Fred's Fun Fact: Xbox 360 Controllers

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fread Show is on Fred's Fun Fact Fred's Fund.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Learn so much, guys, And I'm sure military Mike Shelley's
husband he could confirm this. He won't because he's, you know,
I have all the top secret clearances and whatnot, because
he's a high ranking member of our military, of the Navy. However,
today's fun fact, did you know that the periscopes on
submarines in the Navy are operated using Xbox three sixty controllers? Really,

(00:37):
they use Xbox three sixty controllers in the military. Supposedly.
That's pretty cool. Yes, for a number of reasons. One
because they're more intuitive, two because they sell for like
twenty bucks each. Three because replacing a submarine industry standard
controller can cost forty grand. And on top of all
of that, swapping to the Xbox controller has reduced training

(00:58):
time from hours to minute because everybody doing it has
already played Xbox before. And then where the buttons are? Right?
How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Hopefully they keep them on the chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, we don't know about this, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I mean we've heard similar stories about it. We had
the submarine, but that was an off brand. Yeah, it
was at an Xbox yep. I mean we got to
make sure we get the name brand right. But think
about it next time you pay all your taxes. Just
what I know you don't, but exactly if ever you
work to. Just think about that.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was an Xbox, but you know whenever you get
around it more Freadshell next