The WAN Show - Vessel is GONE, Vine is GONE, Macbook Pro is Derp! - October 28, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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12,497 words · ~62 min read
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there you go that looks good again hey okay so uh
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welcome to the WAN Show we have awesome
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topics that we can hopefully talk about on a microphone that is functional this
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week yeah uh two companies that start with V have been shut down which will be
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two separate topics one of them was Vine and the other one was vessel so if
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you're starting a company in 2016 maybe do not name it with a V at the beginning
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see lonus Media Group perfect name for
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naming scheme doesn't start with a V perfect name for a company there's
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actually no V in the whole name npe which is probably what like really shows
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your craftsmanship craftmanship of that name after that there was also
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announcements from two different companies that sound like they were
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announcements for products from the other company there was a laptop and an
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all-in-one PC announc from Microsoft and
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Apple and if you don't know like which one was from who yet somehow we'll just
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leave the guessing game to you until later
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intro
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space Gable m
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C cable
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mod cable mod huh I'm actually listening to us
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like yell out the sponsor names Behind
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the Music right now cuz I'm actually I'm actually monitoring the stream which
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with the delay on Twitch is actually got
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be a nightmare incredibly distracting um
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I thought you plugged into the computer I was like why are we delaying so much it makes so much more sense now no I'm
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listening to it here cuz I really really need to know if this cable was the
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problem and if it turns out that this USB cable was the problem I will
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personally destroy it on stream before the show is over so uh I had a micro USB
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die in the car once and Emma was sitting beside me and I ripped it in half with
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my hands cuz I was so mad that's pretty good was I was so pissed off they're
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like made of metal and stuff I I wrapped one around each hand and then pulled it
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apart I was very upet I can't remember what it did it like failed me in some
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way I'm going to try it's really difficult this is like hard sleeved and
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stuff yeah I'm going to try anyway I wouldn't mine was like thin and terrible
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I'm still going to try Okay I I don't mind I don't mind failing on camera it's
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not a new thing for me is it still working it's oh yeah oh yeah it's still
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working right now so it's probably the cable then so probably the cable I'm going to turn our mic down a little bit
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here cuz I just grabbed another microphone without actually like
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checking any of the settings whatsoever what is isn't this the same mic we you
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just changed the cable not the mic this was a no wait this was a different mic
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though yeah the when you were testing you put it over there so that's probably
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why it's turned up a little higher than usual so we'll go we'll go ahead we'll do that yeah all right so why don't we
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jump right into our first topic here um
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oh this is am I am I on the wrong am I on the wrong dock no oh no actually this
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is terrifying it's just yeah okay so the original article here is from The Verge
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oh speaking of terrifying I have not pluged in your my
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screen share yet
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today let's see if it works I'm excited
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oh oh oh okay no no it's fine I I
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thought I thought we I thought it was shutting down oh
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hey first time's a charm when a show
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something works always works all the time
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is nice uh AT&T to buy HBO CNN and the rest
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of Time Warner for more than 80 billion
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so I've got a riddle for you okay what's
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the only thing scarier than a
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ginormous corporation that owns all the media that
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you
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consume an even more ginormous Corporation
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owns that owns the
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delivery media through which you receive
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all the media you consume yeah yeah yeah
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this might be one of the only things on planet Earth
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that I and you and Hillary Clinton and
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Donald Trump all agree all agree on yeah this is terrible yeah this should not
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happen it's the worst I I love the uh I love the sub
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headline that deal includes
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Batman okay thanks deal includes the one
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still somewhat relevant superhero for Warner oh for Warner okay yeah I was
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like what no no no no there are many other ones they're just all Marvel yeah
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yeah um so h not a ton of we're not going to
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go over a ton of details here but news of the merger first surfaced last Friday
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and um actually there are almost no notes on this whatsoever thank you
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Colton everything that I knew off the top of my head was more than what he had
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actually put into the dock here but
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um yeah there there's one kind of funny thing where uh the US government
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summoned The Wrong Time Warner CEO to like talk about stuff they they
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summoned uh Robert Marcus the former CEO
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of Time Warner instead of uh Jeff bues
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who is the current CEO of Time
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Warner I can't imagine that that would be hard to figure out so I'm kind of
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surprised that that happened but either way you would think so this comes on the
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heels of of other isps also looking to expand
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their their digital media uh um
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Footprints and I guess that leads us pretty well into what will be one of our
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biggest topics for today um even though
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the list of people on Earth who care is
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definitely less than the number of people who will watch this video um this
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has a significant impact on us and to a
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core group of our viewers yeah that are
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legitimately paying a monthly subscription fee to view our content
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which is uh which is pretty pretty unbelievable to us and there are many
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many more of them than you guys likely
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realize so Verizon is buying Jason
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kill's video startup vessel and promptly
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shutting it down so October 26th which
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was on Wednesday October 26th the news
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broke we found about it at found found about it found out about it we found it
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thank you this is this is why I like having you here cuz like sometimes I
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sense no make so um we found out about
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it on the 26th of October and the deal
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is done not just not just done like
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vessel.com is shutting down on October
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31st that one two three four five days
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three of which are business days it's got to be one of the fastest shutdowns
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after announcement like ever hold on a second hold on no no this is posted
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October 26th at 5:30 p.m. so
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like okay one wait no that's that's
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still right I still I still had the numbers right numbers right still I had
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Mak sense no yes excellent
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um so I you try to do a sponsor spot like
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that that would be terrible for everyone
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yeah yeah us sponsored
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viewers no one would win poor Nick he'd have he'd have like a
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brain tumor by um all right so vessel launched about 18
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months ago um what else we got it it's
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it's it was helpful for us yeah well here why don't I why don't I kind of
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talk about pre-shutdown and then you can go through what's going to happen post
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shutdown so uh so pre-shutdown vessel launched with the promise of giving
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creators um kind of like
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how would what would I compare this to okay so giving creators a way to provide
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some kind of benefit to what they called super fans so some kind of benefit that
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would drive super fans to pay a monthly
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subscription for the content and support
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effectively support the channels that they watch in a way that is much more
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financially beneficial so more money per
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view than ad supported platforms like YouTube remember YouTube Red was not a
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thing at the time so the idea was that with a three a five or a 7day
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window viewers who paid three bucks a
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month for the entire vessel platform would get early access to all the
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content on the platform and some things
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about this seemed like a pretty good idea to me at the time and I'll I'll run
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you through some of the reasons so number one is being able to monetize
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views more than the fraction of a scent
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that we get for a YouTube ad that was a big one number two the ability to pull
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some of the content and some of the uh some of the audience off YouTube where
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we are riing on the Goodwill of Google
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for our continued existence was a huge
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one for us like actually really sketchy massive because it was I had already
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dismissed joining vessel I was done I wasn't going to look into it and then
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Google pulled a thing where they were like like okay we are going to crack
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down on creators having native
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advertising that they bake into their videos and like it's going to get real
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and if they want to have native adver if they want to show a brand logo in their
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video that brand is going to have to go through Google to buy out all of the
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different ad units on that video which logistically how does that even like for
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how long like didn't even make any sense
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and so we were like holy crap we need something
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so vessel also offered us that um and
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for the first the other thing they offered was one free year to our viewers
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yeah uh which was which I thought was pretty cool because the way that I
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looked at it this was a Silicon Valley startup and I'm not going to say that I
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I saw the platform failing coming uh at the started actually like I was like on
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board I was like ready to ready to do this thing um but it's a Silicon Valley
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startup that signing a oneyear contract
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with us um or sorry it was uh it was an
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18 month contract 18-month contract I
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think with the potential to renew for another 18 months as long as no parties
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wanted out so it was like a three-year contract with an 18-month out the first
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year of which would be free for all of our users yeah so I kind of looked at M
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I mean and we were allowed doing simultaneous content when it came to
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like show content or timely content like
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WAN Show and stuff like that so we didn't think it would hurt anyone so we
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worked out a deal where you know and we were at that time also looking at ways
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to make ourselves less reliant on the
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pace at which new technology was being released so that was right around the
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time that we were developing Concepts like scrapyard Wars um Concepts like uh
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moving Vlog Concepts like Concepts that did not rely on razor or apple or
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Microsoft to deliver us some new shiny thing that would drive people's interest
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in our videos trying to make it more personality driven more uh project
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driven you know compensator to is right
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over there and it's going to be a great video and did not rely on any single
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Hardware to be released so that we could like go viral by dunking it in water for
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an hour or whatever the case may be so all of these things kind of aligned for
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us and we went oh yeah not to mentioned that wait am I allowed to say that okay
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so what I don't know can you hint no so
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okay long story short through vessel we
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were able to make a lot more money per video than we were without it and right
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this was the other thing I had just signed the deal on the warehouse that we
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are sitting in today I had just signed
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the deal the mortgage deal on it and
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YouTube came out with their thing that was going to significantly affect our ability to
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monetize our videos this a very scary time and vessel offered us the
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opportunity to better monetize our videos right at that moment so I had
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like a down payment to make on I had a tenant Improvement to do I had to build
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an office inside this building I don't know how much you guys know about like
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leasing renting or buying commercial space but like you're lucky if it's an
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empty box because then you save the money that it would cost to rip out
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whatever stupid thing the previous person put in and get it hauled away to
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the landfill so um so there you go
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and so now in terms of what happens to
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people who are already subscribers uh you will be provided complimentary
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access through the month of October also known as like a few days bucks yeah you
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were given a refund till the beginning of October
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so if you bought an annual sub so you will have hopefully get given money
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thing yeah if if you were subscribed through iTunes which I didn't even know
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was possible but sure yeah if you were subscribed through iTunes you need to
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contact Apple customer support for a refund well that's what you get for
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subscribing through iTunes yeah um and you will apparently be receiving an
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email with instructions and yada y y so if you're a vessel subscriber check your
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email yeah that's basically it got people ask asking what does this mean
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for nerd Sports great question I don't think we
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know yeah so um we have a call with
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go90 next week uh which is a subsidiary
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of Verizon also an online streaming platform not an early access platform
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and my understanding is
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that if Verizon owns vessel
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but did not keep the content creator
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contracts like ours to produce Early
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Access content in place but did keep the
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employee contract presumably to move on to another project because vessel.com is
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going away then content creator contracts that are
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not the standard ones like the exclusive
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content ones seem to be in kind of a
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gray Zone yeah so we will have to find
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out not really sure how that works what is going on with that yeah I some people are
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asking what is going to happen in the future for like viewers that weren't on
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vessel honestly uh probably nothing
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noticeable no so I'll tell you this much we are not planning to take our seven
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days of buffered content and dump it onto YouTube in one day this would be an
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enormous disservice to me Luke and all
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the other people who work on those videos because how however many of you
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go yeah that would be great I'm going to binge watch the crap out of that the
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cold hard truth is that due to the way the YouTube algorithm works if we step
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on our own video releases with Rapidfire
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video releases it significantly
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decreases the um the propagation of
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those videos in people's subboxes suggested videos suggested channels and
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all that stuff so we would basically be
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sign ific and like I'm talking like we could get half as many a third as many a
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quarter as many views on those videos we would be significantly damaging the
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impact of those videos by just dumping them all on YouTube at a time and having
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a buffer is really helpful for us anyways because that could afford us
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more time to work on really super cool stuff like can I reveal a thing behind
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me yeah yeah like this thing which you
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can't actually really see that well yeah that is a desk PC part two so that's it
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that's its current state yeah and that kind of stuff can take a little bit and
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being just stand it's fine Ed's like
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crawling on the floor and he's not even he didn't even go in frame he didn't
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even go in the frame uh yeah so I don't know that kind
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of stuff can be awesome so um so yeah I guess should we
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take Twitter Blitz questions we've got um we've got no I'm I'm I'm following it
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in twitch chat yeah we've got uh we've got other people in twitch chat asking
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uh if there's any possibility that we would look into to creating our own
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Early Access platform and I won't say
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no I I think there's I think even with a
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fairly rudimentary system maybe through our Forum or something like that I think
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there are tangible benefits that we could offer people um for like a month
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some kind of a monthly fee and we haven't really talked about how much it
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would be I was wondering if you're going to give examples of the tangible benefits or not I'm not sure if we
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should I don't I don't I don't know um okay so on vessel right now probably or
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maybe shortly after wow there's a video where I talk about these things so I
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guess I might as well just uh it's it's just like me sitting at my desk that's
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what I was recording when you came upstairs oh yeah so are you just putting
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it on vessel yeah it's only going on vessel that's cool so basically what
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we're what we're asking people to do patreon no I don't think that's the no I
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don't think patreon's the answer because patreon we've talked to them before
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about building like an API or working
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with the apis that exist for other platforms to more tightly integrate so
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if someone was a patron we could offer them a coupon code on Teespring or
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something and they have expressed zero interest in which seems
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insane developing those kinds of relationships and those kinds of
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benefits um which to me is very frustrating because right
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now patreon is basically a money
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collection platform and not much more yeah in my mind yeah because everything
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that the Creator does as a benefit to
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their patrons has to be manually done
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like yes you can you can upload a small video or photo or a post but other than
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that but if you wanted to do like a merch reward or a coupon we're not huge
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fans of exclusive like actually constantly
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exclusive stuff we like share if we're going to make something we generally
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like sharing it with everybody and and and even if you were to do like
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stuff that you can't do for everyone like if you wanted to do at a certain
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tier like a signed thing patreon doesn't
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have like a a fulfillment center partner yeah that we could just fill an entire
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box full of signed shirts with and send it to them like they don't really
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facilitate your ability to uh to to
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actually execute these rewards and it's an inherent problem with the platform
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because most of the creators on it are small Time creators
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For Whom the burden of signing 200 hats
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and then packing them addressing them
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remember international shipping is a [ __ ] okay actually shipping them paying
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for all that like it's it's overwhelming it hurts
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their ability to create content which is
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one of the main reasons that lonus Tech tips does not have a patreon it's
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something that we tried for Channel Super Fun and that in my mind has
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largely Fallen flat um given
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that like if patreon had the infrastructure so that you could more
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easily provide meaningful rewards like something like a free vessel membership
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at a certain Patron level that would have been really cool one thing that I
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really liked was the Teespring discount idea yeah I actually loved that idea it
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made made tons of sense because if if you're going to contribute to a patreon
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y in my opinion one of my favorite things to buy is like a shirt yep or
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like one thing that I've been interested in is like the cgp G gray sweater true
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because cgp gray is great and his sweater looks cool and I was like maybe
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and I might I'm not sure but like that I like that kind of stuff CU I like being
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able to show support I mean all the women in the audience have wet panties
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over your commitment level right now yeah my bad I'm I'm thinking about it I
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just I own like literally 15 sweaters and I really really don't need any more
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I just love sweaters anyways um I like the one you're wearing right now thank
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you yeah I actually do like this one I've been wearing in videos more U CU
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it's becoming winter time slowly anyways but I'm also wearing shorts so I don't
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know what's up with that I don't know what who you are but yeah being able to give something like that would be cool
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and like like we actually genuinely tried really hard to get the whole
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vessel subscription thing going yeah and like doing doing things and the other
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thing too is doing things that are part of a workflow yeah um where you could do
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an like an exception thing like a signed hat once in a
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but if you have things that are automatic like if I just create my
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videos and I upload them here and then a few days later I upload them there and just automatically my patrons get this
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stuff early things that happen automatically help smalltime creators MH
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um so they they didn't really get any of that done and I think you know I think
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if vessel had managed to figure out Partnerships like that or if they had
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managed to figure out how to get their creators really on board with what they
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were doing um maybe they would have had success
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they had a lot of big Creator Partners
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yeah but it didn't seem like they had a lot of big Creator follow through and
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yeah there I think that's perfect I think a lot of the big creators saw the
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immediate knee-jerk reaction of viewers
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not liking have the idea of having to pay for something that they used to get
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for free and went whoa whoa I'm not touching that with a 10-ft pole yeah
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when the reality of it is viewers are now paying for something early that
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everyone can still get for free and I think most of our audience eventually
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did understand that like it it didn't didn't change almost anything you still
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got like embargo date reviews exactly when they were supposed to go up you
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still got a video a day like nothing ever actually changed on YouTube platform there's stuff that people think
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is due to the vessel exclusivity period like the fact that we tweet about
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projects that don't get released for a month but the reality of it was is that
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you were going to complain if I tweeted about it and then it didn't come out for
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three weeks the same as you were going to complain as if it's four weeks like
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we just we do work a fair bit ahead we have a onewe buffer in addition to the
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vessel onee buffer yeah for where we expect to be at for filming videos
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there's projects that I will finish and I don't see go up on vessel for like a
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while later because they'll just get pushed back if they're not timely if
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they were a review of something like the like I think it was the Nintendo
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controllers yep I did that review that's not timely those have existed for a
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while that doesn't need to come out at any specific point in time y so I think
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those kind of sat around we Shuffle the schedule a lot yeah so we'll prioritize
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new stuff coming in that's more important yeah we do it all the time
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andt and sometimes things just take a long time so the water cooled
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PlayStation 4 my first email to um to uh
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debrand sorry my first email to
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debrand saying yo this is like a dope AF
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idea you want to sponsor it was on
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January 25th of 2015 or 2016 rather yeah 10 months no
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nine months whatever that works out to many months before the release of the
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video so like I'm sorry for that but
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some of the projects we do are larger longer term projects and it just does
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take some time and some of them like like I I'm I'm currently I've had a lot
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of questions about this lately because and like I looked at my last personal
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rig update and looked at the comments and there's a comment on there from like
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two weeks ago being like so where's part
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three it's been like so many months like
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over a year I was like uh yeah it's very
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close I have all the computer hardware parts but in part two I just did like a
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theory crafting thing where I like showed people what I was thinking of doing and everyone hated that for very
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good reasons cuz nothing actually like really happened in the video so this
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time many of those theories at this point anyway they're like gone yeah that
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test bench is literally in the garbage can right
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now I'm not kidding it's being taken out
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like next week I don't want it anymore it's gone it's going to be gone I guess
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um so but I have all the new computer hardware including the case and
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everything everything's ready to go what I'm waiting on is amethyst points and
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I'm not going to explain why do you know
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why I don't know why but I know I
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should squarespace.com
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Squarespace is the place to go if you want to build yourself a sick dopf Sleek
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website that looks great on any device whether it's a laptop a cell phone or a
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big ginormous projector screen I don't
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know that too many people I don't know that there are too many people who browse the web on a projector screen but
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I feel like I wouldn't be doing my due diligence if I didn't find out just how
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much of our audience browses the web on a projector screen how many of them
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browse it on a turnip browse web on projector yes no and uh oh what do I do
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uh you can just do crate poll it's actually fine okay cool so you guys you
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got to you got to hit us you got to hit us in the twitch chat let us know sup so
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we can uh sup you know that should have been the third option
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Su um they've got 247 support via live
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chat and email it's only 12 bucks a month to start and you get a free domain
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if you buy Squarespace for the year and they've got lots of great features that
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take building a website and make it so
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that normal people can do it and this is
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awesome so my dad has been here helping me with desk PC and they're involved in
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this like Construction Company project they're like shareholders or something
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anyway so the guy who runs the company
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is taking advice from a bad it guy okay
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so my dad convinced the guy running it
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that they should be in charge of like the outward marketing okay so the
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website is kind of under my dad which
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like my dad's not not an expert by any
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stretch of the imagination when it comes to like CSS freaking no okay so the
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woodworking looks great so other than your with that said my yeah my my dad
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would have no trouble with it if it was a Squarespace site for sure like he
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could handle that no problem my mom made a beautiful website I was the salty it
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guy that has the ear of the owner is
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like real men have scratch coded
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websites so basically he's one of those it guys that creates work to keep
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himself important you know what I'm talking about oh like okay okay I can
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understand Squarespace is a wonderful platform but they don't claim to be a
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wonderful platform for everything they're a wonderful platform for most
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things why don't I explain what the website needs to do okay it's a simple
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company website who are we what do we do here are some sample floor plans and
29:00
some pictures of some homes and here's how you get in touch with us okay so he
29:03
either should have been done that website in like an hour or two or should
29:07
probably just use Squarespace just like so so so so yeah
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one of the great things about Squarespace is that if you don't have a dedicated it guy to go in and update
29:18
your website for the ever evolving web standards or new browsers or whatever
29:23
else the case may be Squarespace deals with all that crap for you our Linus
29:27
Medi group.com webite has sort of this is sort of embarrassing speaking of
29:31
issues with updating we should be putting some of the new employees on it
29:34
and stuff but like basically hasn't been touched since we put it up and it still
29:38
works exactly the way it did when we first did so when you decide to sign up
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for Squarespace which my dad should make
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anyone mine still says CEO
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Wait no that's right sometimes I'm not sure I thought janitor was more accurate
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yeah um we have John we have Dennis we
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do not have we do not have the latest three additions to
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our wait four
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four one two wait is my wife even on there is
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he van on there
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five that was pretty bad that was pretty bad the other four there
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is actually Four more I'm glad she doesn't watch W show there there there
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long as you have a case with any Steel in it even if you don't I think you'd
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that lighting strips are made out of is that it it doesn't stick very well yes in heat so if you just like put metal on
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34:34
cool all right Vine Vine is gone also
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shut down also shut down Bo so Twitter
34:41
has decided that they now agree with me
34:46
why did we create a video sharing platform for 6
34:51
second videos when we already had Twitter they they they bought it like
34:57
just before it was launched so more or
35:00
less yes but I I don't I've never I've
35:03
never understood or liked Vine I've always had tons of problems because for
35:07
some reason the videos just wouldn't play most of the time I never wanted to
35:11
have the app because like I don't care so I'd try to load the videos in like a
35:14
browser which was supported and then they'd air out and they just I just why
35:18
why does it need to be 6 seconds I don't understand and I'm I'm just happy it's
35:23
gone screw it I don't care so you'll still be able to access and download
35:27
your Vines the website will continue to be online uh creators will be notified
35:31
before the company makes any additional changes to the website or app but um yep
35:36
that is that is pretty much it you know what on the subject of you saying that
35:41
you didn't want to install the app do you think that part of this is due to
35:48
and okay I I am going to I'm going to make something up because it's
35:53
possible that someone out there has talked about this or even used the same
35:57
terminology that I'm about to use but I I haven't looked into it at all but do
36:01
you think that it's due to something that I'm going to call app
36:05
fatigue okay like it used to be in the early
36:09
days of the iPhone you get excited to just like download everything yes yeah
36:14
it was like it was like holy crap there's an accelerometer I want like a
36:19
compass app or like oh now I can use my phone as like a level like like there
36:24
was there was an app for for every
36:27
stupid thing and your phone was just like like I remember my first iPhone my
36:32
iPhone 4 I had like pages and pages of
36:36
apps that sounds like a product what does my first iPhone my first iPhone I
36:40
don't know why it just does whereas now every phone gets exactly the same
36:47
load up load out of one home screen
36:50
worth of stuff so that everything is close together and organized I've always
36:56
been very stream on that I can only have one page of icons thing and I usually
37:02
don't even like it being my home screen cuz I like my home screen just being clean I just have it off to the side and
37:06
it's only one page so for me a big part
37:09
of it comes from especially on Android
37:12
especially on Android random apps crushing your B battery life yeah and
37:17
not even like due to the all the amazing
37:20
cool stuff they're doing in the background just due to shoddy coding
37:24
practices and Google's complete in ability to prevent developers from
37:30
sucking up all the power of your device and especially prevent them from
37:35
reporting that they are or not prevent them but not require them to report that
37:39
they're sucking the power do you know how many times I've like had my an
37:43
Android phone just like be hot in my
37:47
pocket hot in my pocket pull it out I've lost 30% battery in the last few hours
37:52
I'm looking at it going I go into battery and it's like Android system
37:57
Android OS having consumed everything
38:00
and like the screen's like 2% like I've hardly touched my phone that day drives
38:05
me freaking crazy so do you think that part of the motivation for this is
38:10
Twitter's question of do we need what is
38:15
already a weaker brand to distribute social media crap do
38:21
we need to try to get past the friction
38:26
that users have with installing more app more freaking apps on their
38:30
phones and finally there was another
38:34
reason one interesting thing is that almost no one even downloads any
38:39
apps if you look at like overall actual statistics in terms of smartphone usage
38:45
yeah the the majority of people don't download any apps I've got a straw poll
38:49
for you guys though in the meantime while he keeps talking um it's going to
38:52
be are you app fatigued I want to hear
38:55
from you guys and then getting up to I've been doing I've been doing way too
38:58
much research cuz I'm currently working on my review for the pixel I know the
39:02
back doesn't look normal it's cuz I have a skin on it um and yeah the majority of
39:07
people that have smartphones don't download any apps you have to realize
39:10
that this is the majority of people and now the majority of people have smartphones right so like this is this
39:15
is everyone this isn't just you guys I'm sure the majority of people watching the
39:19
show download plenty apps um but like we
39:23
are probably not even necessarily getting fatigued but we're probably
39:27
getting to a a point where we don't want anym we're down to download apps we just
39:32
want to download the ones that we know that's a type of fatigue I would argue I
39:36
would argue that's new experience fatigue kind of deal cuz I don't want
39:39
any new apps I no I just want the apps that I have to work the way that I
39:43
expect them to and I'm down for them to gain functionality yep and every once in
39:47
a while I'll throw something unusual on like oh I need to do a screen recording
39:51
or something I'll grab as screen recorder but I'll I'll like delete yeah
39:55
I'll clean it up afterwards exactly like like when Periscope came out I loved the
39:59
idea so I downloaded the app but I didn't really want to and I never really
40:04
used it cuz I was like eh I'd love to see Periscope go next well it's it's
40:08
integrated now yeah if you Periscope stream it like does it through Twitter
40:12
anyways I know but I'd love to see the Periscope app just go away no completely
40:16
because it's unnecessary that's what I'm talking about I'm down with Twitter
40:20
gaining functionality I don't want to download a new app for the same freaking
40:23
thing so this is something this is another thing that drives me crazy and this was the other point that I made
40:28
when I was wondering about the motivation and why dilute a brand yeah
40:33
you see this over and over and over again do I I I I think with cars I kind
40:40
of get it because an automobile purchase
40:44
you're trying to section things out a little bit is is such a a large purchase
40:48
and the the emotion the way you appeal emotionally to a car buyer is very
40:54
different from the way that you appeal to oh I don't know someone who's buying
40:58
in my mind like a wireless access point
41:03
um that's a very specific reference and the thing about and the thing about car
41:07
brands is that whether we're talking Toyota or Lexus they don't they don't
41:14
seem to okay so so for the most part For Better or For Worse going back to your
41:18
Acura with that horrible airbag recall yeah the actual quality of a Honda
41:24
engine is pretty much regard Ed as equal
41:28
whether you're buying an Acura or a Honda and the same goes for a Toyota
41:32
like they don't differentiate based on
41:35
the the the core functionality a Tob
41:39
don't break down they seem to be trying to deliver a pretty consistent
41:42
experience regardless of whether we're talking about one of they more premium or a sub brand the one that drives me
41:47
crazy is the brands that try to differentiate on quality by having like
41:52
a main brand like a known brand and then like a sub brand so perfect example of
41:58
this back to wireless access points is Ruckus if you know Enterprise Wi-Fi you
42:04
know Ruckus Ruckus is like bomb it's
42:08
probably what you're using if you have good Wi-Fi reception in an airport or
42:12
something and then they introduced like a lower-end brand aimed at small
42:17
businesses called xclaim I opened up the access point and
42:22
it is a Ruckus access point with like
42:25
one small difference like PCB is the same most of the internal components are
42:29
the same it's basically a firmware difference and I'm kind of looking at it
42:33
going why not just have a lower Why Try to build a brand from scratch from
42:37
nothing why not just have a lower line like a 100
42:41
series and still use the same brand because you're clearly not
42:44
differentiating on quality even if you're trying to have like a perceived
42:48
difference because it's the same product why do
42:52
this any other examples I I I know you're going to be able to answer this
42:55
but flute 16 says why I Brands LOL but
42:58
you have three YouTube channels clearly different that is that
43:03
is more to do with YouTube than it is to do with us if I could have one channel
43:09
called lonus Media Group that people could subscribe to in one click or I
43:14
could have three shows called Linus Tech
43:18
tips Techquickie and Channel Super Fun
43:21
that people could individually subscribe to that would be perfect yeah but
43:25
YouTube wasn't designed for that we don't own the distribution yes of the
43:29
videos therefore we need to we got to
43:32
play the game try to control how we can distribute them as much as we possibly
43:36
can and the best way for us to do that is to co-integrate as much as we can if
43:40
we if you go to the Linus techtips Channel and you scroll down a little bit
43:44
Techquickie is right there right there you can watch the videos right there
43:47
yeah but the the reality is that the way
43:50
that YouTube distributes video to your subscribers is heavily Al algorithm
43:56
based B such that if you know half of
44:01
our viewers weren't interested in Channel Super Fun let's say every time
44:05
this this Linus Media Group Channel dumped a Channel Super Fun video out it
44:11
would increase viewer fatigue and YouTube would stop Distributing our
44:15
videos and recommending them to people across the platform as much yeah the
44:18
more focused your channel is the more likely you are to be picked up by the
44:23
algorithm and shared and Skyrocket perfect examples of this that we've seen
44:27
in the last year um are guys like what's inside every video is the same formula
44:35
or the pneumatic thing yes you crushing thing
44:39
or someone like techrax okay you watch a techrax video you watch a what's inside
44:44
video you know what you're going to get a guy destroying an iPhone in some kind
44:49
of creative Manner and a guy and his kid
44:53
cutting something open and looking at what's inside it and that allows
44:58
channels like that to experience the kind of explosive growth that we For
45:02
Better or For Worse never will because we try to tackle a broad broad variety
45:09
but even then we're limited if we tried to start doing like pet videos on lineus
45:14
Tech tips it would hurt us in a huge way
45:18
I mean we experienced recently a a big drop in per video viewership that turned
45:23
out to be due to us just having kind of a run of about five days of videos that
45:28
were below viewer expectations in terms of the interest level and all of a
45:32
sudden our new videos as far as we could tell we're getting delivered to maybe
45:35
60% as many people and uh that's why
45:40
that's why we do what we do because we have to so the game we're
45:43
playing what else um okay lots of
45:47
questions lots of people asking about Dennis so um I got you I I don't know
45:57
I don't know how much to say or not say I guess now that it's over should I just
46:01
like be UPF front like what happened with Dennis yeah okay so uh Dennis
46:07
wasn't working here um for a long period
46:11
of time actually um basically what happened and
46:16
it comes back to uh my first
46:20
conversation with Dennis where I interviewed him and I asked him if he had a Canadian work permit and he said
46:25
yes um and didn't clarify exactly how
46:29
long his Canadian work permit was valid
46:32
for
46:36
um and uh anyway so his Canadian work
46:40
permit expired so he had fortunately he still
46:45
had visitor Visa status so he didn't actually have to like leave permanently
46:51
leave the country and go back to Taiwan but um Dennis has been gone uh while
46:58
we've been going through a very very
47:02
long tedious process that uh anyone who
47:06
wants to hire a foreign National who doesn't have um a work a work visa um
47:13
has to go through and it's called an lmia it's a labor market impact
47:17
assessment and so what we have to do is we have to demonstrate that the POS that
47:22
for the position that we want to hire in this case we want to hire Dennis
47:27
that it will not affect Canadians who are equally qualified who are also
47:33
looking for that job or that those
47:36
applicants would not be suitable for us
47:39
um so that whole process took about six
47:44
months because we actually began it long
47:47
before uh Dennis's work permit expired
47:50
and um as of I believe it was uh as of
47:56
Friday last week um I had was it Friday
48:02
last week last week I had an interview
48:05
with um with an agent who was reviewing
48:08
finally like it took months after it was submitted for anyone to even look at it
48:12
but I had an interview with the agent and it really did not look very good um
48:18
but thanks to ivonne's diligence because
48:22
she documented freaking everything like the agent was like why didn't you hire
48:26
this guy who applied and Ivon was
48:30
like okay we emailed him on this date he
48:34
emailed back on this date he got a job somewhere else and the agent's like okay
48:39
moving on to the next one like they dug deep yeah and um thanks to yvon's
48:46
diligence effective November 1st I
48:49
believe yeah Dennis is back at lus Media
48:53
Group so there you have it it has been extraordinarily stressful for us because
48:58
Dennis is as you guys know and I'm sure can appreciate an extremely valuable
49:03
member of our team here um we take a very you know no man Left Behind sort of
49:09
approach to things I'm not going to I'm not going to like I'm not bragging or
49:13
anything but like to me this kind of
49:16
thing is very important it cost us many thousands of dollars um to go through
49:20
this process um in order to make sure
49:24
that Dennis could not only get get his
49:27
work permit to work here but um it's
49:30
also probably the last one of the last steps um for him to get his permanent
49:35
residence and officially become a Canadian so um that's that's been that's
49:40
been really exciting for for me taian number one and for him so yeah there you
49:46
go that is what we have been the Journey
49:49
of Dennis has been very interesting very quiet about and uh it's actually it
49:54
feels good to get it out there because like
49:57
oh I've addressed on like my thing but
50:02
the only thing I've said the whole time is that he's not working here right now
50:05
yeah that's all we're allowed to really say so there you go it it was really
50:10
close oh man was it close um what else
50:14
we got for topics today uh sure there's something
50:18
wow Microsoft and Apple oh yeah we haven't even talked about the Microsoft
50:22
and Apple things and it's six and six uh PornHub offers to buy Vine six seconds
50:27
is more than enough and you know what considering Vine's Auto
50:31
Loop that might be true yeah there could
50:35
be some pretty creative uh pretty creative x-rated Vines I'm sure yeah I
50:42
mean many banner ads for pornographic
50:45
sites are basically
50:48
Vines you really think about it PornHub has promised to restore Vine to its not
50:53
safe for work Glory
50:58
was there like Nazi for work stuff on Vines yeah okay yeah yeah and then they
51:01
tried to clean it up and make it Advertiser friendly and then now they're closing it so that's that's the history
51:06
of Vine in 10 seconds or less um oh man
51:09
that's funny all right let's talk about the MacBook Pro so the uh original
51:13
Source here is oh hold on no I want to do those straw poles before I totally
51:17
forget yeah so browse web on projector you guys are full of crap yeah 22% of
51:23
you 22% of you projector sails go through the roof everyone starts making
51:27
them gigantic load of garbage everyone watches my dorm room Tech video and
51:31
they're like wow yeah everything in this video makes sense now okay are you app
51:35
fatigued 78% of you saying yes although I have to take these results with a
51:39
grain of salt because you guys are a bunch of freaking Liars no dude 22% are
51:43
not app fatigued and are watching this on a projector well projectors you can't
51:47
install apps on projectors bogus unless you had an LG Smart projector oh
51:54
dang all right so moving on on to the new Macbook Pro with uh and uh with a
52:02
touch strip along the top that replaces
52:06
the function bar I got to say good move I mean it's not the first time this idea
52:10
has ever come up the art lebedev Optimus keyboard was the first one to have this
52:14
idea OLED displays behind every key and
52:18
you could Pro I mean did did anyone ever get one I don't think I ever saw it
52:22
outside of concept art but uh that's like what got me interested in keyboard
52:27
yeah so I think that's what got a lot of people interested in keyboards so so
52:30
they they officially give a crap about laptops again but they don't seem to
52:36
know who they're making them for because it says right here MacBook Pro and it's
52:43
not for professionals as far as I can tell but this this raises a lot of
52:47
questions for me this here because the
52:51
13-in model unless you dock it the 13-inch model I'm I'm docking marks from
52:58
Apple that's what's getting docked right now son dang dang uh my D my scroll
53:04
isn't working a laptop dock why is my scroll considering the USB-C ports of
53:08
this thing has woo those are expensive oh man every 13in MacBook Pro has no
53:17
dedicated GPU I'm sorry are you kidding me 20 2550
53:25
for no ddy GPU no I'm I'm down I get it so you got I mean this is the thing
53:31
apple is the company pre that whips out the GPU performance slide pure four them
53:37
every time they release a new iPad or an iPhone and talks about the importance of
53:43
GPU heterogeneous compute for for for
53:48
the performance of future Computing devices I mean this can produce graphics
53:53
and then Intel Iris Graphics 550 and
53:56
then builds a professional product that goes all the way up to
54:03
$2500 Us doll hold on no we're onca
54:06
we're onca so let's be cognizant of that
54:09
let's try to go to us and see if that works okay so let's bring it up with
54:13
with the US prices all the way up to
54:16
$2,000 with eight gigs of RAM and no
54:22
graphics card and not a single typ a USB
54:26
Port I'm sold no one will ever need more than 8 gigs of
54:30
RAM I mean to be clear you can configure it with more memory oh but you would
54:35
need to so let's look at the 15inch which you
54:39
could make the argument is more of a is more of a professional great do they
54:43
even have quad cores holy crap no I missed that they don't even have dual
54:47
they don't even have quad core processors no one needs more than two
54:50
cores two cores 8 gigs of RAM like anything above that is you're just
54:54
compensating I don't even understand what this product is compensator call it
54:57
watch the video it's coming out at this is like this is like MacBook Pro for
55:01
students and I understand that it's like lots of students go buy a MacBook Pro so
55:06
so basically Apple's given up on because my whole thing with apple is that so
55:10
much of their marketing in the past has been around selling what people want to
55:15
be and selling what people want to do versus what they are and what they can
55:19
do so like an apple commercial is full of like all the amazing like videos that
55:25
you create when the the reality of it is is it's a very small subset of the
55:29
population that creates any kind of video that anyone anywhere would want to
55:32
watch Austin Evans I'm sorry Austin
55:35
Evans yeah sure I'm actually like looking for I guess are you doing a
55:39
review of yes I am you are okay yeah
55:42
I'll look forward to your video too
55:47
wow I'm interested to see what you guys say about it because the USB type-c
55:52
stuff it's actually kind of interesting losing type A is going to suck but I I
55:57
like seeing how many type C's they had
56:01
disappointed with the fact that there's no type A's what I'll tell you right now
56:05
is that I Without Really realizing what I had done because I didn't watch the
56:09
event and I didn't look that closely at the specs did you order a dual core I
56:13
ordered a dual core 13inch MacBook Pro
56:16
so I can tell you right now my review will contain a a concise but uh spirited
56:23
rant about how Apple could possibly
56:26
believe that dual core is pro for
56:30
anything um yeah so there's that I I forget where I was going with whatever I
56:35
was talking about before but four Thunderbolt 3 ports four Thunderbolt
56:38
what could I possibly need four Thunderbolt 3 ports for that I can run
56:42
with a dual C you you could charge four pixels at a time not an iPhone you can't
56:49
plug that in don't buy one of those
56:56
that's my favorite thing oh man they don't have a first-party cable I I don't
57:01
think well okay there's probably an adapter or something like that but you'd have to buy it after the fact I do not
57:05
believe the iPhone comes with a lightning to USBC connector no it
57:09
doesn't so you you could literally walk
57:13
out of an Apple store without being able to plug your iPhone into your but
57:18
remember Apple's Vision Apple has the courage to do away with wires but not
57:24
but not the courage to have wir charging or the ability to plug their own
57:29
products into each other what happened to like the insanely cohesive hard to
57:33
get out of Mac ecosystem I've heard it's still hard to get out of but like they
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don't even work well properly you have to get an adapter to plug your phone
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into your own Mac laptop it's wireless wireless is the future but but it's not
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airport why do they call it airport I don't know are there planes do you uh I
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don't no I don't know I going to say do you do and then I was like wait nope
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that's that's Star Citizen or Eve nope nope nope um what are we even talking
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about right now okay so right right I wanted to talk I wanted to talk about
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the specs of the 15in I I'm like I'm screwed I can't believe I just ordered a
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dual core laptop for like $3,000 can
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dbrand ordered it CU they're sending it skinned like I I might have to I might
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have to get in touch with dbrand be like yo whoa hold on hold on hold on um hold
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on okay so dude you could get 16 gigs of memory that's two times the amount that
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you need it gets even worse okay so the 15 in has whopping radon Pro 450
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Graphics oh dang for 2400 to 2800
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us dang two gigs of vram hell yeah I
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mean this is one of those you don't even get any more ports I thought they'd give
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you you know five at least Thunderbolt Thunderbolt three ports you need that
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fifth one dude you got to have it I uh I
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wonder if you could okay nah I'm not even going to bring that up could you
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like okay no I'm interested now the it I doubt it because the power there's no
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way the power supply would be able to take this but could you like plug it in
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through all of those ports to charge this has got to be the stupidest
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thing I've ever said but like does it dynamically know if one of them is
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receiving power and it'll turn receiving power off on all the other ports I'll be perfectly honest with you like I said I
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did not watch the keynote okay so it's possible that there's actually a
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dedicated charging port I'm not sure okay I'll have to look again like I
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don't I I was wondering if you if you plug in a bunch of type-c devices and
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put them all to like charge the other device is that going to like screw the MacBook up or how does that even work I
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I don't think so I've never tried it should be correctly should be correctly
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managed um so yeah I color me not
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impressed I do not agree that it's a touch of Genius I love the huge trackpad
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I love the idea of the dynamically
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reconfigurable function row I think that is a step forward and
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um is a great move um I am not a fan of the io but hey
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oh yeah no they do charge via the USB type-c port so there you go oh I knew it
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charged through that I was wondering how they deal with the multiple ports yep um
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so it does have a headphone jack at least it has that going for it yeah it
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looks great it's really thin but I don't I can't think of a reason why it should
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be this thin and give up having a decent
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GPU and in the case of the 13inch uh a
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GPU at all and a proper CPU you want know what's kind of funny
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can I help you you were talking about Dennis and he said that the MacBook doesn't have a single tie pay USB a typ
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a oh type oh type A I know oh thanks
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that's the joke thanks thank
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you single Ty have you seen his hair
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who's have you seen his hair his hair hair I don't think he even noticed after
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he told me to cut my yeah no I don't I don't I don't notice I don't notice if
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you get a haircut I notice if you haven't had one in like four months yeah
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I get my money's worth when I get haircuts yeah oh is it are you bald no
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oh but it's like mostly yeah that's good that's looks
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good Taiwan number one Taiwan number one Taiwan number one so uh well by the way
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you guys were right we haven't even made it through the four topics yet I told
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you it would be a four topic W four topic w okay let's talk let's talk
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surface studio all right so we didn't get to see
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this so we wanted to go to the launch
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for this but we had what like 3 days notice no no no no no no no to be fair
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to them they they gave us way more notice than that okay but we were just
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in a situation where you were like you
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were out I had pneumonia we didn't know what was happening so like we didn't
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have someone to send and we didn't know what it was going to be about we didn't
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know that it was going to be like a ball
61:59
like super NDA I'm sure wer allowed to
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say anything they were like you should really go it's like right up your alley
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but then the only picture that I had about it said like an update for Windows
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or something or like the future of Windows I think it was the future of
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Windows the rumor was that it was going to be about Windows and then yeah and
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then there was a rumor at the exact same time that was about another just
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software update to Windows so I was like uh okay so evidence that Microsoft
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understands what the word professional means yeah uh even though they didn't
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even use it but they they are they they have Pro in creative
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process so there's that okay um this is
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a Ballin machine this thing is super cool it's expensive but to be clear I
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wasn't complaining about the price more expensive than the MacBook Pro of the MacBook Pro yeah I wasn't complaining
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about the price of the MacBook Pro what I was complaining about was was that it
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has the word Pro in the name if you just called it
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MacBook and you just made it like a
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Macbook for like people who like MacBooks then sure great MacBook light
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charge as much as you want for it what I don't like is calling it pro when it
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doesn't even have a discrete GPU in it and it has 8 gigs of RAM and a dual core
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that is not pro that is consumer that is
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very consumer grade um so anyway the surface Studio 28 in high resolution
63:27
display quad core core i7 processor
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comes with a pen so you can draw which is freaking cool um you can have up to a
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4 gig GTX 980m GPU which I'm guessing is
63:43
only because of the long development cycle for a product like this I would
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expect a refresh at some point with some kind of Pascal based GPU they could get
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a 1060 in there TDP wise no problem up
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to 32 gigs of RAM thank you 980m I think
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they could fit a TDP wise 1070 couldn't they no not quite I'm I'm pretty sure
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we'd be looking at 1060 okay cuz that's what we got on uh blade 14 which had a
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970m but I think 1070 is too much more
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kind of thing like it's okay cuz I what the understanding I had was that it was
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one down you might be right maybe I'm not
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sure though but then like you also said that the configurability of the tdps on
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those things is insane so like who knows y so um 4500 by 3,000 resolution display
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uh it can handle uh srgb DC3 and Vivid
64:39
color profiles it's a 10-point multitouch it's a 3x2 aspect ratio like
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again people who understand
64:48
Pro know that the square display is
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actually pretty badass I would like to
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see them have an accompany display so that I could have a dual a dual display
64:58
set up that that you could use in the same way yeah so I could have two 3x2
65:03
displays not that you can't expand the displays with something else but you
65:07
can't do the same format you can't get the same there's some special
65:11
functionality that comes with it one thing that is missing that I would have
65:15
liked to see and I know that it's like not the hugest thing on for PC is I
65:20
would have liked to see Thunderbolt um because it is becoming more of a thing
65:26
on especially mobile PCS
65:29
um but I still feel pretty darn good
65:32
about this and I love that at least if they're thing man at least if they're
65:37
going to charge a bunch of money for
65:41
a they've got this really cool like full
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down fantastic beautiful display
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powerful thing that uh kind of excites
65:52
me Xbox wireless built in the fact that it doesn't include office it's kind of
65:59
frustrating I think that that's an opportunity that Microsoft has to offer
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value on their Hardware products that um
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in my mind shouldn't cannibalize um shouldn't cannibalize
66:12
Standalone office sales really that much they did it with the Surface RT for
66:16
example where they're like this is an awful product what could we possibly do
66:21
to move a few units you get office get office the one the one app that was ever
66:27
made for like ARM Windows that matters
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yeah yay yeah um so yeah I'm really
66:34
looking forward to checking this out have we like thing are we getting one
66:39
we're getting one we haven't ordered one but we are getting one okay good yeah
66:42
all right just making sure wow I had a like Panic moment there for a minute the
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dial thing oh sorry Does it show the dial thing anywhere here the dial thing
66:48
how does it not show the dial thing the yay this thing is so cool have you seen
66:52
it in the video so like they put it on the screen straight up on the screen I
66:56
don't know how it fixes itself there I'm assuming there's a type of like rubbery
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something on the bottom cuz I'm sure it's not magnets through the screen I
67:04
don't know how it works I mean magnets don't affect LCDs the way that they did
67:08
affect CRTs like it I don't know might yeah but I just I just I doubt it yeah I
67:12
don't think so any anyways it and it can be used for different things so in one
67:16
situation they turn the dial and it rotates the image another situation it's
67:20
a color wheel and you're able to turn and change the color wheel with one hand
67:24
while you like stroke paint with the other hand so they had gradient paint
67:28
going through as the person's changing it that's really cool very cool I don't
67:31
do the art stuff but I like physical control of things so being able to turn
67:35
that to select your color would actually be pretty awesome I don't do the art
67:38
stuff Luke lafrenier 2016 yeah it's
67:42
probably pretty accurate have you seen me try to do anything that's artistic
67:45
yes it's pretty bad I know I can manage cables pretty well that's good yeah all
67:51
right so speaking of things that we do well ending the show
67:56
by Rolling the intro okay we don't do that well but
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we've had a pretty good track record lately yeah watch it not work this time
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thanks for watching guys see you again next week bye
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hey oh we have to destroy the cable we
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come back after the out yeah
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uh no no no no no I just want this
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cable I'm going to make this cable my bch is it stuck on something hold onug
68:40
hold on uh no no I think I unplugged it
68:43
unless I didn't in which case I would not have oh no I I did not unplug it
68:48
okay okay so it appears as though the
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cable was indeed the problem so here we
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go Hulk Edition line of
69:02
Sebastian hold on Good Luck cuz this is going to be pretty intense cable to you
69:07
think so yeah pretty intense cable to break yeah what are you
69:13
grabbing all right ready Hulk Edition Linus oh yeah
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okay here we go
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a yeah
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boom I went and got these and everything
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just I hid these behind my back didn't even need them see you next week guys
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good job