NEW HOST? - WAN Show May.11 2018

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0:00 press a button and we're live welcome to the lan show how's it going how was your

0:05 week how was your week it's the nash show it's the not showing

0:08 again buddy god about that i'm sorry we're in brazaro land

0:12 yes we're lazy james went by fast went by fast eh i guess i think uh

0:18 having really poor short term memory helps because

0:22 basically on every every monday people like what do people what'd you do this

0:25 weekend i don't i have no idea what i do

0:28 on friday yeah something not very novel

0:31 apparently right red books we have an interesting show today though

0:36 if you're if your weekend went by kind of quickly and was interesting as well

0:40 maybe this will be an interesting cap to the end of the rest of the week we're

0:43 talking about uh uh people not knowing that they're talking to ai

0:48 yes which is a surprising amount of sophistication from google duplex but

0:51 we'll talk about blue everyone's collective mind at their i o conference

0:54 earlier this weekend we're also going to talk about boston dynamics who's kicking

0:58 ass on the other part of robot futures yeah embodied part oh my put them

1:03 together and it can talk and move uh also nintendo has shared some details

1:07 about its switch online service which is coolio and rumors about the iphone 10

1:13 plus sized version of the future this fall the big one the big ten i thought

1:18 it was already pretty big no we'll talk about that okay i'm not really into the

1:22 whatever that's fine can you see his feet

1:27 when he's in the boat when he's in the boat yeah okay let's uh

1:31 huh again no not kind of the the one leg you can

1:35 you can see his yeah you can see the side of his leg you can't see his feet though you can there

1:44 that was one of the best like mario spring noises that's my best sound i can

1:48 do that's pretty epic

1:52 uh right i really wish i could do the tube spectrum yeah

1:57 established jerky and Linus isn't here hahaha also gonna eat all the maple

2:01 bacon fresh but

2:04 just reset this facebook and then go back to here

2:09 yes how's it going everyone i don't have the twitch chat open which makes me feel

2:14 strange i'm gonna fix that

2:18 you wanna let's just get right into google duplexes i think that was the

2:21 coolest thing i've seen at least all year i think

2:25 okay let's just assume that no one's our source is and uh sc2 mitch on the forum

2:30 is sc2 mitch yeah yes and i assume that stands for starcraft 2.

2:34 i've just always assumed that i'm gonna go with it i like it i feel like i've i've i've

2:39 been told what it's stood for before but i don't remember but i'm gonna go with

2:42 starcraft yeah yeah anyways i will never

2:45 trust anyone on the phone that goes uh-huh mm-hmm

2:49 that's it yeah yeah so at google i o which is their

2:52 conference every year for developers as opposed to the made by google hardware

2:56 event in the fall which is for consumer products at google i o this week they

3:01 were showing off all the new feature tech um that they're doing it's way

3:04 beyond Android now and one of the things they showed is a future service that's

3:07 gonna be rolling out later this year that they called what the hell

3:12 why does something weird happen like out there every time we're on they're

3:15 listening to us yeah um they're calling it google duplex and the idea here is

3:20 that in the future google's gonna help you get stuff done that's the google

3:23 assistant's job and one of those things that you need to get done a lot of the time is making a phone call to book

3:28 reservations at a restaurant or book a hair appointment or something like that

3:31 and these are the two examples they showed so uh sundar puts up on the screen behind

3:35 him a real recording of a real call and

3:39 i expect that they did hundreds or thousands of these calls and they

3:42 probably cherry picked and it seemed like there was the the person that picked up the phone was the same person

3:46 on like a few of them that i heard oh there's more than just the two he demoed

3:50 there's more calls you can listen to i think i heard three but i could be

3:54 really not remembering accurately again we've got a similar short-term memory

3:58 loss situation at least two for sure i heard one where it was a guy calling in

4:03 yeah and i to a chinese there was a girl calling in to something at her

4:07 appointment or something yeah those are the ones for my client yeah that's what he demoed okay yeah yeah so

4:11 on the screen we just see kind of a visualization of a phone call you get a little the google assistant logo

4:16 representing uh the robot or the ai and

4:19 then just like a phone logo representing the person and the person answers the phone and

4:24 says you know this is the hair salon how can i help you and then you hear this

4:28 impeccably human sounding voice on the other side

4:31 saying hey i'm calling on behalf of a client and i'm looking to book a hair appointment and then a conversation

4:35 ensues and the result of which is a hair

4:38 appointment is booked and then i guess the user's phone would receive a

4:42 notification that says you have got a hair appointment so you can just be like

4:46 hey assistant book me a hair appointment at this place

4:49 for this time or between this time between 10 and 12 on friday and then a

4:54 few minutes later you're going to get notifications as yep that's done

4:58 yeah um someone in chat said luke is skeptical

5:02 as usual i think it will work as advertised service people stick to a

5:05 script uh i i am skeptical but i think it will usually work because of what you

5:10 just said yeah usually when you're calling into a restaurant there's a fairly formulaic way that you would book

5:16 a reservation that is absolutely true right it's not even necessarily that they stick to a script it's just there's

5:20 fairly basic information information that needs to be passed back and forth

5:24 and it's not that complicated that's right so that kind of that kind of feeds

5:27 into how the voice sounds because it sounds

5:31 really realistic it sounds more realistic than the google assistant

5:35 voice it even sounds more realistic than the google assistant

5:39 voice using wavenet which is another thing they announced at io wavenet which

5:43 was a system that was outlined in a paper by google's

5:48 deepmind like 18 months ago was finally being integrated into the google assistant so this is just taking in raw

5:53 waveforms and and making your phonemes based on that it makes the google

5:57 assistant's voice way better they demoed that and it still wasn't as good as what

6:00 we hear on duplex which makes me think that what we hear on duplex for the most

6:05 part is pre-recorded sound bites you can hear it sounds a little inhuman

6:10 when they say numbers and dates and times because that's kind of slightly

6:14 that's kind of turnkey they plug that in but the reason they would be able to use

6:18 pre-recorded sound bytes is because the possible set of interactions is much

6:24 decreased when you're in this kind of scenario where like you just need to do

6:28 this one thing and a lot of it is like let me check that for you or would you

6:33 mind going on hold for a second or something like that where you just need to like confirm so the amount of times

6:38 that's why i keep on saying that thing because the amount of time and

6:41 that's all you really need to say on the phone and that's often all you really say on the phone but the amount of times

6:50 the amount of times that the ai says it and does it very believingly very

6:54 believably believably you got it um and like it's it's it's really good the one

6:59 thing that i noticed was there's like a slight delay like a

7:05 little bit more than i feel like most people would take before they say something but not very much and i think

7:10 to counteract that like they programmed in some delay like when you answer the

7:14 phone and say hello they program in a weight a b because no one just goes

7:18 hello hello yeah yeah you wait a second right i know i might have been paid i

7:22 might have been trying to look for it they also programmed in um's i mean

7:26 there's gonna be some processing time too right yeah really cool so the reason

7:31 that they can do that is because when i'm talking to my google assistant i

7:35 could say anything to it and it has to be able to respond but

7:39 as this user on twitch says in this situation not only is the

7:44 computer basically performing a script a narrow

7:47 set of actions of possible actions but so is a human because the human on the

7:51 other end is just trying to get some basic information from you someone's calling in what time do they want to

7:55 come how many people everyone's complaining about the

7:59 contrast so i'm trying to fix it but i'm really bad i like that it's like an

8:02 instagram filter i'm really bad at doing anything related

8:07 to this at all so how brittle do you think this system is going to be when it

8:10 launches that's everyone's first complaint like what if someone just says

8:14 enjoying the weather we're having and it doesn't know what that means yeah

8:18 like if they need to do something and they're trying to carry on small talk yeah um

8:22 honestly there might be some stuff set in i wouldn't be too surprised if

8:26 there's some stuff set in uh to like basically cut those conversations off by

8:30 just using the yeah enjoying the weather we're having

8:34 well another difference is that during the demo the assistant never announces

8:38 itself as such it never says hey you're talking to a robot and a lot of people

8:43 got pretty angry about that but google has since the demo promised that when it

8:47 rolls out it will announce itself as as a virtual assistant so then you're not

8:52 even going to have those problems because right you know you're talking to a person but

8:56 you're not just going to hang up like you or me might when we answer our phone

9:00 and there's a robot there because it's business and you don't want to lose that

9:03 business you want that appointment to get amazing

9:06 most well most businesses probably wouldn't hang up

9:09 yeah i no i i completely agree because you want the business but i think it's i

9:14 think it's i didn't know that it was going to announce

9:18 that's a new development okay because i feel like now if i was a

9:22 business if i had a text version i would just want that

9:27 oh you mean like if there's just an online web form yeah yeah i would rather

9:31 that google just filled that out well well you would have to pay for that

9:35 though you have to build that that booking system whereas oh for sure but

9:39 there's a lot of like open table for restaurants yeah there's open table

9:43 there's like uh a lot of different services like this have

9:48 services out there that work with them to pair it together now i don't know if opentable like takes

9:53 something i can't see how they could take a cut

9:57 but like i'm sure there's some benefit there like maybe you have to pay them to

10:01 be on it or there's ads or something i have no idea there's another uh

10:05 angle with the virtual assistant announcing itself which is eavesdropping

10:09 laws so in at least a dozen states there's laws because it's

10:14 it doesn't have ears like you and me it's not hearing the conversation it needs to actually record the

10:18 conversation and because the you're recording the conversation there's

10:22 states where every party on the in the conversation

10:25 each party has to consent to it being recorded so either has to say this is a

10:30 virtual assistant can i record this

10:34 or maybe it can get away with just announcing this is being recorded and if

10:38 you don't hang up you consent out another particular laws for each

10:41 state i feel like that could work just you know this call is

10:46 being recorded please hang up if you don't want it to be yeah but then

10:53 or maybe you you would have already started recording so i think you already

10:56 broke the law so you'd have to be like this call will be recorded in however

11:00 much time please hang i don't know i don't know that's weird maybe they just won't let

11:04 it well it doesn't no it doesn't necessarily have to have the gun recording yet

11:09 they can just say that script before

11:13 it starts hearing that's what i was saying yeah so they might have to delay

11:16 when it starts recording right this call will be recorded in x amount of seconds

11:20 hang up if you don't want it to be and then start the conversation

11:24 i don't know how to fix this for you guys i'm sorry i don't know camera stuff

11:28 i've slightly moved all the dials i went down and people hated it i went up and

11:32 people hated it i don't know i'm sorry some camera person will have to fix it

11:37 eventually i don't know why rancho gets screwed up every week but it does we

11:40 have way more lights this time so for the demo when they when the virtual

11:44 assistant was calling all these people when they're collecting this data and they're doing like their test runs they

11:48 did presumably hundreds of these calls i think this is kind of like it might go

11:53 down in the history books because when

11:56 what other time like if we live in a future where there's a eyes that look

11:59 like us and think like us and are better than us you're going to be able to look back in

12:03 time and point to a scenario where yep that was the first

12:06 time that a human didn't know they were talking to an ai

12:11 yeah because no one leaked this no one was like i think a computer

12:16 called me like i never saw an article about that

12:20 you know like they didn't know they just they talked and they hung up i mean

12:23 there's been chat bots people could be talking to chat bots yeah there's the

12:27 touring test which again is chat based not

12:30 audio based but even in the touring test the

12:35 the participants they know that one of the congress the

12:39 one of the conversations they're gonna be having is gonna have an ai so like

12:42 they're looking out for it

12:47 pretty cool and the turing tests could be used with

12:51 chat with vocal chat in mind it could just be adapted for it

12:55 like i know it's a specific it hasn't been conducted like that though yeah i

12:59 know but like it could be you could be adaptive there's lots of ways to adapt

13:02 the imitation game because it's actually not that great of a test but anyway

13:07 yeah let's just go right into boston dynamics i think it's very cool i don't want to like play the audio on stream

13:12 because i don't know how well it's going to come out and all that kind of stuff but if you guys haven't heard of it

13:15 before now i would definitely look up google duplex and listen to the calls

13:18 because it's way more interesting than it probably seems

13:22 in fact if you have it's i mean when you're on youtube it looks like the

13:26 video is three hours long but if you it's probably only an hour and a half and if you have that time i would say

13:30 watch all of i o there was a lot of i want to there's a lot of cool stuff in

13:34 there not just duplex duplex was definitely the coolest but before the

13:37 end of this weekend i will have seen the whole thing that's like have you seen the bit with lens no oh it's so crazy

13:42 i've had almost no time i've been super slammed because now that they've got

13:45 such good image recognition they're getting closer to google's end game goal

13:50 which was information's coming at you without you

13:54 needing to query it with like you're walking down the street let's say you

13:57 have some cool glasses and you just look at a building the image recognition

14:02 recognition knows that that building is the washington monument and then at a

14:06 card comes up with the information about it

14:09 it looks so awesome and it's it's integrated with the ar kit so it's like

14:12 a nice distance away from you like there's nice depth oh yeah yeah so it

14:15 doesn't feel like it's like it's not just a window that comes up here it's like anchored to in space right it's so

14:20 sweet that's cool okay so now we have uh this well the

14:24 source is Linus's email thank you very much Linus's email uh and Linus wants to

14:28 talk about this one he does well that's why you send it to me

14:32 why does he care i don't know i mean you can just do it no that's fine

14:37 i can snipe them there's another nintendo one we can do i also don't with this one

14:43 no that's another Linus one okay the um uh

14:49 i don't care what we're talking about i'm freaking down i want to talk about uh boston dynamics sure because we're

14:53 onto this robot like kind of kick right now yeah so this again was sc2 mitch who

14:58 posted it in the forum thanks ma dude boston dynamics they're amazing they

15:03 make bewildering robots like new backflips and stuff they have a kick-ass youtube

15:08 channel you saw the door opening one right yeah yeah right it holds up it

15:11 holds the door open for the other one to walk through go to their youtube channel

15:14 it's so cool every few months they upload a new video what what the

15:17 progress they've made and two days ago they did that they uploaded two new

15:21 videos one shows the atlas robot can we play it

15:25 yeah we don't need audio or anything no yeah this is i want to put this i'm

15:28 going to make this into a gif and put it on my twitter and pin it this is so

15:31 inspiring oh no here we go it's grammarly

15:36 look at that thing

15:41 you can do it little buddy uneven ground grass

15:46 variable friction yes that's a different type i want the rocky theme in the

15:49 background yeah i wanted to go up the steps

15:53 wish he raised his arms up he does that in the backflip video

15:56 oh yeah yeah no that makes sense yeah yeah it's cute

16:01 yes so sweet but imagine how hard that is to run

16:05 i know kids who can't run that's amazing man the only thing is in

16:10 most of their videos when they have one of their robots walking around somebody

16:13 kicks it or pushes it with a hockey stick or something and they don't do that in this video and i would assume

16:17 that's because it can't take it yet because if they could take it they'd

16:20 show it yeah it also looks like uh those

16:24 are what do you call this linear hips

16:27 oh yeah so if they hit the side it'll probably just tip over oh yeah i see

16:31 yeah i wanna give me a figure eight here but at the same time it might be able to

16:35 the arms aren't so they might be able to teach

16:40 they're coming off but we just play that again and again like this it's the jump

16:43 i just want to make sounds

16:46 where is it

16:50 how you doing

16:58 i love that you can make that noise i've never heard anyone do that before i

17:01 really wish i could do the going down a tube sound not even i don't know if a

17:05 human yeah yeah

17:08 i can't even possibly the only reason why i went to two so people would know

17:12 what we were even talking about that's not bad i want to see that robot juke a

17:16 football player out you know like go this way and spin or something yeah

17:19 that'll be epic see it would need it would need multi-directional hips you're right

17:24 because just doing this won't work yeah so the second video that they uploaded

17:29 was their spot mini which is the smaller

17:32 quadruped dog-like one it's the one that you might have seen videos where it has

17:37 a weird ARM slash head slash whatever you want to call it that opens doors and

17:41 recycles cans in this video it doesn't have that

17:45 instead it has this extra little modular on the on the back this white box

17:49 and what you're watching is this thing navigate itself it's kind of

17:54 self-driving right now yeah it has a route that i believe it's

17:58 trying to do and it's it's just moving through space if you click forward in

18:02 the video they'll actually put a render on the side of the screen to show you the data that it's seeing

18:08 yeah there we go so

18:11 uh reading up if you look at the description of the youtube video what it

18:15 actually says is it's not uh inherit it's not going

18:19 through this as a novel situation they've actually

18:22 manually piloted the robot through this area first to teach it okay to map it

18:28 and then it goes through on its own after that

18:31 which is still useful i mean if you're but it's not trying to i don't think

18:36 yes but i don't think it's trying to follow so some people might think like

18:39 okay i've done this once so it's going to do like exactly step by step i think

18:43 it's trying to go to the same destination correct but it's still like

18:46 like they could have put a box in the way or something and it would be able to deal with it that's right it's not on

18:51 like a set path yeah it's just going through a known space it's like they

18:54 gave it a map but like it still had to get there which i mean self-driving cars

18:59 do have that yeah yeah

19:02 i just wanted to clarify because some people don't understand yeah that's

19:06 pretty sweet um i mean the fact that it has to drive

19:09 through first it seems like it would limit the applications if you're thinking about

19:13 like a conflict zone then you know you're not going to be able to bring

19:16 this thing in first but maybe you could fly in a small drone first or use a

19:19 different type of robot to or different type of vehicle to map the area it's

19:24 also this is also completely autonomous navigation

19:27 so like if you're bringing in another robot you could like you could use this

19:31 as some sort of like patrol or to check

19:34 your own areas or something like that and have manually controlled things to

19:38 check out areas that you haven't seen before right go back to the part where

19:41 it's on the stairs there's actually uh something you'll notice when it gets to the top of the

19:46 stairs and it wants to turn around again so

19:49 you can think we're looking at its butt right now right now skip ahead just a brush it's like

19:54 it's face right so it gets to the top now it wants to go

19:58 back

20:03 it wants to go down and see how it turned around it's like its legs are

20:07 optimized for kind of one direction so now

20:10 relative to what we were looking at before it was kind of going backwards down those stairs

20:15 now is he gonna yeah so he always wants that end to be lower face down ass up

20:25 i guess it's got those grasshopper legs yeah i want to see this thing jump did

20:29 you see that other one they have that's on wheels it rips around and it could jump like

20:34 four feet or something yeah that thing was crazy i love that thing i don't know

20:37 the name of that one but it's so badass these guys are the best are those that's

20:40 like murdered friends did you see that

20:44 do you see that maybe they're sleeping look at that oh god

20:49 oh they're all mangled that one is like ah i'm okay too many hockey sticks

20:55 yeah it's too hard why are you still kicking us no so okay uh i read that and

21:01 i was googling about it and then i was i came across this other articles like

21:05 hold up stop the press spot mini is going to be

21:10 on sale next year in 2019 you're going to be able to buy

21:13 one of those things oh my much i didn't know it doesn't say they don't say but i

21:18 didn't think these things were going to be for sale of the general public like

21:21 anytime soon so it says okay i can't wait for the the

21:25 like the casey neistat drone review of this we gotta get one

21:30 for sure no i'm just saying like it just seems like the kind of thing he would

21:34 buy we yeah like ride it around new york

21:38 somehow i think we should we shouldn't even do a sponsored thing we should just

21:41 outright buy one so we can have it around all the time i want to put my

21:45 lunch on it and like get it to carry it down the stairs for me and stuff

21:50 you can get it we've got to get brandon to rig a camera onto it

21:55 you can get different attacks yeah and you know have you ever seen it

21:58 do the chicken head thing where it can move its body but the

22:02 the head stays in one position yeah so

22:05 we could do that with it's like basically a gimbal

22:08 that would be cool like we don't need to hi you know the video where we were

22:11 saying we're hiding in another shooter we're not we're just gonna wait it out

22:14 spot minnie we're just getting the spot mini to walk around

22:18 things awesome last 90 minutes it's all electric obviously it's wireless um you're

22:23 probably not going to buy one when they come out they're probably going gonna be stupid expensive probably gonna be tens

22:27 of thousands of dollars yeah um and not really for you yet although it

22:31 will be probably for governments and pmcs mostly it's gonna be a consumer

22:35 product eventually that's their hope a couple years after that so right now there are 10 spot mini prototypes in

22:40 existence i guess not counting the murdered ones

22:44 and they're hoping to make one like a total of 100 by the end of this year and

22:48 then sell them next year so they think it'll be useful for security patrols or

22:52 helping construction companies keep tabs on what's happening at the building site

22:56 so security overnight okay and security patrol pretty much and

23:01 you can get specialized attachments for different types of jobs yeah

23:05 i like the idea of it auto following someone with a camera

23:09 that's cool paramilitary company what would happen

23:13 if you put little roller skates on each foot private

23:19 just like just like how you troll the normal dog yeah yeah putting socks on it

23:24 i don't want this please stop

23:27 that's super cool though uh what else do you want to talk about

23:32 uh you wanna talk about this tickets thing yes this is kind of uh

23:36 a low-tech thing yeah but it's it's a problem that

23:40 plagues a lot of people that are probably watching right now here's the problem with tickets

23:46 the thing there's a big economic problem with uh with ticket sales free economics

23:50 the podcast did a sweet episode about this actually when you go to buy concert

23:54 tickets there the price of those concert tickets

23:57 actually isn't driven by normal capitalist market dynamics this is

24:01 supposed by wm groom ak on the forum

24:05 yeah who's a baller and i like him even more now that i know he's a ninja nails

24:08 fan like i am because anyone who likes science nails likes it a lot

24:13 anyway when you tickets are basically too cheap

24:16 because artists want all their fans to be able to come and see them if they

24:20 were priced accordingly like just by supply and demand they'd probably be a

24:24 lot more expensive and they are a lot more expensive when people are able to

24:28 scalp them which they're able easily able to do

24:31 with bots and so in order to reduce the number of bots scalping tickets uh the

24:36 band nine inch nails or trent resiner has made the decision on their upcoming

24:40 tour this fall to not sell any tickets online at all they're going old school

24:46 you have to go and line up and buy them and you can't even line up overnight or

24:49 anything like that you can't line up prior to 8 a.m you have to just like

24:53 show up and it's like a mob of people and then organize yourself in a line or

24:57 maybe even a lottery system they talked about some venues maybe the

25:00 employees just come out and go okay like you you you you're at the front and it's

25:05 just like random because just because they don't sell online

25:09 doesn't mean there won't be scalpers right yeah scalpers can just pay someone

25:12 20 bucks to stand there there is a limit of four tickets per

25:16 person hopefully that will reduce the scalping

25:20 okay i don't think that will completely solve it it won't but it'll it'll make it dent

25:25 yeah it's it's it's interesting this has been

25:28 really frustrating with like so my my dad and my group of friends have

25:32 been going to pax prime since i was like 14 or something or 15 i don't remember

25:37 we've been going for a very long time when we first started going you could

25:41 walk up and go to the desk and buy a ticket and

25:44 walk in because they're oh wow there wasn't enough fans and now for pax west

25:50 like pax prime as as i know it um they

25:54 sell out in seconds and like they do this crazy

25:58 queuing thing and there's limits per person and like they do ip lock and like

26:03 all this crazy stuff doesn't matter completely gone immediately and there's

26:06 an insane amount of scalping just outside of pax there's like many people

26:10 scalping stacks of tickets every single year and there's an insane amount of

26:14 scalping online there is a really nice community

26:18 online where there's a bunch of different communities that sell them at

26:21 cost okay because it's like oh i bought too many my friend can't go whatever

26:25 that kind of stuff i suspect those communities have a whole

26:28 bunch of people in them yeah just buying them and scalping them

26:31 yeah but but i do know a lot of people that have gotten tickets at cost that

26:36 needed them from those communities so it is working to a certain degree so that's

26:39 cool but like it really sucks when

26:43 me and my friends who have been going since pax was really small and like

26:48 barely a convention are now struggling to be able to go even

26:52 though we've been loyal this whole time it's just like ah man that kind of sucks

26:56 we still make it every year we somehow make it but it's just well you could

27:00 always pay a bunch more yeah yeah we i don't think we've had to do like oh we

27:06 have to buy like two single days or something like that we've never had to

27:09 buy like entire sets of tickets for every person

27:13 from scalpers we've never had to do that there are other approaches rather than

27:17 going full stone age that have been experimented with one of

27:20 them is basically kind of verified

27:24 you buy your ticket you pay for it but you don't really have it until you show

27:28 up with your identification with the credit card that bought the

27:31 tickets then you're let in and they print the tickets for you at that time

27:36 there's problems with that though because you cut you want there to be a secondary market you know you don't you

27:40 want to be able to buy them the week before because you just found out or

27:44 like you're visiting that city yeah um you want to be able to buy online like

27:48 oh nine channels fans are die hards people travel i one's not a concert by

27:53 the way i've seen them five times once at a concert i was

27:56 there and there was a lady who had followed

28:00 them across europe she'd seen them like 28 times she had a stack of picks four

28:04 tambourines she got an autograph from him and then got that autograph tattooed

28:08 on her body like she was insane people want to be able to see oh they're

28:12 not coming to vancouver but they're going to seattle i'm going gonna buy a ticket for seattle

28:16 yeah but i'm not gonna drive out there and get in an online

28:21 on the hopes that i can buy a ticket and then drive out there again for the show

28:25 yeah there's really no like great solution

28:29 um and it sucks

28:33 i love the quote here speaking of sucks um what does he say here

28:37 we decided to try something different that will also likely suck but in a

28:40 different way we're hoping many of you will be happy with results while some

28:44 may do what they always do and about it yeah like there's and there's no other

28:49 way to say it he's trying something it's probably not gonna completely it

28:53 definitely won't completely work uh i think i think for them they're just

28:57 gonna have to try to like weigh the noise it's trade-offs yeah and just like

29:00 see how much less or more negative their

29:03 new solution is it's not they're never gonna have like a perfect solution there

29:07 was one other solution that's been tried i believe by ticketmaster called

29:10 verified fan you ever heard of that no

29:13 it's i believe they take a certain number of tickets or maybe certain

29:16 sections and what you do is you have to register like ahead of time to kind of a

29:22 community forum that'll be on in this case ticketmaster's website where you

29:26 have to do all these different things that signal that you're a true fan

29:29 you've got to engage with so many posts you've got to like

29:34 i think that's basically it like you're on it's like a process okay to to verify

29:39 yourself it's not just i log in see that

29:42 that almost makes me kind of happy and like something that i've wanted from pax

29:45 for a long time is like okay so i've bought tickets to pax west for like 12

29:50 years it would be nice if you knew that

29:55 yeah but so let me buy another one they have to know they scanned you in yeah or yeah but

30:00 then like maybe i have like a profile and yeah scalpers

30:05 could still do this but i was gonna say like i sign in at the event and i'm

30:09 showing you like yeah i'm showing up every day this is me you can check me

30:12 every time if you want like make make some process that you can go through

30:17 that gives you some form of elevated account well even what you just described would introduce

30:21 quite a bit of friction to scalpers because if you're scalping 10 tickets

30:24 and then all those people arrive at like the same time and you can't wait in line

30:28 10 different times you might it would be harder though whatever

30:32 introduces more friction and even the waiting in line 10 different times thing

30:35 though like if you have to verify it by id and stuff

30:39 they wouldn't be able to they'd only be able to scalp one set of tickets

30:43 i actually got screwed by that ones i bought we spent life over no i think

30:48 it was fine 560 bucks for red hot chili peppers tickets

30:53 for four of them and i bought them on craigslist and they were printed out and

30:56 they were black and white and the guy was super sketch

31:00 and we didn't feel good about it so my buddy was also texting the same

31:04 person and after i bought them he continued to text them hey they're still

31:08 available yeah they sure are met up with them again and busted them

31:13 didn't end up we we got like some collateral from the guy but he ended up

31:17 just foregoing it like we got his phone and stuff but he is because we're like

31:22 we got your phone now you have to like give us a refund and he's like okay

31:26 i'll go get money out i'll come back like tomorrow kind of thing and he never

31:29 did and the cops didn't care at all so we just had his crappy phone after

31:33 and like and his debit card or something like that you took his phone from him

31:37 okay i wasn't there i was i happened to be traveling i was but my friends who

31:41 also were part of this and who are also larger than i am

31:44 they confronted him and like had a stakeout and stuff it was cool but um

31:49 in the end basically the deal is they could have sold these tickets a dozen

31:53 times and actually ours could have worked

31:57 if we were the first ones who showed up yeah whoever gets there first and gets

32:00 this ticket scanned the rest are inactive after that

32:04 so that was a drag what a guy it's just so

32:09 junk i i don't like it when people when people prey on like the average person

32:14 in general but it sucks too when someone's like so excited for something

32:18 and they're gonna like they're gonna fork out the money for this band they really want to go see and they're like

32:21 yes i finally get to see them in concert and then they get like

32:24 screwed at the door and so bad that the person scanning their ticket is probably

32:28 like you're a terrible person you know what i mean and then you finally get in there you're

32:32 like okay that all sucked but we're here and then

32:35 the whole show is just actually someone else doing this in front of you yeah

32:40 holy kill yourselves

32:44 i don't want to be ageless but young people are getting pretty bad at that

32:48 i've seen people i've watched people just like

32:52 just continually hold the button down and contribute each one to their story

32:56 and then watch it themselves and then okay here's the people if you're the

33:00 type of person that likes to take cell phone recordings for your instagram or

33:04 snapchat or just for video at a concert

33:07 know this every other person in the world when

33:10 they log into their snapchat or instagram and they're watching a story and that

33:15 story is a dark room with crackling music

33:18 they skip it man nobody watches it nobody you're ruining the experience for

33:23 everybody for nothing including you you scheduled enough too almost certainly

33:28 there was there was there was one time i went to a blink 182 concert i've been a

33:32 i was a ridiculous fan of blick 22 for a really long time nice um not their new

33:36 stuff take off your pants and jacket change your life yeah for sure and

33:39 animal of the state and like uh what was the album before that

33:44 they had one before that they had two before that so you like i thought and um

33:48 their first one no that was their first one where they were like a big deal oh

33:53 yeah they also had a different drummer well that makes sense because he

33:57 really catapulted them yeah travis is kind of

34:01 incredible let's go to the discography

34:09 yeah those those were great like oh yeah there's the album cover with the big the

34:14 aux's butt yeah the rump yeah i like the

34:17 old punk stuff whatever i finally got to go see them in concert was so freaking

34:21 stoked travis gets like pulled up into

34:24 the air his drum platform gets elevated on these like like big chords and then

34:29 they make it vertical they did yeah okay and he's like strapped into the thing he's fr it was the one of the coolest

34:34 things i've like ever seen and i did like pull my phone out but i recorded

34:38 like low the worst video that's ever existed just

34:42 because i was like i know it's going to suck but i want to just like be able to remember it

34:45 and that's yeah so i don't think i sent it to two questions did you say did you

34:49 watch that video again i did actually again and i deleted it immediately uh

34:53 because it was completely useless do you think recording it hampered your experience no

34:58 okay because again i didn't i didn't put it for my face

35:02 i didn't put it in front of anyone's face man i went to the like pulled it

35:05 out between a song okay and like it was it was yeah i

35:09 didn't there's a way to do it and i think everyone gets one the first one's

35:12 free i went to this folklore ballet in mexico

35:17 city once and this someone phone recorded that no i wish they had

35:22 ipad

35:25 i wish okay if i was a dictator if you live in one of those dictator countries

35:32 one upside is you can make sweet or whatever silly law you want and if i was

35:36 a dictator my silly law would be if you see someone taking a photograph or a

35:40 video with an ipad in public you are completely allowed and culturally

35:44 sanctioned to walk by and slap that thing down to the ground and they

35:48 can't get mad they can they can look you ah

35:53 caught me slipping i hate it bench okay this lady recorded the entire i mean

35:58 entire i mean entire like an hour and a half someone stopped her

36:03 because wouldn't that even hurt you like not even alive i would have i was seething but there was a language

36:07 barrier my spanish isn't that good okay i didn't even mean you i meant like

36:10 someone who was running i don't know we were at the kind of the top

36:14 okay there was no i talked to her after the show though i

36:18 embarrassed my wife i went up to the lady she turns out she spoke english

36:23 she wasn't mexican actually and i i said i just wanted you to know

36:28 that you ruined the entire show for me you ruined it

36:32 and she was like what

36:36 what i was on crutches and stuff so when i

36:39 first i got stabbed a few days before i i i i

36:44 crushed up to her and so she was and i was like excuse me and so she was just

36:48 like how can i help you like hello who are you

36:51 like i hate you where did you get stabbed in an uber in

36:56 mexico city oh yeah by the driver

37:01 no he drove me to hospital oh no like we were uh

37:05 we were stuck in traffic it was broad daylight near a tourist area sorry just

37:09 you can't just like drop that and yeah it was a minor stabbing we are stuck in

37:14 traffic right when you're in gridlock you can't move and the mistake we made

37:18 was that our Windows were down so they see a bunch of tourists Windows are down

37:22 i'm sitting in the back and suddenly this there's a guy talking the driver at his

37:26 window so being in south america i assume okay this guy's telling us

37:30 something and then i see that they're like arguing and like he's got a knife and i'm like

37:35 oh the driver is getting robbed and then i'm like oh we're getting robbed and by that time

37:41 his partner there was two of them had come to the other side

37:45 and but everyone had their Windows down to different degree mine was like all

37:48 the way down my buddy and i was behind the driver my buddy in the passenger

37:52 seat his window was like this much down and my wife's window was

37:57 completely up and she was behind the driver

38:00 excuse me that was something to do with the power was it not

38:07 okay anyway so my my friend at the front seat

38:11 uh one of the assailants put his hand in that window gap and was like groping at

38:16 his pockets to try to get his phone and meanwhile the guy on the driver's

38:21 side came to them stopped at a light yeah we're stopping gridlock traffic

38:25 traffic and the other guy came to the back and was like yelling at me and my thought was

38:30 like why don't we just get out of the car and run away like they're not gonna chase us there's like a crowd of people

38:35 everywhere like let's just exit the vehicle while they're like trying like

38:38 yelling at us so i moved over toward my wife um

38:42 but couldn't open the door because it's like locked because the car is moving

38:46 and basically i didn't i was probably this

38:49 far from him from like the window like i'm in the middle seat and i couldn't

38:54 understand what he was saying but i now know it was like give me the stuff where

38:58 i'm going to stab you what he did was he reached he didn't

39:02 want to hurt me and by the way this guy was like 19 tops he reached in and like

39:05 started stabbing at my legs and he got me just above the knee and it went in

39:10 like a half inch like nothing and uh it didn't hurt it it kind of

39:15 feels like it sounds if that makes sense kind of just like

39:19 that

39:22 okay and i was just like oh god damn it so then i grabbed a backpack that we had

39:27 and i threw the backpack at him and that backpack did contain a dlslr

39:31 camera the one only piece of cashmere i owned

39:35 and don't own since like a sweater like a two pairs of sunglasses we got like a

39:39 decent haul and by the way insurance never ended up claiming it because it

39:42 was one of those situations where your insurance would go up and it wasn't worth it so we got that but he didn't

39:48 get our passports oh i had just engaged or just become

39:51 engaged i proposed my wife like the week before and the photos like i took a photo of

39:56 her right after i took it after i proposed to her and she was like

40:00 teary-eyed and had the ring so those kind of sacred photos were gone which

40:04 was probably the biggest drag but we still had our passports

40:07 and i just got my wife to give me her sweater and like tied her on the leg and then we took it took us like 45 minutes

40:12 to get to the hospital because you're in gridlock oh it was so chaotic man it was

40:16 like traffic we had a police escort but they were still inept we went to the

40:20 first hospital and decided that wasn't a good one

40:23 like we were outside the hospital like are they gonna come and like

40:26 bring out something and then like 20 minutes later like we're just gonna go to another one like

40:30 okay we got to drive down the wrong side of

40:34 the road with like police sirens blaring and stuff and this uber is just like woo

40:39 it was insane yeah it was pretty cool my cousin uh speaking of i've never been

40:42 stabbed but my cousin when he was in high school there was another

40:47 kid at the high school i guess who his gang initiation was to stab someone god

40:52 so he just like walked up to my cousin after school and stabbed him my cousin

40:55 pulled the knife out and stabbed him back hell yeah which is like not really

40:59 smart what is that like wounds and stuff that's badass but it was uh yeah my

41:03 cousins are insane he's got that fight response that's sweet killer instinct

41:06 good for him i got the the fright response the flight response

41:12 god damn it just take the badge well i couldn't have ran if i wanted i

41:16 don't know i did one yeah it felt it felt like you had the like disappointed

41:20 and disappointed response i guess like why

41:24 is this what's happening just i think the stupid thing i appreciate that he

41:28 stabbed my legs instead of like your chest it was so

41:31 yeah he could have just been like i don't value human life like there's

41:35 your neck or like yeah he i mean he could have slipped and got my femoral

41:38 artery but um the damage that was incurred was worth

41:43 it for the story right like right now i've been you have a scar yeah cool i'd

41:48 show you but i have to take my pants off and the camera won't even see it so yeah

41:51 it's not worth it yeah twitch is gonna be like get off the platform it's just

41:56 it's too much stuff okay so the show's almost over oh yeah sponsors we should

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43:11 of their products trying to see how many i can hold at once as you can as you can

43:14 see they have a lot of products they have yeah a lot of them

43:18 there some that are great for your mouth some that are bad for your butt

43:22 just the reaper one that one have you had that one yeah yeah i did it

43:26 on the lan show slowly disarm you here it was uh i tried to play it cool like

43:31 it wasn't that spicy but it was spicy it was

43:35 spicy enough you'll remember yeah yeah do you have are these from no they're

43:39 not there you go no these are laser james glasses these are not spectrum

43:43 glasses and if you don't want to like uh

43:46 look like laser james over there and you want to reduce

43:50 uh blue light from monitors to like help

43:53 you fall asleep at night and all my alter ego

43:56 reading james reading reading chants you can get spectrum glasses you can go

44:01 to the website right here save 10 by using code Linus

44:05 they say and this is totally a thing that staring at monitor all day can be

44:08 hard on your eyes and also make it tougher to fall asleep the fall asleep thing is is important to me uh using

44:14 software solutions like f.lux or twilight won't give you the same type of

44:18 filtering that these kind of things can which is pretty cool uh they're stylish

44:24 i don't know i think yours look pretty good uh i'm very hit or miss with glasses i

44:28 don't think these look great on me but i those ones look great on Colton yeah i

44:32 have had spectrum glasses that have looked good on me too um and i think

44:36 those look good on you um i was wearing these for a while before i got like

44:42 prescription glasses were those the specific ones these are the ones i was wearing at my desk for a while and

44:46 sometimes i wore them just to look cool yeah they're pretty sweet is it working

44:50 i think so uh they have low color distortion yeah that's totally thing

44:54 there's there's a few of these that will like really hardcore make it look like

44:58 everything's yellow yeah these don't and there's there's you can tell

45:02 anything technically yeah there is technically some but it's not very

45:06 noticeable like white stuff still looks white there are there are some

45:09 competitor glasses that i've worn that do make things look yellow and these are

45:12 super light which i like because you can just

45:15 you know yeah whatever you want they are

45:18 primarily focused around canadian u.s markets in terms of like shipping and

45:22 all that kind of stuff but they are expanding it to europe and they do offer

45:26 international shipping they're expanding into europe now yeah i didn't know that

45:30 yeah you know i went to school with the founder oh he's a nice guy his name's

45:34 also james oh he's a nice guy buy his glasses cool i didn't know that

45:39 um and if if you're thinking about expanding into europe

45:42 uh maybe think about freshbooks

45:46 that might simplify your accounting and free up enough

45:51 uh of your finances to help you do that little push you need i don't know what

45:56 market you might be in that that would be applicable to but it might make sense

46:00 hell of a segue yeah it was it was fantastic uh if you do i know one thing

46:05 that's really applicable to our audience is people who might be doing like little

46:08 tech things on the side like i know

46:12 a lot like Linus and i and most people that i know that are really into

46:15 computers at one point in time really early on in their life they were like

46:19 the person that all their friends knew that fixed and built and repaired and

46:23 maintained all the computers around and you can turn that into a

46:27 business um i did it for a few little shops there for a while and whatnot i

46:32 even had like an official company name and all that kind of stuff and if you

46:36 really don't want to like manage invoices manage expenses make sure

46:39 people are paying you if you have uh like if you're not doing like

46:43 cash deal under the table every single time if you want to be a little bit more legit you want to allow people to take

46:47 time to pay for stuff you can do that with freshbooks which is

46:51 great you can create invoices super fast you can check if people have seen them you

46:55 can manage all your expenses which for me is a big deal because i hate doing

47:00 little micro paperwork things it's one of my like biggest pet peeves oh yeah it

47:04 just feels like a waste of time all the time and then i'll put it off for way too long so yeah it's helpful freshbooks

47:10 super cool check fast right here and uh

47:13 yeah put when and how do you hear about a section and use offer code when and go

47:17 to freshbooks.com1 and everything will everything we're

47:21 working on getting the slash naw implemented but it's not there yet so

47:25 for now it's not taking some time yeah you know yeah

47:29 okay alliance doesn't comment i was gonna say i don't intend to make it yeah

47:32 he's not coming let's do it so we'll put him in the thumbnail though still

47:36 you know get more views that way i wanted to do when we both did we both

47:40 did this like weird ARM thing at one point in time and i was going to use that oh when we were talking about boss

47:44 dynamics maybe that was it yeah i don't remember um i just remember being like i have to

47:48 mentally log that i was like somewhere around three quarters through the show

47:51 uh where is it so nintendo shares new

47:55 details about its nintendo switch online service which is going to launch this

47:59 september so cool it's kind of good it's kind of

48:04 bad um the the reason why i'm going to say it's

48:08 kind of bad is because as you may or may not know

48:12 the online right now is at no cost

48:17 and this will make it so the online is at a cost and what might that cost be we

48:22 have it written down here we do uh a year for 25 bucks

48:27 24.99 so just just about two bucks a month

48:33 for an individual okay that's canadian pricing uh yes u.s pricing is 20 bucks

48:39 so u.s pricing for one year is 20 bucks u.s pricing for three months is eight

48:43 bucks and us pricing for one month is four bucks but canadian it is 25 10 and

48:49 5 respectively there's also family membership pricing so that covers eight

48:54 people and they can even be on different nintendo systems and that in canadian is

48:59 45 bucks a year and in america so if there's a way to use

49:04 that with just you and seven friends that you're not actually related to you

49:08 might be able to that'll be sweet it'd be really cheap people do that all the time with spotify and

49:12 and snazz right yes all that kind of stuff i am totally not on Linus's family plan

49:19 for something similar to that um

49:23 what can it do well it gives you a few things uh it includes some nest games

49:28 like ice climber legend of zelda balloon fight soccer tennis mario i love when

49:32 games used to be able to be just called soccer or tennis yes

49:36 mario bros super mario bros dr mario super mario bros 3

49:40 and donkey kong and 10 more will also launch with the service will be allowed

49:44 announced at a later date so that is completely novel that's totally new for

49:48 those games there's never been before i've been online play with those games is that correct

49:52 that's what i understood uh

49:57 any that well uh okay so with emulators

50:00 you could well yeah well you could co-op what can you

50:04 do with an m yeah but so any that originally supported multiplayer will

50:08 still support multiplayer and will support online multiplayer which is cool

50:12 because it'll be like a really easy way to do so doing online co-op with

50:16 emulators has always been a little jank but doable um

50:21 i don't think it's very known if you cancel your subscription if you'll still

50:24 have access to those games but i doubt it uh back to the multiplayer thing that's

50:29 definitely new it's what i've got written here is depending on the game players can engage in online competitive

50:33 co-op or multiplayer or this is probably new for all of them take turns

50:38 controlling the action yes so this was uh this was something

50:42 that i i noticed as well which is really cool where i think they call it like

50:46 past the controller yeah it says friends can even watch each

50:49 other play single player games and pass the controller at any time so you can

50:53 watch your friend play a game through the switch that's that's a cool

50:58 idea because i think with twitch we've we've like sort of lost something

51:03 which is like i was playing a game with a friend the other day and we both

51:06 stream on twitch but we didn't want to stream at that point in time and i commented where like

51:11 i i wish i could see your screen right now because like i was i was dead in a match

51:16 and there's no spectate yeah yeah so i was like i wish you were like streaming

51:20 but i guess just to me what if and that's like not super a thing do you

51:24 think when once you pass the controller you still have control of where the

51:28 controller goes or do you think if i pass your stuff i pass it to you yeah i

51:32 want to be able to yank it because imagine how fun that would be if you're watching ninja or you're watching your

51:36 favorite streamer and they're like hey i'm going to the bathroom and then they just pass their controller to some

51:40 random person in the stream and buddy's just like oh

51:44 no two million people get to watch them play fortnite

51:47 fortnite but a switch game yeah yeah that would be pretty sweet that'd be really sick actually i don't think it'll

51:52 work in that way uh but if i remember correctly mixer does that microsoft

51:57 streaming service you can do stuff like that but i could be super

52:01 extremely off base there i i've i know there's some form of thing that can work

52:05 that way but it might have been a specific game that someone happened to

52:08 be playing on mixer it could be completely unrelated i don't know uh but

52:12 i think that idea is super cool i like the idea of sharing the controller too

52:15 so like if you're like uh dude look i'm so stuck on this freaking boss oh yeah

52:19 and then you like play the boss for a while and he's like yo give me a shot

52:22 you just like pass the controller over and he gets what about a new form of smurfing

52:26 you're like yeah man 1v1 me and then there's like someone spectating you're

52:30 like send it across there it is are we live there's the

52:35 thumbnail uh that's the end of the show we're

52:39 gonna stop now you're behind the mic oh

52:42 it's technically not if you don't want it to be we went live a little late

52:46 oh okay can i come in and do a topic yeah sure all right i'll go home

52:50 you can't take these though thank you for keeping my seat warm

52:55 oh it's more oh that is a warm season you could say it's a warm ass seat oh my

53:01 because it's an assy so do i get one of these shirts

53:05 yeah you can have one if you want nice i'm actually pretty excited i designed it myself yeah i saw that

53:10 the writing is like precisely messy it's like perfectly messy thank you i like it

53:15 thank you i like the show too i wanted to say when i first saw this in person

53:19 riley even asked me about it he's like so what do you think of the set i was like ah

53:22 but it looks really good on camera cool good did oh did riley jump on the show

53:26 at all at one point oh oh i kind of thought he was gonna to uh to come in

53:30 and sort of talk about working here and stuff he may have been he can take me

53:33 out if he wants uh that he can't because he carpools with james okay

53:38 oh okay james is his ride well then okay bye james and riley but

53:44 uh do we have do we have any cool topics to talk about uh we tried to leave some

53:48 for you and then you didn't show up i was i was busy i was busy running a

53:52 laptop at five gigahertz oh

53:56 okay is it ridiculous or is it reasonable oh it's not reasonable okay

54:02 do you want any spoilers is it the too big

54:06 uh it is it involves server fans

54:13 oh no i will okay you got to do a follow-up video where you go and use it in public

54:20 and just see how people react it involves an external variable voltage

54:24 power supply that's about this big totally you should still do it it's

54:28 louder than a hair dryer totally i would like

54:32 i would love to i would i would watch that video oh man you gotta name it

54:36 uh and then like bring the it back by like using the

54:40 blood in public it's terrible um anyways

54:44 we haven't talked about have we talked about renting out your graphics card for

54:47 mining we left that let's do that okay so the original article here is from

54:50 tech radar and it was posted by apparently no one on the forum james

54:54 was apparently on it morgan mlg man uh a

54:57 german company has announced games from space which borrows your GPU for

55:03 cryptocurrency mining purposes and then gives you free pc games in return

55:09 so you pick any game you want watch a progress bar slowly tick up as your GPU

55:13 is used for the company's mining efforts

55:16 the faster your graphics card the quicker the process towards getting a

55:19 new game so um here's a really important thing to

55:23 point out games that you pay for on your

55:27 electricity bill are not free

55:30 yeah but i think a lot of kids are gonna think they are

55:35 this is totally gonna be kids using their computers to screw over their

55:38 parents yeah or people in dorms or

55:41 whatever else so it's i will give games from space

55:46 credit for being devious enough to figure out one of the

55:51 biggest challenges of cryptocurrency mining and that is power

55:56 and actually cooling as well so by distributing the computing around the

56:01 globe it's effectively kind of not their problem and everyone who's running on

56:06 their network of computers is going to be contributing such a small amount to

56:10 it that it's it's not really going to be like it's not going to be noticeable

56:16 um yeah some of the games are actually newer big name affairs like pub g or

56:20 grand theft auto 5. so with a gtx 1070 either of those would

56:25 take you about a month of mining you can get dirt three in a day

56:29 apparently now obviously you won't be able to mine

56:34 while you are actually playing games and from my experience with software like um

56:39 uh nicehash

56:43 it might not necessarily cooperate that well

56:46 when you launch applications that want the GPU back like i've that was actually

56:51 why i stopped running folding on my gaming system

56:54 because i was running into weird issues even if folding at home was

56:59 technically giving the GPU back yeah yeah i was still not not running

57:03 correctly so i would i would watch out for had the same problems at our house i

57:07 would watch out for pretty much everything about this

57:12 what else we got yeah um so there's

57:16 there was a few topics where are we the the that

57:20 qualcomm is finally making a smartwatch

57:24 chip so this was originally posted by edward the weeb on the forum hey

57:29 james didn't tell you you're not getting a ride and that you can't come and say

57:33 hi uh okay well let's just burn through

57:36 this really quickly and then you guys can ask riley some questions in twitch chat

57:40 does that sound pretty good yeah okay so qualcomm is making a smartwatch chip ai

57:45 wear os watches that come out today have little option but to use qualcomm

57:48 snapdragon where 2100 from february 2016. some have argued this is holding

57:52 the entire where os platform back it is pretty slow qualcomm has announced a

57:56 watch focused silicon this fall alongside a flagship device with several

58:00 partners set to release wear os watches based on the new chips by the holidays

58:03 the three generation processors will be designed from the ground up for a no

58:06 compromises smart watch experience

58:10 uh so better battery life smaller watches apparently designing the chips

58:13 work more effectively with always on displays and a smart watch is first and foremost a watch it needs to look good

58:17 it needs to be sleek it needs to look good when i'm looking at it these are all just

58:21 looking good this is a quote nothing to do why would you say that yeah that's

58:24 nothing to do with the chip all right thank you very much oh also rumor google

58:28 preparing pixel smartwatch probably related to that last one

58:31 really fast Linus you are okay i'm sorry are you are you okay

58:36 nine inch nails to fight ticket bots by not selling tickets online

58:41 yeah we we already covered them oh all right i covered that one because uh

58:44 james thought you wouldn't want to talk about it so this guy works here now i

58:48 didn't want to i didn't want to make you stop doing the actual news part well no

58:52 that's okay we have a new news show because it's true no but a lot of people

58:56 are concerned they're like don't stop doing the WAN Show it's not going to stop someone just complaining about

59:00 central park but he he misspelled the misspelling

59:06 he did central prac

59:10 it's a it's a meme for the people you can you can make it your own

59:14 i want to put an r in there at the beginning that's fine

59:18 central repack

59:23 it's riley yeah um this is a i'm i'm having a hard

59:28 time with this mic in the middle yeah you know what why don't you no no no no no no no please no i'm gonna sit i'm

59:32 gonna sit there i'll sit here yeah i'll say i'll take

59:36 i'll take a back seat i'm just a boy

59:39 this is a small town boy the last time i was on this show i was a guest someone

59:44 says are you only hosting shows are you doing other things at LMG as well

59:48 well i'm writing

59:52 what's this what are you looking at uh the audience oh the set they're on the

59:55 camera over there you gestured over here yeah oh i thought

59:58 you were just doing that later yeah i mean i built yeah i guess well i didn't build the set i mean i sort of did a

60:04 bunch of people built it i've been working on this set for the past like

60:07 months i've been trying to give you some credit man can i say that yeah i've been here

60:12 for like a month and i've just been building the set and uh doing a bunch of

60:16 stuff with Yvonne and and uh edsel

60:19 yeah it was it was hard work guys but i'm here

60:26 uh everett asks were you okay when ncix went bankrupt was i okay

60:31 yeah actually weren't you gone already yeah i was down

60:35 by the time they had gone bankrupt i had left and started with uh secret

60:40 informant sorry no no that's fine i don't care you can talk about secret performance yeah um so i went to do that

60:45 and then i was doing that for a while and then um

60:48 we started talking yes we did someone said his language was

60:52 born he's asking someone's asking of lions he's asking you specifically if

60:56 Linus is terrible boss why well you know i've only been here for a man i

61:01 can't tell yet

61:05 if i no matter how i answer that question i feel like it's going to seem insincere lions is a great boss

61:10 no lions is a terrible boss yeah they both sound like lies

61:19 is the show still a work in progress kinda seems cobbled together

61:23 it's it's it's definitely a work in progress still we're still like uh

61:27 tweaking stuff you said that on social media the other day so like if you guys

61:30 have suggestions um for how to change it definitely let

61:34 us know we will read them and we will take them into account

61:39 yeah it has its own twitter handle um what is it at techlinked yt

61:44 or uh i think it's that technical i think it's that time i just the ed technique

61:48 mazzio says please sell a t-shirt with that exact design

61:52 yeah we're doing it i think that's the plan right it's actually an already right now

61:56 yeah yeah yeah it was up really fast yeah you got to go to the LTT merch

61:59 store because TechLinked is still two-bit mode to have its own merch store

62:04 so it's no longer like uh Linus and i make

62:07 a meme on when and then four months later uh we have a shirt yeah like fast

62:11 now memes turn into t-shirts immediately yeah yeah we actually have a dedicated

62:15 graphic designer so uh there's there's been honestly there's been so many

62:19 moving parts getting this show started getting him in here getting all the

62:23 design work done getting the set built all the negotiations i really wish i

62:26 could tell you know most of the story behind the the uh ncix tech tips

62:31 acquisition effort right yes okay that is strongly under the nda

62:36 just so you know but it's too long of a story to tell anyways 10 out of 10 how

62:41 or like out of 10 how crazy is it i mean

62:45 it's insane i had no

62:48 when we were when we filmed the uh when we filmed the announcement video

62:53 when we filmed the announcement video yeah i wrote the skit and then i wrote

62:57 the out the the end part and i'm like okay Linus fill in the ncix story and i

63:02 thought it was gonna be like a couple paragraphs or something it's like an essay it was like four

63:06 pages long or something i was like what you can't do and then

63:10 he's like no we're doing the whole thing stinky pete said great to see you are

63:13 you continuing the ncx persona i.e quick bits or are you trying to differentiate

63:17 the show from the past i mean central park survived

63:22 so did quick bits well i didn't know what else to call it

63:27 what should i call quick bits if not quick bits

63:30 rapid small portions

63:34 rapid fire small porsche news stories bits

63:38 no i don't know if you guys i mean we uh there are some other names

63:42 already but it's supposed to be a spiritual successor so like

63:46 we had i saw some people leaving comments like wow you guys really

63:50 captured the essence of netland and i'm kind of sitting there going well oh crap

63:55 we've got the same host and writing staff we've got the same

63:59 um other host and sort of troll

64:03 and you know really captured the essence how did you do that how did you make sure it

64:07 was so true to the original of all the original people basically the

64:11 original yeah yeah i don't know

64:16 uh what does central park mean

64:21 you don't want it damn questions

64:24 i do want to answer it i just feel like

64:27 it's just kind of a long story so it's kind of a lengthy it's an inside joke

64:31 originally on flight of the concords that me and my friend uh said all the

64:35 time and then i started saying it on netling daily and

64:38 uh comment every video from there on yeah it's not actually a very long story

64:42 i know i did well i was just like can i do it can i i guess i did apparently uh

64:47 quick bits through and through someone said you will do uh you said you will do

64:51 not only tech but until now it's only been tech what's going on

64:55 i will not do only tech where because it said stem news i remember

64:59 that from the video oh yeah so that's more of a bet hedging

65:04 yeah strategy you know like if if there if some kind of like biomedical thing

65:09 comes out we don't want to end up in a stupid

65:12 argument with people in the comments that that's not tech

65:16 because when you come when it comes down to it everything is tech the wheel is

65:19 tech

65:29 so that was actually a change that i made to the script where i kind of went

65:33 look let's not paint ourselves into a box it's about stem that way it can be about

65:38 basically anything anything if someone finds a new prime number we can talk

65:42 about it games doesn't really fit in there though oh

65:45 what if we say it's stems stem and gaming stigma this news stems

65:50 from

65:53 geez

66:00 moving on immediately what do you hope to learn or improve

66:05 working with Linus speaking of uh yeah uh well

66:09 i've already learned to kind of like fly by the seat of my pants

66:13 as in like do it now do something get it done

66:17 you know yeah you came in on your first day didn't have an email address

66:21 didn't have like uh any passwords for anything didn't actually have an

66:24 assignment because basically we had put we put the whole thing off for so long

66:29 like we were riley's start date was supposed to be like many weeks ago i

66:33 think i think i was looking at the emails and they started like

66:36 february or march yeah yeah and so what happened was we kept thinking we were

66:42 gonna get the channel and then we were like okay here's your

66:45 start date and then we were like oh we weren't going to get it but we were just

66:48 going to start our own channel and you were like just stay tuned i've

66:52 got i'll get you an update and i'm just like okay cool and you're like okay yeah

66:55 now this happened i'm just like okay yeah you're right um

66:58 the amount of people that got uh chat banned immediately after you

67:02 made that joke was insane there's like a whole block oh no it's above this but

67:06 just like oh yeah um uh

67:09 uh um uh uh anyway

67:12 so uh so there was a whole thing where we were just like okay screw it

67:17 we've got some pre-show preparation to do like a set and you know figuring out

67:22 branding and all this stuff uh riley can help with that let's just get him in

67:26 here and and honestly it was a it was a

67:29 good move it was actually nick's idea because it really put the pressure on me

67:33 to start making videos with this person

67:36 that i'm paying at the time we hired a writer and host to build a

67:42 set maybe not not the best decision

67:46 i did learn a lot of my management strategies from ncix

67:52 so i came in here and it was like coming home um people are asking will you do

67:58 lan show too well well i do want show too i mean uh i

68:03 guess i mean that's up to you guys i don't know we actually haven't really

68:06 decided um how we're gonna best utilize riley i think i'm screwing it up right

68:11 now so if you're taking that as an example yeah i mean

68:14 we we brought him in as someone who's multi-talented like someone something

68:18 that some people wouldn't know is he was basically running the entire ncix

68:23 channel by himself by the end of it and like

68:27 arguably it wasn't its finest you know moment

68:30 but rude he was literally by himself writing

68:35 filming editing posting

68:38 actually actually posting it to youtube

68:41 answering comments about uh yo guys what's going on with my order what is

68:46 that whole place imploding what's going on um in the comments like

68:51 so so we brought riley in knowing that we wanted to bring back

68:55 a spiritual successor to netlink knowing that the best way to do that

68:59 would be to like bring back the the sort of tag team

69:04 that i think um nothing against anyone

69:07 else who ever worked on netlink but the tag team that i think

69:11 refined the netlinked format made it what it was and was kind of the golden

69:16 age of netlink in terms of audience reception in terms of viewership yeah um

69:22 well originally because net linked was net linked weekly that you did on the

69:26 ncx channel but it was like a longer show and it wasn't really

69:30 i guess you guys edited it a bit but like it was that was before i came lunch

69:35 yeah and then when we came on we wanted or like okay we're gonna make it a daily

69:38 show and then like and then you guys took it totally cereal and then i came

69:42 in when i was like a contractor and i didn't really care anymore

69:46 that was that whole casual feel of net

69:50 linked was not manufactured it was because i actually didn't give any cares

69:55 i would roll in on a friday that's that's definitely the feeling i get like

69:59 30. we would bang out all the videos that

70:03 had to be done for that week yeah like four at one time and then i'd be like yeah it's two o'clock boom see ya you're

70:09 out of there um and i'd come back here and host WAN Show often late yeah um

70:14 yeah and then we're we're kind of like hey Linus uh so we wrote this funny bit

70:18 uh could you put the head on and like do the voice for the thing and he's like no

70:22 i'm doing this boom okay guys

70:26 and i'd like get stuck but that's not that's okay i'd get stuff wrong right

70:32 like i'd read the script wrong but i would just like keep going through it because i was in a hurry yeah um and

70:37 that was where that kind of stuff and people liked it mm-hmm so

70:41 so we ended up yelling at people from off screen and stuff yeah that was all

70:45 that was actually the only feedback that i gave them on their writing

70:49 was during the show during the show telling them stuff that was a stupid bit

70:53 don't do it okay what's the next one

70:57 so so so the goal was to to to that

71:01 seemed like the best way to i don't forget where i was going with this but it seemed like the best way to

71:05 to to make this happen was to bring back sort of what i see as sort of the heart

71:09 and soul of it and then just inject it into something new and i forget what the

71:13 point of getting there was i'm gonna take a few different questions and lump them into one yeah how do you guys

71:17 expect the channel to perform some people are asking comparatively to

71:20 techwiki but i don't really think that's super relevant um

71:24 but like the like how do you expect the growth of the channel to go

71:28 i feel like i'm a bad person to answer that question you guys know so much

71:31 about okay i think this is general to so my expectation for the channel was um or

71:38 not my expectation my goal was as sort of a a salty

71:43 well sort of um

71:47 thing my goal was for techlink to basically

71:51 immediately have as good or better viewership than

71:56 the latter episodes of TechLinked on the nci xcom channel

72:00 anything beyond that i consider to be a smashing success and as for the sales

72:05 team anything above a hundred thousand views

72:09 a video should be quite easy for them to bring in sponsors for

72:13 if they can bring in sponsors on a consistent basis we will we will

72:17 comfortably cover um riley's

72:21 uh ex bradley's cost and the extra editing horses that we need and my lunch

72:27 um um we don't do free lunch here but good

72:30 try so as long as we can bring sponsors and

72:34 we will comfortably cover our overhead is basically where i was going with that

72:38 even even like the square footage the equipment like all those things that you

72:41 have to factor into the cost of the show and i mean if if your standard was that

72:45 they outperform like the later episodes of netlinked it's already done that so

72:51 yeah i think there's a bit of a honeymoon period going on right now though well but it could continue

72:55 forever perfectly it could continue forever perfectly i

72:59 mean honestly i think we're going to get there i think i think that

73:03 not i think we've actually gotten a lot of feedback already from community

73:06 members saying there really was a gap there

73:10 net linked had a purpose this this source fed style

73:15 technologies thing and i was kind of surprised when we stopped and people

73:18 were like there's no other like really quick like

73:23 tech news shows about like you know centering on like pc stuff and there

73:26 isn't and a lot of people are trying to hit the 10 minute minimum and all this kind of stuff yeah but we're not

73:31 interested in that we've never cared about the 10 minute minimum a lot of

73:34 people we've released videos that are 10 minutes and one second or whatever and a

73:38 lot of people are like aha in the comments gotcha and i'm kind of

73:43 sitting there going are you you don't understand how this works the 10 minute

73:47 mark is only important if you run a mid-roll adsense spot

73:51 and we don't and we don't so it doesn't matter oh your ride is

73:54 leaving okay leave you can go um thank you for joining us thanks for having me

73:59 yeah this is cool it's been fun um right i remember where i was going

74:04 with that he's very multi-talented so we brought him in knowing that he was

74:08 multi-talented thinking that we would just find

74:12 uh we'd find like a natural on camera i know everything that you need to do on

74:16 like a set thank you thank you

74:19 um so right now his time is not completely

74:23 occupied just by writing TechLinked and hosting it and

74:27 in some cases he won't even be hosting it it's only a three times a week show

74:31 and i'll probably be hosting somewhere between a third and half of them riley

74:35 will be doing between a third and half of them and we might have other people

74:38 jump in james has expressed interest Colton has expressed interest and we'd

74:42 like to have it actually be quite quite diverse um maybe even luke would come

74:47 back and host that would be cool i'd like to especially on certain topics so

74:52 so yeah so so i have two things in the chat that

74:55 i'm going to pull from archival stuff one someone was like oh my god luke is

74:59 back that's confusing um

75:03 i've been here the whole time pretty much uh the other one was is

75:08 riley luke's replacement that's been asked a whole bunch of times um so

75:12 right now in terms of actual hosting on LTT

75:17 i'm on the fence you will see luke host another LTT before you will see riley in

75:23 fact how's that going good uh it keeps changing

75:27 right i can probably just talk about it yeah sure yeah so i'm doing nintendo labo um

75:33 but i've changed how i wanted to review it a couple times i don't think i haven't

75:37 seen a single review of it online that i think this is gonna throw some shade has

75:42 done a very good job because i agree um

75:45 and because of that i'm now like okay that's

75:49 a lot of pressure because i'm thinking no one's done a very good job of

75:52 covering it so now i need to not screw up you've been in that position before

75:56 and i think yeah i'm trying to think of an example um we were really late on was

76:01 it the rift we were really late on something that

76:05 you like cared about a lot might have been vibes i think it was one

76:08 of those it was it was a vr headset i think yeah and basically i think we

76:13 talked about it and we were like okay well then in that case yeah i think okay

76:18 i'm remembering this even better now uh i remember talking about it and you were

76:22 like this is going to take a long time and so i took on sort of some more quick yeah

76:28 quick videos to fill in the gaps because i think you spent like almost an entire

76:31 week on it yeah so it's been a little bit hard because this week we've been

76:34 we've been pushing for v1 which won't mean anything to you guys also i'm

76:38 hiring yeah also i'm hiring for Floatplane so

76:42 i've been going through resumes and stuff also i've been trying to do this lab oh thing and i was like i'll be done

76:46 early in the week and then i was like done most my notes and i was like it's

76:50 been out for a while let me watch some reviews and see what's going on and i was like oh

76:55 okay all right this changes things because when like

76:59 when everyone else's stuff is like again i'm pretty certain

77:03 really surface level and really missing the point in my opinion for most people

77:08 um it's it's yeah i have to take it to the

77:13 next level i think so yeah i should be ready relatively soon i'm expecting next

77:17 week so i'm traveling for like the next two and a half weeks

77:20 or something like that uh oh have we told people that scrapyard wars season

77:25 seven is coming no i don't think so we are shooting we

77:30 actually have a shoot date yeah we have a sponsor locked in finally we've got a

77:33 shoot date um it's going to should we should we tell

77:36 them the the the the challenge i mean i don't know it it's off the top

77:41 of my head i've been actually been emailed it i just don't remember sure

77:45 okay yeah yeah so it's gonna be a classic head to head

77:48 me versus luke no teams no gimmicks

77:53 except for one gimmick

77:57 neither of us gets an internet capable device oh

78:01 oh i remember that oh i remember that oh that's so sketch

78:07 okay okay okay previous seasons we've been heavily relying on craigslist

78:12 hardcore or like buy and sell trade apps

78:17 is it still possible to build a decent gaming rig what other

78:21 rules are we including i don't know we're gonna have to kind of

78:25 we'll have to hash that out between the two of us a little bit because i'm assuming like uh the one the like ace in

78:31 the hole is not allowed i don't remember the name yeah you can't go to free geek yeah

78:34 yeah no no no or like and we're also getting rid of free geek

78:38 similar situations um i think if you and

78:41 i both do no research which is what i've

78:44 done um and we don't look them up online i

78:48 don't know any i don't know any either so we i think they're fair game at that

78:52 point like go to the library and get a phone book

78:56 i wouldn't give me any ideas if i were you

78:59 all right so we're gonna keep to ourselves

79:03 what our ideas might be for

79:06 that's pretty crazy it's gonna be really hard okay yeah that's gonna be

79:10 interesting luckily the the one thing i was actually really worried about for

79:13 this coming scrapbook wars was GPU prices it looks like that's all resolved it's

79:18 coming back down so i think we dodged that bullet because that was like

79:21 actually going to make it impossible or stupid they were going to be the

79:25 crappiest scrapyard warriors pcs yet yeah

79:28 we would have had to do or do like the like student computer

79:34 CPU benchmarks only neenan 262 in the

79:37 chat sorry just uh blowing the dust off my

79:40 local computer store yeah exactly

79:44 man this is going to be pretty dumb um oh

79:48 yeah all right well i think that's pretty much it for wancho thank you guys

79:52 for tuning in see you again next week same bat time same bat channel bye

79:56 um oh we should we should let people weigh in on whether they want the wan

79:59 show to stay here with the white uh orange and white or if we want to

80:04 move over to the hex wall yeah we haven't painted the hex wall yet though

80:07 i think right now there's like a lighting problem or something oh yeah it's it's garbo it needs to it just

80:11 needs to be uh it needs a light on the floor to even it but even like

80:16 your face and we're also going to have some shelves here yeah like there's

80:19 going to be some stuff there like yeah no there's some there's some should

80:23 we straw for it right now looks like people are spamming hex wall but they're also getting banned people want oh um no

80:28 no we can ask them next week okay am i even here next week hex wall will be

80:32 really dark yeah that's something to consider well we're gonna paint it uh

80:36 red white and blue okay not like america style red white and blue like um i

80:41 forget how we're planning to do it like white background and then like red and blue hexes or something okay uh but like

80:46 bright ones i think what we should do is on the WAN Show have a screenshot of

80:51 here and there and put like both of them on screen yeah

80:55 and then be like pick one we could do that all right see you okay bye

81:02 i just realized i'm sitting on the wrong side yeah