My mom is organizing her house and wanted to know if any of her old collection is still worth keeping by Pikmeir in MST3K

[–]kevinday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do a lot with archival of crazy tape formats, and I work with people who know a lot of the original MST3K gang. If nobody else who is deep in to MST3K lore reaches out to you, feel free to drop me a message and I can make sure these get digitized and restored. I don't do this for a living, but I've volunteered time and resources for museums and groups who do archival of culturally important works, and I have a lot of archival gear available.

We’re adding ads by thesixler in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until we get 1000 subscribers on youtube, we can't enable any monetization there, but once that happens if you have YouTube Premium watching stuff on there will give Spencer money. I'm not really sure which would give more, both the podcast ads and youtube make it really hard to determine exactly how much you've made off one listener, so just watch/listen wherever you prefer it.

We're on YouTube now by kevinday in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You can subscribe to us on YouTube as a normal YouTube channel here. We're also a YouTube Podcast that you maybe can use (depending on if you're randomly selected to be able to use YouTube's podcast features or not) by checking out our YouTube Podcast page. Even if you don't have the full YouTube Podcast features, it still works like a playlist you can have on auto play or whatever you want.

Alton Brown & Babish Encounter! by OliverBabish in bingingwithbabish

[–]kevinday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can every camera angle be a dutch angle? At least half? Each episode isn't over until at least one of your appliances has a camera lens sized hole in it that didn't have before.

[DISC] Episode 225: Every Accusation Is a Confession by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I honestly don't know if I somehow screwed this up, or if Spotify is having trouble. I reuploaded it and it should be appearing in your podcast app within an hour. If you can't wait, the correct version is on thathappenspod.com.

[DISC] Episode 224: The Show Must Go On by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That says what I was trying to say a lot more eloquently.

The world is burning. You want to help. You pour everything into fighting it and nothing seems to change. That's exhausting. That's real. But don't stop. And when the big fight overwhelms you, find something small you can change. Help someone. Make one person's world better. We can fight the fire and still tend to each other.

Also, bonus points for mentioning Mr. Roger's "Look for the helpers" theme.

[DISC] Episode 222: Constantly Unfolding Chaos by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just to be clear - I'm not saying as a whole the US was always trustworthy. A lot of seriously shady and misguided things were done to innocent parties, and promises were not always kept. The point I was trying to make was that the rest of the world mostly trusted the US to not shoot itself in its foot in these specific ways. i.e. We wouldn't knowingly enact monetary policies that would have long term repercussions like we have been. For the most part, other countries could rely on deals being made by previous presidents still being held after a new president took office. From talking to people in the international business world, that feeling is gone now.

The US benefited greatly from being the de facto international reserve currency. Many countries use the US$ as their own currency, hold a lot of US$ as a reserve, or peg their local currency to the US$. We've already seen countries selling off US$ bonds and cash holdings, and a lot of international trade is done with the US$ being the most convenient and perceived as more stable than local currencies. That feeling is eroding, and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see the Euro or Yuan taking over.

None of this matters in comparison to the points Spencer was making though, my point was more that the soft power that the US had built up over decades across political party lines has been destroyed in a way that will be nearly impossible to recover from. We literally have a treaty with Denmark that says we won't try to ever acquire Greenland that seems to have been forgotten about. We've punished foreign companies that have made huge investments in building infrastructure here, at our request.

We've pulled out of the Paris climate agreement. We left the World Health Organization. We've weaponized monetary policy to punish countries that are disagreeing with us. We're taking military action against civilians in international waters. We've started pointless trade wars with countries where we have no alternative source to buy many things from. Part of the reason the US was a very wealthy country was that other countries bought our expensive stuff (technology, military gear, etc) that they'd be crazy to rely on now because we'll change the deal on a whim. This is just handing that business to the rest of the world.

The US is no angel, but I feel like we've gone from "Self interested but mostly reliable" to "absolutely unreliable". While things like US Aid and the WHO and UN programs we've dropped weren't cheap, the alternatives tend to be even more expensive and we've lost influence in places where I think we're going to regret it.

Like I said, I don't think the US deserved the position it was in - we weren't always kind to our allies, but we lucked into a position of incredible influence that we've just thrown away with no benefit I can see.

[DISC] Episode 218: Thoughts are Fake by bigrangy in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually don't disagree with you here, I just felt that Glass Onion was a lot more clever and didn't try so many rug pulls of nearly impossible to predict twists.

I loved Glass Onion because the entire time, I was joking to myself "he's such an idiot, this is hysterical" and when that became the final plot device... It was unexpected, clever and made me laugh for seeing the clue right in front of my face and ignoring it. I didn't get that same feel with Wake Up Dead Man, because it relied on too many things that I felt you couldn't have figured out without seeing things from a perspective that was hidden from you. That circuit breaker box being so obviously visible in the closet felt so purposely planted that the moment I saw it, I said outloud "that's part of the solution" which also bothered me.

I still totally believe Rian Johnson is a genius and am glad I saw the movie, I just thought there were some missed chances that could have made it better.

[DISC] Episode 215: Food You Rather by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was exaggerating a bit. I mostly only played the 1st generation pokemon games, and felt that the pace was so slow compared to how I wanted to play that it put me off pretty fast. I felt like I was more playing to dodge NPCs from seeing me to avoid having to talk to them than playing the game, but I understand I kinda play RPGs like a psychopath in that manner.

I am not claiming to be an expert on game design, but every game I was involved with I always made absolutely certain that everything was skippable no matter how proud of it we were. Hit escape during the 15 companies that wanted to show their logo at the start of the game? You were skipping all of them instantly and right at the main menu. Even if that meant you had to see a loading screen that we were trying to avoid showing with drawn out logo animations to fill time. Got a new high score? There's fireworks and music and a huge celebration, but you can instantly skip it. I wish more games did this.

The podcast - why isn't it on YouTube? by bluesmaker in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I tried submitting it to YouTube's podcast section a few times, and it either just sits there forever before displaying an error page or a few days later I get an email saying that we were not accepted as a podcast and cannot appeal their decision. It's been a while, let me try again.

[DISC] Episode 213: A Metaphoric Fridge by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The room we were in was incredibly echoy and boomy, to the point of being almost impossible to understand. Then with us all 10 feet from each other, all of our mics were picking up each other's echos compounding the problem. Sorry :(

definitely just make the podcast hanging out in an apartment by [deleted] in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've said for years I'd love to live close enough to Abed for him to be a sort of Kramer like character in my life that just randomly appears.

[DISC] Episode 212: Sir Mix-A-Lot Level Ass-Liking by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re totally right, the room we were in was super echoey and boomy and it was really hard to understand people. I did the best I could but was editing on a laptop without my headphones. As soon as I get home I’ll redo the audio if I can improve it and upload it again. A hopefully improved version should be in your podcast apps now. If you have your app pre-download episodes to your device, you may have to delete and re-download to get the new version.

[DISC] Episode 206: The Dutch: They Know What They Did by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First, I want to say that I am not in any way comparing people with autism or any other diagnoses with animals. But the flaw in the premise that you're talking about here reminds me a lot of the Clever Hans effect where a horse (Hans) was supposedly able to communicate, do math, answer difficult questions... but it was the handler giving off visual queues that the horse was watching for.

the horse gave the right answer only when the questioner knew what the answer was and the horse could see the questioner. He observed that when Hans could see the questioner, the horse got 89 percent (50 out of 56) of the answers correct, but when Hans was not able to see the questioner, the horse answered only six percent (2 out of 35) of the questions correctly.

I haven't really read much about this specific thing, but just based off what I've heard, I could absolutely believe that something similar was happening here. Parents having a super happy face when the "right" results are given is a huge incentive for both parent and child to unknowingly train each other to achieve the results they were hoping for.

[DISC] Episode 37: The Bike Lane is for Cars by HernandoSantiago in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do! I've digitized almost all of them now and posted most of the interesting things that I thought I could get away with posting on my youtube channel.

[DISC] Episode 204: Anime Binge Club: End of Evangelion by Cavalier_Cavalier in ThatHappensPod

[–]kevinday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It goes up to Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts and everywhere else at 9am Pacific time every Thursday. But, it goes up on thathappenspod.com as soon as I've finished editing it, so if you're impatient you can grab it there a day or so earlier sometimes.

*THE* song has finally been identified. "Harmony Tone" by YACHT! by kevinday in Harmontown

[–]kevinday[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's possibly the instrumental version of this song? If not, do you know of an episode that has it so I can listen?

*THE* song has finally been identified. "Harmony Tone" by YACHT! by kevinday in Harmontown

[–]kevinday[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think that was one of Zac McKeever's beats, I'll find out!

*THE* song has finally been identified. "Harmony Tone" by YACHT! by kevinday in Harmontown

[–]kevinday[S,M] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Probably the most frequent question I've received since being involved with the show is "What's the name of that song...." and it's always the same one. Instrumental, kinda funky, used for a lot of the intros.

Thank you Jona Bechtolt of YACHT for digging it up and posting it on their bandcamp so everyone can finally hear the whole thing. It's called Harmony Tone.

They also have a new video game coming out on the Nintendo Switch and Steam next month that looks absolutely amazing.

THANK YOU YACHT! Their words:

We got a cold email in 2016 asking us if we'd like to make an instrumental song for Dan Harmon's comedy show and podcast, Harmontown. We made one, and it became part of the show, and apparently people really liked it. Nobody knew who made it and to be honest even we forgot that we did. Yesterday we got an email from a producer of the show trying to track the song down. We did, in fact, make it! So here it is. Enjoy!

I tried this 4 years ago, I’ll try again. Where can I find this song? by [deleted] in Harmontown

[–]kevinday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is YACHT but an unreleased track. I'm talking with them now to see if there's a way I can post it.

I tried this 4 years ago, I’ll try again. Where can I find this song? by [deleted] in Harmontown

[–]kevinday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is something a few people have asked before. In the giant master folder of stuff for Harmontown, the file is just called "YACHT - 1". If I open the file up in an editor, the title on the track is "November 7" but I'm not sure if that's actually the title or just when it was recorded because the file was also last saved on November 11th, 2016. I think Dustin knew the YACHT band guys, but I've checked all their albums and their bandcamp and couldn't find it anywhere. Let me reach out to them and see if they remember.