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Catchphrase like that, I guess. I have no choice but to comply.

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Oh, God, are we? I'm kidding, I'm kidding. How could you do that, Dan?

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I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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What the hell is patet? Patet? What the hell is patet?

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Whoa. Whoa, way to go, Luke.

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We don't talk about patet? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

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Yeah. Why do you even... Oh, yeah, don't worry about it.

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Oh. Okay.

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Sure. Don't worry about it, dude. I mean, I'm not worried.

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I'm just, you know, like, what the fuck is patet?

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How have you not noticed it? Are you sure that was there before?

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Well, it's never been checked, though. It's the first show I've left it checked.

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Well, that's not there on mine. I know. Oh, well... But it's been there on mine for six years, seven years, maybe?

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Yeah, but like... Since when do we stream to it, though?

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Oh, it's just a test. I know. No, I don't understand what it is.

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I'm not a fucking idiot. Just mean, like...

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What is this? I just mean, like, why is it here now?

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Oh, I'm sure AJ's just testing something. Oh, okay, all right, all right. Fine, I'll allow it.

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Oh, okay.

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No, AJ, don't do your job. Yeah. Okay.

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Go home. Wait, he works from home.

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Go home, go france! Now he's going to be mad.

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Now he's really not going to work. Yeah, yeah.

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Oh, man.

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Ouch.

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My ARM hurts so much. That tournament was, like, maybe not worth it.

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I hurt my back and I got pretty wicked tennis elbow.

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Like, I can't play. I can't, like, I can't, like, lift anything heavy.

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Like, ARM hurts a lot. I need to get one of those, like, compression things.

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Is it your elbow or what? You're grabbing here. What is it?

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Oh, no, it's tennis elbow. So the pain is, like, here.

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So it's where this, like, attaches to your elbow or whatever. It's the ligament, or whatever it is.

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Is it just overuse? Yeah. It just hurts a lot.

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So dumb! Nah, it was worth it.

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Our bleep isn't working? Oh, f***.

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Way to f***ing go, Dan.

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I guess we'll find out if it works. Is it still not working?

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Yeah. Okay.

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Maybe I just didn't f***ing press it. Do you ever think of that?

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No, you just didn't.

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It does mute. So even if I forget, it's still safe.

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Oh, yeah, okay. You sure? Yeah.

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100%.

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All right, should we do this thing?

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Lol, I got tennis elbow playing Tiger Woods Golf on the Wii.

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When I told my doctor about it, she laughed at me

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and asked if it would be okay if she told her husband.

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Also a doctor.

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That's actually kind of sick. Yeah, it's pretty funny.

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Go for it. I kind of like it. Yeah.

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I would tell the doctor, yeah, do it. Yeah, me too. 100%.

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Like you got to appreciate that she asked, but at the same time, like you got to say yes to that.

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Azir Otmori asks, why do you have three AMSs for your house?

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I have one with a single AMS and I don't really use the AMS too much

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because I have kids and they want to print multi-colored stuff.

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Yeah, and I can afford it.

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I've decided I'm just going to lean into that more because like...

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Whatever. Who cares? I'm just like, I'm tired of people being mad at me

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for like being able to afford two additional AMSs

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and a bunch of colored filament. You're not allowed to get mad at other people

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for stupid purchasing decisions, apparently. Yeah.

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So why do they get to be mad at you? Yeah.

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Tax right off. No, no, just pot it.

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Nipolas Cage says, I'm tired of rich people hoarding money and not spending it.

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There you go. There you go. So I bought AMSs.

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Ow, my ARM hurts so much.

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It's really tight right now. I'm sorry. I'm trying to loosen it before we start the show.

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All right.

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Why didn't you tell us Linus, this comes completely out of left field?

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Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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I can feel it like loosening. You know, when you're like pressing really hard on a knot,

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you can kind of feel it loosening and then you let go and it like immediately

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like seizes up again. I got that going on right now.

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I tried to play last night because I was like, I mean, I took a week off almost while I was traveling

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and I just like played trash because I was jet-legged

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and also my ARM was weak,

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but now it's more than just weak. It's like re-injured again.

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Way to go, Linus. You freaking idiot.

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Part of the...

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Part of the things I'm trying to do this year

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is involving continuing the shoulder repair

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and that is involving doing hangs every single day

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and my forearms are just fried constantly.

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I literally don't even think I could hang right now.

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Yeah, I don't think I could. It would hurt too much. Yeah.

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Well, I mean, I don't have... I'm not getting tennis elbow, which helps.

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Yeah, that helps. It's just like max duration hanging every single day.

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You get a permanent forearm pump. It's only three days in,

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but I could tell it's going to be rough.

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That's okay.

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All right, should we do this thing?

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Yeah.

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His forearms are plenty strong lately, man.

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Yeah, I just overdid it and I probably didn't stretch enough and stuff.

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Okay, I'm doing it. I'm punching it.

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Resuming the selected now. Oh, I almost clicked remove selected.

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That would have been bad. That would have sucked. Yeah.

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That's so annoying to fix. Yeah. Sick.

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Yeah, it is fixable. It just sucks.

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Okay. Here we go.

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Boom. Boom.

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What's up, everyone? Hello. Welcome to the WAN Show.

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Yeah. We've got a great WAN Show lined up for you guys today.

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I went on vacation. That's who knows going to be a great show.

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Well, no, I went on vacation. I'm talking. That might make it one of the better shows.

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I'm going to talk about my vacation. Yeah. I also can't believe I'm still going to be talking about honey.

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Yeah. But there are actual updates, some pretty exciting updates.

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So we'll be talking about that. Before vacation? The creator community, they're coming after honey.

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They believe you can catch more honey with vinegar.

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Yeah. Fly, you magnificent creators. What else we got today?

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Switch to motherboard leaks, maybe. There's a bit of a debate.

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We'll see what's going on there. Also, Half-Life 3, it's for sure a thing.

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Really? You picked that? There's no way.

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What other one? LLM forum traffic? Well, yeah.

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The addictive feeds thing that is not going to be applied to anyone. How about if you buy a Tesla?

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You can basically just have your car taken over by Tesla?

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I think that's more than just Tesla, but that apparently is proven true for Tesla.

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The show was brought to you today by Squarespace, Notion, and the Lexar.

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And of course, our usual laptop spartner.

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Laptop spartner? Spartner. Laptop spartner.

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Spartner. Spartner ditch and spartner.

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Sorry. Are the laptop spartner LG our wrap partner dbrand and our chair partner secret lab?

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Wow, it's going to be a show today.

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Why don't we kick things right off with, I can't believe I'm still talking about honey.

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I honestly did a terrible job of this segment last week, which is par for the course for

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me, which is great. The reality of it was I hadn't slept very much and the reality of it is I didn't sleep

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much this week either. I went to Europe this week.

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Yeah. I left and came back from Europe this week.

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So that should give you some idea of where I'm at right now.

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Anyway, we dropped honey as a sponsor three years ago because we learned about their link

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hijacking. Link hijacking sucked for us, but as far as we knew then had no impact on the user.

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We had no idea about the alleged other misdeeds until that story broke last month.

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In hindsight, it is possible that if we had made a video three years ago, it could have

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saved creators some money. Given that the vast majority of creators, however, stopped working with them around that same

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time, I don't know that for sure. What I do know is that if we'd made that video, it might not have gone very well for us.

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Like, for instance, I'm going to interject here. This isn't in the notes.

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What you're referring to as honey is, in fact, B shit plus honey.

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Sorry. No, it's like at that time.

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Yeah. Okay. We could have made a video.

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We were being inundated with links and shares and whatever about this from other creators

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at the time. Well, no, I know. It didn't get a crazy amount.

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I'm talking to them. Oh, yeah. It didn't get a crazy amount of views.

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It didn't blow up like this. Yeah. I think probably because it was mostly-

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Well, it wasn't set to ominous music that time. Well, and it was anti-creator, not anti-user at that time.

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Sure. So, most of the creators that I knew knew about it and were also getting spammed about it,

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because it was tweeted to me back then.

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The bigger issue is that if we had made a video, it may have actually been a really bad

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look for us. Think about it.

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If I made a video imploring our audience to uninstall an extension that purportedly-

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Remember, this is- we have to look at it in terms of the information we had at the time.

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At the time. If I told everybody, uninstall honey!

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An extension that supposedly gets them a better deal because I wasn't making enough money

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from it? Do you really, honestly, ask yourself, truly, think that would have gone good for me?

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I'm going to interject again with another weird thing.

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Like, when we first started, if you monetized anything to any degree, even if you turned

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on ads on YouTube at all, which you could turn them off back then, and it would actually

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work, you would be flamed. Now, four years ago, that wasn't the case anymore, but I think the point Luke's trying

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to make is this- It's changed over time. This perception, this acceptance of creators needing to make money.

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The number of comments we'd get in the early days, like, get a real job!

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You know, that doesn't happen anymore at all. Now people ask for ads on Twitch and stuff.

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Get that bad girl. And it's a very, very different mentality.

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We have to put ourselves in the frame of mind of what things were like four years ago.

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And four years ago, if I'd said, uninstall this extension that gets you a better deal

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so I don't get my affiliate revenue- You've gotten flayed.

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I'd have gotten destroyed! Look how much flak I take if I remind people that ad blocking is piracy, in that it circumvents

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compensating the creator. Watch how predictably the chat is going to blow up, saying that that's totally different!

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It's not totally different!

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It's a little different. It's related, though. It's very closely related.

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And everyone's mad at me.

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It's that simple. I'm spreading the word for the smaller creators.

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That argument doesn't save me there, and it's not going to save me if I tell people to uninstall

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this extension that gets them a better deal so that smaller creators can get their affiliate revenue.

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Are you kidding me? There is just no way that I make that video, and I don't end up hanging from the nearest tree.

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I mean, now that we found out that Honey is harming the consumer, obviously f**k him.

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Like, obviously. But again, we didn't-

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I don't know how many times I have to say this.

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We didn't know about that.

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We didn't say anything because we didn't know about that, and we had no reason to.

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And that's another thing. We don't shout it from the rooftops every time we stop working with a sponsor, and neither does anybody.

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That is such a weird, bizarre expectation that some people seem to have.

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And we've stopped- well, that's a very modern thing, too, on YouTube.

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Is it? The company expose thing, I think, is fairly different.

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We've stopped working with the NFL to replace Monday Night Football with a three-hour special

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about not using surface tablets anymore when the sponsorship ends.

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Of course not. That would be spectacularly unprofessional.

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We've stopped working with a bunch of different sponsors because of getting customer reports

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from our viewers and how they had bad experiences with them.

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We didn't shout from the rooftops. We just stopped working with them.

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Yeah, and if they clean up their act, we might start working with them again.

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Obviously that's the case, to be honest. And again, and oh my God, this piece is so important for everyone who somehow missed it before.

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It turns out we didn't need to make that video because plenty of other creators stopped working

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with Honey around the same time we did. Just because nobody else or some people didn't notice, there was a big news cycle around this.

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And it spread like wildfire in the creator community.

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Wasn't as big as this one. No, obviously not. But it was a big deal, I remember.

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But creators knew. We found out. We found out multiple times by being bombarded.

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That's how we found out. There was also a lot of creators individually sharing it between each other, but not like

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with links through texts or whatever, not as videos.

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Another major thing that I missed last week is that, yeah, as we said in our response

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to Megaleg, obviously this situation raises the question of should we look at our policy

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of leaving our sponsor spots in our videos in perpetuity.

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That has been what we've done traditionally because, as you know, I've always been a bit

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of a, well, once it's out there, it's out there kind of person.

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I don't believe in deleting our, I don't believe in deleting our history.

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I don't believe in revising our history. Yeah.

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Evergreen's also less of a thing now. However, that's true.

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And also this situation where it turns out it was harmful is clearly, it is clearly

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something we haven't really had to tackle before.

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Yeah. Like at worst, our sponsor spots have ended up outdated, right?

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But yeah, that's a decision that is not the kind of thing that we just do immediately.

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You also have to work with YouTube on that.

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No. No, that can be done. Oh, you can trim it?

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You can trim it, but it's very manual. It's very tedious.

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It screws up things like closed captions sometimes. And timestamps.

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So it screws up timestamps. So it's not cut and dried either.

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So it'll screw up the timestamps on every single WAN Show that Honey ever sponsored,

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which this may surprise you, but a lot of people go back and watch old WAN Show.

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I don't get it either, but they do. I'll never understand.

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Our discussion question. Are we joining the class action started by LegalEagle?

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The TLDR here is that LegalEagle has posted a video announcing a class action lawsuit against Honey

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on behalf of any creators that may have been impacted by Honey's actions.

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As far as I can tell, that would be basically any creator that ever used affiliate links.

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And I mean, I know the answer to this, but what are your thoughts on that?

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Should we join the class action? Well, there's actually a line here that says impacted creators can visit honeylawsuit.com to join,

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but maybe talk to a lawyer before you do. And I would lean on that.

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We're not going to be joining regardless. Maybe we should talk to a lawyer before we do.

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No, I've talked about this before, but I'm not particularly litigious.

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It's not really my way. I tend to see lawsuits and in particular class action lawsuits as a mechanism to enrich lawyers

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and really not much of anyone else. That's very true.

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You're going to get like five bucks from this. You might get more.

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There are class actions where the payout is like a thousand bucks and maybe even more.

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I don't know. What I can tell you now, though, is that I doubt that's going to happen.

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What I suspect is that this is this could very well end up just being for show.

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Like I kind of doubt that this is going to go anywhere.

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But if it does go somewhere, hey, you know what?

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Paypal sideways. This whole thing totally sucked.

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And especially now that we know so much more of what they're doing with honey, it's obviously lame.

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But it's just it's not my style, guys.

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I have never had to sue anybody and I would like to keep it that way as long as possible.

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I've been put in uncomfortable positions before in the past where it seemed like it was kind of an inevitability.

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But every time we have been able to find a resolution, which is always the way that I would prefer to go.

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And so, yeah, this is this is just not really my not really my stoyle.

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Drop PayPal on the LTT Store. I don't think that's viable.

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I think that would be too much. Yep.

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Self damage. Thank you for the suggestion. I will file it away with all of the other suggestions.

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I would love if PayPal stopped really being a thing, though.

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I would love of that. Me too.

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As someone who has to. Let's take crypto. Oh, no.

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As someone who has to deal with taking PayPal payments, it's not awesome.

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There are better credit card processors these days.

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They used to be a big problem. Another reason why people argue for PayPal is often because it's an easy way to have your card saved.

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But there are other ways to do that. You can save your card and password managers.

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You can do other things like that where it can still auto fill and be easier for you.

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There are ways around it. Judge says we will still support PayPal because it makes us too much money.

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PayPal absolutely enables us to make money as creators in that context taking payments on the store.

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But what it also does is it enables people who don't necessarily have credit cards to purchase from LTT Store.

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Right. When we have PayPal disabled.

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And actually. People rage. This is like the community would be very mad situation.

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More recently we encountered this when HexOS launched.

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Ashtack reached out to me. They were like, yeah, we had no idea how important PayPal was.

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We didn't really have all the reconciliations figured out on the back end for how the money was supposed to flow

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and how to account for it and everything.

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It's a thing. It's a thing because you might get money in different currencies and stuff.

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It's a whole thing. Accepting a new payment method is not just turn on another payment method.

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It's not that simple. They hadn't figured out some of the back end stuff for themselves.

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They were like, f**k it, we'll turn it on.

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Because so many people were inundating them with requests.

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No, not that back end. No, accounting.

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Because they're still a really small company. So anyway, they were being inundated with requests to turn it on.

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They turned it on. Like immediately, like floodgates open.

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Because there's a lot of people who just... People are completely die hard PayPal.

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We've tried to get away from it before and people were very unhappy.

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Like it says, if you want a really fast way to piss your users off, do that.

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But I mean, if you independently stop using it and start shifting to other things, hey, nice.

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Not going to be unhappy about that. Back end requests asks Krusty Trombone.

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Whatever did happen to the only fans?

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Anyway, in summary, honey bad, obviously.

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LTT bad, I guess.

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Yeah. Sure.

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Whatever. I fully expect that to be Dick Sertow's headline this time.

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Line that says LTT bad.

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Well, I mean, it's one of those funny things where it's like...

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On the one hand, they kind of try to be like real creator news or whatever and like kind of journalism.

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But on the other hand, they just like make obvious mistakes.

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Like I saw... Is that journalism these days?

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Well, maybe they're legit.

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Their article from last week alluded to the gamers Nexus video that prompted Linus to step down as CEO and hire Taren Tong.

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Oh, wow. It's like... That's not the series of events at all.

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No. No. I actually stepped down months before.

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But it's amazing how many people do think that.

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Because... Well, probably more now.

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Yeah. Because they didn't bother to like, I don't know, fact check anything, which is ironic.

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I definitely appreciate the irony here.

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Okay, let's get Linus away from this topic.

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Do you want to talk about vacation? No.

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Okay. Actually, it was great. One downer.

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Remember the RGB coat? Yeah.

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Okay, I couldn't find the right battery bank. I went to the Apple store.

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It needs a specific battery bank? It needs a super high powered PD battery bank.

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So I went to the Apple store to try and buy the most powerful battery bank that they had in order to power it.

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Because I wanted to wear that light up RGB fur coat to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Edinburgh.

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Anyway, so I go to the Apple store and I'm like, okay, I need...

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Well, first things first, I don't see any products in here that are third party.

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Do you not carry accessories? They carry accessories at my Apple store at home.

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They're like, oh, we got a second floor for that. I go, oh, wow.

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Okay. So I go upstairs.

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And it's, yeah, it's all accessory land.

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I go and I find battery bank land and I'm like...

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Like, really? Oh, shoot.

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Who was the bloody brand? Mophie.

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Mophie. So I pick up this Mophie battery bank, which is like 200 pounds.

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Not weight. No, I know. Yeah, anyway.

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So it's 200 pounds. The reaction is the same. It's a lot of money.

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It's a lot of money. And I'm looking at the thing. I'm going, this doesn't even say like what voltages and amperages it supports.

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It just says, I think it said... That's pretty basic.

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Did it say 45 watts? I think it might have, but it didn't, but it didn't get into like exactly which...

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Didn't break it down. So I go to ask someone. I'm like, hey, this seems to be a demo box because it's like a shared box for two different

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capacities. And she's like, no, no, that's the box. Like, that's the box.

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I'm like, that, that doesn't really make any sense. Can you bring me this one? The like the non plus one, whatever the smaller one, because I didn't want to spend another

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50 pounds. So she brings it to me and no, it is not in fact the same box.

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It is a box for that product, but it still didn't have like the PD specs on it.

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And I'm like, okay, I like, I'm pretty sure this supports PD because it's like 45 watts

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or whatever. But I like, I would like to know like exactly, like it doesn't have a breakdown.

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She's like, well, do you need, well, it's for Mac.

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And I'm like, no, no, I mean, it doesn't matter.

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It is really, it's really eye opening, going shopping in like a normal store for normal people

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because literally you can be an accessory salesperson at the Apple store and not know what power

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delivery, like PD power delivery is, USB-C PD.

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Because it's just for iPhone or for Mac.

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And if it's for iPhone, it doesn't have PD.

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And if it's for Mac, it has to have PD. In fact, did he even say how many watts?

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I don't even, I don't even remember. There was a reason that I needed more information about it.

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Anyway, I bought it and unfortunately it wasn't enough.

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So it was like flashing. Like would have been seizure inducing potentially on one side of it.

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So I didn't get to wear it to the play. But the good news is it was.

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Awesome. Amazing. Let's go.

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Okay. The set design and production values were like a high school musical.

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They were terrible. Like actually it was like we found a scrap, some scraps of cloth and we kind of stretched them out

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and that's a desert now. You know, we, whatever, it was awful.

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But I didn't figure out until after, I didn't actually know the history of Joseph and the

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Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. So it was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who's known for, you know, small plays you may have

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never heard of like Cats, Phantom of the Opera and things like that.

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But it was actually written as a high school musical.

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And it was written when he was very young. He collaborated with Tim Reis.

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It was only 20 minutes in its initial iteration. It was because someone like desperately needed a play that they could put on.

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They were like, I don't know, some Bible story. We'll just do that. That's, that's how it started, which I didn't know.

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So the more I thought about it, the more I've gone, maybe that was.

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Maybe that was on purpose because they clearly did not cheap out on the production overall.

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The cast was phenomenal.

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I don't think you've ever seen Joseph. Yeah.

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Okay. Well, if you have, you'll know that the narrator is actually in some ways the bigger star of

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the show than Joseph himself.

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And she was fabulous.

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She was absolutely incredible. She crushed it.

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She was so funny. She actually ended up playing Jacob, Joseph's father as well, just with like a beard.

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So she'd like his part and then sing her part.

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And it sounds really bad.

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And at that point, like very early in the play, I was still a little concerned about the like

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perceived production values and set design and like, okay, so they didn't bother to cast

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anyone for Jacob. This is very interesting.

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But she absolutely killed it. Joseph was like pretty good, but it kind of doesn't really matter.

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And then the real reason that I was there, the real reason that I got off of my butt,

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got onto a plane, flew all the way to Scotland to Edinburgh to see this was that it was Donnie

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Osman's last performance. I actually didn't know until we were in the middle of his performance.

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He broke character. He broke the fourth wall and talked about like how emotional it was for him and like how much

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he loves this show. He did 2,000 performances as Joseph back in the 90s.

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I saw him as Joseph in the 90s. It was one of the first musicals I saw.

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It's like a core memory for me because it was so good.

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I like bought the album in the lobby, listened to it over and over and over and over and

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over and over again. Like it was one of those things, right? So he like breaks the fourth wall, talks about how cool it is to be like back as Pharaoh

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now, not as Joseph. So he plays the Pharaoh, the older guy.

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He gives Joseph on screen. He kind of shows him here. Okay, here's how I did that move because there's like a little hip wiggle that Joseph's supposed

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to do. And then he does his number and then at the end of it, he goes, you guys want to see it

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again? And obviously the crowd.

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Look, I'll say this. One of the most fun live viewing experiences I've ever had was watching a hockey game at

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the Bell Center. Bell Center is wild. That's the home of the Montreal Canadiens or the abs, excuse me.

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So the crowd's just, they're incredible.

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They're so into it. It's like you see it like a big soccer game except hockey.

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But I've never been to a soccer game.

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So I can't speak from experience. What I can say is Bell Center, incredible atmosphere.

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This was like watching a theater production in the Bell Center because the audience, like

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all gray hairs, like gray beards and stuff, because it's like the theater or whatever,

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but they were so into it. There was like six standing evasions throughout the play.

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Like they would just do a great job of a number and everyone would be like, just losing it.

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Absolutely losing it. That's cool. So yeah, so when Donnie like asked, okay, you guys want to see it again, the entire house

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just completely lost it. The guy is such an incredible performer.

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Yeah, it was utterly unforgettable. That's cool.

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Amazing. And then the real reason that I even knew about this, so yeah, I didn't find out that

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it was his last performance until he said, he said like, yeah, this is it, you know.

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So it was so cool. They brought him back to do Pharaoh for this production.

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It was so cool that I was able to be there for the last one.

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And oh man, where was I going with this?

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Anyway, it was awesome. Unforgettable.

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Anyway, the only reason that I knew that this was on was because Yvonne signed up for like

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the Andrew Lloyd Webber play, you know, upcoming news bulletin or whatever, because I've been

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to New York like, I don't know, 10 times in the last decade because of work usually, but

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sometimes for pleasure. And I've never bothered to go see Phantom.

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I've been to tons of stage plays in New York. I saw Book of Mormon there.

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I saw Aladdin. I saw, oh, more recently, I saw Great Gatsby.

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That was incredible. Probably the best stage production I've ever seen if you're in New York.

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Go see it now. Go see it now. Don't miss that cast.

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They're incredible. Anyway, so, but every time I'd be like, I don't know, Phantom will probably go for another

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30 years anyway. So I don't really need to go see it.

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And then they finally closed it. So I was like, ask. I've been meaning to see the bloody thing because it's like iconic, right?

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So anyway, the only reason I knew was because she found out about Joseph as like a footnote

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on the, hey, Phantom's playing in London like thing.

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And so it just worked out that way.

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And then so, so we left Edinburgh and we went to London to see Phantom and Phantom was like

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totally overrated. It was completely like fit.

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The cast did a great job. Like the singing was incredible.

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Is that the first time you've seen Phantom? I've never seen it.

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Yeah. So my parents saw Phantom forever ago and they really liked it.

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Yeah. If you're into opera, I imagine that would help a little bit.

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I don't know if they are, to be honest.

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But I just, I just didn't, I didn't, I didn't really.

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Yeah, I didn't, it didn't, it didn't really do it for me.

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Maybe it's just showing its age a little bit. Maybe part of it was coming off the high of seeing Joseph the previous day.

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Like I saw Hades Town in New York as well.

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And it's so well reviewed. It's so popular, but I saw the night after I saw Great Gatsby and Great Gatsby just

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absolutely crushes it. Like it's not even close.

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So that, that may be, that may be a problem.

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Yeah. Yeah. People are talking about like plays that they like, yeah, I saw Wicked down in Seattle

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when they were touring. That was, oh, so good. I haven't seen the movie yet.

423
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I saw Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as a kid.

424
00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:45,740
And that, yeah, that sold me. I had to read the books.

425
00:31:45,740 --> 00:31:48,740
I got into Turkish Delight. Just, yeah.

426
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:51,740
Really? Oh yeah. Huh, interesting.

427
00:31:51,740 --> 00:31:55,740
My, when, when we read Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe in elementary school, like my teacher

428
00:31:55,740 --> 00:31:58,740
read it to us as part of just, I don't know, literature, I guess.

429
00:31:58,740 --> 00:32:02,740
Cause people used to read books. She brought in Turkish Delight at the end.

430
00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:06,740
Oh really? So we could all try it. And we universally thought it was kind of not very great.

431
00:32:06,740 --> 00:32:09,740
Did you have Rose? I don't know. Okay.

432
00:32:09,740 --> 00:32:13,740
Well, there's some that have like good flavors and then there's Rose.

433
00:32:13,740 --> 00:32:16,740
And Rose is like fairly traditional, but it's terrible.

434
00:32:16,740 --> 00:32:20,740
Oh, interesting. They flavor it off of roses. I don't know who thought that was a good idea.

435
00:32:20,740 --> 00:32:27,740
Yeah, okay. Some people are probably going to be mad now, but like the Rose ones taste like trash.

436
00:32:27,740 --> 00:32:30,740
Fair enough. I don't know.

437
00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:33,740
Rose water flavor. Yeah. Like, ah, I don't know.

438
00:32:33,740 --> 00:32:36,740
Cool. Turkish Delight tastes like old ladies perfume.

439
00:32:36,740 --> 00:32:39,740
So that's the Rose stuff. You got to get other stuff.

440
00:32:39,740 --> 00:32:42,740
Rose water is very common in old Ottoman cuisine.

441
00:32:42,740 --> 00:32:45,740
Yeah. Fascinating. Turkish old Ottoman makes sense.

442
00:32:45,740 --> 00:32:48,740
Okay. Yeah. All right.

443
00:32:48,740 --> 00:32:53,740
Well, cool. What else are we supposed to be talking about?

444
00:32:53,740 --> 00:32:56,740
Oh, Dan. That was topic two.

445
00:32:56,740 --> 00:32:59,740
Oh, should I, is there anything else to talk about in vacation?

446
00:32:59,740 --> 00:33:03,740
Edinburgh is amazing. London is- Is there anything else to check out plays?

447
00:33:03,740 --> 00:33:06,740
We were there for a few days at least. Dude, I was there for two days.

448
00:33:06,740 --> 00:33:09,740
Oh. So we did check out the Christmas Market. Travel time, travel time, I guess.

449
00:33:09,740 --> 00:33:16,740
Yeah. We did check out the Christmas Market. We did go see the big castle in Edinburgh.

450
00:33:16,740 --> 00:33:19,740
That was it. We only saw the outside. They had like sold out for the day.

451
00:33:19,740 --> 00:33:23,740
But we walked the like royal mile thing and checked out some of the shops.

452
00:33:23,740 --> 00:33:27,740
Bought Yvonne a nice tuk because the tuk she brought with her was making her forehead itchy.

453
00:33:27,740 --> 00:33:31,740
And I was like, I mean, we're in the home of, we're in like land of Kashmir.

454
00:33:31,740 --> 00:33:34,740
So like, I don't know, get a nice tuk.

455
00:33:34,740 --> 00:33:37,740
Get a cool tuk. Yeah. Yeah.

456
00:33:37,740 --> 00:33:40,740
So we did that. Had some good food. Yeah.

457
00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:43,740
Edinburgh amazing. London. I don't know.

458
00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:49,740
It's a big city. It doesn't do much. It doesn't do much for me, but I'm sure that I like, I didn't go to Buckingham Palace.

459
00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:52,740
I don't really like care about the Royals or anything. So it's all about like what you're into.

460
00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:57,740
You know, I was really surprised at how much Harry Potter there still is over there.

461
00:33:57,740 --> 00:34:02,740
Like you cannot go anywhere without tripping over a bakery that's selling cupcakes with

462
00:34:02,740 --> 00:34:05,740
golden snitches on them. There's a lot of tourism for it.

463
00:34:05,740 --> 00:34:09,740
Is there still? Because they have like the, I don't know, whatever.

464
00:34:09,740 --> 00:34:12,740
Isn't Harry Potter like dead at this point?

465
00:34:12,740 --> 00:34:15,740
Like didn't Voldemort kill him? You know? No.

466
00:34:15,740 --> 00:34:18,740
No. Right. Right.

467
00:34:18,740 --> 00:34:25,740
Right. Cause he killed his own, he killed his own soul, which was in front of Harry or something.

468
00:34:25,740 --> 00:34:30,740
But it like made Harry dead for a bit and then, and then Dumbledore was there.

469
00:34:30,740 --> 00:34:34,740
But, but death is permanent. That's pretty well established in that universe.

470
00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:37,740
So how are we talking to Dumbledore? I don't know. Maybe it was a hallucination.

471
00:34:37,740 --> 00:34:42,740
It doesn't matter. It's magic.

472
00:34:42,740 --> 00:34:45,740
Spoilers. Come on, you guys. Stop it.

473
00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:48,740
Get over it. Oh no. Stop if it's right.

474
00:34:48,740 --> 00:34:52,740
But yeah, no, I don't think so to be honest. I don't think it's over at all.

475
00:34:52,740 --> 00:34:55,740
But Fantastic Beasts was so bad. Yeah.

476
00:34:55,740 --> 00:34:59,740
But then you look at like the, what was that game that no one's allowed to talk about?

477
00:34:59,740 --> 00:35:02,740
That came out like two years ago or something? Hogwarts Legacy?

478
00:35:02,740 --> 00:35:06,740
Well, it was sold like the most of anything that year, but no reported on it.

479
00:35:06,740 --> 00:35:09,740
And then it was like completely absent at the game awards and everything.

480
00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:12,740
Yeah. But it's sold like crazy. Oh, I know.

481
00:35:12,740 --> 00:35:15,740
Like absolutely like crazy. People are still into the universe.

482
00:35:15,740 --> 00:35:18,740
I tried to play it. I didn't really enjoy it.

483
00:35:18,740 --> 00:35:25,740
I don't want to. I got a couple hours in. I think games have just gotten too complicated for me.

484
00:35:25,740 --> 00:35:28,740
Like there's like. Because you want to be able to dive in and dive out.

485
00:35:28,740 --> 00:35:33,740
There's like, there's so many different controls. And then I went like three weeks without playing it because dots.

486
00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:37,740
Yeah. And then I tried to get back into it. I was even just, I was trying to play.

487
00:35:37,740 --> 00:35:41,740
Yvonne and I started Unraveled 2 or Unraveled 2.

488
00:35:41,740 --> 00:35:49,740
And so far in one native like gaming session, we managed the tutorial.

489
00:35:49,740 --> 00:35:52,740
And then now we're going to go to jump back into it. And I'm like, oh my God.

490
00:35:52,740 --> 00:35:58,740
And so you can like hitch a ride. And you hold the trigger to like hold on to the thing and just swing the thing.

491
00:35:58,740 --> 00:36:03,740
And like, oh, okay. What happened to like B is jump, A is spinny jump.

492
00:36:03,740 --> 00:36:07,740
Y is run and X is just like kind of an extra button because we just didn't really need

493
00:36:07,740 --> 00:36:10,740
four buttons because our last console had two buttons.

494
00:36:10,740 --> 00:36:13,740
Like I, I don't know. Guys, there's people debating.

495
00:36:13,740 --> 00:36:16,740
I didn't say it was fun or not. All I said was it sold a lot.

496
00:36:16,740 --> 00:36:19,740
This is, relax. This is why no one can talk about that game.

497
00:36:19,740 --> 00:36:23,740
Why? Why do you hate hamburgers?

498
00:36:23,740 --> 00:36:32,740
You poke to the bear. This is what you get. Why do you hate hamburgers that became hot dogs?

499
00:36:32,740 --> 00:36:36,740
Let's go ahead and move on. Let's leave immediately.

500
00:36:36,740 --> 00:36:39,740
Dan, what are we talking about?

501
00:36:39,740 --> 00:36:46,740
Why don't we, why don't we do a merge messages and some announcements and get some more topics.

502
00:36:46,740 --> 00:36:50,740
Come on. That's funny. All I said was it sold a lot.

503
00:36:50,740 --> 00:36:52,740
It's funny, isn't it?

504
00:36:53,740 --> 00:36:56,740
You can go the other way too.

505
00:36:56,740 --> 00:36:59,740
If I'm canceled, like you're out of work anyway.

506
00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:03,740
You might as well get canceled with me. I don't think that's how that works.

507
00:37:03,740 --> 00:37:06,740
It doesn't matter at that point. Proxy cancel.

508
00:37:06,740 --> 00:37:10,740
My goodness. Oh man.

509
00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:16,740
Okay, merge messages. So the way merge messages work, if you guys want to interact with the show, the best way is a merge message.

510
00:37:16,740 --> 00:37:21,740
You head to lttstore.com, add something to your cart. You'll get a little box there that sends us a merge message.

511
00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:24,740
It goes to producer Dan, who will reply to it himself.

512
00:37:24,740 --> 00:37:28,740
Give him something to do. He was sitting there looking distinctly unbusy.

513
00:37:28,740 --> 00:37:31,740
Forlorn. He'll forward it to someone who can help you.

514
00:37:31,740 --> 00:37:40,740
He'll pop it up down there at the bottom of the screen, or he will curate it for me and Luke to respond to on the show.

515
00:37:40,740 --> 00:37:50,740
While you guys think of some good merge messages, why don't I, oh, why don't, oh, why don't I tell you about a few announcements?

516
00:37:50,740 --> 00:37:55,740
What are you getting? We have a new product.

517
00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:58,740
It's the long sleeve hooded t-shirt. Oh, he's wearing it already.

518
00:37:58,740 --> 00:38:02,740
Look at that. It's your favorite t-shirt, reimagined.

519
00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:07,740
All the lightweight comfort of our custom tees, combined with the versatility of a hoodie.

520
00:38:07,740 --> 00:38:13,740
It's great for wearing on its own or layering under a t-shirt like all the cool kids do at the skate park.

521
00:38:13,740 --> 00:38:17,740
And you know what's from lttstore because it even has custom, oh, these are so cool.

522
00:38:17,740 --> 00:38:25,740
They are pretty cool. It even has custom printing on the drawstrings that say, do not drop.

523
00:38:25,740 --> 00:38:29,740
Eh, very, very tracute.

524
00:38:29,740 --> 00:38:33,740
You can kind of make it out there. I mean, it's our typical stealthy branding.

525
00:38:33,740 --> 00:38:39,740
Just got a cute little retro pink and blue LTT logo on the bottom.

526
00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:45,740
And that is about it. We like to keep things pretty stealthy around here.

527
00:38:45,740 --> 00:38:49,740
LMG.GG slash hooded t.

528
00:38:49,740 --> 00:38:54,740
But if long sleeve hooded t's aren't your thing, we just want to let you know that the LTT mod mat is coming soon.

529
00:38:54,740 --> 00:39:01,740
And we mean it this time. You can sign up to be notified exactly when it drops at LMG.GG slash mod mat.

530
00:39:01,740 --> 00:39:04,740
There's a couple of samples behind us that we can show off if we wish.

531
00:39:04,740 --> 00:39:08,740
Dan, do you want to go ahead and copy the link to all of the various chats?

532
00:39:08,740 --> 00:39:12,740
Sure thing. Yeah, do you want to show the tube?

533
00:39:12,740 --> 00:39:17,740
Designed by, packaging designed by the one. The only Miss Sarabha.

534
00:39:17,740 --> 00:39:20,740
I believe. I'm pretty sure she did it. It looks like she did it.

535
00:39:20,740 --> 00:39:25,740
Now this is going to be pretty embarrassing for me if she didn't do it.

536
00:39:25,740 --> 00:39:29,740
It's a fairly tight fit, which is why I think they gave us one knot in the tube.

537
00:39:29,740 --> 00:39:30,740
Yes.

538
00:39:33,740 --> 00:39:37,740
Yeah, so okay, I'll show that one. So it looks a little something.

539
00:39:37,740 --> 00:39:42,740
Alexis, note the high quality printing.

540
00:39:42,740 --> 00:39:46,740
This is truly a class leading product. We're really excited about this one.

541
00:39:46,740 --> 00:39:51,740
Let's just go to the wide cam because it's pretty big. It's got all the various information that you guys would want.

542
00:39:51,740 --> 00:39:57,740
We've got a nice little legend up here with, or sorry, a legend for wiring diagram.

543
00:39:57,740 --> 00:40:00,740
So you've got like resistor capacitor fuse microphone.

544
00:40:00,740 --> 00:40:03,740
We've got all the various resistance values and stuff like that.

545
00:40:03,740 --> 00:40:06,740
Color coding and there you go.

546
00:40:06,740 --> 00:40:09,740
Over there. Got a spot to put your LTT screwdriver.

547
00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,740
Got a spot to put your precision screwdriver. We've got a QR code.

548
00:40:12,740 --> 00:40:20,740
That's mystery what that does. We'll figure that out later. We've also got a legend for a little guide for what size your motherboard is.

549
00:40:20,740 --> 00:40:25,740
If you like, I don't know. Don't know where your motherboard packaging is and you can't tell.

550
00:40:25,740 --> 00:40:30,740
Radiator size guide. So you can store a radiator on there, see how big it is, 120, 140.

551
00:40:30,740 --> 00:40:33,740
It's mostly just for fun. I mean, maybe you don't know that.

552
00:40:33,740 --> 00:40:36,740
I don't know. Fan size guide. This one's actually very useful.

553
00:40:36,740 --> 00:40:41,740
Can't tell if it's a 120 or 140. Boom. Put it down on there on the color coded dots and you will know for sure.

554
00:40:41,740 --> 00:40:45,740
We've also got wiring diagrams for all your various PC connectors.

555
00:40:45,740 --> 00:40:51,740
We've got a screw thread guide. This one's really, man, we spent so much time on this one making sure that it is actually

556
00:40:51,740 --> 00:40:55,740
like very representative so you can really tell what screws you're supposed to use for

557
00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:59,740
what. That is such a novice PC building headache.

558
00:40:59,740 --> 00:41:02,740
It's figuring out exactly what screw goes into what.

559
00:41:02,740 --> 00:41:07,740
Tubing size guide, M.2 size guide, including all the different keys, PCIe slot guide,

560
00:41:07,740 --> 00:41:11,740
CPU size guide, including thermal paste outlines, as well as a RAM module guide, which even includes

561
00:41:11,740 --> 00:41:14,740
LP cam 2 and cam 2.

562
00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:18,740
So we tried to make it as comprehensive as possible.

563
00:41:18,740 --> 00:41:21,740
Super high quality and very aggressive pricing.

564
00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:28,740
Pineapple asks, solder proof. What we will say is it is as solder resistant as any other mod mat that we have compared

565
00:41:28,740 --> 00:41:31,740
it against and we have compared it against many.

566
00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:36,740
Nothing is solder proof. I would say solder quite proof.

567
00:41:36,740 --> 00:41:40,740
Soldering iron. Watch your step.

568
00:41:40,740 --> 00:41:45,740
It is quite stain resistant too, which is something that is very, very exciting for us,

569
00:41:45,740 --> 00:41:51,740
especially when we compare to some of the competing products out there that honestly look like

570
00:41:51,740 --> 00:41:54,740
sh** immediately if you get anything on them.

571
00:41:54,740 --> 00:41:59,740
So it's not going to be perfect. It still does have some texture to it because we want it to be nice and grippy,

572
00:41:59,740 --> 00:42:03,740
but it is much, much easier to clean.

573
00:42:03,740 --> 00:42:06,740
Etherplane asks, print comes off or no?

574
00:42:06,740 --> 00:42:09,740
Well, the print comes off of anything if you try hard enough.

575
00:42:09,740 --> 00:42:14,740
I don't think we would ever advertise something as the print never comes off, but it is quite resistant.

576
00:42:14,740 --> 00:42:18,740
Yeah, it's pretty resilient. All right.

577
00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:21,740
Sweet. What else we got?

578
00:42:21,740 --> 00:42:24,740
Oh yeah, one last thing. How do you like your pencils? Yeah.

579
00:42:24,740 --> 00:42:29,740
Oh, the cat's out of the bag. We're making a mechanical pencil version of the scribe driver.

580
00:42:29,740 --> 00:42:32,740
I definitely leaked this at some point. Oh, that's right.

581
00:42:32,740 --> 00:42:36,740
I think I did. But anyway, before we actually go to production, we want to make sure we're making the pencil you want.

582
00:42:36,740 --> 00:42:42,740
Oh no, we're letting them decide?

583
00:42:42,740 --> 00:42:45,740
Dan's not even reading along with us in the docket, I don't think.

584
00:42:45,740 --> 00:42:48,740
No, I'll post it. Do you want me to post it? Yeah, do it.

585
00:42:48,740 --> 00:42:54,740
The question is simple. Do you prefer 0.5 millimeter or 0.7 millimeter lead?

586
00:42:54,740 --> 00:42:58,740
Please only answer if you have an actual preference.

587
00:42:58,740 --> 00:43:01,740
Otherwise, maybe just don't.

588
00:43:01,740 --> 00:43:04,740
That would be great. People are going to anyways.

589
00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:08,740
Yeah. See, I knew this was going to happen.

590
00:43:08,740 --> 00:43:11,740
Okay, well. Is there a Firefox option?

591
00:43:11,740 --> 00:43:17,740
Stop. I took it seriously for once because this is important, Luke.

592
00:43:17,740 --> 00:43:21,740
Yeah. All right. It looks like about 6040 for 0.5 mil.

593
00:43:21,740 --> 00:43:27,740
That makes sense. I always kind of, I was always a 0.7 millimeter kid, but I was like careless and would always break the 0.5 mils.

594
00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:36,740
So I always kind of had this perception that 0.7 millimeters for like careless children and 0.5 millimeters for like, you know, writing finally and like, you know, being an adult.

595
00:43:36,740 --> 00:43:39,740
So I don't know, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe I'm wrong.

596
00:43:39,740 --> 00:43:42,740
Maybe I'm wrong. All the 0.7 voters are like, oh.

597
00:43:42,740 --> 00:43:45,740
Excuse me. Did he just say what I thought he did?

598
00:43:45,740 --> 00:43:49,740
Cancellate it again! Cancellate it again! Cancellate the careless child.

599
00:43:49,740 --> 00:43:53,740
A child at the lead size.

600
00:43:54,740 --> 00:43:57,740
0.9 for life. I've never even heard of 0.9. Is that a thing?

601
00:43:57,740 --> 00:44:00,740
It's chunky. Go figure. All right.

602
00:44:00,740 --> 00:44:03,740
Linus breaking the lead is so in character for him.

603
00:44:03,740 --> 00:44:06,740
Yeah, well. All right, Dan. Hit us with a merge message.

604
00:44:06,740 --> 00:44:09,740
Sure. Let's do this thing. Oh my gosh.

605
00:44:09,740 --> 00:44:16,740
IDLL and the Funky Bunch with games like Assassin's Creed, Shadows and Cyberpunk coming to Mac and iPad.

606
00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:19,740
Do you see a bright future for gaming on Apple devices?

607
00:44:19,740 --> 00:44:23,740
Yes. As long as you don't want to play all the games.

608
00:44:23,740 --> 00:44:26,740
It's kind of like I see a bright future for gaming on Nintendo.

609
00:44:26,740 --> 00:44:31,740
As long as you're one of like four people that still buy Ubisoft games.

610
00:44:31,740 --> 00:44:36,740
Yeah. As long as you like the games for that platform, then awesome.

611
00:44:36,740 --> 00:44:45,740
But I do not see an end to the x86 PC's dominance when it comes to gamer choice anytime soon.

612
00:44:46,740 --> 00:44:53,740
It just doesn't seem like there's meaningful progress being made there.

613
00:44:53,740 --> 00:44:57,740
And there is progress, but when I say meaningful progress, you're not going to port the entire

614
00:44:57,740 --> 00:45:01,740
back catalog. You're not going to have that breadth of support from new titles.

615
00:45:01,740 --> 00:45:07,740
Cyberpunk came out a little over four years ago too. I was going to say five because it came out in 2020, but it came out in December 10th of

616
00:45:07,740 --> 00:45:11,740
2020. So whatever.

617
00:45:11,740 --> 00:45:17,740
So to be a happy, confident Apple gamer, I think I would also want games to come out

618
00:45:17,740 --> 00:45:20,740
on my platform and they come out on other platforms. Yeah.

619
00:45:20,740 --> 00:45:25,740
And not be like removed from my platform. Like didn't Rocket League get straight up removed from Mac?

620
00:45:25,740 --> 00:45:31,740
Was that when they got bought out?

621
00:45:31,740 --> 00:45:34,740
I don't remember. I don't remember what happened. Yeah.

622
00:45:34,740 --> 00:45:37,740
The macOS and Linux Steam OS versions are no longer updated or supported.

623
00:45:37,740 --> 00:45:40,740
You may still be able to download these versions, but some features, et cetera, et

624
00:45:40,740 --> 00:45:43,740
cetera, et cetera. Oof. Oof.

625
00:45:43,740 --> 00:45:48,740
Big yikes. So that's not great for gaming on Mac.

626
00:45:48,740 --> 00:45:51,740
League of Legends also dead. Yeah.

627
00:45:51,740 --> 00:45:54,740
That's probably a little bit more topical and relevant. Whoa.

628
00:45:54,740 --> 00:45:57,740
What's up? League of Legends being killed.

629
00:45:57,740 --> 00:46:02,740
That's a huge player base. Yeah, it's huge. Rocket League is pretty solid as well, but League of Legends is massive.

630
00:46:02,740 --> 00:46:09,740
I don't think that you can really make an argument that a platform, a mouse keyboard platform

631
00:46:09,740 --> 00:46:14,740
where you can't play League of Legends is like highly relevant.

632
00:46:14,740 --> 00:46:17,740
Yeah. That's rough. I don't know.

633
00:46:17,740 --> 00:46:22,740
Apple's got this bizarre relationship with like gaming and game developers and gamers.

634
00:46:22,740 --> 00:46:29,740
Always have. No, they haven't always have. Mac was the gaming platform for like desktops in the early days.

635
00:46:29,740 --> 00:46:32,740
Halo. It didn't come out.

636
00:46:32,740 --> 00:46:35,740
Yeah, it was supposed to though. Yeah.

637
00:46:35,740 --> 00:46:38,740
And dude, like so many, my friend had a Mac.

638
00:46:38,740 --> 00:46:43,740
His dad had a Mac when I was in like elementary school and like they had so many better games.

639
00:46:43,740 --> 00:46:50,740
I was like, this is awesome. We had no real exposure to Mac, not just because like my parents didn't have any, but like,

640
00:46:50,740 --> 00:46:54,740
I didn't know anyone with one. No, gaming on a Mac was like sick.

641
00:46:54,740 --> 00:46:58,740
Oh. And they like talked about gaming in their keynotes and stuff.

642
00:46:58,740 --> 00:47:01,740
Mist was a big one because Mac was like the first CD drive, right?

643
00:47:01,740 --> 00:47:04,740
And then now, now you go, you like, you watch their keynotes.

644
00:47:04,740 --> 00:47:07,740
You watch these like, these like old boomers trying to talk about gaming.

645
00:47:07,740 --> 00:47:10,740
They have no fucking idea what they're talking about.

646
00:47:10,740 --> 00:47:15,740
Despite having the biggest gaming base because of iPhone.

647
00:47:15,740 --> 00:47:18,740
It's bizarre. Yeah. It's bizarre.

648
00:47:18,740 --> 00:47:21,740
It's like they just see it in, in terms of like revenue numbers.

649
00:47:21,740 --> 00:47:26,740
They don't, I'm not convinced that any of them actually play video games.

650
00:47:26,740 --> 00:47:29,740
Yeah. Like people are talking like Oregon Trail was on Mac.

651
00:47:29,740 --> 00:47:32,740
Yeah. 100%. Let's play some O'Dell Lake.

652
00:47:32,740 --> 00:47:35,740
This is all to be, Let's go. There's a reference you wouldn't have expected.

653
00:47:35,740 --> 00:47:38,740
To be clear. This is all like 30 years ago. I know.

654
00:47:38,740 --> 00:47:41,740
I know. But I'm just saying, you said always.

655
00:47:41,740 --> 00:47:44,740
You talked about this on WAN Show recently.

656
00:47:44,740 --> 00:47:47,740
Words have meaning. Words have meanings. Always means always.

657
00:47:47,740 --> 00:47:50,740
Yeah, fair enough. And it was not always the case.

658
00:47:50,740 --> 00:47:56,740
Video games are for 0.7 millimeter lead enjoyers.

659
00:47:56,740 --> 00:48:01,740
That's why they're not on Mac.

660
00:48:01,740 --> 00:48:04,740
We're still, we're still about 60, 40 pulls over.

661
00:48:04,740 --> 00:48:08,740
You'd probably have to be a lead enjoyer to buy a Mac for gaming these days.

662
00:48:08,740 --> 00:48:17,740
It tastes so good. Hey. Dan wants the 0.9 because it gets the most calories.

663
00:48:17,740 --> 00:48:20,740
Gotta keep up my winter weight.

664
00:48:20,740 --> 00:48:23,740
All right. How about another?

665
00:48:23,740 --> 00:48:26,740
Yeah. Sure. Loot, Liar, and Drums.

666
00:48:26,740 --> 00:48:29,740
That's a new one. I like that. Nice.

667
00:48:29,740 --> 00:48:36,740
What's your best three person video game? I have two buddies that play frequently, but squads are almost always four people buying,

668
00:48:36,740 --> 00:48:39,740
replacing screwdriver because I lost the first one in the woods.

669
00:48:39,740 --> 00:48:45,740
I mean, we're hammer 40 case, three people, Rocket League is three people. It'd be terrible if we didn't mention Trine, but that's.

670
00:48:45,740 --> 00:48:48,740
Trine is old. I mean, there's four of them.

671
00:48:48,740 --> 00:48:51,740
It's good though. Yeah. They're pretty samey.

672
00:48:51,740 --> 00:48:55,740
They are pretty samey. I wouldn't play them close together.

673
00:48:55,740 --> 00:48:59,740
There's lots of four player games you can totally enjoy as three players, like Tower Fall

674
00:48:59,740 --> 00:49:03,740
Super Fun. There's five player games. You can queue as three.

675
00:49:03,740 --> 00:49:06,740
Best three person video game. Someone said overcooked.

676
00:49:06,740 --> 00:49:10,740
Yeah. There are five Trines. Oh, I'll show you what I know.

677
00:49:10,740 --> 00:49:13,740
My goodness. Again, just don't play them too close to each other.

678
00:49:13,740 --> 00:49:17,740
They're very samey. Yeah. They're good though, but just spread them out.

679
00:49:17,740 --> 00:49:21,740
Shredder's Revenge. TMNT, Shredder's Revenge. Yeah, you could totally play out with three people.

680
00:49:21,740 --> 00:49:24,740
It was disappointingly not that hard. And it's easy.

681
00:49:24,740 --> 00:49:28,740
Yeah. You can turn it up to hardcore mode though, which we didn't do because we were playing

682
00:49:28,740 --> 00:49:33,740
with children. Right. Baldur's Gate 3.

683
00:49:33,740 --> 00:49:36,740
There's no real reason you couldn't do a three person play through.

684
00:49:36,740 --> 00:49:39,740
I wouldn't call it a three person video game.

685
00:49:39,740 --> 00:49:49,740
Yes. In my opinion, it's best with two or four, but you could totally do a three person play

686
00:49:49,740 --> 00:49:54,740
through for sure. Especially if you have like one person who knows the game and they run two of the characters

687
00:49:54,740 --> 00:49:57,740
and then two newer players play the other two. Four players is Helldivers.

688
00:49:57,740 --> 00:50:00,740
Yeah, but you could still do three. Just fine.

689
00:50:00,740 --> 00:50:04,740
I used to play Helldivers with two people. That's fine.

690
00:50:04,740 --> 00:50:09,740
Wow. I think you're just, I think you're just not being very...

691
00:50:09,740 --> 00:50:12,740
Okay, but you could pull in randoms as well. This guy.

692
00:50:12,740 --> 00:50:16,740
So you could play the two of you in randoms. His elite gamer privilege is showing.

693
00:50:16,740 --> 00:50:22,740
Like, yeah, I don't know. You could just like solo like final end game raids and wow, right?

694
00:50:22,740 --> 00:50:26,740
Like, I just do it by myself. So you can too.

695
00:50:26,740 --> 00:50:29,740
This guy. This guy.

696
00:50:29,740 --> 00:50:33,740
Apparently dream daddy, a dad dating simulator is a three player.

697
00:50:33,740 --> 00:50:36,740
No, this is single player, you guys.

698
00:50:36,740 --> 00:50:40,740
Don't even. Don't even. Polycool daddy simulator.

699
00:50:40,740 --> 00:50:43,740
Sure. That's the sequel. I don't know.

700
00:50:43,740 --> 00:50:46,740
This can't be that bad. It's from Game Grumps. Like if you soloed Vault of Glass.

701
00:50:46,740 --> 00:50:51,740
I don't even know what that is. So you play as a dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot dads.

702
00:50:51,740 --> 00:50:54,740
No, this could be that bad. Okay.

703
00:50:54,740 --> 00:50:57,740
Well anyway, let's move on.

704
00:50:57,740 --> 00:51:00,740
Yeah, sure. Let's do another topic. What do you want to talk about?

705
00:51:00,740 --> 00:51:03,740
Do you want to talk about how Half Life 3 is really totally definitely happening this

706
00:51:03,740 --> 00:51:06,740
time? For sure it is. Okay, go for it.

707
00:51:06,740 --> 00:51:13,740
Signs point to the possibility of Valve working on the long-awaited third entry to the second

708
00:51:13,740 --> 00:51:18,740
most influential FPS franchise in gaming history, Half Life.

709
00:51:18,740 --> 00:51:22,740
Hold on a second. Who wrote this?

710
00:51:22,740 --> 00:51:26,740
I think David. Are they? Is he just trying to troll people?

711
00:51:26,740 --> 00:51:29,740
I'm not sure. He's got to be trying to troll people.

712
00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:32,740
There's no way. There's no way.

713
00:51:32,740 --> 00:51:35,740
What's the most influential thing? I don't know. You could argue.

714
00:51:35,740 --> 00:51:38,740
Halo? No. Halo changed.

715
00:51:38,740 --> 00:51:41,740
What? Halo changed first for tutors forever. Doom?

716
00:51:41,740 --> 00:51:47,740
Doom? I can see Doom. Doom created first-person shooters more effectively.

717
00:51:47,740 --> 00:51:50,740
They existed. Yeah, I don't know.

718
00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:54,740
There's arguments to be made for a lot of the early stuff.

719
00:51:54,740 --> 00:51:57,740
Unreal definitely changed multiplayer.

720
00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:03,740
Yes. Quake changed multiplayer in a big way.

721
00:52:03,740 --> 00:52:06,740
Quake basically created multiplayer Arena Shooter, didn't it?

722
00:52:06,740 --> 00:52:09,740
I'm trying to remember. It wasn't a gamer back then.

723
00:52:09,740 --> 00:52:13,740
Yeah. It all just based on what I know and remember.

724
00:52:13,740 --> 00:52:17,740
Ricochet 2. Ricochet 2 is definitely the most influential first-person shooter of all time.

725
00:52:17,740 --> 00:52:21,740
I do agree. Judge in Philippine Chat. Anyway, it's moving on before that.

726
00:52:21,740 --> 00:52:25,740
It goes crazy. YouTuber and semi-reliable source of Valve leaks.

727
00:52:25,740 --> 00:52:30,740
Gabe follower has made a video claiming Valve is working on the Half-Life universe again

728
00:52:30,740 --> 00:52:33,740
with some moderately convincing evidence.

729
00:52:33,740 --> 00:52:39,740
One, undiscovered Source 2 engine updates that more fit a Half-Life game than any current

730
00:52:39,740 --> 00:52:47,740
Valve game. Two, pointing out new dev commentary in the 20th anniversary update that mentions fixing

731
00:52:47,740 --> 00:52:50,740
a problem in a future installment.

732
00:52:50,740 --> 00:52:56,240
Okay. And more importantly, three, claims from an insider that Valve is actively playtesting

733
00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:00,740
a new Half-Life with friends and family. Can I interject for a moment?

734
00:53:00,740 --> 00:53:04,740
I mean, you interjected a lot of times earlier, so I feel like I'm the owed one.

735
00:53:04,740 --> 00:53:10,240
Is it not more likely that we're just going to get Project Deckard with Half-Life Alex

736
00:53:10,240 --> 00:53:13,740
2 because Valve needs to sell some VR headsets?

737
00:53:13,740 --> 00:53:16,740
Like, come on. We're not getting Half-Life 3, you guys.

738
00:53:16,740 --> 00:53:24,740
Anyway, carry on. G-Man slash Barney Calhoun voice actor has pointed out his...

739
00:53:24,740 --> 00:53:32,740
Has also posted his first... Has also posted his first non-reply tweet, thanks, since the release of Half-Life Alex.

740
00:53:32,740 --> 00:53:38,740
A cryptic video using the G-Man voice referencing unexpected surprises in the future.

741
00:53:38,740 --> 00:53:43,740
The actor has previously told the US gamer that he had recently worked on a blast from

742
00:53:43,740 --> 00:53:47,740
the past that he would announce on my Twitter feed when I'm allowed to.

743
00:53:47,740 --> 00:53:52,740
After eight years... This is all sounding a lot more like a remaster or something than now.

744
00:53:52,740 --> 00:53:57,740
After eight years, Valve has finished the TF2 comic series with a final installment

745
00:53:57,740 --> 00:54:00,740
with small references to the Half-Life universe.

746
00:54:00,740 --> 00:54:06,740
He's been on a huge hiring spree for Project White Sands and has brought back ex-staff who

747
00:54:06,740 --> 00:54:09,740
worked on Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Portal.

748
00:54:09,740 --> 00:54:16,740
Maybe the Aperture Science story thread in Half-Life 2 Episode 2 can be paid off with

749
00:54:16,740 --> 00:54:19,740
a Portal gun in Gordon Freeman's hand. This really...

750
00:54:19,740 --> 00:54:23,740
Who wrote this story? Are you just fan-ficking like...

751
00:54:23,740 --> 00:54:26,740
We're getting Artifact 2. Oh, wow.

752
00:54:26,740 --> 00:54:29,740
Artifact 2. Oh, this is going to be sick. Amazing.

753
00:54:29,740 --> 00:54:32,740
This is David. I like this one. This is David.

754
00:54:32,740 --> 00:54:38,740
He should write more when. Here's our discussion question. Linus, why do you hate Half-Life 2 and follow up?

755
00:54:38,740 --> 00:54:42,740
Why are you so wrong? Yeah, that's an interesting question. I don't hate Half-Life 2.

756
00:54:42,740 --> 00:54:45,740
It's one of the few shooter games I've actually played all the way through.

757
00:54:45,740 --> 00:54:48,740
I played Half-Life 2. I played Episode 1. I played Episode 2.

758
00:54:48,740 --> 00:54:51,740
The only one I've said I couldn't finish is Half-Life 1, because I didn't go back

759
00:54:51,740 --> 00:54:56,740
and try to play it until I had already completed Half-Life 2.

760
00:54:56,740 --> 00:55:01,740
It didn't age particularly well.

761
00:55:01,740 --> 00:55:05,740
I could probably list first-person shooter games that I've actually played

762
00:55:05,740 --> 00:55:08,740
an entire campaign on two hands.

763
00:55:08,740 --> 00:55:11,740
Far Cry 1. Great game.

764
00:55:11,740 --> 00:55:16,740
Doom around that time, Doom.

765
00:55:16,740 --> 00:55:20,740
Whatever that one was, I forget. Half-Life 2.

766
00:55:20,740 --> 00:55:22,740
Fear.

767
00:55:23,740 --> 00:55:26,740
I played that one that you made me play, Titanfall 2.

768
00:55:26,740 --> 00:55:29,740
That was a good game. Great game. Okay, what else is there?

769
00:55:29,740 --> 00:55:32,740
Really solid game. What? Okay, Portal.

770
00:55:32,740 --> 00:55:35,740
Also, every time Steam has a sale, Titanfall 2 goes on sale for like $3.

771
00:55:35,740 --> 00:55:38,740
If you haven't bought it, just buy it when it's on sale.

772
00:55:38,740 --> 00:55:43,740
It's a great single-player game. Do it.

773
00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:49,740
Halo 1. Have I actually played through the single-player campaign?

774
00:55:49,740 --> 00:55:52,740
I think so. Maybe. Possibly.

775
00:55:52,740 --> 00:55:55,740
Would have been... Yeah, no, I think I did. I think I did.

776
00:55:55,740 --> 00:55:58,740
What else we got? Bioshock. Yes, I did play through Bioshock.

777
00:55:58,740 --> 00:56:02,740
I may have even dragged myself through Bioshock too, but I'm not sure if I finished it.

778
00:56:02,740 --> 00:56:08,740
It was terrible. No, not Fire Crystal, F-E-A-R.

779
00:56:08,740 --> 00:56:13,740
I wasn't that into 2, but I liked Infinite. Oh, I played one of the Deus Ex games all the way through.

780
00:56:13,740 --> 00:56:19,740
I think it was... It was like... It was supposed to be one of the bad ones or whatever, but I came into it into the franchise

781
00:56:19,740 --> 00:56:25,740
later, so I enjoyed it just fine.

782
00:56:25,740 --> 00:56:29,740
Maybe it was that one. It was probably one of the Deus Ex ones, and I have never...

783
00:56:29,740 --> 00:56:33,740
I have actually never played a Battlefield or Call of Duty campaign all the way through.

784
00:56:33,740 --> 00:56:37,740
I just didn't participate in gaming at that time, I guess.

785
00:56:37,740 --> 00:56:42,740
So we're at 9. We're at 9.

786
00:56:42,740 --> 00:56:47,740
They're good Marvel movie-esque campaigns, if that makes sense.

787
00:56:47,740 --> 00:56:50,740
There's no real substance to them. I don't think I ended up beating Borderlands.

788
00:56:50,740 --> 00:56:53,740
I got Board of Diablo First Person Shooter Edition.

789
00:56:53,740 --> 00:56:57,740
Yeah, I don't think I've ever... I think I've tried a couple of them.

790
00:56:57,740 --> 00:57:00,740
I've never beat any of them, because I get partway through it, and I'm just like, alright.

791
00:57:00,740 --> 00:57:03,740
Yep, this is Diablo, alright. Crisis.

792
00:57:03,740 --> 00:57:06,740
Yes. Oh, okay, we're over 10. You beat Crisis?

793
00:57:06,740 --> 00:57:09,740
Yeah. Oh, wow. Crisis, Crisis 2.

794
00:57:09,740 --> 00:57:13,740
I might have actually played all the way through Crisis 3 as well. Definitely Crisis 1 and Crisis 2.

795
00:57:13,740 --> 00:57:18,740
I did very much enjoy those. I know a lot of people that played it, but not that many people that actually finished it.

796
00:57:18,740 --> 00:57:22,740
Why? I don't know. Actually, I know I've seen that feedback.

797
00:57:22,740 --> 00:57:25,740
Whether it's 1 or 2, I can't remember, but people are like, yeah, when the aliens show up,

798
00:57:25,740 --> 00:57:28,740
it gets stupid. I was going to say when the enemies changed, but I didn't remember what they changed to.

799
00:57:28,740 --> 00:57:32,740
Yeah, I thought it was fine. Yeah. I mean, you have the same problem in Far Cry.

800
00:57:32,740 --> 00:57:36,740
It's the exact same problem. Have you ever played the original Far Cry? I've watched you play it, but no.

801
00:57:36,740 --> 00:57:39,740
Yeah, it's the exact same problem. You start out fighting... Well, I don't know.

802
00:57:39,740 --> 00:57:42,740
Are you going to play it? Probably not. Okay, whatever.

803
00:57:42,740 --> 00:57:48,740
You end up fighting these insufferable rocket-absorbing monsters.

804
00:57:48,740 --> 00:57:51,740
You can hit them in the face with a rocket three times.

805
00:57:51,740 --> 00:57:54,740
It's like, okay, they're made of flesh and bone. Come on.

806
00:57:54,740 --> 00:57:58,740
It should still work. This is such a consistent theme, and I don't know why.

807
00:57:58,740 --> 00:58:06,740
I find it interesting that Warhammer, Space Marine, 40k, 2, whatever, it doesn't the other way around.

808
00:58:06,740 --> 00:58:11,740
You start fighting the weird aliens, and then you end the game fighting more humanoid things,

809
00:58:11,740 --> 00:58:15,740
and it starts weaker and ends stronger. It's like, what?

810
00:58:15,740 --> 00:58:19,740
Sure. Okay. I don't count Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

811
00:58:19,740 --> 00:58:24,740
That's third person, but I did finish that. Man, I really don't play that many games.

812
00:58:24,740 --> 00:58:27,740
That's like every shooter game that I've played in the last 25 years.

813
00:58:27,740 --> 00:58:30,740
My Steam told me that you bought Slay the Spire. I did.

814
00:58:30,740 --> 00:58:34,740
I haven't played it yet, though. I was busy beating you to the end of Final Fantasy VI.

815
00:58:34,740 --> 00:58:37,740
Did you already beat it? I haven't beaten it yet. Okay.

816
00:58:37,740 --> 00:58:50,740
I don't know if this is because of some of the balance issues in the pixel remaster.

817
00:58:50,740 --> 00:58:53,740
There are some significant balance issues, though.

818
00:58:53,740 --> 00:58:56,740
It makes it harder or it makes it easier way?

819
00:58:56,740 --> 00:59:03,740
Both. I've noticed some stuff in the pixel remaster, so I don't know if it's because of that,

820
00:59:03,740 --> 00:59:06,740
or I don't know if it's because of my nostalgia glasses fading,

821
00:59:06,740 --> 00:59:12,740
but it may not be as good of a game as I remember it being.

822
00:59:12,740 --> 00:59:16,740
The pixel remaster has some very serious issues.

823
00:59:16,740 --> 00:59:20,740
I don't know if it's caused by me setting the battle rate too fast,

824
00:59:20,740 --> 00:59:24,740
but it seems like when I change it, it didn't get fixed.

825
00:59:24,740 --> 00:59:29,740
I also have it set to active because I want a bit of a challenge.

826
00:59:29,740 --> 00:59:34,740
I've noticed that there are certain effects, like poison, for instance.

827
00:59:34,740 --> 00:59:41,740
The tech rate for it is obscene, so this probably won't spoil too much,

828
00:59:41,740 --> 00:59:45,740
but there's a boss at some point that can grab you and hold you.

829
00:59:45,740 --> 00:59:48,740
I think it's already happened. No, it probably hasn't. Really?

830
00:59:48,740 --> 00:59:51,740
Yeah. Doesn't the tentacle guy do that? Wait, where are you at?

831
00:59:51,740 --> 00:59:54,740
I fought him like twice or something, I think.

832
00:59:54,740 --> 00:59:57,740
Oh, him, Ultros. Okay, sure.

833
01:00:04,740 --> 01:00:11,740
The tick for the damage is obscene.

834
01:00:11,740 --> 01:00:16,740
I got annihilated in that fight four times in a row,

835
01:00:16,740 --> 01:00:21,740
never even really getting a chance to even hit anything.

836
01:00:22,740 --> 01:00:28,740
Theola says maybe you need to cap your frame rate, but really a PC release?

837
01:00:28,740 --> 01:00:32,740
In 2020, whatever. You would be very surprised.

838
01:00:32,740 --> 01:00:36,740
Why? Because that is so standard, it still happens.

839
01:00:36,740 --> 01:00:44,740
Because that is embarrassing. That is straight up embarrassing if that's caused by the frame rate being higher.

840
01:00:44,740 --> 01:00:48,740
Why wouldn't everyone use time always forever?

841
01:00:48,740 --> 01:00:50,740
Because it's harder.

842
01:00:51,740 --> 01:00:54,740
It's very lazy. It's not that much harder.

843
01:00:54,740 --> 01:00:57,740
It's really not that much harder.

844
01:00:57,740 --> 01:01:07,740
That's it. Anyway, I've encountered a lot of stuff that's just kind of broken.

845
01:01:07,740 --> 01:01:11,740
We talked about some of it last week where Cayenne or Cyan or whatever,

846
01:01:11,740 --> 01:01:15,740
his sword techniques or Bushido is what it's called now.

847
01:01:15,740 --> 01:01:19,740
There's supposed to be a penalty for performing the higher tier ones.

848
01:01:19,740 --> 01:01:22,740
There just isn't.

849
01:01:22,740 --> 01:01:26,740
I don't know, man.

850
01:01:26,740 --> 01:01:31,740
Cool. Anyway, I don't want to spend a bunch of time talking about Final Fantasy 6 again this week,

851
01:01:31,740 --> 01:01:35,740
but I will beat you to the end.

852
01:01:35,740 --> 01:01:39,740
I have made no progress.

853
01:01:39,740 --> 01:01:42,740
If you had to guess, how many hours do you think I have left?

854
01:01:42,740 --> 01:01:45,740
I have no idea, but like... Well, where are you at?

855
01:01:45,740 --> 01:01:48,740
At the same spot. You haven't touched it?

856
01:01:49,740 --> 01:01:52,740
Again? Family games. Again?

857
01:01:52,740 --> 01:02:00,740
My brother and I beat Act 2 in Baldur's Gate 3. We beat Warhammer 40k, and we got from the Meadows to the Plains in Valheim all over the Christmas tree.

858
01:02:00,740 --> 01:02:06,740
This is when I ask my kids why they haven't eaten their broccoli, and they're all like, well, I ate my rice, and I ate my meat, and I ate my bubblegum.

859
01:02:06,740 --> 01:02:09,740
I didn't ask about any of those things. I asked why I didn't eat your broccoli.

860
01:02:09,740 --> 01:02:13,740
My current plan... Eat your gaming broccoli. I don't like Las Vegas.

861
01:02:13,740 --> 01:02:16,740
I don't gamble. I don't bet. I don't do any of that kind of stuff.

862
01:02:16,740 --> 01:02:19,740
I have something going on. Socializing. With who?

863
01:02:19,740 --> 01:02:22,740
No one's even going to be there. Is Wendell going? Not on no.

864
01:02:22,740 --> 01:02:27,740
First of all, no. Second of all... Then you may actually get some gaming done.

865
01:02:27,740 --> 01:02:30,740
Because on Sunday, no one's going to be there.

866
01:02:30,740 --> 01:02:34,740
I'm going down there to film something on Saturday, and then I just have to wait on Sunday.

867
01:02:34,740 --> 01:02:40,740
I don't like the city that I'm going to be in. So I'm probably just going to play Final Fantasy in the hotel room all day.

868
01:02:40,740 --> 01:02:43,740
Okay. I'll probably still be ahead of you.

869
01:02:43,740 --> 01:02:49,740
Maybe. Is that many hours ahead? Yeah, put like 32 hours into it or something.

870
01:02:49,740 --> 01:02:52,740
Don't worry about it.

871
01:02:52,740 --> 01:02:58,740
Okay. And realistically, I know the game better and can probably beat it in fewer hours than

872
01:02:58,740 --> 01:03:01,740
you, so that's going to be a challenge, I guess, for you.

873
01:03:01,740 --> 01:03:04,740
Yeah, I often don't know where the heck I'm going.

874
01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:10,740
I don't want to look things up as much as possible, so I'm often like, what?

875
01:03:10,740 --> 01:03:13,740
Without spoiling anything, that gets way worse.

876
01:03:13,740 --> 01:03:16,740
Okay. Way worse.

877
01:03:16,740 --> 01:03:20,740
Oh, no. Cool. I'm having that problem literally right now.

878
01:03:20,740 --> 01:03:23,740
Like the point of the game where I stopped was because I was looking around for like,

879
01:03:23,740 --> 01:03:28,740
I think it was like 10 or 15 minutes. I could not for the life of me forget where I was supposed to go.

880
01:03:28,740 --> 01:03:35,740
When you're supposed to go to the Imperial camp to go to the sealed gate.

881
01:03:35,740 --> 01:03:41,740
Yeah. When I was a child and I didn't have the internet or like a guide book or anything like that,

882
01:03:41,740 --> 01:03:49,740
I spent literally hours, literally hours figuring that out, hours and hours and hours.

883
01:03:49,740 --> 01:03:56,740
I went to every city on the entire map multiple times trying to figure out what would trigger

884
01:03:56,740 --> 01:04:04,740
anything new to happen. When you get completely freed with the airship, and so I've gone to the gate thing, the thing

885
01:04:04,740 --> 01:04:08,740
happened, we're out, I'm supposed to do the next step, and then they just let you free

886
01:04:08,740 --> 01:04:13,740
on the map with the airship. I literally had an immediate sense of dread.

887
01:04:13,740 --> 01:04:18,740
Because I was like, there's no, there's no bounds now.

888
01:04:18,740 --> 01:04:21,740
Like you gave me one line of where I'm supposed to go and I didn't recognize where that was

889
01:04:21,740 --> 01:04:25,740
and now you're just like, good luck. Like what does that mean?

890
01:04:25,740 --> 01:04:29,740
I also don't remember what you said. So, uh...

891
01:04:29,740 --> 01:04:32,740
Yeah. What? You can't replay cutscenes.

892
01:04:32,740 --> 01:04:35,740
No. Heaven forbid you be able to do that. Like...

893
01:04:35,740 --> 01:04:38,740
Sounds like you need some yellow paint. Yeah, to be honest.

894
01:04:38,740 --> 01:04:43,740
A little bit of yellow paint. Be okay right now. I wouldn't mind a little bit of yellow paint.

895
01:04:43,740 --> 01:04:46,740
Anyways. So Half-Life 3.

896
01:04:46,740 --> 01:04:52,740
Good luck everybody. It's not going to be Half-Life 3. It's going to be Alex 2 or it's going to be like a remaster or something.

897
01:04:52,740 --> 01:04:58,740
That doesn't make new Half-Life games. Web Dev says 70% of forum traffic is LLM training bots.

898
01:04:58,740 --> 01:05:03,740
Would we have any way of like corroborating that?

899
01:05:03,740 --> 01:05:06,740
Oh. Like what do you think?

900
01:05:06,740 --> 01:05:09,740
LTT forum would almost certainly get crawled. Yeah.

901
01:05:09,740 --> 01:05:12,740
Is it worth it? We can try. What?

902
01:05:12,740 --> 01:05:15,740
We can look into it. No, I'm just... I wouldn't spend resources on it.

903
01:05:15,740 --> 01:05:18,740
Exactly. I'm just idly curious. I just like...

904
01:05:18,740 --> 01:05:21,740
I don't even know... It probably wouldn't be that hard.

905
01:05:21,740 --> 01:05:24,740
But is it worth spending any amount of time?

906
01:05:24,740 --> 01:05:27,740
Probably not. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean I think that...

907
01:05:27,740 --> 01:05:30,740
I feel like that's one of the things that happens when you become like sort of a medium-sized,

908
01:05:30,740 --> 01:05:33,740
larger company. Is you just like... People ask a question.

909
01:05:33,740 --> 01:05:40,740
Stop doing so many things. You just like... Yeah, you just start just like asking questions and then like assigning resources to them because

910
01:05:40,740 --> 01:05:43,740
you just like kind of have all these resources and then you end up just like not actually

911
01:05:43,740 --> 01:05:50,740
doing anything because finding out if our forum is being crawled by training bots is

912
01:05:50,740 --> 01:05:54,740
like what does that inform for our decision-making process?

913
01:05:54,740 --> 01:05:57,740
What are we going to do about it? We're not going to do anything.

914
01:05:57,740 --> 01:06:02,740
Yeah. Anyways, Diaspora developer Dennis Schubert was investigating...

915
01:06:02,740 --> 01:06:05,740
Diaspora. Diaspora. That's fine.

916
01:06:05,740 --> 01:06:08,740
It's not Diaspora? I don't think so. I've heard it.

917
01:06:08,740 --> 01:06:16,740
Okay. Diaspora developer Dennis Schubert was investigating load spikes on a Diaspora project web infrastructure

918
01:06:16,740 --> 01:06:22,740
and on investigation discovered a significant majority of the 11.3 million web requests

919
01:06:22,740 --> 01:06:25,740
handled in a 60-day period. You're right.

920
01:06:25,740 --> 01:06:28,740
It's Diaspora? Yeah. Nice.

921
01:06:28,740 --> 01:06:31,740
All right. Good job. Got him.

922
01:06:32,740 --> 01:06:38,740
The 11.3 million web requests handled in a 60-day period were from LLM training bots.

923
01:06:38,740 --> 01:06:44,740
The bots crawl and re-crawl multiple times a day and aren't smart about what they crawl.

924
01:06:44,740 --> 01:06:50,740
At one point, JetGBT and Amazon were crawling the entire edit history of Diaspora's wiki

925
01:06:50,740 --> 01:06:56,740
every single diff, every single page, often more than 10 requests per second.

926
01:06:56,740 --> 01:07:02,740
Wow. You compare responsible bots, like those for Google or Bing search, accounted for just

927
01:07:02,740 --> 01:07:07,740
0.28% of Diaspora's web now and I think about every time I read the word.

928
01:07:07,740 --> 01:07:10,740
Yeah. I'm sorry. I screwed it up for everyone.

929
01:07:10,740 --> 01:07:15,740
I ruined it all. I ruined it all. Step down, Adam, because Linus ruins everything.

930
01:07:15,740 --> 01:07:19,740
Is that a dated reference now?

931
01:07:19,740 --> 01:07:27,740
I don't even know. The bots ignore robots.txt, which you can think of as the house rules for any web server,

932
01:07:27,740 --> 01:07:34,740
that can ask web bots to honor, attempts to slow or stop, and they generally did in the

933
01:07:34,740 --> 01:07:39,740
past, attempts to slow or stop the bots just result in them disguising their user agents

934
01:07:39,740 --> 01:07:47,740
and taking other evasive actions. Diaspora is a decentralized social media platform that calls itself the online social world where

935
01:07:47,740 --> 01:07:53,940
you are in control. I think our discussion question needs some help, but I mean, I think basically our discussion

936
01:07:53,940 --> 01:07:57,740
question here is, what do we do?

937
01:07:57,740 --> 01:08:01,740
Yeah, is Pandora's box just open at this point?

938
01:08:01,740 --> 01:08:07,460
It surprises me a little bit that anyone is bothering to sign licensing deals with platforms

939
01:08:07,460 --> 01:08:11,820
like Reddit. I think the only reason they're bothering is that Reddit has the financial resources

940
01:08:11,820 --> 01:08:16,740
to potentially fight them in court for years and years and win some kind of settlement.

941
01:08:16,740 --> 01:08:20,740
Which is exactly the reason why we were discussing, like, do we look into this?

942
01:08:20,740 --> 01:08:23,740
No, because what are we going to do?

943
01:08:23,740 --> 01:08:28,740
Nothing. And trying to stop them just has them disguise their user agents and take other evasive actions.

944
01:08:28,740 --> 01:08:33,740
Realistically, they've gone up against more sophisticated administrators than us, no

945
01:08:33,740 --> 01:08:37,740
offense, who have more time to fight this stuff.

946
01:08:37,740 --> 01:08:42,740
When we look at the cost of running the forum, the second we start investigating this, we

947
01:08:42,740 --> 01:08:51,740
have lost money. Dude, the forum is like, I'm not sure why we bother anymore at this point.

948
01:08:51,740 --> 01:08:55,740
Most of them seem to hate me anyway, so it's just like, all right.

949
01:08:55,740 --> 01:09:07,740
How does that feel? Paying for the hosting of a community that generally doesn't like you.

950
01:09:07,740 --> 01:09:13,740
Moving on.

951
01:09:13,740 --> 01:09:16,740
Yeah, at least Reddit's free. Yeah, right.

952
01:09:16,740 --> 01:09:19,740
You don't have to pay to keep that going.

953
01:09:19,740 --> 01:09:22,740
Oh, man. Amazing. That's great.

954
01:09:22,740 --> 01:09:25,740
Are we still going to do more topics?

955
01:09:25,740 --> 01:09:34,740
Just to be clear, I'm mostly being facetious. I do think that it is a small minority of active users that are drinking the Haterade.

956
01:09:34,740 --> 01:09:41,740
And I also think that there is an influx of new users who are just looking to participate

957
01:09:41,740 --> 01:09:46,740
anytime that there's something resembling a scandal, even if it's a complete nothing

958
01:09:46,740 --> 01:09:51,740
burger. Yeah. And they tend to kind of show up at those times.

959
01:09:51,740 --> 01:09:57,740
It's been really interesting watching how much noise there has been about the honey scandal.

960
01:09:57,740 --> 01:10:01,740
And I'm going to use that in finger quotes because it had nothing to do with us.

961
01:10:01,740 --> 01:10:09,740
Despite a lack of impact. Compared to the impact on sort of any other aspect of anything.

962
01:10:09,740 --> 01:10:16,740
Because a lot of the time, if people are legitimately upset about something, like if we upload a video

963
01:10:16,740 --> 01:10:22,740
to Floatplane that accidentally left the sponsor spots in, we might see a dip in Floatplane

964
01:10:22,740 --> 01:10:31,240
subscribers. Or if we upload a sponsored video to the YouTube channel that people think is just too shilly

965
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,740
or something like that. Because we've done stuff like that in the past.

966
01:10:34,740 --> 01:10:38,740
We're always trying to find the right balance, but we don't always nail it.

967
01:10:38,740 --> 01:10:41,740
I've been upfront about that.

968
01:10:41,740 --> 01:10:46,740
You might see a reduction in engagement over the next couple of days or weeks or months

969
01:10:46,740 --> 01:10:56,740
or whatever. But this one, in spite of how broad and how loud and how angry people have been, it appears

970
01:10:56,740 --> 01:10:59,740
to be two perfect circles.

971
01:10:59,740 --> 01:11:05,740
The people who actually engage with us and care about LTT and Linus Media Group and all

972
01:11:05,740 --> 01:11:12,740
of those various things. And the people who actually think that this is a scandal that reflects poorly on us in

973
01:11:12,740 --> 01:11:17,740
any way. I think it's a lot of people that just go from thing to thing that they can yell about.

974
01:11:17,740 --> 01:11:21,740
That's their entertainment when they get home. It seems like it.

975
01:11:21,740 --> 01:11:27,740
It seems like it. And there have definitely been times when those circles have overlapped.

976
01:11:27,740 --> 01:11:31,740
When there's actually been people who are angry about it who do engage with us.

977
01:11:31,740 --> 01:11:35,740
That's probably when it's more real. Absolutely.

978
01:11:35,740 --> 01:11:40,740
But this one seems like the most separated.

979
01:11:40,740 --> 01:11:49,740
We've maybe got these lines kind of touch and there's dozens of people that are newly

980
01:11:49,740 --> 01:11:55,740
hate us because of this. It just feels like everyone who was going to hate us hates us already at this point.

981
01:11:55,740 --> 01:11:59,740
And it's actually liberating. I think I've talked about this before a little bit lately where it feels like we've survived

982
01:11:59,740 --> 01:12:05,740
enough scandals that like we'd have to have an actual scandal, you know, like a real one

983
01:12:05,740 --> 01:12:09,740
for it to kind of drum up like new hate.

984
01:12:09,740 --> 01:12:13,740
It's just old hate that's being sort of refreshed now.

985
01:12:13,740 --> 01:12:18,740
It's like, oh, he hates an ad block. It's like, I don't care about it.

986
01:12:18,740 --> 01:12:21,740
I always told you guys, you don't use it.

987
01:12:21,740 --> 01:12:24,740
You make your choice. It's on you.

988
01:12:24,740 --> 01:12:28,740
Just make your own. Yeah. Build your own priorities, whatever.

989
01:12:28,740 --> 01:12:31,740
CWP Linus is actually the mastermind behind Honey.

990
01:12:31,740 --> 01:12:34,740
Oh, I wish I'd thought of it. I'd be a billionaire.

991
01:12:34,740 --> 01:12:37,740
Yeah. Dude. Like honestly.

992
01:12:37,740 --> 01:12:43,740
You'd be a big jerk. Oh man, dude. I had an idea and you know about this already.

993
01:12:43,740 --> 01:12:47,740
I had an idea that literally would have made us a billion dollars.

994
01:12:47,740 --> 01:12:49,740
I think you know the one I'm talking about.

995
01:12:59,740 --> 01:13:02,740
The one I was talking to you and Taryn about.

996
01:13:02,740 --> 01:13:05,740
Oh. Yeah. Thank you.

997
01:13:05,740 --> 01:13:08,740
Finally. Jeez. We got there.

998
01:13:08,740 --> 01:13:14,740
What is that? What is that? Don't worry about it.

999
01:13:14,740 --> 01:13:17,740
Maybe we might not do charades that well.

1000
01:13:17,740 --> 01:13:20,740
Yeah, that's fine. We don't need to do that.

1001
01:13:20,740 --> 01:13:24,740
Anyway, anyway, the point is, you know, whether it's like, you

1002
01:13:24,740 --> 01:13:27,740
know, Linus coin. Oh, that's it. Oh, I forgot to tell you about this.

1003
01:13:27,740 --> 01:13:30,740
There is absolutely a platform that does that by the way. Oh really?

1004
01:13:30,740 --> 01:13:33,740
Yeah. Okay. 100%.

1005
01:13:33,740 --> 01:13:38,740
Okay. Good. Anyway, the point is, I wish them luck.

1006
01:13:38,740 --> 01:13:42,740
And they're killing it. So you're completely right.

1007
01:13:42,740 --> 01:13:53,740
So any who, like we've definitely had ideas before that I think are probably not as bad

1008
01:13:53,740 --> 01:13:59,740
as what Paypal Honey is doing here necessarily. How much money would we have if we actually did that VPN?

1009
01:13:59,740 --> 01:14:11,740
Yeah, I know. There's like, there's been plenty of opportunities, but I don't actually wish I'd thought of

1010
01:14:11,740 --> 01:14:16,900
it because like there's been times when we've thought of stuff that would have made us like

1011
01:14:16,900 --> 01:14:23,140
actually obscene amounts of money and we have made the active decision that, no, we actually

1012
01:14:23,140 --> 01:14:26,660
do make enough money and we need to not do that.

1013
01:14:26,660 --> 01:14:32,540
It's more important for the world that that is not done by us because someone will probably

1014
01:14:32,540 --> 01:14:38,640
do it at some point anyway. But you know, whether it's Hock to a girl with her rug pull recently or the thing you're

1015
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,140
talking about. Linus coin's rug pull would have been cooler. I don't know why.

1016
01:14:42,140 --> 01:14:48,620
No, we wanted to call it, we wanted to call it drop coin because the value would drop.

1017
01:14:48,620 --> 01:14:52,340
We were going to be, I don't know, if you guys are new, you won't remember this obviously.

1018
01:14:52,540 --> 01:15:00,100
It was a pretty funny idea. You weren't there for it. But we talked about doing like an ICO and like being completely upfront, like calling

1019
01:15:00,100 --> 01:15:04,860
it rug coin or calling it drop coin or calling it something like that, where we're just like,

1020
01:15:04,860 --> 01:15:10,700
yeah, we're going to, we're going to spike the crap out of this thing.

1021
01:15:10,700 --> 01:15:16,220
We're going to do an ICO. If you guys are in at the absolute ground floor, you're going to make a killing.

1022
01:15:16,220 --> 01:15:21,740
You probably won't. If you sell fast enough. Because we're going to be the ones that are going to rug pull it faster than anyone else

1023
01:15:21,740 --> 01:15:25,740
could possibly know because we're going to keep 90% of it for ourselves, like every smart

1024
01:15:25,740 --> 01:15:29,060
initial coin offering scheme does.

1025
01:15:29,060 --> 01:15:32,820
And yeah, it's going to be a disaster for everyone who buys into it.

1026
01:15:32,820 --> 01:15:38,020
Let's go. And we would have made so much money. People would have totally done it anyway, because people would have just like bought

1027
01:15:38,020 --> 01:15:42,260
$5 worth of it. I'll be the one that that sells at the right time.

1028
01:15:42,260 --> 01:15:47,780
It'll be me. Mashi Sly Fox says it was and still is hilarious.

1029
01:15:47,780 --> 01:15:51,780
No bad things ever happen to me. LT to a coin, please.

1030
01:15:51,780 --> 01:15:54,980
No, no, no, we shouldn't do that.

1031
01:15:54,980 --> 01:16:01,660
It's a bad idea. It would be a heck of a way to retire though.

1032
01:16:01,660 --> 01:16:06,100
Retirement coin. Just draw. It's like, who's retirement?

1033
01:16:06,100 --> 01:16:09,100
Mine or yours? How much? Let's find out.

1034
01:16:09,100 --> 01:16:12,100
How much? How much? How much?

1035
01:16:12,100 --> 01:16:15,100
How much? How much? How much?

1036
01:16:15,100 --> 01:16:18,100
How much? How much? How much?

1037
01:16:18,100 --> 01:16:25,740
How much? Yeah, and there would be no tech offerings, which I think people have given up on that

1038
01:16:25,740 --> 01:16:30,660
at this point. Tech offerings? Yeah, like at the beginning of ICOs, it was all like, oh, this one's going to be good

1039
01:16:30,660 --> 01:16:34,140
because it'll have lower transaction fees because people are actually totally going

1040
01:16:34,140 --> 01:16:37,740
to use it. Wink, wink, wink. And now no one cares.

1041
01:16:37,740 --> 01:16:43,140
Right, right, right, right, right. It's all just theme it around something fun and then try to convince people to go to

1042
01:16:43,140 --> 01:16:54,620
the moon and sell before it does. You know what's crazy is my brother-in-law actually works for a company that actually

1043
01:16:54,620 --> 01:16:59,540
has a value to their coin. No, no, no, no.

1044
01:16:59,540 --> 01:17:03,980
How old is it? How old is it? How many years have they been around?

1045
01:17:03,980 --> 01:17:08,980
It's this thing. It's this drone mapping thing.

1046
01:17:08,980 --> 01:17:17,540
You fly your drone, which you want to do anyway, and you get their crypto coin or whatever.

1047
01:17:17,540 --> 01:17:22,620
For mapping stuff? Yeah. What can you, is it worth?

1048
01:17:22,620 --> 01:17:27,220
It actually seems to be doing pretty good because they have actual clients that pay

1049
01:17:27,220 --> 01:17:32,860
actual money for the maps. You know, I hate this because this is actually probably pretty cool.

1050
01:17:32,860 --> 01:17:39,540
It's really cool. And there are legitimate uses for this type of stuff. They have significantly downplayed the crypto-ness.

1051
01:17:39,540 --> 01:17:43,220
That's probably a good idea. The blockchain-ness of the product.

1052
01:17:43,220 --> 01:17:50,140
But it is using blockchain technology and it is achieving something actually valuable,

1053
01:17:50,140 --> 01:17:56,900
which is extremely high-resolution imagery. They've got a really good, where is it?

1054
01:17:56,900 --> 01:18:06,100
It was actually a different news article. It wasn't on their site where they show a side-by-side of satellite imagery versus their

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imagery. And it's obviously way better because it's from individual drone operators flying their

1056
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drones around. And so it's a win-win because it's something these guys want to do anyway.

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People love an excuse to fly their drones around.

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These guys are getting this highly detailed mapping data.

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And then companies and cities, any organization that's willing to pay for this high-resolution

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01:18:31,660 --> 01:18:35,340
map imagery is winning as well.

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I won't talk about much of it because I have no idea what of what he's told me is

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01:18:39,420 --> 01:18:44,780
in confidence or whatever else, but that's the high level of what these guys are doing.

1063
01:18:44,780 --> 01:18:49,260
It's kind of frustrating because blockchain tech is really cool.

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01:18:49,260 --> 01:18:53,500
But it's hard to be excited about because there are so many scams.

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Yeah, it's like not every blockchain project is a scam, but every scammer is in on blockchain.

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Which is rough because then when people do actually do cool things with it, which I mean,

1067
01:19:04,940 --> 01:19:07,940
that seems cool. I don't know. It's not an endorsement.

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01:19:07,940 --> 01:19:11,140
I've never seen it before.

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There's so much negativity around it because they get associated with the incredible amount

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of the huge ocean full of scammers.

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01:19:20,740 --> 01:19:25,180
I do hope one day we can get past that, but honestly, I don't know that we can.

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01:19:25,180 --> 01:19:29,060
I think there will always be scammers in blockchain. This is pretty cool. Too many of them.

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01:19:29,060 --> 01:19:33,500
Property assessment, situational awareness for fire and police, disaster response.

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01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:38,660
Yeah, assessing infrastructure. Yeah, it's super cool.

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Disaster response especially. Trying to figure out what something was supposed to look like before it got swept away in a

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flood or something. 100%. Yeah.

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I'm super, super, super happy for him.

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01:19:50,980 --> 01:19:56,340
I'm super, super proud of him. He's worked super hard to get this to where it is.

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01:19:56,340 --> 01:20:03,780
It's a long story. That's his story to tell, but yeah, no, definitely super cool.

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It's surely time. It's early time asks, okay, but is blockchain necessary for this to exist?

1081
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No, but what it is is really elegant.

1082
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Blockchain is super cool. It's like super, super cool.

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That's just that there's a lot of grifters in this space who saw an easy way to make

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a buck. That's all. Yeah.

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McBain says, next scandal tech influencer pushes family coin scam.

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in the video description. All right. Kind of sick.

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Kind of cool. So diamond shopping. Yeah.

1146
01:25:06,740 --> 01:25:10,740
And London. Why?

1147
01:25:10,740 --> 01:25:14,060
Because Yvonne and I were having a conversation.

1148
01:25:14,060 --> 01:25:22,140
She told me about this like jewelry slash like diamond brand that was a big deal called

1149
01:25:22,140 --> 01:25:27,220
Harry Winston. Like they're like the best or something and they're the trendiest.

1150
01:25:27,220 --> 01:25:36,380
And I was like, are they like better than like Tiffany? Because that's the only sort of like upscale, you know, brand that I know and Yvonne's like

1151
01:25:36,460 --> 01:25:41,820
Oh, I mean, yeah, yeah, they're they're they're like, you know, their brand perception is

1152
01:25:41,820 --> 01:25:45,700
like higher. They're like more premium.

1153
01:25:45,700 --> 01:25:51,220
And anyway, I was like, I was like, really? Because I thought like, I thought like Tiffany's like, you know, kind of like a huge deal.

1154
01:25:51,220 --> 01:25:54,220
It's certainly very overpriced.

1155
01:25:54,220 --> 01:26:08,220
Go ahead. These look stupid. I went to the website and immediately was like, what?

1156
01:26:08,220 --> 01:26:15,420
Okay. Sorry. So anyway, to tease her, because that's my actual favorite thing to do in the entire

1157
01:26:15,420 --> 01:26:20,060
world. Sure. I was like, well, well, darling, would you like me to get you a Harry Winston then?

1158
01:26:20,060 --> 01:26:26,180
And she's like, what? No, I'm just I was just saying like, like that's the one that kind of gets.

1159
01:26:26,220 --> 01:26:30,740
Like, you know, they provide the diamonds for the, you know, the royal family and you

1160
01:26:30,740 --> 01:26:34,460
know, whatever else. And I'm like, OK, so so you're saying now that we're here in London, you'd like to

1161
01:26:34,460 --> 01:26:37,900
go get to Harry Winston then? Sorry, Dan, by the way, I'm butchering your native tongue.

1162
01:26:39,780 --> 01:26:45,620
And and anyway, so so basically I we were just walking around in the city and I was

1163
01:26:45,620 --> 01:26:48,940
like, OK, I'm going to I'm going to find the nearest Harry Winston.

1164
01:26:49,300 --> 01:26:53,500
And she's like, no, I don't I don't know. I don't want to I don't want to go there.

1165
01:26:53,780 --> 01:26:57,580
And I'm like, no, no, no, OK. Then in that case, we're not going there. We're wandering aimlessly.

1166
01:26:57,580 --> 01:27:01,940
And I like so basically I so so I we arrived there.

1167
01:27:02,340 --> 01:27:05,820
And I was like, oh, look at that. There happens to be a Tiffany nearby.

1168
01:27:05,820 --> 01:27:08,140
Why don't we go ahead and go in that one as well?

1169
01:27:10,500 --> 01:27:13,340
I don't think.

1170
01:27:14,620 --> 01:27:17,980
That I have ever felt more unwelcome somewhere.

1171
01:27:18,020 --> 01:27:20,020
Oh, then I was in Tiffany.

1172
01:27:21,460 --> 01:27:24,660
Were you were like wearing this basically? Pretty much. Yeah.

1173
01:27:24,740 --> 01:27:29,100
I had I had a pair of Vessys on with like paint.

1174
01:27:30,420 --> 01:27:32,980
Like like spattered paint spatters on them.

1175
01:27:34,020 --> 01:27:37,460
I was dressed in our like LTT cargo pants.

1176
01:27:37,460 --> 01:27:43,020
No, I know I had jeans on. And then I was wearing actually, you know what?

1177
01:27:43,020 --> 01:27:46,060
No, my I think my top layer was somewhat respectable.

1178
01:27:46,220 --> 01:27:49,620
You know that that white and black shell that we have?

1179
01:27:49,820 --> 01:27:55,060
Yes, I was dressed in that. So I think that's like, but it's not it's not Tiffany.

1180
01:27:55,060 --> 01:28:01,300
Harry Winston walks into Tiffany with paint covered shoes and clothes he made himself pretty much.

1181
01:28:03,740 --> 01:28:07,180
So we so because I because basically we were trying to like

1182
01:28:07,500 --> 01:28:11,380
we were trying to sort of see like, you know, who's more who's more upscale.

1183
01:28:11,540 --> 01:28:18,060
You know that game that I've told you that I like to play at the airport, right? Yes. Or I so I like to go into a store

1184
01:28:18,060 --> 01:28:26,740
that has a brand I've never heard of before, preferably a person's first and last name, yes, and then find an item and then take like bets

1185
01:28:26,980 --> 01:28:30,820
with whoever my travel companion is for what the price is.

1186
01:28:30,820 --> 01:28:34,460
And then you play prices right rules for, you know, how much it how much it is.

1187
01:28:34,460 --> 01:28:37,180
So you ask a salesperson how much it is because they almost never have price takes on them.

1188
01:28:37,820 --> 01:28:42,180
Anyway, the point is I was doing kind of like a like a variation of that game

1189
01:28:42,340 --> 01:28:45,220
called Who Will Make Me Feel the Most Unwelcome?

1190
01:28:47,420 --> 01:28:51,020
So so we walk into it. So we walk into Tiffany, you can't just walk in.

1191
01:28:51,100 --> 01:28:53,660
First of all, you have to like knock on the door.

1192
01:28:54,180 --> 01:28:57,940
This is their London store. OK, it's London. All right. It's London.

1193
01:28:58,460 --> 01:29:03,420
So so you knock on the door and they like they like open it

1194
01:29:03,420 --> 01:29:09,660
because I think there's actual discrimination laws. Like they can't not let you in unless there's an actual security concern.

1195
01:29:10,820 --> 01:29:15,620
So I go in and she's like, oh, welcome to Tiffany. You know, what can I what can I help you with today?

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01:29:15,820 --> 01:29:19,420
And I'm like, oh, I'm just browsing and she goes, what do you mean?

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01:29:21,100 --> 01:29:23,580
Like, is there a particular collection you'd like to look at?

1198
01:29:24,220 --> 01:29:28,220
Do you know which floor you need to go to? I'm like, no, I'm just looking around.

1199
01:29:28,220 --> 01:29:32,020
And she's just like, cannot fucking believe her ears.

1200
01:29:32,660 --> 01:29:40,260
Like has has never heard the word browsing. You mean you don't you mean you don't know exactly which of our fabulous

1201
01:29:40,300 --> 01:29:43,100
creations you wish to go home with today?

1202
01:29:44,060 --> 01:29:49,020
Like you've never do you even know who I am?

1203
01:29:49,260 --> 01:29:52,740
I am the salesperson at Tiffany London.

1204
01:29:53,220 --> 01:30:00,140
How dare you? You waste my time. Like, dude, I could not believe it.

1205
01:30:02,620 --> 01:30:06,540
So anyway, we go in and I'm pretty sure they had someone tailing us the whole time.

1206
01:30:07,460 --> 01:30:15,500
I mean, I would. I probably would. But, dude, this store was so far up its own rectum.

1207
01:30:15,700 --> 01:30:19,860
Like I couldn't even believe it. It was beautiful, obviously, I'm sure they have this entire

1208
01:30:19,860 --> 01:30:23,540
like sitting room where I guess you could, I don't know,

1209
01:30:23,540 --> 01:30:27,300
have a tea party or something like it. Oh, oh, I think I have a selfie.

1210
01:30:27,300 --> 01:30:32,100
I can send it to Dan. We took a selfie in the Tiffany store. While you do that, that's the only thing

1211
01:30:32,100 --> 01:30:36,980
Yvonne's getting from the Tiffany store. You mentioned how you guessed the price because and you have to ask someone

1212
01:30:36,980 --> 01:30:42,780
because there's no prices listed. I found another watch that I laughed at internally

1213
01:30:42,980 --> 01:30:48,940
and I decided to see how much it would cost. So I clicked on it on their website and their options were normally like,

1214
01:30:49,140 --> 01:30:55,140
you know, that would be our schedule and appointment, request assistance or learn more about pricing.

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01:30:57,980 --> 01:31:02,380
No two diamonds. Harry Winston once said, no two diamonds are like

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01:31:03,060 --> 01:31:06,180
as each is a fine jewel from the house of Harry Winston.

1217
01:31:07,180 --> 01:31:09,260
Yeah. No. Yeah.

1218
01:31:10,460 --> 01:31:15,380
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. So here's what Yvonne got from the Tiffany store.

1219
01:31:15,580 --> 01:31:18,900
So this is just there's a bunch of like little chairs and couches like that.

1220
01:31:19,300 --> 01:31:24,940
So she's got a jean jacket on under her like a Ritzia like like winter coat.

1221
01:31:26,940 --> 01:31:30,220
And yeah, we're both like not particularly put together

1222
01:31:30,220 --> 01:31:35,300
because we basically haven't slept in days. Anyway, and I'll I have a backpack on.

1223
01:31:36,020 --> 01:31:39,980
If there's anything that's going to sketch out a fine jewelry store,

1224
01:31:39,980 --> 01:31:41,780
it's walking in with a backpack.

1225
01:31:44,020 --> 01:31:50,940
Anyway, we we looked at a couple things. We found a we found a like a like a choker that was like

1226
01:31:50,940 --> 01:31:54,580
one hundred and forty eight thousand pounds or something. I asked Yvonne to guess the price.

1227
01:31:54,580 --> 01:31:58,780
She said she thought it would be seventy or eighty thousand. I was like, oh, yeah, try almost doubling it

1228
01:31:59,500 --> 01:32:03,380
because that's the thing like this like brand name jewelry is not just

1229
01:32:03,620 --> 01:32:07,100
like overpriced like like diamond cartel overpriced.

1230
01:32:07,380 --> 01:32:14,700
It's like diamond cartel overpriced. And also they need to have their ludicrous markup on top of it.

1231
01:32:14,700 --> 01:32:20,220
So you pay just an obscene amount. Anyway, after we walked out of Tiffany, Yvonne admitted that

1232
01:32:20,780 --> 01:32:24,300
it was her perception of it as being like not actually.

1233
01:32:24,300 --> 01:32:28,540
She thought it was like fashion jewelry, basically, but like premium fashion jewelry.

1234
01:32:29,140 --> 01:32:34,540
She was like, OK, no, I'm pretty sure these guys are there. But I'm pretty sure Harry Winston is still like a level above.

1235
01:32:34,780 --> 01:32:39,740
And what I will say is that while I didn't feel quite as unwelcome at Harry Winston.

1236
01:32:42,460 --> 01:32:46,380
I think that's only because they didn't really let us see anything or go anywhere.

1237
01:32:46,780 --> 01:32:50,460
Oh, we were very welcome to stay in the foyer.

1238
01:32:51,220 --> 01:32:54,620
So they had like an electronic lock like you.

1239
01:32:54,700 --> 01:33:00,340
I had to like I did like get the guy's attention. I didn't help that Yvonne was trying to walk past the store

1240
01:33:00,340 --> 01:33:04,380
because she was absolutely mortified after having gone into Tiffany

1241
01:33:04,380 --> 01:33:08,220
and feeling so unwelcome there. No surprise. So she tried to get past it.

1242
01:33:08,220 --> 01:33:10,820
So I was like dragging her back toward the doorway and I was like,

1243
01:33:12,460 --> 01:33:17,940
let us in. And so the guy that doesn't he's like, what can I help you with? See, I'm like, oh, I just want to look around. He's like, OK.

1244
01:33:18,540 --> 01:33:23,020
So we have like an electronic lock. It goes like it like opens up.

1245
01:33:23,020 --> 01:33:27,820
He opens up the door. It's like this heavy door. So you go inside and they're like, oh, what can I help you with?

1246
01:33:27,820 --> 01:33:32,100
See, I'm like, oh, just looking around. And unlike Tiffany, where you can walk all the different floors

1247
01:33:32,100 --> 01:33:38,100
and like look around at all the different, you know, showcases and stuff. In this one, you go in and there's like a handful of things on display.

1248
01:33:38,100 --> 01:33:40,860
And there was another client there that was evidently playing some kind of event.

1249
01:33:41,140 --> 01:33:46,180
Dude, her husband or husband to be was the most bored ass looking dude

1250
01:33:46,180 --> 01:33:50,460
that I've ever seen in my life. Well, she's discussing whether her hair will be up or her hair will be down.

1251
01:33:50,860 --> 01:33:52,660
Harry Winston, Diamond, whatever.

1252
01:33:53,900 --> 01:33:57,540
Anywho, we were able to look at like a couple of little things.

1253
01:33:57,540 --> 01:34:00,620
There was a watch with no price tag on it, as you can probably imagine.

1254
01:34:00,980 --> 01:34:04,820
And they were so talking to that that lady that was in there

1255
01:34:04,980 --> 01:34:09,660
working with them on something, they talked about going upstairs and seeing something. Well, no one invited us upstairs.

1256
01:34:09,660 --> 01:34:14,060
And in fact, there was like three people between us and any further access to the place.

1257
01:34:14,060 --> 01:34:19,900
So we just kind of did a loop in the little like lobby area. And then and then we left as far as I can tell from their websites.

1258
01:34:20,100 --> 01:34:22,580
Find a salon. They call them salons.

1259
01:34:23,740 --> 01:34:26,380
As far as I can tell from their websites, you have to book appointments.

1260
01:34:27,020 --> 01:34:31,940
Oh, really? That's probably why they were like, what the heck? Also, they have a point this out.

1261
01:34:32,380 --> 01:34:37,140
They have a ring the bell icon for assistance, which is just.

1262
01:34:38,180 --> 01:34:40,540
That's just amazing. I don't know why I like that so much.

1263
01:34:41,180 --> 01:34:44,700
OK, so is it this one? Yeah, so let's just pick this random one.

1264
01:34:44,700 --> 01:34:48,900
Yeah, schedule an appointment or request assistance. They want the same thing.

1265
01:34:48,900 --> 01:34:54,380
They know that, right? Yeah. OK, cool. But, uh, yeah, I think I think the reason why they're asking you like,

1266
01:34:54,500 --> 01:34:57,340
hello, is because they're expecting people to show up with appointments.

1267
01:34:57,820 --> 01:35:01,460
Well, I guess like their personal assistance would make an appointment for them.

1268
01:35:01,460 --> 01:35:05,020
Right? Yes. Well, mine must have forgotten to call. Sorry. It's a way to go.

1269
01:35:06,180 --> 01:35:10,300
He's not my personal assistant. I don't have a personal assistant. Right. He's an executive assistant.

1270
01:35:10,300 --> 01:35:14,900
He like works for the company. Right. Anyway, I don't know. I don't know. Sure.

1271
01:35:14,900 --> 01:35:18,140
What happens? Don't hit the bell. I hit the bell.

1272
01:35:18,140 --> 01:35:21,900
It's just a link. There's a Rolls Royce outside.

1273
01:35:21,900 --> 01:35:25,540
OK, so what's the difference? What's happening? Increase.

1274
01:35:27,700 --> 01:35:31,020
Yeah, rich people don't have time to fill out this form. Schedule an appointment. Do their work for them.

1275
01:35:31,020 --> 01:35:35,780
What do you think you're doing here? This is a advanced form. Wait, is it not the same?

1276
01:35:35,780 --> 01:35:39,460
Is it the exact same thing, whether you want to schedule an appointment or request assistance?

1277
01:35:39,460 --> 01:35:43,700
But like salon details, date, your information, your preferences,

1278
01:35:43,980 --> 01:35:45,780
request assistance.

1279
01:35:48,300 --> 01:35:53,140
OK, so request assistance is an online request thing.

1280
01:35:53,260 --> 01:35:58,500
So you can get information online and schedule an appointment is scheduling appointment to go in person.

1281
01:35:58,500 --> 01:36:04,220
Dan's Galaxy says, see, this is in full plane chat says, see, this is what I would do if I were Linus rich, have something

1282
01:36:04,220 --> 01:36:08,700
which very clearly indicates my wealth, but hide it, go into places like this,

1283
01:36:08,980 --> 01:36:13,180
wait for them to treat you like crap, go, OK, well, I will take my,

1284
01:36:13,420 --> 01:36:17,380
you know, I'll take my money to your competitor, flash the wealth and walk out.

1285
01:36:17,580 --> 01:36:20,860
I'd get such a kick out of them, realizing they lost a sale because of being snooty.

1286
01:36:21,460 --> 01:36:25,380
I was telling you two videos from 2009.

1287
01:36:25,460 --> 01:36:30,220
Yvonne was telling you about this lady that that got like basically

1288
01:36:30,220 --> 01:36:35,020
like treated rudely somewhere who walked in with cash, counted it.

1289
01:36:35,940 --> 01:36:39,860
In front of the staff and then was like, actually, I changed my mind.

1290
01:36:40,100 --> 01:36:42,620
And then left. I was like, damn. Yeah.

1291
01:36:44,900 --> 01:36:52,500
I don't know, man, for me. Oh, I just don't value what they're selling.

1292
01:36:53,260 --> 01:36:57,420
Yeah, like at all. The thing you do, I think is fine.

1293
01:36:57,420 --> 01:37:00,980
I think the the like counting the cash out and then leaving.

1294
01:37:03,300 --> 01:37:08,100
I feel like the person who counted the cash out. Oh, they're they're they're as far up their own ass as the.

1295
01:37:08,100 --> 01:37:12,180
Oh, yeah. And they're very ego hurt. A hundred percent.

1296
01:37:12,180 --> 01:37:18,060
Like you just like kind of going in and be like, wow, LOL and then leaving is is fine in my opinion.

1297
01:37:18,060 --> 01:37:22,940
Look, I wouldn't do it, but I think it's funny. Sure. That's all I'll say. Yeah, that's all I'll say.

1298
01:37:23,380 --> 01:37:28,340
I mean, this entire interaction, this entire world is funny.

1299
01:37:28,460 --> 01:37:33,300
Oh, yeah. Can we agree on that, at least? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know. For me, I just I don't.

1300
01:37:33,860 --> 01:37:38,580
Yeah, I don't I don't value what they I don't value what they're selling at all.

1301
01:37:38,900 --> 01:37:42,620
And for me, I don't I don't need it. I don't need any of it.

1302
01:37:42,620 --> 01:37:47,060
Like I just I look at it and I'm just like, yeah, in some cases, right?

1303
01:37:47,460 --> 01:37:53,260
Like it's stuff that I if I wanted to, like it's not a secret what car I drive.

1304
01:37:53,420 --> 01:38:00,980
Yeah, you could. It's actually better for me to just be able to to really

1305
01:38:01,420 --> 01:38:05,620
honestly, sincerely say I could, but I actually wouldn't.

1306
01:38:06,940 --> 01:38:12,140
Because it's ridiculous. Dude, diamonds have come down so much.

1307
01:38:12,860 --> 01:38:16,140
Like compared to when I bought Yvonne, her engagement ring, which was,

1308
01:38:16,460 --> 01:38:19,940
you know, 14 years ago or whenever it was, I should know that.

1309
01:38:22,260 --> 01:38:25,460
Yeah, no, I'm right, though. So I got it. So we're good.

1310
01:38:25,460 --> 01:38:28,900
So compared to when I when I bought Yvonne, her engagement ring, 14 years ago.

1311
01:38:31,660 --> 01:38:38,500
Dude, we were just like at like a more like regular jewelry store, because I was like, OK,

1312
01:38:38,660 --> 01:38:43,180
have I just completely lost touch with the market, right? Because we were looking at some of the stuff at like Tiffany and Harry Winston.

1313
01:38:43,900 --> 01:38:49,940
So we were we were just like looking at some stuff. They've got like these huge lab grown diamonds that are like, you know, five grand

1314
01:38:50,180 --> 01:38:54,420
that would have been twenty five thirty thousand dollars like even ten years ago.

1315
01:38:54,420 --> 01:38:59,620
It's crazy. I mean, it's a good thing because they were ridiculously overpriced.

1316
01:38:59,620 --> 01:39:03,700
They're still ridiculously overpriced, but it seems like,

1317
01:39:04,700 --> 01:39:09,740
you know, if you if you just want like a gemological, you know, symbol of whatever,

1318
01:39:10,020 --> 01:39:12,980
it seems like they're a lot more gemological.

1319
01:39:13,180 --> 01:39:17,100
Yeah, no, I'm just is that a thing? Yeah, gemological is a word, but I didn't use it correctly.

1320
01:39:17,900 --> 01:39:22,660
If you just want like if you just want like a like a gem like symbol of something,

1321
01:39:22,700 --> 01:39:28,340
boy, are they ever more affordable? So that's that's one thing that isn't affected by inflation so much.

1322
01:39:28,940 --> 01:39:35,740
Dude, lab grown diamonds. Apparently you can buy Yvonne found a lab grown diamond machine on like Ali Express

1323
01:39:37,020 --> 01:39:42,860
or Alibaba or something. You just make your own. You have to I mean, you need like access to like like seed,

1324
01:39:43,260 --> 01:39:47,500
seed diamonds and, you know, you need like super high power

1325
01:39:47,900 --> 01:39:54,660
because you need like a tough frickin ton of power. So that's the thing. Lab grown diamonds are like not eco friendly in case you were wondering.

1326
01:39:54,660 --> 01:39:59,940
Oh, like, yeah. Like, you know, mining the earth or whatever is like not eco friendly or whatever.

1327
01:39:59,940 --> 01:40:03,940
But lab grown diamonds also not eco friendly.

1328
01:40:03,980 --> 01:40:08,060
You have a lot of power at the lab. The lab building has tons of power.

1329
01:40:08,060 --> 01:40:13,860
Yeah, maybe a steel plant. Maybe no, it was sheet metal fabrication.

1330
01:40:14,140 --> 01:40:18,140
So they didn't like make steel. They just yeah, they just like bent it.

1331
01:40:18,140 --> 01:40:21,460
Still a lot of power needed for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of power at the lab.

1332
01:40:21,460 --> 01:40:24,700
LTT lab grown diamonds. Let's go. I'm going to see if I can find it.

1333
01:40:24,700 --> 01:40:25,780
LTT lab lab.

1334
01:40:28,780 --> 01:40:32,420
I'm going to see if I can find this. You can do it. Oh, here's a tester. Yeah, not the same.

1335
01:40:32,420 --> 01:40:35,620
Yeah, but it still requires a ton of power. There's a huge amount of power at the lab.

1336
01:40:35,620 --> 01:40:39,620
Get all right. Lab grown diamond tester. Oh, here it was made.

1337
01:40:39,620 --> 01:40:43,140
Oh, maybe I'm the one who sent this to her. Yeah, our Ars Technica article.

1338
01:40:43,140 --> 01:40:46,420
It's 200 grand. There's something on Alibaba that's 200 grand.

1339
01:40:46,420 --> 01:40:49,580
Why not? Dude, there's everything on Alibaba. Fair enough.

1340
01:40:49,580 --> 01:40:53,140
Here it is. Wow. Synthetic diamond making machine.

1341
01:40:53,140 --> 01:40:57,300
Whoa, it's big. Oh, dude. Yeah, no, it's like a whole thing.

1342
01:40:58,940 --> 01:41:03,260
Wow. Like actually for real, I don't know if we could power this thing there.

1343
01:41:04,260 --> 01:41:09,940
Um, ultra high pressure, press machine, whatever, because you need a ton of heat.

1344
01:41:09,940 --> 01:41:14,340
You need a ton of pressure. And even then, it's not, it's not instantaneous.

1345
01:41:15,660 --> 01:41:18,460
Cool, huh? Should we do a review? Yeah.

1346
01:41:19,020 --> 01:41:23,420
Widely used, domestic, super hard material industry, whatever, whatever, whatever.

1347
01:41:23,420 --> 01:41:27,180
I wonder how long it would take to get an ROI or something like that.

1348
01:41:27,660 --> 01:41:31,740
I don't know. I mean, at the rate that diamond values are plummeting, probably a while.

1349
01:41:31,940 --> 01:41:37,540
This is probably why. Langley man says, LTT diamond-incrusted gold Xbox controller.

1350
01:41:37,740 --> 01:41:40,860
Let's go. Let's go.

1351
01:41:40,860 --> 01:41:47,660
You like one in every 10, one in every, I don't know, 50,000 orders on

1352
01:41:47,660 --> 01:41:55,380
LTT stores, diamond-incrusted. Jerry Rigg, everything apparently did a video recently on the process of

1353
01:41:55,620 --> 01:42:00,620
of man-made diamonds. Wow. Wild dude who's leaving reviews of this machine.

1354
01:42:00,620 --> 01:42:03,620
Apparently there's a review of it. Hold on. I miss this.

1355
01:42:04,500 --> 01:42:07,580
Uh, I don't, I don't see it.

1356
01:42:07,580 --> 01:42:13,780
You guys, that's okay. I think we've probably exhausted the, the interestingness of this topic at this point.

1357
01:42:13,940 --> 01:42:17,580
Yeah. But yes, diamond shopping at Harry Winston.

1358
01:42:17,980 --> 01:42:23,220
Amazing. Yep. I, it's, it's wild to me.

1359
01:42:23,220 --> 01:42:25,860
Like how much inventory there is in this stuff.

1360
01:42:27,140 --> 01:42:30,700
Like not even cause I can understand having a bunch of inventory at your London

1361
01:42:30,700 --> 01:42:38,060
like flagship store or whatever. Sure. Yeah, fine. But I was at the airport and there was like a, I think citizen, I don't know, some,

1362
01:42:38,060 --> 01:42:42,940
some watch brand and just like they're in the store and the $40,000 watch.

1363
01:42:43,340 --> 01:42:47,180
And sure, a lot of that is just markup. Like it's not, it's not real.

1364
01:42:47,260 --> 01:42:52,140
It's not real value. It's what hopefully someone will pay for it, but it's not actual, you know, they

1365
01:42:52,140 --> 01:42:56,900
didn't pay that much for it. But in, in cases like that, that's probably a gold watch.

1366
01:42:56,900 --> 01:43:00,300
Like it actually does have like actual cost of materials in it.

1367
01:43:00,300 --> 01:43:04,620
But, and so that's just one location in one airport, you know, like the amount

1368
01:43:04,620 --> 01:43:08,900
of inventory these companies have to, have to carry. It's, it's, it's flipping wild to me.

1369
01:43:08,900 --> 01:43:11,940
Are that many people buying these things? Do you think they sell for cycle?

1370
01:43:12,380 --> 01:43:16,180
Cause you could, you could pluck the gems, melt the gold and probably reuse the,

1371
01:43:16,260 --> 01:43:23,820
the timepiece itself. I doubt it. Because I think if they did that, someone would leak it and it would come out that

1372
01:43:23,820 --> 01:43:27,660
they like were melting them down and they couldn't sell them and it would like

1373
01:43:27,660 --> 01:43:30,460
reflect badly on the brand. I, I totally don't think so.

1374
01:43:34,780 --> 01:43:37,820
Someone says, make as advised. I buy them second hand as my full time job.

1375
01:43:37,940 --> 01:43:41,860
I could even understand that though. Like I could almost, okay.

1376
01:43:43,060 --> 01:43:49,300
Like almost even a, like the worst depreciating asset, you know, the worst

1377
01:43:49,300 --> 01:43:54,220
money burning purchases, like, you know, cars and jewelry or whatever else, they

1378
01:43:54,220 --> 01:43:58,580
can be appreciating assets if you're an extremely savvy buyer for sure.

1379
01:43:58,700 --> 01:44:01,020
And like I, I would have no problem.

1380
01:44:01,740 --> 01:44:05,900
I wouldn't want to spend money on a watch, but I'd have no problem tying up

1381
01:44:05,900 --> 01:44:10,180
some cash in a watch that would hold its value or whatever else.

1382
01:44:10,700 --> 01:44:14,900
Um, again, it's, it's not a thing that has a ton of value to me.

1383
01:44:14,900 --> 01:44:20,340
Like I just need to, I've got a unicorn on my watch, you know, like I just need

1384
01:44:20,340 --> 01:44:24,100
to tell the time and also I have a unicorn on my watch and it moves.

1385
01:44:24,180 --> 01:44:28,500
Yeah. Like, yeah, it like grins at me when I want to tell the time, right?

1386
01:44:28,500 --> 01:44:32,180
Like it's, I don't know, man. Like I just don't, I just don't really care.

1387
01:44:32,580 --> 01:44:41,740
Um, but if, if you're the kind of person that, um, cares about that, then apparently

1388
01:44:42,060 --> 01:44:45,060
Patek Philippe watches have unicorns on them, says ether dark.

1389
01:44:45,060 --> 01:44:49,460
Is that right? I was going to say that sounds like a patek Philippe, uh, complication.

1390
01:44:50,140 --> 01:44:53,780
Really? Those guys are crazy. I don't know. Maybe I'd be into that.

1391
01:44:54,940 --> 01:44:57,900
No, it'd be analog. Entropy says buy pinball machines.

1392
01:44:58,140 --> 01:45:01,420
Those feel like they've kind of peaked. I don't, I don't know, man.

1393
01:45:01,940 --> 01:45:06,580
I feel like the nostalgia for pinball machines is only going to the generation

1394
01:45:06,580 --> 01:45:11,540
from here to them. Yeah. I think hit their peak purchasing pinball.

1395
01:45:12,620 --> 01:45:16,500
Yeah. Is that a computer? Is that come on Windows XP?

1396
01:45:17,300 --> 01:45:21,500
Um, I don't know what Windows XP is anymore. Yeah. I really don't know about that, guys.

1397
01:45:21,900 --> 01:45:26,180
Okay. What else we got? I do want to, but I do, I do want a pinball machine, but I want to play it.

1398
01:45:26,180 --> 01:45:31,580
I don't want it to like have it appreciate one last thing. This is the most prestigious point of a page pretentious.

1399
01:45:31,580 --> 01:45:35,860
Sorry, not prestigious, most pretentious point of a page. I think I've ever scrolled to in my life.

1400
01:45:38,020 --> 01:45:43,740
Oh, yes. I'm just lounging back in my chair, evaluating my box of enormous gems and

1401
01:45:43,740 --> 01:45:48,500
also a tiara next to that is something that proclaims that I am the king of

1402
01:45:48,500 --> 01:45:51,540
a vivid of an expensive thing. Yes.

1403
01:45:52,420 --> 01:45:59,300
Very good. Wow. I'm a man of many brilliant facets, much like the rare jewels that I built my

1404
01:45:59,300 --> 01:46:02,860
life around. Yes. In fairness to him, he didn't write that.

1405
01:46:02,860 --> 01:46:04,460
Yeah, he probably thought it.

1406
01:46:08,980 --> 01:46:11,740
I'm leaving now. This website just makes me mad.

1407
01:46:15,060 --> 01:46:22,900
I don't know. I don't know. Federal Judge approves California's ban on addictive feeds for miners and

1408
01:46:23,180 --> 01:46:28,980
notification restrictions. A federal judge has upheld a law signed by California's governor that restricts

1409
01:46:29,020 --> 01:46:34,860
serving addictive feeds to minors unless the platform obtains verifiable parental

1410
01:46:34,860 --> 01:46:39,620
consent. The new law makes it unlawful for the operator of an addictive internet based

1411
01:46:39,620 --> 01:46:44,500
service to provide an addictive feed to a user unless the operator does not have

1412
01:46:44,500 --> 01:46:50,300
actual knowledge that the user is a minor. It also restricts sending notifications to minors between 12 and 6 a.m.

1413
01:46:50,300 --> 01:46:54,100
in between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, August through May.

1414
01:46:54,260 --> 01:46:58,220
Nice. The judge granted a preliminary injunction against the notification provisions

1415
01:46:58,420 --> 01:47:02,820
stating that net choice is likely to succeed on its First Amendment claim.

1416
01:47:03,500 --> 01:47:07,100
However, he denied injunctions against all other provisions of the law.

1417
01:47:07,900 --> 01:47:11,500
Tech Lobby net choice, which represents Google Meta and Snap, challenged the law

1418
01:47:11,500 --> 01:47:17,500
on the basis that it violates the First Amendment. Opponents claim it could restrict nonminors access to feeds.

1419
01:47:18,220 --> 01:47:22,140
OK, who cares? And means that platforms would need to gather more private information on their

1420
01:47:22,140 --> 01:47:25,740
users as if most social media doesn't already know our age.

1421
01:47:26,220 --> 01:47:32,860
This was meant to be just kind of like a quick update. But yeah, they're finally regulating addictive social media for kids.

1422
01:47:33,500 --> 01:47:34,300
Sort of. Look at that.

1423
01:47:37,300 --> 01:47:39,620
Because everybody's just going to say they're not a kid.

1424
01:47:42,220 --> 01:47:44,620
I think the only way this is actually going to be.

1425
01:47:45,620 --> 01:47:50,820
Maybe helpful is if your parent already makes it so that like your device is

1426
01:47:50,820 --> 01:47:56,780
locked down or whatever. Right. But I mean, that's not the state's job to make sure that parents parent.

1427
01:47:57,220 --> 01:48:03,220
Yeah. But at least this is providing tools for parents to actually restrict access to this stuff.

1428
01:48:03,620 --> 01:48:09,820
I don't know. I'm I'm. Would you prefer as a parent, would you prefer that the options were available

1429
01:48:09,820 --> 01:48:18,020
or that it's enforced by the law? Um, because like I prefer to have the tools, grand, nice, good, granular tools, easy

1430
01:48:18,020 --> 01:48:22,620
to use tools. I would love to see state money go into educating parents and making

1431
01:48:22,620 --> 01:48:28,020
information about these tools available to me. Like if Metta was forced, a lot of parents, I have no idea.

1432
01:48:28,020 --> 01:48:32,820
This is if Metta was forced to advertise these tools to people who are likely parents.

1433
01:48:33,620 --> 01:48:40,620
I'd be down for that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's it's kind of like we've had media laws for a long time.

1434
01:48:40,620 --> 01:48:44,020
There's like in Canada, for instance, there's you've been required to have a certain

1435
01:48:44,020 --> 01:48:51,320
amount of Canadian content if you broadcast in Canada. Like I could see social media platforms that have addictive features, you know, much

1436
01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:54,420
like you forced the cigarette companies to have warnings on their packages.

1437
01:48:54,420 --> 01:49:00,820
You basically say, okay, look, 10% of your ad impressions are going to have to be,

1438
01:49:01,220 --> 01:49:05,120
you know, warning parents about or like, you know, warning people about or providing

1439
01:49:05,120 --> 01:49:15,920
them with access to tools like gambling too. Like they have to spend a certain amount of their proceeds on or not a certain

1440
01:49:15,920 --> 01:49:20,620
amount of their proceeds rather on their advertisements. They have to have like the help line and stuff like that.

1441
01:49:20,620 --> 01:49:26,520
Yeah. So I would, I basically, I'd like to see a similar approach where you are sort

1442
01:49:26,520 --> 01:49:32,920
of forced to build awareness for the tools to manage this addiction.

1443
01:49:34,920 --> 01:49:40,620
Yeah. It's not perfect. Because like you said, it's not the state's job to parent is like making this a like,

1444
01:49:40,620 --> 01:49:45,620
you know, making it a law that notifications can't come through between a certain time.

1445
01:49:46,020 --> 01:49:50,820
It's like, okay, that seems cool, but I don't also necessarily want the government

1446
01:49:50,820 --> 01:49:56,520
making that a law. I think making it a law that, that has to be an option for the parent to select.

1447
01:49:57,320 --> 01:49:59,320
I think that's like, okay, cool. Nice.

1448
01:50:00,520 --> 01:50:06,320
I don't know either way. Details have emerged about two sovereign Russian game systems.

1449
01:50:07,120 --> 01:50:11,820
Russian president Vladimir Putin called for Russia to look at producing stationary and

1450
01:50:11,820 --> 01:50:16,120
portable game consoles along with an operating system and a cloud based distribution system

1451
01:50:16,420 --> 01:50:21,120
back in March of 2024 after major game makers halted official sales to Russia.

1452
01:50:21,620 --> 01:50:27,620
The first console is based on the homegrown dual core Elbrus processor, which uses a very

1453
01:50:27,620 --> 01:50:35,520
long instruction word architecture. The Elbrus processor has previously been described as completely unacceptable for most

1454
01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:41,020
tasks. Nice. Hold on. Where's our, where's our first system here?

1455
01:50:41,220 --> 01:50:41,720
Hold on.

1456
01:50:44,620 --> 01:50:48,020
No pictures. Do we have, are there any, are there any pictures of these?

1457
01:50:48,020 --> 01:50:55,920
Luke, do you want to check the sources while I keep doing the thing? Sure. The second system is a cheap gaming stick being developed by prominent Russian telecoms

1458
01:50:55,920 --> 01:51:01,520
company MTS. It includes an Xbox style controller and is based on low end hardware with just enough

1459
01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:05,420
power to connect to a cloud based gaming service called MTS fog play.

1460
01:51:05,720 --> 01:51:08,620
One sec. Sorry. Are you looking for the Elbrus processor or the consoles?

1461
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:12,120
Consoles. Fog play. I love that fog. It's not the cloud.

1462
01:51:12,120 --> 01:51:15,020
It's the fog. All the heavy lifting is done in a data center.

1463
01:51:15,120 --> 01:51:19,620
Neither of these is expected to have the power to compete head on with industry leaders.

1464
01:51:19,920 --> 01:51:23,920
So Russian politicians are asking developers to create unconventional games.

1465
01:51:24,420 --> 01:51:28,820
A third portable system is reportedly being developed by Rosa IT Research and Development

1466
01:51:28,820 --> 01:51:31,620
Center, though details are sketchy at best.

1467
01:51:35,620 --> 01:51:37,920
Not really getting pictures. Bummer.

1468
01:51:39,120 --> 01:51:45,920
Um, what am I looking at here, Jordan? His discussion question is, did you see that Tetris Minesweeper hybrid?

1469
01:51:46,020 --> 01:51:49,720
Yeah. What is this to do with this topic? Tetris is from Russia.

1470
01:51:51,120 --> 01:51:53,520
Okay. And it's a video game. Okay.

1471
01:51:54,120 --> 01:52:00,920
What am I looking at here? So you have to Tetris, but then you also have to play Minesweeper at the bottom.

1472
01:52:02,720 --> 01:52:08,820
I don't understand. The only thing I don't get is what is the, how does the game work?

1473
01:52:08,820 --> 01:52:12,020
Like, how does the Minesweeper, I understand you're playing Minesweeper.

1474
01:52:12,620 --> 01:52:15,520
Good Lord. But why does it matter?

1475
01:52:15,820 --> 01:52:20,620
Um, okay. Well, you, maybe it's a score molded player.

1476
01:52:20,620 --> 01:52:23,520
I mean, oh my God, but like coming soon. Okay. Wow.

1477
01:52:23,620 --> 01:52:26,620
What happens? My brain. Okay.

1478
01:52:26,620 --> 01:52:29,920
Score two point something times. Okay. My brain would hurt.

1479
01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:33,620
So my brain hurts just watching that. Oh, I would love that. That would work great for me.

1480
01:52:33,620 --> 01:52:35,820
No, I think these are the only official photos.

1481
01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:42,120
This. Okay. Cause it, this looks like it says fog play.

1482
01:52:42,420 --> 01:52:46,720
Yeah. So I think this is the stick. Yeah. And this thing probably interacts with the stick.

1483
01:52:46,720 --> 01:52:52,220
That's a cheap and great streaming box remote. Yeah. The other console said that it had an Xbox light controller.

1484
01:52:52,220 --> 01:52:55,520
So I think this is the only thing we get to see is that controller. So I think this is it.

1485
01:52:56,820 --> 01:53:00,420
Well, good luck everybody. Yeah. Here's a fun one.

1486
01:53:00,820 --> 01:53:03,820
Um, sorry. Someone in someone in float playing chat said fog play

1487
01:53:03,820 --> 01:53:11,720
question mark kinky. You need to get offline a little bit more often on January 1st at

1488
01:53:11,720 --> 01:53:16,320
eight 40 a.m. A bomb was set off at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

1489
01:53:16,620 --> 01:53:19,720
The suspected bomber used a cyber truck to deliver the payload.

1490
01:53:20,220 --> 01:53:24,120
Fortunately, uh, most of the explosion apparently like went

1491
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:27,720
upward and even the Windows of the hotel were not broken.

1492
01:53:27,720 --> 01:53:32,620
And I think there was only a couple of minor injuries. So that's, uh, could have been, could have been a lot worse.

1493
01:53:32,620 --> 01:53:35,720
Um, obviously never good. Could have been worse though.

1494
01:53:36,120 --> 01:53:39,520
Later that day, the Las Vegas police expressed their gratitude to

1495
01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:44,320
Elon Musk. Quote, he gave us quite a bit of additional information in regards

1496
01:53:44,320 --> 01:53:48,120
to how the vehicle was locked after it exploded due to the nature of

1497
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:51,520
the force from the explosion, as well as being able to capture all

1498
01:53:51,520 --> 01:53:55,120
of the video from Tesla charger stations across the country.

1499
01:53:55,520 --> 01:53:59,120
He sent that directly to us. So I appreciate his help on that.

1500
01:54:16,220 --> 01:54:22,520
Yeah. Uh, this obviously raised exit questions about Tesla's control over

1501
01:54:22,520 --> 01:54:27,020
their vehicles. It's no secret that the network Tesla built superchargers, the

1502
01:54:27,020 --> 01:54:30,420
phone app, the remote access, et cetera, is a huge selling feature for

1503
01:54:30,420 --> 01:54:34,420
the car, but people are bringing the concerns up about camera access.

1504
01:54:34,820 --> 01:54:37,820
Uh, which is a recurring topic on the WAN Show actually.

1505
01:54:38,120 --> 01:54:41,520
Um, this is a, this is similar to an incident that happened roughly

1506
01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:45,820
in 2019 to 2022 where a group chat was being used to send invasive

1507
01:54:45,820 --> 01:54:50,420
videos and images recorded by customers cars, which we also reported on.

1508
01:54:54,820 --> 01:54:59,720
Cool. Discussion question. Features like built-in dash cams are becoming more popular in vehicles.

1509
01:54:59,720 --> 01:55:04,320
Should companies immediately have access to this footage? Or is this something that customers should opt into?

1510
01:55:04,620 --> 01:55:08,220
Uh, my car gets so much cooler like every day.

1511
01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:12,220
I'm so, so okay with having the car that I still have.

1512
01:55:12,220 --> 01:55:18,120
It's so great. Every time I get into it, I just feel a wave of appreciation for the fact

1513
01:55:18,120 --> 01:55:21,820
that it just turns on and works and gets me where I need to go and there's

1514
01:55:21,820 --> 01:55:30,420
really nothing else going on and it's great. So all the Elon stands that like crap on me every time I'm like, Hey, the

1515
01:55:30,420 --> 01:55:34,320
guy stands for nothing and has no principles whatsoever.

1516
01:55:34,320 --> 01:55:39,320
Like obviously, um, are you guys done with that now?

1517
01:55:40,620 --> 01:55:47,120
No. Like, like is this, is this no, no warrant, no nothing.

1518
01:55:47,120 --> 01:55:50,120
Is this not like the least American thing ever?

1519
01:55:50,320 --> 01:55:54,220
It feels like it to me. Can y'all, can y'all stop?

1520
01:55:55,320 --> 01:55:59,520
I don't, um, I don't think this is just Tesla.

1521
01:56:00,020 --> 01:56:04,920
I would say. Oh, no. No, it's no, no, no, make that point for sure.

1522
01:56:05,020 --> 01:56:10,820
It's, it's just the way that the way the defenders try to twist the

1523
01:56:10,820 --> 01:56:18,520
these actions is very, um, is very difficult for me to stomach.

1524
01:56:18,920 --> 01:56:23,920
When the red flags are not just red flags, they're like on fire, you

1525
01:56:23,920 --> 01:56:27,120
know, they're burning, they're burning flags.

1526
01:56:27,220 --> 01:56:27,520
Yeah.

1527
01:56:30,520 --> 01:56:33,820
Wow. Cool.

1528
01:56:35,320 --> 01:56:41,820
Yeah, this is great. Oni Hikage says, uh, I have a 23 year old car and I want to convert

1529
01:56:41,820 --> 01:56:45,120
the drive train to electric and keep it for another 23 years.

1530
01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:45,620
Sick.

1531
01:56:48,320 --> 01:56:50,820
Yeah. Next topic.

1532
01:56:51,620 --> 01:56:55,620
Yeah. Meta kills AI generated profiles after uproar.

1533
01:56:55,820 --> 01:57:00,120
Meta has removed 28 AI generated Instagram profiles that they first

1534
01:57:00,120 --> 01:57:05,620
launched in 2023. This was, uh, today I learned they have their own profiles had no idea.

1535
01:57:05,620 --> 01:57:10,020
Yeah. My discussion question for this was, aren't these platforms supposed

1536
01:57:10,020 --> 01:57:14,320
to be actively working against AI profiles?

1537
01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:19,120
When do they have their own? Anyway, carry on. So, I was so, it's weird to read this.

1538
01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:23,020
Uh, the profiles were removed following widespread social media

1539
01:57:23,020 --> 01:57:24,720
outrage and concerns about.

1540
01:57:27,920 --> 01:57:31,720
Blackface as a service. So here's some context for that.

1541
01:57:31,720 --> 01:57:38,020
What? This is, uh, this is not real.

1542
01:57:38,420 --> 01:57:43,520
Her kids are not real. Okay. Um, is that relevant?

1543
01:57:43,720 --> 01:57:53,220
Yes. Uh, hold on. Let me see if I can find the, find her profile because basically

1544
01:57:54,520 --> 01:57:56,820
there's a lot of, um, what?

1545
01:57:57,820 --> 01:58:04,420
It's bad. Okay. Just, just trust me. All right. I'll, I'll, I'll find it for you, but it's really, really bad.

1546
01:58:04,420 --> 01:58:09,320
Just keep going. Um, yeah, you can carry on, uh, but meta says that it will continue

1547
01:58:09,320 --> 01:58:12,420
to push AI generated content in all of its platforms.

1548
01:58:12,820 --> 01:58:16,720
Okay. Uh, meta plans to use the AI generated characters to drive

1549
01:58:16,720 --> 01:58:20,320
engagement on its platforms and expect AI to coexist with human

1550
01:58:20,320 --> 01:58:22,220
accounts on its platforms over time.

1551
01:58:24,220 --> 01:58:29,720
The internet is fake. Um, the accounts were apparently not actively posting anymore,

1552
01:58:29,720 --> 01:58:34,420
but we'll, we'd still respond to interaction. So they were still like running, I guess, cause they're bots.

1553
01:58:34,720 --> 01:58:39,720
Uh, 404 media's Jason Kobler stated that the currently viral meta AI

1554
01:58:39,720 --> 01:58:43,720
profiler profiles are old and already inactive because they were

1555
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:48,020
such a colossal failure and were indistinguishable from AI spam.

1556
01:58:48,320 --> 01:58:52,720
This inevitable future, uh, Zuckerberg is trying to shove down

1557
01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:56,320
our throats is being completely rejected and went on to give a

1558
01:58:56,320 --> 01:59:00,720
rundown of some of the generated profiles. Okay. So here's, here's one of the profiles for you.

1559
01:59:01,720 --> 01:59:04,120
Okay. Oh, no.

1560
01:59:11,120 --> 01:59:14,520
Got it. So you see what I mean now? Yeah. Yeah.

1561
01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:23,720
Wow. Can you imagine being in the board room where that seemed like a

1562
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:26,020
good idea? Wow.

1563
01:59:27,320 --> 01:59:30,520
That's kind of epic. That's cool. Yeah.

1564
01:59:31,120 --> 01:59:33,120
Wow. That's cool.

1565
01:59:35,120 --> 01:59:37,920
So, so, so wait, hold on.

1566
01:59:38,120 --> 01:59:47,420
So our generated AI profiles have like very notable identities.

1567
01:59:49,420 --> 01:59:57,120
Interesting. And our, by assuming those identities, you know, um, that are,

1568
01:59:57,120 --> 02:00:02,020
that seem to be very, um, racially and culturally derived.

1569
02:00:02,120 --> 02:00:05,320
Yeah. Are achieving something.

1570
02:00:05,320 --> 02:00:08,620
What exactly? Oh my God.

1571
02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:12,720
Um, so cool.

1572
02:00:16,820 --> 02:00:21,220
Okay. That's weird. Well, I'm happy those already lost.

1573
02:00:21,320 --> 02:00:24,420
Um, yeah. I mean, I've lost the battle.

1574
02:00:24,420 --> 02:00:29,020
So isn't that representation of visibility though? But it's representation of an AI bot.

1575
02:00:29,020 --> 02:00:37,520
It's not, it's not a person. So it being like, I don't even want to get into it, but it's

1576
02:00:37,520 --> 02:00:40,620
yeah, it's probably not a safe space for you. Yeah.

1577
02:00:40,920 --> 02:00:46,620
Yeah. It's not the same as like, you know, the cis white male patrol here.

1578
02:00:46,620 --> 02:00:50,920
Yeah. I think that we have one beard, white male guy, one non beard,

1579
02:00:50,920 --> 02:00:54,720
white male guy, where we have two beard, white male guy.

1580
02:00:54,820 --> 02:00:57,020
One of our white guys is even blonde.

1581
02:00:59,020 --> 02:01:01,820
What, what are you? Are you not blonde?

1582
02:01:02,020 --> 02:01:06,020
Brownish. You're a little bit of blonde. There's a little bit of blonde in there. Geez, that's gray.

1583
02:01:06,320 --> 02:01:15,720
Uh, alright. The point is just that like, um, this ain't our place to, to get

1584
02:01:15,720 --> 02:01:22,020
super deep into. No. Other than that, this is clearly ridiculous and should be, should

1585
02:01:22,020 --> 02:01:26,820
be laughed at slash yelled at for the same for, for, okay.

1586
02:01:26,820 --> 02:01:30,320
I guess for me, what I would say is if there was a white bearded

1587
02:01:30,320 --> 02:01:33,620
dude that was an AI profile and it was like, I'm straight.

1588
02:01:35,120 --> 02:01:38,720
I'm a proud straight white guy. I'd be like, yeah, that's weird.

1589
02:01:39,320 --> 02:01:42,520
Yeah. I don't want that. You're an AI thing. Just be that.

1590
02:01:42,520 --> 02:01:45,820
I mean, that's just probably not an AI thing. That's probably a real profile.

1591
02:01:45,820 --> 02:01:49,520
Unfortunately, I'm sure it exists somewhere, but just like, just

1592
02:01:49,520 --> 02:01:52,520
don't have any of that. Yeah.

1593
02:01:52,520 --> 02:01:57,320
I don't know. None of it just to have none of that. Just be a, just be a little robot thing.

1594
02:01:57,420 --> 02:02:00,420
It's fine. My goodness.

1595
02:02:01,220 --> 02:02:06,320
Uh, any who, um, the FCC has been blocked from reinstating net

1596
02:02:06,320 --> 02:02:09,720
neutrality rules. Just a reminder that voting matters.

1597
02:02:09,720 --> 02:02:13,020
Um, a US appeals court has blocked the FCC from reinstating

1598
02:02:13,020 --> 02:02:16,320
net neutrality rules, which require internet service providers to

1599
02:02:16,320 --> 02:02:20,020
treat internet data and users equally, forbidding fast and slow lanes.

1600
02:02:20,220 --> 02:02:25,020
For those of you who aren't up to speed on this net neutrality is a really, really, really, really, really good thing.

1601
02:02:25,720 --> 02:02:29,220
Such rules were initially implemented in 2015 by the FCC

1602
02:02:29,220 --> 02:02:32,420
under the Obama administration, but were then repealed in 2017

1603
02:02:32,420 --> 02:02:36,820
under Trump. Biden's FCC voted to reinstate the rules in April of 2024,

1604
02:02:36,820 --> 02:02:42,820
but they have not yet gone into effect. The sixth circuit judges set a key factor in their decision was

1605
02:02:42,820 --> 02:02:46,420
the Supreme Court's June 2024 ruling over turning the Chevron

1606
02:02:46,420 --> 02:02:51,820
doctrine, which gave deference to government agencies on regulations, allowing the FCC, FCC and others to establish

1607
02:02:51,820 --> 02:02:54,820
federally binding rules without going through the standard legislative process.

1608
02:02:55,020 --> 02:02:58,620
So basically the FCC and FCC have been defanged at this point.

1609
02:02:59,120 --> 02:03:05,720
Judge Richard Allen Griffin wrote that broadband internet is not a telecommunication service, but an information service,

1610
02:03:05,820 --> 02:03:09,620
which must be regulated differently under the communications act of 1934.

1611
02:03:11,120 --> 02:03:14,320
Um, okay. So cool. Uh, good job.

1612
02:03:15,620 --> 02:03:18,620
Is that good? No. Oh, okay. Yeah.

1613
02:03:18,720 --> 02:03:23,820
I was like, did I read that wrong? Anyway, the switch to motherboard has been leaked.

1614
02:03:26,220 --> 02:03:31,420
Apparently, maybe we're not sure. Leaked photos. Do you want to pull them up purporting to be shots of the

1615
02:03:31,420 --> 02:03:36,320
yet to be announced. Nintendo switch to appear to show a relatively large Samsung

1616
02:03:36,320 --> 02:03:40,420
manufactured SOC leading some to worry that the switch to could

1617
02:03:40,420 --> 02:03:43,620
be based on eight nanometer technology from all the way back

1618
02:03:43,620 --> 02:03:47,520
in 2018 rather than the four nanometer process that many

1619
02:03:47,520 --> 02:03:51,120
Nintendo watchers were hoping for using such an old process

1620
02:03:51,120 --> 02:03:57,820
would mean that if a switch to where to launch in 2025, it would be running seven year old technology just like the switch

1621
02:03:57,820 --> 02:04:01,520
one was. Yeah, that's actually it wasn't the switch one was running

1622
02:04:01,520 --> 02:04:08,720
three year old tech at launch. Others from this almost 4000 page long thread on fama boards

1623
02:04:08,720 --> 02:04:12,220
dot com think that it could be anything down to five nanometer

1624
02:04:12,220 --> 02:04:15,420
depending which wild speculation you prefer.

1625
02:04:15,720 --> 02:04:19,920
Realistically, we're just going to have to wait for an official announcement to learn anything concrete, but from

1626
02:04:19,920 --> 02:04:23,320
the number of leaks that have been going on lately, it's

1627
02:04:23,320 --> 02:04:27,520
coming. It's clearly coming very soon up very soon.

1628
02:04:30,720 --> 02:04:34,720
All right. Is that it? I think that's it for the topics. Why don't we why don't we do some?

1629
02:04:37,220 --> 02:04:41,220
Did we do everything in order today? Like is this a proper WAN Show? Did we did we do things properly?

1630
02:04:41,420 --> 02:04:43,920
I think so cool. Let's do after dark. Cool.

1631
02:04:45,720 --> 02:04:48,520
I think it's that button.

1632
02:04:49,220 --> 02:04:52,220
Nice. I always got to make sure that I don't push the wrong one.

1633
02:04:53,420 --> 02:04:56,720
And you guys want. Yeah. Talk about that.

1634
02:04:58,020 --> 02:05:02,220
This was handed to me right before WAN showed. I'm very excited about this here and showed it to me.

1635
02:05:03,220 --> 02:05:08,220
Was it already? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think it was already. For sure. I only had eyes for these.

1636
02:05:10,020 --> 02:05:11,920
I'm like. Dada.

1637
02:05:13,720 --> 02:05:21,720
Okay. Already give us the shirts and did everything else. This is my first look at a sample.

1638
02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:24,120
Oh, and you're all like hip and young because they're tall.

1639
02:05:25,120 --> 02:05:27,220
So what's funny is I never.

1640
02:05:28,120 --> 02:05:32,820
Dude, the number of like quote unquote Gen Z things that like

1641
02:05:33,220 --> 02:05:36,720
they're killing that millennials did that I'm like like blah,

1642
02:05:36,720 --> 02:05:39,920
blah, blah Gen Z is like killing drinking alcohol and Gen Z is

1643
02:05:39,920 --> 02:05:46,320
killing ankle socks and Gen Z is killing this and Gen Z is killing that. I'm like, dude, it goes to show all you got to do is just stay

1644
02:05:46,320 --> 02:05:50,120
right in the same place and everyone's going to come right back around to you.

1645
02:05:53,620 --> 02:05:56,420
Yeah. No, crew socks are great because you get a little bit of that.

1646
02:05:57,420 --> 02:06:01,220
I don't like the compression effect. I don't like that. That's blood pooling.

1647
02:06:02,320 --> 02:06:06,120
I find I'm less likely to get shin splints with them. I don't get shin splints. Maybe that's why I don't care.

1648
02:06:06,520 --> 02:06:12,320
Yeah, that's why. Okay. So one of the things that I'm trying to check is if it weave

1649
02:06:12,320 --> 02:06:15,620
is dense enough. He's probably kidding.

1650
02:06:15,720 --> 02:06:18,820
This is the first time you've seen this pair. I think so right?

1651
02:06:20,420 --> 02:06:23,420
First time. Are you trying to see if you can see the light through them or something?

1652
02:06:23,420 --> 02:06:27,320
Yeah. That's why he's holding up to the light. There's a light right here.

1653
02:06:27,320 --> 02:06:32,120
Yeah. Right off camera. Density could be a little bit better, but the cushion is

1654
02:06:32,120 --> 02:06:35,020
really nice on the toe and the heel. Whoa.

1655
02:06:36,020 --> 02:06:40,020
And the last sample that I have from the supplier, while the

1656
02:06:40,020 --> 02:06:44,020
density of the weave is not quite on par with the Dine Tufts.

1657
02:06:44,020 --> 02:06:50,520
What I have noticed is that the shedding is much less, which

1658
02:06:50,520 --> 02:06:55,020
is a solid indicator for long-term quality.

1659
02:06:57,020 --> 02:07:02,220
Interesting. They've gone with a really thick, they've gone with a really

1660
02:07:02,220 --> 02:07:07,220
thick pad at the back of the ankle where that's your Achilles,

1661
02:07:07,220 --> 02:07:10,220
I guess, right? Interesting.

1662
02:07:10,220 --> 02:07:13,720
Okay. Well, I will be trialing these.

1663
02:07:13,720 --> 02:07:22,720
I am very excited because not because they actually seem

1664
02:07:22,720 --> 02:07:27,720
initially better than the Dine Tufts, but because the last sample we got from these guys, which these do seem improved

1665
02:07:27,720 --> 02:07:30,720
over, the last sample we got from these guys once I started

1666
02:07:30,720 --> 02:07:34,720
actually wear testing them, really impressed me.

1667
02:07:34,720 --> 02:07:38,720
They are a Merino, by the way.

1668
02:07:38,720 --> 02:07:40,720
People are asking if they're wool.

1669
02:07:41,720 --> 02:07:46,720
The drying, outstanding comfort, outstanding shedding, outstanding

1670
02:07:48,720 --> 02:07:55,720
and padding was quite good. So we've improved them a little bit and we will see how they go.

1671
02:07:57,720 --> 02:08:02,720
Boosted asks, why not collaborate with Dine Tufts? We would be open to something like that.

1672
02:08:02,720 --> 02:08:05,720
Top Gear asks, lifetime replacement, unlikely.

1673
02:08:05,720 --> 02:08:08,720
I don't think, based on how quickly I've chewed through all my

1674
02:08:08,720 --> 02:08:14,720
Dine Tufts socks, and to be clear, they've lasted longer than any others I've had, but a lifetime warranty for socks is

1675
02:08:14,720 --> 02:08:17,720
basically just telling people two for one.

1676
02:08:17,720 --> 02:08:20,720
And so I don't know that we would necessarily do that, but I

1677
02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:25,720
don't know where our pricing is going to end up, right? We're going to have to figure out what our overall value

1678
02:08:25,720 --> 02:08:29,720
proposition is. I mean, I hope you would get at least two.

1679
02:08:29,720 --> 02:08:32,720
At least a bulk. Dang it.

1680
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:34,720
Dang it. Dang yourself.

1681
02:08:35,720 --> 02:08:39,720
All right. I'm so sorry. That was a little rough.

1682
02:08:41,720 --> 02:08:44,720
All right. What are we supposed to be doing? You want some merch message?

1683
02:08:44,720 --> 02:08:47,720
Oh, sure. Yeah. Hey, you went out to the LL.

1684
02:08:47,720 --> 02:08:50,720
I recently received a promotion in my ID job with an obvious

1685
02:08:50,720 --> 02:08:55,720
track for promotion. I'm feeling like I'm where I want to be in life.

1686
02:08:55,720 --> 02:08:58,720
When did you feel that way and what markers were there?

1687
02:09:00,720 --> 02:09:03,720
It's cool that you recognize that.

1688
02:09:03,720 --> 02:09:06,720
I feel like a lot of people don't until it's past.

1689
02:09:06,720 --> 02:09:08,720
The whole good old days thing.

1690
02:09:10,720 --> 02:09:13,720
I've caught myself there before and I've recognized when I was

1691
02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:16,720
in that time before both have been true.

1692
02:09:21,720 --> 02:09:26,720
I don't know though. My big I made it moment was on camera.

1693
02:09:27,720 --> 02:09:30,720
I finally made it house theater room build.

1694
02:09:31,720 --> 02:09:35,720
It was sick. It was like, yep, I'm done.

1695
02:09:35,720 --> 02:09:39,720
This was this was such a huge. This was such a huge goal for me.

1696
02:09:39,720 --> 02:09:42,720
It was so cool turning that thing on.

1697
02:09:43,720 --> 02:09:46,720
In terms of like financially, I would say that

1698
02:09:47,720 --> 02:09:51,720
it was actually a lot more recent than that because we've,

1699
02:09:51,720 --> 02:09:56,720
Yvonne and I have gone. Chips in many, many times on the company.

1700
02:09:57,720 --> 02:10:00,720
And we did it for what I think was probably

1701
02:10:02,720 --> 02:10:05,720
the last time on the lab.

1702
02:10:06,720 --> 02:10:09,720
I'm like the lab building kind of like laying the foundation to

1703
02:10:09,720 --> 02:10:12,720
build that out. And we are.

1704
02:10:12,720 --> 02:10:17,720
We are not in sort of an amount of debt that I find

1705
02:10:18,720 --> 02:10:25,720
overwhelming anymore. And we have no intention of doing of going heavy into debt

1706
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:29,720
again. I would say is, is, is what gives and,

1707
02:10:29,720 --> 02:10:33,720
and you know what the amount of debt that we were in at all

1708
02:10:33,720 --> 02:10:36,720
those different stages wouldn't have stressed me out as much as

1709
02:10:36,720 --> 02:10:39,720
it did. If it wasn't for the industry that we were in,

1710
02:10:39,720 --> 02:10:42,720
like if I was working a nine to five in a, in a position where

1711
02:10:42,720 --> 02:10:45,720
I, if something went wrong, I could like get a position at

1712
02:10:45,720 --> 02:10:48,720
another company or whatever. Like if I knew that my income was sustainable,

1713
02:10:48,720 --> 02:10:53,720
I don't think it would have been a huge problem. But when you like, you know, let's go way back, right?

1714
02:10:53,720 --> 02:10:56,720
To when we bought this office, when you buy an office building

1715
02:10:56,720 --> 02:10:59,720
for a million dollars, which was an astronomical amount of

1716
02:10:59,720 --> 02:11:05,720
money for the company at the time. And then you spend hundreds of thousands more building it out.

1717
02:11:06,720 --> 02:11:11,720
And you're just like, Oh my gosh, we're like, will our channel

1718
02:11:11,720 --> 02:11:15,720
be deleted tomorrow? Cause I don't have the income to like pay my home mortgage and

1719
02:11:15,720 --> 02:11:19,720
this, if everything goes completely wrong, you know, so

1720
02:11:19,720 --> 02:11:26,720
there's this like, there's this period of, of instability,

1721
02:11:26,720 --> 02:11:29,720
you know, every, every time, because you don't feel like it's,

1722
02:11:29,720 --> 02:11:32,720
it's forever. And I think I've kind of, you know,

1723
02:11:32,720 --> 02:11:35,720
like it's like that, that constant, I mean, you remember the

1724
02:11:35,720 --> 02:11:38,720
constant fear of like this could disappear tomorrow.

1725
02:11:38,720 --> 02:11:41,720
Right. Like I don't, I don't think that.

1726
02:11:44,720 --> 02:11:46,720
Okay. Well, I don't think it's as much.

1727
02:11:51,720 --> 02:11:55,720
That's, you have to consider that like this thing literally

1728
02:11:55,720 --> 02:11:59,720
didn't exist in 2006.

1729
02:11:59,720 --> 02:12:03,720
Oh yeah. No, I mean, I always joke about how my, my career counselor

1730
02:12:03,720 --> 02:12:06,720
in high school had no shot. Literally impossible.

1731
02:12:06,720 --> 02:12:09,720
YouTube wasn't a thing. Yeah. Yeah.

1732
02:12:09,720 --> 02:12:15,720
So like, oh man. And then like, honestly, to make an assumption that an internet

1733
02:12:15,720 --> 02:12:18,720
company would even last this long back then.

1734
02:12:18,720 --> 02:12:22,720
Yeah. Making an assumption that a web media company would last this

1735
02:12:22,720 --> 02:12:25,720
long today. Yeah. Exactly.

1736
02:12:25,720 --> 02:12:28,720
Is crazy. Like is YouTube. Are you trying to give me anxiety?

1737
02:12:28,720 --> 02:12:32,720
Is YouTube. He works better when he's under pressure.

1738
02:12:32,720 --> 02:12:35,720
Is YouTube still going to exist in 10 years?

1739
02:12:35,720 --> 02:12:38,720
I think so. I think so. I think so.

1740
02:12:38,720 --> 02:12:42,720
YouTube has figured out the key. The key is to realize that, you know,

1741
02:12:42,720 --> 02:12:46,720
you're not going to be able to do that. You're not going to be able to do that.

1742
02:12:46,720 --> 02:12:50,720
You're not going to be able to do that. The key is to reinvest in your creators.

1743
02:12:50,720 --> 02:12:53,720
That's what all the platforms that have come and gone never

1744
02:12:53,720 --> 02:12:56,720
figured out. 100%. YouTube invests heavily.

1745
02:12:56,720 --> 02:12:59,720
Are they going to be here in 20 years? Back in their creators.

1746
02:12:59,720 --> 02:13:03,720
Well, someone else could figure that out.

1747
02:13:03,720 --> 02:13:06,720
It hasn't happened yet. I don't know why.

1748
02:13:06,720 --> 02:13:11,720
Other than just greed. Is web video even still going to be how people consume content

1749
02:13:11,720 --> 02:13:16,720
in 20 years? I don't know. AI is going to change more than we think.

1750
02:13:16,720 --> 02:13:20,720
Will there be any value to me making a video when an AI can

1751
02:13:20,720 --> 02:13:24,720
just crap out, you know, cats in a field or like cat Christmas.

1752
02:13:24,720 --> 02:13:27,720
I came across some of this like cat Christmas train AI video

1753
02:13:27,720 --> 02:13:31,720
on Facebook at some point. Of course it was on Facebook too.

1754
02:13:31,720 --> 02:13:34,720
Of course it was on Facebook. I don't know.

1755
02:13:34,720 --> 02:13:38,720
But what I do know is that I stress out about it less because

1756
02:13:38,720 --> 02:13:42,720
I'm not in one of those precarious chips all in positions.

1757
02:13:42,720 --> 02:13:47,720
So that helps. And I know that we have a good team and we have a creative team

1758
02:13:47,720 --> 02:13:52,720
and we've diversified. We're actually working on how does LMG make money 2024 right now.

1759
02:13:52,720 --> 02:13:55,720
And the reason it's called 2024 is even though the video is going

1760
02:13:55,720 --> 02:13:58,720
to come out in 2025, it's going to be based on our 2024 financial

1761
02:13:58,720 --> 02:14:02,720
year. So Elijah has been tasked with it.

1762
02:14:02,720 --> 02:14:06,720
And he's been going around like interviewing various people

1763
02:14:06,720 --> 02:14:10,720
because in the past, like I did these videos, but I actually

1764
02:14:10,720 --> 02:14:14,720
thought this might be even more interesting if we have an

1765
02:14:14,720 --> 02:14:17,720
outsider because he's not involved in the financial dealings

1766
02:14:17,720 --> 02:14:22,720
of the company. He just gets his paycheck, right? Like so he's like talking to Nick about, you know, create a

1767
02:14:22,720 --> 02:14:28,720
warehouse. He's like talking to Colton about business. He's talking to like Josh from accounting about like money

1768
02:14:28,720 --> 02:14:33,720
and just like kind of trying to piece it together. And I might end up having to make some corrections to the

1769
02:14:33,720 --> 02:14:39,720
script or whatever else. You might end up making some assumptions. But I think it's going to be really interesting to see that

1770
02:14:39,720 --> 02:14:44,720
perspective instead of just the like, because I sometimes forget

1771
02:14:44,720 --> 02:14:48,720
what I know or I forget what I know that you don't know or don't

1772
02:14:48,720 --> 02:14:51,720
know that you don't know or like, like I have blind spots because

1773
02:14:51,720 --> 02:14:55,720
I've been looking so closely at it for functionally like half of

1774
02:14:55,720 --> 02:14:59,720
my adult life, right? And I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to doom and gloom, but

1775
02:14:59,720 --> 02:15:02,720
like basically unless you like work in a trade, basically,

1776
02:15:02,720 --> 02:15:04,720
because I don't see those going anywhere.

1777
02:15:05,720 --> 02:15:10,720
Who knows what's going to exist in 10 years, 20 years?

1778
02:15:10,720 --> 02:15:13,720
Yeah. Yeah. It is what it is.

1779
02:15:13,720 --> 02:15:19,720
If you work for like any tech company, basically, like do I think

1780
02:15:19,720 --> 02:15:23,720
we'll be able to ride the wave? Yeah. Do I know we're going to ride the wave?

1781
02:15:23,720 --> 02:15:27,720
No, not technically. Bigger companies than us have failed.

1782
02:15:27,720 --> 02:15:30,720
Yeah. Smarter people than us have failed.

1783
02:15:30,720 --> 02:15:33,720
Like every day, basically. Like it's, yeah, absolutely.

1784
02:15:35,720 --> 02:15:38,720
Yeah.

1785
02:15:38,720 --> 02:15:44,720
Happy holidays from France. Listening to six month old WAN shows on road trips is interesting.

1786
02:15:44,720 --> 02:15:48,720
How often do you all take a look back at what you've been doing

1787
02:15:48,720 --> 02:15:51,720
to inspire what you do moving forward?

1788
02:15:52,720 --> 02:15:57,720
Not very often. I feel like for, I was going to say, it's usually thrust upon

1789
02:15:57,720 --> 02:16:01,720
me more than anything. Yeah. I think the audience brings it back to us.

1790
02:16:01,720 --> 02:16:07,720
They'll post like funny memes from older videos or, I mean, yeah,

1791
02:16:07,720 --> 02:16:10,720
that's I think the main vehicle by which old content is brought

1792
02:16:10,720 --> 02:16:16,720
up to me or something. One that comes up for me often is I'll look at the 60 minute

1793
02:16:18,720 --> 02:16:22,720
real time viewership because it'll surface videos that like had

1794
02:16:22,720 --> 02:16:25,720
a little spike and I'll be like, oh, that thing.

1795
02:16:25,720 --> 02:16:30,720
That was kind of cool. Like one showed up for me yesterday, the 500 FPS gaming PC.

1796
02:16:30,720 --> 02:16:34,720
Allegedly, a new GPU might be coming from NVIDIA soon.

1797
02:16:34,720 --> 02:16:37,720
Allegedly. So I sent that over to the content team.

1798
02:16:37,720 --> 02:16:41,720
I was like, hey, next writer's meeting. Let's schedule the 1000 FPS gaming PC.

1799
02:16:41,720 --> 02:16:45,720
Let's see if we can hit 1000 FPS in like, you know, some games.

1800
02:16:45,720 --> 02:16:48,720
Sure. And that would be, that'd be fun.

1801
02:16:48,720 --> 02:16:51,720
We did it as a live stream last time. I think we could do it as a live stream again.

1802
02:16:51,720 --> 02:16:57,720
I think that'd be a blast. Yeah. I, one thing that I actually do like is the like, I don't know

1803
02:16:57,720 --> 02:17:00,720
if other Android versions do this probably, but like the pixel

1804
02:17:00,720 --> 02:17:06,720
photo memories thing. Yeah. So like, I, I, you know, we're talking about CES a bunch this

1805
02:17:06,720 --> 02:17:10,720
week. I had a photo memory coming through my reel of like Brandon Taren

1806
02:17:10,720 --> 02:17:13,720
and I gearing up for CES and like, I think it was like 2016 or

1807
02:17:13,720 --> 02:17:16,720
something. And it's like, oh, wow. Yeah.

1808
02:17:16,720 --> 02:17:22,720
Cool. I guess like flight day that year was today this year.

1809
02:17:22,720 --> 02:17:26,720
It's interesting. I like stuff like that.

1810
02:17:26,720 --> 02:17:29,720
More. Yeah. Hi, WAN.DLL.

1811
02:17:29,720 --> 02:17:33,720
Been a fan for 12 years and I'm now in the midst of a PhD

1812
02:17:33,720 --> 02:17:36,720
studying GAN and A and transistors. I think that's an L.

1813
02:17:36,720 --> 02:17:39,720
L? Yeah. Lowercase.

1814
02:17:39,720 --> 02:17:42,720
I've not heard of those ones. So gallium nitride and probably aluminum.

1815
02:17:42,720 --> 02:17:45,720
Nickel? Something. No, no.

1816
02:17:45,720 --> 02:17:48,720
Nicholas and I. It's, it doesn't matter. It's okay.

1817
02:17:48,720 --> 02:17:52,720
Oh, they're the, they're the periodic symbols. You got it.

1818
02:17:52,720 --> 02:17:56,720
What is the coolest chip level tech you've seen demoed that

1819
02:17:56,720 --> 02:17:59,720
didn't catch on? HBM, Octane, et cetera.

1820
02:17:59,720 --> 02:18:02,720
Well, HBM has caught on. Yeah. Has that not caught on?

1821
02:18:02,720 --> 02:18:05,720
HBM's big news in the data center, even if it's not really a big deal

1822
02:18:05,720 --> 02:18:08,720
for consumers.

1823
02:18:08,720 --> 02:18:11,720
Optane though. Yeah, dude. 3D cross point.

1824
02:18:11,720 --> 02:18:18,720
I'm so cool. And if I had to, I don't know about chip level tech, but I would say

1825
02:18:18,720 --> 02:18:21,720
that the coolest tech that I wish had caught on, even though it

1826
02:18:21,720 --> 02:18:25,720
doesn't matter now that we have OLED is SED.

1827
02:18:25,720 --> 02:18:30,720
These things looked so flipping cool.

1828
02:18:30,720 --> 02:18:33,720
Man, who was it? Canon.

1829
02:18:33,720 --> 02:18:36,720
Canon was working on this. Canon's SED.

1830
02:18:36,720 --> 02:18:41,720
Hold on images. Man, where would I even, where would I even find this?

1831
02:18:41,720 --> 02:18:45,720
Here, here you go. Dude, this stuff looked flipping wild.

1832
02:18:45,720 --> 02:18:49,720
It was like CRT, everything that's good about a CRT, but this flat.

1833
02:18:49,720 --> 02:18:55,720
Whoa. Yeah. And this was like back in the mid 2000s or whatever.

1834
02:18:55,720 --> 02:18:59,720
Surface conduction electron emitter display.

1835
02:18:59,720 --> 02:19:05,720
So cool. Was supposed to bring the best of both LCD and CRT, but it didn't work out.

1836
02:19:05,720 --> 02:19:09,720
The stuff looked so cool. I didn't know why it didn't work out.

1837
02:19:09,720 --> 02:19:14,720
I think it was expensive or there was like patent disputes 2004.

1838
02:19:14,720 --> 02:19:18,720
Canon and Toshiba announced they had the answer.

1839
02:19:18,720 --> 02:19:22,720
Toshiba predicted that by 2010, at least a third of TVs over 40 inches would be SED.

1840
02:19:22,720 --> 02:19:26,720
It was supposed to be easy. They can be printed with an inkjet type device.

1841
02:19:26,720 --> 02:19:29,720
However, a part of the companies were having trouble with the yields.

1842
02:19:29,720 --> 02:19:33,720
Canon announced it was still working to bring down production costs and blah, blah, blah.

1843
02:19:33,720 --> 02:19:36,720
Costs five times as much as LCDs to produce.

1844
02:19:36,720 --> 02:19:44,720
So yeah, there you go. It's a shame release as SED was by far the best quality of all the flat panel displays.

1845
02:19:44,720 --> 02:19:49,720
From what I saw, it looked like it was going to be absolutely bananese.

1846
02:19:49,720 --> 02:19:52,720
Awesome. As far as I can tell, it was patents.

1847
02:19:52,720 --> 02:20:00,720
Applied nanotech, a subsidiary of Nanoproprietary holds a number of patents related to FED and SED manufacturing.

1848
02:20:00,720 --> 02:20:03,720
Ooh. Anyway, bummer.

1849
02:20:03,720 --> 02:20:09,720
No, nobody's still working on it. It's well dead and buried.

1850
02:20:09,720 --> 02:20:12,720
Work as a carpenter building new houses.

1851
02:20:12,720 --> 02:20:21,720
Love using new tech in the trades. Is there any tech that you think should be standard in new homes or to be used by tradesmen?

1852
02:20:21,720 --> 02:20:25,720
Hmm. Standard in new homes.

1853
02:20:25,720 --> 02:20:29,720
I mean, a lot of stuff that I would care about is already happening.

1854
02:20:29,720 --> 02:20:32,720
Like they're wiring houses up for Ethernet now, which is good.

1855
02:20:32,720 --> 02:20:35,720
With the conduit? Well, okay, conduit.

1856
02:20:35,720 --> 02:20:38,720
Yeah. Conduit would be sick. That's not new tech though.

1857
02:20:38,720 --> 02:20:41,720
Conduit is king. It's not new tech though. Okay.

1858
02:20:41,720 --> 02:20:45,720
Jack Logun says heat pumps.

1859
02:20:45,720 --> 02:20:49,720
I read an article today that blew my flipping mind.

1860
02:20:49,720 --> 02:20:56,720
Apparently, they're like having a really hard time getting heat pumps to take off in Germany

1861
02:20:56,720 --> 02:21:00,720
because like it's become a politicized issue.

1862
02:21:00,720 --> 02:21:06,720
What? Or something because some of the previous messaging around it was that it's more environmentally

1863
02:21:06,720 --> 02:21:11,720
conscious and so people, certain people are just having like a knee jerk.

1864
02:21:11,720 --> 02:21:16,720
You can't take away my natural gas like reaction to it or something.

1865
02:21:16,720 --> 02:21:19,720
And I'm just, I was reading this.

1866
02:21:19,720 --> 02:21:23,720
And you know when you just like are reading an article and then you just your brain hurts

1867
02:21:23,720 --> 02:21:28,720
and you like you immediately get a headache and you're like, what are you fucking stupid?

1868
02:21:28,720 --> 02:21:31,720
Like are you actually a fucking idiot?

1869
02:21:32,720 --> 02:21:36,720
Like do you have a functioning brainstem?

1870
02:21:36,720 --> 02:21:41,720
So it's like talking about how like heat pumps, I mean they've been around freaking forever

1871
02:21:41,720 --> 02:21:44,720
and they're just, they're just obviously a good idea.

1872
02:21:44,720 --> 02:21:47,720
The only thing I've heard negatively about them. Obviously.

1873
02:21:47,720 --> 02:21:51,720
I have no idea if this is true or not, but I've heard, I have no idea.

1874
02:21:51,720 --> 02:21:56,720
Yeah. But I've heard that some cities, the combination of EVs and heat pumps taking off and all this

1875
02:21:56,720 --> 02:22:01,720
kind of stuff, their electric delivery infrastructure is starting to be very taxed.

1876
02:22:01,720 --> 02:22:06,720
I could do that being kind of challenging, but at the rate of penetration in Germany,

1877
02:22:06,720 --> 02:22:11,720
I'd say that's probably not the issue. It's just that they're not being adopted at all.

1878
02:22:11,720 --> 02:22:18,720
Did the sick move of just shutting down all their nuclear plants and then buying power from Russia?

1879
02:22:18,720 --> 02:22:26,720
Yeah. Or if they have to go around the loop, then they buy energy that is sold from Russia to

1880
02:22:26,720 --> 02:22:29,720
India and then repackaged in India and then sold to the states and then repackaged in

1881
02:22:29,720 --> 02:22:33,720
the states and sold to Germany. That's another, that works too.

1882
02:22:33,720 --> 02:22:38,720
That's definitely, that's good. Dude, heat pumps are amazing.

1883
02:22:38,720 --> 02:22:44,720
The one drawback, and this is quite overcome with current generation ones, but the one

1884
02:22:44,720 --> 02:22:48,720
drawback is that in very low outside temperatures, they can have a hard time heating because

1885
02:22:48,720 --> 02:22:53,720
there just isn't enough heat to pump into the house.

1886
02:22:53,720 --> 02:22:59,720
Oh my God, heat pumps are just obvious.

1887
02:22:59,720 --> 02:23:05,720
If you can look at one number, be more better than other number.

1888
02:23:05,720 --> 02:23:14,720
Dude, it made my brain hurt so, so much.

1889
02:23:14,720 --> 02:23:17,720
Geothermal heat pumps are awesome and overcome the problem.

1890
02:23:17,720 --> 02:23:20,720
That's not going to be available for everyone. Yes.

1891
02:23:20,720 --> 02:23:23,720
Yeah, that's not, that's not something you can just do at home necessarily.

1892
02:23:23,720 --> 02:23:28,720
I haven't heard of that though and it sounds sick. Although I would, I would love to see something like that become mainstream.

1893
02:23:28,720 --> 02:23:32,720
Okay, sure. There. That's going to be, that's going to be the thing that I'd love to see become mainstream

1894
02:23:32,720 --> 02:23:38,720
is just right before you, before, because anything can be economical if it's, if it's,

1895
02:23:38,720 --> 02:23:42,720
So build like a geothermal pump for the apartment building.

1896
02:23:42,720 --> 02:23:46,720
Well, no apartment buildings. Yeah. You could do that relatively easily.

1897
02:23:46,720 --> 02:23:49,720
Linus doesn't use a heat pump. Sure does.

1898
02:23:49,720 --> 02:23:52,720
Got him.

1899
02:23:52,720 --> 02:23:56,720
So, so what you could do though is if you, if you have it, if you have the, if you have

1900
02:23:56,720 --> 02:24:00,720
the machinery just like ready to go easily enough, like if it's just something you can

1901
02:24:00,720 --> 02:24:04,720
rent, you know, bring on a truck, on the back of a truck to construction site, it like drills

1902
02:24:04,720 --> 02:24:10,720
down deep enough that you get to, you get below the point where the temperature stays

1903
02:24:10,720 --> 02:24:15,720
basically the same, just kind of like goes down, like hollows out a thing and then you

1904
02:24:15,720 --> 02:24:18,720
just like embed the thing, fill it up and then boom, like that's it.

1905
02:24:18,720 --> 02:24:22,720
It's like a permanent installation, you know, in the front yard of, you know, a detached

1906
02:24:22,720 --> 02:24:27,720
home or, you know, to your point about apartment buildings, like in sort of the, like the front

1907
02:24:27,720 --> 02:24:30,720
area or accessible through the basement, you know, whatever, because you got to have access

1908
02:24:30,720 --> 02:24:35,720
at some point potentially. Yeah. I could, someone says that's already starting to happen, which is freaking awesome.

1909
02:24:35,720 --> 02:24:38,720
Yeah. Sick. Yeah.

1910
02:24:38,720 --> 02:24:42,720
Love it here. Larry underscore DE says German here, this discussion sucks ass here.

1911
02:24:42,720 --> 02:24:45,720
Yeah. Dude, that's, dude, that's wild.

1912
02:24:45,720 --> 02:24:49,720
Kind of funny. That's wild brother. At least a little bit funny.

1913
02:24:49,720 --> 02:24:57,720
Yeah. I wish it was funny. I wish, I wish it was like, how do things like this end up politicized?

1914
02:24:57,720 --> 02:25:02,720
I don't get it. Too many things lately have been politicized.

1915
02:25:02,720 --> 02:25:05,720
I feel like math is not political.

1916
02:25:05,720 --> 02:25:08,720
Yeah. Way too many things have been politicized.

1917
02:25:08,720 --> 02:25:12,720
It's like politics are, are wrapped into like every single conversation these days.

1918
02:25:12,720 --> 02:25:21,720
And it's, it's really honestly very exhausting. RM Renfield Linus Law Linus literally installed his own heat pumps with a bit of help.

1919
02:25:21,720 --> 02:25:26,720
Yes. Now those are in my old place, but I do actually have.

1920
02:25:26,720 --> 02:25:32,720
They're not geothermal, which is what we're just not geothermal. I do actually have two heat pumps at my current place.

1921
02:25:32,720 --> 02:25:39,720
I just only use the heat during the like kind of changeover period because it is still more

1922
02:25:39,720 --> 02:25:43,720
economical on our bill to use the inflow radiant heating or not.

1923
02:25:43,720 --> 02:25:49,720
Sorry, not radiant.

1924
02:25:49,720 --> 02:25:52,720
Whatever the inflow water circulating boiler.

1925
02:25:52,720 --> 02:25:56,720
There you go. Boiler.

1926
02:25:56,720 --> 02:25:59,720
Hello. Sorry. I was just going to tell you to go for it.

1927
02:25:59,720 --> 02:26:03,720
Oh yeah. Sure. I'm feeling directionless in my career.

1928
02:26:03,720 --> 02:26:08,720
I only have experience with video production, but I want to expand into my company's leadership

1929
02:26:08,720 --> 02:26:13,720
roles. How do I find fresh footing?

1930
02:26:13,720 --> 02:26:21,720
Ask your, ask your current leader if you can take some, something off his shoulders,

1931
02:26:21,720 --> 02:26:28,720
their shoulders. And I, hey, I've been working really well with this group of people doing this thing.

1932
02:26:28,720 --> 02:26:38,720
What do you think? If I, if I manage them and pick like, pick like two people, make it, make it small or

1933
02:26:38,720 --> 02:26:42,720
ask what it would take. Yeah. That's the other thing too is like, start a conversation.

1934
02:26:42,720 --> 02:26:48,720
A really good characteristic of a leader is their ability to have an open and frank conversation.

1935
02:26:48,720 --> 02:26:52,720
And so showing that you can do that, I would say would be step one.

1936
02:26:52,720 --> 02:26:56,720
And then from there, you know, if they say like, Hey, here's what it will take.

1937
02:26:56,720 --> 02:26:59,720
You work toward that. And then you have another conversation in six months.

1938
02:26:59,720 --> 02:27:03,720
If they say, no, we're not open to that. Well, hey, that's good for you to know too.

1939
02:27:03,720 --> 02:27:07,720
So that if that's your goal, you know not to waste too much more of your time there.

1940
02:27:07,720 --> 02:27:13,720
Yeah. It is the second time I get something from LTD store.

1941
02:27:13,720 --> 02:27:16,720
Nice. First was a mouse mat, a humongous one.

1942
02:27:16,720 --> 02:27:20,720
And it stuck with me. Never, ever going to replace it unless it breaks.

1943
02:27:20,720 --> 02:27:23,720
Any more science behind the smoothness?

1944
02:27:24,720 --> 02:27:29,720
Um, no, it's just, it turns out that making a good mouse pad is just a matter of using

1945
02:27:29,720 --> 02:27:32,720
good quality materials.

1946
02:27:32,720 --> 02:27:36,720
If you use a bad mouse pad, it's because they didn't pay for the better materials.

1947
02:27:36,720 --> 02:27:39,720
I don't know what to tell you. It's amazing.

1948
02:27:39,720 --> 02:27:43,720
It's amazing how many things are like that. I was going to say, it still makes me angry.

1949
02:27:43,720 --> 02:27:49,720
The lanyard thing. Every time you go into it, every time you rant about it, I just get more and more angry.

1950
02:27:49,720 --> 02:27:52,720
The lanyard thing bothers me so much.

1951
02:27:52,720 --> 02:27:55,720
Don't think about it. Don't think about it.

1952
02:27:55,720 --> 02:27:59,720
Yo, as a teacher in game development space, more students haven't played the zeitgeist

1953
02:27:59,720 --> 02:28:02,720
games like we refer to Half-Life, Deus Ex, et cetera.

1954
02:28:02,720 --> 02:28:07,720
Any modern games you suggest fit the bill for industry shifters?

1955
02:28:07,720 --> 02:28:10,720
Modern. Baldur's Gate 3.

1956
02:28:10,720 --> 02:28:14,720
Baldur's Gate 3. Elden Ring.

1957
02:28:14,720 --> 02:28:19,720
That's a good one.

1958
02:28:19,720 --> 02:28:22,720
I don't know if this was an industry shifter. Fortnite.

1959
02:28:22,720 --> 02:28:27,720
Oh, yeah. Yeah, to be honest. You don't have to like it, but you do have to respect it.

1960
02:28:27,720 --> 02:28:30,720
The MOBAs are pretty huge. Yeah.

1961
02:28:30,720 --> 02:28:33,720
Yeah, League of Legends.

1962
02:28:33,720 --> 02:28:36,720
Bejeweled. What?

1963
02:28:36,720 --> 02:28:41,720
Peggle. How's an industry shifter?

1964
02:28:41,720 --> 02:28:45,720
Look. What do you mean? And it's not modern.

1965
02:28:45,720 --> 02:28:48,720
It's literally modern game? Like King Activision Blizzard.

1966
02:28:48,720 --> 02:28:53,720
How old are you?

1967
02:28:53,720 --> 02:28:57,720
Half-Life Blizzard. I alica. I agree with Bejeweled not going to lie.

1968
02:28:57,720 --> 02:29:00,720
Dude, it's 25 years old.

1969
02:29:00,720 --> 02:29:03,720
What do you mean? Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right.

1970
02:29:03,720 --> 02:29:06,720
I'm talking the modern iteration. Oh, sorry.

1971
02:29:06,720 --> 02:29:09,720
Oh, that's the one I meant. You meant Candy Crush. Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry.

1972
02:29:09,720 --> 02:29:12,720
I meant Candy Crush. I don't play either of them. I figured you might have meant.

1973
02:29:12,720 --> 02:29:16,720
Yeah, that makes sense. Candy Crush. But people are actually backing up Bejeweled.

1974
02:29:16,720 --> 02:29:19,720
They're like, it's 25. It's a modern game. Yes, it's not Candy Crush.

1975
02:29:19,720 --> 02:29:22,720
Yeah, Candy Crush is literally King Activision Blizzard.

1976
02:29:22,720 --> 02:29:25,720
That's why I said that because I was thinking of Candy Crush. I'm sorry.

1977
02:29:25,720 --> 02:29:28,720
I'm sorry. I brain farted. It happens from time to time.

1978
02:29:28,720 --> 02:29:31,720
Happens a lot. This is the new controversy.

1979
02:29:31,720 --> 02:29:35,720
We can't say modern things are 25. I don't think World of Warcraft counts as modern.

1980
02:29:35,720 --> 02:29:38,720
No, it doesn't because it's also incredibly old.

1981
02:29:38,720 --> 02:29:43,720
Yeah. In that case, you'd probably say Roblox.

1982
02:29:43,720 --> 02:29:46,720
Yeah, you could say Roblox. Is Minecraft modern?

1983
02:29:46,720 --> 02:29:49,720
No. When did Minecraft come out?

1984
02:29:49,720 --> 02:29:52,720
I'm guessing 15 years ago? No way.

1985
02:29:52,720 --> 02:29:56,720
It's a guess. 2009, bloody hell, 16 years ago.

1986
02:29:56,720 --> 02:30:00,720
I was close. Yeah. Is that...

1987
02:30:00,720 --> 02:30:04,720
Yeah, hard to say. Don't think about it. I don't think that's modern, man.

1988
02:30:04,720 --> 02:30:07,720
Yeah, but Roblox is almost... I see this kind of derivative.

1989
02:30:07,720 --> 02:30:13,720
Like Minecraft was more of a shifter, you know?

1990
02:30:14,720 --> 02:30:20,720
I don't even know because... He has Roblox even modern? When the devil did Roblox come out?

1991
02:30:20,720 --> 02:30:23,720
2006. What? It's more than Minecraft.

1992
02:30:23,720 --> 02:30:26,720
Wow. I had no idea. That's hilarious.

1993
02:30:26,720 --> 02:30:31,720
That's wild. I never heard about it until like a few years ago.

1994
02:30:31,720 --> 02:30:35,720
All right. Well, definitely a shifter. Definitely not modern then.

1995
02:30:35,720 --> 02:30:38,720
Yeah, fair enough.

1996
02:30:38,720 --> 02:30:41,720
Fall Guys? I don't think Fall Guys was a shifter.

1997
02:30:41,720 --> 02:30:51,720
No, it was a flash in the pan. But I feel like things being a quick flash in the pan is, in some ways, a shift that

1998
02:30:51,720 --> 02:30:58,720
the industry has undergone. Like, look at how quickly Pal World was the biggest thing ever.

1999
02:30:58,720 --> 02:31:02,720
And then... I don't remember them. I mostly remember Pal World, but around that time...

2000
02:31:02,720 --> 02:31:05,720
Hell livers. Chomp. And then...

2001
02:31:05,720 --> 02:31:09,720
A big one, I think, would be Concord.

2002
02:31:09,720 --> 02:31:12,720
Just as a case study. But it was never big.

2003
02:31:12,720 --> 02:31:15,720
A case study for all the time. I mean, all the time.

2004
02:31:15,720 --> 02:31:19,720
It's definitely going to shift the way the industry invests in their gaming projects.

2005
02:31:19,720 --> 02:31:22,720
That's not wrong. No one's going to play it. But you see what I mean.

2006
02:31:22,720 --> 02:31:26,720
Dan pointing out the like, you should play this game so you can understand why spending

2007
02:31:26,720 --> 02:31:29,720
like, whatever, 400 million dollars is. Well, you can't even play it.

2008
02:31:29,720 --> 02:31:32,720
Yeah. Right? Right?

2009
02:31:32,720 --> 02:31:35,720
But just as a case study of like, industry shifting. One says GT5.

2010
02:31:35,720 --> 02:31:38,720
I think that's actually... There's a solid argument to be made there.

2011
02:31:38,720 --> 02:31:42,720
GTA Online, more accurately, I would say, is the industry shifter.

2012
02:31:42,720 --> 02:31:45,720
So I agree. Does it...

2013
02:31:45,720 --> 02:31:48,720
I think it only counts as modern because it is still so actively played, though, because

2014
02:31:48,720 --> 02:31:52,720
it is also, like, 11 years old or something.

2015
02:31:52,720 --> 02:31:55,720
12. Shoot. Yeah.

2016
02:31:55,720 --> 02:32:02,720
Was it... I think it was Steam's summary for this year.

2017
02:32:02,720 --> 02:32:06,720
I think it was like 25% of all playtime was like games older than 10 years or something

2018
02:32:06,720 --> 02:32:09,720
like that. I meant to add that to the WAN document. I think...

2019
02:32:09,720 --> 02:32:13,720
I think, however, you might still be able to count that because of specifically GTA5

2020
02:32:13,720 --> 02:32:17,720
Online RP. Yeah. Because that is not that old.

2021
02:32:17,720 --> 02:32:21,720
That's a relatively new thing and it absolutely was a game changer.

2022
02:32:21,720 --> 02:32:24,720
Yeah. Skulling bones.

2023
02:32:24,720 --> 02:32:31,720
Okay. It may be an interesting case study.

2024
02:32:31,720 --> 02:32:37,720
I don't think you need to play it, though. I think it's much more interesting if you look through the development history.

2025
02:32:37,720 --> 02:32:40,720
I don't know.

2026
02:32:40,720 --> 02:32:45,720
Yeah. All right, Dan. Feel free to, like, jump in when we're petering out, by the way.

2027
02:32:45,720 --> 02:32:48,720
Don't be shy. Yeah, sure.

2028
02:32:48,720 --> 02:32:51,720
It's always a bit difficult. Dear Dan, Luke, and Linus.

2029
02:32:51,720 --> 02:32:55,720
I recently got a 7900 XTX Mercury Magnetic GPU.

2030
02:32:55,720 --> 02:32:59,720
Are you going to give high-end Radeon 9000 a try?

2031
02:32:59,720 --> 02:33:02,720
Do you think you'll play through Indy in the Great Circle?

2032
02:33:02,720 --> 02:33:06,720
And any thoughts on AMD RTX?

2033
02:33:06,720 --> 02:33:12,720
From the rumors that I've seen, there isn't going to be Radeon 9000.

2034
02:33:12,720 --> 02:33:17,720
And from the rumors I've seen, there isn't going to be high-end Radeon next gen, whatever

2035
02:33:17,720 --> 02:33:20,720
they end up calling it.

2036
02:33:20,720 --> 02:33:23,720
Will I play through Indy in the Great Circle? I want to. It actually looks really good.

2037
02:33:23,720 --> 02:33:30,720
It looks really fun. As for thoughts on AMD's ray tracing, I think the closest thing we have to a representation

2038
02:33:30,720 --> 02:33:36,720
of AMD's, what will be AMD's current-gen ray tracing allegedly very soon, is the PlayStation

2039
02:33:36,720 --> 02:33:39,720
5 Pro. And it looks like they've made some strides.

2040
02:33:39,720 --> 02:33:44,720
Although, even there, I think all we saw was next-generation AI, so next-generation

2041
02:33:44,720 --> 02:33:49,720
like AI upscaling. I don't think it actually had next-generation ray tracing yet, did it?

2042
02:33:49,720 --> 02:33:56,720
I don't recall it might have. Anyway, it was kind of like a mishmash of their last gen and their upcoming gen in the PS5

2043
02:33:56,720 --> 02:34:01,720
Pro. Let's see if Chad can jump in and correct me here, because I'm not sure if I can remember

2044
02:34:01,720 --> 02:34:06,720
the exact details there. But as for whether we do a Radeon challenge again, I'm not sure.

2045
02:34:06,720 --> 02:34:10,720
I feel like AMD's driver situation has been resolved well enough for me.

2046
02:34:10,720 --> 02:34:17,720
I haven't really had any issues with mine. But as I said last week, my intention is to get a 5090.

2047
02:34:19,720 --> 02:34:23,720
At this time. To play Slave Aspire.

2048
02:34:23,720 --> 02:34:26,720
Yeah. And dredge. Yeah.

2049
02:34:26,720 --> 02:34:29,720
And don't forget Unravel 2. Bellatra.

2050
02:34:29,720 --> 02:34:33,720
Unravel 2? Yeah. I just started it with Yvonne.

2051
02:34:33,720 --> 02:34:36,720
You're two yarn creatures and you're ravelled.

2052
02:34:36,720 --> 02:34:39,720
Unravel 2. Oh.

2053
02:34:39,720 --> 02:34:43,720
Yeah, I shouldn't say it looks fun because we started it.

2054
02:34:43,720 --> 02:34:46,720
This graphic looks like Pikmin. Hmm.

2055
02:34:46,720 --> 02:34:53,720
Recent reviews mixed. Yeah. It just seems to be not actually that useful.

2056
02:34:53,720 --> 02:34:57,720
I see. Just disappointing.

2057
02:34:57,720 --> 02:35:02,720
Oh, what really? I was able to, I didn't notice any of this.

2058
02:35:02,720 --> 02:35:05,720
When you start playing, these are from early December.

2059
02:35:05,720 --> 02:35:08,720
Two days ago? Mid December. Yeah.

2060
02:35:08,720 --> 02:35:11,720
So a lot of it's like my save got screwed up because of this.

2061
02:35:11,720 --> 02:35:14,720
That's sad. So I think you just didn't experience it.

2062
02:35:14,720 --> 02:35:16,720
Cool.

2063
02:35:17,720 --> 02:35:24,720
Hey D-Lo. It seems we can never be surprised and all hardware leaks.

2064
02:35:24,720 --> 02:35:27,720
When was the last time you were truly surprised by release?

2065
02:35:27,720 --> 02:35:31,720
And why do you think everyone leaks when we ever be able to control it?

2066
02:35:31,720 --> 02:35:34,720
I was surprised by how good Battle Mage was.

2067
02:35:34,720 --> 02:35:37,720
Yeah. That's pretty recent.

2068
02:35:37,720 --> 02:35:40,720
When was I surprised?

2069
02:35:40,720 --> 02:35:42,720
Man.

2070
02:35:43,720 --> 02:35:49,720
Well, certainly not by a Pixel phone.

2071
02:35:49,720 --> 02:35:52,720
They're the leakiest of leaky things.

2072
02:35:52,720 --> 02:35:56,720
Lift at bars. Um.

2073
02:35:56,720 --> 02:36:03,720
Man. When is someone just like completely blindsided everybody?

2074
02:36:03,720 --> 02:36:09,720
If you guys can think of any, I'm absolutely open to suggestions here.

2075
02:36:09,720 --> 02:36:15,720
I can tell you if... I mean, I was very surprised by Apple M1, but everyone knew it was coming.

2076
02:36:15,720 --> 02:36:20,720
We just didn't know how good it was going to be.

2077
02:36:20,720 --> 02:36:24,720
Last time you were truly surprised by release.

2078
02:36:24,720 --> 02:36:28,720
Like I had like a, wow, I can't believe they kept that under wraps.

2079
02:36:28,720 --> 02:36:33,720
That, I have no idea. The performance things, like I think the M1 example is really good.

2080
02:36:33,720 --> 02:36:41,720
Battle Mage worked for me, but... Nintendo has up until this most recent one, I feel like, been pretty tight-lipped.

2081
02:36:41,720 --> 02:36:44,720
Like the Switch, I think, was pretty surprising. I was surprised about the Switch.

2082
02:36:44,720 --> 02:36:48,720
That's a long time ago, though. Yeah, I know, right?

2083
02:36:48,720 --> 02:36:51,720
Um, as for why do you think everything leaks?

2084
02:36:51,720 --> 02:36:58,720
Well, it's because humans are human and they're flawed and messy and weak and...

2085
02:36:58,720 --> 02:37:01,720
Yeah, what do you want?

2086
02:37:01,720 --> 02:37:08,720
And they're conflicted? Um, Valve keeps things pretty tight.

2087
02:37:08,720 --> 02:37:12,720
Yeah, Steam Deck was a big surprise. Steam Deck came out of nowhere.

2088
02:37:12,720 --> 02:37:16,720
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very true. Yeah.

2089
02:37:16,720 --> 02:37:20,720
I think that's kind of it, though. In the spirit of what you said last time, should we move on?

2090
02:37:20,720 --> 02:37:23,720
13Lew says, wasn't the Apple M1 a serious surprise?

2091
02:37:23,720 --> 02:37:27,720
It was a serious surprise in the same way that, like, the Apple Car would have been a serious surprise.

2092
02:37:27,720 --> 02:37:33,720
Like, everyone knew they were working on it. They had literal listings for, like, we need someone to run the Apple Car department.

2093
02:37:33,720 --> 02:37:38,720
We're not working on it, though. Right, like, everyone knew they were working on ARM CPUs.

2094
02:37:38,720 --> 02:37:41,720
Same as, like, their 5G modem.

2095
02:37:41,720 --> 02:37:44,720
Like, yeah, it'll be a surprise when it comes out, finally,

2096
02:37:44,720 --> 02:37:48,720
because no one thought they were not going to give up on it at this point.

2097
02:37:48,720 --> 02:37:52,720
But no, everyone knows what they're working on, so...

2098
02:37:52,720 --> 02:37:55,720
There are two holes in the mod mat. What is it for?

2099
02:37:55,720 --> 02:37:59,720
Thanks, guys. Oh. Like, static, wrist rest things?

2100
02:37:59,720 --> 02:38:03,720
Yes. And we have kind of a clever attachment mechanism for it.

2101
02:38:03,720 --> 02:38:08,720
But they're the little button things for attaching an ESD thing.

2102
02:38:08,720 --> 02:38:14,720
Hey, you went on to a little. I'm currently building a YouTube title and thumbnail A-B testing tool,

2103
02:38:14,720 --> 02:38:18,720
but I'm not sure how to make it unique. What do you recommend for such a tool?

2104
02:38:18,720 --> 02:38:24,720
Also, hey, from Ottawa, Ontario. I have no idea, because the truth is,

2105
02:38:24,720 --> 02:38:28,720
even YouTube's own tools are sort of fundamentally flawed

2106
02:38:28,720 --> 02:38:33,720
and very difficult to glean useful information from,

2107
02:38:33,720 --> 02:38:37,720
because they don't, through the dashboard or through the API,

2108
02:38:37,720 --> 02:38:41,720
provide certain information that you would need.

2109
02:38:41,720 --> 02:38:44,720
Like, they don't actually tell you the click-through percentage

2110
02:38:44,720 --> 02:38:49,720
and how they compare. Without knowing that, you don't really know how effective it is at drawing clicks.

2111
02:38:49,720 --> 02:38:55,720
I don't know what to tell you. But our team would even ask for, rather than...

2112
02:38:55,720 --> 02:38:58,720
Go look at Mr. Beast's tool that he already made.

2113
02:38:58,720 --> 02:39:03,720
Yeah, if you can do it better than that, then great. Try to find some value add, yeah.

2114
02:39:03,720 --> 02:39:08,720
Linus, do you think you'll talk to a lawyer in case you're forced to testify in the honey trial?

2115
02:39:08,720 --> 02:39:12,720
Also, sometimes class action lawsuits will auto-opt in,

2116
02:39:12,720 --> 02:39:16,720
like how Sony sent out checks for leaking customers' data.

2117
02:39:17,720 --> 02:39:21,720
Luke has left the building.

2118
02:39:21,720 --> 02:39:25,720
I just, like, I don't think people understand what happened.

2119
02:39:25,720 --> 02:39:28,720
Honey's not going to trial, by the way.

2120
02:39:35,720 --> 02:39:37,720
What is he going to testify?

2121
02:39:39,720 --> 02:39:44,720
Someone told us through some video that not as many people watched

2122
02:39:44,720 --> 02:39:47,720
that it was bad, so we stopped using it.

2123
02:39:49,720 --> 02:39:51,720
What do you want?

2124
02:39:55,720 --> 02:40:00,720
Greetings, LLD. I'm moving on. Greetings, LLD. Have either of you tried Bellantro yet?

2125
02:40:00,720 --> 02:40:03,720
I got it a few days ago and I cannot stop playing it. Please send help.

2126
02:40:03,720 --> 02:40:06,720
It's one of the few good games for mobile, but it's also on PC.

2127
02:40:06,720 --> 02:40:09,720
Thanks. I would say the other way around, but okay, dude.

2128
02:40:11,720 --> 02:40:14,720
You tried it, right? Yeah. I haven't tried it yet.

2129
02:40:14,720 --> 02:40:16,720
I heard it's really good, though. It's a good game.

2130
02:40:18,720 --> 02:40:22,720
I beat the highest difficulty thing with a couple decks.

2131
02:40:22,720 --> 02:40:31,720
That was fun. It feels more RNG heavy than Slay the Spire does, I think.

2132
02:40:31,720 --> 02:40:34,720
This guy. I got it, dude. I got it.

2133
02:40:34,720 --> 02:40:39,720
I've also beat every single highest possible difficulty mode

2134
02:40:39,720 --> 02:40:42,720
and have every single achievement for Slay the Spire.

2135
02:40:43,720 --> 02:40:46,720
There's that. Maybe you just could have rogue lights.

2136
02:40:48,720 --> 02:40:50,720
I have three beautiful children.

2137
02:40:51,720 --> 02:40:53,720
Got them. Darn it.

2138
02:40:54,720 --> 02:40:59,720
Well, I can collect his achievements. I suck at Bellantro and I only have a girlfriend.

2139
02:40:59,720 --> 02:41:02,720
I got nothing. Goddamn.

2140
02:41:02,720 --> 02:41:06,720
You'll figure it out, man. You still can't beat Final Fantasy VI.

2141
02:41:06,720 --> 02:41:13,720
Yeah. Double skill issue. But no, I find it's a little bit RNG heavy for me.

2142
02:41:14,720 --> 02:41:18,720
But it's a good game and I'm not hating on it to be clear.

2143
02:41:18,720 --> 02:41:21,720
I liked it. I'm very happy with the purchase. I bought it.

2144
02:41:21,720 --> 02:41:25,720
I had really good fun and then I was done with it. I'm surprised by the people that are like,

2145
02:41:25,720 --> 02:41:28,720
I literally can't stop playing and they play it for months.

2146
02:41:29,720 --> 02:41:32,720
Why are you hating on our audience? I don't get that.

2147
02:41:32,720 --> 02:41:36,720
Why are you hating on them? Because we know there's a ton of them out there that are playing Bellantro right now.

2148
02:41:36,720 --> 02:41:40,720
And the fact that people thought it was a genuine game of the year competitor,

2149
02:41:40,720 --> 02:41:43,720
I was like, whoa, whoa.

2150
02:41:43,720 --> 02:41:46,720
You are making so many enemies right now.

2151
02:41:46,720 --> 02:41:49,720
100%. So many people. It's a great game.

2152
02:41:49,720 --> 02:41:55,720
It's a fantastic game. If you like roguelikes, if you like card games and roguelikes,

2153
02:41:55,720 --> 02:41:58,720
and I'm a sleigh of the spire guy, so yeah,

2154
02:41:58,720 --> 02:42:01,720
it was like a guaranteed purchase for me. I bought it.

2155
02:42:01,720 --> 02:42:04,720
I had a really good time with it and then I was done.

2156
02:42:04,720 --> 02:42:07,720
But it's too easy. It's too RNG heavy.

2157
02:42:07,720 --> 02:42:10,720
It's not too easy. Doesn't deserve to be game of the year.

2158
02:42:10,720 --> 02:42:13,720
Yeah, what a hater. What a hater. Hot talk.

2159
02:42:13,720 --> 02:42:16,720
You're such a hater. I'm not a hater. It's a great game.

2160
02:42:16,720 --> 02:42:20,720
Such a hater. I just don't understand playing it forever.

2161
02:42:20,720 --> 02:42:24,720
I don't know. I played it. I had a really fantastic time.

2162
02:42:24,720 --> 02:42:28,720
I got to kind of what I decided was the end for me and then I was like, cool.

2163
02:42:28,720 --> 02:42:31,720
Then I moved on. You're being such a wheel of fortune right now. I think you should get it.

2164
02:42:31,720 --> 02:42:35,720
It's a fantastic game. It's a great game.

2165
02:42:35,720 --> 02:42:40,720
Didn't come out in 2004, which hurts it, but it's a fantastic game.

2166
02:42:40,720 --> 02:42:46,720
Greetings, Limer Dino Dingo.

2167
02:42:46,720 --> 02:42:53,720
I'm an IT company. I have 10 years of network experience and a newbie got hired and is making slightly

2168
02:42:53,720 --> 02:42:56,720
less than me with no experience. How do I approach my boss?

2169
02:42:56,720 --> 02:43:01,720
Hey, I'm going to go shop around unless you can fix this.

2170
02:43:01,720 --> 02:43:11,720
I don't know. I would check to try to figure out, depending on the position that you're in, you've been

2171
02:43:11,720 --> 02:43:15,720
there for 10 years. Are you in the same role? Should you be in a higher role?

2172
02:43:15,720 --> 02:43:18,720
Because certain roles can have a salary cap effectively.

2173
02:43:18,720 --> 02:43:21,720
You said a newbie got hired.

2174
02:43:21,720 --> 02:43:24,720
If you're still in a junior IT role, then you're going to have-

2175
02:43:24,720 --> 02:43:27,720
Is it possible you're not that good?

2176
02:43:27,720 --> 02:43:31,720
I'm not saying that's the case, but I'm saying it is a possibility.

2177
02:43:31,720 --> 02:43:38,720
It's a possibility. Or you're stuck in a capped role and are not getting a promotion, and either that means

2178
02:43:38,720 --> 02:43:42,720
you need to go somewhere else or you need to talk about why you're not getting a promotion

2179
02:43:42,720 --> 02:43:46,720
potentially. Because it could be just a salary ban.

2180
02:43:46,720 --> 02:43:52,720
To Luke's point, you could be capped in that anywhere above that you have to start taking

2181
02:43:52,720 --> 02:43:57,720
on supervisory or management responsibilities.

2182
02:43:57,720 --> 02:44:05,720
I can tell you that in pretty much any organization, your compensation as an individual contributor

2183
02:44:05,720 --> 02:44:14,720
is going to reach a level that can only be broken through if you can manage.

2184
02:44:14,720 --> 02:44:21,720
Because the only way to scale as an organization is to have people who can manage other people.

2185
02:44:22,720 --> 02:44:28,720
A flat structure works great in theory, and if your valve works great in practice, but

2186
02:44:28,720 --> 02:44:31,720
I think valve is literally- They have a free money trick.

2187
02:44:31,720 --> 02:44:34,720
The exception that proves the rule, right?

2188
02:44:34,720 --> 02:44:42,720
Oops, millions of dollars. Yeah, infinite money hack.

2189
02:44:42,720 --> 02:44:46,720
Man, that's a tough one. How do you start the conversation, though, was the question.

2190
02:44:46,720 --> 02:44:49,720
How do I start that conversation? How do I approach my boss?

2191
02:44:49,720 --> 02:44:53,720
Hey, I feel like my role has become a little bit stagnant.

2192
02:44:53,720 --> 02:45:01,720
Yeah, what would it take for me to have my compensation increase?

2193
02:45:01,720 --> 02:45:05,720
They're probably going to ask you questions.

2194
02:45:05,720 --> 02:45:08,720
What prompted this?

2195
02:45:08,720 --> 02:45:11,720
What difference are you expecting?

2196
02:45:11,720 --> 02:45:16,720
It is never a bad idea to just shop around on the market, either.

2197
02:45:16,720 --> 02:45:25,720
Before you approach your boss. What you might find out is, oh crap, both me and this newbie are actually doing way better.

2198
02:45:25,720 --> 02:45:28,720
Both making a lot. We're both doing way better than industry average.

2199
02:45:28,720 --> 02:45:31,720
Because I don't know. I don't know what numbers we're talking about.

2200
02:45:31,720 --> 02:45:35,720
It is possible. It's definitely possible. Maybe that's part of the rationale at your company.

2201
02:45:35,720 --> 02:45:44,720
We already pay really well. That is what it is. If you want a higher pay, you need to be in a managerial role, or whatever the case may be.

2202
02:45:44,720 --> 02:45:53,720
It also is quite possible, based on that if you're not really getting increases in compensation

2203
02:45:53,720 --> 02:45:59,720
over the last 10 years, that your company is not taking care of people very well,

2204
02:45:59,720 --> 02:46:04,720
and that you would be better off just going out and seeing if there's greener pastures out there.

2205
02:46:04,720 --> 02:46:09,720
That way, you could decide at that point, do you want to pursue those greener pastures,

2206
02:46:09,720 --> 02:46:14,720
or do you want to take a picture of those greener pastures to your boss and basically go,

2207
02:46:14,720 --> 02:46:18,720
hey, are we able to have a conversation about my compensation?

2208
02:46:18,720 --> 02:46:22,720
If they say yes, then you have an open and frank conversation where you basically just say,

2209
02:46:22,720 --> 02:46:29,720
look, I feel like with my level of experience, I should be due for a compensation increase.

2210
02:46:29,720 --> 02:46:34,720
Here's what I think it should be. You don't have to disclose that you have an actual offer, for instance.

2211
02:46:34,720 --> 02:46:40,720
But if they're not open to the conversation, then hey, maybe it is time to move on to somewhere that you're valued.

2212
02:46:40,720 --> 02:46:44,720
I have 10 years of network experience.

2213
02:46:44,720 --> 02:46:58,720
That's an interesting line, too, because make sure that what you're doing is giving you experience

2214
02:46:58,720 --> 02:47:02,720
in a thing that you want to do and a thing that has growth potential.

2215
02:47:03,720 --> 02:47:08,720
Because if you have 10 years of experience doing sorting thimbles at the company,

2216
02:47:08,720 --> 02:47:13,720
you said network experience was probably quite valuable, but I'm speaking more generally, not necessarily you specifically.

2217
02:47:13,720 --> 02:47:17,720
But if you have 10 years of experience sorting thimbles, let's say,

2218
02:47:17,720 --> 02:47:23,720
and nobody needs thimble sorted anymore, then you have 10 years of experience in nothing.

2219
02:47:23,720 --> 02:47:31,720
Unless you can find a way to adapt that experience to something else and make an argument for why it still counts.

2220
02:47:32,720 --> 02:47:36,720
But that's one of the reasons why Linus is mentioning the whole management track thing again.

2221
02:47:36,720 --> 02:47:40,720
Management is one of the easiest things to cross over.

2222
02:47:40,720 --> 02:47:45,720
Well, it's not easy. People try and fail all the time, but it's one of the most obvious.

2223
02:47:45,720 --> 02:47:48,720
Yes. There. I'll agree with that.

2224
02:47:48,720 --> 02:47:57,720
So if you have years of experience managing that can often help you cross over into other fields.

2225
02:47:57,720 --> 02:48:08,720
Yeah. A good manager is invaluable, which unintuitively in English means very valuable, right?

2226
02:48:08,720 --> 02:48:11,720
Luke, read a book. Huh?

2227
02:48:11,720 --> 02:48:16,720
Oh. Hey, y'all, I just got a full tower case and I realized that both front fans were backward

2228
02:48:16,720 --> 02:48:21,720
and the only intake for four years has been my power supply fan.

2229
02:48:21,720 --> 02:48:25,720
What's the biggest long term PC build mistake that you've made?

2230
02:48:25,720 --> 02:48:30,720
Not as big as yours, Rob, because your only intake for four years was nothing.

2231
02:48:30,720 --> 02:48:33,720
Your power supply fan is not an intake.

2232
02:48:33,720 --> 02:48:35,720
It's an exhaust.

2233
02:48:44,720 --> 02:48:48,720
Yeah. So good job, Rob.

2234
02:48:48,720 --> 02:48:53,720
You win. Long term PC build mistake that you've made.

2235
02:48:53,720 --> 02:48:57,720
Uh, gee, I don't know. Most of them become obvious fairly quickly.

2236
02:48:57,720 --> 02:49:03,720
Pretty quick. We had, um, oh, did we ever have...

2237
02:49:03,720 --> 02:49:08,720
I bricked the hack out of a board like right after we became an actual official company.

2238
02:49:08,720 --> 02:49:11,720
That was cool. That's the only motherboard I've ever killed.

2239
02:49:11,720 --> 02:49:15,720
Yeah, but I feel like this is like long term, like it was running for a long time.

2240
02:49:15,720 --> 02:49:19,720
I don't, I can't think of anything like that.

2241
02:49:19,720 --> 02:49:24,720
Most, most computer problems are genuinely...

2242
02:49:24,720 --> 02:49:27,720
They work or they don't? Yeah, it'll turn on or what? To avoid the ding.

2243
02:49:27,720 --> 02:49:31,720
They're pretty binary.

2244
02:49:31,720 --> 02:49:34,720
But like... That did not avoid the ding. How did that avoid the ding?

2245
02:49:34,720 --> 02:49:37,720
Because no pun intended. Ugh.

2246
02:49:37,720 --> 02:49:40,720
You intended it. I'm not doing it. No.

2247
02:49:40,720 --> 02:49:43,720
You intended it? No. Otherwise I wouldn't have qualified it.

2248
02:49:43,720 --> 02:49:46,720
He's going to come ding. All right. You can come ding.

2249
02:49:46,720 --> 02:49:49,720
There you go. I mean, it's got a ding. Was that satisfying?

2250
02:49:49,720 --> 02:49:52,720
Did it feel good? Actually, yeah. Nice.

2251
02:49:52,720 --> 02:49:56,720
Hey, that's how you get people's attention at that fancy jewelry store.

2252
02:49:56,720 --> 02:49:59,720
Diamonds, please. Yeah.

2253
02:49:59,720 --> 02:50:07,720
Take my money. Yeah, but when you, when you do that, you know, you're kind of a dingus.

2254
02:50:07,720 --> 02:50:10,720
Because we always ding us. Get it?

2255
02:50:10,720 --> 02:50:13,720
That's pretty good. No, that's not good. Don't tell me that's good.

2256
02:50:13,720 --> 02:50:16,720
All right. That's why we have the ding. They're not, they're not good.

2257
02:50:16,720 --> 02:50:19,720
I enjoy them anyways. The ding is for the bad ones.

2258
02:50:19,720 --> 02:50:23,720
I still like them. Ideal. First merch message and I finally get a screwdriver.

2259
02:50:23,720 --> 02:50:26,720
Nice. Buying one for my birthday tomorrow.

2260
02:50:26,720 --> 02:50:29,720
Nice. What is Luke's favorite Star Wars episode?

2261
02:50:29,720 --> 02:50:32,720
Episode. I can't remember if you've been asked. The movies are called episodes.

2262
02:50:32,720 --> 02:50:35,720
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just trying to help you here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

2263
02:50:35,720 --> 02:50:40,720
Season. Because even though you're named after the main character, you're just woefully ignorant.

2264
02:50:40,720 --> 02:50:43,720
Oh, what do you mean? Jar Jar being.

2265
02:50:43,720 --> 02:50:46,720
Jar Jar. Jar Jar laughing. Jar Jar laughing.

2266
02:50:46,720 --> 02:50:50,720
I listen to. That works pretty well. That's a, that's a space character name.

2267
02:50:50,720 --> 02:50:55,720
Both of you. I listened to a Star Wars audiobook on the way here today.

2268
02:50:55,720 --> 02:50:59,720
Cringe. Why? Because it used to be cool.

2269
02:50:59,720 --> 02:51:02,720
Oh no, I listened to the old EU ones. Oh, all right.

2270
02:51:02,720 --> 02:51:05,720
What were you listening to? This one wasn't very good actually.

2271
02:51:05,720 --> 02:51:08,720
Okay. What was it? Cestus something.

2272
02:51:08,720 --> 02:51:11,720
I can look it up. I don't care anymore. It wasn't very good.

2273
02:51:11,720 --> 02:51:14,720
All right. Yeah, I wasn't. The one right before it.

2274
02:51:14,720 --> 02:51:17,720
Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

2275
02:51:17,720 --> 02:51:20,720
Oh, wow. Yikes. What was.

2276
02:51:20,720 --> 02:51:26,720
The book I read before, or the book I listened to technically before that was a Timothy

2277
02:51:26,720 --> 02:51:33,720
Zahn book. All of his are fantastic. And it was the first book that MJ is in.

2278
02:51:33,720 --> 02:51:37,720
The Cestus deception. Yeah, that was it. I wasn't a huge fan.

2279
02:51:37,720 --> 02:51:48,720
I normally really like any book that features like Clone Wars era Obi-Wan, but I was not

2280
02:51:48,720 --> 02:51:54,720
that into it. Is Air to the Empire the first one with Mary Jade?

2281
02:51:54,720 --> 02:51:57,720
That sounds. That's the Thrawn trilogy, right?

2282
02:51:57,720 --> 02:52:00,720
That sounds potentially right.

2283
02:52:00,720 --> 02:52:03,720
Thrawn trilogy is so good. Yeah.

2284
02:52:04,720 --> 02:52:10,720
Anyways, favorite Star Wars episode.

2285
02:52:10,720 --> 02:52:17,720
Yeah, that was that was Timothy Zahn's first Star Wars book, too.

2286
02:52:17,720 --> 02:52:20,720
I didn't even know that. Great book. Really fantastic.

2287
02:52:20,720 --> 02:52:27,720
If this has been a contentious show, you could just say one.

2288
02:52:27,720 --> 02:52:31,720
Phantom Menace. Are you kidding me? I told you a contentious show.

2289
02:52:31,720 --> 02:52:34,720
I really didn't really like one that much.

2290
02:52:34,720 --> 02:52:37,720
There it goes. There goes the internet. Good job, Luke.

2291
02:52:37,720 --> 02:52:40,720
Okay. Go ahead. Favorite episode.

2292
02:52:40,720 --> 02:52:43,720
Come on. Let's go. I'm trying to think.

2293
02:52:43,720 --> 02:52:47,720
I'm trying to think. I don't even remember the names of the most recent three.

2294
02:52:47,720 --> 02:52:50,720
Oh, I don't. Oh, there's no shot. They don't count.

2295
02:52:50,720 --> 02:52:53,720
Yeah. No, no. I got this.

2296
02:52:53,720 --> 02:52:56,720
Hold on. Force Awakens. 79.

2297
02:52:56,720 --> 02:52:59,720
Last Jedi. Return of the King. I don't know.

2298
02:52:59,720 --> 02:53:07,720
Return of the King. Star Wars Man of Marathon, but you just stop.

2299
02:53:07,720 --> 02:53:10,720
Oh man.

2300
02:53:10,720 --> 02:53:16,720
I think it might be five.

2301
02:53:16,720 --> 02:53:20,720
Oh, wow. That's the safest pick.

2302
02:53:20,720 --> 02:53:24,720
Empire? That's literally the like.

2303
02:53:24,720 --> 02:53:28,720
Like the good one. I want to get craft on the internet.

2304
02:53:28,720 --> 02:53:33,920
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna say the safest possible thing and go hide in my hidey hole

2305
02:53:34,040 --> 02:53:38,800
Like at least at least pick like revenge of the Sith or something. What would you pay revenge sure?

2306
02:53:38,800 --> 02:53:46,320
I'll take revenge of the Sith. Yeah, it's it's modern Star Wars with cool fight choreography and is mostly pretty much

2307
02:53:46,960 --> 02:53:50,040
Three yeah, three's pretty good. I was gent

2308
02:53:51,000 --> 02:53:56,480
You're not even gonna believe me. I was genuinely debating between three and other ones because one actually sucks

2309
02:53:58,720 --> 02:54:06,480
Two's not that interesting right now But I like I like representing the prequels a little bit three's pretty good

2310
02:54:07,040 --> 02:54:17,040
for Sorry For did they catch any of that dad? Oh, yeah, I'm sure they did for I don't think has all that much going on in a modern context

2311
02:54:17,040 --> 02:54:21,560
Attack of the clones. Are you kidding me? It has like worldly Yoda

2312
02:54:22,400 --> 02:54:27,040
For I'll try spinning for I was thinking too spinning's a good trick. Oh a new hope

2313
02:54:27,040 --> 02:54:33,480
Yeah, but a new hope is just it's such a It's not that was the safe. It's so digest. No Empire is the safe one

2314
02:54:33,480 --> 02:54:39,560
Oh, because a new hope is generally regarded as groundbreaking and what like it started the whole thing

2315
02:54:39,760 --> 02:54:43,040
But not a particularly innovative or interesting film

2316
02:54:43,480 --> 02:54:50,160
Whereas the whole idea of like the bad guys win and stuff and like how how dark Empire was and

2317
02:54:51,160 --> 02:54:57,320
Like it's it's widely regarded to be a way I genuinely thought for was the safest option

2318
02:54:57,320 --> 02:55:04,400
Oh, okay. Well one thing's for sure. You would not win the internet with like my favorite childhood one

2319
02:55:04,400 --> 02:55:07,840
Which was return of the Jedi. I loved return of the Jedi. I love the Ewoks. I loved

2320
02:55:08,680 --> 02:55:12,400
That was the best lightsaber duel at the time. Yes

2321
02:55:12,800 --> 02:55:18,000
It's so much better than what came before. Yeah, like the original duel in a new hope was like

2322
02:55:19,000 --> 02:55:26,200
But you like old man fight, right? Whereas we're seeing like, you know, Luke and his prime kind of thing until they completely, you know

2323
02:55:27,040 --> 02:55:34,040
Changed what lightsaber dueling is which, you know, you eventually kind of come around to because it's pretty cool to watch

2324
02:55:34,040 --> 02:55:37,480
You know, it's mini CGI Yoda, you know fight things or whatever

2325
02:55:38,720 --> 02:55:41,040
Empire is Hoth in Cloud City, right?

2326
02:55:43,200 --> 02:55:45,200
Is it

2327
02:55:48,800 --> 02:55:57,600
Are you trying right now to like upset me is that the one I'm still going with number one. I don't care

2328
02:55:59,440 --> 02:56:03,840
That's the one where they crawl in the animal to stay warm. Yeah, is that that one? Yeah

2329
02:56:05,680 --> 02:56:11,080
Is that the one where the guy runs around with the ice cream maker ice cream maker, you don't even know that one

2330
02:56:11,960 --> 02:56:18,640
What are you even talking about a week? Yeah, see someone said yes. Yeah, cuz it is ice cream maker week

2331
02:56:18,640 --> 02:56:21,160
You know, what are you talking about? You know nothing

2332
02:56:25,560 --> 02:56:29,280
What is this a meme no, it's not actually

2333
02:56:30,040 --> 02:56:37,080
In cloud city one of the guys who's evacuating Runs around a corner and he's holding what's supposed to look like futuristic technology

2334
02:56:37,080 --> 02:56:42,600
But it's a literally just an ice cream maker from like the the crafty department. I'm assuming

2335
02:56:43,200 --> 02:56:47,440
And somebody asked George Lucas about it in an interview. So he gave him a name

2336
02:56:47,440 --> 02:56:52,520
So now he has like lore and stuff, but it's literally just some extra running around a corner holding an ice cream

2337
02:56:58,640 --> 02:57:02,600
And it's cannon, I love it. I did not know this

2338
02:57:04,280 --> 02:57:12,520
Wow It looks like futuristic tech to me actually and it matches like the general aesthetic of the station and everything

2339
02:57:12,520 --> 02:57:16,080
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think there's a subreddit about that. It's a book light

2340
02:57:17,680 --> 02:57:22,040
Really, yeah, they just find things that are just off the shelf to look futuristic

2341
02:57:24,280 --> 02:57:30,160
Is it another reference you guys don't know probably big Luke. No, I don't know big Luke big Luke Star Wars

2342
02:57:31,080 --> 02:57:35,200
The bigger Luke theory That's a book light

2343
02:57:36,600 --> 02:57:41,340
Bigger Luke wiki.com Luke prime and bigger Luke

2344
02:57:45,520 --> 02:57:48,360
Sorry, what is this? I don't see anything about bigger Luke here

2345
02:57:52,680 --> 02:57:55,120
Bigger Luke commonly abbreviated to BL

2346
02:57:56,480 --> 02:58:01,080
What Lord is it? We're on Star Wars nerds levels. I don't know

2347
02:58:01,480 --> 02:58:08,560
I Got lucky and whatnot. What is this? What even is this site wiki dot?

2348
02:58:08,560 --> 02:58:11,280
Okay, Luke dot addict. What is this?

2349
02:58:14,680 --> 02:58:19,180
Slash bigger It's pretty straightforward. Okay, but what is it?

2350
02:58:21,120 --> 02:58:28,920
The cannon Luke hypothesis Sometimes simply the bigger Luke hypothesis in which it is theorized that within the Star Wars universe and canon

2351
02:58:28,920 --> 02:58:33,320
there does indeed exist a version of Luke Skywalker that is slightly larger than a

2352
02:58:33,960 --> 02:58:40,720
positive regular Luke Skywalker or Luke prime and then they have examples of where their height changes

2353
02:58:44,760 --> 02:58:48,440
Yeah, this is not even this is not even trying

2354
02:58:49,880 --> 02:58:53,640
Luke this is not even trying to be credible. I

2355
02:58:54,880 --> 02:58:59,560
Mean it's pretty good theory Yeah, okay

2356
02:58:59,600 --> 02:59:03,640
I like dark Jar Jar theory much more. Yeah sith sith lord Jar Jar

2357
02:59:03,640 --> 02:59:07,320
That would have been sick if that actually ended up becoming no, that would have been really stupid

2358
02:59:07,320 --> 02:59:12,160
We've been kind of that we would have said that's a little higher on the iceberg than bigger

2359
02:59:15,360 --> 02:59:17,360
That's like center Earth

2360
02:59:19,120 --> 02:59:22,680
Okay, all right, can we get this show done?

2361
02:59:23,360 --> 02:59:30,320
Yeah, keep telling me don't know anything about Star Wars. Yeah, I am I am you yeah, I've never said knowing

2362
02:59:33,840 --> 02:59:35,840
You're allowed to know the wrong things

2363
02:59:38,440 --> 02:59:46,440
Hello, Sen, I love portable handheld consoles. What is your favorite computer form factor or the strangest one you've ever seen?

2364
02:59:47,320 --> 02:59:50,000
my favorite computer form factor

2365
02:59:50,760 --> 02:59:52,760
I

2366
02:59:55,640 --> 02:59:58,640
Top's are pretty good. I thought it was your favorite computer form factor

2367
02:59:58,640 --> 03:00:04,040
I mean if they were more reliable and more performant I guess they were they asked my favorite form factor

2368
03:00:04,040 --> 03:00:07,880
They didn't ask what you said it they would be if they were something that they're not yeah

2369
03:00:07,880 --> 03:00:12,360
Cuz you could well sure but you could use them as a desktop. They're versatile you can take them with you

2370
03:00:12,360 --> 03:00:16,440
I'm not things that you said well. Yeah, sure, but like I don't know

2371
03:00:17,280 --> 03:00:21,360
I Sure fine

2372
03:00:21,360 --> 03:00:27,640
Okay, it's unwielding costumes for this coming here. Okay, Demal Taylor suggests we go as Luke and bigger

2373
03:00:31,160 --> 03:00:35,600
That's great And moving on

2374
03:00:35,960 --> 03:00:39,760
I'm looking to build a high-end BC, but I'm also not in a hurry

2375
03:00:39,880 --> 03:00:48,480
Is it better to fight it out with resellers or wait six to eight months and hope scarcity and terraces aren't a thing much later this year

2376
03:00:56,840 --> 03:01:01,240
I don't have the answers. I mean we did that video a little while back where I basically said

2377
03:01:02,640 --> 03:01:07,320
Sorry, I don't know the answers I mean we know there's new

2378
03:01:08,240 --> 03:01:16,840
Allegedly rumored GPUs coming very soon I usually so that's really good to know because it will tend to have an impact on the secondhand market

2379
03:01:17,240 --> 03:01:20,440
And on the you know current product pricing

2380
03:01:21,120 --> 03:01:23,120
Beyond that we don't really know what's coming

2381
03:01:24,760 --> 03:01:29,160
Good luck everybody hey DLL trying to decide on an upgrade path for my

2382
03:01:29,720 --> 03:01:33,860
10 850 K and our X 6900 XT

2383
03:01:34,220 --> 03:01:38,420
Got these naming conventions currently 1440p. It's in nothing yet, Dan

2384
03:01:38,420 --> 03:01:45,660
I know it gets just gets worse also interested in trying a I guess this is a Thunderbolt display, but I'm sure Thunderbolt display

2385
03:01:45,660 --> 03:01:52,380
That's like completely unnecessary. Why would you do that? How does a GPU interface with a Thunderbolt card?

2386
03:01:52,380 --> 03:01:58,180
It doesn't don't bother Okay, hold on. Okay. Well, okay, so some Thunderbolt

2387
03:01:58,780 --> 03:02:05,620
Cards have a DisplayPort in so they will inject that DisplayPort into your Thunderbolt connection

2388
03:02:05,620 --> 03:02:08,860
So you are effectively just using your GPU, but then you're just using DisplayPort

2389
03:02:08,940 --> 03:02:17,660
So there's no reason to use a Thunderbolt display The only reason you would want to do that is if you want to use optical Thunderbolt like I do to carry Thunderbolt over some great

2390
03:02:17,660 --> 03:02:24,820
distance then you use a dock to Go DisplayPort out to your monitor and then just use your

2391
03:02:25,540 --> 03:02:28,740
Thunderbolt dock for Thunderbolt for, you know connectivity or whatever else

2392
03:02:29,460 --> 03:02:31,940
There are so few Thunderbolt displays

2393
03:02:32,860 --> 03:02:38,820
That and none of them offer the most compelling mix of price and features and performance that you just

2394
03:02:39,780 --> 03:02:46,260
shouldn't bother At all, there's just no real reason to do it that I can think of

2395
03:02:47,980 --> 03:02:52,900
Last one I've got for you today. I'm the tech dad that has been waiting for hex OS

2396
03:02:52,900 --> 03:02:57,780
I am researching building a NAS for the first time and finding it daunting, but fun

2397
03:02:58,420 --> 03:03:00,420
Any suggestions on where to start?

2398
03:03:04,340 --> 03:03:07,820
Wendell has some good videos sure there level on tax. Yeah, I

2399
03:03:09,060 --> 03:03:14,460
Also built our John's bow NAS. We did a video on that. That was phenomenal. Nice. Is that a ShortCircuit?

2400
03:03:14,460 --> 03:03:20,580
No, that was a full LTT. Oh, it was the first time I've ever like built a computer with a video

2401
03:03:20,580 --> 03:03:22,580
And it just happened to be ours

2402
03:03:23,860 --> 03:03:29,740
Cool. Yeah. Oh, yeah, this one. So this is actually a pretty good video on like building a NAS

2403
03:03:30,500 --> 03:03:33,980
And so you you built this one. I built almost exactly that one. Cool

2404
03:03:33,980 --> 03:03:39,620
I couldn't get a cheaper CPU. So it has an expensive CPU and I couldn't get a cheaper CPU that had a built-in GPU

2405
03:03:39,620 --> 03:03:44,120
So when I want to use it, I just stick a riser card in a 1080

2406
03:03:44,820 --> 03:03:47,820
Into the motherboard. I need to upgrade that eventually

2407
03:03:48,660 --> 03:03:51,180
But it's been phenomenal. It runs all day every day

2408
03:03:53,860 --> 03:04:00,860
But when I need to diagnose this thing I actively make it more complicated and also significantly change variables

2409
03:04:01,660 --> 03:04:03,900
Yeah, but I haven't needed to because it just works

2410
03:04:04,660 --> 03:04:09,100
Thanks, Todd Howard That's all I got. Oh, there's one in

2411
03:04:11,460 --> 03:04:19,020
There's one in incoming do you want to touch that? Den Linus and Lake how can shit GPT right box?

2412
03:04:19,500 --> 03:04:25,060
slash pez the bar exam, but me ought to correct is

2413
03:04:26,020 --> 03:04:34,940
yearly functional And then they translated it for us. How does chat GPT write books and pass the bar exam, but my auto correct is barely functional

2414
03:04:34,940 --> 03:04:40,340
It's a good good question. Good question. Good question. See you later. It's all a question. Thanks for watching the WAN Show

2415
03:04:40,340 --> 03:04:42,540
We'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel. Bye

2416
03:04:49,020 --> 03:04:51,020
You