 Object and I think it was I think the day was that game that games real good. I already played it You already played it. Yeah, it's mine sweeper. It's harder than I thought it would be. It's really hard It was like oh, I see what's going on. I just have to dodge things How could I was making and I like I was looking at a spot It was the bomb and I kept trying to get to it But then like a wave of crap would come out because I was dodging I was making all sorts of stupid minesweeper mistakes. I never would have made yep the shooting wasn't happening. I Was like, no, why did you click on that stupid? I Clicked on like three bombs. I'm just like, what is wrong with me? Oh, yeah, if it was regular minesweeper, I would have perfected it. It was such a simple minesweep All right, we got people watching we're good to go It's Thursday December 3rd 2020 I'm rim. I'm Scott and this is geek night tonight We are talking about hair on your body not the play slash musical That everyone in high school seems to want to do All right, you said that an opening bit open away All right, so this is more Monday action But whatever right so the advent of code is happening and even as a you know a non Christian person who doesn't care about any advance Right advent of code is a really cool thing and I think because people are stuck at home this year It's like it's fifth year also It's a bigger than ever right because people now have time to do it If you don't know what it is what there's a person I for don't know the person's name. I could look it up I'm sorry. I met them once at PAX East actually I was I was where it was like for two seconds But I was working in the tabletop library and someone walks up to check out a game and they're wearing an advent of code shirt And I'm like, oh advent of code and the dude was like, oh, oh he was so happy He was like I'm the guy who made it. I'm like, whoa, that's awesome And then they walked away. I never saw them again But yeah, so what it is is Every day from December 1st through December 25th This website puts out a coding puzzle, right? It's not technically a coding puzzle But what it does is there's a there's a problem and they give you a text file with your Inputs and your inputs are unique to use you can't just like crib off of someone else's answer, right? And then there's a box you just have to type in the right answer into the box You could solve, you know it any way you want someone in our forum already They posted their solution to one they use Excel. That's totally valid. You can use Excel I've seen you can use bad, you know, it's like you could do it by hand, right? You could figure out the answer But the problems are such that You're going to probably have to write a computer program of some kind But the inputs a text file so you can write in whatever language you want on whatever platform you want and pretty much any Silicon that you can get to help you is going to be able to get the job done And the problems get significantly harder as you get closer to Christmas and also each day actually has two problems and the second problem is Very really and each day is a perfectly new thing But the two different problems on the same day are very related to each other and if you solve if the program you Write to solve problem one on a particular day is well written and very flexible You will be able to solve problem two with like a very minor change in a matter of seconds So that is the danger of using Excel to solve problem one sometimes even no changes But if you write something very specific and inflexible with not very good programming Then you'll solve problem one and then problem two you'll be like Right So it's a lot of fun I'm doing it this year that we have leaderboards that there's all kinds of things you can get involved with as a Competitive aspect although you don't need to worry about that. It's not really that competitive you basically Don't even try so yeah doing that and I was thinking hey wouldn't it be fun if Maybe I could like stream myself solving it right is that or make a YouTube video would that be interesting content? Maybe we'll find out. I'm gonna try it later today. I didn't do day three yet All right, we'll see and then I was thinking how could I make it more interesting and I'm like, you know What if I solved it using like my Apple to or my That would be even more interesting, right? What are you gonna point a camera at your Apple to well, so here's the problem an Apple to GS can't run OBS on that I have a monitor for it and use an external monitor the external monitor uses a special RGB cable So I have to point a camera at the monitor that sucks There is a thing you can get there's actually a few different solutions There's a whole web page full of different solutions to doing this But there's a thing called the vid HD you put it in a card slot in the Apple to GS and it creates an HDMI output I might buy one Not only would that make it much easier to use the Apple to GS It would mean I can get rid of that monitor I'm sure yeah wants it because it's a working quality Apple to GS. I am confident you could give that away or sell it easily Yes, the Mac plus is even harder the Mac plus Right has a problem in that the monitor is built in So, you know, it's one of those max. It's an all-in-one unit. I'll crack it open figure out figure out the output That's going to the CRT. You could do that people have done that. Yes, but I'm not doing that But the so I go today and I'm thinking you know the Mac plus will be easier. Let me turn it on right So I go to turn on the Mac plus and I got I have an external hard drive for it It's a 20 megabyte hard drive in an enclosure And I set it all up and then I realized wait a minute Where is the cable that connects the hard drive to the computer? Oh because that ain't USB. I Can't find the cable. I looked all over. I don't know what the hell happened to it It's like hopefully you didn't accidentally purge it in a great cable purge because we've both done a bunch of cable purges recently I'm I'm I don't know I may have but I used to always follow the philosophy of I would keep Well, if I saw cable that I did not know I had another one of no matter what it was I would keep that one cable so I had one of everything I'd ever owned I stopped doing that a few years ago though But it doesn't matter because I said I got another better solution There's apparently a product I was unaware of until just now I already ordered it because it was in stock and things tend to go out of stock It's called the floppy emu model C and what it is is it's a little board with an LCD screen on it even and an SD slot a micro SD slot and Who put out by BMW. I know them. They're cool. Yeah, big mess old wires Yep, it's got a cable and that cable goes to an Apple floppy port And you know what the Apple floppy port, you know There's not a lot in common actually between the Apple 2gs and the Mac Plus even though they came out around the same ish time But the floppy port is the same So this thing is gonna make it real easy to get all kinds of software going on both of those computers Right, and if I get the HDMI thing, I can get I can like keep these computers use them more than the zero I've used them in years, right? And it'll be I can get rid of stuff. I can get rid of this 20 megabyte hard drive. I Can get rid of that monitor. I can get rid of a lot of junk. So Yeah, we'll see we'll see what's what there, but regardless Come to my twitch or and or my youtube. I'm gonna see discord. I'm gonna see what I can do And if you want to watch me code and solve a simple problem though The problems will get harder and we'll see how hard I can go. I've never gone past like day 10 Yeah So I'm not not that I failed on day 10 It's that I just you know, haven't put in the time and this year I got a lot of time So yeah I feel like this year more people are gonna engage with things like this than they previously would because we're about to hit the very dark times Both psychologically and just it's literally dark outside. Yeah, well, it's literally dark outside now So just for reference right on day two I stayed up until midnight to start because it's based on who gets it in first to score points on the global leader The global leaderboard you need to be in the top 100 fastest people to solve your puzzle I tried to I like I know that coding nicely is just gonna make it slow, right to get your answer Oh, you got a right software that's hitting this website with curl and the software you write uses AI to read the text figure out the problem and write scaffold code for you So I just I coded as quickly I did not I could have done it a little bit faster Right if I had really pushed but you know a certain reflex to like I had to write at least somewhat cleanly, right? But yeah, I can't doing it. It took me about 11 minutes for problem one and then 15 for problem two I think you know, it didn't take that much difference and I came in 2000 something place Wow And so that's how many people were doing it that quickly and you know by now way more people have done it so Yeah, no don't bother competing though granted the problems are so easy early on in order to get points in the early days When the easy problems are out and your skills that are being tested are like fast reading fast typing Right that sort of thing whereas I think in the later days when the problems are Substantially difficult and take a long time to solve Then those skills won't matter your programming skill won't matter Like the live stream might be five minutes of you just sitting there and then suddenly you go aha and type something or an hour We'll see anyway, that's that's that that's good stuff So there is actually huge news and it's lucky that it's not a Thursday And it's easy just to talk about generically, but this is this is a game changer for the entertainment industry and I feel like people well companies like HBO like Netflix Movie distributors a lot of people who've been wanting to do something like this for a long time This has basically been a Pandora's box That's been sitting there for a good five to ten years plus maybe even yep This is so destabilizing No one with the power to do this was willing to do it And I've been just waiting for someone to do it like you cowards and here they go They finally gonna do it Warner Brothers will release Every single movie that they make and put release to theaters in 2021 Simultaneously will just be watchable digitally at home on HBO Max For about a month, and then it'll go away, and then it'll come back later like in the normal streaming stuff So up until 2020 right? Movie companies the big Hollywood ones at least if they made movies They always would release them first in the movie theater Exclusively right then they would release them on like a disc of some kind and streaming of some kind Right and the time between the theater and the and the other wider home release kept shrinking Right well like in the old days something would be in the theater You couldn't fucking see it again for a long time when it was out of theaters Then eventually there'd be a tape and then it would right it might be on cable TV with like pay-per-view For a period of the last last place it would appear would be an actual broadcast television with ads like sometimes years later And this was a method by which they were sort of artificially propping up The different platforms on which their content would screen people would basically pay at every step of the way They'd go see it in the theater then they'd want to see it again They'd pay for a pay-per-view like a year later Then they'd buy the VHS like that was a that was a way to get the maximum money Right. Well, it was also a way to like keep theaters in business, right? The thinking was hey if a movie if the theater doesn't have if the theater just has the same movies you could watch at home Why would you go to the theater now theater would just go out of business, right? That argument was kind of silly back then because the theater experience especially in like the 70s or the 80s Was just objectively better than the best you could possibly do at home. Yep We're kind of like 4k TV at home. Yep. So when the internet appeared Nobody wanted to touch this because that changes everything internet modern screens modern sound systems That that was just that like Scott said that was a Pandora's box that would destroy Everything we know about this industry and no one knows what it would look like after that happened But now what's happened is basically a pandemic Has destroyed the movie theater, right? And thankfully even in places where theaters are open Destroyed if it's already destroyed. Yep. And we've already had you saw companies testing the waters and doing like a limited Well, this movie will be on the streaming platform. This one movie because of COVID But now Water Brothers is saying fuck it. This is everything. Yeah, we've also seen minor things happening for example Um, we've seen people like, you know, they just make digital screeners of all the movies for the Hollywood people to see and the oscar reviewers to see and you know all kinds of digital pre releases for secret stuff, right? A film festival has been online Um, you know, we watched wolf walkers at one of those, right? So it's like, well, you're already doing that It's like and people are leaking those too So You know, you're kind of are sort of releasing it digitally first. Yeah to the pirates at least Um, you know, why not at least get money for that Do it by some means And also I don't know people realize this. There was a rule an old rule It's been around for a long time for a lot of reasons. Yes It was an antitrust rule and the rule in the united states was if you're the movie maker, right? You're disney Uh, you can't own the movie theater because if you own the movie theater and you made the movies, right? If you made the vcrs and also the movies, it's like, oh, you got to now you got to buy You know, it's the same way that like, you know, basically it's what nintendo did on purpose, right? Where it's like, aha, you want to get your video game on a nintendo console You got to make our cartridge and get our approved by us, right? It's the same thing the apple app store does, right? Think about the old hollywood studio system Like imagine if literally like amc makes a movie and you can only go see it in amc theaters And they can only buy the amc disc Yep, it'd be like, okay. Well now someone else wants to make a movie They can't get it onto screens anywhere because they're not the company that owns the screens The only movies that would ever be in theaters would be the disney movies if disney owns all the movie theaters, right? The end they wouldn't let anyone else show movies All right, um, yep You see a lot of anti competitive practices like there was a time when our government was interested In forcing the market to be more fair our government hasn't been interested in that in some time So one thing is that a uh, it's things have changed in that Yeah, even if disney owns all the theaters They can't stop you from putting out a movie because you just put it on anyone can just put out a movie You get everyone's can just go to the store buy a camera if you got enough money Record a video edit it on your computer with adobe or something free I mean, I subscribed to a patreon where neil siserica will guarantee me a video on a regular basis right, it's like Anyone can make video content, you know, there's disney if even if they bottle the movie theaters isn't holding people back, but They could keep you out of the movie theaters if movie theaters are still a thing that people care about, right? Yep, um, but movie theaters were already moribund from what I gather I was poking around into like what's the real state of the theater business Irrespective of covet not good theaters are only doing well in major cities Because there's a different dynamic there. There's different reasons people go to theaters But in suburbs in more rural places and if people like people have a objectively better experience at home Uh, I think also what's we've seen Over the course of I guess the entire millennium, right? I want to say since like, you know Maybe episode star wars episode one came out times, right? The movie theater has become Uh an event type place, right? I mean look at fan of fathom events Right, there are some people who go to a movie theater to Still just see movies all the time, you know big time movie people who just love the hell out of movies Yeah, but I think the majority of people who go to a movie theater Do it because like you're having a kid's birthday party there or something like that or Uh, there's a movie that's just like so up your alley. You got to see it right away Yep, occasionally a movie is like one of those cinema Movies that just is better to watch on a screen that is that big like there's some movies are like that The number one people reason people go to a movie theater, right is there's an event type movie, right? Like the director is gonna give commentary after well, no, no, I mean like, you know, just like The new marvel is coming out, right? It's a big fucking event. You line of it midnight and shit, right? Not event at a specific theater. You're like star wars came out. It's the next star wars movie people are gonna talk about it tomorrow Right, it's like you're going to see that shit in the theater If that even if that was out on dvd on the internet at home at the same exact time It's like you're going to the theater Yeah, but we've already seen theater usage demographics changing a lot like look at the crazy success of like alamo draft house and all the people copying them of radically changing what the theater experience is Right, they make the the theater is now. I think what's gonna happen is your the movie theater will not die completely But the movie theater instead of being a thing that is No matter where you are in the u.s. There's a movie theater nearby where you can see the latest movie somewhere But they're all interchangeable and generic, right? I think instead what you're going to see is those are going to go away replaced by If you just want to watch movies you just watch them at home, right the movie theater You're all you're going to go to a theater that will be one near you But there will be about as many as there are like concert halls like going to a movie will be an event like Going to a concert which kind of gets back to how early movie theaters were the old show palaces Exactly. That's how movies and that's how movies like go ls at least how that's how going to the theater for a movie has been for me for Many many I mean things look at us in new york for the last decade We rarely like just go to the theater to see a movie and leave we'll like meet all our friends at a theater Watch the movie together and then go out for a big dinner. It's always like a big like any time I've gone to the movies many times But every single time I can think of in like years of memory that I went to the movies It was always some kind of like a big deal thing like there was an anime show in one night only There was we went to go see something in 70 millimeter big deal special limited thing The director was there. Yeah film festival. It was the star wars It was every single time I went to the movie. It was a big deal. It was never Oh, there's a movie that you know Like I like and it's in the theater now and it'll be on dvd later. Let me go to the theater and watch it I still do I still do the latter a lot well did outside of kovat except It's only really old movies at theaters that have something else going on like they serve you brunch while you're watching it Like nighthawk, you know, but that's more you're going to brunch. There happens. Yeah, I'm going to brunch I happen to watch vampire hundred d over brunch You're not going to vampire hundred and also you're not going to vampire hundred d and there happens to be brunch Uh, actually, yeah, they kind of was that Sometimes. Yeah Vampire hundred d is a special event They show it kind of right. They do midnight showings at vampire hundred d pretty regularly there. Yeah. No, they did Um, I sure they will again. I think they'll survive I think I was already planning by the way, Mike, you know, I only try to I try to, you know, switch my subscriptions around You know, I was yeah, we were both talking off outside of the show We were both saying like wow hvl max seems to be like Where we should move to I mentioned it during our show on the new adventure time, you know before Current subscriptions are crunchy roll on netflix And I guess I always have amazon prime just always because you know, yeah, but yeah, I think that if Uh, when this happens probably, you know, I'm probably going to turn off netflix temporarily And turn back on Hbmx and I'll have hbm the tricky part is then dragon prince is going to come out on netflix Like four more seasons of that real soon. Yeah, but I can switch by the I can that's always going to be there So whenever I done with hbmx, I'll switch back to netflix in what two year three year one year whenever And all those dragon princes will be there waiting for me. You know Did I go anywhere? But I think I think a few things are going to happen. I think one We're going to see companies like hbo and netflix Buy theaters out of bankruptcy post covet and just run special screenings and things Like that's going to be a thing two I think we're going to see Alamo draft house will sort of turn into the default I think you're going to see something like by the way. I heard I don't know if this how true This is I should look it up more before saying it so I'm going to say research this for yourself to see if it's true But I I heard whispers that the people who run alamo draft house specifically that company are like way bad and shitty type people Or maybe the ceo was shitty or something like that heard bad milkshake duck type news about them specifically Go verify it for yourself. But I you know, we're talking not just about that company specifically, but yeah But that style of theater theater any theater that has assigned fancy seats with dinner Oh, I refuse to go to any fucking theater that doesn't have assigned seats. That's been my thing for a long time When's the last time I went to a theater that wasn't an assigned because I'm unwilling to get with the With assigned seats the magic is I can roll into the theater 20 seconds before the movie starts and just sit down You know the the museum of the moving image doesn't assign your seat. That is true But I've never like gone to the I've never tried to see something there And like so many people showed up so early that I didn't get a good seat Yeah, it's never it's never happened. But uh, I think you know, there's uh, Japanese style karaoke places where like there's private rooms. I think you're gonna see some theaters that are Really crazy fancy sound system and good seats and everything but in smaller semi private rooms that like groups will get together and watch Movies in similar to how we're karaoke today. I think that is you know with the fathom events thing I don't know if how many people know about that. It's like opera boxes. We're gonna get opera boxes for movies Fathom events is a company where You know, it'd be really hard if like we filmed the geek nights thing to get on the screen in a movie theater Right, but and there's a lot of companies that are smaller distributors, you know, like funimation for example Right, they make some anime and they want to screen this anime movie that they just licensed in theaters in the us Like a one night only thing Fathom events is sort of like an in-between company that helps you get your shit onto theater screens And they get all these theater, you know, and there's a bunch of movie theaters out there that I got a Shit ton of screens and there aren't that many big movies So yeah for one night, you know, sure they'll take one of the screens that isn't showing the top movie and show Whatever funimation wants to show they'll show Broadway shows in there concerts. They got all kinds of random But here's the thing night only And it makes the movie theater and it makes fathom and the distributor more money Then if they had showed the least popular Hollywood movie at the time on that screen one more showing, you know But also imagine if like netflix like this is just like the business idea I could see a company like netflix Making a place that looks like a karaoke place But it's all these little private comfortable rooms that have like ultra high quality netflix original stuff Little rooms. I think that your fathom events type model will be taken to the next level where you instead Choose it. There's some sort of user input on what will be screened Right in the big theater. So it's like, yeah, there's a there's a there's a I think you'll see both I think they'll see the theater near you and in on theater seven doesn't have anything for an eight o'clock showing tonight And people are gonna be like, you know choosing like I really want to see this new maybe a new movie A netflix original movie came out Something and you're choose you choose that and then it's like you go to the theater and it ends up that app After that's what's popular. So that ends up showing in fact, you know what I could see Here's an example The disney theater shows the new mandalorian at a specific time every like week And people buy tickets to go like see it first and hang out with all the other people who saw it first Yeah, people would do that people who are you know social show watching people But I think that's it. You're gonna see a like there is So much that's going to change in the movie industry over the next decade Because of the thing that happened today at 1 30 p.m. Eastern standard time. Oh, yeah Like we're not we're not experts in this space like you're gonna see industry people talking about this for years Well, someone finally had the balls to do what we always knew could be done could have been done a long time ago But yeah, now it's going to be a pandemic made to happen So, uh, you had some news Emily actually was telling me this story And I didn't read the article because Emily kind of explained it to me But that uh The the news article that you gave me to talk about today is pretty good So i'm not going to explain all the details. You can read them yourself, right? But There was an unidentified object like in space, right? They were seeing it and they were like, is that an asteroid? Like what is that? They're like, no, it's not an asteroid. We know it. We don't know what it is It's something so they looked at it and Basically, their guess Was that, you know in the in the 60s Uh, when they were trying to go to the moon, right before they had like, you know, Saturn five rockets a different rocket they had before then was the centaur rocket and One of the rockets they sent up in the 60s Um, you know, it was a multi-stage deal, right? And one of the stages One of the the upper booster stage went missing in the 60s And they saw it and somebody real smart said I bet that's what that is That booster that we lost in the 60s How can you know? How can you know? It's just like a dot of light in space. That's like blinking or whatever the fuck How do you know what the hell that is, right? You look at it with your telescope and shit? And it's just like you can't visually identify it, right? It's like you would need to zoom in so much It's like we don't have like most modern astronomy is just in like inferring information from the Photons themselves in ways that humans cannot perceive. So the way you identify it is Basically with spectronomy, right? I guess is that the right word, right? You look at the spectrum of electromagnetic waves that it is reflecting because Most materials in the world, right have a unique Right spectrum of electromagnetic waves that they reflect versus absorb Compared to what the sun puts out, right? The sun puts out like fucking everything from infrared to ultraviolet You know all over the place, right? I guess not everything but a very wide spectrum, right? Our sun is not outputting those high energy photons that come like cosmic rays that come from out in deep space I hope not. Um, I mean if that starts happening, we're in trouble And that's that light from the sun hits. I don't know a leaf and what does the leaf reflect? Well, it reflects the green light in the visible spectrum, but it also reflects You know electromagnetic waves in other parts of the spectrum that just aren't visible, right? It's gonna that's why so many things are green But they might still be unique if you can if you use like an infrared camera or an ultraviolet camera or even wider You know the widest spectrum you can look at To and you could by taking a camera that can see all the different wavelengths pointing at different objects You could say what that is with a very high likely You know hood of being correct because objects are really unique, you know, but materials wise, right? So They know what the booster rocket was made of Right, they're like they was they thought there was paint on it They know that this part was made of stainless steel. This part was made of foam You know and they can look at it and they could also Point at another known objects that are made of the same materials, right and compare What they're seeing and that's how they figured out that yeah, it's almost certain that this is uh exactly what that is in space over there So very very cool Uh science action going it is super cool One last although it's always I always like finding a lost object Right like a sunken ship or you know, I don't know how many people remember how big a deal it was It's like, yeah, we know the titanic sank, but like they didn't know I remember that That was the titanic on the bottom of the sea until like I was old enough to read That was all anyone talked about on tv for like a year It was a national geographic issue that was like 100 filled with photos of the titanic from the bottom of the sea They're like we fucking found it. Yo, oh shit. Oh remember not that long ago They found the and that was so big and it wasn't even in space and it took them that long to find it Remember we when I got I freaked out on geek nights. It wasn't that long ago when they found the arabis and the terror Up in the arctic Yeah, this doomed franklin expedition finding this is much, you know, not too many people cared about where this was It's not like there were any people in it, but it was more like by god. Is that the Was actually probably much harder than finding the titanic It's so small Plus it is fine. They weren't looking for this to find it They saw a thing by chance and then identified it. So it was a literal ufo Yeah, if it hadn't appeared, I don't think you would have found this until we had like, you know, easy go to space Rockets like it is with the limited capabilities that humans have on this planet today If we ever see something in space that we don't that we can't explain It is very important to try to figure out what the fuck it is as fast as possible. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah So in one last little news, uh, so the american election like obviously joe biden won like that that's not disputed by anyone except crazy people but We hit a weird milestone Biden so far has won the popular vote by seven million and it's still growing as they continue to count states like new york This is actually one of the big this might be the biggest blowout in like Modern american history. Well, I mean, you know, it's a terrifying and also good It's it's like it's like both sides, right? Because on the one hand, right? It's like If you consider all past elections that have ever happened in the united states for president This might have been the most important one. Well, donald trump Got more votes than any previous Person, right popular vote wise. There were more legitimate votes for donald trump Then any president ever with the number of votes donald trump just got he could have beaten obama both times Right. Yep. He just got that many votes. But you know what? There's a lot of bad people Got seven plus million more votes than that. There are more good people than bad people Our systems excuse it. The election looks a lot closer Do you want to have your gang fight another gang when the other gang is seven million bigger than your gang? But that's why that that really underscores like the especially to you 70 million for 77 million Seven million is scared. Yep Well, that could also be six million nine or nine thousand nine to ninety nine versus one Right, but i'm saying even if it's a hundred million people in a fight against a hundred and seven million people A hundred million people need to be scared Right, you're not gonna win But that's the the court is sort of the news that if you're not like familiar with us politics Just to think about the election was a blowout Except america is set up to make to ensure that rural votes count a lot more than urban votes Such that the vast majority like the far majority of americans voted for the correct option Yet everything was close and in fact there are losses at the local level because of gerrymandering and rural over representation Which goes all the way back to the founding of america when they decided old news. Yeah, that even news Is One thing to use a new when you sometimes you use a news that's like, you know Oh, I heard that last month. They're using the news as 200 years old. Be careful with that news It's an antique 250 years old probably. All right. I think yeah Well, the 150 year old news. Well, remember the constitution wasn't written until well after the revolution We had that whole yeah, but the but the bicentennial was 1970 something Yeah, which was silly because all you non-americans Like you remember you might not realize because I don't know if they even teach you this when america got independence We founded this bullshit government that just sucked and after like a decade. We were like, wow, fuck this and we rewrote it all Yep, I don't think they teach that outside of the us. They taught it to me, but yeah, we should do it again Maybe I think we're getting close to that But we had to make sure that you know the bad people aren't allowed to participate Yup Also, there's a lot of evidence that when the constitution was written part of the reason why it ended in the state it did Like literally there's even a big like article and like an analysis of this The people who were actually writing it were bored and sick of this shit and just wanted to be done And they all just voted to like this good enough Because they assumed we'd fix it later and we never did that's why they put in the amendment rule Yep, and we kind of just stopped using that they immediately used it like 10 times plus right away Right they're like, hey, we you know because they were writing it at a literal meeting together in his place They wanted to go home and then just kind of stopped like the last few the last few amendments didn't do much No, we you know, yeah Anyway things of the day, what do you got? Uh, what was my thing today? Oh, yeah, so I'm sure you've all played minesweeper I think I've had several minesweeper things of the day Which I think is an over-representation compared to how often I play minesweeper, which is not often I used to play it a lot. There was a time when that was very important to me when I played a lot that time is not recently, but Uh, I don't know if you know the website itch.io Itch.io is a great website where indie game makers mostly But you know, you can sell pretty much any digital goods on there, but it's mostly games tabletop rpg pdfs You know that sort of thing And so there's a lot of great stuff on there They actually recently on black friday what they did is they had a special day where they gave They itch.io took no cut and they gave when you bought something in itch.io All the money went to the developer or you know designer artist, whatever and that was nice That I think is over now, but it'll it'll come again. I'm sure Regardless, there is a platform called pico 8 I saw this on display most prominently when you're at gamer x and this amazing crater driggs I think that's how you pronounce their name um And they had like this game with a spider in like a web and it was like this amazing It's basically a Basically pico 8 is a fake video game console that never existed And you can make games for it as if it did exist and run them on your normal computer, right? And it basically provides these sort of limitations Right as if you are programming a game for like this limited old, you know computer with only so many Fuck this game is hard. Anyway, I'm playing it right now named new machi tomanegi I'm probably pronouncing their name wrong. I'm sorry. Uh, not the last tomanegi tomanegi tomanegi. I don't know where to Tom and eggy, whatever. Sorry. So Uh, this person made a game called artemis is artemis minesweeper Right as a apostrophe after the end of the s because it's the minesweeper that belongs to artemis. It's a possessive, right? Um And it's minesweeper except there's this character. I presume their name is artemis Yeah, there's like a kraken monster girl All right, and they're shooting at you as if it is some sort of bullet hell schmup And while you're solving the little minesweeper, which under normal circumstances would be an easy minesweeper Your mouse cursor has to dodge all this bullet hell bullets It is so hard And also if you click a bomb, you don't die. You don't lose immediately You just take damage the same amount of damage you would have taken if you got hit by a bullet And you lose if your health runs out you win if you solve the minesweeper before your health runs out It's an amazing game that they were I can't believe they're able to make the come up with a genius idea Get it to run on pico 8 and look so good and work so smoothly Uh, and here it is on itch.io You can just go play it. Uh, I think you can also pay what you want for it Because it's itch.io. That's usually how that works. Let me take a look Uh, I keep miss clicking because I'm trying to dodge. I think you can pay for it directly. It just says download There's just download links and comments. I don't think there's any Uh purchasing button for this game specifically whatsoever Um, let's see if you all buy this person. Do they have other games? Oh, there's uh sunomaki junken boss battle, right? Uh pico 8 tic-tac-toe pico 8 juggle, which is just a it's a game and watch with a guy playing ball A lot of pico 8 games going on here. Very nice. Uh new machi follow new machi on itch. I have done so No, so on twitter So I got a real simple thing of the day. Uh, there's the the articles old But I came across this because people were talking about it recently for some reason and I didn't know it existed It's a breakdown of the soviet laser space pistol That was intended to arm soviet cosmonauts Uh, so here's the cool thing. It was real, but it wasn't to attack people It was to attack satellites and sensors It's a gun that uses chemical cartridges and electricity that would basically expend these cartridges to shoot out huge amounts of photons and electrons basically To destroy satellite sensors and attack like things that could be used to wage war in space So you couldn't really shoot a person with it, but you could shoot a satellite with it You could shoot a person with it just wouldn't do much. Yep. I guess it could if you shot a person in the face with this I'm pretty sure it would permanently blind them If you shot them right in the eye, I probably it basically is a super Super powerful laser that only goes off for like a tiny tiny fraction of time Mm-hmm, but if you shoot it right into like a camera sensor, it's like the digital camera. It's done I mean if you point a good camera like right at the sound you're gonna fuck it up Right if you shoot it right at some film, it's done, right? You know it's like, you know most set in digital sensors just cameras But the article is pretty cool because it actually talks about like how it worked Why it was made like they had to deal with stuff like it had to not mess up the atmosphere Or be toxic like inside of a space station Because you would use it like in a space station like shoot it out the window Oh, and you should out the window you wouldn't like go outside it You could also go out and use it so it also had to work in the vacuum of space I was gonna say it's I think that's why it's full of the chemicals, right? Yep, but you can read the article I'm not even gonna try to explain all the details There's a lot here, but this shit is fascinating because this was the era where Like the us and the soviet union were very much trying to like prepare to wage war in space But at the same time they were over focusing on certain aspects that are today are relevant and also kind of like They were so close to understanding what modern space warfare would actually look like But yet they kind of just missed the mark and went off into crazy town both them and us Yeah, I mean have you seen moon raker? In the meta moment we're still stuck at home Hmm. I thought about reading that book, but I also thought about it But I'm still reading that nonfiction book and elections Mm-hmm. I'm reading the adventure time comic Oh, I gotta read more of that I read a bunch and I kind of just stopped It was really good. It's really good. Uh, I guess tiny review, right? It's really good. At least I'm only in volume one or two and there's a lot of them. I have all of them But it's very Like it's you know, when you read comics, you usually what they're usually fast to read like manga is like the fastest to read It's like whoosh, right? This is slow to read. It's kind of wordy And it's the wordy It has a lot of words and there's also like tiny words at the bottom of some of the pages that are hidden You want to read those too? You know, it's funny because the my little pony comics We're slow to read too But not because of the words because of all the weird fiddly little details in every page Exactly, it's like you read an old stan lee comic and it's got a bunch of words But those words are corny words like I hit you you little guy and explain a science explain a science explain a science That's why is such and such is such I'd read an x-men floppy in like 60 seconds Right the words in here are not corny words. They're they're adventure time dialogue, right? This is just it's just jam packed So it takes a while to get through a volume So there you go. All right. So yeah, join our discord hang out in the live streams. There's people rocking in here There's actually a thriving conversation happening in parallel with the show right now Uh, we're gonna try to make some content. I've done a little more work toward the next utena analysis episode I've started cutting out clips of episode 17 of utena Mm-hmm And uh, we realized we've never talked about hair on geek nights except once on december 15th Maybe we have and that video was deleted but the episode was On uh december 15th 2005 We did an episode. It's one of our earliest shows. Yep. We did an episode on shaving because We had both decided to get real safety razors and stop using the mock threes to save money And we've saved a lot of money and had better shaves. I had saved 20 or 15 years I had saved almost $4,000 because I was keeping track of like how much money I saved and after I hit like $4,000 And I just stopped counting and that was a long time ago I've changed my blade like once a week that blade costs like two cents So, uh, we're not gonna talk about shaving necessarily. We said 15 years ago. We were right Yep, safety razors are just so they're superior in every fucking way using any sort of like, you know Mock three Shick Gillette bullshit that costs a lot of money go back and listen to that But go you got to shave the old fashioned way with the cheapo blade But not the oldest fashion ways straight razors do give a better shave So they do give a better shave. I'm not gonna say they don't like they are But you'll cut yourself or you'll get good at it But it's a skill you have to learn and then you have introduced to your morning routine A real element of danger. Yes. The point is safety razor Brush, you're gonna have a way better shaving experience and shaving life and save a shit ton of money It's better and cheaper. How often is that true? I bought a new puck of soap when I moved to new york city Uh, I replaced it last year So, uh I recently like within the past month Opened the third tub of shaving soap that I bought. Oh, you still use the pre-whipped stuff, right? Yeah, since 2005 I guess right Uh, so five five years per tub. Yep. I went a little deeper. I went to puck of just hard soap Uh, nine years is about how long one of those will last And I didn't I didn't replace him because it was gone. I replaced it because it got disgusting I was like I started like trying to I started like holding it under hot water To like rinse it up the smells when you do it a little more frequently Yeah, I did want to change up the smell too because it was the same smell for a decade. So right exactly But now we're talking about all hair except shaving, but I guess we'll talk about it face hair Head hair. We're not talking about chest hair back hair pubes. We're not talking about that We need those future thursday episodes. That's right head hair only Yep, because uh scott and I I used to have head hair. Believe it or not scott did In fact, funnily enough today scott found on a floppy disk a bunch of pictures of us in college in the year 2001 And uh scott looks like 20 years younger and uh, there weren't any pictures of me in that 20 years younger though Yeah, but I I looked at a picture of myself from that same era I was 20 years younger. I pretty much looked the same. It's already gone. You pieces of shit I I bought the I bought a three train. There weren't that many left. Fuck you good thing. I have one three train for company. Yeah I thought if we get a run one one more time though, if the three train wait, wait Did the are the twos rusted? Yeah, oh fuck i'm in trouble Yeah, good thing. I'm not you are is gonna have to merge. We're playing a train game We're playing 1870 Goddamn it. I was hoping I'd get to run one more two with my jay. I was hoping I'd get to run more time Even though I don't need him. All right Anyway, anyway, uh, but over the years Scott got balder and balder and I pretty much stayed the same now I'm thinning because I'm old but uh still got long hair and we get we inverted and scott is completely bald and I have long hair And it's funny when I look at our youtube videos because people A lot of people who watch our youtube videos have no idea geek nights exist Like there's a weird segment of like game design people who just find our videos and watch them and interact in youtube But they always refer to us as long hair guy and bald guy It seems accurate Yep, and there was a comment that was posted two days ago. That was really funny It was on an old old panel. We did it was on one of those ones from like paxies 2010 And the comment was the bald guy is way too mean to the long-haired guy Oh, no So, uh long hair is kind of a pain in the ass Like I've gathered that from the people uh that I'm aware of Like I would never get rid of it unless I got uh too scully and was forced to like I love having long hair But you will like roll over on your own hair in bed and wake yourself up from like yanking it You will get caught in stuff It'll like stick to certain kinds of clothes like velcro Well, it's like you shampoo like when I shampooed and I had hair I never had long hair, right? I shampoo had rubbed my head to lather it up But how do you shampoo the hair that's like way down far away? Oh the pro move you don't if you don't shampoo that shit It'll only shampoo to clean the scalp the hair just rinsed out Okay, so you only put conditioner in the hair in a bunch and try to like shampoo No, that would just tangle it into an impossible nightmare What I do is I shampoo it just the top with talson blue because I got I'll get some dandruff otherwise And uh, I only do that like once a week otherwise I just rinse it and then I put conditioner all the way in and I comb it all out and straighten it So you don't condition the dangling parts either you just I know I mostly condition the dangling parts I don't condition the parts by my scalp. So you see you squirt some goop on your hand Like how you physically so shampoo goes in my hand just on the scalp and then I rinse it all out Then I rinse the hair thoroughly Then I put a bunch of conditioner in my hand and I only put it in the long part How do you how do you put it in like you just sort of like I just reach up and like hold the hair I just kind of like Finger comb it with this with it and then I take a comb in the shower and I comb it while the conditioner is in there Oh, see you you sort of like use your fingers as a comb covered when your fingers are covered in conditioner Basically, yeah, you comb through all the hair with your fingers till the all the you know The goop is on the hair and basically yeah and use a real comb But when my hair was the longest it ever got when it was kind of past my ass It actually took a lot of conditioner And I have I have kept my hair actually a lot shorter than I used to for many years I keep it like a couple feet like it goes past my shoulder blades Of course now COVID it's actually getting real long because I'm not willing to go get a haircut All right, so uh, but when you go you have the long hair and you go to you do go to get a haircut You got to pay more money, right? Yep So I remember when I first started having long hair I went to my usual barber and they said they had to charge me the women's price They just charge more if you have long hair Straight up more work. Yep. It is more work. There's a lot more stuff to do if you mess it up You can't fix it Right and it's got this weird sort of intermingling with like Sexism but also reality right on the one hand. It's like we've created this standard You know for like, you know women to have long hair But and then therefore haircuts cost more but it's like but well There's also more like a lot of times when people say a quote women's haircut They also mean styling which is expensive but also very difficult and time-consuming Right, but it's like and it's also difficult in times It's like these, you know, these, you know, beauty standards and all these things are getting in on there Right. What's cool though is the barber shops to actual, you know Economics, right, you know, yeah, but some cool things. I've noticed in new york city A lot of the barber shops I go to they don't gender it anymore. They're not like, oh women's price men's price They're like this kind of hair is this price this kind of hair is this price Right, but it's still the you know, the the social, you know, despite how much progress you've made and how many People of you know, like you're a dude with long hair. Yep. That was that was actually Moderately controversial when I was in middle school and high school that I had long hair How many not dudes have short hair plenty right in fact when I was in middle school some people I remember there were people who had a problem with the fact that I had a pierced ear as a man Sure, but that wasn't that long ago, right? The majority beauty standard is still right long hair on you know People who are women and the craft is different to There's a thing that I learned a while ago that really explained a lot of nonsense There is a problem that men with long hair have that that Women with long hair do not have when we talk about biology And it's specific to the hair on the bottom of the neck In a male body like a genetically male body Usually that hair isn't the same as head hair. It's beard hair. So it won't grow as long as your head hair It'll grow to a certain length and kind of give up so true if you are a Trans man and you're taking testosterone would that change that hair? I think it depends on running hair are pretty linked right from what I've read it depends on when you transition There's a bunch of factors and it gets complicated But for me what that means is I have long hair And I can just tie it back except the hair on the bottom of my neck Will only get as long as the maximum length of my beard and never longer So I can't tie it into a ponytail So there's this like frizz back there that I have to get styled and buzzed like regularly or my hair looks really messy It's a giant pain in the ass I can't do it myself and if and if and even if like I asked Emily to do it If you mess that up and like buzz too much into the long hair That'll be a problem. That'll take like six months to grow out Yeah, I mean that's the thing is it on on anyone's body right when you start, you know Getting more hairs from puberty and whatnot the different different kinds of hairs grow in different parts of your body Right, uh, it's and it's like you know one, you know my arm hair It's like you know if I didn't absolutely nothing if I was like a caveman I wore no clothes and I applied no products and I did no grooming My arm hair would still be different hair from my head hair Yeah, it's just or different people Due to genetics have different kinds of hair And that's where you get into now racism and the fact that a lot of hair products and a lot of styling guides are aimed at The default like straight or wavy white person hair and not all the other kinds of hair people might have Mm-hmm, or depending on the country you're in. Yep. I'm talking from an amaro centric perspective But I'm saying like let's say you go to china right if you don't have You know the hair of a chinese person and you're in china It's you're gonna maybe have a hard time finding, you know things that are gonna work for you Yep, I remember a couple years ago. I went to a barber shop that was aimed It was like a fancy barber shop that would do like straight razor shaves and stuff And I went to it in midtown I was like I need a nice haircut because I'm gonna go on the strip And they were like you have long hair. We don't know how to cut it at all We specialize in these kinds of hair I will fuck it up and they actually gave me a referral to a different place that could cut my hair Hmm I mean, it's the same if you'd bring your car to a place. They can't work on it. Yep But yeah, so let's uh, I guess I'll talk about having no hair so My whole life I had hair But I almost always you know it had some sort of short haircut of some kind right Sometimes I would go shorter than other times Sometimes I'd like part it over Sometimes I'd like make it go backwards, you know, whatever. I didn't you know do too much with it mostly I just had hair because I had it and And I would wash it and you know, I didn't want to you know, like do too much work or maintenance on it It was a pain in the ass. Yep And then I was like that until I decided to grow my hair out and then I had to do stuff to it Yeah, and you know, some of my relatives like, you know, my dad and his dad and his brother That whole side the rubin part of the family They all uh, didn't have a lot of hair left And the other side of the family and mother's side of the family they all had a lot of hair They still had hair. They didn't lose it. So maybe you had a 5050 shot Who knows how it's gonna be right? Whatever. Um, you know, and then over time It's like, you know, did I have like some bald spot or some widow's peak? Not really but what was sort of happening was sort of like An einstein sort of effect where just I had hair I still do actually have hair from front on every single part of my head There there's not like some spot where there's like no hair growing It's just the density of hairs is way less in anywhere on top from the front You know, it's like at the front of my head. There's still hairs middle. I can still feel some hairs back I still feel some hairs, right? But it's pretty much only on the sides of my head and the back of my head that there is still the same density of hairs There has been my whole life at least since I had hair, you know babies don't have hair Not too much anyway. I was born with a pretty substantial head of hair actually Yeah, but the top of my head there are way less hairs So even if I were to let them grow now like there wouldn't be a bald spot It would just be You would be like able to see through the hairs on the top of my head. Yep to the wall behind me You got to that moment. Yeah, I think a lot of men will get to this point where From the front like when you're looking at yourself in the mirror, it looks fine But from other angles those thin areas appear Yeah, so like I'm getting that a little bit from actually from uh, because I've tied my hair back so tightly for so long I've actually fucked up a bunch of the hair follicles In the back of my head near the top But once I corrected that I haven't thinned further Hmm But yeah, so, you know over time in my life I did different hair. I went to barber sometimes I went to like, you know Fancy slightly fancy or not actually fancy places, right? But slightly not barber places You know places that would you know shampoo and do stuff, you know, not just cut your hair and send you on your way for 10 bucks Um, you know, I mixed it up. I've had different places Sometimes I stuck with the place for a long time sometimes I you know went to own a place only a couple times Whatever whatever was convenient, right? And then when I started seeing that, you know You know when the the trend the uh, the thinning on the top was becoming sort of like too much It's like, all right, you know I've had enough of this Right, and I said, you know what? And I shaved my head, but I don't want to do what a lot of people do Which is use the razor on their head because I was worried about a cutting my head Yep, that's a lot of work. See I gotta like take a razor all the way in the back of my head It's like I didn't want to go to that territory, right? I said, you know what? I'll just get the clippers that the barber has the same ones Oster 76, you know the big Right, I could just buy that same thing the barber has right I go on amazon. It's not that expensive It's a hundred something bucks, right the cost of what like five or six haircuts Yeah, you know, I'm gonna and it's gonna last me forever And uh, you know, you can get all the guards for it and different blades for it You can you know, you got to grease it you got to take care of it So it lasts a long time but you can replace the blades It's pretty just a motor with a power cable coming out of it, right? So I bought one And it's really easy. It's you can mow a lawn. You can buzz your head You're not trying to have a particular style. You're just trying to give it all your hair And what I did the first time is I put on a thicker guard Right and I went down. I think I put like number one and I moved All my hair is number one and I said, how does that look that looks kind of stupid? Let me go And I basically just kept decreasing the you know the the amount of hair And what I've just what I've landed on after, you know, not too long is that At first I ended up just using the triple zero blade itself, right just directly but then Uh, I realized there was a five zero blade and I said Is that five zero blade really? Like is that just like a gimmick? How much closer and shorter can the hair be than the triple zero blade, right? It's like I'm already down And it's like no the five zero blade actually is really nice and even shorter than the three zero blades So all I do is I go in the in the somewhere that I don't I can I can safely make a mess of hair Like the shower or a balcony or whatever I take the five zero blade and it's going, man I just mow my whole head like it's a lawn Even behind I just use two mirrors get behind there, you know to verify Just whole head with the five zero, but Then there's some issues right the issues are no mostly right behind your ear Right the bottom of the back of the neck where rims, you know beard tangly hairs are right You know this right in the very front of the head It's actually here and also this sort of front side not sideburn, but like in front temple area, right? So I have this thing called the tea trimmer, right? Which is what the it's like that tiny clip for the barber uses right to sort of clean up the edges, right? And so I got one of those it doesn't you can't interchange the you can replace the blade if it breaks But you can't interchange the blade is just the tea trimmer blade and I use that to clean up the edges, right? And then I shave or don't shave my face based on whether I'm bearded lately I'm not bearded. I'm trying to take care of that's one thing In terms of face hair I like both of us can grow a really good beard And I can't just alternate between beard and no beard randomly right now I'm bearding because I've been too lazy to shave I've been not bearding because I'm trying to take care of my face skins Ah, yeah, you've always had a little more like face hair skin troubles that I have My my hair skin troubles are more like I'll get tinny aversa color on my chest But we're not talking about chest hair today I get that in the back on the the back of my and I'll get a thick dandruff I'm not careful with the salson blue, but only on the head and the sideburns What I've been doing though is I also have the fancy clippers But I've been using them to I've been fading my sideburns myself because as much as I appreciate good mutton chops My mutton chops do not work or look good unless I grow them like with a full-on beard Like if I let them just be proper mutton chops, they just look scraggly and weird So I really got to like fade them regularly Actually, they're kind of do they're sticking out past the headphones right now Yeah, so the final thing I do is after you know, even if I'm not um Even if I have a whether I have a beard or not, right You know, you sort of still want to even out the sideburns somewhat. Yeah, right So I actually do use the real razor on the sideburn I do that to sculpt the sideburns But I use the buzzer with the like the fade controls to go up and make sure that they're like a nice even look And sometimes the t-trimmer doesn't do a great job behind the ear So I'll maybe I'll even take the razor behind the ear a little bit right to try to you know, get that action Uh, and then that's it. And then it's like it looks like I look like a bald person Um, and my alternative is to look like einstein, right? We're just hair coming out the sides only Uh, maybe I'll do that when I'm an old man. It'll be fun. Yeah, halloween customers. I don't know You could definitely pull off a full-on aramaki. I still say you should do it Yeah, exactly aramaki same einstein haircut. Yep, dr. Wiley Dr. Wiley same haircut. Yeah, you know what when we're old you will be great at cosplays Those three cosplays those three cosplays Einstein dr. Wiley and aramaki Or uh all Saitama those are my four cosplays Uh, but yeah, no, so the the main thing though is like when when you don't have hair at all Right, or at least when you have this few little hair on your head You enter a whole new world of benefits and consequences not all of which were obvious in the beginning So benefit number one don't got to spend money at the barber. You know much money I've saved Not some of the razor money anymore, right every time I went to the barber I was spending even if it was a cheap barber 15 bucks plus tip 20 bucks plus tip like that cheap cheap barber Now I'm paying zero. I I bought the the clippers once the end I don't have to buy anything else. I mean I bought all this stuff like lubricants and whatever I have a spray can of like this spray cool, whatever Spray it on the clipper before you use it, you know barber does that too That one can is not empty. I've had it for how many I don't even know how many it's still going Um, I have a tube of like blade oil in a bottle. It's a bottle of blade oil It's never run out. It's still very very full. Um, you know, it's like it's I don't think it's gonna run out Maybe ever who knows You know just stuff like that, right? The worst thing that's happened is one times I dropped the clipper and I broke the blade and I had to buy a new one For 20 bucks So with the cost of a single haircut if I happen to drop the clippers and break the blade a major con I've noticed for you though is You get cold way easy the two major cons of having no hair so Having no hair Temperature-wise is a pro and a con the pro is like Biking in the summer and a cool breeze comes through and there's it doesn't it's not even cool breeze through your hair It's just Ah, all right That's a lot of the reason how come I can stand the heat and bike when it's like 90 degrees out It's I gotta like tie my hair up into a bun to keep it like off the back of my neck while I'm biking in the heat Yup, uh, so yeah, that's but of course. Yeah, I'm very very cold all the time I gotta like bundle up in the winter blankets coats hats hats are huge very important to have the hats going on Right, um, but the other con besides being way cold is sunburn on the head Despite you know learning having learned that lesson more than once I have still gotten sunburn on the head I think the the secret lesson is Bike helmet does not stop all sun from getting through It does not Even I because I've got that thin spot in the back where my ponytail pulls down I've gotten a sunburn there from my bike helmet There was like this two squares of sunburn under the hair because of those holes in the bike helmet Yeah, so the benefits are you know the money saving the cold when you want to be cold because cold when you don't Want to be cold is is a con right? Uh Lack of maintenance you don't have to like do any hair shit um You know like you don't have to like I mean I do put some like cells in blue on the sides mostly But it's mostly to keep fungus off my back more than it is to stop for anything on my head Um I do have an oily scalp which isn't really a problem Actually, uh, it's not like actually a bad thing. Uh, in fact oil just protects your skin. It's kind of good But it can also be kind of gross just a bunch of sebum all over the place. Um So if you want to you can like, you know use like skin facial skin care products on your head Like moisturizers cleansers to sort of you know, because your scalp is now skin and not hair rather than shampooing skin Which is kind of uh Um, but you still the side of your head. I guess even though I you know, it still has hair there, right? So I wouldn't do it on the side So I guess that's kind of a con But yeah, it's just like, you know life becomes comfortable and easy in a lot of ways You don't got to worry about hair. No bad hair days. No hair getting caught and stuff No one can pull on your hair in a fight. Yep I always thought about like I wouldn't mind trying a bunch of short hair styles The only reason I don't is that If I want to go, but it's not I can go from long to short really fast I can't go from short to long really easily and the worst part is if you've never grown your hair out There's a period where it starts to get long and it looks extra stupid and it's a giant pain in the ass But it's not long enough to tie back reliably yet You have to go through this really long awkward period before it's long enough again Especially in light of the beard hair nonsense in the back when you're first trying to tie it back Yeah, so I would recommend to people, you know, if you uh, just you know If you have hair Right, that's growing well Then you should do what you feel like doing with it and then act accordingly, right? How do you want to look? What is your personal image? Whatever that is make your hair be that way and do what you got to do to make it be that way High maintenance low maintenance, you know, whatever, right? But more importantly learn If you want to look doesn't doesn't match up with your money and your the maintenance effort You're willing to put in then you're gonna have to make some tough choices but also learn the deal with your personal hair and You might find that your hair is a way to where the thing you're trying to do is not feasible or damages your hair Like it's very much easier to lean into what your hair wants to do is my advice Exactly if you or if you're willing to go for it like go nuts I know people who do like crazy radical hair like really strong dye jobs and weird nonsense and like that's awesome But like a mohawk is a gigantic pain in the ass Yep, like people I know that have had like mohawks It's like they only make it straight stand up kick ass punk rock on the special occasions most of the time It just they're just shaving the sides of their head and not the middle and it just sort of flops to the side It's just hair Yeah And they only put on all the mohawk effort when it's you know time to go out for a reason to be awesome Um convention, you know, whatever But yeah, if you have hair that is trying to run away from you and you're running out of hair Uh, you could if you wanted to try those, you know, don't be ashamed to try You know one of those real gains propitious. Yeah, that's transhumanist. That's cool They have side effects, but they will work they like legitimately work for some people to some degree Um, I was just the main reason I never even bothered to try. I was like that one cost money I was like, how long am I going to be buying that for and it's also more maintenance Right where I was going the less money less maintenance, right? Oh, you know what? I actually just looked up apparently rogaine works on traction alopecia, which is what I got going from my ponytail I did not know that try it Yeah, let's see what happens It doesn't have the same side effects because male pattern baldness is caused by like baldness is a whole field There's like a lot of different causes testosterone is tied to it Tying it back is tied to it hair trauma is tied to it. There's all it's complicated. Yep They're they're wearing hats too tight over long periods of time can cause certain kinds of baldness Yep If you want to dye your hair either because you just want to have awesome colors or because your hair is going gray Go for it. Just keep in mind that money Maintenance effort thing going on. Yep Or if you have very dark hair and you want to dye it strong colors You're going to have to lighten it first which will damage it and make it more fragile and then you run into situations Yep But if you are running out of hair and you don't want to try to bring it back Right. Uh, I highly suggest don't try to do some, you know, just go for it, right? It's like, yep, just shave it all off. It was so easy and life has been easy since then In fact, the biggest hassle now is like, you know, it's like, oh, my hair is getting a little long I don't really want it's like it takes like, you know, 20 minutes or so to shave my head. It's like, I don't It's like, uh, do I want to do that? It's almost like a chore like cleaning the dishes like I don't want to Oh, I'll just googling I found some medical sites that say Rogaine works for traction alopecia and other sites that say it does not work For traction alopecia. So I think you just got a it's all it's over the counter. So by it I remember when it came out and like every ad on tv was Rogaine with minoxidil It's like just try it and see, you know, I'm not gonna I can't speak, you know, to any experience with it It's just like I will say I know someone was really want hair and you don't have it, you know The one thing I can say that I do know a little bit about this because I do know someone who tried one of the other options To grow hair back or do not lose hair The difference is things like Rogaine act on the scalp because a lot of people who have male pattern baldness That it's testosterone scalp interactions that cause the baldness meaning the treatments Mess with your hormones So Rogaine just does like blood stuff in the scalp and doesn't have like isn't as uh It doesn't have as many of these side effects But the person I knew who took propitia had significance Sexual side effects and chose to not continue that is very common. So if you're gonna do something about hair loss You know, it could why couldn't it have been like why are human bodies made that way? Why couldn't it have been such that it caused positive sexual side effects? It's a negative one You can get a two for one viagra propitia same thing But you realize that hair and and grow your junk Probably the only thing that pharmaceuticals are trying to find more than cures and treatments and vaccines for covid Is trying to find something that is both a sexual enhancer and causes head hair to grow Magic skydrupens magic elixir Buy some today $100,000 One ounce in a tiny bottle bloom county called they they want you to uh pay them for stealing their idea Yeah, it wasn't their idea I think that was a fine show Okay, I stopped recording. There was this problem saving the metadata. Uh-oh