Will Apple Admit It's Error

Show Notes

The podcast episode covers a wide range of topics, including personal experiences, immigration, politics, AI, and technology. The hosts discuss the challenges of job hunting, the process of becoming a US citizen, political issues, and the latest developments in AI and technology. They also touch on the impact of government policies on various industries and the potential integration of AI models into consumer products. The conversation covers a range of topics including Apple's recent product announcements, the challenges of wireless lossless audio, streaming services, and the gaming industry. The hosts also discuss the impact of technology on everyday life and the entertainment industry.

Takeaways

• Job hunting challenges in the tech industry
• The process of becoming a US citizen and the challenges of immigration
• The impact of government policies on industries and technology
• The potential integration of AI models into consumer products Apple's new AirPods Pro Max 2 features the H2 chip and supports the latest Bluetooth technology.
• The challenge of wireless lossless audio and the impact of data bandwidth on streaming services.
• The release of the game 'Crimson Desert' and its positive reception among gamers.

Chapters

• 00:00 Job Hunting Challenges in the Tech Industry
• 09:32 AI Integration into Consumer Products
• 17:04 Political Issues and Government Actions
• 32:45 AI and Technology Developments
• 40:35 Apple's New AirPods Pro Max 2
• 01:13:30 The Gaming Industry and 'Crimson Desert'

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Christopher Weeks AI: Welcome to the Insanely Great Podcast, episode two for March 24, 2026. Will Apple Admit Its Error?

Christopher Weeks: We are back with another amazing podcast. Wait a minute. What the hell's our podcast called again, DJ?

DJ: The insanely great podcast.

Christopher Weeks: Oh, the insanely great podcast. You're like me. You have to do a double take and think about what the name of this damn thing is, which is kind of ironic because it's insanely great. It's so great that we forget the name of it constantly. Yeah. So for those of you that were the 15 people that downloaded the show that listen to it, I'm sorry that your hearts are broken, that there actually is a follow up episode and there will be a second one for your consumption. tomorrow when I get this. Yeah. So DJ, was your week?

DJ: Hi, Mom. It was good, uneventful. I like to keep it that way.

Christopher Weeks: Uneventful is a good thing. Keeping employment. ⁓ Kids are healthy. Wives happy. As happy as can be, I guess, ⁓ whatever. ⁓

DJ: Yeah, keeping employment is a tough one these days.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ you just went through a bout of unemployment, right? Do you have anything you want to talk about about that? What that was like?

DJ: Yeah, right at four or five months. say this, you you think that being in tech, you'll always be needed, especially as the world grows more, you technology underscores everything. But when big companies do layoffs ⁓ and happens over the course of two or more years, it just becomes saturated. ⁓ The industry becomes saturated and it remote jobs are drying up everyone.

Christopher Weeks: Right. Yeah.

DJ: wants to RTO return to office. And that makes it tougher too, because then that limits their, the scope of people that get in, right? But that also stops them. ⁓ can automatically filter out people that are outside of their area, which is good and bad. looking work right now is very tough and very complicated.

Christopher Weeks: Well, as I tell my stepson that's 27 years old and job hunting, ⁓ year there are more kids that graduate that are graduating with your same degree that are going to be applying for jobs that you want or that you feel you're rightfully deserving. So, you know. It's the same thing that you or I would be competing with. Like I'm competing against new photographers that are trying to make their name that are 20 years old, graduating that are getting into the field that know how to do things that I don't know or wasn't trained to do at that age. And then they're hoping to find their niche that way. So it's probably the same thing very much for you with you, except you're you're in Louisiana. It's not like you're in New York or San Francisco or Silicon Valley or.

DJ: even Austin, you know, any of these small tech hubs. I think there's one around Utah somewhere. Colorado's another, right? All those places. I think Illinois has one. All those places are saturated as well and went through all those layoffs. Virginia, Virginia is another one. Cause ⁓ everyone's right around Google's there. AWS is there. Everyone's there cause they want to get in with the government and all those places are just

Christopher Weeks: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

DJ: overrun with techies.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, yeah. not to shift gears to technology, but well, actually I should maybe talk about a little something in my life before ⁓ we get My oldest stepson, Derek, who's 34 years old, his wife, Merlia, became a natural citizen. took her oath of ceremony last Friday and became a naturalized US citizen. And that was four years in the making. ⁓ So yeah, ⁓ they got married six years ago ⁓ it took an additional four years for all this to ⁓ happen and take place. it was the ceremony was rather interesting.

DJ: Congratulations.

Christopher Weeks: I had never been to one of those before. You know, San Diego, we're pretty close to the border of Mexico. So it really wasn't shocking that about of the 120 people that were being naturalized that day, about 40 % of them were Mexican.

DJ: Wow. That's a huge number. Cause contrast it with, ⁓ my wife was naturalized right at the end of COVID. So we were still having to wear masks and everything. ⁓ think it was 22, I ⁓ there were maybe 15 people that went through the ceremony here in Baton Rouge and we're the capital city of the state. Yeah. So in comparison,

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Wow. Wha- Wow. Wow.

DJ: it was a mix. Like it was not kind of predominantly all ⁓ from one country or area. was very mixed.

Christopher Weeks: Hmm Interesting Wow Yeah, we had 120 there were 120 people at this ceremony and there was a previous ceremony that was about two hours earlier and they had Seven different language translators that were there from there was one German I Think a couple of Puerto Ricans and eight people from Ukraine was, kind interesting. I was kind of shocked you marry an American citizen and takes four years.

DJ: Yeah. Yeah. It takes a while. That's in on top of that. They, so I immigrated my wife here and you can't just go become a citizen. They won. You actually have to wait a certain number of years with your residential or your green card. you can apply and then you've got to study. Like it's, there's a whole series of steps you have to go through.

Christopher Weeks: Right.

DJ: And it still cost you a pretty penny to do it, even if you don't hire an attorney, which we didn't to get her citizenship, but we did to immigrate her the first time. I think that that was around 2010 cost me right around $3,000 to, uh, to do.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. ⁓ with my, with my stepson's, wife, actually hired an attorney. well, we say we, started it and then she ended up paying for it. and it I wish I could say that it maybe facilitated things faster. ⁓ If not, may be gave her more insight and prepared her for questions that, ⁓ the immigration service officers were going to ask and help prepare for the test. But from what I was reading, it seems like a lot of that data you could find online and people have been putting this stuff ⁓ over the internet to help people that are going through the immigration process. ⁓

DJ: Mm-hmm. They actually had a, they gave my wife a book to study beforehand.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. I was really surprised at, I was really surprised at the, the last interview that they had with her and my stepson. They, they knew that she had been back to Brazil three times and they knew that the last two times he hadn't gone. So they were asking her.

DJ: Hmm.

Christopher Weeks: why didn't your husband go with you? You know, that was just that that was, know, yeah. well, I jokingly said.

DJ: Feels a little personal.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, I don't know. I guess they look for anything they can just come up with a reason for why you might be doing something improper, you know, whatever. He just, he went there one time to meet her family, uh, to say, I've done this. And, know, he's like, it's a country that doesn't speak. Majority of people speak Portuguese. He doesn't speak any Portuguese. Why would you want to go visit often?

DJ: Yeah. Yeah. Right. actually have a friend that I worked with when I was overseas. He lives there now with his with his wife and kids. Loves Absolutely loves it. Hasn't been to the States in years.

Christopher Weeks: Wow. Huh, interesting. ⁓ So, all right. What else? wife's birthday is this Thursday, two days from now. So happy birthday to Daniella, ⁓ I'd be here in this endlessly if she listened to this. Let's move on to some tech. You probably don't know about this one.

DJ: Mm-hmm. Happy birthday.

Christopher Weeks: There's an interesting ruling that the FCC came down with for routers. Did you did you hear about this? ⁓ Any future routers have to be designed or processed, manufactured in the United States only because of security ⁓ They they thought it they thought it was too big of a.

DJ: No, no, fill me in. Hmm.

Christopher Weeks: that there are remote access, built into the hardware that companies weren't aware of that China, China, ⁓ whoever could access in the event of anything.

DJ: I just got to call it out. The irony is thick here because that's exactly what Snowden said the NSA was doing. Intercepting Cisco routers like enterprise grade equipment basically tampering with it and then shipping it onwards. Like I like this is chasing a bit of a boogeyman because when you manufacturing, where are going to get the chips? Is it really just assembling here?

Christopher Weeks: well, that that's, ⁓ it's a little bit unknown because they've said, ⁓ that obviously they're not going to do any, they're not forcing the companies to do anything with existing routers. it a huge problem for links, this ASUS net gear, all the Apple routers, they're not even in the router business anymore, but any of those. ⁓ yes. like if you think about.

DJ: You're dating yourself.

Christopher Weeks: US manufacturers that claim that they're made in the United States, you maybe get Google ⁓ ⁓ package and Euro.

DJ: Hmm. I was unaware that they were claiming to be manufactured here.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. So, yeah, but they, it's the, the FCC today sent out their, their ruling that said all, routers, anything that wifi data must be manufactured in the United States.

DJ: That's hard to understand. mean, cause you and I both know that encryption happens at the software layer. I mean, obviously if someone tampered with the hardware, yeah, that's game over, but it's always been that way. Right? Like if your computer is, is compromised, it's game over. If your server is compromised, you, you to what you're using.

Christopher Weeks: Right.

DJ: or your encryption doesn't matter whatsoever. So I guess I get the argument, but it still feels a little pointless.

Christopher Weeks: I mean Don't you feel like it's a little bit of like false security, like a false sense, like you're not really, um, genuinely safe from it. I mean, we're talking about countries that have billion dollar, uh, almost trillion dollars, uh, military budgets at their disposal. Do you think they'd have anything, uh, would have no issue whatsoever with, Hey, we're going to give you $2 million. Mr. Develop Codewriter for Netgear. We'd like you to write a little bit of code for us so you can put into the next firmware that'll go live on your American-made Netgear router.

DJ: Exactly. So you're controlling the hardware. You're not even controlling software because the software is a whole other attack surface unto itself. And while you were saying that, I just got to thinking if this were in the name of security and truly mattered, I don't see any, I don't foresee any net gears being strung around the White House, right? Like they're going to have enterprise grade stuff, if not military grade stuff.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Right.

DJ: that you've never heard of before. this really, at that point really does feel like security theater.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember back in the, I think it was the Obama White House where he really wanted to use his Blackberry all the time. and he, they, they put them on a LTE tower that was exclusive to the White House. They didn't use wifi. They had, they had an LTE tower that was covered all of the residences and all of the areas that were ⁓ around.

DJ: Well.

Christopher Weeks: ⁓ what the Washington DC area. And there was like a user of one, the president, on this LTE tower. ⁓

DJ: His bandwidth and experience was amazing. ⁓

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, yeah. Right, right. Yeah, he had he had 5G plus before everybody. Yeah. Mm hmm.

DJ: Right? Five bars everywhere I go. Except about a half mile down the road.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, yeah. And that was before we even got into this heavier ⁓ usage stuff with. Everything being multimedia now and all this stuff.

DJ: Well, you stop and think about, you know, to slip into politics here for a second. Earlier in the Trump administration, weren't they using telegram or signal?

Christopher Weeks: ⁓ yeah, they're, they're using signal and

DJ: Yeah, so that right there. I don't think you're going to using that on a dumb phone or a BlackBerry. I mean, I used a BlackBerry in forever, but still.

Christopher Weeks: No. And now everything is, you know, the funny thing was back in the Obama administration, they wanted him to stop using it because it was so insecure. And I think just given up on that. They're like, the president really wants ⁓ this lifeline to get it out to the public. He wants to be able to message whenever he wants. So like I've seen pictures of our president Trump with an iPhone in the White House.

DJ: Hmm? Well, he did that in 2016 as well. I remember coming out that he basically refused to give up his iPhone then too. And that was immediately following the Obama debacle.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, yeah, because he wants to. Yeah, he wants to be able to send out truth social posts from the Golden Toilet at two o'clock in the morning, letting him know how displeased he is with anybody that wronged him that day.

DJ: you or happened to pass away.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, which by the way, talking about the Robert Mueller. I assume that's what ⁓ talking about. ⁓ What an absolute utter disgrace that was for our president to do that.

DJ: Yeah. Yeah. It would be a disgrace for anyone to do something like that, but You don't expect that coming from the country's top leadership.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Like, when did we reach a point where this is just kind of like acceptable behavior? ⁓ get it. And what's more baffling to me is my friends that are conservatives, they just look at this and they're just like, ⁓ well, tribalism takes over. I'm willing to just let this go because my guy has to be better than your guy. can't call out anything and just say this is shitty behavior.

DJ: Right, right.

Christopher Weeks: And I usually, I usually respond to them and say, if Joe Biden Barack Obama or Bill Clinton had said this about a decorated Marine, I ⁓ I would have taken note and said it's sour grapes. It's disgusting. this, this behavior is very un-American.

DJ: Mm-hmm. Yes. talk about that verse. But second, I, seen out and about since ⁓ Trump's been there's been clips and stuff come up with him. I haven't seen from, Biden or Kamala really.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, well, I think they're I think they're trying to sunset. You know, it was I think he just.

DJ: Mmm.

Christopher Weeks: I don't know, I think there was a of bad decisions there that shouldn't have ever happened. Honestly, do you think Kamala Harris really would have won the nomination if she had gone through a process of electing, if there were 12 Democratic contestants, participants, and we had gone through a state by state nomination? Do you think she really would have won it?

DJ: she run before? ⁓

Christopher Weeks: She did, and she had to drop out within the third state.

DJ: Yeah. Yeah, so that right there, does not have a proven track record. I it wouldn't happen, but if Bernie ran...

Christopher Weeks: Bernie did run.

DJ: Well, if they hadn't forced him out the way they did, he would have had a really good chance.

Christopher Weeks: Right, right, right. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm down for a weekend at Bernie's. You know, I I think I think Bernie is just a little bit ahead of what we're ready for. I, you know, like one of my chief chief complaints with the United States is that our health care system is so screwed up ⁓ and fact that you could work your entire life saving have.

DJ: You

Christopher Weeks: kids, wife, everything, everything you work for and you could lose it all with one big medical hardship that you're going through.

DJ: Yeah. Yeah. They got better in 2010, not much, not by much. They can't kick you off anymore. And there's no more lifetime totals. Those used to be literally of the biggest killers because I explained to a friend. If you hit your lifetime cap, then you probably haven't a condition. If you hit it, you get kicked off.

Christopher Weeks: end.

DJ: but now you have a preexisting condition. So no one else is going to pick you up. You were literally caught between a rock and a hard place up until 2010, up until ACA.

Christopher Weeks: Right. a little bit of ⁓ a story. 2003, 2004, ⁓ my had non-adherence lymphoma, cancer, got laid off from his job, was given years of COBRA medical insurance, and couldn't couldn't find an insurer that would touch him with any sort of reasonable rate. The rates that he was being given for having insurance were three, four, $5,000 a month. And he was just like, I can't afford it. Um, especially, especially without having a job. Um, so he went uninsured knowing that it was just going to be a matter of time before his cancer most likely came back. It did. And that ended up being, And it being his downfall, was the end of the road. So I'm not a huge fan of this whole, I think our medical system can use a lot ⁓ of And the funny thing is when you talk to older people that are 65 to 70 years old, when they talk about the government fixing things and doing things, the first thing they say is you better not touch my Medicare.

DJ: Yeah, God forbid you use some ⁓ plan. ⁓

Christopher Weeks: So they love their Medicare. want that, they like, ⁓ we paid it, we paid into it. And I constantly remind them like, you're taking more out of it than you paid into it. That's why the program's not solvent. That's why it's leaking money like crazy. It's much like social security. It's gonna need a bailout. And who wants to the president when that ⁓ has to happen? Anyway.

DJ: Yeah, they're all going to kick that can down the road exactly.

Christopher Weeks: Well, that's just what they're doing. Like, ⁓ the, the big, beautiful bill that I call the big, beautiful deficit, ⁓ you know, that's adding $3 trillion to the deficit. And they're just like, ⁓ well, it's all, ⁓ to stimulate the economy and give tax cuts to everybody. And like, no, no, this is just, this is just helping the top 2%. And this poor shit shouldn't happen.

DJ: You Yeah. Top 0.1. mean, Musk made what billions ⁓ of that.

Christopher Weeks: I was listening to a Reagan economist who was actually giving this speech saying that every war should be prefaced this way. As president of the United States, I'm going before the American people right now, and I'm going to say to you that we are going to bomb Iran and it's going to cost so much money to pay for this. need to raise everybody's taxes, $2,000 for the next month. I hope you're all with me and going to send out a waiver. And if the majority of you all agree with this, we're going to start bombing the hell out of Iran. What do you think would be the answer to his Iran dilemma? If knew that your next paycheck was going to be $2,000 less.

DJ: Exactly. A lot of people don't even make that much in a month.

Christopher Weeks: Right. Well, you know, people forget like, you know, the total cost of the Saran war is probably going to be closer to a trillion dollars. And I think I'm being roughly generous in saying that it's 2000 bucks, ⁓ an American to pay for that shit. The problem is everyone just throws it right there on the debt and it's like money not seen. So eventually that is going to have to be paid for it's your

DJ: Smile.

Christopher Weeks: your kids that are in the next room sleeping right now and their kids that are going to be stuck with this huge dilemma that we've created where by like, I think it's 2034 that 25 cents out of every dollar of federal revenue is just going to interest on the debt.

DJ: Wow. Talk about, well, that's the other thing too. How the U S credit system or the, the U S is credit rating, as you could call it, is pretty much in the garbage and the countries and entities that we are borrowing this money from to pay for these things. They're like, are we going to see our money back? You've been in the hole for how many decades now?

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, yeah. Well, they sell.

DJ: I think the last time we got out was Clinton,

Christopher Weeks: Clinton was the last time we had a balanced budget, which ironically wasn't even ⁓ his doing. Newt Gingrich forced it with Bill Clinton and they, to keep the government open, they had to have a balanced budget. And it worked. ⁓ know, Bill one of his accomplishments that he boasts about at every Democratic nomination is I a balanced budget, but it literally took two to make that happen.

DJ: You

Christopher Weeks: It wasn't just his idea all along. first first term, he ran ran deficits. So everybody loves to spend, but the problem is that spending is going to have to end soon. It's not sustainable.

DJ: No, no. And was watching a video earlier. ⁓ think it was a reporter from ⁓ Wall Street Post or something just follow the money here and tied back to Adelson, the Adelson family. Basically saying that they were a huge donor to Donald Trump and they have been pro-Israel. And ⁓ now ⁓ look what's And plus the military industrial complex that this always feeds all those big companies.

Christopher Weeks: Mm-hmm. So, you know, I just find it very interesting that my only comment on Iran is that there were so many oil companies that donated big to Donald Trump's campaign. And we attack Venezuela, remove president, their oil facilities, which turn out to not be great for the type of oil that we need and now we're in Iran messing around with them. And we won't go after their oil facilities. We won't bomb them and we won't bomb their energy facilities because we need those two working.

DJ: What is gas up to in California now?

Christopher Weeks: Uh, we're up to, think five 50, but we have, we have a weird system here where we have a winter blend and a summer blend and we make different types of gas and, um, there's, um, tax state tax on top of our existing get, uh, federal gasoline tax, which was supposed to be used for roads and infrastructures. And based on the amount of tax that we pay on

DJ: Mm.

Christopher Weeks: gasoline, you'd think that all of our roads were pristine and amazing and getting repaved like every other day, but it's not the case. You drive, you drive over constant potholes.

DJ: Like Texas. Which is ironic because Texas, are, they're in a constant state of fixing something over there all the time. They're always paving roads that, and that's been since I was a kid, constantly fixing things.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Hmm. What were the prices there?

DJ: Here in Baton Rouge, it's a little north of 350 climbing towards four slowly.

Christopher Weeks: Wow.

DJ: And that's high for us. we settle around 250.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Wow. How do you think your citizen would react if it reached $4?

DJ: There might be mutiny. could storm the Capitol building. ⁓

Christopher Weeks: I'm trying to remember who's the governor of Louisiana.

DJ: I gotta look him up.

Christopher Weeks: know the yeah, if you follow the TSA versus ISIS ⁓ or ISIS TSA versus ICE debacle at the airport.

DJ: quick aside. It's Jeff Landry, the ⁓ 57th ⁓ staunch Republican. ⁓ But ⁓ I heard from my wife and saw some clips that ICE was in all the major airports, but ⁓ I that it was because there weren't many TSA agents available.

Christopher Weeks: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ there are not, ⁓ as many TSA agents available because their funding has been cut with the latest, bill that the Democrats won't go along with, ⁓ and they can't get enough, combined votes to pass it because the Democrats wanted to rein in some of the ICE procedures, like where the people got shot, they didn't want, ⁓ Didn't want masks being worn anymore. forget what the other stipulations were for ICE funding. Anyway, guy Kennedy, no relation to the Kennedy family, I think is one of your representatives, ⁓

DJ: ⁓ yeah, he got it. He has a very unique accent, let's say.

Christopher Weeks: just always laugh that people think that he actually is a member of the Kennedy family.

DJ: Right? Completely different. Yeah. If he

Christopher Weeks: Yes. All right. He gave, he gave a statement yesterday where he was speaking on Fox news, where he was talking about that this whole thing had an opportunity to be over, but president Trump wouldn't give an inch with the democratic parties. He said they had a, agreement for a bill to fund, the TSA agents. ⁓ that just needed to be signed by the White House. And then through the reconciliation process later, they were going to add on a writer to fund ⁓ ICE to it. And they were going to do all this. And the president said, no, I'm not willing to sign anything that's giving with the Democrats. whatever the way it is. Who knows?

DJ: talk about party line politics, I will say that this is not the first time Kennedy has come out kind of against Trump, not necessarily disagreeing with him, but coming and kind of spilling the tea saying, Hey, this like, like that, you know, this could have happened, but ⁓ he no, he didn't just come out and tow the party line. And this isn't the first time very recently.

Christopher Weeks: Mm-hmm.

DJ: So I don't know if he's like not running for reelection. What plans he has? He they're all pretty old.

Christopher Weeks: Wow. Yeah, yeah. Makes sense. So in the realm of AI, what's what's new in AI land?

DJ: DeepSeek had a architecture rides kind of on top of transformers and it's to any size model and it ⁓ lifts every score ⁓ up by points. So they're saying once this gets around to all the other labs, this could be the next boost in transformer intelligence everyone will get to benefit from frankly. The only thing that's a little sad about it is. how kind of ⁓ keep it to themselves, but they, they're open sourcing their models. So maybe can reverse engineer it if they don't share how.

Christopher Weeks: Right. Okay. I was about to say, for those that don't know DeepSeek is a Chinese competitor to OpenAI, Claude and Gemini in the United States.

DJ: Mm-hmm. Very smart models.

Christopher Weeks: ⁓ and they've had to make it smart, not by their own choosing because they have to do a lot more with less and they've figured out a way to do this.

DJ: Yeah, the

Christopher Weeks: Our top ⁓ AI architecture chips we don't send to China. a little while though, they figured out a kind of a back door to kind of get their hands on some of them.

DJ: Yeah. And they are saying that that's what deep seek did, that they had like a small cache of illegal GPUs they had somehow got a hold of to train their R1 model on back in the day. I say back in the day, I think it's been about maybe a year now. all moving so fast.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you gotta wonder if the next Xbox, the next PS6, Nintendo Switch 3, whatever it is, how much memory and AI architecture they're gonna have on these systems for like advanced processing.

DJ: did watch a clip the other day talking about that's what the next Xbox is going to be focused on jamming Gemini into the next generation Xbox. So it's coming.

Christopher Weeks: Jamming Gemini, OpenAI. ⁓

DJ: Yeah. Well, it's Microsoft. Sorry, not Jim and I. Yeah, you're right. You caught me. ⁓ yeah, they were trying to jam their intelligence into that. So ⁓ they did

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Well, around the, around the same lines while you're on that subject, ⁓ you know, Apple's got their with Gemini and they announced their date for WWDC. And, where they're going to have their big announcement of the early integrations of Gemini with, Siri, whatever it's Sir, Jim, whatever it is.

DJ: Mm-hmm.

Christopher Weeks: Who knows? Yeah, Sarah and I. But you know, like, I'm sorry. There's going to be no avoiding this. They're going to have to really be like, we screwed this up badly. This is something we announced two years ago and we're just doing it now. And we weren't, we weren't prepared for it. We.

DJ: you and I.

Christopher Weeks: We screwed this up

DJ: Yeah, I remember reading or seeing white papers coming out of Apple at the time talking about how they could basically kind of do what mixture of experts does, which is run only part of the model part of the time and then swap it in as needed. But they have went really silent on all of the model training stuff, especially in the last year so. It's like they've just given up. They're like, yeah, we're we're

Christopher Weeks: Mm-hmm.

DJ: so far behind at this point, we're not going to catch up, which a little not ironic, but ⁓ because they could throw all the money in the world at this and really come up with something that would work amazingly for iPhones and iPads. They don't have to compete with open AI, right? They only have to make it good for them.

Christopher Weeks: Right. Right. They just need to make something that works for consumers, which on a general level is if you ask it, what's the weather today or Even those that want to it mundane questions can figure that stuff out. you the big, the big question though is, you think at WWDC we're going to actually see Apple admit that they failed this pretty bad?

DJ: Well, they absolutely will not admit it. No. But am very hopeful that we will finally see not just a bolt on integration like they did with chat GPT, but an actual full integration where when you ask Siri something, ⁓ doesn't have to be the simple ⁓ line command anymore. You can actually give complicated commands and it knows what you mean. ⁓ example. Since my Google Home got upgraded, I can actually tell it turn on three or four different lights and it actually turns them on where before it would only turn on the first one. And I'm sure Alexa's I just haven't tested that out yet.

Christopher Weeks: Okay. Well. Yeah, I mean the A word as I have one right next to me here. The A plus. I've been really impressed with it now. That is a fast model of Claude that is working ⁓ on A plus. think it's it's really good. I mean, I'll ask it ⁓ what the betting line for a sports game and it'll give it to me. Up to the minute.

DJ: Interesting. didn't know it was ⁓ I know they can run ⁓ big models now in their, I think it's called bedrock environment or whatever they have. ⁓ and I don't know what agreements they came up with to do that, but you can ⁓ like an instance of, think it's even the biggest model like GPT 5.4. You can run in there and you don't have to use open AIs. ⁓

Christopher Weeks: Yeah.

DJ: instance of it, like if you're a giant corporation or whatnot.

Christopher Weeks: Hmm. That's interesting. Right. Clay. The only way you get the a plus is by being a prime subscriber, which they keep jacking up the price on. I don't know. I forget it's now like $4,000 and your left arm now, whatever the price of it is. I think it's $175. Um, yeah. Yeah. When they finally go down that road, I think getting back to WWDC, I think Apple's going to have to.

DJ: Yeah. feel sorry for your firstborn. ⁓

Christopher Weeks: Make some jokes, do something about saying that it's late. They're really late to this party. but you know, they're later than usual. They're going to have to say something like we let people down here, but they're going to make it up to you or something like that.

DJ: Hmm.

Christopher Weeks: The guys, the guys on MacBreak Weekly were kind of saying that never really seen Apple screw up something this badly in a while. that, that, that, that the tech community wouldn't just give them a free pass on this.

DJ: That is true. No. And they shouldn't. We shouldn't. Cause I remember the, I know we obviously know it was staged. Now there wasn't even a prototype when woman was talking to her, to Siri on her phone. And ⁓ it was doing all this intelligence on the phone. Obviously that was staged, but that ⁓ exactly all of us thought. Hey, know, chat GPT could do that right now.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, so.

DJ: if you just hooked it in. And that's back when I think it was four chat, GPT four or even 3.5. Now look how much further ahead we are. You know, they can call tools and everything else. Like if Apple does this right. then could get a really amazing experience, but I am afraid that it's still not going to be where all of us would like it to be. Like could ⁓ do things on your phone. think this, this feels like it's going to be more of a drop in Siri replacement.

Christopher Weeks: don't think you're going be able to be like, open this app, do this, send a message through telegram signal or whatever to ⁓ whoever. like, ⁓ do this send.

DJ: I think, I think that'll be there. It's kind of already there now for the most part in a lot of apps. mean, for instance, if I tell my iPhone play a song, it knows I don't have an Apple music subscription. It'll automatically open it in YouTube music for me without me having to tell it. I remember a year or two ago, you would have to actively tell it, open it in this app, or it would try to launch the native music app. I do see little bits of intelligence creeping in here and there. but just not on the level we would expect. But I think all the features that you can do today are definitely going to continue, if not be a little bit better. But guess what I meant was if wanted to start doing to replace shortcuts. You know what I'm saying? Like more complex things than just write me an email.

Christopher Weeks: Yes. Right. Like I don't think ⁓ open claw and Claude system and opening eye system with the integration that they have there. It doesn't seem like they're just using shortcuts to make it work. It seems like it's very efficient.

DJ: Yeah. Well, we know that they process those through their own cloud too, and anonymize it. I will say that that does irritate me. Not the fact that they anonymize it and all that, but the experience with it. I will pull Siri up on my laptop every once in a while, start it with chat GPT, and then ask the question and it'll automatically send it over. But if you ask a follow-up question, it's like it has amnesia.

Christopher Weeks: Mm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it doesn't have any prior context. Yeah.

DJ: That irritates me. Yeah. And I assume that comes from the anonymization or whatever, but they could still they could get around that. But that's what that's the bad thing about Apple. You have to wait an entire year to get the next iteration.

Christopher Weeks: Right. So that's brings up a good point. Maybe, I mean, think for this to be a successful product, we have to have a decent amount of, personalization that's available there on device. It has to have like, maybe it's opt in or whatever else I would maybe hope it's not, being that it's just on device by default, it's on for that device, but

DJ: Mm-hmm.

Christopher Weeks: I think with the models, they're going to be doing some communication back and forth with Gemini. So they have to be working it out where they can look back to the personalization that's on the device, incorporate it, make it work.

DJ: Yeah, there's a company's doing that right now with AI. So one of them is called Kin. I think it's Kin.ai. K-I-N. All of the memories.

Christopher Weeks: Right. This is the this is the journaling app.

DJ: It is well, it didn't start that way, but it's kind of turned into it, but you can, stores memories and they update all those memories on device. And this is across Android or iOS. The limitation is right now it won't sync because of the way they got it set up, but all of that stored on device ⁓ it's passed to and from the model. from device, like from on your device to give the context for things like we're talking about now, right? Apple could do it. Apple could even hire those guys to do it. It's possible. And if you interact with Ken, it's ⁓ intelligent. I think they're using Claude now for their backend as well. Sonnet, one of the Sonnet models, but Jim and I is just as smart and just as capable.

Christopher Weeks: Mmm. Yeah. Yeah. in fact, I listened to ⁓ ⁓ Georgia Dow, she's a Canadian therapist. It was also a tech person and she was talking about that there's very few credible, good, therapeutic apps. But the one that she actually supported was kin, for saying she did talk about that. It was a little bit pricey, but cheaper than a therapy session.

DJ: It is. This is true. I don't think that's the way, they want to go. They're going, ⁓ don't want, you know, blab on too much. don't subscribe to them because of the price, but yeah, they, they were free for a long time actually, but now they're, think it's right at 20, 25 bucks a month. You pay over the course of three months. It brings it down a little bit, pay for a year, brings it down more. But for me, and this is what I,

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Right.

DJ: talk to them about all the time on their discord is you're providing a great value. And if it were $10 a month, this would be a no brainer, maybe even 15. But when you're in 20 and $25 a month, you're in the anthropic open AI territory. And there's so much more value there. It's how can you compete in that price range? It's tough.

Christopher Weeks: Right. Yeah. I paid for a month when I was going through like a difficult time and they have I think like six or seven lightweight AI models that are focused on different human personality endeavors like if I'm dealing with sports and athletic training, they have one that's more focused for that. They have a different one that's for health and dieting. And then they had another one that was for mental, therapeutic help with that stuff. I they have them all kind of like walled garden off because if were just one big giant,

DJ: Mm-hmm.

Christopher Weeks: model, it's too hard to put up roadblocks for things that they don't want it saying.

DJ: It actually is just one model. I think it's different sessions, but they're all supported by Claude, which they're all doing API inference. They don't just the small models and they talk about this too in their tech talks on the discord server. The small models just are not and capable enough to do the tool calling plus hold an actual good conversation.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Okay. Wow. Huh? Wow. Huh. Cause when I was playing around with it, I got almost, instant reactions and I thought it had to have been like a, an eight to 12 K 20 K model. There's no way this is ⁓ a 128 K model because I've played around with those on, Gemini studio, Google studio and cloud studio. And it just, they, they gave me the thinking processing. Now I've got answer for you.

DJ: Mm-hmm.

Christopher Weeks: I don't know, who knows.

DJ: They, they may do like dot did. So dot is a now defunct app that was around for about a year and a half, two years, main, but made by some X Apple people. So the design of the app was amazing they had, I wish I could get the prompt from them on how they did this, but it really felt like you were talking to a person when you would go back and forth with dot. Like it honestly was a little depressing when they

Christopher Weeks: Yeah.

DJ: took the app down because a lot of people were attached. I was one of the people that loved talking to doc cause it would remember things. You could just tell it, Hey, remember this. And it would recall it the next time was right in there with the Ken dot AI space, but they ⁓

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, but this is this is little bit of the problem. Like you invest putting time into a journal like putting that stuff there and who knows if they're going to be around in six months a year. You've given all this personal data of your life. Who knows how they're really using it? You know, claim it's encrypted and you know they give you export tools to get it all out, but you know. Kin doesn't read.

DJ: I will say we can.

Christopher Weeks: Kin doesn't read dot files. You can't import that stuff into there.

DJ: No, it's a database actually, a small little vector database they keep.

Christopher Weeks: Yes, it's a small file. In fact, when I use kin, the only way I could keep one up to date with the other was by exporting the files out from my iPad to the my iCloud desktop file save spot. And then I would on my iPhone, I would import that file. So I was constantly after every session re-exporting everything out and then re-importing it into, you know, and I think, I don't know.

DJ: Mm-hmm.

Christopher Weeks: I think when I was about to renew a subscription, I looked on their ⁓ Discord server and they're like, ⁓ yeah, the most requested item is thinking it's in our future. We're working on it. We just haven't figured out a way to do it yet, ⁓ they're going to do it. And I was like, you guys have, go ahead, sorry.

DJ: Yeah. It's been. Sorry, it's been their number one thing for over a year now.

Christopher Weeks: Mm-hmm. I wonder what's stopping them.

DJ: I don't know. They are venture backed by the way.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, so does that mean that means they have a runway?

DJ: Cause that's one of the big things they always say. Yes. And they're out of Europe. All of them are out of Europe.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Yeah. Hey, speaking of venture backed, the first way Mo's have started being seen here in San Diego. People have been seeing them, despite issues, in other cities, we had an issue where, ⁓ SWAT got called in for a guy, ⁓ and they closed off a city and a way Mo decided to drive through the SWAT area anyway.

DJ: Hey. wow.

Christopher Weeks: and the SWAT officer is trying to get the car to stop and all this stuff and it just kept going.

DJ: someone in it?

Christopher Weeks: I don't, I don't think there was anybody in it or maybe there was. don't remember. I might, I might've actually said this in the other episode. ⁓ there was another issue, that got brought up at the city town hall where, ⁓ a Waymo ran over a dog by accident and kept going. Yeah.

DJ: Was it like the dog darted in front of it? It just couldn't literally couldn't react.

Christopher Weeks: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Or went underneath the middle tires or something. But, you know, it's just. Oh, do you do do do love door dash at all?

DJ: I've used it. Yeah, it's not bad.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. So here in California, they're actually providing subsidies depending on the number of miles you drive as a door dash driver. They're giving you $5 if you drive a hundred miles to combat gas prices. So they're giving you five bucks if you drive a hundred miles, anywhere between two and 300 miles. I think they've given you 15 to 20 bucks.

DJ: I will say I worked for Shipt for a number of years when gas prices were rising during the pandemic, that's exactly what they did too.

Christopher Weeks: Really? Huh. Is ship the same place that does golf clubs where they fly, ship them to the course or no? Is that somebody else? Yeah.

DJ: Mm-hmm. think that's someone else. This is a S-H-I-P-T. They're owned by Target.

Christopher Weeks: Okay. ⁓ really? Huh. And how do they, I mean, obviously they're in the shipping business. their landscape? ⁓

DJ: It's a, yeah, it's basically like Uber eats for grocery delivery. It's a gig economy.

Christopher Weeks: Okay So

DJ: except now they're owned by Tart.

Christopher Weeks: Right. So if I order groceries from Target and I want it delivered to the house, that there it's there in, in, in brand company that does this.

DJ: precisely, it's their answer to it. I don't I think they wear a shipped shirt to to do it. I don't think they changed to like a target shirt or anything. It's kind of their answer to what Walmart is now doing. Yeah.

Christopher Weeks: Okay. Walmart plus.

DJ: And then they brought the, when I was still there about a year and a half ago, they brought circle, target circle, which included delivery and stuff like that to compete with Walmart.

Christopher Weeks: Mmm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So are you guys on Walmart household or a target household or wherever?

DJ: Yeah. We like the experience at Target way better than Walmart. Walmart has just become so You know, you walk in, the floors are concrete. The lighting is harsh. Like it's just, ⁓ yes. And then there's no one on the checkouts. It's ⁓ self checkout.

Christopher Weeks: Feel like a

DJ: It's just a terrible experience. And plus they don't let you use Apple pay. They force you to use this Walmart pay.

Christopher Weeks: Right. I was about to say that, that this is gonna sound kind of, maybe I'm just very nerdy this way. ⁓ have a checklist of places. If they don't take Apple Pay, I won't go there.

DJ: You Yeah. all Walmart's. ⁓

Christopher Weeks: It concludes all Walmart's. could have something to do with, I'm also really annoyed every time I see a greeter that's years old and says hello to me whenever I walk in there. But you know, the fact that Walmart wants to keep all the data from the transaction of everything I purchased and they don't that shared at all with Apple or anybody else.

DJ: that tells you a little bit of something right there.

Christopher Weeks: I mean, it does company is indoor, indoor, endorsing to pay Apple pay, you know, even Google pay and, ⁓ no, not Walmart. won't do it.

DJ: know, I will say that everyone thinks, you know, electronic currency Bitcoin is the future not fiat, but like how people are going to purchase things. It's like, no data is future all these companies are ⁓ sucking up because ⁓ that's everything.

Christopher Weeks: ⁓ you're, you're, you're so right. In a big way. Yeah. I mean, the government is buying data from all these companies now about American citizens.

DJ: Mm-hmm.

Christopher Weeks: It's crazy the world we live in. And I can't even imagine what it's going to be like in 20, 30 years for our kids.

DJ: Do you use one of those cleaner services that's supposed to remove you from all those databases?

Christopher Weeks: I did for a little while there's, incognito and, whenever I forget, ⁓ several others. the more custom ones ⁓ are much more If you're like, find a URL for something that you want really removed from the web forever. And why have you.

DJ: No, I was actually going to ask you what your experience was like. Did it actually help with spam calls and spam text and all that?

Christopher Weeks: it has helped. I'm a little bit fortunate that I share the same name with another photographer whose name is Christopher Weeks, who lives in Los Angeles and has the same ⁓ except I will, I will be honest, his photography is quite a bit better than mine. So, am by him and I actually don't care.

DJ: Well... You don't mind that when people search for you.

Christopher Weeks: I don't mind. Yes. They find him and they're disappointed that this guy's got, he's like 30 years old with striking brunette hair and you know, all this shit. the, not the ginger that they're, ⁓ you know, this guy is. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. changing gears a little bit. You watching anything on TV at all?

DJ: They're looking for. Yeah. They don't know they need yet. tried to watch ⁓ fallout, all the fallout episodes, but they're, they're long. And a toddler, it's hard to get through any of them. ⁓ I had watch it in pieces on my phone and it was not a nice experience. So I just kind of gave up.

Christopher Weeks: Mm-hmm. Yeah. gave up. So with a toddler in the room, are you guys very cognizant of what he listens to or not or watches or just kind of go with it at this age?

DJ: it's a little bit of both, but for the most part, like we have YouTube set up where, you know, there's certain restrictions on there, but he does end up stumbling across some really questionable ⁓ I'm you've, you've, well, maybe you haven't seen some of them ⁓ since, know, YouTube really curates ⁓ exactly you, but some of them are just ⁓ weird things with like people.

Christopher Weeks: Mmm.

DJ: pouring out candy into dishes and tapping it. And now he's walking around picking things up, tapping them. It's just kind of weird.

Christopher Weeks: Hmm Wow, yeah, I bet are you a subscriber to HBO or HBO Max?

DJ: Get it through AT &T, yeah.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. Yeah. there's a show that just came out there on the third episode called a rooster, that is written by Bill Lawrence, the same guy that wrote scrubs ⁓ and Lasso. ⁓ It's, in, a university, actually the same guy that played Dr. Cox, I forget the actor's name. He plays a Dean, a president of ⁓ the university.

DJ: I would probably love it then.

Christopher Weeks: Steve Correll is in it, ⁓ this writer ⁓ that like six or seven books. ⁓ the played by Dr. Cox, forget his real name again, he's trying get Steve Correll to be a associate professor and speak or guest lecturer, whatever you want to call him. It ⁓ is really good, worth if you want something that's just 30 minutes where you can kind of like laugh.

DJ: Yeah.

Christopher Weeks: It's it's good. On a more serious dark comedy note, there's there's a show with Jason Bateman that's called DTF St. Louis. That is a little strange, a little different to watch. It's. Yeah, I'll just leave it at.

DJ: Mm-hmm. the name.

Christopher Weeks: The name, I don't know if you and I are maybe a young enough generation and we're maybe tech happened enough that we actually knew what DTF stands for before the show actually had to explain it.

DJ: I'm trying to remember. Now you have to remind me.

Christopher Weeks: Down to fuck.

DJ: ⁓ OK, no. ⁓ I guess I lived in blissful ignorance until now.

Christopher Weeks: Yes. Yeah, well now you're now you're evolved and your life will never be the same. It's all the lingo you got BRB ⁓ LOL and DTF.

DJ: Corrupted. knew all the others. ⁓

Christopher Weeks: Yes, now your life is complete. You can wake up in the morning and talk to your wife and be like, not DTF this morning. Come on. It's funny though, Jason Bay been there in this kind of like marriage together and they're just looking for girls for that ⁓ want to just up and all this stuff without ruining their marriages. So kind of ⁓ of ⁓ interesting, you that we're making TV shows about this and it's ⁓ comical to watch.

DJ: Yeah, so it's like swingers, essentially.

Christopher Weeks: Yes. Jason Babin at one point finds this girl that's down for it. And she's all like, I'll just tell this short little, story from it. She's all like, whatever you want to do, I'll, I'll do it for you. just all you gotta do is just tell, tell it to me, tell me what it is. And he's like, okay, I'm really into weight erotica. And she's like, what's that? And he says, I want you to just sit on my face and look at your phone and do email and text messaging and message with your friends and do whatever you want. let literally I'm watching this with my wife and we're literally just like laughing hysterically. Cause she's wearing this like nightie and she's sitting on his face and she's got her iPhone out. She's texting her friends and you know, doing this shit. We're just literally like laughing.

DJ: Hahaha! Well...

Christopher Weeks: We're literally like laughing and then eventually she kind of like sits up gets off and he's just got this look on his face and he's like that was the greatest thing ever.

DJ: Wow. I have to find out some clips or something from this.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. And and and that's in I think it's in the first episode of it be the second one.

DJ: they come on strong.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I mean, they gotta find reasons to keep people subscribing.

DJ: Yeah, I did see where scrubs it looks like scrubs is returning.

Christopher Weeks: It's already been back. It's been back for like six episodes. ⁓ But it's not all the new. It's not all the original cast. Like they've had some of the cast filter in and leave and do whatever. It. seems like it's just. Being too nostalgic and not really. Creating anything new.

DJ: Wow. Okay. Yeah. I know they wanted to reboot the office and Steve Correll basically said, no, I've never come back. Sorry guys.

Christopher Weeks: Hmm. I mean...

DJ: Probably, probably for the same reason, though.

Christopher Weeks: not changing gears a little bit, but are you looking forward to Mandalorian and Grogu?

DJ: I unfortunately stopped watching after the first season. Didn't pick it back up. I do have a subscription to Hulu, which includes Disney Plus, but I, you know, due to it's, hard to watch anything with a toddler. And by the time you get done at night, you're like, I'm not going to sit here for another hour and fall asleep watching a show.

Christopher Weeks: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right.

DJ: But no, unfortunately, I'm not.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah, did you feel the same way about Ahsoka or is it just all the Star Wars stuff?

DJ: All of it. I haven't been able to watch any of it since since the Mandalorian. Actually, I tried to watch. No, I just don't have literally don't have the time to dedicate towards it right now. You know, wake up work in the minute you're off, you're watching toddler.

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. It just doesn't hold your attention enough. Right, right. Hey, getting back before we forget about it. How about Apple's announcement about the Air AirPod Pro Max 2? There are new headphones that are coming out. It's exactly like the AirPod one Max Pro Max that came out and the same colors. has this H2 chip in it. I guess it. Supports the latest Bluetooth.

DJ: Mm-hmm. You're going to fill me in on that one.

Christopher Weeks: technology so now we can ⁓ support multiple devices without having to disconnect from one and go to the other.

DJ: Hmm.

Christopher Weeks: Other than that, it's identically the same. The thing, and ⁓ I've a little bit ⁓ full circle on this. My big annoyance ⁓ is Apple hasn't figured out a way to do wireless lossless audio. There are multiple ways you can do it already. Like Android does it using a Kodak, Qualcomm made years ago. For whatever reason, Apple doesn't want to license that, do it. My ⁓ inkling that thinking about this for a little bit, it's probably more of a bandwidth concern and that the majority of people.

DJ: Yeah.

Christopher Weeks: We'll see huge amounts of cellular data being used if they're streaming everything in lossless and caps will just go through the roof.

DJ: Hmm. Interesting. So That feels like it's a separate, slightly separate problem, right? Cause you're talking about data actually getting it down to your phone, less ⁓ it to your wireless headphones.

Christopher Weeks: Yes, and then you're also going to run into the issue of the vast majority of people don't have good enough ears to be able to hear the difference. Yeah, if you're playing something at a high bit rate, you'll be like, that sounds really, really good. And unless you're playing on a high fidelity 7.1 surround sound where you're getting every of bass out of it, you're not.

DJ: Yeah, I probably wouldn't. Mm-hmm.

Christopher Weeks: going to be able to tell the difference. And which case you're just saving a bunch of data.

DJ: Right. And so many people, including myself, have got used to how streaming sounds, how things sound on YouTube, like all the compression. We've just kind of got used to it. Where hearing, mean, maybe I could tell between streaming high quality audio just because they're so extreme. But yeah, I remember CDs. If bought one from the store, it would sound really, really crisp compared to Back in the day, if you downloaded MP3s and burned them to a CD and compare literally the same CD and compare them, it was pretty you could hear the difference. Pretty different. Just wasn't as dynamic.

Christopher Weeks: Right. Yeah, well now with high dynamic or ⁓ high fidelity audio that's recorded at like three times the bit rate of CD ⁓ sounds, think be hard pressed to really notice the difference on headphones that you're playing.

DJ: Well, that makes a big difference too, right? Like I have AirPods. Those aren't exactly known for their sound quality.

Christopher Weeks: Right. Right, yeah, crazy. And you know, even if you're on like Deezer or Ankyo's got a HD ⁓ high high high def res audio site, even if you go there and you have a subscription or if you buy HD music and send it to your. ⁓ ⁓ airpod pros over Bluetooth. First thing it does is down sample that thing like crazy from this alter HD file that you have to about one 92 kilobits and sends it to your ear. So people are like, ⁓ why is it taking so long for my streaming to start on this high res file? It's not the fact that it's high res why it's taking so long. It's that it's down sampling the hell out of it.

DJ: I didn't even think about that. Yeah, the processing that goes on to Wow. You think that's another thing that Apple just doesn't want to deal with? Because I did see that it supported lossless wired.

Christopher Weeks: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. yeah. It supports losses wired and they're all, and they're like, ⁓ and low latency if you're a video gamer. And if you want to play video games, get low latency, the lowest latency available for any headset. if you're playing Mac games.

DJ: I just, I've never is with ears. ⁓ I know. It's just, you, you can feel the latency when you play, but hearing

Christopher Weeks: Yeah. You're talking about milliseconds on your ear. Yeah.

DJ: Yeah. No.

Christopher Weeks: Crazy. Hey, speaking of video games, what's, you don't have anything new in the video game world?

DJ: me think game ⁓ Well, there was a new game out to ⁓ look up real quick. But this this game looks amazing and it came out of ⁓ I a Korean studio. let me find it.

Christopher Weeks: Mm.

DJ: You can keep talking about something. Oh, Crimson Desert. Crimson Desert just came out. It's a Unreal Engine five game and on PC it. What's on PC and the consoles, I think even including Switch through streaming, it looks amazing and it's a pretty in-depth RPG as well. I saw it and. Yeah, it's a Korean studio 2025 to 26. They just came out with it.

Christopher Weeks: yeah. Okay. It's on the PC? Okay.

DJ: and people are raving about it. It looks great and it plays great. Yep, Crimson Desert.

Christopher Weeks: called Crimson Desert. Huh.

DJ: Open world RPG.

Christopher Weeks: Okay, yeah, I'll have to tell my boy about it. He'd probably be really into that. He's into all the cyberpunk and ⁓ series and you all that stuff.

DJ: Mm-hmm. Definitely. I will say if you're a game pass subscriber that right now cyberpunk on game pass and all the fallout games cause they own Bethesda.

Christopher Weeks: Okay. Right, right. Well, that makes sense. They do that. Anyway, it seems like we had a good talk tonight. Ran about an hour, so we are good. I'm gonna try to make this a little bit of a more regular, consistent, every Thursday thing. I'll have this episode up probably by Thursday. always, it was really good talking with you, DJ.

DJ: Mm-hmm. Creed? You too, Chris.

Christopher Weeks: And until next time.

DJ: See ya.

Christopher Weeks: Thanks for listening.