In this inaugural episode Brian and Troy discuss who's the biggest asshole, Apple or Facebook? Also, is quiet quitting a thing and if so, is it bad? Plus, Game of Thrones, The Six Million Dollar Man, and watching ads in Saskatchewan.
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Brian: Oh, you're not.
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Brian: so you could actually invent new shit that people want, like is what apple used to do
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Brian: do you honestly feel some sort of emotional tech like connection to like a, a phone?
Troy: Massive. Sure. Of course I use it every day.
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Troy: No, I'm very grateful to apple for all that. They've contributed to my life.
Brian: seriously.[:
Troy: Yeah.
Brian: Uh, I could care less
Troy: Okay. Go get an Android phone then I,
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Troy: of course it's common.
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Brian: Have you been following these viral videos of young people who work at these big tech companies?
Troy: Oh, that sounds interesting. I'd like to see that.
Brian: It's like their [:
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Brian: I think that
Troy: I wanna give you the, the recognition you deserve. Gen X is the new great generation
Brian: Yeah.
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Brian: Oh yeah.
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Brian: Although YouTube sort of normalized that with the countdown.
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We could, I could talk a lot about this. I think it's the single biggest innovation on YouTube is the way they've done ads announce
about them stealing your ad [:
Troy: No, I just want, you know, I just think it's important with people like you, that that recognize
Brian: See, I still remember. I
Alex can back me up on this. [:
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Brian: Yeah.
the little rich media popups [:
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Troy: should have just done that. I mean, honestly,
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a better year, way better year.
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Troy: Well, you know what they say about boats two best days, day, you get it day. You sell it.
Brian: Yeah. [:
Troy: That's cool, but that's not very social, is it?
ian: have you've met, you've [:
Troy: Yeah, lots of them, but you I'm
Brian: they're weirdos, they're all
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Brian: Yeah, but it's like, I don't know if you have like that much, you know, money, you do things like you, you buy a submarine. I,
I'm just wondering what you [:
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rent day than getting on the [:
Brian: For wait, wait, so [:
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Look, I sound like fucking Scott
Galloway and,
Brian: progressive. You have at least what you have one kid in the workforce or two kids in the workforce.
Troy: My son's [:
Brian: But like, do you advise them to go to the office if they had like a white collar job?
t advise them at that level. [:
Brian: oh, that's good. Um, all right. We gotta leave it there because I have to sell.
Troy: what are you talking [:
is it MAA? No, not MAA. Um, [:
Brian: I dunno, I have to go[:
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Troy: You, you have it for sure. By the way, I think you can find it. Yes.
Brian: awesome. Let's leave it there cuz I gotta talk without brain.
