1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,840 Welcome to Comfort Zone, a podcast all about pushing a host 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,080 well outside of their comfort zone. 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:11,600 I'm Christopher Lawley and each week I'm joined by two 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,680 incredible Co hosts. As always, I'm joined by Matt 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:17,080 Burchler. Matt, how are you? 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,280 Because I'm doing well, I wanted to just let the audience know 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,120 who's watching that I'm drinking a brew, Dr. Ian Bucha, which is 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,320 not alcoholic, which really confused the the cashier at the 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:30,800 grocery store. This the weekend they really 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:32,800 thought it was alcoholic. So I just want people to know 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,680 this is not and I am fine. It is 10 AM, nothing's 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,640 happening. It's 5:00 somewhere, Matt, and 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,760 where it's probably past five O'clock isn't Elion. 14 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:45,760 Elion, how are you? I'm doing well. 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,680 It's almost six. Yeah, you're. 16 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,480 Right. So it's not 5:00 there. 17 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,240 It's almost 6. OK, well pour me something tall 18 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:59,000 and strong. I'm drinking fizzy water with a 19 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:04,800 lichy syrup. And I have a Doctor Pepper 0 20 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,000 sugar but with cherry this time it's OK. 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,280 It's. It's not as good as the cream. 22 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,400 Soda one, the cream soda, they were out of the cream soda 1. 23 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,200 So we're doing the cherry this week. 24 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,400 It's good. I mean, I think Doctor Pepper 25 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,760 already has a bit of a cherry flavor to it, so it just 26 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,240 enhances the cherry flavor. Yeah. 27 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:26,040 You don't. You don't even know. 28 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:28,320 You don't. Even. 29 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:29,400 Know you. You. 30 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,800 Kid, you don't know. I don't know. 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,000 Anyways, we got some tiny topics. 32 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,680 Matt, you made something for comfort zone. 33 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,480 You want to talk about it I. Did I? 34 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,080 I made the Comfort Zone database, which is the coolest 35 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,920 database on the Internet and it's powered by crypto. 36 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,480 So here's how it works. You are going to pay us a 37 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:56,000 certain amount. No, this is a little thing that 38 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,800 I made for myself where I had a problem where I was like, have 39 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,360 we talked about this before? I think on the recent episode I, 40 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,560 I was like, I don't know if you've done this challenge 41 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,000 before. And so I wanted to have a thing 42 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,840 I could use to just search our past transcripts very easily and 43 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,080 see when we talked about things. And this slow, this quickly 44 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,840 spiraled into a, well, this should be a web app. 45 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,080 That'd be the easiest way to do this. 46 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,560 Let me do that. OK, I've done that now. 47 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,960 Oh, deploying this online in 2026 is super easy and super 48 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,240 free. So I just posted it online and 49 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,600 people can check it out if they want to see when we talked about 50 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,520 things and it has subscribe links and all that stuff. 51 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,000 And it looks cute, like our podcast. 52 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,720 Nice, I love this. By the way, I looked up because 53 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,640 I was kind of curious what has been mentioned on the podcast, 54 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,960 more Mustangs or Doctor Pepper? Dr. Pepper has been mentioned. 55 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,560 More Well, that makes sense, I think, if it told us who brought 56 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,920 them up. These are unanimously Chris 57 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:57,960 topics. Yeah, that's why I was curious 58 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,960 because I was like, how many times have I mentioned the 59 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,400 things that I love? I should have had thrown in 60 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,120 Danielle that way because I know I haven't mentioned her as much. 61 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,640 I hope she's not listening in looks. 62 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,680 But this is good now we we because we're starting to get a 63 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,720 lot of episodes in our backlog and now we can search for things 64 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,600 if we've already talked about something or not. 65 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,240 Yeah, no, I, I love this. This is this was great. 66 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,680 In fact, I for the challenge that I'm going to issue today, I 67 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,680 looked up to see if we had done something similar and we had 68 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,680 not. So at least as far as I could 69 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:39,760 tell, Matt, a couple weeks ago I suggested you get some new 70 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,080 Airpods Pro 3 Tips. And because of our weird 71 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,520 recording schedule, I believe you have them now and I'm 72 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,000 curious what you think. I do have them now, they're on 73 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,880 my Airpods Pro 3 which I do have on my person because they are 74 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,680 better than Apple's tips. Yes, victory. 75 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,600 Woohoo, Chris, Like something. I don't know what I went. 76 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,560 My micro review of them is they are better than Apple's tips for 77 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,280 my ears, which is good. They do not physically hurt me, 78 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,360 which is the bar they are having to clear. 79 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,839 They are not as good as the Earpods Pro 2 tips that Apple 80 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,920 ships for me. So I still think those are like 81 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,560 just peak comfort, just like sliding gears and I'm just like 82 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,360 I'm in heaven. But these don't hurt me. 83 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,320 Again, it's a low bar, but it has. 84 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,000 It's definitely better than what Apple shipped. 85 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,280 And yeah, it's gotten me using them again. 86 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:40,400 It's got me appreciating the slide gestures to change the 87 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,840 volume on the Pros, which the normal ones don't have. 88 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:46,360 Nice, nice. And for the record, these are 89 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,920 the charge in active foam. Something something LinkedIn the 90 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,520 description. Yes, yeah, just like 2 days 91 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:54,920 later after I ordered and it was great. 92 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:56,560 Oh, nice, nice. That's nice. 93 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,880 I'm I'm so glad to hear they're working for you. 94 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,640 I am working on a little short form video about them just to 95 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,600 kind of spread the word because I know you're not the only one 96 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,480 that has had complaints about the Airpod Pros 3. 97 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,840 Yeah, can Can I also talk about Airpods tips? 98 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,240 Please. Except it's not Airpods tips, 99 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:23,920 but it's pretty close. It's my new Yep headphone 100 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:30,680 questions, are they? Yes, those are. 101 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,480 Wait, are these another new pair? 102 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,760 I think so. I, I, I just searched on the 103 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,600 comfort zone database to see if I already talked about these 104 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,560 ones and it doesn't seem like it. 105 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,360 So these ones, they're really nice because they are angled 106 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,600 like I don't know if I can show you they are angled, see. 107 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,280 No, I see, I see. OK, Yeah, yeah, they kind of got 108 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:02,200 a slope to them. Yeah, which means like the back 109 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:07,760 of my ears don't touch the like the the driver inside the cups. 110 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,480 So this is really comfortable. And also they are, since they 111 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,960 are angled toward your ears, it's like it preserves the sound 112 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,120 because it adds quite a bit of depth in the back. 113 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,680 But since it's angled and in the front it's keeping the same 114 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,200 distance, the sound isn't affected. 115 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,160 So yeah. Nice, nice. 116 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,480 That's actually really smart. I've never seen angled ear cups 117 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,280 like that. Maybe we'll have some more 118 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:40,400 headphone talk a little later as well, but for now we have some 119 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,120 feedback. Who I I don't, I think. 120 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,840 I think this is kind of related to new Leon stuff. 121 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:49,360 Or yeah, I, I, I put these in here. 122 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,520 I pulled from our our feedback form link in the description. 123 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,080 Of course, we have two pieces of feedback this week 1 from Jesse. 124 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,200 Jesse is responding to Chris, Your question about how we name 125 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,560 our devices, that's right from a couple weeks ago. 126 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,480 And Jesse says my iPad is named Love Magnet after the object of 127 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,840 that name carried by the Shaggy Man character in the children's 128 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,880 book The Road to Oz. I'm not familiar. 129 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,840 With what is that? No idea what that is, Yes, so. 130 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,560 But basically because my iPad feels like a magical, lovable 131 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,160 object to me, my Max internal SSD is named a lot, partially 132 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,400 because I have a lot of files on it, and partially inspired by 133 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,320 the Ally Brosh book Hyperbole and 1/2. 134 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:42,120 So very deep literary cuts or mainstream literary cuts and we 135 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,480 just don't read. I don't know. 136 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:48,240 I I literally have a library outside of my office right now 137 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,320 and not a single one of those books on those shelves belongs 138 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:52,760 to me. They are all Danielle's. 139 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,760 So you can tell who in this house reads all my books fit on 140 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,360 this bookshelf back here, which is majority full of Legos. 141 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,920 So yeah. I feel like one day I should 142 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,960 name all my devices after obscure characters from the 143 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:12,520 Steel Marillion because it's one of the only big books that I've 144 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,720 read in my life, so I should flex a little bit, OK? 145 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,800 I've tried reading the Silmarillion several times. 146 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,320 It's it's the hardest book I've ever tried to read. 147 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,440 It is. It is insane how hard that book 148 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,680 is. In fact, I have a copyright. 149 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,559 Why? Why would you want to show your 150 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:34,880 copy I? Have I have my copy of the? 151 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,600 Silmarillion. Oh, it's a fancy one. 152 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,600 Yeah, it's a fancy one. Nice. 153 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:40,039 Yeah. OK, yeah. 154 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,400 Oh, So yeah, if it's written in runic like this, Chris, it's 155 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,360 it's not going to be easy to you're going. 156 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,120 To want the English translation that's. 157 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,000 Going to be a lot focus. It's an English. 158 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,520 OK, OK, it's an Elvish. Danielle got me these really 159 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,600 nice copies of all the Lord of the Rings books, so 160 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,520 Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and the three Lord of the Rings. 161 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,560 So she got me a really nice copy of these a couple years ago for 162 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:06,040 Christmas. I think I talked about this on 163 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:07,360 the show. Nice. 164 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:13,720 Anyways. Let me check in the database OK. 165 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,880 The the second bit of feedback is from listener Josh, who said 166 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,200 on Comfort Zone episode 91, Neil Ion mentioned that she's using 167 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,080 an emoji picker app in place of Ray. 168 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:28,760 Cast emoji picker on GitHub and forked it and it was a rabbit 169 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,760 hole. I want to know more is there is 170 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,160 there anything you want to say about this? 171 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,080 What this emoji picker turned into? 172 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,920 Anything you want to puck. So at the time when I said this, 173 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,600 it was meant as a teaser for what I announced last week when 174 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:45,040 I launched Tiny Start, the launcher that I made for the 175 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,200 Mac. And yes, I think I said this 176 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,240 last week in the episode a little bit. 177 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,600 But yes, it part of that rabbit hole started like this. 178 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,840 I was looking for obscure emoji pickers that people made on 179 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,360 GitHub and I found one that somebody made. 180 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,200 And like, it seems like this person made it over a week and 181 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,400 then abandoned it and never touched it again. 182 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:13,600 So I forked it and this is how like I learned a bunch of the 183 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:19,960 basics, especially in regard to Swift UI, getting used to that. 184 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:25,760 And so, yeah, that's how I was. I really iterated on that a 185 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,280 bunch. And then I scrapped it, started 186 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,800 from scratch, made tiny start and that was great. 187 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,240 Nice. Yeah, Well, well, Speaking of 188 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,600 development projects that were scrapped on Cozy Zone this week, 189 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,400 we roasted each other's 10 year old home screens, iPhones, 190 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,800 iPads, all sorts of different things, even an Android phone. 191 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:53,000 And I showed off screenshots of my first app I ever made. 192 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,680 First and only app I ever made. And when you see the 193 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:58,080 screenshots, you'll know why it was the only app I ever made 194 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:02,240 because oh boy is it ugly. But yeah, that was this week on 195 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,280 Cozy Zone. Cozy Zones are members only 196 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,200 special show where you get an extra episode of US every single 197 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,080 week. And my home screen had widgets 198 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,160 in 2016, yeah. Because technology hadn't 199 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:22,320 reached a certain OS yet. We had we hadn't been judged to 200 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,760 be allowed to have them. We we hadn't been good enough to 201 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,080 be allowed to have them. At the time you were like, hey, 202 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,120 iOS don't need. We just need. 203 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,320 Them right? Yeah, widgets are actually bad. 204 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,280 Yeah, that's really bad. Steve had decided we didn't need 205 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:43,200 them, so we were OK with that. Yeah. 206 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,480 Any anything else? Or should we move on to the main 207 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,240 show? Let's move on. 208 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,400 I want to roast you. I don't know why you want to 209 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,800 roast me. I'm bringing something brand new 210 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,880 to the show. Nothing like this ever seen 211 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,520 before, ever. Whatsoever. 212 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:07,000 So this last week a large technology company had their 213 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,560 50th anniversary and on the day of their 50th anniversary they 214 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,920 released a new product for for purchase. 215 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,920 It would been announced a couple weeks before, but you could go 216 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,000 into one of their stores and. Buy anniversary Mac or 217 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:26,000 something. Yes, but the the 50th 218 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,040 anniversary Mac comes in the form of headphones. 219 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,920 Oh no. I have the Airpods Macs who not 220 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,680 to be confused with the Airpods Max one, which hang on one 221 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,520 second look at these things like they're they're totally 222 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,440 different. They're they're absolutely 223 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,720 completely different. You you can't tell me which ones 224 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,960 which. I can tell if you if you place 225 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,680 in front of the camera like the canopy, especially like the 226 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,440 headband. Yeah, yeah, look at. 227 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:55,880 That we'll be able to tell, yeah. 228 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,720 Yeah, the the headband on, on my original Airpods Max that 229 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,000 literally I got these the day they were released. 230 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,480 I've had these since 2020. The, the, the canopy on these 231 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,720 things is completely destroyed. The fact that Apple doesn't sell 232 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,200 a replacement for the headband is a is a travesty. 233 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,600 But yeah, these are my original ones. 234 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,840 If you want to buy them, let me know you know. 235 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,360 Especially since the the headband it's not hot that hard 236 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,360 to remove. No, it's it's literally like a 237 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,280 pin clip thing that you push down and it just pops out like 238 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:34,280 it's actually pretty simple. But enough about the originals. 239 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,840 Those are filthy. You know, these are the 240 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:38,680 original. These are these are the original 241 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:40,760 ones with lightning. I got them day one. 242 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:46,840 They're filthy, but I have the brand new Airpods Airpods pro 243 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:52,400 backs ultra something something twos and I kind of love them. 244 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:57,480 I kind of absolutely love them. OK, so one, they're comfortable. 245 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:03,000 They are comfortable for me. They're comfortable. 2, the ANC 246 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:08,640 is better, like they are better Three, the color is much better 247 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,120 on these. Now, the thing that actually 248 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:15,400 really does bug me is so Apple did the Airpods Max. 249 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:20,760 Then two years ago in 2024, they did the Airpods Max USBC and 250 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,440 they did new colors for those. Now they did the Airpods Max 251 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:28,320 too, and it's the same colors as the USBC version, not to be 252 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,880 confused with the original version. 253 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:36,000 So the midnight is the same midnight as the USUSBC first 254 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,360 Gen. And you would think like if 255 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,480 they're going to put another number behind this, they would 256 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:45,080 have come up with new colors. Like, that's actually my, my, my 257 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,160 nitpick complaint about this. Like, I have big complaints 258 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:49,680 about these. Don't get me wrong, I do have 259 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,360 big complaints about these, but the fact that they couldn't 260 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,880 bother come up with new colors because I don't think the color, 261 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,600 like I got the black midnight ones because I don't think the 262 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,000 fun color options are actually that good looking. 263 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:08,320 I I don't like them, but yeah. Do we think it's because so they 264 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:13,040 were preparing the the the Airpods Max 2 and they had a 265 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:17,520 slate of new colors for that, but then they had to rush a USBC 266 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:22,000 version because of regulations. So they went with the colors 267 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,920 that they already had. Probably prepared, yeah, 268 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,760 probably. I, I, I wouldn't be surprised if 269 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,320 that was a thing. I'm I'm, I'm more surprised at 270 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,920 how long these took to come out. It probably was one of those 271 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,760 things where like, oh crap, that UK law or European law or 272 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:43,000 whatever passed and now we have to sell them with USBC and stuff 273 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,400 like that. So let's put that update out. 274 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,440 But these weren't the the twos weren't ready yet and stuff like 275 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:55,560 that because I don't know, but they're still overpriced, $550 276 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,840 is way too much for over. The ear headphones it's. 277 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,640 Way too much. I did it for the show. 278 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,320 Also tax write off what? Nothing. 279 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,320 The adaptive mode is really nice to have. 280 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,080 I really like the adaptive mode. In fact I have gone into the 281 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,320 settings and turned off the transparency mode. 282 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,840 So like when you click the button transparency mode isn't 283 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,320 an option, it's just noise cancelling or adaptive. 284 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,240 Now what? Yep. 285 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,200 Why? Yeah, that's the that's the way 286 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,760 to go. Yeah, adaptive is literally 287 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,280 better than transparency. Because it's still better. 288 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,280 Because it's still blocking out stuff like lawn mowers, dogs 289 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,600 barking, cars driving. By as far as understand, the 290 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,840 transparency mode still caps those in volume, right? 291 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,720 It's not as much like it still lets that stuff through. 292 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,720 Yeah, the best way I can describe it, because I didn't 293 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,160 like the adaptive mode at first. It was same weird, but they've, 294 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:51,600 I think they've tuned it since then to be a little better. 295 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,640 I, I think what, what I like about adaptive mode is it is so 296 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,920 noise cancellation cancels out like everything. 297 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,520 So someone like tries to talk to you like there's traffic or 298 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,599 something like that is all blocked out equally. 299 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,200 But with adaptive mode, it's like white noise and that sort 300 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,920 of thing is blocked out, but you still hear like if someone talks 301 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,599 to you, you'll just hear it come through clearly. 302 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,960 So that's kind of nice. It's kind of like a balanced 303 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,880 thing. It's like it worked for me on my 304 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,680 last flight that I took. The airplane noise was like 305 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,680 really wiped out pretty well, but I could still like hear the 306 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,080 stewardess ask me a question or something so. 307 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,600 Yeah, I've not tried adaptive mode on my Airpods Pro since it 308 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,080 came out because I tried it when it came out and I hated it. 309 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,520 Yeah, it's. Changed I I turned. 310 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,440 I tried adaptive mode when it first came out, I didn't like 311 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,880 it. I turned it off and I've gone 312 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:54,120 back to it in the last probably 6 months or so and I, I like it 313 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:55,840 a lot. Like that's when I'm walking 314 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,400 around the house. I have adaptive mode on so 315 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:03,440 Danielle can still talk to me, but like if she's cooking 316 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,960 something or like if the neighbors doing something or 317 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,720 something's going on, like outside of that it that's still 318 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,320 being blocked out. Yeah, and pro tip for a our 319 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,000 future dog owner here, you should. 320 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,160 Spoiler alert, thanks. Oh dope, so. 321 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:19,880 It's OK. It's OK. 322 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,000 No, it's OK. I was going to, I was going to 323 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,880 get to it later, but that's OK. That's OK. 324 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,640 I walk the dog and one of the, I think the default settings for 325 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,760 adaptive mode is when someone starts talking or you start 326 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,640 talking, it automatically dips whatever you're listening to. 327 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,480 Maybe it's not adaptive mode, it's a whole separate setting. 328 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,080 Turn that off when you're walking the dog, because when 329 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:38,760 you're going to say like, come on, buddy, and it's going to 330 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,320 like it, it dips everything. It's horrible. 331 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:46,640 So I say turn that off. Yes, yeah, it's like, it's like 332 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,400 I forget what that's called, but I already have that off because 333 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,960 I hate that setting. Like I hate the whole. 334 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,720 And then there's like the adaptive volume thing where like 335 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,240 if you start making a bunch of noise, like my big thing is like 336 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,520 if I start taking out the trash, like pulling the trash bag out 337 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,320 of the trash can, taking it to the bin, throwing it in there 338 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,280 and stuff like that, the the volume goes all over the place. 339 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,960 I turn that off Like I don't like that, but some stuff I do 340 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,320 like. These now mean having the 341 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:22,360 Airpods Max 2 now mean I have no more Lightning devices 342 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,320 whatsoever. That's it. 343 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,400 These are it. There is no more Lightning 344 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,840 devices. I think maybe Danielle might 345 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:32,680 have a pair of Lightning Airpods Pro 2, but that's not my 346 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,000 problem. That's her problem, not mine. 347 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,280 I'm just kidding. I've given her solutions, mostly 348 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,960 just wireless charging, so no more Lightning devices. 349 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,840 And I feel good about that. Like death to Lightning. 350 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:47,760 Wow. OK. 351 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,000 Yep. Yeah, yeah, that's right. 352 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,920 Oh. Is is that the most exciting 353 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,120 thing about this product, that you now do not need a Lightning 354 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,000 cable? No. 355 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:01,480 Better A&C is as look I'm going to tell. 356 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,080 So we had that whole, I had that whole saga of getting a new 357 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,600 roof. Getting a new roof was the 358 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,360 loudest. OK. 359 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,880 Editor Chris prepared to bleep. Getting a new blue roof is the 360 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:17,000 loudest thing that has ever I've ever been around in my life and 361 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,240 I've grown up going to monster truck rallies. 362 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,120 Like getting a new roof was insane. 363 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,800 I still had to work while we were getting a new roof put on 364 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,640 air. Having Airpods Max were the only 365 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,640 reason why I was able to was because of noise cancelling. 366 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,280 Now having even better noise cancelling, yes, yes please. 367 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,440 Now I don't expect to get a new roof again anytime soon, but 368 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,160 loud things happen. I will take better ANC. 369 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,400 Absolutely. Also the battery life being 370 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,480 refreshed is kind of nice. I was having to charge the old 371 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,120 ones quite quite often and having a new fresher battery is 372 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,920 is is pretty nice. You know, in regard to A and CI. 373 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:59,000 Don't want to like dismiss your experience or whatever, but it 374 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,720 feels like I don't know how to feel about this because for the 375 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,520 past several years, like even when they first came out, the 376 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,720 Airpods Max, people were saying and they kept saying that it was 377 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,560 among the best ANC you could get on over ear headphones, right on 378 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,160 par if not better than the Sony's and the Bose. 379 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,280 So how is it even better than that? 380 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,760 I have a hard time understanding. 381 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,640 So, OK, so you know when you're wearing them, we've all had, 382 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,040 we've all had them, we've all wear them. 383 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,560 And for the most part it blocks out everything. 384 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,840 But every once in awhile, like there's something really loud 385 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,600 that can still bleed through. Like there's something that can 386 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,160 still get through. This just takes that extra like 387 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:51,200 20-30, maybe even 50% off that top where it's just like it's 388 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,360 it's silent. It's it's truly silent, like 389 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,200 Danielle scared the again editor crispy be a prior to bleep. 390 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:02,480 Danielle walked in my office and as you can see, my desk is over 391 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,120 here for video viewers. The door to my office is on the 392 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,560 opposite wall. So if I'm facing my monitor, I 393 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,240 cannot see somebody walk in. Danielle scared out of me. 394 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,840 When she walked in, she like tapped me on the shoulder and I 395 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,600 had those on. I had no idea anyone had opened 396 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,360 the door and had walked in. And like our floors outside. 397 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,640 So in this room it's carpet, but in like the hallway and living 398 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,600 room and space like that. We have like this linoleum 399 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,040 hardwood floor kind of thing. And it is so loud. 400 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,440 It's so creaky. I don't hear anyone walking 401 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,680 anymore. It's fantastic. 402 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,040 I am just when I have them on, I am focused straight ahead. 403 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,200 There is nothing getting through. 404 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,440 OK, Chris, you've actually walked into a draft in my blog, 405 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:52,200 which is my #1 pet peeve from reviewers is when they say 406 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,480 something's perfect. Because if it's perfect, then 407 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,680 you don't get to be excited in a year or two when they make it 408 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,000 better. If you can't acknowledge that 409 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,280 these things are wrong now, you can't say that they were wrong 410 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,000 before because you said today it was perfect. 411 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,960 So what I'm saying and this is going into the Comfort zone 412 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,680 database is when the Airpods 3 come out, you may not say 413 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,760 anything about the ANC. Because it's perfect. 414 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,000 That's that's, that's a good point. 415 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,160 I I actually like that now that I I I actually agree with your 416 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,720 point even though I I just I'm contradicting myself now. 417 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,720 It's easy to do because you're like oh this is possibly be. 418 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,280 But then like 2 years later we're like Oh well obviously 419 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,120 this wasn't perfect, we could get better. 420 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,560 And I, I would say from a reviewer standpoint, the that 421 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,240 situation is, oh, I have never perfect is I haven't everything 422 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,240 I've tried all my experiences, I've never tried anything that's 423 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,400 better than these. So obviously these are perfect. 424 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,120 This is as good as they can get. And then technology advances and 425 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,800 oh, something else is going to it's like the M1 chip. 426 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,240 Oh, the M1 chip is perfect. Like it's great, great, great. 427 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,440 M1 Pro and M1 Max comes out. Holy crap, no, this is even 428 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,680 better. This is and then M2 blah, blah, 429 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,480 blah, blah blah. So I, I, I see where you're 430 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,800 coming from and you know what I'm going to try not to say that 431 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,000 anymore. I'm going to say the ANC is very 432 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,720 good and it's the best I have tried to this date. 433 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,480 And I have tried Sony's and I've tried the bows before. 434 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,240 I do believe it's better because I have tried the Sony's and it's 435 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,920 not as my Sony. I have the Fives, whatever those 436 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,560 are and the yeah, the original Airpods and Max are better than 437 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,920 those even I would say. So these are even better. 438 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,920 That's quite good. To be fair, I don't think I've 439 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,120 tried the Sony since the fours. It was the one right before they 440 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,960 folded. I don't remember I think. 441 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,920 Before they did not fold, yeah. Before they didn't fold. 442 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,480 Remember that time when they stopped folding and then? 443 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,280 Those are these. Those are the fives. 444 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,800 OK, OK, so I tried the fours. The fours were the ones that 445 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,280 they were the last ones. I tried them. 446 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,680 OK, so something else I really like about these and it's 447 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,240 stupid. It's really dumb. 448 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,000 One second here, this guy right here. 449 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:03,160 This is the Apple USBC to 3.5mm cable. 450 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,760 Now neon. You and I have had the lightning 451 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,080 ones. You and I used the Air Pods Max 452 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,600 for podcasting for a little while and I think we would both 453 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:15,040 agree the lightning to 3.5mm cable was the worst cable ever 454 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,080 made. It was the worst cable. 455 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,800 It was super thin, it was fragile. 456 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,320 My girlfriend's mom's cat ate those things up. 457 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,200 I have probably bought 6 of them over time because she kept 458 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,160 eating them up. My bad, I kept leaving the door 459 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,360 open, but whatever. This is the USBC version. 460 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,640 It is a braided thicker cable. Much much nicer quality. 461 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,560 Big complaint. Still overpriced $40 cable for 462 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,840 this, which is stupid. Absolutely should not be that, 463 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,520 but at least it's braided down. It's a little thicker, but it 464 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:48,080 only comes in white. For a $550 pair of headphones 465 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,200 and a $40 cable, they should have color matched these things. 466 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:57,200 Oh boy. Isn't it like it's a reverse 467 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,120 deck? Yeah. 468 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:03,040 They they have, there is a reason why it is somebody's 469 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,960 taking it apart and there is a reason why it is so expensive. 470 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:11,400 But I still think $40.00 for a cable that only works with $550 471 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,040 pair of headphones like you, you're not going to just buy 472 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,840 this cable on its own. Like there's no reason to buy 473 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,960 it. This cable only works with the 474 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,160 Airpods Max, right? Oh, is that true? 475 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,480 Well, I was going to say I never used the Airpods Max to record. 476 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,720 So I never used it with my Airpods Max ironically, but I 477 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,640 did actually have the headphone to lightning cable, the Super 478 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:37,440 thin 1 specifically for my car to plug my my lightning iPhone 479 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,480 into the audio Jack because that was I'm sure I could have gone 480 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,040 on Amazon and get something, but I was at the Apple store, so I 481 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,360 just got it. But so you may still want that 482 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,440 if you have an older car that you can't do USB to connect your 483 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,400 phone might be. OK, OK, All right. 484 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,680 Interesting. OK, so maybe there is a reason 485 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,800 to have this other than that, I I don't know. 486 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,880 I just assumed this cable only worked with the Airpods Max 487 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,400 because that's what it was designed for. 488 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,040 But maybe I am wrong there. I shouldn't have said that, but 489 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,160 anyways they should have color matched them. 490 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,120 They should have. It's it's ridiculous that they 491 00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:15,480 didn't color match them. If the iMac gets color matching 492 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,480 for all of its accessories, come on right? 493 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,120 Come on. Come on. 494 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,200 It should be in the box. What's that? 495 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,160 Yes I I would agree with that. It should be in the box it it's 496 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,360 especially considering one of the selling points of these is 497 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,680 plug them into audio interface and you get lossless audio with 498 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,800 Apple Music. And also it's $550. 499 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,440 Yeah. Did you come with a USBC to USBC 500 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,640 cable though? Yeah, there is that. 501 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:47,400 But it's weird that you like you can't use them wired with just a 502 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,000 USBC cable. By the way, it is weird. 503 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,560 It is weird, it is really weird that you can't just go USBC to 504 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,960 USBC. Yeah, it has to be USBC to 3.5. 505 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,800 Yeah, they they do something is really weird with the Airpods 506 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,600 Max, because it's not like they don't go to analog when you plug 507 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,960 them in. They're still digital, which 508 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,840 means they still have to do conversion, signal conversion in 509 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,400 the mix. And This is why you end up with 510 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,800 this situation. You can't use a regular USBC 511 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,520 cable to use them wired, and you have to use the fancy cable 512 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,480 that's reverse DAC or whatever. Well, it's almost as bad as 513 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,320 Matt. You probably remember this, 514 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:29,960 Neil. I might be before your time a 515 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,440 little bit, but maybe you remember this. 516 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,400 I don't remember what you maybe maybe a little bit because Matt 517 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,960 and I are old guys. We're we're, we're Matt and I 518 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,120 are old guys. Neil Leon's the youngster, the 519 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,360 the young hip. I, I'm cool. 520 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:43,080 I got. I got. 521 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,880 To talk about the the Walkman or. 522 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,840 Or no, the iPod. When the iPod video came out, 523 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,640 Apple released an RCA cable. So it was the IT plugged into 524 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:58,720 the 3.5mm headphone cable and then it had the red, yellow and 525 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,120 white RCA extensions coming out of it. 526 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,680 So you can plug it in the TV. And at first Apple's like, yeah, 527 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,000 you have to use ours. But what what later was the 528 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,080 turns out was Apple reversed the signals. 529 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,400 So the video signal, the yellow cable was coming out of one of 530 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,680 the audio ports and Oh my God, vice versa. 531 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:28,400 So you could actually use any, any 3.5 to RCA cable you wanted. 532 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,320 You could buy a cheap one but Apple was reversing them so you 533 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,640 would buy their like $60.00 cable or whatever it was. 534 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,480 Well, that's lawsuit material. They weren't big enough to. 535 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,720 A a part of me just respects that sort of like we, we could 536 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,680 do the Super that's like the opposite of Apple. 537 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,720 Like they have like, oh, we're going to do this like over the 538 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,800 top. We're going to go, we're going 539 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,120 to be more innovative that we need to, we're going to be use 540 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,680 more components that we need to. And this time, they're just 541 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,880 like, what if we flip the yellow and the red? 542 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,360 That's literally what they did. Insane. 543 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,520 Yeah, so cuz I remember like wanting to do video out from my 544 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,840 iPod video, but I couldn't afford the crazy cable. 545 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,600 And then I found online that's like, yeah, you can just take 546 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:18,600 any 3.5 cable to RCA, reverse them to your TV's input, and you 547 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,080 can do video out. So Yep, Yep, that was the thing. 548 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,600 OK, going long on this. So I'm just going to wrap up a 549 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,360 few things. A couple of some complaints 550 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,240 about these that are pretty obvious price. 551 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,320 It's they're too expensive. They still don't fold, which is 552 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,640 ridiculous. To be fair. 553 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,200 They just sit at my desk. I will never travel with these. 554 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,400 Airpods Pro 3 are more than enough for me to travel with. 555 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,480 These are my desk headphones and the case is ridiculous. 556 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,480 Oh and another reason why I did get these is I moved my 557 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,880 PlayStation into here and I'm using this cable to plug into my 558 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,040 PlayStation controller. And honestly, it's just easier 559 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,560 now to have USBC so I can charge them anywhere. 560 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,440 So that was kind of why I got them. 561 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,760 But yeah, those are my Airpods Max too. 562 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,240 Nee Leon, feel free to roast away. 563 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:15,160 OK my biggest pet peeve reading the reviews about this pair the 564 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,840 the new Airpods Max is how nobody talks about the headband 565 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,640 because it's still atrocious And like the headband alone. 566 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,680 I I don't want to recommend this to anyone at all. 567 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,960 Like it could sound like an absolute dream inside. 568 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,560 I I still think it would be a RIP off because the headband, it 569 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:44,960 ages like super fast. If you have long hair, maybe 570 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,800 you're, you're a bit of a sweaty person, I don't know. 571 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,000 But as long as like even if you don't have long hair, but I feel 572 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,240 like long hair worsens it because you, you, you have 573 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,280 products in your hair or, I don't know, yeah. 574 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,920 Or even like, yeah, even if you wear a hard hat or something. 575 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,640 Because I got the little dimple thing at the top of it that 576 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,520 pokes onto it, yeah. Those destroy the headbands so 577 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,400 fast. Like I don't know any other 578 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,360 headphones in that price range which has this problem. 579 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,040 Like this is insane. I can't I this is my biggest pet 580 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,400 peeve and like to illustrate that I read the review, I think 581 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,200 it was Cult of Mac. I don't remember 99 to five. 582 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,880 I don't remember, 1 publication wrote at the end of the review 583 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,960 wrote. So the headband still feels 584 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,320 super comfortable, but we don't know how they they will age. 585 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,760 We'll see it ended like this. We we do know how it's going to. 586 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,000 Age and I was like. What do you mean we'll see this 587 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,480 right here, This, this, this. It's not focusing, but like this 588 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,400 right here, like that's how it's going to do it. 589 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,600 Yes. We've known the issue for five 590 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,240 years, over five years. And people are still wondering 591 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,840 will this age? Well, yeah, no, I'm not. 592 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,080 Really with you, like the headband is not going to age 593 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,560 well on these things and they're too expensive for the headband 594 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,080 not to age well. Yeah, Apple had said something 595 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,360 about like, oh, we've changed the headband and I could see 596 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,960 that line, but no, they didn't. It's exactly. 597 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,640 No, it's literally the same. So much data on this. 598 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:20,520 Yeah, this is insane. The second thing is, yeah, I 599 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:27,160 think this comes back to the fact that I've become, I've come 600 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,160 to hate Bluetooth so much that I just can't imagine having to 601 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,960 deal with Apple's workarounds, crazy workarounds just to plug 602 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:40,040 my headphones into something. I this, I, I hate this so much. 603 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,560 I hate this so much that the future, like the for them to 604 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,240 feel like the future, they would have to turn into regular analog 605 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,320 headphones when you plug them in so that they don't use 606 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,960 batteries. So that like even turn off the 607 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,840 all the smart features, like just plug them in their regular 608 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,360 headphones and it's just analog and that's it. 609 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,920 Yes, Sony, the Sony's do that, yeah. 610 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,560 But I wear these Sony's every single week for an hour or like 611 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,639 2 hours when we because of cozy zones. 612 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,840 I2 hours every week. I literally never charge these. 613 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,560 Yeah, they're not on. They're they're just not on. 614 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,239 They're just. Yeah, they're just analog. 615 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,199 Can can I point out really something really funny about the 616 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:23,800 Airpods Max when you plug them in? 617 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,320 So you have the USBC to 3.5mm cable, it plugs in on the right 618 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,719 cup. But if you have a MacBook Pro, 619 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,880 the 3.5mm port is on the left side. 620 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,920 So that means you're going from your right ear to the left side 621 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,440 of your MacBook, which means you have a cable crossing in front 622 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,440 of you. Yum. 623 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,000 Like this? Nice. 624 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,679 Let's say that's a short. Cable, It is a very short cable, 625 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,800 which is fine for me. I actually the way I'm using it, 626 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,400 I don't want a long cable, but it is a very short cable. 627 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,120 Yeah, that's it. I'm done. 628 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:02,800 OK. All right. 629 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:08,720 Don't buy this. Or do whatever you know, do what 630 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:10,000 you like. No, don't. 631 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,080 You don't know. You listen to me. 632 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,440 Listen to me do. What you want? 633 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,320 I have a free will. I bought them. 634 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,280 Neilian is your free will now. Yes, my free will is. 635 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,040 Then why? Then why did I buy them? 636 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:27,320 Because your rogue, you didn't actually do it. 637 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,160 Yeah, right. Yeah, these are knockoffs 638 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:37,880 actually. Yep, it's where I got Danielle's 639 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:43,600 Gucci purse, too. Don't tell her I Hermes. 640 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:44,320 I don't. I don't know. 641 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,360 I don't know fashion brands. I think Gucci was the only one 642 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,120 that I knew. All right, well, so that's 643 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,400 enough of that. I have Airpods Max, too. 644 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,840 I'm working on a video. I like them, but they're still 645 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,440 too expensive. So yeah, Matt, what do you got 646 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,800 for us this week? So I don't have so much an app 647 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,440 as the concept of an app. And what? 648 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,200 Is an app. As as the development bug 649 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:14,800 captures the Comfort Zone crew more and more, I wanted to talk 650 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,520 about the adventure I'm on right now, where I'm trying to build 651 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:25,480 yet another app, this one maybe just for me. 652 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,480 I think we'll see how it turns out, but. 653 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,360 I want it. I know, I know. 654 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,000 You showed it to me. You you showed it to me means 655 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,080 you. You legally owe it to me. 656 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:44,600 Yeah, OK, the So what I am trying to do now is build a 657 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,520 dictation app because of all the things that have changed about 658 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,240 how I use my computer in the last few years, the biggest 659 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:55,960 change is dictation apps. I literally use this all day 660 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,840 everyday. It is a core part of how I use 661 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,160 my computer now. Like I dictate so much. 662 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,920 And one of the annoying things is that Apple's built in 663 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,720 dictation is tough to use. It does not do punctuation well. 664 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,320 It doesn't do proper nouns well. It's it's a little rough. 665 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,560 So there's all these third party apps that do it and they use 666 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:26,040 local models typically, but they charge a subscription and it is 667 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,240 a pretty expensive subscription in most cases. 668 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:32,320 Like it's 10 to 15 bucks a month, which is not nothing like 669 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,040 before the days of the $20 AI subscriptions, like 10 bucks a 670 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,320 month was like the ceiling for consumer software. 671 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,160 Like nobody had that. Nothing was more than that, 672 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,040 right? Like $20.00 a month for ChatGPT 673 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,240 Plus was crazy when they first announced that were like nobody 674 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:48,280 does $20 subscriptions and now it's like 15 bucks to dictate to 675 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,320 your computer. Or, or a $200 AI subscription a 676 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:57,760 month, Yeah. So I was like, there's got to be 677 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,680 a better way. So I was like, look, I've been 678 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,560 building apps for the past year that work with dictation and 679 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,640 text and speech to text, text to speech, each direction. 680 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,880 And you know, surely I could take these skills and put 681 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,520 together something myself that runs locally that has 0 cost to 682 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,680 me as the developer and that I could use myself. 683 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,000 And if it's good enough, I could release it and see if other 684 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,440 people like it. And it is so hard to do this. 685 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,160 Well, I thought it would be easy. 686 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,920 I thought it would just be, oh, implement Apple speech engine, 687 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,200 boom, fast. It's on everybody's device that 688 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,440 has Apple intelligence. Great, lovely. 689 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:44,600 No, it doesn't work that way. Apple Speech Engine is not good 690 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,400 enough to do dictation because it's effectively what their own 691 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,680 dictation does, right? Which has its own issues. 692 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,640 So I tried using that, just doing raw output, and it sucked. 693 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,240 It wasn't good enough. So I was like, shoot, well, how 694 00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,560 do I fix this? And I was like, well, you have 695 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,600 this quick notes app that has a clean up feature that already 696 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,000 does this. It does Apple's dictation, it 697 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,040 transcribes everything, and then you clean it up with the power 698 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,840 of AI. Again, still local, still no 699 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,760 cost to anybody, so let's try that. 700 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,880 But that was too slow. So I was just sitting there 701 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,440 waiting for it to transcribe and then waiting for it to do some 702 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,400 AI mumbo jumbo to it, and it wasn't even good enough. 703 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,680 And Apple's foundation model is so frustrating because this is a 704 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,920 thing that I, I, I thwarted in quick notes, but somehow it's, I 705 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,720 literally the same instructions to different things here. 706 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,240 It really wants to chat with you. 707 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,080 So even though I'm like, hey, here's some text, you are not 708 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,800 responding to this. You are not giving a response at 709 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,360 all to this. You are just trying to clean it 710 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,840 up to fix things like punctuation and proper nouns and 711 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,160 this sort of thing. And very often I would just like 712 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,280 I would dictate something into this and I would say like, I 713 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,920 would be like, I don't know what I would say, it doesn't matter. 714 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,880 But like it would return at the text that it would print out of 715 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,440 my screen is the Apple Foundation model replying to 716 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,200 whatever I talked into my app. And I was like, this sucks. 717 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,560 It's slow and it sucks. What do I do next? 718 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:19,280 So now I've implemented Whisper Kit, which is the GOAT when it 719 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,200 comes to local transcription and it's doing much better. 720 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,960 But now. It's slower. 721 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,600 And so I'm having, especially when you're like hold, you're 722 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,040 like dictating for like 30 seconds, a minute or more, like 723 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,040 it's just taking a while to transcribe that. 724 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,640 And that's if you feel slow. So then I'm like, OK, here's 725 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,600 what you do. We're going to pause on 726 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,680 silences. So if the, if the user pauses 727 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,200 for more than a second without saying anything, we cut the 728 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,000 audio file off. We transcribe that in the 729 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,760 background and we keep recording and every time they pause, we 730 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,240 cut off a new sliver and we do this transcription. 731 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,080 And this is working OK, but now there's awkward breaks because 732 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,520 the transcription, sometimes if you pause in the middle of a 733 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,600 sentence, it gets confused because it doesn't know where to 734 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,000 put the punctuation. So then I'm like, well, then do 735 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,840 I do a foundation model request afterwards and say fix the 736 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,200 punctuation? And now I'm in the same 737 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,080 situation. And so this can be done. 738 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,760 It can be done because apps do it, but I don't know how they do 739 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,440 it, and I'm figuring it out. But I'm getting closer, it's 740 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,200 getting better, so I'm actually using it. 741 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,680 It's getting to the point where I can use it for myself most of 742 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,040 the time, so I think that's pretty good. 743 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:33,080 But software development is hard, especially once you move 744 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,280 beyond just displaying databases in pretty interfaces. 745 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,840 It's very tricky. And I'm doing this on a Mac. 746 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,080 So like, it's not like a window in the traditional way that 747 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,280 like, and Neil, and you're dealing with this with tiny 748 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,040 start. It's not like, Oh yeah, window 749 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,320 with three like traffic lights and tabs and views and like 750 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,040 traditional stuff like it's, it's something custom. 751 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,280 And so it lives on screen, but it's not a window. 752 00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,640 It feels very hacky when you do this. 753 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:05,000 Yeah, Yeah, you have to. You have, you have to create 754 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,200 some fake stuff to make macOS believe that it's a window, but 755 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,840 it's not. It's weird, yeah. 756 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,840 Yeah. And yeah, so you have to make 757 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,200 sure like the focus works because when you switch to an 758 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,560 app window, it sets us to the focus, but you're not 759 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,560 technically the focus. You need the focus to be the 760 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,560 thing in the background because for you, for the emoji picker, 761 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,520 you need the emoji to go into the app, not into your window. 762 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,240 And same with my text. I need to go into a thing and 763 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:34,520 then yes, dealing with history. How what, what if it fails? 764 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,480 Can you recover the audio? Do I save the audio? 765 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,240 I don't want to save the audio because that's going to take up 766 00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:39,560 space and people are going to freak out. 767 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:46,920 So all this is to say I'm making progress, but it is very 768 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,560 interesting because not interesting. 769 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:54,560 It's, I think it's notable that this is not a super complicated 770 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:55,800 app in the grand scheme of things. 771 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,720 This is a pretty simple piece of software, but there are so many 772 00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:02,440 things to consider and you don't get it for free. 773 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,080 You have to figure this out yourself. 774 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:09,000 And I'm saying this as someone who uses Claude code for 775 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:10,920 basically all the code that I write. 776 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,040 Like a lot of this is happening in the terminal. 777 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,880 And even then I have to go ahead. 778 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,400 There's so many things to know about how Mac OS works, how how 779 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,440 I want the data structure to be like, how I want all this to 780 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:25,960 work. Like there's, it's not just like 781 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,280 enter a prompt, get an app. There's still so much to do. 782 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:35,800 And yeah, it's, it's very fun, but it's very complicated as 783 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:41,520 well. And yeah, I don't know, I just 784 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,320 wanted to talk about it cuz it's, it is. 785 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,400 I was thinking about what to bring this week and I was like, 786 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,160 literally the only thing on my mind is how to get this stupid 787 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:49,920 app working. This is what I'm. 788 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:52,000 This is all I care about right now is figuring. 789 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,040 Out how to what you're saying about like the the UI part and 790 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,560 like when you're developing an app that's not just, you know, 791 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,960 sitting in a regular window, that's we mentioned this earlier 792 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,720 in the episode. That's what looking at emoji 793 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:11,120 pickers like swift emoji pickers on GitHub. 794 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,360 Help me understand like the approaches that people are 795 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,160 taking. Maybe you should do that. 796 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,320 Maybe you should look at projects being done like this 797 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,560 and look at this yourself and just try, maybe even try to fork 798 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:30,200 it and modify things yourself to see how things behave. 799 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:35,880 This has this has helped me a lot getting started and just 800 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,720 getting a launch on screen that's not stealing focus from 801 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,120 other windows when you're using it. 802 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,680 Yeah, that that was a big breakthrough. 803 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:51,320 Yeah, yeah, I guess that that's really all I have to say. 804 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,520 I, I guess the other thing that I keep thinking about is a year 805 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,560 ago or almost a year ago at WWDC, Apple was like, we have 806 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,520 this new transcription model and this new foundation model. 807 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:03,760 And I started working on those. Like the next day I started 808 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,800 integrating with those and figuring out how they worked and 809 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,120 how to use them. And just like getting those 810 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,680 basic skills together makes me think of all these other ideas. 811 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:13,960 Oh, here I have this skill. Here's how I can use it in a 812 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,680 different context, right? Because like that's what my 813 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,200 quick notes app was, was I want to dictate into my iPhone and 814 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,080 get high quality transcripts from it. 815 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,840 And OK, that's great. But that came from quick 816 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,600 subtitles, which was let me just, I have the audio file 817 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,840 already give me the good text. And now I was like, what if I 818 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,800 made the audio file in real time and then give me good text? 819 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,160 And now this builds on that, which is like on a Mac in a 820 00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,480 totally different context where I'm not like bringing up 821 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,000 separate apps. Let me just hit a button and say 822 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,240 things. So anyway, it's really it's fun 823 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,800 to see how. You could make. 824 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,160 And it builds up. Could build like an only one, 825 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,880 record your podcast, publish it and you host it yourself. 826 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,680 So that's service. There you go boom, you have 827 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:07,280 service revenue. And so yeah, it's all one thing. 828 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,760 People can dictate their podcast. 829 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:14,320 It's all at the same time, recording, doing the chapters, 830 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,640 and it also gives you a transcription for the episode. 831 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,680 And then you click publish and it's all uploaded to your 832 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,960 servers and into the podcast apps and you're welcome. 833 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,480 This is an amazing idea. It doesn't. 834 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,600 That would be so much work. Call me when you raise 1 billion 835 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,640 and. Yeah, I expect a cushy job. 836 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,600 OK, OK. Makes sense? 837 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,880 But it would like gather up all you've done so far, right? 838 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,040 I know, I know This is this is a thing that I've thought about is 839 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:52,120 making some sort of like podcaster studio app that kind 840 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:58,440 of combines chapterization stuff, transcription stuff, show 841 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,120 notes, all this stuff into one place and. 842 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,320 Missing the hosting part and you're good to go. 843 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,440 I mean, I could figure out the hosting part. 844 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:14,040 I am working on another app that does web hosting. 845 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,200 It's a web app that lives on the web and hosts audio files for 846 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,280 things. I won't say more. 847 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:27,040 So yeah, it could be done. Yeah, if you think. 848 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,920 It's amazing if. You feel like this is like a 849 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,920 billion dollar idea. You just ask editor to cut all 850 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,040 of this and so that you keep it to yourself. 851 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,400 Well, the idea is, is is nothing people could think about this. 852 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:43,320 You just got to do it. OK? 853 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,000 So Ed or Chris, don't worry about it. 854 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,040 OK, OK, all right. But if it does become a billion 855 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:57,720 dollar thing, you know, hire me. I'll I'll become your. 856 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,160 You haven't. Said anything I should be higher 857 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,840 than this? I but I'll I'll make the YouTube 858 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,200 videos. I'll be like This is why you 859 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:05,800 want to use. This. 860 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:06,760 That's a good point. OK. 861 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,360 Yeah. You know, I'll use my influence. 862 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,600 I'll, I'll. Whatever little I have. 863 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,200 I'll what can I do? I'll sell NFTSI don't know for 864 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,080 you. No, you make the emoji picker, 865 00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:21,640 you build the emoji part of the dictation. 866 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,240 So that way like like you just dictate what emoji you want. 867 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,000 OK, well, I mean it's clear. OK. 868 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:32,680 It's clear we'll all be even partners in this. 869 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,040 You know Matt will do most of the work. 870 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,760 We're just scamming him live. We're just totally leaching on 871 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,080 to him. You got this, Matt, You got 872 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:46,920 this. You got this. 873 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,800 Our futures depend on you. Yeah. 874 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,600 No pressure. We are on the line. 875 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,600 I'm, I'm putting, I'm putting all my retirement, everything on 876 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,920 my life savings. I'm putting it all in on you, 877 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,520 OK? Yeah, I just sent my resignation 878 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,240 so. Yeah, I would like to formally 879 00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:04,800 announce my retirement from coding. 880 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:07,920 Hopefully that doesn't negatively impact anybody. 881 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,320 Wait, wait, wait, what? I deleted my YouTube channel 882 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,200 Matt, what do you mean? You keep it keeps happening. 883 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,680 Anyways, I I hope this does work out for you because this is this 884 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,920 is genuinely an interesting app. I would love to have a good 885 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,680 local dictation app or a good, let me rephrase, a good 886 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,240 dictation app that doesn't charge me an arm and a leg every 887 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:31,360 month. Yeah, agreed. 888 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,720 All right. Should we move on to the 889 00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:37,520 challenge? OK. 890 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Neil Leon, it was your 891 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,960 challenge. Yes, I feel like I cheated, but 892 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:51,360 the challenge was the prompt was back up your entire photos 893 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:58,320 library and the best method wins so I can go first. 894 00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:05,760 So I looked at things. Things are expensive. 895 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,520 Yeah, yeah. Storage is a little pricey right 896 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,520 now. Even like even not counting the 897 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:16,880 the storage like software, like just backup software that's 898 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,280 dedicated to doing this, to backing up a photos library 899 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:26,520 specifically, it's expensive if it's not subscription. 900 00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,800 Even like I found one utility that was one time purchase and I 901 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:34,000 don't know, it felt like I don't, I don't know the value of 902 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,920 this. I don't know if I should call in 903 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:40,760 on this anyway. So in the end, I cheated by 904 00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,960 going to privacy.apple.com. Are you aware of this trick? 905 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,440 It's a good trick. Yeah. 906 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,000 So if you go to privacy.apple.com, there's a 907 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,640 section on there. So you have to sign in and 908 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,520 there's a section on there. I'm signed out now. 909 00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,840 I can't see it properly word for word because Apple get a copy of 910 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:09,080 your data on the web ever. Sorry, request Request a copy of 911 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:10,760 your data. Yes, exactly. 912 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,040 That's the one. So request a copy of your data 913 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:19,600 and so you click on that and you can download everything from 914 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,000 your Apple account and you can download your anti iCloud Drive 915 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,000 if you want. You can download all your notes, 916 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,400 all your contacts, your calendar stuff, all your emails. 917 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,000 You can't download anything. And there's a section there for 918 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,280 photos and there's even a warning there. 919 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,200 I don't remember what it says specifically because now I'm 920 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:45,440 signed out, but it says photos can be like very large photo 921 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,360 like it can be very large. The following items may be large 922 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,040 and take a long time to download, and that includes 923 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,720 iCloud Drive, Files, Documents, iCloud Mail, and iCloud Photos. 924 00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:00,040 Exactly. And so, but they have a way to 925 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,960 deal with that that's actually pretty smart. 926 00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,720 So I went ahead and did that with photos. 927 00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:10,280 I select photo, then continue and there you have an option to 928 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:16,720 split your download into multiple files of the same size. 929 00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:21,800 So you can, for example, you can cap it at 1 gigs, one or more. 930 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:29,160 I think it's 110100I remember, so I went with 10. 931 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,880 So it gave me multiple 10 GB files that you don't have to 932 00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,640 download simultaneously, you can download one after the other. 933 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:42,400 So that's actually pretty smart. It was tedious but it worked. 934 00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,080 Also, where are Apple servers? Are they on the moon? 935 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,120 Are they on the Artemis 2 rocket ship or whatever? 936 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:53,560 Because the download rate it was really bad. 937 00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,320 I don't know where the servers are. 938 00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,480 I'm sure it's not a server location thing. 939 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,160 I'm sure it's a server data cap thing like like so that way 940 00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,720 you're they're not just letting you just bleed their bandwidth. 941 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:07,640 Drive. I feel like for this purpose 942 00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,680 they should allow me to to download. 943 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,600 Well, they have the warning there that it's going to take a 944 00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,120 while, which I, I like, I, I think it's fair. 945 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,480 But I, I have a feeling they do this so people aren't 946 00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,960 constantly, because that's going to cost a lot of money to 947 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,800 download that, that amount of storage. 948 00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,520 So I have a feeling they're doing this so people don't 949 00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,360 constantly use this. Yeah, maybe. 950 00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:37,320 So anyway, I did this and I did this over 2 nights just because 951 00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,440 at some point I was like, I'm tired of this, sorry. 952 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:41,640 I'll do, I'll do the rest tomorrow. 953 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:47,120 And also it takes like I said, it takes a few hours to download 954 00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,920 every time. So I downloaded 2 at once or 955 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,720 three at once and then gave up and then started again the next 956 00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:58,640 day. Yes, there you go. 957 00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:04,760 I have folders upon folders of my entire photos library 958 00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:09,440 downloaded from this on my 4 terabyte HDD. 959 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,840 I don't know if I'll keep that, but I've done it. 960 00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:19,320 I've backed up my photos library using using Apple's thing that 961 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,280 they had to do because it's probably illegal not to do this 962 00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:27,080 at this year. It's probably more just like 963 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:32,600 people are like lose their photo library and more of a service to 964 00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,400 like how many stories have you all heard about like person gets 965 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,520 locked out of their Apple account or iPhone and like their 966 00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,080 photo library is gone because they didn't back it up or 967 00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,280 something like that. So yeah. 968 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,440 Yeah, so there you go. I don't know, maybe I cheated, 969 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,720 but I like I don't know. I backed up my photos library in 970 00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:57,000 the end and nice it for free. Like using the existing hard 971 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,920 drive and using Apple's download tool. 972 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,760 Nice. How did you do, Matt? 973 00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:12,160 One second, I'm just actually I was looking up somebody for our 974 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,560 next bit. I did horribly. 975 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:21,960 I was like, what if? I mean, the answer is I want 976 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,280 them on my Synology, which is already working, which didn't 977 00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:28,000 really fit the challenge. So I didn't just say I will 978 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,600 continue to do what I've been doing, which I'm happy with. 979 00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:36,600 And So what I chose was sadness. And I chose this via as often 980 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,640 happens in software through Microsoft. 981 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:44,160 And I installed OneDrive on my Mac and was like, I wonder if 982 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:49,040 this can auto like backup my Apple Photos library because 983 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,480 Google Photos does that. And I was like, let me see if 984 00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:57,440 that works. And it does, but I hate it. 985 00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:02,840 The interface for photos in OneDrive is is rough. 986 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:08,760 It feels like a remnant of the Windows 8 era of design in that 987 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:13,880 it's all just, I don't know, it ain't right and it just, it 988 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:15,560 sucks. And it very quickly was like, 989 00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,960 hey buddy, you don't pay for storage through us. 990 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,040 Would you like to pay? And I was like, no, not at any 991 00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,760 cost. So I uninstalled it and then 992 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,600 deleted all the photos. So I have done I'm ending the 993 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:33,920 week exactly where I started but I did backup approximately 4 1/2 994 00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,440 gigabytes of photos to one drive before deleting them, which I 995 00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:41,200 can confirm the upload and the delete functions do function so 996 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,040 that's something OK. OK. 997 00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:48,520 OK. So because the free cap was at 998 00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:53,000 five, Yeah, OK. Yeah, I used to pay for it 999 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,400 because I do have a Windows computer, but I was so angry. 1000 00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,120 I hate I do not want to pay this so I stopped. 1001 00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:01,920 Yeah, who wants to give money to Microsoft anyways? 1002 00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:08,880 Especially for OneDrive, yeah. All right, so like Matt, I back 1003 00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,440 up my, I already back up my photo library to my Nas. 1004 00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:14,560 Like that's like that already happens through Synology. 1005 00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,760 Synology has an app that like syncs with Apple, the Apple 1006 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,640 Photos app and will copy everything off. 1007 00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:25,520 So I was like, OK, my, my Apple Photos library is already backed 1008 00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,240 up, but I do have technically a second photos library. 1009 00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:35,040 I have fancy cameras and whenever I shoot RAW, like the 1010 00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:39,360 raw photos with those, I put them in folders in iCloud Drive. 1011 00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,960 I usually what I do is I will date them or if it's a trip or 1012 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,480 something, I'll label them or whatever. 1013 00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,960 And then I have two folders in there raws and then edited. 1014 00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:50,280 So I will backup all the raw photos. 1015 00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,440 So I always have the raw photos and then anything I edit in 1016 00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,480 Lightroom now Pixelmator photo I will put in the edited folder. 1017 00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:02,040 So that stuff was being backed up via Time Machine cuz it was 1018 00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,720 an iCloud Drive and Time Machine will still back that stuff up. 1019 00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:10,080 But what I did is I was like OK I have that but let's take a 1020 00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,280 look at this. So I went and built a Hazel 1021 00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:14,960 script and let me pull up Hazel here. 1022 00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,120 I should have already had that. So what it does is it watches 1023 00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:22,640 that folder and anytime there is new content of any file, it 1024 00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:26,480 syncs this folder to a photography folder on an 1025 00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,200 external drive that I have. And I'm actually going to keep 1026 00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:30,760 this and I'm going to switch it to my Nas. 1027 00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,680 But since I already have the Nas backup, I figured I'd do 1028 00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:34,880 something different for the challenge. 1029 00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,280 I have a bunch of other external drives just laying around that I 1030 00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:43,280 got pre external drive storage cost that skyrocketed. 1031 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,160 I did look at a few other options. 1032 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,040 I was like oh what if I bought like a specific navs just for 1033 00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,080 backing up photos or something. No storage costs are stupid 1034 00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:52,760 expensive. Not doing that right now. 1035 00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,960 So I just took an A1 TB external drive that I have laying around. 1036 00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:58,720 I plugged it in the back of the Cal digit hub. 1037 00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,160 It just sits there and anytime new stuff is going to be added 1038 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,640 to that folder, it'll sync those two folders together. 1039 00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,720 So they'll always be In Sync. Bye bye. 1040 00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,040 Bye, bye bye. No. 1041 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:15,200 OK, so you can move. But yeah, so that way they will 1042 00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,440 stay In Sync and that library will now live in two places. 1043 00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:21,440 I will. OK, OK. 1044 00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,320 Nice, I will. I'm the only one that actually 1045 00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,600 made a backup thing, so. Yeah, I backed up something. 1046 00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:32,760 You went to a website. Which let me back up my photos 1047 00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,720 library. You weren't actually backing 1048 00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,360 anything up, it was already being sent there. 1049 00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:40,960 I I still don't understand what a backup is. 1050 00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:42,960 Why? No, it's one. 1051 00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:44,920 No, it was not already sent there. 1052 00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:49,680 No like right now. Apart from this, I have no copy 1053 00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:53,040 of my photo library. You don't have it in an app 1054 00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:56,960 called Photos. Yes, but that's on iCloud Drive, 1055 00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,200 Yes, and that's iCloud like. That's where that website you 1056 01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,560 would too pulled it from. Yes, but to put it on an 1057 01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:07,240 external drive. So there's a second copy now. 1058 01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,120 I backed it up. This is what makes me not do 1059 01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,800 backups because every time I say oh I did a backup, a backup 1060 01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:16,040 person's like no you did not. That's not a backup. 1061 01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,920 Why is it not a backup? It needs to be in a bulletproof 1062 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:27,200 fireproof casing that is kept on the other side of the country at 1063 01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,440 20,000 feet elevation. OK. 1064 01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,400 Fair enough. No or on one drive. 1065 01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,640 No, no, do not keep your your backup on OneDrive. 1066 01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,360 Get it put up OneDrive. Oh. 1067 01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,440 That's actually a horrible name. I guess if you want backups. 1068 01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,280 It is a terrible name. Yeah, I get what they were going 1069 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,480 for, but yeah. It's like 1 password. 1070 01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:54,000 Yeah, yeah, I can just use one password for everything. 1071 01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,120 I don't need to. Back up your password on a post 1072 01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:59,560 it note on your on your computer monitor as well as a third place 1073 01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:03,360 that is under lock and key. On one post it note. 1074 01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,200 One post it note. I have a tattooed on my 1075 01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:07,720 forehead, that's why I have to wear a hat. 1076 01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,760 This makes sense. So any time I need my password, 1077 01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,920 I look in a mirror, but then it's reversed so I have to look 1078 01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,320 at another mirror. It's like Apple's encryption 1079 01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:21,600 with the RCA cable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 1080 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:22,720 exactly. That's where I got the idea 1081 01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,360 from. All right. 1082 01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,400 I have no idea who won except I want so. 1083 01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:31,920 Let's move on to my challenge. I think you actually have a 1084 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:33,760 method, so you. I do have a method. 1085 01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,120 Yeah, I built something. Yeah. 1086 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:37,560 OK. All right. 1087 01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:39,640 You guys ready for the new challenge? 1088 01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:41,440 Yes. All right. 1089 01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:45,640 So as Matt said earlier in the episode, I'm getting a puppy in 1090 01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,520 four weeks from a couple of days ago. 1091 01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,960 So a time you're hearing this probably 3 weeks now, I, I'm 1092 01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:56,840 getting a little puppy and we're very, very excited. 1093 01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,040 Danielle and I have wanted a puppy for a really long time. 1094 01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:03,800 And we had some family friends that their dog had some puppies. 1095 01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,400 I know you should spay a new to your dog. 1096 01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,400 That's not my dog. I, I look, I, I had no control 1097 01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:10,920 over that. But what I do though, is that 1098 01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,400 they were looking for people to adopt these puppies. 1099 01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,320 We jumped on it. So in a couple weeks, once 1100 01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:19,600 they're little bit bigger and kind of weaned off the mom, we 1101 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,440 will be going and picking up a puppy. 1102 01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:27,560 So for the challenge, I want you all to find some best pet tech. 1103 01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:30,200 Neon, you have a cat. Matt, you have a dog. 1104 01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,880 I technically will have both in a couple of weeks. 1105 01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:40,800 So find some pet tech, ideally something for me to order for my 1106 01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:42,560 new puppy. That's who wins. 1107 01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:45,880 If you find something that I can order for my new puppy that I'm 1108 01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,800 excited about and can order for, that's who wins. 1109 01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:50,120 That's how we will decide the. Winner. 1110 01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,240 There's something I've been wanting to get for a cat but my 1111 01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:56,360 partner like vetoes it every time. 1112 01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,600 Now you can. You have to do it for your work. 1113 01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:00,280 Yeah, yeah. For your work. 1114 01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,400 I can say it's for the show, Like, Yep, you're letting 1115 01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,200 hundreds and of thousands of people down, Yeah. 1116 01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,920 Yep, hundreds of thousands, yes. Hey, if you'd like to subscribe 1117 01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:13,680 to or not subscribe, if you'd like to sponsor Comfort sound, 1118 01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,920 reach out to John Voorhees. But anyways, so that's the 1119 01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:19,600 challenge for next week. Find some pet tech. 1120 01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:22,520 Ideally, you know, if I wanna, if it's something I end up 1121 01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:26,920 ordering for my puppy, let me you know, that's who wins. 1122 01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:30,800 So, yeah, OK. All right, that brings us to the 1123 01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,000 in the show and I have an in the show question for the two of 1124 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:34,680 you. What I have a question. 1125 01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:38,920 OK, do headphone cushions count as pet tech? 1126 01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:40,840 No. OK. 1127 01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,360 It's got to be something for the animal, not something to keep 1128 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,080 you from the. I mean, I guess if you want to 1129 01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:47,920 give it to them, chew it up I guess. 1130 01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,080 Hopefully it's not toxic. OK. 1131 01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:56,240 Come on, I'm bringing all the hits today. 1132 01:03:57,880 --> 01:03:59,520 Yes, that's. That's all right. 1133 01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:01,680 OK. So I'm going to show question 1134 01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:05,200 for you guys. And what sci-fi or fantasy world 1135 01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:10,440 would you want to live in? OK. 1136 01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,200 Super easy for me, I could answer this right away. 1137 01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,040 Well, what's your answer? What's your answer? 1138 01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:19,720 Lord of the Rings and I want to live in the Shire. 1139 01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:21,680 I want to eat, drink and be merry. 1140 01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:24,080 OK. That's a good one. 1141 01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:27,640 I think you've asked a similar question in the past and I 1142 01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:31,040 responded with Beetlejuice and you were like, no, that doesn't. 1143 01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:35,520 Count that doesn't count. So, Beetlejuice, I'm moving on 1144 01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:41,480 to something a little different. I would like to live in the 1145 01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,480 Galler region. Oh. 1146 01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,560 What is that? This is from Pokémon Sword and 1147 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:52,280 Shield. Interesting you picked Galler. 1148 01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,320 I love that game. I think it's such, I think it's 1149 01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:59,600 just so cozy. It's like a British countryside. 1150 01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,360 It's just, it seems nice. People are happy. 1151 01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,240 The biggest controversies are around Pokémon battles. 1152 01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:08,360 Like I think it'd be a chill place to live for a while. 1153 01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:11,480 And all the Pokémon battles take place in stadiums too. 1154 01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:15,520 Yeah, you just go and watch. So it's a Pokémon? 1155 01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,360 Bite each other. Yep, nothing. 1156 01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:21,960 Nothing problematic there. So it's a Pokémon thing? 1157 01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:26,040 It's a Pokémon thing. Yeah, OK, I know. 1158 01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,520 What about you? I think my answer is also Lord 1159 01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:34,320 of the Rings, and mostly because in that world they bit, they 1160 01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:39,560 were able to beat fascism. And that sounds like a pretty 1161 01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:41,120 good. Place you don't think Aragon 1162 01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,640 would bring a different form of fascism as the king? 1163 01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,600 I don't know. I I don't think I would like to 1164 01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:52,760 live in his Kingdom. Yeah. 1165 01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,000 Feels like too big of a place. It's like so bad. 1166 01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,000 I don't, I don't want to live in the US, you know? 1167 01:05:58,080 --> 01:05:59,880 Too big what? What region would you want to 1168 01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:03,120 live in then? I don't know. 1169 01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:04,560 Would you want to be an elf maiden? 1170 01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,280 A dwarf Lord. The elf, sorry. 1171 01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,320 Oh wow. Damn. 1172 01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:14,800 Through the elves. You want the idea of the Shire 1173 01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:16,360 something. Like that, OK, The Shire, I, you 1174 01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,720 know, like you just see the Shire and it's like, yeah, 1175 01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:20,680 that's where I want to live. Like I want to live in the 1176 01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:24,000 Shire. Yeah, maybe I, I have a Tavern 1177 01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:29,600 like I'm the, I'm the manager of the Tavern in Bree, you know? 1178 01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:31,200 Oh. OK, OK. 1179 01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,440 I manage it. So I don't go everyday there, 1180 01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:36,640 you know? Yeah. 1181 01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:38,880 Isn't Bree technically outside of the Shire? 1182 01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,720 Oh, it is outside, yes. OK, All right. 1183 01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:44,400 It's just. Just like, like Stephen Colbert 1184 01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:46,320 is going to listen to this and he was going to write and be 1185 01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,520 like, well, you said the Shire, but Bree is not technically in 1186 01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,040 the Shire. So OK, I just, I'm just fending 1187 01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:52,840 off the Stephen Colbert feedback. 1188 01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,120 OK, OK all. Right, cool. 1189 01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:58,760 All right, Thank you all so much for listening or watching. 1190 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,960 We have video version on YouTube on the Mac Stories channel if 1191 01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:04,040 you want to check it out. And a huge thank you to Mac 1192 01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:06,240 Stories, we're at Max Stories Podcast. 1193 01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:08,440 Go check out the website, there's all the other writings 1194 01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,920 and podcasts, lots of stuff happening over there. 1195 01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:16,560 Thank you all, have a great day. Oh, bye. 1196 01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,200 What are you guys doing I. Don't know. 1197 01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:22,760 All right, thumbnail.