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XBOX Layoffs, Tesla's New Model Y, $12.8M Lottery Dispute | Diet TBPN

TBPN

July 7, 2026

Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after.
Speakers: John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Arvind Srinivas
**John Coogan** (0:02)
Happy July 4th, everyone. I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend. How was your fourth, Jordi?

**Jordi Hays** (0:06)
Incredible.

**John Coogan** (0:06)
It was incredible.

**Jordi Hays** (0:07)
Cinema.

**John Coogan** (0:08)
Tyler, how was your fourth?

**Jordi Hays** (0:09)
It was electric.

**John Coogan** (0:10)
Can you tell us about that white party that you went to?
You can't talk about that? What about the wedding you went to? Was that a fun one? That was in New York, right?

**Jordi Hays** (0:18)
New York, yeah.

**John Coogan** (0:18)
Manhattan.

**Jordi Hays** (0:19)
Yeah, Madison Square Garden.

**John Coogan** (0:20)
But you can't break it down for us?

**Jordi Hays** (0:23)
Yeah, they told us not to.

**John Coogan** (0:24)
Okay, okay, got it. Well, I'm glad you had fun. I'm glad you had fun. I'm glad everyone had fun.
My 4th of July was great. It was a little, was it humid?

**Jordi Hays** (0:32)
Did you even get sunburned?

**John Coogan** (0:33)
No.

**Jordi Hays** (0:34)
You don't even look sunburned.

**John Coogan** (0:35)
Not sunburned. Can't say that for the rest of the team. He's larping. Half the team over here.

**Jordi Hays** (0:38)
He's larping around saying, I had the best 4th of July, not even sunburned. No. Make it make sense.

**John Coogan** (0:44)
Yeah. Shade, you stay in the shade at the right times.

**Jordi Hays** (0:47)
UV index.

**John Coogan** (0:48)
You're not sunburned. Why are you?

**Jordi Hays** (0:51)
I'm brutally sunburned.

**John Coogan** (0:52)
On the back.

**Jordi Hays** (0:53)
On my back.

**John Coogan** (0:53)
Okay, okay. That makes sense. UV index. Was it humid in Melbourne?

**Jordi Hays** (0:58)
A little bit.

**John Coogan** (0:59)
It was a little humid in Pasadena, and it made it feel very East Coast. Like it felt like an East Coast 4th of July to me. I did East Coast 4th of July a couple of years ago, and it was sort of refreshing. I don't know. It was nice.

**Jordi Hays** (1:14)
But drone shows were in this year.

**John Coogan** (1:17)
Yes. Fireworks are out given the Palisades fire, the Altadena fire. So a lot of townships are playing it safe with drone shows instead of fireworks, which is, I don't know. I feel like it's cool. I like a drone show. I've only seen one when we were in France.
It was cool. I don't have a problem with it, but I'm anticipating a backlash. I'm anticipating that people will be like, we gotta go back to the organic, authentic fireworks, right?

**Jordi Hays** (1:44)
Yeah. But yeah, they're like, I like when the air quality is terrible.

**John Coogan** (1:48)
Okay. It's an air quality risk for you. You noticed that?

**Jordi Hays** (1:52)
I didn't notice it this year.

**John Coogan** (1:53)
Did you see fireworks and drones?

**Jordi Hays** (1:55)
I honestly didn't see a single-

**John Coogan** (1:58)
I was asleep.

**Jordi Hays** (1:59)
I didn't see a single firework.

**John Coogan** (2:00)
I was up at 6 AM, so I went to bed at like 9

**Jordi Hays** (2:02)
I did not see a single firework on the 4th of July, which is crazy. I heard some around. But I remember when I lived in LA, the air quality would genuinely be terrible for at least a few days because it just sits in there.

**John Coogan** (2:17)
When I lived in Echo Park, it was like fireworks everywhere. It's the craziest neighborhood because people in the neighborhood buy the production level fireworks. You know how normally you get like a sparkler or you get something that shoots off a little? No, they buy the same thing that you see at like Dodger Stadium, like the cannon that goes off and goes boom.
But they don't coordinate them. So it's not like there's music that's playing and then it's synced up and there's a finale. It's just whenever someone feels like lighting went off, it goes full fireworks scale. There's some really cool like helicopter video shots of Los Angeles during, I think, 4th of July, where they go really, really crazy.

**Jordi Hays** (2:55)
But yeah, probably dangerous. I feel like that's probably what Dalyan would do, is like, I'm gonna go fly my plane at 9 p.m. on the 4th of July and just get into.

**John Coogan** (3:04)
I have some crazy video of the fireworks show at Dodger Stadium before there were regulations around drones. I had one of the first drones and I flew it like through the fireworks. And then spectacular footage. I'll have to play on the show one day. Wildly illegal by modern drone standards. But at the time, no one knew how to regulate those things. So you could just fly them anywhere, which was really, really crazy, but a lot of fun. Anyway, big changes at Microsoft, big changes at Xbox. Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs by the end of next year. And here's where it gets interesting. Not because of artificial intelligence. AI, the new CEO of Xbox has been very clear that they're not stuffing AI everywhere. They're going back to their roots, but they are focused on efficiency. And so the newly appointed Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma has announced this morning that Xbox will lay off 3,200 staffers by the end of 2027, with 1,600 layoffs taking place today.

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