WEBVTT - Expensive Consumer Tech 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:12.639 Get in with technology with tech Stuff from Stuff Tool Taylor, Everyone, 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.000 and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Jonathan Strickland and I 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.040 have a special guest here today, special because it's always 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.720 special when he joins the show, Ben Bolan. Welcome it 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.360 back to Tech Stuff. Thanks, thanks so with for having 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.120 me on Drop And I have two things though. One 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.440 is is it still special even though I've been on 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.199 the show a couple of times now, It's always going 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.720 to be special? Okay, Well, I think that makes my 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:43.040 day man this week. Second thing, just full disclosure. This 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.320 is for the listeners. This is a little bit unusual. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.280 Uh for me definitely, and and maybe for you as well. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.120 But I think it's gonna be a fun ride. Yeah. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.600 And what he means by that is and I tweeted 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.200 about this before coming into the studio. This is an 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.400 episode in which I have specifically requested my co host 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:07.280 do absolutely no research on the topic whatsoever. I got 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.480 no idea what's going on. Yeah, you only know what 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:14.600 the topic is. That topic is expensive consumer technology. Because 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.839 you know, we're ramping up to the holiday season and 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.480 obviously you know you have to start looking at the 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.399 people in your life and what sort of gifts you 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.720 need to give them exactly. And I thought, well, what 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.480 if what if one you and I were making the 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.360 crazy kind of money that Beauty Pie is making on YouTube? 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.800 Because because as we record this, the day we record 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.440 this is also the day that Forbes released what the 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.920 top YouTube performers are earning or what they guess they 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.679 are earning. It's it made me question all of my 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.880 decisions in life up to this point. But we are 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.720 not making that money. But if we were making that money, 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.080 and if there were spectacularly awesome people in our lives, 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.760 maybe these are the sort of things we might look 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:05.960 at at in order to say you mean something to me, Mr, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:11.640 Mrs Miss whatever. So. But I didn't want Ben to 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.760 to know about any of these because I want to 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.120 get his actual reaction. Plus I'm gonna quiz him a 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.440 couple of times, not really quiz, I'm just gonna get 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.400 an idea, see if he can guess what some of 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.360 these things are based upon the names. Now, some of 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.840 them are evident by the name, so not all of 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.800 them will be a guesswork. But I may have you 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.839 guess occasionally what it might be, and then maybe I'll 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.440 even ask you ballpark figure how much you think it 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.280 might might be. Let's let's do it. I love it, uh, listeners, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.120 Just so you guys know, one of the reasons that 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.079 I'm the best slash worst sidekick for Jonathan in this 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.200 type of episode, it's because I am a notorious chief skate. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.840 I have personally offended car stuff. Listeners probably know this, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.720 but I am. I am personally offended if I think 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.800 something is too expensive. Now. Also, in the interest full disclosure, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.040 I was not aware of that when I asked Ben 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.000 to do this, but it does make me very happy 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.359 because it means that, even if everything else goes wrong, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.200 your reactions are going to save this episode. So I'm 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.000 already upset. Here we go here. I decided to go 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:19.400 with U with a real doozy first, and it's one 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.280 you may have actually talked about on a different show, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.840 so that gives you a hint already. Can you guess 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:34.000 what the element Palazzo Superior is element found so superior. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:41.160 I'm thinking it's a car very close it is an RV. Oh, well, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.720 come on, also know what it was? Just a guess 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.080 like one of those things like it might have been 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.440 something that you and Scott have covered for car stuff. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.800 I should ask Scott if he's heard of it when, 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.240 because I'm actually peek behind the curtain. After I do 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.400 this episode with you, I'm recording another episode after this. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.600 Scott's gonna be in my guest host. We're we're starting 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.320 this episode late because Scott I were in the studio earlier. Yeah, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.600 so it's just a it's just a Jonathan, Scott and 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:13.200 Ben like schmoorg is Borg and as as you're here, 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.720 So that would make I guess it's the million something 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.920 amigoes now right, So the element Palazzo Superior is an RV. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.159 It is known as the most luxurious mobile home in 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.440 the world. It is also sometimes referred to as a 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:30.039 mansion on wheels. Now, I'm not going to make you 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.520 guess how much this is because it would you would 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.880 just be unfair. This monstrosity. Well, let me let me 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.960 explain what what it is first before I give you 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.880 the what what the cost is? So the they the 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.840 driver's compartment, known as the cockpit actually referred to as 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.120 the cockpit, was inspired by the design of jets as 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:57.039 a panoramic windshield. It has an adjustable tent on that 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.760 win she'll t I N T like you can go 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.880 to two different stages of darkness on it with a 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.160 flip of a switch. The whole thing is made out 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.320 of carbon fiber, so that means it's incredibly strong and 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.839 incredibly light. And by incredibly light, I mean it's a 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.760 mere twenty eight tons. Uh. It has seven hundred thirty 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.080 two square feet of living space, which is sixty eight 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:25.400 square meters is it? Is it okay? Is it street legal? Yes? Also, 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.480 it's one of those things that it expands outward, so 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.880 like you know, when you stop wherever you're you're going 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.640 to stop, then you hit it in. So in fact, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.240 when you put into camper mode, it nearly doubles its width. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.000 The normal width is eight point four feet or two 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.120 point five five when you expand it it goes to 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.680 sixteen point four feet, so almost twice as much, and 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.599 that's five meters of width. As a rooftop deck. It 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.920 has radiant floor heating. It's got refrigerators, a wine cabinet, 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.200 a coffee machine, a sink, a freezer, an ice maker, stovetop, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:03.360 a master bedroom with sized bed, addressing, table, closets, and more. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.680 It has a sixteen square foot or one and a 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:11.760 half square meter rain shower with light therapy features built 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.920 into the shower stall light therapy, light therapy so you 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.320 can get that nice blue mist going. It has two 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.280 two inch televisions, It has onboard WiFi, satellite TV, a 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.080 custom audio system, ambient light control, and more. And you 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.520 Ben Bolan can be the proud owner of an Element 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:38.839 Palazzo Superior for the low low price of three point 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:45.080 one million dollars for an RV r V. Yes, okay, 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:51.000 so is the WiFi service including do you get an 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.239 i SP for the three point one million three point 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.680 one million? All right? Think about some of the homes 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.480 in Atlanta there and the the one to two million 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.240 dollars range. We're talking some pretty big houses along some 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:10.920 very uh choice real estate, like along constantly An Avenue, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.480 for example, or along you know, along the Chattahoochie. You're 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.040 gonna find some mansions there that are going to start 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.600 creeping in around this three point one million, maybe even 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.040 some that top out over three point one million. But 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.560 that's a full mansion, right, This is a seven two 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.480 square foot r V. I. You know, I gotta tell 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:36.880 you I I live in a pretty small place, so well, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.680 I also don't pay three million, four but it also 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.880 doesn't roll right, that's true. I mean with this you 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.680 could you your home could be wherever you park. No. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:53.280 It's interesting because I recently had a pretty frank discussion 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.760 with a car stuff listener when I was talking about how, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.440 as a kid, who was always my dream to have 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.360 an RV? Right, I thought I had this view that 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.280 I would just live in this thing, drive everywhere and 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.480 be cool. Yeah, and and food would magically appear in 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.200 the kind and the gas would never be empty. But 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.200 what I've learned from people who are in the RV 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.640 cultures is a lot more of just driving to a 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:21.520 destination and camping because people who like to drive don't 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.720 really like to drive RV. No, there are monstrosities on 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.480 the road. I imagine it has to be incredibly stressful 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.480 because I mean you have to I assume you have 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.800 to have a bus driver's license to even operate one. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.440 And then on top of that, you know, just just 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.440 think about what it's like navigating through traffic with a 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.600 regular sized vehicle. It's got to be a nightmare with 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.240 something that large. Three millions So, so, Jonathan, would you 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.120 ever if Okay, so let's say you're on tour Okay, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.079 all right, let's let's say that Let's say I am 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.400 somehow filthy rich would you be would you take one 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.760 of these behemoths as would you just go with a 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.200 charter bus. I'd go with the charter bus. Dude. First 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.199 of all, you know me. I'm not a driver at all, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.680 so so the idea that the appeal of this is 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.080 lost on me. Um. But I would prefer to travel 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.760 someplace and stay at a hotel than to go camp. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.840 I'm not a camper either. I don't have a driver. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:15.800 I would have a drive at this point, if you 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.880 can afford if I had reached that level of ridiculous, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.440 uh luxury, I would have a driver. Yeah, I would, 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.960 or or I would have a driverless car, one of 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.320 the two. It would be one of those things. And 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.000 I just I want to be completely honest with you. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.480 I appreciate it, but don't don't get me this. Okay, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.240 all right, I will market off the list. Uh well, here, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:38.760 how about how about I hit you with this one. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.720 Let see if you can guess what this is based 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.120 upon the name. Now, this is a little different from 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.439 some of the others. A lot of the other ones 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.800 I'm talking about are relatively new, but this is actually 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.280 an old thing that has been sold more than once, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.040 so that I'll give you a little hint. It's not 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.760 going to be like a computer or anything like that. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:03.080 The protech Philippe Henry Gray super complication. Ah. Yes, one 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:11.480 of the most legendary, legendarily sophisticated watches. Very good, Ben Bolan, Yes, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.880 as absolutely correct it was. It's a pocket watch and 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.880 it was designed by the Swiss company protect Filly in 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.439 nineteen thirty three four. Henry Graves Jr. Who was a 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.040 banker at the time and Henry Graves Junior, was in 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:31.720 a bit of a competition with another gentleman whom you've 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.000 also I'm sure talked about on car stuff, Uh, James 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.839 Ward Packard. Oh yeah, is it? Wait? Is it? This 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.600 is a competition to have the most complicated watch. Yes. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.800 They were constantly trying to one up one another with 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.000 their various luxury a coup trement, and watches were one 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.840 of the ways they were kind of showing off, and 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.760 so Henry Grays commissioned protect Filipe, the Swiss watchmaker company, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:03.439 to build the world most complicated watch at that time. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.320 It took three years to design and five years to 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.160 make it. Now, keep in mind this is before computer 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.720 assisted design. This is all human design, right. Yeah. It's 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.120 made of eighteen carrot gold, and it's considered to be 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.520 the most complex pocket watch that was made without computer 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:27.080 assistance ever. And it has twenty four different functions. Uh. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.600 And here are some of the functions that are included. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.040 It keeps time number one. Uh. It gives you the 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.760 time of sunset and sunrise each day. It's mechanical. This 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.840 is all mechanically. Yeah, this is pre digital nine. It 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.079 has a perpetual calendar on it, so it has the 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.360 mechanics in it to keep accurate what day it is. Uh. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.080 Has days of the month, days of the week. It 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.120 has a stars chart, it has phases of the moon 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.000 charted on it. It has a stop watch. It has 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.200 a thirty minute recorder meaning it go off after thirty minutes, 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.120 and a twelve hour recorder as well. It has chimes 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.240 and the original price tag when it was sold. Okay, 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.360 this is just the original price all right for Henry 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.880 Graves was fifteen thousand dollars. Now we have to adjust 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.240 that for inflation, so in today's might that be about 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:25.360 two hundred two thousand dollars that, my friend, would be 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.040 a bargain based upon what people have actually paid for 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:33.240 this thing since then in auctions. Yes, so Southby's got 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.880 it in auction and they sold it twice. In fact, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.000 the first time they sold it was in July when 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.160 Chic Saud being Mohammed being Ali al Tani of the 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:49.280 Qatari royal family purchased it for a cool eleven million dollars. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.760 First off, pronunciation, thank you. Secondly, I am profoundly offended. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:58.120 Well watch. He did have to return it because he 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.400 had he incurred so much that he was he was 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.719 forced to return it to Southby's. Yeah. So then Southby's 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.880 sold it again in two thousand and fourteen for twenty 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:16.240 four million dollars. Southbies, are they are they going to 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:21.600 work with us? It's like this yeah, yeah, so million. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.000 Now it is a one of a kind. It is 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:28.600 the world's most complicated watch, pocket watch that was made, 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.680 you know, by human alone. Um, so there are some 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.000 elements to it that you realize, all right, well this 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.400 is not just because you know, this isn't just a 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.560 brand or just one of many of this thing. This 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.120 is a one of a kind thing. But a lot 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.000 of people have said clearly, the value of this now 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.440 is in the perception of that thing, of the owning. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.640 This makes me special, makes me part of this story, 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.680 right that the fact that I have the money to 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.120 spend on something like this, it's like a status thing, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.480 certainly far beyond it's intrinsic value, which is hard to 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.280 first of all, whenever we talk about value it gets 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.960 all kind of wibbly wobbly anyway, right, because it's just 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.079 whatever we put in steak, like what we think of, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.240 like what would I be willing to pay for this thing? Um? 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.400 And then the more down that rabbit hole you get, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:24.040 the more you realize everything is a lie so quickly. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.960 So here's a here's another one. Let's see if you 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.920 can guess what this is. Because you've done really well. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.960 You you've got the super complication, which blew my mind 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.520 that you knew that. So how about the VER two 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:42.280 pure jet red gold pure jet red gold, now jet 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.080 red gold would tell you some of the features of 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.600 this thing. So what is it? Is it a mobile? Oh? 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.840 My gosh, Ben Bulling two or two? So far? Yes, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.240 the Ver two pure jet red Gold is a smartphone. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.840 Can you guess how? All? Right, it's nine the million 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.760 dollars range. I'm gonna suck that out. But can you 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.200 guess how much money this this phone? Michael? Now, this 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.640 is not a one of the kind phone either. This 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.600 is a phone that if you had the money, you 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.400 could buy it, and then if someone else had the money, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.560 they could buy it too. Well. I remember I remember 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.600 hearing about this one and again again Scouts owner. I 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.640 did not do any research. And to be fair, they 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.560 make a line of luxury phones, so you may have 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.440 heard about one of them. This was the most expensive 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.320 one I could find right now. Yeah, that's what I 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.160 was going to say, because all I all I know 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.720 is um that they look kind of ugly. Yeah, I'm 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.200 just I'm not gonna I want to be honest. I'm 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.640 with you on that one. But there I'm gonna. Oh, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.800 I'm so bad at this. You know, watching prices right 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.720 used to it's tough send me into anxiety attacks, it 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:53.560 is it? Two dollars nowhere near that crazy? All right, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:58.160 go down by, go down by an order of magnitude. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.120 So yeah, very us But still, you know, just for 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.800 a second, that's that psychology of comparative prices. Yeah, I 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.560 was like, oh, that's great. Let's steel. I'm let's order 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.480 room for the office. We should all have office very 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.400 two pure pure jet red gold phones. Okay. Yeah, Now 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:21.239 there have been obviously some ridiculous like one off electronics 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.280 devices where people have just like swarf ski crystals and 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.280 diamonds and stuff. But this is this is one where 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.120 you can actually like, this is a line of phones. Like, 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.680 if you wanted to go and get an iPhone, you 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.960 get an iPhone. If you want to drop nineteen thousand 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.320 dollars in a Verir two pure jet red gold, you could. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.280 So I know you're all crying out. What makes this 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.720 phone so special? Right? Okay, It's an Android phone, so 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.760 obviously it's already worth way more than an iPhone, although 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.040 it is running Lollipop and not Marshmallow at least right now. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.760 It is made of titanium, and it has red gold detailing. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.880 Is an actual red gold on it. The power button 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:03.640 is red gold, the volume controls are red gold. Yeah, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.080 like the buttons themselves are made of gold. Um. It 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.879 also has black ceramic as part one of the materials, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:15.600 and sapphire crystal screen and quilted jet calf leather on 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.080 the back and sides of the phone. So when you 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.680 say pure jet red gold, the red gold obviously for 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.280 the the accents, and then the jet being the calf leather. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.560 H That leather, by the way, is handcrafted and quote 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.720 sourced from the European Alps. End quote from the European Alps. Yeah, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.399 that's why it's so expensive. You gotta send people all 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.719 the way to the European Alps to get the LEATHERN Okay, wait, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.440 do you think that's worth it? Well, I mean, clearly, 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.680 the cows in the European Alps are living a much 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.919 better life than cows anywhere else, right, So if you're 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.960 gonna get leather, you definitely want to get them for 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.800 the You know, I don't think it's worth it. If 0:17:55.840 --> 0:18:00.200 you if I probably totally freak out and try and say, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.439 like everyone needs to get like every mattress that's in 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.840 a five mile at radius and place it around me 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.280 so that if I do drop this, it's not gonna 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.200 shatter and I'm not gonna be out twenty k uh. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.240 So here's some other stuff it includes. Each handset is 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.480 actually handmade. So while you could buy one and I 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:25.160 could buy one, assuming we came across dollars. Uh, they 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.040 might not be identical because they are handmade, and this 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:32.200 way it's very similar to luxury items like a Bentley, right. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.280 You know that's one of the attractions of these luxury 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.520 cars is that they're made by hand, so they're not 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:43.480 identical one to the next. Um. The ring tones, all right, 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.840 this is gonna make you roll your eyes. The ring 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:51.400 tones were composed and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.560 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but seriously, is the is the 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.080 lso that hard up? Yeah? I guess so. I mean, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.040 like between doing stuff for John Williams and Ringtones for 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.160 the R two peor Jet red Gold whatever thing. How 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.160 do you get how do you compose a ring tone? 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.680 How do you don't know? How long is it? So 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.800 many questions. It's probably just the same ring tones that 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.040 you hear on every other phone, just done by a 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.880 full orchestra. Wow, do do do Do Do Do Do Do? Do? 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.840 You've seen thirty Rock of course, right, Yes, it seems 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:28.200 like a Tracy Jordan's Yeah, I got the London Symphony 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.720 Orchestra to play my ringtone, Liz Lemon, that's real. Yeah. 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.040 So beyond that, it also comes with an eighteen month 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.320 subscription to a concierge service, which provides twenty four hour 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.720 assistance and gets you things like recommendations for things you 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.399 should do while you're in a city, as well as 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:51.200 priority booking for different events, including sporting events, concerts, shows. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.280 This I had heard about because apparently it's far beyond 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.920 what you would typically think of as your hotel concierge 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:04.000 or something, as in, they'll also get you into they'll 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.480 shut down some luxury sor oh yeah, yeah, no, yeah. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:15.160 You can get completely like personalized exclusivity two different events 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.879 as well. And also it puts you into a list 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:23.440 essentially of folks who get invited to exclusive events. So 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.359 you might end up, like if you're if you're the 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.760 kind of person who drops the sort of chatter on 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.959 a on a phone, you might end up finding yourself 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.640 on the invite list to some pretty fancy suares. So 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.560 then if you're networking, okay, here, I'm gonna I might 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.120 not do this for everyone. I probably won't. It's maybe 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.480 the only time to do this to justify the price 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:47.800 if you have a career that requires networking. Right with 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.560 the in the rarefied air of the upper spheres of 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:53.879 Let's say you want to you know, you want to 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:58.800 to charm some high level executives or producers of film 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.240 or television or along those lines. Shore. Yeah, then then 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.520 this would be a fairly reasonable investment if it gets 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.240 you in the room. Yeah, it's an ugly phone, but 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:12.040 it'll it'll get you. It'll get you with their um. Yeah. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.800 It's also it's also the text pecks of the phone 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:19.080 put it behind other more common smartphones on the market. Uh, 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.880 it's not. It's not like top of the line performance. 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.919 It's not. It's not. It's not flagging way behind, but 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.159 it's nowhere close to Like if you went out and 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.200 bought a brand new smartphone in the regular like four 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.320 d to six hundred dollar range, like a Samsung Galaxy six, Yeah, 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.000 something like that then, or the latest Nexus phone and 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.879 anything like that because we're talking Android, you know it, 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.480 that would actually outperform this phone. However, it doesn't come 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:49.720 with that concierge service. So um. And also you gotta 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.520 keep in mind that that phone is totes common, whereas 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:58.880 the fair two phone is a thing of luxury. So good, 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:00.960 so far, Let's try this one. Now, this one's got 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:03.000 a hint in the name. I love how your your 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:05.120 eyes go up every time we get to a new one. 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.400 Be like, it's like this is just gonna there's gonna 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:10.280 be a point where this show just makes a turn 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:14.320 for the worst. I'm getting turning back now. This was 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:17.720 pretty easy because just think of the first word, acapella 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:25.560 fair on Excalibur. Acapella yep, acapella s fair on Excalibur. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:30.159 What what kind of tech would that be? A microphone 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:34.240 speaking speaker. It's a speaker, actually, set of speakers. Uh, 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:38.680 they're made by hand. Okay. They are seven ft tall 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.760 and wait, one thousand, three hundred sixty four pounds apiece, 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:48.040 and they cost four hundred fifty five thousand dollars. He's 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:50.480 the ones that look like seashells if you were to 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.440 strip away the outsides. Yes really, yeah, okay, yeah, Why 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.560 did they cost so much Because they supposedly have such 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:00.679 amazing fidelity that it feels and this is from the 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:05.760 manufacturer as if you're being caressed by the sound or 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:08.000 that's what I thought, or if you turn it up 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.840 that it could knock you over with the intensity of 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:15.160 the sound. Um, yeah, here's the thing, here's the thing, 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:18.360 and and this goes way back in tech stuff lore. 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.480 Chris Pallette and I did an episode ages and ages 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:26.919 ago about the myths of audio fidelity, and largely we 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:32.920 were talking about cables in that sense us exactly, Yeah, 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:36.399 the do those high price cables? Are they actually worth it? 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:39.240 Do they have of greater performance? And the answer is 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:42.239 not really detectable by human ears. Like you might be 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:47.400 able to hook up some very supersensitive sensors and quantifiably 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:51.840 say yes, I'm getting better performance, but it's not perceptible. 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:54.359