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welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts i'm marquez and i'm andrew um today we kind
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of have like uh i'm calling it like a tech christmas stocking we've got some stocking stuffers there's no like huge
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news out right now it's we always see this at the end of q4 pretty much like everyone who's wanted a big item out
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probably has it already because they need it out for christmas everything had to be on the shelf by two weeks ago
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exactly or like pre-ordered or anything so like we just have kind of a bunch of different fun little stories i've got a
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new smartphone camera i've got a youtube lawsuit i've got uh we and we're gonna wrap it up with
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our spotify wrapped also i like your sweater thanks you too are you if are you listening to the audio version or
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watching the youtube version because if you're watching the youtube version you should check out uh how similar our ugly
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christmas sweaters are right now just in color we made we said we were gonna go christmas sweaters for this episode um
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when i put it on i r because i'd seen yours already because it's a microsoft one it's so good i the microsoft kills
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it with these ugly sweaters every year give us a little stand up give us a there's a drip
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drip show fashion drip i don't don't know what the kids call it it's just mine sweeper it's a it's a christmas
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tree shaped mind sweeper yeah it's awesome and they had the old windows 95 one a few years ago that was awesome but
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that one you posted this and there's something um wrong right yeah i don't know i didn't know how to play
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minesweeper until like high school and then i realized it was kind of a fun game but also the numbers are supposed to indicate how
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many bombs are touching it yep and there's a one right at the top of the tree with two bombs touching it what
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this is made by microsoft how do they get that wrong so i don't know it's a little easter egg i have two questions
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going off that one is is minesweeper still on windows actually i'm on a windows laptop right now yeah you can check uh it's not on mac no it looks
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like you can't game on no it searches for it oh man yeah no more no more default wine
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minesweeper that's kind of sad solitaire is the only thing that matters i mean yeah i was a big solider friend my
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grandpa taught me how to play that i also didn't learn minesweeper for a long time but like do people know what
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minesweeper is is that kind of not like the younger generation probably doesn't know what it is i think pinball
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is where most of us had the most fun in windows 95 that was that was like xp i
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think i had it on xp right exactly that was a good one that was really good i feel like these just don't come with like standard games anymore i might be
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totally wrong on that but i'm looking no it's it's got like candy crush and stuff like that
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because these days they don't know there is solid okay there's solid there okay we're good we're good windows good job
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uh mine is a r2d2
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covered in christmas lights a little x-wing up here but yeah the blues are like almost exactly the same oh wow very
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very similar so we could say we matched there we go good job the thumbnail is going to be pretty sick for this episode
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nice um all right cool right off the top new ev and you looked at the document
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and were like there's a new ev and it's a little different it's it's still an electric vehicle
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this isn't a car i haven't clicked it yet so click the link okay i'll click the link right now let's see what shows up twitter link yeah and this is a tweet
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from now this a swedish startup has designed the jetson one a personal electric vehicle
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that's sold to anyone that can own it and fly it oh it looks like one of those personal drones that
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you can drive around in yeah it's it's wild
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it's electric it's electric i mean like i think you described i was i was watching this and trying to figure out
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how to describe it because we've seen a lot of i easily just picture dji's fpv drone but take the front of it
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and blow it up to human size and put a person inside so it's like a quadcopter
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inside with a person inside of an fpv drone yeah it's like a it's a cage pretty much yeah rather than like where
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the battery goes the person goes there in a little cage it has it actually has eight propellers but it's like two on each arm so it looks like four um it has
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eight motors and yeah it's basically just like a drone it looks
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it looks totally wild it looks super dangerous yeah that's what i'm saying so
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in this video they're piloting around like an empty desert sort of like grazing the sandy floor of a completely
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barren environment that is the only place i would feel comfortable with anyone ever having access to one of these
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yeah oh yeah i'm not even like multiple people flying them but just myself flying it would feel so it cuts to a
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shot of inside the cockpit like a first person view and this guy's like knees are touching his arms are like
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his elbows must be like against his body and it's got a little cell phone on the side that's showing his like mile per
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hour wow um it looks kind of it looks so cool but this looks like it
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would be really fun in like a vr experience and maybe not with my body scraping against the floor i mean crash
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it yeah i'm sure it's you know the fact that is is up for sale probably means a
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couple of things and i'm hoping i'm right about this but i'm hoping it has passed some sort of crash safety it has
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looks like it has a roll cage like you can you can hit the ground and stuff like that but i just don't i already just don't trust people to drive well
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enough around me that if you give people zx this freedom they're gonna be doing wild stuff so um yeah i'm glad they're
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in like a barren desert not around like buildings like spiderman right in between there was one quick shot where
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he's kind of it looks like an abandoned building he's kind of near but um one thing i did see on the website is it has like some emergency function where i
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think if your hands come loose or if you hit the emergency button there's like no bottom to this there's
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no wheels until that looks like it takes off of or really like it's pretty your butt basically hits the ground when you
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get to the bottom but apparently it has an emergency hover mode so like if you do that you hover rather
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than skid across the ground as as someone who's crashed an fpv drone yeah i will
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never fly one of these because i obviously don't trust myself wait where's obstacle avoidance yeah this is
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like when you put the fpv drone goggles on you feel like you're already doing this like you're flying around at 75
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miles an hour very close to objects you wouldn't ordinarily get close to but the stakes are so low because if you crash it's
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just the drone that crashes and you take the goggles off and you're fine so this is uh this is a little more adrenaline
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there's he has a helmet on so yeah he's totally safe he's got a helmet that is interesting i've never seen an
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electric version of this so that's cool no yeah i think it's we've we've seen other stuff like this in the past it's not super new but it's usually these
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like huge huge like you know
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it feels like four people can fit in it but it's really just because there's so much room for the engines and everything like that and it just seems like this
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even more somehow dangerous car that flies yeah it's a personal helicopter yeah basically this feels
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like a drone though which i just thought was really really cool like these vehicles are destined to be
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recreational only forever right that's a good question that i don't know if i can answer
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that it's come up a couple of times so we were shooting retro tech talking about futurism and why we don't have
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flying cars yet and obviously talking about how the jetsons seem to have this like super safe flying car network
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and a bunch of movies have flying cars in them but then neil degrass tyson's like yeah you can't give everyone a helicopter or it'll be incredibly loud
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and things will fall out of the sky all the time and that will be very dangerous so anytime we see some of these because
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i've seen videos like this before of like jump into a drone and like fly around seems fun but seems like that has to be
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in a controlled like area in an environment where you know all the variables and there's
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restricted airspace and like people can do their thing and then take the helmet off and walk home yeah i guess
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ultimately i'm sure i'm sure these people would like you to think that it would get to that or they
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would like to think that it will get to that point but just like i didn't even think what you said like things flying out of the air like people
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flick cigarette butts out of their car all the time imagine just like a cigarette butt coming from above you as
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you're like walking on the street but more than that though that so what neil was saying was like when a car breaks down
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you just drift over to the side of the road yeah or worse you're in like the middle of the highway and yeah you can get around you yeah when a helicopter
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breaks down that is a massive problem uh if you give everyone helicopters and
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you've seen the way people drive they're gonna break down all the time and there's gonna be people dropping out of the sky onto the ground are there people
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underneath i don't know so that's why i immediately went too many people who can't maintain their
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cars to be able to maintain something like this and then it going horribly wrong in the air yeah falling down fun
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recreation though fun recreation yeah i i mean yeah i would try it eventually but i would probably fly the fpv drone
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for like 30 more hours before i set foot in there the training for this should be flying an fpv drone with the same
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controls yeah i bet the controls are pretty similar i bet um so all right i have
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another thing here um i think this is a youtube story so less tech related but like we're obviously youtube
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channel we love the youtube community um if you're kind of like i don't say an og youtuber but five or six years ago do
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you remember there's a big story from phillyd um h3h3 the h3h3 channel they
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were going through a lawsuit where they were kind of fighting for fair use it was kind of like this big moment online
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where like everyone kind of banded together because they reacted to a video and the person who had that video issued
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a copyright strike there's a whole big lawsuit about it and the internet kind of got behind them to fund the lawsuit
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so we could kind of protect fair use right it was a sort of early in its time case where
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if they just settled and got it over with it would actually kind of set a precedent for exactly others being able
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to sue youtube channels to get things removed when they were perfectly fairly using things under under fair use
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copyright law that's how i interpreted it seems like it went well enough it did that we successfully defended that
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exactly um so there's there's another thing it kind of feels full circle
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happening right now um so i i watch their podcast all the time i think it's super entertaining but it's they've gotten to a point where um if you
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remember the jake paul fight a few months ago i believe it was the jake paul ben
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something that you know the older mma fighter yeah i thought you meant nate robinson no not nate robinson although i
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do believe that one was run by the same company um there's a company called trailer who are the ones who are running these kind of like different fights
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trailer fight club trailer i forget exactly what it is um and they they all these fights are pay-per-view
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ethan on his podcast um after one of them happened about a week after it happened showed a quick clip of it did
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their commentary you know like i'm sure a million other channels did um and then
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because of that triller is now suing them because they said that the
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pretty much the podcast got around a million views this is a three hour podcast and maybe like five minutes of
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talking about this like clip or whatever or showing the clip uh totally fair it seems super super obvious fair use right
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and they have the precedent case from before four or five years ago and they're getting sued now because they
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use this they're claiming that since the podcast has a million views that all of those views would have been pay-per-view
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views which is like 50 bucks and there's they were suing them for like i forget what a million
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times 50 50 million dollars a wild wild amount of money yeah um and
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i think it hasn't really gotten that same it felt full circle to me because i've seen that and then phillyd finally made
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a video on it but hasn't really gotten as much attention because i think their podcast channel's a bit smaller not as many people watch three hour videos
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versus remember peak h3 it was kind of like shorter shorter videos and then it kind
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of like blew up on the internet so this just feels like something that again is potentially attacking
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it's not just attacking them like this is another case where if trailer goes through with this and and
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sets this precedent then people can get sued for kind of reaction videos or using other clips and videos and it's
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just it feels like it should be a little bigger than uh what the youtube community sees it as right now it feels
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like an attack on the youtube community interesting um yeah and i think
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i just wanted to get a little more attention out there because it feels like fair use is kind of yeah the the the definition of fair use
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is always like a little bit squishy like it's it has to be transformative in some
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way and you can define that however you want you can you have to use a certain small amount of it on different
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platforms fair use is enforced in different amounts so on on youtube for
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example if you use like a quarter of a second of copyrighted music immediately that can be claimed even if it's only a
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quarter of a second in a 40 minute video it's used it's not transformative it's not used as commentary they'll
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immediately flag it um but there's different versions of this like you mentioned if you're you're commentating
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on the fight while it's playing in the background versus just playing it for everyone to watch yeah i'm always
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fascinated by like when a sport event is happening and i open up instagram and i i see like
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part of the highlight on instagram but whenever i see like a a pay-per-view
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fight they never show the knockout or the hit yeah you notice this like whenever i like everyone's
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scared of it yeah i think there's probably a rule around it where they're like you can show the end of the fight
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and you can show the replay of him landing on the ground but you can't show the hit that made him land on the ground
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because that will make people not want to watch i think there's some rule attached that sounds
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i mean i don't know the exact specifics of it um and like i guess again you're like you're saying there's all these nuances to fair use and stuff like that
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and i wonder if sports do that there's also like there are people who just straight up stream these like live events oh yeah
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such and that's crazy i mean there's like those twitch streamers that will do boxing matches where they'll green screen themselves on
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a controller so it looks like they're just playing a video game instead i think i saw that with one of the first yeah there's so many really really
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bad examples of doing this um it's funny that you mentioned music as well because
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i've always found it interesting twitch is having a huge huge issue with that because
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a lot of these streamers are playing music when they're playing games or playing music when they're just like chatting on twitch and it never seems to
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be a huge issue during it live but then like if that's in the vaude afterwards the
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whole vod will get taken down because they're worried they could get a copyright strike on twitch is having a huge issue with that right now
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um which another thing that's really cool is there's people like t-pain out there who are now these big twitch streamers and
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they're actively making music and letting their music be completely copyright free for twitch streamers like
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making it okay for that i love musicians that have a good enough relationship with their label that they
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can pull strings like that and make their stuff available and shout out to t-pain and those who are doing it right
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because that's that's awesome yeah it's awesome yeah no yeah it's always it's always kind of murky on youtube but i'm
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i'm rooting for the h3 crew yeah i'll post a couple links there's um there's just some good information out
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there i didn't want to get too too deep into it because i don't know if everybody's that into youtube stuff here but it um
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definitely worth a look i also have a new smartphone it totally totally
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different no good segue here but um we saw this like did you see that oppo
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smartphone like optical zoom yes okay so i'll try to describe it it's
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it's described in their caption as opposed retractable camera that's why i was confused so i'm not exactly sure if
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it's zoom or if it's focus or what's happening but what's happening in this video is imagine a camera bump where you
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have a square for one of the cameras and that square
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moves out of the phone slightly so it moves out and moves back in which is something that happens with a lot of
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larger lenses when you zoom yeah but it doesn't say if it's for zoom or not yeah and it also happens like
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it looks exactly like that on like some of those point shoot cameras that have a zoom where like you're not physically turning the lens it's just like it's
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automatically bringing the lens in and out and retracting in and out um yeah but i was just trying to figure out yeah
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what it was you said might be focus so there's two ways that i read this one would be super cool one would be
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kind of pointless okay which one should i do first um do pointless first so the kind of
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pointless one would be i'm reading the side of this camera and it says 1 over 1.56 inch 50 millimeter f 2.4
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that's one single focal length 50 millimeters so you know how we have these periscope lenses that are tilted
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into the side of the phone and use mirrors so that you have a deeper actual lens and then a mirror to just shoot out
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the side yeah this could just be this camera is useless until it protrudes out and then it protrudes
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straight out and it's that same mechanism just not sideways in the phone so sing so single length only works when it's
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only works when it's protruded i didn't even think of that would be kind of pointless oh man that's what it's going
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to be but the other version of this is this is a multiple focal length lens
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and it's it's it's switching between these focal lengths by zooming outside
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of the actual phone so maybe it goes from a 24 to a 50. and so you you're at 24 you realize you want to zoom in you
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hit the button in the software it protrudes out the back of the phone yeah you just got optical zoom to 2x 48
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millimeters that would be like a cool version of this technology i
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don't know that that's what's happening well i don't know how i didn't think to read next to the lens that makes me feel like
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kind of a but um that's what i was hoping for basically i guess the benefit here because you
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said we already have these periscope like optical zooms it would just be eliminating that mirror right which is
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because then you're just going straight from the lens out which improves some sort of quality a bit i mean like
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potentially yeah potentially and that seems kind of cool um do you recall any phones that have done
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this i there was that what was that old phone that looked like a camera on the back oh the nokia lumia 1020 i believe
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something like that yeah yeah i had a yellow one i think back in the day so this one uh it had yeah it had a bunch
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of moving parts i think it had even an open and closed shutter you know how a mirrorless camera will have a shutter that closes it had that too it had a big
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xeon flash it was it was it was pretty solid it was a chunky phone a nokia
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windows phone um but this one you know there's a lot of weird things that we see like oppo is kind of like i feel
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like the samsung of china in a lot of ways they just try stuff like they have the fine series where they're like yeah
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we'll just have the whole top of the phone move out of the phone and just protrude or we'll have like the find x
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or whatever other weird design things you want to try them and vivo seem to be kind of like
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paving the way i don't know if that's the right word they're trying all the fun experiments trying new stuff yeah i think this would be really cool
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as long as it actually is benefiting like zoom still i think is one of the hardest things to do on a smartphone
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camera do well at least um it pains me to like pinch to zoom on basically any camera something something
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i've noticed about these moving parts in smartphone cameras is they all seem to be workarounds that eventually die
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so you know how we had the motorized selfie camera pop up out of the top
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for a minute that was like the best we had where it was like we've been shrinking
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the notch we've been drinking the teardrops then we got hole punched and then we got nothing and it was just
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bezel to bezel and we had the selfie camera pop out the top and it was like huh a moving part in a smartphone
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i don't know if that's good for water resistance or durability you know you drop the phone and it would retract based on sensing freefall but
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eventually we moved to selfie camera behind the display and that motorized thing's going away
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yeah and that seems like the obvious way i think we all knew retractable selfie cameras were uh a
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band-aid yeah they were going to go away uh is this a zoom that protrudes out the back
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also going to be vestigial is it going to go away when we get like really good optics inside of phones is that so is
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the really good optics going to be that we've just like insanely improved digital enhancement
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when it comes to zooming or is that going like a super big sensor to where you can digitally zoom well or is that
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just gonna be they can now slap so many different lenses on the back of a phone and a huge camera bump that you
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don't need optical you just have 10 different focal lengths so i honestly think sony might be on to something okay
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so you remember the i'm gonna forget i think it's the xperia 5 mark ii maybe okay there was a recent sony phone where
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they have the periscope mechanism and they had a lens move
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laterally inside of the periscope mechanism and that would change focal length so you could snap between it was
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something weird like 29 or 73 or whatever i remember but i don't think the mirror to do the
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periscope thing out the side loses that much quality at all like that's what telescopes are they're you're looking in
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one way and mirroring out the top i think that's fine um but i think if you're gonna have a
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moving part for real optical zoom with multiple focal lengths inside of a camera you got
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to do it with that sideways space because the phone's not thick enough to do it with that space unless you build
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it let's do this yeah so that's my gut reaction is like i think sony might be onto something if we build
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a really good channel through the side of the phone for a periscope zoom and we're able to
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work with like motors or magnets or whatever it is laterally and zoom laterally
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that seems like a good way to do it so my i have a question about this and it might be because of my
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lack of knowledge in cameras but in that sense could you compare kind of like this apophone that's doing it
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vertically rather than laterally like a regular dslr to a mirrorless like you're just eliminating that one mirror right
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um not quite the same thing i mean technically yes you're just eliminating one mirror yeah um
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but yeah i don't know i feel like the mirror is sort of fine okay i don't think it's it's
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changing the quality or or anything i think that was actually a pretty great invention just folding the whole lens
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sideways into the phone so i think we'll see more of that interesting okay so we think this is just kind of if we're
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taking a bet on this right now i think on our way to on our way to real optical zoom in a smartphone
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we'll find something better than this okay so now what if oppo um combines this with their notification
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led and the camera pops out every time and gives you notification led then i want one then credit card on the table i want to
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do it all right i'm in all right well let's take a quick break and when we come back we'll talk about fairphone 4 and pixel
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i've wanted to make a video about the fair phone actually for months and it's hard to get one here in the us so we've
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been in contact with fair phone like hey can we get one can we can we try this thing out can we show this to the people
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and they were finally able to get one to us they only sell it in europe but the idea of the fair phone
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is it is a wholly sustainable recyclable
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modular kind of smartphone which is very unlike every other smartphone we talk about and that we mostly see on the
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shelves in 2021. so i thought it was really cool and it brought up a lot of different thoughts about like how smartphones are made how
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materials are sourced what the trade-offs are between like these really high-end phones we like but then also
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the most average phone possible to be as sustainable as possible what were your thoughts on it because we we published the video it's out there
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now what did you think um i've been reading a lot of the comments that we got on it and
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it's kind of made me think and then also i feel like whenever i read comments it's like i think this but then i also
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want to defend it for that and um but so my initial thoughts were obviously i love sustainability i think
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it's great i think it's really cool that you can pop the phone open and pull modules like you at one point went to
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shoot um and were gone for like 20 minutes in the top down set and you came back you're like i just took every single
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part out of the phone and put every single part back in and it works yeah i've never done that 20 minutes are you kidding me like yeah if i watch the x
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videos he'll take a phone apart he'll like take up ribbon cables and like pop things out and then he'll put a phone back together and turn it back on and
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i'm like i've never actually done that like i could but i don't have the glue to put
00:25:39
the screen back on like i don't have that ability most of the time in a phone that's the first time i've ever actually done that and it's like it's
00:25:45
super easy on the inside because all the pieces are labeled as well or like they have like you know little icons to show what the labels are so i think that's
00:25:52
really really neat um and so it's what they want to do essentially is be able to have those parts so if anything
00:25:58
breaks you can just order the part online replace it yourself you're going to keep your phone for longer now
00:26:04
and they do want you to upgrade it correct like through the years this is the part that i feel like
00:26:09
i can't tell if it's something they're touting or is this something we're all just kind of assuming okay happening
00:26:14
okay the this the upgradeable part i think is a little bit more of a pipe dream okay so we've had fairphone one
00:26:20
two three and four fairphone for phone three even at a certain point we were like hey maybe you can use the same
00:26:27
brain for a while and just upgrade the camera and upgrade the the port and
00:26:32
upgrade the battery but typically those types of puzzle pieces don't fit they're not the same size
00:26:38
it's not like you have a motherboard and a bunch of parts in a pc case with lots of room to play with like these are
00:26:43
small little things that fit in your pocket so you know i was gonna sort of bring up project aura at some point in this video
00:26:50
as like the ultimate dream like i'll just pop off the cpu and put a new one on but like
00:26:55
that's kind of not how smartphones are so it's mostly spare parts it's mostly like if you damage it if you break
00:27:02
something you can replace just that part and it's easy and you can do it yourself and it's kind of cheap yeah i i think
00:27:08
that's what i was the most my my main thought coming out of that and a lot of comments i saw were people saying
00:27:13
what you're missing here is that there's the upgradability of this and my initial thought to that was
00:27:19
i don't see like upgrading all these parts all these specs are different all these phones can upgrade crazy like
00:27:25
crazy because there are these intricate pieces that are all manufactured for everything that fit together and if the
00:27:30
fairphone ever wanted to upgrade it would have to meet the exact specifications of what the previous models were right so
00:27:37
my i said this near the end of the video definitely watch the whole video if you can but the most interesting that i found
00:27:43
the most interesting thing that i've found is that fairphone essentially acknowledges like okay we're not
00:27:50
designing all of our own parts here we don't design the display we don't make our own silicon so we are sourcing parts
00:27:56
to put this together we're trying to source everything responsibly but in order to satisfy this promise of having
00:28:02
spare parts available for five years which is an amazing promise yeah they need to find parts that they will have
00:28:08
access to for five years and they need to make relationships with suppliers that they can maintain for
00:28:13
five years so if you're looking for the most bleeding edge cutting edge amazing smartphone with the highest end or the
00:28:21
most unique different parts you probably won't have five years of of stock of
00:28:27
that available that's a low volume type of part so they literally said like we
00:28:32
made this a 6.3 inch smartphone because it's an average size so we can get this screen it's an average size screen all
00:28:38
the average size pieces inside are all like fairly standard it's a snapdragon 750 g i believe
00:28:45
six or eight gigs of ram all the stuff in the phone is by design as average as possible okay
00:28:52
and so you know sometimes you hear like oh well this this phone's just the same thing as last year but a little better
00:28:57
it's like that's actually probably great that's kind of what you're looking for here um
00:29:04
so yeah fairphone i think fairphone's basic goal is to prove
00:29:09
that there can be better behavior by all the other big companies as far as sustainability goes recyclability they
00:29:16
use recycled plastics they used uh responsibly mined metals like aluminum
00:29:21
and lithium and things like that i love all that all of that is phenomenal it's also more expensive
00:29:28
obviously yeah of course because treating people correctly is more expensive than like labor and when
00:29:33
you're a smaller company too you like don't have the headroom like that apple can get discounts on on certain things
00:29:39
or apple can just like eat profits a little harder to make something a little cheaper i'm sure there's plenty of
00:29:44
people who don't think apple's making anything cheaper i mean that's the thing like if any company can pull off a really good reasonably priced
00:29:51
sustainable phone it's the bigger ones yeah because they have the volume and the scale to be able to go hey we want
00:29:57
to go to a supplier that does it right and give them a huge order rather than just like doing it the standard way
00:30:03
that's not so great yeah so i think my two big takeaways from this are if
00:30:08
that's the way they want to go not so much basically no upgrade ability but all just like you know the replacement
00:30:14
parts for so long i feel like it needs to be a little more competitive spec wise um
00:30:19
and maybe that's just you know that could totally be us working in this environment where we
00:30:24
get to see the most bleeding edge phones all the time it's true the majority of people in the world have uh you know a
00:30:31
lower spec phone but it does seem it seems low spec for kind of last year almost well so
00:30:37
yeah it's it's it is low spec it is it is behind on so it's about 580 euros
00:30:43
which if you go to the uh it's like 650 roughly if we just go with that then i compared it to the pixel 6 which is
00:30:49
about 600 bucks and it loses to the pixel in everything it has a smaller lower resolution
00:30:57
not as bright not as high refresh rate display that has way more bezel frankly
00:31:03
it has a smaller battery it has no wireless charging it has lesser water resistance like if you just go down the
00:31:09
list you're sacrificing a lot to get the sustainable part and that has to be what you value in a phone to pick that over
00:31:16
the pixel 6. most people as much as we say we want the sustainability if you
00:31:21
gave them the choice and you gave them 650 they would pick the better phone yeah and that's just going to keep
00:31:26
happening so i think fairphone's not out here trying to take market share from google they're just out here trying to
00:31:32
prove like this is a real thing we can do it's like a it's like a proof of concept it feels like yeah i think and
00:31:37
then my other kind of like thought on this though and in in that scenario you have 650 dollars
00:31:46
do you think the majority of people would go for this phone because it's sustainable or would it almost be more
00:31:51
sustainable to buy the best phone you can for that money that you think will have five years of updates and you just
00:31:57
keep that phone i think that's the biggest thing here where i see like will this phone sell or would it make more sense
00:32:04
to me to get a pixel six and keep it for five years yeah so the most sustainable thing you can do is not buy a phone the
00:32:11
second most sustainable thing you can do is to get a phone that you can use as long as possible
00:32:16
and so the idea with the fair phone is if you want to use this as long as possible great five years of parts but
00:32:23
you won't be upgrading it for those whole five years you'll just be replacing anything that breaks for those five years
00:32:29
whereas if you have a pixel in theory you take good care of it nothing breaks you don't have to do any of these
00:32:34
replacements but it lasts the whole five years and then you get a new phone that's the difference in approach okay
00:32:41
so if you're in that bucket kind of your thought process is i'm super safe and i want the best specs
00:32:49
possible or i'm kind of i'm pretty clumsy and i want to keep this phone for five years so
00:32:54
this is the better deal for me because i can replace the screen when i drop it on the ground yeah okay i kind of like that
00:33:01
um but even even on top of all that it's all the material stuff that's like yeah
00:33:07
i love that sustainably source like i think that's all cool i hope it pushes some of these things i think just my
00:33:12
biggest thing is they have to make some some splash to make any of these phone
00:33:17
companies that are making trillions of dollars to move the needle at all i hope they do yeah like i would obviously love
00:33:24
them i love i my favorite part of this video honestly is that we'll be adding sustainability scores into our reviews
00:33:30
now yeah um that feels like the best i can do like i agree with you like fairphone has to
00:33:35
make some sort of splash not even fair phone there has to be some incentive for a company like samsung huawei google
00:33:42
motorola whatever to change something like that in one of their phones because objectively they will make less money
00:33:48
they will spend more it will be a disadvantage for them to move to more sustainable sources for stuff yeah so we
00:33:53
need some reason for them to make that sacrifice so i figure the best i can do is literally reward them for making that
00:33:59
sacrifice by highlighting it and sharing when there are sustainable things changed about the way they do things so
00:34:05
it's just you know fairphone's not perfect but they've done a lot of cool stuff david and i pointed out there was no
00:34:10
charger in the box in the fairphone there was no headphone jack in the fairphone the fairphone got a 10 out of 10 for repairability but the wireless
00:34:16
earphones that they made got a one out of ten for pair of buildings i think they sold wireless earphones alongside the last fair phone so
00:34:23
nothing's perfect i think the joke in my video is like all right well are all the computers they use to design the fair
00:34:30
phones so you know you can recycle their phone and they're they're pledging as a company to be net e-waste neutral but
00:34:37
yeah i think generally the fair phone represents like a proof of
00:34:43
real change that can be successfully implemented and shipped i give them
00:34:48
infinite credit for trying to do this i cannot applaud them enough in doing this and trying to move the needle and i
00:34:55
honestly wish them all the best in this because i think it's really cool and i think it's really important speaking of
00:35:00
wishing them all the best i wish google all the best at making a pixel watch
00:35:06
that's that's the segway yeah it's um i mean i added pixel watch in here we're seeing rumors again of it
00:35:11
potentially coming in 2022. what i kind of found the funniest here is the minute i started reading an
00:35:17
article about this the opening line was like the original rumors for this were um
00:35:22
that it was going to come out alongside the pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl so we've been hoping for this for a little while yep
00:35:28
um so let's take rumors with a grain of salt but there is one big thing here that makes this pixel watch a little
00:35:34
more believable and that is in 2021 google acquired fitbit obviously a huge company that makes
00:35:41
sport watches okay so i guess we're just hoping a little more i mean they acquired them in the beginning of 2021
00:35:47
it's probably a little quick especially with supply chain issues to get it out by the end of 2021. next year seems much
00:35:53
much more reasonable they did a little work with uh samsung working on kind of like a collaborative watch this year
00:36:00
but i just want to talk kind of and like before when i mentioned this both of you
00:36:06
guys said you wanted a pixel watch i think it's a lot of people want a pixel watch i
00:36:11
want a pixel watch i want here's what i want yeah why okay so i so the apple watch it's kind of like
00:36:18
wanting an apple watch for android so back in the day i remember um i don't know what year but i went to
00:36:24
google i o and there was a moto 360 and the moto 360 was like honestly today might still be my
00:36:30
favorite smartwatch to wear just as far as like design it looked sick everyone hated on the
00:36:36
flat tire i thought it was cool i love i i love that thing so moto 360 was great
00:36:43
um it plugged into android kind of okay and then slowly saw wear os get like worse and worse
00:36:50
and then essentially we don't really get good wear os watches anymore and so this question of well what if google made a
00:36:58
pixel watch to set set the bar so we all can like get good android smart watches again
00:37:04
um and there's other there's like now samsung has their line huawei's got their watch
00:37:10
oneplus oneplus has a watch they have a watch but i don't have a
00:37:16
apple watch for android premium type all of the features optimized grade display
00:37:22
battery life on par like all that stuff i don't have that option and i want one so
00:37:28
i want to remain like cautiously optimistic on the long term it kind of feels like when we were
00:37:34
expecting a really good pixel phone with like a premium design as soon as they bought htc oh yeah and it didn't it
00:37:41
wasn't right away like it's not going to be right away so i think you know maybe in like two to three years
00:37:48
we can expect like a nice pixel watch with like a little tensor chip inside and a nice screen but i don't think
00:37:54
that's anytime soon no yeah if it comes out in 2022 i'm like excited for it but i don't see
00:38:00
it specifically take i mean any watch that comes out will have years to go until it reaches apple watch
00:38:07
level because not just is apple watch so good and so like meshed in with its
00:38:12
entire ecosystem but the user base on it is crazy and it seems like so many things people do on the apple watch
00:38:18
are things like contests or things like all those different achievements that you're sharing with other people are communicating with other people so it
00:38:25
has the user base which is just something it will have over any android watch for years and years to come
00:38:31
even even the hardware i think yeah the apple watch's hardware is genuinely
00:38:36
really impressive the haptics on it i like i said it's it's my alarm clock i woke up this morning to like
00:38:44
a tap on my wrist yeah instead of like a loud sound i hate wearing a watch at
00:38:49
night but i love not having an alarm clock because it's just that's all it is so they have to take
00:38:55
care of me comes out he can just tap you on the shoulder oh jesus christ that would be horrifying that's like imagine
00:39:00
the sleep paralysis of like a tesla bot like this um it's the screen it's great it's the
00:39:06
pressure sensitivity the battery life is fine it's like a day and change maybe a day
00:39:11
i'm still surprised at how bad the battery i would consider that bad when you look at stuff like i mean i guess i'm mostly looking at
00:39:17
hiking watches like garmin and their battery life is fantastic right i think it's about equivalent functionality and size like a hiking watch does what three
00:39:24
things four things it's traffic tries to but it's definitely larger and it's
00:39:30
giving you really good like location altitude and maybe one or two other things right this watch this apple watch
00:39:37
is like connected to your phone 24 7 delivering notifications changing it's potentially uh not just wi-fi connected
00:39:43
but cellular connected too it's got obviously the haptics going in it's it's connected to a bunch of apps it's got
00:39:49
local memory it's streaming music it's got a speaker it's got siri it's got all this stuff and it's much smaller and so i i'm fine
00:39:57
with it lasting comfortably over a day because that means at the end of every day i find some time to plug it in and
00:40:04
i'm good but i'm not complaining but if we get longer battery life that's great with me i just don't know
00:40:09
how quickly a pixel watch can go from not existing to matching the apple watch i want to be optimistic but it's going
00:40:16
to be a little bit definitely got the head start if fitbit's going to be working on a bit but i guess you also use the example of htc coming in and not
00:40:22
quite nailing it um yeah i mean first i would like it to be circular because i think the square
00:40:27
apple watch is dumb you bring up haptics and that is literally the first thing i noticed when i put an apple watch on
00:40:33
when we used to do our contest is i would just scroll on it because it's so
00:40:38
so good it makes no sense how good that is it's really good um and yeah the contest and stuff i still
00:40:45
someone needs to make some sort of app where you can do apple competitions or just watch
00:40:50
competitions between everybody because ultimately it's it's all recording kind of the same
00:40:56
thing heart rate yeah it's pretty much all it's mostly doing heart rate and time and distance
00:41:02
with through gps and make some arbitrary score like apple does in a different contest and that would be awesome yep um
00:41:08
but yeah i think this 2022 maybe we'll see it will we see it take off in 2022
00:41:15
probably not um but adam is there anything specifically you
00:41:20
want out of a pixel watch that you don't see out of any other watches i just want better google fit because i
00:41:26
think apple health is probably the reason why the apple watch is so dominant that's a good point and google
00:41:32
fit is very cartoony and cute but it doesn't really give me any information that's useful yeah like what's a hard
00:41:37
point yeah it's like it's like nice and built in and like great clean ui but doesn't really tell
00:41:43
me anything useful this might sound dumb i just don't know but do other like does fitbit and stuff work
00:41:50
into google fit or yeah it does connect right and that will is it still just heart points then
00:41:56
what the what is going on i just how do i i think these companies do so they all
00:42:01
have some sort of algorithm to convert the data they're measuring into points because they all like gamifying yeah no
00:42:08
i'm all for that i'm all for which i love they're it's great it's making people want to work out it has made me want to
00:42:13
work out yeah um but there should just be some actual real info in there like
00:42:19
do you think all these doctors now know like what these points mean because how many doctors do you think are going in it's
00:42:24
like oh how often do you exercise like i average 79 heart points per day and the doctor's like i don't know what you're
00:42:31
talking about i don't think a doctor is interested in how many points you got but which is a shame it could help so much yeah no the apple watch you're
00:42:38
right like apple health is extremely detailed it's not even detailed it just measures so many different things
00:42:45
whether it's like resting heart rate i gotta maybe i should go to a doctor i got a low heart rate notification while i was
00:42:52
sleeping because my heart rate went under 40 bpm for more than five minutes in a row and i was like oh i didn't even
00:42:57
know that happened when i was asleep but now i know it measures your blood oxygen it measures like
00:43:03
obviously your accelerometer stuff but like if you're running around like how fast how fast you're going if you're doing a bike ride how many miles you
00:43:09
cover uh what your altitude is if you're doing a hike elevation change during a run all
00:43:14
this stuff is just it's constantly measuring all types of info as a as a numbers person i'm into it i would
00:43:20
really like to see one of these smartwatch companies partner or license what woop is doing because i i use woop
00:43:27
for a little bit their numbers are just out of this world they're so detailed they're so intense
00:43:33
it's like tells you your recovery rates and based on everything it's awesome but it just it's a watch that doesn't show
00:43:41
time or anything like that and that still makes me upset yeah um yeah i like the idea of like
00:43:46
oh and i'll end it after this i just like the idea of one big like general smart watch that gives you like here's
00:43:53
how long you slept here's how many miles you walked but then like if you can wear a whoop for your workout and then have
00:43:58
that info dump into the same google fit or apple health or whatever then i'd be very happy i if it was an
00:44:06
app in a watch i i don't know if their sensors are anything much different imagine you just have the whoop app in
00:44:12
your watch and then it just dumps and you don't have to wear another thing that would be even better do it
00:44:17
all right marquez did you know you can now play video games while driving your tesla
00:44:23
oh like the ones on the screen yep well my question would be which games
00:44:30
uh i don't have these i know solitaire is one of them oh that's not that bad i guess that's not that bad well it's not
00:44:35
good okay because there's like well there's a game that involves you turning the wheel to control the game so if it was that game okay it's not as bad as
00:44:42
that okay but you should still probably pay attention to the right one um okay so there was a over there
00:44:47
software update that now i still can't tell if this is a bug because it doesn't seem like there's an announcement but a
00:44:53
select amount of games on the screen now are offered while you're driving it can't be a bug though because it
00:45:00
when you click them it does pop up the thing that says i am a passenger so you have to hit that button
00:45:06
so this the headline for this article if you saw it going around is kind of deceiving a little clickbaity because
00:45:12
you're it obviously does not want you to play them while you the driver are driving right um but it still kind of
00:45:19
feels like a big deal because how if you're if you're willing to play a game while you're driving you're probably
00:45:24
willing to press a button that says i'm the passenger is there there should be like a sensor and they should use the
00:45:30
seat sensor exactly exactly what i've thought because when you're driving so
00:45:35
here's the thing about the games in the car i think they are one of the most overrated things about tesla's i don't think anyone really actually plays the
00:45:42
games or cares i think people's children when they have to like wait to pick up their brother at school
00:45:48
or something is probably your best and like you said i don't think that's a very good yeah because people people who
00:45:54
have teslas give their kids like an ipad or a switch yeah like those kids are
00:45:59
fine and the screen you can't even reach from a car seat so like down there like half the time i you know it's cool it's
00:46:05
a gaming the fact that you can say like you can play what do they say cyberpunk in the back of the of the tesla
00:46:11
do it when you're like charging maybe right so that would be the the one time when i would where i would ever consider
00:46:17
gaming on my car the screen in the front was like kind of tilted towards me a little bit so that'll be the perfect
00:46:22
time and i still don't do it like i have my phone hooked up via bluetooth and i watch videos on my phone that play
00:46:29
through the car instead of just using you don't even watch it on the screen i don't even watch videos on the screen wait i have a question now that's not
00:46:35
um you said there's a game where you steer with the wheel it's a driving game have you ever been in the charging station
00:46:41
you see someone parked charging just like whipping around like if you do it moves the wheel a little bit like the the tires on the
00:46:48
ground the tires yeah it doesn't like disengage it it's it slightly moves the tires on the ground i
00:46:54
that is now my my goal is i want to be like at a tesla charging center just watching someone
00:46:59
go wild it's happening out there somewhere somebody out there is listening to this podcast and playing that game while charging their car and
00:47:06
for that one person i salute you sir yeah tweet us your high score for that yeah that's the way you're doing it but
00:47:11
no i i honestly think the games in the car are like a a cool like gimmick feature where they can put it's a cool
00:47:18
headline like you have this 10 teraflops of power but really like it's a cool side effect of having a lot of computing
00:47:23
power in the car for self-driving yeah so the fact that you can like i don't i don't know that i'll ever be driving someone around they'll be
00:47:29
like hey can i play solitaire on that screen while you drive it's like no i'm navigating i need that yeah that's the
00:47:35
thing is it's like the main screen too that people use for driving functions all the time yeah it seems like a weird
00:47:40
model three has no other screen why would you do that to yourself you can't even does this speedometer disappear while you're playing the game
00:47:47
i don't think that's a good idea hold on i'm almost done with this level here um and just to be fair to tesla also
00:47:53
here is like there are a thousand other cars that have like when you're trying to enter navigation you have to click that button that says i'm a passenger
00:48:00
waze every yeah everyone everyone disregards it don't disregard it i'm not telling you
00:48:06
to go out and do that i'm please anyone here do not play games why even if your car's in full self-driving or whatever
00:48:13
pay attention to the road please but it just felt like kind of a fun uh fun headline yeah i feel like the the
00:48:19
world of tesla news is a lot of deciphering like how much of a headline is just for the headline versus like
00:48:25
actual implications for real life you know what if it gives us a couple things to talk about on the podcast yeah this
00:48:30
is one of those things like we we like break it down and realize that like it probably won't matter too much it's fun
00:48:35
sometimes too because when you break it down people who don't drive tesla like every time one of these headlines come up i feel like i learned something new
00:48:42
about your experience in one fair yeah i think there's also probably like parents like reading these headlines like oh wow
00:48:48
people are like driving games while auto piloting in their teslas what a dangerous concept where it's like
00:48:54
that's probably not actually that big a deal no but at least now we know yeah we wanna we wanna give you guys a
00:49:00
shout out for listening the podcast at the end here so it's december it's that type of
00:49:05
wrap-up season we're looking at the best stuff that happened during the course of the year and what spotify does is they
00:49:10
give us rapt obviously what you listen to but it also gives us publishers
00:49:16
wrapped which sort of breaks down some interesting metrics about people who listen to our stuff yeah so in the case
00:49:21
of the waveform podcast we've got some numbers and some shout outs to give yeah it's always fun to look at
00:49:27
it shows us all different countries and what listen time and charts and stuff like that i think we talked about it
00:49:32
last year on the podcast and it's just yeah it's fun as a big thank you to everyone out there listening now on the
00:49:39
also just remember these are only spotify numbers this doesn't include apple podcasts it doesn't include youtube we still appreciate all of you
00:49:45
out there but your platforms don't give us a fun little thing like this shotify has just nailed the wrapped porch they
00:49:51
should i tweeted that i tweeted that youtube should make a wrapped that just
00:49:56
tells you like which channels videos you watch the most minutes of they they know
00:50:01
they've got to know they've got to know they've got to know what ads you watch the most what channels you've watched the most how long you've watched them
00:50:07
and like how many people uh who subscribe how many people you're subscribed to that you didn't miss a
00:50:13
video like highest percent of watched videos during the year or and even for you as the creator how many people of
00:50:19
your audience have watched every single video that go put out when i see my spotify wrap then it says you're in the top two percent of listeners of electric
00:50:26
guest i want someone out there to be able to say hey look according to my youtube rapt i'm in the top two percent
00:50:32
of mkbhd viewers i didn't miss a video that would be sick rebrand rewind what would you name it oh
00:50:40
there it is take back the rewind name this is your chance build this feature okay youtube
00:50:46
youtube rewind like a share because you can't use rap spotify has that yeah
00:50:51
call it rewind there it is interesting and they can't make any arguments so like it would be easy on instagram and
00:50:57
twitter and stuff like that because you kind of have these easy shareable posts but spotify doesn't have any of that and they still manage to do this yeah
00:51:03
youtube everyone easily do this yeah everyone just screenshots it and it's like an instagram story you tap through we'll we'll give these sounds i'm going
00:51:10
to look at that trademark so we can just sell that to google before no i think i think they got to call it youtube rewind
00:51:16
and they just got to own it and take it back and tell us like what we watched this year i was trying to think of like a christmasy name for it that would just
00:51:22
totally rip off rap like youtube's stocking stuff right now no no they got it they gotta own rewind for sure you're
00:51:28
welcome let's look at a couple cool things here we have a bunch of slides adam grab just like a couple of the best
00:51:34
ones here i want to react to them from the top okay so wait wait let's talk about uh rapt real quick though was the
00:51:41
ui design like horrible this year hasn't it always been horrible it's never been great but it felt like
00:51:47
specifically bad this year we were looking at there were some things we couldn't even see it would be like a
00:51:52
chart that would cover over the numbers oh that's on our side though that was for the creator yeah but even the other side like the um
00:52:00
the bar graphs that said like what genres you were listening to with the letters like really crunched up in
00:52:05
cartoons it was bad it was cartoony not great apparently the waveform show made some new friends and some new places and
00:52:11
we got our first stream in 50 new countries this year including nigeria kenya ghana nepal and zambia
00:52:19
oh so none of those i've none of those listened before oh wait no sorry in fine print the ui is bad yeah the ui is
00:52:26
really bad these places loved you the most nigeria kenya ghana nepal and zambia okay but
00:52:32
yeah 50 new countries that's crazy because we've we looked last year and surprisingly this always blows my mind a
00:52:39
lot of people around the world listen to this podcast so 50 new ones in one year it's pretty sounds
00:52:46
this again goes back to youtube but i when i look at youtube analytics you can really get super granular with like
00:52:52
how many people from this country in this age on a mobile phone watched this one video
00:53:01
and they'll be like two people from this one country it'll be like a very small country yeah from
00:53:07
from a random island country will have watched this video on a phone i can see like the resolution of their phone like google analytics tells me everything
00:53:14
fascinating stuff shout out um yeah and we also this this is just a little fun one that might be a tad
00:53:20
humble brag but in technology the first day in 2021 that we made the top of a
00:53:26
chart was january 1st that's pretty sick it's pretty sick right it's pretty dope and my favorite part is at the bottom it says we have a
00:53:32
feeling this won't be the last and i really hope it wasn't the last because we had a lot of room to get there again started on the first day was there an
00:53:38
episode live on that day probably not no i don't think it was even live that day so that means we were you guys were pretty good you guys were killing it
00:53:44
um in its first week listening peaked in india on friday which is days of release
00:53:49
so that's awesome your fans listen to it mostly at night probably because of when we release the podcast is probably at
00:53:55
night in the middle of the night yeah so shout out i can say i'm not someone who listens to podcast at night i guess maybe my ride
00:54:02
home if we're here late but shout out india y'all listening at night that's some that's dedication if
00:54:08
you're listening to this or watching on youtube leave a comment when you consume this podcast
00:54:14
when and where you are morning on commute do you put us in the pocket earbuds during a run let us know
00:54:21
yeah how are you how are you consuming waveform let's do one another actually that would be cool if spotify was a little better like youtube being able to
00:54:28
get deep into those it probably has it just it's not as cheery and poor ui to put it into this
00:54:34
um and then after india the us was next on fridays i'm a little confused by this
00:54:39
slide if i'm being honest the ui ultimately it was played in 105 countries shout out to every single one
00:54:45
of those countries for listening to waveform and uh we had some impressive growth numbers that it made a little bar
00:54:51
graph out of uh plus 38 followers on spotify plus 11 in hours
00:54:56
listen versus last year and plus six percent in streams those are all great positives i'm glad
00:55:01
there's no negatives if there were spotify didn't show us to them spotify didn't show us the negatives
00:55:07
making us feel bad appreciate the uh the pat on the back there uh we were also in the charts in eight
00:55:13
countries for a total of 304 days okay big shout outs to the podcast the
00:55:18
podcast listeners are coming through on spotify coming through different countries that means we were on a chart
00:55:23
for almost every day of the year right that's awesome 25 055 fans listen to you more than any
00:55:32
other podcast that's my favorite stat but here's the funny part about that
00:55:38
i don't use spotify to listen to podcasts okay so my most listened to podcasts were random
00:55:45
ones that i accidentally clicked once no no you had one on there that i know you listened to on spotify and that it was
00:55:51
kind of a new thing we all learned this year the pod pod quiz weekly oh because we listened to it a lot during our road
00:55:57
trip i mean i hope you've listened to it since then i think that made it my number one pretty sure everyone in the studio had
00:56:03
that on their wrapped because we all played it so much on the road trip and have played it again yeah so that's how
00:56:09
spotify but yeah i have like two or three or four other podcasts on there that i clicked once
00:56:15
uh but yeah shout out to 25 055 people i'm giving all of you credit for uh
00:56:20
listening to waveform more than anything else i mean that's kind of neat because our numbers are usually in the like we
00:56:25
have around 200 000 audio downloads and then the youtube channel is around 50
00:56:32
50 000 usually so if you think about just on spotify 25 000 of that listen to
00:56:37
us more than anyone else that's not including apple not including youtube get them out that's crazy percentage
00:56:43
appreciate you i hope that means we got people into podcasting and i hope people are listening to other podcasts because
00:56:49
of us that will make me feel good so if you don't just tell me you did anyways that'd be nice
00:56:55
1825 fans spent their birthdays listening to you have a nice day happy birthday if you're
00:57:01
listening to this episode on your birthday happy birthday happy birthday and one eight two six then and then
00:57:06
6641 of you listened to most of our episodes not sure what that means that's a very vague most could be over half it
00:57:14
could be almost every one but we put out an episode every week so that's a lot of you guys who are hanging on to every
00:57:20
word according to spotify lastly we released
00:57:25
minutes of content across 43 episodes which is quite a few which also means
00:57:31
they they wrapped their wrap a little earlier 43 weeks yeah that's we can literally gauge that that's the
00:57:38
thing i was just thinking this this morning if you really binge christmas music right now it won't show up on your spotify rap ever because it already came
00:57:44
out this year and then it starts the next year's wrapped in january right yeah so i feel like a lot of people would have christmas music on their
00:57:50
wrapped but it doesn't count december i had a sneaking suspicion because red taylor's version came out in the
00:57:57
middle of november and it wasn't on my top 100 songs anywhere and i absolutely played a lot yes and i know there are a
00:58:04
million other people who should have been in there yeah like listening to that and it should have been on their raps and it wasn't so i had the
00:58:09
suspicion i'm glad we could verify it through our i just had to start a podcast to realize
00:58:15
what uh rapt is doing but yeah 22 861 minutes of content so what do you
00:58:22
think we're getting to by the end if that's 43 weeks i'll do that add another 60 minutes for
00:58:28
what probably like six more weeks on time or no time is 52. i'm just doing the math on the averages we'll be about
00:58:35
3 460 minutes total nice it's a lot of minutes
00:58:41
yeah the craziest the craziest stat for me is when i look at how many
00:58:47
watch hours of youtube content there were on the channel in the year so it'll be like how many hours of human life
00:58:54
were spent watching the videos how many brains were rotted
00:59:00
it's always measured in like years wait i'm gonna check it right now i'm gonna check it
00:59:05
right now if you were to take a random guess how many years of listening happened in
00:59:10
2021 how many years of human life were spent watching mkbhd videos in the last 365 days 365 wouldn't include last
00:59:18
year's ps5 video which is just feels like a milestone um 15 years
00:59:24
do you have a guess adam uh i'm gonna go with 22 years so the number i have i have to
00:59:30
do the math real quick divided by 24. it is
00:59:38
please zoom in on that it is 2 51 091 years
00:59:45
wait we in the last 365 days yep on our channel yep
00:59:52
49 million watch hours which divided by 24 is 2
00:59:58
million fifty-one thousand wait can you do the watching hours sorry
01:00:04
days divided by 365. uh
01:00:09
do that we should cut out my awful lot do not cut that out divided by oh i
01:00:15
needed hold on our viewers have not seen the sun
01:00:20
365. 5 619 years okay it's
01:00:26
it's sad that that seems so little now because i just thought it was two million five thousand years that's crazy
01:00:33
what i guess 15 you guessed 22 that's 2 000. no no 22
01:00:39
days 22 years 22 years 5 600 years that's still wild do you want to know
01:00:44
how many the podcast is in years yeah 92.5 years just for the podcast in 2021
01:00:51
first year as a video that's i mean longer episodes that's a lifetime somebody's life
01:00:58
an entire human life okay i'm done we sacrificed a life for the podcast that's
01:01:03
a little strong wording but uh sure problems with it i i think we ended on that then yeah
01:01:10
thanks for listening to waveform in 2021 we're not done yet though we've got a lot more year end stuff it's december you already know how it goes but if you
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haven't already subscribed on youtube make sure you do that and of course we'll see you guys next week
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