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Episode 104

I’m Doing It Right Now, Guys!

February 8th, 2024

39 mins 45 secs

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About this Episode

Who even knows what's on the run sheet? How many feet does Martin have? There is weirdness in the world of cameras. Is Andrew just buying Ybox controllers and that's the problem? Everyone has a Little People toy likeness.

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Two-feet Feld 00:00:00

  • Happy Birthday Martin 🥳

What’s the Topic? 00:00:45

Follow-up: App Defaults 00:03:30

Photography Corner: Weird Cameras! 00:06:25

Andrew’s Ybox Controllers 00:26:20

Little People at BIG W! 00:32:50

Extras

If you're curious about how editing one of these episodes is done, check out this second video that Martin posted of his editing process!

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Transcript

Happy birthday Martin. It was like a few weeks ago, but happy birthday. Anyway, thank you so much

Best day of the year. It's yeah devoted to me in Australia. Same here in the United States. We celebrated it nationwide

Actually, hmm. It's quite nice actually because of that time zone that difference I get to celebrate it the next day all over again

It's like 48 hours of Martin all this beautiful American love comes in. Yeah, we we love you here

Thank you people in Western Australia call me a foot but everyone else in the world celebrates me for who I am, you know

Can't be loved by everyone our foot I am a foot so I'm a foot with two feet a foot with two feet

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Yep, two feet foot

Excellent two feet felt is what they call him

*Music*

It's a terminology corner. Yeah, I don't really remember what that was for

I'm really confused because there are no like emoji here anymore. Yeah

No, and it doesn't matter but I'm like, I don't know who put this in here and then both of you seem to forget all

The time so who's running this? What is nobody? I know it's got nobody's running this really

Terminology corner. I think I put that in there, but I don't actually remember what it was for now

It might be about guess what you meant. It was about the terminal. Mmm, I doubt it

No, do you think it was like Vim you think I was talking about Vim was this like an emacs thing

You're talking about what color scheme do you use in the terminal? I don't think that's what it was

Okay, I think it's what Andrew wants it to be. I think so

Well, maybe we'll have to put a pin in that and come on you. We might need to pin that one

Yeah, that might pin. Let's pin that and while we're here Andrew what color are using in the terminal homebrew?

Hmm. All right, Jason. I mean Dracula for literally everything in my life and I just don't touch it. So there you go

There it is

We're not touch terminal what color does Martin use in terminal it's called finder I don't need it when you what if you want to

Use homebrew. He doesn't I don't don't you want to don't want to feel like a hacker?

No, he doesn't don't you choose like don't you like look at your different monospaced fonts and try and choose the best one?

But isn't that what font books for?

Yeah, but the new ones come out all the time

Like I installed one yesterday. I'm on a space font. So you put it in the font book and that's it

I mean, I don't understand what's the point of all the extra stuff?

But then you can choose it in the terminal

But why would you do that to make it look pretty when Martin wants to feel like a hacker?

He puts on his neo glasses his full-length trench coat and then slowly does the backwards like

Movement being shot at that's what anything is you're joking, but it's true

That's that's his routine. That's what he does. Mac is so brainwashed now that he actually says dad. I want bullet time. Mm-hmm

Wow, yeah the other day I had a clip on and he was like wear a Morpheus's sunglasses

He knows that the sunglasses is supposed to be on but he wasn't wearing so

You're not far off

So, yeah, let's put a pin in that first time because we don't know what it's about

So that's good great off to a stellar start in 104. Hmm

So follow-up will be once we know what on earth that was or we'll just delete it either way

We'll see episode 104 and we don't know what our topics are. Don't know

Oh

Default lists are still happening. I just wanted to bring that as an awareness to everyone that it's been

Hmm, I don't know eight months since that happened if you like and people are still submitting

Default lists so that's still happening from episode 97, which we are now 104. So do the math on that how many weeks that's been

And somebody he submitted one

via a

Apple music

Play list

The most shit I've ever seen in my life

I would not have expected there to be enough song titles to work for that

But holy shit, they did it. It's it's glorious. So yeah, what was the terminal and Safari and and there was like

Oh my clouds like eyee cloud or something like it was just it was legendary

So there you go. I will pop it in the night so people can listen

I don't yeah, definitely. I don't know how the hell Rob is gonna add a Apple music playlist to

to his little

Collection, but that's sort of his problem to work out. But yeah, he signed up for this

So he did he's yeah, he's here for the journey

But my recommendation would be bit like how myspace pages used to be. I think you should somehow embed

The playlist but then have it autoplay. Hmm when you arrive on that website. Oh, everybody loves autoplay

That's like yeah, that's right. Definitely. Okay maximum volume

Even if you didn't have it like it should override somehow your computer absolutely override any default that you have set

Yeah, and and whatever is the most thrash metalist song in the list should be first should be first. Yeah. I love that idea

Thanks Rob for getting on to that. Thanks Rob between all his various projects. I'm sure he knows where we stand in the priority list

And where would that be Martin in the priority list? Oh just the top and as ambassador in the UK

He makes sure that we are at the top of all political and social discussions

So yeah, and that's that's the ruminate podcast if anyone's curious where to find that I haven't heard one of his um

Fast and furious podcasts for a while. Oh, what's going on there any day now?

I mean, he's a busy man and he has a kid now any day now

It's got to be just right around the right around the bend

I think you need to be asking the more important question where the hell is fast and furious 11 and 12 and 13 and 14

Which should have all been

Released at the same time with several spin-offs with extra actors like Jason Statham who we didn't really care for

Yeah, we were promised monthly releases of that franchise and we have not gotten it

So have I actually completely offended the whole fandom by saying that no one cares about Jason's day because to me

I just think that's ridiculous. But like is he actually valued?

Values he's an he's a national treasure. Really? He's the beekeeper. Whoops

Who weird is this weird camera corner I think so and weird camera corner

I know who's this is because I heard someone got a weird new camera

Well, I was actually gonna talk about a different weird camera. How many weird cameras are there? You got another one? What the heck?

What is that? Oh my god, this one, okay

This is a little silver looking it kind of looks like okay for people check it in the show notes or the album artwork or

whatever, but this is like some sort of

tiny looking old

Projector thing crossed with a dental instrument crossed with something from Spy Kids or James Bond or something

I have no idea what the front the back the top and the bottom is that's exactly it

This is so I'll do two. I'll go quickly

This is this I think I believe it's pronounced Steki STE K why?

Model New Zealand for sticky model. Yes, exactly

Model 3s it is a spy camera from post-world war 2 Japan

So it is a spy camera was right of it. It is that kind of espionage thing. It literally is a spy camera

Yeah, that's a legitimate one. It's not a not a remake of a no. This is the actual the actual one

It's so cool. It's

So you could James Bond it

This is this is that yeah

When you'd see like in James Bond where they'd like go like take pictures of the the microfilm or whatever the hell

This is what they would use and it's just like the coolest little thing. It's an F

What is it f 2.5 lens?

So pretty fast and yeah, it's just like really cool and it has like these little tiny

I'll have to put all this in the show notes

Obviously people can see it but it's got these little tiny film canisters that are just adorable. Does it work?

It does. Yeah, I actually have I have four rolls of film that I was able to find for it

And it it's a I believe it's 16 millimeter if I remember, right?

So yeah, I need to take some photos with it, but I will put links in the show notes

But it's a very cool just like little weird

Thing if you're into like you need to take a photo of it of a document. That's it

Yeah

that's that's exactly what I imagine you break in you get into the vault you get the documents out and you're sitting there like

Torching your mouth torch in your mouth. So you got the light

Yeah, you gotta have the light cuz like it's a film camera, right?

You're gonna have a lot of lights you're like in there and you're just doing the little thing and then you put it all back

Super nice

So nobody knows you were there and then you sneak out

Go back into the little wetsuit on and get back in the water float away and nobody knows you want to see a remake

Make that film, please

Totally you gotta have you gotta make sure you have like the wire to choke someone coming out of your watch

Can you do? Oh, yeah, you have to have the wire in the Apple watch for sure

Cuz the one guy is gonna come and find you he oh he's you know

He's the dumbest one of the of the evil villains

But he hears a noise somehow and he comes looking and you're like, ah shit

I gotta end this guy so I can get the last six pages of this this

Document that I need to get so yeah, but no one ever thinks of the family of a henchman. That's the real shine

No, well, it's okay. He was he

Trust me. He didn't need to be around. He was not

He wasn't doing anyone any good. That's a pretty weird camera

The other I think fun fact about this thing is that when this was available to purchase it was

$29.95

Wow, which I guess if you did, you know

Inflation and whatever that's probably like

$40,000 today, I would guess I don't know

But yeah, just to think that you could buy a spy camera for $30 is pretty pretty fun

So there you go. Well before you go into another weird camera, I just want to pull one

Yeah, please isn't totally we pull it out, but I popped it in the discord recently

People in their discord might have seen the wonderful gift that Natasha got me to resurrect my old game boy color

Ice and that is the game boy camera and the best thing about getting an old game boy camera that you just slip in there

And I've also got the printer and the link cable here. She's a prayer -

Yeah, just a sec. I'll take the paper

Wow, she got me rolls

Love that little thermal printer. It's so cool

So very cool and sorry for a little bumping noises from moving all this stuff on my desk apologies listeners. Sorry, you're editing

That's true

I am but the best thing other than the thoughtfulness of you know

I've been given this gift is when you see the photos that were left on there from the people who used to use

It's just it's like on the one hand things never change and it's kind of endearing because you know when you walk into any

Apple store or any other electronic shop and you see kids or families who've gone up and done little selfies

Yeah, and left it as the wallpaper. It's all that kind of really cheesy like there are photos of people

I don't know who they are and it's definitely not stuff that's been preloaded on this device

Like people have just been having like tween early noughties or nineties fun with this or something

So it stores it on the cartridge itself?

Yeah, it has like

Storage on it. Yeah, and

the other fun thing is when you discover what appears to be a

photo of a picture of a woman's breasts on there, so it clearly like some ten-year-old right there's just gone like

Just taking a photo left it on there knowing that you know, thirty something year old

will be given this by his wife, so

Great stuff Natasha, what kind of presents are you giving my goodness? I showed her and she cracked up

It's like a photo of a photo. It's like yeah, so you've got like this pixelated Gameboy camera view

Goodness knows who it is from some magazine years ago. It's just ridiculous. Great print that out and put that on the fridge for sure

Yeah, I'll have to fire it up. So is that is that the point of the printer?

What's the point of the printer does is it to link with games or is it to print your photos that you've taken like?

Oh, you can print your photos

Yeah, you can actually digitally connect this to a computer to take the files off like you would with a you know

Normal digital camera or phone or something?

But yes to print the photos directly from the game like you'd print it directly from the Gameboy via this like stupid link cable thing

That's right. I've got it here

It's basically like a well the one that I have is a green cable

But it's like the link cables that you would use to also do like multiplayer stuff

Yeah, unless you wanted to use like, you know, they had like the infrared

I've got this one here and I'm showing you two

But obviously this can see if they look at Apple find the show notes that little block there to line up used to do Pokemon

Jewels and that sort of stuff. That was fun. Yeah, that camera is fantastic

Well, I mean it's terrible but it's fantastic in how it was actually better than I thought it would be I was surprised

I actually prefer the look of this to the things that my friends used to take in early high school like Motorola v3

Oh because at least when I take photos with this I think okay. This is a novelty. This is like a Gameboy camera

Yeah, right. It's not supposed to be serious. Whereas it's like, ah the new v3 razor

You can now take photos on your flip phone. I just remember seeing them thinking this is horrible

This is the worst photos the razor

For so bad. I think it was a truck. I'm not gonna look it up, but I want to say it was

0.2 megapixels if I remember right, it's not good and yeah, just bad

It was funny because when I hear 0.2 megapixels should there shouldn't be a mega. Oh

Mm-hmm. That's kind of be honest. What is it? What is it? Actually?

It's it's 12 pixels. Let's be honest here. It's 12. There you go. Okay

There's no mega involved lies. Yeah, it's like somebody being like I'm a

0.8

But actually I think that's gonna be my new my new Mastodon profile is gonna be

0.00000 millionaire crypto, baby. Yeah. Oh

Man that's awesome. So are you gonna you're gonna then print those and scan those to glass

Is that how that works or how does how do we how do we get your Gameboy?

That's a good point because I was thinking about that because you know

I've got a little nothing like what you have Jason or even other listeners or certainly people on glass

But I've got this little collection here and it's like I only have so much time in the day or in the week and how the

Hell do I kind of like coordinate and transfer all this stuff? So get it done. I'm gonna have to get it done

I'm gonna have to yeah. All right. Thank you. That's an HR kind of

Directive there if you want your next

Bonus to be a 0.00000

Billionaire you're gonna need to get that done. You're done boy

Yes, Jason next weird camera because I may have another next this is like weird camera corner. I love this. The next one is

very weird, I think it is the

Sigma

FPL

FP doesn't stand for anything

L

Doesn't stand for anything. So make up that way you will it is a

tiny

Tiny looks very boxy. It's it's yeah, it's like so obviously, you know, I'm showing you guys can describe as here

It's very it's just a it's a it's a box

It's a box camera. It's let's see. So it's it's a full frame

35 millimeter

equivalent size frame

61 megapixel

Tiny little camera. It's all I can say about it. It's just very weird and modular and

It's all Sigma. I'm gonna Sigma lens attached to it. I have to say I don't even know you could be like a Sigma

Person like three weeks ago and now I am a Sigma person and they have done an incredible job

With the software and the hardware. This is all made in Japan. The hardware build quality is

11 out of 10. Hmm. The software is

9 out of 10 10 out of 10. It's just really good very high quality

And I got a lens to go with it a 35 millimeter f/2

Sigma lens so my memory of Sigma was it was the lens you bought when you couldn't afford the proper Nikon lens

They're like a third-party lens

Maker for all of the brands Nikon Canon

Leica all of them they make lenses for all of them, but they also kind of have their own

Weird, here's my here's my my my guess. I don't know. I didn't do any research. My guess is

they do the third-party lenses is like the bulk of their business is making these lenses for everybody else and

They have some little R&D factory. That's like hey, let's make really weird cameras because like why not?

They made what was it the DP 0 DP 1 DP 2 which I'll put a link to them or just look them up like there

Bonkers looking cameras. They're very weird shaped and odd the one would like the hook design

I'm not a hook, but it's like it's like a super flat chunky camera

And then you have the grip is like a big weird hook thing off to the side

And it's a fixed lens and then there's the wide-angle version the standard version of the telephoto version all fixed lens

So you can't swap them at all and then they made the I think it was the SP if I remember right

Which was also just weird

Strange shape so they're doing like let's do something

That's not what everyone else is doing and I think the FP was another version of that where the FP came out

Mainly for people doing video. It was like here's your little camera brain that you can build all your video crap around and

Make this big cinema camera out of it or have it be super ultra portable and put it on a drone

that was kind of that one and then the FPL came out as a

Now still photographers can use this too

Because it's got you know hybrid autofocus now, whereas it didn't previously a bunch of stuff. That's more like

Still photographer stuff and yeah, it was just like I want something weird and this fit the bill

It's very strange and very awkward and like it has all these like modular accessories. So if you want like a

Electronic viewfinder like that can strap on to the side

If you want to add on like a hot shoe that can go on the other side and there's mount points all over it

It's very weird. So that's why I got it because it was weird and

Yeah, you know what? I love about this

Even though I'm not the one using it since I've become more of like an OM system

formerly Olympus fan, right

It's been interesting to see a lot of people in that fandom as like micro four-thirds

Senses have been kind of on the decline in sales generally like a lot of the you know

Other cameras in general as a mark and you kind of see them switching to nature and wildlife as a focus or as a niche

Targeting strategy and I read this recently in the one prime plus members newsletter hemispheric

News or hemis? Hemis felled Canyon fell dick. Is that what I was?

That was the last version was hemispheric when I wrote it fell the canyon. Ah, see I'm confused

but the last hemispheric news I wrote about this and I like the fact that

Camera brands might go a little bit more niche in their targeting because and a lot of fans like oh you should be doing like

Stream general and everything. Yeah, that's what iPhones and Android phones have become right? That is the camera for everyone, right?

and yes, you've got the

Nikons and the cannons and the Sony's who cater to most people in that kind of professional market or enthusiasts

But like you look at the Sigma thing like I said about the OM system stuff Sigma obviously realizes there are people who want cool

Different things right the person who buys this is not going to be the general

I just want a camera in my phone to take family shots and stuff

I think it's cool when camera makers do this weird stuff in order to appeal to

Nerds because that's where they're gonna continue to make money. I think if they try to appeal to everyone they're gonna go

Well, why would I want that when I can just carry my phone and what I like about your camera Jason, obviously

So it's small as a full-frame camera because you have the option of that modularity

Am I right like you don't have to have the EVF and yeah that whole like I think I saw a photo that you sent

Just separately about like the HDMI connectors and stuff

So you can take all that stuff away if you just want that light street camera

Is that the idea exactly like this is literally all I have to carry and I have yeah

A 61 megapixel full-frame camera like it. It's wild. It's just so small. Yeah, it's fantastic

I can then build crap around it if I need it for

Different stuff. Yeah, so it seems like weird cameras should be celebrated or if brands go more targeted or niche

That's a good idea because that's how they're gonna survive if you find those unique cases that phones aren't gonna come

I think so. Yeah, I'm I had no idea they were making

I only recently discovered that Sigma had been making these like weird crazy

Bodies I had initially been looking at one of those like like we were just talking about the weird like hook

I don't hook is the best way to describe it. It's a very weird shape, but I was actually looking at one of those first

but it was kind of like I fell back into the like the the q2 was a fixed lens and

I just really would prefer to have the flexibility of having other lenses if I want to

And so that's how I then initially found the FP and then it was like well

That's kind of trash for still photographers and it was like well, I don't I'm not a video guy

And then I found the FPL after that. It was like, okay, that one's more for it's still like probably not if you're gonna ask like a

Photographer like an actual photographer like would they want this is their

Single camera. I imagine nobody would say yes, but that's the beauty of it. Like I'm not that person

I'm just kind of out doing weird crap

so I'm happy to either be held back or have to work around weird constraints because of

What it is so given that you swapped from like Sony and Leica to Fuji, but now you've got this

Where does this fit in alongside the Fuji?

Well the problem that I love the Fuji the problems that my Fuji is is broken and that is actually why I started looking at

anything to begin with because if my Fuji just worked then I would have just kept using that but

something's wrong with it and

It's out of any kind of warranty and I just I don't know what it's gonna

Cost to fix or if anybody even would fix it for a reasonable price. So

Yeah, I I was having issues with it. I swapped out batteries

That I thought fixed it, but it's still doing some weird

It's doing a weird thing where the shutter just doesn't work sometimes

Which for a camera is kind of a problem

If you're trying to take a photo and the shutter doesn't release that defeats the purpose of it being a camera

So and this new camera is electronic shutter only right? There's no mechanical one. It's only electronic shutter. Yeah, which is also kind

That's a whole different

weird thing of it be it's it's kind of like going from

gas car to electric car is kind of the first thing I thought of where you have all these noises and

kind of physical feedback from a gas car

that just don't exist when you go to an electric car and that's kind of what this feels like because you're like

press the button and

It happened

But there was no there was no physical

Feel because you can always feel the shutter no matter what like there's always that little bit of feeling

With an electron or with a mechanical shutter and there's the noise which you hear which every camera that alone

I think draws people to different camera brands of the shutter sound like that is a

That is a trigger in your brain where you when you hear that sound it feels good or bad

I think it's like Mac system sounds or the sounds of a clicky cable. Yeah, it absolutely there's that little bit of

What's the good?

Dicts the optic. Ah, is it serotonin?

Like the good just that little bit of like brain chemical you get when you hear dopamine

Open me. Yeah where you hear that certain little sound like there for me. It was always like Nikon shutter

Sounded better to me than a Canon shutter, which sounds insane and stupid

But just hearing that sound made me feel like yes, I got that picture that I wanted

It's like the repulsion that you feel when you hear the Windows startup sound like XP versus an old. Yeah, no, that's that is not wrong

Windows people all the time. So sorry, I'm not buying a weird camera because I canceled my flickr account after

Hmm joined December 2005

cancelled February

2024

Wow, so are you just on the free account then? I've got like a month to go or whatever

So I've not I've said it's a not renew. So I guess I'll go back to free

I don't know if that delete means suddenly everything is deleted. I have no idea

I don't remember what free free flickr I think just means a limit on

Total photos if I remember right is that I feel like that's it like you could you can have like a is it?

Yeah, I don't know but there's I don't know what does we fall over the amount that I'm meant to have

Did you download them all? Yes, did you? Okay. Yes, so, uh, but yeah, just not using it and it's like what's the point?

What's the point? Yeah, it's dumb. You gave it the flickr. I did

I

did I

Just have a quick question for you both

Yeah to Xbox controllers

Ever actually work for any length of time

Every day all day for me

I think so unless they're guitar hero shaped then they break within the first three minutes

I had one that just it

Button ended up the I had controller drift that just got ridiculous and basically it was just stuck always trying to push up

Right, and I took it apart and I air canned it and I did all the stuff and I used alcohol and all that

Dead so I turfed it, right

Alcohol is not the answer Andrew. You shouldn't use alcohol

I

bought my kid a controller for Christmas and he used it for a couple of weeks and

Then the little one of the little buttons on the front one of the buttons he hardly uses like I think it's the screen grab

button or one of the two little squares that was just basically it was registering as being on all the time and

You know same stuff poked around with it. I was like no, this is stuffed

Done all the software updates to it and everything. So I sent that back to Amazon

They sent me a replacement next day replacement really great. I pulled that one out mint out a box and

Plug it in try and use it and I can't I moved down on the pad to scroll through the interface

And it just it moved down one row and then just like to do to do to goes back and forth

It's really weird. Try and get into the joystick settings area

Which was not easy because I couldn't control it

So I'd use a different joystick

To get to that and then switch the controller and I noticed all the little sensitivities were really off and I couldn't really get it

to go to the little experiment area of the joystick finally got there and it was reporting that the

LB button was permanently squished

permanently activated

But not only was the LB button every other button on this thing just didn't seem to be responding properly at all

I'm like, that's the replacement of the replacement

broken out a box

So I try and get a replacement of that one and Amazon are like no too hard. We'll give you your money back

But we can't replace it. I think I think I think I'm some got some sort of

Weird scam system going on with Xbox controllers. So I don't know. I don't know what's going on is

If I just hit a batch of lemons

I'm Microsoft not paying the Xbox factory workers very well, and they're just not doing a good job

What's going on?

And I'm so into the third party sort of what else who else makes the Xbox controllers doesn't seem like as much out there

so I feel like I either buy the one again and hope I

Go and buy the super expensive one. That's like three times as much from Microsoft

They're like pro version. It's about that one way you pull the pieces apart and it's all kind of modular and you just know

You're gonna break it. Oh the elite. Yeah, that's the elite one. So we do I don't really want to do that

That's one normal controller that a kid can play can kid can use and so I just wonder what's happening with Xbox controllers

Why do I keep getting duds?

Are you watching anyone actually play with these because I have concerns that this is a user error each situation

I appreciate what you're saying there Jason and I told the kids be very gentle with these controllers

The fact that the first one the button that broke was not one that you would regularly use

That's that's a point point to them. Okay fair. And then the second one I took it out of the box

They didn't even touch it because I was setting it up for them

Okay, and so it was it had never been used as far as I know. Okay, so no

I don't think we can blame user error. I think it's I don't know. It's a green one

Electric vault maybe buy one, you know directly from from the source

Yeah, be my my I would check the logo and just make sure you're not using a box controller

Yeah, I mean like you've got some sort of a white box

Like you've just been going down the completely incorrect rabbit hole go down to JB. Hi-fi get yourself a

Sweet sweet. Yeah, you know red or blue or whatever color you want

Get yourself a controller

This is for the series X series X. What do we series X? Yeah, go get one of those. It's gonna be fine

I think ultimately it comes down to Microsoft's lean manufacturing process needs a bit of work Andrew

I reckon you should go online to the Xbox design lab and customize

the Wildcats colors

That sounds expensive. No, they're the same price. It's the same. You can customize it entirely. Haven't you seen it?

It's the same price to customize one as to just buy one

Flat out new it's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, you can customize all the colors of different components to match your you know

Well, it could be your country the hemisphere reviews controller. Oh, I've already done it. It's glorious

I'll send it to me. Your kids are gonna love it. It's so good. Yeah, and they're they're the same price

It it cause it work in Australia. Well, I mean who knows if that's the thing

Wow, is anything I don't know probably oh, here we go. It says all states of Australia excluding Western Australia

Except WA. Yeah, probably not. Oh, you know what I'm doing for the rest of the afternoon

Yeah, designing a sweet sweet controller yellow. Okay. Yeah problem solved. That was good

I love when we just solve things some are you doing it? We could have had an actual in-person meeting about this

We could have reported on it in a magazine

Months later, but we just handled it right with the hemisphere reviews would it be yellow?

Yellow as the front and blue at the back or it'd be blue

Jason would say that it's orange not yellow. I

Check the hex code there

They've only got a certain number of options, yeah, it is limit it's a little bit limited but the fact that it's free is pretty sweet

Considering like the only other option prior to this was going and getting like a color where one that was like four times the cost

This is cool. This is pretty sweet. I've gone. I am making that I'm doing it right now guys

I'm making the Harris for his controller. There you go. All right, so we've lost Andrew from the recording. That's good

I have to say I know that we're losing Andrew to the Xbox design lab, but I'm gonna put a call out here

I didn't think this was terribly important, but things kind of you know

Snowballed at Big W and Natasha and I were there shopping for stuff. I

Discovered we're while perusing Big W. Oh, no, no, no

Well, it is actually part of the same company

But this is this is kind of like Woolworth's knockoff of Kmart

Is that fair to say Andrew the first mention of Big W in the can target slash Kmart knockoff. I can never quite decide

Yeah, let me fire up the wiki and put in a new entry

I actually quite like Big W. I find it has some good stuff and often the toy section is better

Than the other locations. Yeah, they tend to have a bit more like the Manchester as well

And then they've got like a more of a lolly section which I suppose shows its grocery roots

Which came out doesn't really have as much on now. Okay, Matt does have the lolly and how has it been?

104 episodes and this is the first mention of the Big W. Really? I thought we'd mentioned it before

They're not they're not this this fewer of them. You've got to go your drive further

How did I find in a hundred and four years of this show? This has never been mentioned

Well, anyway, I'm glad that I can bring it up because for listeners I was walking through with Natasha

We had to get some stuff and we noticed in the toy section that they had little people

These little toys you can get but you can actually buy them separately now

At least we hadn't noticed this before where Mac loves the little people, right?

But also Lego if we take him to the Discovery Space in Wollongong or whatever and there's the Lego room

He doesn't really care about building things with bricks

He just trolls through all the bricks to find the people right and we were trying to find some different, you know

Little boys and girls in these little figurine packs that you could get and then I stumbled across one

Natasha and I just said that looks like Andrew Canyon, right? This is Andrew Canyon

We're gonna put it in the show notes. You can see the podcast artwork as well

And then we're like, let's see if Andrew wants it messaged him

I didn't expect the level of enthusiasm

Andrew that you gave back like "I want this little person"

Give me the little man

I like little people. I've got lots of fond memories of playing with little people

Well, there you go

The toy

The toy, yeah, to be clear

And it's got a little game controller on it, which is perfect for this episode

I didn't know you were gonna bring up the Xbox stuff

So you've got the red hair, you've got like, woohoo, like these arms out and you've got the game controller

And then I thought I wonder if there's like a Jason there

So we walked off but then I went back and I don't know what you think Jason

Because I think maybe you'd gone to sleep or you'd been busy by this stage of our conversation

Probably asleep, yeah

But I noticed, oh there's this guy

There's this little person that has a robot on his shirt

Like you do with your emoji and our notes and everything

But then obviously all of these toys they aim for like cultural or kind of ethnic diversity

And I'm assuming that this one is meant to look vaguely like an Asian person

And I know how much you love Japan

So it's kind of like the slightly Japanese version of you

Do you see this in our iMessage chat?

There you go, yeah, no I think it's...

My hair is not black but if it was, it was at one point in my life

So yeah, I think it checks out

So do you relate to this at all? Because I said do you want it

Obviously you didn't get back to me

And now I've bought this vaguely Japanese kid version of you

Do you actually want this?

If you look, it's got an orange top and blue bottoms

So, huh? Right?

Tie your shoelace though

Good point

Well, yeah, I only wear pull-on shoes so that's probably why

And then just my general stance of doing this, which I always do

So yeah, I think it's spot on

I love it

It's true

And you're always talking about Fisher-Price

Always

I won't shut up about it, yeah

Fisher-Price corner

And then look, I think Andrew you said "Is there a Martin?"

Yes

At least in the limited selection of the separate little people figurines at Big W

I couldn't find myself or anything that was made in my likeness

Is that because you were looking though?

Like if we had been looking, I bet we would have found

I mean, I don't really think I look like a little girl who carries a bunny rabbit

That's kind of the stuff that was available

There weren't any that were just the feet?

Yeah, just a giant little foot

Like a Monty Python foot down or like when the Simpsons get crushed

Oh, Littlefoot

Remember Littlefoot from...

Yeah, there we go

That was The Land Before Time? Is that what that was?

Sorry, I've just gone to the little people website

It would appear we are not the first to sort of go down this path

They have collector sets

You can get a Ted Lasso little people

A Seinfeld little people

So with this in mind, with all of this extra stuff out there

I mean, I'm not crazy about having one for myself

Although I will send these to each of you

Because I think you need your little people figurines

I think you need one though

If the listeners can find, and we'll include the links in the show notes

For the little people

If someone can find a little people figurine that vaguely resembles me

So that we can complete the image set

Oh, the Seinfeld one, obviously

Is there a Matrix one?

Oh, is there? That would be...

Yeah, but that's a particular franchise

I'm talking about ideally like you've just got these kids or people who are just general

Like a plain one, like a civilian one

Exactly, yeah

So if someone can find a Martin Little person

I'd be fascinated to see it

I just want to know what people actually will choose

Oh God

And if you can submit it on Discord or share it on Mastodon or whatever

I want to see if we can complete the little people HV Triumvirate

I cannot wait to find you in here

You're so in here

You've lost us both now

You've lost us both to the little people catalogue

Wow

Wow, this is something

They clearly need some sort of Xbox Design Lab inspired little people configuration site

If they don't already so Andrew can customise himself

Upload your photo and create a little...

Maybe Apple should use that instead of their little persona builder

In the Apple Vision Pro

Just use little people

Why not?

Just use little people

It would be better

Alright, everybody find Martin as a little people in the catalogue

That is in the show notes

And if listeners happen to find themselves

I won't argue with that either, share that

Oh yeah, for sure

Oh the farm animals, I used to have the whole farm set

Well I, our family used to have the farm set

It's like these were mine

Little people

Alright, count us down

In 3, 2, 1

Stop

Stop.

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