00:06:21 · John Coogan, Palmer Luckey
[00:06:21] S1: Anyway, let's pull up the Blue Chip launch video because I wanna see what Palmer Lucky has to say about this new American made laptop from his own voice. [00:06:32] S3: America built the first electronic computer to win a war. During World War II, the US Army Ordnance Corps needed a faster way to accurately calculate artillery firing trajectories. So American engineers built the world's first modern computer, and that breakthrough kicked off an entire industry that changed the world. Then we gave it away. We outsourced the manufacturing of the technology that we invented. Now, we depend on other countries, including our greatest strategic adversaries, to make all of the hardware that runs our businesses, powers our economy, and protects our national security. That's insane. Any country that can't build its own computers can't secure them. If you don't control your technology, you can't control your future. Eighty years ago, America pioneered modern computing to defend our nation. Now, we're bringing it home. This is Blue Chip. American designed, American built. Other companies might design their computers in The US, and Enderl makes them here. Yet we're making parts out of metals that The US knows how to extract, knows how to refine, knows how to process, and knows how to mill at scale at a reasonable price. And that goes for the entire laptop. The same thing goes for the battery technology. We need to design things that survive very, very rough environments. [00:07:48] S1: And so
00:07:48 · John Coogan, Palmer Luckey, Jordi Hays, Tyler
[00:07:48] S1: And so [00:07:48] S3: what we've designed is a chassis that makes it very, very easy to replace the bottom shell and even the top shell, you can easily integrate things like solar panels, other soft goods, other service insignias, even things... [00:08:00] S0: Imagine LARPing with this. [00:08:03] S1: Yeah. When I'm a volunteer firefighter, I'm gonna be pulling [00:08:05] S3: this out.... America's comeback. Andrew's making sure that the machines we depend on every day are machines we can actually manufacture ourselves.... [00:08:12] S1: If I do. This hat frustrates Jordy incessantly. [00:08:17] S3: This is America's birthright. [00:08:18] S1: Because he doesn't have one and he wants one. Time to bring back to the valley. Okay. So couple problems with this launch video. There was... There were no... There's no video of Caveman making fire. There there was no video of the Model t. [00:08:32] S0: No Wright Brothers. [00:08:33] S1: No Wright Brothers. No Wright Brothers. And then no moon landing. [00:08:36] S0: How did they feel? How am I supposed to know what to feel? [00:08:39] S1: Yeah. And then no nuclear bomb detonating. Just actual relevant footage to the product that they're launching. [00:08:46] S4: Yeah. [00:08:46] S1: And a direct history and clear message from the founder and the creator. Make it make sense. Yeah. It's sort of odd. [00:08:55] S0: Really bucking the trend. I don't even know what to think about it. [00:08:57] S1: It's contrarian. It might work, but it seems so risky to not include at least at least a scientist.
00:08:57 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Gavin Baker
[00:08:57] S1: It's contrarian. It might work, but it seems so risky to not include at least at least a scientist. [00:09:04] S0: Thirty to sixty seconds. Yeah. [00:09:07] S1: Yeah. Cut really fast, you know. Yeah. [00:09:09] S0: Yeah. Three seconds. Three seconds. Three seconds. [00:09:12] S1: Yeah. Yeah. Like, the... I mean, at this point, like, the the the rules have been established. You have to copy the Founders Fund Vibrio if you're launching anything. Doesn't matter what you're launching. [00:09:22] S0: What was it? 2019? It was 2019 or... 2020. [00:09:25] S1: Yeah. Annual meeting twenty twenty, something like that. [00:09:28] S2: Yeah. [00:09:29] S1: Mike over there, fantastic. Kind of invented the genre of Vibrio and, of course, mixed a lot of things together in an interesting way that was not just pure tech. There's a whole bunch of other culture stuff in there. But this is... Know, jokes aside, this is a great launch video because it's only giving you the b roll for the... For what's relevant. So, like, he's talking about the history of the American made computer, and they show you what the military was up to at that time. And then he talks about the computer that they made, and they show you the computer. Yeah. It's like, this is the way you do a launch video. Very, very exciting. [00:10:07] S0: Yeah. The Vibrio launch video is so dead. You can only bring it back in the year 2050. Buy 2050 Yeah. I think it will be kind of a cool nod Yeah. To the twenty twenties Sure. To use it. Be kind of like an if you know, you know thing. Yeah. Yeah. And it'll be fresh again.
00:10:07 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan, Rahul Sengottuvelu
[00:10:07] S0: Yeah. The Vibrio launch video is so dead. You can only bring it back in the year 2050. Buy 2050 Yeah. I think it will be kind of a cool nod Yeah. To the twenty twenties Sure. To use it. Be kind of like an if you know, you know thing. Yeah. Yeah. And it'll be fresh again. [00:10:28] S1: Callback. [00:10:28] S5: Yeah. [00:10:28] S0: But for now, simply do not do it [00:10:31] S1: Yeah. [00:10:32] S0: For the next [00:10:33] S1: I know why you're so annoyed by the the Twenty [00:10:35] S0: odd year. [00:10:36] S1: All the knock off vibriels. It's because it's beating a dead horse. And we love horses around here. [00:10:41] S0: Yeah.
00:10:41 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[00:10:41] S0: Yeah. [00:10:41] S1: And so it's extremely rude to beat dead horses generally, and this is a dead horse we definitely don't wanna be beating. Let's get...... Beat any horses. Don't beat any horses alive or dead, actually. Yeah. So in that video, Palmer explains how American engineers built the world's first modern computer, and that breakthrough kicked off the computing industry. According to Palmer, any country that can't build its own computers can't secure them. That's a really good point, especially in the era of potential hardware flaws that could create cybersecurity risk. We gotta secure this. I've heard... I don't know if it's actually, like, a confirmed story, but that at one point or maybe currently, like, the NSA has their own fab to make chips because they don't want to make computers that run their code that are insecure because what if a foreign country inserts a backdoor into the chips that they're racking to run their code? So they want to own the vertical stack, but it's very small scale and it's also not the not the cutting edge, fab process that is available internationally, but it's like good enough for what they were doing at the time. But I think that might just be a rumor. But if you don't control your technology, you can't control your future. Palmer says, eighty years ago, America pioneered modern computing to defend our nation. Now we're bringing it home. What do you think of the design? [00:12:03] S0: I like it. [00:12:04] S1: Anything else to say about it? [00:12:06] S0: I think it's good. I think the strap is good.
00:12:06 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[00:12:06] S0: I think it's good. I think the strap is good. [00:12:11] S1: Okay. The Tyler Cosgrove review. Comment in hot... No. I like I like the fact that it has this, like, rough texture on the top, but then it has this little cutout for, like, a little bit more geometric detail, and they cut the corner off. I don't know if you can see it, but if you zoom in, there's I think little it's more going on. [00:12:26] S0: And I also think they designed it well. [00:12:27] S1: Okay. Got it. Thank you. That's fantastic. So so let's go through quick history lesson. No. [00:12:33] S0: It would be like the the funny thing is from a retail standpoint, it would be really cool to have just extremely rugged computer. Like part of what I an iPhone is you can really... Like you can really hammer on it [00:12:47] S1: Okay. [00:12:47] S0: And it's good. Right? I mean, it certainly shows it's it definitely is, you know, not doing anything that doesn't happen day to day, falling on the ground and things like that. Sure. But having like a really rugged, robust personal computer would be cool. Like throwing it across the room Yeah. Throwing it on the couch Yeah. Throwing it at you. Okay. Like if I have a funny video on my computer, if I could just chuckle Okay. At