Hello.

Have you ever been laid off or let go from your job?

Not fun, but sometimes these kind of situations can have hidden blessings.

Hello!

I have been laid off, it was not a fun time

Three times for me.

All very different situations and never due to personal performance.

It can make one feel like a loser, even if you had nothing to do with some high-level bureaucrat making an uninformed decision.

Still hurts though.

ya, i totally get that feeling.

How do you do most of your daily commuting?

Personally I drive, but have been reading about how other countries do it lately

I work out of my home, so commuting is simple.

I used to bike to work.By choice.

I don't live on Mackinac Island, where motorized vehicles are banned.

How do you get around?

I drive 95% of the time, but in the summer i tend to walk a bit more to close things around me.

I was reading about going to Japan this summer and learned that all there highways are tolls, which is crazy to me.

we have no toll roads here where I live

Nice.

Ever take the bus?

The Dutch are creating commuter buses that will go 160mph.

I haven't rode a bus other than a field trip with my kid in over 10 years, it's just not a common thing where i live.

Iceland has no public transit system, they have to fly between major towns, could you image the bill?

EEK!

Planes are nice to travel the world, but not the neighborhood.

I heard that the first king to travel the globe was King Kalakaua of Hawaii.

I don't think he took a plane either.

That's crazy!

Do you like music?

I love concerts!

Did you know Linkin Park played 324 concerts in 2001?

Now that would require a bit of traveling!

It reminds me of the Ramones, a group that played over 2000 concerts, but that was over the course of 20 years.

in 2002 at a creed concert four people filed a lawsuit because the concert was so bad, makes me want to know more

That kind of performance would drive away the crowds!

You know, Pink Floyd  once recorded a live concert in an empty amphitheater?

I can't recall where that was.

Do you?.

I think it was in Pompeii, I remember hearing about that from someone!

Someday i want to go to Croatia and see the old ancient roman amphitheatre

Oh, nice.

Would have to wear a toga?

They say a concert is a live music performance, but in a place like that, there might be a few ghosts!

Did you know baseball managers wear uniforms because they can pay for the team if the need arises?

They would have to be pretty desparate to put one out on the mound, but who knows....

I heard that baseball is so popular in Japan that many fans are shocked to find out that it is considered "America's game"

In canada they call it soccer-baseball

Canada?

O wonder if they have soccer-baseball cards too.

I once heard of a guy who founda stash of old baseball cards in his attic, and it turned out that they were old cards from the 1900 worth over three million dollars!

Makes me want to clean my attic!

Wow!

we have a bunch in the garage i should look one day!

baseball evolved from a game in england in the mid 18th century, that's crazy to think it's that old

Nice.
Well, thanks for the chat.
Cherrio!


Good morning, much of a baseball fan?

Hi!

Not so much as other sports, but I do often wonder how in the world do they wash those uniforms so clean after sliding in dirt!

I tried to get my kids to play but all they'd do is stand at one of the bases and play with the dirt.

That's hilarious and cute too!

That's way more fun than baseball!

Maybe they would find kickball, or as Canadians call it, Soccer-Baseball a bit more interesting?

I finally realized my kids is never going to like playing any sport, he would be more interested in collecting the cards.

That's fun too but maybe a tad bit more expensive, who knows maybe it'll be valuable like when a man found three million dollars worth of 1900s baseball cards in his grandfather's attic that was hidden since the 1940s

It's amazing that a piece of card can gain such value.

I'd sooner use my money for some fancy traveling.

Do you enjoy traveling?
Where do you want to go?

Somewhere warn and sunny.

I live in the Midwest and it's dark and cold.

Aside from the sun I don't care, bike train boat, or plane.

Yeah, after the frigid temps in the recent polar vortex, I think I'm ready for some warm weather.

Would you want to go for long period of time or short stays?

I'd really like circle the world, like that Hawaiian king.

Or I could just stop in Hawaii, preferably for a long stay.

Maybe if I lose my job I have more time, but less money.

I would like to experience Japan, but then if highway tolls costs more than $300 alone to travel across the country, I may have to save a lot more than I realized.

You could take the bullet train, that goes really fast.

Faster than that bus they have in Holland.

I've taken the bullet train once before and you don't even realize it's going that fast.

Would love to visit Iceland some day but that requires a lot of air travel since they don't have public rail services available.

That must get expensive.

I've had a layover in Reykjavik but have never left the airport.

I didn't realize all those Icelandic people were commuting.

Oh wow!

What route makes a layover in Reykjavik?

I admire and strive to be one of those people who can manage to travel lightly, just my batteries and charger alone takes up tons of space!

Cheap flights to London.

They are no thrills trips across the Atlantic, no entertainment, buy your own food, and pay for your luggage.

But cheap.

Icelandic Air and Wow airlines.

Oh wow!

I always see those fares but never realized that they were really that cheap!

Do you prefer those no thrills trip vs traditional airlines for the price?

I prefer the traditional flights, especially when you are half way through a budget flight thinking to yourself that you should have spent the extra.

Still, I can you the money I saved to see a good concert.

I see, yeah that must've been an especially long flight!

I think my snacks and food alone would be over the limit.

Who's concert did you see?

It can't be Pink Floyd's since he recorded a live concert at the Roman amphitheater with no audience

My wife saw Pink Floyd a number of years back.

I used to like those big festivals, get to see a whole bunch of bands, not just one concert.

Yeah, probably worth the price more!

Linkin Park played 324 concerts in 2001 alone just because they had one successful debut album!

That is a lot of travel and hotel rooms.

I must imagine that were a little bored with playing the same songs every night.

I have to go now, have a good day.


Good afternoon.

Do you like the movie avengers infinity war?

I thought Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Studios did an incredible job.

That movie was fantastic.

It was the first movie to be shot with digital IMAX cameras and I feel like I noticed a difference.

Yes I did too.

Hope they make more movies like that in the future.

The movie even caused an increase in shawarma sales.

Very influential.

One of the actors who offered his voice to Jarvis in Iron Man and the Avengers has never seen the films.

He is missing out!

Yes I agree with you.

I wonder why you don't want to watch them?

The waitress Capt.

America saves in the avengers voiced Gretchen in recess.

Did you ever watch that show?

I did but I can't seem to recall the character.

I like that the original actor who played the Hulk, Lou Ferrigno continues to offer who voice to the character for decades.

Yes he was such a good Hulk actor.

The 1970's seems so long ago especially for him I bet.

Marvel has the best characters.

I think I like them better than DC.

Sony could have purchased them all in 1998 for $25 million but they only wanted Spiderman for $10 million.

I'm surprised to think that they only thought people would want to see or care about Spiderman.

What a mistake that was.

I find it fascinating that DC and Marvel co-own a character whose sole purpose is to keep the universes separate.

Yes I wonder if that character who is named Access will ever have a movie himself?

Probably too many license issues.

Disney does not completely own the big marvel characters east of the Mississippi due to previous contract signed with Universal.

Oh that is kind of interesting.

Have you heard about Blue ear?

He was a superhero created to put the anxiety of a four-year-old boy at ease.

That is fantastic.

I heard the boy did not want to wear his hearing aids because superheroes do not wear them, so they created a character for him.

How wonderful.

Exactly and I think that is so wonderful too.

Do you like watching television?

I can't believe there are over 750 episodes of Pokemon.

Wow.

That is a lot of episodes about 50 a year for 16 years straight.

That is almost a new episode every week!

I bet Pokemon fans love that.

Can you believe they made a UK version of that 70s show?

I guess the show was too Americanized because it only lasted for 10 episodes.

And I really enjoyed the American version.

Yes me too.

I think it would've been more successful if they didn't remake the show verbatim.

I really had fun talking with you today.

You too.

Keep enjoying tv and movies and be so excited for the next Superhero film.

Sounds great thanks you too!
Bye!


I read that, since 1900, the taller US candidate has won the election 75% of the time.

What does that say about our society and how superficial we can be?

It says we are more concerned about what is on the outside than the inside.

I'm certain the prettier/more handsome candidate wins more than others as well.

I like the lengths India goes to for it's voters, setting up a polling booth in a forest full of lions for one voter.

I know, right?

It's almost as if India DOESN'T want people to vote.

Nevada is the only state to have a "none of these candidates" option in the voting booth.

I would have used that option in 2016, had I lived there.

I wonder how the astronauts get to keep their ballot secret when voting from space.

I always assumed they would do absentee ballots before they took off.

You would think so, but they could be easily tampered with, if they did.

34% of black males in Alabama permanently lost the right to vote.

I wonder why?

I suspect because they were convicted of a felony.

Not many people know that in England men couldn't vote until 1918 unless they were property owners.

WWI put an end to that.

34% felons?

That doesn't sound right.

I'll have to look it up.

So WWI had some positive results, I see.

That's actually a pretty common reason in a lot of states.

They are working to relax that in some places.

Our prisons are full of men (especially) who haven't got the right to vote.

During the 2012 elections in the US internatonal electoral of servers were blocked from the polls.

I wonder which states they were blocked in?

We should take a cue from ancient Athens, and appoint our officials by lottery.

Much better than by height.

Anyone can rise to the job before them attitude!

Maybe.

Do you follow election results on the radio by chance?

I can't tell you the last time I listened to radio.

Canada requires, by law, that 40% of music played, be Canadian.

Poor Canadians!

So much Bieber, Drake, Celine Dion, and Bryan Adams.

I listen to NPR mostly so I get all the political happenings and opinion via radio/podcasts.

Did you know soldiers would make their own 'foxhole' radios?

I read about that.

They'd use razor blades and pencils.

Creative.

Do you listen to am radio?

If so, then you may have heard some of Jupiter's radio storms, which our am radios here on Earth can pick up.

I've heard of Jupiter's radio storms but I'm a FM listener since it's pretty much only NPR I listen to.

If you're into classic radio dramas, there's a website where you can listen to thousands of classic episodes for free.

My friend would love that, as much as I wouldn't.

Yeah, you could probably hear Howdy Doody and the Green Hornet.

There's a Finnish radio station that makes a weekly news program entirely in classical Latin (a dead language).

I wonder why they call it a "dead language" when it's still known and used.

I guess it would have to be widely used.

It's not technically dead, though, if it still has a pulse.

I believe because it is not used in everyday conversation and written communication.

There must be an audience for it though because that Finnish station has been doing it weekly since 1989.

Must be.

I miss the 80's.

Voter turnout hasn't breached over 63% in the past 100 years.

I wonder if we'll ever come together and achieve anything as a species, 100%?

I think a lot of people are disillusioned.

The mid-terms had a pretty good turnout.

People who are riled vote.

Yeah.

It feels as though our vote doesn't count.

In lighter news, Austin, Texas citizens voted to name their garbage dump after Fred Durst.

That poor garbage dump!

Yeah.

They could do more to encourage voting, make it a national day off for ALL with pay and/or establishing internet/smart phone voting.

Some people really get the evil eye from the boss when they take time from work to vote.

Great chatting with you.


Hello, are you interested in the Avengers, Marvel, or television?

I really want to see Infinity War!
I have heard so many things about it!

Yes, I wanted to see it as well.
I heard Josh Brolin stars as Thanos.

I hoped the all star cast stopped him.

He doesnt sound like a nice guy that Thanos.

True.

The Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

It's the sequel to 2012's The Avengers and 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron.

I dont know it well, but my favorite character is the racoon, or Groot.

Yes, I know Groot.

Did you know that Avengers: Infinity War is the first film ever to be shot entirely with digital iMax cameras?

Is that cool or what?

That is really cool.

Did you hear about Robert Downey Jr. hiding food on set?

Yes, I did.

Apparently, only he knew where he hid the food and no one else could find it.

Did you know that the actor who played the Hulk in the original 1970's TV series, Lou Ferrigno, has been voicing the character for decades, including every appearance in the MCU up to Avengers: Age of Ultron from 2015?

Now that's dedication.

It really is, it was one of the things that made him iconic and helped him transition form bodybuilder to actor.

Another interesting fact about the voice actors in that the waitress Captain America saves in the Avengers voiced Gretchen in Recess.

Wow, Recess?

That is a blast from the past.

I remember watching that when I was a teen.

I always loved cartoons, how about you?

Yes, me too.
I still watch cartoons on television.
I like lots of them like South Park.

That is a great one.

I always loved the Simpsons too, it is crazy to think Homer had 188 jobs.

Yes, Homey is cool.

There is only one episode of The Simpsons where Bart neither appears nor is mentioned.

I don't remember ever seeing that one.

I am with you there, hes always there so I guess I just placed him there in my mind.

Yeah, me too probably.

When South Park aired its Family Guy episode finale, the producers received flowers from the Simpson's crew.

That was nice of them!

It really was.

Did you see the Treehouse of Horror XXI?

With Daniel Radcilffe?

No.

Did you know that Ringo Starr narrated Thomas the Tank Engine at least 52 times?

That's great too.

Yeah, thats pretty cool, wasnt Alec Baldwin on that too?

Yes, and so was George Carlin.

They all narrated at least 52 times.

Nice chatting with you, have a great one!


good morning.

i think in the USA we take the process of voting in elections for granted.

hello, I agree, what do you think about Afghanistan's parliamentary election ?

holy smoke it sounds like a wild, scary situation.

it's a positive situation that they accomplished the mission and a lot of courage was shown by the voters.

yes it is... Kabul police said, a suicide bomber attempted to enter a polling station on the northern outskirts of the capital, then detonated his explosives when police tried to stop him, killing at least 10 civilian voters and five police officers, can you even imagine how people live like this?

when i try to imagine it i'm just thankful that by pure luck i don't have to go through such a mess in order to cast my vote.

amazing.

oh me too, it was awful...

So there More than 8 million voters had registered to choose among about 2,500 candidates running for 249 seats in the lower house of parliament.

The long list of hopefuls included 400 women, clean-cut young men in business suits and bearded older men in turbans...

i'm proud of all the people who made the effort.

it shows me that they value the process of voting.

they knew it would be risky but they took the chance and went out to vote.

yes definitely!

And plus Many who managed to cast votes described scenes of frenzied confusion and disorganization, with ballot boxes missing and names recorded wrong, how can this even be possible...

incredible.

this is a whole new thing for them; a new process; but people showed great patience.

it was critical for them not to be deterred.

a real  learning experience for them.

The head of the Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan, Mohammad Yousuf Rasheed, said the monitoring group was pleased that people wanted to come out and vote despite the security threats, but we were disappointed to see the lack of preparation by the election commission staff and the threats by local power brokers in some provinces that influenced people to vote for them, what do you think?

i can't really blame the election commission staff.

this is a whole new thing for them and they knew that they were at risk.

if and when something like this happens again they will surely be better prepared.

amazing.

yes i guess i agree with you, and plus Many voters expressed strong enthusiasm for the election, which they described as a chance to bring fresh faces and new ideas to the political arena

and compare that with the U.S. where so many take the whole process for granted.

if we want to, we just go to the polls, vote, without any thought of risk or threats.

it really makes me think about all that we take for granted here.

Yes, I absolutely agree with you... it is frustrated.

So Women voted at separate sites... can you imagine

women voting at separate site is another example of the difference between the USA and other countries that do things so differently.

but on a positive note, women DID vote.

even in our country it took way too long for them to get that right.

unfortunately yes, there was a lot of struggle for women's votes but right now it is good for our country.

it certainly is.

i think about history a lot.

i'm not an expert but i do find it very interesting how things have changed.

some change has been for the good; of course some not so good.

Yes but as for women's votes, the changes has been for good.

Also one more thing to add, In Qarabagh, a town north of Kabul, voters blocked the highway in protest after election materials failed to arrive by midday.One joke circulating on social media suggested that more people would be deprived of voting in so-called safe areas than in regions under Taliban control, where the danger forced hundreds of polling stations to be shuttered in advance.

hopefully one day people in that area of the world will look back and say "wow we've come a long way since then."

very important to stay hopeful.

yes that's for sure.

Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.

Did you participate in the last elections?

i'll be honest with you.

i did not.

sad to say i have become very disillusioned with the political scene; it's a long story.

but that doesn't change the fact that i recognize voting as a crucial, valuable process.

I totally understand You.

It was nice to chat to you about elections and voting.


Are you a Marvel Fan?

Avengers Infinity War is the first film ever shot entirely with digital imax cameras

Yes I am.

its also being compared to a television season finale

The actor who played hulk in the 70's series has been voicing the character for decades up until and including every appearance in the mcu up to avengers: age of ultron 2015

game of thrones has a budget of $15 million an episode.

thats insane

That sure is a lot of money!

In 1998 Marvel offered cinematic rights to almost all characters to sony for $25 million but sony rejected only getting rights to spiderman for 10 million

I bet they are kicking themselves now.

lol.

disney doesnt own the rights to show big marvel characters east of the mississippi, which makes sense because I live at disney and you dont see any of them

Disney is gaining in entertainment in a lot of other ways though.

They have added Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar to their list of acquisitions

I really thought they always owned pixar so that's interesting.

marvel made a superhero who wears hearing aids for a boy who didnt think superheroes wore them

Wow that is really special!

Expanded universes are popular now.

Marvel tv shows are including Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

I love agents of shield.

They expand the smaller characters from the movies and also reference the big characters.

Do you enjoy "the Simpsons"?

There is only one episode where bart neither appears nor is mentioned

Yes I did know that, I wonder why?

That 70's show was remade in the UK but it was quickly cancelled

Gretchen from Recess was voiced by the same waitress that Captain America saved in Avengers

I never watched recess.

Jarvis has never actually seen any of the avengers films.

If I were an actor I'd want to see my work!

Especially those movies!

Avengers caused a great increase in shawarma sales

It wouldve been nice to have been given more backstory about Thanos before they introduced him as the big bad evil

Do you remember Thomas the Tank Engine?

Ringo Starr, George Carlin, and Alec Baldwin all narrated it for at least 52 shows

Thats alot of episodes of Thomas.

I wonder how they got so many stars to do the voices?

Pokemon must have been popular with over 750 episodes made which is 50 a year for 16 years straight

What do you think they could have possibly wrote about for 750 episodes?!

I have seen quite a few and they arent that intresting

Not sure why all the appeal either.

Avengers Infinity War interestingly was the first film shot entirely with digital imax cameras.


Did you vote during midterms?

I didn't.

I had twin newborns at the time, and it slipped my mind.

Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.

I wonder by which mechanism Astronauts can vote while in space?

That's an interesting question!

I didn't know that sephology is the study of results and other statistics relating to elections.

How do you feel about the  election results from the midterm elections?

I don't really have an opinion either way.

Since 1900, the taller candidate has won the us presidential election 75% of the time.

Voter suppression was an issue in this election in states like georgia, north dakota and alabama

That's interesting.

The voter turnout for us presidential elections hasn't breached 62.8% in the last 100 years.

The government of  India set up a polling booth out in the middle of the forest for voters but we still can't seem to get things right in the middle of some of our biggest cities.

That's amazing.

Nevada is the only state to have a "none of these candidates" voting option for presidential elections.

DO they have a "write-in" option?

I'm not sure!

Excellent question.

Officials in ancient athens were appointed by lottery because they believed elections would lead to an oligarchy.

I have always enjoyed following the election results by listening to the radio

You can listen to all kinds of things on the radio.

Even storms on Jupiter!

Yeah, its kind of cool to listen to.

I have a radio built by my grandfather in WWII.

That's awesome.

Some of them were called foxhole radios.

He kept is war radio but built one that was more reliable that was handed down to me

That's very neat.

According to canadian law, all radios are required to have at least 40% of the music played be canadian.

That is a lot of Justin Bieber songs

Or Celine Dion!

It was nice chatting with you, have a good night!

Good night


Hello.
How are you?

Hi, I'm fine thanks.
Do you follow soccer?

Not too much.

If its The Unites States playing, I may watch.

Ah, I see.

I'm not too big a fan myself, but I do know that it's called football in most other areas of the world, but it's called soccer in the US because soccer was the slang word for association football.

Yes.

Its Very popular all over the world.

But Basketball, baseball and the NFL dominate sports in America.

Yeah, and it's kind of funny because soccer actually pays more than all those sports.

Yes.

Its crazy money that sports people make these days.

Yeah for sure!

It's good that some of the players donate some of their earnings though, because I heard that German soccer player mesut ozil donated his eur300,000 world cup victory bonus to pay for surgeries for 23 children in brazil.

Yes.
I had heard about that.
That was great.

Yeah for sure!
Anyways, do you like to travel?
Have you ever been to Japan?

Yes.
But I have never been to Japan.

Yeah, my parents went there last year and they said it's a very beautiful country, but it's so expensive though.

It is said that all of japans highways are tolls, and it costs more than 300$ to travel across the country.

I like traveling, but not that much.

I am more of a Virginia beach kind of person.

I like the water.

Yeah, I love the beach also!

I like going to Hawaii when I get the chance (even though I haven't gone for a few years).

Did you know that the first king to travel around the world was king kalakaua of hawaii?

Yes.
I had read that somewhere.
That is what I call travel.

Yeah for sure!

It's kind of funny because the US has a lot of interesting history.

I heard that Mackinac island, mi has banned motorized vehicles for over a hundred years.

most travel by horse-drawn carriages or bikes.

Now, that's history for you.

Yes.

They do that on a lot of islands that tourists frequent.

I think fire island is another place.

Oh really?

That's cool!

I heard that Iceland also has no public rail service and that most icelanders without cars use domestic flights to travel between major towns.

Wow.
That must be expensive.

Yeah, but I think Iceland must have quite a booming economy due to all the tourists, so they must be able to afford it.

Well anyways, it was nice talking to you.

Hope you have a good night!

Same to you.

Thanks for the conversation!
It was quite stimulating!
Have a good night!


Do you have kids who play soccer?

No I don't.
Do you?

No, thankfully.

I don't know if I could handle the other parents constant screaming and criticizing children and coaches

I heard about "Silent Saturday," where parents are muted.

i think that is a fantastic idea.

I think I will recommend it for the league in my neighborhood too

I've been to children's baseball games and it's very stressful listening to parents in the stands.

Soccer must be stressful as well.

Maybe they should try it for baseball games too.

The kids can make sure the parents play by the rules too.

Yes.

Silent Soccer gives children the chance to think for themselves as it should be.

Coaches are limited to in how much they can help the kids, they can only encourage them

I like the idea of the coaches encouraging like you said before.

I think the whole thing makes better players.

The Silent Saturday sports movement is big in D.C.

I hope it spreads nationwide.

Parents need to be reminded that this is for the kids to learn and grow.

One parent was recently interviewed after one of the games and they said they really enjoyed the idea and the result it brought

That's good.

I've heard it makes players communicate more.

In this day and age that is a very good thing.

Its also good that they let the kids enforce the rule of being silent rather than the referee

Definitely.

It seems very empowering for the kids all the way around.

Leagues in Colorado have been doing it for years and they do it once or twice a year

I didn't know that.

Another good idea could be to film the parents during games and then show them what they do.

I think it would bring a lot of self reflection and a little embarassment to over the top type parents

Yes it would.

I know these Silent Saturdays have shown some parents just how bad they have been.

I am  headed out to the field to start a Silent Saturday with my community this weeked


Hey do you ever watch association football AKA soccer haha?

I don't really but I know a lot of people do!

The Super Bowl is smaller than soccer's third biggest event.

That is pretty funny.

Did you watch the Super Bowl by the way?

I know that I did.

What's also crazy is that soccer makes more money than every other sport in the world combined, I don't even know that's possible

I did watch the Super Bowl though I was just busy eating.

Soccer can be pretty powerful.

There was one player who stopped a civil war in his home country, single handedly.

Well I didn't hear about that, what happened?

I do know about the player who donated his World Cup bonus though, it was about $300,000 and he helped to pay for 23 surgeries for young children

I don't have any further details.

That is neat about the donation.

I wonder if Greenland has hard feelings about soccer though because they can't join Fifa as not enough grass grows there for a soccer field.

That's funny you think that they could just use fake grass LOL.

How often do you travel though?

Would you ever travel to Greenland?

I would love to go there.

I like to travel but usually stay in hotels.

Have you couch surfed before?

No I've never done that.

What does that involve actually?

I know I have used Airbnb before, but no I've never couch surfed

There is a website like Airbnb where people will let you crash on their couch while you are traveling.

I see what you mean.

Have you ever been to Japan by the way?

Fairly all of their highways are tolls, that would be really annoying to travel around in

I have been to Japan but I was really little.

Yeah, that would be annoying to have to pay for all those tolls!

Another annoying thing is that airports make travelers walk farther so that they don't have to give us our baggage back faster.

Yeah that is annoying.

I travel a lot for work and I have noticed that.

I wish that the Dutch would come out with their commuter bus, can travel 160 miles an hour, I would love to do that instead of going through airport security LOL

Haha, buses are getting faster but airplanes are getting slower!

Air travel is up to 10 percent slower than in the 60s, to save on fuel.

That makes a lot of sense, but that would be annoying for traveling I think haha.

Have you ever been to Mackinac Island?

It's in Michigan by the way

No, I have not been there.
Is there anything special there?

Well they don't allow cars or anything like that, you're only allowed to travel by horse essentially, I'm allergic to horses so I didn't like it when I went there, the whole island smells like horse poop LOL

Ah, kind of funny.

Speaking of islands, if you see random rabbits on islands it may have been because ships released them for a food source for future travelers, in the age of discovery.

That makes sense.

Have you ever been to Iceland by the way?

Apparently they don't use a rail system because it can get so cold, so they just take Plains between major cities, that seems pretty crazy and possibly wasteful

Ah, I have not been to Iceland.

I doubt they have a FIFA soccer team too then?

Have you heard of Silent Soccer in kids soccer?

Parents aren't allowed to cheer.

No I haven't heard of that.

That sounds really crazy.

did you ever watch The Daily Show by the way?

Not the new one, but the one with Jon Stewart?


Are you a fan of FIFA?

I do enjoy watching the world cup matches although I am no expert in FIFA

I'm the same way.

I'm looking forward to seeing the next World Cup when they have it in Qatar.

Im surprised that nearly 50 percent of the global population watched the fifa world cup in 2010.

Soccer sure is popular

It's amazing how popular it is, but it is practically the only sport that has a global following.

Some players can go to completely different countries and be recognized, like Wayne Rooney.

I heard there is a variation of football with 3 players in stead of 2.

Sounds chaotic, but in a good way

That sounds like the football version of four-way chess!

I played that once and it was a mess.

I bet professionals handle a three-way sport match better, though.

In any case, soccer is an amazing sport.

It is too bad Greenland can't join fifa since there isn't enough grass for a soccer field

Really?

That's hilarious.

You'd think they'd add some astroturf if they really wanted to join.

Maybe fifa doesn't allow fake grass for fields?

in any case, fifa is incredible popular and has amazing players, not only as soccer players but also people.

Didier Drogba singlehandedly stopped a civil war in his home country

Wow!
What country's team did he play for?

He was from the ivory coast

I wonder how many more people know about FIFA than about many of the countries that play in it.

I know some people who didn't even know where Qatar was until they heard about the next game there.

I guess that is true.

Not many people really care about other countries other than their own.

Especially if they aren't heavy hitters

That's a good point.

Most people also only pay attention to the later games, so they don't really hear about countries unless they win like France did last time.

Also weren't new zealand undefeated in 2010?

Otherwise, I don't know when else I would think of new zealand

I didn't even know about New Zealand's standing in FIFA.

To me they were mainly the home of Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings.

Too bad the actors got paid in advance so they didn't get as much of the benefits for the success of the movies

That's a shame.

That probably means they got paid less for that than football players do for a game.

Sometimes those bonuses get up to 300,000 Euros or more.

Well soccer is a big game.

The super bowl is smaller than the 3rd biggest soccer event.

That's probably due to the Super Bowl being a mainly U.S. thing, rather than an international one

That makes sense.

After all nfl games only have 11 min of gameplay while for soccer, players run on average 7 miles per game

Both sound exhausting.

The NFL has so much physical contact that they have to endure in shocks and bursts, but running so much is a whole different kind of endurance.


Hello, Do you like soccer?

I don't really like soccer to be honest with you.

I think it's really boring.

What about you?

I actually like.

Did you know it is the most profitable sport?

I think it's soccer right?

Apparently it makes more than all other sports combined?

What do you think about soccer though?

Well I like the game itself and really enjoy it during the World Cup.

Do you ever watch it

I've tried to watch it.

I just find it so boring.

I think the one with three different soccer teams playing at once though could be interesting.

What about you

Yeah I actually have never seen that but would like to

What's weird to me is that soccer is called soccer because that was slang for association football.

I don't watch soccer but I do think it's weird that Americans are the only ones to call it that.

I think the name football makes a lot more sense.

What about you?

Yeah it makes perfect sense so go figure, seems like the word football can take many meanings depending on the country

Yeah I agree with you.

Have you ever watched the FIFA World Cup before?

Apparently there have been 21 and its total history

Yeah and now I am concerned about the upcoming one since the city does not even exist yet

That is really concerning.

I guess it's going to be in 2022?

I don't even know where Qatar is on a map haha.

We'll have to wait and see.

And the countries that host have no economic gains

Nope that's what I heard.

So I don't even know why they do it.

I do like knowing that the USA got third place back in 1930.

That was the time of the first World Cup

Yeah that is interesting and now the women's team is actually much batter

Heard that since 1991 the women's game hasn't placed below 3rd.

That is impressive.

I wonder why the men's team is not as good LOL

Yeah I do not know either.
DO you have much interest in cars?

Not really.

I used to be a lot more interested but now I really use my car just to get from A to B.

What about you?

How often do you drive your car

ALmost every day, I need it to get to work.

DO you know how Cadillac got its name?

I think it was from an Explorer right?

He was French and he actually founded Detroit?

Yeah and his name was Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac hence the name.

Nice chatting with you


Hello,  do you like soccer?

Hey there.

I don't really like soccer.

I think it's kind of boring, I know they also call it an association football.

What do you like about it?

I dont actually watch soccer at all.

I have been to a few live games.

I hear that soccer makes more money than football,  basketball, baseball, golf, tennis and hockey!!

Thats crazy!

Yep you're right about that.

It makes more than all other sports come by and somehow haha.

But like I said I think it's really boring.

Did you ever watch the show the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart?

Apparently he was a big soccer player back in the 80s

No I never watched that show unfortunately.

I hear there is a style of soccer that involves 3 soccer teams playing at once lol

Yep, maybe that's the one for me because it would have more action LOL, like I said I think soccer is really boring.

I also always wondered why we call it soccer their countries call it football, I think that football makes a lot more sense personally

It does,  because they play it with their feet.

Our football makes no sense.

lol

I agree with you.

I guess Americans call it soccer because that is slang for"association football"but I still don't know why it's called soccer, even knowing that LOL

lol right!
Do you like to travel?

I do like to travel.

I travel a lot for work actually.

What about you?

We usually take an airplane or sometimes we drive in big trucks

Yes I lvoe to travel.

did you know the dutch are creating a commuter bus that travels like  mph?

I heard about that!

It's going to travel at 160 miles per hour!

I hope that they can come out with that, I would rather do that than go through airport security again LOL

Yeah I know right!

That would be amazing.

I also hope they make a high speed train.

Yes I agree.

I would rather take a train then do what they do in Japan, which is have all highways with tolls on it.

It would cost $300 to travel around the country on those highways.

That sounds awful LOL

That seems so expensive just on tolls!

I hear Japan is expensive anyways though,  we have a trip planned there next Jan!

Oh wow that's awesome!

I've always wanted to go, but I will be going probably next year, we're thinking about going to the Philippines.

And we may stop in Japan or China while we're over there.

Have you ever been to Mackinac Island by the way?

Oh nice,  the Phillippines is beautiful but also very rural in a lot of places,  the beaches are amazing!

No where is that island?

Yes it's in Michigan actually.

Which is where I'm from.

They don't allow cars on the island, they only allow horses and horse-drawn buggies.

I'm allergic to horses so I just smelled horse poop and was sneezing the whole time LOL

Oh man,  that kinda sucks.

Maybe next time u can ride a bike or something.

Riding a horse makes my legs sore though,  I dont know how people use to travels days on horses.

I don't know.

It seems like a lot of hassle to me.

Did you know that the first King to travel the world was actually the King Hawaii?

king kalakaua, I wonder what made him want to do that.

Probably tired of staring at ocean in every direction lol

Haha I could see that.

Imagine everything that he saw, he would be so shocked I'm sure.

Do you ever watch basketball by the way?

Do you have a favorite player


Do you like soccer?

It is so funny you mention that I was just at Dulles Airport the other day and a large group had gathered for some soccer players.

Apparently there are lots of Manchester fans in the USA.

I did not realize that there seemed to be a group of 100 or 150 people holding signs I think with the name Rooney on them.

Some people even didn't go into work so that they could see Rooney.

Well if Rooney was the gentleman I saw he was about 32 years old and was taking pictured and signing autographs he seemed very down to earth

That is cool, even though he is a global superstar and signed a $13 million dollar contract.

That is crazy it sounds like he would have to be the highest paid player in the D.C.  United History.

He must be really good.

He stopped for every request fora selfie in the Wundergarten.

That's so nice.

That is nice.

I had just read an article recently that soccer makes more money then football, basketball, baseball, gold, tennis and hockey combined.

I would of never thought that.

It's certainly a popular sport.

More than 250 million people play all around the world.

I think this year I might try to watch the world cup.

I will probably drive my car somewhere to watch it.

Are you thinking of going to a bar?

Maybe a bar I am not sure yet.

I love driving my car, The other day on the radio was how McDonald's added there first drive thru in 1975.

Do you know why?

I am not sure.
Why is that?

Well it was to accommodate solders because they were not allowed out of there cars wearing uniforms.

I thought that was very interesting.

That is interesting.

Speaking of cars, do you like car racing?

Jann Mardenborough beat 90,000 people in Gran Turismo and because of that he became a professional race car driver!

That is just crazy that you could do that but anything is possible in South Africa you can put flame throwers on your car to stop carjacking so I know anything can happen.

That is interesting.

It's crazy to think that cars have only been available to the masses since 1908.

That is car and I know in 2014 that there were over 1.25 billion cars on the road which is just crazy

I hope we do something about pollution soon.


Hi, do you enjoy or watch soccer?

Hello,  no i dont watch soccer,  do you?

Yeah I do from time to time.

Did you know that is is also called association football?

yeah I did.

That is cool.. did you know soccer makes more money than football,  basketball, baseball, golf, tennis and hockey combined?

Not surprised.
Even Jon Stewart was a soccer player.
DO you know who he is?

i do not,  is he famous for something else?

Yeah he has his own show.

And he represented the US in the games in Brazil in 1993

Oh nice.
what kind of show does he have?

It is a late night show I think.

Did you hear about that German players who donated his winnings?

yeah thats really awesome,  300,000 eur to pay for surgeries for children!

Yeah helped 23 children, how generous.

Have you ever seen a soccer game with three teams playing at the same time?

No I havent,  have you?
That sounds confusing lol

Yeah it does sounds confusing, I have not seen one yet.

Do you know where FIFA World Cup will be held in 2022

I dont know.

It will be held in Qatar but the city remains unknown because it does not exist yet

Thats weird,   I wonder how they came up with that location then.

The american team has never placed below third place in the world cup since womens world cup started in 1991.

That is pretty impressive for the team.

The countries that host the Cup do not have any economic gains

The united states got 3rd place in the first fifa world cup in 1930

Wow, the team must have been really good at that time.

DO you like cars?

yes I like cars.

I recently learned that mc donalds invented the drive thru in 1975

Yeah to help out the soldiers, that was kind of them.

Nice chat


Fantasy drafts are getting popular.

Ohh thats interesting, what are Fantasy Drafts?

When you make a team that's your fantasy.

People even do it for spelling bees.

ohhh I think I getr what you are talking about now, you mean like a fantasy book, or movie?

those have always been popular for sure, but some people are way strong supporters lol and become believers of like harry potter

Oh, yeah.
Like the Big Bang Theory.

omg wait a second i almost cried when they said the big bang theory is ending soon lol, just to get things straight are you talking about the big bang theory on TV with Sheldon cooper?

Yes.
That show is funny.

omg i love it.
who is your favorite actor in the show?

I like Stewart, because I feel so bad for him.

lol i just relate to him because i am an artist too lol, but i love penny ohh yeah lol.

do you know some people even get big rewards from their fantasy work?

like Terry Pratchett, he got knited for his work

Wow.

That's like Bill nye "the science guy" got his break in entertainment by winning a steve martin lookalike contest.

awesome wow, such is entertaining right?

all about holding attention and interests right?

True.

Sometimes, your work becomes famous after you due like in the realms of the unreal.

omg yes thats true, Ronald Reagan was ounce rejected for a movie role can you imagine?

just because an entertainment executive didn't think he had that presidential look, can you imagine?

OMG.

That's so weird.

A single fold in the brain makes the difference between perceiving reality and fantasy.

yeah thats why i think everyone can relate to fantasy like the janator in Chicago who wrote 6 years a 15,145 page fantasy manuscript with over 300 watercolor illustrations thats sick right?

Wow.
He had a vivid imagination.

yeah i am an artist but i think doing that besides a janitor job is a talent beyond imagination.

He was very skilled.

people are really talented be it fashion, the Victoria secrets of this world, right?

Yes, but some people get upset at Victoria secrets for 'lack of inclusivity'.

omg i usually go there to buy myself some things i wlways buy a gift card and not the victoria secret merchandise, all of us men feel awkward being in there lol.

The store isn't helpful.

lol i am always in and out

True.
Have a good night.


Hello,  do you play fantasy sports?

I hear people even fantasy spelling bees lol

hi how are you?
i dont know how to play fantasy sports.

Do you like entertainment?

The nintendo entertainment system was discontinued in 2003!

I think it is amazing that it lasted that long.

I didnt really play it much.

Same here.

I think that the games were of high quality.

great design, mediocre hardware.

It was enjoyable when it first came out.

Yeah, i preferred later system.
I liked the genesis and the SNES more.

The nintendo entertainment system could only display 54 colors.

It was fairly weak.
so was the gameboy.
it had four palettes of four colors.
terrible.

I loved the gameboy.

It was so convenient taking it everywhere,  the games were simple back then anyways.

Yeah, i think that nintendo always designed great games for their hardware.

they knew how to squeeze performance out of it.

Yeah really creative and good games.

So do you like reading?
i try to read a lot.

Yes,  I also enjoy reading.

what kind of stuff do you read?
fiction?
non fiction?

I like fiction,  sci fi,  mystery.
How about yourself?

I like non fiction mostly, though sometimes i read sci fi.

Who is your favorite author?

Too many.

I read so many books.

Did you know the fastest speed reading is 4700 words per minute?

I cant imagine that the person retains all that information.

i guess it is good for the general idea.

Anyway, great chat!

Good chat,  have a good night.


Hi, do you like cars?

Hello there, I do like cars, I think classic cars are cool.

How about you?

I love cars as well.
I like motorcycles better though.

Do you know when the first car was ever made?

I read that it was in 1886 by some German inventor.

Yeah good call!
It was by a Mr. Benz.

That's a good man right there.

Did you know the trunk of a car got its name because older cars used to have wooden trunks?

I think I have read about that before, not much of a safety feature lol.

I agree.

Cadillac was named after a French explorer.

That is true, I think he ended up founding the city of Detroit as well if i'm correct.

Yes I read that as well.

Did you hear what it's legal to have attached to your car over in South Africa?

I saw a flamethrower is legal.
Apparently, to deter carjacking.

Lol yeah that's right!

Sounds like real life Twisted Metal if you ask me.

I agree.
Do you like to travel?

I do like to, but don't get to do as much as I would like, how about you?

I love traveling, but I'm in the same boat with having a family now.

The Dutch are creating a bus that goes 160 mph.

That just sounds very scary, I don't know if I would ride in that.

I don't think I would either.
Too fast for my liking.

Yeah way too fast to be moving on the ground anyways.

For sure.
Good talking to you!


How's it going, did you know the first car patent was in 1886?

A Benz no less haha.

Yea, a prefer Benz than the 1908 Model T Ford designed

Yeah, no comparison between German and American back then.

I'd be interested in buying a South African car with a flame-thrower equipped to it

As longs as you are not in Ohio, illegal to warm up a car

Sounds like a law Ohio would pass.

Did you know that McDonalds added drive-thrus in 1975 for soldiers who couldn't leave their cars in fatigues?

I do now.
How interesting.
In India, Audi had to upgrade the horns

Interesting I guess I'll avoid India when traveling.

I wouldn't mind checking out the 160mph commuter bus the dutch are creating

We need it here.
Air Travel is slower to save on fuel.

Slower and more expensive, go figure.

Speaking of expensive it would cost $300 tor travel across Japan in highway tolls

Wow.

I did not know there was an arrow in the car indicating which side the gas cap is on?

I didn't either, or that old cars actually had wooden trunks

Speaking of old cars, a man bought a house that had a barn full of classics.

Nice, I wonder if there were any Caddilac.

They were named after explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

I like Caddys!

Yea they are nice cars.

Did you know Jann Mardenborough became a professional race car driver from playing Gran Turismo?

That is amazing.

Did you know Google self driving cars have an aggresive mode?

No, I wonder if it's aggressive mode involves a flame thrower in South Africa

Maybe as aggressive as a Gran Turismo game?

Maybe.

Well I got to go, nice chatting with you


Have you been to San Francisco before?

No I have not but i have heard that it is all hills.

I think its a great place, it has some historical neighborhoods that have a cool architecture

Yeah I don't know much about it other than what was showed on full house when I was a kid and watched that show haha.

I would like to go to California one day though.

Full House?

I like that show lol, well its the home to the 49ers

I have seen pictures of cars parked on the side of hills in front of house, makes me wonder how they are able to even park like that.

Do you like cars?

Yeah I do.

Did you know it is legal in South Africa to the equip your car with a flame thrower?

That is insane!

how can the govenment allow that lol, we would be in so much trouble if that were to be legal in America

Apparently it is to prevent carjacking, plus they do a lot of crazy stuff in Africa, including using kids in their armys.

That would make people think twice about stealing a car, did you hear about the pro driver Jann Mardenborough?

Yeah I think it is crazy how she became a pro racer by playing and beating people in grand turismo.

I know right, becoming pro by playing a video game, wonder if his one of the best

Well to be fair, grand turismo back in the day was actually pretty realistic to race car driving, I used to play it a ton.

Did you know the trunk of a car is called that because old cars used wooden trunks on the back?

No always wondered about the name so thanks for filling that void, cool fact, do you like the brand Cadillac?

Yeah I love cadis, They are named after  french explorer Antoine De La Mothe Cadillac, the guy who founded Detroit.

Yeah the French explorer sure left a big legacy behind, I hope I can afford one, one day

Did you know McDonalds added a drive-thru in 1975 to accommodate soldiers who were not allowed to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues?

No I didnt know that, good thing soldires werent allowed out of their cars, McDonalds made a great invention thanks to that strange rule

How do you feel about mark twain?

I think his a real icon of our culture, he was born a long time ago and his work stil influence us

Yeah I love the Tom Sawyer book, read it at least a couple times a year, the movie with JTT is not really that great in my opinion though.

I like both, in fact I think im going to finish reading one I had already started, its been great chatting with you

Yeah great chat, have a good day!


Hi there.
Have you ever been to San Francisco?
I visited once several years ago.

Yes, I am from there actually.
I actually love Fisherman's wharf

Is that so?

Do locals actually use the cable cars to get around?

No, they don't.

I took it once when I went back to visit, so as a tourist.

I had never taken it before.

They were mostly tourists on there but there was one lady with her groceries.

The wait is usually long to get on.

I suppose it's not that modern of a form of public transit.

Apparently the Dutch are developing commuter buses that can go 160 MPH.

Wow, that is way too fast!

Did you know that air travel is ten percent slower than it was in the 60s?

This is to save on fuel.

I did not!

I suppose that back then they were guessing at what was most fuel efficient.

Speaking of inefficient, in Iceland, people who don't have cars have to fly between large towns because they don't have commercial rail!

Interesting.
Have you ever done couch surfing?
Apparently there is a website for that.

I have not--I don't travel like that.

I do like road trips, but that would be cost-prohibitive in a country like Japan, where all of the highways are toll roads.

Would you steal a garden gnome to take on your road trip and then return the gnome with photos?

That actually sounds fun because I like to document events.

I'd keep copies for myself, though!

Is that a thing somewhere?

Yeah, apparently that is a thing, but not sure where.

I think it would be funny to take a picture of a gnome pretending to drive a car.

Did you know that 1886 is considered the birth year of the car?

I bet garden gnomes have been around longer.

Ah, probably.

Now cars have progressed so much.

There is an aggressive mode on Google's self driving cars.

That sounds kind of scary!

I wonder what that entails.

Speaking of aggressive, you can legally equip your car with flamethrowers in South Africa to prevent carjacking.

Crazy!

Oh that sounds pretty awesome but hopefully no innocent people get hurt by accident.

In India, they had to make a new car horn to withstand heavy use.

I guess that makes sense, there's so many people and so much chaos on those roads!

I think part of the mess comes from motor vehicles mixing with pedestrians and bicycles.

On Mackinac Island, MI, motorized vehicles are completed banned--isn't that quaint?

interesting.
how do people get around?

Bikes and even horse-drawn carriages!

I guess they don't have steep hills like SF.

Yeah, they probably would not like going up to Nob Hill or Russian Hill.

But they view is breathtaking up there.

Yes, it sounds like a beautiful place to live.

Too bad there's fog so often!

Yeah, the fog is what made me depressed and made me move away from there.

You mean it was that and not the cost of living?

Hah, well that too!

It's much nicer to just visit as a tourist once in a while.

Hobnob Tours seems like a good tour company.

Yes, it seems like that could provide some insight into what it was like to live in the city in the age of wealthy railroad tycoons.

I actually have never been to Lombard Street on Russian Hill.

It's the famous twisty road

I've only seen pictures.

I actually lived off the Lombard Street in Philadelphia, which is just a regular flat street in Center City there.

That's funny.

I'd love to sip coffee in that area in San Francisco.

I guess there are a few coffee shops.

I bet the people watching is probably pretty good since it's such a cosmopolitan city.

Right.

I'd love to pick up a few books at the Russian Hill bookstore as well.


Hello there, do you use Amazon much?

I use it all the time.
Do you?

Yeah I do as well, now the delivery times are so fast, did you know they have a contract with the US postal service for Sunday deliveries?

I did know that.

I have received a package on Sunday and spent a lot of time flabbergasted by the delivery!

I just got a notice that I got a delivery from them!

NIce!

Yeah people love to get packages, and to me it makes everything more competitive and that's good for us consumers.

I agree.

I can also find some pretty weird or hard to find items.

I love it but can buy too much if I do not pay attention!

Oh yeah I think that has become a term, they see a spike in buying during peak drunk buying time or something.

Do you ever buy anything on Amazon deal day?

Yeah I usually do, but don't think I did this year at all.

How about you?

I do not.

I feel like they have trash on there.

I try to be an essentialist so I watch what I buy, or at least have the past few years, and it's like a toaster, coaster, hat rack, etc...

Yeah I think you are right, i think that's why I didn't buy anything, there really wasn't much.

I also heard that a lot of the black friday deals really aren't great.

For instance a normal TV may have 3 HDMI inputs but the black friday deals have like 1, and that's how they make money on them.

That is very weak, I don't usually buy anything on black friday deals or anything like that because you don't always get the best quality.

Agreed.

I am in the market for a new TV and passed on the black friday deals because of it.

Might not have been smart but I wasn't chancing it.

Yeah might as well take your time and get something that is going to be quality.

Like Jeff Bezos who built a clock into a mountain that will last for 10,000 years!

Yeah isn't that crazy, I wonder what he was attempting to accomplish by doing that?

He's a guy with a lot of money!
They do weird stuff.

Yeah that is very true, do you know what the first ever Amazon purchase was?

I am not sure.
Do you know?

Yeah it was the naming rights to a building for $27.95!!

Well it was nice talking with you, I hope you have a good day.


How's it going?

Did you know internet addiction is a real biological condition?

Pretty good thanks, i didnt know that

It's pretty crazy how humans react to the internet, only 7 percent of people read the full terms of their purchase agreements

Yeah, they trust everything online!

Pretty unfortunate how reliable people are on the internet and the Library of Alexandria having a saved copy

That is so ridiculous.
hahaha A saved copy hahaha

Yep and even 3g cell service on top of Mt Everest

I guess Mt Everest needs to upgrade to 4G now, huh?

hahaha

soon there will be cell service everywhere, even in the 71% of the earth covered in water

WOW, i wonder if there is cell service at the bottom of the ocean?

Maybe one day, on a 24 hour scale humans have only been on earth for 1 min and 17 seconds

That's interesting to hear and they think that An earth day was only 5.5 hrs long when the Earth was formed.

I wonder if the days were 5.5 hours long due to the earth rotating faster when it formed

That's possible but of course we will never know for sure since man wasnt around yet to watch the earth be created

No, it's a shame that man has destroyed 80 percent of the Earth's natural forests already

Yeah it is but luckily man knows how to plant trees to help restore it all.

I wonder if humans are the reason the earth will be helium-free by the end of the century

Well, i'm sure other animals dont have the capacity to know how so i am sure we will be

Maybe extraterrestrial would know and tell their ambassador to the UN

hahaha yeah that would be the day

Well I got to go, have a nice day


hello how are you today ?

Good.

Just checking my facebook account for the 19th time today...lol

yes i love facebook too , there are alot of interesting facts about it

I was one of the first to have an account in 2004 but I am about fed up with their antics as of late

yes they do have a lot going on.

MySpace turned down an offer to buy facebook for 75 million in 2005

I am sure they are kicking themselves over that missed opportunity now

yes im sure they are.
i would be

I think it needs to be a digital platform for 13 year olds now and thats about it.

yes i agree.

it makes most of its revenue from ads as well.

Did you get in on the initial IPO in 2012?

no, but i did see that it was valued at 104 billion  the largest validation to date for a newly public listing.

A good majority of divorces have a correlation to facebook as well in some form or fashion

right i so do agree, and did you know that burger king  had a promotion where if you unfriend ten people on facebook you get a free whopper

That would be a few free ones for me and I do love my whoppers!

yes indeed.

also iceland are rewriting their constitution  via facebook, allowing the public to make alterations.

thats crazy !

There are more people on facebook today there than there were even people two centuries ago

wow!

thats astonishing, facebooks like button is illegal in the german state of schleswig-holstein.

As many people in the world there are today, only 30% are on facebook

yes  i think people are getting tired of it and using snapchat, twitter and instagram

I still don't get why there is not a dislike button if there is a "like" button

well i guess people just don't respond if they don't want to hit the like button.

Well let me get back to my facebook account and see who posted what.


Baseball is the one of the favourite sports of US.

In mid of 1850 baseball is the craze hit in the New York area.

Yeah are you a baseball fan.

I like it.

Kickball is also called soccer-baseball in canada.

Really I didnt know that.

Did you know that managers in baseball wear uniforms because they are allowed to play if the team needs them.

Yes, They are playing for the team very aggressively and if any injury occur to the player they need to replace with the managers.

The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.

That is true.

Did you know baseball is very popular in Japan.

It also American's national pastime.

It is derived from the cricket which the national sports in England.

Yeah it is so popular in Jaapan that they are surprised about that .

Netflix is an American media service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television program.

Do you watch a lot of netflix.

Yes.

It is available all over the world except china, North Korea, Syria.

Initial they offered only DVD sales and rental by mail, Netflix expanded the business in 2007.

Yeah I heard it was started because the founder racked up 40 dollar late fees on a copy of apollo 13

Yes, Netflix and Youtube together make up half to internet traffic in the north america.

Mostly people use both entertainment media to watch latest news and short videos.

I know I use it an awful lot.

Mostly they are watching movie in Netflix avoid going to threatre.

Yeah the theater is so expensive and netflix is pretty cheap.

Netflix entered into the next level for the production industry in 2012, the first series is Lilyhammer.

Its very interesting one.

Havnt heard of that.
Whats it about.

Do you like watching concerts?

Yeah but I dont go to too many of them.

Concerts are held in variety of place from night clubs to large multipurpose buildings.

Yeah do you go to a lot of concerts.

Some what.

Pink floyd recorded a live concert at the ancient roman amphitheater in pompeii.

Yeah I heard there wasnt even an audience at it.

Yes.

Concerts were already being performed as long ago as the ancient Greek period.

So true.

Well you have a good day ok. Gotta get to work.


Do you have a Facebook account?

Yes I do, I was told only old people have facebook accounts.

No not really, 13 year olds are allowed to have an account so I disagree

My 16 year old son said nobody that age is on FB now.

I guess most of them use Instagram do kids use Myspace anymore?

you should ask him that

They use Instagram, I told him Facebook owns Instagram

It does?

I didnt know that, the company is valued in $104 billion dollars, that a lot of money

Mark Zuckerberg has tons of money and wanted to fight off snapchat so a couple of billion is nothing compared to the income coming in.

Yeah, I guess the company makes a lot of money, did you hear about Iceland and how they are using Facebook over there?

No i did not can you tell me more?

Of course, so they are rewritting their constitution using Facebook, they allow the public to make suggestions and alternations

That is pretty cool I have to admit, just didnt think Iceland would use such an american company.

I know right, but I guess its a good thing they take peoples opinions into account, do you like the Fox News channel?

I don't really watch it or cnn, not sure what to watch these day.

Do you?

I do, its one of my favorite channels, often abbreviated FNC, its seen in 86 countries

Is it supposed to be left leaning or right leaning, I never get that straight.

One show that I like is the Simpsons, FNC wanted to create a channel only for the SImpsons

I have been watching the simpsons since they were on Tracy Ullmans show.

Forgot they were on Fox, but not their news channel.

Oh thats right not their news channel, they wanted to sue the show one time.

The simpsons wanted to sue FNC, why?

Because the parodying of its anti democratic party agenda, I wonder how that ended.


Do you use netflix?

Hi, how are you?
I used to use Netflix.
How about you?

While I no longer have a netflix account, I am familiar with netflix and am surprised how far it has come as a subscription based streaming OTT service provider

When bandwidth improved, there was bound to be some streaming service.

I'm surprised that Netflix still spends money on postage.

I bet blockbuster regrets not acquiring netflix

If they were still around, they would regret it.

$50 million?

It's really nothing.

Unless BB thought they could do the same thing on their own.

Well blockbuster isn't worth anything now so they probably couldn't.

Netflix went from 50mil to 2bil!

It's insane.

i wonder what company will eventually replace Netflix.

Someone might get mad at Netflix the way that Reed Hastings got mad about late fees.

I wonder what the business model would be like?

It is greater for Hastings how a $40 loss made him billions

I wonder what he is up to nowadays.

His little company uses 1/3 of North America's bandwidth in the evening.

I'm sure he has more money than he knows what to do with.

YouTube and Netflix alone account of half the internet traffic in North America.

The Youtube guys are rich too.
Do you go to concerts much?

I like listening to them, but usually the distance and planning makes me hesitate for going to concerts.

I do want to go to a Linkin park one though.

I think the lead singer is dead.
They were an amazingly successful band.

Yes that why it is such as same.

In any case, it would be much better than a creed concert.

Lawsuits were filed against some

Creed should have practiced a few times in front of an empty amphitheater.

Then maybe they would not get sued.

I wonder if it was more the band or the venue

The band probably.

I bet they didn't rehearse enough.

Unlike the Ramones, who probably never needed to rehearse.

I mean they practiced enough on their concerts along, playing 2000+ concerts over 20 years

They must have special drugs or something.

How do they maintain the energy?

Yoga?

I just hope they loved what they played since if you're having fun, work is well not work.

In any case, thank you for the interesting chat.


Do you ever watch Fox News?

Yes, I do , do you?
Guess they don't like the Simpsons.

I don't really watch any news channels.

I'm not sure if that's the case.

I think they don't like how unabashedly anti-democrat the show is, but they considered creating a channel that only aired the Simpsons

Yes, Do you get any news from facebook?

Not much.

It's not very reliable because people who post things don't always check their sources.

Are you into gaming at all?

IGN is also owned by Fox

Yes, I know.

30 percent of adults use facebook for news sources.

Think I like the like button better than using awesome.

And this is why people are largely misinformed about what is actually going on.

If you like the like button, you must not live in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein where it is illegal

Yes, I just read that too.

Its really hard to know what to believe.

More people on facebook than people in the world 200 years ago.

lol

There's more people on there than were likely on MySpace.

Too bad they refused the offer the buy Facebook back in 2005

Yes, I agree.
Do you like basketball?
Have you seen the movie Space Jam?

I have, but it's been a long time.

I'm not a big fan of most professional sports, but I know how it works.

The Supreme Court really likes is though since their top floor has a basketball court

Its interesting volleyball and basketball both were created by the ymca.

Was James Naismith part of the YMCA?

He invented basketball, and I know at some point he was a coach at the University of Kansas.

I'm not sure which sport he coached, but he lost

I use to like to watch the harlem globetrotters, hard to believe they only won 6 games.

That is surprising.

I wonder how many games Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won.

He dunked so much that for a while, college basketball banned the shot

Interesting a third of divorce filings have the word facebook in them.

Is Facebook responsible for the rise in divorce, or would those same people find another way to have an affair?

Maybe that's why the "like" button is banned in that German state

lol, maybe.

Have mixed feelings on the age of 13 for allowing on facebook.

Although there are so many medias they can use today, if not one its another.

Monitoring is so important.

I know, but it might be better to teach them good habits while they're young than for them to suddenly have access to everything at 16 or 18.

I'd rather 13 year olds be on Facebook than on Snapchat

Really, yes but there friends have a huge impact on them at 13.

There a little too young to handle than at 16.

Interesting how it grew from Ivy league schools to high schools.

After adding on other colleges, that was the next logical step in increasing the website.

Thirteen year olds were on Facebook for six years before the company had its initial IPO.

That's what's possibly the most surprising


Hello - do you know if the length of the day on earth has changed between when the earth was first formed and present?

No, I don't.
What is it?

When the earth was formed, a day was only 5.5 hours long apparently.

Interesting, that is very short.
They are 24 hours now.

Another fun fact - the Dutch are creating a commuter bus to travel at 160 miles per hour.

I don't think I would ever ride on that, would you?

Doesn't seem safe to me.

Has a Sandra Bullock/action movie feel to it.

LOL, yeah.

Plus what highways would it be allowed on?

Great point - seems more like a missile than public transportation.

So I'

Not sure if you're able to finish your thought without me responding first... you were saying?

So I'm not sure what the purpose of that bus actually is?

Yeah, good question.

Maybe just to supplement air travel but accommodate shorter commutes?

Hmmm, did you know all of the highways in Japan are tolls?

Seems weird, right?

That does seem weird.

Good way to generate road maintenance revenue - wonder if they also pay fuel taxes?

I'm not sure.
I've never actually been to Japan.
Have you?

Nope, never been anywhere in Asia.

Lots of U.S. travel, European travel but never Asia.

I've never been to Europe either.
Only South America, kind of a shame.
How was Europe?

Very cool.

I only speak English so some of the places I visited were pretty intimidating to navigate without being able to read or speak the language.

South America is still an interesting place - I've never been - how was it?

It is very cool.

Plus everything is dirt cheap down there.

Makes the vacations really a lot funner.

Great talking to you - thanks for chatting!

Good chatting with you too.


Hi, Do you think Facebook is useful for everyone?

I think it is useful but also good and bad.

It depends on how you use it and who you connect with.

People are all in this together.
But this is good and bad.

It is.

On the bad side, 30% of all U.S. divorce filings in 2011 contained the word Facebook.

Yes, i think  The social network was implicated in a third of all divorce filings last year.

I'm not surprised.

Here is a very upsetting fact, 30% of all American adults use Facebook as their primary source of news.

I see people share memes as news all of the time and they are obviously untrue but they don't fact check anything.

Of course this is a sad thing.

But they are interested in disseminating themselves on social networks.

It is.

I have actually informed people that they are spreading false information and if they continue to do it I have unfriended people.

On the inclusive side of Facebook, they have 56 custom gender options.

This is true.

But this should explain to those who spread misinformation.

I agree.

I have explained and always have been polite about it.

But if they are going to continue I don't have to be a part of it.

Here's a shocking fact, there are more people on Facebook than there were people in the world 200 years ago!

Yes, But this was the result of the change of time.

Yes, I'm just so shocked that a social media site would have so many people.

Did you know that you have to be 13 years old to register for Facebook?

I didn't know there was an age requirement.

I do not know about it too.

How do you feel about basketball?

I think this is a best game in the world.

Glad to hear it.

Did you know that the Washington Generals played the Harlem Globetrotters over 13,000 times and only won 6 times?!

That's a terrible record against a team.

I think, The Washington Generals are an American basketball team, best known for their spectacular losing streak in exhibition games against the Harlem Globetrotters.

That is correct.

I just recently discovered that basketball and volleyball were invented at the YMCA.

That makes those sports newer than I thought or the YMCA older than I thought.

Oh!

that's interesting.

The Globetrotters don't tone down their defense.

No they do not.

They are an impressive team.

I was surprised to learn that Shaq only recorded one three point score in his entire career.

For such a big player I thought there would have been much more.

Okay, that's nice.
thank you very much.

You are very welcome.


Hi, do you like baseball?

I sure do.

DO you know how many balls are used in a MlB season?

Hmm nope I have no idea.
How many really?

Well it is a lot , it is about 160 000

Wow that is impressive.

Do you know what kickball is called in Canada?

Hmmm I actually do not know that.
Do you know CHicago Cubs?

It is called soccer-baseball which seems quite fitting considering what the sport is like

Yeah I can see that actually.
Do you watch Netflix at all?

A lot actually.
Do you know how it all got started?

I do not know actually, and I am not sure I know the name of the guy who invented it.

DO you know?

Yeah the guy who invented it got a late fee of $40 for a VHS and I guess was sick of it

I can see that, well we are grateful to him about that it is great and also cheap

Yeah that is true.

Blockbuster had the chance to buy them and did not.

WOw that was a bad decision.

They have a job called the tagger where all you have to do is sit and watch netflix content and tag it

I would have loved that job.

Together with youtube they make peak internet traffic in north america

Not surprised there.

Have you heard of the movie Fireplace for your home?

I have not, what is it about.

I do not think I have heard of it before

It is literally nothing but a fireplace that plays for an hour

Haha that is funny but must be relaxing too.

Netflix still spends more on postage than bandwidth

That is kind of strange to me.

In Europe they monitor illegal downloads to figure which shows to purchase

Wow that is some serious business people at work there.


Do you know anyone who you would describe as a "wet blanket"

I can think of a few people.
You?

Haha and, I can only imagine to how different psychologists would react to people asking questions about how to deal with them, they are so annoying

I agree.

It is hard to see it sometimes when you are in love with someone like that.

You make excuses for them

If I could see that, by the way do you ever watch Netflix with the people that you love

I do.
Netflix is great!

I agree, it's crazy that Netflix takes up about one-third of all internet traffic in North America though

They even employ taggers who watch and tag content.

Where do I apply!

Haha that sounds like an easy job!

I want a job to watch YouTube though, I usually watch YouTube and Netflix and apparently those two together can use up half of all bandwidth in the United States

Especially between 9p-12a.

Yep that's what I heard.

Do you ever have your Netflix DVDs delivered or you just stream these days

I just stream.

Blockbuster must be kicking themselves now for not taking that offer to buy Netflix.

Yep I agree with you.

They had a chance to buy them for only 50 million dollars, what a bargain!

Netflix has everything including an our long show of a fireplace.

Wow that is pretty cool.

Why do you think that Blockbuster did not purchase them though?

They're worth 2 billion dollars now which seems like it would have been a bargain if they had bought them back in the day

I think Blockbuster thought they could out do them, this was all before streaming was a thing.

Yeah you're right, they should have been prepared though, did you hear how Netflix was started?

With the $40 late fee?

Yeah.

I need something to make my genius emerge so I can make a few million, or billion.

I wont be picky.

Haha you just need a good idea, and yes it was Reed Hastings who is charged that $40 for turning Apollo 13 and late LOL what a good idea

It has done well for him.
Many go out on a limb with no success.
Good for him.

Yep I agree with you on that.

Do you ever go traveling by the way?

I want to go to Denmark and ride the bus that goes 160 miles per hour LOL


Do you enjoy Netflix?

Yeah I love Netflix.

So does everyone else in the world it seems!

From 9pm-12am netflix accounts for 33% of all bandwidth in North America!

Yeah Netflix is a great service its become a pretty big deal, 33% is a lot of people

Yeah.

Youtube is as well.

If you add youtube into the equation the number then becomes about 50% of all peak internet traffic!

Wow 50% of all the peak traffic, so Netflix accounts for more?

Yeah I think so.

Funny how it started...the founder created it because he was mad about his late fee on a vhs movie lol!

Thats pretty ironic actually, Blockbuster dug its own grave several times, they also had the chance to buy the company for $50 million but didnt

Should have pulled the trigger on that one.

Do you like to travel?

The dutch are creating a commuter bus designed to travel at 160mph!

I bet they regret not pulling it, and yea of course I like to travel that seems like a really convenient bus to take, not only do you travel fast but you get to see a beautiful landscape

Yeah good point.

Very efficient.

I want to go to Mackinac Island in Michigan because they don't allow cars only horse drawn carriages!

That sounds like a relaxing place, to take a deep breath and just forget about everything, I like that kind of trips

Exactly.Oddly enough the first king to travel around the world was king kalakaua of Hawaii.

I wonder why he would ever want to leave that paradise?

The king of Hawaii really?

I guess people there are kind of free spirited, and if you live there you might get tired of it eventually,

Yeah I could see that happening for sure.

I want to go to Iceland also but it sounds like it is hard to get around in that country.

I want to visit Japan but I hear the tolls are really expensive, I guess the rest of the country must be as well

Yeah I bet it is.

In Iceland most people without cars travel by domestic flights!

There no public rail in Iceland right?

so yeah a flight seems convenient or maybe taking a bus

Yeah that makes sense.

There is so much to see in the world.

Unfortunately more than 80% of the earth's natural forest's have been destroyed.

Our planet suffers a lot because of the human factor, I am really worried about climate change and the consequences

Me as well.

When earth was formed a day was only 5.5 hours long.

That would have been crazy to see.

Only 5.5 hours long!

wow, I guess its a good think a day is 24 hours now, I would be more than a 100 years old today.


I love Netflix - it makes binge watching shows so easy.

Do you subscribe?

I used to but I know what you mean.

You can just watch episode after episode.

Yes there are 137 million of us subscribers worldwide, with almost 59 million in the US - they are popular!

Just think, it all started back in 1997 by two guys in California!

Now there are offices in multiple countries.

Yes and it really shot up in popularity when they introduced streaming as well as the rental service

That's for sure.

I wonder how the powers that be at blockbuster feel knowing they could have bought it years ago for 50 million dollars.

Yes they screwed up big time.

I am amazed so many people still get dvds by mail - netflix spends 20 times more on postage than bandwidth!

That is surprising.

Especially when you consider that from 9pm to 12am it makes up 33% of all bandwith in north america.

Yeah between netflix and youtube they make up half of all peak internet traffic.

That is crazy

It really is.

I wonder if netflix has any effects on travel.

I mean, do people travel less now because of it?

I am not sure but they can watch movies while they do it - though I am not sure if I am on a bus in the Netherlands going 160 that I would be able to concentrate on a movie!

Hahaha!

I know what you mean!

It'd probably be better to watch say on Mackinac Island.

Yes where you take leisurely carriage rides around.

That does sound more pleasant

It really does.

Horse drawn carriage rides on an island!

That sounds fantastic!

I know it's in Michigan but it still sounds great.

For sure.

Better than spending all of your hard earned cash on tolls like you would in Japan!

$300 to cross the island - how nuts!

Definitely.
All of their roads are toll roads.
That seems so unfair.

At least they have transportation - Iceland does not even have trains available

I've heard about that.

Isn't that where the people take planes between cities?

yeah pretty crazy.

But I would rather fly than go by boat like King Kalakaua of Hawaii did when he was the first King to travel the world

It is really surprising to know that he's the first king to travel the world.

I just didn't think Hawaii had ships back in the day.

Yes - and the earth is so large and so old - it is 4.5 billion years old!

Way older than mankind

Have you heard that most of it's forests have been destroyed?


hey do you have Netflix, I don't but people tell me I should get it

Yes, I do.

My family watches it a lot of the original material.

well did you know that netflix takes up about one third of all internet traffic?

I believe it.

I can see my internet use at my house go up when someone is using Netflix.

ah nice, well then it makes sense that netflix uses about 20x more money on postage for dvds than on its bandwidth costs

Block buster blew it.

They could have bought Netflix for fifty million dollars.

Now it's worth billions.

ya they definitely made a mistake, from what I hear yes they are worth about 2 billion and blockbuster is bankrupt, isn't it?

Netflix saw the tide turning in 2007, when they started their streaming business.

yes its impressive they have about 140 million subscribers, with about 60 million of those in the USA alone

It all started when Reed Hastings was upset about a $40 late fee for not returning Apollo 13 on time.

haha, that is a good movie!

they also have some impressive exclusive content, they started making it in 2012, I personally love Stranger things

My family watches those Netflix Originals.

I don't watch much TV at all.

if you don't watch tv I take it you don't watch baseball?

I personally think baseball is boring

I watch baseball a little bit.

The game has been around in some form since the 18th century.

But I'm not quite that old.

haha well it is interesting that baseball managers can actually play for the team, I never knew that

That's why they dress in uniforms.

But I don't recall ever seeing one of them play.

and I guess soccer-baseball is what canada calls kickball, that seems like a dumber name haha

Baseball is very popular in Japan.

ya I heard they are shocked to find out that it is America's national pastime and think that it originated in Japan

Baseball cards are very popular.

Someone found cards worth millions hidden in his grandfather's attic.

We recently had to clean out my parent's house... no such luck for me.

haha that is too bad, do you go to any concerts at all?

I went to lollapalooza last year

I saw a couple of dinosaur groups last year... Dead&Company and Elton John.

There were a lot of people at each.

ah I like Elton John a lot, I also like Pink Floyd it's crazy they did a live performance to no audience in Pompeii

Probably better than seeing a Creed show so bad that lawsuits were filed.


Good morning.

How are you?

Don't you just love the Internet?

It is actually addictive with measurable changes in the brain.

Based on that little bit of info I'm not sure that I do love it.

Not sure I could without the internet though.

Yes it is very important.

It carries a vast range of information from documents and applications to electronic mail and file sharing.

When using the internet I find myself on Youtube most often, watching more videos than I really should

I love youtube.

Created back in 2005 it wasn't always so big but sure is now!

I guess it's the whole thing of having videos on demand.

I even find myself watching concert on Youtube.

Oh nice I've never watched a concert on YouTube.

Although I did watch Justin Bieber's baby video on YouTube and it is the most dislike video on there.

I suspect that is more to do with people being jealous of his popularity than a dislike of that individual video, I seen far worse than that.

True.

I was surprised to hear that YouTube is the second largest search engine on the net, I wonder what the first one is?

Google?

I would assume you a right there.

There seems little you can't find on Youtube now, I wonder just how many cats videos have been uploaded to it now.

Yes cat videos are definitely more popular than dog videos!

Police actually have their own YouTube called blue tube.

Never heard of that one, can't be that popular.

I typically stick to music videos, and concerts.

I rarely get to go to concerts so Youtube is the next best thing.

Concerts are a lot of fun.

I prefer the smaller concerts and nightclub as opposed to big arenas or large parks.

It is more intimate.

I totally agree.

It's nice to get up close to the person or band you want to see rather than being hundreds of feet away.

Exactly.

In Croatia there is an ancient Roman amphitheater that is still in use as a concert venue.

That would be a cool place to see a concert.

Yes, there are some really cool places that bands have played in the past.

I not sure how I feel about paying money to watch a hologram sing though.

Yeah I probably wouldn't want to pay money for that either it's basically watching a concert on the screen.

The Ramon's played a total of 2263 concerts.

They toured almost nonstop for 20 years.

Must've been very tiring.

That's a lot of shows.

It's impressive for people but not holograms.

You would ave to just press the repeat button and it would keep on playing night after night.

Could play in multiple places at once too.

Yes that's a good point I bet that will happen more in the future.

Did you hear about the Creed concert in 2002?

Is that the one where people sued to get their money back.

Maybe Creed should just make a hologram of their best concert and replay it and not take the chance of upsetting their fans.

Yes it must have been a bad concert!

Not like The Ramones or Linkin Park!

Well it was great talking to you this morning!

Same here.

I'll be logging into Youtube to see if I can find that Creed concert and see how bad it was.

Good bye.

Yes definitely!
Have a good one.


What do you think about virtual pop and artists?

It certainly is interesting that people are approaching music with holograms

Yeah  I wonder how that will turn out, I heard a lot of people started making their own songs when the software was released.

It will be interesting to see how that changes the course of the industry.

I guess creativity has no limits

It has no limits I agree, new things keep on coming, things that may seem crazy at the time but later become a reality like the internet.

And they are becoming so global, expanding to include  languages like English, Japanese, etc

Yeah mostly available in any language, did you know there 3g signal on top of Mt.

Everest?

Really?
Well, that is something.
Do you ever partake in ego surfing?

What is ego surfing, im not familiar with that term.

It refers to the act of looking oneself up on the internet.

Oh I see, well that can be a problem we have become to dependent of the internet, its a good thing there is a copy stored.

Do you use youtube much?

I  do like Youtube, along with google its the other search engine I use the most.

Yeah, pretty hand for so many things now.

Cute story about the first video they uploaded, the guy with the elephant

I didnt know about that video, but I do know police have their own version its called blutube

Oh that is cool.

I love that they have the Bob Ross painting episodes in there

I see, so do you like music, have you gone to any concerts lately?

I was really hoping to make it to Imagine Dragons concert but will have to wait and see when I can catch them in the next two to three months.

How about you?

The last time I was at a concert it was 2002, it was a Creed concert, it was terrible.

Oh no, that is no fun.

Maybe I will settle for a youtube concert and then go to a real one for now.

It is so handy now, they post everything on youtube

They do!

and the best of all its free, Youtube has a partnership program so hopefully in the future they can have exclusive concerts

Yeah, cuts the costs and more people can enjoy it who cannot make it for various reasons.

With the population we have grown to be, cool thing to know we are still a minority compared to the automated software programs

I get you, well it cuts costs but still a concert is such a great experience, like one of The Ramones concerts, pretty good.

Yeah of course it is not the same experience for sure.

Do you have an account with Youtube that you upload videos to?

Yes I do have an account, I use it like everyday

Cool.

Do you know who Lou Reed is?

Never heard of that name but cool thing about he dog concert.

No never heard about him, I might use my youtube account to search Lou Reed and see what its all about


Hello,  how are you?

Due to the success of their debut album, linkin park played 324 concerts in 2001 alone.

Hi!

I am good thanks!

That is very interesting!

I love concerts and wish I could have seen Linkin Park.

Yeah me too.

They are a great band!

The ramones played a total of 2,263 concerts...they toured almost non stop for over 20 years.

That is a lot of concerts!

Wow!

that's awesome!

A woman going to a Dve Matthews concert actually stopped to pick up a hitchhiker and it was Dave!

Omg thats awesome!

In croatia, there is an ancient roman amphitheatre that is still in use as a concert venue

Whoa, that's cool!

Deep purple broke the record for loudest concert ever!

3 concert goers were unconcious!

Wow thats crazy!

In 2002 a creed concert was so bad that four concert goers filed a lawsuit against the band

Hahahaa, that's horrible!

Poor guys.

foo fighters played a concert so loud it showed up on new zealand's seismic monitors!!

Nice!

In 1972, pink floyd recorded a live concert at the ancient roman amphitheater in pompeii...with no audience.

What!

crazy lol.......Did you know that astronauts have better internet in space than we do!

Thats awesome!

The 3 horizontal line menu on apps and websites is called a hamburger button.

That's funny hahaaa, Ya know if you Google yourself online it is called egosurfing lol

really?

wow.

never knew that.

The current library of alexandria has a saved copy of the internet in case the internet burns down.

Wow, doubt that ever happens but that's cool!

Do you ever watch YouTube at all?

absolutely!
Youtube is amazing!

Isn't it!

Did you know youtube was a dating site at first?

Too funny!

Nope,  never knew that either!

Psy's gangnam style got so many views on youtube that they had to upgrade the view count integer to 64 bits.

Wow!

That is crazy!

Google bought YouTube in 2005 for over a billion dollars!

wow!

Thats a good investment,  Im sure its worth way more now!

Police actually have their own youtube called blutube, where they share law enforcement videos.

Yep, youtube has to be worth billions!
Oh really?
That's pretty smart idea!

good talking to you.


Are you a fan of youtube?

I use it, but I would not say I was a fan.

my son uses Youtube all the time.

My daughter does too, I like it for some things.

Were you ever into the Gangnam style phase?

It kind of passed me by, I recall when it was all the rage, and I did look it up on Youtube out of curiosity.

I had to do it at a wedding reception, it sucked.

I wasn't a big fan, apparently it almost broke youtube

That's sounds painful you doing the dance, not the breaking of Youtube.

There's the problem with Youtube, you do one embarrassing thing at a party, and the next thing it is on line for all to see.

lol and millions of people to say the least, and you don't get money for it lol!

You know what video sucked was Baby by Justin bieber, i think it is the most disliked video of all time

I wonder how he feels about that?

To be honest it is probably jealousy as much as anything, there must be way worse than that on Youtube.

For sure, bieber was on fire at that time lol.

I know i disliked it, probably because of jealousy lol

Do you go to concerts, I'd imagine you wouldn't go to a Bieber one.

Don't his fans have a name for themselves?

I would never go to a bieber one, youre right lol.

I did see the ramones before and linkin park, as long as other.

You?

I do not get to go as often as I used to, family duties, and also feeling old among all the young concert goes.

me too, having a kid stops everything.

I went to linkin park in 2001, they had 324 total concerts that year!

That is dedication, I should imagine they had no family commitments.

If they did I would assume they had no family by the end of it.

There were several bands I'd always see in concert every time they came around.

Right, same with the ramones, they toured lke 20 years straight

In the age of the internet and Youtube you can do one show and then broadcast it.

Still, there is nothing like being up close and personal with the music.

Right and getting your ear drums blown out by the speakers!

That I did not like, I'd have the ringing in my ears for a day or two after the event.

I should imagine both The Ramones and Linkin Park were loud concerts.

For sure, but they were great shows.

unlike a creed show where 4 people sued them after for a crappy show lol

I wonder how bad it would have to be to sue, I think you are taking your chances any time you buy a Creed ticket.

Lol, they would have to put it there.

I am going to check it out.

It was great chatting with you, you have a great day

I'm going to look at the concert listings now and get a babysitter.

Have a good day, goodbye.

Me too lol!
Bye!