Episode 348 – Facebook Avatars and the Latest Online Distractions

What is happening? Welcome to the one and only it in the D show in your house version. This is episode three 48 broadcasting live from our homes. This is Bob, the sales guy. That is Dave the geek. I do the Twitters is doing the Twitter is find us online @itinthed.com and do us a favor, give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine podcasts are sold. Yeah.     And again, as for usual, we're usually, this is where we usually talk about the events and stuff we have coming up. There are none, although we might be getting close. Um, we're going to see how, uh, apparently up North it goes, uh, and around the Trevor city area that just got opened up, uh, where bars and restaurants can open up at 50% capacity and that kind of stuff today. So hopefully, uh, in the near future we will be able to talk about our events in the NRA, Metro Detroit area. Cause we miss. Wow. We miss most of you. There are some of you, let's be honest, we don't, we don't miss all of you, but we miss some of you breaking news, breaking news. There's, I just got a page. Um, your Facebook avatar looks nothing like you and your stupid stop. I, I like, am I the only one like the mother of the one that remembers a Bitmoji and those bits strip things emoji. And it looks so much more a year. It wasn't that long ago. That's what I mean. Like it's like, it's like why is this, why is that a thing everywhere? Like I don't like, well I know I do cause people are bored as shit and they got nothing else to do, so why not? Well, Bitmoji is on by Snapchat. So in order to compete for one thing, here's the thing, like most of the people tried and it was like, ah, I have one friend that was like blue hair girl, pig tail fat. Like you know, like that's my boy. Right. Stephanie's looked really good. Well I think it was a, who was it? Beth Beth Mosley who just said, you know, she put hers out there. She's like, I am not making myself fat. This, this is my, this is my avatar. She's like, I'm not making myself fat. Get outta here. No. And that's, that's the beauty of this stuff. It takes about, you know, this happens what on Sunday where this madness starts and it takes up until Sunday at two o'clock, eight before I call it out, where I'm like, I'm done be before the anti ones come out. Like Homer go under my avatar, Homer sitting at the bar with all the avatars around him. Yeah. It's like literally you have to just wait for like our people to come out like two hours. Well, and like I said, I mean it dude, I get it. Like everybody's bored as shit and it's something stupid and entertaining. Have your fun. It is what it is. It's, you know, to me it's no different than sharing a meme or anything dumb like that, which I mean God knows I share enough of, um, yeah, I, I just, I don't like, I like, I will say this like I can't, cause there were, there were some people that like literally had a lot of like venom and vitriol about the entire thing that I don't get. Like, dude, just like let, let, let people enjoy their things. Like if I got mad about X, I saw a couple of things. Like people got mad. Yeah. There were, there were a few, hold on. Is it like two people on Twitter and then it turns into a Buzzfeed article. Oh, you know, yeah. No, it wasn't a ton of people. It was like I said, but there were a few people that got like, like not us snarky, but like seriously snarky about it. Um, and got kind of shitty with people about them. And it was, eh, you know, it was just like, let people enjoy the things. It's, and it's, and you know, when we do, yes. Like we posted a meme about it. Well that's us. We will openly mock our friends. That's who, that's what friends do in our world. If we're not poking at you, you're probably not on our radar at all. Like for example, Randy's new nickname, if you're not aware yet, Bob, um, is sparkle donkey. Uh, uh, a friend of mine posted that she found this, this booth, this tequila is out there. There's a brain of tequila called sparkle donkey. And I'm like, Nope, absolutely not. I was like, I'm like, that's, that's Randy's new nickname. He's now sparkled donkey from Noah and it's not funny anymore. I'm still laughing in my head. That's, that's still a thing. Uh, yeah, no. So I, uh, the one thing that I thought was interesting just cause we've talked about it a bunch of times over the past few weeks is, um, so stranger things was like the reigning King of streaming services, um, for views and watches and all that stuff for the longest time. Um, and they are now number three on the list. Um, as far as most viewed series of all time, uh, behind clone Wars, uh, and the Mandalorian. Yeah, I was surprised that clone Wars overtook it because it was, it, it wasn't that popular live, was it not? No, it was, but dude, it, it, it blew up once it once Disney plot, like once Disney plus was out and people like burned through the movies and they were like, okay, I, I dude, I did, I didn't watch it when it was live, but like I burned through the couple of movies I wanted to watch and I burned through all their Marvel stuff and I'm like, you know what, I kept hearing that was okay, watch it. And so I started watching it. I was like, Holy shit, this is amazing. And I started talking to people into watching it and other people started talking people into watching it and that's why it kind of blew up. Yeah. I'm watching it now. Yep. I just started episode four right before or season four right before the show started. So it is, I mean, it's just, it's such a great, it's such a great tie between two and three. Um, and do it in Randy, especially like when you get to this, this current season, the last four episodes of this current season should have been a movie like it was, it's just ridiculous how great they are. And I think people are just so starved for content now. I mean, if you look at Netflix, what is it wrong? Molly is like the number one movie on Netflix right now. The uh, Dave spade. Um, totally the worst ending of any movie I've ever seen in my life. Haven't watched it. I did, I did finally sit down. And so I feel like I'm a week behind you now. Like, so like last week you were talking about that Hollywood show, I sat down and watched that. Um, this week, uh, you threw out a, what was the one you threw out? Oh, hanger one. Yeah, so a hanger one. Um, I watched the first episode, so I haven't gotten that deep into that one yet. Um, but for that one part, yeah, the part that's in the preview, it's only reason I watched it. Yeah. I'll talk about that in a little bit. But like I am, I am a kind of, I was kind of ecstatic to see live sports on TV this weekend. Where are you? Where are you? Yeah. I had no idea what [inaudible] was or whatever the hell it was. I got nothing. I got, so the Germans started with live soccer this weekend in an empty arena. Um, the, the, the players on the bench were three seats apart. And um, now did they do, did they do what Korea did and fill the state or China fill the stadium with sex dolls? No, dude, that was the story. They actually had to issue an apology. Like the cartoon ones are like the $8,000 ones. Oh, I, I'm hoping the cartoon ones that blow up, I'm guessing, I'm guessing, I'm guessing the blowup version, not the real doll version. Yes. Here's the thing. I was so starved for it. I watched, I watched both games. Um, but I'm not gonna lie, it was no different than watching like the Carpathia at team, at ultimate in Pontiac. Gotcha. Like, hear me out here. I, I didn't want it. This was my take on it. I don't want to give people an ego, because I hear all the time about like, Detroit lions fans, especially talking about how we need to be positive. Our team needs us, and I'm not gonna lie like it needs the fans. Like, I don't want to give anyone an ego, don't get me wrong. But like, you can't, it's so unwatchable with an empty arena. Even though, even though the soccer was on such a higher level and it was such a, you could tell it was better, right? It was unwatchable won't do it. I mean, I mean, think about it. I mean, I don't care if it's, I don't care what sport it is. Like you, you can't, you know, a good chunk of the game is the crowd reaction to what's happening on the field or on the ice or on the court or, you know, whatever else. I mean, that's, that's, that's a huge part of the experience. And so without that there, yeah, I mean, is it, is it even really happening? It's like a standup comic without a crowd laughing like, Oh God. Speaking of which, like I've seen like an Ellen, uh, our engineer, God bless her, um, you know, was talking about how there's a couple of, um, like zoom open mic nights that are going on and how, you know, it's, it's OK. It's, but it's, it's, it's rough because you're basically talking to whoever's in the zoom room with you. Um, and it's not, you know, a, it's not a bar. It's not people sitting there drinking and listening to you, you know, work on your material and crack jokes and all that kind of stuff. Um, but I mean, you know, I guess taking it a step further, you know, that article you threw out about major league baseball and, and the rules that there or that, I guess, I guess it's a first draft and it's subject to revision and changes, but do the rules that are, that are in that proposal are instant. Like they're almost as bad as the rules for bars opening up. I want to go through this because my comment was new mop rules. Dot dot, dot. This shit is stupid and it says go with like high school ball and it's going to look less than high school ball. Um, you basically can't take showers at the ballpark. Um, you need to show up dressed in your uniform. So basically got to put on your tigers uniform at home and show up with your cleats on. So it's, it's back to, you know, when you're kids and, and you gotta you gotta get out of mom and dad's car all suited up and ready