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This is your Oh my god. Sorry. Oh, you scared me. I was like, was that that loud? Okay, now we're we're going
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live. Okay. Okay. Let us know.
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Live on Marquez. Give us Wait, we're not live, right? Yeah. You want me to count down? Well,
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we're already live. Yeah. No, no, no. But they can't they can't see you yet. Oh, we still have the technical difficult.
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Can they hear us? So, let me know when we're live. I see you live on the thing right now.
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Okay. Yeah, we're live. Yeah, we're live. Okay. Like, okay, great. Uh yo,
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welcome uh welcome to this super on time, super impromptu, but definitely
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live. You obviously can tell it's really live. Uh waveform episode number
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300 like the movie. It's good to be here. Uh guys, why are we late?
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Yeah. Well, going live is is always an adventure and you guys were setting up OBS and wanted to plug it into this
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channel and we were testing on another channel and we went live in OBS and it wasn't live here and we'd have to connect the dots. Now it's all good.
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We were going live to Adam's channel, our test channel. Yeah. For a little bit there was happening.
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Oh. Um that's funny. But we're here. We're here. We're your hosts. I'm Marquez. I'm Andrew. and I'm David.
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So, we had a lot of fun at the last live thing that we did, which is South by Southwest, but that was on stage for
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like a technically a closed event where you had to like pay to have tickets to Southby and then go to our thing. This
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we just wanted to have fun and do an episode for everyone and episode 300 was a good opportunity to do that because
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we've we've come a long way. Um, what do we want to do? We have we have chat going pretty crazy
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right now. We can talk to them. I want to tell you a story really quickly. You can wait before you do that.
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Okay. Start asking questions in the chat, please. Most of this episode will be us answering them. We have people
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grabbing questions from here. Dave is gonna tell a story. Then we're gonna get a little sappy about the podcast and
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then we'll answer questions. That's nice. Cool. Okay, last night I had a dream.
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Okay, I want to tell you guys about my dream. Okay, so this is right before I woke up, by the way, so I still remember the whole
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thing. Incredible. Okay, I was rollerblading to work. I don't know why.
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I don't know how to rollerblade. You do the commute. I think that we were we were like in another city. I was rollerblading. It was super fun. I was
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like, "This is so sick." To do this live podcast, right? Okay. So, I get to the office
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and we're in this other room, but you guys were like, "Okay, in order to do this live podcast, we only own one
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camera, so we have to b we had this small round table that was like it was
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like this big. It was not big." And we're all kind of crowded around it with this big wide angle lens. And we're
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like, "Okay, guys, we're doing the live podcast." And uh then we had like
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Sundays, you know, like ice cream sundaes. Mhm. And they had banana splits in them. And Marquez tried to convince
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me that the way that you make chocolate like hard on the top of ice cream is by putting like like melting butter and
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pouring it on it. And I was like, "That's not how that works." And he was like, "Yes, it is." And then we fought
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about it for like a while. your brain and then I woke up. Your brain does not have very much faith
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in me. That is you were triggered by the conversation the other day about whether it was read
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or read receipts. Yeah, we did have a whole test stream where then we went into this 40inut
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conversation about read receipts versus red receipts. By the way, I put out a poll on Twitter and threads. Is it read
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receipts or red receipts? Wait, you mean you put it out on Twitter and threads? Well, I put receipts Threads
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said red receipts won the poll, but on Twitter, read receipts won the poll.
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Yeah, but uh how much did it win by on threads? So, it won by a higher percentage on threads, but less votes were cast on
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threads. So, I had to do the math because there was 50,000 more votes on Twitter, even though it won by a smaller
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percentage. And overall total between all of the votes, I think read receipts
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slightly edged out. No, red receipts slightly edged out. read receipts, which
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was a bummer because that's incorrect. But thank you. Anyway, that happened. Uh chat is going
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crazy. I see a lot of you guys saying the volume's low, so I think we're going to try to bump that up a little bit. Is it live or pre-recorded? It's live. Uh
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Threads, thank you. Shout out to everyone who uh is actually doing your dishes. This is super new, but David,
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why do you think the RX1R that just got released is uh $5,000 is $5,000.
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Uh cuz they can. Shout out to Sony. Yeah. And tariffs.
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All right. So, small retrospective, then we'll go all chat because we wanted to just sort of recap how we got here to
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episode 300. That's true. So, Waveform started as just Andrew and
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I and just audio. And that was 2019, August 2019 when we
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first started. And the idea of the podcast was pretty it's kind of the same as it is now, which was we have a lot of
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these conversations about tech that don't make it to videos or are kind of like the runup that turns into videos,
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etc. And we just want to capture those because they're actually really interesting conversations. Maybe people will enjoy. And sometimes it's like the conversation
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we're having for the first time. So you can almost see all our brains working on like how this could There have been
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conversations on the podcast that we've turned into videos. Yep. Because we've had a good enough conversation about it. Yeah. unfinished thoughts.
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Yeah. And getting into the weeds on stuff. Uh it soon uh turned into a weekly
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podcast and we had uh two years of basically getting up to weekly by January 2021.
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Yeah. Uh and then Adam joined as a permanent producer of the Waveform podcast. Shout
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out to Adam. That was episode 50. Adam is also currently live camera switching right now. So he is locked in.
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Locked in. But that was Adam's joining. Um, David joined as a guest host for the
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first time ever also in 2021. Um, and actually, uh, this is the
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beginning of trivia. So, it was episode 54. Do you remember this? I remember doing the trivia thing.
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There was like a trivia segment of us and he was the host of the trivia segment. I think it was before video,
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but that kind of was technically the first trivia we've ever done on the podcast. when we had the the second
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table, the weird table in here. That's also the first time we did a long form episode, which is when you told us
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the the story essentially of how Boosted Boards rose and fell. And we've done some many
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more really interesting long form storytelling type episodes since then, which is awesome.
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Looking here, between episode 45 and 62, a lot of stuff happened. We leveled up.
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We went we decided it would be a real thing basically cuz like that was episode 59 for Rise
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and Fall of Boosted and then episode 62 is our first video podcast. So then you know we fast forward a
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little bit. Tim starts making a sort of a a Timnail thumb wow template. Thumbnail template.
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We can't redo that thumbnail template. Tim a Tim nail. We have Timnails now. Um and we also
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started we added Ellis as a full-time producer. His first episode is 2022 in May. Um, that was episode 116.
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Can I tell a funny story from that real quick? Yeah. Because when you get hired here, there's like a short period where you're not on
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camera. You're sort of like finding your way and like you're just sort of, you know, get get used to the vibe before you're like
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um, and there was no producer cam at this point. So, it was wasn't like I was going to be on camera. But on my first Waveform episode before I had any idea
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what was going on, like still learning the ropes. I'm like sitting back here in the corner and like you turn around Marquez and you just go Ellis, what do
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you think about that? And I was just like, what am I supposed to do? I
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I don't exist. I don't exist. No pressure. Uh yeah, this is this is a pretty classic intro. But then yeah, by
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the time we get to 2023, David is a full-time permanent host. We are doing
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videos. We are cooking on YouTube. That was 203. Yeah. And it's been growing. It's for like permanent fulltime cuz you were on
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plenty of episodes before then. You hosted so many. So this morning I asked chat GPT how many episodes did David
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host before 2023 and it said 297. He has no idea
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considering there are 300 total episodes. He has no idea. It has no clue.
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Yeah, it's funny. Uh but long story short, we're halfway through 2025. We're closing in on six years of this being a podcast. 300
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episodes. Uh, lots of thoughts, lots of dishes washed, lots of trivia questions answered. I would love to know the stats
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on how many dishes have been washed. I think about that podcast. Spotify wrapped. That would be an awesome section of Spotify.
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You washed 800 plates while listening to Waveform. But yeah, um, thank you for subscribing,
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of course, and for listening and for watching and for being a part of Waveform. Now I'm locked in on chat. I'm
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just watching chat now. I want to know what you guys want to know. Chat, are we good? Um, I think we should just read from
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questions. Yeah. Yeah. I've just seen a lot of nice shirt, David. So Oh, thank you. This is my party shirt
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for the the live episode. Tried to make it colorful. Here's a random one. Ferista, will Fairphone 6
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get a full review? Um, maybe. Oh, this is perfect. We would normally not keep talking through the I don't know if you
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guys can hear the like lawn mower or the air rake. What do you call it? Air rake or
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lawn mower? Air rake. Air rake. I've called I grew up on air rake and everyone else says leaf blower, but I
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grew up on air rake. I've never even heard of that. That sounds like I thought that was a Twitch streamer. Air is a YouTuber
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and air rake sounds like what they would call it in the 50s to like wow consumer so much cuz as a kid I was like
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yeah air rake that makes perfect sense. It's what do you call the other one for like edges and uh
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the trimmer? String trimmer. Oh string. Yeah weed whacker weed whacker. Oh the weed whacker. Yeah weed
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whacker is more more on point. But yeah, we normally This is our first debate of the live. We would normally stop recording when
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that makes noise, but it's live, so I normally would have cut that whole section, but you know, here we are. Exactly. Uh, well, Fairphone 60 to full
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review. Um, I don't know. You should. David says I should. David has one. I do have one as well.
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Um, yeah, maybe that's a good idea. Let me know if you think we should. I need I need you to experience the
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Switch. True. We've been talking about this Fairphone 6 dumb phone switch for like three episodes now.
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Good to know. Yeah. All right. Uh, let's see. How old were you guys 300 episodes ago?
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So, 2019. Yeah. 29. I was six years younger. 25.
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Yeah. And I was tweeting all the time. Actually, yeah. What were you How old were you? Six years ago when you tweeted
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that joke. Six years ago. I was already doing wave for for six years. I don't know what you're talking about. Nice.
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Um, uh, I was in 2019. You were a baby. I was that was six
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years ago. So I would have been 21 years old. Oh wow. Never met Marquez Brownley.
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Wow. Um innocent. Yeah. So innocent.
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I think I was 27 six years ago. Yeah. I was a BB. I was 24.
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I'm old. Ellis, you know what time? You just learned how old Adam is. Wait, what? Math.
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Adam never gives away secrets about himself. So I've known Adam for like 11 years and I
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still know nothing about him. And believe me, I ask
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I ask. What's behind the beard, Adam? A really baby face sadness.
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4,000 people watching right now. Hey, that's what I said. Isn't that what I told you? You actually said like 4,300.
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4,300 and something. I guessed 325. So, I'm happy.
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All right. What else people asking? Let's see. Watch 8 classic review. I did just get the Watch 8 classic, so that's
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also a candidate for review. And I'm doing a video on a bunch of other things related to it. So, that might be an option.
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Yeah, I saw um Mr. Mobile saying like it is the most beautiful smart watch he's like
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ever worn. And why are there pill-shaped buttons in like a circular watch and there's so many software decisions that
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feel pretty rough about it. Yeah, I'm surprised that he said it's the most beautiful watch because he's like always been in on the uh the nautical version
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of the Garmin, the Captain the Mark. It is a really nice looking watch. I think
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it's one of the nicest looking ones if it didn't have two days of battery life. It's almost as nice looking as you. Danny says, "Is notion still king?"
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We still use Notion. Define king. Yeah. Yeah. King meaning we it's our king. We
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use it here. But, you know, there's lots of options that we could also use. We just we're so built into notion now that
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we're kind of just it is our king. Yeah. Yeah. Boring answer.
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Um best emoji is This is a good question. Objective. You guys already know.
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Super fun times. Oh, what is it? The HDR one that Ellis made clearly. No, no, I didn't I didn't make it. I I found it.
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Let's do best like not default, but you know, like common emoji comment emojis.
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No, no stickers because my custom emoji stickers go crazy. Wait, what is comment? I'm going with
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the common common melting face. Melting face is amazing. That's my
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melting face. It's not even hot in here yet, but I'm going to use an emoji soon. I like upside down face. That just feels like a like I don't Why
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is this happening? Yeah. I'm going to look at my emoji keyboard and see what I've been using recently. Do you have one Ellis or Adam?
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A little scared. Mine is definitely the salute. I use that one all the time. Salute. Melty face are both really good.
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Um I used the Joker recently. The Joker emoji. the Joker card.
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Oh, card. Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing. You're saying that's best emoji. No, you just use Oh, you know what's really good? The
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Easter Island head. That's actually I love that one. I I So, this is not a common emoji, but
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I recently obtained a sticker that's the like looking down shame emoji while
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putting on the clown mask emoji. Yeah, combo emojis are are in with AI.
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Tiny media says, "Why do you guys have different microphones?" Well, we might have answered this before. Marquez, why do we have different
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microphones? Yeah. So, you might notice that I'm the only one with a different microphone. There's a Sure SM7B over there. There's a Sure SM7B over there.
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There's a Sure SM7B over there. True. And then there's an Electrovoice RE27.
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It's because Marquez and I sound too similar. So, if we had the same mic, you would never know that we were not the
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same person. Yeah. Right. R27. No, no, it's an RE20 blank ND. It's a It's the broadcast variant of the 27.
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It's a little bit brighter. It still has the same proximity effect uh like caging. But um I don't want to argue with Ellis, but I
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thought the RE27 was the broadcast version of the RE20. Yeah. No, no, you're so right. You know,
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I do have a degree in this, but like argue all you want, you know, like whatever. Wait, am I right or wrong? No, it says RE27 ND on it.
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R27 on it, but I got it just because of the brightness and how it sounds better with my voice. And then I just got used to it and now my voice sounds muddy. Wait, can
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I switch to your mic for a second? Oh, this is No, Andrew, you are right. I'm totally wrong.
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See how much muddier it sounds. Doesn't that sound dull? And we So, you gave us the muddy mics? No, just it I simply got used to it. But
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I think robust move right there. I think you guys sound great on it. But I I wonder if you use this mic if it
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would sound bad also cuz it's different. You'll just never sound as great as he does. It does sound different. This is just good for my voice. I've
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used your mic before when you're gone and I will use it after you're gone. Um damn. And is that a threat?
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You decide. It it does sound weird on my voice for sure. Who's doing the camera cuts? Uh, Bumble.
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That would be Adam. Bumble. He's doing the camera cuts live as we talk. I'm trying my best. So, give me some
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grace, please. Which is It's gone really well. Uh, Lritic, what headphones do y'all daily
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drive? Interesting question. Oh, I have two answers actually. Yeah, we'll start it. Uh, Power Beats
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Pro for working out and then at the moment Sony WH100XM6
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for traveling and flights and everything else. Wait, Power Beats Pro the OGs. Power Beats Pro 2.
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The current Sorry, the new Power Beats Pro 2 while I work out. The Sony WH1000 XM6 when I'm traveling, but also while
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editing, what is on my desk? It's the open back Sennheiser HD 650s on my desk.
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That's what I edit with. So, those are the three headphones that I use. That's a lot. There's a lot of headphones. Yeah, I've
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been using uh the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra Ear Buds because they have best
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noise cancellation by far. Um they do. Sony's just Oh, for buds.
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For Sony's are also incredible. Their ANC is insane. Fair enough. Okay, Ellis. Ellis, tell me
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which ones are better. You already know, bro. They're not. They're not even close. The AirPods are not even close.
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Mathematically, they're really No, they're not. They're not. They're not.
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They are. I don't have a degree in this and they're not. It's the kind of thing where like maybe for your ears.
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Oh my gosh. They're like the shape of your ear canals. They're better. But I I promise. No.
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The AirPods Pro 2. They're horrible. No. No. Listen, they sound really good.
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Yeah. I think the AirPods Pro 2 are the best sounding headphones I have. Uhhuh. But the noise cancellation is not even
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close to the You might have a bad fit. Yeah. Then you have a bad fit. They are really, really bad. I have the
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lightning ones. Are they different? No. No. You're using the wrong ear tips. That means Yeah. Wait. Are you talking about the
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wireless noise cancelling silicon tip AirPods? The ones widely regarded as best in
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class, but they're not as good noise cancellation. They are They're not I'm going to look this up right now.
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You should use You should mess with the tip size just to see if it gives you There's different tips. There's like four.
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They come with a bunch of tips and you probably just kept the medium ones that are on it or whatever. All my really ear wax in it, too. Yeah.
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Anyway, I use the Beats Fit Pro for working out and the Sonos Ace for mowing the lawn and Sonos Ace.
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Yeah, I do like them. They're comfy. They are for mowing the lawn. For mowing the lawn and flying.
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Yeah. I mean, it's the overear difference. Overear. Needed to be quieter. Lots of
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white noise. Noise cancelling. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. This is from Sound Guys, Adam's old employer. Okay.
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Oh, snap. They're in the chat. No, you can't have him. Oh. Oh.
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It's like a comparison article between the two and they use a lot of scientific data that Adam used to spend a lot of
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hours. Too many hours. Oh, someone said, "Is that good?"
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Someone just Well, this isn't even a question. Suresh Rajan said, "Haven't watched Jurassic Park, but have watched
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Jurassic World." Come on, Marquez. And I'm going to watch the new one. I'm going to watch the new one, too. The new
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Jurassic World coming out. Skip the first one. I'll watch it eventually. I'll watch it eventually. It's so easy to watch it
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that I don't feel rushed. You mean the original one? Yeah, I've seen parts of it. It's probably streaming on Hubu
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or Tub. I unironically used Tuby the other day. I'm not even kidding. It's real. Is
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still real. I I was trying to make one up in my head. Is it on TB or not TB?
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They should only do Shakespeare. Uh,
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I have someone asking what the best budget keyboard is right now. And my that's all you. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot there's
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there's plenty out on Amazon like Hippotech will tell you, but the Hib June R1 I think or just the Hibby June,
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you still have to build it um and buy all the switches and everything, but it's the most unique cheapest keyboard.
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And out of all the nice ones that I have, it's the one I still use every day. So that's my uh
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There you go. My favorite. Sorry, how much was that one? Did you mention it already? I don't it probably when you build everything if you do it
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very budget focused like 200 bucks. Dang. Unfortunately budget in this world.
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There's some good cheaper magic keyboard. That's what I was going to say. I was definitely going to be like if you're on a budget just
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Mariah says do not watch Jurassic Park. It sucks. She Oh, she saw it already.
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Yeah. And it sucks. That sounds like it's right up my alley. I wonder if she saw it in 40X though cuz Yeah. Jurassic World. No, I think
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she wanted to watch the F1 movie in 40X. I don't I'll be honest. I'll be honest. I don't think I can possibly dislike a movie
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with good dinosaur graphics. With good dinosaur graphics? I think if the CG is really good and the
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dinosaurs are very realistic, I'll enjoy it no matter what. Why don't we just bring them back? Well, that's like a whole plot.
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We already brought the wolves back. The direwolves. That was like a whole bad thing that happened in the movie.
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Have you seen the movie? Yeah, but like I don't know. It went pretty poorly. We have like tanks and stuff.
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That's true. I don't think we should be that worried about dinosaurs. Correction, Mariah just messaged me personally and said she did see it in
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4D. So, I would not think any
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I think she's driving home from vacation right now. Wait, someone just asked, "What about the new Sony phone review? Is there a
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new Sony phone that I should know about that's actually Yeah, it just came out and will actually come to market in 7 months."
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Yeah. Several several follow-up questions to that. One, what is it and is it actually out or is it not coming out for 6 months? And two, is it
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actually good? Do you care about my opinion or are you actually just trolling? You might damn
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Xperia 7. I would love ago do like an actual Sony review, but again, it's just like they
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announce it and then it comes out like seven months later and it's just kind of confusing. I give them a shot every time. Every
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time I see them in my inbox, I go, "Oh, a new Sony phone." And then like literally four out of the last five times I've done a Sony flagship phone
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review, it just it starts off with some promise and they have some interesting things and then it goes downhill of like
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wait, it's how expensive and they they have what as their primary features and it just kind of falls apart. So I'm I'm
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rooting for them but they haven't given me much hope lately. Somebody asked how did you come up with the name Wave for? Do you remember this?
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Oo the name Wave. I spoke to you guys in a dream.
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Yeah. Okay. So we Yeah. Do you remember exactly? Yeah. Yeah. We were thinking of a lot of things that were audio puns in some way.
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Yeah. And we actually decided with WVF FRM cuz it kind of sounds like a radio station and also if we at that point
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WVFRM MKBHD fit on top of each other as the same amount of letters. Um then we
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started with Studio 71 and they were like podcast searching is terrible. If you don't if you're saying waveform out
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loud, you should name it waveform spelled out loud. So that's why you might see WVFRM sometimes and waveform
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most of the time because podcast discoverability is terrible. Live from WVFRM Chicago.
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It kind of sounds cool. 65° and sunny. Also, we did that mistake with our channels when we were making the video
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channels. It's like the waveform podcast and then the WVFRM clips and it haunts
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me every day. Alex the dev still using Arc? I have a lot to say about this. All
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right. Are you still using Arc? I am not. I am using a mixture of Chrome and Zen browser now.
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A mixture. Interesting. And are you using AR? I never used Arc. You never used Arc. Are you still using Arc? That's a complicated question.
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Okay. I am full-time still using Arc. Yeah, that's my answer. I am primarily still using Arc. I have
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been testing all of these new browsers that are coming out because there's like all these new I want to know how you
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choose cuz like I just I was on I this is maybe spoiling something, but I'm going to do it anyway. I was just
00:24:00
hanging out with someone. I won't say who who has a lot of cars and I was like how do you choose which car to drive and
00:24:05
I have the same question about you. You have multiple browsers. Why Zen versus Chrome? Like why what
00:24:11
makes you open a certain browser versus the other one? It's the same reason I told you about my cars when we were hanging out. Yeah.
00:24:17
So you just wake up feeling I feel like Zen today. Yeah. No. So the way I split it up is
00:24:22
work I use in Chrome because I need all that to work. Okay. And then when I'm doing personal things I'll use Zen browser.
00:24:29
Okay. So, so it's kind of location based too, sort of. I mean, when I'm at work, I you I have
00:24:35
one browser open. Like personal, I'll just have minimize. So, if I ever need to like search something or like
00:24:40
email someone, but then work in Chrome, I have working. I'm sort of just like keeping tabs on
00:24:46
all of them because I'm trying to see if this AI assistant future that everyone keeps promising actually matters at all
00:24:52
or if it's just going to be like a metaverse kind of fad. So, I got access to Comet, which is the new perplexity
00:24:59
browser. How do you like it? Should we care? It is just Dia. It's not They're like
00:25:05
exactly the same. But is the search better? That's what I want to know. Well, it's not really search. It's like
00:25:10
it just talks to you. I don't know. It's It I don't I might be able to be convinced in the
00:25:16
future, but right now it feels like if I'm just talking to my browser, I could just It would be better if I had
00:25:22
You just had a tab with Jet GPT open or something? No, just like or Gemini rather
00:25:28
what perplex what perplexity wants you to do with comet is they want you to just like it basically has a Google
00:25:34
search tab in the center of the page and instead of actually going to websites like they do have an assistant
00:25:39
like DIA does on the side when you're actually on web pages but their preferred way of interacting with the browser is just to talk to comment
00:25:46
and it will it'll tell you answers with like little mini sources but they prefer that you like don't even go to web pages
00:25:52
is sort of the Is all AI browsers just like the trust me bro? just like, "No,
00:25:58
no, no. Don't look. Stay here." Everything I'm saying is right. The the people who are like really into
00:26:03
it seem to be really into it, but I don't really get it yet. And maybe I will at some point and maybe
00:26:09
I'm just don't, you know, but I don't know. I But besides that, I find myself
00:26:14
on Arc all the time because I keep trying to like the best feature of Arc, which is so stupid that it's so useful,
00:26:20
is just being able to hide the sidebar and then swipe your mouse over and it pops out. That's like that's all I want.
00:26:26
It's all I want. Yep. Add it to Dia, please. Also, pin tabs and stuff like that. And DIA still doesn't have that. So,
00:26:32
can I address a question real quick? Sure. Fernando Loza says, Ellis, what is your
00:26:39
battery percentage? So, I took my phone off the charger at about 8 a.m. this morning. So, that would that's like
00:26:45
three and a half hours ago. 60%. Anyone want to take a guess? 60%. Andrew, 42. 47.
00:26:50
47. 42. I was going to say 48. 48. Adam wins. I am at 43% battery life
00:26:56
right now. God, I know my boy. Is that still a 12 mini or is that 13 mini? Is it 12 mini? And to all the people
00:27:01
asking what phone I'm going to get next. Um, I'm holding out till September 2027
00:27:06
to hopefully go straight from 12 mini to folding iPhone. Um, something tells me this phone is
00:27:13
going to explode before that. Uh, Anol Batia says, "Is 26 thoughts so
00:27:20
far? I've been testing it. Oh, stay tuned. I Okay, wait. If this if this beta had
00:27:27
come out in the winter, David, you would feel completely differently because you're because you would have a
00:27:32
hand warmer wherever you go. That's true, dude. The amount of bugs that I've seen recently. Oh my god. Do
00:27:38
you have the YouTube bug where or any video playback bug? It's in it's in YouTube and also Instagram reels and stuff where it like you click on it and
00:27:45
then the screen goes black but the audio still plays and you have to like back out and go back in multiple times. This
00:27:51
morning my alarm didn't my alarm went off, made no sound. Oh man, it was it was lighting up and doing the
00:27:57
thing. No sound. A couple specific bugs. One of them is the eight sleep app. When the bed thing
00:28:02
is waking me up and I open the eight app to dismiss it, that is when it crashes. So I can I can
00:28:08
open the eightle app any other time and it's fine. Stop this. But I have to snooze it by hitting the
00:28:13
sensor on the bed and then the eight sleep app will open without crashing. It's very strange. Yeah. Uh, the other one is my keyboard no
00:28:20
longer shows the letters above them when I'm typing, which is annoying. Uh, oh, yeah. It's just those are
00:28:26
like when you type it and it goes up. It goes when you Yeah. When the little letter shows up above
00:28:31
your finger, they don't show up. Does that matter? Yeah, it's pretty useful when they show
00:28:37
up. Marquez, so you're on the beta on your iPhone. Are you also on the beta on your Android phone?
00:28:42
Uh, on my Pixel I have the latest Android 16 beta. And is that the one you're dailying? No. Okay.
00:28:48
I was going to say a little too buggy to daily. Having two daily drivers, both from the development beta is crazy.
00:28:53
I can't Yeah, I can't daily beta stuff. And even with Mac OS, cuz I use Final Cut, I don't put the latest OS on my
00:29:00
computer until the first one update because Final Cut will absolutely have too many bugs to use until they update
00:29:06
it. Even when it's not on like a development beta, Final Cut is like hit or miss. Yeah, you never know.
00:29:11
Yeah. Uh, someone said, "How much AI do you use in your daily life?" Um, I like
00:29:16
outside of work Gemini for like fun. I don't really trust it because it still kind of lies a
00:29:22
lot. So, I use like Gemini Live. Gemini Live can be helpful and even if it's wrong, it leads me in the right
00:29:29
direction. So, you know, it's kind of fun to like show it things, but sometimes it's useless. Uh, that's pretty much what I
00:29:35
do. And I don't I don't use it that frequently either. It's like every few days. Yeah. I use Gemini probably once or twice a
00:29:42
day. Okay. I don't use it at all. It's not even like necessarily I just haven't incorporated or found one that I
00:29:49
specifically like. So, I don't pay for any of them and therefore I don't The most AI I see during a day is scrolling
00:29:56
past the Google AI overview so I can look at actual links and figure out the real answer. Fair enough. Also, uh Big Blue asks,
00:30:03
"Andrew, are you still using Google Tasks?" Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wait, can I see? He's deep in.
00:30:08
Whoa. Can I have a question because I can now see how many tasks I've completed. You are. I don't like that feature.
00:30:14
You don't? I don't really understand count. I also don't like it. You don't like how many you've completed?
00:30:19
Yeah, it's just always there. It's persistent forever. I've been using this app for 12 years. And I guess I'm always using it in the
00:30:25
widget, so I don't always see it unless I'm in it. But yeah, does that show So that doesn't show re
00:30:32
Oh, no. It does show reoccurring ones, right? I'm almost at 500 completed tasks. Whoa. Someone says who is the someone
00:30:40
says who is the tallest in the room and I have to okay look I'm not insecure
00:30:45
first off my I'm not insecure but score everyone in this room is taller than me
00:30:51
and I'm like slightly taller than average height. I'm 5'10 and a half and the US average male height is 5'9.
00:30:58
This is a pretty tall room. These men are too tall. We got a tall room. It's annoying. I've completed 15,767
00:31:05
tasks since I started. Jeez. I'm not insecure allegedly. Um, so I don't I think Marquez is the
00:31:11
tallest in the room right now. Is he taller than us? No. No. Yeah, I think pretty close because Andrew, I think you and I are
00:31:16
like about the same height. Yeah, Marquez probably has like an inch on but Alex probably has an inch on Marquez. Alex is the tallest one. I think it's
00:31:23
really funny because I like as a universal reaction to meeting Marquez. They're like, "He's so much taller than
00:31:30
That is the number one most common comment that I get in real life is
00:31:37
you're taller than I expected." When we go to CES, I used to be able to like find you easily cuz I could see
00:31:44
over the majority of the floor and just find Marquez. But at the same time, that means everybody always sees where
00:31:49
Marquez is on the floor. This is true. Yeah. Someone told me once after meeting me and being like, "Wow,
00:31:54
you're a lot taller than I thought." They were like, "You know, on the podcast, you give really short guy energy."
00:32:00
Interesting. And what does that mean? Yeah. What? Hey, buddy, watch it. Wow. As a true said, I've completed
00:32:07
29,989 tasks on to-doist. That's serious. Okay. Wait, I have a question about this now that we're down to
00:32:13
Isn't one of your tasks drive to work every day? No, it's a calendar event. It's a calendar event. Totally different.
00:32:20
Okay. My question is you guys don't clear that out. You just leave it there. What? I Every time I complete a task, I hate
00:32:27
seeing it on the bottom. I always go in and like remove it. I have to go into the settings to look
00:32:32
at my account to see how many I'd completed. Oh, okay. So, it keeps them forever. Uh yeah, it's got this organization
00:32:38
shows you which day of the week you're most productive and like how many times you missed. Oh, to-doist. Okay. This is tick tick for me.
00:32:43
Oh, tic tick. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. I was I was thinking Google tasks. I was like, where is that? Oh, no, no, no, no. tasks is a is a sort
00:32:49
of baseline functionality. Yeah. Uh okay. Somebody said thoughts on Elmo.
00:32:56
Did you see what happened to Elmo yesterday? Wait, what? You didn't say that. You should
00:33:01
Elmo got Elmo got hacked yesterday. Probably not the best. He said some bad things.
00:33:06
That's not what I thought. I was just going to say goat. That's I love Elmo. But yeah, he his Twitter
00:33:12
guy. Okay. I did not see that. I was like, um F1 movie was great. Okay, people. Oh,
00:33:17
the studio. The studio saying F1 movie was great. Have other people seen the F1 movie? No.
00:33:22
No. My friend texted me on Sunday of Silverstone and said, "Did you see F1?" I was like, "Yeah, that was such a sick
00:33:28
race. One of the best ones I've seen." He's like, "No, the movie." And I was like, "I don't want to talk about that right now. Dang.
00:33:33
I've not seen it yet. I may watch it soon." Gizmo Sauce wants to know what's everyone's favorite cheese.
00:33:39
I knew Ellis was gonna find this question. So, for those that don't know, we've there's been many a cheese related
00:33:44
argument in the studio about like blue cheese's efficacy, about whether stinky
00:33:49
cheese is good, period, about whether certain cheeses belong on burgers. This is like a pretty common lunchtime
00:33:55
argument for us. I think the last one was what is your Mount Rushmore of cheese? Yeah. Yeah, it was actually that was a long conversation. Um,
00:34:01
Mount Rushmore. That's four, right? Yeah. No, wait. The Mount Rushmore conversation was about nuts. It was what
00:34:06
was about was it pine nuts up there? Pine nuts are definitely up there. But pine nuts on pizza.
00:34:12
Crazy take. What? Dude. Whoa. Hear me out. Wait, Marquez, you don't like pine nuts. Olive oil, pine nuts, pizza.
00:34:19
Hey, everybody. This guy doesn't like pesto. Okay. Yeah, pesto, too. Pesto with pine nuts is like
00:34:25
How about Well, I was going to do cheese. Cheese. Are you doing Rushmore or just favorite cheese? I guess
00:34:31
Rushmore is a lot. Rushmore is a lot of Rushmore. And you have to compare each cheese to one of the presidents.
00:34:37
I think I'm going just basic mozzarella is it has to be on your Mount Rushmore.
00:34:43
If it's not, I don't know what your list is. Low moisture or high moisture? High moisture as hell. Throw it on a sandwich. It's It's versatile. You can
00:34:49
take it down, put it on a, you know, chicken palm or whatever. I like just mozzarella is a solid,
00:34:54
but parm is parmesan. Yeah, but you put mozzarella on it, too. Is with several types of cheese. Maybe
00:34:59
I'm a bit weird with the mozzarella and parmesan. And that's what it's if they can do four
00:35:05
cheese mixes. Oh, Pepperjack. Wow, great point. Okay, I'm changing my I love pepperjack. Pepperjack and and
00:35:11
mozzarella are a 1A and one B for me. Where you at on Swiss? That's fine. Okay, it's not necessarily a good mix. That's
00:35:17
a fair take. I just like that as holes. Yeah, I like proolone. I want to just get past
00:35:24
provolone is fire. Provolone, I think, is my top, but it's really hard to not put American in. Everyone's going to hate on American,
00:35:30
but the Primo melty cheese. Yeah, the Primo melty cheese. Also the American variants like Cooper sharp.
00:35:36
That's a man's cheese right there. Marquez, if you like mozzarella on your
00:35:42
parmy, you know, pasta baked stuff, let me recommend fontina for you. Oh, I've had that.
00:35:47
I could see you really, really enjoying a big slice of font. He loves feta and it's pretty cool.
00:35:52
I do not like crumbly cheeses at all. Yeah, it's because the fetaverse. That's why
00:35:57
that's tough for me because the fetaverse is pretty cool, but feta is bad. Uh, blue cheese is trash. What is What is Feta rated for you?
00:36:04
Bri can just I just have if it never existed I'd be totally fine. What's your Federa rating?
00:36:09
Feta? Yeah, your Federa rating. Am I federating? You're making a weird pun right now. I don't know what's
00:36:14
happening. But I want to know where it is on your list though. Feta is like your feta rating.
00:36:21
Oh, brother. This guy stinks. Someone said favorite podcast episode,
00:36:26
but I don't know if they mean out of ours or like I think they mean out of ours. out of ours or I saw someone else ask ask her.
00:36:32
I think Sacred History uh I can episode but that's because Ellis and Adam and I got to drive to Virginia and stay in a
00:36:39
small hotel. Oh my god. Oh wow. Someone just said my name is Marquez, so I should like queso. Duh.
00:36:45
Oh, nice. Also, Claire just texted me and said I'd listen to this podcast more consistently if there was cheese conversations every
00:36:51
week. I feel like we have them fairly frequently. My favorite cheese. My
00:36:56
favorite podcast episode was whichever one had the infamous egg argument in it. What the is a frittata? That was I was I
00:37:05
was missing that week and I watched that episode and I was like, what is going on?
00:37:11
Yeah, sometimes we just go off the res a little bit. That's fine. Um Marquez, have you had a frittata since engaging that argument?
00:37:18
Uh I don't think so. No. Okay. Um, someone asked if I've tried the new Telegram to-do list feature,
00:37:24
which I did not know existed and I'm very excited about. I also have to tell you, um, Becca
00:37:29
Fersace, friend of the show, uh, she had a problematic fave PowerPoint presentation party at her apartment a
00:37:36
few weeks ago, and my presentation was Telegram. Problematic fave. Problematic fave.
00:37:41
It's the thing you love even though it's kind of problematic. It gets used in problematic ways. My my new neighbor works at Signal and when
00:37:49
they told me like Kot it's I pronounced it wrong on that episode. It's Kokot but when my new neighbor was like oh yeah I work at
00:37:54
Signal I had to pause for a sec and I just asked them I was like that is that is that the evil one or is
00:38:00
that I mean they do have war plans so
00:38:06
All right. Okay. Changdu says Marquez's favorite EV.
00:38:11
I might also have to go Mount Rushmore because there's no top top like favorite I've ever driven I think is the Lucid
00:38:17
Air Sapphire. Just overall capability, range, performance, suspension.
00:38:23
It's like a dining room built into a missile. It's incredible. It's a great It's a luxury experience on top of a missile.
00:38:31
Yeah, it's awesome. Um, but you know, if you need a truck, then I'm thinking
00:38:37
Rivian R1T, but if you need a sports car, there's not that many EV. I mean, Ionic Fire
00:38:43
the Porsche Tyan Tyan. Sick. I still haven't gotten to drive the Tyan Turbo GT, which Miles got
00:38:50
to review. I'm very curious about that, but I think it's probably awesome. Uh, and then what was the other one? You
00:38:57
just mentioned a different Oh, Fiskar Ocean. No, there's a different Eevee. I guess I'll whatever
00:39:02
which I see a lot of the canoe started seeing even more.
00:39:08
Yeah. Car, sedan, trunk. Yeah, I think that's probably Didn't you like the EV6 a lot? I like the EV6 GT. It's not like
00:39:16
buyable. Oh, okay. I mean, you can It's fine. It has trash range, but it is really fun.
00:39:21
Yeah. Someone asked my favorite cameras or dream cameras. Uh, I personally right
00:39:27
now think still for now that the X1006 is the best camera best digital camera
00:39:33
ever made. Best digital camera ever made. I can't help but think it has a fixed
00:39:40
lens. Bit of a hot take. I love it. You're crazy. Have you ever used a T3i?
00:39:45
Wait. Okay, David, let me dig into this a little bit. Objectively best or your favorite ever?
00:39:51
Cuz there's a difference. Yes. Okay. Because objectively there are cameras that are better.
00:39:59
Isn't this better, David? Objectively it's the Hasselblad. Yeah. Yeah. Let's just take the Hasselblad X2D for
00:40:06
example. Interchangeable lenses, larger sensor, more megapixels, more detail, better color, better color.
00:40:13
Sorry. I don't know. No, the X1006. I've been thinking about this a lot cuz I did a review of the X1006 after I had the
00:40:19
X100V for 4 years and the 6 is like it has a few minor upgrades and at first I
00:40:25
was like yeah, you know, but now I'm like yeah, I know it's like it is like so much. The the IBIS is really good.
00:40:32
The 40 megapixel sensor, it's BSI now. Everything about it. Do you ever wish it was interchangeable lenses?
00:40:38
No. Do you ever wish I could take an ultra wide right now? Well, I have I have two lens adapters for it. So they Fuji makes these
00:40:45
adapters that turns it into a 28 millimeter and a 50 millimeter 28 and a 50 and it's 40 megapixel sensor so you can
00:40:51
also crop in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's But if you had a 70 to 200 on there bang
00:40:58
then it would be this big. Yeah. Fair. Well, you know what they say, the best camera is the one you have with you. So No, it's not. It's
00:41:04
iPhone 12 mini. Yeah. This is embarrassing, but over the Fourth of July break, I ded a a Sony A7
00:41:11
for the first time. after being a longtime Sony camera hater. Yeah, they're good.
00:41:16
The A71 is pretty legendary. That camera I had a A7R Mark III and
00:41:22
bro. Yeah, the I know it's like there's faster burst modes now, but on the first day I
00:41:28
took 15 gigabytes of stills because I just I was just only like 15 gigs. Yeah, I think the best uh best
00:41:35
film camera is the Fuji TX one. Okay, we're done. All right, we don't have to. All right, favorite Taco Bell item. Oh,
00:41:43
I mean cheesy fiesta potatoes. Oh, good choice. Thank you. Have you done the spicy potato soft
00:41:49
taco? No. Is that new next time? No, it's been around forever. It's just like a cheap thing that nobody sees.
00:41:54
For me, Taco Bell is like the first four generations of Pokemon, you know?
00:42:00
Perfect. Like I don't know anything after that because that's when I stopped Taco Bell.
00:42:06
The last time I ordered Taco Bell really was like 15 years ago. Oh. So, I don't know any of the new
00:42:11
items. What would you like 15 years ago? I mean, the the circular thing was amazing. The Mexican pizza or the um crunch
00:42:18
crunch wrap supreme I think is supreme. But I also used to love the seven layer burrito. Okay. Because I was vegetarian for like 10
00:42:24
years. Do you have one, Ellis? Of course. Of course I have one. I I know there's so many good wild things on
00:42:30
the menu. You know what I mean? But the thing that a 100 percent of the time just like puts a smile on my face is the
00:42:38
I for do they call it supreme or deluxe? The supreme. The Doritos Locos Taco Supreme with the
00:42:43
sour cream. No, do but do a cheesy gordina crunch with Doritos Locos Taco. Doritos. Speaking of
00:42:49
language. You can do that. You can make the inside of the guy Dorito shell. Then that then that is my favorite.
00:42:56
Um I can't pick. I love all my children the same. Peter, but actually it's okay.
00:43:02
I'm gonna do a couple rapid fire ones. Uh Marquez, when is a Samsung Unpacked review upload? Already happened. Check
00:43:08
the channel. Um Adam, I love your tattoos. Can you show them? I mean, I I guess this is going to be
00:43:14
very weird for audio listeners. I want to tell a story about Adam's tattoos. Okay. What story?
00:43:20
Because so when I moved to New York to take this job, Adam and I were
00:43:26
neighbors. I moved into the same neighborhood in Brooklyn as Adam. And so for the first like year of me working here, Adam and I would carpool to work
00:43:32
every single day. It was super duper fun. We hung out so much. But it was the kind of thing where Adam and I like I
00:43:38
had just met Adam and now we're car pooling every single day. Like we had no prior relationship or friendship.
00:43:44
I learned about you on those rides. So I see I'm like I'm sitting shotgun with this like you know dude. Adam had
00:43:49
sort of like really short buzzcuty sort of hair at the time. He's got tattoos all over his arm. You know grew up in
00:43:55
New York. I'm like damn this dude's hard. like this dude is like a real a real a real fugging guy next to me.
00:44:03
And then finally I'm like yo like what's that tattoo like asking about his sleeve and he's like oh the whole arm is Harry
00:44:08
Potter tattoos. I was like oh this guy's a big softy.
00:44:14
Amazing. Yeah it's all it's a Harry Potter sleeve. Yeah. But what if he was really into Voldemort? Then he wouldn't be a softy.
00:44:21
Interesting. Yeah. What if he had the dark mark? Yeah. I debated it. I debated the dark mark,
00:44:26
but I did not get it. Yeah, I have a dark mark on my lower back. And we'll move on from that.
00:44:32
Just a natural thing. No one ever asked about my tattoo. You have one? Yeah. Do you want them to?
00:44:39
I mean, I get I don't really care. I'm surprised you didn't know tattoo. Ellis, tell us about your tattoo.
00:44:45
Marquez in the chat says, "Lis, tell us about your tattoos." That'll be uh That'll be at episode 600. Oh, all right. Marquez, that'll be
00:44:51
episode 600. Um Oh, wow. Yeah. I looked at that, I would just be
00:44:56
turning 40 for episode 600, probably. I know. Miss Queen says, "Will there be a
00:45:01
segment where I answer questions from the audience?" Can I Can I There's been a few audio questions. Can I rapid fire those real
00:45:08
quick? All right. What's the best way to get into audio? Uh, buy a cable, an SM7B, and a Focus right 2i2 and record
00:45:16
literally everything and then just make it better every time. Um, why did we ditch the Tascam Model
00:45:21
12? uh because it had this weird bug where if you accidentally overwrote an
00:45:26
existing recording on there, the clock would get weird and you couldn't sync anything and it made Adam's life really difficult. Also, now we have the Sonic
00:45:33
View 16, this absolute beast of a board. Um I think barely see you back there behind that thing.
00:45:39
Oh my god. No, but I think that's uh I think those were actually all the audio questions. So, someone Yeah. Any Yeah,
00:45:45
someone did say, "What degree do you have?" Cuz you were asked saying, "I have a degree that sounds made up from a school that doesn't exist
00:45:51
anymore. I have a I have a bachelor of science in music, business,
00:45:58
entrepreneurship and technology. Business is not science. Alice, I know neither is entrepreneurship or
00:46:04
technology. Technology technology is very science. Yeah. Well, the joke is that every year they would change whether there was that
00:46:11
first comma there. So some years it was music business and the others years it was music, business. But why would you
00:46:17
need comma business when the next word is entrepreneurship? Doesn't make any sense to me. Anyway, the school is called the University of the Arts and uh
00:46:24
it spectacularly exploded last year. Not with like a literal explosion. Oh jeez, I thought that was bad.
00:46:31
No, no, no. It was pretty amazing though. It was like the the the president or CEO or whoever the highest
00:46:36
person at the school just emailed everyone and was essentially like, "Friday, we're done. Teachers, you're
00:46:42
fired. Students transfer. Peace." Dang. That's what I would do. Mic drop.
00:46:48
Mic drop. Yeah. So that's my life. It's pretty good. Ant seb says, "Any chance of getting a Xiaomi SU7 for review?" I
00:46:54
do want to. I've been working on that. Also, I saw people asking about the Model Y. I've also been working on that. So, both of those are on the list. We
00:47:01
want to check those out. Uh, someone asks, "How has Ultimate Frisbee been this year? Can we get an update?" And
00:47:06
also, what is the next Google product that you think will get killed? So, Ultimate been going well.
00:47:12
I will be telling people more about Ultimate this year in an upcoming video because there's going to be a lot more of it this summer. Um, the next product
00:47:19
that Google will kill, don't do it, is I feel bad speaking this into existence,
00:47:25
but it's probably Google Chat.
00:47:30
Is that even Sorry. Google Talk is what it's called right now. And it exists. It's called Google Chat.
00:47:36
No, Google Talk still exists. No, it doesn't. It's inside of Gmail. It's chat. Is it called chat now?
00:47:42
I believe so. Formerly talk, but they use it for enterprise, so I don't think it'll ever go away. Uh, then it's
00:47:49
probably tasks or keep. I'm done with tasks going away. Just keep it. Yeah. Whoever said I give off 57 energy.
00:47:55
Uh, keep that to yourself, man. Oh, no. They meant in centimeters. Oh, wait. That's even shorter.
00:48:03
Someone said Hangouts, Google Keep, Google Drive. Yeah. Let's see what you guys think Google's killing next.
00:48:09
Easy. Pixel tablet. They say somebody's been asking us a hundred times. Favorite Pringle flavor. Oh, so I
00:48:16
just tried the the Miller Light beer brought ones. Excited for that? They have that.
00:48:22
Yeah, they're fine. They're like not great. Here's the thing with Pringles, right? For years, for years I sat there
00:48:27
with my hand halfway down a tube just praying that one day they would release a spicy Pringle cuz I love hot chip. And
00:48:35
for years there were no spicy Pringles. And then they did. Now you can get spicy Pringles. And it turns out they're not
00:48:40
that good. Actually, that's like a chip form factor that never needed to be spicy. So, I'm going to have to go with Oh,
00:48:46
wait. This is actually insane. Are you ready? Dayto-day out on the town. Sour cream
00:48:51
and onion. Same. Okay. With my coffee in the morning.
00:48:56
You eat chips in the morning? Only I I only out of a can. I think a cup of black coffee
00:49:03
and a mini can of cheddar cheese Pringles. Oh, no. Is like such an awesome combo. Cheddar
00:49:08
sour cream or just No, no, the the orange ones like the This is how I know you lived in Philadelphia. I think you're thinking of ruffles.
00:49:14
Those are the cheddar sour cream. Uh no, the in Philadelphia you can get it's a it's the chip form chip cast now.
00:49:21
But um in Philadelphia you can get a hers kettlecooked chips that is cheddar and
00:49:27
horseradish. That sounds so good. They're so horseradish like your nose will run by the time you're done with
00:49:33
the bag. It's amazing. All right. I'm team pizza. I don't eat chitchat.
00:49:38
Sprinkles cuz they put a little dried basil in it. There's like just a hint of herbaceiousness that is so
00:49:45
gets the Italian in me. It's so good. Um, can I pick Zuri up? No, it's it's Zuri time. So, those of us
00:49:51
that were those of you that were in the the chat before the episode may may have seen my uh dog
00:49:57
my my dog foreshadow. And uh there is a dog right here. Although I have no idea how we'll get her elevated.
00:50:03
You should take the headphones off if you're going to pick her up. Underneath her arms, her front paws. We're orchestrating.
00:50:09
I wonder if you could just put her on the chair. You want to sit on the chair? Every time we put a dog in a spinny
00:50:16
chair, it never goes. That makes someone asked if I was going to start a camera channel and I need to know if I
00:50:22
should or if I should just not. All right, chat. This is the Wait, we haven't said chat yet.
00:50:28
Chat chat. Should I start a separate camera channel or do I put it all on my Oh. Oh, that's the question. That's the
00:50:33
question. I think you keep it all in the same. You think so? Z just I think so. We'll see what chat and then you can decide if
00:50:39
you trust me or 5,000 random people on the internet more. Fair enough.
00:50:45
Sounds like I tried to pick her up and then she's just turned into a Matt. Oh my god. Favorite technology connections video. This I feel like this
00:50:51
is targeted towards me. Exactly. I I've watched them all too. My favorite technologies connection.
00:50:56
Well, I think this this the RCA CED series is really really good. But the one that like really changed my life the
00:51:04
first time I saw it is the one called There's Magic Inside Your VCR. Uh I watched that and then immediately
00:51:09
scoured the curbs of Philadelphia until I found a VCR. Wait, that was the first time you bought
00:51:15
a VCR? Yeah. I mean, I was I was doing a lot of cassette stuff at the time, like I was taking apart a lot of cassette decks and
00:51:21
repairing them and like fixing the belts and stuff. And so I thought I understood how a VCR worked. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I got to mess
00:51:27
around with this. And then I realized VCRs are way too complicated for your boy to repair um meaningfully. I've done
00:51:33
like small repairs. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:51:38
Next question. Ellis cage match. I've seen that a bunch. That's not even a question.
00:51:43
Mine's more hurting pretty bad lately. I think you've really Okay. Pro We can make and you guys weigh
00:51:50
in on this cuz pros versus cons. I feel like I might have a little bit of reach on you. I think so. Um, and your knees are not
00:51:58
very good. What martial art are you trying to do? Like, this is like This is a street fight. It's a cage match. Whatever's beating the cage.
00:52:04
I think I Yeah, I think you're way stronger than me. I also think you could take a decent
00:52:11
amount more of a beating than I could. I have a decent pain tolerance cuz I've hurt myself way too many.
00:52:17
Exactly. I think um I think I would get hit in the face once and rethink everything.
00:52:22
All right, next studio. Wait, I want to talk about fighting more. Someone wants to know everyone's
00:52:27
astrological signs. Okay. Cancer. Why? I know mine. I know it. That's all I know.
00:52:34
Yeah, I'm a Sagittarius. That's it. That's cancer. Gatorade. That'd be a sick sign. What flavor?
00:52:42
Wait, that would be awesome if it was just like Pisces. Sagitt Gatorade. That's like one of the cool signs.
00:52:47
What flavor? Gatorade. Uh, Mountain Dew. What's your birthday, David? They just April 25th.
00:52:54
astrological. I could just tell you. Oh, you know it. You're a Taurus. I'm a Taurus. Yeah. I thought you were going to say
00:53:00
Gemini, which would be crazy. That would be crazy. Why would that be crazy? Cuz we were just talking about Gemini
00:53:05
before. Is anyone in here a Gemini? No. Good. No, no Geminis.
00:53:11
I do. I love That's like a really Gemini thing of you to say, Ellis. Someone says, "Do you miss anything about your Model S Plaid?"
00:53:18
Could have Grock right now. Yeah, that's a great question. Someone says they're Gatorade, too.
00:53:24
The only thing Gatorade buds that I really miss is the ability to like truly go like drive itself in
00:53:31
traffic. Like if it was bumper to bumper traffic and I just wanted to kind of sit back and stretch my legs, it would drive
00:53:36
itself. That's basically it. Yeah. Front trunk is the same. Yeah,
00:53:42
that's pretty close. That's about it. Someone said, "What's everyone's video game platform preference?" PS5.
00:53:49
Uh I'm sacriiggious. I play I basically only play Dota 2 and I play it on my
00:53:55
MacBook Pro. Oh my goodness. A psychic. I get 120 FPS.
00:54:00
Oh my god. On on Mac. No, come on. What's wrong with it? I mean, it has random horrible
00:54:06
bugs, but besides that, I think it's fine. I also really like the uh I've been using a lot of emulator devices
00:54:12
recently. They're really fun. Just like little I have a Game Boy Advance SP one and I've been playing Pokemon Pinball
00:54:18
Ruby Sapphire, which I had when I was a kid and it's freaking great. I just keep pausing and there's like such unhinged
00:54:23
question like what someone said do you have a mortgage? Do you do any of you speak a second
00:54:29
language? Yeah. Do you speak a second language? Ellis personality does not is this about
00:54:34
my height again? Is you can't keep baiting them. What do you do you What do you speak if
00:54:39
Yeah. Deutsch. Deutsch. Yeah. I can kind of understand some Spanish, but I don't really speak it fluently. That
00:54:44
Deutsch is German. No, I'm just saying that's my answer. Oh, got it. Yeah. right now. Uh,
00:54:50
what else did they say? Um, speak. Yeah. Oh, am I going to get a dog? I I don't think I'm going to get a dog as long as
00:54:58
we have dogs here. Have access to dogs. That's how I feel about cats. You know,
00:55:03
I had cats and then they peed on my bed six times and then I Well, I was okay, to be clear, I was fostering them. I
00:55:09
didn't return them. They got They got adopted. But now I'm like, you know, I could go with not Pete on bed. I think
00:55:16
that would be good. I do love cats. They're the best. I definitely have the brain worm that the cat gives you.
00:55:21
Someone said, "Marks, when you reviewed your car, you said it was a nine out of 10 of everything, but what is the nine out of 10 of everything in EVs?" I
00:55:27
think, and they said, "Not a Tesla." But the answer is the Lucid Air Sapphire. It's It's actually a 10 out of 10 in
00:55:32
acceleration, but it's nine out of 10. Not the Hummer EV. How dare you? The Hummer EV is something special. You
00:55:38
know what's crazy? I can say this even though the video is not out yet. Um, I'm currently testing the Cadillac Escalade
00:55:44
IQ right now. I can't beat that. So, so it's live now. Yeah, it's out there. And the video, you
00:55:50
know, the autofocus video is coming up. But this thing is a I think the title has to be like this
00:55:57
is a living room on wheels because it's basically this is a 200 kWh battery.
00:56:03
It's 9,000 lb. It's longer than an F-150. It has three rows. It has all the
00:56:08
storage, all the materials. And it I plugged it in. Actually, when we first
00:56:13
got it, it had 92% battery left and it was reading 450 miles of range. That's a
00:56:21
lot. That's crazy. I haven't seen 450 mi of range in years. I don't think any
00:56:26
other than the Lucids, I don't think I've seen 400 plus in real world range. So, uh, shout out to the 200 kWh battery
00:56:32
underneath that living room on wheels. That thing is crazy. Interesting. Yeah. Can I I just want to say something about that. You know what I mean? Because
00:56:39
frankly, Cadillac Shame on you. Just make a smaller, less
00:56:45
heavy car, please. Well, they do. They make the optic, which is the smallest one, and they make the lyric. And I was just thinking as I
00:56:50
passed by a lyric this morning, this is the mega lyric. This is the mega lyric. Write it like
00:56:56
it's huge. Why can't we just make a blimp? If you want to make something that big, make it really slow and up in the air where it
00:57:01
can't hurt anybody. Yeah, it is massive. Um, also to everyone commenting about the audio thing, I think our internet is
00:57:06
uh having having a little bit of a day today. All right. Well, we'll probably go 10 15
00:57:12
more minutes. Should we go? How should we end this? Just rapid fire answering questions. Yeah, we I'm trying to start some sort
00:57:17
of argument, man. We had such a good argument during the test stream. Someone said something that I felt
00:57:23
really stupid about. Um that trivia question about the things that I could mean. There's literally a character in
00:57:28
Dota 2 called IO. Wow. I can't believe I didn't find that. Yeah. Dang. I mean, I never play him, so
00:57:35
Oh, yeah. He's a floating orb. That's it. He's the O. H.
00:57:41
Is IO OP? Is IOIO? IO has been OP in previous metas. Yeah. Not currently OP.
00:57:48
Yeah. Wait, I don't think we ever Andrew, what's your gaming platform of choice? Did you ever answer that?
00:57:54
Probably computer. For a very long time, it was Xbox. What's a computer? Sorry, I had to. It's
00:57:59
just an iPad. When people say computer, I just flexible. Someone says, "Do I do photo uh wedding engagement photos?"
00:58:06
Uh, yeah. Hit me up. I have an email address. Maria Smith Marquez, how much longer do
00:58:12
you see yourself playing Ultimate for? I don't know. Until I can't until I literally can't
00:58:17
and then I get to steal them for disc golf finally. Then I just switch full-time to golf. Golf, I think. No. No.
00:58:23
I think What if it was a little like both? The problem is I'm already like decent
00:58:28
at golf, so it would be like a hard learning curve to get good to get that good at disc golf. I could be swayed. I
00:58:34
could try it. Okay, I'll try. But you know, golf golf's hottest. I'm convinced that Marquez is just going
00:58:39
to retire and become a coach. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's my So, I've thought about that. I I have the
00:58:49
It's I go on and off with like, do I have the brain to be a coach? I was a captain of my college team. That kind of
00:58:54
felt like coaching because there's a lot of beginners on the team. I've done some clinics where like I go back to my old
00:59:00
high school and like talk to the kids and the the kids who are already pretty good and sort of give them fundamental
00:59:05
advice on playing better. But coaching a team is like X's and O's on the field against an opponent and I'm not as like
00:59:13
fully in tune with like I don't do scouting that much. I'm very much an individual scout on like here's how to
00:59:19
guard this one player and how I'll maximize it. But the whole team thing is uh I don't have that vision
00:59:27
visionary ability yet. Marquez, I think you're going to get into tennis after
00:59:32
Ultimate. I have tried tennis once before. I was really bad at
00:59:37
I know. I know. But just seeing how how good your specific brain is for pingpong, I think you're going to watch
00:59:44
one tennis tournament and see what those guys are doing and be like, "Oh, I'm kind of interested in that." That's hard on the knees though, isn't
00:59:49
it? It is. But also like people regularly play tennis into their 60s. Like it's not it's not it's harder on your elbow.
00:59:56
Um but if you do, you know, you're you're in shape, you know what to do. You got it.
01:00:01
True. I'm going to I'm going to want to use my cardio in some way cuz golf does not use my cardio. My look, my mother
01:00:08
still up there in age, still playing four days a week of tennis. Tennis. What? And is like pickle ball on her
01:00:13
radar or is she just like I'm not going to speak for my mom. Yeah. But I don't think she would ever
01:00:18
get even close to a That's what I hear from tennis players. Yeah. Someone said, "Do you guys have a hot tech take for the year so far?"
01:00:25
Yeah. But I don't know for the year like hot tech take I I assume it would be
01:00:30
like if the Nothing Phone If the Nothing Phone 3 was $4.99, it would be
01:00:37
people wouldn't be mad. Universally accepted over it design. Coldest take possible. No, I think the design is like easy to
01:00:43
make fun of cuz it's expensive. But I think if it was $4.99, if it was a good phone for the money, people would ignore the design. I don't think that many people are
01:00:50
making fun of the I think there's people making fun of the design a little bit, but most people are on the
01:00:56
true mad is not a hot enough take. Then my hottest tech take is that Apple is like in its not good era right now.
01:01:04
That's it's like on its way. What kind of not good? I like it feels
01:01:09
sort of like a dip for the company where none of their design design decisions seem to me making a lot of sense. Like
01:01:15
even with Liquid Glass, they've already scaled it back to the point where it's so different and it feels like there's
01:01:21
not cohesive leadership at the design level and uh yeah, I feel like they're in a
01:01:28
dip right now. Lost a little bit. Yeah, I mean it just
01:01:33
feels like they got they got forced to get sidetracked with all the AI stuff because of their stock price
01:01:38
and then they eventually they realized they didn't necessarily like really have
01:01:43
to do that. So this year they went back to like just machine learning stuff which is good but with the design stuff without
01:01:50
without Johnny IV or like you know and I'm glad we got the thick MacBooks again. So huge. That's good. But um
01:01:56
yeah, I don't know. It just sort of feels like they're just making a lot of really bad product decisions right now. And it feels like they're in their dip
01:02:02
era right now. Dip era I agree with. I don't think they're not on the way on the way out. They're not on the way out.
01:02:08
They're definitely just having a tough two years for sure. And it's so much weirder because
01:02:15
Yeah, I have a tech take, but it's pretty hot. So maybe maybe let's do it. Let's do it. It's pretty da
01:02:22
I think. I think it's sort of a two-part take. The first part is that we've sort of gone over this crest in tech right
01:02:30
now where it feels like getting VC funding as a tech company is more
01:02:37
important than getting customer sales. In a lot of places it is.
01:02:42
Yeah. And for that reason, more and more companies are quote
01:02:47
unquote pivoting to AI. And my actual hot take is that the quickest way a tech
01:02:54
company can ruin their brand image, possibly forever
01:03:00
is by publicly pivoting to AI. And I get that in our circle. It's like, oh, like
01:03:07
notion has an AI now. Like, oh, this has an AI now. Oh, the Domino's app, pizza AI. I don't think that exists.
01:03:13
But among probably does among my non tech friends, I now know five or six people who as
01:03:21
soon as an app they like is like check out our new chatbot, check out our new AI instant delete, cancel subscription,
01:03:28
get it out because none of these products work. I mean, look, like I use Claude. like Claude
01:03:34
sort of works, but I would still give it only like a 30% success rate, you know, every time it's queried for giving me
01:03:40
something that's like useful. Um, so yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say it. If you're thinking about
01:03:45
pivoting your company to AI, you will probably make money in the long run, but everyone will hate you.
01:03:51
Um, Domino's does use it. Does use AI. All right. I am now officially a Papa
01:03:56
John. No pizza. No, I I live in New York. You guys know about Papa Murphy's? What is Papa Murphy's? It's called take
01:04:03
and bake pizza. This is a Norcow thing. Oh, this is the one where like you Yeah. Yeah. So, basically you go in, they make
01:04:09
the pizza for you, but they don't cook it and then you bring it home and you cook it yourself. That's kind of cute. Except Except
01:04:16
Except you you need a you need a real solid oven. And it's still not good pizza to be clear. Stone.
01:04:21
It's not that good, but it is better than like hot pizza. Well, it's already not good pizza box.
01:04:29
It's way better pizza than like Papa John's. It is. Um, it is kind of shocking how much better a pizza can come out of your
01:04:36
oven when you just put a rock in there with it. It is like fascinating. Like if you ever make like a Dejouros rising crust frozen pizza,
01:04:43
but put a pizza stone in your oven. Or better yet, Andrew, do you have a three- rack oven? Yeah. You ever used two pizza stones, one on
01:04:49
top, one on bottom? Yeah. Racks on racks. I also have a pizza oven, though. Oh, I'm Andrew. I have a backyard with a
01:04:57
pizza oven in it. Yeah. I live in a cellar. I think my tech take. So,
01:05:02
oh wait, David, you literally live in a cellar. I live in a cellar. It's better than the rattlesnake den. But Dave, when you say I live in a cellar,
01:05:08
I'm just picturing you behind like a cage with a sleeping guard and keys dangling out of his pocket and you're
01:05:14
desperately trying to convince a dog to go like He has like a stick trying to like get the keys off his sleeping belt.
01:05:19
Did I stutter? Okay. Okay. So, tech take. I think Android is going to be the cool one
01:05:24
again. That's something I've been working on all year again. Yeah. Uh, well, I guess for the first time.
01:05:30
That's fair. It was cool to me. It was cool to me for a while. I think Android was cool for a while and
01:05:36
then the whole Blue Bubble thing made iMessage just like the far and away leader and Apple the far and away leader
01:05:41
for in the US. In the US. Yeah. No, in the US. Well, even Yeah, I'll I'll stick just the
01:05:46
I did have a normie friend tell me yesterday cuz she was thinking about switching to the Fair Phone 6, which was
01:05:51
like crazy. That's not a normie friend. It doesn't exist. She heard about Fairphone Phone
01:05:56
because she wanted to be more fair to the world, I guess, or something. And I was like, "Oh, there's a new one coming out." I told her about it and I was
01:06:03
like, "But you know, you you have to get off iMessage." And she's like, "Um, yeah. I mean, I kind of think that green bubbles are like kind of like
01:06:09
counterculture rebellious now." And I was like, "Oh, that's what I mean. I think the the pendulum swing is coming back for the
01:06:16
green bubbles. We need the pendulum swing. Let's Ellis reacted thumbs down. Texting people. Okay, we got a couple
01:06:24
bangers in a row. Uh, one of them was DN says, "What do you think about the Roadster? Are you still getting one for
01:06:30
free?" No one has any idea. There was a random Elon tweet recently that was like, I saw that
01:06:35
just saw the coolest tech demo in the design studio and people tagged me about it like, "What do you think, Marquez?"
01:06:41
And I was like, "Are we really going to react to a tweet about a teaser about a demo about a product that's still not
01:06:46
out?" I got nothing to say. The other one was, "Uh, what's your Waw Wa order?" Oh, that's a comment. That's
01:06:53
not a Slack message. It's a real comment. So, underscore yo, are we ordering Waw Wa? No, this is a real com. They are Wawa's
01:06:59
already ordered. Wawa's already ordered, but also people in the chat want to know what your Wawa order is. Okay. My
01:07:04
Did you order Wawa today? I didn't, but I You should You should ask someone if you can still order Wawa. Don't go hungry. That was this morning.
01:07:09
I am hungry. We did it at like 11. We have said orders closed an hour ago. Yeah, we have a Waw Wa orders Slack
01:07:16
channel just to be clear. Okay. My order is um I like the honeys
01:07:21
turkey shorty uh with uh mustard and everything else.
01:07:27
That's a sandwich by the way. Just for those Oh, the hogies. Yeah. And shorty means
01:07:32
small small size. Small sandwich. I get everything on it though. Like every ingredient.
01:07:38
Right now, Italian sub with proolone lettuce.
01:07:44
uh hot peppers, old bay oil vinegar, extra of that. And then right now
01:07:50
there's these like uh crispy pickle chips that you can put on it.
01:07:55
Fantastic. That's nice. Nice. They never put enough oil and vinegar on though. Ever. I want the bun to be soaking in oil and vinegar.
01:08:02
Yes. Yo, I want to give your That sounds disgusting. Just the the lukewarm soggy panini from Wawwa is
01:08:09
usually what I get. Yeah. I I I I change it up a lot. when I'm getting a hogi. But when it's
01:08:15
raining outside, what I do is I get the the ham and cheese panini with cheddar and pickles.
01:08:22
So, it's kind of like a grilled cheese. Maybe a little garlic ioli on that. And then I get a side of tomato bisque.
01:08:29
And I hit it with the that bread. The tomato bis so good. Um I'm
01:08:35
sorry Marquez. I just I won't dive into it, but ever since you brought up that Roadster thing, it's like the the the
01:08:42
Tesla expanded universe has strayed so far from an affordable sports car. They put out an AI girlfriend yesterday. It's
01:08:49
like where where it's definitely not an affordable sports car. Well, wasn't the point originally though
01:08:56
supposed to be like for the roadster context? Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. context is for the
01:09:01
performance that they promised. It is relatively affordable because they're matching a $2 million car with a $200,000 car,
01:09:06
right? But it's not out. So, no. And it's never going to come out because they're not working on it because they're too busy doing whatever
01:09:12
it is they put out yesterday. Yeah, they're working on other Someone said favorite app of 2025.
01:09:18
So, it had to come out or or I think it had to have come out this year. I really like onion rings, but
01:09:25
mozzarella sticks climbing up the ranks. But are you using anything more this year than you used before?
01:09:31
Um, that's a good question. I would say Pokemon Trading Card Game
01:09:37
Pocket I'm still playing. Um, I don't play games like almost ever and but
01:09:42
Bellatro and Pokemon's Trading Card Game Pocket now are the first two games I've like ever had on my phone and I'm very
01:09:49
addicted to both of them and I don't like that. Coinbase has sent me a notification every day for like the last 5 days because Bitcoin's hitting a new high
01:09:55
every 5 days. So, there's that. Uh, I have speak of speak of not financial
01:10:00
advice. A teaser. Uh, somebody asked about the Tesla robo taxi thing and I have the
01:10:07
Tesla robo taxi app here on my phone. So, there's a little teaser. Why would you have that, Marquez? Yeah, you know, just uh just testing
01:10:13
just testing it out. Here's a new uh area that they're doing service in. Did they do that on purpose? Yes, of course they did.
01:10:18
I hate everything. But also, yeah. No, I don't have any like app of the year for me so far. or I
01:10:26
don't think actually no I won't shut that out. That's cool.
01:10:32
I don't even know what he's talking about. I don't think I use any apps that are new this year. I think UI disk is like my most fun app that I just for
01:10:39
disc golf. I'm really digging the Brooklyn Public Library app. Oh yeah. Public. What What are you doing
01:10:45
in that? Yeah. Um uh it has two main like so you can browse the catalog which is really
01:10:51
useful. That's sick. you can place holds on um audiobooks, ebooks or physical books and
01:10:57
then you can also read the ebooks in the app in like a built in a built-in reader. And it like look I'm not going
01:11:03
to be like this is a phenomenal app but I will say for an app that is run by a
01:11:09
city. It is so good like never crashes. The bar is low but that is
01:11:14
very responsive UI. Everything works. Easy sign in. Feels secure. I would
01:11:20
assume it's my library card. So, it's like, yeah, I shouldn't say that. Probably is. Hopefully, it's your
01:11:26
library card. It Yeah, but now everyone is going to try to hack into my Brooklyn Public Library account. My I don't think my public library has a
01:11:33
app, so that's pretty cool. Really? I think you'd be surprised. Marquez, do you have a library card? I'll check. Not anymore. I have one from
01:11:40
my hometown, but I haven't. Yeah, it's been a while. Everyone take out your library cards. Do it. Library.
01:11:46
I have the Where the Wild Things Are. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. That's my favorite thing about the Brooklyn Public
01:11:51
Library app is my card is in it. I don't need to carry it around physically. You're not a card carrying member. Did you know Costco does the same thing?
01:11:57
Oh, yeah. I have it on Costco, but I changed phones too many times, so I got locked out. Yeah, I went to Costco the other day and
01:12:02
I realized walking in that I forgot my card and they were like, you can just log in on the app. And I was like, duh.
01:12:09
Obviously, we're still at 5K viewers, by the way. That's pretty. Usually they like peak up
01:12:16
and taper off, but everyone's staying strong. I think we It was kind of a random midday on a
01:12:22
Tuesday, you know, people are just hanging out. Should we do like I have one app Oh, do your app. Yeah, just it's not new, but it's one that I
01:12:28
found recently and has been like a lifesaver and it's just local send. So, it's basically airdrop between like
01:12:33
any device and it's been super popular. Local send. Local send. That's amazing. I will try this
01:12:38
jalapeno poppers cuz it's like chili rayeno but you can eat a lot of them. So awesome. Chili is amazing.
01:12:44
Yeah, that's why jalapeno poppers rule. They do rule except for when they like burn your mouth and like squirt all over your shirt.
01:12:51
That's true. That happens every time. That sounds terrible. That's the worst. Um I'm hungry. Uh but
01:12:58
yeah. Do you want to do like two more questions? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I probably should have had a
01:13:04
question ready when I said that. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Someone said, "Ever heard of Yandex, guys? It's like the Google of
01:13:10
Central Asia." Yes. Not only have I But I took a ride in a Yandex
01:13:15
self-driving car at CES years ago. Check that one out. Little throwback video for
01:13:21
you. I remember that. Yeah. Someone asked what the f our favorite Spongebob memes are. Oh, brother.
01:13:27
Um, that one's excellent. Yeah. What What's the one where he's like like
01:13:32
camera blurred like this? Is that Mr. Krabs? Mr. Crabs. The reason I love that is because one time I was doing a Fall
01:13:39
Guys stream and Ellis was watching and I like knocked my webcam and it paused to like me being like that and Ellis like
01:13:45
screenshotted it and sent it to me as me. There's so many good ones. So many good
01:13:50
ones. Can I tell the story of when you were streaming um Valerant, I think,
01:13:57
and you didn't know my Twitch account and so I just started commenting begging you to come visit a fan in Utah.
01:14:06
Um, my favorite Spongebob meme is the sound, the stinky sound. So much so that
01:14:11
when someone sends me a text I don't like or like they bail on plans or something like that, I'll just send the a YouTube link to like the
01:14:22
I think mine is Mr. Krabs, I have an idea.
01:14:27
Pretty good. Someone said, Marquez, did you switch to your iPhone again? I've literally used two phones since the
01:14:32
beginning of time. I have an iPhone in one pocket and an Android phone in the other pocket.
01:14:37
There are cave things about it. Dude, it's crazy how when the Big Bang happened, the first atoms to be pulled
01:14:43
together into solid matter formed a Samsung and an iPhone and they were in Marquez's pockets.
01:14:49
Yeah. So, you have Wait, which never mind. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, iPhone 16 Pro.
01:14:55
Got it. Right. You could look it out though. Yeah. Someone was going to ask. Did we just break bargain? Dude, if um
01:15:01
if the if the hypothetical folding iPhone had a built-in and a pen brother,
01:15:07
Apple pen, I would be so Is that what the S stands for? Oh my god.
01:15:13
Wait, what? I just assumed it was the same as Galaxy S. Like it was super. So the the S Pen?
01:15:19
Yeah, Samsung pen. Is it Samsung pen or super pen? I think it's just Galaxy S Pen. But the Sen Galaxy
01:15:26
I'm asking GPT. The S does not stand for Samsung in Galaxy S. I know the S stands for wheezy f baby.
01:15:33
Super chachi PT says the S doesn't have an official meaning. Well, that's literally wrong. It's widely believed to stand for
01:15:40
Samsung as in Samsung. It's double wrong. It's wrong both times. It does stand for something and it stands for super.
01:15:45
It does stand for super. Wow. Chat GPT just didn't. That's what Okay, this is what I'm saying. They're wrong almost every time.
01:15:52
And And I think we don't realize it because we all make the mistake of assuming that they're correct. But it's
01:15:57
like it was wrong when I when I asked it about what the state abbreviation for Iowa was. Hey, where did you find? It
01:16:03
was wrong. Did we? Smash Bros. Man, I'm on the Wikipedia for S Pen and I
01:16:10
command F super and it's not there. We had a whole waveform episode about this. Remember? Because the A stands for awesome.
01:16:17
Yeah. Yeah. But in in Galaxy S that might stand for one thing, but in S Pen it doesn't appear to stand for anything.
01:16:24
Oh, you're just looking for what S Pen stands for? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah,
01:16:29
that's what I asked. Chat, what does it say? Chat. But I It's phone arena. Did you know
01:16:34
that? Did you do you know what the S in Galaxy's S line stands for? The answer is super cheesy. It stands for super
01:16:40
smart. I think you guys are talking about two different things though. That's Galaxy S. That's Galaxy S
01:16:45
Pen. No, that So, that was my original question. Is the S Pen super smart like in Galaxy S or is it
01:16:51
short for Samsung or or nothing? I don't think anyone knows. No. Samsung knows. Okay,
01:16:58
maybe I Samsung. I don't know about that. Wikipedia doesn't. Chachipia doesn't.
01:17:04
Someone said favorite movie, TV show. I just want to shout out uh Halton Catch Fire because everyone that watch that
01:17:09
watches Waveform would really love this show cuz it's about the '8s computer revolution and it's really good. It's a
01:17:15
dramatization. It's so good. It's Sorry, hopping back in here because now I'm mad. I found I found the 2011 PR
01:17:22
Blast from Samsung that has the acronyms for all their letters. It's S super
01:17:27
smart, R is for Galaxy S, royal/refined. W is for wonder. M is for magical and Y
01:17:36
is for young. I think what they're saying though is that these are for the devices. S Pen
01:17:42
might be something else. Even though the phone itself, the S might stand for that. Like the Galaxy Tab has an S Pen.
01:17:49
And what does the S stand for? That's my question. I don't think there's an answer. Wait, is it not the Galaxy S Tab? It's
01:17:55
just there's no letter on the Galaxy Tab. The Galaxy Tab Ultra.
01:18:00
Super smart. They do have a They do have a Galaxy Tab S as well. So, the Galaxy Tab Ultra is the one with the S Pen.
01:18:06
It's the Galaxy Tab WH100X. These are all really bad product names. Uh,
01:18:11
all right. Do you want to do last question, Marcus? Last question. What should we We should pick a good one. We should make a You
01:18:17
guys have to drop sit in silence and pick the best question. Pause. Keyboard switches.
01:18:22
That's not it. IonX 6N. While we wait, what is your guys's best question?
01:18:28
I was going to say the TV show I want to shout out while they pick out a question is Cowboy Bbop. I don't know why it took
01:18:33
me so long to watch that. Oh my god, it's so good. Someone said the S stands for stylus.
01:18:40
Might as well at this point. It might as well. Favorite phone color. You know, I have a map like everything shirt on.
01:18:47
That S stands for sexy. The S stands for shut up.
01:18:53
That's actually really good. That's good. Um, yeah. Favorite country.
01:19:00
Trying to get me cancelled. Earth. Coffee. People are just typing coffee.
01:19:06
A lot of I think we should finally address this. Someone asked something that we've been joking about, not
01:19:11
answering. So, for the longest time, we recorded this show on a device called a
01:19:16
Roadcaster, which you can plug four microphones in. And there were five
01:19:21
people in this room. And so, Adam and I just shared the mic because we don't have that much to say,
01:19:27
you know. Then, not anymore. Now, we have so much to say. Yeah. Right. So then we upgraded to the
01:19:35
Tascam Model 12, which did have an extra input for another mic, but we just
01:19:41
thought this was so funny and so we're never going to change it. Just bonked heads like five minutes ago like
01:19:47
pretty hard. No, no, no. That that was the $3,000 headphones. Don't worry. Um not my $5
01:19:54
skull. Um but yeah, so it's just hilarious. I think I think it's part of the fun. Adam and I get to, you know,
01:20:00
have our faces kind of awkwardly close to each other for like colleagues, but
01:20:05
that's part of the fun of of making a show. I think it's good. I think it's it's a good I think it's a great place to end.
01:20:11
It kind of reminds me of uh when I had the Cheerios in the background of MQBHD videos for years, people would ask, "Why
01:20:18
are there Cheerios behind you? Why are the Cheerios behind you?" And this the the real answer is I actually started
01:20:24
making videos in my college dorm in 200
01:20:29
[Music] 13 12 or 13 and behind me in the room
01:20:34
there was a microwave and I was shooting on my Canon T2i and the one over 60 shutter speed it just looked really
01:20:40
weird with the display would like strobe behind me and anytime I made a video with a microwave behind me which it
01:20:46
would be in every video people would comment like yeah look at the microwave it's strobing so I just wanted to put something in front of it to block it so
01:20:52
people would stop talking about it. So I started putting a Cheerios box up there and then I just kept putting a Cheerios box there. And then eventually I moved
01:20:58
to a new apartment and I kept putting a Cheerios box behind me and it just stayed behind me and there was no reason for it to be there and it could totally
01:21:05
have moved. But I just kept putting it there because it just felt right. And that's the truth about a lot of things
01:21:10
on YouTube and on this podcast with a single mic and with our setups and with a lot of what we do. It just feels right
01:21:16
and that's just the way it is for now. Enjoy it. Hey, thanks for thanks for
01:21:21
watching. Thanks for for listening and tuning in and for and for dropping a bunch of comments that we could answer. This was really fun. We'll probably do
01:21:27
this again sometime. Maybe 350, maybe 400. Maybe we'll find a good reason to go live again. But uh
01:21:32
thanks for uh dealing with us being five whole minutes late. I think it was like 10 or 10.
01:21:38
It was a very stressful day. It was a while. It was a while. But hey, if you guys make it to episode 1000, you
01:21:43
might get to see Ellis and I test if Kiss Envision Pro. Yeah. N 301. See you tomorrow.
01:21:51
See you tomorrow. Get subscribed. Yeah. The second we get the second we get a Second Vision Pro from Apple, it's
01:21:56
going down. Science. Should we read out? Let's sign out.
01:22:02
Read us out. And this is going to be a very weird outro cuz I'm waiting for the lag before I I hit.
01:22:07
Then we all have to wait. Yeah. cuz [Music]
