The BEST Money We've Ever Spent
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,719 words · ~8 min read
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once in a lifetime a product so revolutionary
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so unlike anything we've ever seen before
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gets released and today it's my privilege
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to introduce to you big mouth billy bass the speaking
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sensation now with amazon alexa
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thermaltakes a500 has a modern minimalist design with brushed aluminum
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panels and dual hinge swing tempered glass doors check it out today at the
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link in the video description
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come on in close come on in close let's have some fun this truly is
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as Jake put it a marvel of modern engineering so this is big mouth billy
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bass who you might remember from such television shows as
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big mouth billy bass the infomercial and big mouth philly bass the other
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infomercial lip syncs to the spoken responses of
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alexa that is so cool dances to the beat of amazon music reacts to alexa timers
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notifications and alarms has a realistic appearance okay we'll be the judge of
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that and includes power adapter so in this box you will find
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a usb cable uh it's a micro b oh no type
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c no type c disc you know what return it forget it yeah we should return it
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yeah i'm not going to throw it it actually looks pretty fragile so there's a battery uh
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door on the back here you got some oh you got a stab you got
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your mounting options here you got your two mountain holes here which you can
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just throw up you know i mean let's face it
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you've got a big mouth billy bass in your rec room you don't mind putting a
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couple holes in your wallet this will be on the wall of the new
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employee lounge not negotiable not negotia it's alexa
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naval david not negotiable david the
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crazy thing about this thing is that it's not even expensive yeah it's like
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40 bucks yeah something like that which is less than an echo dot yeah so let's
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go ahead and plug that there buddy in there
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oh loud mouth billy battle big mouth excuse me loud mouth big mouth
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he's a nice guy you're you are something you or something else i don't know about
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this realistic appearance i think it's okay for what we paid
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my life just hanging around
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and they ain't
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i don't know
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oh wow this is great
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in the instructions which looked you know pretty complete
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they've got a lot of filler here so first there's the important note then
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there's the note not to be confused with the important note
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then there's the caution then there's the warning
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then there's the if using batteries instead of adapter please follow the
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instructions put batteries in
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they'll in the in the most verbose possible times the batteries in they've
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got the lyrics of the song it sings no way
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oh my gosh that's the actual instruction so this if this looked overwhelming
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don't worry big mouth billy bass fans you can handle this
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oh so it's not a fish-shaped echo dot i was
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even more excited about this when i thought that it was a stand-alone
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amazon alexa enabled smart device so you could basically just put a big mouth
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billy bass in every room of your house and have alexa everywhere
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but unfortunately that is not the case so it actually synchronizes with
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your existing echo now in setup mode oh okay follow
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the instructions in your alexa app okay add alexa add device hey james
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will be there
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i swear the old big mouth billy bass did more than one song am i wrong i don't
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know
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that's its realistic look james you're just confusing the realistic look for a
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message it feels kind of weird you know like it kind of looks sticky yeah
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hey alexa what's the weather like currently in surrey it's three degrees
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celsius with clear skies and sun today
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you can expect partly sunny weather with a high of five degrees and a low of
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minus five degrees and you only ordered one of these
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i know right play monster cat
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well what you can't just play monster it's a record label on amazon
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so basically you just have like a fish out of water on your wall
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whenever music is playing that's a bad kitty
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what even is this i don't know hey alexa that swap
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hey alexa start a 15 second timer
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15 seconds starting now okay so we need
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to get a notification too should i try message you or something after after the
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timer wait wait
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what why would anybody want this
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i don't know but i also want it so much we need to get a couple more of these i
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think hey alexa are there any games you can play
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here are three of the most popular games and trivia skills first is the speak the
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room i put this behind me in a room it's up to you he's not even reacting
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search oh yeah and solve puzzles to find your way out
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so he only does some stuff no
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the next one is question of the day now he starts trivia
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every day question of the day poses a new challenging question for you to
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respond to from arts and entertainment to literature and science do you want to
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enable it yes welcome to question of the day
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interesting so it's only like top level menus
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no question correctly and earn points oh and if you would like for me to repeat a
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question just say repeat the question here is your first question of the day
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the topic is history it is worth four points in what year did american
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president franklin d roosevelt declare that december 7th would be a date that
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will live in infamy you can choose from 1917 1939
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1941 or 1945
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39 41 41
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1941 sorry but i did not understand your response dang it in what year did
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american president 1941 wait it's working now would be a date that
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will just be a little glitchy you can choose from 1917.
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i know right 1941.
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that's right oh you have earned your first history badge in four points so
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all that's left now then just to see what's inside is for us to
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gut poor billy here and see what makes him tick
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so what do we got here we've got uh is it just one
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motor that drives both the tail and the
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head how does that work okay so this motor probably drives the tail i guess
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okay so first of all so here's our power switch so that's just going over to the
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motherboard here then we've got our speaker which is going off the
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motherboard here we've got our uh front button
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right there that little doodad right there we've got power to our battery holder so
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that's right there you can see the bluetooth antenna there too then we've got other more different power coming in
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from our uh micro b uh what do you see oh yeah there right
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there there's our bluetooth antenna
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and that's probably then our bluetooth chipset there's got to be another thing in there
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i mean we can pull this foam out not really actually what is this
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just like why is there foam it's like kind of like a silicone kind of
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feeling oh uh what does this just pop
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off this part of the fish i think
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come on billy oh he's probably got a separate motor for the mouth too wow that's quite good
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oh yeah that's what it's for yeah so it's just one so this one's for the
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mouth so yeah the whole body is just how
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do you use i mean i'm sure we're gonna have everyone in the comments telling us what
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very simple eight-point uh helical
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idiots we are but uh yeah so just uses this one motor
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here for the head and the tail action
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oh that was somewhat anticlimactic
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does big mouth billy bass with amazon alexa integration really
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need to do more than dance around on your wall to your music and then mouth
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along with alexa sometimes probably not
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so then i guess that's where we leave it with a song
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that feels good
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we're going to have that linked below so thanks for watching guys if you
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disliked this video i mean i get it
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it's not for everyone i think it's great it's for everyone
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you need this in your bedroom yeah it's in your closet but if you liked it hit
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that like button get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the
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video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like
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this one and our community forum which you should totally join i kind of want
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to do like a big mouth billy bass autopsy now like have we opened it
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i kind of want you to i don't want to ruin him oh i don't want to ruin him let's see
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like we're using him in the lounge you know this right