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what is up people of the internet welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts I'm
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Marquez I'm Andrew and I'm David and happy Friday just kidding it's not Friday this is a bonus episode I'm sorry
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it is Tuesday still but that that's a fun thing we get a little extra stuff this time and uh we decided that we
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would do we had like a bunch of stories over the past couple years that we all realized we haven't like fully told
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and this episode is just a Story Time episode just just putting those stories
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all in one place which I think is a really fun idea if you haven't already seen the main Channel video which is I
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think we're going to try to have that go live the same day as this that's one of the most interesting stories which is
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the day that the FBI uh surprised me at the studio and uh you can go watch that
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video if you want that full story but uh we have some other ones too that are kind of also interesting in their own
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way so I think the best way to listen to this episode is sit down on the carpet
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on the carpet cross your legs story time in a fire a fire would be nice except
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it's like 90° Fahrenheit in here but uh yeah we have some cool ones the Dyson
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sponsorship going wrong I think people kind of remember that there is a point where pretty much most Formula 1 fans
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hated Marquez for a few weeks that I think will be a fun one to talk about um we have a long form episode that David
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and uh Adam worked on and it never came to fruition we tried which is pretty fun
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um and wasn't here yet it's cuz Ellis wasn't here yet and some other Ellis is here now and we
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still yeah I really gave it the old College Tri it for a while so let's hop in can I go first yeah first story can
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we talk about how the autofocus name and kind of Channel came to be I would love
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for you to tell that story that is the single best YouTube channel name I have ever seen
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I'm not biased that's true but autofocus is a great name for YouTube the name of it is kind of what like pushed us harder
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into all of it so like when I first started I remember one of the first emails you ever sent me was like I'd be
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interested in like we need some help here's some cool stuff that we do by the way I just got an email about this
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company that has a stream of supercars coming in that we can like film and I
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was like oh that's sounds crazy like this is that's one of those things we make a joke here at the stra where when
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anyone starts somehow a Ferrari shows up in like the first month um which I think makes everyone think working here is
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pretty cool but anyways I had started it was a few months in and you and I were still playing on an ultimate team
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together and on that long car ride out to Pennsylvania in the middle of nowhere I was just thinking about we had done
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like one Tesla video maybe one or two Tesla videos just because you had one
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and I was like I want to do more car things we have this opportunity for these like supercars and was just
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thinking cuz all your best ideas come when you can't write anything down Yeahs
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and I was just like thinking of cameras and cars and I was like
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autofocus oh wait that should be a serious name like cameras and cars in
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one thing the focus of it is auto but we shoot with cameras people know we like cameras let's put that together and I
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remember like racing to the fields parking seeing Marquez with his bag walking up to the fields that we were
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going to play on and I like ran to him and I was like Marquez Marquez we have these opportunities for cars I know
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we're not doing a lot of car things but what if we named the series autofocus and you were just like yes that's it
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we've done oh yeah we got to do that and I feel like that's what started that's what helped start I shouldn't say you
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were interested in cars but having it differentiate that cuz when we do car stuff people would be less interested in
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it at first people were like I want phones why aren't you covering the window
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surface yeah that that was the Genesis of that channel name and then I we immediately were like well does this
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exist anywhere else we got to find it made sure no one else had it we made the channel and then the logo and the rest
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yeah it was just a series for a while then it was the channel now it's a Channel with an extra producer and over
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a million Subs true kind of wild I remember when that first started becoming a thing because I had just
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started here and one of the first cars that you got when I was here was the rivan so you were outside we're like
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getting b-roll and everything looking at at the Car checking it out and then you just pull out your phone and you're like
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I think I'm going to do this video on my phone and we were like the whole thing and you're like yes and we were like
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okay and you went back dropped the red back off in the in the studio came back out and shot the whole thing in your
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phone and that was the first video go up on autofocus yeah dang that's awesome was there a was it a it was the rivan
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was the first car yeah it was like a living with it some sort of Miles update I think 10,000 a00 10,000 miles
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something like that yeah I think so yeah yeah yeah 500 miles r1t that's crazy
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because my car that I've had since January 2021 only has 25,000 miles on it
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and I have like done road trips with it yeah I put I don't know how you drive that put a lot of miles on I have almost
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10,000 miles on my car now yeah wow it's a good time 10,000 10,000 on the on the
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Porsche yeah you just got it Marquez dude when Marquez got that he wanted to
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drive it so bad jonno and I invited him to play disc golf it was pouring rain outside and he shows up in the Turbo S
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plays a whole round of disc golf which he's never really played before in the soaking wet we were like he's going to
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never do this again he's like that was awesome and then like takes off his shoes and puts on an extra pair of shoes
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he had and gets back in his car and just drives away I was like I cannot believe he drove that here how far is that it
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wasn't it was maybe an hour from you but you were just like I want to drive it as much as I can cuz I have to get through
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this Breakin period so he was willing to drive pouring rain if you go back and watch the first trip F studio video
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which I just rewatched recently yeah there's a beautiful moment where you watch you watch Marquez decide he's
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going to buy this car like six or seven months before he bought it it's like I
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forgot how funny a moment is like like he's like playing he's like oh this car is really good he's like giving his review and then at one point he goes
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oh no oh no and then and then shuts the door and starts screaming yeah yeah that
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I remember that there was like a I mean I'd watched videos of cars but you can only watch so many videos versus like
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sitting in in the car so that was yeah that was the moment where it went from below 50% chance to above 50% chance
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okay next one next story okay David and Adam can you take this one away all right so this is a longstanding thing
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that has happened for years here um in California if you are listening to this
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somewhere around Fremont which is where the original Tesla manufacturing
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facility is and that's how long ago this was yeah yeah it was it was I think it was before they had made the um what is
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it called the G the Giga Factory it was before model it was model y was just coming out was it really that long ago
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jeez okay yeah well okay and this stretches so long because the license plate has moved cars as well which is I
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didn't know that actually yeah so way back in the day there was a post on Reddit that was like is this Marquez and
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it was a picture of a model 3 with the license plate MKBHD um and obviously no because it was
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licensed in California we're in New Jersey very far away yeah and every now
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and then like every few months someone randomly on Twitter will just be like I just saw MKBHD
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hey this you like no it's not you bro and they'll post they would post photos
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of it in like a uh little shopping center or like somewhere It Was Always Somewhere in Fremont or very close to
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Fremont driving around so Adam and I just started and we were like what's some fun stuff that we can do for
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waveform like extra bonus episodes and stuff like that and we had we had been working on some bonus episodes uh we
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made the rise and fall of boosted boards episode which if you haven't heard that
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it's Audio Only You should go listen to it I think it's one of our it's one of my favorite episodes we' made fantastic
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super cool uh but we decided that we were going to try to figure out who has
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this license plate and then invite them onto the podcast to talk about why they got the license plate so Adam and I
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started digging um we put a lot of you know posts out being like hey if this is
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you we'd like to talk to you we didn't get anything but then there there was a p picture that was posted of this car in
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the parking lot of the Fremont Factory Tesla Factory this what happened with like people would post this on Twitter
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and we would see it like oh posted 6 minutes ago yeah and we would like DM the person immediately like oh my
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God can you talk to them yeah so we actually ended up calling the Fremont
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Factory of which we have potentially still have the audio from um because that call was hilarious so we
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California's uh uh I don't think we told them we were recording yeah it's a two State oh okay okay I didn't want and
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they were like we know you're recording we told them we were recording and we said is this okay and they said yes okay okay yeah um anyway so we ended up
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calling the Tesla Freemont Factory and being like hey we work at this YouTube
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channel we believe that one of your employees potentially has this plate is there any way that we could like get in
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contact with them and they're like oh oh you're the MKBHD Channel yeah we love you over here and we were like yeah like
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can you please get in do was and he was like yeah I'll I'll send an email to the guy letting him know and try to get him
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to get in contact with you guys yeah he was like I can't confirm or deny anything but I'll I'll let the guy know
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I'll let him know uh we get nothing we just get no message from this guy super
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mysterious it's super weird and super mysterious and and then a few months later the it used to be on a Model 3 a
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blue model 3 we see another tweet where it's on a blue model y so this guy like is like moving the
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license flight from Tesla to Tesla as he gets new cars MH um and we've just been
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like we were searching for this for like a super long period of time and again every like six months or so someone will
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post it on Twitter or on Reddit there was one point where we dm'd the person really quickly and was able to get
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whoever took the picture to leave a note on the guy's sheet yeah we literally were able to get the guy to leave a note
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and we still got nothing so for some reason this person that owns this license plate does not want us to talk
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to them which seems confusing when you make a plate about a YouTube channel
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that you like that you don't want to be on the YouTube channel yeah I can only assume I I don't know of any other
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mkbhd's so I I'm assuming yeah but that you know this person for whatever reason
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wanted to rep it successfully got the plate in California registered it put it on their car I think you pay for that
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too I got it and then uh doesn't want to talk to us at all yeah you know what's
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funny is MKBHD is available in New York and I almost
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got that's how you wrap the podcast is it's David the whole time yeah yeah um I
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think it's also available in like Pennsylvania I I talked to Brandon and Vin about us all getting MKBHD license
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plates because all registered in different states and it would just be really funny that would be crazy parking
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lot at one point we found the car at the Fremont Factory and you took a photo with it okay so yeah we did we did the
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last part of the story is we went to I'm like how close are we to Doc thing we're so close we went to the Fremont Factory
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because we were shooting a video about the model Y and that day I saw a tweet
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in my mentions of like hey is this you at the Tesla Factory and while I was at the Tesla Factory I think we went back
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to hotel and we drove back to the factory that tweet showed up and it was like this car is like parked in the parking lot and I was like that what are
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the chances I actually find this car in person in real life so we went back out to the factory it's still sitting in the
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spot that that tweet was so I took a picture with that car I posted it saying
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it's not me yeah so that once and for all people know that it's not me but also I've seen the car and that's
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probably the end of it it also was in like the public parking spaces of the Freemont Factory not even in like
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special employee things it was just like right out in front yeah yeah we all we
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also like did a bunch of random other investigative stuff like we called the DMV and we filled out this like Freedom
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of Information Form and they had specifically ticked their information to
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be hidden if you like search them we paid money to info.com to like forgot about yeah we
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paid $5 for like a month subscription no no no you paid a lot more than that I paid a lot more than $5 because it was
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one of those things where I forgot to cancel this I think I paid $60 in total
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for this yeah you came back like seven months later like bro remember this thing but that it's one of those things where you can like put in a license
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plate or put in a phone number and like pull up information about a person like what cops have uh I guess I mean I think
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it's like public information that they just like Gather in one spot it's not like actual Legal Information that like
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cops have access to Al just to you all were planning on figuring it out and then asking him if he was interested in
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being part of the podcast we weren't going to go doc anyone we just thought it would be a fun story for them to finally like why if they wanted yeah why
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did you get CU even I would have been happy with the end of the story being oh he didn't want to talk to us like
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perfect okay cool wrap a bow on it to the world a question also speaking of
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like long form episodes and and Tesla related things we were also in this long form episode uh where do Tesla employees
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find out things based on Elon tweets oh yeah and I can't like name any
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individual people but I've spoken to a ton of people that said that is the case but none of them were willing to be on
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the record I don't think anyone's surprised by that answer I have also been told by a Tesla employee who won't
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be named nothing no information given but said uh several of the design
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choices on the project that he was working on were because in passing Elon was like no I should be able to do this
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um and then walked away and and they're like okay that's yeah apparently they completely like changed the the modeling
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for the Cyber truck based on elon's saying like tweeting something out about it and someone I know like went to the
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design team and was like you guys know about this they're like what are you talking about and he pulled up the tweet and they were like oh my God that's how
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you should start communicating to us yeah just start tweeting and like dropping the Tweet link in the slack new
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waveform episode tomorrow crazy how at David needs to do this later
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today and also at this point if you wanted to wrap that episode up all of the intro stuff was when we were Audio
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Only so it's like probably not even possible if we find this person I'll figure it out yeah we' figure out we
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should just say also we're not mad no disappointed do you know why no we're
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not mad like like we're not trying to find you so that that we can be like why' you do this I just want to shake
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your hand bro I mean when you get a phot when you get tagged in it every couple months
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it's super intriguing yeah so you know if if you think we're mad and that's why you didn't it's cool we're cool I think
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it just makes it more interesting that this person seemingly doesn't want to talk maybe they don't watch the Channel
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I want it to be the wildest coincidence ever it would be so funny if it just means something else and and he has like
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no idea who marar Mary Kevin Brandon Harold and David his five children had
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if he had no idea it would be more likely that he would like text us or respond and be like yeah who are you
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guys I that would be really weird if you just we had someone leave a note on his car that's creepy yeah maybe that's what
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I'm saying maybe he's like dude they're really trying to get me yeah I don't know maybe he thinks we're mad I'm sorry if that was the case
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I know if you're hearing this we're not mad we're actually just disappointed that you won't even reach out also just
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to clarify we keep saying he because people have told us that they've seen a dude driving a car we're not just
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assuming also said they saw him get out of the car and go into a restaurant which is creepy
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please justone please don't harass this guy or follow this guy around it's I think the story kind of ends here we're
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just like okay it is assumed that this person has decided they do not want to be a public figure and that's to that's
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okay why this basically been abandoned at this point because we don't want to be yeah we're still holding out hope
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that something random might happen and the story might come together um I will this reminds me that the two stories we
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have regarding Teslas have both LED to dead ends that's true Tesla's a weird company I mean they don't even have a
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marketing department yeah that's true so well you want a story that's the opposite of a dead end yeah absolutely
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and a lot to do with a marketing department a marketing department doing uh splitting something into a thousand
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pieces uh Dyson Dyson y all remember Dyson Dyson's had their fair share of waves actually
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in the Tech Community for a while they had those headphones with the filter they've got new headphones out now they
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have fan cult favorite products people love their vacuum cleaners people love
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their hair dryers bladeless fans and all this stuff by the way there's a how I built this episode with uh the guy that
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runs Dyson who is like the son of the guy that invented the company or whatever yeah very good episode and like
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they just love suction you know yep just love it Dyson yep we
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suck that would amazing motto okay anyway so anyway okay so so their their
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vacuums are very popular so I think this is something that happens actually a lot here which is I will get an email for an
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offer to do some collaboration or a sponsored thing and I've mentioned this
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before I say no to 9999975 per of the things that we get
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but something that happens a lot is we say no to something and then 3 weeks later my subbox is filled with the thing
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that I said no to yeah and sometimes it's like a company saying hey we want to offer you this exclusive first look
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at something and then I say no and then three weeks later it's on five other YouTube channels or one or two other
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whatever it is I we see that happen all the time yeah so I don't remember exactly when this was I looked way too
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deep into this from the 2017 it was March 2018 so 2018 yeah I remember this
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whole thing so I get an email from Dyson reaching out and they're like would you like to do a sponsored uh video with uh
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one of our vacuum cleaners D V10 Dyson V10 and it was a new vac vac cleaner
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I'll be honest bro I use a Dyson vacuum at home I bought one I en I hang it on
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the I have the whole set up like it's it's great the wall mount yeah I have a wall mount and so I have to like route a cable up to it and like plug it in and
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like clicks on there it's like i w wow no needs to brag bro I know I'm already a so like I saw this email and I was
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like oh yeah no that's that actually seems yeah sounded exactly seems like a good
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fit uh so I juggled the idea around in my head I was like how how does this be a natural fit and you've seen our videos
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before we try to make it a natural fit into the video considered maybe a studio tour with like a section about the
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vacuum in the studio I don't know it we tried we tried it just didn't really work out I couldn't really think of
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anything you know what's funny when you said no you were like but I do love it at home and you ordered one for the studio yeah you didn't even ask them to
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send one you're just like oh dud we should have one of those for the studio though and then you bought one and then
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I ordered one so instead of them paying you money you paid them yes Che their marketing department
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had 100% conversion conversation okay they're clearly doing something right so all that happens right fast forward a
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couple weeks and I log into YouTube in one morning March 6th March
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6th and there's a couple Dyson video there's a couple videos all sponsored by Dyson some of them just dedicated videos
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about the vacuum some of them like Integrations they were all dedic sorry I'm going to interrupt sometime just because I like
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went down I searched for Dyson tweets from March 6 2018 and found the timeline
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of all of this and yeah so here's why it struck me I already I remember saying no
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to this and I remember them going like here's the date that you'd publish this and there was a time and there was a
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couple of videos at the top of my subbox and I said oh wow a couple of them at once that's pretty that's pretty sizable
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pretty big integration and then a couple hours later there was another wave of
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more Dyson V10 videos and then a couple hours later there was another wave and so it started
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being like there's this cascading wave of Dyson videos and it struck me that
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they're they're kind of like on the hour and I think my theory is that Dyson not
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only didn't tell any of these creators about any of the other Integrations they were doing but they also staggered the
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Embargo times for all of these different projects that they worked on to Cascade
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throughout the day instead of all dropping at once cuz let's be honest 40 Dyson videos in your subbox all at once
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you're skipping the whole thing yeah but 3 in the morning 3 in the middle of the day 3 in the afternoon 3 at night you
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might click one of those yeah and so that's what Dyson did and I couldn't be happier I said no but I did reach in I I
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definitely reached out to some creators that I knew were not allowed to yet publish their video before it went out
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and they were seeing that and they were mad yeah oh yeah and uh so yeah I think the lesson of this story for sure is if
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you ever do if you're a YouTuber watching this if you're a Creator this is something we Implement now if you're
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going to do a collaboration with a company or a sponsored post or whatever one of the questions you should always
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ask is are there any other people on this campaign that's the basic language
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are there any other people participating in this campaign so that you know hey I might just be
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like by myself endorsing this product and I like it but if there's three other people that I really do not want to be
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associated with also participating in this same campaign at the exact same time even though it doesn't look like
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you're endorsing those people optically it's a little different so you should you should be aware of those things and
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this is a prime example of why you should be I would argue even if you are fine associating with those people if it
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comes so I looked up the times videos are posted from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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in like a few different time slots and a lot of those people are people we're super friendly with and like but even if
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like you like something and a bunch of other creators you like post this it just looks terrible the Optics are awful
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because everyone is obviously doing an integration which are all disclosed but when there's that many it's annoying to
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have your mostly were they I don't remember specific ones that weren't disclos mostly disclos yeah I think I
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counted 10 other channels that day um that we did not know about and like it's
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annoying for everyone else cuz generally people that follow us probably followed all those other channels and now if
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their whole subbox is only this Dyson it looks Dyson is just taking the day over and that sucks for General content
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consuming I remember there was a lot of push back because there were some computer hardware channels that I was following that just post like PC builds
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and graphics card reviews and then one day they just all put out like a vacuum
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video and it was super weird yeah and it like blew up for everyone because the next day Gamers Nexus made a video just
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with like this crappy little uh like like yeah parody video of this like little shop back that he had and it was
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just like B crappy b-roll easy to dunk on him cuz like you could you already signed the thing you can't like leave
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the once cuz if I was one of those creators who had like a you cannot publish until 300 p.m. contract and I
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saw three posts at 10:00 a.m. and then a bunch more posts at noon and a bunch more I'd be like oh i' known about
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especially because when we do embargos like there's kind of this unspoken rule in the industry that you can report on
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things that are already publicly available so even if you've signed a embargo if other people start publishing
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an hour before you you can report on them put publishing I would assume this
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one's different because those are embargos based on just like if something is public knowledge and these were contracts signed for integration and
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like payments so where a normal embargo doesn't have any payment involved in it and then right um
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but yeah it was a a wild day I I would argue we have gotten into the situation after that it happened earlier this year
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we were ready for an integration we thought of a really funny way to incorporate it thought of this like
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whole script everything we're ready to shoot it and then over the week of us preparing for it a bunch of videos came
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out about it and that we didn't know about and were really poorly done when we thought of a pretty good way to do it
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and we're like this isn't worth it anymore and we yeah we backed out backed out of it yeah yeah just to say from
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Dyson's point of view Banger campaign yeah think the controversy literally got
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them more exactly like yeah visibility D is no stranger to that yeah true but I think when they
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were planning it I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and I think they probably believed that they were making it feel more organic they probably
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thought that oh you know if they all come out at the same time that's going to look a little weird so what if it looks like they're all just like organically posting on their own time
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and it's just all on the same day yeah that the more you pay someone to be organic the less organic it winds up
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being yeah which is it's really tough to explain that to a marketing person ex but that's what it end up there's always
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emails that are like we want this to feel natural and feel like it would be normally in your content so make sure
00:26:43
that you say these things yeah I remember I got an email once uh that
00:26:48
basically said you can say a couple of negative things about the product to
00:26:54
make it seem natural but otherwise try to make the the mix like
00:26:59
9010 like this is so messed up d uh so yeah obviously just deleted that email I
00:27:06
want to end this with one thing I'm pretty proud of after all of this is next day we released the Apple ecosystem
00:27:13
explained and we put this Banger uh little Easter egg in it where a Dyson Joe yeah Marquez gets a notification on
00:27:21
his watch from Dyson saying collab question mark and he just quick replies nope
00:27:28
damn that's pretty rough this is the day after I was pretty that was My Little
00:27:35
Pony replication of real life because that's actually what we said it was no yeah yeah say no say no more often guys
00:27:41
say no dud it's a great tool to have I will say yeah I don't know I like it's cool that Dyson and Bose are both
00:27:48
private companies and I think that's cool again we like the vacuum much I know this is the thing like I literally
00:27:54
recently bought one and I'm not just trying to endorse it but there great produ no I've said so I am endorsing it
00:28:00
a product that I think lives up to the hype is Dyson stick vacuums I will say
00:28:05
they feel they feel cheap cheapish cuz they're light cuz they're so light and and they're like kind of plasticky but
00:28:11
the suction is so good and was that the one negative thing you were allowed to say that was M
00:28:19
sorry I've treated mine so poorly like the amount of time I've like knocked it
00:28:24
off my wall knocked on the floor dropped it 3 plus feet true fine yeah toally it
00:28:30
feels kind of cheap because it's so light kind of like what's your what's your biggest flaw a job interview and
00:28:36
being like I just just too a productive sometimes I don't know how to stop working it feels like I don't have any
00:28:42
free time so busy yeah yeah yeah that was a good that was a good time so yeah
00:28:48
that now you know the the backstory of uh our perspective on of March 8 March 6
00:28:53
of the Dyson incident yeah that day sucked in the best way
00:28:58
uh we're going to take a quick break but when we come back we got a couple more we got some FBI stories Etc we'll be
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right [Music]
00:29:18
back all right welcome back we've got some more stories for the story time
00:29:24
bonus episode this one uh is a sort of I was going to say like a flagship story
00:29:29
but it's just our weirdest story Flagship it's just our weirdest story but it's that time that the FBI
00:29:35
surprised us and showed up and investigated at the studio this music with talking about the FBI coming in the
00:29:42
studio is hilar music it'll be better vaguely threatening yeah so okay A
00:29:48
little background we are our video studio is inside of a larger building as many are so there are lots of other
00:29:54
tenants here and there's a front desk and there's security and there's all this stuff and we one of the tenants in the building so I've been in this
00:30:01
building for a while and we have a pretty good relationship with them and so one thing that happens because we are a public YouTube channel is sometimes
00:30:08
people decide to show up don't please don't do that and because people aren't
00:30:15
supposed to do that I've actually talked to the front desk in security and we we
00:30:20
figured out a rule which is when I do expect people to come over because like you know Mr Mo might come over and show
00:30:26
me clicks or like an a briefing might and Sams whatever people come over if they show up to the front desk and say
00:30:32
I'm here for Marquez he will go you have to get Marquez to come outside and meet
00:30:38
you at the front that way if I don't know who they are or I'm not expecting them I don't show up that's fine if I do
00:30:45
know who they are and I am expecting them I go out I meet them I bring them back to our spot that's the Only
00:30:51
Rule so you know we've had this rule be this thing for many years we've been in
00:30:56
this building it's been great um so one day what year is this this a
00:31:01
couple years ago 2020 2020 oh yeah you're right so we're brand new in this space down here and uh I get a little
00:31:09
knock on the door and so this is like pretty was really good good so this is like early
00:31:15
in the morning we get a knock on the door I'm there alone I open the door and it's our front desk guy and he goes hey
00:31:22
Marquez so there's some people at the front here to see you they have some badges you can go out and see them if
00:31:28
you want that's it and just walks away no other context that's some just
00:31:35
they have badg you're going to be arrested there's some people with bad here to see you I love what that's like
00:31:42
run if you need to right now like just giving you the opportunity I could tell
00:31:47
like every part of him was like I think I should probably have let them in but I'm just doing our rule thing here where
00:31:53
I'm not going to let them in but just so you know there's some people with bad is here to see you and I told them they
00:31:59
can't come in what a real one that is it so first of all shout out to our guy for sticking to the rule yeah that was great
00:32:07
but now I'm standing alone in the studio like what did I do on the way
00:32:13
here to have people with badges show up at 9:00 in the morning to the studio
00:32:19
what could that possibly have been I had no idea but I was like you know what
00:32:24
I'll just I'll just go out to the lobby and just I don't know just see what see what's
00:32:30
going on so I walk out to the lobby and sure enough there's several FBI agents
00:32:37
standing there they all flash their badges just like in the movies they're like hi I'm FBI agent blah blah blah
00:32:44
blah blah blah good to meet you we just have a couple questions for you about the Pablo Escobar phone and I said
00:32:51
oh okay yeah we can talk so they I brought them back into the studio and uh
00:32:57
so yeah 9:00 in the morning empty Studio table in the middle it was kind of dramatic because we had just moved and
00:33:03
there was like no furniture there but it was just an empty table in the middle of the couple chairs and just them asking
00:33:09
about that phone and if you guys aren't familiar with the Escobar phone situation it's a whole thing a couple
00:33:15
months earlier I had made a video about the Escobar wow the company the fact that
00:33:21
they were yeah they were coding these phones and gold and pretending to ship them out and they'd ship them to
00:33:26
influencers but scam a bunch of people out of money and not ship them and so they were essentially running legal
00:33:32
business there's a whole bunch of things that they should be getting in trouble for they were just first generation Samsung Galaxy folds with like the esar
00:33:39
logo on it start it started as a royal Flex pie and nobody got those years ear
00:33:46
that phone is terrible by the way yeah I know it then it was the original fold
00:33:51
that would just had this crappy gold plating on it and then just like they already logged in and put a like mug
00:33:56
shot of Pablo Escobar like as the wallpaper and then they actually went one step further and then did an gold
00:34:03
iPhone 11 Pro which at that point they were in on the whole thing of like well
00:34:08
we're just refurbishing these and selling them for cheaper because of Apple they had a wild marketing campaign
00:34:14
where it was like they bought rip samsung.com and rip apple.com because they started off calling it The Escobar
00:34:20
phone they weren't calling it a Samsung phone at first they were saying we have made a folding phone and we're selling
00:34:26
it for cheaper than Samsung and it when I had eventually gotten that
00:34:32
device and I peeled the gold off it was just the Samsung phone we all knew it was yeah and so the only way for them to
00:34:38
be selling this phone for a couple hundred bucks Which is less than what it was costing is if they weren't actually
00:34:44
doing that yeah so I have a question about this yeah in their scamming Theory
00:34:49
do you think their Theory from the start was just like we are actually going to trick people to thinking this is a new phone and we're just not going to send
00:34:56
it or there's weird thing where it was $400 the actual phone was $11,000 do you
00:35:03
people were buying this phone despite it looking like a scam but I think it's cuz they were trying to pull one over on the
00:35:09
Escobar people thinking like that's a $1,000 phone but I can get it for $400 and just peel the gold off the back and
00:35:15
then also getting scammed but do you think they thought that and that was they like we're going to pretend to be
00:35:21
dumb and then still it's hard to tell yeah I don't think because it's it's so
00:35:27
insane that feels like parody like they released a little booklet with it with a picture of Pablo esar on the front that
00:35:33
says I made billions selling cocaine now my smartphones will destroy Apple and Samsung which is just direct quote Yeah
00:35:41
direct quote direct quote they have these crazy photos of like almost naked
00:35:46
models with just like the phones unfolded around their privates it's like it was so and there they had a v they
00:35:52
had a there a lot of videos there was videos about this with like tons of coke and like naked people and phones on
00:35:58
YouTube on you Youtube one was about how they're going to like cook Apple by uh
00:36:04
like it was a bunch of like women in underwear essentially and they had a bunch of iPhone sixes they kept like
00:36:09
putting on grills and Lighting on fire and like it was very strange them yeah weird thing I I
00:36:17
mean maybe there's a world where they thought that they could trick people into thinking that they were going to
00:36:24
get everything that they were saying yeah I it's really hard to say but it feels like so much like parody it does
00:36:31
that it's hard to think that they couldn't have been like if we make this look like a parody then people might
00:36:39
actually buy it because they think it's funny cuz there's like an irony to it yeah not I'm not totally sure and it
00:36:44
worked too because I believe for the first phone they were using Clara and
00:36:51
CLA froze their account and it had like $400,000 in it or something like that
00:36:56
because again a lot of people were like well if I don't get it it's $400 but if I do and it's a good story
00:37:04
but if I do get it I get a $1,000 phone for $400 and I get to tell people that I bought a drug Lord's phone and I'm super
00:37:12
cool now yeah marz I have a question yeah so the whole walk to the studio that morning it's a pretty long walk
00:37:19
like with them following yeah with them following you like what's going through your mind were you guys talking were they saying anything was it just silent
00:37:25
so when they met me at the door they showed their Badges and I was freaking
00:37:31
out inside I was very confused I was like I can't imagine what they're here for but I think they immediately were
00:37:37
like yeah we would like to talk about we were doing an investigation about this uh Escobar phone or whatever and as soon
00:37:45
as I heard that I was like oh thank God I can help you with that okay I will snitch yes that's
00:37:51
me so then from then yes they I just like was like yeah come back to the
00:37:56
studio and yeah I guess that was probably a quiet walk but eventually like I uh I like talked to them they had
00:38:04
a whole bunch of questions that made sense like what were your Communications with them you know can we see the phones
00:38:11
they actually they took the phones as evidence they sealed them up in plastic
00:38:17
bags and took them as evidence were you still logged in I never log those not
00:38:23
log into those yeah yeah did not log into those phones you just found the like rece seat for them taking that for
00:38:28
evidence right I did yeah I still have the paper cuz at when they left they they left me
00:38:34
with let's not talk about this until you know this case is like wrapped up
00:38:40
someday so just like this is consider this confidential and so I was like okay
00:38:46
I'm not going to tell a soul about this but someday I will be able to so I'm just I'm keeping this paper I'm keeping
00:38:52
all of this and then you eventually we kind of just figured like maybe we should figure out how long it's going to
00:38:58
be can I step back a little bit so my morning that day this was also I'm realizing how Wild the timing was
00:39:04
because this was June 2020 so at that point the only time I was coming into the office was once every other week to
00:39:12
record the podcast and then I was leaving and editing at home oh so I happened to come in that morning I had
00:39:18
and I parked the car outside and I had an email that said um it was just
00:39:24
subject Escobar phone it was from somebody that said their name and then in parenthesis FBI from an fbi.gov web
00:39:33
uh web account and she said hi Mr brownley we would like to speak to you in regards to the Escobar phone we are currently in the lobby of your building
00:39:39
if you come downstairs or contact me at a number thank you special agent blank and so I was running I had the public
00:39:46
email address coming to me so you never got this email I parked my car and was like are
00:39:53
we getting spoofed is like somebody trying to scam us or something the easiest way to figure this out is if I
00:39:59
park at the front of the building and come in the front instead of the side entrance they don't know who I am or that I work for you so I can walk by and
00:40:06
see if there's people that look like agents and then I can come in and tell you about it cuz it was like they sent
00:40:12
it a few minutes before I got there scouting scouting yeah so I walk into the lobby and no one's there like we're
00:40:18
getting someone's trying to scam us somebody spoofed this email address and I walk down ready to tell Marquez this
00:40:24
funny email that I got and then I see him in the middle of the room as I'm opening the door with three people in
00:40:29
suits and Marquez is just waving me in and I'm like what is happening and then
00:40:34
I'm maintain that you should have just turned around and started running I don't know if that neither of
00:40:40
you guys between finding out that you were about to talk to the FBI and talking to the FBI neither of you
00:40:45
reached out to a lawyer did you no no
00:40:50
bold I was too late Marquez Marquez waved me in at that point they told me what they were going to ask me about and
00:40:56
I was immed like oh I am not in the wrong here I am just helping with evidence collection for a case against
00:41:03
someone else that's still a very valid question look Matt Damon fortune favors the Bold Let's uh let's get it boys you
00:41:10
know um but but so when I came in that was the point I had been the one who got all the emails from them because it was
00:41:16
at the like business account um and yeah they basically just said can you forward me all of those emails they asked if
00:41:23
there's any other sort of information we might have of like who they might contact and we told them about they were
00:41:29
running this weird thing on their YouTube page where they paid a couple random celebrities to do cameos talking
00:41:35
about how cool the phone is they didn't say they were cameos though they just uploaded the videos of people endorsing
00:41:41
their phone Chris Han Hansen it was this Swedish figure skater I believe um Anna
00:41:48
something and it was Cory lowski Trump's former campaign manager those were the
00:41:53
three people so not that Cameo is the one doing that that dealing but we let them know about that and uh yeah other
00:42:02
than that they just asked the questions they did take the phones we have not seen them again since that's correct um
00:42:09
and yeah we were you referenced it a couple times you mentioned it one time
00:42:14
at the end of a smartphone Awards yeah I said like I'd like to be able to tell the story someday about you said I think
00:42:21
that's what you said on a Reddit AMA on the smartphone Awards you just said like here are all the phones from this year the Escobar phone is missing because the
00:42:27
FBI has it you just kind of like brushed it off I did do that and Reddit was like not sure if you were joking or if that
00:42:33
was real and there were some people like I can't wait to hear that story and a bunch of other people who are like that's just a joke come on there's no
00:42:40
way that's real um but that was four years ago the reason we feel finally comfortable to talk about it now is
00:42:45
because the guy Olaf who ran that whole company is now in jail in Spain and um
00:42:52
for fraud and a bunch of other things and there's potential talks about him
00:42:57
possibly being extradited to the US to be uh investigated I believe do not our
00:43:03
studio I don't think you can come to a studio when you're in jail but uh but
00:43:09
yeah so I don't believe we will be interrupting any investigations at this point also didn't they kind of wrap this
00:43:17
up like a year or so ago I thought something happened with this case well in December he got picked up in prison
00:43:25
in Spain nice um that's everything I've had to read about this is in Swedish so I have to translate it all um yeah can I
00:43:32
just say that I remember the first time marz mentioned this to me while I was just like walking around the studio he's
00:43:38
like oh yeah you know when the FBI took the took the phone whatever blah blah blah and I like that a hard 180 like
00:43:45
what what are you talking about yeah it's also not the only time the
00:43:51
FBI has contacted us about something it's true yeah after the uh the after
00:43:57
the meme coin video where we talked about the influencers um doing we got emails from
00:44:05
Tron the crypto company asking us to do an un undisclosed yes asking to do
00:44:13
something super illegal yeah yeah just straight up and not only asking us to do something illegal naming the other
00:44:18
people that did the illegal thing in the email um so you mentioned that in a video and they pretty much were like I I
00:44:26
think they needed us to the emails to them again and that one was fairly quick we didn't get to see any FBI agents but
00:44:32
yeah it uh more than once I'm not a very smart guy you know last week I uh said a
00:44:38
Southeast Asian country which when I in fact meant Nepal which is not in Southeast Asia that's just in South Asia
00:44:44
uh so you know not the smartest guy here but I would never ask someone to do
00:44:50
something illegal in a DM and then name my accompli in the same
00:44:55
DM it's like get screenshotted and put into a video am I snitch am I is that just what I do snitching on reasonable
00:45:03
scre of the podcast audience commit crimes do it that is a sound bite yeah
00:45:11
but clearly I'm brain cells ahead of these meme coin folks well that was that
00:45:16
was a marketing agent for a meme coin so like you've got two levels of cluelessness going on I think um yeah
00:45:24
was that after we made we made a Dogecoin expl it that video that Marquez put in the video yeah that email yeah
00:45:31
man that was a wild time tldr if you're doing some illegal stuff don't email us
00:45:36
write down yeah we don't want to be involved all these we will snitch yeah
00:45:44
SN you're going to end up on YouTube man sorry David there's all these waves of like Tech scams that just keep coming
00:45:50
through you know there's all that crypto and then there was all the metaverse stuff y now we're probably going to find
00:45:56
out most of this AI stuff is just uh is smoking mirrors just waves and waves
00:46:02
which we kind of already know yeah but so that's that yeah I ideally we have a
00:46:08
much more fun retelling of that on the main Channel which is a good time uh we're going to take another quick break
00:46:14
but we do have a couple more fun stories to close it out so we'll be right back
00:46:22
[Music]
00:46:33
all right welcome back couple more short stories for you all of which are Untold
00:46:39
in the channel this yeah but all of which are hilarious from our perspective or at least worth telling okay next one
00:46:46
is a CES story it's a story of how I became uh a villain for at least 24
00:46:54
hours I was I was hated couple weeks I would say oh really a couple weeks well oh cuz the video had to come out yeah so
00:46:59
for a while for a I still hate you yeah big time hated guy from this um at the
00:47:05
time and this was again 20 so 2019 uh before I had ever watched any Formula 1
00:47:11
this was around the time where Louis Hamilton was like winning everything and that's all I really knew about Formula 1
00:47:16
at the time uh but okay so we're at CES 2019 and CES for those who don't know
00:47:24
for a tech YouTuber is a very hectic time I mean it can be
00:47:29
hectic or less hectic depending on what you make of it but for someone like me
00:47:35
we are bouncing around between things we're trying to do at CES going to a
00:47:41
meeting and then going to see a thing and then going to shoot a thing and then going to shoot a different thing that we
00:47:46
got told about and then going to another meeting and then going across to this thing outside of the convention center and it's just it's very busy it's a
00:47:52
couple days of that and they like that Convention Center is big is not not just like oh I want to see this thing it's a
00:47:59
couple minutes away it could be a 20 minute walk away it could be an hourong taxi car right away one time I left a
00:48:06
tripod at a OnePlus briefing and went to another briefing literally yeah that's that's the first time we ever saw you
00:48:12
yeah you almost collapsed on the floor in front of us cuz I sprinted back from like yeah a 45 minute walk across the
00:48:19
anyway whatever yeah there there's stuff in the convention center there is stuff in the hotels outside the convention center you know booths like meeting
00:48:27
rooms all kinds of setups I actually find that that's hilarious that the first thing you ever saw from me was me being like we were like eating on this
00:48:33
table and you like literally came up to the table and just went like
00:48:38
this that's the most C indicative was CES that is CES
00:48:45
anyway so okay so so we're in the thick of it in this CES and I I do remember I
00:48:51
mean people come up to me at CES and and take either pictures or like want to say hi and I'm totally cool with that
00:48:56
will'll say hi to people and take pictures of people at CES this is preco as well so like we're just shaking hands
00:49:03
sugging it's great it's a good time CES you get to meet people huh kissing babies was this
00:49:08
2020 okay yeah 2020 actually funny enough was the year I was like I get sick every year at CES so you know what
00:49:14
I'm going to do this year fist bumps only and that year I went around saying hey nobody gets sick this year
00:49:20
right super and then it was at that moment that everyone got did yeah yeah anyway
00:49:29
so yeah CES we're we're hauling around we're busy we're shooting a bunch of stuff and uh trying to be cous in
00:49:35
between things so I remember we were on our way I want to say it was from from Razer or to Razer we were in the
00:49:41
Mercedes booth going two Razer and if you've been to CES the auto auto Booth I
00:49:47
think it's the North Hall and I think the Razer Booth is generally in the East
00:49:53
Hall they are extremely far away they are as far away on the convention floor as possible yeah so I'm trying to like
00:49:59
hustle my way across to to make this this meeting uh on my way someone like
00:50:06
sort of stops me and goes hey oh uh you're um you're the the guy from now
00:50:13
pause everyone has a different way this is something I've noticed everyone has a different way of like trying to explain
00:50:20
that they know who you are whether it's oh um uh you're the guy with the the
00:50:26
iPhones right or oh I you my my son knows your videos I've seen your video
00:50:32
I've heard your voice from his bedroom like everyone has a different thing that they say what this guy said was oh uh
00:50:38
you're the YouTube guy my friend really likes you my boss really wants to meet you hang on here for a second I'm going
00:50:44
to go get him uh okay so so I'm like I'm kind of
00:50:50
on my way to something um I I can give this guy a minute or two maybe he wants a picture or something I can say hi and
00:50:55
I just I just need to keep going so I literally wait there with all my bags and stuff and like this guy
00:51:01
disappears into this booth comes back out with another guy he goes hi oh good to meet you and he's filming me
00:51:08
now okay oh no so now he's filming me and this guy comes out hey um and I
00:51:15
think he basically just says like oh I'm Nico you know you know that guy Louis Hamilton yeah I beat him I'm the guy
00:51:21
that beat him and I'm like okay great keep in mind I am not watching Formula 1
00:51:27
at this time so I don't actually know really what that means I know that uh
00:51:32
Louis Hamilton is an F1 driver and I know that's oppressive but I didn't really know what to say so I just kind of didn't say much and uh I think he
00:51:39
says one or two other things like uh I don't even remember like nice to meet you like you know in his videos so it
00:51:46
this this whole interaction happens we end it I shake hands and I'm like all right well I got to go see you later and
00:51:53
I keep going to my meeting I shake a few other hands on the way fine a couple weeks later I log into YouTube I think
00:52:00
actually probably on Twitter and everyone Twitter is like why is Marquez such a jerk like why is he such a dry
00:52:07
unenthusiastic person and I go wait what's going on and this ended up in a Nico rossberg blog now hindsight now I
00:52:15
know who Nico is now I know a little bit about F1 and obviously he's a Formula 1
00:52:21
World Champion this is a huge deal for a lot of people and so he's going around and it's kind of a huge deal that he knows who I am
00:52:28
already CES he CES at all didn't know of this at the time but uh my interaction
00:52:36
comes off as kind of like trying to dismiss him and like leave when I kind
00:52:41
of don't know what's going on and got ambushed with the camera so that happened uh and now I am a converted F1
00:52:49
fan and I'm full circle huge fan of Formula 1
00:52:54
didn't know at the time if I have to say also it's not that like we were trying to get somewhere we weren't expect you weren't expected a camera to come up and
00:53:01
start getting interviewed yeah but he very obviously when when you've been to CES a couple times you know 90% of the
00:53:08
stuff is garbage and will never happen and he was like oh I saw this really cool like helicopter bike that you don't
00:53:14
need any permits to drive and he's like showing you a video on his phone and like to him that was probably really
00:53:20
cool cuz that's CES your first time and you're not that into Tech that is wild all of us would have seen that on the
00:53:25
floor and been like never happen and just walk straight past it so like it was also showing stuff we knew was just
00:53:31
pretty much vaporware um so like yeah the video is him showing you that on his phone you trying to get out of there and
00:53:38
feeling kind of dismissive which it looks not great but like we had a very
00:53:43
long walk to go to to a meeting and didn't know who he was at that point that I was then late for there are a lot
00:53:49
of comments that are not very happy yeah yeah so yeah that that is a fun story with a not so fun ending but it did
00:53:55
happen um yeah so my uh I would say that probably the guy who stopped me to go
00:54:01
grab Nico probably should have mentioned that he was going to film possibly that
00:54:09
would be my yeah it's not or who his boss was or yeah anything yeah Nico's
00:54:14
still vlogging by the way he just got some crazy the F1 like hyper car from
00:54:21
Mercedes does he have a lot of views he get this is a wild car though too sub
00:54:27
over a million for a vlogging former F1 Champion I think so who doesn't need to Vlog yet yeah it's just for fun For the
00:54:33
Love of the Game David you don't need subscribers if you just get cool cars and drive them for fun on camera fair
00:54:38
enough there's a whole subg genre of YouTube creators that is just like former professional athletes like him
00:54:44
like Marquez Roy Hibert current professional athlete Marquez in the future will be a retired Pro retired pro
00:54:51
athlete Marquez is the other way where it's like Marquez is a famous YouTuber who happens to be a pro athlete well the
00:54:58
other genre that's so popular now is active players with podcasts yeah super
00:55:05
popular NBA there's like seven eight n big active NBA player podcasts it's now
00:55:11
we're in the era of active NBA players who are also analysts too well yeah that's they go on analyst which I think
00:55:18
makes a lot of sense but it is always fun to have like Draymond like the night after a horrible game like go on his
00:55:25
podcast address the comments about why he didn't pass it to to Steph like that's pretty funny the one that makes
00:55:32
the least sense now are the professional athletes that also decide they want to live stream things and none of them are
00:55:38
smart enough to maybe stop saying there was like a Formula 2 driver that like
00:55:43
said a bunch of really dumb and got dropped from his team because you decided to live stream yeah don't do it
00:55:49
live run it past well don't do it at all but definitely don't do it live but at least CU these guys they're not editing
00:55:55
their own podcast they hold up the mic and they say the thing and then somebody edits as the old adage goes if you're
00:56:01
thinking about whether or not you should tweet it you probably should dang David and I have each other's backs when that
00:56:07
stuff Happ take away the keyboard unplug it DAV unplug you're typing too fast over there what are you doing whenever I
00:56:14
see you typing fast and I look at your monitor and it's Twitter I'm like Oh my favorite is when David's like have
00:56:22
you guys seen this guy that tweeted at us blah blah blah and we're like oh no I haven't seen that 3 seconds of silence and then
00:56:29
just like Oh No usually I don't send it and then you hear enter and you're like oh no he sent it I that's delete now
00:56:36
yeah yeah it's delete I try not to game so for the next story I just wanted to introduce this because we're all going
00:56:41
to tell a quick little short story to wrap up this episode Ellis in the docks
00:56:48
has Ellis colon dash pirate and that's the story I'm very curious to see where
00:56:55
this goes yeah this is I feel like a forgotten part of my lore here at the office and it's it's from just before I
00:57:02
got hired sort of so the before the question I get asked the most is how did
00:57:08
you get this job how can I get a job like you and it's a difficult question to answer because weirdly this is the
00:57:14
job that had the most traditional hiring process of like any job I've ever had like before this I would get my I would
00:57:20
get jobs by like showing up unannounced with my resume and a flash drive and like doing all sorts of like crazy stuff
00:57:26
to try to get a position this was like I filled out an application the application wasn't a tweet though that's
00:57:32
a little unconventional uh uh actually technically I was not on Twitter at that
00:57:37
point I fill out the application because Marquez made a video where he specifically said I'm hiring a podcast
00:57:43
editor wow it did anyway uh like a year before this is my answer to how do I get
00:57:49
a job like this about a year before I had gotten hired this is like uh August
00:57:55
maybe sep member 2020 like like still early on in the pandemic I had recently
00:58:01
started playing the video game uh sea of Thieves I was playing it with my best
00:58:06
friend who uh we were roommates so spent a lot of Co time together we had
00:58:12
also we had also just watched all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies in over
00:58:17
the course of like two days like we were double featuring these and we were both just like AR M we had both become like
00:58:25
borderline like like pathologically obsessed with pirates it was like like
00:58:30
all we could think about was Pirates all we wanted to talk about was Pirates it was just like the whole thing was like super in our brain and so what we
00:58:37
decided to do to like get out this obsession is we got uh all of our
00:58:42
friends together um not all of our friends but like our five or six like closest friends we pulled all of our
00:58:50
audio gear together we we're all audio and music peoples we had a lot of gear uh we isolated for a week or two so that
00:58:57
we knew we would be like totally good and then we all loaded into our house and we turned our entire house into a
00:59:04
studio like a multi floor one floor was the control room that had mics going to the the bottom and top floors so that
00:59:10
there was like perfect isolation and we recorded an hourong
00:59:16
featurelength radio play about pirates with music and sound effects and
00:59:23
everything and this is what I submitted yeah to you guys yeah right to be like
00:59:30
let me work for you and I have it here and I wanted to play I'm trying to find it hour long no one will find it yeah
00:59:36
I'm going to play all the full hour of it nice awesome can I say before you
00:59:41
play it I do specifically remember something else you sent which was a podcast about tap dancing I believe yes
00:59:48
and you had a very specific part in it where you really like this was right after you guys did the boosted board
00:59:53
episode and we were talking about how we wanted somebody who was very good also
00:59:59
being able to add sound and like Ambiance to storytelling and you po
01:00:04
posted this great part that was talking about tap dancing where there was like shoes tapping in the background and
01:00:09
music and like all these things that made it feel like in the story tap dancing was happening I appreciate that
01:00:15
it was great in my head you know that was for another project that was like very much like just a gig and like I had
01:00:21
three extra hours and I was like oh I have time to like record this and it was very fun to do and do at my home if you ever need a tap dancing sound effect
01:00:27
that you can't find uh uh packaging tape being pulled taut and then suddenly
01:00:32
ripped is like pretty similar to a tap shoe hitting the floor at least similar enough that none of you guys noticed
01:00:38
that that wasn't the sound of a tap shoe that was the sound of packaging tape but much cooler is my pirate thing which I
01:00:43
would really like to play a clip of uh here it
01:00:49
[Applause] is you just did this for
01:00:56
a few settle down men let's go Jo us I can play you one that I captain see you
01:01:03
all the sounds the background chatter this is all us all recorded
01:01:12
originally but uh it is it is it is a drama so without
01:01:18
spoiling it too much I will uh skip to this is an hour long it's an hour long
01:01:25
uh we took us about a week to write all the parts and like write the script what
01:01:31
who are you tell me who you are Tom what are you doing where did you
01:01:39
come from this is a dramatic moment at the end Captain Tom
01:01:46
stop that's me that's me [Music]
01:01:54
also I know face I know your
01:01:59
face I know who you are you're all
01:02:06
damed you're all damed you're all Dam anyway um okay so
01:02:16
Marquez brownley heard that and said that's the guy I don't think we ever played that
01:02:21
out so like why doesn't way for sound like that bro if we did we didn't
01:02:27
understand the situ like I don't maybe if we played some of that we would have just thought like oh there was way more
01:02:33
going on I remember sitting at Andrew's desk with Andrew and I think Adam and
01:02:39
going through the I'm trying to find your application well never mind I totally thought that this passion
01:02:44
project I made with my friends I have no doubt no doubt in my mind I skimmed through it I probably didn't hit that
01:02:51
exact part I kind of wish I did I was just going to say I through there's a there's a lot you know
01:02:58
like actually I don't want it in case there's copyrighted stuff in here but uh long story short if you want a job like
01:03:04
this one pirates watch all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies get completely no just like follow your heart why can I
01:03:11
not find your application follow your your dreams follow your heart do what makes you happy and Marquez brownley
01:03:16
will eventually find you facts that's how it works all right uh okay I don't
01:03:22
know if any of you who are watching this or listening to this have seen this series but one of the first things that
01:03:27
we did when we launched the studio channel was we did a EV road trip
01:03:33
comparison race not really race but effectively what we did is we took the
01:03:40
one of the longest range EVS at the time that wasn't a Tesla which by the way at
01:03:45
that period of time there were not very many EVS out it was like Tesla and a
01:03:50
couple of others and Ford had just launched the Mustang monkey
01:03:56
uh the Tesla Model S long range was like the longest range Tesla and then we took
01:04:01
a regular gas car that we stuffed uh Adam and Andrew and Tim into that was
01:04:07
very funny so we kind of like I don't know if we pulled straws or like how this worked but effectively Brandon and
01:04:14
I end up ended up in the Mustang monkey MH Marquez and hiato took the model S
01:04:22
yep and was that the Plaid it was right after right after he got the Plaid MH um
01:04:30
so anyway at the time especially the infrastructure for electric vehicles
01:04:36
that were not Tesla trash trash it was so bad it's still still really bad but
01:04:43
it was a lot worse and that was kind of the entire point of the video was like
01:04:48
could you buy anything that's electric that's not a Tesla and make it up to
01:04:53
Niagara Falls and back about th miles stopping at certain amount of places I think we tried to make it also like you
01:05:00
just get in and go like this is the average person getting in we didn't map out specific routes outside
01:05:07
navigation the idea was like if your mom bought an e how would it go so Brandon and I get
01:05:14
the Mustang Mony and we start going and everything's fine it first everything's
01:05:20
great we stop at one of our first you know pit stops
01:05:26
and to charge and the charger just doesn't work so we're like okay um well
01:05:33
we're pretty much out of gas completely well electricity Elric so we ended up
01:05:39
having to plug in at a gas station to a wall outlet to be able to get us enough energy to go to another charger
01:05:46
regardless of all this this was effectively our experience on the entire trip it was just bad bad bad and part of
01:05:52
this video series which you should go watch on the studio channel it's called behind the th000 mile Race part one and
01:05:57
part two very funny uh an hour in total so it's an experience I start getting DMS from
01:06:07
Ford's being like hey um this we we don't like that we don't like this and I
01:06:15
was like yeah me neither me neither and if you don't watch the video
01:06:22
series Brandon and I are just devolving into madness because it took us like 17 more hours to complete the trip but
01:06:29
regardless um they start pushing me they're like my boss is not going to be
01:06:34
very happy about this and I'm like cool that's not my problem and then randomly
01:06:41
I get a message from her that's that's like so okay we sent people out to a
01:06:46
bunch of different EV charging locations and we created a map specifically to get
01:06:52
you to Niagara Falls and back where we can ensure because we already had people that went out there and checked that all
01:06:58
of these Chargers are operational and I was like you know as you do with literally the opposite of the point of
01:07:05
this video yeah um and so I was like look the whole point about this is that
01:07:11
we're trying to use the inbuilt navigation also when Ford launched the Maki they also launched the like Ford
01:07:19
charger Network map thing Ford pass or something like that and the whole idea was that they worked with all the like
01:07:26
EV go and charge point and all the like third party charging vendors to basically map out where all the Chargers
01:07:32
were but especially at that period of time there was no way for you to know if
01:07:37
the charger was working or not or what like level of charger it was cuz some of them were just like trickle chargers
01:07:44
like yeah basically wallets a 7 kilow something like that um and so it was
01:07:50
just a total disaster it was just such a mess and uh I just had Ford in my DMs constantly being like please please
01:07:56
please can you not do this and I'm like we literally told you what this video was going to be when we asked if we
01:08:02
could borrow a car and you accepted it and now we're doing it and now you're really upset so for weeks I had I had
01:08:10
people from like Ford comms and my DMs being like I really just don't think you guys should publish this video and we
01:08:16
were like what did you think was going to happen dude that's oh and the other
01:08:22
thing we also got like the New York State head of
01:08:29
Transportation like tweeted about it it was like something like Department of Transportation or yeah it was like the New York State head of Department of
01:08:35
Transportation like tweeted about it and was like this is unacceptable levels of like EV upkeep when I started in this
01:08:43
Administration I promised that I would do this and seeing this now is insane it's funny what I like to say is when we
01:08:49
do especially tests like that like we are in a way like professional users
01:08:55
like our our skill is evaluating the experience that most users will probably
01:09:02
have right like when you like if you look back at the rabbit and the Humane videos it's like yes we could go super
01:09:08
super in-depth to find the exact best possible experience it could possibly offer but the vast majority of people
01:09:16
are going to have a different version of that experience and we're trying to uncover and understand that experience
01:09:21
yeah and so we could have gone on the exact pre-planned route that Ford created for us where they sent people
01:09:27
ahead of time to Chargers to make sure they're online and working and it's like yeah then we would get one version of the answer which is in Ford's best
01:09:33
interest yeah but the point of the test is to understand what most people who
01:09:40
get this vehicle are will default to for their experience and it turns out that was very different and I had a bunch of
01:09:46
people on Twitter and stuff too being like why didn't you just use this spreadsheet that's been shared around
01:09:52
where everybody like mapped out exactly there are Chargers and what their wattage is and I was like because my mom
01:09:58
would never do that and I'm trying to be my mom here you know Universe we' also
01:10:04
get another Mach e which has their optimal best route and another and we'd have like seven variables instead of
01:10:09
just three but we had three it's just funny too because like that ultimately wound up being the best thing for Ford
01:10:16
because when you're trying to convince people to go to an EV and that's the experience they have you've just lost
01:10:21
that person as an eeve customer forever probably so like I made that video just giving us a pre-owned route that looks
01:10:28
perfect um is like not going to help the people who then get absolutely destroyed
01:10:35
on a road trip right yeah I later made a video on autofocus called like this is ruining EVS for people and it's
01:10:42
literally I overheard a conversation well I had a couple experiences but I overheard that conversation which is
01:10:47
literally like someone pissed off at a charger like I'm never get an electric car again I'm returning this I hate this
01:10:52
and there's another one where I like helped some lady charge when I was going to get food and like trying to explain
01:10:59
how to charge her model 3 at this charge Point charger when she didn't have an account just like honestly just go to a
01:11:07
Tesla super I'm sorry like this is not going to be easy for you and that all those things add up to just like there's
01:11:12
too much friction everyone knows how to go to a gas station yeah and there should just just be that same level of zero thought zero friction for charging
01:11:19
and that's that's the thing I highly recommend watching like all of the videos we made about this um you can
01:11:25
just see multiple points where Brandon are like okay this one is guaranteed to work and we show up and it's like 1: in
01:11:31
the morning and we go and it's just not working I get on the phone with the charge Point person being like yeah this
01:11:37
one's down they're like oh yeah yeah we knew that but you didn't change it in the app
01:11:43
like what is going anyway yeah so it was ridiculous go watch those videos okay
01:11:50
Adam you're in the stock and you have like five stories how quick can you tell these because all of them are really
01:11:56
good 100 hamburgers 100 Burgers so okay first one apple messing
01:12:03
with our timeline during WWDC a year ago and we needed to record two podcasts in
01:12:08
one week which was crazy we recorded the waveform X vergecast trivia Extravaganza
01:12:16
on Apple campus featuring uh featuring The Verge cast well also featuring the energy drink so during that time slot we
01:12:24
were supposed to record that with vergecast and then also record our podcast what actually ended up happening
01:12:30
was we recorded the slot with vergecast after they snuck in some execs so that
01:12:36
Marquez could interview them right which took up our time slot which is fine you know it happens PR people have to like
01:12:44
do things sometimes they have to PR they have to PR uh we didn't find those interviews all that interesting so we
01:12:50
never ended up publishing them but it took up our time slot it was an yeah cuz we were like one of the last time slots
01:12:56
in the night so like it pushed up to the people that they had hired to do the podcast stuff which who are awesome who
01:13:02
are all amazing and they were union workers they stay their last second of that I saw them again when we did the
01:13:09
Tim Cook interview yeah all the same people were those yeah those people are awesome um which then meant though not
01:13:14
only did we not get to record it on campus which like looks cool and has done really well for us we had to fly
01:13:20
home and record it like first thing Thursday morning or whatever so I was off the I was editing the podcast that
01:13:27
we had just recorded on the flight back we landed in the YouTube video if you
01:13:33
watch that episode there's a Red Bull on my desk because I am just crushing Red Bulls that day because we recorded it
01:13:38
and then I had to get it live Friday morning the next day and because this
01:13:44
was in California and we flew back Ellis had a previous engagement in California so he just stayed behind so in that
01:13:50
episode he wasn't there so I had to send him the audio remotely and he had to edit it remotely from I think his
01:13:56
parents house right you parents house I remember yeah and we're like FaceTiming each other like any it was it was crazy when we facetimed him he just just like
01:14:03
outside with sunglasses on I was like I was literally editing the podcast like on the sand the beach like damn Adam you
01:14:10
look stressed Logistics go crazy yeah so that was one story The Second Story I have is
01:14:17
when I first got hired the first like weekish here um I pretty much just got
01:14:24
handed the re to the podcast immediately which was terrifying the first week I think Andrew like we came in here I was
01:14:30
sitting off to the side you guys recorded like normal whatever you walked out and you just handed me the micro SD and we're like here you go and I was
01:14:36
like okay in my defense and I'm sorry that's how it felt but I immediately
01:14:42
knew whoever we hired had more experience than I did and I was the one doing it previously so I think it was
01:14:48
like take this we recorded it early like take your time with it and I'll go over
01:14:54
and like check everything when it's done but like I had full confidence in you being far more capable of whatever I was
01:15:01
doing for however long appreciate that still terrifying sorry but earlier in that week we were setting cuz I was one
01:15:07
of the first like other employees I think Brandon and Vin were obviously
01:15:13
here and Michael's remote and then it was like Adam and I got hired at the same time but I took an extra month off
01:15:19
so then I came a month before David so I was here when we didn't have any other deaths for anyone El
01:15:25
um and there was a point where we're like planning like okay you know we're doing this waveform video thing that we want to launch eventually like we're
01:15:32
changing up the intro music like let's let's listen to some of the tracks that I have here and Andrew was like setting
01:15:38
up pods for the desk so he's just building desk while blasting 20sl because I think Marquez was like at an
01:15:45
event or something or doing a briefing so I'm just like sitting in the corner and we're like listening to a track
01:15:51
pausing it like oh how do you feel about that one oh that felt like that felt int okay let let's let's put that off to the
01:15:56
side we'll mark it down as potential in intro music and we narrowed it down that way to the song that you hear today yeah
01:16:02
well 20 y was basically like here's like 20 different drop or like beats that I
01:16:07
made that are like 2 minutes long that I didn't use and if you want to license one of them for the podcast you can so
01:16:12
we just listen to it over and over that's what I learned about my favorite music producers is they all just kind of have beats that they just scrap that
01:16:19
they just have on a hard drive somewhere and they're all fire we'll take them all so yeah
01:16:25
another story I have is when we hired when we hired when we bought monstro
01:16:30
what's the name no no no uh col Colossus thank you which is our current camera
01:16:35
robot when the current camera robot showed up we were all very excited we run outside to the truck because it's
01:16:42
like oh my God it's here we start running out uh we're like six strong seven strong at the front of the
01:16:48
building just like staring at the back of the truck turns out it tipped over in the
01:16:53
truck this like 10,000 lb robot yeah yeah and then we're all like inside
01:16:59
trying to move it and we realized very quickly like we can't move this I think it's like, 1600 lb us the owner of the
01:17:06
company and the driver all open the door at the same time and it was just knocked over just laying on its side and we're
01:17:14
like oh my God and like the driver and the owner of the company keep going back and forth like did you know that
01:17:19
happened and he's like I didn't hear anything it's like it's a 2,000 pound robot that fell over in the back of your truck how how did you not feel that he
01:17:26
definitely took a turn a little fast and just heard like a I don't know what that is whatever we were planning to release that video on
01:17:33
Studio Channel and at some point during this whole Fiasco Andrew just is like we should stop recording not going to make
01:17:39
a video yeah next story David and I staying up till 3:00 a.m. here working on the boosted board episode just like
01:17:46
going Ultra hard on Transitions and sound effects and where should we put what and it was just like a very fun
01:17:53
core memory of like early working here it was our first special episode that we ever did and because it was Audio Only
01:18:00
there's so much more you can do when you're limited to audio because you can really like encapsulate someone in their
01:18:05
head and use sound effects in music and Transitions and yeah until like 3:00 a.m. cuz we were publishing the next day
01:18:12
we were just like oh but what if we did this here what if we did this here and we're just like sitting at our desk like yeah to be clear the episode was done
01:18:18
but we were just like goinging stuff so hard just like adding a bunch of stuff it was very fun it's very good ended up
01:18:24
with an hour Pirates which was so cool and those are
01:18:29
my stories yeah okay but what about wait can I tell this one okay okay I was I
01:18:35
was there for the whole thing we were uh I was in the kitchen uh with kitchen has a window
01:18:42
which overlooks the uh like the part of the parking lot where we have like dedicated spaces like MKBHD employees
01:18:48
only and uh there's yeah big Flex uh and Brandon on his Tesla needed a tire
01:18:55
change and uh correct me if I'm wrong Tesla owners but but Tesla will come to your car wherever it is and just change
01:19:01
your tire while you're at work or while you're in any sort of public parking so Brandon was having this service done
01:19:06
there's a Tesla Service Van uh you know sort of parked perpendicularly to the row of our cars and uh someone uh is
01:19:15
like hey look there's a little bit of smoke in the parking lot and we all look and by the time our our heads have
01:19:20
turned this Tesla Service Van not an EV gas vehicle Sprinter uh Sprinter van
01:19:26
yeah just uh popping it was popping and the smoke has turned like deep black and
01:19:32
it's clear like this is a car that is on fire um and uh it took about 20ish
01:19:39
seconds for the car to be like definitively on fire the driver hopped out was gone not not like not flee the
01:19:46
scene go went to go get someone who could deal with the get away from a car that is on fire it kept getting worse
01:19:52
and it kept getting worse and worse and this car that's on fire is like maybe three feet from marquez's like
01:19:59
brand brand new Porsche and and so lo and behold Marquez is actually in the
01:20:04
bathroom at this point and Andrew's like Marquez uh Marquez you might want to come see this Marquez comes out of the
01:20:10
bathroom and I've never seen someone cooler under it was crazy Mar marquez's hands
01:20:15
might as well have been in his pockets cuz he was just like accepted defeat it was just like well nothing I can do it
01:20:23
was like 10 ft like it it was uh and and everything was fine the car didn't explode um Tesla car
01:20:31
exploded no it didn't explode window like I know but if it had exploded the
01:20:37
row of EVS parked within feet of it would have also you know it would have been way worse but the the part of the
01:20:43
story that I think stuck in everyone's mind is the at this point in the story the car is definitively on fire like the
01:20:49
Flames are much bigger than the car the van itself yeah and the fire department has just rolled up up and this one
01:20:56
firefighter man just walks up to the flame gets what feels like inches from it and just stands there like
01:21:02
this do you know the meme of the guy at like the server rack with his like pants down a little bit like that's what the
01:21:09
firefighter I guess he was looking for something getting getting info but I had just never seen
01:21:15
anyone with more hoah than that guy in that moment I think it was cuz the fire
01:21:20
was coming from inside the sliding door like where the service happened and I assumed he saw Tesla was wondering if it
01:21:27
wasy a compressor yeah the strong the the really powerful irony of this whole
01:21:33
situation is that people are always anxious about electric cars Catching Fire because of the batteries and it
01:21:39
happened to be the gas powerered Sprinter Tesla Service Van that caught on fire because of the compressor I
01:21:46
think it might have been a Transit van not a sprinter yeah okay yeah but it was a service it was a Tesla Ser it just it
01:21:52
was really fun Ford just catching tray in this episode either way shout out to the fire
01:21:58
department because that guy they were so calm and collected like they came they're pulling out the hose and we're
01:22:04
all like what are they doing what's taking them so long and they're just taking their sweet time they like turn on to faucet and then and it's gone the
01:22:11
fire just went out immediately from my perspective I'm in the bathroom which is 10 ft from the window and I I kind of
01:22:16
just overhear like oh my God is that on fire that's the first thing I hear and I'm like so you think it's in the studio okay something on the studio on fire and
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then I I get out of the bathroom and everyone's faces are just like up against the window and there just a
01:22:30
fireball I'm like what is going on we were pretty close to the window and I think all of us we I don't think we're
01:22:36
like against it so quickly we were like we should back up until cuz this glass
01:22:41
dad mode came in a little too much maybe we all put videos on on Instagram stories and all of the replies were like
01:22:48
get away from the window yeah I'm pretty sure Adam was on the phone and I ran and like knocked on the door and he's like
01:22:54
talking to somebody I was like hang up you have to see what's happening right now I was like well I guess Brandon's
01:23:00
flat tire isn't getting fixed today it did get fix it was after the tire was fixed it the same oh it was after I think the tire was fixed the compressor
01:23:07
to inflate the tire just that was its last gas yeah yeah everyone was okay driver was
01:23:14
okay he got away he came spoke with us after perfectly fine there's still ashes in our parking lot there are and there's
01:23:20
still like some stuff melted into the parking lot too it's pretty sick it's pretty funny souvenir a lot of stuff has
01:23:26
happened in that parking lot yeah all right I got one more story um
01:23:32
we we go through a lot of airports and we kind of have like a little ritual of like going trying to pack as efficiently
01:23:38
as possible so that when we bring all of our camera gear through TSA it hopefully doesn't get stopped now when we travel
01:23:46
with a bunch of camera gear it looks like a lot like there's big cameras
01:23:51
glass dozens of kilowatt hours of battery all stacked on top of each other uh weird looking things red also went
01:23:58
through a period where they named their cameras the weapon and all sorts of other not great TSA friendly names so we
01:24:06
have a Litany of stories of like oh one time we were late to check and we had to check the bags so we just held the
01:24:11
cameras for a six star flight you remember that that was going to Canada and the um overhead compartments weren't
01:24:17
the same size where our bags are set for that so they wouldn't fit
01:24:22
yeah at least like twice yeah because that happened also where we were late
01:24:27
and they ran out of checked bags and they were like you have to check those bags and I were like oh they're full of glass I can't we can't really check them
01:24:34
we're like you have to check them so we pulled all of the glass and cameras and batteries out and like cradled them and
01:24:41
walked to the back of the plane with them put our clothes like in the camera bags threw them under and then like our bags were just full of cameras instead
01:24:47
but my favorite TSA incident was uh when we flew uh to this tiny little West Palm
01:24:53
Beach airport where we shot this video on the Lamborghini Aventador or maybe it was the Huracan I don't even remember
01:24:59
anymore we came back and as we're leaving we are basically the only people
01:25:05
in this airport and it's like pretty early in the morning and the TSA there pretty bored they don't have anything
01:25:11
else to do clearly so as we go through they're like wow look at all these crazy bags let's go through all of them and
01:25:17
they go through and check every single one of our bags and I do remember a moment where they open a camera bag and
01:25:23
they see the the the red weapon camera in there and the guy's like so what is
01:25:29
this I'm like this is a camera and he's like okay you sure about that uh do you
01:25:35
mind if like you show me that it's a camera and I so I pull the cap off and I
01:25:41
go see look that's the sensor right there it's a camera and he's like all right let me just swab that real quick I
01:25:46
was like nope never mind I'm closing that up like I'm sorry you cannot swab that it's swab the outside do anything
01:25:53
else he asked swab the actual sensor of the camera and I was like I don't think we can do that we'll drive yeah just
01:25:59
drive yeah so there was uh there's always a fun little tidbits of things that happen at TSA side note um TSA at
01:26:07
New York is pretty cool because I go through the same one so many times they kind of just know me now which is I guess fine Ellis do you remember the TSA
01:26:13
guy in Ohio there's two two TSA guys in Ohio the first one is uh with I when
01:26:20
we're traveling together I'm usually responsible for the audio suitcase which has cables microp phones not quite as threatening as the camera bag but still
01:26:26
like stuffed full of electronics and like it got flagged going through the X-ray until like serd like takes it
01:26:33
pulls it to the side puts it down and then he like on his monitor like pulls up the X-ray image which is just a mess
01:26:41
and he looks at it and I watch him go nah and just gives it back to me doesn't even open it it's just like I'm not even
01:26:47
going to deal with this right now but the other story is for people that know what a fill is or a card bounce a
01:26:55
bounce oh yeah is this is the story you're talking about yeah like the big love that bounce cards yeah and like the
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way they when they explode open so like there was a story where like like well
01:27:08
no like we were going through TSA and the guy's like can I can we check this bag we're like of course you can check this bag and he unzips it and
01:27:15
immediately this like 4 foot wide thing just goes like like if you used to have one
01:27:21
of those if you it wasn't like that it was like if you used one of those old car windshield you could scrunch up like
01:27:28
it just and the dude looked at us with just like a i it's too early for this
01:27:34
yeah he was so and those TSA things are always like it's a clear glass with a like space under it so you can slide it
01:27:41
so he's pretty much in this almost like plexiglass box and it goes down to pretty much a quarter of its size cuz
01:27:47
it's a circle that spins and then turns into four small circles packed yeah and he just opens it up and it just goes
01:27:54
and like fills the cube that he's in and then like you just see him pull it down and just looks so mad and then like
01:28:01
proceeds to look through the thing and we're just like I'm so didn't he have to like hand it back to you like you should fold it that's like the snake in the can
01:28:08
exactly it was exact also I just want to say we know we're the problem here the
01:28:14
good people at the TSA they're doing their job they they don't want people like us try we've got no other choice so
01:28:19
yeah we love you TSA yeah appreciate that was trans Orchestra um it was going to be that I
01:28:26
had a I've had a couple of like less than 24-hour California flights either for a shoot or a briefing and I remember
01:28:33
I flew out on the first flight out to SF and it was like 6:00 in the morning
01:28:38
which means everyone is like barely awake and I remember uh that flight attendant being like Oh I just like
01:28:45
shook my hand or whatever and then I was shot all day and then I was the last
01:28:51
flight out of the same airport and I walk onto the plane and it's the same
01:28:56
plane and the same flight attendant and they're like oh you're back and I'm like
01:29:03
yeah whoa it's the same day still this is crazy like they must have had a whole day and they can't yeah it was it's a
01:29:09
good time we've had lots of all hanging together all chilling I have possibly
01:29:14
one final one unless anyone else has something but I like this um we did a
01:29:20
PS5 and Xbox series X giveaway with dbr one time where we had 12 of each when
01:29:26
they just came out when they just like came out dbrand somehow acquired 12 of each 24 total and we were questions
01:29:32
don't yeah never ask questions to debrand about stuff like that and then our FedEx guy comes in and our FedEx guy
01:29:39
is the nicest sweetest guy ever he's been our FedEx guy forever I believe his
01:29:44
name is Al but he's just like always the first guy in the morning dropping stuff off you guys have a great day you to
01:29:51
like awesome and he just so happens that he like kind of knows what we do um he
01:29:57
shows up with this cart full of these huge boxes and I mean like a stack of
01:30:03
them and he's like he comes up and he starts helping us unload them and he just goes man those new ps5s are so hard
01:30:11
to find I'm really trying to get one for my son and nowhere we could get one and we realize he's unloading 12 ps5s into
01:30:19
our like studio and he doesn't know their ps5s cuz they're not from Sony they're from
01:30:25
cardboard boxes I felt so bad about I almost wanted to be like take one take
01:30:30
just don't tell us well just debr can Market as lost just leave one on your car but I hope you found your PS5 that
01:30:38
was a few years ago but I've always felt bad about that because our FedEx guy is awesome they put them all under the
01:30:44
Christmas tree and gave them all away and gave them away yeah well that was a fun time I hope uh I hope you guys
01:30:49
enjoyed we have I'm sure we'll have we have many more stories these are just the ones that we picked out that were fun but if you enjoyed this bonus
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episode maybe we'll do another story time bonus episode in the future um but
01:31:01
yeah until then that's been a it's been a fun Tuesday thanks for hanging out catch you guys later see you Friday see
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can I tell one quick final story I want to tell the the lady that said about the
01:31:48
internet okay I have to tell this one final story I'm sorry I don't remember this wait was this not in the video no
01:31:54
it wasn't cuz we stopped recording literally directly before we started talking to her okay okay so there was
01:32:00
this there's this episode there's a two episode series that we did uh it was I can in the secret history of the
01:32:06
internet and it was oh no it was I can in the seven keys of the internet and the secret history of the internet
01:32:11
two-part series for the I can and the Seven Keys of the internet episode we drove to Virginia to take place in a key
01:32:18
signing key ceremony to engage in the signing of the security keys that
01:32:25
maintain the internet with I can very cool series of episodes go watch them anyway we were like vlogging the whole
01:32:31
time because we made a studio video about it um and so we were taking video
01:32:36
we got to our hotel the night before middle of nowhere Virginia like absolute middle of nowhere and we walk in and
01:32:42
we're like we're vlogging a little bit we're like oh there's only one person at the front desk cuz we got there at like
01:32:48
10: p.m. and we're like all right we should probably just start vlogging stop vlogging so we get there and she goes
01:32:53
well y'all here for and I jokingly say oh we're here to save the internet and she point blank is just like oh the
01:33:01
internet my daughter uses that sometimes yeah she loves she loves that and I was
01:33:08
like not even joking and I was like yeah yeah think we're talking about the
01:33:13
same thing yeah Tik Tok is the internet right and I was like holy moly while
01:33:18
she's typing on her computer about our room number and everything local land baby
01:33:24
land anyway that was that was super funny I'm sure we have other and there's
01:33:29
some other stuff from that trip like when we're driving up to the like security building there's just like more
01:33:35
and more often there's these signs that just say like stop filming seriously if you have a camera you cannot film here
01:33:41
like stop filming and we're filming the whole time we're like should we stop filming so we did but it was uh yeah
01:33:47
that was fun trip dude no you forgot the the coolest part about that that part where like more and more stop filming
01:33:52
like seriously stop filming like if you are filming you're you're done bro and then we like get there and we do all the
01:33:58
crazy spy stuff like retina scanners fingerprint scanners cages that have thermal sensors and will only open when
01:34:05
two or more people are in there at the same time to prevent solit like all sorts of stuff finally we get through
01:34:11
the last security measure and we're in like the the ceremony room and they're like you can film now and we like wait
01:34:19
now we can film they're like oh no one's getting in here
01:34:25
yeah it was like we don't want to show how to get in here but once you're in here once you're in here I'd like to see
01:34:30
you're in cage bro wow yeah film anything you want they would literally like film anything you want that's awesome it was crazy
