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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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The show is brought to you today by remotely Squarespace, JumpCloud and of course our chair

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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.

00:27:45.320 --> 00:27:48.960
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,

00:27:54.800 --> 00:27:58.960
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

00:28:16.800 --> 00:28:19.920
any kind of illness can be. Technically always, but for the most part, yeah.

00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:25.760
But, you know, if you don't like have a lot of blood and meat and liquid in you, you know,

00:28:25.760 --> 00:28:29.240
not drinking for a day is a lot bigger of a deal for something, you know, like this

00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:33.320
with no blood in it versus like if an elephant didn't drink for a day, it's probably going

00:28:33.320 --> 00:28:37.560
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.

00:29:02.520 --> 00:29:10.920
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.

00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:16.760
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,

00:29:16.760 --> 00:29:19.760
I'm a filling a video. And she's like, okay, bye. And just immediately hung up.

00:29:19.760 --> 00:29:23.640
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.

00:29:32.320 --> 00:29:37.600
The attack is awesome, extremely real. And the demo was 100% real.

00:29:37.600 --> 00:29:41.400
But if there was any kind of weirdness that you guys observed, it was because it was a

00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:44.760
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.

00:29:50.040 --> 00:29:54.560
I didn't really like, I didn't really contribute any of my thoughts to how he should cut it

00:29:54.560 --> 00:29:58.920
together or how his team should deal with that. They were super professional.

00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:02.120
Was super cool working with them. I first met Derek.

00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:07.040
Five years ago or something like that.

00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:10.880
And remember the COVID gap? Yeah. Maybe longer.

00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:18.240
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

00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:21.240
is what I'm saying. No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:25.240
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?

00:30:38.120 --> 00:30:46.160
Like that. There's seriously like, like massive personalities at these things with, you know, global, you

00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:51.840
know, followings and huge brands and like, like, dude, I think that was around the time

00:30:51.840 --> 00:30:56.640
that like dude perfect was signing like deals with Nickelodeon, you know?

00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:00.640
And I'm like, hi, hi, I make, I make tech tips.

00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:05.080
I can fix your computer. Do you want some tech tips?

00:31:05.080 --> 00:31:10.040
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

00:31:22.120 --> 00:31:26.320
Vsauce were even willing to like talk to me a little bit.

00:31:26.320 --> 00:31:31.480
That was exciting. I never thought we'd collaborate. And then this one just happened completely out of nowhere.

00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:35.720
And I'm so excited. I think, I think Derek's great video was great.

00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:40.640
Really appreciate it. I learned a bunch of stuff, but that's why it was a little weird.

00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.440
And everything is okay. We're okay. Everyone's okay.

00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:48.240
What else do we want to talk about this week? You want to pick our next topic?

00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.680
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

00:31:55.640 --> 00:32:00.760
AI audit, which allows website owners to monitor which bots are crawling their site as well

00:32:00.760 --> 00:32:05.640
as giving them background on the bots, who owns them and what their purpose is.

00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:10.840
For example, scraping information for AI training, cataloging web pages, which, you know, you

00:32:10.840 --> 00:32:14.160
probably want them to do, or collecting information for research.

00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.480
Users can also choose to block all bots to block them based on purpose or to block them

00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:24.920
individually. According to Cloudflare, users will eventually be able to sell access to their site to these

00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:30.440
bots, either with a flat rate or a scaled rate based on their purpose.

00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:39.480
Let's go Cloudflare. Yeah, it was actually kind of a good week for tech giants doing pretty cool stuff.

00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:49.360
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

00:32:49.360 --> 00:32:52.880
end user agreement. Is it not in the dock? No.

00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:56.400
That's okay. I mean, it's a huge thing. The internet's very happy about it.

00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:00.000
There's a huge thing, but there's not a lot for us to say about it. There really isn't.

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:06.000
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

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:09.760
like, oh, wow, that's good. For the better.

00:33:09.760 --> 00:33:14.160
That is freaking awesome. There was another big one this week.

00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:19.720
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.

00:33:28.360 --> 00:33:34.640
I actually had a really interesting conversation at Creator Summit with a small creator who

00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:40.600
uses YouTube shorts to promote their snack business.

00:33:40.600 --> 00:33:47.040
They are only really on YouTube because they made promotional videos for their restaurant

00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:51.040
that they franchise out, and they did really well.

00:33:51.040 --> 00:33:54.600
And they're like at Creator Summit, and I'm like, well, this will be a cool conversation

00:33:54.680 --> 00:34:01.680
because that's not an origin story I've heard before.

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

00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:13.560
working in the Lone Star State, opening up in Texas was like easy as pie.

00:34:13.560 --> 00:34:20.760
And the regulatory burden for a small snack franchise somewhere like California, he said

00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:24.240
was much higher and that it was very frustrating.

00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:31.600
But you got to give California props once in a while because this is awesome.

00:34:31.600 --> 00:34:39.440
California has passed AB 2426, a new law that forces digital storefronts to clearly state

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:43.960
that they are only offering a digital license at the point of sale.

00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:49.000
These companies must list all restrictions on the license upfront, including the fact

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

00:34:56.200 --> 00:35:01.600
the end user can permanently download the product and use it offline indefinitely.

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.

00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:10.320
Because that's what it is. And so they should be. You do not buy games.

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.

00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.760
There isn't a clear term to the agreement. You are.

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.

00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.400
Right of access. I mean, it's okay. Yes.

00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.400
Yes. Yes. It's an access license.

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

00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.000
games. You go on the valve. What?

00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:41.000
Which tab is it? What's it labeled? Store.

00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:44.400
Right. You go on the store. That sounds like I'm buying a game.

00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:48.520
Does it not? People are like, you forgot GOG. No, we didn't.

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.

00:35:52.040 --> 00:35:55.040
Get off it. GOG's great. Love GOG.

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

00:35:58.520 --> 00:36:01.720
the game. They're just not going to have to change anything. Yeah.

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.

00:36:05.240 --> 00:36:11.120
Stop. I don't hate hot dogs.

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

00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:23.480
accounts in April as an example of why the law was necessary.

00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:26.480
Good. Absolute Chad. Nice move.

00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:29.480
Absolute Chad. Good moves. S plus.

00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:33.840
Thank you for paying attention to stuff that sucks and going, well, hold on a second.

00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:38.120
Is this a one-off or is this a systemic problem?

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This is a systemic problem.

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California also passed another law, the Phone Free School Act, which requires schools to

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limit student access to cell phones except in case of emergency or with the permission

00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:53.600
of a teacher, administrator, doctor, or individualized education program for children with special

00:36:53.600 --> 00:36:57.920
needs. This makes California the 15th state to have passed such a law.

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

00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:09.240
here in Canada as well. I'm kind of cool with it.

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

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:18.760
to be on their cell phones all day. I genuinely think it's a huge deal.

00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:22.120
Like I don't have kids, but if I did, I would.

00:37:22.120 --> 00:37:25.120
That you know of. Oh my God. If I did, I would.

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

00:37:35.200 --> 00:37:39.840
going into trying to corrupt your mind into never leaving a device is not something that

00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:44.640
you want flowing into the brain of a child. It's just, I don't know.

00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:51.880
And I realize that we both literally sound, but think of the children right now.

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

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?

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.

00:38:12.160 --> 00:38:16.400
They're just controlling them at school, which like, that makes sense anyways.

00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:20.400
Yeah. What are you doing on your phone at school that you need your phone for?

00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:24.520
Theoretically, nothing like school don't a lot of the classrooms have laptops and stuff

00:38:24.520 --> 00:38:27.520
now. Yeah, depending. Depending.

00:38:27.520 --> 00:38:30.520
Yeah. And if you need one, it does. Yeah.

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.

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

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

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?

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

00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:03.080
from me. I mean, they confiscated my silly string when I sprayed that girl with it.

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.

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.

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

00:39:22.460 --> 00:39:25.880
with my friends on lunch or recess or whatever.

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.

00:39:29.120 --> 00:39:32.400
I just had it with me and she took it and she never gave it back.

00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.400
Ever. Which? Ever.

00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:39.480
How dare she? I will literally never get over this. This will bother me forever.

00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:42.560
The fact that she never gave it back is nuts.

00:39:42.560 --> 00:39:46.880
His paper boat, my silly string in suspension.

00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:50.680
Scarred for life. School's, school's traumatic, man.

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

00:39:55.200 --> 00:39:59.080
knuckles with the ruler and everything. I'm like, dad, you had it easy, brother.

00:39:59.080 --> 00:40:03.320
What about my silly string? What about my silly string?

00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.240
Oh man. But no, seriously, I think it's good.

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

00:40:13.680 --> 00:40:17.400
tool. So like learning how to use it. What, yeah.

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.

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

00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:31.360
has answers to things outside of school. Yeah, I'm really not worried about that.

00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:34.720
I don't think that kids need to be trained to use their phone more.

00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:38.840
Yeah. Let's be, let's be real. Not an issue, bad argument.

00:40:39.520 --> 00:40:42.720
One thing I want to add is there was a bunch of Cloudflare announcements, actually, and

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

00:40:49.120 --> 00:40:52.600
me by, I think it was handyman. In relation to Mike.

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.

00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:05.000
And, uh, wrap Cloudflare, Cloudflare around your site and they can now automatically

00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:10.320
hit, have I been pwned, uh, pwned passwords during a login attempt, check it against our

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

00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.640
has been briefed. That's so cool. Actually, super awesome.

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

00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:31.560
tools are great and have always been really awesome.

00:41:31.600 --> 00:41:35.560
I like working with you very much. No plans of ever canceling subscriptions.

00:41:35.560 --> 00:41:39.400
So I'm putting myself in a bad negotiation position, but your enterprise support has

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.

00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:47.000
Thank you. Thank you very much. Sick.

00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.760
Um, we should probably, um, update the sign.

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.

00:41:57.160 --> 00:42:02.240
Heck yeah. I mean, how many, how many topics do we have to get through?

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.

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

00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:16.760
show. So we, whatever, uh, we don't expect him to actually listen to us.

00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:19.960
He just says we, we only pay him enough to sit in the same room.

00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.040
All right. Left, Mike. Let's keep going to take.

00:42:25.600 --> 00:42:28.720
Come on. We got deadlines there. We got dying birds.

00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:36.680
All right. Oh, dude, dude, what the heck?

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.

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?

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

00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:56.560
laws of physics. So you cannot fit a submarine in them.

00:42:56.600 --> 00:43:01.520
Oh, um, well, just, there were some people upset about the size of the laptop.

00:43:01.520 --> 00:43:04.520
Somebody's going to upload a picture with like a Lego submarine in their pocket.

00:43:04.520 --> 00:43:08.000
I'm sure they will. Linus lied again. He was wrong.

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?

00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:19.520
Which one? This one? Yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

00:43:19.640 --> 00:43:25.240
For your, for your wearing and viewing pleasure, complete with magnetic pocket

00:43:25.240 --> 00:43:33.600
flaps, hammer loops, uh, zipper back pockets, YKK baby loads of carrying

00:43:33.600 --> 00:43:37.520
capacity with different sizes of either pass through.

00:43:37.640 --> 00:43:40.760
So see these ones here are like pass-throughs for pens or whatever else

00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:45.040
or regular pockets. Um, yeah, we flip and love these.

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.

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.

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.

00:44:04.040 --> 00:44:05.960
Um, this is how they patina.

00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:13.760
So they definitely change in color a little bit, but yeah, I actually

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.

00:44:18.080 --> 00:44:25.320
Um, anyway, it's available now 21 pockets, uh, the, the, the, the gusseted

00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:28.920
crotch that allows for a wide range of motion darted dual layer knee pads that

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

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.

00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:48.320
We only offer different waist sizes and a 30 inch inseam at this time.

00:44:48.560 --> 00:44:53.160
We are exploring alternate inseam lengths, which is going to be good for

00:44:53.160 --> 00:44:56.920
taller boys. Yes. Yes, Dan. I hear you.

00:44:56.920 --> 00:45:00.120
Um, but we need to see if we've, let me put it this way.

00:45:01.560 --> 00:45:06.680
We've never really had, oh, Luke, you are standing in none of our camera views.

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.

00:45:11.240 --> 00:45:14.440
There's no, there's no camera view that shows that. Yeah, they can.

00:45:15.520 --> 00:45:18.320
None of our cargo other website.

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.

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

00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:37.800
want to over commit. Um, every additional inseam length adds another new three, four,

00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.640
six, seven, eight, nine, nine skews.

00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:44.680
Um, so we, we would like to restock.

00:45:44.720 --> 00:45:48.520
We have actually already done the work for 32 inch and 34 inch inseams.

00:45:48.640 --> 00:45:51.800
Inseam is crotch to ankle, right? Is that right?

00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:54.840
If I recall correctly, yes. Um, I don't know.

00:45:55.040 --> 00:45:59.520
So anyway, yep, we know, and we're working on it.

00:45:59.600 --> 00:46:04.400
And if these ones sell well, then we will absolutely be looking to, to do more.

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

00:46:11.120 --> 00:46:14.720
are now available. We cleared out all of the old ones.

00:46:16.680 --> 00:46:22.520
Hey, hey, new and improved spout lid V2 on every LTT insulated water bottle.

00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:26.920
Easier to hold, easier to clean, more durable.

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.

00:46:31.160 --> 00:46:34.880
Oh, look at that. We've got a bunch of different colors. How wonderful is that?

00:46:35.160 --> 00:46:38.160
Got to love it. I think the water balls have been out for a while.

00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:42.080
So now you can get them again. Yeah, the packaging is plastic.

00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:46.920
The reason is that these are from the same, it's the same packaging we used

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.

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.

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.

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.

00:47:10.040 --> 00:47:13.680
And this is either going to be a great moment in Wancho history.

00:47:13.680 --> 00:47:17.240
Is this an Elon Musk throws steel ball at windshield?

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

00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.000
live fail when doing a product demonstration.

00:47:25.520 --> 00:47:28.800
Is this a backpack dual layer moment?

00:47:29.080 --> 00:47:33.400
Shank. So here we're going to go. We're going to go Linus Cam here.

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.

00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:39.200
Yes, it feels a little funny.

00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:45.200
On the lips, but we felt that the improvement in clean ability.

00:47:45.200 --> 00:47:50.520
Incredibly easy to clean now was worth was worth the was worth the slight

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.

00:47:56.680 --> 00:48:00.920
Yeah, also, also in the top, there's a little pull tab in there.

00:48:01.080 --> 00:48:04.960
So you can pull the O-rings out, really clean them, because guys,

00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:08.960
you should pull them out and you should clean them on your water bottle,

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.

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.

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

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.

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

00:48:35.600 --> 00:48:39.080
to a new lid with those, I talked to customer service about it.

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.

00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:47.320
Anyway, the other thing, what's the other thing?

00:48:48.120 --> 00:48:50.600
Oh, yeah, so this stays in place.

00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:58.640
Real good, but the big one is that, yeah, what's he going to do?

00:48:58.640 --> 00:49:02.720
We have upgraded the durability of this handle here.

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.

00:49:08.680 --> 00:49:13.040
OK, so there's this one has like kind of a little like sharp spot,

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,

00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:19.640
it doesn't like cut into your fingers.

00:49:21.600 --> 00:49:25.600
But the bigger difference is that it's just a little wide.

00:49:25.600 --> 00:49:29.600
What's the plan? Hold on, which way is tight?

00:49:30.600 --> 00:49:33.600
The old one breaks about that easily.

00:49:33.600 --> 00:49:37.600
OK, that did, in fact, happen.

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

00:49:42.600 --> 00:49:45.600
and I was like, oh boy. Y'all ready for this?

00:49:45.600 --> 00:49:48.600
Yeah. Let me just hide the banner. Oh, yeah, for sure.

00:49:48.600 --> 00:49:49.600
Cool.

00:49:57.600 --> 00:50:00.600
That's that's hitting pretty hard. That's harder than a drop.

00:50:00.600 --> 00:50:03.600
Let's go. Nice.

00:50:03.600 --> 00:50:06.600
OK. All right. Break the table.

00:50:11.600 --> 00:50:14.600
Oh, goodness. Still good.

00:50:14.600 --> 00:50:17.600
Luke, verify. Luke wouldn't lie to you. It's good.

00:50:18.600 --> 00:50:21.600
All right. Yeah, there is. I don't even think there's a mark.

00:50:21.600 --> 00:50:25.600
So spout lid V2. There's probably a mark on the table.

00:50:26.600 --> 00:50:29.600
Is there? Yep. Yeah.

00:50:29.600 --> 00:50:32.600
Yeah, there's dance. All right. Well, water bottle one, I guess.

00:50:32.600 --> 00:50:35.600
Yep. So yeah, cool. There you go.

00:50:35.600 --> 00:50:38.600
Enjoy. So right. Merch messages.

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

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.

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,

00:50:54.600 --> 00:50:58.600
respond to them himself, sometimes incomprehensibly,

00:50:58.600 --> 00:51:03.600
or he curate them for me and Luke to respond to.

00:51:03.600 --> 00:51:07.600
Dan, do you want to show them how Merch messages work?

00:51:07.600 --> 00:51:10.600
Yeah, sure. Hey Linus, I just got a kitten.

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?

00:51:17.600 --> 00:51:22.600
You hope that your cat doesn't develop the habit of chewing on cables.

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

00:51:28.600 --> 00:51:32.600
really, really bad to them. That is probably the best way to go about it.

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

00:51:38.600 --> 00:51:41.600
when they do something that they're really, really not supposed to.

00:51:41.600 --> 00:51:45.600
But the bitter stuff is probably your best bet.

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

00:51:53.600 --> 00:51:58.600
in development, and if so, what are the different challenges in design compared to the existing

00:51:58.600 --> 00:52:01.600
screwdrivers? Fixed shafts? Fixed shafts.

00:52:01.600 --> 00:52:06.600
It's hard to say. Fixed shaft screwdrivers. Fixed shaft started development before precision did.

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

00:52:16.600 --> 00:52:22.600
and handles that were kind of stocked as pieces, and we would almost build to order.

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,

00:52:29.600 --> 00:52:34.600
where it's one price and you kind of decide what size of one you need.

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

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

00:52:46.600 --> 00:52:50.600
with like a little Phillips number one or something like that, or you wanted some, well,

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

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

00:53:02.600 --> 00:53:09.600
solidity and solidity of a fixed shaft screwdriver, but with the flexibility of a configurable

00:53:09.600 --> 00:53:13.600
screwdriver. We did a lot of development on that.

00:53:13.600 --> 00:53:18.600
We worked on a version of the handle that has like a rubberized over mold.

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

00:53:23.600 --> 00:53:28.600
feel pretty darn good. We designed a bunch of different blades.

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

00:53:33.600 --> 00:53:41.600
now is a process for assembly and the risk of stalking that many SKUs.

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,

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?

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.

00:53:56.600 --> 00:54:04.600
We wanted small, extra, extra small, small, medium, extra medium, and large or something

00:54:04.600 --> 00:54:07.600
like that. I forget exactly what we called them, but it was internal goofy names.

00:54:07.600 --> 00:54:10.600
Like, they weren't customer ready.

00:54:10.600 --> 00:54:15.600
Of those, of those we were going to do, I think, two shaft girths.

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

00:54:20.600 --> 00:54:23.600
been three. I think it was three shaft girths.

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So, already, for each handle, we're going to need two molds or an insert mold.

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So, that adds a bit of complexity as well.

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So, like, the big one, you could do, like, a giant, like, slot number three, right?

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

00:54:44.600 --> 00:54:47.600
Phillips, or you could do up to maybe, like, a Phillips one, right?

00:54:47.600 --> 00:54:51.600
So, you'd have these, like, three, these three blade sizes and these five handle sizes.

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,

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but there'd be some overlap there. Okay, then, we had to figure out all the different tip styles, right?

00:55:00.600 --> 00:55:07.600
So, a Phillips number two, we were going to need at least probably two blades, times

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,

00:55:13.600 --> 00:55:19.600
then, okay, that's already, what is that, like, six blades for Phillips number two.

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And that's just, that's just one, that's just one tip.

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Then, we had to figure out a modular system for labeling, like, the cap,

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because we wanted to be able to, like, put these into, like, a block, kind of, like, knives.

00:55:31.600 --> 00:55:35.600
Okay. And be able to easily see, or just, like, some kind of screwdriver holder,

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like, a vertical one, or an angled one, or whatever,

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we wanted to be able to do, like, a modular labeling system, essentially.

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,

00:55:45.600 --> 00:55:49.600
like, kind of butt plug shape things, and they would just kind of pop into the,

00:55:49.600 --> 00:55:53.600
the butt of the screwdriver, the butt end, like, in the butt.

00:55:53.600 --> 00:55:57.600
They were, like, plugs, and they'd go in the,

00:55:57.600 --> 00:56:00.600
but you're making it dirty, it's the butt of a screwdriver.

00:56:00.600 --> 00:56:03.600
You danced around, you danced around everything else.

00:56:03.600 --> 00:56:06.600
You just went right in on that one. Oh, yeah, right in.

00:56:06.600 --> 00:56:09.600
Yeah, with the, with the, just,

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um,

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did I, did I already say the, right. Okay, so the other issue is the workflow and product management issue of, like,

00:56:20.600 --> 00:56:23.600
how to just in time this,

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how to turn our, what is right now mostly a warehousing operation that we work with

00:56:27.600 --> 00:56:31.600
into, like, like, screwdriver assembly on site as well,

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,

00:56:36.600 --> 00:56:39.600
because they, they, like, warm fit them.

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

00:56:45.600 --> 00:56:50.600
screwdriver set and just friggin, I don't know, like, put our brand,

00:56:50.600 --> 00:56:53.600
like, silkscreen our brand on it or whatever. We could do that.

00:56:53.600 --> 00:56:57.600
But, you know, we, for better or for worse,

00:56:57.600 --> 00:57:01.600
often approach a product and ask ourselves,

00:57:01.600 --> 00:57:05.600
what are we adding to this category? And if the answer is not really anything,

00:57:05.600 --> 00:57:09.600
then we kind of think maybe we just shouldn't bother.

00:57:09.600 --> 00:57:13.600
Um, we are currently exploring a new way to tackle,

00:57:13.600 --> 00:57:19.600
like, fixed-ish shaft screwdriver. So it would be, like, a, um, a multi-bit screwdriver,

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,

00:57:26.600 --> 00:57:29.600
then to me it isn't worth making.

00:57:29.600 --> 00:57:32.600
Like, it's not a fixed shaft screwdriver competitor at that point.

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

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has actually been making some good progress on that. So, um, maybe we'll have something to share with you guys

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in the next, like, six to 12 months. But don't hold your breath.

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,

00:57:50.600 --> 00:57:53.600
it's gonna be like God's gift to screwdrivers.

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?

00:57:57.600 --> 00:58:01.600
But, um, don't deprive yourself of screwdriver ownership.

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Screwdriver ownership on my accord.

00:58:04.600 --> 00:58:08.600
The last thing that I'm supposed to cover for the, um,

00:58:08.600 --> 00:58:13.600
for the LTT announcements period of the show is modmat signups.

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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,

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you can sign up at LMG.GG slash modmat.

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It's gonna be affordable. It's gonna be extremely high quality.

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I think you guys are gonna be really, really impressed by it.

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And I am based on how the last couple launches have gone

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with the scribe driver and the precision. If you aren't on the email list, you're not getting one.

00:58:37.600 --> 00:58:40.600
We should, if, if that's gonna be the case,

00:58:40.600 --> 00:58:47.600
we want to just order more stuff. Um, we're having some conversations internally

00:58:47.600 --> 00:58:52.600
around our stocking strategy. I think, um, I think that, um,

00:58:52.600 --> 00:58:57.600
the pendulum had swung pretty far toward ordering a lot of stuff

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and then struggling to sell through it in a reasonable amount of time

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because unlike a lot of retail operations,

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ours is not entirely, uh, self-contained.

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Uh, it has convenient access to media empire cash

00:59:11.600 --> 00:59:14.600
that it can just kind of use whenever it needs it.

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So it has, it had gotten kind of fast and loose

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with how much inventory it was allowed to carry.

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.

00:59:27.600 --> 00:59:31.600
Um, so we have freed up a lot of cash with Lime Day

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and there was another promo that we did last Black Friday, Cyber Monday.

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

00:59:40.600 --> 00:59:44.600
and we're going to be flush with inventory and more inventory of the right things.

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But I think in the interim, the pendulum might have swung a little too far the other way

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and we were being very conservative about our order quantities.

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And this is just one of those things that...

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You know, look, we aren't your local retailer

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who is taking an inventory from their, um, you know, country distributor

01:00:08.600 --> 01:00:11.600
who is taking an inventory from the manufacturer

01:00:11.600 --> 01:00:14.600
and there's a well-developed supply chain here

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that has enough excess at each stage to help smooth out any, any bumps

01:00:19.600 --> 01:00:23.600
so that nobody gaps out, right? And even then, things gap out.

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Like Intel has a controversy with 13th, 14th Gen

01:00:26.600 --> 01:00:29.600
and they're out of stock everywhere. Nobody can, nobody can get one.

01:00:29.600 --> 01:00:32.600
Like it happens, even to companies that have been doing this for decades.

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We haven't. So, and we don't have the benefit of, of, of these additional layers

01:00:37.600 --> 01:00:41.600
of the supply chain to help smooth things out. We are ordering directly from factories.

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,

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.

01:00:52.600 --> 01:00:55.600
You know, we'll, we have to get them made. We have to get them machined.

01:00:55.600 --> 01:01:00.600
We have to source all the pieces individually. It's, um, it's, it's complicated.

01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:03.600
And so when we gap out, we tend to gap out really hard

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because it could be a three, four month turnaround

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.

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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.

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But in the meantime, sign up for a notification from modmat.

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If you want one, cause otherwise you might not get one.

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We ordered these a while back. Okay. This says, don't read the title.

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Read the first point. Good job. We have a very special message from our very own Riley.

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Let's watch. Are you doing this?

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You're already playing audio. So pause it from somewhere else.

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Yes, I will. I will do that. And I made sure it worked this week.

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Wow. Dan. I did the bare minimum.

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Yay. Good job. Good job.

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No, I think, I think that goes beyond bare minimum. I think that's minimum.

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Not bare. That's a clothed minimum.

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Thank you.

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Okay. Are we doing this? I was just going to let it kind of hang here

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awkwardly. We don't have to do that. We could.

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No, it's fine. All right. Here we go.

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If you play that. They should hear it. You should hear it.

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Backflip. Watch this. Whoa.

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That was gnarly. Hey, you want. What the f*** just happened?

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I have told that guy so many times.

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Not at work.

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It was off hours. Don't worry about it.

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I think. Do you know? I don't think that actually makes it okay.

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He has disclosed this publicly. He has had like so many concussions.

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Every time he's like, I'm going to do a backflip.

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I'm going to do a backflip. I want to do a backflip on stream. I'm going to do that.

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I'm like, no, no, I don't. It is not worth the damage you could do to your brain.

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How did you allow this to happen? That was not during work hours.

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It doesn't matter. Don't encourage this behavior.

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Do you know what happened last time he fell down the stairs?

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I don't know. He missed work for like two months.

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But then he blew up. Now he's a beloved boy.

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That is not the point.

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What's your takeaway from that? It was a funny edit.

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Sorry. Okay. There you go, guys.

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Hurting yourself at work is a path to fame here.

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No, I don't know. That's what he made it sound like.

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Yes. No, I do not approve of this.

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Anyway, let's just finish the thing.

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Want to learn more fun facts about me? Tune into Floatplane for Riley Week all next week.

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Here's some fun clips. Gotta get the blood up.

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The core issue with Star Wars today, as I see it,

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is that it's struggling to change itself.

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How is your Tim Cook impression so good? I don't know.

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The ship is not moving. Showed the ship.

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What does being a minimalist actually mean? I'm gonna be so loud.

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I'm gonna be so disruptive.

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Bing Bong. How is Riley's mom?

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Uh-oh. You keep my mom's name out you-

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Wow, those were great. You want more? Subscribe to Floatplane.

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I'm talking to you Linus.

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I'm subscribed to Floatplane.

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Not technically. Yeah, I think I'm subscribed enough.

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Yeah. I think when you sign the checks to the development team,

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you're effectively subscribed.

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I don't think so actually. All right, for those of you who don't know what people weeks are,

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it's when we dedicate a week of Floatplane exclusives to one person

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with the addition of an extra Floatplane exclusive, so that's three extras rather than the usual two a week.

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Riley Week concludes an 18-minute Star Wars rant,

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office interviews, and answering your very own questions about Riley.

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Can you guess which one was his idea? 18-minute Star Wars rant.

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Oh, yeah. I like how they put a time on it because my...

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Riley spent an immense amount of time writing his Star Wars rant.

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It was six pages. So please give him love and support by going to LMG.gg slash Riley24.

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What does that do? I have no idea.

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All right, Dan, hit us with a topic. You know what, Luke?

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Hit us with a topic. I'm going to interject here. I got a message from Sammy.

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The Floatplane wallpapers are currently unlisted.

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Okay. We'll talk about them later. Distribute them.

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We'll talk about them later. As long as it's in your brain. Another topic?

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Yeah. Yeah, okay. What do you want to talk about, Luke?

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YouTube premium prices are on the rise? Oh, it was such a good positive show so far.

01:05:54.600 --> 01:05:57.600
Okay. Okay, let's go with something else.

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Intel Lunar Lake. No, it's actually, no, it actually looks promising.

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Yeah. Multiple outlets have now benchmarked Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 or Lunar Lake CPUs, at

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least the Ultra 7 258V.

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Unintelligible product names aside. Insane.

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The performance appears to fall behind AMD's top end Ryzen AI 9 HX370.

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But it is worth noting that this isn't the most performant Lunar Lake SKU.

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That would be the Ultra 9 288V, but Intel didn't send that one out for comparison testing.

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Despite this, the ArcGraphics 140V IGPU is apparently both faster and more efficient

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than the Ryzen Radeon 890M, according to notebook check.

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That is only a little bit exciting.

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You know, I personally don't necessarily need, you know, 8% faster mobile.

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I mean, I won't say no to it. That's fantastic.

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But what actually makes me excited about that is maybe Battle Mage won't suck.

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Oh. Maybe Battle Mage Dedicated won't suck.

01:07:07.600 --> 01:07:10.600
Yeah, okay. Maybe NVIDIA will have some pressure on them.

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Come on! Come on!

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I really need ArcGraphics to be good.

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And the other thing is that the battery life apparently rivals that of the Snapdragon laptops they've tested.

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PC World ran it through their standard video rundown test, looping a 4K video at fixed brightness,

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and Lunar Lake lasted 21 hours on the 73-watt hour battery.

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You know what? I gotta tell you.

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Framework investment aside, I never stopped using my Qualcomm laptop.

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Like, dude, I love...

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Watch this. Watch this. I'm gonna show you a magic trick.

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Okay, just wait. Just wait.

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It's a good magic trick. It's a good trick. Okay, watch.

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Wait for it. It's an exciting trick.

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It's not very fast. Look at that. It's not about the speed.

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It's about the quality of the trick. I'm a quality trick.

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Not fast, though. Not a fast trick.

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Look at that. My battery isn't dead.

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Yeah. Dude, if you were me, if you were me, okay?

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This needs so much more story around it. This trick of yours?

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If you were me, okay? You would know that any other laptop in my backpack,

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if I pulled it out, it would be dead. Oh, okay.

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Because I am really bad about charging it.

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And I just...

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When I'm using it, I just, like, leave it on for long periods of time,

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because I'll be, like, referring back to it for notes. And so it'll just...

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My laptop is just always dead, except this laptop.

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This laptop? Always alive. I love it.

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It's amazing. I have my same, like, very old at this point laptop

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that I just drag the cable around everywhere for

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and plug in in every room I go to. Dude, like...

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It's awesome. Macbook battery life is a game changer.

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And I would have loved to enjoy it for the last few years,

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except I just can't macOS. I just...

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I just can't, like...

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And the funny thing is, I think that that was only

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the last time I tried or thought about it was,

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like, three or four years ago. Now?

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I probably could macOS, because pretty much everything I do

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has transitioned to a browser.

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In fact, I was kind of thinking my next challenge

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might be a Chromebook challenge.

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Ooh. I have never...

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I have never really given ChromeOS a daily driver treatment.

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Like a real fair shake. And these days, like, yeah, I'm using Windows,

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but I'm using Windows with limited compatibility.

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If I'm going to use something with limited compatibility, I might as well open up my horizons to Mac or Linux or ChromeOS.

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Not Linux yet. I'm waiting for SteamOS. I want SteamOS before I...

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And the Chromebooks are... What the heck?

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Chromebooks cost nothing, dude.

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I mean, part of that is because they just use cheaper, crappier hardware.

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Yeah, but still, like, a hundred bucks? Yeah.

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I mean, that's refurbished. That's refurbished. Come on.

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But still, yes. I didn't actually notice that part. You're not wrong.

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Renewed? Is that the new, like, fun name for refurbished?

01:10:47.600 --> 01:10:50.600
Is that what that is? Yeah. Wow.

01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:54.600
It's renewed. It wasn't new, but now it is renewed.

01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:57.600
Okay. It's new again.

01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:00.600
That shouldn't have been allowed.

01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:05.600
Anyway, in other news, for Intel, the company released

01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:09.600
another microcode update to protect Raptor Lake CPUs from crashing.

01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:12.600
Specifically, it prevents the CPU from asking for too much power

01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:16.600
when it's sitting idle or performing light tasks.

01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:19.600
So, yeah. Well, good luck for them.

01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:23.600
I wish them luck with all of those things. I'm actually pretty...

01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:28.600
I'm pretty... I know it's stupid and it maybe...

01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:33.600
No, it's not stupid. I know that it doesn't affect me personally because, realistically,

01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:38.600
I'm going to go for a 5080 or a 5090, this next gen.

01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:42.600
I swore I wouldn't go 40 series and I didn't,

01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:48.600
but I am still running 30 series or AMD and I am ready.

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.

01:11:52.600 --> 01:11:55.600
Yeah. And I would like a high-end...

01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:59.600
We shot a sponsored video this week and, again,

01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:02.600
you know, investment, sponsorship, whatever.

01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:07.600
All of that aside, I upgraded to a 480Hz OLED.

01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:13.600
So good. So good.

01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:18.600
Dude. So, I want a faster GPU.

01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:22.600
I would like a faster GPU so that I can enjoy more of that

01:12:22.600 --> 01:12:26.600
super high refresh rate, high frame rate goodness.

01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:31.600
And I'll probably upgrade my CPU too, even though I've already got a 7950X.

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

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?

01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:46.600
When is the desktop Core Ultra rumored to be landing anyway?

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.

01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:54.600
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's supposed to be like...

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...

01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:01.600
I don't even know that. Yeah. Well, I mean, we don't...

01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:04.600
It makes it... Yeah, you're not wrong. It's just because we don't care.

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

01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:13.600
is that we would, like, know. So, it created a bit of a weird...

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.

01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:21.600
Yeah. And knowing where the line is. Yeah.

01:13:21.600 --> 01:13:24.600
It is a little sketch. I don't know anything firsthand about 5090, though,

01:13:24.600 --> 01:13:27.600
so what I heard is that it's supposed to be 600 watts.

01:13:27.600 --> 01:13:31.600
But a real daddy chip, though.

01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:34.600
So, 512-bit bus. Whoa.

01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:37.600
32 gigs GDDR7. That's the current rumor, but...

01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:40.600
Are they going to put real power cables into it?

01:13:40.600 --> 01:13:43.600
No, it's probably still going to be...

01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:47.600
I heard they might even do two of the high voltage power connectors,

01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:50.600
so we'll see how that goes.

01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:53.600
What else we got today?

01:13:56.600 --> 01:13:59.600
Did we actually do all the announcements? I don't think we did.

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.

01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:09.600
Cool. U.S. Bands, Chinese Cars, and Kaspersky becomes the malware.

01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:14.600
The current White House administration is planning to ban certain hardware and software made in China

01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:18.600
and Russia from vehicles due to the risks of surveillance

01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:23.600
and sabotage. The official press release expresses concern that

01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:27.600
foreign adversaries could gather information on both American citizens and critical infrastructure...

01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:31.600
Valid. ...perhaps to disrupt the operations of said infrastructure.

01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:34.600
Valid. The proposal specifically mentions banning

01:14:34.600 --> 01:14:37.600
automated driving systems, suggesting the White House

01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:42.600
fears vehicles themselves could be used for possible sabotage.

01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:45.600
Somebody watched a little bit of Fast and the Furious.

01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:48.600
Around the same time, Russian cybersecurity company

01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:52.600
Kaspersky started uninstalling its antivirus software

01:14:52.600 --> 01:14:55.600
from American computers to comply with its own U.S.

01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:59.600
ban, but the company also installed a different antivirus

01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:02.600
software on said computers.

01:15:02.600 --> 01:15:05.600
While Kaspersky did tell customers via email their existing

01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:08.600
subscriptions would be transferred to alternative

01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:11.600
antivirus software, Ultra AV, users claimed the auto

01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:14.600
installation wasn't mentioned.

01:15:14.600 --> 01:15:17.600
However, Pango Group, owner of Ultra AV, claims that

01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:20.600
Kaspersky communicated the transition to users starting

01:15:20.600 --> 01:15:24.600
on September 5th, including an in-app pop-up stating,

01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:27.600
Ultra AV protection will be automatically activated on

01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:32.600
your device, which I would immediately think that my

01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:35.600
computer had been hatched to all heck.

01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:39.600
100%. Ultra AV protection doesn't even sound like a real thing.

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

01:15:44.600 --> 01:15:47.600
of people who determines what antivirus we use, so that's

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

01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:57.600
industry, that could easily sound like a fake.

01:15:57.600 --> 01:16:01.600
To be fair, a few of them do sound kind of fake.

01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:05.600
This is true.

01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:08.600
Crowd strike. Sentinel-1.

01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:14.600
They're all like so intense. Do you know how many years I called us?

01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:18.600
No, never mind. Go ahead. Ninja-1 and Sentinel-1, also being from two different

01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:24.600
companies, blows my mind. Anyways, some users were...

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.

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

01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:37.600
ultra AV, it just reinstalled itself after they rebooted.

01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:41.600
Wow. Very cool. That is actual malware.

01:16:41.600 --> 01:16:44.600
Very cool. That is the definition of malware, something that

01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:47.600
installs itself without user intervention and without

01:16:47.600 --> 01:16:50.600
user consent. I mean, is that not malware?

01:16:50.600 --> 01:16:55.600
Well, it could be a form... In their defense, it could be a form of...

01:16:55.600 --> 01:16:58.600
It's had a third-party uninstaller app, right?

01:16:58.600 --> 01:17:03.600
So it could be a defense.

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?

01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:10.600
Yeah. Probably not. Yes.

01:17:10.600 --> 01:17:14.600
In their defense, I will put that out there.

01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:18.600
If you use the actual uninstaller... I'd still be freaked out.

01:17:18.600 --> 01:17:21.600
Yes, 100%. But I think I kind of get it.

01:17:21.600 --> 01:17:24.600
Especially if I knew anything about Kaspersky and the

01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:27.600
whole situation that's gone down with them and why they

01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:31.600
aren't allowed in the United States anymore and stuff.

01:17:31.600 --> 01:17:35.600
Just the whole thing feeling sketchy, you know?

01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:39.600
Yeah. Okay.

01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:44.600
There's a work conversation buried in there somewhere,

01:17:44.600 --> 01:17:48.600
but we'll do with that another time.

01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:51.600
Reboot remaster update? Yeah, we could talk about that.

01:17:51.600 --> 01:17:54.600
Did we talk about that on the show, Dan? I don't think so.

01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:57.600
It was a topic for last week, but we didn't get to it,

01:17:57.600 --> 01:18:00.600
so it's continued into this week. That's right.

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

01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:08.600
assistance. I don't want to give ourselves credit for the restoration

01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:11.600
because that goes to other people, but we've been trying to help.

01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:14.600
We've been trying to help Mark from Disappearing Inc. and the

01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:17.600
Reboot Rewind documentary team with their project to create

01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:21.600
high-quality versions of the classic 1994 CGI TV series,

01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:25.600
Reboot. A few months ago, we reached out to the community for help

01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:28.600
getting the D1 machines in their possession running.

01:18:28.600 --> 01:18:31.600
They have since given us an update on their progress and

01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:35.600
some side-by-side comparison screenshots.

01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:38.600
They have one of three D1 machines running, and they have

01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:41.600
captured a few of the 200-plus tapes.

01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:44.600
The tapes do require some tender love and care because the

01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:47.600
magnetic media is showing signs of degradation, which is a

01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:50.600
good reminder of how physical media will degrade over time

01:18:50.600 --> 01:18:54.600
and modernization is always an ongoing effort.

01:18:54.600 --> 01:18:57.600
We have sourced and now possess a full schematic set and user

01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:00.600
manual. Huge thanks to the community for all the leads and a good

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

01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:10.600
original studio mainframe. So the captured results are released as approved by

01:19:10.600 --> 01:19:13.600
mainframe. This is their intellectual property.

01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:17.600
But we do have some comparison images that I would be

01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:20.600
happy to show it to you guys. Check this out.

01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:21.600
Here we go.

01:19:25.600 --> 01:19:28.600
Damn! Do the slider.

01:19:28.600 --> 01:19:31.600
Do the slider. It's a slider. Oh, yeah.

01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:34.600
Here we go. Here we go. It's insanely better.

01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:38.600
Dude. Wow. This is what the artist.

01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:45.600
This is what the artist created. This is what 1994 technology could do via broadcast.

01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:48.600
Dude. Dude. They look.

01:19:48.600 --> 01:19:51.600
That is so sick. They look so good.

01:19:51.600 --> 01:19:54.600
That's wicked. Dude. Dude.

01:19:54.600 --> 01:19:57.600
Dude. Dude. Stuff like this.

01:19:57.600 --> 01:20:00.600
Look how sharp that is. Look how sharp that is.

01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:03.600
I need. I need to rewatch this.

01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:06.600
Here's the first remastered episode on YouTube.

01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:09.600
Hopefully we don't get in trouble for this because like,

01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:12.600
please don't. Like we, I swear we did help a little bit.

01:20:12.600 --> 01:20:15.600
We didn't do that much, but we did help a little bit. Please don't.

01:20:15.600 --> 01:20:18.600
Dude.

01:20:18.600 --> 01:20:23.600
Even me watching through YouTube and you guys watching through my crappy stream,

01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:26.600
you guys are going to be able to see that this is.

01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:32.600
So much better. So much better.

01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:35.600
Absolutely sick. Yeah. Yeah.

01:20:35.600 --> 01:20:38.600
It's an HD. Oh, so exciting.

01:20:38.600 --> 01:20:43.600
We are, we are extremely happy to be even a small part of this restoration

01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:47.600
effort. So massive shout out to the reboot rewind documentary team and Mark from disappearing

01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:50.600
Inc. What else we got for this week?

01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:53.600
Mr. Luke. Do you want to do a couple? Oh, no.

01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:56.600
iPhone. It's time for me to get mad.

01:20:56.600 --> 01:20:59.600
Oh. It was brought to our attention.

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

01:21:08.600 --> 01:21:13.600
quote endorsing their product. I'm actually just going to try and find.

01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:17.600
Let me see if I can track this down.

01:21:17.600 --> 01:21:20.600
Here it is. I can get in the dock. Okay.

01:21:20.600 --> 01:21:23.600
Got this ad from ghost keyboards.

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

01:21:31.600 --> 01:21:37.600
thing. This is from, this is a capture from Elijah's AMD ultimate tech upgrade.

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.

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

01:21:51.600 --> 01:21:58.000
they did, they did also posted on Instagram, that would be one thing.

01:21:58.000 --> 01:22:07.140
In my opinion, it was not obviously enough fake for one thing.

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

01:22:12.420 --> 01:22:18.980
property being used for commercial purposes. That is, that is absolutely not fair use.

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

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

01:22:34.980 --> 01:22:39.660
good quality for the money. So that's issue number two.

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

01:22:45.500 --> 01:22:52.220
whatever else, there was a clear call to action for people to purchase this keyboard based

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

01:23:00.980 --> 01:23:07.900
list to buy the keyboard, to purchase the keyboard.

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

01:23:17.460 --> 01:23:25.460
engagement or soft collaboration or whatever the case may be.

01:23:25.460 --> 01:23:29.340
I know that there's a number of people internally who thought it was funny.

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,

01:23:37.900 --> 01:23:41.300
I did not think that it was something that people should buy.

01:23:41.300 --> 01:23:46.580
And if they were kind of memeing on that, Linus says, don't buy this keyboard.

01:23:46.580 --> 01:23:53.060
We disagree, buy it, whatever else. There was potentially angles where this could kind of work.

01:23:53.060 --> 01:23:56.380
At the very least, we should have gotten a heads up.

01:23:56.380 --> 01:24:03.220
We didn't. It just appeared.

01:24:03.220 --> 01:24:09.660
Not cool. They have done at least one thing right since then.

01:24:09.660 --> 01:24:13.380
Colton reached out to them via LinkedIn, I believe.

01:24:13.380 --> 01:24:18.380
They apologized and they have removed the post from Instagram.

01:24:18.380 --> 01:24:23.860
I personally think there should be a public retraction and a correction of the record.

01:24:23.860 --> 01:24:26.940
I would like to see that happen.

01:24:26.940 --> 01:24:33.540
Oh, it's ghost keyboards, those of you asking who exactly this was.

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

01:24:40.460 --> 01:24:44.260
action or whatever else it is. They've already removed the offending material.

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

01:24:50.500 --> 01:24:56.260
to collaborating with them in any way, any form, until they have publicly set the record

01:24:56.260 --> 01:24:59.460
straight on this. Not cool, ghost keyboards.

01:24:59.460 --> 01:25:06.500
Not cool. What else we got?

01:25:06.500 --> 01:25:10.300
iPhones are like repairable or something? Dude. That's really cool.

01:25:10.300 --> 01:25:13.780
iPhone 16 got a seven out of 10 repairability score from iFixit.

01:25:13.780 --> 01:25:18.340
That's crazy. Apple has launched its iPhone 16 lineup, which has demonstrated a significant improvement

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

01:25:26.300 --> 01:25:31.860
of 10 that it gave to their predecessors. That's an actually like enormous jump.

01:25:31.860 --> 01:25:35.380
Perhaps the most notable change is to the device's battery adhesive.

01:25:35.380 --> 01:25:38.780
This is so cool. The adhesive debonds on command.

01:25:38.780 --> 01:25:43.780
This is so cool. This is genuinely very cool when an electric current is run through.

01:25:43.780 --> 01:25:46.780
It's so cool. Dude. Sorry.

01:25:46.780 --> 01:25:50.100
Sorry. No, I'm going to interrupt. Okay.

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.

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

01:26:04.620 --> 01:26:12.820
a third as much, you know, Apple has colossal, monumental, enormous engineering resources

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

01:26:21.580 --> 01:26:24.860
because this is what they could have been doing.

01:26:24.860 --> 01:26:28.860
That is so cool. So cool. That is so cool.

01:26:28.860 --> 01:26:31.860
Huh. Okay. Go ahead.

01:26:31.860 --> 01:26:35.460
Well, this will require users to acquire a new tool.

01:26:35.460 --> 01:26:41.020
It allows for clean, easily, a clean, easily repeatable process for removing the battery

01:26:41.020 --> 01:26:44.940
that limits the potential for unintentional damage during repair.

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

01:26:52.860 --> 01:26:58.780
punctured. Yeah. If they're punctured, this improves safety, not just, not for the user.

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.

01:27:04.500 --> 01:27:09.940
Apparently, good job, Apple. Apparently the adhesive tape is a product, but I don't care.

01:27:09.940 --> 01:27:14.380
It doesn't really matter. I don't care. They integrated it into their device.

01:27:14.380 --> 01:27:17.780
They did the validation. They did, they did the work.

01:27:17.780 --> 01:27:21.180
It's done. It's in the product. It benefits the user.

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

01:27:26.500 --> 01:27:30.460
clip leads attached to a 12 to 30 volt power source.

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

01:27:35.220 --> 01:27:38.940
attaches the red cable to a special tab on the battery.

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

01:27:45.300 --> 01:27:50.020
to easily detach from the device after around a minute and a half.

01:27:50.020 --> 01:27:55.100
These batteries also use a hard steel case instead of a soft pouch, reducing the possibility

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?

01:28:02.700 --> 01:28:07.380
I mean, we're slowly making our way there. I'd be down with it.

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

01:28:12.740 --> 01:28:16.060
to a battery bank and apparently works with lower voltages.

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

01:28:19.940 --> 01:28:22.940
need a special tool. So cool. Yeah.

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

01:28:30.780 --> 01:28:34.780
case. The pro max has no battery improvements.

01:28:34.780 --> 01:28:38.420
Really? Because they stuffed as much battery in as possible.

01:28:38.420 --> 01:28:42.140
That thing gets 27 hours of video playback. Holy crap.

01:28:42.140 --> 01:28:50.500
Yeah. So, okay. Nonetheless, both now incorporate the dual entry design that debuted with the iPhone

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

01:28:56.260 --> 01:28:59.260
to avoid removing the fragile screen, which is cool.

01:28:59.260 --> 01:29:05.180
iOS 18 also has a new repair assistant while the feature is currently a little buggy.

01:29:05.180 --> 01:29:08.860
It allows users to independently calibrate replacement parts so that the device will

01:29:08.860 --> 01:29:11.860
recognize them. That's cool. That is cool.

01:29:11.860 --> 01:29:15.340
The company is also making device repairs easier by no longer requiring the device's

01:29:15.340 --> 01:29:21.060
serial number in some cases, adding a section of settings that shows users the history of

01:29:21.060 --> 01:29:24.620
the device's parts and repairs. That's cool. Yeah, why not?

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

01:29:29.620 --> 01:29:33.180
a phone that had been reported as lost or stolen.

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

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

01:29:49.620 --> 01:29:52.620
this. Some arms race. Hey, you know what?

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

01:30:01.460 --> 01:30:04.980
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I mean, they are going to milk you, but they're going to at least milk you to your benefit.

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It's a mutually beneficial milking. What are we supposed to be talking about?

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All right, we're supposed to do three merge messages now apparently.

01:33:25.580 --> 01:33:30.260
Thank you, Dan. You're welcome. How's your thingies doing this week?

01:33:30.260 --> 01:33:33.260
They're pretty good. We've sold a lot of cargo pants. Yeah.

01:33:33.260 --> 01:33:36.260
They seem to like them. Yeah. Cargo pants.

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.

01:33:39.260 --> 01:33:42.260
That's good. That's good. Nice.

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.

01:33:47.020 --> 01:33:50.020
Direct. On the topic of... Oh, no.

01:33:50.020 --> 01:33:53.020
Here it comes. No, I was going to save that for later. Oh.

01:33:53.020 --> 01:33:56.020
All right. Oh, fine. What?

01:33:56.020 --> 01:33:59.020
Luke, how is Star Wars Outlaws? Ah! Ah!

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,

01:34:04.020 --> 01:34:07.020
why is everybody... Wasn't it last week? I think so.

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

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...

01:34:16.220 --> 01:34:21.860
I'm bored. The lockpicking mechanic is amazing.

01:34:21.860 --> 01:34:25.820
I will die on that hill. The lockpicking mechanic is incredible.

01:34:25.820 --> 01:34:30.460
It's the best one I've ever ran into in a game ever, personally.

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.

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

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

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?

01:34:59.700 --> 01:35:02.700
Yeah. You jackass. Yeah.

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.

01:35:12.420 --> 01:35:15.740
It's okay. Cool. That's a ringing endorsement.

01:35:15.740 --> 01:35:19.420
It's fine. For a like $70, $80 game. Yeah.

01:35:19.420 --> 01:35:23.020
I mean, it's better than a lot of other Star Wars stuff coming out.

01:35:23.020 --> 01:35:27.820
A ringing endorsement.

01:35:27.820 --> 01:35:30.820
But yeah, I don't know.

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.

01:35:36.540 --> 01:35:38.900
Uninstall it. Best mod.

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.

01:35:47.780 --> 01:35:51.020
But yeah, I don't know.

01:35:51.020 --> 01:35:54.180
Maybe I'll play it again someday, but yeah. You probably won't.

01:35:54.180 --> 01:35:59.380
How's Final Fantasy 6 going? Good. Enjoying it more than what is it even called?

01:35:59.380 --> 01:36:02.380
Outlaws? Yeah. Oh.

01:36:02.380 --> 01:36:05.380
How far are you now? Where am I? Thanks for helping me keep him accountable.

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.

01:36:10.020 --> 01:36:15.660
Like a year ago, though. That's fair. Dude, you've had so long.

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.

01:36:20.380 --> 01:36:24.460
Because I first got it when I was like six.

01:36:24.460 --> 01:36:27.940
I have free use of the airship. Yeah, I was older. I was older than that.

01:36:27.940 --> 01:36:34.820
Now. And we just went through the long series of effectively cinematics.

01:36:34.820 --> 01:36:38.700
They're not technically, but effectively cinematics of you talking to the man.

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.

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.

01:36:50.460 --> 01:36:53.540
And right now I'm trying not to like, you know, just Google everything.

01:36:53.540 --> 01:36:57.060
So they're like, yeah, go to that place. I'm like, where is that?

01:36:57.060 --> 01:37:00.060
Hey, you got the map. I gave you the map. I do.

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

01:37:07.340 --> 01:37:10.340
then logged off. Yeah. Okay.

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.

01:37:13.940 --> 01:37:17.540
But I, I don't know. Educated guess. Okay.

01:37:17.540 --> 01:37:21.540
So who's your, who's your mains? Um, what is his name?

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.

01:37:27.900 --> 01:37:30.900
No, I'm kidding. Sal's is great. Okay.

01:37:30.900 --> 01:37:34.620
Yeah. So that has the, what is it Blitz moves? Yeah.

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

01:37:40.900 --> 01:37:43.900
they're on fire. Oh, fire dance. Yeah.

01:37:43.900 --> 01:37:46.900
Yeah. That was great. I don't think it's actually called that in this version.

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.

01:37:56.660 --> 01:38:02.860
Yeah. Um, and then the other one is he uses tools and he has autocross bow.

01:38:02.860 --> 01:38:05.860
Yeah. Edgar. Yeah.

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.

01:38:11.180 --> 01:38:15.180
That was three. So then who's my fellas?

01:38:15.180 --> 01:38:18.540
Oh, and the thief guy, but he's like sucks.

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.

01:38:24.020 --> 01:38:27.020
I see. Okay. Yeah.

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.

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.

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.

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.

01:38:51.380 --> 01:38:54.380
What is it? Don't even bother. They never have anything good.

01:38:54.380 --> 01:38:56.860
They never have anything. Yeah, that too.

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

01:39:03.020 --> 01:39:06.540
steal. I think it's, I think it's like elixirs or something from them.

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

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

01:39:14.420 --> 01:39:18.580
waste of time. I just, I'm trying to be very thorough.

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

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,

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

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.

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.

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,

01:39:43.460 --> 01:39:46.460
I don't do it again. Yeah. Okay.

01:39:46.460 --> 01:39:49.460
Okay. Nice. All right.

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.

01:39:52.460 --> 01:39:55.740
You've played Chrono Trigger, right? No.

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

01:40:06.460 --> 01:40:10.460
Creator Summit. Yeah. He is an appreciator of quality games.

01:40:10.460 --> 01:40:13.940
I, I don't know. I think I would trust him for game recommendations over you.

01:40:13.940 --> 01:40:17.460
I'm sorry. But you just, you're not familiar enough with the classics.

01:40:17.460 --> 01:40:20.940
Did you like Titanfall? Yes, I did.

01:40:20.940 --> 01:40:23.940
Yeah. Two. Titanfall two.

01:40:23.940 --> 01:40:26.940
He, he made me play the single pair campaign. Yeah. All right.

01:40:26.940 --> 01:40:29.940
Um, yeah. What was the question? Oh yeah.

01:40:29.940 --> 01:40:32.940
Okay. Okay. Dan, carry on.

01:40:32.940 --> 01:40:35.940
We haven't. Star, Star Wars. How, how, how like Star Wars?

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?

01:40:47.260 --> 01:40:54.260
Is this a natural product from us?

01:40:54.260 --> 01:40:57.260
Oh, that was perfectly tied.

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.

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

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

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

01:41:27.420 --> 01:41:30.940
everyone in their dog wants to put on them.

01:41:30.940 --> 01:41:36.940
And I think we ended up trying like between four and six different suppliers, just looking

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,

01:41:44.420 --> 01:41:48.260
you know, like just, just that, nothing else.

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.

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.

01:41:59.940 --> 01:42:04.140
Buddy from the island that made us these is probably screaming right now.

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

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

01:42:15.260 --> 01:42:22.180
it out, but, uh, no, you just need to get natural leather, not finished leather.

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.

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

01:42:31.120 --> 01:42:34.420
look for in any category is, you know, what are we adding to the conversation?

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.

01:42:40.900 --> 01:42:45.460
Um, like my, my old Kirkland belt lasted a really long time.

01:42:45.460 --> 01:42:48.620
Do I really want to go toe to toe with Costco?

01:42:48.620 --> 01:42:51.620
Maybe not. What about shirts?

01:42:51.620 --> 01:42:54.620
Shirts? Yeah. Our shirts are great.

01:42:54.620 --> 01:42:58.220
Yeah. Yeah. Make a great belt.

01:42:58.220 --> 01:43:04.220
Oh, well, yeah. Well we haven't found the right great supplier yet.

01:43:04.220 --> 01:43:07.820
I'm just saying that doesn't mean you can just never do belts.

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

01:43:14.020 --> 01:43:17.020
look at belts. Sure. That's reasonable.

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.

01:43:22.700 --> 01:43:26.100
And if that happens, then yeah, we want to, we want to do more inseams.

01:43:26.100 --> 01:43:29.900
We want to, we want to do, sure. Yeah. Belts.

01:43:29.900 --> 01:43:32.900
Yeah. No, I know they're, they're a little short on you. Yep.

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.

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

01:43:44.300 --> 01:43:47.300
some of their sizes. Cool.

01:43:47.300 --> 01:43:50.300
All right. About one more. What do we got here?

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

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?

01:44:02.780 --> 01:44:05.780
Hey Dan. Sorry. I just read what was on the prompter.

01:44:05.780 --> 01:44:08.780
That was my fault. Whoops. Ah.

01:44:08.780 --> 01:44:11.780
Jesus. Is it really just gray? What's just gray?

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.

01:44:14.780 --> 01:44:17.780
Dang it. Oh. It can't be good.

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?

01:44:20.780 --> 01:44:23.780
I thought it comes with a cool charging cable. Dang it. Oh.

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.

01:44:26.780 --> 01:44:29.780
Ah. Where's the cool charging cable? I thought it comes with a cool charging cable.

01:44:30.780 --> 01:44:39.780
There's a whole conversation internally about this.

01:44:39.780 --> 01:44:42.780
I thought it comes with a cool USB-C cable.

01:44:42.780 --> 01:44:45.780
Oh wait. Cable not included. Seriously?

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.

01:44:51.780 --> 01:44:54.780
I mean. Sorry.

01:44:54.780 --> 01:45:02.780
It's PS1 gray. I'm sure somebody sells PS1 gray skins.

01:45:02.780 --> 01:45:07.780
Probably. I don't know, dude.

01:45:07.780 --> 01:45:10.780
This is one of those things. You know what?

01:45:10.780 --> 01:45:15.780
Yeah. The behavior sucks. People who actually want it should be the ones who have it.

01:45:15.780 --> 01:45:18.780
Totally. But also. It is very difficult to stop.

01:45:18.780 --> 01:45:22.780
Yeah. I mean, we tried and I actually think we did a really great job.

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

01:45:29.780 --> 01:45:36.780
where we had people play a game essentially as the ultimate recapture to prove that you

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

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.

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

01:45:59.780 --> 01:46:06.780
person, but also not easily defeated by a program, right?

01:46:06.780 --> 01:46:11.780
It's really, really challenging. And I guess it kind of is what it is.

01:46:11.780 --> 01:46:16.780
And the good news is that it is a 30th anniversary controller.

01:46:16.780 --> 01:46:20.780
It is not water. Yeah, you'll be all right.

01:46:20.780 --> 01:46:23.780
And I understand people are educating me.

01:46:23.780 --> 01:46:29.780
Apparently the buttons are colored and they're not always colored.

01:46:29.780 --> 01:46:33.780
Sometimes their great controller looks like that.

01:46:33.780 --> 01:46:36.780
And now it looks like that because the buttons are colored.

01:46:36.780 --> 01:46:39.780
Guys, you're not going to convince Luke with that argument.

01:46:39.780 --> 01:46:46.780
I think you'll be okay.

01:46:46.780 --> 01:46:49.780
I don't know, man.

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.

01:46:53.780 --> 01:46:59.780
I was like, okay, this is going to be sick. And then it's great.

01:46:59.780 --> 01:47:04.780
The cable is pretty cool here. Let me see if I can find this here.

01:47:04.780 --> 01:47:07.780
Luke is not nostalgic. No, I am. It's just okay.

01:47:07.780 --> 01:47:10.780
That is pretty cool. Yeah. So it's a USB-C cable.

01:47:10.780 --> 01:47:14.780
I like that a lot more than the controller. It comes with the console.

01:47:14.780 --> 01:47:18.780
Yeah. That actually looks pretty legit. I like that.

01:47:19.780 --> 01:47:23.780
But this is a toy.

01:47:23.780 --> 01:47:28.780
It's an expensive toy for adults, but it's a toy.

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.

01:47:33.780 --> 01:47:36.780
It's not like when PS5s themselves were being scalloped

01:47:36.780 --> 01:47:41.780
and no one could get a PS5. To be clear, I like cool controllers.

01:47:41.780 --> 01:47:46.780
Yeah, me too. I really do. My favorite of my Xbox controllers,

01:47:46.780 --> 01:47:50.780
of which I own probably somewhere between a dozen and 15,

01:47:50.780 --> 01:47:54.780
is the one that went out to the people

01:47:54.780 --> 01:47:57.780
who developed the console. I had full of them, flipped them.

01:47:57.780 --> 01:48:02.780
And you know what? I paid way too much money for that controller.

01:48:02.780 --> 01:48:07.780
But realistically, it was a fraction of what I paid for my most expensive controller.

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,

01:48:14.780 --> 01:48:19.780
by the way, the previous buyer flaked. So, you know, get in touch.

01:48:19.780 --> 01:48:22.780
He gold flaked. It's very much for sale.

01:48:23.780 --> 01:48:27.780
Didn't you want that Gears of War Xbox controller? Yeah, and I got it.

01:48:27.780 --> 01:48:30.780
Yeah. But just like, I don't know.

01:48:31.780 --> 01:48:35.780
But the Gears of War Xbox controller has like claw marks

01:48:35.780 --> 01:48:38.780
in the controller that go into the plastic.

01:48:38.780 --> 01:48:41.780
Yeah, they actually did a different mold for it, at least. Yeah.

01:48:41.780 --> 01:48:45.780
So, that's something. This is, it is a cool controller.

01:48:45.780 --> 01:48:48.780
It has the retro PlayStation logo with the colors on it,

01:48:48.780 --> 01:48:51.780
stuff like that, that they should have never ditched, etc.

01:48:51.780 --> 01:48:54.780
But it's also, it's just a great controller.

01:48:54.780 --> 01:48:57.780
Okay. I mean, okay.

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

01:49:02.780 --> 01:49:05.780
for the controller or whatever. On top of?

01:49:05.780 --> 01:49:08.780
Yeah, I would assume so. Really?

01:49:09.780 --> 01:49:12.780
Confirmed order. Yeah. Are you buying an order?

01:49:12.780 --> 01:49:15.780
I think you're buying... Or are you buying the controller?

01:49:16.780 --> 01:49:20.780
Oh, apparently that Gears of War was laser etched.

01:49:20.780 --> 01:49:23.780
So, okay. Either way, like they're doing, it was different.

01:49:23.780 --> 01:49:26.780
It was cool. Is this just like nostalgia baiting?

01:49:26.780 --> 01:49:29.780
Yeah. Oh, dude, it's 100% nostalgia baiting.

01:49:29.780 --> 01:49:32.780
Yeah. 100%. So, you got...

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.

01:49:35.780 --> 01:49:38.780
But if you pay a bunch of money, you're getting nostalgia baited.

01:49:38.780 --> 01:49:41.780
Yeah. Nostalgia baited.

01:49:41.780 --> 01:49:44.780
I got it. It's pretty good. Yeah.

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.

01:49:47.780 --> 01:49:51.780
All right. We got a couple more topics here. Why don't we talk about...

01:49:51.780 --> 01:49:54.780
The Concorde controller is cooler than the game was.

01:49:54.780 --> 01:49:55.780
That looks pretty neat.

01:49:57.780 --> 01:50:00.780
Kind of funny that they're selling these. Yeah, it's kind of cool.

01:50:03.780 --> 01:50:06.780
Why don't we talk about our friend in the industry?

01:50:07.780 --> 01:50:10.780
Ah, yes. The big controversy this week,

01:50:10.780 --> 01:50:16.780
the one, the only, MKBHD released a wallpaper app

01:50:18.780 --> 01:50:21.780
for your phone, okay, iOS and Android.

01:50:21.780 --> 01:50:26.780
And a significant portion of the community

01:50:26.780 --> 01:50:31.780
was quite, let's say, put out...

01:50:31.780 --> 01:50:34.780
Yeah. ...about this situation.

01:50:34.780 --> 01:50:38.780
Their rebels were roused. This is one of those things where,

01:50:38.780 --> 01:50:43.780
honestly speaking, guys, I'm not going to comment on the business decisions

01:50:43.780 --> 01:50:48.780
of a fellow creator, but what I will say is it was very clear

01:50:48.780 --> 01:50:51.780
that the community was not happy

01:50:51.780 --> 01:50:56.780
about the option for a $50 a year premium subscription

01:50:57.780 --> 01:51:01.780
that effectively paywalled the maximum quality

01:51:01.780 --> 01:51:03.780
of these wallpapers

01:51:04.780 --> 01:51:07.780
for people who were not interested in that.

01:51:07.780 --> 01:51:10.780
There was also some upset

01:51:10.780 --> 01:51:13.780
around some of the requested permissions

01:51:13.780 --> 01:51:19.780
of the particular app. There was some commentary and some observations

01:51:19.780 --> 01:51:22.780
around the quality of the app.

01:51:22.780 --> 01:51:25.780
I believe that it turned out,

01:51:25.780 --> 01:51:30.780
is it true that it was functionally just linking to a shared Google Drive repo?

01:51:31.780 --> 01:51:34.780
It was a Firebase download server,

01:51:34.780 --> 01:51:37.780
but there was no authentication on it, so anyone could just download it.

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...

01:51:41.780 --> 01:51:44.780
I don't remember exactly the details, so I'm sorry, but some type of...

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

01:51:49.780 --> 01:51:52.780
and things like that so you could get new wallpapers all the time.

01:51:52.780 --> 01:51:55.780
So people set up bots that were scraping it,

01:51:55.780 --> 01:51:59.780
which because they never signed any type of agreement

01:51:59.780 --> 01:52:03.780
or anything, they didn't technically even bypass anything.

01:52:03.780 --> 01:52:06.780
It's technically legal then. Yeah.

01:52:06.780 --> 01:52:09.780
There was also some upset about the revenue share,

01:52:09.780 --> 01:52:12.780
which from my understanding was 50-50.

01:52:12.780 --> 01:52:17.780
And then even going into the hours leading up to this show,

01:52:17.780 --> 01:52:21.780
there has been some upset that Marquez himself

01:52:21.780 --> 01:52:24.780
didn't really properly address the community's concerns

01:52:24.780 --> 01:52:26.780
on the latest Waveform podcast.

01:52:27.780 --> 01:52:31.780
So that's kind of the summary that...

01:52:31.780 --> 01:52:34.780
I think that's probably the best summary I can give you guys

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.

01:52:41.780 --> 01:52:45.780
At least they're not NFTs. Yeah, yeah, honestly,

01:52:45.780 --> 01:52:50.780
they did give you just a straight-up download of the...

01:52:50.780 --> 01:52:55.780
I think the word scam is one that gets overused a lot these days.

01:52:56.780 --> 01:53:01.780
I saw a lot of people describe the wallpaper app as a scam.

01:53:01.780 --> 01:53:06.780
What it is... Not a scam. What it is is, for a lot of people,

01:53:06.780 --> 01:53:09.780
probably not a great value.

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

01:53:14.780 --> 01:53:17.780
and what it costs. And what you're going to give up. Yeah.

01:53:17.780 --> 01:53:21.780
And if that's a value proposition that is acceptable to you...

01:53:21.780 --> 01:53:24.780
Then it's not a scam. You are more than welcome to pay it.

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.

01:53:29.780 --> 01:53:36.780
That is not a scam. A scam is representing something as something that it isn't.

01:53:36.780 --> 01:53:39.780
A scam would be if I said,

01:53:39.780 --> 01:53:42.780
go to LTT Store right now

01:53:42.780 --> 01:53:45.780
and every order comes with a free,

01:53:45.780 --> 01:53:50.780
this secret skin that I have on the back of my phone.

01:53:50.780 --> 01:53:53.780
And then it just... I'm still wondering about... And then it just didn't arrive.

01:53:53.780 --> 01:53:56.780
Yeah. That would be a scam. Yeah.

01:53:56.780 --> 01:54:00.780
It isn't a scam. Hobelstaff says,

01:54:00.780 --> 01:54:04.780
but Linus, is there a line where something is bad enough value

01:54:04.780 --> 01:54:07.780
that it becomes a scam? No.

01:54:07.780 --> 01:54:10.780
That is not what scam means.

01:54:10.780 --> 01:54:14.780
Scam means that you have been deceived. You have not been deceived.

01:54:14.780 --> 01:54:17.780
You are getting image files.

01:54:17.780 --> 01:54:21.780
You are sending money and permissions on your phone.

01:54:21.780 --> 01:54:26.780
Those things are all disclosed. Therefore, it is not a scam.

01:54:26.780 --> 01:54:30.780
It's not your thing. It's not your bag, baby.

01:54:30.780 --> 01:54:34.780
But it isn't a scam. Does that kind of make sense?

01:54:34.780 --> 01:54:39.780
No, some people don't see... Some people don't seem to understand this.

01:54:47.780 --> 01:54:52.780
I looked up scam. Is it a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation?

01:54:52.780 --> 01:54:57.780
Vinnin says, by the same argument, $1,000 HDMI cables are not a scam.

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

01:55:01.780 --> 01:55:07.780
or better video quality, then they are a scam because they don't do that.

01:55:07.780 --> 01:55:10.780
If they are just expensive and they literally just say,

01:55:10.780 --> 01:55:14.780
there are $1,000 HDMI cables that make you feel

01:55:14.780 --> 01:55:17.780
a warm feeling inside for being able to afford them

01:55:17.780 --> 01:55:21.780
when other people can't, then that's not a scam.

01:55:21.780 --> 01:55:24.780
I am... This shouldn't...

01:55:24.780 --> 01:55:27.780
This really shouldn't surprise me that much.

01:55:27.780 --> 01:55:30.780
Given how many people... I mean, I started this segment with

01:55:30.780 --> 01:55:33.780
a lot of people seem to misuse the word scam.

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.

01:55:38.780 --> 01:55:43.780
But that's not what scam means.

01:55:43.780 --> 01:55:46.780
Scam is fraud. Scam is lying.

01:55:46.780 --> 01:55:49.780
Nobody lied. Nobody scammed anybody.

01:55:49.780 --> 01:55:52.780
Nobody's money was removed forcefully

01:55:52.780 --> 01:55:55.780
against their will.

01:55:55.780 --> 01:55:58.780
So it's not a scam.

01:55:58.780 --> 01:56:04.780
Would I charge a $50 subscription for wallpaper images?

01:56:04.780 --> 01:56:07.780
I was about to say yes. You know what?

01:56:07.780 --> 01:56:10.780
Sure. Let's do it.

01:56:10.780 --> 01:56:13.780
New. Announcing now.

01:56:13.780 --> 01:56:21.780
Here on The WAN Show. Now available at flowplain.com

01:56:21.780 --> 01:56:25.780
is the LTT Wallpaper Pack.

01:56:25.780 --> 01:56:28.780
I am going to... Can I show the CMS?

01:56:28.780 --> 01:56:31.780
Is that okay? Can I show the CMS? That's fine.

01:56:31.780 --> 01:56:34.780
I think I just... I'm going to show the CMS.

01:56:34.780 --> 01:56:37.780
It'll be fine. It'll be fine. You'll like it. Okay.

01:56:37.780 --> 01:56:42.780
I'm showing the CMS. Right now, going live for LTT...

01:56:42.780 --> 01:56:45.780
Sorry, LTT supporter OG and LTT supporter

01:56:45.780 --> 01:56:50.780
and just text posts. Going live only for LTT supporter plus,

01:56:50.780 --> 01:56:53.780
which is available for $10 a month or $50 a year.

01:56:53.780 --> 01:56:56.780
You said earlier in the show that you're going to do the $5 one.

01:56:56.780 --> 01:56:59.780
No, I didn't. I think you did. Oh, wait.

01:56:59.780 --> 01:57:02.780
Oh, yeah. No, no, that's right. Scam! Scam! No, no, I did the math wrong.

01:57:02.780 --> 01:57:05.780
He almost scammed. I did the math wrong. But nope.

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.

01:57:09.780 --> 01:57:12.780
No, they only get everything that we originally promised them.

01:57:12.780 --> 01:57:15.780
This is new. This is net new. Scam radar.

01:57:15.780 --> 01:57:18.780
No, no, no. No. All right.

01:57:18.780 --> 01:57:21.780
Tell you what. Fine. Sure.

01:57:21.780 --> 01:57:26.780
You will get these wallpapers created.

01:57:26.780 --> 01:57:29.780
This actually looks like all Sarah's stuff.

01:57:29.780 --> 01:57:32.780
I believe this is all Sarah. Okay.

01:57:32.780 --> 01:57:35.780
There's also this. They just kind of scrambled. Yeah.

01:57:35.780 --> 01:57:39.780
They just... They did this together in the minutes before the show.

01:57:39.780 --> 01:57:43.780
You will be able to get all of these wallpapers.

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.

01:57:49.780 --> 01:57:52.780
Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

01:57:52.780 --> 01:57:56.780
Let's see. Let's see. Let's watch people turn this into Linus's

01:57:56.780 --> 01:57:59.780
scamming his audience. I'm excited for it. Oh, man.

01:57:59.780 --> 01:58:05.780
They did a dead pixel one. Yeah, dog. The dead pixel one could be used.

01:58:05.780 --> 01:58:08.780
LTT phone wallpapers for floaties.

01:58:08.780 --> 01:58:11.780
Let's go. Woo. Look at that.

01:58:11.780 --> 01:58:14.780
Wow. What a wallpaper. Yeah.

01:58:14.780 --> 01:58:17.780
Dead pixel. That's on purpose. I was expecting these to be garbage.

01:58:17.780 --> 01:58:20.780
What? These are actually legit. What did you just say?

01:58:20.780 --> 01:58:24.780
What did you just say? Well, I thought... About the valued member of our team.

01:58:24.780 --> 01:58:27.780
No, no, no. I wasn't sure how hard you were going to mean.

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,

01:58:31.780 --> 01:58:34.780
he draws a stick figure like more orange shirts. No.

01:58:34.780 --> 01:58:37.780
I was surprised at how fast she turned all these around. These are great.

01:58:37.780 --> 01:58:42.780
Yeah. The one with the waves on it and the logo is what we use

01:58:42.780 --> 01:58:45.780
on the YouTube background as well. That one's pretty damn cool.

01:58:45.780 --> 01:58:48.780
Yeah. We've got... Oh, hold on.

01:58:48.780 --> 01:58:51.780
Bye. Which ones are the desktop ones? I thought there were...

01:58:51.780 --> 01:58:54.780
Oh, wait. No, they're only phones. Yeah.

01:58:54.780 --> 01:58:57.780
Here are some wallpapers. No reason why they're uploaded now.

01:58:57.780 --> 01:59:03.780
Thank you for that, Sammy.

01:59:03.780 --> 01:59:06.780
Okay. I thought we had to... Oh, that makes sense that they would be phone ones.

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

01:59:13.780 --> 01:59:16.780
being like a thing that we do all the time. No, it's really not.

01:59:16.780 --> 01:59:19.780
We're just having some fun with it.

01:59:19.780 --> 01:59:27.780
So, do I think that this was the world's most brilliant tactical move?

01:59:27.780 --> 01:59:32.780
I can't say that based on the community feedback,

01:59:32.780 --> 01:59:38.280
it seems like it.

01:59:38.280 --> 01:59:41.280
Is it a scam? No. No.

01:59:41.280 --> 01:59:44.780
It is factually, by definition, not a scam. So, like...

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.

01:59:49.780 --> 01:59:52.780
Yeah. But I do think... There's maybe...

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

01:59:59.980 --> 02:00:04.420
to sort of rebuild goodwill with the community.

02:00:04.420 --> 02:00:07.860
And so, that's probably the best advice.

02:00:07.860 --> 02:00:10.980
Which I think they're doing, I'm sure they're working on it.

02:00:10.980 --> 02:00:14.260
I hope they're working on it. I hope they're working on it.

02:00:14.260 --> 02:00:17.980
Funny Hats asks me, what about a rip-off?

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.

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

02:00:31.540 --> 02:00:34.980
is like 400 US dollars. Of course.

02:00:34.980 --> 02:00:38.880
I personally consider that to be a rip-off. He doesn't.

02:00:38.880 --> 02:00:42.660
A rip-off, it absolutely could be.

02:00:42.660 --> 02:00:47.140
But a rip-off is subjective. Scam is not.

02:00:47.140 --> 02:00:50.940
That's where these two terms differ. It's definitely not a scam.

02:00:50.940 --> 02:00:55.620
If you think it's a rip-off, it's a rip-off.

02:00:55.740 --> 02:00:59.300
That's it. And we could discuss that, right?

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?

02:01:05.740 --> 02:01:08.860
I do, actually. You can get 20.

02:01:08.860 --> 02:01:13.900
Well, don't forget about the shipping. Maybe 15 plus shipping depending on where you live.

02:01:13.900 --> 02:01:16.900
Okay, all right. All right. Taxes, sure.

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.

02:01:20.060 --> 02:01:22.620
Actually, I think we're doing pretty good.

02:01:23.620 --> 02:01:29.620
Um, Luke's Birds, unfortunately, this is my last week on Floatplane.

02:01:29.620 --> 02:01:34.420
Oh, no, you won't get our second pack of wallpapers.

02:01:34.420 --> 02:01:37.420
Just kidding. I don't think we're going to do enough. No, probably not.

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.

02:01:42.620 --> 02:01:45.620
Yeah, okay. That's great.

02:01:45.620 --> 02:01:51.740
Guess who just resubbed to Floatplane just for wallpapers, this guy.

02:01:51.740 --> 02:01:55.020
The system works. That wasn't the point.

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

02:02:01.100 --> 02:02:05.980
Plane, Dan. They're just PNGs or JPEGs or whatever they are.

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.

02:02:12.580 --> 02:02:16.420
If you want to steal it, just there, quick. Press print screen.

02:02:16.420 --> 02:02:19.420
You got this. You can go through all. Go for it.

02:02:19.420 --> 02:02:22.420
I'm going to do it again. Get the merch message out of there.

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.

02:02:25.420 --> 02:02:28.420
I'm doing it. Hold on. I can move it.

02:02:28.420 --> 02:02:31.420
No, I'll move it down. I'll move it down. I got you.

02:02:31.420 --> 02:02:34.420
No, I got you. I got you down. Okay, here you go.

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Okay, quick, quick. That one's a- Quick screenshot that white dot.

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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

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just party. They're really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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They're like actually good. Well, of course they are. It's Sarah.

02:02:47.420 --> 02:02:50.420
Why do you- The stuff that comes out of that company. Why do you guys-

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Well, I thought she had like five minutes and would do like one.

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I didn't expect it was going to be- She did have like five minutes. She just has a lot of-

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She has just a lot of really great artwork that she's worked on over the years.

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And it's extremely competent. Yeah.

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I like competent people.

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I just do. I really do.

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Let's play a game. Okay.

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Let's play a game really quick.

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What do you think will be the dominant misinterpretation of that segment we just did?

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Oh, yeah. That's a good one.

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Downplaying the privacy stuff.

02:03:38.420 --> 02:03:41.420
Oh, okay. Okay. Well, let's address that then.

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Let's address that really quick. It's really bad. Okay.

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Okay. Okay. Next.

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Sounds like in- If I can throw my hat in the ring there as someone who has had to-

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In some cases, write. In other cases, work with lawyers to write.

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In other, other cases, write and then work with lawyers to write and then re-read it

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for them and be like, is this better? And they're like, yeah.

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And I'm like, cool. Thanks. Yeah.

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That has happened actually. More than once. More than once.

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These things- More than he knows even.

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I bet. Yeah. These things suck.

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And I have no idea. I have literally talked to none of them.

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Yeah. I bet you they were just like, hey lawyer people, can you please write one of these for us?

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And they were like, sure, Blonk. And just wrote it too aggressive because in a tweet that I saw, I think they were like,

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yeah, we're not even gathering all this stuff. We just like wrote it too.

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Too harsh. Yeah. I do, I suspect there is some amount of stuff for the free tier, for the advertisement delivery,

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stuff like that. And there is, there is some stuff they really just like needed to not do like that.

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Like the whole thing about, yeah, took a colossal amount of work to make it launch on Android

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and iOS at the same time. When it's a multi, Kotlin multi-platform.

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There was a, there was a couple things. Why say that if you like don't, you know, didn't do that.

02:05:05.420 --> 02:05:10.420
If it was, maybe give us a ring next time.

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

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things. Making stuff is hard.

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When, when, when we already stumbled through it and like they have my digits and like I'd

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have been happy to chat with them about it. I don't know.

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I, you know, on the other hand though, we, we, we can, we can kind of, we can yolo things

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as well. That's a good point.

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That's a really good point. We do that literally all the time.

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Yep. Uh, maybe, maybe creators just actually kind of suck at reaching out sometimes, including

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very much us. Um, there's, there's some, there's some pretty good ones.

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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

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saying they don't understand that scam actually does have a definition and it doesn't mean

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that. Uh, we got another one.

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Linus is just out to protect other tech tubers, unwilling to criticize them.

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Um, we straight up did.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this isn't, no, no, it's not.

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Oh, these are theories on what the controversy might be.

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Don't be so defensive for once it's him and not me.

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This is great. Let's fight. Oh, no, there was another, there was another really good one.

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There was another really good one. Uh, Linus criticizes Marquez's wallpapers, then launches his own behind a subscription.

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That's the same price.

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Actually accurate take. Yeah. Actually accurate take.

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Yeah. I love it. Um, Trevor, Trevor W asks bad faith question.

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How is this different than your stance on horse armor?

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My stance on horse armor is that it, it was the first pebble rolling down the hill that

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was an avalanche of colossal sh**ness in gaming, which fundamentally changed how games are

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made and played moving forward. Nobody is buying this wallpaper app.

02:07:07.420 --> 02:07:10.420
This is not going to change. I guarantee you some people do.

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Okay, sure. But this is not going to fundamentally change anything about the wallpaper economy, which

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is infinite, infinitesimally, I forget the word, but whatever, it's, it's, it's vanishingly

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small. And the idea of paying for wallpapers has existed for decades.

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And the number of people who pay for them is still exactly what it is today.

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This is going to change nothing is, is sort of why I don't really care about it.

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Yeah. I think the negative reaction to it was overblown.

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Um, I think the negative reaction to a lot of stuff in this space is insanely overblown

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and has been for a while now. I do, I do also understand why, um, like why people were so frustrated in this case.

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I mean, because it's someone whose job is to advise people on making good value decisions

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when they purchase mobile electronics.

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Um, and this doesn't seem to be aligned with that.

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Um, I do think that, I do think that there's also some friction that's around just paying

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for art. Um, and I think that's contributing to the outrage, but I do also, I do see where people

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are coming from. I just think that this could have been messaged better.

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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.

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Like we saw, we saw like genuinely taking over the internet level trending of people

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just like trying to light them on fire and it's like, yeah, it's been a lot, maybe chill.

02:08:49.580 --> 02:08:54.820
It's been a lot. Like you can, you can express your.

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Like it's not good, but I can personally think of times that would have made more sense to

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light Marquez up over. Like it's just, well, no, I, I just, I just mean it's, yeah, it's an overpriced product.

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

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know how Crystal manages this, but she manages like something I respond to and basically like

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every show it feels like at Linus, we need a scam shirt.

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It's exactly the same as every other shirt, but it costs like, but it costs like four

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times as much and just says scam on the front.

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I am so down and I'm down right now.

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I am sending this to Nick and Sarah. I am sending it to them right now.

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I will bring you. I will bring you the biggest scam t-shirt that you have ever seen.

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Oh, what if you, what if you, it's probably not worth it, but what if you got it like

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poorly printed? No, unacceptable.

02:10:01.540 --> 02:10:04.540
Yeah. I wouldn't do that. Okay.

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?

02:10:10.460 --> 02:10:16.460
It's, it's, it's our blank shirt and we just like include a sharpie.

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

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like on the inside. So you'll know you got scammed, but no one else will see it.

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

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is that it will cost more than our regular shirt.

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That's the only thing that I will promise you right now.

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It will be more expensive. Why?

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Cause you got scammed. Yeah. That's why.

02:10:49.420 --> 02:10:52.420
Okay. Oh wait. It's not even a scam.

02:10:52.420 --> 02:10:55.420
No, it's not even a scam. Yeah. Okay.

02:10:55.420 --> 02:10:58.420
Okay. We'll have to make some. Oh, no.

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Oh, this is dangerous. I don't think you're going to actually do it. No, I'm not.

02:11:01.420 --> 02:11:04.420
I can't actually. Yeah. Okay.

02:11:04.420 --> 02:11:07.420
Well, whatever. You'll think it's a scam. Maybe put scam in quotes.

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Okay. Well, we'll, we'll work on it. Well, we're going to work on it.

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We're going to work on it. We're going to ship to you and then you just ship them a box.

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We could share half of the profits with MKBHD.

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People are just, they're offering, they're offering suggestions.

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Workshop the scam shirt. No, I'm going to, I'm going to let, I'm going to let Sarah do her magic.

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You've already seen her. I just, I think people going in and being like, you've ruined your whole reputation

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.

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That's so stupid. It's like guys, chill.

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It's all the people who have never made a mistake. Yeah.

02:11:43.760 --> 02:11:47.260
Like it's the never made a mistake crowd. Relax. I don't know.

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I don't know. I mentioned this on the pre-show. We're deep enough in the show now.

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I maybe I'll just say it, but like honestly, I'm pretty thrilled with Marquez right now.

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Oh, you're right. Yeah. Yeah.

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

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human being on the face of the planet.

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Thank you, Marquez. For once, I am not the most controversial tech tupper.

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It's nice. It's nice.

02:12:19.540 --> 02:12:23.260
Yeah. I feel like I need like a celebratory donut or something.

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Like I just, it feels good, feels good.

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Send them like a thank you cake or something.

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

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we'll be embroiled in the same controversy that I mentioned.

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You can get yours now at Floatplane.com slash post slash Z4G, well, whatever.

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You'll figure it out. Yeah. You guys will figure it out.

02:12:49.940 --> 02:12:52.940
Yeah. Oh my God. This is so funny.

02:12:52.940 --> 02:12:56.220
Apparently all the wallpapers already posted on Reddit. Yeah, of course they are.

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This is, dude, this is great. Look at the comments on this.

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I never thought I'd sub to Floatplane. This was too good of a deal. I think I missed some context.

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Why is everyone saying scam? I know it's a joke, but, oh my goodness, this is amazing.

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Yeah. Thank you guys so much. I used Riley24 to subscribe and download these.

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,

02:13:20.740 --> 02:13:23.740
the concept works. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

02:13:23.740 --> 02:13:29.220
We genuinely appreciate your guys support, by the way. Floatplane pays for our development team.

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

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content. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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

02:13:41.900 --> 02:13:46.980
Sarah somehow. You should probably after downloading them, go check out the exclusives or something,

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.

02:13:51.780 --> 02:13:55.380
This is not a wallpaper thing. Also we might be bringing back some early access.

02:13:55.380 --> 02:13:59.140
Oh, cool. Yeah. Not all across the board, but selectively.

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

02:14:02.780 --> 02:14:06.220
shopper. This time, who are we secret shopping?

02:14:06.220 --> 02:14:10.540
I'm actually pretty excited about this.

02:14:10.540 --> 02:14:14.460
Framework. We secret shopped framework. Linus is not involved.

02:14:14.460 --> 02:14:17.620
They don't know. They don't know. Wait, did we talk about this last week?

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.

02:14:21.500 --> 02:14:25.060
So yeah. They don't, they don't know.

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They are finding out probably now, right now.

02:14:28.100 --> 02:14:32.500
Yeah. Someone's sending a frantic message. Which order was it?

02:14:32.500 --> 02:14:35.500
Yeah. Did you have them shipped here? No.

02:14:35.500 --> 02:14:38.500
Yeah, I didn't think so. Of course not. Yeah.

02:14:38.500 --> 02:14:41.500
Also I didn't have them do anything. Well, yeah. We, I, I, this was all.

02:14:41.500 --> 02:14:44.500
Apparently it was mentioned last week. I don't remember that. Okay.

02:14:44.500 --> 02:14:47.500
Weird. Well, it was all delegated. I recused myself.

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Anyway, it comes out tomorrow, September 28th on Floatplane and then later on in the

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week on YouTube. Cool. Finally, the last announcements thing, we gotta, we gotta pair these down a little bit

02:14:55.140 --> 02:14:58.140
next week. Yeah. Is Ridge Wallet Collab.

02:14:58.140 --> 02:15:01.140
We've been working with Ridge for five plus years. Oh. Oh, sick.

02:15:01.140 --> 02:15:06.740
And we finally got around, whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops, I'll get this.

02:15:06.740 --> 02:15:11.060
We finally got around to doing a proper product collab.

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.

02:15:18.820 --> 02:15:22.620
And it comes with both a cash strap and a money clip.

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

02:15:27.500 --> 02:15:31.100
tastes. Yeah. You had to drop something.

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.

02:15:35.980 --> 02:15:38.980
All right. So there you go. There's your money clip.

02:15:38.980 --> 02:15:42.900
And then there's the super cool, like, circuit-inspired design.

02:15:42.900 --> 02:15:46.300
It's sharp. Very cool. All right.

02:15:46.300 --> 02:15:49.300
What else are we talking about today? Oh, wait.

02:15:49.300 --> 02:15:52.300
Is this after dark, Dan? We... I can never tell anymore.

02:15:52.300 --> 02:15:55.300
No. We're not in after dark yet. It says that on the thing.

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.

02:15:58.300 --> 02:16:01.660
Stop. We've got, what, 45 minutes left?

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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.

02:16:07.700 --> 02:16:10.700
Okay. There. We did a quick one there.

02:16:10.700 --> 02:16:14.180
We might see Hi-Fi Rush 2. That's exciting. Nice.

02:16:14.180 --> 02:16:18.100
Floppy Bird Returns, but it's a scam.

02:16:18.100 --> 02:16:22.020
Okay. Might actually legitimately be a scam, not sure, but maybe.

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.

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It will not, however, be encrypting text communication, right, which they say is to facilitate moderation

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.

02:16:38.780 --> 02:16:42.020
Discord's current moderation involves both user reporting and a combination of image

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.

02:16:48.700 --> 02:16:53.060
The full technical details for Discord's audio, visual, end-to-end encryption protocol, which

02:16:53.060 --> 02:16:57.500
they call Dave, is outloaded, outlined in a white paper they've published.

02:16:57.500 --> 02:17:01.680
Likewise, its backing libraries are open-source to allow for public transparency and scrutiny

02:17:01.680 --> 02:17:05.420
by security researchers. At least it's progress. I'll say that much.

02:17:05.420 --> 02:17:09.020
Sure. All right. Let's switch over to Afterdark.

02:17:09.020 --> 02:17:12.020
Shall we? Yeah. Yes.

02:17:12.020 --> 02:17:15.020
We shall. Okay. Phone time?

02:17:15.020 --> 02:17:18.020
While he gets set up? Oh, okay. Yeah.

02:17:18.020 --> 02:17:21.020
Really? Is this that important to you? Just what is?

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.

02:17:24.540 --> 02:17:28.520
So Dan, can I ask you to do me a big favor? Yes.

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?

02:17:33.200 --> 02:17:41.240
I need the entire place to go completely dark.

02:17:41.240 --> 02:17:46.640
Oh, okay. Can you do that? I think that's actually pretty easy for them.

02:17:46.640 --> 02:17:49.840
Ideally this one last. Which for the overhead?

02:17:49.840 --> 02:17:59.840
Yes, sir. Feel free to do a merch message or something in the meantime, Luke.

02:17:59.840 --> 02:18:02.840
Oh, there's a bunch in there for you.

02:18:02.840 --> 02:18:08.840
Okay. Uno momento.

02:18:08.840 --> 02:18:13.600
And then I've got to get the back ones.

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.

02:18:17.240 --> 02:18:20.240
Oh, well, I have to climb a ladder. Maybe Dan can reach.

02:18:20.640 --> 02:18:23.640
Okay, let's see what this breaks. Should be nothing.

02:18:23.640 --> 02:18:27.640
You ready? Oh, God. You're turning off the battery backup?

02:18:27.640 --> 02:18:30.640
Yeah. Okay. Ready?

02:18:30.640 --> 02:18:33.640
Yeah, I guess.

02:18:33.640 --> 02:18:36.640
Whoa. Whoa. That's so bright.

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.

02:18:42.640 --> 02:18:46.640
Yeah, because it looks way better in person.

02:18:47.640 --> 02:18:52.640
It's going to have a hard time in the dark, I think.

02:18:54.640 --> 02:18:56.640
That's very bright.

02:19:05.640 --> 02:19:11.640
So, chat's actually asking the same question I have.

02:19:11.640 --> 02:19:15.640
How much radiation? Well, how much radiation?

02:19:15.640 --> 02:19:18.640
Well, it's just glow-in-the-dark. Yeah, what is it? Are we still live?

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Okay, yeah, we are. Sorry, what? What makes it glow-in-the-dark?

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It's cool.

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What is it? It's cool. Why are you being so cagey about your phone skin?

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Because, I don't know, some stuff might happen.

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Did you make this? How is it for that phone?

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I think that's the thing that's been driving me the most. What?

02:19:37.640 --> 02:19:40.640
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9? This is a popular device that many people still enjoy.

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How do you have a... So, this was custom-made for you.

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Man, it's textured, too. Isn't that cool?

02:19:48.640 --> 02:19:51.640
That's really nice, actually. Pretty cool, hey?

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It's also our company's orange. I don't know what you're talking about.

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Interesting. It feels nice.

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Yeah, I know. Kind of grippy, kind of feels good.

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Yeah, interesting, right?

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All right.

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Cool. Okay. I'm sure I'll have more to say at some point.

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Yeah. But... Photo fluorescence?

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Is that fine? All I know about glow-in-the-dark stuff is they used to do it with incredibly radioactive stuff.

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That was a long time ago. Ethically sourced radon, now.

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I'm just going to give them a closer look at it.

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You can feel free to do it. It looks sharp.

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All right. For Luke. Hey, when?

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Luke, if you can share what is the flow plane algorithm for deciding username color on a live?

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In live chat, yeah. I guess live chat. Yeah.

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We're just stopping it there.

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We're not doing the... Oh, there's a lioness question after that.

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I see. Okay, got it. I don't remember.

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That's entirely a Jaden thing. I think it's a secret.

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If I remember correctly, I don't think it's a secret.

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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.

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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

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will change it or something. I don't remember exactly how it works.

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If you ever see Jaden in the chat, poke him and he'll be able to tell you if he feels like

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it or he won't because he might not feel like it because he's not on shift.

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Sounds about right. I'm not going to tell him what to do. Yeah, that's it.

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Lioness, how do you feel about PlayStation raising the prices on Horizon Zero Dawn?

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Is this for the remaster or whatever? It's like it's $10 more, but now it's the remaster or something?

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What are we talking about?

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Raising the price? I heard something happened, but I don't know.

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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

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don't pay for it. PlayStation quietly raises Horizon Zero Dawn PS4 price following remaster announcement.

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Yeah, I guess don't buy it.

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I mean, I don't know, guys. Come on.

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Yeah, it sucks. Games cost a lot of money, but you had five years to buy Horizon.

02:22:13.640 --> 02:22:16.640
When did Horizon Zero Dawn come out?

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Horizon Zero Dawn release PS4 because I bought it on PC three years ago, I feel like.

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This game came out in 2017. It came out seven years ago.

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If you wanted to play it, just play it.

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I don't know, guys.

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It's a scam there. It's a scam.

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It's a scam. It's a scam.

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I mean, I'm not a fan of game prices going up, but like honestly, we've talked about it

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extensively on the show before. The fact that game prices haven't gone up a lot more is crazy.

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I feel like it's been a standoff where different companies are just like, who's going to go first?

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Dude, there's probably more people who work in the marketing department of a modern AAA game

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than worked on Super Mario World in its entirety, right?

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And that was a $60 cartridge back in 1994.

02:23:11.640 --> 02:23:14.640
93? When did Super Mario World come out?

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It wasn't 92, was it? I think it was 93. Was it two?

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1990! Good lord! Right?

02:23:21.640 --> 02:23:24.640
So, yeah, games are flip and expensive.

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I mean, do I think the whole, we're remastering a seven-year-old game thing is a little bit ridiculous

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and sort of, you know, playing around with the hype cycle and the fact that it's in the news

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and raising the price or whatever, it's like, yeah, sure, whatever.

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But realistically, guys, this is games. Wait another three months and it's probably going to be on sale again or whatever

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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.

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I'm sorry. Man, I'm going to, I'm going to get in trouble.

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Okay, I see. I knew there'd be more to it.

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Naturally, people saw the, this is, I'm reading off of dual shockers.

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I'm going to just share my screen because they seem to have actually pretty good coverage of this.

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Naturally, when people saw the price spike of Horizon Zero Dawn, it left them scratching their heads, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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It's like almost doubled in, or it's effectively doubled in price.

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Following the title of this article is it closes a loophole.

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So I was like, what does that mean? Apparently, if you own the original version, you can upgrade to the remaster version.

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.

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Oh, I've got it. Okay. So.

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Okay. Well, that makes sense. Luca 103 on the subject of scams asks, where's your iPhone Linus?

02:24:43.640 --> 02:24:47.640
After I shot the ShortCircuit, they needed it for some other content.

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So they're going to give it to me when they're done with it. 16?

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Yeah, I'm going with 16 plus. You're going to run one? Yeah.

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Like mainline? Oh, yeah. You're going to put that away?

02:24:56.640 --> 02:24:59.640
Yep. Wow. It's going away.

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It's going away. D Starfire actually, there's a couple of questions from Floatplane chat from earlier.

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D Starfire asked, I've always wondered, what is LMG stance on like the LTT GIFs and Discord and stuff?

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.

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Oh, you're not marketing something with an endorsement with Linus?

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

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is a good value. Yeah. I think the gifts are hilarious.

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Yeah. We are pro community engagement and community use of our likenesses.

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Any time some like meme face of me takes over the subreddit for a little while, it's great

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fun. Tora Melkson asks, how's the cat?

02:25:49.640 --> 02:25:52.640
I realized after I said that the cat was at the vet.

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.

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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

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

02:26:09.640 --> 02:26:12.640
and pain killers and he was fine in like two days.

02:26:12.640 --> 02:26:15.640
Cool. So yeah, he's doing great. All right.

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.

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Is there any updates? And if so, how does he feel about the camera movement and mechanics?

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Did I ever talk about it? I don't know if you ever did.

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There was a brief discussion about it when it sort of just first.

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.

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I remember talking about the laser scans and the details and things like that.

02:26:38.640 --> 02:26:42.640
But never went back to it. I hated it.

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Sorry to the body cam. Tell us how you really feel. Was it a scam?

02:26:46.640 --> 02:26:49.640
Yes. No, no, no, no.

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It has a really interesting aesthetic.

02:26:52.640 --> 02:26:56.640
They did, they cooked. They did interesting things with it.

02:26:56.640 --> 02:26:59.640
But there was parts of the game that were just like, what?

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

02:27:04.640 --> 02:27:07.640
when you die, you're out until the next round, right?

02:27:07.640 --> 02:27:10.640
But you would then be able to pilot a drone.

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,

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.

02:27:21.640 --> 02:27:24.640
Oh, well, that seems like an oversight. So stupid.

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That's a scam. So my team had one less player than their team.

02:27:30.640 --> 02:27:33.640
The, the Katie ratios of everyone on our team was better than them in general,

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.

02:27:38.640 --> 02:27:41.640
Skill issue.

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Probably. I was pretty bad to be completely honest.

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I did not do well, but it was also super annoying.

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Like you, you would actually get someone and you'd be stoked and then you'd hear the drone come around.

02:27:53.640 --> 02:27:56.640
And it's like, oh, okay. Guess I'm screwed.

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Nice. Like, and you just, you hear the voice chatting drone telling them where you are.

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.

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.

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Yeah. Yeah. And it like, it was, it was one of those games where they're like, it's realistic.

02:28:16.640 --> 02:28:19.640
So they just made it like feel horrible. Oh, sure.

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

02:28:25.640 --> 02:28:28.640
really not actually that slow. We don't have to play this way.

02:28:28.640 --> 02:28:31.640
People can turn on a dime pretty quickly. Yeah.

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Um, I don't know, but it is the, you know, the aesthetics are really interesting.

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

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.

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Here. The reviews are in for our wallpaper app.

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Nice. Nice. It's pretty good.

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?

02:29:06.640 --> 02:29:10.640
Um, I'm glad I don't have to answer this.

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I just asked Luke. I, I don't know.

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.

02:29:21.640 --> 02:29:26.640
Um, I think there are people I have.

02:29:26.640 --> 02:29:29.640
Hmm. Can I talk vaguely enough about this? I think so.

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I have employed people that didn't work out because in my opinion, they weren't necessarily

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a bad worker, but they were not capable of work from homework.

02:29:40.640 --> 02:29:42.640
Um, they, they were.

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.

02:29:46.640 --> 02:29:50.640
They probably needed more micromanagement. They probably needed more.

02:29:50.640 --> 02:29:54.640
Someone can literally see what they're doing all the time, level micromanagement.

02:29:54.640 --> 02:29:58.640
Um, which you can't effectively do with work from home.

02:29:58.640 --> 02:30:03.640
This whole like monitor their mouse movement thing, whatever, you will always lose that

02:30:03.640 --> 02:30:06.640
war. And also just, can we not?

02:30:06.640 --> 02:30:09.640
Yeah, that too. Like companies are never going to win.

02:30:09.640 --> 02:30:12.640
So they, can we just not, they shouldn't even do it. Yeah.

02:30:12.640 --> 02:30:15.640
Because it's like invasive and weird and you're not going to win anyways.

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,

02:30:25.640 --> 02:30:28.640
work from home versus work in office. I don't know.

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.

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

02:30:39.640 --> 02:30:42.640
aggressive take. No, no, no. It's not that.

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.

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And so I think for you to, I think that, you know, you would talk to the Kevin O'Leary's

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

02:30:59.280 --> 02:31:02.640
where the worker works, then they'll be like, this is communism.

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.

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I just, every time I, every time I read anything about his take on something, it's usually what

02:31:10.200 --> 02:31:13.440
I disagree with. So I just, so I'm just picking on him essentially.

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.

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And then on the other side, you've got like r slash anti work that basically goes, I should

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work when I want, however I want, and if I want, and whatever else.

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.

02:31:36.280 --> 02:31:43.920
Like for you to say something like, you know, yeah, sometimes the employer, you know, abuses

02:31:43.920 --> 02:31:49.560
their, their power, you know, that's going to upset your, your, your capitalist fat cats.

02:31:49.560 --> 02:31:55.520
And for you to say, sometimes the worker is not in good faith, contributing positively

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

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.

02:32:07.360 --> 02:32:11.080
What you're saying is I just pissed off everybody. Yeah, kind of nice. Nice.

02:32:11.080 --> 02:32:14.080
I don't know. What would be your centrist? Yeah.

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I also have people literally on my team right now that I think I could objectively say just

02:32:18.080 --> 02:32:23.720
work better by working from home. More on task, if anything, like that type of stuff.

02:32:23.720 --> 02:32:27.720
Like there's just people are people and people are different.

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.

02:32:37.720 --> 02:32:40.720
Oh man. Oh man. I don't know.

02:32:40.720 --> 02:32:43.720
I don't even like, he was on Shark Tank, right?

02:32:43.720 --> 02:32:46.720
Yeah. The Canadian one. Oh, okay.

02:32:46.720 --> 02:32:51.720
Yeah. The like, you know, whale tank. I don't know what it's called.

02:32:51.720 --> 02:32:54.720
Salmon tank. Anyway. Beaver Dan.

02:32:54.720 --> 02:32:57.720
Anyway. Yeah. The reality of it is is there are.

02:32:57.720 --> 02:33:02.720
Faith and bad faith bosses and there are good faith and bad faith employees.

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.

02:33:10.720 --> 02:33:13.720
Yeah. Period. Yep.

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It's a different type of management. It also takes a sometimes, not always, but sometimes it takes kind of a different type

02:33:20.200 --> 02:33:23.840
of employee. Yep. I think it can be beneficial for some people.

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

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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.

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

02:33:39.680 --> 02:33:43.000
that lack the self-awareness to recognize that it's negative for them.

02:33:43.000 --> 02:33:46.640
That is almost certainly also a thing.

02:33:46.640 --> 02:33:50.560
I think that's also on both sides though. I think. Yeah.

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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

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

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

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

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on right now. Unrealistic about its potential downsides is not going to help.

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And I also think that there is, there's bad faith arguments on both sides, you know?

02:34:27.240 --> 02:34:31.480
Absolutely. Yeah, it is what it is. How about some more Luke ones?

02:34:31.480 --> 02:34:35.040
Hi, Luke. I have an avid active curler from California.

02:34:35.040 --> 02:34:38.040
Sick. Yes, we curl in California. In California.

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?

02:34:47.280 --> 02:34:50.400
My question is lead, second, vice or skip?

02:34:50.400 --> 02:34:54.640
Which one are you usually playing also prefer draws or hits?

02:34:54.640 --> 02:35:00.000
Oh, generally hits, no idea what we're talking about hits.

02:35:00.000 --> 02:35:05.760
Are you a curler from California? I only hear them called takeouts.

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.

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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

02:35:18.520 --> 02:35:21.520
my dad. So I will not be that role.

02:35:21.520 --> 02:35:24.840
Nice. Usually my brother's the lead. I'm second.

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

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.

02:35:35.120 --> 02:35:38.120
No, I know. First, second, third. I've curled.

02:35:38.120 --> 02:35:41.120
Oh, yeah. Yeah. What do you say?

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.

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.

02:35:49.880 --> 02:35:54.880
What? It's Rob. It's not skip.

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I know the positions. Okay. That's my uncle.

02:35:59.880 --> 02:36:04.560
Oh, that's actually pretty funny.

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.

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.

02:36:15.560 --> 02:36:18.560
Yeah. All right. Okay.

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.

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Can you talk about these? How are they doing? Any learnings enjoying the change up personally?

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.

02:36:36.000 --> 02:36:41.280
The one where my son gets swapped out with Dennis was a little jarring.

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.

02:36:47.240 --> 02:36:50.560
Normally, I'm the final pass review on LTT videos.

02:36:50.560 --> 02:36:54.320
I did not see that. I thought it was really funny.

02:36:54.320 --> 02:36:57.320
It was funny. Yeah. Yeah.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

02:37:30.200 --> 02:37:33.640
I think. Yeah. It doesn't all fall into my department now.

02:37:33.640 --> 02:37:38.960
You got to understand that everything that I say now comes from the perspective of a

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

02:37:43.400 --> 02:37:46.800
to upper management meetings, not the one who makes all the decisions. I show up sometimes.

02:37:46.800 --> 02:37:49.800
Sometimes. Yeah. And I get summaries.

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,

02:37:55.680 --> 02:37:58.920
you know, help back up on something or whatever. I told you that.

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.

02:38:04.080 --> 02:38:07.320
Well, and you can always table something for a future discussion.

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

02:38:12.400 --> 02:38:17.440
as the investor, primary shareholder of the company, he would think this is phenomenally

02:38:17.440 --> 02:38:20.640
stupid. Like we can always have conversations. Nothing's set in stone.

02:38:20.640 --> 02:38:24.840
We, we make it, we try to make decisions as a team.

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

02:38:30.440 --> 02:38:34.120
to what would Linus think?

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

02:38:38.120 --> 02:38:42.480
he was thinking. Okay. But I got like videos to shoot.

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

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.

02:38:51.920 --> 02:38:55.720
I, I like creating reports and. It's a weird world.

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.

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.

02:39:03.720 --> 02:39:06.720
Yeah. Yeah. I, I understand.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

02:39:33.960 --> 02:39:38.600
Yeah. But, um, yeah, I won't be in exact meeting every time.

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

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.

02:39:50.640 --> 02:39:53.920
I am not the CEO. The company's big and there's a lot of execs.

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,

02:40:00.080 --> 02:40:03.600
you know, yeah, uh, you know, are we, are we doing this?

02:40:03.600 --> 02:40:07.160
It was like something that he wants to do that I was kind of lukewarm on.

02:40:07.480 --> 02:40:10.280
And I was like, well, you said we're doing it.

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.

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.

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,

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?

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

02:40:42.040 --> 02:40:45.200
the interests of the shareholders, theoretically, everyone is sort of

02:40:45.200 --> 02:40:48.360
representing the interests of the shareholders, but members of the board of

02:40:48.360 --> 02:40:52.840
directors, especially in smaller companies like ours, are often the shareholders.

02:40:52.840 --> 02:40:54.520
People are tagging me and they're just saying warm.

02:40:56.120 --> 02:40:57.120
Nice.

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

02:41:03.120 --> 02:41:06.560
it's still valid to ask the shareholders what they want.

02:41:06.640 --> 02:41:09.680
Yeah, absolutely. No, it is, it is a hundred percent. Yeah.

02:41:09.680 --> 02:41:15.520
And, and, and, and for me, my role is not to micromanage that.

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

02:41:20.880 --> 02:41:25.880
there's a, like, uh, like an investment decision, um, like if there's some,

02:41:25.880 --> 02:41:29.480
some kind of action in both of those, him going to, I mean, I mean,

02:41:29.480 --> 02:41:32.560
defend Terran mode now. Um, he's doing great in both of those.

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

02:41:41.960 --> 02:41:47.520
of the things that you just described and depending on the impact, severity,

02:41:47.520 --> 02:41:51.240
et cetera, of those things, consulting shareholders might also make sense.

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.

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.

02:42:04.840 --> 02:42:05.720
Well, it's an expression.

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.

02:42:13.720 --> 02:42:18.200
You either, you have to be given the leeway to successfully lead until such time

02:42:18.200 --> 02:42:21.280
as you lose the confidence of the board of directors and then you're fired.

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.

02:42:25.360 --> 02:42:29.640
So you either are capable of leading or you've lost, or you've lost confidence

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

02:42:34.240 --> 02:42:37.240
demote you to VP of happiness or whatever.

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.

02:42:41.720 --> 02:42:44.680
I feel like that is a role that some company has somewhere.

02:42:44.720 --> 02:42:48.880
I mean, probably, but I don't think Taryn would be the one to occupy it.

02:42:50.240 --> 02:42:54.320
That guy is the worst resting face. It's, it's pretty bad.

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

02:42:59.840 --> 02:43:02.920
face multiple times. Yeah. Yeah.

02:43:02.920 --> 02:43:06.640
We, he told me like almost immediately. He told you that.

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.

02:43:11.040 --> 02:43:13.360
Otherwise I would have been crying every time I talked to him.

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,

02:43:20.640 --> 02:43:24.240
okay, yeah, I can, I can, I can handle that. That's just like this.

02:43:25.840 --> 02:43:30.040
By the way, that's great. Oh, what now? What is a chief happiness officer?

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

02:43:34.120 --> 02:43:38.080
dystopian term I have ever heard in my entire life.

02:43:38.480 --> 02:43:41.040
Beatings will continue until morale improves.

02:43:43.840 --> 02:43:48.160
All right. Top performers get an additional one minute break.

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

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?

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?

02:44:03.840 --> 02:44:07.680
I should. There are only seen bits and pieces. First season, 15 million merits.

02:44:07.680 --> 02:44:12.440
There is actually this, they're forced to watch advertisements or they can pay to

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.

02:44:20.360 --> 02:44:23.360
And it says resume viewing, resume viewing.

02:44:23.680 --> 02:44:27.600
And you have to watch it in order to.

02:44:28.480 --> 02:44:31.440
You know what I think? I think it's a scam. Yep.

02:44:31.960 --> 02:44:35.080
Scam. Yep. Okay. I'm going to give you a serious answer.

02:44:35.560 --> 02:44:40.080
It's the automation. It's the automation that makes it that.

02:44:41.720 --> 02:44:46.160
So anything you do, anything you do manually and then resume manually, that requires

02:44:46.160 --> 02:44:49.040
your attention because that's essentially the payment. The payment is attention.

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.

02:44:53.160 --> 02:44:57.480
I, I don't look at ads. I mean, we've talked about this extensively.

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

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

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

02:45:14.200 --> 02:45:17.560
seconds and then like check back in, but attention is the form of payment.

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.

02:45:22.800 --> 02:45:27.040
Um, and anyway, it's not piracy, it's privateering.

02:45:27.760 --> 02:45:29.760
We've been through this. Yeah. Yeah.

02:45:31.720 --> 02:45:37.440
Interesting take. Hey Linus, looking Dan, during a fresh Windows install Windows update downloaded

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?

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.

02:45:49.360 --> 02:45:52.040
Whatever you're comfortable with, you just do your thing there.

02:45:52.600 --> 02:45:54.680
Uh, okay. Is there an entity to be fair?

02:45:55.600 --> 02:45:59.920
Um, actually the, the BIOS flashing thing, I believe that's more down to the

02:45:59.920 --> 02:46:02.960
system integrator, like that would never happen with a custom machine.

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

02:46:09.800 --> 02:46:16.000
integrator is choosing to make use of, um, as opposed to Microsoft, um, seizing power.

02:46:16.000 --> 02:46:19.560
There's plenty of Microsoft abusing power lately that we could point out.

02:46:19.560 --> 02:46:20.560
I don't think this is it.

02:46:22.800 --> 02:46:25.680
All right. Okay.

02:46:25.920 --> 02:46:28.720
What else? I gotta make sure that that is broadcast.

02:46:29.080 --> 02:46:33.800
Since LMG has such a wide array of different jobs, how does growing in your own

02:46:33.800 --> 02:46:37.040
field look like, for example, graphic designer, particularly with the

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

02:46:43.920 --> 02:46:49.160
by a lot of definitions. Um, like a lot of small companies, we struggle with this.

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

02:46:55.440 --> 02:47:01.160
them artificial because they are reflective of the increased experience and or

02:47:01.160 --> 02:47:06.000
compensation that is associated with them, but we've had to kind of create new

02:47:06.000 --> 02:47:10.400
segmentations sometimes within roles that previously would have been the same.

02:47:10.400 --> 02:47:13.640
So we previously had writer. Now we have junior writer and senior writer.

02:47:14.040 --> 02:47:18.880
Um, in order to take, you could take a piece from like Silicon Valley tech stuff

02:47:18.880 --> 02:47:22.080
where you have like numbered levels. Yeah. Yeah.

02:47:22.080 --> 02:47:26.000
Something like that would be one good thing that could come from Silicon

02:47:26.000 --> 02:47:32.120
Valley tech. Um, I'm sure it's misused for horrible reasons somehow.

02:47:32.240 --> 02:47:36.320
It's absolutely something that we have looked at a little bit and it's

02:47:36.320 --> 02:47:39.800
absolutely something that we haven't looked at enough and haven't solved.

02:47:43.120 --> 02:47:47.480
Linus, I remember you saying you had to go to Saskatoon to get your tie can.

02:47:47.480 --> 02:47:51.160
How did you like your visit to our flat chunk of dirt?

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.

02:47:57.440 --> 02:48:01.600
I read a lot of things that I apparently said that I definitely never said and

02:48:01.600 --> 02:48:05.240
definitely never happened. Um, I imported it from Quebec.

02:48:05.880 --> 02:48:11.640
So you're close. Just got the province wrong and you got who went where wrong.

02:48:12.080 --> 02:48:16.000
Um, however conveniently I have been to Saskatchewan.

02:48:16.640 --> 02:48:20.000
I think I, I think I drove through Regina though, which, which one does, uh,

02:48:20.040 --> 02:48:24.280
which one does the one road go through? Um, I'm sorry.

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.

02:48:31.000 --> 02:48:34.320
I didn't really think they were as flat as people make them out to be.

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.

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.

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.

02:48:50.800 --> 02:48:55.000
Like at least, uh, at least in the, the, the bottom part of Saskatchewan

02:48:55.000 --> 02:49:01.080
that I drove through, uh, Regina, you guys, Regina, it's a city.

02:49:01.120 --> 02:49:03.160
Calm down. I knew it was going to happen immediately.

02:49:04.720 --> 02:49:07.800
Immediately. All Canadians giggle too. Good job, chat.

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?

02:49:13.320 --> 02:49:16.800
Thanks for all the amazing content. Um, I don't know.

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.

02:49:22.800 --> 02:49:25.920
I forget. Um, no, not us. Oh, cool.

02:49:25.920 --> 02:49:29.880
Uh, we, as in myself and Emma, um, my roommate is gone.

02:49:30.160 --> 02:49:33.520
Yeah. Birds were sick, which sucked. They were gone for a long time.

02:49:33.520 --> 02:49:38.680
It was very expensive, but that let us, you know, get crazy chemical carpet

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

02:50:16.040 --> 02:50:19.800
My, my tech setup at my house is like kind of awesome.

02:50:20.040 --> 02:50:21.960
No, I'm going to. Oh, okay.

02:50:23.440 --> 02:50:30.400
No, I'm curious. Uh, it's, it doesn't really matter, but what, go away.

02:50:31.840 --> 02:50:36.680
Uh, does stopping a long form YouTube video and finishing it later or the next

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

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,

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?

02:50:58.960 --> 02:51:02.120
Go analytics is a weird or YouTube analytics is a weird.

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.

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.

02:51:16.760 --> 02:51:20.760
This retention graph is absolute poo poo.

02:51:21.280 --> 02:51:26.640
Like by the end of this video, only 16% of people are watching this video.

02:51:26.920 --> 02:51:32.880
And yet this got served for a whopping 12 million views on the platform.

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.

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.

02:51:45.120 --> 02:51:49.960
We're looking at more like by the time of the end sponsorships, 45% is above

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.

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

02:52:00.960 --> 02:52:04.760
YouTube recommendations down. Uh, why would that be?

02:52:05.200 --> 02:52:08.840
Because the first video I showed you guys is reference material.

02:52:09.040 --> 02:52:12.320
The overall watch time is huge because it's like two hours long.

02:52:12.320 --> 02:52:17.440
So that 16% or whatever it was at the end amounts to longer watch time.

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

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.

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

02:52:35.240 --> 02:52:38.680
algorithmically, looking at something going, I don't have time for this right

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

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.

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.

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

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.

02:53:02.520 --> 02:53:06.800
Yeah. Hey Linus, now that you are switching to iPhone, will you also be trying the

02:53:06.800 --> 02:53:09.800
Apple ecosystem, watch macOS, maybe home kit?

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

02:53:16.480 --> 02:53:20.120
Windows guy, um, and that will continue to be my perspective.

02:53:20.120 --> 02:53:24.360
I think DLL currently working for tech startup in a decision making position.

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

02:53:29.640 --> 02:53:32.720
growth? Oh, these are hard questions.

02:53:32.840 --> 02:53:36.600
Yeah, it's hard. I mean, realistically, you could take an entire degree of that.

02:53:36.800 --> 02:53:39.640
Yeah. So. And you'd still barely know what you're doing.

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.

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

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.

02:53:56.320 --> 02:53:59.800
Um, that the, it's very easy for data to lie.

02:54:00.000 --> 02:54:03.440
It's also very easy for you to misinterpret what the data really means.

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

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

02:54:12.680 --> 02:54:17.680
match, try to figure out what's going on, but generally you should strongly

02:54:17.680 --> 02:54:21.000
consider the sentiment says something along that lines. I don't remember what it is.

02:54:23.840 --> 02:54:27.840
How have power tool companies been given a pass for so long for locking consumers

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.

02:54:35.760 --> 02:54:42.760
Because, uh, it's a different less, um, okay.

02:54:43.600 --> 02:54:47.600
First of all, if you talk to any trades, they hate that drives them crazy.

02:54:48.160 --> 02:54:51.160
Um, you know, you talk to, uh, talk to farmers.

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.

02:54:57.040 --> 02:55:01.000
Um, we tech folk just aren't really talking about it because it doesn't

02:55:01.000 --> 02:55:06.440
affect us day to day because no offense to you, uh, but you probably don't

02:55:06.440 --> 02:55:09.720
work with a drill every day because you watch this show.

02:55:09.720 --> 02:55:14.240
And yes, yes, you, I know you do, but most of them use don't.

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

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

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,

02:55:33.480 --> 02:55:38.000
what's her name? The, uh, uh, the Goop, Goop actress.

02:55:38.080 --> 02:55:43.320
Oh, whatever. Goop actress. Yeah. If she, if she launched some, uh, Gwyneth Pover.

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,

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

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.

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.

02:56:05.640 --> 02:56:11.120
Yeah. They also might not care because they will happily give like Milwaukee $300 for a

02:56:11.120 --> 02:56:14.320
radio Milwaukee, get the Makita espresso machine.

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.

02:56:22.040 --> 02:56:24.280
Trucks are really intense. It's a crazy one.

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.

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

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.

02:56:37.640 --> 02:56:41.800
It should is. I will not touch team red.

02:56:41.840 --> 02:56:44.680
So I wasn't, um, I wasn't kidding about that.

02:56:45.200 --> 02:56:49.440
This is, uh, this is a radio for 300 Canadian dollars.

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.

02:56:57.160 --> 02:56:59.640
You have to eat a coffee maker. I need you to.

02:57:00.320 --> 02:57:03.320
I know we're pressed for time, but. Okay.

02:57:03.960 --> 02:57:05.920
Well, at least it's cheaper than the other thing.

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.

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

02:57:16.680 --> 02:57:19.840
bill, maybe an idea for a future video. Lowering it a bit.

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

02:57:26.920 --> 02:57:30.880
censor poor reviews that said, why are we not able to review products after a few

02:57:30.880 --> 02:57:34.160
months? I don't know.

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,

02:57:40.600 --> 02:57:43.480
you wouldn't be able to. I, uh, I don't know.

02:57:43.960 --> 02:57:48.800
Uh, we had an issue with our reviews, um, our reviews plugin this week.

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Where, uh, someone thought we were, uh, we, we had changed the, the gradient.

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

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

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.

02:58:13.560 --> 02:58:17.680
So it made it seem like these ones were not as good as they were.

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.

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.

02:58:27.240 --> 02:58:30.880
The plugin that we use for customer reviews, just like updated and like we didn't

02:58:30.880 --> 02:58:34.040
know, and we had to manually intervene in order to make it not do that.

02:58:34.400 --> 02:58:37.840
Um, so it's possible that might just be a limitation of the platform we use.

02:58:37.840 --> 02:58:40.760
We don't, we didn't create our own review system.

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And like I, there are things I don't like about it.

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.

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.

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?

02:59:00.560 --> 02:59:02.840
It seems like the sort of RPG you'd have fun playing.

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.

02:59:08.840 --> 02:59:12.000
Oh, I accidentally, that's fine. Just to archive the second one.

02:59:12.040 --> 02:59:16.520
Hi, WAN Show. This is for you, Linus, uh, you have mentioned that you are emotionally

02:59:16.520 --> 02:59:19.680
needy in relationships. How did you and Yvonne deal with this?

02:59:19.680 --> 02:59:23.680
And what conversation complications did you both? Well, we're both emotionally needy.

02:59:23.680 --> 02:59:31.760
So we, um, met and then basically, you notice I never talk about friends

02:59:33.000 --> 02:59:37.600
that I have other than like people I work with.

02:59:39.960 --> 02:59:44.560
It's because Yvonne and I met became completely, I believe the word is enmeshed.

02:59:45.080 --> 02:59:49.480
Enmeshed. Yeah. And, um, healthy or not.

02:59:49.560 --> 02:59:53.320
Um, hey, we're coming up on 20 years, baby. I'd say that's healthy.

02:59:53.360 --> 02:59:59.520
Congratulations. Um, so cool.

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All right. I found the one that you deleted. Uh, hello WAN.dll.

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I'm currently without power and internet due to four days due to the hurricane

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Haleen, uh, but safe. How would you handle getting your tech family through a similar situation

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without power?

03:00:19.320 --> 03:00:22.480
I'm, I'm super obsessive about battery banks.

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I have tons and they tend to be rather charged.

03:00:27.760 --> 03:00:32.600
Um, I've got, I've got food and water reserves.

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The problem is that he's currently without power. Ah, that makes things really hard.

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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.

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.

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It was really powerful, very, very, uh, easy to run, but giant, but also very cheap.

03:01:02.240 --> 03:01:05.840
A lot of people do the natural gas ones outside, but that doesn't really work.

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If the natural gas infrastructure explodes, don't know.

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Code red 255 and Floatplane asks, is this a rerun?

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The WAN Show is always live. Except for that one time.

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Was it April fools that we did a pre-recorded one or was it Christmas?

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I think we did one on Christmas. It was Christmas. I think we've done it once or twice.

03:01:28.920 --> 03:01:33.520
We've pre-recorded the WAN Show. Um, I'll prove it.

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?

03:01:39.400 --> 03:01:43.520
That'd be crazy. Forty chess with time travel.

03:01:46.960 --> 03:01:50.400
Okay. Well, last one then. Oh, Ouch.

03:01:51.400 --> 03:01:55.360
Linus, uh, I have heard you recommend Anno 1800 for years.

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.

03:02:01.000 --> 03:02:03.400
Nice. Do you have any suggestions for a noob?

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Um, watch at least a couple of dislike people's startup videos.

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And then invest no more than probably like 32, 60 minutes in that.

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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.

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And then the other big one is look at just one or two videos of people kind of

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showing off their final states because that'll give you some ideas in your mind

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for what you need to plan ahead for as you're laying the foundation of your city

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or cities. My thing would actually be something that Linus hammered in a hammered home for me.

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Um, I was somewhat sheltered when I, when I kind of first started playing Anno

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because I would just like be the military ship guy and then Linus would build

03:02:49.560 --> 03:02:52.680
all the islands, but something he used to mention all the time was to look at

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

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.

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

03:03:11.000 --> 03:03:16.600
harvesting places are generating versus how much your, your product producing

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places are using those things and making new ones and how many of those things

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you actually need and balance the equation. Um, instead of just like building kind of stuff that you think you might need.

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It's wildly more efficient and I find more rewarding.

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And once you figure that out on one island, then the efficiency growth of like,

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Oh, actually potatoes take up a lot of freaking space.

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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

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and do it that way. Doing stuff like that starts to become very natural.

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Yeah.

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This is cool. I didn't know about this.

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Someone pointed this out in chat. Someone pointed this out in chat.

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CAS multi-brand battery system.

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CAS brands, um, cordless alliance, something I think.

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Do you just need like an adapter or something? Uh, I don't know.

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Metabo, Metabo.

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Cas cordless, sorry. The drill communicates with the battery itself.

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The BMS has a specialized computer in it on each battery.

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I know because a family friend is a Makita dealer

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and he gets us buckets of old batteries that have basically just failed

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and then we Frankenstein them back together, make adapter plates and things like that.

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It's very interesting. Cool.

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I forget what to CAS stand for. I think we've left out to the site.

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Oh, cordless alliance system. There it is. Cool. Well, good luck with that.

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And good luck with you guys finding something else to do now

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because it's the end of the show. Yeah. We'll see you again next week. Same bad times, same bad channel.

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Bye.

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Go home, medicate your birds.