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again buddy god about that i'm sorry we're in brazaro land
yes we're lazy james went by fast went by fast eh i guess i think uh
having really poor short term memory helps because
basically on every every monday people like what do people what'd you do this
weekend i don't i have no idea what i do
on friday yeah something not very novel
apparently right red books we have an interesting show today though
if you're if your weekend went by kind of quickly and was interesting as well
maybe this will be an interesting cap to the end of the rest of the week we're
talking about uh uh people not knowing that they're talking to ai
yes which is a surprising amount of sophistication from google duplex but
we'll talk about blue everyone's collective mind at their i o conference
earlier this weekend we're also going to talk about boston dynamics who's kicking
ass on the other part of robot futures yeah embodied part oh my put them
together and it can talk and move uh also nintendo has shared some details
about its switch online service which is coolio and rumors about the iphone 10
plus sized version of the future this fall the big one the big ten i thought
it was already pretty big no we'll talk about that okay i'm not really into the
whatever that's fine can you see his feet
when he's in the boat when he's in the boat yeah okay let's uh
huh again no not kind of the the one leg you can
you can see his yeah you can see the side of his leg you can't see his feet though you can there
that was one of the best like mario spring noises that's my best sound i can
do that's pretty epic
uh right i really wish i could do the tube spectrum yeah
established jerky and Linus isn't here hahaha also gonna eat all the maple
bacon fresh but
just reset this facebook and then go back to here
yes how's it going everyone i don't have the twitch chat open which makes me feel
strange i'm gonna fix that
you wanna let's just get right into google duplexes i think that was the
coolest thing i've seen at least all year i think
okay let's just assume that no one's our source is and uh sc2 mitch on the forum
is sc2 mitch yeah yes and i assume that stands for starcraft 2.
i've just always assumed that i'm gonna go with it i like it i feel like i've i've i've
been told what it's stood for before but i don't remember but i'm gonna go with
starcraft yeah yeah anyways i will never
trust anyone on the phone that goes uh-huh mm-hmm
that's it yeah yeah so at google i o which is their
conference every year for developers as opposed to the made by google hardware
event in the fall which is for consumer products at google i o this week they
were showing off all the new feature tech um that they're doing it's way
beyond Android now and one of the things they showed is a future service that's
gonna be rolling out later this year that they called what the hell
why does something weird happen like out there every time we're on they're
listening to us yeah um they're calling it google duplex and the idea here is
that in the future google's gonna help you get stuff done that's the google
assistant's job and one of those things that you need to get done a lot of the time is making a phone call to book
reservations at a restaurant or book a hair appointment or something like that
and these are the two examples they showed so uh sundar puts up on the screen behind
him a real recording of a real call and
i expect that they did hundreds or thousands of these calls and they
probably cherry picked and it seemed like there was the the person that picked up the phone was the same person
on like a few of them that i heard oh there's more than just the two he demoed
there's more calls you can listen to i think i heard three but i could be
really not remembering accurately again we've got a similar short-term memory
loss situation at least two for sure i heard one where it was a guy calling in
yeah and i to a chinese there was a girl calling in to something at her
appointment or something yeah those are the ones for my client yeah that's what he demoed okay yeah yeah so
on the screen we just see kind of a visualization of a phone call you get a little the google assistant logo
representing uh the robot or the ai and
then just like a phone logo representing the person and the person answers the phone and
says you know this is the hair salon how can i help you and then you hear this
impeccably human sounding voice on the other side
saying hey i'm calling on behalf of a client and i'm looking to book a hair appointment and then a conversation
ensues and the result of which is a hair
appointment is booked and then i guess the user's phone would receive a
notification that says you have got a hair appointment so you can just be like
hey assistant book me a hair appointment at this place
for this time or between this time between 10 and 12 on friday and then a
few minutes later you're going to get notifications as yep that's done
yeah um someone in chat said luke is skeptical
as usual i think it will work as advertised service people stick to a
script uh i i am skeptical but i think it will usually work because of what you
just said yeah usually when you're calling into a restaurant there's a fairly formulaic way that you would book
a reservation that is absolutely true right it's not even necessarily that they stick to a script it's just there's
fairly basic information information that needs to be passed back and forth
and it's not that complicated that's right so that kind of that kind of feeds
into how the voice sounds because it sounds
really realistic it sounds more realistic than the google assistant
voice it even sounds more realistic than the google assistant
voice using wavenet which is another thing they announced at io wavenet which
was a system that was outlined in a paper by google's
deepmind like 18 months ago was finally being integrated into the google assistant so this is just taking in raw
waveforms and and making your phonemes based on that it makes the google
assistant's voice way better they demoed that and it still wasn't as good as what
we hear on duplex which makes me think that what we hear on duplex for the most
part is pre-recorded sound bites you can hear it sounds a little inhuman
when they say numbers and dates and times because that's kind of slightly
that's kind of turnkey they plug that in but the reason they would be able to use
pre-recorded sound bytes is because the possible set of interactions is much
decreased when you're in this kind of scenario where like you just need to do
this one thing and a lot of it is like let me check that for you or would you
mind going on hold for a second or something like that where you just need to like confirm so the amount of times
that's why i keep on saying that thing because the amount of time and
that's all you really need to say on the phone and that's often all you really say on the phone but the amount of times
the amount of times that the ai says it and does it very believingly very
believably believably you got it um and like it's it's it's really good the one
thing that i noticed was there's like a slight delay like a
little bit more than i feel like most people would take before they say something but not very much and i think
to counteract that like they programmed in some delay like when you answer the
phone and say hello they program in a weight a b because no one just goes
hello hello yeah yeah you wait a second right i know i might have been paid i
might have been trying to look for it they also programmed in um's i mean
there's gonna be some processing time too right yeah really cool so the reason
that they can do that is because when i'm talking to my google assistant i
could say anything to it and it has to be able to respond but
as this user on twitch says in this situation not only is the
computer basically performing a script a narrow
set of actions of possible actions but so is a human because the human on the
other end is just trying to get some basic information from you someone's calling in what time do they want to
come how many people everyone's complaining about the
contrast so i'm trying to fix it but i'm really bad i like that it's like an
instagram filter i'm really bad at doing anything related
to this at all so how brittle do you think this system is going to be when it
launches that's everyone's first complaint like what if someone just says
enjoying the weather we're having and it doesn't know what that means yeah
like if they need to do something and they're trying to carry on small talk yeah um
honestly there might be some stuff set in i wouldn't be too surprised if
there's some stuff set in uh to like basically cut those conversations off by
just using the yeah enjoying the weather we're having
well another difference is that during the demo the assistant never announces
itself as such it never says hey you're talking to a robot and a lot of people
got pretty angry about that but google has since the demo promised that when it
rolls out it will announce itself as as a virtual assistant so then you're not
even going to have those problems because right you know you're talking to a person but
you're not just going to hang up like you or me might when we answer our phone
and there's a robot there because it's business and you don't want to lose that
business you want that appointment to get amazing
most well most businesses probably wouldn't hang up
yeah i no i i completely agree because you want the business but i think it's i
think it's i didn't know that it was going to announce
that's a new development okay because i feel like now if i was a
business if i had a text version i would just want that
oh you mean like if there's just an online web form yeah yeah i would rather
that google just filled that out well well you would have to pay for that
though you have to build that that booking system whereas oh for sure but
there's a lot of like open table for restaurants yeah there's open table
there's like uh a lot of different services like this have
services out there that work with them to pair it together now i don't know if opentable like takes
something i can't see how they could take a cut
but like i'm sure there's some benefit there like maybe you have to pay them to
be on it or there's ads or something i have no idea there's another uh
angle with the virtual assistant announcing itself which is eavesdropping
laws so in at least a dozen states there's laws because it's
it doesn't have ears like you and me it's not hearing the conversation it needs to actually record the
conversation and because the you're recording the conversation there's
states where every party on the in the conversation
each party has to consent to it being recorded so either has to say this is a
virtual assistant can i record this
or maybe it can get away with just announcing this is being recorded and if
you don't hang up you consent out another particular laws for each
state i feel like that could work just you know this call is
being recorded please hang up if you don't want it to be yeah but then
or maybe you you would have already started recording so i think you already
broke the law so you'd have to be like this call will be recorded in however
much time please hang i don't know i don't know that's weird maybe they just won't let
it well it doesn't no it doesn't necessarily have to have the gun recording yet
they can just say that script before
it starts hearing that's what i was saying yeah so they might have to delay
when it starts recording right this call will be recorded in x amount of seconds
hang up if you don't want it to be and then start the conversation
i don't know how to fix this for you guys i'm sorry i don't know camera stuff
i've slightly moved all the dials i went down and people hated it i went up and
people hated it i don't know i'm sorry some camera person will have to fix it
eventually i don't know why rancho gets screwed up every week but it does we
have way more lights this time so for the demo when they when the virtual
assistant was calling all these people when they're collecting this data and they're doing like their test runs they
did presumably hundreds of these calls i think this is kind of like it might go
down in the history books because when
what other time like if we live in a future where there's a eyes that look
like us and think like us and are better than us you're going to be able to look back in
time and point to a scenario where yep that was the first
time that a human didn't know they were talking to an ai
yeah because no one leaked this no one was like i think a computer
called me like i never saw an article about that
you know like they didn't know they just they talked and they hung up i mean
there's been chat bots people could be talking to chat bots yeah there's the
touring test which again is chat based not
audio based but even in the touring test the
the participants they know that one of the congress the
one of the conversations they're gonna be having is gonna have an ai so like
they're looking out for it
pretty cool and the turing tests could be used with
chat with vocal chat in mind it could just be adapted for it
like i know it's a specific it hasn't been conducted like that though yeah i
know but like it could be you could be adaptive there's lots of ways to adapt
the imitation game because it's actually not that great of a test but anyway
yeah let's just go right into boston dynamics i think it's very cool i don't want to like play the audio on stream
because i don't know how well it's going to come out and all that kind of stuff but if you guys haven't heard of it
before now i would definitely look up google duplex and listen to the calls
because it's way more interesting than it probably seems
in fact if you have it's i mean when you're on youtube it looks like the
video is three hours long but if you it's probably only an hour and a half and if you have that time i would say
watch all of i o there was a lot of i want to there's a lot of cool stuff in
there not just duplex duplex was definitely the coolest but before the
end of this weekend i will have seen the whole thing that's like have you seen the bit with lens no oh it's so crazy
i've had almost no time i've been super slammed because now that they've got
such good image recognition they're getting closer to google's end game goal
which was information's coming at you without you
needing to query it with like you're walking down the street let's say you
have some cool glasses and you just look at a building the image recognition
recognition knows that that building is the washington monument and then at a
card comes up with the information about it
it looks so awesome and it's it's integrated with the ar kit so it's like
a nice distance away from you like there's nice depth oh yeah yeah so it
doesn't feel like it's like it's not just a window that comes up here it's like anchored to in space right it's so
sweet that's cool okay so now we have uh this well the
source is Linus's email thank you very much Linus's email uh and Linus wants to
talk about this one he does well that's why you send it to me
why does he care i don't know i mean you can just do it no that's fine
i can snipe them there's another nintendo one we can do i also don't with this one
no that's another Linus one okay the um uh
i don't care what we're talking about i'm freaking down i want to talk about uh boston dynamics sure because we're
onto this robot like kind of kick right now yeah so this again was sc2 mitch who
posted it in the forum thanks ma dude boston dynamics they're amazing they
make bewildering robots like new backflips and stuff they have a kick-ass youtube
channel you saw the door opening one right yeah yeah right it holds up it
holds the door open for the other one to walk through go to their youtube channel
it's so cool every few months they upload a new video what what the
progress they've made and two days ago they did that they uploaded two new
videos one shows the atlas robot can we play it
yeah we don't need audio or anything no yeah this is i want to put this i'm
going to make this into a gif and put it on my twitter and pin it this is so
inspiring oh no here we go it's grammarly
look at that thing
you can do it little buddy uneven ground grass
variable friction yes that's a different type i want the rocky theme in the
background yeah i wanted to go up the steps
wish he raised his arms up he does that in the backflip video
oh yeah yeah no that makes sense yeah yeah it's cute
yes so sweet but imagine how hard that is to run
i know kids who can't run that's amazing man the only thing is in
most of their videos when they have one of their robots walking around somebody
kicks it or pushes it with a hockey stick or something and they don't do that in this video and i would assume
that's because it can't take it yet because if they could take it they'd
show it yeah it also looks like uh those
are what do you call this linear hips
oh yeah so if they hit the side it'll probably just tip over oh yeah i see
yeah i wanna give me a figure eight here but at the same time it might be able to
the arms aren't so they might be able to teach
they're coming off but we just play that again and again like this it's the jump
i just want to make sounds
where is it
how you doing
i love that you can make that noise i've never heard anyone do that before i
really wish i could do the going down a tube sound not even i don't know if a
human yeah yeah
i can't even possibly the only reason why i went to two so people would know
what we were even talking about that's not bad i want to see that robot juke a
football player out you know like go this way and spin or something yeah
that'll be epic see it would need it would need multi-directional hips you're right
because just doing this won't work yeah so the second video that they uploaded
was their spot mini which is the smaller
quadruped dog-like one it's the one that you might have seen videos where it has
a weird ARM slash head slash whatever you want to call it that opens doors and
recycles cans in this video it doesn't have that
instead it has this extra little modular on the on the back this white box
and what you're watching is this thing navigate itself it's kind of
self-driving right now yeah it has a route that i believe it's
trying to do and it's it's just moving through space if you click forward in
the video they'll actually put a render on the side of the screen to show you the data that it's seeing
yeah there we go so
uh reading up if you look at the description of the youtube video what it
actually says is it's not uh inherit it's not going
through this as a novel situation they've actually
manually piloted the robot through this area first to teach it okay to map it
and then it goes through on its own after that
which is still useful i mean if you're but it's not trying to i don't think
yes but i don't think it's trying to follow so some people might think like
okay i've done this once so it's going to do like exactly step by step i think
it's trying to go to the same destination correct but it's still like
like they could have put a box in the way or something and it would be able to deal with it that's right it's not on
like a set path yeah it's just going through a known space it's like they
gave it a map but like it still had to get there which i mean self-driving cars
do have that yeah yeah
i just wanted to clarify because some people don't understand yeah that's
pretty sweet um i mean the fact that it has to drive
through first it seems like it would limit the applications if you're thinking about
like a conflict zone then you know you're not going to be able to bring
this thing in first but maybe you could fly in a small drone first or use a
different type of robot to or different type of vehicle to map the area it's
also this is also completely autonomous navigation
so like if you're bringing in another robot you could like you could use this
as some sort of like patrol or to check
your own areas or something like that and have manually controlled things to
check out areas that you haven't seen before right go back to the part where
it's on the stairs there's actually uh something you'll notice when it gets to the top of the
stairs and it wants to turn around again so
you can think we're looking at its butt right now right now skip ahead just a brush it's like
it's face right so it gets to the top now it wants to go
back
it wants to go down and see how it turned around it's like its legs are
optimized for kind of one direction so now
relative to what we were looking at before it was kind of going backwards down those stairs
now is he gonna yeah so he always wants that end to be lower face down ass up
i guess it's got those grasshopper legs yeah i want to see this thing jump did
you see that other one they have that's on wheels it rips around and it could jump like
four feet or something yeah that thing was crazy i love that thing i don't know
the name of that one but it's so badass these guys are the best are those that's
like murdered friends did you see that
do you see that maybe they're sleeping look at that oh god
oh they're all mangled that one is like ah i'm okay too many hockey sticks
yeah it's too hard why are you still kicking us no so okay uh i read that and
i was googling about it and then i was i came across this other articles like
hold up stop the press spot mini is going to be
on sale next year in 2019 you're going to be able to buy
one of those things oh my much i didn't know it doesn't say they don't say but i
didn't think these things were going to be for sale of the general public like
anytime soon so it says okay i can't wait for the the
like the casey neistat drone review of this we gotta get one
for sure no i'm just saying like it just seems like the kind of thing he would
buy we yeah like ride it around new york
somehow i think we should we shouldn't even do a sponsored thing we should just
outright buy one so we can have it around all the time i want to put my
lunch on it and like get it to carry it down the stairs for me and stuff
you can get it we've got to get brandon to rig a camera onto it
you can get different attacks yeah and you know have you ever seen it
do the chicken head thing where it can move its body but the
the head stays in one position yeah so
we could do that with it's like basically a gimbal
that would be cool like we don't need to hi you know the video where we were
saying we're hiding in another shooter we're not we're just gonna wait it out
spot minnie we're just getting the spot mini to walk around
things awesome last 90 minutes it's all electric obviously it's wireless um you're
probably not going to buy one when they come out they're probably going gonna be stupid expensive probably gonna be tens
of thousands of dollars yeah um and not really for you yet although it
will be probably for governments and pmcs mostly it's gonna be a consumer
product eventually that's their hope a couple years after that so right now there are 10 spot mini prototypes in
existence i guess not counting the murdered ones
and they're hoping to make one like a total of 100 by the end of this year and
then sell them next year so they think it'll be useful for security patrols or
helping construction companies keep tabs on what's happening at the building site
so security overnight okay and security patrol pretty much and
you can get specialized attachments for different types of jobs yeah
i like the idea of it auto following someone with a camera
that's cool paramilitary company what would happen
if you put little roller skates on each foot private
just like just like how you troll the normal dog yeah yeah putting socks on it
i don't want this please stop
that's super cool though uh what else do you want to talk about
uh you wanna talk about this tickets thing yes this is kind of uh
a low-tech thing yeah but it's it's a problem that
plagues a lot of people that are probably watching right now here's the problem with tickets
the thing there's a big economic problem with uh with ticket sales free economics
the podcast did a sweet episode about this actually when you go to buy concert
tickets there the price of those concert tickets
actually isn't driven by normal capitalist market dynamics this is
supposed by wm groom ak on the forum
yeah who's a baller and i like him even more now that i know he's a ninja nails
fan like i am because anyone who likes science nails likes it a lot
anyway when you tickets are basically too cheap
because artists want all their fans to be able to come and see them if they
were priced accordingly like just by supply and demand they'd probably be a
lot more expensive and they are a lot more expensive when people are able to
scalp them which they're able easily able to do
with bots and so in order to reduce the number of bots scalping tickets uh the
band nine inch nails or trent resiner has made the decision on their upcoming
tour this fall to not sell any tickets online at all they're going old school
you have to go and line up and buy them and you can't even line up overnight or
anything like that you can't line up prior to 8 a.m you have to just like
show up and it's like a mob of people and then organize yourself in a line or
maybe even a lottery system they talked about some venues maybe the
employees just come out and go okay like you you you you're at the front and it's
just like random because just because they don't sell online
doesn't mean there won't be scalpers right yeah scalpers can just pay someone
20 bucks to stand there there is a limit of four tickets per
person hopefully that will reduce the scalping
okay i don't think that will completely solve it it won't but it'll it'll make it dent
yeah it's it's it's interesting this has been
really frustrating with like so my my dad and my group of friends have
been going to pax prime since i was like 14 or something or 15 i don't remember
we've been going for a very long time when we first started going you could
walk up and go to the desk and buy a ticket and
walk in because they're oh wow there wasn't enough fans and now for pax west
like pax prime as as i know it um they
sell out in seconds and like they do this crazy
queuing thing and there's limits per person and like they do ip lock and like
all this crazy stuff doesn't matter completely gone immediately and there's
an insane amount of scalping just outside of pax there's like many people
scalping stacks of tickets every single year and there's an insane amount of
scalping online there is a really nice community
online where there's a bunch of different communities that sell them at
cost okay because it's like oh i bought too many my friend can't go whatever
that kind of stuff i suspect those communities have a whole
bunch of people in them yeah just buying them and scalping them
yeah but but i do know a lot of people that have gotten tickets at cost that
needed them from those communities so it is working to a certain degree so that's
cool but like it really sucks when
me and my friends who have been going since pax was really small and like
barely a convention are now struggling to be able to go even
though we've been loyal this whole time it's just like ah man that kind of sucks
we still make it every year we somehow make it but it's just well you could
always pay a bunch more yeah yeah we i don't think we've had to do like oh we
have to buy like two single days or something like that we've never had to
buy like entire sets of tickets for every person
from scalpers we've never had to do that there are other approaches rather than
going full stone age that have been experimented with one of
them is basically kind of verified
you buy your ticket you pay for it but you don't really have it until you show
up with your identification with the credit card that bought the
tickets then you're let in and they print the tickets for you at that time
there's problems with that though because you cut you want there to be a secondary market you know you don't you
want to be able to buy them the week before because you just found out or
like you're visiting that city yeah um you want to be able to buy online like
oh nine channels fans are die hards people travel i one's not a concert by
the way i've seen them five times once at a concert i was
there and there was a lady who had followed
them across europe she'd seen them like 28 times she had a stack of picks four
tambourines she got an autograph from him and then got that autograph tattooed
on her body like she was insane people want to be able to see oh they're
not coming to vancouver but they're going to seattle i'm going gonna buy a ticket for seattle
yeah but i'm not gonna drive out there and get in an online
on the hopes that i can buy a ticket and then drive out there again for the show
yeah there's really no like great solution
um and it sucks
i love the quote here speaking of sucks um what does he say here
we decided to try something different that will also likely suck but in a
different way we're hoping many of you will be happy with results while some
may do what they always do and about it yeah like there's and there's no other
way to say it he's trying something it's probably not gonna completely it
definitely won't completely work uh i think i think for them they're just
gonna have to try to like weigh the noise it's trade-offs yeah and just like
see how much less or more negative their
new solution is it's not they're never gonna have like a perfect solution there
was one other solution that's been tried i believe by ticketmaster called
verified fan you ever heard of that no
it's i believe they take a certain number of tickets or maybe certain
sections and what you do is you have to register like ahead of time to kind of a
community forum that'll be on in this case ticketmaster's website where you
have to do all these different things that signal that you're a true fan
you've got to engage with so many posts you've got to like
i think that's basically it like you're on it's like a process okay to to verify
yourself it's not just i log in see that
that almost makes me kind of happy and like something that i've wanted from pax
for a long time is like okay so i've bought tickets to pax west for like 12
years it would be nice if you knew that
yeah but so let me buy another one they have to know they scanned you in yeah or yeah but
then like maybe i have like a profile and yeah scalpers
could still do this but i was gonna say like i sign in at the event and i'm
showing you like yeah i'm showing up every day this is me you can check me
every time if you want like make make some process that you can go through
that gives you some form of elevated account well even what you just described would introduce
quite a bit of friction to scalpers because if you're scalping 10 tickets
and then all those people arrive at like the same time and you can't wait in line
10 different times you might it would be harder though whatever
introduces more friction and even the waiting in line 10 different times thing
though like if you have to verify it by id and stuff
they wouldn't be able to they'd only be able to scalp one set of tickets
i actually got screwed by that ones i bought we spent life over no i think
it was fine 560 bucks for red hot chili peppers tickets
for four of them and i bought them on craigslist and they were printed out and
they were black and white and the guy was super sketch
and we didn't feel good about it so my buddy was also texting the same
person and after i bought them he continued to text them hey they're still
available yeah they sure are met up with them again and busted them
didn't end up we we got like some collateral from the guy but he ended up
just foregoing it like we got his phone and stuff but he is because we're like
we got your phone now you have to like give us a refund and he's like okay
i'll go get money out i'll come back like tomorrow kind of thing and he never
did and the cops didn't care at all so we just had his crappy phone after
and like and his debit card or something like that you took his phone from him
okay i wasn't there i was i happened to be traveling i was but my friends who
also were part of this and who are also larger than i am
they confronted him and like had a stakeout and stuff it was cool but um
in the end basically the deal is they could have sold these tickets a dozen
times and actually ours could have worked
if we were the first ones who showed up yeah whoever gets there first and gets
this ticket scanned the rest are inactive after that
so that was a drag what a guy it's just so
junk i i don't like it when people when people prey on like the average person
in general but it sucks too when someone's like so excited for something
and they're gonna like they're gonna fork out the money for this band they really want to go see and they're like
yes i finally get to see them in concert and then they get like
screwed at the door and so bad that the person scanning their ticket is probably
like you're a terrible person you know what i mean and then you finally get in there you're
like okay that all sucked but we're here and then
the whole show is just actually someone else doing this in front of you yeah
holy kill yourselves
i don't want to be ageless but young people are getting pretty bad at that
i've seen people i've watched people just like
just continually hold the button down and contribute each one to their story
and then watch it themselves and then okay here's the people if you're the
type of person that likes to take cell phone recordings for your instagram or
snapchat or just for video at a concert
know this every other person in the world when
they log into their snapchat or instagram and they're watching a story and that
story is a dark room with crackling music
they skip it man nobody watches it nobody you're ruining the experience for
everybody for nothing including you you scheduled enough too almost certainly
there was there was there was one time i went to a blink 182 concert i've been a
i was a ridiculous fan of blick 22 for a really long time nice um not their new
stuff take off your pants and jacket change your life yeah for sure and
animal of the state and like uh what was the album before that
they had one before that they had two before that so you like i thought and um
their first one no that was their first one where they were like a big deal oh
yeah they also had a different drummer well that makes sense because he
really catapulted them yeah travis is kind of
incredible let's go to the discography
yeah those those were great like oh yeah there's the album cover with the big the
aux's butt yeah the rump yeah i like the
old punk stuff whatever i finally got to go see them in concert was so freaking
stoked travis gets like pulled up into
the air his drum platform gets elevated on these like like big chords and then
they make it vertical they did yeah okay and he's like strapped into the thing he's fr it was the one of the coolest
things i've like ever seen and i did like pull my phone out but i recorded
like low the worst video that's ever existed just
because i was like i know it's going to suck but i want to just like be able to remember it
and that's yeah so i don't think i sent it to two questions did you say did you
watch that video again i did actually again and i deleted it immediately uh
because it was completely useless do you think recording it hampered your experience no
okay because again i didn't i didn't put it for my face
i didn't put it in front of anyone's face man i went to the like pulled it
out between a song okay and like it was it was yeah i
didn't there's a way to do it and i think everyone gets one the first one's
free i went to this folklore ballet in mexico
city once and this someone phone recorded that no i wish they had
ipad
i wish okay if i was a dictator if you live in one of those dictator countries
one upside is you can make sweet or whatever silly law you want and if i was
a dictator my silly law would be if you see someone taking a photograph or a
video with an ipad in public you are completely allowed and culturally
sanctioned to walk by and slap that thing down to the ground and they
can't get mad they can they can look you ah
caught me slipping i hate it bench okay this lady recorded the entire i mean
entire i mean entire like an hour and a half someone stopped her
because wouldn't that even hurt you like not even alive i would have i was seething but there was a language
barrier my spanish isn't that good okay i didn't even mean you i meant like
someone who was running i don't know we were at the kind of the top
okay there was no i talked to her after the show though i
embarrassed my wife i went up to the lady she turns out she spoke english
she wasn't mexican actually and i i said i just wanted you to know
that you ruined the entire show for me you ruined it
and she was like what
what i was on crutches and stuff so when i
first i got stabbed a few days before i i i i
crushed up to her and so she was and i was like excuse me and so she was just
like how can i help you like hello who are you
like i hate you where did you get stabbed in an uber in
mexico city oh yeah by the driver
no he drove me to hospital oh no like we were uh
we were stuck in traffic it was broad daylight near a tourist area sorry just
you can't just like drop that and yeah it was a minor stabbing we are stuck in
traffic right when you're in gridlock you can't move and the mistake we made
was that our Windows were down so they see a bunch of tourists Windows are down
i'm sitting in the back and suddenly this there's a guy talking the driver at his
window so being in south america i assume okay this guy's telling us
something and then i see that they're like arguing and like he's got a knife and i'm like
oh the driver is getting robbed and then i'm like oh we're getting robbed and by that time
his partner there was two of them had come to the other side
and but everyone had their Windows down to different degree mine was like all
the way down my buddy and i was behind the driver my buddy in the passenger
seat his window was like this much down and my wife's window was
completely up and she was behind the driver
excuse me that was something to do with the power was it not
okay anyway so my my friend at the front seat
uh one of the assailants put his hand in that window gap and was like groping at
his pockets to try to get his phone and meanwhile the guy on the driver's
side came to them stopped at a light yeah we're stopping gridlock traffic
traffic and the other guy came to the back and was like yelling at me and my thought was
like why don't we just get out of the car and run away like they're not gonna chase us there's like a crowd of people
everywhere like let's just exit the vehicle while they're like trying like
yelling at us so i moved over toward my wife um
but couldn't open the door because it's like locked because the car is moving
and basically i didn't i was probably this
far from him from like the window like i'm in the middle seat and i couldn't
understand what he was saying but i now know it was like give me the stuff where
i'm going to stab you what he did was he reached he didn't
want to hurt me and by the way this guy was like 19 tops he reached in and like
started stabbing at my legs and he got me just above the knee and it went in
like a half inch like nothing and uh it didn't hurt it it kind of
feels like it sounds if that makes sense kind of just like
that
okay and i was just like oh god damn it so then i grabbed a backpack that we had
and i threw the backpack at him and that backpack did contain a dlslr
camera the one only piece of cashmere i owned
and don't own since like a sweater like a two pairs of sunglasses we got like a
decent haul and by the way insurance never ended up claiming it because it
was one of those situations where your insurance would go up and it wasn't worth it so we got that but he didn't
get our passports oh i had just engaged or just become
engaged i proposed my wife like the week before and the photos like i took a photo of
her right after i took it after i proposed to her and she was like
teary-eyed and had the ring so those kind of sacred photos were gone which
was probably the biggest drag but we still had our passports
and i just got my wife to give me her sweater and like tied her on the leg and then we took it took us like 45 minutes
to get to the hospital because you're in gridlock oh it was so chaotic man it was
like traffic we had a police escort but they were still inept we went to the
first hospital and decided that wasn't a good one
like we were outside the hospital like are they gonna come and like
bring out something and then like 20 minutes later like we're just gonna go to another one like
okay we got to drive down the wrong side of
the road with like police sirens blaring and stuff and this uber is just like woo
it was insane yeah it was pretty cool my cousin uh speaking of i've never been
stabbed but my cousin when he was in high school there was another
kid at the high school i guess who his gang initiation was to stab someone god
so he just like walked up to my cousin after school and stabbed him my cousin
pulled the knife out and stabbed him back hell yeah which is like not really
smart what is that like wounds and stuff that's badass but it was uh yeah my
cousins are insane he's got that fight response that's sweet killer instinct
good for him i got the the fright response the flight response
god damn it just take the badge well i couldn't have ran if i wanted i
don't know i did one yeah it felt it felt like you had the like disappointed
and disappointed response i guess like why
is this what's happening just i think the stupid thing i appreciate that he
stabbed my legs instead of like your chest it was so
yeah he could have just been like i don't value human life like there's
your neck or like yeah he i mean he could have slipped and got my femoral
artery but um the damage that was incurred was worth
it for the story right like right now i've been you have a scar yeah cool i'd
show you but i have to take my pants off and the camera won't even see it so yeah
it's not worth it yeah twitch is gonna be like get off the platform it's just
it's too much stuff okay so the show's almost over oh yeah sponsors we should
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just the reaper one that one have you had that one yeah yeah i did it
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it wasn't that spicy but it was spicy it was
spicy enough you'll remember yeah yeah do you have are these from no they're
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they say and this is totally a thing that staring at monitor all day can be
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i don't know i think yours look pretty good uh i'm very hit or miss with glasses i
don't think these look great on me but i those ones look great on Colton yeah i
have had spectrum glasses that have looked good on me too um and i think
those look good on you um i was wearing these for a while before i got like
prescription glasses were those the specific ones these are the ones i was wearing at my desk for a while and
sometimes i wore them just to look cool yeah they're pretty sweet is it working
i think so uh they have low color distortion yeah that's totally thing
there's there's a few of these that will like really hardcore make it look like
everything's yellow yeah these don't and there's there's you can tell
anything technically yeah there is technically some but it's not very
noticeable like white stuff still looks white there are there are some
competitor glasses that i've worn that do make things look yellow and these are
super light which i like because you can just
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maintained all the computers around and you can turn that into a
business um i did it for a few little shops there for a while and whatnot i
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okay alliance doesn't comment i was gonna say i don't intend to make it yeah
he's not coming let's do it so we'll put him in the thumbnail though still
you know get more views that way i wanted to do when we both did we both
did this like weird ARM thing at one point in time and i was going to use that oh when we were talking about boss
dynamics maybe that was it yeah i don't remember um i just remember being like i have to
mentally log that i was like somewhere around three quarters through the show
uh where is it so nintendo shares new
details about its nintendo switch online service which is going to launch this
september so cool it's kind of good it's kind of
bad um the the reason why i'm going to say it's
kind of bad is because as you may or may not know
the online right now is at no cost
and this will make it so the online is at a cost and what might that cost be we
have it written down here we do uh a year for 25 bucks
24.99 so just just about two bucks a month
for an individual okay that's canadian pricing uh yes u.s pricing is 20 bucks
so u.s pricing for one year is 20 bucks u.s pricing for three months is eight
bucks and us pricing for one month is four bucks but canadian it is 25 10 and
5 respectively there's also family membership pricing so that covers eight
people and they can even be on different nintendo systems and that in canadian is
45 bucks a year and in america so if there's a way to use
that with just you and seven friends that you're not actually related to you
might be able to that'll be sweet it'd be really cheap people do that all the time with spotify and
and snazz right yes all that kind of stuff i am totally not on Linus's family plan
for something similar to that um
what can it do well it gives you a few things uh it includes some nest games
like ice climber legend of zelda balloon fight soccer tennis mario i love when
games used to be able to be just called soccer or tennis yes
mario bros super mario bros dr mario super mario bros 3
and donkey kong and 10 more will also launch with the service will be allowed
announced at a later date so that is completely novel that's totally new for
those games there's never been before i've been online play with those games is that correct
that's what i understood uh
any that well uh okay so with emulators
you could well yeah well you could co-op what can you
do with an m yeah but so any that originally supported multiplayer will
still support multiplayer and will support online multiplayer which is cool
because it'll be like a really easy way to do so doing online co-op with
emulators has always been a little jank but doable um
i don't think it's very known if you cancel your subscription if you'll still
have access to those games but i doubt it uh back to the multiplayer thing that's
definitely new it's what i've got written here is depending on the game players can engage in online competitive
co-op or multiplayer or this is probably new for all of them take turns
controlling the action yes so this was uh this was something
that i i noticed as well which is really cool where i think they call it like
past the controller yeah it says friends can even watch each
other play single player games and pass the controller at any time so you can
watch your friend play a game through the switch that's that's a cool
idea because i think with twitch we've we've like sort of lost something
which is like i was playing a game with a friend the other day and we both
stream on twitch but we didn't want to stream at that point in time and i commented where like
i i wish i could see your screen right now because like i was i was dead in a match
and there's no spectate yeah yeah so i was like i wish you were like streaming
but i guess just to me what if and that's like not super a thing do you
think when once you pass the controller you still have control of where the
controller goes or do you think if i pass your stuff i pass it to you yeah i
want to be able to yank it because imagine how fun that would be if you're watching ninja or you're watching your
favorite streamer and they're like hey i'm going to the bathroom and then they just pass their controller to some
random person in the stream and buddy's just like oh
no two million people get to watch them play fortnite
fortnite but a switch game yeah yeah that would be pretty sweet that'd be really sick actually i don't think it'll
work in that way uh but if i remember correctly mixer does that microsoft
streaming service you can do stuff like that but i could be super
extremely off base there i i've i know there's some form of thing that can work
that way but it might have been a specific game that someone happened to
be playing on mixer it could be completely unrelated i don't know uh but
i think that idea is super cool i like the idea of sharing the controller too
so like if you're like uh dude look i'm so stuck on this freaking boss oh yeah
and then you like play the boss for a while and he's like yo give me a shot
you just like pass the controller over and he gets what about a new form of smurfing
you're like yeah man 1v1 me and then there's like someone spectating you're
like send it across there it is are we live there's the
thumbnail uh that's the end of the show we're
gonna stop now you're behind the mic oh
it's technically not if you don't want it to be we went live a little late
oh okay can i come in and do a topic yeah sure all right i'll go home
you can't take these though thank you for keeping my seat warm
oh it's more oh that is a warm season you could say it's a warm ass seat oh my
because it's an assy so do i get one of these shirts
yeah you can have one if you want nice i'm actually pretty excited i designed it myself yeah i saw that
the writing is like precisely messy it's like perfectly messy thank you i like it
thank you i like the show too i wanted to say when i first saw this in person
riley even asked me about it he's like so what do you think of the set i was like ah
but it looks really good on camera cool good did oh did riley jump on the show
at all at one point oh oh i kind of thought he was gonna to uh to come in
and sort of talk about working here and stuff he may have been he can take me
out if he wants uh that he can't because he carpools with james okay
oh okay james is his ride well then okay bye james and riley but
uh do we have do we have any cool topics to talk about uh we tried to leave some
for you and then you didn't show up i was i was busy i was busy running a
laptop at five gigahertz oh
okay is it ridiculous or is it reasonable oh it's not reasonable okay
do you want any spoilers is it the too big
uh it is it involves server fans
oh no i will okay you got to do a follow-up video where you go and use it in public
and just see how people react it involves an external variable voltage
power supply that's about this big totally you should still do it it's
louder than a hair dryer totally i would like
i would love to i would i would watch that video oh man you gotta name it
uh and then like bring the it back by like using the
blood in public it's terrible um anyways
we haven't talked about have we talked about renting out your graphics card for
mining we left that let's do that okay so the original article here is from
tech radar and it was posted by apparently no one on the forum james
was apparently on it morgan mlg man uh a
german company has announced games from space which borrows your GPU for
cryptocurrency mining purposes and then gives you free pc games in return
so you pick any game you want watch a progress bar slowly tick up as your GPU
is used for the company's mining efforts
the faster your graphics card the quicker the process towards getting a
new game so um here's a really important thing to
point out games that you pay for on your
electricity bill are not free
yeah but i think a lot of kids are gonna think they are
this is totally gonna be kids using their computers to screw over their
parents yeah or people in dorms or
whatever else so it's i will give games from space
credit for being devious enough to figure out one of the
biggest challenges of cryptocurrency mining and that is power
and actually cooling as well so by distributing the computing around the
globe it's effectively kind of not their problem and everyone who's running on
their network of computers is going to be contributing such a small amount to
it that it's it's not really going to be like it's not going to be noticeable
um yeah some of the games are actually newer big name affairs like pub g or
grand theft auto 5. so with a gtx 1070 either of those would
take you about a month of mining you can get dirt three in a day
apparently now obviously you won't be able to mine
while you are actually playing games and from my experience with software like um
uh nicehash
it might not necessarily cooperate that well
when you launch applications that want the GPU back like i've that was actually
why i stopped running folding on my gaming system
because i was running into weird issues even if folding at home was
technically giving the GPU back yeah yeah i was still not not running
correctly so i would i would watch out for had the same problems at our house i
would watch out for pretty much everything about this
what else we got yeah um so there's
there was a few topics where are we the the that
qualcomm is finally making a smartwatch
chip so this was originally posted by edward the weeb on the forum hey
james didn't tell you you're not getting a ride and that you can't come and say
hi uh okay well let's just burn through
this really quickly and then you guys can ask riley some questions in twitch chat
does that sound pretty good yeah okay so qualcomm is making a smartwatch chip ai
wear os watches that come out today have little option but to use qualcomm
snapdragon where 2100 from february 2016. some have argued this is holding
the entire where os platform back it is pretty slow qualcomm has announced a
watch focused silicon this fall alongside a flagship device with several
partners set to release wear os watches based on the new chips by the holidays
the three generation processors will be designed from the ground up for a no
compromises smart watch experience
uh so better battery life smaller watches apparently designing the chips
work more effectively with always on displays and a smart watch is first and foremost a watch it needs to look good
it needs to be sleek it needs to look good when i'm looking at it these are all just
looking good this is a quote nothing to do why would you say that yeah that's
nothing to do with the chip all right thank you very much oh also rumor google
preparing pixel smartwatch probably related to that last one
really fast Linus you are okay i'm sorry are you are you okay
nine inch nails to fight ticket bots by not selling tickets online
yeah we we already covered them oh all right i covered that one because uh
james thought you wouldn't want to talk about it so this guy works here now i
didn't want to i didn't want to make you stop doing the actual news part well no
that's okay we have a new news show because it's true no but a lot of people
are concerned they're like don't stop doing the WAN Show it's not going to stop someone just complaining about
central park but he he misspelled the misspelling
he did central prac
it's a it's a meme for the people you can you can make it your own
i want to put an r in there at the beginning that's fine
central repack
it's riley yeah um this is a i'm i'm having a hard
time with this mic in the middle yeah you know what why don't you no no no no no no no please no i'm gonna sit i'm
gonna sit there i'll sit here yeah i'll say i'll take
i'll take a back seat i'm just a boy
this is a small town boy the last time i was on this show i was a guest someone
says are you only hosting shows are you doing other things at LMG as well
well i'm writing
what's this what are you looking at uh the audience oh the set they're on the
camera over there you gestured over here yeah oh i thought
you were just doing that later yeah i mean i built yeah i guess well i didn't build the set i mean i sort of did a
bunch of people built it i've been working on this set for the past like
months i've been trying to give you some credit man can i say that yeah i've been here
for like a month and i've just been building the set and uh doing a bunch of
stuff with Yvonne and and uh edsel
yeah it was it was hard work guys but i'm here
uh everett asks were you okay when ncix went bankrupt was i okay
yeah actually weren't you gone already yeah i was down
by the time they had gone bankrupt i had left and started with uh secret
informant sorry no no that's fine i don't care you can talk about secret performance yeah um so i went to do that
and then i was doing that for a while and then um
we started talking yes we did someone said his language was
born he's asking someone's asking of lions he's asking you specifically if
Linus is terrible boss why well you know i've only been here for a man i
can't tell yet
if i no matter how i answer that question i feel like it's going to seem insincere lions is a great boss
no lions is a terrible boss yeah they both sound like lies
is the show still a work in progress kinda seems cobbled together
it's it's it's definitely a work in progress still we're still like uh
tweaking stuff you said that on social media the other day so like if you guys
have suggestions um for how to change it definitely let
us know we will read them and we will take them into account
yeah it has its own twitter handle um what is it at techlinked yt
or uh i think it's that technical i think it's that time i just the ed technique
mazzio says please sell a t-shirt with that exact design
yeah we're doing it i think that's the plan right it's actually an already right now
yeah yeah yeah it was up really fast yeah you got to go to the LTT merch
store because TechLinked is still two-bit mode to have its own merch store
so it's no longer like uh Linus and i make
a meme on when and then four months later uh we have a shirt yeah like fast
now memes turn into t-shirts immediately yeah yeah we actually have a dedicated
graphic designer so uh there's there's been honestly there's been so many
moving parts getting this show started getting him in here getting all the
design work done getting the set built all the negotiations i really wish i
could tell you know most of the story behind the the uh ncix tech tips
acquisition effort right yes okay that is strongly under the nda
just so you know but it's too long of a story to tell anyways 10 out of 10 how
or like out of 10 how crazy is it i mean
it's insane i had no
when we were when we filmed the uh when we filmed the announcement video
when we filmed the announcement video yeah i wrote the skit and then i wrote
the out the the end part and i'm like okay Linus fill in the ncix story and i
thought it was gonna be like a couple paragraphs or something it's like an essay it was like four
pages long or something i was like what you can't do and then
he's like no we're doing the whole thing stinky pete said great to see you are
you continuing the ncx persona i.e quick bits or are you trying to differentiate
the show from the past i mean central park survived
so did quick bits well i didn't know what else to call it
what should i call quick bits if not quick bits
rapid small portions
rapid fire small porsche news stories bits
no i don't know if you guys i mean we uh there are some other names
already but it's supposed to be a spiritual successor so like
we had i saw some people leaving comments like wow you guys really
captured the essence of netland and i'm kind of sitting there going well oh crap
we've got the same host and writing staff we've got the same
um other host and sort of troll
and you know really captured the essence how did you do that how did you make sure it
was so true to the original of all the original people basically the
original yeah yeah i don't know
uh what does central park mean
you don't want it damn questions
i do want to answer it i just feel like
it's just kind of a long story so it's kind of a lengthy it's an inside joke
originally on flight of the concords that me and my friend uh said all the
time and then i started saying it on netling daily and
uh comment every video from there on yeah it's not actually a very long story
i know i did well i was just like can i do it can i i guess i did apparently uh
quick bits through and through someone said you will do uh you said you will do
not only tech but until now it's only been tech what's going on
i will not do only tech where because it said stem news i remember
that from the video oh yeah so that's more of a bet hedging
yeah strategy you know like if if there if some kind of like biomedical thing
comes out we don't want to end up in a stupid
argument with people in the comments that that's not tech
because when you come when it comes down to it everything is tech the wheel is
tech
so that was actually a change that i made to the script where i kind of went
look let's not paint ourselves into a box it's about stem that way it can be about
basically anything anything if someone finds a new prime number we can talk
about it games doesn't really fit in there though oh
what if we say it's stems stem and gaming stigma this news stems
from
geez
moving on immediately what do you hope to learn or improve
working with Linus speaking of uh yeah uh well
i've already learned to kind of like fly by the seat of my pants
as in like do it now do something get it done
you know yeah you came in on your first day didn't have an email address
didn't have like uh any passwords for anything didn't actually have an
assignment because basically we had put we put the whole thing off for so long
like we were riley's start date was supposed to be like many weeks ago i
think i think i was looking at the emails and they started like
february or march yeah yeah and so what happened was we kept thinking we were
gonna get the channel and then we were like okay here's your
start date and then we were like oh we weren't going to get it but we were just
going to start our own channel and you were like just stay tuned i've
got i'll get you an update and i'm just like okay cool and you're like okay yeah
now this happened i'm just like okay yeah you're right um
the amount of people that got uh chat banned immediately after you
made that joke was insane there's like a whole block oh no it's above this but
just like oh yeah um uh
uh um uh uh anyway
so uh so there was a whole thing where we were just like okay screw it
we've got some pre-show preparation to do like a set and you know figuring out
branding and all this stuff uh riley can help with that let's just get him in
here and and honestly it was a it was a
good move it was actually nick's idea because it really put the pressure on me
to start making videos with this person
that i'm paying at the time we hired a writer and host to build a
set maybe not not the best decision
i did learn a lot of my management strategies from ncix
so i came in here and it was like coming home um people are asking will you do
lan show too well well i do want show too i mean uh i
guess i mean that's up to you guys i don't know we actually haven't really
decided um how we're gonna best utilize riley i think i'm screwing it up right
now so if you're taking that as an example yeah i mean
we we brought him in as someone who's multi-talented like someone something
that some people wouldn't know is he was basically running the entire ncix
channel by himself by the end of it and like
arguably it wasn't its finest you know moment
but rude he was literally by himself writing
filming editing posting
actually actually posting it to youtube
answering comments about uh yo guys what's going on with my order what is
that whole place imploding what's going on um in the comments like
so so we brought riley in knowing that we wanted to bring back
a spiritual successor to netlink knowing that the best way to do that
would be to like bring back the the sort of tag team
that i think um nothing against anyone
else who ever worked on netlink but the tag team that i think
refined the netlinked format made it what it was and was kind of the golden
age of netlink in terms of audience reception in terms of viewership yeah um
well originally because net linked was net linked weekly that you did on the
ncx channel but it was like a longer show and it wasn't really
i guess you guys edited it a bit but like it was that was before i came lunch
yeah and then when we came on we wanted or like okay we're gonna make it a daily
show and then like and then you guys took it totally cereal and then i came
in when i was like a contractor and i didn't really care anymore
that was that whole casual feel of net
linked was not manufactured it was because i actually didn't give any cares
i would roll in on a friday that's that's definitely the feeling i get like
30. we would bang out all the videos that
had to be done for that week yeah like four at one time and then i'd be like yeah it's two o'clock boom see ya you're
out of there um and i'd come back here and host WAN Show often late yeah um
yeah and then we're we're kind of like hey Linus uh so we wrote this funny bit
uh could you put the head on and like do the voice for the thing and he's like no
i'm doing this boom okay guys
and i'd like get stuck but that's not that's okay i'd get stuff wrong right
like i'd read the script wrong but i would just like keep going through it because i was in a hurry yeah um and
that was where that kind of stuff and people liked it mm-hmm so
so we ended up yelling at people from off screen and stuff yeah that was all
that was actually the only feedback that i gave them on their writing
was during the show during the show telling them stuff that was a stupid bit
don't do it okay what's the next one
so so so the goal was to to to that
seemed like the best way to i don't forget where i was going with this but it seemed like the best way to
to to make this happen was to bring back sort of what i see as sort of the heart
and soul of it and then just inject it into something new and i forget what the
point of getting there was i'm gonna take a few different questions and lump them into one yeah how do you guys
expect the channel to perform some people are asking comparatively to
techwiki but i don't really think that's super relevant um
but like the like how do you expect the growth of the channel to go
i feel like i'm a bad person to answer that question you guys know so much
about okay i think this is general to so my expectation for the channel was um or
not my expectation my goal was as sort of a a salty
well sort of um
thing my goal was for techlink to basically
immediately have as good or better viewership than
the latter episodes of TechLinked on the nci xcom channel
anything beyond that i consider to be a smashing success and as for the sales
team anything above a hundred thousand views
a video should be quite easy for them to bring in sponsors for
if they can bring in sponsors on a consistent basis we will we will
comfortably cover um riley's
uh ex bradley's cost and the extra editing horses that we need and my lunch
um um we don't do free lunch here but good
try so as long as we can bring sponsors and
we will comfortably cover our overhead is basically where i was going with that
even even like the square footage the equipment like all those things that you
have to factor into the cost of the show and i mean if if your standard was that
they outperform like the later episodes of netlinked it's already done that so
yeah i think there's a bit of a honeymoon period going on right now though well but it could continue
forever perfectly it could continue forever perfectly i
mean honestly i think we're going to get there i think i think that
not i think we've actually gotten a lot of feedback already from community
members saying there really was a gap there
net linked had a purpose this this source fed style
technologies thing and i was kind of surprised when we stopped and people
were like there's no other like really quick like
tech news shows about like you know centering on like pc stuff and there
isn't and a lot of people are trying to hit the 10 minute minimum and all this kind of stuff yeah but we're not
interested in that we've never cared about the 10 minute minimum a lot of
people we've released videos that are 10 minutes and one second or whatever and a
lot of people are like aha in the comments gotcha and i'm kind of
sitting there going are you you don't understand how this works the 10 minute
mark is only important if you run a mid-roll adsense spot
and we don't and we don't so it doesn't matter oh your ride is
leaving okay leave you can go um thank you for joining us thanks for having me
yeah this is cool it's been fun um right i remember where i was going
with that he's very multi-talented so we brought him in knowing that he was
multi-talented thinking that we would just find
uh we'd find like a natural on camera i know everything that you need to do on
like a set thank you thank you
um so right now his time is not completely
occupied just by writing TechLinked and hosting it and
in some cases he won't even be hosting it it's only a three times a week show
and i'll probably be hosting somewhere between a third and half of them riley
will be doing between a third and half of them and we might have other people
jump in james has expressed interest Colton has expressed interest and we'd
like to have it actually be quite quite diverse um maybe even luke would come
back and host that would be cool i'd like to especially on certain topics so
so yeah so so i have two things in the chat that
i'm going to pull from archival stuff one someone was like oh my god luke is
back that's confusing um
i've been here the whole time pretty much uh the other one was is
riley luke's replacement that's been asked a whole bunch of times um so
right now in terms of actual hosting on LTT
i'm on the fence you will see luke host another LTT before you will see riley in
fact how's that going good uh it keeps changing
right i can probably just talk about it yeah sure yeah so i'm doing nintendo labo um
but i've changed how i wanted to review it a couple times i don't think i haven't
seen a single review of it online that i think this is gonna throw some shade has
done a very good job because i agree um
and because of that i'm now like okay that's
a lot of pressure because i'm thinking no one's done a very good job of
covering it so now i need to not screw up you've been in that position before
and i think yeah i'm trying to think of an example um we were really late on was
it the rift we were really late on something that
you like cared about a lot might have been vibes i think it was one
of those it was it was a vr headset i think yeah and basically i think we
talked about it and we were like okay well then in that case yeah i think okay
i'm remembering this even better now uh i remember talking about it and you were
like this is going to take a long time and so i took on sort of some more quick yeah
quick videos to fill in the gaps because i think you spent like almost an entire
week on it yeah so it's been a little bit hard because this week we've been
we've been pushing for v1 which won't mean anything to you guys also i'm
hiring yeah also i'm hiring for Floatplane so
i've been going through resumes and stuff also i've been trying to do this lab oh thing and i was like i'll be done
early in the week and then i was like done most my notes and i was like it's
been out for a while let me watch some reviews and see what's going on and i was like oh
okay all right this changes things because when like
when everyone else's stuff is like again i'm pretty certain
really surface level and really missing the point in my opinion for most people
um it's it's yeah i have to take it to the
next level i think so yeah i should be ready relatively soon i'm expecting next
week so i'm traveling for like the next two and a half weeks
or something like that uh oh have we told people that scrapyard wars season
seven is coming no i don't think so we are shooting we
actually have a shoot date yeah we have a sponsor locked in finally we've got a
shoot date um it's going to should we should we tell
them the the the the challenge i mean i don't know it it's off the top
of my head i've been actually been emailed it i just don't remember sure
okay yeah yeah so it's gonna be a classic head to head
me versus luke no teams no gimmicks
except for one gimmick
neither of us gets an internet capable device oh
oh i remember that oh i remember that oh that's so sketch
okay okay okay previous seasons we've been heavily relying on craigslist
hardcore or like buy and sell trade apps
is it still possible to build a decent gaming rig what other
rules are we including i don't know we're gonna have to kind of
we'll have to hash that out between the two of us a little bit because i'm assuming like uh the one the like ace in
the hole is not allowed i don't remember the name yeah you can't go to free geek yeah
yeah no no no or like and we're also getting rid of free geek
similar situations um i think if you and
i both do no research which is what i've
done um and we don't look them up online i
don't know any i don't know any either so we i think they're fair game at that
point like go to the library and get a phone book
i wouldn't give me any ideas if i were you
all right so we're gonna keep to ourselves
what our ideas might be for
that's pretty crazy it's gonna be really hard okay yeah that's gonna be
interesting luckily the the one thing i was actually really worried about for
this coming scrapbook wars was GPU prices it looks like that's all resolved it's
coming back down so i think we dodged that bullet because that was like
actually going to make it impossible or stupid they were going to be the
crappiest scrapyard warriors pcs yet yeah
we would have had to do or do like the like student computer
CPU benchmarks only neenan 262 in the
chat sorry just uh blowing the dust off my
local computer store yeah exactly
man this is going to be pretty dumb um oh
yeah all right well i think that's pretty much it for wancho thank you guys
for tuning in see you again next week same bat time same bat channel bye
um oh we should we should let people weigh in on whether they want the wan
show to stay here with the white uh orange and white or if we want to
move over to the hex wall yeah we haven't painted the hex wall yet though
i think right now there's like a lighting problem or something oh yeah it's it's garbo it needs to it just
needs to be uh it needs a light on the floor to even it but even like
your face and we're also going to have some shelves here yeah like there's
going to be some stuff there like yeah no there's some there's some should
we straw for it right now looks like people are spamming hex wall but they're also getting banned people want oh um no
no we can ask them next week okay am i even here next week hex wall will be
really dark yeah that's something to consider well we're gonna paint it uh
red white and blue okay not like america style red white and blue like um i
forget how we're planning to do it like white background and then like red and blue hexes or something okay uh but like
bright ones i think what we should do is on the WAN Show have a screenshot of
here and there and put like both of them on screen yeah
and then be like pick one we could do that all right see you okay bye
i just realized i'm sitting on the wrong side yeah