8: That time Jon turned down $800,000 from Amazon
Genius Bar
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🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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As we wait for new Apple products, Sam and Jon talk about the newest leaks! New iPhone notch and new "Explorer Edition" Apple Watch? Jon also tells Sam about the time he turned down an $800,000 contract from Amazon a few years ago.
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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 | John, I'm unboxing something live on the podcast. Oh, no. I hate when you don't tell me how we're starting. And this is what I'm left with. |
| 0:33.0 | So for all the viewers, you can see exactly what I'm opening. Yeah, you can see it. You can see it with your ears. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, I hear boxes. It's not the thing for the thing we're doing. Oh, it's not the thing. It's not the thing. What is it? |
| 0:48.0 | It's the Travis Scott alcohol excelser that came up. |
| 0:56.0 | This is the genius bar. Hi, everybody. Welcome back. Yeah, there you go. Well, that was anti-climatic. Wow. Yeah, I definitely thought it was the thing. Well, you guys will see the thing. |
| 1:08.0 | Here. Okay. Here's my thing. Speaking of cell. Here's this. Hang on. Okay. |
| 1:14.0 | Ooh, that was refreshing. That's me opening up a nice can of Laquois. How do you say that? |
| 1:22.0 | Laquois. Yeah, you're my big yet. Laquois. You have to say like that. |
| 1:29.0 | Friends viewers be like offended. Well, I remember how we had the Taiwanese guy way, way, way. Tell us how to say Ming Chi Quo. |
| 1:37.0 | Now we need some French person to say to tell us. And we need a video. Send us an actual video on Twitter. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah. Of how to say Laquois. Every episode is just like new things we don't know how to pronounce. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, it's just every episode is word dumb. Tell us how to. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, John, I'm going to need some new Apple products. |
| 1:56.0 | I know. I feel like I do this thing every time when Apple products don't come out. I just start looking for other things to buy. |
| 2:02.0 | And like, it's been a real dry period this year, you know? Yeah. And I don't have eyebrows. |
| 2:09.0 | Oh, yeah. That's what this apple season is not going the way I thought of what I'll tell you that much. |
| 2:15.0 | You have no eyebrows, my heavy fans is alive. Oh, is it live? Yeah. Is it? |
| 2:22.0 | Dude, I saw you were charging $30. Yeah. Yeah. You got any promo codes. |
| 2:27.0 | Seven day free trial. Um, dude, I don't know what I'm going to do with it. |
| 2:32.0 | I just don't know around. I like, I'm pretty sure people have zero interest unless you use it. |
| 2:37.0 | What's intended for? And I'm like, I'm far and I mean, I'm not. We're keeping it clean. |
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