500

August 22nd, 2022 × #podcasting#web development#milestone

Episode 500!

Scott and Wes celebrate 500 episodes by looking back at milestones, favorite moments and episodes, and answering listener questions.

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Topic 0 00:00

Transcript

Announcer

Monday. Monday. Monday.

Topic 1 00:03

Opening jingle

Announcer

Open wide dev fans, get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows, breakdancing, soft skill, web development, the hastiest, the craziest, the tastiest web development treats coming again hot. Here is Wes, Barracuda, Boz, and Scott, El Toro Loco, Tolinski.

Scott Tolinski

Welcome to the 500th episode of Syntax.

Topic 2 00:35

Scott introduces himself and Wes

Scott Tolinski

Welcome To this hasty treat, my name is Scott Talinski. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado. And with me as always as 499 other times, Except for actually 498 other times, I've I missed 1 episode, is Wes Bos. Hey, everybody.

Wes Bos

I am stoked to be here. Actually, we had an episode 0.

Topic 3 00:52

Wes excited for 500 episodes

Wes Bos

So, technically, it's 501 episodes, but, it's unreal that we've hit 500 episodes So far, and today, we've got a show for you. We're just gonna talk about the podcast a little bit. We've got some listener questions that have been sent in, talk about our favorite episodes, the top us. Ten episodes ever, and, some other stats that we have. It's pretty fun. And we're gonna talk about our recording process, which is hilarious because CS Me and Scott have been mostly me have been struggling with hardware lately. It's all start starting to go Go to the dogs, as they say.

Wes Bos

Is that a saying?

Topic 4 01:32

Sentry sponsor

Scott Tolinski

I I mean, sure. I I don't know. Maybe. It seems like it could be. It. This episode is sponsored by 2 amazing companies. One of which is Sentry and the other is payments hub. Let's talk 1st about Sentry because Sentry is hosting a conference, And this conference is called DEX or DEX, Sort the Madness, the conference for every developer to join as we Instigate the movement for a better, more reliable developer experiences.

Scott Tolinski

So what's this madness, you might ask? It's a never ending need to deploy stable code quickly.

Scott Tolinski

Come to DEX to engage with developers who share their epic Fails and glorious saves.

Scott Tolinski

Century can't fix the madness, but we can start sorting it through with you. So So you're gonna want to register to join in San Francisco or virtually. This thing takes place on September 28th, And you can get there at century.ioforward/eventsforward/decks, d e x.

Scott Tolinski

Again, this is a, sort the madness. It's a conference to help you sort and have more reliable code via Sentry.

Scott Tolinski

So we'll also have a link to this thing in our show notes, but thank you so much for I know this is 500th episode. Century's been there us a lot of those 500 episodes for us. They have been a major sponsor and a major supporter of Syntax. So, it. It would mean a lot to us if you went ahead and checked out their conference and told them that you heard about it from syntax. So go ahead and click on the CTA in our show notes or head on over to century.ioforward/eventsforward/decks And check out their conference, Dex Sort the Madness.

Wes Bos

We are also sponsored today by Payments of dev portal, their integrated payments provider to onboard and underwrite your merchants, process their payments, and provide your merchants with business analytics via the API. So Payments Hub is a really cool company because, like, you think, oh, yeah. There's lots of places to to accept payments on a website, but what if you, run a business. What if you have a company that has merchants on it, unless something like Shopify, and you need to onboard them, you need to underwrite them, make sure that they can accept credit cards.

Topic 5 03:29

PaymentsHub sponsor

Wes Bos

So there's, like, this kind of, like, next level when You need to integrate that type of thing, and Payments Hub is a software that you want to use when you're building that type of platform.

Wes Bos

You wanna check it out. Developer.paymentshub.comforward/syntax.

Wes Bos

They have an awesome landing page, that shows pretty much everything that you can do, all the different types of level 2 and level 3 data, analytics based reporting, highly sensitive information. You wanna check it out. They have lots of really good code examples as well. Thank you, PaymentsHub, for sponsoring.

Wes Bos

It. Alright. Let's get on into it. This is pretty exciting. We just passed, what? We're recording this at the time. There's not it. 500. We're we're about a month ahead in recording, but we just passed 20,000,000, all time downloads since we started syntax, which is Unreal. So congratulations, Don. 1,000,000.

Topic 6 04:37

20 million downloads milestone

Scott Tolinski

It's wild because it's it's so funny.

Scott Tolinski

We use Libsyn host the podcast. And if you log in to Libsyn Libsyn, the very first thing it says is they are you're at 19 and and 800 it. 19,800,000 to all time downloads, and then, like, oh, we're so close to 20,000,000. It would be really great if we could say we're at it. 20,000,000. Woah. This episode. And then I click on stats to get to the analytics, and then it says all time downloads, 22 20,000,000 100. So, like, What what is their why do they have 2 different sessions that say all time downloads with different numbers drastically different numbers? Yeah. There's

Wes Bos

Over the years, Libsyn has adjusted how they calculate things at a at a certain time. Like, Spotify was its own thing. Yeah.

Topic 7 05:47

Discuss podcast recording process

Wes Bos

So, yeah, they they nicely put it all in for you into it, so we cracked 20,000,000, which is wild to think about, that people wanna tune in for this type of stuff. I thought we would go through our setup and recording process, just because it's It's morphed over the years into to what we have.

Wes Bos

We won't go into the gear because we've talked about the gear Extensively. Ad nauseam, and I'm in the middle of it. Throwing some of my gear out the window because I keep going robotic, especially, like, we have guests. It's it's one thing to make Scott sit there and ask keep asking if it sounds okay. But it's another thing if there's a guest order that's sitting there waiting for me to figure out what's going on,

Scott Tolinski

but getting it dialed in. Hey. Does this sound good? What about the how how about now?

Wes Bos

So let's let's go into our our recording process right now. So we record it. Every Monday, now that we have 3 episodes, we pretty much dedicate the entire day, to syntax recording.

Wes Bos

We wake up on Monday morning. We start to start poking around the list of episodes. We have, like, an ongoing list of episodes, ideas that we want.

Wes Bos

It. Sometimes it's, we have a potluck, and we're like, oh, yeah. We just need to pull some questions from the potluck questions.

Wes Bos

Other times, we have to come up with ideas. It. Sometimes we're overflowing with 2 months' worth of ideas, and other times, we're like, I have no idea what to to talk about. So That's why it's important to sort of, like, when you do have an idea, to throw it in the list of ideas because then you can come back to and go, oh, yeah. We're gonna talk about like, Web Workers was another one that we said we'd talk about A while ago, we never put that in the list, and I just goes, oh, yeah. We said we would do a show on that, like, 2 months ago. Let's do it. Yeah. I think in general, whether I mean, not even just

Scott Tolinski

For this show, but for any type of, we're trying to generate content ideas.

Scott Tolinski

Anytime you can have that capture system where you're just putting something into the into the doc, the moment that it pops into your head Yeah. Becoming a big big win for creating this kind of stuff over time.

Wes Bos

So our recording process is once we have our notes, we generally do bullet points On it, for the guests, we now do just sort of like a rough outline of things we wanna talk to the guest about, and then we sorta just Giver. Usually, the guest is interesting enough that we have more to talk about than we possibly could fit, in an hour. So it's usually not too much of an issue, and then we sort of just go for it. Sometimes we do things that require a bit more research.

Wes Bos

And if that's the case, then We we take, like, an hour or whatever just to dive a little bit deeper into

Scott Tolinski

specific APIs and whatnot. Yeah. That's usually the general flow.

Scott Tolinski

We always like to say that it's somewhat relaxed fit because, you know, typically, we're we're coming in pretty well researched on, the topics. And and by research, Usually, the people that we're having on are are people who are experts in things we don't know much about. So what we're researched in isn't we're researched in what types of things we want to talk about. But for the most part, we like to have it be a little bit more organic. This isn't ever intended, Especially with guests, it'd just be like a sales pitch. Now tell us about your latest product here. What what what is this thing that you would love to sell to, You know, the the 20,000,000 downloads that we would have of this show. You know? Yeah.

Wes Bos

Exactly.

Wes Bos

Let's go in to the next section, which is the top 10 episodes Ever.

Wes Bos

All of these episodes are a bit older, and the reason behind that is because we actually get pretty significant, like, backlog, listens. People will, either go back to episodes that are a couple years old because they're on a specific topic, Or somebody discovers the podcast and they go ham on it listening to 2 or 3 a day.

Top 10 most popular episodes

Wes Bos

And we've had people be like, yeah. Like, I it It took me 4 months, but I listened to every single episode, which is wild because if you think about 500 episodes, let's do the math really quickly.

Wes Bos

500 episodes. Let's just assume they're on average 45 minutes long between the hasty and the tasty, divided by 60. That's 375 hours.

Wes Bos

Mhmm. So if you were to divide that by 24, It would take you 15 days.

Wes Bos

Is that true? Yeah. 15 days of straight listening, like, not sleeping or anything.

Scott Tolinski

That's some podcasting, man. I do it, though, with podcasts that I like, if I get into a podcast Oh, yeah. I'll I'll binge their entire Catalog everything.

Wes Bos

Absolutely.

Wes Bos

So the top 10 episodes number 10 is Gatsby versus Next. This was a very, very popular one.

Wes Bos

At the time, it was Gatsby and Next were different animals, and People didn't totally understand that, so we sorta set the the word straight on what they both were, at the time. I think we did a a follow-up episode to it as well once, they all rolled out new APIs as well. Yeah. They they, have evolved quite a bit since that episode too. Yeah. It's Kinda interesting looking back at some of the 1st episodes from 2018 in that, like, these things Are like, what? Let's look back at some of the early episodes.

Wes Bos

It's also wild to me that we don't have pagination on the syntax website.

Scott Tolinski

It. I know. Just click or or search. You have to command f to find anything. Yeah. Probably should add that JavaScript tooling,

Wes Bos

freelancing

Scott Tolinski

500.

Wes Bos

CS Versus code, CSS grid, CSS BEM. I'm trying to, like, see. Like, is there anything that we did a show on that is just like, oh, man. That's Not a thing.

Scott Tolinski

Era's not very popular. We should revisit some of these episodes.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. Yeah. So for For instance, the episode that we did that is the 9th most episode 9th most listened to episode, How to Build an API From 2019 Yeah. Is a totally fine show, but that landscape has changed quite a bit.

Scott Tolinski

I wouldn't mind redoing

Wes Bos

that episode. Yeah. How to build an API in 2021.

Wes Bos

We are 2023, we'll do the YouTuber, a Yeah. Thing. Yeah.

Scott Tolinski

How to build, and then to the list right now. So number 9 is how to build an API where we basically dove into it. The the different types of setups that you could have for an API and the types of things you would want to know whether that is, like, cookies, or core stuff or GraphQL versus REST, but now we'd have GraphQL versus REST versus TRCP, You know, different types of languages people are getting into. There there's a lot here.

Wes Bos

Totally.

Wes Bos

8th most popular is the fundamentals show. These are always very popular. It's the Server side fundamental show. And, basically, in this one, we just laid out how things work. You get a request. You can do stuff on the server. You can do a response. Just sort of understanding, like, what is the server side? What is the server side? Number

Scott Tolinski

it. Like, what is the server side? What is the server side? Number 7 is 20 JavaScript array and object methods to make, And then that's cut off. I don't remember what the rest of it. 20

Wes Bos

Make money.

Wes Bos

To make money. No. Does that really you no. It's to make a make you a better developer.

Wes Bos

It's it's accurate, though, because those are the types of things in JavaScript that really, like, make you proficient is being able to it. Manipulate data like that. So 20 JavaScript array method and object methods to make you a better developer, still super relevant. Those things will kick But that was episode number 43. Yeah. That that was a really good one. Basically, a lot of we got a lot of feedback from that one. I was like, oh, I didn't realize that There was this 1 or that one. I didn't realize that that was a better way to do it instead of x, y, or z. So I really like that one. Number what number are we at? 109876 is how to get better at problem solving.

Wes Bos

I for I don't even remember that one.

Wes Bos

A Better at problem. November 20th, 2019.

Wes Bos

And we talked about gathering info it. Info, looking at your endgame, endgame, reading again, make it oh, yeah. Basically, these are just a bunch of tips to be like, I have a problem.

Wes Bos

How do you tackle it?

Scott Tolinski

I that was actually really good, and I totally have forgotten about that episode. I did not forget about that because I've been it. In many high stress troubleshoot situations in my life. So, yeah, let's go back and listen to it. Time.

Scott Tolinski

Number 5 is how to learn new things quickly. This is something that Wes and I both have to do, especially doing this podcast, doing our tutorials, Doing our conference talks, we gotta learn things quick, so we did an episode on how to learn things quickly. One of my favorite episodes ever, personally. Yeah. And we we also had a a second one that was kinda similar, keeping up with the Kardashians.

Scott Tolinski

Yes. I think that was the same episode.

Wes Bos

No. It's it's not. I just looked it up. I was like, that's Scott's That was Scott's baby that episode. It's not the same one, but the the Kardashians one was always in our top, top episodes. So I bet it's, like, number 11.

Scott Tolinski

It. That that title, I I love it. Wes's notes. Scott came up with the title for this one. I know. And I remember, the the funny thing about that, the episode title, is that if you don't if you didn't get the context for that, if you haven't listened to that episode, go listen to it because I revealed that when I told Courtney that I was going to call the episode that she told me that Wes is going to leave the show. You you need to not do that. Wes is going to quit the show if you Start suggesting things like that, so, that was a good title for me.

Wes Bos

Number 4 is the React episode. This is one of the very first episodes we ever did and Basically explained some fundamentals about React.

Wes Bos

There's not too too much about that, but I think people, when they get a new podcast, they go and search for,

Scott Tolinski

Words like React. Yeah. React. Hey. They searched for it. They found it. Number 3, the fundamentals, HTML plus CSS. No surprise on this one. We all have to have good fundamentals.

Scott Tolinski

The fundamentals episodes are some of the best ones that we've done overall because Yeah. Les and I, I think, are just both Good at teaching that type of thing. We both have a lot of experience there, but I I think, HTML and CSS doesn't get any more foundational than that. That's, where it's at. We should put a make out the fundamentals page and, like, link those up. That's on my That's my list of things Yeah. To do for the,

Wes Bos

to do for the podcast is Yeah. I would love to have, like, collections of podcasts. Because, like, you think, like, oh, and now we have 500. There's Absolutely no way you're gonna listen to them all, but there's some gems in there that you maybe should be listening to. So And how do we push those out to The podcast people who will never go to the website ever because I would imagine most people aren't going to the website to listen to the podcast. Yeah. Oh, we actually have stats on that as well. We could go through that. We did that on one of our episodes of where people listen. Although, Quite a few people do listen through the website because I know that because when something goes wrong with the website, I hear about it within 20 minutes, which is pretty good. That means people are are constantly going to it.

Wes Bos

Number 2 is React Hooks. This was when React Hooks first came out, And everybody pretty much needed to learn how React Hooks work, so that was a big one. And then the number 1, Scott, this one is by far it. With 10,000 more lessons per episode than any other episode we've ever done, it is

Scott Tolinski

It is the fundamentals JavaScript. Like we mentioned, man, there's the fundamental server side, the fundamental HTML CSS, and now The fundamentals JavaScript.

Scott Tolinski

And I would I would imagine that if you went through our stats Overall, I would bet that the fundamentals show up more than at the higher ups of the list than anyone. Yeah. Those are great episodes. I think they're they're just really easy. It. Fundamental episodes. They're fundamental. Yeah.

Wes Bos

Let's go to the next section, which is our favorite episodes.

Topic 9 18:02

Favorite episodes

Wes Bos

Scott, what are your favorite episodes? I've just been racking my brains trying to understand it. My favorite episodes

Scott Tolinski

my favorite episodes, I love the a spooky story Oh, yeah. You know, specifically because we all end up in situations. If you haven't listened to those, there's it. 2 years of spooky stories, I think, that we've done now. 3 years we've done it now. You think we've done it for 3 years?

Wes Bos

I think so. Yeah. 2,

Scott Tolinski

3 2019, 2020, 2 years. We've done it 4 episodes, 2 years. We did 1 hasty and 3 tasties full of spooky stories.

Scott Tolinski

And, the basically wait. We didn't do spooky stories and

Wes Bos

We definitely did it and We definitely did it in 2021. Maybe it was,

Scott Tolinski

horror stories or something. Yeah. Or horror.

Scott Tolinski

Horrors for horror

Wes Bos

stories. So we've done them 6 times because we always get more more episodes than or more horror stories than we can fit in a single episode. Oh, that's For 3 years, we've done it to a year. So, yeah, we we'll say this now.

Wes Bos

Anyone listening, if you have a horror story in web development, You deleted the production database. You accidentally put a swear word in your console log.

Wes Bos

You flipped the client's website upside down. It. I I heard a horror story. Somebody forgot a debug statement in and ended up with a customer, got, like, 50 rolls of toilet paper delivered to their house, Like, many times.

Wes Bos

Just if you have any of those horror stories, send them to Scott and I. You can email me, wes@wesboss.com,

Scott Tolinski

And we're compiling them for this coming up Halloween. We would love to get your horror stories because they are so that's, like, one of my favorite things is is, like, Really sharing this thing that we've all done. We've all been in situations where something embarrassing or something intense has happened where it. You you or someone you know has done something, that accidentally has caused mass chaos or even just a little bit of chaos.

Scott Tolinski

And, again, it's it's kind of like, it's one of those things when you're in this industry. It's it's sort of like a stepping stone where you're like, alright. Now I've I've done something Crazy on production. I have now been, you know, put to the flames here in this industry. So this to me is one that kind of normalizes something that Everyone kinda goes through.

Scott Tolinski

I also really like the, Scott teaches Wes Svelte episode Yeah. Because I like talking about CS.

Scott Tolinski

And one thing that, like, for me specifically is I just knew Wes was going to like it. We we have kind of a same it. We have a kind of the same history in terms of, templating in template languages go and and things that we've used in the past. And I just knew you were gonna get a kick out of its simplicity and and just in general, the the nice developer experience about it. So for me, it was, like, one of those things where I was, like, I'm so excited To teach

Wes Bos

us how to use Svelte, why I like it so much, and and that was fun for me. My favorites are definitely all the fundamentals episodes. I very much enjoy working on those and recording them. The office setup 1, I really like, because it's fun to just chitchat About gear, what are the the other ones? The one that I did was, like, the gray web, like, like, reverse engineering.

Wes Bos

What was that called?

Scott Tolinski

I don't know, but that's a,

Wes Bos

that's like a West Boss specialty right there. Yeah. That one was Hidden hidden web. Hidden. The hidden web. What's it called? Hidden? I thought that's what you called it. Yeah. Let's let's find that. If it's my favorite, we need to tell people what it's called. One sec. Undocumented

Scott Tolinski

web episode number 60. That was so long ago. Yeah. Scraping private APIs, proxies, and alternative

Wes Bos

solutions.

Wes Bos

So maybe we should do another Another one on those. That was definitely one of mine. We told some stories of sneaking around, getting around stuff. That was a really good one. And we'll move on to the next section, which is our favorite guess. I don't know if this is fair or not, but if you look back And think about oh, that was a really good one.

Wes Bos

My one of my favorite I really enjoyed having Anthe Rogen on to talk about automation with JavaScript just because, like, the the guests that I love having on are either the people that are, us. Like, prolific with their thoughts.

Topic 10 22:13

Favorite guests

Wes Bos

Like, we have Rich Harris from Svelte. And, like, I would just ask that guy, like, what did you have Oh my goodness. I can't believe you thought about breakfast that way. You know? Like like, that kind of thing. Or ones that are just like, oh, man. This is, like, it. A very interesting area that I have never dove into, but I'm very interested in it. So the Anthrogan one was really good.

Wes Bos

Rich Harris on was really good.

Scott Tolinski

What are some of the other guests we have? Yeah. I love all of our guests equally, I think. If I had to pick a guess that I would like the most, I would say all of them.

Wes Bos

There you go. And then the last section we have here Is, questions from the audience. So I just reached out on Twitter. So what questions do you have for us? Here's a here is A question. What's something that has emerged

Scott Tolinski

from doing the podcast that has surprised you? That's a good question. I think for me, live shows doing the like, when we started the podcast, I don't know if I had anticipated, doing a live a show or and if I I did, like, I don't know if I anticipated what it would be like, especially because when we started doing the podcast, I wasn't even doing a lot of speaking, Really? Yeah. I don't think I was doing any speaking. I was just doing YouTube. So for me, the idea of standing up on a stage and doing, like, a MasterChef style coding thing, that's that kind of would have been Farfetch'd for me to believe at the beginning of starting the podcast. Yeah. The live shows are wild that we can just, like We get wild. Entertain people. You know? We we get wild. It's there's no doubt about it.

Topic 11 23:15

Audience questions

Wes Bos

Steve Sanders asked, how do you resolve disagreements between the 2 of you on choosing topics, sponsors, etcetera?

Scott Tolinski

It. I don't know if we have We play rock, paper, scissors really poorly over chat is how we do it. We replay rock, paper, scissors over webcam, but since we're both, like, it. Slightly on a lag. Like, each time we do the the rock, paper, scissors thing, it gets slower and slower and slower.

Scott Tolinski

And then we both pick scissors over and over again every time.

Wes Bos

I I don't think that like, if if there is 1 show that it. One of us wants to do, but the other one is just like, I I don't know about that. That's that's almost good because then the other person can play, it. Like, question asker.

Wes Bos

Most of the shows, we're both fairly dialed in on the topic. Sometimes, it's just like, I'm gonna take this one and Talk about the topic that I know a lot about, and those shows are really good as well.

Wes Bos

I don't think we've had, like, sponsor disagreements. It's usually pretty cut and dry As to what sponsor or wanna sponsor is because it's a lot of money to sponsor. So it's usually companies that Already know and have really good overlap, so there's not too much of issue there. And we haven't had to turn anyone down.

Scott Tolinski

Hasn't been a sponsor where we're like, we're uncomfortable with this product or we don't Yeah. Feel comfortable recommending this to our it. The answer, it's not something that we've seen or tried or used before. So Yeah. Yeah. We and we haven't there was that one. It was like magic mind, which is like a Oh, yeah. It. I have they sent me a sample. I haven't,

Wes Bos

haven't tried it yet, but that was one I was like, I'm not gonna be recommending this like Like snake oil if it's if it's not good. You know, I I asked on Twitter. I was like, is it good or not? And, like, it was about half and half, so I have no idea there. But, like, with with one of those, like, maybe not, you know, like, a Mhmm. It's a it's a

Scott Tolinski

supplement product. I can't even have it because it interacts with my medications.

Wes Bos

Yeah.

Wes Bos

It's it. And it's probably not probably not a good idea, now that I that you talk about it. It has to be absolutely. Like, oh, yeah. That that's super cool. I'm so stoked to have these people on. And Almost all of our sponsors that is the case, or I I think all of them so far. Yeah. Totally.

Scott Tolinski

1 question here is it. How what has been the sickest pick for each of you? Yeah. I don't know. I I think I have some ideas about What my sickest pick might be. I mean, I I had some pretty sick picks. I I did Darknet Diaries a long time before. I think anybody else was on that. I don't wanna, like, claim To be, you know, the reason they're successful, but I I did, you know, start the movement there.

Wes Bos

My 2nd fic by far was rollerblade wheels 4. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Like, I can see, like, the the if we recommend signing on Amazon, we put an Amazon affiliate link, it. And I can see, like, people buy it.

Wes Bos

Or if I put it on my, like, users page, you can see if people buy it. It. And definitely, the roller blade wheels was just like a next level. Like, oh my goodness. Everybody who got them was just like, these are the best thing ever. And if if you're not sure, most office chairs have either 10 or 11 millimeter, CS casters on them, and those casters are awful for rolling around. So you can buy these, like like, roller blade wheels that are Soft and big and rolly, and I put them you can put them on your office chair instead, and it's just a dream to roll around on them. And it. You just it it just feels more comfortable because you every little movement you make with your body, your chair sort of just adjusts for it. It's It's such a good if you haven't done it, I recommend that you do it. Yeah. I was just thinking about that. I was I wanted to get a,

Scott Tolinski

It's gonna sound ridiculous, but I wanted to get a a TV cart, which is funny because you Google TV cart, and you're like, oh, that's, like, high school stuff. I wanted to get a TV cart for a old TV that we could, like, wheel out onto like, okay. It. We have a really nice backyard patio that'd be really awesome to watch, like, football game at or something like that. Right? Put on the football. Put on the game and have a beer or even watch movies at night. We have a little fire pit. Right? But there's I don't wanna have an outdoor TV. That seems ridiculous.

Scott Tolinski

So it's like, well, what do I do if there's nowhere to good to put an outdoor TV, but it'd be really great to be have it able to have it. I was like, well, what if we have, like, a a Old TV on a TV cart in the garage that I could just wheel out and plug in, and then everything is just done via Wi Fi. So it's not like you have to have, like, a cable box or whatever. It's a TV and a plug. You plug it in as a speaker.

Scott Tolinski

And, then I got into, man, putting roller blade wheels on that. Then If you get smooth wheeling outdoors, I could take it down. You know, you could just take it around the whole backyard. No problem. So So did you actually do this? Looking at doing, technically. That's a great idea. I really like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. TVs, man, you know, they're pretty cheap nowadays to get, like, even, like, a a $200 TV or something. We're talking about that.

Wes Bos

Like, you can go to Costco and get, like, a 60 inch, Like, decent TV for a couple $100.

Wes Bos

Brand new. And, like, you go on Marketplace, and they're pretty much giving them away if they're more than a couple years it. Old. And, like, that's one thing in the world that has just gotten silly, silly cheap, and, like, pretty much anyone can have An amazing TV. We just got the Frame TV, which Yeah. Which we've been talking about for a while.

Wes Bos

For the longest time, my wife's like, I want the Frame TV because it's on, like, Pinterest, and it looks like art. I'm like, there's no way that there's no way that's a good TV. You know? Like, I get it. It's thin. It looks like art, but, absolutely, that's gonna sound like crap. There's nowhere for the speakers to go, And you gotta get a soundbar, and, like, there's no way it looks good. And, man, was I wrong? Thing looks awesome. Sounds amazing. Like, not amazing, but, like, I I bought a soundbar to to plug it in, and we we started playing it without the soundbar. I was like, oh, this is just as good as the TV we used to have. So I was very wrong about that. Yeah. You could go into

Scott Tolinski

Costco and, like, just look at the cheapest TV there, and it's probably gonna be way better than ATV about 3, 4 years ago. It's wild.

Scott Tolinski

So yeah. No. I I saw your frame. The frame looks awesome. It. I I don't know if I have let me see.

Scott Tolinski

In this past year, let me see what the most clicked on thing that I had from

Wes Bos

Amazon would have He can only do stats for 60 days or something on Amazon. Yeah. I know. It's Let me see here what my my most clicked on one was.

Scott Tolinski

I just the monitor arm that I sick picked, but I wouldn't say that's my sickest pick. I think a lot of my sick pics have have come from, like, podcasts and that kind of thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's hard to hard to track those. Cold brew. I think a lot of people ask about the cold brew Yeah.

Wes Bos

Maker that I have. So the most shipped last quarter, which is April 1st to June 30th, it. Was 15 people bought the office chair wheels, which I made $23 off of, and then it. Link clicks is my, like, 10 year old c nine twenty webcam.

Wes Bos

This is mostly from my user's page, though, not from the podcast.

Wes Bos

Rain design laptop stand. Yeah. That's all from my user's page. I think that one gets a bit more traffic.

Wes Bos

Some sick pics. I love the sick pics. I'm glad we did it. I remember listening to one of Leo Laporte's podcasts, and they have, like, pick of the week. Mhmm. And I always love that because there's always just some random little gadget that somebody who is very opinionated about these things able to pick, and it's always good stuff. So it's kinda fun. I I enjoy those. Yeah. People with similar taste talking about things they like. Exactly.

Topic 12 32:03

Thanks and sign off

Wes Bos

So that is it. Thank you everybody for tuning in to 500.

Wes Bos

We will see you at episode 1,000.

Scott Tolinski

We will see yes. That's the next time we'll check-in with you. Yeah. Episode 1,000.

Wes Bos

Which at at 3 a week, yeah, it. We'll we'll get there in no time. But Yeah. Thanks, everyone. Appreciate your support, and I'll catch you on Wednesday.

Wes Bos

Peace. Peace.

Scott Tolinski

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