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Genius Bar

48: GIVE US AIRPODS PRO 2!

Genius Bar

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Tech News, Technology, News, Business

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jon Prosser and Sam Kohl welcome you into the new year with a re-focused energy on the latest Apple news that we promise won't last more than a week. We discuss AirPods Pro 2, Apple's special edition AirPods Pro and Beats Studio Buds and the next Apple monitor that is still wildly expensive.

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0:00.0

Wouldn't it be great if when you went to buy a computer or after you bought a computer?

0:06.4

If you had any questions, you could ask a genius. Well, that's what we've got. This is called the Genius Bar.

0:14.0

That's what he's going to do, woo! Yeah! Dude, I'm sick. You're sick? Yeah. You hear my voice?

0:37.2

No, Sam. Oh, no, wait a minute. My guy. You got the vid? Because you, last week you were talking about how your dad has the vid.

0:48.6

The vid? The vid. The video? No, the vid. The beer flew. No, dude. This is what, so, oh, I just feel like I'm full of stories lately.

1:02.6

What happened? So, it's New Year's Eve. Okay. And my friend Jake and his girlfriend show up to my friend's house.

1:10.2

By the way, it's six of us in total that are going to be here. So, it's not like this big gathering, like it's six of us.

1:15.8

And it was just me and my friend Max and then Jake and his girlfriend show up. And they show up with sniffles. They're going, hey guys. Why would they show up?

1:27.5

And I was like, huh, that's funny. And then they go, before you go to say anything, don't worry. We got COVID tested. It's not COVID.

1:36.0

But you're still sick, you assholes. It's clearly something.

1:40.0

It's just allergies. Maybe it's just allergies. And like, I was like hyperfixied on COVID because, you know, everybody is.

1:46.6

And your dad has COVID right now, doesn't he? Or didn't he last? He's finally recovered. He's recovered now. So, he's good.

1:52.1

Which makes me happy. Yeah. Um, so yeah, then two days later, I wake up, I go, hmm.

1:59.8

Why do I feel like trash? Oh, no, because they were sick. And then I text them. I said, this is a betrayal. You're dead to me.

2:09.5

And he goes, I thought COVID was the only rule. Oh, my God. You know, uh, there were.

2:16.3

So before COVID happened, yeah, I remember when you were little and you had a fever and they sent you home from school.

2:23.9

This is what when I hit me, like how, people were like, COVID's going to change everything.

2:28.9

But like how it just totally has warped our perception as human beings, as far as to what's acceptable.

2:34.1

Because yeah, in the past, I mean, did we know that colds were transmissible in the past? Did we care?

2:39.2

I don't know. All I know is like, God's sick. And I don't think it's COVID. I'm going to like double check and get tested.

2:45.7

Like tomorrow, but you know, it's finding the test as impossible.

2:48.3

Anyway, welcome to Genius Bar. Welcome to Genius Bar, everybody.

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