It’s a waffle-heavy episode, because that’s what you all have been asking for! We’ve got some movie reviews, and some recipes, and some serious medical warnings. But let’s be honest, it’s all about the waffles. Also, our sound issues persist, but we may be getting closer to a solution…
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The Honey Badger doesn’t care.
In fact, you could say he couldn’t care less.
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All the other animals make Honey Badger do all the work.
He is the 99%.
Occupy nature!
Where do I get a copy of William’s ring tone?
The ring tone was recorded spontaneously by me one day after I discovered I could use the phone as a recording device and then set the recording as a ring tone. It was a joke I played on the other person who uses the phone and was never intended to be the phone’s “permanent” ring. But it has stayed the ring tone ever since and in spite of a few requests I haven’t found a way to “share” it with others. If I could send it to you, I surely would!
To share the ringtone:
1. Borrow Tony’s laptop.
2. Setup the laptop to record (like you guys do for the podcast).
3. Start recording.
4. Play the ringtone.
5. Stop recording and export the recording to an MP3 file.
6. Post the MP3 to this website.
I wonder if it’s just a wav, 3gp or mp3 file on his phone, that he can copy directly to the PC or something?
Or just re-record something similar.
Hmm, what codec and bitrate do you guys use to encode the podcast? There’s a sort of underwater feel to the sound. It sounds to me like what happens when you, say, encode a song to mp3 at 64kbits; everything sounds a little dull, with some fidelity lost.
Anyway, back to listening!
Today’s episode appears to be a MP3 file encoded at 128KB/sec, 44.1KHz (stereo). Odds are TMTH is using Audacity with the LAME mp3 encoder at the default settings.
In Time sounds interesting, although does anyone think it it feels a little Logan’s Run? Well, Logan’s Run mixed with contemporary class issues. And some CGI, I’m sure.
I’m firmly with William on the fashion thing. I think you can wear clothes without worrying about fashion, which is just an attribute of the clothes, not a defining factor of wearing clothes or not. As such, the court rules in favour of the plaintiff. It doesn’t matter if that makes sense or not, because I couldn’t care less!
Here’s my favourite explanation of that: The Care Continuum.
I’m thinking William’s idea of it being the mic is actually the issue. You kinda get that same low bitrate effect with cheap built-in mics, bluetooth headsets etc.
It’s a bit different than Logan’s Run, in that there’s not the ideology that living to 30 is it, and you *should* not live beyond that point. This is much more a concrete method of commodifying lifespan, so that we can make huge disparity. This movie is largely economic, instead of weirdly religious like Logan’s Run.
That being said, there are some pragmatic similarities in the execution, and it will occasionally *remind* you of Logan’s Run. And since they are, apparently, currently making a rebooted Logan’s Run, I originally thought this might be it.
Speaking for the Occupy Occupy The Hat movement, we demand that the Occupy The Hat movement recognizes their claim to having a boring name as groundless. Especially since “Sir Guido” is much cooler than plain, old “Mark”.
Sound levels: William still sounds quieter than Tony (maybe you need separate mikes to better control the levels?) and Stuart is right that the sound seems a bit dull (especially william’s voice for whatever reason).
iTunes reviews: Is there anyway to write an iTunes review without using iTunes? Also, mad hat props to Gert for the excellent review (and hopefully those waffles weren’t too burnt).
Is it possible that the bacon is some weird veggie bacon?
Where did William get such a ridiculous ring tone?
Someday I really want to both upgrade my cable package to get Comedy Central and get a DVR, so I can watch the Daily Show & Colbert Report. *sigh* I hadn’t seen that interview until just now and I thought the Occupiers did a good job. Though the “male-bodied” person obviously had a hard time not laughing at Stephen’s antics.
What exactly is so interesting about the Honey Badger? I watched one of the linked videos and it just seemed dumb.
What is this Hannah movie you speak of?
Actually they didn’t substitute in a different body for the weakling Steve Rogers scenes in Captain America; they shot each of those scenes multiple times (moving the other actors around to make them seem bigger in relation to Rogers) and then CG’ed the actor down to his weakling-self. I thought the voice was a bit higher pitched when he was little, but I think they didn’t do it too much to prevent people from being confused about who was who?
Tony’s most likely right that shit-ship has sailed for the Fantastic Four and I doubt they’ll make any more movies with them. At least not until after Hollywood grows tired of superhero films, gives them up for years and then later comes back to them again.
So had you already seen Puss in Boots that In Time was your best option?
Oh please, William is neither a ninja or pirate; he’s totally a zombie monkey.
Monk & ninja? What’s a vaguely amusing Tony Shalhoub tv series have to do with ninjas?
Using pancake batter to make waffles is a bad idea as the waffles will come out too dense and won’t be enjoyable to eat. Also there doesn’t appear to be hard, fast rules for what constitutes a Belgian waffle in the US. That being said a proper Belgian waffle requires a Belgian waffle iron and should have some yeast in it, so the waffle turns out with a light, crispy texture (while still being larger & thicker than a a normal waffle).
Oh, and during the whole could care less/couldn’t care less debate, when William got all animated, his voice sounded fine! I think the disparity in the sound levels could just be down to William needing to get all excited about the topics at hand 😉 I could almost picture him getting off his seat when insisting he doesn’t care about fashion.
I laughed. Hard.
On the subject of Waffles…
Yeah, in the US, the Belgian Waffle is square with deeper ridges. In actual Belgium, the waffles are not made with batter per sae. It’s more like a dough, of a pizza dough like consistency, with “purled sugar” in it. They may or may not dust it with powdered sugar, but you don’t put stuff on it. You eat it holding it in your hand and… They are not easy to find in the US but they are GLORIOUS.
That is my understanding.
Now… That being said. I am fond of Batter Blaster and apparently you can use that in a waffle iron if you really want a waffle.
Do not taunt The Magical Talking Hat Podcast?
What the hell else are we supposed to do?
You forgot “psychotic episodes” as a side effect.
“Loss of the ability to use thumbs”… My thumbs or somebody else’s?
Does it burn when you draw a card now?
If you care enough to say that you couldn’t care less, you do care a bit. So you could care less, because if you didn’t care at all you wouldn’t make any kind of comment about how much you could or could not care.
So “I could care less” is valid I think.
PS – I always thought of Bloodsparrow as being a silly name. (It’s a joke stemming from Diablo II.) Secondly, is there only a finite amount of “cool name” mojo to go around? And C) Sir Guido is not a cool name? F you dude. F you in the A.
Bloodsparrow IS a silly name, but then again so are most online monikers. Yours just sounds cooler than most. Mine… is just memorable because its dumb.
*And* for looking like it’s pronounced differently than it is!
@Bloodsparrow – caring so little that you don’t even say that you couldn’t care less is just being obtuse. I think we’re marching towards some combination of meta and quantum physics.
Why yes, William, I will tell you what I prefer between pirates and ninjas! My vote goes to ninjas; they are stealthy, quiet and subtle, whereas pirates are loud and crude. I also have an affinity for Japanese culture, and while I’m sure that silent, honorless assasins exist in other cultures, I like to think of ninjas in an exclusively Japanese capacity.
Tony, this girl that you dated in the mid-1990’s, the one that used to ask you inane questions, it sounds like I might have a lot in common with her. Next time you see a low-flying plane taking off or landing at an airport, please ask yourself, what airline is it? 😉
I believe the difference between waffle and pancake batter is that waffle batter has more oil (and therefore fat) in it. I like to think this is to enable the waffle to come off of the waffle iron easily, but maybe it’s for some other reason entirely. Waffles do have a crispier texture, while pancakes are more cake-like. I have discovered that it is not wise to add blueberries to waffle batter; while blueberry waffles sound awesome, the berries just stick to the waffle iron and make a big mess, at least in my experience.
I think William’s on to something about the microphone for the podcast. When Tony moved his laptop closer to William, William became much more audible and remained so for the duration of the podcast. Hopefully you guys can figure it out before next week’s recording, so that we may all hear William and Tony equally. 🙂
Hold the phone!
In the future money is not the most valuable commodity – nor stocks nor shares. Instead the currency of choice is time and the populace are able to trade hours, days and weeks off their lives in exchange for services and goods. Into this world is born baby Zachary – who grows into a little boy with a game plan and a scheme to make more time; whereas his sister swaps weeks for sweets etc as if it didn’t matter. As adults, Zachary has continued this path, but so has his sister and he finds himself trying to challenge the rules to try and save her and his mother.
The Price of Life (1987)
There definitely seems to be some similarities here. A little different, and the plot is fairly different, but I think someone may have been “inspired”…