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Hey look it's Luke. Hi Luke. Hello. Nice. How's that delay anyway? Should be, um, okay. There it is.

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I mean I can check. It's pretty cool delay, sexy delay. Yeah. You know? Here count to count to three. No I won't.

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Okay. Fine. I'll do it. One. Two. Three. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. You sure you don't want me to count to three point one four?

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Cause I could do that. But keep going for a while. Yeah I wanted to keep going for a while.

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We may have to start sooner rather than later just cause I have a place to go at some point. Is that, um, is that somewhat possible pretty quick?

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I mean yeah we're pretty showing where we're good to go. Okay. Cool. Um, yeah I think I'd like to, I think I'd like to do that.

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Let me grab another bottle of water real quick. I'll be back in seconds. Okay never mind. We'll do it soon.

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Um.

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What are you guys doing? Do you have a good week?

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Full plane chat? Do you have a good week?

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Dude I'm, yeah Fridays have been the busy day for like ever.

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Like forever. We show. Oh ow. Thank you for that Luke. That was really good.

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Can you pull that mic away from your mouth? We like the, we like the mic handling noise. Thank you.

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Oh. Primo. Primo.

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He's just being able to whip my headphones off because I don't, at home and normally for a while I don't have a headset attached to my mic.

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Right. Yeah. That checks out. Wow. With the natural light in Luke's room there compared to the like studio light on me I look dead.

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I was thinking he looked very jaundiced. I've been trying to color, trying to color correct him.

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Pink rosy. I think all these monitors are a bit redshifted. Well I'm like sunburned as well. No it's just, your camera's adjusting itself all the time.

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Oh man I'm tired. I could not sleep last night. Which honestly is good because if I'm going to change time zones I might as well have like a f***ed up sleep schedule at home.

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Yeah. I see it as a blessing. Are we going live at quarter after? Is that the plan?

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Whenever you fancy. I can set it to quarter after if you want. What if I plane instead of fancy? Ordinary.

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Yeah sure. I'll give you a bell for that. Nice. Nice. Now I feel good. I'm energized. Sorry when was it supposed to be?

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Let's do a 515. We could do 515? Okay. Yeah let's do 515.

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Man whenever I'm going through the topic doc I always feel like man there's a lot of topics like oh man there's going to be a long show.

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And then I look at the doc doc and I'm just like man there's like no topics. And then the show starts and then it's like man four hours later.

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You say that every week. Well yeah but ah. Okay here's what we're going to do Luke. Here's what we're going to do. It's going to be crazy.

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Okay. We're going to keep it on the rails today.

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Shut up. Stop. No. Stop. Stop it. No. Stop. No.

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There are literally topics in the document designed for taking it off of the rails. No I don't believe you. Not in my world. You put two of them there. Not in my world.

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So here's the plan. Okay. We're going to stay on the rails today. Okay. It's going to be old school when we're going to talk about stuff that happened.

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Then then and only then we'll go after dark.

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Does this mean that you're going to listen to it when I tell you to move on for the first time? Doubt it. I probably won't hear you.

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There's a giant card that I hold up. Can't see it. I guess it's equivalent to an advertisement.

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Anything that's always there for me is never there.

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You do have ADHD as well don't you? It just becomes part of the environment.

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Dude I literally like just I scatter things around my house that I'm supposed to remember.

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Like my system for making sure that I finish laundry on the weekend is that our laundry shoot.

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I just have the like pile of laundry hanging out of it and the door of it open so that I literally can't go in and out of the house without seeing it.

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Yeah but then you just like tripping on it. You learn to just step over it.

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No no no it's it's it's I make it that bad that it's like actually an obstacle until the laundry is done.

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And then when when I don't have enough that's like dirty then what I do is I take like a dried one and I like put that in the middle of the hallway so that I cannot get past it without being like oh right laundry.

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Smart smart thanks.

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I smartly fix my broken brain.

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I mean we all do we all do.

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I hate I hate ADHD. No no it's a superpower.

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Five minutes. What five minutes I thought we were doing it five seconds.

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Two seconds now it's five fifty. Alright I'm doing it.

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It's when showtime and I for one am ticked teed peeved.

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I rate how can I do this.

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We've got a lot of great topics for you guys this week starting of course with VPN secure cancelling lifetime subscriptions because they didn't know about them.

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What does that even mean?

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Oh oh oh in much better news we are officially the best at computer.

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That's right. We have this Guinness World Record to show that we computed more than anybody ever computed before along with our partner Kyoksia talking a little bit about the behind the scenes of that how that came to pass what else we got.

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Philips debuts 3D printable repair components for you know Philips products which is cool and rather surprising and also apparently podcasters don't want public play counts.

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So I guess the full plane is very very feature first on this one.

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I think I know why I know why. Oh people are upset I didn't say welcome to the WAN Show welcome to the WAN Show.

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It's been so many years since we actually sat on a couch.

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Yeah. The show is brought to you today by Vessi.

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Delete me and Squarespace. Of course alongside our rap partner dbrand our laptop partner Dell and our chair partner.

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Oops. Secret lab.

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Technically it was only a little bit over a year because of the April Fool's stream.

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Oh I guess that's fair. That is true. Haha.

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Yeah. Chui was there fact checking us fact checking us.

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Let's jump right into our headline topic which is of course a lot of you in the comments on today's video on us getting yes my friends it is real.

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The number of people that I saw being like I thought it was a bit.

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I thought it was like a bit. No no no no no. No no no it's 300 trillion bits.

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That's right my friends. Thank you Dan.

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We actually did get the verified Guinness World Record for calculating the most accurate value of Pi which was to 300 trillion decimal places.

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And I only vaguely remember how this came to be but Luke I kind of want to hear a little bit about how infra has felt about this project.

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That has been as far as I can tell very much in the way of things that they've been trying to do over the last I would say months but realistically it's been more like years.

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So. Yeah. And loud.

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I will I will tell you I will tell you that the project started in the same way that a lot of projects start around here and you guys probably remember back when we did the million dollar PC.

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So we had the these GPU compute nodes and realistically it was the oodles and oodles of high speed PCIe storage that made it so expensive.

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So we showed you know what a data center class node could actually be used for.

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I believe we did some simulations on it and stuff like that we showed how high speed storage is so important to powering these kinds of workloads.

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And then we were done with it and everybody wanted their hardware back which made us kind of go reasonable but hear me out.

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What if we keep the hardware and since we've got it we do something really cool with it.

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So whenever we get our hands on something that enables something that almost nobody else in the world could do we are highly incentivized to try to do more stuff with that hardware.

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Not because there's actually like a compelling business reason for us to have had that stuff lying around.

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As far as I can tell we have done absolutely nothing of use with the million dollar PC in the entire time that we've had it.

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And the majority of that time has been to try and get this project going which ended up being a huge challenge.

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Jake was I don't know if he ended up putting it in the final edit because I saw a version of the edit that I signed off on.

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Then I think we made some more changes. But basically he has this spreadsheet where he went through like every tunable in Y cruncher and basically did like before after before after before after before.

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But like it is the most flipping tuned Y cruncher not because Y cruncher is not good already but because as far as we can tell nobody has ever used it.

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Quite like this with network distributed storage in this fashion.

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So that that's how the whole thing started. We were like hey we should try to find something else to do with this super powerful hardware.

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Why don't we calculate more digits of pie.

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We kind of glossed over it in the video but keeping this thing fed has been an absolute nightmare.

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And I want to I want to before before Luke jumps in I want to address one more thing that I saw a lot of in the comments.

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And that is wow your infrastructure in Canada must be if you guys lose power that often.

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OK couple things. First of all in this area in particular.

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Yeah it does kind of feel that way. Do we lose power at the office alarmingly frequently especially given that this is an industrial zone.

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One that they are moving a hospital into.

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They are literally building a hospital across the street from Labs like right there.

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And we have lost power. I kid you not like somewhere between half a dozen and 10 times in the last calendar year.

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It has been unbelievable with that said I was sorry.

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I had a certain point in my growing up.

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We we lived on the same grid as the hospital that we were near at one point in time.

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And you would just never lose power like the whole everyone else would lose power and we would be fine forever.

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And then that stopped being a thing and it was it was a sad day.

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It's all about priority. So yeah I've also found that oddly enough for some reason you're talking about the infrastructure around us isn't that great.

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I find I lose power less than the office dude.

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This area like my current residential setup is more resilient than the office area is the pits.

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However in their defense there is kind of a good reason for it.

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This part of the lower mainland is quite built out but not built up.

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So it's quite spread out.

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And our power lines because of that were cost effectively constructed on wooden poles right.

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So our power line our power poles and our telephone poles they kind of share infrastructure and they're just they're just overhead power lines.

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So if you've ever been to Vancouver you might know that we are known for having for not just leveling all of the trees in our cities which is nice.

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You know beautiful even you might say beautiful British Columbia that's what it says on our license plates.

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But it is a bit of a double-edged sword and when we have a windstorm which hey you know just like the rest of the world seems to be happening a lot more frequently around here these days.

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I wonder if there's some kind of thing that might be contributing to that.

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I don't know it's a great mystery at least for you know half of the world that can't figure it out.

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We're having a lot more windstorms lately than we used to and so branches and trees are coming down on those power lines a lot more than they used to.

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So our infrastructure was designed for the very mild climate that we used to have and the very mild storms that we used to have.

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And now our climate tends to dip lower in lows during the winter get higher in the highs during the summer and we tend to have a lot more windstorms.

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So it's been a learning curve I guess is what I would say.

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That doesn't mean I'm happy about it. It wasn't great that we lost power a bunch of times during the pie attempt and also just generally lose power a lot.

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It's pretty inconvenient for business operations but overall I don't think it's slowed us down too much over the years.

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OK so what have you guys gone through because there's been cooling failures power failures just generally us being up in your biz like in from us be not that stoked on this project.

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Dan might have more to comment here than me but honestly that's those same things basically because in in a few cases we've been called and tried to help with that sound.

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Like even with the actually fairly extensive sound deadening that that room has on it.

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The info team is sat especially Tom is sat right next to it and straight through all that sound deadening it's been it's been real loud and screaming real hard the whole time.

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The I got some notes from Jake here I mentioned that this is going to be a topic and asked if there's anything you wanted to add.

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He said don't pick the cheapest HVAC quote.

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He said that a lot of people were commenting on asking how it was actually verified or if we just calculated 300 trillion digits of nothing.

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But apparently it's something called B. B. B. P. extraction or Bailey Borwin ploof extraction where you can calculate specific ranges of digits instead of the whole thing.

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So the Alexander Yee the Y. Cruncher Dev ran two separate B. B. P. verifications against the last chunk of digits in hex form to validate.

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And this took around six hours each on a very fast computer so apparently no you don't have to run the whole thing twice.

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And it gets spot checked against the existing record sets including two two hundred and two trillion and one hundred trillion from Google etc.

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And yeah Jake is also saying that he could run over to the set and add some context or questions which could be cool.

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Yeah no this has been Jake's pet project for over a year at this point getting it over the line.

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It's amazing how dedicated that young man can be when the objective is purely to create the world's largest pain.

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That makes a lot of sense. For quite literally no purpose other than to have the biggest computer pain.

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I'm not saying I'm not saying he doesn't work hard on other stuff.

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In fact someone Casper Explorer in the Floatplane chess says hey I thought you guys just made a video about DIYing battery backup battery backup the lab.

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He's been trying he's actually been trying to get me to do like a massive power backup project here for quite some time and yes the like weird we know it's at least a little bit sketchy setup that I have at my house right now.

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Was meant to be stage one stage two is hopefully like a bigger setup at my house because that's still a manageable scale.

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And if these projects continue to peak people's interest stage three could be a larger more resilient solution that's here at the office.

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So you know never never underestimate never underestimate this young man whether he's doing something actually useful like you know DIYing a UPS for a fraction of the cost or whether he's doing this.

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I don't know I know he's in the chat right now if people have questions over in Floatplane chat.

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He's coming over. He's going to join you Isaac V asked why not a diesel generator so you guys can keep going maybe a more proven way for business.

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So a diesel generator is not as simple as just like buy a diesel generator.

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You have to actually like make sure the diesel fuel doesn't go bad like when we checked out equinix is set up they had to have like their own fuel conditioning I think it's called.

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But basically like to rejuvenate the fuel on site and make sure that it doesn't go bad in their storage tanks that like tanks are underground.

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But also like they have like I think they have like counterweight or something so they don't like float in a flood or what like it's not.

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It's not that simple to do an entire building diesel backup and it does take on going maintenance and the the actual business disruption of our occasional power outages is not.

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That high like if it goes out for an hour or two we can just be like OK well.

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Realistically all we can do is lean or clean so find one of those things to do.

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And a lot of the time it's out overnight like it's it hasn't you have to do a business like cost analysis.

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If you guys have questions Jake's going to sit in Luke's chair you're going to go around.

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OK he's going to go around the back. I mean that's a path that's a path that people can take.

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I tried to warn him.

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He could have just quickly passed in front of this camera but instead he decided to take.

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You know what. Hi.

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How you doing. Where are the headphones.

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What.

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If you guys have any questions about the whole thing feel free to throw those over in the Floatplane chat brother.

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What. Oh. Where's where's this quarter inch jack adapter.

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What kind of professional what kind of professional podcast set is this.

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I wish I could. Why is Dan right in front of Luke. I can't. I can't show.

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Oh thank you Daniel.

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That's OK Dan's a professional. He always always keeps a three and a half millimeter to quarter inch adapter in his back pocket at all times.

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Dan is this true. Of course. Of course it's true.

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And also a quarter inch to three and a half.

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Yeah exactly. He always has. I own a Mac book.

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That's why I have a USB anything to type C adapter.

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Are we allowed to talk about the load of utter horse that getting one of these certificates is these days.

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I don't know that that is this song. Can you hear me through here.

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I can. I can't hear you through here. I can. I don't know that I want to do that.

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OK. Because I got to tell you it was a lot of work though.

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I'll tell you this much. OK. The process of getting the certificate is definitely different from what the process was back when we did Highlander like almost 10 years ago.

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It's also very different if you're doing it for like I'm a personal record.

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I'm like I'm on my chocolate or the most bananas finding pie in a minute or something.

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I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Or reciting pie from your brain.

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You don't usually I think you don't have to pay money or it's not a very large amount of money.

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But when you're doing something that's corporate it's advertising.

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Yeah. So they expect to get paid for it.

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And like and a lot. Yeah. Not three hundred three hundred trillion digits have paid.

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But more than two. There's a password on this laptop.

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More than three. I don't know. Can you get can you get multiple more than four.

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I know we have the the world record thing for for Highlander.

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You don't have it. Do you only. I thought they sent them to all the participants.

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No I have one. Oh. Oh sorry. I completely misheard you then.

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Yeah. No I said I know we have one. But like like how many of that do you have one pie.

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You can get as many as you want after we have this one probably get more than one.

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And then I ordered like a paper one because I wanted Linus to have a worse one.

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Well you're cheap. So like you wanted to pay the fifty dollars for the frame.

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You know what the worst part is. Am I wrong. You know what the worst part is.

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He's laughing because it's true. You know what the worst part is.

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That is a hundred percent what I did the first time. Yeah.

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Because that's it. It's just a piece of paper.

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I was looking at that the other day. I was like oh that's the Highlander one.

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It's the it's the cheapo one. Bro you can buy that frame on Amazon.

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Not that I support Mr. Bezos aside from when he trips and falls.

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Oh my god. Okay hold on hold on hold on.

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Okay I want to play a game. I want to play a game. Okay Dan Dan you're part of the game.

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I would like you to guess for each of us how many times we've watched Mr. Bezos each.

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How many times we've watched the clip. Okay so each of us each of us has to kind of think and write down what we think what

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we think it is how many times we think we've watched it.

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And if you watch it on loop each loop counts as one. Each loop counts as one.

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So hold on let me let me think for a second.

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Okay if you show it to someone else how many views does that count as is that just one

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or does it like count as a multiple view. No I think that's your.

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Okay that's just one okay.

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Okay I got my number. I got my number.

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Alright I think I've got some too. Did you show it on Wanshow?

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No I don't. Did we?

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Yes. Oh we did. Oh I didn't count that one.

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So do you get like hundreds of thousands? No no no no it only counts as one it counts as one.

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Okay I mean does it count as like half of one just because you're short.

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Okay let's see how well let's see how well Dan.

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I look small right now. Oh because Luke has a big torso right.

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My chair is lower than Linus's.

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Okay Dan. That's weird. Okay Dan.

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Each loop counts. Each loop counts. Alright so for Linus I'm gonna say around 120.

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Oh come on that's not realistic. Is it not?

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Who would have time for that? I mean like spread out over many many weeks.

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Like we watched it maybe four or five times on the Wanshow at least.

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Did we? Yeah it's funny.

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I don't know if we watched it that many times.

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Like maybe I'm gonna say I don't know 20, 20, 30 something like that.

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No not that funny. What do you want me to say or am I waiting?

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I guess waiting. And then maybe Luke like 10 to 20 times or something.

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Do you think Luke? Dude what? Okay alright.

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Okay so we have a bit of a problem here because I put down seven but I forgot

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that we watched it multiple times when we were looking at it on Wanshow.

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So realistically I'm probably closer to 20.

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We also watched it like 10 times during writer's meeting.

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I don't think I was there for that one. You might have been in the car still or something.

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Did you guys really? Oh yeah yeah. We were analyzing like how did he biff this?

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Oh he's just bad at walking.

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Dan said 10 to 20 for me. The number that I came up for myself was 15.

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15. Okay so Dan nailed you. What I didn't realize originally is that it's not like a short loop.

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Pause. Oh I missed it.

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It's not a loop.

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It's like a video that you have to scroll back on. Yeah.

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So maybe you know 120 is probably a little bit. Yeah that's probably fine.

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You don't just watch the video. Well no I mean people have. I mean I did rewind like the idea but it was manual.

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Show the people? No. No no.

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I don't want to get copyright strike. This is transformative baby.

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No I don't want to get a copyright strike over it.

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From Daddy Bezos? Dude we've been copyright strike for like showing game trailers.

00:26:50.040 --> 00:26:53.040
Well that is like the one thing that you get copyrighted for.

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Yeah it's ridiculous. It's not even just Nintendo runs either.

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It's just Bean Pootie Pie. Dude it's literally promotional content.

00:27:00.040 --> 00:27:04.040
It's literally ads. Can we copyright Linus Tech Tips?

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It's an old meme but it checks out. I like it.

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It's good. It's pretty good. I got it.

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Chad says yes we can. What are we supposed to be talking about right now?

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Oh yeah what's your number? What's your number?

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I'm going to go with like prob. Dan I think Dan was right. It's probably 20 times.

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And a good like 15 of those was just the first time I saw it.

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Dude it's so funny.

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It's so funny. Okay right so did anybody actually like put any questions in the chat or anything?

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I'm going to watch the clip on the laptop myself.

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Oh man what was one of the things that I had wanted to address?

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If I type Bezos biffing it will it come up?

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What was the most annoying thing about working on the Pyrex of Jake?

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Honestly I think the power outages are one thing.

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I would go with when we were near the end like in February, March timeline the AC was

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just crapping its pants with no suitable explanation.

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So this is an amazing amazingly engineered system.

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Okay so it has error codes. They're little lights not stored anywhere.

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They're just blinking lights yeah. Nice.

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And they're on both sides. So if there's an error with the outside unit it blinks the light on the outside unit which

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means you have to go outside get on a ladder take the thing off to see it.

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The inside unit also has error codes. If it shuts off like you know when you're trying to do a world record and you really

00:28:36.040 --> 00:28:40.040
need the bloody AC to turn back on so you go flip the breaker and like come on turn

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back on. The codes go away forever and there's no history nothing saved.

00:28:47.040 --> 00:28:52.040
So you know what happened like the first seven times we had no idea what was wrong with

00:28:52.040 --> 00:28:57.040
it. Nice. Literally none and even the HVAC guys were like I don't know.

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Come on you're like $250 an hour what the heck.

00:29:03.040 --> 00:29:08.040
Anyways it ended up being that the AC system had basically no refrigerant left in it.

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It was supposed to have like I don't know I don't want to say a number because I don't

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know the actual number. Let's say it's 10 pounds of refrigerant supposed to be in this loop right there was like 0.6.

00:29:17.040 --> 00:29:20.040
I don't know how this keeps happening.

00:29:20.040 --> 00:29:26.040
Do you know how many times they had leaks in that one mini-split system in the server

00:29:26.040 --> 00:29:30.040
room over here. It's probably leaked like a dozen times.

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Okay and I'm not even I'm not even trying to be a jerk about it.

00:29:34.040 --> 00:29:39.040
Right because it's easy right it's easy to look at someone else's job and be like oh

00:29:39.040 --> 00:29:43.040
it can't be that hard you know professional athletes how do you miss that.

00:29:43.040 --> 00:29:47.040
I could my grandma could have kicked that in you know whatever right like that's easy to

00:29:47.040 --> 00:29:53.040
do. But like in this case I actually have installed a mini-split system.

00:29:53.040 --> 00:29:57.040
Yours are mint right. Yeah they work great.

00:29:57.040 --> 00:30:01.040
You also had Brian the electrician HVAC man.

00:30:01.040 --> 00:30:09.040
I mean yes. I did get help but nothing that we did nothing we did was super complicated.

00:30:09.040 --> 00:30:16.040
Yeah you get some copper tube you raise some fittings on it and you make sure they're tight.

00:30:16.040 --> 00:30:21.040
What are they doing. I mean like no shade. The one in Creator Warehouse broke a month ago too.

00:30:21.040 --> 00:30:27.040
Okay let's give them a little shade. You did also approve the cheapest HVAC quote we got.

00:30:27.040 --> 00:30:30.040
Okay I didn't I had nothing to do with it.

00:30:30.040 --> 00:30:34.040
I told them get something good. I can't control.

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I can't control what people actually go ahead with.

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Yeah sure great. Literally though.

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Who did it. I don't know man. It doesn't matter.

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We don't want to throw anybody under the bus there's no point.

00:30:47.040 --> 00:30:53.040
The company that does the maintenance now is a lot better but yeah it was rough and to

00:30:53.040 --> 00:30:59.040
be clear I think maybe you're like overestimating the like average effort and that your average

00:30:59.040 --> 00:31:02.040
contractor is putting in. Oh I'm really not.

00:31:02.040 --> 00:31:05.040
Did I ever show you the pictures of my lawn right now.

00:31:05.040 --> 00:31:09.040
With the gravel on it. Did you show them the pictures of your lawn with the gravel.

00:31:09.040 --> 00:31:12.040
Did I. Dude it's so bad.

00:31:12.040 --> 00:31:15.040
Wait has it been fixed yet. They are there today.

00:31:15.040 --> 00:31:18.040
Like with what. To their credit. 70 rakes.

00:31:18.040 --> 00:31:22.040
To their credit. What. The company that screwed it up.

00:31:22.040 --> 00:31:26.040
Big vacuum. Dude. I think it is a big vacuum.

00:31:26.040 --> 00:31:28.040
We had already paid them.

00:31:29.040 --> 00:31:33.040
We had already paid them so like if they were anything like some of the contractors that

00:31:33.040 --> 00:31:38.040
we've worked with in the past they would have just ghosted us a hundred percent.

00:31:38.040 --> 00:31:43.040
But no they're they're actually good guys they actually came back so what they're doing

00:31:43.040 --> 00:31:48.040
is basically they're putting an inch of topsoil over our entire lawn.

00:31:48.040 --> 00:31:51.040
Oh then you're going to have like the mintus drainage. Yeah.

00:31:51.040 --> 00:31:55.040
To a point. To a point. Yeah and then once it's saturated it's game over.

00:31:55.040 --> 00:32:00.040
Well. Does your lawn have like a drainage underneath like drainage pipes.

00:32:00.040 --> 00:32:06.240
Yeah. Oh I'm surprised that. There was just one part that like didn't and a couple other little spots that were a little

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:11.760
bit soggy. So Yvonne was like hey can you guys come and just kind of address that.

00:32:11.760 --> 00:32:16.840
And they came and dumped gravel all over the whole thing because of a miscommunication.

00:32:16.840 --> 00:32:22.280
So what happened was the company whose job it is is to just deliver like wheelbarrows

00:32:22.280 --> 00:32:27.140
of crap to a job site. Oh I see. They got it wrong.

00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:31.120
And then the guys that were just like the guys to just spread the stuff over they didn't

00:32:31.120 --> 00:32:34.700
question it because they were like why would they deliver the wrong thing.

00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:42.840
And then when the super shows up on the site he goes oh my God what happened.

00:32:42.840 --> 00:32:48.040
I'm laughing at both this story and Jeff Bezos falling on my laptop on repeat.

00:32:48.040 --> 00:32:51.040
He's got to get his count up.

00:32:52.040 --> 00:32:56.040
Okay so one thing is Linus said we weren't going to go off the rails on the show.

00:32:56.040 --> 00:32:59.040
Oh yeah you got my laptop going here.

00:32:59.040 --> 00:33:04.040
Oh yeah that was great. I've got my subway surfers doing my job.

00:33:04.040 --> 00:33:09.040
He was just too excited.

00:33:09.040 --> 00:33:14.040
So what did you promise at the start of the show? That we were going to stay on the rails.

00:33:14.040 --> 00:33:17.040
We have not stayed on the rails today. Are you doing an airplane like tonight?

00:33:17.040 --> 00:33:22.040
Don't worry about it. I haven't seen a lot of questions with the Pi stuff.

00:33:22.040 --> 00:33:25.040
I got one in merchandise. Why didn't you calculate it to Pi?

00:33:25.040 --> 00:33:30.040
Now that everyone has said that I'm like wow I'm an idiot.

00:33:30.040 --> 00:33:35.040
Yeah we should have done that. Or like to 300 trillion 69 or something.

00:33:35.040 --> 00:33:39.040
Why the round number? So there's a few factors here.

00:33:39.040 --> 00:33:42.040
It's like the main concern is your storage space.

00:33:42.040 --> 00:33:48.040
Because you have the memory in the computer that's your active working memory.

00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:51.040
Your storage space isn't used to store the output.

00:33:51.040 --> 00:33:58.040
I mean it is later on. But it's used as swap space which is just like memory but slower.

00:33:58.040 --> 00:34:01.040
When your computer has a swap it's slow.

00:34:01.040 --> 00:34:04.040
But in this case it's swap that's 100 gigabytes a second.

00:34:04.040 --> 00:34:08.040
So it's fast but not as fast as 3 terabytes of DDR5.

00:34:08.040 --> 00:34:11.040
Anyways where was I going with this?

00:34:11.040 --> 00:34:15.040
Oh yeah right. So originally we were trying to do 200 trillion digits

00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:20.040
and we had the storage capacity for that. And then when we were trying to do 300 trillion digits

00:34:20.040 --> 00:34:25.040
we were like we're going to have 98 percent of the capacity.

00:34:25.040 --> 00:34:30.040
We were going to use 98 percent of the capacity. But I later found out right before the run

00:34:30.040 --> 00:34:33.040
you don't actually have to output both sets of digits.

00:34:33.040 --> 00:34:36.040
So traditionally people would output the hexadecimal version

00:34:36.040 --> 00:34:40.040
which is what is actually calculated by the program and the decimal version.

00:34:40.040 --> 00:34:43.040
The decimal version is longer, takes up more space.

00:34:43.040 --> 00:34:47.040
That's what you would traditionally read 3.1415 blah blah blah blah.

00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:51.040
The hexadecimal format wouldn't really mean a whole lot to most people

00:34:51.040 --> 00:34:54.040
until you base convert it. But you don't have to output it.

00:34:54.040 --> 00:34:58.040
So I disabled it which saved us like 120 terabytes compressed.

00:34:58.040 --> 00:35:01.040
So we could have used that extra space to calculate

00:35:01.040 --> 00:35:04.040
14 trillion more digits.

00:35:04.040 --> 00:35:07.040
I would have settled for just like 69 more digits.

00:35:07.040 --> 00:35:10.040
You know what, here's the PR response. Why didn't I do that?

00:35:10.040 --> 00:35:14.040
Here's the PR response. Because then we would have a Guinness record that was...

00:35:14.040 --> 00:35:17.040
That's iconic! What do you mean? Yeah.

00:35:17.040 --> 00:35:23.040
No, no, here's the PR response. You know, for us this was just about the collaboration with Kyoksia,

00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:26.040
our partner on this project. Well, they're great.

00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:29.040
And we wanted to leave an opportunity for the next person

00:35:29.040 --> 00:35:32.040
to come along and do it to Pi digits. No, that's wrong.

00:35:32.040 --> 00:35:37.040
I actually have the real answer. In Y Cruncher, when you're setting up the run,

00:35:37.040 --> 00:35:42.040
when you type in how many digits, the short form version, you can just write 300 T.

00:35:42.040 --> 00:35:45.040
If I had to write the whole thing, that would have been like...

00:35:45.040 --> 00:35:48.040
That would have been a few more seconds. ...a few more numbers to click and like...

00:35:48.040 --> 00:35:51.040
You might have gotten Carpal Tunnel. Yeah.

00:35:51.040 --> 00:35:55.040
I wouldn't have wanted that. No, I wouldn't have wanted that. You'd be paying for that.

00:35:55.040 --> 00:35:58.040
You don't want to pay for that. We already established this.

00:35:58.040 --> 00:36:01.040
Look at the frame, buddy. Well, no, that's covered.

00:36:01.040 --> 00:36:05.040
He already pays for that. He pays for that anyways. Yeah, no, I think our premiums go...

00:36:05.040 --> 00:36:08.040
I think our deductible and premiums go up

00:36:08.040 --> 00:36:11.040
if people use anything. I could find a way to make the premiums go up otherwise.

00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:14.040
I think it'll be fine. Yeah, I think it goes up if everybody uses it.

00:36:14.040 --> 00:36:16.040
Only if you fill in the form.

00:36:18.040 --> 00:36:22.040
Dan has never filled the form. I don't want to cost Linus money.

00:36:22.040 --> 00:36:25.040
No, everyone has to fill out the form properly. You can't joke about that, Dan.

00:36:25.040 --> 00:36:28.040
Unless you're Linus. No, I fill out the form.

00:36:28.040 --> 00:36:32.040
It's extremely important you fill out the form. I have somebody fill out the form.

00:36:32.040 --> 00:36:35.040
That sounds more correct. That sounds a lot better.

00:36:35.040 --> 00:36:38.040
Delegation. I sign the form. This is management training.

00:36:38.040 --> 00:36:41.040
I sign the form. I sign the form. I have a merge message.

00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:44.040
If I get a boo-boo, if I get a boo-boo on set, I sign the form.

00:36:44.040 --> 00:36:48.040
Okay, yes, Dan. How much is there even to fill out before you sign it?

00:36:48.040 --> 00:36:52.040
It's like nothing. You don't even fill it out. You have fans fill out...

00:36:52.040 --> 00:36:56.040
No, the issue is that I have to go and find someone

00:36:56.040 --> 00:37:00.040
on the safety committee to see it filled out.

00:37:00.040 --> 00:37:04.040
It's the whole process of it. I take great joy in it because usually it's Dennis

00:37:04.040 --> 00:37:09.040
that's been filling it out for me, and I always enjoy a good little conversation with Dennis.

00:37:09.040 --> 00:37:13.040
They have it filled out, and then they bring it to me, and then I sign it, and that way the shoot doesn't have

00:37:13.040 --> 00:37:17.040
to be interrupted, and I can just keep filming. That's how it works for everybody.

00:37:17.040 --> 00:37:20.040
Is it? He's not special. Oh, well, that's good.

00:37:20.040 --> 00:37:23.040
It is the process. That actually sounds like a way smarter process, so that's good.

00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:26.040
I don't know how to fill out this form. There's like six boxes.

00:37:26.040 --> 00:37:30.040
They could have any information. What am I supposed to put where it says name?

00:37:30.040 --> 00:37:33.040
They fill it out for you, yeah.

00:37:33.040 --> 00:37:36.040
Where did you get your cut? What were you doing?

00:37:36.040 --> 00:37:39.040
Are you filling the bargain one? What's my address? What's my address?

00:37:39.040 --> 00:37:43.040
I don't know. It hurts. Here's your Band-Aid that will cost us

00:37:43.040 --> 00:37:47.040
an extra thousand a month in premium. My favorite field is how are we going to prevent

00:37:47.040 --> 00:37:51.040
this in the future? I have literally written...

00:37:51.040 --> 00:37:54.040
I had filled it out for myself a few times,

00:37:54.040 --> 00:37:58.040
and I have literally written not do that again.

00:37:58.040 --> 00:38:01.040
Does that qualify? Is that good enough? I think so.

00:38:01.040 --> 00:38:04.040
If the cause is just that I was stupid,

00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:09.040
just general incompetence. If it's your stupid and you've never done this thing before

00:38:09.040 --> 00:38:12.040
and you don't need to do it again, then I think, yeah, it's fair to just be like,

00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:15.040
well... Don't drill through your hand. Why did you do it in the first place, Luke?

00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:18.040
Gosh. I didn't know. Yeah.

00:38:18.040 --> 00:38:21.040
It was a learning experience. I didn't know it would hurt. Yeah.

00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:24.040
Okay. Sorry, Dan. You wanted us with a merchant?

00:38:24.040 --> 00:38:27.040
Yeah. How much electricity did it cost? I had to show a fork in the socket.

00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:30.040
I mean, probably more than what was shown in the video

00:38:30.040 --> 00:38:33.040
because that didn't... Well, actually, no. I put a year.

00:38:33.040 --> 00:38:36.040
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

00:38:36.040 --> 00:38:39.040
So that's probably about right. Yeah. Well, I don't even remember.

00:38:39.040 --> 00:38:42.040
I blocked it. It was like... I blocked it from my mind.

00:38:42.040 --> 00:38:46.040
Just for your reference, just so you can re-sear this into your brain.

00:38:46.040 --> 00:38:50.040
I believe what the calculator said was like $8,600 Canadian.

00:38:50.040 --> 00:38:53.040
That is wild.

00:38:53.040 --> 00:38:57.040
I mean... Can you tell him about the Boink project going on right now?

00:38:57.040 --> 00:39:01.040
We can take some solace in the fact that this is more useful

00:39:01.040 --> 00:39:04.040
than mining a lot of crypto crazy.

00:39:04.040 --> 00:39:07.040
So, at least there's that. Or as useful.

00:39:07.040 --> 00:39:10.040
Is it? Oh, I see. It's as useful.

00:39:10.040 --> 00:39:14.040
I was like... There are equally pointless things that we could have burned fossil fuels for.

00:39:14.040 --> 00:39:17.040
What do people use that many just to buy?

00:39:17.040 --> 00:39:20.040
Nothing. You don't. You don't.

00:39:20.040 --> 00:39:23.040
It's like something... I think what people have been saying is like NASA, in their craziest calculations,

00:39:23.040 --> 00:39:26.040
use like 34 digits or something like that. Yeah.

00:39:26.040 --> 00:39:29.040
And you can calculate something, something the entire size of the universe.

00:39:29.040 --> 00:39:32.040
To an atom. To the size... Yeah.

00:39:32.040 --> 00:39:35.040
With like a couple dozen, a few dozen digits of pie or something like that.

00:39:35.040 --> 00:39:38.040
That's what the YouTube comments tell me. We know how accurate those are.

00:39:38.040 --> 00:39:41.040
Yeah, well. Engineers use like... Yeah.

00:39:41.040 --> 00:39:44.040
They just round it to four. They round up.

00:39:44.040 --> 00:39:48.040
It's like good enough. Will Schwame, by the way,

00:39:48.040 --> 00:39:53.040
made the point better than I possibly could have as to why, no, we are not printing this out.

00:39:53.040 --> 00:39:56.040
At line is tech tips. A production printer is rated

00:39:56.040 --> 00:39:59.040
for about one million sheets per month. I saw this.

00:39:59.040 --> 00:40:02.040
It would literally take 1,000 months to print that,

00:40:02.040 --> 00:40:05.040
aka 83 years. No, that sounds like a skill issue.

00:40:05.040 --> 00:40:08.040
You clearly just need more printers. Duh.

00:40:08.040 --> 00:40:11.040
Yeah, what are you talking about? Yeah, like what about those big newspaper printer machine things?

00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:14.040
Have you seen those? Those things rip. Larger paper.

00:40:14.040 --> 00:40:17.040
They did network distributed pie calculations.

00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:22.040
They could do network distributed printing. Some of the comments on this video really are amazing.

00:40:22.040 --> 00:40:25.040
As a mechanic watching this video and trying to understand,

00:40:25.040 --> 00:40:28.040
it made me realize what other people hear when I talk about cars.

00:40:28.040 --> 00:40:31.040
Literally nothing.

00:40:31.040 --> 00:40:34.040
Yeah. That's great.

00:40:34.040 --> 00:40:38.040
It's exhausting. I told the girlfriend, yeah, I needed a super...

00:40:38.040 --> 00:40:42.040
What? No, no. I needed a supercharger.

00:40:42.040 --> 00:40:45.040
It's just an alternator. It's for charging.

00:40:45.040 --> 00:40:50.040
It needed that. It makes a noise, a spinny noise, yeah.

00:40:50.040 --> 00:40:53.040
Yeah, that's good for it. Yeah, you got it cheap because the bearings are gone.

00:40:53.040 --> 00:40:56.040
Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

00:40:56.040 --> 00:40:59.040
These father and son episodes are so wholesome.

00:40:59.040 --> 00:41:02.040
I just think we need to get Linus a supercharger.

00:41:02.040 --> 00:41:05.040
Hey, since you're here. Oh boy.

00:41:05.040 --> 00:41:10.040
Since you're here, there were some people who had some concerns

00:41:10.040 --> 00:41:13.040
about the battery backup. Ah, she's mint. At my place.

00:41:13.040 --> 00:41:16.040
She's mint. For now. Yeah, so...

00:41:16.040 --> 00:41:19.040
Did I say she's mint yet? I scouted the location.

00:41:19.040 --> 00:41:22.040
Oh, please. Yeah. I was going to ask you about this.

00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:26.040
Yeah, so we hear you and we actually did want

00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:29.040
to put the battery banks outside. Uh-huh.

00:41:29.040 --> 00:41:34.040
That was the original plan anyway, but it was a lot easier for the proof of concept.

00:41:34.040 --> 00:41:37.040
What is he doing? Which, yeah, he's telling us to move on.

00:41:37.040 --> 00:41:40.040
So maybe we'll make this the last thing we chat about and then we'll actually do that.

00:41:40.040 --> 00:41:45.040
That's clever. Yeah. Well, he has to deal with a host with ADHD.

00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:48.040
You also don't have to listen to it. Or two. It's just a guide.

00:41:48.040 --> 00:41:51.040
Yeah. Double your pleasure. Double your fun today.

00:41:51.040 --> 00:41:55.040
Hell yeah. One for each hand. So we are aware that it would be better

00:41:55.040 --> 00:41:59.040
to have the batteries outside, but we wanted to do this proof of concept

00:41:59.040 --> 00:42:02.040
for a couple of reasons. Number one is that I didn't want to go all in

00:42:02.040 --> 00:42:06.040
and spend tens of thousands of dollars on something that we would then discover,

00:42:06.040 --> 00:42:10.040
you know what, this is actually kind of beyond our scope. He had no faith is the answer.

00:42:10.040 --> 00:42:14.040
Yeah. Well, we have bitten off more than we can chew in the past.

00:42:15.040 --> 00:42:19.040
I'm just going to say that. Okay. And number two is because Jake needed to do

00:42:19.040 --> 00:42:22.040
a smaller scale project so that he can put in

00:42:22.040 --> 00:42:27.040
all his tickets at the Christmas party to get the cast off one after I stop using

00:42:27.040 --> 00:42:30.040
the initial deployment. I'm just going to borrow it forever. What do you mean?

00:42:33.040 --> 00:42:37.040
Alex? Wild. Alex Dick, our logistics manager is going to be like,

00:42:37.040 --> 00:42:40.040
thank you, Jake. I really appreciate you for getting this giant thing

00:42:40.040 --> 00:42:43.040
out of the warehouse. Just sign it out. Thanks.

00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:48.040
100% going to be his answer. I would like for the record to make it very clear

00:42:48.040 --> 00:42:51.040
that that is not how that works for any other employees

00:42:51.040 --> 00:42:54.040
who are watching this right now. 100%. Only for Jake.

00:42:54.040 --> 00:42:57.040
No. That's what Linus is saying. No.

00:42:57.040 --> 00:43:00.040
That is not how it works. Yeah. Yeah.

00:43:00.040 --> 00:43:03.040
That is not how it works. It's not how it works. That is not how it works.

00:43:03.040 --> 00:43:07.040
I... So those are the two reasons for the smaller scale deployment

00:43:07.040 --> 00:43:10.040
because Jake wants one and because I didn't want to go

00:43:10.040 --> 00:43:14.040
full hog immediately. So good news and bad news.

00:43:14.040 --> 00:43:17.040
Which one do you want first? I don't know.

00:43:17.040 --> 00:43:20.040
Like I'm not going to listen to your bad news anyway. So just send it. Okay.

00:43:20.040 --> 00:43:24.040
Whatever. Yeah. So the good news is I have full faith now

00:43:24.040 --> 00:43:28.040
because that deployment actually for all the concerns that people

00:43:28.040 --> 00:43:31.040
raised about it. There is a few. Which are kind of valid.

00:43:31.040 --> 00:43:34.040
Like, oh, we should have connectors on the things. Like, yes. I know that.

00:43:34.040 --> 00:43:37.040
And there should be covers on some of the, you know, high current terminals and stuff.

00:43:37.040 --> 00:43:40.040
That's why there is connectors on some of them and not others.

00:43:40.040 --> 00:43:43.040
It's because they gave us the wrong size. Okay.

00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:47.040
So that's the good news. The bad news is we don't have a straight run from the mech room

00:43:47.040 --> 00:43:50.040
to the outside. Wait. No, I didn't.

00:43:50.040 --> 00:43:53.040
I already tell, we solved this. This is ADHD. Okay.

00:43:53.040 --> 00:43:56.040
Incarnate. Unfortunately by the panel outside.

00:43:56.040 --> 00:44:00.040
Yeah. Like where the power comes into the house.

00:44:00.040 --> 00:44:03.040
There's not a great spot for it.

00:44:03.040 --> 00:44:06.040
Yeah. But we don't need a great spot. We just need a spot.

00:44:06.040 --> 00:44:12.040
Oh, no. You don't go down the side of your house.

00:44:12.040 --> 00:44:17.040
She doesn't.

00:44:17.040 --> 00:44:21.040
Am I wrong? When was the last time you went down the side of your house

00:44:21.040 --> 00:44:24.040
before me asking you to go there? To pick blueberries.

00:44:24.040 --> 00:44:27.040
So it would have been last August. What?

00:44:27.040 --> 00:44:31.040
There's a year. You can work around it. Like in the summer, I go there.

00:44:31.040 --> 00:44:35.040
Okay. So like in the summer, I go there. We need to mount the like inverter thingy.

00:44:35.040 --> 00:44:39.040
So the original plan was to put it in the mech room and like make a concrete box

00:44:39.040 --> 00:44:43.040
or concrete board or something where, you know, you have an hour of it exploded

00:44:43.040 --> 00:44:48.040
and put some like fire retardant stuff in there, like whatever, right?

00:44:48.040 --> 00:44:53.040
But then we were, Jesus. And then we were like, let's just put everything outside because the inverter

00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:58.040
needs to go upstream of the main panel anyway so that we can AC couple the solar to it.

00:44:58.040 --> 00:45:01.040
Yeah. So why are we putting it inside? Let's just put everything outside.

00:45:01.040 --> 00:45:04.040
So if the inverter is on the side of your house.

00:45:04.040 --> 00:45:08.040
Yes. How far are these batteries going to be?

00:45:08.040 --> 00:45:11.040
How many iPhones tall is this run going to be?

00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:16.040
It's going to be, okay, to get it kind of like out of the way.

00:45:16.040 --> 00:45:22.040
It's better be an iPhone. To get it out of the way, it would probably be about 40 iPhones.

00:45:22.040 --> 00:45:25.040
It's pretty far. Like batteries from the inverter?

00:45:25.040 --> 00:45:30.040
Yeah. Is there like anything we can put it on there or is that, that's dirt?

00:45:30.040 --> 00:45:33.040
We're pouring a pad. It's dirt.

00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:36.040
Or we'll ask for a pad and instead we'll get large gravel.

00:45:36.040 --> 00:45:40.040
It's strawberry plants. That's 19.2 feet.

00:45:40.040 --> 00:45:43.040
Wow. Wait, what iPhones? Are we talking Pro Max's?

00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:46.040
What are you, what are you comparing against? iPhone 12, 14.

00:45:46.040 --> 00:45:49.040
Okay. Sorry. How many iPhone 13 minutes?

00:45:49.040 --> 00:45:53.040
Let's go with that. This is, wait, this is in your backyard or is this still on the side of the house?

00:45:53.040 --> 00:45:56.040
On the side of the house. How do you care about the plants on the side of the house?

00:45:56.040 --> 00:46:02.040
Well, I mean, they're strawberries. Like they, you know, the kids like them, they eat strawberries there.

00:46:02.040 --> 00:46:07.040
You know, like kids do. This is going to be like, kids eat strawberries.

00:46:07.040 --> 00:46:11.040
It's going to be a monumentally larger, monumentally.

00:46:11.040 --> 00:46:14.040
Yeah. Sure. Larger project.

00:46:14.040 --> 00:46:18.040
Yeah. And I'm, I got to confess. This is like hundreds of kilograms of batteries.

00:46:18.040 --> 00:46:21.040
I'm not super stoked on like the size of it.

00:46:21.040 --> 00:46:24.040
This is like pallets of batteries. Yes, I know.

00:46:24.040 --> 00:46:27.040
I know, Jake. Yeah. Did you tell them?

00:46:27.040 --> 00:46:30.040
Not trivial. No, I don't think so.

00:46:30.040 --> 00:46:34.040
Oh, well, we, what we were talking about was like 200 kilowatt hours.

00:46:34.040 --> 00:46:39.040
Yeah. So the idea was that we could use a thousand.

00:46:39.040 --> 00:46:42.040
Wait, I can show them. I can show them for 200 hours.

00:46:42.040 --> 00:46:47.040
So literally if we were using the house normally, we could be down for like three days.

00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:50.040
Okay. Four days. Hold on.

00:46:50.040 --> 00:46:53.040
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

00:46:53.040 --> 00:46:56.040
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

00:46:56.040 --> 00:46:59.040
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

00:46:59.040 --> 00:47:03.040
So I think that we're just talking about tens of thousands of dollars, but we're not actually talking about hundreds of

00:47:03.040 --> 00:47:06.040
thousands of dollars. Surprisingly. Sure.

00:47:06.040 --> 00:47:09.040
Does that sound like, does this, this sounds like something that would cost like 150,000.

00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:12.040
Yeah. That sounds quite reasonable. Am I crazy.

00:47:12.040 --> 00:47:17.040
That's like a lot of power. Yeah, no, it, it sounds like the kind of thing that if we went and we got it, you know, quoted

00:47:17.040 --> 00:47:21.920
properly, that they would want like hundreds of thousands of dollars for, but it's, it's actually.

00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:25.040
How do I do this? Less than you'd think. How do I do?

00:47:25.040 --> 00:47:28.400
Here, I got you. Oh, Luke Lap, like laptop.

00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:32.280
Yeah, not like lap-premiere. Why is there a lap cam? Luke Lap-premiere.

00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:36.240
That's it, that costs extra per month. This is when after dark. Okay, so this is,

00:47:36.240 --> 00:47:39.880
EVE is one of the major Chinese LFP battery manufacturers.

00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.000
This is like one of their newer models. It's 314 amp hours at 3.2 volts.

00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:49.920
It's roughly one kilowatt hour. This cell, if you buy between 100 and 2000 of them,

00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:54.220
is 60 US dollars. Yeah. Before, obviously before shipping,

00:47:54.260 --> 00:47:57.300
obviously before tariffs, if you're in the US, I'm so sorry.

00:47:58.460 --> 00:48:04.660
Get tricked. But what if we buy 50,000 pieces? So what if we bought 250 of them times 60?

00:48:04.660 --> 00:48:08.300
It's 15 grand. Yeah. For 250 kilowatt hours.

00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:11.500
Which is a lot of money. A lot of money. But.

00:48:11.500 --> 00:48:15.140
That's a lot of money. That's like, how much is a power, like a Tesla powerwall? That is a freaking-

00:48:15.140 --> 00:48:18.620
Hold on. Does the bulk of this car get any better?

00:48:18.620 --> 00:48:21.860
No, right? Yeah, when you buy 500,000.

00:48:21.860 --> 00:48:27.500
Okay. So a powerwall is only 13 and a half kilowatt hours.

00:48:27.500 --> 00:48:31.220
And how much does it cost? 16 grand. Something like, I forget.

00:48:31.220 --> 00:48:35.260
I forget how much they're, they're freaking expensive though. Oh, cause you gotta get an install. But that includes the inverter.

00:48:35.260 --> 00:48:38.500
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it includes more. This is just raw power.

00:48:38.500 --> 00:48:42.540
We actually still need to do the install. We still need an inverter.

00:48:42.540 --> 00:48:46.860
So something we, like inverter-wise- Like this is no BMS. Are we planning to just like-

00:48:46.860 --> 00:48:50.180
Oh, hey, cool. Are we planning to just weld these together or like-

00:48:50.180 --> 00:48:53.380
No, it'll be like a bus bar situation. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is actually not getting bad.

00:48:53.380 --> 00:49:00.380
The Vero BMS, that thing's super cool, right? That was built for car swaps, Tesla swaps specifically.

00:49:01.380 --> 00:49:04.220
You know, say what you will about that guy.

00:49:05.460 --> 00:49:08.580
But their batteries are very useful for EV swapping vehicles.

00:49:08.580 --> 00:49:10.860
All right, that's where I'm going with this. Sure.

00:49:12.220 --> 00:49:17.380
They made a new thing called, I think it's called like the Vero node.

00:49:17.380 --> 00:49:21.100
Oh, let me look it up. He'll figure it out. Yeah, okay, it's not out yet.

00:49:21.100 --> 00:49:24.980
But they made a, here's our DIY balance board

00:49:24.980 --> 00:49:29.780
that hooks up to the main thing. So you buy these and then I think they support like,

00:49:29.780 --> 00:49:33.780
I don't want to say a number because I don't know, but like 15 cells or something like that.

00:49:33.780 --> 00:49:36.820
And so you, they're 150 bucks. You buy, their website is down.

00:49:36.820 --> 00:49:40.500
I wonder why that is. Way to go Wansho. Thanks, Wansho.

00:49:40.500 --> 00:49:44.140
I hadn't even opened it yet. Like what the- They're quick.

00:49:44.140 --> 00:49:48.540
Yeah, you said it so fast. They're too quick. Yeah, just the last thing you want to do is like,

00:49:48.540 --> 00:49:53.300
talk about a funny domain that's available or whatever because they're like, they're on it.

00:49:53.300 --> 00:49:58.780
Okay, so 16 cells in series, which if I remember correctly, 16 times 3.2,

00:49:58.780 --> 00:50:01.820
I think that's the optimal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So about 40 equals.

00:50:01.820 --> 00:50:06.980
So 16 is how many, usually how you want in series. So we would need one of these for each series set.

00:50:06.980 --> 00:50:10.100
So you're talking like a few grand in BMS nodes.

00:50:10.100 --> 00:50:13.460
You're talking like the inverters get way more expensive.

00:50:13.460 --> 00:50:18.220
The one we used for this project was the EG4 6K XP, whatever.

00:50:18.220 --> 00:50:20.620
But that was sized for like the racks.

00:50:21.380 --> 00:50:28.060
And some, but like not for the house. So this is 18 kilowatts in one box and it's seven grand.

00:50:28.060 --> 00:50:31.460
Yeah. So it's almost, it kind of scales almost linearly,

00:50:31.460 --> 00:50:35.340
to be honest. Yeah. They also have a cool one called like the grid boss,

00:50:35.340 --> 00:50:39.220
I think it's called. The grid boss. Oh, flex boss.

00:50:39.220 --> 00:50:42.580
The grid box is like the integration thing. This is the bigger one.

00:50:42.580 --> 00:50:46.300
And to be clear, there are also like, there's other companies that make these.

00:50:46.300 --> 00:50:49.540
The EG4 one worked pretty good. You can power your neighborhood, dude.

00:50:49.580 --> 00:50:53.220
Yeah. I don't know that we will for sure use this,

00:50:53.220 --> 00:50:57.260
but this is something that they said that they had and that was cool.

00:50:57.260 --> 00:51:01.060
We might need to use like two or three though. It really depends,

00:51:01.060 --> 00:51:04.060
because you were telling me you wanted to be able to charge your car off of this.

00:51:04.060 --> 00:51:06.500
Like you talking charging your car at full rate?

00:51:07.700 --> 00:51:11.260
Cause that's like, that's a few. I don't think I would,

00:51:11.260 --> 00:51:15.500
I don't think I would expect to actually charge my car off it. That seems stupid.

00:51:15.500 --> 00:51:18.860
I mean, That seems pretty dumb. What is it? With that said, now,

00:51:18.860 --> 00:51:22.100
you could charge your car off. Is it a 30 amp or? Very little.

00:51:22.100 --> 00:51:25.540
I think it's a 30 amp, yes. But is that actually the charge rate?

00:51:25.540 --> 00:51:30.060
Like it's a 40? No, it's pretty weak. I like got the wrong ones, basically.

00:51:30.060 --> 00:51:34.380
I asked for a specific one and then the contractors ordered a different one

00:51:34.380 --> 00:51:38.780
from the same company. And I was like, yo, that's not what I asked for.

00:51:38.780 --> 00:51:41.780
Oh, I know which one you have. It's the dual head one. Yeah, it's the dual head one,

00:51:41.780 --> 00:51:45.940
but they have a different one that would do full speed off of one head.

00:51:45.940 --> 00:51:49.140
But this one is the cheaper one that only does half speed off of each one.

00:51:49.140 --> 00:51:52.700
Oh, it's this one. It's the Sun Country one, right? Yeah, something like that.

00:51:52.700 --> 00:51:56.340
Yeah, okay. So it's like 40 amps total, but when you're charging two cars,

00:51:56.340 --> 00:52:00.180
you get 16 amps each. So this is a 7.7 kilowatt.

00:52:00.180 --> 00:52:03.180
Yeah. This is the one. It actually takes like a minute

00:52:03.180 --> 00:52:06.740
to charge my car. I mean, to be fair for your use case, it's probably fine. It's totally fine.

00:52:06.740 --> 00:52:12.940
But we could get some, we could get some ubiquity EV stations. Yeah, I've been, I'll do it eventually.

00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:16.980
I don't know if there's CSA approved yet. That could be a thing. That could be a problem.

00:52:16.980 --> 00:52:20.940
But anyways, so that's- These are hardwired. This is not that much though.

00:52:20.940 --> 00:52:27.020
No, no, well, it's not that much in terms of like the rate of charge,

00:52:27.020 --> 00:52:31.100
but just having batteries in your yard

00:52:31.100 --> 00:52:34.820
so that you can charge the batteries in your car feels a little silly.

00:52:34.820 --> 00:52:38.180
Well, it is. Right. You are, yes.

00:52:38.180 --> 00:52:42.020
Yes. Okay, I'm glad we got there. All right, so anyway.

00:52:42.020 --> 00:52:45.140
What are we supposed to be talking about? We're supposed to be doing merge messages, so.

00:52:45.140 --> 00:52:48.460
Wait, I wanna do one. I've never done this before. Oh my God, this guy, he's like,

00:52:48.460 --> 00:52:52.220
he doesn't even wanna go. I gotta go on a flight too. Oh yeah, right.

00:52:52.220 --> 00:52:55.940
Have you never done a WAN? Not in a long time, brother.

00:52:55.940 --> 00:52:59.860
Like Christmas, years ago. And nobody does WAN anymore.

00:52:59.860 --> 00:53:04.700
Yeah, we're on the streak, so. Introverted boys over here.

00:53:04.700 --> 00:53:08.340
Yeah, so have you packed? Dude, I did all my laundry yesterday.

00:53:08.340 --> 00:53:12.180
I'm proud. Usually I'm doing laundry at 11 p.m. the night before.

00:53:12.180 --> 00:53:15.540
Nice. Yeah, I mean. It's pretty good actually. I know.

00:53:15.580 --> 00:53:19.260
Yesterday too. Wow. Actually, I don't wanna, I'm good.

00:53:19.260 --> 00:53:23.260
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. You were sick, you got me sick.

00:53:23.260 --> 00:53:27.980
You know what I said? I'm gonna be so mad if you got me sick. I'm like sniffily now, and it's your fault.

00:53:27.980 --> 00:53:32.180
Why did I touch you? Why would I touch you? I got it for a turn of center.

00:53:32.180 --> 00:53:36.500
Nobody else I know is sick, and I've barely been around anyone else other than you,

00:53:36.500 --> 00:53:40.220
and you were like actively sniffily. Oh boy. It's your fault.

00:53:40.220 --> 00:53:44.220
All right, well, that's possible. All right, fine. I've logged in to the thing.

00:53:44.220 --> 00:53:47.420
I'll explain merch messages. I'll just hack Luke's account here, hold on.

00:53:47.420 --> 00:53:50.500
Merch messages are the way to interact with the show,

00:53:50.500 --> 00:53:53.500
and we've got some pretty exciting reasons

00:53:53.500 --> 00:53:57.900
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I know, that's a lot. Is it? Domains cost $8.

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$10. Yeah, but literally it cost $10.

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Nobody commented about that. OK, we also have to announce we have pre-tariff pricing

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you already have pre-tariff pricing when converted to USD. In fact, it's actually a little bit cheaper than that.

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So you can shop now at LMG.gg slash MCM.

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Check them out. There you go.

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Anyway, as for what you can do with that purchase,

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when you add it to your cart, you can leave a merge message. It'll be a little box, and it'll go to producer Dan,

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there he is, who will curate your message for me and Luke.

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Also, he's here this week for some reason. For me and Luke, or he will respond to it himself,

00:56:04.860 --> 00:56:07.860
or forward it to someone who will address it later.

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So Dan, do we have a couple of merge messages so you can show the people how they work?

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I do. I've got one here from Lanky Person.

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Yeah, lots of blank, tall sizes. Why hello, LLD.

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As a recently diagnosed ADHD person, what are some of the pros or cons you all

00:56:26.220 --> 00:56:29.260
find about both having and working with an ADHD person?

00:56:29.260 --> 00:56:34.220
Well, working with. Luke, why don't you answer that one? What's it like working with an ADHD person?

00:56:34.220 --> 00:56:38.060
All three of us. You guys saw it earlier, where he was like,

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oh, we're not going to be able to get too far of a run.

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And then it's like, no, we're putting it outside.

00:56:46.300 --> 00:56:49.980
Luke, do you have an answer? He disconnected for a second.

00:56:49.980 --> 00:56:54.860
He might just be ignoring it. Maybe he doesn't want to anymore. Frankly, I couldn't blame him.

00:56:54.860 --> 00:56:57.980
It's cool because you can. His mic's not working.

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Oh, bummer. It's a superpower, and it is also your worst nightmare

00:57:02.300 --> 00:57:05.860
at the same time. I mean, you being the person that's asking,

00:57:05.860 --> 00:57:10.540
I'm sure you're aware of this. You can focus so hard when you're in the zone,

00:57:10.540 --> 00:57:14.860
but when you're not in the zone, you cannot focus on,

00:57:14.860 --> 00:57:18.060
does that button work? How do I do it? Maybe.

00:57:18.060 --> 00:57:22.740
Is it going to be a problem if it doesn't work? I don't know. That's right. Do it, do it.

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What was I even going to say? See that? That is what it is.

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And you don't get to pick when you're focused. Exactly.

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And you also don't get to pick when you stop focusing,

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which is also bad. That would be a great superhero.

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Has anyone ever done that as a superhero gimmick, where they like.

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Focus man. Like they can't pick when their powers are active and not.

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Well, you kind of seen that when like Spider-Man's learning. It's like when you play Baldur's Gate with wild magic on.

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And his hands just like stick to things. And he's like, ah, I can't remove my hand from stuff.

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Is Luke doing that thing when you're working from home

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and you're like on a meeting? Is he just looping?

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Yeah. Is he not even there? It's like AI Luke.

00:58:05.620 --> 00:58:09.460
Can you hear us? I don't think he knows that. I don't know what's going on.

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Here, let's indicate that we're talking to him. Hi, Luke.

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Hello, Luke. Can you see us?

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Is he frozen? No, he's not. Are you sure?

00:58:19.660 --> 00:58:24.260
Yeah. Are we getting mean stuff right now? No.

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Luke. OK. Are you there? Yeah, I think he's OK.

00:58:28.700 --> 00:58:32.140
I think he's going to be OK. What?

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I would say the biggest challenge is managing the bursty productivity.

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Yeah. And I mean that both for myself and for unnamed people

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on our team who also are somewhat neurodivergent.

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Because you'll run into a situation where,

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and like back when I was a much more integral part

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of the video pre-production timeline or pipeline,

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I would have this issue where two out of the five days

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of the work week, I would get realistically everything done.

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And then the other three, I'd be all over the place.

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But on the other hand, it can also

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be a superpower during those times. Because it's like this endless fountain of creativity.

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And you can push a bunch of little projects going

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and start a bunch of little fires and see what burns. And then you can hyper-focus and finish

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the other ones, but then also getting something finished,

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finished is really hard. Oh, man.

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I have so many things like I feel like I want to say. Because in my world, I have noticed

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since becoming the starting medication for this condition

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has been an interesting experience. Because I feel like I start way more things than I used to.

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Before, I would get the procrastination of,

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I don't know if I can do this. So I'm just not even going to start.

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I fail before I even get there.

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So now I try, and I start doing something. And then, oh, man, I feel like I can just

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show a photo of this. My desk, maybe I'll just show you.

01:00:11.180 --> 01:00:14.780
Yeah, I can probably just show that on the show, right? Yeah, you can just send it to Dan.

01:00:14.780 --> 01:00:18.980
See that? Can I just hold it in front of the camera? No, you've got to send it to Dan.

01:00:18.980 --> 01:00:22.020
How do I send it to you, Dan? Teams. Teams. Oh, gross.

01:00:22.020 --> 01:00:25.260
Luke, Luke should be back now. See if you can follow closely. Yes.

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Nice. Welcome back. This is going to happen again, just as a warning.

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It's not my fault. Hopefully we can recover faster next time.

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Now we know. OK, I sent you a photo, Dan. Hopefully there's nothing incriminating in there.

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I will. Oh, lordy. It's fine. It's like my desk.

01:00:40.600 --> 01:00:43.880
Yeah, it's OK. Nothing important's ever leaked on WAN before.

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Is there anything NDA on here? No, I think it's probably fine.

01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:54.000
I think it's fine. There's a couple 3D printers. It's a vibe. You'll get the vibe immediately, though.

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Whoop. There you go. OK, so this was my office yesterday.

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Nice. Oh, no, you didn't get into a cleaning frenzy zone, did you?

01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:06.600
Oh, yeah, I did. I cleaned my. I'll show you the after photo, too.

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No, see, the second I saw that. Wait, you put it away. I was going to describe things.

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OK, so. The second I saw that, I was like, you did the thing.

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You were up late tidying, weren't you? No, actually, it was during.

01:01:17.120 --> 01:01:20.800
Jake Tidy. It was the lights were still on. You can see this thing right here.

01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:23.840
Is that like a dad joke bell? Yeah. Is it a real bell? Yeah.

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That's impressive. It gives him dopamine. How did you like ADHD?

01:01:27.160 --> 01:01:30.320
Oh, because you like Amazon ordered it. Wow, we're on the show.

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That right there, that black thing is like a dry box for the 3D printer that's down here.

01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:40.960
Nice. I printed it before that I had the 3D printer. It is still sitting in parts on my desk.

01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:45.560
Now it is sitting in parts beside the 3D printer. Ready to go for something I will never put together.

01:01:45.560 --> 01:01:50.160
Nice. The Prusa XL on the other side, I 3D printed an enclosure for it.

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The Plexiglas I ordered from China is sitting in my closet.

01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:59.600
And so are the rest of the parts for the enclosure that I will definitely put together at some point.

01:01:59.600 --> 01:02:02.720
Those bins, they're all supposed to like on the bottom, the filament serves, they're all supposed to have

01:02:02.720 --> 01:02:05.920
like little things in it to like pass the filament through. They don't.

01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:09.320
I've had them for like two years. So these are all things I've started.

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If you could see under the pile, there's like a BMW manual

01:02:13.160 --> 01:02:16.920
clutch pedal, I was going to make a short throw one. I feel like this was legit.

01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:21.520
I 3D scanned it. This is ADHD though. This could very well be my workspace.

01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:25.240
I love that you had the intent of having a pegboard wall.

01:02:25.240 --> 01:02:29.320
Oh yeah. And you have one tool on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's like that. That is classic.

01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:32.480
That's lower accurate, yeah. That is classic. That's the cannon.

01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:36.680
By the way, I think your carpool mate is waiting for you.

01:02:36.680 --> 01:02:39.880
Do you want me to leave right now? You're vibing.

01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:44.440
OK, cool. Speaking of carpool, you see the cars up there?

01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:48.080
Yeah. All right. Oh, those are tough.

01:02:48.080 --> 01:02:53.560
But anyways, it's like I start more things. So that's cool, but also I don't finish as many.

01:02:53.560 --> 01:02:57.000
That actually transitions us pretty well into something

01:02:57.000 --> 01:03:01.840
that Luke and I need to talk about. Because what will happen first?

01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:06.280
Will Luke complete Final Fantasy 6? Or will I finish painting my bike race?

01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.520
Has been heating up. Hard.

01:03:09.520 --> 01:03:13.000
Dude, you've been painting that bike. It was a cold war for a long time. Yeah.

01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:18.720
And now it's guns are blazing. Dude, you started that before the Pi project, I'm pretty sure.

01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:22.680
And that took ages.

01:03:22.680 --> 01:03:26.840
Did that work? I really hope that worked. Yeah, I get to hear it because I'm monitoring differently.

01:03:26.840 --> 01:03:30.760
So I will say this.

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Do we want to talk about that later? Why don't we get to your merge message? We'll get to your merge message.

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You told me it looks. Well, it's complicated.

01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:41.000
OK, you know what? Let's talk about it now. Let's talk about it now.

01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:44.040
Here we go. Dan. Yes, I did. I'm sending you a little video.

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Sending you a little video. What even is this show anymore? Is there supposed to be topics?

01:03:48.320 --> 01:03:52.400
There are topics. There's more than one. I'll tell you that. Have we done topics yet?

01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:58.560
You've did one, I think. We did one. You've been talking about Powerwall and Garbage for an hour.

01:03:58.560 --> 01:04:02.120
It's not Garbage. It's going to be quality. I hope. It's going to be quality.

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What's the worst that could happen is house burns down. We'll just build another one.

01:04:05.680 --> 01:04:09.040
That's what I was going to say. We'll build new children. That's content.

01:04:09.040 --> 01:04:17.400
Yeah, it's fun. The cats is what I was concerned about. OK, so I got to the point where all the parts that

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needed to be pink were pink.

01:04:20.640 --> 01:04:23.640
I had two little drips. Two little drips.

01:04:23.640 --> 01:04:27.560
You can show the second one first, Dan. But you know how to fix the drips, right?

01:04:27.560 --> 01:04:32.400
Well, here's the problem. Because it's a combination of things.

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Because I'm ambitious slash foolhardy sometimes.

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See, I don't have the same issue with not starting things. I start things.

01:04:39.680 --> 01:04:44.760
That's not a problem. But sometimes I start things that are too big.

01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:48.320
Can I just say before you continue? I know exactly where you're going to go with this.

01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:52.200
And I'm just I want to write it down. But it's in my brain. I just want you to know that I've acknowledged this.

01:04:52.200 --> 01:04:55.360
I know where this is about to go. And I really hope that it's the same place.

01:04:55.360 --> 01:04:58.920
OK, that was a little early, Dan. Go ahead. You're doing great, though.

01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:03.640
OK, now I really know where this is going. So I have no problem starting things.

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But sometimes I am a little too ambitious. So it's a combination of that.

01:05:07.640 --> 01:05:13.400
And I think I, realistically, probably got some bad advice at some stage in the paint selection

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process, because I ended up with a, let's see, 1, 2, 3,

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4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

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Anywhere from about an 11 to a 12 layer paint.

01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:35.560
That is a lot of layers. Yeah, so we got two primer.

01:05:35.560 --> 01:05:38.880
Like different kinds of primer or the same primer? The same primer. Yeah, OK.

01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:43.200
Two of a solid base, a white. And that is all easy.

01:05:43.480 --> 01:05:48.360
Getting it primed and white, no problem.

01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:51.720
But I have, then after that, a candy.

01:05:51.720 --> 01:05:57.480
And candy is tough. Can you clarify how many coats are supposed to be on this?

01:05:57.480 --> 01:06:00.760
Because for about 11 to 12. For the end, OK, so this is right.

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So for the uninitiated, some of the complicated paint coats can be like, here you throw down a base coat of a certain

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color, and then a color coat. And then you have a pearl coat.

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And then you have clear coat. Or maybe you have tinted clear coat. Wow, there's a lot of stages.

01:06:13.640 --> 01:06:19.520
Yeah. So I have. This is one of those. So the four of the primer and then the base color,

01:06:19.520 --> 01:06:24.080
four to five, realistically, to get really good coverage with the white, because it doesn't cover very well

01:06:24.080 --> 01:06:27.120
once you get it reduced for the gun.

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So that's easy. You get a nice even color. If I were to just paint my bike white, OK,

01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:37.640
and just clear coat that, I would have been done ages ago.

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But the pink. The pink candy is a nightmare to get even.

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And I picked the hardest possible thing to paint with it.

01:06:46.240 --> 01:06:51.760
Because if I was doing a hood of a car, that's easy.

01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:55.600
Relatively speaking. I think you would have a lot of paint people that would also

01:06:55.600 --> 01:06:58.720
say a flat surface is easy, but also hard.

01:06:58.720 --> 01:07:02.720
Sure. It's easier to fix the scrubs that you will inevitably have.

01:07:02.720 --> 01:07:06.400
A multifaceted three-dimensional piece

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with nowhere to frickin' hold it. And all these different tiny little surfaces

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is really hard to get even. And I finally, and wheels.

01:07:16.120 --> 01:07:19.640
Yeah, I was just going to say, wait till you try wheels. OK.

01:07:19.640 --> 01:07:22.640
I have progress, though. I have progress on the wheels. But anyway, hold on.

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First, Dan, bring up the picture. I had two little drips.

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Two little drips in the pink. And I actually found a technique to fix them.

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Fixing candy? You read online, they say it's impossible. And it's basically impossible.

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But I found a technique that actually worked. You can kind of see it in the very bottom right.

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Where it was a little bit too big to work on this one. But I almost fixed that spot.

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Are you talking about the part where all the paint is missing? No, no, no. In the very, very bottom right of the gray part.

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Which part? I don't know, Dan. Could you have a mouse cursor?

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Can you even? I'm trying. Whatever. There's a little spot that almost has kind of a little white

01:07:54.960 --> 01:08:00.200
out there. I think I see it. So basically, what happened there was we kind of peeled it back

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and then masked around and then used a little airbrush

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for doing those temp tattoos. Little airbrush, got it on there.

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What was the defect? Was this like a dust nib? Oh, it was an awful drip.

01:08:10.520 --> 01:08:14.520
I don't even know where it came from. Oh, a drip. Yeah. So it was like purple.

01:08:14.520 --> 01:08:19.800
Like it went on so heavy, it was like purple in that spot. So we got it off, managed to put that on.

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It wouldn't have looked great, but it would have been passable for the level of quality that I've resigned to at this point.

01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:29.880
And this is pre-clear coat. But yeah. But when I went to pull the masking tape off,

01:08:29.880 --> 01:08:35.560
it ripped that whole strip off. So Dan, do you want to bring up the video?

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That shouldn't have happened. I don't think that was supposed to happen.

01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:44.640
Not even a little. I don't think your paint is bonded very well. Well, I can tell you that the white is bonded real good

01:08:44.640 --> 01:08:49.640
to the primer because this is how long it took to get the white

01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:52.680
off the primer. It doesn't look like anything's coming out.

01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:56.320
Oh, it's coming out. Oh yeah, you can see it. Wow, it's really on there.

01:08:56.320 --> 01:08:59.960
On the entire front fairing piece of my bike,

01:08:59.960 --> 01:09:04.640
it took like four and a half hours. Oh.

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So I was at the point where everything was pink coated,

01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:16.440
and then this happened. The good news is this piece is now white, needs to be sanded,

01:09:16.440 --> 01:09:21.280
white one more time, and then I'm ready to paint it pink again, and I'm not going to get a drip on it this time.

01:09:21.280 --> 01:09:24.320
And Jake, I figured out wheels. What do you mean?

01:09:24.320 --> 01:09:27.360
My wheels look like butt right now. Yeah.

01:09:27.360 --> 01:09:31.600
So I'm re-white coating them. But we finally found a technique.

01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:35.120
So in order to get the candy on there even, we made this.

01:09:35.120 --> 01:09:39.040
Dan, you can move that. Who is we? Yvonne's been helping me a little bit.

01:09:39.040 --> 01:09:42.360
So we roped her into this. Yeah, we took my drill, and then we

01:09:42.360 --> 01:09:48.600
took a bunch of rolls of tape, like small ones that fit in the big ones, and basically made like a spinny wheel

01:09:48.600 --> 01:09:52.840
on it. And so she basically watches for a landmark

01:09:52.840 --> 01:09:56.200
as it turns around and is like, OK, three, two, one, go.

01:09:56.200 --> 01:10:00.320
And I start spraying. And then she's like, OK, three, two, one, go.

01:10:00.360 --> 01:10:04.080
And I move it off. And it's like, this is spinning the wheel, right?

01:10:04.080 --> 01:10:08.200
Yeah, while she's spinning it with the drill, with like a big tape roll thing on it.

01:10:08.200 --> 01:10:11.400
So I actually 3D printed a thing recently because I bought new wheels.

01:10:11.400 --> 01:10:15.360
Of course. Yeah, because I wanted to ceramic coat them. Of course, the both of those.

01:10:15.360 --> 01:10:18.480
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I 3D printed a thing so I could spin the wheel

01:10:18.480 --> 01:10:22.280
while I was ceramic coating it and then proceeded to not use it.

01:10:22.280 --> 01:10:27.000
I just, I have it. If you're only doing a solid color, it doesn't matter.

01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:31.040
It's not that hard. But if you are, if you're doing a candy

01:10:31.040 --> 01:10:34.960
and I'm not even going for the whole thing, one solid candy.

01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:38.720
So I'm doing a pink stripe. You know, they make like candy powder coating too, right?

01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:43.440
Yeah, well, I didn't do that. And it would have been stronger and cheaper and.

01:10:43.440 --> 01:10:47.320
They wouldn't have matched, though. What? If you did all of them.

01:10:47.320 --> 01:10:52.040
Yeah, but it's not just the candy. There's the two layers of candy and then there's the two layers of pearl.

01:10:52.040 --> 01:10:55.520
Yeah, well, it wouldn't have been the exact same thing. But it would have been pretty nice.

01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:59.160
It probably would have been better overall, to be honest. This is great.

01:10:59.160 --> 01:11:02.440
Also, Beltrick says, just pay a professional, Mr. Millionaire.

01:11:02.440 --> 01:11:07.720
That is not the point. What would I even do if I just paid people to do things?

01:11:07.720 --> 01:11:11.680
What would I do? What would I do? That comment bothered so many people.

01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:16.280
I responded to it. Somebody else in chat responded to it.

01:11:16.280 --> 01:11:20.320
You responded to it. We're all just like, what? No. That is not the point.

01:11:20.320 --> 01:11:24.000
So is the point that you should have just left it?

01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:27.680
Oh, just like left it silver? No, we'll left the fact. Oh, 100% should have done that.

01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:30.680
The drip. Could you not?

01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:34.120
Because I've seen people do drip repairs before.

01:11:34.120 --> 01:11:37.880
I've seen techniques where they fill the surround with Bondo

01:11:37.880 --> 01:11:41.240
and then sand it down so that you're sanding down the Bondo on the outside

01:11:41.240 --> 01:11:46.000
and not ruining the rest of it. I've seen techniques where they just strip everything down and do it again.

01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:50.200
I've seen it where they cut it with a knife, right? So I basically did the knife thing.

01:11:50.200 --> 01:11:55.280
But the only issue is that when I peeled it up, it hadn't cured enough yet.

01:11:55.280 --> 01:11:59.720
It was too fresh. That was bare metal, wasn't it? Because no, no, that was primer.

01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:04.080
So I did the same thing on my tank and the tank worked.

01:12:04.080 --> 01:12:10.520
Did you actually can't find the spot on the tank? Did you not like sand enough between the primer and the top coat?

01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:13.800
So let's see, that was on the...

01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:17.600
Was it too long between? Too little between?

01:12:17.600 --> 01:12:20.800
I think it could have been too long between the primer coat.

01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:25.720
But I think it was just mostly that it hadn't been long enough

01:12:25.720 --> 01:12:30.120
since I did the pink on the white.

01:12:30.120 --> 01:12:34.200
Well, when this is done, I think it would be really fun for us to polish it.

01:12:34.200 --> 01:12:37.360
Oh, God. I want you and me, we should polish it.

01:12:37.360 --> 01:12:40.800
No, we should. It'll be fun. It'll make it look so much better. Dude.

01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:44.160
You have to polish it after, otherwise, it's just not going to look good.

01:12:44.160 --> 01:12:47.760
You're going to get rid of all the dust nibs and stuff? Yeah, you actually do. You actually need to.

01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:51.200
Yeah, that's going to look like crap. That's like requirement, even if you clear coat it. Yeah.

01:12:51.200 --> 01:12:54.920
I mean, usually when a body shop polishes stuff after they paint it,

01:12:54.920 --> 01:13:01.840
it looks like crap, like we fix so many like body shop tried to polish a car.

01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:08.360
Oh, yeah. I have enough hours in this project that for you to say anything that sounds

01:13:08.360 --> 01:13:12.480
anything like more hours is just going to make me instantly recoil.

01:13:12.480 --> 01:13:19.000
It'll only take a couple days. You should right now just put everything in a bin and go to a powder coating shop.

01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:22.800
All your problems. That's what I'm going to do with my wheels. I'm not going to bother.

01:13:22.800 --> 01:13:26.280
Can you powder coat plastic? I don't know. I'm not aware of that.

01:13:26.280 --> 01:13:30.400
I mean, that piece you were looking at was plastic. So yeah, you're going to try candy.

01:13:30.400 --> 01:13:35.840
I should probably. That's that's. Oh, OK. That's that's part of the nightmare of painting a bike is that I have steel

01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:39.840
pieces, aluminum pieces and plastic pieces and they're going to be seven

01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:44.000
different colors, even though he painted a traditional powder coating.

01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:47.120
Does not work on plastic. I think I would melt.

01:13:47.120 --> 01:13:51.160
You have to bake it. I think I've seen plastic, fancy plastic powder coat stuff.

01:13:51.160 --> 01:13:54.320
Yeah, I'm sure I do. There's enough material science these days.

01:13:54.320 --> 01:13:59.760
I'm sure somebody figured something out. Anyway, drive, drive safe industrial methods seem to something, something,

01:13:59.760 --> 01:14:03.800
whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Powder coating is cool, though. Anyways, goodbye. Drive safe.

01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:07.960
See you later, Luke. Bye. See a Linus, I guess.

01:14:07.960 --> 01:14:11.120
Yeah, he he never acknowledges me when I tell him to drive safe.

01:14:11.120 --> 01:14:17.520
Oh, no, I usually say I won't. I also say the same thing to my mom and she doesn't like it.

01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:21.160
No, she wouldn't. Neither do I. Yeah, yeah.

01:14:21.160 --> 01:14:25.280
See you later. So this time this time he crosses the camera.

01:14:25.280 --> 01:14:29.760
Do you know you figured it out that is better to just quickly go that way

01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:32.240
than to painstakingly make his way across over here.

01:14:34.080 --> 01:14:38.280
So I have updates as well. No, he's back.

01:14:38.280 --> 01:14:43.360
Oh, oh. You later. Jeez, OK.

01:14:43.360 --> 01:14:47.200
OK, so how's your OK? So hold on, I should probably give the update.

01:14:47.200 --> 01:14:53.520
So all but that piece that need to be pink are pink, but they still need two

01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:58.960
more pearl coats and then two to three clear coats before I can actually

01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:01.440
like drop anything off for reassembly with the shop.

01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:05.200
So you definitely can't finish before 2 a.m.

01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:11.280
Are you going to be done today? No, but you're going to be leaving the country.

01:15:11.280 --> 01:15:13.520
Oh, yeah. Thus away from your bike.

01:15:14.360 --> 01:15:17.480
Yes. And luckily, my project is portable.

01:15:18.200 --> 01:15:24.640
Yeah. OK, all right. How many how many of the party have you reassembled in the world of ruin?

01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:29.000
I'm in the world of ruin. OK, but just barely.

01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:33.240
Oh, but I still think I still think I'm going to beat you.

01:15:33.280 --> 01:15:36.280
OK, I'm going to beat you. OK, I still think I'm going to beat you.

01:15:36.280 --> 01:15:41.920
Yeah, I. The reason why it's not that good is because I also had a progress issue.

01:15:42.040 --> 01:15:44.720
Oh, no, I lost a save.

01:15:46.360 --> 01:15:50.040
Oh, what? How do you lose a save? You're playing on steam.

01:15:50.040 --> 01:15:54.160
I genuinely have no idea. I have no idea.

01:15:54.160 --> 01:15:58.400
What? How much did you lose? Something happened with quite a bit.

01:15:58.400 --> 01:16:00.080
Something happened with Cloud Sync.

01:16:01.400 --> 01:16:05.600
I like I, you know, I pre-installed it on my laptop.

01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:08.680
I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. I pre-installed it on my laptop

01:16:10.040 --> 01:16:14.000
because I knew a fair amount of playtime while I was on the strip was going to be offline.

01:16:14.080 --> 01:16:19.800
This is Final Fantasy six. Because as it'll inflate, plain chat.

01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:23.600
So I, yeah, I installed it like at my house ahead of time.

01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:28.840
Cloud synced everything before I left. And then on the plane, I loaded it up and it was like.

01:16:31.080 --> 01:16:35.320
Way earlier than where I was, like, like many hours lost.

01:16:35.320 --> 01:16:41.440
Oh, no. Which usually, like I have quit games over that before.

01:16:41.600 --> 01:16:45.760
Like just fully, just whatever. I'm like, no, forget it.

01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:50.000
I'm out. Yeah, that's it. But this is a challenge, a competition of sorts.

01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:53.560
I almost quit Final Fantasy Tactics over an issue like that.

01:16:54.440 --> 01:16:59.840
Yeah, I've done this many times. Yeah, I got to the, I got to the notorious fight

01:17:00.160 --> 01:17:04.840
where if you don't happen to build Ramza correctly,

01:17:05.280 --> 01:17:11.680
you literally can't win it. And I, I ended up, I thought I had lost like 10 hours,

01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:16.920
but I had only lost like three or four. So I, so I stuck it out, but I was so mad.

01:17:17.160 --> 01:17:21.920
I was so mad. I think we've, every gamer has probably felt that.

01:17:22.240 --> 01:17:26.800
And it's just like the rage to how much this matters ratio

01:17:26.840 --> 01:17:31.200
is probably the highest out of anything that I've ever experienced. Because at the end of the day, it's a video game.

01:17:31.200 --> 01:17:35.400
Oh, it's so it doesn't matter at all. But the rage is so high.

01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:40.240
So that was, that was me like

01:17:41.200 --> 01:17:45.680
probably an hour into my flight because I didn't pull up the laptop immediately.

01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:52.280
You know, I kind of got settled. You have to wait for the the belt thingy to the buckle thingy

01:17:52.280 --> 01:17:57.600
to the light to go off, all that kind of stuff. I finally get the laptop. I load it up and I just stare at it for a while,

01:17:58.040 --> 01:18:02.600
thinking like there's got to be some way to fix this, right? And like, obviously, no.

01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:06.800
Livin says, just grind to level Eryth, she'll be great later in the game.

01:18:11.640 --> 01:18:18.640
Yeah. So, yeah, so I I pushed really hard.

01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:23.240
I was for some context, it went so far back, I had no espers.

01:18:27.160 --> 01:18:30.760
Like I lost multiple saves worth and I don't understand

01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:35.000
what at all what happened. Oh, that's wild. Like, I don't know.

01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:38.960
But that's a long time ago on the one flight.

01:18:40.080 --> 01:18:44.080
Because I've now I've done this. So now I know what I'm doing.

01:18:44.080 --> 01:18:46.880
I know where I'm going, those types of things.

01:18:47.440 --> 01:18:53.160
I realize that the some of the things in the game are very weird.

01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:57.640
Like some of Sabin's stuff scale off of magic,

01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:00.880
even though he's like a martial arts guy and stuff like that.

01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:05.160
Oh, yeah. Things things are just kind of odd. But now I know those things.

01:19:05.160 --> 01:19:09.920
So I just got into like a way more experienced run than go mode.

01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:14.160
And I got to past where I was before on the one flight,

01:19:14.320 --> 01:19:18.160
which is like wildly compressed before compared to before.

01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:23.640
And I'm I'm kind of flying.

01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:27.360
I'm I'm much more knowledgeable now on like, you know, checking for

01:19:27.360 --> 01:19:30.640
weaknesses and hitting things with the right magic and stuff like that.

01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:34.040
So like the the fight to get to the floating continent.

01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:40.280
It's blitzed through it. Oh, it was ridiculous.

01:19:40.280 --> 01:19:45.200
Yeah, it ended up being so easy. Like, I think you commented last time we talked about this,

01:19:45.200 --> 01:19:51.960
you commented about how the Pixel remasters too easy, I think you said. Yeah, I get to that fight with Ultras and

01:19:52.760 --> 01:19:58.000
whatever his big buddy is, whatever. Yeah, something or something.

01:19:58.000 --> 01:19:59.960
I think I like two shot Ultras.

01:20:01.640 --> 01:20:05.520
Like just OK, so you're like you're like super overpowered now then.

01:20:05.760 --> 01:20:09.240
I'm jacked. Yeah. All right.

01:20:09.240 --> 01:20:12.400
And like, I'm doing better about like making sure that I'm min maxing.

01:20:12.400 --> 01:20:16.440
OK, how many having the right Esper on the right person when they level up to gain the bonus.

01:20:16.440 --> 01:20:18.800
How many characters do you have in the world of ruin?

01:20:19.800 --> 01:20:22.800
Oh, no, no key suggested a poll, Dan, do it, do it.

01:20:24.800 --> 01:20:28.800
Whether Luke will finish Final Fantasy 6 or I will finish painting the SV 650.

01:20:28.800 --> 01:20:32.800
Sure, give me one second. Now, hold on a second, hold on, we got to define completion here.

01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:37.800
Is Luke allowed to like look up guides when he gets to the world of ruin?

01:20:37.800 --> 01:20:39.800
Or does he use the paper manual?

01:20:42.800 --> 01:20:43.800
I think.

01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:47.800
Paper manual is all I had when I was a kid.

01:20:49.160 --> 01:20:52.040
I feel like it's got to be paper, but you're getting help from a Vaughn.

01:20:52.640 --> 01:20:54.480
Not much for what it's worth.

01:20:56.640 --> 01:21:03.240
And I'm there working on it every time. I will say I am completely down with whatever judgment comes here.

01:21:03.240 --> 01:21:06.880
OK, and I'm totally fine with paper, man. Honestly, no, let's do paper manual.

01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:10.040
Is my completion complete when I finish painting it

01:21:10.080 --> 01:21:11.880
or when the shop assembles the bike?

01:21:15.480 --> 01:21:18.280
I feel like when are you going to let your beard grow up?

01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:22.480
When I'm done painting, not when the shop finishes assembly.

01:21:22.480 --> 01:21:26.840
No, no, no, I'll do when I'm done. When I'm done painting, I'm done like I don't need the mask anymore.

01:21:28.480 --> 01:21:33.480
Then personally, I think it's paint. OK, I'm making this harder for myself.

01:21:33.480 --> 01:21:39.880
I'm saying paper manual and you can just finish when you're painting. But I think both of those things make sense as much as I'm some people are saying

01:21:39.880 --> 01:21:42.680
they think I should be OK, just for to catch you guys up.

01:21:43.400 --> 01:21:47.440
The the bet is whether Luke will finish Final Fantasy 6,

01:21:47.480 --> 01:21:53.720
a game that I've been bugging him to play basically since we met, because it was like my favorite childhood game, even though I have realized

01:21:53.720 --> 01:21:57.600
in also playing through the Pixel remaster at the same time as him,

01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:04.680
because I got it in my head at some point that I was going to be super ambitious and both finish Final Fantasy 6 and paint my bike in the time it took him to finish it.

01:22:04.680 --> 01:22:09.400
Anyway, that's not happening. Or if I will finish painting my motorcycle,

01:22:09.400 --> 01:22:12.480
which has been an ongoing project for, I think, about two years now.

01:22:13.480 --> 01:22:18.000
Oh, OK, I'm going to look at the results.

01:22:18.520 --> 01:22:23.960
I'm ready to see the results. I'm kind of afraid to look at the results.

01:22:24.160 --> 01:22:26.280
OK, I'm looking at the results.

01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:30.280
Who will finish first? Come on.

01:22:31.840 --> 01:22:36.680
Move it over. Sorry, sorry, I'll move it. I'll move it. Normally, with this question, you think it'd be the other way around.

01:22:36.680 --> 01:22:39.400
But 80 percent. Yeah.

01:22:41.920 --> 01:22:45.120
Wow. Three kids, buddy.

01:22:45.480 --> 01:22:47.720
Three kids. Yeah, exactly.

01:22:51.760 --> 01:22:56.040
Get that other pull out of there. We all know they all use Firefox.

01:22:56.320 --> 01:23:03.040
Jeez. Well, you know what? You know what, haters, I'm going to go home tonight and I'm going to pack

01:23:03.040 --> 01:23:06.000
and I'm going to do some sanding. Yeah, sure.

01:23:06.240 --> 01:23:12.560
How how much? Because I know no way when

01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:18.000
when honestly, when the when the ship flying thing was happening,

01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:21.720
when I was getting to the floating continent. Yeah, I thought the game was ending.

01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:27.240
This is the final fantasy.

01:23:29.040 --> 01:23:33.560
I suppose you imagine that the final boss only has two phases, right?

01:23:34.560 --> 01:23:41.040
Yeah, I have no idea. The only other final fantasy I've played through is eight and with eight

01:23:41.520 --> 01:23:46.440
I played it through on PC. So you had all the discs. So you kind of knew, right?

01:23:46.440 --> 01:23:48.200
Like there's more content coming, right?

01:23:49.840 --> 01:23:55.160
When. When I when I hit floating continent, I was like, oh,

01:23:56.560 --> 01:24:00.480
OK, I guess there's more to this.

01:24:01.320 --> 01:24:05.600
There's a lot more to it. Yeah, I kind of got that vibe.

01:24:07.040 --> 01:24:12.040
I also started kind of mulling over like, all right, well,

01:24:12.040 --> 01:24:15.440
there's like a level cap and stuff at my level is not very high.

01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:20.480
I don't know if you're expected to hit the level cap because I'm like, I don't know, I can't like Pokemon.

01:24:20.480 --> 01:24:24.120
You're not at all. OK, cool. Yeah, no, not even a little.

01:24:25.280 --> 01:24:29.520
Do you remember what the stakes are of this bet? No, he's asking.

01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:35.400
Are there stakes? I don't even remember. It was so long ago that I literally cannot remember the

01:24:35.400 --> 01:24:39.480
circumstances of us making this bet. I don't think there was. It was just sort of like.

01:24:40.360 --> 01:24:43.680
Honor underestimate how hard we will try.

01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:47.120
It was a friendly handshake kind of bragging rights type of thing.

01:24:47.120 --> 01:24:53.040
Yeah. Yeah, I don't honestly. I got so focused on who says maybe we should vote again

01:24:53.040 --> 01:24:56.120
after hearing you talk about how you thought the game was over

01:24:56.120 --> 01:25:00.160
and you're at the halfway mark. Well, I'm not looking stuff up.

01:25:00.160 --> 01:25:05.680
I'm trying to like and honestly, it hit a lull there the last time I was playing.

01:25:05.920 --> 01:25:09.640
Yeah, it's cooking again. The game's fun again right now.

01:25:09.640 --> 01:25:11.760
How many characters do you have in the world of Ruin?

01:25:14.480 --> 01:25:18.200
I'd have to load it up. OK, you have more than one, though.

01:25:18.200 --> 01:25:22.600
Do you have you have Tara? Yeah, yeah. Oh, OK, you're OK.

01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:25.480
You're moving pretty good, then he's moving pretty good, boys.

01:25:26.480 --> 01:25:30.280
I will say that I definitely hit a lull again

01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:35.520
to the point where I just like haven't played it again after where we are.

01:25:36.240 --> 01:25:39.920
Oh, yeah, OK. With most of the party, I mean, the game is long.

01:25:40.440 --> 01:25:44.400
It's such a long game. It makes sense that there'd be multiple lull points.

01:25:44.520 --> 01:25:51.240
The only thing I'm not really enjoying right now is that it feels like it has a man.

01:25:51.240 --> 01:25:54.440
It's a great game. I need to be very clear about that before I complain about anything.

01:25:54.480 --> 01:25:59.600
It's fantastic. But if I played this game at like the same time that you did,

01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:03.360
this would probably be in my like top three all time. I'm not even I'm not surprised.

01:26:03.360 --> 01:26:06.720
It is good. It has an edge perfectly.

01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:10.080
Yeah, and I think one of the things that has made it not age perfectly

01:26:10.080 --> 01:26:14.680
is it came from an era where people would like in a review of a game,

01:26:14.800 --> 01:26:18.000
people would include the estimated completion time.

01:26:18.240 --> 01:26:21.480
And if it was too short, they'd complain. People would rate it lowly.

01:26:21.480 --> 01:26:30.320
And you know what? Which was dumb. Dude, that is something we never touch on when we discuss the cost of games over time.

01:26:31.360 --> 01:26:35.400
Because back when we were buying games for 60, 70 US dollars,

01:26:35.880 --> 01:26:40.440
but it was the mid 90s, games were fucking expensive.

01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:47.040
Like, I don't think I knew anyone as a kid who had more than like half a dozen games in their library for a given console.

01:26:47.040 --> 01:26:54.520
So your game needed to be long so you could get a lot of value. By the time you had five games, you had literally spent more than you spent

01:26:54.520 --> 01:26:57.200
on the console and controllers on the game titles, right?

01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:00.200
Like that was the dynamic.

01:27:00.520 --> 01:27:04.520
Whereas now we treat games like they're just disposable, you know?

01:27:04.760 --> 01:27:10.120
Like, oh, yeah, I tried that game. I didn't really like it. I like I played it for too long to get a steam refund.

01:27:10.120 --> 01:27:14.080
So like whatever. But it was eight dollars in the steam summer sale.

01:27:14.080 --> 01:27:17.600
So who cares? Yeah, you know, yeah, it's a totally different mentality.

01:27:18.040 --> 01:27:21.200
You know, like having more than four or five games was pretty surprising.

01:27:21.200 --> 01:27:25.840
So remember, people would do a lot of trade ins and stuff back then, too, because things are so expensive. Oh, no.

01:27:25.840 --> 01:27:29.880
Or you trade with your buddies or whatever. People say you'll love Expedition 33.

01:27:29.880 --> 01:27:34.640
Yeah, I I'm not going to play it right now

01:27:34.640 --> 01:27:39.240
because I need to finish fantasy six. But I wish listed it because it looks really cool.

01:27:39.280 --> 01:27:46.280
Yeah, I think you got time, Luke. I haven't I haven't finished rewinding the wheels yet.

01:27:47.240 --> 01:27:52.680
After I do that, I have to pink the wheels. After I do that, I have to mask the wheels.

01:27:52.840 --> 01:27:56.360
Then I have to black them. Then I have to clear coat them.

01:27:57.320 --> 01:28:00.680
And I was I was legitimately worried you're going to be done on this show.

01:28:01.040 --> 01:28:04.280
Dude, it has to start again. Dude, no.

01:28:04.280 --> 01:28:08.320
And and the scariest part of the whole thing is still coming

01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:13.960
because the frame, which I did pink ages ago, I never did the pro on.

01:28:14.280 --> 01:28:18.560
So it's been sitting there for about a year with just pink on it.

01:28:18.920 --> 01:28:23.440
So I have to clean it. I have to tack cloth it and then I have to.

01:28:23.440 --> 01:28:26.160
Oh, my God, I hope I succeed at this.

01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:30.480
Do my very first pearl coat. I haven't purled anything yet.

01:28:30.480 --> 01:28:37.360
So there's plenty of time for me to screw up and have to go back to square one on any number of different parts.

01:28:37.360 --> 01:28:41.920
Like I am I am many, many, many hours from completion on this.

01:28:44.240 --> 01:28:48.440
Yeah, I pulls just about the one thing I'm kind of noticing is just the.

01:28:51.120 --> 01:28:54.120
The kind of like I gain 15 points in the polls, though.

01:28:54.200 --> 01:28:58.400
Sorry, I'm listening. The time wasty bits.

01:28:58.400 --> 01:29:03.160
Oh, the grind. The grind. And I mean, that's that's a classic.

01:29:03.160 --> 01:29:06.240
You're coming up on some grindtastic parts.

01:29:06.240 --> 01:29:12.920
I'll tell you that much. Like some of the spells that have like one X growth rate and stuff.

01:29:14.840 --> 01:29:16.240
Oh,

01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:22.160
I'm being a little bit more intentional about like.

01:29:23.200 --> 01:29:28.280
Trying to actually use the espers to learn spells and back to the completion thing.

01:29:29.040 --> 01:29:31.280
Does he have to get the whole party together?

01:29:32.600 --> 01:29:36.760
And I'm not even talking about like optional characters like go go and you,

01:29:36.760 --> 01:29:41.640
Mario, I'm talking does he have to get the world of balance cast back together?

01:29:41.920 --> 01:29:46.440
Or can he just like try to take on Kefka's tower with like eight?

01:29:48.680 --> 01:29:53.000
People are saying any percent. They say any percent. You can do whatever you want.

01:29:53.000 --> 01:29:55.600
Almost everybody's saying no or any percent.

01:29:56.120 --> 01:29:59.280
But interesting to be. There's no way it's going to play a game like that.

01:29:59.280 --> 01:30:03.560
That's hilarious. There's I know this man too well. I already knew the answer before I asked the question.

01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:07.120
There's absolutely no way. No shot.

01:30:07.120 --> 01:30:10.880
Well, it was the answer. There's no way you're not going to get the whole team back together.

01:30:10.880 --> 01:30:15.400
There's just no way because I was going to say, I'm probably going to do it anyway.

01:30:16.840 --> 01:30:21.040
A huge part of what makes this game so special is the ensemble cast and you kind

01:30:21.040 --> 01:30:24.240
of get attached to them. He's not going to not go get fucking shadow.

01:30:24.240 --> 01:30:27.240
Like you got to be kidding me. You saved shadow, right?

01:30:27.240 --> 01:30:30.840
Of course. Oh, good. I thought he was going to say who.

01:30:30.840 --> 01:30:34.080
Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, that's so funny.

01:30:34.080 --> 01:30:41.240
I got a little freaked out about it. I I did I did do a little worried save.

01:30:41.240 --> 01:30:44.840
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because I was like, I don't know if this like he might

01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:49.560
actually just die, but I'm happy that he doesn't.

01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:56.800
Yeah. So I thought I'm going to I'm I'm the whole chat said any percent or no.

01:30:56.800 --> 01:31:03.800
But honestly, I'm I'm going to go get everyone. So it doesn't really make a difference for me because I'm planning on trying to get everybody.

01:31:03.840 --> 01:31:07.720
I didn't actually that was a mine. I don't care to be clear, but that's a minor spoiler

01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:09.360
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All right, it says two to three more topics. Oh my goodness.

01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:13.880
We haven't talked about the VPN firm that canceled lifetime subscriptions

01:34:13.880 --> 01:34:17.120
because, and I quote, they didn't know about them.

01:34:17.760 --> 01:34:20.280
This is amazing. Source is ours, Technica.

01:34:21.000 --> 01:34:23.720
My jaw just about hit the floor when I was reading this.

01:34:24.440 --> 01:34:30.400
In March of this year, VPN secure customers began complaining online about

01:34:30.400 --> 01:34:33.080
lifetime subscriptions no longer working.

01:34:33.840 --> 01:34:38.320
Lifetime subscription holders then began receiving emails that stated

01:34:38.480 --> 01:34:42.840
lifetime deal accounts had been deactivated as of April 28th.

01:34:43.720 --> 01:34:48.840
An email posted on Reddit notes that VPN secure has been acquired by new ownership

01:34:48.840 --> 01:34:51.720
in 2023 in an asset only deal.

01:34:52.160 --> 01:34:57.800
So this new owner acquired the technology domain and customer database, but

01:34:57.800 --> 01:35:00.800
not the liabilities. That is a direct quote.

01:35:04.520 --> 01:35:13.360
What? Glorious. The new ownership claims that the previous owner did not disclose that thousands

01:35:13.400 --> 01:35:18.720
of LTDs or lifetime deals had been sold through platforms like stack social.

01:35:19.200 --> 01:35:22.600
And they stated that they only discovered the lifetime deal accounts month

01:35:22.600 --> 01:35:27.720
later after finding that their resources were being strained by LTD customers who

01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:30.400
provided no sustaining income to the service.

01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:38.200
Too bad. When you acquire a company, you get, okay, hold on.

01:35:39.120 --> 01:35:43.920
VPN secure sent out an additional email this week reiterating that the acquisition

01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:46.800
was an asset only deal. Don't you understand?

01:35:46.960 --> 01:35:53.200
It was an asset only deal. And after we reviewed six to 12 months of VPN secure's previous financials before

01:35:53.200 --> 01:35:57.080
the purchase, the listing, profit and loss statements and communications never

01:35:57.080 --> 01:36:03.960
mentioned these lifetime deals. Yeah. But you see the P and L if you see the profit and loss, then what are we even

01:36:03.960 --> 01:36:09.080
talking about here? If it was an asset only deal, it should have quite literally

01:36:09.640 --> 01:36:16.280
canceled all subscriptions. Well, yeah, then you should have no, you can't have it both ways.

01:36:16.360 --> 01:36:24.920
You can't have the monthly subscriptions, but not the lifetime deal. You don't get to pick which customers you acquired VPN secure has offered

01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:30.400
affected users, discounted new subscriptions of $1.87 a month instead of

01:36:30.400 --> 01:36:37.120
$9.95 $19 for a year instead of $80 or $55 for three years instead of $107

01:36:37.160 --> 01:36:39.560
until the end of May. Here's a suggestion.

01:36:40.280 --> 01:36:45.920
How about you not buy anything from a company that treats you so disrespectfully?

01:36:47.240 --> 01:36:54.240
There's an idea. And I'm not even going to poison this segment by mentioning another VPN that

01:36:54.240 --> 01:36:57.280
you could sign up for, because that is not the point right now.

01:36:57.680 --> 01:37:00.400
The point right now is don't give them a dime.

01:37:01.600 --> 01:37:07.960
Not one penny. If you weren't worth it to them as a customer, who by the way, already paid

01:37:08.040 --> 01:37:11.520
for the service, then you aren't worth it to them as a customer.

01:37:11.840 --> 01:37:18.000
Period. That's how this works. Since March, there have apparently been 20 pages of one star reviews on

01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:22.560
TrustPilot and VPN secure is responding on TrustPilot, acknowledging it

01:37:22.560 --> 01:37:24.920
could have communicated better with customers.

01:37:25.560 --> 01:37:30.760
No, no, what you could have done is not reneg on a deal.

01:37:33.400 --> 01:37:36.040
Yeah, I don't think there's a way to communicate this better.

01:37:37.760 --> 01:37:47.040
I think I'm going to be pissed anyways. And it also says, despite not assuming the previous company's contracts or

01:37:47.040 --> 01:37:50.040
payments, that doesn't sound right. They had the monthlies, right?

01:37:50.680 --> 01:37:55.320
As far as I know, the new ownership says they kept the lifetime accounts

01:37:55.320 --> 01:37:58.800
active for two years as a gesture of goodwill. No, they didn't notice it.

01:37:58.800 --> 01:38:01.200
You didn't know. They made it very clear they didn't notice it.

01:38:01.880 --> 01:38:05.040
And then their third message claims the new owners didn't gain access to the

01:38:05.040 --> 01:38:08.680
customer database for months after the acquisition. Dude, I'm sorry.

01:38:08.680 --> 01:38:12.080
I just don't feel bad for you. That's, I'm sorry.

01:38:14.000 --> 01:38:19.560
I, there's no, there is absolutely no right answer here.

01:38:19.840 --> 01:38:27.040
I'm afraid. I hope the incredibly low cost of VPN users was worth the 20 pages and

01:38:27.040 --> 01:38:30.120
hopefully and probably more one star reviews you're having now.

01:38:31.240 --> 01:38:36.800
Idiots. Who's FA1 says, Luke, would you sue the company if you had a lifetime sub?

01:38:38.080 --> 01:38:41.800
Ugh. Come on. We all know the answer.

01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:50.360
No. Yeah. It's so much work and it's probably so expensive.

01:38:51.080 --> 01:38:57.240
Yeah, basically. And it's like, I think that's something that a lot of people don't necessarily

01:38:57.240 --> 01:39:02.560
consider is that it's really easy to make a video about how you're

01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:06.880
suing someone or whatever, actually following through on it, like to the

01:39:06.880 --> 01:39:11.800
point where there's an actual judgment and or settlement of some sort.

01:39:13.120 --> 01:39:16.160
That's like, it's a ton of work and it's boring.

01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:23.520
No one's interested in it. It's not content anymore. Only the initial announcement, you know, the big bombshell is content.

01:39:23.840 --> 01:39:27.040
Nothing else is content. So it's just going to die.

01:39:27.280 --> 01:39:32.320
And it's just, and it's like, you got to, you got to weigh the cost benefit, right?

01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:36.000
Like, what is Luke owed dozens of dollars?

01:39:36.640 --> 01:39:40.480
What's it going to cost to have even an exploratory call with a lawyer?

01:39:42.320 --> 01:39:48.240
Come on. Yeah. If somebody already set up a class action lawsuit, people are asking if I would

01:39:48.240 --> 01:39:51.680
join that and it's like, even then, man, like, what am I going to get from it?

01:39:52.720 --> 01:39:56.960
Like, I'm going to click one button and it's going to say, okay, I'm going to

01:39:56.960 --> 01:39:59.920
button. I don't know.

01:40:00.200 --> 01:40:07.640
Sure. I think the honestly, the biggest impact thing that I could do is to obviously

01:40:07.640 --> 01:40:11.960
never bring them my business again, go somewhere else, leave that one star review

01:40:12.160 --> 01:40:17.160
and try to get as many other people to do the same because if they have one star

01:40:17.160 --> 01:40:21.640
reviews everywhere, like if it's like, you know, there's trust pilot, but if they

01:40:21.640 --> 01:40:26.080
also have one star reviews on, I'm assuming they're on the app stores and

01:40:26.080 --> 01:40:30.400
everything else, they have just one star reviews everywhere and that's it.

01:40:30.400 --> 01:40:33.920
Unless they do a major rebrand, which is going to cost them a huge amount of

01:40:33.920 --> 01:40:39.480
money and kind of ruin a huge part of the reason why they bought this company.

01:40:39.480 --> 01:40:47.800
Anyways, they're just like, there's so many VPNs out there.

01:40:48.080 --> 01:40:52.320
People aren't going to just go to the, the one star one constantly.

01:40:52.600 --> 01:40:56.360
Um, people are talking about small claims court.

01:40:57.240 --> 01:41:01.920
I can't speak to every other jurisdiction, but small claims court here is intended

01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:09.960
for like local defendants. Like I can't take some like Israeli or, you know, Chinese company to small

01:41:09.960 --> 01:41:12.000
claims court like that.

01:41:13.080 --> 01:41:18.600
Come on. They would have under what authority am I going to summon them to the courthouse?

01:41:19.200 --> 01:41:22.400
Like that, that's the thing, right? Like it, it's not happening.

01:41:23.160 --> 01:41:27.800
Um, anyway, someone says in the US, you can.

01:41:27.840 --> 01:41:30.520
Okay. Well, that's great. And I wish you luck with that.

01:41:31.040 --> 01:41:35.520
Um, but yeah, here it's woefully impractical.

01:41:36.920 --> 01:41:41.880
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know the nice voice crack. I don't know the, uh, the country lines thing.

01:41:41.880 --> 01:41:46.000
Like we're only going to be aware of our, our local stuff.

01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:50.600
And even then barely, if I'm being completely honest.

01:41:50.640 --> 01:41:54.240
Inception was says, if they don't show up, then the judge sides with you and

01:41:54.240 --> 01:41:57.360
small claims court. Yeah, that's nice. But so what?

01:41:57.680 --> 01:41:59.640
How am I going to actually get anything from them?

01:42:01.040 --> 01:42:05.880
Is, is the judge also going to like get on a plane and go to their headquarters

01:42:05.880 --> 01:42:10.840
and like rough them out if they don't pay it? Definitely going to go get my colors.

01:42:13.520 --> 01:42:18.680
It's not, it's not actually that simple to actually get the money out of

01:42:18.680 --> 01:42:22.600
someone that supposedly has lost in small claims court.

01:42:24.800 --> 01:42:27.120
Um, all right.

01:42:28.760 --> 01:42:32.680
What else? What else we got this week? Do we want to talk about some good news?

01:42:34.320 --> 01:42:37.720
Yeah. This is so cool.

01:42:38.000 --> 01:42:42.360
Uh, here I'm going to, I'm going to fire up the promo that Phillips did.

01:42:42.800 --> 01:42:50.480
Let's go. This is like, dude, how is a company this big doing something this cool?

01:42:52.480 --> 01:42:56.000
I was stunned to be honest. Is this, this is real. This is real.

01:42:56.000 --> 01:42:59.320
That is incredible. This is real. Fixables.

01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:05.280
Dude, they partnered with Prusa. This was the point of 3D printing when it was first like coming onto the scene

01:43:05.280 --> 01:43:12.440
like a decade ago. Dude. So you could just like, oh my God, you could just make Phillips compatible

01:43:12.440 --> 01:43:15.920
like replacement pieces and adapters and they've got a whole thing.

01:43:15.920 --> 01:43:19.720
Like, look, dude, this is so cool.

01:43:19.720 --> 01:43:23.000
They've got, they've got Joseph freaking Prusa and the promo for it.

01:43:23.040 --> 01:43:26.120
It's like the best news a WAN shows ever has. Right.

01:43:26.440 --> 01:43:30.920
This is genuinely incredibly cool. They will have my business for this reason.

01:43:31.160 --> 01:43:34.360
I, yeah, 30 years ago. Yeah. Dude, I don't know anything.

01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:39.320
I don't, okay. I don't not know anything. I don't know much about Phillips, right?

01:43:39.680 --> 01:43:43.320
In, in the last, you know, 10 years, what have they done that's been on my radar?

01:43:43.360 --> 01:43:45.200
They have overpriced light bulbs.

01:43:47.720 --> 01:43:52.000
I don't know. They have like, oh, we use them here. The, the WAN set has the Phillips hue.

01:43:52.320 --> 01:43:59.320
Sure. Right. But like, like, have they done anything that has even remotely seemed this cool

01:43:59.520 --> 01:44:02.000
that has shown up on your guys's radar in the last decade?

01:44:04.440 --> 01:44:10.400
Definitely not. But I don't think anyone in the spaces that Phillips operates in has either to

01:44:10.400 --> 01:44:13.800
defend them a little bit. Oh, no, no, no, I'm not attacking them. I'm not attacking them.

01:44:13.840 --> 01:44:18.040
I'm just making it clear for other people. They do a lot of health care stuff.

01:44:18.080 --> 01:44:22.960
Dude, this came completely out of nowhere for me.

01:44:23.480 --> 01:44:29.840
Oh, me too. And I was just so, I was so excited to see this that I just didn't, I don't,

01:44:29.840 --> 01:44:32.800
I don't really know what else to say other than this is super cool.

01:44:33.440 --> 01:44:37.280
So they've teamed up with Prusa Research to launch Phillips fixables aiming to

01:44:37.280 --> 01:44:41.400
encourage self-repair of Phillips products using 3D printed replacement

01:44:41.400 --> 01:44:44.520
components, which will be available on printables.com.

01:44:44.920 --> 01:44:49.840
Phillips will include recommended print settings to ensure that your 3D printed

01:44:49.840 --> 01:44:55.320
parts are sturdy enough to be a long-term solution. And there's only one design so far, but the website and promo video show

01:44:55.320 --> 01:44:58.800
additional 3D printed parts for Phillips grooming products and users are able to

01:44:58.800 --> 01:45:03.760
submit requests for specific parts if they're not already available.

01:45:03.960 --> 01:45:07.680
So it's baby steps right now in the infancy.

01:45:07.880 --> 01:45:13.800
But right now, if this is what it seems to be on the surface, I am so amped.

01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:18.800
And this is enough for to significantly sway my purchase decisions between like

01:45:18.800 --> 01:45:24.240
a Phillips something or an Oral-B that thing or, you know, a Norel co-shaver

01:45:24.240 --> 01:45:28.360
or a Phillips shaver like I am, you know, I'm so in. Same here, same here.

01:45:28.600 --> 01:45:33.720
You know, what's interesting is people are talking about how apparently it's like trending on Thingiverse or whatever already.

01:45:35.440 --> 01:45:44.080
I wonder if this could be an interesting way to inform like product development.

01:45:44.840 --> 01:45:50.000
Because if you see that one part in comparison to all the other ones that

01:45:50.000 --> 01:45:53.600
you're you're offering, if they don't mind this really often, they're crazy.

01:45:53.600 --> 01:45:59.640
Yeah, you're like, wow, this one part seems to be breaking a lot. Let's let's re-engineer that a little bit on the next model and make it better.

01:45:59.640 --> 01:46:05.640
Or like everyone and their dog prints a number five and a half, you know,

01:46:06.840 --> 01:46:10.240
buzz cut guard. Maybe we should add that. That should be in the standard kit.

01:46:10.360 --> 01:46:15.240
You know, dude, that this is this is cash money or I hope it is.

01:46:15.280 --> 01:46:18.880
That's so killer. This kind of behavior should absolutely be rewarded.

01:46:19.120 --> 01:46:24.720
It will affect my purchase decisions easily. If there's a Phillips equivalent to something else, I'm reaching for the Phillips.

01:46:24.760 --> 01:46:28.040
Panda says Phillips is Norelco Law. OK, well, fine.

01:46:28.040 --> 01:46:30.640
Branding works then, I guess they've indoctrinated me.

01:46:31.720 --> 01:46:34.920
Someone in Full Plane Chat also said that they're in the market for a new

01:46:34.920 --> 01:46:41.200
beard trimmer and they're going to get a Phillips one now because of it. This is like this is where, you know, voting with your wallet works both ways.

01:46:41.200 --> 01:46:47.080
Right? Yeah. And I hate how often it has to be like a negative message.

01:46:47.520 --> 01:46:53.360
This is this is exciting. This is an opportunity for us to send a positive message.

01:46:53.600 --> 01:46:59.400
Gives me hope for the future. I was actually I went as far as ordering the replacement battery for my

01:47:00.080 --> 01:47:03.880
my electric toothbrush. I think it's a I want to say it's an oral B or something like that.

01:47:03.880 --> 01:47:08.920
And I was so I was so annoyed to discover how difficult it is to replace the battery in it.

01:47:09.040 --> 01:47:13.120
But I found out it's possible. And then I had a video title idea in my mind that was like

01:47:14.520 --> 01:47:20.520
my toothbrush shouldn't be this hard to fix. And the idea was I was going to do like a handful of little fixes around the house

01:47:20.520 --> 01:47:25.640
that were like rejuvenating things. And then we did that sponsored thing with what's their nuts

01:47:27.760 --> 01:47:31.600
life and or something like that. And I started using that toothbrush and then I got distracted by some other shiny

01:47:31.600 --> 01:47:39.760
video projects. And then we never so we never ended up doing the video. But having had that experience with that other toothbrush

01:47:40.040 --> 01:47:43.880
and then seeing Phillips's attitude here, there's just absolutely no question

01:47:43.880 --> 01:47:49.120
that I would consider a brand that built that kind of impossible to repair ability

01:47:49.120 --> 01:47:53.480
into their toothbrush anymore. I just wouldn't even consider it anymore.

01:47:53.480 --> 01:47:54.480
Yeah.

01:47:58.800 --> 01:48:06.280
All right. I'm looking them up right now because I'm not. I wasn't actually sure of the the brand of my toothbrush and shaver.

01:48:06.640 --> 01:48:11.520
And I guess I'm already in the Philips ecosystem. So there's not a ton more I can do.

01:48:11.520 --> 01:48:16.440
All right, let's go. But but hey, they'll have continued

01:48:18.920 --> 01:48:24.680
purchases for me, I guess, over time. Well, I mean, we're in a unique position where there's definitely things that we

01:48:24.680 --> 01:48:28.000
can do, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

01:48:28.000 --> 01:48:33.680
So at least there's that. So, you know, back to the VPN thing and this, you know, we could talk about it

01:48:33.680 --> 01:48:37.400
on the Wancho. Yeah, yeah, that hopefully makes a difference.

01:48:38.320 --> 01:48:40.120
All right. What else? What else we got this week?

01:48:45.320 --> 01:48:50.120
Energy Star going down. I want to talk about podcasters not wanting public play counts.

01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:58.280
Spotify is funny to me. Spotify has responded to podcaster backlash over the plays feature that was

01:48:58.280 --> 01:49:04.840
announced last week. Plays was announced as a new publicly visible metric of how many times an

01:49:04.840 --> 01:49:09.800
episode of a podcast has been actively watched or listened to rounded to the

01:49:09.800 --> 01:49:14.400
nearest thousand. Spotify said this would help users attract new audiences.

01:49:14.680 --> 01:49:20.040
But podcasters were quick to criticize the feature with most feeling that plays

01:49:20.040 --> 01:49:23.200
would give additional promotion to podcasts that already have large

01:49:23.200 --> 01:49:27.560
audiences and make small shows less appealing to new listeners.

01:49:28.400 --> 01:49:31.560
Spotify announced changes earlier today, updating the program.

01:49:31.720 --> 01:49:37.120
So plays only start to be displayed after 50,000 plays and will only update

01:49:37.120 --> 01:49:41.080
at specific milestones instead of being more granular.

01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:45.040
So look, what do you think about this?

01:49:46.040 --> 01:49:48.720
I feel like their update might be worse

01:49:51.560 --> 01:50:00.120
because because now people are just going to see all the above and discard everything else, which is like so bad.

01:50:02.440 --> 01:50:06.240
Wow. Yeah, I feel like that's like the worst pivot they could have almost

01:50:06.240 --> 01:50:10.720
possibly done. I'm not. I feel like, you know, weird way.

01:50:11.000 --> 01:50:15.520
I'm not super surprised that some podcasters don't want to show the play

01:50:15.520 --> 01:50:19.800
count. Yeah, I have got. Oh, I've got so many thoughts about that.

01:50:19.800 --> 01:50:27.400
But yes, carry on. Yeah. I mean, a lot of that comes down to podcast ad rates being like super,

01:50:27.400 --> 01:50:32.560
super high for some reason compared to any other form of media,

01:50:32.560 --> 01:50:36.640
which I've never understood. And now I'm wondering if it's because play counts are hidden.

01:50:37.480 --> 01:50:44.240
Um, as far as I can tell, the entire model for podcast advertising,

01:50:44.240 --> 01:50:51.360
which yes, to your point, commands an astonishing CPM compared to

01:50:52.000 --> 01:50:57.360
like compared to video, which makes no sense to me. Absolutely no sense.

01:50:58.320 --> 01:51:03.400
The only difference as far as I can tell and the reason that podcasting

01:51:03.400 --> 01:51:08.080
commands this extremely high rate is that it has this air of like

01:51:10.240 --> 01:51:16.360
exclusivities are not exclusivity, but like professionalism slash old media

01:51:16.480 --> 01:51:20.600
that it has somehow carried over from the radio days and a lot of

01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:26.720
relationships with radio advertisers moved into the podcasting space.

01:51:27.160 --> 01:51:32.880
And because it uses a lot of the same bullshit metrics that newspapers

01:51:32.960 --> 01:51:36.760
and magazines and radio did to calculate their reach.

01:51:37.080 --> 01:51:42.000
So podcasting advertisers, as far as I can tell,

01:51:42.160 --> 01:51:48.440
have just been bamboozled for years and years and years into paying rates

01:51:48.440 --> 01:51:52.640
that make absolutely no sense as far as I can tell.

01:51:52.960 --> 01:51:58.880
Like I have seen the numbers that agencies have floated by us for what

01:51:58.880 --> 01:52:02.960
they think a podcast that is equivalently sized to the WAN Show

01:52:03.280 --> 01:52:06.560
might be able to bring in and I'm looking at it going like,

01:52:06.920 --> 01:52:12.760
this is more than we do in AdSense, sponsor integrations and like

01:52:13.680 --> 01:52:19.720
merch sales. Like what, what is even, what is even going on right now?

01:52:20.000 --> 01:52:24.880
But it's very, very old media, the way that the podcasting advertising

01:52:24.880 --> 01:52:30.640
space works and I guarantee you the last thing they want is transparency

01:52:31.160 --> 01:52:35.600
in terms of seeing how many people are actually listening to any of this.

01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:39.440
And it's something that I've tried to, it's something I've tried to figure

01:52:39.440 --> 01:52:43.440
out multiple times because every once in a while I will have someone

01:52:43.440 --> 01:52:50.000
reach out and invite me onto their podcast. And one of the things that I will try to figure out is and like, look,

01:52:50.000 --> 01:52:54.400
I'm not, I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but is this a real

01:52:54.440 --> 01:53:01.640
podcast, you know, or is this just like a dude and his friend who bought

01:53:01.640 --> 01:53:04.920
a snowball and this is like their first episode?

01:53:05.120 --> 01:53:08.200
Like I'm trying to do, I'm trying to do a little bit of due diligence

01:53:08.200 --> 01:53:10.720
to make sure that I am optimizing my time.

01:53:12.400 --> 01:53:17.400
And you know, so I don't, I have done, I have done interview requests

01:53:17.400 --> 01:53:22.000
with very, very small publications in the past and I have turned down

01:53:22.000 --> 01:53:27.400
very big ones. It's not a hard and fast rule. It's not just like, oh, well, like, are you big enough or but it's,

01:53:27.400 --> 01:53:32.360
it's not like that. But I also like to do my due diligence because there have been times

01:53:32.360 --> 01:53:37.160
when I've collaborated with people and not done due diligence in the past that haven't worked out so great.

01:53:38.760 --> 01:53:42.840
So basically there have been multiple times that I've kind of sat down

01:53:42.840 --> 01:53:46.960
and I've looked at a podcast and gone, OK, is anybody actually listening to this?

01:53:47.760 --> 01:53:54.200
It is flipping impossible to tell how big one podcast is compared to another

01:53:54.200 --> 01:53:58.080
one, unless it's like, you know, the top ranked, you know,

01:53:58.080 --> 01:54:06.040
handful per category or per country or whatever. Like there are some metrics, but even then it is tough to know which ones are relevant.

01:54:12.720 --> 01:54:16.400
People are talking about like Fallon and stuff. OK, no, no, no, not not not not related to that.

01:54:17.640 --> 01:54:22.680
Yeah, not a big enough podcast, I think. No, no, no, no. You're going to need to going to need to question that one.

01:54:22.720 --> 01:54:28.040
So so I got to tell you, as an advertiser, you're probably coming up

01:54:28.040 --> 01:54:35.640
against the same information wall where you just cannot tell if anybody

01:54:35.640 --> 01:54:38.400
is actually consuming this media or not.

01:54:38.760 --> 01:54:43.080
And what I suspect is that the vast majority of podcasts

01:54:43.440 --> 01:54:51.400
are just part of a roster of podcasts or like a a bundle of podcasts

01:54:51.400 --> 01:54:55.320
that are being sold by agencies, some of which are performing,

01:54:55.560 --> 01:55:01.480
but most of which absolutely no one is listening to and do not want

01:55:01.480 --> 01:55:04.480
anybody to know that nobody is listening to it.

01:55:05.320 --> 01:55:09.440
It's also extremely easy to these days.

01:55:10.160 --> 01:55:18.000
And it has been for a while now, probably four years, five years, maybe.

01:55:18.560 --> 01:55:22.280
It's been extremely easy to make a very professional looking

01:55:22.680 --> 01:55:25.720
and honestly, decently professional sounding podcast

01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:29.880
yeah, with some of the solutions that are out there.

01:55:30.120 --> 01:55:34.400
You put that, yes, you. Some people were. Listen to Luke today.

01:55:34.400 --> 01:55:39.520
That's not my fault. I didn't blame you.

01:55:39.640 --> 01:55:44.960
You took it. Personally, we're. So they were copying the Joe Rogan set up for a while.

01:55:45.160 --> 01:55:48.400
And these days, it seems to be more of the Andrew Huberman one

01:55:48.400 --> 01:55:54.720
where it's that like spaced out wooden slat wall with the the the black behind it.

01:55:55.560 --> 01:56:00.880
They're all like sitting on a couch. We have a very plain table and then you have two like SM seven bees.

01:56:01.600 --> 01:56:05.000
And if you can buy that and a like a two mic.

01:56:06.080 --> 01:56:10.200
Audio interface, which you can do because of the road casters,

01:56:10.200 --> 01:56:12.520
like everything's kind of like solve for people now.

01:56:13.200 --> 01:56:17.000
Elgato can get you your your lights and things really quickly and easily.

01:56:17.880 --> 01:56:21.640
When we were first doing this, it was weird, complicated steel things

01:56:21.640 --> 01:56:25.200
from the audio industry, try to make it work science. And now it's.

01:56:27.280 --> 01:56:29.840
Or if you know, actual training, which we didn't have.

01:56:30.640 --> 01:56:35.320
Yeah. Yeah. And if you have a tiny bedroom or a tiny room, it's much easier to treat, you know.

01:56:35.320 --> 01:56:38.360
Yeah. And if you don't do video, oh, oh, easy.

01:56:39.000 --> 01:56:43.040
Yeah. But even even what my point is, even doing the video side,

01:56:43.360 --> 01:56:47.320
which is, I think actually, I think there's something there.

01:56:47.320 --> 01:56:51.280
I a lot of these smaller podcasts have been doing video these days.

01:56:51.560 --> 01:56:56.640
And I think it's on purpose. And I think it's because you can achieve that professional look

01:56:57.560 --> 01:57:03.240
quite easily. And then if you can get in one of these bundles, or if you can at least

01:57:03.360 --> 01:57:11.120
if you can make yourself look professional or whatever, if you can pay to have a very reputable guest come on, even if you're not getting a ton of views,

01:57:11.120 --> 01:57:16.280
if you can get some clips from it, if you can get whatever else, you can make yourself look very popular.

01:57:16.920 --> 01:57:21.960
There was there was some proof not that long ago that people were making fake

01:57:22.840 --> 01:57:27.520
podcasts and using that to promote products.

01:57:27.520 --> 01:57:33.640
I don't know if you've heard about this, but they would make these podcast looking sets with these, the wooden slats in the background,

01:57:33.800 --> 01:57:37.360
with the black behind the wooden slats, maybe a fake little Ikea plant,

01:57:37.560 --> 01:57:40.720
the SM7Bs, wooden table, people facing each other.

01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:42.760
It wouldn't even be a real podcast.

01:57:43.960 --> 01:57:48.560
It would just be two people talking about like, yeah, this thing like changed my life, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it would look

01:57:48.560 --> 01:57:52.600
like a discussion, but it was a like a shadow advertisement.

01:57:53.240 --> 01:57:57.400
It's it's fake influencers pretending that they're having a podcast

01:57:57.560 --> 01:58:00.800
and they're just naturally talking about something, but they're not.

01:58:00.800 --> 01:58:04.880
They're advertising very specifically for a product. That was a huge thing for a while.

01:58:04.880 --> 01:58:08.880
That became a thing because achieving this professional looking podcast

01:58:08.880 --> 01:58:14.480
look became relatively, I know I'm saying cheap when it's a few thousand dollars,

01:58:14.480 --> 01:58:18.560
but relatively cheap. For how much money you can gain back from it.

01:58:18.760 --> 01:58:22.840
Yes, exactly. Yeah. That's why you see that a lot on TikTok.

01:58:22.840 --> 01:58:28.200
Yeah, I don't know. I don't use TikTok, but that I know that was a thing for quite a while. I'm not surprised it's still a thing.

01:58:28.400 --> 01:58:31.360
And when you know that the barrier of entry is that low,

01:58:31.560 --> 01:58:35.720
if you can use that low barrier of entry to get into the podcasting space and then

01:58:35.920 --> 01:58:42.640
hide under a non-reported play count, like I promise you people are gaming that system.

01:58:42.800 --> 01:58:46.920
I would bet very solid cash that people would be gaming that system.

01:58:47.120 --> 01:58:51.360
Anyway, I fully as someone who has had to

01:58:51.560 --> 01:58:57.360
claw my way for every for every bit of recognition.

01:58:57.560 --> 01:59:05.320
Do you have any idea how hard it was to sell sponsorships against YouTube videos 13 years ago?

01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:10.080
Well, especially when you were effectively the first one doing it. Do you have any idea how hard that was?

01:59:10.320 --> 01:59:16.520
And like the craziest part to me back in the day was like, I had metrics.

01:59:16.720 --> 01:59:20.960
And I'm up against these guys that have no metrics.

01:59:21.160 --> 01:59:25.640
As far as I can tell, nobody is actually watching any of it.

01:59:25.840 --> 01:59:29.120
And I see the kinds of deals and budgets that they're getting.

01:59:29.320 --> 01:59:37.400
And I'm just like, this is insane. Just completely stop writing their checks, sign them over to me and immediately

01:59:37.440 --> 01:59:42.600
watch your ROI go up. But it took a decade, it took a decade for people to figure it out.

01:59:42.600 --> 01:59:49.040
And a lot of them still haven't. So as someone who had to actually have all of my performance completely

01:59:49.240 --> 01:59:52.920
transparent to every brand and every viewer that I've ever engaged with,

01:59:53.120 --> 02:00:00.120
every collaborator that I've ever worked with, I support it, put play counts on it.

02:00:00.320 --> 02:00:04.720
Yeah, I've got our podcast metrics here if you want any insight or you want me to

02:00:04.720 --> 02:00:09.680
share any insight. But are they real? Who knows?

02:00:09.880 --> 02:00:14.080
Do they report them properly? We don't get a ton on the on the listening side, which is

02:00:14.280 --> 02:00:19.720
we do, we get seventy five percent over the video side of our Spotify.

02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:23.800
I actually have no idea what our podcast numbers are. Sorry, are Dan, are you talking about them right now?

02:00:23.800 --> 02:00:27.880
Yeah, do you have a guess? How many how many? That's a lot higher than I thought.

02:00:28.080 --> 02:00:30.880
Have any streams of you have we done this year?

02:00:31.080 --> 02:00:35.320
Like when show streams? Yeah, you're I mean, like 20 or whatever.

02:00:35.520 --> 02:00:40.720
Oh, sorry. How many streams on streams, views, downloads,

02:00:40.920 --> 02:00:44.640
there's kind of a complicated way to kind of rise without about 20 episodes,

02:00:44.840 --> 02:00:50.120
right? And then every episode does anywhere from half a million to three

02:00:50.120 --> 02:00:53.880
quarters of a million on YouTube. Generally, we had kind of a rough week last week.

02:00:53.880 --> 02:00:59.520
And I think this week is going to be pretty rough. I think we did not nail the title of this one, but whatever, we do our best.

02:00:59.720 --> 02:01:04.120
So that would be, you know, 10 million or whatever on YouTube.

02:01:04.320 --> 02:01:09.440
So let's say I literally have no idea.

02:01:09.760 --> 02:01:11.840
Let's say.

02:01:13.640 --> 02:01:19.560
I don't know. I don't even subscribe to Spotify. I don't even like you remember. Podcast goes out to everywhere where there is podcast.

02:01:19.760 --> 02:01:22.680
Podcast is like a really cool format.

02:01:23.040 --> 02:01:26.600
Two million weeks, going to two million almost exactly. Two million streams. Oh, OK.

02:01:26.800 --> 02:01:31.000
Yeah, it was very bang on. OK, well, then that's fine, I guess.

02:01:31.200 --> 02:01:35.920
And like a quarter of that are watching because we do video for Spotify.

02:01:36.120 --> 02:01:39.400
OK, I didn't even know that makes my life so much easier.

02:01:39.520 --> 02:01:42.920
Not a lot of people do. It was a new feature that they were testing for a while.

02:01:43.120 --> 02:01:47.640
So 75% listen, about 25% seem to watch.

02:01:48.360 --> 02:01:51.640
That might be a Spotify only thing and podcast go to literally anywhere.

02:01:51.840 --> 02:01:56.400
Like it goes on iTunes or anywhere because it's RSS fee based.

02:01:56.400 --> 02:02:02.240
And that's a funny thing because then super cool. That makes us a really big YouTube tech live stream.

02:02:02.440 --> 02:02:06.400
Or we're one of the largest podcast. Oh, see, that's the thing.

02:02:06.600 --> 02:02:11.520
These numbers are so small to me. I just assumed that we're a small podcast.

02:02:11.520 --> 02:02:16.560
It's very interesting. No, we're one of the large ones. I think that because of the barrier for entry is so low now.

02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:20.200
And like most people aren't doing what we do, which is the bad way to do it,

02:02:20.400 --> 02:02:25.080
which is just record it live and then send it without doing any mastering pass at all.

02:02:25.080 --> 02:02:28.600
Yeah, whatever. So we try our best. Do we, though?

02:02:28.800 --> 02:02:33.240
Yeah, yeah. If you want, how much more money do you want to spend on this?

02:02:33.240 --> 02:02:36.120
We could make it. No, we don't want to. We don't want to try our best.

02:02:36.320 --> 02:02:39.440
No, you don't try our best and we don't want you do not want to.

02:02:39.640 --> 02:02:42.640
It will cost you an ARM and a leg.

02:02:42.960 --> 02:02:46.600
But like 25% of people finish a quarter of an episode,

02:02:46.800 --> 02:02:51.800
five percent finish three quarters of an episode and three percent almost finish all of it.

02:02:52.000 --> 02:02:55.280
That's terrible. So that's just like a complete waste of time.

02:02:55.280 --> 02:02:59.520
And we shouldn't even bother uploading them then. No, it's pretty, it's pretty useful.

02:02:59.720 --> 02:03:03.400
Is it? OK. For reasons how do I won't go into.

02:03:03.400 --> 02:03:06.360
So here, so here, I'm going to try and do this.

02:03:06.400 --> 02:03:11.000
I'm going to try and do this. OK, so I'm I am trying to find top tech podcasts.

02:03:11.200 --> 02:03:14.840
So because Dan pulled this, pulled this statement, as far as I can tell,

02:03:15.040 --> 02:03:19.600
completely out of his butt that we are one of the bigger tech podcasts.

02:03:19.800 --> 02:03:24.960
And I'm looking at this and I'm going, how, how are you supposed to know that?

02:03:25.120 --> 02:03:30.000
Is can you hear me? Yes. OK, my computer is doing that thing, so I'll be back.

02:03:30.200 --> 02:03:39.040
OK, I will meet you. Top shows. OK, so these are are these the top technology podcasts?

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Like Verge, I know the Verge. I know Ted.

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Is that a tech podcast, though? A lot of Ted stuff is kind of tech.

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Wait, these are just top episodes. Why is this? Why is this so obtuse?

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I tried to go. OK, top shows. OK. Here we go.

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Ah.

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Yeah, dude, we're tiny. Unless we're not.

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Depends on the category. It can be a little bit complicated.

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I mean, this is tech, right? Rankings for us.

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And this is specifically on Apple Pie, because we haven't even, dude, we haven't even shown up yet.

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Dude, Wansho, Wansho is not even top 100, according to this.

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Maybe not of all time, but certainly in the tech sector, I know that we're up there, but this is tech.

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Oh, wait, charts genre. Yeah, genre 1318.

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I mean, we got Linux unplugged. See, now, though, now we're getting to the point where I'm having a hard time

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believing and I don't want to call anybody in particular out.

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OK, so Wansho. No. OK.

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Yeah, I'm having a hard time believing. OK, I look, I don't want to call.

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I don't want to call anybody out, but who is Logan Bartlett?

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I just want to know who Logan Bartlett is. That 4.8 stars.

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That's really good. Apparently, this is really good. There's the Internet is full of influencers I've never heard of,

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so it's nothing personal. Logan Bartlett.

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OK. So the buddy uploads on YouTube.

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And has some very, very popular videos.

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First interview with Sam Altman after GPT 4.0.

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OK, so that's that's pretty cool.

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I'm not sure if I believe that this podcast is bigger than ours, though,

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based on the numbers I'm looking at. But that's the thing is some of the splits are obscene.

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Yeah, I look at everything through a YouTube lens.

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Like I'm YouTube native and everything else is just like,

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well, OK, not everything else. But.

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Same way that someone will be like big on Instagram and I'll be like,

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are they actually big and then check their like YouTube? Because again, I'm YouTube first and then I have to take a step back and be like,

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oh, wait, no, this is this is an Instagram first creator.

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If this person is a podcast first or yeah, or, you know, Spotify first creator,

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then. Yeah, I mean, just think about something like Twitch, you know,

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if you have six concurrent viewers, you're in top percentages.

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If the barrier for entry for podcasts is so low and you can just like sit down and

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upload whatever you want, you know, if you're if you're in the top 10,000,

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you're doing pretty OK. Eddie Koldrich.

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Oh, so we're not under tech. We're under tech news. I'm working on it.

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Yeah, I can't find our rankings that we got.

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Top 10.

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And there's also tech news. The funny thing is tech news UK, that sort of thing.

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I haven't heard of some of the other things that are in the top 10.

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Yeah, I think we talked about this ages ago. If you remember when we were starting into this,

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like, who are these people? They're more popular by us by like a large margin.

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I pretty much guarantee you that a lot of them say the same thing about us.

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I'm sure I'm 100 percent sure who the heck are these guys?

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I mean, their show isn't even professional. Look at this. Yeah, this is terrible garbage.

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This actual trash, actual dumpster fire.

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I said, you clearly just woke up. He didn't even do his hair.

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What's happening? That is the least of our problems. Your co-worker made it.

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It's not even a good gaming headset.

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Oh, I have RGB on it. Man, no mastering pass on the audio.

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A lot of podcasts, like, you know, if there is a real time master, it's awful.

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If you're only listening to the audio, it's nice to have it actually like sound good.

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We are number six after cybersecurity headlines,

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Babbage, Cyberwire Daily, 404 Media, them I know, and the tech news briefing from the Wall Street Journal.

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And they are way bigger.

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How do they know, though? Well, I remember looking at some charts that we like I haven't touched

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podcasting in a while, but where do these charts come from?

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I don't know to pay someone for the charts. Well, we get charts because we're special,

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because we're one of the larger podcasters. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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As a larger podcaster, you get Intel on the other podcasters.

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Yeah, that's not available publicly. I get like, well, I don't know.

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I remember while I remember getting a weekly like digest email that said that we're we're better.

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And it like that's your billboard one hundred. Everyone should have access to that.

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I mean, chartable. There we are.

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Let's see. And is this like real data?

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Like, are you getting this from? Yeah, like, where's this from?

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Yeah, I think everyone's just guessing, dude. It could be lies.

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I'm going to actually open like here. We can see how many people we can see how many people like rated it.

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That's something like how many people rated the WAN Show.

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Let's have a look at our dashboard. Wow. I don't know. I don't know if I agree.

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I don't think it's that good, but thank you. It's very generous.

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Let's go. Is this just by ratings? No, because this one only has a hundred twenty three ratings.

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What one? The cyber security games, because I'm not super surprised because that has like

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the most generic name and profile photo.

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Yeah, but apparently they're they're bigger, but they also upload daily.

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Oh, so that's a daily podcast. So that's that's a volume game and a half right there.

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I could see following that, though. Yeah, for sure. Security daily.

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Like how many how many episodes you can listen to it on the way to work? Well, like I could absolutely see one thousand four hundred episodes.

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So this is one I got from last year,

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because I think they're blocked in our email thing now. OK, but for Apple podcasts were number eight for tech news in the US.

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Number two hundred and eleven for Great Britain for news.

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Number seven for Great Britain for tech news. One hundred and forty six in Canada for news.

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Number two in Canada for tech news. That's on Apple podcast.

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Sure, I don't know. I think it's all made up and I support more transparency.

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All right, there are some.

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Oh, there are some new Android scan protections.

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And this video is not out yet, but we did a collaboration with Kit Boga recently

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that was a lot of fun and was both eyeopening and also extremely terrifying.

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I it's not something I dedicate a lot of my brain cycles to.

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It's not something that I have really experienced with my aging relatives.

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But there are so many different angles of attack from scammers that I just never heard of.

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And he really kind of like.

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I don't know.

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Kind of red pilled me. OK, so I get it now.

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I am I am I am now aware of what's out there and the world.

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The world is is trash and it's full of people who are trash and are going to try and take

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everything from you for no reason other than that you have it and they don't.

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And that sucks. And thank you very much, Kit.

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I appreciate you very much. Anyway.

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At Android IO this week, Google announced new tools in Android 16 aimed at protecting

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users from such scams. They have new in call protections that prevent users from taking risky actions,

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such as granting accessibility permissions or sideloading an app for the first time.

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If you are new, oh, yeah, if you are in call, that is super cool.

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That's a way for Android to stay open and allow sideloading and allow special accessibility permissions,

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but not allow somebody to get you to do that while you are on a phone call with them.

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So that seems pretty neat. If you are screen sharing during a phone call,

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Android will now automatically prompt you to stop sharing at the end of the call.

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And they're piloting a program in the UK. We're launching a participating banking app while screen sharing with an unknown

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contact will trigger a warning from Android and give you the option to end the call

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and stop screen sharing with one tap. Scam detection is an AI powered tool for scam detection and text that will warn

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when it spots suspicious conversation patterns and key verifier allows you and

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the person you're messaging to verify the identity of the other party through

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public encryption keys to help thwart imposters, e.g.

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SIM swaps. My only concern here is that

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the kinds of users who

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from working with kit on that video seem to be targeted by these folks may not be

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helped that much by this. It seems like they are accustomed to a very

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unsophisticated, non-savvy user.

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Like I was amazed at how dense we had to pretend to be in order to get them to

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hang up on us.

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Like Luke, I asked this one guy to sing me happy birthday.

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Ploof and Adam both succeeded in getting the scammer to sing them happy birthday.

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I asked mine, who's your daddy and what does he do?

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That wasn't enough to deter him.

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Like so the angle for the video for so you guys know what to expect.

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It's going to be, dude, it's going to be a blast. I think we shot two videos, one for our channel, one for kits, I think, or both for

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our channel. I don't know, we did something. I think we did one for, I think the other one was for kits channel.

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Anyway, the point was I just went where they told me to go and I was a me on camera.

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Anyway, so for ours, we try to make the unscammable PC.

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And then yeah, the one that I think is going live on his channel is just him

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having us compete to see who can keep scammers on for the longest.

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So it's me, Ploof, Adam, and Elijah and Kit, if I recall correctly.

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All five of us took a whack at it. I might have some of these details wrong.

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But the point is the the stick for it was that we don't just keep them on the

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phone, because honestly, that's relatively easy. You have someone off camera holding up a piece of paper with stuff you have to say.

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Stuff that you have to insert in the conversation. So that's where some of these like whack-a-doodle things, who's your daddy?

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You have to tell them you're so lonely.

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No one came to my birthday party. Will you be my friend? Do you have to ask if their mom's single?

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Like just oh, so painful, so painful.

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Anyway, it's going to be great. It's going to be great. Oh, that's exciting.

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Don't miss it. So cool new Android scan protections.

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Seems like progress, but it's also hard to look at this and say anything.

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But like feels like too little, too late. But let's see how it goes.

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ROG Rig Reboot is back. We are excited to announce that we have once again partnered with ASUS to

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give our viewers the opportunity to be flown to Linus Media Group headquarters

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where they will build a PC with me on video. We are opening up to our international audience this time.

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So all you got to do is go to LMG.GG slash rig 25.

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Also, we have a Floatplane update this week. Our handsome, tall, intelligent, rich and narcissistic chief vision officer,

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Linus Sebastian had his latest vision.

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We're trying out something new on Floatplane clips.

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These are quick behind the scenes moments that aren't quite long enough to be a full

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Floatplane exclusive. Open this link to just show what it is.

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Explain if needed. OK.

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Ah, yes, Linus and Elijah discuss my little pony.

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Oh, I have already watched this, so it started at the end.

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We talk about our favorite ponies and people apparently liked that.

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Anyway, you guys loved the first one, so we're going to keep it going during the text. Yikes from the from the background.

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Some of our team will be on the ground next week, uploading random clips as they happen.

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You may see things like eating stinky tofu for the first time, silly stuff on the

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show floor and everything in between. And yes, Luke will apparently be doing his traditional show floor walk.

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Sammy says, totally announcing this. So Luke makes time for me to do a show floor walk with him.

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Oh, OK, so Sammy had not discussed this with you. No, he asked me like a while ago if I would do it.

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And I was like, yeah. And then he asked me again

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today that I was like, yeah.

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So I think he forgot that I already agreed to it.

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Nice. But it's OK. So check out the LMG team during Computex that LMG dot gg slash flow plane.

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All right, what else we got today? OK, OK, I'm confused by this.

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Luke, help me out here. Sourceers, ours, Technica, industry groups decry the imminent demise of Energy Star.

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The current US administration has decided to terminate the Energy Star program,

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though it's not clear if Energy Star can be eliminated without an act of Congress.

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Energy Star is a program run by the US Environmental Protection Agency,

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the EPA and the Department of Energy, the DOE, to help consumers, businesses and industry save money and protect the environment

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by using energy efficient products and practices. It identifies top performing cost effective products, homes and buildings

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through its distinctive blue label. OK, what I asked for in this topic was an Eli five for Energy Star because other

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than seeing the label on things and being like, OK, so that's a that.

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I guess it's energy. I never really knew what exactly it meant.

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It meant that this one is like more ranked or good or for the efficiency.

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But also a lot of the time it seemed kind of arbitrary because it's like, yeah,

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this one's really bad for power efficiency. But also it's like on the much bigger end of like how big TVs can be in this category.

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So obviously, you know, like I. OK, so that's what it is.

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It is a voluntary program that was created as part of a bill passed by the

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near the end of George H.W. Bush's time in office.

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President Clinton issued an executive order mandating that federal agencies

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should prioritize Energy Star certified products in their procurement.

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Chamber of Commerce, something something. Energy Star enabled consumers to save an estimated five hundred billion dollars

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over the past 33 years. Our technical notes that companies that have invested in making more efficient

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products are faced with the loss of the Energy Star brand as a marketing tool.

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Oh, this is why they care. OK, the Energy Star logo has helped them make the case with the government

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support that the initial cost of efficient appliances will be offset over time

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in reduced water and energy consumption.

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Got it. I was trying to figure out why industry

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groups cared about Energy Star going away.

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So the answer is marketing. Hit me. Hit me, you guys, in the chat.

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Do you do you factor Energy Star into your purchases?

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Because I got to confess, other than like seeing it in my BIOS or whatever,

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I I I can't say that it's been a major factor for me.

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It's it's something that I see on the product after I buy it, essentially every

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single time and almost all of Chad is saying no. But remember, we haven't seen anyone in Chad say we live in B.C.

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where our electricity is cheap, right? So that's something.

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Yeah, states have some of their own regulations as well. I mean, yeah, to my wife does.

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OK. And especially if it impacts like government procurement, then I could see it

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affecting a significant number of units that are purchased, even if it's not

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individual consumers, I have for larger appliances.

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I prefer it all else being equal. I have OK, I like to see it there.

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Oh, interesting. Yeet, Dabman says that sticker is a real POS to remove.

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I'd say no for appliances. Heck, yes.

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Interesting. I love that there are consumer rebates based on Energy Star and some jurisdictions.

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OK, so maybe this is just more of like Americans have a higher level of awareness

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of this because up here, I don't see it really that consistently applied to things.

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I don't see it marketed that hard.

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Yeah, I don't see it marketed literally at all up here, I think on appliances.

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Yeah, but I don't remember a time you would have bought appliances because you

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bought your place new and it was full of appliances. I bought a dishwasher because it didn't work.

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OK, did you look at the Energy Star? Not even a little bit.

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OK, I talked to my dad and I talked to some of my dad's appliance friends about

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which one would break the least fair enough.

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No problems ever since. OK, well, good chat.

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Apple is attempting to scare users if apps use external purchases.

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Sources the verge here, allegedly, allegedly. Apple seems to be trying scare tactics to prevent people from downloading using

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apps that use external payments. The message, which appears with a big red exclamation mark at the very top of the

02:22:23.280 --> 02:22:26.840
app's page, says the following, this app does not support the app store's private

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and secure payment system, it uses external purchases.

02:22:30.680 --> 02:22:35.280
Scary. This seems to be in response to the EU's decision in March of 2024, where they

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require Apple to allow developers to enable external purchase options

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instead of essentially forcing developers to pay a 30% fee to Apple.

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People have been reporting that this isn't new and Apple has been doing it since

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the EU started enforcing Apple to comply with the ruling change. But what they've been changing is that the warning image used to just be a lower

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case I for information rather than the new red exclamation mark.

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OK, because I was going to say we've talked about this before 100%, but that makes

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sense. There was also this didn't make it into the dock this week, but there was

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also like Fortnite is not on the app store because Tim Sweeney is pushing the

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envelope again, but also Apple, in my humble opinion, is clearly in the wrong

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here in the first place. So yeah, good luck, Epic and Apple.

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I hope you guys bury the hatchet someday.

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Not yet, though. Steam didn't get hacked speaking of hacking hatchets or something.

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Valve has responded to rumors of a data breach that appears to have started on LinkedIn and included claims that more than 89 million records were for sale

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with a sample of the data made available to prospective purchasers.

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Something, something, something, Valve examined a leak sample and determined

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the data did not come from a breach of Steam's systems.

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There's a bunch of other stuff, but basically from a Steam perspective,

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Valve says customers do not need to change their passwords or phone numbers

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as a result of this event. It is not a bad idea to do it anyway, so

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it's a good reminder to treat any account security messages that you have not

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explicitly requested as suspicious, though, and reminds users to set up Steam

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mobile authenticator if they haven't already. All right, pretty much good guy, Valve.

02:24:08.880 --> 02:24:13.720
And NextCloud accuses Google of deliberately crippling its app.

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European software vendor NextCloud has accused Google of deliberately

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crippling its Android files app, a file synchronization tool.

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In 2024, Google's Play Store revoked the all files access permission

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that they've had since 2016, effectively crippling the app and instructing

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NextCloud to use a more privacy aware replacement.

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But NextCloud says, hey, we can't use those. Storage access framework, SAF, cannot be used as it is for sharing slash exposing

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our files to other apps, MediaStore API cannot be used as it does not allow

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access to other files, but only media files. Google's developer documentation states, if you target Android 11 and declare

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all files access, it can affect your ability to publish and update your app on Google Play.

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So basically you can't compete with Google Drive?

02:25:04.800 --> 02:25:09.200
Is that what I'm hearing? Yikes. Yikes.

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Yeah, Timo says there are so many file managers out there that don't have their

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permissions crippled. Yeah, it does make it feel a little personal, doesn't it?

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I can't say for sure that it is. But NextCloud sure seems to think so.

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Yeah, Google and Apple are both

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getting really stabby about defending their mobile moats right now.

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Yeah. And I hope this continues to go poorly for them.

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Me too. A unique username says NextCloud is the largest competitor to all the CloudLockin

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solutions from Google and Apple. Well, yeah. I don't.

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This doesn't feel accidental to me, is what I'll say.

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All right, Dan, are we supposed to be doing After Dark now? I think we got our announcements done.

02:25:56.520 --> 02:25:59.680
I think we've done all the topics. Let's do it. Wow.

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Not a ton of curated merge messages today. No, lots of people buying

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what are they called, the tall sizes. Well, yeah, that makes sense.

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I wonder why.

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Because they're great. Go us. It's because they're compensating.

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It's true. It's true. What?

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What? For what?

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Not being short. Yeah. They don't get to be fabric.

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All the all the canes are short. Nobody just get to be serfs.

02:26:30.720 --> 02:26:37.840
It's harder for us to pack because our clothing takes up more space. Jamie calls me Slender Man and asks if he needs help finding my pages.

02:26:40.680 --> 02:26:46.000
Ten out of ten banter. All right, again, sure.

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LLD, could you expand on the hesitancy to include more tall skews?

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Can't speak for others, but it's worth a five to ten dollar premium for me.

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Shouldn't that cover the overhead? Give cards for pink to XL.

02:26:58.840 --> 02:27:08.800
Tall shirts, when? The hesitancy is that in order to stock a thing, you have to buy

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thousands, in many cases, tens of thousands of dollars worth of that thing.

02:27:13.600 --> 02:27:18.160
So it is both a risk management issue because you don't want to go and buy

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tens of thousands of dollars worth of a thing that then just sits there

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because that's bad for business and also just a cash flow management exercise thing.

02:27:28.760 --> 02:27:36.560
You can't just take your entire existing portfolio and a have the, you know,

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worker hours to create new patterns for everything, right?

02:27:42.800 --> 02:27:47.600
Like literally, you are doubling the number of the amount of grading that you have to do.

02:27:47.600 --> 02:27:52.080
So grading is where you take a design and you adjust it for all your different sizes.

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You're doubling the grading that you have to do for a given style.

02:27:55.720 --> 02:28:01.360
And then not only that, but you are significantly increasing the amount

02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:09.760
of cash outlay that you are spending in order to hold, in order to buy and hold that inventory.

02:28:10.160 --> 02:28:14.720
It's boring. Spreadsheet accounting stuff.

02:28:14.920 --> 02:28:20.880
I don't expect people to care, but it doesn't make it not just how it is.

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And it's a big part of the same reason that it's a big part of the reason

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that we also haven't just like started up an EU distribution warehouse.

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Because it's not that simple.

02:28:35.320 --> 02:28:43.800
The logistics are not that simple. The reporting and taxation and accounting and all of those things, they're just not that simple.

02:28:44.000 --> 02:28:47.920
And at the end of the day, we are still, and I can't emphasize this enough,

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we are still a pretty small company, right?

02:28:52.320 --> 02:28:55.920
And overall, we have like 100 plus employees.

02:28:55.920 --> 02:28:59.520
I think we're at around 100 and something right now. Is that right, Luke? I think so.

02:28:59.720 --> 02:29:05.680
I think that's roughly correct. Yeah, I think that's about right. But Creator Warehouse doesn't have 100 employees.

02:29:05.880 --> 02:29:10.080
Creator Warehouse is a tiny company. They have a couple of dozen employees.

02:29:10.080 --> 02:29:14.120
The fact that they sell around the world at all is a small miracle, right?

02:29:14.120 --> 02:29:19.040
Like what you're going to say, oh, yeah, well, they should just they should just have distribution centers on every country.

02:29:19.040 --> 02:29:23.600
Are you serious right now? Like we're we're no, that's not how it works.

02:29:23.800 --> 02:29:28.120
It's not how any of this works. We are doing our best and we are going to, you know,

02:29:28.160 --> 02:29:31.560
constantly try to get delivery costs down around the world.

02:29:31.760 --> 02:29:35.280
We're going to try to expand our styles with, you know, tall sizes.

02:29:35.480 --> 02:29:40.600
I just got confirmation. They promised me husky sizes for t-shirts are coming in 2026.

02:29:40.800 --> 02:29:44.840
OK, we're working on it. But these things take time.

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They take cash. They take hours. Someone's got to do it.

02:29:52.840 --> 02:29:55.480
I'm happy we're finally getting them.

02:29:56.040 --> 02:29:58.920
I'm really I was very surprised.

02:29:59.120 --> 02:30:03.720
I got it spoiled to me by the chat, but I was really surprised that there was all the colors for tall sizes.

02:30:03.920 --> 02:30:11.720
That's that's super cool, but I didn't really expect it. I mean, there's a reason why almost no store that you go into has any tall sizes.

02:30:11.920 --> 02:30:17.360
Like it's just doubling your shoes like that is tough.

02:30:17.560 --> 02:30:22.120
And you've got to know that there's some chance that it's going to work out, which is why we took it slow.

02:30:22.120 --> 02:30:27.600
That's why we started with the black. We started with a small order. Because in theory, anything's a great idea.

02:30:27.800 --> 02:30:31.640
Yeah, but there's a big difference between people being excited about something

02:30:31.640 --> 02:30:34.600
and people actually pulling out their wallet and spending money on it.

02:30:34.800 --> 02:30:38.520
Huge difference, vast ocean of difference.

02:30:38.720 --> 02:30:46.920
So you need to be evidence driven. That's a big part of what like Teran pushes ever since he joined is like be data driven.

02:30:47.120 --> 02:30:52.360
That doesn't mean that we can't YOLO and buy a fire truck once in a while, but it means that we need to overall make

02:30:52.560 --> 02:30:58.720
sure that we are making decisions that are supported by real world evidence that we

02:30:58.920 --> 02:31:03.840
can use as our guiding star at the very least.

02:31:05.680 --> 02:31:12.320
Hi, Linus, Luke and Dan, a question for Luke. Which individuals or teams do the marketing or advertising for Floodplain?

02:31:12.320 --> 02:31:16.720
It would be cool to hear about the work they do to attract new creators versus users.

02:31:17.000 --> 02:31:19.840
No, we do very little work to attract new creators.

02:31:20.040 --> 02:31:23.800
Isn't that Linus? Yeah, I think that's my job.

02:31:24.000 --> 02:31:26.840
I have not I have been asleep at the wheel for many years.

02:31:27.040 --> 02:31:31.880
What a bad employee. Terrible, terrible.

02:31:32.080 --> 02:31:35.440
Yeah, the business team,

02:31:35.640 --> 02:31:42.560
there's there's Sean and then indirectly Colton on the business team who work on

02:31:42.760 --> 02:31:48.200
coming up with like the business sides of ideas of trying to make Floodplain

02:31:48.400 --> 02:31:54.400
better and more worth it for people to join and stay for a variety of creators.

02:31:54.600 --> 02:31:59.040
But the business team is is focused on

02:31:59.240 --> 02:32:05.200
LMG stuff, but then hopefully those features benefit other people as well,

02:32:05.400 --> 02:32:11.080
or those ideas benefit other people as well. But their their goal, they're looking at the LTT subscription.

02:32:11.240 --> 02:32:15.800
Like they are employees at Linus Media Group. Those are business people at Linus Media Group.

02:32:15.800 --> 02:32:22.120
These are not Floodplain people. And Sammy is sort of indirectly a big part of the marketing of Floodplain just by

02:32:22.320 --> 02:32:27.680
creating wasn't even there yet. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, hard big time.

02:32:27.880 --> 02:32:31.720
It's Sammy making exclusives and pushing the envelope with the types of things that

02:32:31.920 --> 02:32:36.920
we're doing, including this, I guess maybe it was Linus's idea, but including this,

02:32:37.160 --> 02:32:41.880
the like clips thing you're talking about, the like short, short content.

02:32:42.080 --> 02:32:47.400
That's a cool idea. I shouldn't say it's my idea. It's not like I came up with the idea of short form content.

02:32:47.600 --> 02:32:50.920
But that's not having that on the platform now.

02:32:51.120 --> 02:32:54.880
Oh, I see. Yeah, get better at being a narcissist. What's wrong with you?

02:32:55.080 --> 02:33:02.520
Sorry. But yeah, so that's that's the engines that are going for the Linus Media Group side.

02:33:02.720 --> 02:33:08.840
And, you know, we learn things from the content that LMG does and how it performs

02:33:08.840 --> 02:33:14.320
on the platforms and then and then sometimes other creators ask me effectively me

02:33:14.520 --> 02:33:18.000
about that and then I'll share some of that information so they can benefit from

02:33:18.200 --> 02:33:23.480
that learning as well and then some of the work that the business team does

02:33:23.680 --> 02:33:31.440
can can potentially benefit other creators as well. But they are generally focused on Linus Media Group expansion within the Floodplain

02:33:31.560 --> 02:33:36.400
universe and then the Floodplain dev team essentially tries to make Floodplain better

02:33:36.600 --> 02:33:42.080
for all the creators because the Floodplain dev team is focused on the platform as a whole.

02:33:42.280 --> 02:33:47.680
The Floodplain dev team has been very focused on that that big project we've

02:33:47.880 --> 02:33:52.440
been doing for a while that has been semi-leaked but not fully leaked.

02:33:52.640 --> 02:33:58.000
And that has resulted in when the business team keeps coming to us with a very,

02:33:58.280 --> 02:34:02.440
very reasonable, fairly measured request.

02:34:02.640 --> 02:34:06.080
It is going, sorry, can't do it right now.

02:34:06.280 --> 02:34:09.560
A little bit too busy. And then we've been doing that for quite a while now.

02:34:09.760 --> 02:34:14.560
So sorry, business team, but there are things that they want to do that will be

02:34:14.760 --> 02:34:18.760
good to be clear and we will do it eventually.

02:34:18.960 --> 02:34:26.600
But yeah, that's that's kind of that circle. There's there's Sean and Colton from the business team and then

02:34:26.800 --> 02:34:31.560
Sammy from the content team and then the Floodplain dev team.

02:34:32.560 --> 02:34:38.760
And about some more. Yeah, I'm just looking up at this next one.

02:34:38.960 --> 02:34:42.720
This has been added to Drive. Learn more. It's like, no, no, I want to open it in Drive.

02:34:42.920 --> 02:34:49.240
I have my I have my new product in new product introductions inventory planning sheet.

02:34:49.440 --> 02:34:53.600
I think Drive awful. And I'm trying to oh, no, oh, cool.

02:34:53.800 --> 02:34:57.440
It enhanced without being blurry this time.

02:34:57.640 --> 02:35:03.800
Cool. OK, hit me, Dan. Dear Daniel Besser, please could you ask the relevant authorities if we might be

02:35:03.800 --> 02:35:06.760
able to receive an update on the production of the pencil scribe driver?

02:35:06.960 --> 02:35:17.480
Yours, faithfully, a Brit in need of a pencil. OK, the last NPI document I have says current launch date April 30th, 2025.

02:35:17.680 --> 02:35:22.080
What does NPI mean, Linus? New product introduction.

02:35:22.320 --> 02:35:25.920
So that didn't happen.

02:35:26.120 --> 02:35:30.920
Good job. We don't have a history of that at this company at all.

02:35:31.120 --> 02:35:35.520
In all seriousness, sometimes in all seriousness, we are way tighter about things

02:35:35.720 --> 02:35:40.200
now, but what I'm trying to say is soon.

02:35:40.520 --> 02:35:46.360
Soon. My knees were kind of like I'm chanting it in Floodplain Chat.

02:35:46.360 --> 02:35:50.480
Do we have anything we can say about Mod Mat? We'll have updates when we can.

02:35:50.680 --> 02:35:54.280
It will be ready when it is ready. And we'll update you when we're able to.

02:35:54.480 --> 02:35:56.760
Only when it is ready.

02:35:57.720 --> 02:36:01.360
My niece is having trouble finding a PC under a thousand dollars to play

02:36:01.560 --> 02:36:05.640
Fortnite and Roblox, any tips on how to navigate ultra low budget PC buying?

02:36:05.840 --> 02:36:09.280
It's hard to know the line between performance and requirements.

02:36:09.480 --> 02:36:16.280
Do I ever have tips on that? May I may I suggest really great?

02:36:16.440 --> 02:36:20.080
Well, OK, YouTube channel, a bit of a

02:36:20.280 --> 02:36:24.200
narcissistic host, you'll have to kind of get past that whiny voice.

02:36:24.400 --> 02:36:28.160
So check this out. So Linus tech tips.

02:36:28.360 --> 02:36:34.360
Yeah, yeah, this this guy right here. Oh, awful. Anyway, the point is you just go on the videos.

02:36:34.560 --> 02:36:40.600
OK, this is a man. They really do like clutter up with these members only videos.

02:36:40.800 --> 02:36:45.520
Anyway, the point is you kind of scroll down and you see if there's any good ones

02:36:45.560 --> 02:36:49.560
on, you know, making a cheap computer.

02:36:49.560 --> 02:36:55.640
OK, you know what, I give up on that. So why don't we just use search because the year is 2025 Linus tech tips.

02:36:55.840 --> 02:37:02.600
Cheap PC build. Here we go. OK, here's a five hundred dollar gaming PC.

02:37:02.800 --> 02:37:07.280
Oh, a sixty nine dollar gaming PC from two months ago.

02:37:07.480 --> 02:37:10.800
Hey, that looks pretty good. We could try.

02:37:11.000 --> 02:37:16.640
Yeah, I wouldn't build the lowest rated PC. But the ultimate five hundred dollar gaming PC from four months ago.

02:37:16.640 --> 02:37:22.360
That looks pretty solid, pretty solid. Oh, you could pick a good budget gaming CPU that no one ever told you about from a

02:37:22.560 --> 02:37:28.200
month ago. Lots of really good resources here. Oh, what about the repairing the perfect PC?

02:37:28.400 --> 02:37:31.800
No, I wouldn't recommend that the perfect PC at every price, though.

02:37:32.000 --> 02:37:36.680
Hey, there's a good one. Yeah.

02:37:36.880 --> 02:37:41.760
Heck, yeah, I would say of these, I want to go ultimate five hundred dollar gaming

02:37:41.760 --> 02:37:45.680
PC, and then maybe you could make a couple, a couple clever upgrades.

02:37:45.680 --> 02:37:49.120
You could have a look at perfect PC at every price and then the five hundred

02:37:49.120 --> 02:37:52.240
dollar gaming PC is kind of somewhere in between there.

02:37:53.920 --> 02:37:57.280
Hey, Wanda DLO downsizing from three gaming

02:37:57.480 --> 02:38:00.360
PCs to just one with sunshine slash moonlight.

02:38:00.560 --> 02:38:04.400
What are your thoughts on the current state of self hosted game streaming?

02:38:04.600 --> 02:38:10.840
Super cool. If we do a tech house, which is kind of in conversation,

02:38:11.080 --> 02:38:15.680
I don't think I would run fiber optic DisplayPort and fiber USB everywhere.

02:38:15.880 --> 02:38:20.920
I think I would just go sunshine, moonlight, run cat 6a everywhere and just

02:38:21.120 --> 02:38:25.960
fricking have one gaming PC and then like I want to try that in clients, man.

02:38:26.160 --> 02:38:31.120
So cool. I talked to you about my issues with sunshine, moonlight.

02:38:31.520 --> 02:38:38.440
No, I meant to talk about this on Wanshow, but I think I just completely forgot and it's it's been a few weeks now.

02:38:38.560 --> 02:38:41.640
So I'm going to try to make sure I get all this accurate.

02:38:41.840 --> 02:38:49.280
But I was trying to set that up at home. I bought a new controller because Linus wouldn't stop harassing me.

02:38:49.480 --> 02:38:54.840
It never worked and you stole so many of our gaming sessions.

02:38:55.040 --> 02:38:57.840
So I got a new controller

02:38:58.040 --> 02:39:04.960
and it comes with a little charging dock thingy.

02:39:05.160 --> 02:39:10.080
A charging dock come with it, but it was like really cheap. Right. So it has a cheap charging dock. Yes.

02:39:10.280 --> 02:39:13.520
Yeah. And that has a dongle in it, which is nice.

02:39:13.720 --> 02:39:17.120
It's a dongle. Good wireless connectivity. Cool.

02:39:17.320 --> 02:39:20.240
I don't have to have it be wired anymore. Wow.

02:39:20.440 --> 02:39:25.240
Neat. This is this is compelling. So wait, you say this controller,

02:39:25.440 --> 02:39:29.120
you say this controller can charge. I can explain why that matters.

02:39:29.320 --> 02:39:32.320
It can charge on a dock and it's wireless matters.

02:39:32.520 --> 02:39:35.920
But does it wirelessly charge?

02:39:36.120 --> 02:39:41.520
You know, maybe they'll come technically. Yeah, really with no wires.

02:39:41.720 --> 02:39:45.840
Yep, sans wires even.

02:39:46.040 --> 02:39:53.200
Where are you going with this? OK, my reason for that is I don't have the Bluetooth things for my computer.

02:39:53.400 --> 02:39:57.800
You don't have the Bluetooth things. I have one idea where I could buy the little antennas.

02:39:58.000 --> 02:40:04.240
Yeah, no, the Bluetooth things or I could buy the base,

02:40:04.280 --> 02:40:08.600
the dock charging thing. My dock was the same price.

02:40:08.800 --> 02:40:12.000
So I decided to go with that one. Oh, what a story.

02:40:12.200 --> 02:40:17.000
And cable to use the controller wirelessly.

02:40:17.200 --> 02:40:22.120
I can play games on my TV, which is cool. So I want to do that without running a super long HDMI cable.

02:40:22.320 --> 02:40:26.560
So I was trying to set up this setup to install.

02:40:26.760 --> 02:40:30.960
Which one is it? I don't know. Is it sunshine on the TV?

02:40:31.160 --> 02:40:35.040
I can't remember. To install whichever one has to go on the TV.

02:40:35.240 --> 02:40:41.080
It turned out that I needed a app on the TV, which is like developer mode or whatever.

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And in order to install that app, you have to have

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a developer account. Oh, you have an LG TV?

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Nice, web OS. Nice to.

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So I set up an account. And

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it was like acting a little bit weird when I was setting the account up.

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So I immediately signed out and went to go sign back in.

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So I was like, I don't trust that if I remember correctly, there's only one password field that doesn't get you to verify your password.

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And there were some other stuff that was just acting oddly. And it refused my login.

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So I'm like, OK, well, forgot password. I'll just reset my password and fix it.

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Go to enter my password again. You can't use the same password twice.

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Nice. Like, hmm, OK. And I've done it before where I've

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typoed a password the same way twice and then not been able to figure it out.

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But it wasn't except I was copy pasting. Oh, so.

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But anyways, so I make a new one, reset the password all good.

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I'm logged in. It's all cool. I log out.

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I go to log back in again. Doesn't work. Forgot password reset password.

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Can't use the same password. Bro, what the heck?

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Because I have to make the account on my computer or my phone and then I have to

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log in on the TV, so I have to log in again. I can't this whole like you can only log in one thing will not work for me.

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I have to log in again. So I'm like, OK, OK, so I make a new account.

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Like maybe that accounts just screwed up. Exact same problem.

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OK, OK, OK. Well, I'm realizing I'm on the American site anyways and my TV actually cares

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and it has to be the Canadian site. So let me do that. So I'll make an account on the Canadian site.

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Oh, well, you can't use the same email on both for some reason.

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But sure, why not? So I have a lot of emails. That's fine. I'll use another email.

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I'll make another account. Weird fact, but OK, I get signed in.

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No problem. Sign out. Sign back in doesn't work.

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Reset password. Can't use the same password. It's the same problem.

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I can't. I can't log in. I can't.

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I cannot log into this account. No matter what I do.

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I don't know why it won't work. I email their support and they send me a link.

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I detail everything. I detail everything that I did.

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All the different accounts, the different regions, everything.

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I get a response back that is not. I promise you it is not a generic auto reply.

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It took like two days to get the response. It's clearly someone typed it out.

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They just linked me the forgot your password link.

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I have nothing else.

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And when I got that email, I just like, all right, whatever, I'm just going to like come back to this in a couple of weeks

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and whatever bug they probably have will hopefully be resolved.

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Is there not a link app for WebOS? I haven't tried.

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I don't think there was. I think I think I checked and I don't think there was.

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Funny hat says I've lost the plot. What's going on now? User error.

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No, I just I just. I just fucking I'm just fucking it.

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I'm getting password on sign up. Yeah, it's it might be something like that, too.

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I don't know. There's something weird. I ran into a problem recently. I want I don't want to say what organization it was.

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But I think I took a picture of it or I took a screenshot or something.

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Well, that's going to make it just obvious. One of the well, I'm not going to show it,

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but I want to go look at what the actual rules were. One of the probably worst rules for passwords.

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Is like ever seen.

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Yeah, so it has to have an uppercase letter.

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It has to have a lowercase letter. It has to have a number.

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It has to have a symbol. It has to have at least eight characters.

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But it cannot be more than 15 characters.

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Why? So it has to be between eight and 15 characters.

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All those bits in there on their their storage server for that.

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So there's there's like a very small range

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of character counts that the password could even be. And then there's like all these.

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I don't know, just way to way to make your thing less secure.

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My goodness. That's hilarious. OK, well, someone get Luke a password manager.

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I have one. What are you even talking about? What does that have to do with what I'm doing?

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Whatever. Anyways. Oh, Jesus, Dan.

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Hello, DL up. I've been curious about the silicon lottery and how some CPUs on the same batch

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can be better than others. What exactly is better?

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Like, how do the last better ones even work? So there's a ton of redundancy when you manufacture high complexity silicon

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products, more than you would probably imagine is is wasted to having a backup

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plan in case there is a small imperfection.

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So that's part of it, is you can have one that has

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that is that is is higher quality in certain spots.

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So, for instance, like back when NVIDIA had those GPUs in the four sixty five

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four seventy days where some of the four sixty fives could be unlocked to have

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additional functional units, that means that they

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they didn't have so many defects in some of those some of the forget if they were

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called SMs back then, but whatever in some of those functional units

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such that they had to be shut off. So part of it is you can just have parts of the CPU that have so many

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problems with our GPU or whatever it is that have so many problems with them

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that they they can't turn on that part of it.

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You can also have ones that have more parts of them that can be turned on

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versus ones that can have fewer parts. That's why you'll get like AMD's tricors back in the day.

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Those were all quad core CPUs, but like one of the cores was in many cases dead

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or in many cases actually not dead and you could unlock them to quad core processors.

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OK, so then the other part is more to do with the overall quality of it.

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And that's where everything might work,

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but it might not be within the target power envelope or thermal envelope for that

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particular part, so they might have to turn off some cores or turn off some cash

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for that reason, probably wouldn't affect cash so much.

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But but cores for sure, you might have to turn off some cores in order to make

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this one fit into the power envelope for a core i5 in the 14th gen or whatever

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the case may be. So basically what it comes down to is that it's pretty much black magic at this

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point, how they managed to make anything as small as it is.

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There are a ton of defects in them, both small defects in terms of like, oh,

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yeah, this gap is like this many like freaking angstroms larger or smaller

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than it's supposed to be. And that could affect the power or performance character,

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switching speeds of it or whatever else. You can have defects like that.

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You can have defects that are caused by contamination.

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So they build in a ton of redundancy and they also use binning as they're

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sorting all of these dyes to turn them into different products at different tiers

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based on what they know during the pre-production process and the design

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process is going to be their defect rate. So silicon lottery basically just means that,

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you know, both of these chips might, you know, pass the minimum bar of how many cores need to be active and what kind of power

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and thermal characteristics it's supposed to have. But one was like slightly more better and that's great.

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And one of them wasn't and you either get a better one or you don't. And there's absolutely no way of knowing because Intel or AMD or NVIDIA,

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they don't want to go into things with that degree of granularity because then

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their product stack becomes an absolute cluster bomb.

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And last one I've got for you today. Hello, LD.

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Just wondering, will the cargo shorts come back sometime in the future?

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I love mine. Just wish I had gotten more. Oh, Alan actually has a really, really cool way of explaining the like the small

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defects, like differences in gaps and stuff. Remember, folks, computers are actually analog machines that operate on digital

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logic. So small defects can change the analog characteristics without affecting

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the binary logic up to a point. If you crank up the analog, the Boolean logic breaks down.

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So analog meaning like voltage current temperatures, things that are inherently analog.

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Yeah, that's a really good way of explaining that.

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OK, cargo shorts, I don't know. Hold on, let me see.

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Oh, that wouldn't be a new product introduction anyway, so it wouldn't be on

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this document, so I honestly have no idea. I'm sorry, maybe.

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I think so.

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If they do, they do. Not this year.

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Yeah, not this year. And that's it.

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We'll see you again next week, guys. Same bad time.

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Same bad channel. I'll see you soon, I guess.

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Oh, yeah, see you soon.