The WAN Show - Apple WRECKS Google & Facebook - The WAN Show Feb 1 2019

Episode Date: February 4, 2019

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Heck yeah! We're live! So, you got a haircut. I did. And I heard a little story about how that whole experience went down that I thought was pretty funny and I think I'm gonna share with the many thousands of people who watch this show. How did it go down? Is it true that you basically brought a picture of Chris Evans to the barber and said like this? Yeah.

You didn't know that was a thing? of Chris Evans to the barber and said like this. Yeah. You didn't know that was a thing? No, I mean, I do know that's a thing. I just, I have a hard time picturing, you know, you being as like the guy who's like, this is the celebrity that I want my hair to look most like. Or sorry, was it Chris Evans? It was, I'm pretty sure that's his name.

It's Captain America. Yeah, okay. So I watched... So happy right now. Oh, I have sound on. I watched Captain America Winter Soldier. Yeah. And I was like, that man has got it going on. I want my hair to look like that.

And I went to the hairdresser, and we had a little bit of a language barrier. Sure. So I was trying to describe his hair, and it wasn't working. And then after a bit, I was just like, just give me one moment. And I picked up my phone, and I was like, just give me. And she's like, OK. And I just looked up Captain America Winter Soldier and was like, this. And she was like, OK.

And it didn't end up really looking like that. I was not going to say anything. Yeah, no, not at all. But, like, I was like, okay, that actually looks pretty all right, though. And then I had my own thing. Okay, okay. You know what? That's fine.

That's great. So, okay, you've got to tell me how premeditated was this? Like, have you been growing into like scraggly man over the last little bit? Because the intention was to start with a, a larger Brit block of clay from which to sculpt Captain America. Like, was that the plan? So, okay. You don't really know the story. Here, cause I'm going to, I'm going to get even, I'm going to get even more personal here, because you also put on a bunch of weight. Yes. Was that the same plan?

So you could sell Captain America from... Yeah, that's absolutely... So is there some truth to... Okay, look. He actually is far more serious about working out than I am, and the weight that he had on, now this is not necessarily true of like three years ago, but the weight that he had on like six to 12 months ago,

I can make fun of him about because it was intentional. So you were going for full beefcake. Is much, so is it easier to build big muscles by building just a bunch of weight first and then converting it? Well, do i understand this correctly you do them both so you eat an excess while working out a ton and you build a lot of muscle during that time okay and then you cut down the fat and probably a little bit of

muscle but you try to retain as much muscle as you can got it see you don't you don't then reverse it to turn it into yeah you you build up the muscle at the same time got it that's why remember i was doing those like crazy leg press yes yes yeah yeah that was when i was at my heaviest weight okay so so so back to the premeditation of the chris evans haircut okay so you don't know the actual story then because the chris evans haircut was like 2014 okay this one was not a chris i brought my own picture i showed her a picture of me. You brought your own picture of your previous Chris Evans haircut? Yeah.

Okay, well, I think I found your problem. Why would you do that? No, I mean, I think it looks fine right now. Oh, yeah, it looks fine. Yeah. It just doesn't look like Captain America. No, but I gave up on that. I don't mind.

I don't care about that anymore. Okay. I just wanted what I had before. This whole idea was I'm not on camera as much anymore. Right. So I was like, I'm finally going to do something I've wanted to do for a while. Okay. Which was I wanted to get Viking beard, Viking hair.

Oh, so more Chris Hemsworth. I guess. That's Thor. Yeah. We're going to bring everything back to Marvel characters. To Chris. Yeah. To Chris and Marvel characters. Marvel characters named Chris in real life. Yeah. We're going to bring everything back to Marvel characters. To Chris. Yeah. To Chris and Marvel characters. Marvel characters named Chris in real life.

Yeah. Yeah. So I guess that was more the idea. And then. Sure. As of now-ish, I'm like, nah. It's not working. Okay.

So this is probably going to go away too. Really? Probably. You're going to ditch the beard? You're not going to go like Keto Stache, are you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It would like trimming back down to what it was more like when I had hair more like this. Got it.

Okay. So like the stubble kind of style. Got it. Got it. Okay. All right. So. Like you've had five o'clock shadows for three days kind of stuff.

I mean, the thing with you is like you don't really need to make your chin line like stronger. Like it's, how do I say this tactfully? When Colton shaves his beard. Whoa! How do I say this tactfully? Name! It's not that, okay, it's not that it makes it look like he has a weak chin.

It's just that his beard makes his jawline and chin look stronger. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think mine almost does the opposite effect because the hair is like round around it. Yeah. And they curl around. Yeah. So my biggest problem has been that it likes to go in. Yeah. So it's not coming down yeah neckbeard man yeah that's that's the haircut even if i shave all the way up well actually that's neckbeard man thing it's like a superhero called neckbeard man thing there's the fedora guy there's like fedora guy meme oh that guy yeah i know yeah uh which one that one yeah that's a that's a famous like meme picture okay so is that one but this one's like yeah but these are just this is neckbeard guys are just

like men with neckbeard these are not like neckbeard man to the rescue you know um which i think i think could could be very it could be done. Yeah, I mean, um, so we actually in the book you're writing I just okay. I actually I wrote a few things really I did I did I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bring them up on screen. Okay, but I think I Can I help you Brandon? Okay. Are we beautiful? Yeah, how's your back? Okay, that's good So I actually haven't decided whether or not to include any of this but I did write a few things down I have I have A thought for my forward. Okay, okay

If I was a total sellout I'd have structured this book as an inspirational story about how Anyone can do it if they try hard enough and a collection of tips to help you achieve what I've achieved yeah but then if I wasn't what did I say but then if I wasn't interested in making money I wouldn't bother writing a book at all it's a pretty transparent cash grab from my perspective so this is the level of honesty that that we're going for here. I like it. I don't know if I'll include that, but I think it's pretty funny.

Those two points actually were not related. They just ended up in the same paragraph for no reason. That's why they don't really flow very well. Look, look, we're talking like a couple of words on a page. We're not talking like even like draft stages right now yeah but i guess what i would want it to be is something honest um i wouldn't want it to be like yeah you know disney princess story you know anyone can anyone can make it because the cold hard truth if i'm being honest with everyone, including myself, is that in the current climate, I don't know if I would have made it. And clearly I had the stuff to make

it if the time was exactly right and the circumstances were exactly right. I firmly believe that any amount of success is some proportion, and I couldn't tell you exactly what it is, but some proportion skill and another very important proportion luck, right place, right time. But, like, effectively everything in life is that. Yes, of course. I mean, with luck any worse, I could have been hit by a bus when I was six. Right. Like, you never know. Yeah.

You know, that dent in my head could have gone all the way through and killed me you know that and there's crazy stuff like that the whole way through I think for me I don't know if this is true for the audience you could have died a lot of times oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah I've been hit by cars multiple times yeah like actually yeah like yeah like like was it your first wan show when you were like in a sling from getting hit by a car yes yeah that was a thing yeah um what was i gonna say i it's for me i think it would be genuinely a lot more interesting to hear about the hardships right i even i probably know about a fair amount of them but like i feel like as a reader if they care they're gonna be more interested in that I think I feel like writing a self-help book like I'm 100% certain you could and I

think you'd be great but I don't think it's the best thing you could do I also think I could become like a televangelist I think I'd be excellent I'm sure you could that doesn't mean that I think those people should have the Jets that they fly yeah or that I think those people should have the jets that they fly. Yeah. Or that I think that there's any moral ground to stand on for, and I'm not going to say all of them because maybe there's an exceptional one. Yeah, sure.

But, you know, the entire, and I'm not getting into my religious views here because it actually doesn't matter. I could be Buddhist, atheist, Christian, like it actually just really doesn't matter. I have enough knowledge of Christianity, I will say that much, to know that the whole plant a seed of money in hopes that it will come back to you thing is nothing but horse shit. is nothing but horse shit. And it was never endorsed by any figure in, like, you can go looking hard enough in the Bible and you can find validation for pretty much anything. It's like, oh, here's these four words

taken entirely out of context that appear to back up the argument I'm trying to make. Yeah, that's a bad scene. It's a bad thing to do. But I forget where we were going with this. Oh, yeah, I could write a self-help book, and it would probably be good. But I'm a bit of a cynic, and I take kind of a cynical approach to self-help books. I think that the most helpful thing you can do for yourself is go out and start helping yourself.

Then again, there's a lot of people that have said, you know, I read seven habits for highly effective people, or I read how to make friends and influence people. I read this, I read that. I haven't read any of them, so I can't endorse specifically endorse any of them. But, um, an interesting observation. They've said it changed your life. Yeah. Yeah. An interesting observation I've had about those things.

Sometimes you'll hear something a million times from your, your parents or your friends or your partner or something, and you brush it off and then you read it on some random book by someone who you're supposed to listen to, and you're like, oh my goodness, it's so profound. And it's the same damn thing you've heard three million times, like actually show up to work and stuff like that. Which is like, hey, which seems to be a problem

in some cases, don't buy that crazy expensive car when you shouldn't. And then you read a self-help finance book and it's like, hey, don't buy that crazy expensive car when you shouldn't. And then you read a self-help finance book and it's like, hey, don't buy that super expensive car. And you're like, whoa, I never thought about that. Like, I don't know. So sometimes people might just need that little extra kick, but who knows.

So those are all, only you have those. Did this turn off? Are we dead? Are we down? Oh, no, we're up on you. Oh, wait, we're back. Okay, I don't know what just happened there. Okay, anyway.

What are we even talking about today? There's some weird news. It's not amazing news. Oh, right, we're hiring. Yeah. Everyone is hiring. We are actually hiring a total of somewhere between six and

more positions. It's like almost every department at both companies. Yeah, so there's going to be a dedicated video over on the Linus Tech Tips channel because this is a pretty big wave, but we're hiring between one and two writers. We're hiring a grip. We're hiring two

shooters slash editors. That's the LMG side. You're hiring... An infrastructure DevOps person who specializes more on the development side, like building automation tools for the infrastructure team, and a generalized JavaScript developer. And then in addition to that, and actually Wancho is a perfect place to discuss this,

LMG is in a really unusual, sort of new and exciting position where we have an opportunity right now to invest in something totally new and different. Where if someone were to come to me, like some podunk channel with 62 subscribers or whatever else, where they have what they think is a really amazing concept, but like I was alluding to before, in the current climate, for whatever reason, they are finding it challenging to break out because it's so hard to break out on YouTube. You gotta convince the audience, you gotta convince other creators,

like if you wanna collab to try to grow faster, you've gotta convince the algorithm, the almighty algorithm. Oh, gee. Praise the algorithm. Oh, no, no. You know, you've gotta do all these things, and so if someone felt like they're really onto something, we would be wait for the we're hiring video. Don't just like start messaging me on Twitter. Um, but we would

be quite interested in hearing from you and trying something totally different because as you might imagine, there's a lot of people in this building that have passions that extend beyond technology. You know, James was trying to pitch me doing a documentary. You know, Brandon has wanted to do more shorts and even a feature at some point since before I hired him. He also wants to do more commercial work. Just trying to think of like individual people who have like particular things they want to work on. Like, you know, I've wanted to do like a really good toy channel since, well, before Channel Superfun.

And Channel Superfun morphed into not a toy channel, but, you know, maybe there's the potential to bring back that original concept and turn it into something new. So, you know, Colton is actively pursuing, actually right now, more of like an agency role for Linus Media Group where we will take on, in fact, one of our clients is sitting right here.

So where we'll take on smaller influencers and broker deals for them with larger brands. And we actually did something with Luke, who as you guys know, doesn't work for Linus Media Group anymore, where he went to PAX East, was it? TwitchCon? Something.

Whatever. I should probably know this. Where was I? I think it was TwitchCon. What was I doing there? I think it was TwitchCon. Yeah, yeah. So that's something that we're exploring.

So we're at sort of this bizarre point where I find myself for the first time since starting this company kind of paralyzed, like paralyzed by choices. Because we can do anything, but not everything. So we have to make the right choice because we're still a small company in that we can't just go like, oh, let's start 20 new YouTube channels and let's- Which never really works out anyways. Let's start building, you know, six different, you know, physical products

and see which ones come to fruition. Like, that's not really our jam. We're more about sort of doing a few things and doing them as well as we possibly can. Yeah. I mean, LTX is another thing that's sort of like going crazy right now. And, oh, by the way, we ran the numbers.

You know that stupid spitball number that I threw out last week, quarter million dollars? It actually is like really close. Oh wow. Yeah, that's about how much it's gonna cost us. Now, the good news is we ran other numbers and if everything goes absolutely perfectly, there is a chance we'll break even.

Okay. So that's neat. And if everything goes absolutely perfectly, there is a chance we'll break even. Okay. So that's neat. That was exciting. So I suspect there will be some additional costs and we'll just be like a little bit below instead of a lot below. Yeah, which honestly is like the perfect place to be for me. Like we throw a great big party for all of our supporters and have a bunch of fun. And, you know, like Corsair pays for it you know like that that kind of thing um to be clear we actually don't know for sure of course i was coming i was supposed to have a blog post for you guys this week that

was going to be uh brands that have either expressed interest or like are pretty much coming for sure, but we don't want to lock any of that down quite yet. Uh, one thing I can tell you guys is very soon I will have an update for you on when ticket sales are going live. It looks like we've worked out most of the wrinkles with, uh, how we're splitting revenue with dream hack. So like it's going to be exciting.

That's really good. You know, what's interesting. So like, it's gonna be exciting. That's good, that's really good. You know what's interesting? Have you noticed how challenging your hairdo is for online video compression to handle? Whoa.

So let's go 1080p on YouTube over here. And especially when you look down, you can see it doesn't actually look that great. And then over on Flowplane. Hey, that actually looks really sharp. It actually looks a lot better, doesn't actually look that great. And then over on Flowplane. Hey, that actually looks really sharp. It actually looks a lot better, doesn't it? Pretty cool, huh? Damn.

All right. That's cool. Flowplane looks great. Also, everyone that was subscribed on the 31st got their two free months. That was expensive. But it's done. So that's cool. How much did that cost us?

Oh, yeah. I guess if we say that number, then people will know how many people are subscribed to Floatplane? People will know how many people are subscribed on the new site. Which is everything now. Yeah. Which is a lot lower. We lost some people in the transition, which is not surprising. We knew that was going to happen.

Yeah, yeah. It's actually not as much lower as I thought it might have been. but it also wasn't like as great retention as i had hoped for so we're kind of like in the middle you know what i think it's okay because um the thing we still haven't done and it's crazy to think about it linus media group still hasn't done a dedicated video driving people to subscribe to Floatplane. That has never happened. So I think once we're ready to rock... Are we ever going to do a Scrapyard Wars again?

I don't know. Secret Shopper was kind of like... Yeah. It felt like it. I got that sort of like vague vibe. Serialized. We're kind of like exploring vibe. Serialize. We're kind of like exploring something.

There's some tension. There's like... More or less a team. More or less judgment. If the right deal came along where we could do Scrapyard Wars in a way that was really different from before. The problem is I think just shopping for used computer hardware in Langley

I feel like is kind of played out for me like i don't know what i would do that differently like we've kind of yeah i know i know the stuff we joked about in the early seasons like oh what if i bought stuff and flipped it for a profit and put that towards my budget like that's become a norm we just like all started doing it yeah and um and we've been to all like the the weird haunts like i don't think there's going to be that many yeah like i'm not going to find another crack pipe in a computer and if i did it would be like been there done that yeah um whereas if if like a big sponsor came along yeah there's ideas we want to fund scrapyard Euro Tour. And we do like a crazy challenge.

Like we're over there for two weeks and you have to build an entire computer buying a different component and buying only one component per country or something just utterly stupid like that. Where this is like, this is a season of a show. Yeah. You know, and forget two weeks. like we're over there for six weeks or something like that and we've got celebrity

Entrance and we've got like we've like one thing I wanted to do Maybe one thing I've wanted to do is where neither you nor me compete and we commentate but we like commentate live it would either be great or horrible and i don't know which one and we'd have invested a week of everyone's time in it by the time we'd find out probably more because we'd probably have to edit the damn thing before we'd find out. So that's really tough. That's a tough pill for me to swallow because when we have a situation like that, we can't ask an outside party to fund it.

I have to fund it because I don't know if it's going to work. One of the ideas that I had for that was, and I'm not saying this is better, big warning, is that it wasn't even really a VOD thing. We could maybe chop it up and make them into VODs, but the idea would be we confiscate devices. So you'd want actually many, many hours of watchable content. Livestream.

Live. And we have people with mobile livestreaming rigs, which I've been doing a lot of research on and are, like, not that hard to build. Like, actually really good ones. Yeah, I built a terrible one once. That was cool. But you can build, like, actually very good ones.

Have enough of your attitude. And it would be fine. Dirt. And you could, like, we could have cameras following them throughout the whole day, and then just make sure that they're not allowed watching each other's streams. They can't go on to whatever,

so they can't see what the other team well everyone would see you stream peaking yeah on stream yeah so like it's you know unless you're in like the bathroom or something yeah it's like okay you'd have to have rules around bathrooms like look you got three minutes okay like confiscate people's phones get in there and get out yeah take their phones yeah just hey mute your mic all right yeah yeah i don't know it could be it could but then again the same problem it might be eight hours of just like boring trash which is like honestly has been the problem with episode one of almost every season yeah with it cut down yeah so like genuinely eight hours of people being like man i'm just really not finding anything on craigslist like it could be like really really bad what's with all these old

imacs yeah does everyone in california just use the imac exactly so i don't know i i don't really know how to solve the problem i was just thinking with like that would be a nice every time we do scrapyard wars float plane goes whoop yeah i know every time um with that said um it looks like the virtual ticket which i was asked not to talk about uh well it's too late now we're live uh the virtual ticket at ltx is probably going to have a strong float plane tie-in oh cool yeah so i would expect us to have some fairly compelling content i would expect us to work together i haven't talked to you about this yet but i'd expect us to work together on a system where not just linus media group but other creators who are

also present at the show and also on the float plane platform could also get a nice little subscriber boost if people felt like supporting them for virtual ticket instead of lmg um which of course we'd be totally cool with because the way that uh i mean so a float plane is actually legally a completely separate entity and b um linus media group and ltx i would actually like for them to one day be not separate but capable of operating independently yeah ltx yeah that makes sense it's kind of like the penny arcade and pax situation like there's obvious associations between that to be clear i have no intention of not showing up anymore yeah yeah except for during backstreet boys except for during back i am gonna go to that concert and that's just gonna have to be but but like i want it that way there's a

there's a ton there's a ton of people that go to pax including myself that i mean no offense to gabe and taiko but like the only reason why i know their names is because i've been going for so long yeah i never went because of them. I went because their show is really cool and they did a great job with PAX. And I could see that becoming the future of LTEX as well. Kopi asks, how long does it take to get a reply from the floatplane support team? It's pretty fast. Pretty fast, but like we've been a little bit behind, but like pretty fast.

I do know that as of last night, they zeroed out. There was no tickets. So it should be pretty fast. I do know that as of last night, they zeroed out. There was no tickets. So it should be pretty quick. Vic asks if the price of float plane will increase when it's announced on the YouTube channel. Absolutely. It will probably increase before that. Or you know what?

Maybe, I don't know. You know what? We'll have to see. We'll decide. Sure. We'll decide what makes sense. Boo Boo asks, why are we paying USD when we're Canadian?

It's a great question. It's because like it or not, the US dollar is kind of the currency of the world. It's also way more stable in general. And a lot of our bills, a lot of Floatplane's bills are in USD. Also, having one singular currency is much easier when you're a smaller team. Honestly, the biggest reason is that nobody knows what the hell a Canadian dollar is. So if we say, hey hey it's five canadian dollars people are like is that a lot if i can extrapolate his question i think he's asking to pay in localized currencies oh i see which like could be a thing eventually but it's actually a lot of work give us time a lot of work on multiple ends and yeah um

alright why don't we uh oh wow I was gonna say we should do some topics but then we have to do sponsor spots because we have to go right at 6 today because we are going to wait do people know I don't know are we allowed to say? I don't know

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Should we do should we do any news? Oh, hold on, I'm about to find out. Oh, nope, he would prefer if we did not, especially on WAN Show. All right. So we are going to a party, but we can't say why. Yeah. Or what it's for, or why it's really exciting.

I'm really sorry, you guys. I'm sorry I brought it up in the first place. This particular person on staff is quite private. Actually, they were the one that showed me the whole flag thing with Will Whedon. Do you know about this? You see this? You heard about this? So Will Whedon put up a flag.

I forget what the flag was. Was it an American flag? I don't know. It was some kind of flag. And it was basically like a silent... That was a Wil Wheaton. Oh, no, sorry. The other guy, the dude guy.

Shia LaBeouf. Shia LaBeouf, whatever. They both look the same to me. Yeah, I know this whole story. It's great. Go keep going, because they should know. Yeah, okay. So anyway, Shia LaBeouf puts up...

Sorry, not Wil Wheaton. I was so confused. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. They're both just like living internet memes. Yeah, I understand understand to be fair like that's i think that's why i figured out who it was so quickly so shia labeouf put up this flag that was like some kind of trump protest or something we will stand together or something

anyway um and then it was live streamed so it had a camera pointed at it and it was supposed to be impossible to find because it was just a flag in a field and you couldn't really see anything other than the sky behind it he will not divide us sure um yeah yeah that's right uh thank you and then basically 4chan put their collective heads together um and managed to determine from the paths of aircraft flying behind it because it was a live stream, where exactly it was and find it and replace it with, what did they replace it with? I thought it was a Pepe flag. I don't know. Pepe flag or something like that?

I don't know, whatever. The point is, this particular member of our staff who- They definitely stole it. Yeah, they definitely stole the flag. I don't know, yeah. Drew my attention to this and basically said, this is why you know, I

won't post any pictures on the internet, even of like my wall. Because given enough time and enough people... Don't you remember the old studio? Which old studio? The house? Yeah, yeah. When the person recognized what house it was based on the floor.

Yeah, because, wait, based on the floor? Wasn't it the floor? Oh, I don't remember. I might not remember this story properly. So we did have, within days of us moving into our old studio, the house, someone had looked up real estate listings for houses that were recently sold in that area. The detective work involved in this one honestly isn't even that deep. Yeah.

Because they were able to look. And then out of, actually, I think there were several houses with the same floor plan because it's one of those really samey subdivisions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They managed to determine which exact one it was. And I think they left something on the doorstep or something. So so needless to say that was pretty creepy for us at the time um and actually was part of the reason why i just gave up and that's why our address for this studio is on our website minusmediagroup.com as public as possible on google because on like really ever since we did that

all the intrigue all the excitement around yeah yeah. Yeah, where do they film? It's just dead I've had people ask like where do I send fan mail? I've had random people with just how do I ship you stuff? I'm like, I just google it Literally super easy. No problem. It's right there Don't worry about me sending you the answer because you can look it up at any time on Google Maps Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not advocating this solution for every creator i mean there's not a good idea for every uh gavin from slow-mo guys had a gunman show up at his house well so did uh uh uh dr disrespect really two drive-bys on his house bullets through the

building when did that happen this was fairly recently wow yeah like people suck so like maybe not the greatest um the good news for us is we make relatively uncontroversial content. Yeah. Hey, you like that computer stuff? Yeah. Me too. Yeah. Sweet.

What did Dr. Disrespect ever do to anyone? Probably disrespected them. Probably disrespected them. Yeah, you better applaud yourself because... I'm not getting it from anybody else. No. A little pat myself on the back. You're most, most certainly not. Oh, man.

That was great. Nerdcubed apparently got a crazy fan show up outside their apartment door because they accidentally showed the floor outside of his apartment um yeah yeah it's a thing people suck but like if you if you remove some of the the the mystique and the potential intrigue. It has worked great for us for the last three and a half years. Yeah, knock, knock. Yeah, and it's been good.

I think overall, actually, our community is sort of a cut above some of the other ones, though. And I don't say that to try to kiss ass or whatever else. It's not about that. It's just if you go into our comments section and yeah Go to any other video on the internet and go to the comment section like even on YouTube Which is I an utter cesspool YouTube comment section. It's it's it's horrendous Ours is for the most part really respectful Generally, yeah, it's still not like obviously it's not perfect any any better yeah and i didn't want to shill too hard but it is um but like and any open public forum yeah is going to have some garbo some disagreement yeah yeah

like it's it's gonna happen whatever but it's not bad yeah um speaking of bad uh facetime's bug this was originally posted on 9to5Mac, or at least our article that we got the source from is here. Oh, from the forum. Posted by Suits on the forum, and their article that they're referencing is 9to5Mac.com. A bug discovered this week lets you call anyone with FaceTime and immediately hear the audio coming from their phone

before the person on the other end has accepted the incoming call. It's not technically immediate. You add person to create a group call, and then you add your own number. So it's like it takes a little step, but if they're not by their phone, you're going to get it. Oh. We're still here.

Did someone just turn off the lights? Oh, wait. Oh, I think it's fine. No, no, that was his light. It's just it was bright like look we still look fine And that one Okay, and this one Cool. Yeah, Brandon just hit the like the CASA scene everything off and that one for some reason the blue ones on a CASA Module, but the red ones not so I'm not sure what the deal is there exactly That's fine. Anyway, Apple has temporarily disabled group FaceTime

calls, giving themselves time to fix the bug without breaking other things, and the bug was found by a 14-year-old. He and his mother tried to report it for days before Apple responded, going as far as registering as developers in the bug bounty program. Apple has apologized for the bug and says a fix is coming in the next week. Have they committed to, to like give a bunch of money to this kid yet they should they

probably should yeah um in other news this was posted by rc mihal on the forum there was a big data breach actually a bunch of big data breaches massive um so we had collection one what was this like last week or something like that i Very recently, I don't remember exactly. I don't remember. Big data breach. Now we've got collections two through five or something like that. The biggest one is collection two at 526 gigs of text

and the price for lifetime access to it is just $45. The hacker has access to some four terabytes of password packages, which are less than a year old. So if you want to know if you've been pwned, check haveibeenpwned.com. Probably have. You've probably been pwned. I'm sure I've been pwned.

I'm gonna find out if I've been pwned. Most of my emails have been pwned multiple times at this point, but not all of them. Da, da, da, da, da, da. Let's find out if my work email has been pwned. Pwned, question mark? Oh no, pwned. Pwned? Question mark? Oh, no. Pwned.

How many times? Five times. Five times. Boom. A couple of my, like, newer, fresher emails haven't been pwned yet. And it's like, oh, it's new and shiny. Oh, I'm sure. Let's find out if my personal email has been pwned.

Good news. No pwnage found. Crazy. I don't really use it for anything. Now, now, let's try my email that has been leaked multiple times, like on Linus Tech Tips. I'm even just going to say it. Thepeanutsgalleryathotmail.com, okay? Here, we're going to find out together if I have been pwned.

Let's just make sure there's nothing incriminating on the screen here oh wrong screen right um one second here hold on have i been there wasn't so it doesn't matter all right so uh this one this one's great because i've had it since i was like in high school yeah and it's funny because it's a pun. So it's Peanuts, which is that comic strip with the character Linus, and it's the peanut gallery, which was like the riffraff in Shakespearean times that like ate all the peanuts and left peanut shells all over the floor.

The standing only like the yahoos. Yeah. So I was like the peanuts gallery. Ha ha ha, aren't I funny? No one ever got it. Just, oh, it's awful. You know what mine was? It was awful. Ha ha ha aren't I funny? No one ever got it just oh Off, you know mine was it's awful. What was yours ladies boy 54? No at hotmail.com. No way

Ladies boy 54 I hadn't picked my actual favorite number yet. So it was like close because the 54 but my favorite number became 57 and One of my friends convinced why ladies boy one of my friends convinced me to do ladies man and i was like i'm not a man i'm not a man i can't be a man i can't put man in my email i'm not a man i actually missed my old email my first email address was moomoo underscore the underscore cow at hotmail.com. That's actually amazing. I have never actually had a short and sweet email address. Like, even back when you could get

short email addresses, I was like, nah, dog. No, I want to have my whole name or whatever. I refused to have numbers in any of my handles. Okay. That has kind of like always been my jam because like imagine if floatplane.com was like floatplane57.com.

This is stupid. That sucks. Yeah, it does. And like especially when your name is Linus Sebastian, there's not really an excuse. What was it? MooMooTheCow? MooMoo underscore the underscore cow at hotmail.com.

That's so good. And people will be like, why? Like, why not? The only really, the only account. Better than Snirty Stan, which was like my best friend's email at the time. Oh my god. I was like, what is Snirty Stan? Your name isn't even Stan.

The main accounts I would like to get back are not emails at this point. Really? I don't care about ladiesboy54. Do you have like a five-year-old Steam account or something? If someone gets that, like, that's weird, but whatever. No, I still have my old Steam account from forever ago. I want my RuneScape account from dial-up internet days. Oh.

Because apparently they're still around. I've tried. I can't get it. Really? If anyone from the RuneScape team is watching, Luke wants his RuneScape account back. I would love, I will give you all the information I possibly can. I would love to get that account back. Watch it show up on Have I Been Pwned. That would be so cool.

That's, yeah. Have I Been Pwned. That's not actually RuneScape dev. Did you ever play RuneScape? No. So when you're walking around, if people are talking to each other, you see speech bubbles above their heads. Yeah, yeah. And they'll like stand near each other and talk to each other.

It's fine. That was so early on in my gaming. And it was so early on in online gaming in general. Yeah. I would always think they were talking to me. So I would answer everybody that I walked by. I just want to see, like, what I had. Like, what was I doing?

You know what I mean? I feel like it would be a really interesting window into like what I was interested in that yeah What were my main skills like what was I working on? I just feel like it would be kind of cool, but it's my runescape account my neopets account for the same Hell yeah, dude. Neopets was sick. I like casino games all the time have I been pwned oh No, not only two That's actually surprisingly low. Wow. What about the public one for work?

The public one for work. Oh, wow. I was vague because I didn't... Okay, yeah. Ten breaches. Ten sites. Three steps to better security. One, don't be an idiot.

Two... Oh, jeez. That's awesome. Three steps to better security. One, don't be an idiot. Two. Oh, jeez. That's awesome. Speaking of awesome, that's it for the awesome WAN show for the day. We will see you guys again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Wait, thumbs up. Why am I doing that?

It's good. Well, it's bad that it's over, but it's good that it's good. Also the channels down there. Good that it's coming, no, no, that's the LTT. Oh, oh, oh, what do you think of this? I've seen, yeah. Have you seen this yet? No, I think it looks really sharp. Yeah, this is our latest hoodie design. Show the, do, do, do, do.

Really cool. Yeah, but like not too over the top. And like, if you're just like this, it's just like, you know, whatever. You know, like you don't. You won't fully even be able to read it. I really like the pocket logo. The only logo is right there. The back is just clean.

See? I like this. The lines on the back look sharp. Yeah. So that's been our whole thing over the last like 10 months is trying to make just way better merch. Yeah. Like a hundred times better merch. You guys have been succeeding. My favorite shirt is the

Constellation shirt. My favorite shirt that I own in general is the Constellation shirt. They're comfy. They're so comfy now. Yeah, I'm really happy. So guys, you can check out lttstore.com for dank merch. This isn't there yet. This is still many weeks away, unfortunately. Have you

seen Project Codename Batman? It's a different hoodie. No. It's a little more like biker jacket-y looking. Okay. Like it's a much more aggressive style. This one's more stealthy. It's going to be more expensive. It's going to be a really different material. We're calling it a swacket. Sweater jacket?

Yeah, it's kind of a sweater jacket. Oh, did I even show you the coolest feature of this thing? No. It's got a phone pocket! Phone pocket. That, unlike a lot of other phone pockets I've encountered, is actually impossible to accidentally get your phone out of. Okay, I was really scared when you started doing that.

Ah! I feel like a terrible infomercial man right now but that's actually pretty cool yeah yeah yeah i'm happy it does take it's kind of hard to put the phone in but if it's secure but that's the trade-off my i jumped over a like security barrier pole at bcit once when i was trying to run to class and my phone flopped out of my exactly side pocket like that in my sweater and smacked into the ground and exploded into a million pieces. Luckily, it was an S3, so I put it back together and it was fine. Got a second here.

Brian Lyons, you're done. Whoa. You're done. Okay. So then his comment here. Okay. All right. Mr. Lyons here.

Linus just named himself Linus after the Peanuts piano player. His real name is Rudolph Ransom. Alright. Schroeder plays the piano. Linus has the blanket. Get it right.

Oh. Super chats. Hey. Hey, I got you. Oh lordy, there's a bunch of them. Why is the WAN show archive playlist has videos starting from 2013 only? We don't really update it anymore because we're lazy. Sorry. Thank you for the 100 rubles. I have no idea how much that is.

Stupid idea for a video from Jake. Underclocking a high-end system to the point of barely stable. Why? For shiz and giggles. That's basically every video. Oh, underclocking. Oh, so I actually was going to do an underclocking video on NCIX Tech Tips,

like way back in the day. You might have been around for that. And we didn't do it because they're like, it wasn't great. Arthur says, why was Luke getting fat? Did he get married? Nope. Joey, hey, Linus and Luke, love the show. When are we going to see the next video about the mineral oil PC?

Actually, it won't be mineral oil. This is cool. There's a new competitor to 4M. Are you doing it? A new competitor to 3M solution that's much cheaper. Oh, I know. And so we want to do something custom. That's really cool.

So we've got the CNC. We've got like actual, like we're working on an actual workshop next door. Yeah. It'll take some time. That's legit. Stay tuned. Okay, that's really cool.

GamerLive Presents says, finally I'm able to watch live. Been watching you for years. Thank you. You're welcome. And thank you. Vendetta says, please no more unboxing.

Oh, it'll probably happen. Black Haku says, seriously watching the Wancho on an 82 inch screen and thank you uh vendetta says please no more unboxing oh it'll probably happen uh black hawk who says seriously watching the wancho on an 82 inch screen from an eight foot bean bag with my plus one because ltt is fun no bs entertainment goofy as hell yeah it's sure not tech news anymore no um i even acknowledged that on a recent episode of tech length i was like yeah because like the wancho is just an hour of BS now. How many news topics did we do? I was only just trying to be nice to James. We flew through, I think, two of them at the very end.

We didn't actually cover the one that's in the title. Did we not? No. What was the one in the title? It's the most interesting one. Oh, crap. Apple disabled Google. Apple slaps Facebook and Google

their internal apps they disabled them because they were using them to collect data that they're not supposed to per Apple's terms and conditions and user agreement and then Facebook and Google said yep oops our bad and then Apple re-enabled them and they're gonna fix them good I think it's

really good yeah honestly the more of these news articles that come out the more likely the next phone i get is going to be an apple which is weird really yeah i'm not even kidding security reasons i do so much work stuff on my phone and like they're generally better for security reasons so uh joe rissioni says thank you thank you too um scrapyard wars odd job funding from odd jobs yard keeping etc we have literally made that video rwx lone wolf i think it's called uh laptop bust yeah i don't know that was the internal, I don't know if we ended up calling it that. I'm going to look it up. Wes Wes says,

where can I send a longer message concerning LTT's possible first-person view RC element? Also, I work at a hobby shop. LinusTechTips at gmail.com. We have had a few people reach out to help us with that already, though, so I'm not sure what the deal is. Hector says,

Hector from Sewell, our sponsor, sent another $10. to help us with that already though so i'm not sure what the deal is uh hector says hector from sewell our sponsors sent another ten dollars you are you all you already paid for the show for some reason the amazon code has not updated should be ready by the time the show ends for sure works on the sewell direct site oh okay well that's good to know okay um marcus says have you ever been propositioned by someone due to being an online personality? Yeah. Really? I haven't Oh. Ouch Maybe they're being courteous

You know what I think that's enough They knew you were married. They knew you were married. They're just being nice. Oh no. Oh heavens! Oh boy