CES 2026 Recap: TVs, Laptops, and Weird Gadgets

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so frequently getting screwed up is tfg and mike

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really that's how you're starting off the new

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year really well i mean if you're talking about

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paramount then it is getting screwed up no we're

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not talking about that because it doesn't fucking

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matter anymore i'm sorry that'll be the only

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what i do i promise i i look it does matter because

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they they're still arguing about it i mean we'll

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get there we'll get there i'm so over it i'm

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so i mean i'm over it too but it's just it's

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like now it's it's the memes of it are entertainment

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alone uh they are they are i've been having field

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day watching it because i i mean before we get

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into like some of the ces stuff and yeah oh yeah

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i don't know no absolutely various other things

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I've been having fun watching this. And. It's

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honestly quite entertaining. Just because. We're

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dealing with. Paramount being butthurt. Yep.

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They were not chosen. And so. I've been watching

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a lot of different memes, like one of them, it's

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got like. Thanos is WB and then Thor stabbing

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WB is you know Paramount and then it says idiot

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and like it's after several bids of them being

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you know rejected Paramount goes even lower by

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filing a lawsuit against Warner Brothers Discovery

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to seek basic information to enable their shareholders

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to make informed decisions of whether or not

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to tender their shares it's like And then somebody

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replying to, to a post by discussing film, uh,

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who's also a film TV critic. He goes, daddy,

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the bad men won't give me WB. I want it now.

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Buy it for me, daddy. Like, it's just, I, and

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then I'm just laughing at it, just watching that.

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And then, uh, I posted the one of like Jim Carrey

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and liar, liar, where he's like doing the. the

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face thing and it's like they're so incredibly

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childish over you you lost move on geez yeah

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yeah don't get me wrong i'm i'm not surprised

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but this thing is paramount paramount is is throwing

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this fence and saying that you know at no point

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can you take this whole thing seriously because

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no paramount doesn't want netflix getting them

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but they're saying that netflix getting wb is

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considered unlawful however how is it not unlawful

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for paramount itself you know they kind of helped

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shape netflix the way you know with their licensing

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and things so it's like whose fault is this like

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i i have no i have i have no like feeling of

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like that they should get this like this they've

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had eight rejected attempts to buy the studio

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move on yeah you know what i want all studios

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to own themselves again and not be a part of

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a conglomerate okay there's that i would i would

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love for that to happen because in because in

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that case we could get touchstone back we could

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get tristar back we could get all the stuff back

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But really what I want is I want Mickey to come

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in because if Disney bought Warner Brothers,

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they can't. No, I know. I know. I know. I know.

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I know. I know. I don't care. I don't look. Look,

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if Disney had Warner Brothers, we could have

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the Mickey Mouse Bugs Bunny Hour, just like in

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Roger Rabbit. that's the only reason why I want

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Disney to buy Warner Brothers I know it can't

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happen and that's fine it is what it is but I'm

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just saying that's the only reason but yeah no

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dude like what I don't know I I'm It's all going

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to, like, I am surprised that Comcast still offers

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actual cable channels and just doesn't have a

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streaming package with local channels. Like,

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the local channel, and really, seriously, you

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wouldn't even need Comcast as long as you had

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some, you know, tinfoil and rabbit ears. Because

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you can pick up your local channels. Or at least

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you used to be able to. I don't know if that's

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still possible or not in this day and age, but

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I don't know. The whole TV, how we consume visual

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media. It's funny we're talking about this because

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I literally just published a blog about the YouTube

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subscription page and how that's displayed. where

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it basically gives you one option, where it's

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the first thing is the live feed, whatever channels,

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I don't care what channels they are. And I'm

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not talking about our friends or anybody that

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we know that does live streaming. I'm not talking

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about your brother. I'm not talking about anybody.

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I'm not talking about chaos. I'm not talking

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about anybody we know. that does live stream

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gaming or whatever. I'm talking about Disney.

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I'm talking about NBC. I'm talking about Peacock.

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I know technically NBC Peacock, same thing, but

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like all of the TV conglomerates that are on

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YouTube that do live channel. Transformers is

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a big one. Transformers will have two or three

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of their various channels on YouTube. I mean,

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it's all the same channel, but under there, blah,

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blah, blah. They'll have two or three different

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streams. Stream Beast Wars 24 -7 now on YouTube.

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Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. But they'll have

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these as live channels at the top of your YouTube

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subscription page. And that's the first thing

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you see on your subscription page. Even on your

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homepage, almost, it's similar. But it's like,

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I wish the subscription page would have two tabs.

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It would have a live tab and it would have a

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different tab for basically everything else that

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isn't a live video. Oh no, I know what it was

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live and latest. That's the two tabs I want for

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YouTube subscription page. So the live tab can

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have all the live videos for all the channels

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that are actually live on YouTube. And then the

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latest, sorry, oops, I hit my microphone here.

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And then the latest tab would have all of the

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videos that are not live channel. So like, let's

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say in my infinite wisdom of publishing three

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podcasts in one day on New Year's Eve for Studio

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2009, which I mentioned in the other episode

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we just recorded for Geekcast Radio, I published

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episodes 63, 64, and 65 to get them out before

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the end of the year because they were all...

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timely to some sort of anniversary for 2025 30th

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anniversary whatever you can see those three

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videos before anything else or let's say it's

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geek cast radio let's say it's the cinema geeks

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channel or let's say it's optimus solos geek

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showcase channel let's say it's comic con seerages

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channel all of our individual youtube channels

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have videos coming out we could all see that

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in a latest like this is the latest from all

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of these creators and doesn't have to just be

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us as the creators it could be any but just any

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subscription on youtube that you are subscribed

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to but they're not live they're just uploaded

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videos so i think again to tie it back into the

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the whole tv warner brothers paramount whatever

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i'm over like just netflix made the deal sorry

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paramount you know you you didn't make the right

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deal netflix did well and plus they were more

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appealing so it's like at that point it's like

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they've made their decision move on yep Stop

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being a crybaby about it. Yeah. I think there's

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more to it than all of this. Obviously, yes.

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I think there's some political crap in there,

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too, because. Yeah, I'm not going there. I'm

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just saying. Oh, yeah. The alignment there is

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uncanny. Like, I don't I'm not swinging either

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side of the fence. I'm just I'm dating. Yeah.

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public perception based on he hit it over to

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the left side of the field folks he hit it over

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to the right he couldn't just hit it down to

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center field like a normal person yeah so that's

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why they're more butthurt and being vocal so

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yep yep yep yep i just want it to be done already

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just do the damn deal get it done make the new

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logo have it be nwb and be done with it I don't

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know. Yep. I'm assuming it's going to be NWB

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because why wouldn't it be? New WB? Netflix WB.

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WB presented by Netflix. WWE on the WB. Presented

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by Netflix. oh god yeah anyways yeah so i mean

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i'm that that's all i'm gonna say on it because

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like honestly it's just it's redonkulous yep

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it's nuts so yep yep moving on yes so we have

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ces Yeah, CES is the big first thing that kicks

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off every new year. I always enjoy looking at

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it just because I'm like, what are they going

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to come up with this year? I've seen all kinds

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of stuff. So it's kind of interesting, the whole

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instance of the computer side of things. dell

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realizing oh people don't buy laptops for the

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ai they buy it because they want a laptop and

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it just confuses people and it's like i don't

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mind ai i don't want it as the selling point

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yeah no it's not it should especially when it's

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co -pilot like don't get me wrong like well see

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microsoft co -pilot only has one percent of the

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shares of the ai market which yeah It's not bad.

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I've used it. I've tested out ChatGPT. I've tried

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out Copilot. I've tried out Gemini. Each one

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has different strengths. I've used them mostly

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because they're free. I've subscribed to ChatGPT

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at one point just for the image generation. I

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was using it to take pictures of my house during

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the time we wanted to have it painted. um it

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was extremely convenient for that like i was

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able to recolor the house giving it the paint

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codes and sometimes it would throw in something

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weird and you know like redo this the shutter

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style or the siding or whatever and i'd have

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to like course correct it um but i was also using

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it to write like plugins for the website and

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things like that and so um so i mean like each

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one has its its benefits there but i i wouldn't

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like I don't want a laptop for this, for the

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AI. I want it for the hardware. Like I want it

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for the memory and for the video card. Like I'm,

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I'm currently looking at a new laptop for work

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and I'm like, I need something with a dedicated

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video card, not this crapshoot that, um, cause

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like literally my computer, it has like the,

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the shared memory with the computer. Like it

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shares the video card memory with the computer.

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So it's, it's 128 megabyte video card. but it's

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got 12 gigs of system memory. But then if it

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needs anything for graphics, it chokes out. But

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then I have to use my computer at home, which

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has four gigs of video card memory. And I have

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64 gigs of system memory. Damn. So I had to edit

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a video for work on my home computer because

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I couldn't run it on my computer. So suffice

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it to say, like with, you know, the stuff that

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they're showing, like, Dell coming back out with

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their XPS line, Lenovo coming out with productivity,

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you know, creative computers that can be used

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for, you know, graphics and video and things

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like that that are not a gaming computer, but

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they can do the same thing. Yeah. As well as

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having like extendable screens that slide out

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or slide up to give you more screen space. And

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so, I mean, there's a lot of cool stuff that

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they're showing and I'm like, please. Like I

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just want it for sale. So I see the price. So

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I can be like, Hey, I want this computer for

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work. Yep. Absolutely. But yeah, so I was looking

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for a comprehensive kind of recap for CES 2026

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and ZDNet had the best article, at least out

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of the stuff that I saw for like, I put in the

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Google search CES 2026 recap, and out of all

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of the things it showed me, like ZDNet had the

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best one. So the way they frame this article

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is CES 2026, seven biggest news stories across

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TV laptops and other weird gadgets you missed.

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And the first one is this TCL TV is the model

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to beat at CES. And it says, uh, now I'm not

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like, I don't know. I don't look at every mini

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led panel. I don't look at the super quantum

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dot stuff. Like I don't go that deep into my

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TVs. If I, you know, like the way the TV looks

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in the store, if I like the way that he. you

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know, whatever kind of thing. And it has everything

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I want on it. Great, fine, whatever. As long

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as I can afford it, I'll buy it. I haven't bought

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a TV since 2018. I have a sharp 55 -inch 4K UHD

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TV mounted on my bedroom wall. I kind of, back

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then, I said to Karen at the time when she was

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still with us, I said, I want to future proof

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myself because at that time, I think I've told

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this story before, but at the time in 2018, we

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allowed ourselves one big holiday Christmas item

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purchase for each other that year. She wanted

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a new laptop. I wanted a new TV. And that TV

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at that time at Best Buy was like 350 bucks when

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normally it was like. a thousand bucks went okay

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it was on sale yay great for me because i mean

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you know normally i'm never buying a thousand

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dollar television uh i had to save up for about

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three years anyway uh so i i haven't bought a

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tv in a while and the tv that i have is still

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perfectly fine for what i use it for and for

00:17:52.539 --> 00:17:56.079
the legal blindness that i have it It still plays

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fine. It still has all its dots and dings and

00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:04.519
whatever for color and gamuts and whatever. But

00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:13.819
this, as my voice decides to go into the ocean

00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:18.579
and start talking like Merman over here. while

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nearly every tv brand showcased some sort of

00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:28.019
rgb tv at ces this year the tcl x11 elf tv features

00:18:28.019 --> 00:18:33.420
tcl's super quantum dot sqd mini led panel which

00:18:33.420 --> 00:18:37.319
is the company which the company claims achieves

00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:43.269
100 of the bt 2020 color gamut It offers 20 ,000

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dimming zones and 10 ,000 nits to achieve premium

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brightness and contrast, which, according to

00:18:50.569 --> 00:18:54.490
ZDNet's Kerry Wan, felt like the figurative interpretation

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of having my socks blown off when seen in person.

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The impressive TV comes at an extravagant price,

00:19:02.410 --> 00:19:05.829
though. The smallest size, 75 inches, costs $7

00:19:05.829 --> 00:19:09.930
,000, solidifying it as one of TCL's most premium

00:19:09.930 --> 00:19:17.200
TV models. that raises the bar now i don't know

00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:22.799
if i would ever have a 75 inch tv anywhere in

00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.140
any apartment whether it was a living room bedroom

00:19:25.140 --> 00:19:28.059
whatever because i'm probably only ever going

00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:30.359
to be living in apartments i don't think i'll

00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.700
ever be living in a house ever again for the

00:19:33.700 --> 00:19:36.880
rest of my life it's just not i don't know if

00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.710
it'll ever be in the cards again but And I understand

00:19:41.710 --> 00:19:51.269
why a 75 -inch TV costs $7 ,000. Here's the thing.

00:19:52.049 --> 00:19:57.549
Even though I've heard of TCL before, every time

00:19:57.549 --> 00:20:02.670
I see the TCL brand at Walmart or at Target or

00:20:02.670 --> 00:20:07.380
wherever, It's usually they're obviously smaller

00:20:07.380 --> 00:20:10.779
sizes, like they're 40 inches, they're 50 inches

00:20:10.779 --> 00:20:15.460
there and smaller than 40. And it's usually in

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like they're on sale. They're they're bargain

00:20:18.980 --> 00:20:21.920
to go. It's the bargain. I've always thought

00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:26.099
TCL was the bargain brand. I've I've never thought

00:20:26.099 --> 00:20:32.150
of TCL as like a Sony and LG. Yeah, I like. I

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mean, I get it. They are a name brand. I understand

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they are a name brand, but I've never thought

00:20:37.509 --> 00:20:45.150
of them as a giant name brand. So, I don't know.

00:20:45.529 --> 00:20:52.210
No, but there's that. Dolby Vision 2 content

00:20:52.210 --> 00:20:57.910
is finally here. Okay. Throughout the week, you'll

00:20:57.910 --> 00:21:01.009
hear from a lot of TV brands about how their

00:21:01.009 --> 00:21:04.369
latest sets support Dolby Vision 2, the latest

00:21:04.369 --> 00:21:07.289
playback standard that promises brighter and

00:21:07.289 --> 00:21:09.930
more vivid imagery while uplifting the output

00:21:09.930 --> 00:21:13.109
of your speakers. Among the first content to

00:21:13.109 --> 00:21:15.750
play, the new standard is Peacock streaming content,

00:21:15.930 --> 00:21:19.289
including live sports. The company announced

00:21:19.289 --> 00:21:23.349
at CES that soon both NBA and MLB content will

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be broadcast in Dolby Vision 2. Wait, is this

00:21:27.660 --> 00:21:31.660
audio? Why is it? Whatever. Anyway, I know it's

00:21:31.660 --> 00:21:34.460
audio and video. And will automatically upgrade

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existing Dolby Vision content to the newer standard.

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All you need now is a TV that supports the new

00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.000
imaging tech. Okay, so it is image and video.

00:21:45.740 --> 00:21:49.880
I guess that's kind of cool. I mean, you still

00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:54.160
need a new TV to do that, but that's kind of

00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:58.740
cool. Because you can hear the crack of a bat

00:21:58.740 --> 00:22:05.839
against a ball a lot louder now. Oh, LG. See,

00:22:05.980 --> 00:22:09.859
this is what... I'll never have this, but this

00:22:09.859 --> 00:22:14.880
is the dream, dude. I saw the LG wallpaper TV

00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:19.279
and it's got CES written all over it. There is

00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:25.920
no... But again, this is the silly that like,

00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:34.380
this is, this is like, if we moved out to like,

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if we all moved down to Colorado Springs and

00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.240
we had a geek cast radio network compound or

00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:43.359
something, and we all had our own various houses

00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:46.640
and homes on this compound or something. And

00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.940
we had like, you know, the, the LG wallpaper

00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:55.829
TV as a. actual art piece anyway there was no

00:22:55.829 --> 00:22:58.890
greater welcome to ces moment for me this is

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written by carrie wan uh managing editor at zd

00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:06.769
net this weekend then lg presenting the new wallpaper

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tv on a glass panel it's the return of an old

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model Now, with improved processing power, a

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high 165Hz refresh rate, zero -connect box support

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for wireless connectivity, and an ultra -thin

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profile, LG hasn't confirmed the official price

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and availability of the TV, but it did hint that

00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.259
it'll fall within the lines of the brand's other

00:23:33.259 --> 00:23:37.420
premium OLED sets. So, I'd ballpark it between

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:45.710
$2 ,000 to upwards of $20 ,000. i okay just the

00:23:45.710 --> 00:23:52.190
sound of the just this the lg wallpaper tv i

00:23:52.190 --> 00:23:58.890
mean it'd be nice for an instance of like i don't

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want a physical tv in my room when it's you know

00:24:01.430 --> 00:24:06.690
when i'm not using it yep yeah like i get it

00:24:06.690 --> 00:24:10.960
so this is what this to me is kind of like what's

00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:13.799
gonna what what is way later in this article

00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:18.259
like digital photo frames these wallpaper tv

00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:23.019
type things that's like what you would use like

00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:29.799
you would use it as a wallpaper type photo display

00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:37.509
thing like you know what's um Oh, God. Outside

00:24:37.509 --> 00:24:43.750
of what's the mountain range in Colorado Springs?

00:24:44.289 --> 00:24:49.289
No, not the Rockies. Anyway, yeah. Okay. So outside

00:24:49.289 --> 00:24:51.509
of you and your family going to the Rockies and

00:24:51.509 --> 00:24:58.730
having a good old time at 58 ,000 feet, taking

00:24:58.730 --> 00:25:01.829
a bunch of pictures and coming back and having

00:25:01.829 --> 00:25:03.789
those on. 58 ,000 feet. That's higher than Everest.

00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.579
okay whatever i'm exaggerating okay fine 10 000

00:25:08.579 --> 00:25:15.900
feet whatever point is like you could have the

00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:18.440
like you could have those on there for full frame

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basically family photos that are and again you

00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:24.319
would want something that and this is going to

00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:26.700
tie into something later that i'm going to talk

00:25:26.700 --> 00:25:30.339
about With this wallpaper TV, you want full frame

00:25:30.339 --> 00:25:34.059
photos as they kind of show in this, the picture

00:25:34.059 --> 00:25:37.099
that they show. You don't want vertical photos.

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You don't want, you know, bars here and there

00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:43.700
and everywhere. You don't want three and a half,

00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:46.079
unless you have like a million three and a half,

00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:49.480
three by five photos on this thing. You don't

00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:56.289
want that. Because no. Apparently it's all about

00:25:56.289 --> 00:26:00.970
micro RGB for TVs this year. There's never a

00:26:00.970 --> 00:26:03.509
dull moment with TVs and I blame manufacturers

00:26:03.509 --> 00:26:06.569
with their extensive dictionary of tech jargon

00:26:06.569 --> 00:26:09.670
for that. This year's hot word is micro RGB.

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A meticulous arrangement of LEDs that produces

00:26:14.049 --> 00:26:17.089
enhanced light control and accuracy. Samsung

00:26:17.089 --> 00:26:19.789
has a version of this. LG has a version of this.

00:26:19.829 --> 00:26:24.410
Sony, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. And then

00:26:24.410 --> 00:26:27.109
we get into all the AI stuff, and I really don't

00:26:27.109 --> 00:26:29.009
want to talk about any of the AI stuff that's

00:26:29.009 --> 00:26:31.230
at CES because I don't know if any of it's ever

00:26:31.230 --> 00:26:34.970
going to come out. I will say Mr. Two -Legged

00:26:34.970 --> 00:26:37.690
Robot Vacuum that goes up and down the stairs

00:26:37.690 --> 00:26:40.650
is kind of cool because it kind of reminds me

00:26:40.650 --> 00:26:43.369
of how I used to have to go up and down the stairs

00:26:43.369 --> 00:26:45.710
with an actual vacuum when I was a kid at my

00:26:45.710 --> 00:26:53.670
grandma's. As we already mentioned about the...

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I will say, though, AI in a robot vacuum does

00:27:00.450 --> 00:27:05.630
make sense. Because a company by the name of

00:27:05.630 --> 00:27:10.170
Narwhal has unveiled a Flow 2 robot vacuum, which

00:27:10.170 --> 00:27:13.829
makes one of the most convincing cases for incorporating

00:27:13.829 --> 00:27:17.049
AI into consumer hardware. With it, the robot

00:27:17.049 --> 00:27:20.089
can perform adaptive tasks such as cleaning more

00:27:20.089 --> 00:27:23.269
quietly when near a baby's crib, send reminders

00:27:23.269 --> 00:27:25.769
for misplaced items, and even notify you if it

00:27:25.769 --> 00:27:27.950
would detect something that you have marked as

00:27:27.950 --> 00:27:31.150
missing. So, yay, you can use your vacuum to

00:27:31.150 --> 00:27:33.130
find all your missing items under the couch.

00:27:34.869 --> 00:27:44.220
Oh, God. Then there was the... AI Vaporware,

00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:48.880
Project Lucy, and all that stuff. What if Humane

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:53.240
AI Pin and Rabbit R1 had a baby? Now, I know

00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:55.220
you're not a fan of the person I'm going to mention,

00:27:55.299 --> 00:27:59.480
and that's fine, but I saw MKBHD do reviews of

00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:02.619
the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1, and I saw a

00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:05.880
bunch of other tech reviewers do it too. I don't

00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:12.519
understand. pins ai pins really like no just

00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:21.319
no uh no no no no let's see here what else what

00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:24.160
is that oh so this is uh the thing that i mentioned

00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:26.539
earlier the digital picture frame turns your

00:28:26.539 --> 00:28:31.460
words into ai artwork i guess that's kind of

00:28:31.460 --> 00:28:33.799
cool which is what i mentioned earlier about

00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.759
the about the tv having your pictures on it,

00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.519
but this is literally a picture frame that is

00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.759
literally a vertical frame. The frame is vertical,

00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:49.140
but where the art would go is even more vertical,

00:28:49.380 --> 00:28:55.720
which will come up later. Here we go. Back into

00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:57.319
computers. Here we go. We're getting into computers.

00:28:58.190 --> 00:29:01.349
Ultra light, long lasting laptops is the theme

00:29:01.349 --> 00:29:04.450
with one exception, a rollable laptop with immersive

00:29:04.450 --> 00:29:08.329
viewing experience. Aside from Lenovo's announcement

00:29:08.329 --> 00:29:15.089
that is bringing back the XPS. Wait, what? It.

00:29:15.769 --> 00:29:23.750
Wait. Yeah. Dell has the XPS. Yeah, I know. It's

00:29:23.750 --> 00:29:27.170
a typo. Okay, aside from Dell's announcement

00:29:27.170 --> 00:29:29.589
that they're bringing back the XPS line, we were

00:29:29.589 --> 00:29:32.230
also impressed with this rollable laptop we saw

00:29:32.230 --> 00:29:38.730
at Lenovo's booth. The Legion Pro rollable updates

00:29:38.730 --> 00:29:42.650
Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 display, turning

00:29:42.650 --> 00:29:46.369
it sideways to expand horizontally from 16 inches

00:29:46.369 --> 00:29:49.710
up to 21 .5 inches, and then the full 24 inches

00:29:49.710 --> 00:29:53.109
in length. I think that's kind of cool, especially

00:29:53.109 --> 00:29:55.630
as someone who I've never been a fan of laptops

00:29:55.630 --> 00:30:01.109
ever, even when I was a kid, because I just don't

00:30:01.109 --> 00:30:05.869
like, I don't know. I've always needed a mouse.

00:30:06.789 --> 00:30:09.089
And I know I mean, I just have an external mouse.

00:30:09.549 --> 00:30:13.349
No, I was going to say, yeah, I know you can

00:30:13.349 --> 00:30:16.529
always get an external mouse. But like when I

00:30:16.529 --> 00:30:19.569
was trying to learn how to use a laptop in school.

00:30:20.089 --> 00:30:25.369
that didn't have external mice. I'm like, thumb

00:30:25.369 --> 00:30:28.289
here, finger here, especially only having to

00:30:28.289 --> 00:30:31.670
use one hand. I'm like, what the hell? Trackpad

00:30:31.670 --> 00:30:34.910
down here. Oh my god, this is... Press this,

00:30:34.930 --> 00:30:38.549
do the thing. No. But yeah, external mice for

00:30:38.549 --> 00:30:40.609
the win. But I do like how that screen looks.

00:30:43.970 --> 00:30:48.079
Thoughts on this? I mean, I love the idea. If

00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:50.640
I could get my hands on one, that would be great,

00:30:50.819 --> 00:30:58.180
but I just don't. Yeah. I think it's going to

00:30:58.180 --> 00:31:05.880
be crazy expensive, though. Yeah, probably. Like

00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:10.980
we already mentioned, Dell brought back the XPS

00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:20.190
line. So it's got the new XPS models are built

00:31:20.190 --> 00:31:24.309
with Intel's latest Series 3 Panther Lake processors

00:31:24.309 --> 00:31:29.730
providing up to 57 % and 78 % faster AI performance

00:31:29.730 --> 00:31:34.890
in the XPS 14 and 16 models. That's a selling

00:31:34.890 --> 00:31:42.230
point. Okay. Respectively, plus you can expect

00:31:42.230 --> 00:31:47.059
up to 27 hours of battery life. a 2K or 3 .2K

00:31:47.059 --> 00:31:51.420
display and much thinner design. Hey, at least

00:31:51.420 --> 00:31:54.000
I'm bringing them back, right? Through that.

00:31:54.819 --> 00:32:00.200
I love the Qualcomm thing, I think. Is this good

00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:07.220
or bad? Qualcomm's compelling case for buying

00:32:07.220 --> 00:32:12.380
mid -range laptops in 2026. Qualcomm has announced

00:32:12.380 --> 00:32:16.660
a new Snapdragon X2 Plus chipset at CES, and

00:32:16.660 --> 00:32:20.000
it looks promising for mid -range laptops. The

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.200
main model features a 10 -core Orion CPU, an

00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:32.039
updated Andrino GPU, and LPDDR5X memory. There

00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:34.880
are also some other nice -to -have features,

00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:38.720
such as Wi -Fi 7. Support Qualcomm Snapdragon

00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:42.349
Guardian security technology. and enhanced energy

00:32:42.349 --> 00:32:45.490
efficiency. If it all pans out, we can expect

00:32:45.490 --> 00:32:48.210
more performance laptops later this year that

00:32:48.210 --> 00:32:53.109
won't break the bank. Thoughts? I hate this.

00:32:53.529 --> 00:32:56.569
Okay. I wasn't sure if this was good or bad.

00:32:56.990 --> 00:33:02.769
It just means they're going to be about as useful

00:33:02.769 --> 00:33:07.349
as a smartphone. Because, I mean, it's the same

00:33:07.349 --> 00:33:14.640
technology. Bad Qualcomm. Bad. It's a mid -range

00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:17.359
laptop. It's meant for word processing. It's

00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:21.960
above a Chromebook, but not quite to the level

00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:33.700
of something I would use. Motorola debuting its

00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:37.140
first foldable. The jury's still out on that

00:33:37.140 --> 00:33:44.799
for me. I'm not... I don't know. I I've been

00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:49.440
inch. Okay. So for me, the thing about the foldables

00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:55.279
is the only reason why I want one and I don't

00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:58.019
want it to like, I don't want it to have it.

00:33:58.059 --> 00:34:02.079
Like I, Oh my God. I like, it isn't like, okay.

00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:05.000
So for example, even though it's across the room,

00:34:05.099 --> 00:34:09.480
the hot rod with matrix glow in the dark Funko

00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:17.530
pop. hello he's hot rod i had to have it whoa

00:34:17.530 --> 00:34:21.929
it's me like had to have it had to figure it

00:34:21.929 --> 00:34:25.349
out whatever whatever i have to do you know i

00:34:25.349 --> 00:34:29.670
will go to great lengths to figure that out agreed

00:34:29.670 --> 00:34:36.570
the only shut up who's messing with you yeah

00:34:36.570 --> 00:34:41.360
i know i know the only reason And I don't even

00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:43.639
know if it's going to work. That's my problem.

00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:47.380
Like, and I, and I don't think my, my dad, well,

00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:51.000
my dad won't because my dad's an iPhone guy until

00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.679
Apple releases their fold. But cause my dad really

00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:57.659
isn't like, he has a phone. He uses it. I don't

00:34:57.659 --> 00:35:00.579
know what he uses it for other than to make phone

00:35:00.579 --> 00:35:04.659
calls. And that's it. Like he sometimes will

00:35:04.659 --> 00:35:07.699
make, we'll do texting, but not often. Anyway.

00:35:10.090 --> 00:35:14.070
Point is, is the only reason why, like, I don't

00:35:14.070 --> 00:35:19.170
want a tablet. I don't want, I want to fold for

00:35:19.170 --> 00:35:23.650
one reason only. I want to test out the Amazon

00:35:23.650 --> 00:35:32.449
Kindle, the comiXology version of Amazon, because

00:35:32.449 --> 00:35:34.630
I want to see what they did to guided view on

00:35:34.630 --> 00:35:40.760
mobile. And I can't do that. on my google pixel

00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:45.760
7 pro because it's not the same it's stupid it's

00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:52.039
screwed up and on on desktop it's even worse

00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:56.619
so i figure oh i must need a tablet or something

00:35:56.619 --> 00:36:00.639
similar and i figure oh the fold or a fold a

00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:05.119
foldable phone i should say is the next best

00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.579
type of thing because it's a two -in -one yada

00:36:08.579 --> 00:36:12.440
yada yada yada so i've been looking at foldables

00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:16.880
since they were a thing and i've been following

00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:20.880
that category and i'm like oh cool motorola i'll

00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:24.539
see it when whenever mr mobile because mr mobile

00:36:24.539 --> 00:36:27.780
michael fisher is the king of foldables he is

00:36:27.780 --> 00:36:32.619
the foldable lifestyle uh tech reviewer that

00:36:32.619 --> 00:36:35.320
i know I don't know him, but you know what I

00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:39.019
mean. I follow the guy. Okay, so I'll wait on

00:36:39.019 --> 00:36:42.659
Motorola, but I have seen people talk about the

00:36:42.659 --> 00:36:52.460
Samsung Galaxy trifold. Oh, God. And I have seen

00:36:52.460 --> 00:36:58.159
other trifolds. I think the Huawei Mate X something

00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:03.130
or other, XT, XS. There was some Huawei version

00:37:03.130 --> 00:37:08.349
of a foldable, of a tri -fold, where the screen

00:37:08.349 --> 00:37:11.809
folded out instead of in, where the Samsung Galaxy

00:37:11.809 --> 00:37:15.369
Z tri -fold folds in. You actually can only fold

00:37:15.369 --> 00:37:19.949
this thing one way. It actually literally haptics

00:37:19.949 --> 00:37:22.769
your hand to the point of, if you fold this more,

00:37:22.989 --> 00:37:24.969
it's going to break and you're going to void

00:37:24.969 --> 00:37:28.780
your warranty. just vibrates your hand to the

00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:33.139
point of, Oh God, no, don't stop. Literally my

00:37:33.139 --> 00:37:37.019
no, don't stop line from how high, Oh God, no,

00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:41.179
don't stop. You know, uh, all that, but I've

00:37:41.179 --> 00:37:44.079
seen several of the tech reviewers discussing

00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:50.340
this and it, I only need like a foldable. That's

00:37:50.340 --> 00:37:54.860
a one fold. I don't need a, or I don't need the.

00:37:55.210 --> 00:37:58.769
this but have you seen this thing have you seen

00:37:58.769 --> 00:38:00.869
i don't know if i i don't think i've sent you

00:38:00.869 --> 00:38:04.389
videos of this but have you has this come across

00:38:04.389 --> 00:38:09.110
your feet at all the samsung z trifold yeah i

00:38:09.110 --> 00:38:11.809
have no ambition to get this thing right i know

00:38:11.809 --> 00:38:14.190
you have no ambition to get it i understand that

00:38:14.190 --> 00:38:16.750
but have you seen it other than in this photo

00:38:16.750 --> 00:38:20.550
here no but i don't really follow the foldables

00:38:20.550 --> 00:38:25.420
like if i was going to get one it it would be

00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:33.079
it would legitimately be for the the razor oh

00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:41.599
yeah so like i don't i don't love the idea i

00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:43.360
mean i like the idea of them because they get

00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:45.900
bigger but at the same time i don't love the

00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:51.039
idea because at some point they're going to be

00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:55.840
damaged right And I think with the Samsung Galaxy

00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:59.840
Z tri -fold, I think the cool thing about it

00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:04.420
is it's a, I don't know what this spec is off

00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:06.780
the top of my head. I don't know if it says it

00:39:06.780 --> 00:39:12.599
in here. It does not give numbers. I think the

00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:15.099
outer screen, if I remember correctly, when it's

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:20.940
fully folded, it's a six and something. It's

00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:26.059
like 6. two or 6 .6. It's like a normal, it's

00:39:26.059 --> 00:39:29.079
a very thicker, normal, regular outer screen

00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:32.719
phone. When it's in the unfolded state, it's

00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:36.360
basically a 10 inch tablet, very thin 10 inch

00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:40.079
tablet, but it's a 10 inch tablet. And I don't

00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:43.340
know the, the idea of being able to carry that

00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:46.199
around in your pocket. I don't know. It's just,

00:39:46.260 --> 00:39:51.460
it's not something I want, but. Just the idea

00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:59.440
of that could exist and whatever evolution the

00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:06.219
Samsung Galaxy Z trifold 234 or whatever evolution

00:40:06.219 --> 00:40:09.960
Google uses with whatever their folds are going

00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:22.579
to be has me curious. let's see here the return

00:40:22.579 --> 00:40:26.260
of blackberry no thank you there's so many different

00:40:26.260 --> 00:40:38.179
smart glasses too yeah very true oh okay so this

00:40:38.179 --> 00:40:43.340
is um i will say this is again another michael

00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:45.300
fisher thing it's not a michael fisher thing

00:40:45.300 --> 00:40:50.760
but so The return of BlackBerry. Smartphone authorities,

00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.480
particularly those who long for the days of BlackBerry,

00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:55.739
are likely familiar with the brand Clix. This

00:40:55.739 --> 00:40:58.440
year, the company is releasing two new accessories,

00:40:58.820 --> 00:41:02.019
one in the form of MagSafe keyboard that doubles

00:41:02.019 --> 00:41:04.699
as a wireless charger, and another that functions

00:41:04.699 --> 00:41:08.320
like a BlackBerry. The former, Clix Power keyboard,

00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:10.679
is launching at a relatively accessible price

00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:14.059
of $79. and is a snap -on nature allows you to

00:41:14.059 --> 00:41:16.539
operate your phone in both portrait and landscape

00:41:16.539 --> 00:41:20.900
orientations. The Klik's communicator, because

00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:24.880
Michael Fisher is a Star Trek fan, features similar

00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:27.980
physical QWERTY keyboard, but also has a display

00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:32.840
3 .5mm headphone jack and microSD card slot,

00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:35.559
effectively serving as a secondary device for

00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:37.940
messaging that will go on sale later this year

00:41:37.940 --> 00:41:42.760
for $500. I've seen videos. I've seen him do

00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.079
the announcement video for this. I've seen the

00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:48.300
company video for this. It's kind of cool if

00:41:48.300 --> 00:41:52.719
you actually want a keyboard again and not have

00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:55.920
to do your digital, your on -screen keyboard.

00:41:56.460 --> 00:41:58.480
Honestly, for me, and I know people are going

00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:02.019
to throw tomatoes at their podcast players when

00:42:02.019 --> 00:42:06.780
I say this, I prefer voice typing. Much easier

00:42:06.780 --> 00:42:13.480
for me. i've i've gotten to the point where i'm

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:15.579
just like i don't feel like sitting here typing

00:42:15.579 --> 00:42:19.159
up like a paragraph's worth of crap yeah the

00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.519
only time i type is actually on my computer ditto

00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.659
so yeah i mean there have been times i've wrote

00:42:25.659 --> 00:42:31.219
part of my articles through my phone yep and

00:42:31.219 --> 00:42:33.159
then put them on the computer and then edited

00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:48.329
from there you know Yep, yep, yep. I think the

00:42:48.329 --> 00:42:51.250
last thing I'll mention this really quickly and

00:42:51.250 --> 00:42:56.389
then we can probably kind of probably end this.

00:42:56.429 --> 00:43:00.429
Yeah, switch gears over to my other rant, but

00:43:00.429 --> 00:43:07.619
the voice -based health tracking from Luna. The

00:43:07.619 --> 00:43:10.199
health wearables on the market today all sync

00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:12.760
up with an app to tell you your health metrics.

00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:16.840
But Luna is changing that. At CES, Luna introduced

00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:21.079
the Luna band that offers voice -led health guidance

00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:25.719
powered by Luna's AI engine. So wearers can record

00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.079
health information without opening the app. This

00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:33.239
means wearers can log their mood, meal, or workout

00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:36.059
in the moment without the fuss of grabbing their

00:43:36.059 --> 00:43:40.280
phone, opening an app, or logging manually. The

00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:43.119
Luna Band uses an AI engine that connects to

00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:46.559
Siri to deliver health biomarkers like sleep

00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:49.820
activity, stress, nutrition, and moods through

00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:53.980
earbuds or other compatible devices. Oh, so it's

00:43:53.980 --> 00:43:57.260
only an Apple thing right now. That sucks. Figures.

00:43:57.579 --> 00:44:00.599
I mean, I've seen things like this before, like

00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:02.699
even when I was writing tech articles as far

00:44:02.699 --> 00:44:06.719
back as 2019, and I was writing... stuff about

00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:08.760
things that were coming up at CES there were

00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:14.559
things like this you know they're just with AI

00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:18.320
engines now which it can be good and bad like

00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:23.380
AI is good in some regards as far as like helping

00:44:23.380 --> 00:44:29.760
gather information or helping to you know work

00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:35.050
through a difficult you know editor process But

00:44:35.050 --> 00:44:37.590
it can also be wrong. And when you're talking

00:44:37.590 --> 00:44:40.090
health care, you're talking there's the high

00:44:40.090 --> 00:44:42.429
possibility somebody is going to get misdiagnosed

00:44:42.429 --> 00:44:50.389
and they're going to sue. Yep. Yes, exactly.

00:44:50.630 --> 00:44:55.550
Please don't sue. Or just don't trust the AI.

00:44:55.710 --> 00:44:58.869
Have a brain. Yeah, exactly. That too. Yeah.

00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:02.639
Before you go on to your next subject, I got

00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:06.880
something rather cool for Christmas. Oh, OK.

00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:09.679
We're doing a Christmas break. Well, I'm doing

00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:12.679
just because I'm looking across my office right

00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:16.739
now and I can see it. I got the it's like the

00:45:16.739 --> 00:45:22.039
Jada toys like. Nano middle fig. It's no, it's

00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:26.940
like a metal car of the DeLorean from Back to

00:45:26.940 --> 00:45:30.420
the Future 2. ah nice yes yes uh my son picked

00:45:30.420 --> 00:45:33.300
that one up for me uh just because i was pointing

00:45:33.300 --> 00:45:34.639
it out when we're going through the toy aisle

00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:36.340
because we always go through the toy aisle when

00:45:36.340 --> 00:45:38.679
we go to like targeter or walmart and we're at

00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:46.539
walmart and um they took that opportunity to

00:45:46.539 --> 00:45:53.960
get that for me and that was my oldest my youngest

00:45:53.960 --> 00:46:00.670
decided to buy a one of the playmates toys power

00:46:00.670 --> 00:46:06.030
ranger morphers for me and he mentioned how it

00:46:06.030 --> 00:46:08.949
looked you know he's like didn't you want this

00:46:08.949 --> 00:46:11.309
like and i was showing like oh there's a vegeto

00:46:11.309 --> 00:46:13.849
or whatever on the shelf and yeah that i didn't

00:46:13.849 --> 00:46:17.429
have yet for my dragon ball collection and i

00:46:17.429 --> 00:46:20.590
have the the larger version of it this was just

00:46:20.590 --> 00:46:23.429
like the the cheaper yeah one that to go with

00:46:23.429 --> 00:46:26.349
it i'm like i don't need it it's cool but i've

00:46:26.349 --> 00:46:28.969
put it down before the morpher i've been more

00:46:28.969 --> 00:46:32.590
like i'm like it's actually cheap enough and

00:46:32.590 --> 00:46:35.530
i was gonna buy the master morpher when it was

00:46:35.530 --> 00:46:39.090
out but um it sold out before i could even get

00:46:39.090 --> 00:46:42.909
a pre -order yeah uh i had it in my cart and

00:46:42.909 --> 00:46:45.849
i was clicking pay and it was like sold out and

00:46:45.849 --> 00:46:47.670
i was like this is ridiculous like i literally

00:46:47.670 --> 00:46:50.050
had it on hasbro pulse and pulse is annoying

00:46:50.050 --> 00:46:54.949
like it's It's trash. I wish it would have hit

00:46:54.949 --> 00:46:57.030
BBTS because I would have just left it and paid

00:46:57.030 --> 00:47:02.269
it. But I was fully intending on spending the

00:47:02.269 --> 00:47:04.289
money and just dealing with the consequences

00:47:04.289 --> 00:47:11.849
of it later. And I was like, well, I'm never

00:47:11.849 --> 00:47:13.989
going to get that one because it's like $400

00:47:13.989 --> 00:47:18.889
to $1 ,000 now on eBay. So I was like, well,

00:47:18.949 --> 00:47:21.369
whatever. I guess I'll never have it. And I 3D

00:47:21.369 --> 00:47:24.889
printed a Master Morpher a while back. And it

00:47:24.889 --> 00:47:27.030
was on my old printer before I got this one.

00:47:27.110 --> 00:47:31.570
And it looked like crap. It was super janky and

00:47:31.570 --> 00:47:36.030
just junk. So I never printed a coin for it.

00:47:36.050 --> 00:47:37.769
So it just sat in my cabinet next to my Rangers.

00:47:37.929 --> 00:47:41.690
And then my son got me this Morpher from the

00:47:41.690 --> 00:47:43.389
Playmates things. And it's got sounds and it

00:47:43.389 --> 00:47:45.619
lights up. you know they're like how does it

00:47:45.619 --> 00:47:49.800
work and i did the morphing sequence like the

00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:52.840
whole hand pose thing and yep yep the morpher

00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.400
and pop it open and they're like oh that's awesome

00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:59.340
that's so cool and so i told them i says i'm

00:47:59.340 --> 00:48:01.320
gonna turn this into a master morpher and they're

00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:03.639
like how are you gonna do that and i says i got

00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:07.519
skills that's right so i went to walmart and

00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:10.159
i bought like a can of gold like metallic gold

00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.010
spray paint and it's not like fully metallic

00:48:14.010 --> 00:48:17.030
but it's so blasted like it doesn't have the

00:48:17.030 --> 00:48:19.829
the glossy sheen to it and i probably could have

00:48:19.829 --> 00:48:23.130
sprayed that on there but in roundabout way i

00:48:23.130 --> 00:48:26.010
was like i don't care if it shines because it's

00:48:26.010 --> 00:48:28.409
going to sit in a cabinet but i also don't have

00:48:28.409 --> 00:48:32.150
to hand paint it and it'll look um more refined

00:48:32.150 --> 00:48:35.829
so i i covered up the the red part where it says

00:48:35.829 --> 00:48:38.190
power rangers because i don't i don't want to

00:48:38.190 --> 00:48:40.710
sit there and have to do all the little black

00:48:40.710 --> 00:48:43.630
and red dots and squares from the master morpher

00:48:43.630 --> 00:48:46.829
um unless i print like a decal to put on there

00:48:46.829 --> 00:48:51.610
um so i i took the morpher i taped the crap out

00:48:51.610 --> 00:48:54.949
of it taped up that taped up the the part where

00:48:54.949 --> 00:48:58.030
the coin sits i sprayed the coins because they

00:48:58.030 --> 00:49:03.110
were like a weird flat matte bronze color yeah

00:49:03.110 --> 00:49:06.389
and the morpher was just like this pale gray

00:49:06.389 --> 00:49:11.099
and it just looked cheap um And so anyways, I

00:49:11.099 --> 00:49:14.420
sprayed them all gold and took everything off.

00:49:14.500 --> 00:49:17.039
Now they shine like the coins do. And so does

00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:19.579
the morpher. And then I painted the sections

00:49:19.579 --> 00:49:23.920
that, you know, where it has the kind of arrows

00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.860
on the morpher itself in the center that are

00:49:27.860 --> 00:49:29.519
supposed to be black. Anyways, they were like

00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:33.079
a dark gray or medium gray on a light gray. And

00:49:33.079 --> 00:49:36.480
I was like, this looks stupid. I painted it black.

00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.340
And then, so anyways, it's sitting in my cabinet

00:49:38.340 --> 00:49:40.559
and I'm like, okay, I'm perfectly happy with

00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:42.940
this. Now I got to print some Tommy Oliver coins.

00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:47.039
And, and, and I mean, I know in a year from now,

00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:49.280
they'll probably come out with his morpher and

00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.960
then I'll probably buy it anyway. Yeah. Um, but,

00:49:52.980 --> 00:49:56.260
uh, or I might not, I mean, if I print them and

00:49:56.260 --> 00:49:57.820
they come out fine, I'm just going to leave it.

00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:00.960
Yeah. But, but I, I was like, Hey, this is cool.

00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:04.469
I'm, I'm excited about this. Very cool, very

00:50:04.469 --> 00:50:14.230
cool. Yeah, I completed the Batman Beyond Funko

00:50:14.230 --> 00:50:23.289
Pop line last year. So they released the four

00:50:23.289 --> 00:50:27.349
new ones, which is Blight, Armored Bruce, and

00:50:27.349 --> 00:50:30.690
then Batman Beyond with the mask, and then...

00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:35.079
Terry unmasked. So that was the new line, the

00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:38.679
new wave. And then at the end of last year, right

00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:41.820
before the holidays, they had New York Comic

00:50:41.820 --> 00:50:45.099
Con. And of course, at New York Comic Con, they

00:50:45.099 --> 00:50:50.280
had to have a Batman Beyond figure that was exclusive

00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:53.360
to that. And that was a battle -damaged version

00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:56.239
that was based off of the Lost Soul episode.

00:50:57.260 --> 00:50:59.820
where the suit is damaged. It's the episode where

00:50:59.820 --> 00:51:01.619
the suit's damaged and they have to repair it

00:51:01.619 --> 00:51:08.639
because Vance and he, he invaded Terry's suit

00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:12.340
and green and red and whatever and all that.

00:51:12.539 --> 00:51:19.920
So yeah, that, that was my Christmas. So, you

00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:23.039
know, now if only Batman would stand up without

00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:25.159
falling down, don't fall down, don't fall down.

00:51:25.260 --> 00:51:33.380
There we go. So yeah, that was Christmas. Speaking

00:51:33.380 --> 00:51:38.079
of the new year, folks, as of January 8th, the

00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:44.059
news came from comingsoon .net. At least that's

00:51:44.059 --> 00:51:48.440
where I got it from. But Disney apparently was

00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:57.840
at CES this year. Per the Hollywood Reporter,

00:51:58.260 --> 00:52:02.679
Disney Entertainment and ESPN executive Aaron

00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:06.739
Teague has confirmed that the company will officially

00:52:06.739 --> 00:52:13.400
be adding... I can't reach the bottom of my desk

00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:15.860
to hit my head against my desk for this, but...

00:52:16.510 --> 00:52:22.809
short firm short form video short form vertical

00:52:22.809 --> 00:52:27.289
video on disney plus as a new feature that is

00:52:27.289 --> 00:52:30.650
expected to launch over the next year this comes

00:52:30.650 --> 00:52:34.650
after espn introduced verts into its app last

00:52:34.650 --> 00:52:39.489
august it was described as espn's modern video

00:52:39.489 --> 00:52:43.070
experience that reimagines the sports fans can

00:52:43.070 --> 00:52:46.719
watch video clips Its launch helped Disney with

00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:49.539
understanding the user response to vertical video.

00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:54.340
We want to bring the best of what makes our live

00:52:54.340 --> 00:52:57.539
products great, from ESPN to ABC News to Hulu

00:52:57.539 --> 00:53:00.460
Plus Live TV and all into this unified environment,

00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:04.179
Teague said. We're also thinking about mobile

00:53:04.179 --> 00:53:07.300
-first experiences. We know that mobile is an

00:53:07.300 --> 00:53:10.840
incredible opportunity to turn Disney Plus into

00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:14.250
a true daily destination for fans. So that's

00:53:14.250 --> 00:53:17.170
exactly what we're going to do. She continued,

00:53:17.349 --> 00:53:19.590
over the next year, we are introducing vertical

00:53:19.590 --> 00:53:23.369
video experiences on Disney+. Think all of the

00:53:23.369 --> 00:53:26.769
short -form Disney content you want all in one

00:53:26.769 --> 00:53:30.550
unified app. Over time, we'll evolve these experiences

00:53:30.550 --> 00:53:34.449
as we explore applications for a variety of formats,

00:53:34.570 --> 00:53:37.809
categories, and content types for a dynamic feed

00:53:37.809 --> 00:53:40.909
of just what you're interested in, from sports,

00:53:40.949 --> 00:53:43.900
news, and entertainment. Refreshed in real time

00:53:43.900 --> 00:53:50.239
based on your last visit. Please, God, no. No,

00:53:50.260 --> 00:53:53.980
don't, and stop. What the hell is wrong with

00:53:53.980 --> 00:54:01.619
you people? Oh, my God. Okay, so for clarification,

00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:05.760
they do specifically say this is for mobile.

00:54:06.599 --> 00:54:09.800
So thank God I don't watch enough Disney Plus

00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:15.079
on my phone. But when I first saw this, I'm like,

00:54:15.300 --> 00:54:18.940
I swear to God, if you people show me a vertical

00:54:18.940 --> 00:54:21.739
video on my 55 inch television, I'm going to

00:54:21.739 --> 00:54:29.460
kick your ass and then unsubscribe. So it's for

00:54:29.460 --> 00:54:33.800
the mobile app and that's fine. That's great.

00:54:33.900 --> 00:54:40.320
Whatever. But like, I just don't get it. Like.

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I understand if you want to see a, like a sports

00:54:44.380 --> 00:54:47.219
highlight, or if you want to want to see a news

00:54:47.219 --> 00:54:50.920
story highlight, like whatever kind of thing

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on ABC news or whatever, that kind of thing.

00:54:56.619 --> 00:54:59.440
And I get it. If you want to see, like literally

00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:04.280
I just saw the full frame version of the Disney,

00:55:04.380 --> 00:55:11.449
whatever it was, what was it? It's, um, It was

00:55:11.449 --> 00:55:14.690
Doof and Perry. Oh, it was the chibi thing. That's

00:55:14.690 --> 00:55:18.510
what it was. It was, um, where is it? It's down

00:55:18.510 --> 00:55:22.150
here somewhere. Where'd it go? Come on, YouTube.

00:55:23.349 --> 00:55:27.190
Show me the grain. Show me the grain. Super grain.

00:55:27.949 --> 00:55:33.650
Sorry. I had, uh, uh, fifth element in my brain

00:55:33.650 --> 00:55:38.400
for there for a second. I'm just going to look

00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:41.119
in my history because apparently it's not going

00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:43.559
to show it to me in my subscription page. Why

00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:50.079
would it do that? So anyway, there was a video

00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:55.280
that came out the other day. There it is. Dr.

00:55:55.460 --> 00:55:59.400
Doof and Perry take a day off. Chibi Tiny Tales.

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So they did this full thing. It's a one minute

00:56:04.460 --> 00:56:09.199
and 11. Minute and 11 video. Apparently they

00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:14.780
also did that with vertical video. Well, since

00:56:14.780 --> 00:56:16.980
shorts on YouTube can be up to three minutes,

00:56:17.159 --> 00:56:20.000
it's technically a short. So I guess they're

00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:23.079
going to do that stuff also now on Disney +,

00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:27.280
which is fine as long as it's just the mobile

00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:31.460
app and not the website and not the TV. Because

00:56:31.460 --> 00:56:36.480
if you do it on my TV, nope. Mike's going to

00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:44.280
riot. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. A rioting will be happening.

00:56:50.059 --> 00:56:54.980
But. Yeah. So I think that about rounds this

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episode out, don't you? Yep. Yep. Happy 2026,

00:56:59.059 --> 00:57:05.269
everyone. Yep. So. I think that about wraps it

00:57:05.269 --> 00:57:08.389
up. And then next episode, I might talk about

00:57:08.389 --> 00:57:11.590
some of the things I'm working on with the website,

00:57:11.809 --> 00:57:15.369
the top 100, and then some theories I have on

00:57:15.369 --> 00:57:20.250
Doomsday. Oh, we're going to do Doomsday trailers,

00:57:20.329 --> 00:57:26.050
are we? Yes, we're going to hash those out and

00:57:26.050 --> 00:57:31.369
then discuss rumor mill and theories. So that'll

00:57:31.369 --> 00:57:35.420
be a fun one. yes yes yes i'm so glad i waited

00:57:35.420 --> 00:57:37.539
for all those to actually come out because i

00:57:37.539 --> 00:57:40.079
saw a couple of fake ones or a couple of users

00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:43.199
there were a ton of fake ones oh my god no don't

00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:46.500
it's like i wanted to wait until there were actual

00:57:46.500 --> 00:57:52.420
actual actual trailers from mark like every time

00:57:52.420 --> 00:57:54.960
a fake one came out i immediately went to the

00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:56.780
marvel entertainment youtube channel i'm like

00:57:56.780 --> 00:58:02.139
nope if it ain't here it ain't nowhere Agreed.

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So, yeah. So. So until next time, thank you for

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