Google's Bacon Number Controversy

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. [Music]. Morning Good Mythical Morning this. episode is brought to you by culas dcom. that's the guys with the goods Goods. like roadkill Trail sticks and summer.

sausage link uh I would like you to try. this and then while you're chewing on it. I'll tell you what's in it. okay it's called roadkill but I I assume. that's ingest wild. boar. venison elk. analou beef asphalt and rabbit you may. have heard that Google has a new. function called the Bacon number um and. of course those you familiar with the. ins and outs Google know that Google has.

it's not just a search engine but 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. it's old news to me well and by that I. mean like a couple years ago oh it's. also a calculator if you just put like. five asterisk 2 equals 10 it will come. back and say 10 even quicker than you.

I'm 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 uh. Kevin Bacon number if you put bacon. number and then put a star's name it. gives you a number now just to give you. a little backdrop on this B back I like. to give you a little background and a. little backdrop I'mma backdrop you if. you don't like my background information. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon are you. familiar with this this is this is way. back from. 1994 I knew that I did some research on. Vicki or uh Vicky told me that back in.

1994 Kevin Bacon was promoting his movie. The River Wild was that it is that the. one he was promoting yeah that's it the. River Wild 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 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 Forum. oh yeah is that true and then It.

ultimately became a game this is still. back in 1994 it became a game where um. you could say any person 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 and then a theory developed that. anyone could be connected within 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 type that in in Google I.

could Google how many years it's been. since 1994 but I'm not even going to do. that you could just ask me 18 oh see I'm. I'm look like I'm like a calculator 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. it's an amazing hive mind of the. internet that's what Google is it is. it's tapping into the high it's 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 I think we're. going to get to that yeah well I will. demonstrate I'm still getting some of. this like roadkill jerky out of my I ate. my whole stick while you were talking. about that see that look at. that you ate the whole stick okay so. first of all I I want to quickly uh I. want to play the game with you to. demonstrate something about now you're. talk now hold on if you're if you're. talking about the original game I'm not. playing that because.

I 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 of ever completing. the game cuz I I bet you I've never seen. a Kevin Bacon movie that's impos that's. absolutely impossible I in. fact in doing this I looked up proud. popular Kevin Bacon I hope it's not. possible X-Men first Class haven't seen. it Crazy Stupid Love haven't even heard. of it A Few Good.

Men uh he was in that yeah Tom Cruz okay. I have seen that one okay there you go I. just I don't remember he was in it. though so that's not going to help me. flatliners nope trimmers nope Foot Loose. no mystic river no The Woodsman no what. is that a comic book character type. thing that lame comic book The Woodsman. issue one starring Kevin Bacon you my. friend should be ashamed 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 think I would just be bad. at the game 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 have you seen the River. Wild the one that started the whole. thing he was on the raft he was crazy he. was wild is that like a sequel to. Deliverance I actually think I have seen. that one okay but you SE was Streep in. it yeah she was the she was the mom of. the family she was a single mom I did. see that one okay well there you go good. for you 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 where 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 guys and girls random. people from movies just the guy from so. and so the guy from so and so and I try. to get obscure because I'm trying to get. give the Bacon number I'm trying to get. some high bacon numbers here uh the guy. from Candyman the scary dude uh four two. his name is Tony Todd Tony Todd and. Xander Berkeley appear appeared in. Candyman sander Berkeley and Kevin Bacon.

appeared in Apollo 13 I have seen Apollo. 13 there you go but Kevin Bacon wasn't. in was he like a bit part or something. um uh the guy who's going to play Bill. boo baggin in The Hobbit upcoming Hobbit. Martin Freeman or three let's go three. two Martin Freeman and Elijah Wood. appeared in The Hobbit Elijah Wood and. Kevin Bacon appeared in beyond all. boundaries Hobbit hasn't happened yet. you can't go into the future and bacon. IE something well it's been made it just. hasn't been released yet let's go uh. more obscure um the evil coach from.

Karate Kid you remember this guy we. actually saw him in La driving down the. highway in Malibu the guy who put his. hand through the window yeah that guy. Martin Cove is his name five two Martin. Cove and Elizabeth Shoe appeared in the. Karate Kid Elizabeth Shu and Kevin Bacon. appeared in hollow man I'm not going to. continue to 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 two at least 90% % of them in fact.

Kevin Bacon's bacon number is what zero. okay well not everybody and then if you. were in ke for Sullivan is one so 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 CU. Google is finding the direct line it's. going there it's not going in a. roundabout way it's getting there in. fact of all the people that I thought of. the only person I can think of that did. not have a two was the kid from Old. Yeller because I started going back to. the movies that we had to watch grade. school remember Tommy Kirk he's a three.

cuz he was in Swiss Family Robertson. with John Mills and then John Mills and. John Laughlin appeared in Murder with. mirrors and then John Laughlin and Kevin. Bacon were in foot loose the one guy. from in sync that nobody remembers JC. sha. shz shavez Chavez no know it's chz. whatever he's a two he's a two nobody. remembers it because he's got a weird. last name good for him and then Bronson. pincho you remember balky balky balky. from perfect Str is a two even the girl.

who voices Twilight Sparkle On My Little. Pony Tera strong she's a. two well this is just a perfect example. Scary Spice Scary Spice is a two of. Google taking using the hive mind to. take the fun out of everything you know. but you know Google takes the fun out of. everything by being too right Reddit has. come to the rescue once again and that's. not a nickname for me that's a website. that a lot of people go to and uh they. started a discussion where people trying. to find higher bacon numbers and they.

found two. people Usman. sben she's a. six um no he's a six this guy is a Cali. film director who has been called the. father of African film the father of. African film is six degre separated and. I'm not going to 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 them but it all comes. down to the fact that Diane West was in. Foot.

Loose okay good and then I found madora. or the Reddit folks found madora is a. six she is a uh 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 L I just made that up to. find somebody who's no okay first of all. okay so but my 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 that a lot you. guess that people how are we a three now. first of all unfortunately and this is. another we're not a two hold on we're. not a two we should be disappointed. we're not a two everybody's a two well. except us we're like kid from all Yeller. okay we're a three interestingly enough. we are not if you do Rett mlin or link. Neil Bacon number it won't come and. nothing will come up 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 uses indb now. first of all if you just put r mlin or. link Neil 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 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 not kid you can go to. Oracle of bacon. org and put us in there. you have to change it where you include. TV series but Rett and Link that's us we. were and rub some bacon on it Chris. Crutchfield was in rubs and bacon he not. only did he shoot it but he made a cameo. on the bench in the park with me he was. in blood done sign my name with Michael. Rooker who was in Super with Kevin Bacon. H well there you go than rub some bacon. on it we're a three we're also a three.

through the epic rap battle of Manliness. link Lauren sweetzer was an epic rap. battle of Manliness she was in Winter's. Bone with Jennifer Lawrence and 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 a four just by. watching I don't think so replaced as. the host of GMM what does this what does. this mean what hold on I got an email. here it's from. um it's from you yeah I'm using my.

executive producer email read it uh dear. read it out loud dear R link uh link. from R 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 uh I'll now I. will uh I will announce it to everyone. well it says it right here it says. Bronson pincho and uh man Sim ban who is.

known as the father of Africa he's dead. how could he be how could he replace us. well it's all it's all downhill from. here hopefully. [Music].