Look into The Camera

Is it harder to do the show with the cameras on?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firm Elvis Represents fifteen minute morning show. Thanks for that there.
You didn't say you were rolling yet. I'm sorry, burps

(00:23):
into microphone repeatedly. After you've been burned by this, Why
do you keep doing it? I didn't think we started yet,
we started picking my teeth. I meant to warn us seriously,
natural habitsts. We're ready to go at any time. Here,
come on, people. It's true. When I seed up for this,
it was radio no but you know what at my

(00:46):
face CEO to Nate's point. To Nate's point, well, I
was taught in radio be ready for anything. I have
to have. You were not talking with cameras when you
were growing up, and how comes so many times every
show Elvis is scary. You go, what huh? He goes?
Will you listen to Howard? I was good at it. Okay,

(01:08):
rules of radio war. They can throw anything, be spontaneous
and react, you know the way you would honestly react
if your friend just said the same thing in a bar.
That's how we were talking. That's on. That's right, reacting verbally.
But you didn't grow up with cameras in your face.
Like here's radio. The cameras are a totally different different

(01:31):
what's the worst thing about having a camera? For you, Gandhi,
I don't even know where to start. The angles of
the camera are never left. The angle of my face
appears to me to be and you guys know, I
love to roll in here like a straight out of bed,
no makeup, like right now. And that doesn't photograph well
either or video well at all. So they're saying that

(01:53):
when they when when you get the email that says
be camera ready, I go look my camera ready and
your camera ready? Two different camera ready? Scared? Do you
remember when we got the first z cam in the studio,
because you know, I would do overnights and I was
never paying attention, and I would always there's always a
web camera that was watching us, and there's the people

(02:13):
would take shots of us, and they would turn up
and I'd be picking my nose or you know whatever.
If you don't remember that it's even there, that's right,
we did have this. It was it was a still frame.
It was a camera that took a picture like once
every ten seconds, and that was the motion of it,
like ten seconds and then ten seconds later you like
this seconds the worst so scared? Were you ready every

(02:37):
ten seconds for the camera? No? No, I think I
think the whole thing with the cameras is it really?
I mean, it can do a number on your self
esteem because you look at yourself and you take photographs
that you find flattery and you like, and you think, Okay,
let's guy's what I look like. Then you see this ship,
which is like the second I look like that, Oh

(02:57):
my god, I look like that. Honestly, the lighting and
he is the most horrific lighting ever. And even when
you go outside if they don't turn on those nice lights,
I'm like, what the okay is being laying in bed,
look at your phone and then you open up one
of the apps that has the count. Yeah, it's like

(03:21):
your face is mellow defaults to that. I'm like, stopping
open the freaking self facing camera? What about you, Nate,
what's the worst for you? You know, I'm not as
lenses either, because you know what, the lenses aren't that great.
To your point, Gandhi, you would look really good if
it was a better lens. Shitney camera lenses and in

(03:43):
these in these computers, they're terrible. That's right about Gandhi?
She would look better. But I so I told Scared
it to test new equipment, I set up an actual
like studio for webcasting in one of my extra bedrooms.
I bought a computer, a new desk, a gaming desk,
and an HD webcam. And I turned it on this
weekend and I went, what the fuck? And I went

(04:04):
right back to my couch. Are you really prepare to upgrade?
I have an HD camera, I got a new laptop.
I got a new backdrop I set up in my
empty bedroom. When you watch the HD channels, they have
extra makeup and they have HD makeup. Yeah, well I
don't have that because it's very different. It's you see
every floor everything. I mean, but Scary has been telling

(04:25):
this all these years. We need to put the camera
way up high, you know. So like when Scary takes
a picture, you're on the ceiling to take a photo
of he walks over the ladder. He gives people a ladder.
He was climb this ladder. You have our web People
come in and when I have my my laptop here,
which is where Danielle and I will usually keep it.
When everyone's zoom, they're like, put a punch of computer down.
We can't see your face put it down, so then

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it comes at this angle, which is the ninth This
is not a flattering angle for me. This is straight on.
But if I was up here like this difference and
if people pay attend is when Scary is getting ready
to be on the camera, he does this which I
cannot figure out what it is. Oh, he's stretching out

(05:07):
on the chiny anything just came pose you do this thing.
He also leans forward angles on the top of your
head at But Scary, my question is what are you
doing when you do the chin thing? When you go
he's getting rid of the double chins frog, I'm stretching

(05:29):
out my chin. Well, it doesn't go right back where
it was before. This is hilarious. Do you really think
you're gonna hold your camera like that? You flattering? Okay,
you really need to be watching this episode. The other
scary trait that he does when getting ready for camera
he shakes like he's getting rid of anything. What is
that he does? Shake? Accomplished? By the way, how about

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when they're recording what we're doing on zoom all morning
and then they posted like this on the Instagram. I'm like, dude,
it's to be a close up of my freaking nose hands.
I feel so violated. What is that? Videos on the topic.

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I hate when they caught at the top of my
head and it looks like I have no head. Hey,
what's going on? Scary? I'm like to ask permission. They
don't have to do that, they don't. They just take
advantage of us. I was like you, Daniel, I was like, oh,
radio will be Cool'll say that you and people are
generally harder on themselves than because I don't. Don't. I

(06:36):
look at you guys, and I'm like, I don't see anything.
We're very kind. That's what that makes it worse because
then that is what we look like. But then I think,
and then I look at myself and I'm like, yeah,
I don't know how I look today, right, So I
mean I think we judge ourselves way scary. Will you
stop it? And we look good? We look like don't

(06:59):
you can't tell me? You know? Actually that camera, that
is what you get, like the Glenn close filter on that.
He's got some crazy pink filter on it. It's a
fish eye lens turned on, just trying to make the
house look bigger, right like you they do? Oh yeah.
I posted. I posted pictures on Instagram a couple of

(07:20):
weeks ago of a pool and and one picture had
the fish eye lens and one didn't. It looks like
two different houses. We had the good angles. They know,
the uses the Sloman's doorbell camera. You get a podcast,
You get a podcast. Yeah with those with those lenses.
But with those lenses you can take a picture of

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a walking closet and it looks like a room. Yeah.
Really that's photographers that there are real estate photographers and
that's what they do for a living. They you know,
because I always look at the pictures right at the
apartment or whatever, and I'm like, wait, the couch is
there in this picture and over here it's right next
to the They'll make and then you get to get disappointed,
but they get you in the house. You always yeah,
or it looks like will be this giant like spread

(08:01):
of a home and it says six twit a second?
How did that happen? All right? What else are we
gonna talk about today? I mean it is National VCR
Day And can we go back to Scottie and I
were talking about this off air? You have you said
you have a VCR A VHS whatever, plugged in, ready

(08:24):
to go, right, so I have. I have one that
is currently plugged in working if I ever needed it.
I also have a portable one. I'm gonna best all
of you, and I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
best the worst all of you maybe is I have
not only a working VHS, I haven't plugged in and
working CD, CD player, turntable, DVD player, cassette deck, and

(08:47):
FM stereo and they're all connected. At any given moment,
I could pop any one of those media in and
I can just play it and ready to go love it.
Will I have done it? Well? Have I done it? No?
And I haven't used any of it? Okay to hold
on when it's scary and scotty. When is the last
time you truthfully used your VCR with Within a year,

(09:07):
it's been probably what did you watch watching? I was
dubbing a high school video onto DVD of the cheerleaders.
There's the girl that you secretly videotape? Does she know
that this VHS exists? Or no? No, it was a
high school video that I was dubbing, so it wouldn't
you know? Did have PRN on on VHS? Though everybody

(09:28):
did no. No, but because why did you not? I
didn't either. I never had any homemade porn. No, dude, Hello,
before DVDs, porn came on vh So did you just

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just just the cover box, brod he just the cover
is girly magazine. So I heard my mom when day
was vacuating. She's like, I don't wansk tamp way. It's
not sucking up anything. I don't because my brother rolled
up the magazine and show them into the thing of
the vacuum. I totally thought it was clogged with something
else and was going in a different direction. Okay, back

(10:14):
to Scottie's VCR. So, do you think you'll fire it
up today just in honor of VCR day if you
would like me to, I'll record it and I will
fire it up. Yes, but I mean, what will you watch? Listen?
The only VHS tapes I have right now is like
Beavis and butt Head from the nineties and an old
high school videos that I shot on my VHSC camera

(10:35):
that I love you and I know you very well.
You absolutely have at least one porn on VHS left false.
I threw them all away, but he did have them,
no more than ten years ago, because when I moved
him out of his apartment, he had a box of them. Okay,
that was fifteen years ago. But I you threw out
the tapes? Did you throw out the porn boxes with?

(10:55):
I never kept the boxes. I never ever kept the boxes.
I only had the tapes. And I, dude, you guys
are making me out like this porn Jean. You guys
all had fucking porn. I did not have it on
my phone right now, Scotty, where do you keep all
this stuff? What stuff? Your VCR? Your VCR? You're a
porn I don't have any more porn. I got rid

(11:18):
of porn. Just can I just say something? Who needs porn? Now?
Why are these adult bookstores still in business? They sell
toys and stuff too at toys and not who porn books? Anyway?
They sell things to cram in your orifice? Alright? Anyway,
So in my basement, I have a couple of male

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crates that are full VHS C tapes, which are the
mini VHS tapes that you put in the adapter. They're
all labeled. I just have to dub them at some point.
And those have porn, you know they don't. I would
love to see your high school footage though that like
you in high school would be tell you I was
the guy that had the video camera every day since
it was late junior and then all of senior year.

(12:02):
I brought a video camera to school every day. That
wasn't creepy at all. Yeah. Yeah, like the Goldbergs. My
high school videos were like the peak jackass. So it's
like all our friends doing jackasses too. Yeah, but scared
you said you have a VHS v Yes, it's connected. Yes,
what VHS do you have? Uh? Still readily available? A
lot of Disney movies which are unopened. You have Disney

(12:24):
movie yeah, unopened? Those from the van. No, we used
to get them complimentary. Here to Scotty and Scary. Have
a question. Is your VCR blinking twelve o'clock or did
you time? No, it's just it's it's it's powered off.
It doesn't it's just blank right now. Yeah, my mind
is similar, but yeah it's not. You're telling me you
have Lion King unopened right now. I may have. I

(12:46):
don't know what I have. I gotta go through it
eBay right now? Are you serious? H will tell you
less than ten years ago. Less than ten years ago
I saw it and purchased The Incredible Aking Woman on
VHS because I it was not available anywhere. I have

(13:10):
the original American I'm just saying, Amy and I really
wanted to watch it for some reason because we were
talking about it and uh Concepsion the maid that was
smoking cigarettes and throwing eggs down the sync. We were
talking about that for some reason. So we really wanted
to watch it, and you couldn't. It was nowhere to
be found. You couldn't at the time rent it anywhere.

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It wasn't on DVD. So I found a VHS copy
on eBay and bought it, and thankfully we had our
VCR and we watched it and I still have it.
So as a Star Wars nerd um the reason I
have my VCRs, the only available version of the original
three Star Wars movies on redone in ninety seven are
on VHS. If you want the classic Star Wars four

(13:53):
or five something now I have. I have American Idol
from Justin to Kelly. Is that worth anything? I throw
it out? Is it unopened? Love that You're the only one?
And I also have the complete Love Show. It's not
worth the plastic of the VHS tape is concealed by
the way. Speaking of Justin, you know what he's doing now,
he's the Dr Pepper, a feminine dancer in the commercials.

(14:16):
There's a VHS tat it's been watched. Oh my god, Gary,
I just pulled up what some of these Disney movies
are worth. I mean the one Domatians. If you have
a certain version of six thousand dollars to be in plastic, right,
it has to be on open is my question? What
are people doing with them that they The problem is

(14:37):
these VHS cassettes they degrade so it at some point
you won't even be able to watch them. It's not
for watching, it's just for the collector part. Little Mermaid
a thousand bucks, a Laddin fifteen hundred dollars, Little Little Mermaid.
Mermaid put them back in the vault. Back in Little
Mermaid was one of the ones that put back in
the vultar. But he ran to buy them. Now you
could get but you should, you should take take my collection.

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But the problem is all the ones that we have
say for promotional use only and have a whole punched
in everything. They say you can't sell those on ebings,
But you can have if you got it from the
radio station them do yees. Yeah, that's sad. Can we
talk about that. I was at a radio station event
near They have the promo table that has all the

(15:21):
things to give away. Have you seen the things we
give away? It was like maybe anything DVD of Beverly
Hills Cup from the garage. You know. I was at
the garage not too long ago and it's still full
of DVDs and like games from consoles that people don't
use anymore. Giving away Pooper. Everybody could use that, everybody.

(15:44):
It wasn't even the real one. It was that v
I Pooh one. People want the stickers and the t shirts.
That's all they want. They just need to have the tables. Yeah,
the stuff that is our our logo on it. Where
we at on time, they're we're over how much over

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