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46:27everyone's doing really good with this yeah except except that's exactly hey like what's the name of the notebook not tech obviously oh my gosh okay to be fair to mine it's called the techno so like no tech you know techno oh you can't get it having a name i gotta say that was okay i think up next at least according to my list we have someone who's got something pretty interesting. So without further ado, I think it's time to bring on MKBHD editor, Mariah Zank.

47:10Oh, wait. Oh, you're just using the box. I don't think it's what you're thinking. Mariah always goes unhinged. It's probably going to be something different. It's much heavier looking. There's Bowflex in there. there we go hello sharks today i'm looking for a one billion dollar stake for 10 of my company just go to peter luger yeah and i know you love an unboxing experience i do so i will let you open the apparatus okay okay i'm still hoping it's not what i think it is this fintech and i hope it is it's not fintech related okay never mind bummer okay so there's several things in here I'm just gonna take them each out what are we looking at okay you have to dramatically open the item I see so I will so we're looking at a scroll of sorts like fabric on two wooden blocks that is being unrolled I think I know what this is what do you think it is is it the foot hammock for under your desk wait this is i think i know what this is what do you think it is david i also thought it was a table tennis uh net what do you think it is marcus i think that's a table tennis net i don't i know i no longer think it's a table i'm sticking with it heads are at it's a table tennis net is this really a you know what is it double as it well andrew unfortunately knows how my brain chemistry works and it is a foot hammock for under your desk and um it is clearly a white labeled amazon product from a nondescript company uh for an unknown price because i did not purchase this but i have become converted really i would say oh so uh so these go it has two clips and then you loop it over oh yeah probably tie it in it okay it might be hard to sway you because i I feel like this is a product potentially for short people.

49:17And you're all very tall. If you could please list your heights for all of the audio listeners. I'm the shortest one on the podcast. I'm 7 '9". 180 inch vertical. I'm 5 '10 and a half. I'm 6 '2". I think everybody could be converted into using this item potentially. For anyone who needs to fidget. If we like to all collectively fidget at our desk. You can kind of swing your feet around. I do like that idea. yeah yeah it's more of a swing then than a hammock right um yeah yeah it's whatever you want it to be okay so your feet rest on it like on your desk all the time wait whenever just not all the time just whenever you want we have to explain something to you you might see marquez holding a buzzer right now oh yeah this is our button that alerts if we're sniffing some tech out inside of it so if the button gets pressed it means we're uh on the path to breaking the rules i would say this is probably as low tech as you could go does the foot hammock have an app no good answer um there's no app there's no uh subscription service um there's no electronics in fact that might surprise you no on off button um yeah no rgb unfortunately no rgb Did you buy it on Amazon Prime?

50:36She did not buy it. I didn't buy it, so I don't know. How did you not buy it? It just appeared in my home. So you know what's funny? These desks that we have, and also my desk and some others in the studio, are made by Xdesk, I think is what they're still called. And one of the options that you can buy is, I think it's called an artisan bar or something like that, but it's like a support bar that's under the desk that you can rest your feet on. And I'm always resting my feet on that. Oh. So this would serve the same purpose, but for desks that don't have that bar. And you get to swing if you have this.

51:09Yeah. Oh, my God. I'm just realizing this table has one of those, and my feet are always on. That's what I'm saying. Guys, sharks,$1 billion. $4 billion. I do think I could use this because my desk is up against a wall, and if you were to look at that wall that is painted white, it just has foot scrape marks up and down it because I'm putting my feet out. so often it's using the wall to do it. You could probably easily make this at home if you really wanted to. You'd probably have to cut this off. There's no way to change the foot fabric. So once this thing's dirty, you're kind of hosed. Do you know what it looks like?

51:44The back of a director's chair? Yeah, that's true. What if I just steal a director's chair? A small table tennis net. A really, really small table. Yeah. Anyway. No, this is good. Cool. I didn't press my buzzer once and didn't even think I needed to I thought you were going to try and make her describe the desk and then go that route but I mean survive the button do you use this at home? yes this is an at home apparatus did we describe what this looks like already? it is basically the back of a director's chair with rope Mariah what sits on top of your desk while you're using this? what do you mean?

52:28Is it just an empty desk? It's her architecture desk. Like I'm just sitting at an empty desk swinging my feet? That's what I'm asking. No. That's what I do in a hammock. This is a foot hammock. What's on the desk, Mariah? Are your feet? What's on the desk, Mariah? No, my kids don't. Please, I need this. I'm just wondering. Sharks, I really need this. No, yeah, okay. It's a pen and a piece of paper. Just like Brandon. Brandon's desk. Just like Brandon. Mariah, thank you so much for joining us. You've been wonderful. Please take your weird foot thing and leave. I'm requesting we get all of these for the podcast desk because we are in here for a long amount of time.

53:09And I would love. There'll be a foot cam in the next episode. Thank you. Yes. Thank you, Mariah. Fun fact, this desk did have the bar. We just didn't attach it. Oh, yeah. Also, I would like it. Mariah, I really thought your cat was in the box first. I would love that. Oh, my God. And then it didn't move. And I was just like, push the desk. She put it down very softly. And like, it looked like it was really heavy. And I was like, that's a cat. That would have been the best thing ever. Oh, my God. All right. So we've also had two sports things so far. That's true. Clearly healthy work life balance.

53:48Let's see what the next item slash person is. Because up next we have special. I don't know his title. He just special agent. He makes stuff special agent just makes stuff happen guy Jono

54:09Welcome welcome awesome All right Jono tell us what you brought for us today. So i'm really big into disc golf, right? And I've been developing my technique a lot. And that means farther throws, more risky shots. And unfortunately enough, they go into water sometimes, especially on the course near me. So today, I brought you what's called a disc retriever. And this one specifically is called the max distance. And it has 42 suction cups. And I love this thing. Holy crap. Yeah. So it looks like a bunch of suction cups arranged in a ball at the end of a stick that I assume goes a very far distance.

54:57Can we pull this out? Yeah. How far? Just start sending it. I want to see how far this goes. It goes. This one goes to like 29 and a half. That's how thin the top is? Oh my goodness. I just want to say, I've played disc golf with John many times. The course by him has a lot of water carries. Oh my gosh. This room won't fit it. It won't fit it. It won't fit it in that sense. i can touch it's so good losing a disc in the water you know they're like 15 to 20 bucks it's not the end of the world but getting it back is nice i think i have like this one costs about 160 dollars oh really yeah this is so funny okay yeah i i've like honestly retrieved like 40 or so discs really yeah so it's paid for itself yeah paid for itself wow and that's that saved like three of mine yeah and i know you love carbon fiber and it's carbon fiber pieces most of the things today have been carbon fiber a lot of carbon fiber in here so what's because it's suction cup if a disc is in the water and generally flat on top if you have like the one I have is just like two hooks which you can kind of drag with but underwater if it can't get like over it or into that spot that suction is really well on the top of it and as long as you move slowly it'll just slowly pull back so you don't have to push into the water this is Cadence's dog disc you go and i can't believe you didn't bring an actual disc golf disc i literally forgot whoa that works really well even in the water it works well it works even better in the water i would say the thing is when you're going to water because of like light refractions it does take a little bit of like i've used this you know core strength nagling no it's actually not that bad it's only like in uh under two pounds i believe do you think this would work better if there were rgb leds on the end no because that would be tech see better no no saw right through your question too easy too easy yeah it's funny that because you said 160 bucks which sounds expensive for what it is but the ratio of that like so i play golf and the ratio is flipped like if you hit a golf ball into a lake it's pretty much always gone unless it's near like the edge that's like three four bucks a ball yeah and so as you play around a golf you will probably lose a couple of golf balls in the woods in the water whatever and that might add up to a certain amount per round but in in disc golf the disc is also like the club yeah you reuse it many times and so if you lose your putter like that you that's like worth a lot more than like a three dollar golf ball yeah so spent so i'm not going to go retrieve my three dollar golf ball from the middle of a lake but i will go retrieve with this gigantic telescoping carbon fiber pole yeah my putter and disc golf well it's also one of those things is that you as a player fall in love with your discs as you kind of break them in a little bit and those become kind of irreplaceable at some points like the clubs yeah or it takes like a ton of effort to get it back to the like yeah and i actually have two of those so that's a 29 and a half and i got like a 15 feet one for jillian so well you know we got two this end part here and this part are 3d printed yeah it's fine it's fine it's fine it's fine uh since it's disc golf and you've got a couple minutes left favorite what is one disc that you would like go to extreme lengths with that or just straight up in the water to get if you needed to i've told i i texted you when this happened oh yeah I'm pretty much, if I can get out of work early enough, can I go home early?

58:33I might actually go swimming for one because it is in a lake, but unfortunately there's a lot of like fallen branches around. You know where it is? Yeah, I know exactly where it is. But because of how all the branches are arranged, it's kind of making it into like a little jail that I can't get it out with that. So I might have to do that. It's a Disgraph Athena. Go swimming. There are animals in this lake? they're all probably leeches but audience members still water is disgusting if water is standing still do not have any cuts when you get in it yeah leeches will get to you I was thinking something disc golf related but I was just thinking of some discs and I haven't played long enough but that is a really good way of doing of saving discs also what a goofy object it's so silly looking yeah it's like it sticks out on my bag like a flagpole and people just go that's a sick retriever man it's one of those things though where when you're playing disc golf people outside of disc golf you're like i hope they're not making fun of me and that in a bag is almost guaranteeing you should paint it gold so that you can call it your golden retriever oh that's that's that's good that's it that's innovative one last fun thing with those is if you have a friend who has one when they're walking you can kind of throw your disc sideways and see if it'll stick to it when it's sitting on their bag um that's always a fun game yeah that one works incredible dang wow that's good yeah what section you don't miss yep so that's mine cool awesome cool thank you very much distance is the name of the product and the company yeah oh no uh yeah max distance Wait, what does that say underneath there?

1:00:15Dot com. Max. MaxDistance.com. Where's the buzzer? They have a website. All right. All right. That is good. Thank you, Jono.

1:00:31Fabulous. Guys, you know what one of my favorite smells is? It's related. It's an incredible transition. It's like golf course or amusement park water. like the super chlorinated like super why do my feel like you're thinking of like mini golf course or golf courses chlorinated have a different smell like sewage i've never been to a golf course so oh i i've been to a lot of golf courses i mean i think the mini golf course with the little like water thing can smell like a chlorinated interesting i like mini golf yeah anyway real quick all right thank you jano we're gonna take one more ad break and then we've got four or five more people left and then we'll uh decide a winner decide a winner at the end make sure to stick around

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1:03:01That is correct. Alex Wolf. We all loaded. Oh. Oh, I feel like I know what this is. Oh, man, is this the Sixers theme song? If it is, I'm walking out. That would be so funny if that's what I pulled out. Alright, Alex. I feel like I've seen your item before, but tell us what you brought today. I brought a Wilson NBA grade, apparently, basketball. Okay. No more actually. Third sports item. Third sports item. We're an athletic bunch. Actually, fourth. Because John did the stick. Oh, fourth. Tim did the shoes. Climbing. the uh climbing lacrosse the lacrosse golf basketball fourth wow so the basketball itself we do one non-tech thing and everyone goes full jock you would you would you believe we play sports here my camera's heavy and i lift it so that's a sport so this is so what is it called by the way because i don't actually know it's a wilson wilson nba authentic series so this is actually one that we had in the studio um that you used for the short with the 3D printed basketball, which I would never bring in here because that is very much tech.

1:04:22Correct. This one is just a regular old basketball. Now, mine is a little more worn than this, but I figured just for the camera, make it look pretty, I would use the one that we just had hanging out here. Okay, but the 3D printed one is so cool. Sure it is, but it doesn't really fit the assignment or else I would have brought it in. I think the reason we think it's cool is the exact reason why it shouldn't be in the tech detox episode. Yeah. Yeah. But it doesn't have a processor. You could also include a hoop or really anything in basketball because it's not tech. And then you just have the entire.

1:04:54But yeah, this sort of illustrates that. NBA, some of the floors now light up, right? That's true. Well, yeah, there are high-tech versions of like every part of basketball. Only in the All-Star game. They did that just for the contests. What about that new stadium that the old Microsoft CEO. Yeah, Clippers. They have a new stadium. It's pretty safe. That stadium's crazy. Wait, Alex. Yes. What makes an NBA authentic basketball different than any basketball I would get at Dick's Sporting Goods? Branding. Wait, are you serious? Yeah, that's pretty much it. Money. It's not like a different material or closet or size or...

1:05:29Really? Are you serious? I thought... This one is mostly just the same size and weight and whatever is an NBA basketball, but this one is actually made for indoor-outdoor, so it's a little more durable of a material. But yeah, mostly it's just branding. No, wait, I totally thought there was, like, a different, like, grip composite and, like, no. There is a... It's pretty grippy. The way that the ball is fused together... Fused? Yeah, whatever. I don't know. I'm reaching. There's been a lot of reaching in this episode. All right, so have I officially been buzzed? Oh, no, no, no, no. Do I get to do my rant now?

1:06:03What is the rant? I can keep going. Well, I have one. I have one prepared if you want. What's the rant? If we decide it's tech? Yeah, if you guys decide it's tech, I have a very strong rebuttal. It's tech. All right. Well, you have 27 seconds left. Okay. Oh, my God. All right. Here. Everybody, look at this image. Look at this. Wait, you should have looked this down earlier. Look at this. This is how much the basketball has changed in 130 or so years. Barely at all. Do you think James Naismith had an iPhone? Do you think that he decided to draw this on an iPad? No, he didn't. He woke up one day and he said, I want to be a hooper.

1:06:40and I want the world to be hoopers. Who is James Naismith? James Naismith invented basketball. I want a hoop. The 1981 one looks like a... Who said who's James Naismith? What's wrong with narrow basketball? Everyone knows basketball was invented by Jonathan Basketball. Alex, I just have a question. David, could you read what this says right there? Oh, I printed it off a computer. Basketbaloney.jpg. I printed it off a computer. resolution 1280 by 760 pixels it is actually really cool how little it's changed though the old basketballs look like rugby that looks like sort of football stitching almost basically yeah well i mean that's how you had to make a ball balance so that's so that's the question okay back in the day they were stitching it together like this now they're making it with some sort of fusing okay so you know what's funny famously back in the day 2006 if you look at that basketball They tried to change the NBA basketball and make it not leather and make it a composite material.

1:07:42The players hated it. Fine woven? Yeah, they made a fine woven basketball, yes. The players hated it so much that they had to change it mid-season and completely cancel all of these basketballs that they had. I think they just freaking threw them away. Wow. So, yeah, they had to do that. So, just to illustrate how non-tech basketball is, the smallest amount of tech was added to basketball, a composite material, and the players revolted. you know that is sports a lot that is a lot of sports i think golf is i keep coming back to golf because i play it but it's interesting because there's a lot of tech and it kind of went both ways it got really really good really fast all the drivers got bigger all the golf balls got bouncier and every shot went further and spinnier and everybody loved it and then it kept going and now it's kind of at like this can we go back a little bit moment where everything is too good and too forgiving and too easy um interesting no this is great i i was gonna make the point that that the 3D printed basketball is just further along this line.

1:08:38Sure, but I don't think it's ever gonna actually get used. You don't think so? No, that thing would cut your fingers up, dude. If you're trying to reach in for a steal on that. Okay, but if they had stuff around it, you know. I guess, but then what's the point? Isn't the whole point of limiting the nerves? It's quieter and bouncier. For people like me. But when you wrap stuff around it, it's loud again. Yeah, you wrap stuff around it, it gets loud again. Because then the sound doesn't just go through it. That's the whole thing with that ball, is that the reason it's quiet is because the air is just going right through it.

1:09:02If you wrap it in something, then it's having that same. Reverbs. Got it Alex. I have a story to tell you before you go. Okay I got a basketball recently on the street like it was on the curb someone's getting rid of it And I was playing around with it and you know, I'm pretty bad at basketball Don't have like the biggest hands in the world and I was just Handling like I was I was James Harden with this thing bro through the legs behind the back doing stuff I've never been able to do before and I was like damn this basketball is is sauced bro Like I can I am ripping right now and then I came to work the next day and realized it was a child-sized I was about to say it's a size 5 used basketball.

1:09:35Just a minuscule basketball. That is a kindergartner basketball. Yeah, it was really... Like, I'm not talking like Nerf basketball size, but, you know... Slightly bigger than a palm ball. Slightly bigger than a grapefruit, yeah. It was pretty embarrassing to realize I didn't... Anyway, Alex, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. You've been wonderful. Thank you. Alex followed the process very well. Number one Joel Embiid fan. Does everyone get their own theme song? I'm probably gonna have to reuse a few but for the most part I still have a bunch left we haven't used that one was a point he didn't even hear the music and he was doing it that's a good point 6-4 center UC Berkeley Jamad Giacomagos Camden 76ers you shut the f*** up with that I feel like my prime what I bring to the table as an employee is if you give me an assignment, I will always go above and beyond in the silliest way, like coming up with 10 original music cues.

1:10:40But up next, we have... How do we introduce this guy? Oh, you don't know who it is. No. It's either Eric or Rich, right? No, we got three, four people left. Oh. We got Eric Rich and... Miles. Yeah, it is... It's Miles. Up next is Miles. Okay. Up next is Miles. Needs no introduction. He's the fastest in the studio of both running and sitting. He's the fastest sitting? What does that mean? Oh. Well, he hasn't raced me before. I could be faster.

1:11:17Miles, welcome.

1:11:21We got a theme song for you. It's a good one. And a crowd, apparently. What have you brought to show us today? Okay. So we've seen quite a few items already, you know, varying in sizes. You know, I don't have some really big gargantuan item to show, but it does have a lot of heart and also may have some long-term detrimental effects on my heart in the future. But that's neither here nor there. So, no lady and gentlemen, I introduce to you fair performance nutrition in the prickly pear flavor. It's pre-workout? Pre-workout. Oh, my God. Now. Are we jocks here at this company? Crazy. Everyone's bringing in sports and workout stuff.

1:12:10Now, give me a minute to try to sell this, right? So, I chose this product not only because it is as far removed from technology as a lot of the other stuff you've seen today. But. I want to look at this thing. Since it has entered my life thanks to resident pod god Adam, who is not here. I thought Adam was here. He's not here. He's sick. He probably drank too much then. Yeah. Get better soon. Probably because of this. Get better soon, Adam. It has vastly improved my fitness journey in the past three, four months I've used it. But I'm not asking you to believe me. I'm only asking you to believe the numbers.

1:12:52My muscles. which i have i mean i have some numbers to show you today six six just the shimu baby all right so i don't know if you guys want to pass this around you're familiar with like the apple fitness yes the what you can swipe two times to see a february and then a march for just like mile times, right? Nothing crazy. Mile times? Yeah. Like you can just look at the first mile time. Okay. So in two months, you went from seven minutes to 6.30? Yes. Or no, 7.30 to 6.30. So you went down one minute. Right. So that is pre-BPN. Wow. That's super impressive already. If you want to go to the slide after that, June, July, August, you see a substantial improvement in the mild time.

1:13:52522 in July. Wow. And then 449 in August. Jeez. So, yeah. Wait, let me see. Sorry. Significantly. That heart rate. I didn't look at the heart rate, though. Yo, what is the heart rate going up to? Yeah, a little bit. 173 BPM. but you got to do that to get to a 440 mile no yeah 100 i mean what i don't think i reached any crazy numbers no yeah 170 in a full sprint isn't i think if i was like 210 or something like that that'd be a little concerning uh kids don't do drugs look you can buy this on amazon i think it's it's you know if it was not supposed to be there is a significant amount of caffeine in it which is probably the biggest thing.

1:14:37So obviously... Which is why I don't recommend... Consume caffeine. Marquez is making a face. Taking this every day. How much? It's like 300 milligrams. If anyone remembers Dr. Mike coming on the show, I think he said you shouldn't consume more than 400 milligrams a day. Right. So when I have this, this is my only caffeine intake for the day. No coffee, no Celsius, Red Bull, anything. This is it. So I'm trying to do it responsibly. that is uh over three cups of coffee like espresso shots right not just like yeah i think a general cup of coffee is around 80 milligrams uh i saw 90 on google but um but yeah that's all 90 so to conclude right um you know my fitness journey is one of the ways i tried to like push myself and self-improve and so bpn bear nutrition performance it means more than just bear nutrition performance it means boldly pursuing new opportunities it means not only believing in progress not perfection get what i'm saying is this a presidential run right now i just have one question miles um yeah at the top it says flight is our pre-workout supplement created to boost your power output, improve focus, and increase energy without the crash or jitters.

1:15:57Yeah. Is that actually true about it? I think so. I mean, you've seen me function day to day. I'm not dead. Yeah? Yeah. I mean, this is... No crash? I took some this morning around six o 'clock, you know? No crash? If you really wanted to pitch it to us well, you would have taken it right before you joined us. Yeah. I would have been done like two months ago. Yeah. Okay. No, yeah. That's a good vouch then. That's a good voucher. I didn't see any I read the entire label. I didn't see any of any tech ring There were any CPUs in the ingredients. No, no snap you power. No on off. No, so dragon. Yeah Thank you very much.

1:16:36Yeah, you're the only person that brought in a controlled substance so so far I think I will feel alone probably So yeah, that's that's it wait before you go miles where can people find you in our content because you're in videos now quite a fair amount um yeah i mean i've been on like every channel at this point um but autofocus that's the main one that's where and that's where i live that's that's my corner of the internet studio stuff if you want to see what miles is like on 300 milligrams of caffeine with a ferrari v12 you can see both those things together on youtube.com slash autofocus alright now get out of my podcast thank you very much very nice thank you

1:17:26don't forget your daily driver oh don't worry that's fine I can't live without that alright up next we got Eric my fault I'm sorry there we go oh I like this one this is good music oh welcome this is some like acdc kind of stuff we have theme music going if you it's over it you missed it yeah you'll have to try that what it is by watching could you sing it

1:18:00it's about how it went cool yeah so uh myself or something no yeah no just straight to what are you i wait for viewers have never met eric yeah they haven't met eric hi ferrick i am eric i am miles's personal trainer i i mean i turned that ship around real good um and then he was like eric if you can if you're if you can turn me this skinny little sack of bones in the muscular man i am now i think you could also co-produce for our studio channel and so that is that is like what that's how you're doing that's like what i do for like money but like my soul is in the personal training for sure so i have spoons i'm already terrified okay spoons this isn't gonna be one of those like cupping things right what is that cupping people like it's like a massage it's like a weird thing does that involve spoons oh yeah it can yeah oh yeah you guys want to guess what the spoons are for um eating something at this point now we all have spoons it feels like are going to make us eat something that'd be awesome oh no oh no oh wait i should have seen this coming a mile away okay this wait this is something you use frequently yeah okay i've talked about it every day yeah okay sorry it's not even open explain it yeah i bought a fresh one just for you guys that's nice of you yeah what is it for those of us that are okay so for folks this is kewpie mayo this is by many standards many objective measures as well as subjective measures the best mayonnaise that money can buy in a blind taste testing in the chicago tribune kewpie mayo was rated as the best most delicious mayonnaise by a large wide margin in their most recent mayonnaise low bar low bar um so okay so why do you say it's a low bar well most delicious mayonnaise winner kind of feels like I don't know.

1:20:03There are a lot of mayonnaise out there. What are you trying to say, Parker? Maybe I don't appreciate mayonnaise to the level that these people do. Wait, are we going to eat this straight? Yeah. Yeah, we're going to do mayonnaise straight on the podcast. What, do you want, like a chip? Yeah, I don't know. Okay, I will say Japanese mayo and Japanese barbecue sauce are both elite. This is Japanese mayo? Yes. This is Japanese mayo, just from a build quality perspective. Pass this around. That's true. You say build quality? Yeah. Like bottle build quality? That's not technology. That's just impressive.

1:20:37It's a squeeze bottle, so it's flexible. How is this mayo different from regular mayo? Okay, so a little bit of history. This company was originally founded in 1919. For its first five years, it was a salmon packing company in Japan. They did canned salmon. And then the founder, who had interned in the U.S., was like, man, the U.S. has mayo on lock. and so he went and he created his own take on japanese mayo where they only use the egg yolk so it has this thick nice like custardy kind of texture and then it's mixed with rice rice water vinegar or rice water to give it this kind of like umami kind of like almost asian flavor it's not necessarily overpowering but it just gives it a little bit more of like this sweetness it's fun It's just capital F.

1:21:23It's fun. It is so good. Eat it, David. I will say. All right. I'm going to try some as a non-mayo enjoyer. At first, I was like, I'm going to do this for the pod. Then I held it, and my stomach got a little queasy. I'm still going to do it. No promises, because it's straight mayo, and I already just don't like mayo. I have to say, another cool thing about this is that if you open it regularly, you squirt it out in a tube shape. but if you just open the top, it is star decoration shape. Yeah. Oh. This is just, it's like, it's well built. So what, you can do it on a cake? Why would you need that?

1:21:58Well, for decoration. For fun. You can decorate with a mint. Oh, wait, there is that like Swedish fish cake, isn't there? Swedish fish cake. They did it on bacon one time. That sounds gross. I think I have to take it. Are you a mayo fan? I have to take it, that thing. No. I'll take yours for you if you don't want to take it. No, we all gotta take it. I'm not forcing my boss to eat something he doesn't like. I'm not doing star. I'm not gonna do that much. Just do a dab. I'll put a little bit on this spoon. I believe in the mayo world it's referred to as a dollop. A dollop. I thought that was the sour cream world.

1:22:33That is the sour cream. They're the same thing. There you go. See, just a dollop. Or a dab. Or whatever that is. A gram. I don't know. The last dab. I'd rather do the last dab. How about we all eat it together? yeah you guys are whipped i almost put it on the button not gonna lie that smells pretty good honestly kind of smells like salt and vinegar chips like the things you don't like about mayo is it's because it's like all mass-produced factory stuff you know it's not made with love right assuming that's mass-produced you know in i oh yeah 100 but it's like yeah but it's like but it's got love in it but there's certain ingredients of uh sandwiches for example that are like well it's a condiment basically we're eating a condiment i don't know how to feel about this they're never like standalone if it's on that chip i would feel better all right it's on a spoon i feel like such a wuss being like i don't want to eat mayo off the clock though like one of the most common condiments ever all right yeah three two cheers one

1:23:35it's definitely much better than regular mayonnaise eric wins from what i remember of mayo in the past it is better than mayo i still did not like eating it alone i didn't like eating it alone i also think for the sub enjoyers oil and vinegar is better than mayo and everywhere possible why do you say that you can't have oil vinegar that's too much i don't even need meat the fact that we all just ate warm mayo and no one complained i think speaks volumes to how good that is you didn't get to me yet yeah i look next time i buy mayo i'm never going to i will buy qp mayonnaise because this is it seems great great engineering on the package um just one quick question uh would you say that packaging of it is separate in like an interesting way from other mayo packaging in any way not when you're holding the button like that just curious just curious yeah i before you hit that button i need to explain the logic of how this is techno this is plastic this is just cool plastic uh-huh so it's not different than any other mayo packaging you would say you're not answering my question i'm just curious you're not answering my question i'm not i'm not okay so it's the same all right because i just see it says easy squeeze tube there and i just feel like that might be like a distinguishing feature of well that's innovative but innovative isn't always technology right wasn't that the decision we made earlier yeah This is well built.

1:25:03But if, okay, if you're going to buzz this because it's well built. No, no, no. Everyone else needs to be buzzed. That's totally fair. We have attempted to buzz everyone, by the way. That's kind of a goal. I am going to win on technicalities. Fair. Okay. Tech, tech, tech. On what? Technicalities? Technology? No, the two-way cap is innovative. The squeezy, the squeezy thing is interesting. The star shape. Yeah, it's all, it's well packaged. It's Japanese engineering on an American classic. This is like Sony, but not technology. Why is there a baby? Because it's freaking adorable. No, because the Kewpie brand is based on a line of dolls from the 30s and 40s called Kewpie Dolls.

1:25:43That's interesting. That's like the logo for the company, too. Oh, careful with that. Careful. Oh. All right. It's time for you to get out. All right. Thank you, Eric. Get out of here. Get out of here. At first, that sounds like the Friends song. It's ACDC, bro. Oh. Am I right? I'm Becky Blair! All right, next up is another new face for podcast listeners. It's Rich. Welcome, Rich.

1:26:15That was some late night stuff. Oh, yeah. Join us, yeah? Welcome. There's a theme song. Oh, baby! Okay. Oh, theme song's over. But yes, welcome to the pod, Rich. Hi. Welcome. Okay. Well, I see you have a backpack. Is the item the backpack or is it inside the backpack? It's inside the backpack. Show us what you brought, Rich. Well, my friends, I would like to preface, this is something we all love. Are you sure? Yeah, absolutely. We'll see about that. If you do not love this, you have bad taste. Wow. No pressure. Rich is from L.A. If he pulls out In-N-Out right now. I have bad taste. Can Eric just eat a spoonful of mayonnaise?

1:26:53I would eat cold In-N-Out from a six-hour flight across country before I eat another spoon of mayonnaise. I'm glad you said that. No way. No way. so I did not bring it out next best thing it's an In-N-Out t-shirt with the menu that's only a tenth of the menu that's technology right there can I put this on absolutely but it is only a tenth of the menu that's true I mean there's a secret the menu is pretty small and then there's the rest of the In-N-Out menu which is this stuff that you learn about after you go for the first time that is also like 10 times as much stuff yeah it always goes you're not from california to go to in and out you talk to someone california you're like it wasn't that good and then the person california goes bro it's because you don't know about the thing and this is i'm from california you don't know about the thing that no one told you about that's not hidden down anywhere like you're so stupid you ordered off the menu locals only bro stay off my waves so i would like to know everyone's in and out order okay double double animal style animal fries with chopped chilies on the burger so i recently switched to one double double animal style with chopped chilies on the burger a single cheeseburger with grilled onions and then animal style fries good lord i think mine's the same as ell's but no tomato because i hate tomatoes i get a cheeseburger with grilled onions so do you guys know you can get extra toppings yeah but you know there's like no limit yeah no limit yeah so you can go like extra extra extra didn't they impose like a 10 patty limit no something no i know i know i think you're right okay in high school when i was in band we would stop at in and out on the way to band competitions and that's fire high school kids want to impress each other in the dumbest ways possible and in and out at least at the time it was one dollar per patty that you wanted to add extra so kids would do like 20 by 20s are you saying that's a 20 patty burger yes with 20 slices of cheese yeah oh my and it would just get obnoxious and i think they might have imposed a limit but i'm not sure i mean if you're doing a 20 by 20 that's kind of insane right yeah yeah yeah yeah i agree wait what's your what's your mood right okay so double double extra extra grilled onions extra raw onions oh i do love raw onions and then animal style fries two packets of spread yeah what's the spread oh packets yeah and you can just add them on after oh i didn't know that very nice that is a pro what mood was that for uh that's my regular order usually i will swap out for protein stuff i'm I need a little healthier.

1:29:37Okay. What if you're angry? Four by four. Four by four after a good workout? Yeah. I have gifts for everyone. Oh. What? Are you trying to win us over or something? Absolutely. Okay. Rich wins. I brought stickers for everyone from In-N-Out. If there's any that you like and that is not here, I will bring it for you next time. Wow. These are sick. I recently became, so you want I have a water bottle covered in stickers and I recently ran out of room on the water bottle for stickers okay and I was in Australia and I got a sticker and for the first time I just overlapped a sticker I just put it right on top of two other stickers and that has just opened the door for a ton of new sticker placements on my water bottle so this is this one right here is going on my water bottle for sure all right I sick yeah this is fire I'm bringing I'll get more stickers next time I go back to California.

1:30:33Yeah. I didn't know you could get these. Are they free? In-N-Out Company Store, Baldwin Park, California. Oh, we passed through there once when I was on the way to a band competition. So to be clear, the item you're presenting is the t-shirt. Yeah. But it's more of the idea. It's the vibe. It's the spirit. But the spirit of In-N-Out is the food, the experience, the stickers, the In-N-Out vibes, the secret menu. What do you think allowed them to be so quick, have no delay, not freeze their... Nope. No, we're not. I'm defending Rich. Rich, you're a fellow Californian. We're not making it. I was trying to think of how to talk about California.

1:31:11Yeah, but you didn't know about the spread packets. I'm just kidding. Okay. Rich. Yes. This was fantastic. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you. The bribe will influence my decision. Oh, yeah. Excellent. Oh, I would like to add, I would like to buy you on and out next time we're in California. Oh, that's too nice. You don't need to do that. This is heavily influencing. Everyone should know that if you noticed in the past few months that the studio channel looks really good, is shot with an artistic touch. Oh, thank you. That's Rich. Me and Eric. You guys are doing an awesome job so far. We're having a good time.

1:31:46It's a lot of fun. Very nice. Cool. All right. Thank you very much, Eric. Thank you for having me. Thanks for coming on. Thank you, Rich. Thank you, Rich.

1:31:58Do you want any of these? I might steal this one. Without further ado, I would like to welcome studio production coordinator, new studio producer, amazing soul, Harper. Oh my god. It's a dog bed? Is it a dog bed? How are they going to get that in here? It's those huge bean bag chairs. Huge bean bag chair. I will need to test this to confirm.

1:32:30I hope this does not rip in the corner of this frame is incredible what's going on I was gonna say like why do we need that camera to record but now I'm like no actually that's the perfect camera right now we're doing so well I can't tell if they're halfway through

1:32:50oh my goodness it's expanding you might have to pick it up and lift it over I think they practiced this morning. When was this in... This is half of the office in size. How did you get this? Did you have it in your car? I saw a moment when I was at my desk. Harper was like, John O'Miles, can I borrow you? And I was like, oh, no. No. Oh, hold on. Just watch that camera right there. Okay, but you have to sit in it while you're on the podcast. Oh, yeah. Works really well. Right? Harper Markowski, everybody!

1:33:27Smoothest entrance so far. This frame is great because it really like, like it just becomes. Can we push your mic forward too? You mean I look like I'm incredibly comfortable and you guys are in like boring chairs? Well this frame has a lot of headroom I'll say. Okay, Harper, what did you bring to show us today? What is this? So, sorry about that. So, I brought a love sack, which is basically like a giant bean bag but instead of beans it's like cut up memory foam yeah so is it made by the bean 52s cut up memory memory foam interesting memory i think that's what it is i'll be honest i've never cut it open and looked inside but we bought this instead of a couch for our like gaming area and uh it's the best purchase we've made uh it's like i'm more jealous they have a gaming area i mean like by that i mean you know where we put like gaming area where we like put our xbox but like yeah can you imagine also direct xbox also a playstation um but like yeah no it kind of it can transform into anything it feels like you're sleeping on a cloud and most of i mean anything it can transform into a dinosaur um but like more importantly uh if it's not in the context of this room um you can like run and dive into it and it's Oh, yeah.

1:34:49I mean, I would highly suggest it. I kind of want to try that. So it's kind of hard, even for video listeners, to appreciate the size of this chair. It's really big. I would say that I can't tell how big of a car I would need to bring in it. Yeah, I'm so intrigued by how you got this in. How did you get it here? How did you get this in your car? First of all, I'm just going to blame Ellis for me actually doing this. I said this as a joke, and he was like, but you should do that. it took we have a shop back so we put it into a vacuum sealed bag shop backed it then transported it and then put the cover on holy crap oh my goodness that's impressive i appreciate the dedication wait that is a shop a shop it was like a vacuum vacuum sealer i also brought the shop back with me in my car so i can also bring this home right right that's a good See, I would have maybe had the foresight to, you know, put it in that, and I never would have brought it here to get it back home.

1:35:46Yeah, my husband was like, what are the odds that you actually bring this home tonight? And I was like, hi, I think. Or maybe it becomes a part of the office. Or I get to convince you guys that we need this in the office. I would like to dive into it. It may be stuck in this room. Um, sure. I would like to at least sit in it in this segment, if I'm being honest. I'll let you guys sit in it. In order to, okay. Can we sit in together? I would like to also... It looks like there's room. It is made to be at least for two adults. Okay. Oh, my God. I will mention that I also have one of these. No, no, it's okay.

1:36:22Just one of these. And it is very comfortable. You have one of these? I do have one of these. You do? Wait, really? Yes. How have we never discussed that we both have love sacks? So mine's not nearly as big. But what I've noticed about it is if you sit in it in the same way over and over again, the memory foam kind of like piles into the corners of it and it becomes like the shape of the person who sits there all the time so it when i sit down it's like it doesn't move it just like feels like a chair but if i ever want to like restructure it i have to like shake it out and like move it around yeah like roll it over yeah and then it's like whatever you want yeah it like re it remakes itself into a giant pillowy like cloud yeah i have a dog i do not have a dog no It smells really good.

1:37:03We did just wash this because we just moved. But yeah, this is the love sack. When we get it out into the office area, you guys can take a running jump at it and enjoy that. I will do that. I'll be honest. My two-year-old nephew also loves doing that. I think that might be a universal human experience. Maybe even dogs, too. I feel like anyone would enjoy running and jumping into this. Right? I mean, it's like if you ever wanted to jump into a pillow or jump into a cloud, this is what I assume is the closest experience to that. the next waveform studio will just be a bunch of those with microphones hanging from the ceiling just all hanging out you said earlier it could turn into anything i i did mean i can let me let me like add an addendum to that sure i more so meant like you could shape it around yourself in any way so that if you wanted to take a nap in it great if you wanted to sit in it more like a chair you can if you wanted to sit in it in like a group sort of like a modular type of sounds I would say innovative, but I don't know about that.

1:38:04I think more so just like, it's like clay. Is clay innovative? Clay is one of the most ancient materials. That's a great deflection. Yeah, I can see that. Okay. It's like clay, yeah. Moldable. Moldable, exactly. I don't think innovative. I think moldable. Moldable. Okay. Funny, because Love Sack does make a couch with a speaker in it, I'm pretty sure. My husband keeps on trying to convince me to buy that, and I'm putting the kibosh on there. Love Sack is a brand? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like Kleenex? Yeah, Love Sack is like a, yeah, it has like the subwoofer in one of the legs of the sofa or whatever.

1:38:34Yeah. They got popular with this, but now they make couches that are fairly popular and supermodule and have speakers in them. I found out also today that Kewpie is a brand. I thought it was just the style of mayo. Oh, I heard you guys ate mayo. Yeah, it wasn't the best experience. Straight mayo, yeah. That one's not getting my vote. If you're a dish. But I did do it. Speaking of which, guys, I think it is time Are you sure you guys don't want to just leave this in here so you can enjoy it while I leave? I mean, you know, we might need some extra testing. Yeah, I'm not Harper. As someone who's now gotten that in and out of here twice today, we're gonna leave it in here.

1:39:10Great. I love how I started this segment out of breath because of that, too. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, Harper. Be careful. Thanks, Harper. Thank you. Bye. All right, friends. Time to be mean. Time. Marquez is immediately going into the... Go on. You don't have to wait for me. Oh, I thought you said, come on, like you wanted us to join you. No, no, no. Come on. I'm just enjoying it. The water's warm. Okay, so I think to wrap this episode up, the four of us should vote. Or should we collaborate on who we think is the collective winner? Yeah, we should. Or should we all four write it down on a whiteboard?

1:39:52So what are we voting on about it? I think the vote should be the ratio of like the most impressive of like, I might want to use that thing slash it gets points deducted for every step closer to being technological that it is. I think that's the easiest way. I guess like I see your point is you brought in something extremely niche. So did Tim. Yeah. Those are very niche products. Even like they are very, you know, like John is cool, but I don't play frisbee. Yeah, that's true. But I don't think that it should be based around whether we would use it. I think it should be how useful is it? Live in the moment.

1:40:33Even though it has no technology. Live in the headspace of who might use it. I would like to give my vote for best bring. I'm not voting for the piano. Well, I think I'm going to have to go with Brandon. You know, honorable mention to Eric. That was the highlight of my morning so far. quick little but no I disabled your button we're done with that it's Ellis' turn baby in fact I do this to you wow power trip welcome to my kingdom yeah I like Brandon I really liked how can I get a refresher notebook yeah the whole ten we had a bunch let me pull out my list of my notes here Yeah, I would like a two-word name for each of them.

1:41:28I remember Miles had pre-worked. Two words. Ready? Yeah, yeah. Tim, foot thing. Yep. Vin, lacrosse stick. Mm-hmm. Brandon, dot book. Definitely. Mariah, foot thing, for sure. Jono, stick stick. Sticky, sticky, long. Sticky, sticky, sticky. Long sticks. Orange ball. I think basketball's one word. Miles, not drugs. Go juice. Go juice. Eric, Kupi Mayo, Rich, Best Burger, Harper, Lovezak. Wow. Okay, I would say, if Rich literally pulled out a Double Double, especially since two days ago we told people about this, and we're in New Jersey, he'd be instant winner. Yeah, for sure. But I think the t-shirt aspect of it, while the bribes helped...

1:42:15Yeah. The spirit was... I did like the spirit of, like, the thing that makes me happy that's not tech is In-N-Out. I really get that. In-N-Out would have been an instant win. The spirit of In-N-Out is still strong enough to almost be at the top of my list, but I don't think I can give that the win. My vote is to Jono's stick stick, sticky stick, because it is something that he uses very frequently that is not something that everyone has. So it's useful and it's not technology and he uses it a lot. Yeah, I would say he did have the most concretely useful tech list thing with the exception of maybe Andrews Lock in Hand.

1:42:51Well, yeah, I don't think I will say. I do think David's camera not only was like the most interesting thing, even as someone who doesn't use cameras, but. I was expecting to buzz it a bunch of times and that never got to that point. So I was impressed by that aspect of it, whether that means it's the winner or not. I think it was really cool and I was so ready to buzz the hell out of you. but you picked the perfect camera to do it. The hierarchy in my head I'm considering is I'm trying to guess how often each person uses the thing that they presented. And I think the top of the list, aside from the weights, is possibly Miles and possibly Andrew's pan and possibly Harper's lovesack.

1:43:43How often they use it. Yeah. It's kind of hard not to vote for the lovesack. It was super comfortable. Yeah. so that's that's where my head is at and obviously not being tech i think those you know don't you use those weights a lot my most likely to buy would be the weights or the love sack i think i am yeah probably going to eventually buy those weights it sounds like rich and harper are the two that we all mentioned as like i don't know you don't know i think you decide on john is my my personal winner i think johnno i could i would feel comfortable giving it to Jono. It's useful. It's definitively not tech.

1:44:22Although there's 3D printed bits. Because here's my thing. Here's my thing. As much as I would love to win and whatever. My camera is the thing that I do. Right? Jono, the thing that he does is the frisbee but this is an accessory that he uses a lot and isn't even technological. I think that there is something to that where it's like it's an optional accessory that is very interesting and cool. and it's not the main thing. Because, you know, Vin brought in the lacrosse stick. That's the thing. Tim brought in the climbing shoes. It's not really. It's kind of part of it. No, I see what you mean.

1:44:58It's like you're saying a lot of people brought in sports things, but they basically just brought in the sport. Yeah, basketball. You know what? Jano brought in an accessory, and generally accessories to sports is where we start getting into the tech part, and he brought in a non-tech version. I like that explanation. I'm going with Brandon. else picks brandon's dotted notebooks i pick jano jano's long stick sticky stick long sticky stick with carbon fiber i'm gonna go the beanbag harper wow i think i would buy that you think i'd pick the disc golf thing how you're gonna pick my camera i'm sorry i'm also picking the beanbag killer all right two for the beanbag and killer there it is well thank you all for sticking around for this bonus episode of the techless waveform podcast it's been an absolute pleasure to introduce all of our friends to you guys it is i want to throw one special shout out here is ellis put in an absurd amount of work in an extremely short amount of time to get this done for your for everyone here um poor planning on our part super busy month we decided we thought of this on monday pretty much uh i pitched it else was like this is awesome and did a ton of work extra camera angles and everything to get this done and adam got sick so he really had to do all of the but yeah but before adam got sick he also put a lot of work for this so i just and shout out to everyone for bringing in their items yeah no one forgot brought in their items true nobody forgot well hey thanks for watching thanks for listening thanks for voting in the comments below we'll definitely for sure tally them up with ai and figure out who won uh other than that we'll catch you guys in the next regularly scheduled programming.

1:46:35See ya. Bye. Peace. We're from a spruce by Adam Malina and Ellis Rovin. We're partnered with Vox Media Podcast Network and our traditional music was created by Vain Still. Bingo. Oh. I mean, he's the one who has to pay for it. That's true.