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1:21 David Imel? But yeah, okay, we should talk about this Google event.
1:22 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
1:23 David Imel? Or is it a Google event?
1:24 Andrew Manganelli? Okay, look at us. We are the Google event now. We are going to actually tell you about what these phones have on it, because that event-
1:30 David Imel? I like that idea.
1:31 Andrew Manganelli? -was pretty brutal.
1:32 David Imel? Yeah.
1:33 Andrew Manganelli? In terms of the event.
1:34 David Imel? It was a combination of a late-night show, a morning talk show, and like the Super Smash Brothers, "Everyone is Here" intro cutscene. And infomercial.
1:43 Speaker 01 Yeah, the QVC.
1:44 David Imel? So let's just talk about the phones first, and then we can talk about what the [bleep] happened.
1:50 David Imel? So-
1:58 Speaker 01 Yo, what is up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts, I'm Marquez.
2:03 Andrew Manganelli? I'm Andrew.
2:04 David Imel? And I'm David.
2:05 Speaker 01 We're back. We're all finally back in the same room.
2:07 Andrew Manganelli? No, we're not.
2:08 David Imel? Yeah, Adam's not here.
2:08 Andrew Manganelli? Adam's not here.
2:09 Speaker 01 Adam's not here.
2:10 Andrew Manganelli? But we do have Mariah.
2:10 David Imel? We do have Mariah.
2:11 Speaker 01 We're almost all back, and Mariah is here as well. Yeah, we've got a lot to talk about today. The Pixel event was, as of the day of recording, today.
2:21 David Imel? Yes.
2:22 Speaker 01 It's hard to even call it a Pixel event, but it happened. And we got to talk about that, we got to talk about some other stuff. But first, I just want to show you guys this. This is the thing that I was going to get for the two weeks that I was not here.
2:36 David Imel? Can you bite it?
2:37 Speaker 01 I could, it's kind of heavy, though. I don't want to break my teeth on it. It's a medal, it's a gold medal for Ultimate Frisbee in the World Games, which was held in Chengdu, China. This medal means a lot to me, obviously, but it's also panda-shaped. You can see the ears on it.
2:54 David Imel? Oh.
2:55 Speaker 01 I have a couple of notes from China. One of them is, I've never seen a city lean more into a single animal than I have, Chengdu, and the giant panda. Panda statues, panda artwork, panda souvenirs, panda medals, panda everything. It was very cool. We got to see a giant panda. They mostly sleep, so it wasn't super exciting, but we got to see them. And yeah, a lot more electric cars in China, I also noticed. And this is one of the things I knew I was going to see. I'll probably end up going back to China at some point to check this stuff out, but a lot of BYD cars, a lot.
3:28 David Imel? Oh, yeah.
3:29 Speaker 01 A lot of them.
3:29 David Imel? Bring your dollars, build your dreams.
3:31 Speaker 01 Yeah, they all say "build your dreams" on the back, and you kind of have to know. We called lots of... There's no Uber, it was called Didi. Lots of Didis are BYD cars, so that was fun.
3:39 David Imel? I do want to say, Marquez, that we're actually very proud of you.
3:42 Speaker 01 Well, thank you.
3:43 David Imel? Yeah.
3:43 Speaker 01 I miss you guys. It was a lot of... We were in this athlete's village the entire time. I guess similar to an Olympic Village, essentially, but they kind of turned this international hotel complex into like a place where all the athletes from all the sports from all the countries all stay.
4:00 David Imel? Wow.
4:01 Speaker 01 And there's this huge dining hall where you kind of just show up every day and there's everybody wearing all their, you know, warmups for whatever sport they play and you could meet people who play different sports or try to guess what sport they play. And I learned a lot about how tug of war works and what korfball is and fistball and other sports that I didn't know about before watching these.
4:23 David Imel? World Games is not the Olympics.
4:24 Speaker 01 World Games is essentially the Olympics for sports that are not yet in or not currently in the Olympics. Got it.
4:32 Andrew Manganelli? Olympics to Ocho.
4:33 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's like just like the Olympics. It's every four years. It's in a new location. Last cycle, four years ago, was in Birmingham, Alabama. This time it was in Chengdu, China. And they have this, yeah, this village.
4:44 Andrew Manganelli? Crazy, two different.
4:45 Speaker 01 Well, yeah. I have heard Birmingham is the Chengdu of the United States, okay? That's not crazy. That's not a crazy take. But yeah, we, on our, on our quest for this medal, we played five games in five days. We had three pool play games. We played Japan, then we played Germany, then we played China, the home country. It was very exciting. Thousands of people there, very loud crowd, super cool. Then we had semifinals against France and finals against Canada.
5:11 Andrew Manganelli? We had two games that went to, we call it universe point. I'm saying, wait, I haven't played this in forever, but next point win, pretty much. The Germany one was crazy because you guys were on defense, right? Which is much harder to, to score. And then the Canada one, you pulled it through. You were on that point also.
5:27 Speaker 01 Universe point hold and universe point break. Yeah, we kind of saw everything. Yeah, the Germany, well, I wasn't on the, the D-line for the break, but we got a break on universe against Germany and we got a clean hold on universe against Canada.
5:39 Andrew Manganelli? And you were on the final point.
5:40 Speaker 01 Yeah, that was pretty sick.
5:42 David Imel? There is a really cool, sort of inset topography thing on the medal.
5:47 Speaker 01 Yeah.
5:47 David Imel? Do you know what this is supposed to be?
5:48 Speaker 01 I don't know if it's a specific topography. It is, looks, it looks like topography, but I don't know if that's like the country or the, or the town we were in. Chengdu does have a lot of mountains, but I don't know if that's specifically the area we were in. It was very fun and I will probably be back. Congratulations. Thank you. It will be in the Olympics eventually. And when it is, they'll know who to call. The IOC, the International Olympic Committee, watches all these events. Oh. Hopefully, they liked what they saw. Do you know why? So, in, for the audio listeners, inside of the metal opens up and inside the metal, there's a mini metal. Oh, wait. And it's got a magnet on it.
6:21 Andrew Manganelli? No, and it does.
6:24 Speaker 01 Oh, right. And it's got like a little thing that pops out of it when you shake it. Tiny medallion. Oh, you can open it?
6:29 Andrew Manganelli? You can like have a little thing to put a keychain like on it or something.
6:34 Speaker 01 Yeah. Yeah, put on my keys.
6:35 Andrew Manganelli? Oh, your LeBubu could have its own metal, too.
6:39 Speaker 01 If you wanted, yeah. I should say, there's two animals that they lean into. It was kind of the pairing of a giant panda and the monkey. And so the metal is shaped like a panda with the ears. You open it up and inside, there's a tiny metal magnetized to it with the monkey on it. Do you know why they did that? Just because you can. All right. But yeah, okay, we should talk about this Google event. Yeah. Or is it a Google event?
7:01 Andrew Manganelli? Okay, look at us. We are the Google event now. We are going to actually tell you about what these phones have on it because that event.
7:07 Speaker 01 I like that idea.
7:08 Andrew Manganelli? Was pretty brutal in terms of the event.
7:10 Speaker 01 It was a combination of a late night show, a morning talk show, and like the Super Smash Brothers, "Everyone is Here" intro cutscene. And infomercial. Yeah, the QVC. So, let's just talk about the phones first and then we can talk about what the [bleep] happened.
7:27 Speaker 01 So, there's a bunch of new phones. There's a Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro Max. XL. And, sorry, geez, yeah, Pixel 10 Pro XL and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. Yeah. Lots of really great names, easy names. They're all the same prices as last year and frankly, there's not that much that's actually different about them. There's a couple of interesting things, like the foldable now is IP68 rated. Chi 2. Chi 2. In all of these phones. Pixel Snap. I actually think that's my favorite feature. That's probably the biggest. There's magnets in all of these phones and so now they can attach. And they're strong, too. They're like actually firm. And so they have these accessories, like they're called Pixel Snap. There's a charger, there's a little dock you can throw it on, but you can also throw this on.
8:10 Speaker 01 MagSafe accessories and it firmly sits on them.
8:13 Andrew Manganelli? The clip you used in the impressions video is like nerve wracking.
8:18 Speaker 01 But it was so good.
8:19 Andrew Manganelli? He flips it with his hand and it just stays on the like ring thing the whole time.
8:22 David Imel? I asked Google, like, why did you brand this Pixel Snap? Because now if Oppo adopts G2, is it gonna be Oppo Clip?
8:31 Speaker 01 They're gonna.
8:31 David Imel? And there's gonna be, and Google said that it's just the G2 standard, but they optimize the magnets and everything, which you can, you can't tell because they have, they have a ring adapter, like one of those ring things. And you put it on the back of the phone and no matter which way you turn it, it stays sturdy. Like, it seems like they have done a lot of optimization to make sure that the magnets are very strong.
8:52 Speaker 01 And like the friction of the, of the little felt in between them, like all of that. It seemed very well thought out and it worked in my, you know, hour or two of hands on very well.
9:01 David Imel? Yeah.
9:01 Speaker 01 So I think that might be my favorite feature.
9:03 David Imel? Yeah.
9:03 Speaker 01 But yeah, you know, Tensor 5 is in there. It's a bit more powerful. We haven't benchmarked it yet, but I don't think it's gonna magically be Snapdragon 8 Elite level. It's not the focus. It's still a Pixel and all of its clever software features and AI and conversational photo editing and all of that. That's what makes the Pixel the Pixel. So they still look the same. They still have a lot of the same camera hardware. They have similar battery sizes, slightly bigger batteries last year than last year. But in general, slightly brighter displays too, but yeah, they're pretty similar to last year.
9:33 David Imel? Yeah, yeah. I mean, Tensor, at least it's TSMC this time, so it's supposed to be quite a bit more efficient.
9:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:39 David Imel? They said the CPU is 34% faster. There's a 60% faster TPU. So that means it's got way more Tensor cores. It's gonna be running a lot of the models natively on device. And there's a new Gemini Nano model that runs 2.6 times faster and 2X as efficiently in some use cases, they said.
9:56 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:56 David Imel? Which, I don't know. They, this year, they're clearly leaning into a lot of the AI features that can happen natively on your phone that can sort of fetch information from other apps within the Google ecosystem.
10:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:08 David Imel? Yeah.
10:08 Speaker 01 So if you were hoping for like 100 watt charging or a brand new 100 megapixel camera or like the most incredible display of all time or some other crazy raw horsepower stuff. It's not.
10:19 David Imel? They did call it the best display ever on the cam, on the live stream though, which was interesting. It was like according to who?
10:25 Speaker 01 Some choice words, yeah.
10:26 David Imel? It was according to who? According to who? They said for the second year in a row is what they said too.
10:31 Speaker 01 Oh, right. They did say that.
10:32 Andrew Manganelli? They did put the third camera on the base, which I'm very, I'm excited for.
10:38 Speaker 01 Yeah, triple cameras.
10:39 Andrew Manganelli? Lemongrass, baller color, everyone was wrong about that as per usual. Do you want to kind of really quickly just go over why then, if you have triple cameras on the 10, why you might go to the Pro and Pro XL? Cause it's a little harder to see by, one, if you watch the event, because they didn't say anything about it. Or two, if you're just looking hardware wise, they all, they look exactly the same.
10:59 Speaker 01 Yeah. I mean, this is going to be similar, cause I've talked about this in the past. The Pixel 10 is going to be the best deal. 799, you get the most for your money there. For 200 extra dollars to get the Pixel 10 Pro, what do you get? And I don't know how much better, but you'll get slightly better triple cameras, right? It's still 5X optical zoom, but they'll let you super zoom into 100X on the Pro.
11:19 Andrew Manganelli? It was pretty impressive in some of the cases.
11:21 Speaker 01 Yeah, we've seen some, some decent shots. I've also seen some pretty bad looking shots, but I think there are some cases where you could be impressed by the full zoom.
11:29 David Imel? Does AI upscaling, to be clear.
11:31 Speaker 01 Yes.
11:31 David Imel? And it sometimes makes.
11:33 Speaker 01 On anything beyond 30X, it does super zoom or pro zoom.
11:37 David Imel? Pro zoom on the pros.
11:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
11:39 David Imel? Yeah.
11:39 Speaker 01 It is a slightly higher resolution display. It is a slightly brighter display at its peak brightness.
11:45 David Imel? 3300 nits versus 3000, which logarithmically is the same.
11:49 Speaker 01 Yeah, you won't notice that.
11:50 David Imel? Yeah.
11:51 Speaker 01 And it is in fact, a slightly smaller, 100 milliampere, smaller battery, probably to fit those larger cameras. Yeah. So it's a 4,870 milliampere versus 4,970 milliampere on the base. Aside from that, it's double, it's more RAM, 16 gigs of RAM versus 12, and you can get more Mac storage. It starts at 256 instead of 128.
12:14 David Imel? Yeah.
12:14 Speaker 01 And yeah, they all have G2, blah, blah, blah. That's, that's basically what you get for your extra.
12:18 Andrew Manganelli? XL does get 2.2, which is the 25 watt.
12:21 Speaker 01 Yes.
12:22 David Imel? Well, the pros are both 2.2.
12:23 Andrew Manganelli? Sorry, the XL.
12:24 Speaker 01 Just the XL.
12:25 Andrew Manganelli? XL gets 2.2.
12:26 Speaker 01 Really? Just the XL. And the pros also have better selfie cameras, 48 megapixel selfie cameras. So yeah, like you said, the XL is 1199 and gets even faster charging and obviously the larger battery and larger screen and that's kind of it. So I think most people will get the most value for their money out of the regular Pixel 10, which is great. Then you have the Fold, 1799. That's got your IP68, that's got your Pixel Snapchi 2, that's got tensor and 16 gigs of RAM and more storage and slightly thinner bezels. So basically the hinge being thinner on the left means it's like a more centered,
13:07 Speaker 01 normal looking closed screen. And then when it opens, it's still, there's still a crease, but it looks fine, open, 8-inch screen, a whole bunch cut out. Yeah, normal looking phone for that. I think it's the same cameras as last year. Maybe it's a new primary camera and then the other two are the same.
13:22 David Imel? Yeah, it's a new 48-megapixel primary camera. There are some small things that are different between the regular one and the Pros. The Pros are the only ones that get the 8K 30 FPS with video boost and the night sight video where you don't get that on the regular one, which is sort of an interesting thing to leave out.
13:42 Speaker 01 Artificial.
13:43 David Imel? Yeah. There's a Pro Controls camera mode on the Pros, whereas you don't get the Pro Controls mode on the regular one, if you're really hardcore about that kind of stuff. You get a better selfie camera on the Pros. So you get the 42-megapixel dual PD selfie camera, whereas the regular one has 10.5 megapixels. There's zoned UFS storage on the higher storage models of the Pros, which I had to look up what this was. Basically, they segment out the storage for storing different types of data so that it is like faster to retrieve, because when you're trying to access memory on like a 1TB hard drive, it can take forever to like go through the hard drive and index everything and then bring it out to you. So they split it up into like different NAND segments, I guess.
14:24 Speaker 01 This is only on the 512 and 1TB models?
14:27 David Imel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, technically 45-watt charging on the XL, but I don't know whether or not that's actually going to charge faster. Famously on the Galaxy S20 Ultra, I think it was, it technically charged at 45 watts, but in practice, it was like a one-minute faster charge.
14:46 Speaker 01 Yeah, the charging number that you see is often basically the peak number that it can achieve, which you only achieve that briefly at the very beginning of the charging curve at a few percent battery, and then it immediately drops down as it manages thermals and fills up the battery or whatever. So you might only see 45 watts for two seconds.
15:04 David Imel? Right.
15:04 Speaker 01 So we don't know. We'll test that as well. The review is in the works, as you can probably imagine.
15:08 David Imel? Yeah, and then LTPO.
15:10 Speaker 01 And then LTPO, right.
15:11 David Imel? LTPO. So you get 60 to 120 on the regular one, 1 to 120 on the Pro.
15:15 Speaker 01 So there you go. You don't have to watch the event to learn all that about these new phones. The event, though, was, uh...
15:23 Speaker 01 How do I even explain this? It was hosted by Jimmy Fallon. It was on the Google channel. It had about 20 celebrity guests.
15:33 David Imel? Probably more.
15:34 Speaker 01 In various capacities, like Lando Norris was one, Giannis Antetokounmpo was one, some photographer, Steph Curry, I just, the list goes on.
15:43 David Imel? Jeremy Lin.
15:45 Speaker 01 Jeremy Lin briefly.
15:46 David Imel? He was in the beginning, yeah.
15:47 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:48 David Imel? The Jonas Brothers.
15:50 Speaker 01 If you asked Google why they did it like this, I think their explanation would be, "We wanted to reach the normie people." Like, the tech people already know about these phones. They watched the Hands-on Impressions video an hour before the event happened. But for the normal people, who will buy a phone based on what Jimmy Fallon says, this was for them. And to that, I would say, I don't think that worked. I don't think that's going to work.
16:17 David Imel? I would say, name a person you know that's not in our scene that's like, "Are you ready to watch the Google event today?" Like, who do you know that's like a non-techy person that's watching a tech event?
16:28 Speaker 01 There's a possibility that on Jimmy Fallon's regular late-night show, he plays a clip from the Google event that he's hosting.
16:34 David Imel? Or like some short-form content they pull out of it, and they're like, "Oh, that's Jimmy Kimmel."
16:38 Speaker 01 Jimmy Fallon.
16:39 David Imel? Jimmy Fallon.
16:39 Speaker 01 Yeah.
16:40 David Imel? Whatever.
16:40 Speaker 01 Lots of Jimmys. The S2 Jimmys.
16:42 David Imel? Yeah. I do think it's smart of them to bring in a bunch of new audiences like this, though. I would love to see the number on what new audience it is and how much of the audience is just us who watch it all the time and are like...
16:55 Andrew Manganelli? Did you guys say anything about the products?
16:58 David Imel? But like, think about if they got all of these influencers and sports players and photographers and people to like, post on their own social media accounts, then at least they're sort of like, the people don't need to watch the event, right? As long as they can clip things and like, put it in the contract for all of the individual influencers to post about it.
17:15 Andrew Manganelli? I still don't know if that is converting, like they're hoping to. How much money do you think they spent on just celebrity cameos?
17:21 David Imel? Yeah.
17:22 Speaker 01 That, that was an expensive event.
17:23 David Imel? Yeah, for sure. We were joking that they could have spent all that money on 15 minutes of Taylor Swift and it probably would have had better conversion.
17:30 Andrew Manganelli? Then people would watch. If she announced her new album on the Pixel event instead of her boyfriend's podcast, it would, the market share would be through the roof.
17:39 David Imel? There was a really funny, um, Onion meme that was like, uh, what's his name? Her boyfriend's name?
17:44 Andrew Manganelli? Travis Kelsey.
17:44 David Imel? Travis Kelsey receives invoice for Taylor Swift's podcast appearance.
17:49 Speaker 01 This was a phone announcement event masquerading as an infomercial, masquerading as a organic celebrities hanging out and being cool and showing you their phone stuff type of thing. It was, it was very, it was unique, I'll give them that. It was ambitious.
18:06 David Imel? Yeah.
18:06 Speaker 01 Because it was live.
18:07 David Imel? Yeah.
18:08 Speaker 01 Um, and they did, to their credit, pull off some pretty impressive live tech demo. The phone call thing with the Spanish speaking influencer who was talking on the phone. Having seen that demo in person fail many times.
18:21 David Imel? Yeah.
18:22 Speaker 01 I was watching that intently like, this could go horribly. Like, this could go really wrong. And it actually went pretty well.
18:27 Speaker 03 Did, while I was checking the mail, did they do the live translation? Are you serious? Like, right when I left the room?
18:33 Speaker 01 It went pretty well. There was one time where she said something and then the other, and it came out, "I am a crazy person" or something like that.
18:39 David Imel? It did say something weird, yeah.
18:40 Speaker 01 Um, I don't think that's what she meant to say. But every other time, it was actually pretty accurate.
18:44 David Imel? It landed, it hit a high note at the end. It landed and they said like, an announcement, "It'll go on sale in Mexico. Oh wow, congrats." And it's like, in the AI voice, it sounded kinda like Jimmy, so.
18:52 Speaker 01 Yeah. It is impressive that they're able to generate an AI voice of you within two seconds of your voice.
18:58 David Imel? Yeah, with the intonations and the timing and like speeding up and slowing down, that is very impressive tech demo.
19:04 Speaker 01 It's not exactly, you know, what your voice would sound like, but it's close enough and.
19:08 Speaker 04 I feel like that could also be based on the many, many hours of Google Assistant audio you are providing.
19:14 Andrew Manganelli? They do claim, or I guess they claim the phone call is not recorded, but that doesn't mean they don't have.
19:20 Speaker 01 They said it takes only two minutes or two seconds of your voice to clone it is what they say.
19:26 Andrew Manganelli? It is, that is a, an easy thing for Google to say when they have.
19:31 Speaker 01 We already have.
19:31 Andrew Manganelli? Thousands of hours of your voice.
19:33 David Imel? Well, it works on both ends, so the person you're calling doesn't have to have a picture.
19:36 Andrew Manganelli? That is very true, yeah.
19:37 David Imel? So it's just doing it live.
19:39 Andrew Manganelli? Actually, to be fair, most people you are calling don't have a picture.
19:43 David Imel? Yeah, right.
19:43 Andrew Manganelli? If I had to give my kudos to anything in this event, I thought the set was fantastic. The set was really well made.
19:51 Andrew Manganelli? The thing about it, though, is seeing some of our like tech journalist friends posting from there. The way they had to watch the event was like, the set was pushed further and all the cameras were in front of where Jimmy and the people, yeah. So like, they didn't even get to feel like they were, the event was to them, it felt like.
20:07 David Imel? It was to the cameras.
20:08 Andrew Manganelli? It just felt like this was not for tech journalists at all.
20:11 Speaker 01 I've watched, every time I watch an event like this, I kind of in my head try to picture what I think the brief was and like how I think it's being produced. And I could see a lot of reading off teleprompters and like camera to the side, like, look at your prompts over here, then read the next prompt over here. And then a little bit of riffing in between, like Jimmy Fallon would go off script once in a while, oh, are you allowed to say apple? Like a random line here or there where it's, it's just kind of like keeping it fun.
20:40 Andrew Manganelli? Tensor!
20:41 Speaker 01 Yeah, I could feel some of that and I honestly think Google probably thinks it went pretty well.
20:48 David Imel? Oh, definitely.
20:49 Speaker 01 You know, just based on the fact that nothing derailed, the tech demos worked.
20:52 David Imel? Based on how complex getting that many famous people in one room and trying to get them to all say the right lines and nothing disastrously happening.
21:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, nothing like jiffable with like. Like a missed handshake or anything crazy like that.
21:05 David Imel? Yeah. Or like when the Gemini demo failed twice on the Pixel and only worked on the Galaxy S25.
21:11 Speaker 01 Yeah, nothing like that happens. So they, maybe they're happy about it.
21:14 David Imel? They're probably stoked. There are a couple really quick fold updates that I want to mention because this year, the fold is almost exactly the same as last year. And so a lot of people are going to like, wonder if they should ever upgrade to this thing. And we talked about IP68, which is, which is a big deal. But they also added, well, they added Pixel Snap to that, which is interesting. And there's all these Pixel Snap accessories like we talked about, and there's a stand. And they specifically, both in the video and the keynote, and also when they came and visited and showed us them, demoed the Pixel Fold being open and being magnetized to the stand to try to like showcase how strong the magnets were.
21:57 David Imel? It did slouch very slightly to the left. I do remember seeing.
22:00 Speaker 01 Okay.
22:01 David Imel? But that's at least quite interesting and it's all right, you know. It is, yeah.
22:05 Andrew Manganelli? And how like weighted the stand is because what David's explaining is when it's open, it's only magnetized to the right side. So now it is like hanging precariously off the side, but the stand is still standing, which obviously takes a lot of precise, you don't want to stand to be
22:19 David Imel? Yeah.
22:19 Andrew Manganelli? really heavy, but it still has to be able to hold it like that.
22:22 David Imel? Right.
22:22 Andrew Manganelli? It was pretty impressive. I didn't see it slouching, but I wouldn't be surprised.
22:26 David Imel? Yeah, yeah. They also updated the made you look thing for kids where they have new animations. So the kids can like, you know, laugh at the.
22:33 Andrew Manganelli? I want to actually try that because.
22:35 David Imel? Yeah, you should try it.
22:36 Andrew Manganelli? It seems like a great idea, but the amount of times I've had to like try and get Lane or my niece of like yelling and screaming the like words that they love and clapping like, I can't imagine a silly little fish on the screen is going to be better than
22:49 David Imel? Yeah.
22:49 Andrew Manganelli? 20 parents like basically begging the kid to just look at it.
22:54 Speaker 01 I would love to try it because it's, seeing as it's Google and they had it last year on their phone, they had an opportunity to kill this feature or double down on it and they doubled down on it.
23:03 Andrew Manganelli? They doubled down.
23:03 Speaker 01 They added more Facebook.
23:04 David Imel? Yeah.
23:04 Andrew Manganelli? I think it is a perfect thing to play at like a T-Mobile store and a parent sees it's like, oh, my kid will finally look at the camera every time. Like that is a great. That's gonna work perfectly. Let's pay, buy it and then see it. Maybe, I don't know. I wanna try it. If I get a fold, I'll.
23:21 David Imel? Yeah. And then there are a couple more features that are actually taking advantage of the opening screen, which is nice. There's the, the new camera app, which when you take a photo, it shows the photo you just took on the left. And it has this dynamic stacking feature where when you take more photos, it kind of like moves the photo in and it stacks them on top of each other. So you can see the whole photo roll, which is nice.
23:40 Speaker 01 Instant shot, I think is what they're calling it.
23:42 David Imel? Instant shot. And then they now say that you can drag and drop images and links from like one app to another by holding and dropping. It didn't work in our demo, but they were confused why it didn't work. So hopefully that bug is fixed by the time it launches. That's actually very, very helpful.
23:57 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah. I also really liked the, just like, um, how if you have dual apps open and you can slide the middle slider.
24:03 David Imel? Yeah. 80% of the screen is one app.
24:05 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah, yeah. And you can swap between them really quick and you can flip them. A lot of like really quick intuitive, um, multifunctional like windows.
24:13 David Imel? The reason I've been waiting for the tri-fold for so long is because I've never really seen the use of the, uh, hot dog style foldable, you know? Whereas the, I, I see a ton of galaxies he flips on the subway because I think that that is a lot more, it's easier for people to like see and understand. Uh, and also it's a square aspect ratio when you do that. So, you know?
24:34 David Imel? Yeah.
24:34 Speaker 01 Yeah, the software features are really what make the pixel, the pixel.
24:38 David Imel? Totally.
24:39 Speaker 01 And there's some interesting stuff in there that might be tops of people's lists again. So we will get to that. But of course, before we get there, trivia.
24:51 Speaker 01 It's been so long since I've heard that music.
24:54 Speaker 03 All right, guys. Another event, which means another edition of.
25:01 Speaker 01 Were you paying attention?
25:04 Speaker 01 I wish, dude.
25:05 Speaker 03 What? We'll just have to pretend it was there.
25:08 Speaker 01 Is it head to head?
25:09 Speaker 03 Uh, no, it's, it's supposed to be, were you paying attention? But that my, that button broke and we're not gonna fix it right now.
25:15 Speaker 01 One of us could do it.
25:16 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah. You wanna give it a shot? Were you paying attention?
25:21 Speaker 03 Good enough. All right, guys. Sorry, I got distracted. But actually, no, I need I need to complain while we're talking about Google stuff because Google AI overview ruined my life yesterday.
25:31 David Imel? Whoa.
25:31 Speaker 03 And the day before.
25:32 David Imel? That's awesome.
25:33 Speaker 03 Because I had a flight from hell where I was.
25:37 David Imel? Did you arrive in heaven eventually?
25:38 Speaker 03 Hell, Michigan. Yeah, how'd you know? Where, long story short, I had a layover through Chicago, ORD, O'Hare. And there was weather and O'Hare was shut down. And I was trying to figure out how long O'Hare was going to be shut down for. So to know if I needed to rebook my flight like that moment. And so naturally, I go to google.com and I Google, is O'Hare shut down? Or is there a ground stoppage at O'Hare? Or all the necessary things? And of course, when you Google that, the first thing that comes up is a Google AI overview that will always say, yes, it's shut down. And then you click the link and it's from some article from 2017. Like, it's completely irrelevant and stupid information. And you can't disable that. Anyway, that's my rant. Let's get back to.
26:21 David Imel? Were you?
26:22 Speaker 03 Oh.
26:23 David Imel? Yeah, close enough.
26:24 Speaker 03 All right.
26:27 Speaker 03 After using the A word, what did Google VP Adrianne Lofton refer to iPhone users as?
26:37 David Imel? Oh, I got this.
26:39 Andrew Manganelli? Think I remember.
26:40 Speaker 03 Were you paying attention? Man.
26:43 David Imel? Yeah, I know.
26:44 Andrew Manganelli? One of the rare off-script moments.
26:47 David Imel? Apple? Can we say that? Surprisingly, when they showed a low-light camera sample, they did show it was like, it was directly from the iPhone 16 Pro. I was surprised about that.
26:58 Andrew Manganelli? Oh, really?
26:59 David Imel? Yeah, because usually they just say competitor's leading device.
27:02 Andrew Manganelli? There was someone recording the Jonas Brothers at that party at the end with an iPhone in the background?
27:07 David Imel? Epic.
27:07 Andrew Manganelli? Sure they loved it?
27:08 David Imel? Yeah.
27:09 Speaker 03 Well, we'll think about that. And the answers will be at the end, like usual. So we'll be right back.
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29:27 Speaker 01 All right, welcome back. Let's talk Pixel software. The thing that makes the Pixel the Pixel. There was a couple of interesting things that were announced. Some of them are exclusive to the Pixel 10. Some of them are just going to be available for everyone, but they're getting announced with this phone, so that's great, too. The one that's Pixel 10 only that seems interesting, that I think might not forever be Pixel 10 only, is called Magic Q.
29:54 Speaker 01 It's very Google. Google knows everything about you already, right? It knows your calendar events. It knows all the emails that you get. It knows your flight reservations. It knows your hotel reservations. It knows your lunch reservations at the restaurant, because you get a confirmation email for everything. So if you get a text message with someone asking about one of those reservations, you'll get a little Magic Q card thing that pops up at the bottom that is just a prompt to answer the question for you without you having to dig back in and find the email.
30:23 Andrew Manganelli? Kind of like the auto reply is there and you can press it and it can...
30:27 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's an auto reply that's pulling from some other service in your Google account somewhere. It seems to work pretty well. There's a couple instances where it makes perfect sense, like someone asking about a flight info. "Hey, when does that flight land?" "Oh, okay, well, I have an answer already, because I know the last email you got about that flight says it would land at this time." Boom, here's your answer. Something that was surprising to me about it is that in like text messages, if someone asks, "Where are we eating?" or "What's your flight info?", it grabs it and it just puts it in like a regular string. So it's just like, "We're going to Cracker Barrel." It just says Cracker Barrel.
31:03 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
31:03 Speaker 01 But I feel like...
31:05 Andrew Manganelli? Doesn't dress it up.
31:06 Speaker 01 I'm surprised that they don't do that plus a Google Maps link or something.
31:09 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah, actually, that would make sense.
31:11 Speaker 01 You might usually just say the name of the place, but usually when I send someone a location, I send them a Google Maps.
31:16 Andrew Manganelli? If I'm asking you like, "Where is the reservation we're going to tonight?", I would almost definitely want to know where it is.
31:22 Speaker 01 Especially if you're from like out of town.
31:24 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
31:24 Speaker 01 Yeah. The feature demo we tried just was like typing the name of the restaurant.
31:28 Andrew Manganelli? Really? That's all it did?
31:29 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:30 Andrew Manganelli? Oh.
31:30 Speaker 03 That's two points of failure. Like it could already grab the wrong email. Like I said, if I Google, "Is Chicago Airport shut down?", and it's pulling things from six years ago.
31:41 Speaker 01 Yes.
31:42 Speaker 03 You know, who's to say it's not going to pull a reservation from six years ago? And then, who's to say it will pull the wrong Google Maps link too? And then all of a sudden...
31:50 Speaker 01 Theoretically, that's theoretically, though, you've seen, you know, the restaurant you're going to or like, or like you sort of know your flight number. Kind of, but you just don't remember the like specifics, right? So you can like verify whether or not it's right?
32:06 Andrew Manganelli? I think like in terms of a restaurant, it would most likely be like, well, if you're asking for tonight, you're in New York, it's probably going to be the one in New York or the one that's today. You know, like I'm asking for today.
32:16 Speaker 03 I asked Gemini yesterday about a today thing.
32:19 Andrew Manganelli? AI overview is a lot weirder because it's using the whole internet where this is all using the stuff like in your calendar email. It's very, it's so much more niche of what it is. I'd be more confused of what if I have two reservations? What if, the amount of times you have probably three different flights booked at some point. And as long as it's not like, if you're just like, what flight or when's your flight this week? You might have four different answers for that.
32:43 Speaker 01 Yeah, right.
32:44 Andrew Manganelli? Those things get confusing. I wonder, will it give you options? Cause like you said, you kind of know what it is or what that person might be asking about.
32:51 Speaker 01 There was a screenshot in the event of two different options.
32:53 Andrew Manganelli? Oh, really?
32:54 Speaker 01 One of them had two options and you can pick one. So I'm going to have to test this a little bit. I mean, we tested the couple setup versions they had for us and obviously they worked because they were set up.
33:04 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
33:04 Speaker 01 But it seems like one of those things that Google can pull off because they know a lot about you and they can just surface that information and it's convenient. It's the type of thing that Apple would like to do with Siri, but they haven't been able to figure out how to do it yet.
33:18 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
33:19 Speaker 01 So.
33:19 David Imel? Well, and also Apple's so gung ho about privacy and it's been the whole thing that they're, they kind of set themselves up for failure here. Cause Google's always just been like, we use your data to create magical experiences. Whereas Apple's like, we don't touch that at all. We don't look at it. We don't know what it is. It's just a random string of numbers to us.
33:37 Speaker 01 And it's also like Apple, it's not an Apple email that you're getting. It's a Google email that you're pulling into your mail app for Apple, but Apple doesn't see that information.
33:48 David Imel? Well, unless you're on iCloud or whatever.
33:50 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, it's like it's not like quite one to one with like what Google can offer because Google has a calendar that you're putting events into. Google has Gmail. Google has all these other things.
33:59 David Imel? Yeah, this is definitely Google at its best, like showcasing that OpenAI wishes it could be this. Apple wishes it could be this. Anthropic wishes it could be this. But Google has always been the best positioned to be able to be this agentic, as Rick Osterlau will say and try to explain to Jimmy Fallon.
34:16 Andrew Manganelli? I will say the the call like calling an airline and it automatically populating like all your airline, the information is so nice in the phone app. So you're not like on speakerphone digging in your email, typing United and Google's Gmail search sucks so bad.
34:31 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's one of those extremely specific things that I think I'm going to love that feature. I often, and this is so specific because I carry two phones, like I'll go in and I'll call with one phone and I'll pull up my calendar on the other phone. And I'm like, man, this would suck if I had to do both these things. But this is like perfectly designed where it's like, OK, I can pull up the exact information I need and it's going to show it to me when I need to see it.
34:54 David Imel? Yeah, great. It's great because every time I have to pull up the information to talk to the agent about it, I have to either put it on speakerphone or risk not hearing them speak to me back. So yeah, it would be very nice to have. I'm wondering if they if it does any of this Magic Q stuff in any other apps because the main two apps that they showed were the messages and the phone app.
35:13 Speaker 01 Yeah.
35:14 David Imel? But I would love to see this in Gmail and other apps like that.
35:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
35:18 David Imel? It'd be cool.
35:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, try it out.
35:19 David Imel? Yeah, I think that's probably their biggest one.
35:21 Speaker 01 So that's Magic Q, coming to Pixel Tens at first and maybe some other stuff later.
35:25 David Imel? Yeah.
35:26 Speaker 01 The other thing that I thought was really interesting was conversational editing. So you can
35:32 David Imel? Yes.
35:33 Speaker 01 use a text box to edit a photo. Instead of going into the actual tools and hitting edit and going, all right, saturation, oh, let me crop. Oh, let me turn brightness up. Oh, let me do all these other things. Or even some of the magic editor stuff, like erase a person in the background. You now have this text box that you can type into or talk to. And you can go, hey.
35:54 Speaker 01 Make this photo look better and brighten it up and delete that plastic bag in his hand. And it will semantically parse what you said, understand what you said, and then take action on the photo using the tools built in. And it will do what you said. I tried a bunch of stuff. It did what I asked.
36:12 David Imel? Yeah.
36:12 Speaker 01 I was very impressed with it.
36:13 David Imel? It was very good.
36:15 Speaker 01 You can get kind of carried away and just be like, add a hot air balloon in the photo. It'll just do it.
36:19 David Imel? Yeah.
36:19 Speaker 01 I think that the only thing it doesn't want to do is adjust faces. So kind of the same as Magic Editor. But the fact that it understands what I'm saying and does it is really convenient and good.
36:30 David Imel? And it can do a lot of local editing too, like the demo we had. She had, she said, turn my dress red and it just did it. And it was very, very local to her dress.
36:40 Speaker 01 Yeah.
36:40 David Imel? Which was very surprising.
36:42 Andrew Manganelli? And this is like great for not people like us, but for normal people who don't know how to use Magic Eraser or don't know how to use all the different, who don't even know that there's an edit button really in there. But they can click that and just the like chat box comes up and they can just say like, could you zoom in on this a little bit and like get that dog out of the background? Like, anyone can do that and it seems pretty good.
37:04 David Imel? One of the people showing us our demo said, pretty much every photo they take that they care about at all, they just say, make this look better to every photo.
37:11 Speaker 01 Just see what happens.
37:12 David Imel? Just, yeah.
37:13 Speaker 01 It tends to just like kind of brighten things up and like crop and put your subject in the middle and just generally make it look like a better photo. It's pretty good.
37:20 David Imel? Yeah. On top of that, if you want to do that before you have to run it through an AI model, they now have the Camera Coach feature.
37:27 Speaker 01 Yeah.
37:27 David Imel? And this is basically Gemini, it's effectively like Gemini Live, basically talking to you about what's going through your viewfinder.
37:35 Speaker 01 Yeah.
37:35 David Imel? So if you're taking a photo of a friend or something like that and you're off center, if you're to the right, or if you haven't straightened the horizon line, things like that, it will talk to you in real time and be like, turn a little bit to your left, get a little closer to the person, do this and kind of teaches you how to take, I guess, a better photo.
37:54 Speaker 01 Yeah, it was cool to walk through it once.
37:57 Andrew Manganelli? I hate this one so much.
37:58 Speaker 01 I don't think I would ever use it again.
37:59 David Imel? No, you wouldn't because you know what you're doing.
38:01 Speaker 01 But even if I didn't know what I was doing, like, I just feel like I'm taking a picture the way I want to take the picture. And if I wanted a coach to help me take a professional picture by that point, I just have someone else take it for me.
38:15 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah, I think the people who don't care about how well framed a picture is, don't care about getting coached to frame it well and just like the memory of the photo rather than the.
38:24 David Imel? This is the, this is the feature for boomers for sure.
38:26 Andrew Manganelli? It is, and but like, it's slow. It takes a while to do it and like, I'm just imagining you're at, let's say like Disney and you're now all these parents, their kids are meeting the characters and each parent is now doing camera coach. This line is now a 10 hour wait because each person's taking 10 minutes to like slowly listen to it and adjust and tell the kid to smile and like turn it's, I don't know. This, this feels like a flop.
38:54 Speaker 01 The pitch in the event was Alex Cooper saying like, you no longer have to teach your like boyfriend or spouse or whatever, how to take the perfect picture of you. Now the camera coach will teach them. May- maybe that's cool. I don't.
39:11 Speaker 04 Is this something you have to actively turn on or is it on by default?
39:15 David Imel? Yeah, you have.
39:15 Speaker 01 There's a little button in the corner.
39:17 Speaker 04 Cause like, I feel like most people wouldn't go out of their way to actively turn it on. But the Pixel Now already, it'll tell me, you need to raise the phone higher. And I didn't ask it to tell me that.
39:27 David Imel? Does that automatically?
39:27 Speaker 04 Yeah, and it's like.
39:28 Speaker 01 It does some automatic suggestions, like if it's, if the lens is blurry too, it'll tell you to clean it off, stuff like that.
39:35 Andrew Manganelli? And it has the lev- or you can at least have the leveling thing on, which I think is great. Some people probably just don't know what it is.
39:40 David Imel? It has a nice vibration motor that vibrates when it hits the level. Yeah, it's great. And if you still are not good at taking pictures, it has an improved best take mode. Which was a feature from many pixels ago, which basically samples many different moments over the course of before you took the photo and after you took the photo. And then combines different photos into one with all the best aspects of each photo.
40:06 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah, I think they were saying like, it will either choose the photo that is the best, if there is one that just. Everything works out, or if it happens to be like, this is the closest one, but we had to pull a face looking from one photo like they'll, it will do that.
40:22 David Imel? Yeah.
40:23 Andrew Manganelli? And let you choose. And still, I think it'll still have the carousel of all the photos.
40:26 David Imel? Yeah.
40:27 Andrew Manganelli? Taken and you can.
40:28 David Imel? It like highlights what it thinks the best one is, but it lets you choose between all of them. Yeah.
40:33 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
40:33 David Imel? Yeah. Also, AdMe got better. It'll do pets now. Doom Pets? Doom Pets. That's good. Also, apparently it works with more people. Actually, you know what's funny? I think AdMe is probably best with pets. It takes so long. Remember how many group shots we tried to do with the dog and the dog is never looking at the camera? Everyone else is looking at the camera, but the dog's never looking at the camera.
40:51 Andrew Manganelli? But that's different though. AdMe is where you take the photo and then you swap, right?
40:56 David Imel? Yeah, but I'm saying like, I'm gonna take this photo with everyone else and then I'm just gonna get the dog. Like, there's no way I can get the dog to look at the camera, so I'm just gonna do me. Or you take the photo of the dog and then you. No, I'll take the photo of everyone else and then I'll have someone else.
41:15 Andrew Manganelli? The dog takes the first photo.
41:16 David Imel? I guess I'm thinking like, I have a group shot and I want the dog in the shot. So I'm gonna take the photo of everyone else and then I'm gonna have someone, you know, take the picture with me. So we got all the people and then I'm just gonna do the dog.
41:26 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
41:27 David Imel? Just because the dog is gonna be distracted in some way, so I can just focus on getting the dog to look at the camera.
41:31 Andrew Manganelli? I think they need dog face swap.
41:33 David Imel? I think they might.
41:34 Andrew Manganelli? I hope they don't.
41:37 Andrew Manganelli? Next pixel eleven.
41:39 David Imel? They're gonna have it soon. Because of all these AI features, I do want to note, they did not say this in the keynote, but this is the first phone to integrate C2P, a content credentials into the phone. If you don't know what that is, we made a video on the Studio Channel about it like two years ago with the Leica M11P. We talked about content credentials.
41:56 Andrew Manganelli? What's the five second TLDR?
41:58 David Imel? Five second TLDR is that there is a metadata history of every edit that has been made to the image and you're able to see all the changes that were made. So because all of these AI features are being integrated into these photos, now there is a trail that you can follow back, unless someone takes a screenshot and then you're screwed. So. Updated pano mode supports the 5X lens. There's a new feature called Take a Message. And they were talking about, we all get phone calls sometimes, unfortunately. And when you don't answer them and then people leave a voicemail. You never, you never read the voicemail. And this is why visual, sorry, not read, listen to the voicemail. This is why visual voicemail even became a thing.
42:40 Speaker 01 It's great.
42:41 David Imel? Yeah, visual voicemail is amazing, where it transcribes the message. Now, not only will it transcribe it, but it'll also send it to you in a message? Is that what it was?
42:50 Speaker 01 Just one more step, so I can like, treat it like a message and actually get to it, instead of being like, I wonder what voicemails I have?
42:57 David Imel? Yeah.
42:57 Speaker 01 Cause I don't like to check my voicemail.
42:59 David Imel? Absolutely not. Notebook LM is now native on the phone.
43:02 Speaker 01 Pre-installed app.
43:03 David Imel? Pre-installed app.
43:04 Speaker 01 It's another little piece of bloatware for you. Little Notebook LM.
43:09 David Imel? Yeah, that, if you don't know what Notebook LM is, it's, it's that Google AI app where you can basically feed it a bunch of different sources of information, like documents and stuff. And then you can ask it to make you like, tests about things, and it will create an AI podcast. There's a very funny YouTube video where the two AI podcasters just say, they took, they talk about a document that just says pee pee poo poo about a hundred thousand times. And they get really philosophical about it. It's very funny.
43:36 Speaker 01 Huh. And that's interesting you bring that up, because pee pee poo poo.
43:39 David Imel? It's pretty much that way, yeah. We will link that in the show notes. Also, Pixel Journal app. They didn't even mention this in the keynote.
43:49 Speaker 01 It's true.
43:50 David Imel? What they did mention in the keynote is that they're trying to make it as easy as possible to switch over from an iPhone, and
43:56 Speaker 01 That's what this is about.
43:56 David Imel? I think the only reason they made this was because, I don't actually know anyone who uses the iPhone Journal app. But if you do, I think that they're just trying to make it so that it's as seamless as physically possible.
44:08 Speaker 01 This is kind of the sneaky, low-key reason for a lot of things that happen in the smartphone world, where it looks like they're copying each other. But a lot of it is just companies trying to give an equivalent experience on their own device to make it easier for people to switch. So if any one of these things is an ecosystem wall, oh, I would switch, but I like the Journal app, and there's no Journal app on this other phone. Well, okay, we, we made a Journal app, and we have some Googly stuff in it, so now will you switch? They just try to offer as many equivalent experiences as they can. And this is a pretty blatant example of that, I think.
44:42 Speaker 03 Yes. Can we go into Ellis's tinfoil hat corner for a sec?
44:44 Speaker 01 Of course.
44:45 David Imel? Ooh, love to.
44:46 Speaker 01 What's up, Joe Rogan?
44:47 Speaker 03 Yeah, what's up? My name, my name is, uh, no, I'm not gonna make that.
44:50 Speaker 01 Ellis Rogan?
44:52 Speaker 03 Oh, oh my god. The first trivia point is on the board. No, I've, see, I always thought that the Apple Journal app was because Apple has access to lots of information about you, right? They have access to where you go and how many steps you took to get there. And if you use Apple Maps, they have access to what your favorite modes of transportation are. And if you were an Apple Watch, they have access to a bunch of your biometric data. And a lot of that data is like anonymized and it's not really shared cross-platform. But one of the things that they did not have access to was what was in your brain because of the way iMessages was structured. Like, they couldn't really like get into your thoughts and tell how you're feeling and stuff like that.
45:35 Speaker 01 Because of end and encryption.
45:36 Speaker 03 And so like, Apple Journal gave them access to how you're feeling. And I have, you know, I don't use Apple Journal, but I've always suspected that at your health data and your journal data and your location data are sort of blended together to learn more things about you, to help make future predictive things that are not deployed yet. Google does look and often sells all of your stuff.
46:04 Speaker 01 Yeah.
46:04 Speaker 03 And they also, I don't think, read your text messages yet. I don't, I don't think they do. So this is just a way that they can get you to forfeit how you're feeling about certain things. And I haven't read the Pixel Journal, like Terms of Service and their privacy agreement yet, but I'm going to. Because I suspect this is so that they can
46:24 Speaker 01 I think.
46:25 Speaker 03 Sell you stuff.
46:26 Andrew Manganelli? It's like your big sister reading your journal, except it's a trillion-dollar company.
46:31 Speaker 01 Yeah. They did actually have a line, and I want to go back and make sure I get it right, about how they're going to treat this data, because they did make a pretty big point to me about the privacy of the data in the Journal app. That's true. I, you know, with Apple, I don't really know what they would do with that information because they don't sell ads. So there's that. They do have advertising. If you're Google. They use your local. And you have all this information.
46:54 Speaker 03 It says no data collected on the Play Store. I don't know what that means, but.
46:58 Speaker 01 No data collected is a crazy line from Google.
47:00 Speaker 03 Yeah.
47:01 Speaker 01 But if zero people use the Apple Journal app, but they still had to make it, then maybe they just don't care.
47:07 David Imel? You know what I mean? We we basically finished up with the software on the phone.
47:11 Andrew Manganelli? You didn't make music with Google Recorder?
47:13 David Imel? Oh, I forgot about this.
47:14 Andrew Manganelli? I still don't, we were trying to figure this out.
47:16 David Imel? They said that a lot of people like to do karaoke with the Google Recorder, or at least sing into the Google Recorder. And I think you were talking about the feature parody. Remember how the iPhone did studio quality mics? And they made it so that you could like, you could do the studio mic, which set, made it in a different setting and it gave it the reverb and stuff like that. Maybe this is that, but effectively what this is, is in the Google Recorder app, which by the way, Google Recorder app is really, really good. It's always been really, really good.
47:44 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
47:45 David Imel? You can now sing into it and then you can generate music of different genres that will go along with your song.
47:54 Andrew Manganelli? My problem with that is, is that's not karaoke. Unless, like, you're either singing a song that exists already and Google's generating different music to it, which makes no sense to me. Or you're writing lyrics and singing it in a cadence and like a, a tone, but you haven't made music for it yet. And now Google, I, I don't see where this works.
48:21 David Imel? Pixel Studio app, the AI image generation app. But that was also pointless. That's what I'm saying.
48:29 David Imel? That's my counterpoint. It doesn't need to make sense.
48:31 Andrew Manganelli? I just don't really get this one.
48:32 David Imel? This is, I'm with you. And this was the tech demo that I was like, I don't get why anyone would do that. I truly have no idea why anyone would do that. Yeah. But you can, you can auto generate music. It's also, I think, just a way for Google to show that they have music generation. That like, that's, here's another thing that they can do with their AI. Like they can do video generation with VO3, they can do image generation, they can do text generation, and now they can also do music generation. Yeah. I think that's all it is.
48:59 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah, you're a pirate.
49:00 David Imel? It's like a tech demo.
49:02 Speaker 01 There's also a watch in BUDS. So Pixel Watch 4 is a, once again, a slight improvement in many dimensions to the Pixel Watches that came before it.
49:12 David Imel? Physically as well.
49:12 Speaker 01 Slightly longer battery life, slightly faster charging, both of which are great for a smartwatch. And the display is slightly bigger with slightly smaller bezels, but also it's, it's even more exaggerated in how domed it is.
49:23 David Imel? Yeah.
49:24 Speaker 01 That's the thing that struck me when I was playing with it. It just looks like a bubble.
49:29 David Imel? Yeah.
49:29 Speaker 01 Like more than ever now.
49:30 David Imel? Yeah.
49:31 Andrew Manganelli? What are those like compasses that you have on like on top of like?
49:34 David Imel? The hand compass?
49:36 Andrew Manganelli? There's the, there's lots of ones that are kind of like bubbled up uh on top of like a maybe like a Swiss Army, like an army knife or like one of those like the containers that have like matches like a survival container and has the little, it looks like that where like the screen is domed also and it is.
49:53 David Imel? Right.
49:53 Andrew Manganelli? It's very noticeable.
49:54 Speaker 01 The display, it's not even just, because I think people understand like that the glass is curved. Like that's been true for a while. I mean, like the display under the glass is also curved.
50:06 David Imel? Yeah.
50:07 Speaker 01 And so when you picture this, like you can look at it from all these angles and it just, it it's like a bubble screen. It almost looks like the surface tension of like you fill a glass all the way up with water and then like it's like bubbling over the top. Like it looks like that.
50:18 David Imel? Yeah.
50:19 Speaker 01 It's pretty crazy.
50:20 David Imel? Yeah.
50:20 Speaker 01 Um, so it's a beautiful watch. Uh, it is also doing the material three expressive thing. It has a new dock, so the charger is on the side now instead of on the back of the watch.
50:31 David Imel? Yeah.
50:31 Speaker 01 So you pop it on the side and then obviously the display lights up and it charges faster.
50:35 David Imel? Which is actually kind of cool and I'm interested to see what kind of docks they make for this, either a first party or a third party, because there are a few different things it can do while it's charging. It can either show just the clock, it can show the battery percentage, it can show your next upcoming alarm. Uh, it can show the weather. So there's a few diff- you can basically use it as a clock that's just on your bedside table.
50:56 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah. What's it called on the iPhone where it's docked landscape?
50:59 David Imel? Oh, standby mode.
51:01 Andrew Manganelli? Standby mode like.
51:01 David Imel? Yeah, standby mode's awesome.
51:02 Andrew Manganelli? This is that for the watch and like if it's, you know, my nightstand, which is directly in front of my face if I'm laying in the bed. It doesn't need to be that big. A watch is perfect there. And it's a Pixel watch, so you probably have to charge it every single night.
51:13 Speaker 01 Apparently the battery is 40 hours for the big one.
51:16 Andrew Manganelli? I thought that was very fun.
51:17 Speaker 01 It's like a true day and a half now. It was like a little over day before and now 40 hours is like a real day and a half.
51:22 Andrew Manganelli? What good is a day and a half?
51:26 David Imel? What good is a half a day?
51:27 Speaker 01 It just means that the, the brief time, it's really just about fast charging. I really, honestly, I don't actually care how long the battery lasts if it charges really fast. So if I have like a bit of time, as long as it lasts more than a day and I can like shower and charge it and I can like have a meal and charge it or every once in a while, just pop it on the charger and it'll go right back to a hundred percent, I'm happy. So I think that's the more important stat to me.
51:51 David Imel? Yeah, it says it does zero to 50 in 15 minutes.
51:54 Speaker 01 Which is great.
51:55 David Imel? Yeah.
51:56 Speaker 01 That's really fast.
51:56 David Imel? Yeah, it's quite fast. Yeah. Um, they now have the raise to talk to Gemini feature. So unfortunately, there are no Gemini Nano models on the watch. Uh, it does use the big models in the cloud, but it recognizes when you bring it up, when you tilt it and bring it up to your face and then it recognizes if you talk to it and ask it a prompt. Yeah. Then it'll relay that to your phone and that'll relay that to the cloud and that'll relay that back to your phone and it'll relay that back to you. It is, it, it's faster than it sounds. Um, but it is kind of interesting and kind of like works into Google's whole like Gemini is everywhere thing because now you can talk to Gemini directly on your phone or directly on your watch or directly on your, I don't know, Pixelbook or something.
52:39 Speaker 01 It's everywhere.
52:39 David Imel? It's ever, I don't know how they're gonna identify which Gemini enabled device you're talking to when you're in a home that has like 500.
52:47 Speaker 01 They've never cared about that before. I, I hate like saying the word in my living room and just hearing my kitchen all the way in the background being like, I can answer that right now.
52:56 David Imel? Yeah.
52:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
52:57 David Imel? Yeah.
52:58 Speaker 01 It's gonna be in the car too, according to that, that video.
53:00 David Imel? Oh yeah, yeah, they have Gemini, yeah, they now have Gemini in Android Auto or Google.
53:05 Speaker 01 Google.
53:06 David Imel? Automotive.
53:07 Speaker 01 Gemini for Google Cars or whatever.
53:09 David Imel? Car, Google Play. Gem, Anna Motor.
53:12 Speaker 01 Google Drive.
53:13 David Imel? Google Drive. We're gonna call it that from now on.
53:15 Speaker 01 Should've been called that.
53:16 David Imel? Yeah, um, also something we didn't mention on the phones that is also on the watch, which is quite cool, is SOS Satellite Communications. The phone now has satellite access, but not just for the SOS stuff, so throwback to the iPhone.
53:33 David Imel? 14?
53:34 Speaker 01 What phone was that?
53:35 David Imel? 14, I think it was iPhone 14 Pro.
53:36 Speaker 01 Where you can like, hold it up and have a little UI on the screen?
53:39 David Imel? Yeah, which I have used in national parks and it actually does work quite well.
53:42 Speaker 01 That's good.
53:43 David Imel? And Apple's whole like, if you do not buy this phone, you're going to die campaign. Now, Google has a phone that you will not die if you use, which is cool.
53:52 Speaker 01 Nice.
53:53 David Imel? And there are certain, there are certain services, like T-Mobile today announced that they have a constellation of Starlinks. That's 650 Starlinks, which by the way, we talked about this in our, in our Space Race episode, about how like, all the satellites that are getting launched into space. Now there is a dedicated T-Mobile constellation just for this, which is...
54:17 Andrew Manganelli? Are we gonna have new Zodiac signs?
54:20 David Imel? Yeah, the T-Mobile Zodiac.
54:21 Speaker 01 Rising T-Mobile.
54:24 David Imel? What's your sign? I'm T-Mobile. I'm Google Fi. That's such a Google Fi thing, isn't it?
54:30 Speaker 01 That's such an AT&T thing, wow. That's...
54:34 David Imel? Yes. But now the watch can actually communicate with the satellite too. And I would like to see that in action because you have, obviously you have to bring your sort of wrist up and target it at a satellite that's in low Earth orbit.
54:47 Speaker 01 I was told that there's a UI for it.
54:49 David Imel? There is a UI.
54:49 Speaker 01 I'm sure it's very clever. I haven't actually seen it in action, but I'll give it a shot.
54:54 David Imel? And then they also added their personal health coach in Fitbit, which again, is a parallel to the fitness coach they added in the Apple Watch that nobody wants.
55:02 Speaker 01 Yeah.
55:02 David Imel? So...
55:03 Andrew Manganelli? This is Stephen Curry, though.
55:04 David Imel? No, I know it's...
55:05 Andrew Manganelli? What did he say?
55:06 Speaker 01 The ad was from Steph. Where like, Steph's working with Google now and his idea was like, I've had coaches my whole life. I think everyone should have a coach, so I decided to help you guys bring it to everyone.
55:16 Andrew Manganelli? Rick, how'd you get Steph? Jimmy, we're worth a trillion dollars.
55:20 Speaker 01 It was easy.
55:21 David Imel? Too many famous people.
55:23 Speaker 01 Yeah.
55:23 Andrew Manganelli? Well, before we go. Mariah, you're on a Pixel Watch 1.
55:27 Speaker 01 Oh.
55:28 Andrew Manganelli? Are you gonna upgrade?
55:29 Speaker 04 No.
55:31 Speaker 04 I've considered my options. I've seen the updates and I think I'm good.
55:37 David Imel? Really?
55:37 Speaker 04 I think I'm good.
55:38 David Imel? But it's so much faster to charge.
55:41 Speaker 04 It's true. It's true. And you know,
55:43 David Imel? And domed.
55:43 Speaker 04 The Google Assistant doesn't really work on my existing Pixel Watch and I don't know if it'll work on any of the other watches. So I'm not
55:51 Andrew Manganelli? Well, it's Gemini. It's Gemini now.
55:52 Speaker 04 That's true. That's true.
55:54 Andrew Manganelli? You are always talking about how much you want Gemini.
55:56 Speaker 04 You know me so much. You know me so well.
55:58 David Imel? Smaller bezels. Yeah.
56:00 Andrew Manganelli? You should try new charger.
56:01 David Imel? Mariah is a good consumer.
56:04 Speaker 04 Yeah.
56:04 David Imel? She doesn't buy new things just because they're new.
56:06 Speaker 01 What? Do you want to try it, Ellis?
56:07 Speaker 03 None of these things work. None of these things work. I talked to my friends all day about this. Like, like my, my friends use Cursor. It doesn't work. AI over you doesn't work. I constantly get wrong stuff from all the chatbots. I just, none of them work. Why do they keep doing it?
56:22 David Imel? Think of the shareholders, Ellis.
56:23 Speaker 03 Oh, God, the shareholders.
56:25 Speaker 01 Have you thought of the shareholders?
56:26 Speaker 03 You're right.
56:27 Speaker 01 They might have to sell the 20.
56:28 Andrew Manganelli? How are they gonna afford Jimmy Fallon next year?
56:30 Speaker 01 Yeah.
56:31 David Imel? Pixel Buds 2A.
56:32 Speaker 01 Yeah, I was gonna say, there's one more piece of hardware and it's new Pixel Buds 2A. They have ANC now. They're very small. They are IP54 and they're $130. And they have Gemini in them so you can, you know.
56:45 Speaker 03 We were so close.
56:46 Speaker 01 Your favorite thing. It's your favorite thing.
56:48 David Imel? We almost got away from it, Ellis.
56:49 Speaker 01 Uh, yeah. So that's, that's basically all the new hardware and software that was announced scattered throughout this event. It was a real challenge finding that stuff if you watched the event.
57:00 David Imel? Yeah.
57:00 Speaker 01 Real challenge.
57:01 David Imel? Yeah.
57:01 Speaker 01 But it's in there.
57:02 Andrew Manganelli? If only they had it all on a table right in front of them where they could have talked about all of it, but instead didn't.
57:07 David Imel? They tried. No, they had, they had a part where it was on the table.
57:09 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah, they just barely talked about any of it.
57:11 Speaker 01 Sort of breezed through that.
57:13 Speaker 04 Personally offended. They didn't think the Pixel Watch segment was worth Jimmy Fallon's time, but they had him for everything else.
57:18 Andrew Manganelli? He just wasn't there.
57:19 David Imel? But he was wearing a Pixel Watch for...
57:21 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. They were twinning.
57:22 Andrew Manganelli? Was the, they were all wearing Pixel Watches.
57:24 Speaker 01 Yeah.
57:24 Andrew Manganelli? Was the Pixel Watch section the like workout section? Cause I have to give credit to the Google guy who had to do a bunch of like kettlebell swings while he was presenting.
57:33 Speaker 01 Yeah.
57:33 Andrew Manganelli? He did great.
57:34 David Imel? I tweeted, "If everyone's famous, is anyone famous?" Cause I didn't recognize almost any of those people. I recognized like a couple. Some of them were like very famous and in the second half were like, um,
57:47 Speaker 01 They're like finger snap famous, you know?
57:49 David Imel? Oh, I see the on my, um, my reels. My, the guy who scores all those three pointers in the NBA. The guy that says things on the subway.
57:58 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's like Kevin Hart fit, but it's like, uh, the YouTuber, they said YouTube mega star. And I looked around and nobody in the room knew who it was, but it was a Spanish speaking YouTuber with 27 million subscribers.
58:11 David Imel? Wow.
58:11 Speaker 01 So cool. Um, the Peloton instructor like got a big standing ovation because I'm sure people who use Peloton were like, oh, that's the guy. But I.
58:21 David Imel? From the billboard.
58:22 Speaker 01 But I don't use Peloton, so I, yeah. I was like, that was the, mm.
58:27 David Imel? Yeah.
58:27 Speaker 01 Anyway, so yeah, that's, that's what happened. It was a lot.
58:31 David Imel? Yeah, you can preorder it now if you want, and then if you don't, you don't have to.
58:35 Speaker 01 Yeah, you can watch our hands on impressions video. That went live this week. Check that out. Full review coming on the good stuff, of course, so get subscribed if you want to watch that. Well, there's a couple of headlines of things that did happen. Should we get those after the break?
58:48 David Imel? Let's do that after the break.
58:49 Speaker 01 Should we hit one more trivia extravaganza break?
58:51 David Imel? Yeah, yeah, we'll do a trivia, but don't the extravaganza break. That's, that's later this month.
58:55 Speaker 01 Of course.
58:56 David Imel? Yes.
58:57 Speaker 01 Ready for the trivia?
59:01 Speaker 01 That's great.
59:04 Speaker 04 Squeaked so loud. Well, um, I'm glad we all made it to the Pixel Watch event this year. And so you all know I'm an avid user of the Pixel Watch. I wear it almost every day, except for the days that it matters because I forgot today. And my question for you is how many times have I mentioned the Pixel Watch in our company Slack?
59:26 David Imel? How many times?
59:27 Speaker 04 How many times? And this is Price is Right rules, closest without going over. So save your, save your thoughts for later.
59:35 David Imel? Did you have to use the term Pixel Watch?
59:38 Speaker 04 I keyword searched exactly Pixel Watch with only me.
59:42 Speaker 01 Okay.
59:43 David Imel? So images of it wouldn't have come up, but any text message with Pixel Watch would have come up.
59:49 Speaker 01 Okay. This is something that only.
59:51 David Imel? But if you use the new Slack AI, it'll automatically decipher all your pictures. Understand the photo. The new multimodal nonsense burger. Jesus Christ.
1:00:02 Speaker 01 Well, we'll think about the answer. We'll be right back.
1:00:05 David Imel? Goodbye.
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1:02:04 David Imel? All right, welcome back. We're going to talk about something that's not specifically Google-related, but maybe tangentially Google-related in a very interesting way, according to Rick Ostrow on the stream today. If you got that. Meta is reportedly going to launch their Hypernova AR glasses this year for about $800, potentially next month, according to Mark German on Bloomberg. It was originally reported that these would be over $1,000, but apparently Meta is willing to take a loss to try to soup up demand. The difference between 800 and 1,000, I'm not really sure if people are going to be willing to buy that in the first place.
1:02:40 Speaker 01 Well, once there's a bunch more competitors in the market, it might look impressive. I, for one, am very excited to test all these glasses. These interesting, potentially useful glasses. Like Google, Rick Ostrow literally said in the event, "We are going to be launching our AR glasses with Google soon."
1:02:56 David Imel? Yeah.
1:02:57 Speaker 01 So we know they're working on those and they're coming soon. I got a demo a while ago. I thought they were amazing and I just want to use them in the real world. So, yeah, 800 bucks. That's the first price tag we're thinking we might see, IRL.
1:03:10 David Imel? Yeah.
1:03:11 Speaker 01 Sure.
1:03:12 David Imel? Yeah.
1:03:13 Speaker 01 Apparently Google Glass was like 1,600? How much was that?
1:03:16 David Imel? The Google Glass? It was 1,000? Or was it 14? I think it was 1,000 for the Explorer Edition.
1:03:22 Speaker 01 1,500.
1:03:23 David Imel? Oh, 1,500.
1:03:23 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:03:24 David Imel? What year was that? That was 2012.
1:03:27 Speaker 01 800 seems kind of impressive by that standard.
1:03:29 David Imel? Yeah. According to Mark German, it says there is a small screen for mini apps and alerts on the right lens, and they'll be controlled by the Orion wrist accessory that we tried last year.
1:03:39 Andrew Manganelli? Okay, so this is not totally like the Orion glasses, where we saw lots of different things in like a very fully scoped and on a wrist. This is like a HUD.
1:03:48 David Imel? It's almost like an accessory to your smartphone in a way. Sort of like a smartwatch.
1:03:53 Speaker 01 One way that Google has helped to understand like the different price tiers that these things could come in is single lens versus both lenses. Obviously, having a display in one lens costs much less. So it doesn't look 3D or track over your environment, but you kind of can see things in a little HUD. That's the single lens experience. And then the dual lens experience... Potentially lets it be tracked over your real world and have more depth and look like better fidelity, which is cool, but it's twice as expensive.
1:04:22 David Imel? Right.
1:04:23 Speaker 01 So this is like a lower priced version, 800 bucks. And then that kind of feels like a more expensive dual lens version might be in the 2,000 to 3,000 dollar range.
1:04:34 David Imel? Right. Yeah. Wondering what time next month it apparently launches to because we're getting.
1:04:39 Speaker 01 Isn't next month September?
1:04:40 David Imel? It is.
1:04:43 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:04:44 David Imel? It's a big, the big month.
1:04:45 Andrew Manganelli? I wouldn't be surprised if Meta was like, yeah, we can fight the iPhone.
1:04:50 Speaker 01 That's a safe, well. I mean, you kind of just want to get your stuff on the shelf before the holiday season, no matter what.
1:04:55 Andrew Manganelli? That's fair.
1:04:55 Speaker 01 The iPhone's gonna do it every year anyway, but also here we have the Google event and like, there's gonna be, you know, Samsung stuff coming out. It's just, it's the time of year to do stuff.
1:05:02 David Imel? Yeah. Yeah, true. Speaking of the time of year to do stuff, if you remember from an episode many, many moons ago, Apple was sued by Massimo, a health tech company for the light-based blood oxygen sensor in the Apple Watch. They had to remove it from the watches and they were not able to sell the Apple Watch for a short period of time. So now they figured out a way around this. But now, and this is very funny, they, the way that they figured out how to get around the patent was they will collect the data using the sensor on the watch, but they will not calculate the data on the watch. They will send the data to your phone.
1:05:36 Speaker 01 So.
1:05:37 David Imel? And it will be calculated on your phone.
1:05:39 Speaker 01 I don't know if you can see that, but if you open the blood oxygen app now on the phone, it just goes. On the watch now, it just goes, oh, you can find this stuff on your phone.
1:05:48 David Imel? Yeah.
1:05:49 Speaker 01 So.
1:05:49 David Imel? So now I guess the way they get around the patent of a device that reads your blood oxygen is it takes the data, sends it to your phone and your phone reads the blood oxygen.
1:05:58 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:05:59 David Imel? Which is certainly a way around it and something that I'm surprised that it took Apple this long to do.
1:06:05 David Imel? Yeah. Geniuses.
1:06:06 Andrew Manganelli? I mean, honestly, it probably took them that long because they probably really didn't want to do it.
1:06:10 David Imel? I thought that they were going to try to figure out like a different way to vaguely calculate your blood oxygen.
1:06:15 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
1:06:15 David Imel? So this is a better solution for them, for sure.
1:06:19 Andrew Manganelli? Well, speaking of an Apple Watch.
1:06:20 David Imel? Wow, we're like straight in, right, straight through these things. It's like.
1:06:24 Andrew Manganelli? Real quick, did you see this on, someone posted this to our subreddit, but it was a post on the subreddit Industrial Design. Someone made a post that says, "Me, my design to try and get me off my smartphone and essentially made a fully metal case for his Apple Watch Ultra." To be, it's, I guess it's a LTE Apple Watch Ultra where he's just using this completely independent of a phone. And created an entire case. It's super brutalist, very industrial.
1:06:53 David Imel? Yeah.
1:06:54 Andrew Manganelli? Um, and just like milled, uh, I forget what he said. He's using.
1:06:58 David Imel? He's using aluminum?
1:07:01 Andrew Manganelli? Uh, yes.
1:07:02 David Imel? He said he wanted to use titanium, but it would have been a lot more expensive.
1:07:05 Andrew Manganelli? Yes. Um, he also did a stainless steel version, which was too heavy, but it's essentially kind of like an iPod Nano. It's like a very small phone size, maybe two and a half times the height of an Apple Watch Ultra. And just about as thick, milled out a spot so you can, um, still use the crown and the buttons on the side. And it has a little like lanyard hole for it and stuff. It's pretty cool.
1:07:28 David Imel? This is not too dissimilar to recently Allison Johnson on The Verge did a article about can I just use an LTE powered smartwatch instead of my phone for an entire week? Instead of your phone? Yeah.
1:07:39 Andrew Manganelli? And she just used it on her wrist the whole time?
1:07:40 David Imel? Yeah, yeah. And, uh, it was difficult, but it was doable. Probably relying on your voice a lot, I guess. Yeah. I mean, the keyboard is not terrible on the watch. I hate poke typing on it. Swipe typing is okay sometimes, but, okay. Yeah. Ironically, this attachment that he put it in looks very, very similar to this Bang & Olufsen speaker from the eighties. Just hyper brutalist, like milled metal. Yeah. So.
1:08:07 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah. He, he did say, I think he's gonna make a hundred of them.
1:08:10 David Imel? Yeah, to start.
1:08:12 Andrew Manganelli? To, for sale.
1:08:13 David Imel? Yeah, I kind of want to try this.
1:08:15 Andrew Manganelli? We'll link it in the show notes if anyone wants to see it, but I mean, we're pretty bad at describing things. There's not a shot to describe here. It's a piece of metal with an Apple Watch Ultra inside in it.
1:08:26 David Imel? And a metal block.
1:08:28 Andrew Manganelli? Trivia!
1:08:31 David Imel? Data is their food.
1:08:35 Speaker 03 We all loved that Pixel event. And at one point, Jimmy Fallon freaked out because Google Vice President of Marketing, whose name I conveniently forgotten and need to look up, Adrienne Lofton. Thank you for highlighting that for me, Mariah. Adrienne Lofton used the A word. Dun dun dun. But after that, she described iPhone users as what?
1:09:05 Speaker 03 Sheep. Yeah.
1:09:11 Andrew Manganelli? I think I remember.
1:09:19 Speaker 03 So what's everyone doing this weekend? Going to the pool.
1:09:24 Andrew Manganelli? I think Mark is probably gonna go to sleep. I have a double practice.
1:09:29 Speaker 03 You have a double practice?
1:09:31 Andrew Manganelli? Yeah.
1:09:32 Speaker 03 Oh my goodness. Man, this man does not rest. All right, let's flip these boards. Oh my God, we all put the same thing and it is, one, two, three. Hi, friends.
1:09:44 Andrew Manganelli? That would have been a great buzzer.
1:09:46 Speaker 03 Have any of you guys ever said that authentically? No.
1:09:49 Andrew Manganelli? No.
1:09:50 Speaker 03 Neither has she.
1:09:51 Andrew Manganelli? I don't have any.
1:09:51 Speaker 03 Ever said it agentically? Every day, thousands of times a day. All right, Mariah.
1:09:59 Speaker 04 So the question to refresh your memory was, how many times have I mentioned the phrase Pixel Watch in our company Slack?
1:10:06 Speaker 03 Price is Right.
1:10:07 Speaker 04 Closest without going over.
1:10:09 Andrew Manganelli? A number popped into my head when you first said it and I'm ready.
1:10:16 Speaker 04 Did you guys already write it down? So we didn't need any time at all.
1:10:19 Speaker 03 Yeah. Well, now we gotta sit through this. Price is Right rules.
1:10:22 David Imel? It's just kind of a guess, right?
1:10:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:10:24 David Imel? Yeah.
1:10:24 Speaker 03 Unless you, unless you have Slack in your brain right now.
1:10:27 David Imel? Just based on pure vibes.
1:10:29 Speaker 04 Vibes. Pixel Watch vibes.
1:10:33 David Imel? I'm searching right now.
1:10:34 Andrew Manganelli? I'm indexing, hold on.
1:10:37 Speaker 04 All right, let's see it.
1:10:38 Speaker 03 Oh, wow.
1:10:39 Speaker 01 Oh, my goodness, we got a spread here.
1:10:41 Speaker 04 I can't read David's, 13?
1:10:44 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:10:44 Speaker 04 Okay, that's, yeah, no.
1:10:46 Speaker 03 Well, okay, but close is not going over.
1:10:49 Andrew Manganelli? 27.
1:10:50 Speaker 04 27?
1:10:51 Speaker 03 Can't be more than that.
1:10:52 Speaker 04 What does Marquez have?
1:10:53 Speaker 03 Four.
1:10:53 Speaker 01 Four.
1:10:54 Speaker 04 Four?
1:10:56 Speaker 03 What was it?
1:10:56 Speaker 04 I think Andrew's the closest.
1:10:59 Andrew Manganelli? Without over either?
1:11:00 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:11:01 Andrew Manganelli? Let's go.
1:11:02 Speaker 04 What do you, do you have a second guess? How many times I've said it?
1:11:05 Speaker 03 There's no way.
1:11:06 Speaker 01 You've said it that many times?
1:11:07 Speaker 04 I've said it many times.
1:11:08 Andrew Manganelli? And you post, you post a lot of, like, when you did the stairs in Pittsburgh, you posted the, like, how many crazy steps you took that day. That should count, but I don't think it's just pixel watching it.
1:11:18 Speaker 01 Did you use the phrase "pixel watch" in that?
1:11:20 Andrew Manganelli? Wait, hold on. She has the pixel watch one, so this is three years of pixel watching.
1:11:26 Speaker 03 That's true.
1:11:27 Speaker 04 It's mostly when I pulled it up, just, ah, pixel watch, and then profanity after it. But the correct answer was actually 45.
1:11:36 Speaker 04 A little, it's a lot. It's a lot.
1:11:38 Speaker 01 Smokes.
1:11:38 Speaker 03 In honor of, of this being the first episode, excuse me, the first trivia question in this season of Waveform Trivia. Wait, is it really? Yeah. Wait, but? Superhead trivia didn't count for anything.
1:11:51 Andrew Manganelli? Oh, it's been said 174 total times in Slack.
1:11:54 Speaker 03 Are we team pixel?
1:11:57 Speaker 03 Get from Google. Right, hit it. Get from Google.
1:12:05 David Imel? Can we do a third trivia question, or are we just going to deprive?
1:12:07 Speaker 03 Yeah, send it.
1:12:08 Speaker 01 Send it.
1:12:09 Speaker 03 When I don't know what to do a trivia question about, which was me until about five minutes before we started taping this episode, oh, I do Old Faithful, which is shellfish. And we also have Mariah on the podcast, which is begging for a crawfish question, and I'm kind of still on my New Orleans food game. And so I wrote a question that incorporates all three of these things. Incredible. What? Jambalaya. New Orleans? Gumbo. Is that an acceptable answer to this question? Jambalaya? Jambalaya is not. Gumbo? But is gumbo?
1:12:51 Speaker 03 Hmm, gumbo may be an acceptable answer to this question. Why'd you tell us?
1:12:56 Speaker 01 Yeah, just read it.
1:12:56 Speaker 03 What New Orleans staple food typically features both crayfish and rice? That's right.
1:13:03 Speaker 03 Jambalaya, I mean a gumbo, jambalaya, I will not accept. Ah, but that usually sometimes has.
1:13:09 Speaker 03 You didn't know the answer? No, no, no. I'm realizing, I'm realizing how many acceptable answers there were in here. Like gumbo probably works. I should have added that you have to start with a blonde rue, but actually that disqualifies jambalaya, but lets gumbo still sneak by. All right, I'm no longer accepting gumbo because that was already thrown out there.
1:13:30 Speaker 03 Wait, so what was the question? It was name a New Orleans food that features both crayfish and rice. And I'm adding starts with a blonde rue. Blonde rue? A blonde rue. And I'm not, and I'm not. Jambalaya does it. A blonde rue. All right, flip him. Wait. Red beans and rice. With crawfish. Now, next.
1:13:52 Speaker 01 She get points for that. I don't have anything.
1:13:55 Speaker 03 Does it say kangaroo? Yeah. Sweet. No. And Marquez has nothing. The correct answer was etouffee. You said a blonde rue. Etouffee. Thank you for playing another episode of Ellis's New Orleans Kitchen. Thank you for watching the stuff of the way from podcast. It was produced by Ellis Rovin and Mariah Zank. We are part of the Vox Media Podcast Network and our intro outro music was produced by Vain.
1:14:20 Speaker 03 Still.
1:14:22 Speaker 03 So. Bingo.
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