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The next big leaps for iPad and Apple Watch! (CultCast #693)
May 6, 2025
This week, Apple is getting ready to launch the M5 iPad Pro! Also, details on the next TWO MacBook Pros, the future of Apple Health, the weird prototype Apple Watch, big news for iPhone game emulation, Visa taking over Apple Card, and an awesome pro tip for replacing Siri. Finally: a surprise product unboxing and hands-on! 0:00 Preshow 20:38 Intro 25:46 Factor 28:21 M5 iPad and MacBook Pro 36:55 AI Health app 44:15 Squarespace 46:06 Apple Watch Series 10 53:23 Delta online multiplayer 58:23 Unboxing
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oh man this that's just wrong That's it's a lie It's
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fake news Fake fart news That's great
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I think we're Where's the tweet Oh you're waiting for the tweet action Uh you'll be waiting a little longer Yeah
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It's making my stomach roll Let's You want the tweet action Here you go There you go
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Calm down Lewis That vein in your forehead's getting very bulgy
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Sounds slightly uh buttthead
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Like oh man we got Lane Gandandy here The new iPhone is going to be like $1,500
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dude Yeah Well that's going to be before tariffs Just wait till the tariffs Carlos L's here with a very enthusiastic
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Hey We got Betty Reyes here I think we got enough I think we have enough to
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start Oh dude We We We have to at least mention
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the tariffs It's not even in the show notes but I feel like we we got to say something I don't see how I don't see
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how Apple can escape price increases if this if this holds It's going to have to
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These tariffs are so huge Then unless unless Tim Cook cuts a
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another special deal of some kind maybe in some way maybe but I don't I
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don't think that's going to happen personally but who knows who knows
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um and there's no escaping it I feel like everywhere that things get manufactured outside the US there's you
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think Tim Cook is just going to give up You don't think he's going to try and capitulate Oh I think he's going to try administration Oh it's it's TC we're
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talking about here He's gonna wheel and deal and invite everyone over for Thanksgiving dinner but I don't know
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that it's gonna work I don't think that he's gonna be able to negotiate his way out of it May maybe I would I hope
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that I'm wrong TC Oh god he's the best He's the best in the biz right I mean his eyes get all squinny and you're like
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"Oh man do the whole point of implementing the tariffs so that companies can then bribe the
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administration and then get their special cutout." That's the whole point Yeah I don't know if that's true
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But I haven't heard of any carveouts but I haven't like researched it They just
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got announced Yeah I was going to say they just got announced I I don't know I mean scrambling has just begun The sc
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the great scrambling All right Oh man All I want to do is really just talk about Switch
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too because that was one of my favorite announce that will probably be one of my favorite announcements of the year
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probably of the next five years to be honest with you It just hit really Oh dude It it hit it hit so many points for
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me that I I was hoping it would hit I just I don't know that we'll see This is
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the thing This is this is we can't even talk about it really on this show cuz that's Let's Let's just do a little Let's do a little chat chat right now
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What What are you most excited about about this He's excited about the price He loves the This is the one thing I was The price is just fantastic
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You trying to trigger me H uh well the
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big marquee feature 4K 4K on a console that size the price not thrilled with
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but you got to pay for all those K's man you got to fork it over man just you wait
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the price can get worse Yeah Well that's kind of what I'm wondering I'm like did
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Nintendo price this with the expectation of having a buffer in case there were
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tariffs put in place or are they caught off guard and now they're like "Oh you thought the price was bad when we announced it Just wait until we bump it
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up 25% to account for the tariffs which they literally could do." But I think the outrage look I I put this on my uh
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on my on my profile on the all new X I exed it I still don't know what it's called post on X the tweet the profile
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or the profile the the base price of the console I don't like it It's a 50%
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increase in price I can deal with that even though I don't like it Okay fine
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The the original Nintendo Switch is almost 10 years old If you adjust for inflation it's actually not that
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significant of an increase in price Sure I I think that's a fair argument And plus they they improved this thing in so
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many ways I mean we kept asking for a Switch Pro and this thing basically delivered except for the OLED screen
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which I'm still on the fence about cuz OLED is sometimes not the best technology for gaming So the price of
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the console I think annoyed a lot of people But I think what was more annoying
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is the Nintendo's posture towards pricing for gaming right So all the
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games seem to have gone up big time $80 plus tax for a game I think is outrageous Now we don't really know
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exactly how much gaming is going to be generally or if it's just specific games that are going to cost that much like Mario Super or Mario Kart World which
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may include updates over time We don't know that yet And if they do then I'm like okay well then that's fine But for
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other games Nintendo has so many games where you're like dude this is this might be a first-p partyy game Mario
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Golf is not worth $80 It's barely worth $20 right And they're going to they might try to do that And I think what is
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even more controversial than anything else this is it This is this is the one
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that took everyone from annoyed to outraged And why people across the
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internet have their pitchforks is there are Nintendo Switch 2 versions of the
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game now And Nintendo expects you to pay extra if you already own the game to
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like upgrade to like the 4K textures or to upgrade to get the new features You
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already own the game So if you buy a new console it should just enable that stuff
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but no no no Nintendo wants you to pay for it I think that's Well it's extra
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content in a lot of those games as well Yeah you can just take your Nintendo Switch games and play them on the Switch
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too perfectly fine and not pay anything But if you want the extra content if you want to you know pay for the extra
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engineering cost that it took to retool these games to take advantage of the greater hardware then yeah that costs a little bit of extra money I was also
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among the people who made a sarcastic post about that on social media but mostly in just I that doesn't upset me
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at all It seems perfectly reasonable If you pay for a if you if you get a remastered version of a game for a new
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console that costs money And that's exactly what this is If you don't want to pay it just pay the just play the
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original cartridge in there I don't know if it's that cut and dry because I would guess that the games were originally
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made to be playable in 4K Like I I kind of I would question how much work there
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went that had to go into making a game available in 4K
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because I imagine because when they made the game 4K was ubiquitous in gaming or mostly ubiquitous it was you know very
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common And so I think that they probably made those games knowing that they would need to be available in 4K And so while
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there probably is some engineering work that went into it it's not like they created the game in 1995 and it has to
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be remastered All the textures and everything have to be redone like a game from that era I'm going to guess it's
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significantly less work than that And do we also do we know how much it costs to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 edition
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Upgrading from the I don't think we know the cost I don't think we know that that the it might only be $5 maybe And also
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if you have Nintendo Switch online all the games that you want to see upgraded to 4K are included in your Nintendo
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Switch online uh subscription So it's like you already get them So I don't know man I'm not as outraged as
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everybody else is Uh we have Betty Reyes in the chat What's annoying is that they
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are charging for the tutorial What do they call that game Do do you remember Nintendo Switch 2 like introduction or
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something like that Yeah Which they said is a paid game and I think the price has come out as being $10 That's kind of
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silly Yeah That that that that that was not a good move I mean to think
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that anyone would want to pay you for a game that looks like a demo is is so outrageous and preposterous It just took
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people from outraged into apoplelectic There you go Louis Love it put that in
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your editor and smoke it And I have Oh sorry Go ahead It just made people it
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just enforced the sentiment that Nintendo is being greedy and is not willing to give anything away to anyone
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which I'm not saying that they are I'm just saying that is the sentiment because historically Nintendo gives you a free
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game of some kind when you get the console Well that's not I guess necessarily universally true but there
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have been times where they gave you a free game like a good game like Nintendo Sports right And now they're not giving
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you nothing It's like oh you want a game Fork it over pal You know 90 bucks Hey wait a second Sounds familiar Sorry What
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were you gonna say Griffin I have two thoughts Um first of all the rising price makes sense when you consider a
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little bit Like I think what what's really cool is that they're turning the Nintendo Switch dock into like a more
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powerful It's like your doc you know it's not just like a passive piece of plastic that gives you an HDMI port on it Like it has active cooling inside the
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dock itself I'm really curious to see how that works too Really cool I think I mean it's really because you know Yeah
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Yeah It it's cool because it it provides extra cooling and that's probably what enables like the extra power when it's
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docked Like people have been asking for a long time you know Yeah I I never use my Switch handheld I just like a you
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know console I don't either Entertainment center docked almost all the time No power And with active
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cooling in the dock that's pretty much what you get I think that's really neat Um dude hold on a second I'm typing this
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into my chat GPT window so I can have all the features available By the way I've been using chat GPT and perplexity
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My life has changed guys My life is changed We should talk about these tools more sometime It is The more you use
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them the more you realize what they can do and the more you realize what types
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of jobs they're going to take over in the next five six years It's pretty crazy Like it's like they could create
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their own podcast now Like they don't even need us Now will they be as hilarious and as charming and as
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good-looking Probably not But will they be more accurate Without a doubt um of
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the Nintendo Switch 2 I could do I could do probably 10 hours of content just on
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the AI tools that are coming out Okay just so we have a list in front of me Okay so because we we were not prepared
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for this conversation at all You get the bigger screen 7.9 in screen which I think the previous Switch was like 6.5
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or something I don't actually remember I have a theory that the bezels on the Switch 2 are as big as they are because
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they're planning ahead When they come out with a Switch it'll have a slightly bigger screen and it'll fit in the exact
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same dimensions Oh dude 100% 100% There's so much delicious revenue opportunities they've built into this
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thing I mean just the fact that they ju just the fact that they released it with an LCD screen just I mean right there
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you know like in a year or two years they're going to release the OLED version and everyone's going to reby their switches again Um okay So I was
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close Oh my gosh dude I I just I can't believe this I just put this into chat
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GBT It's giving me like a full-on comparison table of all the differences between the Switch One and Switch 2 I'm
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telling you dude Mind-blowing Mind-blowing Think it's accurate Uh it tends to be very accurate Yeah Let's see
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here Switch two 7.9 in LCD screen Uh switch one 2000 2017 Wow I didn't
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realize it was that old Um 6.2 in Switch two 1080p screen Switch one 720 screen
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Dude um the new Nintendo Switch 120 Hz variable refresh rate No one saw that
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coming Uh Nintendo Switch One 60 Hz two HDR one no on HDR Uh docked output This
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4K 60 on the Switch 2 1080 at 60 frames per second on the Switch One The Joycon
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2 have magnetic attaches They also have um versus that rail sliding mechanism which I didn't love Um they also have
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magnetic um thumb sticks I think which is a big deal Magnetic sensors on the thumb sticks Yes which I think will make
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them more reliable cuz there was a lot of um thumbstick drift on the Switch One Although I never really had that issue
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Thumbstick drift I know Tell me about thumb stick drift Uh I could go on and on and on and on and on and on But uh
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they have the they have the the sliding mouse mode and they they came out with like the you know the I don't know like
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the the basketball like you know style game for that Did Did you watch the the
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introduction video for that Yeah I did Yeah I did It that game I don't remember what it's called That's like roll and
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something Y roll and dunk or something like that It's like a basketball Rolling Thunder That's what they should have called it Something like that It that
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demo very much reminded me of ARMS for the original Nintendo Oh yeah I I never
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touched ARMS Yeah But I remember I remember the game Uhhuh It was a huge marketing push I don't know anybody who actually played it but it it just had
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this the same the same vibe for me Like Well the thing about that game I mean obviously it's cool that they made a game where there's people riding around
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in wheelchairs wheelchairs playing basketball for that reason alone Cool But the problem that I saw immediately I
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was like you got to have a table or a flat surface to play this game How many people have a flat surface available to
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them while they're gaming on their TV What do you mean Do you not have a table in your living room What Not one where I
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could like put the Joy-Con down and like play together with other people No
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So I guess if you have a coffee table maybe Yeah I guess a lot A lot of people do Like what do you have in your living
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room I have a small one but I wouldn't say that it's big enough to to to use for a game like that Not to mention it's
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always covered in like stuff like food cuz people use it to eat and stuff Yeah I don't know man Maybe I'm out of touch
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Children probably Uh okay Well I'm trying to see if there's anything
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else really quick I think I saw like Nvidia published a blog post today bragging about like how they're powering
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the new Nintendo Switch 2 and whatever And they had they had one line there that I don't think Nintendo talked about at all They're saying that the Switch 2
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has 10 times the power of the original Nintendo Switch Wow dude It is
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bonkers Absolutely insane And I know we we we overuse that word but it truly is
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that you can do 4K gaming on on a Nintendo Switch because it's basically like a big cell phone And I really I
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really question how well it's going to work Are you going to get good frame rates when you're walking through like
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the Cororo forest in um um in uh Breath
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of the Wild at 4K 60 Hz The last look at Look at I've been I've been cleaning my
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desktop off I'm so entranced with this I feel like I'm a macro data refiner I'm just like this does feel like macro data
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refiner shots into my trash can Hold on Last last point If you played Breath of
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the Wild and loved it as much as anyone who played Switch you could not go through the Cororo Forest without
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getting getting down to about six frames per second right And that was at like 720p Now you're they're supposed to be
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able to do it at in 4K I just I'm like is that even possible on a console of this size They're going to have to it's
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going to have to be like upscaled 4K which is probably exactly what it is If it's if it's Nvidia it's not true 4K
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They're probably going to generate the frames at 1080p and then and then upres them them to 4K or something which is fine I think Nvidia calls that
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technology DLSS I think And it's standard across all Nvidia GPUs now I
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think that it is the case when it's doing 4K which you know whatever As long as it looks good I don't really care
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Being able to play those games on my 4K television I actually stopped playing Tears of the Kingdom um for a variety of
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reasons not cuz I didn't like it and I want to go back and play it but it was hard
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to see that game graphically on my 4K TV because it just looked so bad And to
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have it up upres to 4K is going to be such a transcendent experience I'm actually going to going to go back
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through and play the entire game Maybe even Breath of the Wild if I can find level remix Did we talk about how they
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left out OLED We we touched on it man I don't know why they did it I don't know if if it was like a technical decision
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or if they just want some of that sweet delicious revenue that they're going to get in a year or two when they're like
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"Oh hey you know we need a mid cycle bump Here's that OLED switch that you
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all have wanted." By the way how much is it going to be The new one's 450 You want an OLED Okay I was annoyed by that
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at first until I remembered I just bought an OLED television and I'm probably never going to see the built-in screen so it shouldn't bother me Yeah
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dude I I'm so excited I mean a lot of people are upset They're saying they're going to boycott Nintendo I I I get that
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sentiment I don't love everything that they did but the truth of the matter is is it's my favorite console The first
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party games are finally being available in 4K and their first party games are
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amongst my favorite games that exist So the Don even the Donkey Kong game that's
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coming out which kind of looks like Donkey Kong Mario Mario Odyssey um I'll probably get and I don't even really
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love I keep trying to make myself love Donkey Kong games I can't I I I don't think I've played a single one where where I was like "This is actually fun."
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Like I feel like I'm doing my homework I'm forcing myself to get through the experience So I'm so bad at video games
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I was never able to play Donkey Kong Country for the SNES because it's it's basically just a harder version of Super
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Mario Brothers And I was already only barely able to play Super Mario Brothers 3 So I there was no way I was gonna be
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able to play Donkey Kong Country I'll give it a shot though It's probably gotten easier since then Well it Super
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Mario Odyssey I think is one of the best Mario games that they ever made That game was so much fun And if they're
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going to if they're going to remake it as a Donkey Kong game you know I'm all for it Let's wrap up with this Sorry I know we're Louis looks like he's about
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to like Louis looks like he has intense thinking about going and you know cleaning my downstairs Uh hold on We'll wrap up
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there Do we know what time we can pre-order the Switch 2 We don't know the time but pre-orders commence on April
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9th at major retailers I'm gonna guess at midnight The console releases on June
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5th The base price is $4.49.99 And Louis has won physically
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left the room And uh the limited edition bundle which includes Mario Kart World which I think is going to include future
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updates For that price I think they're going to give you content for like a certain period of time That one is
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$499.99 That's the one I'm going for It's going to be an expensive purchase man But we're I I don't know about you
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I'm going to get so much gameplay out of this thing And Nintendo knows this And the Switch One be was so popular they
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probably underpriced it They probably could have charged more I mean you could hardly find a Nintendo Switch for like two years
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I remember I had to get my Switch like way after release date just because uh I had heard a rumor that
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the local GameStop in Athens was getting like a shipment of them So I like drove out there early in the morning before
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any of my classes I was still in college at the time and like waited outside for them to open and then I bought it But
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then because I was in college I didn't have any money to buy Zelda after I bought it
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All right look at poor Lewis Poor Lewis Wallace Let's go ahead and wrap it up Well let's start That was a great
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podcast Should we start the show Oh we didn't do it yet All right let me
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just Oh jeez What a wind up prekun Lewis All right let's go ahead and uh queue up
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Mrs You know who or Mrs D Oh my dear I also like to switch it up
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Switching positions with Alcania That's That is gross Lis did you
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hear that foul Yeah it's Mrs D No one wants to hear that ever again If you
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don't mind we have a show that we want to do here and talk about some apples My
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god it's already 2:15 I know Let's go ahead and get the music going in three Gee what
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Hello and welcome to the cold cast the best 30 plus minute Nintend uh Apple conversation You're going to
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hear all week long I'm your host every join me today People often wonder what illegal substances he takes to make his
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eyes so bulgy and red It's actually totally natural It's the result of the
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constant state of rage he's in from correcting cult writer errors on a daily basis He's the manager
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cult is here Yeah Okay Allegedly Also with us when
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not riding for cult this summer You'll find him running the event larpath park
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a Star Wars fan event where they practice their force hand waves lightsaber duels and Jedi robe sewing
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He's a writer called the Mac Griffin Jones is here You write a lot of these Star Wars
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based intros for me but you don't like Star Wars is not even my favorite phandom You got to write more Doctor Who
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themed ones Those might actually be true That's a great suggestion Amen If he
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goes to lar part for Star Wars it's not even I mean if the order goes Doctor Who Star Trek then Star Wars like way at the
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bottom Oh man you know that's um that's good information to have I don't know anything about Doctor Who though I know
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they have a telephone booth Exterminate That's about all I know Oh
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no Look that up He's breaking out the toys There we go I
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could never make fun of a man for having toys Can you see what's going on behind me I can say nothing
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All right everyone Well you missed a great prek I don't know Maybe Uh Oh boy He sure did Oh my god Maybe the Gripster
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will put this in at the end of the show I I gather that he was thinking about it which is why he wanted to do it But we
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did a full I don't know 15 minutes on the Nintendo Switch 2 which dude I could do another hour to be honest with you
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But we got to talk about some Apple stuff We should probably also talk about tariffs at some point because those
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could affect people Oh god I promise not to All right Well I mean maybe just mentioning how it could could affect
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people but uh let's see here We're going to be talking about uh Apple prepping the M5 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro Of
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course I just bought mine Of course they're coming out with new ones right after I bought mine So uh Griffin's going to tell us about Apple's plan to
23:01
put an AI health coach on all your devices Finally something that AI will do that's useful for you Louis is going
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to talk about Apple Watch 10 to 10 prototype reveals Did I read that right 10
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prototype reveals mysterious new health sensor Oh I love the uh giant question
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mark box there Griffin's going to tell us about emulators um and multiplayer
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for Nintendo DS Is this in iOS What am I missing here or is this just emulators
23:30
in general This is this is for for the iPhone app Yeah Okay I missed that part iPhone and iPad Uh let's see here And
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then he's got a live unboxing of some kind of mystery product that neither Lewis nor I know about So that will be
23:45
interesting for people listening Uh of course you can always watch the Coltcast at
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watch.thequotecast.com and all of our episodes are archived there on our YouTube channel Um you can catch the
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shows live on Thursdays We typically go live See here's the thing People keep asking me like when do you go live I
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want to watch The problem is is that we don't go live at the same time We're typically live between 12:30 Today we're
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live at 2:00 p.m This is really late We don't typically go live this late but but usually around 12:30 you're going to
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be pretty safe because we generally start around that time Sometimes 12:45 but we're usually kind of around that
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time at uh live.cast.com Um there was something else I was gonna
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mention Do you remember what it was Griffin Oh yeah We're gonna kick it off
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with a comment um from someone who texted us By the way you can text us so
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easily just straight from your phone Takes like two step two two steps two two seconds Just go to the show notes at
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anything wrong with the download capability of the podcast in the p past couple of episodes I have not been able
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noticed in the download numbers we switched podcast hosts and it looks like there's something going on So if you're
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having a problem would you let us know somehow I don't know how widespread this problem is but unsubscribing and
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resubscribing seems to fix it for a lot of people but not for everybody And we're not quite sure what's going on and
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we're trying to figure what we need to do about this So yeah um from the people who like haven't been able to listen to
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the podcast because they won't even hear us say this Touche That's right They're just gone forever Tell your friends
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That's a great point Tell your friends That's a great point Um all right So if you were having
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a problem and you're back welcome back Let us know I'm just curious how widespread the problem is Let's see here
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your first factor bang bang My first factor bang bang Yeah What does that
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even mean I have no idea Really Come on now Two meals back to back Oh I don't
29:07
remember When was a pork chop And let me tell you this dude I know we're done with the uh the uh promotion Pork chops
29:14
are hit or miss business man It is hard to cook a good pork chop Like pork chops generally end up being like Italian shoe
29:21
leather You don't know how to cook them Well that's the problem That's what I'm saying I would say I I actually do know
29:26
how to cook them Most people do not And I made tons of bad chops in my life It
29:33
It is hard to cook a juicy succulent pork chop And so when I started trying it I was like
29:38
we'll see how this goes But all I can say is it was delicious The sauce was great And you know you know what How you know for sure it's good You could cut it
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with a fork Lewis That's how you know that meat is juicy and succulent and you're going to be enjoying that meal If
29:51
you can cut a piece of meat with a fork you're in for a tasty endeavor All right let's go ahead and
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Now I'm hungry Now you're hungry for dinner I'm making a um I'm making a uh a
30:03
corn beef tonight Louis Really Corn beef Corn beef baby I haven't made one in a long time I've been waiting for this one
30:10
I got it sitting in my fridge And tonight I think it's the night That cow's going in the pot Should we talk
30:15
about some Apple stuff Sure thing me Back to me Oh whoops I almost just closed the entire
30:22
stream That would not be good Let's talk about M5 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro
30:29
launching later this year Can I go ahead and bring up my story There we go Well
30:34
you knew it was going to happen because I just bought mine Of course mine didn't have the tariffs in place when I made
30:40
the purchase So maybe I uh I still did make the right call But according to
30:47
Mark German and his Power newsletter Apple is in the late stages of testing
30:52
the M5 iPad Pros Now we weren't sure if these were going to come in 2026 It seemed like they were but it
30:59
seems like they actually might be coming in the second half of 2025 according to
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German late in Q3 or early Q4 which is not far from now So the Christmas season
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this would align with Apple's 18month refresh on flagship iPads If you're
31:15
wondering what we're going to get well it's probably going to just be a spec bump Just a spec bump up to M5 And you
31:21
know what I say this to my great shame I am coming from the from the uh A12X iPad
31:27
Pro the 2018 model to the the M4 And I got to
31:32
say I'm not noticing a lot of differences You know I just don't do
31:39
anything that stresses these iPads in any way shape or form And they're already so powerful that I'm really not
31:45
doing anything that I feel like makes me really see the power Now the new screen
31:50
is OLED and it's beautiful and the blacks are definitely blacker and it's a
31:56
little springier when I do stuff and I don't know I don't notice that apps have to like reload if I have too many open
32:03
So there's a few things but other than that and the Apple Pencil support actually is definitely much improved Um
32:09
there's the hovering cursor there's ability to to to turn the cursor when you're hovering So there are some good
32:15
improvements There's less lag when you're writing but um it's amazing that
32:20
there aren't more noticeable differences Stage manager you didn't have stage manager before That is true And uh I
32:27
plan on not using it now Yep Actually you know what I think I did have stage manager Was that not available on the
32:32
2018 I think it was Oh yeah I think they I think they may have ported it back because enough people complained about it I think I did try it and I used it
32:40
for about two hours and I was like "No." But now you can use stage manager with an external display You definitely
32:45
couldn't do that before That might be true I never use my iPad with an external display Well I do sometimes but
32:51
not very often But you know what I'm still happy to have it It's a beautiful machine I got 512 GB of storage So now
32:56
I'm using it as my photo editing um uh computer which I never did before And as
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soon as I I I would say tried it out and discovered this was this was a good way
33:08
to use the iPad I'm like "Oh my gosh this is this is this is the way to like view and manage your photo library." And
33:14
that way the photos don't clutter your uh your Mac and you have a much better like user experience viewing the photos
33:21
editing the photos I absolutely love it So for me I just wanted to upgrade because I've had my iPad for a while and
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I have the 512 gigabytes now that I'll be using for photos Uh anything else
33:32
here to say Maybe not really Um well we know that it's the M5 is going to be a spec bump but um it's not even going to
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be that much of a bump Uh this is from the story This will result in only a 5% boost in performance and a modest 5 to
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10% gain in efficiency So just a spec and honestly more like a tap A spec tap
33:52
It's Apple being able to put the new icon on the glyph on apple.com So when
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you go to buy it uh for the holiday season you're like "Oh I should get one." Right So but you know what If it's
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a little bit faster I'm sure there'll be some other minor tweaks There you go If you're planning on getting an iPad Pro
34:12
um I I think a refer is is probably not a bad idea I mean we don't know how all
34:18
of these tariffs are going to affect all of our lives I don't see with the
34:23
magnitude of the tariffs that we saw unless Apple carves out unless TC carves out something for Apple and co which you
34:30
know Griffin was mentioning earlier could happen If that doesn't happen I don't know how Apple eats the cost for
34:35
all these tariffs I just don't see I mean the tariffs are so big and it's not just Apple but all these companies I
34:41
don't see how they eat that cost I mean can they swallow a 10% tariff Probably It's a 34% tariff on products from China
34:48
is it not I don't know Like 45 I don't know if Apple and Apple only has a 28%
34:54
profit margin on their hardware Yeah So like that's what I'm saying right If the tariff is across the board one flat rate
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which I don't know that it is but I think it I think it is and there's no carveouts your Apple products are gonna
35:06
go up big time Um Apple's not going to eat all that cost And I don't know if you would look at the stock market today
35:12
but you know the stocks are reacting accordingly Avert your eyes Yeah Don't
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look Don't look Oh my goodness How's your Apple stock doing
35:24
You're trying to trigger me Oh it's so funny You know what though Now is a great time to buy I really think that
35:30
now is a great time to buy because eventually the tariffs will probably go up I mean it might or go down or go away
35:36
It might be a year or two Who knows Or it could be two weeks I mean TC is going to get all squinny and start focusing
35:43
and come up with some kind of solution that none of us thought of before and Apple will carve out some kind of I I
35:49
honestly don't think that's going to happen I don't think there's going to be very many carveouts but but but we we'll see So but in the meantime dude let me
35:56
just say absolutely loving my M4 Max MacBook Pro The 14-inch absolute dream
36:02
Complete revelation Love that machine in every way shape and form Is it powerful enough to edit a YouTube video in 1080p
36:08
Not quite But I'm looking for some plugins that will help me get that YouTube video out without having to you
36:15
know wait you know what is going on with my screen right now Without having to wait you know process Is is your video done Is it shot and you just you just
36:21
can't edit it I just can't The video is complete I just can't export it because the M4 Max just can't handle all the
36:28
different elements I have It's been going for a few weeks now and it's you know eventually And then it crashes completely and I'm like are you serious
36:34
Oh yeah You're kidding right Oh yeah This is It's only got 40 GPU cores Lewis I mean Tim Tim Cook's gonna he's going
36:40
to sue you for this I was I think they got other more important pressing things on their mind
36:46
No of course Just just just it's just a gaff Just a goof Um all right Should we
36:51
move on Uh let's talk about maybe an actual useful way to get to use AI since
36:59
Apple's looking for those right now The AI health coach Griffin that's what we
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need to get healthy Is will this be useful We'll see Uh Apple's health team is focusing on Project Malberry an
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initiative combining a completely redesigned health app with an AI coach The service which has evolved from what
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was previously codenamed project courts I don't know why that information is useful uh is now in active
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development with a potential release in iOS 19.4 expected in spring or summer of
37:30
2026 An AI coach will analyze the information uh collected from your
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iPhone and iPad and Apple Watch and all the other sources and sensors to provide personalized health improvement
37:42
recommendations Apple is training this AI agent with data from its in-house physicians and
37:48
plans to incorporate videos from external medical experts specializing in sleep nutrition physical therapy mental
37:55
health and cardiology These videos will serve as educational resources explaining specific health conditions
38:01
and suggesting lifestyle improvements based on user data That part of it sounds kind of useful and that sort of
38:06
plays to Apple's forte Food tracking will be a central feature of the revamped app an area Apple has
38:13
largely avoided until now Additionally Apple is developing camerabased features
38:18
that would allow the AI coach to analyze users workout techniques and offer improvement suggestions potentially
38:25
integrating with Apple Fitness Plus that also feels like it you know plays right to their hand and their strengths there
38:32
As Apple establishes a facility a facility near Oakland California for physicians to create content for the app
38:39
the company is also searching for a prominent medical personality to serve as the face of what some Apple employees
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are informally calling Health Plus Oh man And to that I just to say they
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already have a doctor on their staff Dr Dre
38:57
Well I wonder if he's available He tours a lot doesn't he You know who would have been great Richard Simmons He could have
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been the guy Lewis RIP but he could have been the guy that could have taken these health features to the masses danced his
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way right into their hearts Yeah So again I think it's like integrating like
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food tracking that seems like a logical next step for the health app having having those like videos that already
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builds off of like what they already have where they have like you know built-in like suggestions and like info
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cards like if you're looking at I don't know resting heart rate they have like a little info card at the bottom of the
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data that says oh well this is a normal range this is what it means for your health and all that like that's just it
39:38
sounds like these rumors are just like turning that text into like you know more engaging videos and stuff because
39:43
people under 30 can't read and they only want to watch videos they can they just don't want to
39:49
Yeah I don't know using an AI coach AI powered thing that like trying
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to you know give you health recommendations based on AI that I am
40:01
skeptical to say the least like I mean everybody would say that
40:07
unabashedly I don't think anybody would argue that Google is ahead of Apple in the AI game right we all that and then
40:14
you talk about like I think my utility company is ahead of Apple in the AI game Yeah And Okay Well and then you look at
40:20
what Google is doing Like Google saying "Yeah it's safe to put glue on pizza Yeah it's safe to eat five to six donuts
40:25
a day as a girl." Like you can't This is nonsense You can't How can we believe
40:30
that Apple is actually going to do this when Google can't or Facebook can't like this is going to be absolute I how
40:39
do we how if they if they can't even make Siri do like the basic things that they showed off a year ago without you
40:44
know firing the entire like upper level of the team How are they going to possibly make this work Dude Apple is so
40:52
far behind And it's not just Apple I I think most companies are so far behind If you use any products from like any of
40:58
the companies that are out there that are making popular AI products like OpenAI dude dude these companies that
41:05
are on the cutting edge and then you see what what other companies are trying to do and they and the whole thing is so
41:11
trendy right now like the whole AI um movement but like once you see what's possible with with one of these and with
41:18
OpenAI is a great example like just the the the features that are public There's a lot of stuff that's not even public
41:23
that they're working on and then seeing what they can do and then seeing what Apple can do They're not even in the same dimension Um and I don't know how
41:31
Apple catches up Now now sure they have TC who gets real squinty and and and
41:37
um drives fear into the hearts of his employees because they know that you know he could discipline you in that
41:43
underground Apple white room that they have for people that leak that leak Apple rumors like John Proster
41:49
experienced But that fear only takes you so far You know I don't think it drives innovation
41:55
Um Google has um Notebook LM which is a
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pretty advanced AI product which you can use to like upload a huge PDF document
42:07
and then create I'm not even joking this is real create a podcast with two AI
42:13
personalities that talk about that content in one of the most realistic conversations I've ever heard any
42:20
artificial intelligence have sounded like two real people Like all the little ums and o's and oh yeah wa like all
42:26
those little things that people say like the breath noises everything man it will create a podcast from a complicated
42:33
topic that you upload that you can listen to at your leisure you know and then there's I bet
42:39
it sounds great the first time and I bet the 10th time you listen to one it's it's the same you know sprinkling of
42:46
Uhhuh dude it it it was completely natural it if you heard it there was
42:52
there is no way you would know that those were AI Absolutely no way At least at least in the snippet that I heard Um
42:58
and I think it's different every time you generate it Now I will say the voices were a little bit too NPR for me
43:04
Like you got to be able to to fine-tune the persona Like I want my podcast host to sound like Terry Bolea but they don't
43:11
have that They don't have that yet Um the other day I was listening to a a New
43:17
York Times podcast The Daily and I swear to God I the host
43:23
said Mhm so many times I actually I thought she has got that on a soundboard
43:29
She's got her mic off She's just sitting there and like every time this guy says something she's just going to press that button It It Oh my god I once I heard it
43:37
I I was like I got to stop listening to this I was getting I was just infuriious I I Oh my god It drove me mad I know
43:44
It's It's one of those things where like those sound effects are really useful in a conversation with someone because you
43:49
want to like encourage them to keep going but when you hear on a podcast it's very annoying So you have to like
43:56
you're conflicted because you're like I I want you to know that I'm listening to you but as a podcast listener I don't
44:01
want to hear all that extraneous noise It it it just ruins it for me Like when you're talking I only want to hear you
44:06
talking I don't want to hear the other guy go "Oh uhhuh Oh wow It's a great point." And I do that too You know like I'm guilty as charts but it is annoying
44:14
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squarespace.com/cultast and the offer code to use is coltcast at checkout Where were we Lewis I've completely lost
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my spot Oh dear Oh dear We were just talking about health right Okay The amazing By
46:27
the way I think that the uh person they should base the AI doctor on is is Hugh Lori from House That would be fun Get
46:36
off your fat ass and move You know honestly that would solve a lot
46:41
of health problems Louis I you appear to have just eaten your fourth chocolate
46:47
bar of the day Not a good choice I disavow They get the uh Please
46:53
continue think all the AI like the AI cameras from your uh AirPods you know
47:00
checking what you're eating in real time That would be a useful feature Yeah think about that It just shows you a a
47:06
uh an AI generated image of your man boobs growing 10% Yeah right At
47:12
projected rate of growth you'll look like a Q ball by next summer You will
47:17
need a new man's ear in approximately 35 days Oh god Yeah Okay So uh uh the next
47:24
story we have is this Apple Watch 10 prototype that revealed a mysterious new health sensor This thing surfaced online
47:30
Monday shared by Apple prototype collector on X known as Stella Fudge
47:36
You're right Remember this person the leaker formerly known as Choco Bit
47:43
I've got notifications turned on I I actually do I I follow this person
47:48
because they are always sharing really cool stuff about Apple Um so this image
47:54
is an Apple Watch Series 10 prototype supposedly with and it has a a circular sensor arrangement on the back of the
48:00
device that's radically different from the configuration found on the Series 10 models that actually shipped Um
48:08
are you showing the picture I'm showing it right now The Series 10 one has larger more space out sensors This
48:14
prototype has smaller sensors concentrated in the center sensor glass And uh as our reporter wrote perhaps
48:22
most intriguingly the prototype includes an additional ring of lights around the perimeter of the sensor area The purpose
48:28
of this ring remains unknown but its presence suggests Apple was testing enhanced health monitoring
48:35
capabilities Self wrote uh "At this time I don't know what the extra sensor is for but a test platform for blood sugar
48:42
is a likely possibility You know that's something Apple's been talking about trying to uh forever That
48:48
would be that would be bringing a I know we've said this before so forgive me if you heard me say this before Adding a
48:54
glucose meter to a easily accessible um affordable device like this would be one
49:00
of the greatest achievements in technology Period Full stop Awesome Yeah
49:06
it would change people's lives Apple's been working on forever Um this Apple
49:12
Watch prototype was uh running an internal build of watch OS
49:18
11.1 build number 22R5575X Wow In case you wanted to memorize that
49:23
You had that just memorized I know Yeah Yeah Uh so that was never publicly released Uh and it's you know supposedly
49:30
positioned somewhere between watch OS 11.1 beta 5 and the release candidate
49:35
Anyway uh you can't test apparently you can't test these prototypes unique sensors because the necessary apps can
49:42
only be retrieved from Apple's internal network servers Final retail version blah blah You know I don't know why
49:48
that's in the show notes Guess what Series 10 did not come with that blood sugar thing Came with practically
49:55
nothing It would have been awesome if it did as we've mentioned over and over on the show And it if if they had that type
50:01
of uh constant blood sugar monitoring the way that we have constant heart rate
50:08
monitoring I mean that's that's just a whole another level of always on useful data that can tell you about
50:15
how your health is trending how how your you know for instance decisions about
50:20
what to eat or drink affect you It'd be great I I honestly we uh Le wrote about this in
50:27
the newsletter this weekend We we had a poll about it you know do you would you like this And so many people were like
50:33
you know I have diabetes and it would be awesome to have this but other people were like you know I think the more
50:40
important thing is even when you don't have diabetes it it could give you really good actionable information Yeah
50:47
100% And the fact that like I think a few like a while ago maybe a year ago or so
50:53
we had last heard that Apple had developed a non-invasive blood sensor but it was like a roughly iPhone size
50:59
device that strapped to like your upper arm If that's if they've managed to like
51:04
at least create some manner of prototype that fits within a watch I mean that's that's a huge breakthrough Now whether
51:11
they can manufacture it that way or uh still make money without raising the cost to $12,000
51:17
right with that technology shrunken down to an Apple Watch that's the next problem to solve I mean it also could be
51:23
that this is completely wrong and that's just an unrelated sensor that we don't know about Maybe that's their uh own
51:28
in-house designed blood oxygen sensor Yeah it's true Could be Dude when are we getting that back Holy moly I I people
51:36
It's like people forgot about it or something Uh and one of the things that Leander said was that uh Tim Cook was
51:41
supposedly testing a watch with a a blood sensor like a Cook was wearing
51:48
a a watch had some sort of sensor or they were testing blood sugar
51:53
non-invasive sugar monitoring So I mean I if I remember correctly there was
51:59
something like oh it's just it's not accurate enough even for Apple's sort of um you know non-clinical non-diagnostic
52:07
sort of hey it seems as if you know this is not a health feature This is a wouldn't it be nice if you went and
52:14
checked with your doctor to see if what this appears to be showing is is actually true That kind of thing which
52:20
is which is fine I mean that would be helpful if if it was 90% accurate it would be helpful But anyway that would
52:27
definitely be a good start I I uh I I don't know It's funny Leander mentioned that and I and didn't find a link in the
52:34
post like I don't know exactly where he was I don't know where that rumor came
52:40
from that he was testing that So I hope it wasn't AI generated Oh cult
52:45
definitely not Although maybe you should consider
52:51
it It' be uh a lot cheaper to use AI than constantly be chasing down escape
52:56
cult writers I'm just saying Take take this Mark German tweet and turn it into a 300word news artic Hey you know what
53:04
You can do that Take this newsletter rephrase it change the paragraphs around
53:10
Make it sound more pleasant Hey that's an angle That's an
53:16
angle right there You know inject inject some hope All right let's let's move on Let's talk
53:24
about emulators cuz I love it More gaming talk
53:30
Leal favorite part of the show Lucky you Louis Hey you know what Maybe you should
53:36
get into gaming Louis Lewis I know you're not interested in the Switch 2 because you're such a fan of the
53:41
original Nintendo DS That's all Oh why would I play for Why would I play Mario Kart World when I can keep playing uh
53:48
Mario Kart DS Well I have news for you I don't even know what a DS is Oh it's a the Nintendo DS Oh you've got one on
53:54
hand Of course I've got one on hand I've got the original Nintendo DS Oh I've seen one of those Okay The ugly silver
54:00
one from like what 2003 Ugly How dare you I think it's I think it's gorgeous
54:06
I'm just quoting what other other people There's nothing Nintendo has ever made that's been ugly Does that have a plastic screen Oh yeah of course it does
54:14
Yeah it was 2003 It's a resistive touchcreen so it has stylus as well God
54:19
good stuff Anyways uh you don't need this hunk of junk anymore Uh because now we have Delta the
54:26
popular game emulator for various Nintendo systems on iPhone and iPad developed by friend of the show Riley
54:33
Testit and Shane Gil Uh version 1.7 brings live online multiplayer to
54:39
Nintendo DS games inside That's wild So like Nintendo discontinued their DS
54:45
online services in 2014 So now Delta is the one and only way to play Mario Kart DS and GTA Chinatown I haven't heard of
54:53
that game before but apparently it's another popular one This is the only way to play those games with live online multiplayer now Um this doesn't use
55:00
Nintendo servers Those are shut down forever But uh there's like this this fan community powered service that runs
55:08
like you know that basically mimics the Nintendo online service and runs in its
55:13
place And so without any modifications to the DS ROMs you can uh you know load
55:19
up Mario Kart DS in Delta and play live online multiplayer inside the Delta app
55:25
on your iPhone Wow that's bonkers man It's really cool uh users only need to
55:31
like select a preferred server within the emulator settings No complex DNS or
55:36
network configuration required So this is a pretty pretty major update Pretty cool Um another great feature that I
55:43
will be using is that it has improved support for the Nintendo 64 the greatest video game console in the world It's
55:49
it's one of the best It's one of the best ever made And Golden Eye on Nintendo 64 arguably one of the greatest
55:54
games one of the greatest eras in gaming history Golden Eye Yep Golden Eye 007 for the
56:02
N64 I've never played it There's life before Golden Eye And there's life after Lewis
56:10
And there's life without And then there's the life without which we all see how miserable that is
56:17
Could have been a turning point for me Well it's never too late to try Lewis There's lots of Nintendo 64s available
56:23
on eBay How does Nintendo allow this I always wonder that they just seem to
56:28
not care Delta Well they they're very relatigious about their recent consoles
56:34
Yeah But uh with Delta I think they I don't even know if they have GameCube support They only go up to the N64 and I
56:41
guess the Nintendo DS but nothing newer than that And they they've thus avoided
56:47
any litigation But it is surprising though because Nintendo is so latigious
56:52
You would think that it doesn't matter what generation console you're emulating that they would want to sue you for that
56:59
but I don't know Apparently not And it's especially confusing because
57:04
they they they recycle their games a lot So they'll make games available on their new consoles all the time And so they
57:12
have a vested financial interest in people not just being able to play these games in emulations
57:19
But it's cool that they don't do it because I think that would be a bad look optically and it would ruin their
57:26
goodwill There was a community like Nintendo Switch emulator uh emulator that was like going around
57:32
for PC and I think maybe Mac too And Nintendo not only made them shut down they made them like delete all of their
57:38
source code from the internet Wow Okay So they do sometimes they they pulled out all the lawyers for that Okay So
57:45
there are scenarios where they will they will they will sue you into oblivion and you'll end up in a Japanese goolog
57:52
for your remaining days taking apart circuit boards for recycling plants Uh by the way I'm sorry
58:00
that I just went fullon Michael Jackson here with my brightness in this room I can't control it My my camera is not
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connecting to my phone for some reason So I can't control my um exposure here So have fun with that reflection Anyways
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do we want to do the next story or do we want to jump straight to the unboxing Let's just go to the unboxing Man we're almost out of time Look how bulgy and
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red Louis's eyes are They're getting worse I have a very product to unbox Nice
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Let's see it So live without a net I'm getting nervous I'm going to switch to
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camera two here Oh camera Oh my Look at this Louis We got two cameras
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Wow This is great This is Look at this production value has never been better
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Okay let's see here I thought about setting up a camera too but like then you all see what is outside of the set
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that I have here and how horribly disheveled and and it looks like Lander Kenny's office in here Yeah we see you
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Looks great man Okay do we have any final guesses what this might be Um it
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looks like that thing they carried around in Pulp Fiction Is that box going to glow when you open it It is a large
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plastic case It's got a It's a It's like one of those Pelican cases Here's
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another clue Oh it's a Oh you got the Sigma camera didn't you That's what you got You got the full-frame Sigma Cam
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Well let's see Yeah that's what it is Do you have any guess which model It's that new one that they just announced You're
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right This is You wrap it in a handkerchief They did It's They've got this So it comes in like a Pelican case
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with the foam inserts and everything Inside they have This is the first time you've ever opened it Um I briefly
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opened it just to double check that like it didn't have my address on a piece of piece of paper in here But I and I did
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briefly turn on the camera but I'm going to reunbox it I opened it up exactly as it was You you you should you should
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give some preamble about what this is because a lot of people aren't going to know why this is special Yes Yes I'll
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I'll do that as we're going So we've got this uh handkerchief style wrapper
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that's sort of sticky on the inside not nearly wrapped in Unwrap it here to
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reveal This is a full-frame camera but what's special about it is really its
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design This like got a lot of um a lot of excitement just because of how cool
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it looks Yeah it's very like Johnny IV Oh I think the camera might be flipped on the video but anyways Yeah it's
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basically just a solid block of aluminum some some texture on the side Um very
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very simple controls They don't actually physically click these buttons They're they're touch sensitive Okay Very Oh but
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I guess it rotates It's got a wheel That's good Okay Got a little jog wheel Okay And we've got the lens here That is
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I don't know if Apple would make that camera today but if Apple made a camera back in like the iPod days like that's
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what it would look like Oh yeah Look at that All solid aluminum solid Beautiful
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I think they might have a black one too but like or maybe they don't I don't know But honestly like the silver one is
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is is what it's what it's for you know It's got that got that great look to it So we'll
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put the lens on It has this neat little catch release to uh release the lens cap
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or the camera attachment Is this camera even released yet I don't think it is I was going to say I
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don't this is the first time I'm actually I guess there were some people who had this on YouTube like this is the first time I'm actually seeing one
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um in the wild I should also say they are not um letting me keep this It's a
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very expensive camera Yeah this is just for a brief review period Let me try and figure out how to attach this thing
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Oh no See hopelessly bent He bent the
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pins Sing want their $8,000 back Is there another thing that I've got to do
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here Let me put the lens cap back on just so I don't destroy that while I'm trying to manhandle this thing and figure it out Uh while you're doing this
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I'm going to rattle off some specs Uh 24.6 megapixel full-frame sensor Um it
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has internal storage 230 gigs of internal storage which they say is good enough for 14,000 JPEGs 4,300 uh images
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anywhere on the camera Oh it doesn't even have a slot on it at all Not only does it have internal storage there's no SD card slot I did not know that Um
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Lmount compatibility So Sigma lenses Lmount lenses that's kind of a lesser
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used lens mount would would be my guess or is my take Compatible with Leica lenses and of course Sigma's own lenses
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Um it's only Oh it's available in April Price is 2,000 bucks
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That's cheaper than I thought I'm really curious It says the autofocus system is
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Let me see here Where does it say this Hybrid I don't think it's AI powered It probably could could use some AI Hybrid
1:03:05
phase and contrast detection I'm really curious It says it can recognize people dogs and cats you know Yeah we'll see
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how well it works I I'll be really curious to hear your opinions on this Griffin This camera was like if I can if
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I can put it together I'm still fiddling with this thing It's a good thing I'm here vamping Um but what explain what
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full-frame means It's the size of the sensor So they describe there's
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different sensor sizes Full-frame is probably one of the most popular types of sensor sizes It means that well it
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has a full um sensor size Um I don't know exactly what the dimensions are of the sensor but it it enables like
1:03:44
shallower depth of field It's usually it has um better lowlight performance Um
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anything larger than fullframe is I would say going to be more professional grade like like medium format would be
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the next size up which has a really huge sensor Large format even bigger than that But full-frame is like the by far
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the most ubiquitous Um well maybe not I was going to say in the world of
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consumer cameras it probably is close but crop sensors might be more popular Um but like in photography professional
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photography it's it's really common to for people to use it matches the size of
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a classic 35 millimeter film frame The image sensor does fullframe does That's
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what that's what Google AI search says I thought that um refers to a digital
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camera with an image sensor that matches the size of a classic 35mm film frame Um
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what's the difference between Super 35 After roughly five minutes of fiddling with it I have attached the lens
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Yeah a very easy to use camera Uh
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Sigma logo Oh it came charged That's nice Take my first picture of uh the
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view out my window Oh he's gonna reveal his secret location Here we go
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Oh dude So it has the exposure on the on a little screen on the back This thing
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looks so futuristic It just looks like it came from outer space By the way if you want to watch
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this and you're listening to it my apologies Um watch.cast.com
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watch.thecult.com Um we're probably about an hour into the show so it should
1:05:27
be somewhere around that mark Although the show should have chapter markers Griffin you always add chapter markers to the show right Oh yeah So you know
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we've got um focus or something here I I have not That's the aperture isn't it Oh
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that Yeah that is the aperture After selection the focus Yeah good stuff Yeah Physical dials Wow It I just had a huge
1:05:47
flashback to like focusing a camera Yeah You don't do much when autofocus didn't
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exist I do remember that actually My first camera was a uh was a manual focus
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Not a manual focus camera Um but a film camera I hated that thing I don't think I ever would have became a photographer
1:06:04
if film still existed or you had to use it I don't have the patience for it Friend of mine is is going around taking
1:06:11
film photos and and apparently Lander's kid does the same thing It's like it's a
1:06:16
fad now Yeah It's just so expensive I mean you got to buy the film say what a
1:06:21
pain you know taking the things to get them developed and and then waiting and then and then finally getting like oh
1:06:28
god six pictures of a lens cap and four blurry shots of a nothing That picture
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looks pretty good man Here Yeah Okay So let's I'm really I'm really excited to hear what your opinion is of this camera
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Let's see Let's see if I can do a selfie here All right Point it at myself Oh my god
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Let's see what majesty I've captured Oh yeah Oh yeah Look at that It's got the
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back He's got a hand grabbing your head The the people focus is working great
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Your face is totally blurry Well to be fair he just turned around and pointed it at himself So yeah Yeah
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Yeah Uh that I guess that's another note Uh this camera does not have a rotating screen So although this um a lot of
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people are describing this as you know kind of like what you would expect as like a dentist camera Like it's really
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fancy It looks really cool It's a little bit behind on specs and it compro has a few design compromises just to have its
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bold new look And Sigma is predominantly a lens company They've
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made a few cameras before but this isn't they never made one that was popular They haven't been too successful If
1:07:33
you're going to start out and you want to make your mark as a camera company I think this is the move to do Like it's a
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gorgeous camera It's getting a lot of attention simply because of how it looks I mean that's honestly the reason why I
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requested a review unit as well Yeah Um it's the right move but you know is this
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a camera that I would personally plop down $2,000 for Not at the moment But um
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it's just not very practical without the screen being able to swivel in some way But if it takes beautiful pictures
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really cool It although it's basically a gigantic like rectangle I will say it's much more comfortable in the hand than I
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was expecting That's what I was going to ask It looks like it would be a pain thumb scoop right here It has a little
1:08:15
corner cutout in the side It doesn't have like that big you know rounded grip that you're supposed to curl your hand
1:08:21
around in the front But even without that you know I can grip it with my thumb pretty well And it's got like the
1:08:28
grips on the side where you would naturally hold on to And it's it's thick enough where I feel like I've got a good
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grip on it Maybe if you had larger hands than I do but um or what if you put on a larger longer lens I mean geez Oh yeah
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Yeah that would be super uncomfortable Actually that's what I mean Like this camera is not practical in any way Like
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to your point Griffin it is smart that they did this to kind of garner some attention for themselves because like the sleek minimalist design and it looks
1:08:55
like a movie prop So maybe they'll sell some of these to Hollywood But this being an actual popular camera just
1:09:02
because of all the limitations I just don't know that anyone would take this camera seriously I think I remember
1:09:08
hearing that they're not actually going to make very many of these They had like a maximum run of maybe like 2,000 of them Okay So they're not going to make a
1:09:14
lot anyways They're like they will they'll probably they probably made enough to completely sell out and you
1:09:22
know it'll just be a fun like historical product for camera nerds but and design nerds But Yeah These are my first
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impressions of it I'll pro I'll definitely have like a more in-depth review in the future Cool man While I
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wait until August 23rd so I'll be writing a review on this Wow They let you They let you keep it for that long
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Yeah that's forever They're like h don't worry about sending it back if you want to Go ahead
1:09:48
That's wild What's this thing called again The Sigma Sigma BF Sigma BF It's
1:09:54
going to be your BFF Really BF huh Okay Yep I do have to say
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I do like Sigma I am using a um a Sigma lens on this camera which is overexposed
1:10:07
right now so don't blame that on them But their art lenses just all their lenses are affordable but really
1:10:13
beautiful and create beautiful images Um so I like what Sigma is doing I'm
1:10:18
curious to see what they end up doing and where they go Mhm Okay Well you know
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what I think that's it That's all the cult for we have for you guys this week
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Great uh array of topics this week We should do this more often I I don't know man I'm always like on the fence I'm
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like should we talk about more non-Apple stuff when there's not a lot of Should they announce more consoles more often Yeah Well I would love that every two
1:10:42
years would be great But that's it That's all the cool cast we have for you guys this week But the party continues
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He's all over the place It's like actually how does he have time to be here He's always hanging out somewhere Doesn't he have to like write or make a
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