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Episode 387 - I Did That One Time...Once! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey learning the
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cable guy, and you're listening to tech cock Radio. Welcome to another episode
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of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Matt Jones, I'm sick,
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and I'm Justin. Let me thank you for being here. You know,
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last week we failed. We failed, guys, big time. What
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Yeah, we did it. We did, we did? We really did.
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We failed to mention you had a birthday coming up. Oh yes,
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you know when Justin he is at that point where you get to a certain
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age you don't really want to broadcast anymore that it's your birthday and yeah,
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yeah, you know, I understand, now, Justin, was this a
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milestone birthday? Like forty No, dude, that was three years ago?
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Really? See yeah, I always thinking him as a kid because he was
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a kid when he was doing our morning show stuff years ago. Yeah,
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yeahy much. No, I'm forty three now, all right, happy birthday.
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But how was the celebration? Very interesting day every four years to announce
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that I have a birthday. I'll give you a little history on that.
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So, like, what was it January twentieth of twenty seventeen, Donald Trump
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became president of the United States. Okay. I then turned to social media,
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knowing that I'm gonna troll people, and I said, today is a
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great day. And I had so many people, so many people start just
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yelling at me on social media, calling me a blier, and I'm just
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like, it's my birthday. And then they would be like, oh my
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god, I'm so sorry. I'm like delete block. It was a very
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easy way for me to get rid of the negativity in my life. Like
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four years I announced it's gonna be a great day, and that's the day
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the new president takes over. No matter what side, whether it's left or
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right, you're gonna you're gonna upset. So yeah, totally, totally and
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then I just go block, block, block, and bye bye. Know
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a little secret about justin though, that's good. Yeah. Yeah, So
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you're saying I missed my easy shot to like finally get rid of you.
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No, I kept you around. I could have blocked you easily, but
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yeah, yeah, yeah you yeah. No. This birthday was it was,
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I mean it was I was all right, and it was kind of
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chill. I mean, I just hung around the house for a little bit
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and then I went out over I went over to my favorite, you know,
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neighborhood brewery and had a couple of beers. Came back, and then
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we uh we went down downtown to the Blue Moon Brewery, which you know,
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Uh, Blue Moon is like a national brand that Belgian the Belgian wit.
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It's a kind of a They usually serve it with an orange slice on
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the side, all right, so it's like a yeah, it's a Belgian
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whit beer. We went there and had some dinner, and I had a
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small flight of tasters, and then I had a free pint, came home,
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and then after that, I don't remember much. To be honest,
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my wife says, I went to bed at like seven seven pm. I
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don't call. I don't know, but I'll tell you. I woke up
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to something in my email that I must have done in my stupor right,
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Yeah, what did you got myself a birthday present? H Oh? What
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did you buy? Well, let's just put it this way. I had
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to pay in bitcoin, so I didn't touch the finances of the family.
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Uh what adele? I mean, I know, a ransom a cyber truck.
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Yeah, I'll give you. I'll give you a clue. It's it's
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a transportation device device. Oh I know what you got. You had an
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e bike. It's like an e scooter, the whole bite. Go ahead,
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and all right, he just sent a photo of this. Yeah,
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he's going to end up in the hospital. Yeah. Yeah, I got
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the one wheel. Dude, you're one wheel break your neck? Yeah,
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the one wheel pint X. Yeah. The pint goes for fifteen hundred dollars.
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And so basically, if you don't know what a pie one wheel is,
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imagine a skateboard, but instead of having four wheels, one on each
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corner, you have one wheel in the center of the board, and then
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you kind of straddle the board with your foot in the front and the foot
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in the back. So the wheel is like freely spinning in between your legs,
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but you just kind of tilt where you want to go. You It's
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basically like riding a snowboard without the snow, but on the asphalt. On
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the asphalt. Yeah. Sure. Which, by the way, I did
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get helmet pads, knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guards, that good
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stuff, and extra insurance. Yes, I updated my will, all those
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good all those good thing. But no, I did get a one wheel,
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and it's gonna be delivered as of this recording later this week, so
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by the time we do the next show, I'll either update you or I'll
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be in a cast. Yeah. Have you now, have you ever seen
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somebody doing one of these? Oh? I have. I've been watching videos
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on this for a long time. I mean, I've really wanted one of
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these for a long time. There's a couple, actually, a couple of
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people in our neighborhood that have one. I don't know who they are,
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but I've seen them cruising around on it. It looks more like a skateboard.
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You ride it like a skateboard, which another thing is I don't know
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how to skateboard. So yeah, that's gonna be fun. Oh man,
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Matt, would you get on this and do this? Yeah? I actually
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know how to skateboard, so I'll do it. Wow, it looks like
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it could be fun dangerous. I'm thinking about the time not long ago just
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was telling us this is before you joined us, Matt, about him trying
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to pop a wheelie on his bike and the wheel flying off and him going
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over the handlebars. I'm thinking that's gonna happen. Yeah, definitely gonna happen.
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It's just a matter of when. But that's why I got my my
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wrist guards because when I was riding that bike, I didn't wear a helmet,
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I didn't wear any pads. I was thinking I was safe on a
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bike, and then I went over the handlebars. So yeah, no,
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I've learned my lesson. Now. It comes from a company called one wheel
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dot com. They yeah, they have the one Wheel pint X. You
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can see it on there. They've got like tons of reviews on it,
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people loving it. So, I mean, this is a a very popular
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thing. It's very very popular, and they've got different way to get different
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styles. So I got the middle of the road. So they have the
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pint which is seven hundred and fifty dollars. Then you got the pint X,
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which basically that increases the miles per hour by like I don't know,
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three or four miles per hour, but it also increases the battery, so
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it's double the battery. Then beyond that, you've got the GT Model,
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which is twenty five hundred dollars. Then you've got the GT Model S series,
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which is thirty two hundred dollars, and that's the top of the line.
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Now, the difference between the GT and GTS, and the the PINT
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series is the PINT Series comes with like a slick tire, so think like
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a racing tire and it's not designed for racing, but a tire with a
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lot of hair. Yeah yeah, yeah no sorry, So this is this
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is more of a of a wheel to go on asphalt. When it comes
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to the GT series, uh, those are treaded tires. Those are more
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designed for off roading. Uh, so people actually take them. You can
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go on the internet, you can go to YouTube just like look up one
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wheel one wheel GT Forest now or something like that. I'm I'm just see
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people going through the forest on it. I am looking at video on it
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and I could see like the forward movement you know, you get on it
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and when you level, you could kind of use it to go forward and
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background. How about left and right? I mean is it the same skateboard?
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Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. You just kind of lean the
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way you want to go, and you always want to keep your body like
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centered over the board, so you're just you're kind of like it's like putting
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pressure on your toes or putting pressure on your heel. Right, That's that's
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the way you do it. And then just by the general motion of you
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doing that, you're putting more pressure on that side of the tire, which
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then naturally makes it want to turn that way. So that's the idea behind
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it. Kind of like it. You know, I was in Best Buy
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Run the holidays and they have a whole new section now of like egear,
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and one of them was the e bike. And that's what I thought you
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were going to say, because I honestly love to get one of these.
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I mean, it's been a long to these or one of the one of
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the e bikes. I mean, they're beefy looking. They've got you know,
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a battery on it. You can ride it like a regular bike,
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or you know, you get battery assists. I mean, it looked pretty
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amazing what they're doing with outdoor recreation and technology on that vein. There's actually
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how Justin kind of described it as like a snow skateboard there. I've been
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seeing these online. There's now a thing called the summer board, and it
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looks like your traditional like longboard skateboard, but then in past that there are
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two castor wheels underneath it as well that are battery powered, so you're going
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down like a regular skateboard, but then you can actually swing it around and
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do like like you're going down on your toes or going backwards on your heels.
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But watching it, it's the same range of motion as a snowboard and
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summer boards electric powered. Then there's another company, the freeboard, and that
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one's just oh my gosh, that looks so cool. Yeah, the freeboard
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is a good old Flintstone's foot powered. Yes, summer board now that see
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now, okay, summer board. I put it in chat by the way
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there, all right? That that is more designed. I want to say
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that is definitely more people that have grown up on skateboards. Oh yeah,
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yeah, I think one wheel is a little bit more forgiving for people that
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have never I mean, I used the skateboard, but god it's been thirty
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some years, but it wasn't I was never really into it. I mean
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I think I was better at Tony Hawk's pro skater than I was actually skateboarding.
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I like the look of this summer board because it looks like you could
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use it just about it everywhere. And you know, when I grew up,
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we had the roller skates and the boards that had the they didn't have
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the eurothane wheels. We have those those wheels that you hit one little pebble
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and that was it. You stopped automatically and you had flying through the air.
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You know. It wasn't until they started having the advancements in skateboards and
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roller skates with the wheels that allowed you to do more of this stuff.
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And I like the truck system they have on this it's called summer board dot
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com. How much are these because it sent three hundred dollars off, so
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I'm thinking, okay, they must be pretty expensive. Fifteen hundred dollars.
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Yeah, okay, the same prices at one wheel right now. But I've
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seen I've actually seen videos of people using a one wheel and they're doing it
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in like actual skate parks where they're going up and they're grinding the handrails or
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you know whatever else it is in a skate park. Again, I'm not
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a skater. They're going off of ramps, They're they're dropping in off of
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a tall ramp. You know, people on a one wheel they can basically
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do what skateboarders do. Now. They can't take it like up in the
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air and do a Tony Hawk like ten eighty in the air it would stuck
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because well, well that and also the fact that a skateboard weighs what five
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pounds? This weighs about twenty five pounds. So yeah, there's just no
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way that's gonna happen. Problem is, now, what are you gonna be
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able to use it? Are? Do you still have snow on the ground
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in Denver? No? No, this snow melts like almost instantly after its
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snows. That's just not a bus for you. Just you know, when
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it gets really cold and the Tesla stops, then you can get this thing
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out, go get the rest of the way to work. Yeah. There
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we go about. Yeah, well I don't drive the Tesla because that's my
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wife's car. Okay, but yeah, no, this is I told her,
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I said I was going to take this to work, and she's like,
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no, you're not because that street you drive on as dangerous as it
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is already. So yeah, no, this is gonna be something to just
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cruise around, you know, go over to Matt's house, you know,
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go go to a couple other friend's houses. I like it again. Summerboard
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dot com. The one that you're looking at, it's one wheel and look
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up the pine X. If you want to check that out. We'll love
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links on our website as well. And would you get it? You got
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to get us a video of that Matt of him right there. Oh,
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I promise I will get videos Thursday, Thursday afternoon. Baby. Now,
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Matt, you didn't get you didn't have a birthday, but you got yourself
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something, some new headphones. I have never heard of this brand before too,
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So yes, it was end of your bonus time, and I decided
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to get myself a shiny little present and then be an adult and put the
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rest of that money towards adult things like bills and so. The headphones are
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by a company called Addissy, which is aud ease, and they're pretty much
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exclusively an audio file company. I've had some coworkers and other friends who work
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in the sound space, and they've raved about their headsets for years. The
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thing is, with my setup, all my stuff goes through a go Xlr,
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which we're gonna touch on in a second, because I got some unfortunate
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news about that yesterday. But a wireless headset with the go Xlr has always
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been kind of a problem. So I actually found out how to now route
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everything so it's still feeding to my headset, but I can control it through
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the go XLR. But it's also one of the first headsets to have a
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fully baked in Dolby Atmost license with that set, so you have the instructions
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like as soon as you download, as soon as you get it, I
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get it all hooked up and set up there, like now go download the
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Dolby at Most app and the license is already there and your set. But
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the headset is the Audisy Maxwell's. It comes with boom mic that you can
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detach as well. Uh. And they come in two flavors. There's the
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PC Xbox version, which has Dolby at Most hard cooked into it, and
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then there's the PlayStation version, which will only work on the PlayStation because it's
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got Sony's Tempest audio cooked into it, which is Sony being like, we
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can compete with Dolby at Most even though no you can't. What was the
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bottel you got the Maxwell? That's uh Maxwell, Yeah, it looks it
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looks beefy. When you first, you know, started showing us, I
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thought maybe Sennheiser, you know, and then a slick you were you were
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thinking other brands too, but it looked like it looks like a beefy set.
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The main thing with the headphones though, is it comfortable. Because sometimes
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you put on headphones after about you know, two hours, three hours,
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it begins you you know you're wearing headphones. So these are great because they're
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not your usual headphones where you like click into place. If I want to
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adjust these, I actually have to take out like four different screws up here
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to screw the band in at a higher distance. So the thing is the
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pressure on the top of my head, there's almost none. And the ear
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cups. This is the first time I ever had ever had this with a
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headset. The ear cups were actually cut at a slope. So because how
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your headphones normally like kind of fold in a bit, the pads are a
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bit chunkier in the front and a bit nope feeling it, nope, flip
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that. They're chunkier in the back right and thinner in the front, so
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they just rest in with the actual curvature in my head. They're super comfortable.
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Wow, yeah, that would be great. Before this I was using
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they were a collaboration and the headset between High five Man and Drop dot Com
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and it was the High five Man h E four double X open back planar
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magnetic headphones. These are also a planar magnetic and they sound great. They're
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super comfortable, you know, I can they don't really move when you shake
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your head around. I have an ear piercing and it goes right over it.
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Like. They're amazingly comfy. Now, these are wireless, so can
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it pick up Bluetooth? So if can you stream Bluetooth to that to those
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headphones? So they have Bluetooth. They come with a USBC dongle, which
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is what I'm running off of for my PC. And they also have a
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three point five millimeter jack that you can use as well, so you have
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multiple connection options. Are these like seven point one surround? You said Dolby
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Atmost? Isn't Dolby Atmost like seven point one or ten point one or ten
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point two or something like that. It's something like that. But I loaded
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up a couple of the on YouTube, the Dolby Atmos. They actually have
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like tests or demo videos with the audio cookeed into it, and I use
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those between the two headsets and they change in like hearing the positional audio and
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everything that goes with it. It's wild, man. I heard the sound
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actually like spinning all the way around my head. It was. It was
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really cool when they do those demos that are made for it. Like even
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if you're watching a movie and you hear somebody walking from you know, from
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the back left, and then you know you hear it from the side,
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then all of a sudden you see their shadow right there up up in front,
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or you see the person. It's like amazing how they've engineered that sound
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in your headphones or even speakers, spending on your system to actually do that.
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It makes it more immersive and makes it a lot more fun. If
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you ask me, can you do that? Can you watch television or watch
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a movie wearing those and get the full benefit? Yep? You go from
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the electrostatics. Yeah, yeah, I was about to say the I was
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looking at the electrostatics there. That's uh, that's their no, I'm sorry,
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the CRBN CRBN. That's their top of the line forty five hundred dollars.
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Wow, And that's why I didn't buy them. Well, you said
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you're going to kill you. I I did, but uh I had statics
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CRBN electrostatic. Okay. If I went up and told my wife, I
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got a bonus and bought a forty five hundred dollars headset, regardless of the
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fact that I'm half deaf. In one ear you would get I would get
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that headset in and she'd look at it me like this is amazing, and
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then beat me with them. That's why you don't tell her the last I've
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done that. Okay, I've done that exactly one time in my life.
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Right, and how'd that work out for you? I have done that exactly
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one time in my life. Once. That's it. Yeah, you can't
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hide you can't hide that stuff. That's uh, that's pretty good though,
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even at priced, it's still a good price. I mean, it's still
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competitive with Senheiser and Bows. I think uh Bose might even be a little
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more money in those. It seems if you're comfortable, then why not just
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moving You were talking about, you know, the slope on the ear,
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and I started moving mine just a little bit, and I'm like, wow,
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you it actually is a little more comfortable. And so they just use
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an extra design to make that happen. Yeah. Now, the one thing
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I want to circle back to I mentioned the go XLR and receiving some unfortunate
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news. All right, now, can you tell us a little bit about
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and we've I remember we had I want to say it was Ryah stream on
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the show and he talked about go xlr because we were amazed that it has
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the quality of his audio and his microphone and how good it sounded, and
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he mentioned go xlr, can you kind of tell us a little more about
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that and what it does? Absolutely so, for the longest time with UH
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streamers on like Twitch, you would have the older analog style mixing boards,
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you know, more knobs and sliders than you know what to do with,
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and a user manual that was close to the thickness of the Bible, which
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would be a technical, a price and a skill prohibitive thing to getting a
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really professional, quality sounding stream. Then a company TC Helicon created a product
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called the go Xlr. And when this came out, I want to say
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it came out in twenty twenty, but I'm a little fuzzy on that I
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can look at right later there. But it was the first simple, easy
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to use, relatively in comparison audio mixer that you could use for your stream.
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You have an XLR input, you have a three point five millimeter jack
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for a headphone for mic, and I use mine when I stream. For
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a two PC streaming setup, so I have one PC for my gaming one
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to capture and upload the stream itself, and I can control the audio for
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both of them from this box to go XLR on my desk. I've got
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four programmable audio sliders that I can choose what audio is going to what slider.
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I've got a full I've got it, not a full, but I've
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got a sample board so I can record twelve different audio samples. Have that
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saved in there. I've got our favorite button that I get to play with,
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and then you've got a voice changer in there as well for voice effects,
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and it's all off a USB and an app on your computer. It
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was amazing. Everyone wanted one. It was easier to use, easier to
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set up, and it was great until I found out very angry that TC
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Helicon has spun down their go excel Our division and it is now going to
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be considered an abandoned product. So it is now just a ticking time bomb
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of there's going to be some Windows update that's going to break the whole dang
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thing, and it's going to be a box on my desk. Why would
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they do something like that. If people you go online, you look people
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loving it. They love the product they do. But they were the innovator.
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Now you have everybody else come in creating other things. You have the
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road uh the road Podcaster duo, the Road Podcaster Pro two. Bridge Audio
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just made a new one, the original Go excel Our team has our own
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company. I can't remember that one off the top of my head. But
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then building into that, you now have full ecosystems. Uh like, uh,
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we're talking about the stream deck last week. Yeah, well it's I'm
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el Gato. There we go. Sorry, long day. El Gato with
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their wave head, their wave microphones which are USB powered or they have I
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believe they have an xlr attachment as well. But everything for that is hard
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cooked together and can be completely controlled through software just on your computer. So
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while go xlr was the start and they were the innovator and they opened that
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gateway and made everything a lot easier, it was still a pretty expensive piece
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of equipment, like over five hundred bucks for it. They eventually created the
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go xlr Mini, which is just the four sliders and that's it. But
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that's even the Mini I think was like two fifty three hundred. Now you've
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got these other companies coming out with a comparable or in some cases superior products
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or cheaper Yep. Yeah, I'm looking at the road Caster right now.
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I mean these the road Caster Duo, even the road Caster Pro is six
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ninety nine, and that's way better than the go xlr was. Yeah,
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road casters come a long way and they've been really a favor by many podcasters,
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even broadcasters broadcasters. Yeah, yeah, I'm saying there's there's situations where
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I know where they're doing it, working from home, They work from home,
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that everything's good, and they use that and they're happy with it because
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it's easy to set up. Yeah. The one that I'm looking at to
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replace it is it's by a rolland audio, but it's the bridge cast is
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the one that I've been seeing a lot of different And if the page will
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load, I can tell you more that I've seen a lot of different YouTubers,
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streamers, every in there. It's one that they're looking at. It's
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got knobs instead of sliders. I'm seeing dedicated mute buttons. You still have
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voice changers. But for comparison, my go xlr, I want to say
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is it's probably about six by ten and then stands about two three inches thick.
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And I've got it on a tilt mount. The bridge cast has the
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tilt built into it. It looks smaller from a physical standpoint, and from
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what I'm seeing, like the touch buttons actually look like they'd be like a
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real solid like click button, whereas the go XLR their their touch pads right,
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And that is one of my complaints is sometimes you got to hit a
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button on that and you're like, did I did I hit it? Get
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it? Yeah? Is something happening. I wonder if this means that the
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people will be able to pick up the go xlrs at a good price.
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But again you say that, you know, a Windows update could brendroom pretty
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much not working. It could. And I know there was a thing where
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shortly after they spun down the division they did push an update, and I
26:00
mean, I I thankfully through it. I have learned like I am not
26:07
going to apply this untested patch. Yeah on the day it drops, Yeah,
26:12
seeing what happens with that? So I didn't update it. I mean
26:15
it's apparently a good thing I didn't because it broke a lot of stuff and
26:18
people were cranky. I had to roll things back, and I mean it's
26:23
it really is a shame because it's a great piece of hardware. But like
26:29
so many things nowadays, they were just like, well this is uh,
26:33
this is done. Here's a guy here, we got to take a quick
26:34
break. But here's a good tip to share. If you're working mission critical
26:38
and it has to run throughout the weekend that thing. Never update on a
26:41
Friday. Never update on a Friday because you try it, or even a
26:45
Thursday you're trying to get in touch with somebody to help you fix it before
26:48
you might need it on the weekend. I know wedding DJs have done this
26:52
before, where they've run an update and all of a sudden stuff's not working.
26:56
You know, do it and plan it out, make sure, but
26:57
don't do it on a Friday thinking I'm just gonna work this weekend, because
27:00
that could be really bad for you. We actually have a term for that
27:04
in it It is referred to as read only Fridays. Yes, sir,
27:10
exactly. Anytime somebody's like I'm just going to push a small patch, No
27:14
you're no, no, no, no, dood don't do it. All
27:17
right, we can take quick break, we'll come back. We've got listener
27:18
questions. We've got one asking about backups, so maybe we could call on
27:22
you and then Slick is gonna be happy Linux get in some love. We'll
27:26
tell you what that's all about. Coming up with tech talk Radio. Find
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27:34
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You can also give us a call and leave a message five two zero
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seven seven seven ninety five eighty. We'll kick it off with Ray's question because
27:52
it's a it's pretty good. Ray and two soon said, Hi guys,
27:56
love your show. And finally a question I can ask. I haven't heard
28:00
you talk about backing up for a while, and I've been thinking about needing
28:03
to do that. Is this something I can do on my own? What's
28:07
the best way to do it? A backing up a system? And why
28:11
is it important? There's a couple of different schools I thought with backing up
28:15
your system, which yes, you should absolutely do, Yes you can do
28:18
it yourself. Why you should do it because it is so easy nowadays for
28:25
you to lose your files. And when I say easy nowadays, in the
28:32
times of an HDD, a hard disk drive, your data was stored on
28:38
platters and if everything went completely catastrophic, you could still do something that was
28:44
called a level four data recovery, which would be like you would think out
28:48
of a sci fi movie. Your hard drive goes into a clean room with
28:51
guys in white bunny suits and electron microscope gets involved and they try and recover
28:56
your data. Nowadays, everything is pretty much on solid state drives or the
29:03
envme dot two drives, which are just like they're little sticks their memory,
29:10
they're they're the size of a piece of gum. But with the advent of
29:15
cloud computing cloud storage, it is now easier than ever to back up your
29:21
data in an off site location. Some people are still the school of thought
29:25
plugging an external hard drive, back up my data that way, that's fine.
29:29
What if your house burns down. Now you've lost the computer and the
29:33
drive that was on it. I am a big proponent of having your data
29:36
stored in at least two separate geographical places. That's why I like cloud backups.
29:42
Now. If you're a Microsoft person and you pay for an O three
29:45
sixty five license. You can back up all your stuff onto one drive and
29:51
that is automatically stored up in the cloud. The things you really need to
29:53
concern yourself with backups are documents, photos, music. You don't to back
30:00
up the installation of a piece of software because you can just reinstall it.
30:03
Back up the preference file. Sure, why not? Just two weekends ago,
30:10
I was out in Nevada, sorry Nevada, visiting my folks, and
30:18
my dad had messaged me before and he was like, Hey, you're coming
30:21
out to visit. I don't want to bug you for a whole bunch of
30:25
tech support stuff while you're out here. I was like, but you have
30:27
a list, And did your dad give you a ticket? He was like,
30:32
but I have a list, and I was like, all right.
30:33
So we get there and the first one he had, a Microsoft Surface Pro
30:37
five. He was like, I've been seeing like this white light on the
30:41
sides of the screen and it's just it's weird. I look at it in
30:45
the front and I don't know how he missed it, because I just kind
30:48
of looked over at the side, and the Surface Pro three through five had
30:55
a really bad problem with battery swelling, and I just kind of looked at
31:00
the side and I was like, hey, Dad, why don't you look
31:02
at it from this angle? And he was like, why would I look
31:03
out of the phomole you could see it. Yeah, The whole screen had
31:08
like three millimeters of separation from the frame, and while I was there,
31:15
it just kept getting worse. So I was like, you got to replace
31:17
this. He was like, all right, well, I'm going to do
31:18
it here right now, so that while you're here we can set it up
31:22
and everything like that. When you install Windows eleven. Looping back to how
31:26
we were talking about backups, when you get signed into your Microsoft account because
31:32
they like you to do that now instead of having local accounts. One of
31:34
the steps is, and I love this step, would you like to restore
31:38
from your most recent one drive backup? Okay? I clicked one button and
31:45
came back about an hour and a half later, and all sixty gigs of
31:48
his files were on his new computer YEP, in this same storage, the
31:53
same storage methodology as before, this folder structure and everything like that. And
31:57
it was right. If you're if you're a Mac person, you've got time
32:04
machine built into that. And that's another thing. And the thing that I
32:07
actually like is that it does what's called incremental backups. So, for those
32:12
who don't know, incremental backups mean you take an initial huge backup. It
32:15
takes up picture exactly of how your system is, and then over however long
32:21
you set it up a week, a month, I usually recommend about a
32:24
month. It does what we're called incremental delta backups, right, and that's
32:30
where it just backs up a log of the changes that you've made since that
32:35
big initial backup. So say we're you have a month worth of delta's and
32:40
you realize three weeks in, oh, I deleted this file that I really
32:44
need. But you can go into time machine, go back to the last
32:47
day that you had that and pull that file back out. So should you
32:52
back up your files? Yes? Absolutely, you should back it up for
32:57
disaster disaster protection in case your house burns down, Uh, there's a huge
33:02
power surch and your computer gets fried. Your girlfriend gets mad that you're playing
33:07
too many games and destroys your computer. You know, there's also there's all
33:12
sorts of reasons. Reddit is full of those stories. But I think you
33:15
you make a good point because a lot of us will go ahead and we'll
33:19
invest in you know a w D you know, passport or my book,
33:23
you know, or we get any of our c gate drive whatever one we
33:27
do, and we'll just go ahead and you know, we'll get a chronus
33:30
or we'll get one of those programs that'll back up incrementally to that drive,
33:36
but we leave it plugged in number one. So in case you do go
33:39
under a ransomware attack, you're gonna that's gonna be infected as well. Or
33:45
again, if there's a fire, there's a natural disaster, the whole system
33:50
gets zapped, it's gonna get zapped as well. So if you're if you're
33:53
not doing it to the cloud, that drive should be stored off site with
33:57
you whether you take it to work. But you've got to be careful because
34:00
if you drop it and it's a you know drive plattered based system backup,
34:07
you could destroy it. And sometimes you need to back up your backups.
34:10
Yeah you do. That's like, that's actually a great point. As for
34:16
the backup drives for platter size, well not platter size, but storage capacity,
34:22
we now have two for eight terabyte external solid state drives, and you
34:30
know that, I mean you'd have to basically like you know, uh nfl
34:35
spike that into the ground. If you drop it, it's not as big
34:38
a deal. I had a buddy who had safety deposit box at his local
34:44
bank for all his like really important documents. He had two drives and once
34:47
a month you'd drive go to a safety deposit box and switch which drivers which
34:53
right. So you you definitely want to have, you know, backups and
34:59
multi locations because as andy as you pointed out ransomware for something plugged into your
35:04
computer earthquake, you want to have something separate from where your system is right
35:09
now, I harp down one drive, but there's so many other options out
35:14
there as well. Google has Google Drive. You can get one terabyte of
35:16
storage space with them, and they have an app that'll live on your computer
35:21
and sync your backups that way, Sugar Sync. I mean, there's all
35:25
sorts of stuff. I'm nord VPN Private Internet Access. They offer cloud storage
35:32
as well. I believe Acronus also offers it with their cyber Home Protect.
35:37
You can actually use a cloud service through them as well, so you're doing
35:42
your backup using their software. Backing up to the cloud and a Cronus is
35:46
great. I've used them over the years and I love a Cronus. I
35:50
love VEM. If you want to invest in that software, you know,
35:53
that's going to really make sure your backups are solid. I'm a huge fan
35:58
of those, and over the years, the baked in solutions that operating systems
36:05
offer have just gotten a lot more robust and frankly a lot more reliable.
36:09
Yeah. Yeah, like going with Microsoft's with their one drive. That's actually
36:15
a pretty good idea. Now when it comes to SSDs, I don't know
36:16
if you saw the story this week, the world's largest SSD now has gone
36:22
on sale. It's only available for pre order. It's from a company called
36:27
I don't want to see if I pronounce it right, solidim, which is
36:30
so l id IgM. SSD, according to the tech Radar, is sixty
36:37
one point four to four terabytes yep. And you can actually fit two of
36:42
them inside a tower and it will go four just under four grand for one
36:47
of them. So if you really wanted to have sixty one terabytes, why
36:53
you would need that much? There you go. So if you need more,
36:57
you could go over to Nimbus Data and get the one hundred terabyte drive.
37:00
You know, wait, they have one hundred teraby drive. Yeah,
37:02
I thought that the solidum is going to be the biggest. It's the solid
37:07
there's a solid state. The Numbus Data Exit drive DC one hundred terabyte.
37:14
Okay, is there a downside to having this much storage? I mean you
37:21
could be the digital equivalent of a hoarder. I already amh yeah, it's
37:27
taking me about five drives to do it, but I am to me that
37:31
PDF at some point. No, You're not just to leave it justin.
37:35
You've got a snology, right, I mean, uh yeah, I do.
37:38
Have you turned into a digital horder? Not at all? No,
37:42
My sonology still sits there. I mean it plugs away. I don't even
37:45
know when the last time I actually put something or access something on the Synology,
37:50
to be honest, it just kind of sits there and does this thing.
37:52
I really, honestly don't even use the computer I'm sitting at right now
37:57
very often, which sucks because again I mentioned it, I upgrade it recently.
38:00
I just I use my laptop for almost everything now. I think a
38:05
lot of us are doing that. All right, slick for you, I
38:07
know you like this. Beta News had a story about Sparky Linux. Have
38:12
you heard about Sparky? Yes? I have, and you could download the
38:15
ISO now if you want, if you want to delve into this. If
38:19
you've got an older system, maybe you're you're not using you know, and
38:22
you've thought, maybe I'll try something sparky Linux. Uh, they're saying,
38:27
is a compelling alternative that people could consider a switch from mainstream operating systems like
38:34
Windows eleven uh, and be able to really function and use Linux. But
38:38
I think people are afraid. I think people are still afraid of Linux.
38:43
It's it's just it's it's driving on the left left side of the road.
38:47
I mean, yeah, driving on the left side of the road. Basically,
38:51
it's it's and interface is an interface. You still have to look around
38:53
and figure out where stuff is. Uh. There's there are differences, you
38:59
know, to to to the engine of the car, but it runs the
39:04
car. It runs a car. Linux most Linux generally because because now I
39:10
you know, has I think I called it a bootoo pro, which is
39:15
I think it's a subscription based the support system of that. So Sparky back
39:21
to Sparkling, it's free. It's free. Uh, you can financially support
39:25
them. I just want to say that, as with other versions of Linux,
39:30
they're claiming on their website, fast, lightweight, fully customizable, three
39:34
special versions or three basic versions of it if you will so, and I'll
39:39
I'll leave this to to you and Justin to play with and Matt. Game
39:44
over for computer gaming, all right, I have no interest in that.
39:47
One multimedia for audio enthusiasts and one video. That's what I'm kind of interested
39:53
in because I am using a bo too studio on a computer and it has
40:00
all the you know, editing stuff on air and then there's rescue. That
40:04
version that has as it's so you can like salvage data or boot to a
40:08
computer. Uh, maybe get the files offer. I need that. I
40:12
need that one. Actually, you know, I haven't tried that version yet.
40:17
They have a CLI version, which I just learned about. I didn't
40:21
know they had a ver and CLI command line interface. That's the one I
40:25
want to throw on a machine that I've got. It's it's an it's not
40:29
a super old machine. But the machine, the laptop I have, it
40:34
has thirty two gigabytes of RAM. I figure what the processor is. This
40:37
is some kind of an a m D processor and it came initially with Windows
40:40
ten in S mode. Okay, oh I hate that. Oh yeah,
40:49
S mode was supposed to be competing against a Google Chrome operating system for the
40:52
for the Chrome books. Right, So one thing, you know, I
40:57
got it. I took it out of S mode to put it in the
40:59
full Windows mode and it bogged down. So eventually I put some Linux on
41:02
it. Even certain versions most versions of Linux I've tried on it, including
41:07
just basic Debian, bogged down on it. Oh wow, All right,
41:10
yeah, I'm gonna have to uh, I'm gonna have to look into that
41:15
maintenance mode. We gotta take a quick break. We got another question.
41:17
Well, we'll hit coming up with tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
41:21
I'm Matt Jones, I am Slick, and I'm justin. Let me find
41:23
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41:28
back now back to cheap talk radio. You know, I got my feelings
41:35
hurt earlier in the program. Really sorry about that. It's just that we
41:38
were talking about the one wheel and then then the electric bicycles and you guys,
41:43
do you hate do you hate the electric scooters? Ah? Man,
41:45
I love the scooters. Do you like the fat tire? My first experience
41:51
little Lick an electric scooter, was back when I lived in DC. I
41:53
had to go to a doctor's appointment that was like ten blocks away. It's
41:58
DC, so I wasn't moving my car and I saw one of these the
42:02
first I think it was the bird scooter, and you know, I scanned.
42:07
I ended up paying like a buck twenty, but hopped on that thing,
42:09
hit go and I just took off. I was like, oh,
42:13
I want one of these for me. My sister got me a fat tire
42:16
a couple of years ago. She drove me all way. We have to
42:19
Phoenix and get it, bring it back down. It looks it looked like
42:21
the bat cycle had fat tires. I wrote it all over town, had
42:23
solvable batteries in it. But here's what I want. I want the BMW
42:29
Motorad. And they're in town and available. What is it called? Motorad
42:35
m O T O R R A D BMW Motorad all right, CE four
42:40
ce Z row four And what do they want? That's what I want?
42:45
Oh? What did they run? The one I want is seventeen grand because
42:50
I want it fully loaded. Oh my gosh, remind me how your feelings
42:53
were hurt again, because I didn't get a chance to tell you what I
43:00
wanted for my birthday. Oh yeah, yeah, when is that day coming
43:05
up? September? All right, we get yeah, you got enough time.
43:08
Yeah, we started go fund me, go fund me it is.
43:15
I want to look at this thing now, BMW Motorcycles. I'll put it
43:20
in the chat. It's pretty slick. I can completely understand you wanting one
43:24
of those. That's gorgeous. And they've got some used ones hire in town.
43:29
I think I did some checking in, like the local dealer. He
43:30
had one down. It's I know, it says twelve grand on the screen
43:34
right now. So when I when I put everything in there to just to
43:37
build one up, it was seventeen grand. But they're selling you know,
43:40
so use one ten grand in below here. And these are all electric,
43:44
yes, yes, yes, yes, wow. And there's storage spaces in
43:47
the middle and oh man, I was following a guy on Instagram that was
43:52
writing an electric Harley and he loved it. He loved the experience and need
43:57
go all over the place doing that. Now the question that there's a question
44:01
here, Yeah, does the electric Harley still make sound? I don't believe,
44:07
because Harley's are known for their sound. Yeah, I mean that's one
44:10
of the things you know, do they have like a speaker and a subwolfer
44:14
that just was you know, I don't know. I really don't know if
44:17
they do. I'll tell you what. He was a cool thing about riding
44:21
the electric scooter throughout the town in the middle of the night. Nobody knew
44:23
I was coming. Yeah, but you see, I wrote a Honda Valkyrie,
44:29
which was a six cylinder, you know engine with these big mufflers.
44:34
And I always went with that theory loud pipes save lives because there was a
44:39
time where I would have to give it a little more volume on those pipes
44:45
just so somebody knew, Hey, I'm back here, I'm right here,
44:47
you know. So again, I don't know. I riding an electric motorcycle.
44:52
It looks like it would be a blast, But that would concern me
44:54
that they can't hear me, they can't see me. That could be dangerous
45:00
it Celeary does sends this a note. I have some old photos from that
45:04
I would love to touch up, and I guess these are from the sixties.
45:07
She said, I bought a scanner and use that to scan these photos.
45:10
But wonder if now I should buy a photo editing program like Photoshop to
45:15
edit these. What would your recommendation be. I think we've all had that.
45:19
When you get older photos, they you know, over time, some
45:22
of the some of the they fade on the ends, or they get be
45:25
a little crackle at them, or sometimes I've seen I had a picture once
45:29
I digitally touched up using Photoshop where it was folded in half and I fixed
45:35
took that line out of everybody's face, the whole bit. You know,
45:37
Photoshop is an expensive It's an expensive program. Photoshop. Not only is it
45:42
expensive, but it's got the learning curve with it. And even if you're
45:45
just doing like the you know, kind of the cloud subscription, you're still
45:51
looking for full Photoshop. You're looking at about forty bucks a month. But
45:55
there is a software called photo Glory and the price of that software is just
46:00
twenty bucks. And that is a specific piece of software just for photo restoration
46:07
and colorization. Oh oh, now where do you find that? I found
46:14
that through Google Foo and it is just photoglory dot net. Justin you got
46:20
something. Uh yeah, I wanted to mention if if you're that isn't actually
46:24
a really really uh good thing. I'm trying to look it up here on
46:30
Reddit. I I might have to come back to this, but there is
46:32
a subreddit that you can go to our photoshop photoshop requests. Yeah, photoshop
46:42
request, So take your take. If you don't mind strangers on the internet
46:45
looking at your photo, you can go to reddit dot com look up the
46:50
subreddit called photoshop request, and you can just post your photo on there and
46:54
say, look, I'm I want to get this photo touched up. You
46:59
can do it free, which you're not going to get a lot of good
47:01
responses on. But if you're going to say, hey, i'll pay you
47:05
five dollars, I'll pay you ten dollars, I'll pay you twenty dollars.
47:07
The higher the amount that you're willing to pay for that picture, the better
47:12
quality results you're going to get from these professional photoshop artists on Reddit. One
47:19
thing I do know that I will say being a Photoshop user myself about Photoshop
47:25
is the newest versions of Photoshop. I have incorporated AI into the photo touch
47:32
up operations, and I think that some people have been pretty happy with the
47:39
way that their AI is interacting with the touch up. So if you say,
47:44
you know, I want to I want to eliminate this background, I
47:46
want to take this out so you have a little more control over that.
47:52
There's also a there's another program out there, and this program which has been
47:57
getting really good reviews, is called Topad, and we were actually talking with
48:02
them last year because we wanted to get them on a show and talk about
48:07
what their program does and how it uses you know, AI pretty much to
48:13
to do corrections on photos. And they have like a video version, they
48:20
have a still version as well. But Topaz, like I said, is
48:23
you may have seen some of the ads on social media and it may be
48:28
hard. You look at it and you go, let's says before and after.
48:31
For some it may be difficult to see the change, but it actually
48:35
is. It is pretty dynamic for the people that have used the Topaz program.
48:40
But again, Photoshop does have some of those AI features that some of
48:44
you might want to think about, but again it can be kind of pricey
48:46
if do the trial, Yeah, do the trial. There's a trial license
48:51
for Photoshop. Photo Glory has one. There's also gimp gi M yeah,
48:59
yep, which is basically open source Photoshop, but that one definitely has a
49:04
steeper learning curve. Looking deeper into photo Glory, I'm I actually might end
49:09
up buying this as a gift from my mom because I mean there's there's literally
49:16
just like toggles in here, like hey, just crop out these warn edges,
49:22
turn it on, remove all the scratches and the tear that's in the
49:24
photo. Turn it on, colorize this for me, turn it on.
49:29
So it has like an AI feature to it, Yeah, incorporate it looks
49:32
like there's there's an AI ask future to it as well. And looking at
49:37
the software, there's also more of a power user mode that you could do
49:44
to kind of customize things. But if we're talking just you know the you
49:47
know, the gp our general public trying to restore photos and stuff like that,
49:52
this is this is actually surprisingly good for the cost. All right,
49:55
good good stuff there. Also, I know Sean is out today and he
49:59
probably have mentioned this is if you are looking for a program and maybe you've
50:05
heard about a big whether it's your you're doing a document and you've heard a
50:08
word excel, uh, PowerPoint or even like in this case, photoshop,
50:15
if you're looking for a program to get a task done, there are alternatives,
50:21
as you know, as Matt has told us about too. But there
50:24
is a website Alternative two dot net that's alternative to t o dot net.
50:30
You go to that website, you're going to find all kinds of different programs
50:35
based on different tasks that you may want to do, that you could try
50:37
out or check out, that are gonna be maybe a little less expensive than
50:42
some of the you know, the big programs that are out there that offer
50:45
a lot. But again, maybe you don't need all of that, so
50:47
you want to take a look at alternative two dot net. All right,
50:51
we're gonna take another quick break. You come back A warning, a big
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story this past week about a woman who had a JP Mortgan Chase account that
51:38
had a considerable amount of money in there, and she had a phone call
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from JP Mortgan Chase and it basically said that somebody was trying to move twenty
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thousand dollars out of her account, which she had, and they needed to
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make sure that this was blocked, so they had to confirm it was her.
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She gave them all the information and fear losing her money, and when
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she gave them all the information, they took the money out of her account.
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And JP Morgan Chase is saying, well, you gave up your information,
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so we're not going to be liable for this, so that customer does
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not have protection. It's a good reminder. I mean, it's terrible for
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this person, but it's a good reminder that you get a phone call that
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says that your bank they even confirm maybe the last four year social or maybe
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your bank account number. You have to remember that in the last seven eight
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years there have been data breaches all over the country and all kinds of institutions,
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your hospital, your banks, your grocery store, your members yeah,
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Microsoft, et cetera, Yeah, equa facts. So with that, you
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have to remember that data is out there, and that data that ties you
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to accounts is out there. Never give information out over the phone, email,
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through texting, nothing, if you have a question on it. And
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even I get deliery about this, I'll hang up, still hang up,
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and I don't even want to go to the computer right away to log it
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and see. But again, you're seeing all kinds of attacks on this.
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And this woman lost twenty thousand dollars. There are people every day that lose
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two hundred five, one hundred dollars, you know, but then it could
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go all the way up to a deed of a house or you know,
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suddenly you're you've got another account that is on your credit report that you're paying
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for that somebody got credit for. So think about that and be just don't
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give any info out. You have to initiate the call. But go to
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the bank itself, you know, go down there. If you look on
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the back of any card that is issued to you, there is a number
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that you can call if you get a suspicious call saying, hey, there's
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some weird stuff on your account. We need to confirm all your details.
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If it's the bank, they are not going to be offended if you hang
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up the phone and call the official number that you have on the card and
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confirm with it. Some of them will even be thankful for it. There
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is a reason why when you get communications from a bank it says bank of
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whatever will never ask for your and then they list off that in permitt your
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social Security number your pinned. They will never ask for that on a call.
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There are other ways to confirm your info. That is just tragic.
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Also, just so you're ware, there are other cases that have been popping
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up recently, kind of an uptick in the apps that some people have on
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their phones like Venmo or even cash app or some of the other PayPal apps
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that are out there. So you got to be really careful about scams using
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those to send money or them being actually used to get money out of your
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account. It's got to be really careful of that. I want to mention
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too, we have the Sheriff's Auxiliary Volunteer Scam Squad here. Use that number.
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We've talked about them before. Definitely use that number, follow through and
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ask them any questions or anybody listening that's out of the area. Check to
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see if your sheriff's apartment has something like this, Because yeah, scammers will
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try and get what you have worked hard to get. You don't want to
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give it up. All right, that's it for this week's tech Talk Radio.
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Thank you everybody for coming on board. Hopefully Sean will feel better and
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be able to join us next week as well. I'm Ady Taylor, I'm
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Matt Jones, I am the Slick, and I'm Justin. Let me find
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us on the web at tech talk radio dot com. Have yourselves great week.
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