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Episode 404 - The Lost Show · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Welcome to another
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episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird,
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and I'm justin Lemmey. Good to see all. Uh all, fresh from
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a nice Father's Day weekend last weekend? Yeah? Hell? Was it really?
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Why was it? Hell? Why was it? Heck? Well,
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I mean I had to work most of it. Oh oh yeah. Were
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you guys really busy at the the old water park there? Yeah? No,
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it was pretty busy. But you, I mean, I want to
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hear about Sean's camping to have honestly forget about me because I'm just gonna be
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a Debbie downer. Sean, you went camping like that, I'm job.
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Yeah. So we went to uh a state park we have been to here
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Indiana called Mississawana State Park. It's a recreation area just literally in the middle
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of Indiana. It's very rural, let's just put it that way. But
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when we had a good time, we took a camper down there and it
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was me, my buddy, Steve, Caitlin, and Max and we just
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it's Miking did some disc golf. Now, when you say disc golf,
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did did you was like the camground, did it actually have a disc golf
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course or did you just kind of actually have a disc golf course there?
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Yeah? Sweet? Oh man, now, yes, I use sent picture.
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What really surprised me more than anything is, uh, how big Max
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has gotten. He's huge? What happened? It's like I remember him big
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born and then suddenly boom, he's like he's how humans grow. I mean,
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you got kids? Yeah? Kids? It does seem like that,
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doesn't Now are you just and you're dead? Seun, you're dead now?
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I mean I've been I've been a dad over many times over. Isn't it
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like just in a flash though, all of a sudden you like look at
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him and it's like whoa, where'd he come from? Yeah? I feel
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like it just blew by. It's like, oh my god, he's walking.
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You know. It's this people would tell me when when Eric was born.
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They tell me, you got it. You gotta understand that life flies
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by so fast. They grew up so quick, they grew up so quick,
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and at that moment, you know, you're holding just this tiny little
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bundle in your arms and you're like nah, And for a while it seems
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like no, they're not going to grow up that fast. And then all
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of a sudden you turn around and they turn back around and they are like
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Sean, they're walking, or they're talking, or they're they're going to school.
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I mean, my kid for the keys to the car. My kids
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in first grade this, yeah, ask him for the keys of the car.
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My kids going to the first grade already. I'm like, oh my
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gosh, you don't realize it. But at the time, when you if
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you're a new parent out there and you're listening to this show, it does
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happen. And it's so crazy. People tell you all the time it's gonna
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happen, and you're like, nah, no, it's not. It's like,
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really it does. Oh they couldn't hold their head up. Oh no,
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I was walking. I still have a problem holding my head up.
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Have you seen the size of this thing? Yeah, that's a whole nother
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topic right there. No. No, But we had a really good trip.
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It was just a you know all, that's all. It's what I
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wanted to do. I wanted to go camping. Yeah, so we just
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picked the new We picked the state park we haven't ment to yet, drove
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down there. We probably won't go back there. Again right, because it's
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it's a very boat centric or very water sport oriented state park. We tried
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it and something new, but you know, we still had a great time
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and met some great people and hooked out over the fire. And were you
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concerned about Max being close to the fire though, because that's one thing I
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even even with Eric being like six and a half years old, I'm still
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like concerned about him just being dumb and getting too close to the fire.
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And oh yeah, I mean I grew up around campfires. I've seen other
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small hills around campfire. You know. Of course I'm worried about it.
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Of course I'm worried that he's gonna I'm gonna turn around, he's gonna run
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full blitzed a little hot. Yeah. No. The Green Valley Fire Department,
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you know we're we're in Green Valley. They just posted a thing advisory
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about that about this is the time where you do the exactly what you did
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Sean. You go camping and you have a pit and the kids get around
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there, and they're saying, you know, keep your kid three feet away
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from that. And pets, because pets do the same thing. Yeah,
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they're I think most pets are kind of inhibited by fire. They don't like
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it, but they could get too close and embers and all that other stuff.
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I'm kind of wondering, like, what technology, Sean, did you
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take with you for any of our listeners that are going to be doing any
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camping or anything like that. What tech do you take with you when you
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go out there and you're in the middle of nowhere. For Max, we
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still took the hatch, the baby hatch which we have, which is like
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the noise machine with the light on it. And the benefit of that is
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it runs a five volt, right, So we have USB. So our
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camper is new, right, it's twenty twenty three. We just bought it
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brand new, and it's load It's loaded with USB ports everywhere, right,
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because that's what That's just the way it is for campers now right. Everybody
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runs. They want to charge their cell phones, they want to charge their
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iPads, they want to chart you know, all USB devices. So there's
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USB ports and it all runs off twelve vault and it's got an inverter in
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it. So we brought the hatch. I took my camera I take whenever
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we go camping. I take my whys outdoor Version two which I've run in
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the travel mode so I can just connect it to my phone and set it
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up to record motion overnight and then downloads it to my phone. I didn't
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catch anything this time, but you know, when we've gone camping up in
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Michigan, I've caught raccoons, I've caught possums and all that kind of stuff.
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So I set that up every time. I took my camera with me,
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but we didn't really find the time, you know, take any nighttime
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pictures or anything. But I didn't really take a whole lot of tech with
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me this time, right it was just a there's no cell service there,
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so it just was a disconnect from really awesome. That's the best time.
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That's the best type of camping right there. Sometimes disconnecting. You know,
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here we are a tech show and we're telling you to disconnect. But sometimes
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it's the best thing in the world. You know, you see it all
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the time. You see people going on these on planes or on train trips
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or but even bus trips, and what are they doing. The kids are
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on their phone. They should be looking out the window and seeing, oh,
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that's something new, And sometimes you know, maybe maybe this is a
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great way to show your son, show Max, like you don't always have
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to be online or on the devices. Well, you know, Max loves
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being outside, right, we go for a walk, I'd say six out
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of the day, six days out of the week. We go for a
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walk every night, and when we come back in, he just points the
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door and wants to go back outside. He loves being outside. He loves
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going camping, right, he loves going for walks, he loves being in
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the stroller, just taking it in. And you know, he slept for
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a handful of it this weekend because he just didn't take a nap and then
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we're pushing over the stroller and all of sudden he's asleep. We're just fine,
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But you know, it's just I that's my hope is that he wants
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to be an outdoor kid, because that's how it was for me when I
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was a kid. I did a lot of camping growing up, and you
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know, I just want him to be able to enjoy doing that kind of
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stuff. So, yeah, no, that's awesome, that's that's great.
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What is one of the things you were in I remember the most, justin
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about growing up? Uh, you know, as a kid, we know
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obviously I remember camping. I remember camping, but my parents got a little
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pop up camper. And you know, you guys are just sitting you right
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now talking about camping. I was kind of back in my mind and thinking
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about the pop up camper, and you know, honestly I hated that thing
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because I didn't I wanted. I wanted to be like the cool kids and
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have you know, a trailer or an RV, you know. So for
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me, well yeah, but like for me, like my parents, you
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know, with the pop up camper, I thought at the time, you
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know, I was like, oh, really, it's just that, But
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honestly, I loved it. Once you get out there, you know,
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it's not about what you have for the camper. It's where you're going camping
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and getting out to the wilderness and seeing the things and being able to go
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out and have a campfire and make s'mores and you know, just hang out.
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It's so much fun. That's that's so. That's yeah, that's one
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of the things I remember. Oh, it's crazy because like you know,
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we talked about we've talked about Cosabanita on the show, right. Well,
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my grandparents, my Grandma's used to have property in Buna, Visa, where.
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That's what it is, right, No, in Denver, Casbin is
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in Deavor, but is just Universta. They call it Buna here, I
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know, don't even get me started on that. It's Buna Vista. Yeah,
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it's down south. That's where the founders of South Park came from,
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all right, Matt, Matt, Yeah, I traveled to Colorado as a
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kid and camped out there, so it's like, yeah, it's kind of
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It's kind of fun that Colorado has a little bit of my heart because you
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know, my my parents spent a lot of time out there, was my
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mom anyways, and then I spent a lot of time out there as a
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kid. Pretty much every summer we were going to Colorado. That's awesome.
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I haven't even camped here in Colorado since i've been here. I've been here
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seven eight years, eight years now. Have you never didn't you guys borrow
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your neighbors camper somewhere? Yeah, I though, Yeah, not up in
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the mountains, not in the mountains. That was East County, that was
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out in the plains. Okay, yeah, No, we have never been
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up in the mountains to go camping. I Uh, it's funny because as
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a kid, I remember one of the things I would do because I lived
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in the suburbs and Honey and the beach, right, we would take baseball
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cards and a clothes pin and put it on our bike and make it sound
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like we were a motorcycle and oh, right around the neighborhood forever. You
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know. Now they have technology on these bikes that actually make that sound similar
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with the text with the sound of an engine. Yeah, now you can
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have a bike that actually gives that. It's like we technology is cool,
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but it does take away some of that that spirit of fun that we had
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as kids. Wait, can we can we do something where because what I
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remember doing as a kid is I would take my bike. I would tie
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a action figure on a string behind the bike, and I would like go
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wakeboarding. I would oh yeah, and I would like I would try to
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get the little action figure to like hit the curb or you know, see
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how scuffed up I could get it. Do they do that now with technology
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too? No? Okay, well on the video day. I saw an
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ad the other day, a cartoon. It was pretty funny. The mom
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tells the kid to go outside, you know, get off the computer,
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get outside and play. So what is he do. The mom comes out
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and looks later he's sitting in the front yard with a big twenty five inch
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screen play in his Xbox or PlayStation five to the front yard. She's like,
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what are you doing? You told me to come outside and play.
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Yeah, well play not wrong. Yeah. So I want to mention something
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that happened to me today speaking of the technology, you know, like we're
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addicted to technology, you know, we we have so much of the phones
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and everything. Right, So I was out golfing today with my company that
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I worked for, So they invited me to go to a play in a
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tournament. It was a sponsored tournament, so we had a foursome that was
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the director of the golf for Highland Hills, right, and then the general
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manager of golf. So these guys are like pros. And then it was
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also me and then my boss together in a cart. Right. So on
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the very first hole we tee off. We get that in the carts.
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I'm walking down to collect my ball because my very first t shot was horrible,
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but my boss was driving the cart. So we get back in the
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cart we go, and all of a sudden we get to the next phone.
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He goes, hey, where's my phone. I'm like, uh,
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I don't know it. It was just in the cart the cup holder.
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He's like, I yeah, I know, it was just here. I'm
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like, well, it can't be far because you just used it, so
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it's got to be somewhere back there. He went back, looked for it,
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couldn't find it, couldn't find it anywhere. He spent like twenty minutes
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searching for it. I'm like, oh my gosh, well, let's I
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got an idea. Because he has an Android. I'm like, let's use
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the Find my Phone on Android. Same same same concept as my iPhone.
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He didn't even know they had that. Oh yeah, they've had it for
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years. Oh cool, before before iPhone everyone had it as usual. Anyway,
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So we open up Find my Phone and he signs in as a guest,
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and he starts pinging his phone and can't find it. It's not responding
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like, wait, hold on, you just literally had your phone. What
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was going on here? Do you have location turned off or something? He's
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like, no, no, no, I keep it all on. So
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I try to call it it. Rings once goes to voicemail, call it
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back again. Rings twice goes to voicemail. I'm like, well, it's
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ringing, but it's weird. It goes to voicemail. Anyway, fast forward
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about thirty minutes. We're like, you know what, forget it, let's
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just play because we're already behind. We're gonna come back. We'll finish the
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round after eighteen holes, we'll finish it back on the hole we started,
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and we'll search again. So we play the whole round the whole time.
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The whole time, I feel naked without my phone. Yeah, I feel
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naked. I can't people, you have to. Can I text my wife
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with your phone to make sure she knows? Like, uh, yeah,
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sure, you can use my phone to text your wife whatever you know.
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But it was just like the whole time, Oh my gosh, I feel
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so naked about my phone. We're so addicted to technology. I need my
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phone. I need my phone. So we get back after the whole round,
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we get back, we circle back to where we're at, get there
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and I'm I'm looking around, I'm looking in the bushes, I'm looking in
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the weeds, can't find it. And then right there's like a little like
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a like a cold of sack. U turn for the carts. Right at
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the end of that cold de sack. You turn, there's like a mud
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puddle where just all this rain that Denver has been having is just there's a
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big mud puddle. But the way where it's situated is where the cart would
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turn to make a sharp turn to get around the corner. And I'm like,
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you know what, I wonder if it could be in here, but
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it was mud. I can't see anything. So I grabbed my seven iron
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and I just start digging in the mud and boom, boom, are hidden
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me. It was buried in the mud. The moment I picked it out
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of the mud, and this is a pixel six Android. It was me
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all right, I pick it out of the mud, it starts going bing,
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bring bing, bring brink because now I can get a signal. The
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signal was blocked because of all the mud. And it's still worked after being
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under water for three hours. The fact that it's still worked is pretty amazing.
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It's pretrazy. He literally he literally took it into back to the clubhouse,
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took it to the bathroom and rinsed his phone underwater to rinse off all
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the mud. And the phone still works. Just fun. Are the pixels
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that new IP sixty eight rating? Yes, they are and actually his pixel
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did send him a notification. I've never seen this before because I've never had
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to have it, but his pixel sent them a notifications saying USP port USB
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port disabled because it detected water. So as soon as it detects water,
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it disables the USB port so that way it doesn't fry the rest of the
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machine. And all he has to do is go and clean it out with
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a Q tip or a can of air, and bam, he's got his
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phone back. But the phone worked well, I mean, but no,
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the phone worked. I mean literally, the phone worked. I was he
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was able to get cal X and then I opened up to find my phone
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app again and I tried to ping it. Bam, it showed it right
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there where it was right next to me in his hand, and I was
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like, well, that was what it was. It fell well in the
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mud because he made a turn too hard and it fell out of the cart
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and he wasn't watching and it fell under the mud and the mud blocked the
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cell phone signal. Wow, I'm I'm just surprised. I'm pretty astonished that
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it still works after being in the mud and the water and everything else.
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It's pretty good stuff. Okay, So I did have a question, guys.
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I saw a thing this week that Microsoft is ending support for the Microsoft
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Series One, which is what I've got their Xbox. I'm wondering, if
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people don't game, should they even think about an Xbox? Does it have
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other reasons that somebody might think about maybe getting either of the two Xboxes that
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are going to be supported. I'm thinking now maybe it's time to get the
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Series X because I can't play DVDs on mine because you know the Xbox Series
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One it ended up going and to replace the DVD player in it you have
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to do wiring soldering, and I'm terrible with a solder gun. So I
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just thought, yeah, maybe the thing to do is is upgrade. I
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use it more though for almost like a like a Roku or a fire sticks,
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like a media center. I use it as a media center, but
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there might be a game I want to play. Are the games any good
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on the Xbox? Well, I mean with the game Pass you get access
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to tons of games, right, So that's what I have. I haven't
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bought a new Xbox an Xbox exclusive game in a long time because I just
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play on what's on game Pass, and I use it for YouTube TV,
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And I use it for Plex, I use it for Twitch, I use
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it for you know, So when I'm down in the basement on my computer,
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I've got my computer face to the wall and then I have my Xbox
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on the projector with the screen down and I can just toss on YouTube TV,
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I can toss on Plex, I can toss out whatever, and it's
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it works great. Is what is the big difference between the two, the
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Series S and the Series X. Series X is the top of the line.
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I mean, it's their flagship. It is. It's more powerful than
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the Series S. Series S is also smaller center, it's white versus the
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Series X being more of a rectangle, taller black. And I believe the
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Series X is the one that has the disc drive. It's the Series S
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that does not. And again, I mean, if you're a hardcore gamer,
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if you are like really looking for the best of the best quality in
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your games, you're gonna want to go with this Series X. If you
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just kind of like, hey, you know, media Center here, maybe
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a game or one or two here or there. And especially if you're just
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gonna be doing game pass where you know a lot of the games are gonna
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be games from the Xbox One era, you know, you probably could get
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away with an Xbox Series S without having to go shut out the extra What
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was it, one hundred and fifty? I think it is extra for the
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different x It's like a I think five hundred I want to almost say,
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like five hundred and forty nine bucks versus two hundred and ninety nine for the
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Series S. Yeah, so yeah, like one hundred and fifty extra.
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So I mean, yeah, if you're not gonna be a hardcore gamer looking
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for the best quality graphics, the best quality sound, I mean, the
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Series S is still a great uh step up from the Series One. Really,
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it's just not as powerful as the Series X. Right. Well,
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now, what kind of games are are available on game Pass? So I
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mean I might be able to try some of them out for those listeners that
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are thinking, maybe, you know, with this, maybe I'll go ahead
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and give it a try. Is there is there some that are recommended?
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Yeah, well you can go to Xbox dot com and check the gay Pass
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library to see what's available. But I mean it's always rotating, but there's
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so much good stuff. Any any I guarantee any gamer that's out there can
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find something to play on game Pass. That different. Absolutely, so I
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think it's totally worth I mean, it's totally worth it in my opinion.
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And I don't play that many games on my Xbox. But you know,
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I also have the PC game Pass, right, so I still it does
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I can do both gas and you have to pay for both though. No,
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if you get the Xbox game Pass, it comes with the PC game
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Pass. Oh cool, and then that game Oh that gives you the ability
18:51
to play a flight simulator, right, because that's still up there, isn't
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it. I believe it is. Yes, yes, I finally make the
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move, and then I would find out that it's not up there anymore.
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Yep, you know, you're right. That's the problem with any type of
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subscription like this, right, there's no guarantee that the game you want is
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going to be available for an extended period of time. Right. I had
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Dirt Dirt Rally two point zero on PC game Pass and then it was just
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gone one day, oh, because they've removed it. Right, So there's
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no guarantee that your game is going to stay on game Pass. Well.
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But here's the thing, though, even if it doesn't stay on game Pass,
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they should then I've always gotten notifications saying, hey, check out these
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games before they're gone, especially if you add the game to your library or
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actually play the game and it goes away, it will tell you, hey,
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these games are about to leave. And what do you do then?
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Is by having the subscription of game Pass, you get to buy the game
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at a discount, so you don't have to spend full price. Ooh,
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I like that. Now, Sean, you're gonna be in the same boat
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as I am if I decide to go get the S or the Series X.
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I'm thinking of the X because at Target they also have for ninety nine
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the refrigerator that is shaped like an Xbox Series X. But I'm thinking,
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can you back up? Can you transfer the info from the Series one to
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the new Series s RX. That's a good question, don't I don't know.
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I don't know that. I don't know what the process is to transce
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Oh, your data, right, I don't know. Oh, are you
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talking about like save games and stuff? No, like your your your channels,
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like your plex your Yeah. Well so I don't know how it works,
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but I believe that if you would log in to your new Xbox,
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you should be able to have the option to add those channels, or it
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might already have them if you log it out of it, Well, you're
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gonna have to add your apps. You have to add the apps to it.
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Yeah, apps like your cloud saves and all that stuff should transfer just
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with you logging into the new machine. I'm gonna have to give it a
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try and I'll let you guys know next week. Now, with all of
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the tech that has been happening this week, one of the big stories along
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with that has been and many people don't understand the whole reddit thing. We've
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talked about this over the last couple of weeks, as we've seen this kind
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of every week there seems to be something different, and this week it's John
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Oliver. John Justin has lost though this one. I don't know what's going
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on with this one. So Reddit gave subreddit mod so moderators of subreddits.
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Right, So, if you like a subreddit, you can apply to be
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a moderator. Right. Basically that means you approve content, you ban users
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for inappropriate content. That YadA, yah yah. So a lot of subs
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went dark in response to the Reddit API deal the whole thing. Right.
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Reddit came out and said all right. Mods, If you're not going to
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come back online, we're going to kick y'all out and replace you, and
21:45
we're going to find people that'll bring your subs back online. So what a
21:49
lot of subredits did is they came back on, they marked themselves not safe
21:56
for work, and all they're posting our pictures or videos of John Oliver.
22:00
That's it. Why John Oliver? What did he do? Well? No
22:04
idea. I've seen other subreddits come back online where they do malicious compliance,
22:11
where if they're talking about the Rockies, like, for instance, the subreddit
22:15
for the Colorado Rockies baseball team, instead of coming back online talking about the
22:19
baseball team, they talk about literally the Rocky like the Rocky Mountains. That's
22:25
all they talk about, like stuff like that. They're they're complying, but
22:27
they're not staying true to the tone of their subreddits. So that's what we
22:33
were talking about here. So the right. So some subrettes are coming back
22:37
and doing that. Some have come back and are operating as normal, right,
22:41
But most of them are trolling Reddit by doing these types of things.
22:45
But what most of them are doing is marking themselves not safe for work.
22:49
Not safe for work means obviously not safe for work, meaning it's adult content
22:53
or other interporpritate contrenty, and some people may have that flag that they wouldn't
22:56
be able to see it. But Reddit can't serve ad on not safe for
23:00
work community, So most of these is not safe for work and they can't
23:11
be they can't be served ads on those community. You can't be monetized.
23:14
Oh my god, this makes so much sense because I people are complaining about
23:17
all these ads on Reddit. I never see ads on readit because I'm always
23:21
browsing not safe for work content just dead well no not like that I'm talking
23:26
no, no, not like that of humor m Yeah, yeah, but
23:30
I never saw red ads on Reddit. How how are they going to sit
23:33
fright? Because the apile is going to be July first, right, I
23:37
mean you've got so Reddit doubled down and basically still still was just bashing on
23:45
the Apollo dev saying, you know, they have not apologized for saying that
23:49
he tried to you know, blackmail, lamb and all this stuff and which
23:53
is not true. Yeah, and you know they're saying that, yeah,
23:56
we've tried to, We've tried to work with these develop helpers and trying to
24:00
have it this developer, and there's other third party developers that are saying,
24:04
like, here's all of my emails that went unanswered from you guys, So
24:10
yeah, tell us, tell us you're working with us without telling us you're
24:12
working with us, right, yeah. It's one of those scenarios where I
24:17
don't know what. The timeline that Reddit did this in is so bizarre because
24:21
it's like they announced this plan and said, all right, this was Jude
24:26
first, right, it was at the beginning of the month, and said
24:27
July one, this is this is effective right at the end of the month.
24:30
One month. One month. That is impossible for any developer on any
24:34
platform to beta test user tests. Polish and the developer for Apollo said,
24:41
it's gonna take me longer than that to make sure that my people who have
24:44
subscriptions for Apple get their money back. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean
24:48
look, Reddit. Reddit has been going downhill for a long time. I
24:51
mean years. It has been not it's not the same as it was back
24:56
in you know what, early twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve.
25:00
It has really not been the same. And this is kind of like the
25:03
final nail in the coffin. I really think this is going to be the
25:06
end of that, and and not not only just Reddit, but look at
25:08
what Twitter's doing after Elon took over, and he's doing all these changes,
25:12
I think, and I mentioned this about the fetiverse, all these new ones.
25:17
Hang on to that Fox. We've got to take a break, but
25:19
we come back. I want you to tell us about the feti verse and
25:22
tell us about some of the options for those that say I don't want to
25:25
play the Twitter game or I don't want to play, you know, the
25:27
Reddit game. We'll do that when we come back. I'm Andy Taylor,
25:30
I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm justin. Let me find us on the
25:33
web at tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back. And that
25:37
fact to tech talk radio all right now. Before the break, I was
25:41
talking about the Feediverse, the new well, I mean, it's more than
25:47
just a social media but you know, we were talking about the big big,
25:49
the big three. You know, you got Facebook, Meta, You've
25:52
got Twitter, you got Reddit. Twitter's already going through some problems. Reddit
25:56
now we talked about it's going through some problems or Facebook we heard this week
26:00
also having some issues. Well, yeah, definitely Facebook's have some issues and
26:03
Soo's Instagram. I mean that's part of Facebook meta, right, But people
26:07
are starting to go, wait, hold on a second, I don't I
26:10
don't want all of my data. I don't want all my data to go
26:12
to like the big tech companies who are just going to sell my data,
26:15
right, and that's what they do. I mean, you're not paying for
26:18
Facebook, You're not paying for Twitter. I god, I hope you're not
26:22
with the blue check mark thing. But even if you are doing that,
26:25
you're still not paining. You're not paying for Reddit. If you're not paying
26:30
for a service that you're getting, you are the product. Yeah, we've
26:33
talked about that. Your your data, everything you do is getting scraped and
26:38
it's getting archived and it's getting sold to advertisers. A good example of this
26:44
is if you're listening and you've been online and maybe suddenly you thought, oh,
26:48
I'm going to look at an ad. Here you saw an ad.
26:51
It captured your attention and it was for a product, you know, widget,
26:55
whatever, and you clicked on it and you looked at it and act
26:56
me widget. Yeah. You will notice though, even if you're on Facebook
27:00
when you do this or vice versa. On Instagram, you may notice you'll
27:04
start seeing ads for the either that same product or a product that's very similar.
27:10
And again that's telling you because they're seeing oh, they're looking at this
27:14
or they're looking at that. Well, what we've even noticed with so we
27:18
have metro net now with your internet service, our internet, we're now seeing
27:23
that Carolin and I are getting similar ads on are both our devices because we're
27:26
using metro net. So I believe metro net is selling our data. Oh
27:30
yeah, absolutely. So it's interesting because like, but I'm getting ads that
27:34
are similar for board games and stuff, and it's like, but here's the
27:37
thing about ISPs. ISPs are not under the same regulations. They're under stricter
27:44
regulations than than than then the companies like Facebook and and and Twitter. Okay,
27:48
you you are paying your IP for a service, you can contact them
27:53
and say do not sell my data. If you don't specifically call them and
28:00
talk to them or whatever you have to do and tell them do not sell
28:04
my data, they will buy default sell your data. And it's in the
28:08
terms of service. If you read through the three hundred and fifty seven pages
28:14
of whatever ISP contract you signed, it will say by default, you agree
28:18
that we will sell your data unless otherwise specified by you, and don't forget.
28:23
The same applies with that smart TV that you've bought. You may notice
28:27
it, especially I know LG does this. Like if you get a smart
28:32
TV and you may start it up and you may notice there is a disclaimer
28:36
that they can take the information of the channels you watch, the content and
28:41
how you're watching. When do you change the channel in the middle of an
28:44
ad? What was in an ad for? Which ads do you watch?
28:47
Which adds do you replay with your DVR if you have a DVR. All
28:51
of that is data that's compiled, and of course they can make extra money
28:53
on it. You know, you guys heard about that television that was going
28:56
to be coming out and I wish I remember the name of the vendor,
29:00
but they're gonna be a Roku. I think it was a Roku deal.
29:03
They were going to be putting out a television that was basically was it going
29:07
to be free or something like that? And then yeah, but it had
29:11
a bar underneath it that would serve you, that would serve ads. Oh,
29:15
it was like an LED screen or something. Yeah, and it would
29:18
you know when you're you know, like if you're thinking like, wait,
29:22
well what does that look like? What does that think you think of?
29:23
When you're watching your favorite news station and you've got that lower third, that
29:27
ticker that scrolls around the bottom right, that little ticker that gives you the
29:32
news and the weather and the sports updates. That's kind of the idea behind
29:36
this is that whenever your TV's on, it's just going to be scrolling ads
29:41
across this screen. You know. I've heard something the other day too that
29:47
you know, the Facebook is is, you know, trying to monetize itself
29:49
a little better. But that's you know, in my experience, if you
29:53
guys ever bought anything off a Facebook ad and not gotten well not gotten?
29:59
No, well no I haven't. I have boughten things. I've seen ads
30:03
on Well, I've seen ads on Facebook, and then I go and I
30:07
look at it on Amazon, and it's like ten dollars cheaper because when they
30:11
put the ad on Facebook, they bump up the price ten bucks to cover
30:15
their cost of advertising. Yeah, so I just buy it off of Amazon.
30:18
I'm like, oh, same thing, same deal, put ten bucks
30:21
cheaper. I've done that, and yes, I did it as a test
30:25
and I did not ever receive the product because it was such an amazing,
30:29
crazy price. There was a company just recently. I saw the ad on
30:33
Facebook and it was for a monitor that went on your laptop and you could
30:38
pull it out and you had three screens. Then it stepped to the back
30:42
of the laptop. The price thirty nine dollars. I thought, oh my
30:47
god, three screens thirty nine dollars. You have your middle screen, which
30:51
is your laptop, then you have these two screens on that. This is
30:52
amazing. And I looked as soon as I saw that price, I said,
30:56
Nah, this has got to be a scam. This is never going
30:59
to be real. You're gonna have to buy the screen separately or whatnot.
31:03
And I let it go. Well. On Instagram, I was fed the
31:07
same type of ad, different company, and I clicked on that one and
31:11
it was four hundred and forty nine dollars for this type of product. And
31:14
that seems okay, that seems a little more legitimate. However, do you
31:18
buy from there or do you go on like you said, justin Amazon or
31:22
even a local vendor. Maybe you go to a big box store or even
31:26
a mom and pop that might sell specialty products and buy it there. So
31:30
you've got to be really, really careful when you're buying online. But they're
31:33
asking people now, and this is crazy, They're asking them to contact the
31:37
merchant when you get a product that's not delivered as promised or it's not the
31:41
right product, instead of the merchant, because the merchant it's going to cost
31:45
about three hundred and fifty dollars for a merchant to return that versus getting it
31:51
directly from the actual vendor so or from the bank or the credit card.
31:57
So you don't want to do it. They're saying, please start using the
32:00
merchant. But sometimes these merchants never answer. I mean, you want to
32:05
do this with that TV? You never got that television? Did you remember
32:08
that TV that was a Kickstarter? Oh? Oh the monitor? Yeah no,
32:13
it was the TV as a monitor. Yeah no, I did that.
32:15
Yeah. But I mean, so when you're saying merchant, you're talking
32:19
about the people that sell it and versus the people that are the buy the
32:22
people that manufacturer. Oh oh yeah, yeah. Yeah no. Well see
32:25
that's the thing I don't. I don't. I honestly, I don't have
32:29
to worry about now. I'm not everybody obviously I don't have to worry about
32:31
that. American Express. Yeah, I don't have that. Which card does
32:36
that? I have the Platinum Platinum card. Yeah. So I just call
32:38
American Express and they deal with it. I don't care. It doesn't matter
32:42
what I make. I don't care what purchase it is. I call American
32:45
Express and say I don't like this, I want my money back. They're
32:47
like okay, and then they just they'll deal with it. Like I don't
32:51
have to worry about that. But no, I get what you're saying.
32:52
But yes, I did have to go to uh oh gosh, what was
32:58
that? Eve? Eve was the company. Eve Spectrum was the monitor,
33:02
and yeah, I paid I paid it for full. I paid it in
33:06
full, and they said, oh, yeah, it's gonna be shipped,
33:07
and then like three four weeks later, it still hadn't shipped. And I'm
33:09
like, come on, guys, it's been over a year since you first
33:13
announced this. I put my one hundred dollars down over a year ago.
33:16
Or no, actually no, three years because it was before the pandemic.
33:21
And yeah, and then finally in twenty twenty two it said hey, it's
33:23
gonna ship, and then it never did. So yeah, yeahah. But
33:27
then I ended up contacting the American Express and said, yeah, they they
33:30
are not they're not being honest, and they're like, okay, no problem.
33:32
I've always heard a good warning if you're gonna buy anything online, never
33:36
buy with a debit card. Oh god, was by no? Never use
33:39
a debit card period? No ever? Yeah, yeah, no, don't
33:44
do it because as soon as somebody gets your you go to a gas station,
33:46
you buy gas, right, yeah, you go, you put your
33:50
card in there? What if what there's a skimmer a skimmer in there?
33:52
Right? If you use a debit card, now they've got access to your
33:55
bank account. They're gonna drain your bank account. What's gonna happen? Your
34:00
bank's going to give your money back eventually? Also, what if you need
34:05
to make bills or they put a hold sometimes when you buy gas, for
34:08
example, so you might have a two hundred dollars or one hundred dollars hold
34:12
on your card if you were getting ten dollars worth of gas, Z doesn't
34:15
know when you're gonna stop. And if you don't have that, that could
34:19
be a problem. So you gotta go don't ever, you yeah, don't
34:22
ever use your debit card ever anywhere except for getting money out of the ATM.
34:25
Okay, So back to the whole idea of this feediverse though, So
34:30
yeah, we got yeah, what what are the alternatives for somebody if they
34:35
they say, well, there's you know what, they say, maybe I
34:37
don't want to do Twitter, And you know, Twitter is getting to the
34:39
point now where it's becoming kind of it was it was almost like Facebook on
34:45
Father's Day because everybody's posting photos of them with your dad, which was cool,
34:47
but it was like yeah, okay, well okay, So there's a
34:52
couple options if you want to be the Twitter, if you want to if
34:55
you want to look at what was what what Twitter basically was back in two
35:00
thousand and seven, eight nine, ten, you know whatever, Uh,
35:05
you want to go to Mastodon Masthdon is it's called it's a mastadon dot social
35:12
and that is the new Twitter. So it's again it's fetter. It's it's
35:15
called the feediverse because it's decentralized. There's no one particular company, no one
35:22
particular person who runs this platform, so you can't be censored. I mean,
35:29
obviously if you're gonna say some really crazy things, you know, like
35:32
sexist or racist or whatever. Yeah, okay, yeah, you're gonna get
35:37
blocked. Okay, but if you would oh hey, I'm maga, right,
35:43
Okay, you're not gonna get censored on. That's how I kind of
35:45
associated with the Maston that it was more leaning to the right. But you're
35:51
saying it's not. No, Actually I found the exact opposite. When I
35:54
first got on on Masdon, it was very leftists. Was a lot of
36:00
things talking about, you know, anti Trump or whatever, and I'm just
36:04
so tired of talking about this already, but seriously, it was. It
36:07
was more leftist to me. But here's the thing that was that was the
36:10
default Masterdon. Once you get into Macedon, you sign up for an account,
36:15
you start tagging hashtags that you like, hashtag golf, hashtag tech,
36:23
talk radio, hashtag whatever, and you start following these particular topics and then
36:29
it starts serving you content based on those topics that you like. So it's
36:34
alchorarithm is gonna gonna work for you? Yes, And again it's it's federated,
36:38
so it's not gonna be controlled by one particular person, one particular company.
36:43
So if there's an instance of Masdon that you just you're like, oh
36:46
wow, this is getting really toxic. You just leave the instance and go
36:51
to a different one, right, and and and so it's it's you still
36:54
get the same content, but you don't have to deal with all the other
36:58
stuff that you don't want to see. So now let's move on to Reddit
37:00
oka. Right, Reddit was the big one. Right, let me dot
37:05
world. And it's funny I say this, lem me dot world. It's
37:07
not spelled like my name. My name is spelled l E M M E.
37:10
This is l E m m y dot world. Now there's there's a
37:16
lem me dot world, a lem me dot one, There's a bha dot
37:21
org. There's a few other ones. These are the new reddit okay,
37:27
and my favorite is let me dot World, partly because I like the name.
37:31
I'm a little biased. Now is this an open first sign ups or
37:35
do you have to like get on a waiting list, because I'll be honest,
37:37
Well, you have to get approved, you sign up, and you
37:39
have to wait. I was waiting for Blue Sky, and Blue Sky just
37:43
took forever. Finally I just said I'm done and I can't is not federated.
37:46
Blue Sky is not a part of the federverse. Let me dot World.
37:51
I signed up for let me dot one immediately got approved. Let Me
37:53
dot World took me about five days to get approved. But they were also
37:58
experiencing a man of influx of users after this whole Reddit fiasco. So they've
38:05
kind of they've kind of beefed up their defenses, they've gotten their staff up
38:08
to par, they're starting to approve things a little bit more. I absolutely
38:14
love le me dot World. It is what Reddit used to be back in
38:19
twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, when content was made by humans
38:23
and people actually would help each other out instead of just trying to troll each
38:28
other or trying to make people mad by posting things that would make them mad
38:31
or whatever. And I could say this in a multitude of ways, which
38:35
I'm not, but it is what Reddit used to be and what Reddit should
38:40
have been. Let me Yeah, they don't call them sublimes. Yeah,
38:45
they call them communities instead of subreddits. They call them communities. So a
38:49
couple of them that I'm particularly so. I'm subscribed to Denver Nuggets right oh,
38:53
I'm wearing the shirt right now. I'm subscribed to that community. I'm
38:57
subscribed to World News and Rawoyd, you should know, mildly infuriating, which
39:04
people just post things that kind of make them a little bit mad. Let's
39:07
see here what else I got. And you start your own your own Absolutely,
39:12
you can start your own community, and you can start your own Lemmy
39:15
instance. If you want to do a Lemmy instance that is just for you
39:20
and your friends or you and your family, you can do that, and
39:23
then you can actually federate it with the rest of the federation, so that
39:28
with anybody that might Let's say, for inst for instance, let's say Sean
39:31
wants to start up a Lemmy dot Sean or a Sean dot Lemmy or whatever
39:36
it is, right, and for his family to talk about camping trips.
39:39
Right, Let's say his family joins that Lemmy verse and starts, you know,
39:45
interacting with the content. Then Sean goes and says, hey, you
39:50
know what, I'm gonna go ahead and put this in the fetiverse. And
39:52
now if I'm on let me dot world, I can see Sean's content on
39:57
his private Lemmy instance. Oh, because he federated it, right, perfect
40:02
the big Ones another quick break. But when we come back Rumble, you
40:07
mentioned that I want to find out what that's all about right, oh yeah,
40:09
rumbling kick you all right, we'll do that when we come back with
40:12
more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean, and I'm
40:15
Justin. Let me find us on well, you can buy us on Twitter
40:17
at tech talk Radio. Now back to tech talk Radio. So we're talking
40:22
about alternative social media's right. So you have Twitch, which is are the
40:28
largest gaming video platform, streaming platform, live stream live stream platform, live
40:31
streaming platform. We have a Twitch account. So imagine being one of the
40:35
top streamers, racking in sixty seventy thousand views every time you stream. Wow,
40:40
yep, leaving that platform, taking your content and going to a beta
40:45
site called kick dot com. Okk dot com excuse that's his is his name
40:51
on feeling name. He is now currently signed up a multimillion dollar deal to
40:57
stream exclusively on Kick. Are people still watching people stream game? Doctor Disrespect
41:01
and Wow? Oh yeah yeah? So right now, right out, literally
41:06
as we're recording the show, x QC is streaming, He's got fifty five
41:10
and sixty two people watching him streams. Oh my lord, the next guy
41:14
playing three thirty one thousand to thirty one thousands. These are people who could
41:19
be watching a movie on Amazon or Hulu or you know, a peak and
41:22
they just decide to watch their favorite guy just play games. What mean the
41:25
key to making that work? I mean we've had darkness for two nine,
41:30
we've had Riya stream, who I just absolutely think is awesome. But what
41:34
what is the key to making that work? If you're one, there's some
41:37
luck involved, but you's got to be a good entertainer personality. Yeah,
41:40
it's you're watching because you enjoy watching the person be at Goofball? Do you
41:45
have to be a good gamer? No? Even Riya stream, he sucks
41:49
at video games. I mean Rya. I love Rya stream. I love
41:52
Ryan as a person. I love watching his streams. I watch him every
41:54
day. He sucks so bad at driving, you know any game that he
42:00
drives, but he makes fun of it and people love it, and he
42:02
has entertainment. He's not afraid to laugh at himself, and he's entertaining because
42:07
he's always interacting with his chat. So there's a key point you asked,
42:10
what's the key point for people that are watching? They want to be recognized,
42:15
for them to have their name called out on a stream, it's like
42:20
being on TV, or it's like being interviewed on the radio. I've done
42:24
morning radio for you know, thirty plus years, right, and I know
42:29
when you make that connection, you know, I know we have listeners right
42:31
now that I've been able to talk to on the phone. Those are the
42:35
connections that they will hopefully keep coming back because yes, I do care about
42:40
what their got, what's going on in their lives. So you make that
42:44
connection with him. Let's face it, radio these days sometimes you don't get
42:46
that from a DJ that's sitting in you know, Kansas or whatnot. You
42:51
get that with your local radio station. So you get the same thing with
42:53
these gamers. But they reach a much wider They do reach so much wider.
42:58
It's a world wide it's a worldwide audience. But yeah, yes they
43:00
do. And sometimes if you get through these really really really big guys like
43:05
you know, xQc or doctor Disrespect or whatever, they can't see all the
43:08
comments because they've got you know, like you said, fifty five thousand people
43:12
that are watching, about forty thousand of them are commenting every second for the
43:17
chance for you to have your comment looked at and read by the streamer as
43:23
he's playing his game or he or she is very rare. But if you
43:28
can get that, it's like hitting the lottery. Yeah, it's like,
43:31
oh my god, they saw my comment. They read my comment. Oh
43:35
my god, I saw Oh my god, I made it. Ok,
43:37
you're over the top there, all right. I just looked up I did
43:43
some research on the the xQc. How much money do you think he's getting
43:47
for a two year deal? Fifty million I've said, thirty thousand, one
43:55
hundred million dollars. Oh my god, two year contract to stream on kick
44:04
Do they feed like ads during this? Oh god? Yeah? They all
44:07
right, they get their money. But the reason he left, well,
44:14
the reason he left Twitch is because Twitch has been chipping away at the profits
44:19
of the content creators to give themselves more money. So Twitch Twitch streamers are
44:24
at this point, We're like, hey, come on, guys, we're
44:28
providing your If it wasn't for us, you would be nothing. And yet
44:32
Twitch is like, yeah, we'll give you a couple bucks. Like,
44:36
shut up, we'll give you a couple bucks. And now content creators are
44:38
like no, Finally we're standing up. We're standing up for ourselves and saying
44:44
no more. We want more money because we are bringing the content to you.
44:49
You are not providing us anything but server space internet connection. Is YouTube
44:53
also a viable platform for those streaming? I mean, I know you know
44:57
it's owned by Google. Oh yeah, but the Doctor disrespect is on YouTube.
45:01
Ria stream is on YouTube. Yeah, I saw that they've just changed.
45:06
So in the past is how it was when we first started. When
45:10
you know, we were there with YouTube, we could monetize some of the
45:15
stuff that we were doing online and we got pretty good money from ads that
45:19
were fed before and after and whatnot. And then as YouTube got bigger and
45:23
became more popular, they changed a lot of those policies. And now it
45:27
was you had to have one thousand subscribers, you had to post so much
45:31
content every day and then every week, and it's been difficult for some.
45:36
And now they've just lowered it. So now you have to have five hundred
45:38
subscribers post ninety seconds of content or maybe. Yeah, I think it's so
45:45
they brought it down so that people can make money. But that means you're
45:47
going to start seeing more ads on YouTube content if you don't already, well,
45:52
you always see ads on YouTube content and listen even now, now here's
45:54
the thing I subscribe, Well, actually I don't subscribe. I get it
45:58
through Google. Five, I get YouTube premium. Right. The selling point
46:01
of YouTube premium. If you go and look up YouTube premium, what is
46:05
their number one thing? No ads? Right, I have YouTube Premium and
46:10
I'm still getting ads now, not the same way. If I click on
46:15
a video, I see the video right away. Now, normally, if
46:16
you don't have YouTube Premium, you click on a video, you have to
46:20
weigh through two or three ads. What they're doing with YouTube premium is instead
46:24
of showing you the content you want, they show you sponsored content in terms
46:30
of like the first five videos are sponsored content. That is still ads in
46:36
my book, And so people are just like, no, they're not They're
46:38
not wanting to do this. And the same again, the same with Twitch.
46:43
They're not making their money, they're not making their views. But here's
46:45
the one downside of Kick. I want to mention this all right. Kick
46:50
was founded on online gambling. Okay, Kick was this site for people to
46:54
go to watch online gambling. If that's your fans, you want to watch
47:00
other people gamble their money, you could go to kick dot com. All
47:04
of a sudden, now it's other things. But the thing is is it
47:07
was based and rooted in online gambling, and a lot of their ads are
47:13
online gambling like FanDuel, stuff like that. No, like online casinos like
47:19
slot machines and things. If you go to kick dot com, the number
47:23
four top live categories is slots and casino and and and and another thing too
47:30
with well actually number five and I was gonna bring this up to number five.
47:34
Top category on kick is pools, hot tubs, and bikinis. Oh
47:37
boy, this is the other problem with Twitch. Twitch has now become a
47:42
site for smut. Like literally is a gamer on there that's wearing close to
47:46
nothing, close to nothing, or or they're just not even gaming, they're
47:51
just talking. They're just talking with their followers, but they're you know,
47:53
usually called just chatting, and it's just it's literally pornoger and they have it
48:00
on Twitch and Twitch does nothing about it because it brings in so much money.
48:06
Right. But that's sad though, because then you get a whole generation
48:08
that thinks this is normal. Yes, it's not, you know, not
48:13
making a statement on how anybody wants to live. Everybody's got to make a
48:16
living. But yet still, yeah, that's why would you why would you
48:21
go get a nine to five job when you can make one hundred thousand dollars
48:22
throw in your parts. Yeah, well it's a good point, all right.
48:28
I have a question, Sean, you might be able to answer it.
48:30
Your parents were getting starlink, and for those who don't know, starlink
48:36
is now available in Tucson. At least, I think your parents were getting
48:39
starlink. My parents talked about it, but they have not gotten it yet.
48:44
Okay, so they just recently made it available in Tucson. I went
48:49
and this was an ad from best Buy. So I went on to best
48:52
buy dot com and I took a look and they had the equipment selling for
48:54
just under three grand that you could get, and then they had a cheaper
49:00
piece of equipment. But for me, I'm thinking, Okay, if you're
49:01
gonna get starlink, you want to get the fastest, the most concise everything
49:06
that's there. What is the what is the throughput that they say is going
49:10
to be available for those that are getting starlink is have they promised any kind
49:15
of upload download or I don't know, we don't I don't look, I
49:19
don't know what they're promising. But yeah, because I thought your parents had
49:22
gotten it, so That's why I wanted to ask you about it and see
49:25
how they were feeling about it. They have not gotten it. They haven't
49:29
they haven't talked about They've been relying on their five G hop spots and that's
49:31
what they need. So yeah, Starlink has been expanding and now that that's
49:35
the this is the company that is behind you know Tesla, right, I
49:38
mean, this is company puts up the satellites and suddenly the equipments available in
49:45
Tucson. It reached out to the director of marketing to see if I get
49:49
answers to that. Nobody seems to know. And then the ad for the
49:52
equipment doesn't really tell you what the kind of throughput you're going to get.
49:55
I mean, what I want to spend all that money and get, you
49:58
know, in days. That's a good and in the US, Starlink users
50:05
can expect to get speeds around ninety ninety point five megabit really, and Canadian
50:10
users especially could be about ninety seven ninety megabits down right, Yeah that's not
50:15
good. That's okay? No, well no, you could still stream four
50:19
K on ninety megabit. Yeah, but still, I mean I'm getting almost
50:22
a gig you know, we'll pay for it. But you see, the
50:25
costs per month, from what I understand, is going to be like a
50:29
one hundred and ten dollars a month for the starlink. I'd rather pay the
50:32
cable company, you know. Well yeah, but but here's the thing about
50:37
cable or fiber or whoever you mean. You get outages, I mean all
50:39
the time. So no starlink. Yeah, I guess you could have outage,
50:43
but there's always a satellite above you. Yeah. We we saw one
50:46
of the ROME units while we were camping, right, we were walking around,
50:51
was like, oh, Starling, could what did you go do a
50:53
speed test? Excuse me? Can I do a speed test on your Starling?
51:00
So they're radio, don't mind me. So the ROME is one hundred
51:04
and fifty bucks a month and a hardware costs of six hundred bucks. Okay,
51:07
all right, if any of our listeners got it, I want to
51:09
hear from you. I want to know what kind of speeds you're getting.
51:12
If you want to get a test, you just go to speed test out
51:15
in that and you should be able to hopefully check your speeds on that.
51:17
We got to take another quick break, all right, we come back.
51:20
We got more of tech Talk Radio for you. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
51:23
Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin. Let me find us on Facebook,
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Facebook, dot com, forward slash tech Talkers. We'll be right back and
51:30
now fac to tech talk Radio. So this week I've been working on doing
51:36
a data transfer from a Windows XP machine to a Windows eleven machine. And
51:43
yeah, so they had program pe xp XP. It was a graphic shop.
51:49
I sold them the computer thirteen years ago and they finally decided it's time
51:53
to upgrade because they can't get online. They couldn't get online with it,
51:57
they couldn't do it. So I finally said, look, here's what we
52:00
could do. So we went like we did thirteen years ago. Top of
52:05
the line, it's it's the I nine, even though they're not going to
52:08
call it I nine anymore. It's the I nine thirteen nine. It's got
52:13
you know, the thirty fifty in it, thirty two gigs of RAM,
52:16
it's got you know, M two memory. And so what we've done is
52:22
PC mover. And I've talked about them before from LapLink because the main concern
52:25
is they have specialized programs that run their graphics design products and they needed to
52:32
run this new computer, and so you know it has a hass key the
52:37
whole bit. So we went with PC mover. My lord, it's been
52:43
a week and a half to finally get it so I could install it on
52:47
XP so that we can create the file to move and with this you're able
52:52
to move the programs, the data and all of that so it will work
52:57
under Windows eleven. And got that done. But in the meantime, and
53:01
I thank them for taking a week and a half for but we finally got
53:05
looks like we finally got it taken care of. I found a new program
53:08
that makes it a little easier. You can do it with a dead machine,
53:12
but the hard drives still active and it doesn't have to be in a
53:15
system or on you can. It's called z install and z I n you
53:21
know s stall and this program yeah, z install, but it lets you
53:27
basically copy that data off that drive and it looks at it and sees,
53:30
okay, that was a program. That was a program and you should be
53:32
able to do it now. How we works with XP. I haven't had
53:36
a chance to try it yet, but again, if you're having an issue
53:38
with PC mover, contact their tech supporter. It might take a while,
53:42
but they will help you out. But we're going to give ze install a
53:44
try, and we'll probably have the representative on the show next week so we
53:46
can talk a little bit about that. That's awesome, that'd be cool.
53:50
You have a website of the week I do real quick. If you guys,
53:53
have ever gone to a news site and you're just like, you know,
53:57
you start reading this news article, juicy news bit, and it's like,
54:00
hey, you gotta subscribe to this news Oh. I hate that.
54:04
It happens all the time. Paywall they're called paywalls. You can't get and
54:07
you can't access the content unless you have a paywall. Until now, ladies
54:12
and gentlemen, I have a website for you. It is called archive dot
54:15
i s oh. You basically go to archive dot i s you type in
54:22
the exact r L or just copy it of the paywald article and it will
54:27
take you to a quote unquote archived version of that article without the paywall.
54:31
But do you have to wait for it to be published? How is it?
54:36
At least it's if it's published on the Internet, it's archived. Archive
54:39
takes within seconds. If you publish a website or an article on web.
54:44
On the web, it gets archived a most immediately. Is it run by
54:46
the same people would run archive dot org? You know, I actually I
54:51
don't know. I don't I don't see anything about archive dot org on here.
54:54
We'll have to look into that. But there is a yeah, I
54:58
mean archive dot I s this is a great, great website to check out.
55:02
So yeah, next time you're going to paywall, go check it out.
55:05
Archive dot is paste that you are all in there and then see that
55:08
content without the paywall. All right, good stuff for this week. We'll
55:12
be back next week. If you have questions or comments, feel free to
55:14
email us tech guys at tech talkRADIO dot com. Sean, I know it's
55:17
really late where you're at. It's eleven thirty. You need to go to
55:22
bed, yes, he said there, yawning. Have yourselves a great week.
55:25
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm justin Let me
55:30
catch us on the web tech talk radio dot com. Have yourselves a great
55:32
week. We'll see you