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Welcome to Comfort Zone, a 
podcast all about pushing your 

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host well outside of their 
comfort zone. 

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I'm Christopher Lawley and each 
week I am joined by two 

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incredible Co hosts and we are 
all back together in our normal 

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spots. 
It's been weeks. 

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Weeks, I say. 
It's been a while. 

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As always, I'm joined by Matt 
Burchler. 

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Matt, how are you? 
I'm I'm good. 

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I also, I don't know if you guys
thought I wouldn't listen to 

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last week's episode, but I 
listened to every second of it 

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and I didn't even need to. 
I could have listened to the 1st

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30 seconds to know that you 
called me a terrible person. 

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Did we do that? 
You did do that. 

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It was almost immediate. 
Whoops. 

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It was like, it's just the two 
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because our third host is doing 
hostile takeovers, destroying 

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lives. 
It was the destroying lives that

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really got me. 
I mean, sure, obviously that's 

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what the business stuff is, but 
we don't need to talk about it. 

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I stand by every word I said. 
I stand by it. 

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We know. 
We know you're secretly Mr. 

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Scrooge and not like Dickens, 
Mr. Scrooge, or Scrooge Mcduck. 

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Like, if only Yeah had silo of 
gold coins to dive into. 

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Anyways, we're also joined by 
Neon. 

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Neon, how are you? 
Hello, I'm fine. 

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That's that's wonderful. 
We have a whole host of tiny 

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topics. 
One thing that I wanted to 

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mention is I have a new 
membership. 

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I started it up a little bit 
before WWDC, but we've had some 

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wild episodes and I haven't had 
a chance to talk about it. 

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This is, if you haven't seen it 
by now, I'm doing this because 

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I'm trying to lessen my reliance
on ads. 

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I don't like the fact that every
single one of my video has a ad 

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in it. 
And it's, you know, the, when I 

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say that, not the YouTube ads, 
it's a long story. 

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You kind of have to have those 
now. 

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But I mean, the this video is 
sponsored by Y or X or whatever,

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not X, the Twitter client. 
I was trying to avoid saying 

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that I would never take money 
from them. 

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Anyways, I have a whole new 
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There's a bunch of details on it
in there, but basically it's a 

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way where you all can get a 
little bit more on the YouTube 

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side of things for my business. 
Plus I am working on some apps 

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and you're going to get access 
to the apps, Wallpapers and a 

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weekly newsletter. 
So anyways, yeah, I have AI have

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a new membership in if you'd 
like to go check it out I'd 

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appreciate it. 
Well done, I think the 

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Wallpapers alone are worth it. 
Thank you. 

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Thank you. 
Yes, Every wallpaper I've ever 

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released is on the Patriot and 
basically going for I need to 

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shut my old wallpaper store 
down, but going forward, that's 

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just where I'm going to do 
Wallpapers. 

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If you're a member, you just get
up because it makes things 

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easier. 
Can we as members, if we 

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subscribe, can we request 
Wallpapers? 

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Yes, but if you request a 
dynamic wallpaper you will be 

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banned. 
There's nothing Neil Young likes

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more than requesting wallpaper. 
I I I I just, I I cannot see 

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myself standing in the same spot
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every hour to make a dynamic 
wallpaper like I, I just, I 

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don't I. 
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made, but I don't understand how
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other way. 
Maybe they're just all AI. 

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Well, we'll. 
This will be a topic at the 

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shareholder meeting. 
OK, all right. 

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Wait, what? 
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Well, anyway, so that's there. 
I'd love it if you all checked 

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it out. 
I'd appreciate it. 

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There's a whole host of things. 
There's a bunch of reasons why 

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I'm doing it and they're all on 
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OK well I have joined and it's 
nice and it was cool seeing your

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WWC video early before you 
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It was cool. 
Thank you and I will have other 

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videos out early on the Patreon.
I've had some family stuff 

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happen that I will get into. 
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it, but like I've had some 
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that are the last 3-4 weeks. 
I'm like like that. 

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I don't even know. 
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putting out a ton of videos 
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Yeah, yeah, totally 
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Another topic for the 
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
You guys know? 

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What's happening is coming out. 
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All right. 
So who owes an apology to who I 

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I see. 
This I owe an apology to Noya 

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Cast. 
OK, Noya Cast is a podcast 

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player for iOS that I mentioned 
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Probably like in the 1st few 
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was very a long a long time ago 
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it's a podcast player and it 
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And I remember on the show. 
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an apology to this, to the 
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We we, we were marking the now 
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this, if you can see on my 
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But basically to describe it, 
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It's just big font with the 
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Yeah. 
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I remember on the show we were 
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that is. 
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So yeah, I know I'm. 
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because we we had just got out 
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Zone artwork. 
Yes, I know, I know, but hear me

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out. 
I think I kind of love this app 

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now. 
I think I like it. 

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I really like it because the UI 
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small things, but it feels 
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I kind of wish there was an 
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instead of the big font episode 
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I was still wish that was a 
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choice that they made, the 
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That being said, I think this 
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It's got chapter support. 
I'm showcasing it with ATP right

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here. 
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description is being weird for 
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like links are working 
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are not showing up. 
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the conference show notes, the 
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So something's being read. 
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e-mail. 
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And the main view is like it's 
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with just the latest episodes, 
which is something I just, I 

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just want out of a podcast app. 
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You can search for episodes, of 
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settings that you can tweak and 
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I don't even pay. 
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I'm I'm using the app for free. 
I don't even need to pay for 

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anything. 
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point if you install it on the 
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well. 
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the mouse on a on a Mac. 
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doesn't look mouse friendly, but
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So there you go. 
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noticing is that mentioning is 
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There's no cloud sync, so if you
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But the way I'm using it, it's 
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OPML file with all my podcasts 
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So there you go. 
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I think I really like this app 
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All right. 
Justice for Newcast. 

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New. 
Noya cast. 

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I can't get past the no artwork 
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Can't get past that. 
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the whole no artwork thing I I 
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making a choice for a lot of 
podcasters that basically no 

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podcaster would agree with. 
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most places, like when you go on
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artwork is there. 
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No, you can't, but it's there. 
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And it's on the lock screen. 
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iPhone lock screen. 
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So they have it, they just 
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Could that That's right. 
You know, that's why there's a 

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bunch of podcast apps and you 
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shows the artwork. 
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requirement, you have so many 
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Anyway, I have something else to
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OK, so apologies to Norikas, 
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Something else I want to mention
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Baby. 
The new season of Jet Lag is 

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amazing. 
So good Chris is still hating on

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it. 
He refuses to watch it. 

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Chris is hating on it. 
I just haven't had time. 

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It's an America season. 
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America. 
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little public transport. 
It's planes and cars, baby. 

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Yeah, that's what I was. 
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That's why I wanted to mention 
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it's been a few seasons already 
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it's in America and it's so 
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It like it's a, it's like it's a
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even more than usual because 
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like in Europe, there's even 
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happening all in France for the 
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So I recognize all the place. 
I recognize the trains it, it's 

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familiar. 
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the US is like everything feels 
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Like everything looks insane to 
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The, the, the fact that they 
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anywhere is fascinating to me. 
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spending everyday to make that 
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they're visiting, some of them 
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I don't know we even know why a 
Coca-Cola painting is a 

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landmark, but it. 
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Yes, a museum, you know, you 
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museums in Texas, right? 
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Oh boy, I'm actually going to be
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week, so I could just. 
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you're there. 
Oh, I don't. 

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I don't want to die. 
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Chris, you you should watch it. 
I don't think that I have 

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effectively communicated the 
obsession that that Jed lag has 

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caused in me. 
I have seen all 2020 seasons, 18

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seasons. 
They're up to nearly 20 seasons.

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I've seen them all twice. 
It is must must see viewing 

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every Wednesday when a new 
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And if you're not watching a 
nebula you're you're a week 

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behind. 
So yeah, interesting. 

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Highly recommend that. 
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something I can get Danielle 
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I am curious because they're 
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Is anyone trying to do a 
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That I've seen yet. 
Not yet, but this. 

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Is but there's a challenge, they
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every state to claim that state.
And so it could be that it comes

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up later. 
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Right. 
Well, you don't have to watch 

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Jeff. 
He really doesn't want to watch 

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Deadlag. 
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This guy. 
I think he hates the US is the 

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conclusion I'm reaching. 
I think he does. 

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I think it's the cars he doesn't
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There might be a Ford car and 
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actually doesn't like Ford. 
He doesn't like Doctor Pepper. 

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Yeah, So every this is staying 
in Chris when you're editing 

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this so. 
Yeah, Editor Chris, this this 

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all stays in. 
Yeah, I have some Riverside 

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alternatives that I am ready to 
look into. 

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I am really sick of Riverside. 
I'm up for it to to switch. 

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Yeah, I, I, I got to do some 
research when I have time. 

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Right now I don't have time. 
But anyways, let's get back to 

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the show. 
Yeah, OK, we, we, we smoothly 

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went on and finished that topic.
So no, no worries. 

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Yeah, we said technically easy 
for you, I said. 

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You're you're a great person 
and. 

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Interesting. 
He's drinking a Doctor Pepper 

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that doesn't align with what we 
just said. 

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No, that's when OK. 
Well, it is still 8:00 in the 

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morning. 
I can't go to the other stuff 

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yet. 
All right, one more thing. 

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I have the browser podcast baby.
It's. 

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Microsoft, it's wrong. 
Need me for any of this episode?

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Yes, maybe not, I don't know. 
Yes, the browser podcast, 

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because there's one bit of news 
I wanted to mention because I 

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found it's very funny. 
It's so basically the bit of 

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news is some guy at Microsoft 
who who was the guys? 

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I don't know, some guy at 
Microsoft, he went, went on 

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publicly and said that he got 
Blink to a Blink browser to run 

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on iOS, right, using what Apple 
has put in place for compliance 

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with the DMA in the EU, where 
alternative browser engines are 

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allowed to run in the EU on iOS.
And basically the results, like 

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he made a bunch of speed tests, 
benchmarks, whatever the results

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is, it's massively faster than 
Safari in every way is the 

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conclusion, which is very funny,
very interesting. 

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Nobody could have expected that.
So yes, what's the number again?

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Yeah, up to 30% more performance
on iOS when he tried Blink on 

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iOS compared to Safari. 
So there you go. 

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The bit of news is Microsoft is 
maybe the saviour. 

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We're waiting. 
We're waiting for Microsoft will

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save us from this monopoly. 
What's happening here? 

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Thank you Microsoft. 
Yeah, you are the protector 

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against monopolies is what you 
are. 

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I know. 
Where we need and always have 

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that. 
Yes, and I've never been one 

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yourself. 
No, absolutely not. 

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Well, I would love to see this. 
That's very cool. 

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You said Blink, and I like my 
brain broke for a second because

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we always say Chromium, but 
Blink is the engine. 

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Chromium is kind of app. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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Exactly. 
Blink is the engine behind 

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Chrome. 
It's. 

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Their web kit, Yeah, OK, well, 
cool. 

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OK. 
I have one tiny topic as well 

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and I just wanted to say a a 
very a very fond farewell to a 

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friend. 
Tangerine UI. 

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You were not long for this 
world, but you were the best way

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to use Mastodon. 
Oh, what happened? 

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Oh yeah. 
The creator abandoned their 

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project. 
No one is getting refunds. 

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Wow. 
Yes, as we're recording this 

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morning, I announced that I will
stop maintaining Tangerine UI 

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for multiple reasons. 
Because it's Long story short, 

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it's become a bit hard to 
maintain with every release of 

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Mastodon, leading things to be 
repaired and adapted to new 

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features. 
Because Mastodon, they're on the

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pace, they're adding new stuff 
rapidly and quicker than ever, 

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but I don't have that time to 
keep up. 

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Time and energy to keep up. 
So and also in the post where 

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and announced this, I said, you 
know what, Mastodon has come a 

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long way. 
Mastodon has come a long way. 

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The default UI still looks too 
sterile, but it's come a long 

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way. 
I think it's it's pretty great 

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compared to how it was in 2023 
when I started Tangerine UI. 

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And I hear through the 
grapevines that it will get much

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better. 
Ah, Mastodon's web UI will get 

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much better. 
So I feel good leaving it 

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behind. 
And I recommend as an 

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alternative for people who loved
Tangerine UI, check out Fem P. 

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I've talked about Fem P many 
times. 

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Still great. 
I still use it a lot. 

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There you go. 
Nice, well, and one for the 

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homies. 
I would pour something out, but 

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I, I don't waste Doctor Pepper 
and that's all I have around me.

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So you know, at my funeral I 
everyone's going to need to do a

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21 Doctor Pepper salute and 
shotgun them. 

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Right. 
I'll be busy that day. 

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I'm so sorry. 
It's probably next week. 

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Anyways, this week on Cozy Zone 
we roasted New Leon's new setup.

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She moved and we, we, we, we, we
pinched and zoomed, we went into

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some details. 
So for those that aren't aware, 

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Cozy zone is our members only 
show where you get an extra 

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episode of us every single week.
It's, it's a great deal. 

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It's 5 bucks a month. 
Like 5 bucks is nothing. 

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I, I, I spent, I spent more than
5 bucks on like silly things 

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this week. 
I'd rather spend 5 bucks on me. 

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You spend you spend multiples of
5 bucks on codecs probably. 

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Yes, yes, I did. 
Actually, Yes, I did save it for

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next week when I have a topic. 
But yeah, I spent a lot of money

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on codecs this week. 
Yeah. 

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Anyways, let's get into the main
show. 

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We don't need to worry about my 
my codecs. 

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Bill, nearly on your first up in
the document. 

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What, what? 
What reasonable topic do you 

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have for us this week? 
A full window management reset 

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on my Mac. 
Tell me what to install. 

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Do you really need for this one?
Tell me what front matter I need

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to update. 
Give me the YAML, I'm ready. 

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So you're not ready for no, 
you're actually not ready for 

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this matter. 
It's just gonna be stage 

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manager. 
No, no, no, hell no. 

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Not touching that thing again 
ever again. 

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No, you don't have to install 
Apple because what I've done is 

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uninstall a bunch of things. 
I have uninstalled moon, 

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uninstalled Rectangle Bento box,
basically most of the window 

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management utilities apart from 
beta touch tool that I've 

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mentioned on this show. 
Since it started, I've 

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uninstalled only kept better 
touch tool because I use it for 

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so many things and reason why is
a unexpected trigger. 

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Let's say. 
So just like we mentioned, we 

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talked on the on Cozy Zone that 
I have a new desk set up with a 

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much bigger desk as a result, 
much, much more efficient use of

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the space. 
My 30 inch monitor is further 

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away from me. 
My MacBook Pros screen, I'm 

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using it as a second display on 
the side on the stand. 

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It's also a bit further away 
from me than you used to be on 

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the my older desk. 
And So what I did is I increased

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the size I blow up. 
I blew up everything. 

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Like the size of everything. 
I so I, I actually lowered the 

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resolution like the scaled 
resolution on Mac OS for both my

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monitor and the built in display
some context and I know this 

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this will get maybe too nerdy. 
I don't know how much people 

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care about this but there you 
go. 

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My 30 inch monitor it's native 
resolution like the full 

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resolution right is 3840 by 
2560. 

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OK, so it's 4K. 
It's a 4K but three by. 

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Two, basically, yes. 
Oh, that's weird. 

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OK, Yeah. 
Yeah. 

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That's OK. 
It's like IMAX. 

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Three by two. 
Yeah, that, that is. 

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Yeah, that is like IMAX. 
Is it IMAX? 

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This is the true way to watch 
the Odyssey there. 

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You go. 
My monitor is an IMAX monitor is

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what I'm saying. 
If you sit close enough to it. 

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Yeah, yeah, there you go. 
So there, yes, that's the native

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resolution and I was using it 
at. 

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So I scaled down resolution in 
one one of the settings I can 

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choose in Mac OS at 200. 
No, what what was it 2560 by 17 

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O 70 God, that's that's we had. 
Like you say, 14-40, but OK, all

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right, we had. 
That's 1440P, but yeah, yeah, 

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yeah. 
Focus on the width. 

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Focus on the yeah, yeah. 
Yeah, focus on the width. 

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So yes, 2560 is the width. 
So a kind of a weird scaling 

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factor. 
And people are always very. 

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Don't. 
Bring it up, it's a cold. 

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Probably it's people being very 
harsh about which resolution you

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choose for your forecast 
display. 

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If you're not pixel doubling and
it's totally retinal, you're 

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going to get roasted and one of 
those people is on the call. 

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Matt, your Matt, your monitor is
that you have the same panel I 

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have. 
You use it at the native default

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resolution. 
That UI is massive. 

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Like you could have glaucoma and
still read that stuff without 

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any correction like that. 
That UI is huge. 

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You have to change it. 
We have to I've. 

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Got lasix 2020 vision too I'm I 
can see everything crystal clear

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that. 
That that that. 

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That doesn't make any sense. 
I think we're leading up to 

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Neilion saying she's doing that 
too though. 

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Yes, that's what I'm. 
Oh my. 

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God. 
I what is wrong with my Co host?

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So now I have chosen to set it 
to 1920 is the width that I've 

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chosen. 
So supposedly it like it's a 

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perfect multiplier of fact. 
Like yeah, perfect scaling from 

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the native resolution. 
So what? 

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What can you have like 1 window 
open and that's your whole 

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window management? 
I have one Finder window open at

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a time. 
And that is my new window 

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management. 
Not just but almost. 

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Oh my God. 
She gets a full screen sticky 

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and that's that's where that's 
where she can do any writing. 

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Is a full screen sticky on a 30 
inch monitor but the way Nolan 

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intended? 
But you're getting close to 

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what's happening, so. 
Oh God. 

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I have much less room than I 
used to have, but you know what 

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I think? 
I think I really like it. 

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Everything's bigger and it's so 
much more comfortable to read 

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stuff. 
It probably looks so crisp too 

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like like it does. 
I had no idea my monitor was so 

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crisp, like for real. 
Yeah. 

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Text is crisp like I didn't, I 
didn't know my monitor could do 

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that. 
I thought you know. 

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Oh my gosh. 
It's very crisp. 

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I support this 100%. 
Look, grandma mode for your 

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monitor is that's that's the way
to go. 

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Oh, my guess. 
That's it. 

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As somebody that went from a 
studio display and used it at 

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the native resolution of the 
studio display to a 32 inch 4K 

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using it at 4K so 3820 by 21. 
2160, yeah. 

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It's fine. 
It's fine, yes. 

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It's not quite as sharp as 
proper retina, but it's fine. 

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Oh, it's fine, it works. 
And you know what? 

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I can have multiple windows open
at the same time. 

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Oh, what a luxury. 
Not, not necessary. 

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But you know, now like it's 
difficult for me because I don't

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think I want, I want like I wish
I had more room. 

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But the trade off I, I don't 
know if I can make it like it. 

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It feels I have a like I have a 
new monitor because even though 

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that monitor is 4 years old 
which is very weird. 

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I'll tell you what here, here's 
the defense. 

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Here's one of the reasons I did 
it years ago when I was 

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designing stuff, I would design 
it on a desktop display that was

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much bigger than the laptop 
screen most people were using. 

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And I'd like open it on a laptop
and I'd be like, oh, that's 

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huge. 
But when you're it's huge here, 

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then you just, you're basically 
designing for laptop users and 

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iPad users as well. 
You know what? 

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That's, that's very true, yeah. 
Chris is ears perked up. 

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No. 
No. 

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Nope. 
He's I don't buy this defense at

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all. 
I don't buy it. 

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So we come to this. 
We come back to the topic of how

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do I deal with the with windows 
now? 

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And the way I'm dealing with the
windows now is I'm just using 

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the default Mac OS tiling stuff 
where you drag and drop to your 

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window, to the menu bar, left, 
right, or each of the four 

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corners, and it just tiles in 
place. 

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I think this works really well 
because why did I use Moon 

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before I used Moon? 
Because I had so many snap 

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targets that I had set up myself
with custom key binds and 

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special regions on screen to 
trigger them etcetera. 

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I don't have the room to use 
like it makes no sense to be 

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able to control windows so in in
such a granular way. 

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Now with this resolution Now 
basically I just need I just, I 

452
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,440
need only to do three things 
with windows. 

453
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:11,400
I have a full screen them or put
them on either half and that's 

454
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,400
it. 
Sometimes I will put one in 1/4 

455
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:19,920
but I do that occasionally and 
most I have the Macbooks display

456
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,920
on the side where I can also 
full screen stuff there and put 

457
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,840
2 apps side by side there. 
So this, there you go. 

458
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,480
This is quite literally you were
maybe expecting. 

459
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,160
I found a new utility but quite 
literally a window management 

460
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,080
reset because I don't need 
anything now. 

461
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,320
I'm just starting windows like 
this. 

462
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:47,680
It's been a week and it's great.
One more thing, I find myself 

463
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,280
using full like actual full 
screen windows more with this 

464
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,000
setup, especially on the second 
screen on the MacBook screen, 

465
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,720
because it just makes sense to 
be able to return the trackpad 

466
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,360
and swipe between the apps that 
I've docked there. 

467
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,360
So I recommend trying that. 
If you have a laptop on the side

468
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:10,840
that using as a as a second 
display, try the full screen 

469
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,200
stuff there that you know you 
will have to, you will want to 

470
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,720
keep there the apps that you 
want to keep there. 

471
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:25,480
For example, for me, it's always
my Mail mainstream Swinson and 

472
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,720
Messages always keep those 3 
apps on the laptop's display. 

473
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,640
Now all three are full screened 
and I just, I just reach over 

474
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,360
with the track and swipe with 
the trackpad to switch between 

475
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,720
them. 
It's actually really nice. 

476
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:48,240
Yeah, and you know, I too, 
Chris, I, I was, I had no idea. 

477
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,160
I think like the scaling factor.
Who freaking cares? 

478
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,040
I can't. 
I can scale to that number. 

479
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,600
I want that number. 
I will choose that number. 

480
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,760
But turns out there is a 
superior one. 

481
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,920
There is a superior scaling 
factor that you that you should 

482
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,280
choose because it's crisper. 
It's crisper. 

483
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,720
It it is a little crisper. 
It is it is hard to get used to.

484
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,000
And I will say I've I've been 
doing 4K monitors for many years

485
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,680
and my last one was a 27 inch. 
And so when I went to a 32 inch,

486
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,880
I was like, OK, it's a 2X scale.
So we'll do 1080P upscale to 4K.

487
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,960
And the first time I saw it, I 
laughed out loud because it is a

488
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,440
little, it is a little funny how
it is, but you get used to it. 

489
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,560
You get used to whatever. 
That's that's how it goes. 

490
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,760
I I will say I did try to get 
used to it and I couldn't 

491
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,600
because I felt, but especially 
going from the studio display to

492
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,000
this, I felt like yes I'm going 
from a 27 inch to a 32 inch 

493
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,120
monitor. 
But now I am able to have less 

494
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,120
stuff on the screen because of 
this. 

495
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,480
And that was the thing that I 
was like I just, I couldn't get 

496
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,400
used to is I have less, less 
space. 

497
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:01,000
And the big reason why I wanted 
a 32 inch monitor is I wanted 

498
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,120
more space to spread out because
I use big apps like Final Cut 

499
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,640
and Lightroom and Photoshop and 
stuff like that where they 

500
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,600
benefit from having the most 
amount of space you could 

501
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,800
possibly want. 100%, yeah. 
Yeah, for sure. 

502
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,920
That makes sense. 
If I was like a, if I was just 

503
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,480
like a writer or something like 
that, I think I would probably 

504
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:27,240
pick this, the scales option, 
the default option, but because 

505
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:32,640
like I wouldn't, I wouldn't 
necessarily need the extra 

506
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,120
monitor space. 
Like 'cause like when I'm 

507
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,560
writing in my text editor, I 
don't use, I don't, I don't make

508
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,200
Obsidian full screen. 
I I usually I Obsidian for me 

509
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,160
usually takes up about 1/3 of 
the screen and I center Yeah. 

510
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:52,920
So yeah, I almost want to run it
at 5:40 P and so it's a 4X pixel

511
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,280
scale. 
Oh my God, how? 

512
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,400
Crisp would that be? 
You'd get one icon, not even a 

513
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,160
window. 
You would just get an icon. 

514
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,040
Those people complaining about 
Mac not being touch friendly 

515
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:05,760
will have nothing to say then. 
Yeah. 

516
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,560
Oh yeah, big touch targets. 
Be able to slap the close button

517
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,000
on a window. 
OK. 

518
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,600
Slightly related because they've
made Mac OS more touch for no, 

519
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,520
but it's just. 
Not touch friendly. 

520
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,320
It's not happening, Chris. 
Sorry, he triggered me. 

521
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,680
He triggered it's. 
Literally it's literally like 

522
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:31,520
all over Golden Gate, but OK, 
because so but this is OK. 

523
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,760
No, it's just for sidecar. 
Nevermind. 

524
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,880
OK, so my I was having this like
brain idea, but I just walked it

525
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,440
through my head and I realized 
it's not not it, but I was like,

526
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,400
what happens if you get one of 
those external monitors that's 

527
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,840
also a touch screen and hooked 
it up to Mac OS Golden Gate. 

528
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,000
Now what? 
How well would that work? 

529
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,720
But I just realized it was it 
was the the update was related 

530
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,360
to Sidecar and I'm guessing 
there's probably going to be 

531
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,800
another update to Golden Gate 
that makes it like now it's 

532
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,960
truly like touch screen 
friendly. 

533
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,040
I suspect, yeah, there's 
probably some device query that 

534
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:10,880
it won't enable it on any 
existing Mac, of course. 

535
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,440
Although I got to say, we 
already thought that Mac was 

536
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,520
going to be expensive. 
And now Tim Cook, his art has 

537
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,520
said, yeah, prices are going to 
go up. 

538
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:22,120
Yeah, I'm very worried. 
I'm, I, I'm going to try very 

539
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,440
hard to get a review unit of 
that one because I, I don't know

540
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,200
if my bank account is going to 
be able to handle that. 

541
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,560
See if they'll give you 2 or 3. 
Yeah, I'll, I'll just be like, 

542
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,600
look guys, it's not for my 
podcast Co host. 

543
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,520
I need three of them because I 
have 3 different desks in this 

544
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,520
office and it's a laptop. 
I obviously can't pick it up and

545
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,920
move it to another desk, but 
also I need you to send two of 

546
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,880
these other ones to these 
different addresses. 

547
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,840
Don't worry. 
I know it says Illinois and and 

548
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,560
France. 
Just just don't worry. 

549
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,080
I I'm going to be the one using 
them. 

550
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,400
To France, that's all we know, 
that's all that's that's as 

551
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,600
details we can get. 
That's just I'm not, I'm not 

552
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,200
giving. 
Yeah, yeah, exactly. 

553
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,720
The the carrier pigeons. 
We'll figure it out. 

554
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,880
Yeah, well, Neil Leon, I think 
this is actually a classic topic

555
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,040
for you because it is it. 
It reminds me of stickies. 

556
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,960
Here's my system. 
Nothing. 

557
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,760
And then next week it'll be 
completely different. 

558
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,760
You know you got to, you know 
you build, bring it all down. 

559
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,200
I don't think so. 
Should we take AI think? 

560
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,960
I think that what's more likely 
is that I may install some 

561
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,680
utilities again, but I don't 
think I'm coming back from the 

562
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,560
resolution thing. 
OK, OK. 

563
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,280
See, I was thinking that I was. 
I was making a blanket statement

564
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,600
that something would change in 
the window management. 

565
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:51,120
Yeah, that's obviously we're not
monsters. 

566
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,080
No, I love this. 
All right. 

567
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,960
Anything else on this or should 
we move on to Matt's? 

568
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,840
I want to talk about Matt's. 
Matt's big chunker. 

569
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,520
All right, All right, Matt, what
do you, what do you got for us 

570
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,800
this week? 
Yeah, I have a big shonker. 

571
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:11,320
This is Key Cron's new. 
Not a keyboard, not a mouse. 

572
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,199
It's them expanding into even 
more products. 

573
00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:17,800
It is their new Thunderbolt 5 
dock, which, if I can be 

574
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:24,920
completely transparent, I get a 
lot of review pitches from just 

575
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:27,600
the worst products you've ever 
seen. 

576
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,040
Every once in a while you get 
something decent and every once 

577
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,480
in a while you get 1 from a 
company that is just easy to 

578
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,520
work with. 
Keycron has been very good to 

579
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,679
work with on reviews. 
They're just like, hey, do you 

580
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,280
want this? 
And there's like no contracts, 

581
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,320
no anything. 
It's very simple, no 

582
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,280
expectations, no reviews, all 
that good stuff. 

583
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,400
But this is also a product that 
I've been thinking about for a 

584
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,480
while now because Thunderbolt 
5's been around and there's 

585
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,000
these new docks coming out and 
I've got a Thunderbolt 4 dock 

586
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,520
that's fine. 
But you know, the new stuff is 

587
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,080
always interesting. 
So, but it couldn't. 

588
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,080
Be shiny you. 
You need you. 

589
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:11,880
You need shiny things. 
Yeah, I do. 

590
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,480
I get it like I I get it you 
need shiny toys. 

591
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,560
Yeah, I do like shiny toys and 
but I couldn't pull the trigger 

592
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,120
'cause I was like, my current 
talk works fine, what am I 

593
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,360
doing? 
I'm not going to spend $500 on 

594
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,760
the TS Plus or whatever. 
TS-5 Plus and Cal Digit. 

595
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,880
So I didn't do anything, but 
then they're like, hey, would 

596
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,360
you like a review unit? 
And I said yes. 

597
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,280
So disclosure's out of the way, 
I suppose. 

598
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,040
So I've been using it for a few 
weeks. 

599
00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:44,880
It just came out last week as 
you're hearing this and it's a, 

600
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,240
it's a Thunderbolt talk. 
Here's what I'll say. 

601
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,960
It's totally fine. 
It works perfectly. 

602
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,240
I've only had it for two weeks 
so I can't speak to long term 

603
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:57,080
reliability, but I plugged it 
in, everything worked. 

604
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:03,120
There's not much more I can ask 
from a Thunderbolt doc so I will

605
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,640
not read through all the specs, 
but this is a 14 and one. 

606
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,800
These docs are usually like how 
many inputs and outputs? 

607
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,520
Do they have 14? 
And one, it's 14 and one, but 

608
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,080
the thing you always have to 
look at with these docs is what 

609
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,920
are the 14? 
What have they chosen to be the 

610
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:29,280
14 things that they use? 
And key crons is interesting. 

611
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,160
It's a little bit. 
It seems like a dock made for 

612
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:42,320
people with both new and older 
tech as well as Windows users. 

613
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:50,240
Two of the 14 are HDMI ports, 
which is for my use case. 

614
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,880
This is a 12 in one. 
Yeah, because I'm not going to 

615
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,720
be using those. 
It has outside of the Oh also 

616
00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,160
they whenever they do these 
counts, they count the 

617
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,160
Thunderbolt cable that goes to 
your computer. 

618
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,960
I don't understand. 
I don't understand that that 

619
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,800
port does not count as 
expansion. 

620
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,080
It does not count, so I don't 
count it. 

621
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,240
So this is a 13 in one. 
If you take out the HDMI's, it's

622
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:21,960
an 11 in one and there's also a 
micro SD slot and headphone Jack

623
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,280
here that I also don't use, so 
I'm dropping those. 

624
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,640
It has two Thunderbolt 5 ports 
full speed and that's it. 

625
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,440
So it's only giving you 2 
Thunderbolt 5 ports, It's giving

626
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,800
you a USBC port and that's it. 
So basically if like USBC plugs 

627
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,920
is what you're looking for, 
there's only three that gives 

628
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:45,040
you, which ironically is the 
same number that my old dock, my

629
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,400
OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock had. 
So I got no more of those and it

630
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:56,040
has four USBAS which I have 
filled all but one of and it has

631
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,840
HDMI and Ethernet 2.5 gigabits, 
so all that stuff. 

632
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,240
And it has an SD card slot, 
which is nice because with the 

633
00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:08,520
way my computer is in my desk, I
don't have access to it. 

634
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,160
So it's nice to just have it in 
the dock. 

635
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,280
Here's the thing, and it, it's a
thing that I keep thinking 

636
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,480
about, which is that our 
computers are too damn fast. 

637
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,560
Like, I know, I know. 
We'll look back and be like, oh,

638
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,360
Can you believe in 2026 we only 
had 120 gigabits per second 

639
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:33,360
through our Thunderbolt cables. 
But that is a lot. 

640
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,960
So I wanted to kind of talk 
about how this compares to my 

641
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,760
Thunderbolt 4 dock because 
there's been Thunderbolt 4 docks

642
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,360
for a long time. 
I feel like Thunderbolt 4 was 

643
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:49,360
like the point where those docs 
got like really, really good and

644
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,840
like reliable and very 
mainstream and you could buy a 

645
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:57,440
billion of them. 
So the Max bandwidth, which is 

646
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,440
like the highlight feature of 
Thunderbolt on Thunderbolt 4 was

647
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,360
40 gigabits per second. 
On Thunderbolt 5, it's 5th or 

648
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,160
it's it's double, it's 80 with a
boost mode up to 120 in One 

649
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,680
Direction. 
So three times quicker 

650
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:16,520
potentially for monitors, Chris,
for our monitors, this is 

651
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,840
relevant, which is probably why 
you were able to run yours at 

652
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,440
240 Hertz. 
Thunderbolt 4 did not have the 

653
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:26,160
bandwidth to run a 4K monitor 
past 144 Hertz because it is too

654
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,920
much data. 
We'll get into that later. 

655
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,880
It's actually a shocking amount 
of data it takes to run the 

656
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,240
monitor. 
I actually use the display port,

657
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:40,720
K port and cable off the monitor
and plug it because I have the 

658
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:45,200
Kal Digit TS-5 plus and that has
display port on that which 

659
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,760
supports 4K at 240 Hertz. 
So I don't actually. 

660
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,280
I saved myself a Thunderbolt 
port by switching to this 

661
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,720
monitor. 
You did, but you are using It's 

662
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:57,280
all going over that one 
Thunderbolt cable. 

663
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,400
Yes, Yeah, you need, you need, 
you need the. 

664
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,920
There is, there is a, there is a
catch, yes. 

665
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,600
So anyway, so that made it so 
that I could that is actually 

666
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,640
literally I wanted to say that 
is literally the only change in 

667
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,560
my experience is that now I can 
run my Mac. 

668
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,400
My Windows computer has always 
been able to run a 240 Hertz 4K.

669
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,720
Now my Mac can as well. 
And can I see the extra frames? 

670
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,880
No, once you get past 120. 
I can't tell the difference 

671
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,840
personally but. 
Go going from 60 Hertz to 240 

672
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,600
Hertz was wild, I will say that.
Yeah. 

673
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,800
Oh yeah, 60 feels insane once 
you get. 

674
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,680
Into Yeah, there is, There is a 
There's good reasons why I sold 

675
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,880
the studio display. 
Yeah and then banned or the 

676
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,720
other ones are whatever the 
other one is power delivery. 

677
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:47,320
So my old Thunderbolt dock did 
100. 

678
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,200
I think Thunderbolt 4 was capped
at 100 watts of power delivery. 

679
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,840
This Thunderbolt 5 can 
technically do 250 by the spec, 

680
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,160
but I have not found any docs 
that do this. 

681
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,200
The key Cron, the Cal digit 
ones, they do 140, which for us 

682
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:06,840
Mac users is fine because the 16
inch MacBook Pro caps out at 

683
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,040
1:40 as well. 
But my 14 inch only caps out at 

684
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,440
100. 
So I get nothing or I think mine

685
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,240
caps out at 90 maybe so anyway, 
I get no benefit there. 

686
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,320
So would I have spent this 
money? 

687
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,200
No probably not. 
Is it a fine dock? 

688
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:28,160
Yeah. 
But but yeah, I wanted to talk 

689
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,960
about some real world speeds to 
get an idea, because Thunderbolt

690
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:39,680
5 gets you 80 gigabits of 
bandwidth bi directional and how

691
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:41,040
what does that actually work out
to? 

692
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,120
Well, if you have a Thunderbolt 
T7 SSD, that's about 8 gigabits 

693
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,840
per second. 
So you that is 20% of the 

694
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,360
capacity of Thunderbolt, 410% of
the capacity of Thunderbolt 5. 

695
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:58,280
You're nowhere near if you have 
an NVME drive, the fastest NVME 

696
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,880
you can buy today in like an 
enclosure, 16 gigabits per 

697
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,000
second, so faster, but you're 
still not capping out either of 

698
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,640
them. 
But displays, displays got me 

699
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,360
going down a rabbit hole because
I was wondering about this. 

700
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,080
I was like, all this other stuff
is like nowhere near maxing out 

701
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,080
the bandwidth. 
So like, what's my display 

702
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,400
doing? 
Why is it like? 

703
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,560
Why is why? 
Why is it a thing? 

704
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,120
And I learned that if you are 
sending uncompressed video over 

705
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:33,360
whatever cable it is, so much 
bandwidth it is 4K240 Hertz 

706
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,040
uncompressed is going to be 
about 60 gigabits per second of 

707
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:45,680
bandwidth constantly. 
Which is why Thunderbolt 4 can't

708
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,760
do it. 
Thunderbolt 5 can. 

709
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,160
I have also learned that once 
you get past 60 Hertz, in most 

710
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,400
situations, pretty much every 
consumer product, you're going 

711
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,920
to get compressed, which is 
there's this thing called 

712
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,760
display stream compression, 
which compresses the video 

713
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:06,960
signal in the signal it sends to
the monitor and that reduces it 

714
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,920
quite a bit. 
So that gets it down to like 18 

715
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:13,120
gigabits per second, but that's 
18 gigabits constantly feeding 

716
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,840
through the cable. 
And so if you do some quick 

717
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,080
math, Thunderbolt 440 gigabits 
per second, even if it was doing

718
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,400
that, half of your bandwidth is 
constantly being used. 

719
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,200
So that's how you kind of get 
them to these limits. 

720
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,080
So if you're someone using a 
high refresh rate, high 

721
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,640
resolution display and you're 
transferring data and you're 

722
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,720
doing like Ethernet, like 
Internet over the Ethernet 

723
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:36,640
cable, if you're saturating 
these pores, you can get there. 

724
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,200
I don't know if I do, but it was
really interesting to see like, 

725
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,920
Oh yeah, it's kind of a lot of 
bandwidth that you're sending 

726
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:49,280
over. 
And I can kind of see why on 

727
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,760
these lower end computers it's 
hard to drive more than one 

728
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,880
display. 
You should, but yeah, it's so 

729
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,240
much data. 
It makes you realize how much 

730
00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:07,200
power it, it is drawing as well 
right from the wall because I, 

731
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:12,120
I, I don't know if you guys have
that in the US, but I like, I 

732
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:16,160
think it's an EU thing. 
Now all tech products have like 

733
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:22,520
an eco score or whatever where 
it tells you how much like how 

734
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:28,320
energy efficient it is. 
And displays are all pretty bad.

735
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,480
Like the rate. 
So it's a ABCDFG and they all 

736
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:38,640
rate like DE. 
Some are G If you if you look 

737
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,680
especially at the high refresh 
rate displays, they they're all 

738
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,560
down there in the red. 
Yeah. 

739
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,600
Oh, yeah, We don't. 
We don't have exactly that. 

740
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,800
We have this thing called Energy
Star, which is on a lot of tech 

741
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,600
products. 
A lot of TV's have this, 

742
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,480
although it's kind of a funny 
system that I don't know if 

743
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,200
they've updated it since. 
But like when I used to work at 

744
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,760
Target and Sell, I worked in 
electronics and sold TV's, but 

745
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:03,200
they hadn't updated the numbers 
for like LCDTVS, which were like

746
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,440
way lower energy than the CRTS 
of before. 

747
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,640
It's like every TV said it was 
like way. 

748
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,480
It was like a plus plus in terms
of moving usage even if didn't 

749
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,600
make any difference. 
Yeah. 

750
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,120
I mean, I do think there is 
something in here about the 

751
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,800
quiet ways that we use a lot of 
energy in our life that don't 

752
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,160
get headlines. 
But for what it's worth, I 

753
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,320
actually did think about that. 
I was like, why am I wasting 

754
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:28,520
these frames? 
So I am actually running my 

755
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,400
monitor down at the lower 
resolution or at the lower 

756
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,280
refresh rate again because I. 
Was like 60. 

757
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,760
Not 60, no. 
I'm doing a 144. 

758
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,280
Oh OK, but not not the 2:40 that
I technically can. 

759
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,480
OK, interesting. 
I'm not gaming on the Mac so 

760
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,520
it's OK. 
I should try that. 

761
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,680
I wanted to go over my 
recommendation though, because 

762
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:56,040
this is a $349 Thunderbolt 5 
dock, which is relatively 

763
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,560
competitive. 
The Cal digit T5, which is kind 

764
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:04,760
of the go to like high end one 
is 50 bucks more at 399. 

765
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:09,040
The T5 TS 5 plus, which Chris I 
think is what you have, that's 

766
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,240
it's the Mac daddy. 
It's incredible. 

767
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,040
It's got all the ports. 
It's like a 20 in one. 

768
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:19,400
It's crazy. 
And 10 Gigabit Ethernet. 499 for

769
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:24,400
that OWC who also makes these. 
They have a couple Thunderbolt 

770
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,120
fives, but they're kind of weird
like they don't have just like a

771
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,200
straight upgrade to what they 
had before, which was very 

772
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,560
popular and worked great. 
They have like this smaller one 

773
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,720
that's 329 and they have this 
like more network networking 

774
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:40,760
focused 1, which is $500. 
It's kind of weird, but what I 

775
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:50,280
would like to draw people to is 
this the OWC 11 and one 

776
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,080
Thunderbolt dock, Thunderbolt 
four that I've been using for 

777
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:57,600
years. 
It's 230 bucks and I think it's 

778
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,160
great and I think it's going to 
do everything for basically 

779
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:04,040
everyone and I would recommend 
look, he's still looking at 

780
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,480
Thunderbolt 4 docks because 
does. 

781
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,640
This have the logo that blows 
up. 

782
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,320
Yeah, it does. 
This thing turns blue. 

783
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,800
This is the one. 
I think we talked about this on 

784
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,520
the show. 
I had this one but my big issue 

785
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,600
with it is the cable that 
connects from the dock to the 

786
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,320
computer comes out the front and
where I put my dock it was going

787
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,640
across my keyboard and it 
annoyed me. 

788
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,440
And what I like about the Cal 
digit one is everything comes 

789
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,120
out the back. 
Yeah, that for what it's worth, 

790
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,120
that is how the keycron one 
works as well. 

791
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,040
The compute, the plug that goes 
to your computer is on the 

792
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:43,120
backside as well. 
Although I must say here's my 

793
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,520
problem with the Keycron 1. 
I think the best one for me 

794
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:50,400
shocker is the most expensive 
one because for me the most 

795
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,840
valuable thing on these things 
are the USBC ports. 

796
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,320
Whether the Thunderbolt or USBCI
don't really care. 

797
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,960
A couple of them should be 
Thunderbolt and if that's your 

798
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:07,320
requirement all of them. 
The the keycron has 3 USBC 

799
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,960
ports, 2 are Thunderbolt, ones 
USBC, the Owcs have three to 

800
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:16,400
four and then the Cal digits 
they lean into it. 

801
00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:23,680
So the TS 5 has 6 and the plus 
has seven USBC type ports and 

802
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,800
most of them are Thunderbolt. 
Which is. 

803
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,560
Bonkers. 
At one point I had all of them 

804
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,280
used on the backside. 
There's two on the front and I 

805
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,600
didn't. 
I keep those for like when I 

806
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,200
need to plug a device in or if I
need to charge something really 

807
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,160
quickly or something like that. 
That's what I keep those for. 

808
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,000
But at one point I literally had
all the ports on the backside of

809
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000
that Cal Digit Hub used up. 
Wow. 

810
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:51,520
So the TS-5, the like the in 
port from the computer is on the

811
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,080
back, yeah. 
The Cal digit 1 yes. 

812
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,560
Yeah, OK. 
And then they have some ports on

813
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:02,160
the front, they have like USBC 
and USBA and SD card reader and 

814
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,080
stuff on the front. 
So you can just like quickly 

815
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:09,680
plug stuff in. 
But and the TS 5 + 1 from Khal 

816
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:14,120
Digit comes in space black, so 
it matches your computer if you 

817
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,920
got the right color. 
I got the right color but mine 

818
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,680
matches. 
It's a nice silver. 

819
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,960
Let's be honest, they all look 
very bad, right? 

820
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:25,960
We agree. 
I mean, they kind of do. 

821
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,800
I actually like this. 
They're very utilitarian. 

822
00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:32,400
They they are that that it's a 
utility and I think that's fine.

823
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,760
I don't think it needs to any 
super designy. 

824
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,960
It's a dumb reason aside from 
money because those are all 

825
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:43,400
extremely expensive. 
But there I so a few years ago I

826
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,720
got a Thunderbolt dog that was 
just as expensive when I got it 

827
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,120
the Thunderbolt 3 pro from 
Belkin. 

828
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,920
So I'm still using Thunderbolt 3
and it looks really nice because

829
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,560
it's rounded with aluminum all 
round. 

830
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,080
It looks actually. 
That's also one reason I I when 

831
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,320
I when I see the newer docs I'm 
like they all they all look so 

832
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:12,920
bad compared to my old one. 
I think it's the bell king. 

833
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,560
Thunderbolt 3 Pro is is the one 
I got. 

834
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,320
But yeah. 
Yeah, that looks all right. 

835
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,600
Looks all right. 
I don't know. 

836
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,080
I just mine is just command 
strip to the side of my desk. 

837
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,120
Oh. 
My if you're watching the video,

838
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:33,600
you can see mine right behind 
me. 

839
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,880
It's just in that shelf 
underneath my monitor. 

840
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:38,480
It's so big. 
It is big. 

841
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,120
But it fits perfectly in that 
shelf. 

842
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,840
Yeah, good. 
It's got 20 ports on the thing. 

843
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:44,800
It's got to be big. 
That's. 

844
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,120
True, that's true. 
What are? 

845
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:47,280
You going to? 
What are you going to do with 

846
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,240
all those ports? 
Yeah, so that's it. 

847
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:58,120
It's a it's a nice stock, but 
honestly, for me it's fine and 

848
00:50:58,120 --> 00:50:59,720
just as fine as the one I was 
using before. 

849
00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:04,560
So my recommendation is go 
Thunderbolt 4 if you want to 

850
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,880
save some money and get probably
the same experience. 

851
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,280
OK. 
All right, get go big or go 

852
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:15,120
home, you know, you know. 
Yeah. 

853
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:16,840
All right. 
Should we move on to the 

854
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,960
challenge? 
Sure. 

855
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,520
Yes. 
All right, so it was my 

856
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,200
challenge this week and the 
challenge was to let AI control 

857
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,040
your life for the week. 
And I can go first if you all 

858
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:29,320
would like. 
OK. 

859
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,880
So I like I kind of alluded to 
earlier, I, I had some family 

860
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:41,120
stuff happen this week and I was
actually using AI stuff a lot. 

861
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,160
I had either a lot of downtime 
or a lot of questions that 

862
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,880
needed to be answered. 
So I was using Siri AI to answer

863
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:49,600
all my questions and look things
up. 

864
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,360
And it actually was pretty good.
I have access to the Siri AI app

865
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,360
on the, the 27 beta. 
So I've been using that. 

866
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,200
It's just really nice to like 
hit the button on the side to do

867
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,720
it or, you know, open up the app
and start typing to it. 

868
00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:05,000
If you know you're around 
people, they've done a good job 

869
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,640
with it. 
I used Siri for commands I 

870
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,680
didn't use in the past. 
So I would just tell it to get 

871
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,720
directions to this place. 
I was going to a lot this week 

872
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,560
or that was like, it's just like
in this like downtown center 

873
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,000
that's impossible to navigate. 
So he like, doesn't matter how 

874
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,440
many times I've been down there,
I just had to get directions 

875
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,600
every single time. 
I was adding stuff to my 

876
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:32,920
reminders list constantly. 
I was using the new Spotlight 

877
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,640
and Siri integration to just 
open things and do actions like 

878
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,320
play music or send messages and 
all sorts of stuff. 

879
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,840
Just to like quickly do this 
without having to jump into 

880
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,040
apps. 
Just as somebody with ADHD, 

881
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,320
having Spotlight and Siri 
together is really nice because 

882
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,800
I could just pull down on that 
bar and just start typing 

883
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,280
whatever it is I need to do. 
And I don't need to jump into an

884
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,400
app. 
But outside of the Siri I was 

885
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:04,360
using it to, I had a lot of 
downtime, but I wasn't here at 

886
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,240
home. 
So I was just kind of sitting 

887
00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:11,680
with my laptop and I just was 
using it to work on things that 

888
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:16,360
I've had on my task list for 
months, and in some case, years.

889
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:21,440
For example, one thing I've had 
to do on my task list for years 

890
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:26,800
now is build a media kit for 
like sponsored and like review 

891
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,320
stuff and things like that so I 
could send it off to brands and 

892
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,920
things like that and justice be 
like, hey, here's a body of my 

893
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:33,640
work and ricing and all this 
stuff. 

894
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,600
Like here's a bunch of stuff and
I use codecs to help me build 

895
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,800
that. 
Came up with like a series of 

896
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,080
questions and because I had no 
idea what a media kit look like,

897
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:44,800
I had no idea what needed to be 
on there. 

898
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,480
So I had Codex come up with a 
series of questions about stuff 

899
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,600
that needs to be on a media kit.
I answered it, it compiled that 

900
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,360
information, and then you know 
what I did? 

901
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:57,320
I had a prototype out the media 
kit in Keynote for me and then I

902
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,920
went in and cleaned it all up. 
It worked really nice. 

903
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,960
So like throughout this whole 
week, I was just relying on AI 

904
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,720
to do things for me. 
I also was doing some other 

905
00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:07,360
stuff that I will talk about 
next week. 

906
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,520
I don't, you know, always, you 
know, always leave them one and 

907
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,960
more that kind of thing. 
But you know, I'm doing, I'm 

908
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:18,720
building something that I'm 
actually really, really proud of

909
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:20,720
and I'll talk about it next 
week. 

910
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,760
But I used AI for a lot of that 
too. 

911
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,960
So I'm kind of curious how how 
did this work out for you guys? 

912
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:36,400
Go ahead, Matt. 
You're muted. 

913
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:43,800
You're muted, Matt. 
Well, I I struggled to figure 

914
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,240
out how to approach this 
challenge. 

915
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,520
Also, truth be told, I didn't 
look at the Notion document and 

916
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,720
I just found out what the 
challenge was when I listened to

917
00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:56,200
the episode on Wednesday. 
Oh yeah. 

918
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,600
I forgot to tell you what the 
challenge was and you weren't 

919
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,160
here last week. 
Yep, I forgot about that. 

920
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,080
Sorry, my bad. 
No, I'm sorry. 

921
00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:06,920
So I only did it for a couple 
days and I wasn't sure what to 

922
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:14,920
do. 
So I interpreted it as use the 

923
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,960
new Siri. 
And so I did, I explored it. 

924
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,040
I used it. 
There are things that I would 

925
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:26,720
Google or that I would open the 
clawed app to do that are just 

926
00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:28,640
like quick little searches sort 
of things. 

927
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:35,200
And I tried using Siri for that 
and it's much better. 

928
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,960
The model itself is not as 
impressive, but like it can use,

929
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:47,800
it can search the web, it can 
use tools to do things and it's 

930
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,640
pretty OK. 
Like it answers questions for 

931
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,480
me. 
I here's a stupid question that 

932
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,720
I ask these stupid chat bots all
the time I'm playing this game. 

933
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,040
I just completed this mission. 
How far through the game am I? 

934
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,240
And it tells me like, here's a 
percentage of here's about how 

935
00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:05,360
far through the game you are. 
And this is so helpful as an 

936
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:09,640
adult who is like actually like 
shorter games these days. 

937
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:11,560
This is actually very nice 
information. 

938
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:13,920
But like Siri would never do 
that before. 

939
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,320
And it does that pretty well 
today. 

940
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,800
And I think it does a pretty 
good job of including source 

941
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:25,320
links, which is nice. 
And they like to put like images

942
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,440
in line in their answers 
sometimes too. 

943
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,520
So it's, it's pretty nice. 
I don't know if I used it to 

944
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:38,880
automate my life, but I did use 
it because I had it and it was, 

945
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:41,480
yeah. 
I don't know how much I how much

946
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,720
more I would expect from Siri at
this point. 

947
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:50,000
Once third party apps have more,
once it can do more with third 

948
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,320
party apps. 
There might be more to automate,

949
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:58,960
but yeah, it seems promising. 
I'm curious, do you find that 

950
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,600
you, I don't know, maybe enjoy 
is the wrong word, but you're 

951
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,560
using it more? 
Or maybe it's more convenient 

952
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,840
that it's built into the system 
and you can either just save the

953
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,360
trigger phrase or hold down the 
button on the side of your 

954
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,080
device and you don't actually 
have to jump into an app. 

955
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,400
Or you could just pull up 
Spotlight from anywhere in the 

956
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,840
OS, because that's one of my 
favorite features is that you 

957
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,320
can get to Spotlight from 
anywhere in the OS on the iPhone

958
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:28,760
and iPad. 
It is a little nice to you to 

959
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:32,280
ask Siri. 
It is nice to ask Siri questions

960
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:35,560
and then be able to go back to 
those in the Siri app later and 

961
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,200
like, remember what it told you 
at the very least. 

962
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,240
So that's kind of nice. 
I'm always a little hesitant to 

963
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,360
compliment Apple on doing a 
thing that only they can do 

964
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,960
because they own the platform 
and refuse to let others do it. 

965
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,920
So I'm always a little hesitant 
to be like, they've done a great

966
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,000
job and and now they've they 
beat Claude because Claude isn't

967
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,240
able to do that. 
And it's like, well. 

968
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:57,280
Apple. 
Didn't let them do it. 

969
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:04,600
DNA is like what's going on 
here, but I mean it is 

970
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,840
convenient. 
It is, it is convenient. 

971
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,600
I wrote a members post on my 
blog actually recently about how

972
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,120
I moved away from things and I'm
using reminders now. 

973
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,520
So that is one of those things 
as well. 

974
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,360
That is probably going to be 
easier with this, but I don't 

975
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:24,560
want to give them credit 
necessarily if that makes sense.

976
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,040
Fair, fair, fair. 
Neil, I'm gonna tell you how'd 

977
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,520
you do this challenge? 
Have you ever heard of the term 

978
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:36,680
malicious compliance? 
Yes, and I figured that's 

979
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,600
exactly how you would treat 
this. 

980
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:47,680
Yes so I have mixed prayed my 
stairs in our house. 

981
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:50,960
You've what? 
You've what? 

982
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,240
I have mixed prayed up my 
stairs. 

983
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,280
Mix played. 
All right, there is a link in 

984
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:07,360
the show notes. 
Mix Play is a name of a Nike Oh 

985
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:08,880
a. 
Nike thing, OK. 

986
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,720
Oh. 
It's a motion sensor. 

987
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:18,480
OK, OK. 
And come on, Kitty, just 

988
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:22,320
scratching my gear. 
And yeah, so it's a motion 

989
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,720
sensor. 
I've put it all over the stairs.

990
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:30,000
So basically our house, I will 
not guide you through all of our

991
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:34,360
house, but basically there's 3 
levels, ground floor and two 

992
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,320
upstairs. 
Bougie. 

993
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:40,880
I know it's a very vertical 
house, let's say not very 

994
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:42,600
horizontal. 
Very vertical. 

995
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,920
So yeah, so basically there's 
two big set set of stairs to 

996
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:53,720
move between levels and actually
no three, I don't know how to 

997
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:54,040
count. 
Wow. 

998
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,280
She doesn't even know how many 
staircases she has. 

999
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,280
Hasn't even gone to all the 
floors. 

1000
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,640
Yet NO222 look. 
She's got the main staircase for

1001
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:04,960
her, and then there's this 
servant staircase that they're 

1002
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,280
supposed to take, so she never 
sees them. 

1003
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:11,000
Yeah, I know. 
No, I've got a an elevator 

1004
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,480
actually, I'm not using this 
test anyway. 

1005
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:21,680
OK, so I've put the all the MOOC
sprays all over the stairs and 

1006
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,800
we replaced all the light bulbs 
as well. 

1007
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:29,560
And now the stairs, they light 
up as you walk through. 

1008
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:34,520
So AI, because this right here 
is artificial intelligence. 

1009
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,960
I'm telling you, it's very 
smart. 

1010
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:41,800
And because I set up automation,
it does it on its own. 

1011
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:43,160
Like I'm not touching any 
buttons. 

1012
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:47,080
It just turns on the light. 
So you walk up the stairs in our

1013
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,160
house and the lights, they turn 
on as you. 

1014
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,160
It's very satisfying. 
By the way, as you go, they turn

1015
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:57,480
on. 
And I even went with advanced 

1016
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,680
automations. 
I used the Controller for Home 

1017
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:05,200
Kit app on iOS which lets you do
more advanced home kit 

1018
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:08,640
automations. 
And I use that to like add 

1019
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,880
conditions so that at night, 
depending on how deep into the 

1020
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:16,000
night you are, it will not shine
as bright. 

1021
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:22,280
So if you woke up or down the 
stairs, let's say at 1:00 AM, it

1022
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:26,240
will just the IT does the same 
thing, but it lights up with a 

1023
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:30,480
tint of red. 
So very dark, like very dim red,

1024
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,920
so that you're not blinded in 
the middle of the night, whereas

1025
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:37,040
during early evening it's just 
bright yellow. 

1026
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,800
Can can I can I throw a pitch 
your way really quick for this? 

1027
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:47,080
OK, you add speakers and as 
every single as one motion 

1028
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,760
sensor is triggered, you have 
the piano, you have a piano 

1029
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,120
sound play and you could just do
scale so you can do. 

1030
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:57,000
Yeah, it's like clan do do do. 
Do do do. 

1031
01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:59,760
You realize home kit is very 
laggy though? 

1032
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:02,520
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1033
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,000
Yeah, you'll be 3 floors away 
and you'll be with the piano. 

1034
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,120
Go. 
You'd have to use Home Assistant

1035
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:13,560
or something for that, yeah. 
That's funny, but there you go. 

1036
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,840
AI like it. 
Automate automated the heck out 

1037
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,920
of my life. 
I'm fully compliant with the law

1038
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:23,080
of your challenge. 
I think you're closer to it than

1039
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,280
I am, honestly. 
Honestly, I love this pretty 

1040
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,560
open-ended because I was just 
kind of curious how you all 

1041
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,960
would interpret it so. 
Yeah, I will. 

1042
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,480
I will say, Neil, and you 
mentioned this at some point 

1043
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,800
that that you're going to use a 
home sensor for something. 

1044
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:42,360
And we have a closet just 
outside this door behind me or 

1045
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:44,800
there's no light inside it. 
There's a hallway light that has

1046
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,920
a smart bulb in it, but there's 
no switch or anything in the 

1047
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,720
house for it. 
So I don't know what the intent 

1048
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:53,720
of this thing is, but we have to
use like Siri to turn it on. 

1049
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,160
So we like open the thing and I 
have to yell out to Siri to do 

1050
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:57,320
it. 
And it's super annoying. 

1051
01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:59,800
But I got a little motion sensor
as well, put it inside there, 

1052
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:01,560
and when the door opens, the 
light turns on. 

1053
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,440
And when I close it, the light 
turns off and it's very cool. 

1054
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,720
You got a mixed. 
Play I did not. 

1055
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,160
I got some, I think a Belkin one
actually. 

1056
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,200
I got whatever was cheap and 
available for next day shipping 

1057
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:18,120
on Amazon. 
Yeah, sounds about right. 

1058
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:23,280
The IKEA was is is nice. 
So it's one of the new one of 

1059
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,760
their new products. 
It's compatible with Matter. 

1060
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:33,920
It works over thread I believe 
and it's €8.00 so very. 

1061
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:35,160
Oh yours is cheaper than mine, 
Dang. 

1062
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:38,200
Yeah. 
All right. 

1063
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,240
Well, that was that challenge. 
But Matt, it is your challenge 

1064
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:43,640
for next week. 
What do you got for us? 

1065
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:52,560
All right, my challenge is redo 
your favorite challenge that you

1066
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:56,640
have issued on comfort zone and 
do not tell your Co hosts which 

1067
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:58,760
one you are doing until we meet 
up next week. 

1068
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:02,120
OK. 
So we will all do different 

1069
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,440
challenges because you must do 
one that you have issued and you

1070
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:08,800
would like to do again and you 
know, do one that was easy, do 

1071
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,240
one that you had fun with, do 
one that you think you could do 

1072
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:13,600
differently. 
Do 1 you maybe need redemption 

1073
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:17,600
on I don't know. 
Oh no, I'm going to get another 

1074
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:22,320
new iPhone. 
You need to move your local 

1075
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:26,920
music library to the one 
terabyte iPhone. 

1076
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:29,640
Oh no. 
All right, I like this. 

1077
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,600
This is pretty good. 
All right, this is a good place 

1078
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:36,760
to wrap up. 
And we're going kind of long, so

1079
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,920
I think I'll save our end of the
show question for next week. 

1080
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,880
So we we need to wrap up here. 
Thank you all so much for 

1081
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:44,760
listening. 
Thank you to Mac Stories for 

1082
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:46,160
having us. 
We're a Mac Stories podcast 

1083
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:49,280
after all. 
Feedback link in the show notes.

1084
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,520
Thank you all for listening and 
have a great day. 

1085
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:53,960
OK, bye, bye.
