Not To Be Technical
An approachable, comedic take on trending tech news and lifestyle topics. Join us for some fun, laughs, and learn about relevant technology. Hosted by Charlie, Nafis & sometimes Gary /// Follow on Instagram @nottobetechnical
Not To Be Technical
24: Thanksgiving, Hypothetical Car Issues & Insane Black Friday Data
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Episode 24
The guys are finally all back together, just in time for Thanksgiving. We go through some trending tech and some interesting stats for Thanksgiving and Black Friday, but first
- Charlie is back from vacation and we find out how the hell he is (1:00)
- The Uber of Car Rentals, Turo, is discussed, which includes a hypothetical, disastrous use case with a Lamborghini (2:35)
- Nafis shares a hypothetical story where he damaged a car he rented in the parking lot of a Starbucks (14:15)
- Poll results from people who sit vs stand when wiping (17:12)
- Fat Charlie Content?!?!?!? (21:40)
- Shopping Organic vs Non Organic Products (we find out Charlie and Gary hate organic peanut butter with a passion) (26:25)
- With the chip shortages going on, Samsung will announce building a massive ~$17 billion chipmaking plant in Taylor, TX, today potentially (29:48)
- Apple's aggressive new timeline for Project Titan, their fully driverless electric vehicle they want to release by 2025. (32:55)
- JPMorgan's $162m lawsuit against Tesla, and Elon Musk threatened to give them a one-star review on Yelp if they go through with it. (38:53)
- Discussing if we ever leave Yelp/Google Reviews and how we suggest analyzing reviews online (41:00)
- YouTube's removal of the dislike functionality & count and we try to understand the unique way Gary finds the right videos on YouTube based only on like to dislike ratio (45:17)
- J.M. Smucker building a $1.1B plant to produce more Uncrustables, since they did $365m in sales this year (55:15)
- Gary gives us a peek into his list of pet peeves, including fitted bedsheet issues (57:39)
- The guys have the most exciting, impressive, latest data and projections on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping this year from the least surprising article ever (1:00:39)
- A lil bidet talk with the boys (1:10:30)
- What we're grateful for (1:14:02)
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