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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: and how the tech are you? It's time for a

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff classic episode. This episode originally published on October

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Speaker 1: twenty one, two thousand fifteen. It is titled expensive Consumer Tech.

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Speaker 1: And this was back in where I was just kind

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Speaker 1: of looking around some of the most expensive examples of

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Speaker 1: consumer technology to talk about what they were and whether

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Speaker 1: they made any ding dang darn sense. Let's listen in.

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Speaker 1: This is an episode in which I have specifically requested

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Speaker 1: my co host do absolutely no research on the topic whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: I got no idea what's going on? Yeah, you only

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Speaker 1: know what the topic is. That topic is expensive sumer

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Speaker 1: technology because you know, we're ramping up to the holiday

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Speaker 1: season and obviously you know you have to start looking

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Speaker 1: at the people in your life and what sort of

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Speaker 1: gifts you need to give them exactly. And I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: what if what if one you and I were making

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Speaker 1: the crazy kind of money that Beauty Pie is making

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Speaker 1: on YouTube? Because because as we record this, the day

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Speaker 1: we record this is also the day that Forbes released

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Speaker 1: what the top YouTube performers are earning, or what they

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Speaker 1: guess they are earning. It's it made me question all

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Speaker 1: of my decisions in life up to this point. But

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Speaker 1: we are not making that money. But if we were

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Speaker 1: making that money, and if there were spectacularly awesome people

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Speaker 1: in our lives, maybe these are the sort of things

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Speaker 1: we might look at in order to say you mean

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Speaker 1: something to me, Mr, Mrs Miss whatever. So. But I

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Speaker 1: didn't want Ben to to know about any of these

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Speaker 1: because I want to get his actual reaction. Plus, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna quiz him a couple of times, not really quiz,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get an idea, see if he can

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Speaker 1: guess what some of these things are based upon the names. Now,

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Speaker 1: some of them are evident by the name, so not

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Speaker 1: all of them will be a guesswork. But I may

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Speaker 1: have you guess occasionally what it might be, and then

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Speaker 1: maybe I'll even ask you ballpark figure how much you

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Speaker 1: think it might might be. Let's let's do it. I

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Speaker 1: love it, uh listeners. Just so you guys know, one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons that I'm the best slash worst sidekick

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Speaker 1: for Jonathan and this type of episode, it's because I

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Speaker 1: am a notorious chief skate. I am personally offended. Car

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Speaker 1: stuff listeners probably know this, but I am. I am

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Speaker 1: personally offended if I think something is too expensive. Now, also,

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Speaker 1: in the interest of full disclosure, I was not aware

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Speaker 1: of that when I asked them to do this, but

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Speaker 1: it does make me very happy because it means that,

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Speaker 1: even if everything else goes wrong, your reactions are going

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Speaker 1: to save this episode. So I'm already upset. Here we

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Speaker 1: go here. I decided to go with U with a

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Speaker 1: real doozy first, and it's one you may have actually

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Speaker 1: talked about on a different show, so that gives you

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Speaker 1: a hint already. Can you guess what the element? Palazzo

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Speaker 1: Superior is element found so superior. I'm thinking it's a

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Speaker 1: car very close it is an RV. Oh, well, come

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Speaker 1: also know Well, it was just a guess, like one

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Speaker 1: of those things like it might have been something that

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Speaker 1: you and Scott have covered for car stuff. I should

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Speaker 1: ask Scott if he's heard of it when, because I'm

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Speaker 1: actually peek behind the curtain. After I do this episode

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Speaker 1: with you, right, I'm recording another episode after this. Scott's

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Speaker 1: going to be my guest, so we're starting this episode

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Speaker 1: late because Scott and I were in the studio earlier. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it's just it's just a Jonathan, Scott and Ben

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Speaker 1: that would make I guess it's the million something Ami

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Speaker 1: goes now, right, So the element Palazzo Superior is an RV.

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Speaker 1: It is known as the most luxurious mobile home in

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Speaker 1: mansion on wheels. Now, I'm not going to make you

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Speaker 1: guess how much this is, because it would you would

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Speaker 1: just be unfair. This monstrosity. Well, let me let me

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Speaker 1: explain what what it is first before I give you

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Speaker 1: the what what the cost is. So the they the

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Speaker 1: driver's compartment, known as the cockpit actually referred to as

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Speaker 1: a panoramic windshield. It has an adjustable tent on that

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Speaker 1: square meters. Is it Is it okay? Is it street legal? Yes? Also,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things that it expands outward, so

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Speaker 1: The normal width is eight point four feet or two

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Speaker 1: that's five ms of width as a rooftop deck. It

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Speaker 1: has radiant floor heating. It's got refrigerators, a wine cabinet,

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Speaker 1: a custom audio system, ambient light control and more, and

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Speaker 1: you Ben Bolan can be the proud owner of an

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Speaker 1: Element Plazzo Superior for the low low price of three

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Speaker 1: point one million dollars for an RV an RVY. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so is the WiFi service including do you get an

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Speaker 1: homes in Atlanta there in the one to two million

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Speaker 1: gonna find some mansions there that are going to start

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Speaker 1: I also don't pay three million, four But it also

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Speaker 1: doesn't roll right, That's true. I mean with this, you

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Speaker 1: could you your home could be wherever you park. Now.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because I recently had a pretty frank discussion

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Speaker 1: what I've learned from people were in the RV cultures

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Speaker 1: It's got to be a nightmare with something that large.

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Speaker 1: Three millions. So, so, Jonathan, would you ever if Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's see you're on tour. Okay, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: let's say that let's say I am somehow filthy rich

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Speaker 1: would you be? Would you take one of these behaviorths as?

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Speaker 1: Would you just go with a charter bus? I'd go

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Speaker 1: I'm not a driver at all, so so the idea

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Speaker 1: completely honest with you. I appreciate it, but don't don't

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Speaker 1: the list. Well here, how about how about I hit

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Speaker 1: guess what this is based upon the name. Now, this

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Speaker 1: lot of the other ones I'm talking about are relatively new,

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Speaker 1: but this is actually an old thing that has been

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. The protech Philippe Henry Graves super Complication. Ah, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Ben Bolan. Yes, as absolutely act it was. It's a

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Speaker 1: Protect Filly in nineteen thirty three four Henry Grays Jr.

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Speaker 1: Who was a banker at the time. And Henry Grays Jr.

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Speaker 1: Was in a bit of a competition with another gentleman

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Speaker 1: This is a competition to have the most complicated watch. Yes.

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Speaker 1: It keeps time number one. UH. It gives you the

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Speaker 1: is all mechanical. Yeah, this is pre digital nine. It

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Speaker 1: has a perpetual calendar on it, so it has the

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Speaker 1: mechanics in it to keep accurate what day it is. UH.

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Speaker 1: Has days of the month, days of the week, and

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Speaker 1: has a stars chart. It has phases of the moon

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Speaker 1: charted on it. It has a stop watch. It has

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Speaker 1: a thirty minute recorder meaning it will go off after

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Speaker 1: Henry Graves was fifteen thousand dollars. Now we have to

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Speaker 1: about two hundred two thousand dollars That, my friend, would

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Speaker 1: be a bargain based upon what people have actually paid

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Speaker 1: for this thing since then in auctions. Yes, so Southby's

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Speaker 1: got it in auction and they sold it twice. In fact,

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Speaker 1: the first time they sold it was in July when

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Speaker 1: Chic Saud being Mohammed being Ali al Tani of the

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Speaker 1: Qatari royal family purchased it for a cool eleven million dollars.

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Speaker 1: First off, pronunciation thank you. Secondly, I am profoundly offended. Well, watch.

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Speaker 1: He did have to return it because he had he

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Speaker 1: I love the effective sound and I totally get this.

427
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I love music right, and I definitely understand

428
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: people who said, uh, they preferred older means of of

429
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: listening to music to m P three's because for a

430
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,479
Speaker 1: long time, first of all, MP three is a lossy format,

431
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: mean you're you're losing some information whenever you make that

432
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: type of file. But those those conversions have gotten better

433
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: and better, plus their other lossless formats out there, where

434
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 1: digital is no longer I think a meaningful distinction from analog.

435
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: So saying so, I would go that far as to

436
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: say if you if you do things correctly, you should

437
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: not be able to tell the difference. And there's also

438
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,959
Speaker 1: a psychological aspect though two people. It's it's like, uh,

439
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: some people will make to your coffee a certain way,

440
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: and just because that there's something comforting about that, they

441
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: feel that it is the superior method. I would argue

442
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: very much that that things like listening to vinyl records

443
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: has a bit of the ritual involved, right, and that

444
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 1: ritualistic experience provides that sense of comfort and familiarity. So

445
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: if and I do that, I mean, I've got a

446
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: collection of vinyl at home. I'm I'm talking about this

447
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: like as someone who I appreciate that experience, and that's

448
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: part of it, right, It's not just the sound, it's

449
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: not even not even necessarily related to whatever the record is.

450
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: It's the experience of putting that all together. And I

451
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: think there is a value to that. And obviously digital

452
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: doesn't really I mean, there's not really a comparison where

453
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: you push play on a touch screen and the music place.

454
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: It's not the same thing as taking taking the sleeve

455
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: out of a cover, and then the finalist of the

456
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: sleeve and then placing that on the platter and moving

457
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 1: the needle over. And if you guys don't know what

458
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, you need to look at a turntable.

459
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: Although those have come back. I mean, everyone knows one

460
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 1: of those technologies. I used to joke about. Ask your parents,

461
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: but now a lot of people know about it. Thousand dollars.

462
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: All right, well let's let's let's up the anti four

463
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: and dollars. That's that's chicken feed. Yeah. So so the

464
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: next one is going to be a television telling you

465
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: straight out the name of the television is the Stewart

466
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: Hughes Prestige HD Supreme Rose. Addition, what is that? Like

467
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: a bad Google translations. Stewart Hughes would be the company.

468
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: The Prestige HD Supreme Rose Edition is the name of

469
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: the television. So it costs two point to five million dollars.

470
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: It's a TV that cost two point five million dollars.

471
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: Might as well just get the element that point that

472
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: has two TVs in it. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Okay,

473
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: so what do we get sell me on this? All right?

474
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: It's a television. So it's not even not even it's

475
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,719
Speaker 1: not even ridiculously huge, right like you were expecting it. Oh,

476
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: it's going to be like a hundred and seventy three

477
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: TV and it's fifty in television. Um, it's got twenty

478
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: eight ms of eighteen carrot gold in the frame and

479
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: that's that's primarily Yeah, that eight kilograms. It's more than

480
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: fifty pounds of gold. What is this obsession with putting

481
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: gold on things that don't need gold? I guess it

482
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: just means that your TV, even as it becomes obsolete,

483
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: is still insanely valuable. The frame is studded with seventy

484
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: two one carrot diamonds. Uh. They're also a sunstone and

485
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: amethysts in that frame between the outer frame and the screen.

486
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: So imagine you've got like a frame, like a picture frame.

487
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: The screen is in set. So this would be almost

488
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: like the mat of a of a if you were

489
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: looking at a you know, a framed picture, you know

490
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: that has the mat surrounding it. Well, the mat would

491
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: be made out of alligator skin that is hands sown

492
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: to the frame. Uh yeah, hands. So it just seems

493
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: like such a left field the idea they're creating the

494
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: TV it's Stuart Hughes and they say something, can you

495
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: kill an alligator? Could that? Can we do that? Can

496
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: we kill an alligator? UM? I my own personal opinion,

497
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: I think it's hideous. I think it's hideous. I almost

498
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: I wish now I what I really wish I had done,

499
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: and it's a regret that I'm going to have to

500
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: live with. I wish I had printed out pictures of

501
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: each of these things so I could hand them to

502
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: you after I explain what it is to get your

503
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: reaction on those. But I mean, this is an audio podcast,

504
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: so there would only be limited value in that anyway,

505
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: right for the for for you guys listening, but also

506
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: that would probably increase the likelihood of me cursy. We're

507
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of bleeps in this episod. But

508
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: the Stewart Hughes Prestige HD, which is Prestige HD, is

509
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: altogether supreme Rose Edition. You go check that out, listeners

510
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,239
Speaker 1: and take a look, and you tell me if you

511
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: think it looks beautiful. I said that it looks like

512
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: the Hearst Castle of television. And if you've ever been

513
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: to Hearst Castle, you know what I'm talking about William

514
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: Randolph Hurst had way more money than he had taste.

515
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: He just if he saw something that he liked, he

516
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: bought it and he put it in a room. Whether

517
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: it went with everything else or not. He would go

518
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: for baroque. Okay, that's a terrible UM. One of the

519
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: TVs I was going to mention, but I decided ultimately

520
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: not to because if you do a search for most

521
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: of television is one of the ones that pops up

522
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: pretty consistently is a Panasonic television that's a hundred and

523
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: fifty two inches. But I didn't necessary. I didn't want

524
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: to include it in this because I'm specifically talking about

525
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: consumer technology. The Panasonic one fifty two inch plasma display

526
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: is really intended for businesses. So for like a big

527
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: company that wants to have a huge screen on a

528
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: big wall, that kind of thing. Yeah, or or even

529
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: just as a prestige thing for the company whatever, you know,

530
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: but it was or maybe it's a media company and

531
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: they want to be able to show off the stuff

532
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: they do. Um, but it's a five hundred thousand dollar

533
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: display that's a hundred fifty two inches. It's a plasma display.

534
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: So I don't really think of that as a consumer product,

535
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: which is why I didn't have it as an official

536
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: one and it no, but here's here's an actual TV

537
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: that you can buy as a consumer. Um. It is

538
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: one of the most expensive consumer televisions out there that

539
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: is not bedecked with jewels and is the Samsung you

540
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: in one zero five S nine B. That's the way

541
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: TVs are these days. The original m s r P

542
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: for this was two hundred sixty thousand dollars, more than

543
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: a quarter of a million dollars for this television when

544
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: it when it first came out. Right now, though, if

545
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: you go to Samsung's page, act quickly because it now

546
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: lists the suggested retail at one dty nine thousand, nine

547
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: nine cents. But you can scoop it up for a

548
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:43,719
Speaker 1: mirror one nineteen thousand dollars nine and so so just

549
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: under one. Oh, we're back in the game, saving thirty

550
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: thousand right there. And by saving that thirty thousand, you

551
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: can go and then buy that Virtue red Gold phone.

552
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: And I like, we can go. We'll have to take

553
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: our TV with us to the exclusive party, yes, exactly.

554
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: Just look, you know I'm rich because I also have

555
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: this monstrosity. It's a hundred and five inch television, so

556
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: this one is significantly larger. It's four K Ultra HD.

557
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: It's a smart TV with built in WiFi. And this

558
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: is the one that is a bendable screen where you

559
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 1: you push a button and the and the screen bends inward.

560
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: It curves inward. Yeah, it's pretty nifty. That explains to

561
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: me some of the appeal. And then I have a

562
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: question to I was wondering about this, and I'm glad

563
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: you went to t VS. This is something that our

564
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: listeners are probably wondering as well. Is there also a

565
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: diminishing return with um, you know, four K with the

566
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: quality of video. That's an excellent question, I would argue yes. However,

567
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: it's dependent on a couple of different things. The size

568
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: of the screen, because the larger you go, the higher

569
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: the resolution you need in order to not have that

570
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: quality degrade. So if I have a if I have

571
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: at TV and it's at seven twenty, that might look

572
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: great to me, and I might think, all right, well,

573
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to a much larger TV. Let's go,

574
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: I'm going up to sixty inch television. But now I

575
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: want to have uh, two K or four K screen,

576
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,280
Speaker 1: probably four KSE screen because two K really didn't go anywhere,

577
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: but a four K screen you would be able to

578
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: tell the difference because it's sharper, and it's bigger. And

579
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: if you're especially if you don't change how far away

580
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: you're sitting from the screen, like if you're seeing just

581
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 1: as far away from your sixty inch as you were

582
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: your forty inch, then uh, you know, the bigger it gets,

583
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: the more likely you're going to detect any sort of

584
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: problems with quality. Uh. But that being said, if you

585
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: are looking at like or at least for me, I

586
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: have found at c E s where you would presumably

587
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: tune these televisions to be high performing, you know, so

588
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: that you really attract people. I have looked at h

589
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: D t vs next to two K, four K, eight

590
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: K sets and at an equal distance and using equal sizes.

591
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: It's I can't tell any Like I can't really distinguish

592
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: between them. Like if you had covered up the labels

593
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: and didn't tell me which one was which, I probably

594
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to identify them. If I got really close,

595
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: I could because the closer you get, the more you

596
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: can see what you can tell the how how good

597
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: the resolution is. But again so it depends on screen size,

598
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: how close you're sitting, and also just calibrating your TV. Uh,

599
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: if you, if you have someone professionally calibrate your television

600
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: so that it's going to give you the best experience

601
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: in whatever environment you are in it, that makes a

602
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: huge difference. I have not done that, but I did

603
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: not mostly because my room I'm in. The light changes

604
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: so dramatically because, uh, the where my cable hook up

605
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: is is near a big window, like a floor to

606
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: ceiling window, and even with window treatment on that some

607
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of sunlight will come through in

608
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: the daytime and at night it's totally different. So it

609
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: would be hard to calibrate it in a way that

610
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: would be satisfying for both experiences. So I just kind

611
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: of mediocreate. No, I hopefully this uh, this amazing piece

612
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: of television technology will calibrate itself or have someone that

613
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: I almost said someone that comes with it. Like you

614
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: open up a box and some some poor person is

615
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: just like you know, hunched over inside the box, like

616
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: all right, I'm ready to calibrate your te exactly, and

617
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: then you give Darby a sock and it goes off

618
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: on his way. Um. Also, it can upscale images, so

619
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,479
Speaker 1: in other words, you can look at something like HD

620
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: content and turn it into ultra HD content and it

621
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: just does it by kind of interpreting what the missing

622
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: pixels would be. So it's not perfect, right, Upscaling has

623
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: never been perfect, but it can be very good. It

624
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: seems interesting, Yeah, but I don't know if it I frankly,

625
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not swayed think of it by

626
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: it because it sounds like only the edges of the

627
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: screen bend. It beens in towards you. Yeah, it's not

628
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: like you can wrap it around a column or something

629
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: and have like a circular television or something, in which

630
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: case that would be a steel Yeah. Yeah, that's that's

631
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: not it. All right, Well, here's your next one. The

632
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: like a M nine P edition Hermes Serie Limited Jean

633
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: Louis Dumas or dum if you prefer, what kind of

634
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: device do you think that might be? Will you say,

635
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: we see the name like an M nine P edition

636
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: Hermes Serie Limited Jean Louis duma Like a yeah Hermes,

637
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: like I spelled that by the way, I may be

638
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: mispronouncing that it's l E. I c A. I think

639
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: you may have stopped me. This one's a tough one.

640
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: Just Hermes made me what I guess if it was

641
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: a bag, but it's it's not, which makes me think

642
00:37:53,880 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: of the Saturday Night Life sketches exactly exactly. I'm brecky. Okay,

643
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take a Probably it's probably her is

644
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: actually so I'm so ghosh, I'll take a I'll take

645
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: a shot. Ghost is such a weird word because people

646
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: who know the word ghost are inherently not gosh. I like,

647
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: I like where you're going. Okay, okay, so sorry, that's

648
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: just some business for me to try to cold read you. Um,

649
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: and I'm not giving anything like I know it's not

650
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: working very well. I'm gonna say a few things and

651
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: see if you blink. Uh. Now, you just gonna have

652
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: to give a guess, all right. Um? Is it a laptop? No,

653
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: it is a point and shoot camera. I should have known,

654
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: like I should have known. Yeah, it's a point of

655
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: shoot camera. It's digital camera, so it's not not a

656
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: film camera. Uh. And it costs fifty thousand dollars. It's

657
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: a fifty dollar point and shoot digital camera. It has

658
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: calf skin leather that has been handsome um comes with

659
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 1: multiple lenses that are cased in analyzed silver. It's very

660
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: very I mean it looks beautiful. You look at you

661
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: look at and you're just like, well, that is a

662
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: work of art. But still fifty thou dollars for a

663
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: point and shoot can I'm just glad it doesn't have

664
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of gold on it. No, it does not

665
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: have a bunch of gold on it. So, however, if

666
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a bunch of gold, how

667
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: about the Nintendo WE Supreme which is covered in twenty

668
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: two carried gold? Why two thousand, five hundred grams of

669
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: twenty two carried gold? Why the front buttons are made

670
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: out of diamond? Oh okay, oh that's different. That's crazy.

671
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: It works, right, it does work. There are only three

672
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: of them in existence, and it costs two pounds sterling,

673
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: which if you if you were to convert to the

674
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: U S dollars about four dred sixty five thousand dollars

675
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: for an into NOI also done by Stuart Hughes, the

676
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: same company that did the Ridiculous Tea, So they switched

677
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: the alligators. Get this is just for TVs. Yeah, no,

678
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: there's no alligator skin, which is weird because you know,

679
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: you could have done like Yoshi's Revenge or something and

680
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: packaged it an alligator skin. Yeah, you should be under

681
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: I'm just seeing them now going this, we need something else?

682
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: Can we kill an alligator? You know, we just meltdown

683
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: some more gold. Someone go to the alps. Yeah, they're

684
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: they're actually um there. They've also done the same sort

685
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: of thing with other consoles. But apparently, according to their website,

686
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: this is the most expensive video game console in the world,

687
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: the Nintendo we Subreme. You know what this This might

688
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: date you and I, but do you remember, um, the

689
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: Neo Geo, Yes, where the actual game cartridges were like

690
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 1: several hundred dollars. Yeah, I was so. I was so

691
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: envious that, and my parents let me try to pitch

692
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: them on getting one, and I tried my best to

693
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: justify how this would be an investment for our family.

694
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: If you don't know, the Neo Geo console so like

695
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: the original consoles cost you know, a hundred bucks or

696
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: more depending on what you were looking at, but Neo

697
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: g O was way more expensive and the the individual

698
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: games were way more expensively. The individual games cost more

699
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: than other video game consoles. Yeah, no, kidden, and they had.

700
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: But it was that it was almost the same thing

701
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: we're seeing now in microcosm, because it was the exclusivity

702
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: of it over the actual the actual merit. Which makes

703
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: me want to ask, is that with the with the WE,

704
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: it's just the we, right, There's no nothing in the

705
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: specs that's different. It can't. It doesn't like upscale it

706
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: to HD, it's regular. I wonder it probably wouldn't be

707
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: possible in this age, but what if there was some

708
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: exclusive video game content that only came like the most

709
00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: the most rarefied Elite DLC, the Sextual. It makes me

710
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: think I almost included it for this um this podcast,

711
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: but I forgot. Actually, but when the iPhone first came out,

712
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: in the app store first opened up, do you remember

713
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: that there was an app where you could buy a

714
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: jewel for like or something like. Yeah, it didn't do anything.

715
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: It was just to show that you could blow a

716
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: thousand bucks on on an app. Oh man, I was

717
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, I was wondering if that was going to

718
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: come up in this podcast. I really I thought about

719
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: doing it. I just forgot to add it to the list.

720
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: Most these are the things I looked at were really

721
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: consumer electronics as opposed to an app that gets added

722
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: onto an existing product. Yeah, I see, well, well this

723
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: is okay, so far, so far, right now, um, right now,

724
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: I'm torn. I'm trying to think of what which of

725
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: these things I would pick if I could only pick

726
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: one to have, And I'd love to hear what you

727
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: think about it too. At the end. Okay, yeah, it

728
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: sounds great. Yeah, at the end, we'll we'll discuss which

729
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: of these ridiculous or extravagant or luxurious items we would

730
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: want for ourselves. That sounds good, all right. So the

731
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 1: next one, this one you mentioned laptop, you guess laptop

732
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: on the last one, this one is a PC, but

733
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: a desktop PC, the Zeus Jupiter. It's a PC that

734
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: costs It's a PC. Yeah, it's not even it's not

735
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: even a really strong one, especially compared to today's standard.

736
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: I suppose it's handmade. Uh close. It's plated with platinum,

737
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: but it's a pecatum and studded with diamonds and light

738
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: can come through and the studded diamonds make make constellations

739
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: on the case. So when you turn the computer on

740
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: and the light comes through, it looks like there's like

741
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: a Ryan there, that kind of thing. That's yeah. So

742
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: it's has an until three giga hurts E six eighty

743
00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: uh fifty core two duo CPU, only two gigabytes of

744
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: d d R two memory, a terrabyte hard drive. So

745
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,479
Speaker 1: obviously if you were to compare this to like a

746
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: A A even a lower upper tier gaming rig, it

747
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: that would blow this thing out of the water. Yeah,

748
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: this was originally announced prior around two thousand nine like that,

749
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: but as far as I can tell, there has not

750
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: been another computer announced personal computer mind you announced that

751
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: is more expensive. Now, That's why I wanted to say, like,

752
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: these are expensive toys, they may not be the most expensive,

753
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: because honestly, trying to track that down and verify it

754
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: is really tricky. For all of these, I wanted to

755
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: go to multiple sources to make sure, preferably going to

756
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: the the primary source, which is where I found out

757
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: about the fair two phone, because the original one I

758
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: had on that list was only ten thousand, two hundred dollars,

759
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: and then I found there was a model that was

760
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: more expensive than that. We've got more to say in

761
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: this classic episode of tech stuff. After these quick message

762
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: is here's one that that I actually knew about before

763
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: I did this list, And it's not It's nowhere near

764
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: It's not in the same ballpark as the other stuff

765
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: we've talked about. Okay, so not thousands of dollars. But

766
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: did you hear about the game Steel Battalion? Yes, for

767
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: the Xbox I may be thinking of a battle me thing. Yes,

768
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: that's it. It was. It was a max simulator. You

769
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 1: had a and the reason why it was expensive, by

770
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: the way, it was it was two D dollars, which

771
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,280
Speaker 1: actually today you look at video games like say Rock Band,

772
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: not that expensive. But if you were to look at

773
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 1: Steal Battalion, it was a two game for the Xbox.

774
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: It was the most expensive game for the Xbox. And

775
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: the reason was it came with this controller that had

776
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: forty buttons, so it was like it was like a

777
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: panel that had two joysticks on it, plus a whole

778
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: bunch of buttons and switches and three pedals that you

779
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: would control with your feet. And it was a mech

780
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: simulation game where you were simulating being the pilot of

781
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: a mech. And uh I never got to play it.

782
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: I never saw it. I don't know anyone who had it.

783
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: I'm so jealous envious of the people who have that. Though.

784
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 1: I wanted to play that so bad. When I heard

785
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: about it, I thought, well, that sounds really cool. And

786
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: they also reminded me of h I think there was

787
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: like a virtual reality um video game arcade type experience

788
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: where you could go and and do mech battles like

789
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 1: it was like it was like six on six type

790
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: MEC battles or whatever, but it was a custom made

791
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: experience where you went into the you know, you had

792
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: to actually go to a place and play it. It

793
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: wasn't like a home game thing, but this was something

794
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: that made me think, this is about close to that

795
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: experiences you could have in your own home. Uh. For comparison, though,

796
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: the rock Band three complete set, if you wanted to

797
00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: have everything from rock Band three was three sixty dollars,

798
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: and that's because you had the game, the drums, two guitars,

799
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: a microphone, plus the keyboard controller. The current version of

800
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: rock Band rock Band four that just came out, is

801
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: less than that. They don't have the keyboard controller anymore.

802
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: It's still more than two hundred dollars, but it's not

803
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: three D sixty and still the time when it came out,

804
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: it was the It's set the precedent for something like that. Uh,

805
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with video games. Talk about we're gonna

806
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: go up another notch to a very expensive game, a

807
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: Resident Evil six Platinum Edition. This was only available in Japan. Okay, okay,

808
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: it's more than three D sixty dollars. That's D dollars

809
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: for a game. Does it please tell me the box

810
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: is not made of platinum. No, but it comes with

811
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: a leather jacket replica of the character Leon Kennedy's jacket

812
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: in the game. Yeah, so it came with a leather jacket,

813
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: but I won't I won't spend D dollars on a

814
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: leather jacket either, unless the leather jacket is actually made

815
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:10,479
Speaker 1: out of gold. I mean, I am overjoyed. Yeah, after

816
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: all we've been through together that it is not coded

817
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: in precious gems or metals. Man, you're gonna hate the

818
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: next one. Well. Well, one other thing I have to

819
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: mention about the Platinum edition is that it also came

820
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: with four phone cases modeled after Resident Evil characters. So,

821
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: I mean there's where you make up the value all right,

822
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: so we're getting to the most expensive video game of

823
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: all time, although it's only because of the packaging. I

824
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: don't know this the grid to Mono. Addition, it's a

825
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: racing game for the PlayStation three. It cost one thousand

826
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: pounds sterling, which is just under two hundred thousand dollars.

827
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: Because it came with a supercar. Oh. The supercar was

828
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 1: a custom made b a C Mono back Mono and

829
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: had a max speed of a hundred seventy miles per

830
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: hour and it went zero to sixty miles and two

831
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: point eight seconds. Okay, that I feel like it's worth it. Now,

832
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you're gonna drop a hundred ninety

833
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: three thousand bucks on a video game, at least it

834
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: came with a supercar. It also included a p S

835
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: three just in case you didn't have one, So that

836
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: was also added, and you got you got custom made

837
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: racing gear that you could work. Yeah, this is this

838
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: is one of my favorites so far. Okay, good. Yeah,

839
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: that's because it's not just the game, it's it's it's

840
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: a great deal. It's a package deal. Now now I'm

841
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: going to kind of move on into because you know,

842
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about consumer tech with like entertainment

843
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: and stuff. I wanted to finish out with something a

844
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: little more down to earth. I thought we'd talked about

845
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: something like kitchen gadgets, kitchen kitchen stuff, kitchen consumer tech.

846
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: Now we know that appliances and major kitchen purchases can

847
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: be pretty expensive. For example, the lack Corn New Grand

848
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: Palais stove range costs a starting price for one is

849
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: three dollars for the cooking range, just for the It

850
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: includes both a gas oven and an electric oven, so

851
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 1: this is why it's like two of these. It's like

852
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: two regular range stoves like next to each other. It

853
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:31,479
Speaker 1: has a lava rock grill, electric plates, stovetop, and it's

854
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: made by hand from cast iron, steel and brass with

855
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: porcelain enamel. It looks it looks very uh, I mean,

856
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: it looks very fancy. I wouldn't want it doesn't appeal

857
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: to me. It's not my my style. But the one

858
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: that that that was in the picture was like this,

859
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: this beautiful color of red with gold embellishment and like

860
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: the like the handles for the range top or a

861
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 1: gold and that kind of thing. And I've it was pretty,

862
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: but actually I guess it was technically brass not gold,

863
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: but I thought it was pretty, but I I it

864
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: wasn't the kind of style that appeals to me. Is

865
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: it a French company? Yes? Is it? You know? Okay,

866
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: this is just a very very brief thing. But a

867
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 1: side note. One of my friends when she was living

868
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 1: in New York I she was doing well, and you know,

869
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: it's not that easy when you move into New York

870
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: as a young person to make enough money to live there.

871
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: So she tried a couple of different jobs and the

872
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: jobs she ended up working at for a very long

873
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: time was a place that only sold bespoke door knobs.

874
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: That was their entire business. That's that blows my mind.

875
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: And then there could be an entire business around that. Yep, yeah,

876
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: talk about cottage industry. I mean apparently it worked well.

877
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: So she would just ride the trade in the Manhattan

878
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 1: every day. It's sell these door or project manage whatever.

879
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: So it's just strange because this this company, it sounds

880
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: like they might just be artists, and yeah, yeah they

881
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: they They focus on making the sort of luxury high

882
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: end kitchen appliance of specifically ranges. And though you could

883
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: do so much other stuff. Well, how about a refrigerator.

884
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: I'm I'm okay. There's a different company though, is the

885
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: Mennghini at Adamanti refrigerator? Actually I guess it's at a

886
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: Deminty at a Deminty. Okay, I'll buy. What does it do?

887
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:42,479
Speaker 1: It keeps food cold. It's a regerator. It actually looks

888
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: like an armoire. It doesn't look like a refrigerator. It

889
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: looks like a big piece of furniture and has three

890
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: three um doors and a couple of porthole cabinet type things.

891
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: So there's actually a pantry, a refrigerator, and icebox all

892
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: incorporated in this thing. So when you look and it

893
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: looks like you know, you know, like cabinets that have

894
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: the kind of slatted doors. Okay, it looks like one

895
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: of those, except when you open it, it's a refrigerator

896
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: insight as opposed to a closet or wardrobe or something.

897
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: But it definitely looks more like a piece of furniture

898
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: than your typical refrigerator does. And obviously this was more

899
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: about creating a sense of style for someone's luxury home.

900
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 1: Sure for someone who doesn't who wants to look as

901
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: though they are above the common for someone who I

902
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: think I can almost certainly guarantee you has never cooked

903
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: a darn thing in their lives. They have people to

904
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: do that for them. Yeah, Or how about the Hammocker

905
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: double espresso machine that's only eight thousand dollars dollars? Okay?

906
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: So why this is the thing that I've noticed there?

907
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,280
Speaker 1: And this goes back. It's strange that there's a common

908
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: theme here about comparative happiness or perception, because I didn't

909
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: know that there is this niche of incredibly expensive espresso machine. Yeah,

910
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: I um, it's funny, well just incredibly expensive anything, right,

911
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: Like you'll find versions of stuff that the price is

912
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: ten times or more what you would find in the

913
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: general consumer version of that thing. And often, like you

914
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: start looking at you think, are what sort of stuff

915
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:30,280
Speaker 1: sets this apart from the consumer version, like the regular

916
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,479
Speaker 1: consumer version where you would go to like a best

917
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: Buy to go and purchase this or buy it off

918
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: online off Amazon or something. Often it's the handmade part

919
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: that tends to be one thing that because it becomes

920
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: this thing that's made by artists as opposed to made

921
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: by a machine. And there's there's a definitely definite perceived

922
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 1: value in that someone someone dedicated their time and skill

923
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:58,399
Speaker 1: into creating this thing. Um. Whether or not that makes

924
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: it valuable to you another question. But it shows that

925
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 1: there was care given to the creation of whatever it was. UM.

926
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: And I think, I think again, status is a big deal.

927
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: I don't think that most of the things we're talking

928
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: about here are working at a level, uh, noticeably higher

929
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: than what you would get in the normal consumer market.

930
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:24,479
Speaker 1: Like their objective performance is not superior exactly. I would

931
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 1: say some of them, maybe you know some of them.

932
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 1: You're talking about stuff where it's on the cutting edge

933
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 1: of technology, sure, right, like the supercar gonna go faster

934
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: than your general car does. Though you can buy one

935
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:40,919
Speaker 1: of those separately without the game for significantly less. Well yeah,

936
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: I mean like twenty dollars less. That's significant. That's a

937
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: very two phone right there. So this espresso machine in

938
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: particular is topped with a copper dome on top of

939
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 1: which purchase a brass eagle uh and it includes that

940
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 1: this one. Okay, I I love coffee, alright, I'm not

941
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: an espresso snob. I don't like I'm not a big

942
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 1: espresso fan, but I do like coffee. But there's certain

943
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: things in this that really appealed to me as a

944
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: tech nerd and as someone who likes coffee. Has a

945
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: microprocessor and it that controls exactly how much water is

946
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: allowed to flow through the grind, so you can you

947
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: can tailor make the strength of your espresso through a

948
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 1: touch pad two exactly what you want, and it controls

949
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:29,879
Speaker 1: it to the drop. So that sort of precision. Now

950
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 1: you can argue that making coffee is not like precise chemistry, right,

951
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: it's not because the quality of the bean is going

952
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: to change, and how old the bean is that's going

953
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,320
Speaker 1: to affect it as well. So it's not like chemistry

954
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: experiment where you're going to get the exact same result

955
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: every time, assuming that you follow the right protocols. But

956
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: I like the idea that you can at least have

957
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: the illusion of control in your life. I need that.

958
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 1: Then I need the illusion of control. I hope, I hope.

959
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: That's their motto. Yea. Also it's it's a little hefty.

960
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: It weighs eight three pounds. So then I wonder, so

961
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,879
Speaker 1: this is really for I guess these people will be

962
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: pro sumers at this point. Yeah. It actually said, well,

963
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: it's funny because it's it's really designed to make like

964
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: high volume amount of espresso. So you would imagine that

965
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: you would see this more in like a high end

966
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 1: coffee shop, like a boutique coffee shop type place. But

967
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: as I was looking at it, because I was talking

968
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: about it can make, you know, I forget how many

969
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: cups of espresso within a couple of minutes it was.

970
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: It was crazy. It was a lot more than any

971
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: human would need to drink. But it said it also

972
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: could do uh uh one cup serving deals like the

973
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: little um pods espresso pod. So with the scales, Yeah,

974
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: with that, you'd say, well, I guess if you if

975
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: you really wanted this, you could get it. But I

976
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: almost didn't include it because I thought it was a

977
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: little closer to pro sumer than consumer. But uh but

978
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, as a coffee lever, I had to add something.

979
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: And you know, I remember somebody talking about this, this

980
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: art of coffee tasting just a stranger when I was

981
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: out on on Thursdays. I go to the bar across

982
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 1: the street from here and do the cross word because

983
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm living on the edge, and there was some guy

984
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: who was an expert in coffee and he was telling

985
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: me about how how difficult it is to control those variables,

986
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: and I really I think there's a market. We had

987
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: we we hear it how stuff works. That one time

988
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: had a guy from bat Doorphin Bronson. Yeah, yeah, it

989
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: came in and did the whole thing on coffee tasting

990
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: as well. That's a local roaster here in Atlanta that

991
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: makes crazy good coffee. Um final item on the list

992
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: not not huge. I didn't I didn't want to do

993
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: like the build up to the biggest, biggest, biggest. This

994
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: is actually comparative, comparatively speaking to most of the things

995
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: modestly expensive. The Blend Tech Stealth blender. This is one

996
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: of the latest blenders on the market. Okay, it does

997
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: not have any like platinum case or diamonds, none of that,

998
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: none of that stuff. So it's based upon its design

999
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: and performance alone. It is priced at two thousand dollars

1000
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: for a blender. Does the sound of a blender bother

1001
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: someone that much? It in fact does have the sound

1002
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: control enclosure so that you don't hear the blender sound.

1003
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's actually called a sound enclosure. That's what

1004
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 1: they call the sound enclosure. Has a fifteen amp motor

1005
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: touchpad controls and as a USB port, so you can

1006
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: upload or download up to thirty six custom blend cycles.

1007
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: So if you want to make something by first like

1008
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: going super fast and then slowing down or whatever you can,

1009
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: you can you can tinker to your heart's content. That

1010
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: just seems so unnecessary. It seems like it would take

1011
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: more time to do that than to just hit a

1012
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: button for a second then hit a different But it

1013
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: seems like you wouldn't really see any results from that

1014
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: for the first five years. Then if if you, if

1015
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: you make enough money where a two thousand dollar blender

1016
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: seems like a prudent expense, you don't have time to

1017
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: push buttons. You know what, This should be my opening

1018
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: to ask for a raise. I should go, guys, we

1019
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time pushing buttons. Yeah, or you

1020
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 1: or you go and say, listen, I can't even afford

1021
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:34,919
Speaker 1: to buy a blender, don't you just you don't say

1022
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: which blender? All I want is a watch, exactly. I

1023
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: have my eye on this one watch. Well, still got

1024
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: some more expensive consumer tech to talk about, I suppose,

1025
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: but we're gonna do that after we take this quick break.

1026
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: What's funny is when I started looking at this. I

1027
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: also looked at things like the most expensive smart watch

1028
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: on there, which is nothing. It's like six hundred bucks,

1029
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: seven hundred bucks something like that. When when after you've

1030
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: been looking at that antique watches or luxury watches that

1031
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: have super rare materials worked into them, a lot of

1032
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: the electronics just doesn't even come close to the same expense.

1033
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 1: Because well, I mean, you think figure it, You're like, well,

1034
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: the unless you've got something crazy going on inside, those

1035
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: electronics are going to be very much the same from

1036
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: device to device. So that's not going to dictate how

1037
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: expensive your your gadget can be. You have to look

1038
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 1: at other things, like the actual material it's made from, right. Yeah.

1039
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: And it's an interesting thing too because although clearly I'm

1040
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: not on board with this put gold on everything movement,

1041
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: I understand that in some parts of the world that's

1042
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: very very popular just because of the entrance value of

1043
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: the material. Yeah. Well, we've covered everything that was on

1044
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: my list. Obviously there's tons more we could talk about,

1045
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: but I'm having trouble picking one. Yeah, you gotta pick

1046
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 1: one that was your idea, I know, man, I'm cursing

1047
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: past it also doesn't help, but you as much because

1048
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: you haven't seen pictures of these things, maybe one or

1049
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: two you might say pictures. Um, is the element ugly?

1050
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: That's my first question on the outside, the element Palazzo. Um,

1051
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about it, but you guys, I'm watching

1052
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: Joona did across the table trying to be fair. Well,

1053
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to pull up an image

1054
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: of it. One thing is that whenever I see images

1055
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: of this thing, they all look like artists renderings. I

1056
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen an actual picture of the

1057
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: thing itself. Um. But here, I'll turn this around. It

1058
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: looks kind of what a little weird and futuristic, right yeah? No,

1059
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: um yeah, I Uh, Like I said, I've only seen

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01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: artists renderings or like, uh like these little c g

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01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: I computer graphics style things. Wow, that's um. If you

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01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: want to look this up, by the way, folks, in

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01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: order to do it, you need to know how it's spelled,

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01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: because it's it's spelled in a jerk way. Element is

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01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: spelled with two m's. It's E L E M M

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Speaker 1: E N T and then palazzo P A L A

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01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: Z Z. Oh. Um. Yeah, I don't find the design

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01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: to be that appealing. But if if that's if it

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01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: meets your desire for the r V of your dreams,

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01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: that's fine. I just I need I need to have. Basically,

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01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: I want the idea of the house without the commitment

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01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: the house. Right. Also, if you know, if the po

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01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: po are interested in you, you can pick up and

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01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: move to a different jertiction that's true and and blend

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01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: in seamlessly. Yeah, okay, um yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna

1076
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: know damn it, you know what. I know what I'm

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01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: leaning toward. But go ahead, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna

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01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 1: double down. I will take the element. Okay, alright, so

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01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: three point one million dollars we will charge you on

1080
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: your way out. Um. I you know, I've reached a

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01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: point in my life where I don't really want to

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01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 1: acquire more things necessarily, Like the idea of buying more

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01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't have a lot of appeal to me. In fact,

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01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: my wife and I we tend to save our money

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01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: for experiences like a trip to someplace or well, we

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01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: did something that was fantastic. We rented a a small cabin,

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01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 1: modest cabin, not super expensive that was multiple bedrooms and

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01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: invited some of our friends to just hang out for

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01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: a weekend in the Georgia Woods. That was great, Like,

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01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: I was like, this is what I want to spend

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01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: my money on. Our these kind of experien aarance is

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01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: because stuff doesn't really bring me joy anymore. I reached

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01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: I just reached the point where I'm like, well, where

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01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: am I gonna put it? But if I had a

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01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: house that could accommodate it, I have to admit that

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01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 1: the the refrigerator I mentioned is pretty nifty. Like I

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01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 1: I like that the design actually did appeal to me,

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01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 1: so um, that one would be the one that I

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01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 1: would probably go with. It's not like it's um, it's

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01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: not like it's it's uh super like jaw dropping lee fancy,

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01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 1: but um, I like it. So I'm gonna show you

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01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 1: a picture here, and that part of it too is yeah,

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01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 1: that's what the outside looks like. So right, so that's

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01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: the outside. Let me show you what looks like when

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01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: it's all over. You're about this because I think it's

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01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 1: pretty Oh whoa, that's pretty right. Just got a sense

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01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:58,919
Speaker 1: of scale there too, Yeah, it's huge, that's fantastic. It's yeah,

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01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like, folks. Since you can't see for

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01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 1: this one, if you want to look it up, let

1110
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: me spell it out for you. The menonghini is m

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01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: E n E g h I n I and the

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01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: era demni is a r R E d A M

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01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: E n T. I look that up. It's about the

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01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 1: width of like three regular refrigerators next to each other. Um,

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01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: and the doors open outward. Uh, and you've got you know,

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01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: it's just it's gorgeous. It looks very nice, And that's

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01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: something that appeals to me on a level where I'd say,

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01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: all right, I could go in for that if I

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01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: had crazy amounts of money and a house that could

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01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: hold it. My house is not of a size where

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01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 1: that that would not fit anywhere in my house. So

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01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, I don't know, when we go

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01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: on a road trip, I'm not sure if it will

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01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 1: fit in the element. Yeah, we might just have to

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01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:52,160
Speaker 1: strap it to the rooftop deck all of class. That's

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01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: what our vanity license plate will say. Yeah. So this

1127
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun. I mean, it was one

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01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: of those things where I just thought, let's do something

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01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: kind of silly for the upcoming holiday season and look

1130
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: at some of the some of the excess that you

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01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: can find in consumer electronics. I wish that people more

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01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: people could go to c E s to see the

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01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: ridiculous stuff. You see a lot of. Yeah, and that's

1134
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: the stuff that's fun to either make fun of or

1135
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 1: to just you know, kind of gawk at or whatever.

1136
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 1: But it's it's one of those deals where you're gonna

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01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: see a lot of stuff that's all going to kind

1138
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: of blend together, right, like lots of lots of legitimately

1139
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 1: gorgeous electronics. But they there's tons of them, like tons

1140
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 1: of TVs, tons of stereo systems, that kind of stuff.

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01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: It's when you come across something really unusual that you realize, well,

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01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: this is special. It may not be something that appeals

1143
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: to me directly, but it's different enough. And maybe it's

1144
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: crazy expensive, which is always fun. So uh wait, wait, wait, wait, yeah,

1145
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: when are you getting the fridge? Sure? Well, when when

1146
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: you and I are on that Forbes list of highest

1147
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 1: paid YouTubers, then maybe at that point I'll start looking around. Oh,

1148
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 1: in the meantime, can I just want to make a

1149
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 1: suggestion you don't want to talk over with you, but uh,

1150
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: listeners as always thanks thanks for having me over as well.

1151
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 1: I just want you guys to know no pressure. I

1152
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: think I can speak for uh for both of us here,

1153
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 1: Johnson Um, if you have a used copy of Steel

1154
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: Battalion and you would like our mailing address, we will

1155
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 1: give it to you. I mean cool. We'd have to

1156
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: track down an Xbox, but apart from that, I'd be

1157
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: totally down with it. Like I don't have my Xbox anymore.

1158
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: I got rid of that. I've got the three sixty

1159
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:41,760
Speaker 1: and I've got the Xbox one, but I don't have

1160
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: the original either. We should have held onto those, but

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01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: we we had one for the office. I have no

1162
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 1: idea where that one went. I think someone took it. Probably. Yeah.

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01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: We our office before we moved to where we are now.

1164
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: We had an area called Area fifty one in the office,

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01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: and that's where all of our games and goodies and

1166
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:03,719
Speaker 1: toys and stuff were. Here's the thing, folks peak, behind

1167
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 1: the curtain it was there was like a ninety nine

1168
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: nine chance that you would not see anyone from the

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01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: editorial side of the business in that room unless there

1170
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: was a meeting. The sales and marketing people, however, broke

1171
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 1: that football table at least twice. I always felt like

1172
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 1: that kind of thing was a trap. Yeah, exactly, like

1173
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: this is here for you. And then if you actually

1174
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 1: went into all right, let's just uh did not meet expectations.

1175
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:36,799
Speaker 1: Oh man, that that was cool though, But yes, seriously,

1176
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: if you're not using Steel Battalion, it's been one of

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01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said when one of my childhood

1178
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 1: dreams to play that game. I would love to hear

1179
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 1: from our listeners if if any of you have played

1180
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 1: that game, if you owned it, what your what your

1181
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 1: perspective was on it. Was it a good game? Was it?

1182
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 1: Was it worth the two? I would argue that if

1183
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: you have really fun groups of friends, that something like

1184
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: rock band is certainly worth the money because of the

1185
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 1: experience you have, the shared experience you have with your

1186
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 1: friends playing together, Like there's there's something really compelling about that.

1187
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:08,760
Speaker 1: And I don't have people over at my house, so

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01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: I have never I've gone to other places where they've

1189
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 1: had it, and I've had fun playing rock band, but

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01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 1: I never have anyone over at my house. I've never

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01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: bought it. I just love how you've made your house

1192
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: sound like the Forbidden City or something. Don't come to

1193
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 1: my house. And that wraps up this classic episode about

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01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: expensive consumer tech. Obviously, since twenty fifteen, there have been

1195
01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: plenty of other examples of expensive technology, some of which were,

1196
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, gimmicks, some of which are just pure status

1197
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 1: symbols that don't really have any inherent value. We could

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01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: do a whole subsection on the n f T phenomenon

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01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: connected to this, but yeah, maybe I'll save that for

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01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: an upcoming episode, maybe maybe around the holidays, to uh

1201
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: talk about new expensive consumer technology stories that I either

1202
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: find fascinating or aspirating, or maybe some mixture of the two.

1203
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,160
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1204
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,639
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