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Episode 382 - Goats, Dusters and Spinny Things · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey learn the
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cable guy and you're listening to tech cock Radio. Welcome to another episode of
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tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm
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justin lemme. How you guys doing good? Good to see you. We're
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missing Matt today. What is Matt doing? Uh? I think he's driving
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out to Denver International Airport, which is like a whole day trip. I
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will say that I missed last week, but I did listen to the show
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because it my pot one of my other podcasts ended and it just went right
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into that last week's episode, and it was good, you guys, It
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was good talking about the computer builds and stuff. I really enjoyed listening to
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you. Yeah, that's right, because we wanted to We wanted to have
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you on the show because number one, we were talking about you know so
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many different things when it comes to building and you've been you've been building computers
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for years. People asking for advice when it comes to the monitors, and
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I love it when listeners send us questions. But we really wanted to know
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if you got your sweater. That was the big question, and he's Caitlin's
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actually gonna wear it to work because they have a theme. They have a
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Christmas theme week this week, so she's gonna wear it. It's so explain
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this. Microsoft has been doing this and then what do they do. They
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take some of the money and they'll donate it to, you know, a
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nonprofit or the Nature Conservatory and the Nature of Conservancy is where it's going this
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year. And how perfect, how appropriate because it has that beautiful you know,
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uh Sedona not Sedona, what is it? Sonoma? Uh? California?
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All right. Now. The funny thing is when he showed it earlier,
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he was showing me the Uh it's got a cursor on it, just
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like if you're using it, and I was trying to move my mouse get
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rid of the cursor. They have really cool it's comfy, like it's the
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perfect size, right, I got it. I got an XL because I
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just like my sweats bigger and it's the perfect fit. It came like two
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days after I heard it. But now they're completely sold out. Oh yeah.
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I went online probably within two days after we did the show where we
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talked about that, and they were completely, yes, completely sold out.
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But they have a list and I got myself added to the list, but
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I don't know if they're gonna make any more before then, you know which
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full and you definitely won't get it before Christmas. Yeah no, that's kind
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of a shame. And it's a it's a really cool sweater though. Yeah.
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No they explain what it looks like though, Oh so it if for
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those who can't see it obviously. Uh, this is the the photo the
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photograph titled Bliss, which was taken by a natural natural geographic photographer, which
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then became the default background for Windows XP. Yep, and everybody knows when
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they link up Windows XP. Yeah that the green rolling hills and the blue
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sky in the background. Yeah, the clouds, the perfect contrast between the
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green and the blue. It's like one of the most iconic computer images probably
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that exists. Now, how much how much did that set you back?
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I think was shipping It was like sixty five or seventy bucks. Yeah,
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but it's limited, so I mean, and next year they'll have something.
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Last year was Clippy, you know, the little clip clip character that you
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used to see in office. Uh, and you know, so next year
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is going to be the death That would be funny that actually would be pretty
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good, but I don't think Microsoft w want to get behind that one.
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I'd pay for just or just a picture of the old Mac with the crossed
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out eyes. Oh yeah, yeah, that would be That would be really
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good. I wanted to talk about something mening Mac before we move on.
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That we showed on our TV Tech second, which is available up on our
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blog. I haven't posted on the main website yet. We're doing a lot
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of stuff with We're trying to add stuff as often as we do it now.
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But it's from a company called easy Quest. Now, if you're a
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Mac user and I thought this would be, this would right up your alley
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shocks. I don't use Mac. Easy Quest or easyqu dot com is where
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you can find them. They make this thirteen port hub that we showed and
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it plugs into the side ports on the MacBook and then you can you've got
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a hub access to b G A, SD cards, a larger you know,
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the larger cards, memory cards. You've got USB A, you've got
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USB C, You've got uh, all kinds of really cool features for that.
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Even display port. No, No, that's that's on the other product
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I looked at. That's not a not displayports out on this one. But
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it is pretty cool, so again, if you get a chance. I
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wanted to mention them easy quests and Sean said, you're a Mac user,
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looks like something you would probably like, and don't just don't type out easy
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the word easy. It's E the letter e z quest easy q dot com
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echo quebec echo zulu quebec dot com. You know a lot of people I
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just try to try googling it and I was having a hard time finding it
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because I typed the word easy, easy quest and it wasn't coming up.
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Now, a lot of people get, you know, get accessories the holidays,
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Like, is that a good accessory to give? Is somebody a hub?
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What is it? If you're gonna give somebody a gift like an accessory?
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But what do you give them? Like, what's what's gonna be the
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gift this year to give? I mean it depends, right, are they
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a Mac user or a PC or if it's computer related, right, it's
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gonna be a peripheral, right, new mouse, new headset, new keyboard.
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If it's somebody that's using a MacBook, Justin's making a stinky face.
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No, I just don't even know, Well, you know, honestly,
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if it comes to tech, i'd go home, like home automation stuff like
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uh GOV light strips or light bulbs or something I'm really liking. GOV.
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Well, Gov's pretty cool there. Roku does something similar with their light strips,
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which is pretty neat. You could see the Gov's. You can find
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those in walmarts. They have them targets pretty much everywhere you see. One
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thing you've got to be careful of and tell me what you think about.
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This is giving somebody a Google Home Assistant or an Amazon Alexa, even if
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it's the little you know, the little Amazon Hub or uh or even a
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regular fold with a screen, the whole bit, because you have to.
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You have to judge how they feel about home automation and how they feel about
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having this in their home. There are some people who don't want this technology
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in their homes. That's very true. You don't want to buy and yet
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and well, the thing that I like to tell people when they buy the
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Amazon stuff is you have to remember it that it's enabled by default. Is
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the Amazon sidewalk? Oh yes, the Amazon Amazon Amazon sidewalk is say justin
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you have an I don't know if you have Amazon Echoes or whatever your house,
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right I have, say I walk by your house and I have the
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Amazon app on my phone. It's actively looking for other Amazon devices. So
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my phone could then connect to your Amazon device to upload at data from Amazon
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because it's sharing that information sharing Wi Fi. Are you able to connect to
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my Wi Fi through my Amazon Echoes? Not connect as in use your Internet,
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but it will push data to your Echo which will then upload you the
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m class. So it's almost like you bridge to that that Echo device and
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then it will use that to send That's the concept of sidewalk is that basically
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you could be walking down a sidewalk and if every house there has an Echo
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device or you know, Amazon electa device, you would be able to connect
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basically if you needed to to to actually use your your device for Amazon.
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And that a lot of people are a little freaked out about that. We've
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seen other attempts to do that. You know, Inconspinity does that, they
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have something very similar and I know that again that they did it with sidewalk.
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So you have to go in there and turn that off if you don't
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want to do that. I don't know who would want to do that,
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but you could turn that off. Yeah, there's there's a there's a there's
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a bunch of it, but it's it's kind of scary that what it can
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do and what it can grab without. Yeah, some people may think,
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well, uh, and there are people who do this, who buy new
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routers and they enable the guest mode by default, and you know, they
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don't put any security on it because they feel I don't I don't care.
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I'm gonna have people over. They're gonna connect by to my internet. But
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isn't that dangerous? Yeah, they're pretty dangerous. I don't like that.
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Yeah, I don't like that idea. I mean, that's the same thing
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that goes with what is it that if you got Exfinity, you know Exfinity
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They always talk about how there's millions of hotspots around the world. No,
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there's not millions of hot spots. There's millions of people that have Exfinity that
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have open connectivity to anybody that's walking by can connect to my Wi Fi router.
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Now, granted it's it's isolated in terms of v landings. So it's
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like they don't get access to your actual home internet. They can't see stuff
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inside your home, but they have access to your internet connection, so they're
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still sharing the same pipe that you do. So they might get on and
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start downloading a ton of data using this you know, quote unquote free hotspot,
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and it's actually just basically making your internet that you're paying for not work
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as well because they're taking up all the bandwidth. So yeah, I don't
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like that idea either. If I'm paying for something, if I want to
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give you access, I'll give you access. I don't want it to be
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turned on by default where anybody walking by can get access to my stuff.
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No, eck no. So I'll tell you one of the gifts that I
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think really is really good for the holidays that I think you you can't go
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wrong if you want to get to this for somebody, find out what kind
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of smartphone they have, and whether it be an Android or you know,
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an iPhone, a charger. Nobody will say I don't want a charger,
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because that's true. You can always use it. I mean, whether you're
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a battery pack, yeah, battery battery pack, would it be a Mophi
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or any of the other devices that are out there. If somebody can always
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find a way to use that, it's just it's so hard because we live
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in a world of such user customer customization, and it's hard for me to
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get a gift and go I kind of wanted that one, or I wanted
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this design, or like, everybody's used to being able to just get what
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they want when they want it, and in the design or the capacity of
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the size or shape whatever they want. So I'm not trying to sound like,
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oh I'm ungrateful that somebody got me a gift, right, But it's
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sometimes you get a gift and you're just like, I'm gonna return it and
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get the one that I want. Or see, we had the exact same
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thing this last week. I mean I had a we had a white elephant
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gift exchange at work. Those are not although it's a great time. It's
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a lot of fun, great time, a lot of alcohol getting swapped in
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and out. And do you do the flash drives with the malware, Yeah
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right, the IT director handing out malware, yeah no, I mean security.
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For those of you who don't know what a white elephant is, basically,
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you get a bunch of people from your office together or your friends or
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whatever. You all buy gifts. It's not addressed to any particular person.
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You all put them in the middle of the front of table, and then
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you draw numbers and the first person gets to pick a gift from the table,
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and that gift then is theirs. However, the next person can either
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take a fresh gift from the table or they can take the gift from the
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other person, which then that person that just got their gifts stolen from them
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has to pick again. And you just rinse and repeat all the way around
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until everybody has a gift, and then it circles back to the very first
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person because again they kind of got shafted with that very first one. They
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get to be the very last person to pick, so if they want,
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they can choose from any of the other gifts that were already opened, or
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just keep the one they were given. So anyway, we did this white
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elephant and there was probably thirty or forty of us. I think about thirty
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thirty five of US or so, and it was interesting. I personally bought
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what did I buy? I bought some laser tag it because there's a limit
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to they were like, oh, don't go over twenty five dollars. I
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was like, I think I went twenty nine. I was like, it
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wasn't a big deal, but you go to dollars like no, I got
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Amazon Black Friday, but it was a set of four laser tag things for
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people. What is that and laser tag? Don't you know laser tag?
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I don't know, like you to go play laser tag. I've never been
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to play laser tag. You wear a little like a little receiver on your
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chest and then the guns that you run around with have lasers. It's like
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infrared, right, and you shoot at each other and if you get hit
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and the little receiver on your chest then go it vibrates and says, oh
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you're out. It's just kind of like it sounds kind of fun. Yeah,
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it's it's fun. But it's a you know, it's a little four
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pack of it. You know, four people can play. So I bought
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that. That was my gift to give out to somebody else. And then
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everybody else is picking. So it comes up to my turn and I pick
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a gift. Oh no, I got my gift stolen from me. Excuse
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me, I got my first gift stolen from me. I can't remember what
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it was, right, So then I go, I go pick a different
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gift, and then I end up with a bluetooth speaker and a Tic Tac
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toe shot game, like you pour shots, you can get the name all
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over it. Yeah, well I don't do shots anymore. I'm fueled for
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that. But the bluetooth speaker, I'm like, oh this is cool,
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but I've got like five of them at home, you know, So like
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I don't I don't have any need for this. So I keep asking people
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like, oh, hey, you want to trade this for the bluetooth speaker
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or whatever. Nope, everybody kept trading for the alcohol because people were buying
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like bottles of vodka, bottles of wine, you know, Bailey's Irish cream
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gift set with cups, you know Jack Daniel's gift set with cups, you
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know, glasses or whatever. So yeah, no, I got stuck with
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the bluetooth speaker. And again, I mean, I'm grateful that everybody was
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there. We had a good time. I just personally don't have the ability
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to well, I mean I have the ability, I just don't have the
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need to use this. But what Sean was just saying, I can't return
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it. I don't have a gift for seat. Yeah, so I'm just
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stuck with it, Like I don't have any use for it. You know
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what really bothers me about this year is in our family, gift cards are
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very, very popular. And this can be whether it's a gift card to
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Cole's or you know or or you know, I was gonna say Jacon,
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Penny, Amazon or any but yeah, any But the problem is there's so
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many warnings going on right now about how gift cards are being basically hijacked.
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And they're using this this technique and I mentioned this on the show the other
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day, the Afternoon Show, But they're taking glue gun. They're so they're
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stealing them from the stores, right, So they steal them and apparently they
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use glue guns to open up the cardboard or not cardboard, but whatever they're
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in, right, Yeah, and then they'll take the card out, cut
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the top off, which has the strip that you know would be your your
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money, I would redeem it, Yeah, and then they they close it
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back up, glue it, you know, glue it back up, take
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it back to the store, and put it back on the shelf. So
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when the card is purchased, it's scanned and that money automatically goes onto the
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that that number that's been cut off and that number will then be cut off
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and put onto a you know, another card or just with that number,
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they're able to redeem that. And oh wow, that is that's become a
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big problem now for law enforcement trying to deal with all of that. So
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what is on the top of your Christmas list? Handy for me? Well,
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I you know, I tried to justify wanting a drone, the newer
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one, but that's got shot down pretty quick. I don't know, I
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really don't know. I mean, uh, that's that's a that's a tough
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one. Maybe maybe a month of of esteem or even an ex month,
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a month of a month of Hallmark plus Yeah, allmar already got it.
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I've got a story. Okay, I got a story for you guys,
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unless Sean, Unless Sean you want to interject here before I do do this.
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No, So this, this just happened. This just happened just two
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days ago. Okay, well a couple of days ago. So with our
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local, like uh, grocery store, we don't really have a lot of
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grocery stores around us, so we do have a Walmart supercenter and that's pretty
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much where we go to buy our groceries because it's the closest place, and
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it's pretty much got what we need. So we're not really super picky.
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So we just go to the Walmart supercenter. But every time we go and
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and I remember, you know, Walmart doesn't even do checkout anymore. Everything's
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self checkout. Right. There's this little old lady. She's like eighty years
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old from Pasadena. Yeah, but but honestly, this she she doesn't she
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she's not mentally eighty. I mean she's mentally like fifty. I mean she's
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she's nice, sharp right right, and she just loves Eric, my son
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Eric, and Eric loves her. And recently she told us, Hey,
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I'm I'm leaving the job. I'm going to go to a new job here.
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So we got her phone number and because we're like, oh, we
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got to keep in touch. Anyway, she texts my wife a couple couple
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days ago. Text my weapon says, hey, I want to take air
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Christmas shopping. And we're like, oh, uh okay, I mean I
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guess I mean that's you know, because she's like, I just like,
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I love Eric. He reminds he reminds me of my son who passed away
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long time ago. Whatever. Anyway, but he just he's just so sweet
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and I really I love Eric and I want to take him Christmashop and so
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like, no, that's kind of scary. No, no, no,
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no no. But we met her. We so we're like, okay,
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we'll do this. But so we met her at that walmart, right,
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the one that she you know, used to work at whatever. Come to
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find out later on, and I'll kind of spoil the story a little bit,
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but come to find out, she's like, oh, I'm coming back
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to this Walmart. I hate my new job. I'm coming back here anyway,
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So she's she's coming back to the Walmart. But anyway, so we
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met her there and you know, he ran up gave her a big hug,
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and she's super she's super hude. Just it's just adorable. And she's
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like, all right, Eric, go grab your cart. And I was
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like, wait cart, uh okay. So they start walking and she's like,
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no, I got him, I'll take care of him, you know
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whatever. I was like, nah, I'm gonna go with because I don't
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want him to go crazy and buy something stupid, you know whatever. Yeah,
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and she's like, oh, well, it doesn't matter what he wants,
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I'll buy it for him, you know. Big deal, and I'm
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thinking, okay, yeah, whatever, maybe have a NERF gun or whatever.
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You know. My wife is like, okay, I'm gonna go do
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our shopping. So she left go to the art. I'm starting to follow
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them and they're like where do you want to go First? He's like,
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oh, I want some Pokemon cards. Okay, I'm thinking, no big
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deal, right, Pokemon cards? Okay, good done. Then he's like,
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oh, I want this NERF gun. So she bought him like this
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huge Tommy gun style NERF gun. It's got a huge barrel on it.
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It's like it just it just shoots NERF like crazy. And I'm like,
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okay, that's cool. And then he picks up a little like fake lightsaber
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and he's like I want this, and you know, I'm like, okay,
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cool, that's that should be enough. And then she's like, all
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right, what else do you want? And I'm like, I don't think
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he really needs anything else, but he's obviously ignoring me, and he's like,
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let's go to electronics and I'm like, oh god, here we go.
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My favorite section. Yeah, well, my favorite section too. So
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they go over to electronics and Eric was immediately was like, I want a
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cell phone and I'm like, no, sorry, absolutely not. And you
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know, Joe the lady, the old, little old lady, She's like,
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okay, nope, that's fine. Your dad says no, I don't.
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I don't. I think you're too young for a cell phone. No.
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And then he goes, okay, I want a laptop, and I'm
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like, no, we're not doing a laptop. You know that's too expensive
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and everything. And she's like, no, it doesn't matter. It's I've
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been saving. I just want to do this for him. And I was
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like no, no, no, no, I don't. I'm so sorry.
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No laptop. I just I'm not prepared for him to be on the
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internet. And he's like, Dad, I need it for my coding class.
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I need to learn coding. And I'm like, yeah, you can
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do that on my computer. Like yeah, you don't need your own computer
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for that, Like you're too young and you're not ready for the Internet.
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And so she's like okay, well your dad says no on that, and
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he's like ah. And so I finally was like fine, just just I
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was like, go over, go over to the Xbox section, maybe by
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a controller or a game or something, because we got an x you know,
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I got the Series X at home, you know, you know,
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and so I'm like, maybe go buy a game. You know, we're
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an Xbox family. So he walks over there. He sees the Xbox Series
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S, which is, you know, like the it's the new, the
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new Xbox. But it's like it's a step down from the Series X.
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Yes, what half half the storage, not as much processing power, and
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no no DVD, no drive in it. Right, it's basically half the
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processing power, no disk drive. But this particular model had the same storage,
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just one terabyte. Oh so it's the black version of it, not
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the white version. Twelve yeah, yeah, and the black is a terabyte.
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So he's like, I want this, and I'm like, dude,
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we already have an Xbox. And she goes Joe the little lage. She
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stops me. She goes, justin, let me do this. And I
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was like, uh, okay. She bought him an Xbox Series S.
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Are they like two fifty three seventy oh my lord wow? Plus the nerf
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gun, plus the Pokemon cards, plus the lightsaber, plus some candy.
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She made her happy. Oh, it made her happy, definitely. But
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I'm like I just felt bad because it's like you know, there's so many
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kids out there right now that aren't getting anything for Christmas, and yet here
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he is getting his own presence. She spent more on him than we did,
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like like I mean, but now he's got his own Xbox. So
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now we have my Xbox in the basement right next to me. Here we
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have his Xbox on the main floor. Or and now when his friends come
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over, they split each other up and down, so now they can play
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all the same game at the same time on two different xboxes. So he
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brings over like four friends and he's like two in the basement. Yeah,
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pretty much. It's pretty much a land party. Two in the basement,
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two upstairs, and it's just kids running around playing Minecraft. And oh and
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another thing too, is I I finally got Eric. I was like,
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you know what, dude, there are so many other games besides Minecraft.
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You don't have to play Micro. You can play anything. And he didn't
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want to play anything else. He's like, no, I want Minecraft,
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It's all I want. I started playing Goat Simulator three on the Xbox.
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I remember that last year you were playing it? Well, I was that
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was that was like Goat Stimulator two. I think the new one came out
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on the Xbox. How could that get any better? Dude? It is
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so much fun. I was laughing my butt off. I mean I was
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so I was so laughing. What why well did it You ran me over
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with the director? Oh yeah the farming simulator? Yeah yeah, yeah,
22:57
don't run over your friends justin Yeah, well you should have been standing in
23:00
the middle of the cornfield, dummy barn. Oh yes, so Goat Simulator.
23:07
Is that available on the Xbox Game Pass? Yes, it is.
23:11
It's on game Pass. It's free. So anyway, I was playing it
23:12
and I'm laughing my butt off and Eric's like, what is that? And
23:15
I'm like, Goat Simulator and he's like, I want to try. He
23:18
now all he wants to play is Goat Simulator. It is the funnest,
23:22
stupidest game in the world. It is so stupid, but it is so
23:27
much fun. You literally play as a goat and you can jump around,
23:32
you can headbut people, you can shoot flaming fish at people, like I
23:37
mean, it's just it's fun. It is ridiculously stupid, but it is
23:41
so much fun. I have a feeling if I am able to get game
23:44
Pass for the holidays, I think I will play that before I play flight
23:48
simulator. Oh, yes, under should because it is so much fun,
23:52
right, it is so much all right now, Sean asked me a question
23:56
like what tech gift is at the top of my list? And now I
24:00
told I don't know if I could come up with one. When I was
24:03
in the hospital about a month and a half ago, I took my charger
24:08
that was the best charger in the world. I love this charger, and
24:11
I remember I was in my room, so I plugged it into the room
24:15
there. Well, I just realized where it is. It's in that hotel,
24:18
that the hospital room. It's probably they lost and found. I got
24:22
to follow up with them, but it was one hundred dollars charger. Oh
24:26
gosh. So, Sean, how about you, what would be on the
24:29
top of your list? I did. I did build a list. So
24:30
I've built a handful of computers in the recent the last six months, I've
24:36
probably built three computers from my friends and my coworkers. And my friend Steve
24:41
brought down. We had to dust a little bit of one of my friend's
24:44
computers, and he handed me this wireless PC brushless compressed air duster. It's
24:52
a rechargeable duster that blows air with a brush on it. Wow, and
24:59
it was spent. It didn't it's it's not strong enough to blow the jumpers
25:03
off of a board or anything like that. It's it's it's I mean,
25:06
you could crank it up if you really wanted to, but it's not.
25:07
It's like a like a like a blow dryer, except no heat kind of
25:12
but it's not. Yeah, but it's not that big. It's it was
25:15
really compact. It had but you could change out. You could change out
25:18
the nozzles so you could have a big brush small How cool is that something
25:22
between yours? Something? And it was rechargeable. So I was like,
25:27
that's on the top of my list. Uh, And then I did put
25:30
it on another things. I need a RAM upgrade from my computer. I
25:33
need it. I want a larger electronics toolkit from I fix It, you
25:38
know some other stuff. Their kits are great. I fix it there.
25:41
Their toolkits are great. They have every everything you could consider you need to
25:47
to access the computer. But then the one other one I put on there
25:51
was a a three and one iPhone watch and air pod charger and you can
25:59
hang your watch on it and your watch actually slides in and becomes like your
26:03
your clock at night if you wanted it to. Yep, belk it.
26:06
I think makes that right about Android? Yeah, yeah, I have one
26:11
for Android that does that. I can charge my my Pixel buds, my
26:14
Pixel watch, and my Pixel phone all on one device. One of the
26:17
things if anybody gets this, Sean gets this blower, which sounds really cool.
26:22
To remember that if you're going to clean the fans like on your CPU
26:25
cooler or to hold your fan, you have to hold this what doesn't spin
26:30
because a lot of people just like, oh, look at it, spin,
26:30
look at it. Spin. You can actually damage you're not cleaning.
26:33
Yeah, well you know you're you're free spinning the bearings and that's your You're
26:37
spinning it without applying electricity to do it, which could fry it. Slow
26:41
mo guys on YouTube, Yeah, put put a fan one hundred and twenty
26:45
milimeters fan in front of a leaf blower. Oh no, and es,
26:49
Oh my god, I want to see Wait that's on YouTube. Who's who's
26:55
the guys the slow mo guys? Yeah, slow mo guys. I love
26:59
leaf leaf blower fan. All Right, we're gonna take a quick break.
27:02
Something has finally been announced, and we kind of wondered about it this year
27:06
because we were looking forward to it, and then it went away, and
27:08
now it is kicking the pants. Yeah, it a big kick in the
27:12
pants. It is dead. So I'll tell you what is dead. Coming
27:15
up here on tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Shonda Weird,
27:19
and I'm justin. Let me send us an X at tech talk Radio.
27:23
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio. So another nostalgic
27:30
thing. Yeah, G four TV went offline. Come on, what are
27:37
you doing me, man, I'm throwing you back to another moment in gaming
27:42
history. Yeah, and they keep G four TV went off the air,
27:47
but t was great. They keep saying that G four is going to come
27:49
back talking about it. They can't. They can't compete with streamers in the
27:55
Internet. It's just it's not Bob, there's so many channels up there.
27:57
Just throwing a single platform dedicated to one thing just really doesn't exist anymore.
28:03
If they brought back Olivia Mon oh yeah, all right. I was more
28:08
of an Adam Susser guy. Yeah, you know, G four was great.
28:14
It got me through the college and in part, you know, the
28:18
beginning of my career, it was great. It was always good. You
28:19
got really great news and they did great segments, and then it kind of
28:22
turned into a TV show slash YouTube channel, and then it got pushed out
28:27
of the web and then they couldn't support the TV channel anymore. So that
28:32
was one of those moments in history where the gaming industry kind of in terms
28:36
of a here's a dark day, dark day for journalism in the news and
28:41
for the gaming industry. Do you think maybe it's because I'm just wondering,
28:45
do you think maybe it's because we're so tech savvy that we watched so much
28:48
content on YouTube and Instagram and and some of the other sources that are out
28:52
there on Twitch. They wouldn't cause people tech savy. Well, I think
28:56
most in most cases, I'm thinking for the audience that would be attack of
29:00
the show or even G four that we wouldn't watch a dedicated channel. You
29:06
know, the long form produced content can't. It's not marketable anymore. Too
29:11
many people have ADHD. They want short form content. They just want they
29:15
want one to two three minute segments and that's it, right. So long
29:19
form produced content is it's expensive because the quality is much higher than streamers on
29:29
YouTube, right, and journalism if that's what you want to call it nowadays,
29:34
yeah, no, it's so easy for people to get information much faster
29:40
from their favorite streamer. Dude, journalism nowadays all it is is is bots
29:45
that are scraping Reddit for comments and then generating stories based on that and then
29:49
publishing these stories. And that's what journalism is nowadays. I can't standardize.
29:55
I have to agree to a certain part because honestly or disagree because PC I
30:00
still will say, you know what, most of their content PC Mag,
30:03
and they're articles that I've read. I'm half satisfied with those. There have
30:07
been some other ones that have come out that I read. Wait, this
30:11
is just clickbait, you know where, most of the way the way it's
30:15
written. But PC mag has been pretty good, so I will say that.
30:18
So there's still journalists that are working hard trying to get the tech stories
30:22
out there. Well, don't get me wrong, there are definitely still some
30:26
good journalists out there. I mean all the way from your local news station
30:30
even up to cable news networks. They are good journalists out there. The
30:36
problem is it's not them, it's the company itself. Is like nope,
30:40
nope, we can sell more advertising if we do it this way. And
30:44
these good journalists are just drowned out by all the clickbait bs articles that they
30:49
that generate more money for them. So yeah, real journalists just can't survive
30:56
anymore. I'm so disappointed when I go online and whether it be on X
31:00
or even just news dot Google or even MSN, you know, news,
31:04
and I'll go on and I'll see a story wow, and I'll click it,
31:08
and it is just takes forever to get to the point. You have
31:11
to scroll through the ads. Oh come on, man. The worst are
31:15
cooking recipes. You go to look up a cooking recipe, you got to
31:21
scroll through about ten to fifteen ads and an entire life story about Nana and
31:27
her ancient recipe that she handed down through the ages before you can ever get
31:33
to the actual recipe you're looking for. And then it's pretty quick. Yeah,
31:37
yeah, yeah, it's it's it's disappointing, all right. So G
31:40
four, Yes, that was sat circle back around. Wait, hold on,
31:44
I gotta tell you something though. This is a this is a story
31:47
of irony. I waited for G four for so long for it to come
31:52
to my cable system that I was subscribing to when I lived in Coachella,
31:56
right, and I remember when that it finally went on, And wouldn't you
32:00
know, it was probably maybe a month later. I got the job to
32:05
come out here to Tucson, and I had to leave Coachella and where I
32:09
when I came out here, it wasn't available, so I had for like
32:14
what maybe a month anyway, So there you go, Sorry about that.
32:17
So G four was a great place for people to get resources for their games,
32:21
right, and then E three are in the gaming world, the Electronics
32:27
is Entertainment Expo, I think three and I've been, I've been. So
32:31
it was just was just a mecca for gaming news. Once a year E
32:37
three it was the who's who of gaming came and announced new products and they
32:44
had new games, vendors and demos and new games and all this stuff.
32:47
Celebrities. Well, yeah, it was. It was this huge, huge,
32:52
huge thing that was the staple of gaming journalism and gaming information. And
32:58
it wasn't even open to the public. It was only opened two qualified journalists.
33:02
Yeah we would, we went tech talk radio. Uh no, when
33:06
I didn't, well you weren't with the show back then. When we were
33:08
in Pumps and I remember, oh, yeah we did. I did go
33:12
one year when you were a part of the show. But go to LA
33:15
and I remember I went with Mike and Bill uh one year, the original
33:20
guys we did the show with. And you would go and they would say,
33:23
you want to see you want a preview. You would see a preview
33:25
before anybody else. Oh, you wanna be on the web. You would
33:29
see it there peripherals, you would see gaming mice, you would see you
33:32
know, I want to say, I think Razor was there. They announced
33:36
the Xbox at E three, like the original Xbox, like nobody thought Microsoft.
33:42
Everybody was like, wait, Microsoft, is that E three? What
33:45
are they doing there? And then boom announcing the Xbox? Like what I
33:50
mean? That was? That was insane? Yeah and yeah, so they
33:53
it started in nineteen eighty five, right, and then in twenty sixteen they
33:59
had we opened it to the public and it kind of became a larger thing.
34:02
So it just grew and grew and grew. But once once COVID happened
34:09
and everybody went to their own format, right, Xbox did their own thing,
34:16
Sony did their own thing. They did online. I would argue it
34:22
was even before COVID, but yeah, COVID was kind of the final nail
34:25
in the coffin. Hence why I kind of started with the G four story,
34:29
right, is that it's trending to internet based things. Right. It
34:35
can help a vendor like Microsoft or Sony Activision whoever keep all of their stuff
34:42
internally prevent leak's, curate their own content to their own audiences instead of curating
34:49
it to everybody. Because granted E three was great, it was this huge
34:52
thing, but you have the people who like Sony, you have the people
34:55
like Xbox. Now Xbox can just cater to their own audiences. Yeah,
35:01
in a much easier platform, and it's free the West. And think about
35:07
this, Save Microsoft. Save Microsoft is going to hold this conference, right
35:13
and say maybe they want to do it in person, right, So they
35:15
do it, and then they have all of the people that provide games under
35:20
the Xbox brand or add ons under the Xbox brand. They can then charge
35:24
them booth space. So you come on out, you're gonna be You're gonna
35:29
meet all these people that are buying Xboxes or you know, marketing the Xbox
35:32
and be able to so it becomes almost like an E three just for Xbox
35:38
exactly, same with PlayStation, same with same with Valve. You know,
35:43
they're doing their their handheld there. Yep. So I just looked at I'm
35:45
on the Wikipedia page because I was just kind of trying to find some fun
35:49
facts. Nintendo was the first one to not do a showcase at E three
35:53
and that was in twenty thirteen. Wow, I thought it was just recently.
35:59
That was when they started their Nintendo dres well. Yeah, but also
36:02
like, okay, think about Nintendo and in twenty thirteen, it was pretty
36:07
much the Wei and the We We You was just coming out, I think,
36:10
or twenty fifteen was when the WU came out. I think, so
36:14
they had the they didn't even have the switch, Like the Switch wasn't just
36:16
a pipe dream at that point. Yeah, So for the Nintendo to bail
36:21
out at that time, like Nintendo was not doing that well with the Wii
36:27
and the WU, especially the WU. Like I could see them bailing out
36:31
to announce the switch because the Switch was a massive success for them. But
36:37
at at twenty thirteen, Wow, I mean that's do you think that bliz
36:40
con kind of spun off for me? Three? I mean, is that
36:44
I mean, there's bliz Con, There's Guardian Con, There's I mean,
36:47
there's there's there's I mean, there's just a ton of different Dungeon and Dungeon
36:52
and a Dragon Con just for for those who play that D and D con
36:55
even even look at them, even look at Comic Con. Comic started to
37:00
become E three because Comic Con. When I went to Comic Con in San
37:05
Diego in let's see what year was that. Yeah, yeah, it was
37:08
a twenty twenty twelve. I want to say I went to I think it
37:14
was a twenty twelve. When I went to Comic Con. It was great
37:15
picture of me and Justin from that comic co oh yeah see oh yeah,
37:20
oh yeah, me and you and Carl and I think somebody else too.
37:22
Yeah. We were all drinking at like nine am in the morning. But
37:25
yeah, yeah it was great. But even then, it was like it
37:30
was like an E three because remember Sean Saints Row had a huge booth talking
37:35
about the new video games Saints Row. What does that have to do with
37:37
comics? Like it was all it was all just big yeah yeah, no
37:45
not anymore. It evolved into that. Yeah, but yeah, because and
37:47
what I really felt bad about comic Con. Going to comic Con, all
37:52
the actual comic book artists were kind of stuck in the back corner, like
37:58
and it was just if I felt bad for them. It's like, guys,
38:00
you were the reason we created this event, and you guys are kind
38:04
of stuck in the back room. Like nobody puts baby in a corner?
38:07
Like what Kate pop quiz what movie is that? From Dirty Dancing? There
38:13
you go. I will honestly say, though I have still never seen it.
38:15
I just know the quote. Oh gosh, I've never ever seen it.
38:20
So we're talking here about E three, we're talking about you know.
38:23
It was held in Los Angeles. It was huge this year. Was the
38:27
big surprise this year was it was gonna happen back in May or June.
38:32
Look at this picture with dark helmet. Yeah wow, I looked, dude.
38:40
I was so much fatter back then. Oh my god, give me
38:44
bick. Then it's all the beer we drank. Well that's that too,
38:47
Yeah we did. I was pretty drunk at that time. Now this is
38:52
a comic Con, right, Yeah, I don't even remember that. I
38:57
was probably there's the pig. Sure, I'm thinking of nine in the morning.
39:01
My friend Carl, Is that you in the middle. Yeah, look
39:06
at that, dude. I was probably forty forty pounds later than I am
39:09
right now. You can see the picture available up on our our website or
39:15
blog site. You'll be able to check that out. There a trip back
39:19
into the past of Comic Con twenty twelve. So oh yeah, was it?
39:22
Was it twenty twelve? M Yeah, okay about I'm looking at these
39:27
pictures. You know, Battlestar was big, the TV series back then Mad
39:30
Magazine. Oh wow, yeah, that's that's the hobbitbbit. Well let's let's
39:36
get back to three though, you know, talking about it. Yeah,
39:38
uh, and that it was big and it was huge, and you know,
39:43
again you could only go if you were part of the press, and
39:45
again we got that opportunity to go. I'll never forget Bill was really tired.
39:51
Bill. Bill. Bill ended up just passing it, not passing out,
39:54
but laying down on the floor. And Bill was a big guy.
39:58
And I remember I'm interviewing some guy from Microsoft and the look on his face
40:01
he thought Bill had passed out because there he was, just sprawled out on
40:05
the floor. And I mean, great memories from that. I'm the the
40:09
the part about it being May June this year, one of them pulled out,
40:14
then another one, then another one, then another, all the big
40:16
guys Microsoft and then Sony, and everybody was thinking, wait, wait,
40:21
how is this gonna continue? And they were late. They were We're still
40:24
gonna do it, We're still gonna do it. And finally they said we
40:28
can't do it today. Yeah as record back then they said, oh they
40:31
couldn't do it. Yeah, Well, so get to get to the point
40:34
what we're trying to make now, going back to E three, they just
40:37
announced on Tuesday that E three is done, like everybody kind of expected it
40:42
like this point, like it's just E three is officially done. They're not
40:46
going to try at all, No, not even online. They're done this
40:52
just it just can't They can't make the money they used to. They can't
40:54
draw the big the big advertising dollars, they can't draw the big vendors because
40:59
it's so much cheaper for these companies to do it on their own. I
41:04
mean, it's just it's just a reality, right, And a lot of
41:07
times you're gonna find more uh I isolated coverage from your favorite YouTube streamer.
41:12
That's a that's a quote unquote journalist who's gonna go to E three and they're
41:16
just gonna cover and people are gonna watch that person instead of watching the official
41:21
E three coverage. So it's like why, why why they're not making any
41:23
money? So I get it. Do you think some of the game developers
41:27
now will be feeding the game to some people like you know, and I
41:30
want to say, I'll just dark you know, Darkness for two nine Ryce
41:34
stream all these guys. Will they be feeding these game titles to them to
41:37
let them preview it or will they do their own? They do? They
41:42
do? Yeah, And that's that's that's part of like the frustration of being
41:45
a video gamer right now is that, like, so let me use the
41:50
new World of Warcraft Classic and the new the new version of that call Season
41:53
Discovery, which is new content, new experiences, things like that. Everybody
42:00
body just wants to go play with the streamers. Yeah, because they get
42:05
access to stuff, they get to play it. They're gonna be the ones
42:07
that are pushing the content. Right. It makes it no fun for the
42:12
rest of us because the content's over eighteen nineteen hours because they're just seen it
42:16
through it. But other you know, it's free money. Free advertising for
42:22
these companies to give previews to their streamers, their influencers across pretty much every
42:30
platform because the reach is so huge, right yeah, yeah, well look
42:34
at look at the Remember we also interviewed him on the show Riya's stream.
42:37
You know, he's not a he's not a very big streamer, you know,
42:39
bye by today's study following, though he's got a good following. But
42:44
he also is a very niche streamer because he usually only plays like simulation style
42:49
games, which, by the way, going back to my very first story,
42:53
he refuses to play Goat Simulator, which I'm still trying to get him
42:59
to play, but he refuses to play it. But anyway, but no,
43:00
but he will get he will get early access to certain games because he's
43:05
a well known simulation streamer. So a lot of these indie companies, you
43:10
know, these indie developers will send him their game coming out on Steam or
43:15
whatever, usually it's Steam, and they'll be like, hey, man,
43:19
can you can you just play this for a while, and that company usually
43:22
gets a lot of you know, a pretty decent I say decent sized chunk
43:29
of extra profit because he is showcasing that game. And then therefore all of
43:34
his viewers are like, oh my god, I gotta get this game.
43:36
Well, it's also good for the streamer too, because then the companies can
43:39
get behind them and say, hey, you want to see our game,
43:42
go to this streamer. You'll be able to watch it there. Yeah,
43:44
watch it on twitch or whatnot. All right, I'll tell you what.
43:46
There is a game though, that has been being talked about this week.
43:49
We got to take a break. We come back. We're going to talk
43:51
about this and why they pulled the wool over some people's eyes. That's with
43:55
more people, that's with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
44:00
I'm sean to Weird, and I'm justin. Let me find us on the
44:02
interwebs tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back now, back to
44:07
tech talk Radio. So, probably the most wish listed game on Steam for
44:15
the PC for video games finally got released a few days ago. And this
44:20
game has been on steams basically the top of the wish list for all players
44:24
for the past two, maybe even three years. It was called The Day
44:29
Before and the developers which was called Fantastic Studios. They promoted this game as
44:37
an open world MMO survival explain to our listeners to MMO. Yeah, open
44:43
world just means you can go wherever you want, do whatever you want to
44:45
do, right, just like real life or like dev Redemption two. How
44:49
that was that was an open world? Right? Open world yep, or
44:52
like even World of Warcraft kind of open world. Right. But MMO is
44:54
a massively multiplayer online again like World of Warcraft, you're playing with hundreds,
45:00
if not thousands of other real individuals. But the thing was is this was
45:05
also survival game, so it was supposed to be kind of like the old
45:09
game called Dais where it was like you get you're basically in a survival aspect,
45:15
it's kind of open world, but you're fighting a bunch of zombies.
45:17
So this was supposed to be kind of like that, and they said this
45:21
is an open world MMO. They launched it late last week and it immediately
45:29
became one of the most hated games on Steam because gamers that bought it that
45:35
wish listed it for the longest time and finally got to play it realized this
45:38
is not an MMO, This is not open world. This is like an
45:43
extraction shooter, kind of like Escape from Tarkov or The Division or whatever,
45:49
like the company that made this game completely pulled the wool over everybody's eyes.
45:53
And this was not the game that they promised. I mean people were playing
45:57
it going, am I am I sure that I even bought the right game?
46:00
Like this was nothing compared to what they were promised. How can you
46:05
tell, you, guys play a lot of games. How can you tell
46:08
an open world type game versus a game like say calledge Study. So an
46:14
open world type of game, it's easy to tell. Because open world type
46:16
of game you just put into the world and you just get to go wherever
46:21
you want to go. If you want to go do this quest, go
46:22
do it. If you want to go do that quest, go do it.
46:24
Whereas a linear game is like you put into the world and it's like,
46:29
okay, follow this marker to your next quest objective, and then you've
46:32
got to go there. You can't do anything else until you do that quest
46:36
objective. That's a linear game. Open world means I can go wherever I
46:40
want to go, whenever I want, and do whatever I want to do.
46:44
Got it? This was not the game they were promised. It got
46:46
so bad that over the course of two days that the game the game studio
46:53
first off, they shut down their Discord server that was their official like player
46:59
support channel. Well, all of their volunteer moderators quit because they were they
47:05
couldn't deal with the amount of hate that they were getting on the Discord.
47:07
They shut down the Discord channel. Then a day later they they removed the
47:15
game from Steam, like you can't even buy it anymore on Steam because it
47:19
was such bad reviews. And third the actual studio themselves closed their doors,
47:24
shut down, and skipped out of town. So all the rest of the
47:29
money with them, all these people that bought the game, they're not going
47:31
to get refunds for this game, right, Well, it depends because Steam
47:35
depends. Yeah, it depends Steam. Steam usually will give you a refund
47:38
if you haven't played more than an hour of the game. If you played
47:43
more than an hour of a game, then you have to do a case
47:45
by case basis where Steam might give you a refund. But I believe in
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this case, they're giving everyone refunds for the game, which then makes the
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studio they've made no money. They've they've spent all this money hiring developers quote
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unquote, I guess developers and programmers, and they have nothing to show for
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because they're not making any money on the game, because they've shut the game
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down. They shut the studio down, the developers have they're they're not existent
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anymore. They shut all their social media down. They just they just they
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disappeared. They pulled the rug out from underneath so many people after they bought
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this game and realized this is not the game we were promised. Was this
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a premium game as far as pricing or was it yes, sixty bucks?
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Has this ever happened before, not to this scale, not that I recall
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down. Yeah, there's a really great article on PC gamer of the entire
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process of what happened with this game so and how fast people noticed read that.
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Well, while sewn is kind of coming up to speed on that,
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let me let me give you an example of this happening in the past,
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however, not this bad. So uh. First off, the first one
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I can remember is No Man's Sky. No Man's Sky was released and everybody
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hated it because they said, oh, this was ssed to be multiplayer,
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They're supposed to be procedurally generated, and all this stuff happened, and the
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developers like, look, we're trying, but the publisher, the ones that
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give them the money was like, no, you must release this now,
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you have to release this now. And they're like, the game's not finished,
49:15
and they're like, we don't care, release it. I remember that.
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And so they released it and they got super negative reviews. But because
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of that, the publisher dropped No Man's Sky. But the developer said,
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you know what, We're not done with this. This is this is a
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labor of love, and they spent time and their own money. They got
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a new publisher, they got they came out, and they made No Man
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Sky one of the best games of all time because they had the time and
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money to do it. After this initial publisher pulled out. Another example I
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can think of is Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven. I was wondering about this game
49:49
was hugely promoted. I mean it was supposed to be the biggest thing.
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I mean, they had Keanu Reeves in the game, and when the game
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came out, it was so buggy it was literally unplayed and CD Project Read
50:01
had to go back to the drawing board and redo it. And now after
50:06
update after update after update, Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven again is one of the
50:10
best games of all time. But this company could have done that, but
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they decide, you know what, no, we're just done. We're done.
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We just closed the doors. There was another one that I thought of
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all you were talking about anthem anthem. I don't even remember anthem? What
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anthem? Anthem? Anthem was? Uh? E A made it? It
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was the first person shooter Eyah, it was the publisher. EA was the
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publisher. I do remember by Aware made it and it was awful? Right,
50:44
yeah, just was not it? This was not good? Well see
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that that that goes to the thing is this is this is this happens over
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and over and over and over again. We're publishers again. Publishers are the
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ones with the money. They're the ones that just the timeline. The developers
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cannot keep up with the publisher's demands and they time after time they release games
51:08
that aren't ready, they're not playable, or they just have really bad bugs.
51:14
But publishers don't seem to care. When is it going to get through
51:16
their thick skulls. But is in this case were they self publishing or did
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they have a publisher behind them? It kind of makes I would think that
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they're self publishing the game in this respect because that's why they're able to close
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their doors and say sorry, sayonara, we we're out of here. Prop
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night. Oh no, that's another title. Sorry, excuse me. I
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don't know if they were self publishing. I don't know, if I don't
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wonder reft the look into that. All right, we're going to take another
51:43
quick break. So that game title, so it's not available called the day
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before, the day before, Yeah, and it's two days after it's not
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available. There you go. This is tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
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I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin Lemon. You can also find
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back and now fact to tech talk Radio. We did not find out from
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Justin though, what is the piece of technology that you would like to get?
52:12
Oh gosh, super simple. I would like a laptop table. I
52:15
guess you could say, like, so I can sit in my lazy boy
52:17
with my gaming laptop, which you know has some thick fans on it and
52:21
stuff. So I can't put the laptop of my lap because it blocks the
52:24
fan ports. So they have like a gaming laptop table that I can sit
52:30
over my legs and it would keep it level where I can put my laptop
52:34
on top of that. That's the piece of technology. I guess it's not
52:37
really technology related, but it kind of is. That's the one thing I
52:40
would like for Christmas. Uh, Cyberboss. Have you looked at theirs?
52:44
Their products? They make a whole line of products just for that doing that
52:47
kind of thing. I don't think I have that would that would probably work
52:52
out. So you might want to you know, leave that around for me
52:53
sit to see. Oh yeah, definitely. The other thing is it might
52:58
it stretches a little. They may have a smaller model, but it might
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stretch a little more. No, I want it bigger because I want I
53:05
want a bigger because I want to be able to put my mouse next to
53:07
it, you know. On the tables. The Cyberboss table actually has a
53:09
groove in it so you could put your smartphone. It's got a cup holder,
53:14
it's got a slotted vents underneath the actual wood itself, so you put
53:19
your gaming laptop on there, and that would have the air conduct down.
53:22
So again it's not blocking any airways. A lot of people think, oh,
53:24
I'll just you know, use my laptop in bed and that bad choice,
53:29
Your bad, bad choice, your blocking the air. I want to
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show you one product that I think a lot of people want. Surprised me
53:35
how many people like this. I showed this on TV. This from Logitech.
53:38
This is a gaming mouse and it's got the theme of the Moneium Falcon
53:44
on here. That's so cool and it's a pretty neat You turn it on
53:47
and it colors up, you know, and it's like the engine for the
53:51
Falcon. It's got the drawing on it. But this is a true gaming
53:53
mouse, ultra precision. It's got the wheel on the top, the programmable
53:59
buttons on it. But what I love is on the bottom of this.
54:01
You might be able to find others like this. You can, yeah,
54:07
you could see that it actually has a little adapter so that you could put
54:10
this on. Logitech has these gaming mice pads that are out there that can
54:15
be powered. So you put this on that mousepad and it will charge while
54:20
it's sitting on the pad. Because I don't know if you guys have done
54:22
this where you you work for you know a few days and you're fine and
54:27
then you go to you'll reuse your mouse and it's out of battery so well
54:31
that I can. The only dost I can think to that is is if
54:35
you're trying to use your mouse when it is charged, you know that that
54:37
that charging port is likely magnetic. I don't want my mouse getting stuck on
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the magnet when I'm trying to move it around. Yeah, on the mousepad,
54:45
yeah, I don't know how. I don't know how that would work.
54:47
That could be an issue unless you just run it while you're sleeping at
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night, you know, just leave it on and it charges. I guess
54:53
that could. Yeah. But so but then when you start to move your
54:55
mouse around, it's still gonna get caught on that magnetic air. Yeah.
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I don't know if you could turn that off. Yeah, that's interesting,
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but I know that they have that. So again, the mouse sells for
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about one hundred and I want to say, is it one hundred and fifty
55:07
bucks? But you know it's people love the fact that it's all Star Wars.
55:12
Yeah, of course you're paying. You're paying like fifty bucks extra right
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there, just for the Star Wars stuff. You can find it on their
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website Logitech dot com. That is it for this week's show. I'm Andy
55:21
Taylor. I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin Lemme. Once again,
55:24
find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com. Have yourselves a
55:28
great week. See you