 If you've been watching the WAN show recently, you might have noticed that we've been building a new set here in the studio. And that is not because we just love manual labor. We are expanding our content lineup, which in regular speak means we are making a new show. It'll run Monday, Wednesday, Friday-ish, and it'll cover STEM news in a fun and rapid-fire manner. All we need now is someone who's got time to host it. Got some free time? No. Get out of here. Do you want to be a video host? Why are you in my office? Colton Colty, baby the Coltster. What's up, man? You want to host a new show? Yeah. You know what? Actually forget it. I'm joking. I thought you were gonna fire me. What the f***? Got a new show. Tech news needs a host. Why not you? Oh, God. That's so loud. I'm gonna shoot a new show. You in? Hosting. Riley? Yeah, it's in the back. Riley, is that you? Quick, bitch. Hallelujah! My prayers have been answered. I've got a host for the new channel. Come on out here, baby. And I've got a sponsor for this one. This video is brought to you by Private Internet Access. PIA is the VPN service that gives you a safe, protected IP and encrypts your internet traffic. Check it out now at the link in the video description. Oh, my God. Riley, what are you doing in here? You remember how to host videos, right? Videos? Oh, my God. Cut it out. You hosted a tech show for like four years. Come on. Let's get you cleaned up. Oh, I know technology. Come on. So, what are you doing here? I'm gonna clean up the mess. I'm gonna clean up the mess. I'm gonna clean up the mess. Oh, dear. So, there's been a lot of speculation over the last six months about us buying out the NCIX Tech Tips YouTube channel. And, confession time, we have been working on it. So, I made an initial offer, which was when I found out about the pending buyer. But I'm a shareholder or I'm on the board of directors or something. I don't know. It made no sense to me whatsoever. So, to say that I was pretty cheesed off by this point would be a gross understatement. So, any purchaser of the rest of the company or a creditor or even that individual with the login credentials could challenge my ownership. Due to some weird loopholes that are specific to intellectual property law. And they kind of make sense because if you... Frankly, it's not even worth what I was offering at this point. But, I mean, for me, I already had the host and it's kind of like Monopoly, right? Like, it's worth it to overpay for Park Place if you've already got BoardWalk. So, long story short, this has actually been a very emotional ride for me because I had really wanted to bring my old stomping ground back to its former glory. Like, the last thing that I wanted to see was some company that doesn't understand the audience, doesn't understand YouTube, and doesn't understand how much sweat, blood, and tears went into making that what it is. Just upload marketing videos to it. But, even after over $5,000 in legal fees and many hours, especially from Yvonne. She worked really hard on this. We just couldn't make it happen. So, I'm honestly, I'm sorry to everyone. I'm sorry to everyone who was involved in the deal, the viewers who really wanted to see it come back, and just sort of in general. But, there's a silver lining. So, we actually made the deal to hire Riley as soon as there was some hint, as soon as we got a sniff of getting the channel. So, what we've decided to do is to just go forward with a brand new show, a spiritual successor. So, it'll be a host, and maybe it'll be me, maybe it'll be Riley, who knows, maybe Colton will host it, I don't care. And the host will be kind of standing here like this. What? Like this? Really? No, no, not like that. Like this. That's right. Boom! And what it's going to be in a nutshell is on a new channel, we're going to call the channel Tech Linked. Yeah, that really is the best we could come up with. Every episode will be about five to six minutes long on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and it'll cover the biggest tech stories of the day. And it's going to be sort of like this. Chipmaker, Advanced Micro Devices has announced that they are going to be purchasing, finally, the graphics accelerator design company, ATI, for a cool $5.4 billion. Rumors about the possible sale have been flying around for months, and apparently, AMD decided to go through with it. But, as ATI's stock price on the market soared, AMD's dropped due to investor concern that AMD paid too much for the acquisition. Kind of like you, right? Yeah. He had no choice but to say that. It's great. Buying ATI will allow AMD to offer integrated graphics on their CPUs, giving them an edge over rival Intel. Reportedly, AMD initially tried to purchase graphics giant Nvidia, but its CEO, Jensen Huang, insisted that he lead the new company. And AMD chief Hector Ruse wasn't having any of that. Uh-uh. So AMD set its sights on ATI instead and pulled the trigger. The gun went... This is so redundant. How many times are you going to say they did the deal? And just like shooting someone in real life, that decision has haunted AMD ever since. So it's going to be kind of like that, except current news, not news from 12 years ago. Thank you very much, Riley. And actually, the first episode is live right now, so you can click here to watch it and to subscribe to the channel. Go follow TechLinked on Twitter and do all the things. Speaking of... Who am I kidding? I don't care if this segment makes any sense. I've got some lawyer bills to pay. This video is brought to you by Anker. We're talking about Anker's new Soundcore Spirit and Spirit X earphones featuring their SweatGuard technology. SweatGuard utilizes a specific nano-coating with an IPX6 Plus rating to help better protect your earphones from sweat, which actually includes the USB and remote control buttons. To celebrate the launch, they're hosting a huge giveaway. Prizes include 500 Spirit earphones, 500 Spirit X earphones, a bunch of 10% off vouchers, and more. You can check out the details in the description below. The giveaway ends May 16th. So, come on in here, Riley. Thanks for watching, guys. If this video sucked... Look, doesn't he clean up nice? If this video sucked, you guys know what to do. But if it was awesome, get subscribed, hit that like button, or check out the links where to buy the stuff we featured. You can get your very own Riley at the link in the video description. Yeah, I don't think these shirts are available anymore. We don't have that IP. This is custom. Now that I think about it. Oh, really? Like you did... Oh, okay. Well... I didn't make it. It was given to me. You can do a shirt. Okay. Also linked in the description is our merch store, which has cool shirts like this one, but not that one, but like maybe at some point, I don't know. And our community forum, which you should totally join. He doesn't have a mic. That's why he's not talking. Thanks for watching, guys. Love you so much. Very excited. Oh, we're back, baby. We're back. This looks awesome. Yeah. All right. Ah! Ah! Yep! Okay. That was awesome, Riley.