Apple’s secret iPhone testing labs — and iOS 18’s WEIRD new features (CultCast #649)

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of the uh it's uh I got the YouTube page anymore you got to go to the live and
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then you finally find it huh I I figured it out I think it's working let's see look
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at those facial expressions great Griffin looks like he's ones are
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they gonna be Griffin looks like he's getting his first prostate check we we kind of all do actually I do
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Griffin does and you look like you're watching them both at the same time
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oh my god oh
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man there's no go live happening here oh there we go here it
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is how many C of Mac staff does it take to turn a live stream
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on okay and we're live yeah sorry about that H that I tried something new and of
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course I've tried it it's something I've never tested before in my entire life and I tried it in our live uh situation
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which is always not a good situation um but yeah we got it working all right you
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want some tweet action here Lewis before we get this thing rolling nothing would please we got caveman here we got Dipsy
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do present that's all we need we're ready to roll let me close this oh I probably shouldn't close that
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because that contains my tweet action and for some reason my tweet action has has been redacted so let me go ahead and
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put that in the Tweet box put that in your Tweet box and smoke
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[Laughter] it [Laughter]
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box what exactly would a tweet box look like I don't think I want to know don't
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ask Lis don't ask that's where that facial expression goes into play why don't you ask prison Lou I bet
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you he could tell you put that in your Tweet box all right oh gez you you spelled
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Peak the wrong way is it p i quu
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e this is one of the most abused homonyms on the planet
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PK I can't put the little uh accent in there lose come on but I can change the
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spelling please do thank God all right the one is for me is when
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people say could of like o f instead of H that's it's a
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Midwestern thing isn't it wait ha what could have H okay could have oh even
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though people pronounce it could of but then people spell could o f which is wrong K F that sounds like a like a
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rapper name all right we got that's Louis's
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rapper name [Laughter] [Music]
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I can't wait to hear his album his breakout album we got L remix has just joined we got Brad macpro complaining
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about the lack of tweet action is that out the door Lewis well yours is right yeah it is I'm
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I'm so taken aback by the misspelling of the word Peak I don't I have a hard press to re I guess I just have to do it
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I just have to do it Carlos L is missing a work meeting because of this I'm not sure this is a good use of his
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time probably better use of time than the meeting that actually probably is true this is going to be a hot one so
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it's good that you're here this is something that you guys need to watch live and we're about to we're about to dive into the show I was going to say
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we're about to go live but we're kind of already there aren't we all right uh should we just go ahead and get this thing rolling I think we're ready to
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move I've dazzled you with my wittiness okay great I'm making the executive
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decision something went wrong tweet didn't tweet oh I bet it's
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because you changed it oh maybe it changed like the oh God see maybe it was the facial
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expressions something went wrong with Twitter unimaginable hey hey you know you would
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think that considering that that Elon fired like 80% of their work staff you'd
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see that more often but I swear it works just as well if not better than it used to D dude you spelled you spelled it the
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other wrong way PK p e e
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k i even ran it by you before I hit well I thought you were kidding
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no oh my oh my I kind of want to leave it to be honest oh God we get a
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peek see now this this is Twitter in in action it's so good it won't allow me to
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quote tweet that thing because it's just such an obnoxious obnoxious for some reason I I had it I
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had Peak your interest in my mind we were talking about peaking interest I know I understand yeah it
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doesn't matter No One's Gonna See the Tweet anyway we're talking about it's
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out the iPhone Testing Lab okay no one cares this let's start
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all right uh I think we're ready to let me go ahead and queue up Mrs D oh
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Mrs D Mrs D it's very loud today oh my dear
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I picked Leander ky's interest last night oh boy here we go an a sensual
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encounter I gave him a peek at something oh no it gets worse
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Lis my bosom [Laughter]
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oh my conjure a good
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image oh this is D please I mean they say there are things you can't unsee but
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things you can't unsee that you never saw the visual image is even worse it's
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worse than the actual image because it was created in your mind's eye from whence it shall never be
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deleted you know with therapy I know on RAM might not be a
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problem oh my goodness let's um let's keep this thing rolling before it
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completely goes off the tracks uh Miss D if you don't mind we're ready to get the show rolling I got the buttons queued up
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and I will be pressing them in three two
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one hello and welcome to the coast the best 30 plus minute Apple conversation
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you're going to hear all week long I'm your host El join me [Music]
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today when he goes on any of his multiple yearly trips to Italy he only
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packs several things some Speedos some gold chains and one golden pinking
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ring he's the magic of CAC leis walls is here speak things you can't I was just
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going to say that two for two also with this his camera of choice saves images to a 3.5
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in floppy disc wh can hold almost almost 22 pictures culac Rider an aging Tech
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Enthusiast Griffin Jones is here even in your uh joke intro you
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overestimated the number of pictures that I can fit on a Sony mavica floppy wasn't it 18 16 it was 16 wow I almost went like a
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100 I was like that doesn't sound right mhm and it can record a 3 second very
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heavily compressed video 3 yep isn't that called a GI on
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one uh it it has it has a hint of of sound I love that they devoted
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engineering resources to figuring out how to do a video when it could only be 3 seconds long what are you supposed to
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do with a 3 second video host it host it on your on your homepage on information Super
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Highway oh that was a good that is hilarious Super Highway all right look
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we got actually a lot of stuff to talk about here today and I think at least half of it is going to be somewhat
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interesting the rest well I'll leave that to you to let me know we're g to talk about some of
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the cool new homescreen personalization
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options coming in iOS 18 Griffin's going to rivet us with these new choices we're
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going to talk about some of the Gen um features that are coming including the ability to create your own
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custom emojis this of course is going to be a big thing you know because Apple's going to be touting all of their AI
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features and making it seem as though they're not behind at all in the AI game coming to WWDC which by the way um well
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let me finish what I'm saying here and then I'll do a couple quick announcements I'm going to tell you all about a air tag alternative I think
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actually might be more useful than air tags uh Lewis is going to give us a peak
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behind the way Apple tests iPhones and tortures iPhones so that they can make
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them more durable for all of us uh and we're going to wrap up with an all new
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what we're into where we talk about the stuff that we are currently liking which may not be Tech related which is usually
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not Tech related and uh it could be shows it could be anything outside of
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the world of tech so we'll wrap up with that a couple of just really quick announcements
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I did release our newest C cast off topic which is horribly horrendously
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late it's out the door we got it out the door so it's lisis and I reviewing the
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first half of the Fallout show on on on Amazon Prime so it's spoiler free which
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is always a little tricky because I kind of feel like when you do it spoiler-free you can't necessarily say anything
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that's specific enough to talk about the actual show but I think I think we nailed the tone and what we liked and
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what we didn't we're going to release I'm going to release um episode two either tonight or tomorrow I already
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have it done I almost released it yesterday but I was like I'll tease him a little bit make him wait for it right
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Louis make him wait and I mean season two is probably gonna arrive before
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that I I promise we will get it out the door before season season two arrives so
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that one's right around the corner and then I would really love your feedback if you've listened to the
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episode just ping me on Twitter and let me know like what you think of it like did you would you would you prefer us to
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do a spoiler review of the show I I kind of go both ways like when I watch
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reviews I I like watching reviews that include spoilers if it's been a while
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but if it's brand new I prefer to not watch spoiler stuff because I often haven't seen the content yet but I want
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to know what people think of it and so that's kind of like what we're going for here but the timely part well yeah I
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mean look timing you know timing is a broad category loose you know some people get
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to things later than yeah exactly I mean the show just ended it's only been a
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couple week about the second Van Halen record or anything right well we might talk about that next week but we're
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calling I I came up with a segment that I thought was kind of catchy uran Lou review uran Lou review colon what
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whatever topic you want goes there and then we just and now if Griffin could be a part of it too we probably won't change the name but you know he could he
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could definitely come in Earth andl review and Griffin 2 starts to be a little long Earth L and Griffin 2 review
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that's what we could do for the that we I like that we're nameing off the tongue a little bit there it is kind of hard to
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say uh oh the Griff riff if he does like a solo a for new review featuring a
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Griff riff you know if he happens join in I do like this this is why our
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segments always kill on YouTube because when you come up with a name like that people can't help
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but maybe click on it click away well you know those those
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thumbnails get them in leis those thumbnails get them in those are quing the content keeps them there um and then
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the other thing I wanted to announce just real real quickly is um I know some of you are waiting for your cult cloth
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all of you okay we're going to the griffer for geez the first two stories hog them all
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Griffin hog them all are me and Lewis gonna get to say anything in this episode I can't believe this okay it's
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it's not like these are these are game-changing stories none of them these it's the week before WWDC what else is
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happening oh hold on wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait I'm sorry I completely forgot to mention this is
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going to be another announcement so week and a half it's a week and a half and we are going to be doing another
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predictions episode is is that gonna be it's that's gonna happen next week right yes okay yes next week is a predictions
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so uh send me your suggestions in the cult club or in the comments or I'm M it on or on Twitter for things you uh think
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we should predict your your predictions you've listened to the game before just like a couple weeks ago you know the you
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know get a sense of the style for the for the things that we we all vote on uh
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we we'll put down our predictions we'll vote on them we'll we'll see uh how badly I lose this
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time yeah and we got to do something to get to unseat
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Lewis after what happened last last time it was a blood bath and I I'm still not
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happy about that situation leis maybe we should maybe we should do a little collusion I had thought about that
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should be texting in real time or something we're also gonna tighten up the game so that we're all putting our
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answers in real time because I'm tired of giving everyone the answers with my Advanced reasoning and logic abilities
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if that if your theory held true we would all have the exact same answers because we'd all mimic your beautiful
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beautiful answers well sometimes when you're thinking about going one way and I
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convince you not to and you're like oh that's a good point and and then you can glom on to my answers but then you also
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get a chance to enter your own answers if you want so like I think you benefit by hearing everyone else's logic and
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then making a decision by going that I say you had won the previous two games before last week and you know I think
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last time it was like the October of 20123 game airon came in first place LS came in last place and you know what
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this time because the order changed Lewis went first and he won you know it's
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it's I don't think I think I went last yeah I think you went last I went last oh yeah that sorry that's what I meant to say Le Lewis went last and then he
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won this game you know it's it's a balancing system it's because in previous shows I withheld
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answers didn't I didn't lay it all out and last time I was way too revealing
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with my logic and reasoning and I think it really it was a crutch for leis okay well you you volunteered that
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information the order that we go in doesn't doesn't change like you know you you don't have to spill out all that and
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another point is I can't help it I'm a giving person although I listen to you and respond to what you say on the show I don't respect you and so it doesn't
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mean that like what you say is actually going to affect my opinion you you say that but I think subconsciously your
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brain knows you should probably go with my answer and so even though you can't admit that you actually just take what I
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say and repeat it in your own words we know that it's happening I mean it's just so obvious so I think there is that
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aspect of it as well but that's okay we don't have to relitigate all this right now for the live show we we've been live
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for 20 minutes and we haven't actually still content free we actually haven't talked about
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anything yet so anyway I digress that's my fault I took us away from the topic
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at hand take it away Griffin for the next 18 stories Lis and I will hear we'll just rest our
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eyes Okay uh well don't listen too closer else then you'll copy my anwers for the prediction okay iOS 18 could
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bring new home screen personalization options iOS 18 will reportedly let iPhone users change app icon colors on
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the home screen plus you'll finally be able to put icons anywhere you want you won't have to follow the rigid
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irritating annoying grid of like every icon has to go left to right top to bottom you know it Jesus it's it's 2024
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you can finally do that in a few weeks you know it they they couldn't work it
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out until now um in the latest edition of power on of the power on newsletter
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Bloomberg's Mark German says he thinks users will be able to quote change the color of app icons um for instance you
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can make all your social icons blue or Finance related ones green they won't need to be and they won't need to be
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placed in the standard grid um so right now they Apple has an API where
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developers can make custom app icons for their for their app and if the the app you're using supports this then you can
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pick which icon you want but it's kind of a a a niche feature and not everybody
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adopts that because you know Facebook wants their Facebook Blue app to be blue and their exact shade of blue as
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dictated by their marketing department so you can't change that you know and a lot of people don't really know where to
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look for that stuff because it's not a systemwide feature so Apple's implementation could be easier to use um
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I although and a lot of people want to be able to change their app icons because you you want to have a theme you
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want your home screen to look nice the phone is a device you use every single day like many many times a day you want it to you want it to look good and uh
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especially since they introduced like theming your lock screen and the home screen widgets you know lot of people
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are making these custom Aesthetics and you except for the you know pile of
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clown vomit that is like all of these different app icons that you have to work around
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so I think this could be really interesting but I'm really curious how
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it'll work uh because again if it's if it's a thing that developers have to opt into
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then nobody's going to enable it it'll be exactly the same as a situation it is now but I I I guess my question is like
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is Apple going to like let users override the color of their app icon so you can like turn Facebook Brown if you
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want appropriate and does this does this have anything to do with their AI features that are upcoming like would
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you be able to churn all your finance apps a certain color with that's that's another question like a lot of people some
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people were speculating that like um maybe when you upload an app icon you
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know through the through through App Store connect and you know you you recompile your app for iOS 18 like the
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app icon will have like a separate layer that you can determine like oh this is the this is the layer of the app that
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people can change the color of but you know our this other app or this other icon this other part of the icon has to
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stay fixed this color but you know they'll have a layer that you can change the color of other people are saying
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well you know maybe it will be entirely AI powered where it's like they run it the app icon through an AI model that
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tries to recolor it for you huh I don't know it's an open question yeah that would that that it seems like it would
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be easier to do it that way than to I don't know do this per icon or
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maybe you could batch edit them in some way to like it would be really cool to create a minimalist theme where they're
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all black and white or gray or something so that you don't have so many different competing colors that are going on on
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your screen you can already change some of the icons but I think that is only because some of the apps allow you to
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change the icon inside the app which I have actually done in some instances and then I forget that I changed it and I
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can never find the app again after that because I it's a completely different look to it but um I'm also curious to
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see how they implement the this these icons don't need to exist on a grid anymore which I think is also what Gman
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said which means you'll be able to just move them freestyle anywhere you want them to go like you can on your Mac that
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could be interesting actually I don't know I mean that that actually could be interesting
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so you could just have them all uh like surrounding like an image or something
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cuz right now you have like those backgrounds on your home screens but you can never see them because they're
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always you know covered by icons so it's hilarious to me that we're even talking
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about this I mean this is something that you've been able to do on uh you know Android phones probably all way you
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could probably do this on the zoom at some point the brown Zoom uh if you wanted to and um we haven't been able to
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do this on iPhone but I'm all for this I think it's cool I mean any kind of Freedom they allow us to have to move
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things around to our heart's desire I mean you don't have to use it obviously and if you want to then it kind of gives you some more freedom I don't know any
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thoughts on this leis yeah I mean sounds cool some people put so much time into this I remember when I don't remember
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which version of iOS came out but it allowed some of this kind of stuff and people are going crazy making all these
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different layouts and stuff and and I always look at wow that's really cool and also I cannot imagine spending 10
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minutes doing this so I don't know the thing is like it's been it's been the same way that it has been for so long
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that it's just trained me to think that like well any wasted space on my home screen is waste any any empty space is
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wasted space because the purpose of the home screen screen is to launch apps so I should completely fill my home screen with apps and there shouldn't be
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anything showing in the background but I know that that's kind of unusual like a lot of people want to have a picture
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there and you some people like intentionally leave a blank home screen just so they can look at the picture and
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it would also be nice even if you're like me if I want to put an app icon you
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know on you know row to position three that I can just put it directly there I don't have to think about rejigging
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jiggering them so that it it's in the right place in the line and they'll move around that is so frustrating sometimes
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yeah yeah uh you can also end up in a situation where they have backgrounds
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with specific placement for app icons so that like the app icons actually become a part of the background that would be
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pretty cool and then when you swipe I imagine when you swipe they maintain their position as you swipe back and
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forth between Pages uh so that all your your apps can like fit within like those little
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squares within the background or something anyway we've talked about this for way too long do you want to move to the next story here Griffin I think we beat this one sufficiently yeah wait
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well remember how the the iPhone uh 6 Plus 6s plus and 7 plus how you could turn the home screen
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landscape I want them to bring that back yeah I that was pretty completely forgotten that they did that and they I
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don't even know when did they get rid of that I don't even know they they got rid of it with the iPhone 10 really huh I
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think the iPhone 8 8 plus could still go landscape but with with the all screen design yeah they they got rid of it okay
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I missed that I didn't even notice it was gone I never used it but I'm sure well if if you keep your phone mounted
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horizontally in your car then it was pretty nifty you know you wouldn't have to like that's true turn it back on anyways you know what just real quick
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that is a great point and sometimes when you're watching YouTube videos well if you're watching them in full screen mode
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and then you go back to um uh the norm uh perspective and like you swipe to get
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rid of the screen like now all your icons in the wrong places like that actually would be useful in some scenarios to to have your phone be able
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to be used in horizontal mode if you're going to be doing something
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horizontally that's that's all I had to say about that take it away Griffin all right sign language here's the other iOS
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18 feature iOS 18 could feature generative AI powered custom emoji tool
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Apple might use generative Ai and iOS 18 to allow iPhone users to create custom emojis letting them Express themselves
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just the way they want you can already use stickers in iMessage to add some spice and fun to your conversations
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Apple makes it really easy to uh create stickers from any photo on your phone if you're in the photos app you can just
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like tap and hold on an element in a picture and you can cut it out and use it as a as a sticker I already have two
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on that I'll link it in the shenet the company will seemingly further build on this concept by using generative AI to
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create custom Emoji this way you can make emoji on the Fly that perfectly describes the situation and your
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feelings uh Mark Gman also revealed details about smart Recaps using AI iOS
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18 can summarize long text messages you know whatever everything that everybody else does but generated emoji on the Fly
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presumably this will only I imagine it'll be closer to the sticker feature where it'll only be an iMessage and like
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you know a few apps that support it manually because it's like emojis are
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like built on a universal like Unicode standard it's not like you could take your custom emoji and like type it into
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you know your the blog on your website or like the address bar and Safari or anything like that because that that's not really how Emoji work but uh you
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know in a group chat that could be that could be kind of fun I think Facebook adopted this and Facebook Messenger
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where they allowed you to use like generative AI powered emojis and people immediately started making like really
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weird garbage with it like because they didn't put like nearly enough restrictions on the AI you can look up
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some of those stories but they're kind of hilarious oh yeah there's definitely going to be some inappropriate ones for sure out of all the AI features that
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I've seen the Gen Emoji one is the one I think I would probably use the most I
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mean Recaps for your text messages how long are your text messages people need
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to learn text message etiquette that's all I'm saying like if you're texting a paragraph to somebody that is not what
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text message is supposed to be used for I mean am I wrong about this my text messages are never more than like one
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one or two sentences anytime my dad texts me it's like two or three paragraphs he will use dictation to send
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like you know an entire monologue to me and I'm like ain't nobody trying to read through this much in a text message not
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to mention you dictated it so like half half the words are not even being used appropriately and you're trying to
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figure out like what they even mean they shouldn't even allow they should actively put a feature in to iMessage
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that prohibits you from sending a message that is more than a hundred characters like that should be the absolute Max and just you get a text
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message that's so long where you have to tap on it and it goes into a separate page to read the whole thing I have not
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I've have not seen that happened but dude some people text so long it I it's
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rude it is rude you should not be sending that long of a message to anyone via text messages it's it it's it
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completely skirts the purpose of a message yeah but nobody reads email anymore so what are you going to do what
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if you actually have to get somebody you know a certain amount of information well you call
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you relay it via call I don't know or you text them and say hey can you read my email I try to keep them under what
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is it 170 characters or whatever it is that the uh you know like I have to text
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people with Android phones and uh I do hate like the thought of get them
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getting like two different texts thing broken up in half because you know it's just too long yeah and it's only a
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certain class of person that tends tends to send these long ones people that didn't grow up in the messaging life
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those are the people that that tend to do it and you know what are you gonna do but I mean honestly like I I have I
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conduct my business with the Airbnb almost exclusively through text
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message and some you know sometimes you actually have to give more information
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than you know be right back you know BRB I mean it's great for those kind of
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things but I mean sometimes other you want to send a trombone Emoji then you find out that there isn't a trombone
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emoji and how are you going to tell your Airbnb guests where the trombone is yeah do do they have a a French horn Emoji I
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hope not they do but no trombone they have a French hor but no trombone so
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that's what I'm saying like I think that the uh the Gen Emoji thing actually will be super duper useful some of these
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other features I'm looking at let me let me let me pull these up some of these other features they're talking about um
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smart Recaps of your notifications I mean I don't know how long does it take to to scroll through
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your notifications maybe 10 too long these days you think so okay no but that's a that's on me that's me allowing
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too many things to notify me of things yeah okay let's see here summarizing web
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pages yes that is useful documents yes that is useful the summarize of Articles
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and the creating a tldrs like that actually is useful but actually you know what I take get back summarizing long
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messages I I'll finally know what my dad's tried to say to me in less than 5 minutes like so maybe I will use it my
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favorite thing about that he does as long as we're talking about it he'll send me a text message and it has like
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15 questions in it you know it's like did you do this and did you do this and did you do this I'm like dude I'm not
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answering all these questions there's no way you have got to figure out what is the top two questions that you need
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answered and then you got to judiciously you know spr sprinkle those
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out into into into future messages you cannot bombard someone with 15 messages
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and then he gets annoyed and he's like you didn't answer my questions I'm like dude you asked me like 15 questions like
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I'm Not Gon to I'm not going to sit here for 20 minutes and answer your questions one by one for the next 30 minutes what
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a rebel and to be clear you call your dad dude yeah I call everyone dude though my
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wife my kids I don't think I ever called my dad dude
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no I'm just I'm just retelling this the tale with some just regular everyday jargon lingo
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does anyone say dude anymore am am iar am I going full am I going full
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Boomer uh young people still do okay yeah but he was like 57 leis that's
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my point all right I'm sorry I you guys didn't ask for that monologue and I feel
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like I did it with way too much gusto should sent you like a uh a reminder
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with a checklist on it or something yeah I don't know if he's that advanced I hope he never watches this episode it's
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GNA hurt his feelings that I criticized his message you know now you're looking baleful what
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what more is there to talk about with this topic there's nothing leis or Griffin uh yeah okay so what did you say
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you're guessing probably only iMessage right yeah you'll probably be it'll
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probably like built on be built on top of like the regular sticker system or like it'll mostly be made for iMessage
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but you know you can do it in Snapchat too or notes for some reason you can add
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stickers inside a note right so it won't be an actual Emoji it'll just be a
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little cartoon drawing generated by AI it may or may not look like what
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you're talking about yeah go you know um Metal Mike 56 in the chat my mother my
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mother-in-law only text to be a dictation it's a mile long yeah exactly there there there's a whole class of people that do it and we all know who
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they are so we we don't need to say it but but what we need is in the Gen gen
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like first of all it needs to actually understand what they're saying right that's going to be a huge Improvement
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and so it sends you a a dictation that's actually accurate so that's going to be
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number one and two if it gets Beyond a certain word count it should just automatically send you a summary like
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that should be a feature right so anytime someone text you more than X characters it automatically sends you a
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summary here's what they're trying to say in two sentences or less you know what you know it would be genius they do
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that and the and as the person sending it presses send it says your text was
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you know 5,623 words long an AI generated summary has been sent to your recipient yeah or
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or so then it's it's a learning experience for the person who just did it yeah or gives the option to send summ
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it's like would you like to summarize would you like to also send a summary of this with your I think I think it should
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say it will be summarized should be the default option yeah that would actually
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be pretty useful I mean the geni stuff doesn't always get things right so that
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could be an issue right like it may misunderstand but it's worlds better
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than anything I've seen Siri do so far I mean chat GPT is just like like otherworldly it's it's so good all
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right I think those two stories are completely dead and buried let's move on
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I want to I want to show you guys a product that I think you might like uh I
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I haven't reviewed this product they haven't sent it to me although I should probably we got to get them to send us some of these I want to try I want to
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try these out if you like the air tag I like air tags too but the problem is is
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they're not always the form factor isn't always practical especially for your
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wallet or if you're trying to track something that you don't want to attach
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like an air tag carrier to right and so there are these new products from Nomad
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let me pull this up um I'm gonna send them an invoice for covering the story I hope they pay it slim new find my
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tracking card from Nomad but what makes this one special is this one is
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rechargeable via mag safe so there are other slim tracking cards that you can
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get I tried one and I returned it because a lot of these have a disposable
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battery why does this look so terrible are you going to show us to it show it to us I am showing it it's on the screen
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right now no no it's not it's on my screen you're not maybe there's a lag
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hey chat let me know are the is is the um is the image super blown out are you
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guys seeing it like massively blown out uh are they seeing it is the first
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question hold on a sec this is not use rare now now now I totally screwed it up
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holdo future Griffin have fun editing this part out are you making are you making a note of this you don't you
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don't need to edit this part out you can just leave it in that's the fun part let me see if I can get this thing Rego yeah
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sorry it was uh it looked super blown out okay everyone is saying that it is blown out okay let me let me try
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you guys are getting a backstage pass to the Sausage Factory here yeah it's um I
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I took it down um let me see here there we go is that better I think
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that's better there we go yep I fixed it all right just edit that whole thing out
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Griffin or don't you know what don't I think people like hearing the live mistakes it's like those little you
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know parts of the song that you like that were mistakes people love it well that's what people can use the uh the
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live stream for on on the on the published audio ignorance is bliss yeah it actually still looks like it's
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blowing out I have no idea why but we're gonna we're going to roll with it now because it's going to take me five more
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minutes to to to fix this this uh this thing but the image actually looks okay oh no looks horrendous absolutely
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horrendous I I got to fix it it look at look at it it looks terrible of course that didn't fix it
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either sorry guys I'm going to have to to do this after the uh the show it's um
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I think last week was a little brighter than normal as well and I think the week before that it was a little bit darker I
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thought you were doing it intentionally so that the screen recording stands out from our lovely little
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faces No our faces look fine I mean as fine as they can look but the web
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preview looks terrible I don't know why okay well anyway let's just keep it rolling I'll have to fix this afterwards
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so there is this new find my tracking card from Nomad and you can recharge it
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it's $40 for an individual card or 120 for a four pack so it's not cheap it's not cheap but these these cards are so
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slim they're a little bit thicker than a normal credit card and you can keep them in your wallet so you can't keep an air
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tag in your wallet if you want to track your wallet you got to get one of those you know ridiculous air tag wallets
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which add like a half or 3/4 of an inch of thickness to your wallet obviously
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not ideal uh and so if you carry a slender wallet like I do you could pop
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this in there and you'll always know where your wallet is which you know that's probably going to be the most
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obvious use for this card is that you can keep track of your wallet because
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you know you can't easily track your wallet without an air tag which is annoying but more than that I think that
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because this thing looks like a credit card if someone does steal your wallet they're not going to know what this is
40:27
like they're not going to just ditch it like they would with an air tag because everyone knows what air tags are and you don't have to keep this just in your
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wallet like you could toss one of these in your backpack or in your car and now
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you have a way to track things outside of just using a regular air tag and if a
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thief finds it they're not going to really know that they should just toss it I just thought of a pro tip if you
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get one of these cards tape your library card to the card or just mock up a fake library card actually you get a library
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card that's my first pro tip but then you should tape it to that to this thing so that they'll thing ah it's just a
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stupid library card and they like the library they put it on a special black blacker thing yeah they then they
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definitely thrown it away it's like what's this Library car he just tosses it you know but if it looks like a piece of technology maybe they would think
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that it is worth money or something they would probably think it's like a key card to like your office or something
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but so I'm going to see if Nomad will send us some of these in fact if anyone from Nomad I think they follow me on
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Twitter I wonder if I can reach out to them and get them to send me one of these things but again just to reiterate
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these kinds of products do exist but this is one of the few if not one of the only that is actually rechargeable
41:38
normally they they ship with a fixed battery that can't be recharged and yes it may last a year but once the battery
41:45
dies you have to throw the whole thing away which is so super wasteful and these ones actually let you recharge
41:50
them which is kind of The Best of Both Worlds I don't know if this works with
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the granularity that air tag does so I don't know if you could use this for your iPhone to show you like you're five
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feet away go that direction I don't think that part works but it will show you the general location of where it is
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which and it works with the find my app which is obviously super useful it's not just rechargeable it also works with Chi
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Chargers and magsafe chargers and you know what I I think they say it's like mag safe compatible because it doesn't
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actually have magnets in it so you don't have to worry about it like wiping any other cards in your wallet or anything
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and if you look at the picture the the promotional picture shows somebody like holding it on top of
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like a MAG safe charger oh there you go so it doesn't stick to it doesn't stick to it I think
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it actually does stick to it I was reading more about it I think that the metal that they used is actually able to
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be um adhered to a MAG safe charger so I think doesn't have magnets inside it so
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maybe I'd be curious to know if you yeah but don't the mag saave Chargers have magnets inside them yeah but you need an opposite
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magnet of the the opposite charge or you need a piece of metal that they'll stick to right yeah I think so I think you don't
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you you don't want a magnetic thing in your wallet no you don't it's metal but if it's just metal then it will stick to
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it won't stick to the mag safe charger with the same uh veracity if you will um
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it won't it doesn't have the uh thing that keeps it a certain way right the the the positions it a certain way but I
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bet you could just toss it on magnetic when and it sticks otherwise why would they yeah I don't think it sticks with the
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with the same level of grip that it would if it if they both had magnets of opposite polarities but I think that you
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still can stick it on at least that's what I was reading but you know this is so easily solvable if the NAD would just
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give me free product then I will test it out and I can report back the uh you
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know when I heard this I was like wow that sounds cool but then I then my first thought was like oh wait a minute it's rechargeable you know would you
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have to recharge it like every 3 days or something but it uh I was just reading our story says five month battery life
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it seems like it's pretty long that's good that's impressive and uh yeah yeah so then it becomes something like oh
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well no big deal you know like uh it's you get a little notification and it's it's running out of juice you just pop
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it out and charge it up it's definitely enough time for you to you know Go full
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Rambo vigilante mode and go get your wallet back from the punks who stole it it's definitely it's definitely got
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enough battery life for that so you get strapped up head on over there get that
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wallet back you know what I'm saying leis yeah and you know what Griffin you could you could use this as a a bookmark
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for your library books there you go and uh then then when you misplace the book you'll always be able to find it because
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you'll have the little uh bookmark in it there you go that's true my bookmark is currently a $1 bill because I figure a
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nicer bookmark than that would probably cost more than a dollar I just use Post-it
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notes that would be a good idea but I don't have any posted notes I don't read books for the one book a year I read I
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just use a poster note you know so sad I used to love reading books yeah me too when digital jez it's got time you know
45:09
what I'm saying the smell of a book A book I'm surprised they don't make that like old library musty smell on like
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imbue that into uh Kindle book readers you know yeah open up the Kindle and it
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smells like a library bud every time you open the books app on your iPhone it it emits it like a tiny shoot you in the
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face with this cartic Mist coming to the iPhone 28 you know what I love Griffin
45:34
the smell I like you'll probably identify with this walking into the band room full of old
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instruments that's like the SM or just or just a music store as well yeah it's like the smell of like old wood and just
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uh years saliva yeah and sweaty marching band uniforms and the sweat of a thousand
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students freaking up the whole Hall yeah I love that okay Le that's all I got you
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want to you want to talk about taking a peek at the Apple Store test for water
46:09
resistance get ready folks get ready folks this was actually cool and I'll bring up the story while you're yeah
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yeah so this is cool uh Marquez brownley YouTuber guy you know fantastic uh videos very popular he did this uh some
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kind of got some kind of secret tour of the Apple product dur testing Labs of course he and uh of
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course he he's got access man he's like I know man he's got so much access accesses at Apple they would never let
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anyone else do this no way so uh so he went in and looked at uh some of the
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things they use to test for water what water Ingress that's what they call it yeah uh it's pretty awesome really uh
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this is one of those I I was really I was thinking about this like wow this this seems like apple is so amazing with
46:57
their ability to do this stuff but I I think a lot of companies do this but Apple's just finally gotten hip to like
47:03
oh we we show people a little bit of this stuff it's it's kind of like what they used to do when uh when Johnny IV
47:09
would come on and and explain you know orology or whatever right like they they
47:15
just show you some of the work that they do and it's like it's fascinating it's like that video from uh from the
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production of the Vision Pro which was just gorgeous to watch so anyway what they did is they so he goes in like like
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the video I don't know if you could show people this but the video of like uh the the thing the way that they test for
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water it's got like a sprinkler almost looks like you know some super high-tech version of a lawn sprinkler that you might have had in the 70s or whatever
47:41
and then it cuts to another shot and it's like a literal fire hose like shooting water like 50 feet across at a
47:46
poor little iPhone on the opposite wall that one made me laugh oh that one just came
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up they had another one where they put it like underwater under pressure you know to see how long it how much it can
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take and you know one of the things that uh in addition to these these robots and
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things that there were the tests that they were showing off they also he talked with John turnis their Apple's
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Hardware Chief and he was talking about the whole like repairability versus durability thing and he one of the
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things he was talking about was how like you know back in the old days you get an iPhone you you spill your drink on it
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it's done uh and and they had like you know so much problem with inability to
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to to to deal with liquids right and and now it's you know people drop phones in
48:33
lakes and find them two weeks later and they work just fine so he was talking about the whole thing like how Apple
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gets kind of dinged for things are hard to repair he's think well you know one of the reasons they're hard to repair is because they are incredibly durable and
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they last a long time uh kind of got sidetracked there the so two other
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things that two other videos he had aside from the interviews and the water test he had a a robot drop test did you
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watch this one uh yeah more interesting ones goes and
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picks up the phone and jerks it over to a certain thing sets to a certain angle and drops it at a certain thing and this
49:09
is it looks like the kind of robot that would like you would see on a Manu you're just trained like when you see a robot like that it's on a manufacturing
49:14
line and it's like positioning these chips like within a micrometer but now this one just like throws it on the ground it's hilarious flings it flings
49:20
it in a very specific way and it looked like apple had uh I didn't hear any video on this part of that video or any
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audio on this part of the video but looked like apple has like uh piles of
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different um like slate or concrete or steel or whatever so that they could
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drop it on different surfaces is what it looked like I'm not 100% sure that's what it was but uh man that thing was
49:42
just fling it and the other thing was fascinating about that is brownley points out Apple not they don't just
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drop it and see how it does but they they shoot blast it with this High light you know so that and they film it in
49:54
slow motion so they can watch this all this stuff happened in slow motion and see exactly what happened and
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exactly what went wrong or what worked um and then the craziest one I thought
50:07
was this the Shaker test did you guys see that one um I got a plan right now I didn't see this one so so this is
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strapping an uh iPhone or uh Vision Pro right there's a Vision Pro on there they put it on this shaking table and they
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shake it at at at certain frequencies or whatever so the video like like brownley points out the video is Maybe not that
50:27
amazing or whatever he just looks like you got the Jitters right but uh he said that they can for instance set that
50:34
thing so that it vibrates like the exact way that a specific motorcycle would
50:39
vibrate when you're driving down the road on it so I mean my like I said my first thought was maybe Apple's not
50:45
doing that much different maybe they're just they're doing the stuff that everybody does but it also sounds like they're kind of taking it like to the
50:51
next level I mean some of this stuff that's crazy oh I want it to vibrate like a 1986 Sportster you know that's
50:59
nuts one of the details they said is that in testing before before an iPhone is released they they they make up to
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10,000 or more devices that they that they just used to go through these tests
51:12
which is crazy like an order of magnitude higher than I thought they would I mean that is Bonkers I mean if
51:18
you just do the math on that I mean what is an iPhone cost them let's just say 500 bucks they're GNA spend $5 million
51:25
just destroying a devices you know I actually thought the part with John turnis talking about why they glue
51:33
things together and why they're difficult to repair yourself I that was kind of the first time I'd heard Apple
51:39
speak out about this and I was like you know what man yeah like the reason that they're hard to repair yourself is
51:46
because they have to go through all these crazy steps to make them so waterproof and so durable and so
51:52
reliable and there is this vocal minority of people and no toward towards
51:57
those people that want to fix things themselves most of us don't most of us want our device just to be reliable to
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not break in the first to not break in the first place exactly and I I don't I don't like would it be nice to be able
52:08
to swap out the iPhone's battery on my own yes I think that would actually be a
52:13
convenient thing to do aside from that though I don't really care to do any of those repairs myself and I think most
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people 99. five 7 8% of people do not care to do those those things themselves
52:25
and they would make the tradeoff off to have their phone be resistant to damage to be waterproof in extreme conditions
52:32
every single time and and and this is the first time I've I've really heard Apple talk about why the phones are
52:38
glued together and they're difficult to repair like I've never heard that articulated anywhere and and they've
52:44
just let people keep implying that Apple does it because they don't want to let
52:50
you repair things and that narrative has just remained and no one has has said
52:55
anything to uh contradict that but John turnis for the first time actually gave us a reason why these things are
53:01
difficult to repair and I feel like they need to do a better job getting that message out there or maybe maybe it doesn't matter because most people don't
53:06
care but I was like yeah so there actually is a good reason that they glue stuff together I I never really thought about that before remember like 10 years
53:13
ago how you would always have like that you you 10 years ago in 2014 you had like a few people you knew who still had
53:19
an iPhone 4 and like half of the buttons were broken yes you know like that the home buttons broke on all those things
53:25
and then like you see the one person who has like the accessibility feature with like the on screen home button that they tap instead of like actually clicking it
53:31
cuz like oh it doesn't work ah the power button doesn't work so I just you know wait for it to turn off by
53:36
itself I forgot about that that rings a bell me too yeah and you you would see
53:41
those issues with phones all the time or the speaker would just stop working right and all of a sudden like your
53:46
phone was fine but there'd be one annoying little issue like that and then you would have to decide whether or not you want to get a whole new phone so if
53:52
you haven't if you haven't watched this thread just go through and check out I'll put a link to the show notes cuz I
53:58
for some of you you may not use the all new X and that's fine but you can go and and view it either on caac um or on X
54:06
and watch all the videos it actually really is interesting and there's a bunch of videos here that he posted on
54:11
how the iPhones are tested and why they do some of the things that they do and you know Apple being one of the most
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valuable companies in the world maybe not the top anymore and soon to be unseated uh it it is interesting to see
54:25
what their testing methodology is and like what kind of equipment they're using cuz they have unlimited resources to do these kinds of things and no one's
54:31
probably doing them as well as apple is and so it's it's it's interesting just to see how they do it you know the other
54:37
thing I thought was weird about that was like that room didn't look especially fancy almost looked like you know a
54:44
little torture chamber you know like you might see in Russia or something H it was it was remarkably unapply looking
54:52
that thing I wonder where I I don't know if you ever mentioned where these were are these in in copertino
54:58
or I'm not sure undisclosed unised but my sources tell me this is the same room
55:03
you end up in if you leak too many Apple secrets and TC gets a hold of you put you on the that water Canyon Cannon at
55:10
the same time there's a few journalists who've seen this water cannon with Tim Cook at the opposite end you
55:15
know all right what do we got next I do find this stuff fascinating too and the
55:21
whole the whole sort of manufacturing aspect of this stuff I mean if you think about what you're carrying around in
55:27
your hands or strapping onto your face or you know tossing in your backpack it's it's really kind of incredible the
55:33
the way that this stuff is constructed and I mean that goes to anything I suppose in the modern world but Apple seems to do a very very good job at it
55:40
and I'm glad they're actually showing a little bit of behind the scenes stuff about what it takes to produce such a a
55:46
device you know plus putting turnus front and center getting him ready
55:51
getting he's got leadership potential doesn't he oh yeah look that chin front and Center they would be
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unstoppable all right you want to mention this how-to real fast leis before we dive into what we're into yeah
56:03
this is a little bit like the uh the you know icon app icon makeover stuff coming
56:09
to uh iOS 18 supposedly uh Griffin put together a how-to on how to give your
56:15
Mac a makeover with custom icons uh we published that this week on culon Mac
56:20
uh I I I was confessing earlier that I didn't
56:25
get a chance to read this entire thing yet he just went up this morning uh but Leander did I'm sure it's beautifully
56:32
edited and fantastic uh but I I was reading I'm like wow I I just I I felt
56:38
really stupid like I didn't realize how much of this you could do and there's this whole like World of of Mac icon
56:44
customization that like were you saying there's like icon packs you can download and yeah you can find them online I I
56:50
like to I give some advice in the article like you can just search for these and you can find like alternate icons there's a whole website called I
56:56
think it's just like Mac OS icons.com where if you don't like the Discord icon well you can you know it's it's purple
57:03
on white and I want it to be white on purple you go to this website you just search Discord and you can find a different Discord icon I've done it with
57:08
a few apps like that uh for the ones that don't offer first party uh you know
57:14
alternate icons and another example is I have a you know an external hard drive
57:19
connected to my Mac and I don't really like how the default Mac OS me either icon for an external hard drive is
57:25
yellow so I just made my own that's blue mhm and you know I I put it up on my website so people can download it if
57:31
they want it's really easy you just hit command I and then you just like literally drag the icon you want that's
57:36
crazy I didn't realize it was that easy and you can change the colors of the folders too yeah you can CH change the
57:42
color of a folder it used to be in classic Mac OS that it was easier to change the color of a folder like you could just like select a folder and then
57:48
pick from a menu and change the color and like in Mac OS now you can like tag it with a color but you can't change the
57:53
folder icon unless you download custom icons and do it yourself I don't think I ever realized
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you could use those color tags I I I sometimes I just feel like I I mean I just use the machine for one thing I
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don't spend any time like you know fancing it up it's you know completely
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stock I just feel like a loser when I do this kind of stuff I read these kind of stories it's like dang there's a whole
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other world of interesting stuff you could do anyway uh definitely go to the site I think it's the lead of of the
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website right now uh you can always find it by going I'm sure our search is so fantastic on cc.com if you just go in and search for
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it you're you know 30% likely to find it um oh so it's improved if we put if you
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put in the exact headline give your Mac a makeover with custom icons I feel like you'll find it all right cool well I
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we'll link to it in the show notes if you want to check it out obviously I just wanted to give a quick mention before we move on to what we're into is
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my deep regret that I didn't sell all my Apple stock and buy Nvidia why didn't I do it my mom did it I didn't do it wow
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and Nvidia is poised to take to be the most valuable company in the world I
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don't I don't know where where this is going to stop I really don't know I mean it's just crazy I mean they're actually
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down 4% today so maybe it's a good day to buy they're up 85% I'm sorry they're
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up uh 8% in the last week they're up almost 30% in the last month up 136% in
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the last 6 months in The Last 5 Years 31
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3100% meanwhile Apple has just been going sideways for for years I don't know if that's going to change but I'm
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kind of like Nvidia seems like they're poised to keep going by the way this is not this is not advice don't definitely
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don't take advice for me definitely definitely not advice I I'm still stuck in um in Apple stock which I think will
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go up you know albeit much more slowly uh in time but Nvidia is unsto and their
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gpus are what everyone is using for all of the AI Farms that are being launched all over the place but who knows you
1:00:03
know how long that's going to keep going or you know if you consider geopolitical issues let's say that you know China you
1:00:10
know goes in and and takes over Taiwan is that going to dry up the supply of uh of microchips again and and
1:00:19
now all of a sudden we have a shortage of gpus and all the other chips that we all use you just don't know what's going
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to happen but Nvidia is about to take over both Microsoft and Apple as the
1:00:30
most valuable company in the world I mean it's probably going to happen in the next couple weeks they're already
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almost past Apple I think apple is at a 2.9 trillion value or market cap Nvidia
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is now at 2.72 it was 2.8 something before it dropped uh today but you know
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it just did a massive rally this week almost 8% in one week Apple has not Apple's not even up 8% for the whole
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year and Nvidia is doing in one week it it is truly unbelievable holy moly I
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don't know why I wanted to bring that up but for those of you who own Apple stock or follow any of the the stock conversations we've had in the past and
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many of you know I I own quite a bit of Apple stock um unfortunately I need to recalculate how much I I the value of my
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Apple stock is I can't give an update right now because when I switched phones I lost some of that data on my app I need to recalculate okay
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look that's it told you it was going to be short and sweet promises made promises delivered
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should we go ahead and jump into by the way is leis Frozen no he looks Frozen on my screen
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I'm just tired oh he's definitely Frozen oh great you're just you're staring yeah I can hear him fine he's staring off in
1:01:39
the distance in deep approval so that part's nice hey Lou turn your video off and and and turn it off and on again try
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that we'll try the IT Crowd fix and see There It
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Is by Joe Allelujah I think we did it okay let's hop into our final segment
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and all new what we're into I'm going to oh great it zoomed in on your face again Griffin all I see is your top right
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eyeball oh never mind what yep don't ask me why off the rails man off the rails
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I'm going to do something in this segment that I've literally never done before but I don't want to go first I'm
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gonna allow one of you all to go before me talk about your stuff first because I
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mine might take a little bit of time sure I'll go first all right so I think
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uh people who listen carefully to the show and are know my interest or maybe follow me on social media may think that
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there's a really obvious thing that I probably will talk about later but right now I'm actually going to uh do a do a a
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pivot as I as I typically like to do and say that what I am into right now is a
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musician who I actually just saw live about three weeks ago Alice Merton
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you've probably never heard of her I'll put it gonna say Alice Cooper yeah little little underground
1:03:02
person anyways U Alice M she had like a I think probably close to like a one hit wonder like in 2016 or 2017 called no
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roots and I was like man this is a really cool funky song I wonder what else she does and you know turns out she
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had a whole album at that point I think now between like you know they're
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probably technically like EPS LPS and like a few singles and albums but like you know she has about Five albums worth
1:03:28
of of four or five albums worth of stuff on Apple music and Spotify um her earlier stuff I think is
1:03:37
a little higher quality you know her her most recent album you know there there are a few tracks on there I'm like sorry
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what your name was again Griffin I'm gonna pull this up Alice meron
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Alice um she's from Frankfurt oh yeah she she's she's
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European um she traveled all the way to Columbus Ohio and uh I I saw her at the anr music bar which is you know right in
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the arena district not a not a very big venue but it it was great I was
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basically and like I I was front row like oh my close enough we're like we
1:04:14
were making eye contact at several points throughout the show oh really making casting glances huh I'll put in a
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I I recorded a quick video I'll put it in the in the show notes for you to for you to bring up on the live stream
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Aon it's it it's it's this is the closest that I've ever been obviously to
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to a live music and it was incredible like I happen to notice I I don't know
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if it's like her her regular band or if it's just like you know these people that she goes on tour with but I I noticed during the show that like I was
1:04:43
wearing the exact same outfit as her keyboardist black sh gray pants yeah and
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I and I was like I I have a hunch I looked it up after the show he's definitely German which is kind of
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hilarious but anyways it was great music like she played you know basically her
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whole discography at this concert I think um you know some some of her early hits that I love some of some of the
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recent stuff from the most recent EP and I will also say that it was a very faithful like Recreation of her album
1:05:17
her album's music you know sometimes you go to a live concert and it's like well you know they're they're hitting the same notes but it it basically sounds
1:05:23
like a cover of their own song because like they don't have all the right instrument or things like that or you know especially like the the keyboard or
1:05:28
the syns they're not using the same sounds but uh it I would say it was very
1:05:34
it almost it it it was like the ideal where it sounded like I was listening to the album but it was just be happened to
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be performing live you know it was it was great good show I think she still has uh she's still currently on tour in
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Europe if you live in Germany or Italy or around there London possibly like she
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I think she's already passed through the US by now but if you're in Europe I highly recommend going to see Alice
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meron okay next time we go to Europe leis we know what we need to do I I like
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the fact that she's from Frankfurt originally okay Al all right well never
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heard of her what kind of music is it again um you know it's pop music but it
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in my opinion it's really good it's it's not like you know it's not like churned out by a you know Executives and generic
1:06:22
stuff it's it's really good stuff she has a like she doesn't have like a you know a almost all of her songs sound
1:06:30
completely different to each other it's it's a variety of styles love variety of
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uh you know soundscapes as it were it doesn't really get old are the are the songs in English yeah okay I'm just
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making sure I don't think I've ever heard like German pop songs oh man have youever heard of a
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band called craft work I don't think craft no scorpions well they sing they
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sing in English oh well kind of I mean I mean like German bands that sing in German Rin have heard of
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them I I feel like if you're G to sing pop music it's got to be romin I mean like that's the only way you could can
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you imagine like a German love song you know what I mean just just all
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guttural sounds like a dog fighting sounds like two Klingons making
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love okay sorry H I love Germany I can't wait get back I'm look for Al meron okay
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got I was traveling back from like a a trip from Italy one time and like I had an incredibly early flight at like 5:00
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a.m. I think we were actually in the Frankfurt airport at at a layover and I was like incredibly tired I was like
1:07:37
getting a coffee and a breakfast at this place and I hear this like stupid pop song playing over the speakers and then
1:07:44
I I I I did a Shazam of it and I listened to it in the car when I got back it's called and it it's a real
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Banger it's an Italian pop song from like 1999 called laola Deo and put it in
1:07:55
the show outs it's hilarious all right sounds beautiful all right Louis you want to go next I I'll I'll go last yeah
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you know I'm not sure how I I may have come across this because of this show uh
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I started watching this last week I think uh it's not a brand new TV show
1:08:15
it's from 2019 it's called The Righteous gemstones dude I the one that told you're the one that did it right because
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it it was it was off it was the off topic thing wasn't it talk about Goin yeah uh is that his name Walter go
1:08:28
Walton wal screw that up I is that not a very unusual name because you want to
1:08:33
say Walter since I've never heard of a wal ton I don't think yeah oh that's right so you you went down the rabbit
1:08:39
hole researching wal that that that show I think really put him on the map because his character was so beloved and
1:08:46
became memd into eternity and you know you know what's unbelievable I never
1:08:52
even heard of this show never even heard of it I've had HB forever I I love Danny
1:08:57
McBride yeah uh I I I like the directing by um oh my God his name just flew right
1:09:04
out of my head uh I'm pulling up right now it's killing me it's killing me what's his name oh my God I even
1:09:12
interviewed the guy one time Jody Hill Jody Hill he's the guy who directed uh Observe and Report if if you ever saw
1:09:18
that movie uh anyway so the righteous gemstones if you haven't seen it it's
1:09:25
about um you know this this family that uh runs a a a mega church I guess you
1:09:32
would call it right uh I don't really actually know where this thing is based somewhere in the South but uh it's got
1:09:38
John Goodman playing like the patriarch of the family it's got Danny McBride who who uh writes and and created this
1:09:45
show uh he plays one of the sons of of uh uh Eli I guess Eli is the guy's name
1:09:53
right Eli gemstone uh and so it's it's Eli
1:09:59
gemstone his son Jesse played by Dani bride his daughter Judy which is just a
1:10:04
a great character played by an actress I'm not familiar with Edie P Patterson
1:10:10
and another son Kelvin played by Adam Divine and so I mean it's just that show
1:10:16
is I mean if you like that kind of like completely overthe toop ridiculous humor
1:10:24
black humor uh you know these people are so they're they're
1:10:30
basically you know just as fake as you can imagine you know they're cussing and swearing and drinking and all that and
1:10:36
the I guess the inciting incident of of that first season is uh this is kind of
1:10:41
a spoiler but not really I mean how do you talk about it without it but uh
1:10:47
Danny McBride's character gets caught on on a video doing something he shouldn't be doing yeah and and then he tries to
1:10:54
like you know somebody blackmail him yeah he he tries to kill some PE the
1:11:01
whole thing it just goes completely off the rails and and the characters are just so over the toop and absurd and and
1:11:07
all the Nutty stuff they do and like you're saying Walter Goggins plays like what is it B Uncle baby Billy or
1:11:12
something like that right and uh oh my God he's just the sleaziest you know
1:11:19
dirtiest dirtiest uh fake fake preacher right I mean they're all just like oh my
1:11:26
God it anyway I I found it to be hilarious I mean it's certainly not to everyone's taste it's very
1:11:33
uh it's a lot of swearing there's a lot of uh very crass yeah very crash very crash humor exactly and uh but man if
1:11:41
you like that kind of stuff that show is great I think and I was you know you me you I it was definitely you mentioned
1:11:47
that in that off topic and you said oh yeah you know goggin was in the righteous gemstones and I clicked on
1:11:52
that I'm like what is this and I think part of the problem is the name like it almost sounds like some kind of fantasy
1:11:59
series you know like it almost sounds like it could be like if I saw that in a listing of shows I would probably think oh that's like some kids fantasy thing
1:12:07
with Muppets it it doesn't sound like what it is right am I wrong about that
1:12:13
well yeah I mean it doesn't really have any meaning outside of the name of the family and so you wouldn't really know
1:12:19
what it was just watching it and when you look at the the episode artwork it just it's just a bunch of people on a
1:12:24
chariot I mean I'm sure they have multiple um episode artwork for this show but so yeah but just by hearing the
1:12:31
title you would have absolutely no idea what it's about but you know like LS said it's it's about this this this
1:12:38
family that runs a mega church and like what their what their lives are really
1:12:43
like and the demons they struggle with and how most of them are absolute Hypocrites
1:12:49
Al although I've only watched one one season there's three seasons of the show I've watched one I it was one of those
1:12:55
things where I started watching it and couldn't stop I I think there's an interesting I mean it's very critical of
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of of mega churches and pastors and stuff which I think kind of annoys me
1:13:09
because it kind of is it's a it's a it's a trit um uh criticism that you hear yeah
1:13:17
exactly but like John Goodman's character I think is kind of like part of the redeeming aspect of the show in
1:13:22
that like he actually has genuine faith and like the reason he was able to build this church is because he actually
1:13:29
believes what he says and he is a good person even though he's flawed whereas a
1:13:35
lot of the other people like in his family are like these terrible people that are such massive Hypocrites that
1:13:42
are only there to like enrich themselves and their family and like John Goodman can't stand it and he's trying to figure
1:13:48
out like how to manage this family of terrible people but also pass on this church and help his children to grow
1:13:55
these roles that he wants them to have within this church family that he started um and then there's and then
1:14:01
there's Walton gogin uh character who is such a slime ball but also like so
1:14:09
incredibly lovable and in in how like much he just Embraces his his his own um
1:14:18
uh his his own sinful nature and just does things without excuse and just
1:14:23
created a really funny character that people meme constantly now like I see
1:14:29
that guy on Tik Tok all the time now see I haven't seen that I have to check look for that uh but uh so the you remember
1:14:36
there's like one scene in the middle of the first season where they they it's a flashback episode where they're the it's
1:14:43
the kids right they it focuses on the kids and these they got these child actors who really like captured the
1:14:50
spirit of the adult characters do you remember that like the birthday party Judy's birthday
1:14:55
party oh my God she's like just the most spoiled brat in the world and uh Danny
1:15:02
McBride's character is like a 12-year-old it's completely obnoxious and he ends up like getting
1:15:09
drunk on beard that Uncle baby Billy brings him and I mean oh I do remember that now yeah I mean it's just a
1:15:16
well-crafted show if you know again like the end result is this crash humor right
1:15:21
I mean it's it's not it's not it's not for the NPR crowd it's uh yeah
1:15:29
it's I I start laughing just thinking about it but the whole like the whole televangelists are crooked thing I mean
1:15:35
you know you're saying like oh John Goodman's character is well he's also you know a complete power player like
1:15:41
trying to put people out of business you know take over basically take over towns he's like expanding his his uh you know
1:15:48
righteous gemstone universe and yeah oh my God it's just it and the scenes where
1:15:55
where uh the the daughter like the daughter's always spurned because she's just kind of stupid and not very
1:16:00
talented and when uh Uncle baby Billy starts trying to like you know team up
1:16:05
with her and starts he's really working her really manipulating the hell out of her oh man the I don't know man it this
1:16:14
some good comedy I I love that kind of stuff I I really love observ and report I know some people hate that movie but
1:16:20
when that that came out I was just blown away by that never heard of it all right well it's called the right gemstones it
1:16:25
came out in 2019 it's available on on I want to call HBO I guess it is HBO but HBO is now on Max how's that make sense
1:16:33
and it's there's three seasons I believe there's a fourth one uh it's been renewed for a fourth season so okay
1:16:38
there more to come yeah I know I did not know that I thought it was over wow nope okay that's very cool see
1:16:43
how learn something here today okay I'll keep mine quick dude one thing you learned one thing that's all I learned
1:16:49
that's one thing more than normal so I'm going to pitch a couple shows that I have never watched I've
1:16:55
never done this on the show before what the and I'm trying to get to a point where I can watch these shows but these
1:17:01
what we think we're into these shows are well there two shows that I found out
1:17:07
about via Tik Tok dude Tik Tok Tik Tac has an unbelievable ability to to raise
1:17:13
things that from obscurity back into the Zeitgeist man it's unbelievable because
1:17:19
people will share these things in really super small clips and so you get like a little taste of it and then everyone
1:17:24
else starts making their own versions of it cuz they see that it's popular and then you'll get like all the best
1:17:30
onliners from a show in a one minute clip on Tik Tok and there'll be like 85
1:17:36
different versions and so you become familiar with a show that you've never seen and you can tell that you love the tone and tenure of the show and like the
1:17:43
actors and stuff but you've never actually seen it so this kind of hearkens back to my commentary I think
1:17:50
uh maybe two or three shows ago where I was making that reference about clim Vango that I've actually never seen the
1:17:56
show that that reference comes from called the toast of London anyone to
1:18:01
hear about this show have you heard of it yes I've seen it you have seen it so and when you were mentioning that I was like wow I can't believe somebody else
1:18:08
has seen this show because it's such a like a weird cult comedy yeah I've never seen it all I know is that this dude
1:18:13
Matthew Barry um has all these great on liners from this show and then the other show
1:18:20
which is more current because Toast of London came out I think in 2015 and I think it had Four Seasons and the one
1:18:26
that I think is still on is called what we do in the shadows which is also a Matt Barry show and there is something
1:18:33
about that dude man like there like I feel like it's actually kind of hard to make me really laugh like the last movie
1:18:40
that I saw that actually made me like laugh out loud and I I was just dying laughing was the unbearable weight of
1:18:47
massive Talent with uh Nicholas Cage oh I want to watch that so bad I haven't seen it yet I think it's on is on
1:18:53
Paramount Plus I think it might be but in the movie Nick Cage basically plays the um the
1:19:01
meme version of himself in the movie and there are a few scenes in that movie I I
1:19:07
was dying laughing like silent mode crying actual laughing which does not
1:19:12
happen to me very often and I I I had that same uh reaction to the clips that
1:19:18
I've seen of Matt Barry in these two shows there is something about the way he delivers lines that absolutely cracks
1:19:24
me up and I was I was watching this uh on Tik Tok at my gym and I I had to stop
1:19:30
because I'm like trying to do these like these sets where I'm lifting weights and I kept failing because I would burst out
1:19:37
I'm like burst bursting out laughing trying to like lift these heavy weights and these lines were so funny but I I
1:19:43
haven't been able to get the toast of London like it's not available anywhere you you actually can't it's not on a
1:19:49
single well that's not true there is one streaming Network that plays it's called Brit box
1:19:55
britbox it's like all British television and I'm like I don't really know if I want to subscribe to britbox to watch
1:20:00
this one show I was hoping to buy like a box set of the DVDs they don't exist you
1:20:05
have to buy all the seasons individually which is a huge pain I don't want to do that so if anyone has any ideas uh let
1:20:12
me know he was also Matt Barry was also in the IT Crowd he's also the voice behind
1:20:20
um what's the name of the bot in Fallout Lewis
1:20:26
I can't believe I'm spacing out on this oh the he's the voice of that he's the voice of the robot in in Fallout the new
1:20:31
Fallout episode huh or the new Fallout series I didn't notice that Mr handy Mr handy in
1:20:38
the game there's a robot called Mr handy and in the movie or in the series the
1:20:43
robot makes it appearance he's the voice of it he's the new voice of it and his delivery is just perfect the way the way
1:20:49
he delivers lines is so unbelievably original and and comedic it's a rare Talent man and and uh this new show what
1:20:56
we do in the shadows is available on Hulu you actually can stream it on Hulu
1:21:02
and I have seen so many onliners from this show that had me absolutely cracking up that I actually might
1:21:08
subscribe to Hulu just to watch this one show I will give that a slightly uh
1:21:14
Stronger endorsement of what we do in the shadows because I haven't seen Clips but I have seen one episode of it and it
1:21:19
was also really great that Mark Hill makes a uh Cameo appearance in one episode
1:21:25
as like a bit character and it is absolutely hilarious so what we do in the shadows I think is written by
1:21:31
Jermain Clement who has done a bunch of stuff on HBO before uh God what was the name of
1:21:39
that show jamain hey B wasn't it Clement I probably spelled his name wrong um
1:21:47
yeah Jamaine he I think he's from New Zealand oh fly to the Concords fly to the Concords thank you yes sorry um he
1:21:55
was in this show called Flight of the Concords which was another kind of like cult comedy that Pro probably people
1:22:02
either loved or hated it I liked it and I haven't seen him really in anything since I know he's been in some stuff uh
1:22:10
oh he's a Men In Black too I had no idea oh he's in Moana who who knew but uh fly of the Concords came out
1:22:17
forever ago and then he started doing what we do in the shadows I think he's a writer for what we do in the shadows or
1:22:23
maybe he's oh he's the director oh he's a director and the writer oh along with Tao watiti he did he directed u a bunch
1:22:31
of the um the Thor movies so that's interesting I didn't
1:22:36
know that anyway so I haven't seen either of these shows yet what we do in the shadows Toast of London but they are
1:22:42
like at the very top of my list like I'm I'm gonna try and binge watch both these shows over the next two weeks and maybe
1:22:48
I'll pitch him again once I've actually finished post of London's pretty funny man he's he's I I think what funny about
1:22:55
that guy is how sort of you know he's got this amazing voice and he just sounds so like you know you feel like
1:23:03
you trust him like he could be a chilon leader but the guy's his the character is just such an
1:23:10
obnoxious jerk and he's he's just so you know delusional about his own Talent
1:23:16
it's it's really pretty hilarious yeah so in Toast of London I mean isn't the premise that he is like an actor with a
1:23:23
huge ego yeah and and he and to your point like he thinks he's way better than he actually is and so he's kind of
1:23:29
a diva and what his career and life is like like living with that huge of an
1:23:34
ego oh it's yeah it's funny man it's been a while since I watched that but yeah it was it was laugh out lot funny
1:23:41
and then what we do in the shadows the premise is viago Deacon and vladislav
1:23:46
are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life like paying rent keeping up with the chore
1:23:53
keeping up with chores and trying try to get into nightclubs and overcoming uh conflicts with their flatmates you know
1:24:00
PE people love that the movie what we do in the shadows I didn't movie I didn't
1:24:05
like the movie that much but uh I've heard good things about the show so I don't know I mean that kind of sounds
1:24:11
like uh what was that hippie hippie show way back in the 80s or 90s or
1:24:18
whatever four London flat Maids who are like oh what is no my brain is not
1:24:24
working right today it was a show yeah I don't know all right
1:24:30
look I'm starting the music cuz we're all done Griffin's uh pixels are
1:24:37
shrinking and expanding like his face keeps popping in and out of the picture we're going to give someone a seizure so we're going to go ahead that's all the
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night I want to thank every everyone for listening for hanging out live uh and for bearing with us for all these through all these Tech issues and we
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will see you guys next time let's go for a quick one
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there no thank you g thank you level remix thank you
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Mark now I feel really old just now show that yeah that show I was talking about
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it's called The Young Ones let me guess 1957 not quite that bad but uh yeah 80s early
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80s oh time flies you know time ask us about it sometime Griff we'll tell you
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what the 80s were like yeah it was a good time
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to be so young that you can't remember it or in L's case in your early
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[Music] 40s or in leander's case it is mid
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sixs all right everyone I'm going to stop the stream now bye
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