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Episode 365 - It Was The Rat's Fault! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Everybody, this
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is Kelly Hanson from Foreigner and you're listening to check Talk Radio. Welcome to
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another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird,
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and I'm Justin Lemmie. We are the show that talks about computers, tick,
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analogy, and camping. Oh wait, I'm sorry, Well you know
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other stuff. I hope you had better luck camping shown than we had trying
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to start our recording today because it was a nightmare. It's been all seven
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hours. Yeah, in the amount of time we spent troubleshooting at the beginning
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of this, I could have installed the backup camera my camper probably ten talks,
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all right. So there was that easy. Huh, Yeah it was.
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It was so simple. So we bought a new new camper. We
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bought a Forest River No Boundaries nineteen point three, which is just the model
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number, right. It's a it's a toe behind, no slide out with
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a queen bed up front and bunks in the back. It's great. It's
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fantastic integrated solar on the roof. Forest River. I don't know if they
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have a partnership with Furyon. Furyon is a basically a technology vendor for RVs.
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They make all sorts of stuff, solar solar pan or solar panels,
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solar batteries, RV cameras, all sorts of stuff. Just look them up
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furyon dot com. They're also owned by a company called Lippert, which is
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a large RV manufacturer. Down here in a cart they have what they call
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a they heard their shark fin camera. It's a rear mount camera kind of
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looks like a shark fin. Mine came pre wired for the camera, so
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there's basically just a mount on the back of my camera with a plate on
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it. Oh wow, I take the plate, I take the plate off,
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I plug the camera in, and it's one. I'm not joking when
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I said it took me longer to open the box and unpackage everything than it
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did for me to plug it in and screwed it. Wow, that's pretty
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good. So now that's because mine was pre wired. The kit comes with
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a twelve volt plug and with leads with unsoldered leads on it. Normally,
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what you would do then is just tie into one of the rear marker lights
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that runs off the twelve vole system. She just basically splice it into the
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rest of the rest of the twelve for power. But but what about for
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the video? Oh? Well, so there's the monitor. It's a four
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and a half inch monitor. I don't it's in my truck. I don't
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have it right now. But um, and that just plugs into the cigarette
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lighter in my truck. Well, what about how do you get the video?
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How do you get the how does the video comeout? It's wireless?
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That yeah, it's wireless, two point four gig wireless. So couldn't somebody
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hack like in between and like get the footage from your camper? Probably,
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but it's only running runs, it's and I'm driving, so it's not like
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what are they gonna do with it? They're just gonna see the bumper of
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my camper. Yeah, true, we get John Stumper. You know,
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we bought this Fury on camera. I think it was around three bucks for
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the camera and the transmitter, camera and the monitor. Quality's great. Yeah,
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it looks it looks great. I'll have to try and see if I
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can figure out a way to show the video somehow at some point. Um.
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But it sparked an interesting conversation. So My aunt also bought a new
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camper this year, and she also has the fury On pre pre wired system
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in her camper. But she ran into a little bit of a unique situation
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that I note that I didn't think of, and not really many people didn't
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think of. Chevy she has she bought a new Chevy Silverado no longer includes
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the twelve volte DC outlet in their vehicles. Oh yeah, that's something you
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don't find a lot in cars now, right, Well don didn't They replace
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it though, with like a standard plug though instead of a cigarette lighter?
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Right? So, right, so now it's USBA or and USBC plus A
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most of the new at least her model of the Silverado has a inverted one
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hundred twenty one hundred twenty volt outlet also, so it's inverting DC to AC.
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She had to get a USBC to twelve VOLD adapter to power her monitor.
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My truck still has the you know, my truck's twice seventeen, So
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my truck still has the cigarette lighter outlet. Right. So it just was
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kind of funny because I'm worried that Max may not get a very valuable lesson
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when he gets in a vehicle. What do you mean pushing in the cigarette
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lighter and then grab it when it comes out. Oh yeah, I've done
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that, I've done Yeah. So how many of you burned your thumbs because
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you're like, this is cool. Oh it's totally yep. Oh let me
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touch it. Yeah. I just thought that was kind of funny because that
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guy brought up was like, oh man, I remember when I burnt myself
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on that, or you know, it's funny you think about that movies and
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stuff, how that pops out and falls in your lap and you know,
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somebody somebody showed a picture the other day, do you guys remember this.
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It was a you know, an older car, maybe from the late sixties
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maybe seventies, and had the back seat see behind the driver's side and the
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passenger side, a little ashtray that was in the seat like so you would
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pull it down and there was a little ashtray and a little like lighter.
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You would do that same thing you would push on, but it was right
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in the back of the person's seat. Like how safe was that? I
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mean a lot of cars had that. I mean my first car growing up,
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we bought it at in the state auction almost mint seventy seven Chevy Malod.
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That was your first car. Wow, Yeah, it was a Yeah,
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it was my brother's first car, and then it was mine. Mine
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was a Vega and so that was it was a brown turd color brown.
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It was a great description. And I can see it now. It had
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it had two ashtrays on the backs of the seats. Yeah, like it's
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one of those weird things. You know. There's not a lot of places
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that allow smoking anymore, right, very car, it's a very distinct smell.
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Yeah, if you don't remember when you when you go to a restaurant
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that you used to you know, you go do like a Big Boy or
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a Rusts or a place that used to lets people smoke inside that still is
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relatively old. Just that that this very distinct smell of Remember remember flying about
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let's say ten to fifteen years ago, you would still see you know,
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ashtrays, Uh, not not so much in the seats, but like you
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would still see ashtrays like in the bathrooms or whatever. And you know,
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they say, slowly, just I remember flying as a kid, you know,
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I remember my first, very very first flight was like on a DC
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ten and you had ashtrays in the seats and but they but they obviously didn't
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allow smoking. But like then as time went on, then you wouldn't have
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them in the seats, but you would still have them in the laboratories or
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you know, near the galley. You would have an ashtray. Weren't the
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ones in the seats. They had like you had the arm rest and it
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was just kind of flip up like that, Like they didn't bands back in
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the sixties. You had a fan, it was in your armrest. How
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great was that? You drop it right in your lap? Yeah, yeah,
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sounds miserable. Well, and it's funny because you mentioned the restaurants Sean,
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Uh, do you guys have cracker barrel there? Oh? Yeah,
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because we have crack for the Cross was of America baby, so I we
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had a cracker. We have a cracker Borough still in it's right off Cortero
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in Morana. And they were the ones of the last places, the last
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bastions next to Old Father that would allow people to smoke. But they had
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a special section. And it's funny though, because you would walk, you
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would walk into the restaurant and as you get closer to the section, then
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you could you could smell that and people swear to me to this day they
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could still smell that, and even though that's been gone for many, many
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men, many years. Oh well, of course you can. I mean,
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you can always smell unless you get rid of every piece of interior of
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your restaurant. You know you're gonna smell that. I mean, I remember
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we're at Dennis off of let's see, what was it, Oracle and Orange
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Grove. Oh, yeah, I know that one, you know, yeah,
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yeah, or no, there was no there was an Oracle and I
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want to see it was no, maybe not Orange Grove. It was something.
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It was north of it was north of River, it was I can't
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remember if it was Orange Grove or Wood anyway, but there was another Denny's
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up there near near Ora Valley, and I worked there and I worked the
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smoking section because well at that time I smoked. I didn't mind, you
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know, working in the smoking section. But yeah, I remember that,
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like you had, half the restaurant was non smoking, half the restaurant was
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smoking. But it's like there was no divider, there was nothing to separate.
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And then fast forward a couple of years, all of a sudden they
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took that same restaurant and what they did was they just put a big glass
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wall around the smoking section and like, yeah, if you want to smoke,
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going there. But the thing is that the rest of the restaurant still
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smelled like smoke. I thought it was funny too. If you flow,
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well you've flown, you know that they had a smoking lounge inside the terminal
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and it was like a glass case. So if somebody wanted to have a
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smoke, they would go into this glass case and people would walk by you
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the room was like full of smoke. Well no, and I'll say the
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last time I actually they still have them. They still have them in Tokyo
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in Narita Narita Airport because Japan still has a very large smoking population. I
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mean it was actually a study that just got released or in America recently,
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it was something about what fifty years ago, sixty five percent of American smoked
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and now it's daring like sixteen percent wow smoke, So like it's really considerably
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dropped. But in Japan, a lot of people still smoke, and they
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actually have a smoking lounge. But what's interesting is like in Japan, you
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walk by a smoking lounge in the mall or in the airport and you don't
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smell anything. They've got amazing air filtration systems. It's like, but all
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the smoke, right, oh god, yeah, I mean yeah, but
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you walk into that room because I walked in there, you know, to
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go vape, you know, because I mean, I'm you're not supposed to
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vape outside of the room or whatever, so I went I walked in to
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go vape. The moment you walk in there, it's like a jet engine.
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It's like, I mean, and in people like they exhale and it
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just gets immediately evacuated. But the thing is is when you walk out,
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yeah, you smell so bad because you're talking about ten or fifteen people in
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a room smoking cigarettes. That stuff gets on your clothes, gets on your
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skin, and even though I yeah, in your hair, I walked.
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I walked in there for not even thirty seconds to go take two quick little
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vapes, right, two quick little vapes. I walk out. I go
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sit at my table with my family in Japan and they're like, did you
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just smoke a cigarette? I'm like, no, no, what are you
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talking about. They're like, you smell like smoke. I'm like, well,
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because everybody else and there was smoking. But but they do have a
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very good uh filtration system in all their smoking lounges, even though it's really
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loud. I like, you know, if you look at the way technology
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has has looked at that, and we've slowly seen that disappear, and now
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you don't find lighters in cars anymore. That's or even ashtrays for that matter.
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But look at some of the other things that have been pulled from vehicles.
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And now the big talk is AM radio. Oh my god, you
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guys talked about with electric cars. I know that you talked about this justin
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not too long ago. ATSC three is and that's gonna be maybe some rescue
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when it comes to that. But for anybody that is thinking about buying an
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electric car, that's one of the things I've heard that you give up,
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you give up that AM radio in your car. Well, they're they're talking
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about. Yes, the reason behind this, the the the tech technological reason
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behind it is that electric cars, they're electric system of the electric motor interferes
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with the frequency range that AM radio uses radio on a microwave while you're cooking,
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yes something yeah, something like that. But it's it's it's that it
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interferes with that you're not even going to be able to receive AM. But
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there is actually a congressional petition being sent out to say, you know,
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look, you can't get rid of AM radio because you know, even though
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AM radio is old technology by today's standards, I mean you've got FM radio,
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now you've got satellite radio, and then you got streaming and all that
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HD radio. Yes, but AM radio still serves a major purpose when it
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comes to emergencies. And when there's an emergency, what do people turn to
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They turn to their radio because a lot of times you're not going to have
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television. If there's a massive agency and you've got a power outage or something
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like that, you can't turn on your TV. What can you turn on
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a battery powered radio or even just yeah, or even just getting a battery
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pack and plugging your little portable radio into it, and now you've got radio.
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And radio provides a lot of stuff, I mean a lot of good
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information. I mean, what was a queen with a radio gaga right talking
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about how you know radio has met its match and no, no, radio
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still serves a purpose. Yeah, radio definitely serves a purpose. And so
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what they're trying to do is they're trying to say, either you know,
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technology carmakers figure out a way to make this work, or figure out a
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way with the FCC to change the frequencies of AM radio so that way AM
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radio can shift. Now, granted, the former is obviously the easier solution.
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You know you're trying to if you talk about changing every AM radio's frequency
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to something else, right, it's not gonna happen. No, not gonna
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happen. And and they're saying, well, why don't AM radio just switch
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to FM? Well, there's a lot of stations out there. They can't
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they can't afford it. Yeah, there, but there are some stations that
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are making a lot of money on their AM. So the idea is,
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okay, well, if that's going to happen, then they moved to an
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FM frequency. Are they gonna have as much range? No? I mean
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that's the benefit for AM radio. I mean, how many times have the
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range? How many times have you been driving across the country or you know,
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I took a drive up to Idaho and I remember I was able to
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pick up AM radio for a great distance. This station that we're on,
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you could pick it up far away. I mean, and sometimes all of
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a sudden boom, it's there again. I mean it's it's pretty amazing.
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Yeah, the range for AM radio is there, and like you said,
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in an emergency situation, it's gonna be one of those things. But if
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they come up with this new ATSC three for radio, that could be one
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way. That's for TV though, true, but I think the original concept
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is for use for television. But now they're actually looking at it. As
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of last month the study was done. They're looking at ATSC three point zero
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for radio to see how that would actually help improve to get AMFM radio in
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homes where we see some radio's disappearing. I've I've not heard about that.
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I don't know. I remember our old stomping grounds Andy. Oh yeah,
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we actually both worked at another radio station together in town. Not doing this
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tech show, but although you did come in onto the tech show a little
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later on, but we both worked at a radio station. The head AMFMS.
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So I remember when I used to be the the PD, right,
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the program director. I remember boss at one time. At one time,
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yeah, for a little bit. Yeah, I was after after you know,
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Chapman passed away. Yeah, I became PD for a little while until
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I joined the Navy. But I remember receiving a call from a guy in
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I want to say it was Ohio, right, and he was like,
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Yo, I'm picking up your station in Ohio. My god. See,
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so you maybe thinking, okay, how did you pick up a station so
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far away? All right, justin how was that station laid out? When
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it comes to you know, the power settings on that station. During the
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day, we would be at ten thousand watts, and then at night we
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would drop down to one thousand watts because at night the propagation is much farther.
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Right, radio waves travel much farther in the ionosphere at night without the
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heat of the sun. Right, Yeah, So at night one night,
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there was a problem with the transfer switch and I remember remember Old Hank,
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Remember engineer good old Hank. Yeah, yeah, Well, so so there
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was a problem where a rat got into the transfer switch and the switch went
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to go bang, and it didn't complete the circuit because the rat was in
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the way. So we stayed at ten thousand watts while this rat just got
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fried. Yeah, and we stayed at ten thousand watts overnight. And this
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guy in Ohio was like, yeah, I'm I'm, I'm I'm picking up
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Tucson in Ohio. Yeah, the clear Knight, Yeah, definitely clear Night.
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Yeah. Yeah. It's it's interesting what they're gonna do for it is
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said that they're gonna be pulling AM radio out of their vehicles as well,
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or and that's still shouldn't be except one fifty lightning they'll still have it will
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still include the AM radio. I don't know, it's just it's what it
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says. Reading an article from Autoblog, uh, and it says Mercedes has
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their EKE vehicles have AM from radios, right. Um, they're signing the
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decline of AM radio usage in Europe and the US has big reasons. Tesla
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and Rivian don't have it. Fisker and Lucid do still have AMFM radios.
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Um because they say that there are still enough listeners in the US to warrant
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it. Yeah. Uh yeah. So then this goes into the you know
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ed Markey, the senator from Massachusetts is the one that wrote that article.
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Hey, bis marquis no Ed markeyos from Massachusetts says, hey, automakers deal
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with the e M shielding and maintain them radio. You know it because a
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any phase out of broadcast radio could pose a significant communication problem during Immerse,
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which Justin covered. Y that's exactly what yep. Yeah, and it's needed,
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so it should it should certainly still be around now. Speaking of this,
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Justin told us something just before the show that had us go, huh,
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you're actually thinking about getting yourself one of these electric vehicles. Well yeah,
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I mean we're we're looking at it. I mean, it's it's it's
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time. I mean, Messa's vehicle is getting kind of old. I mean
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it's it's the twenty thirteen Ford Cmax, but we're having problems with it.
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I mean a lot of times. I mean, you made me feel terrible.
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Gloria is driving around into two thousand and one FOURD Escape and you're saying,
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mesas car is old. It's a twenty thirteen. Well your car is
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really old. Yeah, yeah, but no. But the thing is is
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hers is a hybrid, so hers is electronic. But also this was her
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The car that she got was only released for I want to say, two
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years. It was kind of like an experimental car because they didn't make the
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Cmax much after that, and the entertainment system, the computer system that runs
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the whole car, I want to say, was probably designed by some high
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school engineers because it is. It is absolutely horrible. It was the first
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edition of sinc you know, the Microsoft for sync board sink. Yes,
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yeah, it was the first edition of that. And the problem is now
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that she has it where half the time when she turns off her vehicle,
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the radio won't turn off. The radio just keeps playing even though she's turned
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off her vehicle. She has to pull a fuse. She has to get
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on the passenger side, get underneath. I mean I've taught her how to
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use the needle nosed pliers and like, first off that yeah, well,
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first off, I shouldn't have to teach her how to use a needle nose
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players. But we're not going to go there. Um, but yes,
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I've had a teacher where which fused to pull? And then other half the
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time her battery just doesn't want to turn over, Like there's just nothing.
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Like you get in the car and it's dead as a doornail. You have
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to literally jump the car to let the battery know. Oh yep, I'm
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still alive. Yep. Okay, yeah, I'm good. And this is
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a hybrid. This is a hybrid, okay, and it's got like sixty
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five thousand miles on it. I mean, it's it's starting to get up
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there. But it being in a hybrid with a battery system, it's like
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a it's like a Prius, Like think of a Prius, right, No,
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because the Vault is straight electric like a Prius is like a hybrid,
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right yeah, So it is a definitely a hybrid. It's got the gas
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engine, but it does have a battery and it's just getting to the point
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where it's not good. So we started talking about it, and I'm like,
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you know, looking at different you know, electric vehicles, and we
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came across Tesla obviously, and you know Tesla there, Um, what is
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it? The model? Why the hatchback? It looks a little bit like
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a Cmax. Their hatchback is on sale. I mean, I won't you
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want to say on sale. For some reason, they drastically lowered the price.
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Now granted, at of the time of this recording, the price has
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already gone back up a little bit, but it got to a point where
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you could buy a brand new model why for out the door, out the
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door of the dealership forty five thousand dollars, which is below the cost of
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a typical new car. Now it's back up to about fifty. But that's
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still the average for a new car, and considering that this is considered a
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luxury vehicle, it's well below the average for a luxury vehicle. So we're
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looking at it. But she wants to go. She wants to go test
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drive one and and for good reasure, you know, to make sure she
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likes it. The problem is Tesla. They don't seem to care because they're
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only open Monday through Friday, nine to five. They're not open on the
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weekends. You can't go to a Tesla dealership and test drive a car on
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Saturday or Sunday. I literally have to take time off work to go to
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a Tesla dealership to buy a Tesla. Wow, that's stupid. Yeah,
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or just buy its side unseen and it gets still everything you drive. Well,
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okay, so there you go. Yeah you could do that. You
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can just buy a sight unseen and go pick it up. Now that's the
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good thing about it. You can just place your order online. They don't
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do negotiations. You can't walk into a Tesla Edition and be like, well,
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yeah, that's a good Tesla, but you want fifty thousand, I'll
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give you forty five. Nope, Nope, it's it's literally the price on
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the car, that's what you pay. But the beauty of that is now
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you can just go online. I can just go on to Tesla dot com
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and just buy a Tesla straight up and be like, Okay, I'll go
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pick it up tomorrow. But there's a lot of problems with the Tesla cars
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that I'm I'm starting to understand better and I'm starting to realize, and I'm
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wondering if maybe the reason that they lowered the price is to get rid of
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all the models that have had problems and they're going to replace it with something
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different later. I don't know. I'm not exactly sure, but we can
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we can definitely talk about some of those things in the next segment. But
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I did want to touch upon is that you know, I can buy the
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car straight up, we can go pick it up, and then she just
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has to get used to it. But the big concern that she has is
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that screen in the middle, Like everything is controlled by the screen. There's
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no buttons anywhere in the car. Really. Now, your left hand side
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of the screen wheel, you still have your left and right turn signals,
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you have your high beams and whatnot. Your Your headlights are automatically automatic.
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You don't have to ever turn on your headlights. It's automatic. Your windshield
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wipers are completely automatic. There is no windshield wiper turn on or turn off.
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It is just automatic within the app on the on the tablet, you
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can you can adjust the speed, but they just turn on automatically. The
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on the right side where you would normally find your windshield wipe is your park,
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reverse and drive and neutral. So those are the only two physical switches
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or buttons you have in your car. Everything else is controlled by the tablet.
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Now, this wouldn't be one of the cars that drives themselves, right,
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No, this car does not include the self driving kid, but it
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does come with a basic self driving But if you want to get the full
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self driving, you're talking about another fifteen thousand dollars on top of it.
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We got to take a break. But question for each of us, Sean,
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if you could do self driving, would you no? Justin, Yes,
24:36
I wouldn't. I don't trust it me too. All Right, we'll
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be back with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
24:45
Weird, and I'm Justin. Let me find us online at tech Talk Radio.
24:48
Dot Com. We'll be right back now back to TikTok Radio. So
24:53
before the break, we were talking about what I'm thinking about doing, and
24:57
that's getting a Tesla. Um. So one of the things that I was
25:03
discovering about the Tesla's though watching this video. I watched a couple of videos
25:07
on YouTube about from some different owners and then there's a couple of different owners
25:11
that have you know, had it for over a year, and what they've
25:15
had to say about it was the overall the car is amazing. I mean
25:21
the driving of the car. They all say the same thing, like,
25:25
you never get used to driving the car. It always excites you. It's
25:30
it's an exciting car to drive all the time. But the problems they're having
25:36
is manufacturing issues with the car. There are air gaps between the panels and
25:45
these gaps will increase over time as the car is stressed in certain fashions h
25:52
going over bumps or whatever. Um from going over a bump to having your
25:56
your your bumper just fall off or or come loose or the panel between the
26:03
driver and passenger door separates by a couple millimeters. And Tesla's like, yeah,
26:11
that's within spec. It's fine, but it's like, no, it's
26:14
not. You've got like a giant gap in your car, like, this
26:17
isn't this isn't supposed to happen with with a brand new vehicle, especially a
26:22
luxury vehicle like you should and if in Tesla's it's not repairing them, they're
26:26
just like, no, this is within spec. You just if it happens
26:29
again, come back and we'll fix it. The guy was like, my
26:32
bumper literally fell off. How am I supposed to drive with a bumper falling
26:38
off? Well, you know, just just popping back in place. And
26:41
the guy was like and he just popped it back in place, and he's
26:42
like, oh, well, you know, if it falls off again,
26:45
just come back and tell us, like you want just lego car. Yeah,
26:49
I'm like, dude, I just paid fifty five thousand dollars for this
26:52
car. You're telling me that I could just pop the bumper back in place,
26:56
like, no, no, fix it, you know. But the
27:00
thing is is Tesla is not doing any recalls, you know, And that's
27:03
and also the other the other factor is the charging of the car. Right,
27:10
so you've got you've got three options when it comes to charging a Tesla,
27:12
and I'm sure This probably goes for a lot of electrical vehicles. You've
27:18
got the standard one ten outlet that you can just plug into a regular outlet,
27:26
and you only get around three to four miles per hour of charging.
27:32
So wow, you charge it overnight, you're gonna get about thirty miles out
27:36
of it, right. But if you take it from home to work,
27:40
and your work also has a charging port, well, then you can just
27:44
charge it there during your working hours and then you take it home, and
27:47
but you get like thirty to forty miles or so for like an eight hour
27:51
charge. Right. The other option is you install a two hundred and twenty
27:56
volt charging station in your home. So you have to buy and this is
28:02
this is four hundred and fifty dollars on Tesla's website, and then you have
28:06
to pay the electrician to come out and install a two hundred and twenty volts
28:08
you know circuit and hook this up, and then you got to drag the
28:12
cord across the you know, the garage or whatever. I mean. Some
28:15
people might be able to put their charger right next to their their their Tesla
28:18
ours. Our panel is actually located in the garage or main electrical panel that
28:26
is, but it's on my side of the garage where I park my car,
28:30
and Mesa is not gonna Mesa's not gonna switch the sides of the garage
28:33
where she parks. Just to you know, seven years of muscle memory is
28:37
not going to change overnight. We're not gonna switch the way we park our
28:40
cars. So we would have to drag that cord across the garage every time
28:45
we want to charge. The third option is the supercharger. Now, Tesla
28:49
has been putting in superchargers all across the nation, and Sean you probably have
28:53
heard of these things. You know, they're they're they're they're everywhere. They're
28:56
like every one hundred miles or so, you've got a supercharger. The problem
29:02
with supercharging is you're you're stressing your battery. If you use a supercharger all
29:07
the time, you're gonna lose life on your battery. You're gonna lose about
29:12
ten percent of your battery every year. What's the life Do we know what
29:17
the lifespan is of those batteries yet? We don't know the life span,
29:22
but we know the warranty. The warranty is I want to say, it's
29:26
it's it's eight years or two hundred thousand miles. Okay um, And that's
29:33
the life span on the battery. But again, if you're using supercharging,
29:37
which again supercharging is the best because you can you can get like fifty percent
29:41
of your battery back within one hour. But you're basically putting four hundred and
29:45
forty volts into your car at any given moment. You're you're overloading your battery.
29:52
Tell me again why you want to buy this thing? Wait? And
29:57
also you're driving down a road. There's no sound, right, I mean
30:00
is there a sound? Oh? Okay, speaking of sounds, this is
30:06
the coolest part about the Tesla. Right right, we have a friend of
30:08
ours has a Tesla. Every seat has a speaker in it, embedded in
30:15
the seat. Right. It's more of a subwoffer. Really, every single
30:19
seat has a subwoffer you can get I am not joking here. You can
30:26
make every seat fart. We needed that. Why would you want that?
30:30
Because it's funny. I just bring my uncle and have him sit in the
30:33
car. That's that's what we paid fifty five thousand dollars for. What have
30:37
we come to? I remember used to because you had a big V eight
30:41
you know engine in it, and it would make a lot of noise basically,
30:45
and now you're just it basically turns the UI into a seat map that
30:49
you can drop a whoope because over the seat and press the whoa. Now,
30:55
now, the Tesla does have a feature, I believe, and correct
30:57
me if I'm wrong, Seun, because you're kind of looking this up the
31:00
background. But I do believe the Tesla does have an external speaker that you
31:04
can pump a sound of a vehicle through it if you need to. You
31:08
can pump a sound of a typical vehicle, so it will make a noise
31:14
as it's driving some people, some people have said that that's of concern for
31:18
an area like seeing two soon. We have the Arizona School for the h
31:22
deaf and blind, and you know, they're you know, going down the
31:26
street, they go off auditory if they're blind, and they they you know,
31:32
they can't tell if a car's there. And I'm I'm that's been a
31:36
concern for many people. So it happens that the sound would definitely help that.
31:41
Yeah, they have all I'm not sure when this article is written,
31:45
but it says at the time this article is written, I'm trying to freditate.
31:48
All model threes have the pedestrian Alert sound generator. So its fact that
31:53
there's a pedestrian in that area, is that what it is? Yeah,
31:59
So it looks like it's got a speaker. It makes noise. I think
32:04
it makes some sort of like an not really necessarily ultrasonic, but it makes
32:07
the kind of like a sonic, you know, pinging noise to let so
32:12
that way somebody who's walking by will here or something like that where they'll be
32:15
like, oh, there's a car there or something. You know. I've
32:19
I've heard people talking about the Tesla's and other electric vehicles, and I've heard
32:23
them talking about, you know, the different comforts the screen, how everything
32:28
has run off the screen. We've heard the stories about the negative sides when
32:32
it comes to the self driving vehicles, some of those incidents that have happened.
32:37
Then we've heard some positives when it come off of it. But you
32:39
know, the one thing is driveability. Like Sean said, I like to
32:45
drive, and I got no problem taking a twenty hour drive. I've done
32:47
that before, all right, and maybe not twenty hours along, but Sean,
32:52
the same thing. How comfortable is this vehicle? I mean I would
32:57
hope for that amount of money and for what you're you're doing, it gonna
33:00
be one of the most comfortable rides you've ever had. I I personally have
33:04
written in an a Tesla and I can say that it is absolutely fantastic.
33:08
It is so comfortable. Sean, have you ever written in Tesla? No,
33:13
I've done never. I haven't either. It is it is, it
33:16
feels. It feels like AE hundred thousand dollar car. I mean it,
33:22
it's very comfortable. The seats even though they I think, what what they
33:24
what they call him? I heard something like they call them vegan leather,
33:28
which is just a fancy name for rubber. Um No, I mean seriously,
33:32
like the seats are just literally rubber, but they call him vegan leather,
33:36
right yeah, um yeah, this it's ridiculous, but um but no,
33:40
the seats are comfortable that they all all the seats have Every Tesla has
33:46
heating and cooling seats, so like if you're in Tucson or whatever, you
33:52
could actually set your car to have. Well, that's another cool feature.
33:55
I didn't mention about this, like places like extreme temperatures like way North where
34:00
it's super cold during the winter, or way down South where it's super hot,
34:02
like or Tucson when it's super hot during the summer. You can open
34:07
up the Tesla app and say, you know, hey, I'm going to
34:09
come to my vehicle here in thirty minutes. I want it at this temperature.
34:13
When I get there, the temperature the car will turn on, set
34:15
the temperature inside, cool it down, cool your seats down, and that
34:21
way, when you get into your car, that car is the perfect temperature
34:23
for you. No more having to get into a super hot car or a
34:28
super cold car. I actually like the sound of that. That actually would
34:30
be kind of cool. That'd be a neat feature to have. I've just
34:35
I don't know that's that worries me about the battery, And it's not for
34:39
the environmental reasons we've heard. It's just I mean, I'm used to a
34:43
car with an engine, and I know engines could burn out. Maybe I
34:46
just don't understand it. Well. You also don't have to pay think about
34:50
it, if you get an electric vehicle like a Tesla or like a Rivion
34:52
or you know even some of the major manufacturers that have all electric now you're
34:57
not having to pay for gas, You're not having to pay for oil,
35:00
like oil changes. You're not having to pay for regular engine maintenance. You're
35:05
not having I think the only thing you have to pay for it really is
35:07
like a like an AC recharge, you know, every you know higher seven
35:12
years yeah, or tires, yeah, tires. But otherwise you're saving a
35:16
lot of money when it comes to it. Now. I didn't mention this
35:19
earlier, but I mentioned like, if you were to walk out of a
35:22
dealership, you're looking at paying around fifty five thousand dollars to get a decent
35:25
model, y right, But what you're saving in gas over and then they
35:30
proudly tout this on their website, but you're saving approximately you know, sixty
35:37
five hundred dollars a year in gas. You're also getting a seventy five hundred
35:40
dollar federal income tax credit. You're getting a state credit which happened to be
35:45
for Colorado. I don't know about other states, but for Colorado it's a
35:49
twenty five hundred dollar tax rebate. So when you add up all of that
35:55
plus the lack of cost of maintenance, you're talking about, you know,
35:59
a hundred bucks every six months to get oil change, you're looking at walking
36:02
out of there. After everything's said and done, about thirty two to thirty
36:07
three thousand dollars for a brand new Tesla when you take the deck. The
36:09
cost is that the electrical costs though. Well, okay, so they talk
36:15
about this. To charge the tesla, you're looking at around approximate depends on
36:19
where you live. Because the electricity prices vary. You're looking at between four
36:22
and six hundred dollars a year a year to charge a tesla. Yeah,
36:27
that's not bad. Now, what's the range on them? Because if I
36:30
wanted to drive to California, say, you know the model Yeah, you're
36:35
gonna need to charge it. But the standard model Why and again there's mini
36:38
models, so everyone varies, but the standard model Y gets two hundred and
36:43
seventy miles per charge. The long range edition of the model Why, which
36:46
is about seven thousand dollars more, gets about three hundred and thirty miles,
36:52
right, and then you just have to make sure wherever you're going they're gonna
36:54
have charging stations. Sure. And that is a beauty of a tesla is
37:00
if you start to get to the point where you're starting to get low,
37:01
your tesla will automatically reroute you to a charging station dependent it doesn't matter where
37:07
you're going. It's like, Nope, it's time to sleep, and it
37:10
will say you need to go this way now. You need to get to
37:13
this charging station right now, or else you're going to have a bad day.
37:15
Now, Sean, I know that the trailer you bought is pulled by
37:20
a big truck. That truck is not electric, is it? It is
37:22
nice? What type of engine do you have to have in that to pull
37:25
a trailer like the size you got? So the size that I have right
37:30
by. I have a twenty seventeen Colorado. It's got a two point seven
37:37
leader V six I think, yeah, sounds of us those right, tell
37:39
us it just fine. I think the growls value weight loaded with water and
37:44
everything, it's just over five thousand pounds. Wow. I wouldn't want to
37:46
tell much more net with my Colorado right upgrading to a Silverado or something a
37:52
little bit larger would be ideal. To go up any larger. I get
37:59
about thirteen miles to the gallon roum toeing. That's got a good day.
38:04
Yeah, thirteen miles. It's like that old jag I used to have,
38:08
Oh my god, in the X twelve. Yeah, terrible car. Some
38:12
guy here. Bought it. When I sold it for five hundred bucks,
38:15
it was terrible. He's probably listening. It's you know, I've seen Tesla
38:22
tow their their stuvs can tow right, and it's just i'd be so I
38:27
go camping where there's no charging stations, an electric vehicle doesn't make sense for
38:32
me. I don't live near Denver, I don't live near Phoenix. I
38:37
don't live near the big cities that you guys live by. Right, Yeah,
38:42
you know if I lived near Chicago or a suburb of Chicago, or
38:45
a suburb of Detroit, or you know, somewhere where I had more infrastructure
38:51
in place to have an electric vehicle. Sure. Now, granted there are
38:54
Teslas here and there, there are some superstars charging stations here. I just
38:59
go more places in camp, more places than I would feel comfortable having.
39:02
Just act you don't want to depend on Yeah, yeah, I think it's
39:07
gonna else. Yeah, it's gonna be where depending on where you live.
39:09
For you, maybe the best thing is like a hybrid, so you could
39:13
get the best of both worlds. Oh yeah, like Caitlin's Rav we have
39:16
she has RAV four. That's a hybrid. It's not a plug in hybrid,
39:20
but it's it's a hybrid and it gets really good. Is almost forty
39:23
miles of the gallon on the highway. Yeah, so I mean we're not
39:29
opposed to the hybrid or you know, she had a pres for the longest
39:32
time, which was way hybrid, and she had that from twenty thirteen until
39:37
she got to an accident. I don't think they're that ugly, but like
39:42
a boot, all right. Yeah, everybody boos on the you know the
39:45
priests and they're I think they're cool, and I think the Freest Primes are
39:50
pretty cool. I think I like them. I don't know. All right,
39:52
another quick we come back. I got a new product to show you
39:54
guys. Tomorrow's Mother's Day, so we'll talk about maybe some gift ideas for
39:59
Mother's Day. Will we come back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm
40:01
Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird, and I'm justin. Let me tweet us
40:06
at tech talk Radio. You'll be right back and now back to tech talk
40:09
Radio. Mother's Day is tomorrow, of course, you know, celebrate moms
40:15
everywhere, so we thank you for those whose moms are no longer with us.
40:19
Um there certainly in everybody's thoughts. So did a segment on chemistry Fox
40:23
eleven and Studio showing off the Echo x gear. Big huge, massive,
40:30
big radio. This thing is enormous as an amos, as an Amazon uh
40:36
no Eco x gear. Um, it's it's it's called the Tundra. What's
40:42
cool about this is you can actually pick it up and throw it into a
40:46
pool. It's i P sixty seven resistant uh and it's got fifty about fifty
40:52
hours of battery life on it. You could charge you know, charge it
40:54
up. You'll get about fifty hours of use. Um. It's so heavy
40:59
and so mass with a speaker that it comes with wheels and like a handle
41:04
almost like a laptop bag that's on you know, on wheels, and you
41:07
can you know, move it around. It's got Bluetooth, you can plug
41:10
a microphone into. It's got a USBND amazing. I was really impressed by
41:16
it. Huge. Echo x Gear is the company, and this one is
41:22
the Echo Tundra, and I think it has AM on it uh huh and
41:28
has FM. It has uh the ability to plug in a microphone, so
41:31
you could use it as a loud speaker. So justin you do the mobile
41:36
decase stuff that'd be kind of cool. And then holders and a bottle opener
41:40
and a bottle opener. That's one thing I need to even mentioned in the
41:45
TV segment. I had a bottle opener on it, so you know,
41:46
if you're out there by the pool or if you put it in the pool
41:50
with you while you're swimming. Oh my god, this thing can assist in
41:54
childbirth. What it's no, not that, not that Sorry, wrong site.
42:04
Yeah, but that was a cool product. I showed showed the Samsung
42:09
Galaxy tab A eight, which I love. That's a nice Android tablet and
42:15
you, being an Android user justin I knew you would appreciate that. And
42:19
then we showed fur Zapper, the most non technical thing I think I've ever
42:22
shown, but I like how they're using the Internet to market their product.
42:27
It's fur Zapper. And what it is the glove? Do you now?
42:30
Do you have dogs? You have cats? I have a cat? You
42:34
have any cats? Sean, you don't have anyone. We don't have any
42:36
pets, No pets. It's a glove. You put the glove on and
42:38
you pet your your Oh I've seen these yet? Yeah, And then it
42:42
pull you can pull all the fur off the glove and it's just it's nice
42:45
for the cat and it's nice for you too. You don't get all the
42:47
fur all over your hand. But one thing I just I didn't get in
42:51
time, and I just got this in it's aries gadgets and you guys could
42:55
see this, right, So uh La sent this to me because she saw
43:00
it and thought this was kind of cool. This is what it is.
43:05
How many times have you've gotten somewhere and you need it at your own keyboard
43:08
or you want to use your keyboard with your smartphone? Right? This thing?
43:14
Check this out, guys. It unfolds and it's a Bluetooth keyboard and
43:20
it has a mouse pad on it, a touch pad, so you can
43:24
use that. And what's nice about it When you're not going to be using
43:28
it, you just fold it up and take it with you. Sells for
43:31
a thirty bucks and it can be used with your smartphones, your tablets,
43:37
or anywhere you need your very own Bluetooth capable keyboard. And it does have
43:42
a USB connector in it so you can charge it up as well, so
43:45
it doesn't have to be tethered. Can just how cool is you just pull
43:47
up, sit down and go and that's from Airs pretty cool Aares gadgets,
43:52
So that's kind of a neat thing. I like that. Yeah. So
43:58
did you see Dungeons of Dragons? I have not. Yeah, and what
44:02
do you think of a Sean? I thought it was great. It from
44:07
somebody who plays Dungeon Dragons. The the movie feels and watches like you're playing
44:16
the game. Oh, really nice, the pacing, the banter combat,
44:22
and you know, just kind of every aspect of D and D you feel
44:28
it. It's it's a little off putting. I think if you're if you're
44:30
not a D and D player, or you haven't experienced a D and D
44:34
game, because it's just a little it feels a little disjointed. A lot
44:37
of things happened really quickly and then they're onto the next thing. Yeah,
44:42
that's how a D D game goes. That's just Yeah. So I thought
44:45
it was great. I liked the story. I liked seeing the forgotten realms
44:49
brought onto the big screen. Forgotten Realms is the world that DD is said
44:52
in Sean, have you seen Super Mario Brothers yet? Because you were not
44:55
seen. Oh I have seen that, Yeah, I know, justin you
44:59
went to go to see what We were hoping that Sean was going to see
45:00
it. But the big movie, the big movie, and I'm wondering,
45:04
who's going to see that this week? Maybe take mom out to a movie
45:07
when it comes to Mother's Day. Is Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three?
45:10
Yeah, well, I can tell you right now, Missa is not going
45:13
to want to go to see Guardians of Galaxy volume three. She has no
45:15
interest. She has no interest in that stuff. Didn't like that, but
45:19
I did find it fascinating that Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three knocked Mario off
45:28
of the top spot in the box office. So Mario was at the top
45:31
spot in box office. But if you think about it, what does that
45:34
mean? Chris Pratt just knocked off Chris Pratt off the top of the box
45:38
office two movies that were at the top that Pratt plays Mario and Chris Pratt
45:45
plays star Lord and Guardians the Galaxy. So he is I mean, like,
45:49
oh my god, he's got to be living his best life right now.
45:52
Wait, so he's been in so many movies. Who is more popular
45:55
because I've heard people talking about this, Mario or Luigi le Mario is definitely
46:00
more popular, but Luigi has a cult following. It's weird because people seem
46:05
to think that Luigi is the one. Right. Have you played Luigi's Mansion?
46:09
Nah? Is that fun? Amazing? Yeah? The Luigi Mansion games.
46:15
The Luigi Mansion games are very isocrated. I bought I bought that for
46:21
Eric for his switch, and he said it was too scary for him.
46:23
The Luisi's Mansion is not like a Hani Mansion. Yeah, it's kind of
46:28
a haunted game. Yeah, all right. So so coming back to giving
46:31
moms stuff from Mother's Day? What would be good recommendations from you guys For
46:36
anybody listening is thinking I need to get mom something for Mother's Day? What
46:39
should I get her? Non tech or tech? Go ahead, let's go
46:45
with tech since we're a tech show. What would be maybe within a price
46:50
reasonable budget? Okay, okay, yeah, good question. I got Caitlin
46:57
and a new Kindle for Christmas. That's pretty good. Maybe it ams like
47:04
gift card for more books? Give cards always nice? Right, Yeah,
47:07
I can't think of anything else? Maybe do Apple watch Apple? How about
47:14
a how about a UM you're thinking about getting something from mom? How about
47:21
a backup drive for the smartphone? Because I think I think some some moms
47:25
some dads can't figure out how to make backups to their smartphones, and that's
47:30
why exactly we use. But what about making a physical backup? You know
47:37
where you plug in I like the expand I expand line where you just plug
47:40
it into your your smartphone and you go that way. So you can do
47:45
that. You can just plug it in and just plug it in. There's
47:46
an app and then you just follow the app and it will tell you go
47:51
ahead, and it'll back up every single photo that's in there. You can
47:53
choose then delete them or just have it back up the actual system or just
47:59
no just pictures, just documents, photos, contacts. It just does that.
48:02
But that way, you know, you see, you know, I
48:06
would love to get that from my parents, but they would forget. To
48:08
plug it in. It takes like three minutes though, depending on your smartphone.
48:16
You plug it in, it goes through you tell it yeah, go
48:21
ahead, and I give your permission. It goes through, grabs all the
48:22
photos, then says do you want to delete them? And if you don't
48:25
want to delete them, fine, you just unplug the device and you're good
48:29
to go. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that would worked for
48:32
my parents. Right. But you know, we set up with my parents
48:37
and Caitlin and I we all share iCloud storage and we all do our phones
48:45
because we're all Apple, right right. We do all of our iCloud storage
48:49
backups there and we've had zero issues. And it's actually funny because my dad
48:53
actually had just had to get his phone replace. My parents are on vacation
48:57
and my dad jumped into the pool with his phone. Oh no, when
49:00
did he realize that as he's in the air going in, I don't know.
49:05
He didn't say. He just said, got a new phone, went
49:07
into the pool with the phone in my pocket. So it's my dad has
49:13
destroyed probably five or six phones over the years. Oh jeez. But I
49:17
just told this story because when we talked to him, he told us the
49:22
story, and I said, do you remember the time I called you while
49:24
you were at home and you were out more on the lawn and you picked
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up and they fell out of your hand and bounced off the deck of the
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lawn more you ran it over. Oh my gosh. All right, here
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here's another product I would recommend. This is from a company called Solo New
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York and moms I think could always use a tablet protector because sometimes when you
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buy the tablet, depending on which one you get and what price point you
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pay for it, you don't get a case to protect it. And this
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is a hard case made from recycled you know, plastic bottles, uh,
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And so you know you're being in friendly to the environment. And it will
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work with iPads uh, the Samsung Android tablets, the whole bit. And
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again it's a nice little hard shell to protect. And their inexpense or about
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twenty four bucks. So if you're looking looking for something for mom, you
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can find those just about anywhere and it fits most most of the Android and
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Apple tablets set are out there. So that's that's a little bit more along
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the lines than was something my mom would want, right. My mom uses
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her iPad pro a lot, right, and she draws, she draws with
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it, she does her work stuff on it um and she loves her iPad
50:39
pro. She uses the little ey stylists and she's she's an iPad wizard.
50:45
She would blow me out of the water. In terms of doledgar, your
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mom has the pro, is she got the ten or the twelve, I
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don't know. It's ginormous. That's gotta be the twelve. Yeah, it's
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she does. She does her when she does her judging for gymnastic stuff.
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She just does all her little doodles on there and then it's fantastic. She
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loves it. A friend of mine he got his wife a couple of years
51:06
ago a rumba, and yeah, I would love to have one. But
51:10
that didn't go over very well, remember, you know, and then I
51:15
think in the comment that he made, hey look at it this way,
51:17
you don't have to do the vacuuming anymore. I think that did not go
51:22
over that well. There are too many toys in our house for a rumba
51:25
right now. Yeah, so I think maybe less about appliances, maybe more
51:31
about, you know, stuff for the smartphone, maybe for the tablets,
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something along that left that line for technology and if you want to look into
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that, you know, a little backup drive I expand from sand disc.
51:45
Is that one that works? That works really well? So that might be
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something to think about. Or go Justin's rod and get her a tesla.
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Mom would love a tesla. All right, Well, take a quick break,
51:54
come back a website of the week. We wrap up the show with
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tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Sean Dward and I'm justin Let
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me once again find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com.
52:04
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio. Hi, Sean,
52:08
I wanted to know the name of the camper that you've got if our
52:13
listeners want to look it up, because I know they like to kind of
52:15
follow the show and go on the web. So we bought a Forest Rivers
52:19
and Forest River is the manufacturer and the model is no Boundaries nineteen point three.
52:24
So if you just go to Forest Rivers website you can look up the
52:28
no boundaries model. The version is nineteen point three. All right, So
52:31
instead of a website of the week, I've actually got an app of the
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week that everybody can download to their smartphones and keep up with what's going on.
52:39
Oh cool, Sure sounds great. So back in April, Kevin Sistram
52:45
and Mike Krieger, a couple of guys behind Instagram they founded that started their
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own app. It's a news app called Artifact. Now you can get the
52:53
app available. It's open to everybody now. But what they've done is taken
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a lot of us. When we want to get online news, we may
53:00
go to news dot Google dot com, which is still great, but the
53:05
Artifact app keeps it all in one place, giving the ability to look up
53:08
tech news, world news, business news, TV and movie news and just
53:14
about everything. And it's super easy to use, nice and it kind of
53:17
differs a little from news dot Google dot com or some of the other news
53:22
sources that are out there. Microsoft course has theirs is it almost uses a
53:28
machine learning kind of an AI because of the stories that you look at and
53:32
you are researching, it will continue to give you feeds based on how you
53:38
are using the app. So Artifact is really a great way to kind of
53:42
keep up on what your favorite subjects are and what you're looking at, and
53:46
it kind of, yeah, it's going to learn a little from you about
53:50
how you're doing your news search, but it's stories that you're really going to
53:52
be interested in. So you can get the Artifact app again at your Google
53:57
Play Store or your app store and download at your smartphone and begin to have
54:00
that news right there at your fingertips. Well, that wraps up this week's
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Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Dewar, and I'm justin
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Let me find us on Facebook at facebook dot com, forward slash tech talkers
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have yourselves, great week.