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Episode 370 - A Slim Jim and Bag of Chesters · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey, do
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the science guy here? Whatever? I am listening to the radio, especially
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tech talk Radio. It's just such a party. Welcome to another episode of
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tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor Switch and I'm Justin Leming. It was
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funny when we started up. Justin looked at Slick and said, who's this
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guy. It's been a long time. Sean is out today? And Sean
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told us he said, oh, I could go ahead and dial in from
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the road. Dude, he's in a place with no cell phone coverage.
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He's me like, didn't we try that once before? And it was like,
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what's him running away from a bear or something like that? I thought
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that was a toddler, but maybe it was a bear. I don't know.
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I say it was a bear. For those of you who don't know.
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We are a show that talks about computers, technology and the Internet,
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and we've got a lot to talk about. But we have fun with it
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though. Yeah, yeah, we're not super serious geeks. I mean,
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Slick might be, but I mean I'm just you know, yeah, Slick
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here for the laughs. Look, it's cisterious, all right, Listen to
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email this one from Mario, and it's based on LA for me, some
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audio says, Hello, I just wanted to thank your tech talk radio program
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for making me laugh more and longer than usual, even to the point of
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heavy tears, within a period of thirty minutes during my listening of its broadcasts
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past Saturday, mainly during its WI Files discussion Who that one? Yeah?
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Like that? Thank you for receiving this message, and may the rest of
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your life be great. I appreciate that, Mario. We do um And
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I'm thinking what was it that we were we were talking about the WI files?
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Well, I think it was armageddon or the Armageddon AI armeddon armageddon?
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Yeah, is it happening? Slick? You're you're working with Are you working
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with AI at all in your job? No? Because I'm involved with some
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government stuff. So right, so you're deep involved in AI. Okay,
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guy stuff you can't talk about. Yeah, you know you want Are we
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actually talking to the real Slick? It could be Shanzi for all we are
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could be maybe now you know, for all we all have this uh this
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idea though that government on all levels, uh, municipal, you know,
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the state, federal are are using AI and a lot of people think they're
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using it for you know, means to track us and fool us and things
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that's really are I don't think so though. I Oh my gosh, I
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don't think they are using AI for that reason. Do you really do think?
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Did you live under a rock? Endy? Of course they are.
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But why do you ever hear about at at Andy? Yeah? Remember you
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know when they had the closet, the closet, the AT and T closet.
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Yeah, I could. I don't remember if it was in New York
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or Chicago where it was, but uh, you know, I think it
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was NSA or Yeah. Somebody had access to the network through it like a
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closet that was outed. And then the guy almost went to jail of prison
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for letting people know about the tech. He found a loophole. Yeah,
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but in this loophole he discovered that big tech was actually watching people with with
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permission of you know some of the companies. Oh, well, we have
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seen problems. We have seen problems with that. I mean there's been problems
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recently with uh, some tech companies have been you know, focusing marketing at
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children and then grabbing information of what these kids, what time they get online,
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how long they're online, where are they going? And that's been a
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major no no, And so I don't know tech and tech and AI I
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guess together. Yeah, that's a scary thing. How is it being used
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though? Is it being used just to market to us parents? Well,
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it's just a lot more than just that, I mean, honestly, after
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we talked about it, you know, last week on the show was James
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Cameron came out and did a discussion about this is what I was trying to
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tell people about Terminator. You know, that is basically what terminator was.
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Sky Net was all about, right, it was about time travel. But
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yeah, yeah, except the time travel stuff, the technology becoming self learning,
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and that was already Dice in the character in the movie, had created
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this and it got out of hand exactly when the kid went back in time
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to show him his miss you know, misgivings with the stuff he did that
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was wrong. This. Yeah, that's when he decided to help out.
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Yeah, because he realized itself though you're you're, you're you're saying learning more
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learning is one thing, but then deciding to make modifications to itself on its
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own to become well, you know, like just to say and getting to
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the point of being sentient. That is, to me is the scary part.
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But so couldn't that But couldn't that be used though in this discussion though,
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I'm thinking, couln't that be used for for good? I mean,
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we're always thinking about the negative aspects, which okay, I guess probably that's
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good to think about. But imagine, imagine an AI that's coding, right,
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and I've been doing some coding over the last few weeks where you know,
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I'm trying to find code errors and trying to find where we could imagine
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if code, if it could learn code to the point where it could come
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up with a better way to write that code. Well, I can tell
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you right now, I already does that. It already does that. I
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mean I have I've used chat GBT in my my my job where I'm learning
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I'm learning Python, I'm learning C plus plus, and I've asked it questions.
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I'm like, hey, you know, I've even I've even given it
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a prompt where I'm like, I want you to write me a program to
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let's say, for instance, an example, onboard a new employee. I
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want you to um use a PowerShell script to connect to Azure to create a
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user account based on what prompt I want you to prompt me, what groups
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I wanted to be added to, what permissions I wanted to be in,
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And I want you to create a password, and I want you to create
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an email address. I want you to assign a license for Office three sixty
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five. And it's like okay, and it does it within five seconds.
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I'm like, oh my god. So I took its script that it gave
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me and I paste it into PowerShell and sure enough I had a brand new
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user created like that, And it took it less than five seconds to create
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that code. And this is the problem is that it's it's you know,
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people who are programmers who get paid to program. You know, five years
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ago you'd ask somebody what's the best job in technology to get Right now,
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they would say to become a computer programmer. Yeah, because software programming is
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where it's at. Well, they took it too far. These some of
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these people who are software programmers created AI and they basically written themselves out of
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a job. Yeah. I always felt that way, Like when I went
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to my grocery store. Yeah, there's things we do either to the grocery
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store and there's a clerk there. It says, why don't you use self
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checkout? Oh I hate that you don't pay me enough. Well, dude,
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you know what I hate about that is I go to we the only
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the only grocery store that's close to us is Walmart. So we go to
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the Walmart grocery and we have to use self checkout, And every single time,
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as I'm walking out with my receipt in hand, the guy at the
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doors like, can I see a receipt? I'm like no, there are
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people who's so against that now, and he's like, well, I need
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to see receipts there. And I turn around every single time and I tell
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him, you can either trust me to do the self checkout or you can
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put people back in the cashier line and do it for me. Yeah,
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but you're not going to see my receipt by and I walk out. Yeah,
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I respect your commitment to that. I do. It's it's it's complete
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bs. Yeah, it's upsetting so many people next store. I don't know
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if you guys are on next store, which oh god god, it's a
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cesspool, right, But people people who have that experience about going to the
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whether it be Walmart or any other store and having to show the receipt are
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like inflame. They're like, I don't want to show my receipt. That's
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something you do at Costco or Sam's because it's a membership store, you know,
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and they can actually ban you. Costco or Sam's can actually ban you
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if you don't show your receipt because it is a private membership store. But
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Walmart cannot. Yeah, yeah, and again, but that's the thing people
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tell you, Oh, why don't you use the self checkout even its circle
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cave. The other day, for God's sake, I'm holding what am I
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holding? A bag of Chester's Buttery Puffs and a slim gym and a guy
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says, you could use the self checkout. I'm like, I don't need
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to use the self checkout. I could go to the counter, and I
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get to the counter and I have a nice exchange with a very nice employee
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that made me smile. I'm not gonna get that from entering the wrong numbers.
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You know, what world do you live in? Because I have never
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gotten a nice employee at Walmart. No circle k Yeah, okay, cir
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Oka might be different. Yeah I don't know, but but yeah, I
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mean it's it's just it's ludicrous. But you can think about it that people
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have been pushing the and they're forced too. I mean there, yeah,
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yeah, their job, it's not that's not their choice. Yeah, their
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their boss is saying, make sure you get people going through the self checkouts.
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But they're basically pushing their jobs to to basically them doing it themselves.
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Just just wait until there's like an AI robot at the door of Walmart that's
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like, let me see your receipt please. I'm gonna turn on me like
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I'm gonna unplug you, like reprogram at one of the two that you're gonna
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get Eric, Eric, go around the back, unplug it. I would
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totally do that too. Oh but you know what, they could always do
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it. They could always do it in hologram AI form, with a hologram
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of a kindly a gentleman that has retired and decided to come to walk back
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to Walmart with the blue thing, nice little advisor, and nobody would talk
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bad to it. Hologram Tupac. I'm gonna say, let's be entertaining about
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this. Give me max headroom. There you go, yeah, there you
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go, there you go. Yeah, even spend more money, just to
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go see him. How are you doing Max? I'm doing it great.
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Wasn't that Matt? That was Matt Freer actually interviewed that guy once and he
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was hilarious. But yeah, that was It was funny, all right.
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So um we talked about AI last week and then we got another a text
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and we mentioned it. You can text us. People think I can't text.
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We can't text us during the show. We'd have to hold it for
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a week. But but you go ahead and feel free to text us if
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I can text you back resolving situation, which I did in this case.
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Printers. Have you any of you trying to hook up a wireless printer?
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Yes? Yeah? Yeah? How is that experience for you? Slick?
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It could be a little tricky. It just depends on the manufacturer in the
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model. Some go smooth, others I'm like, what but you know what,
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I'm gonna push what but I'm missing a code? What's gone on here?
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Yeah? They can be a little bit tricky. UM I have found,
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honestly, one of the one of the easiest ones to hook up for
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UM for wireless has been the EPSOM. I really like Epson when it comes
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to the wireless printer, um HP will work for a while, and then
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I'll have to reconnect it and reset it and redo it, and sometimes that
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could be a pain. All of them have apps that you can install on
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your computer as Yeah, I hate I hate those. They're just tracking.
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They're just tracking. There's tracking what you're printing. Yeah, but they all
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have apps. Well, we got a question from Cecilia who wanted to know
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how do you find out what your IP number is on your printer trying to
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hook it up wirelessly, because pretty much anything that is wired wireless has an
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IP number, well, or it's going to be issued one. The easiest
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way to do this is just to approach the printer and yell at it,
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what is your IP address? Most most printer people don't know this. Most
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printers are voice activated. We're not there yet. I know you got AI
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still, you know on your mind, but we'll get there. Don't no,
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don't do that. Don't do that yet out the box. I got
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it. Somebody send me a video of their other half yelling get their printer
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please. I want to put that, say justin said so now actually there.
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With an app, you should be able to go to your settings.
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But on most printers these days, you do get a little like one and
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a half inch, you know, a little touchscreen that you could go in
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and you should be able to either a look at the configuration, whether it
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be wired Wi Fi, or even print out your configuration. And when you
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print out your configuration, if it's connected and set up, it will show
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you what the IP number is so you can connect to that printer. But
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again it can all be done with that. In that case, we were
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able to tell her, I just go to your LCD screen, push this
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button, push that button, and she was able to get that info she
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needed. So that was that was good. But if you ever, if
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you ever a question like that, even if it's technical, like I said,
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we can answer you right away. We will, and then we may
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hold it for the show too. But five to two zero seven to seven
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to seven ninety five eighty is our telephone number. Again, you could text
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us and we will respond and get back to you. Andy had a good
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idea by printing out the specification. She did, What son't you get the
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printer plugged in and turned on. Go ahead and do that and hang on
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to that sheet. It's always going to have that information handy. Exactly.
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You know, everybody should have a file. Honestly, I think we tend
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to just keep everything, you know, the computer. If you have a
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little file folder or something like that, put your Windows license in there,
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put all the information on your licenses. Um, if you're smart and you
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get um, you know, one one pass, if you get the password
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manager, UM, you know, keep that put away with your you know
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your that's your special key that you may need to know. At some point,
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somebody told me, whoa hold on, hold on it. I have
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to interrupt. There are you you're saying to put your your your master key
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or your master password into like a folder on your desktop. No, no,
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no, no, no, no, I'm talking about whatever. I'm
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talking about a file folder in a file cabinet that's put away. Oh okay,
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I'd about to say no, no, absolutely not no, no,
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you don't want to do that. Keep that password to yourself because a lot
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of people don't save that. And again they save it on their PC somewhere,
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but if they lose their PC, they lose access to all of that
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info and that's that's just not good. UM. But to have that and
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then, like Slick said, you know your serial numbers, whether it be
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if you've built it yourself or your computer itself, have those put away somewhere
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because you never know when you're gonna need that, And I don't know.
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I gotta say I'm thankful for you guys introducing me to one pass. I
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am still I'm using it even for well now I'm using it more now I'm
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finding I can even could have passwords for you know, Gloria, that I
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can go ahead and put in there and then if I need it and she
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says, hey, I can't remember that, Oh I got it, and
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I can log in and check it out myself. Yep. Absolutely one password.
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The number one password dot com is a website and I use it.
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I pay for it. It's great. It's great password manager. I love
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it because it can generate passwords as well. So you're on a new website,
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you're not quite sure what you want to use, what you want to
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have a secure password, you can just generate a one off password just for
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that particular website and save it into your vault, so that way, anytime
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you go to that website will automatically show up and say, hey, you
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know we have this stored. Do you want to log in to your your
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one password and then do you want to use it? That's great. Um,
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they just since you pay for it, what kind of support do you
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get with the paid paid membership? You know, honestly, I've never had
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to use the support. It's worked. It's worked flawlessly since I've got it.
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Um, I'm assuming they've got email and chat support. I'm assuming,
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but yeah, I've never had to use it. It just works. They've
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got a lot of info online slick too. So if you sign up for
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it, and again it's you know, it travels through all your devices.
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You've got that main master password that you never have to re enter, but
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you have another password, and you know, there's been a big question about
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that recently too, is what's the best best way to have a password?
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Is it a series of words that are different, uh, you know,
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with in between you got a dash and then another word and a dash and
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another word or is it uppercase lowercase symbol number? You know? What is
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the best way? And it's funny because some people are telling are saying now
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that having the different words would actually be a little more difficult to crap.
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You know, I don't know, I actually I actually just looked it up
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on their website. Um so if it says according to their website, if
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you have any trouble whatsoever with one password, to file a help desk ticket
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and a representative will fly out to you and sit on your lap and show
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you how to use your computer. You're you're pulling our leg. He got
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the premium support. Oh yeah, that the ultra premium. You know,
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somebody could offer that. They'd be very happy with that. That would actually,
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that would be pretty good. All right, So we talked a little
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bit about that. We've got those. I do have another wheel of tech
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if we want to go that route, because I've just created one in the
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in the background here as we're talking. All right, all right, I've
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got some different options we can talk about. All right, We'll tell you
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what. Why don't we take a quick break, come back, we will
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spin the wheel of tech and come up with some stuff. We do have
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some stuff we want to talk about. Last week on the show, we
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talked about justin what happened to him when he bought a laptop from you bottle
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laptop from Costco And when you got it, yeah, it looked like it
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had gone through a demolition derby slick. Yeah, but we never talked about
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what you ended up getting, So we want to talk about what you got
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and why you're pretty blown away by the performance on that laptop. Absolutely all
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right, we'll be back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor
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Slick and I'm Justin. Let me find us on the web at tech talk
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radio dot com. We'll be right back now back to tech talk Radio.
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Hey guys, it's Tim havlock ak Darkness forts You nine. You can find
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me over at Facebook dot com board slash Darkness forts You nine, And you're
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listening to tech talk Radio. Before the break, we talked about I have
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a one of those wheels, the Wheel of Tech, all right, that
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we introduced last week. And I've got some options that we can talk about.
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Let's i'll discuss them a little bit here. We've got bitcoin, We've
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got PlayStation Xbox, We've got a funny tech story. H Ai um,
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Kevin Mitnick. Oh yeah, cell phones, browsers, electric vehicles, Barbenheimer
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sag after what is it? Is it after? After? Sag after a
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trau A tra Yeah, American lets see Arts Federation Radio Television, It's American
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American film and television radios American Federation of Radio Television Artist Radio. Okay,
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so it is American Federation of Television Radio Artists. Okay, make up your
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gang mind. Okay. Um. Then we also got Stitcher and then Justin's
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PCs. So those are the choices we have. So should I go ahead
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and spin it? Let's let's give it a spin and see where it's Okay,
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I'm giving it a spin right now, and we are going to talk
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about Barbenheimer. Oh no, all right. So this past couple of weeks
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ago, Barbie the Movie was released and Oppenheimer was released on the same day.
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Yeah, And people say that they did this on purpose because it was
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something to do with Christopher Nolan kind of having a falling out with Warner Brothers
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studio who made Barbie, and that they released Barbie on the same day as
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Oppenheimer. But then people were like, hey, what if we go see
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both movies on the same day because they're complete opposite of each other. I
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mean, one is talking about Barbie and the other is talking about the guy
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that invented the nuclear bomb. Right, So it's become a giant viral social
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media thing and people are actually doing it and saying they love it. Even
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Cillian Murphy was whose plays Oppenheimer in the movie, said he would like to
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play a Ken and then Barbie too, because Martin likely can't imagine him as
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playing Ken, he's such a serious. Yeah, more than likely there's going
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to be a sequel to Barbie, more over than Oppenheimer, because people have
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some some people are taking it a little difficult, saying there's there's messages in
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the film, and there's you know, a political undertone undertone on it.
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They're a political undertone on everything nowadays. And I'll be honest with you.
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I heard a talk show host and I'm not saying anything, I'm not judgment
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but I heard the talk show host talking about it, and he was very
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very He's very he's a little crotchety, right, and he was talking about
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how the movie had this this messages and he wasn't going to take his kids
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to see this movie because because of this this Barbie movie. Instead, he
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was gonna take it to Siapendheimer. And I'm thinking, oh, yeah,
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that's so much better. Did he think this through before he's Wait a minute,
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so both movies may have had these these you know, these tones to
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him. Let's talk about this though when it comes to movie. Sorry,
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now I know some of our listeners you may not have been to the theater
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in a while. We're a great theater here in town that shows movies,
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and the showing Oppenheimer the Show, and Barbie the showing India Anna Jones.
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Mission impossible, but let's face it, mission impossible. Indiana Jones huge movies.
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What happened to them? Where they Go Flash, which I loved,
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was huge movie. What happened to them? People are saying that movies just
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don't have that same clout that they had ten years ago. Well that that
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is definitely true because of all the streaming industry now, I mean everybody just
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you know, wants to stream them at home. But but not only that.
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I've heard from so many people that the reason they haven't seen Oppenheimer is
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because they literally can't. And let me explain. Oppenheimer was shot with seventy
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millimeter IMAX, and it's made, you know, national news. It's big
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thing about about the film itself physically wigne six hundred pounds and about eleven miles
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long, you know, and and and it had to people had to redo
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their theater, you know, theater broadcast boost to just be able to store
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the film. I think there's twenty. There's ony theaters, thirty thirty.
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There's only thirty theaters in North America or no in the world in the world
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that can support seventy millimeter IMAX. None of those are in Colorado now,
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I mean there's one in Phoenix. I think I think it's in Tempe.
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There's like ten in California. The cinema's Tucson. What does that support seventy
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millimeters? Yao's Tucson. I thought it was in Tempe. I thought it
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was in Tempe, Okay, so it could have been Tucson. But yeah,
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there's not a lot of places that you can go see the way that
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Christopher Nolan designed the movie to be, and that is in seventy millimeter IMAX,
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and so people are like, wow, I'm just not going to go
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see it. I'll just wait till it comes out on streaming. Is that
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do you think that what is happening to the industry right now? I mean,
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let's let's face it. You know, actors and actresses are clamoring right
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now. That's why they're they're gonna walk out. They're saying, they're saying
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you know, they're saying, hey, come on streaming rights, we need
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to get paid. I have seen the paychecks for for people that have worked
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in film, that have had roles that you see them in the background,
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or maybe they even have a couple of lines. The money they get is
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nothing. I mean, seriously, it's it's ridiculous. And you know,
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the companies like Disney and Paramount and Warner Brothers and HBO Warner Brothers, they're
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making pretty good money, and the CEOs of these companies are making pretty good
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money. But in the same breath, they're making that money because they're able
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to sell it to the or put it on their streaming service, which is
24:44
making a ton of money. But yet the actors aren't really seeing any of
24:48
the residuals they're not received. Yeah, they're not receiving receiving the residuals.
24:51
And yeah, that is a major selling point of this whole strike by the
24:56
SAG after after after after, Yeah. Yeah, anyway, yeah, that's
25:00
the Yeah, yeah, that's the whole main point of it. Not only
25:03
just that, but also AI. I mean they're they're also talking about AI
25:07
and and that's a whole other topic. But really, when it comes to
25:10
Hollywood. They're talking about how some companies, these these production companies, Warner
25:15
Brothers or whatever it is. I'm not saying Warner Brothers is actually doing this,
25:18
but the companies, like production companies, they are getting actors to come
25:23
in and they're paying them the very base minimum, which is like one hundred
25:27
dollars a day or something like that to come in and just do facial expressions
25:32
and facial movements, and they're capturing them on AI and then they're saying they're
25:37
basically going to keep them in perpetuity to use their likeness whenever they want and
25:44
they don't have to pay them for that. No. No, that's the
25:47
whole bit. And uh, you know, it's it's unfortunate, and it's
25:52
it's they something. That's why they needed to step up, and that's why
25:55
they need to have some kind of regulation on the industry. The same thing
25:57
goes with the radio industry. For those that know, I've worked for a
26:03
major, huge company that provided what we call voice work around the around the
26:10
well actually around the globe, because I did in other countries as well,
26:12
for the Voice of America. And here's the thing is, my voice is
26:18
out there. It's captured somewhere. There is nothing for me to say.
26:22
You guys can't reuse it. They and we have seen the technology. It's
26:26
super easy with voice because you you can eliminate that uncanny valley to just take
26:33
my voice and put it out there and okay, now this guy's a DJ
26:36
do in this format. Because they have the voiceprint, they can go ahead
26:40
and have it say whatever it wants. They can they can train an AI
26:42
to sound just like you based on what you've already said. And so like
26:47
even me talking right now, there could literally be an AI out there waiting
26:52
for me to talk or you to talk, or Slick to talk whatever,
26:55
and be able to train that AI to sound like us and then come out
27:00
and it will just all of a sudden. I might be listening to the
27:02
radio one day and I'm like, hey, wait a second, that's my
27:04
voice on the I don't oh look at that. AYI just a I just
27:08
shut you down for a second. That was trippy. I think as Justin
27:15
was talking, it shut him down. Yeah, that's what you get for
27:18
talking bit about AI. Okay, that is weird. Why would it happen
27:22
at that point? That was weird? You you suddenly froze, disappear okay,
27:27
and you were gone, yeah I made the ai mad I told you,
27:34
yeah no, But you know now I totally forgot what I was gonna
27:37
say. Well, you were talking about the fact that, yeah, they
27:41
could use your voice right at that very moment and be able to voice say
27:44
I is easier. I will say, this is easier to work. Well,
27:49
yeah, obviously voice is easier because you don't have to we're just working
27:52
on audio. But like with video, you know, you got to do
27:56
that too. But what was his name? Um? I just heard about
27:59
it today the Rock He donated seven figure donation to the SAGA after a foundation.
28:08
I guess it's fund whatever to fund all the actors and actresses that aren't
28:14
like super big millionaires that can just fall forward to be on strike for you
28:18
know, foref forever. He basically donated a seven figure something. They didn't
28:22
say exactly how much it was. But this is going all of it's gonna
28:26
go to actors and actresses who can't, you know, basically make their bills
28:32
during this strike, because that's what the studios are hoping for. They're hoping
28:36
for all these actors and actresses that really can't afford this to be like okay,
28:40
fine, we give in, we'll find whatever. Just just put us
28:41
back to work. And and that's what needs to happen is more of these
28:45
you know, super billionaires, super millionaires like Tom Cruise and Ryan Reynolds and
28:52
and other people like The Rock. You know, they need to be donating
28:55
some of their share of this if they want to see Hollywood continue or you
29:00
know, they need to donate some of this money. We have to remember
29:03
they're they're only a a minuscule percentage of working actors and actresses absolutely that are
29:08
that are making that kind of money. There are actors and actresses that honestly
29:14
they helped sleep in the car to and then go to their audition and hopefully
29:18
get get a gig and and they're working waiter or waitress or whatever. Yeah,
29:22
might be a paycheck for for a month. So you know, um,
29:26
I've had i'd just be away for some of the companies to shed some
29:30
people. Since you were going in that direction about your thought, Justin,
29:33
I was just thinking, I wonder if this is a way for them to
29:37
kind of clean house a little bit. Well, I don't know if I
29:40
would call it clean house. I mean that's kind of a very rude way
29:44
to say it. I mean, I know, I'm not I'm not putting
29:47
that on you, but like, no, I don't, I don't know.
29:49
I think that the studios are just looking at this going, hey,
29:52
we can make even more money and and not have to pay these people,
29:57
So let's just go this route. And they're they're coming across as you know,
30:00
they're they're they're sticking to the points. Oh don't worry about AI.
30:04
No, No, we're not gonna do that. No, no, And
30:07
they actually are. That's what there's this is all about, is it's about
30:11
AI in the future, and that's what these actors and actresses want is protections
30:15
against AI. I thought it was kind of crazy this past week with the
30:18
San Diego Comic Con happening, because every year comic Con has been we're going
30:23
to introduce this film, We're going to introduce these actors that are a part
30:27
of this cast, the under the actress saying after rules they cannot promote a
30:32
project that they're involved in. Um, so actors and actresses can suddenly be
30:37
promoting something that they've been involved in. So Comic Con this year was a
30:44
lot of comic material a lot of you know, well, it's artwork,
30:48
the whole bit. It's actually been going that way for for years now.
30:51
I mean I was a friend of mine, a Navy buddy of mine,
30:53
who just actually posted on Facebook, is like, hey, does anybody know
30:57
you know how to get tickets to Comic Con and you know what the procedure
31:00
is? And I told him, I said, honestly, and this is
31:03
just me talking, I was just like, look, Comic CON's been dying
31:06
for years. I mean, it's it's it's it's going back to its roots.
31:10
And that's a great thing if you're a comic book fan. Yeah,
31:14
but if you're expecting like a Hollywood spectacle with you know, massive movie studios
31:18
and you know, huge huge booths, with with actors and actresses showing up
31:22
in twenty four seven live TV coverage of every aspect of Comic Con, you're
31:27
not gonna get that anymore. Because Hollywood is pulling out of Comic Con.
31:32
They're they're not doing this anymore. And it's not just because of the strike,
31:36
It's it's been happening for years. But I told him, I said,
31:38
seriously, though, you know your your chances of getting tickets to comic
31:42
Con are very slim. You still need to be logged in at the stroke
31:47
of midnight ready to buy tickets because and then don't don't don't ever if somebody
31:52
says, oh, I got tickets for Comic Con for sale, no it's
31:55
not. It's not true because they only allow the original purchaser to enter Comic
32:00
Con with their IDs, so you can't resell tickets. So comic Con is
32:05
real, like you said, it's it's going back to its roots, is
32:07
going back to comics. Yeah, which, and I like that you should
32:09
tell your friend to come out here to Tucson because the two soon Comic Con,
32:14
which happens I believe it's the September slick is I think of September maybe
32:17
September around September four, and that really is focused along cosplay as well as
32:22
art, the comic books, the artwork, the you know, the great
32:27
artists that have done you know, I've done comic books and comic art for
32:30
a long time. So tuson Comic Con would be perfect to tell your friend
32:34
to come out to. And I think they have some pretty good guests lined
32:37
up. And as again, it's not that Hollywood crowd. Although they've done,
32:40
you know, movie stuff and had classic movie stars that have been in
32:45
classic movies out talking about it. But I think that would be kind of
32:49
a cool thing to see. September one, two and three, September one,
32:52
second, and third. All right, all right, now it's time
32:55
to spend the wheel one more time before take another break. Yeah, we
32:58
got to spend it and then let's see what we're gonna been. We're gonna
33:00
go, oh, Justin's PC. Aha, we'll be talking about that when
33:07
we come back. I mean Andy Taylor dive quick and I'm Justin. Let
33:10
me you can find us on the X what used to be called Twitter at
33:16
tech talk Radio. I guess yes, we'll be right back. And now
33:22
back to tech talk radio. So you got a new PC. Let me
33:27
tell you what happened to mind though, Oh, let me tell happen to
33:30
me? All right, what happens I've been I've been learning that I use
33:32
I use way too much things on one computer meeting. I use way too
33:36
many browsers. Wait, wait, too many windows, wait too many tabs,
33:38
and wait too many applications. Right, hey, right, you're always
33:42
pushing into the limit. So I've graduated from sixteen gigabytes too, thirty two
33:46
gigabytes too. We'll get to justin in a moment, sixty four gigabytes.
33:51
And now I'm at one hundred twenty eight gigabytes RAM on a wait on a
33:58
laptop? Yes, how did you do that? How is it possible?
34:02
I scrambled around for parts I've been making friends with with shops that just have
34:07
stuff laying around, right, and uh, came across a workstation. I
34:13
was able to get one hundred twenty eight gigabytes a RAM in there, and
34:15
and and I'm thinking this is going to solve my problem, because I've actually
34:19
had some some some jerking, some stuttering from me just trying to do stuff
34:24
like what do you mean yet going? Well kind of hard drive? You
34:29
guy? Well that's what It's a good question. Thanks for asking that,
34:32
Andy. All right, here's where it gets interesting. So again going to
34:37
cheap route. So on hundred twenty one hundred twenty eight gigabytes a RAM two
34:39
fifty six hard drive, A two fifty six dude. Wait, wait for
34:45
the punchline. Yeah, spinny. So, for those who don't know,
34:49
I love using hibernate. Oh yeah, oh there you go. I did
34:55
not I was not aware of this. I did not think it through one
35:00
one. Yeah, apparently, if you're using a hundred twenty gigabytes a RAM,
35:07
a two hundred and fifty six gigabyte hund drive is nowhere mirrory enough to
35:12
try to get into and out of hyperdate. So yeah, I hate Hibernate,
35:22
and I know people use it the hill. Its helps conserve the power
35:25
on your system and that, Yeah, I mean, I'm on the run
35:29
all the time. You know, I'm in meetings and I gotta go.
35:30
I don't have time to power down and shut down appoli hibernate. I'm mouth,
35:35
you know, all right, But but again on your hard drive.
35:37
You know, we were thinking, you're, you're, you're, it's it's
35:39
stuttering. You're getting problems one hundred and twenty eight gigs. Sometimes memory is
35:45
isn't the solution A driver update, um a hard drive update. I mean
35:50
I would probably update the hard drive before I went over thirty two gigabytes of
35:55
RAM. I'm gone. You know, I've played as far as the hardware
35:59
goals. I've played with Windows and then you're just guys like, well maybe
36:01
it's been and then I couldn't get Windows insult went to Lynux, which I
36:06
do truly love, and even Lytics was like, hey, man, come
36:08
on, cut it out. That's too much stuff. I don't have time
36:12
for a hold is I can't. I'm old? All right, Wow,
36:15
Now what what's the speed of the processor. It's an I seven. Well,
36:21
nice, Seven's pretty good now, Flo, I would think I'm wondering,
36:22
you know, if if I have any more performance issues, I'm thinking
36:25
to all, I guess maybe the only other thing is to step up to
36:29
an I eight and above. Then I don't know, there is no I
36:31
ate, no, I know tonight, but but even still, um,
36:37
I would say two fifty uh of a hard drive. I would probably go
36:44
with a one terabyte uh, because you're gonna it's probably what you're gonna get
36:49
now for say that is you know that it's gonna be a lot faster,
36:52
and I bet you that might take care of some of that bottleneck that you're
36:55
having, hopefully, And then have you done a BIOS update on the Oh
37:00
yeah I did, oh yes, I yeah, yes, I did.
37:04
Yeah. I kind of wonder of that. And even with the stuff that's
37:07
running in the background, though, you can bring something to its knees when
37:10
you're doing that, and that's kind of unfortunate, but that'll happen. I've
37:15
seen you know, my my, uh one of my friends leaves stuff open
37:20
on their desktop and they had about thirty programs running. I mean, that's
37:25
that's that's the ballpark I'm playing in. And you know, this is just
37:30
and it's just because of my experience. When I was working for Microsoft,
37:32
I had three computers and I was able to do multiple things, you know,
37:36
And now I'm like, well, you know, we should have hardware
37:38
strong enough to handle this, but I guess not, which now makes me
37:42
wonder. Okay, justin what did you get that I might want? Oh?
37:46
What he got? So we talked about how bad his system was.
37:50
Getting a system that was delivered and it had a hole in it. Uh,
37:53
well, I'll kind of recaver real quick. Wait, that was good
37:57
airflow justin yeah, of course, yeah, if a could turn on.
38:00
No. I ordered a beefy computer for work and I talk to my boss
38:07
were quick and I said, he, look, man, I need something
38:08
better than a surface because I'm doing a lot of stuff. And he's like,
38:12
yo, you know, the I T manager should have the best computer
38:15
in the district. I'm like, okay, enough said. So I went
38:17
to you know, Costco, and I found a really nice a sous rock
38:22
stricks. It was a seventeen inch laptop, right, beautiful computer. Right.
38:27
It had an I nine processor, thirty two gigs, a RAM whatever
38:30
in, Nvidio, RTX card in it, all that stuff. It came
38:35
in a bag like one of those white Amazon bags that you get when you
38:39
buy toothpaste. How is the condition of it? Yeah, So I opened
38:43
that bag and there was a giant hole in the box and I'm like,
38:45
oh, this ain't good. And I opened up the box and I look
38:50
at the laptop and the laptop is bowed, yeah, and it's cracked on
38:53
the back, it won't power on. The screen is split down the middle,
38:58
and I'm just like you gotta be kidding me, Like this is ridiculous.
39:00
Like I mean, this is twenty two hundred dollars. You know.
39:04
We returned that to Costco because Costco takes back anything. So what I ended
39:08
up doing was I went to Amazon and I found the fifteen point six inch
39:14
screen edition of this same laptop. And so I'll tell you the specs of
39:17
this, and I ended up getting this. This was only eighteen hundred dollars,
39:22
so it was actually cheaper than a seventeen inch edition. And honestly,
39:23
once I put that seventeen on my lap, I was like, this is
39:27
just too big, Like I don't need a seventeen inch, so the fifteen
39:30
point six edition. I've got an I nine thirteenth gen processor running at gosh.
39:39
I want to say it's four point nine four point eight four point nine
39:43
giga hurts whatever. I can't remember exactly how many cores. It's like twenty
39:46
four cores or something like that. I've got sixty four gigs of RAM.
39:52
I've got an rt Nvidio RTX thirty seventy t I in the in the in
39:57
the thing, and the hour supply is this massive brick that is two hundred
40:04
and eighty watts. WHOA really yeah, just for the power supply. If
40:08
I if I play a game I decided to install Diablo four on this computer.
40:15
If I play the game without the play without at being plugged in,
40:17
the battery drains within less than an hour. Like I'm talking about one hundred
40:22
percent down to zero less than an hour. First off, the fans sound
40:25
like a jet engine, right, I mean, it's like it's like in
40:30
the background the whole time, right, But it's an amazing computer. This
40:35
thing is lightning fast and everything is amazing about this. So yeah, I
40:38
gotta say this is my favorite computer. Honestly. I just upgraded my desktop
40:44
computer that I'm that I'm doing this show with right now, and I've got
40:46
an AMD processor. I went AMD finally, after all these years, I
40:50
went AMD and I love it. But I never used my desktop computer anymore
40:53
because I'm never at home and the desktops in the basement. So honestly,
40:59
my laptop is my workhorse. I do it for everything. I do it
41:00
for work, I do it for personal I do everything on it. And
41:04
it's a great laptop. And you got a pretty good deal on it.
41:07
So that's goods on Amazon. Yet And what kind of warranty do you get
41:10
with that? Is that the manufacture? Yeah, manufacturer. Yeah, you
41:15
don't get the nice Costco warranty with that one, because you know, because
41:19
we didn't go with Costco. But honestly, I would never go with Costco
41:22
ever again for a computer unless you're gonna buy it in store, because they
41:25
say that they ship it directly from the manufacturer. They don't ship it from
41:30
a Costco warehouse. Yeah, so if the manufacturers are throwing them these things
41:34
in bags like plastic bags and shipping them to you, then no, I'm
41:37
never gonna buy a laptop from Costco again. You might want to go in
41:42
store for something like that. Anyways. Well, yeah, but I looked,
41:45
I looked at you. You couldn't find this model. This model was
41:49
only available online, which you know, obviously there's a thousand models. So
41:52
I'm wondering Costco is not like Walmart? Is it where they actually allow third
41:59
party sellers to sell their products on their website and take they take a percentage
42:04
of that. Well, you know, they could they could be doing something
42:07
kind of like that, because when I contacted Costco support, they mentioned that,
42:10
yes, it does not come from a Costco warehouse, it comes directly
42:14
from the manufacturer, but cost it's with at a Costco price. So they're
42:19
probably doing something similar to Amazon where they guarantee a price, but but then
42:24
but then they take a cut of it or yeah, something like that.
42:28
Yeah, I've noticed that before. Sometimes if you're looking for a particular product,
42:31
you go on to Walmart's website, Uh, you might see it and
42:35
they'll say it'll take three days to deliver, four days, not in store,
42:38
and then you look at it. You go, this being shipped by
42:40
another prior party that's on this website. And just to wait, it's not
42:45
people to shop on their you know, on their Yeah, Costco doesn't do
42:49
it like third party, like it's you know, Joe Blow or whatever selling
42:52
a product. No, they they they if they ship, it's going to
42:54
come from the manufacturer itself. All right, all right, so they don't.
42:59
Yeah, you gotta. They're spin on that wheel. I do.
43:00
I'm spinning it right now. So now next one we're gonna talk about here
43:04
is note we already talked about that one. Um, give me one.
43:09
Oh, justin went to the Renaissance festival. Oh lord, yeah. Do
43:19
you eat a drumstick leg or a turkey leg? Yeah? Yeah. Actually,
43:23
this last weekend we went to the Renaissance festival. It was a Colorado
43:27
Renaissance Festival. I gotta tell you this real quick. I'll keep it short,
43:30
but this is this is a really cool thing. So we left our
43:32
house and when we left, it's down in Larkspur, Colorado, which is
43:36
about halfway between Denver and Colorado Springs, right and when we left our house,
43:39
it said fifty two minutes to arrival, No problem, right, that's
43:43
about how long it takes. Right as we're driving, I'm watching the you
43:46
know, the timer ticked down because as we get closer, obviously the time
43:50
will go. It gets down about forty five minutes. Then it just stays
43:54
forty five minutes, forty five minutes, forty five minutes, and then it
44:01
gets yellow, then it gets red, and I'm like, what is going
44:05
on. We're getting closer, why is it saying? We get down that
44:09
area and I twenty five, which is the major you know, interstate,
44:14
is backed up for like two miles with cars, and I'm like, oh
44:17
my god, this is worse than like a football game, Like, I
44:20
mean, what the heck is going on? There's only one way in,
44:22
one way out of Larksburg. What was going on was we got on line
44:25
finally. But what was going on is obviously they weren't open until ten am.
44:29
We were there at like nine to fifty, so all the cars were
44:31
backed up, yeah, waiting to get in, And I'm like, okay,
44:35
come on, first off, they got to do a better job than
44:37
this, like let people at least park, you know, or whatever,
44:40
like not backing up the entire interstate. We get in there. It is
44:45
a fantastic looking, cool place. I mean it's kind of in the forest.
44:49
It's not like super foresty, but it's kind of in the forest.
44:52
Everybody's in character. Everybody's like huzzah, you know, you know it's it's
44:57
it's so cool, right. But this place was designed for someone probably about
45:02
i'd say about five thousand people was designed for. There was at least ten
45:07
thousand people there. I mean the entire time that we were there, it
45:10
was constantly just excuse me, excuse me. I'm just gonna cut through.
45:15
Excuse me. I'm just excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse
45:19
me the entire time. Like it was it was standing room onely everywhere you
45:22
went. It was ridiculously busy. And also it was ridiculously hot. I
45:29
ordered a frozen margharita. Yeah, and by the time I turned around and
45:31
walked fifty feet back to my table, it was liquid. Oh No,
45:38
we did have sausage on a stick because because the line were the turkey yeah
45:44
basically, yeah, but because the turkey legs were about forty five minute line
45:47
and it was in the hot sun. So yeah, no, it was
45:50
ridiculous. I mean, if I could do that thing again with half the
45:52
people and half the temperature, I think it would be an amazing time.
45:57
But it was fun. We did get to see an act that was from
46:00
AGT America's Got Talent, Nice and and the guy was juggling fire and the
46:05
guy was like at the air end of it, he was like, Hey,
46:07
I need a strapping young lad to come up here. I'm gonna jump
46:08
on your shoulders and I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna, you know, juggle
46:12
fire on your shoulders. And he looks at me and he's like, hey,
46:15
are you in shape? But I'm like no, and he's like,
46:19
well next, and he's like he jumps over to somebody else who this guy
46:22
looks just like me, And I'm like, wait a thing. This guy's
46:25
like one hundred and eighty pounds just like me, you know, he looks
46:28
just like me. He gets up there and he's like, I got this,
46:30
and the guy jumps on his literally runs at him with his back turned,
46:35
runs at him, jumps on his back, maneuvers his way around to
46:38
the front, and he's like face to face with the guy and he's like,
46:40
hey, what's up. How are you doing? You know, like
46:43
oh man? And then and then and then he maneuvers his way onto his
46:47
back right again with his legs over his shoulders. Then he stands up on
46:52
this guy and this guy is freaking out, like I mean, this guy
46:55
could barely hold it. And he's like, oh, hold it, hold
46:58
it, hold it. And the guy's like, you know, struggling,
47:00
and he does this juggle where he's juggling fire on this guy's shoulders and I'm
47:05
thinking, I'm looking to this guy going yet that would have been a trip
47:07
to the hospital for me right there. That's great, yeah, but but
47:13
no. The Renaissance Festival is fun. If you guys ever get a chance
47:15
to go to one, they're they're amazing. They're fun. But the one
47:17
in Colorado needs a little work. It's been around for god fifty years,
47:22
but it needs a little work because there's so many people now that live in
47:25
Colorado. They just haven't expanded their operation to support that many people all at
47:30
once. It's just ridiculously busy. All right. I was asking you about
47:35
like mead, like ale like a drink, did get any well? I
47:37
did not get any mead they did. Again, the mead line was like
47:42
forty five minutes long, and I wasn't going to do that. So yeah,
47:45
again, it was just like what I could get at that moment.
47:49
Anyway, So real quick, one last one. We got one more spin.
47:53
I just spun it. We're gonna talk about X. Oh, we
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gotta talk about X. Back. Also, I've got something to tell you
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you might want to check out if you've got a printer that is no longer
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printing back with more of a tech talk radio I mean quick, and I'm
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justin. Let me get a new printer right back and now back to tech
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talk radio. So it happens when you have an inkjet printer and the sides
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said no longer print anymore. And this is the thing, if you get
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it. So I love laser I have laser printers in the home. I
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love them because you can use them and maybe if you don't use them for
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a little while, you're okay. But if you don't use an inkjet printer,
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if you've got it, especially in the heat that we're having here,
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but if you don't use it for a while, what happens is the heads
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on them clog up and you think, Okay, I'll just go out and
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buy new ink and that won't fix it. I found a product that I
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just wanted to talk about real quickly. I'm gonna put it through the paces
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this week. It's exc ink Jet and what it is. It's a kit
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that will allow you to hook up a hose to your ink head. So
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you take the the ink like a garden hose. It's out a garden hose
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like, well, you didn't specify a fire hose. No, like a
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rubber hose like. Just go tap into the fire hydrant in the corner.
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That'll clear out the heads. I'm already imagining how this can go. But
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it has like a syringe and it has a cleaner. You hook it up
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to the head of the printer where that ink cartridge is. You take those
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out, you put that in there, uh, and then you give it
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a good gentle cleaning. There's steps involved, but I'm gonna give it a
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try and see if it works. This instruction is unclear now the fire Department's
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coming. Sixteen bucks is what I found for. And it was either that.
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I mean, yeah, you could throw out a printer, printers or
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cheam. Now you can find a printer for sixty bucks. You know that
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comes with new ink. You're generally gonna get lower, lower ink portions when
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you buy a printer off the shelf or a low price, but something to
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check out if you want to save your printer. All right, and if
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you if you got an ink jet printer and you want to use that,
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I mean, obviously go for it. But I'm gonna say right now,
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I love laser printers. Meet laser printers. Laser printers are great. I
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mean I I upgraded. I got a color laser printer. Now, yeah,
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the upfront cost is a lot more expensive, but it lasts a lot
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longer and it doesn't care if you don't print for like two months. How
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does that quality on that color come out on that coloring color laser jet,
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because I've ever seen the output? Well, well, well, I actually
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I actually bought one of those knockoff HP knockoff color replacements kids where you basically
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have to hack into you have to tap into the original chip and you have
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to replace the chip onto the new one and then put it in there.
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Yeah that I'm thinking, okay, yeah, gonna save myself like three hundred
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bucks by getting this. You know, the color sucks right now because these
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are knockoffs. So like, if you're gonna do it, just swallow your
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pride and get the official color laser jet cartridges, the toner cartridges. You're
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gonna be much better off that way. But honestly, when when you do
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print with the traditional like real, it looks amazing. Can I give a
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little piece of advice If that's the case, you're gonna do it by yourself.
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A cheap cheap either laser jet, a gray gray scale black, you
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know, black and white, or even an ink jet cheap to have that
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for printing your basic text. So if you're basically printing just a letter something
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like that, you save your color a laser jet for when you really want
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to get a good looking job, maybe a flyer or something like that.
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But well, but have a cheap one that you could print to so you're
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not using up all that you know consumables. Uh. With a color laser
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jet, though you do have, the black one is a lot bigger than
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than the colors, so it because it expects you to be printing black more
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often than color. And if you do, as long as you tell it,
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like when you go to print, say I want this and gray scale.
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It will only use the black if you do, say, well,
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it looks like it's black and white, but I'm going to print it as
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it is. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. It might lose a little
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bit of that color, and it might, you know, drain it out
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a little bit faster. But usually you get twice as much black as you
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do all the other inks in color. All right, you spun the wheel.
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Uh X is the new Twitter? Go to X dot com. Just
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go to X dot com dot com. Yeah, no, I swear to
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god it's not a porn site. Thank you. Alright, No, you
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go to X dot com. Yeah, I see it out. What is
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it? It's Twitter? Yeah? The heck yeah, they've rebranded now,
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they've rebranded to X dot com. So I'm you know, we were we're
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all in your pre show. We're all in youre talking. What is what's
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going on? What is he doing with this? Why? Why is he
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doing this? Why is Elon Musk who owns X or Twitter as we all
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know it, right, why is he Why is he rebranding this? What
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is he doing? He's destroying this platform? My theory, and I'm going
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to ask you guys what you think is going on. But my theory is,
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I think because Elon Musk has always been a proponent of not using social
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media, he understands that social media is bad, especially for children. I'm
53:32
kind of curious. Did he buy Twitter just to destroy it because he doesn't
53:37
want people to use social media, or did he buy it to form a
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new platform? Which is what That's what the media is reporting now is he
53:45
wants to create the US version of wheat Chat. Wheat Chat is in China,
53:52
and China's wheat Chat is kind of like Twitter, but it's actually it's
53:58
all in one. You can do everything from banking to video calls, voice
54:01
calls, text messaging, social media, everything on one platform. What do
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you guys think? I think he has a post about that. There was
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something I came across where he had made comments towards and involving AI with Twitter
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or X and multimedia communication. Just like you said, I mean, I
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had heard that. I don't remember exactly where I heard that. When I
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heard about X, initially I was confused. I was completely confused, and
54:30
you know, I kept thinking why why why? But then I thought,
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all right, well it does kind of tie into space X. Well,
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he obsessed with the letter X. He is, he's there, he already
54:42
said that. But the problem is is Microsoft actually owns the patent on the
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letter X, which is crazy. How the heck can Microsoft own the patent
54:50
on the letter X? I don't understand. And I've seen the artwork where
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others have said, wait a minute, that belongs to something else as well.
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So who knows how this is going to play out. We'll have to
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have one more time to talk about that next week on the show, and
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a bigtime love to hear your thoughts. Are you on X? Are you?
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Are you on threads? Where are you? We'll share with us.
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We'll share with us your social media and how you use it. We'd love
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to know. Can email us tech guys at tech talk radio dot com or
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I am slick, and I am justin. Let me find us on the
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web at tech talk radio dot com. Have yourselves great week. We'll see you