2:12:23 They went out of their way to make this thing identical and it's heavy. Yeah, well Here's my bit of tech news. I got an iPhone 7 yesterday Friday. I'm sorry. Yep the big one You know Tina's daughter works there, so she put me on the list Which means that and this is it's such a good I'm not good now I'm not gonna reserve one and here's the process at Apple it used to be when it was good PR and Oh, we released the iPhone. We have people sleeping in front of the store. Huge lines. Oh, look at how everyone wants us. Oh, so successful. And then you'd walk out and people be holding him like, Oh, I got it. But then of course the lines started to fill up with homeless people and placeholders. So there was no, and well, it was homeless people, placeholders and Robert Scoble. And so it was no fun interviewing anyone anymore. So they stopped that. Now you have to reserve it online. Then they give you a window.
2:13:17 And you have to be there in the window to go pick it up, which is why I refuse. Now my, my six, the screen's broken. I got it. It's a Panda phone. But you know, you're familiar with the Panda phone. No, it means you have a black iPhone. You break the screen, you go to, I fix it, the trailer and they don't have any more black. So I will, would you have a white one? Okay. Put a white one on. So you have a white one with a black button. It's very, you walk into the Apple store. People like, Hey, Panda phone, everyone knows what it is. I didn't know about this. Well, I didn't either. The thing was a mess and I dropped it again. I'm ready for the new one and specifically for the radios that it has in there because they can access the T-Mobile LTE frequencies and transmitters, which will give me more coverage for Airstream of Consciousness. So this was absolutely something. It's a business expense I fucking needed because, you know, the Verizon thing is not always panning out and it's very expensive to use Verizon data.
2:14:13 So, very kindly, she, you know, cause there's none. She was like, Oh, I look today, Rose Golds, like there's no Matt Black. And I said, Oh, okay. I got one Matt Black. Window Friday afternoon, 430 to 530 at the domain. That means 45 minutes in traffic to get up there. And then another 45 minutes coming back. And it's really only a 15 minute ride without traffic, but Austin traffic is horrific. And I was like, Oh, I got to say, John, It is such an upgrade from the 6 in every way. It's really quite astonishing. And I made quite a fool of myself, because you have to set it up and they have a little setup table where, you know, some cool kids, actually they were pretty cool, help you how to do it and you have to have a backup and all this stuff. And, you know, when you start up, you have to enter in a temporary code. Now I have a long code on my 6.
2:15:12 I think it's 12 numbers because I didn't doesn't open. I don't let it open up with my fingerprint because I don't know. Someone's going to arrest me and put my finger on the button that opens up. I don't want that. So it's 12 numbers. Come on. That makes sense, right? So they'd input the numbers. I do my numbers. I do my numbers. Boom. Okay. Oh no, you can't have 12 numbers for the setup. It can be no more than six. I do six numbers. And then, you know, you go through all this stuff and then it reboots and then you have to input not the code that I normally use, but the other code. I thought I remembered it. I actually got to the, you now have to wait 10 minutes.
2:15:49 I did it wrong so many times and everyone's looking at me and I'm starting to do perspirations rolling down my family. Oh my God, I can't believe this because they would have to reset the phone, like do a horrible thing that to reload the software, all this crazy stuff. If you can't remember that passcode, yeah, you have to do a Comey. So luckily, but I'm already noticing a problem with it. I don't know what it is. It's happened twice now. Where all of a sudden it says, I don't recognize your fingerprint. You need to input your passcode. This happened twice this morning already, so something is not right with it. Well, and that is I can't complain too much about the this one well, and the although I don't know if I'm gonna put it in play when the Kids are coming over tonight, so I'll have them because I know I still have the giant SIM card on my old galaxy and I don't want to cut it to a small SIM card cuz then if I don't like the phone I won't be able to go back to the galaxy, so I'm going to Try it out and see what the what the radios are like
2:16:51 I'm sure it doesn't have the fancy ones you've got. No, that's why I got it. And tell me this, Charback said that the radios in the expensive one, the exact copy is Or is known to be a really good set of three different radios and is and the when he has the cheap one with the back that comes off he says it's just barely is just terrible I don't know well. It's just different ships. I'd love to try it I'd love to do an a B comparison I can do that when I go out on the road again. I do that well. There's some I'm not shipping to you We can do that Um, but just another, another big advantage of this again. I don't, I don't, I never, I think it's too big. Oh no. I think it's the perfect size. Oh no. I disagree. Monster. No, it's not. It's not as big as the six plus. Maybe you have a different size. It's five and a half inches. I never had a six plus five and a half inches is what it is. All I know. That's too big. No, it's not. I think it's the perfect size. Um,
2:17:53 And what's really nice about it, and I'm a big believer in this, the speed at which it operates is significantly faster, which ultimately saves me time. And it's noticeable. It's every link you press, every rendering of every page, it is noticeably faster. This stuff makes a difference. You get more stuff done. I'm a big fan of it. What I'm not a big fan of is what Tim Cook said outside the little arena there where he did his dog and pony show. It's right at the beginning of this clip, so I don't know, is it because there's no way to tune into his voice. So I'll play it and then I'll play a little more so you understand his voice and I'll go back. But this is about Apple Pay. We're going to kill cats. Did you hear it?
2:18:34 No. We're gonna kill cash is what he says, right off the top. We're gonna kill cash. We're gonna kill cash. We're going to kill somebody else along the way too, by the way. We're gonna take cash out of the system. Nobody likes cash. Nobody wants cash. And, uh... That's... That's a joy out of that. And then he just goes on and on. But we're going to kill cash. Nobody wants cash. DOOSHBAG! What an a-hole. What an absolute a-hole. Well, this is the kind of thinking you have down in Silicon Valley. They put themselves as middlemen, of course, so they get a penny or whatever it is when they go for a transaction. They get something. I'm using the new card, you know, the thing that I got my new debit card. Oh, gosh, with the chip? You've got to insert it, don't swipe it, insert it! Yeah, they make a big stink about you insert it. It takes forever. And you still have to sign. And I don't have to sign.
2:19:31 At least not out here. There's been one instance where they had... Do you have to input your PIN? Yes, I think so. Because every single one I've done it at does not require my pin. It's insert. I think it's hit and miss. I think you're right in most cases. But you stick the thing in, but you wait forever. And I bitch about this. I say, is this taking longer than the swiping? Yeah, everyone's bitching about it. But it's also not right. I mean, this is not security. It's just as bad as swiping. You insert it. Anyone who finds your card can insert it.
2:20:08 You don't need your pin code. That's what I've witnessed. What kind of security is that? It's less security. And it takes longer. It's a transition phase, John. It's just a transition phase. Don't worry about it. It's all going to be good. Well the other thing is is that they have the card has no Embossed letters none of the things sticking up. Yes, you can't use the old machines anymore right you can't yeah correct It's just flat and so I had actually have a couple of those old machines I did my basement cleaned out, and I found a couple of these machines, and that's funny wait a minute You can take him back to the beginning about the basement. Yeah, what did you find I?
2:20:48 Oh, unbelievable. I mean, you must have actually I should disclose this. We were talking, I think, after the show and it was someone had cleaned. I was at the basement. Did they clean your office as well? My office gets cleaned by my daughter every so often, but the she does a great job. I'll try. I'll try. I'll try. I'll try and and reproduce what you said because it tickled me. I was cleaning, I thought it was office could be wrong, clean up the office. I found a bucket with all kinds of great stuff in here and I'm thinking I look in my office If there was a bucket with great stuff, I'd probably see it right away. How much stuff do you have that you don't see the bucket? Well, you should have seen the basement before it got cleaned out. Anyway, it was a fire hazard. Now, if there's a lot of wind, does a house blow away that it's no longer weighed down by the stuff in the basement? Yeah, it could happen. No, I find all kinds of stuff. I mean, stuff that's just crazy stuff.