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The Cat Ate My Laptop... and Other Tech Excuses! | EP 493 · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is Harold Perrineau, and you're listening to the Geeks
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  Speaker 1: on the Radio, Tech Talk Radio. Welcome to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we have to explain, Justin is not here tonight
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  Speaker 1: because of something we've talked about for the last three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And it really, it came out of nowhere, didn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 2: I've been scheming with him all week. We've been talking.
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  Speaker 2: We talked at least three times this past week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: About him buying an RV.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He did it. So tonight he was going to
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  Speaker 1: go buy it. Actually, you had paperwork and all that stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think they actually did buy it already. I think
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  Speaker 2: they were going to pick it up today. Wow. So
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  Speaker 2: we had a couple of long conversations. My dad gave
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  Speaker 2: him some advice because my dad knows everything about RVs.
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  Speaker 2: And then we talked for probably an hour of just
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  Speaker 2: him talking himself in circles.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: About, you know, and then he was trying to get
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  Speaker 2: a third party inspection done on it. And the third
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  Speaker 2: party inspector basically said, here's the list of questions that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to ask. And Justin's like, we already asked
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  Speaker 2: all those and I got a good answer on them.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, well, then you don't need me. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, like any army, they're going to find
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  Speaker 2: something they don't like or they're going to find something.
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  Speaker 2: But I think they're going to be fine. It's winterized already,
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  Speaker 2: so they're not going to use it until the spring.
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  Speaker 2: But I think Misa is going to want to go
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  Speaker 2: clean it and all this stuff, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: Decorate it, clean it.
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  Speaker 2: If you've ever been to their house, it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be clean.
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  Speaker 1: He'll tell us what he bought. All of that stuff
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  Speaker 1: next week on the show, I'm sure. He called you
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  Speaker 1: and said, okay, Sean, what about this? And then you said, well,
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  Speaker 1: call my dad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I told him I'd reach out to my dad.
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  Speaker 2: But my dad and I talk about RVs quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: And I actually talked to him today because I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at buying a new truck. But he's just very knowledgeable
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  Speaker 2: because he's been doing RVs for six decades.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: Because he grew up camping and we grew up camping
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  Speaker 2: and we've gone through dozens of RVs growing up and
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  Speaker 2: they've had, you know, they just upgraded their motor home.
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  Speaker 2: So the motor home they had before they're the one
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  Speaker 2: they have now is, was almost identical to the one
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  Speaker 2: Justin is buying.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of size and spec and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So he had a lot of good advice on what
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  Speaker 2: to look for and where to look for it and
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  Speaker 2: check these places for water damage and check this. And right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the generators got service. So you're good there.
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  Speaker 2: Check the tie. You know, he's, he kind of gave
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  Speaker 2: a bullet pointed rundown of what Justin should check. And,
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  Speaker 2: It's all stuff that I told Justin also. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: check these things. These are like the things you go check.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm excited now because now I can plan a
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  Speaker 2: trip out West and have somebody.
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  Speaker 1: To go out West with. Oh, no, that's cool. Do
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  Speaker 1: people do that? Like they get together, you take your RV,
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  Speaker 1: he gets his RV and you go like on a
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  Speaker 1: road trip.
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  Speaker 2: It's the whole point.
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  Speaker 1: Really? Well, I thought you just go in one RV. No.
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  Speaker 1: But you take him too. Yeah. It, No convoy of RV.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You get a convoy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, no, you, you typically go with, I mean, we've
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  Speaker 2: done it with three or four people, three or four campers. Um,
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  Speaker 2: for my birthday this past year, we did two campers, three,
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  Speaker 2: three campers actually. Um, no, we've done it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then like where my family goes every year, that's
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  Speaker 2: a dozen campers maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man. So we'll have to get photos. If we
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  Speaker 1: can get them before next, you know, next year time.
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  Speaker 1: we'll do that and put them up on a blog, blog.techtalkradio.com.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think Justin's going to start a whole new thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think he and me are going to just travel
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  Speaker 2: and be wanderlust, and they're going to have a podcast,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to just leave us in the dust.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be starlinking it from the remote wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: This is what's so bizarre. It's really cool, but I
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  Speaker 1: had a client come into the station here in Green Valley,
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  Speaker 1: and I had to record some commercials for them. They're
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  Speaker 1: a great client. And we were talking, and he started
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  Speaker 1: asking me, because he knows we do this show, and
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  Speaker 1: I do other shows and stuff. And he said, so
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  Speaker 1: what's the value in podcasting? It came out of the blue.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, well, and I started telling him about
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  Speaker 1: how more and more people are podcasting. We're broadcasting. We
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  Speaker 1: also turn this show into a podcast. Basically, it's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. It's a radio show. There's very little difference
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  Speaker 1: of what you hear on our podcast. But again, for
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  Speaker 1: people who are not in the area, able to pick
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  Speaker 1: up this radio station or any of the other stations
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  Speaker 1: we could be on, They're able to listen via a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the comfort of their own, their own home,
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  Speaker 1: whether they're listening on Spotify, you can listen on iTunes,
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  Speaker 1: you can listen on iHeart. It makes it kind of convenient.
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  Speaker 1: So I was telling him about, you can have a niche.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't understand it. And I said, you could have
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  Speaker 1: like a hobby and be able to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: And anybody can have a podcast now. I mean, even
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  Speaker 1: there are even grandmothers, probably some here in Green Valley
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  Speaker 1: that are creating podcasts, talking about their favorite recipes.
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  Speaker 2: Or talking about quilting.
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  Speaker 1: Or quilting, yeah, absolutely. Or gardening or desert living or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: People that like hobbies like to talk to other people
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  Speaker 2: about those hobbies. Yeah. And the best way to enhance
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  Speaker 2: the hobby is to talk about it and to learn
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  Speaker 2: from each other and maybe adapt thinking outside of the
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  Speaker 2: box to improve the hobby. Because that's how you grow, right?
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  Speaker 1: You grow as a community. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Community ideals grow the community. That's just how it works.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of clubs and we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about this and I was talking about social media and
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  Speaker 1: there are people who hate social media. Let's face it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they hate every aspect of it, but social
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  Speaker 1: media is a great way to get people to suddenly go, Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that existed. You know, there's a show
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  Speaker 1: that just celebrated its fifth anniversary that I listened to
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  Speaker 1: called choir practice. And basically it's formerly law enforcement. that
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  Speaker 1: they get together and tell stories. And it's really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, Oh wow. Somebody may have worked with
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  Speaker 1: the FBI or they worked with the sheriff's department or
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  Speaker 1: they were maybe even here in, in Saudita. I know Tom,
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  Speaker 1: my buddy here who was a former sheriff. He's been
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  Speaker 1: on the show a couple of times and he absolutely
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  Speaker 1: loves it. And he's been on their show. So again,
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  Speaker 1: that's just one of them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Do you listen to gaming podcasts, Sean? I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't, The only podcasts I've really truly listened
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  Speaker 2: to are the Critical Role podcast, which is a Dungeons
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  Speaker 2: and Dragons podcast. Dodo Born, which is another Daggerheart podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That's a D & D Daggerheart style. Right. And then
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  Speaker 2: Once We Were Spacemen, which is Alan Tudyk and Nathan
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  Speaker 2: Fillion's podcast about their Wait, they have a podcast? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know they did that.
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  Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Alan Tudyk is, for anybody who's never seen the show
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  Speaker 1: where he plays an alien, is absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Resident Alien is such a good show.
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  Speaker 1: It's hilarious. And he plays it perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: But they talk about just like their... It's just a
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  Speaker 2: good human interest piece about Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk's
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  Speaker 2: history in acting and where they got their start and
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  Speaker 2: of course Firefly and the things that spawn from Firefly
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  Speaker 2: and all those types of things too. So, and they
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  Speaker 2: interview people. Usually they bring on a guest every week. Um,
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  Speaker 2: they've had pretty much the entire cast of Firefly on and,
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  Speaker 2: and other executives and stuff throughout the, throughout the industry. But, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's good. It's hilarious. If you like either of those actors. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but then Caitlin likes her true crime podcasts, right? She
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  Speaker 2: likes the true crime. She likes, um, there's a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of NPR podcasts. Um, science. Yeah. Science versus, um, is
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  Speaker 2: a great podcast. And Kate listens to, listens to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of financial podcasts just about managing money and kind
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  Speaker 2: of just getting a world reviewer of, of how people
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  Speaker 2: handle finances.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, I don't really listen to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: It's, it's really strange because we take the radio shows
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  Speaker 1: here at the station. We have a couple that we do. I,
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  Speaker 1: the one I do in the know, and then we
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  Speaker 1: have another one called around the cracker barrel, which is,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great name for a show. They talk about
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  Speaker 1: local issues and local events and whatnot. And it's really
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  Speaker 1: kind of interesting because that listener count is huge. And
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  Speaker 1: not just in Arizona, but around the nation and around
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  Speaker 1: the country and around the world. We'll have spikes where
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we'll see 3,000 downloads in one week of a
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  Speaker 1: local show that people are listening to. And then it
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  Speaker 1: might drop down to 500 or 600. So it's just
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  Speaker 1: really interesting that people, they find something, they like it
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  Speaker 1: and they will continue to come back if it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: keeps the same thing going, you know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, you gotta be, you have to be repeatable.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be likable. You have to have good
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  Speaker 2: content and you've got to have a good format because
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  Speaker 2: if you just talk about whatever, I mean, some, there
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  Speaker 2: are some shows that work like that. Um, but like
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  Speaker 2: our show is loosely based around technology, the internet and radio.
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  Speaker 2: But it's more about how we deal with it in
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  Speaker 2: our daily lives and how it affects us, right? And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what people like is it's... We're three
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  Speaker 2: dudes that live on the internet and work in technology
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  Speaker 2: and we're just talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And we have fun with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, there are some other shows that
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  Speaker 1: have been great out there that are still out there
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  Speaker 1: that are podcast shows. You know, the Tech Guru. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's a guy that I know who just... he
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  Speaker 1: has like 40 000 subscribers on his youtube channel hey
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: everybody subscribe to us tech talk radio but no he
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  Speaker 1: does i mean it's i mean it's pretty amazing so
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  Speaker 1: you know when you've been around a while you have
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  Speaker 1: great conversations i think and you have good guests as
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  Speaker 1: well well anyway this guy that came in Starts telling me, well,
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  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about doing a podcast. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: what are you thinking of doing? What's your niche? He said, RVing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you. I was like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been listening to our show? He goes, no,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard your show before, but no, I've just, I
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  Speaker 1: love RVing and I thought this might be interesting. So
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  Speaker 1: I told him, we've been talking about that for the
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  Speaker 1: last few weeks. I think that could be a show
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  Speaker 1: that would be really good on the net.
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  Speaker 2: There are, so- when I did some research on buying
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  Speaker 2: our last kid, there's whenever you have to find a
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  Speaker 2: problem or one of you have a problem, you want
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  Speaker 2: to solve it, right? You go to YouTube, you try
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  Speaker 2: and find somebody that's had the same problem or, or
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  Speaker 2: somebody that's knowledgeable in the area you're trying to find.
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  Speaker 2: And there are a lot of bloggers and YouTubers that
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  Speaker 2: are doing podcasting type content for RVing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you can kind of curate your algorithm a little
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  Speaker 2: bit by going to those pages and stuff. So sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I see those pages, but, um, it would be kind
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  Speaker 2: of a cool thing to do to like do a
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  Speaker 2: podcast on the road.
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  Speaker 1: You know, now Justin, Justin has the equipment. He's going to,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that could be the next, the next thing that
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  Speaker 1: we do is, uh, well, I say I'd have to,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have an RV, so I'd be the odd
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  Speaker 1: man out there. I'll just produce it.
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  Speaker 2: For you guys.
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  Speaker 1: They have tents. Tents? You can stay in a tent.
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  Speaker 1: That's all he needs is a tent? I don't even
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  Speaker 1: have a tent. I don't even have it.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, like, if you think, if you look
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  Speaker 2: back to the history of our show.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I've done, I've joined the show from my trips.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I joined in Yellowstone during like a downpour. I was
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  Speaker 2: in my big orange jacket. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Now maybe we should add, I should add a little
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  Speaker 1: thing underneath our logo to say, and RVing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Technology. I mean, we've talked about, a lot of pieces
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  Speaker 2: of our, like specifically me, because I'm the only one
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  Speaker 2: that had one. Now Justin is going to take some
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  Speaker 2: of my advice maybe. But we've talked about the level
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  Speaker 2: of tech, like it's changed over the years since I've
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  Speaker 2: been doing this show on what we took versus what
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  Speaker 2: we take now because our kids are older and what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be taking now that they're even older.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll be interesting to see how Justin handles it
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  Speaker 2: because Eric's 10. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So his need, technology needs are different. Justin, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is going to get Starlink.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So he'll be, they'll always be connected to the internet
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  Speaker 2: in some fashion. So I'm just curious where they're going
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  Speaker 2: to take it first.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They've got so many good places within a day's drive
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  Speaker 2: from them.
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  Speaker 1: I told them they live in Denver for people that
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I told them I was so envious because they're within
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  Speaker 2: so many great places to RV.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. You drive a couple, you drive, A dozen hours,
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  Speaker 2: you're in Arizona. You drive a dozen hours, you're almost
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  Speaker 2: in California. You drive a dozen hours, you're in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: You drive a dozen hours, you're in Nebraska. If you
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  Speaker 2: come east, you're not getting anything. You're going to be
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  Speaker 2: in Nebraska. The flyover states.
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  Speaker 1: Do people take RVs into New York City?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: That probably wouldn't be good.
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  Speaker 2: There's no reason. For one, you wouldn't be able to turn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That would be a trip. No. Well, in Lost
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  Speaker 1: in America, which I told him to watch with Albert
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  Speaker 1: Brooks and Julie Haggerty, that's the whole thing is he
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  Speaker 1: goes to New York to get his job back. That's
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  Speaker 1: what he's trying to do. And he's in New York
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  Speaker 1: with his big old RV. And it wasn't a small one.
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  Speaker 1: It was a giant RV. So people have to watch
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  Speaker 1: the movie. I think it's available on Tubi. So have
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  Speaker 1: you done the Starlink in yours? No. Did you do that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't want Starlink.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I get it for people that do it and they
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  Speaker 2: need to travel and to be connected. That's not the
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  Speaker 2: point for us, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we go places that have decent cell service to
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  Speaker 2: get internet on your phones. But the point is to
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  Speaker 2: not be in the camper. You're outside and you live
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  Speaker 2: out of it, right? So the point is to be disconnected,
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  Speaker 2: be outside, go hiking, go swimming, go dirt biking, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So... So pulling up to a campground in an RV
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  Speaker 1: and sitting inside watching the game probably defeats the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of RVing?
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  Speaker 2: But that defeats my purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to dissuade it. If anybody wants to
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  Speaker 2: go and sit at a beautiful state park and watch
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  Speaker 2: Saturday college football or Sunday football, that's their own prerogative, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're out. They're RVing. They're enjoying a hobby they like
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  Speaker 2: to do. That's fine. I've seen people do it. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen people roll up, pull a huge... behemoth of a
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  Speaker 2: TV out and hook up a satellite dish, point it
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  Speaker 2: south and tune in a TV and they sit and
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  Speaker 2: watch TV.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and they sit by a camp. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But they sit by a campfire. They're out. They, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they got out. It's like, whatever. That's, that's not the
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  Speaker 2: way I want to do it, but I'm not yucking
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  Speaker 2: somebody's yum.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I've said that before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the way they want to enjoy it. That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: So if you could no hold sparred, Sean, if you
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  Speaker 1: could just not worry about gas money, or docking fees,
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  Speaker 1: parking fees, or wherever, where would you go? Lake Louise.
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  Speaker 1: Lake Louise? Where is that?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: It's up in Canada somewhere. Oh, really? Kayla and I
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: have talked about it, and now it's escaped. I know
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: what it's called. I can't remember where it is.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: So up north somewhere. Is it just known for just
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: being beautiful?
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: It's in Banff. Yeah, it's near Banff. It is in Canada, obviously.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: And I'm trying to figure out actually, you know, where
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: it is. Alberta.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of wondering if we have RVers. And we're
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: going to get to the tech. We will. But if
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: there's RVers that ever fly to Scotland or fly to
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: England and then rent an RV and go see the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: countryside there. Because it's beautiful.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: They do.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: It's gorgeous. That would be something to do too.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: So it's the same thing. Some people come from Europe
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: and come here. You can also take a long boat ride.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I think it's like several days or a week and
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: ship your RV across. I've seen people do that too.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: So, but.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: That's dedication right there.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: So my parents did, this was two years ago now,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: a year ago, just over a year ago. They went
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: all the way up to the tip, tippy top Northern
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: parts of Canada. They've been, my parents have been to
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: every contiguous 48 state. Alaska and every Canadian province.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: In their motorhome.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Between the two of their motorhomes, right? My mom's hell-bent on,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: because they have this map. You flip up the back
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: storage compartment, and it's got a map of all the
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: states and all the Canadian provinces, and it's full.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Would you recommend, Sean, for somebody listening right now, they're saying,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you know, honey, maybe you would like it, and they
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: don't have an RV. Should they rent one and give
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: it a try?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, but be careful. Oh, okay. So do your due
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: diligence on who you're renting from and what they cover.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Because there are a lot of horror stories about RV
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: rentals going awry and things not working properly. You got
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: to just be careful. But yes, you see RV rentals
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: all the time. Cruise America, rent this RV. You see
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: them all the time. And you can rent various sizes. Right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I grew up camping, so I don't know any different.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we'll hear from Justin next week, I'm sure.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: And we'll talk about that. And we'll see if this
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: guy who stopped in is going to pick up his show.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I gave him a couple of ideas to start a podcast.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: What do you need? I told him Spreaker is one way.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It's on iHeart. It's free. They offer a free ability
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: for you to get started. You go to Spreaker.com. You
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: can set up a free account. We're on Spreaker. We
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: don't use the free account. We have a paid account.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: But with a free account, you go on there, you
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: could set up your podcast and try it out. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: what do you need? That was the question. What do
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: you need to podcast?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: A laptop and a microphone.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: AirPods.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's free software as well that if you want
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to edit it. OBS.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Riverside is what we use. OBS is free to stream
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: if you want to live stream. YouTube is free.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was his other question, Sean. does somebody wants
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: to get into podcasting? Do they really have to do video?
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And I said, you, I said, you don't, but that's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: kind of what a lot of people are doing now
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: for extended.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: So it's, it's kind of, it's, it's worth doing both.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Whether, even if you're just doing radio, like you and
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I right now, just, we have our cameras up, we've
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: got our microphones on, you take the audio and you
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: put it to the radio, but you also put it
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: on YouTube, right?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: There's nothing stopping you from doing both. So if you're
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: recording it once, there's no sense in why you wouldn't
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: record the video in case you want to use it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: It's a little extra work, but you could do both
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: in one go instead of trying to do one or
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: the other and then add on videos later, et cetera.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I would recommend you just, it doesn't cost that much
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to get a camera, a decent camera, and you can
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: record through it. a free software direct to your computer
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the audio and the video are tied together you put
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: it into a free editing program like davinci resolve or
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: if you have creative cloud premiere or final cut or
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: something and um Yeah, then you're good to go.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I will tell you, even, and we made the switch
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: from Zoom. We used to do this all on Zoom. Oh, yeah.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Well, before that.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Do you remember? Before that? Skype. Oh, that's right, with Skype.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And then I've done interviews with Wirecast before, which I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: still have Wirecast, and I like that. But it was
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: just what logistically was going to work better. And Zoom
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: got to a point where it was, you paid for it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: But the quality was really bad.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: It was terrible.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It was awful.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Unless you had an enterprise-level thing, you were getting like
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: 480p or something out of it. It was so bad.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Even with my enterprise account, it was only giving us
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: 720p records.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: And the quality was terrible.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: That's the overall quality, the output quality. So if you're
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: watching it on a good-sized computer screen, Or even a TV,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: if you're putting it up on YouTube, the quality would
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: look really bad.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: The pixels get a lot bigger.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: That's why we got the opportunity. My son, Ricardo, who
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: lives in California, he said, have you looked at Riverside?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: And I said, no, it's Riverside. And he told me
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: about it. So we got in early and started looking
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: at it. And then we were like, amazed. Well, what
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: they do now is even more amazing. It's not cheap.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: You can use free services. But to get the most
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: out of it, you're going to spend just under 300 bucks.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: But you get the ability to edit, to add footage,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: to correct audio, to switch cameras, decide what camera. There
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: is an AI component, if you want to use it,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: in editing where it could say, all right, go to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: this person, go to that person, go to that person
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: when they're talking. And, you know, we kind of It
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: takes us about four hours to edit the one-hour show.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: But it's a matter of going through and picking and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: choosing and getting the right audio, right graphic, right shot.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: But Riverside FM, and I was talking to Randy Graff
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: from the Chamber this week, and I showed him a demo.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: This is a great program if you're going to do
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: podcast-type stuff.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't want to sugarcoat it. It is work.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It does take effort to do it and to do
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: it well, right? So don't just think, yes, you can
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: just hit record on Audacity and plug in your ear
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: pods or whatever recording device and spit out a track
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: and go with it. Sure, that will take a little
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: bit of time. But there's a little bit of production
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: value that you really want to put into it because
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: you want to be able to stand apart from the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: rest because there's a ton.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I want to make one point, though. With Riverside FM,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about how great they are. Yes, they're good. However,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: if you're in a situation where you're going to have
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: somebody with you in the same room. Now, Sean, right now,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: for those who don't know, he's in South Bend, Indiana.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'm in Tucson, Arizona. Justin is in Denver, Colorado. When
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: we do the show, it's almost like we're all sitting
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: in the same room. But If you're in the same
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: room using Riverside, it's a little more difficult because you've
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: got certain things. I think they're still working on that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Once they do Wirecast and OBS, it'll be a little different.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: OBS is free. You can grab OBS. If you want
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to make a donation, you can. It's open source software.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: OBS is the best if you don't want to pay
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: for Wirecast for doing the multi-camera. So you can switch
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the camera. You can also record. Can you record ISO?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: With OBS?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: You can. It's a little bit more complicated to record
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: ISOs in OBS, but you can run multiple instances of
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: OBS and record ISOs that way if you had multiple cameras, etc.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: More often than not, it's like a program cut, so
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: whatever's in program. Or you can record the preview, or
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: you can send it out to NDI or SRT. You
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: can do all sorts of stuff.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: ISO, for those who don't know, means you can record
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: You know, you have your main camera and then you
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: can be still re-recording a second camera and a third camera.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Isolated feed is all that means, right? So it's like
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Andy can, if I'm talking right now, the video, the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: live cut takes over and now I'm on the screen.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: But if Andy starts talking, then it goes back to him.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But if Andy starts talking or we are sharing and
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: you want to see Andy's reaction, he can go in
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and then put his camera up instead of mine or
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Justin's camera instead of his, et cetera. So it's nice
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: to have those. I mean, Riverside does that automatically. All right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: We've got to take a quick break. When we come back,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: we've got a couple of really good listener questions that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: have come in in the last week. I've got a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: brand new product to show that we will do that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: when we come back with Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWerd. You can find us on the web
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: at techtalkradio.com. We'll be right back.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Now, back to Tech Talk Radio.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. My favorite part of the show, listener questions.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I do love taking these in. We get a lot
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: of feedback on when we help people out and people
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: write in. They send us a message on Facebook. They
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: send us X. They comment on our YouTube streams.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Sean, I like it on our YouTube.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Because we do get the comments and people say, well,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I would have done this. Or maybe do. That we invite.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So we may say, well, here's what might be a solution.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Here's my... you know, somebody may have a different way
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of doing it and we're not going to sit there
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and say, Oh, we know everything. That is where you,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the viewer, if you're watching it on YouTube, that can
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: come in handy and we're, we're not opposed to it. So,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you know, that's fine.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: So this, one of these questions this week is from
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Anne and Saharita.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: She says, I have three issues. Oh, we'll answer all three.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I hope. All right. Problem.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Number one, since I've owned a laptop, maybe six years,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I've had problems with the keyboard letters and numbers fading.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I have to keep going over them with a Sharpie,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and I've wondered if I could just replace the keyboard
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: with one that won't do that. Oh, so she means
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: like the letters fading.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: The letters fading.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see why that'd be a problem. Not
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: like fading, like they're not working.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Do they make a cover? Do they make a cover?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably make like a cell phone cover for them.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think for a regular... For a regular laptop,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: probably not. Especially if it's the kind that's embedded in
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the laptop. Oh, yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It all depends on what kind of
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: laptop she has. She doesn't specify here. Yes, you can
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: swap the keyboard. I'm sure you can find an iFixit
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: page for it. And if you're interested in spending an
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: hour or more taking screws apart on your laptop and
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: trying not to break it more than it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: It's like.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: You got to weigh the risk, right?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Well, and let's face it too, we live in an
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: age where you can pop it up on YouTube and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: watch a video of that particular model being replaced and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: kind of follow along. That might help out. But again,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it depends on your comfort level. If not, take it
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to a qualified shop. I know we have one here
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: in Green Valley that does repairs. SWS has always been good.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: There's some others that are in Southern Arizona that would
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: work or wherever you're listening to us at. find a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: local qualified shop that can work for you.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Problem number dos.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Okay. This is problem number two.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I think the touch pad has started to wear out
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: as it doesn't always do what I want it to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: do anymore. And I have to try hitting different areas. Oh, well,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I think you're just wearing it out. I think you're
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: just wearing out the keyboard. I mean, yeah, it's six
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: years old. That's an eternity for laptops.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: So it's six years old. Now it's not the best
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: time to buy a computer components right now. We all
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: know that, but, um, If your touchpad's starting to go,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: then you're at the risk of it being a hardware
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: failure or a driver failure, right? So make sure your
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: drivers are up to date first. If it still doesn't,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: maybe look at killing two birds with one stone and
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: having somebody replace the whole keyboard. Because likely the keyboard
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: and the trackpad are a combined unit. So you'll probably
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: likely replace both at the same time.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: All right. So I have an idea here, Sean. The
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: other thing to check for is swelling.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Ooh, spicy pillow.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Spicy pillow. So what happens is when you have, you know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: especially a six-year-old laptop, if you see it start to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: bulging a little at the bottom or maybe even the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: lip right underneath that trackpad, depending on what kind of
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: computer you have, you see it bulging a little, what
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: happens is that batteries become a pillow, spicy pillow we
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: call them, and they start pressing up. And it means
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that your keyboard, not your keyboard, your trackpad is going
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to be less responsive. And that can be actually a
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: situation that's not good, it's dangerous. And that would be
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: very important. So that might just be part of it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: If your battery's not retaining its charge, or if it's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: only staying on for a certain amount of time, or
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: it's not charging at all, unless it's plugged in, then
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that could be an issue as well.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Problem number three. I think this seals the deal for me.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Recently, my cat knocked it off the coffee table onto
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the floor. And now I'm seeing a few spots on
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the screen that are little black lines. Maybe some of
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: the pixels have died.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I think it's time to cash this one in.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So right now, all right, depending on which laptop
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: she has, right? I know that I've done laptop screen
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: replacements before, and you're looking anywhere between $ 60 to $ 100,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: depending on the laptop. So that's $ 100. For the parts.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: For the parts. It says for the parts. The touchpad
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: is what? Maybe $ 40 if you can find it. And
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the keyboards, generally, those are going to be about $ 50
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: or $ 60. Right.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Again, it depends on if the trackpad's included, if it's
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: all in one piece.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to replace both. Sometimes you can replace
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: one or the other.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: But if your screen has little black lines in it,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: are they going to get worse? Yes. That's the thing.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: They will get worse.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you got to keep the cat away
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: from the coffee table. Now.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Here's something that you could do alternatively. Now, most people
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: buy a laptop, laptop, to run it on their lap,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: on the couch, on their table, in their bedroom, whatever.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: You could alternatively buy an external monitor and a wireless
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: keyboard and mouse and use it as a desktop station
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: that you don't need to have the screen because you
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: can just have the screen shut. It'll display on the
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: external display. Your keyboard and mouse still function as a
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: keyboard and mouse. You still have full functionality of the
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: use of the laptop. It's just not portable.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: The other thing people have done is they told me
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that they've used their laptop in front of the television.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: You know, they sit there and they relax in their
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: comfy chair and they have that. And two things that
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I've recommended is, and I'm trying to think of the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: manufacturer of them, but they have these laptop desks, basically.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: They just fit over your lap. And there you've got
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: this laptop and the nice little table that you could
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: move a mouse on, and even a USB trackpad. And
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: then you could send that video signal to your television,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: if it's a recent television with Bluetooth capability, or if
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you get the J5 connector, you plug the J5 in there,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: you pair your laptop with your TV screen, and there
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you go, on the big screen, you've got your laptop, basically.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I've never, I've never understood the logic of doing a
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: laptop on your lap while you're trying to watch TV.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Like that's just too, I have to, I'm very intentional
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: about when I use my computer, right? I'm doing something,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I'm recording, I'm playing a game, watching a movie or something.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Like if I'm up from, if I want to watch
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: something on TV, I'll go upstairs and sit on the couch.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: But then I get distracted by my phone or my
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: kids can distract me or I just start doing stuff
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: around the house. Like, For my generation, more often than not,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: we don't sit in front of the TV anymore.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: So it's hard because we're so ingrained on constant media.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: That it's hard to focus on longer shows. I like
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: sitting at my desk here working on a project while
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I have a show on.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Or I put my headphones on. I've got ear-canceling headphones.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: And I'll listen to a show while I do stuff
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: around the house.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I rarely do I ever sit on the couch and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: watch a show. Caitlin does it.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: While you're on your laptop.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: She will. While I'm on my laptop, right?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Usually I'm sitting on the couch, scrolling on my phone,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: reading while a show is on.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Hmm. All right.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: So for Ann, you're looking at a hundred bucks for screen,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: maybe 50 bucks. Let's say, let's say $ 70 for the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: keyboard and maybe $ 50 for a trackpad. You're, you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a hundred and something odd dollars.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: In parts.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Close to 200. That's just in parts. Labor is going
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to be at least.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: You're looking at, you're looking at 250 or 300 bones.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Total. Total. And you could buy a brand new laptop
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: for about 450. That's something to think about. But then,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I think people are, well, yeah,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: actually her, she has more of her email here. It says,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to just go ahead and buy a new one.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: But that's a whole hassle. in of itself, as you know.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: So maybe you could provide some expert knowledge and advice. Thanks.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And so would eat that.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: But I don't think I don't agree with that. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: don't agree that it's. Yes, it's a hassle.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I think it's less of a hassle than trying to
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: go through the repair process. Well, yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And then also, if your laptop's working and you can
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: make a backup and you can do, you know, a
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: backup to. a drive and then move that data over
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to a brand new computer. And then you just have
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to do your settings. And yeah, that is a bit
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: of a hassle, but again, it can be done. It's
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: not like your phone. I love the way the phones work.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: You know, you could buy a brand new pixel or
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: a brand new Apple phone. And when you set it up,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: it'll tell you, are you coming from the Apple interface?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Or do you have a, an iCloud backup or you
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: connecting with a former pixel or Android device? And it
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: will do it for you. I mean, it just put
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: them together and it'll have everything moved over.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: What I do like about the Apple, specifically the Apple phones, right,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: is like it saves all of your settings across your
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: apps and everything. Now, sometimes when you go to a
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: new operating system, it wipes out some of those settings.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: But you're not going to a blank phone. It's great
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: because I am a creature of comfort. on my phones, man.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: If a thing's not in, if a thing's not where
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: it's supposed to be, or it doesn't, my muscle memory
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: doesn't work. I get really frustrated by my phone.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm the, I'm the same way. If
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: there's one setting that's not working, forget it. And let's
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: face it. Sometimes those updates will do that. Suddenly something
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: doesn't work anymore. And you know, if you feel like
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: tossing a phone, let's see if in the next couple
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of minutes, can we talk about this? The iPhone duo
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: is now available. people were able to get it, but now,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and this is what everybody's talking about is the crease
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: or the, the screen problem.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I just don't, I don't, I don't get fold the
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: foldable phones, right? You are asking for a piece of
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: technology to work over thousands and thousands of opens and
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: closes and opens and closes. And, and, and, You don't
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: think you're going to forget a pen in the middle
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: of your phone or you're going to any crutch closed.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Or you're going to.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: You're going to.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Dirt and crud. I mean, I don't get it. I
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: don't get the photo phone craze. I don't get it.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Apple has said that it was aware of the issue,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: according to sources, and it said it affected a small
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: number of devices. Now, honest, let's be honest. Let's be fair.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: When Android came out with, you know, we saw the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Samsung folds coming out. There were stories about that, too.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: where suddenly you would see a crease in it. Our
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: friends from Verizon had sent us one of the early foldables,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and I didn't see anything like that. I just thought, oh,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: that's kind of cool how it opens up. I like
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the Duo, the stuff that they put out of what
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: it could do, and I thought that's kind of neat.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: They don't have all the apps working yet to get
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the full benefit of the Duo yet, all resizing and
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the whole bit. But somebody spends two grand on a
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: phone because they want to have it, That first weekend
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: it comes out, they're the same people who upgrade to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that latest OS as soon as it's out. And now
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: they're being, oh, what's this thing? They got the, I guess,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: squiggly lines and whatnot. And it's just not a pretty sight.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Apple says they're going to fix it with the AppleCare warranty,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: which I know you always recommend.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. I don't buy a $ 1, 000 device and
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: not have production on it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: It's just a no brainer. And with the Apple One
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Plus you can get, you can have up to four
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: devices under. It's a subscription. You pay $ 19 a month.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: It's per Apple ID. And you can have a set
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: number of devices under it that are qualified for AppleCare.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: So like my watch, my phone, my MacBook. They're all
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: covered under this. My Mac Mini, I mean. Right. They're
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: covered under one fee, one subscription, instead of each individual
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: device having their own.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: So.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: That was nice. Caitlin just got a new iPhone. So
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: she's on the 18 mini or whatever version she's on now.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I'm still on the 13 plus. All right.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Well, that's one of the big stories this week. Hopefully
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: they'll they say they'll they'll take care of it. We're
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: going to take a break. We come back. We've got
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: another question. And I got that cool product to show
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: you when we come back with Tech Talk Radio. I'm
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Andy Taylor.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I'm Shonda Weird. Find us on YouTube at Tech Talk Radio.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: And now, back to Tech Talk Radio. Hi, this is
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Adrienne Barbeau. You're listening to Tech Talk Radio, and you're
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: going to learn a lot. This is pretty cool to say, but,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you know, Justin reached out to Sean this past week
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: when he was contemplating the RV purchase. And I will
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: tell you this, he did send a picture while we
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: were recording the show. Hold on, he did? Yeah, he did.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: You didn't see it? He sent a picture.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Uh, he said it's not the greatest, not the greatest picture,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: but it's always in front of his house.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He parked it. So let me ask you this, Mr. HOA. Uh,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: do you have to get like waivers to park RVs
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: in front of your house, depending on the HOA? Yes.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to look into and check with your,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: if you have a homeowners association.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You definitely want to look, right? Whether or not
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: you can store it in your driveway, whether it has
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: to be covered, whether you can store it within eyesight
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: or whether it has to be in a garage or
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: whether it, boats, trailers, RVs, motorhomes, whatever. scooters, like anything
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: like that. It's all covered in our HOAs, right? And
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: it's fine. Boats are the biggest problem because people just
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: use boats all summer long.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: But the big things for us is we pay an
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: outdoor storage. It's like two miles from our house. It's
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: an open field storage, fenced. It's nice. We store it
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: there when we're not using it in the summertime. I
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: could drive, pick it up, bring it back to the house.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: We pack it up and go.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Something to think about. But the fun thing about this
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: is You know, Justin contacts you, says, you know, hey,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: what do I do? I also reached out to Sean
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: this week. So last week I was asked to do
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: a video project, video and film. And it was going
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: to be outdoors at night. I've done a lot of
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: outdoors during the day. I have done the graph. I
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: did a Saludita high school graduation years ago and different equipment.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And I use a Canon 7D DSLR, which I love,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: love that camera. I have a JVC 4K, which I
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: absolutely love. It's a video camera. And then I was
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: going to take both of them out and see which
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: one worked better. And I was asking Sean, you know,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I like the warmth that you get with a Canon
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: DSLR camera. It just looks so good. It has that
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: warm feel to it. And then I did a little
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: research on the proper settings for nighttime, what shutter speed, ISO,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: what do you set it for? And you can find
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: all of that online. And I asked Sean. And Sean,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: you were pretty much, well, if you feel comfortable with
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: that warm look, then yeah, use that. The JVC, I
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: took that with me. But I also took something else, Sean.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: I took my iPhone. I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I took that with me. And I put that under
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: the Ulanzi tripod that I have. And I just took
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: it for background. I ended up using that more. Then
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I used the DSLR because of its low light capabilities,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: its sound pickup. I didn't have to hook even a
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: mic up. It looked and it worked great. I was
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: really impressed with it.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: So when I first started working at Fox, I still
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: had a flip phone. And this was in 2009, right?
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: So iPhones were relatively new. The iPhone 3G, I think,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: was still the newest model.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Maybe the iPhone 4 at that point, I think, was
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: maybe released in 2011. phones were not used for capturing media.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: They just weren't. They could take like 360 by 240 video.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: And maybe a 200 megabit pixel, not even a gigapixel.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Or megapixel, right? Mega, whatever. Half of that. It's crazy,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: the pictures you took on those phones. Nowadays.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: You have photojournalists or MMJs, multimedia journalists that are going
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: out and that's all they have is a phone.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: And they've got a DJI mic mini or a lavalier
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: mic or a stick mic that pairs with your phone
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: and they're shooting it on their iPhones.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: The quality was amazing.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: And for TV stations, a lot of them have the
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: ability to use the bonded cellular pieces like live view, TVU,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: et cetera. And you just go live from your phone.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: So you set your phone on tripod, you flip it
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: around so the front facing camera so you can see yourself,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: so you're framed up nice. You put up a light,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: a ring light, et cetera, and you're going live from
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: a scene of an accident or a scene of a
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: crime that they're covering or something, right? And it was
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: interesting to see the transition from how you captured media
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: to how it got online.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. From.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Because once Facebook and Twitter and stuff allowed you to
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: start doing live content, the push was you get to
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: the story, you start shooting with your phone first because
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: we can get live content back.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I will tell you one thing I did differently. I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: didn't use the iPhone app for capturing. I actually used
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: the Blackmagic Design camera app, which is free.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: For those of you who don't know what that is
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: and you have an iPhone, the Blackmagic camera application is
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: hands down the best camera app you can get for
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: your phone, period.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: It unlocks so many more features for you to get
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: higher quality, higher, better frame rates, better control, aperture control,
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: shutter control, ISO, whatever. Get that application for your camera.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: It ended up working really good.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: If you're doing any amount of video work on your
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: phone outside of just like taking pictures of your kids
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: or whatever, The Blackmagic camera app is fantastic.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: One thing, though, to remember is set up a free
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: account with Blackmagic. Because what will happen is if you
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: take it with the iPhone, you can't see it in photos.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: You have to see it in the app.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: And this is what I had to do. And I
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: didn't try a different method, but I had to actually
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: upload the proxies, upload the video to the Blackmagic site,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: grab it, and then download it. But it only gives
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you two choices. two gigabytes of storage. So I had
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: to upload, download, delete, then upload the rest of them.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: So again, there's a little workflow there, but you could pay,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I think you pay for extra storage, but either way
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: it was, it was great. I appreciate your advice. It
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: did end up coming out pretty good. The problem with
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the Canon at night, and it's gotta be my old eyes.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I couldn't get it. There were some points where focus
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: was a little like, it was a little questionable.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Well, so, You got to remember, right? Low light means
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: you have to have your aperture all the way open.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: So you're probably shooting at an F2 or an F2. 8
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: or something, right?
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: So that means your depth of field is going to
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: be very, very shallow.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: So that's the problem with low light. And some cameras
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: do it better than others. But unless you have the
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: ability to bump the gain up and not get the noise,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: you need a fast lens or the ability to have
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: just that gain. structure to give you the, give you the,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: so you can drop your iris down a little bit.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Now I'm thinking maybe I should invest in it. I
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: was thinking about getting the DJI grip and, you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: mounting my camera on that. And I was at the
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: setup look really crazy. Now I'm thinking just get the,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: the Osmo or use an Osmo or getting a grip
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: for the iPhone and using that. It worked really well
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: with the Ulanzi because I could raise it up in
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: the air and get the crowd. Yeah.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: But I personally for the Osmo is great. It's a
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: little big for what I think you would need it for.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: The Pocket Mini, I think, is what would be every rally.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. That would be good, too.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Because it's very small. It packs in very well. It's gimbaled.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: It looks great. We have guys from ESPN that come
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: in and they want to shoot locator stuff before our games.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: They'll just walk around campus with a DJI Mini and
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: in 20 minutes they come back and they've got tons
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: of footage.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: All right. I got something to show you. If you're
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: watching on the camera, you can see this. We have
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes so I can get this
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: in there. This is the Asus ExpertBook. We had sent
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: back the Google book that we were looking at, and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: they said, hey, you want to take a look at
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: a business model? Because normally they send us consumer-grade laptops.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: This is a business-grade laptop. And this is the Asus
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: ExpertBook 9, the Ultra 9, which is nice, very thin,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: less than two pounds. And it features a For a
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: 3K OLED screen, 14-inch, but it has these security features
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: in it, Sean, that are made for IT. It has
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: the ability for an IT professional that is managing these
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: within their workspace to be able to get in and
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: lock it down if the laptop is stolen. To process
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: all within the processor, it's an Ultra 9. processor that
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: is on here, Intel, and do all the processing on
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: here that you don't have to go into the cloud.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: So if you're working on a sensitive document, you're not
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: doing it in the cloud, you're doing it all on here.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about if you're using any
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: AI elements, all processed on here. It has the ability
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: to recover. So a BIOS with auto recovery. So if
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: there is an infection on it, the BIOS can be
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: recovered and then you get back to work. So pretty
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: neat stuff. Retails, though, for about $ 3, 500. Oof. And it
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: comes with a, I want to say it's a one
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: terabyte drive in it. Might be two. And it has
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: 32 gigabytes of memory.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: So that's the cost right there is the storage.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Right? It is.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: It's unreal, the cost of storage. But no. So good notebooks, good,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: tough notebooks, you will pay a premium for. Especially the
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: business side, right? Getting in that discrete TPM 2.0 and
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: the biometric stuff, that's not included in a lot of stuff.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: That takes extra R & D. They got to recoup
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: those costs.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: And being able to put it into a management system
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: is nice. And it looks nice. The white looks really nice.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: The screen looks good. I mean, just from here, even
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: looking at it, the screen looks really, really sharp.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: The other thing it has on it, too, is neat.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: It does have the camera shutter. So the camera, so
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: you can shut it down, you know, turn off the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: camera or turn it on. But when it's on, say
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting at my desk and I'm working on a project.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: and I have to step away. When you step away,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: if enabled, when you step away from your desk, it
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: goes into lockdown mode. So the only way to turn
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: it back on is when you step in front of
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: it and you enter your fingerprint on the biometric and say,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: it's me, and it'll bring your product back up. So
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: it can keep your documents, keep it safe. Because let's
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: face it, somebody that, a business person that's on the road,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: A lot, they can be a target in an airport
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: or a hotel. So again, it's a different way. And
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: it's got like, I want to say 20 hours of
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: battery life. Battery life in these is becoming.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, battery life. Like my laptop at work, I have
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: an M5 MacBook.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: I barely have anything plugged in during the day. Like
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: if I'm moving around between control rooms and stuff, I'm like, oh,
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: I've got 60% battery and I'm almost ready to go home. Right.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: And it's not like I'm not using it. I'm checking emails.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: I'm doing stuff. I'm browsing the web and I'm not
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: doing any hardcore processing or anything like that. But it's
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: it lasts all day without being plugged in. It's fantastic.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: So some of the thing about if you're if you're
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: if you're a business professional, if you're looking for. You know,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: you're looking for a solution for you, for your company. Yeah,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot more money than dropping,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: you know, seven, eight hundred bucks. It's better than a
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Google book. As far as what you're going to be
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: doing with it, it may be worth it. And $ 3, 500
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: for that. It's pretty nice. I'm going to have to
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: get it so that we can send one to Sean
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: at least. Because you'd have some fun with it. I
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: know you would.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I would probably play DOS games on it.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Perfect. Or you'd be playing Ocarina of Time.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: That's not on PC.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: That's on Nintendo Switch. Is it going to be on PC? No.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Are they going to port it?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: No. man.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Well, okay. We're going to take another quick break. We
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: come back. I don't know if we get, I actually
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: had a question that came in. We didn't get a
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: chance to put in our script and I've got something
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: here to show you. So we'll do that when we
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: come back with tech talk radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWerd. You can find us on the web,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: tech talk radio.com. Send us an X tech talk radio.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: And now back to tech talk radio. You know, the
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: show is airing on Halloween. So it's Halloween night. We
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: got to say, you know, happy Halloween.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: And here's a picture of us and the kids. It'll
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: be on the screen.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I like that. All right. I did get a question.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: A woman has her smartphone. It's full. She can't take
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: any more pictures. That whole bit.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Did you talk to Caitlin recently? That's why she got
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: a new phone.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Because it was full? Because she couldn't take any more pictures. Well,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: this lady could not take any more pictures. And then
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: she said her hard drive on her computer was full, too.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: So she was stuck. She couldn't transfer them to her computer.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: So I recommended this. This is the SanDisk iXpand flash drive. Now,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: it only goes up to 256 gigabytes. However, priced at
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: around $ 100... You may be able to find them cheaper.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: What they have is a USB-C connector, or if you
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: have an old school iPhone, you got a lightning connector.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: It's super easy. You download the free SanDisk app. Then
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: you can take the connector, plug it into the phone,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: and transfer your images to the device. Again, 256 gigabytes
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: on here. If you've got a one terabyte phone that
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: is full, you're going to have to get four of them.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: But it is, you know, at least if you need
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: to get some, Info off the phone. You don't want
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: to lose it. You want to store it. SanDisk has
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: an option for you. It's called the iExplorer. So I
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure we featured that.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Kayla could have used that because she was getting mad
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: because she couldn't even send pictures and text messages because
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: her phone was full.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: You tend to keep everything. Me? Oh, God.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm a digital person.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm going to look this up because it changes
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: every time. Let me see. I can go back and
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: look at every message I've ever sent with my iMessage.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: All the way back to God knows when, when iMessages
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: first became a thing, right?
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: So that would have been, I don't even know when.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Let's see. Hold on. Storage, general storage.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: The other idea is cloud storage.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to. So my iCloud backups
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: go to the iCloud storage. So I've got 100 gigs
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: of iCloud storage that I use. So I've got 100. Oh,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: this isn't right.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: This is wrong. All right. Listen, we're running up against
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: the clock here.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: I keep a lot of stuff on my phone.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: It's lots, lots, lots. Digital hoarding is, is really bad
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: and it's easy to do. I bought a hard drive
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and then a backup drive and then a backup drive.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: And now I want to get another backup drive so
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I could copy everything from those two backup drives onto
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: that drive. Cause I think it's going to solve my problem.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: I'm building a true NAS server. So I have enough
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: storage to put, I bought a case just to put in.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: No, you did not.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I bought a case that can take eight drives. I've
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: got four eight-terabyte drives that I'm going to put in there,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: and it's going to end up giving me like 22
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: terabytes of storage.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Amazing. All right, listen, that's it for this week's show.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Happy Halloween. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeer. Hoard your data at my house.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Have a great night.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Have a great week. We'll talk to you next week.