Burning Man, Apple Announcement, SpaceX Explosion, Youtube Monetization
Trends Like These
Travis McElroy
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2016
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Hello Cool Kids! We're running a bit behind, so let's jump right in to it! We have a quick blurb on the Fox Settlement and we briefly eulogize a comedy legend. Listen and learn a little bit about Burning Man, including a bit of negative news from this year's event. Apple made some big announcements about the iPhone 7. SpaceX, the commercial space flight company, experienced a significant set back this week. The Youtube community is all abuzz with some (recent?) changes to the monetization policy. All that, plus the Wi-Five of the Week! Enjoy and don't forget to share!
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| 0:00.0 | This week the desert is burning and impressive youth learning and YouTube cuts earnings. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Brent Black. I'm Travis McElroy and I'm an iPhone under three feet of water |
| 0:11.0 | with trends like these. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello Brent. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello Brent. Travis, hello I am back back in North America. |
| 0:29.0 | The the good America. |
| 0:32.0 | Did you see your reason I saw I don't know why there was a spate of this, but like people saying, |
| 0:37.0 | you live in the United States of America, not America, it's all America, which is very confusing to me because that's probably true. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, but like it seems so pedantic. |
| 0:48.0 | I've heard Canadians before say whenever I talk about something American and I'm talking about the United States. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, they will lump themselves in because it's also America because it's North America, but to me, I don't know, like, I'm not trying to be controversial. |
| 1:06.7 | This really falls over like, I don't know. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm not particularly nativist or like, you know, kind of performativelyatively patriotic but to me it's like well if if |
| 1:16.8 | all of North America is American then then what's just hours and I mean you know to be fair though I imagine that also happens |
| 1:26.1 | a lot like in Europe where everybody talks about them being European and that includes |
| 1:32.0 | like so many different countries and so many |
| 1:35.0 | different cultures and so many different groups. I don't know it just occurred to me |
| 1:39.0 | as a thought of like I always talk about being American and what it means to be |
| 1:42.4 | American and proud to be American and it's like yeah but there's like South Americans |
| 1:46.8 | There's North Americans, Central Americans. Let me just tell all of you non-United States countries that are part of one of the Americas, |
| 1:56.1 | we've got some stuff here you don't want, you know, we've got some stuff going on. |
| 2:00.3 | So just like... |
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