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Podcast Episode Notes: The Apple of My Eyes
Podcast Overview Title: Front and Center Hosts: Alex Center and Kevin Batory Description: Award-winning graphic designer Alex Center and co-host Kevin Batory discuss branding, design, pop culture, and more. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
Episode Summary Title: The Apple of My Eyes Description: In this episode, Alex and Kevin discuss a variety of topics including the new Max app, HBO's *The Idol*, the latest season of *Dave*, Mark Zuckerberg's jiu-jitsu exploits, the Apple Vision Pro, and a collaboration between T-Pain and Wendy's.
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Key Topics Discussed
- Video Calls and Backgrounds
- Blurring Backgrounds:
- Alex and Kevin debate the effectiveness of blurring backgrounds during video calls, with both agreeing it's often poorly executed.
- Smoke in New York
- Kevin mentions the poor air quality in NYC due to Canadian wildfires, affecting visibility and overall ambiance.
- Baseball and Sports
- Mets Game Experience:
- Alex shares his experience at a Mets game at Citi Field, discussing the weather and the atmosphere.
- NBA Finals:
- They briefly discuss the ongoing NBA Finals and team performances, particularly the Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets.
- Max App Discussion
- App Performance Issues:
- Kevin shares frustrations regarding the Max app crashing and freezing.
- Euphoria and The Idol:
- Both hosts express their mixed feelings about *The Idol*, comparing it to the style of *Euphoria*, and discussing its production history and quality.
- Dave Season 4
- Final Thoughts on the Show:
- Alex and Kevin discuss their views on the fourth season of *Dave*, praising its narrative twists while also mentioning some less favorable episodes.
- Mark Zuckerberg and Jiu-Jitsu
- Zuckerberg’s Controversy:
- The episode discusses a recent incident where Zuckerberg was choked out during a jiu-jitsu tournament, with humorous insights about the implications of snoring during a match.
- Apple Vision Pro Announcement
- Product Features and Concerns:
- Alex and Kevin dive into the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro, discussing its design and functionality.
- They critique the product's name and express concerns about its practical applications and high price point ($3,500).
- Augmented Reality and Expectations:
- Both hosts share thoughts on AR technology, with Alex expressing a desire for immersive experiences in sports.
- T-Pain and Wendy's Collaboration
- Frosty Campaign:
- T-Pain releases a new song to promote Wendy's strawberry frosty, generating a mix of nostalgia and humor.
- T-Pain's Career and Talent:
- The hosts praise T-Pain's musical ability and stage presence, discussing the implications of artists engaging in brand collaborations.
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Key Takeaways
- Candid Conversations: Alex and Kevin provide humorous and candid takes on pop culture topics, creating a relatable and entertaining atmosphere.
- Mixed Reviews on New Content: They offer a nuanced discussion on the quality of current television programming, highlighting the balance between entertainment value and production quality.
- Cultural Commentary: The episode explores broader themes around celebrity culture, technology, and brand collaborations, providing insights into the evolving landscape of media and entertainment.
Conclusion This episode of *Front and Center* delivers a blend of humor, critique, and commentary on contemporary issues in entertainment and technology. Alex and Kevin's chemistry makes for an engaging listen, ensuring that listeners stay entertained while contemplating the complexities of current pop culture phenomena.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Should I blur the background? don't blow the background no it looks cool um blurring the background's gotta be the worst uh worst video move you can do besides not being on video no blurring the background is is is pretty rough i agree with you it's kind of it never works i get why people do it no i know i did it i did it recently because i was like i was in a hotel room like this and my shit was kind of everywhere so i was like okay i don't really want people to see this it's kind of awkward to like yeah i think it's a little too personal when people see like your bed and shit like if I'm on a call with you and I see where you sleep at night like I think that's weird right uh I don't know I think it's fine I don't want to see I don't want to see your nightstand if your bed if your bed's in the frame it should be made at least a little bit made you know it doesn't have to be like yeah you don't have to be running it like the navy in there but you got to at least get that top sheet decently nice you know i agree with you if you are gonna show bed on your zoom like you gotta you gotta have that shit made like you gotta have it pretty tight you gotta have it tight
1:14three two one kevin what's up buddy what's up i like when i go really high energy and then you go ultra low energy to try to find those levels late at night alex it is late night dude you're in the future yeah you like what oh yeah yeah yeah you're in here in the future yeah it's pretty shitty you've already seen the afternoon here yeah why is it shitty in new york so a bunch of smoke rolled in from like some canadian wildfire and so it was all like dusty today really like noticeably smoky yeah really interesting i heard the weather's been good though it's been like 88 and stuff and like it was sick yeah hot i am back in uh silver lake los angeles california and uh guess what i'm looking out the window it's only 625 here and it's gray because the weather here sucks and the people here suck and this place sucks and uh yeah nothing has really changed you're being too hard on la you're getting you're You're getting the bottom of the barrel, LA, right now.
2:20I've spent too much time here. In probably all aspects. Yeah. I mean, that's also when I really start to feel my New Yorker-ness is when I am in LA. I start wearing my Mets hat more. Yeah, as you should. I start telling people I'm from New York. It's really shitty here. I really don't like it. I want to come home. Yeah, as you should be wearing your Mets hat in LA. That's right. Oh, you were at the Met game the other day. We did lose that game, but it looked like a fun one, at least. How was City Field? How were the fans? Oh, it was great. It was a fun one. So one of those days where, like, the weather...
2:54I don't fuck. Fucking old man talking about the weather. It was a good game. I don't know. It was also my home run. It was beautiful. Beautiful night. Yeah. Beautiful night for some baseball. You know? It was a day. One inning, I'd have my sweatshirt on. And the next inning, I'd take it off and then put it back on, put it back, take it off, you know? Endless cycle. It was beautiful. Yeah. No, it was a good game. I always like going to Citi Field. You've been to more Mets games than I have this year. Yeah, I've been to two. Yeah, that's two versus zero. Those are how numbers work. I've got to get home and I've got to go see the Metsies.
3:30They're not good, but I do miss them. Have you been watching the NBA Finals? You want to talk about the Sports Center? Heat are still alive. Yeah, I want to see a series. That's all I wrote. I think people are pretty high on the heat. I was happy that people are high on the heat. Really? I thought people were high on the Nuggets. I thought the Nuggets were going to sweep that thing for a second. It's just sports media just being like one week. Yeah. You know how it goes. Yeah. Overreacting to one game. Yeah. Have you been Maxing? I have been Maxing, and I regret to report that my Max app is fucking up.
4:07Really? Consistently, yeah. It's tough. No way. so basically when i try to like when i try to play a show it just like it'll freeze like right when like the pre-show like in the previews it'll just freeze okay and then i'll it'll like crash my apple tv it'll do that like five times and then it works yeah i spent you know 15 minutes trying to watch a show today whoa that's not good i will say i've only used it once when i watched the succession finale uh which i thought was very good and it was a little bit finicky at first when i went to go put on succession it was like giving me the spinning wheel for a sec and i was like oh man this could be yeah you know catastrophic this could be a meltdown but it did go into the program and i did what i did i was able to watch it so i gotta say like pretty ballsy right of hbo and max or whoever the fuck is behind all this um universal you know fucking uh discovery plus or whatever like for them to launch a new app right before what i imagine is probably the biggest episode ratings wise of years probably right succession the finale has got to be probably since like television yeah that's what i mean probably since game of thrones so to have a new app that you are putting out there that people have to download you know how fucking apps that's a lot of pressure work that's a lot of pressure so i gotta give him some credit for that because it did work for me and I didn't hear a ton of people complaining too much.
5:36Yeah. I mean, when my shit was popping off, when it was lagging, when it was pausing, I looked on Twitter, and there was really no complaints. So I guess it's just me, maybe. There was that funny TikTok. Did you see that one? Oh, yeah. The human interface. Yeah. It was like, if you forgot your password, it gave you a series of tests to get your account back. Yeah. Unnewable tests. Yeah. Yeah, some of the tests were really hard. They were like music tests and like video tests, not like which one of these three images are bicycles. Like that seems pretty, you know. Yeah, they were military grade human tests.
6:14Yeah, they weren't. They were advanced robot tests. But yeah, I thought that had me crying when I went into the musical test and it was just like beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. It's like which one of these is repetitive or something? It was, that's a wild scene. So I didn't get that, but that TikTok made me laugh. Yeah, I didn't get that either, but that would fuck me up. I would not. I like, what's your first pet name? Those are my type of security questions. Oh, yeah. I mean, what's my name? Of course. I never had any pets. Did you... That's my... My favorite feature of Max is the gotta be the avatars.
6:50And like your usernames, your profile. Yeah, I didn't see that. I didn't see that. Are you not on Max with anyone else? Every day, no. Because I'm staying at a hotel and this place, the hotel is amazing, but my TV is a dumb TV. It doesn't have streaming or apps or anything like that. You just got regular-ass HBO? I just got regular-ass HBO, which was good because I was able to watch The Idol, which we should probably talk about, on Sunday night exactly at 9 o 'clock. But if I was not there waiting for it, I wouldn't have been able to watch it because I had to watch it on regular HBO television, which was kind of fun.
7:30At nights, I'm kind of watching just what's on TV, which is Seinfeld or Friends or Office. It's the same five shows. But we got to talk about The Idol. You did watch it, right? I did watch it. I watched it today. Yeah. You were saying that you weren't interested, right? You were kind of on the fence about it? oh i mean i was pretty interested in some of the things okay now i mean no i mean before going into the show not oh yeah i mean i didn't care i didn't read any of those articles too long didn't read i don't care but you but you that was a long rolling stone article but you like you like euphoria though yeah i like euphoria i mean the whole press behind this this show was that it was like euphoria but crazier more sex more wild more sleazy and then like the general concept of the show is that it's like loosely based on like a britney spears type pop yeah yeah and then the weekend is like the executive producer and has casted himself and bold move then bold move and then the big drama was that they recorded where they filmed the entire season of the show where a woman was sort of like the main director and sort of the main showrunner and then sam levinson and hbo apparently didn't like what they had made and then scrapped the whole fucking show and then reshot it completely with a new vision at the weekend's actual house, which is part of the show.
8:56Damn, that's his house? He really lives like that? That's his actual house. That's crazy. Yeah. I will say, so I did watch the first episode, and I just got to say the show is bad. The writing is bad. The sex is gratuitous. It feels like indie sleaze for controversy he's staked versus like plot the weekend is not particularly good in this show now i'll be watching every sunday every sunday 9 p.m i will be there appointment television 100 yeah i mean i think nowadays people want like people are just so used to being like oh this is a great show all time this is this is more show of all time but it's fine if it doesn't it's it's fine if it's neither and yeah i don't know i agree with you completely like that plot i don't i don't really know what went on it but i wasn't i was intrigued i was titillated and i did not think the weekend was that good either like i'm bad acting um terrible i mean he did hit that bump of coke pretty pretty cool like a cool guy yeah that was a cool moment um it's like a shittier uncut gems you know what i mean like i don't know why he wants to be an actor and then like get the man a real wig like that wig looks so fake look like a halloween store wig right like he just looked like so fake like Like, I don't know.
10:12I mean, it also has like entourage energy, right? Like it has like a bit of that like early 2000s kind of vibe, which as you know, I enjoyed entourage, which now is incredibly problematic if you watch it back. But like, I did enjoy it when it was on TV. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with enjoying a TV show. And yeah, it's kind of like, you know, it's like junk food. You know, it's bad for you. You know, it's not good, but like, you kind of want it sometimes. And so Sunday night, HBO, the idol. I don't expect it to go anywhere good, but. My expectations are pretty low, but I'll, I'll probably keep watching it.
10:52I don't, I don't know. It's fun to look at, right. You know, you got all these like celebrities in it and you got all this like music. And it's just like, obviously Sam Levinson is a very good director. Like from euphoria, like that guy has gotten enough recognition. and I would imagine respect for his work, but it just seems like it's kind of empty. But fuck it. Does every show need to be fucking, like you said, does it have to be the greatest thing that's ever been made? Or can it just be a fairly shitty but fun, sexy show? It just feels very expected, I would say. That's the whole thing. I'm like, I know exactly where this is going, and there's nothing surprising about it whatsoever.
11:34way yeah it doesn't feel like the writing is very top notch on this no series it reminds me of like an a24 production where sometimes only sometimes the writing is complete dog shit and it's just built on like you know attractive people and having the film being impeccably made and produced yeah yeah it's beautiful to look at the people are beautiful to look at it's got celebrities it's got houses it's got sex it's got drugs it's like yeah that's enough that's enough you don't need like a grade a plot like yeah succession you know what i mean or euphoria which yeah you know i think again this is like dumber euphoria um speaking of shows with uh that are celebrity packed and have a bad plot what did you think of dave oh good point good good transition i just watched the finale of Dave.
12:27Me too. I enjoyed it. I thought the finale was good. I think that's like what Dave is best at is like doing compelling narrative interesting sort of plot twists and yeah I mean I think he's gotten to this place where people have enough respect for him as a TV showrunner and writer and rapper somehow that he could get Brad Pitt and drake and but i think it's not just that he got those people it's what he did with them and i think that for me it made it i don't know i felt like i thought it was good i thought the season was kind of hit or miss i thought there were some some some great episodes the one where they got stuck in the house in the storm i thought was particularly good i thought the finale was good there were some episodes i was just like this one misses but hey look you know um i respect it and it you know it feels like little dicky curb your enthusiasm yeah i don't know i didn't really i think the celebrities added all that much i mean i think that's it's it's they're trying to like paint a picture of the status quote unquote but i don't know i i liked i i liked the season but the last two episodes just were like shut the fuck up i don't know i was just like i feel like i just got annoyed it like i just feel like it it just annoyed me for some reason that's fair Yeah, I mean, listen, I think there were definitely moments where I was kind of like, am I liking the show as much as when it started?
14:00And I don't know. It just was fine. It was fine. And it was more ambitious, which I liked. But then sometimes it just kind of felt like really hard and flat. And yeah, I don't know. Kind of like Mark Zuckerberg doing jujitsu. You know, sometimes it falls down and starts snoring for a little bit. and then Facebook needs to come in. Those were grunts. Those were grunts of effort. So what's the story? So Mark Zuckerberg, so there's an article in like the New York Times, I believe, about Mark Zuckerberg doing jujitsu, right? Which we'd covered here a couple of weeks ago. Or is this a new jujitsu tournament?
14:38This is a story. No, this is a build from the story of him, like from the pictures we saw a couple of weeks ago with the medals on. Yes. So at that tournament, allegedly, he got choked out and the ref stopped the match because he heard Zuck snoring, which is a sign that you were unconscious. That is sad. You've been choked out. If you were snoring, it's time to stop the fight. so but didn't he get like didn't he like get medals at the tournament so how did he get choked at and also like perform well i'm struggling there well you know i'm not entirely sure how they do the medals these days um they may have been like some sort of participation trophy type thing um surely you know if zuck shows up to your uh bbj competition you got to give him some sort of metal so he can post about it but the engineer from uber just might be that much nicer at brazilian jiu-jitsu like he might just he might so we went up against right yeah he might just be him he's writing code and fucking you know choking zuck out kind of it's a sick alpha move like imagine being that dude in uber right now be like yeah i choked mark zuckerberg out like that was me yeah i like how they got the quotes from uh lucas costo the referee who said that you know he was paying a lot of attention and you know he didn't fight back and he was waiting and after the third snore he had to stop the fight which I guess if you're being choked out you kind of don't know whether the person is unconscious or not when they start snoring that's probably a good sign to just like maybe maybe yeah and it's like amateur like MMA like you're yeah it's like amateur Brazilian Jiu Jitsu so you're not like you're not letting this like play out you know like you're not like yeah you know this isn't some sort of title match where you let it go a little bit even if you hear some noises like you know this is fucking like two tech bros fighting like you can't have somebody die in that arena he's not just any tech bro he's actually the world's most famous most richest tech bro that's not like you know he's not elon musk i guess but he's in the top two and he's two right so i mean mark suckerberg's in your ring and you you probably pay extra attention right to you can't be the guy who let mark zuckerberg down no no absolutely not but i will say zuckerberg's looking fucking jack these days well yeah i know we've been talking a lot about yeah he's doing mma but like i know we've been talking a lot about the fucking uh bezos is we've been there's been so much talk about how buff bezos is but i don't think people are paying enough attention to zuckerberg i think dude his shoulders dude his i think it's natural too but his shoulders are fucking explosive man he's looking big good for him his like his neck is looking thick and i will say like i noticed it not in his like jujitsu videos he was talking about his like um the meta quest then there was like a video that came out like this week obviously they knew that apple was coming out with their version and so they were like oh we got to get ahead and he he posted some video about him like playing around with i guess the newest version of the facebook uh you know helmet vr set and dude it's just funny to see him like promote tech stuff now because he's so fucking jacked good for him looks he looks like a yeah he looks like an alien oh like always he does look like a fucking avatar but like he he's now a fucking swole one yeah i mean good for him like He's using his money and time to do something productive.
18:27He's still shitty, but he's still Zuck. He's ripped now, so that's pretty cool for him. He loves a side quest. He loves a side quest. He's like, I'm going to learn how to fucking surf, and I'm going to learn how to fucking kill my own food and kill my own dinner and barbecue. And now the latest thing is jujitsu. I hope he goes full MMA. I don't think he will, but he would be fucking sick. Do you think Dana White's not offering him a big old bag to be like, yo, Zuckerberg, MMA debut? You know how many people would watch it? Everybody. Everybody. Literally everybody. Everybody. Maybe he should start boxing so he could get in the ring with the polls.
19:06Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think he would do that. I feel like he would do it like real style. I actually just watched on one of my flights. I watched the Netflix McGregor doc. Oh, yeah. Really good. Really good. I'm not a huge Conor McGregor fan, but it was really well done, a really well done story about him and where he comes from and his whole journey through through fighting to today. And like, oh, everyone keeps, you know, sort of ruling him out and saying that he's done. And then he keeps getting beat. And so it's it's it's it's actually really it's it's a really beautiful doc, whether you care about, you know, him or MMA at all.
19:45I just I enjoyed it. Yeah. He should be good for his next fight, though, because he's technically retired, and I think he's doing all the steroids. Who, McGregor? Yeah, they show him on TV now. McGregor. They show him on TV at the events, and he's just fucking chiseled. He's huge. I think he's got some face work done, potentially. Yeah. Well, he's super rich, and he is. The whole doc was talking about how he doesn't need to fight anymore because he's already cemented his legacy, and he's a champion, and he's super rich. but he does again this is like documentary totally from one-sided point of view but his whole doc is like he just loves fucking fighting people and so even if he's not the best best best number one in the world he's not ready to give it up and he's still down to like getting the ring and yeah i think he's he's had a couple tough losses but he's not interested in not fighting anymore so it's just a matter of like who he fights and how badly he gets hurt before he can do the next one i think there's a possibility that he comes back and makes a title push yeah oh dude mcgregor zuckerberg oh my god mcgregor zuckerberg would be electric um i would be i'd i'd be there front row yeah um kevin speaking of zuckerberg and speaking of devices uh the big day was yesterday wwdc 23 the apple keynote uh that we've all been waiting for we've been talking about one ever outside no it did look i so i haven't watched it because i've been so busy but it did it was a recording they've been doing these recordings they don't do them live anymore oh yeah which kind of a bummer i think they started doing that during covid when they just like again they couldn't get all the same people or couldn't get the big rooms and do the live conferences and i think they've gone to this place where they don't you know it's a lot easier to control when nothing is live and so they record it all and so i think what they did this time was they they had it all done and then they brought a bunch of people together to watch it so i think there was some footage i saw of tim cook watching tim cook on stage and introducing stuff now that's fucking meta super meta stuff but um they introduced some new iMac air some Mac studios which we just bought so that's great and then some new Mac pros but then the thing that everyone's been waiting for and uh the big big moment was apple vision pro so everyone's seen at this point it is the augmented reality headset i gotta start the name is weak the weak it's a weak name apple vision pro like i'm sorry i love you apple so much that that that does not feel like a groundbreaking product off the top of the dome do you have any uh suggestions apple site i don't know if we're gonna go with vision if that's the thing apple of my eyesight i don't i don't know vision pro just feels i i don't know so obviously i had seen a lot of the sort of drawings and the renderings as you do um leading up to some of these keynotes they can never really truly keep things secret these days just because so many people need to touch them and so you'll see like renderings of fake versions but this is the real thing and it's here and it looks a lot like a pair of skeegy goggles it does and uh yeah it's got some really interesting features most notably the fact that you can see people's eyes through it i think that was something that people were kind of surprised by and i think it's a very intentional move by apple to make it feel less like you're a guy wearing a computer on your face and a little bit more like you're wearing like sunglasses so it's not that weird when you're like other people are around you and you're wearing this thing yeah that's not gonna be weird at all oh no when you have a fucking giant computer strapped to your face um and then on the inside you can kind of like see through to see like the world so it's not fully like this like 100 % augmented reality sort of experience unless you want it to so you can kind of like dial it up on the side and you can kind of like you know sort of figure out or sort of control how much real life you want and how much sort of like fake life do you want to have damn i want this like forever like i need like a brain implant from apple i want to i want I just live in the AR space with all my cool movies.
24:15Catch me watching Despicable Me or any of the Minions movies. Full immersion. So here's the deal. Here's my take on this. You know I want this. You know. It's so fucking stupid. But I love Apple. And I am an Apple fanboy. And I love the hype. And this is the first product that they've introduced since the watch. I got the watch on the first day no questions asked the first watch first day I've worn it five times in my life so good good good use of funds there and I feel the same way about this thing like I just I just fucking need it I don't I don't know how to describe other than like I just I just need it and I don't have any other answers other than that yeah I mean I think that's the thing it's like the thing looks big like it's got a fucking battery pack for credit sakes like yeah it has a wire yeah they really snuck that one in there too like yeah it's got a sleek battery pack that you put in your pocket yeah like that's kind of crazy that like you know like you gotta fucking you gotta you gotta have a back pocket you know for battery pack this is apple like the thing looks big too it's not like a little thing and i think ultimately i think this will get better and that's what most people say about apple products is like over time things will get sleeker and it will become more sort of streamlined and and so i do believe that but um yeah i gotta have it alex if i ever catch you on the streets of greenpoint walking with this on your face down the street i'm gonna mug you myself yeah yeah well i'm gonna need to hire security so i think you're gonna i'm gonna need your help to sort of help me around um here's what i say critical you know so so apple fanboy version of me being like oh shit like this thing looks crazy and i need it the second thing my other thing is like i gotta say again i i didn't watch the full keynote i did watch the full video about it so that's really all i'm basing this on but like the demos didn't look that crazy like i will say like for for for a computer that's that you know sort of like the technology of it looks incredible right like what they're actually achieving here with the fact that i can like pick something with my eyes and like control things with my fucking fingers like there's some crazy tech in this thing absolutely like i gotta say like the fact that their big you know sort of selling point is that i can watch like a tv in my living room and like answer emails and like receive texts it's like i could do all that already.
26:58I already have a TV in my fucking living room and I already have a fucking thing I can watch videos on. It's my phone. I don't really understand why... I want to be courtside at the Knicks game. You know what I mean? I want to be immersed. This is virtual reality, man. I want to be watching the Knicks game next to Spike Lee and I want to get in the game for a minute and chuck up a couple threes. What? Come on, Apple. That's what I'm saying. that's what i expect if i'm gonna put this fucking giant thing on my head like i need to get into the game yeah right i'm right there with you i would i would be in staunch support of this apple vision pro if it had some sort of uh you know court side uh front row stadium action seats i would be i would buy it in a minute i would blow i'd blow my load on it it'd be i'd you know i need to get some side hustles you know yeah i need to get my shit in line but i'd get it i'd have it on my face for football season do you think they're gonna do i think they're gonna like i mean i think we'll get there like right because like virtual reality like other headset that i've ever seen like has fully dimensional things that i don't i don't want to be in the reality you know what i mean like they're they're highly emphasizing reality oh you just gotta crank it up alex yeah i know but i can kind of get the reasoning right like you're putting a computer on your face and you look like you're going to be like completely you know sort of separated from your friends and family and anyone around you and like i get that that's kind of creepy and so they want to make it sort of like more like a spatial computer that's what they call it it's like spatial interface or something like that which again like apple's a little obsessed with spatial right now they have spatial audio now this is spatial computing i just think this is all going to get better and And I, you know, again, like I never wanted like a Quest Pro or whatever the fuck meta version is.
29:00But Apple, Apple doing it. They did it. They don't did it. Available next year, which is kind of a bummer, which is like we got a lot of months left in this year. Don't tease us. Maybe hold this one to September. Yeah. I mean,$3 ,500 is the big thing that everyone's talking about. $3 ,500 is a lot of money for a headset. But yeah, I'm going to need this thing. Can't put a price on swag. You can't put a price on swag. And yeah, man, when you see my fucking digital eyes on the other side of my fucking ski goggles, you're going to be like, damn, dude, Alex is fucking in the Calm app. to them then you can see that that was like one yeah finally i can get calm oh my god all my anxiety that i've had kevin for all this time is finally going to go away once i strapped this 3500 fucking computer to my face yeah i mean first off i'm a little concerned i'd be a little concerned with like the um 23 million pixels that's that number was i don't know how it's a little too high yeah it feels a little too high i don't know if that's necessarily good for your eyes i'm not a scientist or a doctor but speculating that that having something so close right in your eyes um in the dark presumably with the seal and all that shit may not be best for your eyes um yeah that's my first gripe second gripe obviously is going to be the price um that's a lot of money but again you can't put a price on swag and uh absolutely you know i think that it's just the nail in the coffin for uh you know ar is here to stay uh vr is here to stay like we're we're going in the metaverse apple made it cool uh in like two or three years you're gonna see it's gonna be like the airpod max where you just see like you know all these little kids are gonna be walking around with fucking all these rich new york teenagers are gonna have the apple vision pros on and you know we're gonna be able to see their eyes and she's gonna be yeah it's gonna be i don't know it's it's gonna be something i mean listen the the airpod maxes right like those are official like people thought those were incredibly expensive they're 600 bucks they're not cheap but they are everywhere this is a big jump from that and so i it will be interesting to see like how many people actually are rocking this and like are they gonna rock it in public like i don't think that please no they will i don't know but i don't know i think there's a lot of things that are still feel a little uh rough around the edges like i think those eyes that are on the front like digital eyes are kind of like creepy and weird i think that's going to be creepy in person also the fact that like when you want to do like a facetime did you see this you're it's going to scan your face and then it's going to create like a digital representation of you when you're in these kind of like chats like i don't know that feels creepy too but But with all this said, the day it comes out, I got to have it.
32:04So we'll play around with it. Yeah, I mean, come on. We have to. We have no choice, man. This is the future. The future is here. And yeah, I will be curious to see where it goes from here. And I think like the first iPhone, I think it will be determined. Its success will be determined by what you can do with it and what people make for it and what the apps are, you know, sort of not necessarily what Apple does, but what people make that you can do once you have the technology. And I think that's going to be interesting. I will say also, Tim Cook, this has got to be a hit, man, right? Like, I probably shouldn't say this because Apple is a client.
32:49We love them very much. But, you know, this is the first big thing he's really put out, right? like this is i mean he's put out a lot of great computers a lot of great stuff scratch all the section from the record but you know i do think it's going to be interesting to see whether this will be the the the hit like the you know the the next big apple product they're putting a lot you know this feels like a big bet on something that i i gotta think that they know that there's way you know more expansive opportunities and and possibilities with this thing let them cook let them cook and so uh speaking of cooking we got t-pain teaming up with wendy's um it's been ready to feel real old kevin it's been 16 years since t-pain wanted to buy you a drink and uh i know t-pain's back he teamed up with wendy's and he's doing that thing where he reprises his mega platinum, mega popular sort of song and puts the product into it.
33:57It's called Bayou of Frosty. And Kevin put the music in right about meow. Meow.
34:18Let me buy you some things I'm Frosty Payne You know me Yeah, it's me Nappy boy, ooh wee I know the club Close at three So what's the chances of you Rolling with me Hop in the car Not going to a bar Can't believe you even listened this far I'ma buy you a Frosty Not gonna take your home with me I got money in the bank Yes, we'll take two Frosties Let's enjoy you and me We taking bites like oop, oop, oop, oop, oop We licking spoons like oop, oop, oop, oop, oop Talk to me, I talk bad Let's talk frosties, I talk bad Strawberry frosties, brand new shades Frosty got glass, oh behave Let's get going, walk it out Just like that, that's what I'm talking about We gon' have fun, you gon' see On that frosty, you should get like me I'ma buy you a frosty They're gonna take your hope with me I got money in the bank Yes, I'll take two frosties Let's enjoy you and me We taking bites like oop, oop, oop, oop We lick it spoons like oop, oop, oop, oop, oop.
36:04Okay. And so this is in a celebration of the return of the strawberry frosty, which I don't know if I ever had. Kevin, you ever have a strawberry frosty from Monday? I believe back in the day I've had a strawberry frosty. I don't remember how it was. It probably was a strawberry frosty. Yeah, I like a strawberry milkshake from McDonald's. That was something I was a bit addicted to when I was in college, when I was sort of a broke college kid. and I would just go get a dollar menu burger and a strawberry milkshake. Nice. I'm into it. And I will say, while this is cheesy and bad and it actually makes me kind of sad to see artists go to this part of their career, T-Pain is wonderful.
36:56T-Pain is such a lovely human. Any interview I've ever seen with T-Pain, I immediately like the guy. Like, if you've ever seen, like, videos of T-Pain singing without autotune, he's incredible. He's a really good singer. I saw he did a show recently, and he had, like, a full band behind him. And he was doing covers. He was doing T-Pain songs. And it was all no autotune. And he was amazing. He was such a dynamic performer, electric, like, just stage presence. And I just, I want T-Pain to win. I just root for T-Pain. Like, hand up. I really like T-Pain and the music is great and I will say this video immediately is less cheesy than I thought it was going to be it's corny but they pull it off T-Pain fucking rules he got a bad rap back in the day when he introduced the world to autotune caught a lot of shit for that probably people weren't too nice to him for that but you know he's such a sweetheart like you said i mean he's such a lovable guy um and i think just a guy everyone can get behind a root for and you know and i don't even i'm not even that mad either about this song like i would probably be like i hate when brands do anything honestly and especially when they touch songs and work with artists and touch songs and work with artists that i particularly love and yeah this could have sucked and maybe it does i don't know maybe i just love t-pain so i think i'm with you maybe i just love t-pain but i will say frost t-pain that's not bad like that's not great but that's like it works and then like i will say from the first line he says hey there you i don't know your name but let me talk to you let me buy you something like i'm in hooked hooked hooked i'm in like it's kind of funny you know um you know this is the man that you know rhymed with scanson with uh a mansion right you know yep like the man can do whatever he wants yeah you know what i mean go get that back put out wisconsin university merch you know that he sells wisconsin's he it's like um it's like a side hustle you can go to wisconsin.co and it's like it's just uh merch um that that uh is from wisconsin university good for him yeah exactly i love cnt pain get the bag yeah what a guy exactly yeah nappy boy way 9 30 wisconsin wisconsin um yeah i mean it's amazing i mean wisconsin university and it has college rankings dead last.
39:47Average GPA 2.5. This is funny. T-Pain's great. Yeah. T-Pain's great. We like T-Pain. He's a national treasure. Alex loves Wendy's too. I do love Wendy's. Love Wendy's. A big Wendy's guy. Big Wendy's guy. Kevin, is that the show? Is that the program? I think so. I think so. Yeah, this didn't need to work, but it did work. I miss you, Kevin. We're victorious champions of the world. The Dial-On Awards, three more Dial-On Awards coming back to the studio on the other side of the wall. Triple D's. Like Guy Fieri. Yeah, dude, that's fucking us, man. We fucking did it. Best brand identity, Butter, come on now.
40:32Come on. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. That donkey sauce is gangster. that's right you know the fucking three d's i think this is now uh we already have two d's so i guess now we're up to five d's let's throw some d's on that bitch that's right man we just we're just uh you know we're we're the big the the big d is uh you know it's coming home i know i was a little sad uh i did i feel like last year we went to how and went to uh the dialine awards now and No, I'm not even sad about not going. I'm sad about, like, I feel like this year would have been a better year to go. Because I saw, like, a couple people on my story that, like, you know, independent of people I saw last year who were there.
41:19And I was like, shit, like, that would have been fun to, like, go hang out with, like, you know, some people. I had the same feeling, Kevin. I saw the people collecting their trophies, friends of the programs, friends of the podcast. You know what I'll say, though, Kevin? It's good to see everyone out there winning. Yeah. I love when people win. we love when people win and especially us, but we love when people that have come on the pod and friends of the pod are out there winning out there, shining out there, collecting their big D's and yeah, it's a bummer. We couldn't be there, but next year, Kevin, we're going to, we're going to get more D's and we'll, we'll be there to celebrate and wherever, wherever how is, but yeah.
42:01Congrats us. Congrats for us for doing a, this is a 10 o 'clock podcast. um kevin yeah new york so um don't say uh to all the listeners out there uh you know don't say we never did anything for you um yeah don't come in my don't come in the dms and fucking don't come in dms and say where's the pod yeah alex is literally potting from a hotel room in los angeles and kevin's at 10 past 10 o 'clock at night you see these windows um so youtube like subscribe to the youtube fucking instagram twitter all these places i don't even think we're on twitter but tiktok we're there yeah we um yeah we're we're we're growing we're grooving we're moving we're shaking followers count going up listeners going up shout out to canada shout out to all our new listeners shout out to anyone graphic design baby we in here yep we're doing the damn thing all right peace uh i'd baby girl what's your name let me talk to you let me buy You would dream, I'm T-Pain, you'd know me Convict music every boy I know the club, close at three What's the chances of you rolling with me?
43:18She vibing, she rolling, she rolling She climbing, not falling, yeah She tripping, she playing, she playing I'm not going nowhere, girl, I'm staying I gotta tell her how I feel I gotta let her hear the best love song She's never heard it alive, oh And now we got the whole city
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Alex and Kevin are at it again! They weigh in on the new Max app, The Idol, Dave season 4, Zuck getting choked out, Apple Vision Pro, Fros-T-Pain Buy You a Frosty, and more!
