The insane thinness of the iPhone 17 Air! (CultCast #696)

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heavens to Betsy And there's that picture
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of Tim Cook swimming in the
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air Looks like he's trying to dog paddle or
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something Yeah You know Yeah Looks like you
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haven't been very active on X this week
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Liking and
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lurking Really
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again Genius move
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I wonder if they can hear Louiswis and I or if it's nobody Oh okay Or else or
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else it just doesn't matter Lewis how's your day been fantastic Do
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you want to talk a little bit about the Apple Watch i do It's a 10th anniversary Apple Watch
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man It's a life-saving piece of hardware There we go Very exciting Can it save it
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seems like it according to Leander's story I mean it seems like I only read at least 937 instances of people's lives
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you know completely detailed Oh my god my eyes are completely glazed over now I wonder if it I'm a little surprised that
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the Apple Watch didn't go off uh during my reading of that
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post Light editing Oh did that fix it oh good
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Well not my YouTube stream but apparently y'all can hear me now Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah Just in time I want to hear nothing about it Louis Okay terrific Well let me know if the stream
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goes down cuz I can't see it God this is why you don't play with your settings mere minutes before going live I mean
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you know didn't you learn anything from the late great Leander Kaney yeah but I thought I was
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different RIP by the way I always think of him fondly whenever we bring him up
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All right I still I still get a paycheck from somebody I'm not gonna ask questions That's just AI presence The
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whole thing's run by AI now When was the last time you saw Lewis in person
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i mean never on three years ago Yeah Yeah That's about when he croked Uh oh he
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froze Somebody restart him There we go Okay Uh should we go ahead and just get
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this thing rolling i Let's Let's hope and pray nothing else is going to go live Oh only our dignity and our
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standing in society our jobs We lost that when we became podcasters in the first place Oh that is true All right
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let me go ahead and ceue up Mrs You know who We'll get this thing rolling Oh Mrs
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D D Oh I can show you my dear Eleny is alive and well He makes ferocious love
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to me every night Yeah I think it rhymes with the ferocious
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Uh I can't think of any rhymes that atrocious There you go Oh wow Was that
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what you were thinking of of course I can't believe it God some pottico today
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All right Mr D No one wants to hear anything about that In fact we're all sufficiently grossed out So if you don't mind we'll go ahead and get this thing
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rolling We got a lot of show to do Uh in three
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two Come on man Wrong
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button Here we go Hello and welcome to CC Best 30 plus
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Apple conversation You're going to hear all week long I'm your host Air Joey Today he eats other tech editors for
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We can't talk about it It's an active investigation He's the managing editor Cultus Wallace is here This is the first
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cannibal uh accusation I've faced I don't think that's true Also with us he
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currently holds the records for most low tech and most high-tech home in his rural Ohio community He's also writ
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Griffin Jones is here I I like to go to Vision Pro
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Macintosh Plus That's combination Have you figured out how to get your uh Apple
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Laser Writer 2 connected to your Vision Pro i wish I had a laser writer Instead what I have is a 30-year-old Panasonic
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dot matrix printer which is Oh man At least it's print like a a UPS shipping
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label with it and they'll accept it But um it's it's it's not a great experience Well it's talk about this Is this the
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one with the the little holes in the side of the paper yeah Yeah Perforated I keep Do they still make that or do you
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have like a 40-year-old uh you know cache of it in your basement i have a a
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thick bin full of multicolored perforated paper I'm running out of my beige dude They still they still use dot
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matrix printers He's short on beige
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They still make dot matrix printers for I think you know businesses and stuff So
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you can have like carbon copies and stuff in when you need something in triplicate
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Come on get with it Louis I just requested something in triplicate just the other day Well guess how you're I
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guess how they're going to do it for you Louis Well I haven't seen or or heard a dot
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matrix printer Well consider yourself lucky Sound was mesmerizing Oh it's one of the worst sounds in nature
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I love it All right look Uh let's see here We got
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all sorts of terrific news stories to talk about this week I should also mention just really quickly
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uh uh uh uh uh uh that we're going to be talking about the iPhone 17 air's shocking thinness We got some images to
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show you Um we also are going to be talking about let's see here iPad OS 19
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adding MacL like home screen features Uh we're going to talk about the Mario Kart
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World Well our feelings on Mario Kart World our Switch to pre-order
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experiences or at least mine Griffin's going to do a full review of the Sigma BF that like super futuristic camera
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that uh that he's been reviewing that kind of was making waves when it was
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first announced some time ago We're going to wrap up with more of your voicemail messages for better or
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for worse Some of them are interesting some of them are wildly inappropriate some of them downright st downright
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strange Louis there's one I just said "Nope not playing that one." Really went ahead and just deleted it Hey maybe you
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could drop that in the uh Slack for our internal You won't even want to listen to it It's just like heavy metal I'm
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possessed screaming Someone out there knows who I'm talking about It could
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have been calling us from the other side regretting his life choices Uh in any
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case um we got a pack show And uh before we move on I want to thank Insta 360 for
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supporting this episode They have a new Insta3 X5 360 camera This thing is an
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absolute powerhouse And um I don't have one but I do very much want one cuz it's
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just such a Swiss Army knife Um and it now does full 8K recording Completely
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bonkers We'll talk more about that later in the episode And we've got a special discount code if you want to buy one to
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uh to get you a a free accessory when you make your purchase All right let's just dive right in Let's talk
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about iPhone 17 Air Who is this right Louis is this you yes it is Let's do it
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Let's do it Lewis the people want to know We got a picture here And that that thinness is actually insane I'm looking
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at it right now Yeah You've probably seen these uh you know dummy units floating around pictures of them all
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over the place Uh but you know have you seen the videos because the videos that's what that's what makes it
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look really hammers home exactly how these things are Yeah Uh one uh this
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week from Lewis Hilson Tagger from Unbox Therapy Totally just goes by Lou but
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I've got that claimed Anyway uh he was blown away by the thinness He called it
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futuristic and joked that Apple might not sell any other models because customers will only want the super thin
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one I don't know about that Opening the package he'd received like little dummy units of all of these and he was
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literally like taking them out of the box like undoing the bubble wrap and like you can see the moment when he realizes he's holding the iPhone 17 air
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because he's like "Oh my god." Uh we'll come back to this one later And he like sets it aside His reaction to it is just
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magical to watch Uh let's see He said "It feels like
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half." Referring to its thickness as he held it against the dummy of the uh
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iPhone 17 Pro Max Not half but feels like half he said I mean that image is
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bonkers that we have on the site Unfortunately I I wish we could put images in our freaking episode
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art Man I actually that's a that that feature I am continually sad that we no
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longer have that since switching to our new podcast host That's what I was thinking about partly before we started
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or the episode Griffin was like "What are you thinking about?" I'm like "I shouldn't even get into it It's going going to annoy me." Sorry Louis Go
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ahead Yeah So uh everybody's buzzing about how thin that thing is Um there
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was another another video released by Machin Buu showing uh people in a store
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in China I guess Uh you know like store people showing "Oh this is what it's
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going to look like." It wasn't an I don't know what it was some kind of weird like
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text a mockup Okay Yeah I mean what an odd thing you know showing dummies in a
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store Here's what a phone's going to look like when it's released We think quite odd Here's what a phone's going to look like We think
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I mean that is kind of weird isn't it but uh uh you know people seem to be
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drawn to it And I got to say I'm a little drawn to it just because it's different I feel like I've had the same
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phone for four years Me too eight years Just so so how do we feel do you feel
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like you might actually buy the iPhone 17 Air it depends This is one one question they
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have to answer for me and and they have to convince me I wouldn't mind something
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that was super thin if the battery life wasn't horrendous which I worry that it
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will be And that's going to be the big one right um because I don't often think that my phone's too heavy And the other
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thing is is like not having the three camera optical zoom That is also going
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to be something that I'm not sure I could give up because I do use that a lot You still have the 2x zoom And I
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have to say I didn't really miss the 5x as much as I thought when I had the iPhone 16e The biggest things I missed
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about when I had the 16e was Mag Safe and promotion And according to the
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rumors this phone is going to have both of those So I'm pretty interested in the 17 Air but obviously I'm not going to
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buy a phone after just one year I just bought one last year What I've been thinking about is I'm actually kind of
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interested in the folding iPhone next year I think I might buy it It sounds cool Like I I I'm not interested in
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buying an iPad because I don't feel like I want to buy like a whole you know like third device that I have to keep updated
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all the time and like continue to rebying Like I mean having a phone that's just also an iPad and they're the
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same thing I don't know I I might actually buy the folding iPhone
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Oh I I feel like I have to buy the folding iPhone when it comes out I don't know that there's a choice But I mean it
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will definitely also depend at least on how much it costs I mean I'm I'm only a
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loyal a blind loyalist to to such a degree right it's like I've never bought
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a Mac Pro I There are certain devices where I'm like I would love to have that
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but like am I going to spend $2,500 on an iPhone i don't think that I'm willing to do that So as much as I would want to
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have one that price is inaccessible for
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a lot of people And and for me I think that's going to be a dealbreaker It's like dude I'm not I'm not going to spend what I used to spend on a MacBook Pro on
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a phone And now my MacBook Pro is like you know Mac Pro territory and the prices just keep going up So we'll we'll
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have to wait and see But I know we're talking about something that we're looking at which probably is never fun
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for those of you who are listening Um so we'll include a link to the story but like just seeing the image it is
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mind-blowing how thin it how thin it is It it it's like it looks like a credit card If you go by the the measurements
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it's closer to like 2/3 as thin but it looks like it's credit card thin Yeah Yeah 5.65 65 mm at its thinnest
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according to uh unbox therapy Try and say that guy's name twice
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That compares to the Pro Max Sounds like Schwarzenegger don't you think promax is 8.75 This one's 5.65 So but yeah they it
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looks unnaturally thin Like it it almost looks like it's not possible
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I guess we'll Chris Wood from the chat We're getting ready for Bengate 2.0 Uh man that that whole ordeal I mean it
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just sent unbox therapy into the absolute stratosphere I would be we should go back and look to see how many
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views that video got If you don't if you all don't remember like when the iPhone 6 came out and Louis Helen Tanger was
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doing all those like this phone has a major defect and he's bending them and stuff And I do think I I do think
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actually the phone did have a defect It was too easy to bend So like he wasn't just making stuff up And I think that
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video got like 77 78 million 80 million views I mean it was for for a tech video
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probably one of the most popular tech videos if not the most popular tech video that has ever been made It was a
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worldwide phenomenon So much so that my mom who I don't even think had an iPhone at the time had asked me about it I mean
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that that's how prevalent it was It was it was worldwide news for like a probably two to three week periods
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Absolutely insane and his channel just skyrocketed in viewership you know after
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that He went from like I don't even know I'm making stuff up like two million to like three and a half four million subscribers I don't even know where he's
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at now 20 million 20 million subscribers Just makes me think back
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when I was recording his Sorry Go ahead Just one last observation Back when I was making YouTube videos and I was like
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you know this this YouTube thing is interesting but I think I'm going to do podcasts instead So I stopped came to the podcast
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world I could have been somebody recording his video in like this weird like aircraft hanger or something like
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that It's this giant open space It looks like the batcave almost That's exactly
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what it reminds me of In fact that's probably what it's designed to look like It's like the um I don't know if it's
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the Batcave It It's the It's the like the equipment room inside of like Wayne Tower That's exactly what it looks like
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I don't know where he is I don't know how much how many millions he spent to build that room I don't know how he
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possibly gets good sound out of that room but well when money's no option
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Yeah he's probably AI at this point He's probably transcended his consciousness into AI He's got to have the money for it man The guy's been in the YouTube
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game for so long his RPM is probably like 12 bucks and he's getting just like
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tens of millions of views a month I like absolutely no hate towards Louis Hell's
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Integrate Um I don't want this to sound like criticism but I do actually wonder if he's even into tech anymore Like he's
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been doing it for so long and he's making so much money and I wonder if
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he's actually even still interested in doing the work or if he's just making so much money just piles and piles of money
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that he's like I can't stop Like I'm just making so many millions of dollars it'd be crazy to stop But he's actually
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not even into tech anymore He's probably moved on to other things like maybe he likes knitting or crocheting or foosball
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or anything and he's like I don't even want to do tech but I have to
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I wonder if that uh iPhone 17 Air is going to be the the actual first folding iPhone
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Yeah it will be just not intentionally You can fold it once Yeah And that's it
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You spin on it It folds That's it You got to get a new one need to going to need to work on that uh crease
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All right we sufficiently flogged that Should we should we move on and talk about iPad OS 19 griffin you had some
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hot news there you wanted to share with us I could tell you're sweating eagerly anticipating
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We had heard last week that iPad OS 19 focuses on productivity multitasking and
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app window management um according to Mark Now we have uh actual details
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coming from Majin Buu as well predicting that quote the interface will adapt to
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show a new menu bar at the top just like on Mac OS turning the iPad into a much more laptop-like
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experience Um but it's not going to be there all the time It'll appear when you have the magic keyboard for iPad
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attached which makes sense I mean the menu bar isn't exactly a precision uh
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you know designed for the finger user interface Uh the same unconfirmed report also says
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that Stage Manager 2 will be part of iPad OS 19 This is an upgraded version
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that'll let you more freely size and arrange windows on the screen Like right
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now it's it's very weird You're resizing windows between like fixed pre-esigned
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pre what do you call it like preset predestined preset size classes So you
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can't actually make a window like five pixels smaller You have to make it like you know as narrow as an iPhone and then
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as wide as an iPad mini or it's it's very complicated and kind of messy but
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full freely resizable windows coming in iPad OS 19 Uh Majin Buu says this quote
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will make managing apps in Windows smoother and more productive than ever And another part of this is related to
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the iPhone I think we wrote it up as a separate story but I'll just read through it here quote "Iphones with USBC
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will support external displays offering a stage manager like interface While not a full desktop mode it'll allow users to
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extend their screen space Great for presentations editing or enhanced viewing So yeah I I I feel like this is
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a kind of going along with the theme of Apple's upcoming software redesign
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I feel like uh why Apple is doing this now is because a lot of their hardware
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that they have like a few years down in the pipeline are going to be more of these hybrid devices like the folding iPhone that opens up basically into iPad
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I hope you're right That'd be very cool Yeah Or the the the 18inch folding device that we don't know whether it's a
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Mac or an iPad that'll be a touchcreen thing but it's foldable and hybrid I
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mean what kind of software it'll run well it doesn't really matter as much if all of the software looks and works like
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all of their other software I feel like that's what they're trying to get at with this like broad software redesign
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and making all these power features for all the lower-end devices because like they're they're seeing like 10 years
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down the line and they need a new software architecture that'll scale to like all across all the different
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hardware right now even projecting down further like AR glasses that are you know meant to replace your iPhone
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that'll that'll bridge between iOS and vision OS to give them a unified interface design I think that's
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my that's my theory I think that's an interesting theory and and you know what's interesting is that Apple does
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leave clues about what they're going to be doing in the future with the stuff that they release And never was that
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more true with the AirPods Max which when I did my review of those like two
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or three years ago I observed that Apple must be coming out with some kind of
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like high fidelity music service at some point because why else would they make these there's there's nothing that they have that would allow you to take full
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advantage of the quality of the actual headphones And then lo and behold you
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know sometime later that's actually what they did People on that YouTube page even still when they go back and watch that review are like "No way this guy
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knew before But it's like dude you can just kind of if you think about the changes they make on a timeline and you
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look to see what they're doing and then Apple's clearly they're iterative right like they probably have their product road maps mapped out at least one or two
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years ahead I would imagine And so they're they're trickling things out piece by piece and things start to come
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together You're like why are they doing this well it's because they have a road map right like we're on a point on that
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road map and and and I think that is an interesting theory that they might be unifying things a little bit which
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anything that makes iPad more useful you know I'm I'm all for especially when I tried that 13-inch iPad it was glaringly
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obvious that the OS was not in any way shape or form built to um accommodate
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such a large display I mean the whole thing just looked weird It looks like you have an iPhone on a 13-inch iPad And
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there's a lot of like dead space around the icons and the whole thing was just
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very um kind of awkward to use and not optimized in any way There's a lot of
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work that needs to be done with the iPad All right Anything else on that Griffin before we move it on
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uh no Okay Those are only those are our Apple stories for this week That's it
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Should I go ahead and start the music but we do have some other interesting
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stuff to talk about Um Griffin and I are going to go back and forth More observations about Mario Kart World
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Switch to pre-order horror stories Griffin's got his Sigma BF review which
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I think is probably one of the more interesting cameras that's been released in like the last like several years And
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then we're going to wrap up I don't know if we should do this We're going to do it anyway with your voicemail messages
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Before we do that though let me tell you all more about the Insta3 X5
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So I don't have this camera but I do have an older version of the Insta 360 X
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series and I think that this is probably one of the most useful cameras that most
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people um don't necessarily consider having in their bag Like a lot of people just have like a point and shoot right
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but like if you're doing video and you only wanted one camera this actually might be the one to get because 360
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cameras are so incredibly useful Um and they're and they're easy to use So
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before I dive too much into it let me actually go in here and make sure I'm not missing anything Um here we go Uh
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camera the Insta 360 X5 launched April 22nd and shoots full 360° videos in an
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insane 8K30 resolution which is insane for something
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of this size Uh let's see here I want to make sure I don't miss any points Let's
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talk about that AK What does that mean well well there's two cameras on a 360 camera the front and the back camera And
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so when you are recording in AK you get 4K on each side right so that means no
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matter what what uh direction you're going to point the video after you've recorded it it's all going to be in 4K
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Huge huge improvement over previous cameras Um which I think were like 5.7
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or 6K So now you're getting true 4K video Um one of the things I love about the Insta3 cameras is they have very
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good lowlight performance but their video actually looks good anytime I've used one like the video the HDR it looks
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very pleasing and you don't have to do any editing on it It just looks great right out of the camera And the other
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thing that's that's I think what makes the Insta 360 camera useful is you don't actually have to point the camera at
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anything That is the hard part about being like the family videographer is like you have to like get the shot right
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you have to point the camera somewhere and get the shot With a 360 camera you literally just hold the camera on a
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stick It records everything in a 360 degree area and then you you edit it
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after the fact and you can point the perspective of the camera at anything that you want And you can even do this
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like on your iPhone So like you'll load the video on your iPhone and you move your iPhone around and it shows you
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what's going on in the video as you're pointing it in different directions It's like it's like the Matrix And so you can
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literally edit a video just by pointing it in different directions as you're playing it on your phone and everything
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around you is something that you could focus on It's just super useful This camera has um replaceable lenses so if
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you accidentally scratch the lenses you can actually go in there and replace them which you know has been a problem
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on past cameras Like if you scratch the lens it's like you can't do anything about that unless you want to send it in for repair Um this one has a new
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windguard for clearer audio and they've made it waterproof down to 15 meters aka
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49 ft So it's just improved all around And if you are someone like me you want
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to have like great video just of like family events If you're going on vacation maybe to Disney World you want
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to like take video of like your kids walking around the park this is going to be such an excellent option for you If
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you've never tried a 360 camera you should absolutely try one They once you kind of get used to like the paradigm of
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360 video which I think is even easier than normal cameras you're going to totally fall in love with it and they
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have just made this series the X series better and better and better And that's why even I'm like I kind of want one of
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these two Um and may end up buying one just for like family vacations and stuff just because it is such a Swiss Army
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knife All right to score a free 45 in invisible selfie stick with your
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purchases So if you want to do it make sure you get in on that action Um and you can get more information We'll
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include a link to um the store and stuff in our show notes And one of the things I should also mention is the selfie
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stick is what you use like hold the camera above you or like outside of like your area when you're recording And this
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the camera somehow magically just removes the stick from the footage So when you're taking video you won't see
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the selfie stick You just see yourself doing whatever you're doing in your footage And they do that via some kind
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of magic AI process or something I don't know But it works very very very well So
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yeah I thought you misspoke cuz I I thought you said it was an invisible selfie stick Well it is It's invisible
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So make sure you got to attach a Air Tag to it otherwise it's gone forever you
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know until you trip on it or something No Lewis it's real in the real world but in the video footage I see it's
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invisible So and the reason I I did such exposition on this is because a lot of people never used a 360 camera and they
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and they find them to be maybe kind of scary but they're actually easier to use than a normal camera because you can
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just edit the video all after the fact and point the camera at anything that was around you when you were doing
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whatever you were doing So they're just really fun Um store.instre.com insta3.com and make sure you use the
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with the selfie stick in it just make sure if you don't see it you got to search around for it with your hands right because you won't be able to see it till you actually feel for it Uh
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thanks to Insta3 for supporting this episode Let's talk about Mario Kart for
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a bit shall we Griffin what do you want to start with mario Kart World or the the Oh let's start with the pre-orders
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Let's start with the Let's start Let's start with the pre-orders shall we first of all did you get one
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so I'm very interested in a Nintendo Switch 2 Okay And I would have liked to pre-order one and I was awake at
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midnight I just happened to be awake like around the time the pre-orders dropped in a lot of the stores But I'm moving I don't know where I'm going to
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live between now and June 5th So I don't feel like I could actually place a pre-order Like I can't order it here I
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live here And you don't know where you're going i'm going to live Yeah Okay I I still don't know which is
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frightening and it keeps me awake in every waking moment where I'm not uh otherwise occupied So I have to place a
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couple weeks Yeah He's like I'm aware Yes Yes Lewis I'm aware of that Mhm So
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you're going to be a bugout bag ready That ghillie suit you've been using to
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avoid Lewis will come in handy when you're sleeping in the field Old foreigner Bar Barnaby's field If I don't
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find a a new place I could renew my lease here for another month but I don't know if I'm if I'll do that or not So I
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don't I can't I can't order it yet man Okay So you've got other things on your
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mind sent out here to San Francisco We'll take care of it for you Yeah Yeah Oh yeah I bet you will Well I also
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didn't order mine I tried to but I realized at midnight it's 12
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a.m Eastern time Lewis you stayed up until midnight and discovered that you
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were late I'm always up at midnight Louis Every single night Yeah Wow Oh
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yeah That's like usually when I'm heading to bed So I looked and I'm like "Everyone's sold out How's that
30:40
possible?" It's I was 12:00 a.m Eastern time So Best Buy sold out GameStop sold
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out Amazon never even carried the Switch 2 which I find to be totally bizarre I don't know what's going on between them
30:52
and Nintendo but no Nintendo Switches to be had And so I'm so man I don't know
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what I'm going to do Now I did register for the Nintendo lottery if you were a Nintendo
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if you have a Nintendo account And I guess if you play enough games they will award you a slot to buy the very
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prestigious Switch 2 I But the other thing is like I at some point I imagine Best Buy
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and all these other stores will be restocked Nintendo does this intentionally with every single console
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They limit they they limit order um uh availability to build up the hype and
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then everyone starts you know bemmoning that they're sold out and then when they make them available again everyone loses their mind and goes and buys it So I'm
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I'm hoping that's what happens But I'm truly sad I'm truly sad Some people who
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missed the online pre-order who just went to their local GameStop in the morning at opening time and then they
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let you sign up to place a pre-order like with the store physically That's what my friend told me But I'm like a I
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don't I mean I'm not going to head to a store at 11:00 a.m We got the show at 12 but also I would prefer to buy from Best
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Buy I just I just like Best Buy better Um and so I don't know what I'm going to
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do I'm I'm I'm terribly sad about the whole thing Yes I realize it's a first world problem Um undoubtedly but dude I
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was so careful I I I knew the pre-order was coming I've been waiting for it I've been following all of it And to make
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such a rookie mistake is just absolutely unfathomable to me So
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and the other thing that I'm worried about is like well they sold out of their initial a lotment Are they going
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to raise the prices because of tariffs on the on the second round like they might So now I have to pay you know even
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more which I don't want to do because I think 500 bucks might be my threshold Worth mentioning if any Nintendo fans
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are listening to this segment who only get their news from this podcast and somehow nowhere else I guess we should
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mention just because the last we heard on the show you know they had delayed pre-orders in the US around tariffs Yeah
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around like because of the price and they just announced I think like a week ago that um the the new price is the
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same price $450 for the Switch 2 $500 if you order the Switch 2 with with Mario Kart World
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So I don't know why they had to pause for a while They Well the the tariff
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situation had been evolving so quickly They were probably like "Whoa what what's going on we don't know what the tariff situation is." like we didn't
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even know because things kept changing But there are still tariffs in place Now I imagine that Nintendo's profit margin
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is such on this console that they could probably eat a 10% tariff because they've raised the price $150 on this
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console So maybe we won't see a price um increase And there's only so much people
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can stomach I mean Nintendo has already gotten absolutely roasted for their price So it's not actually that much
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higher than the original Switch if you account for inflation Because the original Switch was is almost eight years ago Sure but people don't account
33:58
for inflation So you know people just say "Hey you your price used to be 300 Now it's 450 What are you doing Nintendo
34:04
you greedy scumbags." And then they get all angry and they start you know an onslaught of angry petitioners and every
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single video and live stream that Nintendo makes on YouTube I mean people are so pissed to those people anyways Those people's opinions aren't worth
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listening to Well I don't know if they care or not but I
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don't I just don't know that you want to upset your hardcore fans They if they get angry enough are going
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to find something to get upset of and angry about anyways no matter what they do That's true And who knows if those people were ever even planning on buying
34:36
the console anyway So I'm not getting one You're not getting one Great What great tech reviewers we are Absolutely
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terrific Well I I'll be trying to I'll be trying to lock one down but my dear dear friend the great Aaron Hughes he
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got one from another place and he had a slot in the Nintendo lottery as well So he was like "If I get it you can have
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it." So hopefully between these two outlets between my reservation and his
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one one of us will get it and I'll get the console But let's talk about Mario Kart World maybe if only briefly because
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we talked about it last week We kind of teased it and then I hadn't watched the actual Nintendo Connect which um is
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available on YouTube now If you guys haven't seen it you should go check it out And I was watching through it and I
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was like I I really can't think of a single thing about this video that I don't love It is such a massive
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improvement on this game that we all love Some people were complaining that ah it's just more of you know uh Mario
35:29
Kart 8 Deluxe Like why is that a bad thing mario Kart 8 Deluxe was a great game and now you're just making it
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bigger better more fun You get the 4K 60 if you're docked which if they had only
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done that might have been enough for me They have you have the ability to drive to all these um different or to drive
35:49
from course to course but I think probably the biggest one for me is like
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the exploration mode where you can just literally just drive around the entire world and just explore it and go on
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different missions like in the actual game This is going to be a game especially with kids my age I have four
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kids as many of you know I have a nine an eight I could barely even keep track anymore Six and a five Your age Did I
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say kids my age is that what I said sounds a little lie I'm not even going to correct it Louis That's why you're
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the best in the biz though And hello fellow kids
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I mean I do go hang out with like you know 15 16 year olds You guys don't do that
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Um this game is going to be something that we replay together for years and years and years and years especially as
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they get better at gaming And seeing that beautiful 4K 60 image just got me
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so excited because the fidelity of Nintendo gameplay and it being barely
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1080 for so long has looked so Nintendo first party games look good but they're
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going to look their absolute chef's kiss best going forward Breath of the Wild
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Tears of the Kingdom maybe the the Luigi Mansion games like all those games are
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going to look so much better on like an actual 4K fidelity And Mario Kart at
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four 4K 60 is going to be so crispy so beautiful and colorful driving around all those different worlds They added
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some features that make the game easier to play for kids I mean I have a whole list of stuff that we can enumerate on but I'll let you go next while while I
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sit here and read read this and figure out if there's anything else I forgot to mention Yeah I don't understand the argument that this is just Mario Kart 8
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again at all because this is a completely different like first of all the open world Yeah they've taken the
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best part of actually one of the many good parts of Mario Kart 64 and made it
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the whole game That one the Peaches Castle course where you can drive off the course and explore the castle from
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Super Mario 64 Yes Like that's the best part of that game And they made this whole game like that You can drive
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freely between the courses the exploration mode Like Nintendo puts an incredible amount of work into the level
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design that you never see Like that's why there's uh YouTube videos are there's a whole genre of YouTube videos
38:08
where it's like exploring the levels of Mario Kart because you never see 90% of
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the level And they've actually designed this whole game around that That's fantastic There's a lot of new items
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There's the um like you mean like weapons and stuff yeah there's the the coin pile which All right The ice flower
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which is pretty much I can tell exactly like the firefl except ice
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Uh there's a bag of chips Yeah they they've they've they've they've really
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uh improved the jumping mechanic Like they've made that more significant like with the feather you can now like jump
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much greater heights if you like you know hit the drift button but you keep driving straight So that seems that
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seems interesting I'm excited to try that out Um what's really great I was kind of
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confused by the um the rewind feature when they when they first showed it off in the direct So like you're driving you
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make a mistake and you can rewind yourself like just like you're hitting rewind on a VCR You just go backwards a
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few seconds Everybody else keeps driving forwards And I was like well what's the point of that why would you ever want to do that why would you want to just like
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push yourself backwards until I realized they're fixing a problem that Mario Kart
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has always had in that reverse is incredibly hard to do and instantly
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loses the race if you ever have to reverse Sometimes it's barely your fault Like you just uh hit the wrong spot on
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the level design and you get trapped for a few seconds and oh I have to reverse And then you end up losing like 30
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seconds because you have to remember which button is the reverse button because you never press it because why
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and it's incredibly difficult for kids to do Yeah I hadn't thought about that but I think you're right This makes it super easy And for some reason driving
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in reverse is incredibly slow I don't know why they make it so slow but the rewind is just like a better version of
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that Like oh you just instantly go back to where you were at full speed
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Um another improvement over Mario Kart 8 that I noticed is that you no longer have to pick or at least I don't think
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you pick any more like different uh carts versus wheels vehicle attributes
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Yeah You just pick the car and it comes pre-built Yeah Yeah Yeah Much simpler That was always like way over
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complicated And whatever custom thing you make is always going to be worse than just like picking the wheels that
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are clearly designed for that car It It was kind of a messy system So I'm glad they they just removed that Um you have
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NPCs throwing extra hazards on the course Uh which I think balances out
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another change they made where um if you run into an obstacle you don't slow down as much as you used to hitting a banana
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like especially in Mario Kart 64 you come to a complete stop Yeah And then you'd have to accelerate You're screwed
40:55
Yeah Mhm If you pay attention to the direct uh they they show a character like hitting a banana They spin out and
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they slow down a bit but they don't come to a complete stop Okay So I think they've made the the obstacles a little
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less uh gamechanging a little less ruinous on your on your course if you
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hit one but they've also added more And so that I mean all of these little things like the changes to the mechanics
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of the game itself are going to make it feel like a very different game Oh 100% And look how beautiful it looks And the
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one thing that literally no one else is talking about and and I'll say it here as a first a first on YouTube no one
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ever talks about this in the Mario Kart games but the absolutely incendiary and beautiful soaring
41:39
electric guitar parts that are part of this game Like some of the levels have like some like the best guitar solos
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that you'll ever hear in any Well I was going to say game just period They have
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brought in like such insanely talented I'm gonna guess they're Japanese like electric guitarists to play solos
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throughout some of these tracks The music that you get to hear when you're
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just racing around the game is like actually really good music that takes
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the whole experience like a whole new level And some like the guitar solos that I heard I was like dude that is like an absolutely fire solo that this
42:15
guy is playing and he's doing it in a video game This guy's never going to get any credit for like his actual talent or
42:20
ability but they bring in so many great musicians to assemble this music that
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you get to listen to as you just go around these different levels You can't play any of them can you me yeah No I
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mean right now you got a snippet of it Oh no I can't Oh Oh dude I can't even So
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for those of you listening I'm just showing snippets of like the actual Nintendo Connect or Nintendo Connect Oh
42:46
that is what it's called Oh my gosh Direct Direct Direct I'm like smashing together my consoles Um
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if I play two seconds of this we'd be probably taken down immediately Nintendo Nintendo Oh yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Yeah I can't even play any of this Like no music no visuals There couldn't be a more uh absolute stone cold fair use
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thing You know you're commenting on it and you matter Yeah No Nintendo will
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throw down the legal hammer in a millisecond Crazy Japanese I know So I just I'm always there for the saxopones
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Those good jazzyones Oh yeah I love the new characters that you get to choose from So many Oh sorry
43:27
What was that Louis saxopones and electric guitar Oh dude So much great music Sometimes in the same track Yeah
43:34
Sometimes you get both at the same time I have one question about the design of the game though because like obvious the
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whole stick of the game is it's a world All these tracks exist on one continent But that makes me wonder like how are
43:46
they going to add DLC to the game are they going to add new tracks like in the empty spaces between probably tracks or
43:54
maybe you like go to a different continent or a different or or that Yeah
44:00
maybe That's interesting observation especially because you can drive from like one track to the next and explore mode You like drive from different
44:05
tracks to different tracks and cross the different world which that alone like my kids are going to love that just being
44:10
able to just drive through the world and find missions to do and just explore They're gonna absolutely love that I
44:16
don't know if you can explore in multiplayer I wonder if that's When I was a kid I was so bad at video games that I didn't half the time I wasn't
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playing the video game I was just exploring stuff Yeah same with them Like they actually are although I would I
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would say Mario Kart is actually very approachable for someone who doesn't have a lot of skills because there's a lot of there are a lot of guard rails
44:32
that you can use to just stay on the track but same with them And so they just kind of want to go around and explore the world Okay
44:38
look we've we've gone on too long but we wanted to at least pick up where we left
44:43
off last week because this game just has so much packed in And I know a lot of you all I can tell from the chat are
44:49
actually big Nintendo fans And and and obviously many of you were also upset that you missed the pre-order which
44:55
you're not alone Just don't buy a scalped one It's not worth it We know what Nintendo's going to do They're
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gonna they're going to make it seem as though everything's sold out and then oh oh my gosh oh a new supply just came in
45:07
This is what they do every single console They are the masters at creating artificial demand Um and so let's just
45:15
hold it out and see what happens But again you can't buy it from Amazon for some reason They don't seem to have the
45:20
these for sale So it's going to be one of the other outlets Okay let's move on Should we
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talk about the Sigma BF your your your new BF Sigma camera Every time I hear
45:32
this I say "Why did they just call it the BFF?" They should have What does the BF stand for i It does stand for
45:38
something but I forget what it stands for Oh great But anyways I published my review of this camera on Cult I made a
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video which I I think you should watch Um I'll sort of uh go over the highlights here the main biggest points
45:52
Um I guess I should also say for those of you watching I did return it earlier this week so I no longer have it to show
45:58
to you but you know that's what the YouTube video is for the pictures are for Um yeah the design it's absolutely
46:05
gorgeous I was surprised to see a few YouTube comments saying they thought it was ugly These must not be true of OG
46:11
Apple fans It's It is like the pure silver like unadorned aluminum like it
46:17
is that is just classic Apple to me as someone who mostly got into Apple during the in early Intel era Um the ergonomics
46:26
again it kind of looks like it'll be uncomfortable because it's this giant block of aluminum but if you pay close
46:32
attention there are like really three ergonomic affordances that they have They have a tiny little thumb scoop They
46:38
have a little corner cutout of the bottom right edge and the sides of it are slightly tapered So it actually is
46:44
pretty comfortable to hold in the hand It's slightly too heavy to hold one-handed so you're often holding it
46:51
two-handed like with the other hand braced underneath but it's easy to hold in that way The
46:59
controls say what you will about how it looks the specs whatever I think the
47:05
genuine innovation in this camera is how simple the controls are you have exactly
47:12
the right number of controls as you need and nothing more I feel like
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as modern full size like dedicated camera full-frame cameras
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uh need to differentiate themselves against smartphones because everybody has a smartphone They overcorrect on
47:31
adding too many dials and buttons This thing you can know nothing about cameras Pick it up take a picture easy Wow
47:39
or like it just it s so intuitively arranges all of the complex features
47:45
that you would expect from a fullframe camera as well You have like the the one menu you can bring up for shooting
47:51
settings a menu for like the actual camera interface settings itself which
47:56
is a separate thing There's the button that you can there's a button that you can press to switch between taking
48:03
pictures and reviewing pictures But because the button is capacitive you can like hold your finger on the button to
48:10
get an instant preview of it and then release Like you don't have to enter playback mode to get a quick preview of
48:15
the last picture you took That's a genuine really smart innovation Um you might be concerned that because
48:24
the buttons are haptic that they won't work if you're wearing gloves but I actually I was very concerned about that
48:31
They're pressure sensitive not capacitive like your smartphone So that means that you can wear gloves and
48:37
they'll still work You can use a completely inert piece of plastic like I pressed the buttons with a comb and they
48:42
still worked I use like a giant thick blanket and they still worked That's how we tested cult of Mac Did you try it
48:49
with one of those like giant sports foam hands how'd that work oh you didn't even try Oh great What are
48:56
we doing over here Louis we need some standards Okay sorry Continue Oh yeah Um the
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actual picture quality itself because it's a full-frame sensor but it's only 24 megapixels which isn't a lot of
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resolution Go up to 40 at the same size but um because the pixels are so large
49:17
relative to the size of the sensor just unparalleled performance in the dark
49:22
It's incredible I took pictures I didn't include these in the review but like I
49:27
took pictures in absolute complete darkness no lights on and yeah they were grainy but you could still see an
49:33
incredible amount of detail in them Um any picture that I would need to take
49:38
like in the middle like peak brightness of the day on my iPhone I could take the
49:45
same picture with virtually no visible grain like in the late evening only one light on like it's just incredible the
49:53
amount of low light photography that you can get out of this thing with how clear it'll be too Um the downside though is
50:00
that because it doesn't use any computational photography you don't have HDR and so if you're taking a picture of
50:07
like a relatively dark room with a window in the background and it's bright outside the background is going to be
50:12
blown out It doesn't do as much aggressive process That's pretty common across all all cameras though I mean
50:18
that's one of the big hang-ups on normal cameras It's like that's why if Apple made like an actual mirror mirrorless
50:24
camera it would absolutely destroy Like it had like the M2 chip in it and like the HDR would be like the most realistic
50:31
thing that you've ever seen in your life I don't know why Apple doesn't do it I think it actually would sell well It's probably just not a big enough market
50:37
Yeah Um video quality This is clearly a photography camera and not a video
50:42
camera I mean the clue is the fact that the display doesn't flip out and it doesn't have a cold shoe mount on the
50:47
top Um it's video on a tripod is excellent but um and it does record 6K
50:53
video So if you wanted to you could record in 6K and then use Final Cut to add a lot of um motion stabilization
51:01
without sacrificing on resolution But um the the autofocus is pretty quick but
51:07
it's not great for video It's not shocking Yeah Uh and it's not stabiliz
51:13
even You can even turn on the camera's own digital stabilization and it's still pretty shaky Yeah But okay put it on a
51:20
tripod and you'll get excellent footage out of it Um it's not It doesn't have an SD card slot just the internal memory
51:27
God that is weird But you know what I mean my Mac Mini doesn't have an SD card slot so I don't mind Yeah And it's
51:33
honestly just convenient You don't have to worry about formatting cards It's It's great you can store like I think
51:40
14,000 pictures on it before you run out of space So if you're like doing a
51:46
wedding photography shoot on this like that probably wouldn't be good for it but I mean it probably wouldn't be good
51:51
for the wedding either Yeah All right It's great It's a great camera
51:58
Um it's it's design it's designed around
52:03
being fun and easy to take pictures And it does that exceedingly well Okay And I
52:10
and I miss it already It's 2,000 bucks Goes on sale uh April 25th which is
52:15
tomorrow if you're hearing this You know what i don't know that this camera would be for me but when it comes to Sigma I'm
52:22
a fan I love their lenses I I think that of all the camera companies out there Sigma is
52:28
probably positioned best to actually make a camera that would succeed People like Sigma stuff They love their lenses
52:36
Their cameras have been a bit weird and appealing only to like a fringe of
52:42
people but I think it's smart They're they're kind of building up a fan base you know slowly and they're making
52:48
products that get attention which is hard to do in the camera space And so I'm curious to see where they go I'm a
52:55
huge fan of their lenses Like I said that's a great place to start because the lens is even more important than the camera in many respects And so I think
53:03
with the camera stuff like they might get there eventually I love that they're making a full-frame camera with a fixed
53:09
lens I think that that's a a market that doesn't have a lot of entries from
53:16
anyone I mean you're either going to have to buy well there was a Sony camera that had fullframe um or that was full
53:22
frame with a fixed camera lens I don't know even know they make it anymore like the RX 100 or something I forget what it
53:27
was called Um Fujifilm doesn't make one Theirs is medium format So this space I
53:33
think is one that could be dominated by one of the players willing to enter it
53:38
Nikon has a full-frame fixed lens camera or is it is it full frame i don't think
53:45
it actually is fixed frame or uh fixed lens I should say So I'm not sure that
53:51
there are very many companies doing this So Sigma could eventually take this over and and I think a full-frame fixed lens
53:56
camera would do really well if it were the right mix of features Um all right let's move on Ask you a question
54:03
No way We're moving on Louis Yeah One question Okay fine What how'd you take those pictures of uh you holding the
54:10
thing did you use your uh use the vision pro of me holding it no just my iPhone on a
54:16
tripod in front of me That must have been awkward It was Yes I was hoping
54:22
that you were standing outside in your your yard in Ohio with the Vision Pro on taking pictures of yourself shooting
54:27
video I know the I mean the Vision Pro doesn't take very great pictures Those would be incredibly grainy and basically unusable But um my tripod is falling
54:34
apart in a few different places I really need a new one So it it was a very delicate setup Never stand outside in your rural area
54:42
in a vision pro That's a recipe to get blasted by you know Farmer Vick shot
54:48
Aliens honey aliens That's like that scene from um Back to the Future when he shows up in that guy's barn right with
54:55
like the suit on and he tries to shoot him Never go outside with that thing man Uh all right I think that's all the
55:01
Apple stuff and uh other techreated stories I think we're ready to do
55:07
um Okay fine Let's do it Open up the speak Let's open up the Let's crank open
55:13
the speak pipe If you all want to send us voicemails these have been really fun And um we we're getting a lot more now
55:19
by the way So we can't even play them all at this point Um but we would love to keep getting these We'll keep playing
55:25
them on the show I think it makes for an interesting segment Hopefully you all agree If not let me know on the allnew X
55:32
I'm Lewis Wallace send your complaints there And um if you want to leave us a voicemail
55:38
speakpipe.com/cultast speakpipe.com/cultast You can do it on your phone in Safari It's really super
55:45
easy It will probably take you 30 seconds Try to keep the messages shorter I think some of these might be like a
55:50
minute and a half That might be too long Um you know 30 30 to 60 seconds is probably optimal Um maybe practice it
55:56
once before you send it or not We don't care I'll just cut you off after 60 seconds especially if it gets boring Uh
56:02
don't send me any more screaming or anything weird I don't want to listen to that The hell's wrong with you people i
56:08
think maybe we could solicit like specific kinds of messages like you know send Lewis questions about I don't know
56:15
dartsmithing or Yeah that's a great suggestion Yeah like classic Apple trivia or Doctor Who Yeah you know I
56:22
don't I don't know Feedback on a previous show or something you want us to talk about I whatever Okay let's um let me go and bring this up
56:29
This one comes from our old pal Intuit Intuitit Tom what do you got to
56:34
say for yourself this is Tom aka Intuit Yeah I just said that One of your OG
56:40
listeners Oh yeah Guys are doing a great job I got three grievances to air and
56:47
hopefully you didn't listen to this before the show so goes on Number one I've got my finger on the
56:53
stop button though in case this gets too too true There's like over 400 people in the cult
57:00
club Yeah Which is great But there's like precisely five people talking in it
57:06
Oh yeah And I want to say to the other 395 speak up It's a great place You spent
57:13
your money You forked it over Why not talk in the cult club with the rest of us okay So in their
57:19
defense when we first launched it we opened it up to everybody So there's a
57:24
lot of people in there that didn't have to pay So that's technically my fault And um I have thought about doing a
57:31
major culling and just yeah Persian people which I probably should do because a lot of those people never
57:37
actually sign in Um so maybe that's something that we should consider So so I will say that there's a lot of people
57:43
in there that I would say the majority of people never paid and I didn't have the heart to kick to kick them out And
57:48
we we should also say that uh for a while the the the paid members of the cult club were getting kicked out of it
57:53
Oh my gosh Some reasons If you are a paid member like we fixed that problem you can get a new link to get your
57:59
permanent invitation Yeah that's true And hopefully you'll be
58:04
able to stay in I'll give you a I'll give you a um Let me see How long is this this might be too long to play the whole thing We'll do one more Pretty
58:11
cool Number two what's up with the varying times of
58:17
the live stream we need to plan ahead I missed like the last month and a half
58:23
maybe live streaming all over the place So shore
58:30
that up guys Yeah Lewis are you taking notes here lewis I I I've got a great response next
58:37
time you say we need to do it on Friday Okay look I take full responsibility I although I do like to blame Lewis for
58:43
everything You know it just every show is a unique animal We never know what's
58:50
going to happen And just wait If you think things are bad now we're losing our access to Skype next week and we're
58:55
still not sure how we're going to be doing the show live because no one has the features that we need built into their tools Although I'm on the cusp of
59:02
a breakthrough I think he's right And this is criticism I've heard before I wouldn't even call this criticism It's
59:07
more like a like a like a show suggestion It's like "Hey I want to listen to the live show but I can't
59:12
because I don't know when you guys actually go live." And the truth of the matter is the reason you don't know is because we don't actually know So we
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should probably try to stick with the time But you know without getting too much in the details you know we all got
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stuff going on Sometimes it's hard to to to land especially for me the exact same time every week cuz sometimes things
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come up Um I'm not done with my you know 140 push-ups or whatever and I got to
59:37
make my protein shake still and we got to do the show But I appreciate that feedback into it Tom Um two out of three of us have jobs that involve many
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responsibilities Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah That that that is also true Um so we tried to be accurate but we could
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definitely tighten it up Okay I'm gonna move on This one comes from
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Pavlo Hey guys this is Pablo Schlutter from Germany Pablo Slaughter from
1:00:01
Germany I already like where this is going I haven't listened to this by the way I hope he starts swearing at us in
1:00:06
German I've been listening to the podcast since it first launched and wow
1:00:11
I've been hooked from day one I really enjoy hearing you dive into the different topics and share your thoughts
1:00:18
This is where he goes into a horrible criticism Just wait It always starts with like I It always starts with a
1:00:24
here's what you're doing right and I'm going to tell you five other things that make you the worst podcast on earth Here
1:00:29
we go And you've talked quite a bit about the Apple glasses since they came out Oh Um have you seen or heard
1:00:36
anything about people feeling sick nauseous or even throwing up while using
1:00:41
them i usually have trouble with devices like that myself since I tend to feel sick pretty quickly Thanks a lot and I
1:00:50
hear you soon Pablo Schlott I love this guy Good at this Yeah go ahead
1:00:56
because the Vision Pro has such an insanely high frame rate that it runs at I think it's like 120 maybe even higher
1:01:03
like 90 fps something like that Uh it has incredibly low latency and that's
1:01:09
usually the problem with cheaper headsets that gets you motion sickness Okay I very rarely feel motion sick in
1:01:15
my Vision Pro and I I wouldn't say that I'm especially susceptible to motion sickness but I I feel it in a car if I
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or a bus if I'm you know sitting in the back or whatever Oh yeah Me too I never get it in the Vision Pro unless there's
1:01:28
there's this one app that I use that you don't have to ever touch and in fact I don't really recommend it There's this
1:01:33
one app that puts you in like a virtual roller coaster on the Vision Pro Now if anything's going to make you hurl it's
1:01:39
going to be that one for sure Yeah it's it's a motion sickness machine It like you it's it's not not honestly very fun
1:01:45
But most of the stuff in the Vision Pro you you won't feel motion sick at all You know what's interesting that's that's a great question from Pablo
1:01:52
Schlatta And I tend to get motion sick in VR situations Like one time in
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particular I was experimenting with this VR game at the Penny Arcade Expo the big
1:02:05
video game convention here in Seattle And it was like an FPS fast-paced shooter right and I was playing it and
1:02:10
it was pretty fun And then I'm like h like it's like hit me I'm not feeling so
1:02:16
good I'm like I'm a cold sweat right and start feeling disoriented Super bad
1:02:21
nausea kicks on and I had to sit in the hotel lobby for like an hour and a half afterwards to recover It took me forever
1:02:28
to recover I don't know if I'm more susceptible to it than other people But I will also say when you go to Universal
1:02:34
Studios Orlando the Harry Potter rides they have are very video screen video
1:02:40
screen ccentric At least two of them are And one of them I made it about 5 seconds into that ride and I was like uh
1:02:47
I need to shut my eyes cuz if not I'm going to puke on everyone below me and you're on like this giant robotic arm
1:02:53
that's like twisting you and turning you and then it plops you in front of like a big video screen where things are moving very quickly and I could not handle that
1:02:59
at all So all that preamble aside I don't think I had a single instance of nausea when I was wearing the video or
1:03:05
the Vision Pro for those two weeks Now I wasn't doing anything fast-paced I'm not insane enough to try the
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um the roller coaster you know projectile puke machine simulator that
1:03:17
that Griffin tried But it I'm sure they spent a lot of time crafting strategies and probably
1:03:27
any kind of I don't know technology to reduce that I never experienced that but
1:03:32
it kind of sounds like maybe Pablo did Um and once we have games and stuff that
1:03:37
will be the true test I think But I just sat in like the middle of Joshua Tree watching movies or in that giant theater
1:03:44
that you can do which was also very cool Um all right We I don't think we have
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time for all these man Uh I might do one more We'll see how this one goes This one is
1:03:55
from Mike I don't know if there Mike from I can't read the last of it It's too small
1:04:01
All right let's just let's just hear for the the message from Mike Gentlemen this is Mike from Hershey
1:04:07
Pennsylvania No you said gentlemen like Hans Groover from um from Die Hard
1:04:12
Gentlemen greetings I have been listening to the cult since episode number one Wow Airfon
1:04:21
it would be great if you were able to repost that episode just so we could listen to it and see how far you have
1:04:28
come Oh man not far enough I I fear that episode is I think posted I think you
1:04:34
can go back and and listen to it but if not I I should repost it But that's I I
1:04:39
mean that's incredible We don't we don't get a lot of people from the from the Gov Club as I call them the original um
1:04:44
cult um listeners So that's really cool You'd have to scroll back pretty far on Apple podcast but you can find it Yeah
1:04:51
it should be there if you scroll back But my comment and request is for airon Air fun I miss the days when you would
1:04:59
just complain about Comcast or AT&T and what they are putting you through Oh I
1:05:06
So my question is do you have any Comcast or AT&T stories that you can regail us with i looked forward to those
1:05:13
on an almost weekly basis and miss them And on a side question do you have any
1:05:18
updates or stories on Movie Pass i miss those as well Oh man Keep up the great work guys Take care Thank you Mike Well
1:05:27
we don't have enough time for me to do an AT&T um diet tribe but there's always plenty
1:05:32
of material But the thing the one of the reasons I stopped with Comcast is because and you probably wouldn't all
1:05:39
know this years ago maybe three or four years ago I noticed some utility dudes
1:05:44
in front of my house stringing something up in my neighborhood And I came outside and I was like "What are you guys doing?" And he's like "We're installing
1:05:50
fiber." I went inside that moment and I signed up for fiber optic internet
1:05:57
connection and it's been the absolute best most reliable internet I have ever
1:06:02
had I mean I have a gig up a gig down Um I do actually have some gripes that I
1:06:07
could do especially the um unsavory business practices of the company that I'm currently subscribed to Absolutely
1:06:13
just lying their ass off about my price being fixed In fact I think there needs to be a class action lawsuit against
1:06:19
this There's a whole Reddit thread on this and there's a bunch of us who signed up and we were promised what they
1:06:26
call a price for life guarantee As long as you don't move they'll never change your price Well that lasted for about 3
1:06:33
years and then all of a sudden uh-oh my price starts going up and I contacted
1:06:39
this company I'm not saying their name because I don't want them to sue me even though I I I believe that I'm actually in the right on this And they said X
1:06:46
right uh no it doesn't And so they said "Oh we have no record of you having a
1:06:52
price for life guarantee." And I'm like "Well I I did." And they're like "Well do you have any evidence of that?" And I'm like "No I don't I just figured that
1:06:59
you would honor that." And so I start doing some research That's what they're telling everybody All these people who
1:07:04
had signed up for this price for life guarantee have no evidence because how do you collect that evidence right when
1:07:11
you go to sign up for an offer like do you take a screenshot of it like no one does that And so my price keeps going up
1:07:17
and up and up even though I was promised that it would remain at $60 a month for the entire duration of my actual
1:07:23
connection Nope No emails Level remix in the chat No emails Nothing dude Nothing
1:07:29
And every bill just shows the price but it doesn't say that I have a price for life guarantee Now someone did make a
1:07:34
suggestion which I thought was actually quite genius They're like "You should go into the wayback machine and go to their
1:07:40
website for the time that you signed up and see if there's anything on their on their website that says that that
1:07:45
guarantee was in place and then go to your like insurance commissioner or I
1:07:51
don't know county detective I don't know who I would contact and file some kind of like Batman perhaps Batman and see if
1:07:59
I can get this resolved because I'm certain that it was there when I signed up and I know that I talked to them
1:08:06
about it when I signed up But anyway all that to say my internet has been absolutely terrific since then Comcast
1:08:11
is a thing of the past just a distant nightmare And hopefully I'll never have to deal with them again I have no caps I
1:08:17
use as much data as I want Sometimes I just leave things streaming I'll have music going or video going in the cult
1:08:23
command center I don't even turn it off I leave the office I don't I I don't even bother turning it off because it
1:08:28
doesn't matter because you know what internet is not a um it's not a natural resource It's not like bald eagle beaks
1:08:36
There's only so many of those to go around to cure your ailments You know it's not like water or redwood forest
1:08:44
trees It is a madeup substance It's like and they treat it as though it's like this you know uh reserved commodity that
1:08:52
they're going to run out of I mean the whole thing is just a complete marketing scam Um anyway see you wanted a diet
1:08:58
tribe You got one You're welcome Thank you for the comment Let's see We do have time for one
1:09:04
more Should we do one more let's finish intuit because I feel bad that we started hasn't we we didn't play it up
1:09:10
Let's see if we can finish playing that out Although I don't know if it will let me do that now Be great to be able to get back in the live stream on a regular
1:09:15
basis All right here we go And number three Griffin Uh oh Are you still Are
1:09:23
you sure you still [Laughter]
1:09:28
do you want me to hit play on this Griffin yeah sure All right It's gonna be a good sport All
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right let's go Hello Rub is in the chat Let's go I was just called on in class when I
1:09:41
wasn't paying attention Yeah No See now you're going to regret your decision All right let's go full screen Griffin for this last replay No I'm not gonna do
1:09:47
that to you All right here we go And to a Tom you better keep this kind Let's see You do great work on the show But
1:09:55
that startup sound from the old Power Mac Okay that's not too bad Is driving me nuts Can we go back to the Quadra
1:10:01
original startup sound that everybody knows as the Mac startup sound wait a second That would be great Otherwise
1:10:08
love you guys Doing a great job Talk to you soon Thanks to it Tom That was great you you kept it See that was a that was
1:10:14
a that was a a decent roast He didn't take it too serious and say anything actually hurtful It's all like
1:10:21
lightweight stuff you know So that was good I think that the sound that I use is the Power Macintosh 5400 off the top
1:10:28
of my head And I think it is a much more pleasant Mac startup sound than the other one It It is It is a soothing
1:10:33
gentle tone It's just a nice Yeah Can you play it right now and that's what it How would I play it right now do you
1:10:39
have it on your phone or something don't you have one of those sitting around right fired up in the Yeah I'll just say just just literally hit the power button
1:10:46
on it Yeah put your mic next to it You should be good Well you know that was a little tweak that I did when I started
1:10:52
editing the show I changed the Mac startup sound from the whatever one Airon was using to the Quadra apparently
1:10:57
over to the Power Mac 5400 And you know what i think in Tom is maybe the first person who has ever noticed Oh I doubt
1:11:04
that's true He's just the first person who's ever said anything Yeah You say that the download uh numbers are down
1:11:10
Maybe this is uh they're they're they're they're cratering actually ever since that sound was introduced Now we know
1:11:15
why You said the Power Mac what quadra i I think it's the 5400 that I use I'm
1:11:21
going to play it right now 5400 Play it on Okay Well let's
1:11:26
see Let's see if I can pull this up on
1:11:32
Oh see these are all the chimes not just that one Check Mac Tracker Don't you have Mac Tracker on your phone uh
1:11:38
excellent app for playing various Macintosh No I don't
1:11:46
Whoa Jeez Pretty complicated Can you guys hear it
1:11:51
You know why it's because I connected my phone via Bluetooth to my soundboard today See not all playing around leads
1:11:59
to bad um outcomes Um but this is playing music that I don't know that we're allowed to play So now I I can't
1:12:04
actually play this Um but actually it occurs to me this is an extremely useful tool going forward Okay Um real time
1:12:12
followup There is no power Macintosh 5400 I don't remember Maybe it's the 6400 I I don't remember off the top of
1:12:17
my head the model number of the sound that I use but it is the one I prefer So uh tough That's PowerMax 6400 First boot
1:12:26
in a long time Um let's see if this does it This is a long video though
1:12:31
[Music] No that's not it That's not the one All right Well we'll have to look for it Now
1:12:38
I'm Now I'm curious I'm not even sure that I noticed the distinction All right But you know what what I can
1:12:45
play i got an idea That song right there That's it
1:12:50
That's all the cults we have for you guys this week Thanks to everyone who sent in a um a voicemail Please keep
1:12:56
sending them I actually really like that segment a lot It's fun to hear your feedback and um it's fun to get to talk
1:13:02
about stuff with the people that listen to the show So that's really cool Um but that's it That's all the cool cast we have for you guys this week The party
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Colt of 95mm rumors.com Uh we won the lawsuit so that's great Um although
1:13:26
there is an appeal and this we might have to take this all the way to the Supreme Court but until then the um both URLs will stay If you want to come out
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hang out with me and Lewis We're both on the allnew X Duke and Out I'm at Airfron ErF Lewis is at Lewis Wallace Griffin is
1:13:39
DGriffin Jones Just Google that There's hundreds of places he lurks just waiting for your encounter You might not even
1:13:45
know he's there He's just waiting in the shadows and all of a sudden you just feel a hand on your shoulder It's Griffin at D Griffin Jones um on your
1:13:52
platform of choice He's probably there Um
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when does the cast come out this has been the hookcast the best 30 plus minute outcry you're going to hear all
1:14:03
week long Griffin new episodes of the hookcast come out every Thursday night I want to thank everyone for listening and for hanging out live and we will see you
1:14:11
guys next time I should have just waited another five or six seconds in just absolute
1:14:17
awkward silence Don't you love that just awkward silence
1:14:23
and while we're seeing an awkward silence I'll just refresh the browsers on all my open tabs for Nintendo Switch
1:14:30
2 to see if anyone's got one in stock No that's
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it That's my greatest mist Yeah I'll shoot
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