Episode 162 - New Year, Same 'Cast

They say hindsight is always 20/20, but you know what's not always 20/20? The year! That's right! It's finally 2020, which means it's officialy THE FUTURE™! And what, pray tell, is HWIDG going to be like in The Future™? Pretty much the same! So head to the gym for your first and last time this year and while you're pumping iron, listen to us bitch about:* Pull-Out Sofa Beds* Non-Stock Android* Getting Back to It* Future Half-stepsPull-out beds represent everything we at HWIDG stand against. Namely, pulling out. But also, noise, discomfort, and thin mattresses. Why wast your time and health on this squeaky metal contraption that will probably eat you in your sleep when there's a perfectly good sofa right there? And god help you moving the damn thing, might as well be moving Arnold Schwarzenegger's weights collection from 1975 all at once.Bloatware, pre-installed apps, whatever you want to call them, we've all dealt with them on our phones and tablets. Why would someone want to use Google's App Store when they can use Samsung's or Amazon's? Probably because THEY MAKE THE OS. And you know what else you definitely need? Your service provider's app store, and their own ad-blocker, and their hotspot app, and their "entertainment hub', and their news service, and you phone manufacturer's app store and *their* ad-blocker that thinks the other ad-blocker is a virus, and to top it all off their own update app to update all of them.Well, New Years is over, time to get back to it. Work, school, whatever it is you do, within the next week or two you're gonna be doing it again. And that looming feeling of it sure can give you the blues. Our suggestion? Just take another vacation! be that cool kid who doesn't show up for the first two weeks of school because you're on a cruise or backpacking through the jungle. Then you won't have time to be depressed when either terrorists hijack the ship or you're being mauled by a tiger!The problem with the future is that it's never *now*. We like to say it is, but we're a long way off from Star Trek. Like, we don't have flying cars, and though I personally don't think we'll ever have them, that's a future thing. We do have KITT from Knight Rider, and we're on the verge of car-drones, but those are lame steps to whatever our future daily travel is. We've got robots that do our shopping for us! Kinda. There's still a lot of humans involved in the whole process, another half-step. BOO HUMANS, I WANT ROBOTS.All this and more on this week's episode, like the first voicemail of 2020! Don't forget to join us on DISCORD, and support us on PATREON, NEWPROJECT2 or by BUYING A SHIRT!