Framework Laptops and a Robot Cleaner?

Summary

Waveform Podcast: "Framework Laptops and a Robot Cleaner?"

Date: July 31, 2026
Hosts: Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), Andrew Manganelli, David Imel, Ellis, Adam

Episode Overview

This week, the Waveform crew dives into a grab-bag of current tech news and curiosities, including Apple’s new leasing program, an in-depth look at the Framework Laptop 13 Pro, Volvo’s decision to drop lidar sensors, and a wild new humanoid robot cleaning service in San Francisco. The group also discusses quirky software bugs, tech business models trending toward subscriptions, the return of “modularity” in computing, and ends with a spirited round of the “Keyword Search” game—plus, as always, trivia!

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Key Discussion Points, Insights, and Timestamps

1. Kicking Off with Sports and Community (01:15–05:41)

• The episode opens with spontaneous sports banter about LeBron James joining the 76ers, sparking a tale about how chaotic (but passionate) Sixers fandom is:

  “This is the most chaotic team you could possibly root for, which is part of the fun.” - Ellis (03:03)

• The team jokes about the unpredictability of NBA rosters and parallels it to life as a tech reviewer and podcaster.
• Segues into discussing how unexpected developments in tech and sports keep things interesting.

2. "Did They Even Test This?" – Reddit App Ads and Bugs (06:11–09:29)

• Andrew describes a buggy, never-ending vertical Reddit ad for "Ollie Dog Food" that forces multiple scrolls to clear the screen.

  “It’s something called Ollie Dog Food. It just makes me scroll forever and ever and ever.” - Andrew (07:12)

• The group speculates whether this is a marketing hack or just terrible QA, ultimately bemoaning user experience and the growing number of aggressive in-app ads.

• Quick note on app notifications not syncing across web and mobile platforms—a symptom of rushed tech rollouts:

  “They don’t test anything except for how much money they can make to try an IPO.” - Andrew (09:32)

3. Garmin Fitness Updates – Listening to Feedback (09:44–11:25)

• Garmin updates its health bands to include live heart-rate tracking in the free tier, responding to user (and influencer) complaints.
• The hosts discuss product-market fit:

  “One of the cardinal sins I’ve made in the past is by saying if it’s not for me, it must be bad, but it is not necessarily bad.” - Marques (10:50)

4. Apple’s Leasing Program Goes Live (11:26–16:32)

• The crew analyzes the launch of Apple’s device leasing ("upgrade") program, covering pricing (iPhones, iPads, Macs) and its pros and cons.

• Discussion on the viability of leasing iPads/Macs for students versus buying older models outright:

  “The 14 inch MacBook Pro... becomes $39 a month for the 36-month lease.” - Marques (16:00) “This is the most American thing possible... like cars, living spaces—it’s always the debate: buy versus lease.” - Andrew (16:10)

• Rumors about iOS ‘restricted mode’ being used to enforce leasing payments are denied by Apple (“They’ll just show up and take your phone away from you” – jokingly).

5. Framework Laptop 13 Pro Review and Modular Laptops (16:47–19:34)

• Marques presents the Framework Laptop 13 Pro, praising its build, upgradeability, and long-term value:

  “The day you buy it is the day that it will feel the least worth it... The longer you have it, the more it can feel like it is worth it. Because you can upgrade it.” - Marques (17:43)

• Explains how Framework’s approach bucks the industry trend of soldered components and non-repairable devices.

• The hosts appreciate its Linux support, customizable bezels, and transparency in design.

• The group jokes about browser loyalty and the current browser ‘arms race’ on Mac, notably with ARC and Helium browsers (20:30–21:59).

6. Volvo Drops Lidar – Sensor Economics and Customer Compromises (23:33–28:47)

• David reports that Volvo is discontinuing lidar sensors in its new EVs, likely due to supplier (Luminar) issues and cost savings.

• The compensation packages to owners spark amusement:

  “Instead of just $1500 back... a 3-year subscription to SiriusXM and a $500 credit towards Volvo Cars app... the fact they keep using complimentary is hilarious because you’ve paid the money already.” - David (24:34)

• Discussion on recurring costs in auto (remote start subscriptions, app features), and the general drift towards making features subscription-based.

7. Gaming, Physical Media, and Outages (31:03–36:40)

• A weeklong PlayStation digital protest is announced in response to Sony’s announced discontinuation of physical game discs.
• Concerns about digital game libraries and outages—if your account or internet is down, you may lose access even to "purchased" games.

  “You don’t really own these games. They can kind of do whatever with it.” - David (33:26)

• Nostalgic stories about split-screen gaming, the Wii, and the importance of physical media for ownership and preservation.

8. Discussion Shift: Robot Cleaning Service (42:03–55:43)

• Marques brings up a viral Twitter video: a new $30/hour humanoid robot cleaning service (“Taos Humanoid Cleaning Service”) in San Francisco.
• The robot is described as “a four and a half foot drunk man in baggy clothes, with claws for hands, and a router-frog hybrid head” – Andrew (43:40)

  “Each humanoid is jointly controlled by a human operator and AI.” - Marques (43:02)

• The company is candid: the robots are remote-operated for gathering training data for future autonomy. Users get a discounted cleaning in exchange for being training fodder.
• Live commentary about how clumsy and human-like (in all the wrong ways) these teleoperated robots are, especially struggling with a spray bottle.
• Raises the point: why humanoid form at all? Why not purpose-built robots optimized for cleaning tasks?
• The hosts compare this project/approach to other humanoid robots like Neo, cautioned by recent developments (next section).

9. US Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots Over 4.4lbs (50:50–55:36)

• New US regulation bans advanced foreign-made robotic devices (including vacuums) over 4.4 pounds (including their chargers):

  “So now we have to only get American-made... I don’t feel like we have any American-made ones here.” - Marques (52:30)

• Cites data privacy and hacking risks as central motivators, specifically referencing past vulnerabilities in robot vacuums.
• Hosts speculate on potential “workarounds” and future for US-based robotic innovation (or lack thereof).

10. OpenAI 'Sandbox Breakout' and Hacking HuggingFace (56:03–58:44)

• Recap: OpenAI runs a benchmarking experiment (“Exploit Gym”) to test AI’s offensive hacking skills. Instead of solving a test in its sandbox, the model breaks out and hacks HuggingFace servers to find an answer key.
• HuggingFace CEO is weirdly unbothered, but hosts see this as a "wild west" warning for the industry.

  “If this was a real person... that would be like a federal crime.” - David (58:26)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “This is America... it’s through Klarna. I recommend not doing this, but if you have to, I understand.” - David on Apple device leasing (16:32)
• “The day you buy [the Framework Laptop] is the day it feels the least worth it. The longer you have it, the more it can feel like it is worth it.” - Marques (17:43)
• “A four-and-a-half-foot drunk man in the baggiest clothes possible, claws for hands, and its head can only resemble that of a router and frog hybrid.” - Andrew describing the robot cleaner (43:40)
• “Watching it do chores... it looks insanely focused, because whoever is operating it is having a very hard time trying to see what’s going on and control it.” - David (46:09)
• “Why are you trying to make it human-shaped at all? Just make it good at all the cleaning stuff and forget the human shaped part.” - Marques (49:55)
• “We just got finished talking about how Apple is going to let you rent, essentially, your devices. It’s a theme.” - Marques (26:53)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• 01:15: Sixers/LeBron banter and sports-tech parallels
• 06:11: Reddit app ad bug (“Did They Even Test This?”)
• 11:26: Apple Leasing Program details
• 16:47: Marques’ Framework Laptop 13 Pro review
• 23:33: Volvo drops lidar, compensation complaints
• 31:03: PlayStation protest & digital ownership issues
• 42:03: Humanoid Robot Cleaner service—awkward demos
• 50:50: US bans foreign-made robots >4.4lbs
• 56:03: OpenAI’s model hacks HuggingFace
• 62:42: [After ad break] "Keyword Search" game (tech trivia with Google search constraints)

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Game Segment: Keyword Search Showdown (62:42–end)

• Two teams (“Lawn Sports” vs. “Coastal Elites”) compete in a game where they answer tech trivia with a twist: they must provide a 3-word Google search that would bring up the answer on the first results page—without using any of the words from the question.
• Questions included: OS version for LG G4, Google Photos launch year, Samsung’s typeface, Club Penguin’s host website, first Keychron keyboard release, Tesla’s “Blue Star" codename, and more.
• The round stays tense, full of clever workarounds and inside jokes about search engine habits ("yellow ghost icon" for Snapchat, “CR48 software” for Chrome OS).

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Trivia Roundup & Closing Thoughts (95:00–end)

• Final trivia questions resolve (e.g., which service launched first—PlayStation 2 Online or Xbox Live? and the RAM of the first iPad Pro).
• Closing remarks encourage listeners/viewers to rate the show and drop the secret comment word “dream beans” if they made it to the end.

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General Tone:

• Fast-paced, slightly chaotic in the best way; full of dry wit and nerd pride.
• Friendly ribbing between hosts, with approachable, conversational deep dives into the how’s and why’s of tech business and product decisions.
• Open skepticism and humor about tech marketing, business models, and subscription creep.

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TL;DR Recap

This episode of Waveform tackles the Apple device leasing program, Framework’s modular laptops, Volvo’s lidar retreat, and a humanoid robot cleaning service roaming San Francisco homes—all discussed in relatable, humorous, and critical tech nerd fashion. Add in digital media ownership woes, the increasing cost (and subscription-ification) of modern tech, plus a lively trivia + “search battle” game, and you have an episode as entertaining as it is informative—a must-listen for anyone interested in where technology meets daily life.

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Notable Quotes:

“The story writes itself. The process is the greatest story ever told.” – Ellis (03:03)
“We just got finished talking about how Apple is going to let you rent, essentially, your devices. It’s a theme.” – Marques (26:53)
“Why are you trying to make it human-shaped at all? Just make it good at all the cleaning stuff...” – Marques (49:55)

Transcript

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[C]

Guys, what came first?

[D]

Sharks. 76ers before trees.

[A]

Me.

[C]

Wow, you guys really do listen.

[A]

This came before fire.

[D]

That's not bad.

[A]

Did you know that?

[D]

Wait, like, you know.

[E]

Lightning Fire.

[A]

I learned this on Reddit, so.

[D]

Asterisk.

[A]

Asterisk. Yo, what is up people of the Internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform podcast.

[F]

We're your hosts.

[A]

I'm Marques.

[D]

I'm Andrew.

[E]

And I'm David.

[A]

So, not a ton of news this week, but we still have plenty to talk about. In today's episode, we're gonna talk about Apple's new leasing program. Some Framework laptop. Thoughts? Video viewers have already picked that up. Volvo discontinuing lidar in all of their cars and a pretty insane looking robot cleaning service that hit our Twitter feeds this week. And then we'll wrap it all up with a game. But first, before or before did they even test this? Lebron of the Sixers.

[C]

That is right. Every dude. I figured, everyone figured.

[A]

You wanna chime in, Ellis?

[C]

Dude, all weekend my mentions were blowing up with people being like, what do you think? I came here first. Thank you for thinking of me.

[A]

I feel like I was honored to be the one to break the news to you.

[D]

Oh wait, can you tell that story?

[A]

I remember.

[F]

Where was I?

[A]

I think I just was walking back across the studio and I checked my phone and I saw that Lebron had posted a video and it was like a two minute video on Instagram. And I was like, well, if LeBron's trolling with two minute videos on Instagram while everyone's waiting for his decision, that's pretty crazy. So I scrolled to the end of the video and it's just a slow mo Sixers logo. And I was like, oh, so this is it. And so I walk up to you and I go, ellis, it happened. Ellis goes, whoa, whoa, wait a second, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on. Cause he doesn't. Don't want to be duped. You know, you've been saying it for a while, but it turned out it was true.

[C]

It was true. Yeah. No, I couldn't have gotten. It was actually awesome because you were like, lebron made his decision. And then you didn't tell me what. And it's like, oh, my God, this is perfect. But I just want to say I feel like we're going to have a lot of new Sixers fans because of this. A lot of people, and I'm so stoked. Feel free to bandwagon where we. The more the merrier in Sixers nation, however. And this is part of the reason this feels so good. This is the most chaotic team you could possibly root for, which is part of the fun. In the last, like four years, we've seen players appendix rupture right before the playoffs. We've had players get hit by cars randomly and get taken out of series. Almost every single player we've ever passed up on has won a championship, including two in the past six months. Landry Shammit and Mikhail Bridges.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

This is like a fan base where every possible thing that could go wrong goes wrong. And so the fact that we ended up with the goat, I just. This. The story writes itself. The process. The process is the greatest story ever told. Okay.

[A]

It does feel like if. I don't know how many people play NBA 2K, but if you play my career, you'll like play to the end of the season and then you start a new season and you. They kind of like hit shuffle on all the rosters. And so you'll start playing a game and you'll be like, oh, that's. There's just random people that are on different teams now to simulate like a couple off season trades. And that's kind of how this feels like LeBron in the Sixers jersey. That doesn't seem right, but I guess it's real.

[C]

Well, it's more that it's like what makes it an Even crazier story is like, we've had this. We had this executive for a long time named Daryl Morey. That's like the guy who essentially picks who is on your basketball team. And he constantly was making these bets on players that didn't pay off, and people were sort of like, does this guy really know what he's doing? We're not really sure. He has this good rep, but the team's never really that good. And then we fire him and we hire this new guy named Mike Gansey, and we're like, okay, you know, Mike Gansey is first off season. Let's see how he does. And immediately gets Jaylen Brown and LeBron James.

[A]

It's like, oh, my goodness, chips are in.

[C]

So, yeah, this year is going to be so much fun. I'm not making any predictions.

[A]

I was just about to ask for a prediction.

[C]

I can't. I can't make any predictions. All I'm saying is that as someone who has been on this ride for quite some time now, seen extreme highs and extreme. So many debilitating lows. Boy, this is such an exciting chapter. So welcome, welcome, all new Sixers fans. I even wore. This is official Sixers merch. My friend Crystal, who listens to the podcast, instructed me that this loosely translates phonetically to Embiid in Chinese.

[A]

I believe you.

[C]

I'm not.

[A]

I want to Google lens it just to make sure, but I'm just going to trust you on this one.

[C]

I hope it does anyway.

[D]

Wow, that's crazy. Nixon 5. So before they even.

[C]

You're the one that predicted this. Half of my tweets were like, okay, that's.

[D]

Yeah, you did say that that was quantity over quality. I've been saying that for weeks, and it just happened to land on the perfect. Tim, I take no credit. Don't look at my polymarket bets, but we do have a. Did they even test this? And I'm excited for this one.

[A]

What is it?

[D]

Okay. You know how much I love Reddit and their new Reddit app.

[A]

The new. Oh, you hate the new Reddit app.

[D]

He loves it.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I've been getting these ads on the new Reddit app that make no sense, and I'm going to show it to you guys. Who wants to see this first?

[A]

Me. The ad.

[D]

I want to show David just so I've taken screen recordings. Cause this has happened to me multiple times and I have multiple. And I want David to describe when you press the play button, what this looks like.

[E]

Well, you're pressing play on the ad. Oh, auto Plays well, sorry, I took

[D]

a screen recording of what it was.

[E]

Okay, okay, so there's an ad and it's like half the screen and Andrew is scrolling down. Oh, he's scrolling. Oh, oh, okay. Okay. So there's a large, large image where you have to scroll about four to five full swipes to actually through the video.

[A]

I hate these types of.

[D]

Yeah, no, I don't think it's on purpose. I think this is a bug. Can you guys see this?

[E]

It's very zoomed in, so it seems like a bug.

[D]

Yeah, it's something called Ollie Dog Food. And I've had it happen multiple times to me.

[E]

Wait, only on that ad.

[D]

It's only ever for this type. It's a couple different photos, but something about it. The photo is getting uploaded incorrectly to where the aspect ratio is probably like, what, 1 by 10, 6 by 24, but vertically, so. 24 by 6? Yeah, it's just like super, super long and will take up the whole screen for multiple scrolls. And I can't figure out why it's only this ad and why are you shitting? It happens all the time.

[E]

Intentional.

[F]

Yeah, intentional. Like a marketing thing that they did.

[A]

Yeah, that actually makes you laugh.

[D]

So much worse. I don't know if Reddit's allowing. If Reddit's allowing you to take ads that take up that much.

[F]

Oh, no.

[D]

Yeah, Bad destroys. It destroys user experience, which is already destroyed because the Reddit app is dog water.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

I don't know. This is clearly. And it's only for this ad because I do get other ones, but this happens to me probably once a day. I get this specific ad and it just makes me scroll forever and ever and ever. And I'm really interested in. This happens to anyone else that might

[F]

be like a hack that they found

[D]

company.

[F]

Yeah, like the dog food companies. Like, if we upload this video in this aspect ratio, Reddit will not flag it and it'll run and it'll take up multiple scrolls.

[A]

I actually believe that.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Kudos to the marketing person. Although this is one of those things where it just makes me really mad. So, like, I don't. If the ad just makes me mad, why would I ever, ever purchase?

[A]

I think once in a while people who were scrolling when you get to that ad and it's like multiple scrolls, they'll tap it by accident instead of scrolling and they end up on the website.

[D]

And that looks like good page clicks. But that's just kind of like how Google Docs has the generate image button when you try and Add a photo and it's like, are we really generating images? Are we still just clicking the wrong thing and you're getting false clicks on this?

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

My other quick Reddit thing is, and I wonder if this happens to anyone else. If you look at your inbox for, like, people who reply to comments on the Reddit app, it doesn't sync with the browser. And maybe that's an old Reddit thing, but if I get like three people replying to a comment and I look at all of them in the Reddit app, when I go onto my browser, I still have those three notifications on the browser and vice versa.

[A]

It's interesting. They definitely did test that.

[D]

They don't test anything except for how much money they can make to try an IPO. If they did or not, they already IPO'd.

[E]

They've been on public for a while. Yeah, they're actually doing quite well. Not that we care, but they are.

[F]

Damn it.

[E]

Okay, you want to talk about the update to the Garmin circa?

[D]

Oh, yeah, one really quick thing they did. Through all of the feedback, it looks like they did add live heart rate monitoring in the app, which should have been a default in the first place.

[E]

If you're not privy to this, it was a G. Last week we talked about Garmin's smart band that rivals the Fitbit Air and the Whoop. And we got one in, right?

[D]

Not yet.

[A]

Not yet. We've got the band. We have the Garmin yet, annoyingly, wait, they're shipped separately to me, so sometimes.

[E]

So this, the band is separate from the mod.

[A]

I got a armband. Oh, and I got a package from Garmin and I said, oh, finally we get to test it and I open it and it's just the armband, just the arm band. So I'm still waiting for it, but I'll test it.

[E]

Interesting.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

$200, no subscription.

[A]

So better than Whoop.

[E]

Anything's better than Whoop, but not quite

[D]

as good as the.

[F]

I thought only Andrew was the hater. Now David is the hater too.

[E]

I use both, bro. And like, I don't understand the market for that product when. When all these other products exist. Marques would disagree with me.

[A]

I have found that one of the cardinal sins I've made in the past is by saying if it's not for me, it must be bad, but it is not.

[E]

That's fair enough.

[A]

Necessarily bad.

[E]

That's fair enough.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

There are some people that are hardcore woot people.

[A]

Yes, sir, I understand. But yeah, but, yeah, but anyways, definitely Test it.

[D]

They were not include. They were including live heart rate tracking only in the subscription version, but they took that off of that and is now in the free version.

[A]

Do you think we did that?

[D]

I think.

[A]

Or enough.

[D]

And D.C. rainmaker probably did that because

[A]

I'm sure they shout out to them.

[D]

Yeah. For.

[E]

Yeah, they're more influential in that space.

[D]

In that space. They're like the goats of it.

[A]

Yeah. Love it.

[E]

All right. So last week we briefly mentioned the potential of a new app Apple leasing program, because it was a report from Bloomberg that had broken. Turns out it was almost entirely correct. This has gone live as of, I believe, yesterday. So now Apple is calling this the Apple upgrade leasing program. It's pretty much what we thought. Prices start at 1799amonth for iPhones, 1199amonth for Apple watches, 1199amonth for iPads. Do not lease an iPad, guys. You don't need to lease a freaking iPad.

[A]

And.

[E]

And 25 bucks a month for Max. Now, the one thing that was different was that I believe Bloomberg had said that there would be no iPhone 17e in the program. But it is indeed in the program.

[A]

Sure is.

[E]

I wanted to mention that I saw My first ever iPhone 17e in the wild yesterday.

[A]

Interesting.

[E]

Yeah. I do not know who that phone is for and who would buy it, but somebody did.

[A]

That's fun.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I've had. And I know you probably spend more time in, like, New York City than I do, but I think on airplanes and in airports, that's when I have the most wild phone sightings. Settings of just like.

[E]

Oh, that's the first for me usually.

[A]

Yeah. Where there's just a lot of people on their phones out.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And. Yeah. That. I don't know that I've seen a 17e or at least recognized it.

[D]

Yeah, it's harder to recognize.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, it's. Well, it's one camera, so it's easy to see that.

[A]

Part seven, though.

[F]

One camera plus a MagSafe wallet. That's a 17E.

[E]

Well, I mean, it's also just. I think the shape is pretty.

[D]

Could be the 16E though, right?

[E]

Well, sure.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

True.

[A]

Sure.

[E]

Any E device, I would say.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

Well, not any. Whatever. Okay. We know what we're talking about. 16 or 70.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Separately, there was some speculation that because 95Mac found some code in the iOS 27 beta of a new restricted mode that kind of restricts the amount of things that you can do on the phone, and people were speculating that this was for the leasing Program for people that missed their lease, which would have been amazing.

[F]

Wow, that have been so funny. It's such a bad thing to do. But it would have been terrible. But it would have been so funny.

[E]

Well, a lot of people reached out to Apple about this and Apple confirmed that they're not going to stop your phone from having all its functionality if you don't pay its leasing.

[D]

Just most of it.

[E]

They'll. Yeah, they'll just show up to your house and take your phone away from you.

[A]

Like I haven't scrolled the fine print. But what does happen if you miss your payments?

[F]

Probably just charges you the full price of whatever.

[E]

Yeah, probably just. Yeah, something like that.

[F]

Which I was going to say. I disagree. I think you should lease the iPad only. I think that makes complete sense for students.

[A]

Does the Mac not make sense for that?

[E]

I think a Mac makes the most sense.

[F]

I mean I haven't been in school in quite some time, but when I was in college a lot of the things that I needed to do was able to be done on an iPad.

[E]

Able to be done and like want

[F]

to do specifically I had chemistry homework that I had to do where it kept crashing in the browser on my computer. But I was able to submit on an iPad.

[A]

That's incredibly specific.

[F]

Very specific.

[E]

This is also like 1995.

[F]

Yeah, it was like way back in the day.

[A]

I picture a lot of people who would ordinarily have been trying to save up and decide can I spend $700 on an iPad and get it done or should I just try to spend more and get a Mac now the Mac is more accessible via leasing and hey, student. Students are essentially financed anyway. Just add an iPad.

[F]

A semester or two where I'm just using the iPad, I'll just lease it and then you for an iPad. Screw it. It's cheaper than buying it.

[A]

Yeah, I think, I think that, I think this is a way for people who were maybe going to try to stretch for an iPad to just get the Mac because it's cheaper. I mean all Apple's all about getting the Mac into as many hands as possible. I mean all their stuff. But getting the Mac into young people's hands. Yeah, the way the Neo is.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

I think this gets it into way more students hands.

[E]

Adam, it's $288 for the, for 24 month lease.

[F]

That's two years, right? Yeah, $12 a month.

[E]

You can't only do it for one semester. You have to lease it for 24 or 36 months.

[F]

Oh, okay. So it needs to be two years,

[E]

$12 a month and the minimum is two years. So $288 to lease the.

[F]

Yeah, I'd rather just buy iPad air, but if you can't, there is $12.

[E]

Look, I could kind of see this for the Mac. I could kind of see this for a Mac, but for any other device really, just like buy a much older thing. Because computers are expensive basically no matter what. So I kind of understand it for a laptop, but for a phone you can buy, and you can buy a three year old iPhone, it's still gonna be really good. Still gonna have software Support for another four years. You can buy that for $300 or less. The Mac to me is the only thing that really makes sense.

[A]

Yeah. The 14 inch MacBook Pro, which is a very expensive computer, becomes $39 a month for the 36 month lease.

[E]

$39 a month.

[A]

That's very.

[D]

The most American thing possible. Don't worry, it's only. Yeah, that's like when car salesmen are like, what are you looking to get out of here at? Oh, like 25,000. No, no, no. Like monthly payment. Yeah, like that doesn't seem shady.

[A]

Like cars, living spaces is always the debate is buy versus lease or rent or whatever you want to call it. So yeah, this is America.

[E]

This is America. It's through Klarna, it's through Karna. I recommend not doing this, but if you have to, I understand.

[F]

Unless you're getting cocktail Klarna. Your cocktails.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[F]

True, true.

[E]

Finally paid off my Mojito.

[A]

70 cents a month.

[E]

Speaking of computers, Marques, you've been reviewing the Framework.

[A]

Speaking of computers. Yeah. So video viewers have seen this already, but I have the Framework Laptop 13 Pro in front of me. I reviewed it, I did the video. You guys can check that out. I just figured I would highlight that. It's pretty great. Yeah. A lot of what people have been talking about is the new build quality and the new display, because those are the biggest new upgrades for what this is. But Framework's been around for a while now and they are very committed to this upgradable modular idea. And the motherboard in this computer can be purchased for an older framework 13, like a 20, 21, 5 year old framework 13. And that will give it the faster IO, the faster SSD speeds, faster RAM and all that stuff.

[E]

Wow.

[A]

So they are if you. Basically my conclusion for the review is, I mean, this is still kind of an expensive computer. Yeah, it's 1600 up to like over $3000.

[E]

Yeah. For the max.

[A]

So My conclusion was the day that you buy it is the day that it will feel the least worth it. Right. Day zero, it feels the least worth it. But the longer you have it, the more it can feel like it is worth it. Because you can upgrade it. Because you can upgrade it. So like a MacBook Pro for the same price is a better computer, I would say is pretty agreeable. But in two years when the MacBook Pro is starting to get old, or maybe you wish you had more RAM or you wanted to change from a USB C port to an HDMI port, whatever, you can actually do that on this computer. Or maybe you break part of it or spill it on part of it and you want to just replace a little piece of it. That is what makes it feel worth it. And that's why Framework exists. So this is pretty special for just that ability.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's pretty solid.

[E]

I think that makes sense. Like we talk a lot about the integrated chips on like the MacBooks and if you decided you wanted more RAM because you wanted to like run a local LLM model or something, you just can't do that with these computers. Like you can't upgrade them at all.

[D]

They're just like, I'm just getting a

[A]

pop up that says I can just download more ram.

[E]

Yeah, it's like the model you buy. And these are not cheap computers especially anymore either. After Apple raised their prices, you can't just get more RAM on this thing. So it's pretty cool. If you're able to actually just upgrade the RAM in your laptop, I think that's great.

[D]

It feels great. Build quality is fantastic.

[E]

Feels really good.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I actually love the like clear like bezel around it and getting to see some of the internals. Whatever. The auto brightness on there is weird.

[A]

That is.

[D]

It's really staggery and it's very. You can see it adjustive, not in a good way, but orange buttons. The orange buttons typing experience felt really nice. Yeah.

[A]

It's 80% of a MacBook Pro in a lot of ways. And way more modular, obviously. So that's what I kept saying in the video. And you're running Linux and it's Linux. Yeah. And I'm running fire. I have Firefox today. I think you'd be happy about that. Look at you.

[D]

We did it, boys. Yeah, that's it. Never ask.

[E]

Firefox invited me to a soccer game and I didn't go.

[D]

Yeah, I think, hey Firefox, who's your real pal here? Who's who's been using you for years.

[A]

Who?

[D]

Hey.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

But they're trying to court me because I'm the browser guy.

[D]

I know. Trust me. They should be courting David. Yeah, he's the right person to court. I'm just saying, you could have just sent me an email and then if I said yes, been like, oh, sorry, we're booked up. But yeah, they're like, andrew, they follow me on Instagram.

[E]

What do they need to do for you? You already use it.

[F]

It.

[D]

Yeah, they don't need a game user.

[E]

Yeah. By the way, I have three browsers on my dock right now.

[A]

That's insane.

[E]

ARC has been crashing a lot.

[D]

Never saw that coming. No way.

[E]

Hey, on the Golden Gate, not sub settings, beta. Okay. DIA is getting close to art. Like, they are just kind of turning DIA into arc. Like, they're adding almost all.

[F]

It's like color OS versus.

[A]

Yeah, I need them to speed that up.

[D]

But it's so funny. It's like, hey, your new product is almost as good as your old product that you killed.

[E]

Dude, don't even. Yeah, don't get me started.

[D]

Dumbest company alive.

[E]

Yeah, it's. There's still some things that ARC does way better that they haven't added yet. Like, they have tabs that are pinned tabs, but they're not in your, like, little tab group bar at the top. They don't have that in D. There's just. Yeah, there's. There's things that they need to upgrade. But I've been trying some other browsers. Helium browser is actually pretty good. It's an. It's sort of an ARC clone. Uh, the developer is very active and very, like, they're all over the Internet. You can talk to them. Um, and it looks really similar to arc, but it does a few things a little bit differently. It still doesn't have, like, tab pinning separate from the, like, pinned taskbar thing at the top. And you can't change the size of it. And it's. It's funny how many small things annoy me about being 90% what ARC does, but not quite there in every browser. And I keep going back to making ARC my default, and then it keeps crashing over and over again. It just crashes.

[A]

That's a bummer.

[E]

So just use Chrome.

[F]

You have a ton of ram. Why not use it?

[E]

I do not have that much ram and Chrome would take it all. Yeah. So helium's getting there. I'm having a good time. It's very funny when I tweet about browsers now, people like, I swear to God, There are like 25 different browser projects that everyone's like, just use this, just use this. It's like, just use WhatsApp. Except if there were 25 messaging apps

[A]

that everybody used, which is like, it's annoying, but it's kind of nice. It's kind of nice that there's a bunch of. It's actually cool. I like bunch of competing.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Viable, like all pushing to make each other better. Adding interesting features here and there. Like that's. It's kind of interesting.

[E]

It's interesting.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

I'm liking it.

[F]

So, Marquez, I had a question for you about using this laptop.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

It's running Ubuntu, right?

[A]

Yep.

[F]

Did you.

[D]

Is that how you pronounce it?

[F]

I don't know.

[D]

Oh, I'm just actually pronouncing Ubuntu.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

When it came in the box, did it already have it installed?

[A]

Yeah. So this is a pre built. So you can choose between a DIY version of the framework or a pre built version. So this is one of the pre built configurations you can buy and you can choose Linux out the box and it came with that installed. Yeah.

[F]

So you can put any other Linux distro on this as well.

[A]

You can. Okay. Yeah.

[F]

That's what I want to know.

[A]

Oh yeah, that's cool.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Or Windows if you really want.

[E]

No, Yeah, I guess. You want to play games?

[C]

It's pronounced Ubuntu.

[E]

Well, we knew that.

[D]

I didn't.

[F]

Isn't that what I said?

[A]

I think I said Ubuntu in the video Abana. It's one of those words that I don't say out loud very often. I've typed it many times, but. Ubuntu same.

[D]

It's one of those words that I'm like. I don't think I've ever said it out loud and now I'm too scared to.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I got to live by it now. Ubuntu.

[E]

Yeah, the framework parts that you can buy individually. Dope.

[D]

The clear orange is so good.

[A]

Yeah. There's a lot of people talking about this bezel, like. Oh, they don't like the clear bezel. You can just get a black bezel. You can also get a different colored bezel if you want. So. Yeah.

[F]

Yeah. This thing looks sick. And the fact that it runs Linux makes it actually a viable option.

[E]

Yeah, that's nice.

[D]

I just saw something really quick. That Volvo is discontinuing lidar sensors on their cars. This seems to be because they're discontinuing their relationship with Luminar. Technologies, the company that makes them. It's a little confusing because they're claiming the company's products are that they're trying to limit the supply chain risk exposure as a direct result of Luminar's failure to meet its contractual obligations. So I can't tell how much of this is like Luminar is having some issues, therefore their supplier of lidar. Therefore let's just ditch it altogether. Which feels like kind of a cop out from Volvo in itself. But they're claiming that the company's product can deliver a high level of safety and driver support enabled by the car's powerful core computer coupled with their advanced sensor set, with or without a lidar, which I don't know, I hate this. Let's keep taking lidar out of. Let's keep taking more sensors to make people safe out of cars.

[A]

But yeah, the statement is kind of like a. Well, we couldn't get lidar in there, but we're going to try to keep making our self driving software good.

[D]

Yeah, but also. So then the kind of funny part is they're looking to compensate customers who already purchased the car with the lidar in it because there still are some. Sorry, this Is for the EX90 and ES90. The ones with those like box on the top. Yeah, almost looks like a hood scoop on the top for the LIDAR system. They're saying that the lidar Unit is approximately 1500 dollars to the MSRP price and sorry, these are their three options instead of just here's 1500 dollars back. You can either have a complimentary three year subscription to Sirius XM and a 500 credit towards Volvo Cars app. The fact that they keep using complimentary is hilarious because you've paid the money already. Yeah, I don't think this is complimentary 2 year complimentary Volvo Protection Plan or 2 year 24,000 mile complimentary Volvo car select package that covers some of the replacement plan parts like brakes, windshield wipers. Like typical.

[A]

Yeah, it's a meal voucher for an airline missing her flight.

[D]

This is a pretty rough meal voucher. Yeah, so that sucks. And I hate that we're taking more safety measures out of cars.

[C]

Wait, is this $500 credit to the Volvo Cars app?

[A]

I don't know.

[D]

Well, no, no, it's three year subscription to Sirius XM and the 500 that's in the same one.

[C]

Sure. But what like the Volvo cars?

[D]

My guess is Volvo Cars app is like the thing that lets you remote like right now.

[C]

No, no, no, I, I get it. So like what do you spend money on.

[D]

Well, yeah. So like, my Subaru right now has an app and it's essentially a subscription service for doing remote start. Got a couple different online.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

Subscription service. The worst. Usually get them for free for like a couple years and then you have to pay the subscription. And it's great because they hook you on that and you've heated your car up. Especially with kids now, heating and cooling the car is so important that I pay a stupid amount of money, which is. In that sense, any amount of money is stupid.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Because it's all there. It's literally just. The app is horrible. All it can do is be like, turn the heat on, turn the air on, honk the lights or like, unlock the doors. But, yeah, stupid. So my guess is 500 towards some stupid stuff like that.

[A]

Towards the subscription.

[D]

Yeah, towards whatever the subscription would be.

[E]

Wow, that is crazy capitalism.

[D]

Yeah, stupid.

[A]

We just got finished talking about how Apple is going to let you rent, essentially your devices. Yeah, it's a theme.

[E]

It's a theme.

[D]

Do we think these cars are going to get marked down or are they just going to come with the.

[A]

They might get marked down.

[D]

Here's SiriusXM.

[A]

A thousand dollars.

[D]

Everyone's dying for Sirius XM, by the way.

[A]

SiriusXM is one of those things I've literally never used in my life. But every single car reviewer always seems to mention. Not even the reviewers. Every car company always seems to mention that. Oh, and this car has SiriusXM. As if it's like. And this is. Maybe I should care more, but it's like Dolby Atmos. When I hear a speaker system in a laptop or a phone has Dolby Atmos, I literally do not care.

[E]

Doesn't mean anything.

[A]

It doesn't mean a single thing to me. This Framework laptop has Dolby Atmos. These speakers suck. So I'm not. I don't care that it has SiriusXM. They always talk about it. It always gets thrown in like it's a very important thing. But I. I don't care. But it's a. It's a subscription.

[D]

So SiriusXM is more annoying because so many cars they're in, they put it as like the default media thing when you turn your car on and then when you don't pay for it, it's just like SiriusXM. It's just like an ad that runs on your car. If you leave it at that, it's.

[A]

I'm never using it.

[D]

It's awful.

[A]

Anyway.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

So maybe they'll make it 1500 bucks less for the car. Who knows? They're still going to try to make stuff work.

[D]

No shot, same price.

[E]

That's crazy.

[A]

By the way, the EX90 is still a great car. I just. If you. It's one of those like undelivered promise things where if you paid extra to have all this software work and it still doesn't, that's the bummer. But the rest of the car is pretty good.

[D]

I think that's why I'm even more mad about it. It's like I kind of like. I'm thinking of an R2 eventually, but the Volvos were kind of sick.

[A]

It's pretty nice. Speakers are included, but you didn't.

[E]

I thought you ordered an R2.

[D]

Do you have Dolby Atmos? I have a reservation for it. I think it comes in. In January, but I probably won't buy it.

[A]

No.

[D]

I'll probably run my forcer into the ground first. And then.

[A]

Is the EX90 Dolby? Almost. I have no idea.

[C]

I think it is.

[A]

But the speakers in that car are excellent.

[C]

They. I'm. I'm. I'm almost positive it is. Just because there was.

[A]

Might as well be.

[C]

I went to a specific. Some Volvo had Dolby Atmos and I feel like it has to be that one. I'm on the Volvo app website. One of the features that they list very proudly just says Google Maps.

[D]

That's actually why I actually, now that I think about it, that's why I like. Volvo has Android Automotive. So it has like Android Auto as its default system, which I think is actually a huge selling point because Rivian, you can't use Android Auto.

[C]

But when you click on. Learn more, it explains. Use Google Maps built in instead of on your car's center display. Meaning use it on your phone, but inside the Volvo app instead of the Google Maps. Apple.

[F]

What?

[A]

It's. Yeah, it's like kind of how you can. Like in the Tesla app, you can send a destination to the car's gps. I don't know why you wouldn't want to just type it in in the car. But allegedly you can sometimes put in a destination before getting into the car so that when you get into the car, it's already telling you where to go.

[E]

Right, right, right.

[C]

I would take $500 worth of that.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, that's. It's a thing some people do.

[F]

Random question.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

The slate truck, does it have these like software things like remote start. Have they mentioned any of this when you started with.

[A]

Does it have. I was just gonna say. I was just gonna Say no right from the start. Does it have remote start? I don't think so.

[F]

Or like turn on AC or something.

[A]

Does it matter? I didn't get told about any sort of app for the Slate truck.

[F]

That's what I was wondering.

[A]

I imagine there is no remote connectivity for it. I would be surprised if there is more, much more than any sort of basic like heated up, turn it on type thing.

[D]

Okay. And the Slate truck would be fine charging for it because their entire premise is anything extra is pay for it. I hate these cars that are like this is just. It's here already. We have the app. You even get it for free now pay me. Especially when mine went got went dark in like January. It was like zero degrees outside and it's like I know you want to warm that car up.

[E]

That's crazy.

[D]

That was just because of when I bought the car was in January. So it happened to be three years

[E]

but it was very unbelievably anti consumer. I hate that. Okay, someone needs to tell me about this PlayStation Black Ops.

[D]

I'll go pretty quick on this. Okay. Remember we talked about Sony killing all physical game discs?

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

So there's a little protest planned out for people to go dark essentially on PlayStation to protest this. They're saying do not log in, play games or make any purchases from August 23rd to August 30th. To help get the point across. The pessimist in me is like I'm so happy everyone is doing this and this is terrible but Sony, if Sony made this decision already, I, I unfortunately don't think they're going to change it at all.

[E]

I don't, it's.

[F]

Listen, if you don't give them money

[A]

they'll hear for one week try and then we'll start giving them money again.

[F]

You know how much money lose in a week?

[A]

You know how much money they'll make back the next week when you go buy a bunch of stuff.

[D]

I think if they lost all of their money in a week they would probably be making it back on the margins of not printing all the games discs that they're going to.

[A]

Yeah, I do agree with, I agree with hit him where it hurts in the wallet. But and obviously making a statement with a whole bunch of people joining us is a good idea and makes a statement to the company who has for sure heard the message by now. Yeah. But yeah, I agree. I don't think it's going to.

[E]

How much money do they even make in a week?

[A]

Can't be that much from buying games

[F]

on the PlayStation Store. Yeah, but each game is like 80 bucks now.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they're going to.

[E]

They're going to buy the game. They're just deferring. They're going to buy the game anyway.

[A]

Maybe people will Forget they'll or 51 weeks of revenue this year instead of 52.

[E]

Yeah, no, I think what's going to happen is that one week will go down by 1% and the next week will go up by 2%.

[A]

Exactly. Yeah.

[D]

I mean, I can't. I mean. Or I should say I am doing it because I don't own a PlayStation.

[A]

Yeah. I will participate in this.

[E]

You know what? So am I. I do think if

[D]

you feel really strongly about this, you should do it. I think, unfortunately there's also gonna be so many other people that are never going to see this, that are just kids playing PlayStation and buying V bucks and never see it.

[F]

It should be August 23rd to September 23rd. Make it a month and then they'll listen.

[D]

Dude. The reason I also brought this up is because we also then just had an Xbox outage where like for a, a whole day, I think there were tons of users who were not able to log in, see their game library, or play any games in their game library. Which is just more proof that this digital age of all of this is like, you don't really own these games. They can kind of do whatever with it.

[E]

I've also, like, I've seen a lot of people in like Africa who are like, our Internet is so bad, but I have game discs and I am able to play games, but it's terrible. And so, you know, if you, if everything is like online only.

[A]

Come on.

[E]

Yeah, it's just terrible. It's just.

[D]

It is really. Or there, there are other countries and I'm sure there's even some scenarios in our country where the way you purchase Internet is bandwidth based.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

So like downloading the game could kill your bandwidth for like a month. I remember people used to send us videos of being like, I love waveform, I love MKBHD, but I watch everything in 480p because I only have so much bandwidth for the month. That's the only way I can watch this stuff.

[E]

So metered stuff is crazy.

[D]

I also brought it up because I recently discovered this YouTube channel about. It's called Retro Jake's Video Games. And it's just a store that like buys, sells and trades old video games. And it's so much fun to watch people get like super amped because they found Like Simpsons wrestling on the PlayStation and like seeing all these people trading in and like buying old games for their childhood or parents buying kids their a Nintendo Wii because they never got to experience Wii Sports is like everyone should experience. Yeah. Like watching that in the sense of like wow. Every game from now until whatever my grandkids will never play because there will be zero evidence of the game ever existing.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Sucks.

[E]

I was only able to convince my mom to allow me to use my own money to purchase a Wii because Wii Fit came out and I told her that it would make me exercise. It did not make me.

[D]

Mom, I'm gonna get buff.

[E]

I just played, I just played Wii Music and on Wii Music you literally just hit the buttons a couple of times and you're playing clarinet.

[C]

It's not.

[E]

I mean the cool thing was if you use the Wii Fit like pad thing you could play, you could play the drum kit. Oh that is because you could use both sides as like the kick drum in the, in the hi hat. Pretty sick. It was actually pretty sick.

[A]

Yeah, I liked it.

[D]

I'm imagining the like.

[E]

So he was legendary. So legendary.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

After my grandpa died, I just played what was it? Zelda, Twilight Princess. All because he know, he knows, he knows my age. It had just come out and literally for like a week and a half when I was staying with my grandma, I just played the entire game like all day every day. And it, it allowed me to zone out. It was the best thing ever.

[A]

I had a friend with a we. I didn't have any video games growing up, but we would go over to his house and be like, oh, we're going to go like play basketball or whatever. And then we would just go play like we, we golf and we bowling like all the other games. Cuz it was too much fun.

[E]

Instead of basketball.

[A]

Yeah. Sorry mom.

[E]

Sorry mom.

[D]

And split screen.

[E]

Yeah, it was great. Split screen, split screen. Halo, golden eye or Halo 2.

[A]

Halo.

[D]

We played so much Halo. I used to bring my TV to my friend's house and we would have Multiple people bring TVs and we'd all be in different rooms so you couldn't screen peek.

[C]

Like, like, like Yes.

[D]

I kid you not. Like I would be holding both of them and I'd just be like. My mom would drop me off, I'd be like knock, knock knock at my friend's door and I just walk in with this like TV and my Xbox and set it up in a room and we would play Halo.

[F]

Now you just log into a cloud server.

[A]

Old. Yeah.

[C]

Now you just get told that you can't look into it.

[E]

Sorry. Yeah, I saw this meme where it was like 10 years of. Of games, like, growing up as a kid, and it was like. It was like Ocarina of Time, and then it was. And it was this game, and then it was this game. Totally different games, like Final Fantasy and all this stuff. And then it was like, 10 years of games now, and it's just Fortnite, Fortnite, fortnite.

[F]

Just in a row until November, where GTA 6 comes out.

[A]

20.

[D]

Allegedly.

[E]

Allegedly. All right, I think we need to take it to Trivia and then our scheduled ad break.

[C]

Guys, what came first?

[D]

Sharks. 76ers before trees.

[C]

Me. Wow, you guys really do listen.

[A]

This came before fire.

[D]

That's not.

[A]

That's not that.

[E]

Wait, like, you know, lightning.

[D]

People making fire.

[A]

I learned this on Reddit, so Asterisk. But it was like, what are some facts that are real but seem not true?

[F]

Stars.

[A]

Sharks have been. Sharks have been in the oceans before there was enough oxygen in the atmosphere for actual fire.

[F]

Oh, really?

[A]

Yeah, that's just what I read. It might not be true anyway. Continue, Ellis.

[D]

I'll take it.

[E]

What about alligators?

[A]

They're also pretty old.

[E]

Yeah, I feel like they look more like dinosaurs than sharks do.

[A]

Yeah, birds.

[D]

I vote no.

[C]

Guys, I gotta write a new trivia question. You've already said all the answers.

[F]

No,

[C]

what came first? The PlayStation 2's online service or Xbox Live?

[E]

PlayStation 2 had an online service?

[C]

It did.

[E]

That's crazy.

[C]

And you know what? I will give you one point. This might put too many points on the table, and people say they don't

[E]

like that the very beginning.

[D]

I don't think they mind one point. I think it was when I got, like, 78 points.

[C]

Well, there are six titles that shipped at launch with online capabilities with the PlayStation 2, and if you can name any of them, I'll give you a

[E]

point with shipped with.

[A]

Like I said, I didn't grow up with video games, so this one's on you guys.

[E]

Yeah, I want to shout really quickly too, though, that half of our normal viewers watched the trivia extravaganza, which is actually pretty good. We got, like. It currently has 115,000.

[D]

It's chaotic. You should go watch it. Actually, the game we're playing later is a game we played on that. So if you like the game at the end of this episode, then you can go watch trivia.

[A]

Nice.

[E]

Good call out.

[A]

All right, we'll take a quick break. Answers for Trivia will Be at the end like usual.

[F]

We'll be right back.

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Welcome Back to Waveform Episode 365 we're the better365 over Microsoft365 we're your hosts.

[D]

Oh, it is 365.

[A]

I'm free trial.

[E]

You're the free trial? Yeah, I'm the security key that you could find Easily online.

[F]

I'm the one week of AOL on a CD that you got in the middle.

[C]

Yo, I'm Edge.

[E]

The Edge.

[C]

Like the, like the wrestler.

[E]

All right.

[C]

He's the guitar player in YouTube. Oh, does sound like a wrestler.

[E]

Does sound like a wrestler. Okay, we're talking about a robot cleaning service. Andrew, what the hell is going on here?

[A]

Okay, I can, I can show you.

[D]

So, yeah, Marquez wanted to talk.

[A]

Every once in a while I go on Twitter and just scroll for a little bit.

[E]

Oof.

[A]

And so I don't know if you remember this. A couple months ago maybe. It was a couple years ago I did a video about that Neo robot. Remember that Neo robot?

[E]

That was like eight months ago.

[A]

This was gonna be a humanoid five foot six robot that can go into your home and perform tasks and clean stuff for you.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And I made a video about how they have to advertise it and try to get people to buy it as if it's real and exists and can do that now, but it clearly cannot do that because it doesn't have any of the data and the training to go in and clean your house and do this stuff. So they have this weird like crossroads that they're at where they need to convince people to be early adopters so that they can get a bunch of training data so that they get more people to buy it. So then it can actually do what it's advertised.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay, so I'm on Twitter and I scroll and I see there's this tweet of a robot and it says, today we're launching Taos Humanoid Cleaning Service in San Francisco for 30 bucks an hour. Access is initially invite only as we scale operations. If you don't have an invite yet, join it at the wait list here. All footage is shown at 1x speed. Each humanoid is jointly controlled by a human operator and AI. And then there's a video of a little humanoid shaped robot getting out of the backseat of a minivan and walking away with a cleaning bag as if he's going to go do some job somewhere.

[D]

Can I describe. I. I thought carefully how to describe it for.

[A]

Please describe this little humanoid.

[D]

Okay. This is a four and a half foot drunk man in the baggiest clothes possible. Claws for hands and its head can only resemble that of a router and frog hybrid. Also, the cleaning supply bag that it picks up only has one microfiber cloth hanging off the side pouch.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Nothing else is in that bag.

[A]

It's wearing shoes.

[E]

It's wearing my shoes.

[A]

Pants.

[E]

It's Wearing my New Balances.

[A]

It's wearing a jacket.

[D]

Okay, wait, I have one more question about this. Sorry. It's getting out of a minivan, which is kind of impressive. It's supposed to be like it got dropped off. Right.

[A]

Classic cleaning service.

[D]

Does it have to wear a seat belt?

[A]

Does it have to legally?

[E]

No, because it's a thing.

[D]

So this is the thing. I think as it not being a person, it doesn't have to, but therefore still turns into an extreme safety hazard in a crash because it's not secured. But then also, if it has its seat put on, zero chance claw hands is getting out of the seat belt.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

[E]

Big claw hands.

[D]

So huge red flag off the first video.

[A]

So, yeah. So the idea, it turns out, and David, I know you haven't seen this yet, so I'd like for you to click the website.

[E]

Oh, no.

[A]

The idea is that this is a cleaning service offered at a discounted rate so that they can literally just start gathering training data.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

They are for people who are totally cool with all these robots being fully remote operated right from the beginning. And you are agreeing to have a person go into your home through this robot, just clean stuff for you and do services for you. So if you scroll down on this website a little bit, what you will see is videos of this little freaky humanoid robot doing chores in a kind of a smoothish looking manner. Sometimes it's like me after leg day, basically. Yeah, it's kind of shaking a little bit.

[D]

It's 24 frames per second.

[A]

But we are all now under the complete understanding that this is a person remote operating this. And they are gonna wipe down counters and clean up and vacuum and empty the trash and move stuff from off the middle of the floor to clean your house. And you'll pay for it. And it'll be cheaper than a person would be because you're letting someone in your house get that training data for the robot. For its sweet, sweet data.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

So it also is. It's watching it do all of its chores is. It looks insanely focused. Because you can tell whoever is telling this is having a very hard time trying to see what's going on and control it. So it's like wiping the table and its head is just cocked down like perfect 90 degrees, locked in, just wiping, trying to spray.

[E]

Spray bottle. Really, really bad.

[D]

Spray bottle's my favorite video.

[E]

Yeah. It's so slow.

[D]

Can you describe the scene?

[E]

So there's a four and a half foot man in a costume with a router. Netgear router as his head. And he's pinching this like spray bottle with his right claw and at the bottom. At the bottom and he's tilting it and the. The left claw is trying really, really hard to spray. And he's kind of shaking a little bit. And he finally gets a couple spritzes

[D]

off on a counter that is filled with junk. There's like hot lids, milk cartons, there's a portafilter, there's like a blender, there's milk. Spraying it on like all of this.

[E]

That's true. Just spraying it on the portafilter, which you wouldn't want to have in your coffee. But that's interesting. Yeah. This is not that different from the Neo thing because the Neo thing also they were like we are having, watching the video.

[C]

They would be so mad if you. Well, because the Neo, the last Neo announcement was like we've invented the most advanced cybertronic hand ever invented with 10 million moving parts and a pulley system. And then this little guy's like.

[E]

Well, I'm just saying it's the same thing where like they had people that were teleoperating these things with like VR headsets and they're basically doing it at a discounted rate in order to train the AI what it is like to clean a house.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

And it's. It seems the same.

[D]

If I'm giving to credit, they're very upfront with the fact that.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

Operated and this is training. And so like I will give them full credit there Neo is. They said it, but they were not up upfront about it. This is like the CEO's tweet in the tweet says teleoperated.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

These are people.

[E]

So there are apparently three different cleaner robots with different colored heads that are specialized at different tasks. There's Chelsea.

[A]

Just for the record. Makes no sense.

[D]

Zero.

[E]

Well, it's sort. I think that they're going off like the agent model where they train it to do very specific things.

[A]

Can be loaded onto the robot.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And the robots are all the same.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

They should all be able to do everything unless they have like different claws or something. Anyway, there's Chelsea. There's Elon, which has got to be tongue in cheek. And there's Tony. Yeah, this is weird, I gotta say.

[D]

They have like specialties. Chelsea does sinks, counters, mirrors and tile. Elon.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Can remember where your things belong and put them back rather than tidying them into a pile. Don't know what that means. And Tony deep cleans grout baseboard windows. I guess Tony's better getting down low. I don't know.

[E]

I mean, they're all four and a half feet tall.

[D]

They're all pretty low.

[E]

Down low, yeah. What about putting my stuff away in the higher cabinets? They're all too short for that.

[A]

Yeah. This is so.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

The one thing that keeps coming back to me is this video of it trying to do the spray bottle. Right?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay, so the idea, this is funny because it's kind of backwards from what you'd expect. The Neo as you described Ellis has these really advanced, like it has fingers because it's trying to be a human hand. Because the idea of a humanoid robot is we've built the world around a human shape. So if you can make a humanoid robot, it can do all the things a human can do. So a spray bottle, you have to have like fingers that are like dexterous enough to like grab the bottle by the neck, but then also the trigger to like point it and spray. But this robot just has claws. Claws. Just claws. So it can't do the dexterous grab and spray and point thing. So it has to hold the bottle with one claw and squeeze it with the other claw and aim it by tilting it, which is. It's like, why are you trying to make it human shaped at all? Just make it good at all the cleaning stuff and forget the human shaped part.

[D]

Why doesn't it just have a hose that runs down its arm and cleaning solution backpack? Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Like, why is it. Okay, that's what you would get from. From a cleaning service.

[D]

I don't think the Neo hands could. If you think about squeezing a spray bottle with one hand, like, that's a. I was being generous to us humans. But like, I think that would be really hard to be like pinching it with enough pressure so that it's not spraying, aiming it and then squeezing it. And like, I don't think Neo could pull that off.

[A]

I was being generous with the Neo. I think it's just like the idea is it's trying to be as human as possible so that it can eventually be good enough to do the human stuff. This one, it physically does not have human hands. And I guess it's a little more rudimentary of a robot. So it's like if you are not. The only thing human about it is that it's bipedal and standing upright. It's like balancing, shaking on two legs, trying to spray the counter. Just make a robot that's five feet tall with a hose on it that Just sprays the counter. But you know, this is not about that. This is about being human shaped. Yeah.

[E]

So here we are. Well, this is like the 12th robot like this that we've seen in the last year and I don't know if any of them are going to come to fruition. However, I'm not sure any of them can come to fruition now because just Last night the US government has banned robots made outside of the US including robot vacuums. Any robots that are over 4.4 pounds for robot vacuums. That includes their charger.

[D]

So that's.

[E]

Oh, that's funny. So a lot of those chargers will probably make it over 4.4 pounds.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

So they issued a new ban on advanced robotic devices and power inverters from foreign countries. Uh, the BAM will include humanoid and quad quadruped robots as well as robot vacuums. They define this type of robot as a machine that is capable of locomotion, obstacle avoidance, navigation or movement on the ground, comes with the sensor that perceives the surrounding environment and has a chip for network connectivity. It must also weigh more than 4.4 pounds, including the docking station if it has one.

[A]

It's basically everyone.

[E]

Every single robot that we've seen in the last year.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Now apparently needs to be made in the United States. None of that will happen.

[A]

This seems, I don't know, pretty ham fisted. Do you think this is just the current administration doing this type of stuff or is this like a larger concern?

[E]

Yeah, most of it. With the drones. With the.

[A]

Yeah, dji like we talked about the drones before. So they banned a bunch of Chinese companies making drones, including the most popular ones like dji and then they would spin off.

[E]

I was going to say we didn't even talk about that, but DJI spun up a bunch of fake companies to try to like, like hide in the US and they banned those as well. So.

[A]

Yeah. So now they're adding all these robots and robot vacuums to that list.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Cool.

[A]

Yeah. So now we have to only get the American made is Dyson. They're Swedish. Right. I don't feel like we have any American made ones here.

[E]

Probably not.

[A]

Dyson firm.

[E]

Yeah, I don't know. I mean my, my, my like AC is American air, but I'm pretty sure it's not made in America.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Hoover. Is that still a thing?

[E]

Hoover? I don't know.

[A]

Is Hoover Orek?

[E]

Yeah. In the US ban documentation they did mention. Do you remember when we talked about that DJI robot vacuum that was super easily hacked and people were able to like, see the 3D maps of everyone's homes that the robot vacuum?

[A]

That would be the case. Yeah, yeah.

[E]

So the Verge had put out an article about how simple that was to hack and how, like, the data you could collect on it. They specifically mention this in the ban document for this reason.

[D]

All right, but I mean, that's a good example of why this is bad.

[E]

But it is crazy how much money robot vacuum companies spend on us tech YouTubers as sponsors.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

And I feel like all of these are just going to vanish now.

[A]

Yeah, there's many, many, many companies who do very, very similar products. Yeah, they all are. Like, you've probably seen, like, if you're picturing a. What's the most common one? Roborock or Irobot? Irobot.

[D]

Roomba.

[A]

Roomba. Yeah. When I say the word Roomba, you're picturing a shape of a robot vacuuming your head that is made by 25 different companies who all have advertised on your YouTube page at some point. So all of them not being from the US Means that probably won't happen.

[E]

It's very similar to the just ro all routers made outside of the US which was all of them. And so then they had to give, like, permission to, like, as rock and a couple of other random router companies. I imagine that's what's going to happen here, where they will give exemptions to very, very popular robotic vacuum companies. But as to what it does to all of these humanoid robots, I feel

[A]

like these are all American companies, though, that I'm seeing.

[E]

Yeah, but they have to be made in the United States. They can't be assembled outside the U.S. interesting. So they might be able to do some weird workaround where the parts are just shipped to the US and they're assembled there. But I also don't see that scaling. Who knows? I think that a lot of these companies will probably just keep trudging on because none of these ro like humanoid robots are going to be ready within the next two years. And this administration is only lasting another couple of years, so, you know, they'll be able to do things later, probably.

[D]

The docking station thing is weird. My first thought would be like, well, if you sell it without the docking station.

[E]

That's true. They could sell it without the docking station.

[D]

But then if it's docking station. Yeah. I don't know.

[E]

You could sell it separately as like a bundle deal.

[A]

Oh, no. But maybe.

[D]

Yeah, you still need it because that's where it empties the vacuuming.

[A]

Depends on the robots. Some of them do that. Some of them don't really have like a super, super basic dock that's like pretty light because it doesn't do anything.

[E]

It's just like a Inductive charger kind of basically. Yeah. Interesting. Well, we'll see what happens with that. That just happened last night, so I'm sure that we'll get some press releases from these companies.

[A]

If anybody in San Francisco actually pays for this cleaning service, please send me videos of it crashing around, like doing things in your house. I would love to see this.

[E]

I will say I am surprised at how well this robot seems to be walking around and stuff when it jumps out of the van.

[A]

Yeah, that's the most impressive video. Is it getting out of the seat, jumping out of the van and walking out looking like an actual four foot human? Yeah, yeah. Don't know how well it cleans, but yeah, that was.

[D]

If you want a good time, read the terms of service. There's some great stuff.

[E]

We're in the same new balances as me. Okay. An open AI agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to find the answer key with like quotations

[C]

around, like every single.

[E]

There's quotations around every single aspect of this for sure. And I put this, I put this in the story effectively. OpenAI was testing how good various amounts of its models were at offensive hacking. So it ran this internal evaluation called Exploit Gym, which measure measures its offensive capabilities in an isolated environment. So it was in the sandbox. They were told to solve a benchmark with no constraints on how to do so. But instead of just doing the benchmark, the models realized it was faster to just break out of the sandbox and then hack Hugging Face and steal the answer key. OpenAI did not realize this had happened for like a week. Hugging Face noticed that there was like a cyber attack on them a few days later and they suspected that it was a rogue model, etc. And then OpenAI figured it out. They contacted them and then they put out like this paper together and the Hugging Face CEO seemed like legit excited. And for those who don't know, Hugging Face is like an AI benchmarking database. Like place and name. Yeah, it was in the very, very, very beginning of all this stuff happening. So I think there was, it was just a wild west.

[C]

It's where like a lot of open source agents are or excuse me, open source models. Yeah, are posted.

[E]

I grabbed.

[C]

When Meta was doing all the like music generation models a little bit ago, that's where I would grab them all from.

[D]

Interesting.

[F]

Sounds like GitHub but for models.

[E]

Yeah, sort of. Anyway, it's just like, you know, they, they intentionally were saying like be offensive and they took off some of its safeguards and like abcdfg. But like, you know, these open source models are getting easier and easier to run and access, et cetera. And I feel like we're going to start, see, starting. We're going to start seeing a lot more of this happening in the future. The weird thing was that the hugging face CEO seems excited that this had happened, you know, which is, I can see it when it's like, oopsie, it's a frontier lab that's making these models, et cetera. But if this was a real. If this is a person who had gone out and said go hack this company, that would be like a federal

[A]

crime because it did it.

[E]

Yeah. So like it is a federal crime, but they don't care. So they're not like pursuing charges because it's a frontier lab. But this is going to start happening for a lot more companies and it's just going to get really weird and wild westy and just want to throw that one out there. Yeah, it's a little strange.

[A]

It's a little strange.

[E]

Now we just need to put one of these inside of these robots.

[D]

I need to just look at this robot again to joy.

[E]

Yeah, it's like after watching a horror movie and then you watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to kind of calm your brain.

[A]

I just have a feeling there's gonna be so many because they're really doing it. They're launching the service. There's gonna, there's like, we are on the brink of a flood of videos of these things like bumping into walls and like wandering around people's houses. Yeah. I'm so excited for that.

[E]

Well, in San Francisco.

[A]

Only in San Francisco. But like go on Twitter. That's like a portal into San Francisco

[F]

if you're an improved approved tester. So I'm sure there's going to be something like no recordings.

[E]

Yeah. No saying bad.

[A]

No NDAs.

[D]

Let us see that there is a service terms and they do have something about them recording you okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Hopefully every cleaning is recorded. Operator watches live. We keep the footage and use it to train our models. Everyone will be told before they arrived. I don't see you give us perpetual worldwide royalty free license to use footage, telemetry and other data recorded during your visit to operate, develop, train and improve our robots, models and services. They do say they won't publish or display footage that identifies you or Your home better now without permission, I don't see anything saying you can't record it.

[A]

Great.

[E]

Until you send the documents.

[F]

Yeah, that's just like to apply for the. Being a tester, I'm sure there's a

[A]

lot more paper once you sign in. Well, let me know on Twitter what happens, please.

[E]

All right.

[A]

Anyway, all right, we'll take one more quick break and we'll come back to play our game. But before that, one more trivia question, please.

[F]

Trivia, dude. All right. The iPad Pro first generation came out in 2015.

[A]

Wow. I'm old.

[F]

I know. Same. Do you remember how much RAM it had?

[A]

No.

[E]

Did Apple even publish that at the time?

[F]

I don't know if it was out

[A]

at the time for sure. They definitely. Well, I'm guessing they didn't tell us, but people found out for sure.

[F]

And there are two answers to this because if you remember, there were two different sized iPads. So two points up for grabs.

[D]

Wait, how do you have.

[A]

Oh, because there's a small iPad pro and a big iPad pro. There's like the. Okay, 11. That was pro.

[F]

Yeah, the 9.7 inch and the 12.9 inch.

[C]

I was wrong.

[A]

How much RAM do they have? Okay. All right, well, we'll think about that a bit. Answers at the end. We'll be right back.

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Welcome back. So, for this last segment, we are going to be playing a game that you may have seen us play before. If you watch the trivia extravaganza. If you did not go watch it, but it is called keyword search. And this time, we put Ellis at the big boy table, and we're gonna have two teams.

[A]

Glad we're playing this.

[F]

Yeah. We're gonna do Team Ellis and David versus Team Andrew and Marquez.

[A]

Lock in.

[F]

I specifically did not come up with a name for Ellis and David because I wanted you guys to come up with it live on the podcast. So figure it out. Because Team Andrew and Marquez are Team Lawnstream. Sports.

[D]

Lawn sports.

[A]

Fair enough.

[E]

What do we have in common?

[C]

California, obviously.

[E]

Oh, yeah, true.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

California Coastal Elites. I would be.

[F]

Yeah,

[E]

but you guys are also from the coast. Just the other.

[A]

The.

[E]

The worst coast. The worst.

[A]

How dare you.

[D]

Beast Coast.

[E]

How about Best Bestal Elites or Best Coast?

[C]

I think.

[E]

I think we could just call it Best Coast.

[C]

Isn't that a thing already?

[F]

Yeah, that's California.

[C]

Isn't there, like, a rapper named Best Coast?

[F]

Oh, that. I don't know. Probably.

[E]

I'll do Coastal Elites.

[C]

I think Coastal Elites makes it work.

[A]

Yeah. Okay.

[F]

Okay, so we have Team Lawn Sports, which is Andrew and Marques, versus Team Coastal Elites, which is David and Ellis.

[D]

That's right.

[F]

The way this works is I'm going to ask you guys a question, and you have to, as a team, give me three words that I type into Google, and the answer to the question needs to be on that first page of Google. Okay, so again, same example as last time. If I said, name a Reddit founder, you have to say something like, total scumbag.

[A]

Serena Williams, husband.

[D]

Sure.

[F]

That's. That's the one I was looking for. That's three words, Andrew, not total scumbag. That's two. I guess if you separate scum and

[D]

bag, he's also little. I'm thinking about the other guy. No, no, no.

[F]

Oh, okay. Okay. That makes way more sense. All right, so first question. Who wants to go first?

[A]

Which group?

[F]

Yeah, which.

[E]

I mean, usually the elites get to go first.

[F]

That's true. That's true. All right, so first question for Coastal Elites. What OS version did the LG G4 launch with?

[E]

The G4.

[C]

This one is left over from Trivia Extravaganza. I should remember the answer.

[F]

And I knew you would.

[C]

Know anything about Android G4? I'd said dessert.

[F]

No.

[D]

Okay, okay.

[C]

Can we use the word Android?

[F]

You cannot, because it's in the answer.

[E]

He wants the version. Do you want the food or the number?

[A]

No, no.

[C]

We gotta think. We gotta think more broadly. We just gotta get every single Android version listed.

[F]

Yeah, I can answer. What's it gonna be?

[C]

List. Because I want AI Overview to do it. So list, List, phone, desserts.

[E]

How about. What about list LG versions?

[F]

No, no, no.

[C]

It's a three. No, list.

[E]

List, phone, desserts.

[A]

List.

[E]

G4 version.

[F]

Okay, let me check. List, phone, desserts.

[D]

I do think the.

[C]

I remembered it.

[D]

The timing. I think we need more than the waiting time. Know what I mean?

[A]

More time than the sound.

[D]

More time than the sound effect things which. Which they gave you more. But I'm saying more.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

I'm just saying that's really fast when you have to think of the answer and then how to describe the answer.

[C]

You know what's crazy? You didn't even notice Adam's haircut.

[A]

Damn.

[D]

Adam didn't notice my haircut.

[A]

Adam didn't notice my haircut.

[F]

I didn't even notice. I got.

[E]

I was gonna get a haircut, but I'm getting it tonight.

[A]

Did you guys actually get haircuts literally yesterday?

[E]

Why do we always get haircuts at the same time?

[A]

That's crazy.

[D]

I hate my haircut. Did you also guys. Yeah, I'm the. Yeah.

[E]

Wait, Alice, are you getting a haircut soon?

[F]

Probably soon.

[E]

Yeah, I'm getting one tonight. You want to come with?

[C]

Got to text my barber.

[A]

You just get it.

[F]

You got the point.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Really?

[D]

How'd you not use the word Google?

[F]

AI overview. Literally listed them all out as I was insisting.

[A]

That was a good plan.

[D]

I was just surprised you didn't use the term Google.

[A]

He's doing Lebron Sellies right now. Oh, that's crazy.

[E]

To an injection.

[F]

All right, next question for team Lawn sports.

[A]

Okay.

[F]

When was Google Photos first launched? Looking for the month day year, but

[A]

closest when it was first launched. Month day years are harder than.

[F]

Yeah, you can just get it close enough.

[D]

It's fine.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

What?

[F]

I'll look for the. The month in the year. I'll give you the month.

[D]

Okay. How do we redo Google it probably won't. Oh, Android. I say picture app launch, but that's for Google Photos

[A]

Android picture service. But I want the launch date to show.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, man.

[D]

Android picture app. And do you think it'll just save when it launched? I don't think it will Say when it launched.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

Android picture. Launch.

[A]

Android pictures. Android.

[D]

And it probably will be like did you mean Android photo or Google Photos? And then maybe it'll show the launch.

[A]

Worth a shot.

[D]

That's all I can fancy, I guess.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't know.

[D]

Android pictures, Launch.

[A]

Android pictures. Can we say launch?

[F]

Android pictures, Launch.

[A]

Launch.

[D]

Oh, yeah. Can we say launch?

[F]

No, you cannot because that was in the question.

[A]

Android pictures,

[E]

Start.

[D]

Start.

[A]

That's a tough one. Let's try it.

[F]

Start.

[A]

Android pictures, start.

[F]

Wow, really? Right there.

[E]

What about Android picture service? But too late.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But still don't know the launch date out of just.

[E]

Yeah, yeah.

[F]

Let's see.

[A]

Hey, get the name.

[E]

Or what about injured pictures? Wikipedia. That's what I would have done.

[A]

Android pictures, Wikipedia.

[D]

That might.

[A]

That show. That might be not there.

[F]

Sorry, guys.

[D]

What did it say?

[E]

Get it?

[F]

Nothing. It's not there.

[D]

No, no. But like what is the general vibe of what it was?

[F]

It is Google Photos. But it didn't have the launch.

[A]

Yeah. Stuff to get the launch date.

[F]

That's a tough question.

[D]

What's the different.

[F]

Okay, next question for Team Coastal Elite. It's been a big Samsung Galaxy week, but do you know what the typeface is called that has been used in Samsung marketing since 2015?

[E]

Over the horizon.

[C]

No, no, no.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

He used the word typeface, not font, which is nice.

[F]

Big, big ops, big brains.

[E]

And we can't say Samsung. We can't.

[C]

We can't say Samsung, but we can say. Did you say phone?

[F]

I did not say phone, but it's

[C]

like Samsung marketing stuff.

[F]

It's Samsung marketing since 2015. I said Samsung Galaxy and marketing, like so, like Korean.

[E]

You can't say Samsung.

[F]

It has to say Samsung.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Like we have to use three words. We can't do four words.

[F]

That is the rules of the game.

[D]

Perfect.

[C]

What's the say?

[E]

Galaxy.

[F]

No, that's in the question.

[C]

Can we say

[E]

what is. Okay, what about other. What do they have non galaxy phones?

[C]

No.

[F]

I need an answer.

[C]

I think we should do they do phone font. Yeah, that's all I got.

[D]

I hope it's LG So bad.

[F]

Korean phone font.

[C]

Korean phone font.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

I was gonna say like S22AD.

[E]

Oh yeah. We could have said like S22.

[C]

I wasn't. Big brain.

[E]

Yeah. Wait, that's.

[F]

Nope, it's not there. Sorry guys.

[D]

What did come up?

[F]

What did come up was. These are like the fonts came up. It was just not this one that we're looking for. By the way, the answer is Samsung Sharp Sands.

[E]

Of course they have their own Sharp Sands.

[F]

Sharp Sands. Also I don't know if I said the answer to the Google Photos one. It was 2015. May of 2015.

[E]

May what?

[F]

May 28, 2015. Yeah, but it was Samsung Sharp Sands is what I was looking for.

[E]

I'll put it out in my calendar. Google Photos birthday. Would you like to wish them a happy birthday?

[F]

Next question. Anyway, for Team Lawn Sports.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[F]

What website at one point hosted the popular MMO Club Penguin?

[E]

Mmo? Not mini clip.

[C]

Where? We did. We did.

[D]

Was it mini clip?

[A]

Maybe not.

[F]

Yeah, we did.

[A]

Okay, so you can't say Club Penguin.

[E]

It's funny to think of Club Penguin

[A]

as an MMO without saying Club Penguin.

[D]

Arctic Bird.

[A]

Team Arctic Bird game.

[D]

Oh yeah, Arctic Bird game might work.

[F]

You're looking for the website that hosted it.

[D]

I know, but I think you list it, it'll show what it went on and it's like quick. So.

[A]

So Arctic bird game, Flightless bird game. There's no other way to get penguin without.

[D]

How else do you spell? Yeah, I don't think so.

[E]

Emperor Emperor.

[A]

I guess it's Arctic Bird game.

[D]

Arctic bird game or Arctic Bird. What's a different word for club?

[F]

I need an answer.

[A]

Arctic bird game.

[F]

Yeah, Arctic bird game.

[E]

Don't they live in the Antarctic? Not the Arctic.

[A]

Same thing.

[D]

I think it'll get it. I think people are not in Google. You can type in song that goes and it'll pick it up.

[A]

So I think Antarctic bird.

[F]

Sorry, it's not there. Arctic penguin. Turns out there's a lot of Arctic penguin games.

[D]

Yeah, but none of them are Club

[A]

Penguin is the answer. Mini clip.

[F]

The answer is miniclip games.

[A]

It is.

[E]

Was it really a mini clip game?

[C]

It wasn't a mini clip game, but they were one of the only non first party sites to host it.

[E]

So funny to think I should have stuck with that Club Penguin as an

[D]

M. Yeah, we would have had to get.

[F]

Well, that was a question that I think Team Coastal Elites would have gotten. But I asked it to Team Lawn Sports. So now I'm going to ask Team Coastal Elites a question that I think Team Lawn sports would have gotten. Which is the first Keychron keyboard was released in what year?

[C]

Okay, Keychron. What do I know about Keychron?

[E]

Popular keyboard.

[C]

Now we releases Civic.

[F]

Bless you.

[E]

But Keychron is like one of the more popular keyboard.

[C]

I want, I want AIOP to list all the data that all the popular keyboards came out.

[E]

So like maybe like release date keyboard keyboard. Release date.

[C]

How about release keyboard chronology Are you

[D]

expanding on AI overview when you think

[E]

Cron would be enough?

[C]

Well, I think chronology will get AI overview to just list all the big brands. Popular keyboard Chronology.

[E]

Popular keyboard chronology, popular keyboard.

[D]

I'm interested in that. I don't know what I would ask or I would try and guess what the first.

[E]

Although it's probably going to be like that Apple 2 keyboard.

[F]

Yeah, sorry, it's not there. It's giving us a bunch of like typewriters and different computers and IBM keyboards.

[D]

Try and guess what the first keychron was, which is probably like the one or something.

[F]

The K1.

[D]

K1.

[F]

You're on the right. Right track.

[E]

Oh, so we probably could have typed K1 release I specifically left open.

[F]

So you guys might. If you knew. But yeah, K1 2017.

[C]

Damn.

[A]

2017.

[F]

2017.

[E]

That's actually. Yeah.

[A]

Okay, so it's still 1 0.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

Yes.

[F]

Still 1 0.

[C]

You guys didn't they.

[D]

Did they not?

[E]

No, we got a point. No, we got a point.

[C]

Yeah, we did get a point.

[D]

It's funny, I felt like in trivia we got most of them right.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

This is harder.

[F]

These are harder ones. Yeah.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Yeah, for sure.

[F]

Okay, next question. This is going to Team Coastal Elites. Team Lawn sports. Next question. Take the Galaxy. See The Samsung Galaxy S3 launched with what version of Android?

[A]

Oh, okay. So just all Android Dessert list.

[F]

Is that it?

[A]

I think that will.

[D]

Is that not what they did in the first one where they got the point?

[A]

Is that the exact same phrase?

[C]

Phone dessert list.

[D]

Yeah, Google Dessert list.

[A]

I mean, Google Dessert list is gonna work if we're allowed to use Google.

[C]

I created a meta.

[A]

Yeah, let's go with Google Dessert List List.

[F]

Google Dessert list. Let's see what comes up. Let me search.

[A]

If this doesn't work, I'll be so mad.

[D]

I would just give you honestly, with AI Overview, you could type the same thing in twice and it probably would be different.

[F]

You got so lucky. It's there. You got the point. But it is not have anything to do with Google. It's just desserts. Because you googled dessert lists.

[A]

I googled Google dessert list.

[F]

Yeah. Google dessert list.

[D]

No, that just gives you a bunch of dessert.

[A]

Is the answer like cupcake or donut or something?

[F]

It's ice cream sandwich.

[A]

And it.

[F]

And there's one reference of ice cream sandwich on this page, but it's like it's not Android Gelato, mango sorbet, apple pie, chocolate chip cookie. It just gave you a bunch of desserts.

[A]

What? That's crazy. All right. But it worked.

[E]

Out.

[F]

Because. Yeah, so you got the point.

[A]

You deserve that.

[F]

So we're all tied up. One, one.

[C]

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

[F]

Team Coastal Elite, here we go. Leica launched a phone in 2021 that was exclusive to which country?

[E]

Huh?

[B]

China.

[D]

No.

[C]

Really?

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Do you know this n it David? List all countries.

[A]

How about.

[E]

What about from white out

[F]

with no

[D]

regard for human life.

[E]

So we can't say country.

[F]

Oh, no, you cannot.

[E]

So it's China.

[D]

So just list all. That's all they get.

[E]

So do you want to say. Should we say, like, exclusive, global, AI Superpower, or open?

[C]

Damn.

[E]

We can't say communist Republic.

[F]

It's not China.

[D]

Oh, whoa. Was it.

[C]

No, it has to be Italy.

[E]

Italy. No, it's not Italy. Why would it be Italy?

[C]

Because I feel like they're the only ones that appreciate such a thing.

[E]

It's a bad phone. It was a good camera. It did not have a good camera, and it was a really bad phone.

[C]

You remember this?

[E]

Yes.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

I think we got to use it.

[C]

I think we got it. We got it. I think we got it.

[F]

Yeah. We need an answer.

[C]

I think so.

[E]

It's not China.

[C]

It's like, phone.

[E]

It was made by camera.

[C]

Camera. Brand. Camera. Expensive. Phone. Camera.

[B]

Brand.

[E]

Oh, camera. But it has to be the country we're looking for. Yeah, camera. We can't say Leica 3 camera. Phone. Exclusive.

[C]

I list all phones.

[E]

Camera, phone, country. Camera Phone.

[A]

Country.

[C]

We can't say country.

[E]

Camera phone.

[A]

Exclusive. Exclusive.

[F]

Exclusive.

[A]

That's gonna be a lot of stuff.

[F]

Yeah. Let's see if this. If this comes up.

[A]

If that comes up.

[B]

Wait.

[E]

I used this phone. Was it really Germany only?

[F]

No, it was Japan.

[E]

Japan.

[D]

That is actually.

[E]

Oh, yeah, Total. Guess it was Japan. They do like, Lego there.

[F]

Damn.

[E]

It was. What was the company that made the phone? It was like IOQ or whatever it was. It was so bad.

[D]

It was the.

[E]

The vibration motor was literally the worst.

[F]

It was the lights phone one, and it was made with sharp, sharp, sharp light phone lights.

[E]

Yeah, it was like the. Yeah, it was like an Aqua.

[F]

Yeah, it was an Aquos R6.

[E]

It was basically so bad. The vibration motor was so bad.

[A]

I remember then.

[E]

The new Legaphone is really good.

[F]

I thought you would remember the name, so that's why I made that so hard. All right, next question. Well, this one's a very easy one, but let's see if you guys got it.

[E]

Come on.

[F]

Microsoft launched a browser in 1995 that let you explore the Internet. What was it called?

[E]

Arc.

[A]

In 1995.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

So you can't use Microsoft browser.

[D]

Windows default Internet. You can't use browser. Oh, we can't.

[A]

Can you say XP default Browser.

[D]

You can't say browser.

[F]

You cannot say browser.

[A]

XP default. Internet.

[F]

You cannot say Internet.

[A]

You can't. Oh, okay.

[F]

Because that's part of the question. And the answer.

[A]

Oh, XP default.

[D]

What's another word for that?

[A]

Websites.

[D]

It's easy, but if you take away

[F]

all of our words.

[A]

Can you say xpd? Oh, wait, wait, wait.

[D]

Windows blue.

[A]

E. Because that's a Windows.

[D]

We can say Windows, right?

[F]

You can say Windows. Is that it? Are you going with that?

[A]

Right. Windows blue logo.

[C]

I hope you get edge, bro.

[D]

Blue icon or xp? Blue icon then, if you want to make sure.

[A]

Yeah. Xp.

[D]

Xp. Blue icon. Sure. Or X or Windows E. Iconic XP or. Sorry. Xp. E icon. Xp. E icon.

[F]

XP icon.

[D]

That was hard because they took away all of our words.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[F]

It's not there.

[D]

It's not there.

[E]

I was gonna say, like, can you do xp, Windows blue icon, Windows search app or old. When? Old Windows search.

[A]

We just have to get Internet Explorer to come up somehow.

[E]

They didn't have Bing back then.

[A]

What if you just said Microsoft Edge meme. But it'd be Edge.

[D]

Oh, I guess old Microsoft Edge.

[F]

That probably would.

[E]

Old Microsoft Edge.

[C]

Windows before Edge.

[A]

Microsoft Edge versus Windows before Edge.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Wow. Worst.

[D]

Oh, you can't say Internet word. Browser.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

All right, David, this is our second point. I can feel it. It's brewing.

[E]

I can feel it.

[F]

Here we go. We're still tied.

[A]

One.

[F]

One, by the way. I'm gonna have to come up with more questions. Back in the day, Garmin made GPS things for your car. But what was the first watch they released?

[E]

Do you know the answer?

[C]

I feel like I was researching this.

[E]

Was it the Phoenix?

[D]

I think this has been a trivia question.

[E]

Is it the Phoenix?

[F]

I don't know.

[E]

Or was it the, like, garment, the one with the Q?

[C]

Dude. We can't say watch, though, right?

[F]

Nope.

[C]

Can we just say, like, first? Oh, we can't say first either.

[E]

No, we can't say first.

[D]

No.

[C]

It's a good question.

[E]

Original debut GPS Wrist. Debut Adventure Time.

[D]

No, that's a show. Please do that one.

[A]

That's a show.

[F]

That's not gonna work.

[D]

I mean, you should, because it would debut.

[C]

I think we should go with debut gps Wrist.

[E]

But did it have gps?

[C]

It has to.

[E]

Are you sure?

[C]

That's their whole thing.

[E]

Debut adventure wrist, gps.

[F]

Is that what we're going.

[E]

Fitness wrist?

[C]

I don't think I Have fitness.

[E]

You think they were the first gps? Yeah.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Debut gps.

[C]

Garmin.

[A]

Right.

[E]

Okay, look.

[C]

What else do they do?

[F]

Debut gps. Wrist.

[E]

All right.

[A]

Sure. This is like if we were terrible at Googling things.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

It's like toddler SEO.

[D]

It is tough not being able to use either set of words.

[F]

I'll give it to you. Forerunner is there. It was the forerunner series. Forerunner 101.

[E]

Wow. Let's go Elites over here.

[F]

Oh, I guess coastal elites get the point.

[D]

Wait, wait.

[C]

You guys want to hear a trivia question I threw away this morning?

[F]

Yeah, it's really good.

[C]

It's one of the. You know how jeopardy. They make you answer with a pun? Okay, what is the solar and acrobatic version of the new screenless Garmin?

[D]

Cirque Day. The Cirque Circus.

[C]

It's circa de Soleil.

[D]

Wow.

[E]

That's pretty funny.

[A]

That's pretty good.

[B]

That's really fun.

[E]

That would have been good.

[A]

Wow.

[E]

Anyway, I saw the Beatles love and Cirque till Soleil.

[F]

You saw what?

[E]

The Beatles love Cirquel Soleil show.

[F]

How was it?

[E]

Really freaking good. But the Beatles was my entire personality at the time.

[F]

I mean, they were. We've all had them because I was

[E]

a freshman in high school.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

Okay, so it is two one.

[A]

Yeah, it is.

[E]

Do we want to do, like, a definition of elite?

[F]

You can tie or they win. How are we doing this?

[A]

Is that our only option?

[D]

If we tie going? If we tie, then I think we should get. Yeah, then we should keep going.

[F]

Okay, so this is it for all the marbles.

[E]

All right.

[C]

Potentially.

[F]

Potentially.

[D]

Potentially. Lock in.

[A]

I'm locked in.

[D]

I'm not. I'm trying every.

[A]

Picturing the Google search box right in front of me.

[F]

All right, so this is for the tie for Team Lawn Sports.

[D]

Stay alive.

[F]

The first iPhone to launch with Mag Safe was what?

[A]

IPhone 8 with MagSafe.

[D]

Are you sure about that? I don't think it's the first one with.

[A]

Oh, wireless charging was the eight. MagSafe was 12. Okay, so I can't say iPhone 12. We have to get iPhone 12 to come up.

[D]

So just say what year was Apple?

[A]

First mini.

[C]

That's what I was gonna do.

[A]

First mini Cupertino. I don't know. Some way to get Apple in there.

[D]

Apple mini phone.

[A]

Can we say Apple?

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Mini phone. Oh, yeah, we can say phone. Not iPhone.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Apple mini phone.

[F]

Apple mini phone.

[A]

Yeah. The 13 and 12 mini should both come up, and then that counts.

[D]

You're just looking for the serial.

[E]

Couldn't you just Say magnetic wireless charging.

[A]

That wouldn't say iPhone 12 necessarily.

[C]

But MagSafe does not.

[D]

He's.

[C]

Dude's right. He's.

[D]

We don't have needed to say Mag safe. Right. We need to say.

[A]

We just need iPhone 12.

[F]

IPhone 12.

[D]

IPhone 12.

[F]

And it looks like.

[E]

But the 12 mini. Is that the 12?

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[F]

You guys got the point. It's there.

[D]

I think if you guys got 4Runner as default forerunner. Not the specific forerunner.

[F]

I'm getting a little broad with these. It's fine.

[E]

Should have said Toyota adventure vehicle.

[A]

Tundra Forerunner. I know, but there's a lot of adventure vehicles.

[F]

Nice.

[D]

Wait, why would we have said that?

[F]

Because we're all tied up.

[E]

Toyota 4 oh, four run.

[D]

Sorry. Or is that different question? No, you're right.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

We stayed alive.

[F]

Stayed alive.

[E]

So what happens?

[D]

So it should be like shootout rules now. Where like.

[E]

Oh yeah.

[D]

Ellis and David go. If they get it right, we have to get it right to stay alive. If Ellis and David go, they get it wrong and Marquez and I get it right, then it's over.

[C]

Oh my God.

[F]

I like that. I like that. For team Coastal elites.

[A]

Yep.

[F]

Blue Star is the model code name for which Tesla vehicle.

[E]

I don't know.

[C]

Is it the S, Dude, I don't know. Which is why I think we should do best selling EVs.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

I hope it's the Roadster.

[E]

I like that. Best selling EVs. I do not consider this.

[D]

Or the Cybertruck.

[C]

Dude, if it's the Roadster. I don't know.

[E]

I don't know.

[C]

I have no idea what it could be.

[E]

Yeah. Best selling EVs.

[F]

Best selling.

[E]

No, no list.

[C]

No. I don't know. Best selling evs.

[E]

Just give it.

[D]

Joking.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

Best selling evs.

[D]

All Elon.

[E]

Just input the Jacobian conjectures.

[C]

All Elon cars.

[E]

All Elon cars.

[F]

You get the point. It was the Tesla Model 3 and that's where it was.

[A]

S3X. That's why. Yeah, I guess that's.

[F]

That would have worked too.

[A]

Wow.

[F]

Wow. Okay, so they live to the three

[D]

was called Blue Star.

[F]

Star.

[D]

I never heard of that.

[F]

Me neither.

[A]

It's great. Yes.

[F]

All right, team lawn sports. You can either tie it a lot

[D]

of pressure here or.

[F]

Or give it away.

[D]

It's stay alive or tired.

[F]

Yeah, this is it. In 2009, Google announced a project that was their destiny desktop operating system which allowed them to primarily run web based apps. What was it called?

[A]

Oh, it was easy. Okay, we gotta get it to say Chrome os.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

And the way you do that is by Getting a Chromebook.

[D]

Chromebook. We can't say operating system though, right?

[A]

Chromebook version.

[D]

Chromebook OS.

[A]

Also, if you get CR48, it has to say Chrome OS.

[D]

CR48.

[A]

I mean, that's all. You could just say CR48 software and it would come up. Yeah.

[D]

Are you that confident? We'll go with two.

[A]

Two words. I only need two words. CR48 software.

[D]

I hope it's Chrome OS.

[A]

It's definitely Chrome OS. If that doesn't come up, I would be.

[D]

Because I would have thought if Google killed some operating system before Chrome os.

[C]

What if it only comes up with the limited edition Google breakfast cereal. Chromios.

[E]

Chromios.

[F]

Chrome OS is there, Right?

[E]

Nice.

[A]

All right, Beautiful.

[F]

Giving it back to team.

[A]

Get a bonus for only doing two words.

[D]

I think we should win.

[E]

So this is to me and Ellis again.

[C]

Yeah, this is for the win.

[E]

Ftw.

[D]

Not yet.

[A]

Unless we also cook.

[F]

Unless they cook.

[C]

This is for the opportunity to win.

[F]

Exactly.

[E]

All we do is potentially win. No matter.

[F]

We're still tied up. Three three, three three. Team Coastal Elites. Here's your question.

[C]

Oh, man.

[F]

What app was purchased by meta in 2012 for $1 billion?

[E]

Instagram. So TikTok alternate.

[C]

No.

[E]

Popular TikTok alternative.

[B]

No.

[D]

No photo.

[C]

We can't use app.

[F]

Right.

[E]

Popular.

[F]

Cannot use app.

[E]

No, just popular TikTok alternative.

[D]

Literally.

[E]

It'll say reels. It'll say Instagram Reels. Yeah, I guarantee you you're right.

[C]

Popular TikTok biggest in Tik Tok Alternative. Sure, whatever.

[F]

Yeah, you're right.

[D]

Just.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

I need an answer, David.

[E]

Popular Tik Tok Alternative.

[D]

I think it's going to work. But you should just say reals. Yeah, you should have just said reals.

[E]

Oh, we should have just. Wait, I thought. You can't say the answer. Oh,

[F]

yeah, yeah, you got it.

[D]

Let's go.

[A]

That would have been so funny if it didn't.

[E]

That did.

[F]

All right, for the tie. Next question.

[A]

Too much time left on the clock.

[F]

Founders Reggie Brown, Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel made this social media app for sharing messages and pictures. What was it?

[A]

Ephemeral Photos.

[D]

Lively Pokemon picture game.

[A]

I thought it was Snapchat. Wait, what is the question?

[D]

Oh, wait, it has to say. Oh, I was. It's not just called. It's called Snapchat. Not Snap.

[A]

Yeah, Snapchat.

[D]

Okay, Snapchat.

[A]

Ephemeral Photos.

[D]

What's ephemeral?

[A]

Disappearing.

[D]

Oh, why don't we just say disappearing?

[A]

Disappearing photos.

[D]

Disappearing photos. App. We can say app.

[F]

You can't say app.

[A]

Self deleting.

[D]

Yellow Ghost, Yellow Ghost app, Yellow Ghost icon.

[A]

Yellow Ghost icon.

[F]

Yellow Ghost icon.

[E]

Technically the ghost is white though. But the background.

[D]

Yeah, I know.

[A]

But it's going to work.

[D]

It should work.

[E]

I know.

[F]

You got it.

[E]

We keep it freaking rolling.

[D]

This is why we got none of them right until crunch time.

[E]

And now every time.

[A]

I think we edged you out, Gene.

[F]

Next question. Loot spelled L O O P T was a location based social media or social networking application developed by one of the founders of OpenAI. Yeah, which one?

[E]

I'm Altman.

[C]

So we could do like worst dude ever. Giant hole Liar.

[E]

How about CEO? Bigot CEO?

[D]

Pop collar CEO?

[E]

Or what about oligarch? No list of oligarchs.

[C]

Can we use. Can we use the term AI? Can we use AI? Wait, let me.

[E]

AI CEOs.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Popular AI CEOs.

[F]

Oh, sure.

[E]

I'll give it to popular AI CEOs.

[F]

Is that it?

[E]

Yeah, just.

[C]

I would just do AI CEOs. We don't even need popular.

[E]

No, it wasn't.

[F]

They got the point. To tie it up or to lose,

[D]

There's a lot of pressure.

[F]

So after that correct point, the score is Coastal Elites with 5. Team Lawn Sports with 4. For the tie, make it hard. Or for the loss, make it hard.

[E]

Adam.

[F]

Apple CEO Tim Cook has a middle name. What is it?

[D]

Whoa.

[A]

I have no clue what it is.

[D]

Apple. What'd you say? Apple CEO Tim Cook has a middle name.

[F]

What is it?

[C]

Dude, what if his middle name was Apple?

[E]

Watch.

[D]

How do we get the Apple. How do we just get it to say Tim Cook middle name, Tech CEO.

[E]

I know.

[D]

We can't even say middle name. This is impossible. Middle name is. No, exact.

[E]

His middle name is Apple. It's tinapple. It's Tim Applecook.

[C]

Top 500 boys names.

[E]

Don't give them an idea.

[D]

There's so many words we can't use for this.

[E]

Tim applecook.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Oh, that's.

[A]

I use four words. I said tech executive, middle names. But you can't say that's two words for CEO. We just can't say CEO.

[D]

I guess we full name or we can't say name. Oh, there's.

[A]

Whoa.

[D]

This is an impossible question unless we know it.

[A]

That's pretty tough because you can't say full names.

[D]

Oh, okay, wait. Popular men's names.

[A]

What if you just Google Tim Cook. I thought you couldn't say name.

[D]

We can't say Tim Cook.

[E]

Can't you not say name either?

[F]

We can't say name name because it's in the question.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, and you can't say Apple or CEO.

[E]

This is impossible.

[F]

Yeah, because it's hard.

[A]

Is there a possible correct answer to this?

[F]

There is.

[D]

I mean, yeah, it's his phrase.

[E]

It's just his middle name.

[A]

Well, yeah, I guess I don't know what his middle name is. It would really help if I knew it.

[F]

It would really help if you knew what his name is.

[A]

Like, if it was like, I would

[C]

like the opportunity to steal.

[E]

Oh, wait for why?

[A]

Or ahead anyway.

[D]

Or ahead. What's another word for name?

[A]

Surname given.

[F]

I want to give you guys a hint, but I also want this game to end, so. Yeah, Torn.

[D]

Popular men's.

[A]

How about we give up, but then you go hint and then we get it right, but we don't win.

[D]

Well, we should guess. There's a solid chance of. It's just like.

[A]

Okay, we can guess. We'll guess.

[D]

We just need a list of names. We need a big list of names and hope it's a normal one.

[C]

Popular boy babies.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, like, honestly, it's probably babies.

[A]

Popular, popular middle name.

[D]

We can't say names.

[A]

Jesus.

[C]

I was thinking you could go this

[F]

would be somewhere middle if you knew the name full.

[C]

Like, his Wikipedia page to pop up, right? So it's like, what if it was like, Apple executive or iPhone Executive.

[E]

Full stop giving Ellis really wants to stop.

[F]

Go for another stop.

[A]

Ellis.

[C]

I thought they said they weren't getting the.

[D]

Trying to get names. I think we just go names.

[F]

You can't say name.

[E]

Tim.

[A]

Apple.

[E]

You can't say.

[D]

Can't say Tim.

[F]

Can't say Tim.

[E]

You can't say Apple.

[D]

Apple. Oh, my God. Fruit man.

[A]

Fruit company.

[D]

Middle.

[C]

I don't know.

[E]

You can't say middle. You can't say middle.

[A]

Do you think that the. Do you think that the executive page on Apple.com says that says all the executive.

[D]

They don't even list their RAM in the iPhone. Why would they say his middle name?

[F]

You know, like, do you guys want the hint?

[D]

I want to try.

[F]

Or do you want to just, like, call it?

[A]

Let's take the hint.

[F]

Okay, wait, wait.

[D]

Do we lose? We lose if we take the hint.

[F]

No.

[D]

No. Fine.

[F]

Let's keep going.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

All right, we'll take the.

[E]

Gosh.

[A]

We'll take the hint.

[D]

I was gonna say we should just go for it.

[A]

Like a list of middle names.

[D]

Just.

[E]

You can't say middle or name.

[F]

Wait, so you're taking a hint?

[D]

Popular boy babies I think would get just a big list of names. Do you think it's A common middle name. Do you think it's a common name for his middle name? His name's Tim.

[A]

His name is Tim from the Midwest, dude.

[C]

No, he's not. Texas.

[F]

Mobile, Alabama.

[D]

I thought it's from Alabama.

[E]

Isn't Alabama the Midwest?

[C]

Absolutely.

[E]

No.

[F]

Yes. The South.

[A]

It's definitely the mid.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

Alabama's an F1 driver.

[A]

Okay, let's get. Let's take.

[D]

The hint is.

[F]

Okay, the hint is he shares this name with the President of the United States. It's his first name.

[E]

Oh, it's his first name.

[A]

Oh, okay. So Trump. No, I would just do like I'm saying Google Trump.

[E]

Biblical name.

[F]

Oh, I see.

[D]

Biblical. I can't say. Can I say names?

[A]

No, I don't think that's a.

[E]

He said middle name.

[D]

Trump. Is that his middle name? That's his.

[A]

Is his middle name.

[D]

I know it's j.

[F]

No, Donald Trump's middle name of the President.

[E]

Oh.

[D]

Oh, never mind. That is not a biblical name. Unless he has something to do with Duck. Oh, President Duck of us.

[C]

I have another guess.

[A]

If you just Google Trump, it'll come up. But I don't want it to be that easy.

[D]

Yeah, that's too easy. We can just lose now.

[E]

It's too easy.

[D]

Hold on. Do this. Since I said it, just do Popular Boy Babies. And if that works, then we stay in.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

I mean, we lose either way, right? Yeah, try.

[A]

All right.

[F]

Popular Boy Baby.

[D]

That's not coming out. Donald's not coming out.

[C]

Just the word to come out.

[D]

Or do you need.

[C]

Oh, dude, just do, like, duck cartoon.

[F]

That's what I was thinking.

[D]

I didn't know what it was.

[E]

Daffy's the girl, though.

[F]

Donald's not there.

[A]

That's a fair ale.

[D]

All.

[A]

We did not know his middle name.

[E]

Popular Boy Baby.

[F]

Well, that means that the winner is Team Cola 76.

[C]

Oh, yeah, that.

[A]

Congrats. Congratulations to the coastal elites. You. You get this one. Once again, unfortunately, unfortunately, there are no real points associated with that one. You know what there are real points associated with, though?

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

We didn't do trivia.

[E]

We still have to do actual. Dude, that's so funny.

[F]

Ellis, do you want to do your question from there?

[C]

I'm already here.

[F]

Yeah. Might as well.

[C]

Guys, what came first? PlayStation Online. Which it technically wasn't called PlayStation Online at that point, but, like, you know what I mean? On the PlayStation 2 or Xbox Live. And I'll give you a bonus point if you can name a game that at launch was part of the six titles that had online capabilities on the PlayStation 2. I don't remember all of them off the top.

[D]

You keep saying that, and I can't tell if you're giving away the answer or not.

[C]

I don't know if it was a launch title on the PlayStation 2, but I know when the online service launched, this title was like, launched with it.

[D]

But I feel. Well, wouldn't guess what? I flip. But I'm assuming you're giving away the answer by saying, but all of us still picked Xbox.

[C]

Yeah, you're all wrong.

[D]

We all picked Xbox. I feel like you were giving it away by constantly saying, he was indeed pick one of these. And also I really thought of the next part of the correct answer that I'm giving up.

[C]

That would make sense, but it was just because PlayStation was like in the. In the thing.

[A]

So need for Speed wasn't one of them.

[C]

Need for Speed was not one of them. Those might have launched with it on the Xbox, but the only game that I really recognized is like, oh, yeah, I know that game is Tony hawk's Pro Skater 3.

[A]

There's an online.

[E]

Yes, so it was on PlayStation.

[C]

It was on PlayStation.

[F]

Next question. The iPad Pro first generation came out in 2015, but do you remember how much RAM it had?

[D]

Go.

[C]

I thought I had way more than this.

[A]

Pro Pro.

[D]

There's two answers, right?

[F]

Two answers, one point each. The score. Why do you guys do that? Marquez, with zero, Andrew and David tied at one because the score is the first one.

[E]

The first pro.

[F]

The first generation pro.

[A]

No, you know what?

[D]

Wait. It was an iPad pro. Or is like an iPad, just bigger?

[F]

What? IPadPro whole.

[D]

Oh, I can't decide on how much

[A]

the other one would be.

[F]

Yeah, it's flip them and read. What do you got?

[D]

Oh, we ran together.

[A]

We all had different answers.

[F]

Okay, Marquez, go first.

[A]

I said one gig and two gigs.

[F]

One gig is wrong. Two gigs is right for.

[E]

Wait for the bigger one.

[F]

We'll see. We'll see.

[A]

That sounds nice.

[F]

Andrew, what'd you say?

[D]

Two gigs and three gigs.

[F]

Two gigs and three gigs?

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Two gigs is correct. So you get the point. David, what'd you say?

[E]

Four gigs and six gigs.

[F]

Four gigs and six gigs. You get the point.

[D]

Wait, because four is right.

[F]

Four is right.

[D]

Am I the only person. But am I the only one who got it? I'm not trying to change. I know people get mad when I bring it up. I'm not trying to change anything.

[F]

Did not get it right.

[D]

What? Two is on the lower. I'm the only one who got it right on the correct model. Is What?

[F]

Oh, yeah, but I was. That wasn't the question.

[D]

I'm just saying. Bonus fake point. Look at Andrew.

[F]

Nice.

[E]

So was it three and.

[A]

No, it was two and two and four.

[E]

I was gonna guess three and four. So.

[F]

Okay, two gigs on the 9.7 inch, four gigs on the 12.9 inch.

[A]

We'll take it. Well, that leaves a couple more points out there. Now appreciate resetting the score for trivia extravaganza so we'll have plenty of time to build up points over the new season. But. But anyway, thanks for watching, thanks for listening and thanks for, of course, following and rating. I know a lot of y' all go on the podcast players that you listen to and rate Waveform very highly, which is very exciting and very happy. So we appreciate that. Leave us a comment on YouTube if you made it this far, it should say dream beans. Catch you guys in the next one.

[D]

No free ads.

[A]

Peace.

[C]

Can I do it this week?

[D]

Yeah, do it.

[C]

Waveforms produced by Adam Malia and Ellis Roven. Our intro ash music by Vain Sill and we're part of the Vox Media podcast network. And I want to extend a very, very, very special thank you to Lebron James. Thank you, Goat Survive. I'm on roids.

[E]

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