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What's up floaters?

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What uh, that name still just bothers me. Floaters?

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Yeah. You prefer floaties? What does floaters make you think?

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Poop. Yeah. Yeah.

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The ones that don't sink. The low density poops. Yeah.

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Yeah. Is that what they want to be known as that? Yeah.

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I think so. I think they're into it. Wow.

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What's it? Something phagia? Something the copper, copper phagia?

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I have no idea. Yeah. What is that?

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Uh, don't look it up. Being into that? No.

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It's worse. Oh. I don't even have the chat open to see how much I'm bothering them right now.

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No one's said anything yet. They are unbothered. Hopefully because none of them know what it is and are not looking it up.

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They like being called floaters. Okay.

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I see. I see. That's horrible.

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This is not the time for making new vocab. Yeah.

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Especially not that. Oh. Poor Gerasol.

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So innocent. Yeah. The fatty turds.

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Write a poem about it.

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Man. Last week, last week, the push was, hey, we can crack 38,000 Floatplane subscribers.

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This week it's going to be, hey, how do we stay above like zero?

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How do we not do the mass exodus? I mean, yeah, I like that idea.

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Did you do pilots? Yeah.

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Floaters. I liked betas best, calling them the betas back when Floatplane was in beta.

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It was supposed to, it was always supposed to be pilots. That would be my band. It was literally always Linus and the betas.

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Some bands like the name of the band sounds like that. Yeah.

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I always felt that way. You hear like the something, something band, and it's just someone's first name, their

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last name, and then band. It's just like, yeah. Dave Matthews band.

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Yeah. Yeah. There we go.

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That's what I was going to say too. Yeah. Like, what?

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Well, I mean, at least he has band in there. It's like, it's not like Elton John. Yeah.

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It's like, true. Elton John's band. We're going to go see Elton John in concert along with his drummer that's been with him

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like his whole life. It's like, oh, okay.

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What's his name? I don't know. I don't know actually, yeah.

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That's amazing.

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Boyancy buddies. I kind of dig that actually.

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That's kind of cool. It's pretty good, BB.

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I like boyancy buddies. I like boyancy buddies.

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Yes, I still have my beta squadron shirt.

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Nice. Yep. Nice.

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I swear there's a demon in my house that destroys my shirts randomly, and I never see

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them again. I never got rid of that shirt. I have no idea where it is.

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I never got rid of my vessel shirt. I have no idea where it is. Really?

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Yeah. Oh, I have no clue. I just like shirts just stop existing for me at some point.

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I'm pretty sure I still have my vessel shirt. I definitely still have the toque.

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I really wish I had my vessel shirt dude. My favorite pajama shirt though, actually, not my vessel shirt, not like any of our shirts.

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You know, which ones might go to? I mean, aside from the one my sister gave me, you're never going to guess.

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You're never going to guess in a thousand years. The LTX 2017 shirt.

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You got nothing. You're not even, you're so far off, you're not even close.

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Is it one of ours ever? No. Oh.

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Model 24? Oh, that's a good guess, but no.

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Too much ink.

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Once upon a time, eight years ago, I think it was, I backed a Kickstarter for a truly

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changing product. And you have a shirt from it?

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The shirt is the only thing I have left from the 800 or $900 or whatever it was that I

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spent on this Kickstarter. See, they know what's up.

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I didn't think of it before chat said it, but the second chat said it, I was like, I'm

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99% sure that's right because I have seen you wear that shirt. My G-bow shirt, it's more wear than almost anything else in my wardrobe.

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I love my G-bow shirt. Emma wears the LTX 2017 shirt like every day.

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Nice. You get home from work, change into it every time. Yeah.

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No, it's got nothing. She swears up and down, it's the comfiest thing. It's got nothing on the G-bow shirt.

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The G-bow shirt, dude, it's $900.

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It must be great because I have nothing else.

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Oh, man. Oh, I love this. Wendon gaming, so young, so innocent.

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The fuck's a G-bow? He asks. Oh, man.

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Yeah, it's a tax write-off.

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That's what it is for sure. If it came out six months ago, Marquez would have killed it.

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Dude, I want to turn G-bow.

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I tried. I tried for a bit. I wanted to turn G-bow into an insult, like, don't be such a G-bow, you fucking G-bow.

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That sounds risky. Yeah, I know. Yeah.

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You end up figuring out it's like some other language's word for something.

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Oh, yeah. You never know. Yeah.

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You never know. It's everything's just so dangerous.

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Speaking of Marquez, says Jacob.

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We will be discussing what happened, but I think it is not my vibe.

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To get embroiled in drama any more than I absolutely have to.

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Yeah. We will acknowledge its existence. I have enough of my own drama.

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Yeah. I don't need anyone else's drama. Yeah, we're good.

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Yeah. Yeah, I have- We're chilling.

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Yeah. What I will say to my floaters here, though, is, and not to the rest of the internet, is

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it's nice. It's nice to not be the one for a change.

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A tech YouTuber is trending on Twitter. Wait, it's not us?

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Yes. We did it. Oh, man.

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Somebody else. Yeah. I love it.

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Oh. Yeah, so should we do a $50 a year subscription to Floatplane?

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We still don't have annual billing, do we? Yeah, we do. Oh, do we?

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We have a $50. Oh, wait. It is $50 a year.

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Yeah. Sorry. Oh, crap.

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I'm going to blow up now. We know it. Oh, you know what?

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You should have unironically done. Oh, you still have a chance to do this.

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We should make some exclusive wallpapers.

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And just upload them as photos, and people can just download them.

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No, only if they're in the $5 a month tier. Sure.

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Yeah, let's do it. Well, and the grandfathered one. Hold on.

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And the- so all of them. Let me see what I can do. Because the- yeah.

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Hold on. Let me see what I can do. Let's see if we can-

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It would work for the grandfathered one. It would work for the supporter plus one, obviously. Let's see if we can have it for the show.

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Okay. Let's see what we can do. Let's see what we can do.

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I should have thought of this earlier. Yeah, me too, actually. Yeah.

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We can upload pictures, and you can do multi-picture posts. Yeah, no, I know.

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Hey, so this is a crazy last-minute request.

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Is anyone from, like, Designs still at work?

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Is it- did this- am I stupid?

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I forgot my AirPods case at home, so I just have my AirPods with me, and they're just

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in my backpack, and it keeps ripping my calls away.

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Yeah. Sorry, hi. Is anyone from Designs still at work?

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Mr. Nick Light?

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What? Yeah, I can hear you now.

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Well, what we were thinking was we could- if we have any just, like, of our designs,

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if we could get just, like, a dump of them to put as wallpapers for the $50 a year tier

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on Floatplane, we thought that that would be topical.

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I don't know. Whatever file format works for her, whatever's the fastest thing for Sarah to just, like,

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out into a folder. It's a joke anyway. Yeah, we're just meming, so.

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Yeah, just, like, whatever, whatever, whether it's, like, just stuff she literally already

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has, don't let her overthink this. Okay.

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Yeah, just- oh, what's the easiest way to get them posted?

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I guess it would have to go to Sammy.

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Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. Oh, yeah, if Sammy could get it posted, like, before the show, then that would be amazing.

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You are actually a champion. Note I didn't tell you what you're a champion of.

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It could have been masturbation, but, like, but you are a champion.

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Vash in the tournament.

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Nice. All right, I'll talk to you later.

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Whatever, it's Nick. Like, what's the- what do you- what do you compete in?

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Like, what's the- what's the- Could be volume.

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Distance.

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You're, like, training for the Olympics. You just do ab exercises all the time.

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Bro's got a kid now, so, like, whatever. Yeah, he's clearly got- he's clearly got more skills than just that.

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Do you think that the number of times that I've been canceled actually contributes to, like, a cancellation resiliency?

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Like, is it cancellation armor when you go through the cycle enough times that it's just like, is there cancellation fatigue?

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I think it depends. I think it can. I don't think it has.

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Okay, so you think- how many more do you think I have to go?

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Well, no. Do you get on it now and just, like, get it over with?

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I think it's about the person. The person. And who they kind of end up aligning with and shifting their audience and stuff like that.

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If you try to maintain the same audience and you align with the same people, I think it either stays the same or gets worse.

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But some people will just be like, oh, well, I'm just gonna be a bad person now,

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and then there's a group of people on the internet that are just cool with that.

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So am I a bad person now or, like, where are we at here?

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I don't think so. You don't think so not yet? Which is why you're still highly cancelable.

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Right. Oh, that makes sense. So how do I complete my transition to not be cancelable?

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Start selling lunch food to children. Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

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Okay. Okay. So, like, we've already got lunch of bowls.

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We've got lunch, Lee. We could have lunch.

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Lunch sack? Lunch. Lunch.

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Linus lunch. It's a bag of gruel.

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Hey, it might actually be healthier than that stuff.

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Super, super cost effective. Also consider, like, doing public fights.

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Linus lunch, TT. Linus lunch tips. Public fights?

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Who got in a public fight? Dom, it took me so long.

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I still am not there. The Paul Brothers.

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They got in a public fight? They're boxing matches. Oh, that's not a public fight.

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That's a sporting event.

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I was a... Public fight. Public fight sounds like a completely different thing.

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If I went on r slash... If I went on r slash public fights...

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Is that a thing? It's probably a thing. It almost certainly is.

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I spoke accurately. It was a fight in public.

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Public freak out is a thing. Public freak out.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like lunch bag.

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Oopy doopy. It's real food.

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Public fights is a thing. It's a small thing, but it's a thing.

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All right. Top 13%. Definitely not boxing.

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No. It sure wasn't.

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Are we supposed to...

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Are we supposed to start the show? At some point. Are we scheduled?

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Yeah. For when? Five minutes.

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Four minutes. Four minutes. Let's do it.

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Cool.

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How unhealthy does the LTT lunch have to be? Well, I mean, we don't know anything about food.

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So it would probably just be like a bag of chips.

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The same as theirs. Get it?

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I think I do. Yeah. I think so.

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Like processors. I didn't get it.

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Yeah, I could tell because it was a lot funnier than the reaction I got.

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Yeah, yeah. I thought you were making fun of it because one of them is just chips.

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One of them is nachos. Yeah, I know. It's so bad.

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What? Yeah, what are they? Lunch for children?

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Yeah. They're not even trying. I mean, they also come with a sugar drink and a candy bar.

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It's not... There's no attempt here to make a good lunch.

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Well... Lunch now with one billion transistors.

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Thanks, Rod. Oh, that's Rod. That Rod.

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Nice. Hi, Rod. Dude.

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We didn't invite Rod to softball like this year.

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We suck. We suck. Rod, remind me next year.

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We do softball night every year. Hey, you've got to come up for whale land.

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Yeah. Yeah, you've got to come up when we do whale land.

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Hopefully we're going to do whale land. I don't know if we're going to talk about this on the show,

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but we can talk about it real quick now before the show starts.

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We had our follow-up meeting with the city earlier this week.

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Have I updated you on this? No. Have you seen this?

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Have you heard about this? No. Oh, dude, it was great.

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So I have never, I have never felt like I absolutely needed to use this particular

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Gen Alpha slang word more than to describe this call.

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So we opened up with the person, the individual.

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I'm just going to keep it real vague, who we have corresponded with in the past regarding

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sort of bylaws zoning and an acceptable use of, you know, property or whatever, who did

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a spiel on how, what our parking allocation is, what the interpretation of our zoning

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is, and well, basically kind of mic dropped as though there was nothing left to discuss.

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So I have to confess, it set me off on the wrong foot a little bit.

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I might have, I'm so surprised. I just, I can't imagine how that would happen.

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I might have gotten a little irritated. See, I'm an improv rules kind of person, you know, no, doesn't work.

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You know, work with me, you know, we're in the scene together.

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It's unrealistic because you'd have to do all these things to make it work.

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At that point in time, you can decide to do those things if you want, even if they're

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not useful. Yeah. So, but just note it's not useful.

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It doesn't help us get anything done. If your job is to say no, be very afraid because you're not useful.

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You can be replaced by an AI like that.

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Okay. So your job should be to say yes, to find solutions.

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So anyway, I kind of said, look, I don't think it's particularly, you know, useful to rehash

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conversations we've already had about the current zoning interpretation or the concerns

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about parking when we've already made it clear that, you know, we're not interested in having

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just like an obstructionist conversation. We're interested in finding solutions.

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We're solution finders. And after I kind of talked for a couple minutes where I realized I was sounding pretty

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mad and I basically was like, okay, so, you know, I guess the question is, you know, Siri

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says they're open for business. That's like, you know, an internal drum you guys have been beating.

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You know, this kind of unnecessary red tape for what I feel is a very solvable problem

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doesn't really feel like open for business to me. Like, are we having a conversation here or not?

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And the person's boss starts talking about potential solutions.

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And that person who spent the very beginning of the call being the only one who talked

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literally didn't say another word and just sat there on the video call.

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I could see their face the whole time.

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Moulding out as hard as I have ever seen any human being ever mauled.

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So mad. I don't feel like the solutions are even that bad.

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No, they're fine. It's find a parking lot and put a shuttle bus or something like that, I'm assuming.

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Yeah. And then that's like, that sucks, but that's up to you to decide if it's worth it or not.

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Exactly. Dude, it was great. So the whole time I got to talk to their boss right in front of them about how useless

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they were.

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For the entire rest of like about the next 23 minutes, it was.

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Moulding is being mad and balding.

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So I just. I only saying that because someone asked.

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Dude, I was so happy. I was so happy.

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So we're in a good place with the city.

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They basically asked us to put together a package of, you know, who we've talked to

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about borrowing parking stalls, the analysis that we've done on availability of street parking

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in the immediate area, what our schedule for the event might look like, what our layout

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for the event might look like. Because I kept bringing up guys, you allow bingo in this zoning.

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You specifically allow bingo because they asked me like, well, see, here's the thing.

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How can you justify like land, e-sports, gaming or whatever else in a zone that, you know,

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talks about recreational use being things like volleyball and things like this thing. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not.

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I'm comparing it to bingo because it's pretty much the exact same thing.

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You have like a stage and someone is there and they call it numbers and you have a bunch

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of people sitting at tables, dabbing things in terms of the people density inside the

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building. It is literally in terms of the bathroom requirements in terms of basically everything.

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It is functionally identical to bingo.

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So if bingo is allowed, gaming is allowed, period.

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Other than you just are mad and don't want to, right?

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I suspect the bingo hall is just never asked. No, no, they ask.

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It's explicitly in the zoning. Oh. Yeah.

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So that's my argument. You guys have a carve out for bingo.

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Bingo is honestly probably more dense. If I can do bingo, I can do this.

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Yeah. Period. Because if you think about the desk space that you're probably going to give gamers.

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Oh, yeah, 100%. More desk space than bingo. There is no question.

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And it's great because that bingo exemption makes no sense.

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Like compared to all the other things, it's clear that somebody at some point knew somebody

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and that's why it's in there. But that's great for me.

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That's how law works though. So like you should, if it's going to be put in, other people should be able to take advantage

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of it as well. Then it's in there. Yeah.

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And let's get in there. Yeah. I'm so excited, dude.

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I'm like super excited. Okay. Let's get this story short.

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Rod, you'll have to come up soon. Yeah.

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Okay. Resuming the selected right now.

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Yeah. I love stuff like that.

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Okay. No. Go ahead.

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I need to maybe log into a thing. Someone said just play bingo randomly throughout the night.

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Effectively. I lost their message. Oh, that would be, that would be, that would almost certainly have to be a whale land tradition.

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Okay. Sorry. Oh, I almost removed it.

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Bingo, badminton and beams. Oh, okay.

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And video games. Okay. Okay.

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Started. Okay.

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What is up guys? Welcome to the WAN Show. I was hacked again.

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This time by Veritasium and as many of you observed, my wife doesn't respect me.

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Oh. Have you read the comments on that video? It's wild.

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We'll talk about that later. Anyway, in other news this week, one of our friends in the industry has been embroiled

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in a little bit of controversy.

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I'll have to give you some background on that.

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Oh. Well, these are panel of judges review.

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I just got signed out of the docs. Nice. I'm working on it.

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Wow. It's a good show. What a great show by a professional.

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Cloudflare wants to help block AI training bots, which is actually sick.

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And California is changing how companies have to communicate purchases versus basically

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renting software or renting a game. Pretty much what we do today.

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Which is, I'm very happy they're doing this. This is actually super cool.

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partner secret lab and laptop partner LG.

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Why don't we jump into a little bit of behind the scenes.

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That veritasium collab, we actually have been working on doing more collabs because we realized

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that we've kind of been stuck in our little bubble up here in Vancouver and haven't talked

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to anybody or collaborated with anybody pretty much since COVID.

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And there have been a couple of small exceptions, but we used to collab with other creators

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a fair bit and we just stopped.

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In fairness to us, we've been a little busy, especially over the last year.

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We've had some work to do getting our house in order, but we kind of talked about this

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a couple of months ago, I guess, and aligned on that, hey, we need to kind of, you know,

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get out there, put ourselves out there, start seeing people again.

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I was pushing for this for sure. Yeah, 100%. I think it's cool.

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It's a good part about being a creator. Well, and it's fun.

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Yeah. It's fun for everybody. It's fun for me.

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I like to think I'm fun to collaborate with for other creators, and I think it's fun

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for the audience as well to see these crossovers. Yeah.

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Anyway, the veritasium collab was one that completely fell into our lap.

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Derek reached out and he was basically like, look, I think out of kind of everyone that

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I could work with on this, you're probably one of the ones that would appreciate what

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we're doing the most. Right. I was like, this sounds like the coolest thing ever, but something people I think don't necessarily

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realize is that in a production like this, there is a little bit of movie magic.

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That is not to say that the attack vector isn't real.

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It is real. That is not to say that if Derek wanted, he couldn't have intercepted my phone number.

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You put a skin on it. Oh, we could talk about my skin a little bit later.

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Okay. Not right now. Okay.

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The point is that he could have intercepted my number.

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Yeah. But if you observed anything about the video that was a little weird, it's because it wasn't

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my number because Derek and our team had serious reservations around anybody, whether

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it's him or the security researcher that he partnered with or anybody just willy-nilly

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intercepting my communications. I was mad.

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Were you? I saw a video came up in my notifications and I had a massive like WTF.

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Why did you not tell me? Oh, yeah. That actually makes sense.

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Yeah. I probably should have mentioned it to you. And then I skipped through the video to be like, what happened?

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Do I need to be doing something about like no one told me anything happened?

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And then I see your phone at one point and I was like, oh, that's not his phone.

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Okay. And then I went all the way back and just watched it casually.

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However. Did you enjoy it? Yeah.

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It was good. So one of the things that people seemed kind of upset about in the video was that Yvonne

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doesn't respect me. Why? Yeah.

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I don't, I don't understand. I would just like to give you guys a little bit of background for what happened in our

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interaction. First of all, when I called her, so I knew it was coming from a real SIM, a SIM that

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they obtained over the counter because the point was not to just do a theoretical demonstration.

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The point was to do a practical real life demonstration of how this kind of an attack

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works. It is very real. So they just obtained a SIM and put it into a phone, but that wasn't my SIM.

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So when I called Yvonne, it was coming from a completely different phone number, one that

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she wasn't familiar with. Oh, I didn't even, because I knew that.

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So I didn't even register. Okay. So, so I, so when I first called her, I was just messing with her at the beginning of

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the call. Did you notice I tried to make my voice sound like, like kind of like a scam?

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I thought this was pretty obvious, to be honest.

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I didn't, I didn't even sort of, I've been sitting here confused about what they would

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have even been talking about because I thought it was like pretty apparent.

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So, so Yvonne hung up on me, not because she doesn't respect her husband or doesn't want

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to talk to me. She hung up on me because she is a smart lady.

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No, it's good. Who happens to be the financial controller for a small to medium sized business, depending

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on how you measure it, and is not interested in talking to AI robo-caller spam people.

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Yeah. She did a great job. It was actually partially just because I had an opportunity to just do a little test.

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Like if I sounded a little weird, would she stay on the line or would she hang up?

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No, that's good. She did the right thing. She did a hundred percent the right thing.

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Yeah. I just, I thought that. I didn't.

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So, so then I, the one that I do want to explain is that when I was actually talking to her

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and I was kind of explaining how the thing works. And she said, I'm with Cindy.

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And I was immediately like, okay, bye. And she was like, bye.

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The reason for that is because our cat was sick.

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So we got two kittens a few weeks ago. Yeah.

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Man, I guess it's almost a month ago now. We adopted two little kittens that were, our neighbor's friend found them in their shed,

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essentially. So these are just like wild cat kittens.

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And one of them developed a fever and was super lethargic and we contacted our vet friend

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and we were like, hey, Cindy, context.

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How long should we wait? Like, because I know from talking to you, like the smaller the animal, potentially the scarier

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any kind of illness can be. Technically always, but for the most part, yeah.

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But, you know, if you don't like have a lot of blood and meat and liquid in you, you know,

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not drinking for a day is a lot bigger of a deal for something, you know, like this

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with no blood in it versus like if an elephant didn't drink for a day, it's probably going

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to be okay. It does vary a fair amount, but yeah.

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I think we can say it's a general rule. In general, probably, yeah.

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So, it was enough for me to ask and I'm like, yo, Cindy, like how long should we wait to

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bring him in? And she goes a day at most and I'm like, okay, so what's your availability like?

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So she squeezed us in. So the reason that I'm with Cindy meant this conversation needs to end right now.

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Oh, yeah, because you're on a crazy time crunch. Was because she was at the vet who had graciously squeezed us in to take care of our sick kitten.

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If that was rude, I'm rude. I was filming a video not that long ago, Emma called me and I answered and was like,

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I'm a filling a video. And she's like, okay, bye. And just immediately hung up.

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She did. Yeah. So I don't know.

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It's all fine. So anyway, I just wanted to let you guys know there's a bit of there's a bit of movie

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magic in stuff like this, but the video was great.

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The attack is awesome, extremely real. And the demo was 100% real.

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But if there was any kind of weirdness that you guys observed, it was because it was a

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little weird. I was calling from an unfamiliar number in the first place.

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I decided to do the voice cause I thought it was funny. I'm actually kind of surprised he left that in the cut.

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I didn't really like, I didn't really contribute any of my thoughts to how he should cut it

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together or how his team should deal with that. They were super professional.

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Was super cool working with them. I first met Derek.

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Five years ago or something like that.

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And remember the COVID gap? Yeah. Maybe longer.

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No, no, it was pre COVID gap at a creator summit, I think. So yeah, so I first met him ages ago, I'm thinking like it might be closer to like seven

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is what I'm saying. No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

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20. Dude, seven years ago. I wasn't cool enough to get invited to a creator summit.

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That's 2017. I know. Yeah.

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No, I didn't go to create. No. Really?

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Yeah. Yeah. No.

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Dude, even when I even when I went, I think it was five years ago. I was like, not a cool kid. You know?

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Like that. There's seriously like, like massive personalities at these things with, you know, global, you

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know, followings and huge brands and like, like, dude, I think that was around the time

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that like dude perfect was signing like deals with Nickelodeon, you know?

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And I'm like, hi, hi, I make, I make tech tips.

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I can fix your computer. Do you want some tech tips?

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Do you like computers? Stop all the downloading.

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So I, so I was just happy that, you know, cool kids like Veritasium and Michael from

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Vsauce were even willing to like talk to me a little bit.

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That was exciting. I never thought we'd collaborate. And then this one just happened completely out of nowhere.

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And I'm so excited. I think, I think Derek's great video was great.

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Really appreciate it. I learned a bunch of stuff, but that's why it was a little weird.

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And everything is okay. We're okay. Everyone's okay.

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What else do we want to talk about this week? You want to pick our next topic?

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Sure. Do you want to talk about Cloudflare?

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Cloudflare has entered and announced to not introduce announced a suite of tools called

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AI audit, which allows website owners to monitor which bots are crawling their site as well

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as giving them background on the bots, who owns them and what their purpose is.

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For example, scraping information for AI training, cataloging web pages, which, you know, you

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probably want them to do, or collecting information for research.

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Users can also choose to block all bots to block them based on purpose or to block them

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individually. According to Cloudflare, users will eventually be able to sell access to their site to these

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bots, either with a flat rate or a scaled rate based on their purpose.

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Let's go Cloudflare. Yeah, it was actually kind of a good week for tech giants doing pretty cool stuff.

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Doing big enterprise level stuff as well. Well, I don't know if it's in the dock, but Valve removed force arbitration from their

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end user agreement. Is it not in the dock? No.

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That's okay. I mean, it's a huge thing. The internet's very happy about it.

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There's a huge thing, but there's not a lot for us to say about it. There really isn't.

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Other than that, that happened. And that's super cool. It's like one of the only times ever that terms and conditions have changed, and it's

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like, oh, wow, that's good. For the better.

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That is freaking awesome. There was another big one this week.

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Actually, why don't we jump right into one of our other kind of more exciting topics?

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It's the positive show. I am not necessarily the biggest fan of regulation for the sake of regulation.

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I actually had a really interesting conversation at Creator Summit with a small creator who

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uses YouTube shorts to promote their snack business.

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They are only really on YouTube because they made promotional videos for their restaurant

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that they franchise out, and they did really well.

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And they're like at Creator Summit, and I'm like, well, this will be a cool conversation

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because that's not an origin story I've heard before.

420
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:07,160
Anyway, so it was really cool, but one of the things that he mentioned to me was that

421
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:13,560
working in the Lone Star State, opening up in Texas was like easy as pie.

422
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:20,760
And the regulatory burden for a small snack franchise somewhere like California, he said

423
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,240
was much higher and that it was very frustrating.

424
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:31,600
But you got to give California props once in a while because this is awesome.

425
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:39,440
California has passed AB 2426, a new law that forces digital storefronts to clearly state

426
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,960
that they are only offering a digital license at the point of sale.

427
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:49,000
These companies must list all restrictions on the license upfront, including the fact

428
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:56,200
that it can be revoked. Digital storefronts cannot imply that customers are buying a product that they will own unless

429
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:01,600
the end user can permanently download the product and use it offline indefinitely.

430
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:06,440
So good. Companies that fail to do this will be subject to a fine for false advertising.

431
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,320
Because that's what it is. And so they should be. You do not buy games.

432
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,960
You don't own games. You'll lease them. In fact, you don't even lease them because there isn't a clear term.

433
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,760
There isn't a clear term to the agreement. You are.

434
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:25,400
What even is it? It's not. It's like month to month rental, except buying a temporary right or something.

435
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,400
Right of access. I mean, it's okay. Yes.

436
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,400
Yes. Yes. It's an access license.

437
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,840
I understand what it is. I just mean the way that they've phrased it in the past makes it sound like you are buying

438
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,000
games. You go on the valve. What?

439
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000
Which tab is it? What's it labeled? Store.

440
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,400
Right. You go on the store. That sounds like I'm buying a game.

441
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,520
Does it not? People are like, you forgot GOG. No, we didn't.

442
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,040
I don't know what you're even talking about. We're not even talking about GOG.

443
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,040
Get off it. GOG's great. Love GOG.

444
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,520
Yes. Yes. When you buy a game from GOG that is a DRM free game that you download, you are buying

445
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:01,720
the game. They're just not going to have to change anything. Yeah.

446
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:05,240
We're not talking about GOG. Other people will have to change things. We're talking about literally everything else.

447
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:11,120
Stop. I don't hate hot dogs.

448
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:19,280
My goodness. The sponsor of the bill, assembly member Erwin, cited Ubisoft, deleting the crew from players

449
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,480
accounts in April as an example of why the law was necessary.

450
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,480
Good. Absolute Chad. Nice move.

451
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,480
Absolute Chad. Good moves. S plus.

452
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,840
Thank you for paying attention to stuff that sucks and going, well, hold on a second.

453
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,120
Is this a one-off or is this a systemic problem?

454
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,840
This is a systemic problem.

455
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,080
California also passed another law, the Phone Free School Act, which requires schools to

456
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,360
limit student access to cell phones except in case of emergency or with the permission

457
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:53,600
of a teacher, administrator, doctor, or individualized education program for children with special

458
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,920
needs. This makes California the 15th state to have passed such a law.

459
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:03,480
I have got to say, there's recently been a lot of movement on cell phone bans in schools

460
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:09,240
here in Canada as well. I'm kind of cool with it.

461
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:14,840
I'm pretty glad that my kids, by the time they hit high school, are not just all going

462
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,760
to be on their cell phones all day. I genuinely think it's a huge deal.

463
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,120
Like I don't have kids, but if I did, I would.

464
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,120
That you know of. Oh my God. If I did, I would.

465
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:35,200
I mean, the one-off success rate's got to count for something. Very much hope that this would exist because the brain rot is so intense, billions of dollars

466
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,840
going into trying to corrupt your mind into never leaving a device is not something that

467
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,640
you want flowing into the brain of a child. It's just, I don't know.

468
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:51,880
And I realize that we both literally sound, but think of the children right now.

469
00:37:51,880 --> 00:38:02,320
But actually. But these are things that at this point, it's becoming fairly well documented, have negative

470
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:08,720
effects on still developing minds. It's a think of the everyone, like this screws over adults and stuff too, right?

471
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:12,160
But like at a certain point, you can't control them. And they're not even really controlled.

472
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,400
They're just controlling them at school, which like, that makes sense anyways.

473
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,400
Yeah. What are you doing on your phone at school that you need your phone for?

474
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,520
Theoretically, nothing like school don't a lot of the classrooms have laptops and stuff

475
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,520
now. Yeah, depending. Depending.

476
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,520
Yeah. And if you need one, it does. Yeah.

477
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,520
And if you don't need one, then it's not going to. Then it doesn't need it. Yeah.

478
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:40,000
You need your phone. Stop. It's like, I'm honestly surprised that they, I'm honestly surprised that this took as

479
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,200
long as it did. I mean, they would, they would literally stop us from intercepting pieces of paper that

480
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:53,920
we passed to each other. So how, how, how, I mean, I guess it can get kind of complicated, right?

481
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,840
You know, oh, this is my personal property. You can't confiscate it from, but like that never stopped anyone from confiscating something

482
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,080
from me. I mean, they confiscated my silly string when I sprayed that girl with it.

483
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:07,800
I think the rules changed. Yeah. That was only because she was the daughter of a teacher though.

484
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:13,120
When I was, they wouldn't have done it for anyone else. I got an in school suspension for silly string.

485
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:22,460
Who cares? When I was in grade one, I, I was racing little boats down the stream that was at my school

486
00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:25,880
with my friends on lunch or recess or whatever.

487
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,120
And then I had my boat with me in class and I wasn't even playing with it.

488
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,400
I just had it with me and she took it and she never gave it back.

489
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,400
Ever. Which? Ever.

490
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,480
How dare she? I will literally never get over this. This will bother me forever.

491
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,560
The fact that she never gave it back is nuts.

492
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,880
His paper boat, my silly string in suspension.

493
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,680
Scarred for life. School's, school's traumatic, man.

494
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:55,200
It's traumatic. I mean, my dad was always telling me about the Catholic school and they, they hit his

495
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,080
knuckles with the ruler and everything. I'm like, dad, you had it easy, brother.

496
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,320
What about my silly string? What about my silly string?

497
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,240
Oh man. But no, seriously, I think it's good.

498
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,680
There's the, there's the arguments of like, oh yeah, but you would have it on you as a

499
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,400
tool. So like learning how to use it. What, yeah.

500
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,720
Yeah. It's not the point. You don't just immediately stop learning when you leave school either.

501
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,000
And like you'll get into the, you will have no problem learning the habit that your phone

502
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,360
has answers to things outside of school. Yeah, I'm really not worried about that.

503
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,720
I don't think that kids need to be trained to use their phone more.

504
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,840
Yeah. Let's be, let's be real. Not an issue, bad argument.

505
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,720
One thing I want to add is there was a bunch of Cloudflare announcements, actually, and

506
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:49,120
some, some of the other ones are really cool. One of the ones that I want to point out was tweeted out by Troy Hunt and shared to

507
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,600
me by, I think it was handyman. In relation to Mike.

508
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,240
You know Troy, right? I know, I know, I just, I'm just being an a**hole.

509
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:05,000
And, uh, wrap Cloudflare, Cloudflare around your site and they can now automatically

510
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:10,320
hit, have I been pwned, uh, pwned passwords during a login attempt, check it against our

511
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:15,360
DB as in, have I been pwned DB and pass a request header to the origin of the password

512
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,640
has been briefed. That's so cool. Actually, super awesome.

513
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:28,240
And really awesome. If Cloudflare could figure out their enterprise support, I would be very happy, but your

514
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,560
tools are great and have always been really awesome.

515
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,560
I like working with you very much. No plans of ever canceling subscriptions.

516
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,400
So I'm putting myself in a bad negotiation position, but your enterprise support has

517
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,160
always been a little bit questionable and it's really expensive. So if you can figure that out, that would be great.

518
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,000
Thank you. Thank you very much. Sick.

519
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,760
Um, we should probably, um, update the sign.

520
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,960
What are we supposed to do next? Uh, if you want next, let's do a couple of merge messages.

521
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:02,240
Heck yeah. I mean, how many, how many topics do we have to get through?

522
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:07,440
I mean, we can, we can back load them. That's fine. I think we're going to, we already did three topics, Dan.

523
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:12,000
I don't know what's going on. I was doing math the whole time, trying to figure out what I'm supposed to end this

524
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,760
show. So we, whatever, uh, we don't expect him to actually listen to us.

525
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,960
He just says we, we only pay him enough to sit in the same room.

526
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,040
All right. Left, Mike. Let's keep going to take.

527
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,720
Come on. We got deadlines there. We got dying birds.

528
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:36,680
All right. Oh, dude, dude, what the heck?

529
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,280
You better hope they're alive when he gets home. Well, that's why I want to get him home.

530
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,320
Otherwise they will be, they'll be fine. They're fine. They're fine. Guess what's here?

531
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:51,920
Cargo pants. I would like to take a moment to just point out that these pants do not defy the

532
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,560
laws of physics. So you cannot fit a submarine in them.

533
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:01,520
Oh, um, well, just, there were some people upset about the size of the laptop.

534
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,520
Somebody's going to upload a picture with like a Lego submarine in their pocket.

535
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,000
I'm sure they will. Linus lied again. He was wrong.

536
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:16,160
Linus was wrong. Anyway, get him boys. The LTT cargo pants are now here for your wearing and does that one you?

537
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,520
Which one? This one? Yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

538
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:25,240
For your, for your wearing and viewing pleasure, complete with magnetic pocket

539
00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:33,600
flaps, hammer loops, uh, zipper back pockets, YKK baby loads of carrying

540
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,520
capacity with different sizes of either pass through.

541
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,760
So see these ones here are like pass-throughs for pens or whatever else

542
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,040
or regular pockets. Um, yeah, we flip and love these.

543
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:52,240
We have spent a lot of time developing them. There's, uh, like an army of internal people that absolutely swear by them.

544
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:59,160
Tynan, I don't think ever takes them off. Yeah, he's always Andrew from the camera crew only rarely removes his.

545
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,760
Uh, I have been daily in these. You've probably seen them a lot in the videos in case you're wondering.

546
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:05,960
Um, this is how they patina.

547
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:13,760
So they definitely change in color a little bit, but yeah, I actually

548
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,680
really liked the way they fade out. Yeah, I was going to say, if anything, I think they might look better.

549
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:25,320
Um, anyway, it's available now 21 pockets, uh, the, the, the, the gusseted

550
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,920
crotch that allows for a wide range of motion darted dual layer knee pads that

551
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,400
allow you to kneel in them comfortably. They're great for everyday wear with a soft washed down feel and available now

552
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:42,200
at LMG.GG slash cargo pants. Now there is a slight controversy already because I'm addicted to it.

553
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:48,320
We only offer different waist sizes and a 30 inch inseam at this time.

554
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:53,160
We are exploring alternate inseam lengths, which is going to be good for

555
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,920
taller boys. Yes. Yes, Dan. I hear you.

556
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,120
Um, but we need to see if we've, let me put it this way.

557
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:06,680
We've never really had, oh, Luke, you are standing in none of our camera views.

558
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:11,000
Yeah, but you can't see my feet. Anyways, what a guy. Um, there's no, there's no.

559
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:14,440
There's no, there's no camera view that shows that. Yeah, they can.

560
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,320
None of our cargo other website.

561
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:25,360
Oh my goodness. None of our lower half products have ever been particularly out of the park.

562
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:31,400
Grand slam hits. This one actually does look like it's going pretty well so far, but we didn't

563
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:37,800
want to over commit. Um, every additional inseam length adds another new three, four,

564
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,640
six, seven, eight, nine, nine skews.

565
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,680
Um, so we, we would like to restock.

566
00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:48,520
We have actually already done the work for 32 inch and 34 inch inseams.

567
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,800
Inseam is crotch to ankle, right? Is that right?

568
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,840
If I recall correctly, yes. Um, I don't know.

569
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:59,520
So anyway, yep, we know, and we're working on it.

570
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,400
And if these ones sell well, then we will absolutely be looking to, to do more.

571
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:11,120
Yes. The other thing that is finally here is the new spout lids for LTT water bottles

572
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,720
are now available. We cleared out all of the old ones.

573
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:22,520
Hey, hey, new and improved spout lid V2 on every LTT insulated water bottle.

574
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,920
Easier to hold, easier to clean, more durable.

575
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:31,160
Those are the main benefits. And I have a spout lid for myself to upgrade to right now.

576
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,880
Oh, look at that. We've got a bunch of different colors. How wonderful is that?

577
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,160
Got to love it. I think the water balls have been out for a while.

578
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,080
So now you can get them again. Yeah, the packaging is plastic.

579
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:46,920
The reason is that these are from the same, it's the same packaging we used

580
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:53,600
on our old spout lids that we had. And we just forgot that we still used plastic packaging.

581
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:58,960
The last time we ordered these, which was a long time ago, we ordered like a ton of them and we never updated them on that.

582
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,640
We wanted new packaging that didn't have plastic. So we're sorry we've let you down.

583
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:09,200
That is our bad. Anyway, I want to do a quick demo of the durability of the new lid.

584
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,680
And this is either going to be a great moment in Wancho history.

585
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,240
Is this an Elon Musk throws steel ball at windshield?

586
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:21,240
Dude, we don't even need to go Elon Musk to find an example of an epic

587
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,000
live fail when doing a product demonstration.

588
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,800
Is this a backpack dual layer moment?

589
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:33,400
Shank. So here we're going to go. We're going to go Linus Cam here.

590
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,800
So what are you even whacking against the table? So you're going to you're going to notice that the threads are on the outside.

591
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,200
Yes, it feels a little funny.

592
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:45,200
On the lips, but we felt that the improvement in clean ability.

593
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:50,520
Incredibly easy to clean now was worth was worth the was worth the slight

594
00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:56,640
you know, issue there. We have these little pull tabs. Those are awesome on our O-rings in the in the top one, too.

595
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,920
Yeah, also, also in the top, there's a little pull tab in there.

596
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,960
So you can pull the O-rings out, really clean them, because guys,

597
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,960
you should pull them out and you should clean them on your water bottle,

598
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:14,520
on your thermos, on everything. It is disgusting, the amount of gunk that can get built up in these.

599
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,160
You said it doesn't fit the old bottle, right? It does fit the old bottle. Fit the old bottle.

600
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:26,040
Yeah, I don't think anyone said this is an old bottle. The very, very OG bottles, the very, very first order

601
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,720
that we ever placed, it fits them, but you got to screw them on like really tighter.

602
00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:35,600
It leaks, they change the threading a little bit. It won't affect pretty much anybody because anyone who upgraded

603
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,080
to a new lid with those, I talked to customer service about it.

604
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:43,440
They were like, yeah, basically anyone who complained about it, we replaced their bottles and like it's pretty much dealt with.

605
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,320
Anyway, the other thing, what's the other thing?

606
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,600
Oh, yeah, so this stays in place.

607
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:58,640
Real good, but the big one is that, yeah, what's he going to do?

608
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:02,720
We have upgraded the durability of this handle here.

609
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:06,680
You're dripping on your laptop. Well, you know what? Maybe you should have thought of that before you gave me a laptop.

610
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:13,040
OK, so there's this one has like kind of a little like sharp spot,

611
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,760
the old one. So the new one is nicely rounded. So when you're when you're carrying it like this,

612
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,640
it doesn't like cut into your fingers.

613
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,600
But the bigger difference is that it's just a little wide.

614
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,600
What's the plan? Hold on, which way is tight?

615
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,600
The old one breaks about that easily.

616
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,600
OK, that did, in fact, happen.

617
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:42,600
Yep. I thought that was the new one and I saw it instantly break when he did that

618
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,600
and I was like, oh boy. Y'all ready for this?

619
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,600
Yeah. Let me just hide the banner. Oh, yeah, for sure.

620
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:49,600
Cool.

621
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,600
That's that's hitting pretty hard. That's harder than a drop.

622
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,600
Let's go. Nice.

623
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,600
OK. All right. Break the table.

624
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,600
Oh, goodness. Still good.

625
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,600
Luke, verify. Luke wouldn't lie to you. It's good.

626
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,600
All right. Yeah, there is. I don't even think there's a mark.

627
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,600
So spout lid V2. There's probably a mark on the table.

628
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,600
Is there? Yep. Yeah.

629
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,600
Yeah, there's dance. All right. Well, water bottle one, I guess.

630
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,600
Yep. So yeah, cool. There you go.

631
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,600
Enjoy. So right. Merch messages.

632
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:44,600
Now's a great time to leave a message. All you got to do is go to lttstore.com for one of our great new water bottle V2 lid

633
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:49,600
plus water bottles or just a lid in your cart. And you'll see a little box pop up for Merch messages.

634
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:54,600
You can also check out the new cargo pants. Merch messages will go to producer Dan, who will forward them to someone internally,

635
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:58,600
respond to them himself, sometimes incomprehensibly,

636
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:03,600
or he curate them for me and Luke to respond to.

637
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,600
Dan, do you want to show them how Merch messages work?

638
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,600
Yeah, sure. Hey Linus, I just got a kitten.

639
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:17,600
His name is Kirkland. Really excited. Since you have more cables than anyone, how do you keep them from chewing on cables?

640
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:22,600
You hope that your cat doesn't develop the habit of chewing on cables.

641
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:28,600
In all seriousness, though, you can buy stuff that you kind of paint onto it that tastes

642
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:32,600
really, really bad to them. That is probably the best way to go about it.

643
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:38,600
I mean, you can also try keeping the little spritzer near and giving them the old spritz

644
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,600
when they do something that they're really, really not supposed to.

645
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:45,600
But the bitter stuff is probably your best bet.

646
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:53,600
To my dear Linus Luke and Dan the Man, I was wondering if any fixed shaft screwdrivers were

647
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:58,600
in development, and if so, what are the different challenges in design compared to the existing

648
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,600
screwdrivers? Fixed shafts? Fixed shafts.

649
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,600
It's hard to say. Fixed shaft screwdrivers. Fixed shaft started development before precision did.

650
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:16,600
We had sort of this grand concept of what it would look like, where we would have blades

651
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:22,600
and handles that were kind of stocked as pieces, and we would almost build to order.

652
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:29,600
So, the idea was that we would have kind of like with our desk pads, and our water bottles,

653
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:34,600
where it's one price and you kind of decide what size of one you need.

654
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:41,600
Right? The idea was that we would just have a screwdriver, price, and then you could mix and match your

655
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:46,600
blades and your handles. So, if you wanted like a giant, you have giant hands and you wanted like a giant handle

656
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,600
with like a little Phillips number one or something like that, or you wanted some, well,

657
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:55,600
long one or a short one, you'd essentially be able to get a screwdriver in any configuration

658
00:52:55,600 --> 00:53:02,600
that you wanted. And if we could get the cold press fit right, then it would have all the strength and like

659
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:09,600
solidity and solidity of a fixed shaft screwdriver, but with the flexibility of a configurable

660
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,600
screwdriver. We did a lot of development on that.

661
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:18,600
We worked on a version of the handle that has like a rubberized over mold.

662
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:23,600
I don't think that ever went to actual injection molding, but we have like prototypes that

663
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,600
feel pretty darn good. We designed a bunch of different blades.

664
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:33,600
So, sort of, you know, exactly what they would be, but where it kind of has stalled right

665
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:41,600
now is a process for assembly and the risk of stalking that many SKUs.

666
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:46,600
So, if you think about it, Phillips number two, let's say, you know, for computer builders,

667
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:51,600
that's going to be one you're familiar with. How many Phillips number two blades do I need?

668
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:56,600
Oh, well, hold on. First, how many handles do I need? We wanted about, we wanted five sizes.

669
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:04,600
We wanted small, extra, extra small, small, medium, extra medium, and large or something

670
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,600
like that. I forget exactly what we called them, but it was internal goofy names.

671
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,600
Like, they weren't customer ready.

672
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:15,600
Of those, of those we were going to do, I think, two shaft girths.

673
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:20,600
So, the two biggest sizes were going to be like a big boy, or actually, it might have

674
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,600
been three. I think it was three shaft girths.

675
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:29,600
So, already, for each handle, we're going to need two molds or an insert mold.

676
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,600
So, that adds a bit of complexity as well.

677
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:37,600
So, like, the big one, you could do, like, a giant, like, slot number three, right?

678
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:44,600
Or you could do, like, a Phillips two. And then, the very smallest one, you could do, like, a tiny, like, triple, triple zero

679
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,600
Phillips, or you could do up to maybe, like, a Phillips one, right?

680
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,600
So, you'd have these, like, three, these three blade sizes and these five handle sizes.

681
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:55,600
You wouldn't be able to do, like, the smallest blade in the biggest handle or vice versa,

682
00:54:55,600 --> 00:55:00,600
but there'd be some overlap there. Okay, then, we had to figure out all the different tip styles, right?

683
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:07,600
So, a Phillips number two, we were going to need at least probably two blades, times

684
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:13,600
however many lengths we want to support. So, if you want, like, a stubby length, a medium length, and a long, like, a long boy,

685
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:19,600
then, okay, that's already, what is that, like, six blades for Phillips number two.

686
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,600
And that's just, that's just one, that's just one tip.

687
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:26,600
Then, we had to figure out a modular system for labeling, like, the cap,

688
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:31,600
because we wanted to be able to, like, put these into, like, a block, kind of, like, knives.

689
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,600
Okay. And be able to easily see, or just, like, some kind of screwdriver holder,

690
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,600
like, a vertical one, or an angled one, or whatever,

691
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,600
we wanted to be able to do, like, a modular labeling system, essentially.

692
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,600
And we came up with a system for that, they were just going to be, like, silicone,

693
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:49,600
like, kind of butt plug shape things, and they would just kind of pop into the,

694
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:53,600
the butt of the screwdriver, the butt end, like, in the butt.

695
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,600
They were, like, plugs, and they'd go in the,

696
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,600
but you're making it dirty, it's the butt of a screwdriver.

697
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,600
You danced around, you danced around everything else.

698
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,600
You just went right in on that one. Oh, yeah, right in.

699
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,600
Yeah, with the, with the, just,

700
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:11,600
um,

701
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:20,600
did I, did I already say the, right. Okay, so the other issue is the workflow and product management issue of, like,

702
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,600
how to just in time this,

703
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:27,600
how to turn our, what is right now mostly a warehousing operation that we work with

704
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,600
into, like, like, screwdriver assembly on site as well,

705
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:36,600
because for the regular screwdriver, assembly is actually done at pH molds, where they, where they do the molding,

706
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,600
because they, they, like, warm fit them.

707
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:45,600
Um, so it pretty much is stalled. We could just, we could just do what other people have done and just find a

708
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:50,600
screwdriver set and just friggin, I don't know, like, put our brand,

709
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,600
like, silkscreen our brand on it or whatever. We could do that.

710
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,600
But, you know, we, for better or for worse,

711
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:01,600
often approach a product and ask ourselves,

712
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,600
what are we adding to this category? And if the answer is not really anything,

713
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,600
then we kind of think maybe we just shouldn't bother.

714
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,600
Um, we are currently exploring a new way to tackle,

715
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:19,600
like, fixed-ish shaft screwdriver. So it would be, like, a, um, a multi-bit screwdriver,

716
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:26,600
but where you swap out the entire blade. But what I told the team is, look, if it's not, if there's any wobble,

717
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,600
then to me it isn't worth making.

718
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,600
Like, it's not a fixed shaft screwdriver competitor at that point.

719
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:37,600
So let's just not even bother. But I think Robert from the engineering team at Creator Warehouse

720
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:42,600
has actually been making some good progress on that. So, um, maybe we'll have something to share with you guys

721
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,600
in the next, like, six to 12 months. But don't hold your breath.

722
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:50,600
If you need a screwdriver, go buy a screwdriver, brother. Like, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna tell you,

723
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,600
it's gonna be like God's gift to screwdrivers.

724
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,600
It's, it's, if we bring something out, it'll be great because otherwise why would we bother making it?

725
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,600
But, um, don't deprive yourself of screwdriver ownership.

726
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,600
Screwdriver ownership on my accord.

727
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:08,600
The last thing that I'm supposed to cover for the, um,

728
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:13,600
for the LTT announcements period of the show is modmat signups.

729
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:19,600
We're getting closer to finally launching modmat. So we just want to remind you that if you want to get notified the moment it drops,

730
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,600
you can sign up at LMG.GG slash modmat.

731
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,600
It's gonna be affordable. It's gonna be extremely high quality.

732
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,600
I think you guys are gonna be really, really impressed by it.

733
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,600
And I am based on how the last couple launches have gone

734
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:37,600
with the scribe driver and the precision. If you aren't on the email list, you're not getting one.

735
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,600
We should, if, if that's gonna be the case,

736
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:47,600
we want to just order more stuff. Um, we're having some conversations internally

737
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:52,600
around our stocking strategy. I think, um, I think that, um,

738
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:57,600
the pendulum had swung pretty far toward ordering a lot of stuff

739
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,600
and then struggling to sell through it in a reasonable amount of time

740
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,600
because unlike a lot of retail operations,

741
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:07,600
ours is not entirely, uh, self-contained.

742
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:11,600
Uh, it has convenient access to media empire cash

743
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,600
that it can just kind of use whenever it needs it.

744
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:18,600
So it has, it had gotten kind of fast and loose

745
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,600
with how much inventory it was allowed to carry.

746
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:27,600
Um, so, you know, since Taryn came on, one of his major priorities has been taking care of dead and aging inventory.

747
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:31,600
Um, so we have freed up a lot of cash with Lime Day

748
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:35,600
and there was another promo that we did last Black Friday, Cyber Monday.

749
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:40,600
Uh, so we freed up a lot of cash. So we actually have a lot of stuff on order right now

750
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:44,600
and we're going to be flush with inventory and more inventory of the right things.

751
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,600
But I think in the interim, the pendulum might have swung a little too far the other way

752
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:52,600
and we were being very conservative about our order quantities.

753
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,600
And this is just one of those things that...

754
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:59,600
You know, look, we aren't your local retailer

755
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:08,600
who is taking an inventory from their, um, you know, country distributor

756
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,600
who is taking an inventory from the manufacturer

757
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,600
and there's a well-developed supply chain here

758
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:19,600
that has enough excess at each stage to help smooth out any, any bumps

759
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,600
so that nobody gaps out, right? And even then, things gap out.

760
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,600
Like Intel has a controversy with 13th, 14th Gen

761
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,600
and they're out of stock everywhere. Nobody can, nobody can get one.

762
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,600
Like it happens, even to companies that have been doing this for decades.

763
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:37,600
We haven't. So, and we don't have the benefit of, of, of these additional layers

764
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,600
of the supply chain to help smooth things out. We are ordering directly from factories.

765
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:48,600
We are creating custom products. It's not like when, when we don't have precision screwdrivers,

766
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:52,600
we can just like source another one and swap it into our bit sets and ship them.

767
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:55,600
You know, we'll, we have to get them made. We have to get them machined.

768
01:00:55,600 --> 01:01:00,600
We have to source all the pieces individually. It's, um, it's, it's complicated.

769
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:03,600
And so when we gap out, we tend to gap out really hard

770
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,600
because it could be a three, four month turnaround

771
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,600
in order to actually get everything together, get it all assembled and bring it into the store.

772
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:14,600
So we're, we're gonna, we're gonna be working on that. We're gonna, we're gonna do a better job for you guys.

773
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:18,600
But in the meantime, sign up for a notification from modmat.

774
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,600
If you want one, cause otherwise you might not get one.

775
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,600
We ordered these a while back. Okay. This says, don't read the title.

776
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:31,600
Read the first point. Good job. We have a very special message from our very own Riley.

777
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,600
Let's watch. Are you doing this?

778
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:38,600
You're already playing audio. So pause it from somewhere else.

779
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:42,600
Yes, I will. I will do that. And I made sure it worked this week.

780
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:46,600
Wow. Dan. I did the bare minimum.

781
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,600
Yay. Good job. Good job.

782
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:53,600
No, I think, I think that goes beyond bare minimum. I think that's minimum.

783
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,600
Not bare. That's a clothed minimum.

784
01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:58,600
Thank you.

785
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:04,600
Okay. Are we doing this? I was just going to let it kind of hang here

786
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,600
awkwardly. We don't have to do that. We could.

787
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,600
No, it's fine. All right. Here we go.

788
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,600
If you play that. They should hear it. You should hear it.

789
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,600
Backflip. Watch this. Whoa.

790
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:22,600
That was gnarly. Hey, you want. What the f*** just happened?

791
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:27,600
I have told that guy so many times.

792
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,600
Not at work.

793
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:37,600
It was off hours. Don't worry about it.

794
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:41,600
I think. Do you know? I don't think that actually makes it okay.

795
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:46,600
He has disclosed this publicly. He has had like so many concussions.

796
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:50,600
Every time he's like, I'm going to do a backflip.

797
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,600
I'm going to do a backflip. I want to do a backflip on stream. I'm going to do that.

798
01:02:53,600 --> 01:03:00,600
I'm like, no, no, I don't. It is not worth the damage you could do to your brain.

799
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:04,600
How did you allow this to happen? That was not during work hours.

800
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:08,600
It doesn't matter. Don't encourage this behavior.

801
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:12,600
Do you know what happened last time he fell down the stairs?

802
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,600
I don't know. He missed work for like two months.

803
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:20,600
But then he blew up. Now he's a beloved boy.

804
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,600
That is not the point.

805
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:29,600
What's your takeaway from that? It was a funny edit.

806
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:32,600
Sorry. Okay. There you go, guys.

807
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:36,600
Hurting yourself at work is a path to fame here.

808
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:40,600
No, I don't know. That's what he made it sound like.

809
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:45,600
Yes. No, I do not approve of this.

810
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:48,600
Anyway, let's just finish the thing.

811
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:53,600
Want to learn more fun facts about me? Tune into Floatplane for Riley Week all next week.

812
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:58,600
Here's some fun clips. Gotta get the blood up.

813
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,600
The core issue with Star Wars today, as I see it,

814
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,600
is that it's struggling to change itself.

815
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:08,600
How is your Tim Cook impression so good? I don't know.

816
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:11,600
The ship is not moving. Showed the ship.

817
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,600
What does being a minimalist actually mean? I'm gonna be so loud.

818
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:17,600
I'm gonna be so disruptive.

819
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:23,600
Bing Bong. How is Riley's mom?

820
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:28,600
Uh-oh. You keep my mom's name out you-

821
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:32,600
Wow, those were great. You want more? Subscribe to Floatplane.

822
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,600
I'm talking to you Linus.

823
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:40,600
I'm subscribed to Floatplane.

824
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:44,600
Not technically. Yeah, I think I'm subscribed enough.

825
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:48,600
Yeah. I think when you sign the checks to the development team,

826
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,600
you're effectively subscribed.

827
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,600
I don't think so actually. All right, for those of you who don't know what people weeks are,

828
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,600
it's when we dedicate a week of Floatplane exclusives to one person

829
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:03,600
with the addition of an extra Floatplane exclusive, so that's three extras rather than the usual two a week.

830
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,600
Riley Week concludes an 18-minute Star Wars rant,

831
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:10,600
office interviews, and answering your very own questions about Riley.

832
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:14,600
Can you guess which one was his idea? 18-minute Star Wars rant.

833
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,600
Oh, yeah. I like how they put a time on it because my...

834
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:21,600
Riley spent an immense amount of time writing his Star Wars rant.

835
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:27,600
It was six pages. So please give him love and support by going to LMG.gg slash Riley24.

836
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:30,600
What does that do? I have no idea.

837
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,600
All right, Dan, hit us with a topic. You know what, Luke?

838
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,600
Hit us with a topic. I'm going to interject here. I got a message from Sammy.

839
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:40,600
The Floatplane wallpapers are currently unlisted.

840
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,600
Okay. We'll talk about them later. Distribute them.

841
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,600
We'll talk about them later. As long as it's in your brain. Another topic?

842
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,600
Yeah. Yeah, okay. What do you want to talk about, Luke?

843
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:54,600
YouTube premium prices are on the rise? Oh, it was such a good positive show so far.

844
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:57,600
Okay. Okay, let's go with something else.

845
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:03,600
Intel Lunar Lake. No, it's actually, no, it actually looks promising.

846
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:08,600
Yeah. Multiple outlets have now benchmarked Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 or Lunar Lake CPUs, at

847
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,600
least the Ultra 7 258V.

848
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:14,600
Unintelligible product names aside. Insane.

849
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:21,600
The performance appears to fall behind AMD's top end Ryzen AI 9 HX370.

850
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:25,600
But it is worth noting that this isn't the most performant Lunar Lake SKU.

851
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:30,600
That would be the Ultra 9 288V, but Intel didn't send that one out for comparison testing.

852
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:37,600
Despite this, the ArcGraphics 140V IGPU is apparently both faster and more efficient

853
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:45,600
than the Ryzen Radeon 890M, according to notebook check.

854
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:50,600
That is only a little bit exciting.

855
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:56,600
You know, I personally don't necessarily need, you know, 8% faster mobile.

856
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,600
I mean, I won't say no to it. That's fantastic.

857
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:04,600
But what actually makes me excited about that is maybe Battle Mage won't suck.

858
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:07,600
Oh. Maybe Battle Mage Dedicated won't suck.

859
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,600
Yeah, okay. Maybe NVIDIA will have some pressure on them.

860
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:13,600
Come on! Come on!

861
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:16,600
I really need ArcGraphics to be good.

862
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:24,600
And the other thing is that the battery life apparently rivals that of the Snapdragon laptops they've tested.

863
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:30,600
PC World ran it through their standard video rundown test, looping a 4K video at fixed brightness,

864
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:36,600
and Lunar Lake lasted 21 hours on the 73-watt hour battery.

865
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,600
You know what? I gotta tell you.

866
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:51,600
Framework investment aside, I never stopped using my Qualcomm laptop.

867
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,600
Like, dude, I love...

868
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,600
Watch this. Watch this. I'm gonna show you a magic trick.

869
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,600
Okay, just wait. Just wait.

870
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:05,600
It's a good magic trick. It's a good trick. Okay, watch.

871
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:08,600
Wait for it. It's an exciting trick.

872
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:12,600
It's not very fast. Look at that. It's not about the speed.

873
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:16,600
It's about the quality of the trick. I'm a quality trick.

874
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:24,600
Not fast, though. Not a fast trick.

875
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:29,600
Look at that. My battery isn't dead.

876
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:33,600
Yeah. Dude, if you were me, if you were me, okay?

877
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:36,600
This needs so much more story around it. This trick of yours?

878
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:41,600
If you were me, okay? You would know that any other laptop in my backpack,

879
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:44,600
if I pulled it out, it would be dead. Oh, okay.

880
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:47,600
Because I am really bad about charging it.

881
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:50,600
And I just...

882
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:55,600
When I'm using it, I just, like, leave it on for long periods of time,

883
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:58,600
because I'll be, like, referring back to it for notes. And so it'll just...

884
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,600
My laptop is just always dead, except this laptop.

885
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,600
This laptop? Always alive. I love it.

886
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:10,600
It's amazing. I have my same, like, very old at this point laptop

887
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:13,600
that I just drag the cable around everywhere for

888
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:16,600
and plug in in every room I go to. Dude, like...

889
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,600
It's awesome. Macbook battery life is a game changer.

890
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:23,600
And I would have loved to enjoy it for the last few years,

891
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:27,600
except I just can't macOS. I just...

892
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,600
I just can't, like...

893
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,600
And the funny thing is, I think that that was only

894
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:37,600
the last time I tried or thought about it was,

895
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:40,600
like, three or four years ago. Now?

896
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:45,600
I probably could macOS, because pretty much everything I do

897
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:48,600
has transitioned to a browser.

898
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:52,600
In fact, I was kind of thinking my next challenge

899
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:55,600
might be a Chromebook challenge.

900
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,600
Ooh. I have never...

901
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:02,600
I have never really given ChromeOS a daily driver treatment.

902
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:07,600
Like a real fair shake. And these days, like, yeah, I'm using Windows,

903
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,600
but I'm using Windows with limited compatibility.

904
01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:17,600
If I'm going to use something with limited compatibility, I might as well open up my horizons to Mac or Linux or ChromeOS.

905
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:23,600
Not Linux yet. I'm waiting for SteamOS. I want SteamOS before I...

906
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:27,600
And the Chromebooks are... What the heck?

907
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,600
Chromebooks cost nothing, dude.

908
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:35,600
I mean, part of that is because they just use cheaper, crappier hardware.

909
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:38,600
Yeah, but still, like, a hundred bucks? Yeah.

910
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,600
I mean, that's refurbished. That's refurbished. Come on.

911
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:44,600
But still, yes. I didn't actually notice that part. You're not wrong.

912
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,600
Renewed? Is that the new, like, fun name for refurbished?

913
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:50,600
Is that what that is? Yeah. Wow.

914
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:54,600
It's renewed. It wasn't new, but now it is renewed.

915
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:57,600
Okay. It's new again.

916
01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:00,600
That shouldn't have been allowed.

917
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:05,600
Anyway, in other news, for Intel, the company released

918
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:09,600
another microcode update to protect Raptor Lake CPUs from crashing.

919
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:12,600
Specifically, it prevents the CPU from asking for too much power

920
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:16,600
when it's sitting idle or performing light tasks.

921
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,600
So, yeah. Well, good luck for them.

922
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:23,600
I wish them luck with all of those things. I'm actually pretty...

923
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:28,600
I'm pretty... I know it's stupid and it maybe...

924
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:33,600
No, it's not stupid. I know that it doesn't affect me personally because, realistically,

925
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:38,600
I'm going to go for a 5080 or a 5090, this next gen.

926
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:42,600
I swore I wouldn't go 40 series and I didn't,

927
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:48,600
but I am still running 30 series or AMD and I am ready.

928
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:52,600
Better match? I'm ready. I don't think there's going to be a high-end SKU.

929
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:55,600
Yeah. And I would like a high-end...

930
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:59,600
We shot a sponsored video this week and, again,

931
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:02,600
you know, investment, sponsorship, whatever.

932
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:07,600
All of that aside, I upgraded to a 480Hz OLED.

933
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:13,600
So good. So good.

934
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:18,600
Dude. So, I want a faster GPU.

935
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:22,600
I would like a faster GPU so that I can enjoy more of that

936
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:26,600
super high refresh rate, high frame rate goodness.

937
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:31,600
And I'll probably upgrade my CPU too, even though I've already got a 7950X.

938
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:37,600
I'm probably going to want to go X3D. What I'm hoping is that 50 series and 9000X3D

939
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:43,600
will drop it around the same time. Or, I mean, yeah, when is Core Ultra 2 or whatever?

940
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,600
When is the desktop Core Ultra rumored to be landing anyway?

941
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:51,600
I haven't checked lately, but I'm kind of hoping it'll all line up. Handyman is saying that there's 5090 leaks.

942
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,600
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's supposed to be like...

943
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:58,600
We don't really do leaks on Wansho anymore. I don't know if you guys noticed that. We don't really, like, do rumor miller leaks, but...

944
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:01,600
I don't even know that. Yeah. Well, I mean, we don't...

945
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:04,600
It makes it... Yeah, you're not wrong. It's just because we don't care.

946
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:08,600
Like, we can talk about it once it's out. Pretty true. And a lot of the time, the problem with us reporting on leaks

947
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:13,600
is that we would, like, know. So, it created a bit of a weird...

948
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:18,600
It does get a little muddy trying to remember what you read online versus what you were told.

949
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,600
Yeah. And knowing where the line is. Yeah.

950
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,600
It is a little sketch. I don't know anything firsthand about 5090, though,

951
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,600
so what I heard is that it's supposed to be 600 watts.

952
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:31,600
But a real daddy chip, though.

953
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:34,600
So, 512-bit bus. Whoa.

954
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:37,600
32 gigs GDDR7. That's the current rumor, but...

955
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:40,600
Are they going to put real power cables into it?

956
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:43,600
No, it's probably still going to be...

957
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:47,600
I heard they might even do two of the high voltage power connectors,

958
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,600
so we'll see how that goes.

959
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:53,600
What else we got today?

960
01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:59,600
Did we actually do all the announcements? I don't think we did.

961
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:03,600
Did we do...? No, but let's give them a break from announcements. There's a lot of announcements this week.

962
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:09,600
Cool. U.S. Bands, Chinese Cars, and Kaspersky becomes the malware.

963
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:14,600
The current White House administration is planning to ban certain hardware and software made in China

964
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:18,600
and Russia from vehicles due to the risks of surveillance

965
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:23,600
and sabotage. The official press release expresses concern that

966
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:27,600
foreign adversaries could gather information on both American citizens and critical infrastructure...

967
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:31,600
Valid. ...perhaps to disrupt the operations of said infrastructure.

968
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:34,600
Valid. The proposal specifically mentions banning

969
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:37,600
automated driving systems, suggesting the White House

970
01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:42,600
fears vehicles themselves could be used for possible sabotage.

971
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:45,600
Somebody watched a little bit of Fast and the Furious.

972
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:48,600
Around the same time, Russian cybersecurity company

973
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:52,600
Kaspersky started uninstalling its antivirus software

974
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:55,600
from American computers to comply with its own U.S.

975
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:59,600
ban, but the company also installed a different antivirus

976
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:02,600
software on said computers.

977
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,600
While Kaspersky did tell customers via email their existing

978
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,600
subscriptions would be transferred to alternative

979
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:11,600
antivirus software, Ultra AV, users claimed the auto

980
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,600
installation wasn't mentioned.

981
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:17,600
However, Pango Group, owner of Ultra AV, claims that

982
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:20,600
Kaspersky communicated the transition to users starting

983
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:24,600
on September 5th, including an in-app pop-up stating,

984
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,600
Ultra AV protection will be automatically activated on

985
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:32,600
your device, which I would immediately think that my

986
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:35,600
computer had been hatched to all heck.

987
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:39,600
100%. Ultra AV protection doesn't even sound like a real thing.

988
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:44,600
No, not at all. I'm sure it is, but it's not what we use and we have a team

989
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,600
of people who determines what antivirus we use, so that's

990
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:53,600
not something I've looked into a lot personally. I'm just saying that if you don't follow the antivirus

991
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:57,600
industry, that could easily sound like a fake.

992
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:01,600
To be fair, a few of them do sound kind of fake.

993
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:05,600
This is true.

994
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:08,600
Crowd strike. Sentinel-1.

995
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:14,600
They're all like so intense. Do you know how many years I called us?

996
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:18,600
No, never mind. Go ahead. Ninja-1 and Sentinel-1, also being from two different

997
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:24,600
companies, blows my mind. Anyways, some users were...

998
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:28,600
Vikas says I'm pro IT and I've never heard of it, so I don't even feel that bad.

999
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:33,600
Some users were especially freaked out because after using a third-party uninstaller app to completely remove

1000
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:37,600
ultra AV, it just reinstalled itself after they rebooted.

1001
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:41,600
Wow. Very cool. That is actual malware.

1002
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,600
Very cool. That is the definition of malware, something that

1003
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:47,600
installs itself without user intervention and without

1004
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:50,600
user consent. I mean, is that not malware?

1005
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:55,600
Well, it could be a form... In their defense, it could be a form of...

1006
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,600
It's had a third-party uninstaller app, right?

1007
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:03,600
So it could be a defense.

1008
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:07,600
If you're an antivirus, do you want third-party uninstaller apps to be able to uninstall you?

1009
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,600
Yeah. Probably not. Yes.

1010
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:14,600
In their defense, I will put that out there.

1011
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:18,600
If you use the actual uninstaller... I'd still be freaked out.

1012
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:21,600
Yes, 100%. But I think I kind of get it.

1013
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:24,600
Especially if I knew anything about Kaspersky and the

1014
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:27,600
whole situation that's gone down with them and why they

1015
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:31,600
aren't allowed in the United States anymore and stuff.

1016
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:35,600
Just the whole thing feeling sketchy, you know?

1017
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:39,600
Yeah. Okay.

1018
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:44,600
There's a work conversation buried in there somewhere,

1019
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:48,600
but we'll do with that another time.

1020
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:51,600
Reboot remaster update? Yeah, we could talk about that.

1021
01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:54,600
Did we talk about that on the show, Dan? I don't think so.

1022
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,600
It was a topic for last week, but we didn't get to it,

1023
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:00,600
so it's continued into this week. That's right.

1024
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:05,600
Okay. Let's talk about it. We have been in the background providing a little bit of

1025
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:08,600
assistance. I don't want to give ourselves credit for the restoration

1026
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:11,600
because that goes to other people, but we've been trying to help.

1027
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:14,600
We've been trying to help Mark from Disappearing Inc. and the

1028
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:17,600
Reboot Rewind documentary team with their project to create

1029
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:21,600
high-quality versions of the classic 1994 CGI TV series,

1030
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:25,600
Reboot. A few months ago, we reached out to the community for help

1031
01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:28,600
getting the D1 machines in their possession running.

1032
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:31,600
They have since given us an update on their progress and

1033
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:35,600
some side-by-side comparison screenshots.

1034
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,600
They have one of three D1 machines running, and they have

1035
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,600
captured a few of the 200-plus tapes.

1036
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,600
The tapes do require some tender love and care because the

1037
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:47,600
magnetic media is showing signs of degradation, which is a

1038
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:50,600
good reminder of how physical media will degrade over time

1039
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:54,600
and modernization is always an ongoing effort.

1040
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,600
We have sourced and now possess a full schematic set and user

1041
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,600
manual. Huge thanks to the community for all the leads and a good

1042
01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:05,600
reminder to support archival sites. And the tapes and the contents are still the property of the

1043
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:10,600
original studio mainframe. So the captured results are released as approved by

1044
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,600
mainframe. This is their intellectual property.

1045
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:17,600
But we do have some comparison images that I would be

1046
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,600
happy to show it to you guys. Check this out.

1047
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:21,600
Here we go.

1048
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:28,600
Damn! Do the slider.

1049
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:31,600
Do the slider. It's a slider. Oh, yeah.

1050
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,600
Here we go. Here we go. It's insanely better.

1051
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:38,600
Dude. Wow. This is what the artist.

1052
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:45,600
This is what the artist created. This is what 1994 technology could do via broadcast.

1053
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,600
Dude. Dude. They look.

1054
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:51,600
That is so sick. They look so good.

1055
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:54,600
That's wicked. Dude. Dude.

1056
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,600
Dude. Dude. Stuff like this.

1057
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,600
Look how sharp that is. Look how sharp that is.

1058
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:03,600
I need. I need to rewatch this.

1059
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:06,600
Here's the first remastered episode on YouTube.

1060
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:09,600
Hopefully we don't get in trouble for this because like,

1061
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:12,600
please don't. Like we, I swear we did help a little bit.

1062
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:15,600
We didn't do that much, but we did help a little bit. Please don't.

1063
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:18,600
Dude.

1064
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:23,600
Even me watching through YouTube and you guys watching through my crappy stream,

1065
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:26,600
you guys are going to be able to see that this is.

1066
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:32,600
So much better. So much better.

1067
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:35,600
Absolutely sick. Yeah. Yeah.

1068
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:38,600
It's an HD. Oh, so exciting.

1069
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:43,600
We are, we are extremely happy to be even a small part of this restoration

1070
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:47,600
effort. So massive shout out to the reboot rewind documentary team and Mark from disappearing

1071
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:50,600
Inc. What else we got for this week?

1072
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:53,600
Mr. Luke. Do you want to do a couple? Oh, no.

1073
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:56,600
iPhone. It's time for me to get mad.

1074
01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:59,600
Oh. It was brought to our attention.

1075
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:08,600
So shout out to the subreddit that ghost keyboards used a photo of me alongside a falsely attributed

1076
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:13,600
quote endorsing their product. I'm actually just going to try and find.

1077
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:17,600
Let me see if I can track this down.

1078
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,600
Here it is. I can get in the dock. Okay.

1079
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:23,600
Got this ad from ghost keyboards.

1080
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:31,600
So this best keyboard I have ever used with like kind of, you know, creepy mustache Photoshop

1081
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:37,600
thing. This is from, this is a capture from Elijah's AMD ultimate tech upgrade.

1082
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:43,600
And they are promoting this, this keyboard and they did a sale on it or whatever else.

1083
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:51,600
So here's the situation. If this was just like a meme and obviously fake and just posted on their Instagram, which

1084
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:58,000
they did, they did also posted on Instagram, that would be one thing.

1085
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:07,140
In my opinion, it was not obviously enough fake for one thing.

1086
01:22:07,140 --> 01:22:12,420
Or another thing, the quote, okay, if it was just the image, it's already our intellectual

1087
01:22:12,420 --> 01:22:18,980
property being used for commercial purposes. That is, that is absolutely not fair use.

1088
01:22:18,980 --> 01:22:24,460
The quote makes it much worse because not only in that video did I not say it was the

1089
01:22:24,460 --> 01:22:34,980
best keyboard I had ever used. I advocated against buying it and I discussed with Elijah that I felt that it was not very

1090
01:22:34,980 --> 01:22:39,660
good quality for the money. So that's issue number two.

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01:22:39,660 --> 01:22:45,500
Issue number three is that aside from them posting it as a meme on their Instagram or

1092
01:22:45,500 --> 01:22:52,220
whatever else, there was a clear call to action for people to purchase this keyboard based

1093
01:22:52,220 --> 01:23:00,980
on the image. And issue number four is that it was also sent soliciting members of their email mailing

1094
01:23:00,980 --> 01:23:07,900
list to buy the keyboard, to purchase the keyboard.

1095
01:23:07,900 --> 01:23:17,460
This goes so far beyond sort of, we didn't know better or like engagement bait or community

1096
01:23:17,460 --> 01:23:25,460
engagement or soft collaboration or whatever the case may be.

1097
01:23:25,460 --> 01:23:29,340
I know that there's a number of people internally who thought it was funny.

1098
01:23:29,340 --> 01:23:37,900
I didn't think it was funny. I think that if it was clearly marked that I did not think the keyboard was a good value,

1099
01:23:37,900 --> 01:23:41,300
I did not think that it was something that people should buy.

1100
01:23:41,300 --> 01:23:46,580
And if they were kind of memeing on that, Linus says, don't buy this keyboard.

1101
01:23:46,580 --> 01:23:53,060
We disagree, buy it, whatever else. There was potentially angles where this could kind of work.

1102
01:23:53,060 --> 01:23:56,380
At the very least, we should have gotten a heads up.

1103
01:23:56,380 --> 01:24:03,220
We didn't. It just appeared.

1104
01:24:03,220 --> 01:24:09,660
Not cool. They have done at least one thing right since then.

1105
01:24:09,660 --> 01:24:13,380
Colton reached out to them via LinkedIn, I believe.

1106
01:24:13,380 --> 01:24:18,380
They apologized and they have removed the post from Instagram.

1107
01:24:18,380 --> 01:24:23,860
I personally think there should be a public retraction and a correction of the record.

1108
01:24:23,860 --> 01:24:26,940
I would like to see that happen.

1109
01:24:26,940 --> 01:24:33,540
Oh, it's ghost keyboards, those of you asking who exactly this was.

1110
01:24:33,540 --> 01:24:40,460
At this point, if that doesn't happen, then I'm not going to threaten any form of legal

1111
01:24:40,460 --> 01:24:44,260
action or whatever else it is. They've already removed the offending material.

1112
01:24:44,260 --> 01:24:50,500
However, I consider this a pretty solid first strike here and I don't think we'd be open

1113
01:24:50,500 --> 01:24:56,260
to collaborating with them in any way, any form, until they have publicly set the record

1114
01:24:56,260 --> 01:24:59,460
straight on this. Not cool, ghost keyboards.

1115
01:24:59,460 --> 01:25:06,500
Not cool. What else we got?

1116
01:25:06,500 --> 01:25:10,300
iPhones are like repairable or something? Dude. That's really cool.

1117
01:25:10,300 --> 01:25:13,780
iPhone 16 got a seven out of 10 repairability score from iFixit.

1118
01:25:13,780 --> 01:25:18,340
That's crazy. Apple has launched its iPhone 16 lineup, which has demonstrated a significant improvement

1119
01:25:18,340 --> 01:25:26,300
over the iPhone 15 in terms of repairability. iFixit has given the 16 and 16 plus a rating of seven out of 10 compared to the four out

1120
01:25:26,300 --> 01:25:31,860
of 10 that it gave to their predecessors. That's an actually like enormous jump.

1121
01:25:31,860 --> 01:25:35,380
Perhaps the most notable change is to the device's battery adhesive.

1122
01:25:35,380 --> 01:25:38,780
This is so cool. The adhesive debonds on command.

1123
01:25:38,780 --> 01:25:43,780
This is so cool. This is genuinely very cool when an electric current is run through.

1124
01:25:43,780 --> 01:25:46,780
It's so cool. Dude. Sorry.

1125
01:25:46,780 --> 01:25:50,100
Sorry. No, I'm going to interrupt. Okay.

1126
01:25:50,100 --> 01:25:58,980
I get so angry when I see Apple reinventing the wheel just to like screw people over.

1127
01:25:58,980 --> 01:26:04,620
This is sick. Just to make the device incompatible with a third party, you know, version that costs

1128
01:26:04,620 --> 01:26:12,820
a third as much, you know, Apple has colossal, monumental, enormous engineering resources

1129
01:26:12,820 --> 01:26:21,580
at their disposal. And when they use it to work against the interests of the consumer, it drives me absolutely crazy

1130
01:26:21,580 --> 01:26:24,860
because this is what they could have been doing.

1131
01:26:24,860 --> 01:26:28,860
That is so cool. So cool. That is so cool.

1132
01:26:28,860 --> 01:26:31,860
Huh. Okay. Go ahead.

1133
01:26:31,860 --> 01:26:35,460
Well, this will require users to acquire a new tool.

1134
01:26:35,460 --> 01:26:41,020
It allows for clean, easily, a clean, easily repeatable process for removing the battery

1135
01:26:41,020 --> 01:26:44,940
that limits the potential for unintentional damage during repair.

1136
01:26:44,940 --> 01:26:52,860
And it makes it safer. Those pillow batteries, they can be extremely dangerous if they're bent too much or they're

1137
01:26:52,860 --> 01:26:58,780
punctured. Yeah. If they're punctured, this improves safety, not just, not for the user.

1138
01:26:58,780 --> 01:27:04,500
This time it's for the technician. It's out of consideration of the people who work on these bloody things.

1139
01:27:04,500 --> 01:27:09,940
Apparently, good job, Apple. Apparently the adhesive tape is a product, but I don't care.

1140
01:27:09,940 --> 01:27:14,380
It doesn't really matter. I don't care. They integrated it into their device.

1141
01:27:14,380 --> 01:27:17,780
They did the validation. They did, they did the work.

1142
01:27:17,780 --> 01:27:21,180
It's done. It's in the product. It benefits the user.

1143
01:27:21,180 --> 01:27:26,500
I love it. The removal process is similar to jumping a car battery and requires a pair of alligator

1144
01:27:26,500 --> 01:27:30,460
clip leads attached to a 12 to 30 volt power source.

1145
01:27:30,460 --> 01:27:35,220
The user attaches the black cable to a grounding screw near the phone's charging port, then

1146
01:27:35,220 --> 01:27:38,940
attaches the red cable to a special tab on the battery.

1147
01:27:38,940 --> 01:27:45,300
Really? The, the current will cause a chemical reaction that debonds the adhesive and allows the battery

1148
01:27:45,300 --> 01:27:50,020
to easily detach from the device after around a minute and a half.

1149
01:27:50,020 --> 01:27:55,100
These batteries also use a hard steel case instead of a soft pouch, reducing the possibility

1150
01:27:55,100 --> 01:28:02,700
of puncturing the battery. Also cool. Dude, are we, are we on the timeline where Apple goes back to like, like battery packs?

1151
01:28:02,700 --> 01:28:07,380
I mean, we're slowly making our way there. I'd be down with it.

1152
01:28:07,380 --> 01:28:12,740
There's so many times that like, I catch myself constantly walking around with my phone tethered

1153
01:28:12,740 --> 01:28:16,060
to a battery bank and apparently works with lower voltages.

1154
01:28:16,060 --> 01:28:19,940
You can just use a nine volt battery and just, if you can do that, then you don't really

1155
01:28:19,940 --> 01:28:22,940
need a special tool. So cool. Yeah.

1156
01:28:22,940 --> 01:28:30,780
So cool. Which is awesome. The, the pros battery doesn't feature the new adhesive, but does, but does have the steel

1157
01:28:30,780 --> 01:28:34,780
case. The pro max has no battery improvements.

1158
01:28:34,780 --> 01:28:38,420
Really? Because they stuffed as much battery in as possible.

1159
01:28:38,420 --> 01:28:42,140
That thing gets 27 hours of video playback. Holy crap.

1160
01:28:42,140 --> 01:28:50,500
Yeah. So, okay. Nonetheless, both now incorporate the dual entry design that debuted with the iPhone

1161
01:28:50,500 --> 01:28:56,260
14, which allows the phone to be opened from the front or the back, which allows many repairs

1162
01:28:56,260 --> 01:28:59,260
to avoid removing the fragile screen, which is cool.

1163
01:28:59,260 --> 01:29:05,180
iOS 18 also has a new repair assistant while the feature is currently a little buggy.

1164
01:29:05,180 --> 01:29:08,860
It allows users to independently calibrate replacement parts so that the device will

1165
01:29:08,860 --> 01:29:11,860
recognize them. That's cool. That is cool.

1166
01:29:11,860 --> 01:29:15,340
The company is also making device repairs easier by no longer requiring the device's

1167
01:29:15,340 --> 01:29:21,060
serial number in some cases, adding a section of settings that shows users the history of

1168
01:29:21,060 --> 01:29:24,620
the device's parts and repairs. That's cool. Yeah, why not?

1169
01:29:24,620 --> 01:29:29,620
It's also introducing an anti theft feature to block the repair if the new part was from

1170
01:29:29,620 --> 01:29:33,180
a phone that had been reported as lost or stolen.

1171
01:29:33,180 --> 01:29:39,840
Okay. Yeah. It started off with Apple just fixing its own problem that it created and then ended

1172
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:49,620
pretty cool if they can actually enforce this. That's the thing about sleazy black market people is they're going to find a way around

1173
01:29:49,620 --> 01:29:52,620
this. Some arms race. Hey, you know what?

1174
01:29:52,620 --> 01:30:01,460
This overall seems like what they're doing is good and to the benefit of their customer

1175
01:30:01,460 --> 01:30:04,980
rather than just to milk their customer.

1176
01:30:04,980 --> 01:30:12,940
I mean, they are going to milk you, but they're going to at least milk you to your benefit.

1177
01:30:12,940 --> 01:30:25,340
It's a mutually beneficial milking. What are we supposed to be talking about?

1178
01:30:25,340 --> 01:30:29,700
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All right, we're supposed to do three merge messages now apparently.

1215
01:33:25,580 --> 01:33:30,260
Thank you, Dan. You're welcome. How's your thingies doing this week?

1216
01:33:30,260 --> 01:33:33,260
They're pretty good. We've sold a lot of cargo pants. Yeah.

1217
01:33:33,260 --> 01:33:36,260
They seem to like them. Yeah. Cargo pants.

1218
01:33:36,260 --> 01:33:39,260
They seem good. So far, I've been sitting in them for about two hours. They're comfy.

1219
01:33:39,260 --> 01:33:42,260
That's good. That's good. Nice.

1220
01:33:42,260 --> 01:33:46,020
Luke didn't get any of the pre-production samples, so he's just trying them now.

1221
01:33:47,020 --> 01:33:50,020
Direct. On the topic of... Oh, no.

1222
01:33:50,020 --> 01:33:53,020
Here it comes. No, I was going to save that for later. Oh.

1223
01:33:53,020 --> 01:33:56,020
All right. Oh, fine. What?

1224
01:33:56,020 --> 01:33:59,020
Luke, how is Star Wars Outlaws? Ah! Ah!

1225
01:33:59,020 --> 01:34:04,020
Last week, those of you who don't have the context, last week, Luke was like, oh yeah,

1226
01:34:04,020 --> 01:34:07,020
why is everybody... Wasn't it last week? I think so.

1227
01:34:07,020 --> 01:34:11,820
Why is everybody hating so hard on this? I fired it up and I went around the opening area and it seems pretty good and I logged

1228
01:34:11,820 --> 01:34:16,220
off and then this week, he showed up on Wen's show set. He goes, I logged back in and...

1229
01:34:16,220 --> 01:34:21,860
I'm bored. The lockpicking mechanic is amazing.

1230
01:34:21,860 --> 01:34:25,820
I will die on that hill. The lockpicking mechanic is incredible.

1231
01:34:25,820 --> 01:34:30,460
It's the best one I've ever ran into in a game ever, personally.

1232
01:34:30,460 --> 01:34:42,700
It's great. And then you start needing to do more stuff in the game at all and it's like, ah, okay.

1233
01:34:42,700 --> 01:34:51,780
I'm done. I don't know. It's very much, you know that old meme about MMOs where they're like, ah yes, here's a

1234
01:34:51,780 --> 01:34:56,020
new quest. Get me that book across the room and then you have to walk over and grab it and bring

1235
01:34:56,020 --> 01:34:59,700
it back. It's very much like... It's like, why don't you use the force to get it?

1236
01:34:59,700 --> 01:35:02,700
Yeah. You jackass. Yeah.

1237
01:35:02,700 --> 01:35:12,420
It's just like, I don't know. I don't think it's as bad as most people are saying, but it's, I don't know.

1238
01:35:12,420 --> 01:35:15,740
It's okay. Cool. That's a ringing endorsement.

1239
01:35:15,740 --> 01:35:19,420
It's fine. For a like $70, $80 game. Yeah.

1240
01:35:19,420 --> 01:35:23,020
I mean, it's better than a lot of other Star Wars stuff coming out.

1241
01:35:23,020 --> 01:35:27,820
A ringing endorsement.

1242
01:35:27,820 --> 01:35:30,820
But yeah, I don't know.

1243
01:35:30,820 --> 01:35:36,540
Get the sabak cheats if you haven't already. What I'm probably going to do now is not launch it again.

1244
01:35:36,540 --> 01:35:38,900
Uninstall it. Best mod.

1245
01:35:39,900 --> 01:35:47,780
Just, I've got other things going on. I don't have the time for games that are all right right now, unfortunately.

1246
01:35:47,780 --> 01:35:51,020
But yeah, I don't know.

1247
01:35:51,020 --> 01:35:54,180
Maybe I'll play it again someday, but yeah. You probably won't.

1248
01:35:54,180 --> 01:35:59,380
How's Final Fantasy 6 going? Good. Enjoying it more than what is it even called?

1249
01:35:59,380 --> 01:36:02,380
Outlaws? Yeah. Oh.

1250
01:36:02,380 --> 01:36:05,380
How far are you now? Where am I? Thanks for helping me keep him accountable.

1251
01:36:05,380 --> 01:36:10,020
I finished all of my stuff like a year ago. You had so much less stuff to do.

1252
01:36:10,020 --> 01:36:15,660
Like a year ago, though. That's fair. Dude, you've had so long.

1253
01:36:15,660 --> 01:36:20,380
Like at this rate, you're going to take longer to beat it than I did and I took like 10 years.

1254
01:36:20,380 --> 01:36:24,460
Because I first got it when I was like six.

1255
01:36:24,460 --> 01:36:27,940
I have free use of the airship. Yeah, I was older. I was older than that.

1256
01:36:27,940 --> 01:36:34,820
Now. And we just went through the long series of effectively cinematics.

1257
01:36:34,820 --> 01:36:38,700
They're not technically, but effectively cinematics of you talking to the man.

1258
01:36:38,700 --> 01:36:45,220
What do they call it again? Espers? You see the Esper like realm and you make a baby.

1259
01:36:45,220 --> 01:36:50,460
Oh yeah, you do. And you like go through all those steps and then I have free use of the airship.

1260
01:36:50,460 --> 01:36:53,540
And right now I'm trying not to like, you know, just Google everything.

1261
01:36:53,540 --> 01:36:57,060
So they're like, yeah, go to that place. I'm like, where is that?

1262
01:36:57,060 --> 01:37:00,060
Hey, you got the map. I gave you the map. I do.

1263
01:37:00,060 --> 01:37:07,340
He's got the paper map from my physical copy of the game. I think based on that, I figured out where it was, flew over there, landed the ship and

1264
01:37:07,340 --> 01:37:10,340
then logged off. Yeah. Okay.

1265
01:37:10,340 --> 01:37:13,940
So that's where I'm at. So I haven't actually entered the place to figure out if I actually did find it or not.

1266
01:37:13,940 --> 01:37:17,540
But I, I don't know. Educated guess. Okay.

1267
01:37:17,540 --> 01:37:21,540
So who's your, who's your mains? Um, what is his name?

1268
01:37:21,540 --> 01:37:27,900
Okay. So the, the trader chick that has runic power, I'm not going to even remember anything.

1269
01:37:27,900 --> 01:37:30,900
No, I'm kidding. Sal's is great. Okay.

1270
01:37:30,900 --> 01:37:34,620
Yeah. So that has the, what is it Blitz moves? Yeah.

1271
01:37:34,620 --> 01:37:40,900
It's happened. He's my favorite one so far. I really like the, whatever the one is that sends a bunch of him across the screen when

1272
01:37:40,900 --> 01:37:43,900
they're on fire. Oh, fire dance. Yeah.

1273
01:37:43,900 --> 01:37:46,900
Yeah. That was great. I don't think it's actually called that in this version.

1274
01:37:46,900 --> 01:37:56,660
No, it's not. I'm, I'm like, some of the character's names are even different. So I'm going original, like SNES, Final Fantasy three and he's talking Final Fantasy six.

1275
01:37:56,660 --> 01:38:02,860
Yeah. Um, and then the other one is he uses tools and he has autocross bow.

1276
01:38:02,860 --> 01:38:05,860
Yeah. Edgar. Yeah.

1277
01:38:05,860 --> 01:38:11,180
So those are the four I tend to run. That was four. Well, and then wait, I think that was three.

1278
01:38:11,180 --> 01:38:15,180
That was three. So then who's my fellas?

1279
01:38:15,180 --> 01:38:18,540
Oh, and the thief guy, but he's like sucks.

1280
01:38:18,540 --> 01:38:24,020
Oh, well, why do you mean him then? I don't mean him. He's been with me for a while now because of how the story's been going.

1281
01:38:24,020 --> 01:38:27,020
I see. Okay. Yeah.

1282
01:38:27,380 --> 01:38:32,620
Don't, don't tell him, you guys, don't tell him. Oh, I'm assuming he like gets good or something.

1283
01:38:32,620 --> 01:38:40,380
Yeah. I try to steal all the time and never does anything, but I'm like, I want to try.

1284
01:38:40,380 --> 01:38:46,300
So I, I try at least one version of like every mob that I fight, I will try to steal from.

1285
01:38:46,300 --> 01:38:51,380
I think it's worked once the whole game. Dude, stealing from mobs is a complete waste of time.

1286
01:38:51,380 --> 01:38:54,380
What is it? Don't even bother. They never have anything good.

1287
01:38:54,380 --> 01:38:56,860
They never have anything. Yeah, that too.

1288
01:38:58,420 --> 01:39:03,020
Yeah, there's, there's the occasional one that's good, like the fossil fangs you can

1289
01:39:03,020 --> 01:39:06,540
steal. I think it's, I think it's like elixirs or something from them.

1290
01:39:06,540 --> 01:39:10,820
Okay. As, as long as you can get it before they like zombie your whole party and you just

1291
01:39:10,820 --> 01:39:14,420
die. There's like, there's stuff that's good to steal from, but for the most part it's a

1292
01:39:14,420 --> 01:39:18,580
waste of time. I just, I'm trying to be very thorough.

1293
01:39:18,580 --> 01:39:22,660
So like, I think I told you in that one town near the beginning of the game, I was trying

1294
01:39:22,700 --> 01:39:26,300
to figure out like, you know, you, you bring the guy alcohol and then let's you do whatever,

1295
01:39:26,300 --> 01:39:30,140
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it turns out I was doing it like too early, you're supposed to do it the next time you

1296
01:39:30,140 --> 01:39:33,420
come back or whatever. So I'm like, I'm trying to be very thorough. I'm talking to everybody.

1297
01:39:33,420 --> 01:39:38,580
I'm doing everything. So I don't want to miss something because I didn't try to steal.

1298
01:39:38,580 --> 01:39:43,460
So I'm just, I just, every combat almost, you know, when you, when I run into a repeat,

1299
01:39:43,460 --> 01:39:46,460
I don't do it again. Yeah. Okay.

1300
01:39:46,460 --> 01:39:49,460
Okay. Nice. All right.

1301
01:39:49,460 --> 01:39:52,460
Well, glad you're enjoying it. It is, it is truly one of my favorite games of all time. And good.

1302
01:39:52,460 --> 01:39:55,740
You've played Chrono Trigger, right? No.

1303
01:39:55,740 --> 01:40:06,460
Oh my God. You know, I had a, I had a really good, I had a really good chat with Carl Jacobs at

1304
01:40:06,460 --> 01:40:10,460
Creator Summit. Yeah. He is an appreciator of quality games.

1305
01:40:10,460 --> 01:40:13,940
I, I don't know. I think I would trust him for game recommendations over you.

1306
01:40:13,940 --> 01:40:17,460
I'm sorry. But you just, you're not familiar enough with the classics.

1307
01:40:17,460 --> 01:40:20,940
Did you like Titanfall? Yes, I did.

1308
01:40:20,940 --> 01:40:23,940
Yeah. Two. Titanfall two.

1309
01:40:23,940 --> 01:40:26,940
He, he made me play the single pair campaign. Yeah. All right.

1310
01:40:26,940 --> 01:40:29,940
Um, yeah. What was the question? Oh yeah.

1311
01:40:29,940 --> 01:40:32,940
Okay. Okay. Dan, carry on.

1312
01:40:32,940 --> 01:40:35,940
We haven't. Star, Star Wars. How, how, how like Star Wars?

1313
01:40:35,940 --> 01:40:47,260
Yeah, we figured it out. Hello, LLD. Will there be at any point an LTT belt for the cargo pants?

1314
01:40:47,260 --> 01:40:54,260
Is this a natural product from us?

1315
01:40:54,260 --> 01:40:57,260
Oh, that was perfectly tied.

1316
01:40:57,260 --> 01:41:00,260
I don't know how we did that. I want one so bad. The answer is no.

1317
01:41:00,260 --> 01:41:10,220
Oh, we have not been able to find a supplier that meets my standards for like, I was excited

1318
01:41:10,220 --> 01:41:19,780
cracking and, uh, and or delamination and part of this might just be the nature of leather

1319
01:41:19,780 --> 01:41:27,420
goods, but, um, I, it's just, it's this like, it's this like top plasticky layer that basically

1320
01:41:27,420 --> 01:41:30,940
everyone in their dog wants to put on them.

1321
01:41:30,940 --> 01:41:36,940
And I think we ended up trying like between four and six different suppliers, just looking

1322
01:41:36,940 --> 01:41:44,420
for someone who, who could give me something that was just a big old big piece, like, God,

1323
01:41:44,420 --> 01:41:48,260
you know, like just, just that, nothing else.

1324
01:41:48,260 --> 01:41:54,940
And nobody could do it. And yeah, cause like, if you look at it, it's just like, it's a mess.

1325
01:41:54,940 --> 01:41:59,940
Oh yeah. I know I can tell. And this is the kind of thing that I just, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be comfortable selling.

1326
01:41:59,940 --> 01:42:04,140
Buddy from the island that made us these is probably screaming right now.

1327
01:42:04,140 --> 01:42:10,660
Yeah. I mean, I'm sure if we wanted to like, you know, artisan, you know, make way too expensive

1328
01:42:10,660 --> 01:42:15,260
for, make 23 belts, sell 23 belts a year or whatever, like, I'm sure we could figure

1329
01:42:15,260 --> 01:42:22,180
it out, but, uh, no, you just need to get natural leather, not finished leather.

1330
01:42:22,180 --> 01:42:27,140
Well, like I'm out of metal, like a watch band, maybe we'll figure it out another time.

1331
01:42:27,140 --> 01:42:31,120
But the other thing is like back to our conversation earlier about how one of the things that we

1332
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:34,420
look for in any category is, you know, what are we adding to the conversation?

1333
01:42:34,420 --> 01:42:40,900
And I couldn't figure out what we were adding to the conversation. If like strap, oh, leather already exists.

1334
01:42:40,900 --> 01:42:45,460
Um, like my, my old Kirkland belt lasted a really long time.

1335
01:42:45,460 --> 01:42:48,620
Do I really want to go toe to toe with Costco?

1336
01:42:48,620 --> 01:42:51,620
Maybe not. What about shirts?

1337
01:42:51,620 --> 01:42:54,620
Shirts? Yeah. Our shirts are great.

1338
01:42:54,620 --> 01:42:58,220
Yeah. Yeah. Make a great belt.

1339
01:42:58,220 --> 01:43:04,220
Oh, well, yeah. Well we haven't found the right great supplier yet.

1340
01:43:04,220 --> 01:43:07,820
I'm just saying that doesn't mean you can just never do belts.

1341
01:43:07,820 --> 01:43:14,020
You're right. You're right. And, and if we succeed at pants for the first time ever, maybe there's, then maybe we will

1342
01:43:14,020 --> 01:43:17,020
look at belts. Sure. That's reasonable.

1343
01:43:17,020 --> 01:43:22,700
That's very reasonable. So far cargo pants are looking like they are going to be a success.

1344
01:43:22,700 --> 01:43:26,100
And if that happens, then yeah, we want to, we want to do more inseams.

1345
01:43:26,100 --> 01:43:29,900
We want to, we want to do, sure. Yeah. Belts.

1346
01:43:29,900 --> 01:43:32,900
Yeah. No, I know they're, they're a little short on you. Yep.

1347
01:43:32,900 --> 01:43:40,140
Yep. The good news is we've so far sold through probably about a fifth of our inventory.

1348
01:43:40,140 --> 01:43:44,300
So yeah, we might move through them all in which case, yeah, we might be able to restock

1349
01:43:44,300 --> 01:43:47,300
some of their sizes. Cool.

1350
01:43:47,300 --> 01:43:50,300
All right. About one more. What do we got here?

1351
01:43:50,300 --> 01:43:55,340
Sure. Hit me, Dan. Hey DLL, I wanted to order a dual sense 30th anniversary controller this week, but they

1352
01:43:55,340 --> 01:44:02,780
sold out apparently mostly to scalpers. What can companies like Sony do to combat this relatively shitty behavior?

1353
01:44:02,780 --> 01:44:05,780
Hey Dan. Sorry. I just read what was on the prompter.

1354
01:44:05,780 --> 01:44:08,780
That was my fault. Whoops. Ah.

1355
01:44:08,780 --> 01:44:11,780
Jesus. Is it really just gray? What's just gray?

1356
01:44:11,780 --> 01:44:14,780
What if you just got skins that made it gray? No, no. It comes with a cool cable.

1357
01:44:14,780 --> 01:44:17,780
Dang it. Oh. It can't be good.

1358
01:44:17,780 --> 01:44:20,780
Go scroll down. See if they have a picture of the cable. Where's the cool charging cable?

1359
01:44:20,780 --> 01:44:23,780
I thought it comes with a cool charging cable. Dang it. Oh.

1360
01:44:23,780 --> 01:44:26,780
It can't be good. Go scroll down. See if they have a picture of the cable.

1361
01:44:26,780 --> 01:44:29,780
Ah. Where's the cool charging cable? I thought it comes with a cool charging cable.

1362
01:44:30,780 --> 01:44:39,780
There's a whole conversation internally about this.

1363
01:44:39,780 --> 01:44:42,780
I thought it comes with a cool USB-C cable.

1364
01:44:42,780 --> 01:44:45,780
Oh wait. Cable not included. Seriously?

1365
01:44:45,780 --> 01:44:51,780
Okay. Well, what happened to the cool cable? Just go get a gray skin for your controlling.

1366
01:44:51,780 --> 01:44:54,780
I mean. Sorry.

1367
01:44:54,780 --> 01:45:02,780
It's PS1 gray. I'm sure somebody sells PS1 gray skins.

1368
01:45:02,780 --> 01:45:07,780
Probably. I don't know, dude.

1369
01:45:07,780 --> 01:45:10,780
This is one of those things. You know what?

1370
01:45:10,780 --> 01:45:15,780
Yeah. The behavior sucks. People who actually want it should be the ones who have it.

1371
01:45:15,780 --> 01:45:18,780
Totally. But also. It is very difficult to stop.

1372
01:45:18,780 --> 01:45:22,780
Yeah. I mean, we tried and I actually think we did a really great job.

1373
01:45:22,780 --> 01:45:29,780
We did pretty well. But it wasn't perfect. For example, one of the things that was pointed out about the verified actual gamer program

1374
01:45:29,780 --> 01:45:36,780
where we had people play a game essentially as the ultimate recapture to prove that you

1375
01:45:36,780 --> 01:45:42,780
were not only a human, but a gamer. One of the things that was pointed out to us after the first few of them was it's not

1376
01:45:42,780 --> 01:45:51,780
really accessible. Someone could be a gamer, but not be able to interface with their computer that way.

1377
01:45:51,780 --> 01:45:59,780
And we were like, okay, shoot, I'm like, what do you do to be accessible enough for every

1378
01:45:59,780 --> 01:46:06,780
person, but also not easily defeated by a program, right?

1379
01:46:06,780 --> 01:46:11,780
It's really, really challenging. And I guess it kind of is what it is.

1380
01:46:11,780 --> 01:46:16,780
And the good news is that it is a 30th anniversary controller.

1381
01:46:16,780 --> 01:46:20,780
It is not water. Yeah, you'll be all right.

1382
01:46:20,780 --> 01:46:23,780
And I understand people are educating me.

1383
01:46:23,780 --> 01:46:29,780
Apparently the buttons are colored and they're not always colored.

1384
01:46:29,780 --> 01:46:33,780
Sometimes their great controller looks like that.

1385
01:46:33,780 --> 01:46:36,780
And now it looks like that because the buttons are colored.

1386
01:46:36,780 --> 01:46:39,780
Guys, you're not going to convince Luke with that argument.

1387
01:46:39,780 --> 01:46:46,780
I think you'll be okay.

1388
01:46:46,780 --> 01:46:49,780
I don't know, man.

1389
01:46:49,780 --> 01:46:53,780
I was expecting it to be like wicked. And then when you were like, oh, it's the cable.

1390
01:46:53,780 --> 01:46:59,780
I was like, okay, this is going to be sick. And then it's great.

1391
01:46:59,780 --> 01:47:04,780
The cable is pretty cool here. Let me see if I can find this here.

1392
01:47:04,780 --> 01:47:07,780
Luke is not nostalgic. No, I am. It's just okay.

1393
01:47:07,780 --> 01:47:10,780
That is pretty cool. Yeah. So it's a USB-C cable.

1394
01:47:10,780 --> 01:47:14,780
I like that a lot more than the controller. It comes with the console.

1395
01:47:14,780 --> 01:47:18,780
Yeah. That actually looks pretty legit. I like that.

1396
01:47:19,780 --> 01:47:23,780
But this is a toy.

1397
01:47:23,780 --> 01:47:28,780
It's an expensive toy for adults, but it's a toy.

1398
01:47:28,780 --> 01:47:33,780
It's not even a toy that provides access because you can just have any other controller.

1399
01:47:33,780 --> 01:47:36,780
It's not like when PS5s themselves were being scalloped

1400
01:47:36,780 --> 01:47:41,780
and no one could get a PS5. To be clear, I like cool controllers.

1401
01:47:41,780 --> 01:47:46,780
Yeah, me too. I really do. My favorite of my Xbox controllers,

1402
01:47:46,780 --> 01:47:50,780
of which I own probably somewhere between a dozen and 15,

1403
01:47:50,780 --> 01:47:54,780
is the one that went out to the people

1404
01:47:54,780 --> 01:47:57,780
who developed the console. I had full of them, flipped them.

1405
01:47:57,780 --> 01:48:02,780
And you know what? I paid way too much money for that controller.

1406
01:48:02,780 --> 01:48:07,780
But realistically, it was a fraction of what I paid for my most expensive controller.

1407
01:48:09,780 --> 01:48:14,780
It's a bit of an investment. Yeah, if anyone wants to buy a golden Xbox controller,

1408
01:48:14,780 --> 01:48:19,780
by the way, the previous buyer flaked. So, you know, get in touch.

1409
01:48:19,780 --> 01:48:22,780
He gold flaked. It's very much for sale.

1410
01:48:23,780 --> 01:48:27,780
Didn't you want that Gears of War Xbox controller? Yeah, and I got it.

1411
01:48:27,780 --> 01:48:30,780
Yeah. But just like, I don't know.

1412
01:48:31,780 --> 01:48:35,780
But the Gears of War Xbox controller has like claw marks

1413
01:48:35,780 --> 01:48:38,780
in the controller that go into the plastic.

1414
01:48:38,780 --> 01:48:41,780
Yeah, they actually did a different mold for it, at least. Yeah.

1415
01:48:41,780 --> 01:48:45,780
So, that's something. This is, it is a cool controller.

1416
01:48:45,780 --> 01:48:48,780
It has the retro PlayStation logo with the colors on it,

1417
01:48:48,780 --> 01:48:51,780
stuff like that, that they should have never ditched, etc.

1418
01:48:51,780 --> 01:48:54,780
But it's also, it's just a great controller.

1419
01:48:54,780 --> 01:48:57,780
Okay. I mean, okay.

1420
01:48:57,780 --> 01:49:02,780
So, confirm pre-order. So, you have to pay $150 on top of the like $80 it is

1421
01:49:02,780 --> 01:49:05,780
for the controller or whatever. On top of?

1422
01:49:05,780 --> 01:49:08,780
Yeah, I would assume so. Really?

1423
01:49:09,780 --> 01:49:12,780
Confirmed order. Yeah. Are you buying an order?

1424
01:49:12,780 --> 01:49:15,780
I think you're buying... Or are you buying the controller?

1425
01:49:16,780 --> 01:49:20,780
Oh, apparently that Gears of War was laser etched.

1426
01:49:20,780 --> 01:49:23,780
So, okay. Either way, like they're doing, it was different.

1427
01:49:23,780 --> 01:49:26,780
It was cool. Is this just like nostalgia baiting?

1428
01:49:26,780 --> 01:49:29,780
Yeah. Oh, dude, it's 100% nostalgia baiting.

1429
01:49:29,780 --> 01:49:32,780
Yeah. 100%. So, you got...

1430
01:49:32,780 --> 01:49:35,780
And it's sick. If you were going to buy a controller anyways, this is a cool controller to buy.

1431
01:49:35,780 --> 01:49:38,780
But if you pay a bunch of money, you're getting nostalgia baited.

1432
01:49:38,780 --> 01:49:41,780
Yeah. Nostalgia baited.

1433
01:49:41,780 --> 01:49:44,780
I got it. It's pretty good. Yeah.

1434
01:49:44,780 --> 01:49:47,780
It's pretty good. I was reaching for it. I was reaching for it a little bit.

1435
01:49:47,780 --> 01:49:51,780
All right. We got a couple more topics here. Why don't we talk about...

1436
01:49:51,780 --> 01:49:54,780
The Concorde controller is cooler than the game was.

1437
01:49:54,780 --> 01:49:55,780
That looks pretty neat.

1438
01:49:57,780 --> 01:50:00,780
Kind of funny that they're selling these. Yeah, it's kind of cool.

1439
01:50:03,780 --> 01:50:06,780
Why don't we talk about our friend in the industry?

1440
01:50:07,780 --> 01:50:10,780
Ah, yes. The big controversy this week,

1441
01:50:10,780 --> 01:50:16,780
the one, the only, MKBHD released a wallpaper app

1442
01:50:18,780 --> 01:50:21,780
for your phone, okay, iOS and Android.

1443
01:50:21,780 --> 01:50:26,780
And a significant portion of the community

1444
01:50:26,780 --> 01:50:31,780
was quite, let's say, put out...

1445
01:50:31,780 --> 01:50:34,780
Yeah. ...about this situation.

1446
01:50:34,780 --> 01:50:38,780
Their rebels were roused. This is one of those things where,

1447
01:50:38,780 --> 01:50:43,780
honestly speaking, guys, I'm not going to comment on the business decisions

1448
01:50:43,780 --> 01:50:48,780
of a fellow creator, but what I will say is it was very clear

1449
01:50:48,780 --> 01:50:51,780
that the community was not happy

1450
01:50:51,780 --> 01:50:56,780
about the option for a $50 a year premium subscription

1451
01:50:57,780 --> 01:51:01,780
that effectively paywalled the maximum quality

1452
01:51:01,780 --> 01:51:03,780
of these wallpapers

1453
01:51:04,780 --> 01:51:07,780
for people who were not interested in that.

1454
01:51:07,780 --> 01:51:10,780
There was also some upset

1455
01:51:10,780 --> 01:51:13,780
around some of the requested permissions

1456
01:51:13,780 --> 01:51:19,780
of the particular app. There was some commentary and some observations

1457
01:51:19,780 --> 01:51:22,780
around the quality of the app.

1458
01:51:22,780 --> 01:51:25,780
I believe that it turned out,

1459
01:51:25,780 --> 01:51:30,780
is it true that it was functionally just linking to a shared Google Drive repo?

1460
01:51:31,780 --> 01:51:34,780
It was a Firebase download server,

1461
01:51:34,780 --> 01:51:37,780
but there was no authentication on it, so anyone could just download it.

1462
01:51:37,780 --> 01:51:41,780
And people set up bots to scrape it because they were talking about how they were going to do...

1463
01:51:41,780 --> 01:51:44,780
I don't remember exactly the details, so I'm sorry, but some type of...

1464
01:51:44,780 --> 01:51:49,780
Part of the idea of the subscription is that they were going to drop new artist packs

1465
01:51:49,780 --> 01:51:52,780
and things like that so you could get new wallpapers all the time.

1466
01:51:52,780 --> 01:51:55,780
So people set up bots that were scraping it,

1467
01:51:55,780 --> 01:51:59,780
which because they never signed any type of agreement

1468
01:51:59,780 --> 01:52:03,780
or anything, they didn't technically even bypass anything.

1469
01:52:03,780 --> 01:52:06,780
It's technically legal then. Yeah.

1470
01:52:06,780 --> 01:52:09,780
There was also some upset about the revenue share,

1471
01:52:09,780 --> 01:52:12,780
which from my understanding was 50-50.

1472
01:52:12,780 --> 01:52:17,780
And then even going into the hours leading up to this show,

1473
01:52:17,780 --> 01:52:21,780
there has been some upset that Marquez himself

1474
01:52:21,780 --> 01:52:24,780
didn't really properly address the community's concerns

1475
01:52:24,780 --> 01:52:26,780
on the latest Waveform podcast.

1476
01:52:27,780 --> 01:52:31,780
So that's kind of the summary that...

1477
01:52:31,780 --> 01:52:34,780
I think that's probably the best summary I can give you guys

1478
01:52:34,780 --> 01:52:41,780
of why people are upset. I'll give sort of a short devil's advocate argument here.

1479
01:52:41,780 --> 01:52:45,780
At least they're not NFTs. Yeah, yeah, honestly,

1480
01:52:45,780 --> 01:52:50,780
they did give you just a straight-up download of the...

1481
01:52:50,780 --> 01:52:55,780
I think the word scam is one that gets overused a lot these days.

1482
01:52:56,780 --> 01:53:01,780
I saw a lot of people describe the wallpaper app as a scam.

1483
01:53:01,780 --> 01:53:06,780
What it is... Not a scam. What it is is, for a lot of people,

1484
01:53:06,780 --> 01:53:09,780
probably not a great value.

1485
01:53:09,780 --> 01:53:14,780
What it isn't is a scam. It communicates pretty clearly what you're going to get

1486
01:53:14,780 --> 01:53:17,780
and what it costs. And what you're going to give up. Yeah.

1487
01:53:17,780 --> 01:53:21,780
And if that's a value proposition that is acceptable to you...

1488
01:53:21,780 --> 01:53:24,780
Then it's not a scam. You are more than welcome to pay it.

1489
01:53:24,780 --> 01:53:29,780
And if that is not a value proposition, then you are more than welcome to not pay it.

1490
01:53:29,780 --> 01:53:36,780
That is not a scam. A scam is representing something as something that it isn't.

1491
01:53:36,780 --> 01:53:39,780
A scam would be if I said,

1492
01:53:39,780 --> 01:53:42,780
go to LTT Store right now

1493
01:53:42,780 --> 01:53:45,780
and every order comes with a free,

1494
01:53:45,780 --> 01:53:50,780
this secret skin that I have on the back of my phone.

1495
01:53:50,780 --> 01:53:53,780
And then it just... I'm still wondering about... And then it just didn't arrive.

1496
01:53:53,780 --> 01:53:56,780
Yeah. That would be a scam. Yeah.

1497
01:53:56,780 --> 01:54:00,780
It isn't a scam. Hobelstaff says,

1498
01:54:00,780 --> 01:54:04,780
but Linus, is there a line where something is bad enough value

1499
01:54:04,780 --> 01:54:07,780
that it becomes a scam? No.

1500
01:54:07,780 --> 01:54:10,780
That is not what scam means.

1501
01:54:10,780 --> 01:54:14,780
Scam means that you have been deceived. You have not been deceived.

1502
01:54:14,780 --> 01:54:17,780
You are getting image files.

1503
01:54:17,780 --> 01:54:21,780
You are sending money and permissions on your phone.

1504
01:54:21,780 --> 01:54:26,780
Those things are all disclosed. Therefore, it is not a scam.

1505
01:54:26,780 --> 01:54:30,780
It's not your thing. It's not your bag, baby.

1506
01:54:30,780 --> 01:54:34,780
But it isn't a scam. Does that kind of make sense?

1507
01:54:34,780 --> 01:54:39,780
No, some people don't see... Some people don't seem to understand this.

1508
01:54:47,780 --> 01:54:52,780
I looked up scam. Is it a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation?

1509
01:54:52,780 --> 01:54:57,780
Vinnin says, by the same argument, $1,000 HDMI cables are not a scam.

1510
01:54:57,780 --> 01:55:01,780
Well, they can or they can't be. If they claim to give you better audio quality

1511
01:55:01,780 --> 01:55:07,780
or better video quality, then they are a scam because they don't do that.

1512
01:55:07,780 --> 01:55:10,780
If they are just expensive and they literally just say,

1513
01:55:10,780 --> 01:55:14,780
there are $1,000 HDMI cables that make you feel

1514
01:55:14,780 --> 01:55:17,780
a warm feeling inside for being able to afford them

1515
01:55:17,780 --> 01:55:21,780
when other people can't, then that's not a scam.

1516
01:55:21,780 --> 01:55:24,780
I am... This shouldn't...

1517
01:55:24,780 --> 01:55:27,780
This really shouldn't surprise me that much.

1518
01:55:27,780 --> 01:55:30,780
Given how many people... I mean, I started this segment with

1519
01:55:30,780 --> 01:55:33,780
a lot of people seem to misuse the word scam.

1520
01:55:33,780 --> 01:55:38,780
So I really shouldn't be that confused that a lot of people don't know what it means.

1521
01:55:38,780 --> 01:55:43,780
But that's not what scam means.

1522
01:55:43,780 --> 01:55:46,780
Scam is fraud. Scam is lying.

1523
01:55:46,780 --> 01:55:49,780
Nobody lied. Nobody scammed anybody.

1524
01:55:49,780 --> 01:55:52,780
Nobody's money was removed forcefully

1525
01:55:52,780 --> 01:55:55,780
against their will.

1526
01:55:55,780 --> 01:55:58,780
So it's not a scam.

1527
01:55:58,780 --> 01:56:04,780
Would I charge a $50 subscription for wallpaper images?

1528
01:56:04,780 --> 01:56:07,780
I was about to say yes. You know what?

1529
01:56:07,780 --> 01:56:10,780
Sure. Let's do it.

1530
01:56:10,780 --> 01:56:13,780
New. Announcing now.

1531
01:56:13,780 --> 01:56:21,780
Here on The WAN Show. Now available at flowplain.com

1532
01:56:21,780 --> 01:56:25,780
is the LTT Wallpaper Pack.

1533
01:56:25,780 --> 01:56:28,780
I am going to... Can I show the CMS?

1534
01:56:28,780 --> 01:56:31,780
Is that okay? Can I show the CMS? That's fine.

1535
01:56:31,780 --> 01:56:34,780
I think I just... I'm going to show the CMS.

1536
01:56:34,780 --> 01:56:37,780
It'll be fine. It'll be fine. You'll like it. Okay.

1537
01:56:37,780 --> 01:56:42,780
I'm showing the CMS. Right now, going live for LTT...

1538
01:56:42,780 --> 01:56:45,780
Sorry, LTT supporter OG and LTT supporter

1539
01:56:45,780 --> 01:56:50,780
and just text posts. Going live only for LTT supporter plus,

1540
01:56:50,780 --> 01:56:53,780
which is available for $10 a month or $50 a year.

1541
01:56:53,780 --> 01:56:56,780
You said earlier in the show that you're going to do the $5 one.

1542
01:56:56,780 --> 01:56:59,780
No, I didn't. I think you did. Oh, wait.

1543
01:56:59,780 --> 01:57:02,780
Oh, yeah. No, no, that's right. Scam! Scam! No, no, I did the math wrong.

1544
01:57:02,780 --> 01:57:05,780
He almost scammed. I did the math wrong. But nope.

1545
01:57:05,780 --> 01:57:09,780
You got to do OG as well. No, I don't. Oh, but they're supposed to get everything.

1546
01:57:09,780 --> 01:57:12,780
No, they only get everything that we originally promised them.

1547
01:57:12,780 --> 01:57:15,780
This is new. This is net new. Scam radar.

1548
01:57:15,780 --> 01:57:18,780
No, no, no. No. All right.

1549
01:57:18,780 --> 01:57:21,780
Tell you what. Fine. Sure.

1550
01:57:21,780 --> 01:57:26,780
You will get these wallpapers created.

1551
01:57:26,780 --> 01:57:29,780
This actually looks like all Sarah's stuff.

1552
01:57:29,780 --> 01:57:32,780
I believe this is all Sarah. Okay.

1553
01:57:32,780 --> 01:57:35,780
There's also this. They just kind of scrambled. Yeah.

1554
01:57:35,780 --> 01:57:39,780
They just... They did this together in the minutes before the show.

1555
01:57:39,780 --> 01:57:43,780
You will be able to get all of these wallpapers.

1556
01:57:43,780 --> 01:57:49,780
All you have to do is sign up for Floatplane at at least our $5 a month or $50 a year tier.

1557
01:57:49,780 --> 01:57:52,780
Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

1558
01:57:52,780 --> 01:57:56,780
Let's see. Let's see. Let's watch people turn this into Linus's

1559
01:57:56,780 --> 01:57:59,780
scamming his audience. I'm excited for it. Oh, man.

1560
01:57:59,780 --> 01:58:05,780
They did a dead pixel one. Yeah, dog. The dead pixel one could be used.

1561
01:58:05,780 --> 01:58:08,780
LTT phone wallpapers for floaties.

1562
01:58:08,780 --> 01:58:11,780
Let's go. Woo. Look at that.

1563
01:58:11,780 --> 01:58:14,780
Wow. What a wallpaper. Yeah.

1564
01:58:14,780 --> 01:58:17,780
Dead pixel. That's on purpose. I was expecting these to be garbage.

1565
01:58:17,780 --> 01:58:20,780
What? These are actually legit. What did you just say?

1566
01:58:20,780 --> 01:58:24,780
What did you just say? Well, I thought... About the valued member of our team.

1567
01:58:24,780 --> 01:58:27,780
No, no, no. I wasn't sure how hard you were going to mean.

1568
01:58:27,780 --> 01:58:31,780
Like, you know, when we were doing those sales and it's 9 p.m. and Niklite's only there and he goes like,

1569
01:58:31,780 --> 01:58:34,780
he draws a stick figure like more orange shirts. No.

1570
01:58:34,780 --> 01:58:37,780
I was surprised at how fast she turned all these around. These are great.

1571
01:58:37,780 --> 01:58:42,780
Yeah. The one with the waves on it and the logo is what we use

1572
01:58:42,780 --> 01:58:45,780
on the YouTube background as well. That one's pretty damn cool.

1573
01:58:45,780 --> 01:58:48,780
Yeah. We've got... Oh, hold on.

1574
01:58:48,780 --> 01:58:51,780
Bye. Which ones are the desktop ones? I thought there were...

1575
01:58:51,780 --> 01:58:54,780
Oh, wait. No, they're only phones. Yeah.

1576
01:58:54,780 --> 01:58:57,780
Here are some wallpapers. No reason why they're uploaded now.

1577
01:58:57,780 --> 01:59:03,780
Thank you for that, Sammy.

1578
01:59:03,780 --> 01:59:06,780
Okay. I thought we had to... Oh, that makes sense that they would be phone ones.

1579
01:59:06,780 --> 01:59:13,780
We got to compete. We got to compete. I mean, to be clear, it's not like we're planning on this necessarily

1580
01:59:13,780 --> 01:59:16,780
being like a thing that we do all the time. No, it's really not.

1581
01:59:16,780 --> 01:59:19,780
We're just having some fun with it.

1582
01:59:19,780 --> 01:59:27,780
So, do I think that this was the world's most brilliant tactical move?

1583
01:59:27,780 --> 01:59:32,780
I can't say that based on the community feedback,

1584
01:59:32,780 --> 01:59:38,280
it seems like it.

1585
01:59:38,280 --> 01:59:41,280
Is it a scam? No. No.

1586
01:59:41,280 --> 01:59:44,780
It is factually, by definition, not a scam. So, like...

1587
01:59:44,780 --> 01:59:49,780
Calling it a scam is just telling other people you don't understand what a scam is.

1588
01:59:49,780 --> 01:59:52,780
Yeah. But I do think... There's maybe...

1589
01:59:52,780 --> 01:59:59,980
You know, maybe you count so lucky for that. But I do think that this is, you know, maybe something that needs to be addressed in order

1590
01:59:59,980 --> 02:00:04,420
to sort of rebuild goodwill with the community.

1591
02:00:04,420 --> 02:00:07,860
And so, that's probably the best advice.

1592
02:00:07,860 --> 02:00:10,980
Which I think they're doing, I'm sure they're working on it.

1593
02:00:10,980 --> 02:00:14,260
I hope they're working on it. I hope they're working on it.

1594
02:00:14,260 --> 02:00:17,980
Funny Hats asks me, what about a rip-off?

1595
02:00:17,980 --> 02:00:26,500
I think lots of things are a rip-off. I think that basically any designer label article of clothing is a rip-off.

1596
02:00:26,500 --> 02:00:31,540
If I was recently made aware that the T-shirt that the Zuck wears, that just like gray T-shirt

1597
02:00:31,540 --> 02:00:34,980
is like 400 US dollars. Of course.

1598
02:00:34,980 --> 02:00:38,880
I personally consider that to be a rip-off. He doesn't.

1599
02:00:38,880 --> 02:00:42,660
A rip-off, it absolutely could be.

1600
02:00:42,660 --> 02:00:47,140
But a rip-off is subjective. Scam is not.

1601
02:00:47,140 --> 02:00:50,940
That's where these two terms differ. It's definitely not a scam.

1602
02:00:50,940 --> 02:00:55,620
If you think it's a rip-off, it's a rip-off.

1603
02:00:55,740 --> 02:00:59,300
That's it. And we could discuss that, right?

1604
02:00:59,300 --> 02:01:05,740
But it isn't a scam. That's all. Do you have any idea how many LTT shirts you can get for 400 dollars?

1605
02:01:05,740 --> 02:01:08,860
I do, actually. You can get 20.

1606
02:01:08,860 --> 02:01:13,900
Well, don't forget about the shipping. Maybe 15 plus shipping depending on where you live.

1607
02:01:13,900 --> 02:01:16,900
Okay, all right. All right. Taxes, sure.

1608
02:01:16,900 --> 02:01:20,060
Mind you, you have to pay taxes on the $400 shirt, too. Actually, you got to pay shipping on that, too.

1609
02:01:20,060 --> 02:01:22,620
Actually, I think we're doing pretty good.

1610
02:01:23,620 --> 02:01:29,620
Um, Luke's Birds, unfortunately, this is my last week on Floatplane.

1611
02:01:29,620 --> 02:01:34,420
Oh, no, you won't get our second pack of wallpapers.

1612
02:01:34,420 --> 02:01:37,420
Just kidding. I don't think we're going to do enough. No, probably not.

1613
02:01:37,420 --> 02:01:42,620
I asked Sarah to just kind of, oh, no. Linus, your face is now my MacBook screen saver.

1614
02:01:42,620 --> 02:01:45,620
Yeah, okay. That's great.

1615
02:01:45,620 --> 02:01:51,740
Guess who just resubbed to Floatplane just for wallpapers, this guy.

1616
02:01:51,740 --> 02:01:55,020
The system works. That wasn't the point.

1617
02:01:55,020 --> 02:02:01,100
You knew what you were doing. In turn, I was mostly just memeing for the people who are already subscribed to Float

1618
02:02:01,100 --> 02:02:05,980
Plane, Dan. They're just PNGs or JPEGs or whatever they are.

1619
02:02:05,980 --> 02:02:12,580
There's no, okay. The screen cap, the screen. Yeah, people, yeah, if you want- Right click the YouTube.

1620
02:02:12,580 --> 02:02:16,420
If you want to steal it, just there, quick. Press print screen.

1621
02:02:16,420 --> 02:02:19,420
You got this. You can go through all. Go for it.

1622
02:02:19,420 --> 02:02:22,420
I'm going to do it again. Get the merch message out of there.

1623
02:02:22,420 --> 02:02:25,420
Get the merch message out of there. Get that merch message out of there. I'm doing it.

1624
02:02:25,420 --> 02:02:28,420
I'm doing it. Hold on. I can move it.

1625
02:02:28,420 --> 02:02:31,420
No, I'll move it down. I'll move it down. I got you.

1626
02:02:31,420 --> 02:02:34,420
No, I got you. I got you down. Okay, here you go.

1627
02:02:34,420 --> 02:02:37,420
Okay, quick, quick. That one's a- Quick screenshot that white dot.

1628
02:02:37,420 --> 02:02:41,420
Yeah. I actually love that Floatplane one. They also really don't have to be that fast because once they get the vault, they can

1629
02:02:41,420 --> 02:02:44,420
just party. They're really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1630
02:02:44,420 --> 02:02:47,420
They're like actually good. Well, of course they are. It's Sarah.

1631
02:02:47,420 --> 02:02:50,420
Why do you- The stuff that comes out of that company. Why do you guys-

1632
02:02:50,420 --> 02:02:53,420
Well, I thought she had like five minutes and would do like one.

1633
02:02:53,420 --> 02:02:56,420
I didn't expect it was going to be- She did have like five minutes. She just has a lot of-

1634
02:02:56,420 --> 02:02:59,420
She has just a lot of really great artwork that she's worked on over the years.

1635
02:02:59,420 --> 02:03:02,420
And it's extremely competent. Yeah.

1636
02:03:02,420 --> 02:03:05,420
I like competent people.

1637
02:03:05,420 --> 02:03:07,420
I just do. I really do.

1638
02:03:09,420 --> 02:03:12,420
Let's play a game. Okay.

1639
02:03:12,420 --> 02:03:16,420
Let's play a game really quick.

1640
02:03:16,420 --> 02:03:22,420
What do you think will be the dominant misinterpretation of that segment we just did?

1641
02:03:22,420 --> 02:03:32,420
Oh, yeah. That's a good one.

1642
02:03:32,420 --> 02:03:38,420
Downplaying the privacy stuff.

1643
02:03:38,420 --> 02:03:41,420
Oh, okay. Okay. Well, let's address that then.

1644
02:03:41,420 --> 02:03:44,420
Let's address that really quick. It's really bad. Okay.

1645
02:03:44,420 --> 02:03:47,420
Okay. Okay. Next.

1646
02:03:47,420 --> 02:03:52,420
Sounds like in- If I can throw my hat in the ring there as someone who has had to-

1647
02:03:52,420 --> 02:03:57,420
In some cases, write. In other cases, work with lawyers to write.

1648
02:03:57,420 --> 02:04:01,420
In other, other cases, write and then work with lawyers to write and then re-read it

1649
02:04:01,420 --> 02:04:04,420
for them and be like, is this better? And they're like, yeah.

1650
02:04:04,420 --> 02:04:07,420
And I'm like, cool. Thanks. Yeah.

1651
02:04:07,420 --> 02:04:10,420
That has happened actually. More than once. More than once.

1652
02:04:10,420 --> 02:04:14,420
These things- More than he knows even.

1653
02:04:14,420 --> 02:04:17,420
I bet. Yeah. These things suck.

1654
02:04:17,420 --> 02:04:22,420
And I have no idea. I have literally talked to none of them.

1655
02:04:22,420 --> 02:04:26,420
Yeah. I bet you they were just like, hey lawyer people, can you please write one of these for us?

1656
02:04:26,420 --> 02:04:33,420
And they were like, sure, Blonk. And just wrote it too aggressive because in a tweet that I saw, I think they were like,

1657
02:04:33,420 --> 02:04:38,420
yeah, we're not even gathering all this stuff. We just like wrote it too.

1658
02:04:38,420 --> 02:04:44,420
Too harsh. Yeah. I do, I suspect there is some amount of stuff for the free tier, for the advertisement delivery,

1659
02:04:44,420 --> 02:04:50,420
stuff like that. And there is, there is some stuff they really just like needed to not do like that.

1660
02:04:50,420 --> 02:04:54,420
Like the whole thing about, yeah, took a colossal amount of work to make it launch on Android

1661
02:04:54,420 --> 02:04:58,420
and iOS at the same time. When it's a multi, Kotlin multi-platform.

1662
02:04:58,420 --> 02:05:05,420
There was a, there was a couple things. Why say that if you like don't, you know, didn't do that.

1663
02:05:05,420 --> 02:05:10,420
If it was, maybe give us a ring next time.

1664
02:05:10,420 --> 02:05:17,420
We got you. It is actually kind of funny to me how often I watch other creators just like stumble through

1665
02:05:17,420 --> 02:05:20,420
things. Making stuff is hard.

1666
02:05:20,420 --> 02:05:25,420
When, when, when we already stumbled through it and like they have my digits and like I'd

1667
02:05:25,420 --> 02:05:28,420
have been happy to chat with them about it. I don't know.

1668
02:05:28,420 --> 02:05:33,420
I, you know, on the other hand though, we, we, we can, we can kind of, we can yolo things

1669
02:05:33,420 --> 02:05:36,420
as well. That's a good point.

1670
02:05:36,420 --> 02:05:40,420
That's a really good point. We do that literally all the time.

1671
02:05:40,420 --> 02:05:48,420
Yep. Uh, maybe, maybe creators just actually kind of suck at reaching out sometimes, including

1672
02:05:48,420 --> 02:05:53,420
very much us. Um, there's, there's some, there's some pretty good ones.

1673
02:05:53,420 --> 02:06:02,420
There's some pretty good ones in the chat. Um, Linus doesn't understand how words change over time, which is just another way of them

1674
02:06:02,420 --> 02:06:06,420
saying they don't understand that scam actually does have a definition and it doesn't mean

1675
02:06:06,420 --> 02:06:09,420
that. Uh, we got another one.

1676
02:06:09,420 --> 02:06:13,420
Linus is just out to protect other tech tubers, unwilling to criticize them.

1677
02:06:13,420 --> 02:06:16,420
Um, we straight up did.

1678
02:06:16,420 --> 02:06:19,420
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this isn't, no, no, it's not.

1679
02:06:19,420 --> 02:06:22,420
Oh, these are theories on what the controversy might be.

1680
02:06:22,420 --> 02:06:25,420
Don't be so defensive for once it's him and not me.

1681
02:06:25,420 --> 02:06:29,420
This is great. Let's fight. Oh, no, there was another, there was another really good one.

1682
02:06:29,420 --> 02:06:36,420
There was another really good one. Uh, Linus criticizes Marquez's wallpapers, then launches his own behind a subscription.

1683
02:06:36,420 --> 02:06:39,420
That's the same price.

1684
02:06:39,420 --> 02:06:42,420
Actually accurate take. Yeah. Actually accurate take.

1685
02:06:42,420 --> 02:06:47,420
Yeah. I love it. Um, Trevor, Trevor W asks bad faith question.

1686
02:06:47,420 --> 02:06:50,420
How is this different than your stance on horse armor?

1687
02:06:50,420 --> 02:06:57,420
My stance on horse armor is that it, it was the first pebble rolling down the hill that

1688
02:06:57,420 --> 02:07:03,420
was an avalanche of colossal sh**ness in gaming, which fundamentally changed how games are

1689
02:07:03,420 --> 02:07:07,420
made and played moving forward. Nobody is buying this wallpaper app.

1690
02:07:07,420 --> 02:07:10,420
This is not going to change. I guarantee you some people do.

1691
02:07:10,420 --> 02:07:16,420
Okay, sure. But this is not going to fundamentally change anything about the wallpaper economy, which

1692
02:07:16,420 --> 02:07:23,420
is infinite, infinitesimally, I forget the word, but whatever, it's, it's, it's vanishingly

1693
02:07:23,420 --> 02:07:28,960
small. And the idea of paying for wallpapers has existed for decades.

1694
02:07:28,960 --> 02:07:33,220
And the number of people who pay for them is still exactly what it is today.

1695
02:07:33,220 --> 02:07:40,420
This is going to change nothing is, is sort of why I don't really care about it.

1696
02:07:40,420 --> 02:07:44,420
Yeah. I think the negative reaction to it was overblown.

1697
02:07:44,420 --> 02:07:49,620
Um, I think the negative reaction to a lot of stuff in this space is insanely overblown

1698
02:07:49,620 --> 02:07:58,420
and has been for a while now. I do, I do also understand why, um, like why people were so frustrated in this case.

1699
02:07:58,420 --> 02:08:06,420
I mean, because it's someone whose job is to advise people on making good value decisions

1700
02:08:06,420 --> 02:08:09,420
when they purchase mobile electronics.

1701
02:08:09,420 --> 02:08:14,140
Um, and this doesn't seem to be aligned with that.

1702
02:08:14,140 --> 02:08:20,180
Um, I do think that, I do think that there's also some friction that's around just paying

1703
02:08:20,180 --> 02:08:25,420
for art. Um, and I think that's contributing to the outrage, but I do also, I do see where people

1704
02:08:25,420 --> 02:08:29,820
are coming from. I just think that this could have been messaged better.

1705
02:08:29,820 --> 02:08:36,020
It could have been handled better. It didn't have to be a disaster. And I think that in the longer term, it won't be overblown.

1706
02:08:36,020 --> 02:08:43,220
Like we saw, we saw like genuinely taking over the internet level trending of people

1707
02:08:43,220 --> 02:08:49,580
just like trying to light them on fire and it's like, yeah, it's been a lot, maybe chill.

1708
02:08:49,580 --> 02:08:54,820
It's been a lot. Like you can, you can express your.

1709
02:08:54,820 --> 02:09:00,820
Like it's not good, but I can personally think of times that would have made more sense to

1710
02:09:00,820 --> 02:09:08,980
light Marquez up over. Like it's just, well, no, I, I just, I just mean it's, yeah, it's an overpriced product.

1711
02:09:08,980 --> 02:09:18,420
Yeah. Dude. And there's some, there's some, yeah, subjectively, subjectively, by the way, I just got, I don't

1712
02:09:18,420 --> 02:09:23,300
know how Crystal manages this, but she manages like something I respond to and basically like

1713
02:09:23,300 --> 02:09:29,160
every show it feels like at Linus, we need a scam shirt.

1714
02:09:29,160 --> 02:09:33,580
It's exactly the same as every other shirt, but it costs like, but it costs like four

1715
02:09:33,580 --> 02:09:36,700
times as much and just says scam on the front.

1716
02:09:36,700 --> 02:09:40,940
I am so down and I'm down right now.

1717
02:09:40,940 --> 02:09:46,420
I am sending this to Nick and Sarah. I am sending it to them right now.

1718
02:09:46,420 --> 02:09:52,220
I will bring you. I will bring you the biggest scam t-shirt that you have ever seen.

1719
02:09:52,220 --> 02:09:57,740
Oh, what if you, what if you, it's probably not worth it, but what if you got it like

1720
02:09:57,740 --> 02:10:01,540
poorly printed? No, unacceptable.

1721
02:10:01,540 --> 02:10:04,540
Yeah. I wouldn't do that. Okay.

1722
02:10:04,540 --> 02:10:10,460
Actually, or what if we didn't print it at all? What if it's just our blank shirt and it just costs more?

1723
02:10:10,460 --> 02:10:16,460
It's, it's, it's our blank shirt and we just like include a sharpie.

1724
02:10:16,460 --> 02:10:21,980
No, we should, we should put like, we should, we should screen print like a little scam

1725
02:10:21,980 --> 02:10:28,460
like on the inside. So you'll know you got scammed, but no one else will see it.

1726
02:10:28,460 --> 02:10:35,620
It's pretty good. Um, okay. Well, we'll work, we'll work on some concepts for a scam shirt, but what I can promise you

1727
02:10:35,620 --> 02:10:38,660
is that it will cost more than our regular shirt.

1728
02:10:38,660 --> 02:10:41,660
That's the only thing that I will promise you right now.

1729
02:10:41,660 --> 02:10:45,020
It will be more expensive. Why?

1730
02:10:46,020 --> 02:10:49,420
Cause you got scammed. Yeah. That's why.

1731
02:10:49,420 --> 02:10:52,420
Okay. Oh wait. It's not even a scam.

1732
02:10:52,420 --> 02:10:55,420
No, it's not even a scam. Yeah. Okay.

1733
02:10:55,420 --> 02:10:58,420
Okay. We'll have to make some. Oh, no.

1734
02:10:58,420 --> 02:11:01,420
Oh, this is dangerous. I don't think you're going to actually do it. No, I'm not.

1735
02:11:01,420 --> 02:11:04,420
I can't actually. Yeah. Okay.

1736
02:11:04,420 --> 02:11:07,420
Well, whatever. You'll think it's a scam. Maybe put scam in quotes.

1737
02:11:07,420 --> 02:11:10,420
Okay. Well, we'll, we'll work on it. Well, we're going to work on it.

1738
02:11:10,420 --> 02:11:15,420
We're going to work on it. We're going to ship to you and then you just ship them a box.

1739
02:11:15,420 --> 02:11:18,820
We could share half of the profits with MKBHD.

1740
02:11:18,820 --> 02:11:23,220
People are just, they're offering, they're offering suggestions.

1741
02:11:23,220 --> 02:11:28,420
Workshop the scam shirt. No, I'm going to, I'm going to let, I'm going to let Sarah do her magic.

1742
02:11:28,420 --> 02:11:32,520
You've already seen her. I just, I think people going in and being like, you've ruined your whole reputation

1743
02:11:32,520 --> 02:11:36,860
for everything. Oh, that's so stupid. It's just, but this is, but like there was a lot of people.

1744
02:11:36,860 --> 02:11:40,660
That's so stupid. It's like guys, chill.

1745
02:11:40,660 --> 02:11:43,760
It's all the people who have never made a mistake. Yeah.

1746
02:11:43,760 --> 02:11:47,260
Like it's the never made a mistake crowd. Relax. I don't know.

1747
02:11:47,260 --> 02:11:50,260
I don't know. I mentioned this on the pre-show. We're deep enough in the show now.

1748
02:11:50,260 --> 02:11:57,060
I maybe I'll just say it, but like honestly, I'm pretty thrilled with Marquez right now.

1749
02:11:57,060 --> 02:12:00,060
Oh, you're right. Yeah. Yeah.

1750
02:12:00,060 --> 02:12:05,060
Yeah. He has single-handedly done more to take the heat off of me for a change than any other

1751
02:12:05,060 --> 02:12:09,580
human being on the face of the planet.

1752
02:12:09,580 --> 02:12:16,540
Thank you, Marquez. For once, I am not the most controversial tech tupper.

1753
02:12:16,540 --> 02:12:19,540
It's nice. It's nice.

1754
02:12:19,540 --> 02:12:23,260
Yeah. I feel like I need like a celebratory donut or something.

1755
02:12:23,260 --> 02:12:26,380
Like I just, it feels good, feels good.

1756
02:12:26,380 --> 02:12:29,620
Send them like a thank you cake or something.

1757
02:12:29,620 --> 02:12:36,060
Mind you. Mind you. Now that we've, now that we've launched our own, our own wallpaper subscription, maybe

1758
02:12:36,060 --> 02:12:39,140
we'll be embroiled in the same controversy that I mentioned.

1759
02:12:39,140 --> 02:12:46,940
You can get yours now at Floatplane.com slash post slash Z4G, well, whatever.

1760
02:12:46,940 --> 02:12:49,940
You'll figure it out. Yeah. You guys will figure it out.

1761
02:12:49,940 --> 02:12:52,940
Yeah. Oh my God. This is so funny.

1762
02:12:52,940 --> 02:12:56,220
Apparently all the wallpapers already posted on Reddit. Yeah, of course they are.

1763
02:12:56,220 --> 02:12:59,820
This is, dude, this is great. Look at the comments on this.

1764
02:12:59,820 --> 02:13:04,020
I never thought I'd sub to Floatplane. This was too good of a deal. I think I missed some context.

1765
02:13:04,020 --> 02:13:11,140
Why is everyone saying scam? I know it's a joke, but, oh my goodness, this is amazing.

1766
02:13:11,140 --> 02:13:16,100
Yeah. Thank you guys so much. I used Riley24 to subscribe and download these.

1767
02:13:16,100 --> 02:13:20,740
That's pretty good as well, actually, because they're tracking that to see how well the,

1768
02:13:20,740 --> 02:13:23,740
the concept works. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

1769
02:13:23,740 --> 02:13:29,220
We genuinely appreciate your guys support, by the way. Floatplane pays for our development team.

1770
02:13:29,220 --> 02:13:33,300
It pays for people like Sammy to do their jobs, bringing you guys great behind the scenes

1771
02:13:33,300 --> 02:13:36,300
content. Thank you. Thank you very much.

1772
02:13:36,300 --> 02:13:41,900
The wallpapers, if you decide to throw a couple of bucks at it, hey, we, we, we got to pay

1773
02:13:41,900 --> 02:13:46,980
Sarah somehow. You should probably after downloading them, go check out the exclusives or something,

1774
02:13:46,980 --> 02:13:51,780
which is what the platform is like actually for. It's very unlikely we're ever going to upload wallpapers again.

1775
02:13:51,780 --> 02:13:55,380
This is not a wallpaper thing. Also we might be bringing back some early access.

1776
02:13:55,380 --> 02:13:59,140
Oh, cool. Yeah. Not all across the board, but selectively.

1777
02:13:59,140 --> 02:14:02,780
To add to the Floatplane fund, we're doing an early access release for our newest secret

1778
02:14:02,780 --> 02:14:06,220
shopper. This time, who are we secret shopping?

1779
02:14:06,220 --> 02:14:10,540
I'm actually pretty excited about this.

1780
02:14:10,540 --> 02:14:14,460
Framework. We secret shopped framework. Linus is not involved.

1781
02:14:14,460 --> 02:14:17,620
They don't know. They don't know. Wait, did we talk about this last week?

1782
02:14:17,620 --> 02:14:21,500
I don't think so. Oh, okay. So I, I'm pretty sure I learned about it today.

1783
02:14:21,500 --> 02:14:25,060
So yeah. They don't, they don't know.

1784
02:14:25,060 --> 02:14:28,100
They are finding out probably now, right now.

1785
02:14:28,100 --> 02:14:32,500
Yeah. Someone's sending a frantic message. Which order was it?

1786
02:14:32,500 --> 02:14:35,500
Yeah. Did you have them shipped here? No.

1787
02:14:35,500 --> 02:14:38,500
Yeah, I didn't think so. Of course not. Yeah.

1788
02:14:38,500 --> 02:14:41,500
Also I didn't have them do anything. Well, yeah. We, I, I, this was all.

1789
02:14:41,500 --> 02:14:44,500
Apparently it was mentioned last week. I don't remember that. Okay.

1790
02:14:44,500 --> 02:14:47,500
Weird. Well, it was all delegated. I recused myself.

1791
02:14:47,500 --> 02:14:50,620
Anyway, it comes out tomorrow, September 28th on Floatplane and then later on in the

1792
02:14:50,620 --> 02:14:55,140
week on YouTube. Cool. Finally, the last announcements thing, we gotta, we gotta pair these down a little bit

1793
02:14:55,140 --> 02:14:58,140
next week. Yeah. Is Ridge Wallet Collab.

1794
02:14:58,140 --> 02:15:01,140
We've been working with Ridge for five plus years. Oh. Oh, sick.

1795
02:15:01,140 --> 02:15:06,740
And we finally got around, whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops, I'll get this.

1796
02:15:06,740 --> 02:15:11,060
We finally got around to doing a proper product collab.

1797
02:15:11,060 --> 02:15:18,820
This is on a wallet that we'll be launching on October 1st. It has a cool circuit board design from our one and only Sarah Butt.

1798
02:15:18,820 --> 02:15:22,620
And it comes with both a cash strap and a money clip.

1799
02:15:22,620 --> 02:15:27,500
And it has extra silver screws in the box so you can change the look according to your

1800
02:15:27,500 --> 02:15:31,100
tastes. Yeah. You had to drop something.

1801
02:15:31,100 --> 02:15:35,980
Well, look. Okay. I saw the sticker and I was like, wow, I'm surprised you can save that.

1802
02:15:35,980 --> 02:15:38,980
All right. So there you go. There's your money clip.

1803
02:15:38,980 --> 02:15:42,900
And then there's the super cool, like, circuit-inspired design.

1804
02:15:42,900 --> 02:15:46,300
It's sharp. Very cool. All right.

1805
02:15:46,300 --> 02:15:49,300
What else are we talking about today? Oh, wait.

1806
02:15:49,300 --> 02:15:52,300
Is this after dark, Dan? We... I can never tell anymore.

1807
02:15:52,300 --> 02:15:55,300
No. We're not in after dark yet. It says that on the thing.

1808
02:15:55,300 --> 02:15:58,300
What's wrong with your phone, dude? That means you're supposed to do it. You can talk about that in after dark.

1809
02:15:58,300 --> 02:16:01,660
Stop. We've got, what, 45 minutes left?

1810
02:16:01,660 --> 02:16:07,700
Did we talk about YouTube premium prices going up? I don't think so. Well, they're going up in a lot of parts in the world and that's a bummer.

1811
02:16:07,700 --> 02:16:10,700
Okay. There. We did a quick one there.

1812
02:16:10,700 --> 02:16:14,180
We might see Hi-Fi Rush 2. That's exciting. Nice.

1813
02:16:14,180 --> 02:16:18,100
Floppy Bird Returns, but it's a scam.

1814
02:16:18,100 --> 02:16:22,020
Okay. Might actually legitimately be a scam, not sure, but maybe.

1815
02:16:22,020 --> 02:16:27,620
Don't do that. And Discord introduces Dave. They're rolling out end-to-end encryption for audio and video calls.

1816
02:16:27,620 --> 02:16:33,580
It will not, however, be encrypting text communication, right, which they say is to facilitate moderation

1817
02:16:33,580 --> 02:16:38,780
and ensure safety on the platform. But if it's an audio call, then you don't need to anyway.

1818
02:16:38,780 --> 02:16:42,020
Discord's current moderation involves both user reporting and a combination of image

1819
02:16:42,020 --> 02:16:48,700
hashing and machine scanning to flag CSAM. Other forms of automated moderation are controlled by community moderators on the server level.

1820
02:16:48,700 --> 02:16:53,060
The full technical details for Discord's audio, visual, end-to-end encryption protocol, which

1821
02:16:53,060 --> 02:16:57,500
they call Dave, is outloaded, outlined in a white paper they've published.

1822
02:16:57,500 --> 02:17:01,680
Likewise, its backing libraries are open-source to allow for public transparency and scrutiny

1823
02:17:01,680 --> 02:17:05,420
by security researchers. At least it's progress. I'll say that much.

1824
02:17:05,420 --> 02:17:09,020
Sure. All right. Let's switch over to Afterdark.

1825
02:17:09,020 --> 02:17:12,020
Shall we? Yeah. Yes.

1826
02:17:12,020 --> 02:17:15,020
We shall. Okay. Phone time?

1827
02:17:15,020 --> 02:17:18,020
While he gets set up? Oh, okay. Yeah.

1828
02:17:18,020 --> 02:17:21,020
Really? Is this that important to you? Just what is?

1829
02:17:21,020 --> 02:17:24,520
Why won't you say it? I think that's why I'm so interested. I'm being baited.

1830
02:17:24,540 --> 02:17:28,520
So Dan, can I ask you to do me a big favor? Yes.

1831
02:17:28,520 --> 02:17:33,200
It's not going to be an easy favor. Oh, boy. What are you trying to do?

1832
02:17:33,200 --> 02:17:41,240
I need the entire place to go completely dark.

1833
02:17:41,240 --> 02:17:46,640
Oh, okay. Can you do that? I think that's actually pretty easy for them.

1834
02:17:46,640 --> 02:17:49,840
Ideally this one last. Which for the overhead?

1835
02:17:49,840 --> 02:17:59,840
Yes, sir. Feel free to do a merch message or something in the meantime, Luke.

1836
02:17:59,840 --> 02:18:02,840
Oh, there's a bunch in there for you.

1837
02:18:02,840 --> 02:18:08,840
Okay. Uno momento.

1838
02:18:08,840 --> 02:18:13,600
And then I've got to get the back ones.

1839
02:18:13,600 --> 02:18:17,240
The back ones are manual. We have to climb a ladder. No, we just turned all of everything off.

1840
02:18:17,240 --> 02:18:20,240
Oh, well, I have to climb a ladder. Maybe Dan can reach.

1841
02:18:20,640 --> 02:18:23,640
Okay, let's see what this breaks. Should be nothing.

1842
02:18:23,640 --> 02:18:27,640
You ready? Oh, God. You're turning off the battery backup?

1843
02:18:27,640 --> 02:18:30,640
Yeah. Okay. Ready?

1844
02:18:30,640 --> 02:18:33,640
Yeah, I guess.

1845
02:18:33,640 --> 02:18:36,640
Whoa. Whoa. That's so bright.

1846
02:18:36,640 --> 02:18:42,640
Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to have to play around with the focus a little bit here.

1847
02:18:42,640 --> 02:18:46,640
Yeah, because it looks way better in person.

1848
02:18:47,640 --> 02:18:52,640
It's going to have a hard time in the dark, I think.

1849
02:18:54,640 --> 02:18:56,640
That's very bright.

1850
02:19:05,640 --> 02:19:11,640
So, chat's actually asking the same question I have.

1851
02:19:11,640 --> 02:19:15,640
How much radiation? Well, how much radiation?

1852
02:19:15,640 --> 02:19:18,640
Well, it's just glow-in-the-dark. Yeah, what is it? Are we still live?

1853
02:19:18,640 --> 02:19:21,640
Okay, yeah, we are. Sorry, what? What makes it glow-in-the-dark?

1854
02:19:21,640 --> 02:19:24,640
It's cool.

1855
02:19:24,640 --> 02:19:28,640
What is it? It's cool. Why are you being so cagey about your phone skin?

1856
02:19:28,640 --> 02:19:31,640
Because, I don't know, some stuff might happen.

1857
02:19:31,640 --> 02:19:34,640
Did you make this? How is it for that phone?

1858
02:19:34,640 --> 02:19:37,640
I think that's the thing that's been driving me the most. What?

1859
02:19:37,640 --> 02:19:40,640
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9? This is a popular device that many people still enjoy.

1860
02:19:41,640 --> 02:19:45,640
How do you have a... So, this was custom-made for you.

1861
02:19:45,640 --> 02:19:48,640
Man, it's textured, too. Isn't that cool?

1862
02:19:48,640 --> 02:19:51,640
That's really nice, actually. Pretty cool, hey?

1863
02:19:51,640 --> 02:19:55,640
It's also our company's orange. I don't know what you're talking about.

1864
02:19:55,640 --> 02:19:58,640
Interesting. It feels nice.

1865
02:19:58,640 --> 02:20:02,640
Yeah, I know. Kind of grippy, kind of feels good.

1866
02:20:02,640 --> 02:20:04,640
Yeah, interesting, right?

1867
02:20:05,640 --> 02:20:09,640
All right.

1868
02:20:09,640 --> 02:20:13,640
Cool. Okay. I'm sure I'll have more to say at some point.

1869
02:20:13,640 --> 02:20:16,640
Yeah. But... Photo fluorescence?

1870
02:20:16,640 --> 02:20:23,640
Is that fine? All I know about glow-in-the-dark stuff is they used to do it with incredibly radioactive stuff.

1871
02:20:23,640 --> 02:20:26,640
That was a long time ago. Ethically sourced radon, now.

1872
02:20:26,640 --> 02:20:29,640
I'm just going to give them a closer look at it.

1873
02:20:29,640 --> 02:20:32,640
You can feel free to do it. It looks sharp.

1874
02:20:32,640 --> 02:20:35,640
All right. For Luke. Hey, when?

1875
02:20:35,640 --> 02:20:41,640
Luke, if you can share what is the flow plane algorithm for deciding username color on a live?

1876
02:20:41,640 --> 02:20:44,640
In live chat, yeah. I guess live chat. Yeah.

1877
02:20:44,640 --> 02:20:47,640
We're just stopping it there.

1878
02:20:47,640 --> 02:20:50,640
We're not doing the... Oh, there's a lioness question after that.

1879
02:20:50,640 --> 02:20:53,640
I see. Okay, got it. I don't remember.

1880
02:20:53,640 --> 02:20:56,640
That's entirely a Jaden thing. I think it's a secret.

1881
02:20:56,640 --> 02:20:59,640
If I remember correctly, I don't think it's a secret.

1882
02:20:59,640 --> 02:21:06,640
Yeah, Conrad's saying it's just a hash table. I thought it was either that or it was the first letter that it was based off of.

1883
02:21:06,640 --> 02:21:13,640
You can see the texture. Yeah, there you go. If I remember correctly, you can even play with the capitalization of your name and it

1884
02:21:13,640 --> 02:21:18,640
will change it or something. I don't remember exactly how it works.

1885
02:21:18,640 --> 02:21:23,640
If you ever see Jaden in the chat, poke him and he'll be able to tell you if he feels like

1886
02:21:23,640 --> 02:21:28,640
it or he won't because he might not feel like it because he's not on shift.

1887
02:21:28,640 --> 02:21:31,640
Sounds about right. I'm not going to tell him what to do. Yeah, that's it.

1888
02:21:31,640 --> 02:21:37,640
Lioness, how do you feel about PlayStation raising the prices on Horizon Zero Dawn?

1889
02:21:37,640 --> 02:21:42,640
Is this for the remaster or whatever? It's like it's $10 more, but now it's the remaster or something?

1890
02:21:42,640 --> 02:21:45,640
What are we talking about?

1891
02:21:45,640 --> 02:21:49,640
Raising the price? I heard something happened, but I don't know.

1892
02:21:49,640 --> 02:21:53,640
I don't know. It costs however much it costs. If you like the price and you buy it at the price, if you don't like the price, you

1893
02:21:53,640 --> 02:22:01,640
don't pay for it. PlayStation quietly raises Horizon Zero Dawn PS4 price following remaster announcement.

1894
02:22:01,640 --> 02:22:04,640
Yeah, I guess don't buy it.

1895
02:22:04,640 --> 02:22:07,640
I mean, I don't know, guys. Come on.

1896
02:22:07,640 --> 02:22:13,640
Yeah, it sucks. Games cost a lot of money, but you had five years to buy Horizon.

1897
02:22:13,640 --> 02:22:16,640
When did Horizon Zero Dawn come out?

1898
02:22:16,640 --> 02:22:24,640
Horizon Zero Dawn release PS4 because I bought it on PC three years ago, I feel like.

1899
02:22:24,640 --> 02:22:28,640
This game came out in 2017. It came out seven years ago.

1900
02:22:28,640 --> 02:22:31,640
If you wanted to play it, just play it.

1901
02:22:31,640 --> 02:22:34,640
I don't know, guys.

1902
02:22:34,640 --> 02:22:37,640
It's a scam there. It's a scam.

1903
02:22:37,640 --> 02:22:40,640
It's a scam. It's a scam.

1904
02:22:40,640 --> 02:22:44,640
I mean, I'm not a fan of game prices going up, but like honestly, we've talked about it

1905
02:22:44,640 --> 02:22:51,640
extensively on the show before. The fact that game prices haven't gone up a lot more is crazy.

1906
02:22:51,640 --> 02:22:56,640
I feel like it's been a standoff where different companies are just like, who's going to go first?

1907
02:22:56,640 --> 02:23:00,640
Dude, there's probably more people who work in the marketing department of a modern AAA game

1908
02:23:00,640 --> 02:23:06,640
than worked on Super Mario World in its entirety, right?

1909
02:23:06,640 --> 02:23:11,640
And that was a $60 cartridge back in 1994.

1910
02:23:11,640 --> 02:23:14,640
93? When did Super Mario World come out?

1911
02:23:14,640 --> 02:23:18,640
It wasn't 92, was it? I think it was 93. Was it two?

1912
02:23:18,640 --> 02:23:21,640
1990! Good lord! Right?

1913
02:23:21,640 --> 02:23:24,640
So, yeah, games are flip and expensive.

1914
02:23:24,640 --> 02:23:28,640
I mean, do I think the whole, we're remastering a seven-year-old game thing is a little bit ridiculous

1915
02:23:28,640 --> 02:23:32,640
and sort of, you know, playing around with the hype cycle and the fact that it's in the news

1916
02:23:32,640 --> 02:23:35,640
and raising the price or whatever, it's like, yeah, sure, whatever.

1917
02:23:35,640 --> 02:23:41,640
But realistically, guys, this is games. Wait another three months and it's probably going to be on sale again or whatever

1918
02:23:41,640 --> 02:23:46,640
and you can get it for a lower price. Like, I really, yeah, I don't think it's, I don't think it's that big of a deal personally.

1919
02:23:46,640 --> 02:23:54,640
I'm sorry. Man, I'm going to, I'm going to get in trouble.

1920
02:23:54,640 --> 02:24:01,640
Okay, I see. I knew there'd be more to it.

1921
02:24:01,640 --> 02:24:04,640
Naturally, people saw the, this is, I'm reading off of dual shockers.

1922
02:24:04,640 --> 02:24:09,640
I'm going to just share my screen because they seem to have actually pretty good coverage of this.

1923
02:24:09,640 --> 02:24:13,640
Naturally, when people saw the price spike of Horizon Zero Dawn, it left them scratching their heads, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1924
02:24:13,640 --> 02:24:17,640
It's like almost doubled in, or it's effectively doubled in price.

1925
02:24:17,640 --> 02:24:21,640
Following the title of this article is it closes a loophole.

1926
02:24:21,640 --> 02:24:28,640
So I was like, what does that mean? Apparently, if you own the original version, you can upgrade to the remaster version.

1927
02:24:28,640 --> 02:24:33,640
So they released the remaster version at this price. People were just buying the old one and then upgrading.

1928
02:24:33,640 --> 02:24:36,640
Oh, I've got it. Okay. So.

1929
02:24:36,640 --> 02:24:43,640
Okay. Well, that makes sense. Luca 103 on the subject of scams asks, where's your iPhone Linus?

1930
02:24:43,640 --> 02:24:47,640
After I shot the ShortCircuit, they needed it for some other content.

1931
02:24:47,640 --> 02:24:50,640
So they're going to give it to me when they're done with it. 16?

1932
02:24:50,640 --> 02:24:53,640
Yeah, I'm going with 16 plus. You're going to run one? Yeah.

1933
02:24:53,640 --> 02:24:56,640
Like mainline? Oh, yeah. You're going to put that away?

1934
02:24:56,640 --> 02:24:59,640
Yep. Wow. It's going away.

1935
02:24:59,640 --> 02:25:02,640
It's going away. D Starfire actually, there's a couple of questions from Floatplane chat from earlier.

1936
02:25:02,640 --> 02:25:07,640
D Starfire asked, I've always wondered, what is LMG stance on like the LTT GIFs and Discord and stuff?

1937
02:25:07,640 --> 02:25:13,640
Like that. We don't mind that kind of thing. This was in response to the ghost keyboards situation.

1938
02:25:13,640 --> 02:25:18,640
Oh, you're not marketing something with an endorsement with Linus?

1939
02:25:18,640 --> 02:25:23,640
Yeah. Yeah. You're not creating a fake endorsement of a product that I explicitly said I don't think

1940
02:25:23,640 --> 02:25:26,640
is a good value. Yeah. I think the gifts are hilarious.

1941
02:25:26,640 --> 02:25:34,640
Yeah. We are pro community engagement and community use of our likenesses.

1942
02:25:34,640 --> 02:25:43,640
Any time some like meme face of me takes over the subreddit for a little while, it's great

1943
02:25:43,640 --> 02:25:49,640
fun. Tora Melkson asks, how's the cat?

1944
02:25:49,640 --> 02:25:52,640
I realized after I said that the cat was at the vet.

1945
02:25:52,640 --> 02:25:57,640
I never really gave an update. He's doing great. We don't know what exactly his deal was.

1946
02:25:57,640 --> 02:26:03,640
He was favoring a leg a little bit. Maybe he just did something stupid because he's a dumb kitten and he got a little bit

1947
02:26:03,640 --> 02:26:09,640
of inflammation, got a little bit of a fever and then they just gave him an anti-inflammatory

1948
02:26:09,640 --> 02:26:12,640
and pain killers and he was fine in like two days.

1949
02:26:12,640 --> 02:26:15,640
Cool. So yeah, he's doing great. All right.

1950
02:26:15,640 --> 02:26:22,640
What's up? Lee and Lee. I chimed in a while back asking Luke if he had played body cam and his opinions on it.

1951
02:26:22,640 --> 02:26:26,640
Is there any updates? And if so, how does he feel about the camera movement and mechanics?

1952
02:26:26,640 --> 02:26:29,640
Did I ever talk about it? I don't know if you ever did.

1953
02:26:29,640 --> 02:26:32,640
There was a brief discussion about it when it sort of just first.

1954
02:26:32,640 --> 02:26:35,640
Yeah. I thought that might have been on the pre-show though or it might have been off camera.

1955
02:26:35,640 --> 02:26:38,640
I remember talking about the laser scans and the details and things like that.

1956
02:26:38,640 --> 02:26:42,640
But never went back to it. I hated it.

1957
02:26:42,640 --> 02:26:46,640
Sorry to the body cam. Tell us how you really feel. Was it a scam?

1958
02:26:46,640 --> 02:26:49,640
Yes. No, no, no, no.

1959
02:26:49,640 --> 02:26:52,640
It has a really interesting aesthetic.

1960
02:26:52,640 --> 02:26:56,640
They did, they cooked. They did interesting things with it.

1961
02:26:56,640 --> 02:26:59,640
But there was parts of the game that were just like, what?

1962
02:26:59,640 --> 02:27:04,640
Like if you, it was the gameplay that I was playing was like seeking destroy style where

1963
02:27:04,640 --> 02:27:07,640
when you die, you're out until the next round, right?

1964
02:27:07,640 --> 02:27:10,640
But you would then be able to pilot a drone.

1965
02:27:10,640 --> 02:27:15,640
So you could just fly around the map almost no clip style because you have a drone,

1966
02:27:15,640 --> 02:27:21,640
find where they are, and then the in-game voice chat, you could tell your teammates where they were.

1967
02:27:21,640 --> 02:27:24,640
Oh, well, that seems like an oversight. So stupid.

1968
02:27:24,640 --> 02:27:30,640
That's a scam. So my team had one less player than their team.

1969
02:27:30,640 --> 02:27:33,640
The, the Katie ratios of everyone on our team was better than them in general,

1970
02:27:33,640 --> 02:27:38,640
but we would just always lose because it would come down to a one, like it just, I don't know.

1971
02:27:38,640 --> 02:27:41,640
Skill issue.

1972
02:27:41,640 --> 02:27:46,640
Probably. I was pretty bad to be completely honest.

1973
02:27:46,640 --> 02:27:49,640
I did not do well, but it was also super annoying.

1974
02:27:49,640 --> 02:27:53,640
Like you, you would actually get someone and you'd be stoked and then you'd hear the drone come around.

1975
02:27:53,640 --> 02:27:56,640
And it's like, oh, okay. Guess I'm screwed.

1976
02:27:56,640 --> 02:28:01,640
Nice. Like, and you just, you hear the voice chatting drone telling them where you are.

1977
02:28:01,640 --> 02:28:06,640
It's like. I racer six says they will announce a scam shirt next week, calling it now.

1978
02:28:06,640 --> 02:28:11,640
You must have missed the part of the show where we said we are going to do a scam shirt.

1979
02:28:11,640 --> 02:28:16,640
Yeah. Yeah. And it like, it was, it was one of those games where they're like, it's realistic.

1980
02:28:16,640 --> 02:28:19,640
So they just made it like feel horrible. Oh, sure.

1981
02:28:19,640 --> 02:28:25,640
Like you're super clunky and like coming to a stop is really slow and like, no, it's

1982
02:28:25,640 --> 02:28:28,640
really not actually that slow. We don't have to play this way.

1983
02:28:28,640 --> 02:28:31,640
People can turn on a dime pretty quickly. Yeah.

1984
02:28:31,640 --> 02:28:35,640
Um, I don't know, but it is the, you know, the aesthetics are really interesting.

1985
02:28:35,640 --> 02:28:41,640
What they did with it is really interesting. Just I did not enjoy the gameplay and I did not enjoy the gameplay mechanics, like the

1986
02:28:41,640 --> 02:28:48,640
whole drone thing and stuff that drove me nuts. Um, so I bailed out, but yeah, I'm going to try to dump through some more Luke ones.

1987
02:28:48,640 --> 02:28:54,640
Here. The reviews are in for our wallpaper app.

1988
02:28:54,640 --> 02:28:57,640
Nice. Nice. It's pretty good.

1989
02:28:57,640 --> 02:29:06,640
Uh, hi, Wansho. Question for Luke. What are your thoughts on companies asking employees to return to office such as Amazon?

1990
02:29:06,640 --> 02:29:10,640
Um, I'm glad I don't have to answer this.

1991
02:29:10,640 --> 02:29:14,640
I just asked Luke. I, I don't know.

1992
02:29:14,640 --> 02:29:21,640
I think. I think just like with pretty much any situation, a lot of it's going to come down to the management.

1993
02:29:21,640 --> 02:29:26,640
Um, I think there are people I have.

1994
02:29:26,640 --> 02:29:29,640
Hmm. Can I talk vaguely enough about this? I think so.

1995
02:29:29,640 --> 02:29:34,640
I have employed people that didn't work out because in my opinion, they weren't necessarily

1996
02:29:34,640 --> 02:29:40,640
a bad worker, but they were not capable of work from homework.

1997
02:29:40,640 --> 02:29:42,640
Um, they, they were.

1998
02:29:43,640 --> 02:29:46,640
You could, you could kind of tell they were not, you know, they weren't doing it.

1999
02:29:46,640 --> 02:29:50,640
They probably needed more micromanagement. They probably needed more.

2000
02:29:50,640 --> 02:29:54,640
Someone can literally see what they're doing all the time, level micromanagement.

2001
02:29:54,640 --> 02:29:58,640
Um, which you can't effectively do with work from home.

2002
02:29:58,640 --> 02:30:03,640
This whole like monitor their mouse movement thing, whatever, you will always lose that

2003
02:30:03,640 --> 02:30:06,640
war. And also just, can we not?

2004
02:30:06,640 --> 02:30:09,640
Yeah, that too. Like companies are never going to win.

2005
02:30:09,640 --> 02:30:12,640
So they, can we just not, they shouldn't even do it. Yeah.

2006
02:30:12,640 --> 02:30:15,640
Because it's like invasive and weird and you're not going to win anyways.

2007
02:30:15,640 --> 02:30:25,640
So just stop. Yeah. Um, but properly managed teams with good people that are going to be honest and do their work,

2008
02:30:25,640 --> 02:30:28,640
work from home versus work in office. I don't know.

2009
02:30:28,640 --> 02:30:32,640
It doesn't really matter. At this point, I think it's like easier to manage people that are work from home.

2010
02:30:32,640 --> 02:30:39,640
I think you navigated that really well. The tough thing is that I feel like in our super polarized world, I need a, I need a more

2011
02:30:39,640 --> 02:30:42,640
aggressive take. No, no, no. It's not that.

2012
02:30:42,640 --> 02:30:47,560
No, no, no. In our super polarized world, you're either with us or you're against us.

2013
02:30:47,560 --> 02:30:52,940
And so I think for you to, I think that, you know, you would talk to the Kevin O'Leary's

2014
02:30:52,940 --> 02:30:59,280
of the world or whatever else. And if you say anything other than the employer has the absolute right to dictate when and

2015
02:30:59,280 --> 02:31:02,640
where the worker works, then they'll be like, this is communism.

2016
02:31:02,640 --> 02:31:05,640
You know, and to be clear, I don't know Kevin O'Leary. I don't know.

2017
02:31:05,640 --> 02:31:10,200
I just, every time I, every time I read anything about his take on something, it's usually what

2018
02:31:10,200 --> 02:31:13,440
I disagree with. So I just, so I'm just picking on him essentially.

2019
02:31:13,440 --> 02:31:17,020
I don't know exactly what his take is on this, but I'd probably disagree with it.

2020
02:31:17,020 --> 02:31:21,880
And then on the other side, you've got like r slash anti work that basically goes, I should

2021
02:31:21,880 --> 02:31:29,480
work when I want, however I want, and if I want, and whatever else.

2022
02:31:29,480 --> 02:31:36,280
And there's sort of this like, for you to have sort of a middle ground feels impossible.

2023
02:31:36,280 --> 02:31:43,920
Like for you to say something like, you know, yeah, sometimes the employer, you know, abuses

2024
02:31:43,920 --> 02:31:49,560
their, their power, you know, that's going to upset your, your, your capitalist fat cats.

2025
02:31:49,560 --> 02:31:55,520
And for you to say, sometimes the worker is not in good faith, contributing positively

2026
02:31:55,520 --> 02:32:02,600
to the success of the company that by the way, it pays their, you know, paychecks, then

2027
02:32:02,600 --> 02:32:07,360
the other crowd is going to be up in arms because no person could, whatever do that.

2028
02:32:07,360 --> 02:32:11,080
What you're saying is I just pissed off everybody. Yeah, kind of nice. Nice.

2029
02:32:11,080 --> 02:32:14,080
I don't know. What would be your centrist? Yeah.

2030
02:32:14,080 --> 02:32:18,080
I also have people literally on my team right now that I think I could objectively say just

2031
02:32:18,080 --> 02:32:23,720
work better by working from home. More on task, if anything, like that type of stuff.

2032
02:32:23,720 --> 02:32:27,720
Like there's just people are people and people are different.

2033
02:32:27,720 --> 02:32:33,720
Oh dude, this is great. Slow playing chats, lighting up with just like dumb that Kevin O'Leary has said.

2034
02:32:37,720 --> 02:32:40,720
Oh man. Oh man. I don't know.

2035
02:32:40,720 --> 02:32:43,720
I don't even like, he was on Shark Tank, right?

2036
02:32:43,720 --> 02:32:46,720
Yeah. The Canadian one. Oh, okay.

2037
02:32:46,720 --> 02:32:51,720
Yeah. The like, you know, whale tank. I don't know what it's called.

2038
02:32:51,720 --> 02:32:54,720
Salmon tank. Anyway. Beaver Dan.

2039
02:32:54,720 --> 02:32:57,720
Anyway. Yeah. The reality of it is is there are.

2040
02:32:57,720 --> 02:33:02,720
Faith and bad faith bosses and there are good faith and bad faith employees.

2041
02:33:02,720 --> 02:33:10,720
Yeah. And any kind of blanket this and only this is the interpretation of the situation is wrong.

2042
02:33:10,720 --> 02:33:13,720
Yeah. Period. Yep.

2043
02:33:13,720 --> 02:33:20,200
It's a different type of management. It also takes a sometimes, not always, but sometimes it takes kind of a different type

2044
02:33:20,200 --> 02:33:23,840
of employee. Yep. I think it can be beneficial for some people.

2045
02:33:23,840 --> 02:33:30,960
I think it'd be negative for other people. I think sometimes if it is negative for that person, they might be willing to make certain

2046
02:33:30,960 --> 02:33:36,280
compromises to make it work. If it like saves them a bunch of money or if it saves a bunch of time or whatever else.

2047
02:33:36,280 --> 02:33:39,680
I've also found that if it's negative for people, they tend to be the kinds of people

2048
02:33:39,680 --> 02:33:43,000
that lack the self-awareness to recognize that it's negative for them.

2049
02:33:43,000 --> 02:33:46,640
That is almost certainly also a thing.

2050
02:33:46,640 --> 02:33:50,560
I think that's also on both sides though. I think. Yeah.

2051
02:33:50,560 --> 02:33:57,120
I think sometimes when. I think that's fair. If you want to figure out how to manage remote employees, they will just say, oh, this system

2052
02:33:57,120 --> 02:34:03,840
doesn't work. It's easy to blame. All these people are bad and I'm good and no one else, blah, blah, blah, when realistically

2053
02:34:03,840 --> 02:34:12,120
it's just, it's a, you know, if you are on a remote team and you like it, try to do good

2054
02:34:12,120 --> 02:34:16,720
by it if you want it to stay existing because there is a bit of a war on this stuff going

2055
02:34:16,720 --> 02:34:23,240
on right now. Unrealistic about its potential downsides is not going to help.

2056
02:34:23,240 --> 02:34:27,240
And I also think that there is, there's bad faith arguments on both sides, you know?

2057
02:34:27,240 --> 02:34:31,480
Absolutely. Yeah, it is what it is. How about some more Luke ones?

2058
02:34:31,480 --> 02:34:35,040
Hi, Luke. I have an avid active curler from California.

2059
02:34:35,040 --> 02:34:38,040
Sick. Yes, we curl in California. In California.

2060
02:34:38,040 --> 02:34:47,280
Yeah, you have me. Not going to lie. They had us in the first half and you have other recreational sports or is that it?

2061
02:34:47,280 --> 02:34:50,400
My question is lead, second, vice or skip?

2062
02:34:50,400 --> 02:34:54,640
Which one are you usually playing also prefer draws or hits?

2063
02:34:54,640 --> 02:35:00,000
Oh, generally hits, no idea what we're talking about hits.

2064
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:05,760
Are you a curler from California? I only hear them called takeouts.

2065
02:35:05,760 --> 02:35:11,960
I'm probably wrong. They're probably right. I bet you a hit is when it, anyways, don't worry, it doesn't matter.

2066
02:35:11,960 --> 02:35:18,520
I believe I'm usually second. My dad is always the skip and I don't foresee myself ever playing curling if it's not with

2067
02:35:18,520 --> 02:35:21,520
my dad. So I will not be that role.

2068
02:35:21,520 --> 02:35:24,840
Nice. Usually my brother's the lead. I'm second.

2069
02:35:24,840 --> 02:35:29,520
My uncle or someone else playing depending on if my uncle can make it or not is third

2070
02:35:29,520 --> 02:35:35,120
and then my dad is skip. Yeah, it's basically just the order that you throw the rocks in.

2071
02:35:35,120 --> 02:35:38,120
No, I know. First, second, third. I've curled.

2072
02:35:38,120 --> 02:35:41,120
Oh, yeah. Yeah. What do you say?

2073
02:35:41,120 --> 02:35:45,440
First, second and third. It's just last, but it's essentially like the team captain of sorts.

2074
02:35:45,440 --> 02:35:49,880
I'm sorry. I was just, I was a little thrown off because you like kept forgetting your dad's name.

2075
02:35:49,880 --> 02:35:54,880
What? It's Rob. It's not skip.

2076
02:35:54,880 --> 02:35:59,880
I know the positions. Okay. That's my uncle.

2077
02:35:59,880 --> 02:36:04,560
Oh, that's actually pretty funny.

2078
02:36:04,560 --> 02:36:10,680
Terrible. But no, it's not even just the throwing order. Each one of them has like slightly different roles and responsibilities.

2079
02:36:10,920 --> 02:36:15,560
Anyways, most of it lays on the scoop. And that I don't know anything about because I've only ever done it once.

2080
02:36:15,560 --> 02:36:18,560
Yeah. All right. Okay.

2081
02:36:18,560 --> 02:36:24,560
Back up to the top. Hi, DLL. Notice the new ad insert tests compared to the normal ones on recent videos.

2082
02:36:24,560 --> 02:36:30,720
Can you talk about these? How are they doing? Any learnings enjoying the change up personally?

2083
02:36:30,720 --> 02:36:36,000
I got to tell you guys, I'm as surprised as you to see some of them.

2084
02:36:36,000 --> 02:36:41,280
The one where my son gets swapped out with Dennis was a little jarring.

2085
02:36:41,280 --> 02:36:47,240
Oh, I did see that. That was not, that was not in the version of the video that I reviewed.

2086
02:36:47,240 --> 02:36:50,560
Normally, I'm the final pass review on LTT videos.

2087
02:36:50,560 --> 02:36:54,320
I did not see that. I thought it was really funny.

2088
02:36:54,320 --> 02:36:57,320
It was funny. Yeah. Yeah.

2089
02:36:57,320 --> 02:37:02,280
I think we're just, we're trying to, we're trying to have fun with it a little bit.

2090
02:37:02,360 --> 02:37:06,680
We used to do more of that kind of stuff and then we just got kind of formulaic and

2091
02:37:06,680 --> 02:37:11,680
that's Dennis's job now is to make our, make our sponsorship spots as engaging as our

2092
02:37:11,680 --> 02:37:18,080
content. I think he's, sorry, excuse me, I think he's doing a really good job in terms of making

2093
02:37:18,080 --> 02:37:24,440
it more engaging. I think that the team is still kind of working on, you know, what KPIs look like for sponsors

2094
02:37:24,440 --> 02:37:30,200
to, to drive more revenue from it. But if nothing else, if we're entertaining you guys, then we consider it a good investment

2095
02:37:30,200 --> 02:37:33,640
I think. Yeah. It doesn't all fall into my department now.

2096
02:37:33,640 --> 02:37:38,960
You got to understand that everything that I say now comes from the perspective of a

2097
02:37:38,960 --> 02:37:43,400
member of the upper management, but not the one who makes, even when he doesn't show up

2098
02:37:43,400 --> 02:37:46,800
to upper management meetings, not the one who makes all the decisions. I show up sometimes.

2099
02:37:46,800 --> 02:37:49,800
Sometimes. Yeah. And I get summaries.

2100
02:37:49,800 --> 02:37:55,680
You can, I told, I told you, I told you, you can always like call me in if you need,

2101
02:37:55,680 --> 02:37:58,920
you know, help back up on something or whatever. I told you that.

2102
02:37:58,920 --> 02:38:04,080
It's not even necessarily that. I think your general input on things would be good though.

2103
02:38:04,080 --> 02:38:07,320
Well, and you can always table something for a future discussion.

2104
02:38:07,320 --> 02:38:12,400
If you're just like, yeah, I've known Linus for 1000 years and I feel very strongly that

2105
02:38:12,400 --> 02:38:17,440
as the investor, primary shareholder of the company, he would think this is phenomenally

2106
02:38:17,440 --> 02:38:20,640
stupid. Like we can always have conversations. Nothing's set in stone.

2107
02:38:20,640 --> 02:38:24,840
We, we make it, we try to make decisions as a team.

2108
02:38:24,840 --> 02:38:30,440
And I do think we do a pretty good job. I just think sometimes it's surprising the amount of times that the discussion goes

2109
02:38:30,440 --> 02:38:34,120
to what would Linus think?

2110
02:38:34,120 --> 02:38:38,120
And it's like, wow, this would be insanely more efficient if he was here and said what

2111
02:38:38,120 --> 02:38:42,480
he was thinking. Okay. But I got like videos to shoot.

2112
02:38:42,480 --> 02:38:46,800
I know. The challenge is like if all I had to do was be an executive, I could, I could probably

2113
02:38:46,800 --> 02:38:51,920
do a pretty good job of it. I'd be bored as hell. I, I struggled to stay on task in that way.

2114
02:38:51,920 --> 02:38:55,720
I, I like creating reports and. It's a weird world.

2115
02:38:55,720 --> 02:38:59,720
I'm doing reports. Like I can kind of do it. Like I can hyper focus and I can like power through it.

2116
02:38:59,720 --> 02:39:03,720
I don't know if you probably got a bunch of emails from me like one morning.

2117
02:39:03,720 --> 02:39:06,720
Yeah. Yeah. I, I understand.

2118
02:39:06,720 --> 02:39:13,360
This doesn't even. I went through like 300 unreads in my inbox and just like powered through it on a flight.

2119
02:39:13,360 --> 02:39:17,160
And then like that's the kind of thing I can do, but I'm, I'm more of a, I'm a sprinter.

2120
02:39:17,160 --> 02:39:22,680
I'm not a marathon runner. And, um, and I'm just like, I, I don't know, I just, I get pulled in all these different

2121
02:39:22,680 --> 02:39:30,160
directions and I, I enable it. My behavior enables the way that people pull me into side conversations and like, like

2122
02:39:30,160 --> 02:39:33,960
talk to me about things. So I guess what I'm saying is I'm more than happy to do that.

2123
02:39:33,960 --> 02:39:38,600
Yeah. But, um, yeah, I won't be in exact meeting every time.

2124
02:39:38,600 --> 02:39:44,520
Um, anyway, the point is, um, yeah, I'm a member of the exec team, but everything that

2125
02:39:44,520 --> 02:39:50,640
I say is a perspective of mine now. It's not just what the company is doing.

2126
02:39:50,640 --> 02:39:53,920
I am not the CEO. The company's big and there's a lot of execs.

2127
02:39:54,160 --> 02:40:00,080
And I, I had a conversation with Terran yesterday that was basically like, he was like, uh,

2128
02:40:00,080 --> 02:40:03,600
you know, yeah, uh, you know, are we, are we doing this?

2129
02:40:03,600 --> 02:40:07,160
It was like something that he wants to do that I was kind of lukewarm on.

2130
02:40:07,480 --> 02:40:10,280
And I was like, well, you said we're doing it.

2131
02:40:11,160 --> 02:40:14,440
So we're doing it. Like, and I was kind of, I was kind of joking with him.

2132
02:40:14,440 --> 02:40:18,040
I was like, you know, if I, if, if I give you the title, it's not a title.

2133
02:40:18,040 --> 02:40:27,800
It's, it's a responsibility. And so, you know, um, as long as you have the title, until such time as you are fired,

2134
02:40:28,200 --> 02:40:36,760
um, you have my sword, you know, like, Is there, do you, do you ask shareholders permission to do things?

2135
02:40:36,880 --> 02:40:42,040
You, it would be more the board of directors, but the board of directors would often represent

2136
02:40:42,040 --> 02:40:45,200
the interests of the shareholders, theoretically, everyone is sort of

2137
02:40:45,200 --> 02:40:48,360
representing the interests of the shareholders, but members of the board of

2138
02:40:48,360 --> 02:40:52,840
directors, especially in smaller companies like ours, are often the shareholders.

2139
02:40:52,840 --> 02:40:54,520
People are tagging me and they're just saying warm.

2140
02:40:56,120 --> 02:40:57,120
Nice.

2141
02:40:59,800 --> 02:41:03,120
Yeah. Cause I mean, I think it's, I think it's still in, in Terran's defense, I think

2142
02:41:03,120 --> 02:41:06,560
it's still valid to ask the shareholders what they want.

2143
02:41:06,640 --> 02:41:09,680
Yeah, absolutely. No, it is, it is a hundred percent. Yeah.

2144
02:41:09,680 --> 02:41:15,520
And, and, and, and for me, my role is not to micromanage that.

2145
02:41:15,520 --> 02:41:20,880
It's to set the direction. And, you know, if there's a particular, let's say a personnel decision, or if

2146
02:41:20,880 --> 02:41:25,880
there's a, like, uh, like an investment decision, um, like if there's some,

2147
02:41:25,880 --> 02:41:29,480
some kind of action in both of those, him going to, I mean, I mean,

2148
02:41:29,480 --> 02:41:32,560
defend Terran mode now. Um, he's doing great in both of those.

2149
02:41:32,560 --> 02:41:41,960
I'm not saying you're saying he's not doing great. I just, in both of those situations, um, vision man makes sense to consult in both

2150
02:41:41,960 --> 02:41:47,520
of the things that you just described and depending on the impact, severity,

2151
02:41:47,520 --> 02:41:51,240
et cetera, of those things, consulting shareholders might also make sense.

2152
02:41:51,280 --> 02:41:58,920
Sure. But what I'm trying to say is that what I will probably say is here's your rope.

2153
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:03,360
Which is fair enough. Use it to go as far as you can or use it to hang yourself.

2154
02:42:04,840 --> 02:42:05,720
Well, it's an expression.

2155
02:42:09,600 --> 02:42:13,200
Fair enough. Right. Cause that, that's the way it is. That's what, that's what leadership is.

2156
02:42:13,720 --> 02:42:18,200
You either, you have to be given the leeway to successfully lead until such time

2157
02:42:18,200 --> 02:42:21,280
as you lose the confidence of the board of directors and then you're fired.

2158
02:42:21,800 --> 02:42:25,320
Right. Like, cause it's the top, it's the top position in the company. It's realistic.

2159
02:42:25,360 --> 02:42:29,640
So you either are capable of leading or you've lost, or you've lost confidence

2160
02:42:29,640 --> 02:42:34,240
and you're done. Right. Like there's no real, like it's not like I can be like, Oh, well, why don't we

2161
02:42:34,240 --> 02:42:37,240
demote you to VP of happiness or whatever.

2162
02:42:37,240 --> 02:42:41,640
Right. Like, is that, that's not how that works when someone is brought in to lead.

2163
02:42:41,720 --> 02:42:44,680
I feel like that is a role that some company has somewhere.

2164
02:42:44,720 --> 02:42:48,880
I mean, probably, but I don't think Taryn would be the one to occupy it.

2165
02:42:50,240 --> 02:42:54,320
That guy is the worst resting face. It's, it's pretty bad.

2166
02:42:54,560 --> 02:42:59,840
I'm used to it at this point. It doesn't phase me anymore. Yeah. And to be clear, I'm not saying anything about him that I haven't told him to his

2167
02:42:59,840 --> 02:43:02,920
face multiple times. Yeah. Yeah.

2168
02:43:02,920 --> 02:43:06,640
We, he told me like almost immediately. He told you that.

2169
02:43:07,120 --> 02:43:11,040
I suspect he probably, yeah. I was going to say it was incredibly important for him to say that.

2170
02:43:11,040 --> 02:43:13,360
Otherwise I would have been crying every time I talked to him.

2171
02:43:14,920 --> 02:43:20,640
No, you get used to it. Like, if I know and everybody's like, no, he's just like this, then it's like,

2172
02:43:20,640 --> 02:43:24,240
okay, yeah, I can, I can, I can handle that. That's just like this.

2173
02:43:25,840 --> 02:43:30,040
By the way, that's great. Oh, what now? What is a chief happiness officer?

2174
02:43:30,120 --> 02:43:34,120
Oh my goodness. Yeah, you can't have a chief happiness officer without that is the most

2175
02:43:34,120 --> 02:43:38,080
dystopian term I have ever heard in my entire life.

2176
02:43:38,480 --> 02:43:41,040
Beatings will continue until morale improves.

2177
02:43:43,840 --> 02:43:48,160
All right. Top performers get an additional one minute break.

2178
02:43:50,040 --> 02:43:55,720
Dear Linus, if ad block is piracy, but closing your eyes isn't, then what is your opinion

2179
02:43:55,720 --> 02:43:59,080
on a robot that detects ads and puts a blindfold over your face until it's over?

2180
02:43:59,640 --> 02:44:03,160
Kind of joking, but also curious. I'm going to ask, have either of you seen Black Mirror?

2181
02:44:03,840 --> 02:44:07,680
I should. There are only seen bits and pieces. First season, 15 million merits.

2182
02:44:07,680 --> 02:44:12,440
There is actually this, they're forced to watch advertisements or they can pay to

2183
02:44:12,440 --> 02:44:20,160
make them stop. And if you cover your eyes, a rising tone gets louder and louder and louder.

2184
02:44:20,360 --> 02:44:23,360
And it says resume viewing, resume viewing.

2185
02:44:23,680 --> 02:44:27,600
And you have to watch it in order to.

2186
02:44:28,480 --> 02:44:31,440
You know what I think? I think it's a scam. Yep.

2187
02:44:31,960 --> 02:44:35,080
Scam. Yep. Okay. I'm going to give you a serious answer.

2188
02:44:35,560 --> 02:44:40,080
It's the automation. It's the automation that makes it that.

2189
02:44:41,720 --> 02:44:46,160
So anything you do, anything you do manually and then resume manually, that requires

2190
02:44:46,160 --> 02:44:49,040
your attention because that's essentially the payment. The payment is attention.

2191
02:44:49,400 --> 02:44:53,120
It can be attention on the ad. It can be attending to not paying attention to the ad.

2192
02:44:53,160 --> 02:44:57,480
I, I don't look at ads. I mean, we've talked about this extensively.

2193
02:44:57,880 --> 02:45:03,920
Like I, I actually, it is a matter of personal pride that I do not like to be

2194
02:45:03,920 --> 02:45:10,120
influenced by ads. Occasionally, I'll click on stuff very, very occasionally, but I don't like doing

2195
02:45:10,120 --> 02:45:14,200
it and I will actually go out of my way to just like avert my eyes for nine

2196
02:45:14,200 --> 02:45:17,560
seconds and then like check back in, but attention is the form of payment.

2197
02:45:17,560 --> 02:45:22,600
So you're either paying attention to when it's over or you're paying attention to it playing through.

2198
02:45:22,800 --> 02:45:27,040
Um, and anyway, it's not piracy, it's privateering.

2199
02:45:27,760 --> 02:45:29,760
We've been through this. Yeah. Yeah.

2200
02:45:31,720 --> 02:45:37,440
Interesting take. Hey Linus, looking Dan, during a fresh Windows install Windows update downloaded

2201
02:45:37,440 --> 02:45:43,200
and flashed my bias on restart. Is there an end in sight for the amount of power Microsoft is taking lately?

2202
02:45:43,200 --> 02:45:49,200
Actually, hold on. I want to go back to the other thing for a second. It's also, it's also down to like, I'm not condemning anything.

2203
02:45:49,360 --> 02:45:52,040
Whatever you're comfortable with, you just do your thing there.

2204
02:45:52,600 --> 02:45:54,680
Uh, okay. Is there an entity to be fair?

2205
02:45:55,600 --> 02:45:59,920
Um, actually the, the BIOS flashing thing, I believe that's more down to the

2206
02:45:59,920 --> 02:46:02,960
system integrator, like that would never happen with a custom machine.

2207
02:46:02,960 --> 02:46:09,800
So I don't think this is really Windows. Um, this is more a Windows update having a functionality that the system

2208
02:46:09,800 --> 02:46:16,000
integrator is choosing to make use of, um, as opposed to Microsoft, um, seizing power.

2209
02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:19,560
There's plenty of Microsoft abusing power lately that we could point out.

2210
02:46:19,560 --> 02:46:20,560
I don't think this is it.

2211
02:46:22,800 --> 02:46:25,680
All right. Okay.

2212
02:46:25,920 --> 02:46:28,720
What else? I gotta make sure that that is broadcast.

2213
02:46:29,080 --> 02:46:33,800
Since LMG has such a wide array of different jobs, how does growing in your own

2214
02:46:33,800 --> 02:46:37,040
field look like, for example, graphic designer, particularly with the

2215
02:46:37,040 --> 02:46:43,920
continual growth of the company? Like a lot of small slash medium, I think technically we still qualify as small

2216
02:46:43,920 --> 02:46:49,160
by a lot of definitions. Um, like a lot of small companies, we struggle with this.

2217
02:46:49,440 --> 02:46:55,440
Um, cause, and we've had to, in some cases create sort of, I don't want to call

2218
02:46:55,440 --> 02:47:01,160
them artificial because they are reflective of the increased experience and or

2219
02:47:01,160 --> 02:47:06,000
compensation that is associated with them, but we've had to kind of create new

2220
02:47:06,000 --> 02:47:10,400
segmentations sometimes within roles that previously would have been the same.

2221
02:47:10,400 --> 02:47:13,640
So we previously had writer. Now we have junior writer and senior writer.

2222
02:47:14,040 --> 02:47:18,880
Um, in order to take, you could take a piece from like Silicon Valley tech stuff

2223
02:47:18,880 --> 02:47:22,080
where you have like numbered levels. Yeah. Yeah.

2224
02:47:22,080 --> 02:47:26,000
Something like that would be one good thing that could come from Silicon

2225
02:47:26,000 --> 02:47:32,120
Valley tech. Um, I'm sure it's misused for horrible reasons somehow.

2226
02:47:32,240 --> 02:47:36,320
It's absolutely something that we have looked at a little bit and it's

2227
02:47:36,320 --> 02:47:39,800
absolutely something that we haven't looked at enough and haven't solved.

2228
02:47:43,120 --> 02:47:47,480
Linus, I remember you saying you had to go to Saskatoon to get your tie can.

2229
02:47:47,480 --> 02:47:51,160
How did you like your visit to our flat chunk of dirt?

2230
02:47:51,520 --> 02:47:57,400
I did not say that. Um, this, this kind of thing, this kind of thing happens a lot.

2231
02:47:57,440 --> 02:48:01,600
I read a lot of things that I apparently said that I definitely never said and

2232
02:48:01,600 --> 02:48:05,240
definitely never happened. Um, I imported it from Quebec.

2233
02:48:05,880 --> 02:48:11,640
So you're close. Just got the province wrong and you got who went where wrong.

2234
02:48:12,080 --> 02:48:16,000
Um, however conveniently I have been to Saskatchewan.

2235
02:48:16,640 --> 02:48:20,000
I think I, I think I drove through Regina though, which, which one does, uh,

2236
02:48:20,040 --> 02:48:24,280
which one does the one road go through? Um, I'm sorry.

2237
02:48:24,280 --> 02:48:30,200
It was a long time ago. I was, I was 16 years of age, but I did drive through the prairies.

2238
02:48:31,000 --> 02:48:34,320
I didn't really think they were as flat as people make them out to be.

2239
02:48:35,040 --> 02:48:39,680
Yeah. I went through Regina. I did not go through Saskatoon. That would, oh boy, would that ever have been a long way to the way.

2240
02:48:40,200 --> 02:48:45,080
Um, yeah. I mean, they were like, they were flat, but I just, the way people talk about it.

2241
02:48:45,080 --> 02:48:50,800
It's like, yeah, you could see for like a thousand miles and every dirt. I mean, like, yeah, it's sort of like there's rolling hills and stuff.

2242
02:48:50,800 --> 02:48:55,000
Like at least, uh, at least in the, the, the bottom part of Saskatchewan

2243
02:48:55,000 --> 02:49:01,080
that I drove through, uh, Regina, you guys, Regina, it's a city.

2244
02:49:01,120 --> 02:49:03,160
Calm down. I knew it was going to happen immediately.

2245
02:49:04,720 --> 02:49:07,800
Immediately. All Canadians giggle too. Good job, chat.

2246
02:49:07,920 --> 02:49:13,240
Uh, question to Linus. Is there any other tech or house dream upgrades you want to make?

2247
02:49:13,320 --> 02:49:16,800
Thanks for all the amazing content. Um, I don't know.

2248
02:49:16,800 --> 02:49:22,240
It's all like kind of awesome. I'm getting pretty stoked on something we're going to be working on.

2249
02:49:22,800 --> 02:49:25,920
I forget. Um, no, not us. Oh, cool.

2250
02:49:25,920 --> 02:49:29,880
Uh, we, as in myself and Emma, um, my roommate is gone.

2251
02:49:30,160 --> 02:49:33,520
Yeah. Birds were sick, which sucked. They were gone for a long time.

2252
02:49:33,520 --> 02:49:38,680
It was very expensive, but that let us, you know, get crazy chemical carpet

2253
02:49:38,680 --> 02:49:43,960
cleaners in there. Nice. I just really like clean things up. Um, not a great review of your former roommate.

2254
02:49:45,080 --> 02:49:51,200
For the whole house in, in his defense, it was pretty bad, but we did do it

2255
02:49:51,200 --> 02:49:56,760
for the whole house. Um, and we're going to be moving all the like computers and stuff in there.

2256
02:49:56,760 --> 02:50:03,840
And we're already kind of planning out. There's still more things to plan out, but you know, um, both

2257
02:50:03,840 --> 02:50:08,040
deaths against one wall with like a little island in the middle for where the birds are going to go and stuff.

2258
02:50:08,160 --> 02:50:11,240
It's going to be, it's going to be pretty cool. Sick. It's going to be cool.

2259
02:50:11,600 --> 02:50:16,000
I can't really think of any, uh, any tech upgrades that I need to make right now.

2260
02:50:16,040 --> 02:50:19,800
My, my tech setup at my house is like kind of awesome.

2261
02:50:20,040 --> 02:50:21,960
No, I'm going to. Oh, okay.

2262
02:50:23,440 --> 02:50:30,400
No, I'm curious. Uh, it's, it doesn't really matter, but what, go away.

2263
02:50:31,840 --> 02:50:36,680
Uh, does stopping a long form YouTube video and finishing it later or the next

2264
02:50:36,680 --> 02:50:42,880
day negatively affect the creator? I can't answer for sure, but what I can say is that probably that would

2265
02:50:42,880 --> 02:50:50,520
actually be a positive signal. Uh, we have videos that have extremely low retention, but extremely long,

2266
02:50:50,560 --> 02:50:58,960
uh, strong performance over time. Um, here, let me see if I can just, uh, what is happening right now?

2267
02:50:58,960 --> 02:51:02,120
Go analytics is a weird or YouTube analytics is a weird.

2268
02:51:02,720 --> 02:51:09,360
Yeah. So here magic here, check this out. Um, we're just going to share my screen real quick here.

2269
02:51:09,360 --> 02:51:13,280
So how to build a PC, the last guide you'll ever need. Let's, let's look at the original one.

2270
02:51:16,760 --> 02:51:20,760
This retention graph is absolute poo poo.

2271
02:51:21,280 --> 02:51:26,640
Like by the end of this video, only 16% of people are watching this video.

2272
02:51:26,920 --> 02:51:32,880
And yet this got served for a whopping 12 million views on the platform.

2273
02:51:33,080 --> 02:51:39,000
So like for context here, okay? Let's take something, um, let's take something more recent.

2274
02:51:39,000 --> 02:51:45,120
Okay. Can you have too many Wi-Fi routers? Obviously it's a much shorter video, but you can, you can clearly see here.

2275
02:51:45,120 --> 02:51:49,960
We're looking at more like by the time of the end sponsorships, 45% is above

2276
02:51:49,960 --> 02:51:54,760
typical retention, right? By the time we reach the end, I don't know, 1.3 million views.

2277
02:51:54,760 --> 02:52:00,960
Let's not, let's not, let's not serve that as much, uh, YouTube home down

2278
02:52:00,960 --> 02:52:04,760
YouTube recommendations down. Uh, why would that be?

2279
02:52:05,200 --> 02:52:08,840
Because the first video I showed you guys is reference material.

2280
02:52:09,040 --> 02:52:12,320
The overall watch time is huge because it's like two hours long.

2281
02:52:12,320 --> 02:52:17,440
So that 16% or whatever it was at the end amounts to longer watch time.

2282
02:52:17,440 --> 02:52:22,880
YouTube wants you on the platform. The other thing is that people look at it, they go, well, that's nice, but

2283
02:52:22,880 --> 02:52:28,640
I'm not building a computer right now. And then they come back when it is time to build a computer.

2284
02:52:28,920 --> 02:52:35,240
Uh, that is a very strong signal. So you just have to think about what kind of signal your behavior is sending

2285
02:52:35,240 --> 02:52:38,680
algorithmically, looking at something going, I don't have time for this right

2286
02:52:38,680 --> 02:52:44,240
now and going out of your way, going out of your way to take part of your day and

2287
02:52:44,240 --> 02:52:49,680
search for it and go back to it and finish it. That is a very strong signal that you were quite engaged by that content.

2288
02:52:49,680 --> 02:52:53,520
So I would say it's a very good thing. Actually don't, don't like do that.

2289
02:52:53,520 --> 02:52:57,720
Don't just like start videos and then like, like go back on purpose to go watch

2290
02:52:57,720 --> 02:53:02,400
them or whatever, just, just, you know, use the platform. And it should theoretically tune itself for you.

2291
02:53:02,520 --> 02:53:06,800
Yeah. Hey Linus, now that you are switching to iPhone, will you also be trying the

2292
02:53:06,800 --> 02:53:09,800
Apple ecosystem, watch macOS, maybe home kit?

2293
02:53:10,040 --> 02:53:16,480
Uh, I don't really have any need to switch to macOS right now. And besides, I think my perspective with iPhones was always using an iPhone as a

2294
02:53:16,480 --> 02:53:20,120
Windows guy, um, and that will continue to be my perspective.

2295
02:53:20,120 --> 02:53:24,360
I think DLL currently working for tech startup in a decision making position.

2296
02:53:24,360 --> 02:53:29,640
And my team is scaling quickly. What methods have you used to evaluate if you're making the right decisions for

2297
02:53:29,640 --> 02:53:32,720
growth? Oh, these are hard questions.

2298
02:53:32,840 --> 02:53:36,600
Yeah, it's hard. I mean, realistically, you could take an entire degree of that.

2299
02:53:36,800 --> 02:53:39,640
Yeah. So. And you'd still barely know what you're doing.

2300
02:53:40,040 --> 02:53:47,440
Yeah. Um, find data you can trust at least a bit and then try to be guided.

2301
02:53:47,760 --> 02:53:51,560
Also, as, as much as I'm not a fan of the guy, uh, Bezos has an interesting quote

2302
02:53:51,560 --> 02:53:55,880
on data stuff that I've been trying to push around a little bit lately as we're, as we're getting more and more data driven.

2303
02:53:56,320 --> 02:53:59,800
Um, that the, it's very easy for data to lie.

2304
02:54:00,000 --> 02:54:03,440
It's also very easy for you to misinterpret what the data really means.

2305
02:54:03,720 --> 02:54:08,560
So if the sentiment and it's really good to capture data and to read it and try

2306
02:54:08,560 --> 02:54:12,680
to figure out what's going on, but if the sentiment and the data notably don't

2307
02:54:12,680 --> 02:54:17,680
match, try to figure out what's going on, but generally you should strongly

2308
02:54:17,680 --> 02:54:21,000
consider the sentiment says something along that lines. I don't remember what it is.

2309
02:54:23,840 --> 02:54:27,840
How have power tool companies been given a pass for so long for locking consumers

2310
02:54:27,840 --> 02:54:33,560
into their ecosystems with batteries? Well, companies like Apple or Google are criticized for being anti-consumer.

2311
02:54:35,760 --> 02:54:42,760
Because, uh, it's a different less, um, okay.

2312
02:54:43,600 --> 02:54:47,600
First of all, if you talk to any trades, they hate that drives them crazy.

2313
02:54:48,160 --> 02:54:51,160
Um, you know, you talk to, uh, talk to farmers.

2314
02:54:51,640 --> 02:54:56,560
They hate locked down John Deere tractors. You know, they're not, they're not getting a pass.

2315
02:54:57,040 --> 02:55:01,000
Um, we tech folk just aren't really talking about it because it doesn't

2316
02:55:01,000 --> 02:55:06,440
affect us day to day because no offense to you, uh, but you probably don't

2317
02:55:06,440 --> 02:55:09,720
work with a drill every day because you watch this show.

2318
02:55:09,720 --> 02:55:14,240
And yes, yes, you, I know you do, but most of them use don't.

2319
02:55:14,360 --> 02:55:20,840
So we tend to kind of fixate on the things that affect us day to day, the

2320
02:55:20,840 --> 02:55:25,680
things that we are closest to. I mean, that's, that's probably a significant contributor to how flipped

2321
02:55:25,800 --> 02:55:33,440
out everybody was over MKBHD's wallpaper app. Uh, if someone that you didn't know, you know, if, uh, if, uh, uh, what's,

2322
02:55:33,480 --> 02:55:38,000
what's her name? The, uh, uh, the Goop, Goop actress.

2323
02:55:38,080 --> 02:55:43,320
Oh, whatever. Goop actress. Yeah. If she, if she launched some, uh, Gwyneth Pover.

2324
02:55:43,320 --> 02:55:50,160
Oh, Goop. Yeah. That Goop. If she launched some, if she launched some Goop product that was like $100,

2325
02:55:50,160 --> 02:55:54,800
you know, cucumber slice that you put on your eye or whatever, you won't hear about

2326
02:55:54,920 --> 02:56:00,040
it. You won't care. That doesn't mean that she got away with it. You know, yeah, you just didn't care.

2327
02:56:00,320 --> 02:56:04,800
Yeah. I'm fighting with a Milwaukee guy. You're forgetting about the brand loyalty as well.

2328
02:56:05,640 --> 02:56:11,120
Yeah. They also might not care because they will happily give like Milwaukee $300 for a

2329
02:56:11,120 --> 02:56:14,320
radio Milwaukee, get the Makita espresso machine.

2330
02:56:14,320 --> 02:56:21,920
That's battery powered. Yes. It's a real thing. There's a lot of brand war in, it's really intense with the tools.

2331
02:56:22,040 --> 02:56:24,280
Trucks are really intense. It's a crazy one.

2332
02:56:25,040 --> 02:56:28,640
You have a Ford, we can't be friends now. My dad's a Rio B guy.

2333
02:56:28,640 --> 02:56:33,640
I like the green dude. There's people who would actually just like use a manual screwdriver versus

2334
02:56:33,640 --> 02:56:37,640
use a drill from a brand that they don't like. It's, it's, it is mind-blowing to me.

2335
02:56:37,640 --> 02:56:41,800
It should is. I will not touch team red.

2336
02:56:41,840 --> 02:56:44,680
So I wasn't, um, I wasn't kidding about that.

2337
02:56:45,200 --> 02:56:49,440
This is, uh, this is a radio for 300 Canadian dollars.

2338
02:56:50,880 --> 02:56:56,080
Yeah. KMS tools is right. Look, uh, you got, you got to show them a key to a coffee maker.

2339
02:56:57,160 --> 02:56:59,640
You have to eat a coffee maker. I need you to.

2340
02:57:00,320 --> 02:57:03,320
I know we're pressed for time, but. Okay.

2341
02:57:03,960 --> 02:57:05,920
Well, at least it's cheaper than the other thing.

2342
02:57:07,120 --> 02:57:10,040
Okay. Well, I'm over it. I don't need to click. Yeah, that's fine. You get the point.

2343
02:57:10,120 --> 02:57:16,680
All right. I appreciate you all. I am curious about how Linus's solar panels have been impacting his electric

2344
02:57:16,680 --> 02:57:19,840
bill, maybe an idea for a future video. Lowering it a bit.

2345
02:57:20,840 --> 02:57:26,920
Hey, LLD love how you guys keep reviews on LTD store as they are and don't

2346
02:57:26,920 --> 02:57:30,880
censor poor reviews that said, why are we not able to review products after a few

2347
02:57:30,880 --> 02:57:34,160
months? I don't know.

2348
02:57:35,600 --> 02:57:40,600
Just review them right away. I guess. Well, no, that's stupid because then if you wanted to leave a long term review,

2349
02:57:40,600 --> 02:57:43,480
you wouldn't be able to. I, uh, I don't know.

2350
02:57:43,960 --> 02:57:48,800
Uh, we had an issue with our reviews, um, our reviews plugin this week.

2351
02:57:48,800 --> 02:57:53,680
Where, uh, someone thought we were, uh, we, we had changed the, the gradient.

2352
02:57:54,680 --> 02:58:02,120
Oh, it's still, it's still like this. Okay. So it, on some with very few reviews, it, the way the gradients work on the

2353
02:58:02,120 --> 02:58:08,800
lower ones, oh no, it's the, oh yeah. No, this is, this is better because the opacity was different opacity, opaque

2354
02:58:08,840 --> 02:58:13,560
opacity. Oh, was it like blue at the bus? So it's harder to see or yeah, the colors were different.

2355
02:58:13,560 --> 02:58:17,680
So it made it seem like these ones were not as good as they were.

2356
02:58:18,360 --> 02:58:21,880
Not as big when we weren't doing that. No, no, we didn't do that in 10.

2357
02:58:21,880 --> 02:58:27,040
No, no, no, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Anyway, Conrad already fixed it. But the point is that, um, we didn't do that intentionally.

2358
02:58:27,240 --> 02:58:30,880
The plugin that we use for customer reviews, just like updated and like we didn't

2359
02:58:30,880 --> 02:58:34,040
know, and we had to manually intervene in order to make it not do that.

2360
02:58:34,400 --> 02:58:37,840
Um, so it's possible that might just be a limitation of the platform we use.

2361
02:58:37,840 --> 02:58:40,760
We don't, we didn't create our own review system.

2362
02:58:41,080 --> 02:58:45,600
And like I, there are things I don't like about it.

2363
02:58:45,880 --> 02:58:51,200
Uh, I don't want us to make our own. Yeah. That's basically where we're at on this is what it is.

2364
02:58:51,240 --> 02:58:54,920
Cool. I don't think anyone else internally wants us to make our own either. So, yep.

2365
02:58:55,360 --> 02:59:00,520
Sorry, that will not be an initiative. Yo, Linus, have you played paper Mario the thousand year door?

2366
02:59:00,560 --> 02:59:02,840
It seems like the sort of RPG you'd have fun playing.

2367
02:59:03,720 --> 02:59:07,920
I have not, but I should. Uh, it definitely seems like the sort of RPG I would enjoy.

2368
02:59:08,840 --> 02:59:12,000
Oh, I accidentally, that's fine. Just to archive the second one.

2369
02:59:12,040 --> 02:59:16,520
Hi, WAN Show. This is for you, Linus, uh, you have mentioned that you are emotionally

2370
02:59:16,520 --> 02:59:19,680
needy in relationships. How did you and Yvonne deal with this?

2371
02:59:19,680 --> 02:59:23,680
And what conversation complications did you both? Well, we're both emotionally needy.

2372
02:59:23,680 --> 02:59:31,760
So we, um, met and then basically, you notice I never talk about friends

2373
02:59:33,000 --> 02:59:37,600
that I have other than like people I work with.

2374
02:59:39,960 --> 02:59:44,560
It's because Yvonne and I met became completely, I believe the word is enmeshed.

2375
02:59:45,080 --> 02:59:49,480
Enmeshed. Yeah. And, um, healthy or not.

2376
02:59:49,560 --> 02:59:53,320
Um, hey, we're coming up on 20 years, baby. I'd say that's healthy.

2377
02:59:53,360 --> 02:59:59,520
Congratulations. Um, so cool.

2378
03:00:00,200 --> 03:00:04,120
All right. I found the one that you deleted. Uh, hello WAN.dll.

2379
03:00:04,160 --> 03:00:09,080
I'm currently without power and internet due to four days due to the hurricane

2380
03:00:09,120 --> 03:00:15,400
Haleen, uh, but safe. How would you handle getting your tech family through a similar situation

2381
03:00:15,400 --> 03:00:16,040
without power?

2382
03:00:19,320 --> 03:00:22,480
I'm, I'm super obsessive about battery banks.

2383
03:00:22,840 --> 03:00:27,440
I have tons and they tend to be rather charged.

2384
03:00:27,760 --> 03:00:32,600
Um, I've got, I've got food and water reserves.

2385
03:00:35,160 --> 03:00:40,160
The problem is that he's currently without power. Ah, that makes things really hard.

2386
03:00:40,160 --> 03:00:49,280
You haven't already prepped. Yeah, I don't know. What, uh, what we did for a long time is we got an old generator from a boat.

2387
03:00:50,280 --> 03:00:55,240
Diesel generator from a boat. And you could run that thing on like old engine oil if you wanted to.

2388
03:00:55,720 --> 03:01:01,240
It was really powerful, very, very, uh, easy to run, but giant, but also very cheap.

2389
03:01:02,240 --> 03:01:05,840
A lot of people do the natural gas ones outside, but that doesn't really work.

2390
03:01:05,840 --> 03:01:10,840
If the natural gas infrastructure explodes, don't know.

2391
03:01:11,000 --> 03:01:14,280
Code red 255 and Floatplane asks, is this a rerun?

2392
03:01:17,320 --> 03:01:21,200
The WAN Show is always live. Except for that one time.

2393
03:01:21,200 --> 03:01:24,800
Was it April fools that we did a pre-recorded one or was it Christmas?

2394
03:01:24,920 --> 03:01:28,920
I think we did one on Christmas. It was Christmas. I think we've done it once or twice.

2395
03:01:28,920 --> 03:01:33,520
We've pre-recorded the WAN Show. Um, I'll prove it.

2396
03:01:35,480 --> 03:01:38,320
See, I wouldn't do that if it was pre-recorded. Why would I think to pre-record that?

2397
03:01:39,400 --> 03:01:43,520
That'd be crazy. Forty chess with time travel.

2398
03:01:46,960 --> 03:01:50,400
Okay. Well, last one then. Oh, Ouch.

2399
03:01:51,400 --> 03:01:55,360
Linus, uh, I have heard you recommend Anno 1800 for years.

2400
03:01:55,360 --> 03:02:01,000
I finally got the game for steam. I have been playing on my framework 13 do it yourself Intel 12th gen.

2401
03:02:01,000 --> 03:02:03,400
Nice. Do you have any suggestions for a noob?

2402
03:02:04,040 --> 03:02:09,800
Um, watch at least a couple of dislike people's startup videos.

2403
03:02:10,600 --> 03:02:15,000
And then invest no more than probably like 32, 60 minutes in that.

2404
03:02:15,280 --> 03:02:20,120
Cause it's fine. You'll, you'll, you'll want to be explore for yourself, right? Like you'll want to kind of figure out your own way to do things.

2405
03:02:20,120 --> 03:02:25,600
And then the other big one is look at just one or two videos of people kind of

2406
03:02:25,600 --> 03:02:30,480
showing off their final states because that'll give you some ideas in your mind

2407
03:02:30,480 --> 03:02:33,680
for what you need to plan ahead for as you're laying the foundation of your city

2408
03:02:34,320 --> 03:02:41,400
or cities. My thing would actually be something that Linus hammered in a hammered home for me.

2409
03:02:41,400 --> 03:02:45,000
Um, I was somewhat sheltered when I, when I kind of first started playing Anno

2410
03:02:45,000 --> 03:02:49,560
because I would just like be the military ship guy and then Linus would build

2411
03:02:49,560 --> 03:02:52,680
all the islands, but something he used to mention all the time was to look at

2412
03:02:52,680 --> 03:02:58,600
your production. So instead of just like looking at the map and, you know, you highlight over

2413
03:02:58,600 --> 03:03:02,760
something and you're like, Oh, I don't have enough of this. I'll build another thing so that I can have more of it.

2414
03:03:03,320 --> 03:03:11,000
Um, that's actually a pretty bad way to go. You want to look into your production and see how much your, your like resource

2415
03:03:11,000 --> 03:03:16,600
harvesting places are generating versus how much your, your product producing

2416
03:03:16,600 --> 03:03:20,200
places are using those things and making new ones and how many of those things

2417
03:03:20,200 --> 03:03:26,520
you actually need and balance the equation. Um, instead of just like building kind of stuff that you think you might need.

2418
03:03:26,760 --> 03:03:31,560
It's wildly more efficient and I find more rewarding.

2419
03:03:31,800 --> 03:03:36,600
And once you figure that out on one island, then the efficiency growth of like,

2420
03:03:37,160 --> 03:03:40,360
Oh, actually potatoes take up a lot of freaking space.

2421
03:03:40,360 --> 03:03:45,560
So I found this other island that has potatoes. Maybe I'll just grow those there and I'll set up a trade route back and forth

2422
03:03:45,560 --> 03:03:49,480
and do it that way. Doing stuff like that starts to become very natural.

2423
03:03:50,280 --> 03:03:51,000
Yeah.

2424
03:03:53,960 --> 03:03:55,800
This is cool. I didn't know about this.

2425
03:03:57,320 --> 03:04:01,000
Someone pointed this out in chat. Someone pointed this out in chat.

2426
03:04:01,000 --> 03:04:03,400
CAS multi-brand battery system.

2427
03:04:04,760 --> 03:04:11,720
CAS brands, um, cordless alliance, something I think.

2428
03:04:11,720 --> 03:04:15,720
Do you just need like an adapter or something? Uh, I don't know.

2429
03:04:18,200 --> 03:04:19,400
Metabo, Metabo.

2430
03:04:21,960 --> 03:04:27,560
Cas cordless, sorry. The drill communicates with the battery itself.

2431
03:04:27,560 --> 03:04:31,640
The BMS has a specialized computer in it on each battery.

2432
03:04:32,600 --> 03:04:36,200
I know because a family friend is a Makita dealer

2433
03:04:36,200 --> 03:04:40,120
and he gets us buckets of old batteries that have basically just failed

2434
03:04:40,120 --> 03:04:43,720
and then we Frankenstein them back together, make adapter plates and things like that.

2435
03:04:44,840 --> 03:04:47,960
It's very interesting. Cool.

2436
03:04:47,960 --> 03:04:51,320
I forget what to CAS stand for. I think we've left out to the site.

2437
03:04:51,320 --> 03:04:55,240
Oh, cordless alliance system. There it is. Cool. Well, good luck with that.

2438
03:04:56,040 --> 03:04:59,320
And good luck with you guys finding something else to do now

2439
03:05:00,120 --> 03:05:03,640
because it's the end of the show. Yeah. We'll see you again next week. Same bad times, same bad channel.

2440
03:05:04,200 --> 03:05:04,520
Bye.

2441
03:05:07,640 --> 03:05:09,320
Go home, medicate your birds.