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Welcome to the Geek News Central podcast. I'm

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your host, Chris Cochran, and I have a

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great episode lined up for you guys tonight.

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Leading off, Ring aired a feel good Super

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Bowl ad about finding lost dogs, and it

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freaked out everybody so badly that Amazon killed

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a surveillance partnership four days later. Also on

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the show, AI companies battled it out during

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the big game. Apple's got a March event,

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but Siri still can't keep up.

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RAM prices have gone absolutely bonkers, and a

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Pokemon card just sold for 16 and a

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half million dollars. Plus,

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SpaceX gets a new crew to the space

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station after the first ever medical evacuation.

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Let's get into it.

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Man, guys, it's been it's been a little

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while. If you guys can tell right now,

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mind my, I hope you guys can,

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mind my congestion today. My nose is kind

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of stuffy. So,

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I sound a little I just some sniffles

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going on today, some sneezes.

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But, you know, wanted to get this shot

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to you guys because I've been wanting to

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talk to you about a lot of,

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you know, the recent news.

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This goes back to the Super Bowl.

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You know, if you guys watch Super Bowl,

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there's a lot of companies that did a

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lot of commercials. It's all it does Super

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Bowl's infamous

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for their commercials.

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And recently, you know, it's I think it

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was about a week or two ago where

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this Pokemon card was just sold for, like,

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6 and a half million dollars. It's crazy.

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But, yeah, life recently,

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you know, maybe, like, guys, on on that

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same topic about the Pokemon cards,

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I've actually been getting into collecting cards myself.

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I've never really been a big card collector.

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I'm a I'm a huge nerd, so I

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like to collect a lot of figures. I

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like to build Gundam, but, I never got

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into cards until recently.

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And that has to do around

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the One Piece anime.

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Dude, it's crazy. It's such a fun hobby.

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I've been enjoying it a lot. And let

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me tell you, it is so addicting.

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I've actually found a recent fact about the

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one piece card community

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pretty much this was back in January. Okay.

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But I thought I'd bring it up now.

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But in January, collectibles and alternative assets, they

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actually beat stocks and crypto

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over the last ninety days. Okay?

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A lot of the strongest returns did not

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come from stocks and all that stuff, but

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it came from silver

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trading cards and pop culture collectibles that quietly,

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you know, outpaced the broader market. So they

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kinda ranked it. And if you guys know,

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Pokemon has been like one of those collectible

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card games

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that's been like booming for the past few

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years. Like, it it had a crazy increase

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in in the profit wise and collectors.

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on this list,

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the top three actually rank Silver's number one

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with the 58%

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increase,

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One Piece with the 43%

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increase,

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and then the third one is actually Monkey

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d Luffy, and that's 41% or Monkey d,

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for short. That's, like, the main character in

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One Piece. Now all the way

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down at number 12, that's where Pokemon is

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And then Gold is, like, at 14, just

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to put things into perspective. Amazon's at 21.

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Apple's at 23. Nvidia's at 26.

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Let's see other stuff. Bitcoin's at 33. You

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just to put things out a little perspective

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for you guys, and I thought that was

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really interesting.

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And I heard recently, currently,

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the one piece market is just starting to

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settle back down, going back down a little

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bit. So thank God for me because

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I like to collect the cards just for

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I never really gone to the profit aspect

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of it yet, but

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it is difficult to collect sometimes because since

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so much people have moved from Pokemon

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to one piece collecting cards,

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it has brought the market up like crazy.

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And the pricing for these cards, let me

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tell you, is ridiculous. I would say about

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two years ago,

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you could be able to buy a booster

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box. Now booster box is it's a box

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that holds a bunch of different packs. And

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when you open the packs, that's when you

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get the cards. Right? Now booster box was

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maybe like a a mere $100.

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I'm I'll give you different prices for three

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different booster boxes from one piece. One of

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them was not worth $100 before. Now it's

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$500 for just a simple box. One of

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them is actually worth a thousand dollars. And

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a lot of them have just, like, they

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don't stay in the $100 range anymore. They

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are $200 plus just to get a box,

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and it's crazy because you aren't even guaranteed,

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a rare card. Right? You could get a

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good card that would be worth, like, 50

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to $80.

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a lot of people are chasing that thousand

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dollar plus card, multi, you know, thousand dollar

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that they're willing to spend all this money.

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the most the best financial decision ever because

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you could spend all this money just to

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get, like, nothing. Right? So,

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me personally, I haven't really opened much booster

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boxes anymore. I stopped doing that.

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I I was actually opening Japanese boxes because

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they were really cheaper. They were much cheaper

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because I was just admiring them for the

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art. But,

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it's more financially responsible just to buy the

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card itself. Because if you continue to buy

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booster boxes continuously,

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it's just it's ridiculous.

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The amount of money you would spend just

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to have a chance at getting a good

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card. Anyway,

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enough of that nerd talk. Let's kinda get

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into the show today.

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We're gonna take it back to the Super

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Bowl on on how

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that ring had this crazy not crazy, but

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this really cool concept of,

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their new, like how do I say it?

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basically update. Right? So

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Ring, you know, Amazon's home security brand, they

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aired its first ever Super Bowl ad, and

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it had over 120,000,000

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viewers.

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The commercial showcase Search Party. It's a new

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feature that uses AI and Ring's massive camera

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network to help find lost pets. All you

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had to do would all you had to

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do was, upload a photo of your missing

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dog and neighborhood ring cameras alert you if

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they spot it. And it sounds awesome, right?

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But viewers connected the dots fast

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and pretty much where they came to the

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conclusion where if it can track a dog,

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they can track a person.

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because they caught heat over police partnerships that

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gave law enforcement access to footage. And in

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2023,

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settled with,

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the FTC

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overcharges

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that employees could view customer videos.

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Now this ad put all that right back

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into the spotlight.

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You know, this ad backfired

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spectacularly.

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Within hours, you know, privacy advocates, including the

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ACLU and lawmakers, raised alarms that search party

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could easily be repurposed to track humans and

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not just pets.

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The backlash moves so fast that just four

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days later, Amazon killed a plan integration with

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Flock Safety,

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a controversial

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police surveillance tech company. And Amazon said it

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was a resource and timing decision, but you

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know what? Nobody bought it.

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this is the tension at the heart of

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smart home tech right now.

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The same camera network that helps you find

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Buddy, the golden retriever could become a neighborhood

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surveillance grid. And if you have Ring cameras,

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nothing changes today. You know, a search party

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is opt in for pets, but think about

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what 10,000,000 Ring doorbells are capable of in,

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aggregate.

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And that's a lot of eyes. Right?

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Even though the Flock safety partnership is dead,

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the AI,

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capability, you know, it's not going anywhere. So,

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you know, something to think about. It's pretty

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it's pretty crazy. You know, at first, it

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does seem like a really good idea. Right?

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my dog. But

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who knows how this could progress and what

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this means for the future for home cameras.

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Speaking of the Super Bowl commercials, dude, AI

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AI went there were so much AI commercials.

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It it was kinda ridiculous.

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It it was it was pretty ridiculous. Now

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AI companies have been in an arms race

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for users, and the recent Super Bowl became

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the latest battlefield.

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AI related ads accounted for 23%

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of all commercials, nearly like one in four,

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basically.

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AI has officially crossed from tech niche to

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mainstream consumer marketing.

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And the backdrop is the growing rivalry between

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Anthro Anthropic and OpenAI

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as both companies fight for, paying subscribers. Now

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Anthropic made its Super Bowl debut with a

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series of ads titled betrayal, deception, treachery, and

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violation.

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Not subtle, you know, not subtle at all.

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The message, you know,

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ads are coming to AI, but not to

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Claude.

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A direct shot to OpenAI's plans put advertising

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in chat GBT,

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and Sam Altman fired back on social media

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calling the ad clearly dishonest.

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Now on the lighter side, vodka brand said,

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Svedka,

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they ran what it claims to be the

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first primarily

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AI generated national Super Bowl ad. And it's

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a thirty second,

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spot called shake your bots off with this

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robot mascot dancing at a party. And apparently,

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it took four months to train the AI

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on facial expressions and body movements.

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Now the results were at the Anthropics website's

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traffic jumped 6.5%

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and daily active users rose 11% after the

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Now if you guys saw that ad, man,

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the the Svetka ad was I'm not gonna

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lie. It was weird.

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it was weird.

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from this. You know, the AR wars are

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now a living room conversation. These companies are

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spending 7 to $8,000,000

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per thirty second spot just to win you

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over. Right? Now second, the anthropic versus open

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AI feud is about something that actually matters.

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You know? Should your AI assistant show you

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ads?

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If you use Chatty if you use ChattyPT,

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you know, watch this closely. Right?

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Because,

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one company says pay and stay ad free.

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And the other seems to be exploring an

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ad supported model.

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And one of sup one in four Super

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Bowl ads were AI related this year, and

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this tells you where the money thinks, the

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future is. And, you know, one of four,

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I I personally was not

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not stoked to see,

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you know, all these AI ads. I really,

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miss the old Super Bowl commercials, you know,

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because

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a lot of non football fans would watch

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the Super Bowl

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for the halftime show and for also the

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commercials because the commercials were awesome. They were

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creative. They were funny. And, like, sometimes they

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were so good that you would literally

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go on YouTube just to look up a

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commercial. Like, who does that?

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Who does that? Like, we like to skip

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ads. But before the Super Bowl, made us

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wanna watch ads. And now it's just been

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like

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a AI Fest of shoving,

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like,

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non thought

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commercials down our throat, if that makes sense.

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Right?

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But yeah. Was disappointed in that, to be

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honest, but hopefully, you know, some companies

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took away from that and maybe next year

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they start to think more about getting back

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into the creative aspect of ads because, you

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know, that was a big part of the

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Super Bowl.

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But yeah.

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Now Apple confirmed a product launch on March

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4 with the iPhone 17 e,

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a cheaper iPhone pretty much.

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MacBooks MacBook Pros with m five Pro and

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m five Max chip and an eighth generation

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iPad Air

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and a twelfth generation iPad. So it's a

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pretty solid hardware lineup.

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The big story is what won't be there.

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The AI powered Siri overhaul. K? So Bloomberg

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reports the future plans,

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the features planned for iOS 26.4

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have hit snags in internal testing and are

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now being spread across iOS 26.5

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in May and iOS 27 in September.

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Now Apple says Siri's improvements are still coming

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in 2026,

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but they've been saying that for a while.

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Right?

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Now, if you've been waiting for, to upgrade

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your iPhone, the iPhone 17 e could be

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interesting. You know, Apple's targeting the budget crowd

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heading into back to school season, you know,

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but the Siri delay is the real headline.

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Now Apple's assist assistant is falling further behind

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Chachi Bitty,

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Gemini and Claude. These are the same tools

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that were just badly out on the Super

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Bowl stage. Right?

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The March 4 format, small demos, no live

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streams tells you Apple wants to manage expectations.

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They'll lean into hardware and on device processing

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rather than making,

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Siri promises that, you know, they can't keep.

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So,

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you know, something to keep an eye on.

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Right? A lot of cool hardware stuff coming

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out, but hopefully, Siri gets that little update

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that we've all been waiting for.

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Another fun interesting topic. Right? If you guys

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are PC lovers, PC builders,

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I guess PC gamers, all that kind of

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stuff, PC stuff, this is important for you

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because the DDR five RAM prices have surged

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300%.

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Sheesh. Now there's a global memory shortage right

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now, driven almost entirely by AI. Companies like

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Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft are gobbling up high

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bandwidth memory for AI data centers. And the

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manufacturers,

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Samsung,

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SK Hynix, Micron,

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have shifted their factories to make the AI

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stuff instead of be call it, instead because

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the profit margins are five to 10 times

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higher.

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Meanwhile,

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DDR, the older RAM,

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has been discontinued by most manufacturers,

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forcing everyone onto DDR five, right, as supply

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is drying up.

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A 64 gigabyte kit on DDR five RAM

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has gone from around $200

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in mid twenty twenty five to over a

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thousand dollars today. That's 300%

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in six months with another 50%

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spike just in the last month. You know,

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that

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puts a basic RAM upgrade at a higher

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price than the MacBook Air.

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You know, the math is simple. Right? Making

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one unit of AI memory requires three times

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the factory capacity of regular DDR five.

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Every production line that switches to AI memory

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removes three times as much consumer ramp from

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the supply,

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and global inventories have dropped to just eight

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weeks.

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Analysts does don't see meaningful relief until late

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twenty twenty seven or 2028.

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Really unfortunate news. Right? If you're thinking about

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building or upgrading PC, you know, just brace

455
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yourself, guys. RAM that cost $200 six months

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ago is now over a grand, and it's

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still climbing through mid twenty twenty six.

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This is a direct side effect of the

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AI boom. The same technology powering those Super

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Bowl ads we just talked about is making

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your computer upgrades more and more expensive.

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Now, if you can wait guys, just wait.

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And if you can't, buy sooner rather than

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later because it's not coming down anytime soon.

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Laptop and prebuilt prices will creep up too

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as manufacturers absorb these costs.

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Now

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finally well, not finally. Moving into our next

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topic. Well, I wanna talk about the SpaceX

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Crew 12 launch.

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Right?

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This was from a few weeks ago, so

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the news might be a little changed. But

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just for a little update, if you guys

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aren't familiar,

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NASA's Crew crew 12 is a replacement for

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crew 11, you know,

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whose members came home early in January following

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the first ever medical evacuation from the International

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Space Station.

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That was a historic and sobering moment,

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for the space program and it fell it

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left the station short staffed.

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Getting a new crew up there quickly was

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a priority and SpaceX delivered with the launch

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on Friday the thirteenth no less.

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SpaceX launched four astronauts to the ISS on

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February 13

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from Cape Canaveral.

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Hope I said that right. And the crew

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is NASA commander Jessica Mayer, NASA pilot Jack

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Hathaway,

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ESA mission specialist Sophie Adadot, and Russian cause

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cosmonaut

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Andre or Andre

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Fedu Fedeve. I I apologize

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for my, butchering of the napes.

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Now they lifted off at 05:15AM

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and their

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EST

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aboard a Falcon nine with the Dragon capsule

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Freedom

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and docked on Valentine's Day.

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The mission is planned for eight months, and

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the Falcon nine's first stage stuck its landing

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back at Pad 40.

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The medic the medical evacuation in January was

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the kind of thing that reminds you space

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is still dangerous. Right?

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Crew 12 getting up there smoothly is a

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good news story. And the Valentine's day docking

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is a nice touch. It also shows how

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reliant we are on SpaceX. They're basically NASA's

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ride share to orbit at this point. And

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the international crew is notable given everything happening,

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geopolitically.

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That's a that's a word.

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Geopolitically.

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Anyway,

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space cooperation keeps going even when things are

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tense on Earth and this crew will be

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up there till around October. So,

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good luck to them.

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00:19:34,755 --> 00:19:36,914
Now, huge shift in topics, right? We're going

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from space and we're gonna be talking about

526
00:19:38,275 --> 00:19:39,954
a little bit of a Pokemon type of

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thing. But this is a trading card story

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00:19:42,355 --> 00:19:44,515
that'll make your jaw drop. All right? If

529
00:19:44,515 --> 00:19:46,275
you guys don't know Logan Paul, he's a

530
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popular YouTuber. He sold a Pokemon card for

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record $16,500,000

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00:19:53,529 --> 00:19:55,850
Think about that. $16,500,000

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That's crazy for,

534
00:19:57,369 --> 00:19:59,369
you know, not to be that guy because

535
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I also collect, but 16.5

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doll billion dollars for a piece of cardboard.

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It's crazy. Now

538
00:20:06,734 --> 00:20:08,515
the card that was sold, it's the Pikachu

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illustration

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00:20:09,375 --> 00:20:11,855
illustrator card, and it's the holy grail of

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Pokemon collecting. You know, only 39 were ever

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00:20:14,815 --> 00:20:16,734
made, and they were created as prizes for

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00:20:16,734 --> 00:20:19,529
a Japanese illustration contest in the late nineties.

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Now Logan Paul bought his, one of the

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00:20:22,170 --> 00:20:25,130
few graded PSA 10, perfect condition back in

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2021 for $5,200,000

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00:20:28,009 --> 00:20:29,930
That was the record at the time. He

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00:20:29,930 --> 00:20:31,450
famously wore it on his neck in a

549
00:20:31,450 --> 00:20:33,869
custom case during his boxing matches, WWE,

550
00:20:34,490 --> 00:20:36,785
yada yada yada. Now this card went up

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00:20:36,785 --> 00:20:39,365
through Golden, a major online auction house.

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His

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Pokemon

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00:20:42,704 --> 00:20:43,204
card,

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00:20:44,065 --> 00:20:45,605
the illustrator sold for

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$60,492,000

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00:20:49,299 --> 00:20:51,380
a new Guinness World Record for the most

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expensive trading card ever sold at auction.

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They live shoot it they live shoot the

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event, and they saw about 97 bids with

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the price sitting at $6,800,000

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before a flurry

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00:21:02,820 --> 00:21:05,285
of last minute bids during an extended bidding

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00:21:05,285 --> 00:21:07,224
period drove it to the final number.

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The buyer was venture capitalist,

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Adri

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Scaramucci,

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son of the former White House Communications

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Director, Anthony Scaramucci.

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He got the card placed on his neck

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00:21:19,390 --> 00:21:21,069
on a $75,000

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00:21:21,069 --> 00:21:21,890
diamond necklace,

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00:21:22,429 --> 00:21:24,509
and Paul's $5,200,000

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00:21:24,509 --> 00:21:27,650
investment turned into a $16,500,000

575
00:21:28,589 --> 00:21:31,009
Wow. That's pretty much like a roughly,

576
00:21:31,474 --> 00:21:33,734
you know, about, like, a three times return

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00:21:33,795 --> 00:21:35,414
in his past in the five years.

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00:21:36,275 --> 00:21:37,494
Insane. Insane.

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Now

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00:21:38,835 --> 00:21:40,355
if you love him or hate him, doesn't

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00:21:40,355 --> 00:21:42,755
matter. Logan Paul just turned a trading card

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00:21:42,755 --> 00:21:44,275
into $60,500,000

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00:21:44,275 --> 00:21:45,980
asset. That's a, like I said, a three

584
00:21:45,980 --> 00:21:47,579
times return in the past five year in

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00:21:47,579 --> 00:21:50,059
in five years. And that beats most stock

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00:21:50,059 --> 00:21:50,960
market performance.

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This is the bigger trend, Pokemon cards, sports

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00:21:54,059 --> 00:21:57,279
card, comic books, becoming a serious alternative investments.

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But, you know, don't rush out to buy

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00:21:59,259 --> 00:22:01,095
cards guys, thinking, yo, you know, you're gonna

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00:22:01,095 --> 00:22:03,174
strike gold. This is the rarest of the

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rare, one of 39 ever made. And it's

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00:22:05,414 --> 00:22:07,755
also telling who bought it, a venture capitalist.

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00:22:08,375 --> 00:22:11,355
And the cap the collectibles market is increasingly

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driven by wealthy investors treating these things like

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00:22:13,974 --> 00:22:16,569
fine art and, you know, not by fans

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00:22:16,569 --> 00:22:18,730
who grew up playing these games. This was

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00:22:18,730 --> 00:22:21,069
a big problem too. Right? Logan Paul.

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00:22:22,089 --> 00:22:23,929
Yeah. I guess he he is a collector.

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He says it all the time.

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He

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he's one of those people that

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kinda

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increases the price on these things, makes it

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00:22:33,355 --> 00:22:35,515
more difficult for, like, things like One Piece.

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00:22:35,515 --> 00:22:37,934
Because in a YouTube video, he literally

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showed him, like, buying cases of One Piece.

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And that just brought more people to the

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market. People see someone like him switching to

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One Piece even though he's not really a

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00:22:47,769 --> 00:22:51,210
fan. He literally butchered the first, the main

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00:22:51,210 --> 00:22:53,130
character's name like crazy. And it's like

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00:22:54,315 --> 00:22:56,234
it just tells you, like, there's a lot

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of people that

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00:22:57,355 --> 00:23:00,234
are just collecting to invest, and it kinda

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ruins for the fans that, like, you know,

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00:23:02,315 --> 00:23:03,994
play the games or watch the show or

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00:23:03,994 --> 00:23:06,075
read the manga. Right? It and it makes

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it difficult. So,

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00:23:08,394 --> 00:23:09,454
like I said, though,

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there are, like, roller coaster

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00:23:12,230 --> 00:23:14,309
emotions of these, like, in when it comes

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00:23:14,309 --> 00:23:16,789
to these hobbies. Right? So what goes up

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00:23:16,789 --> 00:23:17,750
is as much you're gonna have to come

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00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:19,450
down. And right now it's going down, thankfully.

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But

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I will say

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00:23:22,549 --> 00:23:24,650
it is pretty ridiculous right now for,

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for what the market is at. So,

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you know, yeah.

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I guess, to finish off with some discussion

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questions.

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00:23:35,605 --> 00:23:36,424
Now if

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00:23:36,804 --> 00:23:39,285
you've got 10,000,000 ring doorbells out already out

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00:23:39,285 --> 00:23:39,785
there,

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00:23:40,109 --> 00:23:42,029
is there any way to build AI features

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00:23:42,029 --> 00:23:44,769
like search party without also building surveillance infrastructure?

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Or is that just a trade off? Okay.

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One question for you guys. I got three

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questions for you guys. Now number two, ads

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in your AI. Anthropic says paid to use

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to a ad free. Open AI

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00:23:55,644 --> 00:23:56,865
may go ad supported.

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00:23:57,404 --> 00:23:59,565
Which model wins guys? Is this going to

645
00:23:59,565 --> 00:24:02,045
be the cable TVs versus streaming debate all

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00:24:02,045 --> 00:24:02,704
over again?

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00:24:03,005 --> 00:24:03,904
Let us know.

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00:24:04,269 --> 00:24:05,009
And then

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AI's hidden tax. Now AI is making chatbots

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smarter, but RAM more expensive,

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00:24:11,309 --> 00:24:11,809
super

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00:24:12,190 --> 00:24:15,089
ads pricier, and temp tech companies richer.

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00:24:15,789 --> 00:24:18,529
Is the AI boom actually helping regular folks

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00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:21,295
or mostly helping the companies building it?

655
00:24:21,595 --> 00:24:22,335
Right. So

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00:24:22,795 --> 00:24:24,235
some questions for, to have to show up

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00:24:24,235 --> 00:24:25,914
for you guys, something to,

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00:24:26,315 --> 00:24:27,134
think about,

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but that's pretty much gonna do it for

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00:24:29,674 --> 00:24:32,575
this episode eighteen fifty eight. You know, thanks

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00:24:32,634 --> 00:24:34,839
you so much for hanging out with me

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00:24:34,839 --> 00:24:37,899
today. I apologize for my nasal congestion.

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Next time, I'll be clear. No more sniffles

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and be able to, you know, pronounce the

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things I wanna say correctly

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and not stutter as much.

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But yeah.

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Real quick, though.

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For all you GNC insiders at geeknewscentral.com//insider

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and everything we do lives at geeknewscentral.com,

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which looks phenomenal, by the way. If you

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guys haven't looked at it yet, geeknewscentral.com,

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Ray doesn't give himself enough credit, but the

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website looks phenomenal.

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I know a lot of you guys might

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have been used to seeing the website a

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certain way, but Ray kinda took it to

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the next level, you know, reimagined it, and

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I think it looks great. Let us know

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00:25:22,414 --> 00:25:23,934
what you guys think. I I I think

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it looks pretty sick if you ask me.

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Now I'm Chris Cochran, guys, and,

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the next episode should be Ray. So you

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guys should have a good time. And, yeah,

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I will see you guys next time. Have

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a good one. See you. Bye.