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Jacob Is A Bad Guest, Part 1
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Today I'm joined by my buddy, Jacob. We'll be discussing sports, music (mainly the Jonas Brothers), phones, and more! This is part 1 of 2.
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:12
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mildly frustrating. Mildly. Okay. So generally being mad is a good thing. Hold on. I've never watched your podcast before. Well, it's because it's not a video. It's a podcast. Mildly frustrating. Yeah. Google that. How do you spell it? Frustrating? Yeah, I don't know. I think it involves a Q somewhere in the middle. All right. Ready? All right. Yeah. Let's get to write that down. Yep. You're a bad guest.
00:00:36
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Hello and welcome to the mildly frustrating podcast. I'm here with Jacob. My name is Dylan and you want to go ahead and introduce yourself homie?
00:00:45
Speaker
uh yeah i'm jacob like you literally just said four seconds ago yeah i'm usually here with alan um today alan is uh mia he's dead um he has recently moved and is in the middle of a lot of uh life stuff going on so he's been kind of unavailable lately hopefully he'll be back soon but right now i'm here with jacob
Should Athletes Discuss Politics?
00:01:08
Speaker
So I guess the first thing we'll try to get to is, I know we're both kind of basketball fans a little bit, you probably more than me, especially lately.
00:01:26
Speaker
I mean you said you're a fan of 2006 basketball. 2016. 2016 basketball. My bad. Which is still newer. I would be six. Which is 2000. Which is still newer than I was a fan of. I was still a LeBron fan when he was on the Cavaliers when I used to watch basketball.
00:01:42
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Yeah, that's wild. Yeah, so that's several years. So what's your thoughts on what's going on right now at the end of the year? I know there's been a lot going on with the Houston Rockets or the Hong Kong Rockets as they're sometimes called. LeBron made some comments about the whole situation with China and that people have made comments on them. I think James Harden made a couple of comments as well. What's your thoughts on that? I don't know. I feel like
00:02:11
Speaker
I feel like with basketball, football, everything like that, it's one of those things where I feel like people just really need to stay in their lane. That's what frustrates me about actors nowadays, too, is that they want to get mixed up in politics and everything that's going on. But that's not why we like them. We like them because of their talent, not because of their opinion. Well, the one thing I...
00:02:38
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Come to find out because I really as we as I mentioned don't really pay attention is Braun is currently the ambassador for the NBA. So he's the yeah, we know that Yeah, so he is a little bit more in a position to speak out more than like harden
00:02:56
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But I don't feel like he should have said anything because that I mean, I don't agree exactly with the fact that they're calling him a hypocrite. I don't think that he is a hypocrite by speaking out.
00:03:09
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But I do feel like he does need to learn his place. I mean, he literally he plays basketball. He's not some political figure or anything like that. So I feel like I don't know. It just it rubs me the wrong way, like, especially with the ties that China has to the NBA in general and Nike.
00:03:32
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and the connections that LeBron has to both of them. I don't know. It's just, it's weird. I don't know.
Political Tensions in Basketball
00:03:38
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For the people who aren't completely familiar with what has happened recently, the Houston Rockets general manager tweeted that he was in support of the fight for freedom and that he stands with Hong Kong against China and all this weird crazy crap that's going on over there. So LeBron said that,
00:03:59
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He wasn't educated on the situation that it can endanger people, not only financially, but physically and emotionally and spiritually. So it's... He wasn't necessarily condemning him, but he was saying, hey, maybe he wasn't fully aware of the situation before he made his statement, which can be said of him also because of the statement he made, which, because you think of the backlash against what he said, what's the headline gonna be? Hey, uh, the general imagine...
00:04:29
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general management the general manager the general manager of the Houston Rockets comes out in support of Hong Kong and LeBron James comes out and says no he wasn't fully informed on the situation that's the headline so maybe he needs to also think about a little bit about what he's saying you kind of do you agree with what I'm saying he's maybe jumping the gun a little bit here yeah I do
00:04:57
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Again, I'm not really too informed with what's happening, but again, it's one of those things where if you're going to have that much influence as much as LeBron has with both Nike and the NBA,
00:05:17
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It's one of those things where you have a certain power and you've got to realize that. So you've got to be very careful about what you say because if anybody's aware of it, it's LeBron. But again, if you're aware of something like that, you don't make broad statements in defense.
00:05:37
Speaker
like he has like that's that's really not not helping his case at all nobody said LeBron was a scholar okay well obviously so there's been a lot of criticism for LeBron I'm on board with LeBron he's a good basketball player I will always be a fan of his
00:05:59
Speaker
He has done a lot of great stuff for his community didn't he open up a school that was essentially yeah So he's done a lot of great stuff for his community. Yeah, he yeah, especially in his community. He's helped He's done a lot of great stuff
00:06:12
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But in this particular situation, I think his whole stance is essentially, you need to think before you speak. And the general manager of the Houston Rockets was not fully informed on what he said and needed to think about it a little bit longer, which I think the same could be said for him. Yeah. So it's a weird position to be in. Again, I don't know if I fault Slobron as like, you know, he's a hypocrite. This is ridiculous. He needs to keep his mouth shut.
00:06:41
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I don't know about all that, but there's something to be said for he's a victim of his own advice.
Fantasy Basketball Analysis
00:06:49
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Yeah.
00:06:50
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Well, kind of to that same idea is we just tonight did our fantasy basketball draft. We did not have the first picks, neither one of us. I had the fifth pick, you had the seventh pick. Yep. So do you remember who went first in the draft overall? I'm trying to find out. I mean, I could tell you. Do you remember who was? I think it was LeBron, right? Nope. Who? LeBron was third.
00:07:18
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Oh yeah, yeah. Luke Pick. First was James Harden. James Harden, really? Mm-hmm. Wow. Which I'm not completely against. That was her name. What the James Harden pick. I had the fifth pick. I guess LeBron was second then, right?
00:07:35
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third. Third? Okay. Oh, I don't know how to do a second then. So the second pick was Jonas anti to compo. I forget how to pronounce it. Jesus, that was that was bad. Yeah, I legit don't know how to pronounce the name from Milwaukee Bucks. Then the third pick was LeBron James, which that's a interesting pick, especially on the Lakers. I don't
00:07:57
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I don't know about all that. It's, you know, I'm, again, I'm a LeBron fan. I'm a Lakers. It's not like he's the only one. He's not the only guy there. He's not the only point score. Yeah, but you gotta think about.
00:08:11
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players that are consistent and I think that's something that can be said of LeBron. Even though LeBron's no longer on a team where he has to carry the team, he is still consistent. I'm not saying he's not top 10, top 5. Yeah. I don't know about number three though. This year on the Lakers, is he top three? I don't know. Well, he wasn't top three on the
00:08:34
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overall list. Yeah. I think Luke just picked them because of the consistency, you know, that he brings. Yeah. And then it was, uh, Carl Anthony towns was the fourth pick, which I'm on board with. Yeah. And then Anthony Davis was my fifth pick. I'm happy with with sensors. Yeah. That's kind of, they, they can put up points. I'm happy with the Anthony Davis pick. I'm pretty sure that they, they played him a center. Maybe whatever team they had before. Yeah.
00:09:03
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I'm kind of out of the loop a little bit as far as then the NBA is concerned. Again, yeah, I really, so like 2016, 17, I really cut myself off from like all kinds of sports. Yeah. Cause it was right when I moved. Nobody that I knew played basketball or had really any interest in basketball, football, anything like that. Yeah. So I really cut myself off from it because it wasn't, you know,
00:09:30
Speaker
I think, I think with sports, it becomes a social thing at some point. Yeah. You know, watching it with your friends and everything. I just, I lost touch with it. So in my mind, you know, Rondo is still elite, but they're tossing him around like a fricking chicken. Yeah. So you got the number seven pick in the draft. Who was your number one pick? I got Steph Curry. Are you happy with that? Yeah, I am. Again, it's,
00:09:58
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It's the fact that that he's at least consistent. He doesn't really, from my understanding, he doesn't really get injured too often. So, I mean, I really can't can't complain about that. Do you remember who your second pick was? I know. Oh, the Marta Rosen. Yeah, you wanted him to kind of wanted him. Yeah. The Rosen's a special guy.
00:10:22
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Um, he's gone up the boards every single year, essentially. He's very talented. Um, so you got him with six pick up the second round.
00:10:33
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I think even though he was on the top of the list, I think he was kind of a sleeper. A little bit. You know, because nobody picked him right off the bat. I think everybody kind of picked the first top players. I think they literally just picked whoever was at the top. I don't feel like anybody but maybe one knew who they were picking. Yeah, there's a couple people.
00:10:56
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Whereas I was looking for names like people that were consistent, the teams that they were on, just because I feel like if you if you pick a player who is on a good team, even if they are a backup, yeah, I feel like they have a very good chance of popping off. Okay, so for example, you picked him over.
00:11:23
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Is there a reason you picked him over them? I just feel like he's played better over the past couple of years. There are very few people that I've kept up with and that I've heard
00:11:38
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have played decent and he's one of them. Drosin is pretty great. I'm kind of in the same boat as you to be fair, but Drosin is a special guy. So there was total of 13 rounds. So let's take a look just because I feel like you can learn a decent amount about the 12th and 13th round. You can learn a good amount about the team. So you're in the 12th round, you picked Mason Plumlee. Is there a reason for that? I feel like that was a decent,
00:12:05
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Almost sleeper pick. I think that's a good pick in a later round. Again, you got him in the 12th round, got a 13. Well, again, I think he's just a reliable backup. Yeah. You know, like at some point, especially when you have a full group of people that are playing, I think we have 12 all together, right? 13. Those starters are going to go quick.
00:12:32
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And so you've really got to start looking at backups and who's reliable and who's not. And I've actually been following Plumlee for a while, and he is a very consistent player. And also, he's on a team that isn't too bad. He's on the Nuggets. So I mean, again, it's a player that I really can't complain having. I think he's going to put up good points.
00:12:58
Speaker
Uh, and he's going to be a good alternate too, to have. Yeah. And he's behind, uh, was it Jojic or Zazic? Yeah, I think so. Um, so he'll be behind him, but like we've talked about before, those guys get injured fairly decently. So there's a, there's a decent amount of chance he'll end up as a starter at some point during the season. Yeah. Um, so the toilet throw and I ended up with Rajan Rondo, which I'm happy with. Um.
00:13:26
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He's not the same Rajan Rondo of Eeyore even two years ago, where he was getting, you know, a triple double every game. Yeah. But he's still a dangerous player who I'm more than willing to bet on in 12 out of 13 rounds. Happy to have him.
00:13:44
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So his his minutes will be capped, but he'll be just below a starter. So I'm hoping that he'll be a little bit of a sleeper pick. He's got the potential and I'm hopeful that it'll pan out. I don't know. I thought I thought about drafting him, but it's just the fact that he can't really put up points.
00:14:02
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I mean, you're going to have to solely rely on his assists. That's really that that's about it. I mean, don't get me wrong, Rondo can can get some assists, but like I don't know. I wanted to go for more of a balanced point guard. Either way, I'm still happy with the Rajan Rondo in the 12th round. He's a not risky
Sports and Personal Significance
00:14:25
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pick, but he's a I think he has a lot of upside. He's a high ceiling.
00:14:31
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Dude, how do you think I feel? My final pick was Jeremy Lin. So around 13 of 13, you pick Jeremy Lin with the 7th pick of the 13 around. Are you happy with that? No, not really. You know what?
00:14:49
Speaker
I was like, I was looking through all the players that were left. And I was like, you know what? I love Jeremy Len when he first started. I think he was on the Knicks. How do you think I feel? He's he's I'm a Knicks fan. So yeah, well, insanity. So he was on the Knicks and then I think he went to the Rockets. And then I think he was bounced around a couple more times. And now I think he's on Toronto now. Yeah, yeah, he's on the Raptors now.
00:15:17
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But I think, I think even last year, I think he impressed a lot of people with his performance, even as a backup. I'm really not sure. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm not, I'm not too happy. I wish now looking at it, I pick somebody better, but the same time,
00:15:37
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I would be really, really happy to see him pop off again and perform. At least mediocre. I want him to at least break even. That's all I hope for. Anything else, I'll either be really disappointed and sad and maybe kill myself.
00:15:58
Speaker
or I'll be really, really happy. He'll go above and beyond, and I'll kill myself. Okay, cool. Yeah. So, I mean, it is round 13 of 13. So, you know, we're scum, so you could pick up a free agent of some sort. And I think we both picked up players that we know are good, they're reliable, but they're currently injured. I picked up Oladipo in the 11th round.
00:16:26
Speaker
Well, I picked up John Wall in the 11th round. That's true. In the 13th round, I picked up Eric Gordon, which I am happy with. Yeah. Again, it's not a, you know, he's not a stat builder, but he could build up depending on how his role pans out this year. He's a great scorer.
00:16:52
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we averaged 16.8 points per game and during the past couple of seasons and they have Russell Westbrook so that can either be a plus or a minus depending on how things turn out.
00:17:03
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Yeah. So we'll see how things go. I'm hopeful for how it turns out. I've always liked Eric Gordon. He's a pretty solid scorer. He's got a lot of talent, so I'm hopeful that it works out in the long run. Yeah. I think it's an okay last round pick, personally. Yeah, I think your team's... I personally think your team is looking really good this year. I'm perfectly happy with my team, too.
00:17:25
Speaker
I don't think it's visibly better than anybody else's, but I feel like we might be able to do pretty good this season. You're playing fantasy, football fantasy, basketball. You're kind of involved in hockey a little bit, just kind of keeping an eye on it. What's your favorite sport to kind of watch, I guess?
00:17:46
Speaker
I'm involved in fantasy figure skating. That's pretty fancy. I feel like I might have a good chance of winning. I'm between me and my brother right now than silly people who wanted to join. I feel like Daniel Kim might pop off this year. Okay. Personally, I'm very excited to really see where this goes. I'm gonna need you to rank
00:18:14
Speaker
Basketball, football, and hockey. One, two, three. I feel like with the back and forth of basketball, I'm a little bit more intrigued by it. And I grew up playing a lot of basketball, too.
00:18:30
Speaker
So, I mean, we did play a lot of football, but I really lost interest in the sport because I feel like it became, I mean, like, especially for football, it was literally the same team over and over and over again. Now, I'm a Patriots fan. I love the Patriots. The views of Jacob do not reflect the reviews of the rest of the staff here at mildly frustrating. Continue. He's a Jets fan.
00:19:01
Speaker
He's naturally upset with any team that actually has human beings. Alright, back up from the mic and continue what you were saying. Alright. I think it would have to be the NBA, NFL, and hockey.
00:19:13
Speaker
Hockey I really got an interest in when I moved here. Like I never really had anybody who was interested in it, any friends that were interested in it. I never really played it either. I'd say I'm more of a soccer fan than I am a hockey fan. What kind of soccer interests you? Is it MLS? Is it national? Is it... I like national. And then what's the... Is there a certain team you're rooting for? I like Germany.
00:19:40
Speaker
Okay, is there a reason? Are you German? Yeah.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah, I'm one fourth German. It's fancy. I like the Premier League. Okay. My favorite team in general is Chelsea. I like Hazard. I like Newcastle too. Alright, I have a question for you, right? You don't have any questions for me. I have a question for you. I'm the host here. You don't have any questions for me. I am the host. No, I'm the host here. I'm the captain. Whose personality shines through no matter what? Mine. I disagree with your whole entire life. Well,
00:20:11
Speaker
It doesn't have, you don't have to agree because I'm the host. Step out of my life. All right. So I have a question for you. Please step out. What does it take for you? I disagree. All right. Well, that ends my line of questioning. Thank you for your interest in my podcast. It's called the mildly interesting podcast where we get frustrated with some very
00:20:37
Speaker
Indigo Copics. What do you want? What? What? I want fame, brother. What were you saying? I want fame and I want love. No, neither of those. What?
00:20:50
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What does it personally take for you? So think back to when you were younger, right? I don't like this. All right. So you have artists like Eminem, you know, we were just listening to his music. What does it take for you personally to be able to memorize lyrics to a song like, you know, what do you mean? What does it take?
00:21:15
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for for my money what my money i'm done with you what does it take for you to be emotionally involved enough in a song for a song to touch you enough
00:21:31
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to where you memorize a song or do you just have the ability to remember the lyrics to a song? Like for me, like I can listen to a song over and over and over again and still mumble through the lyrics just because I don't care enough about the song to memorize the lyrics.
00:21:51
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But if there's a song that touches me emotionally, then I can memorize that song the very first time I listen to it. Are you the same way or do you have... Where's this question coming from?
00:22:04
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I was impressed by the fact that you knew Eminem's lyrics. That's all I'm wondering. Well, it's also by sheer need of necessity from listening to it 800 times when I was a kid. That's just a general rule is if you listen to it enough, you're going to remember, kind of. But yeah, it's helpful if you have some kind of emotional connection to it.
00:22:35
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gave you that emotional connection. I mean, there's, I mean, it's no secret that there's a lot of anger and not loneliness, but it's a lot of self motivation in his music. Yeah, he doesn't have a lot of stuff behind his story that is all setting him up for success, which I feel I can kind of line up with my story a little bit. So I don't know, something about his music always kind of drove me to listen to it more and more. And I think the more you listen to it, the more you care about it. It's just a general rule of thumb there.
00:22:58
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What about his music?
00:23:04
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At some point you're going to memorize it. Yeah. I think that's very interesting.
Evolution of Rap Music
00:23:09
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Just for the simple fact that
00:23:12
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It's very rare for me to, especially with rap music, to come across an artist where you feel enough of a connection to where you wanna, because a lot of the music nowadays, it's just kind of a, it's a bop. It's mainly just the beat of the song. It's very different nowadays. Yeah, but I feel like with Eminem's music,
00:23:38
Speaker
there was actual meaning behind it. And you could sense his pain, the struggle that he went through in every scenario. And that really, for me personally, I don't really listen to Eminem a lot. I've actually been listening to him a lot more as of late. But that really interests me is the fact that you could tell he genuinely cares about what he's rapping about, what he's talking about in his songs.
00:24:07
Speaker
So I was just wondering. That's a general rule I think today with music these days for at least 50% of the rappers is it's more about what the song sounds like as a whole and how much money can produce to it.
00:24:26
Speaker
If you can follow the formula so to speak as far as music is concerned unless about the results of it the product that you produce and the lyrics that you came out with and what they mean and What your target audience is it's more nowadays. It's more Are you meeting a quota so to speak of did you have a beat that was really good? Did you?
00:24:49
Speaker
Have enough background music and enough noise that's kind of hyped you up a little bit. Did you have enough mumble in it? That's That's fun enough. It's it's different music nowadays. It's all hype music. Yeah stuff you can play in the club I feel like that that came with the the big
00:25:06
Speaker
wave of SoundCloud rappers. It became about, like you said, the formula of it. Formula? Formula? Yeah. Formula of it. Let's go with that. And it became less about the meaning behind the song.
00:25:22
Speaker
And that's why I don't really listen to a lot of the rap that's out there nowadays. Just because it's literally the same song just with different pitches, with different voices. Whereas back then it was each individual artist doing their individual unique thing. Yeah. It's very different nowadays.
00:25:46
Speaker
in the old days it was a lot of emcees today it's just a lot of rappers there's no master of ceremonies anymore it's really just a one component in a dad we keep talking about it in a formula of music it's very different to think about people like dr. Dre and Jay Z and Eminem they're all very different in their own respective way and they have their own styles and things like that but when you think that people like
00:26:15
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I don't know like you think of like two chains and future and I don't even know because they all blend together. Yeah, it's it's all very much the same formula and genre and even if
00:26:32
Speaker
you have a preference once and together in which everybody has their own preference. They're all, they all have their good songs and their bad songs. I mean, not like every song Eminem put out was a, you know, a hit. Eminem had his bad songs too, whether drug fueled or not. It's not the same type of craft that it used to be. So I think I always kind of appreciated it. You know, you think about the term rap, it's rhythm and poetry. It's very different nowadays than it used to be.
00:27:01
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it always was kind of a craft now it's more of a skill that's why nowadays like i i love like post Malone yeah post Malone is great post Malone is great because he
00:27:17
Speaker
goes out of his way to try to be unique. And especially mixing rap and rock music and mixing those two so perfectly but making it his own. And also collaborating with not only rappers but also people that, like his latest album had Ozzy Osbourne. Like just trying because
00:27:47
Speaker
the the rap community gets so uh filled with literally just the same noise to have somebody try to to break out of that and be as unique as possible people notice that and that's why he's one of the biggest rappers of all time biggest musicians of all time i don't know about all time because he's only blew up like what two years ago
00:28:11
Speaker
But again, two years ago, and he's making songs with Ozzy Osbourne. I'm not saying he's not really great. You can't say all the time when it's only been a couple years. I think Meek Mill and, you know, the greatest rapper of, you know, the past five years, I will say.
00:28:33
Speaker
I don't know if you can put him up there in terms of just general. You have to give him time. You can't, even if he's really good. Again, it doesn't just apply to rappers though. I'm talking about just musicians in general. Yeah. I still think he's really good, but say he stops making music tomorrow. You can't put him up there with the greatest rappers of all time if he only made, you know, three or four, you know, years of rap out of, you know, 15.
00:29:00
Speaker
I'm not saying he's in any way comparable to Eminem, but I'm saying for this time period and the music that's out there nowadays, he has truly set himself apart from everybody else. And you can see that. It's visible.
00:29:22
Speaker
Agreed. So I that's why personally, I love him because again, I grew up listening to like Linkin Park. You know, it was it was both rock and also you had what's his name? The the emcee for for Linkin Park. I forget his name. Mike Snowden. Yeah.
00:29:46
Speaker
You had that mix and it worked because it was unique. It set itself apart from everything else. And that's why I love Lincoln Park and that's why I love Post Malone because he truly sets himself apart from everybody else. If he can keep it up, I think he can set himself apart for the long term.
00:30:07
Speaker
He's he is great. There's no doubt about that. And I I love listening to his music. It's it's just too new for me to me for me to say that he is among the elite of, you know, the past 10 years. Yeah, I don't think I agree. I don't think he's elite, but he's personally one of my favorites. Yeah. If in eight years we're still sitting here talking about him like, oh, his new album is great.
00:30:30
Speaker
And yeah, great. He's definitely one of the top in the last 10, 15 years because he sustained that same popularity and style and uniqueness. Yeah. But the thing is with with him, though, and just from his interviews and just the kind of person that he passes himself off to be is that he doesn't care about any of that, too. Like if it all went away from him, he'd be perfectly OK with that. And that's also a thing I respect about him.
00:30:59
Speaker
So yeah, I'm excited to see what he has in store for the future. I really like him as an artist. So I guess kind of along the same topic, is there any concerts you're looking forward to going to in the next year or so? Is there anyone you're hoping to go to that you're hoping that there's a tour announced? What's your thoughts of ones you're hoping to go to slash one on a go to?
00:31:21
Speaker
Um, I don't know I like to go to I like to go to a post Malone concert if the tickets weren't so expensive Yeah, I think for like the nosebleed seats. They're like a hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah, I Really like to go to an 88 rising concert. Okay like a Joji Rich Brian Nikki concert
00:31:45
Speaker
Uh, I'm not exactly sure what their 2020 dates are, but I know that they're doing like a Midsummer Madness thing right now, which I think they're probably on the back end of now. I would really like, that's on like my bucket list to see is to go to a summer, uh, Midsummer Madness tour. What concerts did you go to this year, if any? Uh, I went to, I think it was this year. I went to, uh, Haley Steinfeld. Oh, okay. And, uh, Charlie Puth concert. How was it?
00:32:15
Speaker
It was good. Again, I like pop music, especially with like Charlie Puth. Then we went to see the Jonas Brothers too. The reason I went to the Jonas Brothers was because they were like the first concert I ever went to. I went with my cousins and it was the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. And so I just, I wanted to go just as kind of like a nostalgic. That's pretty
Concert Nostalgia: Jonas Brothers
00:32:40
Speaker
dope. Yeah. I'd go to that concert tomorrow.
00:32:45
Speaker
Yeah, legit. That was a great concert. I love people who go above and beyond and not only their vocal talents, but also their stage presence and the theatrics of it all. And I think with Charlie Puth,
00:33:05
Speaker
Just his talent in general really sold the concert for me. It was great. And also for the Jonas Brothers, them coming back after years of being a part, it was a really, really awesome concert to be at. Even if you weren't really a fan of their music, just the overall experience was really awesome to see.
00:33:26
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'm not really a Jonas Brothers fan, but I respect what they do. Yeah, it's I I can respect their music. Yeah, I'm not a fan myself, but I understand it. Yeah, and it's cool. It's cool to see that they they came together.
00:33:43
Speaker
And they didn't try to go back to their old way of making music, their old sound, but they adopted the sounds of Joe Jonas and DNC, or yeah, DNC.
00:33:59
Speaker
in his band, that kind of outlandish, weird sound that they had. Nick Jonas, the more, I guess, I guess R&B sound that that he had. And then Kevin, you know, not really Kevin, because he, you know, plays the guitar that he doesn't matter. But he's my favorite.
00:34:24
Speaker
Uh, but they, yeah, they didn't resort back to the old way. They, they found the things that they all wanted to do. And they really, uh, brought that through in their album and they, they kind of share the spotlight now. Whereas before I feel like, you know, Joe Jonas with, uh, him being the main draw.
00:34:50
Speaker
because Disney hired him for Camp Rock. And why are you looking at it? I know a lot about this, all right? Because this was during my time period. How old were you when Camp Rock came out? What? How old were you when Camp Rock came out?
00:35:11
Speaker
I don't know. 1972? Yeah, I think that's about right. 2008, so I was eight years old. And the girl that I liked back then was obsessed with Nick Jonas. And so I was like...
00:35:27
Speaker
I'll jump on that boat. And so that was the only communication that I had with her, because she was a cool girl. And literally, I would just be like, so the Jonas Brothers, am I right? And she'd be like, oh my god, yeah. So I was obsessed along with her with the Jonas Brothers, not even for their music or anything, just to have a conversation with her. Put their hair.
00:35:54
Speaker
For their hair, you know, I dreamed about touching Nick Jonas's curly hair. Yeah, fair. But yeah, I don't even know what I was talking about. Disney originally wanted Joe to play the main role in Camp Rock. Whereas before that even happened, Nick Jonas was the main reason why they formed as a band, sorry. And...
00:36:23
Speaker
that to me like set off like the big chain where Joe became the main priority and Nick kind of fell into the background and then they both like I think they all started to like slowly separate because they all had different interests so now it's really cool to see that they both they all have come together and they're doing what they love
00:36:46
Speaker
but together as brothers. And that's really cool to see, especially having two brothers of my own. Yeah, it's just really cool to see. So just to kind of divert a little bit, because we talked about it a little bit before, Samsung versus Google phones, opinion.
Samsung vs Google Debate
00:37:02
Speaker
Samsung has their own kind of niche. They're super popular. Google is also in their little niche of people who want, it's funny to think of them as a off-brand kind of, I don't even know what to categorize them as, but they're not mainstream. Yeah, they're not even a mainstream phone. You think of Apple, Samsung, Nokia, even Nokia a little bit. They're just from name brand.
00:37:31
Speaker
Google is their own little brand because of just they all they have is the pixel so they're not even they're a main brand. It's a flagship though and it's still it is a flagship but not a major flagship. They're behind they're still going to be behind Samsung and Apple.
00:37:47
Speaker
Well, every year, personalities, I guess, tech review personalities, have deemed the Google Pixel as the best phone in a lot of categories, like in camera. I mean, especially camera.
00:38:05
Speaker
Whereas Samsung and, well, not really, Apple, but Samsung has really fallen short in that category. In terms of camera? Yeah. Have you seen the S10 camera? Well, I'm talking about like during the time where the Pixel 3 was around.
00:38:25
Speaker
I mean Pixel 3 I think has been deemed by a lot of people as the best phone to come out of 2018. I mean Samsung really doesn't even compare to it. And with me Samsung has always
00:38:43
Speaker
been third in my opinion. It's always been iPhone, Pixel and Samsung to me. Just because Samsung has so many little things that I hate about it, like the bloatware and everything like that. And the fact that, you know, they literally explode in your face. It's just little things like that. That just that really was only the note seven that did that, to be fair. All right. Well, you know,
00:39:13
Speaker
When stuff blows up, you tend not to trust the brand in general. Yeah, it's not great for PR. Yeah. I agree. I think one of the major drawbacks of Samsung is sometimes the quality control is a little bit iffy. Their software development, the bloatware is definitely an issue and it's very frustrating.
00:39:39
Speaker
Google has always been great about their custom Android versions. They're always pretty straightforward. They don't have a lot of all this extra software in it that kind of knocks down your phone a little bit in terms of performance that you got to go through and try to uninstall everything. Yeah. And the software that they have is top notch. I mean, for the longest time, it was, you know, it was iPhone with the dual cameras.
00:40:07
Speaker
Whereas Google Pixel had the one camera but the software that they had for the camera was the best you could possibly get. It was really good. Yeah. So it was I think I think the thing that's driving Pixel is the simplicity where
00:40:26
Speaker
I will give it to Samsung. The way that they're especially their Note 10 looks overall is a lot better, a lot cleaner in my opinion than the Google Pixel because the Google Pixel is has a lot more simplicity in the design of it. But it's not it's not in a good way. It just it looks very boring. And whereas the Samsung, the Note 10, you know, it's a beautiful looking phone.
00:40:55
Speaker
especially with the with the pen that it has and all the the little features which I said before a lot of them I don't like
00:41:05
Speaker
But a lot of them I do like at the same time, especially in the Note 10. It's really refreshing to see compared to the iPhone and the Google Pixel, which they are heavily reliant on their software or the look of it. Whereas Samsung, their little features that they do focus on are really nice. And there are just a lot of things about the Google Pixel that I don't like.
00:41:36
Speaker
the forehead that it has. So the forehead? Yeah. So it's not completely bezel-less. And so they call it the forehead and the chin. I don't know why this is the first time I'm hearing this. They legit call it the forehead and the chin. The forehead is actually a lot more pronounced on this one. That's funny. I think it's called a radar sensor.
00:42:06
Speaker
where you can actually swipe without touching the phone. Oh, yeah, they've had that for several years. Yeah, I don't know what it was technically called, but I know what you're talking about. I think it's I think it's called a radar sensor. It's pretty stupid name. So instead of having a notch, they just cut the whole top out. Yeah, try and minimize the. So apparently there are three camera lenses in there, but one of them is a radar sensor.
00:42:29
Speaker
and so like so say so say you're uh you're using spotify yeah if you just if you glide your hand over the screen it'll skip the song yeah just stuff like that apparently apparently there is i'm not exactly sure what it's called but uh so you know how like with iphone
00:42:51
Speaker
You have to to use the face ID. Yeah, you have to lift it and look at it. Yeah, apparently with the Google Pixel and this is actually one of the things that's great about the phone is that it has like a 3 360 view of The entire of the entire room around you So by the time you pick up your phone and move it to your face, it's already unlocked. That's mmm Jenkins
00:43:20
Speaker
Well, apparently from tech reviewers, it's actually a really cool feature that they have. Interesting. So by the time you pick it up, it cuts on without you even cutting it on, which every phone has. But where you have to hold it up to unlock it, that's not the same with the Google Pixel.
00:43:43
Speaker
it will already be unlocked by the time you get it up to your face. Well there's, they use different facial scan technology like the Google, not the Google, the Samsung Galaxy, I know they use iris scanning which is kind of a secondary way of scanning your eye as opposed to facial recognition which the iPhone uses. I don't know too much about the Google Pixel as far as what they do with that kind of technology and
00:44:09
Speaker
i'm locking your phone and stuff it sounds pretty interesting if that's the truth but um it sounds pretty hard to to do because it's i mean it's a front facing camera so it's not the same as the back
00:44:23
Speaker
camera which is much higher quality. The front one, I'm curious what the technology is now that you've kind of piqued my interest. Something I would like to look into. If that's true, that's pretty interesting. I'm curious to see what they're actually doing as far as what their process is with unlocking your phone.
00:44:42
Speaker
It says before before we get into anything else know that the radar isn't the same as face unlock Google motion sends understands when you're reaching for the pixel 4 and lights up the screen Bracing for your face to come into range and do the rest But that's all the radar fuel chip inside us the sensor which Google calls slowly Isn't actually scanning your mug to make sure you're really you so take that as you will
00:45:11
Speaker
So it sounds like the motion sensor is getting a quick preemptive notification that you're going to pick up your phone and try and unlock it. Yeah. So it's a quick way of notifying your phone that you're about to do that. So like for example, when you set an alarm. Yeah. When the alarm goes off, if you reach over your phone and it picks up the fact that you're reaching for your phone, it will silence the alarm.
00:45:40
Speaker
before you even really pick it up. It'll sense that you're grabbing for your phone and it'll silence the alarm and then you swipe up to actually dismiss it. So it's just stuff like that. Just again, it's like it's the little details. I wish that the Google Pixel was a little bit
00:46:02
Speaker
was completely bezel-less. I feel like with the way that phones are now and from what we've seen, like phones like the iPhone 11 and the Google Pixel, I feel like there's no longer an excuse to have bezels, even the notch that the iPhone has.
00:46:26
Speaker
I don't feel like there's really an excuse anymore to continue to have that. To not? Yeah. When it comes to Apple, it's a very unique situation. Apple is always in the position of, even if there is a technology that will take care of it, they will wait an extra year or even two, three, four, they will wait until it's 100% perfected.
00:46:52
Speaker
so they will not put out a product that, you know, they, oh, it gets rid of the notch, but the facial recognition isn't 100%.
00:47:01
Speaker
It takes down the facial recognition functionality just a little bit. They're not about that kind of thing. If it works, they'll keep it until there's technology that will make it work. It's like the OLED screens. I've been keeping up with that a little bit. Samsung's been doing OLED screens for a while, a couple of years.
00:47:22
Speaker
What was it last year? I think it was the first year that they did. No, the iPhone X was the first year they did OLED screens. And it was just a matter of waiting several years to kind of come up with the technology that worked best for them and for their phone and wasn't a just, hey, we have the best screen or we have one of the best screens. We have the best technology in our screens for
00:47:45
Speaker
you know we just took it from the other phones and now we have it in our phone so we check the box it's a matter of we check the box in our way it's very different of when they do it it's going to be done right it's not going to be a we got
00:48:02
Speaker
we are matching our competitors. It's going to be where we have this. It's the best we could possibly do. It's a very different kind of ecosystem when you do Android versus Apple. It's also because it's a different ecosystem when you have to compare Android phones.
00:48:18
Speaker
Samsung versus Google versus, you know, Nokia versus the, you know, the 1800 other Hawaii, whatever, whatever other phones. Yeah. I hear it pronounced 18 other different ways. There's a bunch of different models and brands that you have to fight with Apple.
00:48:38
Speaker
They're the only ones making it and they're going to do it right. They don't have to keep up and try and outpace other competitors because they're trying to keep up their sales. Well, again, yeah, there's a good reason why Apple is at the top every single year because they take what they're good at
00:49:02
Speaker
and they consistently do it. Whereas these other phone company like Huawei or even Samsung, they take risks. And like you said, it's not until iPhone or Apple themselves perfect
00:49:24
Speaker
these new features that these phones, through trial and error, I know for a fact that Huawei and the OnePlus phone have been doing bezel-less phones for a while. I think it was actually the Huawei phone where it actually has the, it's completely bezel-less. There's not even a lens on the actual screen, but it has that projector thing where it pops up.
00:49:54
Speaker
I mean, the technology is there. It's it's always been there. But again, I think iPhone will always be the company that will have to perfect it in order to use it just because they aren't going to risk not being number one every year. They're not based off of technology. They're based off of customer satisfaction. Yeah.
00:50:16
Speaker
And that's why people continue to buy it each and every year, even though they know for a fact that I'm buying the same phone that I did last year.
Apple's Strategy in Technology
00:50:27
Speaker
Fair enough. Just with some minor boosts to it. Apple is good what Apple is good at. You're always going to be buying a reliable phone, a great phone, a phone that you will have for a year until the very next phone.
00:50:42
Speaker
Whereas with Samsung, Pixel, you kind of, you're kind of taking a chance every year with the new features that they have. And especially with Pixel, they always, I mean, I had a Google Pixel and it was like every single week they had a new update for the phone that you were having to install because there were bugs, there were things that they were working out while the phone was out. And that was like, you know, eight months into me having the phone. Whereas, you know, Apple doesn't do that.
00:51:12
Speaker
I mean, going back to our original point, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Pixel phone, just because I feel like it is a great phone. I definitely do see the perks of the Samsung phone, but there are just too many little things that I don't like about it that will always drive me more so towards the Google Pixel over the Samsung phone. Fair enough. I mean, there will be things that always drive me to iPhone over the Samsungs on Google Pixel.
00:51:40
Speaker
I appreciate what Android does and I've had on phones and I do love the customization and the things that I can do with the control I have over it. But day to day, iPhones are just going to provide me more value for my everyday life. If I spent more free time at home and I had time to mess with it and root it and mess with apps and I'll do all this stuff that I
00:52:04
Speaker
have the ability to do on Android. That might be my preference, but in my work life and in my home life, I'm looking for consistency as far as performance and there's a lot more apps, there's more games, even if they're not the same. It's hard to explain. It's less open source. They're not going to have as many, but they're going to have better ones.
00:52:27
Speaker
Yeah. So I'm cool with it. When you think of stuff like 5G, it's Apple doesn't have 5G yet, obviously. There's phones, Android phones out there that do have 5G, and it's just not, it's not needed right now. How many places is 5G deployed? Very few cities, and it's just not needed. I mean, there's really no need for 5G in a phone at this current moment, and they're not going to deploy until they need to.
00:52:55
Speaker
People were disappointed that the latest iPhone didn't come with 5G. It's just really not needed, to be completely honest. And they're not going to deploy it unless it's something that's viable for the phone in terms of performance and in terms of general things. If you don't need 5G, they're going to put that time that they could be spending in deploying and designing the 5G in their phones into developing something like
00:53:19
Speaker
better face ID or better motion tracking. There's different things that they will spend their time on that will make a better experience for their latest phone. They just do things very differently. I think Google, Samsung, they're about being innovative.
00:53:38
Speaker
you know, bringing, you know, what's new to the table next year. You know, they're thinking about the future, whereas, like I said before, Apple is worried about perfecting the things that they have now. They do that perfectly. And again, like going back to the 5G, if it's not available to everybody, if it's not mainstream, then why invest all your time into that, where you could be focusing on other things, perfecting what's already available to everybody.
00:54:08
Speaker
That's why personally, I like the iPhone. It's simplistic, and again, I'm not the kind of person that will sit on my phone and want to customize every little thing. There are a lot of people out there that like to have the ability to customize their home screen or to root their phone.
00:54:30
Speaker
And I'm just not that kind of person. Yeah. Like, I like to have a reliable phone where I don't have to worry about, you know, what I have on there, whether or not, you know, my phone's randomly going to shut down on me to brick, you know, things like that. I like having a reliable phone that I can trust. And that that that has been the iPhone for me the past couple of years. I respect that.
00:54:56
Speaker
this is actually we're going to end episode one here this has run a little bit over um i want to thank jacob for being here we're going to go into episode number two uh here next week and uh we have plenty more times to talk about and we're going to talk about stuff for as far as video games or and talk about
00:55:13
Speaker
You know kind of what our recommendations and our favorites are there getting into other some more personal topics, I guess and You see how things go, but I appreciate you joining us with episode one and I will see you next week with episode two. Bye