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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on, okay, stop. So we go back to the beginning.


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[Assistant] That pause, that half a se- oh, sorry, I'll show the people, I'll show the people. Okay? The millennial not showing.


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[Assistant] That pause where I blink and inhale. That's the millennial pause.


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[Assistant] And the article goes on to explain that with Zoomers, they will just be talking already.


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[Assistant] I don't know that this is a generational difference as much as it might just be a tech savvy difference, because I know that until the tally light is on, my camera's not recording.


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[Assistant] But then, ain't nobody got time for me to blink and inhale, I guess.


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[Assistant] No, apparently it is some combination of not caring and knowing the exact timing of when your device will start recording so that you are just talking the instant it starts recording.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, I use so many different kinds of... Like as a creator, I... Well, no, because this is a live sync thing.


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[Assistant] Initializes. Oh, I don't even mean wandshow. I'm just talking in general, just like any video. I-I-I promise you, as-as a content creator, I will never not millennial pause. Because it's-what-what, I'm gonna do another take? Because something wasn't recording?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Huxar in Floatplane Chat says, it's that Millennials don't trust that the recording has started till they see it has started. Which... So they just trust immediately upon pressing the button that it started.


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[Assistant] Which I guess makes sense because we would have grown up with far less reliable technology.


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[Assistant] Like I, okay, a perfect example of this is that my Note 9, my old phone, had a little stylus, a little Bluetooth stylus that had a little button on it that I could use as a remote shutter. And one of the things I liked about it most was that it meant that I could hold my phone with my rear camera,


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[Assistant] So I could take much higher quality selfies because I didn't have to be able to reach around and get at the shutter button or even hold it awkwardly so I, you know, could reach the volume button. I could just hold it in a way that was comfortable


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[Assistant] You know, put the armor around the missus and click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click.


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[Assistant] Because I don't trust technology, I'd be like, don't move!


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[Assistant] You don't do the millennial pause in your YouTube videos because you have editors to cut it out? Yeah, absolutely. So it's just that Zoomers take an extra 30 seconds to cut the pause? Like is that what we're talking about?


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is funny. This is funny. Flowplain chat, this is great. Ben Mitchell says, I didn't even know what this was until you said it, and I now realize I've been doing it on apps like Snapchat. So apparently, it's cringe.


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[Assistant] Millennial paws, millennial paws is cringe. So you just gotta trust it. Yeah, your age is showing, grandpa. Alright, I didn't know.


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[Assistant] If you look at professional live productions, you can see the ways they accommodate this. Yeah, actually, that's, that's really true. They don't have a pause, cause they'll do five, four,


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[Assistant] So that you just start immediately. Yeah, that's fair. One of the reasons we can't do that on Wanshow is that our dashboard, uh, like our re-streamer, you probably noticed that we stream Wanshow on more than one platform. So that means because you can only have, to my knowledge, one endpoint in OBS. Is that right?


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[Assistant] So because you can only stream to one destination, we have to go through an intermediary server. We have to have an extra hop before we actually go live on those platforms. So we go to our intermediary and then it splits out with all the different streams and all the different bit rates that are supported by the various platforms.


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[Assistant] We are usually live for a while before we go live on YouTube and the reason for that is that it's like the ultimate millennial pause. You know, we'll be live for


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[Assistant] 20 minutes, figuring out if there's any technical issues that we need to solve, uh, kinda going, okay, yeah, we're gonna need to play, uh, audio from my laptop this show, let's make sure that's working, uhm,


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, everything good to go, all the titles are right, like we'll do all of our, our pre-checking while we're kind of live and testing audio levels and making sure that there's no glitchiness. And...


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[Assistant] When we press YouTube and we spool up the Restreamer to go to YouTube, there is a different


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[Assistant] It'd be kinda neat to have it be consistent, but it's a pretty low priority in terms of development, I think. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's okay.


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[Assistant] So yeah, the pre-show is kind of our millennial pause and then at the beginning of the video because I have to wait for a refresh cycle of that page to know if the check is green.


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[Assistant] Millennials are apparently killing drinking, is one of the new ones. Uhm, so- Oh yeaah, that's us.


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[Assistant] Millennial stereotypes. Okay, let's have some fun. Millennials are lazy. I mean, wouldn't you be if you didn't have to do everything manually? Just because you walk to school, you know, uphill both ways doesn't mean I should do it. Yeah, it's supposed to be better, right? Isn't that the whole idea?


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[Assistant] I was 100% right about that. Oh yeah, of course they have a microwave now, and any time I bring it up, it's like, the subject is very quickly changed again. Which I really enjoy, because I was...


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[Assistant] I don't know. Sometimes I can be a very direct communicator. I was extremely direct about that when I was like, that's really stupid. So you're just gonna take forever to heat things up? For what?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, microwave is just plain good. Uhm, yeah, okay, millennials are technology obsessed? Yeah, why not?


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[Assistant] Well, we're uniquely positioned to see the before and the after, right? Like, when I was in grade two, I still remember this stuff. Like, you know how you can have, like, little snippets? Right? Is Valley speak?


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[Assistant] Like, valley girl speak in here? No, it's not. But like, you know how you can...


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[Assistant] Like, have these little snippets of memory, or like, like little flashes, you know? Like,


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[Assistant] You don't really remember it, but it's like, I know I did this report on boa constrictors. Why do I know that? It was in grade two, and I can almost see my terrible illustration on the cover of my duet tang. You know? Right?


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[Assistant] And I still remember the layout of my elementary school library, and I still remember where the encyclopedias were.


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[Assistant] I was in grade four, five, six when Encarta, you know, an encyclopedia on CD-ROM became a thing that you could have.


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[Assistant] Then, you fast forward just a couple of years later, and when was Wikipedia founded?


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[Assistant] So then Wikipedia came along. By the time I was in high school, Wikipedia was a thing.


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[Assistant] Was it perfectly trustworthy? Of course not. Is it perfectly trustworthy today? Of course not. But...


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[Assistant] That was an okay boomer thing for me, for sure. For sure. Okay, uh, millennials are more socially responsible.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, the word more is important. I think that...


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[Assistant] I think that when it comes to mindless consumption, I, I definitely notice more of it with my, with my elders.


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[Assistant] And just don't understand why I don't want it. I feel like that's a frustration that I share with a lot of my peers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, I mean, it also, I mean, but that's the thing is, right? These are generalizations, and there's always gonna be individuals. For sure, there's always gonna be alternatives. I know plenty of Millennials that just mindlessly acquire. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Just acquire.


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[Assistant] Retail therapy, yeaah, I heard of that.


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[Assistant] Millennials are job hoppers. I mean, I can't say that's been a thing for me, but I think in terms of generalizations, that's probably a truer trend. I know a lot of people that do. But like, let's look at the way that the landscape has changed in terms of the workplace. I mean, boomers enjoyed, by far,


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[Assistant] Realistically, there were two enormous global conflicts in the 20 years leading up to, like 25 years leading up to the baby boomer generation. Scarcity was a huge thing, and you basically did whatever it took. Forget about, you know, protections.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, yeah, well, when did the, uh, when did the New Deal, when did the New Deal kick in? Was that Roosevelt? I can't remember. So we're talking about this from a North American perspective, obviously, right? Uhm...


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[Assistant] But you look at the, at the, at the trend towards like union employment in North America, and then away from it as we're going into now just about the least union thing ever, which would be the gig economy. And gig economy has been sold as a positive thing, but I, I patently reject it. I mean, we had,


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[Assistant] We had a lot of conversations early on about whether Linus Media Group would take on contractors, for example, which is quite common in the production industry. You just hire contractors for your projects, and then at the end of the project,


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[Assistant] You cut everyone loose, and then you bring on a new set of contractors, some repeating, some new, uh, for whatever your next project is, and I was like, well no, we're never gonna be structured that way.


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[Assistant] Uh, we just need to make sure that our pipeline is consistent enough that when we hire people, we bring them on full time and they have the benefits of being employees.


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[Assistant] Like if you don't have, if you don't have the protections, uhm,


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I mean, I think yeaah, you could probably make that generalization, but, I don't think it was a choice, I think if we could just be lifers at one company, and have that actually work out fine,


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[Assistant] Compensation increases. Livable income reasons. Yea, because you look at the way, especially at the very low end, the way that compensation has scaled relative to living costs.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think that feeling like you're owed something when you look at how things, you know, ugh, man. Ah, how like impossible it is to buy real estate, how impossible it is to own realistically anything. Every time it trends, like,


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[Assistant] Boomer Senator or, you know, Boomer, you know, investment banker or whatever, uh, guesses how much houses cost. Oh yeaah. And the values are, like, literally. Or groceries. Yeaah. Not, not, I mean groceries, not so much, cause that's a question of inflation.


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[Assistant] I am in a very privileged position where I don't have to think too much about the cost of groceries and so for many years I didn't look that closely because I, you know, especially before we had a bigger family it just wasn't that big of a deal as long as we weren't eating out too much.


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[Assistant] It was fine. It didn't really have to think about it, right? Even I am noticing


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, it's, it's just mind-blowing. I saw a little, I saw a little pack of raspberries. Yeah, they're out of season. Sure. I saw a little pack of raspberries. About this big by this tall. Not even the deep one, okay? Pack of raspberries. Yeah, the shallow like tray. It was over ten dollars at Nester's Market.


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[Assistant] The commodification of real estate does need to end. And then the last stereotype, millennials are praise hungry.


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[Assistant] Alright. You know what? I'm okay. I'm okay with being a millennial. Give me my avocado toast. It's actually pretty good. I never liked it. You gotta get tuna and cheese too though. I like tuna and cheese on my avocado toast.


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[Assistant] Okay, the biggest problem was it wasn't that good. Like look, I've got kids, okay? I don't really, I don't really go out anywhere other than, you know, stuff some food in your face and feed your brood kind of places, you know what I mean? So we'll, yeah, we'll hit the IHOP or whatever.


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[Assistant] But we went to kind of a, like a mid-scale place, like a little bit nicer than IHOP, but not like, uh, you know, Gotham Steakhouse or whatever.


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[Assistant] Like, but it's like a nice enough. Yeah, and still it's like a chain or whatever though.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I just haven't eaten out enough, so it's hard for me to know.


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[Assistant] What do we want to talk about next? Olympics of esports?


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[Assistant] Wancho Writer asked- It was said there was a phone. If- wait, are you still here?


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[Assistant] Oh, do you, do you hang out during WAN Show now too, but you just, you hide over there? Oh, okay. Uh, we'll, we'll introduce WAN Show writer once, uh, the probation period is over, but, uh, assuming everything goes according to plan. But, I think it's time for us to talk about the Olympics of eSports. Do you wanna? Not only that, the Olympics


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[Assistant] Is a horrible organization and you should have known immediately as soon as they were involved that it was going to be terrible. This is on you.


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[Assistant] Well why would they, what, they don't have Dota or League of Legends? No. I have actually not looked into this. Oh, no. Wait, so they don't have actual competitive esports? It's so insanely worse than you could possibly imagine. Okay, cause I assumed it would be terrible and therefore didn't look into it. It's so much worse. So you actually know more about this than I do. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dan, do you wanna, do you wanna jump on the, uh, the Luke camera here maybe and I can play some Tic Tac Bow for the people while, while we get this going?


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[Assistant] Arena mode, okay, I'm joining arena mode. What the devil phone is this? My goodness, it's an absolute brick. Okay, doesn't matter. Twitter post?


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[Assistant] So I pay, I pay to enter the arena, but then I can win a prize. If I win it's plus 20, if I lose it's minus 8. Oh my god, my slots for loot crates are currently full, and you will not be able to earn new crates. You can still earn trophies, oh my god. Okay.


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[Assistant] Alright. I have strong wind resistance stats here. Dan, are you having a hard time finding the focus button over there?


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[Assistant] I don't know how to play this. Oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi


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[Assistant] So I'm almost out of time or something? Or like, do I let go or? Hey! You got the top!


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just, it doesn't even drop off. What the heck is the point of this?


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[Assistant] I mean, I've played tic-tac-toe games at like...


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[Assistant] Castle fun park that are kinda like this, like if you ever played like basketball tic-tac-toe.


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[Assistant] There's a little bit of drop-off. There's not much, because I am nailing this, even though I've never touched this game before. Well, maybe you're just an Olympian. Oh, okay, so you can convert someone else's thing to your thing. You can take theirs. Okay. Okay.


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[Assistant] But then they still get to go? Oh. No, I won. No. Why would, why on earth would they have shot that? Future Olympian, Lionel Sebastian. Yeah, yeah, milk fantasy was defeated.


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[Assistant] No. Chess. No! Cycling. Chess, sure, fine, fine.


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[Assistant] No, well, it doesn't make that much sense. It's like, it's like, boating culture sense. So, like, doesn't make sense, but...


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[Assistant] Money to pay coaches and money to pay athletes to just be athletes. Or to buy equipment like special shoes or whatever else. So now it's just, no, you actually just dump money into a mobile game studios account and then you're an Olympian?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I- There's no pay to win. Yeah, chess is fine. I- I- I- I- I don't know that we needed Olympic chess. I think it could have been any- I think chess could just do their own championship, which they kind of do, which is totally fine. But if the Olympics raises the profile of chess, I think that's super cool.


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[Assistant] Chess is kind of its own thing in this, in my opinion. But I could almost see it being, like, a completely separate event. Like, why have just chess? It would be kind of interesting if they promoted, like, a different format.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, you've already got the, you've already got the Olympics, you've already got the Paralympics, why don't you just have, like, the board game Olympics then at that point, right? Like, do it during the same period, make it part of the event. Like, it doesn't have, it doesn't have to be the Olympics. Yeah, fair enough. To be an IOC, you know, event.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you're gonna go, if you're gonna go full meme, like, make it DDR then. Let's go. Honestly, yeah!


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[Assistant] It's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, I think compared to Just Dance, DDR would actually be a much more interesting spectator experience.


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[Assistant] And then you have like kinda, I think you could have like a touch of subjectivity, like, or not subjectivity, but like you could have kind of like what they do in figure skating, where the, there are points assigned to the difficulty of the routine. So if you have to switch pads six times, that has this modifier or whatever, yeah, you could totally build a system for that, that would be...


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[Assistant] Something's not even accurate enough. At least with DDR, there is, there is, there is a clear


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[Assistant] There's a precision to it. You know, there's a way to measure objectively how close to the desired result the participant got. You know?


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[Assistant] I'm not built for that. I-I couldn't even touch any of this already, and you're telling me this is the easy part? Oh, are they doing two pads? Yeah. Yeah, like, what the- Buddy's on two pads.


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[Assistant] Gran Turismo doesn't need to be the one. There are extremely high level racing sim games. Like sim, sim grade games. I mean, Gran Turismo is more sim-like, I get it. Sure. But it's not as sim-y as something like a Project Cars or something like a...


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[Assistant] Like, any one of those three. F1, iRacing, Assetto Corsa.


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[Assistant] But Gran Turismo? Little weird. Like why don't you just go Forza at that point? Why don't you just, you know what, why don't you just like cruise in USA?


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[Assistant] In short, what am I looking at here? What is this? This is on Instagram. Okay, so virtual regatta.


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[Assistant] Oh man, they want us to click on, Flippling Chat wants us to click on the Taekwondo. It's like connect simulators, they say. Connect simulators? You know, like Xbox Connect? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, virtual Taekwondo. Invitational event, wait what? You need a console?


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, okay, so this is a whole, this is a whole rabbit hole then. The, the company that makes Virtual Taekwondo has this indie console that was kickstarted, but you can't actually get it, that has some kind of, okay, where, I've got, uh,


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[Assistant] I've got some footage here, and it's the same company that makes that stupid tic tac bow game. So what am I, what am I looking at here?


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[Assistant] Olympics, TAC10. Okay, I gotta click the thing. But yeah, it's the same Singapore-based company, and then the Olympics are gonna be in like Singapore or something, so it's a whole, it's a whole thing. Alright, I'm on their site now. I'm on their site.


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[Assistant] Follow the glory of Virtual Taekwondo. Okay, watch now. What am I looking at here? Guys, this is live. This is live. We're reacting.


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[Assistant] We're doing what we can. Gymnasts. What does this, what does this have to do with anything? No, no, no, we're not, oh, I don't need a, no, I don't need an Olympics... Their player took a long time to learn. Strike. We should, we should try to sell. Sell, uh... Yea, they should use floatplane. Yea.


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[Assistant] What is their site? What am I even looking at? Find out more. I'm trying to find out more you- numpties. I think it just scrolls you down. How to fall- yea, like what is this? Stay updated. No, I want- I don't wanna stay- I wanna update now. What is it? Wha- what am I looking at here?


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[Assistant] Okay, I mean that kick looks pretty good, but like, what is this?


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[Assistant] Okay, I give up. Uh, let's do some sponsor spots.


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[Assistant] Let's do it. We'll do it after. The show is brought today by Thorum. Thorum hand-makes wedding bands and rings from rare and unique materials. They work with everything from whiskey barrels, to antlers, to Damascus steel, to World War II rifle stocks, and even dinosaur fo- I CAN'T GET THIS THING OUT OF THE BAG! Thank you.


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[Assistant] The Mediosaur is made out of black tungsten carbide, meteorite, and real t-rex bones.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this 40, sorry, 4 billion year old meteorite and a 65 million year old dino bone are proof that good things take time, but great things take a little longer.


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[Assistant] You can get a ring sizer kit on their website to make your life easier when it comes to figuring out what ring size fits you best. And every ring ships within one business day and comes with a free Thorum silicone activity band and a beautiful wooden box that Luke will eventually get open.


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[Assistant] With over 10 years of experience and over 5,000 happy customers, Thorum is there for you, whether you need a wedding band or just a cool looking ring. So what are you waiting for? Head over to the link in the description below and get 20% off with code WAN.


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[Assistant] He's got this. He has the strength. He has the power. Power and strength. Luc Lefrenier. Here it is. You can't see anything anyway, but Thorim insists that we open up the box on camera. Wow, that's heavy. That's the activity band. Oh. That makes sense. That is, wow, that's quite the hefty thing. It's actually kinda cool.


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[Assistant] Okay, anyway, the point is, the show is also brought to you by The Ridge.


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[Assistant] Uh, and offer a lifetime warranty so you can enjoy peace of mind. The Ridge doesn't just make wallets, their key case is a favorite of ours over here at LMG. It's made with the same materials as their wallet and keeps all your keys secure in a small profile. No more jingle jangle in your pockets.


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[Assistant] And check out what the Ridge has to offer. You can even get 10% off your entire purchase and free worldwide shipping by using code WAN at checkout.


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[Assistant] Their easy to use interface keeps tools organized so you don't need to be a technical expert. You can send out purchase orders, create marketing campaigns, and manage shift scheduling all in a few clicks.


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[Assistant] Their CX dashboard helps you identify where you need to improve your customer experience. And they've got numbers, charts, pies, and funnels. Wow, look at that! Read slowly for graphics.


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[Assistant] Yes, it was Dennis. Alright, well that makes perfect sense. Oh man.


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[Assistant] Oh, we should do a couple of merch messages. Uh, if you guys are wondering, the way to interact with the show is not through Twitch bits, not through super chats over on YouTube, it's through merch messages. And we've actually got, oh, we've got a crap ton of stuff to announce for the store today, don't we? Those of you who have been paying very close attention will have probably already noticed


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[Assistant] So the way to send a merch message, which means that you're not just throwing money into the ether, you will also get an item in the mail, is to go on LTTstore.com and in the checkout, there's a place to leave a merch message. And, uh, one of our new items for this week?


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[Assistant] The reason I'm digging this out is because I have a full one. Ah, okay. So here's my loadout for the tech pouch.


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[Assistant] It's a pouch, and you fill it up with tech, or toiletries, or tools, or realistically anything else that you could possibly want to fill it with. So you wanna have a look at my tech pouch? Yea, you've got it. Can I open up my tech pouch for you?


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[Assistant] Uh, my, my needle nose pliers and my side cutters would be in there, but I left them at XQC's house. So I asked my assistant to get me some more. That makes sense. Sorry? He's still yours. That's hilarious. He apparently took Dan's. Love it.


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[Assistant] That was just garbage that was in my bag that I accidentally threw into the tech pouch, so there's no reason for me to carry that around.


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[Assistant] That's a lavalier mic holder. Uhm, that makes sense. It's routed on the back, 3D printed. The lines on your shirt, less noticeable when you're wearing a lav mic. So it's just the kind of thing I would have to carry around that no one else would. Tons more random cables? What the heck? Yeah, that's like an everything cable. It can be like adapted.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's because it's for the Logitech mouse that is in there. It just happens to have that adapter on it. Is my mouse not in there? Someone take my mouse. Here's some lavalier tape. Uh, yep, yep, yep, that's the medical tape that I use. There's an outside zipper, it uses the same YKK waterproof


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[Assistant] Did someone steal my M.2 SSD? That's just an external audio, like sound card.


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[Assistant] Some of my tools aren't in there. My, uh, my pin removal tool is not in there. Oh! Oh, they are in there! Oh, who put those in there? Oh, okay, that's great. They were playing around with my stuff a little bit for the shoot. But, so I have, like, jeweler screwdrivers, and then I have, like, an ATX pin removal tool, Molex pin removal tool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, every once in a while you never know if you're gonna need a fitting or whatever else. Uh, but yeah! Do you wanna just kind of spread it for me?


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[Assistant] Not that part. Okay, that- oof, that's very awkward. Uh, okay, I wanna see, like, the, uh, the little- the little pockets on the outsides, the- Oh, oh. Like this? No, no, I- Oh. You mean this? Yeah, on the outside edges. Yeah. Or the inside of the outside- I don't know how well that's gonna show. Oh my god. Uhm. There's- okay, so there's a pouch here. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So there's lots of pockets. Oh, there's an SSD in there. Never know when you're gonna need an SSD. That actually comes up a lot for me.


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[Assistant] But if you just give them a bit of a better angle so they can, there we go. So there's like three pouches back here. And then the other side has something similar. Pen holder. Pencil or pen holder.


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[Assistant] So we, we, we did a lot of internal polling, finding out what people wanted to be able to carry around with them. It fits perfectly in the bottom of the backpack, obviously, with a water bottle next to it. Uh, it's okay, we're back to the main camera now. I think you've made your point.


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[Assistant] Does it, does it fit in a specific spot in the backpack? Yeah, it just sits at the very bottom of the main bag of holding. Uh, we've got a couple other LTT Store things to discuss, but I...


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, we should get that updated for you all. Uhm, aw man.


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[Assistant] Man, what were the other things I was supposed to say about the store? Dan, do you remember?


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[Assistant] Uh, Dan, back to the camera. We have a new 2023 sticker pack. So it's in the bonus bin, which are the free items that you guys can get on lttstore.com with your order. So we now have new stickers. That one's really fun, save that one for last. Let's do all the other ones first. No one gets to see it. We've got Soon TM.


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[Assistant] I'm holding it next to Luke's face. Ayy, there we go. Soon TM. Oh! Oh, we got the trust me bro guarantee! Yeah. Sarah was like- Yeah.


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[Assistant] Is it calm? Is it calm? No one knows? Can't read it. This is the lab? Yeaah! That's a cool, reflective-y rainbow. Yeah, Sarah pushed hard for that design. She, uh, she really likes it.


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[Assistant] What else you got? Little retro computer. Cool little, little CRT, uh, yeaah. Old school computer.


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[Assistant] What would you call it? LTT circle logo, obviously. Okay, this is the best one though. This was brilliant, this was Sarah's idea, I can't take any credit for it. Uhm.


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[Assistant] It's blank. That's actually pretty sweet. So it's, it's a, it's a window, like a, like an explorer window, and it's a tech tip. So you can write any tech tip you want. Yeah, so cool, right?


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[Assistant] Those are cool, those are all good. The last big update is...


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[Assistant] We finally have some bloody printed shirts in stock. Let's gooooo. Screwdriver t-shirt is back. Case t-shirt is back. The one I'm wearing today, the display, uhm, panel layers shirt is back. I like that one. And so is the headphone shirt. There you go. So we finally-


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[Assistant] Finally have some shirts back in stock. By the way, if you were signed up to get a notification when these came back in stock and you got like seven notifications, let support know because we had an issue with that. So we actually turned off our back in stock notifications while we were trying to solve it.


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[Assistant] Some of them do. I don't feel like I'm asking for that much. Some of them do. Alright, well, at any rate.


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[Assistant] Hit me with a couple of merch messages, Dan, and then we'll get into some more topics, and then we'll do some more merch messages. Maybe we'll get some, get some dinner, do Wanshow after hours. No, probably, probably not. I think we could wrap this up. Really? Now we're doing it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, honestly, we started from a very different place. I had never seen the Peak Design one until I saw people mention it in the, uhm, in the chat before the show. So I was like, oh, I will go look at this.


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[Assistant] I have no doubt that our designers probably looked at other options on the market. What is different about this one is that the layout of the inside is very much tailored to what our team requested.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so we, like, we made sure that the, uh, so here, hold on one sec.


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[Assistant] So here's a bit of feedback that I gave them early on in the process. I was like, these pouches need to be able to hold, like, a gaming mouse. Not just a magic mouse. Uhm, that was something that we observed from, uhm, some of the samples that we did bring in where I was like, this is stupid. Like, I can't even put a mouse in this thing. How am I supposed to operate without a mouse?


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[Assistant] I don't see us as like a bitter rival with anyone. You know, like, just because we have a screwdriver, does that make us a Milwaukee competitor? Like, realistically, no. It's not our primary business.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I think that we take a very different approach to merch. You know, I don't like calling it merch because I think they're products. You know, I don't think they're just merch. I don't think we just silkscreen our logo on things, but.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my burnt face man, uhm, hoodie lasted pretty okay until I lost it, so I don't know how long it would have lasted.


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[Assistant] No, no, monetization actually stayed active even though we like, cost a bunch and all of that.


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[Assistant] That was the one. That was the one where I was surprised that it was live.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember because because I had intended to start like swearing a bunch right the second the show started because I know that in the first little bit it matters more and so some people had commented Oh, yeah, he probably waited because of what no I waited because my dashboard


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[Assistant] It usually has a 10 to 20 to even 30 second delay before it actually goes live, but it went live immediately that time and I didn't realize.


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[Assistant] No. No. Oh. Well it wasn't six figures. And it wasn't seven. And it sure as hell wasn't five or under.


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[Assistant] I have not regretted it for a moment. I, I think that the timing was perfect to, to take an offer. Uhm, we were having an absolutely, we were in the midst of an explosive year of growth.


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[Assistant] Yes, but uhm, you know, we had le- we left the door open to kind of say, hey, here's how we're projecting that's gonna go. And we had had some discussions about how that offer might change if they crushed it the way that we thought they could.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so knowing that we were heading into a period, I think 2023, 2024 are going to be reinvestment periods. Uh, so if we were looking for an exit, uhm, 2022 was the year to do it because we were hockey-sticking like


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[Assistant] Absolute crazy, uh, lots of cool stuff on the roadmap, but the costs for that cool stuff hadn't started to hit us yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, like building out the lab has been phenomenally expensive, honestly. Like, if you bought a screwdriver, if you bought a backpack, if you, uh, sent any kind of merch message, if you, any, anything, anything. Yeah, if you subscribe on Floatplane, you're a huge part of, of why this, this vision is happening, because,


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, because we couldn't do it otherwise. It's that simple, right? Uhm, so if we wanted to take an offer,


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[Assistant] That would have been the time to do it, knowing that we were going to be heading into a couple of years that we're not going to see profits grow. Uh, maybe even shrink. Right now we are, we are down year over year in terms of profitability. Don't worry, we're fine. Everything is fine. We're still profitable.


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[Assistant] We're down compared to last year. Uhm, and that's even, even before factoring in screwdriver and backpack, right? And so,


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[Assistant] Because the kinds of companies that like acquire, you know, pieces and build portfolios are looking not just at your, your, your, like some multiple of your EBITDA.


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[Assistant] It's, it's what kind of multiple you get, right? The bigger, the growth they expect, the bigger multiple you might get in terms of the valuation of your company. So EBITDA would be like your earnings before...


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[Assistant] Taxes, something, something, basically like your, your, your net income, uhm, and


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[Assistant] Or your, your, your net profit. Whatever, whatever it is. So, so pretty much how much money you made. So they will basically go, okay, that amount.


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[Assistant] Let's say times three, or times five, or times nine, or whatever it is, is how much we're going to offer for your company, because we will expect that it will continue to make money, and we will make that money back on our investment over some period of time. And the more your growth looks explosive,


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[Assistant] The higher that offer, because you could basically argue, well yeah, sure, you could give me 5x EBITDA today, but the earnings you're gonna get in this next four or five years here is gonna be so much more because we're growing like this. So the time to take it was 2022. And the not time to take it is...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna look back at the 2022 offer and I'm gonna say, well, I would have been an idiot to take that because my vision was great and, you know, we're worth twice as much or three times as much, but I know there's gonna be a lull.


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[Assistant] There's times that I've thought, you know, should I have? Right? Like should I have taken the bag and run? Taken the ball and gone home?


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[Assistant] Chillaxin, to the end of days. All cool. Yeah. Sup, what, with some b-ball outside of the school or whatever? Yeah, something like that.


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[Assistant] The bottom line is that would have been the time to take it. I forget what the question was.


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[Assistant] What's your biggest regret? I jokingly pointed that out. Yeaah, so, no. I have not regretted it. Uhm.


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[Assistant] It's hard for seeing where we came from and where we are today. How on earth can I possibly say regret about any of it? Part of my, I guess we might get into this later.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think we would have done the sponsored video on the Facebook portal.


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[Assistant] Or was it something? I don't know. There was some like, I don't, nah, I don't know. Is Facebook even the worst of the tech giants? They're all just sort of terrible.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of stuff where- The question is biggest regret. I could easily come up with regrets.


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[Assistant] But for, to, to single something out and go, BIGGEST REGRET. Ah man, that's tough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it implies you would have done it differently. Exactly. With all the information that I have now, would I do that differently? Like, yeah, but also, it clearly didn't hurt us that much, so maybe not, I don't know.


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[Assistant] We specifically, in the, I think it was the Quest 1, we did a sponsored video, we specifically told Facebook, look, we are simply not doing this if we can't address the requirement of a Facebook account, and like, these things, we're not gonna gloss over these.


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[Assistant] I've done a lot of those over the years. A really good example of that was the Micron Factory Tour. Like, silly Micron.


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[Assistant] Was that the place you were living where there was the guy that played Cod Zombies and smoked pot and that was basically all he did? How did he have more money than you? Cause he had a job at


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[Assistant] I couldn't do what we did ten years ago. Yea, I know. It's a young person's game doing that. Like now, like now the game is putting up motes.


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[Assistant] Right? We're in the castle. So it's like, alright. We have to do our best to do the best we possibly can. Yea, to make it so that people who can work 18 hours a day


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[Assistant] Still can't make up the difference. Whether it's building, building a team. That's a moat. Because that's more exp- there's more expertise in this building than any one person could possibly hope to have in 50 lifetimes. Like there really is. So that's a moat.


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[Assistant] Uh, equipment, like lab equipment, that's a moat, you know, a newcomer can't afford it, right? Uh, the business team, the business relationships, that's another moat because


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[Assistant] You know, even if we have a rough month in terms of views, we can count on those relationships and those negotiations to go kind of go, hey, look, uh, no, you guys need to still pay the same rates. We're going to get our feet back under us. Don't worry. We got this, right? We can buy time, essentially. Um, so we're, yeah, so we've, we've got, we've got moats, but pulling all-nighters, that ain't a moat that we can build anymore.


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[Assistant] What we're good at and compete with our strengths against what someone else's strength might be and their strength might be that they don't need sleep and they don't have children or, you know, whatever else the case may be. Uhm, by the way, Dan, I do monitor floatplane chat.


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[Assistant] People are asking, I think, I'm just tuning in here for a second, uh, people are asking about the Christmas album remaster. And Dan replied to someone, I have decided to do something worse with it.


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[Assistant] Sir, we've been through this. You are not deciding what happens to the Christmas album. I have decided that the Christmas album is going to be left dead and buried. And then Dan goes, I can't say anything, Linus is here. You've said enough, and yes, I am here, and I see it.


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[Assistant] How many Christmas albums did we sell last week? Thousands.


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[Assistant] I give you my permission to go download the pirated one. I mean, we're gonna pull it down at some point, so go fast, but don't pay money for it, please.


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[Assistant] Oh! A' says we have apparently actually had one late paycheck. It was by a day or a couple of days. I can't remember the exact time, it has been years. Alright. Well, apparently we've had one. I'd have to check, because that might have been unique to A', though, because I think the last time I checked with Vaughn, she told me that we hadn't been late on a pay period.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that would be the best. I just told you guys, I just gave you my blessing to go download the pirated one.


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[Assistant] Alright, one last merch message and then we'll get into some topics here. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, just for you guys, if you happen to see Luke's place for sale at some point,


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[Assistant] If you move, we will, we will, we will do, we will do like, uh, cool, cooling, DIY cooling round two. Let's go. Let's go. But we'll only cool your computer. We're gonna cool the inside of your computer case with like, a full-size air conditioning unit.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh, yeaah, so we're working on AMD Challenge right now.


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[Assistant] Because I had the glass off. I was amazed by how well heat rising worked. Like, obviously, I've known heat rises, right? Hot air rises, sure, fine, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But when I tried to do that video using the mining PC for heat, I just...


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[Assistant] And what I realized, like later, was, like later on in the video, I don't know if it actually made it into the final cut, but it was pretty much boomeranging. Like it, it would not go, you couldn't force it down. It's like trying to push bubbles down in water. And I didn't realize it would be that extreme.


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[Assistant] I don't know, never really, I just never really thought about it.


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[Assistant] Because then the heat would get trapped by the desk and leak up around me. So that's what you're doing and that's probably why the case wasn't as bad. Because yea, if it's blowing it out the back, it's probably going like straight up and not hitting you.


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[Assistant] The side of the case off though. Even then though, there would be like a suction. Like it would- Oh yeah, cause the front fence. That makes sense. Exactly, exactly.


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[Assistant] You don't still have your stupid aquarium, do you? Uh, not that one.


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[Assistant] Because you'll never believe what happened earlier this week.


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[Assistant] Well, we uploaded that video with the tour of the lab. Okay. And I mentioned, like, mineral oil cooling for some reason. Either it was in that video or is it- No, it was on a livestream. Sorry. It was on a recent livestream. Someone sent a merch message asking about mineral oil cooling when we did that, uhm, that build stream. And...


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[Assistant] And I'm sitting here going, okay. That's really expensive. And really hard to get. Apparently they just don't even make it anymore basically. Oh, there's some, there's like a newer... So.


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[Assistant] Then, the conversation somehow made its way to, uh, Jake Danes from the lab, and he's like, oh no, not Florida, you want this one. And it's like for submersion cooling for like mining and GPUs and stuff. And it even, there's like even a cleaner that you can use to get everything back to pristine.


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[Assistant] And it's a couple hundred bucks per five gallon pail, which is like compared to fluoronert? Nothing.


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[Assistant] We've got cases. We've got fluid.


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[Assistant] Am I gonna be able to avoid this? It's happening. I'll tell you what.


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[Assistant] What? Here's the deal. Okay. We'll build one, but you have to give me back your old computer and you have to daily drive it.


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[Assistant] It'll be top spec, new spec. Oh, yeah, but it's gonna be in oil.


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[Assistant] Why do you need so many drives? I have a lot of drives. What the c- yeah, I didn't ask if you have a lot of drives, I asked why do you need them? Uuh, I save a lot of stuff.


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[Assistant] My deal stands, we will load up everything you could possibly need for game storage. We will load you up with enough storage for everything you could possibly need for actual local storage, and we will upgrade the NAS to make up for any space you lose in the desktop.


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[Assistant] So we will make sure, we will make you whole in terms of storage. That's my commitment.


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[Assistant] I mean, that sounds like a Luke problem to me, not a Linus problem, so, you know. Oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] And I think we, we used the last ATX one to do the last build we did, which we eventually like sold on Facebook Marketplace or something like that because we were tired of just having it around and carrying it places. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And then, I think you were like, can I just like have these ITX ones? And I was like, realistically, I'm never gonna do anything with these, just take it and go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, no. I was like, I'll take it. I was just memeing with the whole stealing things from the office thing. Uhm, yeah, yeah, so that's the deal. I mean, there's some of that. I was cleaning up. I found a few of those.


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[Assistant] We're a lot more on top of that stuff now. We have like a whole inventory system and asset tags and everything, but things were a little more loosey-goosey when people were not being like, paid well. Uhm, you know, it is what it is.


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[Assistant] There was some loosey goosey stuff. I mean, another thing too is when we were a much smaller team, if, you know, a Luke was just like, yeah, I need a new mouse, uh, I didn't have to worry about 98 other people coming to me and saying, well, what does Luke get a new mouse? There's so many-


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's so many- The scale gets a little wacky. Things you just, like, it, it, it, it really does come back to, like, grade school rules. Did you bring enough for the whole class? No? Okay, well then, you can't, then we can't. Yeah. That simple. Yeah.


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[Assistant] SSThom asks, any chance of a badminton match with Stephen He for a creator clash or a Dennis Fightlake thing? I really want it to happen so I'm posting this again. Does Stephen even play badminton or are you profiling? Because I couldn't find any reference to him playing badminton at all.


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[Assistant] Nokia. Hypes their super fixable phone. I haven't gotten a chance to have a look at this yet, but Pocketlint has an article about this. Let's go have a look. It's pretty low spec. Like I think describing it as entry level is definitely accurate.


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[Assistant] Recycled plastic rear, IP52 protection, let's talk about


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[Assistant] Is that a longer conversation here? Would you rather have 1080p at 60Hz or 720p at 90?


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[Assistant] Like 720, the difference between 720p and 1080 is a lot bigger than the difference between 1080 and 1440.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's... So maybe I don't know. Not great.


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[Assistant] What the heck is a T606? I'm looking this up. Tiger T606 processor. Entry level octa-core SoC with two ARM A75's that up to


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[Assistant] Okay, carry on. 5050 mAh battery. That's a big battery. This thing will last for like three days on battery though. 20 watts charging.


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[Assistant] It will take a while to charge that big battery at 20 watts though. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to find any insight into what exactly makes it repairable. So some of the ease of repair apparently, oh, oh, oh, here we go, here we go.


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[Assistant] A new battery and all the tools. Okay, I'm just gonna read the thing. So iFixit is partnering with Nokia on the creation of the G22, this phone that is aiming for a price of $170, which is a lot more reasonable


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[Assistant] Uh, for the spec and compared to some of the other more open and repair oriented phones that we've seen in the past.


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[Assistant] It's designed to be easy to use and inexpensive to repair, and iFixit will sell repair kits for the battery display rear panel and the USB-C module, which are four of the most common components to break in typical use. And they will sell them for at least five years, that's super cool, but will it get software updates for five years?


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[Assistant] Uh, a new battery and all the tools to replace it will cost you 30 US dollars, and it should take about 10 to 15 minutes for a typical user to complete the repair. The most expensive part is apparently the touchscreen at 55.


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[Assistant] By the time you're spending $55 on a touch screen, couldn't it be $65 and be 1080p? I gotta kinda, I gotta kinda wonder about that a little bit.


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[Assistant] Some of the ease of repair comes from the fact that this is an inexpensive phone with inexpensive parts, and that ease of disassembly has a direct tradeoff with modern waterproofing measures. However, Nokia has genuinely eliminated several barriers to removing the back of the device, and it retains its IP52 waterproof rating even after the back has been replaced.


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[Assistant] IP52 is not watertight, but it can take the odd accidental spray of water. They're only providing three years of security and operating system updates, so even though you can get parts for five, it's three years, and I gotta imagine that three years is from...


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[Assistant] Launch. Not from when you buy it. So not from when they stop selling it. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Man, I'd love to see an actual, compelling, repairable phone. Cause on the one hand, I wanna look at this and go, progress! But on the other hand, I'm looking at it going, this is like, this is like a half measure, right? This is like, coming out and being like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, nobody, yeaah, we made a repairable phone and nobody wanted it so clearly the market has chosen non-repairable phones. No, the market chose the only options that it actually has and I don't know that for a lot of people this is a truly viable option.


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[Assistant] Man, you know, I would have said something like Note 9, but I've been using it lately just to listen to music when I'm riding on my bike. And, it's pretty slow. It's, it's slowed down.


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[Assistant] Ours technica apparently ripped into it. It's 39 steps to replace the screen. See, this is what I'm talking about. Like, that doesn't need to be the case. I- Yeah. Why doesn't it just use screws?


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[Assistant] You need to hold the back panel on, like why does, why does everything need to be clips and, and clips and glue and I don't remember what your question was, I'm sorry. What, what would be- Oh, right. I would say if it's three year old flagship tier performance, I would consider that to be more than acceptable, but I feel like


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[Assistant] Phones like computers have gotten to the point where A, uhm, the improvements generation over generation are not that big anymore meaning that


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[Assistant] You can use three-year-old hardware, you know, really, really easily and have a really great experience with it, but also B, it means that the value of that three-year-old hardware isn't dropping the way it used to. Like, you look at the way PC hardware is plummeting right now, generation over generation, in terms of price, like, you can get Ryzen 2000 stuff on eBay for, like, nothing. Ryzen 3000, very reasonable.


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[Assistant] You know, 3770K is maybe $25 cheaper on eBay, and I feel like we're seeing that with phones, right? Like they're not dropping in value quite as fast within the software update period, because that's a different kind of obsolescence.


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[Assistant] Well that's a bummer. Yeah. Is there anything else that's, uh, critical for us to- Oh. Oh, announcements.


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[Assistant] I have a mock-up for the screwdriver holster.


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[Assistant] I have been warned that if we go hand stitched, this thing could cost like a hundred or even two hundred dollars.


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[Assistant] Uh, but the advantage of hand stitching is that if a stitch breaks, the whole thing doesn't come apart. So like machine stitching for leather, uhm... Is it leather? It's just black leather? It'll be leather. We're gonna go, we're gonna go full grain, like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you kinda pop it up and then yeah, obviously that's a snap. I told the team, I was like, I want the snappiest snap.


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[Assistant] Like just like, I want it to be ridiculous, you know what I mean? I think it should be silver actually. I'll talk to Matthew about it. He's the one. It'll be, it'll, it'll, if we can find


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[Assistant] An alternative leather that is just as strong and durable, we will consider an alternative leather, but right now I can, I, I, I think it's probably going to be, uhm, cow, cow, outs, outer, layer.


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[Assistant] It's not that I hate cows. I do hate cows, but that's not why. It's just that leather is, you know, it's leather, man. Someone said brass for the button? Ooh, I don't know. I'd wanna match the finish of the silver shaft.


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[Assistant] I think it's gonna be a low vol- a low volume product. And hey, the people with the black shaft screwdrivers, they'll be silver eventually. It's possible.


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[Assistant] It's true what he says. It's possible that the, uh, it's possible that the machine stitching will, you know, will find a place that, you know, the quality is like really good or whatever, but it seems quite likely right now that it's gonna end up being hand-stitched and that means it'll end up being probably very expensive.


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[Assistant] Not because we're gouging, but because we unapologetically are just going to make the best products we can, and if you don't like it, then you don't have to buy them.


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[Assistant] You can see a lot of people are into the philosophy and, uh, thanks Matthew L., are, are, are really enjoying the tech pouch. We've, I've been kind of keeping my eye on it. Uh, a lot of, a lot of people are into the tech pouch. I'll, I'll say that much.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's been a bit of a day for the store. It's not the cheapest way that you can have a bag of said size. Nope. Not even a little. But it's really good. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There you go. Uhm, can we create a poll? Yes. We want to figure out how much of the total addressable market for lower body undergarments we're missing out on by only having boxer briefs. So is this question, what is your favorite? Yea, what's your preference? Boxers or briefs? Or boxer briefs?


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[Assistant] So Luke's gonna create a poll and hit up Flowplain, and I will move on to the next topic. What we currently have is boxer briefs, correct? Yes.


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[Assistant] Ford is, oh this is awful, Ford is seeking a patent for a new system that would allow them to gradually shut off features in delinquent customers' cars.


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[Assistant] Like seat controls, automatic locking, and windows as well as air conditioning and the infotainment system. After enough missed payments, the car would simply drive itself away.


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[Assistant] Is this the most dystopian timeline, Luke?


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[Assistant] I mean, seat controls, you could make a very strong argument for how dangerous having an improperly adjusted seat could be. If you're sitting too close or too far from the steering wheel, that could be a life or death issue. I mean, honestly,


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[Assistant] You could say that about almost anything. You could turn off automatic locking? Yeah, so, okay. Man, my aunt had the wildest experience. Downtown Vancouver. She's just driving, and some lady just like got in her car.


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[Assistant] Like, hey, I need a ride to here. And you don't know, do they have a knife? Do they have a gun? Do they have a syringe full of AIDS? Like, you don't know what they have, but just got in the car.


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[Assistant] And she was terrified. As it turned out, she drove her where she needed to go, and she like got out and left. Which is like lucky, right? But, so someone's automatic locking is not working, and then, and that happens. Who's liable?


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[Assistant] That's something I really worry about with Tesla. They have so many different revs of their cars, like they don't have model years the way that traditional car companies have model years. What is going to happen when they don't feel like dealing with the, with the software baggage of all those model threes with lidar?


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[Assistant] That like, don't have as good of a camera system, and like, used supplementary lidar, and ugh, what a pain. Uhm, or, anything. I just, ugh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I worry a lot about that, and it's a really good point, like,


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[Assistant] The automotive industry in general, and to their credit, Tesla has probably the best reputation out of all of them, but the automotive industry in general is terrible when it comes to maintaining software. So anything, where I have to trust them to do anything post purchase,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's not cool. The technology to do this has yet to be developed apparently, but it is at least theoretically possible given the current trajectory of self-driving cars, and a few days after this patent was filed by Ford, they announced the creation of a semi-autonomous driving subsidiary within the company.


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[Assistant] The idea is not entirely new. In some places, it is legal for dealerships to install remote systems that beep incessantly or even kill switch the car, uh, from customers who are using credit in the event that they don't pay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our discussion question is, what is the likely consequence of having these sorts of backdoors? I think we've kind of gone through it. Uhm, Luke and I are not in favor of this, I think is pretty fair to say.


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[Assistant] This is, it's dystopian. It's dystopian and I'm not using that word lightly. It is. This is it. Also a car related topic.


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[Assistant] Streamer has Van stolen. The internet gets it back. Uh, our source is Ludwig.


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[Assistant] This guy. Yup. What great hair. You know? Fantastic. Like that's not fair to other people to have hair that good. Uh, anyway.


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[Assistant] Two days ago, Ludwig announced that his prized 1997 Subaru Sambar microvan had been stolen from outside the warehouse where he films after a storm knocked out the power to the electric gate. Ludwig's assistant and a collaborator managed to track down the van that evening.


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[Assistant] He then offered to return the van if they gave him ten thousand dollars. After they decided to call the police again. Which it's not even worth, by the way. Yeah, we'll try that route. Uh, the guy took off in the van.


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[Assistant] The f-uh, Reddit has been obsessed with my new car, and maybe it's a positive thing.


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[Assistant] So, I've been kind of easing into it, as some of you have noticed. No, it was never a leak. Every time there were glimpses of it or whatever, it was intentional. I just didn't want it to be like, surprise, I finally bought a fancy car.


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[Assistant] So I think it made its first appearance in the Heating the Garage with Mining video, and then I alluded to what dealership it came from, and then I think it- I think I mentioned Porsche's infotainment system a little bit after that, and then it showed up in the parking lot in the Labs tour, so I've kind of been- I've wanted it to be a bit of a-


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[Assistant] I've wanted it to be a little bit slower, just cause I didn't want it to be like kind of a shock by the time people are like, oh, he bought a fancy car. I wanted it to kind of be old news. So mission sort of accomplished, but


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[Assistant] My unintended consequence has been that it's created this intrigue. Like I've talked a lot about how one of the best things we ever did for our privacy was to just announce the location of our studio and put it on Google Maps. Because all of a sudden, everyone immediately stopped caring. So I guess I kind of forgot that lesson and I've been sort of


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[Assistant] Intentionally, slowly, you know, priming that, yes, I bought a fancy car that hopefully doesn't immediately make me a complete douchebag, but yes, I have a nice car now. Uhm, so let's put it to rest once and for all, uh, it's a Porsche Taycan, uh, it's 2022, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's higher spec than I probably would have gone for, but the deal was... Right. It had just over a thousand miles on it. That's a pretty sweet spot to buy used. Which is...


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[Assistant] It smelled new, you know? But because it was used, there was no provincial sales tax and no luxury tax, which is a tax that applies to vehicles over a certain value, where we are.


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[Assistant] Little community effort. So yea, if it goes missing, I can count on you guys, right?


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[Assistant] We shot a video about this today. This is super cool. Uh, 4K upscaling for web video. Nvidia just announced RTX Super Resolution is now supported for users of RTX 30 and 40 series GPUs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a perfect example. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] Upscaling for videos played in Chrome and Edge with support for the RTX 20 series likely to come. So we'll see how that goes. Uh, anything from a 360p to 1440p plus video is supported and can upscale up to 4K.


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[Assistant] 4K upscaling was previously only available on Nvidia's Shield TV, and not for high refresh rate video, and it didn't go as low as 360p.


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[Assistant] Uh, RTX VSR, that's what they're calling it, uses AI upscaling to sharpen low resolution video while removing compression artifacts.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is wild. I'm not gonna spoil the whole video. It's definitely worth a watch.


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[Assistant] I actually preferred the RTX upscaled 1080p to the native 4K on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Because 4K on YouTube still has a lot of banding. It does. It's pretty low bitrate. Yes. So, with a little bit of sharpening. Did you mess around with flow playing? And smoothing. No, I didn't think to try that. I'm interested. We should play around with it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, okay, no, don't worry about it.


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[Assistant] So the, the missing information though, rather than just like edge detection and sharpening, is predicted by a neural network that's trained on large data sets of images at different resolutions and replaced, which is how that works. Welcome to everything these days.


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[Assistant] It's pretty impressive. Uhm, there are some issues, and you guys are gonna wanna check out the video, but uhm. Apparently someone in Floatplane Chat is using it to watch the stream on Floatplane. Okay, how is it? Maybe talk about that while I run and go pee.


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[Assistant] Uh, our discussion question is, what does this mean for the future of digital video streaming? I mean, right now, spoiler, it consumes up to 300 watts of power, so nothing.


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[Assistant] In the short term, because realistically, so much of streaming video consumption is on devices like this that would light on fire if they were consuming 300 watts power. Uhm, but in the very long term, I could, I could see it


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[Assistant] You know, what might be most easily interpreted by an AI enhanced or machine learning enhanced player. So, for example, like, you might basically be able to encode information into the video. Like, this is a, this is, like, put, just put like a, like a pattern. This is like a rock.


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[Assistant] Outcropping or whatever, you know, this is grass, uh, you know, fill in the blanks, which could lead to people having very different viewing experiences depending on which


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[Assistant] I could see it being kind of like that to a point where you could just stream blocks of color and it would just- Oh, like decides things?


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[Assistant] Like motion, so you could almost have like, like, uh, like encoded, like dots, like, like object markers. And then you essentially, instead of streaming data, you are actually just rendering it.


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[Assistant] Youtube announces some vague new AI tools. Something, something, uhm, create artificial scenes, swap clothing virtually.


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[Assistant] Sounds like kind of VTuber, VTuber stuff. Uh, they're also apparently rolling out a feature where creators can record a short, parallel to another video, similar to TikTok's duet feature. It also happens to be similar to YouTube's own long-defunct video responses feature, which was discontinued September 2013 because it had a click-through rate of .0004%.


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[Assistant] I think that's pretty much it for topics today. We've got a thing where artists and computer scientists are designing anti-facial recognition clothes. It's pretty cool, but I think we can leave it for a week where we aren't already three hours in with, uhm, a lot of merge messages to get through. Do we want to deal with these extra topics or no? The ones at the bottom? Yes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, no, no, and no. We're not going to talk about you organizing in your wrecked thumb. I'm sorry to hear about your thumb though. It's okay. Merch message is time, let's go!


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're from a company called iKron, and they do optical USB. Those things are bulletproof. Uh, when my Thunderbolt, I always have my peripherals connected to that, so that in the event that I need to troubleshoot my stupid Thunderbolt dock,


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[Assistant] I have a working keyboard and mouse. Uh, I also have an optical display port directly from my computer to my monitor now, through the walls, uh, rather than relying on Thunderbolt to carry DP for that same reason. When it works, it's amazing, and just one cable, blah blah blah blah blah, but when it doesn't work, boy is it ever a pain in the


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[Assistant] I still end up doing a lot of tech stuff, uhm, like I still get called in to help with stuff sometimes, you know, I know just enough about everything which is sort of unique in the office here, like there's obviously a lot of things that, you know, an Anthony or an Alex, uhm,


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[Assistant] I still end up doing a lot. I also am surrounded by people who know more, like, no matter what it is. Okay, so no matter who you are, there's something I know more than you about, but no matter what it is, there's someone in this building that knows way more about it than me. So I pick up a lot by osmosis.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just being around, uhm, you know, hearing, hearing what the trials and tribulations were, and seeing the solution, like I'm immersed in this stuff all day, every day. So even though a lot of it's administrative, a lot of the admin stuff that I do, like paperwork-y stuff, is things like script review.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, on the one hand I did a lot of admin this week, but I also got into the weeds of how applications worked on Apple's XServe line of servers. We've got a video coming about those by the way. We got our hands on the last model that they ever built, like played around with it. You know why it died? Spoiler alert, it's too good.


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[Assistant] Well, so that's part of it. Uhm, but that's not the biggest part of it because the way that Apple manages hardware obsolescence is through not providing software updates anymore. So realistically, they could have just, you know, shortened the, the, the software support cycle on it or something like that.


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[Assistant] But what they were up against was completely different revenue models.


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[Assistant] Their model, right, is to sell hardware.


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[Assistant] For better or for worse. Or at least, you know, in 2009.


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[Assistant] Well, how do they compete then with, you know, Microsoft and their partners like Dell or HP Enterprise, where they charge you for the hardware?


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[Assistant] And then you pay for the software, and then you pay for client access licenses, and at that time they were trying to figure out how to turn everything service based, and Apple's sitting here going, well we're gonna have a riot on our hands if we try to convert like this, why are we even bothering when everything's gonna go to the cloud anyway?


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[Assistant] So, they're sitting there going, okay, how do we turn this into a recurring revenue model? We can either, you know, duke it out in like this stupid specialized hardware space, or we can just turn everything into a service-based, cloud-based solution. Obviously, we know which way they went, right?


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[Assistant] Once it was up and running, I can see why people loved them.


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[Assistant] And people did, like, I couldn't figure, I couldn't figure out, before we really dug into it, why anyone cared that XServe went away.


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[Assistant] Now I get it. It acted as if you could use it for like Windows domain services.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right? I wouldn't have expected that. SMB file sor- file stor- uh, file sharing? Like, it did everything!


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[Assistant] My garage has a roof leak in it.


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[Assistant] Uh, do you remember the engineered hardwood that we put in as part of the, uhm, cleanest living room upgrade? Like, when we went from the dark brown to the grey?


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[Assistant] So we chose that from a local flooring store and the supplier for it was in California and basically what happened was they installed it here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our humidity apparently either is too high or fluctuates too much and the whole thing contracted and ripped apart. There's gaps in that floor this big. Yeah, between the boards.


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[Assistant] The, uhm, the installer tried to blame the store. The store tried to blame the manufacturer.


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[Assistant] This is a defective product. You guys didn't allow it to whatever enough, or you didn't secure it well enough, or you didn't, you buffered, you, you buffered too little or too much, you did something. Yeah. Uh, or the product just went, anyway.


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[Assistant] They ultimately never fully fixed it. Uhm, and unless we want to sue them, there's nothing that we can do about it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean there's my pool that isn't done yet. That's pretty cool. Uhm, there was also when I installed the, uh, the DIY air conditioning.


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[Assistant] Well first, it leaked, uh, because I made a mistake. And then that was fixed pretty quickly, but, you know, it caused a little bit of damage. Then, we got, uh, you know by the laundry room?


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[Assistant] Bad. And like the floor was wet. Oh, this was the new floor. Brand new floor was wet and was like rippling.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that was separate from the issue with the floor, which they tried to blame that, they tried to blame the, the separation on that, but we were like, no, no, there are completely separate rooms that are also separating, that ain't it. Uhm, anyway, so it was like rippling, and we didn't realize until it had like, come up in between the things, cause the leak was really slow, uhm,


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[Assistant] As it turns out, the problem was not that the AC unit was leaking, cause you know how they, it collects condensation, right? And it has to drain it somehow. Well that was all fine. That's what I thought was the problem, but I kept, I checked those units over and over and over and over again. They weren't leaking. But the volume of water coming through was obviously substantial.


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[Assistant] You know what it was? It was the main bathroom shower.


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[Assistant] So, it was a micro fracture in, like, uh, in an elbow, like a PVC elbow, and as long as it was one shower once in a while, it didn't leak enough to cause any kind of problem.


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[Assistant] Like a few drops or whatever, it will eventually...


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[Assistant] It revealed a flaw that had actually probably been there for years. Okay, so there, is that enough horror stories from you? Homeownership do be like that though. It kinda sucks. Don't be down on baths!


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[Assistant] I mean, your bath is more manly than my bath. I got the scented candles up in there. I got the chocolates on the side. Yeah, I take a bath. Look, man, when I, especially when I exercise, I need a bath.


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[Assistant] Like, the heat man, it's good for the muscles. It's good for the muscles.


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[Assistant] Uh, Neo Chowen says, I thought you said that, uh, you and Yvonne shower together to talk over stuff. Yeah, we used to shower together a lot more. That was back in the day. And we still, we still do when I don't, when I like didn't exercise, but I, man, like at least every other day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like, I, okay, I, you know, I'm gonna out myself here. I'm not like an everyday shower or bather.


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[Assistant] But yea, so, uh, we do use the shower occasionally, but we were, we were not using it a lot in the lead up to the AC thing. And honestly, I haven't used it much at the, uh, at the new place.


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[Assistant] I'm not a once a week bather either though. Anytime I exercise, I'll bathe and that's usually every other day. Got it, yeaah. So like, I have very few opportunities to take a shower. Like if I need to, like, quickly clean up, yeaah, obviously I'll jump in the shower.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's no one thing that's gonna ensure your survival, your bone.


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[Assistant] Maybe a tent. You're stranded on an island. How about a sleeping, how about a shelter? There.


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[Assistant] I, I, hold on, I want to address the am I proud of you thing yet. I, I am an advocate for uhm, for, for, for


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[Assistant] And, you know, if it's just a career change or whatever else and you like have plenty of money, then by all means, yeaah. I'm super proud of you for getting your first tech job paycheck, but you should only spend money on stuff if you can afford it. You shouldn't just like take a check and just like immediately convert it into stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, then love it! But if it was a stretch for you, then I would, I would like to see you take care of things like shelter and food and uhm, and you know, your basics, your basics first.


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[Assistant] I think is, is pretty fair to say. I mean, I think clothing is pretty essential, and I think you, we can justify the cost of the clothing just with how well it lasts, but uhm, oh. Sorry.


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[Assistant] That's Luke's reminder to tell me that the show's been going on for far too long and we need to wrap it up, but it's not happening anytime soon. Let's go!


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[Assistant] Oh, Luke's got some stories. I'm trying to even think, I don't even remember who it was. I know there's been some like data center stuff that's been brutal. I know that I have


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[Assistant] They didn't reply to my email, so there is simply no way for me to find an answer to this question.


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[Assistant] I could, I could get an answer immediately. Or I could just wait around and see if my message got lost in the ether. Oh, obviously, boop, boop, boop.


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[Assistant] Did you know that our, whatever, whatever, hours of operation are this and this to this?


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[Assistant] Because at least if I can just put it next to me and completely space out? That's... Alright, fine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, affiliate revenue, subscriptions, maybe, uhm.


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[Assistant] Helping us produce better content on the video channels, helping us launch more video channels, I think- Some of it's gonna be a little bit intense. Yeah, I'd love to see, yeah, I'd love to see, uhm,


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[Assistant] Retailers, uh, license, API access to our data, for example, to make their product pages more informative. I don't know. In the long term, there's all kinds of ideas, but only time will tell.


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[Assistant] I know that it's going to be a competitive advantage to have this testing capacity. That I know.


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[Assistant] What we're competing for? What we're gonna win? Uh, who we're competing against? Not sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the glass bead in the bottom, uhm, yeah, 300, that might not be enough to melt glass. I don't know. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I haven't gotten an approved list yet. Uhm, some of them are, are...


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[Assistant] You know, even once we say they're coming, stuff happens. Things come up last minute, whether it's like- They're creators, their schedules are crazy. Yea, family responsibility, or an impossible to say no to sponsor deal, you know, whatever, you never know, stuff happens, you know, life is crazy.


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[Assistant] But what I've asked the team to do is check in with people and say, hey, can I at least say that you want to try to come? And if you aren't able to make it, no hard feelings or whatever, but we want to at least be able to start to talk about people. Uhm, and I'm not there yet. Soon.


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[Assistant] Apparently Brett from UFD Tech announced today that he's going to LTX. Okay, I mean I didn't know, but there you go.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't want it to just turn into nepotism central here. I don't think that's healthy for the, for the work environment. Uhm. How would you go about employing one of them? Man.


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[Assistant] See, that's, that's tough because I could imagine myself saying, you know, Junior, you're gonna start at the bottom and darn it, you're gonna stay there until you prove yourself. But I could also see myself


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[Assistant] You know, every parent wants to create an advantage for their children. They want them to succeed, right? So, you know, if, if my son or daughter came to me and was like, uh, you know, dad, I've got this great idea for a channel.


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[Assistant] But then there's a risk there, right? Like, where's the line between giving them a shot and, you know, essentially, uh, hiring people to, to babysit them?


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[Assistant] The point isn't to just like beat them into submission either. Yea, that too. Yea. Right? Like you wanna, you wanna create an environment where they can do their best.


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[Assistant] Cause there, like, there's this whole thing where uhm, where wealth...


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[Assistant] Survives a maximum of I think it's like three or four generations or something like that. Because what, the, the, the, the characteristics that create wealth are not perpetuated by being wealthy. So it's like cyclical.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so we gotta figure out, you know, how to, how to make our kids have the same characteristics that have made me and Yvonne successful. And it sure wasn't growing up with silver spoons in our mouths. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like our kids have it way easier than we did. By a long shot. We see it. And we-


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[Assistant] Don't know how to fix it because obviously, you know, we-


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[Assistant] I would like to enjoy our success a little. You know, I don't want to have a newspaper route after my full time job during the day and have my kids fall asleep in the back of the car while I deliver papers or whatever. Uhm, just so that they see that. Like, because I just don't.


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[Assistant] And, and it's not even necessarily the kids that are the problem. Could be the grandkids. Like, maybe our, uh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Your inheritance is backpacks and screwdrivers. Good luck, have fun.


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[Assistant] Yes, but we're not sure what it's gonna look like yet. I don't think we had any luck getting in touch with Honeywell directly, but I think we're in touch with a supplier.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, we'd love, we'd love to carry it. I think we're, I think we're also chatting with the Rackstads folks about carrying Rackstads. Just like, I don't know, can the store just like carry good products? I think so. I don't see why not.


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[Assistant] I wonder if that's part of my problem. Uh, I haven't specifically done that. I will have to look into that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, more home automation videos coming? Yea, in, undoubtedly at some point, but not for a while. I'm waiting on Innovelli to release their new, uhm, millimeter wave presence detection switches. Hopefully that'll solve a lot of my problems.


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[Assistant] It doesn't really solve the problem. With all of that said, uhm...


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[Assistant] I am planning to open up a badminton center. So this is something I think I haven't really talked about yet. Uhm, and it will be designed in such a way that it will be


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think we've, I think I've never really just come out and said it. Uhm, progress is excellent on, on the building. And uhm, it is...


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[Assistant] It is loaded for bear in terms of networking and power. Sweet. I think we'll be able to do 250, 300 person lands there pretty easily and the requirements that I laid out for Chase and anyone working on events is I want this thing pretty much, uhm,


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[Assistant] Preloaded onto pallets or, you know, like pretty much to the point where in three hours. Oh, okay. Yeah, we can roll it out so like


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[Assistant] I'm talking network switches for the tables that at the end of the event, you just unplug them from the computers, wrap them up,


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[Assistant] Stack em. So when it's time to redeploy them, you just go plonk.


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[Assistant] I mean maybe, yeaah, I don't see why we couldn't, we couldn't wire it up like that. I mean, basically I said look,


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[Assistant] I don't want it to interfere with our ability to run this place as a badminton center.


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[Assistant] But if we book off times occasionally, I would like this to be unroll, roll back up about three hours I think is the goal that I set for them with a handful of people. And I think it's doable because the entire building is gonna have all of the connection points for land and power to the point where if you've got just like,


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[Assistant] A-a-a-a couple of bins of these California Standard, like Power Breakout.


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[Assistant] Well, there's your power. You've got just like, uh, you know, like a big cart of tables. You just kind of roll down the middle and go, okay, table, table, table, table, table. If you know what the layout is and you've kind of done it a few times, I think we could get this down to the point where we could


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[Assistant] On a Friday night. Say okay. Uh, thanks for watching. See you again next time. Same bad time, same bad channel. Uh, for those of you who are gonna be at Wail Land, we'll see you guys in half an hour. That'd be sick.


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[Assistant] Uhm, legendary dust on float planes says, Honeywell is hard to get a hold of. They won't return my emails and I'm trying to buy aircraft parts for the US Air Force. Oh my goodness. Okay then.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the reason that we did it as a limited run was that we didn't get that one sampled and we were worried it would suck. So we ordered very limited quantities of it. It wasn't an intentional limited edition thing. So with that in mind, I don't see why we wouldn't restock it, but I don't have any kind of ETA on that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that'd be sick. I don't think it'd be for a second though, cause if you need to be on like, Spanish banks or whatever to see them, I don't think it's gonna be that close. Oh, okay, I don't know where they were. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Pippin XMark console disappeared. Yes. I don't know what happened to it. I genuinely do not have-


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[Assistant] And I said, hey, uhm, this is not only, you know, my favorite show, but also, uhm, you know, it's kind of rare and it has some sentimental value for me as well.


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[Assistant] And, uh, could I please get it back once you're done watching it? And not only, uhm, did I not get it back when he was done watching it, I had to follow it up earlier this week, and he was like, no, I don't have it. And he was like, oh, maybe I do have it.


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[Assistant] Oh, Pippin Atmark. Sorry, did I say Exmark? Sorry, Pippin Atmark was the console. That is a true story, I did just get this back from him right before the show today. I don't think necessarily all the details are perfect though.


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[Assistant] The main ones! The main ones! By the way, this is a great show. It's streaming on CBC Gem. Uhm, it's very funny.


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[Assistant] And we have good people here. Like, we've actually had shockingly little go missing over the years. I wouldn't even be surprised if we found that stupid appmark lying around somewhere at some point. I'm just not too worried about it.


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[Assistant] It kind of sucks because they're not like- It could have been thrown away. The server that we used for 10 Gamers 1 CPU got accidentally thrown away, which I was extremely angry about. It wasn't stolen, it was just, it was, it was chucked into the, like the outside, uhm, uh, that trailer that we used for like hauling junk to the dump.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's stupid. And like half the time you get poutine here, it's not made right, like it's, it's too, the gravy's too cold to melt the cheese, and you're sitting here going, this is basic, it's got, I don't know, man, like curry, like any kind of like Malaysian curry, or like, yeah, Southeast Asian curry, Indian curry, I love curry.


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[Assistant] Like burritos, give me a burrito any day. I love nachos.


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[Assistant] Mexican place in like LA. It's like, it's the same as, uh, it's the same as how you can get, you know, Indian food in Vancouver.


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[Assistant] And it's like overpriced and it's fusion and blah, blah, blah. Uh, or you can get Indian food in Surrey where there's a huge East Indian community. And it's like, it's cheap and plentiful and delicious. You're just like, yeah, because that's where the people who eat this all the time and actually know what it's supposed to taste like are. So yeah. Yeah. It really, it really depends.