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00:04:19.000I was talking to a researcher, a friend of mine from up in Canada, and he said you always have to, and that was his take on it, that there becomes an issue, even with super intelligent people.
00:04:30.000When you become a celebrity, when you're a celebrity doctor, when you're a celebrity astronomer, when you're a celebrity whatever, that there's the pitfalls of fame that fall into that and the monetary benefits of twisting information in one way or another Like what Dr. Oz is doing.
00:04:47.000He's obviously getting paid by these companies to say that they have these fat pills.
00:05:25.000Sometimes you see those infomercials where there'll be a doctor who will vouch for something that's happening there.
00:05:31.000You almost wonder if there shouldn't be some kind of regulation.
00:05:33.000If that's some kind of abuse of their position in society or something.
00:05:38.000Well, it's abusive, and here's one of the more insidious things about it.
00:05:43.000The real problem is there are things out there that can benefit you, but the only way to find out is to get things that have been backed by science.
00:05:50.000Double-blind, placebo-controlled tests, things that have been done where you know for sure, and getting back to Onnit.
00:05:57.000All the stuff that we sell is stuff that we...
00:05:59.000There's a history of human use, it goes back a long time, and there's research pages on every one of the supplements.
00:06:06.000And supplements are just a part of what we sell on it, but I think that supplements can give you things that you're just not going to get from your diet.
00:06:14.000When it comes to alpha brain, nootropics and things along those lines, the amount of food that you would have to eat to get the same nutrients that you would get from four alpha brain pills is pretty fucking substantial.
00:06:26.000You'd have to eat like bowls of moss and You've got to keep that shit fresh and you wouldn't be able to take it on a plane.
00:07:27.000And we also have all the data that is currently available, all the studies that have been done on the individual ingredients, which is very important to point out.
00:08:03.000I'm a huge fan of them because I believe that when you're swinging things and using momentum and using your whole body as one unit, it mimics actions that you would have in the real world.
00:08:15.000Even just moving furniture or something like that.
00:08:18.000There's kettlebell exercises that would make you better at picking up shit and moving around your house.
00:08:23.000Kettlebell swings, when you're doing pass-throughs in between your legs, like you're doing figure eights in between your legs with kettlebells, when you're doing cleans and presses and cleans and jerks.
00:08:33.000All those different exercises strengthen your whole body as an individual unit and when it comes to The term human optimization, I mean, that embodies it, in my opinion.
00:08:45.000I think the human body should be like a race car.
00:08:48.000And I think that if you have a race car, and for whatever reason, you don't want to put race fuel in it, and for whatever reason, you don't want to give it a 500 horsepower engine, and for whatever reason, you don't want to give it big, fat tires that grip the road, guess what, fuckface?
00:09:03.000It's just not going to work as well as a race car that is...
00:09:07.000Designed and constructed by a guy who took his body or a gal who took their body and Did the best thing they could do for it drank a lot of water ate fresh leafy green vegetables takes in a lot of high-quality protein and exercise make that motherfucker work you You've got to exercise.
00:09:24.000It's one of the most critical parts of life.
00:09:26.000Because if your body doesn't think that it has to do anything, guess what?
00:09:30.000It just starts to go soft and get useless.
00:09:32.000If your body doesn't think that it has to work, it goes, well, we don't have to use any resources staying healthy and fit.
00:09:38.000Let's just fucking turn into a ball of mush.
00:09:40.000Don't let that shit happen to you people.
00:11:27.000I love when a dude shows up at a podcast and he's got a bunch of shit that if I saw on a shelf I'd be like, ooh, what's that?
00:11:32.000Yeah, I figured coming straight from Google I.O. that it would make a lot of sense to bring some of this stuff inside.
00:11:38.000It would have been a shame to leave it out there.
00:11:39.000What exactly is Google I.O.? It's their developers conference, so it's focused on bringing together people that are making apps sort of...
00:11:49.000Google-centric type of applications, but it's also turned into a consumer-facing conference because a lot of people are paying attention at that time.
00:11:57.000I think they had a million concurrent streamers of the actual event.
00:13:25.000I mean, there's good sides and bad sides to that kind of approach.
00:13:29.000Obviously, controlling the entire software and hardware experience means that you're going to get a product that generally is fairly polished, but from an innovation standpoint, it means you're sort of cutting off your limbs in a sense that you're not bringing people into that development circle that might have otherwise been there because it is sort of a walled garden effect.
00:15:00.000Yeah, because I think that if you really want to get in there and tinker, if you're a heavy-duty power user, then a lot of this, like you look at this MacBook Air or your MacBook Pro, There's so much of it that's embedded.
00:15:12.000It requires the entire package topper.
00:15:14.000You want to go in there and put more RAM in it or something, or swap out a hard drive.
00:16:36.000After the Windows ME experience of 1999. It's not just like they dropped the ball.
00:16:41.000They dropped it, and then they shit on it, and then they fell on it, and then they broke their hip.
00:16:45.000I don't want to speak for everyone, but I don't recall an experience with Windows where I cracked open a laptop lid and felt that kind of experience ever.
00:16:55.000So even when XP was the thing, or even before that, 95, or however far back you want to go, you didn't get that same pleasure you get out of booting up an Apple product and getting into the OS and seeing the cohesion of the whole thing.
00:17:08.000Windows, even in the old days, was sort of like a necessary evil.
00:17:12.000Windows was the way to get to the shit you actually liked, whether you wanted to load a game or a web browser or whatever.
00:17:17.000But on its own, it's always been utilitarian.
00:19:26.000If you're in the game, if you're in this loving electronics game that everyone in this room is in, we're all fucking dorkenheimers when it comes to new electronics.
00:19:36.000When you're in that game, you have to keep up.
00:19:38.000If you do not keep up, if you try to run an iPhone 3 on the newest iPhone software, it's just going to be clunky because the iPhone 3 didn't have near the capabilities.
00:19:47.000And these new applications, the video that you can take, the photos you can take, the new weird things, you can measure your heartbeat with your camera lens.
00:21:05.000The difference here between the previous Samsung watches and this one is this is the first to be running the open platform that Google has created.
00:21:15.000So not a modified version of software.
00:21:18.000It's running something called Android Wear.
00:21:20.000And what Google is hoping to do on your wrist is essentially replicate what they've done on the phone.
00:21:26.000And if you're looking at it, this is the wrist thing.
00:21:28.000That The thing in there is the monitor.
00:21:39.000And so the beauty of this going this direction with it is if you can build a platform instead of a one-off device, then the likelihood that a developer will jump into it and build something really cool that you never foresaw happening is that much higher because of the mass market effect.
00:21:57.000If everyone's running the same software on their wrist, it's better for everyone.
00:22:02.000So there's this kind of love-hate relationship between Samsung and Google over this, because for the longest time, Samsung has been trying to diminish its reliance on Google as a whole.
00:22:14.000For their brand, it's so essential for them to sell products, and so they've been moving into some different operating systems now that are not very good, but independent of Google.
00:22:27.000Yeah, so I can tell you some of what it does.
00:22:29.000I mean, it's not really that much new comparative to the old smartwatches.
00:22:33.000Essentially, you're going to get your notifications here.
00:22:35.000It has a microphone on it so that you can input voice commands, etc.
00:22:40.000If you, for example, want to text somebody back, you can catch the notification here, respond to the text right on your wrist, and leave your phone in your pocket.
00:22:50.000They were saying on stage that they believe 70% of our interaction with our device could be curbed by having one of these on your wrist.
00:22:58.000So, essentially, most of the day, your phone could remain in your pocket.
00:23:02.000But I was talking earlier with Brian about how Really, the goal here, the endgame, is preemptive computing.
00:23:08.000So, the idea that this thing will know what you want to do before you know that you want to do it.
00:23:14.000And that's what Google now has been pushing in that direction.
00:23:29.000So those kinds of things are what make wearing something on your exterior more interesting, where a buzz in your pocket is maybe not as effective as the information you can get here.
00:23:40.000Like, so the travel distance and things along those lines, things that updates, those Google updates that you get on your phone, temperature, warnings.
00:23:49.000But again, I don't know that we can necessarily imagine all the potential uses for preemptive computing.
00:23:55.000I mean, essentially, much like the Nest thermostat, I don't know if you've heard of that before, it's a really fancy thermostat you put in your house.
00:24:24.000So you come, it's Wi-Fi connected, you come home, and you adjust it, and you don't realize there's patterns in your behavior.
00:24:30.000That at 3 o'clock you always like it to be a certain temperature, and at 6 it's different.
00:24:35.000And eventually it will draw out an algorithm to deal with your behavior, at which point you no longer need to ever worry about it or touch it.
00:24:42.000The goal of the product is to require less and less interaction from you the more you use it.
00:24:48.000What's weird about Nest is that they also have these new products.
00:24:51.000They're now taking over washer and dryers.
00:24:54.000They're getting to the point where it is going to be like that old Flintstones where they control, they're the central computer of your house.
00:25:00.000And they're just like, hello computer, what are you doing here?
00:25:03.000And they also have these smoke detectors that also do carbon dioxide.
00:25:15.000So Google's going to be able to murder us in our house in the future.
00:25:18.000Or warn you if someone's breaking into your house trying to murder you.
00:25:20.000Well, they just acquired Dropcam, which is what I've been preaching about forever because Dropcam's one of the greatest, I think, inventions in a long time.
00:25:29.000It's these little cameras that film amazing HD and that you can put all over your house that connect to your Wi-Fi.
00:25:36.000And then you get a text like, oh, somebody's walking through my house.
00:25:38.000You're sitting there watching full HD. It's recording in the cloud for you.
00:29:31.000And you really start to wonder about all of this power we give to these devices over us, to these companies that we have this inherent trust.
00:29:41.000We're at a point now where we rely on these things.
00:30:11.000We know there's been a lot of prosecutors that have willingly put people in jail because they didn't want to admit they got the wrong person and they wanted to convict those people.
00:30:18.000Those stories always mess me up when this guy gets let out of jail 25 years later on DNA. It seems like the only truth is the scientific truth.
00:32:43.000That's a good segue because one of the announcements actually at Google I.O. was Google in the car which again talks to all these different devices and is essentially going to overhaul your car dash unit which by the way they all suck.
00:32:59.000Everyone's experienced the shitty capacitive screens and the slow input and pretty much everyone agrees just slapping your phone in the center of the dash is going to give you a better experience than the three or four thousand dollar unit that the car company installed.
00:33:13.000Apparently, part of what holds them back is that they have to have approval so far in advance, three years or four years or something, to get approved to go into a motor vehicle that they're so far behind by the time you're actually driving it that you've got a crappy experience.
00:33:29.000But the goal here for Google is that your phone is actually the brain because this is modular.
00:33:36.000Your car, on the other hand, not so much.
00:33:38.000So if this is the brain doing all the processing and just outputting video to a monitor that also happens to be touchscreen, you don't necessarily have to worry about that so much.
00:33:45.000New points of interest on NAV, for example, they don't happen on these locked-off circumstances, whether you have a VW or a Ford or whatever.
00:33:55.000Each one of those experiences relies on those companies to go input those new POIs.
00:34:00.000So a new restaurant opens, it's not going to be there, whereas in the case of this, it's always going to be current information.
00:35:26.000That's a huge pain in the dick, though, when it comes to switching phones.
00:35:30.000Like, I like going back and forth from Android to Apple.
00:35:33.000And this is something I wanted to talk about, how now, with more and more connected devices, it's becoming super important to pick your team.
00:36:01.000Yeah, my web browsing with a laptop or, you know, I mean, my web browsing with a phone are basically over.
00:36:07.000You know what's great about this also, Joe, is when you're on the road, I have AT&T as my cell phone, but a lot of places AT&T sucks or vice versa, and you can just make a hotspot using this, so you're always having the best network.
00:37:06.000I've been saying for a while that it's almost like Apple can't win.
00:37:09.000Because even though they have really high-level stuff, you start looking at the Moto M8, you go, ooh, that's pretty goddamn close to an iPhone.
00:37:16.000I mean, if it just had a better camera, the camera's kind of whack.
00:37:19.000Oh, I've heard you guys talk about this before.
00:37:22.000I wanted to talk about this specifically.
00:37:35.000Okay, I said that specifically because it's the number one way that we share photos and ultimately how you share it is the biggest part of it.
00:37:42.000Who cares if it looks great on your phone when other people have to look at it if it doesn't?
00:37:47.000So other phones came out and you guys talked about it.
00:38:25.000So the thing you're taking on your phone just in the camera app is not the same thing that other people end up seeing on the other side of Instagram.
00:39:00.000So now, how many parameters as a developer do you need to deal with because all those phones have different attributes?
00:39:07.000So the way they take a picture is different.
00:39:08.000So going in and trying to figure out what to remove in terms of bits and bytes to still have a good picture on the other side is very difficult to do.
00:39:15.000So it's not necessarily a technical limitation on the side of the device.
00:39:19.000The Galaxy S5, for example, has a great camera.
00:39:22.000A great camera until you try to upload to Instagram.
00:39:26.000Well, I'm talking about taking photos on my camera on both...
00:40:43.000And those programs should be able to be like, Okay, we're going to make everything a screenshot that's uploaded through this algorithm.
00:40:50.000Meaning, if you have a photo that's taken on one camera, you have a screenshot, you have a camera that you uploaded, whatever...
00:40:56.000All those photos should be able to go through one single programming thing, like, we're all going to transfer this into what a screenshot is of that phone or whatever.
00:41:05.000Meaning it shouldn't be, like, who cares what different photos it is?
00:41:09.000It's the programming that should be able to interpret it and output it.
00:41:12.000Oh, no doubt about it, but it's just, if you say you're a developer on Instagram, first of all, Instagram's not really making much money right now anyways.
00:41:53.000They recently updated their TOS because they said that, and then people freaked out, and then they modded it.
00:41:59.000I'm not sure what the current state of their terms of service is, but honestly, Instagram's probably my favorite social network outside of YouTube because it's just streamlined.
00:42:15.000I'm pretty sure that's why they purchased them.
00:42:17.000For example, if I put a picture on Instagram from an interactivity stamp, this is how you know software is working when people want to use it.
00:42:22.000If I put a picture on Instagram, the comment stream is happening faster than anywhere else, even though I don't have the same number of followers.
00:42:29.000There were a lot of douchebags on Instagram, though.
00:44:03.000And so, I think people are really concerned with making the wrong decision.
00:44:07.000You know, they're really concerned that their thing is not the best.
00:44:10.000And so, in my case, what will happen is, I'll put up a video, and then, you know, they haven't even had time to finish watching it, and Apple sucks, or Android sucks, or whatever.
00:44:24.000And so, well, like many places in life, you get angry when you're afraid.
00:44:28.000And so, God forbid a new product comes out that obsoletes yours, and you don't have the money to replace it.
00:44:34.000So you take this position of defending the other thing, because that's easier than justifying the cost of the new one.
00:44:41.000So, I've actually, there were a couple of really cool articles on fanboyism that I was interviewed for.
00:44:47.000And, you know, we went deep into how, you know, how people sort of figure that out.
00:44:52.000But there's definitely this undercurrent below the tech space, the consumer product space, where these are becoming more and more like fashion symbols, like, you know, representative of your personality, maybe more so than as a tool,
00:45:08.000you know, less of a hammer and more like a...
00:45:11.000A piece of jewelry, like a watch or something.
00:45:13.000Isn't it also that people just love being on teams, whether it's Team Democrat, Team Republican, Team Chevy, Team...
00:45:33.000And I'm cool with saying that, you know?
00:45:35.000But, yeah, there is definitely a team aspect where people, they want to belong to something.
00:45:42.000I say belong to team technology, if that's what you're into, because the truth is these devices and these platforms push one another.
00:45:50.000That the positive things that happen in Android push iOS to be better, and the positive things that happen in iOS push Android to be better.
00:45:57.000And the same thing goes for laptops, desktops.
00:46:00.000Really, anywhere there's innovation, having a little bit of competition is a positive thing.
00:46:05.000And I think that it's important that there's all this competition out there, and it's important that there's debate, but people just have to be...
00:47:53.000There's benefits to anonymity because a lot of times you'll get truth that someone might shield from you because of the social stigma of, you know, just social cues and interactions.
00:48:01.000They might just back off of it and go, ah, I wasn't honest with them.
00:48:04.000Like, you go to see someone in a movie...
00:53:38.000If they're accumulating traffic through Google searches, right, to that particular thread, ultimately they earn money through advertising revenue like anyone else.
00:54:32.000Also, the underage ones, though, he was also on...
00:54:36.000So, under 18 only, and I think, I believe the goal was to attempt to harvest pictures from girls' Facebook accounts, so you would pretend to be, you'd have like one of their friends' profile pictures, you'd be somebody at their school, or I don't know,
00:54:52.000Get access and then pull down the Facebook photos and upload them so girls had no idea they were showing up on this subreddit until they found out at school the next day.
00:55:56.000I think it's good for certain things, like I use it for episode discussions of podcasts, or like the Deskwad subreddit, and Joe's subreddit is really interesting.
00:57:32.000I don't know how active you guys are on Facebook, but, you know, your post is reaching, what, like 5-10% of the actual audience that signed up to see your posts?
00:59:04.000All the crooks and their big fucking castles.
00:59:06.000I mean, you think about it, Bitcoin came out and outed all those guys, in a way.
00:59:11.000Because it said, you don't need to take all this money to achieve the transaction, to achieve the endgame.
00:59:18.000So, I mean, yeah, I'm a big fan of alternative currencies in general.
00:59:22.000I don't know if it's going to be Bitcoin or something else.
00:59:25.000We're probably at a super early point right now with it.
00:59:28.000And it's going to be, you know, it's hard at any time when you're looking at something in its earliest form to see the endgame, to see where it ends up.
00:59:36.000But, you know, when the first, like, for example, when the first iPhone jumped on the scene, I'll never forget that moment.
00:59:43.000Before that, the devices before that and after that, how much they changed in an instant.
00:59:48.000And so I feel like once, when there's some big dynamic moment That Bitcoin is able to achieve or alternative currencies are able to achieve.
00:59:55.000Some really cool feature where we can, I don't know, tap watches and spend money and we never have to pull anything out of our pocket.
01:00:04.000Is it one of those things you pull and you scan?
01:00:08.000Yeah, so what it is is you can, you don't have to, but you put in your favorite locations and when it senses proximity nearby, you just swipe over and there's a barcode and you're done.
01:00:46.000You're at a department store, and it's like...
01:00:48.000Every thousand dollars, you earn a dollar, and they say, ah, fuck it, I don't care.
01:00:53.000But this one, they made it in such a way that it's a more convenient purchasing process, so it's like, oh, I'll take the loyalty on the side.
01:04:19.000Why haven't they just created some dope-ass Oakley-style sunglasses that have a fucking screen in it, like a goddamn movie theater, and I'm driving around and I got all my information.
01:04:33.000I think what it's going to be is, like, we're all going to have our own Google Glasses, but it's also going to have something that broadcasts our avatar, so it's not going to...
01:04:40.000We're going to feel comfortable you recording me because my face is going to be replaced with a cat face and my voice is going to be replaced with something else.
01:05:49.000Airwave 1.5, technology that delivers the good straight to your brain.
01:05:54.000So what we're seeing right now is the speed, how fast you're going, the altitude, vertical, your jump analytics, so how high you're jumping, and it's showing as you're looking down the speed, your airtime,
01:09:36.000I just had to replace my third one, and this time I went with Yamaha, just whatever.
01:09:40.000But I found out that there's like class, like in the past, they've had like lawsuits and stuff where pretty much they just take a good mixer and just copy it with shitty parts.
01:09:49.000Like they're like the first version of like when you go get a fake iPhone in China.
01:11:05.000That's one thing I fucking love, and one of the reasons why I wanted to have you on is the kind of videos that you do, and there's a lot of other folks that are doing them now, they're so comprehensive.
01:11:15.000They would have never existed on a network television show.
01:11:18.000Even when you used to have the old tech TV days, which was excellent.
01:11:25.000They didn't have the time to do what you're doing.
01:11:27.000And specific to that device, like, you don't have to worry about, you know, oh, I have to be off the air in six minutes because that's when the commercial goes.
01:11:54.000Essentially, what's going on is the internet has created a platform for you guys to completely change the technology review market and make it super interactive.
01:12:03.000Say if you're thinking about getting a new iPhone.
01:12:05.000You go online, go to CNET, go to your site, go to all these different sites, and you'll just hit review after review after review.
01:12:12.000Informed, detailed, in-depth reviews that many times the guy will say, I've had this phone for the past five days fucking with it.
01:13:16.000Before you know it, we could have 50 podcasts going on at the same time, just dumping them out into the internet.
01:13:21.000You don't have to have a 24-hour time period where Frosty, Heidi, and Frank are from 8 to 10, and then after that, it's fucking Conway and Steckler.
01:15:02.000I even feel this way about individual social networks.
01:15:05.000I feel like YouTube has a language, Facebook has a language, Twitter has a language, Instagram.
01:15:11.000When you're a content producer, you sort of feel like all those places are the same because you're broadcasting to all of them.
01:15:17.000But ultimately, more often than not, those users are platform independent.
01:15:21.000They have a place where they like to get at you more than one other place, and that becomes their habit.
01:15:26.000And so, since their consumption model is unique, so say you're people who view this podcast on YouTube versus who listen to the audio only versus who...
01:15:38.000Independent people, all with their own mindset.
01:15:42.000And trying to figure out the right way of interacting with all those groups is something that big brands are trying to do now through their social experiments, etc.
01:15:52.000So when people come and talk to me, brands or...
01:15:57.000Advertisers or whoever it might be, it's like, listen, we need to build something from the ground up native to this platform.
01:16:03.000Don't bring me something from somewhere else.
01:20:24.000And I think that also what we were saying before is that these criticisms, this very detailed review that you'll do about these products is super critical.
01:22:43.000Have you ever known of anyone that's given some sort of review and it's actually changed the final product because they listened to what people were saying about a leaked product and went, wait, wait, wait, hit the brakes.
01:24:55.000And it shines through in certain decision making when it comes not only to products, but to the way they market those products, to the way they communicate with press, or the way they communicate with their own people.
01:25:08.000I've been in some circumstances where it's been very foreign.
01:25:14.000That makes a tremendous amount of sense.
01:25:16.000And it seems like, of course, it seems obvious.
01:25:20.000Yeah, but everyone wants to pretend that User experience in Asia is the same thing that we're going to want here.
01:26:34.000How are you going to take something that took that long to develop and you're going to skin it and you're going to change everything about it?
01:28:04.000It would be like you get some beautiful painting and you send it halfway across the world to Asia and tell them, eh, do what you want with it.
01:30:10.000And because all of a sudden now, the bottom line is affected by someone, some nerd, with a report in front of them saying, just get rid of that, you know, whatever.
01:30:21.000It's made through subtraction, not addition.
01:32:52.000Actually, I have two iPads and I've been trying to just carry this around instead of a laptop lately.
01:32:58.000Surface, Microsoft's version of it, you know, just released this whole thing where you could trade in your old MacBook Air and get like $650 credit towards their new Surface, which is like their version of this mixed with a laptop or a MacBook Air.
01:33:12.000So I've been trying to see if I could just use this more.
01:33:15.000Tony Hinchcoff doesn't even have a computer.
01:33:17.000Everything that he uses is just on an iPad.
01:36:31.000I sometimes get that feeling about fast cars in general.
01:36:36.000I feel like you drive that car and you get in an accident and it's completely not your fault and everyone goes, look at the dickhead in the fast car.
01:42:07.000On the screen, then it's going to display, through the lenses, an interactivity similar to Oculus Rift, but right here, with a piece of cardboard for $5.
01:42:19.000Someone gets cocky and they spend billions of dollars developing Oculus Rift, and someone comes along and says, not only fuck you, but fuck you with cardboard.
01:42:28.000Google did say, fuck you with cardboard, but the real reason for that is because VR... It's going to be tough to sell in the long run.
01:42:42.000So this is a development material, a development kit, so that the imaginations of developers everywhere, they can check out what their app might be like if they did a virtual reality version of it.
01:42:54.000So for folks who are listening to this, which is most people, most people download this and listen to it.
01:44:35.000So he's cutting this box open, and inside the box, or inside this folded up piece of cardboard, there's lenses, too, that look like those little...
01:44:52.000No, you know, it's sort of like a Polaroid, but you remember those old-school things where you'd press it and there would be a picture of a dinosaur and you'd look at it.
01:45:01.000Very much like Viewmaster lenses, but I'm assuming they're a high-quality lens that's just embedded in this plastic because they look pretty slick.
01:46:06.000We could do a quick video experimentation.
01:46:08.000But the role here is not only to say fuck you to Facebook for spending $2 billion, but to essentially say that VR is not going to get anywhere in its current state.
01:46:17.000And to give a sort of way to prototype applications without necessarily investing in a VR headset That's the objective of this program.
01:46:26.000However, I mean, the games on the iPhone didn't kill PlayStation 1 or 4 or whatever the fuck.
01:46:32.000They didn't kill it, but the rumor is these are the last of the consoles.
01:49:35.000I mean, it's a glitch, obviously, but what is the combination that makes the character behave like this?
01:49:43.000Gus Simpson, for folks just listening to this, he's flying through the air, like spinning around and flipping, and then landing on his head and flipping around.
01:49:50.000Carmouche with a nice 70-foot sliding takedown.
01:50:55.000But the reason that I'm not fully on board with it is only because it kind of fucks up the relationship between independent content creators and game developers.
01:55:33.000If you remember being a kid and that NES being under that Christmas tree, at that moment, even if your dad was a fuck-up, you know, your mom was a bitch, that console, for a moment, guaranteed a certain number of hours together because people used to game together.
01:55:51.000Like, for me and my brother, that's what it was.
01:55:55.000The thing is under the tree, you look at one another, you're like, I know what this means.
01:56:13.000You know, you high-five each other after you fucking shoot each other to death.
01:56:16.000We used to do it in my parents' house, main floor, upstairs.
01:56:20.000And then immediately after the multiplayer match would be over, the losing team would run up to where the winning team was and immediately start fighting, you know, whatever.
01:56:28.000Goofing around, like get pissed, yell at one another, go back, do another round, etc.
02:00:09.000So better as a controller than as a video game console.
02:00:13.000Yeah, it kind of is, but it's just great because your controller is like...
02:00:18.000It's like having an iPad and you're searching for videos on Netflix or stuff like that.
02:00:23.000Which is way better than using your remote control to find the R, duck, duck, duck, duck, O, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, S. When you're trying to find the name of a movie, that is annoying as fuck.
02:01:12.000So there was a big controversy at first that nobody wanted it and they were including it anyways.
02:01:17.000Then it was going to be always on and then it was going to be expensive and all that shit.
02:01:21.000The reason I think people don't want it is because an Xbox buyer, you've got to look at the core demographic of who's going to get an Xbox the minute it comes out.
02:01:29.000There's a certain sex and a certain age group, etc.
02:01:32.000that that stuff is popular with and they want to run around shooting people online, essentially, the vast majority, or play sports games or whatever it is.
02:01:40.000And there's just only so much you can do right now in terms of a motion game.
02:01:44.000Do I want to do Dance Dance Revolution?
02:02:19.000That would be something that would be really beneficial to someone learning martial arts techniques.
02:02:24.000Because most of the striking techniques, whether it's striking with your hands or with your feet, knees, and elbows, you're learning them in the air before you ever strike things.
02:02:38.000Like one of the most important things when I teach people kicks, specific kicks, is practicing them in the air.
02:02:45.000Because if you're constantly relying on hitting something to maintain your balance and to maintain the distribution of your weight, you'll bounce off of things and you'll rely on those things and you don't penetrate them enough.
02:03:41.000Michael O'Malley, who's another one of my instructors, who's this incredible Taekwondo black belt, multiple-time national champion, and he's a big, tall guy, and he would throw these insanely impressive kicks like half an inch from your face.
02:04:58.000Have you ever seen the Magic the Gathering photo where the dude went to a Magic the Gathering place and took pictures of everybody's ass cracks?
02:05:05.000Him giving a thumbs up in front of all these different ass cracks.
02:09:28.000How did they hold them back in the user interface though?
02:09:31.000Because when they put out Windows 7, they put this new UI, which they didn't really want to give a name, but it was essentially a touch-based UI. It was a huge overhaul,
02:09:47.000where now they wanted one platform to work on tablets, laptops, desktops, etc.
02:09:54.000People were like, how am I going to do this?
02:09:56.000A, B, C, D. Because of the market penetration of the old OS, Windows 7 and XP before that, so on and so forth, the voice of the people, their old customers, was louder than that of the new customers they didn't have yet.
02:10:10.000Much like the automakers, the domestic automakers, I think had the same problem.
02:10:16.000Your user base gets so big that Your user base gets so big that you're more worried about pissing them off than you are about attracting new people.
02:11:16.000I think it's the perfect finally price point to be able to give somebody like your mom a laptop and have her do exactly what she wants to do with no extra bullshit.
02:11:28.000My mom probably wants to just surf the net.
02:11:30.000Maybe look at some photos, watch some Netflix, and that's all she's really probably going to do to the max.
02:11:36.000She's not going to be editing videos, and if she does, I'm sure there's an app that she can actually do it at if she wanted to.
02:11:42.000The problem is a lot of people were saying with Chromebooks is, why aren't Chromebooks just Android books?
02:12:15.000Maybe there's some public relations issues.
02:12:19.000I don't know exactly what got fucked up there, but Google appears like this company that's giving us all this great shit and not asking for anything.
02:12:26.000Because what they're asking for is fucking way deeper than that.
02:12:31.000Yeah, they're asking for a connection with you.
02:16:31.000He'll look at his phone real quick, and then he puts it on, because he gets it onto my number, and he puts it under the table, and then all of a sudden my thing, dude, I'm texting you right now.
02:17:56.000There's an audio recording capability.
02:17:59.000So say if you and I were talking and I was doing an interview with you and I was asking you about all these different things and I was writing down my notes, it would take photos of the notes and it would take photos of the notes...
02:18:08.000And correspond those notes to the audio recording.
02:18:11.000So if I said, ask him how big his dick is, and then I would click on that, and then it would go back to the conversation where you were talking about women always being in pain when you have sex.
02:19:56.000But I love the idea that this pen records an audio of us having a conversation and then I should use it for podcast notes.
02:20:05.000I think I might actually use it because I have stacks of these things sometimes that I go over, like these notes that I make during shows.
02:20:14.000Shit, I feel like I'm underperforming.
02:20:15.000I think you took one note so far today.
02:20:18.000Well, it's really usually things that I wanted to talk about that I forgot or that I knew I knew I was going to forget or didn't want to forget or an idea that I had while it was happening.
02:20:27.000But I don't remember half of these fucking things.
02:21:47.000You know, getting something and giving you his reaction.
02:21:50.000Like, in some ways, you become sophisticated to a point where you might not be addressing the things that the everyday guy is looking to have addressed.
02:22:46.000They would have a report underneath on a review.
02:22:49.000For example, the product they're reviewing, there's a huge banner ad right above it.
02:22:55.000Yeah, but if they are honest and always committed to being honest, I mean, isn't that goddamn essential for the company themselves?
02:23:03.000If you put out a dud, I'm sorry, but you put out a fucking dud, what you need to do is get rid of those weak-ass engineers and designers and put out that dud.
02:23:10.000If you don't, your fucking business is going to go under.
02:24:11.000So they're doing it because they don't want to piss people off, so you don't believe them.
02:24:16.000I won't make that leap, but when I see something like that, automatically my mind starts telling me that there's something more here than meets the eye.
02:24:25.000Isn't there an issue also with putting a quantitative value on a review?
02:25:06.000The problem is that the more you take your guard down and the more that you allow for yourself to be programmed to respond to those things, the less likely that you're going to be able to get any kind of accuracy out of it.
02:25:46.000I mean, there's an issue with mixed martial arts that...
02:25:49.000The UFC has had problems with companies that have been critical of the UFC and it's damaged the relationship that they have with the reporters.
02:25:58.000But if you're a real reporter and you have a real opinion, the problem is when you work for a corporation.
02:26:06.000When you're an independent like yourself...
02:26:08.000It is the responsibility of that independent to be completely objective, because that's what everybody turns to you for.
02:26:14.000And as soon as we can't count on you for that, the whole process of having an independent, it becomes irrelevant.
02:27:47.000Because the UFC that I work for is the biggest, greatest mixed martial arts organization ever.
02:27:52.000However, along the way, during the time that I've been employed with them over the past 12 years, there have been instances where I've actively promoted fighters that were in other organizations.
02:28:10.000When Fedor Emelianenko was in Pride, and he was one of the best heavyweights in the world, I constantly would talk about him on broadcasts.
02:28:18.000To the point where some people didn't like it, and some people thought it was not smart.
02:28:27.000If there's some guy out there that's murdering motherfuckers in some other organization, and I pretend that the guys we have are the only guys that I want to see fight, then that's ridiculous.
02:28:36.000That I'm a ridiculous person, and I don't deserve that position.
02:28:59.000But this phone specifically is probably the best way to do an analysis of the entire market because of how popular it is and because of how important it is as a piece of news.
02:29:46.000The reason Apple doesn't spend as much money on marketing as Samsung, because they don't have to, this phone comes out, it's on the cover of the New York Times.
02:31:13.000How do they decide who gets that device?
02:31:15.000Well, you would assume that the people with the biggest audiences maybe would get it, or maybe just send it to anybody who wants to talk about it.
02:31:21.000You would think all the exposure would be good.
02:31:36.000Because they can count on those people to only give glowing reviews.
02:31:40.000And if those people, working for whoever, decide that they're going to write something different, guess where they can find their new home?
02:32:10.000So there is a group that gets it, but the problem is you have this fear, this inherent fear, that if you don't do what the controlling party says to do, you don't get that access to the device anymore.
02:32:23.000And unfortunately, it's the access to the device that drives the traffic.
02:32:28.000Because if you get this review up a week before anyone else, guess what happens to everybody else's reviews?
02:33:05.000If you're a reporter working at The Verge and you get the task of doing the new iPhone...
02:33:09.000And listen, I am not fucking attacking the verge.
02:33:12.000The iPhone is a great phone, arguably the best phone on the market, and nobody really comes out and says shit that's untrue about it.
02:33:18.000I'm just talking about a potential that exists that steers in a direction way outside the world of journalism that doesn't happen when somebody is murdered or you're investigating a crime or you're...
02:35:37.000It's not like some shit went down in some foreign country and you and another guy both have the same opportunity to go there and investigate it.
02:35:48.000When there's such a large financial benefit to having early access, especially when you look at page views and things along those lines, when an iPhone comes out, you have essentially 24 to 48 hours where people are really freaking out.
02:36:24.000The reason why we have this controlled environment is that we put together the hardware, we put together the operating system, we make everything compatible.
02:39:07.000He admits that his stock did very well for him, but he would rather let someone else make the money from now on, said the CNN investment show closing bell.
02:39:16.000See, even that, I'm all skeptical of that whole thing.
02:39:27.000A guy that's worth billions saying anything...
02:39:30.000It says, I came to the conclusion that it was unlikely that a man as really awful as I think Steve Jobs was could possibly create a great company for the long term.
02:39:40.000I just don't believe that bad guys do well in the long run.
02:40:35.000You know they didn't say that in that author.
02:40:38.000So when you have a book on Steve Jobs' life, you have some vague facts that you don't maybe know the entire circumstances, the context of the conversations.
02:40:53.000You have facts, and then you're throwing those facts in and pouring your own colors on them and your own shapes to paint your own picture.
02:41:03.000I sort of wonder though, getting back to the asshole comment, like in the movies and stuff as well, he'll come in and fire somebody in front of everyone else.
02:41:12.000Oh wait a minute, this guy's an idiot.
02:41:14.000Because listen to the rest of his quote.
02:41:15.000In an interesting twist of logic, Robertson also said that if Steve Jobs was still alive, he'd still be an Apple investor.
02:41:22.000And then he said, after watching the Ashton Kutcher movie, he thought Steve Jobs was sexy.
02:42:18.000No, nobody knows, but I find the stock market to be a bizarre place because you're talking about the evaluation of a company and it's impacted by...
02:44:00.000If we were able to grasp the amount of money these fucking guys are making by trading one inanimate thing for another inanimate thing, I don't think society would be very happy about it.
02:44:42.000Yeah, I mean, you watch them move money around, and all these billionaires and millionaires were investing with him, and he did it in front of everybody.
02:45:21.000And they've also been compromised to a point where they're so unstable when it comes to things like the stock market.
02:45:27.000When you look at derivatives, Peter Schiff tried to explain derivatives to me and how people bet on things failing and how much money there is in that aspect of the economy.
02:45:40.000It's so bewildering that anybody ever let that happen.
02:45:48.000It's much like a betting line on a fight, a UFC fight.
02:45:52.000I was listening to one of your fight broadcasts there where you were saying you had a great record picking winners, but you will never say it or something like that.
02:46:05.000You don't want to give predictions, but I would imagine, being who you are, that you could fairly accurately predict winners over and over again.
02:46:20.000Chris Weidman Anderson Silva surprised me.
02:46:23.000I thought Weidman was going to give him some troubles, but I never thought he would win by knockout in the first round or the second round like that.
02:48:29.000And Ken Shamrock was supposed to fight Kimbo Slice, but Ken Shamrock got cut backstage while he was warming up, and the doctors wouldn't let him fight.
02:48:37.000So because it was going to be on TV, Seth Petruzzelli, who was earlier on in the car, had already been approved by Athletic Commission, already made weight, decided to fight Kimbo in the main event.
02:51:20.000The problem is, one of the reasons why I don't gamble on it, is not that I worry it would affect my commentary, because I absolutely would not let it.
02:51:26.000I've been accused of being biased before, but if I am biased, it's because I enjoy certain styles.
02:51:31.000It's certainly not biased because I want one person to win.
02:51:34.000I just think I like when people fight effectively and intelligently.
02:51:41.000I have very specific things that I like about the sport of fighting, and one of them is I enjoy technique, and someone who's a real technician, a craftsman, someone who really immerses himself.