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48:48But then, yeah. It comes down to, again, the question that we've asked many times on this podcast before. What do you think will happen first? A car company deciding to spend the money on software and become a good software company as well so that they don't have to rely on Apple putting all of their stuff on the car screen? Or a tech company becoming a good car company? So something like Tesla or Xiaomi or Apple or whatever, who's already really good at software, getting really good at the car part, you know, panel gaps, build quality materials. We talk about all that all the time. Which do you think will happen first?

49:29Yeah. You know, so theoretically, becoming a car company should be much harder than hiring a good software team. But I think we kind of talked about this a little bit yesterday. Like, for some reason, these traditional auto manufacturers just, like, don't want to hire a software division to maintain good software in their cars. A really good software. They have software divisions, but they're not a focus that's, like, pushing boundaries. Right. And I think they don't want to do that because people currently aren't buying cars for the software. People are currently, like, if you're buying an expensive car like a Porsche, they're buying it because it's a Porsche.

50:05Or if they're buying a Honda Civic, they're buying it because it's a Honda Civic. But I don't think right now software is like a major reason that people buy cars. And so that's why they're so likely to just be like, oh, Android Auto or CarPlay. Just like off the shelf, put it in. We don't even have to hire a software team. Yeah. But slowly these startups like Rivian are coming and like devoting these really big software teams to the interior software of the car. and that is a major selling point for people that are the early adopters of evs but as evs become normal cars by 2030 when it's illegal to buy a nice car in the united states like what is that going to look like yeah so people up until let's say 2020 didn't really think too hard about the software built into the car it's just whatever i'll get car play and that'll be fine yeah but people buying new cars in 2024 and beyond are going to start to care about the software because a lot of them will be evs and the software will matter yeah and a lot of them are younger people who care about the software let's be honest so it almost feels like tesla's success kind of tricked a lot of the car industry into some of the wrong focuses yeah weird yeah i do think a fully compatible like android auto or carplay car in an ideal world is the best option because those two software manufacturers are so much better than even the software software car companies are currently yeah and i think they have such a head start i don't see tesla ravine ever catching up to them and the software function plus if we always talk about tesla and the ecosystem of charging and being inside your tesla all the time what's a better ecosystem than your car being connected to your actual ecosystem of your phone and your like all your smart stuff yeah it almost feels like the only possible way to get that ecosystem integration is for it to be the car play thing like if you use like if i use tesla as an example their app on the phone is phenomenal it's the best i've ever used for any car you can do you can send instructions to the car you can preheat the car you can have schedules for charging there's all sorts of things that plug into it.

52:21Yeah. And by the way, and this is separate from the car, like if you have a Tesla solar roof system, there's all the software that talks to the car where I literally have it where if my car is plugged in while it's sunny outside, it will only use the excess energy from the solar that the house isn't using to charge the car. Insane. I couldn't even dream of doing that with, I don't think the Taycan has anywhere near that functionality. So the integration in Tesla's ecosystem is great, But if you still want the texts from your phone or the apps on your phone, you kind of need CarPlay. I think there's a specific phrase you used in there that's so important and really important for a lot of people saying like Rivian and Tesla already have really good software, which is it is the best I've used in any car.

53:07any the best car software right now from tesla and rivian or whoever is like still worse than an ipad c level like like actual tablets and ui and software from these big companies yeah that's my favorite part about watching some car reviews is someone go oh yeah the the in-car infotainment is really good and they'll swipe across and it'll be like this horrible janky animation like if i reviewed an ipad and did that you'd be like what is wrong with this yeah this is horrible i just So like anytime you think car software is really good, imagine that being on an iPad or in a phone review that we're doing right now.

53:39And people would be like, you thought that was a good phone? Are you serious? You can't be kidding. An interesting angle of this is that with the new CarPlay is that depending on the manufacturer, they're going to skin CarPlay to be based around the manufacturer's car. I think it's cool. I want to customize this. Well, I think it's important. I think it's important for especially for the car manufacturers. right they don't really want you to get into a porsche and then everything around you is apple ui right colorful like everyone else's yeah it makes a lot more sense for you to get into the porsche and everything is sort of porsche themed but still has all your phone functionality and as a car manufacturer like i think a big reason that there's sort of this tension where they don't want to give all the power to apple is that they don't want to just be like oh yeah half of your experience is dictated by not us yeah so the fact that they themselves can skin it and make it feel like it's a first it's gonna feel more first party even though it's a third party thing yeah that's why i think this this car play thing it has to be a stopgap between the car companies eventually going all right we got to get good at software yeah and we're not good at it now so you know what if we can work with apple and they can deliver a great experience we can keep selling cars these new people who care about this software experience yeah but we're eventually we can't just give it up yeah so i think this is a stopgap once evs get a lot more popular and prevalent and there's cheaper ones like the tesla model 2 or like a rivian r2 is that what it's called r2 the platform yeah yeah okay then i think that it's going to be a much more major thing that traditional automakers like honda or toyota actually have to consider because people that are going to be buying the most cars are going to be like millennials and gen z yeah so that's the reason why i think google and apple will prevail because they're gonna see more companies going towards their own software and they're gonna be like hold on a minute we want to be in these cars this is this is our opportunity to make more money or our opportunity we're possibly losing money because now people aren't using carplay or android auto they want data as much as possible if you start taking away driving data from them you start running into some issues i wouldn't doubt if they're going to start i mean like they're going to want to make deals with car companies and be the thing inside of as much as they can but yeah it's an easy selling point hey why pay a software team yeah just pay us or we'll pay you to be inside this car well here's a question for you guys would you prefer a really good like rivian or tesla ui that's just really good or would you prefer carplay or android auto that's i think that i think there's an obvious answer there really i think if both of them are at absolute peak you want the one that's also connected to all the other tech that you use i actually don't i i like my car software being like separate from my phone i think that's like a small wait same no i no i think that's like a small personal thing where it's like i think in peak if they were absolutely perfect on both sides you would want it connected to everything else i think that if it was skinned to feel native but it was actually CarPlay or Android Auto, then I would be okay with it.

56:54Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I prefer the Tesla UI or the Rivian UI to CarPlay and Android Auto. But I see what you're saying about if it was better. That's what I'm saying. If it was perfect in both scenarios, you would want it. I would want the one that's connected to everything else. Yeah, because we all want something in our ecosystem. It's because it's the way you're the most familiar with, too. It's already plugged into everything. Yeah. Summary of everything for me is the legitimate older car companies have a head start in the making cars thing. And they're trying to figure out how to solve for all the downsides that they have with software.

57:29And this feels like a patch for now. The software companies have a huge head start when it comes to the software, Tesla, Rivian, maybe even Xiaomi, who knows. But they are trying to figure out all of the shortcomings that they have with the whole making cars thing batteries range build quality panel gaps whatever tonneau covers tonneau covers so they're they're both working on their shortcomings and the patch for now seems like good car good software combined please buy our car that's my summary okay we have to take a quick break. Mariah's been on the trivia button for like half an hour because our notes were like three sentences and then that was 30 minutes.

58:17Yeah, hit the button. There it is. Alright. Alright, friends, I don't know if you're ready for this one. So, this is a special interest topic. So, RuneScape is a browser-based fantasy game. No, no, no, hear me out. Originally released in 2001 by the company Jagex with over 200 million registered accounts. It's the world's most popular free-to-play MMORPG. Still? To be determined. Oh, registered accounts. RuneScape is known for many things, but especially their staggeringly large music library. In 2017, they were awarded with the Guinness World Record for most original pieces of music in a video game.

59:00As of November 27th of 2023, how many total songs are there in RuneScape? it's a multiple choice answer don't be scared okay is that all of RuneScape oh like old school and RuneScape 3 because are there different songs I think it's just like in the newest version so RuneScape 3 yeah is RuneScape 3 considered the newest version anymore or is old school considered the newest version you know don't worry about it I've never played RuneScape you don't need to play to know I didn't even know this okay so I still don't Mariah famously has a RuneScape desk mat at her desk. Not anymore. Not anymore. Oh yeah, you swapped that.

59:37You're wearing a RuneScape shirt though. This is my Christmas gift. That's a RuneScape? Oh, actually it's based on one of the songs. It is. Oh, God. Alright, option A. 1 ,589 songs. I could see that. Option B. 1 ,362 songs. This is not a large variation. Option C. 1 ,027 songs or D. 856 songs. Those are all way too many. They're way too, those numbers are way too close to each other. I feel like it's - I was thinking it would be like 64 songs. They're good songs, by the way. A thousand songs. Yeah. 10 ,000 songs. Yeah, that's what I would do. Yeah. Just saying, I don't know if it helps at all, but you can get something in the game called a music cape, correct?

1:00:24Yes. Yeah, so if you unlock all of the songs, you get a piece of equipment based on unlocking all of the songs. You have to unlock the song. RuneScape is also famously known as the grindiest game possible. Yeah. Okay. That shouldn't. All right. Don't be scared. We'll think about it. Let's take it to break. We'll think about it. We'll be back. I just want to hope somebody's listening right now like, you idiots. Of course it's 1 ,130. Famously. Whether you're a founder, investor, or innovation company executive, you need a bank that truly understands your business inside and out. A bank that offers uniquely specialized solutions for your unique needs.

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1:02:09Welcome back. This is a section that I think maybe we should have done at the end of last year, but I wanted to fit in here because it's a little fun section. And we always get a very positive audience reaction when we do something like this. Never too late. Yeah. I wanted to go over our individual favorite pieces of tech from 2023, something we started using in 2023 that we think kind of changed our workflow or that we just really positively liked. It's always a little fun. I like recommendation sections. Gadget Lab from Wired actually did a full recommendation episode for the last week of 2023.

1:02:42So I thought it would be fun to have a little recommendation section. And so I think we're going to do three products each and we're going to go in a little round table. So we're going to start off with Marquez and it doesn't have to be something that released in 2023, just something that you started using that you really like. Huh. I love how in this for audio listeners, randomly after an ad break, people, hosts of this show will just be wearing smart glasses. Oh, I didn't even realize. Marquez doesn't even wear normal sunglasses except for these indoors all the time. Yeah. Uh, spoiler. Sorry.

1:03:17I'm picking, I'm picking the Ray-Bans meta smart glasses as my first pick. These things, I mean, I don't know. I don't, like you said, I don't wear sunglasses that much, but they surprised me at how, like just overall as a package, they managed to fit a lot of fun, smart features in things that look like just regular sunglasses. And they actually get, David's wearing the clear ones. So you could kind of just wear them. And then are those the transitions, right? Two or no? uh yeah i think they are so they turn into sunglasses they're not full sunglasses they're not like nearly like yours but they tint you know yeah personally i think that wearing the sunglasses ones is probably a better option because if you wear clear glasses when you don't normally wear clear glasses then they're like what are you wearing like what are you doing but if i'm walking through the city like the pov videos that you can get of just like walking around or whatever activity you're doing are actually pretty solid from yeah so just for that feature alone i thought these were really cool um i've been wanting to do more pov driving videos for autofocus and struggling to find safe ways to do that yeah this is uh this has been a an actual workflow game changer for that too so yeah i i'm liking these the video quality is really good the sound quality is surprisingly good it kind of shoots sound into your ears yeah directional audio yeah and then they have they're like one of the first multimodal ai products as well exactly i've I've been testing the, hey, Meta, look and tell me what you see.

1:04:39It's going to start reading to me now. We did this a couple weeks ago. Yeah. Do you want me to? Oh, it didn't do it? Oh. Oh, it didn't do it that time. That's fine. Cool. We're in the early stages. All right. This is my favorite piece. Watch it not work. Watch it not work. All right, Andrew. My turn? All right. Yeah. I have for show and tell today. Oh. Oh. If you couldn't guess, because I won't stop talking about keyboards in the last couple months this is the omnitype bauer light wow which is a keyboard from a company named omnitype they're famous for a very old or an older very expensive very low inventory keyboard called the bauer 2 but they made a light version which is polycarbonate it's 100 bucks 120 bucks and it's like in stock inventory which is really cool and really a newer thing in the keyboard community that's happening right now um and they were nice enough to send me one and when i was on paternity leave i built them and now i've built like 10 keyboards and i've been having so much fun with it um this one i brought specifically is i think sounds and feels so good um i'm like obsessed with it it is um yeah it's a polycarbonate board it's hot swap i have switches from kinetic labs They're called the Kinetic Lab Moon Switches, which are actually hand lubed from the factory.

1:06:05So they sound really nice without any effort. And a nice Game Boy theme keycap set called GMK DMG. You're going to do a little typing test.

1:06:19I could listen to that all day. Inject that in my brain. I have dove headfirst into the keyboard hobby to the point where before I left for paternity leave, I had built my first keyboard to now I am back from it and I have like 20 of them and a keyboard YouTube channel so this is where we've gone I have a question yeah so I love all these these like niche like super deep dive into hobbies that we do and I always I I've started getting to keyboards more and so I've come to appreciate much more the different sounds and feels that you get from keyboard why does the lightness of it matter the light of how light this is yeah this is just light because polycarbonate is cheaper than CNC aluminum yeah so the reason I'm actually working on a video right now on this for the studio channel but the reason you can just stamp and mold polycarbonate whereas before the Bauer 2 that they were making he said it took over heavy yeah because it's aluminum but it took more than a year to make 500 of them and 8 ,000 people signed up for the raffle so that's just not an option for smaller companies or even some bigger companies to make stuff like that um places like keychron do do aluminum bodies and they're great at in stock stuff and there's way more companies doing in stock things right now which is really cool um all this i'm working on in the video that i'm doing right now but polycarbonate is nice i like the lightness of this just for like bringing it to work was nice i think i do still like my heavy keyboard playing games because it like sits in its spot do you bring us back and forth every day not every day um i'll probably leave this one at work i built a bunch at home i'll probably leave them at work to just use this props because i obviously don't need 20 keyboards um but yeah i've just been building a lot of different ones trying different sounds and feels and stuff and i've been taking videos of all of them and posting typing tests on a channel plug your channel yeah i want you guys what do you think of this channel name it's called lmno key i love it that's nice it's really good that's a cool channel alphabet pun it's just me and my friend typing pretty much very low key but yeah this one omni type bauer light big fan i liked the keyboard yule log i made a keyboard yule log it's an hour of typing with like fireplace crackling did you type for an hour did you loop it did you type for an hour i typed for 10 minutes and then looped it i debated typing christmas songs during it but that was too much work yeah that reminds i used to bring my uh when i worked at intel i brought my happy hacking keyboard to work every day you had a key a carrying case i had a carrying case for it uh nice there was a period of time as well that i brought my ergodox to work yeah and i used to eat ramen at my desk while typing an ergodox is like a split hand keyboard where you do this and then you can put something in the center keyboards look really cool that's it don't take video someone to clip that i just went like this yeah i had a wood case and elvin elvin keycaps from lord of the rings it was pretty amazing yeah and a runescape mouse pad yeah all right um my i think favorite piece of tech from this year is software it's very we've talked about this before it's arc browser uh they're a cool startup you have to pull it out of your computer to show it to us yeah yeah i've got a sticker on my laptop oh okay they're they're a very fun startup they're uh i don't really know how they're gonna make money uh and they don't really either they have some random ideas but for now they're running on some runway um but But yeah, it's hard to get me to switch a piece of software or technology that I use all the time.

1:09:51And I generally will try things for like a day and then I'll be like, no, I like going back to my other thing. I think I described Arc very badly the last time we talked about it. I was like, it kind of gets rid of your tabs and then it can kind of do this stuff. It cleans your room for you. Yeah, I famously am really, really terrible at tab management. so at a certain amount of time like 12 hours later it will clear all your tabs and you can have different spaces so I have like a workspace, a personal space and then like a website management space, just all these different things. It's got boosts now that came out this year which is like you can basically modify the code for a website to look however you want you can turn it pink, you can get rid of certain things they had this funny little ad that came out when Twitter when Twitter Blue came out that like removed the Twitter Blue tab and removed all these things.

1:10:47Just to like clean up. I don't know. It's just a very fun startup with a very fun browser. Most browsers are so stagnant. They're just, it's Apple's browser, Microsoft's browser, or Google's browser. Yeah. So it's like they're not playing with fun, quirky, interesting features. Yeah, they're quirky. I think that's what... Would you say Firefox is... No, no, no. No, no. I'm just sad you didn't say. Oh, okay. No, I would say though, it is stagnant. but to David's like point here is it's really hard to change things that you use for a very long time. And a browser, like I'm using Firefox cause I started years ago and I don't know why I use it over Chrome.

1:11:24I'm just used to seeing it like that anyways. And I just haven't made the change. So like, that's a big change. So you, it's gotta be a fairly solid product if you've made that change. Yeah. I was going to say the same thing. There is a small list of software that if I change it, which I do once in a while it's a really big deal to me which is my to-do list app my email app my calendar app yeah my video editing app yeah and my browser right they're like I'll have one for years at a time and if I find one I might try it for a day and then come back to the one I like and find another one try for a day come back to the one I like yeah but if I change from premiere to final cut my life has changed yeah if I change from safari to arc like which I did huge change Yeah.

1:12:06So I like it a little. Also, Arc is doing something kind of crazy and unprecedented where they're unprecedented. I like precedented. Unprecedented. They're basically, they're doing something called Swift on Windows, which effectively they didn't want to write a whole code base. Right now it's only macOS, and so they write it for Swift because Swift is like a much newer, cleaner thing, and they didn't want to use some of these like platform switcher applications. so they're making this thing called swift on windows where basically they can just write it for swift and then theoretically can make it run on windows they can make it run on android and they have an iphone app right now but they're going to completely revamp it because it's not really a browser app it's sort of just like you can only have one tab open at a time and you can pin things to your to your browser on your laptop but it's a very big undertaking i think because they made a browser and they don't see a really obvious path to monetization.

1:13:04They're trying to figure out how they could monetize this. But they're quirky and fun. And that's just kind of the reason that I kind of have stuck with them since the beginning of the year. But we'll see if they're around. They make nice hats too. They do make nice hats. Oh, that's how they can make money. I dig their hat. Merch, baby. They have a pretty rabid fan base that is like... It's always a good thing. Loyalty is nice. Very loyal fan base. And surprisingly, they like every week they update the app on thursday of every week and add a fee pretty much add a feature every week which is cool they now have it on their youtube channel they put out like feature update videos every week and those videos get close to 100 000 views every week now that's where you make youtube creators now absolutely maybe yeah they're youtubers though nice um so yeah it was it was fun using that this year yeah nice all right product number two marquez is my next one is extremely expensive so hopefully you guys have less expensive things put the affiliate code in there yeah i love the rivian r1s that is expensive it's a it's my it's the most well-rounded most i had almost only good things to say about this ev which is very rare for me and i mean we test all kinds of vehicles cars suvs pickup trucks all sorts of stuff like that i had like nothing negative to say about the rivian r1s and my first exposure to it was i think in 2022 but it started shipping in 2023 and i reviewed it in 2023 and um yeah there's a lot of things that i like about it so i'm there's also an easter egg in the video that i made about it which you guys will probably understand sometime later in 2024 but uh yeah that's really big i don't even know what you're talking about or i don't think i know what you're talking about so yeah that i mean it's expensive it's it's i'm starting to see a lot more of them on the road which i think is a good sign for rivian as a company i see them everywhere it's selling way better than the truck yeah so that's cool but yeah i just i'm shouting it out because i think it's amazing i think r2s and r2t will be much more interesting for the masses because they're trying to bring most of the capabilities that most people need on the street down in price to an attainable level and i think it would be great what if i want a sedan can rivian make a sedan a sedan so rivian has this adventure type of theme i would say i think an adventure would be interesting like a cross track yeah i think that's a that's a popular vehicle category so the pickup truck technically the most popular vehicle in america is a pickup truck and they started with a competitor to it and i think this said the big three-row sedan is another very popular category that maybe an adventure three three oh suv but i think this the big crossover or sedan big sedan could be another thing for them if it because because the subaru solterra was so bad if they made like a solterra competitor that was actually good i would be so happy i want that i would buy that in a heartbeat i want the r2 so bad slightly bigger similar size to my forester if that's the case yeah i'd be very very happy again i think i i put my demands out there that might be what because r1s is a small three row maybe r2s is two yeah r2s i would assume is going to be a two row but still decent trunk space yeah if it's still got like the cool boxy look of rivian and it still has like some of the cool like a front trunk because a lot of times i feel like when you start going to the smaller suv they start getting rid of the front trunk yeah i still want I think is uniquely building EV from the ground up, where some of the ones I get rid of the front trunk are just not, they're just late.

1:16:43They're not building an EV from the ground up in that way. I have a real, I feel like I'm going to reserve the R2. Yes. As long as you're not planning on having three more kids, then you could get that car. They can find their own car. One of them can go in the front trunk. Then you're getting that white Chevy minivan, baby. It's on. On to Odyssey. Yeah. R1S, that's my shout out. That's awesome. I'm going to shout out something. so i don't use it but we have it in the office and i think it's really really cool and unless you see it so i'll try and describe it it sounds kind of lame but i think it's awesome it's the corsair platform six sit stand desk that we got recently i like pretty damn cool i thought about i thought a lot about getting one yeah i really like it so they they sent us one and we put it in our gaming room and it's like a corsair is obviously a gaming company this desk doesn't scream gamer as hard though it's like a nice wooden platform it has kind of like its own adjustable pegboard backing so you can add all these different customized like shelves and hooks and like there's side plates that come out to extend the desk left and right there's pegboards that can go on the side it's autumn it's sit stand it just has like all these really awesome customizing things on it without looking without like looking like a real desk because here's the thing i could see having this in a garage and using it as like a workshop desk it probably workshop desk probably should be a little sturdier or like thicker just if you're like using a saw and stuff yeah i mean like soldering and that kind of yeah yeah fair i mean this is this is it's just a really nice looking desk that has all the customized customization that you would like ever want like we have really nice speakers up on the side of it and everything right now my studio monitors are on the desk and they they've been on my desk for years but the the thought of being able to get them up off the desk at your ear level but then have you reclaim the desk space underneath it that that's and still has all sorts of great things for like cable management and stuff like that and places for arms like essentially you can create this with like almost nothing sitting on the desk except for what you want and have your monitor and computer set up in all different places and i don't it's just a really sick desk i don't even know how much it is it's probably pretty expensive but it's on sale it's on sale baby for how much uh it's only 30 off but it is i don't know uh it's 848 as of right now that's not that bad for a desk for a motorized sit-stand desk that's like there's obviously better or cheaper options out there but i don't think that's terrible yeah i spent a lot on my desk but yeah i think it's really sick i think I don't know if we've done it.

1:19:24Have we done an A-roll set in the gaming room since we changed that? No, I will, though. Alex did one. Alex might have shot for a video that's not out yet, but I think it looks great. And it's going to be a really good, just for our set purposes, being able to customize it. And the pegboard. The pegboard's really awesome. Yeah. I like that a lot. Good job, Corsair. All right. My second one is, I promise, not sponsored. But the Eight Sleep mattress topper pad. Interesting. Go on. Okay. this thing is so sick i love mine yeah much we got like yeah we got it originally for a sponsorship yep um well basically they they reached out they wanted to sponsor us i said i will have to try it first and if i like it then we'll do a sponsor and then i loved it yeah to sponsor right so they have a full mattress option and then they just have a mattress topper i got the topper because i already have a mattress that i really like um but effectively it's this high-tech sleep mattress topper that can cool you and heat you at different times of the night it uses like intelligent machine learning or whatever to like change the temperature over the course of the night so that you sleep better it has all these trackers to like tell you how you slept and like say when you should go to bed the app is weirdly well designed it is pretty good yeah yeah like it's it's a very high quality product with a very high quality app and honestly it has made me sleep significantly better since I've had it.

1:20:50Yeah. It's crazy, too, because at the at every morning, it gives you this sleep score to tell you how you slept. And my sleep score always correlates with how good I feel, which is crazy. Like if it's like, oh, you slept terribly. You got a 63. I'm like, yeah, I know. I feel like crap. But if I'm like if I wake up and I'm like, wow, I feel incredible. It's always like 98. And it'll change the temperature over the court, like as it gets closer to you waking up to help you wake up more naturally and at a point in your like circadian rhythm where it's you feel better waking i mean just waking up to it being like a little warmer is nice or getting into bed with it being like getting a touch board or cooler depending on the yeah yeah and it can also vibrate to wake you up which is kind of weird i don't use that it's pretty low they just updated it did they okay i haven't tried it again since then yeah i have one major gripe with it which i is very small and i don't know how they would change it so if you want to like go take a nap in your bed in the middle of the day and it's cold in your room because there's water flowing through without it changing the temperature like the bed is cold when you get into it yeah which is like so small and i'm more of a couch napper but like so you'd have to heat it up ahead of time well because it starts heating up based on like when you said as a bedtime all Well, no, no, but like if you're, if you would prefer to be a little warmer.

1:22:11Oh, then you can go on the app and tell it. Yeah. But if you're just like, oh man, I'm pretty exhausted at two o 'clock. I'm going to go take a nap in bed. It's just like cold because it's just water that's sitting in a cold room. Yeah. So very minor grape. Yeah. Still absolutely love it. Two things. One, it's hilarious that my bed got us all for update. But two is I think I got home from like an overnight thing once. And so I like got in bed to go to sleep at 6 a.m. or something. and it just turned on. It just figured it out, realized that I was, and I still got a horrible sleep score, but like it realized that I was getting into bed at a crazy time and I was like, all right, because it's got the sensors, the heart rate monitor, everything is built into the mattress topper.

1:22:50It knows a weird amount about you. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Maybe a little too much about you. It is also on sale. What? Not a sponsor. It is a very expensive product. It's$2 ,500 for the mattress topper, which I know is a ton. and some of those features are behind a paywall as well you don't need the subscription right you really don't need it no I think some of the way I think they'll like it changing because like you can set what points of temperature you want over it's like when you go to bed when you hit light sleep when you hit deep sleep when you wake up but I think the automatic changing of that based on your movement and stuff is behind the paywall is it yeah interesting it's like autopilot okay um well yeah yeah i really like it i have slept way better in the last six months since you have a water-cooled bed have you gotten to the point where it's harder to sleep in other beds um it that's an interesting question because i wasn't sure if i was actually sleeping better in the eighth sleep i thought wow i do i feel like i am going to sleep faster and then i tried to sleep in a hotel bed and i was like i'm cooking okay hotel beds suck well man i disagree with both I've really enjoyed I think hotel beds are usually pretty good and at least for me and I've started feeling like wow these are too hot now.

1:24:08Interesting. See the reason I still sleep okay in a hotel bed is because I'm not paying the electricity bill of what I set the HVAC to when I go into a hotel room. That's very dad of you Andrew. Yeah exactly. So I'm cranking that to whatever preferred temperature I want. But then in the morning it's still 64 degrees and you have to like get out of bed when it's cold. Yeah. Which is tough. I like the feature where it had hit zero cooling or heating like an hour before I wake up. But as I'm waking up, it gets colder and it sort of nudges me out of bed by getting colder. And that works really well.

1:24:39See, that's probably why my sleep score sucks because I make it get warmer and then I'm like, I don't want to leave. I have never once wanted my bed to be warm. So I have never I don't have it get warm ever. I'm a cozy boy. There you go. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Cool product. Last round. Let's do a speed round. Okay. Last item for me. I recently started using this set of in-ear monitors by 64 Audio. I don't know how to pronounce the name, but I'm going to try, which might be a mistake. I think it's called the Volure. But they're IEMs. Back in high school, I have this memory of every time during homeroom and study hall, I just had my Zune HD and my in-ear monitors, and I would just zen out and not talk to anyone and just listen to music for hours.

1:25:22and that was that memory was like a core memory that was unlocked when i just went back to starting to use in-ear monitors again because you start hearing things in the music that you didn't realize were there because you've only heard them on headphones you've only heard them on speakers i've been listening to these i've been editing with these a little bit they're very versatile very expensive also uh but i'm giving them a shout out because i don't have anything bad to say about them yet so i made the mistake of opening them and trying them and then handing them to you and not trying them for longer because now they haven't left your desk since i gave them to you they're gonna be there for a while yeah they're actually in his ears right now it's it's funny what you unlock when you find a new better listening experience i uh i have this turntable that i've had for a long time and i i have like 500 records but they're all at my mom's house because i was that weird kid in high school who was like super into records uh but i finally like got a couple new records and put them on my turntable at home and i'm like damn this sounds so good yeah it sounds way better so i am excited i want to i want to try your i am i'm editing i'm like hearing things i've never heard from the microphone like there are there are cars outside in the parking lot that i see the levels on the mix pre or at zero so i'm like i think we can keep talking like i don't hear i don't see it on the levels here and then i hear in the i am's i'm like this is so much so i hear everything i hear my i hear the hairs growing out of my face It's crazy.

1:26:47Anyway, okay. What's your pick? This is definitely something that came out in 2022. And the thing I'm looking forward to got delayed till 2024. So using it as a 2023 thing is maybe not the best. But the Pulsar X2 wireless gaming mouse I've used before. Wait, Pulsar? Pulsar. P-U-L-S-A-R. It's just a mouse that I loved. It was fantastic. I was using the Random Frank P version, but they do all these really good collabs and designs. and they're coming out with a Demon Slayer collab soon, which is an anime I started watching and I really like so far. So I can't wait until that comes out. It's going to be sick.

1:27:22But yeah, that's my quick hit. Nice. Mine is a little boring, but I really liked the Pixel Fold this year. I know it had a lot of problems. Like the bezels are pretty big on the inside and the interior screen is not very good. Here they come. I don't care about Tensor, whatever. Whatever. But I just really liked the form factor because I was really hoping like the oppo find n and the find n2 never got a u.s launch and that's like a shorter more pocketbook style foldable phone and so if you have one yeah passport style i like the pocketbook style yeah so if you live in like the united states and you want a pocketbook style passport style phone it's kind of the only option and the thing is pixel software for android is by far my favorite android software and so having that along with all the google smarts on a passport style phone allowed me to sort of ignore some of the the issues with it also we've talked about this before probably the best phone to use closed um and i like that mindset when it comes to folding phones because the galaxy uh z fold has always been a phone that's been like oh we want you to use this open most of the time and they make it a little bit awkward a little uncomfortable because it's so narrow yeah but this phone is like a really nice aspect ratio closed it's short and it's nice and i like it um i'm really hoping that the second generation is significantly better i doubt it will be maybe the third generation will be uh i just want a better interior screen maybe some smaller bezels and that's about it i really like that phone shout out to the pixel fold i'm looking do you know how you said it's narrow and awkward to use on the front of the z fold yeah remember the essential phone 2 concept that was supposed to be that like skinny phone yeah yeah yeah so many people were like excited for that i think they were just excited because it was different it's just weird and different okay yeah but if you remember the original samsung galaxy fold it was super slim and narrow and then it just had a small screen inside of the front yes it had the weirdest bezels ever looking back that was a very first yeah the first gen the screen broke yeah i mean yeah the interior screen broke so um yeah awesome cool well i think that's gonna round it out for this episode i think it's time for trivia to wrap it up trivia we're eyes on it time for me to expose how little i know about scoring music for video games i guess i don't know anything i feel like ellis is gonna be upset that he's not here for this because see his dad does sound stuff for world of warcraft or did at one point oh what hasn't his family question okay ellis is like nikki minaj is my neighbor which of these products is not a real product that i've received an email about option a flappy the intelligent cat door flap how much AI is involved in it?

1:30:26These are all AI related. Unfortunately. Option B, Willow, a smart outdoor swing set that generates electricity. Option C, Jed Z, a medical delivery drone for hospitals. Gen Z. Gen Z. And Saber, a smart pepper spray device. These all could be real. Like, honestly. No, they really all could be real. Can you play the music? Oh, yes. Yes. Sorry. Is this the waiting music? I actually think we're supposed to play the music while you're asking the question, right? Technically, I think it's supposed to be like the Jeopardy, this is how much time you have to answer. It's broken, sorry. Because this doesn't seem like the right music, but this is what's...

1:31:10No, this is the right music. Okay. You guys said that the same time. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. Oh, I missed.

1:31:17All right. Flip them and read, boys. All right, David. We all picked the same. We all picked B, the swing set. You are correct. Would you like to read what Ellis wrote for the swing set? Yes. Ellis did a collab on this one. Willow is a revolutionary alternative energy solution intended for families with children. Comprising of both photonic and electromechanical transductors, Willow focuses on two energy sources, the sun via solar panels and the near unlimited energy of a child via a series of passive components aimed at turning a child's kinetic energy into useful energy. So that's too good for CES.

1:32:04That's why that's fake. Eleanor really needs to be a PR person. He can really spin this stuff. The reason I picked that was because I was like, there's no way that a child is going to be able to create enough energy on a play set that is going to be useful to your home in any way. Which is why it's realistic. But what if the electricity is just like to power some outdoor lights that are on the swing set for your yard? Have you met a child? They have energy. Yeah. I had heard of the smart pepper spray already. Yeah. Me too. I got that email for that. Yeah. I think I saw it on like a Verge article.

1:32:38What's smart about it? I don't know. It says. It knows if it's. How many times it's been sprayed. It has Bluetooth and it connects to a safety app. So I guess every time. Oh, so it alerts someone when you're spraying someone with it. Okay. location whenever it's deployed. That's actually smart. Also, the smart cat door sounds like a very good idea. It sounds handy, yeah. It also has an app. I'm hoping that it can tell when it's been used so you can maybe say like, oh, I haven't seen my cat in a while. When did it go outside? But also I'm hoping when it comes inside, maybe at night, it can then lock it.

1:33:12It does. So the cat's not going out at night. It not only detects when a cat tries to bring in prey into your home, I don't know how that works. I have no idea. Leave that bird outside. Yeah, and then it'll lock the flap also. It has a prey detection camera and an app experience. Definitely a camera. It's just a visual AI going, I see something not your cat. That's awesome. Interesting. All right. I think that's cool. We all got points for that. Yeah, cool. That's pretty sick. What does that bring the time for us to get it? Oh, yeah. That is a good question, isn't it? Let's see. How many songs?

1:33:45I'm just going to guess. But they were so close to each other. that's why I have to guess yeah we just have to guess alright I have no idea either what if we all get it right again so since you all got it right it looks like Marquez is at 20 points Andrew's at 14 carry the one do the whatever David is also tied at 20 points alright RuneScape baby RuneScape was awarded the Guinness Book of World Records for most original pieces of music in a video game in 2017. As of November of 2023, how many total songs are there in Ruinscape? And option A is 1 ,589 songs. Option B is 1 ,362 songs. Option C is 1 ,027 songs.

1:34:45and option D is 856 songs. If you need me to read that again, I can read it again. Man, that's difficult. They're all so close. All of them seem absurd to me. It's too many either way. Yeah.

1:35:06I just want to get this right because it's RuneScape.

1:35:14Okay.

1:35:18All right. Smile and wave. I wrote C. Did you all write the same thing? No. I also wrote C. You said C, David? Yeah. Incorrect. What did you write, Marquez? I wrote A. A is? Also incorrect. Is it B? Option B. Is it B? 1 ,362 songs. I originally wrote B, but I was like, the last question was. Do I get an extra point if this is what the music cape looks like? Oh, man. I actually don't think you're far off with that. I think I'm pretty close, right? It's like a harp. Nice. Hey, wait. Fake point. No. You guys didn't know. What did you write, Marquez? I wrote 1 ,589, which was the first one. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:35:56Yeah. Ugh, yeah. Dude, they're banger songs, too. Just saying. That's too many songs. They're good. Too many, yeah. You didn't have to go that hard. The Sims has like 60, and that's way too many. Wait, I recently saw a video of Katy Perry recording her song for The Sims. Oh, in Simlish? In Simlish? Yeah. it's very funny would you guys like a bonus question for no points or we can do it for points i would like a no points bonus no points yeah this is uh an obsession for this week this question is about crayfish i love crawfish i love crawfish see exactly so crayfish crawdads mug but mud bugs ditch bugs freshwater lobsters mountain lobsters and yabbies are all the name for the same creature.

1:36:43These little crustaceans, who are close relative of the main lobster, can be found all across the U.S. and have dozens of regional nicknames. Crawfish can live on every continent in the world, except for which two? Every continent in the world. I don't think I can name all the continents. There's less than ten, right? There's seven. Seven. Right. Right. this is tough yeah because i'm going by that is tough no i'm going i'm going with that but i'm gonna be mad because i changed my answer halfway all right i wrote antarctica assuming we all wrote that right i did and australia you are half right and then what did you have I wrote Antarctica and Asia oh damn you're close I wrote Antarctica and then I wrote Australia then crossed out and wrote Asia Marques is just the hybrid of me and Andrew you guys you're half right you're all half right the two places that you won't find crawfish are according to we love crawfish dot com uh africa and and arctica i was thinking africa maybe oh would you like a fun fact about crawfish sure that wasn't why did you bring up i have a fun fact about crawfish i can eat 60 in a day did you do that wait have you ever sorry before the fun have you ever heard the parks and rec joke where he's like i think i'm allergic to sushi anytime i eat 80 sushis i throw up I have not heard that.

1:38:28Wait, so when did you eat 60 crawfish? A couple years ago, my neighbor had a party where they imported a ton of them directly from Louisiana and had a backyard barbecue crawfish party, basically, and just had them all stacked on a table. And I just sat at the table and ate them the entire party. Jesus Christ. And they were amazing. Oh, my God. I also watched him boil them alive individually. Have you guys gotten the TikToker who does the crawfish boils? I have seen him. He's been going for years. Mariah, why did you bring that? Why did you introduce that question? There was a video. I don't know if it was a Bon Appetit video or like some Conde Nast video.

1:39:05It was interviewing people from every state and asking them what they call a crawfish. Crawdaddy, probably. I was just in New Orleans over Christmas break for no reason. You mean Nala's? Nala. Yeah, I never knew that people called it Nola. Nola. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there was a band there that I saw called Crawdaddy Problems. They were really good. Nice. Or Crawdaddy Issues. One of the two. Probably Crawdaddy Issues. Those are good. It's a funny name. But also I forgot about the whole Crawdad thing and it was everywhere. So you couldn't forget? True. Amazing. All right. All right. So, crawfish fact.

1:39:47Yeah. They can shed slash molt their shells up to 15 times within their lifetime. and each time they shed their shell, they double in size. Oh. Oh, my God. I'm glad they can only do it 15 times. That's a lot of doubles. That's exponential growth. They double in size. The difference between a level 12 and a level 15 is crazy. Wait, what's two to the 15? Do you know this off the top of your head? Ask the Raybans. Okay, two, four, eight, 16. No, I got this. 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8 ,183 16 ,366 16 ,366 32 ,722 How do you do power? No, I didn't. 64 ,000 65 ,000 Oh, there we go. 400 65 ,400 464.

1:40:54What was the number you said before that? It's 32 ,768. Oh, I went too far. Which means these crawdads, by the end of their life, can be 32 ,678. Wait, is it double in size of the size? Of the animal? Of the original size or of the new size? Of the new size. I think it's each time they just double in size. How does anything get 32 ,768 times? They're probably born like that big. Maybe. Microscopic. They've got to be. But even if it was a single cell organism, and then by the end of its life it had 32 ,768 cells. That makes sense. If it's one centimeter across when it's moles for the first time.

1:41:36Then it's 32 ,000 centimeters. Then it's 32 meters across. Huge. It can't be. It's got to be tiny. 33 meter crawdad. That would be incredible. Have you ever heard of dragon's breath candy? No. This is a TikTok that I saw recently, but they say it expands a million times because you turn it into a loop and then you cross it over and then pull it again. Yeah, yeah. But like a million sounds absurd, but it's really only probably like 20 times pulling it because it is doubling every time. And it looks like string. And it winds up looking like hair at the end. Yeah, it's so fine. But it's like a taffy almost.

1:42:13Interesting. My second tiny fact, not as exciting, is they walk forwards, but they swim backwards. Oh. Yes. Walk forwards. That I did know. That's all I got. All right. Fun fact. I also walk forwards. Swim backwards. That's it for this week on Waveform. Thank you guys for tuning in. We had, of course, a lot to talk about. Hopefully everything we talk about is up to date. If it's not, you can expect us back next week with updates on all this stuff that's changed since this time. Updates on our crawfish facts next. It happens. Sometimes crawfish get updates between Wednesdays. Just like my mattress, the crawdates are getting updates.

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