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dude these are my notes on the truck that I took just while we were there oh my God oh my God I'm ready I I got all
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the answers inject it into my veins I'm super ready for this ask me anything quiz me quiz me quiz me I'm going to
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questions what is up people of the internet welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts
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I'm Marquez and I'm David and today we've got quite a bit of news to talk about new products new videos new stuff
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new developments it's all happening because it's Tech vember and that's just the way it goes also uh some other
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random stuff like cyber truck we've got we got everything you need to know about cyber truck which just today the Embargo
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dropped on that so we've got a there's video out and there's lot of other stuff so so all the details all the official
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stuff also wait quick correction this is coming out out Friday December 1st correct te not Tech
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tember it doesn't roll off the tongue of feels weird anyway we'll stick with it
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detch DET I don't know detch sure Frosty the techman but also let's start off
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with uh this dbrand story and case toi story cuz I think it's actually really
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funny big drama energy going on here it's pretty funny so and and I got a heads up about this before but basically
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it's all there now Zack JG everything made a video detailing it the highle overview is dbrand has made a bunch of
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cases with Zack with the tear down Skin So a bunch of skins that look like the inside of a phone but they're like
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cleaned up and have a bunch of cool Easter eggs and stuff yeah and then case toy a huge case company decided to also
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make a similarly themed but different named tear down skin for their stuff and
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cases for their stuff and uh just straight ripped a bunch of dbrand designs in a way where it's not just a
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straight Rip but you can tell they tried to hide some of it they slightly photosho stuff out they missed so many
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Easter eggs that made it clearly the debr skin yeah so that's the high level overview but the the details are so much
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more funny because the way Zach's video presented all of it was so kind so nice
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and the funny is more stuff came out after the video went live that people realized that they had been ripping
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skins for a while before that yeah so I think basically some some intern or some
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artist at casify probably an intern was like hired they probably were told hey we need some cool new ideas and they
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went right click save as lit import into Photoshop tweak some things and then
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went look at this cool thing I came up with and they were like whoa yeah this looks very similar to what dbrand did
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yeah are you sure it's far away enough and they're like no trust me it's not the same yeah whoops yeah so the funny
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thing about about this is that originally they launched a line of of skins called inside Parts um that's what
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it's called yeah well that was the original lineup so this this was launched a long time ago and they got
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not in trouble but people started making fun of them including dbrand like quote tweeted them on Twitter and then made a
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bunch of fun of them because the inside part skin was taken from one phone and no matter what phone you bought the skin
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for it was the insides of the one phone right so it was an incorrect inside of
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most of the phones that this game which was an iPhone I believe yeah so you had like an A5 processor on
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your Galaxy s23 which is like fine for a lot of people but if you're willing to dig into the weeds and get nerdy about
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it you can do way better than that yeah yeah so then they came out with a new line called inside out which did
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represent the right device per case uh but then dbr noticed that they probably didn't do their own work of making them
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themselves because of all of the uh little Easter eggs there was stuff like 111111 which was D Brand's founding date
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the there was r087 which is supposed to spell robots
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because you know dbrand robots and casify has nothing to do with that forgot to take that they even had the
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the quote glass is glass and glass breaks and it's like do you really think that that's going to be part of the inside of a phone huge huge Miss there
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oh man yeah yeah big Miss I think that's the number one thing I learned actually about this is how much effort it takes
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to make a tear down skin yeah I was just going to say that it's crazy process that they that they detailed was was
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it's impressive you obviously can just take the back off of a phone and you know put it up against the scanner scan
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it and just like print that if you really wanted to you could do that too it's way uglier yeah it's way uglier and
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they wanted to give it some pops of color and some high resolution like detail and some cool looks so they're
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adapting the actual accurate inside of the back of the phone and then adding some things like an exposed wireless
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charging coil for a touch of copper or maybe like adding some text like you said some Easter eggs and some fun stuff
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boosting contrast in certain places Etc so they they really go above and beyond to make those which is cool yeah so
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dbrand is uh issuing a federal lawsuit against Ki in the 10 uh eight figures
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which could be between $10 million and 100 million that's a bigan which is a lot of
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money casify is a big company and then castify uh went on Twitter and oh this is hard they were like we are
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investigating reports of this we have always been a Bastion of
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uh what did they say originality which okay and then it gets
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deeper it gets worse don't worry and then uh someone pointed out that they had a line of x-rayed skins as well that
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people realized they had literally just taken from if fix's website they right
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clicked saved as for iFix it scans nice yeah and then uh iix it made a statement
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on Twitter as well that was roasting them too and it just became this whole thing and it's like Bastion of
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originality when you're just stealing everyone's stuff if you have to call yourself a Bastion of originality you
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probably aren't one yeah I think that's probably we've always been a Bastion of Virgin yeah so the same day that dbr launched the lawsuit um which they made
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a whole media event of by the way they sent people emails saying we're suing yeah they're literally using it as press
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oh yeah yeah yeah like like us talking about it on the podcast is they're probably watching this like yes yes keep
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going keep talking about it so yeah they're they're getting a a lot out of this for sure and they launched a new
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set of skins a new set of X-ray skins with uh with Zack with a 50 Micron X
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x-ray machine which is very very fine detail yeah pretty much good for them good for them oh CH disclaimer dbrand is
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a channel sponsor on the main channel right I don't know if you have heard that before but just just so we get it
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up there sounds familiar yeah you've you've probably heard that said before but just in case you didn't know I think we got to stop trusting these companies
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that end in fi you know like SP Spotify H worked sort of you know whatever
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Burgery confusing sponsor Shopify are they sponsoring us today did I just mess
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that up sorry maybe not today I don't know I use Google F oh fi it's called
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Google project fi now or Google F Wireless now actually they changed the name again yeah yeah anyway anyway uh next
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story is actually kind of a little bit of a tip to a special episode that we have coming up um I think it got they
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they posted an Instagram thing of it so I think people know that we podcasted with them oh yeah right yeah yeah so we
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did a podcast with uh which is going to be airing fairly soon I'm going to beep
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that but Google is deploying a new geothermal energy project that is now up and running in Nevada uh this is part of
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their kind of like clean energy by 2030 initiative and you know we go back and forth about what are these companies
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actually doing are they just buying credits are they doing this and and it's you know there's a lot of there's a lot of detail baked in there uh but they
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partnered with this company called fero to do this new type of geothermal energy
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plant where effectively they've got hot rocks out in Nevada okay Hot Rocks which is also a name of a spoon album that's
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really good just so you know okay yeah it is go on okay anyway
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they've got these really hot rocks uhuh they crack uh they make cracks in the rocks and then they what this is real
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they make cracks in the rocks and then they put a closed loop system in there they pour water into the cracks the
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water turns to steam turns turbines that water eventually turns back in or that
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steam basically eventually turns back into water falls back into the Rocks turns back into steam and uh it Powers
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pretty much uh Google's entire energy centers not energy centers data centers
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throughout uh Reno and Las Vegas it generates 3.5 megaw of power which is
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enough to service about 2,625 homes um but it's running all their data centers in that part of
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Nevada and they want to eventually expand it this is a small project right now because it's a brand new type of
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geothermal energy production but uh yeah it's pretty cool they have some really
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awesome like aerial photos of the whole setup and like how it works and everything and I think that it just it
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makes a lot of sense to take more advantage of the natural energy sources that we already have all the time yeah
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renewable renewable energy yeah which a lot of companies like apple will make these like videos of all these solar
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farms and stuff that they have and instead of buying credits it would be great if we actually just switched over
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to these renewable energy sour that is one huge distinction between like so many of these claims that we should we
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we'll talk about but it's the difference between oh we want to be net neutral to
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the environment so we're going to pollute a lot but then pay for someone else to not poll a difference between
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that and actually changing the way you operate to not pollute so much yeah so I
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can't help but be happy every time I see some actually useful meaningful changes like this so yeah also the picture is
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super cool yeah the pictures are really cool I I saw a story today that said some Airline was paying a ton of money
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to put like a 100 tons of CO2 underground and I'm like that just doesn't sound like it's a good long-term
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strategy what if we take it out of the and put it under put it over there feel
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like the Earth is just going to explode at some point so I don't know enough about how that works but yeah I think as
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we edged closer to 2030 we're probably going to see a lot of these companies releasing new renewable energy projects
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like this which is pretty cool um and hopefully they expand this a little bit more obviously you need to be in an area
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that does geothermal stuff um so Nevada is a good spot to kind of pilot it in
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yeah if you're in carne I suggest wind yeah I suggest lots of wind stuff CU it's wind windy all the time yeah yeah
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yeah yeah so um probably last little story before trivia in the ad break uh
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this kind of just dropped through yesterday but Apple card is dropping Goldman Sachs so I've had this apple
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card and I knew it was Goldman Sachs but I also am aware of golden sachs's terrible reputation because as soon as
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this news dropped everyone was like thank God this this it's about time so now there's all these rumors about who they might switch to or what they might
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do next but also Apple who said this in the slack Apple has enough cash on hand
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to just be a they could and they have this thing called Apple financial services that they use for the I think
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the high yield savings accounts or something like that where you can buy things interest free is
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that or is that a different company I think that's a different company okay yeah yeah but uh B&H has that or not
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interest free but B&H has a thing that they use synchron for which is actually one of the companies that they are potentially Fielding to be the Apple car
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backer uh we on B&H which is a camera store in in New York City giant camera store in New York City if you use that
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credit card the benefit is that you don't have to pay sales tax they cover the sales tax which is pretty nice cuz
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B&H used to not charge sales tax and then the laws changed and they had to so
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then they figured out a way to get around it anyway Goldman Sachs for people that are not aware traditionally was a bank that only uh lent money to
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extremely rich people who are going to like either start new wings of their
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corporation or buy a mega yacht or something like that and so them getting into the like consumer banking business
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was already pretty weird and clearly they are not doing it well I personally
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think cu the Apple card as a card is not a good General credit card it's not that great it's only 1% cash back on
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everything and then you get I think 3% on Apple products and on Apple pay when
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you use Apple pay right wait through anything when I tap to pay it's 2% everywhere oh 2% there's just a lot of
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more General like Visa cards that give you better cash back in most categories yeah so golden Sachs says that it's lost
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$3 billion from the Apple card deal since 2020 which is pretty wild um they're
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trying to pull out of the consumer banking Market alog together at this point whoops yeah another whoops moment
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yeah so there have been uh rumors that they're Fielding American Express or possibly Synchrony Bank to be the new backer the next victim yeah the next
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victim because obviously I don't think apple is going to kill the product like I don't think Apple very rarely kills
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products mhm and killing a credit card would be a big blow for them so I can't
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really see that happening interesting yeah if this was Google oh yeah would have been gone this already this already
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remember the Google Wallet physical card oh yeah wait this literally oh this liter well it wasn't a credit card it
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was a debit card basically how fast did that get nuked within like a year or two maybe two years I remember I was so
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depressed when it got nuked I was like how you use this all the time 2016 the original Google Wallet now not the
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rebranded rebranded now again Google Wallet wow that did happen yeah okay
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it's been a long few years yeah so well that's a good that's a good break to take we we have a lot to talk about with
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this cyber truck so let's take a quick break before that okay and of course that means we should do trivia
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[Music] trivia trivia all right because uh we're
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talking about geothermal energy and everything like that this is going to be more science-based ni mung beans some
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mung bean questions uh not about Mung Meats the top layer of our planet is
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called the crust and it only goes 25 miles deep that's where all the hot rocks are that's where the spoon album
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is I did know that so everything I'm I'm on board so far I know this thing the other layers are called the mantle yep
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and the what ah I know this do you know this yeah wow do you take Geo whatever in college or
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High School geology yes I thought it was like Geo physics or
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Geo astr I thinkology geology geology no this is pre this is
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pre geology where they were just like here's what pre geology this is before the earth existed no this is like fifth grade or whatever Ancient Aliens this
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would be on are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader you had geology class in fifth grade no cuz they they told us this
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before we learn the rest of geology oh just about the earth and the crust they
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like by the way part and the cheese we have a crust and a mantle a mantle and
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it beep wow the mantle is usually where I hang all of my oh my God things on
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there we have to end it any we have to stop we'll be back
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okay all right welcome back we uh we are joined at the big table by Ellis I made
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it and the reason the reason we're doing this is because we got back earlier today from
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shooting a video with the Tesla cybertruck this correct this is officially the week of the the first
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deliveries there's going to be 10 sometime right before uh this recording drops the first delivery event where
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there's rumored to be I don't know 10 or 15 cyber trucks being delivered but the point is they're going to be out on the streets the official delivery specs and
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new information about what you're actually going to buy instead of just the prototype truck is revealed and so
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now we get to react to that stuff and I'm also one of three people outside of Tesla to have driven the Cyber truck and
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wow do I have some thoughts on driving the thing so Ellis you with me for a lot of that recording David you have
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thoughts probably questions about it you have not seen the cybertruck I have many questions I I just want to background it
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with this yeah going into it I'm sure a lot of us were skeptical not sure if it
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was real not sure how close it would be to the actual concept truck now that I've actually seen it driven it used it
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I have several really big Praises of it and also several really big negatives to
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okay so there are there are definitely big positiv big negatives I think let's just start with the numbers because the
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things that everyone wanted to know about uh as it got revealed all of the numbers on paper except 0 to 60 are
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worse than they promised o and this is the first time that's true about a Tesla Yik I feel like they always are usually
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able to deliver what they promised just really late this time straight up all the numbers are worse so those numbers
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are uh there are three trims a single motor rear wheel drive a dual motor
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all-wheel drive and a triple motor powertrain the triple motor being the highest n one that we tested it's dual
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motors in the in the back with torque vectoring and a single permanent permanent magnet motor up front can you
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uh explain torque vectoring for people who don't know cars like it's essentially just you're able to
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independently control the rear wheels so if you go around a turn you can independently slow down the inside wheel
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with one motor while you accelerate the other outside wheel with the other motor it's like what the F1 cars did right exactly you know when you're on the BART
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and you go around a corner and you hear that terrible screeching noise yeah that's because the bart trains barely
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have differentials and torque vectoring is not happening okay okay got it so
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here's the numbers on the truck uh they originally promised 500 mil of range on
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the highest end Truck Yeah the highest end truck has 340 Mi of range o they originally promised when you say highest
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end do you mean like most range most efficient most range okay yeah they originally promised um 340 from 500 yeah
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they promised 14,000 lbs of towing capacity it has 11,000 lb of towing capacity YY uh they promised a 2.9
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second Z to 6 it is a 2.7 second Z to 60 so it's actually faster interesting they
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promised $69,900 for the Triple motor it is $100,000 yeah so that's the highest end
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cybertruck triple motor $100,000 $340 Mi of range and that will ship alongside
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the dual motor as the first one's out the factory and the single motor rear will drive will be later the dual motor
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we're thinking again this is pre-event but it's probably around 75 to 85 Grand
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okay so that's that's on paper the truck itself is also about 5% smaller in every
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Dimension than the original truck huh we went up with an F-150 Lightning to go shoot this and it is a little bit
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smaller than the F-150 Lightning whereas yeah the original truck was about the same size interesting that being said
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it's still the same 6ft bed size as an F-150 it just has a much smaller front
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trunk very small shallow front trunk so I can't lie in it with Brandon this time
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you can't lie down in it the rivan has a bigger front trunk the F-150 has a bigger front trunk even the small um GMC
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Hummer e has a bigger front trunk little tiny Hummer Eevee yeah but you could fit two carry on bag h e is still bigger
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than all of these cars right hum e is gigantic it's huge it has a 200 something kilow hour battery okay and
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weighs 9,000 lb the H the Hun okay the Cyber Tru has every one of will have a 123 Kow battery and will weigh about
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6,800 lb so it's lighter than the rivan oh how much is the rivan way about 7500
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lb okay so you just know all this off the top of your head yeah yeah yeah sorry a lot of numbers just to but like
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this the first time we're learning yeah but this is the spec this is the first time we actually get the specs yeah so
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again some positive and negative in there I have a question sure so you said the max price was 100,000 that's the
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roughly starting price of the triple motor how how much is the cheapest cheap cheap one we don't know yet TBD okay
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interesting we'd be guessing but I don't think it's going to be anywhere near the originally promised 39900 yeah you think
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they'll reveal it at the event I don't think so I think they're going to start with the duel and triple and I think we'll find out months from now to be
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fair to Tesla rivan did the same thing in Jack the price by a lot exactly so okay and there's there's been a bunch of
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talk about this how like when this truck was first announced years ago it launched into a very different world
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than we live in now which is like some inflation some new Wars like some totally different circumstances so yeah
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it's a different time to be building this thing yeah but at least the product is done now and we can actually analyze
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the product itself yeah so Ellis you've seen it in person yeah what were your
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reactions to riding in it seeing it observing its reality I know okay first I want to say
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I know I've been clowning on this thing on this very show for months uh I've
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been ridiculing the cybertruck relentlessly it's awesome it's so awesome which I totally recognize that
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if the roads were exclusively full of cyber trucks the world would be objectively a worse and scarier and more
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dangerous place Mr let's all ride bikes very yeah but the 11-year-old boy in me thinks
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this thing totally kicks out it's so cool the the photos you don't do it
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justice that's the thing for me when you see it in person it's really striking and really beautiful and it's reflective
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in the perfect way and does it feel does it actually feel well constructed and
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built and doesn't feel like they just slapped a bunch of panels together that made it like no no it feels dirty like
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dirty build wait you think it feels like a dirty build yeah oh I was going to say the opposite interesting so there's two
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parts of this yeah one just like the prototype truck obviously is going to feel like a prototype but the finished
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truck I think is a mix of like you weren't in a finish truck we were in a
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finish truck so iess so I took I rode the the original prototype like four years ago and that thing I it was at
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night I couldn't even tell like what was made of what it was just a quick glancing blow with the cybertruck seeing
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this final one it's like okay now everything is well formed and even panel gaps are pretty even but this was the
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hand selected truck to give to us to shoot on camera right and even this truck had a couple slightly oddly shaped
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gaps and the difference between the gaps on the truck we were testing versus the gaps on the 10 other trucks that I
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observed yeah which to be fair weren't final trucks but I saw lots of other cyber trucks and had lots of other
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differences in build yeah so that's something I observed and the other thing is I just like pulled up on the uh the
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dashboard and like was just pulling on things and just feeling General materials it's it's not great it's it's
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like a Tesla it's fine it's not amazing it's not horrible but it's it's a Tesla
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it's fine a piece fell off before we even started testing it like we arrived at the location we were going to shoot at and Vin was like oh my God this thing
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is like dangling off the was it and like put it back on just like a plastic body yeah wow so yeah it is what it is lots
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of other interesting things about it though yeah let's go so okay first of all it's an 800 volt system which is
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good news for future proofing that means all the V4 superchargers that Tesla's building with the longer cable it will
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charge even faster at those probably over 1,000 mph which is awesome V3
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charge at 1,000 over 1,000 V3 charges at about 1,000 mph for the model 3 which is a 400 volt system uh this new 800 volt
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system will likely be even faster when you charge on v4s but it's also backwards compatible with v3s because it
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cleverly talks to the V3 charger virtually splits it actually physically splits it into two smaller battery packs
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and charges them each oh wow at the Oppo battery system yeah so I thought
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that was really clever that's cool that's cool charge a lot faster then right it'll charge a lot faster it will also have uh much less wire Mass uh
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generally should be better at dissipation of heat exactly yeah they they uh was Wes the head engineer of the
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C so we were looking the head engineer of the cybertruck product was there and he was explaining to us that a lot of
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the low voltage wires they actually stepped up to 48 volts so they could
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step down the wattage and have a much thinner wire without having to worry about it burning out he said and this is
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a very Tesla engineer thing to say he was like we were approaching the limits of how thin a wire could physically be
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you know that seems like a bad idea okay you know it's like that seems could
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break really easily no there're they're strong they're strong wires it's just typically to push that much current
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through a wire you need a thicker wire and they're able to use thin wires okay cool okay neat cool um that much wattage
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cuz they dropped the current sorry yes wattage phys you like me OHS law electrical engineering students sorry
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I'm an am this one's for you I was just looking up the equation resistance all that fun okay
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here's my favorite thing about the truck okay the number one most unique most amazing thing about the Cyber truck is
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not the way it looks it's the way it drives yep it's crazy it's a crazy Drive
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why so first of all it is a ridiculously powerful truck right triple Motors we're
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looking at 850 is horsepower okay off the line it'll smoke name any sports car
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it's going to beat it off the line in a straight line that's just like the party trick that Tesla's good at they've been good at that for a while they know
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that'll sell people the tug of war with an F-150 I'm sure it'll Crush like great
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I'm used to that that's fine this is also Tesla's first steer by wire system
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and they've combined it with this like squirkle it's not a yoke anymore it's like a full round steering wheel but like flattened so like a rectangle oh um
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but the amount of turn required by the wheel to turn the truck is Tiny really
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and there is up to 10° of rear axle steering and you can see it just looking
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at the rear wheel when you turn it the entire thing snaps and in at low speeds it like carves in a much smaller
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wheelbase it's a tight turning radius and at high speeds it actually Chang wheels in the same direction so you kind
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of Glide from left to right and the entire turn like you know how when you
00:27:34
go to make like a k turn you you kind of do hand over hand and flip the wheel over a few times if you uh if you need
00:27:40
to turn around on a two-lane road and it's too narrow like pull over yeah to
00:27:45
the right back up to the left back up yeah cyber truck's full lock turn is
00:27:54
170° meaning you never have to go hand over hand hand the entire turn is just
00:28:00
this and it's so terrible like audio cuz you have to see it to understand what
00:28:05
I'm saying but long story short it's the most Nimble truck I've ever driven
00:28:11
because you can really turn in ways that you feel like you're just pivoting around the middle of the truck it's
00:28:16
almost like you're using a joystick because a like full Max rotation of the wheels literally is a a single hand
00:28:23
overhand turn on the wheel like like in theory you could get all possible
00:28:29
turning motions without ever removing your hand from 11 and four or you know the numbers that you're supposed to
00:28:35
touch on the wheel 10 and two 10 and two 11 and four would be nuts that' be a crazy way to drive that's how I
00:28:41
drive so it is it is a super super Nimble feeling truck okay much more so
00:28:48
than rivan than the F-150 and it just yeah it just makes it much more usable
00:28:53
in small spaces yeah which is important for a truck that large it's important and it is it is a big truck but it it
00:29:00
feels like I can place it more easily at low speeds especially than even the smaller rivan so yeah can I ask a
00:29:06
question yeah do you think that were you around other cars when you were driving this y or were you like in an empty lot
00:29:12
bunch of other cars oh okay interesting I was going to say do you think it's because you didn't have like another car to like compare it to no the opposite
00:29:18
because we pulled up in an F-150 Lightning which is a truck we all love like we all think is like an objectively
00:29:25
great truck and then after we dro the Cyber truck back off we got back in that Ford and all of us were like it's so
00:29:32
loose it's so baty it's so slow we were saying an F1 lightning felt slow it was
00:29:39
like it was dude so for a lot of the driving I was in the back seat with all
00:29:44
the audio gear and Marquez was in the front seat driving and monitoring all the stuff that truck feels unbelievably
00:29:52
stiff and not in like a suspension sort of stiff like if Marquez hit a corn corner it felt like I was back in the
00:29:59
Nea it was psychotically stiff interesting and and you know to sort of
00:30:04
see what it would do Marquez would rock the wheel which because of the steer by wire means the car is doing steep turns
00:30:11
and you would just feel the the structural Integrity of it from the back seat it was wild there's a few things I
00:30:18
feel like we should bring up MH there's a general ethos from this car that I sort of
00:30:26
received from talking to engineers and and reading about it and going over this feature list where it's it's an unbelievably safe car for the driver
00:30:34
yeah it's not it's not entirely clear you know how safe it is for other people
00:30:40
on the road exactly um the large to the point where someone at the factory was
00:30:48
sort of like yeah you know the the model we showed a 5 years ago or whatever didn't have side windows the government
00:30:55
like made us put or not Windows doesn't have side mirrors the government made us put side mirrors on it but you can take
00:31:01
them off if you want oh they just have to ship them stock with it yeah and it was like and they were like but if you
00:31:08
take them off you should put like truck mirrors with like blind spot Checkers on them but also if you take them off it's
00:31:13
like can you get pulled over for that no no so the rule is that cars must ship with the side Mires the rule is not that
00:31:20
you must drive with sares what a loophole and so when you put your blinker on the camera feed from the
00:31:26
fender shows you what you would have seen if you looked at your mirror and so and that already shows up on Tesla like
00:31:32
people are used to checking the screen right and so if you just remove the mirrors from the truck no I I should say
00:31:39
reasonably you could safely pilot this car with no mirrors I'm I'm pretty sure
00:31:46
but it was just weird to have someone at Tesla be like yeah you could take off the mirrors and if you hit something
00:31:51
that's on you it just feels weird to look to the right at my screen to merge left yeah I know I could do that and
00:31:59
maybe people would get used to it and I have heard good things about like camera
00:32:04
feeds instead of mirrors like uh the pstar 4 that we were talking about last week or the week before having no rear
00:32:10
view window this we got to talk about that too the truck that we drove had no
00:32:15
rear rearview mirror oh the the Cyber truck doesn't either so it does the Cyber truck that we drove didn't have
00:32:21
one it will actually have one when you buy it but when you you've seen the
00:32:26
truck right when you close Theo cover you completely shut off that rear view
00:32:33
but okay and so if you check that mirror you will not see behind you so there's a
00:32:39
new reverse camera at the back of the truck that is constantly displayed so that you can see behind you interesting
00:32:45
so this is one of those I described it as a muscle memory remap like which happens with Teslas all the time like in
00:32:51
model 3 people now instead of checking right behind the steering wheel for your speed have had to remap their glance to
00:32:57
like the top of the other screen yeah with the Plaid the Yol the buttons on
00:33:02
the yolk like the horn and the blinkers are on the Yol now I've had to remap that for myself with the Cyber truck
00:33:07
there's another one which is you will not check the mirror nearly as often if your tanel clever is close you can't see
00:33:13
anything you have to check this screen which again is just a little lower but it's that's where your rear view is on
00:33:20
the cybertruck but they're not doing like a digital rearview mirror like a lot of cars though they are not okay interesting I kind of was hoping that
00:33:26
they would that would be cool I you know a lot of my thoughts about the Cyber TR can sort of be summed up and like it's not and maybe you feel
00:33:33
differently Marquez but it's not Innovative which sounds weird right because they are like pushing a lot of
00:33:39
boundaries different shape yeah well it feels like they decided all of these boundaries and rules that they wanted to
00:33:45
break because they thought it would be like fun and cool and then they had to endlessly over engineer every single
00:33:51
part of that truck to still make it work with those like initial ideas in mind
00:33:56
it's not like it's not the next step in trucks it's not the next step in in anything it's just a really weird truck
00:34:03
with a lot of really cool engineering to make to allow it to be weird and still cover the bases it's the same thing as
00:34:09
like the Steve Jobs like I needed to do this and the engineers go that's not physically possible and he goes make it
00:34:14
happen and then they figure out ways to make it happen in ways that aren't really the original Vision but they're
00:34:20
still yeah actually have a feature that speaks directly to to what you're saying so I agree the truck isn't Innovative in
00:34:26
that it isn't actually capable of anything that there are other cars on the road couldn't do it has autopilot
00:34:33
the same way other Teslas have autopilot it can carry the same amount of stuff it has the same size bed etc there are
00:34:40
other EV trucks that already exist but I think what they realize is with this
00:34:45
first generation of EV trucks since none of them are technically capable of new things other than maybe a front trunk
00:34:52
you have to differentiate yourself and so that's Tesla's whole thing they're like look at how every other truck looks
00:34:58
the same now look at how ours look and so they are sort of engineering their way into a new form factor in that way
00:35:05
there is one crazy feature instead of enabling with a giant 240 KW hour
00:35:11
battery some massive range and an ability to tow more or longer than every other EV truck instead it's 123 Kow
00:35:20
battery it's roughly the same but there is an optional battery extender that you
00:35:27
can buy and equip the truck with and it will fit neatly in the trunk of the
00:35:32
Cyber Tru and add 120 mil of range but it also adds all of the weight of more
00:35:40
battery so basically Tesla's thought process is in this day in EVS 300 miles
00:35:46
is a good number and we're going to try to hit that because if we do actually try to hit 500 miles it adds a too much
00:35:53
weight to the truck and it it compromises too many other things with this truck you become a 9,000lb Hummer
00:35:58
truck so we're going to have a normal weight and we're going to have a normal 300 mile range but if you are going to
00:36:05
tow or do some hauling or road tripping and you do want to sacrifice the weight
00:36:11
just to have that ability to do it will sell you a huge battery pack that you put in the trunk of the side so the the
00:36:16
battery gives you more range than it takes away for it being heavy exactly how much does that cost do you know I
00:36:23
don't know if I got a price for that that's a good question and is that hard to take in and out probably okay yeah I
00:36:28
feel like that's super heavy probably a couple thousand pound does it charge in like synchrony with the car when you're
00:36:34
charging the car I believe I suspect based on what they told me it'll act like just an extension of the car's
00:36:40
battery pack interesting is there 240 Outlet in the frunk in the trunk in the
00:36:45
bed in the bed in the bed yes so and that's actually a good feature as well
00:36:52
reverse charging reverse charging for your to charge your home whatever you want or or another vehicle oh are they
00:36:58
releasing a cable too just like L said I don't even think you need a special cable it had a straight up 240 volt plug
00:37:04
in the trunk that can do 9 and 12 Kow out so if you just have like the cable
00:37:09
that you get with any EV that has a 240 volt yeah pop that thing in the cybertruck trunk and it will literally
00:37:15
charge whatever car okay that's cool we're making a short on that I think so I think that's pretty sick and then no
00:37:21
they also said that the actual charge port itself would eventually be yeah in and out as well that you'll need a
00:37:27
special box for like maybe power your home or power something else so like the F150 Lightning sort of exactly cool so
00:37:32
that's pretty cool that is crazy we need to see what it's like on the road though yeah or not on the road we need to see
00:37:38
what it's like in Mass you didn't drive these on any roads or anything no no we did I'm more me like you know it's like
00:37:43
Mar said like we had one that was earmarked like for us and we all oh I
00:37:49
see we all liked it you know what I mean but I'm sure the first 10 that they deliver are also going to be as perfect
00:37:54
as possible you know and then when there's 10 thousand on the road and like all cars they start getting into
00:38:00
accidents and like in all cars there's going to eventually be a recall on one of the parts and yeah we're we're going
00:38:05
to have to see if if its outlandish character is able to make it a comfortable thing that someone can own
00:38:12
so extremely common thing that you have to do in New York City um and specifically Brooklyn is that people the
00:38:18
the the lanes are not that wide and people all the time double Park and you have to sort of like squeeze between
00:38:25
them because they're just double park for a long per time not going to happen with this you literally will not be able do that not any different than any other
00:38:31
truck out fulls siiz truck out how wide is it as wide as the rivian it's as wide as the F-150 oh really okay so maybe
00:38:38
it's as wide as the most popular vehicle in on in the United States I there's a rivan in my neighborhood and it was just
00:38:44
parked the other day cuz someone was double parked and it couldn't get around it yeah oh really this is not to say that you should buy a pickup truck in
00:38:49
New York City probably should do that Dimensions wise and practicality
00:38:55
wise it does look insane but physically it it's basically the same size as the most popular truck you interesting I'm
00:39:02
excited for us to get our review how much does it weigh again it weighs just under 7,000 lbs just under 7,000 is it
00:39:07
stainless steel so that's a good question it's technically St it's an alloy it's a little bit more formable of
00:39:13
an alloy than just pure stainless steel but its finish looks just like a refrigerator and an interesting note
00:39:20
about that is the soap just match LG refrigerator so number one cleaning
00:39:26
material are apparently slightly different you just use like window cleaner instead of like are they selling a polishing cloth he said any microfiber
00:39:33
yeah oh okay so there won't be like a Tesla Apple collab polishing cloth probably not not collab but there
00:39:38
probably will be a t proba will be that but the other weird thing about it is I don't know if you remember the uh the
00:39:43
concept truck it didn't have side view mirrors this new truck has side view mirrors it didn't have a windshield
00:39:48
wiper now this truck has a giant wiper that's okay sorry finish your thought but yes I have another question the the
00:39:55
concept didn't have door handles and neither did the truck who so instead
00:40:01
there are small rectangular buttons actually it's it's a pretty big button but it's a button on the a pillar and
00:40:09
the B pillar and you press that but what the A and B pillars uh between the front
00:40:14
seat and the back seat it's got that pillar oh okay okay right where structural thing yeah um you press the
00:40:20
button and it pops out the door by like 2 in and then you grab the door and pull the rest of the way open this is all the
00:40:26
door on the truck and my first question was like What if it's iced over and they immediately were like yeah we tested
00:40:32
that there's one in Alaska right now and it'll push through an inch of ice whoa that's what they told me dang I don't
00:40:38
know if it will but hey we're out here in the Northeast we will probably be able toest we have another short yeah
00:40:43
yeah they did demonstrate that the the I forget if it was like um a solenoid or a
00:40:50
motor or whatever creates the force that opens the door opens the door with enough force that you cannot physically
00:40:58
hold it shut against the against the opening yeah it'll break the ice wowy
00:41:03
it's gonna break an inch of ice it's going to break your arms so that's crazy well no one's hopefully no one's holding
00:41:09
it shut while unlocking it yeah challenge accept and it doesn't fly open yeah it presents itself and will it not
00:41:16
open if it's like up against a wall or another car or something will it recognize that there's something there
00:41:21
it's only like two inches so it probably won't you won't be able to park that close to something okay yeah challenge
00:41:27
accepted but the windshield wiper oh yeah okay so this is a extremely widely debated thing the virge has been going
00:41:33
hard on have all the answers about whether or not is it one giant windshield wiper or is it multiple
00:41:39
windshield wipers has been tweeting about it for months yeah they've been doing hard reporting on the this is for you this is as long as you can
00:41:45
acknowledge the war the war the flagship podcast of cyber truck reporting um the VOX media C Flagship
00:41:54
box media cybertruck podcast to answer that question it's one windshield wiper
00:42:00
and it's one windshield the world's largest piece single piece of automotive
00:42:05
glass that was what they said it's the biggest windshield I've ever seen one windshield wiper one huge windshield
00:42:12
wiper it is okay okay how does it work okay yes poorly so it is stored up
00:42:20
against the side of the truck not flat you know how most are stored like flat like right under it wipes down so it's
00:42:25
up on the side and yes it wipes down and up right it's fre it's probably 5T long
00:42:32
it's hug huge but okay it's a big windshield wiper right it totally
00:42:38
because the windshield goes over your head and the windshield is the entire windscreen it actually totally covers
00:42:44
the driver and actually covers probably 70 75% of what the pass that's what I was going to ask generous yeah I feel
00:42:50
like if you're sitting in a passenger seat you're not going to get much if it's going quick enough it's probably okay so reaches the full other side of
00:42:56
the windshield but it doesn't go full coverage obviously cuz physics yeah but
00:43:01
it's a huge windshield wiper right couple things about that one you're going to need a hell of a motor to like
00:43:07
push this thing I went to max speed and I have a video of it and it just it's just wiper moving how fast does it go
00:43:14
dude it moves like a regular windshield wiper crazy that's crazy pulling that
00:43:19
that quickly it's it's got to be a crazy motor and the other thing is the Hub is like exposed it's not like under the hood so if this thing ices over this
00:43:26
thing is going to just be cranking tons of snow off your windshield how does it spray the windshield cleaner okay
00:43:32
excellent excellent question it's crazy question this giant windshield wiper is
00:43:39
also Hollow enough on the inside that no way no way there is a pump underneath it
00:43:45
that when you first press the button to like spray your windshield it takes a
00:43:51
beat to pump the entire thing full of windshield wiper cleaner and then it's sends the windshield down and then
00:43:57
there's like 10 holes on the wiper blade that all spray as it goes back to the
00:44:03
top wow I'll put it I'll show you the video I'll show you the video right now I got it on my phone the first the the
00:44:08
first like upward stroke is dry it sprays cuz it's still pumping it full of windshield wiper this is what I mean
00:44:15
when I say it's not an Innovative truck there's a lot of new things in this truck but they're work around for this like stupid shape that if it flies up
00:44:23
that quickly it probably doesn't even need to pump any liquid cuz the like motion will just send the liquid up yes
00:44:30
but you know I wasn't there so when we pulled up to the parking lot I'm just going to talk while they're yeah Mar is
00:44:36
showing David the video of the windshield wiper yeah you dude it's so funny it looks like a samurai like it's
00:44:42
like a katana it does it really does wait what were you saying it uh so we pull up to
00:44:49
the the gigafactory and we're in this lot where there's like seven or eight cyber trucks okay that is also where we
00:44:56
were able to look around and see that the panel gaps on these different trucks were like not exactly the same um but a
00:45:04
lot of these trucks were just covered in dirt like serious serious off-roading
00:45:10
had been done in them and in all the ones that had dirty
00:45:16
windshields you could see where the wiper had been wiping was it a clean
00:45:22
windshield not the cleanest again I I didn't I dirt could have made it there after the last wipe they could have
00:45:28
dirtied it to make them look cooler for us there's like an endless number of explanations for what actually happened
00:45:33
but on the ones that did have a clean windshield where you could tell the wiper actually did work the you were right the passenger side is still
00:45:41
just yeah wow 60% yeah we have one really cool shot from the video um where
00:45:49
uh we were doing it without a uh ND filter without a polarizer outside and
00:45:56
you can see and we're driving on this narrow uh Road through these woods and you can see the reflections of the trees
00:46:03
and the clouds and the sky on that big glass panel and even the stainless steel
00:46:08
is reflective and you can see it and it's you're just like oh this is cool what's going to happen when the sun is shining directly at the car oh it shines
00:46:15
right in your eyes hooks you yeah the reflections off this truck are nutty
00:46:20
yeah it's because it's flat too like a lot of cars are like curved so you'll only get like a a glance of the specular
00:46:28
diffusion on this one if you stand in the wrong place you're just going to get blasted with the reflection until you move do you think it's going to Blind
00:46:34
drivers like driving by them and stuff there are going to be angles where yeah it's
00:46:40
GNA problem and that's what I mean when I say we need to see what happens when these things are actually being delivered because in isolation when it's
00:46:47
just one truck statistically it probably will never come up as a problem but when there re 10,000 on the road we might get
00:46:53
a little uh yeah pre-orders if they all go through the price is way
00:47:00
higher at and it's also 3 years later what you keeping yours Marquez so now
00:47:05
that you've driven it now that I've driven it now that I've seen it had it for a day I will say that yes there are
00:47:12
some downsides but I think the crazy advantages that it has the crazy Nimble steering radius and the the
00:47:21
way it drives was enough for me to keep my pre-order and like wait till I have
00:47:27
one and fully evaluate it and then decide between keeping that or the rivan I'm still not sure which one it's gon to
00:47:32
be they each have their advantages but I'm I'm much more Curious now about
00:47:38
working with the Cyber TR because it has the tow hitch it has the six foot bed which is bigger than the rivian bed it's
00:47:43
got the power outlets in the trunk it's got the you know dampened opening I stood on top of the tono cover it's fine
00:47:49
like it has a motorized Tano cover the Tano cover is the back cover that goes over the bed over the bed yeah you can
00:47:55
open it or close it any amount you want you can stand on it you can you know trust that things inside are are secure
00:48:01
uh the the back seats all fold up oh and so there's a whole bunch of room on the floor that you can like put things
00:48:08
tripod it two or three row it's two rows two row uh two fulls size rows so comfy back seats yeah comfortable heated back
00:48:15
seats um yeah like a a lot a lot of good things going for it so I'm they're
00:48:21
comparable in a lot of ways okay um is the screen on the inside is it rect is it uh lengthwise longer or is it taller
00:48:29
it is the biggest truck Tesla's ever made and it's also the biggest screen they've ever put in a truck it's 18 in Diagon so it's the same aspect ratio as
00:48:36
normal just bigger dang yeah big big screen it's got a 9 in screen in the back also the biggest they've ever put in the back can you also play cyber Punk
00:48:43
on it I haven't does it have the same GPU structure as the um that I'm not sure about the Plaid what is the 5G mode
00:48:49
I'm in the car didn't get that f it will not go through the metal ours was in like a
00:48:56
dark mode by default too and I I didn't know Tesla had a usually based on time
00:49:01
of day but but dark all day I don't was there a light mode no I I'm pretty sure
00:49:07
when we were shooting during the day it was he might be able to Pi yeah it was dark the whole time yeah I don't know if there was a light mode in the software
00:49:13
I'm not sure either interesting okay it was a very it looks exactly like your cars UI just like change all the fonts
00:49:19
to look cyber and change all of the curves to be squ is like a bad Android skin it's actually pretty good really
00:49:26
it's it's pretty tasteful they didn't go too crazy other than the whole like this beast mode thing cber beast mode that's
00:49:32
like oh yeah tell us about the beast mode the triple motor cybertruck they're sort of informally calling the Beast
00:49:41
okay um sorry postar yeah postar BST also stands for Beast I don't know if we
00:49:47
knew that but I did not um there are when I was nine and I was running really fast there are three Drive modes in the
00:49:54
Beast com Comfort Comfort Beast sport I think it's
00:49:59
Comfort Sport and Beast yeah I think so the the instead of sport it might be
00:50:05
performance something like that and then the highest end is called Beast yeah highest end is and is that just like the most acceleration the most torque the
00:50:12
most okay did you drive it in that mode I did drive it in that mode it blew my face off man it's fast it's like getting
00:50:18
kicked it's very fast but it's not as fast as the the Plaid nothing one point
00:50:24
no yeah okay but is the fast is faster than yes Tech okay so that the the Nea
00:50:29
is the fastest production car ever made quickest sorry quickest quickest um 0 to
00:50:35
60 0 to 100 0 to 200 The Plaid is the fastest one mere mortals can buy right
00:50:40
and this is the fastest pickup truck any Factory has ever made okay it's crazy
00:50:45
like I don't know the top speed but if it does an 11c quarter mile it's probably pretty fast I think it's pretty
00:50:51
at the risk of sounding like a shill the sounds pretty dope
00:50:56
if they na like some parts of it definitely my number one concern with it
00:51:01
and at the same time kind of one of its advantages is visibility because there's
00:51:07
Nuance to visibility you can see everything they huge glass canopy in
00:51:12
front of you over your head like behind you the the the triangle window up at
00:51:18
the front pillar like you can see all around you amazingly well no blind spots
00:51:24
other than right in front of you you cannot see what's right in front of you
00:51:29
oh my God there's a new front-facing camera oh and you can pull it up in the software at any time and there's still
00:51:35
no 360 view in Teslas which I don't know how they haven't done this yet they have the cameras for it get to it Tesla
00:51:41
people are get people get blown away by that feature stitch them together can't be that hard everyone else does it but
00:51:47
you can't see what's right in front of the nose of the truck you just can't that's bad it's just the distance
00:51:54
between you and the front of the windshield you can put like a pizza box in the front of this car not
00:52:00
exaggerating like picture a pizza box picture it putting it behind your steering wheel like opened up yeah like
00:52:07
a pizza like open it up no open it up like the angle of a cyber So you you're a long way from the
00:52:15
front of the windshield and then at the front of the windshield there's a little front trunk and then a shelf I cannot
00:52:21
tell you if there's a child standing in front of the side going to say this not going to help they're running over kids I cannot tell what's in front of it
00:52:27
unless I have the camera feed open you even you AO it doesn't Auto open the camera feed if there is something in
00:52:32
front of you no if you reverse yes and there's a button always to pull up the camera feed but if I don't have the
00:52:38
camera feed open I can't tell I feel like they should have sensors in the front that see if something's really close to you I'm sure if it becomes an
00:52:44
issue they can like push a firmware update or something that would do that they should do that pre just like they always have the riew camera they should
00:52:51
probably in the front at low speeds have the front camera on that be smart no it definitely is that was one of the first
00:52:57
things you said when you got behind the wheel you were like where are the edges of this truck and they they were giving you these tricks like oh use like the
00:53:04
corner of the windshield and like and then I actually I went out I was like Marquez this is where the edge of the
00:53:09
truck is like I held my arm up like a little flag yeah um and it still was like not especially the corners yeah
00:53:16
which are sharp yeah which are really sharp they cut can they cut
00:53:22
you probably yeah yeah no you could cut yourself on the corners on the edge yeah dang the
00:53:27
rivan has a similar thing with the gear tunnel but that's only when it's open right like when you open the gear tunnel there's like a sharp corner people have
00:53:33
cut themselves on that all the time we put Tim through there yeah so when you the door the door of the gear tunnel
00:53:39
yeah it's like shaped like this and then that and that right angle piece sharp you can just hit your knee on it and cut
00:53:44
yourself dang anyway we've talked a lot about the truck I think um feel about it that you're stoked on or hate I hate
00:53:53
that it just feels like and I'm using the word vehicle here figuratively not literally but I just
00:53:59
hate that it feels like a vehicle for people to be their most dangerous least thoughtful selves that's what pickups
00:54:06
are Ellis look you said it not me so everyone can go after him but yeah that
00:54:12
that's my big thing is is it really feels like it's s it's so cool the the 11-year-old in me is so stoked it sounds
00:54:20
awesome it feels awesome and is it good for all of us
00:54:25
no it's not it's not did they say anything about when they're going to start making like more mass deliveries
00:54:31
of it no that'll be a surprise to all of us I think what they're going to start projecting at this event I'm guessing is
00:54:38
here are our first deliveries yeah it is whatever 10 to 20 of these things and we
00:54:44
are about to go through a production ramp to try to get as many of these out the door as possible but that probably
00:54:50
means 10 this week 15 next week 40 the next week wow it's going to be a slow ramp yeah right Adam I think we're
00:54:56
winning this bet I was just going to say I want to know we are recording this on Wednesday the day before the event it
00:55:01
was 25 25 was the best 25 was the best the listen knows non employees by the
00:55:07
end of the year no all December to deler 25 that's one a day true that's true
00:55:14
that's one a day okay so we'll we'll they're doing 10 On th don't count me out 30 days they could do it you've
00:55:21
tried 30 ways but one day there will be a lot of these cars on the road yeah
00:55:27
yeah I did appreciate and then we can wrap up cyber stuff after you talk about
00:55:32
your your conspiracy theory oh my yeah that's so much better I was about to say something boring okay I have this
00:55:38
conspiracy theory based around the waveform trivia the waveform podcast we
00:55:43
love spreading conspiracy the so everybody put on your tin foil hats do we have any conspiracy music I'm going
00:55:49
to add it and post don't worry um they'll play some conspiracy music but yeah so the late rapper DMX rip we all
00:55:57
love DMX on his legendary 2007 album uh
00:56:02
it was called pick up the litter right actually I can't remember never mind call me sorry DMX fans I think I
00:56:09
got that wrong they are taking care of my cat anyway we all love the song Oh thanks do you want to say again I
00:56:14
totally just talked over you that's I'm always telling my friends when they're taking care of my cats pick up the litter no pick of the litter oh pick of
00:56:22
the litter guys this is going that's what somebody told Okay Legendary
00:56:28
New York rapper DMX we all love him uh on his song x g give it to you which
00:56:35
many people know many people know famously in many many uh movies and also in Rick and Morty which was how I
00:56:41
learned about it Mor you learned about it from Rick and Morty I did okay anyway continue my conspiracy theory I think
00:56:47
the song X going to give it to you by DMX is actually about the Cyber truck so
00:56:53
you're saying he knew something that we did in 2007 yeah he knew like way more about this cuz look X going to give it
00:57:00
to you okay X the platform there we go X the platform X the Elon just sort of General thing to you okay going to give
00:57:05
you the Cyber truck waiting for you to get it on your own X going to deliver to
00:57:10
you oh making deliveries delivery events delivery event coming up okay knock knock open up the door it's real it's
00:57:17
real it's we none of us thought it was real for years all of a sudden knock knock open up the door it's real with the nonstop pop pop from stainless steal
00:57:25
the Finish Jesus of the truck and pop pop like the one that they shot with the gun exactly exactly so uh yeah I just I
00:57:35
think we should all go back and listen to DMX's x g give it to you and really think hard because I really do think
00:57:41
this we can't do that without getting demonetized should do it cybertruck yeah wow I think that he had something what
00:57:50
2007 I thought it was2 2002 thank you yeah the album I initially pulled it up
00:57:55
on was a compilation 21 years ago it can finally I'm I'm going to I'm going to
00:58:00
I'm going to go through the rest of the lyrics and see if I can find H said future Tesla products maybe there's some Roadster references in that DM song it's
00:58:07
like in 2029 the Roadster is looking fun if that's one of the
00:58:15
lyrics that's all we need to know uh okay let's say a quick break I do want to go over the Spotify wrapped for this
00:58:21
this year on waveform so we'll take a break and look at that but before that
00:58:27
trivia Ellis triv question too do you do you stay on yeah tell us here from here
00:58:34
tell us from here all right let's keep it rolling with the geology questions today I didn't even take geology class
00:58:41
like Marquez ignas what are the other ones what what
00:58:48
Ignus I can tell you a lot about black holes but I cannot tell you anything about obsidian is one of them no obsid
00:58:55
obsidian is is is an ous EIN no obsidian is an ous rock it is an ous Rock but it
00:59:01
is not another kind it's a rock formed by the cooling of magma David don't you know anyway let's Contin the most
00:59:09
abundant element in the air we breathe is nitrogen mhm number two is oxygen
00:59:14
what is the third most abundant element in the air we
00:59:19
breathe Marquez is pump in the air right now that's not geology no it's not also
00:59:24
I that's just chemistry no it's not it's about the atmosphere that's geology isn't it isn't atmosphere part of
00:59:30
geology geology is Earth yeah we the air and the atmosphere is part of
00:59:36
Earth debatable I didn't write this question I think solids are part of Earth I don't want to throw you under the bus cuz I had airplane brain and
00:59:42
couldn't come up with a question this week and Adam kind of stepped in but I'm with you this isn't GE this is this is
00:59:48
geology can you ask the question like what was David's job before this so can actually get some
00:59:55
unfortunately we can't repeat questions so we're locking those questions in we'll hit them after the break be right
01:00:11
back all right welcome back we got one last little thing for uh for you guys on way for which is basically a shout out
01:00:16
to you the listeners the listeners to thank you for listening and Spotify wrapped came out this week a lot of
01:00:21
people were sharing them did you get you do you yeah yeah I use Spotify so I noticed a lot of people were sharing I
01:00:27
was like the number 100 user of Spotify in the United States oh nice I still
01:00:32
have the email fun fact little early adopter badge you should get I noticed a lot of people were sharing their Spotify
01:00:38
wrapped with like an asterisk of like I only listened in the car that's why it's
01:00:43
this weird artist I thought like everyone had like some some disclaimer for why they didn't like their I'm proud
01:00:48
of my music I you should I think you should own it is what I'm trying to say yeah uh but what we did get is a Spotify
01:00:54
rap as we do every year from the perspective of the uploader because we upload this podcast to Spotify which is where many
01:01:01
of you listen and so now I'm going to step through the best of what is telling me about you guys keep in mind this is
01:01:07
only Spotify obviously if you're like looking at me point at you right now then you're viewing this which means you're on YouTube YouTube YouTube should
01:01:13
do YouTube Rewind rewind but like wrapped I want to know how many minutes
01:01:19
of videos I watched I want to know which uploader I watch the most minutes from I want to know whose videos I watch watch
01:01:24
the most of during the year girl I want to know what video I watched the most times did I repeat watch a video I come
01:01:31
on I want that a lot more than what you YouTube Rewind used to be yeah they should they should take the opportunity
01:01:37
to own the rewind branding and make it something awesome I agree people would like a free idea YouTube I'll just take 10% it's fine it's great just do it by
01:01:43
tomorrow just do it okay okay um so in 2023 people listen to the waveform
01:01:50
podcast on Spotify scrolling in what does it want to tell me this is the first time I'm seeing this as well I
01:01:55
listen on Pocket Cast just so you know oh so screw I'm not part of this so from
01:02:00
the top yeah thoughts on oh our number one episode of the entire year was Apple
01:02:06
Vision Pro and WWDC 2023 I'm shocked yeah I would this does not surprise me it was streamed
01:02:13
57% more than your average episode wow so five times the usual dang that's
01:02:18
impressive okay uh next slide let's hear for the new fans okay some of you are new 40% of your listeners discovered you
01:02:26
in 2023 wow wow that makes sense we had like an explosion of traffic this year lot new
01:02:32
people and thank you for that by the way yeah I think that's probably also true about the YouTube stuff um 5% of our
01:02:38
listeners started with the iPhone 15 as their first phone ever as our
01:02:43
first episode ever okay which is pretty cool I that as well wait how many per 5%
01:02:49
of of all of our people here okays Spotify then it says how does it feel to
01:02:54
have gone Global the United States was your top country with 36% total streams
01:03:01
but we were streamed in 153 countries what wait TR your question
01:03:08
how many countries are there there are between 1990 and 200 countries is depending on who you ask okay so 153
01:03:16
that's the the thing that I always get surprised by when I look at YouTube analytics is like many of these
01:03:21
countries are not majority english- speaking countries so there are people who are just like listening to the podcast in countries we never would have
01:03:28
thought pretty sick so like a 75% is of countries listen away for that's awesome
01:03:34
that's pretty awesome wow that's insane that's crazy you want the top five list yeah I guess damn I wanted to guess too
01:03:42
let's alternate guesses you number one well number one's the US he already said that correct number two India correct
01:03:49
number three the UK incorrect is it Germany correct number
01:03:56
four um the Philippines incorrect dang shout out to the Philippines South Korea
01:04:01
incorrect no think think closer Mexico brail even closer Canada Canada correct
01:04:09
oh and then five the Philippines incorrect dang go east east
01:04:17
sorry no doesn't matter which way you go go west west from the Philippines Iceland uh no from the Philippines where
01:04:23
are you no my sorry okay start at Canada start at Canada go
01:04:29
East Iceland okay go south South um green no no that's to the that's to the
01:04:36
West uh the UK geology yeah yeah nice top five okay so that was us India
01:04:43
Germany Canada Canada and UK okay top five most used uh most popular countries
01:04:49
listen to away for shout out to all of those guys and girls our listeners have good taste so uh what what else are they
01:04:55
into sorry this it's it's giving me much more generic answers your listeners top
01:05:00
podcast genres genres or number one comedy number two news number three
01:05:06
Sports wait what about technology not in there what I think that's I think we're
01:05:11
technically news no way comedy sure no I mean we're listed in all the technology
01:05:17
charts spottify have a technology chart yeah oh okay maybe it doesn't count because it's like other stuff that they
01:05:23
may only Tech podcast that they need to listen to for the flagship technology podcast in in existence okay so our
01:05:30
listeners top music genres okay wait should I should we guess again it's so generic it's not even wor guessing yes
01:05:37
number one pop number two rap number three Rock okay learned nothing there
01:05:42
thanks Spotify uh your listeners definitely told their friends about you what does that mean they shared the
01:05:48
podcast probably oh yeah here's how they shared the podcast 51% direct link
01:05:54
nice 18% what WhatsApp I knew it y 133%
01:05:59
text message nice wait SMS or RCS def could be either could be either 12%
01:06:05
other 6% Instagram okay Instagram that's Instagram stories and uh Instagram D
01:06:12
direct DMS most shared episode was I can and the seven keys to the go baby really
01:06:20
yeah that's epic that's epic that's sick wow if you guys haven't seen I can on
01:06:25
the seven keys of the Internet it's a banger that's really surp I mean not surprising but I assumed that the secret
01:06:31
history of the internet would have been the more popular episode The I can and the Seven Keys of the internet that is a
01:06:38
top yeah but that's why you share it more lot what messages about that yeah whenever you hear whenever you hear like
01:06:43
a crazy podcast that you weren't expecting to hear you share it yeah a few weeks ago my friend came up to me he's like dude I just like heard about
01:06:49
this thing it's called like I can if you ever I was like you have no idea
01:06:56
I can we've been inside I can so uh our podcast rating was a 4.9 out five
01:07:03
appreciate five out of 10 just kidding my heart
01:07:09
sunk it is out of five it 4.9 yeah that's like the pretty good wait who rided us oh anyone on Spotify anyone on
01:07:15
Spotify okay I thought you meant Spotify rated us oh and then it's quizzing me
01:07:21
which episode do you think got the most audience engaged iPhone 15 and USBC everything correct
01:07:27
nothing copies MKBHD the objective top 10 phones list
01:07:33
damn those are some bangers I'm going with a C I'm toring between a and C yeah
01:07:39
I'm going to pick C AC power or DC power it's a it's a iPhone 15 and USBC
01:07:46
everything more sense how did spot if I know to pick the one that we were expecting a lot of com probably the top
01:07:52
three yeah probably you hit the charts in seven countries and peaked at number
01:07:58
three a bad yeah you charted for 43 weeks that puts you in the top 1% of
01:08:03
charted podcasts that's thanks to you guys appreciate yall we uh we did grow 22% in listenership 61% in total streams
01:08:12
19% in total followers and 29% in minutes of created content what does
01:08:17
that mean that means we had some bonus episodes more than we did last year so uh time to give a shout out to our fans
01:08:25
okay we are a top 10 podcast for 91,000 of you and we are a top five podcast for
01:08:32
70,000 of those people dang and we are I'm I'm guessing it's going to say number one for amount of people he was
01:08:39
we are the number one podcast for 22,000 of those people who have been tweeting at us all day so love you guys awesome
01:08:46
physically see you on they've been threading at us too I don't know if you noticed that a little bit a couple threads here and there couple threads
01:08:51
that's pretty sick so that's it that his way for on on Spotify this year uh we
01:08:58
appreciate that and everyone who's been watching listening all year we still have a whole month of tech
01:09:04
tecember so uh stay tuned for that tecember you're right yeah interesting okay we'll see y all on the other end of
01:09:10
that also to all the YouTube viewers out there thank you as well we see you I know we don't have well see us but yeah
01:09:18
YouTube should really do like we metaphorically see you a wrapped thing I think next year YouTube will do it
01:09:24
that's what I said last year I suggested this last year yeah you suggested it last year and I was like there's no way they don't do this next year they small
01:09:30
I mean they're still 30 days so we'll see there's still time there's there there's still time lot of people doing not everyone has to drop stuff right now
01:09:37
yeah end of the year stuff should be November I get I get scroogie about that there is the thing though that like I'll
01:09:42
be real I don't want to see my YouTube Rewind I watch so much YouTube but don't
01:09:49
you want to like nope n learn about yourself nope n don't
01:09:54
need to see it I will it will only Inspire guilt and and it will remove AdSense from my favorite Creator's
01:10:00
Pockets man it you don't have to pay for therapy if you just go to YouTube Rewind learn a lot about yourself YouTube
01:10:09
University anyway yeah
01:10:14
trivia I'm hoping really have to be geology yeah I'm hoping I'm right about some updates
01:10:20
on score Marquez with 15 Andrew with 12 which has not changed since he went
01:10:27
on fraternity leave David with one two carry the one 14 what was David's last
01:10:33
job what was David's last job so I need both of these to catch David no I'm behind you by one yeah oh what I have
01:10:40
you have 15 oh David has Andrew's at 12 oh Andrew 12 first question but Andrew
01:10:45
is being extra screwed so I guess I can't really complain that much yeah until trivia finale Extravaganza where
01:10:50
Ellis and I just caused chaos so first question the top layer of our planet is called the crust and goes 25 Mi deep
01:10:58
correct it contains all known life in the universe fun fact what yeah really
01:11:03
mhm do you know of more I'm not allowed to say sorry what
01:11:09
are the three layers they are the crust the mantle and the
01:11:15
what are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader this is exactly where this question from not also there's like I think
01:11:22
technically like seven layer something like that but we're we're going with the basic three so don't yell at me Earth is a seven layer cake something like that
01:11:30
huh David you have your thinking hat on how you [Music]
01:11:37
feeling I'm so curious what you wrote me too I can't wait to see what you wrote
01:11:42
okay flip them and read what do you got core yeah the M core core correct I just
01:11:49
realized that in the last 15 seconds
01:11:55
dang it okay nice it's like a because I was thinking about like apricots you know that's a pit David well you could
01:12:02
call it a pit yeah you could call I was think of core Android Services fair enough I was thinking of core services
01:12:07
for sure before I do this next trivia question I want to give a quick shout out hundreds if not thousands of you
01:12:13
tweeted uh DM commented uh the difference between endtoend encryption
01:12:18
and encryption in transit just like I asked one of you uh put it in a really really beautiful clear easyto read way
01:12:26
and I'm a huge fan of beautiful easy clear explanations do you have the comment you can read I do and it's from
01:12:31
uh Twitter user Prav tuari just wanted to say thank you I'm not going to you know he divided it into three tweets I'm
01:12:37
not going to read all three but essentially is all these messaging services RCS uh Android chatter I don't
01:12:45
know what you what you people use um iMessage whatever telegram signal
01:12:51
there's all sort of a control various levels of encryption no I was going to say like a server when you're messaging
01:12:57
someone your message is going to that server and then it's going so encryption in transit is where the server has a key
01:13:04
you have a key you type a message it gets encrypted the server gets it the server decrypts it and then re-encrypts
01:13:11
it to send to the final person who has a separate set of keys that's shared between them and the central server if
01:13:17
you want to know about encryption Keys watch our episode watch our most our most shared episode of W for I can in
01:13:24
the seven keys of the internet Bingo let's go Bingo let's go um encryption end to end encryption is where you and
01:13:30
the final destination party have keys that correspond with one another so when it goes through it it is never decrypted
01:13:38
by the messaging services server that's the difference I also have a correction
01:13:43
the spoon album I was recently uh I was referencing recently is not called hot um Hot Rocks rocks it's called hot
01:13:50
thoughts that's so different maybe we can get them on to call and see if we could you know change it around it's a
01:13:56
banger of a song and an album the most abundant element in the air we breathe
01:14:01
is nitrogen that's correct number two oxygen that's correct number three is
01:14:08
[Music] what
01:14:13
helium that would be funny iron for my apartment it's
01:14:19
iron iron's not a gas station all right
01:14:26
noble gases flip Moon Reed I'm gonna be laugh
01:14:33
at right now oh what you say we both put hydrogen both put
01:14:39
hydrogen is it carbon is solid carbon is
01:14:44
solid is it nitrogen not necess that was that was one of them you said carbon Dio
01:14:49
is it really helium no is it wait hold on wait so it was noble gases noble
01:14:55
gases you said noble gas it is a noble gas yeah which means it's lighter than
01:15:02
six protons no it means that it's very technical stuff for noble gases it means
01:15:08
that it's outer shell of electrons is completely filled you can't have you put more so sorry it's nitrogen one nitrogen
01:15:15
one oxygen oxygen two oxygen 2 and it's not hydrogen car it's not
01:15:20
helium it's not it's like I'll give you a hint Boron or something no I'll give
01:15:27
you a hint I really wanted some dried mangoes but I can't have any because
01:15:34
they are thrown out they're out out of date out of
01:15:40
they oxidized o they El they are gone
01:15:46
it's Aron argon is a
01:15:54
gas damn oh that hurt sorry that really hurt wait and it's the third most common
01:16:00
gas that we inhale what does that do to your like
01:16:05
body only you live Marquez is double checking he's back checking you he's like I'm not a chemist but I have
01:16:13
another trivia question if you want to try it no I do all right we've been talking a lot about renewable energy
01:16:19
lately marz and I had the exact same answers because we're the person with the same
01:16:24
voice continue sorry do we really want to do another one I was right about carbon dioxide I but it's number four
01:16:31
yeah oh no my other trivia question was so bad that Adam wrote this one so we
01:16:38
didn't have to do it oh yeah wait so you're asking the bad one now no I'm not going to ask the bad one I mean I will
01:16:44
if you really want me to but it's it's bad what makes it bad is it like hard you'll just never get it it's fun and
01:16:50
clever but you'll never get it well yeah tell it it's about jazz oh I might get it okay okay I want to hear it anyway
01:16:57
today we're talking a lot about renewable energy which we usually measure in Watts so for today's trivia question I
01:17:04
wanted to ask a question about jazz specifically Jazz drummer Jeff Tain
01:17:10
Watts who loves to name his albums with puns on his own name so which of the
01:17:16
following is not a real Jeff tan Watts album a Watts
01:17:24
b megawatts c citizen Tain or D these are
01:17:30
all real Jeff tan Watts albums I hope it's D D it is D those are
01:17:37
all real so wat and megawatt he has an album called Watts he has an album
01:17:42
called megawatts and he has an album called citizen Tain he also has albums called detained in Amsterdam this dude
01:17:49
is hilarious all right well I think you know last week might have been one of the most consequential uh insane weeks
01:17:55
in Tech in a long time but we're finally getting the Cyber truck is actually a pretty big deal yeah it feels just as
01:18:03
chaotic yeah yeah which is a good place to end it so that's where we will yeah thanks for thanks for watching thanks
01:18:09
for listening thanks for learning about argon with me and uh we'll catch you guys very soon in the next one but don't
01:18:16
try to look for a podcast on Tuesday because we are gone
01:18:23
what cuz we we want have an episode it's a punt I liked
01:18:30
it anyway wait for us produced by Ellis Ren and Adam Molina we are part of the VOX media podcast Network and our intro
01:18:36
outro music is by vain [Music]
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Sil [Music]
01:19:03
damn it I don't know anything about rocks dude all I know is about like
01:19:09
pressure and turning into black holes
