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The Insanely Great Podcast is your weekly mix of tech, AI, sports, politics, and whatever other shiny object grabs our attention. One minute we’re breaking down the future of artificial intelligence, the next we’re debating game-day drama, political chaos, or the kind of random topic that somehow becomes the best conversation of the episode. Smart, funny, and just unhinged enough to keep things interesting, it’s the podcast for curious people who like their insights sharp and their conversations a little unpredictable.
Christopher Weeks AI (00:00)
Welcome to the Insanely Great Podcast, episode 18 for September 6th, 2026. Astra, AGI, and a Halloween-themed AI meltdown.
Christopher Weeks (00:08)
Coming to you live is well, you know me, I'm Chris. also with me, I know you're gonna be surprised to hear this, is my buddy DJ. Hello, DJ.
DJ (00:17)
Hey Chris. It's good to be back. How you doing?
Christopher Weeks (00:19)
You are back. I am very good,
I'm very good. How's the weather out in good old Lou Louisiana?
DJ (00:26)
Surprisingly cooling off. We're seeing a a slow trend in declining temperatures. I was I know it's September and I should I know I should be seeing this. I just thought it would last longer because last year it stayed hotter longer.
Christopher Weeks (00:39)
You mean because you are actually moving towards this thing called fall?
DJ (00:45)
Yeah. Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (00:46)
I don't know if you're kinda like me, do you actually enjoy the changing of the weather going from Yeah.
DJ (00:52)
Anytime it calls off.
Christopher Weeks (00:55)
But are you like a winter do you guys get much winter there?
DJ (00:58)
we have a kind of a pathetic excuse for winter, but it does freeze a few times. Like two or three.
Christopher Weeks (01:03)
Yeah.
okay. Yeah. yeah. I mean I grew up in the Midwest, so we used to get frequent snow and I say this kind of reluctantly that I miss cold weather and miss snow. But I'm sure it would take just like five minutes of experiencing frostbite again and wind chill.
DJ (01:25)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (01:25)
that I would be like, yeah, I'm done with this shit forever. I'm sure I
DJ (01:28)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (01:29)
all my friends that that I grew up with that I keep in touch with on Facebook and family and such, they all post pictures of, you know, their first snow that they get, usually around late November, December. And I post pictures of myself at the beach.
DJ (01:46)
Right.
I will say heat stroke is a real and present danger all the time.
Christopher Weeks (01:51)
Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of funny. But I do kind of really get into the last three months of the kind of holiday season. I don't know
DJ (01:59)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (01:59)
if you're into that or not, but
DJ (02:02)
yeah.
Christopher Weeks (02:03)
like my favorite holiday, well, is Christmas, but then right before that, right a distant second is Halloween.
DJ (02:12)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (02:13)
Which is kind of
arrive because the holidays are very different.
DJ (02:17)
Yeah, but Halloween is the one that like kicks off the entire season and then it it just you carry through.
Christopher Weeks (02:21)
Right. Then you're in then you're
into then you're into Thanksgiving
and then
DJ (02:26)
Exactly.
Christopher Weeks (02:26)
you're then you're into Christmas and yeah, you're off to the races.
DJ (02:30)
New Year
and then it's kinda like, have to wait till
Christopher Weeks (02:33)
Yeah.
DJ (02:33)
next year.
Christopher Weeks (02:34)
Kind of a letdown. You wait like another nine months.
DJ (02:36)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (02:38)
yeah. For it all to start all over again.
DJ (02:41)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (02:41)
in my my house we do a Halloween party, so it gets even better with everybody dressing up and the ladies being like, I'm gonna be a slutty nurse and the guys are like, I'm gonna be a slutty pirate and you know, it's just
DJ (02:54)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (02:55)
kinda funny. Anyway.
DJ (02:57)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (02:58)
I you know, I use the word slutty, it's just kinda like been the joking thing about like everything can be slutty. I'm Smurfett, I'm slutty smurfett.
DJ (03:05)
It's just Captain Jack Sparrow with a lot less clothes.
Christopher Weeks (03:08)
Yes, exactly. So
DJ (03:10)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (03:11)
kinda comical. But all right, so let's jump into some AI news. the whole Chat GBT released Chat G B T six, I believe it's called code name Astra.
DJ (03:22)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (03:25)
Sam Altman made a big deal of this saying how many parameters it is, just saying that it's larger than fables. they didn't give an exact estimate, but
and they made a pretty profound statement trying to say that they've achieved AGI with this model, which
DJ (03:42)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (03:43)
for those playing the home game is artificial general intelligence.
Thoughts on this? Have you played around with it at all?
DJ (03:50)
Quite a few thoughts. I mean, looking at the benchmarks, yeah, it is definitely an increase in terms of capabilities. But I haven't messed around with it enough to to figure out like, is this actually smarter? Because the other side of this equation comes from if you're using it in chat, it has tools, it looks things up. So you're not really seeing the
intelligence of the model as they measure it in the benchmarks because they don't give it internet access for those. So it's really for me, it's like, how does the model feel to talk to? Does it feel natural, robotic, stiff? Does it flow fluidly? Like those are the things I think that hopefully they're focused on in terms of chat. Not just having because going off in that direction, GPT 5
People love four. because it talked more naturally, where five was more rigid, but it achieved higher benchmarks because it was more factual, right? And it didn't use flower language. So all these models, even Opus and Fable, are starting to go that way too, because it just it's derived from its training. So hopefully they can work on that and make it better.
Christopher Weeks (04:57)
Right,
right. I got a chance to put it through its paces, frankly, through two days because it burns through credits pretty fast. I had to really kind of use it on a moderate level. I couldn't use it on the highest level because literally in two minutes it was gonna burn through my entire stockpile of credits.
DJ (05:16)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (05:17)
I had it do a bunch of security for my WordP my WordPress blog that I have where I frequently have will get a lot of foreign brute force attacks, almost always from China. I actually think, you know, people are bored or whatever and they just try to hack WordPress sites all over the place or maybe it's an AI model in China that is just
DJ (05:41)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (05:41)
trying to figure out what it can
Can get into.
DJ (05:44)
Exactly.
Christopher Weeks (05:45)
anyway, so yeah, it took all of about ten minutes and it gave these security recommendations and even gave recommendations to ban IP addresses from regions. and we went ahead and implemented that. you know, it has looked up IP addresses that are frequent. ironically, most of them use
some sort of VPN, so it's
DJ (06:09)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (06:10)
cascaded with the same IP and it recommended blocking just that IP address to, you know, do away with it all. the biggest test that I actually enjoyed, which was happened on the second day when I finally had a r a refuel of credits,
DJ (06:26)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (06:27)
I was able I like to do themes for my website and I usually do a Halloween theme or and then a Christmas theme and in the past it's just been creating an image that I change on the front page of it and then that's it. And I asked it I'd like to do a redesign of the website, make it Halloween themed.
And it came up with a whole slew of suggestions between changing the icons, plugins that it recommended that it it would use and implement, changing the color scheme, changing this, that, the other, blending the wallpaper that I was gonna use in better. and and here was the actual funny part.
When I said, this this all sounds go so great, I think we should actually implement this, it said it is a little bit early, it's not even Halloween yet.
So
DJ (07:17)
It's good.
Christopher Weeks (07:17)
I actually was like that was something that I was actually more impressed with. Cause I
DJ (07:22)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (07:23)
I I chimed back, I said, what day do you think that think it is right now? And it said, it's September fourth, you have like you know it's you should w it said you should probably wait for maximum exposure until october first. And it even gave a recommendation for like
We can do a countdown on your page till Halloween if you want to turn the site live on october fifteenth.
DJ (07:46)
That's actually kind of cool, yeah.
Christopher Weeks (07:48)
Yeah. So
DJ (07:50)
Did you tell it that major stores are already selling Halloween candy?
Christopher Weeks (07:54)
Yeah I no,
I did did not, but yeah, it is it is funny. I wonder if it actually knew from a previous conversation that I had where I was asking when the pumpkin coffees were going live in different stores and whether it had actually like taken that confer conversation, that context and tried to apply it somewhere to like my blog.
though
DJ (08:18)
Interesting. I know
Christopher Weeks (08:20)
it's it's kind of a little bit of a stretch to go from pumpkin coffee that's available now in stores and to have it say it's probably not good for your blog to go live with a Halloween theme in September
DJ (08:32)
Yeah.
Well, so one of the things is the intelligence of the model is how well it can understand a broad range of context in the whole conversation. So the system prompt from OpenAI always feeds it the date and the time. And literally, as that ticks up, like its reply will include the the new time. So dumb models.
won't really take that into effect, right? They'll focus more on what you're talking about and kind of forget that other context because the system prompt is actually pretty large in these chat interfaces. But a good model like Fable, like Opus, like Astra, will consider a broader width of that context and realize, he's talking about a date. Let me reach back.
and actually remember the date that's in our earlier chat context. And small models just lose that sense of context. And that's why they won't remind you about that kind of stuff. So yeah, you can definitely tell that if it remembers small little details in a conversation like that, like the date that's in its system prompt, then it's a that's like a big model smell.
Christopher Weeks (09:37)
yeah. That that's a that's a giveaway.
DJ (09:39)
Mm-hmm. Small small details,
Christopher Weeks (09:39)
Yeah.
DJ (09:41)
especially the longer your conversation goes, if it can remember small details further back, because the attention mechanism usually drops that as it goes, the bigger the model is.
Christopher Weeks (09:52)
It
was interesting, it did recommend that we would put all of the ideas that we had for the the website go be being Halloween themed, put it in a staging folder where we could just instantly go active with everything that is there. with changing the cursors, and then it was like, I'll I'll I'll download this Halloween plugin that has good reviews and also works with your theme.
but we won't activate it due to a security risk having inactive plugins on
DJ (10:22)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (10:23)
your blog. So I was right. Right. Yeah.
DJ (10:26)
So not even installing it. That's pretty smart.
Christopher Weeks (10:31)
Yeah, it it created a list of ten things it was going to do when w it was called on to stage to go from staging it to active
from changing icons to having floating pumpkins come coming down on the page. though it did give me a recommendation saying that you should have only the pumpkin come down about once every ten minutes, otherwise people find it annoying.
DJ (10:55)
It's it you know what? That is pretty smart. It's like that's all the things a weaker model would just not consider.
Christopher Weeks (11:01)
Right. Yeah.
DJ (11:03)
Pretty slick.
Christopher Weeks (11:04)
yeah. I mean I just I I still think it the future's gotta be a bunch of these small models doing tasks very well.
DJ (11:13)
Yes.
Christopher Weeks (11:14)
and then 'cause eventually these models are gonna get so big that they're they're gonna be impossible to run.
DJ (11:21)
Mm-hmm.
So all the big models you hear about, even the ones that like Astra, which are astronomically huge and fable, they're still MoE models. So you're not activating the entire model to make a reply. They're probably activating somewhere between like 50 and 100 billion parameters, which is still fairly large, but you're not activating
Christopher Weeks (11:41)
Right.
DJ (11:41)
the I think it's what, like
Four or five trillion parameters, these things are getting up to now. But to have those parameters on hand does make it smarter and add nuance. One
Christopher Weeks (11:52)
Right.
DJ (11:52)
of the things they focused on, not only for like documents and making slides, is visual I don't even know the right word for it, but like it comprehends.
Layouts really well, spatial things. Where most models, if you ask it to make a slideshow, they'll just like lump crap together. It doesn't look good. You got to go spread it out. Apparently, these newer models like Fable, like A Astra, are being taught spatial recognition. And there's actually some really cool demos because it's so good with computer use. You can just open up Blender on your computer, open up Codex, or well, used to be called Codex, the chat app now.
and just tell it, hey, go crazy and create me something. People come back like 15 to 30 minutes later, and they'll have this beautiful rendered thing in Blender, completely created from scratch. They all they did
Christopher Weeks (12:39)
Right.
DJ (12:39)
was like give it a simple little prompt and it just went and did it and iterated on it. And as we talked about earlier, you know, not losing track of time. It can't like the model can't lose track of what it's already done or created when it iterates on it.
So if it can work for long periods of time and not screw up things it's already done, then that's the sign of a quality model. And that's very important when it comes to coding because I've used so many, let's call them smaller Chinese models, that they'll do something and then you ask them to change one little thing, and it's like they got amnesia. They forget what they did and they go screw the whole thing up. But they fix the
Christopher Weeks (13:15)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (13:16)
one little thing you wanted while they mess the rest of it up. So if Astra
and Fable can keep from doing that like they remember what they previously did, then that's a huge leap forward.
Christopher Weeks (13:25)
Right. Makes sense. I mean, you know, like I was listening to the Moonshots podcast, and th those guys were saying that these models are moving so fast day to day to day to day to day and it's just astronomically how fast they're moving. It's not just it's not just a dot one update anymore. You might as well call it
Something completely new with how fast they're going.
DJ (13:50)
Yeah, at this point, I doubt any lab
Christopher Weeks (13:52)
Yeah.
DJ (13:52)
worth their salt is only training one model at a time. in my
Christopher Weeks (13:56)
yeah.
DJ (13:56)
opinion, you have to be training multiple models. And one thing I don't I can't confirm this, right? Because I don't know for sure. But when you go from say like Luna to Terra to Seoul, which are the three 5.6 variants, I believe you're using three literally separate models.
It's not just the amount of time it compute or sorry, compute time, or I forget how they say it, but like they allow it to think, right? Compute time. You're not just variancing that, you're variancing the size of the model. So for example, haiku. Haiku was thought to be about 20 billion parameters. But once you got to opus, now you're talking like 1.52 trillion parameters. So it's
a giant scale that they're running these models at. So like Luna could have been, I don't know, maybe a hundred and twenty parameters, where Sol could have been multi trillion parameters.
Christopher Weeks (14:50)
Right, right. Makes good sense. That being said, do you feel like anybody any companies are kinda getting lost lost and left behind?
DJ (14:58)
I feel like that's a loaded question.
Apple.
Christopher Weeks (15:01)
Mm.
I was thinking Apple and maybe Meta.
DJ (15:07)
Have you seen some of the new stuff coming out of Meta?
Christopher Weeks (15:09)
I've been I I play around with their model every once in a while. I
DJ (15:13)
Muse.
Christopher Weeks (15:13)
don't is that what it's called? I I can never tell. Wh where where do you go to do this?
DJ (15:18)
Well, the Muse you can run yourself is 30 billion parameters. So that's locally hosted. But if you go to Open Code's website and you sign up for their like Go service ten dollars a month, they have contributor
Christopher Weeks (15:31)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (15:32)
models. And those contributor models are frontier level models. Tiny little asterisk at the top, though. They will train on any of the data you give it. That's why the price is so reduced right now.
So just
Christopher Weeks (15:43)
Right.
DJ (15:43)
know that like don't feed in anything sensitive, but people that have been using the 1.2 and the 1.3 variants of these models say that it's
Christopher Weeks (15:51)
Yeah.
DJ (15:52)
it's not Astra, it's not Fable, but it's like Opus soul level stuff. It's frontier level stuff. So they are
Christopher Weeks (15:58)
Mm.
DJ (15:59)
pumping a bunch of money into this. And same for Grok,
Christopher Weeks (16:01)
Yeah.
DJ (16:01)
you know, Grok's come a long way.
Christopher Weeks (16:03)
yeah yeah. I use Groc shit almost shit probably a couple times a week.
DJ (16:08)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (16:10)
and I actually really like the Twitter integration. it's it's funny. My love hate relationship with Twitter, I went from I refuse it to just call it X.
DJ (16:19)
Same.
Christopher Weeks (16:21)
I my love hate relationship with Twitter, I went from like
Not wanting to be on it, Elon buying it, wanting to get rid of it, deleting all my content on it, but leaving my name to coming back, and then sp spending time really making my feed what I want it to be. And
DJ (16:39)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (16:40)
now
When people are like, Twitter is a cesspool of MAGA hate and a bunch of assholes talking shit to each other I was like, Not in my feed.
DJ (16:50)
Exactly. So you know me, I got off social media probably close to 10 years ago, like overall, but the more I spend time trying to keep up with AI, the more I realize like there's two places you get news from Twitter and Discord. Discord's
Christopher Weeks (17:04)
Yes.
DJ (17:05)
hit or miss. You like you have to actually
Christopher Weeks (17:07)
Yeah.
DJ (17:07)
be in those communities to get their news. So that's not as simple. So I was like, okay,
Christopher Weeks (17:12)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (17:12)
screw it. I'll join Twitter. So when I signed up,
One of the nice things they have, and I don't know if you saw this when you signed up again, I created a whole new account. So it's not my old one. That one's still deactivated. But they do have nice little like grouping selections you can pick from. So I chose like AI and I think like politics or something. And they're
Christopher Weeks (17:32)
Is it an AI is it an AI list
of accounts that you should follow?
DJ (17:36)
well it's a list of major accounts in the AI space, if that makes sense. Like it's curated,
Christopher Weeks (17:41)
Got it. Yeah.
DJ (17:43)
curated list, right? So it gave me like, you know, Meta, OpenAI, all the big labs, all the big contributors that are in the space. And I thought that that was actually a really nice way to start off my journey back to to Twitter because like you said, my feed is
Great. I love it. But it's also super minimal.
Christopher Weeks (18:02)
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I literally have you know, John C. Dvorak, who's deceased, used to say I get no spam. well I get no hate on
DJ (18:12)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (18:13)
Twitter. I literally get no hate, I get no junk. you know, and I'll even chime in with politics stuff, but literally everything everybody that I follow on Twitter
is kind of like a like minded, that, you know, I'm gonna agree with ninety percent.
DJ (18:27)
Yeah. It is, I mean, let's let's not be real. Depending on how you use it or what you use it for, it can't it's a tool. Like at the end of the
Christopher Weeks (18:35)
Yeah.
DJ (18:35)
day, it's a tool. Like I'm using it to keep up with AI, keep up with some of the political figures I like. Cause it I remember it had like left leaning politicians, right leaning politicians. So I chose like left because I was more
Christopher Weeks (18:46)
Yeah.
DJ (18:47)
interested in keeping up with them. But like it the groupings are really good and
Other than the fact that I think Elon is literally in everyone's feed if you choose so or not, it's been a pretty good experience, but I I see all of Elon's stuff too.
Christopher Weeks (19:03)
you know, I keep going back and forth. I'll remove
Elon and block him, and then I'll like in about a week, two weeks with no Elon on my feet, I'll be like, Man, I wonder what that turd has said today to piss off everybody. So then I'll you know, unblock him and go to his page and see what kind of mischief he's up to up to today.
DJ (19:26)
Isn't it I I I have to bring this up because obviously the president is not on Twitter. He's on Truth Social, but if you look at all the times
Christopher Weeks (19:35)
Do they not
do they not cross post anymore or do they just take a screenshot of his truth social post and put that on Twitter?
DJ (19:42)
I don't know. I'll I I'd have to go look. But every time you see it in the news, it's it's his platform. Yeah. True. But
Christopher Weeks (19:45)
'Cause I know El I know Elon brought back his account and whether he used it or not. I know he's
really not big into using Elon's Twitter because he wants the s true social that he owns and you know, is eventually eventually he's gonna cash out all this stuff and he's just gonna be like Yeah, I raked in so much money 'cause I'm a billionaire and I need more billions.
DJ (20:10)
he already has. There's
Christopher Weeks (20:11)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (20:11)
he already has. But to that point, like you see how many times they post a day, you see how many times Elon posts a day, plus supposedly they run multiple companies, right? They're CEO of multiple companies. You can't tell me that they have all this time to post to like Twitter or Truth Social and all their executive time. Like, who it's bullshit is what it is.
Christopher Weeks (20:33)
Yeah, no good.
DJ (20:34)
If you
if you legitimately posted that many times a day, you wouldn't able to be productive.
Christopher Weeks (20:40)
yeah, totally. though I was talking I was laughing. John Stewart had an interview with Michelle Obama talking about he was trying to make a joke, a very successful one at that, where he said, Do you guys feel like you left a bunch of money on the table, like you didn't cash out properly, seeing the way that Donald's doing things?
You guys totally missed out on a crypto pump and dump. that you could have screwed over your own constituents pretty bad, taking money from all of them and the beauty is that your own party, your own followers would still love you.
DJ (21:14)
Mm-hmm. Biden missed out on it, at least.
Christopher Weeks (21:17)
well, problem is Biden had this whole fun thing of through executive order regulating crypto and the very first day Trump's in office remove all regulations for crypto 'cause he had planned this big pump and dump. you know, I'm the principal owner of this Donald Trump meme coin. Everybody buy it, they buy it and then the
bottom falls out from underneath it and he's made all of his all this money from people buying it.
DJ (21:43)
not just buy it, but I remember at one point, if you wanted to get a seat at some of his dinners, you would have to buy so much of it as well. So it was he was literally like leveraging the crap out of it. And then it was like you said, a pump and dump. They lost all their money. But they didn't lose all their money because they got access to the president. That was the real thing, right?
Christopher Weeks (22:02)
Yeah, if if you happen to reach a threshold of like, I don't know, a hundred thousand dollars or whatever it is, it's kind of insan it's it's insanity to think that we've reached this point. It's just chaos.
DJ (22:15)
Yep. And and that kind of money like falls out of Mark Zuckerberg's couch cushions when he sets down.
Christopher Weeks (22:21)
Yeah, totally. moving on a little bit, we have the Apple event next week. It's
DJ (22:27)
I'm excited.
Christopher Weeks (22:28)
isn't it Wednesday or is it Tuesday?
DJ (22:31)
I can look if you want to tell us more about it.
Christopher Weeks (22:33)
It's Tuesday, September eighth. So
DJ (22:35)
Nice.
Christopher Weeks (22:35)
that would be Tuesday, ten o'clock AM Pacific time. yes.
DJ (22:40)
Twelve central. It's always lunch for me.
Christopher Weeks (22:42)
Yeah, yeah. So you can go to the Apple website, watch it live.
DJ (22:46)
I on YouTube.
Christopher Weeks (22:47)
And YouTube, yes. Yeah. and it's actually one of the few times where Apple's not picky about people pirating their content and putting it on YouTube. They they don't have p you know, they're not giv they they won't copyright strike you.
DJ (22:58)
They won't copyright strike you.
Christopher Weeks (23:03)
Go figure on that one. But it'll be it'll
DJ (23:04)
I know. So I'm reading here.
Christopher Weeks (23:06)
be John Turnus' first keynote.
DJ (23:09)
Yeah. I'm I'm there's multiple reasons to be excited, but that's a big one.
Christopher Weeks (23:13)
Yeah. J you know, hopefully he doesn't come out, fall on his face, trip over his own shoes. I mean I joking
DJ (23:19)
Let me ask you this.
Christopher Weeks (23:20)
I jokingly jokingly say that, but you know, all of this stuff is now pre recorded, edited to high hell. They have a production company that puts everything together, so there's absolutely no chance of him walking out and falling on his face.
DJ (23:35)
And they've been doing that since the pandemic. And obviously we see no sign of that letting up. Is this his first time on stage? Period?
Christopher Weeks (23:40)
Yeah. It does make no no.
He he was the the guy that used to talk about hardware changes. he was also the big guy behind the Apple Watch Ultra.
DJ (23:54)
Nice. Wearing that today. I love this thing.
Christopher Weeks (23:56)
Ta da Yeah. so yeah, the good news is I don't see the ultra as going anywhere now. Yeah.
DJ (24:02)
That's
fair. Only getting better, yeah. Well, last year we didn't even get a an update.
Christopher Weeks (24:04)
Yes, yeah. Though th there's all these rumors of
a ceramic Apple Watch with them bringing that back.
And I was
DJ (24:12)
Nice.
Christopher Weeks (24:12)
like, please don't put that in the ultra I don't need I don't I don't need this price tag going up to like it's already eight hundred and I'm sure with the memory shortage it'll go to probably a thousand, nine hundred. and if they're like
DJ (24:25)
Shit, I didn't even think about that impacting those.
Christopher Weeks (24:27)
and if they're like, yeah, we came out with a ceramic one that'll be like twelve hundred now
DJ (24:32)
Yeah, I mean it's literally gonna pack impact everything. Even something as simple as the watches, you're right.
Christopher Weeks (24:38)
Yeah. It'll be interesting to see what kind of what products Apple is willing to kind of eat a chunk of the increased margins, versus how much they're not willing to.
DJ (24:51)
They did just get back a shit ton of money from the government. From from tariffs. So I mean
Christopher Weeks (24:56)
Right. You mean you
mean the illegal tariffs that the businesses were going to pay for, not the consumers?
DJ (25:03)
Yeah, right. I guess him giving that money back to the businesses is his way of like reinforcing that. we're giving it back because they paid it, not you. Peons.
Christopher Weeks (25:12)
But to be fair,
he didn't want to give it back. the Supreme Court said, Yeah, only only Congress can do taxes and tariffs. the president doesn't have the power to do it. And all he did was he found a different loophole law that an allows him to do it for ninety days. But then you stop it, do it for another ninety days. So you have one day where you have no tariffs and then ninety days again.
DJ (25:36)
Well, who I mean, in this presidency, it's to the point of like, who's gonna stop him? You and whose army, right? I mean, that's what we saw
Christopher Weeks (25:43)
Right.
DJ (25:44)
coming back when he first got elected and started throwing all these things out. Like, how's the Supreme Court gonna stop him? In reality.
Christopher Weeks (25:50)
Right.
Yeah. Well, and now the Supreme Court is hearing all the measures on mail in ballot voting and whether that's legitimate or not.
DJ (25:58)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (26:01)
California is a huge mail in ballot state, so we'll see. That's gonna hugely impact us, but
DJ (26:07)
Well, we talked about how it's gonna negatively impact his own voting base. Older folks
Christopher Weeks (26:12)
Yeah.
DJ (26:13)
don't want to go stand out in the heat in line.
Christopher Weeks (26:15)
Right.
DJ (26:16)
in some of these southern states, especially, right, where the majority of his constituents probably are. They're not gonna want to stand in the heat. And now they've made it so in Georgia and other states you can't even hand out water. Thinking, we're
Christopher Weeks (26:27)
Yeah.
DJ (26:27)
gonna own the libs with that one. Like, no, you've kind of only hurt yourself.
Christopher Weeks (26:32)
I'm sorry, but Fred dropped over dead while waiting in line
and couldn't vote. He he had a heat stroke beforehand and accidentally voted for the wrong person. Yeah. He was having
DJ (26:41)
Or or better yet, we just drug him up to the to the box.
Christopher Weeks (26:47)
heat stroke. We w we were gonna give him water, but it's illegal to do that, so Golly. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean
DJ (26:52)
We put him in a wheelchair. He'll be fine. Just as long as he makes it to the booth. Have you been hearing
about in certain states a lot of the states are going through their roles and just like even if you were registered, they're just kicking you off. Basically, people on social media sites are saying, like, hey, my mom, a registered Democrat.
was kicked off the other day and she had to re register right before November eighth.
Christopher Weeks (27:19)
That's crazy. So what
DJ (27:21)
They're doing it, man.
Christopher Weeks (27:22)
so that's just all so that the ballot just gets completely tossed when the the if it were to be received in the mail. But
DJ (27:29)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (27:29)
what would happen if she was quote not registered, taken off voter rolls, and she shows up at election site to vote?
DJ (27:37)
From what I understand, she wouldn't be allowed. Say you're under you're
Christopher Weeks (27:39)
Yeah.
DJ (27:39)
an unregistered voter. It's just like, you know, if it's just like people that aren't citizens can't vote, right? Because
Christopher Weeks (27:46)
Yeah.
DJ (27:47)
you're unregistered. Well, from what I understand, they wouldn't be allowed. I can I can look that up. That is an interesting take because the only prerequisite to vote should be that you're a citizen. So if you have like a birth certificate, you should be able prove that.
Christopher Weeks (27:59)
Totally. Yeah. That's crazy. We live in weird damn times, man.
DJ (28:03)
Yeah. What we're living in, it is it like if you think about, and I think I talked about this a little last time. If you think about all the dictators that you've heard, especially like those in Africa that just continue to stay in power and are never brought down, they always do the craziest shit. They always want, you know, does a ballroom sound familiar?
Does changing the names of bodies of water sound familiar? They always do crazy shit like that. Like the signs are here, right in front of us. He's doing it. He's the traits of a dictator are right there and no one is like pointing it out.
Christopher Weeks (28:39)
Yeah, yeah. You know, and the the really crazy thing to me is this whole renaming the body water like we've done this now with Mexico, the you know, America Ocean down by Mexico, rechanging that and then now the latest, changing Lake Ontario
DJ (28:52)
Mm-hmm. Gulf of America.
Christopher Weeks (28:55)
to Lake America. I'm a little disappointed, seriously, that
Apple and Google capitulated so fast with him and didn't even put up any stink. But
DJ (29:05)
They did last time.
When he said Gulf of America, they had changed it like within a week.
Christopher Weeks (29:09)
Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. I just it it just makes me wonder do they really need the preferential treatment so badly that they're willing to kiss his ass so much for that?
DJ (29:20)
Well, remember, as much as we love Apple and their products, remember that Tim Cook was one of them that ran to the Oval Office and gave him a golden glass statue or whatever, right? Like he yeah, they're
Christopher Weeks (29:30)
Yeah, yeah.
DJ (29:32)
trying to garner favor. They know he can be bought.
Christopher Weeks (29:33)
Yeah.
Right. That's crazy. I mean the guy that literally it doesn't even I think his eyesight's gotten really bad or he can't see it or he doesn't understand it. He doesn't have walking around with a phone anymore. He's just got this girl, what's her name? Natalie or whatever her name is, and I guess I guess the president likes printouts of stuff
DJ (29:54)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (29:54)
he wants to read. So
I guess Natalie prints out tweets or she screenshots them, prints out. They have to be like half page size. And but everything is everything that he sees is only the type of content that he wants. So essentially Nat Natalie is an algorithm for everything that Donald likes and he doesn't see anything that
He doesn't l he doesn't like.
DJ (30:20)
So do you think he's obviously I've heard that he's not posting these truths, right? But it kind of feels like he is.
Christopher Weeks (30:25)
No no, he they've li they've literally
showed video of her of him standing next to Natalie and he's dictating to her like what he what he wants it to say. And
DJ (30:36)
Wow.
Christopher Weeks (30:36)
she's he's like, I think it should say this. like he's a stupid person, not very bright and intelligent. I know 'cause I'm highly intelligent from another planet and the aliens come and talk to me because I'm the most intelligent person on your planet.
DJ (30:52)
And she's just taking it down verbatim.
Christopher Weeks (30:54)
Sh yes. You know
and you know and did did
DJ (30:57)
Hmm. Do you think that
Christopher Weeks (30:59)
did you happen to see this letter that Natalie wrote the president that got released? Yeah.
DJ (31:04)
I've been hearing. Yeah, I've been hearing.
Almost like a love letter.
Christopher Weeks (31:08)
it's more than that. It's like a cult following.
DJ (31:11)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (31:11)
it's just so weird. Like and then there was video of her like she was accidentally left behind the presidential motorcade, so she was running after it.
DJ (31:18)
Yeah. Yeah.
Is that hold on. There was also one about him being put in like a food service truck and put on another plane.
Christopher Weeks (31:28)
Food service truck that was in
like Iran or Turkey or somewhere else because they thought there was credible information that Iran was gonna target Air Force One in the air and
DJ (31:39)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (31:40)
nothing says the strength of America and our mighty leader like putting the president into a food container bin to shuffle him out the back of Air Force One.
DJ (31:52)
The fact that we know this, like it was caught.
Christopher Weeks (31:54)
What what do you mean? I'm sorry.
DJ (31:55)
That that's even worse.
Like like it usually these things would have been kept secret, but someone blapped. Someone knew it. Right.
Christopher Weeks (32:02)
Yeah, well I think they had seen him or something. I don't know.
DJ (32:06)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (32:06)
It would have been really funny if like you know if Iran had actually shot down Air Force One and the plane like blows up in the ocean and there's all this media speculation that the president's dead or whatever and then all of a sudden the very next day there's like a social media post of him golfing in Ireland.
Because he had he had escaped out the back on the food cart.
DJ (32:29)
What I remember
was like the people he didn't really care about were left on the other plane. And I remember Natalie being
Christopher Weeks (32:35)
yeah.
DJ (32:36)
one of them.
Christopher Weeks (32:36)
yeah. Well, not to mention the entire press pool. I mean they they left all of those people
DJ (32:39)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (32:42)
back. Yeah, but Pete Keg's breath, he he got out on w with the president. You know.
DJ (32:49)
Wow.
Christopher Weeks (32:49)
Yeah, I'm sure you know, Pete was carrying his keg with him to to the on the plane with him, Yes.
DJ (32:56)
Under each arm, yeah.
Christopher Weeks (32:58)
you know.
Br probably Donald Trump was like, Hey man, you got a Diet Coke keg over there too? 'Cause I need I need one of those.
DJ (33:03)
Right.
Christopher Weeks (33:08)
Yeah, yeah. I need I need a five liter dye coke keg everywhere I go from now on.
DJ (33:15)
Well, I mean
there's there's talk about him wearing what, diapers, catheters
Christopher Weeks (33:21)
yeah. I mean it's
it's pretty obvious with the size of his ass that there's something going on back there.
DJ (33:27)
Yes. It's horrible. I remember seeing one video, it's literally boxy. People were pointing
Christopher Weeks (33:31)
Yeah, yeah.
DJ (33:33)
out like some something's wrong back there. Like his diaper's full or something.
Christopher Weeks (33:37)
Yeah, yeah. I mean, can you imag can you imagine what it's gonna be like, you know, as Lord help us, I'm just gonna say the what I hope happens anyway, that he just goes quietly out of office in the next two years, that we don't really go through any of this bullshit of him trying to stay in office for a third term and all this crap. I
DJ (33:57)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (33:57)
really, really hope.
That Steve Bannon and all these other idiots that are like we have a plan for a third term. I really, really hope that are just trying to do a good job of trolling.
DJ (34:06)
Or just sucking up to Trump, keeping him pacified.
Christopher Weeks (34:08)
Yeah.
I I hope so, but
DJ (34:11)
Well
you you know they've been executing against Project Twenty Twenty Five. Like there's trackers out there that are showing they're they're keeping up with it.
Christopher Weeks (34:18)
There's I was actually reading a website that was actually talk talking about all the things that they've accomplished on Project 2025 going down the checklist. in fact I think it was a tweet from Amanda Carpenter, who by the way, if you don't follow on Twitter, you should give her a call her follow. She has this she runs this website called Project Democracy.
And she's all about protecting the integrity of our system, our elections, everything. and the funnier part about all this
DJ (34:49)
Nice. I'll look her up.
Christopher Weeks (34:52)
is she is incredibly cr critical of President Trump and the administration. She used
DJ (34:58)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (34:59)
to work for and ran Ted Cruz's presidential campaign against Donald Trump.
DJ (35:05)
slimy, so slimy.
Christopher Weeks (35:06)
Yes. But yeah, you know what? you know, Ted Cruz was like, Amanda knows her shit. She's really, really good. You don't wanna mess with her and be like Ironically I I don't think I don't think she's gonna get a job with a Republican candidate ever again.
DJ (35:22)
Yeah. Well, I mean that's
Christopher Weeks (35:23)
Yeah. That will not that will not be be happening.
DJ (35:27)
that's a little funny, right? Like obviously she's pro Republican or she wouldn't have supported a campaign for one.
Christopher Weeks (35:35)
I don't think she's been voting she hasn't voted for a Republican in a number of years. I think she used to be a
DJ (35:41)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (35:41)
hardcore hardcore pretty conservative, but now she's kind of come to her senses and is like, I just can't vote for after the January sixth insurrection idiots that stormed the Campbell, she was like, I'm just done with this stuff.
DJ (35:54)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (35:54)
Yeah. Yeah, I think she was encouraging people to vote third party or vote for Joe Biden or vote for anybody.
DJ (36:00)
Anybody else?
Christopher Weeks (36:01)
Vote for a pumpkin.
DJ (36:03)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (36:05)
On a different note, changing gears, and we can go back to Apple in in a minute. Have you seen that the PS five Pro is sold out everywhere?
DJ (36:13)
No, is that due to GTA?
Christopher Weeks (36:15)
that's what I'm guessing. but even Sony on their website they are sold out.
DJ (36:21)
Damn.
I just
Christopher Weeks (36:22)
But but the I think the PS five versions are still readily available.
DJ (36:28)
so not the pros. Just not the pros. Okay.
Christopher Weeks (36:29)
Not not the pros. But I guess the big
deal is that the GTA game is modded for the PS pro ability. So
DJ (36:39)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (36:39)
it can do it it can do eight K graphics and a hundred and twenty frames a second and has ray tracing on and who has a who in their right mind has an eight K television right now and
Yeah, who needs a hundred and twenty frames a second to p to play GTA and you know.
DJ (36:57)
Whose TV's gonna support that? Like, not many. Well, I guess
Christopher Weeks (37:00)
Yeah.
DJ (37:00)
if you have an 8K TV, it's probably gonna support one 120 frames. But yeah, if you're
Christopher Weeks (37:05)
Yeah.
DJ (37:06)
if you're like me and you're still just 4K, like my TV generally only does 60. And the only time it jumps to 120 is if you turn on the interpolation. So it's still not a true 120.
Christopher Weeks (37:15)
Right.
Yeah. Yeah, crazy. Let's see, I don't know. Can you buy the the regular PS five Pro? no I'm sorry, n the the regular PS five. Golly.
DJ (37:26)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (37:27)
See, can you?
DJ (37:28)
It's interesting
that Rockstar would put in the extra effort it takes to make a specialized version for that. Cause usually they make they tune it to like the base platform. So, like a lot of
Christopher Weeks (37:40)
Uh-huh.
DJ (37:40)
on the Xbox side, a lot of the games are tuned for the Xbox Series S. And when you get it on
Christopher Weeks (37:46)
Right.
DJ (37:47)
X, it just runs at a little bit better frame rate, maybe a higher resolution. But you're not getting
Christopher Weeks (37:51)
Right.
DJ (37:52)
extra features like.
ray tracing or something like that, unless they make a special edition just for Xbox X.
Christopher Weeks (37:58)
Right, right. That makes sense.
DJ (38:00)
But it's rare.
Christopher Weeks (38:01)
Huh, interesting.
Yeah.
DJ (38:02)
Yeah,
I'm I'm seeing here it's sold out everywhere, and the main driver is GTA six.
Christopher Weeks (38:08)
Yeah.
But you can buy the PS five Wolverine edition pre order for six forty nine that c
DJ (38:15)
Yeah, I'll see that.
Christopher Weeks (38:16)
that comes out September fifteenth or whatever.
DJ (38:20)
and it's
partially due to the memory chip crisis that everyone is hit by.
Christopher Weeks (38:25)
six forty nine. Yeah, hard to believe, but I bought a Xbox one X last December for
DJ (38:33)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (38:33)
four fifty.
DJ (38:35)
You got lucky
right before the prices jacked up this year. Or last year.
Christopher Weeks (38:38)
Yeah.
it's still sitting in my garage and it hasn't even been opened. that just goes to show how much I play video games.
DJ (38:45)
Well, you know what? I will say this. So
Microsoft, for a long time there under Phil Spencer, was like, we're not going to do any more exclusives. We're gonna launch on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, like it's you're gonna be able to game anywhere and everywhere. And then once Osha came around and Phil was out, all of a sudden they're going.
Back to having exclusives again. And now it's like, maybe there's a good reason to own an Xbox because there for a long time people were like, Why should I even own an Xbox? I can I'll buy a PlayStation. Microsoft will support PlayStation, and then PlayStation will have its PlayStation only exclusives. I'll be set. Why even buy an Xbox?
Christopher Weeks (39:27)
Right. Right.
DJ (39:27)
I
that was such a dumb decision, by the way.
Christopher Weeks (39:30)
Yeah. I mean isn't the isn't the GTA game coming out on Xbox?
DJ (39:35)
It is, yeah. You can pre order it now. Eighty dollars. That's a cheap
Christopher Weeks (39:37)
Yeah. So
DJ (39:39)
one.
Christopher Weeks (39:40)
that's what then they have a more version with more prostitutes that it comes with,
DJ (39:45)
I think
so. Hundred dollars, probably a hundred extra prostitutes.
Christopher Weeks (39:48)
Hundred
I a hundred extra hookers that
DJ (39:50)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (39:51)
good golly. You know. It's
DJ (39:52)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (39:54)
just weird. I mean, I I really like the look of the Wolverine game, but I have no desire
DJ (39:59)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (40:00)
to spend six hundred and fifty dollars for a another console that's gonna sit around in my garage that I'm not gonna play.
DJ (40:07)
Man, I'll say this. Back when the one of the very first Wolverine games came out on PlayStation 3, by the way, PlayStation
Christopher Weeks (40:13)
Yeah.
DJ (40:14)
3 exclusive, much like this new one. Man, that game was crazy fun. It got some fairly middling reviews, but I love that game. So to see another Wolverine game come out, PlayStation exclusive again, like I'm I'm pretty hyped up about it. Like I'm this is one that I'm gonna get.
Christopher Weeks (40:28)
Didn't Xbox release
the Halo game to the PlayStation as well? So yeah, it just
DJ (40:33)
Yeah. And Starfield.
Christopher Weeks (40:34)
goes just goes to show like, you know, Microsoft's serious about not having exclusives and Sony's like, that's nice, we're gonna have exclusives.
DJ (40:42)
Yeah.
Like I don't know what game Xbox is playing over here, but it's not the same one PlayStation's playing.
Christopher Weeks (40:48)
Yeah. And they were
like, That's nice. We really appreciate that. Isn't that nice?
DJ (40:51)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (40:52)
Xbox is trying to p play along nicely with everybody.
DJ (40:55)
Yeah, yeah. We're just gonna take advantage of this. Thank you.
Christopher Weeks (40:58)
I've always been a little bit concerned that one of these days Microsoft is just gonna close up shop on the video gaming market.
DJ (41:05)
It's been it's been said because you know the rumor spinning around here probably since last year has been that the next Xbox, and take this with a grain of salt, it was while Phil Spencer was still there, was going to be twelve hundred dollars. It was effectively going to be a Windows PC, and you would be able to install Steam on it.
Why? Why are you trying to
Christopher Weeks (41:26)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (41:26)
compete with the Steam Deck? Is that what this is about? Like they're they're competing with the wrong company.
Christopher Weeks (41:32)
Right. And you're essentially
just buying a kind of a modded PC.
DJ (41:38)
Yeah.
An underpowered PC at that. Like if you're gonna play Steam games on this, you're gonna dump more money, especially with RAM prices and V RAM prices, right? Like you go try to build a game in PC today, you're spending two, three, four thousand dollars easy.
Christopher Weeks (41:52)
I was about to say, if you can even get your hands on the graphics card and the memory modules, you're you're up to four or five thousand dollars pretty easily. I mean the the price
DJ (42:01)
Yeah. I saw
Christopher Weeks (42:03)
the price on the Nvidia chipsets that can do ray tracing pretty well and easily.
DJ (42:06)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (42:08)
Good luck getting one and if you get one, it's over it's like two thousand dollars just for just for the video card. Yeah.
DJ (42:15)
it's it's more. I saw
a fifty seven with twenty four gigs of RAM going for forty seven hundred dollars.
Christopher Weeks (42:22)
That's yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.
DJ (42:24)
Because I was like, man,
I want a video a better video card because mine has 12 gigs. I wanted one so I could run bigger models locally.
Christopher Weeks (42:32)
Mm.
DJ (42:32)
And I went and looked because my bare minimum was 24 gigs. I wanted 32, but those were even more. So I mean, the point that Apple has, I still feel like if you went and looked at a gaming PC that could run models versus a Mac.
You're probably going to come out just a little bit cheaper on the Mac side and have more capability. Which is crazy.
Christopher Weeks (42:53)
Right. Especially these n
especially these new Mac Minis that are all kind like turbocharged.
DJ (43:00)
Yeah. And are they dropping an M6 at the next event?
Christopher Weeks (43:04)
you mean a M6 MacBook Pro? This Yeah,
DJ (43:07)
Well, any six.
Christopher Weeks (43:09)
I think we're gonna see MacBook Pros and I think we're also gonna see this MacBook Ultra with a touch screen on it. Don't even get me started on that one. Do people really need that?
DJ (43:20)
know th just years ago they said that that was dumb. Right. Like
Christopher Weeks (43:23)
I
I have the final cut suite on my iPad Pro, and I've used it zero times. Zero,
DJ (43:31)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (43:32)
because I don't wanna be constantly moving my fingers around the screen. It doesn't work that well, it's not intuitive, it doesn't grab clips fast enough. And then if I'm gonna connect my iPad Pro to a keyboard
to do the same thing. It's like I might as well just
DJ (43:46)
Exactly.
Christopher Weeks (43:47)
do it on my Mac Studio where everything is more powerful and I'm back to back to where I started.
DJ (43:54)
Yep, exactly.
It's we've been seeing these two, and you and I've talked about this before, where the iPad and the Mac OS operating system are slowly just kind of becoming one. And it's like, at what point is Apple going to stop cannibalizing these two operating systems? Like, I feel like there needs to be a split. There
has
Christopher Weeks (44:14)
This is
DJ (44:15)
to be, because
Consumers are only gonna get more confused. And Steve Jobs understood this. Hopefully, it's something that the new CEO will understand if he's a product guy. Like these products need to be delineated. They have to stop trying to one up each other.
Christopher Weeks (44:30)
Right.
Right. So what what products or products are you potentially excited about for the Apple event?
DJ (44:37)
So I'm I just did a a quick search here looking at what might come out. I do see the foldable, but there's talk about a possible Apple TV refresh. Now I am kind of in that market because I feel like my Apple TV, it's like f three or four years old and I it feels kind of sluggish with the newest newest OS. And some of the apps feel heavy too, just using it. So
Christopher Weeks (44:59)
Mm.
DJ (45:00)
I if they do come out with a better chipset on that that's faster.
I'd probably be in the market for that, as long as it's not too crazy expensive. Like the Apple TVs have always been moderately priced.
Christopher Weeks (45:11)
Well, but all the Apple TVs
also went up in price tag. Like
DJ (45:15)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (45:16)
they went up about seventy five hundred bucks.
DJ (45:18)
Huh? The Apple TV?
Christopher Weeks (45:19)
E yeah, they went up about seventy five
went up seventy five bucks. It used to cap out at two hundred dollars, one hundred ninety nine for the Wi
DJ (45:26)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (45:27)
Fi Ethernet version, and now I think it's two seventy five. Yeah. No, no, no, no. No, no,
DJ (45:31)
Damn. I thought you said seventy five hundred at first. I was like, what are we talking about the same thing?
Christopher Weeks (45:36)
no. Seventy five dollars, not seventy five hundred. Yeah.
DJ (45:38)
Gotcha. I'm
I'm gonna start gaming on that shit.
Christopher Weeks (45:44)
Yeah, yeah. I mean I
have the latest model on two of my televisions and the nice thing is really it's really good for watching YouTube because
DJ (45:54)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (45:55)
it has the H two sixty five codec built into the chipset. So it just immediately decodes it right away when you're watching something. It doesn't have to do any of this old
software transcoding on the fly. it does it all in the hardware, which is exactly what the iPhone does.
DJ (46:13)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (46:16)
and that's good. also they built in the V9 codec that Google uses for YouTube TV. So
DJ (46:23)
nice.
Christopher Weeks (46:23)
that that makes it play flawlessly.
DJ (46:26)
Do you subscribe to that?
Christopher Weeks (46:28)
I do. I do.
DJ (46:29)
Is it worth it?
Christopher Weeks (46:32)
yes. I mean I I don't like that the price has gone up, from where I started at like I think it was fifty bucks and now it's like ninety.
DJ (46:40)
Damn.
Christopher Weeks (46:41)
but I suppri I subscribe to their four K plan. so when there's four K content that comes out it
looks amazing on the television.
DJ (46:53)
You have an O Lid?
Christopher Weeks (46:55)
I do, yes, I have two of them.
DJ (46:56)
Nice. Very nice.
Christopher Weeks (46:59)
yeah. ironically, I waited a long time for them to become cheaper. one of my friends bought one for like eight thousand dollars of this Pioneer OLED television three years ago and I just said
seven thousand dollars is too steep for a television set that and
DJ (47:15)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (47:16)
it took three, four years for OLED prices to come down and the technology to get even better and better, eventually. You know, it it became very reasonable to get a a good good set.
DJ (47:28)
What do think of the like Q LED and the micro LED stuff supposedly that's going to be cheaper than O LED, but supposedly comparable?
Christopher Weeks (47:36)
Yeah. I mean they're good.
it really just depends on what you're watching and your your your watch case environment it is. the big difference in OLED is how well it does with pure blacks in
DJ (47:48)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (47:49)
total darkness. so if you're gonna watch movies in a lot of daylight in the middle of the day, then
LED, depending on the model you have, isn't gonna be the best for viewing that.
DJ (48:00)
Gotcha. Yeah, I mean we do we we watch movies at night where it would make more sense, but we also watch watch YouTube during the day, so I don't know which would
Christopher Weeks (48:09)
Right, right.
DJ (48:10)
be best. I have always wanted to own one for the you know, because we watch a lot of space movies where the
Christopher Weeks (48:17)
Uh-huh.
DJ (48:18)
deep blacks would look a lot better.
Christopher Weeks (48:20)
Yeah.
Yeah. What was the last film you watched on your T V at home?
DJ (48:25)
my son and I actually watched Star Wars just this past Friday. And yeah. No. No.
Christopher Weeks (48:30)
Are we talking a new hope or please don't say Phantom Menace
DJ (48:34)
We started we started with the very first one released and we're gonna go through as they were theatrically released, not chronologically.
Christopher Weeks (48:41)
Yes.
DJ (48:42)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (48:43)
Yeah, yeah. They just they just opened the George Lucas Museum in Los Angeles.
this three billion dollar museum that George Lucas was heavily involved in, kicked in and it's got all this original material that he took from his Lucasfilm Ranch
DJ (49:01)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (49:04)
and put
DJ (49:04)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (49:05)
Well, open the thing. it's got these little space like elevators that go, you know, up and down hydrolyfts and you know this giant anyway, very cool. Look look look up look up in
DJ (49:16)
So it's it so it's like everything's
themed.
Christopher Weeks (49:19)
what do you mean?
DJ (49:20)
But you're talking about like the the lifts and everything, like everything kinda it's well themed.
Christopher Weeks (49:23)
Everything is Star Wars. There's even a cafe.
Yeah. I thought, jokingly that because it was kind of a George Lucas thing that they might mention some of his other films, even the less successful ones like Howard the Duck. Yes.
DJ (49:37)
Mm-hmm. You're you're holding out, I can tell.
Christopher Weeks (49:42)
Yes. Though
DJ (49:44)
He's got his own room. That's You have to ask before they'll let you in.
Christopher Weeks (49:45)
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
They're like, we'd like to pretend Howard the Duck never happened. They're like, You're f
DJ (49:54)
Ha ha ha.
Christopher Weeks (49:54)
you're free to mention Indiana Jones though in the Last Crusade you know, and mention all the other Indiana Jones films with Steven Spielberg. But yeah, we're not mentioning Howard the Duck or T H X eleven thirty eight.
DJ (50:06)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (50:07)
Yeah.
DJ (50:07)
That's a bridge too far, sir. You can leave.
Christopher Weeks (50:09)
Yes. Yeah. Yes.
God. You know, and when he said that he was gonna they asked him a while ago, like what was he w gonna do with his billions of dollars that he was getting from Disney? He was like, I'm gonna make films at home that are never going to see a theatrical release and just for people and friends at home. And I was like, What kind of films are you making that like they're not suitable
DJ (50:31)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (50:32)
and safe for the theater?
DJ (50:34)
Obviously the kind Disney would never pick up. He's going into you never knew he had like a body modification horror side to it.
Christopher Weeks (50:41)
Yeah. Yeah. wow. You know, and
DJ (50:43)
Ha ha.
Christopher Weeks (50:44)
yeah. Have have you heard about this film Obsession?
DJ (50:48)
Mm-mm.
Christopher Weeks (50:49)
I I watched it I've now watched it like three times. It's pretty trippy. it's a borderline horror film. this guy
has this crush on this girl and he's got like this wishing stick and he breaks it and wishes that this girl was like obsessed with him and
DJ (51:07)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (51:09)
this like demonic spirit kind of like takes over her and she does become obsessed with him. So, you know
DJ (51:16)
And then he doesn't want it.
Christopher Weeks (51:19)
initially he thinks it's kinda cool, and alright, and then it turns turns bad like
Really bad. Like yeah, like she's not bathing anymore because she's so obsessed. she's got like vomit all over herself because like she's like eating bugs and yeah, it it makes it turn for the for the worst.
DJ (51:39)
Wow.
Christopher Weeks (51:40)
like people that like he's talking to, if she sees this, she like will kill them.
Yeah.
DJ (51:49)
That's crazy.
Christopher Weeks (51:50)
Mm. There's a scene where he's
DJ (51:50)
I have to look it up.
Christopher Weeks (51:51)
having a c having a conversation with this other girl in the car outside of his apartment where sh she he thinks that she's inside and they're talking and then just out of nowhere you see the car windshield, that she's this other girl is standing in front of in the driver's seat. You see the car windshield just break and she like grabs her face and is just smashing it into the
It's just it's a it was actually a YouTube story that this guy had created and Universal Studios contacted him and was like this seems like it could be a really low budget horror film that could be done well and he made it for I think two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, five hundred thousand dollars.
DJ (52:34)
Mm. I looked it up.
It's seven hundred and fifty K. Less than a million dollars.
Christopher Weeks (52:39)
Yeah, seven hundred and fifty tho
and I think it made you should look this up. How much did it make? I think it made like three hundred million dollars.
DJ (52:45)
Five hundred worldwide, five hundred million.
Christopher Weeks (52:48)
Five hundred
Yes. Yeah, mind blown.
DJ (52:51)
Jesus.
The dude set up for life if he got enough out of it.
Christopher Weeks (52:56)
Yeah, yeah. I mean the sad part is the majority of that goes to the studios. They front the money and I'm sure he
DJ (53:01)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (53:03)
I'm sure he'll get a nice cut of it. But it's it's a fun watch. It's not like crazy horrific.
DJ (53:11)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (53:11)
parts of it are even borderline, kinda funny. But about three quarters of the way through he's trying to figure out a way to like fix all this to
get her back to how she was. And yeah. It's it's a it's a pretty good story. Worth watching. Ironically, why I was going with this,
DJ (53:28)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (53:29)
Universal Studios in LA just opened up their haunted haunted haunted universal studios. They've started that now and they've Universal
seems to have cornered the market on Halloween horror films. You know, they own Jason, Michael Myers, Freddie Krueger,
DJ (53:46)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (53:47)
Pinhead, you know, anything that's anything in the horror world they seem to have the rights to.
Anyway, they announced this year there's gonna be the girl that played Obsession, played the Obsession girl. They're gonna have they had a look alike, and she's gonna be walking around Universal Studios. Yes.
DJ (54:04)
nice.
Well, I I did want to mention this because my my teenager brought this up. he's into like a lot of these internet kind of things. So so like you said, this guy went from YouTube to actual movies and there's one that he's been asking me about called Backrooms. Have you heard of that one?
Christopher Weeks (54:24)
I
have not.
DJ (54:24)
It's one of those that went from like some weird internet YouTube thing to now they've made a movie. And one called I know you know who Markiplier is, called Ir
Christopher Weeks (54:33)
Yeah.
DJ (54:34)
Iron Lung. It got released earlier this year for a three million dollar budget. and it looks like worldwide he made fifty mil off of it. So pretty like I get what these creators are going after now, right? Like they want to break out and get big and make the big money, but
Christopher Weeks (54:50)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (54:52)
in in a way, I mean, do you think it's selling out?
Christopher Weeks (54:55)
no, I mean they they just need the budget. They they need
DJ (54:59)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (54:59)
the money, they need the you know, they have all the these companies have the technical where wherewithal to make the movie become become fruition. I don't know.
DJ (55:09)
One one more thing before we move topics. You know what was it, Popeye and early versions of Mickey Mouse are now in the public domain. Have you
Christopher Weeks (55:18)
Uh-huh.
DJ (55:18)
seen some of the crazy ass horror movies they have made with these characters?
Christopher Weeks (55:23)
No,
no I have not.
DJ (55:25)
Especially Popeye. my god. my god.
Christopher Weeks (55:27)
I I can't
I I can't even imagine. Wow.
DJ (55:31)
It's
it's so bad, it's good. You
Christopher Weeks (55:35)
Wow.
DJ (55:36)
can look up on YouTube and see trailers. It's yeah, it's crazy.
Christopher Weeks (55:40)
that's pretty nuts.
DJ (55:41)
But the crazy part is, so like Mickey Mouse, right? A lot of that early stuff Steamboat Willie got released to public domain. People can use that to make whatever they want and and Disney can't do shit about it.
Christopher Weeks (55:54)
Wow.
DJ (55:55)
Yeah, that's where it gets dicey.
Christopher Weeks (55:57)
Huh. Interesting. Hmm. Wow.
DJ (55:59)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (56:01)
yeah. Huh. So what else what else are you interested in with this whole the Apple announcement? What are you expecting it to be? I think we
DJ (56:09)
I
Christopher Weeks (56:09)
were talking a little bit about are you at all interested in the foldable or no?
DJ (56:13)
No, I do see where that's rumored to come out. with a foldable seven point seven inner screen and a five point three outer screen, but
Christopher Weeks (56:21)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (56:22)
not really. I mean, two thousand to twenty five hundred dollars due to RAM prices it says. No.
Christopher Weeks (56:27)
Yeah.
Crazy.
DJ (56:28)
Not me. I do see a AirPod five potentially, but like
Christopher Weeks (56:32)
I d do think we are gonna see new
DJ (56:33)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (56:34)
new air pods.
DJ (56:36)
What what I just don't see I guess this is the downside of being so close to tech. It's kind of like, well, what else are you going to add? What else are you going to do? Right? Like phones have stabilized, headphones are eventually going to stabilize in terms of like features. We're not seeing a bunch of new features on phones or
Christopher Weeks (56:54)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (56:55)
anything coming out like that, right? Like the foldable is probably the
biggest advancement we've seen in terms of phone features in a while.
Christopher Weeks (57:03)
Right.
DJ (57:05)
I just
Christopher Weeks (57:05)
That's true.
DJ (57:06)
it's gonna become commoditized, essentially.
Christopher Weeks (57:08)
True. Yeah. Interesting. Hmm.
Hey have you seen that Netflix added eighty plus iPhone and iPad games now?
DJ (57:17)
No, I knew that they had gotten into games. God, what was the game that they put out not like a year or two ago? And I was surprised to even hear that they were getting into it. But now they're going just full mobile. They're like, big time games didn't work well for us.
Christopher Weeks (57:31)
Right, right. Yeah. They're they're trying. We'll see. I
DJ (57:35)
Have you?
Christopher Weeks (57:35)
they're just trying to include everything they can to make sure that you don't have any thought of dumping your subscription.
DJ (57:40)
It's so damn expensive. I mean, they're one of the most expensive subscriptions out there.
Christopher Weeks (57:45)
Yes. Especially if you subscribe to the four K bundle.
DJ (57:49)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (57:49)
If you're like four K bundle and then you're like, I want the four K family bundle where we can each get logins. You know. And they really went out of their way to make sure that no one is pirating that stuff. or not pirating, sharing passwords.
DJ (58:03)
Get
this. this this just hit me and my family a couple of weeks ago. So, like, I have my parents on my YouTube premium account because you can add family members.
Christopher Weeks (58:13)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (58:14)
They emailed my parents and me saying, Hey, soon we're going, we've noticed that you're from you're in two distinctly different areas based on IP address. So we're
Christopher Weeks (58:24)
Yeah.
DJ (58:25)
actually going to stop you from being able to share this to your family.
Christopher Weeks (58:27)
Wow.
DJ (58:28)
Yeah. So even they're hitting it up. And that subscription
Christopher Weeks (58:30)
Mm.
DJ (58:31)
went up to like twenty seven. So you pay thirty dollars a month for that for the family version.
Christopher Weeks (58:36)
Okay. So it's
DJ (58:36)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (58:37)
family version but you all have to be y in the same house, on the same IP.
DJ (58:41)
Essentially. Essentially. Which
Christopher Weeks (58:42)
Well, that's crazy.
DJ (58:44)
which is gonna be really weird for my parents because my sister lives right beside them, but she uses Starlink. They use Fiverr. They finally ran Fiverr way out there in the boonies to where they live. But I know that Starlink's gonna give her a different geo
Christopher Weeks (59:00)
IP address.
DJ (59:01)
geolocated IP address. So even though they live right beside each other.
They may hit the same thing because it the IP address space is gonna look like they're so far away from each other.
Christopher Weeks (59:10)
Mm-hmm.
Huh. Yeah. On that note, I think we should
DJ (59:12)
But Google's going all in.
Christopher Weeks (59:15)
I think we should wrap this up and we'll have another episode on the ninth of September where we can talk
DJ (59:21)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (59:22)
about what we're going to what we thought of the Apple event, what we liked about it, how soon we're gonna be buying our shit. I'm predicting I think it's gonna go on sale this coming Friday.
DJ (59:32)
The yeah, yeah, it is this week. Damn right after Labor Day.
Christopher Weeks (59:36)
Yeah, I think it'll be this Friday and I think it'll be at about five AM. Though there's rumors to help break up the the mass ordering that they might start the ordering at midnight Pacific time.
DJ (59:49)
roll it out hour by hour?
Christopher Weeks (59:51)
No, just they do it earlier in the night so that they know that there's less people that actually do it then. and it's rumored also that it might be continent only, like the United States only, you're not buying it from Australia or whatever.
DJ (1:00:05)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (1:00:06)
They've done it before where it's midnight or one o'clock in the morning, and kind of do like a staggered rollout 'cause they know they get less traffic that way.
I don't think it's more of a traffic issue. I think it's more of a supply issue and they don't want
DJ (1:00:20)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (1:00:20)
they don't want to see times go ordering at midnight and or one o'clock in the morning and people being told that their iPhone might arrive by Christmas.
DJ (1:00:30)
Well I was about to
you know, sh I anticipate shortages this year, especially even if you order one and have it because like we were told by the Apple store that if you call us and let us know you want one, we can kind of reserve one for twenty four hours as long as you come pick it up that morning. And
Christopher Weeks (1:00:48)
Right.
DJ (1:00:49)
that's how people were getting some quicker if you knew that little trick. But I kind of wonder if that's even going to be limited this time.
Christopher Weeks (1:00:55)
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, you used to be able to used to do this to get an iPhone sooner.
DJ (1:01:01)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (1:01:02)
I would order one online and then I would check the s status on the Apple app to see what supply inventory was available in stores in and if if the model that I wanted I would order it that same day for pickup and then just cancel my existing order that I'd already had.
DJ (1:01:21)
Huh.
Christopher Weeks (1:01:21)
Yeah, that's kind of super nerdy.
DJ (1:01:24)
That's pretty slick. I didn't know you could go in the app and actually see like it changes daily. They update it daily. Nice.
Christopher Weeks (1:01:29)
Yes. Changes
daily. They let you know what what stores have what in stock.
Anyway, on that note, we will come back to you live on I'm gonna try for Wednesday, September ninth, where we can talk about the Apple event. On that note, hope you all thank you all for listening. We appreciate it. subscriber numbers are kind of going up, which is a good thing. I'm surprised that all of you people still keep listening.
So hey DJ, anything else you wanna say? No
DJ (1:01:57)
No, sir, that's it.
Christopher Weeks (1:01:58)
sir. Alright, thank you all for listening. Have a good day. Have a happy Labor Day, everybody.
DJ (1:02:01)
Yep. See y'all.