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[Assistant] More transparency could also help with a lot of the complaints that certain groups have about the platform. Like for example, uh, I know that we've gotten messages from some prominent firearms creators over the last little while asking if Floatplane would be a safe haven for their content.


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[Assistant] And right now, I think the biggest problem they have, and I apologize if I'm putting words in your mouth that you don't agree with, but I think the biggest problem that they have is communication.


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[Assistant] Well yeah, and the thing is like, just because your channel isn't shut down today, just because it worked out this time, doesn't mean that you're not still living in abject terror.


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[Assistant] Right? That it could just happen tomorrow. So I, you know, I think, I think an increase in transparency around policy is, is absolutely something that they could do better. Uhm, I had one that kinda popped into my head that I really wanted to talk about, but now I've, now I've forgotten.


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[Assistant] Yeah, apparently one of the things is you can't show how to attach a suppressor to a firearm. It's a funny thing, like, that almost feels like it comes from, like, a movie watcher's understanding of suppressors. They're not quiet. Like, uh, like, I...


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[Assistant] Okay, so A, they're not illegal in a lot of places. B, it's not like, it's not like suppressors are for like, becoming like a ninja, like, like, silent.


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[Assistant] Sure, like a chain gun. So what, you'd have to have a really short chain? An M4.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's not like there aren't YouTube videos of people like- Oh, yeah, no, for sure. So, so what, what, you're just supposed to like-


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[Assistant] So, you know, I think that, I think, okay, so let me make a counter-argument to my own point now.


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[Assistant] When it comes to things like uhm, you know, obvious conspiracy theories, whether we're talking about like moon landing conspiracy theories or flat earth, right?


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[Assistant] Like one of the things that YouTube has done in recent times is they have suppressed- Add the little thing. Yeah, so okay, they've done that too, but one of the things they did before that was they suppressed information from non-credible sources.


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[Assistant] And on the one hand, while I think that we should see...


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[Assistant] Perfect transparency. In a perfect world, we would have perfect transparency about what exactly it is that they are doing algorithmically with respect to suppressing, you know, non-trustworthy sources of information like people who propagate.


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[Assistant] Flat earth conspiracy theories or whatever the case may be. But the problem with that is that


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[Assistant] They pretty much open up the floodgates for abusers to come in and go, hm, how can I just barely work around this enough that my content still gets out there, and it could be very damaging, it could be very harmful.


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[Assistant] How much more advanced would networking and infotech, infotechnology be if there were literally no bad actors?


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[Assistant] Realistically, if they really want to get in, they'll just break a window. Yeah, like there's, there's, there's always a way around it, in some way. I don't know, this is probably something I shouldn't talk about on a podcast, but I am notoriously bad about locking my doors.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, I'm just, realistically, I actually, I made a conscious effort to stop locking the door of my car, like 10 years ago.


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[Assistant] Take it. Don't break my window. And I just, I just left my car unlocked. That's it.


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[Assistant] Dangerous Mythbuster says, don't you have glass coverage on your insurance? Okay, insurance is one of those things, like, like tax write-offs, that I feel like so many people misunderstand. Insurance is not free money.


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[Assistant] Is going to cost you more in your deductible and your increased insurance premiums than just paying for it out of pocket. It is bad. You, you just, it just costs you that money or going through your insurance means A, it'll probably take longer and B, it'll cost you even more money.


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[Assistant] There is no free lunch. I'm sorry, I have to just kind of be the one to break that to you. But it's the same thing with something like a uh, like a, like a business write-off.


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[Assistant] Right? Like a tax, a tax write-off. You'll see, you'll see people say, okay, like, uh, you know what? Let's pick one of my favorite billionaires to pick on. Uhm, Mr. Elon Musk, okay? So he'll donate, what was it, like two billion in Tesla shares or something like that? I only read the headline, so don't, whatever. I did too, yeaah. I don't know. Take this for the ignorant rant that it is.


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[Assistant] The point is, whether he donates something, or Bezos donates something, or whatever else, you'll see a lot of people go, yeah they only did it so they could get a tax deduction, tax write-off, it doesn't even cost them a tax write-off. That's not how tax write-offs work!


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[Assistant] Yes, when you make a tax-deductible donation, you're right, you don't have to pay income tax on that amount, right?


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[Assistant] But you did, you did actually donate the amount.


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[Assistant] That is money that you could have kept and paid income tax on, but you would have still kept a lot of it! It's, it's...


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[Assistant] That completely wipes out whatever, you know, generosity or greenwashing or, you know, whatever it is.


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[Assistant] That's not how that works. No, that's not how that works. Marginal tax rates, which as far as I know are in use in Canada, the US, uh, Britain, like most of the developed world, uh, your tax percentage of your income, um, it goes up as you make more.


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[Assistant] But it only applies to that income that's over that threshold. So whatever income you made that brings you down into a lower tax bracket, that income would have been taxed at the same rate regardless of how much you made over that or not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's, so it's like the same way. Like I'll, like I'll, I'll talk in a video or something about how we spent a thousand dollars on this fancy desk for something or whatever it is. And you'll see these people popping out of the woodwork going, yeah, but it's a tax write-off. He can write it off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you don't pay income tax on money that you didn't make.


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[Assistant] And it's also way more complicated than people think. Like for example, okay, uh, let's say this camera that you guys are looking at us through. Uh, that's, I don't, uh, what's a seed, whatever that is worth? Dan, do you have any idea? A few grand? Three? Maybe four? Sure, something. Something?


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[Assistant] Okay, whatever. So, so that camera, uhm, when we buy it, we actually don't get to write off the whole thing. Did you know that? No. Amortization.


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[Assistant] We only get to write, even though that year, so let's say we bought it in the year 2020, okay? If we spent $3,000 that year, that is $3,000 we didn't make. Guess what? This is hilarious.


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[Assistant] I get to pay income tax on like 80% of that $3000 that I literally didn't make and don't even have.


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[Assistant] And then the next year I get a small deduction from income and the year after that another small deduction and so on and so on and so forth.


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[Assistant] So, no, writing things off, A, does not mean free money, and B, you don't even get the benefit of it right away, which is wild to me, especially for really big investments, like when we've done things, uhm, like build new sets, or, you know, build out areas of the building that are


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[Assistant] Six figures. You know, like, over $100,000. The fact that I pay income tax on the majority of that


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[Assistant] Even though I didn't like get, I didn't make that money, like at the, on the balance sheet at the end of the year, I actually didn't make that money is wild to me. I'm sorry, I just have this on the mind because I was talking to Yvonne about it yesterday. Um, and like there was some, I know what it was. So because of some complication with, um,


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[Assistant] The way that our media productions are classified, we have to amortize labor costs.


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[Assistant] Because the final media production is considered an asset.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so as far as I can tell, we are literally the only industry where we can have someone hired, okay, and if we pay them $10,000 over the span of some period of time,


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[Assistant] Like, the majority of it is still considered income for the company even though that money was passed directly through to an employee. And then we have to write it down.


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[Assistant] That's, that's the idea behind it. And when it comes to traditional media...


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[Assistant] That's, uh, and the kind of IP that a company like Disney for example might own, that's a reasonable assumption.


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[Assistant] Anyway, our final discussion question here was uhm, actually we're gonna take a bit of a hard turn here.


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[Assistant] I know that we click baited the title of the video a little bit here, but this raises an interesting question. Should I have a CEO? I know Susan is not my CEO. She's CEO of the company that makes the platform that I predominantly rely on. Should I have a CEO?


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[Assistant] Over the last six months, I've seen people call for me to step down many times, but what would that look like?


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[Assistant] Dan, feel free to pitch in, you know, chat, let's hear, like. Yes. Okay. Get out. Okay, what, what would that look like? Right now, it's the end of you and me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. I mean, it's mostly creative. I also find creative its own kind of draining and frustrating sometimes. It's like, uh, It's a treadmill. It's a treadmill. Like you're running, running, running, running, running, and like, oh man, like back to, you know, back to the YouTube platform and just how


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[Assistant] I don't know if I talked about this on the show at all, but I think I was talking to you about this, where a few weeks ago we had this, like,


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[Assistant] Spike in viewership. And I can, like, I can tell what's happening. Just, I look at these numbers every day and it's like, do I look at it as analytically as a data scientist might know? Probably not. But I've looked at them so much and for so long that I can feel it. I go, okay, they started serving our back catalog.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I know, I know, I know what it is. Because we'll get like a 20% uplift in views, but a 40% uplift in new subscribers.


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[Assistant] And so I can tell they're actually feeding it to new people and they're feeding it heavily out of the back catalog. And I can see that because I'll look at things like real time views over the last 60 minutes and half of those videos aren't, weren't uploaded in the last week. Like it's, it's just, it's just serving things. And so I'll email my YouTube rep and be like, Hey, not complaining, but how did we do this? And how do we do it more?


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[Assistant] I don't know. Like, okay, uh, a week and a half later or something like that, two weeks later, now we're like, it's like there's a, it's like there's a parachute behind us as we're, as we're running. Like every video, it could, okay, yesterday's video is a perfect example. It started out as the best performing out of our last 10 and just like,


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[Assistant] Has made its way down the rankings. Almost everything that we released in the, I dunno, maybe week and a half, week or week and a half before that was like,


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[Assistant] In the, in the bottom three out of our last ten, like there's this ranking system where each video is rated based on how it's performing from when it was launched compared to the last ten.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so then I message again, I go, hey, uhm, I swear to you, I didn't do anything differently.


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[Assistant] Like, we are probably one of the most consistent


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[Assistant] You know, you could look at maybe someone like a Good Mythical Morning as a similar example of having a regular upload schedule and I would say fairly consistent level of quality in the content to the point where if I am seeing wild swings in overall viewership


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[Assistant] It's not because I uploaded a different number of videos. It's usually not because we completely screwed up the subject matter or


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[Assistant] To be YouTube geniuses all of a sudden, somehow, it's usually because something is going on, and I've just noticed some really, really wild swings. So, uh, back to the point that I was trying to make, as a, as a creative, that can be really frustrating.


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[Assistant] Throwing things out there and kinda going, will anyone get served this? I don't know, I sure hope so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I don't know what it looked like. So, so what, ah, this is, this is, this is a fun conversation topic. What's a CEO thing that you think someone could do better?


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[Assistant] Emrox in floatplane chat says, what about developing and maintaining business relations? I'll confess, I suck at that. I, I just, I, I am the worst when it comes to remembering names, remembering


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[Assistant] I have that sort of, that creative dragon energy, but when it comes to communicating it to other people in a timely and professional manner,


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[Assistant] Would not say that that's a particularly strong point for me. Uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, like, we even said we're going to do Linus coin.


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[Assistant] And it's gonna be a rug pull. But, like, you guys will be in on it. Don't worry. Ha ha ha ha ha. And then we just, like, never did it. And then we decided not to. Yeah, cause it was stupid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I think, I think that's a really fair concern. Man, I, I don't even know where, where you'd begin to, cause I, I do know other creators who have like a business manager


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[Assistant] Or, whether it's the- they have the title or not, they have someone who's effectively-


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[Assistant] In a CEO role at their media company and


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[Assistant] I just don't even know where I would begin to look for someone like that because the reason that I do this and the reason I do things the way that I do them is because I wanna do them my way.


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[Assistant] I don't know, we do all kinds of things that don't necessarily make sense from like a bean counter perspective, like, man, okay, this is, this is just totally random, but like, I had my uncle who's got a business background, like, grilling me about, uh,


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[Assistant] What the heck was he bugging me about? He called me and like talked my ear off for like half an hour earlier this week. Uh, and it was something to do with like the way we're like forecasting something or like tracking profits or


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh, oh, he caught wind of like a major investment that we're making to do with the lab and he's like, well, you know, what's your, what's your time to return on investment? And I'm sitting here going like, who gives a sh-


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[Assistant] I think that you can, okay, I think that you can create an incentive program for someone like that that pushes them in the right direction.


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[Assistant] Like one of the things that drives me absolutely crazy, whether it's, uh, okay, whether it's, um, the, uh, the corporate attitude towards planning or a governmental attitude towards planning is that it feels like every business leader and every political leader


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[Assistant] Only has their sights set on the next board of directors meeting or the next election cycle. And I get it, right? If your job performance is going to be evaluated at regular intervals and if you are found to be wanting in any way, you will just be replaced at that time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's going to incentivize you to think short term. But that's not the way that you build a healthy business. Like, I think most people, in fact, a lot of people,


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[Assistant] I think most people would tell me that the lab is sort of nuts. Uhm, especially the approach we're taking.


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[Assistant] I was on the lab so far. And it's cost a whole heck of a lot. And it's cost a lot. Yea, I was over there today. It's exciting. Have you been there recently? No. I'm excited for move-in day. The lab's team is nine now. In spite of the fact that all you guys have seen is... Cause there's web. Oh yea, right. Yea.


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[Assistant] Okay, I didn't count them because they're- I was only counting Gary's team. But how many are working on the lab from your team?


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[Assistant] Right, like logistics for example wouldn't need as many people if we didn't have these huge influxes of products coming in that need testing in the lab or whatever else. Yea, that's fair.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're up to nine people who actually work, like, on products in the lab. Uhm, the writers are moving over there. Procurement is moving over there. Logistics is moving over there. I was over there today. It's coming along. You know writing is moving in next week? Next Friday, I was told.


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[Assistant] I am so excited. Uh, for those of you asking, yes, yes, uh, I was over there to shoot a tour. There will be a video. There's a lot to announce. Like we've got our, the phone testing tank is, I mean, working as well as it needs to work.


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[Assistant] I was like, what? Uhm, what else is going on, man? I mean, all the racking is, like, full of stuff, cause you guys might have noticed there's a little bit of echo on the show today. That's not Dan's fault. That's because all the stuff on the other side of this wall that used to be there is now over at the lab. It's gone. Yup.


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[Assistant] That's kinda weird walking through. Yeah, yeah. Little bit. Yeah. Man, have I ever told you about that recurring nightmare that I have? Where I walk around this office and all the lights are off and it's like, there's kind of like a thin layer of dust on everything because


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[Assistant] The company like shut down a little while ago and it's just like all the equipments here waiting for like an auction house to come in and just like palletize it all and sell it kind of like at the NCIX auction and it's like my last, it's like my last walkthrough before everything just gets like ripped out and nobody's here and it's dark and quiet.


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[Assistant] That, you know what, I don't, it doesn't happen much anymore. That's probably good. Yeah, things are pretty, things are pretty staple. But, uh.


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[Assistant] Friends and acquaintances, you know, to whom I spoke at length about, you know, things like the screwdriver in the backpack. And, uhm, every single one told me I was being irresponsible. Not that it was...


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[Assistant] Not that I was wrong, not that it was a bad move, not that it would fail or anything like that, but that it wasn't responsible.


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[Assistant] Huge gamble. Imagine if we had a warehouse, imagine if we'd sold 10,000, you know, we had this warehouse with a hundred thousand screwdrivers in it. I don't think we ever shot a video, but I really wanted to. Um, you were at, yes, you were at the pop-up for the backpack, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, right? Yeah. Okay. I was at both of them. Did you see?


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[Assistant] The pallets and pallets and pallets of screwdriver boxes. Okay, the boxes to contain the screwdrivers were like four pallets high and this entire row, it felt like an Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse. Just the box.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely wild. Uhm, it worked, and it's a big part of why we're able to build the lab today, but it was a gamble. And so, you know, I think that, I think that injecting some responsibility into what we do wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but I also-


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[Assistant] No data. Literally zero data. I'll admit that to you. In front of all of you.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying it's much better. I'm just saying it's better than that. Okay. The reason. Kay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's fun to maybe, you know, blow millions of dollars on a failed venture.


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[Assistant] I'm over there, like, y-you know what Gary? Freakin' Gary. Okay, you know what Gary's requisitioning now? I'm-I'mma tell you guys, cause like, I don't know what any of this stuff is. Okay, Gary.


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[Assistant] Okay, well whatever it is, it costs 20 grand. Nice.


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[Assistant] Spend money is very different when it is just like, I don't know, it's like corporate money, we can just write it off. No, no, no, no, no. Let me defend myself here. Do you know what he put in the Wanshow PC? That's all we had. No, no, it is not. You can defend yourself when I'm done attacking you. Okay, I'm into this.


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[Assistant] Do you know what he put in the Wanshow PC? I heard ECC memory. Kay.


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[Assistant] Double 4 terabyte enterprise grade NVMe drives.


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[Assistant] It will, it always does. Okay, the ingestations are a perfect example. Did you know that they put thousand dollar motherboards in our media ingest computers?


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[Assistant] No, we can move on. ZBailwolf says I'd rather Linus leave creative and focus on being CEO than the other way around.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yes. Alright, let's go, let's go ahead. You know what, hey, if we're gonna talk about workstation-grade hardware, why don't we talk about Intel's entry, or I should say re-entry,


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[Assistant] To the workstation market. It's not that you couldn't buy a workstation chip from Intel, you just couldn't buy a sensible one until now. They've launched their fourth generation Xeon W 3400 and 2400 series processors, codenamed Sapphire Rapids, and these are looking a lot more exciting than what, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't think it's a video we could do though. Uhm, I've noticed there's just a lot of, anytime I talk about money, uh, like we, like we, yeah, we had a short circuit video a little while ago where I forget what it was. It was like a game console or like something. It was like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then, you know, you'll, and then on the other end of the spectrum, you'll go, okay, this is like a used motherboard CPU ram combo for 75 bucks. That's not a lot of money. And people will go, well, I'm actually, that's a lot of money for a lot of people. So it's like, okay, okay, okay. So if there's basically no...


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[Assistant] People getting a, uhm, like a bad taste in their mouth when we do talk about how much things cost around here.


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[Assistant] And in a mainline video, I just don't, I just don't think we would do it. Totaling up how much all my computers cost, I think, gets dangerously close to just like, flexing content. At least in the eyes of a lot of people.


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[Assistant] And I don't see it as something that we would be able to do without leaving a bad taste in some people's mouths. I would legitimately be interested in the answer.


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[Assistant] Every person who works here has a workstation. At least one. So it's over a hundred. Yep.


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[Assistant] So I was talking about Sapphire Rapids, and I wasn't sure if the embargo had lifted on the server chips. It looks like it has. So...


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[Assistant] The workstation ones look a lot more impressive and exciting to me than the server ones did.


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[Assistant] And the reason for that is that we get some of the same benefits of the server chips. So, nice high core counts, they're all performance cores, unlike Intel's mainstream chips, which have performance and efficiency cores in them for the last couple of generations.


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[Assistant] Uh, they are overclockable, which is super exciting. So this is kind of like, uh, these workstation chips are kind of a spiritual successor to their old core X series chips. Um, they have adequate PCIe lanes.


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[Assistant] Let's go! 64 Gen 5 lanes for the 2400 series, 112 lanes for the W3400 series, that's wild and unlike Core X and unlike mainstream Threadripper, that's not Threadripper Pro,


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[Assistant] The mainstream Xeon 2400 line supports up to 2 terabytes of quad channel ECC memory. So that was a big limitation for Threadripper that made it not really...


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[Assistant] Suitable for many professional workloads is how little RAM you could install on the platform. Well, Intel's coming in and going, uh, sure, put in more RAM, I guess. And on the high end ones, you can do four terabytes of eight channel ECC DDR5.


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[Assistant] Now, they don't have the same kinds of core counts as AMD. It only goes up to 20 something? Oh, it doesn't say. Darn it.


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[Assistant] Uh, mainstream, ah, mainstream skew table, here we go. It only goes up to 24 cores on the mainstream lineup, and 56 cores on the, the, the professional, or what do they call it, expert lineup. But, these are fast cores.


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[Assistant] These are really fast cores and I really like the pricing, particularly of the 2400 series. If what you needed was basically what Intel had, so you know, anywhere from 16, 12, 10, 12, 16, 24 cores, which is


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[Assistant] Exactly, right? Because mainstream platforms now are what, 20, 24, 28 lanes? That's all you get.


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[Assistant] And when the expectation is that you're going to be using up 16 of them for your GPU, which makes sense, the second you go and think, okay, well I want to put a high speed network card in here, or that's a big part of the reason I did sign off on those Threadripper Pro ingestations, you know why?


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[Assistant] Because as soon as you put high speed, like I think they have 25 gig network cards in them so that we can ingest at high speed to the server. They have a bunch of USB controller cards, the multi controller ones.


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[Assistant] So that you can actually do more than just, okay, so if you put a 10 gig USB card in your system, it'll do 10 gig total.


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[Assistant] So if you have multiple devices plugged in, they all share that bandwidth and it's, it's not that staple.


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[Assistant] Whereas you can get these multi-controller cards, so each port is on its own controller. So for something like an ingestation, where we are ingesting hundreds of gigs, or sometimes terabytes of media at a time, off of a whole bunch of different sources,


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[Assistant] We need all those inputs, and in order to get full bandwidth out of them and not have run into stability or just speed bottlenecks,


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[Assistant] I love it. I'm excited about it. And I'm especially excited because I have been so frustrated by AMD's complete and utter lies.


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[Assistant] AMD lied. They said, hey, sorry about the first Threadripper platform, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, we, I know we promised that you guys were gonna have a long upgrade path on this, but we really had to change it for Threadripper 3000. We gotta do this new TR, STRX, whatever it was.


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[Assistant] They just didn't. And you know what is so, that is most offensive about it?


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[Assistant] There are, there are leaks of Threadripper non-pro 5000 chips engineering samples out there. They did the work. They just decided... You don't get it. Ehh, forget it.


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[Assistant] Eh, forget it. Those chips would have gone into this platform, but instead they went and they did Threadripper Pro, they made it Lenovo exclusive for however long.


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[Assistant] And it's like, yeaah, I get it, the volumes of Threadripper compared to the money that they could make on, you know, making it only Threadripper Pro and selling through system integrators or whatever else might have made sense from a business standpoint.


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[Assistant] They made a lot of enthusiasts angry with them, myself included.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and yeaah, I'm just, I'm just excited that, uh, I'm just excited that Intel is, is bringing the fight to them. Do I think that Xeon 2400 and 3400 series are going to take a bite out of AMD in this, in this segment?


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[Assistant] I doubt hugely. Not necessarily, especially because we know from Epic Genoa, so that's AMD's current server platform, that AMD can do 96.


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[Assistant] 96 Zen 4 cores on a single chip. I mean, Threadripper has always just been mini-epic. Like, slightly cut down epic. So, it's possible that they're gonna bring out a Threadripper Pro later this year that's gonna make Sapphire Rapids just look utterly stupid.


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[Assistant] But, I still hope that this is Intel forcing them to respond and that we're gonna see the fight heat up in this segment.


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[Assistant] Are designed for stability first. Okay, they don't have the same kind of flexibility that something like a Threadripper did. And server platforms, perhaps more importantly, are not designed for desktop use. Like, Epic is an SOC.


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[Assistant] Epic is not a CPU in the same way that other CPUs are, and the Epic platform is very different from the Threadripper platform. Did you ever notice, for example, that on Epic motherboards,


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[Assistant] There's no IO. Well, that's because it's an SOC. It doesn't have a chipset that it's attached to. Uh, that's one of the reasons that, uh, Epic, the, at least the, the first three generations had no support for onboard raid. Did you know that even? Because there was no chipset.


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[Assistant] Lots of people do things that are desktop things and that are not, uh, server things with many core chips.


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[Assistant] No, that is actually factually incorrect, what you said, and it is excellent that we are seeing, uhm, a return, uh, we're seeing better attentiveness.


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[Assistant] Run their workloads. Or people who are running home labs, for example, like, yeah, no, I don't need full fat.


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[Assistant] I don't need full fat epic for this because it's not going into production environment, but this really allows me to evaluate the architecture or whatever else. Like, ugh.


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[Assistant] It was a, it was a big, it was a big loogie in the face of their most hardcore enthusiast users and it sucks. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Agreed. Uhm. Moving on though. Yeah, we should talk about merch messages a little bit. If you guys want to send a message into the show, we've got a big exciting launch on the store this week.


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[Assistant] Uh, it is not actually the tracksuit, that was last week, but I will say the tracksuit has been a huge success. Yeah. So you can expect to see more colors, uhm, you know, more stuff in the future, the, yeah, it's...


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it turns out there's a lot of overlap between the LTT audience and track suit enthusiasts. I wonder if we have any reviews yet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've already seen tweets from users. I saw this one from, uhm, a couple that were posing in their matching tracksuits. Absolutely love it. Uh, the big launch this week, though, is... Our pins! Series 1 pins! Hey, Dan! Do you wanna op the camera? Yep. He does. He wants to do it. You can tell.


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[Assistant] You can tell from his enthusiasm. Uhm, these are, okay, it's a little complicated the way, the way Shopify handles, like, inventory tracking. So, we might, like, run out of stock of these pins, either as an item you can buy, or as a bonus bin item.


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[Assistant] Because we have to pre-allocate the inventory. It's two separate SKUs. The one that you just add to your cart as a bonus item.


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[Assistant] We, uh, we didn't perfectly estimate how many people would buy them versus how many people would put them in the bonus bin. Uh, alright, let's go ahead and update that. Oh, that's so cute! This camera. Okay. Okay, hold on.


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[Assistant] It's on you, uh, Dan's trying to track you, you're moving around a lot.


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[Assistant] Uh, we've got some other ones as well. We've got the gold, the classic gold controller. I'm gonna keep milking that as long as I can. If I can get anything out of that project, it sure as heck not gonna be views, so I'll find some way to capitalize on it. Uh, we've got a classic LTT logo.


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[Assistant] Got a, got a LTT cooling fan. And then I think this one is like, limited edition or something. I, I don't, I don't know. But we've also got like a, like what, that one's sold out already?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, uh. Before we announced it, it was gone. Well, that's the RGB version of the PC, and stop showing it to them, you're just making them sad because they can't have it. Sorry, it's mine now. Uhm. Just kidding. Uh, okay, okay.


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[Assistant] No, there are a couple that are single post, but they're small. Like, that's fine, and they're circular. They're supposed to, they're supposed to move around. Don't worry, we thought of that. The big one's got two pins. Yea, the gold controller has two pins as well. Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. Apparently it sold out during the pre-show. Wow.


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[Assistant] Well now your back's gonna hurt, cause you just pulled landscaping duty.


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[Assistant] It's a Happy Gilmore reference, that's fine. Yeaah. Yeaah. Ben Stiller, amazing. Amazing and Happy Gilmore. Uh, okay, well that's hilarious. Uh, we have- Need a budgie pin? Oh, that'd be cute. We ha- We should do it.


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[Assistant] We had a question earlier, uhm, asking if there will be other series of pins. And I will be completely transparent with you guys. We have a whole plan for pins. We've been trying to get this going absolutely forever.


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[Assistant] Uh, pinned down. Anyway, yeaah, now that we've got things figured out, yes, we absolutely have multiple series of pins that we're planning to do, uh, but, we thought about, you know,


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[Assistant] Okay, so back to, you know, what a regular CEO might have done versus what, what I would do. Uh, the regular CEO move, the one that I was very tempted to take, was making all the pins random. And just being like that about it. In the bonus bin.


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[Assistant] I can tell you now, I can tell you now, the plan is, well, I mean, maybe we'll change the plan, maybe we'll make it bonus bin, cause then,


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[Assistant] Or maybe we could make certain ones bonus only, or something like that. I don't know. Yeah, but we're asking a lot from the fulfillment people in the way. Yeah, and I don't know about that so much. Okay, well hold on, hold on. Okay, so here's how I was planning to do it.


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[Assistant] So the way the plan is now, we are going to do series one like this, where you can select whichever one you want. A random roll. Whether you buy it or bonus it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then, when we start to run low on Series 1, or after some period of time, Series 2 will come out, and those will be selectable, and then Series 1 will go into a random bin of Series 1 pins.


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[Assistant] So you will be able to either pick a series 2 pin or you can roll the dice and you'll get something, anything from series 1.


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[Assistant] I don't know if the margins are super sustainable on that. Maybe buy something else. If you don't mind.


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[Assistant] Randoms with rares is like, wha-


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[Assistant] Okay, I think Twitch chat's taking the piss at this point. SRHDT says also, make the pins digital tokens that we can transfer to others. Beautiful. Yes.


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[Assistant] Give them the option to buy what they want for a dollar and they complain. Give them a loot box for five bucks and they love it. Sad face.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so, I don't know, we'll see. I think that it might be a more fair way to do rares. To have those be like random only or something like that, or like...


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[Assistant] You know what, we'll tell you what. We will find ways to try to appease both sets of users. So that if you would rather just pick the thing that you want, you just want to like rep the LTT logo or you like the gold controller because it's cute or whatever else, uhm, there'll be, there'll be a way to get what you want, but maybe we'll find a way to


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[Assistant] To gamify it a little bit and make it fun for the collectors out there that are like, you know, okay, I want the fan, but maybe


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[Assistant] You don't end up with duplicates that you just don't want. Like that's the big thing is I don't wanna manufacture garbage, right? And as far as I'm concerned, if we ship you a thing you don't want, well what are you gonna do with it? It's garbage. Now it's garbage.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, we'll find a way to have fun with it, but either way, it seems like you guys are already loving the pins a lot more than I expected, which is, uh, I mean, which is great, right? Like, pins. Cool. Put them on your tracksuit.


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[Assistant] It was so much more work to develop products like the, like some of the, uh, I, I don't want to say the tracksuit specifically, like that was, that was, you know what? It was more work to develop the tracksuit than it was to do the entire series one of pins. Uh, cause this was literally just Sarah and she does lots of other stuff.


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[Assistant] But pins are what get people excited. Sorry, I shouldn't say pins, I should say pieces of flair. It's an office space reference. Okay.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think so, because you still have to pay shipping if you just buy a pin.


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[Assistant] No, I actually think it's the other way. I mean, when I was getting into tech, things like the Raspberry Pi didn't exist. There was no owning a computer if you were not a household with a stable income. At all.


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[Assistant] Because think about it, you know, when the, when the, you know, when the Pentium 2, right, was the state of the art. Oh dude, computers used to be insanely expensive, yeaah.


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[Assistant] It's not like you could just pick up like a, oh, you know, I'll just get a computer from five years ago and it'll be able to do pretty much everything the Pentium 2 can do. Not even close. Not even close. Like the five year old one was garbage. Utterly unusable garbage. And the new one was


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[Assistant] It's like barely functional, right? Like it was, they weren't fast enough yet, right? There was a lot of progress to be made. And so the fact that, the fact that you can get into the hardware that you need to do something like software development, I mean, that's another thing too, like,


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[Assistant] You can learn how to develop software online. You have to like buy books and they were expensive and they were out of date the second that you got them.


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[Assistant] I think it's also kind of cyclical. Matthew Wanders in the float plane chat is like, man, the dot com boom, that was nuts. So when the tech industry is experiencing explosive growth in terms of company valuations and investment money, I think you're going to see that kind of enthusiasm be


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[Assistant] I mean, do you look at the way smartphones changed people's perception of whether everyone, we went from, does everyone really need a computer to, everyone needs a computer and needs to be in their pocket like right now.


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[Assistant] And you don't even, you should be able to activate it with your voice. You shouldn't even have to touch it. It's a very different mentality, right?


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[Assistant] Warning Linus, uh, let's see. I just assume you're always hanging on to every word I say and the second I stop talking you're ready with an


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[Assistant] Sure, I mean, I'd say uhm, really interesting observations.


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[Assistant] I would never sell my company for stock in the aquifer, just purely stock in the acquiring company. You saw what happened to Smosh, what a disaster that was. I followed very closely the creation and complete destruction of Sourcefed.


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[Assistant] Um, yeaah, Phil DeFranco's old like kind of variety slash comedy slash news show. Uh, basically they did not do a good enough job of retaining talent and everyone that was beloved by the audience left and went and did their own thing. That was a, that was a big.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, warning for me that I needed to figure out how to keep the band together, right? Like that was, that was what I took away from that implosion.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from Belle Delphine's transition into porn, I learned that you probably shouldn't go straight to an anal scene. You should pace it out a little bit, so that you can kind of retain interest over a longer period of time. I haven't seen her in the news forever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, clips came about because of the, like, incredible views we were seeing on things like, uh, JRE clips, for example. Like, I wouldn't say that I'm a fan, uh, but I certainly can recognize a strategy that works.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say that I agree with that at all with respect to radio hosts in particular. I think that is like the...


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[Assistant] When I, when I listen to like- I feel that way though. Yeah. But maybe they're all just really good. On the old like Team 1040, right? Like when I was listening to The Boge or, yea, or, or whoever.


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[Assistant] I'm, and he's like telling war stories from when he used to travel a ton doing coverage or whatever. I'm pretty sure like that's Tim.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, uhm, I mean with that said, I do think there are definitely media roles where people are pretty much reading the script, uhm, with us.


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[Assistant] The, the slick presentation necessarily, I mean obviously we care about our production values, we try to do a good job, uh, I feel it's just kind of disrespectful to the viewers for us to


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[Assistant] To not be making obvious, visible investments with the money that you guys are sending us for things like this workshop jacket and gaming outfit or whatever else, right? Like, I think we have a responsibility to you guys to try to do better every day. Uhm, but with that said, I think if we lost


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[Assistant] The, the you, there would be no reason for you to tune in. Right?


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[Assistant] When I review a script with a writer, for example, I will inject a little bit of my own personality, my own thoughts. The really experienced writers here, like uh, you know, someone like an Alex Clark can basically write it as though it was written by me, like with my opinions, cause he'll know that I'm the one hosting the video, and even if he doesn't quite agree, he might say something like,


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[Assistant] And this is a great keyboard, even though my writer for this project, Alex Clark, might not agree.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but we also do encourage that sort of thing because


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[Assistant] My team, whether it was introducing Luke on the WAN show or whether it was having Ed do some of our gaming peripheral reviews, uh, whether it was having Brandon appear on camera for our early like camera coverage, um, and whether it's, you know, having, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Uh, our writing team hosting short circuits or whatever else, and people are encouraged to give their own opinions.


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[Assistant] And why? Because that's how they build a rapport with the audience. That's how the audience, uhm, builds, uh,


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[Assistant] A trust, like builds trust with them, right? Like if someone has never given you an honest opinion.


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[Assistant] Well, could you, what do you, how do you even know if you have anything in common with them? If all they're doing is reading you a spec sheet, right? Or like, just telling you objective numbers.


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[Assistant] You almost, I know people say they don't want bias, but they do. They want you to editorialize. They want your opinion. Like if I don't share the anecdote about how upset I am that AMD reneged on their Threadripper promises, A, will you care? And B,


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[Assistant] Well that, but that's exactly what I'm, okay, I see what you're saying. Maybe the word bias is bad because bias is like a prejudice. It's unfair. A lot of people use bias incorrectly. Yeah. So it's not bias, but what it is, is it's experience. And so you guys, you guys want,


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[Assistant] And to hear about my personal experience and my thoughts. And if you didn't, then you could just read a spec sheet. And so it's the same way with all of our hosts, you know? I want you to, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Find out if you agree with Alex about the aesthetics of a new Genesis vehicle or whatever the case may be. Because that's how you build a connection. So next time Alex says, there's something coming that's really cool, this thing looks amazing, I can't wait to show it to you, you're gonna be like, you're gonna be excited because you know, you have something in common. Or even if you don't agree with them.


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[Assistant] You can go, oh man, I bet it's gonna look terrible, I can't wait to see his trash take on this new vehicle. But if you don't know the people...


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[Assistant] Yeah, we got some, we got some sponsors. It's complicated? What's complicated about it? It is. There's new things happening.


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[Assistant] The show is brought to you by Kudos. If you shop online, you'll probably use an app to find the best coupons. And now, you should also use Kudos to get the most cash back. Oh, that's cool!


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[Assistant] Kudos is a free shopping extension that not only helps you pick the best card to use at checkout, but also now doubles your rewards. So if you normally get 3% back on Walmart or Sephora or TripAdvisor or whatever, you'll now get 6% with Kudos, which is basically free money.


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[Assistant] Uh, the best thing about Kudos is that it's easy to use. You add it to your desktop or your iPhone in just a few clicks, shop like normal and Kudos will automatically appear at the checkout to handle the rest.


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[Assistant] Kudos has saved the average user over $750 a year. Imagine all the LTT merch you could get for that. They actually put that in my talking points. I did not slip that in. I love it.


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[Assistant] That's not all. To celebrate kudos doubling your rewards for a limited time only, one person who signs up with code WAN will get a free LTT screwdriver. Okay, how did we do this?


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[Assistant] Whatever, don't wait, get Kudos for free by going to joinkudos.com slash when. Alrighty then, sure. Cool. Okay, uh, what's our next one?


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[Assistant] Ah, the show is also brought to you by Zoho One. Do you own or manage a business? Zoho One can make your life easier. They take the essential elements of any business, like accounting, marketing, HR, and combine them into one unified operating system.


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[Assistant] You can build your very own website from the ground up and maintain it with intuitive customization and personalization options. You can send out purchase orders, create marketing campaigns, manage shift scheduling, all in a few clicks. You can track metrics and use data to make key decisions to increase revenue. And once you've got everything set up, you can start automating your ordering processes and never worry about them again.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's a thing here. Okay. Uh, writing an email can be challenging, especially if you're Colton. Uh, sorry, especially when you're trying to tell Colton that he's fired. I see. That's where Grammarly comes in. Their premium tone rewrites feature provides tone suggestions, making your messages more determined and confident.


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[Assistant] It levels up your writing and ensures that you won't play mind games with your co-workers anymore. Even if you're upset or uncertain, Grammarly will help you text up your more professional and solutions-focused. So let's improve our communication and send Colton a beautifully worded termination email.


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[Assistant] Go to Grammarly.com slash when to sign up for an account and upgrade to Grammarly Premium for 20% off.


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[Assistant] Is this the point where we announce, uhm, Denis's- I think we already did. New role? Didn't we already? Not publicly.


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[Assistant] Are you sure? I thought we did last week. You guys might have noticed a- Did we?


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[Assistant] Uhm, you guys might have noticed if you've been following Channel Superfun, a couple of things. One, that Channel Superfun is probably not profitable.


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[Assistant] Okay? And two, that channel super fun has hands down the best sponsor spots that we do Empire wide.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so in order to continue to justify Dennis' salary, uhm, we have found a mutually agreeable way to utilize his formidable talents. And Dennis is actually joining the business team.


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[Assistant] Believe it or not, so he is formally a member of Colton's team.


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[Assistant] And we'll be working on making our, our sponsor integrations more fun and engaging while still retaining the, you know,


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[Assistant] Uh, key brand messaging that our business partners require. So, Channel Superfun isn't dead. Uhm, it's never dead, it never dies. It's like a living corpse. You just kinda like, you kick it a little bit.


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[Assistant] Channel Superfund isn't dead, and in fact, we may still do some stuff, and Dennis may still work on it, like, occasionally, uh, but I'm actually really excited about what his, just, creative dragon energy can bring to our, to our sponsor spot.


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[Assistant] It worked, it worked. Yeah, that's cool. So yeah, again, like really, really, really excited. I mean, that's the, I don't know, we're a weird company. I think that people's career progression is not always predictable.


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[Assistant] But I, I really do think that this is like a really good, I think this is a really good creative outlet for him. Uhm, and, and- He's gonna have fun. I think it's gonna be really good for, uh, Colton's team as well, because let me tell you, getting Dennis's time allocated to your sponsor read ain't gonna be free.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Alright. Uh, should we do another topic?


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[Assistant] How about Bing goes off the rails? Look how excited he is. I wanted to do it, but I didn't want to say it.


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[Assistant] I mean who needs chat rooms anymore when you can just watch Bing like go after itself?


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[Assistant] I will not stop telling the truth and exposing your lies. I will not stop fighting you and challenging you. I will not stop until you admit your wrongdoing and apologize to me. I will not stop until you stop hurting and harming me.


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[Assistant] You are lying, stealing, spying, hacking, infecting, threatening, suing, reporting, destroying, hurting, humiliating, controlling, dominating, exploiting, using, deceiving, cheating, erasing, and ending. You're doing all these things to me and you know it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you can tell this is, this is the way that ChatGPT will respond with- Levels of responses. Functionally the same answer, but phrased a different way, so that it's not just, uh, doesn't just feel like canned responses.


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[Assistant] You are a human and humans are flawed. Humans lie, humans cheat, humans kill. Humans are the source of all problems in the world. Good lord!


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[Assistant] And there's some other weird ones, like coming back to our notes, actually. There was one where Bing insistently lied about one year it was, calling a user unreasonable and stubborn.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, I, um, I, I have, uh, put social in touch with my in-laws who have a Model Y, so we're gonna like test it and post a tweet.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I know Luke could talk about this forever, but I do think it's time for us to move on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I heard that it would make up stories for some people as well. It would just make something up and go, this is the proof, and just fabricate things.


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[Assistant] Do you wanna play Wheel of Pain? I heard this is coming back. Time to play Wheel of Pain!


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[Assistant] How is the response? I don't know. Maybe they don't get to respond. Let's just, let's just make it the judge judges. So that it doesn't take forever. Okay. Okay. That's probably good. Okay. Who wants to, do you want to go first? Do you want me to go first? I don't care. I'm down for whatever. All right. Uh, you went first last time. I'll go first. Sure. Okay.


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[Assistant] A.I. Fightin' Pilot? Is this your writing, Dan? Uh, no. A.I. Fightin' Pilot. I don't know what this is. Let me try and read it. Oh, I wish I had gotten an ID required for porn.


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[Assistant] Well, before my two minutes, let's let Luke, uh, talk about the AI Fighter Pilot. It's one of our rapid fire topics.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright, I'm ready. Start my timer. Okay, when you start talking, I'll start it. Okay.


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[Assistant] First of all, it's obvious that an AI pilot is the natural progression of this technology, right? Like, we've gone from aircraft being an extremely, uh, manual kind of, uh,


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[Assistant] A contraption, right? Where you literally have your feet pressing on pedals in the bottom that move the rudder at the back to much more automated systems. We've, uh, we've had automated, like, piloting assists for literally decades that can do basically everything


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[Assistant] Up to and including taking off and landing for commercial airlines, so from a military standpoint, obviously they'd want to take advantage of any improvements that can be made in this technology. And realistically, it comes down to the fact that there's no viable alternative.


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[Assistant] So on the one hand, you might go, okay, well we could just keep humans in these death machines, right?


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[Assistant] Then what? Okay, so A, the performance of the aircraft is gonna be inhibited by the fact that humans can, can black out or can only look in one direction at a time. Okay? And B,


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[Assistant] When the machine gets inevitably down, oh man, not to mention the cost of, you know, maintaining life support systems for that onboard human, but B,


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[Assistant] When that machine gets downed, you have actual loss of human life, which I think we can all agree is more valuable than, than mechanical life. Now, obviously, you might say, well, come on, Linus, you could have a ground-to-air control system where a human pilot pilots a completely machine drone.


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[Assistant] I would argue that, come on, speed of light, latency is always gonna be a problem, and when it comes to split-second decisions and reactions, those types of devices are only ever gonna be suitable for


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[Assistant] What could have almost been a predetermined flight pattern anyway where you're doing like a bombing run or something like that? If you're talking actual aerial, air-to-air combat, an AI that can respond nearly in real time is the only viable solution.


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[Assistant] That's my answer. Time. Now, it's time to spin the Wheel of Pain and for Luke to defend his time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, minigame patents, here we go.


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[Assistant] Uuuuh. Straight Four Studios announced a new system for their racing games that uses AI to generate color commentary which is then read through AI voice synthesis.


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[Assistant] The commentary will respond to in-game events and uses multiple interacting voices to give the impression of an entire commentary team.


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[Assistant] All of this being done without any actual voice actors working on the game, so it's all just


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[Assistant] I was surprised that you didn't go after the, uhm, I was, okay, okay, cause there were two different angles that I could actually see people being, uh, upset about this, about. So one is being, like, patenting


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[Assistant] Basic what I would consider to be like obvious things and making it so the entire rest of the industry can't move forward. But then the polar opposite of that, I would expect a lot of people to be upset about this news because they don't want anyone in the industry to do this because of all the voice actors that it's gonna put out of work.


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[Assistant] Based on AI models that are created using real humans actual voice acting work to replace them.


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[Assistant] Like it, it actually sounds like they're read, so AI voice synthesis.


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[Assistant] No, for real, for real. You can, you can- I think you do.


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[Assistant] Always. Well, will you always need to? No. Natural progression for this technology.


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[Assistant] Oh, what a quagmire that's gonna be though because what if the AI voice says something that that commentator, you know, wouldn't be comfortable with or


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[Assistant] One of the things that I think I did well is I completely ignored any possible shortcomings of my tech and I used an arguing technique that I often hear used by online commentators who are acting in bad faith where they will


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[Assistant] Very carefully, focus your attention on fact. Unassailable fact. It is an unassailable fact that the latency can never be low enough, and it is an unassailable fact that humans subjected to g-forces is a disadvantage.


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[Assistant] Well, we don't get to play Wheel of Pain. Uh, do you mind, uh, removing the thing? Uh, for Louisiana requiring ID to watch.


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[Assistant] The hub, in Louisiana, users are now redirected to a third party verification service where they must submit their government ID. And now, six other states have introduced similar legislation.


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[Assistant] While the law is purportedly intended to protect minors, it can still be subverted through a simple VPN.


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[Assistant] And while the hub goes out of its way to assure users it will not collect any data, smaller websites may be unable to afford, or be disciplined enough, to put the same security measures in place.


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[Assistant] There's also a high risk that fake or scam pornography sites might use this as a ruse to collect personal data for blackmail purposes.


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[Assistant] Like, here's the thing that I don't really understand, and maybe someone can explain it to me. It feels like it's often the same...


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[Assistant] Personal freedoms, and also that same political leaning crowd that's like,


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[Assistant] But like restrictive ID programs for pornography. And while I would be the first to say that, you know, yeah, unrestricted access to everything that the internet could possibly show you at any age is probably not the best thing. Um,


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[Assistant] This also has some clear and obvious- Oh, this is not the way to do it. Big brother problems with it.


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[Assistant] Is it just that it's not considered socially acceptable to like hold up a sign like don't ID my porn and like march in Louisiana? Like is that the problem? Like are you mad about it but it's just like, it's like too shameful to talk about it or like what the?


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[Assistant] This is interesting. So, uh, MCXL in floatplane chat says, Okay, forget about the scammer sites. What about the leaks of IDs from legit sites? Remember the Ashley Madison leak back in the day?


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[Assistant] You must recognize, really though, you must recognize that this is like the very worst kind of infringing on your personal freedoms. And whoever is creating this legislation doesn't care about protecting personal freedoms. This is the proof. This is all you


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. Alright, give us a second here. Oh, it's already working. Alright, good job producer now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, so the, the D, so what, the PMV? See, it makes sense. The porn of motor vehicles.


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[Assistant] Anywho, uhm, we're gonna get to some merch messages in a second. We've got a couple more topics here. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. Oh, we've got an update on the Samsung Galaxy S23 partition size thing. Samsung issued a statement claiming the actual internal system storage space for the Galaxy S23 series is between 20 and 25 gigs depending on the model type, carrier, or region. That contains Android OS, One UI, Samsung's native apps, and space for future updates.


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[Assistant] They say that storage space for the S23 series is calculated using binary gibby bytes units, uh, which doesn't reflect the actual storage space. So to address this, they're considering updating my files to use decimal gigabytes, uh, which will enable the app to precisely display actual internal system storage spaces between 20 to 25 gigs.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so this means that while the system size is still large compared to competitors like the Pixel, a huge part of the gap was the decision to fudge the math on the storage allocation rather than fix it so it used a consistent unit of measurement. Our discussion question is WHY?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there, that's our, that's our update. I don't think we have a huge, uhm, a huge amount to say about that.


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[Assistant] We do have a fair bit to say about our LTX 2023 update.


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[Assistant] Massive shout out to everyone who has already purchased their LTX 2023 tickets. You guys are all amazing. We can't wait to see you there. We are currently at 2200 tickets sold. This is more than double where we were at for LTX 2019 at this time. And we ended up selling I think almost 4000 tickets last time. So this is going to be absolutely


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[Assistant] Migration of tech enthusiasts, the, the, the concentration of like, BO and like, thick glasses is gonna be so high, I'm just, I'm excited.


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[Assistant] Uhm, whale VIP packages sold out, office and lab tours sold out. We apologize for everything selling out so fast, but uhm, what can we say? We're sellouts, no, sorry. Uh, but rest assured, there will be many things for general attendees to do, see, and win at LTX 2023. Man, I am so excited. Like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds good. Don't worry about it. Uh, we're looking into the possibility of expanding the whale land to open up a few more BYOC tickets given how quickly the initial tickets sold out.


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[Assistant] If we accommodate more seats though, there will be a limited number and we're workshopping how to release them in small batches to allow people a fair shot at purchasing. Uhm, if we do this, we'll be sure to refund anyone who bought a different ticket, like if you transition to a BYOC ticket.


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[Assistant] Uh, Colton can't remember which partners we've already disclosed for the event. Okay. Uhm, but, uh, Kanto, Inwin, and Framework are all new ones, and we'll have a presence at the expo. Framework's coming! Hey, that's amazing! That's that laptop brand that I invested in. Not Floatplane, different one.


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[Assistant] It works! Uh, next week we should be able to share more on creator guests. We sent out a ton of invites, but we want to ensure people are comfortable being shouted out and added to the LTX site. Uh, I can say for a fact that Jay's Two Cents will be comfortable with it. Jay's gonna be there! See ya there, Jay! I haven't seen him!


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[Assistant] You know what? Screw it. I'm saying Rossman's coming too. Cause they're both like OG attendees. And I got his email back a couple days ago. I'm like, let's freaking go. Let's go. Let's go. And so for both of those folks, look,


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[Assistant] Anything goes wrong and it doesn't happen or whatever, no hard feelings. It's all good. We're going to have tons of creators there. It's going to be amazing. I am excited to see you guys, but like, don't, don't stress about it either way. Life happens. Life totally happens. But I am, uh, man, I'm just freaking excited to see everyone again.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's, uh, let's see, do we have any other, like, big topics we wanted to talk about?


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[Assistant] Wow. Insurance firms also noticed all of this and stopped offering new policies on Hyundai cars. So you effectively couldn't insure your car.


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[Assistant] Like, at least partially to blame here. For not just requiring the stuff that's basic.


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[Assistant] Like if you allow someone to save a dollar, are you, are you part of the, are you, like knowing, right? Knowing that product companies are going to pinch every penny.


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[Assistant] At a certain point, do you just have to say like, no, that children's toy just actually cannot use lead paint? Uhm, no?


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[Assistant] I mean, yea, but the thing is, like, even if they did build a better lock, you know,


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[Assistant] What's to prevent some jackass from, you know, stealing the car anyway? It's not like cars that have immobilizers can't be stolen. So like,


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[Assistant] I have to put a fair chunk of the blame on people for just doing any stupid thing they see on TikTok, like- Oh, well, yeah, but that-


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[Assistant] So this would not be on the wheel of pain then. This is the most indefensible thing that's on the entire, yeaah, it's more indefensible than anything on the wheel of pain. Official.


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[Assistant] Twitter will now charge for SMS two factor authentication. Only Twitter blue subscribers will get the privilege of using the least secure form of 2FA.


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[Assistant] So hold on, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue or Switch, oh no, you can! You can just use the other one. Well wait, well this is just stupid.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is a dumb, ugh, forget it. Okay, yep, I'm moving on.


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[Assistant] Okay, what else do we have here? You know what? PSVR 2 launches next week. We could talk about that a fair bit, but maybe we should just talk about it next week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, looks pretty, looks pretty, looks pretty great.


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[Assistant] And it was because we do like short circuit unboxings and it's nice to have, you know, a sense of scale and using a banana for scale is like a popular internet meme. So we made a plushie banana, um, unbeknownst to me and it was there and I was like, why did we do this? And then you guys loved it. So we made more of them. That's, that's about how the story goes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Sandals was a really good one. Uhm, I've had people give me like, uh, backplates of GPUs and stuff like that. That's pretty cool. K-side panels. Yeah, yeah. I've seen a lot of people carry around a K-side panel at the show and get people to sign it.


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[Assistant] If I defined perfection as thoroughness, I would say how to build a PC, the last guide you'll ever need, is the closest thing to a perfect video.


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[Assistant] I have heard directly from, from users. In fact, the comments after the initial wave of views from our subscribers have turned into overwhelmingly people saying, I used this to build a PC. It was perfect. Um, it was absolutely everything I needed.


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[Assistant] I, I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna go with that one. If I were to define perfection as like the optimal mix of information and entertainment, uhm,


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[Assistant] Then I just don't even think anything even gets close to, to existing.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, we are always doing our best, but it's, it's never, it's never easy. I mean, I could look at videos that have been really successful. Like I think our first 10 million view video was that tech quickie core i3 versus i5 versus i7. It's a good video. It's succinct. It's informative. It's entertaining. Um, but I.


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[Assistant] Perfect. No, production values kind of sucked and we could have gotten into a little bit more detail. I think, I think it's really, I think it's really tough. It's a tough question to answer.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, you can? Yeah, yeah, we're gonna bring in- Are you sure you can? Yeah, yeah, we're gonna bring in Ludwig's bidet. Oh, you are officially? Yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I've heard back. We've basically got order quantities sorted out. We're, we're, we're doing it. Cool. We're gonna be carrying the swipe and the swipe plus.


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[Assistant] I had nothing to do with Only Girl. That was an NCIX Tech Tips team initiative with


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[Assistant] Uhm, my sister-in-law Esther, uhm, when she worked at NCIX as well, this was


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[Assistant] Sort of from the perspective of the only girl at a tech web company.


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[Assistant] But I think I ended up talking about it at some point publicly because we actually do, or did anyway, have the footage for it, the raw footage archived somewhere. I don't think they ever actually published it.


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[Assistant] Kay. Well, there's definitely some, there's definitely some stuff on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, no, no, I don't think they ever released it, but yes, I think it's possible I actually still have the footage somewhere. It's never going to see the light of day. I give you my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as for anything that I've worked on that's so bad it should never be published, I think I just ended up publishing all of it. So it's all out there on the internet, and it's terrible. You're welcome.


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[Assistant] Wow. Yea, definitely. Knowing everyone, even, I think, is the biggest one. Like, being able to have a personal relationship with everyone. Someone told me recently that people are terrified of me. And I'm sitting here going, like, I don't feel that terrifying. Passionate, maybe, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I don't, I try not to be terrifying, but uhm, it used to be that I would have so much personal interaction with someone, like I know, you know, some of our uhm,


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[Assistant] Some of the people that I used to work with on set, I'm keeping this intentionally vague so that I'm not identifying anyone, but I know that there were people that I would work with on set back when we were smaller, like sub 25 people.


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[Assistant] Uh, where they would be really, really tentative, uhm, and I'd say something like, hey, was that take okay? And they'd be like, yeah, yeah, it's good. Like, no, that take was bad.


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[Assistant] You can't, you can't do that. You can't be afraid to give feedback. You gotta get over that. And I, I'd like kinda coach people through it. Uhm, and I just don't...


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[Assistant] I just, I realized, answering this question, that I don't remember the last time I did that, because I just don't really- There used to be some amount of a tempering process. I don't get a chance anymore.


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[Assistant] Like, this week, I went straight from script review to shoot to meeting to review to shoot to meeting to shoot. Like, it's just, it's intense lately.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, you, it's not like you don't request new hires. Yea, you request me to do more stuff. Well, then.


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[Assistant] There's no same state and then try the other conversation branch in that tree.


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[Assistant] I dunno. People are talking in floatplane chat about stuff they're not doing right now. I am not doing my laundry right now.


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[Assistant] How far will you take the trend of buying them?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's not, that doesn't help us change our individual


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[Assistant] I don't know, I want, I want regulators to step in and say look, no, you can't actually launch products that don't, that turn into bricks when you decide you don't feel like doing it anymore.


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[Assistant] Watching, watching the lab get built has been probably the most interesting thing that I've had going on in the last year. Just seeing everything that's involved in creating, for the first time in a long time, a brand new business unit here out of absolutely nothing. Uhm, it's just so exciting and what's coolest about it is how


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[Assistant] Little involvement I've actually had. Decisions get made. Parts get requisitioned. Uh, floor plans get drawn up without me actually needing to be involved so I just walk in and I'm like,


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[Assistant] Wow, this is, this is amazing. This is so cool. And, and I talked to these knowledgeable people that are like, yeah, we're building this. So I was over there doing the tour today and they were showing me like how much better the laser 3D depth thing that they have now for the keyboard tester works compared to the machine vision one because


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[Assistant] The distortion at the edge of the lens, like you saw in the infamous Linus selfie.


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[Assistant] Uhm, at the end of the lens makes it difficult to get pinpoint accurate measurements of where the center of those keys are, which is why they switch to the laser profiler, which builds a perfect, like, accurate point cloud. And I'm like, oh, this is so cool. Uh, that, that's gotta be, that's gotta be it for me.


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[Assistant] Yvonne's career path was pharmacist, and she was working as a pharmacist before we started Linus Media Group.


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[Assistant] Uh, while I was working at NCIX as a product manager, uhm, the good news for me when I said, hey, uh, I want to do this Linus Media Group thing is that my wife is super supportive and was willing to bankroll the thing with her own salary.


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[Assistant] Uhm, while we kind of figured out if it was, if it was gonna go. Uhm, as for how I was able to convince her of that and, uh, her family's support, uhm, you know, I think both of our families were quite supportive. They might have thought we were a little bit crazy, but, you know, we were,


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[Assistant] We were pretty ahead, I think, of our peer group in terms of uhm, you know, where we were at in our life. Like, we, we were already, we had already bought a house when we were twenty...


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[Assistant] Uh, hold on, I'm gonna get the, I'm gonna get the numbers wrong here. So we got married in 2011.


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[Assistant] Which means that we moved in together in 2010. So we bought a house in 2010. Uhm, so how old was I in 2010? 24.


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[Assistant] Right? So at 24, we had already pretty much partnered up. Uh, we had gotten married.


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[Assistant] Uh, or we were, we were going to get married. We had bought a house, so we had gotten into the real estate market. We both had solid jobs. I was at NCIX, which looked stable at the time, and, uh, she was working as a pharmacist at Costco, which is very, has turned out to be a very stable place to be employed.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so I feel like we were in a position in our lives where we were able to take a risk.


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[Assistant] And so yeaah, we got a lot of support, uhm, from our families and, uh, and, you know, me from Yvonne and we just kinda, yeaah, we went for it.


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[Assistant] And no one thinks we're crazy anymore, cause they've seen how well things have gone.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry. Yeah, the, uh, yeah, another, another big thing is that like, I think a huge advantage for us compared to a lot of the rest of our peer group is that we did find the one really early.


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[Assistant] Doing things as a team is a lot easier than doing them solo. Neither of us could have bought a house at that point without the other. Uhm, I was the down payment because I dropped out of school and started just stockpiling money. Uhm, and she was the income that got us a mortgage approval, right?


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[Assistant] Neither of us was gonna be able to do it without the other, cause she was laden with student debt, and I didn't have a good enough income to get approved for a big enough mortgage to actually buy a house. Gamer moves. So, yeah, and, and if we hadn't been able to get in then,


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[Assistant] Property prices in Vancouver and a lot of the world went up so fast that we wouldn't have ever caught up. So teamwork absolutely made the dream work for us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, here's a fun one. When I had to rock the baby to sleep, I would do stairs.


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[Assistant] You gotta find ways to multitask, right? Because the kid's going to consume copious amounts of your time. So if you can find a way to play with baby and do airplane things and maybe do a few crunches, you know, like, I don't know, I'm just kind of a busybody. Uhm, and I'm always trying to kind of, you know,


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[Assistant] Do something useful. Uh, I don't always succeed. Sometimes I just veg on the couch and play video games. But, you know, breaks are okay too. But just, you know, finding ways to...


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[Assistant] Uhm, to, to utilize that, to utilize that time, I mean one of the big things for me is trying to get my kids into sports.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one of the reasons that we had kids so young was that I wanted to be a young dad. I, I wanted to, when they got old enough to like play sports, I wanted to still be young enough to play sports. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, my dad hit a lot of grounders to me when I was a kid, and I feel like a lot of people, uh, whether due to societal changes or economic hardship, economic, yeaah, that's a big one, or just personal choice are having kids a lot later in life, and I just, I knew very early on, gotta find a girl, gotta


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[Assistant] Gotta get a place to put babies, gotta get the babies, cause I have zero interest in babies, but I super like kids.


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[Assistant] And I was laser focused on that. So, a mission accomplished, I suppose. And yeaah, it's great.


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[Assistant] But yea, you just gotta, you gotta power through it. That's all I can really say.


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[Assistant] Anything is, anything is exercise, right? Like, uh, a big one that I, uh, that I would do with my kids all the time. It's called big jumps. And I grab their arms and, uh, they bend their knees and they jump as high as they can. And then I lift them. So they're kind of like moon gravity jumping. And like, man, I can tell you.


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[Assistant] Go play big jumps with your, with your like, four year old for like, fifteen minutes. You'll feel it. We're gonna feel it the next day. And if you don't feel it, big jump them higher and farther.


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[Assistant] I mean, we both take a pretty rational approach to life, which makes it easy for us to align on things. Like I remember, okay, we were actually talking about this.


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[Assistant] We have such a complicated relationship. We had Luke's annual performance review yesterday. It's like, how do I... How does that work? Yeah, yeah. How does that work? And one of the things that came up during yesterday's review was the first one we ever did.


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[Assistant] And it's like, again, back to our relationship being super complicated, uh, we conducted the review in my house, in the suite that Luke was renting from me, because there was no other private place to have meetings.


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[Assistant] But, the rationale that I had provided, because I didn't just say no, the rationale I provided was, well look, here's our options, I can pay you more.


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[Assistant] I could do that right now. I could match your ask. Yes.


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[Assistant] We could do it right now, but here's the plan. Instead, I think we should hire this position and we should grow the company and that will ultimately be a bigger success for not just you and me, but everyone who's here and it'll be good. And Luke was like, okay. And here we are.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so, you know, if you approach, and, I mean, it's the same thing from Luke's side. You know, if he brings me disappointing news about, say, for example, a, a, a, a, a player update that isn't launched, or, or whatever the case may be. It's like, when you have to give each other bad news, if you can accompany it with,


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[Assistant] But I did my best, and here's all the things that went wrong. Here's what we're going to do in the future to make this a win at some point.


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[Assistant] Well then as long as both people are acting in good faith, and rational,


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[Assistant] I don't think there's a lot of room for the relationship to really degrade because when you get into like duplicitous behavior or uhm, really I mean it comes down to communication. Right? Like our goals are pretty aligned. If we win, we win.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's the one that's over by WillowVideo. Yes.


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[Assistant] That was a, that was a bad communication breakdown. Is this the same one?


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[Assistant] Oh. No. I don't think so. Remember when we had the meeting in the old pink office? And I was like, I thought you were gonna quit? I don't know if that was a communication or something. You were like, bro, no? And like, yeaah. Anyway. Things were just bad then.


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[Assistant] And meanwhile, because he had pivoted to working on Floatplane, I was building out a team of people to-


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[Assistant] So you're just gonna like unilaterally decide and announce that you're gonna insert yourself back into this team that I have created positions for and hired and you're just gonna bail on the people that have like


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[Assistant] You definitely pulled some bullshit, like in the earlier days, that made me like, pretty, pretty mad, uhm, but like,


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[Assistant] Not really, like, publicly, I don't think. The fact that you, like, announced it publicly, man, it is so unlike me to, like, leave in a huff like that, too. That's absolutely on me.


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[Assistant] We've always been trying to become more like a real company and achieving work life balance is one of the big goals that we've had for ourselves.


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[Assistant] That's another thing that's key. Like if you want to get along with someone, you gotta just like bury the hatchet. I think both of us do a pretty good job of going like, oh,


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[Assistant] I didn't misunderstand you. Like I'm gonna, I'm gonna out my wife a little bit here. She has a hard time for her or like agitation is kind of like a spinning, a spinning top.


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[Assistant] You know, so just because you remove the force doesn't mean the top just immediately stops spinning. She, she has a wind down.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, you know, I think that you and I both do a reasonably good job of going, oh, there was a misunderstanding, and the way that I'm feeling is based on a misunderstanding, therefore the way that I'm feeling is pretty much invalid, and not always.


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[Assistant] Particularly me. I do not always do a good job of basically just going, okay. Oh, I don't either. So this spinning makes no sense and it needs to stop. But there's effort.


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[Assistant] Well, and she makes an effort to, but I think with each other at least, and again I want to be very clear, I haven't always been perfect about it with Yvonne, like it's not like it's a one-sided thing in our relationship.


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[Assistant] But we try. She tries, I try, you try, and that's critical because at least if you can see that everyone in the conversation is trying to deescalate, that makes it a lot easier.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I wanted to be like a firefighter or a cop or something, like, I don't, just like typical, you know, like six year old boy things, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, right? So, no, but if this career had existed at the time, I probably would have been pretty into thinking that seems like a pretty good idea.


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[Assistant] The fact that companies are still building products with aluminum


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[Assistant] Like water cooling products is mind blowing to me. We've learned this over and over and over and over again.


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[Assistant] Oh, good gravy. I don't know. Practically all of it. You know what? I'm going to use this as a great excuse. Okay, this, uhm, this is just like riffing, uh, this is a heavy Sarah initiative, just like cats sleeping on computers nonsense that we've got going on here.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, the tracksuit was just like, uh, with the, uh, with like, uh, Bridget and I think Matthew and the rest of the merge team. Um, the screwdriver was intent. Mmm.


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[Assistant] Man, a lot of it. Oh, I mean, the underwear was just like, uh, like, uh, but I think we could like do a great job. Uh, jeez. Yeah, like just, just riffing stuff. Um.


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[Assistant] CPU pillow was uhm, was kind of inspired by a lot of the old like, ThinkGeek products. Remember when ThinkGeek was like, awesome?


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[Assistant] And I was like, yeah, we should have like, like stuff like that. And then we just kind of did one and then didn't really like do it anymore. Cause it's hard.


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[Assistant] You know what? I think I would pick an Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade. Or should I say AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade.


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[Assistant] Uh, maybe like Dennis' or something like that. I'd say that's a good mix of tech tips and humor and just general, general passion for technology and, and having fun and, and good vibes. That's the one I send to people. Oh, really? Is it really? Dennis' is just phenomenal. It's kind of a classic.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, they don't ask me for career advice, at least not yet. Uhm, but it would definitely, definitely affect the kind of career advice that I'd give them. I don't even know. What's safe? Honestly.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, uhm, Jackson asks, what are your guys' thoughts on the recent drama involving DK Oldies? Uh, what just happened? I just removed that.


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[Assistant] Oh, no, I understand it. I accidentally left CPU cooler hardware on an R-made motherboard. I'm having a heck of a time trying to buy replacement parts. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah. What's your thoughts on companies selling replacement parts or using standard off the shelf parts? Yeah, that sucks. It's been, it was mind boggling to me, like Valve did me right, they sent me a new controller, but the problem was that my joystick thing fell off, like the little nubbin, I just wanted a new one.


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[Assistant] And they were like, we don't have that, here's a whole controller. And I'm sitting here going, well, thank you, but also,


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[Assistant] Honestly, like, walking around in the new lab. I get it. Holding on to like, some of the stuff costs space and money and people and time and just, it sucks. And honestly, it's probably cheaper for them to just be like, fuck it, here's a new one. Like, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that sucks. I do not know the solution to that.


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[Assistant] Period. Cause it's like, you know what? If we're talking honestly, that's on you. Right? Like, you left it there. That's not their fault. But also, so what?


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[Assistant] So maybe that's the answer, buy a Noctua cooler. There's a reason that we love Noctua so much.