Marques Bought and Unboxed an Original $40,000 iPhone

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1:23Hey, what is up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts i'm marquez i'm andrew and david's not here today this week he is out uh taking some beautiful pictures in iceland so we'll just be andrew and i for this episode he'll be back we're gonna maybe try to get him in on the trivia questions if we can somehow we're gonna try and do it live if it's not live then it was after because iceland might not have the best service yeah i think the plan will be after we do our trivia we'll uh FaceTime him or something and see what his answers would have been.

1:55Either way, we do have a lot to talk about this week, but it is sort of in the form of like a bunch of little tidbits. Nothing like gigantic, no major stories. By the time you see this podcast, we do have one particularly exciting video out that I want to talk about, but the rest is like, this is like a mega lightning round, basically. Essentially, I found, I realized I like wrote down all these really fun headlines from this week, but none of them feel like more than 10 minutes of conversation. So I have some thoughts and some hot takes, but we can. I put all of them in a hat. Actually, it's like six headlines and one Marquez rant in this hat that we will pick out of.

2:28And you'll know which one's the rant when we get to it. Yes. But first, we should talk about the iPhone. We should talk about the OG iPhone. This was maybe the most spur-of-the-moment ridiculous thing we've done in a long time. But it happened. And you guys, now that you're seeing this live, already know exactly what I'm talking about, which was... Audio might be a little early. Audio might not know. That's fair. Don't know when the video is going to go live. but audio listeners might be getting a sneak peek at this. So, shh. Quiet, don't tell anyone. Keep it quiet, or maybe get your articles ready now before the video comes out.

3:01But we did end up winning an auction for and unboxing an unopened, sealed 2007 first-gen iPhone. Now, that doesn't sound all that crazy until you really realize what that means, which is, okay, somebody back in 2007, had to have bought that phone, never even took it out the plastic wrap, and saved it and kept it in pristine condition for 16 years. I mean, I say pristine condition. As good as it could be. To be fair, the pristine aspect of it, it wasn't. The box had some dents. The plastic wrap had a couple small rips, not enough to get anything out, but it was dirty, which actually made me feel more confident that it was the real deal.

3:45It's authenticity. Yeah. Okay. So this was the challenge really of this entire project was if you remember when we did the reviewing every single iphone video that was actually kind of a big challenge you you basically took this head on which is like we need to have a working version of every single iphone that's ever been made to appropriately review it and the further back you go the harder that gets finding a working iphone 7 was like not that hard working iphone 6 plenty of them out there working iphone 3gs you know that's starting to get kind of tough most of them have stopped working and they've conked out the they've gotten beat up like people are just selling them for parts or whatever you go all the way back to the original iphone and it was a genuine question of like when we take this out the box this is a 14 year old phone at the time will it even work yeah uh and we did manage to get some pretty beat up original iphones but that they'd still turn on and still work and could connect because back then to activate a phone you had to connect it to itunes right um or maybe not back then but now like it has to connect to iphone itunes or it won't do anything yeah so these are phones that people had like used for a couple years and then moved on but kept the phone so they had software updates on them they had probably ios 3.0 or something like that by the time they retired but they still worked and so that i ended up i think those were like 100 bucks something like that also to be fair back then that was a pain in the neck but every pixel or uh google phone video is way harder with all the different androids and all the different oh my god cable connectors although the iphone one's the most i've ever used a 30 pin in my life as someone who didn't own an iphone or ipod i never thought i'd use a 30 pin connector that often they're terrible they're yeah there's a reason they moved on pretty quick but uh the fun story was like this wasn't like any normal buying process like going on ebay and buying a hundred dollar original iphone is one thing but if you want to go and find an unopened sealed original iphone that's actually much more along the lines of like a an antique like a create like a how would you like a collector's item yeah for sure uh and so people are aiming to sort of like trade these like like pokemon cards like they don't really want to open them and use them they just want to trade them and see what the value turns into someday and i really liked how you said it in the video that every time one of these gets sold i guess it doesn't totally but like it It gets rarer and rarer.

6:04Yeah. Especially if you're like us and open it because then it doesn't get sold again and then there are less of them in the world. And the value is even higher for the ones that are remaining, but lower for the ones that get opened. So here's the story of how it came to happen. I saw an article about how there was an unopened original iPhone. This is something that's been in the back of our heads for a while. We want to see what that experience would be like. There's an unopened original iPhone on an auction site and the starting bid is$32 ,000. Boom! Now, that's a lot. That seems absurd. It does.

6:39But in very recent history before this headline came up, the original iPhone had gone for a couple of record numbers. It had gone for like$40 ,000,$50 ,000,$60 ,000 plus for an unopened original iPhone. And the air quotes problem with trying to buy an unopened original iPhone is they're so rare that people are willing to fake it to make that type of money. And so if you go on eBay and try to buy an unopened original iPhone and pay$50 ,000 for it, often you will see people getting scammed and buying used iPhones that have been like resealed and you can actually re-shrink wrap a box. So if you have a good enough looking box, you can re-shrink wrap it and maybe a collector will buy it and never open it and he thinks he got what he was supposed to.

7:23It happened to everything Apple Pro. He has a video on it. I don't know how much he paid, But yeah, he opened it and the seal was all off. All the accessories had no plastic on them. And he immediately realized. The look on his face was like, oh, I got got. And that happens to a lot of people who try this. So here's what made this one a little bit more interesting. Is this isn't just like an auction site like ebay.com. This was, I think it's called Right Auction. And I clicked the article and I didn't have any intentions of doing anything about it. But I clicked the link to the auction site. and it's a it's like a live streaming like a real in-person auction like a guy with a gavel who's like all right five thousand dollars for the first item oh 5500 in the front row do we have oh we have 6 000 on the phone all right guy in the front row you're bidding against someone on the phone do you have 7 000 from you 8 500 and it just keeps going and that's like happening on a live stream video i was like whoa this is yeah this is pretty intense uh and one of the items in this like lineup that they had for that day was a sealed original iPhone.

8:21Yeah, that was like x-rayed to show that everything was inside. Still doesn't necessarily prove that it's real. Like we're not in the clear yet. Yeah. They could put all this stuff back in. It could be a different phone. It's hard to tell from an x-ray. It could have been opened. It could have been resealed, like you said. But yeah, there at least was x-ray of inside to show that everything was there. There was something to it that felt a little more legit than just like eBay. For sure. Right. Maybe the 20 % seller's fee or whatever that gets tacked on top of whatever you pay. So here's how it went.

8:50So the starting bid was$32 ,000. Wait, wait, can I back up one more second? Oh, yeah. I just think this is a funny part of the story. So on the website, it goes live at like 12. And I think you had to be home for like a plumber or something. So we're like, okay, it's starting at item number 200. The iPhone is item number 304. Oh, no, it was starting in the 100s, and iPhone was 203. Okay, so it was, okay, yeah, 100s, 203. Oh, yeah, 203, you're right. So we see that as, like, well, if they're going to take a couple minutes for each of these, you definitely have time to go home. We'll keep an eye on this here just in case, but, like, you made the account.

9:26You have to make this bid. Yep. Go home and get home before you can do this. But, like, the way it lines up on the bottom is you can only see the next kind of 10. So it's going through, going through. They're optioning all kinds of weird stuff. Lamps. furniture old furniture there and by the way they're going for like tens of thousands of dollars like antique super good condition old furniture can i get 10 000 on this stool in the front row i'm like whoa this is that's pretty serious i was actually driving live streaming just you were like the audio yeah i was entertained by the audio of like yes this random stool just went for eight thousand dollars yeah and and then all of a sudden i think i have plenty of time and jano just types in like the slack well also jano's watching this because the first thing we thought of how much are we willing to pay for this and jano please find a sponsor for this video because we need to be able to pay for this um you'll find out if we did later or not yeah um but uh and then jano just goes it's up way sooner than we thought apparently it went from one to 150 and then immediately to 200 200 so now at this point i'm in the car i'm driving and the way they've listed it on the site is you can set a pre-start bid and you can actually go up from there if you want but the minimum bid was 32 ,000 and i made an account at the studio signed up put the shipping information in and everything and i put in the bid for 32 ,000 i thought that's a pretty good deal but right underneath it it says estimated 40 to 60 ,000 yeah seller's fees and so every one of these auctions goes by and immediately it like doubles in price and it starts going way up from there so i was like we need a sponsor to be ready for this one um it jumps up to 200 i am nowhere near home now i see the ui on my phone and there's like a little slider for every item where you can like bid online and and participate i haven't done that because i've been driving but now that they just jumped up to 200 they're about to get to the iphone while i'm driving and i need to not lose this auction if it goes up a little bit i can be okay with it so literally i pull over they do auction 201 they're like here's a stool seven thousand dollars seventy five hundred in the front eight thousand we've got eighty five hundred online nine thousand in the front row going once going twice nine thousand ninety five hundred oh we got another nine and they they're doing that thing and i'm like starting to get a little nervous i'm like okay this is really happening they get to 203 he pulls it up all right we've got this pristine condition brand new unopened iPhone original from lot 203.

11:58We have a starting online bid of $32 ,000. Going once. Going twice. Sold to the online bidder. Moving on. And it just was over. Immediately it was just over. And I was like, I think I just won. I don't know what just happened, but I think that worked. It actually just went for the lowest possible price. I think the Slack message was pulled over on the side of the road. And then like two minutes later, easy. Easy money. Easy. Jono, the sponsor now knows exactly what we got to do. Yeah, that's really all that happened. And they just moved right on to the next lamp. Yeah. So we got it. I also have to say, you know all those times we say like, Marquez, what would you do if you weren't a tech reviewer?

12:47Auctioneer. You're made for it. Really? You seem to really enjoy doing the thing for all of the stories. I was totally expecting you to mess it up too, and you didn't. You haven't messed it up once. $7 ,500,$8 ,000 to front. So auctioneer, there we go. It is pretty wild seeing the guy sort of like juggle all the things going on. There's like people on the phone, people in person, people online. So, yeah, we won. My account won. Now I have to figure out how does this work. How to get it here. How to get it here. That was the next fun part. This is an eBay. This auction house was in Chicago. and it turns out I had the shipping address for the studio here and the options were actually, so if any of you have ever bought a$7 ,000 lamp on an auction site, you already know how this goes.

13:35But basically they give you a couple quotes for shipping and they will literally ship it to you. They'll ship a$40 ,000 unopened iPhone or whatever you bought, they'll ship it to you or you can pick it up. We actually had miles like around Chicago. for the couple days after the auction, we were like, oh, maybe Miles can just pick it up while he's there. It's the auction house in Chicago. And I was told, sure, you can do that if you want, but Chicago has a 10.25 % city tax. And so if you want to do the pickup option, that will mean that the transaction happened in Chicago, which means we need to charge you$2 ,000 more to satisfy that city tax versus New Jersey's 7 % sales tax.

14:17I'm just picturing Miles walking up with a briefcase of$2 ,000. dropping it on the table. Two rubber banded rolls. Miles would have been perfect for that because he's jacked. Yeah. Security built in. Marquez Brownlee's associate comes to pick. It's like Miles in a suit with a briefcase. That would have been kind of sick, actually. But it also would have been$2 ,000 extra. So instead, I got a shipping quote, and it was$1 ,800. And so we did that. And so literally the UPS guy who's dropped off B &H packages and random stuff before it like comes to the door with a 40 pound wooden crate and we're like i think that's the iphone it was extremely well packaged you stood on top of it which also scared me it was it was it was well packaged to the point where it was like one by fours in a box yeah yeah they put it in a box in a box in a box in a crate and that crate was designed so that it could withstand the classic uh abuse that a normal delivery is susceptible to go through big raiders of the lost arc vibes yeah it was pretty incredible um we got that power drill we took it apart we opened up the iphone we broke this seal it had a special sticker that we are not sure uh actually i do now have an answer wait really yeah this is news to me this is um for anyone wondering there's a red sticker on it that just says lucky you and the white apple logo on a red sticker yeah i also thought it was very interesting that like that sticker could be sold right now and there's zero design language changes from 14 years ago whatever it would look it would fit perfectly now yeah yeah we uh we have been able to confirm that that was an apple retail sticker that they put on some iphones around the holiday season around the holidays yeah cool so kind of a random fun fact that made it a little bit more rare technically but didn't really mean anything but this was the original iphone 8 gigs in the box you can check out the full video for the uh the full unboxing experience i was kind of impressed and surprised by a couple things the accessories that it came with i didn't remember the dock is cool the dock that it came with here is the iphone itself it is in perfect condition and it confirmed uh won't get past the itunes screen because it's still on ios 1.0 yeah that that kind of leads to like another fun part of this story that's not told in the video i don't know if there's more you want to talk about the phone right now or i want to jump into that i'll leave that for the video but yeah so like yeah if you watch the video it's us unboxing it kind of all the things we were doing to make sure that it seemed like we didn't get duped because like we said an x-ray still could get duped so everything seemed good we decided we want to plug it into iTunes to try and get it to go and I plug it in and I get this error message that says uh let's it says the iTunes could not connect to the iPhone GD local's iPhone because of an invalid response was received from the device and at first I just thought oh man I'm and I have to download an older iTunes to get this to work.

17:13We had the other ones in the past. I thought it would be no problem. Somehow I figured it out previously. And then I noticed that what it said, it said GD Local apostrophe S's iPhone, which is what Apple would do any time that you're naming something. So if you named the phone Marques, it would say Marques's iPhone. If you named it Ellis, it would say Ellis's iPhone. GD Local is a weird name, but it still sounds different. It's weird that it has a name already. Right. and yeah so we we activated like an iphone 3g or 3ds and it it came up as just iphone and then but then after we activated it didn't name itself whatever the itunes was yeah um so that felt red flaggish um then we searched on google i mean we had four or five people you guys were searching gd local on google for hours just trying to figure out what it meant yeah like literally like three hours probably apple gd local because if this is some default name i feel like it pops up on google i think the only search in three hours that we found was you found a forum post from 2020 of someone's bluetooth keyboard yeah being named gd locals keyboard yeah yeah so that feels weird then marquez goes wait the guy's name is on the auction site of who bought this so the original person who uh did the appraisal and like brought it to the auction site his initials were dg and so that was a tiny red flag i was like wait a second dg his name had gd in it and i was like what what is gd local exactly so that's why we started googling it frantically i i guess it's just a default name that they they had in when you had an old version of itunes and this old phone that doesn't talk to it like that's not set up yet not set up yet it just sort of defaults to gd local and we just found that out did you find out anything more so like yeah so i have three theories okay and i would like to put out an open call to anyone who's a developer who has either other things we can test or um or answers some of these things so theory one unfortunately is we got duped this is just like an iphone that someone plugged into a computer and factory wiped to be fair sick follow-up video if we got duped for forty thousand dollars and get to return this just saying um option or theory number two is that at some point in the quality assurance product process for a lot of apple products they have a test bench where they sort of mock activate devices that test bench has the name gd local and this phone just did not get wiped properly for whatever reason.

19:57Interesting. Theory number three, this is the... Oh, also, I just want to say, I did a bunch of research and found people talking about Apple test bench stuff, and while I couldn't find any evidence of GD Local being the name of any Apple test equipment, when I asked ChatGPT what it thought, it suggested the test bench thing, too. I love that. So that was pretty fun. And then number three, the most tinfoil hat one ever is that there's a bunch of different graphics libraries from around like 2008 through 2010 none of which are called GD local but all have sort of like similar names and there are other tinfoil hat people on the internet that and I really hope I don't get this wrong but that essentially like Apple was using OpenGL on the original iPhone and was thinking about switching to core graphics.

20:58And there was some like maybe on this phone, they were testing a core graphics library that did not get taken off in the proper way before they decided to go with Quartz in the end. Anyway, so if you are an Apple developer and the phrase GD local means anything to you, because if it wasn't this guy's initials, I feel like we wouldn't have thought it. Yeah, it was backwards too. So it was like a little off. But GD and then DG just started way too similar. But that's like, it's such a computer name. No, it's super. It's super. Yeah, DB, whatever, local. I feel like the Lucky You sticker being confirmed a retail sticker is the strongest way of lending credence to this being original from an Apple store and never opened.

21:52And in this process is another thing that I think helps confirm it is through everything I've, I know we got those other old iPhones to work, but all of them are at least on iOS 3. I believe with what I was looking up, the iPhone 1 and the iPhone 2G, both were still using iOS 1 and from every single post. And these are recent posts of somehow people getting phones that should have iOS 1. Nobody can activate them on iTunes. For whatever reason, there's some weird hack that barely works, but like it is basically impossible. And every single iTunes that I tried, I could not get this thing activated.

22:29And then one more thing that I think proves that it's on iOS 1 and not a further one like 3 is turning on all three old iPhones we have that aren't this one. the iTunes connect screen shows a USB a port into the iTunes where this one shows a 30 pin yeah going into the iTunes logo so they have to be on different iOS's I that's why I think this proves that this one is on 1.0 or whatever it shipped with and we will just unfortunately not be able to power it on yeah I appreciate the one more thing reference good job oh yeah I was totally trying to do that yet well done well done yeah no this was a this was a fun experience this is now worth a lot less than when we bought it shout out to uh the video if you watch it you'll understand the lengths we went to to get this but we have it now what a bargain we got it it was fun it was definitely fun i this we talked about this before how this might be the most successful individual product ever and so it's kind of yeah yeah like individual product from one company and it's kind of cool to like go back in time a little bit and feel what that was like because i actually never owned an original iphone until we started getting them late and reviewing them i had later iphones i had the lg voyager like a couple years after the original iphone so this was uh this was fun for me i do like the fact that the dock despite the iphone having a headphone jack on the top of it that wouldn't get covered by the dock the dock also has a headphone jack it's a nice uh well Well, this would be like an alarm clock type thing.

23:59Yeah. Because when it first came out and this was in there, you could pop the iPhone onto this. It would be your alarm clock. Yeah. And then you could plug it into some nice speakers, which would be cool. If you really are a heavy sleeper, I guess. You could listen to some loud alarm bells. Remember when Apple enjoyed open standards? Good times. Well, I was just going to say, Apple killed the headphone jack, but also at one point had two of them, basically. One on the phone, one on the bottom. It would be weird to come out the top of the iPhone, so, you know. I guess. apple wouldn't want to do anything weird like a dongle or anything like that that's very unapple like uh yeah no that's that's pretty much it it retailed like 5.99 when it came out nice little value increase i don't know if they're going to go up even higher in value if it does i will feel like i i got a deal i think that's where we'll we'll go to trivia so i feel like pretty good about myself but that was uh that was our our week this week trivia question one how much did marquez lose based on the ad rates of how bad did i get fleeced this time trivia there it is

25:03okay so marquez 32 000 is a lot of money to pay for an old iphone i agree what was the final price of the most expensive apple product ever sold at auction and uh and because it's me we're doing price is right rules. Closest without going over. That helps a lot. David looks stumped. David's sweating. Blank face from David. Stone cold. We love it. I have a hint, but I don't know if I'm right. We'll be back.

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28:18It's fantastic. This will be a permanent segment on the Whiteform Podcast from now on. Do you want me to pick it out with the hat? Yeah, let me give it a nice shake, a little ASMR shake here. Headline roulette. First one. headline reads Spotify redesign oh boy this is my rant actually so you showed me Spotify on your phone it looks way different from my phone I do want to ask you all yours does not show it have any of you guys gotten the Spotify redesign yet when you say Spotify redesign what are you talking about the entire front page almost the entire front page is totally different that's the way it should look the way yours looks if everyone is on Spotify right now or uses Spotify.

29:00We're all used to, I think everyone right now shows, it says like, good morning, has six of like your latest artists or songs that you've listened to, right? Yep. Mine still has that. When you scroll down, what do you see? Like a side scrolling, curated playlist, maybe artists you used to listen to, maybe some podcasts that are new. Mine, when I scroll down, I have one giant picture of one artist. and then i scroll down another singular picture of an album everything tick tock now is this the and they're all videos wait have you do you did you click the music tab on the top no because when i click music it turns into that nope this is just my home page i still have music podcast audiobooks on interesting so now as i scroll down an entire page is one suggestion that's way too much space you can't even scroll sideways it does look like it's a little like uh like ticker like a like a different stories almost but i oh i can i don't even know what this is doing so if you tap on like the right side of the image it'll skip to like a different part of the song basically or to the next no i think a different song but when i do it it just kind of goes to the next one that doesn't go anywhere and then goes back do you see this messing up right now it's working it's just miley cyrus just it's like a normal vertical feed is sort of like one of those conveyor belt sushi restaurants it works really well because the food's coming at you at a high flow rate but they're small pieces so you get to you know pick one up and eat it you know this is like conveyor belt roast beef just gigantic pieces it's just like one because a song can be like four minutes long yeah so it doesn't make sense to have it streaming at you in this like endless flick space i would assume that if i started playing a song there it would do its normal spotify like i'll continue playing similar artists to this but like I'm one of those people who listens to music like a high schooler who I find three bands I'm in love with and I only listen to those three bands for like two months so by the time I need to get those bands out of my head I need some suggestions and I cannot scroll down to one song suggestion to get me out of this funk that I'm in I love to I love Spotify curated playlists are incredible I love them so much I think they're fantastic I don't have those anymore I don't or they're somewhere that I can't find and I think this is the worst redesign you know what this is this is the tick tockification of Spotify I was gonna say like Instagram it feels like like scrolling Instagram feed just one picture so the reason the reason I say tick tock is because not only is it like trying to give you like one piece at a time but also now like tick tock has so much of an influence over like what blows up in music and what is actually like trending and hits billboard and like is useful in music that like people design their songs to have hooks and parts of their song that will be used on tiktok and i feel like what they're doing is like surfacing just that part of the song like that's i'm almost wondering i didn't have my volume on would it start playing potentially it's going to fast forward you to just the hook or the chorus and it's just like your attention span is so short i just want to fast forward you to the tiktok part of this song that's that's why i say tiktok it's funny because now this first one is even a podcast because i other people who listen to this podcast which yeah i don't think spotify used to really do i was gonna say they used to they rolled this out like maybe a month ago for podcasts and i found it really helpful actually i really liked it because you would scroll vertically through podcasts and it'll give you like 10 second segments of the conversation so you can like get a feel for it um i don't think so i think it was like random parts or maybe like most they should make a discovery page make a discovery page don't make it my home page like my home page is i'm in the car i turned my this is going to go on a very small little other rant but also ways on android auto changed their design a little bit to now where all the boxes are black it almost looks like a google maps design but still has the cartoony background and it immediately pulls up recent searches not my favorites so when i plug in ways it's not homework it's it was literally like a ski resort in vermont a climbing gym in south jersey and i'm like i just want to go to work like i do every single day ways um but anyways back to spotify it's just like i want to get in my car i want to be like oh these songs i've listened to a thousand times i don't want to listen to those give me some other genres and curated playlists i want to go to those and it's revamped by week Yeah, it's Spotify turning into, it's them addressing the same problem every social network has, which is I signed up to follow people and see what they post, not see other random stuff I don't care about.

33:43That's Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and all of them are like, but explore other stuff, please. And they're trying to find ways to get people to do that. It's funny because I would almost argue Spotify does that the best out of some of them in the sense of when you finish listening to a playlist you have or an album you're listening to or even just a song, it automatically starts playing. similar i've discovered more music through spotify than i have ever on the radio ever on youtube ever from friends they did it great this just feels yeah terrible i hate it i'm spotify i hate this a lot i love it for podcasts for podcasts cool if you if it was a podcast tab and i wanted to like a podcast discovery page cool part of me my tinfoil hat thing is it's like do you know what's than this AI Spotify DJ then you don't have to look at any of this yes chat GPT is all right at making playlists really I've never tried that it's you have to um it you know you have to battle it a little bit but you can ask it really cool things like uh can you find me like hip-hop tracks that also have the clarinet in them you know and be like totally that's pretty cool there's no like third-party feature to be like okay now make this a spotify playlist and then just press one button there that's spotify that will be productized well no it's i mean you could do it with the right prompt and um i think it's called auto gpt is like a wrapper that gives it uh web access yeah okay if you want to unleash something terrifying in the world i say do it i have a bad feeling that's the next three years of our life so uh cool i think that's enough of my spotify headline sure let's go headline hat i feel like we need like a chant headline hat headline hat that was your mic does it way better you gotta go right on top of the headline apple folder wallet ah well this isn't a headline as much as uh a random thing we recently discovered it's an apple product so of course there are 50 headlines of it so wait is it it's an official apple product no no no no no but it looks like one though yeah that is so cute have you guys did you guys look at this yet or did you see it online i saw in the notes apple folder wallet and i was like i knew exactly okay so i saw brandon's video on it for audio listeners and people who haven't seen this yet someone i believe his name i have his name here hold on um nick bentel created a wallet that looks exactly like an untitled folder or any folder i guess on mac os it's really good it is like spot on it can hold 48 cards or something three to six cards i don't know how many it's nice soft it's great leather it's hand stitched um it's one of those things where you're like how did nobody think of this before yeah are you guys looking at brandon's id all right so second trivia question what are all 12 digits driver's license number i was gonna to say credit cards but i will also accept driver's license or social security i was actually gonna say this is a pretty cool indicator of how off how long it's been since apple's well they've never changed the color of the folder in mac os no so it's been an iconic light blue color since the beginning and they haven't changed it and that allows this physical product to be just as iconic as that color and they changed the pitch translation over time it used to be like slightly leaning forward oh yeah like like open a little more like more skeuomorphic stuff and now it's like flat now it's like yeah totally flat but like the wallet itself is two different shades of blue because the front of it is like highlighted and there's supposed to be a shadow in the background like this is a really cool wallet it's just a little bigger i mean for anyone out i have no idea who this nick guy is brandon ordered it because he saw it and it's cool and he made a video if you want to go look at brandon's video but like yeah you should make a studio video this is one of those things for 50 bucks this is like uh this is such a good gift for your apple nerd I don't know how it's going to age.

37:39That's my only concern is it's so soft. Bro, your Mac OS folders don't have patina on them? I'm just shilling for the Trove wallet right now. Well, we have to shill the Trove wallet because you have to pay for that iPhone. So I've had the Trove wallet for literally like four years and it looks fantastic. And obviously leather is great and people love leather wallets and they patina over time. But this is vegan leather, right? So it's not necessarily going to wear the same way. So that's my only concern. But it is really soft. and if you only have like four to six cards like that's great it's like a really fun gift i actually would find more people probably buying this to like put on their desk somewhere i don't have that many cards but i have other stuff that i end up having to put in my wallet you are igniting like a month's old uh are you between adam and adam went through and actually bought me a wallet because he hated seeing my fat full of oh i don't like cards wallet yeah yeah i have i only have two credit cards my personal card and the business card my but then i also have to have my id slash driver's license i have the door key at the studio which is a card and the card key for the tesla which is a backup in case my phone key doesn't work when which means i should also have the rivian one in case that doesn't work too because sometimes it just doesn't work and i also realized i have my insurance my health insurance card and so i only have two you're missing the most important card what is the most oh my i don't care you always have to have your costco card on you never know when a costco trip could be that's fair bro you're driving down the road and you're just like i could go for a chicken so you know what i have i that's fair for the food dollar 50 glizzy i have my uh i have what i have is i i put a tesla uh third party drawer accessory okay And I took one of those out and I have it on my kitchen counter and it's got my like pocket knife, my keys, a pen, a SIM card ejector, paper clip, just like a bunch of basic stuff.

39:37And it has my Costco card and things that I use sometimes. I feel like the Costco card should default in your Rivian because you need that room for those, that toilet paper. Just as much. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. You're not, it's not a Costco trip unless you're, the trunk of your truck is overflowing with fun size bags of Doritos. Damn, they sell a 50-gallon drum of Dawn dish soap? Nothing less. Need that. Nothing less. But yeah, Apple Wallet, great gift. It's pretty cool. It looks pretty cool. 50 bucks, but it has a five-week wait time, so that's a little tough. But I think 50 bucks for a vegan leather wallet that's like hand-stitched.

40:11Order a couple now and maybe give them out for the holidays. Solid choice. Or just get one of the Trove wallets like now. Yeah, you can get a Trove wallet way faster. Yeah, just saying. I definitely didn't put this headline in so we could chill our own product. I managed to shoehorn that one in there. Good job. Yeah. I'm a born seller, I guess. All right. I want to see how many headlines we have. I think we could do one. One or two more. I think we could do one more and then break. Okay. Do you want to pick? I'll pick it, yeah. Or? And then I'll pick it. Gets less and less ASMR. Yeah. That's what the hat sounds like.

40:44That is not an effect.

40:49I don't know why I'm looking away. Okay. this one's called marquez blinds and it's really because i only i only wanted to say one thing about blinds uh which is that i think i finally realized one other category of tech product that is just as unreliable as printers and that is motorized blinds i didn't i didn't realize it it's the most niche hot take i think it's not even that i have a hotter take for later we'll get to Oh, okay. You'll see. It's in there. We'll get to that later. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. Printers have sucked forever. And I recently had to get one of the motorized shades at home repaired today.

41:30And the guy, like, brought in. He had the new shades. He, like, unscrewed the old one, put the new one in. And I was like, yeah, so this old one, it never charged. Do you, like, know what went wrong with it? And he looked me dead in the eyes and he said, sometimes these things just stop working. And he just left. He just walked right out the door. And I was like, okay, great. I'm just imagining like a mechanic like going up. It's like, what are you going to do? My car's making this weird noise. He's like, sometimes they just don't work. That's the way it is, man. Peace, yeah. Yeah, so I had it on Google.

41:59I had it on my Google Home for a while and then that stopped working for no reason. I had a routine where in the morning I'd say, hey, assistant or whatever your name is. Google. Hey, Google. Yeah, I would say that and I'd say, good morning. And then it would open the shades so that the light comes in. It would start playing the news or whatever. And one by one, it would start opening less and less shades. So at the beginning, it would open the bedroom shades and the downstairs shades. And then I'd go downstairs and two of the shades downstairs were open. And then a few weeks later, only one of the downstairs shades were open.

42:34And suddenly the bedroom one stopped opening. I'm like, this is just slowly breaking down. Just living in perpetual darkness. Yeah, just like the printers, man. They just get jammed up. we have motorized shades here at the studio no less than 35 of them are completely broken some are potentially partial impaled by your own sword man karma baby that's what you get for saying it um yeah the the shades here some of them are a little user error i think once in a while we'll actually put something on the use on the window sill and it'll hit it but fair now there are plenty that have broken just by themselves just by existing like a printer like a printer like paper jams i have two things about this that are both from a bit back so i probably shouldn't even say them but whoever one i want to make a shirt that says printers suck because i would wear that every day universally true you know i think we could sell that on the shop two you mentioned when you this just caught me when you you say hey g word good morning i don't when you say that once does it stop asking you to say it because every morning i say what's the weather and it goes if you'd like to know what your whole morning routine is say good morning and i just constantly yell at it to shut up if i tell if i give in one time will it never ask me to say good morning again because that's all i want maybe i mean also if you open the home app on your phone it's constantly giving you little cards and suggestions of things and maybe if you just like dismiss all of those can i just block every single one of them for the rest of eternity i don't care Just tell me the weather.

44:05So in the morning, it has your routines. And if you go in, you can adjust what phrase it looks for to start the routine. So I can say, hey, G, how's my day? Or hey, G, good morning. And both of those start the same routine. I guess if you just ask for something that's part of a routine, it just wants you to go, hey, you know. It really wants you to. You can do a whole routine with this. And that I even understand. The other one I wanted to stop ever doing is like how many cups are in a liter? and it's saying like, if you'd like to convert it, you take this plus this and blah, blah, blah. It's just like, that's what you're for.