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Ever wondered if your night-owl tendencies could actually be your secret weapon for success? We've got the scoop on why embracing your personal productivity peaks, whether at dawn or dusk, can debunk the early bird success myth. Join us as we ring in the New Year with a tech-infused celebration, from CES's latest AI wonders to the quirkiest gadgets that left us both amazed and amused. We also tackle the heated debate on the future of grilling with a look at the latest fully electric outdoor grill, and weigh in on Apple's AR/VR headset, the Vision Pro, with its prescription lens integration—is it a game-changer or just a pricey gimmick?
This episode isn't just about gadgets and gizmos; it's a cultural deep-dive too. Feel the generational clash as we challenge typical Millennial and Gen Z boundaries, and explore whether our formative pop culture moments can redefine our generational identity. Gamers, get ready for our showdown between the new Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch. We're dishing out the details on ergonomic design, the Joy-Con drift saga, and why the Steam Deck's docking capabilities might just tip the scales.
For those who love a good laugh, we've got dad jokes to keep the mood light and your spirits high. And as we speculate over Marvel's new TVMA series, we're betting on hard-hitting action that could redefine superhero storytelling. Finally, we wrap things up with a bit of whimsy—from wristwatch puns to our musings on language learning, it's an episode packed with insight, debate, and entertainment. Don't miss out on the fun; tune in and start your year with a burst of tech, culture, and laughs!
If you enjoy our episode's content, come check us out on twitter @KDratiopodcast, YouTube as The KD Ratio Podcast! or on Instagram KDratiopodcast
This was taken directly from our livestream over on YouTube. Come check us out!
The following description was written by A.I.
Ever wondered if your night-owl tendencies could actually be your secret weapon for success? We've got the scoop on why embracing your personal productivity peaks, whether at dawn or dusk, can debunk the early bird success myth. Join us as we ring in the New Year with a tech-infused celebration, from CES's latest AI wonders to the quirkiest gadgets that left us both amazed and amused. We also tackle the heated debate on the future of grilling with a look at the latest fully electric outdoor grill, and weigh in on Apple's AR/VR headset, the Vision Pro, with its prescription lens integration—is it a game-changer or just a pricey gimmick?
This episode isn't just about gadgets and gizmos; it's a cultural deep-dive too. Feel the generational clash as we challenge typical Millennial and Gen Z boundaries, and explore whether our formative pop culture moments can redefine our generational identity. Gamers, get ready for our showdown between the new Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch. We're dishing out the details on ergonomic design, the Joy-Con drift saga, and why the Steam Deck's docking capabilities might just tip the scales.
For those who love a good laugh, we've got dad jokes to keep the mood light and your spirits high. And as we speculate over Marvel's new TVMA series, we're betting on hard-hitting action that could redefine superhero storytelling. Finally, we wrap things up with a bit of whimsy—from wristwatch puns to our musings on language learning, it's an episode packed with insight, debate, and entertainment. Don't miss out on the fun; tune in and start your year with a burst of tech, culture, and laughs!
If you enjoy our episode's content, come check us out on twitter @KDratiopodcast, YouTube as The KD Ratio Podcast! or on Instagram KDratiopodcast
and we are live. Gentlemen, happy freaking new year.
Speaker 2:Huh, happy new year. It's almost halfway through the year now. We're finally doing a new ups. I was like halfway through the first month.
Speaker 1:Oh man, how we doing guys.
Speaker 3:It's good to be back huh, so good, so good man, new year, new me, new you, new podcast new topic everything, so we're no longer gonna be talking about anything. Pop culture nothing, nerd. We're only gonna do throat noises it's gonna be a finance bro podcast but Billy's gonna do his bro his.
Speaker 2:Uh. My finance voice.
Speaker 1:I wake up every day at 3 30 in the morning then I go back to bed till like 9 am and then I'm grinding, I grind, I grind in my sleep that's one thing.
Speaker 1:I always felt like that was bad advice. I think the eight, that was way off topic we want to talk about today. But I feel like the people who do have success like a lot of them do wake up early, but I feel like if you're a night owl, you could have just as much success. Yeah, you're just dedicating, just find the time that you can dedicate. I've never was really a morning person. I can be that guy if I need to be, but, like you know, if you're working hard from 7 pm to midnight, what's the difference if you're working hard from 5 am to 10 morning?
Speaker 3:mark.
Speaker 1:It's not open at 7 the fuck was that shit's falling down, collapsing the table was shook by my, my dude.
Speaker 3:Your state was that Chad.
Speaker 1:So much Omega alpha Chad in there. Love it, joe, and do we have a good new year's. We're rocking a roll in 2024. It was fun it was good 2023 was a good year. We saw a lot of growth in the channel.
Speaker 3:It's getting 20th, there's great 2023 was great.
Speaker 1:I think it was all over overall positive year for for all of us yeah, so 2024. Here we are. Love kicking off 20 every year. I love kicking off the year at CES. I've been checking it out, I've been posting about it. You guys haven't said a single thing. I know your guys are hyped about I was watching what you posted in the topics.
Speaker 2:I thought it was all very interesting, but I thought we don't comment on anything because like that muddies up the topic. You're right you're right.
Speaker 1:You're right. I appreciate you respecting my philosophy. Yeah, is that what we're doing?
Speaker 2:I just didn't read it, kyle just didn't care so do you?
Speaker 1:so CES is obviously like crazy tech, like, yeah, that's where you see weird shit. You see a lot of like speculative stuff. Everybody has their own car. It's just kind of really bonkers stuff, but I like watching it every year because it gives. I think I find it to be a really fun platform to see that quirky stuff what you would never be exposed to for our audience.
Speaker 2:What is CES?
Speaker 1:computer electronics show, I believe, is what it stands for, something like that but it stands for clear expectation sun whoa with the sun.
Speaker 1:I like it. It's down in Vegas and it's like it hasn't actually officially started. I think it starts maybe tomorrow or Thursday and then goes into the weekend or something. I think it's like four days. But it's a convention that showcases basically consumer electronics and it's it. You see, the biggest players there, you see, at Vidya had an announcement. Apple's not there, but they always try to like take up some headline space. Sony was there and they did a whole presentation. I don't know if you guys I posted about it, we'll talk about it, but they had, like, a guy driving a car with a PS5 controller.
Speaker 1:Sweet, yeah, it's very weird very weird but like you see, weird prototype car, like it's just like a, basically a hodgepodge of all the things that's starting today.
Speaker 1:Oh, it did officially started today, okay, cool. But there's still like a lot of the pre-show going on and I've seen some initial stuff and some of it I'm like, oh, that's kind of kind of neat. Anything you see at CES is probably minimum three years from you know, you actually being able to purchase. But there's a lot of really cool tech that's there, and this year's flavor is a lot of AI stuff. Everything is AI, yeah, everything.
Speaker 1:And then there's also just like a lot of really weird quirky ones. Like I saw one or this guy invented binoculars that have like this ability like computer vision inside of it. So if you're looking at the binoculars, it could take pictures and video, which is really, I think, really cool, right. If you're looking at, you can record what you're seeing and then it syncs with your phone and then it also will has like a computer vision in it so it can identify what species of bird you're looking at. So if you're really into like birding, if you're like really into birding, you could look at a bird and it can identify up to like 9000 species of bird.
Speaker 3:Wow, that's pretty cool, right, like you can see it, never appreciate that technology absolutely.
Speaker 1:I know how much like birding is a large hobby. People enjoy that. There was another bird one that I saw. I don't know why I was getting fed all those bird stuff, but there was like a bird feeder and apparently people love to watch like hummingbirds like eat out of their feeders. So there was feeders that were smart feeders that had cameras and it was like it worked like a ring doorbell. If the bird you know, if it had motion detected, it would start recording and it would record the you know the bird feeding from your, your feeder or whatever. So it's kind of like cool. I love that kind of stuff because the person who created it and then the market for that's like very niche but very passionate people about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3:So I can, I can get behind that and I can appreciate it Careful if you go down the rabbit hole of birding, you might never return. You might never return.
Speaker 1:I think we talked about this in a recent podcast. But you guys ever seen that movie with Owen Wilson?
Speaker 3:Jack Blaggin, Jack Warden.
Speaker 1:Yes, those three like three amazing actors. I love that movie. It was a good movie.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love the big year, the big year.
Speaker 3:I love that movie. I saw it once but it changed my life. But let's go, let's get into some.
Speaker 1:I just made a quick cheat sheet here of stuff that I wanted to talk about. That I just pulled out from my list of things that I thought was kind of cool from CES but wanted to call it Sony's big announcement. They were like they had like a car partnership where you could like play a PS5 in a car or something like that. I'm kind of what is with everybody trying to like get you to play video games in your car.
Speaker 3:I can't wait to die playing Elden Ring in the game and then in real life but like the idea is no the.
Speaker 1:the idea is I don't think it works when you're driving, but like if you're stopped in your car waiting, you could play like Fortnite Get a quick game of Fortnite out. That was the game they showcased, fortnite. Well, I guess, maybe what's the point of that?
Speaker 2:Maybe, charging yeah for cars, electronic cars. It takes a while to charge. I could see that I guess Pop on your game whilst charging.
Speaker 3:But you could do. I mean, what in a Tesla self-driving?
Speaker 1:But like you're on a screen in your car, and then you're like in your car it just seems so niche to like take up an entire keynote speech to talk about that.
Speaker 3:I'm with Sony. I don't. I don't ever see that being. I would never play it.
Speaker 2:But obviously there's rich people that this is a big commodity. You know they want. Imagine sitting at like a market for this is huge, you don't?
Speaker 1:understand. Imagine sitting at a gas station like getting fucking owned in a battle royale and you're just like raging. You know screaming at the time you're like damn it.
Speaker 2:Throw it, you break your window.
Speaker 3:I just it seems like the passenger be able to do it if it's like it's set up in the backseat.
Speaker 1:So the one that they showcased. I didn't see any like rear seat stuff. It was all like your dashboard.
Speaker 3:Because let's tell you what grown up we had this little like I don't even, it was just it played VHS tapes in our car for road trips and used to be able to plug in like those, one of those old timey, like arcade game, like little mini console, micro console, and we used to play the game. Mappy is an arcade game. I just play that in the car all the time on road trips and I got so good at it.
Speaker 1:It's kind of cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I mean I'm talking, the screen is probably six inches by maybe five inches. It was tiny, but I do imagine now if I'm on a road trip also, and I guess that's up to the parent to control that but like, obviously you don't want your kid to just be obsessed with the video game on a vacation the whole time. You're like driving through Yosemite and they're not even looking out the window.
Speaker 1:I get like playing video games in your car like that, like for a long road trip, would be fun, but the flexibility based on what I saw, the driver wasn't there. Yeah, they're not like if there's rear seat screens, whatever, and it's integrated with Sony's technology and you could just, yeah, absolutely that would be cool. But it wasn't that, it was their dash panel and it was. So it's like literally only when you're charging and I'm like that just seems, I don't know, to have a whole keynote speech around that and it's just awkward.
Speaker 3:I imagine, like, imagine, if you're like are in traffic, you're not moving. You bust out a game and then instantly get a ticket for distracted driving.
Speaker 2:But I've got a people waiting, hold on.
Speaker 1:You've got to wait, the officer.
Speaker 2:This isn't texting. This is gaming, clearly the law states.
Speaker 1:I think it actually just is distracted.
Speaker 3:So there actually is. In Nevada, there is actually no law against texting and driving, at least as of like 10 years ago, because I was in court for this. There is no law.
Speaker 2:I was in court for this.
Speaker 3:No law for texting and driving. There's nothing against that. It's all distracted driving, yeah so the moment you touch your phone. It's distracted driving, but it's actually. It's not against the law to text and drive it.
Speaker 1:It's against a lot of be distracted while driving which is like why it's illegal to eat, but it's just subjective.
Speaker 3:And the reason is because I got a ticket for texting and driving, which I wasn't doing. I was just singing a song with my I was like resting on my hand and I guess it looked like I was on the phone. But I even brought in the like transcripts of like. There was no calls made, no text during the time I got my ticket and they're like well, can you prove that you weren't touching your phone? And I was like no. And then they're like well, the law doesn't state anything against texting and driving, it's about distracted driving. If you were holding your phone, then that's distracted driving.
Speaker 1:Two hands on a wheel, sir.
Speaker 3:This was. This was over 10 years ago. I was 17 when that happened.
Speaker 1:You were on your phone, just laying on your phone.
Speaker 3:I was singing a song and I was driving with one hand and I was resting on my, my fist, like while driving. And then now I swear to God.
Speaker 1:It literally looks like you're on the phone.
Speaker 3:But I was. I literally was. And so now I I'm so like to this day, the moment.
Speaker 2:I like rest I like put it because I'm like the one of traumatized.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but if someone thinks I'm on my phone, they maybe go to this traffic school where I had to watch people die like for eight hours and it's tragic car accidents. You see what happens when you sing. It was, like you know, like in Driver's Ed, like the the red asphalt video where they talk about drunk driving it was like that, but it was a ball about texting driving accidents and I'm like it was like an eight hour class, it was like all day. It's so ridiculous, man. Anyway, as I was a tangent.
Speaker 1:There was other technology there An AI stroller. It would like I know when your baby was in the stroller and it would rock Like if you weren't moving, it would steal your baby now and then, if you were, I don't know what circumstance I'm not a parent yet. Maybe you can explain this to me but like, if you're holding your baby but you don't want to use the stroller and you're walking, this stroller will follow you. I mean, I guess I can foresee times where because Maybe they're fussy and you just wanna hold them.
Speaker 3:Sometimes they just wanna be held. Sometimes you got a bond. Sometimes they just don't wanna be put down but you don't wanna hold them through, like, say, you're going to your out of zoo, you know you don't wanna hold them the whole time, and so if the baby is in someone's arms, someone is pushing the stroller. No matter what Cause, you have to bring the stroller.
Speaker 1:So I actually think that would be super beneficial to not have to worry about it and it follow you around, and then just be there when you need it Exactly so that it's like a follow thing, but it has AI built in. They use that term.
Speaker 3:It's really just to know if there's a baby in it or not, it's not AI. If it just like understands weight limits and stuff like Dude, it's AI.
Speaker 1:It's just like it's understanding. Okay, Machine learning. This one was a weird one.
Speaker 3:I'm actually curious to get your opinion on this, because you're a big outside griller guy.
Speaker 1:You just like cooking too. There was a fully electric grill that apparently gets up to 700 degrees.
Speaker 3:What are your thoughts? 700 degrees, it's a fully electric outdoor grill. It's good for making pizza as well as smash burgers.
Speaker 1:My thing is I don't know how well it's gonna retain heat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause like that, like for me, like a an open flame grill, that's how I have a trigger and if you open up the lid, all the heat gets dumped out, it's gone and then it has to rebuild up On an open flame grill, like you can have that shit going and then you shut the lid and it's, it gets right back up the top. It is so fast and I don't know, man, how well would that actually work? I feel like you could get it. You could get a good sear 700 degrees, I think is even warmer than like a propane grill can get to. But then at that point it's like how much wattage To get to something to 700 degrees. I don't even think like commercial stoves.
Speaker 3:You sell it with a generator Like dude, you'd have to get like a.
Speaker 1:And then it uses gas for the generator and then it's no longer electric.
Speaker 3:Well, that's how they're marketing it.
Speaker 1:This is like it's a green grill. You know you don't have the emissions from which. That is an angle. I'm sure there's a market for that. But, like for grilling. I want something that heats up. You know I cause. I have a trigger and it's not it's not a grill. It's not a grill, it's like a, it's something different.
Speaker 3:It's a smoker.
Speaker 1:It's. Yeah, there's a smoke setting on it. It's like a. It's a pellet grill.
Speaker 3:It's not a grill pellets.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I just don't know how I feel about this.
Speaker 3:I'm sure there's a market for it, but I don't know, I've yet to see anything that. For me personally, that just beats a good old fashioned charcoal grill.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it has wifi? Oh, it has, yes.
Speaker 1:So wifi grills are very popular and there is like not for a, not for a, well, I guess, so that there wouldn't, you would never have a flare up. I guess there's not an open flame, so it would just Wifi on a grill.
Speaker 3:What would I use that for?
Speaker 1:I can match her.
Speaker 3:My wifi. I don't have a giant back here, you know what is preheated.
Speaker 1:You can turn it on from you can have it run for three hours whatever at a set temp.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's what wireless thermometers are for. They linked your phone and not for $800.
Speaker 1:And not for $800.
Speaker 2:But now you don't have to buy a wireless thermometer.
Speaker 1:It's part of the grill. It's one with you.
Speaker 3:I would trust a wireless thermometer on my stakes more than I would the grill itself, unless that technology can really wow me. Do you have a?
Speaker 1:wireless thermometer. Yeah, I just got one for Christmas. I'm excited.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're awesome.
Speaker 1:I'm sick of tired of like.
Speaker 3:You can hook them up to an app so you can like, it'll tell you exactly.
Speaker 1:Monitor air. Nope, I'm sick and tired of like waking up three or four times every night, every time I do brisket, because it's like, do I gotta go outside? I always seem to do brisket in the middle of fricking winter. It's like 20 degrees outside. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3:This one. I want to get into this Eating dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
Speaker 1:Hey, we've been there Brisket's ready. Yeah, no, that was just bullpork, that's not even.
Speaker 3:It wasn't even brisket, it wasn't even close.
Speaker 1:It was just bullpork. We gotta let it rest for an hour, boys. We're like okay.
Speaker 3:And you're like it's so tender and I'm like literally withering away.
Speaker 1:If you don't get food within five minutes of your body telling you you're hungry, I find myself starving.
Speaker 3:I find myself starving a lot of your health. Yeah, it's usually when I'm doing hard labor too.
Speaker 2:And then Billy disappears it disappears.
Speaker 1:That's it, there we go, there we go.
Speaker 3:We're left doing this bullshit. Oh God, I'm a good friend. I got super excited about something before. Yes.
Speaker 1:Apple's new Vision Pro. Have you guys seen this VR headset that they are coming out with?
Speaker 2:Is it AR or VR?
Speaker 1:It's like an AR VR. Well, yeah, yeah, I think it's bullpork, it's AI.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding, it's AI, it's AI, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:AR and VR headset, I believe, and it's $3,500.
Speaker 2:Sweet.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I could buy a car with that. You can spend more money to get prescription lenses put in, which is actually, I think, a really good move on their part. It's only like an extra $95. Oh well, that's not bad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like basic If you're already paying $35.
Speaker 1:$35?.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:So you basically you don't have to, because that's always the crutch with me, like wearing that kind of stuff like 3D glasses, always kind of like a little bit of an inconvenience. I think that's a good move. The stuff that I'm it isn't officially out yet and I don't know if anyone's actually had like the ability to get their hands on and like review something. It's all just been promotional material. This looks to be like pretty disruptive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you've been talking about wanting something in that market for a long time?
Speaker 2:Are you gonna get the Apple Vision Pro?
Speaker 1:No, not for $3,500 and not first generation I mean unless I'll wait until I can't sale for $10. Unless, the reviews are insane. This is why I'm even excited about it. I'll tell you this it's not. I would not use this as a gaming device. I would use this to actually do work the metaverse, the.
Speaker 2:AI.
Speaker 1:AI, ai, ai. All right, multimodal I put that in here, multimodal AI. I the promotional material that I've seen on this and I've seen other people talking about it. It looks you can transform your work setup with this headset. You can go to like a three, four monitor setup and I guess the eye tracking is really good. Like I'm really excited to see this product in productivity settings. I think honestly I don't know if it's gonna just all of a sudden become ubiquitous to like working from home, but I honestly think it's going to like it is a massive leap. I'm glad Apple got into the game, honestly, because I think there needs to be some competition, because we're trending this way and I feel like we haven't really made progress Like the quest to me it's not at a point where it's like I need that.
Speaker 2:You know, it still seems like gimmicky.
Speaker 1:This, I think, is going to make some noise and really kickstart this whole thing. I really do believe that We'll see, we will see. It looks really clean.
Speaker 3:You know, to this day, I have never done any VR.
Speaker 1:You've never even tried it, never experienced VR Wow.
Speaker 3:So, except for the old mid 2000s arcade game called Beachhead and you grabbed it and you pulled it over your head and you shot.
Speaker 1:Like at an arcade, at an arcade At an arcade. That shit's not fair.
Speaker 3:It was.
Speaker 1:It's just a big thing of glasses. It was VR.
Speaker 3:You literally, it was the first you pulled it down over your head and you just shot things that came at you. Oh, God. It was at the local casino here. There was a little mini arcade there. I love it. It was called Beachhead and I remember when I was a little kid I thought it was called Bitchhead.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go play some Bitchhead.
Speaker 2:Be right back, Mom.
Speaker 1:Play some Bitchhead, but I'm excited to see I don't really know too much about like like the gaming applications of it or like all the full uses. I'm really excited to see some of like my favorite tech YouTubers like really do a deep dive review on this thing. It's very expensive, obviously, but think about what. The cost of having monitors and like that kind of stuff Just think of the cost of that. True, I would say the equipment.
Speaker 2:I'm excited for it to be a thing, but I'm gonna wait until it's been like Perfected, perfected and the price drops.
Speaker 3:Because there's so many versions of this.
Speaker 2:Like all the ideas you have, billy, I bet only a few of them are like fully implemented, you know. But the future, well then, there's the whole security thing like how I integrated with my work.
Speaker 1:Like is that a security thing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so once it gets perfected, then I'm definitely interested, but right now it's still too new. It's kind of like VR2, like VR it's still.
Speaker 1:It's definitely at the enthusiast level, right, like I even waited. I got a folding phone here, but I waited for Jen. Well, just the outside screen. First phone I've ever broken in my life by the way, the most expensive fucking phone I have ever broken, I mean the screen what I mean.
Speaker 3:you had to have had a broken camera at some point or broken case. I've never broken a phone.
Speaker 1:Broken camera. No, nothing the doubt. I don't believe you. Like you mean like you dropped it and you broke the camera.
Speaker 3:I just dropped, it just fell apart because it got old.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean, I've had phones deteriorated or something like that, but not like never had one broken. I broke Interesting Okay what are we fucking even talking about In?
Speaker 3:the court of law.
Speaker 1:This would not hold up If we yeah like I've had computers deteriorated on me because I used them for 15 years. Yeah, that's you breaking it over the course of 15 years, he's backpedaling.
Speaker 3:That's just. You can just change your argument.
Speaker 1:So then I break everything I use.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, everyone is just incrementally breaking. Why do you think it's called breaking in a shoe? Why do you think it's called when you're you guys?
Speaker 3:this is stupid, though. When your car it breaks down, it's not that it just stops working, it breaks down.
Speaker 1:That's just the stupidest thing I've ever heard about. Next time, think it through before you say something.
Speaker 3:Okay that's fucking it Chad.
Speaker 1:Alright.
Speaker 3:I'm kidding, of course.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every old man. There was another one that I thought this was super weird. I thought it was super cool and also super weird. It was called the Oro Guardian and it was basically like a dog companion Okay, and it's supposed to be a companion, obviously, for your dog.
Speaker 3:Didn't we talk about this at one point already? Unless, maybe you read it, I don't know I thought we talked about this and then this was a different thing, but remember it was like the dog. I know we had a conversation about robot dog at some point, oh yeah, where you pet it and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a totally different thing. I know this is like a robot that plays with your dog. It gets, it treats and it has a screen on it that you can do like pre It'll like I It'll recognize when your dog is like suffering from separation anxiety and it'll play like pre-recorded videos of you on there or whatever, or like throw a treat and it has a.
Speaker 1:It'll play fetch with the dog, it'll shoot the ball out from in and then, like you know, I can load it and retrieve it and Get another dog. Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 2:Just get another dog if you're afraid of that dog being lonely.
Speaker 1:People love their pets and maybe this is like a really good thing for people who are gone for like 12 hours a day and your dog does suffer from separation anxiety. I know that there's like a. I have friends who have this cool thing. I think it's like a fur-boo, fur Something like that.
Speaker 2:Furby yeah something like that Fur-boo yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:But it's, it shoots, treats out. It'll send you on a warning saying, hey, your dog's barking or whatever and like suffering from anxiety, and then you can come on there, talk to your dog.
Speaker 3:It has a camera on it and you can shoot at them. It could shoot treats and stuff.
Speaker 1:But this is like an actual companion and it's probably $10,000 or whatever, something ridiculous and it'll never really hit the consumer market. But another one of those quirky things at CES that it's just like wow, somebody's working, Someone's dedicating their life to solving that problem.
Speaker 3:I have three dogs and they entertain themselves plenty. There, you go, they're never stressed, there was another one.
Speaker 1:This one's kind of making all the headlines right now is the hologram tech. Have you guys seen clips of this at all?
Speaker 3:Tupac I was just gonna say Tupac hologram. No Coachella they've been doing this for over 10 years.
Speaker 1:This is like a consumer product, not like oh I don't know what any consumer that would buy it, but it's like a. It's a consumer product, it looks like a door. It's like the size of a door frame and it's a full body hologram.
Speaker 1:And this guy was like the video was staring at him and I thought he was doing like an interview. And then it moved to the side and he was actually in the background, like on a camera getting recorded, and he was showing up as a hogger. It looked really real, really real. It was impressive. And then the only thing that kind of broke the immersion was the audio. You could tell it was like he had a shitty mic. It was kind of echoing in the room that he was in Terrible mic quality. They dedicated all their tech to the hologram.
Speaker 3:So we're getting closer to.
Speaker 2:We're getting closer to Mass Effect.
Speaker 1:I think these are made up problems that we're trying to solve. People are like we need to have more human experiences and now that we're working from home, we need to be able to come together. I don't really see that. I don't go to work and go, man. I really could have done that much better of a job today if I could see your waistline. Why that's not a?
Speaker 3:That'll get you fired. I can't see your abs?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess. So I need to see what shoes you're wearing to really have a full human experience with you.
Speaker 3:I feel like I mean, I've started this job. The fact that I can only see you from the shoulders up really deteriorates my working ability.
Speaker 1:So I started this job and I still have never met a coworker on my team in years yeah, in real life, and I feel like I've got great relationships then. But maybe that's just my Gen Z late millennial bloodline.
Speaker 3:You're like I would say, You're a millennial. You're definitely. Well, you're 100% millennial.
Speaker 1:You're not Gen Z at all you guys are Gen Z.
Speaker 3:No, we're millennial Gen Z starts in 96.
Speaker 1:Mid 90s is what it's defined as We've already had this conversation.
Speaker 2:You approved this two wrong months Mid 90s.
Speaker 1:No, it doesn't, it's not.
Speaker 3:Now that you're not to be proved wrong, now you start back pedaling. It's not about Guys, it's not, it has nothing to do with the actual year you were born in.
Speaker 2:Well, you were just saying that.
Speaker 1:Because it makes my case the mid 90s.
Speaker 3:but here's the thing, the very first thing that came up millennials are born between 1981 and 1996. Gen Z is 1997 to 2012. But it Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1:Listen. It is fine Because we're right, we're right. Here's. This is how I identify it. It's what? Oh, okay.
Speaker 3:This is how.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Contrary to everyone in the world, I have a different opinion.
Speaker 1:I still call myself a late millennial. Now there's another. What are we talking about?
Speaker 3:There's a subgenre.
Speaker 1:All it is is to categorize a group of experiences. I grew up online.
Speaker 2:I don't believe you know who said that I grew up in an online world, so identifying much more.
Speaker 1:We have a game that we played this holiday. It's called Mind the Gap. It was a fun little board game and it has generational questions. I went like 20 for 20 on the Gen Z questions and I got maybe half of the millennial questions.
Speaker 3:And most of the questions were way before I was ever born, that's because you're way closer to Gen Z than you are a millennial, but you're still born in the millennial years.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's, but I what I'm saying is why we define those groups is that is like Is what your mindset?
Speaker 3:Not your mindset, but like what your cultural experience was I identify as a Gen Z I identify as a Gen Z. I really do.
Speaker 1:I know, I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying that that's my experiences as a kid are much more related to Gen Z.
Speaker 3:I would also argue that you got a lot of boomer in you 100% Definitely got the oldest one, for sure.
Speaker 1:But I just I know my experience was very much so online as a kid and that is way more synced with, in my opinion, with Gen Z.
Speaker 3:Let's see.
Speaker 1:Because, like even a lot of the 90s TV shows like I just didn't watch. I was not, we didn't, really I didn't watch TV as a kid, I played video games. Um, okay, after that roasting of me and my we have a chat.
Speaker 2:Can't change rules.
Speaker 1:Yes, Can't change rules. Okay, daniel, what are you? Boomer? Gen X, silent Jen, this guy, he's always he's team, he's team you guys. We got to have him on the podcast to roast you. Okay, Wait he joined me, he joined him, he joined and roast me. I already know it. Um accessibility stuff for elders. Oh, this was some really cool stuff. I saw this like uh, they were really. It was like lightweight stuff that you could put around your your uh waistline, it would help you move. Um, okay.
Speaker 1:Like you could also crank up the resistance if you wanted to get like a workout, but it looked like skeleton, yes, but like very cheap Um and simple in design. It's like spandex, that's all.
Speaker 2:It is Just really tight, yeah, I mean, but that's cool for, like you know, like Parkinson's, yes.
Speaker 1:Stroke victims. That's what they were talking about for like the rehabilitation process. It looked simple enough to put on and it was like it basically strapped around your waist and then like wrapped around each knee, I think, and it was just an assistant, it was just like an aid to help you walk and I thought that was really. That was really cool. Yes, I was like it's not this full like bio suit, that's like walking you. It cost $50,000.
Speaker 3:You know it was like.
Speaker 1:It looked like something that maybe was 500 to you know $1,500 that you could purchase and have success with if you were struggling with something like that. Um, and then the, the one that I kept seeing everywhere that was dominating the hot, uh, all the headlines was this cold snap. It's basically like a Keurig machine, but instead of dispensing coffee, it dispenses ice cream on demand ice cream.
Speaker 1:And it's. It's. It's a shelfed ingredients. Apparently, there's no water line. I'm a. I don't know if the water is in the can. It came in a can, so I don't know if it's all mixed and then all it does is cool it, or if, like a Keurig, you have to fill it up with water, so you buy just pre-mixed everything.
Speaker 1:Yes, Like literally like the K cups that you would buy. It's like a can, but for ice cream, and then you put it in there Two minutes later. You have instantly made ice cream on demand. That would be a son of a gun to clean. There's nothing to clean, apparently. That can't be possible.
Speaker 3:Apparently.
Speaker 1:I guess if it mixes it all within the same can, it doesn't go through the can and then I think it uses that to dispense it into a bowl, like the, the the presentation I watched. She said there is no cleaning, what's it, what's whatever?
Speaker 3:I said that, but then I started thinking okay, so if it, it all prepared within the bowl that you're going to be eating from and it never like processed through a tube or anything.
Speaker 1:Who knows? They're probably just like anything else. You probably have to clean it, of course, like your Keurig. I still have to clean that out. You got to de-scale it. Yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 3:Keurig got. My work has been saying time for a de-scale for like the last month, and I've been pushing it so hard.
Speaker 2:That's where you get the flavor Pass, pass.
Speaker 3:It's like a, a cast iron. You know, when does the absorbs the flavors.
Speaker 1:When does the event close? I think it's so. We said it starts today. I think it goes to Friday right, it's just the the late week. But yeah, I've seen some really cool stuff there, man, and I feel like every year it's like I get a little glim, like a couple of years ago everything was folding right Folding displays, tvs, that kind of roll out.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And now, like two, three years later, you can buy it at the consumer level and that stuff is kind of exciting. Everything I saw this year was display technology. Apparently, last year, three chemists won the Nobel Prize for like OLED technology. Basically, I guess one of the difficult things with OLED technology is keeping the liquid inside the OLEDs a certain viscosity, and it doesn't like heat. So you have to dissipate that heat very, very quickly, which is why it's like better product for like TVs, because they're always plugged in so you don't have to like worry about power consumption. You can cool them and stuff like that. But apparently these chemists came up with like a much better way of controlling that and stuff like that, and Samsung is already starting to like implement some of that technology in their displays and they take, they require less power and they are brighter somehow.
Speaker 2:It's just amazing. You saw, before the stream here, I pulled out my Steam Deck and that has an OLED screen and it just looks incredible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, let's talk about the Steam Deck because you.
Speaker 1:This is a Christmas gift. We've been waiting. We knew you had asked for it.
Speaker 2:I've said I want it delivered. I bought it, I wasn't.
Speaker 3:I was a naughty boy. Santa bought it.
Speaker 2:Santa named Dylan bought it.
Speaker 3:Why are you ruining Christmas for me?
Speaker 2:No, no, no See, there's multiple Santas, Kyle.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:OK, it's my Santa.
Speaker 3:Your Santa. Yeah, his name is Dylan too, weird.
Speaker 2:I know it's wild. Hey, santa, I mean, Dylan, I mean hey me no, but yeah it's, that would be the stupid.
Speaker 1:His name is Saint Nick. All right, anything, that's Nick, not Dylan Kraus. It seems so weird. It is like hey. I know my common nomenclature is Santa Claus, but you can call me Dylan. What the fuck.
Speaker 2:As you're sitting on his lap. Like you, call me Kyle.
Speaker 1:What is? Santa was real and like as a grown man, you'd like go to the mall.
Speaker 2:What if he was real?
Speaker 1:If you know what he does and you're sitting on this guy's lap. He's like a lap or he's like all right, what you want, big boy.
Speaker 2:What you want, big boy.
Speaker 3:That's creepy. I'd be very weirded out by that. But what it is is Santa is real and then when you turn 18, all of your memories of him and all of that, uh, change forever. It's like if you have fairly, fairly very God parents and fairly odd parents, when you turn 18, you have no recollection of the very odd parents.
Speaker 1:Is that how you forget about them?
Speaker 3:I mean I think in the cartoon, when you turn 18, all memory of ever having a fairy God is erased forever and you have no recollection of that happening, and that's how they explain uh, for his, his teacher, right Cause there's a whole thing where he had to forget that he had fairy God parents in one of the episodes and he wished to be 18 and it was a big dramatic thing. Although I haven't you know, watched that show in at least 20 years. So I might be misremembering some of the anyways though, steam. Deck.
Speaker 1:Anyways that was very interesting. Yes, I was interested. Thanks, I didn't know that that was the quirk.
Speaker 3:I thought it was according to the rules you had to believe and you had to like, need them.
Speaker 1:I thought that was the whole thing. I thought I was faced around needing him and then, when you didn't remember, when he like was old Timmy. Turner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like he traveled through time.
Speaker 3:I liked his like, his like poor friend Chester McBadbatt and his dad was like a gambling addict and he lived in a trailer park. Very weird cartoon.
Speaker 2:Very, it was good. Same people that made Danny Phantom Gen.
Speaker 3:Z came out in the Gen Z years Post 1997.
Speaker 2:What's your thoughts on that, billy?
Speaker 3:See someone born in 1981 would not have been enjoying fairly odd fairly odd parents when it came out, because they would have already been almost an adult by the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or an adult, or the odd parents, and for the most part, like I think, spongebob is split between the two for sure. 99 is when that came out. Oh, when it came out, came out 99. So they would have already. I would say, that's a Gen Z thing.
Speaker 3:They would have already been. You know 17, 18, when SpongeBob was a thing. If you're at the very beginning of millennial, At the asset.
Speaker 1:So, steamedick, I'm not even going to defend it anymore, because you both are going to shit on me, all right.
Speaker 3:Well, it takes the fun out of it.
Speaker 2:What I just did. Yeah, you don't play back. You feel like a dick, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Now.
Speaker 1:I'm just being. Shiny teeth still get it stuck in my head, I think that's the song Intra song, right?
Speaker 3:No, that's the chip Skylark, you remember the game. My son it's eat that sparkle, oh just like the stars in space.
Speaker 1:Yes, I know that song.
Speaker 3:I don't know the rest, okay.
Speaker 2:Doug Dimodone.
Speaker 3:Doug Dimodone. Oh, the dimsdale Dimodone.
Speaker 1:Do you remember? What about that?
Speaker 3:And then there was also the other song that chip Skylark sang.
Speaker 2:Iki.
Speaker 3:Viki, yeah, iki Viki, iki Viki. My wife is not a fan of that song, uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Are we ready to talk about the Steve Dickens?
Speaker 1:Oh, I've been ready baby, take me away, okay. So the other song.
Speaker 3:I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:The third one no Seam Deck. I got the OLED 500 and something gigabyte version, really cool. I think OLED is definitely the way to go and the like. I'm going to just compare it to the switch because that's like the most comparable item on the market to the Steam Deck. It is so amazing compared to the switch. The switch has Nintendo behind it, which obviously is like the main power of like. If you want to play Mario, you got to play on the switch, but otherwise Steam Deck. It improves on everything Like. It has ergonomic um hand holding bits. You have touch pads that are have haptic feedback. You have multiple um like triggers. You have triggers for your two middle fingers on the back plus your regular triggers the L one at R one and then like a normal console is like no, you need to pay extra for that's a pro control.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Steam Deck is like nah, it's part of it.
Speaker 1:But those the amount of the configuration that you can set with with how many different input types there are, it's amazing and so like um and just how you can play games.
Speaker 2:I mean I haven't dove into too much customizing my own like um controls because a lot of PC games you know they're built for keyboard and mouse. But there's games where you can go through, like the Steam Store, and I'll say this one's optimized for the Steam Deck and all you do is you press play and it's already set up for your like a controller. You just go at it. Um, guild Wars, billy gifted us mean Kyle, and that one has a like it's partially optimized so I have to go in and really see what that is. But just the ability of all the buttons and how you can optimize that to the game. I think that's amazing and I'm still waiting to get the the dock to see how it goes on like on a. You know I put it on the TV but as far as the OLED screen I, it looks amazing and it just feels incredibly crisp.
Speaker 2:It feels nice to look at, like it feels crisp.
Speaker 3:Have you had a chance to dock it yet?
Speaker 2:No, the dock separate. Ah, yeah, so I need to buy that, but it's not that expensive. It's like $80.
Speaker 3:I'm just just by looking at it and like really feeling it in my hands, it like it makes the switch by comparison feel so dated.
Speaker 2:Well, especially it's like the stick has that stupid stick drift and they never addressed it. They never addressed it, Even the new switch the OLED switch has it.
Speaker 1:You can. I think in here you can configure your dead zone. Oh, I'm sure Like you could set the dead zone so it doesn't even act.
Speaker 3:You can do it minimally on the switch but you constantly have to like, clean, your like it's ridiculous that they never really addressed that problem. But that's kind of Nintendo has always been like that?
Speaker 1:Do you think Switch's primary intention is to be played as a handheld or?
Speaker 3:docked as a console? Yeah, no, it's primarily meant to be handheld. I never owned one they even have the switch light that has. So that's the worst part about the I think it's called a switch light is they don't have detachable controllers. It's a handheld only oh shit. And it still has stick drift. But you can't ever fix that because you can't switch out the controller, because it's a part of the console and so, like it's just, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they really dropped the ball.
Speaker 1:You bought the OLED version of the switch, didn't you?
Speaker 3:No OLED, I've had Switch almost as a launch, so it's the OG one.
Speaker 1:I had to. I think that came out right.
Speaker 3:I got mine at 17.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had to buy mine like secondhand in the Barnes and Noble parking lot from a guy, that was some French coat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was naked, but you got a switch, I got a switch. Did you get a discount somehow?
Speaker 3:Well, no, he actually charged me one he doesn't kiss and tell he charged you more.
Speaker 1:He dived me, not worse.
Speaker 3:He's like he took one look at me and said I'm going to charge you extra hundred dollars.
Speaker 1:Barnes and Noble man. I love it.
Speaker 3:That's where all the deals go down the Barnes and Noble, the true safe parking lot.
Speaker 2:That's where it's happening.
Speaker 1:Man, I would say I only held it for a few minutes, but it feels like the build quality is really solid. I don't know how light it was. It was very light, didn't feel like you would get it felt like it was a. The hand position was wider than I was expecting, but it was not in a negative sense. It felt very comfortable and I felt like I can get into like a very comfortable gaming position and really leverage it. I'll be curious to see how you, how do you plan on using it with a dock, like, are you going to Bluetooth a controller to it and then you can sit on the couch? Or do you see docking it at your computer desk and then using the mouse and keyboard?
Speaker 2:Well, I'll probably. I'll dock it to my TV and then sitting on like my gaming chair, cause I just sit, I sit, the way I game is a computer chair, and then I'm in front of a TV.
Speaker 1:I don't know. That's just how I've always done it and so you'll use.
Speaker 2:So I'll use it on the TV and I'll use a controller.
Speaker 1:I'll probably can you use like a PS5 controller or I'm 90%, sure you can.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it has to be plugged in at all times, which I'm fine with.
Speaker 1:I don't.
Speaker 2:But I don't mind sitting. I sit that close anyway, so it's fine being plugged in. So that's what I plan to do once I get the dock.
Speaker 3:I also make really long USB-C cables. Yeah, you can get like a 15 foot USB-C cable for like pennies 15 dollars yeah you get like four packs, you know.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's cool, I like that It'll be. I'll be curious to see what it looks like when it scales up to a higher resolution. Yeah, obviously, when it's docked it can run at a higher power because it's not worried about saving battery life. So it probably can crank up and with all the AI like upscaling stuff that exists today, oh man, you probably are gonna have like a very reasonable experience for such probably.
Speaker 2:I imagine it's gonna be like switch, like comparable to what the switch does when you dock it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this goes from what seven 720 to 1080.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which at a certain distance is totally fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know like we could finally play Baldur's Gate together.
Speaker 3:We Could three-man party.
Speaker 1:I have Daniel in the chat that wants to join us for that if we ever do that, but she's on console.
Speaker 2:Gala says that's why my eyesight is bad is because I sit close to TV, whereas I have a different theory.
Speaker 1:That sounds like such an old adage. I really do.
Speaker 2:I've heard that my whole life. I sat close to.
Speaker 1:TV, because my eyes were bad.
Speaker 2:Listen this. Look, I sat close to TV because my eyes were bad. I don't know see why else would I want to sit close to TV?
Speaker 3:I can speak with firsthand experience of someone that had 2020 vision and can feel it slowly Changing and getting old. I know, but it's, it's like it's one of the worst feelings ever, that and I Was gonna say losing my hair. But I don't want to be Incentive now everybody look at his hair but two years old baby.
Speaker 1:That's how long I made it.
Speaker 3:You handled it much better than I, so I Think that part of the reason is because, from the age of like 16 to like I don't know, early 20s, I did all my gaming on a monitor and I was probably 15 inches from it at the most, and I think that I maybe I'm just getting old, but I feel like that contributed to it.
Speaker 2:So why wouldn't your eyesight be bad already? What?
Speaker 3:do you?
Speaker 2:mean like.
Speaker 1:There's no way you're playing more video games now than you did when you were young.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why would mine be bad yeah?
Speaker 3:because you sat really close.
Speaker 2:You didn't know why never?
Speaker 3:didn't tell I, because I, I Will. For one, growing up, I was only allowed to play 30 minutes of gaming a day. That was it, and then for two. I'd never sat close to anything up until you know, when I was like 15 or whatever and I was I. That's what I really started gaming.
Speaker 1:I had the biggest TV I've ever seen at that time in my life, in which was, just for context, enormous for context it was 50 inches, but tube. Tv back in the back in the day. That was like Sat on this plastic base that was like this song's a monster and it weighed so much. He goes to the Super Bowls because it was like the biggest TV for everybody all the speakers built into the. I remember the bottom panel started cracking. Is that that?
Speaker 3:thing was so heavy we still had that when I was, when I first got my PlayStation 3, and I remember where's the gear brother and I we played it wasn't even HD and we were playing model warfare to probably good 10 hours a day On that that TV, and I remember my parents to get so mad because we just hog the living room all day when you turn it on.
Speaker 2:Did it make that like dust crackle?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh my god, and it would fade, in huh, mm-hmm. Oh my god, I totally forgot.
Speaker 3:And if you turned off the TV, you would do the whole. Yes, yeah, it would shrink to the middle.
Speaker 1:I remember being a kid and I've destroyed one of my computer TVs because we had these magnetic kit. Oh yeah, and it was huge horseshoe magnet and I was going around seeing what was and I put it right on our TV. Oh they went, did you ever? Oh I was like to do it again. Oh, I was so young. I don't. Yeah, I have no recollection that, but my dad I remember your dad helped my dad.
Speaker 3:It took two full grown men to move that TV, I believe it. And they, they struggled they were like getting in play. It weighed so much.
Speaker 1:It was like the height. It was as tall as like an adult Because of the base that it stood on. It was it was I don't it really was.
Speaker 3:I swear to God it was. It was a 50 inch TV, but that was back in. The days were like if you had the average, I think family TV was like somewhere between like 15 to 24 inches dude, yes so like it was like monstrous at the time. Now 50 inches is like on the small site.
Speaker 1:I know, and that's crazy I think about yeah, I have like a 75 inch in my living room and it's it doesn't even. Nobody even flinches when they see it.
Speaker 3:You know, and if you would have showed somebody that in like between 2000, 2005, they would have.
Speaker 1:Their minds would have yeah, like you have a home theater.
Speaker 2:Oh my, is it plasma?
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:I think of that. What the hell? The guy from the office. What else's name? Michael?
Speaker 3:Scott Just folds right into the wall.
Speaker 2:Like an inch in here for hours.
Speaker 3:One of my favorite, like Michael Scott quotes about Jan. What's like in the beginning of season four when he's like, hey, there she is, that's why we do it. And then, like it zooms over she just passed out on the bed and he just stares awkwardly at the camera. He's like probably won't be awake for a couple hours, but like it's. And he's like so I didn't get the job in corporate, but I got the. I got something better domestic bliss. Jan made me breakfast today.
Speaker 2:Well, she bought the milk, the house episode where they're over, and like he takes him on the tour and he goes in the bedroom and he's like this is where I sleep and he was like, huh, that's funny. He's like, no, like he sleeps it down this little cabinet at the foot of the bed.
Speaker 3:I think he's joking.
Speaker 2:Jan's there. She like tries to justify it. She's like, yeah, he's got plenty of room. Yeah if I curl up like this, see, it's pretty comfy.
Speaker 1:So ridiculous.
Speaker 3:And then, when he's talking to his new his like new girlfriend before they start dating and and she like touches his arm and he like freaks out. He's like did you see that? Oh, oh, wow. He's like well, jan didn't believe in showing affection.
Speaker 2:Then they have the video camera and he's like yeah, we've been getting into scroll girl, school girl one. And he like implies that it's him. That's where I'm.
Speaker 3:Like Jan, is really this whole school girl outfit thing for role play.
Speaker 1:I just don't like I don't, I just don't like. So I don't guess. Going back to the TV discussion, I don't. I think Is it. Why is it that being so close to the screen causes the issue?
Speaker 3:Why is it always a?
Speaker 1:prox of anything I don't know if it's you think it's just screens in general or I think it's light.
Speaker 3:I mean think about like your cornea burning off in the morning when you wake up and Obviously that's just, that's natural that happens. But like literally a top layer of your eye will sear off in the morning when you have that first light, when you look at it. So I think it's more to do with the. I don't think it's like any other factor, I think it's like light affecting, you know, your eyes would you like if, if I were to wear your prescription glasses, it's clearly you're more you don't see as well as I do.
Speaker 3:But if I were to wear your prescription glasses For a certain period of time, my eyes would adjust and adapt and adjust to whatever your, your vision is and it would make it's where I'd need to wear. So I think it just has to do with, like, all those factors.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't think your eyes would do that.
Speaker 3:They do.
Speaker 2:Not, they go back to a prescription, because, if so, why not just make me and Billy Like, give us a certain prescription to where our eyes adjust to be 2020 normally?
Speaker 3:No, so it they adapt, but they can go back, like when you're. I'm just talking about like After a while they would get used to with with glasses on. They actually do get used to the prescription, make it up, but eventually, unless you actually have damage or you actually are, then it won't ever go back. But your eyes do adjust to the different prescription.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just I feel like, would you wear glasses or contacts like if you had to get, if you had to go that route, glasses?
Speaker 3:you would go to glasses. I'm absolutely not. I can't. I would be able to handle three things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't even do eyedrops. I see my. I don't know why it's like it's, I'm like it's not gonna hurt, but my eye it's like it just doesn't want to even deal with it.
Speaker 3:I see my wife putting in her contacts and it freaks me out. I can't, can't handle it.
Speaker 1:And then there's those like people. I haven't changed my contacts like three months and fucked.
Speaker 3:Or those people that are casually like. All my contacts slip behind my yeah, yeah, what does?
Speaker 1:my body observe the contact.
Speaker 2:It's part of me. I have 2020 vision.
Speaker 1:So the steam deck is seemingly a fun product. I can't wait to see you try more, try more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can't wait to try out more stuff, see, and fully kind of test it, because I mean I booted up Elden Ring with you guys and that was that's the was a bad experience on your PC. Yeah, I've had like I know what's right on the steam deck.
Speaker 3:You know it's wild. I just looked up We'll sit in close to monitor actually affect your eyesight, and they said there are studies to prove that not only sitting close to your monitor, sitting close to TV, but also Reading your book too close Hmm, what else to do with like cross-eyes? So it must have to do with just being close to anything in general.
Speaker 1:Ha gala says your glasses, give you 2020. I think they can even give you like 2010 to her 10, 20. What is it? Yeah, 2010?.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I wish, I wish you could go superhuman with glasses. Wouldn't that be cool it just I wish it was like all binoculars.
Speaker 1:I switched. I got upgraded to like a I don't know. Like the last two years my eyes took a dive and I've stabilized over the last two years but like from two years to whatever my last prescription was, it had been some time, it was like way off and I got the new ones in my depth perception and like I felt like I was in a fishbowl for like two weeks and then I finally adjusted and I'm like it didn't bother me at all. But sure you weren't like on drugs, I Did do some of that. Biscuit Better la Croix biscuit pastic, a sticky water, melon, watermelon.
Speaker 2:Is that French, or I think it's French.
Speaker 1:You tell us is now.
Speaker 2:Well, the Croy's French.
Speaker 3:La Croix is la Croix.
Speaker 2:La Croix, la Croix it's la Croix. Tortilla chips I.
Speaker 1:That game I'm gonna it's probably, it probably does mean.
Speaker 3:But I mean it literally, says it means watermelons.
Speaker 1:I just wish like we could get like little little body mods.
Speaker 2:You know, what do you think of the the Ray ban Glasses with the camera and the plays music. Have you seen those, oh?
Speaker 1:Because it like it play. It plays music like by vibrating right on your skin so nobody else can hear it? No, have you seen those Headphones that you can like put below your ear sub?
Speaker 3:that vibrate, your that just fall. Yeah, that you have. You seen those? Yeah, that's well easy it's. There's no odd, like there's no perceivable audio, but it just, and you put it on there and it's a wow sensation into your bones and you can hear it perfectly.
Speaker 1:It's like that game that you have you ever played that game where you like bite that thing with your teeth and you hear music all of a sudden?
Speaker 3:I'm not gonna try that not game, but there was this, for I'd ever had it, but it was advertised like when we were kids. These audio toothbrushes, they're electronic.
Speaker 1:I remember that when you would.
Speaker 3:You wouldn't hear the music, but when you brush your teeth, so if I break it would send music into this, the kid and you would brush your teeth for as long as the music went.
Speaker 1:That's so smart. Why did they get rid of that?
Speaker 3:They might still have it. No, we're not looking at children.
Speaker 1:Advertising.
Speaker 3:Yes, I am not. How did so? How are we talking? So Pestique is what we were are to pass that gay past the clear. Listen to what, how it's really pronounced in French. It's French, by the way, it's gonna blow your mind. I, I'm going to get it. It's, it's, it'll blow your mind. It's my blow. Wow, come on. Alright, well, I give up, but wow, that was low effort.
Speaker 1:That's about as he put in like four seconds, done all I can do, hold on.
Speaker 3:Oh, I went right when you said hold on.
Speaker 1:I mean, how hard is it to repeat?
Speaker 3:it. It's clearly very hard.
Speaker 1:It's like a pastiche Pastiche Pastiche Like pastiche Pastiche Pastiche. Why would you name a thing? You saw the American consumer.
Speaker 3:The French language is crazy, like I don't.
Speaker 1:I would have such a talk. It's crazy.
Speaker 3:Well, the English isn't hard, it's extremely well, it is hard, it's let me not, let me not worry like that. That's a great thing. What I mean is, what's hardest about English is our grammar. We have so many stupid grammar rules about everything, like it's only language where there's like five words can mean five different things, but said the exact same way, and just stuff like that. So that's why it's the hardest they say is the hardest second language to learn if you're not native, coming from someone that speaks nothing but English.
Speaker 1:I'm just so grateful that I never, I'm a terrible person to be able to speak English. I'm so grateful that, like you, um, english is like, synonymous with like every. Almost everybody speaks English. You know you can go a lot of places in the world and get by.
Speaker 2:English is like the universal yeah.
Speaker 1:Thank god. I don't know how that ended up being the thing, but because I took two years of Spanish and I needed about 20 years of Spanish to even try to figure it out.
Speaker 3:To be honest, I really do wish I was bilingual, mm. Hmm, it would be so cool.
Speaker 1:We did a whole podcast about Spanish and English and they when do I use it? I'm going to talk to Spanish. My wife, who doesn't speak Spanish.
Speaker 3:If I knew Spanish, it would help my my professional life tremendously Well, you could talk.
Speaker 1:You could talk sexy, you know, to your to your wife, I mean I was thinking about just being able to communicate.
Speaker 2:You could see you're in another language Me. I'm born.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're Italian. My Corazon, my Corazon, my Corazon, my Corazon, yes.
Speaker 3:Meet.
Speaker 2:Calzone, that's what I thought you said was. Calzone, I think Corazon is hard, um Victory, says all through vibrations amplifying the sound wave Wow that was a really late response Was out to the toothbrush.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she must be watching, it must be delayed.
Speaker 1:I have no comment on it. It's moved on, we've moved on. But that is really cool. I've seen some crazy stuff like toothbrush technology.
Speaker 3:There's a gap in toothbrush technology.
Speaker 2:I see you use a toothbrush. No, I do Really.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my wife gifted us some for Christmas.
Speaker 2:It used to tickle me so much, but then, like now, I'm used to it. Yeah, and I love it.
Speaker 3:I feel like it works way better than any handheld toothbrush I've ever had.
Speaker 1:I have a lot of floss. I have a thing of flosses like flossers at my desk and I floss every day and I brush every day.
Speaker 3:I'm like super ain't all that I floss every day, but I use this expanding floss. What the hell is that?
Speaker 1:So it's, it's your mind All right. Are you laughing at me? Because I don't know what?
Speaker 2:that is Just how you said it. What the? Hell is that what the Hi guys?
Speaker 3:Expanding floss. I'm gonna use it. It expands so that it can grip all the good in there. Take it out, good stuff. What so, like your first tooth, is not gonna have the no you just move it back and forth a couple of times and as you do that it puffs up, and then you switch to another part of it when you go to the next two.
Speaker 1:Oh so you gotta like, you gotta work, 20 different spots on this thing and you should never floss. I have the, the picks that are just like set, and then I scrape the side.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I, I have nothing against the pick, but I feel like, well, for one I have. My teeth are really close together, so if I use the pick it'll rip. I rip through floss a lot because of how tight my teeth are, so I can use the pick unless I want to do five picks. Do you ever try to water pick?
Speaker 1:No, but I had a water pick in my shower. I know you did, it was so awesome.
Speaker 3:I used to when I would take a shower in your house. Growing up, I used to like dude.
Speaker 2:It was awesome, it was ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you would hook up to the wall.
Speaker 3:I shit all over it too, okay. And then you used it to break me after me.
Speaker 1:You all done in there.
Speaker 3:All right, it's great.
Speaker 1:It's great, what a great friend. Like I would ever shower right after you anyway.
Speaker 3:Ever Water's still warm. I think we've ever been in a situation.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't even turn the faucet on, waiting for you like like at first you would always it's my house. I would shower. First I warmed it up for me.
Speaker 3:I mean, we hung out a lot, but not now.
Speaker 2:What the fuck? It's a water pick.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's how I cleaned. Is that that would destroy you?
Speaker 1:That's a lot of power, oh yes, it hooked up to the main water line and that was coming out of the shower and it would just, it would just like blasting water.
Speaker 2:I have a dirty asshole.
Speaker 1:I actually hurt that would yeah that was I, because you could have to be careful Some some soft inner tissue I love that thing, man. It was so awesome. I was never thinking about it the same.
Speaker 3:I just hope you didn't use it for your asshole because I can't promise you I never use your water pick on my ass.
Speaker 1:Thank you, dylan, for that You're welcome. For those watching at home.
Speaker 3:Thank you for listening A sophisticated way to make sure that you're listening.
Speaker 1:I've been enlightened today when can people find us?
Speaker 2:They can find us on YouTube.
Speaker 3:Instagram, Spotify.
Speaker 2:We need we got changed the title.
Speaker 3:Oh, you put your water pick ass. No, I just you said we're going to talk about Echo. We're not. I mean, I don't not that I want to, but we should probably think about not putting subjects in our title in the future.
Speaker 1:So then we're not constrained to, then we're not going to have absolute bang. Just put hey, hi, hello, this is fun. Join us Please, please send us, that might actually do well, see, if we just talk about it right now.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about Marvel's Echo.
Speaker 3:That's it.
Speaker 1:That's that's. There's not no time. What's that? We're over an hour. We're over an hour.
Speaker 3:I have no interest like.
Speaker 2:I know you don't watch the trailer I love it, I don't watch the space and they're not flying hey they're not.
Speaker 1:They're not kids. They're not kids like. I'm not like when I say I'm not interested and that's, that's wrong. I'm not like hyped for this. I got, you saw it and you were like there's Daredevil obviously in it and stuff, and I know you get really excited. I watched it was like oh, it looks good.
Speaker 3:I'm not like. This is the first Marvel project I've been excited for in the probably 20 years.
Speaker 1:No, but I'm not like I'm more than that dude. I think well, I was. I'm not that they.
Speaker 3:I mean this whole phase. I was hyped for movies that ended up not performing, you know. But like this is the first time that I I'm really excited for one, I'm glad that they're out right now.
Speaker 2:It's going to be out soon. No, it's out today. I was going to say it's.
Speaker 1:I thought it was today, so I gotta watch five episodes. We do have to watch it because we're going to be released that we talked about and I guarantee you they're going to be watching the numbers on this, like they released, they released all five episodes. Oh yes, all five are available to stream. That's what at least this ad said, and I'm like, oh god, please. I hope people who are interested in this binge it so that it hits their metrics, so that they do this with other shows.
Speaker 3:It also builds up. So this is a precursor to Daredevil's 18 years old TVMA Wow, so they're keeping the grittiness of Netflix. Uh, I'm really happy that they're not going to be weighed down by the Disney label potentially, but it I mean, they're really advertising the shit out of the fact that it's TVMA. Yeah, they keep bringing it up all the time. It's like blood in the title and they're like it's the goriest thing.
Speaker 1:Marvel's ever produced, but like this, even echo their like changer settings to TVMA.
Speaker 3:I'm like I'm not going to be watching, but if it's anything like the Netflix Daredevil series, they need it. Also an echo they said there's going to be a six minute long one shot fight scene with Daredevil.
Speaker 2:I see I've seen bits of it yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was put online. I'm going to watch it right now, as soon as we're done, no doubt in my life, absolutely spoils it for himself.
Speaker 1:I won't have the no, he's restrained.
Speaker 2:Myself, you'll watch it 480p and he's distracted.
Speaker 1:He's focused, See so there you go, we talked about that Go Alright, happy there we go.
Speaker 2:It's in the title. Well, so Jinglebee said we could change our titles.
Speaker 3:to start up a dad joke I kind of like that Want to hear dad joke. I just heard today yeah, a sandwich walks into a bar. The bartender says we don't serve food here.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that's so good, so we would start it with that. Everybody's clicking on that video. Oh, I like it actually. Yeah, that one's pretty good. Oh, I am not a guy that can just remember jokes off the yeah, sadly I don't have that. No, I'm on the spot, kind of guy At the other day.
Speaker 3:jokes are like circles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's because he's a dad.
Speaker 3:Call me a bicycle, because I am too tired.
Speaker 2:I can keep going. I think we should just let it.
Speaker 3:I can force you to listen to this.
Speaker 1:Tell them the Italian DJ joke.
Speaker 2:Oh, what's a, what's an Italian DJ's favorite sauce.
Speaker 3:What Merida is good.
Speaker 1:I hate dad jokes. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I don't know what you're going to tell me about.
Speaker 2:I thought this was real. I thought it was the booth I bought.
Speaker 1:The boots Did you get boots for a Christmas. Can I finish my god damn jokes?
Speaker 3:Oh this is a joke. Yes, I thought he was set up for us.
Speaker 1:We're going to be like I love shoes. You're a bit of a I don't love shoes.
Speaker 3:You're a bit of a, I am a diva, so anyways, I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I don't know what he laced them with, but I've been tripping all day.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god dude. It's like on paper it's like a good joke, you know and then your delivery.
Speaker 3:Just really it's just like that. I was drowning in a sea of orange soda. I guess you can call that a fantasy.
Speaker 2:How do you? How do you?
Speaker 3:like sort all these. Once something goes in my mind, it never leaves.
Speaker 2:I can't get rid of this your memory is is stellar, so the water pick.
Speaker 1:What's the difference? It's just it's there for it's one, one of him. Well, that one was an experience he had. So what's that one? It's like a lobster with breast implants.
Speaker 3:Oh god, what so curious? One's real, I don't know One's real One's real Dirty bust.
Speaker 1:One's a crusty bus station. Oh, I've been one's a busty crust station, I've heard this one. That was a good one.
Speaker 3:That's a good one. I've got completely out of wrist watches. I guess you can call that a waste of time.
Speaker 1:These are good. You guys are talented. The chat is talented.
Speaker 3:I can go so much longer. We gotta stop this before.
Speaker 1:I just yeah, I think I should put you out of your history. Just kill me on stream. I'll look at there's construction on the freeway and with that Dylan where can people find us?
Speaker 2:They can find us on the podcast listening platform under KD Ratio. On YouTube, we stream every Tuesday at seven we're hopefully you're watching us right now.
Speaker 3:Yes, pacific time Specific time Uh specifically at Pacific time. Yeah, yes, pacificly specific Good, magically, magically delicious, magically delicious, oh my god.
Speaker 1:Yeah, listen to the KD guys.
Speaker 2:Let's just steal the lucky charms.
Speaker 3:We found you at the end of our rainbow.
Speaker 2:Well, remember guys with a good.