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Speaker 1: Aol Zone Media.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, welcome back to it could happen here the

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Speaker 2: only podcast that takes sole responsibility for the assassination of

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Speaker 2: So we're back. We're still at CES. We're slightly more

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Speaker 2: sober than we were last night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but we are more high on ces.

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Speaker 2: We are higher on cees. If you haven't been, The

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Speaker 2: Consumer Electronics Show is one hundred and twenty thousand or

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Speaker 2: so people all flooding into Las Vegas for about four days,

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Speaker 2: where they walk around in a convention center that if

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Speaker 2: you grew up in a small town, the convention center

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Speaker 2: is larger than where you grew up. And it's just

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Speaker 2: wall to wall a mix of incredible new technology, achievements

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Speaker 2: that are going to change people's lives, absolute nonsense, vaporware,

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Speaker 2: repackaged old shit, and stuff that will get someone you

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Speaker 2: love killed, all just crammed together in this massive room

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Speaker 2: the size of a small world, and yeah, you just

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Speaker 2: kind of go crazy slowly living in it. This is Robert,

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Speaker 2: you know me and Garrison? Hello, you know Garrison, And

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Speaker 2: returning from part one is Tavia Mora, our resident technological expert. Tavia,

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Speaker 2: how'd you feel in your second day out on the floor.

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Speaker 4: Exhausted and excited to be impressed by stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well that is what we're doing today today's episode.

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Speaker 2: Last time we tell keep that mic in your hand.

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Speaker 2: Last episode we talked about the most obviously stupid products.

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Speaker 2: So Tavia, I want you to start us off with

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Speaker 2: what is a good product something you saw today or

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Speaker 2: yesterday that you thought that thing is fucking cool.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's see. I think we're in the North Hall.

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Speaker 4: It was in the North Hall that we saw This

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Speaker 4: is a gadget called wheel me that was just a

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Speaker 4: simple rolling platform that I would track along where it

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Speaker 4: was supposed to go on the ground. But what I

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Speaker 4: saw on it was a road case, and I was

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Speaker 4: very excited. Since I work in a lot of the

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Speaker 4: event spaces and when I have to move to and

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Speaker 4: from kind of where we're like staging a lot of

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Speaker 4: stuff to where the site is, it's really nice to

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Speaker 4: have the extra help. The extra lift that was marketed

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Speaker 4: pretty much directly toward me. As soon as I saw it,

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Speaker 4: instantly wanted it. I could see I use for that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it seemed like a potentially really useful thing. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: the mount that they had wouldn't be able to go

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Speaker 2: up or down stairs. Well, but if you're moving across

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Speaker 2: like a large warehouse space or something like the kind

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Speaker 2: of folece where a lot of events are held, or

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Speaker 2: a concert space, I could see it being a real

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Speaker 2: labor saver. And we did see there was another product

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Speaker 2: there that was like it was a delivery robot for

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Speaker 2: like delivering food that they had built away for it

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Speaker 2: to go upstairs, where it basically had a large, maybe

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Speaker 2: two feet diameter wheel and there were like plastic spokes

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Speaker 2: and then the outside of the wheel is like soft

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Speaker 2: plastic like the actual tread itself, and so it would

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Speaker 2: just kind of bend to conform to the shape of

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Speaker 2: the stairs, and it was able to roll smoothly upstairs

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Speaker 2: on its wheels as a result of that, which I

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Speaker 2: thought was kind of impressive. And that's one of the

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Speaker 2: nicer things, is like seeing like, oh, somebody really puts

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Speaker 2: some thought into that. That's a legitimately clever idea as

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Speaker 2: opposed to a product we didn't mention last time. But

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Speaker 2: it's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. A

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Speaker 2: guy who created smart plants, who used the power of

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Speaker 2: AI to make your plants able to communicate with you,

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Speaker 2: so It's basically a huge plastic flower plant pets with

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Speaker 3: And basically you can't talk to it. But most of

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Speaker 3: what humane to we were just molesting the plants.

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Speaker 2: It will it has speakers in the flower pots, so

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Speaker 2: would you like stroke the leaves? It will giggle like

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Speaker 2: this is It was immediately like, oh, this is made

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Speaker 4: And didn't it like spin back and forth a little

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Speaker 3: It like it shimmered, it like danced the pod around,

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Speaker 3: it made it made small little noises. It was. It

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Speaker 3: was quite something. And the guy was incredibly enthusiastic about

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Speaker 4: He was following his passion truly.

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Speaker 3: You could see yeah in his eyes. I will say

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Speaker 3: the product worked. I'm just not sure it did work

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Speaker 3: more functional pieces of technology we've seen. It did.

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Speaker 2: He also said that like when the plants were dry,

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Speaker 2: you when you have not watered the plants recently enough.

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Speaker 2: But I do love how clearly he was obsessed with

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Speaker 2: fun things at the smaller booths at a show like this,

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Speaker 2: because like you know, you got like big companies LG

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Speaker 2: like a little square that's just a crazy person with

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Speaker 2: the thing that they've dedicated their life to building. And

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's the most brilliant thing you've ever seen. And

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's a flower poth that that giggles when you molest.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's plant, but it's you.

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Speaker 2: I always appreciate the fact that, well, at least you

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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's always kind of endearing, like yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: no matter what it is, it's it's fun to see

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a man. Yeah, you know who you are. You're

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Speaker 2: the plant pets guy. Is that a good thing to be?

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Speaker 3: I mean, we certainly saw a lot of a lot

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Speaker 3: of products walking walking the show floor today, not nearly

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Speaker 3: as many metaverse products as there were last year, and

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Speaker 3: there were still some. I was finally able to try

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Speaker 3: the Haptics tax suit, which I missed last year. This

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Speaker 3: is it's basically a vest that zips up. It's it's

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Speaker 3: not as painful as some of the other haptic suits

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Speaker 3: that I tried out last year, which I kind of

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Speaker 3: you enjoyed the ones that are just like actually hurt you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but like basically shock you in such a way

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Speaker 3: What else? What else did we see walking walking into

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Speaker 3: the big central hall? Oh? There was there was that

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Speaker 3: which is the LG podcasting camphor hand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So LG the people who may or may not

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Speaker 2: They have their big booth. It's mostly like TVs and

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Speaker 2: you know camper trailers, they have all these little like

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Speaker 2: the back, they had like a folding down space where

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Speaker 2: it was like it was like stored a half dozen

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Speaker 2: bottles of wine and glasses in a very like pleasing way.

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Speaker 2: But then in the center of the wine and the

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Speaker 2: glasses are two like recording microphones. Like that's just like

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Speaker 2: they made a van for podcasting alcoholics and.

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Speaker 3: I respect very targeted audience there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. On the other side of it was a fold

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Speaker 2: Why would you do that? But that was fun in

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Speaker 2: terms of like actually impressive things. There's a product we

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Speaker 2: saw our first night out there. The time Kettle. I

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Speaker 2: don't know why they gave him up that name. It

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Speaker 2: has nothing to do with what the product does. This

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Speaker 2: is a translation device specifically, it's it's like the star

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Speaker 2: have like a live conversation that's translated over it. You

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Speaker 2: see a piece of technology that's like, well, this is

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Speaker 2: whatever products you're listening to, there's like a good thirty

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Speaker 2: percent chance they're made over in China. So support the

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Speaker 2: Chinese economy. We're back. So one of the things we

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Speaker 2: it was attending these different speeches and panels, like where

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Speaker 2: they'll have people from like they had like one of

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Speaker 2: Google's AI heads and like the head of McDonald's AI integration,

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Speaker 2: which is happening for some reason. We'll talk more about

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Speaker 2: this in our dedicated AI episodes that are coming a

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Speaker 2: bit later. But on one of the panels it was

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Speaker 2: AI is the Fifth Industrial Revolution, was the name of

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Speaker 2: the panel. They did not once to talk about what

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Speaker 2: industrial revel The other four were or why this one was?

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Speaker 2: They just said that title like five times. They were

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Speaker 2: very proud of it. And one who was that Lady Garrison.

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Speaker 3: The Alexa lady with the iHeart AI shirt.

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Speaker 2: Yes, there was a lady with a shirt that said

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Speaker 2: iHeart is Was she the dividend lady?

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Speaker 3: No, the dividend lady was from was from the Synthetic

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Speaker 3: Information panel?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, oh sorry, sorry sorry that was the other panel. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there was a panel in like deep fakes and AI harms,

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Speaker 2: and there was a lady on there who was like

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Speaker 2: some sort of relevant expert. But she kept using the

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Speaker 2: term the liar's dividend to refer to the money that

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Speaker 2: you make if you're a scammer, and she kept using

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Speaker 2: it in the way she used it. I immediately thought, like, oh,

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Speaker 2: this lady wants to sell a book and that's the

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Speaker 2: title of the book, right, Like, that's very clearly she's

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Speaker 2: mentioning it in such a pointed, unnatural way. That was

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Speaker 2: my assumption. Aparently the term.

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Speaker 3: Has existed for a few years now.

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Speaker 2: It seems useless to me because like, if you're saying

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Speaker 2: someone is a fraudster, well, the diviend is the money

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wear those headphones every day. Yeah. They're like

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was the product that we ran into that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was neat. Again, not a cheap product,

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Speaker 2: something like that back when I was doing hallucinogens. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds that sounds promising.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of things that I would have used a lot

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Speaker 3: Sure, So there's this Company's what you said to get

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Speaker 3: a second there. So there's this company in Norway called Handy.

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Speaker 3: They they make they make interactive, interactive sex toys. They

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But anyway, it's uh, it's it's a little thing

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Speaker 2: Goes up like it looks like a nice coffee thermoscy.

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Speaker 3: Next to it. It has what has when it has

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Speaker 3: Stroker moves. The one of the more promising applications which

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Speaker 3: So we can now learn which songs are best for orgasms,

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Speaker 3: which opens a whole new, whole new category for the Grammys.

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Speaker 4: I think nickel Back is going to make a comeback.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is gonna be the Billie Joel renaissance. Just

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Speaker 3: They also just launched a second product called I Think

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Speaker 2: They only had to give Garrison a penis sheath.

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Speaker 3: They only they only had the free sleeves. But the

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Speaker 2: This is a good time for me to tell my

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Speaker 2: favorite masturbation machine story. Oh so there's a product. Oh boy,

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Speaker 2: It does look like a big, heavy plastic flashlight and

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Speaker 2: there right. Some of them are shaped like asses, some

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Speaker 4: Sometimes there are a button. Sometimes there are a mouth too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, there's mouths too. And I once had

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Speaker 2: little front porch area, and we all bolt to get

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00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 2: away from the fleshlight and it hits the brick wall

437
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 2: and the plastic case shatters and then the thing hits

438
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 2: the ground and the fake plast silicone vagina inside of

439
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:18,919
Speaker 2: it slithers out like like a living creature, probably lubricated

440
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 2: by some sort of substance, and it was one of

441
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Speaker 2: the most unsettling moments of my life.

442
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 3: I'm really glad you could share that with the Strawberry

443
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 3: that the sound was incredible.

444
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,479
Speaker 2: It did. Yeah, it sounded a lot like if you've

445
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 2: ever seen that episode Always Sonny where where Danny DeVito

446
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 2: gets berthed from a couch like covered in sweat. It

447
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 2: sounded a lot like that, I imagine.

448
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 3: And we call that experience the flesh Lights Dividend.

449
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 2: The Fleshlight Dividend. That's right now, speaking of jacking off,

450
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,360
Speaker 2: The next product we're going to talk about is Jackery,

451
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 2: a company that makes some really actually pretty cool like

452
00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 2: survival equipment, specifically like solar battery, solar panel and battery resetups.

453
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about that because it's definitely

454
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 2: like of the products we saw here the most in

455
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,640
Speaker 2: our miliu as like the world is falling apart show.

456
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 2: So we're gonna get to that. But first, here's some ads.

457
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 2: We're back and we're talking about Jackery, which it's fun.

458
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 2: One of the things I appreciate about this is that

459
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 2: the hand job machine could have been called jack the Jackery,

460
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 2: or the company could have been called Jackerreye. And likewise,

461
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 2: the company that makes batteries and solar panels could have

462
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 2: been called Handy because it's handy. They have a solar

463
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 2: battery around when you're camping. Curious, interesting, interesting stuff. Yeah,

464
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 2: a lot of thoughts there thoughts to be thought.

465
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 3: Oddly, that ven diagram crossover is closer than I thought

466
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 3: it would be.

467
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 2: So jackerrey is a cut I would recommend googling their

468
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 2: stuff they make. There's a lot the field of like

469
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 2: solar batteries and panels is super crowded right now, and

470
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 2: most of the batteries you're gonna are gonna be made

471
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 2: like one of the same two or three factories. It's

472
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 2: basically the same factory makes a bunch of companies batteries,

473
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 2: and a lot of them are very unsafe. There was

474
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 2: a company that sent me some review samples like a

475
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 2: whole solar generator and battery last year that I was

476
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: going to kind of do a piece about, you know,

477
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: surviving on a solar generator, and then a month after

478
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,360
Speaker 2: it arrived I was still testing it. It came out

479
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 2: that they had burned down a bunch of people's houses

480
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 2: because the batteries were insane. No, yeah, so you want

481
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 2: to be careful with this stuff. Jackery is one of

482
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 2: the I have had good luck with some of their products.

483
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 2: They seem to be of a high build quality. I

484
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 2: have not heard horror stories about them. When you go

485
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: to the the their booth of people there seem to

486
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: be genuinely knowledgeable, and the way in which they set

487
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 2: it up and demo it suggests a degree of knowledge

488
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 2: about the product and like what people want out of it.

489
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 2: So one of the things they do have some really

490
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 2: large including some like some solar batteries with generators with

491
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 2: solar panel generators that are large enough to run like

492
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 2: a deep freeze, which is really cool being able to

493
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 2: do that. And the setup they had specifically was a

494
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: like an actual like serious, like solid like not one

495
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 2: of those folding panel setups that goes on the roof

496
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 2: of your car or truck alongside with like a tint

497
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: like one of those via truck talk tents for overlanding,

498
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 2: and then plugs into you know, either their one thousand

499
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 2: or like two thousand watt solar generator or yeah so

500
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 2: or a battery generators and just everything about the way

501
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 2: it was set up seemed really practical. It seemed durable.

502
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: It didn't feel like something was gonna fall apart. Yeah,

503
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 2: I can see it being like a legitimate like even

504
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 2: outside of the car, because that's more or less like

505
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 2: a hobby it's sort of thing. But having one of

506
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 2: these generators that you can actually run your fridge and

507
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 2: your freezer and your lights in your house all like

508
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 2: they had some like an outage.

509
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 3: Microwaves, stuff, cooking implements, o other kind of stuff you

510
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 3: might take for like like you know, like a week

511
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 3: in mountain trip or something. The main the main roof

512
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 3: Mountain Pad, I think I was able to pull four

513
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 3: hundred watts, and then it had two sliding up panels

514
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 3: that can pull three hundred watts so that they could get.

515
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 2: Hot and in a sunny day, they said you could

516
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 2: get like nine hundred watts an hour.

517
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, really good for watts an hour, which is

518
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 3: which is quite impressive. And they have all the batteries

519
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,959
Speaker 3: to store it. And by by far, I think Jackery

520
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 3: is the most consistent company in this field that I

521
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 3: could I routinely see high praise for because the feel

522
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,199
Speaker 3: of like portable solar like solar charging is kind of

523
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 3: a little bit sketchy sometimes, Yes, stuff can easily break,

524
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 3: things to be really easily over marked. Like I had

525
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 3: a solar panel to to to charge my iPad that

526
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 3: really only lasted like two weeks and it just completely

527
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 3: stopped working. But I've only heard only heard good things

528
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 3: about Jackery. I have not tested them out myself. I

529
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 3: know Robert has some of them. Robert has some of

530
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 3: their battery equipment, but hopefully we'll be able to get

531
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Speaker 3: our hands on some of that this year.

532
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 4: They also had a lot of different form factors of

533
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 4: the same types of products, so a lot of smaller

534
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 4: versions of things that seem to be really good if

535
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 4: you need a kind of more modular setup. That was

536
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 4: for sure.

537
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had like large ones that you could basically

538
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 2: have plugged into your house in case you lose power

539
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 2: for a small period of time in order to like

540
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: ensure that you don't like you don't actually have a

541
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 2: period where the power's out. And then they had a

542
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: lot of like really good camping sort of like off

543
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: grid battery options it's just cool. Take take a look

544
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 2: at the if you are if you are someone who

545
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: is in the kind of financial situation that you can

546
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 2: prep in that way where you're buying like solar equipment

547
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 2: and batteries, which definitely is never super cheap, right, I

548
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 2: would recommend checking them out at least as you kind

549
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: of do your research.

550
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 3: There's like two more products I think I want to mention.

551
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 3: The first is Shift. This is a company I was

552
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 3: already familiar with, but I got to try these out.

553
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 3: They look kind of like roller skates, but they're not

554
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 3: roller skates. They are these sort of boots with motorized

555
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 3: and locking wheels that attach onto your shoes. And their

556
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: use case for this is like factory workers. It makes

557
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 3: them real, It makes them be able to walk and move.

558
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 2: They said two and a half times faster, considerably faster.

559
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 3: I was able to walk at at a pretty at

560
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 3: a pretty decent speed. You can you can lock the

561
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 3: wheels if you need to, like do more like delicate

562
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: mobility tasks.

563
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: Go upstairs stairs ladders.

564
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 4: That was one way to even lock and unlock the

565
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 4: shoes themselves from being used. There's like a certain gesture

566
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 4: you had to make by you.

567
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 2: Lift up your heel I think it was, and it

568
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 2: locks the shoes so the wheels don't.

569
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Speaker 3: Come you lift up your heel in twest and and

570
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 3: it Yeah.

571
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 4: The boot itself had a hinge that was just under.

572
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 3: The Yeah, so I've seen these before. They look they

573
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: look kind of fun, but they're four kind of factory works.

574
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's it's kind of a mixed bag

575
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 3: where the device worked quite well, and it took me

576
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: like just like maybe like like one minute to get

577
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 3: used to it. Then I could then I was really smooth.

578
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 3: But the actual operational use case they're envisioning is like

579
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 3: being able to get like get more, get more productivity out.

580
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: Of their workers the same amount of money, the same

581
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: amount of money.

582
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 3: So like, yeah, I think Robert made the pretty good comparison.

583
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 3: Like last year we tried out this exoskeleton, which also,

584
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 3: you know, they talked a bit about a little bit

585
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 3: about productivity specifically for like again factory workers, but that

586
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 3: extra teleton was also designed to help that worker not

587
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 3: damage their body. Like it was it was to make

588
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,959
Speaker 3: sure that they actually can can stay safer and not

589
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: to as much damage their knees, their joints, their back

590
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 3: versus these little roller skate type shoes. Yeah, I have

591
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 3: no such have no such ability.

592
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 4: I mean it would it made you go faster, kind

593
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 4: of like one of those walkways that you have in

594
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 4: the airport. Who doesn't want to go a little bit faster.

595
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the way the guy repped it too,

596
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 2: where he was like, we have these factory workers. They're like,

597
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 2: I have the best job in the company. Now, it's

598
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 2: so fun skating around on these things. Nobody said that

599
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: to you, bro, Like, don't lie.

600
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 4: It's a nice thought.

601
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 3: He also claimed that there's not been one fall or

602
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 3: injury with these things, on which I just I do

603
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 3: not believe because I almost fell down to testing these out.

604
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 3: I'm sure if you're carrying like heavy boxes like it's

605
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 3: it's very easy for your weight to get to get

606
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 3: away from yourself when you're literally walking on wheels like

607
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 3: and it can be controlling. It actually is more intuitive

608
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,239
Speaker 3: than I thought it would be. But mistakes happen, and

609
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 3: those those sorts of big claims are a little bit

610
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 3: a little bit sketchy.

611
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 4: I found myself kind of waving my arms a little

612
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 4: bit out in front of me to keep my balance.

613
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 4: I wasn't like confet on them.

614
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, just watching you both, I could see like, well, yeah,

615
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: people are gonna get hurt. Now, I don't I am

616
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 2: sure because it seems to be easy enough to use

617
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 2: that I suspect it would. You could really get a

618
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 2: lot of extra money out of your workers as an

619
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 2: employer using these things, but at the cost of some

620
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 2: of them are gonna like fucking eat shit and hurt themselves,

621
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: which is not like in the grand scheme of corporate evil,

622
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: especially at the show where everybody's like talking about the

623
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: potential of AI to eliminate tens of millions of jobs.

624
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 2: Not really, it doesn't really scan. And I think we're

625
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 2: still putting this on the good episode because like they

626
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: worked in a way that they were technically impressive. We

627
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: just found it kind of upsetting that they were bragging about,

628
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 2: like you can get more money out of your already

629
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 2: exploited workforce with these. Yeah, but I could see someone

630
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 2: just getting these and because they would allow you if

631
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: you like, yeah, if you if you live in a

632
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 2: walkable city.

633
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 3: City neighborhood, it can make your commute times much faster.

634
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 2: And still probably safer than like you less risk maybe

635
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 2: than like a bike or something like that.

636
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to see somebody wear those at a

637
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 4: roller skating rink.

638
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's called that's called Shift Robotics. I believe

639
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 3: they're based out of Texas. Yeah. The last thing I

640
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 3: want to talk about. For both mine and Robert's job,

641
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 3: we use a lot of computer screens. I'm looking in

642
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 3: Roberts hotel room right now where we're recording. He has

643
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 3: a laptop hooked up to a second monitor. I have

644
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 3: a very similar setup I have. I have a laptop

645
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 3: and a secondary monitor on my desktop. I have like

646
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 3: three or four monitors always running at the same time,

647
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 3: just because of the absurdity of what our works sometimes entails,

648
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 3: so it could be hard to get things done on

649
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 3: a single screen. And we saw this one product that

650
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 3: looked just like a like a very like thick keyboard

651
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 3: with a with a touchpad, but it had these like

652
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 3: AR glasses attached. Now, AR is a tricky field. We

653
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 3: tried a lot of AR stuff last year. Most of

654
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 3: it some of it was okay, some of it was

655
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 3: a little bit finicky. But this company was called Sightful. Yeah,

656
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 3: and what this basically was is that it was a

657
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 3: fully functioning computer but instead of a instead of just

658
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 3: having a regular display, it has a display built into

659
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 3: these yeah, into these glasses.

660
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: The product itself looks like just the bottom half of

661
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 2: a laptop, like the keyboard part that holds the PCU

662
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: and shit with like this weird flappy thing attached to

663
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: the keyboard part that holds like a set of glasses

664
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 2: that are plugged in directly to the laptop. That's how

665
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: it like looks.

666
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 3: And when you put the glasses on, you get like

667
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 3: four screens that pop up. The screens aren't too big,

668
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 3: they're not too small. You can change the size by

669
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 3: using using the touchpad. And this require a lot less

670
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 3: like like a like a focusing like you usually when

671
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 3: you put on ar AR glasses you have to kind

672
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 3: of dial in the focal length to make them look right.

673
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 3: But this was all very clear. That text was easy

674
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 3: to read, Changing from one screen to another was pretty

675
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 3: was pretty easy. They had they had They had a

676
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 3: pass through mode like a lot of good ar does.

677
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 3: They had a mode where you can lock the screens

678
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 3: in place. You can turn your head and they don't move.

679
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: They had another version where you just with like keystrokes,

680
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 3: you could turn your head and the screens follow you,

681
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 3: so it was it was a pretty It was a

682
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 3: pretty useful device.

683
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. You could press a button and it would go

684
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: the screens would disappear, Like if you're walking while using it,

685
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: you can press a button and it would go clear,

686
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 2: so you wouldn't see it, but you could see where

687
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 2: you were.

688
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 3: Walking pass through.

689
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I typed an email or two, and like

690
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 2: did some googling on it, and I very quickly adapted

691
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: to the screens being virtual but still using a physical keyboard.

692
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 3: I we didn't get like motion sick with it. It

693
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 3: was not. Now. I think this is like either the

694
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 3: first or second iteration of this product.

695
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: First the first to market, the first.

696
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there is some ways to improve. It

697
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 3: runs its own Android operating system, which you know, if

698
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 3: you're trying to download applications. The fact that I can't

699
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 3: run Windows or Linux or even Apple's system, you know

700
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 3: that that could be a bit of a limitation. It

701
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 3: only had like two hundred and two hundred and like

702
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 3: fifty gigs of work.

703
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 2: It wasn't really a full storage and power. It's a

704
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: little bit beefier than your phone.

705
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

706
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 2: The company the product, by the way, is called spacetop. Yeah,

707
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 2: sightful as the company's spacetop is the is the actual

708
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 2: product itself, and yeah, I.

709
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 3: Uh, we're gonna We're gonna keep our eye on it.

710
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't buy the first in of this thing.

711
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 2: It's about twenty two hundred bucks, which is like upper

712
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: mid level cost for a laptop.

713
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 3: My issue is at based on how expensive it is,

714
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 3: the laptop itself isn't powerful enough to justify that price. Certainly,

715
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 3: the fact that you know, I can act like I

716
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 3: have four monitors wherever I go, that is, that is

717
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 3: very convenient. I think I just need the laptop to

718
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 3: be a little bit more powerful, especially with how many

719
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 3: tabs they have open at all times. Having only eight

720
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 3: gigs of RAM just will not cut it. But I'm

721
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 3: certainly certainly hopeful that we'll be able to see small

722
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 3: improvements going forward.

723
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 4: Indeed, yeah, they had mentioned it as being a web

724
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,919
Speaker 4: first device instead of anything else.

725
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: That makes sense.

726
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's like a Chromebook, and I think in

727
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: terms of like it's actual yeah, efficacy.

728
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 3: Very similar to a Chromebook, like operation.

729
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 2: Wise, But my hope is that like the kind of

730
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 2: technology they've developed, it will get you know, if it's successful,

731
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: they'll make more parers. Now I do kind of worry

732
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 2: about how successful it will be, because, like Garrison and

733
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: I were both like, oh, this is perfect for what

734
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 2: we do, but we have a very specific use case

735
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 2: for our machines. And I'm not sure like how many

736
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: other people are in our position. But I was really

737
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: impressed with just like how well it immediately worked.

738
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I I was happy with it. You can

739
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 3: hook up an external monitor if you if you want to,

740
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 3: So that's that's nice.

741
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 4: And I am a glasses wearer, and so one stuff

742
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 4: that they had for me is that they took my

743
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 4: glasses and approximated my prescription.

744
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool.

745
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they slid on these magnetic sort of like

746
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 4: eyeglass pieces onto the headset that you're wearing, or like

747
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 4: the glasses that you're wearing. That way, I could actually

748
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 4: use it without wearing my prescription glasses.

749
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 3: Nice.

750
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was really It's stuff like that that

751
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: lets you know that people making something didn't just aren't

752
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: just like trying to rush some shit out the door

753
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 2: to make money, Like, Oh, you put some thought into that, motherfucker.

754
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. And this all leads us the easily

755
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 2: the best product of the entire show. Honestly, the only

756
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 2: one really worth talking about, Garrison. Will you hand me

757
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 2: the flying car brochure? So Jesus Christ, this is the

758
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: Cees of flying cars. Robotaxis is the term we heard

759
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: a lot. We went to a panel that was like

760
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: serious people in the robotaxi industry, which they admitted does

761
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: not exist, by the way, Advance to air mobility, Advance

762
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 2: of air mobility. It was the acronym AAM. Yeah. No,

763
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 2: there are several companies that are using effectively like these are.

764
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 2: Some of them are like ultra lights. There was one

765
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 2: of the companies that came here bragged like you can

766
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 2: buy buy a plane that doesn't require a pilot's license

767
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 2: because it's so light, but it's still a plane, which

768
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: seems like a horrible idea to me. But there are

769
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 2: some real companies who are like testing out electronic aero taxis.

770
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 2: Some of these are this is not vaporware. These products exist. Now,

771
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 2: what doesn't exist is the legal framework to allow people

772
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 2: to do this. Like the panelists were like openly like,

773
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 2: we want this to be an industry, but first there

774
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 2: have to be it has to be legal right now,

775
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: we don't know, like they they're still trying to figure out,

776
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 2: like what the rules are going to be. They're hoping

777
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: by the end of this year the FAA puts out

778
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 2: like a temporary rule set about how robot air robo

779
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 2: taxes work and also how they called them verta ports,

780
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: which is because these are all vertical takeoff and landing craft.

781
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 3: At least the one that we saw on the show

782
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 3: floor looks like a looks like a Lamborghini with a

783
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 3: massive drone, like a.

784
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 2: DGI type round top. And that's that's the one I

785
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 2: want to talk about, because all of those were real products.

786
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 2: The exit paying the air road product, in my opinion,

787
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: is absolutely not. It's built as a low altitude air

788
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: mobility exploring. Yeah, it looks like a huge drone like

789
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 2: you'd buy a fucking best Buy attached to a Lamborghini.

790
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 2: And apparently the whole drone part, all of the rotors

791
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: fold back into the body when you're driving it as

792
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: a car.

793
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 3: Like a like a transformer, like a transformer.

794
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 2: And the reason why I say this is the best

795
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 2: product in cees is not that I think it would

796
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 2: work or be safe. Because we talked to the people

797
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: and the person who was told to us is their

798
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 2: technical expert, and neither of them could answer if it

799
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: had airbags. They did say probably. They did say probably.

800
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,959
Speaker 3: Which isn't what you want to hear.

801
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 2: No, that you should have that answer.

802
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 5: That's not a tough question, that's not a gotcha does

803
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 5: your car have airbags?

804
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 3: First, First, the PR guy that we were talking to

805
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 3: was very open about knowing almost nothing about the technical

806
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 3: aspects of this device. And then when we talked to

807
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 3: the technical person, they too didn't know very much about it, so,

808
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 3: which just isn't very reassuring.

809
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 2: Like and I even tried to do it the easy

810
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 2: way where I was like, well, I know ultra light

811
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 2: aircraft you don't need a pilot's license for so do

812
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 2: you need Does this qualify? And they were basically said, no,

813
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 2: we don't know, we don't know yet. Yeah, it'll take

814
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 2: some kind of license probably. What kind of range does

815
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 2: it get? They said twenty kilometers by.

816
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 3: Air about twenty minutes per.

817
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 2: Chart, Yeah, which seems like a dangerously short amount of

818
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 2: time to be flying you and a loved one potentially

819
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: in a thing it is.

820
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 3: It is pretty low altitude. I think they said it

821
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 3: maxes out at around one hundred meters.

822
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 2: One hundred No, they said one hundred meters.

823
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 3: Sorry, So it's really not for going up super high.

824
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 3: And I when we went to the more like expert panel,

825
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 3: a lot of these use cases for this, they imagine

826
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 3: is kind of replacing helicopters in cities. There's like metavac

827
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 3: use cases. But a lot of people were talking about

828
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 3: like testing these things out in New York where rich

829
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 3: people use helicopters to get around the city, and this

830
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 3: is what they want to replace them with. Because these

831
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 3: can be purely electric, these can be much more because

832
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 3: these can be much quieter. So that was what a

833
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 3: lot of what they were talking about. However, again most

834
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 3: of the panel was just them just complaining that the

835
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 3: government hasn't done enough work to make this a real industry.

836
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 2: Garrison, I got, you're not aware of this topic. You

837
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: just handed me the flyer we got from them that

838
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,280
Speaker 2: I don't think either of us read through. Here's their story.

839
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 3: Oh oh boy.

840
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 2: Sale Beyond Limits twenty thirteen. Zoo Deli ignited Erot with

841
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 2: a daring dream to turn the enchanting broomsticks of Harry

842
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 2: Potter into tangible wonder. Oh no, a tribe of daring

843
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 2: mind set forth on the thrilling journey of crafting electric

844
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: marbles that could take humans to the skies through tireless exploration.

845
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 2: The first ever prototype, the flying motorcycle. Gracefully, this is

846
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 2: all a Harry Potter thing. Some madman from China fell

847
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 2: so in love with Harry Potter that he made a

848
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 2: death car. I'm back around to loving it again.

849
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 3: Average tech industry guy, brain poisoned by Harry Potter creates

850
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 3: death device.

851
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 4: I feel like this guy and the plant pet sky

852
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 4: are probably like pretty tight.

853
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 2: They're both the same kind of why is there somebody

854
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 2: apocaly ten based around Harry Potter?

855
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 3: What's going on in this industry?

856
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 2: And it is so the other brochure they had it

857
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: shows like the flying car, the modular flying car, which

858
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 2: looks like a cyber truck because if it had like

859
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: you know, you can get a truck, you can put

860
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 2: like a bed cap on the beds. It's basically like

861
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 2: a big it's like a cyber truck with one of those,

862
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 2: but the bed cap opens up to deploy like a

863
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 2: quad copter thing that human beings can ride in.

864
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 3: Kind of like sound wave in Transform, which.

865
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 2: Is like it's a cool idea from like a kid's

866
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,439
Speaker 2: point of view. I think the idea here is that,

867
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 2: you know, John McAfee used to do this thing where

868
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: he would live in the desert with a cult of

869
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: weirdos and they would fly around on gliders until he

870
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 2: got his nephew and an old man killed in a

871
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 2: glider crash. This is this is the dream yeah, of

872
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 2: that Harry Potter fan.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I this The reason why I'm actually very

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Speaker 3: pro this product is because the only people that are

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Speaker 3: going to use these are really rich. Yes, yeah, I

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Speaker 3: think there's a high chance this could take out a

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Speaker 3: lot of them.

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Speaker 2: This this has the best chance of dropping multiple billionaires

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Speaker 2: of anything since the Death's Up.

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Speaker 5: Like we comel from one hundred meters in the air,

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Speaker 5: just crashing out of the sky in Santa Monica and

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Speaker 5: san billionaires just taking out whole lanes of traffic.

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Speaker 3: Imaginers, I meagine you're walking through the park one day

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Speaker 3: and a billionaire comes flying down from the sky and

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Speaker 3: lands in like a two million dollar drone.

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Speaker 2: The prototype that they say they got to fly was

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Speaker 2: two tons. Wow, you could really do a lot of

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Speaker 2: damage with that. Well, this is this is all quite exciting.

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Speaker 2: Keep your eye on the sky, folks, Maybe wear a

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Speaker 2: helmet for a while until this all shakes out. Like

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Speaker 2: there's the story in the news right now that like

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Speaker 2: some dude in Portland had the fucking door of that

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Speaker 2: Alaska Airlines flight in his backyard. And I can't wait

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Speaker 2: until that's like a third to Elon Musk, just like

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Speaker 2: Lance in someone's yard.

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Speaker 3: Like two million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. And by the way, if fucking a

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Speaker 2: billionaire's carcass winds up in my lawn, I got a

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Speaker 2: new punch bowl with their skull, I'm gonna harvest their pros.

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Speaker 2: We call the billionaires division the billionaire's dividend. Well, all right, everybody,

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Speaker 2: anyone Tapia, you have anything to plug?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you can find me on Twitter or x

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Speaker 4: at cut Mora, or if you want to learn a

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Speaker 4: little bit more about me and my interactive and immersive work,

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Speaker 4: you can see my work at tabiamora dot com.

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Speaker 2: You can also see her work in my book A

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Speaker 2: Brief History of Ice, where she did all the illustrations,

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Speaker 2: or in my book After the Revolution where she did

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Speaker 2: all the illustrations, or in the sequel which will come

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Speaker 2: out when I finished those last two fucking chapters like

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Speaker 2: three years from now, huh or in Vegas, yeah tomorrow

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Speaker 2: to Laura. All right, well we're done.

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