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I'm one of your hosts, Steven Robles,

and joined by journalist Jason A Ten.

How's it going, Jason?

This is gonna be a long episode.

I'm saying journalist a lot because i if
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It's crazy deal. ~ do you know where that
quote is from?

Out there is the perfect lap, no mistakes.

I just wanna correct you for one second.

I just pulled that quote verbatim.

It's not two dollars

and fifty cents a year or f or a month or
fifty dollars a year.

No no no. Tw twenty five dollars a year.

It's twenty five dollars a year.

'Cause I'm like, that math does not work.

If you use the promo code. No,

Okay.

no, math ain't mathin'. Two fifty

a month, twenty five dollars a year,

the link is down in the show support the
show,

ad free, all that. Yeah.

I think

that the movie is not F one because no,

That's correct. No, that's not F1.

but I think it's the other one with Javier
Bardem

Yes, that's right. one of the topics we're
talking about today.

and Brad Pitt. Ford vs. Ferrari.

I know. I just tried to see how

Okay, well wait minute. It is Ford v.

Ferrari. It is not either of those actors.

It is Matt Damon. ~

how confused I c make you.

okay, anyway. That is Ford v. Ferrari.

we have a lot of exciting stuff.

I've been sending out pins ~ secretly to
even more people.

And spoiler, we're on six out of seven
continents.

That's not a six seven meme. It's six out
of seven.

Actually we're on seven out of eight,

which we'll get to in a second,

which I didn't know. But anyway

J D. Storch from the USA gave us a four
star review.

I have to go an entire episode without
saying a specific word,

so we'll see if I'm gonna do it today.

He's gonna bump it up to five stars.

Joe drinks coffee from New Zealand.

He says Zealandia is officially a
continent.

What does officially mean?

Officially. I don't know. Journalist Jason
Kitan,

you should tell us. What what?

Sorry, this is gonna be an inside general
time.

It also said ~ doc dots could be on or
off.

I don't know because we don't use doc down
in this part of the world.

I also don't know what that means.

Are you saying everyone in New Zealand and
Australia no one uses the

doc on their Mac? Everybody uses

Yeah, I didn't

understand that either when I read it.

I just I didn't know if that was a joke or
I didn't know if this is like

Please yeah. Is it a Hobbit joke?

I don't know.

in the EU you're not allowed to do in app
subscriptions and in Australia

you can't use the doc. I don't know.

I don't know. Please explain. Leave us
another five star rating review.

Yeah.

Please explain. Aluir

one one one from the UK and the the title
of this review it really hurt because

it said Jason thank you, Jason.

That was the whole title of the review.

And it said a while back, Jason said to
drink black coffee for two weeks

and you'll never go back. And he was very
right.

I love my iced Americano in the morning.

Really, Jason?

Yeah. I

don't actually remember saying that,

but it does sound like a thing I would
say.

I probably was trying to convince you to
just switch to black coffee,

think he says. Maybe I'm not doing it.

maybe. I don't know. ~ yeah,

Do you say you drink black coffee just
straight?

and I had a really sad story. It'll be
quick.

Don't worry. That last night, so we get
these Nespresso pods right

for our Nespresso thing. And whenever you
get them,

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

they actually send you like samplers of
other types.

Like you didn't order this, you might want
to next time.

And what they sent us this time,

I definitely will not be ordering next
time because it was supposed to

be some kind of caramel something.

And I'm like

I hate flavored coffee. Now, I will drink
like a latte with something in it.

That's different. Flavored coffee,

Sure, sure, sure. Hmm.

it should be a crime. I just think it's so
bad.

It's also a crime how you said caramel and
not caramel,

but I don't know if we have time to get
into that.

So I it's definitely wrong though.

I don't think it was a crime. Carmel?

~ yeah, that's not that's not right.

~ but anyway, ~ we have listeners so

You can leave us a

five star review and tell us how you say
that word.

Also also don't spell it out because it's
only spelled one way.

Please spell it out. How do you say
caramel?

But I don't think Yeah.

That's right. Exa that's exactly right.

That's exactly right. With all the
letters.

It's not C A R ~ E L. That's all I'm
saying.

I mean there is a city

in in Indiana called Carmel, but anyway.

There's also one in New York, I think,

Mm.

Carmel, Carmel.

Anyway, I want to talk about listeners
around the world because we actually

had a listener who's been to Antarctica
before,

and she also has her own podcast,

Podfeet. ~ she heard our plea about
Antarctica and had the same dream,

and so she took it into her own hands and
went to Antarctica herself

to listen to her show down there.

Listen, kudos. Well,

But she didn't take one of our pins?

this was years ago. This happened years
ago.

She didn't invent a time machine,

She didn't go recently.

get one of our pins and go back and do
this.

No, but that is amazing. We've had
listeners in Antarctica.

It happened once. I think it can happen
again.

Let us know. Listen, your grandparents
who's going on a cruise to Antarctica.

How do you say that word? Antarctica?

Caramel? How do you say that? Anyway,

Yeah, how many A's are in

~ so listen, if you're going to
Antarctica,

let me know. I will send you a bunch of
pins.

I don't think that's right. I

think it's Antarctica, not Antarctica.

You just swallow some letters,

No, put that put the screenshot back up
there and look at the letters.

Antarctica?

Antarctica. I'm putting it up there,

but that's how that's how you say it.

How do you say how do you say eternity?

I can't see it.

And Arktika. Eternity? Eternity?

Antarctica.

As opposed to what? How else would you say

Yeah. Anyway, Nate's brother Jacob

gave me a hard time 'cause I said eternity
a lot of times on a podcast

and I guess you need to swallow the second
tea,

you gotta say eternity. Anyway.

Hm. Okay. So I think we need to start

another podcast, mispronunciation on the
side.

I've read The Elements of Eloquence by
Mark Forsyth,

which is an excellent book, and ~ I think
I recommend to everyone.

But anyway, Antarctica. I'm gonna say all
the T's.

Let us know if you're going there.

But we I sent a pin to Ottavio in Brazil.

So now we have South America covered,

Oscar in Sweden, Ernesto in Uruguay,

so we have Central America, and so they're
going everywhere.

We're gonna be on all the continents.

We just need to get Antarctica.

Help us get there. Journalists Antarctica.

Journalist Antarctica.

I also want to shout out two other things
before we get to

F1 iOS twenty-seven series and all of
that.

We talked about Lego a couple weeks.

Yeah.

Jason's well acquainted with Lego.

Big Broncos fan on Thread sent us a
picture of his son's Lego collection.

Listen, this thing, epic.

He's got like the Marvel, he's got the
Doctor Strange,

Yeah.

the Marvel Tower, he's got great posters,

he's got Grogu up there, multiple shelves,

classic cars.

He's got the setup.

Yeah, if this if it wasn't for the Arod
fat head on the wall there,

I think that this would rival some of the
rooms I've been to in the Lego Museum,

just to be honest. That's pretty pretty
impressive.

Mm? Yeah.

And if it wasn't for the fact that there's
such a good story that goes with this,

I'd actually be mad that he just wanted to
show me up.

No, no, Big Bronco fan said it helped his
son get through chemo brain,

and this is just a portion of the Legos.

And so very incredible.

Ver very well. Very very well done.

So thanks for sharing that. And finally,

I wanted to shout out an app. this is
Chalk Lift.

Have you seen this app, Jason?

Chock Lift? So it is think of it as like a
digital stream deck on your phone.

No.

But basically you install this app on your
phone and on your Mac,

and then you can launch shortcuts by
tapping the icons on your iPhone.

Or you can run like open apps and even
open different window panes,

a lot of it through shortcuts.

But if you don't have Stream Deck but you
want to experiment,

you can use it as a free app to download.

So we'll put the link down below.

And you do there is a pro subscription if
you want multiple pages on your iPhone

of things to tap, but it's also just free
if you just want like

one eight button like little Stream Deck
on your phone.

I thought that was pretty cool.

Chalk lift by Phil Trout. All right,

That is that is very cool.

you were on a at an F1 race and you took a
picture of

Mm-hmm.

Lewis Hamilton on a razor, is that
accurate?

I don't know what he was on, but yeah.

I mean he showed up on a Jacoti bike one
day.

He showed he ro r goes around on his
little scooter.

Wow.

My favorite yeah, I was at the at the
Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

Actually I w I left before the race.

Is that stupid? I'm gonna do the same
thing again next week,

but but it's because I so I was there
Friday and Saturday,

Wow. Yes.

flew and Sunday and then flew home.

But Monday was my son's birthday.

So in going from Montreal to here,

~ yeah, you gotta be there.

there are not a lot of direct flight
options.

So it's like if I wanted to be home for my
son on my son's birthday,

I had to come home Sunday night,

You gotta do

which meant I actually left before the
race started.

I go to F one races and don't go to the
race.

Nice, as you do.

But there you listen, an F one race
weekend,

there's a lot of stuff there's a sprint
race.

I was there for that. There's qualifying,

Right, right.

there's f practice, there's a F one
Academy race,

Old red.

actually three F one Academy races.

So there's an F two race. There's a lot
going on.

So but

Very

cool. The super fun stuff. Yeah.

The my favorite thing, I just want to say
this.

You know, s when I've been to the races,

~ as a press person, you have access to
basically everything except

for like the paddock club or whatever,

you know? And I and so you're in the
paddock,

which is the space between the garages and
the hospitality tents.

That's the paddock, right? And that's you
can you can watch the drivers going back

Yeah, yeah.

and forth from the garage right before the
races,

all this. It's great. So the there are
people who sort of ~ what

is it gather whatever in that area.

Sure. Congregate.

Congregate, that was the word I looking
for.

Thank you. Yeah, they

Journalists, yeah.

they journalist in there. Some of them are
journalists,

but everyone else is maybe paparazzi just
trying to get photos.

And my favorite thing is right before the
race,

they the the drivers, particularly Charles
Clare and Max Verstappen,

they run out of their their hospitality
tents and everyone's like,

They're going to the garage. And it's
like,

nope. And they all just sort of like run
to the there's a bathroom section right

between them, you know?

And then the people all just stand outside
the bathrooms waiting and I'm thinking,

~

if you're an F one driver, how locked in
do you have to be to not

be thinking about the fact that you're
standing in here peeing and there

are seven hundred people standing right
outside waiting for you to come out

Right.

Well listen, if there's any

athlete that understands performance
anxiety,

it's F one drivers and so I'm sure that
they're locked in they're locked.

Can I show this picture of Lewis Hamilton?

You you can show any of the pictures you
want,

~ this will be the chapter R but also here
it is if you're watching in Apple,

yeah.

Spotify, or YouTube, there he is,

Lewis Hamilton on a scooter.

It's not quite as dramatic as the picture
I took with Sony Elfle One at

the Vegas w no, I'm saying I had one of
Lewis that was pretty dramatic,

With Beyonce and Jay Z.

Yeah, that

but yeah.

was a very good one. But I this is
dramatic in a different way.

It was fun. Yeah.

Listen, this is hardcore journalism.

Okay, it's beta sea beta season is about
to be upon us.

Dubdub is a week and a half away.

And I'm going out to WW. I'm trying to
figure out what am I gonna install betas

on ~ because I want to make videos of
stuff.

I'm bringing my iPhone Air, that's my beta
device.

I'm not bringing another iPad.

If I do an iPad beta, I'm just gonna raw
dog it on my main iPad Pro.

I don't think that's the term,

but I'm I'm going with it. Jason's cameras
is just violently shaking.

I mean if unless you're making a shrinking
reference,

But here's ~ I haven't watched the last
the last season,

the No,

so I I don't I don't ~ yeah, anyway,

it doesn't matter, but there's the okay
anyway.

Because

but

the Harrison Ford character keeps saying
that and they just keep saying to him,

I don't think that means what you think
that means.

yeah, he doesn't say he that's not what it
means.

That's not

what it means. But but my Mac,

I this whole segment is just so I could
explain how I did this on my MacBook Air.

But I was thinking there's gonna be a lot
of changes on ~ no,

I just said it. I'm gonna have to cut it
out.

Anyway, I said a word. I'm gonna I'm gonna
mute it.

It's fine. It's it's fine. Three point
nine.

Three point nine. this I wanted to be able
to run the macOS beta

on some device while I'm out there at
dubdub.

Because I think there's going to be big
changes.

If there's big changes to Apple
intelligence and shortcuts,

last year there was a whole like like
automations on the Mac were brand

new for shortcuts. So I wanted to be able
to do a beta on my Mac,

but I also have I need a Mac to like edit
video and not be buggy while

I'm out there because I'm going to be
recording podcasts,

editing video. I ~ my word, I thought
about,

I thought about buying a second MacBook
Air like a crazy person to have

a second Mac with me for the beta.

And that felt like overkill.

So I'm not gonna do that. But what I
looked up is you can create

a partition on your SSD for your Apple
Silicon Mac and break

it off and then install Mac OS like it's a
whole other computer.

And then when you start up your Mac,

you hold the power button. You used to be
able to do this like reboot,

and you still apparently can reboot from
an external SSD.

You could partition old hard drives.

Well, apparently you can still do all of
that and it works.

And so I went through the whole process.

I installed Mac OS on a partition of my
SSD on my MacBook Air.

And once the Mac OS 27 beta comes,

I'm going to put it on the partition and
hopefully I can run both.

And my Tahoe side stays not buggy.

Now I've read some places that doing all
of this rig and roll doesn't even matter

because as soon as you go like if you
update the operating system,

even it's on a partition, it might change
things at like the kernel level

of the MacBook and it could affect things
there.

Whatever. I've done enough obscurity where
I'm going to go with it and

I will see what happens.

This is a terrible idea, Steven.

That's all. Why? Why is it a terrible
idea?

This this is a worse idea than buying the
rabbit humane pin or whatever.

Why? Why is it bad?

Steven, like the MacBook Neo is a thing.

Just buy a MacBook Neo.

But it's so I'm not gonna it's

that's so thick to carry that I'm
traveling,

Jason. You don't even carry the Vision Pro
on a plane.

Steven.

Did you wear it on the plane to the F one
race?

Of course I did not.

Exactly. Exactly.

That's not the same thing, by the way.

The ma the the Vision Pro is a thousand
times bigger than carrying a second lap.

I don't know.

It's a

different shape, but I feel like with the
waterfield case,

the volume I don't know, might be similar.

It's a

it's a s I Stephen, do you know do you do
you understand physics?

Jason's brain is breaking right now.

Yeah, yeah.

Like I just think okay, okay. ~ still,

I think this is a terrible idea.

Yeah. Why?

But I'm super excited for the content
that's gonna result from ~

That's right.

how iCloud wiped out all of my stuff
because I had two versions

of two different versions of Mac OS on the
same laptop.

I'm not signed

into iCloud on the beta side for the re
for just information.

I just don't I think just put it on your
laptop.

Just put it on your laptop. You've got
your Mac Studio.

That's your main machine. Don't put the
beta on that.

But I'm when I'm traveling, I'm gonna be
editing videos out there at Dubdev.

For like thirteen minutes you'll be
traveling.

It's fine.

Yeah, but I wanna I I gotta be like in the
moment.

I gotta I gotta turn around like thirteen
videos in four days.

Final Cut Pro on your iPad. It'll be fine.

Anyway. Well, I do think about that too,

Yeah. No, just don't put

but if I put the beta on my iPad then I'm
like I got nothing.

the bait on your iPad until you get home,

it'll be fine.

Yeah, but if I want to make a video about
it.

Anyway, ~ what is your what is your
strategy?

The all the all that to say, you have a
thousand different devices over there,

because you got review units you keep for
four years.

What are you gonna put the beta on?

Not four years. I'm I don't think I have
anything from before COVID.

It's fine. I know. I'm wait,

That's six years ago. Six years.

What are you gonna put the beta on when it
comes out?

what was what's your question?

What is my strategy? I'll just put it on
everything.

Dub dub Your main iPhone?

It's fine. I don't care. Of course.

This is crazy. This is crazy,

Why not? It'll be fine. No, I ~ but
honestly,

Jason.

the the betas unless there's a thing y so
I understand people who didn't

run the betas of Tahoe because they just
hated liquid glass.

Fine that's fine.

But the betas, I have I it has been a very
long time since a beta version

of iOS or Mac OS or even iPad OS has been
a problem for me.

I So I wouldn't put it on the MacBook Pro
because the one thing I would

Sure, sure.

be nervous about is audio hijack.

Like that's the one thing. That is the one
thing.

Right. Exactly. That's what I'll be using
out there,

But but hypothetically, ~ we could do this
without audio hijack.

yeah. Sure.

It's just a backup. I'm not saying we
shouldn't do it,

but I'm just saying like that.

Riverside'll run fine. Well, no,

Yeah we

Riverside never runs fine anymore,

but it'll won't it's not because of a beta
version of the operating system.

I just want to say that ~ po zoom for
podcasting right now,

Yeah, don't yeah, there's d someone don't
don't clip that.

Uhhuh. Yeah.

that is a industry ripe for disruption.

Wait, like zoom? Just in

I'm saying

no, like Riverside, this is how I describe
it to people.

Riverside is the Zoom but for podcasting,

right? I think that that category of
software is ripe for disruption right

Sure, okay, yeah.

now because there are no good options.

I mean Riverside does pretty well.

Like we've never had a

Until they figure

out that they should change things and
then they're like,

Wait, no one asked for this and it broke
everything.

The editor's but

the editor's been problematic,

but anyway, we don't get into it.

Beta season's coming. I'll follow up what
it ha what happens when you put

a Mac OS beta one on a partition of a
MacBook Air.

I will probably put iOS beta on the iPhone
Air and not r put it on my i

Not Germany. Yeah.

and not put it on my iPhone seventeen.

And then I'll probably pull out either the
Neo or MacBook Air.

Yeah, yeah. One of your eighteen computers
that you have Four excuse me,

Not eighteen, fourteen.

fourteen. All right. Right as we were
recording,

journalist Mark German at Bloomberg
released a bunch of information about

I was twenty seven. Basically the Siri
overhaul,

which he has a bunch of things here.

We will link a Bloomberg article.

How many people can click a gift link
before it expires?

I think infinity it just expires

Do you know? ~ really?

in seven days. So today is Thursday the
twenty eighth.

You th you're on the timer.

All right. Alright,

you're on the timer. So we will put
Jason's gift link in the show notes.

The nine to five Mac article is great,

but they didn't include the images for
obvious reasons because they wanted to,

you know, Bloomberg is releasing this
stuff and and it's under behind a paywall.

So I I just gonna show a couple of the
images,

but German is basically saying that
there's a bunch of redesigns of Siri,

which we kind of knew already.

There's going to be this bubble type thing
from the dynamic island.

That will be the Siri assistant.

You'll be able to ask. There'll be a
dedicated Siri app with your conversation

history. Siri will be in the camera,

kind of like visual intelligence,

but if you want to just go straight to
that from the camera,

you'll be able to do that, I think,

rather than having to go to the visual
intelligence screen,

which I always forget is there.

And so he is giving a preview of the Siri
overhaul.

We kind of knew this was happening.

The the dedicated app is what I'm curious
if this is actually gonna happen or not.

Like, will there be a series? Yeah,

that you can go and see your conversation
history,

resume a conversation, search it,

all of that. And Jason doesn't think
that's necessary,

but I want a conversation history because
I use it all the time

in Claude and ChatGPT. And if that history
also then speaks to context,

meaning your future requests will be
tailored based on your past requests,

I think that would be ~ positive.

Now, in a lot of these ~ images,

in all these images,

There is ChatGPT as an integration,

kind of like how you can do visual
intelligence with both Chat

GPT or Apple Intelligence and all of that.

There are no images that show like Claude
or Gemini as one of

the popover options that could just be
it's not in this version

or whatever images that ~ journalist Mark
German got.

But that is, you know, Gemini and Siri.

That's hopefully what we're gonna be
hearing about at WWDC.

Is that deal happened?

We haven't heard anything since that
agreement between Apple and Google.

And so ~ maybe that is just what like the
main Siri option is here.

It's just Jim and I behind the scenes.

But and now I'm sorry, I've said Siri a
thousand times.

My home pod is now flashing at me.

I don't know what is about to happen.

It's probably gonna start blasting Han
Zimmer music.

But that's it. Go to the GIF link if you
want to see all the images.

it's right there.

Yeah, and I'm the I'm I can understand
wanting a Siri app,

but if all the Siri app does is punch you
to Chat GPT or Gemini,

why don't you just use the ChatGPT of
Gemini app?

I feel like there has to be a much better
story than that.

I fine, chat history, like whatever.

But did you look at the chat history?

Like this this feels like someone designed
these things who just doesn't want

It's not good. Yeah, it doesn't look good.

you to use them. Like even the glowy orb
thing coming out of the dynamic island.

Alright, I'll show

It looked weird, yeah.

Steven, it

looks like it is like sucking the content
of that page up into the L

L which is exactly what's happening.

But like I don't understand like

That is what's happening.

There is no I will I'm gonna say this
right now,

and you can call me a I don't know,

whatever this is, whether I'm right or
wrong.

The conversation history will not look
like this screenshot.

This screenshot is showing these like
bubble conversations where there's

two columns offset and every conversation
is like a round wreck little bubble.

Ain't no way it looks like that.

It will it will at the very least be a
list,

just a regular list.

Except you just know that they have to
have a different mode of operating.

And I would not be surprised. I'm not
saying it will look like this,

but I also wouldn't be surprised if it
looks exactly like this because Apple's
gonna

Apple and instead of just doing the
logical thing that every other version

of these apps is doing, they're like,

Well, let's figure out how we could do
this in a way that would be Apple.

It's like you know you're behind.

Like you don't double down on being
behind.

I tell you what, Jason, if it if the
conversation looks exactly like this

in the Siri app in iOS twenty seven,

I will ca Apple cash you five dollars.

But if it doesn't look like this,

you have to say the word leaker at least
once in an episode.

Just just the word leaker. Not not around
anything else.

That's fine. Mark German is not a Mark
German is not a leaker.

No, no, no, no, no. No context.

You just have to say the word at at one
point.

Anyway, we're gonna know about in a week
and a half what is actually happening.

So there you go, iOS twenty seven series.

Gift link below if you want to see all the
screenshots.

R2, Rivian R2. The official launch date is
June 9th,

by the way. We're gonna get to the Ferrari
Luce in a moment.

But if you wanted to order a Rivian R2,

some people are getting delivery on June
9th.

There's invitations if you are on the wait
list.

It's gonna be out there. I am on the wait
list.

Aren't you on the wait list?

I I have not gotten an email. I'm waiting
for my VIP R2 to arrive.

Just kidding, that's not happening.

but yeah, I don't know, we'll see.

There was ~ also the performance models
are the ones that are available right
away.

So if you want the cheaper models,

you're gonna have to wait. This is like
for the most expensive models or whatever,

Yeah.

which that's not what I was h hoping for.

So I'll be waiting. But we'll see.

June ninth, Rivian. Cool. I didn't you
booked one too,

didn't you? Reserve one? that's it.

No, I did not. But we I I we've talked
about

how ~ there's like at some point we'll
have to replace our Model S because like
it's

almost seven, eight years old.

They don't make it anymore. That that
product is obsolete.

And they don't make model S anymore,

which is actually pretty unfortunate.

~ but just thinking about what we might
what we might want and I don't know,

an R Two's kinda nice.

Did I tell you when my Model S fell apart?

Did tell you about that?

Was that before you bought it,

after you bought it? What

I have a twenty thirteen Model S,

Which is basically OG.

if any it is one year past the original
release date of that model.

And it has the bubble plastic nose,

you know, so i it I yeah.

Yeah. That's how you can tell someone has
a

a very old bottle S.

A year a couple of years ago after I first
got it,

I went to my barber, which was obviously a
couple of years ago because

I don't go anymore. ~ one of the guys when
I walked in the barber shop,

they were Why does your Tesla look so
weird?

I was like, Because it's old. Okay?

It's because it's an old car. But then I I
know.

I don't ask you that as you get older.

What are you talking about my car like
that for?

You got a moped out front. Why are you
talking about me?

~ so I it's got the plastic bubble nose on
the front of the Model S.

And one day I was pulling into somewhere,

I forget what it was, and when I got out,

the bubble was gone.

The front nose had just disappeared.

It was just like the metal plate behind
it.

No bubble nose. Well, it disappeared,

Like somebody stole it?

and I don't know what happened to it.

And I was like, what? What could happen?

And I did remember I when I I back into my
garage,

and there was a instance where I didn't
back up far enough,

and the garage door kind of like touched
the bubble nose and then went back

up because it registered that there was an
object there.

And I was like, huh. And apparently that
weakened the little clips,

maybe, that connect the bubble nose.

And then

One day it just was gone. And I was like,

How when did this fall off? Cause 'cause
it happened recently.

And then I remembered, I wonder,

did I loosen it with the garage?

And then when I went through the car wash,

was that enough to break off the bubble
nose?

So ~ the bubble nose. So I went back to
the car wash and I you know,

trying to go to a car wash and asking for
help,

that's like going to the middle of the
desert and looking for a Starbucks.

They only know how to do one

I guess like

thing, which is put your car in the little
rails and just go.

That's it. And I don't even know like,

you know, there's no like office for the
car wash to go to,

but there are people around working.

And so I find someone running around like
emptying the trashes and I'm like,

Hey, listen, y do you guys have a lost and
found?

Like I know this sounds weird.

And I

People

y typically lose parts off of their car.

I don't know. And I I listen I gestured
towards my car.

I was like, I I'm wondering if the thing
and the lady was like,

~ actually, hold on a second. Disappears
into the back room.

Jason sure enough comes out with my bubble
nose for my Tesla.

And the mo there was one clip that's like
kind of bent now so it doesn't fully

go in the the thing, but I was able to
just kind of rest it on there.

I pushed it in, most of the clips clipped
and now my bubble nose has been

on ever since, been on there for like
three months.

To get some gorilla glue, put it back
there,

just

Nah, I just let it alone. I did go on eBay
and you can bear like

buy the plastic bubble part for like three
hundred fifty dollars from some reseller.

And I ordered one because I was like,

I don't know where my bubble nose is.

But then I went to the car wash,

they had it, and I canceled my eBay order.

But apparently you can get it.

Can you get can

you get one with like hue lights that you
can control with an app

as you're driving down the street?

The 'cause the fila, whatever,

You can get different colors, which I
don't want.

~ yeah. ~ I should get a screen.

that discontinued Sony car, they actually
had a screen on the front

top that you could put stuff on.

It was stupid, but

I should get a screen that just says
beard.fm.

It just scrolls on the top on the front of
my thing.

You should. Get an e paper, bubble nose.

No, I'm not gonna do that. It's
ridiculous.

My car already looks weird,

apparently. Speaking of cars though,

the Ferrari Luce is now out there in the
world.

MKBHD has a video of the interior.

There has been endless memes about this
car.

Cause it's the first time we see the
exterior and the hole of the car.

One of my favorite memes was someone put
it ~ s side by side with the Nissan Leaf,

similar color, and it's Leaf and Leaf Pro
Max.

Excellent joke. Can I just say?

Nice. Nice. Yeah.

Very good. Very good meme. This is of the
reason why this car is news

and tech news is because it is designed
well,

there's a lot of tech in it, which we'll
talk about.

But it is designed by Johnny Ive and his
company Lovefrom.

And everybody's like if this if

You wanted to know what the Apple car was
gonna look like,

it's gonna look like this. It wouldn't
look like this,

just so everybody knows. This is a
Ferrari.

This is not an Apple car. I am not a car
guy,

Jason. I don't know the first thing about
Ferrari.

I have never in my life desired to have a
Ferrari.

But then I saw the interior of this car
and I thought,

you know what? Six hundred thousand
dollars?

Maybe it could be tax deductible.

No, just kidding. I didn't think that.

This is the Ferrari Lucian. Did you see
the interior of this car,

Jason?

Yeah, I mean we'd already seen the
dashboard and the steering wheel.

We saw the dashboard and the screen like
disembodied separate from each other.

~ I don't you're you're are you're a car
guy?

I mean you go to F one races, like is the
exterior of this car

I like cars, yeah.

as offensive as people are saying?

Did

you see the video of so on so they
released it on Monday,

I believe it was, on Memorial Day.

Yes.

And there was Ferrari put up a video of
Lewis Hamilton and Charlotte Claire,

the two F1 drivers, like seeing it for the
first time.

Yes.

They were like, that was the release
video,

was the two of them. And they're both like
sticking their hands underneath that part

Right.

where you in the front there. Like it's
like it's like an airfoil open

Yeah, it's like a open.

all the way up. It's like,

I don't understand what's happening.

There's a lot of strange things going on
with this car.

It looks sort of like a lucid air meets
Nissan Leaf meets

Yeah.

the grocery cart thing with the car on the
front of it that you get

at the store where you push your kids
around.

~ Yes, yes, yes.

I don't it's got suicide doors.

I don't know that I fully and this is an
SUV.

Yeah.

Sort of? That feels generous calling that
an SUV.

Yeah. It is

I don't know what that means. It's a
hatchback,

It's 'cause it's larger than Ferrari.

I think. I don't know.

Yeah. I

actually saw a lucid air in clear water y
the other day,

by the way, which I thought they look
cool.

They're great cars. They got great range.

Yeah.

But I just

don't understand this car really.

I don't know. Th what I wanted to mention
is like the connection

or integration of like digital and
physical things in this

car feels pretty innovative.

And so MKBHD talks about like the
techometer and the speedometer.

And there's like physical needles and even
physical elements to the dials,

like an aluminum ring, but then there's
like digital things behind it.

Even so much like when you change from
like sport to touring

To range mode, you actually see the dials
change,

like for the amount of power or whatever,

but the physical needle stays the same.

And so it's it's a pretty cool thing,

like when the dial like changes.

And then there's the screen in the middle
that's like a weird iPad that

you can tilt and swivel. And then there's
physical switches,

which several times MKBHD said the tactile
feel of all the controls is

one of the most satisfying things ever,

which

I like a good tactile physical control.

And apparently all the little levers and
things that you flip are like that.

And the middle part of that middle screen
can actually show car play.

So this, you know, if you want a six
hundred thousand dollar car that has car
play,

you can get it. And yeah, that looks cool.

This looks very designed. This looks like
very designed.

The air conditioning vents, you like
rotate it and it opens and it looks like

the craziest like jet engine style ~
design.

I don't know. Looks cool.

Do you remember the we're watching the
MKBH detour of the interior right now,

so if you're listening to this you don't
see that,

but he Marquez is like moving the center
thing around,

right? He great there's like a bar there
and he's grabbing onto it.

But do you remember when was it like ~

Joswiak, they were like doing all those
demos after the iPhone Air

or all those interviews, and they're Yeah,

go ahead and bend it. It's hard.

And you everyone's trying to bend it and
they can't.

~ yeah, Ben is hard to

It turns out the iPhone Air is the
strongest phone in the world.

But can you just imagine the Far Ferrari
guys are like,

Yeah, Marquez, go ahead and just just move
that around and do whatever you want.

You have to bend it around. That's exactly
right.

And he just yanks the whole thing right
off.

That would have been amazing. I don't know
that this in that this that

the infotainment and the display doesn't
really feel to me like it fits

the outside of the car. Like I I
understand all the finishings are,

No, not at all.

you know

Delicious or you can lick them or whatever
it is that they say.

But I d I j yeah, I just feel like I don't
again,

Lickable.

I'm not a Ferrari target market person.

I if I was gonna have a if I had six
hundred thousand dollars,

this is not the thing I would buy,

right? It's just not what I would spend it
on.

Listen, can we play a game real quick?

Okay.

If you had six hundred thousand dollars
today and you couldn't invest

it or like save it or whatever,

you had to buy something, what would you
buy?

Well first I would definitely buy a nine
eleven Turbo S,

the nine nine two dot two, for sure.

Which by the way is the which by the way
is the car that Marques has.

You just said, I don't know if I'm a car
guy and you just rattled off some

I have no idea what that is. Is that
Porsche?

He does actually drive he does have that
Porsche.

Okay. It

is the wait, is it Porsche or Porsche,

first of all? Okay, thank you.

Porsche.

All right, so you'd buy that car.

I would d that's about three ish,

a little less than three. So with the rest
of it,

Okay. Okay.

I might be able to put my kids to college.

It's like dad got a toy, the rest of you
just choose wisely,

Very responsible,

we'll see.

very responsible. I will say, we've been
to the beach a couple times in

the last few months, just weekends,

and I rent these Airbnbs out there,

and I'm like, if I had six hundred
thousand dollars,

which listen, if you if I won the lottery,

I wouldn't tell you, but there would be
signs.

One, I might be driving a six hundred
thousand dollar car with car play,

because I don't have car play now.

No, I would probably just get a Rivian.

but two, I would get like a beach house.

I would I would get a beach house.

Now listen in Florida, I understand.

I don't you can't even get hurricane
insurance for six hundred thousand
dollars,

No you cannot. No you cannot.

Steven.

But the beach house, it's an investment.

Which beach?

So th this this is a tough one.

This is a little side tangent.

Please forgive us. But the age my kids are
now,

they like waves. And so East Coast is
which what they prefer right now.

Mm-hmm.

Which the East Coast you get sunrises and
you get waves.

But as my kids get older, maybe I have
grandkids in like tennish years.

Little kids can't do big waves.

They need a calmer beach. And personally

I would choose a sunset over a sunrise.

That's just me. So if it was up to me,

I think I would do a west coast of
Florida,

somewhere in the Treasure Island Fort
DeSoto area,

and do a beach house over there.

Sunsets, calmer waves for the grandkids,

and ~ less hurricane risk. Slightly less
hurricane risk,

I would say. At least than the east coast
where they just get hammered by

a bunch of stuff. You're still at risk.

Don't don't get me wrong, but I would I
would go west coast.

Okay. Till so w y which beach did you say?

That's it. I just want to play the game.

You didn't Treasure Island's a good place.

I was saying like Treasure Island.

Yeah, Treasure Island. yeah, that's where
yeah,

Yeah, been there many, many times.

yeah, yeah. You're you're journalist
Treasure Island.

I'm the Treasure Island Herald.

Okay, anyway. That's right.

So you should go go watch MKBG's video if
you want to see all the interior

of the Ferrari Luche. I think I called it
a loose the first time we talked about it,

That's okay. So did like Ben Thompson.

and I apologize for that. Yeah,

It's fine.

okay. Lucha Luche.

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~ Meta is actually launching
subscriptions.

This has been rumored that they were
testing subscriptions,

and now it is official.

They're launching subscriptions both for
users,

like four dollars a month for Instagram
plus,

Facebook Plus, and you get features like
profile customization,

super reactions, better story insights,

and all of that. You can basically pay to
not be shown as a story viewer.

So if you want to like creep on somebody
and them not see that you looked

at their story, you can pay for that
feature now,

which seems kind of weird. All of that to
say,

it's not in the US right away,

they're testing it in other countries
first.

But they're also launching like pro
creator type plans all the way

up to fifty dollars a month. And the big
feature,

if you pay fifty dollars a month.

People will see your content.

People will see your content and you can
put a link on a reel or post.

And listen, Jason, let me just say,

the kind of world we live in, where you
have to pay $50 a month to put a link

on a post that you made just seems wild to
me.

I'm actually so I didn't s I didn't read
that part.

Like I hadn't gotten that far.

Yeah. Yeah.

Cause I just kept trying to figure out so
wait,

pe there's a lot of people who pay ten
dollars a month for meta verified.

But I think now you also have to pay more
for this other stuff if you want

to be verified and creepy, apparently.

That's right. That's right.

I don't know. But and there's also gonna
be like a bundle plan.

You get the verified badge and the creepy
stuff.

Yes. Yes. And you can

that's good. That's really good.

But

also make a story last longer than twenty
four hours.

You can highlight a story for a week.

Anyway, go ahead.

All

that stuff is weird. It has always been
strange that the ephemeral stories,

you can add links right in it,

but the ones that are supposed to stick
around you can't.

And and then I w I I just got so tired the
other day of every time

Correct.

Yes.

you tap on a link, it opens it in the
stupid Instagram or Threads browser.

And you have to dig through the little
menu to try to find the open and I'm

Yes. ~ the worst. The worst.

I so I just posted on Threads.

I was like, the only thing I ever want
this to do is open an external browser.

I don't even need the button.

Just like let that be the thing.

Right. Right.

A lot of people agree with me,

Stevens. A lot of people are like,

I know, I saw that thread going viral.

I saw that.

just like yes, never did, but they're just
coming at the fact that they're gonna

make you pay fifty dollars a month to put
a tap clickable link in a post just tells

no.

you how desperate they are to keep people
on the platform.

That and here's the thing, Jason.

Well, no, I would consider paying that.

Okay, there's more.

Because I now post a lot of reels,

I post a lot of stories, and you might be
wondering,

why do you care about Instagram?

What even why does it matter? When I went
independent as a creator,

one of the decisions I wanted to make was
do a lot less to zero dedicated YouTube

videos.

So in the creator space, the lingo is you
can do a dedicated long form video,

you can do an integration, which is like a
60 second ad in a video,

or you can do a short, reel, or TikTok.

And the one audience that I want to
protect the most,

protect the sense of trust the most,

is my long form YouTube audience.

That's what I grew my channel on.

That is where I put like some of the best
content out there.

And that is also the marketing channel for
like my shortcuts community.

So I can tell people about that.

And this podcast and Mike Power users.

Like YouTube channel is what I want to
protect the most.

And so I didn't want to do dedicated robot
vacuum videos anymore.

And I haven't. I say no to a lot of
sponsors where they say,

Listen, we're only interested in a
10-minute dedicated video about our robot
vacuum.

And I say, Okay, not for me. And it has
been wonderful because you guys

who support this show, my shortcuts
community,

the support you guys have in those places
allow for that.

It allows me to say no to things like
10-minute robot vacuum videos,

which don't perform well anyway.

Nobody cares. You they're obviously not a
review because they're sponsored.

So the one place that I wanted to put more
sponsorships that I didn't care

as much about, because this content is
even more ephemeral than YouTube videos,

is reels and TikToks. Because I don't care
what I post there.

I mean I do care to an extent,

but the cost of posting a reel about a
pool vacuum.

is so much lower than doing a dedicated
sponsored video on YouTube long form

of a pool vacuum. So I needed to grow my
Instagram following and TikTok following

Right.

so sponsors see that and will pay me to
post about their stuff on those channels.

So Instagram reels and TikTok and YouTube
shorts are a key part of

my business now because that's where I
point sponsors.

I say I'm not going to do a dedicated long
form YouTube video,

but I'll do a short reel and a TikTok

And you can pay me for that. And many of
them agree.

And one of the hardest things is linking
to stuff.

And so I have to do link in bio on
Instagram.

You can do the many chat automation.

And this is why you see all the reels
where they'll say,

comment link, and I'll DM you a link
because that's the only option you have.

Many chat is like $15 a month.

Just point of reference. So if I could put
a link on a reel to a shortcut,

which is nine times out of ten,

what I will do, like, hey, tap here and
download this shortcut.

People will love that experience and it'll
be a way less friction for them.

And then if I do a sponsorship,

I could say I can link your product right
on the reel.

I'm actually considering that and might
might pay fifty dollars a month for that,

which is ridiculous.

It's ridiculous. Sorry. I lo I got really
distracted because I just found a

S D card thing that has dog teeth in and
then the S D card's missing.

And I'm just trying to figure out did I
take it out and not notice the teeth
marks?

Or I probably did. No, I'm just kidding.

Did you chew the SD card

I just noticed that and I'm like,

I gotta go find my dog. I gotta go look in
the yard real quick.

That S D card's probably worth two
thousand dollars.

Actually I'm pretty sure that the reason
that that was sitting on my desk

I mean

is that that S D card doesn't work,

so it's fine.

But have you gotten scan have you listen,

this is a real thing. You can buy sand
disc S D cards from Amazon

and they are nothing. They are just the
outside casing.

Okay. What do you mean?

There's nothing inside them. They are just
you'll pay three hundred dollars

Really?

for a five twelve S D card. You put it in
your camera and it's like,

I don't know you. Yeah. It's happened a
couple times.

Really?

I just bought a micro SD card,

Sandisc, for my contraband Osmo Pocket
Four.

Cause I have one of those, even though you
can't get them here in the US.

Okay.

but it was real, it was legitimate.

I did have to pay a hundred twenty dollars
for five twelve ~ gigabyte SSD,

which is almost double what I paid
probably a year ago.

I mean those those contraband devices,

they take only the good stuff.

So why they call it contraband?

They tick all in the good stuff.

Anyway,

I had lots of thoughts on on reels and and
s and things,

Yeah.

but

I don't think that anyone should pay fifty
dollars a month for that,

but that's because I think that it is
absolutely ridiculous that that's just

the way they've built the platform.

Like, how hard would it be the fact that
they okay,

for a long sorry, for a long time it was
like,

we can't do this. It's sorry, it's just
sorry,

that's there's no way to add a link in
this little text field where

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

you put the description. It's just not
possible.

Never mind that you've been able to do it
on Facebook for whatever eternity.

The possible.

You c it doesn't matter though,

Yeah. Twenty four years.

because but they'll never send you any
traffic from that link.

So it doesn't it's basically like you
can't add a link.

Correct. Yeah. Yeah.

You can just put it there and it makes you
feel better,

but no one cares. But now they're like,

actually we figured out a way,

it'll just be fifty dollars a month,

please.

Anyway, I might pay that. I'll let you
know.

It's not available in the US yet,

but but I might do it. Rise up.

Rise up, Steven, you gotta stick with the
people.

I'm gonna put a break there. ~ okay.

I was like, did I make you stall out or
something?

No, no, no. I was thinking about how to
structure

the rest. I'm at okay. I'm we'll let's do
an early lightning round because

I want to talk about our travel gear in a
minute,

because you've been traveling.

I'm about to go to dubdub. But Halide 3 is
officially out.

I wanted to mention because we interviewed
Ben Sandowski of Halide 3.

That's right.

And so you should go listen to that
interview.

I'll link it below. But that's out there.

Great. Yeah, we did. We did,

We talked about halide three, didn't we?

Yeah.

yeah, because it was out there in Alpha or
Beta or something like that.

So that's out there. There's been a lot of
reviews of the Fitbit Air.

And I will point you to Lexi Savage's
review of the Fitbit Air.

She had really good in-depth review.

This is the, you know, Google's new
fitness tracker.

And people are liking the hardware because
it's light,

great battery life, all that kind of
stuff.

But there's been a lot of pushback against
the app.

The Google Health app is apparently a bit
of a mess.

And I've been seeing also on social media
that while the Fitbit

Air has no subscription, like many other
fitness trackers,

like the Whoop and stuff.

People are saying that you really do have
to pay for the Google Health premium

for ten dollars a month, or that comes in
Google AI Pro for the twenty dollar

a month plan, because without the Google
Health app,

you don't get a lot of the metrics and
trends or interpreting of the data that

you get when you actually have the,

you know, subscription. So it remains to
be seen.

I don't have one of these. ~ I still like
my Apple Watch and it works just fine

for all that stuff. But but Lexi had a
great video if you're

Wondering about don't know the in depth of
the Fitbit Air and how good

it works for different things.

She compared it to the Apple Watch.

So yeah, it's there.

The good thing about a device like this is
it's relatively low profile.

If you wanted to wear something other than
an Apple Watch but still

Yes.

get your stats or whatever, like I've got
the what is this thing?

You got the whoop, right?

I got a whoop on right now, yeah.

And it's nice because if you're wearing
something else,

then it's then you can still get keep
track of your data if you don't

you so you're not like Marquez.

Marquez's review he was wearing like three
different things at a time or whatever.

Yeah, you got all that. Right.

So that's that's nice, but I don't know,

I've seen a lot of people

The s the pain point seems to be yes,

you have to pay for a subscription and
also Fitbit used to be I mean,

obviously Google has owned it for a while,

but it used to be f relatively platform
agnostic in some ways,

Right.

right? If you had I know a lot of people
with iPhones and Fitbits.

But if you have this one, this isn't gonna
do with Apple Health what you'd

Yeah, yeah.

pay for with Google Health. So

That correct. So we'll leave those videos
in the show notes and

the Verge article has ~ why the Google
Health Backlash is out there.

We talked a couple weeks ago about Amazon
acquiring GlobalStar or at least

a portion of it. Well, they are now
acquiring even more of it,

and Amazon is going to acquire Apple's
share of GlobalStar,

which is the satellite provider that does
like the satellite SOS

for the iPhone fourteen and newer,

and Amazon's just gonna own all of it.

So there you go. Amazon is powering your
satellite.

Connectivity.

I mean, the interesting

thing here is that 'cause this is also
Apple's or Amazon's

Leo satellite network will be the source
on iPhones and on Delta Airlines,

right? And it's interesting because w last
week or this week American said they're

Delta Airlines, yeah.

now using Starlink. So that means Apple
and Delta are the only

That's right.

two companies holding out against the
twenty eight trillion dollar addressable

For Amazon Leo.

market that ~ sp Elon Musk says that
SpaceX is going to capture.

Starlink.

I mean, you're a Delta guy. Do you wish
Delta had gone with Starlink?

Yeah.

at this so the weird thing is that the Wi
Fi on Delta flights

has been basically mostly fine.

Unless you were on one of the planes that
still had the old go go hotspot,

whatever stupidness. If you were on one of
the ones I think it was

via sat maybe maybe and you had the free
Wi Fi,

you couldn't do great streaming
necessarily to devices,

but it was fine. Like for the stuff I use
on an airplane,

it was fine. I don't know. So like this is

them moving up to the next level and I
don't I haven't asked I should

ask somebody why not Starlink?

Like Starlink, everyone's using Starlink.

Yeah.

That seems to be table stakes.

it's but I do think it's interesting that
Delta is the only I said it,

it was me, not Steven. I'm allowed to say
it.

It wasn't me though. It wasn't me.

You're you can say it, I can't say it,

No one told me I couldn't. Right.

And I also meant it in the way that that
it was meant to be used is

yeah.

the only major airline that is not using
Starlink.

Fair.

And and Apple seems to be pushing against
that as well.

Yeah. So anyway, I will there you go.

Starlink Leo. ~ okay.

The MacBook Pro overhaul. We've not really
talked about this,

but apparently the MacBook Pro is due and
going to have a major hardware overhaul.

Not just a new chip, but everything gonna
be changing.

Switching from mini LED to OLED.

That's been rumored for the last couple of
years,

but it's like maybe finally coming.

Journalist Mark German over at Bloomberg
has talked a lot about this.

And how Apple is optimizing Mac OS to take
advantage of a possible touch screen.

Though might it be a dynamic island on the
MacBook Pro,

a thinner design. And everyone's saying
this is going to coming with

the M6 chip generation. I'm still saying I
don't think there's going to

be a touch screen on the MacBook Pro.

~ the overhaul, thinner design,

dynamic island. I could see all that.

I don't think it's gonna be a touch
screen.

Do you?

I I don't know if it's gonna be a touch
screen.

I really hope it's not. OLED, great.

I've had some laptop I've reviewed like
some Dell XPS with OLEDs.

They're all that's that's great.

That's fine, whatever. Apple, I mean the
mini ID is pretty darn good.

So if I'm I don't feel like there's a need
there necessarily.

Pretty good.

But the touch screen thing, I don't
understand the desire to have a touch
screen

Mac at all because I have used many,

many Windows PCs that have touch screens,

including a surface like book.

Yeah, yeah.

thing l and I you never touch the screen.

Like you don't th maybe the occasional
like scroll.

Scroll with your thumb. Yeah.

Man, it's really like the thing is the
trackpad is actually closer than the
screen.

And you're gonna want to type probably
soon after too.

Yeah. And I don't wanna have to clean it
off later.

So yeah. It's so gross.

Even even not touching my MacBook Air
screen,

I there's stuff all over it. There's just
stuff all over it.

Yeah, 'cause you touch the keyboard and
the keyboard touches the screen,

That's the problem.

but I don't I really don't

understand the desire to have a touch
screen Mac.

I I just don't get it. I can understand
the I the desire to run Mac OS on an iPad,

I wonder yeah.

fine. Like whatever. I mean I get but I
understand that sort of.

Yeah, that's not gonna happen either
though.

Yeah, yeah.

But that's mostly because it's just a b
it's just a sweet form factor,

right? It's like I got this cool little
thing.

Yeah, yeah.

We're gonna talk about our hopes and
dreams for dub dub,

and I have some thoughts about iPad that
will be coming.

So stay tuned. Next week will be our our
preview prediction hopes

and dreams episode. That'll be fun.

All right.

YouTube is actually getting serious about
AI labels.

So e both on long form and YouTube Shorts,

there are going to be more prominent AI
labels.

On a long form, you're gonna see it,

you know, right by the title and the
channel.

There'll be a little AI tag, and they're
gonna detect whether it is

AI and on shorts, there's gonna be an AI
tag just visible.

You're not gonna have to like tap to see
the label.

It's just gonna be there watermarked on
the video.

If anything is made with Google synth ID
or C2PA detects ~ AI,

then that label is gonna be there.

And it will also try to detect,

even if it wasn't generated with Google's
tools or tagged with C2PA,

it's gonna try and if it is AI,

it's gonna try and label it proactively.

Creators can challenge that if in fact
what they made was not AI.

But this feels like the like a positive
move,

like in the right direction. Like this is
what it would be nice to have

all the platforms doing. Like just put the
AI label right there on the video,

on the reel, on the short, and YouTube is
like really doing it.

So it's good.

Or they could just not have the stuff
there.

I know it's not,

That's not Jason. That's not gonna happen.

That's not gonna happen

but I just feel like this is this is
pointless.

I don't know. I don't think it's
pointless.

Why would you say it's pointless?

It's

it's it's it's utterly and completely
pointless.

This is gonna have zero effect except for
making them feel better about it.

Why?

How how is this gonna be useful?

No, I think no.

Well, I'll extrapolate. I think it would
be really useful

on platforms like Facebook, where the
predominant audience is older

and maybe less likely to spot AI content
right away.

And if they could just see a label that
says AI on the video they're currently

watching, I think that would be very
helpful in reducing

the amount of misinterpretation,

misinformation.

of what people are seeing and then what
they tell their friends about

I saw this video and it's true.

I think that would help.

Steven, every AI video on the platforms
could have a warning screen

at the beginning flashing in your face
saying,

This is fake, this is fake. It was made by
AI and people will still just be like,

Yeah.

~ these is just big tech trying to get us
to not believe the truth.

Steven

I hate

I hate that I kind of agree with that
assessment,

Ye Yes. That but that is what

but it's something at least it's
something.

At least it's something.

the people at Google are saying to
themselves about doing this.

At least it's something.

But what a what could you do? I mean,

the AI content is gonna be there.

People are going to post it. There are
entire Instagram accounts

and YouTube channels that are all AI gener
I I was gonna share this

on social media and I didn't. There's a T
feature on Apple TV that came

out with TV OS twenty six dot four for the
continuous connection to audio.

Like so if you connect like a soundbar or
something,

sometimes like your Apple TV might
disconnect or the volume changes from when

you turn it off to turn it on.

Like every time you turn on your sonos bar
somewhere.

And there's exactly

Yeah, okay.

Yeah. And so there's a feature in the
Apple TV 26.4 where you

can enable continuous audio connection and
it should prevent some of that issue.

For some reason I don't have that setting
on my Apple TVs,

even though it's connected to a Sonos
soundbar in my bedroom.

So I went to Google where can I change
this setting?

Because I looked where I thought it was
and where I found several websites that

it was. It wasn't there. When I Googled
it,

the Google AI overview gave me a video
result first.

And I was like, I don't typically watch a
video just to look

Where a setting is, but I'll watch this
video.

Jason, this video, it was an abomination.

From Mordor.

This video, I don't even want to try and
look for it to find it.

It was an AI-narrated voice with all AI
generated video imagery.

And it was talking about the Apple TV and
this feature and

the AI-generated Apple TV images,

including the remote, nothing looked like
an Apple TV.

It wasn't even close. And the Apple TV is
a a round black box.

Yeah.

Like this is not hard to generate.

Like I could generate it out of clay
probably better than this video was
portraying.

You could just generate

an SSD into the closer.

It would

a hockey puck would have been closer to an
Apple TV.

My earb my earbud bud case looks like a

Yeah, the case is better. Yeah.

And it is, it was infuriating because I
was like,

Google serve me this video that A is not
giving me the instructions that I want.

And B is a completely AI generated video
that's garbage.

The Apple TV remote that this video,

I'm gonna try and find the video and I'll
try to put it in the show notes.

The Apple TV remote that it just AI
generated was insane.

No Apple TV might ever look like it.

And I was like, this is infuriating.

Now, you're not going to prevent that from
being posted.

That's there. And Google is even pushing
it.

So to your point, yeah, Google wants to
feel better about it being labeled as AI,

but they also like allowed that to be on
their platform and even promoted

it in a search result, which is maddening.

I but all that to say, I still think it
would be better to at least put

the label on there. So when someone
Googles and clicks that video.

They can at least know like, this is not
real.

So my point is that that point,

your point is letting them off the hook.

Because all of these tech companies with
all of this C TPA,

synth ID, whatever flavor you want to call
today of we'll mark this as

AI acts as though someone else out there
in the world,

some evil villain, is creating all of
these tools and all of this AI content.

And Google's like, But we will put this
little tag on there.

You made the evil villain.

You made the t you are the evil villain.

You made the tools and this is just a way
for you to feel better because you're

like, but we're gonna add this thing on
there.

Never mind the fact that like do you know
how hard it is to f to take an

AI conta AI generated image and take a
screenshot of it?

Guess what happens to the metadata when
you take a screenshot or a screen
recording?

That right.

It's gone. Like this is nothing.

It is nothing.

Jason, I found the video. I will

But d here's

the thing. You can show it to the
audience.

You just can't put a link because I do not
want this channel to get any extra views.

Yes.

Okay, hold on. Let me let me hide the
channel name.

I'm gonna ~ sticking YouTube is like
reformatting it,

so I can't hide it. I won't link it.

That's fine. You can put it in there,

but I just don't want you to link to it.

I will nick it. I will link it.

And ~ before I even press play,

I want you to look at this Apple TV
remote.

Okay? I understand if you're just
listening,

I apologize. I will put this image as the
chapter art so you can at least

see this part. I'm gonna I'm gonna hit
play.

Look at just just just look.

That is a

that is a sweet looking USB C port.

What is even like this this whole thing
just makes me unreasonably angry.

This looks like a promo video for what was
that r the function remote or whatever?

Like they came out with a new one.

Wasn't that the like replacement Apple TV
remote?

This is not

And all

the UI, none of it is what an Apple TV
actually is.

The and what's what's maddening is the
title of this video

has continuous audio because that is the
feature that I searched for.

So the title of this video is exactly what
I was looking on information for,

but this entire video is just AI generated
slop.

And like I don't typically get this worked
up about it,

but it hit really close to home because I
wanted to find sorry.

I wanted to find a video about this fe
like what even i what even is this?

Apple Argate

It said applar cake, but it was
applargate.

Not Spanish. It was just an AI generated
mistake.

Just total control canter

Sonic with a period Look at this,

look at this control

Provose Ladada Home Shund ~

This is so crazy making. Anyway,

control contr Control Cantor.

This is nightmare fuel right here.

This this is Steven,

C A N T E R. Control Cantor.

you know what this is? This is this is

I'm crashing out right now.

this is software body horror.

You're absolutely right. The control
canter.

I can't I can't even anyway. I apologize
to anyone who's your eyes might

be bleeding from seeing that, but listen,

If you're only if you're

that's what's out there.

only listening to the audio, don't go
watch don't listen to the well don't watch

Yeah.

the video of this version. We're sorry.

And like there is a YouTube comment that's
like don't listen to any word

of this AI generated and then expletive,

which is fine. But then there's also like
actual legitimate comments and

it makes me so sad. Like this video
doesn't have a ton of views,

it like eight hundred views. But man,

Google, why would you surface this video
as a result?

Right.

And why and you made the tools to make
this video possible and then

you allowed this thing on your platform,

which fine, whatever. I'm not like a
control freak where I'm like,

Google shouldn't allow certain things.

We have free speech, whatever.

But my point is you can't then be like,

but we also made the little label so
everyone will know.

No one will pay attention. No one will
know.

And you're just trying to make yourself
feel better about the fact that you've

created this terrible dystopian problem
and you think putting a little circle with

the letters AI in the middle is gonna
solve it.

It's not gonna solve it.

I'm putting in the title of this episode
That's that's that's that's that

And they served it as a result to your
search query in Google search.

one was so offensive to me. It was like,

this is your top result. Google,

this is your top result. Anyway,

I'm gonna put a AI slop crash out in the
title of this episode somewhere.

I'm I'm I'm worked up right now.

I'm I'm worked up. I can't I can't even
deal.

Anyway, Spotify is releasing new podcast
tools.

I don't know if I could recover.

~ no, that's not this. This is Robinhood
is letting AI agents trade money for you.

Speaking of AI They say in their terms of
service my goodness.

What could go wrong?

Why do I do say that a lot, I guess.

I'm sorry. ~ they say in the terms of
service,

actually, ~ that you might lose all your
money if you use AI agents to trade.

So just be warned. yeah, okay,

duh. You might lose everything.

Anyway, Robinhood is letting Yeah,

I mean, you might lose everything if you
do it yourself.

I think it the the odds

exactly.

greatly increase if you just let a robot
do it for you.

Cause you know what? You know what robots
don't care about?

I was actually

They don't care about your money nearly
the way that you care about your money.

You or you as a person. Where my kids play
with their toys.

You you you make investment decisions
based on

Yeah, they don't care they don't care
about it.

the fact that you feel pain when the
number of dollars in your account goes
down.

Right. That's right.

The robots don't feel pain.

You know what yes, and a robot did not
feel the incredible shame it should have
felt

when it made that AI slop Apple TV video.

It should have felt guilty, shame,

distress. That's all I'm saying.

Apparently neither did the human being
that uploaded it to YouTube.

Shame on you.

You know what? I wouldn't I wouldn't throw
that around loudly,

but I do think, you what, if you uploaded
that video,

I think shame on you. I think shame on
you.

Shame on you.

Shame on you. This is the Spotify.

I wanted to put this in here because
Spotify is actually pushing harder,

fetter, b better, faster, stronger on like
podcast features and tools

for real people. Because Spotify is now
gonna let you actually clip,

like create a clip of the show you're
listening to or watching right now,

and then post that easily with a link back
to that episode.

And they're at Spotify, I I don't know if
this is like a dig at Apple,

but Spotify is like, you know,

people really love the chapters we have
when they're watching a podcast.

And so we're gonna make it even easier to
share links to that chapter with

a video clip or audio clip. And it's gonna
be so easy to share podcasts.

I'm like, App Apple, just rip with all the
stuff that Spotify is doing.

Do that. They have chapters and follow
along transcripts for video.

Now they're gonna make it easy to share
clips of podcasts.

Apple, you need to do all do all of this.

That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, use some AI for good.

AI for good. Thank you, Jason.

The title

of this episode is gonna be AI Slap Crash
Out and Steven Never Recovers.

That might be that might be it.

I don't know how I'm gonna record a Mac
power users after this,

but I'm I'm gonna try and do it.

I'm gonna try and do it.

S

Sparks is gonna be like, You are unusually
amped up today.

My b

my blood pressure is elevated right now.

I di I was so I'm I'm glad I got to get
that out of my system though,

Huh.

because I've been I've been thinking about
that video.

Sorry. thinking but wow. I now it's now
it's just skipping.

I'm gonna have to leave it all in.

I've been thinking about that video since
I saw it.

I probably last week, so it's been a full
week,

and I can't I could not get over the concr
control canter.

I just couldn't believe someone would post
that.

Anyway. You've been traveling some.

Yeah.

Okay. I'm gonna go I'm going to WWDC.

We talk about travel tech every once in a
while and I was just curious,

~ is there anything new or fun or
different or things that you would double
down

and say, This is the travel gear,

this is the st this is the thing.

man, I wasn't prepared for this,

I let

but yeah.

me give you a s let me give you a second
think about I'll give you

a second thing about it. Because I want to
mention a couple things.

One, Apple Apple is selling directly
through the Apple store,

not the like you can't get this on Amazon.

They have this new like charging brick.

I believe it's 45 watts,

but they're like made for kids.

It's got like multiple fun colors.

It's kind of a big charging brick,

but if you're wanting to not lose it,

and it has a retractable cable built in.

That's a pretty good length. And it has a
little magnet where the cable will like

stick to the little brick. And you can
just get through the Apple store,

but it's it's a fun charging brick.

So, you know, for kids or you just want
something that's easily to spot,

that's pretty cool. I'm also gonna mention
this charging brick because Ugreen

has a new ~ line of chargers. It is very
small.

It's basically like the old iPhone charger
bricks,

like the old five watt ones. U-Green has
these,

they are

65 watts though. This little brick is a 65
watt charger.

It's only one USB-C port, but 65 watts,

and it comes with a color-matched USB-C
cable,

which I thought was pretty fun.

So you can get like a cool orange and a
blue.

65 watts. I love how small chargers are
getting and how powerful they still are.

So there's that. ~ this thing went on sale
recently.

~ and yeah, I'm gonna put affiliate links
down below.

You buy it or don't buy it. I just want to
tell you what I'd bring.

~ the anchor power bank.

That has a little screen on the front and
it has a retractable cable up at the top.

I bring this everywhere on all my trips
because I can charge my MacBook

Air with this. Like I can charge it one
whole time and maybe a little more with
this

anchor retractable USB-C cable brick.

So I'm bring that. And MagSafe battery
wise,

I did get sent the Cool Sill S4 solid
state battery

pack. And they did send me an orange.

It's got a screen on it and a little
kickstand.

But when it comes to charging speed,

I've been testing a lot of recent MagSafe
charger,

MagSafe batteries. I haven't got a chance
to like post videos on it.

But the CoolSIL, which is ~ K U X IO,

the S4 is one of the fastest wireless
chargers.

And so that's been very impressive.

I really like that. But I also bring my
basis that has like a built-in USB-C
cable.

So if I ever need to like charge extra
fast,

I can just plug the cable in and do that.

I still use the Cool SIL 3 and 1,

which is like a foldable metal.

A three in one charger for my iPhone,

Apple Watch, and AirPods. And yeah,

I'll probably bring three more power banks
than I actually need,

but I'm gonna do it anyway. And I'm gonna
bring my Osmo Pocket four,

which is contraband here in the US.

So thank you.

Okay. Y everything you mentioned basically
is charging.

But it occurs to me that when you're
traveling,

kinda that's the thing you care the most
about.

That's a big deal. That is the thing you
care the most about,

So I but I would just encourage you people
to like I am a big fan of this anchor.

yeah.

I think this is a ten thousand milliamp
hour or whatever.

Yeah, the little one.

You can charge your phone basically twice.

And I think it's forty watts fast charging
and it has this retractable USB C cable,

It is.

which is great. Plus it has two other yep,

exactly. It's got the little screen on it,

Yep. I got the same one. Yeah,

it's great.

so it's great. Yeah, this thing is in its

Small, right? And it even has this little
strap to attach it to things.

This thing is great. If you have like a
water bottle bottle pocket on your

It's nice.

lap on your note backpack, just stick this
in that and then you pull your cord

Yeah. Yeah.

out while you're walking through the
airport.

Big big fan of that. I also am still a big
fan.

I I will tell you, I don't actually
upgrade my travel stuff because I just
want

to only go with stuff that works.

Only think about it. Yeah, yeah,

But this 65 watt nomad slim charger,

exactly.

I love this thing because it's light.

I still use that too. Yes. Yes.

It is so stinking lightweight.

And

it's thin to like put in bags and stuff.

Yep.

But the other two things I will just say I
s I use this the Belkin.

This is the thing that sticks on the top
of your laptop,

right? If you want to use your iPhone for
continuity camera.

The continuity camera mount. Yep.

It also works as a pop socket,

by the way. A MagSafe pop socket.

It does, yeah, it's nice.

So there's that. Also, OWC sent me this
USB-C travel,

~ what do they call this? Travel hub,

travel dock. So it has the SD,

Nice.

USB A, USB C.

It has a built-in US or UC port,

Nice.

so you you don't have to like use up any
of these ports for that.

So this thing is cool, it has eth no,

Nice.

it doesn't have Ethernet, but it has HDMI.

So that's kind of cool. But then two
things,

That's cool. Yeah.

Steven. I mean this sincerely.

Listen up, friends. If you travel with any
tech,

two things you should take. You should
take no you should travel with

Yes. Apple Vision Pro.

a stash of sterile alcohol prep pads.

Yeah, yeah.

these

are great for cleaning screens and we had
this debate so don't tell

me you shouldn't use alcohol swabs on your
screens.

Apple says it right on their website,

even the nanotextures displays on the yeah
on the on both the iPad

Really?

and on the MacBook Pro. So take some of
these.

I carry like 40 of these just all the
time.

It's great. And also by the way,

if you're ever somewhere and you're like,

ooh, what did I just touch? I'm in an
airport,

you pull one of these out. Right?

What what did I just touch? A terrible
question to arise.

You know that happens a lot in in an
airport,

right? And then also I just keep one of
these in my in my is a binder clip.

I just keep it in my travel bag,

my little gear bag. You know why,

Yeah, that's what was it?

Steven? You know what never works the way
it should?

The blackout curtains in a hotel room.

And you know what you can do with a binder
clip?

You just make them stay together.

So you just keep all the light so you can
shut up the light.

I like the sound effect.

If you're someone who likes it really
dark,

you know, when you're traveling.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's again.

So I'm just saying, I'm just recommending
that you invest in some very

low tech devices to take with you to make
the trip better.

And also, by the way, like as many magsave
batteries as you can fit in your back.

Right.

See,

that's what I'm saying. Exactly.

And you I'll I'll police all those.

When I'm putting Apple support article in
the show notes because there's

a big call out box on their website says,

Is it okay to use a disinfectant on my
Apple product?

Using a seventy percent isopropyl alcohol
wipe,

seventy five percent pro ethyl alcohol
wipe,

or Clorox disinfecting wipes, you may
gently wipe the hard,

non porous surfaces of your Apple
products,

such as the display, keyboard,

or other exterior surfaces. Do not use
these cleaning products on Apple Vision
Pro,

as they may damage the device.

Which doesn't matter because Jace

I don't travel with

my vision pro so it's fine.

Jason doesn't take it anywhere.

Yeah. It it says right there, you can
accept honestly I didn't know that,

Yep.

Jason.

We talked about this once before because
people were like,

my gosh, I can't believe you would do
that.

I know.

And I'm like, it says it right on the

I've forgotten everything the last six
months after that AI slop crash out,

Okay, great. Well I'm telling ya,

so I just didn't Yeah, it's

these are these

are these are great. And by the way,

if you this is disgusting. But if you take
one of these and a Q tip,

Yes.

perfect for cleaning out your AirPods,

bro.

yeah, those are yes, that's important.

That's important. One other thing I'm
gonna tell you I did get over

the year headphones. Which ones are you
still bringing?

Is it the Bowers and Wilkins when you
travel?

Yeah, most most of the time or I'll take
the XM fives.

The Sony's, yeah.

XM5s.

So I usually try the latest Sony
headphones and then I return them

and I compare them to AirPods Max.

And then I remember I'd never wear
over-the-year headphones,

so I don't keep them. Well, I did keep my
AirPods Max too.

But anyway, Sony released some new
headphones.

I don't know if you saw this. Did these
are

Was this the X sixes, the sevens?

Okay.

the 1000X The Collection,

Collection with an X wireless Noise
Canceling Headphones.

Steven, if you bought

these, I quit.

Well, maybe don't quit until you learn of
whether I return them or not.

How about that?

If you keep these, I'm quitting.

Thank you. These

are six hundred and fifty dollars,

a hundred dollars more than AirPods Max,

Sony headphones. They are premium,

I guess. Anyway, I'm gonna try them.

Are they you don't have them yet?

They d they arrived today, actually,

later today.

Also

they don't do the th they don't fold.

I mean the ear cups turn inwards.

do

they okay? Because that was the problem
with these.

These by these, by the way, Steven.

No, no, no, no. Look. Yeah. Yeah,

Okay. So these ones here, the XM5s,

they go.

these were Sony sent me these.

Okay. And then I was like, cool,

thanks. I'm I'm done. Like I put like I I
genuinely think they're great.

And so I put them in a travel guide,

except for the one problem is the XM4s,

they fold it down. These do not,

Right. Right.

so they don't you can't they take up the
space that they take up.

So I said to Sony and by the if someone
from someone from Sony's listening

and you want these boxes.

Pl just email me because three times I
sent an email,

Three seconds.

three times over like eight months,

I sent an email and I was like,

Hey, I'm done with these. Could you send
me something so I can send them back?

And one time I got some kind of response
like,

Hey, I'll s forward this to the team.

And then I got ghosted the other times.

And I feel like at this point it's like
eminent domain or something like that.

I don't really know what to do with these,

Statute of limitations, yeah.

but y maybe. But I've taken my plane and
at some point I'm gonna be like,

Well, I've been using these, I'm gonna
like a two-year review of this

one pair of headphones or something.

Two year I

So if someone

mean

from Sony wants them back, otherwise I'm
gonna keep taking him on planes.

The Bowers and Wilkins are still my
favorite,

except something you can say about Sony
headphones.

They are about the most comfortable thing
you can put on your headphones.

That's the thing. They're comfortable.

They're super lightweight. They feel

And they yeah.

like they cannot possibly be worth four
hundred or whatever dollars because they

feel so lightweight compared to everything
else.

But they just they feel really good and
they sound great.

So

Well, and that's why I don't bring AirPods
Max or wear them a lot,

because the clamping strength for my big
head is still too great.

Yeah.

It just is not comfortable for hours on
end.

Whereas the Sony's and even the Sonos ace
headphones I could wear

for longer periods and the clamping
strength doesn't put so much pressure.

So I'm gonna try these Sony's.

They do come with this little case and
supposedly the ear cups are larger,

which with my big head I also have large
ears.

And so I'm curious how the whole big ear
cup thing,

~ how that goes. So

I'll follow up because I think I'm gonna
bring these on my trip just to to

say I did and then review them after.

So we'll see. Very expensive though.

It's tough.

Very expensive. All right, you called me
out on threads for my reminders

can ban view, and I want to know what's
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