there’s a controversy surrounding Google’s new bacon number function let’s talk about that hi I’m Aaron from Indianapolis Indiana good mythical morning good mythical morning this episode is brought to you by catalyst calm that’s the guys with good goods like roadkill trail sticks and summer sausage link I would like you to try this and then while you’re chewing on I’ll tell you what’s in it okay it’s called roadkill but I assume this ingest wild boar hmm venison elk antelope beef asphalt and rabbit you may have heard that google has a new function called the bacon number and of course those of you familiar with the ins and outs of Google know that Google has it’s not just a search engines you can do some operations within it like if you type define and then a word it won’t just give you a website where you can look at the definition it will just give you the definition I think if you type synonym in the word it might do that too I discovered this last week really well in olden is yeah me well I did and by that I mean like a couple years ago oh it’s also a calculator if you just put like five asterisk two equals ten it will come back and say ten even quicker than you were able to go to a genius I’m like a computer I’m kind of like Google my brain is like Google so now they’re getting a little bit frivolous and they’re doing the Kevin Bacon number if you put bacon number and then put a stars name it gives you a number now just to give you a little backdrop on this this opener I like to give you a little background a little backdrop on the backdrop you if you don’t like my background information six degrees of Kevin Bacon are you familiar with this yes this is way back from 1994 I knew that I did some research on Vicky yeah Vicky told me that back in 1994 Kevin Bacon was promoting his movie the river wild wasn’t it is that the one he’s from yeah that’s it the river while yeah and he made a comment What did he say he said he’s worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who’s worked with them oh and then that’s a bold claim the the the the small version of the internet just kind of went wild at the time and people just kind of ran with it and said that Kevin Bacon was was connected to all these people for him so oh yeah is that true and then it ultimately became a game this is still back in 1994 it became a game where you could say what a gerson any person who was in an entertainment and then the challenge was how many people would you have to work with to connect to Kevin Bacon then a theory developed that anyone could be connected with in six degrees yes is that true or not I don’t know if it’s true Vicki didn’t tell me that Vicki’s unreliable sometimes but what Google is doing now I mean it’s been many years since 1994 I could probably type that in in Google I could Google how many years it’s been since 1994 but I’m not even gonna do that you could just ask me 18 Oh see I’m it’s like I’m gonna cockade 18 years later Google is now saying that if you just type bacon number in the person it’ll take all the fun out of the game and just do all the work for you because is it an amazing hive mind of the Internet that’s what Google is it is is typing into the high called the global knowledge base link so that that’s that’s basically this thing but but we’ve alluded to the fact there’s some controversy right well we’re gonna get to that yeah well I will demonstrate and I’m still getting some of this like roadkill jerky IAT my whole stick well I think a lot you were talking about that see that’s look at it like great the whole stick okay so first of all I want to quickly I want to play the game with you to demonstrate something about now you’re talking number now hold on if you if you’re talking about the original game I’m not playing that because I I’m willing to bet you that I have not seen one movie Kevin Bacon is in so even though I may know who Kevin Bacon is and I may know who other celebrities are I’m incapable of ever completing the game cuz I bet you I’ve never seen a Kevin Bacon movie there that’s impossible I in fact in doing this I look I’m not proud of popular Kevin Bacon I hope it’s not possum x-men first class how seen it Crazy Stupid Love haven’t even heard of it a few good men uh he was in that yeah Tom Cruise okay I have seen that one okay there you go I just I don’t remember he was in it though that’s not gonna help me Flatliners nope trimmers nope Footloose no Mystic River no the woodsman no what is that a comic book character type thing that you same comic book the woodsman issue one use are in Kevin Bacon you my friend should am not chained of yourself to even the fact that you’re even in IMDB at all but yet you haven’t seen any of these movies I thought would just be bad at me I think you should be kicked out of IMDB I think you should be kicked out of it you don’t deserve to be there well I’m think I’m using the river wild the one that started the whole thing he was on the raft he was crazy it was wild is that like a sequel to deliverance I actually think I have seen that one okay but you have Meryl Streep in it yeah she was the Imam of the families yeah yeah I did see that one okay well there you go good for you you can stay in IMDB I’m glad that Google is doing this because now I can finally be part of the conversation well here so instead of playing the real game when you actually made the connection all I want you to do is just guess the bacon number and what I’ve done is I’ve just thought of some guys that just sued guys and girls random people from movies just the guy from so on so the guy from so on so I try to get obscure because I’ll try to give you the bacon number I’m trying to get some high bacon numbers here uh the guy from Candyman the scary dude uh for – his name is Tony Todd Tony Todd and Xander Berkeley appeared in Candyman Sandra Berkeley and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13 ha I have seen Apollo 13 there you go but Kevin Bacon wasn’t it would be like a bit partisan I’m the guy who’s gonna play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit upcoming Hobbit Martin Freeman or three let’s go three two Martin Freeman Elijah Wood appeared in The Hobbit Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon appeared in beyond all boundaries how it hasn’t happened yet you can’t go into the future and they can die so it’s been made it just hasn’t been released really let me go more obscure um the evil coach from Karate Kid remember this guy we actually saw him in LA driving down the highway in Malibu I know the guy who put his hands into wind oh yeah that guy Martin Cove is his name five to ten Cove and Elizab the shoe appeared in The Karate Kid Elizabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon appeared in Holloman I’m not gonna continue playing the game because I am illustrating something here and something that has been written about many times on the controversy the controversy is everyone’s bacon number is – at least 90% of in fact a Kevin Bacon’s bacon number is what zero okay well not everybody and if you were in a keeper Sullivan’s is one so well if you’re saying not greater than two a lot of people have been in a movie with him but it is very difficult to find anybody because Google is finding the direct life it’s know is there it’s not going in a roundabout way it’s getting there in fact put all the people that I thought of the only person I could think of that did not have it too was the kid from Old Yeller because I started going back to the movies that we had to watch in grade school remember Tommy Kurt he’s a three because he was in Swiss Family Robinson with John Mills and John Mills and John Laughlin appeared him murder with mirrors and then John Laughlin and Kevin Bacon were in Footloose the one guy from NSYNC that nobody remembers JC shot shushes Chapman shove it no it’s shushes whatever he’s a tube he’s a – nobody remembers it because he’s got a weird last name good for him and then bronson pinchot you remember alkie Balki Balki from perfect strangers is it too even the girl who voices Twilight Sparkle on my little pony Tara Strong she’s a – well this is just a person Gary spice Scary Spice is a tooth of Google taking using the hive mind to take the fun out of everything yeah but you know Google takes the fun out of everything but being – right reddit has come to the rescue once again and that’s not a nickname for me that’s a website a lot of people go to after another and they started a discussion where people trying to find higher bacon numbers and they found two people whose Minh sembène she’s a 600 he’s a 6 this guy is a whatever Senegalese gym director who has been called the father of African Film the they’re of African film he’s a 6-degree separated and I’m not gonna go through all the things that he was in because you won’t be familiar with them and I won’t be able to pronounce him but it all comes down to the fact that Diane West wasn’t footless okay good and then I found Musa Dora or the reddit folks found Musa Dora is a six she is a French actress film director and writer who was who died in 1957 I mean we’re going back to she was born in 1889 we have to go back to the film dark ages really I just made that up to find somebody who’s not okay first of all okay so but my question is what are we that’s really all I care about we my friend are a three we’re a three yeah high five we don’t do the job yes fat people how are we a three now first of all unfortunately and this will never no no we’re not a two we should be disappointed we’re not a – everybody’s it – what’s up dusk we’re like why if I’m a gift from Old Yeller okay we’re a three interestingly enough we are not if you do Rhett mcLaughlin or link Neal bacon number it won’t come and nothing will come up but what because Google doesn’t use IMDB first of all you have to go to Oracle of bacon org which has been around for a while it uses IMDB now first of all if you just put Rhett mcLaughlin or link meal in the Oracle of bacon with the default connections we don’t come up because it only connects through movies but when you expand it to TV series which a lot of the stuff that we’ve done on the web is in IMDB as a TV series we are connected in a very surprising and ironic but appropriate way we my friend are connected to Kevin Bacon through rub some bacon on it three I am ninety degrees you can go to Oracle of bacon org and put us in there you have to change it where you include TV series but rhett and Link that’s us we were in rub some bacon on it Chris Crutchfield was in Robson vicuna he not only did he shoot it but he made a cameo on the bench in the part with me hmm he was in blood done signed my name with Michael Rooker who was in Super with Kevin Bacon hmm well there you go thanks to rub some bacon on it were three we’re also a three through the epic rap manliness link Lawrence Weezer was an epic rap battle of manliness she was in Winter’s Bone with Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence and Kevin Bacon were in x-men first class which you haven’t seen which you should also be ashamed of and can they be connected as for just by watching I don’t think so replaced as the host of GMM what is this what does this mean what hold on I got an email here it’s from is from you yeah I’m using my executive producer email read it uh deer yell out dear rhett and Link link from Retton link here I hate to inform you that you have been replaced as the host of GMM yep and I I didn’t have time to say who replaced us but it’s a al now I will uh I will announce it to everyone well it says right here says Bronson Pinchot and Osmond same vein who was known as the father of after he’s dead how could he be a kadhi replaces well it’s all it’s all downhill from here hopefully