You’re a Dingleberry

[MUSIC] I turn my D&D on. God damn it, why does this happen? What if I was, what if I was, what if, what? >> Dang, you're a dingle bear, you're dinged. >> I'm a dingle bear, I'm a dingle bear, I'm a dingle bear. I'm a dingle bear, I'm a dingle bear, is the name for somebody who thinks their D&D is on. >> Mm-hm. >> And then it does. >> That whose ding goes ding. >> Because it's a ding- >> It goes ding. >> And it put, and it puts a light of the whole thing. It's frustrating, John. I don't know, I don't know who I have to blow to get this thing to work. It's very, what if I was a vicar? What if I was walking up to the pulpit to give a very moving speech? Maybe a memorial for you, a happy belated birthday, by the way. >> Yeah. >> Anyways, I've had a very long running, almost cold. I think I warned you I'm coming in a little bit hot with this. I got, I got, this is just going to be like the days of MacBook weekly. I got a hot, I got a hot tech tip, can I tell you about it? >> Sure. >> Okay, so, previously, I'm reconciled with differences. Hey everybody, happy new year. We talked about Apple TV a fair amount, and we talked about things like how I like to try and utilize the top row in Apple TV and lot on all the odd. And I think I'd mentioned my trick where, okay, so I am not admonished from doing research. So I did prepare ahead and I actually did look this up. Okay, so the Apple TV remote, serial remote three or whatever with USB-C. You know what that looks like, right? >> Mm-hm. >> Okay. And you've got, I'm clicking, oh, I post a lot of images. I sort of that thing, I think, that like, I realized this sort of, God, beyond by accident, by just like, having something happen thousands of times, and it only, finally, occurred to me that there was a pattern to be found. I told you how I put my most used app in the upper left corner of the icons, right? Can I tell you about this? And the reason behind that is, so you're holding your Apple remote, and you've got, well, I look this up, I think it makes some reason to call it the back key. I would call it the upper arrow. But you've got, you know, so you get the touchpad at the top and then you got the buttons under that. You know, you get the touchpad at the touch of ring, and you know, you've got the top two mini buttons are, I think it's called back, and the other one is called TV or home, right? And the neat thing is, if you're on the home screen for your Apple TV, well, here's the thing. If you're anywhere on your Apple TV, and you hit, in my case, I remapped the TV button. God, I'm going to get this wrong. It's usually mapped to the Apple TV app, correct? Yeah, by default. By default. And if you're smarter than the average bearer, it's okay if you're not, and that's why we're here. You can go and change your little television button to actually take you to your home screen, your home board, whatever it's called, where all the little lozenges are that you can't tell the difference, right? So if you're anywhere, no matter how deep you are anywhere, don't feel like you've got to go dip, dip, dip with your, not if you're confused with that on your time screen. Don't feel like you've got-- Everything makes that noise now, dip, dip is the on a monopia of the year. I'll tell you, the low key being of my existence of things that are things that require four clicks. I've become completely incensed by the number of things in my life that require four interactions on a phone. The neat thing is, no matter where you are, you're right, it's crazy. You don't have to go dip, dip, dip on the back, you have to button, I think that's where it's called. Get the TV button, and if you've mapped it to your home screen, hey, Bob's your uncle, take short to the home screen. So here's what's great. You want to be somewhere other than where you are. Well, a great trick is, you can-- and I think this is just how it is. I don't think this is custom. You double-click your TV icon, and you get your little selector thing, where you can then left and right between the different apps. But here's the thing. No matter where you are, if you've got this mapped right, like I just described, you can hit that one little TV button that takes you your home screen. That's one click. It's great. If you didn't know that, now you know that. Now, here's the other neat thing. If you click while you're on the home screen, and let's say you're in like the third row in the fifth column, it sounds political. If you hit the back of the arrow, you know where it takes you, it takes you to your top left most app icon. Does that make sense? What happens if you hit the back arrow again? It takes you to your screen saver. That's right. And you can go through screensavers by, I never want to give any advice anymore, not because I think I'm wrong, but just because I don't know if this is a weird setting. But like if you are in your screensavers, and by the way, turn off the jellyfish title, you can, if you're in your screensavers-- What's wrong with the jellyfish? Why all the jellyfish? I'm not even an internet guy, John. They're pretty. Well, it's just, I don't like it's like anchovies. I don't want to be surprised. I remember when they swam with the jellyfish in the season of Survivor, that was like a reward. Do you remember that? No. Wow. And that was a reward. Was that sponsored by Outback's Daycast? Yeah. Well, you know the screen saver? Imagine now swimming in that. I'm as your reward. Okay. Well, I think jellyfish are incredible. There's a lot of sea creatures that are absolutely amazing. If there's any era area of our world that most blows my mind, it's the sea. I don't want to be surprised by jellyfish. Okay. But if you're in here, so now let's go back to where we were. Let's say you're 50 layers deep, you're casing, and you're inside, so you got Docker running on your Apple TV. Your levels and levels and levels deep, and you got the port wrong, and you just want to go watch some TV. Hit, once it's programmed right, hit your TV button, takes you to the home screen. Hit, you're lefty up your arrow, and that takes you to the top left most icon. Now I think I mentioned this once before. How like I, in my case, not that it matters, I have plex there. Because plex represents both the app that I use almost the most, but also the app that I'd like to be using the most. I'm trying to make, as Jeffene once said, I'm trying to make the right thing, the easy thing. So, you know, I don't put garbage there, but you're going to see in a minute, I do put garbage nearby. But do you see the utility of what I'm describing? You hit that TV button, takes you to the home screen. You hit up your arrow. It takes you to whatever your, let's call it the, not the blessed. That's the wrong term. But the, your most beloved app, that makes sense? You know what I did? Now these are not beloved apps, but these are apps I do use, you know what I did? I took the, I've realized after thousands of times being frustrated by dealing with this device, the best of, best of breed, I took the two app icons, I edited home screen and I moved the two apps that I use the most to the right of and just below the top left the most icon, which in this case is now plex. Can you see why I would do that? Just below as in the next one. Imagine your home, yeah, so imagine your home screen. You've got, and let's say, you got J random app, one and two, right, whatever John's favorite apps are. You got John's most, most used most beloved app up, up in the top left. You put your second most loved or used app, I would say one space below. So second row, first column, your third most, you put first row, second column. So that you've got like a, a pawn move and look or click in either directions from that top most icon, you see why other than then just being close to the place in the top left. No, only do it because if the number is three, yeah, HTV icon, you're anywhere. You're in Casey Docker. I love that book. You go to the homepage, boom, you hit lefty, upy, now you either click, down click or right click, and in three clicks, you've gone from anywhere on your Apple TV to three of your favorite apps in no more than three clicks. So TV button on the homepage, right, lefty, upy, take me to Plex, down from there with the little adjusted deal, YouTube, does nothing kind of smore, because now it's a no look. It's the thing, I was describing this to something, oh, it's describing this to Gemini today. I said, you said that's a no look, but my experience with that stupid remote almost nothing is no look because my fingers and my brain have no confidence in that stupid wheel shaped deep pad. Well, you see what I'm aspiring to, I totally agree with you. And maybe it's because I'm on the beta, I'm always on the beta. Maybe it's who knows why. I mean, like Hulu is so frustrating to use, it's just, it's too much to get into, but if you're using Hulu with live TV, you already know like in its best situation, it's not a very well made app for somebody who purchases that service, 85% for the live TV functionality. It's crazy frustrating to use, it was so much easier to watch TV on a 40 channel cable box when I was 13. But what I'm trying to get at here though is like you, once you get, you're right, it's not a no look app. And in fact, there's some apps where it's gotten, there's, it's gotta be regressions or something. Something has gotten so much slower, I make sure there's a clear sight line to my dingus. And you're right, it's not technically no look. But I'm just saying, give this a spin if you're somebody who actually uses this app. And I understand, I use this device a lot more than other people, including a lot of people who made it. And TV, lefty, uppy, and then, right. But you know, it's because like I've always been, you know, I try to be, I've tried to think about this, but I still find myself going dip, dip, dip, dip, dip a lot because of like what seemed like a sensible place to put these things before. I created a giant junk folder to clean all the stuff off that I never, ever use. And it's all on a folder in case I need it, right? And then like, it's nice. I like having white space. Again, it's something I had to tell my new friend, Gemini, like make your responses short enough that in the window, I just sent you a screenshot of, there would be white space at the bottom, unless it needs to be longer. I like white space. So I think that's a neat trip, trick, I don't know if it's a tip or a trick, but I thought I should, it's not meant not so much for you, you know, unless you think it's useful, but like I thought our audience might like to know. Every time you do that, I see if I were you, as you're always a little making gym in certain clips of things, I would have them insert that clip that I sent you. Remember the first time that you came up with the dip, dip, dip thing? Yeah. I sent you the song whose title I never would have gotten if I had not googled it, which was "Get a Job" by the cellist right there, down the go, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. No, how does that song begin? Well, that's the song, right? Yeah, but how does it begin? No, is that blue moon? Did I do blue moon? What's, wait, what's yours called? Get a job. Oh, Shanana. Shanana, get a job by, yes, and then in the, the, the, the, the band Shanana took that, that nonsense. Yeah, but how does it be? How does it begin? Dip, dip, dip. Do this. That's right. Dip, dip, dip. Dip, dip, dip, dip. Dip, dip, dip, dip. Dip, dip, dip, dip. Dip, dip, dip, dip, dip. Dip, dip, dip, dip. Dip, dip, dip. So every time you say, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip. This is what I hear. All right. I'm not going to click it now, but I'll, I'll listen later. I, I got your, I got your MTV thing. I'll queue it up for later. Yeah. Dip, dip, dip, dip. Anyway, I want to toss that out to people and, and in, um, and in searching, uh, to verify that what I was saying was close enough to true, I was goofing around, and I'm reminded that I just said that it's on the internet, but Stephen Robles, I believe that tight pronounces his name. I just want to say, Stephen. Robles, say it again. Robles. Like kind of like it's easy. Robles. Robles. Robles. That you know, um, McLaren is a character in, in that, uh, Ford versus Ferrari movie. Mm-hmm. That's a pretty good movie. I think, I think Christian Bale is very good in that movie. Um, dip, dip, dip. And, uh, Stephen Robles, uh, uh, Luciano, uh, Esteban, uh, Decyl B. Sticco, Nanzaladi, Sopa, E.D. Post today. Fruit Top. Um, Corta Elpello, De Truste, Las Arrejas, E.D. That's amazing. Amazing accent. Fruit Top here. Demonstrating. Hey. Hey, you want to hear my real pronunciation when I'm not trying to be cute? I've, I've been, my, my book called Lario and my pronunciation on is, is highly commended by a lot of the two. Mm-hmm. Is it? Decyl B. Post today, Fruit Top. Do you want, do you want Spanish or do you want Mexican? Yeah. I really want Thai. I'm sure. The distinction will be lost on me. The order, whatever you want. Oh, you can tell it's, it's like, uh, it's like, this is my new, my new, my new, uh, woke racist, uh, humor character that I'm, that I'm working on. Mm-hmm. There's a lot of list being, if you're, if you're going for, um, uh, what's it called? And, uh, Castilian. Castilian. Castilian, yeah. But you know, he does really good videos and I just sat my narrow ass down and just watched his YouTube video about, uh, and it's got a dumb name because it's YouTube, but it's, you know, 10, 10 cool things you didn't even do with your Apple TV. And they're actually really good because I was trying to prove a thing. And you ever get those things on Apple TV where something works and you're like, hey, how, hang on a minute. Like, you must have gotten this at one time or another where there's something that is at the, uh, on the one hand, sort of like maybe undocumented or new to you, but then there's other kinds of things where this is literally impossible, but it just worked. If you're, I don't know if you get these. Very rarely. Well, whatever the opposite of surprising delight is, that's usually my Apple TV experience. I've had Netflix and Plex both appear in Siri soup, which is supposedly impossible, but I've seen, I have seen Plex responses. It was, you know, one day I discovered, I think Stephen has this in his video, um, there's the one where, did you know, you can do a, there's like, supposedly there's double click way to change apps. I didn't know that double click on your Siri remote. But if you double, double click side Siri, um, no, I think it's short and then long, but there's a secreting contestation to get to general overall search rather than voice Siri search. Genoa. No, I barely use any of the search stuff. Um, I, I, I just put on the internet, but I also put it in a notes. He's a nice guy and he knows a lot about podcasting and I can tell when there's somebody, this is, this is used to be true of, uh, well, true, still true, but, uh, Glen Fleischman was always the greatest example of this phenomenon where like after myself, the Nate, the thing that I would find the most of you, this one person writing about something, we're like, you know, I can't believe how many times like an O'Reilly article by Glen Fleischman saved my bacon for a million different things, not just Wi-Fi, uh, and Stephen's, Stephen's like that. So I just wanted to say, you know, happy new year, everybody. Um, Idiposte, fruta, crown, wow, that was something that's my trick, you would say. Uh, yeah, but where the lighter fluid come from, wait, uh, that's a, that's a pretty obscure line. Okay. I pulled out there and that's my trick. You got anything on that? Um, oh, wait, oh, that, oh, that sounds like something I said once, no, I don't know. What is that? That's my trick. I think I'm getting it right. That's okay. Tell me. Godfather when he's showing Michael how to make the, uh, the tomato sauce. Right. You got to keep, uh, you got to, you got to, you got to throw this in and he says at the end, after he's finished showing him all the things, he says, that's my trick. Doesn't take a trick really. He's just telling him what ingredients to put it, you know, I think Michael can thank his lucky stars. Am I, am I mixing it up with the Godfather sauce making someone's making sauce on a gangster movie? Well, there's, there's not, not, not good fellas. We both know it's not good fellas because he is stirring it. He was instructed to stir it and then he does stir it as in stirring. No, like when they're, when they're talking about, um, yeah, it's clemenza showing Michael how to make sauce. No, it's when they go, God, uh, let me check my location bar. It's when they're fixing to go to the mattresses and fact clemenza is making spaghetti sauce or if you say gravy for everybody and he shows him like, come over here, Mikey and I'll show you again. He takes a swig out of the, like, out of the red wine bottle with the, the, the, the jug. Right. You throw in the sausage. You did it. That's what you're talking about, right? Yeah. They were in the kitchen. Yeah. It was another one that we might be, yeah. I got it right. It's the Godfather. And that's my trick. That's what he says. That's a good line. Pan the ass. It started to doubt myself, but I got it right. Oh, no, you, you should, you should have less, you should have made more confidence and, and less dignity would be a nice combination for you for the new year. Do you have any resolutions? I do not. Okay. My resolution, I have one resolution this year and I'm already doing it and I only realized that a minute ago, rip-forced or recording, I'm, this is the year that I'm finally going to improve the way that I write numerals, which is, it's an omnibus effort. There's two things, one, well, you know, because it's always, one is that I'm going to write my numerals more neatly and I'm also going to do proper ones. Oh, no. What is a, what is a proper one in your mind? Okay. I normally have a dress, a vertical stick. Okay. Okay. But I'm talking about where like you've drawn a stick and then you make a little awning down into the left and then you make a little hangman platform at the bottom. It's got three lines. A platform is a bridge too far. You think, because then it looks more like slash code, okay, and they, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm also going to slash my zeros, just seeing the little awning. So first of all, you're going to give you a suggestion for your normal resume. Okay. Oh, my God. I could totally use it. It's normally what six days in. Yep. The little awning, my suggestion is that you start at the lower left of that awning and do one continuous stroke so you go up to the right and then straight down. So just do one stroke for that. That would be like wiping differently for me, right? But the reason you do that and the reason lots of people do that and that little awning as you described, it gets longer and longer. That's why I am told from my high school education. They put slashes on the sevens in Europe because their ones look so much like sevens because they start at that awning and the awning just gets real big and it's like, well, is that a one or a seven? Well, if it's got a slash along the vertical bar, then it's a seven. And that's when I started putting slashes along the vertical bar of my sevens. I know I was, I guess middle school probably started doing that. I never started doing my one stroke. It's a little dorky. It's like when I started, I bought the very first, I eventually got a subscription but I bought at the new stand like the entire first year of Wired. I bought every episode of Wired on the stand. And I just remember the aesthetic of Wired was like so in my wheelhouse and I started putting a plus sign in front of my phone number, which I think was extremely pretentious. Yeah. But lots of stuff became, lots of people started doing stuff like that in the form of their use net signatures. Remember, remember having use net signatures? Yes. And how people start formatting those. I had like YouTube lyrics and there I have some more ASCII arts people with their email address and people put their phone numbers with pluses. Yes. Yeah. Anyway, that's nice. No, no, no, no. Good. I interrupted your numeral thing. So you're going to do proper ones. I'm trying to encourage you not to put the platform. What else involves? This is doing better numerals. What else is this involved? Oh, well, I mean, there's this larger effort, which is the whole reason that I'm even here right now, which is that I have, I have two problems with like people who are thinking of using regular expressions. I am. I have very poor handwriting and I don't care. So, but I think as somebody who uses a very specific pen with a very specific paper and notices when it's not either of those two, I wouldn't write a blog post about it, but I have pretty strong feelings about the velocity of a writing instrument. And I think that certain kinds, I tried to explain this to my kid once and I made it almost 30 seconds in before we both just wanted to die. I think because he got into varsity fountain pens too, which is what I wrote my thesis with, disposable varsity fountain pen. And I was like, you know, I think varsity fountain pens, which are disposable, probably terrible for the environment, but good for my thesis, with a slightly toothy paper, is really satisfying because for a certain kind of writing, that's exactly the velocity I want. Jotting things in my notebook during a podcast is a completely different thing. Or maybe think about the way you're like, if you're using a sketch pencil, you know, with a real toothy, like a card stock or something, you know what I mean? This is why I use computers. I just press a button. I know. I know. I know. I know. But I still, you know, these notebooks, they're, they're, uh, geez, you're only, you're only normal resolution is to improve the ones. Well, it's just in my writing handwriting is poor. Well, the other one, my, there's my secret resolution is, you're not going to cross your sevens. I was sure that was going to be one of your things. No, slashing. You're not going to slash the seven? Well, do you think, okay. So, so the, the real, there's only three numerals we really need to think about here, which is I think up to maybe up 30% of the numerals. We've got the ambiguous, as we know, the ambiguous and, uh, opportunities for improvement, you get zeroes, you got ones, you got sevens. I, I personally don't feel like I need to slash my zeroes. I mean, you could do everything in binary and just do ones and zeroes. I don't, I don't see binaries. Uh-huh. Um, I put a hex on you. We have a lot of fun. And, uh, no, no, it's slowing down to, to, I'm using a line here from the TV show Letter Kenny. Um, your friend with the Docker will recognize this reference. Let's try taking about 20% off there. In general, I'm trying to take 20% off of everything. Everything must go. I'm trying to do things 20% slower, 20% less weird. I'm just, that's my secret resolution. And included in that omnibus effort and, and joining hands across America with my writing project is, um, slow down when I'm writing, write smaller, write clearer, if I don't have to be smart. Write smaller. Hmm. Well, you've seen what might, I mean, you, I think you've ever seen one notebook page I've ever had. I mean, I've seen various ones. I mean, we're very critical about it. You're very critical. Yeah. No, your handwriting is very bad. Yeah. Hmm. I mean, like, you know, I'm like in a coding font. I see that, but like, you know, I mean, it's a little cute for me if I'm, because a lot of what I'm doing and involving, involving numerals at the top of every page, I write what day of the week it is and whether it's morning or evening. And then I write the date at the top on three lines in 2026, oh, one, oh, six. This is just a habit of mine. And then whatever happens happens, but I, the main way I write a lot of numerals is when I'm doing stuff with, like, dimensions or 3D printing things, like right now, I'm, I'm prototyping a thing to help redirect a heating vent to a different area. And so like, if I've got to have three rows of things, I mean, I'll know those are numbers. I'm not going to be confused about whether that's a confused about whether that's an O or not, you know what I mean? It doesn't seem a little pretentious, though, honestly, little self-involved. So I think the sevens is 100% pretentious. Yes, it is. Especially, yeah, if you make it a little bit frilly, I still think it's inexcusable what we do with ones and eyes. It's fricking ridiculous. Fine. You can use a telephone context. People should be like, oh, I'm so good at genius. You know, genius is cute now. And they put canary traps in there. So like you go and you select, you know, two verses of international players' anthem. And like you realize, oh no, when you paste it into, so like in, in drafts, command V will paste it as markdown, command option shift, what is it, command option shift V. We'll do it plain. And when I do it plain, that's where you see all the little asky cuteness that they put into canary tropia. It's a very anti-artistic thing to do. And I often will repunctuate and realign all those lines anyway. But still, I don't want to have to take little, little, you know, umlauts and houses out of my lyrics, not to my outcast song. Very frustrating. One doesn't want to be pretentious, does one. Hey, everybody. This is a wonderful show that we do and you're listening to it. That you can help support the program by becoming a member of the program, go to relay.fm/rd/join Pupu. And it's a new year, new calendar, I still got to get a new calendar. But if you become a member, you help support the show. And you give us a little money, which we could both really use. And then you also get bonus stuff. You get commercial free episodes. And you get bonus stuff. So once a month, we do some extra stuff after the main episode. As it happens, it tends to be the even numbered episodes of which this is one. This is episode 278 of your Reconcilable Differences Program, which means there's bonus. John, at least for now, what's the straw man plan? What are we going to talk about? And today's after show, we are going to talk about television program, blue lights, but only season one, because that's all I have seen. Yes. And it's a show about cops in, um, it's in, it's near belt fast, right? Is it like part, it's like a, like a little sub area of belt fast, but yeah, yeah, and we're going to talk about that. And I watched the entire series, um, because John mentioned it. I wouldn't even say you recommended it necessarily, but you did mention it. And I went, what is the, what is the word for now? You've just confused me by talking about a, a British adjacent television program by saying you've watched the entire series in American parounds. I know what you mean. I mean, you've watched every episode of the show that exists. Yeah. It's a sucky thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do they call a series? We call a season. So what do they call a series? Yeah. What do they call that? Huh. So like, I watch the whole show. I don't know. We're getting a Todd in here talking about show. I think that's one instance. And I don't have a dog in this fight. Or as you say, Laurie in this torch, but I, uh, I, I, I do think that that is an instance where, to me, series is a good way to describe all of the episodes of a TV show. Yeah, because that's the word we use in this country for it, but yeah, that having to be reversed in the UK and you say, I've watched the entire series makes it sound like you just watch season one. Did you watch the Jason Menzookus season of Taskmaster? No. No. That's a running bit where he says something, blah, blah, blah season. And Alex, Alex Horn goes, series, Jason. It's very, very fun. Um, so that's what we're going to be doing is talking about that. And I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll just say, uh, I'm really glad I watched it. And you know, who's, you know, it's got in it. It's, it's got Barrett Dondaria. It does. Mm hmm. Who's, who's, uh, who's got, he's got a real kind of, like, uh, Tim, the all fun, like kind of snake hips, sort of gate. Yeah. This is a, this is a very sexy man. I think he loses about five pounds or as you say, stone per episode. He gets narrow and narrowed by the last episode. It looks like he's doing a comic drunk. You know, the, the one scene where he's walking from left to right. We see him walks. It's just how he walks. Does he, he doesn't need to look like he's doing a little bit of a comic drunk? Yeah. Do you think it's insensitive, uh, to, to Karen and his people? No. No. No. I have a track list of Northern Irish things that John will remember to put in notes if anybody remembers that. Um, let's get into the show, pew, pew, follow up. Second item since you're able to, you almost kind of, oh my god. It was a front matter. It was a front matter item. Front matter. Oh, up in front matter. Um, this is a late breaking one from someone, uh, goes by the handle. The media is poison. They said, Aoshima audio series on eBay made some super accurate stereo equipment model kits. They're awesome, but like $150 seems like a money making opportunity for monogram, rebel, bandai, has to go, et cetera. Uh, what this is a reference to is last episode where I talked about my Mac lock, which was, is a tiny scale model. I'm just, I'm sorry to interrupt you, John. People stop calling it Matlock. That's not what it's called. You guys keep calling it Matlock and it's actually called Matlock. Good. Uh, um, yeah, a tiny scale model of a original Mac and Josh. We talked about that last episode, tiny scale models of things. This is not, this is a model that you have to assemble yourself. These Aoshima things, they've made a series of models that you have to assemble yourself. But what they are, we'll put links to a couple of eBay items and then a YouTube video looking at one of them is they are plastic glued together model kits of stereo equipment. Classic, presumably, I don't know enough about stereo equipment, but these presumably these are like famous, important stereo or like very cool looking stereo. If you know, John, are they, because this is something some of our younger listeners may not be aware of, um, are they models of like kit high fives? Cause that would be extra funny. Most people used to make their own, because if you're a high five, I don't know if these are kit high five. Like that was the dorky thing back in the day was like, you know, you'd make your own high five. Yeah, you get all the tubes. Yeah. If that's if they've already built your high five, now you can also build a model of it. Awesome. Yeah. So, I mean, we were talking about the more common things of like anime figurines and little people and cars and stuff, but, but stereo equipment, stereo equipment, presumably famous stereo equipment. And, and these like, as usual, the pictures on the box show an amazing looking tiny little star piece of stereo equipment from like the 70s. But then what you get are just a bunch of unfinished plastic pieces on like trees that you have to snip off and sand down and, and carefully glued together and then prepare and then paint. Yeah. Well, and do you think that's do you think that's some and this looks to be a Japanese product? Yes. Yeah, this company, I think is a Japanese model, mate. And like it's got English on it. But I believe these are, this is like Japanese language and presumably Japanese national products. Because we were asking ourselves during the matlock discussion, you know, we, yeah, there's the toys. We were both kind of pining for these and like, you know, we were sort of like wondering allowed, what are some other kinds of things that, you know, people might want to make and put together like, I mean, did people actually buy these and make them? They're really cute, but it looks like a tremendous amount of work. This is like one step away from like a plastic model kit of that sort of curved banana shaped phone, which was one of the early phones that came after the standard AT&T ones, you know that phone from the 70s and 80s. The one that looks sort of like a curved banana seat type thing. I mean, like, am I talking about it? I mean, like, do you know what I mean when I see a princess phone? Oh, you're talking about just the standard AT&T phone that everyone had to get? Well, the standard AT&T phone was the same model of phone. You can watch YouTube videos about it. I'm talking about like the handset that you like hang on the wall when it's got the, I tell you what, I think it's called a trim line phone. Oh, okay, trim line phone. Okay. Let me look. There you go. Let's see. Market. 1980s trim line phone. Boy, there's a lot of these. Yeah. Okay. So like, what did I lose to me? After the end? Okay. Okay. Okay. Hand telephone sets in the bell system. We're first designed to let you. After the introduction of princess telephone line in 1959. That's where I would get it from. Line is one like if you saw a girl like talking to talk to a boy on the phone and be like one of those and put it in. Yeah. Here's a green one. This is what I'm talking about. No. No, that's what I meant is yours. Which is a terrific phone. I was trying to find a way to describe it, but anyway, imagine a plastic model kit and this was the model you make this right. Right. Right. Right. And it would, you know, I guess you could do it like you probably like half scale or something because it's a pretty small device. But the stereo equipment is like one step removed from that. It's like, it's a little bit of fancier than the stereo equipment, but not much like you're building a plastic. And to be clear that this plastic model kit does not play sound. It is, it is literally a model. Like it doesn't do anything. It's only a model. Yeah. One-twelfth scale. And okay. All right. I'm gonna close that. Thank you so much to listener media. The media is poison. The media is poison. The media is poison. Thank you so much for sending that. I am very intrigued by this. And I continue to believe that this is a, I don't know, some kind of untapped market. You said this on ATP that I was just listening to, and I'm gonna repeat something and so deep privately. But I like the thing that you said about kind of hope having kind of higher expectations, higher hopes for what happens with Apple and their displays, the iMacs, all these different things. But like, the point you were making was like, hey, look, you know, I don't mind paying a little more or even kind of sometimes I hate it, but I'll pay a lot more sometimes because I like this stuff. Like, I want the monitor that goes with this computer and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And I told you before, I thought that was a good point. And I think the same goes for here, which is like, I mean, I don't know anything about business obviously, but it's just, it strikes me that there must be things like this where people would like to have a little model of something and it's just, it must be like an untapped. Yeah. I feel like the problem with this whole market is that what I was really pining for was like, but like a really good one, right? Just like, really? Yeah, exactly. The the market for the market for a really good one, like no one wants to make that. Like, it's too much work to make a really good one. You need somebody. It's kind of the people that most people make like three thousand dollar keyboards. You need somebody with that level of dedication where it's like someone with a lot of money to burn has to have has to be highly motivated because no regular speaking of business, no regular business person is ever going to make a really good one because it is too much work. It's too hard to do. Right. And like to get the level of like build quality that you would need to make it desirable to those the right to make it like super accurate and, you know, just perfectly detailed and to not be satisfied with the sticker on the top for the vents and to just not give up making it like you need someone who it's like, this is their passion or whatever, a regular business person will never do this. And the thing is like that kind of passion is what leads to companies that can then become successful in the future and start selling things only to rich people for ridiculous values, but no one sees no one thinks that long term. They just want to, you know, drop something from China and make their money and get out. Yeah. I imagine that like I don't know a lot about, you know, like all business PKI's or whatever. I don't know, you know, about that kind of stuff. But like there must be a spot in the curve where the two lines come together. Hmm. That all curve works. But at the point where like we can make an off off of this and that, you know, it's in the sweet spot for people who will pay for this. Do you subscribe or do you watch Zach Friedman's videos on YouTube? I don't think so. Okay. He's a guy I really like a lot. He's a real, a really unique YouTube guy who I learned about because he does a lot of stuff about 3D printing and maker stuff. And I think his background is in electrical engineering and he's just a really interesting guy. You'll know from the thumbnail for the guy with that little like weird thing over his eye, because he made a head, he made a, like a, he has his own like, what's it called? Teleprompter. Then he made the go over his eye. He's absolutely adorable and he's wonderful. Anyways, the most recent video of his that I saw would you might enjoy. This is nerdy. Like you might enjoy this. It's called five products over engineered. They're actually kind of worse. And he does this thing where like, you know, once or however many times a year he goes through his inbox and like, has these companies who pitch him like send him something insane. And then he talks about it, you know, without any. So I, I, I was trying to make a dumb joke a few months ago and I thought I was talking about a circuit board where you had to solder things and I used the phrase breadboard and then you jumped on me because the circuit board shouldn't need a breadboard is the whole point of bread board is you don't need to solder to use it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So click that thing. I just sent you and I encourage you to watch Zach's coverage of this item because it's very adjacent to what we're talking about right now. This is a called, this looks like it's a Kickstarter type thing. It's called jumperless V5. The next generation jumperless breadboard. So this is a breadboard and not not only is there no soldering, there's no little wires to poke into the breadboard, but did you get to the crazy part? Like I guess, so I don't know anything about this stuff. So I could only appreciate it based on Zach's wonderful description of it, but I guess there's things you can do with this that are pretty close to magic in terms of the number of different ways these connections work together. And it comes with all these different, like this, I would love for you to watch that video. Can I actually give it to you as homework? I'll tell you why. Just watch the jumperless part. I'm looking at right now. I'm looking at the jumperless V5. Look at the specs. No, you did some of what you're engineering, right? Did those specs do anything to jump out at here about how crazy this thing is? You can find it on it. Yeah. I had to use breadboards in my classes at school. It's not the breadboard part. It's the crazy connections part. There's this thing. Yeah, because breadboard is actually a very just simple thing that lets you connect wires together in a very simple way. But then he's got all these different apps that he developed all these different ways to use this. And so I think that very much means that there's a tribute to say like, you know, almost nobody and it's like it's in a weird spot for like the amount of money for the level of expertise you would need to want something like this. You know, I'm sympathetic to that because of 3D printing. Like there's some more things where you're like, well, if you knew enough to know what you're doing, you wouldn't need this. And if it just seemed cool, it seems a little expensive. But I only mentioned it not because I want to pitch this, but because I just want you to just look at winning what this person put into making this thing. It's almost like outside of heart. Hmm. Almost stuff like that. Zach Friedman, great guy. You know, it's entertaining. I would say, you know, even if you're not into 3D printing, he's just a very entertaining guy. For those of you who are even the slightest bit nerdy about things, Zach is the person who invented something called grid finity. So if you've ever heard of grid finity, which is maybe arguably the biggest like deal in the 3D printing community for like an like overriding system for dealing with your stuff. He does stuff like he puts arphids in all of his things. He can spin them around like Wally and pick stuff out. It's absolutely fascinating stuff. But he does this thing where he's he tested every filament. He has all these insane filaments and he has this S, what do you call that tier chart? What do you call that? Tier list. He made a tier list of the best filaments, but he also did a tier list of the most cursed filaments, which is very much worth watching. Things were like, even if you like, get every single thing right about this. It's still cost $2,000 and it's really hard to use. Zach Friedman, everybody, I'm just giving out links this week, John. Okay. Um, thank you to the media's poison. I'm guessing this next one is because you heard me mention something on Roderick. I did. I just wanted to check in with you on this. Yes, please. If you pay attention to what you say on some other podcasts. And you were talking, I think, with Roderick about your use of Spotify and how you don't use Apple Music. I said, when somebody comes up with a better way to listen to music, especially on my phone, I will be the first one in line. Yeah. And you mentioned Apple Music and you're like, I don't use Apple Music despite the fact that if I did use Apple Music, it would be easier for me to listen to like my music collection instead of just streaming stuff. Stuff I bought. Yeah, yeah. Right. Stuff you bought. But despite that, Spotify is just so much better that you just use Spotify. That was the gist of what you were saying. And I wanted to check into you with you to make sure that you knew and just were choosing not to use the feature of Spotify that lets you play the music that you bought. I'm only I, so if there's new information about this, I would love to hear it. So I have old information on this, which is if you point it to a folder on your Mac, you can mostly get it to work on your Mac. I'm not aware of where to do that on the list. Yeah. So I had to figure this out or I did figure this out because my daughter was in a similar when not in a similar situation. My daughter was my daughter, which means that she wanted to listen to Spotify because that's what everyone listens to when she's a kid. I think either she wanted me to make her a playlist or she wanted me to give her like both of my children. I sort of seeded with a playlist that I made of songs that I thought you would like you made them like be spoke. Yeah, I do remember this from like a year or so ago. Right. And then she wanted that to on Spotify and I was like, well, Spotify is just a streaming app. And these are songs or MP3 files in a folder. So how am I going to make this happen? But what I discovered back then, and I believe this is still the case, there is an extremely annoying difficult way to do this, but you can get Spotify to see files on your MP3 files on your phone and play them as part of just the plain old Spotify app on iOS. Now it is difficult. It is annoying. It is arduous. And I wouldn't blame you for saying, ask her that I just don't deal with it without it. But I just wanted you and listeners to know it is possible to get Spotify both on your Mac and on your phone to play arbitrary MP3 files that you have purchased or otherwise ripped from your own CDs or whatever. And why would you want to do that? Because a lot of the songs in my playlist that I wanted to make my daughter are not on Spotify. Why would you want to do that? I understand you are playing devil's advocate, but like some people think every song in the world is on Spotify. That is not the case. Well, yeah. And it is such not you, but the people to whom you are preemptively discussing why this makes any sense, it is like, that is a huge like why don't you just guy, you know, especially kids who just think like, oh, Spotify has all the music. That is all the music that there is because almost all the music is on Spotify, but not all of it. Yeah. Okay. Well, how about this? No time to argue. You threw me the head. I threw you the whip. How about this? You watched that Zach Friedman video and I will, by the time I record next, I will have figured out what it is you're talking about and whether I could do it and I'll try. I would love that. I would love that. I think you probably put a, I'm guessing you must have a, you've got a folder full of music. And I believe you have to do it through the Apple music library in some way and you have to, there's a bunch of local file options and you would think it was not going to work on the phone, but it does like I, I, I'm sure I talked about an ATP and I've long since forgot about it. I'm sure you'll figure it out if you're on, if you just Google for it. Wait, so it uses the Apple music that's on, yeah, like basically, you can use that same, you can share that same library. Well, not quite. Like you know how, you know how on iOS, you can buy, you can get like third party apps that let you listen to your album music library. Yeah, I've had, I feel like that was one marker like some, yeah, yeah, that basically means that there's an API for getting it stuff that's in your Apple music library and I fully interest it, but also things like, seems like that, that awesome DJ app called DJ, has a way to do that. It's something. I think it's labeled as local files or whatever. Anyway, if you, I mean, I figured out by googling it, I'm sure you can figure it out by googling it as well. If you have trouble, let me know. But anyway, I did successfully do this for my daughter's Spotify thing. So to this day, she can know it's Spotify and play songs that were like ripped from bootleg CDs that I bought at second coming records and, you know, no kidding. That's really cool. Oh man, you know, another, there's, well, I don't, I don't want to queer up the show with my nerdery, but I have privately moved a lot of my LLMing to Google Gemini, which is bearing the needle on Chatchee PT these days. I greatly miss not having the integration with the other apps, but man, I've just, I just, I can't even tell you how many things I have fixed in my life in the last like week and a half, because the things just so lucid compared to Chatchee PT, you're getting a clawed in the mix. I was doing some coding works these past few days and I'm given, I'm given the same prompt to all three at the same time. Okay. I do a Chatchee PT, the latest version, 5.2 pro or whatever. I do Gemini Pro because I pay for the Google thing is whatever and I do the clawed Opus 0.5 and I'll give them the same thing to all three of them and I'm watching them go and just nothing will really open your eyes to these things more than doing that because like the inclination is no matter how much you know better to just take what it says at face value, but when you do it to three of them and they give you three different answers, you're like, okay, well, I can't take all three of you at face value. So to me, that's like when the CEO works the counter at McDonald's, like that is so grounding at making a point that if you like using these things like I do, LLMs, I still always benefit from a reminder that asking this to three different things in three different ways will give you very different. Oh, I ask the same way to all of them. That's the key. So they're getting the same prompt and the thing is I'm more successful because it's three of them. It's like asking three different people because they each one of them get some aspect of that the other one doesn't and you know, I can make you know, once once we get going, I can sort of synthesize from all three of them. If I had just asked one, it would be worse than me asking all three. It's kind of silly to have three tabs open to be pasting the same prompt into all three or whatever, but it I found it very effective. All of us just say is that I use Gemini all the time because it's one of my three that's in rotation. Okay. If you ever wanted to talk, I mean, like I don't know where it would come up on here, but if you ever want to talk about that stuff again, I'd love to. One thing that's helped a lot, Dr. Drang has been talking a lot about a lot of stuff on his blog and he mentioned this app called Unite and it's a company that makes these apps called Unite and Coherence and on the face of it, they look very similar to apps that have been around for a while where it basically makes a proper ish. Well, it makes a Mac app out of a website and that's been around for a while. There was, I mean, there was that one was called like Lyfty or Grabby or Linky. There was the one where you can see. You can, but there's some neat features in Coherence, well, I was going to mention Coherence to you because, so what, do you know about these apps and am I telling you things you already know? I do know about these apps. Okay. I'll be quick now. So Unite is a great, like just straightforward way to say, taking these things that use all the time as a website on your Mac or wherever, but maybe just, there's things that are frustrating about using it on a Mac or maybe spoiler alert, you would like to utilize some of the features of the Mac environment in ways that a web app doesn't do on its own. And it's got all kinds of stuff. You can go in and like, what user agent is this? You can like create different kinds of like, like, allow or deny different kinds of URLs, long story short. It is, it's, there's more, way more to it than that. The reason I was going to mention Coherence to you, they're very different apps, they seem like the same app, but they're not the way, so Unite does that by, I guess, using WebKit or whatever, Coherence does it using Chrome. So you get a recent Chrome and I had not, I will not have it on a computer that I'm on, until I got this, which is now I download Chrome and it's Google Chrome and it sits there. And I guess it uses the guts of Google Chrome to give you a Chrome based app. And I'll let you fill in why that's interesting. You lose some of the strictly Macie stuff that you get out of Unite, but with Coherence, you get full on like Chrome apps that, including using your extensions and everything, all you want. And it's, it's, it's pretty, it's a pretty neat set of apps and it wasn't too expensive. And wrapping Gemini in that on the Mac has helped an awful lot and then changing some key commands. Yeah, I just use them in tabs. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I will try that, um, everybody, um, top it. Uh-huh. So we're doing it? Yes. Cause you know, in the way we read in English, you know, is left to right and top to bottom. So it's true. It's true. I don't just see this image, it's got, well, don't talk about it, it's not, not on this week's ADP, but on the next week's, but just, what's that time layout? I'm sure you saw this, uh, if not, I will, uh, I hate, I hate how you can't drag images out of, uh, Google Docs. I am now screen-shotting it to send you something. All right. It's so sad. writing direction to just see this one. Come on man, come on. Writing direction. I feel like those, they could have picked. And so there's also falls under the little bit under the zeitgeist of, hey, Apple, what's up with all these little icons next? That's one of those things. But I mean, like this looks like so what John said is, so you know, when you're in a text, I don't know what's called, but when you're actually from the format menu in iPad, like I can say, like if you're in Hebrew, you could say, well, this is a language that reads right to left. It's English goes left to right. It's just that you have you click writing to lot directions and the fly out for that is three options default, right to left and left to right. But it looks like it looks like the kid down the hall where the admin made this with material. Because default right to left and left to right all shared the same icon, which is one icon, so what so what the icon for every single one of the merlin just read default right to left for right the icon is the same for all them asterisk. Let me imagine you were over like a city street, there was a two way street amidst one way streets where they want to make it very clear, like you're in the right lane and over here's the left lane and they're coming towards you, if you look overhead, you'd see two giant s arrows going in two different directions. Yeah, the icon is a left-facing arrow stacked on top of a right-facing arrow and that same thing a left-facing arrow stacked on top of right-facing arrow is the icon for default right to left and left to right except for the default one uses a smaller version of it in an optical illusion. Do you think is it actually smaller? No, it's smaller. Why is it smaller? Don't ask. Now, now, after Alan dies completely gone, you think I got a thing will change. We can only hope we can only hope. I mean, the QA person would not be able to come with cash. Well, actually, by the time you heard this episode of rectus, you know, pre-tick call and show probably it'll be the current episode of A's B, but we'll see. Okay. Oh, is this about my other big toaster big toaster. It's like the big salad on sign phone. Do you want to get the big salad? I'm gonna get the big salad. That's a 20 bucks. You didn't get the big salad. You got the big toaster. The big toaster. I would change one pronoun in that sentence, but yes. A big toaster? It was not I. All right. A big toaster was gotten. Yes, mistakes were made. That's exactly right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. A big toaster arrived as sometimes they do. Sometimes you wake up and there's a big toaster. I just want to be clear to the people who like John's or Acusa and follow his legacy. This is bigger than the Breville my legacy. Am I dead? Oh, no, what happened? I don't talk about my legacy when I'm still alive. You just had a birthday. Yeah, I'm still I'm still here. I'm 37. I'm not old. All right. Sorry. Big toaster. Yeah. No. Yeah. I mean, I'll take any questions. What I need to be okay. Here's the survived. Here's the thing. That pronoun change is very important. I did not. I was not involved in the acquisition of a very, very, very large toaster oven. Someone else did that. And so when I love very much. And like, you know, we're getting along pretty well. So I don't want to rock the boat. But I was judiciously answer any questions you have about the extremely hard. How did the big toaster arrive at your house? What do you know about Merlin's kitchen and my history in the kitchen? What's what's the most arguably was the most famous problematic thing in Merlin's kitchen? There's too much crap that's in an active working area. Oh, wow. That's even that's great. No, our oven. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The oven is problematic as in it doesn't work right? Yeah. So, you know, whatever, like, include once all the our hundreds of hours of discussion we've had about like, why we're stuck with the oven we've got. We've got we are stuck with. Like we don't have a way to have another oven. They put that oven on it. They put that oven in the factory. Talked to my manager. Yeah. And that you'll remember also was the oven. The C also the dead Kennedy song, Truster Mechanic where I hired the fellow to come out make my oven work a little bit better. But then he broke it all the way. Remember, anyways, all you need to know here is that two facts. One fact is that sometimes the hot part of the oven is the oven in the range. May I use these words with you to distinguish? Whereas you said a hobby. Yeah, there we go. No, we got another word for it. It's not great at turning on. You can kind of do this. We mainly just use a long lighter thing to turn on the range. It's just faster, easier. That was a guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we can't change it. Like it's there's no electric for this. It's the house was built in the mid 20s. And so the frustrating thing is sometimes you turn it on and you want to like preheat the oven to 350 right classic you going turn on. Well, sometimes it just oven doesn't turn on. And this is so long, but let's come back. Let's come back with another time if you want. All you need to know for this anecdote is that one time out of the end. With end being whatever the gods feel like giving us sometimes the oven just doesn't want to turn on. And saliently it won't turn on all night. And sometimes Billy knows how to kick it and Billy know we know this trick. If you start the back burner and get the stuff flowing, it'll work. But I'm down there like five years. I'm on my back. I got the long ass lighter. I'm trying to light the little strippy thing underneath. Is it like I'm thinking is there a gap like has it like it does need to be purge. What do we need to do? Fact number one. Our oven is is not without fault at turning on as an oven. And fact number two is the person with whom I've lived for 26 years really needed to get granola made for an office oven. All right. Now it's sit C F. It's the sun is the sun is going down. The oven is not turning on. It's the person I love is understandably getting a little bit frustrated. It's like a Sunday. It's a Sunday afternoon. It's like a panic purchase big up. You think you think when you got to do what you got to do, right? But it wasn't up to me. John, I don't know if you ever encountered this. You're married man. There are things where I just know I'm not going to get involved in this in any way. This is not my circus. Not my oven. That makes me even more curious. Okay. So how physically did the big toaster get to your house now knowing that it was a type of thing where it's like we need one ASAP as in not next week, maybe not even tomorrow. How do you like to make fun of me for having had romantic, you know, assignations with various women over the years. I'm not making fun of you for it. I'm trying to make you not lord it over people. You think I lord it over people? You sure do. I think I could see you feeling that way, but I don't think I do that. I'm an odd thing to say. Okay, well put a pin in that little man. I have never known a grown woman who doesn't try on clothes at a store. And in fact, several women I know cared a lot about their clothes. And in one case, my ex, my ex wife, she would, whatever she was trying on, she would try on three quote unquote identical ones because she insisted. And I believe her, especially in less, less costly clothing, this is in the 90s, especially things with jeans, you know, you know about the ladies and their jeans. She would try on three different pairs of these supposedly identical thing and then make a, my lady friend is the only woman I know who doesn't try on clothes at a store. She shops like a guy big time. So in this case, let's get through it. Move on. She, I think she did some filling on her phone because she can't be. Sorry. Hey, everybody. She can't be arsed to look to look at the laptop. You should see her filling out forms on her phone. Just be completely insane. Marco, get my back. Why are you filling out forms on a phone? You have three computers in here. She did, I think she, I think she played our phone a little bit and she's looking for the best boy by picking up another. So she found the oven. John, this is making you feel great. Does that make you feel great? There's a new appliance in your house. You didn't know it was coming and no one did any research on it. I'm, I'm still sorry. I'm still stuck on the deal. She's going to go to Best Buy and get on. How far away is the best why she walking to Best Buy? She's taking public translation. She's driving best. No, it's a good question. There's a best buy down on like kind of on division. Oh my God. Why is this making noises? John, why does my do not disturb not endure? Because you're a dingleberry. I think I'm a dingleberry. Sorry about that. We, we live out in the outer sunset and there's points which I recently saw described as and today I saw described as the Staten Island of San Francisco. No kidding. Now wait a minute. I can do this. Staten Island. That's, that's public enemy, right? I don't know. I don't know if you have enough context of the New York metro area. Oh, wait a minute. Peter Davidson. Peter Davidson and Colin Joe's when they bought the ferry. That's that nylon, right? They're saying it's a really nice place where celebrities live. That's not what they're saying. It's not what they're saying. No, the sunset is already. Yes. Okay. The Staten Island of San Francisco. No, no, she, um, she, we have a, we have a Best Buy card and, um, you can order online. So she places like, I mean, like, I'm telling you what I've inferred from this because like I wasn't there again. I'm staying out of this. I have not, if she's stressed out about granola that needs to be made tonight, there's nothing I have to offer about this. And people like you and my other friend, John, never learn from these things. I, there's nothing I have to offer here. And I will only, I will only make every part of the situation worse if I even have a response to anything. Because I'm a grown man. 26 years, Mary. Um, boom gets the car drives the Best Buy, picks up and brings it home and. Okay. So that was, that was carry. So we have the car involved here because the key point here is this is a big toaster. John, when I saw the box, it's not, you can't, you're walking down the streets of San Francisco with the box. Yeah, you know, because the box is going to be bigger than the toaster. That's the thing when she came in with that box. I was like, huh, that seems a lot bigger than I remember. She, she drove and God, she's got to get it to the car and then drive the car back to your place. And then she's got to get it from the car into your house. Did you participate in that process? I didn't. So she, she just got it and put it on her back and just. Maybe we're married to different people, but like there's somebody out there listening to this. She knows exactly what I'm talking about, which is like my existence. The existence, my existence is exacerbating the situation. My input is beyond unwanted and unneeded. She's stressed out about the granola. She made this beautiful. She got little jars. She did this beautiful thing. She made this, she makes really good granola and she was going to make parfaits for this office event. And she needed to make the fresh granola. And so she came up with it and I said, huh, look at that thing, man. You know, okay, hang on, pause. I did say one thing to her. I said, can you tell me and you're going to know why it's sad, but here we go. I said, can you tell me which model you're getting? She said here before you saw this before she left. And here's why. And so I went on to visit it with my little friend because I was running thread on what the most, what the appliances or electric using things in our house are that are most likely to blow a fuse. And there's five things in our house that like you, you might could run two of these, but if you run four of these, you're going to be going downstairs with the faucet. Yeah, we have a goat chicken grain wolf thing going on to with the space heater, the microwave. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And you're just in the boat with the dick when you're dicking your hand. No, absolutely because like it's in against my kids got in the hang of it. But like, you know, the air fryer is almost always fine. The dishwasher is almost always fine for running anything that is built to produce heat in our house. And those tend to be things that push above a thousand watts usage at a time. Those things, things like the stupid goddamn goose neck and kettle that I hate. That thing can suddenly take it because really a lot, the blowing the fuse part is a lot of things happen abruptly. And so I'm thinking, oh, my head is swimming a little bit. I'm not going to say anything, but I'm like, my head's swimming because I could just see her bringing this up. So imagine everything she's frustrated Sunday night, she's got to make you granola. And I'm imagining her plugging it in and the fuse blows because I don't know if you know this, but anytime anything like that happens. It's technically my fault. I agree. It is my like, it's this way beyond, you know, it isn't my fault, but it's my problem. It's way beyond that. Like we're into deep black magic territory where like decades of recrimination are built up. In an event that is my fault that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Whatever, that's fine. So I did go and I went into this threat. I've had going for a year about using my kilowatt and my Eve things to like monitor what it is the causes things to blow. And it turned out that this thing's actually pretty good considering. Now, I'll tell you, once we did get it home and I did hook it up to the kilowatt, I mean, there's times where it's quickly pushing to above like 1100 watts. Which again, on its own, probably we find no problem. If I'm running the sous vide immersion wand and like a heating, a heat heater is on. Daddy's gonna be going downstairs with a flashlight and it's his fault. So I from a quick look, it sounded like it said actually, you know, based on these things and bought it. This is less likely to do it because, you know, you're not going to get these big things and the way it's done is blah blah. So I was like, okay, fine. So you're about to come. Did you make it in a while? It doesn't make sense. I made a link to this sucker. Oh, yeah. It is, it is like, I don't know if it's still yours. I was there when the original Breville arrived. So you have this one but smaller, right? I don't know, you got to send it to me. Okay, sorry. Okay, I got to look it up. Let me go to the thing. I forget that you don't have to talk with somebody can edit it. I'm still, I'm still getting over that. I really, I feel like I'm really sure I can my duties. Breville, B-E-R-E-V-I-L-L-A. I can't believe you don't have this link already in hand. Well, no, it's in my, it's in either chat GPT or jam and I. You mean to, to the Breville site? Literally anything. When I get the model right, otherwise you're going to be cross. B-O-V-N. Yeah, stop with that. I think you mean angry. You're going to the opposite of your test. You're going to take a beat. You know, he still wise. Do you notice how wise he is? You know, like take a break when you can, like heat when you can. Take a beat. And I know it's really good that you're talking about. Too much airy. It's about Barrick, yeah. Who was actually played by a different person in the first season? B zero. They didn't slice their O's so I could get this wrong. B. Are you reading this to me now? This is like the worst than you with the handwriting. Paste it into the text window. Paste it in the model. Type it. Type the text to a message to me. Do not read me the letters over the internet. Why are you so worked up about this? It's really odd. It just seems like a continuation. Maybe you. Maybe you and your buddies over on ICQ are down in the Wolfenstein yelling, yelling, calling each other homosexuals. This is what I thought you got. I have seen this in person because my friend has it. I was just over his house a day or two ago. He's had it for a long time. It's too big. There's no other way to say it. It's too big. Here's the thing. This is the size of a microwave in the 80s. It's the size of a small child. You mean in terms of if they were in Minecraft? It's a size of a toddler. If they folded it, that's a terrible comparison. It's nothing like a toddler. It'd be better to compare it to a fat dog. That'd be a really big dog. I'd say it's the size of three fat dogs. Three fat dogs. That's my Native American name. Don't call it a totem pole. Big. All right. Here's the thing about this one. It's huge. It's freaking huge, John. On top of it all, do you know, do you, do you, do you, do I need to repeat this, John, that there is no room? In fact, things need to leave my house. There is no room for anything. Here's my, here's my only thought about the size of this thing and where you live. And the circuit board. Could we rent it out to a child to sleep? And the circuit blowing. No. My only thought knowing nothing really about the layout of your house. I would say that I'm aware that recently, tragically, a large volume rectangular solid or rectangular container with glass walls left your apartment because there used to be a lizard that lived in it. All right. This is probably the size of the thing that your lizard used to live in. And if you put it in the actual dimensions, John. If you put it there, you could plug it into a different circuit than all your other stuff. I would draw less than, you know, it would just not be on the same circuit as the other stuff. I see. Is it putting too many things on the same circuit? I'm not sure we have one circuit. I think we might have, I think we have half a circuit we share with some other houses. That would be terrible. But I'm, I'm working on the assumption that you do in fact have more than one circuit in your house. You never seem to lose power in your residence. And so I would say the only place, there's no room for this in your kitchen, clearly. The only place to risk room for this is where bandos, whatever. In our bedroom. That's a really good idea. I had no idea what was it called. It's not an aquarium. What did you call it? A Viverium. Viverium, yes. Bandos Viverium is the only volume in your living place that can be now swapped in for this thing. But you know what, John, I got to tell you, buddy, that is thinking way outside the box. Like full marks for that. That is super clever. Right now it's in the breakfast nook on the table. That's different than the side hatch. Yeah. Do we need to go back and go over all the ways that I was involved in this? And all the ways that things that are not my fault could become my fault on a given Sunday night. Yes. For any given Sunday night title. Yeah. And for people of this link will be in the show. I found a good, like, for just to let you know, like I'm not going to give you the inch measurements. But the hero in which that is product on the web page from the manufacturer is this toaster oven with a whole chicken inside it. Yeah. That's the here, like, they're not just this not like you put your toast in here. It's like no chicken with potatoes and herbs just entirely embedded. You can put a, you can put, I don't know if you call it. It's somewhere but it's definitely larger than a small. It might be a turkey. You could put a medium sized pizza. It is, is the dimensions according to the dingus 21.5 inches wide. 17.1 inches deep, 12.7 inches in height. It's the width. Well, it's all of it. It's everything. In every dimension. It's so. It is so credit. Yeah. Yeah. And so what Chachibit says, what this means in practice. It fits a 13 by 13 pan or a nine by 13 pan. It's a single little random. Number two, it fits a 14 pound turkey. And it fits a standard quarter sheet pan. Not a full half sheet, though. It fits an 11 inch pizza, 11 inch diameter pizza. I got some more to say, no frozen pizza from a local place. I'm not too long ago and it was real good. My Brussels sprouts are, we use it now. I mean, it's mainly, it's accepted. It's better than your oven, for sure. Well, if you describe your oven, this is better than your oven. The only thing that has going against it is it is smaller than your oven. Not by my mind. And you know what I don't do? I don't store things on top of it. No, let's be honest. I keep the pans inside normally, but we've got it all. We've got air fri-bastic. We've got the sheets. We've got a pizza thing. We've got it all. And-- Did you see that Breville also sells you, speaking of putting things on top of it, you're making a reference to putting things on top of the hob and that's-- Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. The Breville will sell you a wooden bamboo cutting board that goes on top of this toaster oven. That's what it's called. But by design, you put the wood adjacent item on your-- On your toaster oven. I think it's very hot. Yes. And when I do things like my sprouts, I go, I mean, this thing will do 500 easy. It'll do broil easy. I would not want a wooden thing on top of this. That really feeling-- Sell it so I guess it doesn't catch on fire, but I always thought that was pretty brave of them, because the top of the toaster does get very hot. I have a-- Oh, it's for sure gets hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This also-- and by the way, this thing you got is it is a toaster oven for people who aren't familiar with it. And convection oven. And air oven. See what it is. It's also a convection oven. It also does air frying and dehydrating. They show an example of dehydrating. And even proof dough, whatever that is. Yep. Did you see the dehydrating thing? Do you feel like you're interested in the dehydrating? No, everything I've read about home dehydrating makes me think it's not a good idea. It's a lot like 3D printing. I have a document that's been running for a few months now and it's all the things that I've learned from 3D printing. But the adjacent document is a more specific, like not for normal people, but like sort of like philosophy, philosophical things to know when you're getting started with 3D printing. And honestly, it started with a list of stuff you should never print on a 3D printer. Or let's-- okay, be nice. Stuff you should very rarely print on a 3D printer. This would include things like trash cans and toys that are better if you buy them in a store. Here's the thing. It's a piece that you pull it up and you've got Tomagachi Enrique and Glacier, or whoever. And it's all beautiful and colorful. And you can see his cape and his underpants and all that stuff. And it's in nine colors. And it's like, dude, if you have 4 AMS's and you don't, but like the things that send the filament to your thing. Like, it would take you two days to print this thing. And there was-- and like, you know how it is. It's like, it's like, you know the way you think about stuff and the sympathy for the machine. Like, the longer you use something, the more chance it is that something's going to go wrong. And if you have a print job that takes over a day to do, anyway, long story short, all I'm trying to say is, like, you learn what stuff is good for. This is good in life. Learn when you're going somewhere on vacation. Learn what that place is. Actually good for. Here's what they say it's good for. But find out where it's actually good for. And adapt to that as quickly as possible. If you're-- in this case, like, if you're-- like, if your oven options are this one that kind of doesn't turn on sometimes, and this one-- like, you can make good decisions about that. But don't put your books on there and then blame your dog. Yeah. And so speaking of things, this thing is not good at. One of these things-- Oh, sorry. The hydration. That seems like one of those 3D printing type things where you're like, no, just go get some-- like, what's this beef? Like, I've got a beef drink. Fies and dried fruits from nuts.com. Now, do you think them and the licorice people are the same company? Because I see their ads together sometimes. I don't know. I think they have several domains-- Oh, owned by Procter King Amel. Really? That's funny. I love-- That's a dated reference. I don't know what the biggest goal is. I love Campbell. But I hate Procter. My late uncle. I think he's late. I'm not sure. He's definitely not here. He was-- I think, like, an EVP or something at PNG into the '80s. And he was big in paper. He was a big paper man. And he was also really excited when they first introduced Pringles. They brought it to the house and we were like a little bill. He's known as good as potatoeships and got kind of mad. But if you want paper towels, he knows where the plant is in Florida. You know where they make those. But that's-- you know, you got to learn what stuff is good for. And I don't need to dehydrate. Have you dehydrated? Have you ever had a cause to dehydrate? Well, no. But what this-- I can tell you, one thing this toaster oven is not good at. Yeah. Making toast. If we'd love-- Let's just don't drop the bit for a minute. But going back to your famous episode of Hypercritical about you just want to-- you want a toaster oven that makes the toast the way you like. I think your phrase was interreasonable and out of time. Yeah. This very nice, very large gravel does not make anything near the toast I won. And anything approaching what I would consider-- It's just like trying to make a piece of toast in your big oven. It's to be-- Well, like, I've just learned this new trick with my hydrasonic cleaner. That you know what? You don't actually need to fill the entire thing with whatever you want to hydrasonic clean. You can put that stuff into like a beaker and then just put water in the hydrasonic. And that'll heat up the beaker, right? You're using less stuff in a smarter way and in a less messy way. And with this, like, it is funny. It's funny how it's like to make the dumb joke, sorry. Been in what, 18 years now? Hey, if they called it pocket computer, nobody would buy it. They call it an iPhone because everybody likes their phone, but they'd like a nicer phone. And so that's why they called it iPhone. To call this a toaster oven is very silly. It's even-- Like, these numbers are all way below in terms of time. If I follow-- What's neat is, like, so you know this, our listeners. Well, it's got a dial. It's got a really pretty nice straightforward, I think, as things go. Pretty straightforward digital interface, where you've got a selector dial to say, like, are you baking? Are you air frying? Are you reheating? Are you blotting the ball? And then a button for, like, is this frozen? Do you want normal confection or superconvection? And what I said to my family was, I'll tell you why I love this oven. And I do actually love this oven. I really appreciate devices. It's almost like a Bloomberg terminal. We're like, there is a ramp to learning how to use this. But if you learn how to use it, you'll be less frustrated. So, like, in mind, we have seven or eight levels to it, and those levels matter. What you use as your ish or, you know, pan or whatever, that really matters. Are you using parchment? Are you using all that stuff matters? Like, it really all matters. In a similar way to the way a lot of stuff in programming works. Like, you can't-- if you just-- the black and decar toaster oven of my youth, we're not going to have that again anytime soon. But this, if you learn-- no, no, no, it just-- it doesn't think-- it doesn't understand the bagels need to be cooked longer. Well, now it's got two giant-ass dials that are just time and temperature. So you can start wherever you want and say, reheat or blotting the ball or bake or roast. I've had good luck with all of it, but also I'm learning that what it thinks it's smart about is maybe not always exactly what it is smart about, but then I know how to fix that. You don't even mean they're like, you do have to learn how to use this, or it really is just kind of a constant. Yeah, and you mentioned the levels of these. So if anyone's really the toaster oven, there's like a wire rack that's in it. And Breville toaster ovens often have different levels that you can put that wire rack out. It's removable. You slide it out and you can slide it into a different slot. And they're very-- The shears like this has that clever thing where if you flip it over, it's the high up one. You flip it down. It's the other way around. No, mine doesn't have that. That's a unique feature of the-- Oh, but you know what I'm talking about, it's real quick. Yes, I do know what you're talking about. You have eight different positions. I have eight different positions with my-- it comes with two wire racks. One that I love, although I'm still not sold on. Well, you know, one problem is with the air fryer. We have a Ninja air fryer that is used four times a day probably. I mean, Billy uses it for every meal he makes. And I love our Ninja air fryer. I'm not going to get into it, but it is really great. With that, like, whatever you get some oil in there, you put how water in it, you clean it out in the big deal with this. If you use the Bastick, like, I made fish and chips in it, using the Bastick. Like, well, but like, what if something drips and then does that get down into the stuff and-- I mean, the tray does come out from the bottom easily, but the back and the sides is more of an issue. Splatter. Exactly. You know what I mean? I mean, I mean, broiling. I mean, again, so since you have a dedicated air fryer, that was part of our question. I'm assuming you're mostly not going to use this in-- For air fryer? I can hear the dedicated air fryer. I'm so glad you brought this up. I do not know the long-term fate of anything, including our very, very large brevel oven. My gentle pitch, once the granola had been encanted, was like, well, you know, we could make room for this in the pantry. We could move into it. But I mean, move into the new oven. You can hang your tiny clothes in there. No, and I thought like, you know, we've got all kind of-- I mean, we've got like the late, late, great, literally late, and literally great, Leslie Harpal gave us, you know, with those cool stand mixers that people get. Where it's like, you know, stand mix. Like, the nice one everybody gets like a kitchen aid, maybe. It comes with this three different paddling things. And it really uses it to bake. And then you ever lift one of those up and it weighs like probably 25 pounds. We have one of those. We have innumerable. We used to have a reclet set that I finally just abandoned. We've got all this stuff. And that gets warehouseed in this large closet pantry kind of area. My initial pitch was, hey, we're not going to keep this because when somebody brought it home, the entire counter was cleaned off. And this was put there. Now remember, I'm trying to stay out of this. But my thought at that point is also, huh? I wonder if that's going to be where that lives. Yeah. Oh, and speaking of, speaking of a reclet set that you got rid of, just to describe what that is for people who might not know. It's kind of like a big rectangular thing that you put in the middle of the table and it gets hot. It's similar in spirit to fondue. Yeah, but it's a rectangular thing gets hot. You put it on the table. And let you melt cheese in a little drawer and then eat it. I saw an Instagram reel recently of someone who was setting their reclet thing up on the center of the table for company. Yeah. And, you know, they plugged it in. It's her dog. Please feel the dog. There was not a dog. But yeah, like, I don't know if you've Google for these, you see what they look like. They all kind of look like like a little sort of on table, like little grill thingy. I mean, like seriously, like if you just saw it on the corner of your eye, it's like a bachi. Yeah. And you put these little drawers in the cheese melts. And they put it on the table and I guess they were going over to get the cheese or whatever. But they were putting their hand on it. It wasn't like it wasn't getting hot, like kind of like your stove not turning on. Oh, no. There is no dog involved. But I'll give you one guess as to what their mistake was. Is it electric? Yes, it was electric and it was plugged in. Um, that I don't know what was it upside down. See, you know what? Here's the thing. So it was on. And this is a, this is a Monday morning quarterback kind of thing. But like if you're going to find out that your reclet set, which produces heat to melt cheese. Right. If you're going to find out that it's upside down, it's probably better to do it before you start. And you know how they found out that it was a fine do pot because they put the cheese in it. But these things are rectangular and they're very uniform looking. So you can be forgiven for thinking that. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no. They're a little exotic. Like if you don't know what they are and how it works. Right. It's going to seem a little exotic. Yeah. Not a lot. They couldn't figure out what they put in their hand that I wasn't getting hot. How did they figure out that it was upside down? When the smoke started to come and whips out from underneath. No. And, and when they removed it, what they saw was a rectangular black, charred spot. No. They're very nice wooden table. Oh, you hate that, John. You hate that. Oh, no, you would hate that. Because it had been a while. I go, I guess it's warming up. Like, I don't feel any heat to you. No, no, no. But it's basically like a, like a rancher's brand. Yeah. Like you brand. You're brand. I think it was like a polyurethane finish, like wooden table, like sort of a Midwestern type thing. And this thing just just roasted the top of it. Yeah. Sorry for the reclatic. I was just. No, not at all. I mean, there's a, for some reason now I'm thinking of a funny bit from the first season of rest of the development. Do you remember when, when George had, had made this invention? And I think it was called the corn baller where you can fry these corn balls. And it was so dangerous you could only sell in Mexico. And you know, Simmons was, was the spokesman for it. And it hot, hot, hot, hot. It's a bias. And Joe and everybody's burning themselves. Everybody always burns themselves. And that's, that's a very funny bit. But it's something that's still true with stuff like reclatic. It's also something that was extremely true when I was a kid. There was still so much dangerous stuff. I got shocked by an electric blanket once. So hard that I ran a passage for every kid who was alive in the seventies. Oh my god. Have you ever had, it's really, really bad. Or I mean, like the, I mean, like where do you even begin? The, um, the, the chemical sets, the chemistry sets that you would get in the seventies. Yeah. I mean, there was, there was plenty enough stuff in there that you, you could make some volcanoes that were not intentional. And, uh, do you, and the course charts, you know, I had, I just only recently introduced my friend Alex to charts, Lawn Darts, which is where you had a, a, a, a comedy sized dark with it with a, a metal weighted end and a three inch lethal spike. And then you'd, I guess cornhole style. You're supposed to throw them at a ring. But in actuality, you would mainly just see how high you could check them in there. I, uh, much like action park. I, unironically, not as a bit played with Lawn Darts as a child. Absolutely. Because that was a thing that my friends had and we played with them. Did you ever see how high you could make them go? Yeah. We'd throw them over the fence into the neighbors yard. But there was something so satisfying about it because we were giving my back on this. So it had a grabby area behind the fletches or whatever, right? Where you'd grab it and you could throw. And it was a really fun game if you played it normal. But that's not how anybody did it. That's just not what, but what it was as a child. Do you remember that satisfying feeling of sort of like with a, like, I don't know if you were at a wrist rocket. Like it's one thing that was slingshot. It's another never wrist rocket. I have a tactical, technical grade wrist rocket at the house right now that my family doesn't know about. And you could, you could basically fell a tree with these things. A wrist rocket is so much more powerful than a, as you said, catapult. All you need is some surgical tubing. Yeah, that's exactly. And you can also use it because of your heroin problem. You can always tie off. They call it. But with this, do you remember that thrill though of like I have something already thinking of the wildly coyote noise that like. That thrilling feeling of being able to make an object go further. Then you think it should be able to go. Like when you first get good throwing a frisbee. Or you like the aerobie. Yeah, remember it was part of the PLD. That was the throwy ball thing, right? Yeah, yeah. No, the aerobie was the orange thin, like rings of Saturn disc that was like a frisbee. Oh, yes, I do 80s, 90s. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Another one is like, I just, I still, every time I see this thing, I don't have a dog. Every time I see this on TV, I think that thing you use to pick up a tennis ball and then throw it. It has got to be one of the greatest inventions. For dogs, yeah. But I mean, it's, it's so perfectly elegant. And it just uses all the things that humanity has learned about our relationship. The lever. The lever. It's one of the simple tools. So, but you remember that thrill though of being able to make it in this case. You take, wait, probably a pound, half a pound. I don't know. I was a kid. I don't know. How high as you could in the air. See how I could go. And then it was just that sort of like sort of like eat a finch. It goes up in the air. And then it comes down. It comes straight down. And you're really, this is a tip. You really want to watch where it's coming down. Mm-hmm. Do they know how much shooting guns in the air kills people? Is that known? Because I always think I bet a bunch of people die when they do that. Does the bullets come down eventually? That sounds like a myth. Did they do myth busters and that? They probably did. I saw the myth busters where they wore masks. That was a good one. Do you remember that one? The guy with the parade had a mask. Well, the busters were determined how much water you needed above you to protect you from people shooting at you. Oh, that's it. That's what people go under the water and the movies and how people are shooting bullets and it's like house. Basically, the question was how deep do you have to go to basically be safe from people shooting bullets at you from above? Well, in D-Day it wasn't enough. I know that. Well, they had to come out of the water in D-Day unfortunately. They did. They did. They did. They had their guns and little bags and some were throwing up. Sorry. I'm about to close this tab. But before I close this tab, I want to make the point. I was alluding to early with the-- Did you get your questions answered about the-- Mostly. But with the eight levels of the tray thing in there, as I noted, my smaller version. I'll have linked to all the three different sizes. Oh, wait a minute. So, wait a minute. Is there a smaller one than yours? There's wings and eyes. There's wings and ears, as they would say on Saturday Night Live in the '90s. There's the 450, which is small-- Oh, the wings and the normal size is a 650, which is too big. And there's the 900, which is massive. Yep. Anyway. It's a nice oven. It's got levels. Right. So, the eight levels. All right. Mine has two levels. And the levels are labeled right on the window of the door. It's like, hey, if you're going to make toast, put it here. Mine basically says, are you going to make toast? Put it here. Are you going to bake? Yeah. It's a great level because it's very complicated, right? Yeah. Just like regular ovens, by the way, if you have a regular oven, a regular oven that we have in the United States, you can move the trays to different levels, right? They have like little rails. You pull it out a little bit. You lift up usually. Right. And then you can put your little wire racks in. Yeah. And so, my family does not believe that moving the rack in the toaster oven is a thing. It doesn't achieve a certain thing. I think it is not an important thing to do. I mean, they know why there's this. It doesn't come out, right? Okay, because it matters so much. When I'm making my special brussel sprouts, it matters a lot. Yeah. Because there's a sweet spot. And even, you know, there's one, what did I do the other day? Oh, I was making a bunch of bacon for my special brussel sprouts. And so, I had two racks of bacon going in bacon settings. And one was probably two from the top. Just as I had to make room. And one was closer to the bottom. The one at the top did great. The one at the bottom, way slower. Any time you're putting two sheet trays, one at the other. Well, it's more stuff to heat. But I also imagine that in the steam, the convection. Yeah. But it makes it pretty good. It makes good-ass bacon. Oh, my gosh, John, you have, if you thought anything meant to get the one we got. I try to tell them. I said, you know why your thing didn't come out right? Because you had it on the wrong level. And they just roll their eyes. I can only imagine. Yeah, but John, you're the asshole. You're the problem there. You're the one who screwed that up because you do this thing. Because I want to tell them that there's two positions. And just it's not complicated. The labels are, you don't have to memorize it. Just read. It's right there. It tells you, are you toasting? Put on the toast. Well, it's like you get people to have their house key with them when they leave the house. I'll know we're ready to move on to rats. Yeah, no. Same with my kids, by the way. But I don't know if you're just talking about your kid or your wife as well. But my kids refuse to take house keys with them when they leave the house. I come home and I come home and I come home and the spare key is on the steps, which is great. It's fine. It's fine. As I said to somebody recently, like, I, you know, I'm, I'm not going to make a big deal about things that bug you. I'm a kid because I'm trying to, you know, be here in present and treasuring every second that he's still with us. But it is a good habit to build to take the key. Oh, my God. But if you're going to, if you take your key, look, how can you leave the house without keys? Okay, speaking of that, you talked about your dorm. Did you lock your dorm room at New College when you left your dorm? Almost never. Well, that's a happy flower to things. I always locked my door. Well, you know, I also are that I have the, as you've seen, I saw, I saw this table and as a stole stole the door from my PO box. Also, he's just stealing. Everyone's leaving everything unlocked over there in New College. Absolutely. No, no, people did that. There were also barefoot people. There were barefoot people. You leave your room unlocked. Yeah, we lock ours all the time, but my daughter does not lock our dorm room and I find that. After what happened to her shampoo, she's still her op-sec. Oh, she leaves that in the bathroom, which is not a lock of her thing at all. The rack thing becomes important, not because of the Breville oven, but because it's indicative of a broader incuriosity that we don't have time to get into. Or just a general resistance to ever doing anything suggested by your father. Welcome to the club. This is why I'm trying to help you guys. You've got to stop trying to help people. Maybe when I'm dead, they'll notice that the rack can move in the oven. They'll be like, maybe I'll get different results, depending on where I put the rack in the oven. Maybe that would do something. Maybe there would be some influence over this. Could it be other cooking elements? Could it be other cooking something for your wake? It all comes together and they really get it. The moment I'm dead, they'll be like, I just figured it out. If you put the food really high up on the rack, put the rack at the top of the end, so it's really close to the heating element. Yes. That has a different result than if you put it in the middle. Let's say they got some store-bought frozen meatballs for your wake. Because John loves meatballs. I think it's a high floor food. You get store-bought frozen meatballs. The results of that are going to vary a lot. Do you put the gravy on before you put them into rack three? Yeah, man, once I'm gone, it's all fair game. The other thing you've got with your big toaster oven here, by the way, I will tell you. Yeah, please. These are the best than I think the only good knobs in the entire Breville toaster oven line. I'm mistakenly huge-ass, easy to understand knobs. And they feel pretty good when you turn them. No, it feels like something's happening. It's not amazing. They're not like 70 stereo equipment, but they're pretty okay. No, but also like, you know, for example, oh, boys, this is ever going to be obscure. Wow. Okay, so I mentioned earlier. Do you have a cable box with a channel turner on it? No, I have the-- You always had digital with a remote. No, when I was a kid, I had the line one, you know, the line one. It's like a little glowy triangle thing, and you slide it like that, right? Yes, that's a very northeast one. Yeah. So in Florida, we had the-- not scientific American. Oh, my God, I looked at it so many times. It's like a Atlanta problem. Yeah, that's it. We had a cable box with a dial on and then whatever, 40 channels. I think MTV was something like 32. Something else I liked might be 18. It's 25 for us. The age 26. I developed an uncanny ability to go zip. Would you get good at this? I know this is no empathy for the machine, but I could zip from 32 to 9. Almost like into it. Was this a dial? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, you know that ability to go zip. I mean, that's a skill braiding the analog TV days. Okay, yeah. But it's a teen, it's a teen physical skill. I don't know how those dials were to turn. Absolutely. Two through 13 on the old TVs. Those are-- Chaka, chaka, chaka, chaka. Yes. And then you get on the UHF and-- There was a speed limiter on those. You couldn't go from two to 13. You could call it a governor. Yeah. And I'd be-- but like, or for example, like think of all the things where you're like, I don't know, you're probably never weird. But like, I used to climb things a lot. I used to-- I used to just develop. Oh my god. I started one time. I figured out like when I was in fifth grade, I was really into Spider-Man. I figured out like how to climb our doorways. And I started climbing our doors. I've been on every-- climbed onto the roof of every building at New College. There's a manual somebody made in the '70s about how to climb on every building at New College. And I could do it unassisted. I could climb on a Hamilton Center unassisted by doing a scoochup. Do you remember all those physical skills, tears and rain? Like, I don't have use for any of that anymore. But if I were a teen using the racks properly and making sure that nothing else was on, I would be able to go zappa a certain number of minutes or degrees very quickly. Yeah. It's not-- it's not-- it's really easy to do. It's even easier to do it in the big oven. The little-- the little racks slides right out, slides right in. Yeah. So yeah, you got the good dials. The only-- because I can tell you the 650, which is my one and the 450, now those are no good. They're bad dials. This one, so-- and this-- so I'm kind of back to the Honda trim package problem here. Like for YouTube-- Yeah. And if you want the good dials, you've got to get the things way too big and can't make those-- Exactly. --to save its life. You get the smart one when it only has-- Yeah. I literally couldn't fit this on my-- the counter that is currently having my toaster. And if I put this on that counter, there would be no more counter left. It would just be the toaster. What about-- what about in Kate's old room? Oh, she's there. She's there. She's not there. Is she there a lot? I mean, she's still on break right now, so she's there and now. That would be a perfect time for you to socialize the idea of, like, hey, sweetie. Knock, knock, knock. Oh, my God. Look at you being-- Nothing, nothing. Nothing that can set fires is allowed to my children's nerves. Okay. Is there anything that you could move from your bedroom into it? Because think about-- I could replace my microwave with this because it is about the size of my microwave. Really? Huh. It's a really nice oven. And I was not involved in the purchase of it. I looked up one fact. And I think-- Here's my suggestion. Yeah. I think you should essentially unplug your regular oven, like, disconnect it from the gas and cap it off, and then just, like, pave over the hob, as you call it. And just stick this thing on top of the-- Can you imagine the kind of space, the square footage you would open up before we got rid of our room? It's like, it's this toast. It's just going to come up to you. It's just going to say, look at me. I am the oven now. I'm the light-like with the guy in Anton Hanks. I'm the oven now. I'm the oven now. That's right. That's what this thing came into your house, and that's what it's saying. Yeah. Do you think it's my center-- Do you think it's my center, my center, left reticence to revolution that keeps me from doing that? What is it that keeps me from fully expect it is accepting that? You still have hope that you're non-working one in Anton. Do you think that's a nostalgic attachment to the gas zone? Garbage thing. You think it should work. It's bigger. It's more impressive. But this thing says now. It's some cost fallacy in a lot of ways, just emotionally. Not money-wise, but I may have emotionally-- And just think of it as-- Kind of like how the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty is almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty. Is that what-- Think of this. Think of your existing oven as merely a very big stand for your new oven. And then we could put books on the inside. Don't do that.