The WAN Show - That Time my Channel Almost Got ACQUIRED - WAN Show February 26, 2021

Episode Date: March 1, 2021

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Okay, so I walk up to Madison's desk today, and she's working on just like the weirdest Okay, so there's like, there's like someone filming something through a window, and then she's filming them and like someone else is filming something. And she explains it to me and I go, someone else is filming something and she explains it to me and i go okay weird champ and she's like are you talking my language now i'm like see i'm learning old dog new trick welcome to the wanshow ladies and gentlemen we've got a fantastic show for you guys today we're going to be talking about Apple's M1 Macs now vulnerable to at least one virus that has native code designed to run on them. That's a little oops. Also, the RTX 3060 launch in a massive shock to absolutely no one has been completely destroyed by

No one has been completely destroyed by minors and opportunistic scalpers. What else we got on the docket today, Mr. Lafreniere? Someone tried to acquire Linus Media Group in the past. They did. Right here when Linus Media Group was really just starting to boil. It was just Linus. There wasn't really much of a media group. I mean, Luke was there.

Luke was there. And you were there. And you were there. And you were there. Why are you in my dreams? This is weird. At that time, you were the only one on camera, I think, though, right? I believe so.

Yeah. This was pretty early on. I can't believe we've never talked about this. And what else we got also uh you know what i don't actually want to talk about that one uh biden wants a 5950x yeah yeah that's not really what that means anyways executive order signed to review the semiconductor supply chain because yeah wow there's been a lot of issues because that's how that works all right let's go ahead and roll that intro yeah hey you want to know something exciting yeah the intro animation we are finally getting a new one really yeah ed was like uh so do you guys want like a

redesigned intro animation and i was like no i just want some new backgrounds for the old one and he's like oh okay well that can be arranged so you know how there was you know how there were two before and we've only used the Pyramid. Oh no, there was the Pyramid one. That's the old one. And then we've only used the Swamp one since then. So we're going to get some new ones. So I'm really excited about that.

Why don't we jump right... Oh, go ahead. The Pyramid one was unique. And we played it... Didn't we only play it for a couple weeks? And then it never came back? Well, the thing is that the idea behind these intros is that they were supposed to be super quick and easy to create so we could change them all the time

and then we did it one time and then we were understaffed for seven years we ever brought the pyramid one back i think i used it a couple times later on but other than that no it was only it was only a handful of times it's been swamp intro for years and years and years why don't we jump right in mountain info he is not going to let me jump into our headline topic ladies and gentlemen you know who to blame okay you said you were tired you asked me to carry the show i'm trying to talk more for the first time ever luke has interrupted me on the show leaving a currently thematic valheim reference for the gamers watching the stream okay this will not stand so i said mountain theme we're moving through the biomes come on linus i got nothing i it's a survival game right yeah all right so

it's story time and uh luke was with lin Media Group at the time, but this was only shortly after we had split off from NCIX and formed our own company. Now, you guys might not know this because they're not very big, but there are actually some other technology channels in the, let's say, the geographical area. in the, let's say, the geographical area. Okay, so there was a time when, you know, I was kind of looking for some mentorship in terms of how do you start a media company? Because while I knew, you know, RAM timings and, you know, fraps, right? I didn't know a whole lot about actual media productions. And some of those productions have been going since the TV days.

So I remember having a really good meeting with Steve Dotto from Dotto Tech. Like if you followed tech in the 90s, he was like on TV and stuff. And, you know, like kind of an influential figure. And he was like extremely helpful. He was like, yeah, you know, back in the day, we did all kinds of crazy stuff. If I'm correct, and I think I am, we like pioneered how to film CRTs without the scan lines going up and down so that it was actually legible. I was like, no way. Like, that is so cool. So anyway, you know, I had really good meeting with him. I had some good meetings with other more experienced people trying to

learn what I could about running an actual, you know, technology video production business, as opposed to just having a YouTube channel and like, you know, my broski here and Ed and like winging it, you know, you know you know um you know how do you get how do you get real sponsorships how do you engage with these big like multinational companies like our first yes their contracts because you think you didn't do a good enough job that's how you that's how you make it yeah exactly i mean luke do you remember our first CES when we would walk up to a booth of like, you know, a Samsung or an LG or something like that? And they're just like, yeah, exactly. TV station here. We're going to bump you out of the way.

Yeah, exactly. TV. TV is the future, you know. See you later, YouTuber. the future, you know? See you later, YouTuber. So anyway, I was trying to learn this stuff. And I ended up having like a few meetings with a company. Well, the owner of a company that has been in the tech video space for quite some time. And they had sort of like, after meeting with me a couple times, they kind of went, hey, look, we want you to meet our other partners because we think that there's a lot of synergies here. We can teach you a lot about applying for production services tax credits, how to do the accounting for a media production. accounting for, for like a media production, like you can save a lot of money, and you can have a lot of production values and sustain a lot of staff and facilities on really like a shoestring budget if you if you optimize a lot of these things. And, you know, we really, we really think that you've got a lot of energy. And, you know, so yeah, we want to we want to talk about that.

And, you know, so, yeah, we want to we want to talk about that. So we end up kind of sitting down and meeting about it, and it slowly starts to dawn on me that. While I had in my mind that maybe I would kind of come in and, you know, advise them on sort of, you you know how to how to stand out on youtube and they would kind of share some knowledge with me about you know how to how to structure my my company for example like that's something that's really important in film we've missed out on thousands and thousands of thousands of dollars uh because of like improper, not even improper, just like not structuring it in exactly the specific optimal stupid way because why would we think to do that? Why don't we just do our jobs

and why don't you just do your job and then everybody's happy? I mean, I could go off on a whole other rant about Cavco at some point later on in this show if you guys want to hear about it but I am like super unimpressed with how my tax dollars are hard at work right now we've got CERB payments that they're just like yeah so if you fraudulently applied for it you just go ahead and keep that and then we've got legitimate Canadian productions applying for legitimate Canadian production

services tax credits that are basically just not having their applications looked at for 10 months. And then after 10 months coming back and saying, yeah, well, you didn't qualify because X. And I'm like, yeah, actually we have X. So you guys kind of need to look at this again. And they're like, oh. No further response. No further response un it's unbelief anyway okay so so i think we're just having we're like bros right we're just like having this conversation about how i can help you how you can help me and all of a sudden they start talking about like so you know what we really want to do is we want to bring you on as like the host of our show. And I'm like, oh, that's interesting. So I would, so you guys would like contract me

to come in, to come and be on the show. And they're like, no, no, it would be more like, you know, it'd be more like, like combining the companies. And I was like, oh, okay. Well, now, you know, that's actually maybe interesting. You know, I didn't think I'd be this early in my career and I'm already having like, you know, an M and a meeting like, wow. Uh, I must, you know, I must really be like, you know, kind of crushing it here. Cause these guys seemed like, you know, big shots,

like they've been doing this a long time, like really experienced. And I have a lot of respect for them actually. Um, um anyway so i kind of sit down i and i think about it and uh oh you know it'd be hilarious um i bet i could even find i bet i could even find like old emails about this let's see if i can track anything down okay nice to meet you i haven't been reading it the whole time oh this is very clear so i might have missed it but so far i haven't seen anyone guess who it was yeah no i don't think they'll i don't think they'll be able to so okay okay there was a whole thing where they like were talking to me on like uh like a budget with a local ISP.

And like we were working on some deals together. That was a whole other thing. Oh, this is hilarious. I, oh man, man, there was like this whole thing. And I sent them back an email. Like there's two issues with this deal. One is I'd have to plaster my channel and content with this to a degree I'm not comfortable with to get like 30,000 views per video. The second is the fact that this is spread over six

videos makes it nearly impossible. If my job was to drive one video to 30,000 views, I could do it, but I'm still in channel growth mode to a great extent. I feel like pushing something this aggressively will hurt it in a way that's just not worth it to me right now. This is so funny. It's like business me like seven, eight years ago. Oh man, I absolutely love it. Anyway, the point is we get down to it. And the thing about merger and acquisition M&A, is that a lot of the time, the parties don't necessarily see eye to eye on who's merging and who's acquiring. So while they were a much larger company than mine, it was just me, Luke, and we might have had Brandon on board by that point, but it was basically me, Luke, Ed, and maybe Brandon by this point in time.

So we were a very small company, like half or one third of the staff. But in terms of who was actually like growing, as far as I could tell by every external metric, it was us. And if the last eight years or anything to go by, I was correct. We were the ones that were on the growth trajectory so it was my understanding that this would be more like a merger of equals uh or like like you know like a strategic merger bringing in the this experience and knowledge and you know linus tech tips was really like gonna be the show. And then it was their understanding that Linus Tech Tips was kind of like

some kitschy YouTube thing. And I was going to come in and I was going to be the host of their show and basically like work there. Like this was more of like an acquisition thing. And basically, as soon as I figured that out, it was the conversation was was pretty much over. We exchanged some pleasantries over the over the years. This is so great.

I sent this email in November of 2013. We're pretty particular about what we're willing to do to promote paid videos to our audience. One thing is behind the scenes, but that's generally only included with projects that cost approximately $3,000 and rely heavily on there being something genuinely interesting about the BTS content. Oh, I love it! Businessman Linus! So that's the only time... Actually, no, that's not the only time anyone's tried to buy linus tech tips or linus media group um so anyway long story short they thought that i was pretty much going to give them my company in exchange for their expertise to help grow my company which would

now be their company and i was like that's the stupid And I was like, that's the stupidest. Yeah, I was like, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. We're not doing that because Linus Media Group is on a stellar, stellar path right now. And I could not be more glad that I have 6,900 concurrent viewers. Nice. I could not be more glad that I stayed on the path that i did um continuing with linus media group and staying as independent as we can be because it's given me so much flexible

to just do things that i think are awesome and things that i think are right without having to deal with like other directors with the exception of my lovely wife who really does help rein me in actually um and i i think i'm pretty sure they still exist so that's cool that's good for them i i get such a kick out of business businessman lioness talking like talking numbers talking deals oh man estimate it's fine at this point this is so crazy oh my god i emailed you with this i forwarded you the like response i sent to them about how they just like clearly had no understanding whatsoever of like what was possible on the youtube platform and how it worked i forwarded this to you brandon and ed so apparently yes brandon was with us

and the email just says why we aren't partnering with this company the company name i think i remember that yeah oh that's so great because they just they just had they had no idea and it's funny because a lot of the time i don't think that the knowledge that i have is particularly specialized like how to run a youtube channel there's mind you this was in this was in 2013 there wasn't quite as there weren't quite as many master classes and like well youtube videos about how to run a successful youtube channel nowadays you just go on spiffing brit there was there was actually did you say spiffing brit yeah i said you just go on spiffing brit you just exploit the

out of the algorithm and boom, you're a YouTuber son. Exploit everything. Exploit all the things. Watch me spiffing Brit and then you won't be able to stop. But yeah, I remember when we were going through that, I remember there was a lot of like logical, like,

okay, we don't really know what we're doing in a few different ways. These guys do. Maybe we should work with them. I remember having those discussions, but I was like very uncomfortable about the whole thing. And then I remember getting that email and be like, yeah, yeah, we can do it. They were, they were, they were like, they were too traditional. They're too traditional at the end of the day. And they're, like I said, I think they're still,

I think they're still rocking it. They just, they just haven't really gone on the same, they haven't gone on really the same growth curve that we have. On the subject of growth curves, let's talk a little bit about. I don't know. Something that hasn't grown enough. Semiconductor supply. Sure. Why don't we do that one? I like it.

President Biden has signed an executive order to review semiconductors and the supply chain thereof. So on Wednesday, February 24th, this executive order was designed to address global semiconductor shortages, which kind of a big deal right now. I mean, you can't even like make cars at the moment. And has been a major topic of conversation on the LTT channel. This is not foreign to you or our audience. Absolutely not. So it's affecting a lot more than just Ryzen 5000 and NVIDIA RTX 30 series and AMD's Radeon 6000 series. This is affecting phones, cars, large capacity batteries, basically anything that has semiconductors, anything that has a processor in it is at risk of being affected by the shortages. So the stems, the shortage stems from a number of things. So there's spikes in demand due to

work from home. I mean, have you noticed how impossible it is to buy a webcam? Slowdowns in production caused by the pandemic, slowdowns in shipping, just backlogs and shipping. I mean, have you noticed how impossible it is to buy a webcam? Slowdowns in production caused by the pandemic, slowdowns in shipping, just backlogs in shipping. I mean, we've even encountered this with like mouse pads, and they're only peripherally connected to semiconductor products. Get it? I like it. That actually did take me a sec, but I like it.

That was good. It stems from outsourcing heavily to TSMC. So TSMC has basically just got a license to print money. The more the more dyes they can shove off the line, the more money they can has. And of course, more and more design companies are shutting down fabs. Exactly. And it's consolidating. Yeah, sorry. Keep going. And of course, Trump's trade war and policies with China have made it harder to work with Chinese chip manufacturers. So the semiconductor industry of America signed an open letter

urging President Biden to act. Some major inclusions include Dr. Lisa Su from AMD, Tim Teeter from NVIDIA, Dr. Thomas Caulfield from Global Foundries. And the aim is to expand both domestic and international production. So the problem with this is that I don't know how much you guys know about building like a CPU or GPU fab, but for this executive order, assuming that, you know, everyone gets behind it and it's go, go, go time. And they actually put a shovel in the soil like tomorrow. From that time until it actually produces like working silicon is like 80s anymore. Four to five years.

Like you might be you might be getting a 50 80 r rtx 50 80 or who knows maybe it'll be like ztx by that point they'll have changed the branding again it'll be it'll be z raster lighting shading whatever whatever they come up with um feel it was an ltx 38 or 50 80. An LTX. Hmm. I'll allow it. Okay. I'll allow it. As long as we can give them.

As long as you can give them away at LTX. Yeah, exactly. Then I'm down. Then I'm down. There's no way NVIDIA would do that. I think NVIDIA and I are, are not the greatest of friends right now. I think we're a little frosty at the moment.

You know what I mean? I think so. We all went to Wendy's, okay? We got a frozen treat. And we're just, we're waiting for, we drank them too fast. Our chest got a little cold. We're waiting for the hearts to thaw, you know? We got to kiss and make up.

I liked that video. If you haven't watched it yet it yet fantastic video don't remember what it's called something along the lines of like nvidia is not your friend or or something yeah nvidia pretends to care about gamers i mean i don't wanna i don't want to get into it a whole bunch um it's just that like i think a lot of people the like dislike ratio is really good so i think most people got it but my problem is that it's always hard to read the comments on something like that because of the people who didn't understand the video it seems like 80 percent of the comments are are those people who just did not understand the point that we were making like there's a lot of people that like yeah duh corporations aren't your friends duh duh yeah you know what do you like what do you want you want a gold star for fundamentally understanding capitalism

that wasn't the point of the video that was was just one of the themes of the video. That was just part of the message. The problem is not that a corporation cares more about money than about people. Right. Duh. Of course. I wouldn't even bother to make that video. The reason we made the video was because the way it was being messaged by nvidia was disingenuous in my opinion the way that they were claiming that this was about doing gamers a favor that was what we had to debunk if they hadn't said anything if nvidia had just said yep we like money and we're making mining cards go yourself i just said okay i probably wouldn't have even made a video no probably not because it's oh we have a new gpu or we have yeah we have a new gpu launch it it doesn't interest almost any of you

sounds good see you later exactly it's not very news Exactly. So it's one of those things where people just, like there were a lot of comments that were like, yeah, it's rich, criticizing NVIDIA for wanting to make money while also including a sponsor. You know, this video would have really come across a lot better without a sponsor. It has nothing to do with making money.

I have never, I have never been anything but upfront with you guys that Linus Media Group Incorporated is a corporation, quite literally a corporation. And yes, I love what I do. And I'm passionate about what I do. Because if I wasn't, honestly, I've talked about this, I don't really have to do it anymore. I could go flip burgers and live comfortably. That would be fine. But I continue to do it because A, I love it. B, I love the people that I work with. And C, I love you guys. Not literally. I have no idea who most of you are. And honestly, I hate it when celebrities stand up on stage and go, I love you all so much.

Stand up on stage and go, I love you all so much. It's pathetic. Like, just stop. The second they walk off the stage and you're not looking at them, the tears are gone. They're composed. It's all good. It's all a show. So what I love is the community as a whole, not you individually. I'm sorry.

It's just not like that. But as a whole, I love just. I'm sorry. It's just not like that. But as a whole, I love just being surrounded by tech and tech minded people. So that's why I do it. But yes, also, I have to make money. If I'm going to be here, then I got a lot of salaries to pay. I don't know if you guys have paid attention. You go on LinusMediaGroup.com. There's like 40 people on that website. That doesn't even include Flowplane. That doesn't include the like half a dozen people that are on probation right now. We got a lot of mouths to feed. I'm not going to apologize for that.

The difference is that's exactly it. I am unapologetically demonstrating to you guys how I make my money. I'm being transparent. NVIDIA is coming out saying, my money i'm being transparent nvidia is coming out saying we just we created these we created these crypto mining cards because we just we love gamers so much and we just we want gamers to be so happy that we make these crypto cards so that so that those bad bad crypto people won't get your gaming gaming cards so we'll take care of you. It has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with destroying the secondhand market for these crypto cards. So anyway, I, you know,

after reading some of the comments, I have to admit I had some doubts. So I did what I usually do, which is do my research on the topic after I've already published my hot take. And honestly, talking to some, I'm not going to name names. They were, they were not willing to go on the record. But after talking to some savvy people, I basically went, look, did you watch it? They're like, oh yeah, I watched it. And I'm like, do you think I got it wrong? They're like, nah. Like, okay. The one thing that we didn't know at the time was that it looks like at least a couple of the cards are going to be based on Turing rather than Ampere. What that means is that they won't affect supply of Ampere. But what we also suspect at this time is that a couple of them will be based on ampere what we also know is that in

spite of the messaging around you know making sure that you know nerfing the crypto mining capabilities of the 3060 to make sure that it gets in the hand of gamers it wasn't effective i mean it didn't do anything we already saw crypto farms running like hordes of 3060s before the car before we had a card before we could even start working on our review of it. CryptoFarms. That stupid driver lock doesn't mean anything. Well, it's more than that. So it's driver, firmware, something else.

It's a three. The point is it will be if HDCP can be broken, this can be broken. There is literally no money to be made in like breaking HDCP. Okay, there's a little, but compared to the billions and billions of dollars that is the crypto industry, like I didn't get into any depth in this in the video, but okay, Luke, Luke, okay. So let's say I have a billion dollars on the line and nvidia has issued me a challenge and said that their cryptocurrency mining driver lock is unbreakable what do i do hit me come on i just put it online for a bounty right okay that was that was wow that was so hard you had to think

about that for so long because like the thing is, guys, you got to remember, the easiest way to hack, right, is not to get into the mainframe, you know, get the C colon slash. That's not the easiest way to hack something. The easiest way to hack something is social engineering. It's people. People are the weakest link.

And if I've got a billion dollars on the line, let's say I don't have a billion dollars on the line. Let's say I have a hundred million dollars on the line. Who cares how much I have on the line? It's a big fat amount of money. At a certain point, it becomes basically irrelevant. Enough money that it doesn't matter anymore. Exactly.

At a certain point, it gets to the point where it's like i could afford literally a five million dollar bounty to some nvidia employee to leak me this driver and the cold hard truth is that a company the size of nvidia never has like one key holder okay for like uh what's up luke people talking about hacking the gibson people are memeing c colon slash i'm hacking so so the point is like at a certain, you just go straight to the engineers that are working on this project. And don't kid yourself. The crypto community is extremely well connected in the industry. Why?

Because money. So you just go to who you know is working on this thing. You go, hey, okay. If I promise not to post this online, can you get me the modified VGA BIOS and the driver? Okay, cool. All right, see ya. And as soon as one driver is out there, as soon as one modified BIOS file is out there,

everyone's gonna run around and reverse engineer all the different cards and figure out how to change their firmware so that the like the the modified bios works on them like it's like i'm i'm speaking valley girl here because i'm just i don't know i anytime engineering is is huge and probably the easiest path to it but you could also just figure it out technically as well like the they'll figure it out i'm whatever path they choose or they'll probably i suspect they'll probably just try all of them and whichever one works first they'll be like cool yep and because because the crypto community is just like

so uh i don't know what to call it just like so nerd bro swag as soon as someone figures it out there will be screenshots everywhere and everyone's gonna be like whoa and then there's gonna be a mad rush to see who can do it next and then blog about how those guys must have done it and it's gonna be a whole new cycle and maybe that's nvidia's master plan let's come out and say it's unhackable so that we get another new cycle around the rtx 3060 that's all about how high demand is for this card because it's amazing or whatever i don't know but then again i like i like that we're saying it because it's it's entertaining and maybe it'll it'll spur a little bit more fun but i don't they say it was unhackable i don't think they said it was unhacked uh let me have a look here hold on hold on hold on 3060 unhackable

nvidia says and this is a direct quote this is from pc gamer okay uh where's my display capture it's cryptocurrency mining limiter cannot be hacked so yes luke they did not technically say unhackable but i think cannot be hacked is uh i think that's pretty pretty much close that's a big fat close enough right there i guess i guess the game's on the funniest thing about all of this posturing around the rtx 3060 and how the new cmp cards are just for minors and they're going to make it better availability better for everyone else is like why even say that they knew it wasn't going to be enough like it's not like it's not like nobody at nvidia is smart enough like i guarantee you there's people working at nvidia who mine because they just like are gamers and have a gpu and if honestly if you're a gamer and

you have a gpu and you're not mining right now you just honestly kind of i don't want to say um it's an easy way for you to subsidize the acquisition of your graphics card that costs you basically nothing right now. That is unless you're in Texas and you're paying $9,000 for your power bill or whatever. That's a separate thing. That's fair. main people this is gonna hurt is like timmy and sally back at home that that pulled their their allowance and small jobs money to like buy a gaming computer and then they wanted to try to like make some of that money back by like doing something not super technical like running nice hash overnight or something to to pull off of mom and dad's power bill that they don't know about or

whatever and then they make a few bucks so they can buy a game or something like that's those are the main type of people this is actually going to damage not crypto because the commercial miners the guys that are running these gigantic mining farms think about it for a second if nerfing the rtx 3060 to half of its potential performance was enough to make them not acquire it, how on earth does the math work for like those RTX 30 laptops that they're running, right? It's not like there's nobody at Nvidia. This was the point I was getting to. It's not like there's no one at Nvidia

that can use like a crypto calculator and figure out that RTX 3060 at the current price of Ethereum and Bitcoin is still mondo profitable, even at half of its hash rate. So it was never going to help. Also, there is so much pent up demand for gaming cards just because I don't know if you guys noticed, but PC gaming and gaming in general has absolutely skyrocketed because everybody's been stuck indoors why why would they why wouldn't they just say nothing so for the longest time you know i've seen nvidia do

things that look like kind of obvious self-owns and i've been like no no man no they're playing they're playing 4d chess okay there's gonna be another move here they're gonna they're gonna be like bam surprise and you're like whoa they knew this was coming all along but but but this one i just you know i don't i don't see it because all they had to say was nothing they all they had to say was absolutely nothing they could have they could have posted something like hey we understand the challenges that gamers are having acquiring graphics hardware. We're doing our best to make as many of these as we can. That was all they had to say. They didn't have to say anything about we're going to, you know, make it so cryptocurrency miners won't find these profitable or blah, blah, blah. They just had to say nothing.

And they couldn't do it. They just had to say nothing. And they couldn't do it. They couldn't just say nothing. This, yeah, like I think I've been disillusioned with the NVIDIA 4D chess. There was a lot of warning signs over the years, but I think the last one that broke it for me was when they contacted, it was Hardware Unboxed, I believe.

Yeah, yeah. That email. that broke it for me was when they contacted uh it was hardware unboxed i believe yeah yeah that email um that was just like wow you've lost your touch like this is this is clearly there's no there's no other play here you just look like idiots like there's no i don't know and this this this graph is this yeah i mean this gpu launch whatever you want to call it same kind of deal just that was that was dumb like there's no there's i can't really add anything else on top of that for a while on that last one with hardware unboxed i still believed in the 4d chess luke did i ever tell you my theory i thought someone was setting up someone else to take a fall internally yeah yeah i thought someone was

trying to get someone else pushed out by doing something so catastrophically stupid that someone would have to get fired for it um i was clearly wrong because to my knowledge everyone involved in that whole fiasco is still there so i yeah i i clearly i clearly got that one wrong i clearly gave them too much credit um but hey maybe maybe it's all gonna maybe it's all gonna play out i mean you know what i'm still doing it actually so with the whole cmp mining card thing like i came in i'm like no this is about making sure that like the secondhand market for mining cards is utterly destroyed. I don't, maybe it's not. Maybe, maybe it's as simple. Maybe it really is as simple as typical computer industry trying to save 14 cents and making these

GPUs without display connectors so that they can be 14 cents cheaper because miners won't use them anyway. Maybe it really is that simple. And they didn't even consider the environmental impact or the impact on value seeking gamers who want to get their hands on a good used card or something like that. Oh, man, that was another really frustrating thing in the comments on that video. The number of people that were like no gamer is gonna use like an old mining card you idiot where do you think they go do you think they go to like a magic mining factory in the sky like you you think a miner just throws like a card that still works in the garbage like what no offense but are you stupid i i oh man it was it was very it was very hard to read some of the dumb in those comments i just i

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going to take these shots i should at least take it at someone who's a friend and then i was like actually it's probably too soon but the words were already out of my mouth. So I'm very sorry, Luke. It's okay. I miss old Birdo. I feel like a lot of people have lost pets. I'm not the only one. And that's not the only pet I've lost. Yeah.

Hey, have you introduced us to new Birdo yet? Like formally on the show? No. Why don't we meet Luke's bird? Okay. Hold on. How do I do this? Give me one second. Rip Birdo, long live Birdo. Okay, that's fine. I'll just do a topic while you're gone. No problem. Okay. Hold on. How do I do this? Give me one second.

Rip Birdo, long live Birdo. Okay, that's fine. I'll just do a topic while you're gone. No problem. Nope. He's literally right here. Oh, sick. Here we go.

Wait. He's not in your pants, is he? No. You don't keep your bird in your pants, do you? Nope. Because that's some weird shit right there. Do you see him? No. Oh, well, you got him right behind the thing, Luke.

Right behind what thing? The white thing. There we go. Hi. Hi. How you doing? Thinking. He's thinking.

This has never happened before, so he's like, what the heck? He's thinking. Process has never happened before. So he's like, what the heck? He's thinking processing. Processing. I don't even pick him up when he's in his cage, when he's either going to bed or waking up. So he's like, what do I do? Yeah, that's him. What's his name?

Scoop. Scoop. Scoop or Scoopoo? Scoop. Scoop, okay. what's his name uh scoop scoop scoop or scoop scoop okay there we go i luke had already told me new birdo's name but i forgot so i used him introducing the bird to you guys as an excuse to hear the name again strategic highly i know but then i admitted it so now it's too late thank you for introducing us to to new birdo uh yeah just to be clear guys luke luke did everything luke did everything in his power luke spent far more trying to save taquito than i would have no offense luke i love birds too but not as much as cats i'm afraid yeah yeah i uh yeah we we really gave it our best shot the thing is he was a he was a pet store bird

um scoop is not um he was a pet store bird and we have since done a bunch of research and found that like some pet store birds will come from um breeding clutches they're called clutches um that are for like research reasons like they might be bred to have certain problems oh seriously we don't we don't necessarily that is the thing we have no idea if our if our bird taquito was one of those or not but there's also a variety of other problems he very likely had pre-existing conditions we we brought him to a vet right when we got him as is recommended and as you know he went to a vet a few times over the course of having him including an emergency vet cheap yes yeah um so we yeah we

we tried but i know you guys tried tech topics yeah sorry luke i put you on the spot on the show today no that's okay but hey at least uh his scoop doing scoop doing well scoops doing fine yeah we did the we did the early like bring him to the vet checkup thing and he was he was a little underweight um so they kept him for a little bit and they like fed him up basically and they kept him around other birds because and they fed him like really fatty foods so he'd kind of bulk up a little bit and then ever since then he's been totally fine awesome how does a bird get managed to get underweight what is underweight for a bird i mean they have to fly they can't weigh that much like yeah they already weigh like nothing like

when we first had taquito he loved my my keyboard this bird so far not interested in the keyboard at all but taquito used to love my keyboard so he'd like walk around on the keys and he could put all of his weight on one of the keys and it wouldn't press it down yeah exactly so they weigh like very little but apparently uh scoop was was even little on that metric so so yeah but he's he's gained some weight he's bigger now so things are good why don't we talk about how for some reason the apple versus epic app store case has now dragged valve into the fray um apple subpoenaed and this was a couple weeks ago, I think, a large amount of highly sensitive private data from Valve's Steam store to help in its defense

against the antitrust lawsuit from Epic Games. The request, which for some reason the judge granted. Have you seen this yet? I've heard about this, but I just assumed like, oh, it's going to get shot down. The judge granted this. It includes historical sales, pricing, and other information on 436 games hosted on Steam. How does this make any sense? Valve's lawyers argued that the judge should reject the subpoena saying the company doesn't usually produce reports like these.

Also, that the requested data is already publicly available or includes third-party information that belongs to game developers anyway. And also, they said Valve is run by a small team and this would require it to dedicate multiple employees working full-time on this project. Okay, that part, QQ, Valve, like, get over it get over it well you know what i don't even blame them this is okay okay okay so here's the thing i don't mind spending resources on something like let's say for example uh lightness media group were to get audited right i understand

that audits happen and you're gonna have to dedicate some resources to fulfilling the requirements to complete the audit. Sure. Where I get really frustrated is when stuff happens completely unnecessarily. So if through someone's just utter carelessness, they manage to do something that is like basically a guaranteed audit trigger and now we have to put a bunch of resources behind it even if it was half the amount of resources of the reasonable audit i am five times more angry oh yeah you know what i mean it's like when someone my only reason why i said like qq valve is because yeah they are a small team they also rake in astronomical amounts of money yeah they don't need to be a small team

refuse to do like almost any work ever because they're just like we don't need to so who cares so it's like oh whatever you finally have to do something like shut up okay i don't know but that's like i i do if i worked at valve and i had to task the people i would be pissed and i think rightfully so but i just don't care that that person is upset because like whatever like that's fine it's hard for me to have a ton of sympathy for valve to be clear yeah that's yeah but it's a stupid situation they shouldn't have to do it no i'm amazed that the judge approved this no one should have to do this i didn't even think they were super involved in this i it's it's weird it's just it's just mind-blowing to me that that the judge granted

this because valve made an excellent point that their data has nothing to do with app stores and mobile games and just valve has literally nothing to do with that so yes it is technically a marketplace where you can it's a closed it's a closed ecosystem and valve does have a similar model to apple but i think i think apple's request is overreaching at at at best the law 360 report this is great quotes judge hickson saying to valve's counsel it's my understanding for lack of a better word apple has salted the earth with subpoenas so don't worry it's not just you that's not really a good reason to grant no it's really not that's a good reason to deny it i think exactly exactly like why are you wasting everyone's time instead of just negotiating with your developers in a way that everyone can agree is fair or at the very least everyone can agree is

not fair because right now it's whatever apple agrees is fair and everyone else's opinion pretty much doesn't matter yeah fun um just you know bonus fact related to this one epic is apparently attempting to locate former ios chief scott for forestall to testify after asking apple for specific information about how to reach forestall epic was provided a po box and a twitter handle according to court documents that's pretty much the equivalent of handing them a phone book and being like you go figure it out i kind of love it though actually I love the sassiness Oh my goodness You know what else I love? We have a new shirt

On LTTStory.com It's limited edition I think Sarah did an absolutely bang up job It looks super clean This is it It is the gold foil controller shirt We are doing one run Ladies and gentlemen And here it is the gold foil controller shirt we are doing one run ladies and gentlemen and here it is oh yeah that does look pretty pro uh-huh i also appreciate the selection of

controller used for this shirt well we kind of had to because the controller was the controller shirt became a thing after we came up with this video idea. So let's go ahead and do some display capture here. So here's our early access slash behind the scenes. If you guys aren't already on float plane, we do exclusives like little like meet the team interviews with people. I think we did Colin and David recently as well. So Madison's been working on that. She did a tour of the office.

There it is. We also have early access. It's supposed to be a week. It's not a week right now. We're doing our best. But this video is not yet up on YouTube. It is up on Floatplane. We are making a solid gold Xbox controller.

Like what? So ridiculous. xbox controller like what so ridiculous yeah this is like if this doesn't do it this is my hail mary you know damn it i'm gonna go viral if it costs me a hundred thousand dollars if this doesn't do it then i don't know what can uh but this will be what can. But this will be out very soon on YouTube. I think it's part one is going to hit on Sunday. Yeah, part one will hit on Sunday. And then I think part two is going to hit Floatplane on Sunday. So if you see it on YouTube and you love it, A, you can get a shirt. Please buy a shirt because this controller was very expensive. And B, you can go subscribe to flow plane where you'll be able to check out part two of the video right away it's not the kind of

thing that we normally would have split up into multiple parts but believe it or not between the like the disassembly and the preparation and the casting and the finishing and the reassembly and the problem solving it i mean it would have been like a 25, 30 minute long video, which is past the point where it actually performs well on YouTube. So we kind of needed to cut it up to avoid having to remove anything. As for the third part of it, well, I'm not making any excuses for that one. We're milking it. So part one is casting the controller part two is

the finishing of the cast and then assembling the controller so it's done you'll see the finished controller by the end of part two part three is like okay we're experimenting with doing some just like uh more low-hanging fruit type content so we we did that Linus Reacts to XQC's PC build because we always had this tendency to stick to our production schedule in the past. Like, oh, well, okay, something new happened, but well, we already have a video scheduled for that day. So I guess we can't really do anything with that.

And what happened was we got more and more and more organized to the point where we were never able to react to something new and exciting because we always had something in the chamber for that day. So the XQC build reaction thing was an experiment where we're like, okay, no, let's just like push away, like push out, throw away whatever we were working on and let's pivot and let's do this kind of like a low hanging fruit, like reactionary slash more like viral crossover type content. So with the gold controller, what the

goal is, is to do something that's kind of like designed as a different type of video than what we usually do. So it'll feature me, but it'll also have, I think it's 13 other members of the LMG team reacting to the controller. So they'll be seeing it for the first time. We'll ask them questions about it. Like, hey, did you think this was a good idea? Do you think it's a good value? One of my favorite questions is everyone gets asked. This is actually great.

So Luke, I know you haven't actually seen it yet, but you can try to answer it. I can tell you a couple of things about it. It's super heavy. Like, have you ever had hands on with gold? Not that much. I have. So I understand that, like the density and how much a small amount can weigh in and whatnot, but definitely not that much. Yeah, me neither. So here's the question we ask people. If it was, would you take it for free if you could never melt it down so you can never exchange it for currency and it's the only controller you can ever use?

Wow. What's more important, bling or functionality? Yeah, I think no. Like my answer is no. You haven't even tried it yet, Luke. You haven't even tried it yet. We're going to be no. What if it's all flash, all dash?

All dash? Yeah. You ever think of that? Am I not zoomer enough to know? What do you mean all dash? Like, uh, well, you know, the expression like all flash no dash but it could be like but like would you though because like we you and i both have like the sick elite controllers you'd give up wait i saw the shifty eyes did you do this agreement i'm gonna make you watch the video i'm actually gonna do that to you i just did it i just did it

you're gonna have to watch the video because if i can't exchange or whatever i don't even i don't even like gold what yeah have you seen the finished one though like have you seen what it looks like okay it's incredible you know what i'm a i'm a tweet i'm a dm it to you right now give me give me a second here it's on my phone okay we gotta get we gotta get luke's live reaction to what this thing looks like because it is unreal okay where's uh where's luke in here man i can never figure out how to use discord. Why do I suck so much at Discord? Okay. No, I want people, but not like, I don't want to, I don't want to friend people.

I just want to, I hate you so much, Discord. You don't show online, Luke. And like, where's the search? Oh, the search is a separate thing. Who else even messages you? Why is it just searching this thing? Okay. It doesn't matter. The point is, I figured it out. You sent me this message today. I have to be the most recent person.

You sent me this message right before WAN started. Whatever. Okay, I think this is it. Okay, okay, just watch this clip. Watch this clip and tell me you don't want it. Okay, hold on. okay hold on all right uh what else do we got on the on the docket for today what did you film this on my phone why is it why is it so horrible oh discord compressed it like crazy probably because i filmed it within the twitter app and then i this literally looks like it was filmed in the 90s or earlier i know you can try this one try the second one okay let's see uh yeah this one this one should be fine there you go i have it wrapped in the uh in the controller okay yeah that's pretty sick oh you can tell how heavy wow the back is so cool okay the back is really cool you can tell how heavy it is just when you pick it up and it's not like you clearly don't struggle

but you can see the the resistance that it has you know oh yeah that's pretty crazy it's pretty cool okay so i'm changing my answer to yes actually okay you'll have to try it you'll have to mostly just because of the unobtainium that's that's actually i think that actually changed my answer more than seeing the finished product because while i was sitting here thinking about i was like but no one else would have one literally no one else that's kind of cool so you might suck at games but you might it might make you worse but you'll look cooler while you do it in other news there's a piece of malware targeting mac devices dubbed silver sparrow almost 40 000 systems have been infected across over 150 countries but most of them are in the US. This is one of the first

malicious softwares to use native code for the new M1 chips and is installed via Apple installer packages. And it's named update.pkg or updater.pkg. The curious thing is that it's mostly still a mystery. Nobody seems sure how exactly the malware is being delivered or what its purpose is. So what does that mean uh it means we'll probably find out eventually this this has happened before uh where something just kind of gets into a system or a series of systems and then lays dormant for a while um but security has been breached you know like it's in there that's bad um yeah got it so it's made from javascript code that installs a launch agent plist file which launches a script every hour

so it contacts the command and control server then checks for the file uh tilde slash library slash period underscore ensue to see if it should uninstall determines if there's a new version of the malware dang self-updating malware it's great isn't that great yeah downloads a payload from download url parameter and command and control server yeah and then if downloaded it launches it with args data as the arguments for the code arguments yeah yep so pretty straightforward we have no idea what it's supposed to do. But the two command

and control server domains were registered in August and December of 2020. So it's pretty new, but it's been around for months. Good luck, everybody. To be clear, I'm not saying

apples have viruses. Obviously, there's viruses all across the board. I'm just saying that there's viruses all across the board and'm just saying that there's viruses all across the board and let's not pretend that there's anything other than that fries closed fries electronics did you ever have the pleasure of visiting one luke no never man it was kind of like best buy meets radio shack back in the like late 90s meets ncix and meets costco i've been to i've been to a micro

center and i actually thought that was really cool how do they compare if micro center is like nester's market then fries is like it's costco like it's just oh cool it was on a very, just an incredible scale, this place. I'm surprised, and I know we're going to get into it. They blame things like the coronavirus and shifting purchasing styles and lots of other stuff. But it seems like a weird time. Every place I know of is just exploding. Tech stuff is flying off the shelves constantly.

Everyone else seems to be doing great. Yeah. I'm a little lost, so here's the thing. Fries, and there's a really, really great video about it from, oh, what is the channel called? I think it's called Retail Archaeology. Retail Archaeology. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the channel fries yep yeah did an absolutely fantastic video uh two years ago uh talking about fries going out of business and a year ago

talking about hey is fries going to be gone soon um this has the writing has clearly been on the wall for a long time and the reality of it is that fry's business model of like these enormous stores with the way that rent prices have gone up and the way that electronics margins have gone down is just not sustainable anymore. So whatever they might say about COVID-19 and blah, blah, blah, the part they say about changes in the retail industry, that's certainly true. But pretty much anything else is not kind of what happened. So it's clear that they've been winding down for quite some time.

Their stores have had empty shelves for literally years. Do you feel like they kind of gave up? Oh, I mean, I don't think they had any choice but to give up. But it's pretty sad. Couldn't they have just transitioned to smaller stores if that's the problem? Well, here's the thing. If you've never been in a Fry's, you don't really like understand a Fry's. So they had these crazy, incredible themed stores. here's the thing. If you've never been in a Fry's, you don't really like understand a Fry's.

So they had these crazy, incredible, like themed stores. Like people are going to look back at this in 50 years and be like, holy smokes, that was a store. Like, look at this one. That's got a UFO looking like it crashed into the front of it. They had all these cool props inside and stuff like going to fries was totally an experience and you just okay yeah you just i'm just catching up with the stream that's that's what the heck it's incredible you just can't really do it anymore so you know a lot of people are really sad about it but i guess uh i guess there's you know more more business for more business for micro center or if anyone else wants to to come in and swoop in and uh snatch up that business that's uh yeah it's very unfortunate there's no way that you're going to end up with an electronics retailer back in a space like that though the couple that i went to were just monstrous they were just unbelievable like

just having never mind stocking it having enough demo units that it wouldn't feel like an empty cavernous vault would cost hundreds of thousands even getting into the seven figures just to have enough product out on the shelves to look not you know and barren and ridiculous our last topic is apple it has been forced to show a repairability score in france do you want to run us through this one luke i feel like i ended up doing all the topics today i'm sorry i just got carried away no worries i one thing i wanted to mention before we move on uh is there anywhere that you shop or just anything that you give your patronage to that you do so with the hopes of helping them

stay afloat you think so I tuned out for a second because I was reading a super chat I didn't know you were asking me anything I'm sorry go ahead is there anywhere that you shop or anywhere just in general yeah

I understand now um man gee I don't know uh I have one oh I know who yours is I know who yours is I've talked about it before so it's not that interesting do you have any willow videos and a totally interesting story I tell you what why don't you tell them about Willow Video while I see if I can think of something. Willow Video is this little, and I don't think they know that I've ever talked about them on WAN Show before, but they're this little kind of like video game store that has existed in this area for a really long time.

Like I'm talking, I lined up in a very long line of people inside the store because i don't think this was a midnight launch i don't think i was old enough for that at that time um so that my brother and i could get i believe it was a single copy of it was either pokemon red or blue for game boy um and remember they had like bins like actual bins as you're going through the lineup of the player's guide for it because the Internet was barely a thing at that time. So people actually like really wanted the player's guide. It was a really cool store and has somehow existed.

It's ran by like the same lady runs it that I feel like has ran it forever, all this kind of stuff. They sell retro games now. They still sell new games. When Pokemon cards became a big thing more recently, they jumped on that. Now they sell Pokemon cards. It's just a really cool little store that has existed forever.

And I'm not really a fan of GameStop or EB Games. So I try to shop there and help keep them around because it's gotta be be tough like there's they're surrounded by like best buy and multiple eb games locations yeah and there's this little shop that's trying to make it work i even remember one time i was eating at a sushi place and the the lady who runs um willow video was sitting there next to another person talking about how like the business is hard and i was like well that's definitely legitimately true because i'm sure it is but yeah okay so i just i just try to buy things from there if i'm going to buy it anyways

that's all i don't have anything current but do you remember that um that vietnamese soup place in aberdeen mall that's a place that i used to go out of my way to go to i am i'm still sad you know what now this is my personal line of sebastian commitment if if you're listening or you know who used to run the basil leaf restaurant in aberdeen mall i will will personally, I will personally seed fund you to start up your restaurant again, because it was a really sad story. Uh, I used to go there probably three times a week. They were so nice. Uh, they would always give me like, it's, it's so funny. I've been guilted at times in my life into eating things that I didn't want to eat before. That's definitely happened, but never by a restaurant.

So, you know, me, I'm a pretty I'm kind of a picky eater. I know what I like and what I liked was their like chicken noodle vietnamese style soup yeah that was what i wanted and i became such a regular customer because i just liked it um that i would be standing at the back of the line and by the time i got to the till they would just have my soup ready for me and hand it to me because they knew exactly what i wanted they were i, I mean, this never happens anymore. This sounds like the kind of thing that would happen in like the 50s, you know? I would forget money or like I'd forget my wallet

and I'd be like, I'm so sorry, I don't have any money. And they would literally give me my food and be like, don't worry about it. I'll get you next time. And I'd be like, thanks, bro. I'm gonna eat my lunch now, even though I'm a space cadet and I don't have any money. Like they were so nice.

So anyway, I was like, I was such a regular for so long that eventually they started giving me these free desserts. And it's like, OK, Luke, how big of a fan of eggs am I? About as much as you. That's my hint. Yeah. So not at all then. i was thinking like i don't think i've ever seen you eat eggs but then i kind of avoid them like the plague so i'm not sure so yeah so they start giving me this like egg dessert thing that is like a it's like a cold

dessert and like they flip it over the thing and there's like the sauce they make it look all nice and everything and they start giving it to me for free. And I try to politely decline, right? I'm like, Oh, gee, thank you. But you know what, like, I'm good. You can give it to the next person. I'm not that hungry today. You know, like all the ways that you try to like say without saying, Hey, that looks disgusting. And I don't want to eat it. Anyway, they completely didn't understand or didn't care that i did not want to eat this egg dessert and i understand now that they've like opened it they can't really like put it back so it was handmade though like now that they've opened that they had these little cups and they would like make them and they put them in the fridge and they so they don't surround wrap it

and then they put it on the plate for you, flip it over. It looked all nicer. It's kind of like Brown on the top. Anyway, the point is it looks nice, but yeah, well, it didn't look nice to me. It was,

it looked fancy though. Um, so anyway, the first couple of times I like, I confess, I threw them away because I knew it was an egg dessert. I knew I wouldn't like it. I tried a little bite of it

and I was like, it's kind of eggy. So then the next time I came, they like asked me about it. They were like, oh, what do you think? And I'm like, oh, crap. Okay. I need to make more of an effort to eat this thing. Okay. Long story short, I absolutely started loving them. Total acquired taste because every single time I came, they gave me a free one of these just for like being a regular customer. Then they started giving me free little like chicken wings with my orders. So I'd get two free chicken wings and a free dessert with every order. They were so nice. I really wish I remembered the guy's name. But if anyone knows who used to run Basil Leaf in Aberdeen, get them in touch with me. I will personally seed fund them to start a restaurant again so I can go there and get my noodle soup

and my chicken wings and my dessert. And so what happened? Oh, right. What happened? The sad part is they were shut down for a little while because, uh, yeah, the, the guy that ran it was, you know, sick, but like nothing horrible as far as I knew. And so I was like, oh, so I, I would actually go to Aberdeen and just, there wasn't really anything else I like to eat there. So I would just like not get lunch, but I would keep going back kind of like a dog whose owner is dead you know whatever that burger place was and both be upset about it yeah yeah it's like not happy yeah it's not that good um so I'd keep going back and there were times that I just didn't even eat and then what happened is he was back and I was like, ah, you're back.

And so everything was good for a while. But what happened was there was enough of a disruption to his business that when he broke his arm shortly after and he couldn't prepare the food, he didn't have enough money to afford someone to just like run it for him. And so he ended up, as far as as i know he ended up losing the restaurant um so it made me really sad a because i wanted to eat the food and b because he was so nice and so kind to me even though we probably only spoke in overlapping like 40 words or so um you know like communication was not the high the high point like the strong point of this

relationship but i yeah i i'm i i'm super down i'm super down to to get the restaurant back if if that would be if that's what he wants if that's what he wants of course if he doesn't want to run a restaurant anymore then i'm chill i'm good right. I think that's pretty much it for the WAN show for today. We should probably do a couple super chats. How about the one that I was reading and I wasn't listening to Luke? Hey, Linus and Luke, when Fry shut down this week, I was having them build me a new gaming PC. Uh-oh.

So when they shut down, both my old and new PCs were stuck there till I reached out to my local TV station. I got them back today. Dang. Like what? That's lucky you got it back because I can tell you at the NCIX bankruptcy auction,

there was definitely customer stuff there. Unbox Warehouse says, just recycling some of that YouTube money for some of my favorite creators. Love you guys. Hey, thank you so much. Thrackersod says, do you still have the ugly lizard hat

from way back in the NCIX days? Absolutely, I do. You better believe it. Brendan. Finish your super chats, but once you're done, I've got something. We can't end right away.

Brandon asks, do you think the current GPU market will have any lasting effect on the market for other components since fewer people are building or upgrading well fewer people aren't people are totally still building and upgrading um but in terms of lasting effect the outside effects that are causing the gpu shortages will definitely have continue to have an effect i mean i made that video almost a year ago now by a computer. Now is what I said, man. I don't know if I have, I don't know if my crystal ball has ever or will ever work as well as it did that day. I was so on the fence about making that video. Andrew says, you guys need to go on drinking bros after Neil deGrasse Tyson this week.

I don't think I'm invited. Yeahinking, bros? Neither of us drink. Yeah, that's rough. Pernicious. Hey, thanks, Pernicious. Appreciate you. Grandma Hates Tech says, how much would it cost if I buy your channel? Hey, how about a million dollars? You got a million bucks?

Let's do it. Let's do it. You know, at me. At me on Twitter. The Def IT guy says, opinion on the impact of mining on the environment maybe a longer form video on the impact of e-waste on people and places in the third world they get the short end of the stick that could be an interesting video i think it's the kind of thing that might actually necessitate like traveling to these places and doing like a really in-depth piece

it's more of like uh that sounds like more of like a doc or a mini doc versus kind of our style, but definitely an interesting topic. Robert Mail asks, LTT super fans Twitter subscription when? Robert, you know we already have it. It's called Flowplane. Get over there. You just have to put in the Konami code when you get to the page and then all the nudes show up. Like, I thought everybody knew this. Thanks, Sean. All right, Luke, what was the thing you wanted to talk about let's do it i sent it to you on discord no so you

did okay click the link don't just read the the short bit oh lordy should i read the short bit oh this is hilarious spiffing brit is on top of that social media okay replies to our mention on the show today hey linus if i give you a secret unknown youtube exploit can you give me a t powered pc you know what you're on i was gonna say you gotta do it you're on you have to do it you're on you're on yeah all right you're on are you gonna do okay powered is tough what about just like t themed i i'll we'll figure something out i think we've got we've got a creative team here at linus media group t T-powered PC for spiffing Brit. How do I get talked into these things? Very easily. It's just got to happen.

Yeah. Very quickly and easily. I'm actually, I'm super into it. I'm super into it. I mean, you can't do proper collabs anymore these days. So like, you know, this is what we have to work with. So there you go. We got to build a T-powered PC here, ladies and gentlemen.

So make sure you buy a shirt. LTTstore.com. Buy a shirt. Buy a golden shirt. Subscribe to Floatplane. Buy some Yorkshire tea, you know. I don't even know what, like, the trendy cool teas are. I'm not even going to try.

As far as I know, the meme with his channel is Yorkshire tea. Got it. Got it. All right. Well, I think that's it for the WAN show today. Thank you guys so much for watching. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.

Bye. I'm pretty excited for that t computer i'm pretty excited for having new man show like animated intro outro things yeah so when when is that uh it was close to this week so hopefully next week nice yeah i'm excited pretty good