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oh and earlier this week did you did you tune into that disaster by any chance were you streaming it while I was at work I know oh well still know okay fair enough so I did like a 10-year anniversary stream with Yvonne as kind of uh you and Yvonne Indiana ten years no no we have we've we've been together longer than that's really ambiguous yeah so it was ten to ten year Linus tech tips anniversary okay so Linus tech tips was started on the 25th of November 25 26 whatever it was 25th or 26th of November 2008 ten years ago this whole enterprise began and so I thought it might be a cool idea to do like kind of a behind the scenes slash like Q&A like a get-to-know-you free bond because a lot of people think that like I brought my wife to work kind of thing like there's been a lot of comments about like what's his wife doing at work and what does that mean ridiculous it means that like okay and to be clear I get it because I worked at a place where the boss brought his wife to work what has brought your wife work I mean brought your wife to work means that for some reason the owner of the company's wife is there every day and barking orders at people even though she clearly has no idea what's going on so in that if someone were to do that does that does the boss's wife have formal employment there yes okay she did in this case and of course Yvonne does here yes so a lot of people seem to think that that's how things went down but it's not at all she's actually been involved since basically day one and so I thought it would be cool to do like a stream to like kind of get to know her and find out you know what's what's going on what she's done here over the years because it's not insignificant at all and I think it's just you're just lucky that your wife having to be competent is that the only difference here no cuz I don't see any reason why I would have involved her if she hadn't been like and it's not just that like she drove me to make almost every major career decision that I have made in the last like we've actually been together like 13 years or something like that's been quite a long time only married for eight of it though so so she was the one actually driving me she drove me to drop out of school which to be clear was actually the correct decision for me she only drove me to do that not because she doesn't believe in school she finished her degree she just knew it would have taken line us forever to graduate maybe the plan was dependents she figured if I didn't get educated then I'd be stuck with her yet a lot of people don't know this actually that's another thing there's a lot of speculation that she's a gold digger actually she had much better prospects when we met active she's a pharmacist yes I don't know why she works here um so she was so she was and she was in pharmacy school when I met her so she had just she wasn't in the pharmacy program yet when we started dating but she got in shortly after we started dating so she was on a very clear trajectory and I was on academic probation at UBC at that time so I was on a very clear trajectory as well why are we going probation I wasn't smoking the boys room academic probation for getting poor grades academic probation it was gonna take you forever to graduate if I ever did know I would have gotten kicked out the only reason I didn't get kicked out was because I left you can't kick me out if just I quit I'm out here I'm out here like they would I don't think they would ever let me back in that school so where are you taking it I was taking general science and I couldn't pass calculus for the life of me she was your tutor was she not she was my tutor but that was only because there was an interest that was not because I was like out looking for a tutor I just wouldn't have found a tutor and I would have probably gotten an even worse grade if not for her and that would have been impressive actually because I got 19% the first time around in calc 101 or 100 whatever it is so so anyway but worried about retirement right so anyway I so I remember making this joke at the time because I was at around the time that I was dropping out to work for as a sales rep at a computer store and I so I forget what someone said to me but something like you know you know your wife's gonna be the breadwinner in the future like this is speculation we weren't even close to getting married at that point and I kind of went yeah you know what we live in enlightened times you know there's men can go to university for their Mrs these days there's nothing wrong with that because there's this old sexist joke that men go to school men go to college or men go to university for their bas their MAS and their PhDs and what do women go to university for their Mrs and so I was like so it's kind of like a play on that very terrible joke it means missus yeah means they're gonna it means like marrying someone who's gonna have a BA in na or a PhD that's so anyway I thought that was all that I got out of school was my mrs yeah well I mean I think it's like the trend is the other way now like um almost the majority of couples couples I know the woman makes more really in my wife's friend group it's like that huh yeah maybe your wife's friend group though is just like highly educated highly driven women and maybe that no they're not highly educated they are how they drove their all in sales that's where the money is at sales is actually super underrated in oh you have great ten you want to make $200,000 a year sales yeah career in personal planning should probably focus on sales skills and hold hold on give me one second I want to finish that thought from before at the point is we tried to do that stream I managed to fail three times over the course of like four days we finally got it done last night go check it out my calculus yeah actually my grade in streaming is a slightly higher than that that's 25% it's so weird because in this world in this studio and in the YouTube world and this computer world like you know you're the master of your domain here in this this little lioness world we live in it's weird for me to think of lioness like looking at a piece of paper and just being like I don't get it I don't know what to do I'm failing I was so frustrated forget it I give up I can't think about this right now I'm just gonna go play counter-strike that was that was and she was like well you should you should just give up you should drop out it was less that it was more that I was sinking worse and worse into depression and clearly what I was doing with the painting business and school where nothing was a success was not helping and this actually segues so perfectly into our talk about how important sales is because all of a sudden I had this opportunity to take this job at the computer store that was not a ton of money but because there was a commission there was the potential to kind of scale it and I was really passionate about it like I got a job at NCIX because I was that kid on their forum that was constantly already a Salesman and an ethical one like I wasn't about people just buying more I wasn't I wasn't even on commission I didn't I wasn't even on the company payroll I was just hanging out on their forum cuz the NCIX forum was quite frankly the shiz back in like the mid 2000s it was awesome a super active great community there fantastic people can't say enough cam you know who you are you're awesome anyone who can your camp but but anyway so I was already this kid hanging out in their forum basically doing the sales job which is advising people of what the right thing to buy is and helping them pick it and and making them making that relationship to NCIX make it more likely that they probably buy it from NCIX so even though they thought I was too young and they were looking for full-time people and I was only available part time they made this this kind of this weird exception for me and I and I started my job there and it was it's amazing how much of life is sales and how applicable the sales skills that I kind of gained just by being an enthusiast and getting a job where my whole job was just to talk about my passion all day it's amazing how that is actually a big part of how I was able to end up where I am today and I'll preach I'll preach sales training and and sales skills all day to anyone who will listen because if you think about it what in life is not sales engineering yes but I would make the argument that without sales all these aspects right the engineers are probably in trouble you got to make your pitch you got to make your pitch to get the funding to build the thing sure kept the project approved sure there's sales and engineering come on well I'm yourself a YouTube chat give me something here it's synonymous with communication we're gonna be abstracted like that yes so everything's finding a finding a partner in life sales you've got it you gotta sell them on what's have I got a deal for you what's good about you you know why why they should care why they should go on that first date that's sales sales is all about persuasive communication and calling it sales I think is sort of unfair it's just that that's usually the word at the end of whatever job title it is or associate it's like the whole secretary receptionist thing you know garbageman waste management you know technician whatever it it's if we're being honest with ourselves it's its sales but I think that also isn't really fair to the complexity of that position because it's all about building relationships and getting to know people and if you are genuinely good at it actually caring actually building real relationships that still exists beyond cutting the PIO and making the payment transactional that's not real sales and I think that's where a lot of sales training sucks well actually sales has changed in the last couple decades because there used to be an information disparity between the customer and the salesperson where you walked in to buy a car you were dependent on the salesperson to tell you everything about the car because you had no way finding that stuff out by yourself now we have the Internet everyone has access to information you walk in the store knowing more about the thing you want to buy then the salesperson does so where in the past extra extroverts they really thrive to sales people before now it's more of kind of you need to be in the middle of that spectrum so that you can listen to what they person already knows and what they want and then just help kind of funnel them in Plinko game to the best solution mathematics research Linus even then like you probably have to apply for like research grants and stuff you have to you have to get a job and get tenure at a university or something before anyone's gonna actually pay you to do mathematics research I don't know yes a little it's a little tenuous because what you're talking about is true but it might be like 2% of their actual day-to-day job yes that's true plus they're gonna get the tenure after publishing a bunch fair enough fair enough people have a really good news today we're gonna roll the intro sure let's roll the intro no promises on the news though okay retros MOS mas mas o Smaug another dangit James take this face out also recognizer alright alright alright alright alright alright I don't want James to be upset so we will do one tech news topic today the one that upsets me the most what upsets not just you both of us the most oh well that's my document I mean I guess I kind of spoiled it without actually going to the biz drills ecology bow is dead know anyone but debo you not here's an innocent this was ji bow rest in peace debo okay I know that half of you are gonna get Bend from the Chancellor but can we all please just press f7 famous Baxter just please stop the crying whenever other youtubers do apology videos I think you're so bad and yeah so Jibo as a company's ever apologized for anything because I know you guys are too smart for that kind of crap actually I pop you should apologize for pandering so who do I pander to okay so no I'm serious no I'll do the news later just now who died Patterson when you just said you guys you're out too smart well they're all right I think our audience is genuine okay tell you what I have I have an exercise for you set aside 20 minutes okay spend 10 minutes clicking on random ltte videos and reading like the top ten comments and just kind of going through then log out of YouTube and like fire up a VPN or something so that doesn't know who you are and just start clicking on like top videos on YouTube and really tough ten comments on each of them come back and tell me our audience isn't a little smart they are look this is objective okay this is not tanking this is just actual fact anyway tell me tell me about tell you about G but the points here just a year after Gebo landed on the cover of Time magazine that was a whole lot this is a whole other Wrather problem like time officially is a rag they they made a listicle of their like 10 most innovative tech products try it obvious not only did they not try it they didn't even read a review or watch a video cuz everyone was unanimous it was so bad it was just so useless sorry yeah Jibo sucked okay anyway there's parts that were good just a year after Jibo landed on the cover of Time magazine the company has closed down for good Gebo apparently sold this intellectual property assets to new york-based sq and venture partners who apparently are like the vultures of the 10th year world and evidence of hedge accumulated for months including a round of layoffs in June an empty office space in July these are these are these are these are evidence these are flags right a flag blog hasn't been updated since May there's no longer an option to buy geebo on the web site although the website is still operational ok is it really ok I'm gonna fire that up now go ahead carry on the founded in 2012 I believe by a was an MIT professor who studied social robotics yeah something to do with like robotic movement her last name was like similar to the word Brazil anyway found in 2012 the company was right the company raised more than 3.5 million dollars during a 2014 into gift IndieGoGo campaign didn't you I backed it you back there I have the shirt you know what hold on a second go get that shirt I'm gonna go get that shirt alright he's gone and I went on to collect about 70 million dollars in institutional venture capital you literally you did I mean the venture capital K I mean the venture capitalists are they that do they just have nothing better to spend money I'm gonna go get the shirt after that it was 2012 do you know what we could do with seventy million dollars nobody has ever offered us seventy million dollars you can't even pass calculus but we could hire we have more revenue than Jibo uh actually I actually don't know that they actually seem to have sold a fair number of these stupid things so and they're like $700 okay I don't actually know that they're more than that it was 2012 though so it's a little different because anyone can see today you back he's yelling saying that who backed it it was unrealistic but he backed it's obviously no one can hear you silence but the thing that you didn't know in 2012 was that there was going to be inexpensive fairly intelligent virtual assistants in every home like Linus is saying that Siri already existed true true stopping no one can hear you stop yelling at me I can't I can't find it I'm not yelling at you I'm yelling I'm yelling to you you're yelling okay easily so here's so here's the thing we we didn't we didn't know that like Amazon was gonna win or anything like that but we knew that inexpensive digital assistants were coming because they already existed Siri already existed what were the odds that this weird robot that doesn't move like like the demos made no sense like oh gee Bo we'll take a picture for you right I'm gonna go get this thing plug it in and position it why don't I just go get a camera at that point why there's just no reason for anything that it was in the debt it just made no sense I backed geebo because I knew that it was ever delivered it was going to be a dumpster fire and I wanted to be the first one in on the action that's why I would say I would say you burnt your eyebrows right off you the thing that let's talked about geebo in the end though was that thing by the yeah think there's a crux of it by the time it arrived it did have I think fantastic what did you call the animatronics the way that it moves the way it dances was super lifelike it was like looking at a Pixar character in front of you it's super awesome that's true and the way they did that with just the three four sections four segments of the body really it was really elegant and the thing that sucked was was the onboard computation the AI that yeah and by the time it arrived in 2017 that had been figured out by Google and Amazon and maybe even Siri and it would lesser degree Apple if they had just plugged in like if it was just geebo operated by the Google assistant yes it would be way better it still wouldn't have been enough at that price point it still would have had to have been three or four hundred dollars it would have had to be a decent music speaker at 399 with like what else would it have had to do an OLED screen yeah because that really ruined it if you look at this can you put up that under this screen all the the pictures that you see are like that where it's like wow it's this pure black screen with just an eyeball that moves around it has all this emotion but when you actually had it in front of you you could see the LCD screen it was a it was like light gray instead of a black against the background and it made people thought that it was a big they thought that it looked like a big mouth I thought those square screen looked like a mouth and that its eyes were like they're the time the time line picture you can see that so you can see see those surface at the top those are the cameras and people thought that those look like eyes and that the big square was a giant mouth and it looked like that big imma charge of my laser bra so OLED screen necessary we actually talked to them about that at CES and they said that they just couldn't buy the OLED screens because they couldn't meet the minimum order quantities they had to buy such a volume of them and they weren't making enough G bows to justify it well it's a good thing they didn't push for that that minimum order quantity because they would have had a lot more demos that they wouldn't know what to do with at that point oh yeah I tell you ma'am the amount of venture capital money that just gets thrown at stuff that obviously isn't going to work yeah it's just mind-blowing to me cuz that money it's just gone it's just gone it's not just gone oh no no no a lot of it a lot of it was paid to the employees okay we're not since 2012 people put it back and be economy okay it's not gone but like if you wanted to just contribute to putting money back in the economy why don't you just like donate to a homeless shelter or to like obviously there are better ways to just put money back into the economy than creating a weird plastic a I like landfill filler like well that is sad that imagine just making a mass mass-market product and all the environmental damage part of that and then they're just gonna keep like getting liquidated nobody cares yeah that's et for Atari or whatever just like literally buried them yeah that's brutal one thing that I feel really weird about with this one is that I've never before felt such a visceral connection to free-market capitalism like this thing failed for lots of good reasons but in a way we we definitely played a role in it failing because well they made it they made it suck it arrived at our desk you told the whole world that it sucked we weren't the only ones who said it but we're a very visible channel and so in our own small way we contributed to these people not having jobs anymore and that's kind of crazy I feel like part of me feels bad but then I'm just like well I'm just like cog in the wheel of evolution and free market capitalism sink-or-swim you guys should have done a better job and I wouldn't had to do this to you that's an interesting that's an interesting take on it you know it's funny I don't normally think of myself as having a this is weird playing a role yeah as sort of playing a role in people not having a job anymore but that is an interesting take on it i just i guess i maybe i should feel bad because I'm sure there were very smart people very intelligent people who worked at G Bo no question no question but like I look at it and I go this was so obvious to me that this wasn't going anywhere like why didn't you get out like I feel bad because yes I guess we contributed to the downfall though to be clear in this case I don't feel that bad because I don't think we played that large of a role but like couldn't you tell you know well I mean a lot for a lot of people it's just the job like they know it's not going to be an awesome product but they're getting there flushing out the resume right but here's the thing like I quit my job when it was clear to me that the direction of the the trajectory of the company was not competitive and the thing is is that it's easy a lot of the time people say well it's easy for you to say you know you had an opportunity to go and do something else and it's like right but if the trajectory is bad and the foundational aspects of the business are bad which it should have been obvious to anybody who worked there but this company was not profitable and not hitting key milestones so investor money was gonna run up what do you think is gonna happen so when you can see that the foundation is rotten and the trajectory is bad why not go now well maybe because then later when everyone all your other colleagues are trying to find work - well because of the part that you're working on might be good like the person who did the animatronics his resumes his or her resume is still Austin at the end of it or they'll probably find a job and there's lots of things like that I made all the api's that connect it to I Heart Radio or wherever like you compartmentalize that they maybe still are proud of the work but here's the thing like you had a pretty long runway here you could kind of wrap up your current project get resumes out there you know like well it's a startup so maybe they had vested shares like a lot of their pay structure could have been staying there say okay that's something I didn't really consider like when I think about employee retention you know I really think about making sure that I maintain and making sure that everybody who works here knows that we are maintaining very strong like foundational strength for the business like Linus Media Group is built upon rock not upon wood that is a rock carpenter limestone's toe in it it's tall it's granite just number one on the Mohs hardness scale hardness scale it's granite you know the hardness scale yes I know most kill hardened with ten been yeah what what's the only thing I can cut a diamond though more Dyna yeah Oh headphone users yeah great three facts I don't even think that's great three facts Oh more like great nine facts most part of scale is great eight but like the whole like walking kind of diamond that's young that's kid stuff okay anyway I just I feel bad but I also feel bad in the same way that like I feel bad for some of my colleagues who were left over at NCIX like I feel bad this sucks but like some of them and this is this is the funniest thing about it sort of some of them I had conversations with like hey it's been another year you're still there what gives I'm like yeah you know it's good for me I'm like right but like this clearly isn't sustainable why are you still there yeah you know like it's I'd rather I'd rather be the rat that abandoned the ship then like the one that goes down with it personally and I think some were like you were the rat that was like I'm gonna get into this container and get shipped off of the ship before it hits an iceberg and then all the other people who still work there like the rats scurrying away from the water in Titanic you know when they're trapped at the bottom I have those cages that Irish people I am proud to say I have not watched that movie since its theatrical release I do not remember and you would have been wait 11 years old yeah hmm 94 was it 94 no it six I was in the third grade I believe this is this is an important like event in your life like you remember Titanic 97 97 I'm guessing yeah so I would have been 11 in 97 yeah 1997 okay oh I'm pretty good at that it's won money like pet superpowers okay guessing dates yours that I've lived through some things you got a good one for me here bad superpower it's rarely useful and even when it's useful all I get is little brownie points for myself hate guessing mad he's no fun at parties what yours 9/11 2001 okay so that's easy I know because that was like way I'm so stupid I tried that was supposed to be a joke where the answer was built into the question no and none of those two numbers even have to do with the year yeah no that was like that was one of the most surreal moments of my life so living on the west coast like everything that went down was very much in progress when my my radio alarmed that when you woke up when so my alarm clock was tuned in to news radio because I found that that woke me up better than music someone like talking at me and the way they were talking at me that morning I thought I was still dreaming I was sure I was still dreaming I was like this is the weirdest dream the holy now you said a swear word I've never said a swear word in my life look and look it was a 20-18 yeah so so the so the so it was like going off next to me and I was just like I just kind of lie in bed it's like just real like yeah yeah I'm awake and like school off school all that day so like I remember my grade 9 science teacher was just you didn't really even say they will the TV into your class um yeah he didn't because the science class always had their own TV right so he so he didn't really say we weren't gonna do class that day but he had the TV on and loud so that like he could hear and like we didn't have class that day yeah yeah it was anyway um we could do we could do another there's no way to nicely say we had a so let's just who sponsors yeah let's do our sponsors so the first one we've got is what the heck so you're an Nvidia the first one we've got is moss ah yeah moss organizer so this is the moss ground a previous generation you can hold that one and I will take the moss grande 2018 updated version what the black ones so this pack is expandable up to 40 litres and 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university that he was currently on unpaid leave from the scientific community at large the tech community at large and like the the university was unaware of the project and its nature and is calling on international experts to form an independent committee to probe the matter like people be mad so anything else to kind of say about this well we could talk about what actually sure allegedly happened so the best way to get acquainted I thought our good starting point is actually look at a YouTube video that the doctor whose last name is he which is actually kind of confusing but he uploaded this video and he gives his perspective on the whole thing he doesn't call him designer babies he thinks that this is totally ethical and I think he makes a compelling case for that here and he explains the process which is this is this is fertilization by IVF and so what they did was they inject the father sperm into the mother's eggs and shortly after that they inject some proteins and they carry out the gene surgery using CRISPR technology which I understand it there's enzymes are programmed to look for particular patterns in DNA and when they find them they just snip that out and only that so what they did was they they sequenced and they did whole genome sequencing on the I guess the cells on the on the babies before doing the genome surgery and after and the reason they did that is then they can compare to see if any genes were affected that weren't intended to be affected and according to this person's the doctors statement the scientist does say that they didn't they didn't all do anything that they didn't intend to alter so it was a success in that regard so if it's all true that these children are alive now they've been born and they will be the first living people who have had their genes edited if it's true dang crazy so it's gonna be an interesting it's gonna be an interesting couple of decades where do you use I see you scrolling over to other topics but where do you sit on that I'm like oh wow that is a pretty big question isn't it um I think it's I am far more comfortable with cybernetic improvements to humans than I am with genetic improvements to humans I think we open ourselves up to a lot of potential problems I mean even this one already has problems like I believe West Nile virus is more likely to infect these little girls oh that's hairy so you're you're gaining resistance to one disease but you're actually losing some of your resistance to another I first they're not consenting to that and of course they are not consenting to that that's that's a whole that's a whole separate issue I'm sort of talking ten thousand foot view right now what does it mean to humanity now as long as it takes place on a relatively limb scale I I doubt that we're opening ourselves up to mass extinction through having you know edited all of our own genes like I'm of an entire if we edited an entire generations genes and then all of a sudden something came along we made ourselves weak against it and if humanity is dead like I feel like that kind of thing is very very unlikely most of my discomfort like so right so in small doses I actually don't see it necessarily being a huge problem the issue is that I broke it already the issue is that it opens itself up to all kinds of misuse and I don't have a ton of inherent trust for people okay there is nothing that I have seen in my life that would lead me to believe that people as a whole will take some kind of technology and use it only or even primarily for good are you if you take a step back and let's say everything was executed perfectly and maybe we're not even considering the fact that the alterations are inheritable by that by that organisms next of kin if you just answer the question is it okay to remove conditions that are just objectively harmful for to it to someone like take away take away the muddying of the fact that this may have increased their likelihood to contracted differences so i have to ignore that we might not know what the hell we're doing yeah like let's just say in a vacuum it's like this procedure is guaranteed to only remove something harmful I guess your slippery slope arguments still remain it sure does that's the thing about a slippery slope is it starts really high up and you actually don't know that it was a problem until you're face down in the mud at the bottom so yeah right so like I said I am far more comfortable with cybernetic upgrades than I am with actually making changes at a genetic level but does that apply even if those cybernetic upgrades were happening to an infant like a baby's born and you put an employee you already have that it's called a cochlear implant you can use it to restore hearing to an in and that was born profoundly deaf so we have that now the funny thing about that is you might think as a hearing person as someone who was who was born without what at least some people would describe as a disability you might think well this is so obvious if they couldn't hear and now they can hear then that's great cochlear implants for all but there are actually people out there who feel like they've kind of had their identity robbed from them because a cochlear implant does not make you hear as well as a hearing person in the installation of a cochlear implant they have to remove and this might be outdated knowledge but as far as I know they have to remove everything that was left of any hearing capability that you had before they perform the operation making you certain not whole as a person depending on how you kind of define that and so they can end up feeling kind of robbed of a community because if they hadn't had it they would have been part of the deaf community versus if they just hadn't been born Beth then they would have been part of the hearing community but they're kind of in this weird limbo and you could make objective arguments all day for why their position is wrong but it doesn't ultimately matter because if we remove the emotional component of being human then why even bother Wow I have a perfect emotional segue for that we got a hundred or super chat over here we should read out thank you in advance hey thanks for the everything during my job I hope you remember me shoe 125 probably not lul still never got floatplane working ah thanks for the every during major is this a person from the fancy X for having my job I don't know or if someone just watches ltte at work [Laughter] Jules asked how was the cake I actually didn't I did how was the king very tall it was like how wide do I have to make this piece to get a regular like I'm of cake here it was like I'm just gonna go regular width it's like was it yummy it was like an almond style cake right something is that marzipan I don't know was it good yeah there's lots of custard in it which time although lots of many layers it was like I had this Tiger died take a photo of this whatever it was good thanks for the cake Maykel says make a computer that is made from chip to chip transistor and resistors from scratch that equals something from 1995 I think alex is actually working on a DIY CPU at the moment mightily hi Scott no it's like there's like a guide you can follow like he doesn't have to invent it or anything so yeah we have Rick from Rick and Morty working in oh yeah you just over there making a capacitor defibrillator wait wait space-time space-time when you're time-traveling and someone's on a cardiac arrest alright one more topic the most important one of this week that's what you're picking Starbucks Starbucks says it's gonna block porn on its public Wi-Fi next year so if you want a jerk it in Starbucks you're gonna have to do it sometime between now and December 31st so you don't have to I vote for Christmas Day because it'll probably be pretty empty really much else to say about a little bit actually so there was there late to the party just some people were actually kind of mad because Starbucks took up to two years longer than other chains like subway and chick-fil-a and McDonald's who have already implemented this and there's actually a petition that circulated I got twenty six thousand signatures that was circulated by an organization who fights with these this kind of stuff and they they have some pretty compelling arguments of why this should happen sooner so they say that it helps teens and underaged people like when they don't have these filters at Starbucks these kids can go to these public Wi-Fi places and and watch stuff that the other ways couldn't watch at home into their home Wi-Fi and that also applies to sex offenders who by law can't visit certain sites right but apparently they can when they go to these public spaces so actually there is one more topic YouTube is bringing down the paywall on their YouTube originals apparently they have determined that the ad supported model that has sustained YouTube basically since its acquisition from by Google anyway is the way to go so YouTube originals are still getting funded but they will become free and ad supported rather than only being available to YouTube premium members personally I think this is a good move I mean from my part anyway YouTube premium is already a compelling enough value add alright compelling enough value just based on that I don't have to watch ads like and I'm gonna watch much YouTube like half the time I'm blocking the ad on my own video with my premium stupid premium membership the fact that like YouTube our Google Play Music is included like it's already a great value I don't really understand why we need these originals like original series but what this will probably mean is that YouTube is gonna be cutting back the kind of funding that they had put aside for YouTube originals like it seems to me that they've just done some Rica jiggering of the math on the back end for how this YouTube premium money is getting distributed and they've gone well we're spending a lot on these originals but they don't seem to be actually driving subscriptions so what if we just kind of cut that entire part of the equation and like we can still do YouTube originals and that's like cool but let's just make it accessible to everyone and then maybe it'll get a lot more views and then like maybe people will care more about it and we can go like mainstream with this whole thing and then there's like merch and licensing and like other platforms that we can license it to and like they could take a more conventional approach to too high production value car and that's right that's right because even though it was a ton of money hundreds of millions of dollars that's still a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of billions that other services like Netflix and Amazon Prime and who are fighting so and no offense to ourselves and other youtubers but like quite frankly I would I would pick you know the actual experienced Hollywood production people that Netflix works with over like youtubers for these times well the thing is you lose the spirit of what you like about the youtuber like I love these I didn't Michael if you're watching I didn't really care for their mind frame that I watched and the reason even though the concepts are cool is because it's no longer Vsauce because the cool thing you like about these sauces Michael's cool entrance and like it's just one camera and he sets it up in a weird location in this house in a weird way and then suddenly I just feel like I'm watching Discovery Channel or something with these epic sweeps all booms and it's like it doesn't have the same character yeah so this is gonna start it's actually starting 2019 but it won't fully affect all originals until 2020 it's probably some contract stuff going on there so some of the originals will be free to watch with ads soon and others you'll have to wait a little while speaking of things that you'll have to wait a little while for the lands show your your fixed next week because we are done for the day it's out Wow it is 20 after 6 we are super done for the day we will see you again next week same bat-time same bat-channel but learn chaps like hey Vsauce Michael here I need some