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happens now. Ah, well, somebody gave me this Tim Pool-like podcasting hat, and I said, you know, I can't really wear that when I'm podcasting because it will look like I'm copying Tim Pool. But I decided today I'll just be a Tim Pool tribute podcaster or something. All right, looks like the comments stopped working. See if I can get that fixed. All right, we're good. We're good to go. I don't k…

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years ago. And it's kind of wild, you know. It's kind of wild. You have to see it to believe it.

Anyway, speaking of the future, Samsung has a new phone. I guess it's going to launch in the next several months, but it's a tri-fold phone, smartphone. So they already had the one that just folds out for a bigger screen. Now it's a threefold. It's a three-parter. So you can make your smartphone about the size of a small iPad. All you have to do is unfold it.

Now, do you know how much I want that? I want that a lot, but I'm stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and it would be such a pain in the ass to get out of that ecosystem.

Let me tell you how much I love the Apple ecosystem. I've got an Apple Watch right here, and I didn't think I would love it, but it has some cool features, so I'm kind of hooked. This morning the alarm went off on my phone, which is paired to the watch. So it has an alarm that goes off at the same time. But you have to turn them off separately.

So I turn off my phone, and now I have to turn off the alarm on the watch, which was being charged at the moment. So I go to turn off the alarm and it doesn't turn off, but it goes to the password, you know, four-digit code. And of course, obviously, I know my four-digit code. I use it every day. There's no doubt about it. But it acted like it was the wrong code.

So I tried again and it still said it was the wrong code. And I tried again and I pushed buttons and I poked at it and I could not turn off the alarm until I came up with the following idea. Now, I don't know if your devices work the same as mine. This is just something

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I do. I took my watch off of my wrist and I threw it as hard as I could against the wall, which successfully turned off the alarm. So can't say I don't know how to do it. Now, it didn't seem to break, but it did turn off the alarm. So if any of you have an Apple Watch and you have that same problem where it won't turn off the alarm for whatever reason, it won't even accept your password, take it…

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