Canada 145th Birthday, Cutting Room Floor Etymology
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the show by wishing Canada a happy 145th birthday. They discuss the decline of traditional film industry phrases like "the cutting room floor," noting that millennial editors working in nonlinear digital environments are unfamiliar with the physical origins of the term.
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00:00 On the grounds that they'd actually made contact with the remains of an ancient shipwreck while on the lunar surface. tracking the Stargates here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state. Austin Tejas, In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where we're sending a happy 145th birthday out to Canada. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill...In The Mornin'!
00:40 Yeah, I mean that could have gone in the birthday segment. We didn't have to do it at the top of the show. I mean that's a little over-the-top. Hey Canada is our second biggest contributor to this show! Really? I thought it was Australia Oh, you're right. Canada's way down there for it. Exactly! If those Canadians will rack it up a little bit then I'm okay with this but this is like a... Well, if they can't take you back do you want to start the show over? We could cut them out. They're on the cutting room floor, I tell ya. Damn Canadians So I was at the MeVio offices about a week ago and we were talking about shooting this Bravo show. And I said, you know what? The way you guys are going is that your gonna end up on the cutting room floor! Yeah... Well- And nobody knew what that meant! You're kidding me
01:29 No, this is one of those many little phrases that the millennials don't know. Right because it doesn't exist anymore. Yes I can feel you sound like a broken record. What? You mean like my DMV records? They're not...you can't break them! Well if you're gonna really get into stuff like that look at iconography Does anyone still really understand the association between pasting and a clipboard A little picture of a clipboard Probably not. No, exactly So I do explain what the cutting room floor was because and these were all the editors I was talking to the ones that are editing videos Oh really? That's hilarious And they have no idea what a cutting room floors because they're nonlinear editors It's just kind of fascinating you'll write it really interesting All these old phrases are dying out if we don't keep using them Well there is a thing called what is it oh yeah progress John ever hear of it know okay
