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Speaker 1: Get in with technology with tech Stuff from Stuff Tool Taylor, Everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Jonathan Strickland and I

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Speaker 1: have a special guest here today, special because it's always

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Speaker 1: special when he joins the show, Ben Bolan. Welcome it

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Speaker 1: back to Tech Stuff. Thanks, thanks so with for having

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Speaker 1: me on Drop And I have two things though. One

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Speaker 1: is is it still special even though I've been on

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Speaker 1: the show a couple of times now, It's always going

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Speaker 1: to be special? Okay, Well, I think that makes my

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Speaker 1: day man this week. Second thing, just full disclosure. This

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Speaker 1: is for the listeners. This is a little bit unusual.

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Speaker 1: Uh for me definitely, and and maybe for you as well.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's gonna be a fun ride. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And what he means by that is and I tweeted

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Speaker 1: about this before coming into the studio. This is an

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Speaker 1: episode in which I have specifically requested my co host

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Speaker 1: do absolutely no research on the topic whatsoever. I got

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Speaker 1: no idea what's going on. Yeah, you only know what

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Speaker 1: the topic is. That topic is expensive consumer technology. Because

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Speaker 1: you know, we're ramping up to the holiday season and

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Speaker 1: obviously you know you have to start looking at the

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Speaker 1: people in your life and what sort of gifts you

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

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

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Speaker 1: crazy kind of money that Beauty Pie is making on YouTube?

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

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Speaker 1: this is also the day that Forbes released what the

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Speaker 1: top YouTube performers are earning or what they guess they

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Speaker 1: are earning. It's it made me question all of my

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Speaker 1: decisions in life up to this point. But we are

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

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Speaker 1: and if there were spectacularly awesome people in our lives,

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Speaker 1: maybe these are the sort of things we might look

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Speaker 1: at at in order to say you mean something to me, Mr,

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Speaker 1: Mrs Miss whatever. So. But I didn't want Ben to

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Speaker 1: to know about any of these because I want to

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Speaker 1: get his actual reaction. Plus I'm gonna quiz him a

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Speaker 1: couple of times, not really quiz, I'm just gonna get

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Speaker 1: an idea, see if he can guess what some of

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

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

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Speaker 1: them will be a guesswork. But I may have you

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Speaker 1: guess occasionally what it might be, and then maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: even ask you ballpark figure how much you think it

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Speaker 1: might might be. Let's let's do it. I love it, uh, listeners,

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Speaker 1: Just so you guys know, one of the reasons that

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Speaker 1: I'm the best slash worst sidekick for Jonathan in this

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Speaker 1: type of episode, it's because I am a notorious chief skate.

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Speaker 1: I have personally offended car stuff. Listeners probably know this,

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Speaker 1: but I am. I am personally offended if I think

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Speaker 1: something is too expensive. Now. Also, in the interest full disclosure,

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Speaker 1: I was not aware of that when I asked Ben

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Speaker 1: to do this, but it does make me very happy

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Speaker 1: because it means that, even if everything else goes wrong,

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Speaker 1: your reactions are going to save this episode. So I'm

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Speaker 1: already upset. Here we go here. I decided to go

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Speaker 1: with U with a real doozy first, and it's one

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Speaker 1: you may have actually talked about on a different show,

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Speaker 1: so that gives you a hint already. Can you guess

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Speaker 1: what the element Palazzo Superior is element found so superior.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's a car very close it is an RV. Oh, well,

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Speaker 1: come on, also know what it was? Just a guess

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Speaker 1: like one of those things like it might have been

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Speaker 1: something that you and Scott have covered for car stuff.

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

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Speaker 1: because I'm actually peek behind the curtain. After I do

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

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Speaker 1: Scott's gonna be in my guest host. We're we're starting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: like you know, when you stop wherever you're you're going

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Speaker 1: when you put into camper mode, it nearly doubles its width.

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

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

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Speaker 1: half square meter rain shower with light therapy features built

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Speaker 1: two inch televisions, It has onboard WiFi, satellite TV, a

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Speaker 1: custom audio system, ambient light control, and more. And you

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

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Speaker 1: Palazzo Superior for the low low price of three point

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Speaker 1: one million dollars for an RV r V. Yes, okay,

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

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Speaker 1: i SP for the three point one million three point

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

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Speaker 1: really like to drive RV. No, there are monstrosities on

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Speaker 1: something that large. Three millions So, so, Jonathan, would you

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Speaker 1: ever if Okay, so let's say you're on tour Okay,

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Speaker 1: somehow filthy rich would you be would you take one

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Speaker 1: I just I want to be completely honest with you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, but don't don't get me this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, I will market off the list. Uh well, here,

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Speaker 1: how about how about I hit you with this one.

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Speaker 1: Let see if you can guess what this is based

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Speaker 1: upon the name. Now, this is a little different from

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Speaker 1: some of the others. A lot of the other ones

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Speaker 1: The protech Philippe Henry Gray super complication. Ah. Yes, one

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Speaker 1: of the most legendary, legendarily sophisticated watches. Very good, Ben Bolan, Yes,

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Speaker 1: as absolutely correct it was. It's a pocket watch and

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three four. Henry Graves Jr. Who was a

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Speaker 1: banker at the time and Henry Graves Junior, was in

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Speaker 1: a bit of a competition with another gentleman whom you've

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Speaker 1: the most complex pocket watch that was made without computer

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Speaker 1: And here are some of the functions that are included.

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

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Speaker 1: time of sunset and sunrise each day. It's mechanical. This

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

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Speaker 1: has a stars chart, it has phases of the moon

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

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Speaker 1: and a twelve hour recorder as well. It has chimes

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Speaker 1: and the original price tag when it was sold. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is just the original price all right for Henry

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

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Speaker 1: that for inflation, so in today's might that be about

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Speaker 1: two hundred two thousand dollars that, my friend, would be

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of people. Um, and as part of that,

427
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: they want to cater to that that self image, you know,

428
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 1: this idea of sound. I love the effective sound and

429
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,479
Speaker 1: I totally get this. I mean, I love music, right,

430
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: and I definitely understand people who said, uh, they preferred

431
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: older means of of listening to music to m P

432
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: three's because for a long time, first of all, MP

433
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: three is a lossy format. Mean you're you're losing some

434
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: information whenever you make that type of file. But those

435
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: those conversions have gotten better and better, plus their other

436
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: lossless formats out there where digital is no longer I

437
00:25:54,600 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: think a meaningful distinction from analog. So what you're saying,

438
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: so I would go that far as to say, if you,

439
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: if you do things correctly, you should not be able

440
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 1: to tell the difference. And there's also a psychological aspect

441
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: though two people. It's it's like, uh, some people will

442
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: make to your coffee a certain way, and just because

443
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: that there's something comforting about that, they feel that it

444
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,360
Speaker 1: is the superior method. I would argue very much that

445
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: that things like listening to vinyl records has a bit

446
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: of the ritual involved, right, and that ritualistic experience provides

447
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: that sense of comfort and familiarity. So if and I

448
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: do that, I mean, I've got a collection of vinyl

449
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: at home. I'm I'm talking about this like as someone

450
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: who I I appreciate that experience, and that's part of it, right.

451
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: It's not just the sound, it's not even not even

452
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: necessarily related to whatever the record is. It's the experience

453
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 1: of putting that all together. And I think there is

454
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: a value to that, and obviously digital doesn't really I mean,

455
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: there's not really a uh comparison where you push play

456
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: on a touch screen and the music place. It's not

457
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: the same thing as taking taking the sleeve out of

458
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: a cover and then the finalist of the sleeve and

459
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: then placing that on the platter and moving the needle over.

460
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: And if you guys don't know what I'm talking about,

461
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: you need to look at a turntable. Although those have

462
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: come back, I mean, everyone knows one of those technologies.

463
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 1: I used to joke about. Ask your parents, but now

464
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: a lot of people know about it. Thousand dollars, all right,

465
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: let's let's let's up the anti four and dollars. That's

466
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: that's chicken feed. Yeah. So so the next one is

467
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: going to be a television telling you straight out the

468
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: name of the television is the Stewart Hughes Prestige HD

469
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 1: Supreme Rose Edition. What is that? Like a bad Google translation?

470
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: Stewart Hughes would be the company. The Prestige HD Supreme

471
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: Rose Edition is the name of the television. So it

472
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: costs two point to five million dollars. A TV that

473
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,719
Speaker 1: costs two point five million dollars. Might as well just

474
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: get the element that has two TVs in it. Yeah, yeah,

475
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: that's true. Okay, so what do we get sell me

476
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: on this? All right, it's a television, So it's not

477
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: even not even it's not even ridiculously huge, right like

478
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: you were expecting it. Oh, it's going to be like

479
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy three TV and it's television. Um,

480
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: it's got twenty eight ms of eighteen carrot gold in

481
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: the frame and that's that's primarily. Yeah, that twenty eight kilograms.

482
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: It's more than fifty pounds of gold. What is this

483
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: obsession with putting gold on things that don't need gold?

484
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: I guess it just means that your TV, even as

485
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: it becomes obsolete, is still insanely valuable. The frame is

486
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: studded with seventy two one carrot diamonds. They're also a

487
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: sunstone and amethysts in that frame between the outer frame

488
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: and the screen. So imagine you've got like a frame,

489
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: like a picture frame. The screen is in set, So

490
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: this would be almost like the mat of a of

491
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: a if you were looking at a a framed picture,

492
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: you know that has the mat surrounding it. Well, the

493
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: mat would be made out of alligator skin that is

494
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: hand sewn to the frame. Uh yeah, hand So so

495
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: it just seems like such a left field the idea

496
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: they're creating the TV. It's Stewart Hughes and they say something,

497
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: can you kill an alligator? Could that? Can we do that?

498
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: Can we kill an alligator? Um? I my own personal opinion,

499
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: I think it's hideous. I think it's hideous. I almost

500
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: I wish now I what I really wish I had done,

501
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: and it's a regret that I'm going to have to

502
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: live with. I wish I had printed out pictures of

503
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: each of these things so I could hand them to

504
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: you after I explain what it is to get your

505
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: action on those. But I mean, this is an audio podcast,

506
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: so there would only be limited value in that anyway,

507
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: right for the for for you guys listening, But also

508
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: that would probably increase the likelihood of me, Cursey, We're

509
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of bleeps this epid. But the

510
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: Stewart Hughes Prestige HD, which is Prestige HD is altogether

511
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: supreme Rose Edition. You go check that out, listeners and

512
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: take a look, and you tell me if you think

513
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: it looks beautiful. I said that it looks like the

514
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: Hearst Castle of television, And if you've ever been to

515
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: Hearst Castle, you know what I'm talking about. William Randolph

516
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: Hurst had way more money than he had taste. He

517
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: just if he saw something that he liked, he bought

518
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: it and he put it in a room. Whether it

519
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: went with everything else or not, he would go for baroque. Okay,

520
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: that's a um one of the TVs I was going

521
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,239
Speaker 1: to mention, but I decided ultimately not to because if

522
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: you do a search for most expensive television, is one

523
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: of the ones that pops up pretty consistently is a

524
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: a sonic television that's a hundred and fifty two inches.

525
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: But I didn't necessary. I didn't want to include it

526
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: in this because I'm specifically talking about consumer technology. The

527
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: Panasonic one fifty two inch plasma display is really intended

528
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: for businesses. So for like a big company that wants

529
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: to have a huge screen on a big wall, that

530
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Yeah, or or even just as a

531
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: prestige thing for the company whatever, you know, but it

532
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: was or maybe it's a media company and they want

533
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: to be able to show off the stuff they do um,

534
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: but it's a five hundred thousand dollar display that's a

535
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: hundred fifty two inches. It's a plasma display, So I

536
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: don't really think of that as a consumer product, which

537
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: is why I didn't have it as an official one

538
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: and it no. But here's here's an actual TV that

539
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: you can buy as a consumer. Um. It is one

540
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: of the most expensive consumer televisions out there that is

541
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: not bedecked with jewels and is Samsung you in one

542
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: zero five S nine B. That's the way TVs are

543
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: these days. The original M s r P for this

544
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: was two hundred sixty thousand dollars, more than a quarter

545
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: of a million dollars for this television when it when

546
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: it first came out. Right now, though, if you go

547
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: to Samsung's page, act quickly because it now lists the

548
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: suggested retail at one forty nine thousand, nine nine cents,

549
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: But you can scoop it up for a mirror one

550
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: D nineteen thousand dollars nine and nine. So so just

551
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: under one we're back in the game, saving thirty thousand

552
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: right there. And by saving that thirty thousand, you can

553
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: go and then buy that Virtue Red Gold phone. And

554
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: I like if we can go, we'll have to take

555
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: our TV with us to the exclusive party. Yes, exactly,

556
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: just say, Look, you know I'm rich because I also

557
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: have this monstrosity. It's a hundred and five inch television,

558
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: so this one is significantly larger. It's four K Ultra HD.

559
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: It's a smart TV with built in WiFi. And this

560
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: is the one that is a bendable screen where you

561
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: you push a button in the and the screen bends inward.

562
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 1: It curves inward. Yeah, it's pretty nifty. That explains to

563
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: me some of the appeal. And then I have a

564
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: question to I was wondering about this, and I'm glad

565
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: you went to t v's This is something that our

566
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: listeners are probably wondering as well. Is there also a

567
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: diminishing return with um, you know, four K with the

568
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: quality of video. That's an excellent question, I would argue yes. However,

569
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: it's dependent on a couple of different things. The size

570
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: of the screen, because the larger you go, the higher

571
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: the resolution you need in order to not have that

572
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: quality degrade. So so if I have a if I

573
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: have at TV and it's at seven twenty, that might

574
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: look great to me, and I might think all right, well,

575
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to a much large your TV. Let's go.

576
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm going up to sixty inch television. But now I

577
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: want to have uh two K or four K screen,

578
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: probably four K screen because two K really didn't go anywhere.

579
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: But a four K screen you would be able to

580
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: tell the difference because it's sharper, and it's bigger. And

581
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: if you're especially if you don't change how far away

582
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: you're sitting from the screen, like if you're seeing just

583
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: as far away from your sixty inch as you were

584
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: your forty inch, then uh, you know, the bigger it gets,

585
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: the more likely you're going to detect any sort of

586
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: problems with quality. Uh. But that being said, if you

587
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: are looking at like or at least for me, I

588
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: have found at c s where you would presumably tune

589
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: these televisions to be high performing, you know, so that

590
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: you really attract people. I have looked at h D

591
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: t vs next to two K, four K, eight K

592
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: sets and at an equal distance and using equal sizes,

593
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: it's I can't tell any like, I can't really distinguish

594
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: between them, Like if you had covered up the label

595
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: and didn't tell me which one was which I probably

596
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to identify them. If I got really close,

597
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: I could because the closer you get, the more you

598
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: can see what you can tell the how how good

599
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 1: the resolution is. But again, so it depends on screen size,

600
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: how close you're sitting, and also just calibrating your TV. Uh.

601
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: If you if you have someone professionally calibrate your television

602
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: so that it's going to give you the best experience

603
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: in whatever environment you are in it, that makes a

604
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: huge difference. I have not done that, but I did

605
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 1: not mostly because my room I'm in, the light changes

606
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: so dramatically because, uh, the where my cable hook up

607
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: is is near a big window, like a floor to

608
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: ceiling window, and even with window treatment on that some

609
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of sunlight will come through in

610
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: the daytime and at night it's totally different. So it

611
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: would be hard to calibrate it in a way that

612
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: would be satisfying for both experiences. So I just kind

613
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: of mediocreate. No. I hopefully this uh, this amazing piece

614
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: of television technology will calibrate itself or have someone that

615
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: I almost said someone that comes with it. You open

616
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: up a box and some some poor person is just

617
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: like crying, you know, hunched over inside the boxing. All right,

618
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: I'm ready to calibrate your exactly, and then you give

619
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: Darby a sock and it goes off on his way. Um. Also,

620
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: it can upscale images, so in other words, you can

621
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: look at something like HD content and turn it into

622
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: ultra HD content and it just does it by kind

623
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: of interpreting what the missing pixels would be. So it's

624
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: not perfect, right, Upscaling has never been perfect, but it

625
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: can be very good. It seems interesting, yeah, but I

626
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: don't know if it I frankly, you know what, I'm

627
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: not swayed to go buy it because it sounds like

628
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: only the edges of the screen bend. Yes, it bends

629
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: in towards you. Yeah, it's not like you can wrap

630
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: it round a column or something and have like a

631
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: circular television or something, in which case that would be

632
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: a steel Yeah. Yeah, that's that's not it. All right, Well,

633
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: here's your next one, the like a M nine P

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Speaker 1: edition Hermes Serie Limited Jean Louis Dumas or Duma if

635
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: you prefer, what kind of device do you think that

636
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: might be? Will you say, we see the Holy Name?

637
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: Like an M nine P edition Hermes serie limite Jean

638
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Speaker 1: Louis Duma like a, yeah, Hermes, like I spelled by

639
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: the way, I may be mispronouncing. That's l E. I

640
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: c A. I think you may have stopped me. This

641
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: one is a tough one. Just Hermes made me what

642
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: I guess if it was a bag, but it's it's not,

643
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: which makes me think of the Saturday Night Live sketches

644
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. I'm brecky Um, Okay, I'm just gonna take

645
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 1: a Probably it's probably herme is actually so I'm so ghosh,

646
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: I'll take a I'll take a shot. Ghost is such

647
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: a weird word because people who know the word ghost, yeah,

648
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: are inherently not gosh. I like, I like where you're going. Okay, okay,

649
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: so sorry, that's just some business for me to try

650
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: to cold read you. Um, and I'm not giving anything

651
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: like I know it's not working very well. I'm gonna

652
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: say a few things and see if you blink. Uh.

653
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: Now you just gonna have to give a guess, all right? Um?

654
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: Is it a laptop? No, it is a point and

655
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,919
Speaker 1: shoot camera. I should have known, like I should have known. Yeah,

656
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: it's a point of shoot camera. It's digital camera. So

657
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 1: it's not not a film camera. Uh, and it costs

658
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. It's a fifty dollar point and shoot

659
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: digital camera. It has calf skin leather that has been

660
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: handsome um comes with multiple lenses that are cased in

661
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: analyzed silver. It's very very I mean it looks beautiful.

662
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: You look at, you look at and you're just like, well,

663
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: that is a work of art. But still fifty thousan

664
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: dollars for a point and shoot camera. I'm just glad

665
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a bunch of gold on it. No,

666
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: it does not have a bunch of gold on it. However,

667
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about a bunch of gold,

668
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: how about the Nintendo WE Supreme which is covered in

669
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: twenty two carried gold? Why two thousand, five hundred grams

670
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: of twenty two carried gold? Why the front buttons are

671
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: made out of diamond? Oh okay, Oh that's different. That's crazy.

672
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: It works, right, work, It does work. There are only

673
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 1: three of them in existence, and it costs two pounds sterling,

674
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: which if you if you were to convert to the

675
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: U S dollars, about four hundred sixty five thousand dollars

676
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: for an into NOI also done by Stuart Hughes, the

677
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: same company that did the Ridiculous Tea. So they switched

678
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: the alligator skins just for TVs. You know, there's no

679
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: alligator skin, which is weird because you know you could

680
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: have done like Yoshi's Revenge or something and packaged it

681
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:07,399
Speaker 1: an alligator. Yeah, you should be. I'm just seeing them now,

682
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: going this, we need something else? Can we kill an alligator?

683
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: You know, we meltdown some more gold. Someone go to

684
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 1: the alps. Yeah, they're they're actually um there. They've also

685
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: done the same sort of thing with other consoles, but apparently,

686
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: according to their website, this is the most expensive video

687
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: game console in the world, the Nintendo we Subreme. You

688
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: know what this this might date you and I, but

689
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: do you remember um, the Neo Geo, Yes, where the

690
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: actual game cartridges were like several hundred dollars. Yeah, I

691
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: was so. I was so envious that, and my parents

692
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: let me try to pitch them on getting one, and

693
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: I tried my best to justify how this would be

694
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: an investment for our family. If you don't know, the

695
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: Neo g O console so like the original consoles cost

696
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: you know, a hundred bucks or more depending on what

697
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: you were looking at. But Neo Geo was way more

698
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: expensive and the the individual games were way more expensively.

699
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: The individual games cost more than other video game consoles. Dad, Yeah, no, kidden,

700
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: and they had. But it was that it was almost

701
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: the same thing we're seeing now in microcosm, because it

702
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: was the exclusivity of it over the actual the actual merit.

703
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 1: Which makes me want to ask, is that with the

704
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: with the WE, it's just the we, right, There's no

705
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: nothing in the specs that's different. It can't. It doesn't

706
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: like upscale it to HD. It's regular. I wonder it

707
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:44,879
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be possible in this age, but what if

708
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: there was some exclusive video game content that only came

709
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: like the most the most rarefied elite DLC. This, this

710
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: actually makes me think I almost included it for this

711
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: um this podcast, but I for god actually, But when

712
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: the iPhone first came out, in the app store first

713
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: opened up, do you remember that there was an app

714
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,959
Speaker 1: where you could buy a jewel for like or something like. Yeah,

715
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: it didn't do anything, it was just to show that

716
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: you could blow a thousand bucks on on an app.

717
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: Oh man, I was you know, I was wondering if

718
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: that was going to come up in this podcast. I

719
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: really I thought about doing it. I just forgot to

720
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: add it to the list. Most these are the things

721
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: I looked at, were really consumer electronics as opposed to

722
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 1: an app that gets added onto an existing product. Yeah,

723
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: I see, Well, well this is okay, so far, so far?

724
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: Right now, um, right now, I'm torn. I'm trying to

725
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: think of what which of these things I would pick

726
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: if I could only pick one? You have, And I'd

727
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: love to hear what you think about it too at

728
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: the end. Okay, yeah, it sounds great. Yeah, at the end,

729
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: we'll we'll discuss which of these ridiculous or extravagant or

730
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: luxurious items we would want for our selves. That sounds good,

731
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: all right. So the next one, this one you mentioned laptop,

732
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: you guess laptop on the last one, this one is

733
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: a PC, but a desktop PC, the Zeus Jupiter. It's

734
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 1: a PC that costs It's a PC. Yeah, it's not

735
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: even It's not even a really strong one, especially compared

736
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: to today's standard. I suppose it's handmade. Uh close. It's

737
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: plated with platinum, but it's a pctum and studded with

738
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: diamonds and and and light can come through, and the

739
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: studded diamonds make make constellations on the case, so when

740
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: you turn the computer on and the light comes through,

741
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: it looks like there's like a Ryan there, that kind

742
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: of thing. That's yeah, So it's has an until three

743
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: giga hurts E six eighty uh fifty core two duo CPU,

744
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: only two gigabytes of d d R two memory, a

745
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,720
Speaker 1: terabyte hard drive. So obviously if you or to compare

746
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: this to like a A A even a lower upper

747
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: tier gaming rig, it that would blow this thing out

748
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 1: the water. Yeah, this was originally announced prior around two

749
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: thousand like that, but as far as I can tell,

750
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 1: there has not been another computer announced personal computer mind

751
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: you announced that is more expensive. Now, That's why I

752
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: wanted to say, like, these are expensive toys, they may

753
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: not be the most expensive, because honestly, trying to track

754
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: that down and verify it is really tricky. I for

755
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: all of these, I wanted to go to multiple sources

756
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 1: to make sure, preferably going to the the primary source,

757
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,479
Speaker 1: which is where I found out about the fair two phone,

758
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: because the original one I had on that list was

759
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: only ten thousand two hundred dollars, and then I found

760
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: there was a model that was more expensive than that.

761
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: Here's one that, uh that I actually knew about before

762
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: I did this list, and it's not it's nowhere near

763
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: it's not in the same ballpark as the other stuff

764
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: we've talked about. Okay, so not thousands of dollars. But

765
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: did you hear about the game Steel Battalion? Yes, for

766
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: the Xbox. I may be thinking of a battle me. Yes,

767
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: that's it. It was. It was a Mex simulator. You

768
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: had a and the reason why it was expensive, by

769
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: the way, it was it was two hundred dollars, which

770
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: actually today you look at video games like say Rock Band,

771
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: not that expensive. But if you were to look at

772
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: Steal Battalion, it was a two game for the Xbox.

773
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: It was the most expensive game for the Xbox. And

774
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: the reason was it came with this controller that had

775
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: forty buttons, so it was like it was like a

776
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: panel that had two joysticks on it, plus a whole

777
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: bunch of buttons and switches and three pedals that you

778
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: would control with your feet. And it was a mech

779
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: simulation game where you were simulating being the pilot of

780
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: a mech and Uh. I never got to play it.

781
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: I never saw I don't know anyone who had it.

782
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: I'm so jealous envious the people who have that. Though.

783
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to play that so bad. When I heard

784
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: about it, I thought, well, that sounds really cool, and

785
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: it also reminded me of h I think there was

786
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: like a virtual reality um video game arcade type experience

787
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: where you could go and and do MEC battles like

788
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 1: it was like it was like six on six type

789
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: Mac battles or whatever, but it was a custom made

790
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: experience where you went into the you know, you had

791
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: to actually go to a place and play it. It

792
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: wasn't like a home game thing, but this was something

793
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: that made me think, this is about as close to

794
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: that experiences you could have in your own home. UH.

795
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: For comparison, though, the rock Band three complete set, if

796
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: you wanted to have everything from rock Band three was

797
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: three hundred sixty dollars, and that's because you had the game,

798
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: the drums, two guitars, a microphone, plus the keyboard controller. UH.

799
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: The current version of rock Band rock Band four that

800
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: just came out, is less than that. They don't have

801
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: the keyboard controller anymore. It's still more than two hundred dollars,

802
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: but it's not three hundred sixty and still the time

803
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: when it came it was the It's set the precedent

804
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: for stuff like that. Uh, I'm gonna stick with video games.

805
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: Talk about we're gonna go up another notch to a

806
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: very expensive game. Alright, Resident Evil six Platinum Edition. This

807
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: was only available in Japan. Okay, okay, it's more than

808
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: three d sixty dollars. That's dollars for a game. Does

809
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: it please tell me the box is not made of platinum. No,

810
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: but it comes with a leather jacket replica of the

811
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: character Leon Kennedy's jacket in the game. Really. Yeah, so

812
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: it came with a leather jacket, but I won't I

813
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: won't spend thirte on a leather jacket either, unless the

814
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: leather jacket is actually made out of gold. Yeah. I mean,

815
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: I am overjoyed after all we've been through together that

816
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: there is not coded in precious gems or medals. Man,

817
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 1: you're gonna hate the next one. Well. Well, one other

818
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: thing I have to mention about the Platinum Edition is

819
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 1: that it also came with four phone cases modeled after

820
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: Resident Evil characters. So I mean there's where you make

821
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 1: up the value. All right. So we're getting to the

822
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: most expensive video game of all time, although it's only

823
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: because of the packaging. I don't know. This the grid

824
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: to Mono Edition. It's a racing game for the PlayStation three.

825
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:29,839
Speaker 1: It cost one thousand pounds sterling, which is just under

826
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars because it came with a supercar.

827
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: The supercar was a custom made B a C Mono

828
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 1: back Mono and had a max speed of a hundred

829
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: seventy miles per hour and it wins zero to sixty

830
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: and two point eight seconds. Okay, that I feel like

831
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: it's worth it. Yeah, if you're gonna if you're gonna

832
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: drop a hundred thousand bucks on a video game, at

833
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: least it came with a supercar. It also included a

834
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: PS three just in case you didn't have one, so

835
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: that was also added, and you got you got custom

836
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: made racing gear that you could work. Yeah, this is

837
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorites so far. Okay, good. Yeah,

838
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: that's because it's not just the game, No, it's it's

839
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: it's a great deal. It's a package deal. Now, now

840
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: I'm going to kind of move on into because you know,

841
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about consumer tech with like entertainment

842
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: and stuff. I wanted to finish out with something a

843
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: little more down to earth. I thought we'd talked about

844
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: something like kitchen gadgets, kitchen kitchen stuff, kitchen consumer tech.

845
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: Now we know that appliances and major kitchen purchases can

846
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: be pretty expensive. For example, the lack Corn New Grand

847
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: Palais stove range costs a starting price for one is

848
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: forty seven thousand, three hundred dollars for the cooking range

849
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: for just nge for the It includes both a gas

850
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: oven and an electric oven. Uh so this is why

851
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: it's like two of these. It's like two regular range

852
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: stoves like next to each other. It has a lava

853
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: rock grill, electric plate stovetop, and it's made by hand

854
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: from cast iron, steel and brass with porcelain enamel. Damn,

855
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: it looks it looks very uh, it looks very fancy.

856
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want it doesn't appeal to me. It's not

857
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: my my style. But the one that that that was

858
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: in the picture was like this, this beautiful color of

859
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: red with gold embellishment, and like the like the handles

860
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: for the range top or a gold and that kind

861
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 1: of thing. And I thought it was pretty, but actually

862
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: I guess it was technically brass not gold. But I

863
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty, but I I it wasn't the

864
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: kind of style that appeals to me. Is it a

865
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: French company? Yes? Is it? You know? Okay, this is

866
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,919
Speaker 1: just a very very brief thing. But a side note.

867
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: One of my friends when she was living in New

868
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: York I she was doing well, and you know, it's

869
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: not that easy when you move into New York as

870
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: a young person to make enough money to live there.

871
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: So she tried a couple of different jobs and the

872
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: jobs she ended up working at for a very long

873
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: time was a place that only sold bespoke door knobs.

874
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: That was their entire business. That's that blows my mind.

875
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: And then there could be an entire business around that. Yep,

876
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: ye talk about cottage industry. I mean apparently it worked well.

877
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: So she would just ride the trade in the Manhattan

878
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: every day. It's sell these door or project manage whatever.

879
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 1: So it's just strange because this this company, it sounds

880
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:49,439
Speaker 1: like they might just be artists. And yeah, they they

881
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: focus on making these sort of luxury high end kitchen

882
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: appliance and specifically ranges dollars, though you could do so

883
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: much other stuff. Well, how about a refrigerator. I'm I'm okay.

884
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: There's a different company though, is the Menonghini at Adamanti refrigerator? Actually,

885
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: I guess it's at a deminty. At a deminty. It

886
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: keeps food cold. It's a refrigerator. It actually looks like

887
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: an armoire. It doesn't look like a refrigerator. It looks

888
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: like a big piece of furniture. Uh. And it has

889
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: three three um doors and a couple of porthole cabinet

890
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: type things. So there's actually a pantry, a refrigerator, and

891
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: icebox all incorporated in this thing. So when you look

892
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: at it looks like, you know, you know, like cabinets

893
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: that have the kind of slatted doors. Okay, it looks

894
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: like one of those, except when you open it, it's

895
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: a refrigerator insight, as opposed to a closet or wardrobe

896
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: or something. Um. But it definitely looks more like a

897
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: piece of furniture than your typical refrigerator does. And obviously

898
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: this was more about creating a sense of style for

899
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: someone's luxury home. Sure, for someone who doesn't who wants

900
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: to look as though they are above the common. For

901
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: someone who I think I can almost certainly guarantee you

902
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: has never cooked a darn thing in their lives. They

903
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: have people to do that for them. Or how about

904
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: the Hammocker double espresso machine that's only eight thousand dollars

905
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: eight dollars Okay, So why this is the thing that

906
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: I've noticed there? And this goes back It's strange that

907
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: there's a common theme here about comparative happiness or perception,

908
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: because I didn't know that there's this niche of incredibly

909
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: expensive espresso machine. Yeah, I um, it's funny, well, just

910
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: incredibly expensive anything, right, Like you'll find versions of stuff

911
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: that the price is ten times or more what you

912
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 1: would find in the general consumer verse and of that thing.

913
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: And often like you start looking at and you think,

914
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: what sort of stuff sets this apart from the consumer version,

915
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: like the regular consumer version where you would go to

916
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: like a best Buy to go and purchase this, or

917
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: you buy it off online, off Amazon or something. Often

918
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: it's the handmade part that tends to be one thing

919
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: that because it becomes this thing that's made by artists

920
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: as opposed to made by a machine, and there's there's

921
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: a definitely definite perceived value in that someone someone dedicated

922
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: their time and skill into creating this thing. UM. Whether

923
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: or not that makes it valuable to you is another question.

924
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: But it shows that there was care given to the

925
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: creation of whatever it was. UM And I think, I

926
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: think again, status is a big deal. I don't think

927
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: that most of the things we're talking about here are

928
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: working at a level, uh, noticeably higher than what you

929
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: would get the normal consumer market. Like, their objective performance

930
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: is not superior exactly. I would say some of them.

931
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: Maybe you know some of them. You're talking about stuff

932
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 1: where it's on the cutting edge of technology, sure, right,

933
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: like the supercar gonna go faster than your general car does.

934
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: Though you can buy one of those separately without the

935
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: game for significantly less. Well yeah, I mean like twenty

936
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: dollars less. That's significant. That's a Vertu phone right there.

937
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: Uh So this espresso machine in particular is topped with

938
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: a copper dome on top of which purchase a brass eagle.

939
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: Uh and it includes that this one. Okay, I I

940
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: love coffee, alright, I'm not an espresso snob. I don't

941
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: like I'm not a big espresso fan, but I do

942
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: like coffee. But there's certain things in this that really

943
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: appealed to me as a tech nerd and as someone

944
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: who likes coffee. It has a microprocessor and it that

945
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: controls exactly how much water is allowed to flow through

946
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: the grind, so you can you can tailor make the

947
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: str length of your espresso through a touch pad two

948
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: exactly what you want, and it controls it to the drop.

949
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:11,399
Speaker 1: So that sort of precision. Now, you can argue that

950
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 1: making coffee is not like precise chemistry, right, It's not

951
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 1: because the quality of the bean is going to change

952
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 1: over on and how old the bean is that's going

953
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: to affect it as well. So it's not like chemistry

954
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: experiment where you're going to get the exact same result

955
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: every time, assuming that you follow the right protocols. But

956
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: I like the idea that you can at least have

957
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: the illusion of control in your life. I need that,

958
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: then I need the illusion of control. I hope, I

959
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: hope that's their mottosi. Also, it's it's a little hefty.

960
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: It weighs three pounds, so then wonder so this is

961
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: really for I guess these people will be prosumers at

962
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: this point. Yeah, it actually said, well, it's funny because

963
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,240
Speaker 1: it's it's really designed to make like high volume amount

964
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: of espresso. So you would imagine that you would see

965
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: this more in like a I end coffee shop, like

966
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: a boutique coffee shop type place. But as I was

967
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: looking at it, because I was talking about I could make,

968
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:10,319
Speaker 1: you know, I forget how many cups of espresso within

969
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes it was. It was crazy. It

970
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: was a lot more than any human would need to drink.

971
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: But it said it also could do uh one cup

972
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: serving deals like the little um podspresso pod. So with scales. Yeah,

973
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: with that, you'd say, well, I guess if you if

974
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: you really wanted this, you could get it. But I

975
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: almost didn't include it because I thought it was a

976
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: little closer to prosumer than consumer. But uh but you know,

977
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: as a coffee lever, I had to add something. And

978
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: you know, I remember somebody talking about this, this art

979
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: of coffee tasting just a stranger. When I was out

980
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: on on Thursdays. I go to the bar across the

981
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: street from here and do the cross word because I'm

982
00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: living on the edge, and there was some guy who

983
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: was an expert in coffee, and he was telling me

984
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: about how how difficult it is to control those variables,

985
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 1: and really, I think there's a market. We had we

986
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: we hear it how stuff works. That one time had

987
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: a guy from bat Doorphin Bronson, came in and did

988
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: a whole thing on coffee tasting as well. That's a

989
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 1: local roaster here in Atlanta that makes crazy good coffee.

990
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: Um final item on the list not not huge. I

991
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't want to do like the build up

992
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: to the biggest, biggest, biggest. This is actually comparative, comparatively

993
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: speaking to most of the things modestly expensive. The Blend

994
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: Tech Stealth blender. This is one of the latest blenders

995
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: on the market. Okay, it does not have any like

996
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: platinum case or diamonds, none of that, none of that stuff.

997
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: So it based upon its design and performance alone. It

998
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: is used at two thousand, three thirty dollars for a blender.

999
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: Does the sound of a blender bother someone that much?

1000
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: It in fact does have the sound control enclosure so

1001
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: that you don't hear the blender sound. Yeah, yeah, it's

1002
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: actually called a sound enclosure. That's what they call the

1003
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: sound enclosure has a fifteen amp motor, touchpad controls, and

1004
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: as a USB port, so you can upload or download

1005
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: up to thirty six custom blend cycles. So if you

1006
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: want to make something by first like going super fast

1007
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: and then slowing down or whatever you can, you can

1008
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: you can tinker to your heart's content. That just seems

1009
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: so unnecessary. It seems like it would take more time

1010
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: to do that than to just hit a button for

1011
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: a second then hit a different button. You wouldn't really

1012
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: see any results from that for the first five years.

1013
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: Then if if you, if you make enough money where

1014
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: a two thousand, three thirty dollar blender seems like a

1015
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 1: prudent expense, you don't have time to push buttons. You

1016
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: know what, This should be my opening to ask for

1017
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: a raise. Guys, we spend a lot of time pushing buttons. Yeah,

1018
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: or you or you go and say, listen, I can't

1019
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: even afford to buy a blender, don't you just you

1020
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: don't say which blender? All I want is a watch, exactly.

1021
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: I have my eye on this one watch. And it's

1022
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: not even that that it's not even that modern, like

1023
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's uh yeah. In fact, what's funny is

1024
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: when I started looking at this, I also looked at

1025
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: things like the most expensive smart watch on there, which

1026
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: is nothing. It's like six hundred bucks, seven hundred bucks

1027
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: something like that. When when after you've been looking at

1028
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: that antique watches or luxury watches that have super rare

1029
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: materials worked into them, a lot of the electronics just

1030
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: doesn't even come close to the same expense because you well,

1031
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean you think figure it, You're like, well, the

1032
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: unless you've got something crazy going on inside, those electronics

1033
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 1: are going to be very much the same from device

1034
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: to device. So that's not going to dictate how expensive

1035
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 1: your your gadget can be. You have to look at

1036
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 1: other things, like the actual material it's made from, right. Yeah.

1037
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: And it's an interesting thing too because although clearly I'm

1038
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: not on board with this put gold on everything movement,

1039
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: I understand that in some parts of the world that's

1040
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: very very popular just because of the intrinsic value of

1041
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: the material. Yeah. Well, we've covered everything that was on

1042
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: my list. Obviously there's tons more we could talk about.

1043
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm having trouble picking one. Yeah, you gotta pick one

1044
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: that was your idea, I know, man, I'm cursing past

1045
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: it also doesn't help but you as much because you

1046
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: haven't seen pictures of these things, maybe one or two

1047
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: you might say pictures. Um, is the element ugly? That's

1048
01:01:55,280 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 1: my first question on the outside the element Palazzo. Um,

1049
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about it, but you guys, I'm watching

1050
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: John Did across the table trying to be fair. Well,

1051
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to pull up an image

1052
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 1: of it. One thing is that whenever I see images

1053
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: of this thing, they all look like artists renderings. I

1054
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen an actual picture of the

1055
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: thing itself. Um. But here, I'll turn this around. It

1056
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: looks kind of what a little weird and futuristic, right yeah?

1057
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: Um yeah? I Uh, Like I said, I've only seen

1058
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: artists renderings or like, uh like these little c g

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01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: I computer graphics style things. Wow. That's um. If you

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01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: want to look this up, by the way, folks, in

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01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: order to do it, you need to know how it's spelled,

1062
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 1: because it's it's spelled in a jerk way. Element is

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01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: spelled with two m's. It's E L E M M

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

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01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 1: Z Z. Oh. Um. Yeah, I I don't find the

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01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: design to be that appealing. But if if that's if

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01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: it meets your desire for the r V of your dreams,

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01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: that's fine. I just I need to I need to

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01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: have Basically, I want the idea of the house without

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01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 1: the commitment from the house. Right. Also, if you know,

1071
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: if the po po are interested in you, you can

1072
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: pick up and move to a different jurisdiction. That's true,

1073
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: and and blend in seamlessly. Okay, um yeah, I'm gonna

1074
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna know, damn it, I'm torn, you know what,

1075
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: I know what I'm leaning toward. But go ahead, I'm

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01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: gonna I'm I'm gonna double down. I will take the element. Okay, alright,

1077
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: so three point one million dollars we will charge you

1078
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 1: on your way out. Um I you know, I've reached

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01:03:58,320 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: the point in my life where I don't really want

1080
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: to quire more things necessarily, Like the idea of buying

1081
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: more stuff doesn't have a lot of appeal to me.

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01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: In fact, my wife and I we tend to save

1083
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 1: our money for experiences like a trip to someplace or well,

1084
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: we did something that was fantastic. We rented a a

1085
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: small cabin, modest cabin not super expensive, that was multiple

1086
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: bedrooms and invited some of our friends to just hang

1087
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: out for a weekend in the Georgia Woods. It was great,

1088
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: Like I was like, this is what I want to

1089
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 1: spend my money on our these kind of experiences because

1090
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't really bring me joy anymore. I reached I

1091
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: just reached the point where I'm like, well, where am

1092
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: I gonna put it? But if I had a house

1093
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 1: that could accommodate it, I have to admit that the

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01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: the refrigerator I mentioned is pretty nifty. Like I I

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01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: like that. The design actually did appeal to me, so, um,

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01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 1: that one would be the one that I would probably

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01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: go with. It's not like it's um, it's not like

1098
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: it's it's uh super like jaw dropping lee fancy, but um,

1099
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: I like it. So I'm gonna show you a picture here,

1100
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: and that part of it too is Yeah, that's what

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01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: the outside looks like. Sonya right, So that's the outside.

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01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 1: Let me show you what looks like when it's all

1103
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: open up. You're excited about this because I think it's

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01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: pretty Oh whoa, yeah that's pretty right. Just got a

1105
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: sense of scale there too, Yeah, it's huge. That's fantastic.

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01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's it's it's like, folks. Since you can't

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01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 1: see for this one, if you want to look it up,

1108
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: let me spell it out for you. The Mennghini is

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01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: m E n E g h I n I and

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01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 1: the era Demente is a r R E d A

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01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: M E n T. I look that up. It's about

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01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: the width of like three regular refrigerators next to each other. Um,

1113
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: and the doors open outward. Uh, and you've got you know,

1114
01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: it's just it's gorgeous. It looks very nice. And that's

1115
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: something that appeals to me on a level where I'd say,

1116
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: all right, I could go in for that if I

1117
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: had crazy amounts of money and a house that could

1118
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:09,439
Speaker 1: hold it. My house is not of a size where

1119
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: that that would not fit anywhere in my house. So

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01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, I don't know, when we go

1121
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: on a road trip, I'm not sure if it will

1122
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 1: fit in the element. Yeah, we might just have to

1123
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: strap it to the rooftop deck, all class. That's what

1124
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: our vanity license plate will say. Yeah, so this is

1125
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I mean, it was one of

1126
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 1: those things where I just thought, let's do something kind

1127
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: of silly. For the upcoming holiday season, and and look

1128
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: at some of the some of the excess that you

1129
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:38,919
Speaker 1: can find in consumer electronics. I wish that people more

1130
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 1: people could go to c E s to see the

1131
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: ridiculous stuff. You see a lot of. Yeah, and that's

1132
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: the stuff that's fun to either make fun of or

1133
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: to just you know, kind of gawk at or whatever.

1134
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: But it's it's one of those deals where you're gonna

1135
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 1: see a lot of stuff that's all going to kind

1136
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: of blend together, right, like lots of lots of legitimately

1137
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 1: gorgeous electronics. But they there's tons of them, like tons

1138
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: of TVs, tons of stereo systems, that kind of stuff.

1139
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:11,919
Speaker 1: It's when you come across something really unusual that you realize, well,

1140
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 1: this is special. It may not be something that appeals

1141
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: to me directly, but it's different enough. And maybe it's

1142
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: crazy expensive, which is always fun. So uh wait wait wait, wait, yeah,

1143
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: when are you getting the fridge? Well when when you

1144
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: and I are on that Forbes list of highest paid YouTubers,

1145
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 1: then maybe at that point I'll start looking around. Oh,

1146
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 1: in the meantime, can I just want to make a

1147
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: suggestion you want to talk over with you but uh

1148
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 1: listeners as always, thanks thanks for having me over as well.

1149
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: I just want you guys to know no pressure. I

1150
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: think I can speak for uh for both of us here,

1151
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 1: Jonathan Um. If you have a used copy of Steel Battalion, Yeah,

1152
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: and you would like our may address, we will give

1153
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:03,959
Speaker 1: it to you. I mean cool. We'd have to track

1154
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: down an Xbox, but apart from that, I'd be totally

1155
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: down with it. Like I don't have my Xbox anymore.

1156
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:10,680
Speaker 1: I got rid of that. I've got the three sixty

1157
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 1: and I've got the Xbox one, but I don't have

1158
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: the original one held onto those. Yeah, but we we

1159
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: had one for the office. I have no idea where

1160
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: that one went. I think someone took it probably. Yeah.

1161
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: We our office before we moved to where we are now.

1162
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:27,799
Speaker 1: We had an area called Area fifty one in the office,

1163
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: and that's where all of our games and goodies and

1164
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 1: toys and stuff were. Here's the thing, folks peak, behind

1165
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: the curtain it was there was like a ninety nine

1166
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: nine chance that you would not see anyone from the

1167
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: editorial side of the business in that room unless there

1168
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: was a meeting. The sales and marketing people, however, broke

1169
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 1: that foosball table at least twice. I always felt like

1170
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 1: that kind of thing was a trap. Yeah, exactly, like

1171
01:08:56,720 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 1: this is here for you. And then if you actually

1172
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 1: went into all right, let's just uh did not meet

1173
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 1: expectations on the employee with you oh man that that

1174
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: was cool to it. But yes, seriously, if you're not

1175
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: using Still Battalion, it's been one of I'm so glad

1176
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: you said when one of my childhood dreams to play

1177
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:13,759
Speaker 1: that game. I would love to hear from our listeners

1178
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: if if any of you have played that game, if

1179
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 1: you owned it, what your what your perspective was on it.

1180
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:20,639
Speaker 1: Was it a good game? Was it? Was it worth

1181
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: the two dollars? I would argue that if you have

1182
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 1: really fun groups of friends, that's something like rock band

1183
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: is certainly worth the money because of the experience you have,

1184
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: the shared experience you have with your friends playing together,

1185
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:37,760
Speaker 1: like there's there's something really compelling about that. And I

1186
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 1: don't have people over at my house, so I have

1187
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: never I've gone to other places where they've had it,

1188
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 1: and I've had fun playing rock band, but since I

1189
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 1: never have anyone over at my house, I've never bought it.

1190
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 1: I just love how you made your house sound like

1191
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 1: the Forbidden City or something. Don't come to my house.

1192
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 1: I've got I've got a story. I'll tell you when

1193
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 1: we're off the air. Alright, So thank you Ben for

1194
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 1: coming onto the show. I appreciate you being the guinea

1195
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 1: pig and suffering through this listeners. If there's any particular

1196
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 1: extravagant tech that you ever saw that you think is

1197
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 1: interesting in merits mentioning on a list like this, right

1198
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 1: in and tell me, because I'll do a follow up

1199
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: and now I'll talk about some of the other things

1200
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: that you guys are aware of that I did not cover,

1201
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: or if there's anything specific you would like me to

1202
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:23,400
Speaker 1: cover in future episodes of tech Stuff or guests or interviews,

1203
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: anything like that, let me know. Send me an email.

1204
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: This is the email address. You can send it to

1205
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:33,639
Speaker 1: tex Stuff at how stuff works dot com, or drop

1206
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: me a line on Facebook or Twitter or Tumbler. I

1207
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: use text stuff H s W at all three and

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01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:47,680
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you again really soon for more on

1209
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: this and papens another topic because it has to works

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Speaker 1: dot Com