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all right welcome back people of the internet to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts i'm marquez and i'm andrew and today's
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episode i i would say this is one of our more chaotic random for sure episodes off the wall a bunch of topics but we're
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going to talk about samsung's new studio display competitor type thing we're going to talk about spotify and how
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maybe there's a little bit of gaming the system happening yeah and also uh maybe a really weird futuristic dyson gadget
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that shouldn't actually exist we're all in the same conversation we got a bunch to talk
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about but first some content yeah content everyone loves content we made some content this week we made some
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content i i'm really happy with them um though what do you which one should we start with the uh the ev video yeah we
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might as well i mean because a lot of it some of it stems from conversations we've had on the podcast like we had
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that atlas rant before we talk about evs all the time here and like almost every time we talk about evs
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there's some sort of question of like when will this come out will this be able to do this thing it promises and yeah yeah we kind of had
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that conversation it probably was like two weeks ago or something like that but really we've reworked the the video so
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many times i was trying to figure out the the what the real problem is like is the problem that they're too expensive
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is there's a problem that they're unreliable what is the problem with these pre-orders are they real are they real that's one problem that's one
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problem but basically for me it came down to the gap between when you put
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your money down and commit and when you're actually going to get the thing is so massive that the commitment
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doesn't mean anything anymore so you can put down you know a hundred a thousand dollars or whatever for an ev
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and they'll say it's coming out in a year and that product you're gonna get is probably not coming out in a year
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probably not coming out at the same price you reserved it for and probably not going to be the same product that you actually reserved
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it's a it's a very loose reservation and i mentioned in the video sony has
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been getting better at unveiling phones and then shipping them quickly their latest one was i think in
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less than six months i think it was like four months but that was that was such a big problem
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for them because you know apple think about it apple does the iphone event it's like clockwork every year it's on
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stage they go pre-orders will begin this day on friday and they'll start shipping the next day and within like nine days
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everyone's getting their boxes from ups the hype doesn't have time to die yeah they just ride that wave same thing with
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all the other big ones and if there's enough time in between when you put your money down and when it
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comes out for other options to pop up and for other things to change then
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it almost feels like the point is lost so that that gap and you know there are people who are willing to wait
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especially in the high-end car business people will sometimes see an announcement car and go yeah i want that
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and they'll order it and i know they won't get it for a year or two so that's real sometimes in cars but it's getting kind of crazy for every electric car
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from everyone to have such a massive gap so that's that's what the video came down to yeah and it's really good and
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you and david have spent weeks just going back and forth you said you restructured this a bunch david's done a
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ton of research on different things and it felt like a video from the side of hearing you guys write
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it it was just kind of like oh this this video is working along oh did you see this company did you see
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it's like they have the same guy from this company before and that they're promising this and that and just like it
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felt like every day you guys were finding something new that was just really strange and
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i mean sketchy seems to be one way a lot of these companies work sketchy to the consumer i guess as as a consumer who
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doesn't understand the how to build a full business which is most of us listening there's a lot of weird things going on
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and i think you guys did a really good job at bringing that all into one video and and getting a quick overview of a lot of
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different companies yeah it's also funny because there's so many things that we see now in the world of like investing
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where yeah when i was in school we didn't learn about investing like we it just wasn't a subject taught in school i
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went through all of school never being formally instructed on what that meant and investing what five years ago would
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have been way different than investing right now because investing's a lot different right it's everywhere
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now there's like everyone knows what crypto is already everyone views all of these new coins and things as
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investments like nothing is this company that's founded on your ability to like crowdsource and invest in their future
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and so investing is like actually mainstream at this point and so
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to me it feels kind of funny that the the ev companies are all doing this startup
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thing where some of them want your money so they can give you a car but some of them seem like they're just trying to be
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a good investment and a lot of people just look at it as an investment for the amount of research i did on
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lordstown motors it is unbelievable to me that people still think that it's a
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good investment the company doesn't do anything they don't ship anything they'll parade
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things around like they're going to but they don't and people still think it's a good investment they think oh yeah this
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company's gonna 10x in a year there's no no doubt i should put my money here that that was the wildest part to me was how
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many weird investment angles you could find about these new electric car startup companies yeah i'm going to assume all
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the hate comments on a youtube video are directed at you because you're the one saying it's worth it yeah i mean do you
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think lordstown is watching no comment not it's just not um but you know that's i think that
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video is worth watching for sure for sure um and we did another one on the studio channel our second third channel
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whatever you want to call if you're including the waveform podcast um we've been toying around with this idea and it
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kind of started with deva david's leica video we're calling it bitrate it's kind of a
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review shorter review based it's genius yeah because i think it's is a very good name it is
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based on the people around the studio can pick an item that they're passionate about and one that won't get reviewed on
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the main channel and do a little review since it's called bitrate it's a score eight out of eight out of eight it's
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perfect this new one is about the analog pocket i believe it's called right um
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everyone's favorite adam molina did it came out really really good really interested nostalgic for sure hold on
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i've been seeing you guys have like way too much fun with this thing for the last couple weeks to the point where like i never wanted to use it and i like
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i didn't have that retro you know how there's like a little part of your brain that just sees the nostalgic bit and
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just wants to use it i never use the gameboy so that never connected for me yeah but it looked like so much fun
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that i just i had to check it out so the video did a good job of showing all the things the pocket can do it also makes it look like adam comes in every day and
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lays on the couch and plays pokemon just chills yeah i loved it um there is one minor correction i saw in the video
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towards it which was we mentioned the saving process that was actually because the game cartridge was
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old and the battery was dead inside the cartridge so it would have been able to save just normally because you're just playing the game adam just found a
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different way to save it through the console itself seems like most cartridges will be old i think so
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but i'm sure there's a whole world i know there's a world out there
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that's still using these old-school like gaming systems and i'm sure um there are plenty that are still out there or how
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to fix them um but definitely suggest that studio channel analog bitrate adam
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molina all the buzzwords you've ever wanted to hear bitrate is such a good name it's so good it's so good like we
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pride ourselves on our names like let's be real autofocus is an incredible name for a series and i think bitrate is
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right up there and then i have one other piece of content that dives into a story that the
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just buckle up we're about to talk about a lot of random things here for a couple
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minutes okay cool with you yeah um piece of content that is not ours that i
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consumed recently that i really liked um reply all we've talked about in a million times on this podcast i think
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both of our favorite podcasts um they've been kind of on a hiatus for a little bit but they came back they had
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two really good super tech support episodes which is generally the hosts of the show trying to figure out weird
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little tech mishaps that callers have with like weird hidden solutions very weird it's a
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fun format i like it um but one of the newest ones episode 183 we'll post in the show notes without
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spoiling it essentially the host emmanuel has a caller come in whose spotify rapt has a an artist that she's
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never heard of before it's second on our list and it's just this like totally underground
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no one knows artist and it's very strange why it's up there but the reason i connected so much with
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it is because it talked a lot about how people game spotify because spotify is a way to make money it is a way to get
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um like acknowledgement as an artist or a producer or something like that and
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through this episode the the main culprit of the whole thing does a lot of different things to game
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spotify and it's really really interesting game spotify interesting yeah i mean i always find social media
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kind of like gaming or hacking or whatever you want to call it really interesting i think for the most part it never works out how you really want it
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to but i do find looking at different ways to manipulate like instagram or twitter youtube really
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interesting and for some reason spotify's never like been a platform to me that i thought a
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lot of people would game because i'm not in the music world that much but it totally is and i've made
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this connection now to something that i've complained about on twitter a bunch and then to also something that i've
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noticed recently and all of them kind of connected together so i'm gonna do a small story time here that's probably
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just going to make me look like the charlie day sunny and philadelphia meme of like connecting all the right
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that's red strings so at the office you have a spotify playlist right the mkbhd1 i do and it is
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just basically all the songs that we put in videos that exactly is what it is i just anytime there's a new song that we
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use in an intro or in a video and it is available on spotify i just drag that into the playlist it's probably about 40
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songs and you and i since i i handle the public email address you handle your
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email address get a lot of emails begging to be put on that playlist right
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yep yeah i get a lot of people emailing me specifically saying hey i am an artist i've made these songs here's the
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mp3s they're not just saying hey feel free to use them if you want they're saying hey please
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use this song and give it credit and here's the link and also can you put it on your playlist
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and put it in the spotify playlist which like to me always thought it was more along the lines of i want these songs in
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your videos like you said but i'm thinking it's more they they're gunning more for the playlist and that's
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something that happened in this episode and something that i discovered a few months ago where i was climbing
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i was trying to think of some music i wanted to listen to i had an old playlist i had saved which was just the
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tony hawk pro skater playlist um which is like that's a game i'm sure there's a lot of people that know the game it's
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known for having like a phenomenal soundtrack like very early 2000s pop
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punk we should like rock soundtracks there's some really good ones we would get destroyed because i
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mean some of the games but i'm a huge fan of some of the need for speed and nba 2k central that's right okay
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tony hawk is very well known as like indie grunge metal like all that kind of fun stuff oh there's a lot of rap also
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um and i was listening to it and i've listened to it a bunch of times before and it starts off with the very
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you're not gonna know these songs but um if you play tony hawk you'll understand superman number one superman my
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goldfinger is like the most popular song from tony pro skater easy um euro
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barrage like the very common ones i think you've got about five songs in then i noticed as i was listening to it
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i didn't recognize a song whatever get to the next one didn't recognize the song so i started having
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this like weird what's going on with this playlist were these just there's like 20 tony hawk
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games maybe it was from later ones and i just didn't notice but it was just song after song that i didn't know that i didn't
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know that i didn't know and eventually looking at the soundtrack i realized it's not an official or
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playlist sorry it's not an official playlist it's a user made playlist that got really popular because of how
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popular the tony hawk pro skater soundtrack is and it just had i think i counted it i went back and
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counted it today between the songs that are actually on the playlist because it goes in order
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from tony hawk one there are 50 songs that are not actually on tony hawk pro
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skater it goes one through five on the soundtrack to get you into it and then it's 50 songs that are not on it and
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then goes back into the actual soundtrack oh really okay so that's what you mean by gaming spotify so i think
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this was a super popular playlist that started getting contact and getting paid
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to put smaller level production companies or smaller level artists
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songs onto the soundtrack just to kind of like essentially trick people into listening to it yep um i'm
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sure their reasoning for it was like oh well it's just in there and maybe you'll listen to it maybe you'll like it and then people start playing it but i think
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it's just to artificially game the numbers and to look better and i don't know how spotify adsense or whatever
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works or payments but it clearly feels like that and now these playlist owners are taking full advantage of it
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right that is so interesting okay so i know i'm trying to think of how this would go on youtube because youtube's
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algorithms are so advanced that if you were to shove in a random video in a playlist
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from a show yeah and you got episode one two and three and then a random video that got paid to that paid to be there
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and then episode four everyone would skip that video so fast and they would all hate that it's there and they would
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all like dislike the video but you'd get the well dislikes don't matter now yeah they don't matter now but you you would
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get the clicks and you would theoretically get a little maybe a pre-roll ad revenue something like that if somebody left auto play on and didn't
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realize what was happening for 30 seconds um but it wouldn't would get the view count though you
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yeah theoretically i don't know exactly how a view is counted nobody does but you would probably get more views from
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being in that popular playlist but that sort of reputation risk for the
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person who made the playlist is pretty solid we're on spotify if i just want to find like a video game soundtrack i'm
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sure i've done this before in like random albums or something where i'm searching on spotify i don't know exactly what it's called but i search
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something i find someone made a playlist and it's close enough so i just click it and it it has all the songs that i wanted i
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get very happy about that but then if it's if it's not what i wanted i just ignore it and i never think about
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disliking it yeah or leaving a comment about how it's the wrong song or something like that so it's a little
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it's different from youtube but it is fascinating when people just do that so i also wonder if potentially these are
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pr marketing agencies that are telling small production companies or artists like hey we can increase your view your
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listen count and then this is the kind of shady way that they're increasing that and then all the the artist sees
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his artificial numbers that they don't know how that's happening yeah so if i was there if i was trying to do this
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smartly i would at least try to get this random underground song
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into a playlist of similar sounding music yes so if you got the tony hawk pro skater
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music i would want something in that same genre for sure so if somebody is listening and they realize they got to
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the end of the first game and there's a new song it's like oh maybe it's just going on radio or something yeah yeah and it's still enjoyable maybe i think i
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think that would work i also would do you don't bunch all of them up together you play
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four songs from the playlist that people know and like throw one in and then go straight back to the playlist and then throw another end but
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i mean to be fair a lot of these playlist creators probably made them for fun to start
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and then got a bunch of offers and are like i'm just gonna cash out and get as much money as i can right now and
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ruin a perfectly good place ruin a good playlist if anyone knows a different tony hawk pro skater one through four
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playlist please link me that actually has it because it is phenomenal and i'd like to listen to it more often yeah
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like i guess there's like maybe two types of spotify playlists that i search for one is an unofficial themed playlist
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and the other is like an official like that has some sort of a requirement to be in the playlist like if i search for
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like the best of the daft punk hits i do not want to hear a non-daft punk song
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i better not hear a random song in my daft punk listening experience as i
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go through the top 30 songs i've ever made so if it's a but if it's a random like best of the 90s playlist then i
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could see any random song with that vibe being in there even if it's not from the 90s you know what i mean so there's like
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there's leniency for certain playlists to do it the one you found seems like it shouldn't have done that
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it should just stick to the theme but like you said if you're the uploader of or the creator of that playlist what
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do you have to lose just toss it it doesn't matter to you yeah you can make it again it's a shame but i don't know i
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hope that story didn't go on too long i thought it was really fascinating for the record i will never put songs in the
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mkbhd playlist that i don't actually use in a video i would love if everybody's sending us
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those emails we're listening right now because i'm really tired of deleting like five emails a day asking to be put
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onto the playlist flip it as an email signature email signature all right thanks for uh taking that
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journey with me i hope it was interesting i thought it was kind of fascinating and i just it feels like i finally have an answer
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to it um yeah which is a sad answer because i want my tony awful skater to soundtrack back but um anyways
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we'll link the reply all episode in the show notes and let's take a quick break and when we
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come back samsung's studio display competitor [Music]
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all right welcome back let's talk products named m8 okay i don't know all of them yep first of all right now it's
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funny because i just thought of this there's a there's other products there's the htc one m8 i really like that phone there's also uh
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re makes the lights that we've used all over the studio and one of the really big bright hmis they have like the m4
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and the m5 and the m6 we have an m8 yeah basically like the sun yeah there's like an m20 and an m40 and they're gigantic
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but we have an m8 but the m8 that we don't have is the one that samsung just announced there's a new monitor they've
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had their m series displays for a while it's called the uh well let's just look at the name right quick it's called the 4k smart
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monitor with streaming tv and slim fit camera included blue but the point of bringing
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this one up is this monitors bait this monitor is bait it's bait to
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compare it to the studio display even though it's a very different display it's fascinating like you just look at
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it and you can't think that this doesn't look exactly like the studio display slash imac yeah like okay here's how i
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would describe it this is this is how you're going to talk about it if you are going to compare to the studios play this is a slim bezeled 32 inch 4k
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monitor with a stand that looks just like an imac like exactly like an imac
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it's a it's a 4k resolution it has a built-in set of speakers it has a webcam
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at the top with face tracking and auto framing to follow your face around a frame
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and it has a chip built in so it can do smart tv features and it's 729 we should
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have started this uh segment with just listing it off and then everyone would be picturing the studio display and then
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you would say it has bixby and then everyone has it has bixby do you think it was a big
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speed button i hope not i hope not to no way um but yeah it is like if you're trying to picture what this
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looks like because you haven't seen it yet imagine oh easy studio display the stand exactly with the colors of the
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imac and then like a little like periscope pointing over the top because the webcam's not built into the bezel it's
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literally like clipped onto the back right yeah it pops out over the top um but in reality this is a very
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different display than the studio display studio display obviously we've talked about it at length on this
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podcast but just a quick refresher it's a 5k display made by apple built in ultra wide webcam with face tracking
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called center stage built-in speakers and of course this metal body this
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400 extra dollar height adjustable stand and it costs 1 600
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starting um 500 nits 5k that's that's one of the more like niche specs about
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it this display being 730 dollars it's funny some people look at it and go see
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why would i ever buy a studio display when i can get this which is basically
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the same thing and works perfectly with my pc and is bigger for four 700 less almost half the price
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yeah less that's 900 less dollars yeah why would i get the studio display the other half are going
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how on earth are you comparing this this crappy 400 4k like low brightness
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monitor to the studio display they are nothing alike so i just this monitors bait it's
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so funny that by the way it was announced before the studio display came out they just finally yeah this is just
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coming on sale now yeah so all the comments are naturally like people arguing about how they copied the studio
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display and then people who have seen this pre-order go this came out before the studio display at least it was
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announced i actually didn't know that yeah so this is a like i said it's it's bait it's hilarious it is though hard to
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not i mean it's hard not to compare it a little bit it's obviously going to run comparisons the thing to me is the
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colors are like almost the exact imac colors so like to me this almost felt more like a monitor
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trying to replicate the imac the like regular imac the colorful one yeah that is just a monitor instead but it does
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have speakers and a webcam um there's also like to me and maybe i'm getting ahead of us
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a little here with it the smart tv feature aspect of it feels kind of weird and i know you and adam disagreed with
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me on this um i don't know why it has smart tv capabilities it has an ir sensor at
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the bottom that i think looks really bad it kind of looks like an sd card slot but it's not and then
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to me a smart tv is just like a way that your tv can have the internet but this is a
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monitor so it's probably already connected to the internet and therefore
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i feel like it kind of already is a smart tv easy people people double up their tv and their monitor they use it
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as a monitor at their desk and then they walk across their apartment and lie down on the couch and use the remote to use it as a tv i'm
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just trying yeah i don't know i've i am someone who has been like
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the laziest dorm room or like college apartment liver before and i've never been in this
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position where i've like used my computer monitor as a tv actually i think i did do this i mean i didn't
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really watch much tv but i would full screen uh like a long 30 minute youtube video and like sit 15
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feet away on my bed instead of on the chair which is like how i watch a movie so if you have a couch though that means
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your couch is pointing at your desk well i didn't have a couch in that room so yeah it had there's a separate room
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with a couch but yeah in this case it was like kind of nice that i could have the smart usb ui it is 32 inches which
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is nice yeah i guess it like could do that in a dorm room if you just have a bed and your desk
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that would probably work i don't see a lot of people getting this for a dorm room because it's still a 700 monitor
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and you can buy way cheaper and most people in i think the reason is when i was in college i had a laptop so if i wanted to
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do that i could put my laptop wherever i wanted and that was yeah the tv if i needed it yeah you know there's a lot of
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different use cases this is obviously something you can choose to get or there are other options that'll do similar
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things but yeah it's definitely a fun one your point on the colors is super on point like i'm looking at the imac
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colors right now yeah there's a black and a white imac and then there is a pastel green pastel blue and pastel pink
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and then you look at this one and there's a pastel green a pastel blue and a pastel pink yeah i i don't know what
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the deal is with pastel for the past couple years but a lot of companies have been using it and this is no exception
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it just looks very much like an imac now especially from the side it has a chin that replicates the colors it has a
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stand that is exactly the same which is like a nice rectangular
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thick stand with like a cut out in the middle like but but it's height adjustable
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it it is though i have not tried this
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i give apple despite it being expensive credit for their height adjustability is
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insanely smooth and just a good experience this is a sliding one which i've seen a lot of other monitors
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including the ultra fine uh 5k yeah in general they're not that great but i
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also don't care because when i'm usually adjusting a monitor i just do it it's once and it's pretty much over or i have
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an arm for it because it's in a position where i'd like to move it a lot and therefore even just up and down doesn't really
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help that that much so it's very different yeah this monitor samsung i i have no doubt somebody's goal as samsung
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was like yeah we're gonna get more people to talk about this if we make it look like this so you know what to
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whoever that is at samsung watching this congrats mission accomplished this monitor was bait and we bit you're
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welcome you're welcome and they're they're really the whole release aspect of it though was perfectly built whether they
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meant to do it or not because it looks like it was probably copying more along of the imac and when i say copying
00:26:30
if you look back at the m7 it looks nothing like this yeah very different funnily enough it looks more like the lg
00:26:36
ultra fine it looked like a normal monitor yeah it looked totally normal this is completely different from what
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the previous model was and it looks way more like an imac the fact that the studio monitor came out before this and
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then this came out right after probably increased the hype on this because now it's getting compared to the most talked
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about computer monitor in the tech world right now that's funny yeah um so i doubt you tried to do this on purpose
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samsung but you nailed it yeah well well played do you think we're gonna give it a shot
00:27:07
should i get one you're saying um i don't really think we need to i mean if there's a if there's enough requests and people really want to know
00:27:13
if they should get this one then i'll check it out but i don't know if there's any extra need for evaluation it's it's
00:27:19
probably gonna be pretty decent it's seven hundred dollars yeah but and even at seven hundred dollars though computer monitors are cheap these days
00:27:26
yeah you got some nice monitors for far less the m7 is 300 bucks right now
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at 4k smart tv also right yep you just don't get it to pretend it's an imac big
00:27:37
selling point um one more quick story here i just want to talk about because i saw a lot about it on twitter and a
00:27:43
little disclaimer here i'm sure you all know you've told me in the comments many times that neither of us are really
00:27:49
console gamers or like hardcore console gamers so we don't use these a lot you play console games for sure yeah i am if
00:27:56
you if i game anything at all it's on the console but you're not like glued to your actual sharks or places there are a lot of people out there
00:28:02
you're not you don't use any like of like subscription services to play a bunch of games right you're pretty locked into your couple games okay yeah
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um so disclaimer we were talking about this from a tech standpoint not a
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intense console gamer standpoint um but playstation came out with what a lot of
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people are calling a game pass competitor and i think a lot of people are interested in this because the way xbox is
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i don't want to say stayed relevant but has stayed close to the hype of playstation because we all know in terms
00:28:32
of consoles playstation is winning the hype battle there xbox has done a really good job with
00:28:38
their game pass connecting it to pc getting a lot of day one content like it
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is a really really awesome and almost not necessarily but really really good way to
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get the best out of your xbox so the fact that playstation potentially is coming out with something that people
00:28:54
are comparing maybe unfairly so like the studio display to the m8
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um people want to know about it and it's getting a lot of hype so i have a really quick run down here super basic
00:29:06
understanding just if you've seen it and you kind of want to know about it essentially playstation they have playstation plus already but they're
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kind of breaking it up into three tiers going forward and that is going to have all sorts of
00:29:19
different things with it right now uh the three different ones are playstation essential which is their basic tier two
00:29:25
monthly downloads a couple discounts cloud storage online multiplayer accents that's kind of the base of it then you
00:29:31
get playstation plus extra we don't know prices um i have i don't want to list every single
00:29:36
price because it's like they have prices monthly one thing they're doing cool here is they have like monthly quarterly
00:29:42
and yearly prices okay um i believe essentials starts around 12
00:29:47
a month okay um but they do a really good discount yearly and i have the comparison to game pass yearly here um
00:29:54
playstation plus extra you get basically everything from essential but you also get 400 ps4 and 4 and ps5 games
00:30:02
and it does include some really popular games like spider-man miles morales but not all of the huge ones which like one
00:30:09
very specific one a lot of people talking about are like god of war ragnarok is coming out soon and they've already said that day one of release
00:30:15
that will not be available on any of these playstation passes or subscription bases and then there's playstation plus
00:30:22
preview premium which is 340 more games and it includes a bunch of older older
00:30:28
games like ps1 ps2 ps3 and even psp titles which is kind of cool something
00:30:33
kind of similar nintendo switch has been doing all the psp the psp that was ahead
00:30:39
of his time i didn't play one i always wanted one really bad yeah
00:30:44
funny enough my mother-in-law found a psp game in their house recently
00:30:49
and was like i don't know if you'd like to play this and handed it to me and i was like thank you yeah this is really sweet i
00:30:55
don't have a psp and it says copyright 2002 on the back yeah i remember this it
00:31:01
was quite a while ago and i do remember people having it in school wow it was kind of cool
00:31:06
i mean we got steam deck in the switch and everything now but where is it where's the psp looked like the new psp yeah i should
00:31:13
make another one big screen past the game boy it was more of like console gaming in your hands
00:31:19
side tracking but yeah that was actually super cool yeah it was neat i yeah i always wanted one but i never had one
00:31:26
let's buy one um that's the really really quick overview of it there's not too much behind it
00:31:33
there are a lot of cool things if you want to play old games and for nostalgic aspects of it but it's not going to include day one releases which is
00:31:40
something that game pass is doing really really well with all their first party stuff yeah that's tough like financially
00:31:45
like to make that work it's always a question like if we're subscriptionifying everything yep that
00:31:51
is always gonna hit the day one release because you know how we used to pay a dollar for every song if you were a big
00:31:56
artist and you were gonna drop a new song on itunes you wanted as many people to buy your song as possible you can get
00:32:01
a cut of that but now you drop your song and it's just streaming and it's just whoever's subscribed can stream it and
00:32:07
you get your cut of the streaming revenue and that's kind of the same as what's happening to these these game developers
00:32:13
development studios which is yeah do you want to be dropping day one for 90 bucks
00:32:18
or do you want to be just looped into the streaming thing i think for your your own revenue you want to be dropping day one for 90 bucks still and that's
00:32:25
what a lot of people are assuming so playstation itself is focusing far more on that it seems like sony is focusing
00:32:32
on that they still want that to be a thing because that is clearly a huge revenue builder
00:32:37
sony has a lot of those games that are insanely hyped that drop those days and have millions of pre-orders probably um
00:32:44
so this just feels more like a small upgrade to their
00:32:49
subscription service which at the same time sony also wants a cut of that that
00:32:55
sweet sweet subscription service that you're gonna forget about and pay every month even the months you're completely
00:33:00
forgetting you have it and you're playing god of war ragnarok for four months in a row instead um so
00:33:07
i guess if you're looking at these they haven't released all the games that are going to be available but if you see a bunch of
00:33:12
games in there that you really like probably a good deal if not probably best to just buy the games you want um
00:33:18
pricing real quick i have for a year 120 bucks a year for playstation because
00:33:24
they give a really awesome discount if you buy yearly and 180 for xbox game
00:33:29
pass but again i don't think they're comparable you're getting halo you're getting all that really good stuff with
00:33:34
game pass right away and you're not with playstation yeah even for someone like me who only plays maybe four games a
00:33:41
year on console it's still gonna just be more economical to just buy one game at
00:33:46
a time but there's a lot of people who this is this is gonna make a lot of sense for so that's why they're introducing it yeah a lot of people who
00:33:53
are going to want to play some old playstation 1 games like crash bandicoot or something maybe if it's on there that would be awesome esp
00:34:01
the psp it's kind of cool too so they don't have to spend all the money to make it like totally backwards
00:34:07
compatible it's actually streaming those games online playing on it so i'm guessing kind of
00:34:12
like a i don't know exactly but kind of like geforce now or something like that so a really easy way to give people
00:34:18
access to a bunch of old games and most people will probably buy that so they can play an old metal gear solid or something
00:34:25
like that for like two days to remember yeah and then realize the graphics are terrible and that they don't like it
00:34:30
anymore but you got the kick right all right well we got to take a break but we're going to come back and talk
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about dyson doing the opposite of what they're supposed to do be right back
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[Music] all right welcome back so there's a couple home tech products
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that i really like in my life yeah in my home and there's not a whole lot to talk
00:34:56
about uh the nest cameras are great my nest thermostat is one of my favorite things yes the june oven major props
00:35:03
i've had that thing for years it's killer and my dyson vacuum barely counts as a
00:35:09
tech product but it counts has an on button has an on button has a really impressive motor in it
00:35:15
because dyson makes amazing motors and dyson knows that they make a great vacuum and
00:35:20
then they got their head really big and they started making other things with motors in them yeah that aren't as good
00:35:26
as a vacuum so i guess the latest generation the latest development here now here's the little
00:35:33
triple asterisk disclaimer this episode comes out on april fool's day
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but we're recording this before april fool's day and as of right now we have no reason to
00:35:44
believe that this is an april fool's day project but it totally should be i don't think it is
00:35:50
but yes you're right holy it should be i think i've already seen a video of in sam sheffer's hand so this is not
00:35:56
yeah fake yeah it's it exists somewhere so this is called the dyson uh air purifier what does it actually call it
00:36:04
air purifier air purifying headphones the dyson zone air purifying headphones
00:36:09
and the reason it's called the zone is because you put it on and it's got these tiny dyson motors in
00:36:16
it which they're really good at and those motors are spinning fans that will help
00:36:22
air around you pass over your nose and mouth quickly to keep it purified and
00:36:28
pass it through a filter and all sorts of things like that so you will you will have your own little bubble of
00:36:34
pure air yeah essentially what it is is it's a pair of noise cancelling headphones that
00:36:40
they say also cancels out like pollution and
00:36:45
propellants around you i guess and it's just a pair of gigantic headphones i mean like twice as deep because if you
00:36:52
pop off the outside of each ear cup there's a small filter inside it then
00:36:57
the dyson motor and then essentially what you do is you grab this piece that kind of looks like another band on top of the
00:37:04
headphones magnetically connected to the ear cups and then it goes over your mouth and so
00:37:09
it's going to pull the air in through your ears or your ear cups go through the filter push it through
00:37:16
the mask though like whatever you want the bane mask the
00:37:22
yeah whatever you want to call it and then blow air into your face that's purified essentially creating this kind of um
00:37:31
air air bubble i guess pressurized air purified pressurized air around your
00:37:36
face and um wait it's interesting is there a price for this i don't that's that's going to
00:37:42
be my hint is if this actually gets a price tag then it might not be an april fools i think this is
00:37:47
i do think this is real there's a really good twitter thread by naomi wu who talks a lot about it and it was
00:37:54
hilarious and really eye-opening as well um we'll link it in the show notes you should definitely look at it because
00:38:00
there's a lot of really good information but this got patented actually around 2016
00:38:05
or their first design patents for it were around 2016. so pretty sure it's real or else the most
00:38:11
intense april fool's joke but the the thing about it is which is really funny
00:38:16
and really interesting um you can tell this was created pre-covered where they're focusing way
00:38:23
more on pollution and air quality to to help that because
00:38:29
this mask that goes in front of you isn't creating a seal it's not it's got space around it and it's just
00:38:35
hoping that the air pushing out is is what you're breathing in and then deflecting any other air from coming in
00:38:42
i guess yeah now the issue with that is pre-covered we weren't so worried about airborne pathogens which now
00:38:49
this machine and what naomi calls is the snot cannon is essentially just blowing air into
00:38:56
your face and now blowing all the air you breathe out whatever you exhale gets blown everywhere even further than you
00:39:03
were already nice doing it so you have your own personal super spreader she literally calls it the mobile super
00:39:09
spreader event like it is it is insane so wow and it makes so much
00:39:14
sense because do you know those dyson or does it make sense but i'm not surprised by this do you know those dyson hand
00:39:20
dryers in the bathroom yeah so like if somehow you're not familiar with this
00:39:26
air dryers in the bathroom so you don't use paper towels reducing waste dyson started making one which was essentially a u-shaped
00:39:33
where you stick your hands in the top of the u and on both sides it has an air stream that pushes out really hard so when
00:39:39
you've got water you can push your hands down and basically feel the water push straight off your hands problem is a u
00:39:46
isn't it's a cup open up it's a cup so now all of this nasty bathroom water that you have here in your hands is
00:39:52
getting blown into this stagnant pool at the bottom and now every time
00:39:57
the next person puts their hands in the air is just shooting down and now spraying this they're disgusting that's
00:40:04
pretty good dyson is really good at making bad products outside of their
00:40:10
vacuums dyson look dyson to me though every time i see a new dyson
00:40:15
product i always think the same thing which is dyson is a bunch of people in a room where they're like guys we make the
00:40:21
best motors anywhere we just need to find things that need motors and put our
00:40:26
motors in the thing so what needs a motor okay a hair dryer because it's got to blow a fan we make the best hair
00:40:32
dryer in the world it's several hundred dollars we make a we make a bladeless fan because we have this cool design and
00:40:39
these super high rpm motors and then didn't we see rumors of like well electric cars need motors don't they oh
00:40:45
i haven't seen that rumor there is a rumor that dyson might make a car for some reason because they make these
00:40:51
great motors and now they've made this they've made this thing like what if we push air through a filter with our
00:40:57
amazing motor technology dyson psa you make good motors probably just chill on
00:41:02
the things yeah like the vacuums are great you can keep doing that even the fan and the
00:41:08
hairdryer that's just a fan inside the base of it yeah pushing air into tunnels
00:41:14
that look like where a fan should be but now but it's bladeless it's really smart because those are really powerful motors
00:41:19
and those things real fast and they they make a very a really cool impression because it seems
00:41:25
to be pushing air out with no blades and people love that so they've got some clever ideas
00:41:30
this i am i'm gonna put my foot in the april fool's day camp on this one
00:41:36
really there is no price i looked it up i'm clicking through i'm looking at all the info on the page and they just have a sign up page that just says find out
00:41:43
when the latest dyson technology becomes available to purchase and you put in your email your first and last name and
00:41:48
a zip code and submit and i better not get an email about how like this is available to purchase i
00:41:54
better get an email on april fool's day saying gotcha this is a joke but also like remember dyson we make cool motors
00:42:00
and stuff but that's also sort of thrown off by the fact that this idea was patented like five years ago yeah and
00:42:06
there's like a lot of promotional material they have like i mean i know people have gone intense for april
00:42:12
fool's day but like they have like a guy standing in a train with the sun like they have promotional material for this
00:42:18
it looks insane even if you were just wearing these headphones they're like three times the thickness of the ear
00:42:24
cups of a regular headphones imagine our audio technique is coming out like four more inches huge it's crazy and then i
00:42:31
wonder how it sounds to someone next to somebody wearing this how do you think it sounds in the ear cup to also have a
00:42:36
motor running a fan right behind the driver of the music probably sounds like you have a tiny vacuum cleaner on on
00:42:42
your head i guess and the best part is it's is it noise canceling because it's actively noise canceling the outsider
00:42:47
because the motor's so loud you can't hear the outside you have to cancel the wind of the motors um this is either a slightly harmful
00:42:54
april fool's day project or a potentially very harmful real product and i'm rooting for the first one but i
00:43:01
mean in that case yes i'm rooting for the first one wow um the the the snot
00:43:06
cannon yeah i appreciate that a lot well i guess this is your this is your uh
00:43:12
your annual reminder to not take the headlines you see today too seriously and april fool's day is a
00:43:18
fun time it's kind of come back after the past couple years of uh not wanting to do it in 2020 so we've got april
00:43:25
fool's day stuff happening and maybe there's going to be some good ones oh reddit's bringing back the place aren't we i can't wait for that that was
00:43:31
originally an april fool's day experiment and they just kept it going and then it eventually went away but
00:43:36
it's a subreddit where you can just show up and contribute towards a larger
00:43:41
mural by the community mural that's really cool it's i think you are allowed to place one pixel per
00:43:47
five minutes and yeah communities kind of come together create something on that mural that
00:43:53
can't get overlapped we actually had josh wardle the um creative wordle was on the project creating place yeah
00:43:59
previously when he worked at reddit we've had it on the podcast before if you want to listen to that episode but i'm really excited for that what do you
00:44:05
think the chances are we could get enough people to somehow get that mkbhd logo on there the logo i think we
00:44:12
can just a small logo i think we could organize our own subreddit to troop over there at a certain time and just create
00:44:18
a logo but it's such chaos that's the thing like anything you want to create somebody on the other side of the world
00:44:24
is going to walk over there and mess it up yes do you think if we created a discord uh channel in our discord server
00:44:31
and we also that would be the best way for people to like actively communicate on how to keep it because you have to draw it and then you have to continue to
00:44:37
make sure it stays there because other people can draw other people can draw wherever they want let's try it let's
00:44:42
try we'll tweet something at some point when it goes live and we're going to try and put the mkbhd logo yeah on that song
00:44:50
even if it's only for a minute i can't tell you how happy i would be if we pulled that off the place is back the
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place is back happy april fool's day everybody thanks for listening to this episode of waveform uh of course send us
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your favorite april fool's day products and ideas because they're going to be out there in the tech world but until next week we'll catch you later
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