Speaker 1: Do you remember the Microsoft Zoom If you don't remember,
Speaker 1: it was Microsoft's answer to the Apple iPod, and it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the next biggest thing. It was
Speaker 1: supposed to crush the iPod and be the biggest listening device.
Speaker 2: Every wrong. They were very wrong.
Speaker 1: Too. Yeah, yeah, kind of it was a little more boxy, right,
Speaker 1: it was just the nerdier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they tried, though, they did try.
Speaker 1: And I asked the question because there's a thread going
Speaker 1: viral of people listing the things that were once hyped
Speaker 1: up to be the next biggest thing but then flopped
Speaker 1: right on their faces.
Speaker 3: You're so right, this is inspirational. Actually what Yeah, because
Speaker 3: if your thing is a flop, just keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay, you have to fail in order to succeed. Yes,
Speaker 1: and there's some companies that have failed big time, Yes,
Speaker 1: even when they were already successful, like Microsoft are trying
Speaker 1: to create the Zoom. So let's go over some of
Speaker 1: the high lights from people sharing the things that were
Speaker 1: hyped up so much to be the next biggest thing
Speaker 1: in the world and then flopped on their faces.
Speaker 3: The seg oh didn't they ban that because people were
Speaker 3: like taking them right off the cliffs.
Speaker 1: What I think people were like accidentally going off of
Speaker 1: cliffs and things.
Speaker 2: I think they were. Are those like the hoverboards.
Speaker 3: They're the ones that you would stand up on and
Speaker 3: it was like one wheel and it would just go.
Speaker 1: The only way to see them now is on mall cops,
Speaker 1: right and some parking attendance right segues to see them
Speaker 1: in the movies. Yes, I wanted a segue, though I
Speaker 1: still want to segue.
Speaker 4: Who didn't Why? I didn't know why that failed so hard?
Speaker 4: And I think it's just because.
Speaker 3: Say, I really think it was now that I'm remembering correctly,
Speaker 3: because they used to do segu tours, like in the city.
Speaker 5: You would see people just like nind Up rowing around on.
Speaker 3: This. Yeah, the city staff in Hawaii they did it too.
Speaker 3: They had a segue tour. But then they're going off clips.
Speaker 1: So yeah, going over a thread that is going viral
Speaker 1: of people sharing the most hyped up things ever that
Speaker 1: fell on their faces.
Speaker 2: VR.
Speaker 1: They kept trying to make it happen, but it's never
Speaker 1: gone mainstream.
Speaker 5: But isn't it done?
Speaker 2: Not really yea yet?
Speaker 3: At least are there those gaming places that they have
Speaker 3: the VR they do and those are fun.
Speaker 1: I've been to a couple of those are cool, but
Speaker 1: I still think it's really not mainstream.
Speaker 4: It's just so inaccessible. But then the people who do
Speaker 4: have it aren't really great ambassadors because you're I don't
Speaker 4: want to be anything like that person. So it's just like, again,
Speaker 4: I don't know why this word's my buzzword for today,
Speaker 4: but the nerds took it, and then everyone they want
Speaker 4: to do one is taking off those augmented reality right,
Speaker 4: which is where you can see the real world and
Speaker 4: this other world at the same time that's taking off.
Speaker 4: So it's like a half step between virtual reality and
Speaker 4: the real world.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't even know what the meataglasses. For example,
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 3: Remember when my friend got her V her VR goggles
Speaker 3: or whatever. Yeah, she would use him to work out
Speaker 3: because she's like, yeah, then I could like play games
Speaker 3: and I'd be working out of my living.
Speaker 5: Like she was in her room.
Speaker 1: Just speaking of meadowglasses. The metaverse. Everybody was talking about
Speaker 1: the metaverse. I was arning to think about it so long.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about that last weekend. I was like,
Speaker 2: where did it go? What is it doing? It's still there?
Speaker 2: There was a whole money what is it?
Speaker 3: Well, it's actually really kind of scary because I have
Speaker 3: a family member that bought a lot of property in
Speaker 3: the metaverse really like with real money, and nobody knows
Speaker 3: where that is now, like there's stuff going on with it.
Speaker 3: So I know for a while it was hyped to
Speaker 3: be the next thing to invest in, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people were saying by property in the metaverse, right,
Speaker 1: and so I still thought did too.
Speaker 2: He had a whole town in the metaphorse.
Speaker 3: For him, that's just like a game he paid for,
Speaker 3: but like for real people that were trying to invest
Speaker 3: in it at money.
Speaker 2: But isn't it like Minecraft, Like if it's a metaverse,
Speaker 2: I can just keep making more. I don't know how
Speaker 2: it works.
Speaker 5: I really don't either.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 5: Well they that, Bryan, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Threads, Yeah, Instagram, it was supposer place Twitter or x
Speaker 1: and now it's just a lot of engagement fishing.
Speaker 2: I guess nobody uses story.
Speaker 1: I know it popped up on my Instagram one time
Speaker 1: when it first started, and it was like you had
Speaker 1: to have it, so I was like okay, and then
Speaker 1: I went to it once and that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mine like automatically posts on to threads. But just
Speaker 3: when it started every He's like, quick, you got to
Speaker 3: get on threads.
Speaker 5: It's the next big thing. If you want to blow
Speaker 5: up and go viral, you've got to get on threads.
Speaker 2: I think that was bratt well.
Speaker 4: I don't think I ever said it was going to
Speaker 4: go viral. I don't believe in the concept of viral
Speaker 4: unless you're talking about the Jubile show, TikTok about joble
Speaker 4: Dot show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely gone viral.
Speaker 4: But Threads is a weird like I didn't have a
Speaker 4: picture to take, so so I'm going to describe what
Speaker 4: the picture I would have taken. It was from Instagram,
Speaker 4: Like there's like a weird and then there's also like
Speaker 4: sign up for my newsletter energy.
Speaker 2: The whole time, it is very much.
Speaker 4: The spammy weird I'm better than you, but not providing
Speaker 4: any more value than Twitter type.
Speaker 1: Yeahs, Like Twitter, people are sharing the things that were
Speaker 1: hyped up like crazy but then fell on their faces.
Speaker 2: The uh oh, Google glasses is on the list. I
Speaker 2: forgot those were a thing.
Speaker 1: Me too, and I wanted to get something really bad.
Speaker 1: I don't even know about them. I just was like,
Speaker 1: that sounds cool.
Speaker 3: I surprised you didn't that feels right up your allur
Speaker 3: I know they remind me of the Tony Stark glasses.
Speaker 2: They were expensive though, they were like three thousand dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're very expensive.
Speaker 3: Don't we know somebody that got them. Didn't Eric our
Speaker 3: agent get a pair.
Speaker 2: I believe he probably would.
Speaker 5: I feel like he was a meeting with us.
Speaker 1: Google glasses, Yeah, yes, he has something something a Google glass.
Speaker 2: There's another classy glasses Apple.
Speaker 4: Apple has one that's sort of like that, and then
Speaker 4: also the Meta glasses, which is the cheaper like you
Speaker 4: can get those like three hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I think those do pretty well. Yeah, they saw those
Speaker 2: at Best Buying stuff.
Speaker 5: Reasonable.
Speaker 1: The ray bands though, another thing that was super hyped
Speaker 1: up but fell on its face. Google Plus it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be the Facebook to killer. Remember that it
Speaker 1: was supposed to take down Facebook.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still remember the email.
Speaker 4: Ye hey listen, we're not going to do this anymore.
Speaker 2: Essentially, they were like, we're done with this.
Speaker 1: Google does that they come out with some things that
Speaker 1: can if you need proof that you have to fail
Speaker 1: in order to succeed Google, it's constantly failing.
Speaker 4: Thousands of projects they put out and then never.
Speaker 1: Make it like here's our new AI. All right, it
Speaker 1: is no longer available online. You can download the app.
Speaker 5: I guess it doesn't hurt them though. They're still Google.
Speaker 5: So really this is very inspiring.
Speaker 4: That whole thing called Google Reader, which you could put
Speaker 4: links to your favorite news websites and it would aggregate
Speaker 4: all of it and put it all in one thing.
Speaker 2: That one day they were just like, we're done with this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know everyone was mad.
Speaker 2: They're like, we don't like it.
Speaker 1: Well, really, the number one thing on the list that
Speaker 1: people are sharing of things that were over hyped but
Speaker 1: then fell on their faces.
Speaker 2: Crystal pepsi. That's a that was a clear pepsi that
Speaker 2: was a great mixer.