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If you like us, you probably have fond memories of the iPod. While it was

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revolutionary, it wasn't even close to the first MP3 player on the scene.

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These aren't iPods. These are weird old MP3 players. Our buddy DankPods flew all

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the way from down under to the great white north. Come on. What are you

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doing? To show us the weirdest and rarest MP3 players made by PC brands.

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You know, it's not coming out. We got Intel. We got Creative. We got

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Lexar. We got Dell. Iomega?

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Is that a Zip drive? >> Yeah. This is some weird stuff. >> Iomega's dead, aren't they?

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Are they Oh. >> I don't know. I'm going to I'm going to silence.

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Wait, isn't that the secret one that we shouldn't be showing? And a secret one

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that's from Linus's childhood. >> I think. I could be wrong and Linus

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could get here and be like, "I never owned that." And I'll roll with that as well. Any reaction's a good reaction.

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Wow, we're so prepared. >> [laughter] >> Let's dig in. Right after this word

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safe and secure. This one, I swear there is no paper trail at all of this thing.

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When I was looking into this, there's one JPEG and it's just this part heavily

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cropped. If you try and search up Lexar 128 MB, it will show Lexar 128 GB things

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and then that's it. Like, there's nearly no information at all.

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>> What are we looking at? This is a MP3 player, right? >> Oh, baby. Mate, that's this is back when

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megabytes meant something. Inflation's gotten everything. So, 128 MB. Carrying

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music wherever you go. >> Everywhere. >> And data wherever you go. >> Maybe. Yes. And I hate that the the

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price got scratched off. Someone was very ashamed about what this cost back

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in the day. Cuz I remember like my first flash drive was 32 MB and it cost a

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fortune. I I believe this is either late '90s or very, very early '00s. We're

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going to have to find some paperwork in there to see what actually what it was

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actually made. >> Yeah, Lexar, they're they're still going, aren't they? They've been through

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a couple hands at this point. They were Micron actually at one point for memory

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SD cards. >> happened with Micron. Yeah. Can you believe this is like 20-something years

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old? Pushing 30 and everyone said no.

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You know what's crazy to me is this this storage comparison on the back here. 2

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hours of music for 128 MB. That's 88 floppy disks. But I bet you that's like

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64 kilobit like MP3s get a bad rap from these days cuz I

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I've got some of these that are like used and they've still got Slipknot on

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them from 1999. They sound horrible. Like early MP3 compression was garbage

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and I bet you to get that many hours of music on 128 megs, it was just

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It was probably 128 kilobit. That's what the

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standard was for a lot of stuff. Some of the lower quality stuff was 96, but

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yeah, I you you hear the symbol ring and Easy-to-use one-button navigation, which

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has never been true. Having one button is not easy navigation. Can you believe

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no one copied this? After this, no one no one replicated

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>> Everyone knocked off the iPod. >> But who wouldn't want the egg nipple interface?

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>> [laughter] >> Do we know what the year macOS 9 or above, Windows Millennium 2000 XP? That

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to me sounds >> So, it's at least something >> Turn of the century. Yeah. Uh for context, the iPod came out in 2001, the

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very first one. The way I found this was by searching MP3 and scrolling for 6

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hours and then it appeared. I wasn't actually looking for this.

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>> Breathe the air, you're wasting it. Actually, no, don't do that. >> [laughter]

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>> I hope it's super greasy. How's it feel? It's in good condition. It's not like

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rubber, right? >> No. Still got the protective bit over the screen, too.

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You can do a peel. A single AAA. It's not for retail trade. I don't know if

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there's an expiry on it. >> Doesn't look like it's leaked. No, it looks like it's in pretty good

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condition. >> Wow. So, it's better than new Energizer batteries. You want to test it?

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>> Yes. 0.6 volts. Hey. What's it meant to be? 1.3, I think. 1.2. Okay. That's not

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so bad. >> it's there's still something hiding in there. >> Before we get into the documentation, we

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got the back case made in China. Wow.

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>> We got a clippable lanyard, a USB

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adapter. >> That'd be USB 1.1. Is this a Why is it

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IT MIGHT BE >> OH. IT'S GOT a USB on it, so this is if

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you you have to put it into like a recessed port. And we got a pair of

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headphones. Dirty buds. Do you like treble?

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Dude, I love it. >> those. Why is the end all dirty? Looks

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like a chocolate bunny. >> cuz I thought maybe it'd be like rubber reversion, but it's not.

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>> was from the battery leaking on it. Oh, yeah, put it in. >> not going to work. >> No, put it in. You can try. Don't listen

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to him. Do it. Do it.

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We can grab a Yeah, let's go get a real AAA. What's this? That's the headphone

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That's where the HEADPHONE GOES IN. >> [laughter]

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>> IT ONLY goes on one way? It goes on. Oh my goodness. I tried [laughter] to put it on. I hope I hope it's got music on

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it. >> [gasps] >> WHAT? IT TURNS ON. No files.

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>> Okay, no, there is no music on it. Well, it's got a backlight. Yeah, it does have

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a backlight. It's like the Indiglo watches. Look, there's a music notes.

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How many settings you got? Normal. >> Normal. Rock. Jazz. Classical.

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Pop. That is your V. Leave it on boom. We

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want boom, baby. Backlight. Contrast. And the menu is everything.

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It's not There's no like settings submenu. >> We'll put music on it in a bit.

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>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to we're going to get these loaded up. I want to see the Intel one now.

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Get away from me. This genuinely is one of my pride and joys of my nugget hood.

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This is the one I always wanted to bring. I didn't even know they tried.

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And at 1999, they heaved this thing out. They really cared. Like, every big PC

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company got in way before Apple and none of them had a hit at all.

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>> If it wasn't an iPod, no one bought it. That's the rules. >> The Intel Pocket Concert.

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>> This one's got 128 megs, too, but does 4 hours. It's also got

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FM radio? That's sick. >> Durable aluminum, very low distortion.

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>> I'm sorry, what did you call it? It's spelled that, okay? I don't know how to tell you this.

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>> sure it's aluminum, though. Bro, are you Intel? This is full of stuff. Like, this

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is loaded. >> is a big box. Like, also look at the like

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And then they really tried to sell it. >> going to explode and at you. Well, they

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had to cuz this is how you knew about it was it was on a store shelf. Wow, look

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at the back. >> Actual She looks kind of scary. >> She's scaring the heck out of me. 11

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megawatt high-output audio amplifier with a total harmonic distortion

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plus N. I don't What's that? Of 0.04%.

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And look at this man, he's gone for a run. Wow. Hopefully it comes with these

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headphones cuz they look All the wrapper on the back. They look something else.

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No, it's not as good. It's like IT'S A OH. THERE THEY [groaning and screaming]

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ARE. WE GOT A DISK. CRAP. OH, it's sealed in

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its own Okay. God, there's so much packaging. Look at the size of this

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manual. No one showed the upgrade key. Someone's going to take that and I won't

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be able to upgrade. >> Should we call Intel customer support?

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>> [laughter] >> I think we need the software, the Intel audio manager. And it's telling us how

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to put in a CD-ROM, which I guess was a big deal in 1999. Operating vehicles, do

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not use your player and headphones while operating a motorized vehicle. >> Or riding a bicycle. Yeah, that's what

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people do. >> I was going to [laughter] say. With noise canceling now. Also, LOOK AT THIS.

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>> [laughter] >> WAIT A MINUTE. SO, THE CRAPPY LEXAR, WE

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GOT an actual Energizer and Intel is just putting in generic rubbish

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batteries. >> How do you think they could afford this? That card stock, huh?

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>> Yeah. And also the security tape. >> Wow. See, like genuinely, this is a

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brand stinking new. Oh, no. Look at all the foam from the headphones coming off.

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Like, if you handle those, it's going to go everywhere. See, I'm not going to

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breathe this one in cuz this actually is like This is gross, actually. This is an

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issue. Okay. We have What is that?

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>> We have this. BELT CLIP. OH.

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YOU KNOW, IT ACTUALLY FEELS PRETTY GOOD. >> IT IS METAL. It is It is aluminum.

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>> Aluminum. Aluminum. Oh, it burned a hole

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in the paper.

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>> [laughter] >> A sweaty, greasy spot. >> That's acid etched onto the disk.

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>> If you're only using 150 megs, you're only going like that far. Could be full

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of free music. And it's going to put all that smuts all over the headphones. It's

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a nice cable, though. Feel that. It's a nice cable. I know a place you can get nicer ones. Well, not right now. They're

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>> [laughter] >> But lttstore.com, eventually. >> They're so good, you can't get them.

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Dude, it comes with a preloaded digital audio file entitled guided tour.

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>> We need to hear that. We have to hear that. We have to listen to that. Digital

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firmware version 1.0. It's a USB composite

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device. And then it went blank. This is meant to be SET UP D.

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>> [screaming] >> IF WE SHOW THIS ON SCREEN, SOMEONE WILL figure out what that says. Good. We'll

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put it in the comments below to boost engagement. >> Would you like to receive free

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personalized music and >> Yeah, yeah. Put this on the internet. I

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hate that there's no progress bar, even though most progress bars are a lie. We

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went past the progress bars. The progress bar finished and then we got a please wait. OH.

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OH GOD. 60-SECOND STUDIO TOUR. .MP3.

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Put it in. Okay. Yes, success. Yes, Intel audio manager. First name.

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You know, we both had the same idea. Postal code. 5000. OKAY, THAT'S GOOD.

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YES. CAN WE Let's put the AUX cable in it. Welcome to the Intel Pocket Concert.

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Oh. I can studio tour. Here you go. You've got hours of mind-blowing audio.

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>> What's happening with the doors? What was the line? But this is the minute

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tour. Just a few highs and lows

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of really big sound. >> with the Keep Keep THE DOOR SHUT. WE'RE FILMING IN

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HERE. And we thought brain rot was a new thing. Thanks to

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the Intel Pocket Concert.

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Who kept opening and closing the door? It's like What was with the door? There was a little knob on the left side of

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the player. Bump it up one click from the circle to the dash. That turns it

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on. Play, which you're doing already, I know. Click the big play button on the

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face of your He's self-aware. Watch out. Smelling like

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Trouble with poets. There could be content match issues with this.

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>> Highwire by The Clarks [music] something. >> This seems like a genuinely good

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product. >> Yeah, it got good reviews. This I'm less

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enthusiastic about it, but maybe maybe our next one will be genuinely good,

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too. >> This one's fun cuz it looks heavily used. It looks like it's been thrashed

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through oblivion. It's not. This baby is brand new brand new brand new. No no

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I'll get I'm [laughter] get I'm get I'm get No I'm getting I'm getting to that. I'm getting to that. Just something to

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note about old MP3 players, everyone bought iPods. Literally it was like 80%

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market share. It was like the Beatles, never to be done again. But everyone

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tried to compete with it and it's like competing with like your little brother or something who's like really famous.

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Someone looked at this for years, looked inside and went, "Uh uh that's that's no

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good." And then they wrote iPod on it and chucked it in a [laughter] shelf.

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Like they can't escape the the association. It's like they call every

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game console a Nintendo. Well, I was I was going to say this reminds me of when Microsoft paid the NFL a ton of money to

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use Microsoft Surfaces and they kept calling it the iPad.

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>> Cuz they're assessing the play on the iPad. >> Yeah, this one's great. This is an iPod

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mini clone essentially. Except for the interface. The Pocket DJ. But for like

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20 years people have opened this box, looked in it and went, "I don't want

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that." Ah. [groaning] Feel the head Ah you know actually that

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feels pretty good. Uh-oh, stickiness. Yeah, it's got the rubberized ends on

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it. I think this is 2004. This is like iPod mini days and man pirating was out

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of control. >> Metallica was on the phone with Dell like, "Dell I'm NOT TO STEAL. TELL HIM NOT TO STEAL."

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>> THIS HAS Microsoft Plays for Sure certification. [laughter]

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5 GB. Holy smokes this is huge. >> And look, the birth of mini USB. That's

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actually a nice cable if it wasn't a absolutely obsolete standard. It feels

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nice in the hand. It looks decent. >> It's got Phillips screws in it. Should I

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get my LTT precision screwdriver from lttstore.com and just Dude, you're such

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a shill that I love it. WE ARE PLUGGED IN. WHOA. [screaming]

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THERE'S LIGHT. Taking a while to start. Maybe the the drive is all bulked up.

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It's never >> It's not I don't feel it moving. That's not good because we should. I hear it.

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It is moving. I hear it. Honestly, it would have booted by now. How do you know? Because I have a lot of these old

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MP3 players. >> [laughter] >> It's it should have worked already. Give

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a round of applause for the Dell logo everybody. That's it. I'm opening it.

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Give it You guys sent me a DankPods one. Look at this and you put DankPods on it.

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Green. It's like no one wants you to get in this thing. Okay, we've lost some

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plastic. Wow, yep that's the absolutely tiny little micro drives. The takeaway,

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please don't steal music. All right, we got two more. This is the one I'm the

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most excited about and the inspiration really for bringing this here cuz this

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is some proper wacky PC stuff. Freaking

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hip zip. These are click drives I believe they're called. It was like

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spinning magnetic media's last gasp at fighting off solid state USB drives. And

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uh they're horrifically unreliable. Most people who've handled them, they just

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don't work. But 80 MB each. 80 megs.

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>> Huge. That's like a tenth of a CD. And

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infinitely times more fragile. Like these are so slim and like I mean no one

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bought this, can you believe that? No one bought this at all. Uh you got to

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show the techy stuff cuz this is a tech channel. The system requirements. The

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techy stuff you need to know. Hey, it comes with two discs which is very Oh,

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they're 40 MB. Oh, that's why it's 80 MB. They were lying. They're 40 megs

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each, not 80. It also doubles as an external 40 MB pocket zip drive. This

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thing's such a nugget. >> [laughter] >> This one comes with a digital audio

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player carrying case. You're breaking it. Crack it open.

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Nothing. Yeah. One. Cable. Two. A plug that

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doesn't work in my country. Thanks for purchasing this Iomega product.

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There's my chippy. It's out. Oh, and tiny little cassettes. These are

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so fragile. This is not good.

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Enhance. Whoa, we got the sporty ears.

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>> What are they called? Lab Labtec. >> They've just stuffed it with non-biodegradable everythings. Like

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don't want that to collapse. Hang on, someone's ripped into this. But it was

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sealed. I cut it open. It was in plastic. Who would want this? Now that's

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that's how it's meant to feel. Considering it has no media in it

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currently, feel the weight of it. >> That's chunky. That's

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Stop. Comes with two discs hatefully. OmegaWare. OmegaWare. Yo, we got another

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key for Music Match Jukebox. Oh, cuz we lost the first one. People stole it. Now

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that takes me back. The old translucent cable. Oh, and we have another

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proprietary end dingle on it. So it charges via a like barrel connector.

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Yep, cuz USB couldn't do it. Early USB couldn't charge first devices. Why the

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first iPod used FireWire. >> [gasps]

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>> Iomega. Whoa, it's got a little it's got a

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throber. Insert a disc. Do it. Which way does it go? Yes. Yes.

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Okay. All right, turn it off. >> It turned off. Why? [music] This is so common for most of these ancient nuggets

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is that they don't do anything. Have you noticed all of these are silver and

00:14:34.680 --> 00:14:41.680
blue? That was the late 90s early 2000s. Updating the registry. Oh my god. Your

00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:45.120
kernel has been compromised. >> One or nothing. There's songs on this?

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Get out overbuilt speaker in here. But look at where the freaking headphone

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jack comes out. >> [laughter] >> They like forgot they like put all the other ports and they're like, "Oh sh

00:14:52.560 --> 00:14:58.880
Hey. These work. This is playing off of

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spinning garbage. Well, now you've done it.

00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:07.120
Oh dear. Did it just die just then? Still the audio's not outputting. Yeah,

00:15:05.800 --> 00:15:12.425
these are these are known to be unreliable, can you believe? Think she's dead, bud. I don't know. I'm still using

00:15:10.160 --> 00:15:15.959
it. Adam Adam, stop. >> [laughter] >> Stop it. Just stop it. Get some help. Do

00:15:14.880 --> 00:15:19.040
you want to try and plug it in and see if it detects? Yeah. Yeah, it says it's

00:15:17.959 --> 00:15:23.040
connected there. It doesn't say it's connected. >> zip's no more. We heard a song on it.

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That's that's pretty that's pretty epic. >> Oh, you got to have it connected when

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you reboot. OH. OH. OH. IT'S THERE. IT'S

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THERE. CONGRATULATIONS. Used 16.7 megs.

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That's rough if there's four songs on here. It is actually still alive.

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>> Do you think the other CD has other stuff on it? Let's CD. Disc life status,

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100%. Describe my son. 16, bit fat. The

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fact you got to restart the whole computer and have it plugged in.

00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:54.839
There's my chippy. Oh yeah no it just it recognizes that there's nothing there

00:15:52.920 --> 00:15:58.160
now. This is hot swappable. That would be amazing. It found it. Hot swappable.

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We've got the same song. >> It's exactly the same. The Swingerellas.

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Dick swab. [laughter] Excuse me. They give you the same stuff

00:16:04.760 --> 00:16:10.721
on both discs cuz maybe they're guessing one of these is going to BREAK IN POST.

00:16:09.160 --> 00:16:12.741
AH. >> [music]

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>> DICK SWAB. >> [laughter] >> WOW, it still works. Good for it. That

00:16:17.400 --> 00:16:22.959
was awesome. I love the hip zip. Okay. Both of these did We got a good 30

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seconds out of each of these Yeah. before they compound into oblivion. I

00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:29.920
like how nearly everything is broken immediately.

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Straight away. I swear I've heard Linus bring up that he had one of these as a

00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:37.400
kid. Maybe I've just dreamt that and made it up and it's just absolutely not

00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:42.200
true. But I swear he's mentioned this and this was the best music dingus that

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you could get at the time. It's like six gigs and it's got a bite. Look at that

00:16:43.959 --> 00:16:50.959
dumper on it. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, that's chunky. Oh, Linus is here.

00:16:49.800 --> 00:16:56.000
Should I come in a little faster? >> That was great. That was great. >> Such a good segue. So we've been looking

00:16:53.760 --> 00:17:00.000
at all of these whack little MP3 players. That one totally worked. That

00:16:58.079 --> 00:17:04.800
one totally lasted for longer than 20 seconds. You seen these? Whoa.

00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:12.040
That's sick. >> It's basically the guts of a floppy disc. The last gasp of spinning magnetic

00:17:09.520 --> 00:17:15.760
media versus flash drives and whatnot. I love it. It's yours. FireWire and

00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:18.880
everything. Yeah, I don't want any more so that's that's yours. You can you can

00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:22.040
have it, mate. Thank you. And you got something else, right? Yeah,

00:17:20.520 --> 00:17:26.360
well I mean you've hidden you've you've taken it away. Where's It just Close

00:17:24.120 --> 00:17:30.320
your eyes. Apparently so the He assures me that this is a gem from your

00:17:28.040 --> 00:17:33.480
childhood. Is it a Narsa Lyra? >> I've got one of them but no. Did you

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have one of these? Oh god. I didn't but kids with more

00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:42.880
money than me did. >> These were so expensive. These were like

00:17:40.800 --> 00:17:46.960
>> And this is brand new in box and it's yours. You can have it. Yeah, where are

00:17:44.760 --> 00:17:50.120
those kids with more money now, huh? How did you get this?

00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:54.280
>> Well, the trick is no one wants them. Right. And so all of these were maybe

00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:58.960
10, 20 bucks each about 6, 7 years ago when I first found these. They were just

00:17:56.600 --> 00:18:04.480
being dumped en masse and sure enough I get it and open it and it's still brand

00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:07.440
new in it. Dude, it supports EAX. Yes.

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Six gigs. Like back when this thing came out, that was an ungodly amount of music

00:18:10.520 --> 00:18:15.880
storage. 8 megs of D RAM buffer. Wow, that's an investment that paid off.

00:18:14.600 --> 00:18:20.800
>> get that out of there. This guy's got RAM. Some things have aged well, some

00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:25.400
things not so well. 6 gig hard drive, 100 hours. Okay, that's pretty good. 4

00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:28.880
hours of battery life on four nickel metal hydride batteries. Yeah, you only

00:18:27.320 --> 00:18:32.960
need 100 batteries to listen to all of your music. You're right, it's totally

00:18:30.840 --> 00:18:35.960
new. At least I hope so. I've I've made sure not to pick through it.

00:18:34.320 --> 00:18:42.880
>> No, it's it's brand new. This tape has never been opened. 15 watts. WHOA.

00:18:41.080 --> 00:18:46.960
You can go with our with our other ones. >> Yeah, don't put them on your head. You will never get all these bits out of

00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:50.840
your ears. Oh dude, gold plated tip in every way. >> like foam actually like holding up? Oh

00:18:48.840 --> 00:18:55.400
wow, these are really uncomfortable. No, come on. My I can't get my ear to

00:18:52.840 --> 00:19:00.800
unfold. There we go. Gosh guys, I got to pull it through there. Hey bud bud.

00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:03.760
Just like the commercials. Linus

00:19:02.040 --> 00:19:07.960
They stay on real good though. That's a heckin USB cable. Yeah, I could make a

00:19:05.679 --> 00:19:11.440
better one. True spec cables. So lttstore.com.

00:19:09.080 --> 00:19:14.440
>> Can you have them be in stock? You visit us once a year.

00:19:13.159 --> 00:19:18.400
>> my own way here. You walk up and YOU'RE JUST LIKE

00:19:16.800 --> 00:19:24.120
WHOA, IT'S GOT A CARRYING CASE. NO, I THINK THIS IS A CD wallet. It's got to be. No. Wait, this is when having a CD

00:19:22.080 --> 00:19:27.080
player was normal. Not only that, but I would imagine part of the reason that

00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:31.120
they would go with a form factor like this was that like my snowboarding

00:19:29.360 --> 00:19:35.000
jacket for instance, I noticed it had been a while since I

00:19:33.040 --> 00:19:39.159
upgraded because I went to stash my gloves somewhere and I went, "Oh I have

00:19:37.040 --> 00:19:44.640
a Discman pocket." Does have like a headphone out that YOU YEAH, THAT'S

00:19:41.600 --> 00:19:47.360
WHOA, DUDE. Back when they used to put

00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:51.480
durable ports on things. Got that big chunky B if you know what I'm saying.

00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:55.040
Man, this thing is full of inputs. You weren't kidding. Volume control over

00:19:53.120 --> 00:20:00.480
here, headphone jack, and then you've got two line outs and a line in. So, you

00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:05.120
could use it as like a desktop DAC. It seems like that's the idea. Yeah.

00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:11.040
A something. Yeah. Is this an IR receiver? Yeah. So, if you had an older

00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:13.640
tape deck or if you had an amplifier,

00:20:11.040 --> 00:20:18.120
you could literally hook this thing up and then you'd have a remote interface

00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:20.840
to play MP3s on your home stereo setup. >> I didn't think of that. I didn't

00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:23.400
>> Yeah, well, you're not as old as me. I mean, I'm 36 now. Yeah, that's not as

00:20:22.760 --> 00:20:28.160
old as me. >> Oh, okay. Well, you're aging wonderfully then. It's all the infant blood that I

00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:32.280
consume. Oh. And other things that won't make the cut. Woah!

00:20:29.600 --> 00:20:36.040
>> It comes with two sets of batteries. >> That's 8 hours of listening.

00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:38.240
>> WOW! IT IS, TOO. I mean, we got to try it, right?

00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:42.840
>> Yeah. I can't believe Creative still exists. What do they even make now? I have a

00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:46.560
Sound Blaster card in my PC. I bet you bought it years and years and years ago.

00:20:44.560 --> 00:20:50.600
Months ago. Really? You just bought a sound card? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:54.920
I realize who I'm talking to. So, this is going to maybe come across a little

00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:58.800
bit. You are aware of USB DACs, right? >> Yeah. Yeah, okay. PCIe is cool. And you

00:20:57.280 --> 00:21:02.640
have to rip your PC apart to get in there? It's fun. Okay. I'll install all

00:21:01.040 --> 00:21:05.680
of it. It's not my computer. Blow it up. >> Just hit okay. I don't want the jukebox

00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.720
tutorial. You're going to need to sync this to something. Register now to enjoy

00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:13.640
a host of benefits. >> Quick, do it. Woah, woah, woah, woah.

00:21:10.760 --> 00:21:17.280
Use only Creative nickel-metal hydride batteries.

00:21:14.320 --> 00:21:17.280
>> No.

00:21:17.360 --> 00:21:23.560
Yeah, this dude loves 3D. What are you guys talking You know, I

00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:27.960
These are not sound isolating at all. Crap. What about 3D? 3D music videos.

00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:32.680
Oh, yeah. Like, what was your first music player? My first music player was

00:21:30.560 --> 00:21:36.560
a Discman, obviously, cuz I'm older than you. But, my first I also had a Discman.

00:21:34.840 --> 00:21:41.240
My first MP3 player, though, was actually an RCA Lyra, and I sprung for

00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:46.240
the 64 MB model because the 16 one was like

00:21:44.120 --> 00:21:50.960
comically small. It existed only so that they could say it started at $99 or

00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:56.440
whatever the pricing was. You wanted the at least the 32, but you wanted the 64

00:21:54.160 --> 00:22:01.520
MB model. And I'm not misspeaking. Megabytes. 15 songs. But, hey, that was

00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:04.720
an album. And it didn't skip. It didn't skip. >> Didn't skip. I remember this actually

00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:08.720
sounding really good. It's meant to be like beyond CD quality sort of thing.

00:22:06.679 --> 00:22:11.360
Yeah. Do you remember using these? NO. I'VE NEVER YO! THAT'S actually 3D

00:22:10.800 --> 00:22:17.400
rendered there. >> It's a tutorial. I'm turning this beast on. Ah, but you're not using the

00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:19.120
official Creative bats, man.

00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:23.400
I'm sorry, it's yours. It's yours. Wait, they want you to charge the batteries in

00:22:21.360 --> 00:22:26.560
the device? Oh, it's the charger as well. >> Before first use, charge the batteries

00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:33.480
continuously for 12 hours. Ensure the unit is powered off during the first charge. But, I've seen devices before

00:22:30.679 --> 00:22:37.160
that just will not turn on unless they've been plugged in. It's more of a

00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:40.440
new paradigm, but Uh-uh.

00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:43.360
Where's yours? So, we can just fire one up and have it work so we can actually

00:22:42.040 --> 00:22:47.120
look at it. Nice gift, huh? That's yours. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Maybe I

00:22:45.800 --> 00:22:51.960
just Maybe I put these in wrong. Maybe I put them in wrong. I did. I did. No way.

00:22:50.280 --> 00:22:55.560
That's embarrassing. Hate for that to be in a video. No,

00:22:53.520 --> 00:22:59.560
I'm not even embarrassed. Okay, look at this. Okay, which side's negative?

00:22:57.080 --> 00:23:04.685
>> Oh, no, I see what's happened. Okay. They flip, but the the springy bit

00:23:01.520 --> 00:23:05.000
doesn't. That's That's maniacal.

00:23:04.685 --> 00:23:10.679
>> [laughter] >> I've never seen a spring not be the negative terminal. Okay. No, it's got to

00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:14.640
be This is actually devastating. >> [laughter]

00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:20.480
>> I was really pumped about this being brand cuz like this would actually be fun to have on the desk and it actually

00:23:18.080 --> 00:23:23.200
uses a music player cuz they sound good and it lives on a desk

00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:27.320
and it's You found the other one and it's dead, too? We must be doing something wrong.

00:23:26.120 --> 00:23:31.679
Yeah, that's it. I remember being annoying to get going and once I I held the play button for 2 seconds. Held it

00:23:30.679 --> 00:23:37.000
for 4 seconds. >> Did you put the Creative batteries in here now? I did. Let's plug it in. Let's

00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:40.640
see if the computer detects it. This is everything that's included on it. You

00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:44.280
get best You get several albums of classical music. Probably cuz it's free

00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:48.040
license and no one's copyrighting it anymore. [laughter] And Woah!

00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:52.400
>> Lots of jazz music. >> it was just all the stock music on it.

00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:55.960
Several contemporary songs. Raygun, isn't that the Australian breakdancer?

00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:58.720
You get the entirety of Frankenstein on audiobook. [laughter]

00:23:57.560 --> 00:24:04.280
No, no, don't. It's copyright or something. Huh. One last thing I want to try. Oh, hey, I

00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:07.560
have a gift for you, too, actually. This is a lot more expensive than it looks.

00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:09.760
This protects you from the 5G. I can feel my DNA being cured with every

00:24:09.320 --> 00:24:15.240
second. >> Yeah. >> This is excellent. If you just want to like ironically put that on your stuff

00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:19.000
for a little bit, I guarantee you that people will notice and they'll comment

00:24:16.760 --> 00:24:22.800
cuz this is like the brand name one. >> Are they comments that I want? I don't

00:24:20.840 --> 00:24:28.160
know. They'll maybe be funny. Well, Thanks. You're welcome. One inanimate

00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:29.280
object to another, so.

00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:32.280
Remember this thing you didn't have in your childhood? You still don't have it now.

00:24:31.801 --> 00:24:36.387
>> [laughter] >> That's not a conclusion to a video, I don't know what is. Well, it's been an

00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:40.800
honor to waste your time. >> [laughter] >> Thanks, mate.

00:24:39.040 --> 00:24:44.960
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