WEBVTT - TechStuff Classic: Expensive Consumer Tech 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.800 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.880 Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.760 Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.439 and how the tech are you? It's time for a 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.200 tech Stuff classic episode. This episode originally published on October 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.920 twenty one, two thousand fifteen. It is titled expensive Consumer Tech. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.519 And this was back in where I was just kind 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.320 of looking around some of the most expensive examples of 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.000 consumer technology to talk about what they were and whether 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.080 they made any ding dang darn sense. Let's listen in. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.640 This is an episode in which I have specifically requested 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.720 my co host do absolutely no research on the topic whatsoever. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.040 I got no idea what's going on? Yeah, you only 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.360 know what the topic is. That topic is expensive sumer 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.520 technology because you know, we're ramping up to the holiday 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:08.040 season and obviously you know you have to start looking 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:09.760 at the people in your life and what sort of 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.480 gifts you need to give them exactly. And I thought, well, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.240 what if what if one you and I were making 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.640 the crazy kind of money that Beauty Pie is making 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.160 on YouTube? Because because as we record this, the day 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.520 we record this is also the day that Forbes released 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.240 what the top YouTube performers are earning, or what they 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:33.280 guess they are earning. It's it made me question all 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.840 of my decisions in life up to this point. But 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.440 we are not making that money. But if we were 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:43.200 making that money, and if there were spectacularly awesome people 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.000 in our lives, maybe these are the sort of things 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:50.280 we might look at in order to say you mean 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:57.440 something to me, Mr, Mrs Miss whatever. So. But I 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.840 didn't want Ben to to know about any of these 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.240 because I want to get his actual reaction. Plus, I'm 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.080 gonna quiz him a couple of times, not really quiz, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.680 I'm just gonna get an idea, see if he can 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.919 guess what some of these things are based upon the names. Now, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.400 some of them are evident by the name, so not 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.320 all of them will be a guesswork. But I may 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.880 have you guess occasionally what it might be, and then 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.080 maybe I'll even ask you ballpark figure how much you 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.680 think it might might be. Let's let's do it. I 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:29.079 love it, uh listeners. Just so you guys know, one 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.720 of the reasons that I'm the best slash worst sidekick 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.560 for Jonathan and this type of episode, it's because I 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.320 am a notorious chief skate. I am personally offended. Car 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.880 stuff listeners probably know this, but I am. I am 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.240 personally offended if I think something is too expensive. Now, also, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.519 in the interest of full disclosure, I was not aware 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.520 of that when I asked them to do this, but 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.880 it does make me very happy because it means that, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.280 even if everything else goes wrong, your reactions are going 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.400 to save this episode. So I'm already upset. Here we 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.920 go here. I decided to go with U with a 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.320 real doozy first, and it's one you may have actually 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:11.720 talked about on a different show, so that gives you 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.640 a hint already. Can you guess what the element? Palazzo 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:23.560 Superior is element found so superior. I'm thinking it's a 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:28.280 car very close it is an RV. Oh, well, come 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.800 also know Well, it was just a guess, like one 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.320 of those things like it might have been something that 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.920 you and Scott have covered for car stuff. I should 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.320 ask Scott if he's heard of it when, because I'm 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.760 actually peek behind the curtain. After I do this episode 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.000 with you, right, I'm recording another episode after this. Scott's 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.200 going to be my guest, so we're starting this episode 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.160 late because Scott and I were in the studio earlier. Yeah, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.920 so it's just it's just a Jonathan, Scott and Ben 0:03:54.280 --> 0:04:00.360 like schmorg is bored there and as you're here, So 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.840 that would make I guess it's the million something Ami 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.760 goes now, right, So the element Palazzo Superior is an RV. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.000 It is known as the most luxurious mobile home in 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.320 the world. It is also sometimes referred to as a 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.919 mansion on wheels. Now, I'm not going to make you 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.400 guess how much this is, because it would you would 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.800 just be unfair. This monstrosity. Well, let me let me 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.800 explain what what it is first before I give you 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.760 the what what the cost is. So the they the 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.720 driver's compartment, known as the cockpit actually referred to as 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.960 the cockpit, was inspired by the design of jets as 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.920 a panoramic windshield. It has an adjustable tent on that 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.719 win she'll T I N T like, you can go 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.719 to two different stages of darkness on it with a 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.040 flip of a switch. The whole thing is made out 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.200 of carbon fiber, so that means it's incredibly strong and 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.680 incredibly light. And by incredibly light, I mean it's a 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:03.599 mere twenty eight tons. Uh. It has seven hundred thirty 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.920 two square feet of living space, which is sixty eight 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:12.279 square meters. Is it Is it okay? Is it street legal? Yes? Also, 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.360 it's one of those things that it expands outward, so 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.760 like you know, when you stop wherever you're you're going 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.760 to stop, then you hit in. So in fact, when 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.120 you put into camper mode, it nearly doubles its width. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.920 The normal width is eight point four feet or two 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.960 point five five. When you expand it, it it goes to 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.520 sixteen point four feet, so almost twice as much, and 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.479 that's five ms of width as a rooftop deck. It 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.800 has radiant floor heating. It's got refrigerators, a wine cabinet, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.040 a coffee machine, a sink, a freezer, an ice maker, stovetop, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:49.719 a master bedroom with king sized bed, addressing, table, closets, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.400 and more. It has a sixteen square foot or one 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.760 and a half square meter rain shower with light therapy 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:02.440 features built into the shower stall light therapy, light therapy 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.880 so you can give that nice blue missgoing. It has 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:10.960 two forty two inch televisions. It has onboard WiFi, satellite TV, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.279 a custom audio system, ambient light control and more, and 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.880 you Ben Bolan can be the proud owner of an 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:25.239 Element Plazzo Superior for the low low price of three 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:31.960 point one million dollars for an RV an RVY. Okay, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:37.840 so is the WiFi service including do you get an 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.799 I s P for the three point one million three 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:45.120 point one million? All right, think about some of the 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.360 homes in Atlanta there in the one to two million 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.120 dollars range. We're talking some pretty big houses along some 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:57.799 very uh choice real estate, like along ponstantly An Avenue, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.320 for example, or along you know, along the Chattahoochie. You're 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.920 gonna find some mansions there that are going to start 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.440 creeping in around this three point one million, maybe even 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.920 some that top out over three point one million. But 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:14.440 that's a full mansion, right, This is a seven two 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:18.320 square foot r V I. You know, I gotta tell 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:23.680 you I I live in a pretty small place. So well, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.520 I also don't pay three million, four But it also 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.760 doesn't roll right, That's true. I mean with this, you 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.600 could you your home could be wherever you park. Now. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:40.160 It's interesting because I recently had a pretty frank discussion 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.920 with a car stuff listener when I was talking about 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.280 how as a kid, was always my dream to have 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.080 an r V. Right, I thought I had this view 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.360 that I would just live in this thing, drive everywhere 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.360 and be cool and and food would magically appear in 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.040 the car and the gas would never be empty. But 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.640 what I've learned from people were in the RV cultures 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.240 is a lot more of just driving to a destination 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.720 and camping, because people who like to drive don't really 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.000 like to drive RV. No, there are monstrosities on the road. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.360 I imagine it has to be incredibly stressful because I mean, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:16.680 you have to I assume you have to have a 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.480 bus driver's license to even operate one. And then on 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.040 top of that, you know, just just think about what 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.480 it's like navigating through traffic with a regular sized vehicle. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.400 It's got to be a nightmare with something that large. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.080 Three millions. So, so, Jonathan, would you ever if Okay, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.640 so let's see you're on tour. Okay, all right, let's 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.120 let's say that let's say I am somehow filthy rich 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.400 would you be? Would you take one of these behaviorths as? 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.000 Would you just go with a charter bus? I'd go 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.800 with the charter bus. Dude. First of all, you know me. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.200 I'm not a driver at all, so so the idea 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:54.080 that's the appeal of this is lost on me. Um. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.720 But I would prefer to travel someplace and stay at 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.720 a hotel than to go camp. I'm not a camper either. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.040 To have a driver, I would have a drive at 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.120 this point, if you can afford this thing, if I'd 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.079 reached that level of ridiculous uh luxury, I would have 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.200 a driver. Yeah, I would, or or I would have 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.280 a driverless car. One of the two would be one 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.520 of those things. And I just I want to be 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:20.200 completely honest with you. I appreciate it, but don't don't 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.760 get me this all right, I will mark it off 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.040 the list. Well here, how about how about I hit 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.839 you with this one. Alright, let' see if you can 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.559 guess what this is based upon the name. Now, this 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:31.680 is a little different from some of the others. A 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.240 lot of the other ones I'm talking about are relatively new, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.760 but this is actually an old thing that has been 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.199 sold more than once. So that I'll give you a 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.880 little hint. It's not going to be like a computer 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:49.600 or anything like that. The protech Philippe Henry Graves super Complication. Ah, Yes, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:56.439 one of the most legendary, legendarily sophisticated watches. Very good, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:01.679 Ben Bolan. Yes, as absolutely act it was. It's a 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.400 pocket watch and it was designed by the Swiss company 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.000 Protect Filly in nineteen thirty three four Henry Grays Jr. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.520 Who was a banker at the time. And Henry Grays Jr. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:17.520 Was in a bit of a competition with another gentleman 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:22.160 whom you've also I'm sure talked about on car stuff, Uh, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.640 James Ward Packard. Oh yeah, is it? Wait? Is it? 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.440 This is a competition to have the most complicated watch. Yes. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.680 They were constantly trying to one up one another with 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.880 their various luxury a coup trement, and watches were one 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.679 of the ways they were kind of showing off. And 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:45.640 so Henry Grays commissioned protect Fillip, the Swiss watchmaker company, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:50.320 to build the world's most complicated watch at that time. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.200 It took three years to design and five years to 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.000 make it. Now keep in mind this is before computer 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.600 assisted design. This is all human design, right woe. It's 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.000 made of eighteen carrot gold, and it's considered to be 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.360 the most complex pocket watch that was made without computer 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:13.960 assistance ever, and it has twenty four different functions. Uh. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.440 And here are some of the functions that are included. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.880 It keeps time number one. UH. It gives you the 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.640 time of sunset and sunrise each day. It's mechanical. This 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.720 is all mechanical. Yeah, this is pre digital nine. It 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.959 has a perpetual calendar on it, so it has the 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.240 mechanics in it to keep accurate what day it is. UH. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:38.880 Has days of the month, days of the week, and 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.000 has a stars chart. It has phases of the moon 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.840 charted on it. It has a stop watch. It has 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.480 a thirty minute recorder meaning it will go off after 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.840 thirty minutes, and a twelve hour recorder as well. It 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:55.599 has chimes and the original price tag. But it was 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.680 sold Okay, this is just the original price tag for 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.960 Henry Graves was fifteen thousand dollars. Now we have to 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.760 adjust that for inflation. So in today's might that be 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:12.120 about two hundred two thousand dollars That, my friend, would 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.800 be a bargain based upon what people have actually paid 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.840 for this thing since then in auctions. Yes, so Southby's 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.760 got it in auction and they sold it twice. In fact, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.840 the first time they sold it was in July when 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.000 Chic Saud being Mohammed being Ali al Tani of the 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:36.120 Qatari royal family purchased it for a cool eleven million dollars. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:42.160 First off, pronunciation thank you. Secondly, I am profoundly offended. Well, watch. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.720 He did have to return it because he had he 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.880 incurred so much debt that he was he was forced 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.360 to return it to Southby's. Yeah, so then Southby's sold 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:58.079 it again in two thousand and fourteen for twenty four 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.000 million dollars. South of Bees are they are they going 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.280 to work with us? It's just like this, yeah, yeah. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.600 So now it is a one of a kind. It 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.120 is the world's most complicated watch, pocket watch that was 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:20.600 made by human alone. Um, so there are some elements 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.000 to it that you realize, all right, well this is 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.720 not just because you know, this isn't just a brand 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.560 or just one of many of this thing. This is 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.080 a one of a kind thing. But a lot of 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.040 people have said clearly the value of this now is 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.600 in the perception of that thing, of the owning. This 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.880 makes me special, makes me part of this story, right 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.960 that the fact that I have the money to spend 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.920 on something like this, it's like a status thing certainly 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.040 far beyond it's intrinsic value, which is hard to first 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.280 of all, whenever we talk about value, it gets all 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:58.200 kind of whibbly wobbly anyway, right, because it's just whatever 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.120 we put in stake, like what we think of, like 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.080 what would I be willing to pay for this thing? Um? 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.280 And then the more down that rabbit hole you get, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.920 the more you realize everything is a lie. So escalated quickly. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.839 So here's a here's another one. Let's see if you 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.800 can guess what this is. Because you've done really well. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.840 You you've got the super complication, which blew my mind 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.440 that you knew that. So how about the Ver two 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:29.120 pure jet red gold, pure jet red gold. Now jet 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.960 red gold would tell you some of the features of 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.960 this thing. So what is it? Is it a mobile? Pe? 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.680 Oh my gosh, Ben Bulling two for two so far, Yes, 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.080 the Ver two pure jet red Gold is a smartphone. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.720 Can you guess how all right, it's nine the million 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.560 dollars range. I'm going to knock that out, But can 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.920 you guess how much money this this phone? Michael? Now, 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.560 this is not a one of the kind phone either. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.400 This is a phone that if you had the money 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.000 you could buy it, and then if someone else had 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.360 the money, they could buy it too. Well. I remember 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:04.200 remember hearing about this one and again again Scouts owner. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.040 I did not do any research. And to be fair, 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.320 they make a line of luxury phones, so you may 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.800 have heard about one of them. This was the most 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.080 expensive one I could find, right now. Yeah, that's what 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.880 I was going to say, because all I all I 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.040 know is um that they look kind of ugly. Yeah, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.720 I'm just I'm not gonna I want to be honest. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.480 I'm with you on that one. But there I'm gonna. Oh, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.680 I'm so bad at this. You know, watching prices right 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.760 used to It's tough send me into anxiety attacks, it 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:40.400 is it? Two dollars nowhere near that crazy? All right, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:45.040 go down by, go down by an order of magnitude. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.840 So yeah, very close. But still I'm you know, just 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.680 for a second, that's that psychology of comparative pricing. I 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:57.440 was like, oh, that's great, let's steel. I'm let's order 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.360 him for the office. We should all have office very 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.320 two pure pure jet red gold phones. Okay. Yeah, Now, 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:08.120 there have been obviously some ridiculous like one off electronics 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.520 devices where people have just like swarf ski crystals and 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.160 diamonds and stuff. But this is this is one where 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.000 you can actually like this is a line of phones. Like, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.520 if you wanted to go and get an iPhone, you 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.840 get an iPhone. If you want to drop nineteen thousand 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.200 dollars in the air, two pure jet red gold, you could. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.160 So I know you're all crying out. What makes this 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.600 phone so special? Right? Ok? It's an Android phone, so 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.640 obviously it's already worth way more than an iPhone, although 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.880 it is running Lollipop and not marshmallow at least right now. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.920 It is made of titanium, and it has red gold 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:46.480 detailing is an actual red gold on it. The power 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.480 buttons red gold, the volume controls are red gold. Yeah, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.960 like the buttons themselves are made of gold. Um. It 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.720 also has black ceramic as part one of the materials, 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:02.480 and sapphire crystal screen and quilted jet calf leather on 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.960 the back and sides of the phone. So when you 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.520 say pure jet red gold, the red gold obviously for 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:15.440 the the accents, and then the jet being the calf leather. Uh. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.399 That leather, by the way, is hand crafted and quote 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:23.600 sourced from the European Alps. End quote from the European Alps. Yeah, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.240 that's why it's so expensive. You gotta send people all 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.560 the way to the European Alps to get the leathern Okay, wait, 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.280 do you think that's worth it? Well, I mean, clearly, 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.560 the cows and the European Alps are living a much 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.760 better life than cows anywhere else. Right, so if you're 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.879 gonna get leather, you definitely want to get them from 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.080 you know, I don't think it's worth it if you 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:47.159 If I'd probably totally freak out and try and say, like, 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.399 everyone needs to get like every mattress that's in a 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.879 five mile at radius and place it around me so 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.480 that if I do drop this, it's not gonna shatter 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.360 and I'm not gonna be out twenty k uh. So 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.240 here's some other stuff it includes. Each handset is actually handmade. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.960 So while you could buy one and I could buy one, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:13.480 assuming we came across, uh, they might not be identical 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.000 because they are handmade. And this way it's very similar 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.640 to luxury items like a Bentley, Right. You know, that's 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.080 one of the attractions of these luxury cars is that 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.639 they're made by hand, so they're not identical one to 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.679 the next. Um, the ring tones? All right, this is 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.280 gonna make you roll your eyes. The ring tones were 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:40.560 composed and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. I'm sorry, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.159 I'm sorry, but seriously, is the Is the lso that 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.720 hard up? Yeah? I guess so. I mean, like between 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.040 doing stuff for John Williams and ring tones for the 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.080 Bear two Pure Jet red Gold whatever they How do 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.000 you get how do you con pose a ring tone? 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.720 How do you don't know? How long is it? It's 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.159 probably just the same ring tones that you hear on 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.680 every other phone, just done by a full orchestra. Wow, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:06.760 do do do Do? Do Do? Do? Do Do Do? Do? 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.720 You've seen thirty Rock of course, right, yes, it seems 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:15.040 like a Tracy Jordan's Yeah, I got the London Sympody 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.600 Orchestra to play my ring tone, Liz Lemon, that's real. Yeah. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.880 So beyond that, it also comes with an eighteen month 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.200 subscription to a concierge service, which provides twenty four hour 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.600 assistance and gets you things like recommendations for things you 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.239 should do while you're in a city, as well as 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:38.080 priority booking for different events, including sporting events, concerts, shows. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.159 This I had heard about, because apparently it's far beyond 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.800 what you would typically think of as your hotel concierge 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.840 or something, as in, they'll also get you into they'll 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.320 shut down some luxury or oh yeah, yeah no, Yeah, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:20:01.200 you can get completely like personalized exclusivity to two different 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.320 events as well. And also it puts you into a 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.960 list essentially of folks who get invited to exclusive events. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.160 So you might end up, like if you're if you're 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.399 the kind of person who drops the sort of chatter 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.439 on a on a phone, you might end up finding 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.760 yourself on the invite list to some pretty fancy suares. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.159 So then if you're networking, okay, here I'm gonna I 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.760 might not do this for everyone. I probably won't. It's 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.359 maybe the only time I do this to justify the price. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:34.680 If you have a career that requires networking right with 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.399 the in the rarefied air of the upper spheres of 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.720 let's say you want to you know, you want to 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:45.679 to charm some high level executives or producers of film 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.680 or television or anything along those lines. Shore, Yeah, then 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.040 then this would be a fairly reasonable investment if it 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.919 gets you in the room. Yeah, it's an ugly phone, 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.600 but it'll it'll get you, it'll get you in there. 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:02.280 Um yeah, it's also it's also the text specs of 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.960 the phone put it behind other more common smartphones on 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.000 the market. Uh, that's not. It's not like top of 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.040 the line performance. It's not. It's not. It's not flagging 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.520 way behind, but it's nowhere close to Like if you 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.040 went out and bought a brand new smartphone in the 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:22.160 regular like four to six hundred dollar range Samsung Galaxy six, Yeah, 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.240 something like that then, or the latest Nexus phone anything 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.520 like that, because we're talking Android, you know it, that 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:32.439 would actually outperform this phone. However, it doesn't come with 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:36.800 that concierge service. So um. And also, you gotta keep 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:41.520 in mind that that phone is totes common, whereas the 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.040 fair two phone is a thing of luxury. We'll be 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.320 back with more expensive consumer tech. But if I'm going 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.159 to afford my expensive consumer tech, We're gonna need to 0:21:51.160 --> 0:22:04.320 take a quick commercial break. So good, so far. Let's 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.119 try this one. No, this one's got a hint in 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.399 the name. I love how your your eyes go up 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.480 every time we get to a new one, Like it's 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:13.480 like this is just gonna there's gonna be a point 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:16.560 where this show just makes a turn for the worst 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:20.000 turning back. Yeah. No, this was pretty easy because just 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:27.440 think of the first word, acapella fair on Excalibur. Acapella yep, 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:32.240 acapella fair on Excalibur. What what kind of tech would 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:37.040 that be? A microphone speaker? Speaker, It's a speaker, actually, 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:42.240 set of speakers. Uh, they're made by hand. Okay. They 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:45.040 are seven ft tall and wait one thousand, three hundred 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:49.639 sixty four pounds apiece, and they cost four hundred fifty 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:54.000 five thousand dollars, theas the ones that look like seashells 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.840 if you were to strip away the outsides. Yes, really, yeah, 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:01.800 okay yeah, why did they cost some because they supposedly 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:04.639 have such amazing fidelity that it feels and this is 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.560 from the manufacturer as if you're being caressed by the 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:12.199 sound or or that's what I thought, or if you 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.520 turn it up that it could knock you over with 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:18.680 the intensity of the sound. Um. Yeah, here's the thing. 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.199 Here's the thing, and and this goes way back in 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:25.400 tech stuff lore. Chris Pallette and I did an episode 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:30.600 ages and ages ago about the myths of audio fidelity, 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.639 and largely we were talking about cables in that sense 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:40.320 us exactly, Yeah, the do those high price cables? Are 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.800 they actually worth it? Do they have of greater performance? 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.320 And the answer is not really detectable by human ears. 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:48.359 Like you might be able to hook up some very 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:54.480 supersensitive sensors and quantifiably say yes, I'm getting better performance, 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:57.639 but it's not perceptible. The same sort of thing with 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.720 these speakers really are not these speakers in particular, but 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:03.360 speakers in general, is that once you get to a 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:09.359