H.I. #50: Queen of Spades

H.I. #50: Queen of Spades

Author: CGP Grey & Brady Haran November 6, 2015 Duration: 2:38:02
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Brady and Grey discuss: a first cup of coffee, Rice Rats vs Swamphen, Brady Travels, AirBNB and the sharing economy, first thoughts on the Hello Internet Flag Referendum, Brady's refuses to play games, Hotstopper awareness auction results, the county flags of Liberia, things people happen to be doing while they are listening to the Hello Internet podcast corner, bi-weekly weigh in (YOU SHOULD CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE TEAM!), YouTube Red, and answers to some listener questions for the fiftieth episode.

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Show Notes:

Discuss this episode

Brady's first cup of coffee

Marco Arment

Tiff Arment

Brady points

The view from the MSRI director’s office

Team Rice Rat

Team Swamphen

Hello Internet #6: Brady's Cat Pee Story

AirBNB

HI: The Shortlist

HI flag voting rules

Uno

HeroQuest

Hotstopper Awareness

CGP Grey the penguin

County Flags of Liberia

Japanese Prefectural flags

Hello Internet in Kenya

Hello Internet in the locker room

A Hello Internet historical landmark

*Hello Internet FITOTRON 5000 exercise shirts*

YouTube Red

Pew Die Pie's YouTube Red show

Hello Internet discusses YouTube Red before we knew anything about it

John Green discusses YouTube Red

Bow down before Taylor Swift's view numbers

Apple Music royalty payments

Mean Girls

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Henry of Minute Physics

BrainSTEM conference

John Green

VidCon

Brady: British Numbers Confuse Americans

Derek's of Ver-ih-TAH-see-um video of the BrainSTEM conference where educational YouTubers met for the first time

Accidental Tech Podcast

John Gruber

The Talk Show

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Two friends who make videos on the internet decided to start talking into microphones. Hello Internet is the long-running, occasionally vexed, and deeply idiosyncratic conversation between CGP Grey and Brady Haran. What began as an informal chat between two creators about the peculiarities of YouTube has evolved into a sprawling audio documentary of their lives, projects, and endless curiosities. An episode might dissect the nuances of flag design, the ethics of automation, or the proper way to load a dishwasher, often spiraling into heated yet good-natured debates they call "football" or "plane crash corner." It’s a show about the friction between Grey’s systematic, robot-adjacent worldview and Brady’s chaotic, humanist documentary-maker energy. You’re listening in on a friendship that’s equal parts collaborative and combative, where the topics are just the starting point for something much more personal. This isn't a structured interview podcast but a meandering dialogue between two very different minds, recorded in real time. It’s about work, life, the internet, and whatever else happens to be on their minds that week, making for a consistently unpredictable and engaging listen. The appeal lies in the specific chemistry of the hosts, turning mundane observations into compelling audio. You become a silent third participant in a conversation that has been going on for years, picking up running jokes, longstanding grievances, and a genuine sense of two people figuring things out as they go.
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