We were also super super like doubly crazily right about eccentric family What we said that show is gonna be was like 100% what that I had no idea what we said then but I know what we see now Which is that show super great when I really remember cuz I was looking at these videos recently to kind of Guide how we do this now that we're gonna do this YouTube show when we pulled the slide of her eccentric family You like clapped a little bit. You were like that show is gonna be our show. Mm-hmm. Anyway, uh Lastly, I just want to remind everybody if you go to the internet Which is I'm sure is a place that you go often you can find us in many many places such as Twitter a Face of book our own website our own website for our crew. Come iTunes Instagram where I posted like two photos Google plus I post up actually I forgot to post it the Tuesday show But I usually you're doing that by hand because I'm not doing that automatically I know and I don't think so. Yeah, the only reason G plus wasn't automated is there was never a fucking API for it that I right and Don't tell you different this than that two different YouTube channels, right? It's like so like you can find us on the internet You should go on the internet and find us especially in our forum Which is more active than it has been and when I told people to go there quite a few people listen to me and went there And if you're one of those people who went there and joined you should like just make a habit of going there Once a day and reading the threads that interest you and maybe saying something once in a while Yeah, cuz I seen I got saying this has gotten people to sign up to our forum And it reminds me because not a lot of people are posting regularly So I want to say 2006 through about 2009 The Geek Nights forum was Crazy rockin like the traffic there was kind of it's never been dead But it's less rockin than it was but it's more rockin in the last year than it has been in the year before I think since we changed the software is helped a bit Yeah, cuz vanilla was starting to fall on his face pretty bad Yeah, and well cuz yeah, and we were paying for it then I saved a lot of money not paying for that anymore Yeah, and it works way better what we're using now like I have almost no complaints about this forum software Well, I have a lot of complaints, but I fixed the most I've got to admit I've come around a little bit on Docker No, I've come around a little bit more Now that I've used it for some other projects I still can't forget the fuck out so I so the problem is most people who make like Docker containers Suck at computers so Docker containers feel like they suck if someone knows like generic computer and they make a Docker container the Configuration of how you like make that Docker thing work Works the way you'd expect the problem is most of the people are putting stuff in Docker are people who don't know Shit about system administration. Hey, that is my opinion But this is a Thursday show so most you have no idea what we're talking about still a mess. Yeah souvenirs. Well, it's sort of right so I mean, I guess you want to talk about the concept of souvenirs first, right? It's like you're traveling somewhere and they're selling a bunch of useless crap like I love New York t-shirts and You buy one why so as a kid like when I like when I first when I did travel Anywhere other than Cedar Point because our annual vacation we always went to Cedar Point a bunch of times I was like that's a big part of my life as you can tell if you listen to Geeknides So when we went somewhere other than Cedar Point, there was like this culture of you got to get souvenirs Yeah, it's just a thing and I didn't really think about every in every time in Disney World I have to get a souvenir Yeah, we would go to a gift shop and you'd go every time there was a gift shop at a place you at you'd buy something and a lot of the times it was because at least in those days the 90s 80s those gift shops are selling things that You couldn't get there was no internet. Yeah to buy stuff on there was no Amazon Also, I was young you would see things in the gift shop that you would not see in any store in your town or any mall Or any place that you could buy things that board license plate with Mickey Mouse on it All right So you'd be like whoa that is a thing and the only way I can get that thing is to buy it here in this one place Therefore, I will buy it the other reason I think to buy a souvenir that legitimate reason is As some sort of memory thing, right? It's like you buy this, you know from this place and then when you know some day in your house You notice it because you have it lying around and then now you're able to remember that trip you went on Whereas otherwise you might have forgotten it. Yep An additional memory aid There's one other component to this is that most of the souvenirs I acquired over the years were when I was a Kid traveling with family and other family members would like push to get souvenirs, which usually meant I mean I was a kid. I just like buying stuff. Yeah as a kid any time I had the discretion to make a purchase of any kind It was use it or loses. I was gonna use it But I usually wanted like a toy as opposed to just a chachki Well, sometimes, you know, you get you go to like a science museum gift shop. This toy is there Something that you know, sometimes you can get a useful thing and not just a useless Thing like those people collect spoons. So yeah, so my grandma collected the fuck out of spoons She has a little tiny spoon. Yes, the tiny collecting spoon that goes to the wooden thing on the wall They also did the pin thing after they went to Australia a bunch where they had a hat and they'd put all their pins in the hat Uh-uh, and they they really tried to get me into both of those so they get us a spoon Like at my birthday I get like a real present and a spoon But before we get into actual souvenirs I found that as I've traveled more because in the last like six years I've traveled all over the world a bunch and also I moved to New York or I don't get a lot of room I Try to bring as little like I always try to come home with less than I flew out with Like I try to bring as little home as possible So I transitioned from like the first time I was in London I was like who and I got some stuff and the first time I went to Hong Kong. I was like, oh shit I got to get something But I really rapidly shifted from buying a traditional souvenir to buying something Consumable like a food or something that we bring I bring home and we eat it immediately and then it's gone Right. Well for the memory purposes, we don't have internet So it's like there's some sort of digital record in my trip now So I don't really need to bring home like some tchotchki to remind myself Well, that's it. I make a point whenever I travel I got videos and photos that went up immediately If I travel somewhere stupid I make sure that I take a few pictures with my phone No matter what because that locks it into a bunch of digital timelines forever the other thing is that Being someone who lives in New York City and works across the street from garbage souvenir shops All right That's how I love New York t-shirts and other crap and someone who's been to places like the beach that sells horrible schlocky souvenir crap, right I cannot I now look at souvenirs as Schlocky worthless crap. So even if I go somewhere like say, I don't know if I went to like Vienna Which are where I've never been but and they had like souvenirs my eyes would still see them as worthless garbage crap Well, if they're that kind of souvenir like model the statue of the Eiffel Tower They don't have Eiffel Tower Vienna. Well, that's I'm on the Wikipedia page for the word souvenir. That's the first image Yeah, it's like you don't need a little metal Eiffel Tower. What are you gonna do with that? Yep, that's worthless. Why didn't even make those who buys those and what do they do with them? So they put them in their house for a little bit and they throw them out it did go in a I don't know my favorite souvenirs In my entire life are actually minor injuries Partly because that's why we're gonna take this episode when I travel I tend to do sports like I run a lot Yeah, don't do any with rim mountain by you'll die. Yeah yet again So last weekend I was in Salt Lake City mountain biking and what happened someone on the trip like busted their hand real bad It's if we go on vacation and we're gonna do any sort of activity Don't go mountain biking rims going alone and the rest of us are going a different way if I go alone. Nobody gets hurt It's only if I go with other people they get hurt At the time you almost fell and died your glasses fell whatever yeah, but I survived and actually so there's a tiny crack like on the edge of the frames of those glasses and That little crack like you can't really see it, but I can feel it from my for my finger over it This might sound weird That is a souvenir to me because every time I put on those glasses I feel that little crack and I remember when I was out in the outback on this pillar And I almost lost my only pair of glasses. Yeah great every time I look at the my messed up scar on my chin That's not a souvenir. That's like fuck I wish my chin was the way it was before like whatever like whatever I noticed like I was already a fucked up chin from Falling on my face previously and I fell in the same place on the same face two times I got a couple scars on my knee my right chin is way bigger than my left chin and every time I feel them There's like some but I'm not getting plastic surgery to fix it I got some spots on my left knee where hair doesn't grow because I've had like pretty big bike accidents over the years and Every one of those little divots that doesn't have hair I have a specific memory of a great time. I had mountain biking great except actually the worst of those injuries was not Mountain biking I was just like biking on a sidewalk just way too fast. I mean I was just biking on a street Into a tram track with no tram you were just biking on a street But it was the street filled with deadly traps to be fair because as we learned after that trip the tram tracks claim a lot Of bikers like on a monthly basis if only I avoided all other obstacles But those one I did not foresee it came it came before when I first started traveling globally My favorite souvenir was actually to bring back a tiny amount of local money But now that I have quite a bunch of bit of local monies for many places But now so now I have in my junk drawer. I probably have like three pounds of coins from all over the world that No, you can't exchange coins in the US. No one will take them The bank will you know no they'll take bills only are what if they add up to enough money? They still don't want the coins really for most countries. They don't want the coins You can I mean you're in New York. You'd wait for someone from the country where the money's from yeah Exchange it with them, but the worst part is with the bills I'll bring them on my next trip even though I think to India. That's technically illegal, but whatever really yeah Don't get if you take so if you take rupees out of India You can't bring the airport that are like you cannot have Indian money when you come into the country really you're also not allowed to have unapproved maps What if a map Shows the wrong borders and cashmere that map is technically illegal and you can be Rested or does Google Maps correct itself? No when you enter India Technically you're smart. Don't get me started on this. Okay. I guess I'm not bringing my phone to India I wasn't planning to go to India anyway. The other thing you cannot bring is satellite phones It's not high on my list of places to go satellite phones are like way illegal in most of Asia Why because it lets you communicate without going through the state-controlled systems, okay? So sad phones are a big no-no Never use a sad phone. I've seen one the weirdest thing about them is that there's Just enough of a delay like when you're talking to where it makes conversations like really awkward and hard to follow But it's not so long that you actually like pause and back off and wait for it So it's just really hard to talk on them, but I digress So now I just have this pile. I probably have like five or six hundred dollars worth of currency from all over the world I can't do anything with it. And what I got now I got a pile of like 25 pound notes Why don't we make a website and the way the website works is people send in their money and we have a shittier Exchange rate, but we let people to send in bulk all kinds of crazy currencies And then we'll just add it all together from all the different people that send us their money and we'll sort it out Why don't I just make it and I'll make a loot box if you saw I'll make a tear on patreon For geek nights if you're at that tear I'll mail out a loot envelope and it's just random money from around the world. Oh, you get rid of your money that way I was gonna say we should make a tear on patreon Which is don't give us real money send us all your random foreign monies We'll give you all worthless stuff because and then we'll take we'll collect a bunch of foreign money So all these people so and then sort them out and then we'll be able to exchange them There is there is a coin from a country I travel to a lot not gonna name names because I don't want any of you to take advantage of this Because I'm not gonna take advantage of it other than one time when I did it Is detected as a quarter by pretty much any vending machine in America and it is worth Way less than a quarter. Oh, really way Really, I discovered this by accident, but why don't we I did fill a laundry machine downstairs with this currency one Let if we if we go to this country again, let us get some rolls from the bank Yeah, we could do that and then buy dollar, you know one dollar bottled water at conventions for much less Because that's pretty much the only time I ever use a vending machine So do you have any souvenirs because I don't have that many actually I've got most over the years so with the caveat of I'm excluding gifts because I've gotten gifts from people Who are from countries, but I treat that as like a very separate kind of thing So I mean when we would travel places, you know We go to the gift shop and you'd buy something right but when I was very little well I guess I don't remember how we got into the habit of doing this But for some reason we would always buy a snow globe just like I don't know why we did you know It's I don't know it but it's like I don't know when it started But I just remember it continuing like we got it suddenly we had four snow globes It's just like every time we went somewhere new we bought another fucking snow Did the same thing with music boxes, okay, so that's just the thing that happens So they're probably they're probably all like they're mad dusty And I think they don't have any water in them But I think somewhere in my house there's probably like a box with like 50 to 100 snow globes in it And the old ones are like the kind that's made of white plastic and inside And it's weird to think of like just how many different snow globes there are Back in those days like who designed and made all of those different globes, right? And then it's like then they had a different kind eventually to stop making the white kind They started being the black kind that were a little bigger and had sparkles and styed instead of the white snow And they were a little less fancy because the inside of it wasn't like this little plastic sculpture that was painted Not I mean I'm saying using very the word sculpture very liberally But they started just being like a sheet of plastic with an image printed on it inside Yeah, but in general you've noticed that there's like with a lot of these kinds of chachis like there was an era in the 90s I feel like that was when mm-hmm like the production values of all that shit went up and then and the 2000s the production values went way down and it was the early 90s was an 80s was up and then well I mean you can even go to the museums. I've seen like you know the world the the world's fair souvenirs from you know Way back right and they were really high quality freakin souvenirs. I'm like dude. I buy that Why doesn't someone like just make those again? But you know what I think the quality of souvenirs Funko pop equivalent of snow globes But I mean like the company saying is the overall physical quality of souvenirs has only been going down over time It has never gone up, right? Apparently the Colombian 25 peso coin also works as a quarter Is it worth less than a quarter just got make a guess is 25 pesos worth less than 25 cents I don't know how much Colombian monies were just make a good you I there's a firmy guess you can make there There are countries that have money that's worth more than US dollar. Oh, yeah, that is true I'll get Columbia sells a lot of drugs right is not what they're known for So you refused to make one currency stereotype and you make a very different stereotype. Yes, that was why it was funny So the so I was hoping when I went to the snow globes page on Wikipedia that I'd learned something really interesting No, this is literally the most boring topic on earth. No, it's really boring. However, it was interesting to find out at one point I don't know if it's still true But at one point in time there was like an interest in snow globes and like particular rare ones that were no longer made We're worth a bunch of money and we happen to have two of them. I think I still have them So there was one good. It was I remember like seeing a news story like Bronx Zoo snow globe They don't make it anymore. It's worth something and I'm like I have that It was a white plastic snow globe with two polar bears in it and it said Bronx Zoo and I still have it I think it has no water in it, but it is mad dusty, but we still have it and then There's a place in Connecticut that you I don't know it was worth traveling to you can read all about online called Gillette Castle, which Keep in mind is a castle in North America. It's not old Right, it's not a real castle, you know, like a European castle that's actually from the medieval times But it is structurally a castle and when we went there we bought a snow globe and then I saw a thing like oh They don't make that snow globe from Gillette Castle anymore It's in high demand from collectors and I have one of those really old snow globes used bone chips to make the snow I was not aware of that. I thought it was I thought it was plastic bits because the ones I the oldest ones I have are the white plastic kind so I figure if there's white plastic for the base and clear plastic for the top that the Bits would be white plastic. I'll chewed up. How old is plastic? and how old are snow globes so Plastic is what they when the old telephones are made of big light that was sort of plastic So it's probably the first like mass market plastic. I don't know if it counts as plastic, right? But the big light is from like the 50s 60s ish, right? It's not it's not Plastic wasn't really used a lot until like 80s 90s 70s You know no globes appeared in the eight tracks in the 70s were made of plastic early 19th century France seems to be when snow globes became a thing Oh, so they were like metal and glass. They were bone chips bone chips Uh-huh. All righty. All right. I don't have we didn't collect that kind We collected El Chippo kind and not L fancy Ceramic with the glass ball on top that lights up kind. We didn't do that show We did cheapo $2 plastic ones. So I guess I have but they're still good because you look at them and you remember It's like, oh, yeah I remember we went to that Gillette Castle and that Bronx Zoo and that wherever right so most of the souvenirs I've gotten over my life are buried in boxes at my mom's house. Yeah mine too. Yeah but the the only two that I can well the only three I can think of that have real Significance that I think about regularly our one when I went to Disney World for the first time on a band trip Was also the first time I flew in a plane that I was not sitting in the front of it was the first time I went on a commercial flight as opposed to just riding in someone's Cessna Mm-hmm, and I was in Disney World ever was buying all these garbage Chachki like things and I remember the only souvenir I bought was this really tasteful black-and-white like Mickey statue like old steamboat Mickey Mm-hmm, and I just I remember I did it I did a similar thing in Disney World and you actually reminded me of like one of the few souvenirs that is actually in my apartment and not in A box somewhere, right? It's now into Disney World. I wanted to get a fancy souvenir, too Right, so what I got is I got this basically this pad of paper And it's basically this base and then a little notepad on it And the notepad has like a metal flap that holds the top down Like you'd put it on a fancy executive desk that kind of deal Right obviously it's not gold or anything It's just like gold colored metal and then on top of the metal gold cover that holds the pad flat It was like, you know like Disney World Mickey with his magic hat whatever and it's you know It's like Disney World, right? So it's like if you were an executive at Disney World you'd put that on your desk and I bought I was like Oh, that's real fancy. I want that and it was so fancy that throughout my entire childhood I never wrote on that pad ever Yeah, and it's now in one of the drawers in my apartment and I saw it like the other day like oh There and you just reminded me of it Yeah, so the second one is I when I went back to I guess we had similar things at Disney World by one by one really fancy souvenir No, don't we didn't buy stupid Mickey ears that you throw away. I didn't buy you know So the second one that I have a memories of is pretty recent But Emily and I went back to the New World for Ken Mark's wedding Mm-hmm, and I was the first time experiencing Disney as an adult and there was a there was a good time I had all around but Every night because you know there's not much to do at night fireworks. Yeah But instead of seeing the fireworks in Disney the secret was because we're staying in shades of green is to go to the Polynesian Because there's a nice like outdoor bar with good food and you can see over the water You can see all the fireworks from there and they pipe the music from the fireworks into the bar It's just like it's a really nice place so we went there every night and had a drink and some food hung out and Because it's the Polynesian they have ridiculous tiki drinks So I ordered the ridiculous tiki drink and I got it in the ridiculous souvenir tiki mug And I still have that giant ridiculous tiki mug and anytime I drink a weird tiki drink I will put it in that ridiculous tiki mug and that encapsulates The entirety of my Disney experience between that and the black and white Mickey Mouse You actually reminded me of another kind of souvenir Which is the kind that you get for free when you do a thing especially you go to a sporting event I still have it. I still have that ticket. It's in my jewelry box. I used to keep it in my wallet Oh the ticket. Yeah, I still have the ticket also. So I don't know where it is But I do know I have it ass sweat Seeping into my wallet was slowly eroding the quality of that ticket is now some more secure But that ticket to this day was the greatest hockey game I've ever seen in my life I wasn't even thinking of ticket stubs. I was thinking that fucking ticket. That's souvenir I'm thinking of like things you get like for example, you know, and again a quality decreasing over time Right if you go to a baseball game today, the best you're gonna get is shitty bobblehead night Which isn't even gonna be as good as the bobbleheads they sell. It's like a lower tier of bobblehead No, it's tinier and crappier and it has advertisements on it, right in back in like late 80s early 90s And we went to like chase stadium with that we went I remember specifically we went on beach towel day We got full size beach towels the kind you would pay money for Foe free just handed them out of the door all the gate, right? We all had one so when we go to the beach every single person had this met Snoopy met life beach towel Right, we all had them and we still have them because it was such a high quality beach towel It's lasted 20 something years plus maybe even 30 years, right? That's how good the stuff was now You'll get we go to like the playoff hockey which costs way more than a regular season baseball game And you give you this tiny worthless towel and a light stick that lasts five minutes They throw the light stick out you rub your head with the towel and you put it in the closet It's like come on and the only other souvenir I have that I think is kind of important Even though I technically I guess smuggled and antiquity So, you know, I as you all know I used to spend a lot of time in turkey as particularly Istanbul And I worry that I'll never be able to visit that city again or at least not in the immediate term by any stretch But a problem And I definitely contribute a little bit to this but in countries like turkey Certain antiquities are protected, but many of the more important ones are in extreme states of neglect Or are otherwise not controlled. So in Istanbul if you're ever there The famed theodosian walls are still there They've been restored to varying degrees of historical accuracy in some sections But the bulk of them are there in their like the core is the same original core from like 400 ad And those walls are probably the most important and famous walls in all of history The great wall is probably the only thing even close to it in comparison But this thing actually fought off like these walls were literally impenetrable until gunpowder But if you're in Istanbul and you go over where these walls are on the edge of the old city Uh, you can just climb up on top of them. Like there are people who have like made houses inside of them in some parts Uh, I was threatened by some people with weapons who were living in there who didn't want me poking around But uh, I had I had a whole adventure Walking through the literal theodosian walls like climbing up in these towers and it was just there like there's no one guarding There's nothing So as I was leaving I wasn't gonna like chip a piece out of these things for obvious reasons Let me damage this uh ancient object further than I already have by walking around inside of them but Uh, some wall some chips of the old part of the wall it like fallen all over the ground So I picked up this one tiny chip and I took it home with me And obviously if everyone did this this would be a problem and I'm saying you all shouldn't do it. I got mine but But I have this tiny piece of the actual theodosian walls and it's just sitting like I keep it with me And it's very profound Whenever I touch it to think about all that history And also to think about all the time I spent living in that city And the fact that I can't go back to that city right now. You can safely You can not safely. There's planes that go there. It is not safe. You go to the airport and give money They'll take you there. It is not safe. Don't let you in. It is not. I would I would be feel safer I can list a lot of places that you would consider pretty dodgy that I would be more comfortable visiting Than istanbul right now. It is not safe for an american to travel to istanbul without taking precautions that would make the trip not fun So yeah, I have that piece and I will probably have I will probably carry That souvenir along with that take it to that hockey game to my grave The only time I went anywhere where there could have been antiquities stealing because I went to israel But I didn't steal any antiquities because I'm not an evil person Uh, but I try to remember what I did buy that I don't I didn't buy a lot because they didn't have a lot of money and actually Uh, I spent I think I I remember I spent all my money or like I had money and then I lost my remaining monies Do I don't remember? Uh, but basically because like even that was when I started to realize souvenirs are crap, especially when like, you know You could people are coming. I was 18 and like you could tell like these people coming up to you on the street They could tell you're a terrorist, right? Yeah, and they're like, hey, come on buy my drag buy my drag and I'm like, I can tell it's drag now I'm 18. Yeah, I mean, I'm not even a new yorker. You haven't lived in new york yet, but I already know Oh, I do have well, so I used to go to india a lot and I had a lot of free times wandering around in mubai and Because you know the exchange rate and everything like there's the people trying to scam tourists all the time and sell them tapestries and carpets Usually carpets I'll take a carpet. These guys are trying to sell me like worthless junk. Yeah, they're trying to tell you a carpet And it's a scare. They're good. They're gonna like you'll get a carpets in the end But you'll get one way more carpets than you expected for way more money than you expected Why not? I can't just get the one carpet. Uh, yeah, good luck. They there's a whole there's a I could I could do a whole show Explaining in detail how the carpet and tapestry scams work. I just like one carpet. No one carpet. They're fascinating one carpet I'm only buying one one. In fact, there's much one. Nope. There's much one No, when I travel to these places you try to hand me another one. Nope not touching it I have watched other people succumb to these scams and it's kind of funny how I mean I see people get scammed by the cd guys on the street Yeah, but these get like the scams is particularly in like india and turkey and like the places in that general Like places that are like that They're surprisingly elaborate how how these scams go but I Want to make it want to make a game about that that we make a board game about that you can you have a bunch of carpets You got to get rid of them all And uh, Marrakesh, too You already you won all the carpets now sell them So one time I was I was on my like I had a whole day to kill I had one meeting in the morning and I had nothing to do I was flying on that night so my cab driver like I asked him to my driver asked him to drive me back to my hotel and He starts on one of the scams because one of the things they'll do is say hey If you've got some time, how about I can draw let me take let me I gotta want to get some coffee And then let's stop by my brother's shop and let's go have some tea there If any cab driver ever asks you to have tea with them, they're going to scam you They're not going to rob you They're going to scam you the ones who are going to rob you will be a beautiful woman who comes up to you at a bar And asks you to join her at a better bar That they're going to rob you and possibly kill you correct, but uh So I know it's a scam like I'm pretty much like what I understand about that It's like why are you asking someone to go to another bar? It's like just walk up to someone Stab them and take their money No, because usually why you got to do this elaborate nonsense because the bar they take you to is in on it So if they stabbed you in this bar, it wouldn't go down. Yeah, so What if you happen to accidentally walk into a bar that's in on it? Let's do a show out. Well, then you're fucked And did they stab you right away? Let's do a show on scams. I don't know a lot about scams. I know a lot about scams I'm not evil. I'll do a patreon on scams. I know a lot about tourist scams in other countries But anyway, so the cab driver like basically Begins the scam And I'm bored to get a lot of time to kill So I basically Decided I was willing to spend about a hundred bucks because that's about how much it was going to take Probably for that kind of scam to experience the full scan How many carpets you got? How come you didn't give me a carpet? I bought this Chachki that's a bunch of wooden nesting peacocks and it's on the piano in there Okay, and that's because I had to you had to buy something out of the end Because otherwise the people who run the elaborate scam They'll actually get in trouble with the scam bosses like it'll fuck them up pretty bad So but basically I went through the whole thing So I haggle with these people for like an hour over tea about the carpets And I what about that one? What about that one? And then I don't want a carpet in the end So at least buy something so I start looking around and I see this one chachki And then there's this sword How do you end up running a chachki store that you have to scam people to buy stuff in? Why not just run a legit store that sells worthful stuff? So here's the thing the those kinds of scams It's not like they steal $4,000 from a tourist It's more like they sell the tourist a carpet a set of carpets for $4,000 That if you bought equivalent carpets in the u.s. Would have been about $2,000 So they make a profit of like $2,000 But it cost it you're buying it in the country where it cost $200 to make those carpets So there is a huge upside and they pretty much only go after Wealthy looking people basically look for white people from countries Where the people who are tourists from those countries don't know shit about scams and are very easy to scam And you steal enough from them to be valuable to you But you don't scam them for so much money that they're going to realize they even got scams I think when we were in israel they were selling these back-event sets everywhere Turkey was the same thing with the back-event sets I could tell by looking at them that they were basically mass produced back-event sets in Mexico It was these like stone carved chest sets right these back-event sets came in two sizes small and big And I you could tell that even though they looked like they were handcrafted some kind of art They were actually mass produced. They just looked they were just mass produced things that looked like they were handcrafted with patterns and designs So these Mexican chest sets are handcrafted, but in factories, right? I mean, it this wasn't like some actual artisan thing, right? This was some, you know, just some nonsense, right? So, you know people who you know people bought quite a few of those and I was like, no, I got one At home. I'm good. I I like back giving a lot, but that's not I don't need that Yeah, but basically so that and I don't want to carry that around for the rest of this trip That souvenir I have is like the memory of fully interacting with one of those things And it was just really fascinating to see like the four or five different people Rotated in through the shop as part of the elaborate thing to get me to buy all these carpets that I didn't buy And actually bringing that home was probably illegal because it's made out of wood So customs didn't notice the wood customs doesn't notice. Shit. That's smuggle I mean when I was when I was in, uh, Hong Kong the first time I brought back a shit ton of tea You're not allowed to bring back tea. It depends probably you can usually bring back tea I mean, I could I could see not bringing back leaves and trees, but tea is already dead I had a checked bag full of like a giant sack of vegetable matter It's dead though. Yeah, but uh It's not like it's a tomato Scott another thing someone might have hidden in a suitcase That is a large sack of vegetable matter. I'm pretty even if they inspected it. I'm sure they would go Oh, it's tea and close it. Yeah I mean, there's plenty of teas from Hong Kong available in the u.s It's not an illegal thing to import. There is a difference You're not bringing you know, we're you're bringing enough to open up a tea shop Yeah, and you're not like a business getting around some tariff or something So really but it's partly that sometimes like especially when I travel to Europe I would forget to declare all the things I had and There's an allowance, but it's okay as long as you declare it But I wouldn't remember like that. I bought a bunch of wine because I was there for two weeks So like on day two I bought a bunch of wine The only thing that I would really buy and try to like import is go to you know Asia and buy electronic goods that are unavailable or more expensive here Like yes, I will buy that camera that costs twice as much in America. Yes I will buy that video game that is not available in America For the mind, you know my weird cell phone the the expiry when I was waiting for this to come out in the u.s I was in Hong Kong and you saw one. I saw the Asian. Yes. I'll buy that very tiny laptop which was Great because actually the Asian variant of this phone is way better than the American version because it has a fingerprint sensor but And it would have worked on lte in the u.s Mostly, but it wouldn't work that well in europe and the bands. I it was it was worth it to wait for the u.s iPhone has all bands. Yeah, does it every band iPhone the iphone has effectively every band you're gonna need I want to check on that because there's no look at it I mean I will look it up because there are some bands that are not so easy to get but I digress The new like since like I forget at what point but at some point eventually Like at least the Verizon iphone that I have which is unlocked because Verizon deals Uh Effectively you can just put a sim card in it as long as you can get the sim card activated Which is the hard part Anthony's in here in the shed bone chips. He's he's still talking about bone chips. Oh, you're like bone storm bone chips in harmony I'm thinking about those bone chips in hardstone. There's a new card. That's really powerful called bone mare. It's a skeleton horse I still I I gotta I gotta play uh skeleton with a bindle when it comes out Uh, yeah, sure. Did you actually go up at packs and see that game? I did you're like as giant skeleton walking across the land Yeah, telling stories. Yeah All right, I think we killed an hour. Good. I won't go home. Yeah, I'm uh, I spend enough time I spend enough time here today All right And we're out