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Jamie, as a senior member of our logistics team, you've had ample time,

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not to mention the power, to steal stuff from the office, like those Noctua fans

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and my idea of owning a Buzz Lightyear as an adult. But you wouldn't do that

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because you're not really interested in technology. You spent your AMD $5,000

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ultimate tech upgrade on model trains.

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Choo choo. Okay, I'm in here changing for the bit for the intro. And even in

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your bathroom, you have stuff stolen from work. Like this prototype bath mat

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that has a pattern on it like our towels. Oh, I should put pants on. You

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know what, bud? How else am I going to break into this really expensive hobby?

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But why do you want to break into the train hobby? It's a good way to blow off

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some steam. But don't worry, friends. There will be

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plenty of tech on this upgrade train as well. We've got a brand new TV. Do you

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have to do that constantly? Yes. an ultrasonic vinyl record cleaner, an

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Alienware OLED gaming monitor, some speakers, and a whole lot of

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awkwardness. Yeah, don't forget a ripping fast AMD Ryzen 7

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gaming processor.

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Hey guys, AMD is doing another giveaway, and this time the grand prize is a

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whopping AMD Ryzen 7 9800 X3D, an AMD

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Radeon 9070 XT, and a Steam Deck OLED.

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And that's not all. Two runners up will also each receive a Steam Deck OLED. So,

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make sure to enter and check the description below for details. Goodbye.

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I was the last member of our very popular music podcast, Vinyl Verdict,

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Together. Oh, I've heard of it. You have? Well, yeah, cuz I work with all of

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you. Oh, fair enough. Plof got his first, then Belle, then Adam. Where's

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me? So, I built a computer last year, convinced I was never going to get one.

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I noticed that you didn't say you bought a computer. I built a computer. Mhm.

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It's full of stolen items from the office. We will find this out later. I

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believe that you won't have stolen your AV equipment cuz we don't acquire that

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much. And you seem to be legitimately into it. Like, these speakers way more

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than me. So, those are Paradigm 7. They

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were probably like $800 when they were new, but I bought them for 100 bucks

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from a guy around the corner. Dude, secondhand hi-fi is like I I'm living

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that video. It's an actual life hack. That's mine. That's a graphics card I

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moved out west with. I noticed that you didn't say you bought it. You just said that it's yours. Yeah, I got the box for

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it and everything. Um, that's a 1660 Ti. I bought that. Oh, okay. 6 years ago.

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It's not actually the GPU I was wondering about. It's the dock. Oh, the

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beast. No, I bought that. It's a pretty cool setup though. Hey, this dock plugs

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into the M.2 SSD slot in this little mini PC and lets you run a full-size

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desktop GPU. Wait, what is this? You bought a Think Center? Okay, so that's

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from my dad. So, Arty did something nice for his folks. And my dad uses my gaming

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PC for gaming PCs ago. So, it has a

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Phenom X4965 in it, which is a great processor.

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Yeah, was 15 years ago. Yes. So, it's

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like saying you're a great dad 15 years

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ago. Wow. A lot younger 15 years ago,

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too. Um, hi, dad. Anyway, it was my dad's

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birthday the other day, so this will miss his birthday, but we'll send it

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home. Okay. This has a Ryzen 5650G.

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Nice. Uh, which is like a perfectly relevant platform still. And Chrome

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Chrome, you might say. Yes. Um, it should last him a good long time. And

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it's a lot smaller than my gaming PC that that he's been using. I couldn't

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help noticing that the ship to address Ee on this is someone who no longer

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works here. So you clearly scavenged this from the office rather than

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actually this is from my inventory. Yeah. No, no, no. I I the upgrade paid

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for it from the Yeah, the Steam Deck

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came from the office. I won that at the Christmas party last year. Sure you did.

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Uhhuh. It's no fun to bust the guy when he goes full-on confession mode the

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second I walk in the door. Oh, fair enough. Swag pile. Sure. Yeah. Remember

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when we used to have a good swag pile? No. That's how I got all the underwear.

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Wait, you took underwear from a pile? Yeah, the swag pile. Was it new? Put it

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in the wash. Who cares? This is a Hyundai P. Got the label on it and

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everything. These are our standard issue workstation keyboards. They're great.

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What's your excuse for this one? I bought it. But we use these as our

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standard workstations. Yeah, we have like almost 200 of them. Oh, that's from

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the office. Okay. This is from the office for sure. There ain't no way you bought an 8 TB enterprise capacity

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drive. No, I bought that I bought that off the company. We So that was used to

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be in Ladner server. The the NAS has eight of those in it though. So see this

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guy, he keeps saying I bought it off the company. But you know who decides when

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things are for sale at the company store? I do.

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The desk is from inventory, too. We did a we did a video on it. It's a James

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video from maybe I don't know eight years ago, six, seven years ago. It's

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the skiller Shcoon or Shcoon Skiler. You

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keep birthday cards people give you. Okay. So, what But you keep them in a

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backpack in your closet. So, I went home for Christmas and my sister gave me my

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birthday cards cuz my birthday falls just before Christmas. Uhhuh. And then

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I've just never unloaded this bag. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right.

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Because Because you're probably more into the new commuter bag from

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ltstore.com. Go check it out. Go get one. It's like the OG backpack, but

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smaller and sleeker and less expensive.

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Where do you keep your graphic equalizer? Of course, it's underneath your cowboy boots. Yeah, I Well, it's so

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obvious when you think about it. Is anyone else appreciating the irony of

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them calling this an economy pack? There is nothing economy about wasting money

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on little tiny people. Take that sleeve off.

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Look at the price.

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I didn't even know the punchline. Expensive hobby. These individual cars

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are like 40 bucks. Yeah. Butterfinger

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should pay you to use this car. Isn't

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that one of the cheap ones, Jamie? Yeah, it's a cheap one. Yeah. The emergency is

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them coming for you. That's right. Do you want to see a really expensive set?

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I don't know. Okay, so I bought this with my own money. This is four cars and

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it's $285. This is one of three sets. I only

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got the What is this? A set and the A

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set. It better come with a pleasure dome.

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What is the pleasure dome? We'll find out later. That's the secondhand price.

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Yeah. How much is it new?

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I don't I shuddered to think. Miniature trains and the people who like them.

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Let's do some tech for a little bit cuz man that even in current market tech is

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seeming downright reasonable by comparison. Let's do some speakers. Wow.

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All right. Oh, don't put your finger through the um grill. Ask me why I

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picked these. Why did you pick these? They're on sale. They're It's the most arbitrary

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choice in this entire operation. They're roughly the size of the stands I picked

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out and um they look good. I think they'reund and something watts. They're

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the right size and they look good. I mean, that's basically why my wife picked me. Sure about the look good

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part? I was about to say I was better looking when I was younger, but let's be real here.

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Well, I can see why you're replacing these. I got those Encio speakers for

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free from Jake Ty cuz he was moving. And he said, "Hey, did you want these?" And

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I said, "Yes." Nothing against Jake Ty.

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I love the guy, but he is one of the toughest negotiators that I have ever

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encountered. And I'm pretty sure if these were worth something, he would have taken money

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from you. Yeah. I mean, you you could call him cheap, too. That would also be

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accurate. Except as it pertains to wasting money repairing his BMW. This

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one time he fixed the turn signal. Wait,

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is your setup like angled? Yeah, cuz I

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sit on this end of the couch. So, your center channel is off to the left.

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Yeah. Okay. So, that's that has more to do with um it won't What the heck, dude?

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It won't fit underneath the TV for someone with this much hi-fi gear. Yeah,

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I could have put the TV on a box, right? But the TV is already too tall, in my

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opinion. Your sub's not in the corner. No, your center channel's not centered.

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You got one of your stereo channels towed in. Yeah. And your TV is angled

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toward the couch, but not enough. It's

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angled a lot. Also, you're sitting right next to that surround speaker and that

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one's way over there. Have you seen how big my apartment is, kiddo? All the more

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reason to go over here and have the

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whole thing take less space. Sure.

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That end of the couch is broken. I think my dad bought this at Woodwards in like

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1978. I want to get out ahead of all of

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y'all in the comments. All like, Lionus don't pay Jamie nearly enough. The man

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has tens of thousands of dollars worth of records. He just has up

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priorities.

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I mean, if you think if you think Lionus could pay me more, write down in the

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comments as well. Pretty cool the way they shot it to make

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it seem like he's not getting away from him. Like every cut is short enough that

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it kind of seems like he's keeping right behind him. Yeah. Yeah. Uh

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realistically, the surround speakers are the least contributing to the overall.

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Yeah. speakers aren't really doing much in the scene either. No. So, good

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upgrade. Yeah. All right, let's do the next one. Cool. Let's Oh, let's do the

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TV. Okay. Nice. Wow. Wa. That's how we're doing

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it. Okay. Sure. That's great. Wow. Uh,

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question for you. Yes, dear.

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You've done so many of these upgrades. Mhm. You've installed so many TVs both

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here and in your previous life as a Geek Squad TV installer guy. Yeah. Where's

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your walnut? You literally have networking and power on the wall. I hate

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walnuts. Where no one who could reach that light switch could ever hope to reach them. That's right. You ever read

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R/TV too high? Yeah. Yeah. It's my nightmare. But you could mount it to the

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wall down there. So low. So low. All right, Star Wars guy.

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I think there is such thing as our/TV too low as well. I think that's true

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low. What a TV. What a TV. Wow. Look how

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deep those blacks are. They're deep.

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Incredible. They're deep. But it's deceptive. See, check this out. Okay, tell me more. Look at this. That That

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black looks deep. It's like this thin. Totally fake. I thought you were doing a

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joke about how we were watching it off center so it doesn't look right. Oh, no,

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dude. It's all the viewing angles are great. Yeah. Are we going to put your new CPU in? Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that.

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Okay. So, uh, so you went from the 7800 X3D to the 9800 X3D. That's right.

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You're going to get so many FPS's, dude. No, it it's the same old graphics card.

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So, it's going to it's going to be it's going to be like a marginal improvement.

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Yeah. How much you want to bet? Literally, all this water cooling

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equipment was stolen from the office. Not all of it. Yeah, I bet. Stolen.

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Stolen. Maybe not stolen. Definitely

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stolen. Absolutely stolen. 100% stolen.

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No one would actually buy a Corsair GPU block. No, I bought it. It was an Amazon

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warehouse deal. Someone had already returned it. Andrew, we took the block

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off.

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And then we uh now we're going to fight with this computer for the next 20

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minutes. That wasn't very good uh adhesion. No, that's good. Was it good?

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Good content. Yeah. No, this is good. See, you can tell because this block is

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designed with an offset mount. so

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that the compute dies are actually

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slightly bowed thermal compound right

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there right over the dies. That's part of why it performs so well minus water

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cooling tips. So I have a 7800 X3D in there right now. And then this is a 9800

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X3D. It is 10% 12% faster. a little faster, but

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they also changed the layout of it and

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where the X3D Vcash goes. Yeah, the architecture is a little new, but hey,

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the best of the best. You're not really getting any better than a 9800 X3D. So,

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I I did water cooling in this computer because one of my development goals for

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working here last year was to uh you're

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supposed to like improve something that you're bad at, I guess, is the best way

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of describing it. But I'm not very good at understanding like water cooling

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fittings. And so to better serve the writers when they come down, I learned

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more about water cooling by completely ruining this computer. All right, let's

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uh let's get your computer back on the desk and check out your new monitor.

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Wow. At the Christmas party last year, I won the Gundam monitor. It's the

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PG279. It's a XG XG

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XG279. Uh it's a 1440p 144 hertz

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monitor. It's pretty good. Um, I'm selling it to Nicole because she wants a

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second one. And so we're putting an OLED in its place because everything has to be an OLED cuz PL's running this one.

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He's got an AW 2725DF. Wow. It's 1440p 360 Hz OLED. It looks

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really good. It's going to fit great on that desk. I will also be a man who owns

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a monitor. You already are. Yeah. Uh, the nice thing is the motion pixel

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response time will be lightning fast cuz it's OLED. Uh, your blacks will be inky

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blacks. You'll get that great HDR picture, Jamie. Um, it's an absolutely

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beautiful display. One thing to note about all of these

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cutie OLEDs is that they're very

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delicate, but you don't have pets. You don't have a kid. So, just keep

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reminding me all the things I don't have. Blue. Well, just don't get upset and punch the monitor and you should be

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okay. Yes. All those competitive games of Fallout 4 I'm playing. Yeah. Uh, you

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guys updated the BIOS before you put in the new chip, right? I did it yesterday.

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Yeah. Oh. Oh, really? Oh, absolute

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professional. See, I thought I was going to be coming in all I bet you didn't

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think. Guy's an amateur. He doesn't know what he's doing. Absolute pro. It's

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plugged in. Has a light. Neither of them are going though. So, it looks like I

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don't know if you're posting memory training. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. He's just ramped down, though. That

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monitor's turning on. So, that's uh over

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there's not the only train we're we got today. Hey. Uh,

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why do you keep acknowledging my terrible jokes? You know, I'll keep

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doing it. I get paid by the Joker. I don't know if you knew that.

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Always scares me. Okay. Do I say yes or no? I don't remember. I'm going to say

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yes. Sure. I didn't have Bit Locker on

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and Windows deleted. Got him. Oh.

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So, we we we reset the BIOS cuz the new chip was in it. So, now it has to

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rememory train. And while we do that, why don't we fart around with the record

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cleaner? Sure. As part of my upgrade, I sprang for this kind of dumb but really

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neat uh ultrasonic record cleaner. Uh it

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it's basically one of those ultrasonic

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uh cleaners that you would put jewelry in, but it rotates the record around.

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I'm really excited, Jamie, because like we've cleaned records with my Spin Clean

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before. I have a spin clean. You got one, too? And they're good, but they're

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kind of annoying. You got to like fill it up, put the record in, spin it

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manually, take it. It works great, but it takes way too long. It takes way too

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long. Yeah. This is a copy of Queen's Jazz, and it is

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disgusting. Also, I think it might be warped. So, you know, it is what it is.

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So, what do you do? You just uh take that reservoir out, buddy. You fill it

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with distilled water. I'm guessing Yeah, I've filled it with distilled water. You can fill it with tap water. It says not

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to, though. Yeah. This is good enough, right? And then you dump it in the middle there. Oh, you Oh, so yeah. So,

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what I found Oh, boy. This is not easy. Yeah, it's really not. It's this way.

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Well, I don't know if that's the way either. That's not good. How much water

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is supposed to be in here? More than that. Okay. So, then basically what you

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do is you take this ultra scratch, ultra dirty record. And so, you put it in

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there. I'm going to do it on the auto setting, but I wanted to do So, there's

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two settings. There's auto one and auto two. It's just the length of the cycle.

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How long is each cycle? 2 minutes or 5 minutes. Okay. I want to extra clean

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this thing. So the autocycle does both the clean and the dry. Oh, it dries it

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too. Yeah, cuz that's the problem with the spin clean is like you take your

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record out and you wipe it with the fiber cloths that they give you. Yeah.

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But then like eventually they get saturated. Yeah, they do. And you like I

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just put mine in a dish rack after which feels like weird. Anyway, this makes an

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awful sound. That is a terrible noise. Oh boy. It

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sounds like TV static. Okay. So, what what it's doing right now, it's sucking

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the water out of the the reservoir and sending it to the tank. How's it going

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to dry it now? It runs a blow like a just like a little fan. Yeah, it's uh

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noticeably cleaner. It's it it like like

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we said, it's not going to clean the scratches off, but it got all like the

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nasties that that were on it. There you go. It's just that easy. You know what

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else is going to be easy? Microphones. Cable managing your TV. Oh, good luck.

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Have fun. Mr. Plof, you used to be on our podcast. Plof was on the first 100

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episodes of Final Verdict. I was I see you bought uh much better microphones

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than when we were using what? Sure 58s. Yeah. You Yeah. PG48s or whatever. Yeah.

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So why the upgrade to these guys? Cuz these are really nice. So these are very

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nice podcasting microphones that should

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in theory improve the quality of the uh the sound of the episode. This is a test

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with the old PGA48s. This is the intro

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on our new mics. Welcome to Vinyl Verdict. I'm Jamie. They won't uh

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improve the quality of the discussion though. So, that's uh that would require

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a host change again. So, if you guys would like to listen to it, you can find

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it on most major services including YouTube. That's right. Uh it's Vinyl

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Verdict on Spotify. These ones were recommended by Adam. Oh, that's Yeah.

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Um, the MB7X is like the one that Adam

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uses except his you has both USBC and

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XLR. It doesn't really matter uh that it doesn't have USBC cuz we connected to

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the to the Behringer. So, it it's a feature that would be lost. Honestly, it

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cost an extra $50 to get the USBC connector. Wow, that monitor looks

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great, doesn't it, though? Actually, though, that looks awesome. Yeah.

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Damn. Damn, that's smooth. Wow. that.

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Yeah. Uh well, go fight something. Do you want Okay, let's go. Let's go

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somewhere. Yeah, go fight. Man, night looks so good. Yeah, like wow. Who needs

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to go outside at all? We could just look at outside on our computer screens.

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You're on to something. You could market that. Everything looks way better on an

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OLED. Nick was right. Oh, yeah, dude.

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God, this looks so good. So smooth, too.

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Even though it's only at 180 FPS. only 180 FPS. But that's a locked rock solid

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180 FPS. Like that frame consistency.

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Let's build your city, Jamie. Yes, let's build my little city. Oh, yeah. Let's do

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that. Jamie, you want us to cable manage this? All right. So, you only need this

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guy. This guy and and like the the cables that attach to this and your PS5.

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My PS5. And then everything that's attached to the receiver. The whole

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stack except for the the network switch.

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Except for the network switch. Yeah. Okay. I couldn't help noticing that you

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spent realistically the vast majority of your budget on train.

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No, I spent $1,400 of the budget on

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because it seems like a lot more than that. Like this is $40 $40 $40. $83.

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Yeah. I don't believe that this was $1,400. I mean, what about all this? No,

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we added it up the other day. It was like 1,400 bucks. Do you feel good about

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yourself right now? Yeah, I feel great. Now, these are hand painted.

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Yeah. No assembly required. Completely ready to go. Does that not kind of

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defeat the purpose of this hobby? I have zero patience for painting things. I

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see. So, when I found out that they make those things fully assembled, I jumped

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on that. Okay. Cuz for $83. For $83.

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Well, I I didn't pay for it. AMD did. Thanks, AMD.

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Spices. Yeah. Well, they're in spice jars, but yeah, it's like clubhouse.

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Like uh like when you go to the the grocery store and you buy the big thing of spices. Yeah. But wait, no, they

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actually come in this. Yeah. So they literally just source exactly the ones.

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Yeah. It's got the spoon on it and everything. Yeah. Would you ever apply this with a spoon? This grass? I don't

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think so. So the idea is that you're supposed to cast it out onto a sticky

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surface. Just cast it out. Yeah. The the

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technical term is flocking. So I got a bunch of little buildings cuz I wanted

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to build a little town. Mhm. But you didn't want to build it. You just wanted

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to place it. I just wanted to place it. I wanted the fun part, right? Yeah.

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Which is the watching the train go around part, right? Do we get to do that

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today? Like 100%. I I set up the track last night cuz I'm like super into that.

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Okay. Okay. But we have to place the buildings first. Do we glue the

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buildings down? No, gravity holds them down. Really? Yeah. What about these

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guys? Does gravity hold these guys down or do we need to glue these guys? We'd have to glue these guys down. Okay. But

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but you sound like you don't want to do that. I don't want to do that today cuz that would be a commitment. That Yes.

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This is He's not a commitment sort of guy. I have to figure out where I want to put them. You can't hold this guy

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down. That's true. Not with glue, not with anything. Well, you show me what

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we're doing today. We're going to put all all these buildings. All right. And

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they all get wired to this little hub, right? Yeah. And they have a little

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dimmer switch on them so that the lights light up. So that's what all the LED

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says. Uh it has like a little light hub in all of them. All right. Or at least

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in most of them. Rock on. Yeah. Okay. So where's the town? I imagine it's in the

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lake. You're half right. So general store. Oh, no. They're in the lake. So,

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general store right there. Right. Okay. The lake uh is an actual like it's a

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resin. I guess it's a two-part resin that uh Justin and I set the other day.

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Very cool. And it's meant to look like water. You can actually get ripples like

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that you can put in it so that when the resin sets, it looks like there's like

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ripples in the lake. Wow. You didn't do that though. No. Okay. That was an

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advanced technique. I like the rocks though. That's cool. Yeah. I was just

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joking before. I would never put the general store in the lake. I'd put the

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That's absurd. Yeah, that's Yeah. Get out of here. I swear to God. Pay by

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the bad joke. Okay. So, I cut a bunch of holes in the foam the other day. And we

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routed out underneath there. And I was going to route all the wires to about

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here so that I can actually reach them. That I I think you can guess where the

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cabin in the woods is going to go. In the lake. In the lake.

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A winner every time. And the best thing about putting things in the lake is

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right after you put something in the lake, it just goes to the bottom and you

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can put a new thing at the top of the lake. Yeah, it just keeps stacking them.

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Wow. Ethel's Gasoline and Service. I just like how detailed these ones are.

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So, these are all from a company called Woodland Scenics, but Woodland Scenics

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is h popular in multiple different hobbies because they make landscaping

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stuff. God, no. They're in the lake again. I tried to put the merkantile

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bank in the lake because I figure you got to have all the mortgages are

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underwater. Yeah. Jesus.

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How did I How'd you make out with my uh cable management? Again, I apologize.

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You know, let's not It looks not bad, Jamie. But we mostly just zip tied. It

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really did feel like a zip tie job and or a cable tie job. And I think we

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actually did a pretty okay job of it. Just decluttered and Yeah, pretty much.

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That's perfect because that's a thousand times more than I was willing to do

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after work. Yes, absolutely. Wow, these are so flipping detailed,

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dude. Yeah, it's a Canada wheat car. So, they make one So, they make ones that

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are weathered, too, so that they look like they've been run on the roads for

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like a million years. This print down here is not just like placeholder

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nonsense. It's actually you can read it if you squint hard enough. So the

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particular manufacturer of that that car is a company called Inter Mountain and

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they make very detailed cars like that with some really nice screen printing or

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silk screening on them like that. Sure do. Yeah. I thought you were done with

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the cable management. Yeah. We went to cable manage under his desk and then I

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noticed two things. One, it's mostly metal so it's really easy for MCM,

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right? Oh wow, that's great. Uh there's like eight arches under here already

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that he's stolen from the office randomly. and just didn't use it. Like

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there's one, there's another one. There's three, four, five. I think

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that's it. But they're all ready to go. I don't even need the kit that we

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brought. I didn't steal them. I borrowed

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them forever. And then subsequently lost

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interest in cable matching. These are freaking heavy, dude. Yeah, that uh that

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one is particularly heavy. That one uh actually cost a whole bunch of money

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when it was new. I didn't pay that much for it. I got it at the local auction at

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an auction, a train auction. No, it was

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uh it was just a general auction, but Justin painted one in the AMD colors.

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The AMD/ LT colors if you want to see that. It's the Yeah. Oh, dude. So,

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Advanced Micro Express. Let's go. Yeah.

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Uh don't open it that way. It'll fall out. A hundred bucks. Yeah. So it was we

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bought it undecorated. So it was just body in gray. How was he able to get

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this level of detail hand painting it? I mean I finger painted and I couldn't get

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for details. No it's airbrushed. There's

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multiple layers. Right. So um he used the cry cut and that's like the smallest

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you can make a a thing in the cry cut. A that's super cool. Or is it cricket? I

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don't know. That's fine. It doesn't matter. Yeah. And then those are

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water what are they called? Water slide. Water slide decals. Thank you. Oh, LTT

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box car. Let's go. It's the only one like it in the entire world

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because no one else has the skill to make it or because no one else wants to make it. No one else wants to make it.

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Shout out to Justin. He and I did basically all of this together last

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week. But it turned out really nicely, I think. And if you want some exclusives,

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check them out on Floatplane. It's trains.

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These Audio Technica got me from work. You handed me a bunch of cash one

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Christmas and then I bought those. Oh, right. That Yeah, there it was. Nothing.

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It was nothing weird.

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How many How many cars can one locomotive? That guy can pull all of the

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rolling stock I have. Literally all every car. What about that one? I don't

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know. I haven't tried it. It's brand new. Yeah. I mean, it could probably do

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better for gaming though. Yeah. Uh, you know, it's got radon graphics. 3DV

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cache. Let's go. AMD. So, can I take all

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the trains out? Yeah, if you want. That's That's the part I want to do. You want to play with the trains? Yeah, I

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want to play with the trains. I want to play with the trains, too. Okay. Okay. We're going to play with the trains in a

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minute. Okay. But we have to get them all on the on the track. Okay. I can get

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them all on the track. So, all these trains I purchased with the help of the

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nice people well of Nolan. No one went and got all this stuff for me, but the

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nice people at Inner City Trains and Hobbies, which is on 96 AB in uh Langley

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here, uh they were all very helpful and they fixed one of my trains last night

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before the shoot. So, I'd be helpful if you were giving me this kind of money, too.

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But, but they were very helpful and I really appreciated their help with this.

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So, hey, support local businesses. Yeah, indeed. So, I learned something. Um,

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don't push a train from the back. Works great on a race car. Rear wheel drive

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train. Oh, you derail it. Not so good.

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There's an issue called string lining. If you make a really long train where

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instead of trying to go around a curve, the cars will try and go in a straight

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line. Yep. And literally pull themselves right off the tracks. I saw that. I

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don't have this as part of my setup, but there's a thing called DCC, which is

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digital command control where the locomotives and other things on your

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layout will have electronic control. Oh, so they'll all go the same speed on the

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track and stuff. That's right. And then you can also set it so that it has occupancy sensors so that it knows that

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a sector of the track is clear and so

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another train can run in that space that is clear or it knows that a train has

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crashed. uh c cross a threshold or whatever and it'll trigger a switch

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depending on you know which locomotive does it. It's sort of like

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smartome but for it's ready. Come come

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closer. It's ready. Watch. See, it works. It's definitely not off the rails

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in multiple spots. You're right. What? Yeah. What do you mean? We'll find out.

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What? What are you talking about? So, this uh spot on the track here on the

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rails. Well, this this upgrade has gone off the rails already. I was just going

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to say this whole video is off the rails.

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What? What is this? Why they spend so

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much time just like watching the trains go? Because they spend hours if not days

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trying to get it to work first. I would say probably, but also because

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he's never experienced it yet, so he's not sure. It's true. This poor train

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set. Let's go. Look at it

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go. Okay, we need more speed. We got to

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go faster. We got to go fast. We're the American train system now. How many

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conductors? Zero. Oh my.

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Let's go, buddy. Uh-oh. This is sick.

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You like it? This is crazy. Do you understand why I spent $1,500? No, not

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even a little. But this is I'd love to go to someone else's house where they

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spent that money and then I could look at it. Well, you are in someone else's

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house where you they spent that kind of money. Yeah. Shout out AMD. You actually

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got a ton of value for your upgrade. New TV, upgraded gaming PC, better speaker

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setup for watching movies, new monitor. The bang for the buck for this upgrade

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has to be among the best I've seen. And then you bought a train set. You You

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know what's interesting, Lis? I came to I was at4

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$4,983 or something like that. So, I was like closest to the pin without going

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over. Wow. Yeah, the price is right.

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Shout out AMD for sponsoring AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade. We'll see you at

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the next one. Sorry, I got distracted by the train. Go watch um Arties for

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Bridges. He's very pro gambling. Oh, yeah. Go watch Bridges.

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The one person who stole more than Jamie. I don't think that's true. I I I

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We haven't looked at your bedroom closet. I'm sure there's a fair bit of

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stuff there. I like that one, dude.