Latest / TechtalkRadio / Episode 384 - I Don't Even Know What That Is!?
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- 0:00The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. This is Alice
- 0:04Cooper, the original Technoe Todd, and you're listening to tech Talk Radio.
- 0:10Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
- 0:14de Weird Time Slick, and we are the show that talks about computers,
- 0:19technology and the Internet. Happy New Year to y'all. Four yeah, oh
- 0:26two o two four. Okay, let me read it, Slick. You're
- 0:30you're still writing twenty twenty four in your checks? How'd you know I have
- 0:34checks? Anybody says that. If anybody says that they are officially old,
- 0:40all right, you know it's only been we Kayla and I still have checkbooks.
- 0:45We still write checks for certain things, right, But you know everybody
- 0:49used to write checks for everything everything. Right. I made the comment,
- 0:51it's like, oh no, I'm gonna have to write twenty twenty four.
- 0:53I'm my checks. And I was like, oh man, I'm old.
- 0:57Do you even known I have balance a checkbook? Though? You? Okay?
- 1:00I was taught to me by my parents. I learned by going online
- 1:03and looking at how much is left in the account. That's how I balance
- 1:10that. That you're old? Is that you actually know how to balance a
- 1:12check book. Yeah, well, hey, we may not know how to
- 1:15balance a check book, slick, but we know how to back time,
- 1:19right we do, oh man, do it to the second for all of
- 1:23our radio friends. That is quite Uh, that is quite Actually is pretty
- 1:26easy, but we just make it sound difficult. Twelve minutes before one o'clock.
- 1:33Yes, how how was everybody a new year? Sean? How was
- 1:37yours? It was good? So my buddy Steve came down, uh,
- 1:41and we played some games, and then we watched Michigan beat Alabama. Oh
- 1:45cool, you like that day? Yeah, slick. How about yours?
- 1:49Bad dog? Bad bad dog? You didn't get bit by a dog?
- 1:53You ate some bad hot dogs? Right? How did that happen on over?
- 1:57Well, well, we'll have some fool we'll have a couple of drinks,
- 2:00we'll watch some television, you know, and then it was oh,
- 2:04neighbor down the hallway, it made some hot dogs all beef. Yeah,
- 2:10so you felt that the next day that night that oh man, I'm sorry.
- 2:15You know, Tucson does something pretty big and Sean, I don't know
- 2:19if you heard about this, you know out in you know, Indiana where
- 2:23you're at but they make They made a pretty good deal about it, and
- 2:25I have seen other cities doing these where they do drops of things. You
- 2:30know, you got the Big Ball drop in New York, which I ended
- 2:34up watching. I stayed up till midnight. I ended up watching it with
- 2:37Ryan Seacrest and did Ello Cool Jay and you had some good performances on there.
- 2:42But to kind of mirror that they do it based on, you know,
- 2:45where where they live, where their town is, and I've seen like
- 2:49small little statues dropped and when it drops it's midnight. I was kind of
- 2:55laughing because there is a town called Winnebago that would have been great if they
- 3:01dropped our Vy's No they didn't. But here in Tucson, Sean, we
- 3:09dropped the Taco Taco. A taco Taco bell got together and they do this
- 3:15big, huge taco bell blast drop and that's what they do. They raise
- 3:21it just before midnight. It's on a crane and then they just dropped.
- 3:24Actually it was a little off this year, but then they drop it and
- 3:28it's a big to do and it was a lot of fun. But a
- 3:30lot of people were talking about it, and I saw it getting some video
- 3:34coverage across the country. You know, in Tucson they dropped the taco so
- 3:38the city of the city I grew up in Luddington, Michigan. They started
- 3:43doing a ball drop in twenty twelve, twenty twelve or twenty thirteen, right
- 3:49and the year I moved back from San Diego. One of the guys who
- 3:53does a lot of the video stuff around town said, Hey, we want
- 3:55to live stream our New Year's Eve ball drop. Oh go, but we
- 4:00have to get it from downtown to the library because that's where they have the
- 4:04public access channel. That's how they get it into the Oh wow, Charter
- 4:08channel. How far what's the range on that? So it was like it
- 4:11was probably three quarters of a mile maybe. So I took some pieces and
- 4:15parts from work at Fox and did a microwave link, oh a two point
- 4:24four gig microwave link and analog so the thing. The quality was pretty pretty
- 4:29rough, but it did a two camera switch of the ball drop and it
- 4:33worked pretty good, and we live stream. We live streamed it to YouTube
- 4:38and to the public access, the PEG channel and the Charter channel that they
- 4:43have. So I sent the link. I sent the link of chat.
- 4:46You can put it on the blog. It's it's old, it's four x
- 4:47three. The quality is pretty rough, and I don't know if there's any
- 4:50audio with it. There's no audio on it right now either, because I
- 4:54don't think he had to record. I don't think the audio made it.
- 4:56But it's pretty pretty good for being twelve years ago. You know, check
- 5:01that out. It's on the blog. I was disappointed because there was a
- 5:04local television covered chair. But what they wanted you to do is they didn't
- 5:09want you to watch it on the TV where they had. I believe that
- 5:15they were running you No, they were running the uh the I think it
- 5:18was the k GUN channel. They were running their the actual ball drop out
- 5:21of New York. But I'm thinking, couldn't you have put the local Tucson
- 5:26drop right there on the screen. A small little said they wanted you to
- 5:30go online and watch it streamed. Streaming has become the way that they want
- 5:33you to watch stuff now. Yeah, and if you read the comments a
- 5:38lot of places, the programming that they tried to do was awful. Yeah,
- 5:43yeah, they were trying. They were trying to take live feeds from
- 5:46events using bonded cellular packs. Well, you go to event with half a
- 5:51million people. You try and use a bonded cellular pack at midnight, it's
- 5:56never gonna work because everybod's on their cell phone snapping or tweeting or liveing themselves,
- 6:00right, So you gotta it's I did a lot of news when I
- 6:03worked at news. I did a lot of New Year's Eve live shots right
- 6:06there. It was Great Rapids, San Diego, Great Rapids again, you
- 6:11know, I covered a lot of them, and they draw a lot of
- 6:13people, So they're cool events. But a lot of people still want a
- 6:16live stream, especially nowadays right where everything is streamed. Everybody wants to be
- 6:21live on Stapchat or Instagram or Twitter x whatever you want to call it,
- 6:26Facebook, you name it, right. So it's just all these news stations
- 6:30were trying to use the same technology as everybody else to live stream New Year's
- 6:34Eve coverage and it failed. And a lot of people don't understand what bonded
- 6:39cellular communications is, which is actually kind of a neat in theory. It's
- 6:43really cool now now they have live view, and I don't know if that
- 6:46works in the same principle is that is that live views exactly? That's exactly.
- 6:49It's one of the companies that makes bondeds Teller. Right, there's Live
- 6:51U, TVU, Tjerrod people, Tara Dec got into it for a while.
- 6:58There were a couple of big ones, but right, bonded cellular is
- 7:01pretty unique. Right. It takes I think most of them have either six
- 7:04or eight modems in them. Right. So it's two AT and T two
- 7:09T Mobile two Verizon two Infinity and to Google Fire or whatever whatever sim cards
- 7:15you want to get, and it spreads the video across all of those sim
- 7:19cards and spits it out to the internet. Wow. And then it all
- 7:25goes out to the Internet and then the receiver on the other end collects it
- 7:29all puts back together, and it's done in almost real time, isn't it?
- 7:31Is there a little delay it now when it first came out. So
- 7:35the first time I got to use bondit cellure was twenty eleven, twenty ten,
- 7:40twenty eleven, we got to demo some Taro Deck, some Taro Dec
- 7:45equipment through Tribune. They came to us, sit we want to we want
- 7:47to demo this stuff and used four USB cell modems that stuck out of the
- 7:53solo encoder. Oh cool, And you were lucky if you got sub ten
- 7:57seconds. Oh wow, just because of the latency the compression. Right,
- 8:03the compression wasn't there yet, right, h U six four was still relatively
- 8:05new at that time. H U six five had just wasn't even close to
- 8:09being ready or existing, you know, h GVC wasn't ready, So you
- 8:13were still dealing with you know, you're taking a ten eighty I signal one
- 8:16and a half gig per second or one and a half gig bandwidth and try
- 8:20to cram it over four cell modems. It's not going to go very well.
- 8:22You're gonna compress the hell out of it and it's gonna take a while
- 8:26for it to transmit, especially with only four cell modems. Now, is
- 8:30that worker than having your own dedicated system like we used to think it was
- 8:33microwave we were using for the video from truck. Yeah, it is.
- 8:35And it's more portable, right, That's that's the big function of it,
- 8:39right, is you have a backpack that you can just strap on, you
- 8:41can play your camera. You're you're a mobile news station. Okay, well
- 8:46yeah, that's for news I'm thinking. But I mean, if you're gonna
- 8:48if I want to live stream in the event I don't know if I want
- 8:52to use so. So the big right, the big things right now for
- 8:56live streaming news events are these bonded cellar packs, right, Starlink starlinks,
- 9:03those are the two. Those are the two big ones right now. I'm
- 9:05just wondering our people getting enough bandwidth off starlink. You can get about four
- 9:09to seven meg on starlink if and if you can pay for more, you
- 9:15can pay for priority access. The thing is, like Starlink, you really
- 9:18have to if you're getting Starlink, you have to pay for the If you
- 9:22want to be able to move around, you have to pay for the mobile
- 9:26plan or the RV plan or whatever they're calling it. Because if you don't
- 9:30pay for that, you're stuck to If you move it, then it gets
- 9:33crabby and it picks up on a different satellite. It's not gonna be you
- 9:35know, it's gonna tell you you can't do it here, or you're not
- 9:39gonna get priority bandwinds if you move the transceiver. Yeah. Yeah, So
- 9:43like if I took it from my house and took it to work or took
- 9:46it up to my parents' house, they would know you're picking up on a
- 9:50different you know, you're picking up on a different transponder, so therefore we're
- 9:54not gonna give you priority, or you're just gonna not let it let it
- 9:56connect. That it's got to be the most frustrating thing too, if you're
- 10:00doing a live stream event and you don't have the bandwidth, and you know,
- 10:03there are many times were I there was recently one where it was a
- 10:09memorial service for somebody who had passed away, and people wanted to join from
- 10:13other countries and it was going to be over zoom and it was it was
- 10:18going to be done, and the problem is they didn't have the bandwidth.
- 10:20And trying to find out what kind of connection you're going to have at a
- 10:24remote location when you go where you're gonna plug in. Is it gonna be
- 10:28Wi Fi? Are you gonna have a Cat five drop or your cat six
- 10:31seed drop? Whatever are you going to be able to do? And that
- 10:35can be frustrating because you have the best intentions for making a really good production
- 10:39and unfortunately you're tied to the limits of bandwidth. If starlink is able to
- 10:45change that, that would be great. Yeah, starlett kin for most right,
- 10:48and starlink actually offers you could actually tie multiple units together. Ooh,
- 10:54so you can do multiple and then use it as a almost like a bonded
- 10:56cellular but over bonded bond L and B. I don't know how you could
- 11:01like, I don't know how that would be called, right, So,
- 11:03but yeah, starlink is becoming pretty widely acceptable for remote live streaming or remote
- 11:09live events where you go and you want to do a live shot in the
- 11:13desert, or you want to do something and you don't want to pay one
- 11:16hundred thousand dollars to have a satellite truck operator drive out to the desert get
- 11:20stuck and you know, deal with the heat and you know, having a
- 11:24generator running all the time and fuel and you know, paying a driver per
- 11:28DMS and know all that stuff. So it's becoming this one man band.
- 11:33You have all the equipment you need to go live with go right, and
- 11:35that that benefits Say, like we talked about microwave, and if listeners are
- 11:39not they don't remember microwave. You had a van, maybe it had the
- 11:43TV station's logo on the side of it, and there was this you know,
- 11:46apparatus that stuck up through the middle of it or in the back of
- 11:50it that was your It would link and actually microwave to the rate to the
- 11:54TV station. But you had to be within a certain area. You had
- 11:56to be close to the tea or nearby at least, right, Yeah,
- 12:00you were lucky. So line of sight was a big thing for those,
- 12:03right, So you were lucky if you got fifteen to twenty miles that was
- 12:05your max range. So that was that. When I first started news,
- 12:09that was my primary job, right, I was the I was the live
- 12:11truck engineer, SAT truck operator. I drove the live trucks around. I
- 12:16set up the microwave bass, I tuned in the live shots, and that
- 12:18was my job, right. I drove to a live shot, I ran
- 12:22the live shot, I drove to a rot location. I set up the
- 12:24satellite. So the technology is not cheap, that's the problem. Right.
- 12:31So if you need to have, for one, you got to have the
- 12:33truck. You gotta have the live truck, got to staff it, you
- 12:37got to maintain it. You got to be certified to drive certain ones.
- 12:41You got to follow the band plans because you've got to follow that. You
- 12:43know it's licensed at that at that space, right, So it's either you're
- 12:46coordinating with the RF coordinator regionally and you're dealing with all that. So there's
- 12:52a lot of coordination that goes on with all of that stuff. And there's
- 12:56a lot more than people know that goes on with RF spectrums in the wild.
- 13:03I'm thinking about a guy named Monty. We had a guy named Monty
- 13:07when it was in Palm Springs and I worked for a top forty station there
- 13:11and we had a boombox on wheels. So basically what it was, it
- 13:16was a big you've seen those slick they're like they looked like a boombox and
- 13:20inside this little cabinet, big cabinet, I guess it's on a trailer.
- 13:26You could have a DJ in there, you know, making announcements, playing
- 13:28music off these big, fake looking speakers, which only hell housed maybe one
- 13:33speaker in each cabinet, but they were huge. But our what we called
- 13:37Marty equipment, our radio remote equipment, was attached to that boombox so you
- 13:41could drive part of town and broadcast live. When my daughter Scarlett was born,
- 13:48uh I remember we were at the hospital when the water broke, or
- 13:52at the radio station when the water broke. Uh Gloria was with me,
- 13:56so I said I said, we're going to the hospital, and so we
- 13:58left. And it was funny because about three hours later I got it.
- 14:05I got a note that somebody was waiting for me outside, and I go
- 14:09outside. The boombox was there, broadcasting live from my daughter's birth. But
- 14:16good old Monty. At one point, I never forget. He forgot to
- 14:20lower the radio mask because these things weld go up like, you know,
- 14:24ten feet twenty feet in the air, maybe even a little higher on the
- 14:28radio trucks, only about ten or fifteen feet the live trucks, they go
- 14:31anywhere from twenty five to forty feet. Yeah, well, he forgot to
- 14:35lower it and took it under, took it under something, and we basically
- 14:39lost it. I'm gonna find some pictures because I have some pictures of somebody
- 14:46crunched through a church overhang. Oh was it you? I'm going to show
- 14:50you. No, it was not me. We'll put it on our blog.
- 14:52All right. We have a couple of questions for this week, and
- 14:54we like to kick off the show with questions. If you ever have a
- 14:58question for us when it comes to tech, maybe something new in tech,
- 15:01maybe something coming up, you can feel free to drop us an email tech
- 15:05guys at tech talk radio dot com. You can also call and leave a
- 15:09message five two zero seven seven seven ninety five eighty And here's one from Jennifer
- 15:16in Tucson and it's slick. I know you use this, so this could
- 15:20be this would be a good one for you. Her question is I've heard
- 15:22people using what's app and I've thought of doing that. But is it just
- 15:28another way for big social just be Facebook to have my data or does it
- 15:33really have a benefit to use WhatsApp since I have a phone that techtsky got
- 15:37a lot to say about this, but we don't have tom, so let
- 15:39me hit the highlights and maybe the headlines. Okay, all right, So
- 15:41I use WhatsApp. There is there is there's one application called WhatsApp in the
- 15:48service, and there's another application called what's app ro or what's app Business.
- 15:52Okay, really, same company, same service. The apps do a little
- 15:56bit, two different things. So if you thinking about using what's app for
- 16:00business, I'm going to ask you to look into that. If you just
- 16:03think about using WhatsApp in general, just used the general WhatsApp. Now I
- 16:06got into whats app, I stayed away from it for a long time,
- 16:08because there were other services at the time that we were satisfying me until I
- 16:14hit a sixty second limit. And I don't remember which app it was,
- 16:17it was probably Facebook Messenger first where I needed the message to be longer than
- 16:22sixty min I kept rushing to get to it. Okay, you gotta go
- 16:25by yeah, yeah. So WhatsApp was the first one that I was aware
- 16:30of that was widely available that will let you go past a minute. So
- 16:33I started using app. And that's why I started using WhatsApp. Now the
- 16:36other there, other messaging applications have reached there there there now they'll let you
- 16:40go past a minute stuff. But also, as I remember, before Facebook
- 16:45Messenger, What's app encrypted messages first before Facebook Messenger, as I remember,
- 16:52right, Uh, that's not the reason I went to What's app, but
- 16:56it was like an added added benefit. Well all right for Jennifer though,
- 16:59what like, what is the purpose of WhatsApp communication? Voice messages, video
- 17:06messages, text messages, voice calls, video calls, And I use it
- 17:11for all of that for different for different solif they use personal the WhatsApp business,
- 17:18WhatsApp pro actually used with TPD to some police department. I am in
- 17:22on one of their communication groups, right right, so they can send you
- 17:26on that. Now, do you have to pay for WhatsApp the Pro?
- 17:30I'm sure you do. No, okay, no. And I have two
- 17:33different telephone numbers, and I was trying to explain this without losing andy a
- 17:37little early because I've got multiple telephone numbers all over the place. So I
- 17:41took my personal telephon number and associated it with what's app. All right,
- 17:45I have a business telephone number which I associated with what's App Pro, what'sapp
- 17:49Business. So I use, you know, to try to keep the business
- 17:52number with the business service, if you will, and then the personal with
- 17:56the with the standard service. You So what you need to use WhatsApp either
- 18:03way? You need a telephone number because they're gonna ask you, you know,
- 18:07the associated telephe number with your account bad h. Then they're gonna send
- 18:10you probably a text message of a voice message to validate that. So you
- 18:14will need a telephone number. Now, could you, in essence then use
- 18:18a Google Voice number. I did. Both of them are Google Voice all
- 18:22right, okay, yep, So as long as you can get it and
- 18:25Google Voice numbers. If you don't have Google Voice, I recommend that greatly.
- 18:29That's it. And that's one of those ones you can give to uh,
- 18:32you know, give to marketers or if you why would you give it
- 18:36to a marketer? Yeah, go ahead and call it. Yeah, but
- 18:37you know what I mean, just so you don't give it, give it
- 18:41or you give it just to your close personal friends. Yeah. Yeah.
- 18:45And I've gotten to the point where i just stay on Google Voice numbers because
- 18:47I've changed phones and numbers so often. I'm just like enough of this,
- 18:51you know. That's why I got the two different numbers right. One thing
- 18:53I will say about WhatsApp that I do like is you can text yourself,
- 18:57so yeah, you get the reminders. Yeah, I saw that. So
- 19:00you know if you take a picture and you say, oh I love this,
- 19:03but I'm gonna just send it to myself or make a reminder to yourself.
- 19:07Yes, your phones could do that with the many apps that are on
- 19:11there. But if you keep it within what's happened now. The thing is
- 19:14it is owned by Facebook, made it right. The thing is are you
- 19:18going to get spam on this? Can you get spam? Do you get
- 19:21ads on WhatsApp? I have had some attempts, some there have been some
- 19:26attempts to reach out to my number and you know, but it's not.
- 19:30It's it's very rare, very rare, and usually I just if it's you
- 19:34know, they haven't. They only tried it once, maybe twice, and
- 19:37I just ignored them and they went away. Right now, I'll tell you
- 19:40it is a good relationship builder. Uh, this is one of the scenarios
- 19:44I've heard. WhatsApp is good. And if your husband is an Android user
- 19:49and you are an iPhone user, you know, you send a message.
- 19:53When you're an iPhone user, you send a message. You like to be
- 19:56told that they've received your message and read it and hopefully they will answer you.
- 20:02But you lose that when you're sending a message back and forth from iPhone
- 20:06to Android. At least that's what I believe with what's app. If you
- 20:11use that number instead, or you use the app, you'll then see that
- 20:15that person has read the message and either chose to ignore you, or they
- 20:18hopefully responded within a reasonable amount of time. So it could be so.
- 20:22Yeah, what Andy's describing is actually something at practice now, which is if
- 20:26I get a message from somebody and I know they're going to want an immediate
- 20:29response, I don't look at the message. Yeah, and it's up to
- 20:33you to tie your number into it, you know again, Well, like
- 20:37you said, you have to, but it's up to you how you want
- 20:40to use it. A free app, you know, why not? I
- 20:42don't know, Sean, do you have any thoughts on WhatsApp. I have
- 20:47used it to talk. It's very popular in Europe and have some family in
- 20:55Germany, right and it's the easiest way for us to chat back for us,
- 21:00So I have a WhatsApp just to I mean maybe I use it twice
- 21:07a year just to say Happy New Year to my family in Germany or keep
- 21:11in contact with a couple of people that I've met that are overseas. That
- 21:15it's just it's easier. It's end to end user encryption, it's easy,
- 21:21and it's just you know, there are other ones out there, but they're
- 21:23probably not as secure or safe. Well, I know you could back up
- 21:27your and they're doing something with that right now where you can back up your
- 21:32your chats. So if you have text a lot of texts, we have
- 21:36a family chat, if you want to back that up you can, So
- 21:40that makes it kind of nice. And it backs it up to Google Drive.
- 21:42So in the entire just to segue out of WhatsApp, just for a
- 21:47quick second, I have seen my iCloud to save all of my messages since
- 21:52I've owned an iPhone, right yep, I got thirty four gigs of messages.
- 21:59Oh wow wow. So now it just saves them just like you do
- 22:03an itube, you know, like a backup, and they're there, so
- 22:07it just backs them up. So like I could, I could literally sit
- 22:11here and scroll for an hour between me and Klein all the way back to
- 22:14when we reconnected in twenty thirteen. I wish I would you know you ever
- 22:17done that? Where you have? There is like I have like clients that
- 22:21I keep their text messages and maybe I'll have Okay, this was your password
- 22:25back then, or this is this, this is that and you accidentally deleteded.
- 22:29You just go yeah, clear that, clear that clear, and you've
- 22:32cleared it, and then that's it. It's gone. You know. I
- 22:34do a search on that and Google Voice all the time, like try to
- 22:37find something and it's there and you find it. Yeah, all right.
- 22:42We had another one from Sureley. Let's see if we can get to this
- 22:45one really quick. Surelyy's here in green Valley. It's a I've been appointed
- 22:48a volunteer position. We have the best volunteers in Green Valley. But it
- 22:52will require me to use my computer. I don't have office, but I
- 22:56want to keep a track of notes and numbers. Do I need to spend
- 23:00the money on office? Oh well, she's doing this on her computer,
- 23:04notes and numbers, so keep track of this stuff to Google Docs. Google.
- 23:11Yeah, I was going to default to Google Drive and Google keep Yeah.
- 23:15Right, you could say, you could say, yeah, get open
- 23:18office, right or something like that, a word suite that is free,
- 23:21open source. Right. But then what if she volunteers at a different location
- 23:23but doesn't have her computer. Yeah, but there's lives that she can logo
- 23:30docs. You can just log in with your Google count and we share our
- 23:33notes for this show on a Google Doc exactly, and all of us can
- 23:37contribute and we can see what other people are editing. We exclusively use Google
- 23:41the Google Suite at Notre Dame, and so I'm very familiar with that.
- 23:45But I would highly recommend, and it's free to pay for it unless you
- 23:48need way more stories than what you're ever gonna use. I think a lot
- 23:52of people they get on maybe the Google browser and then that's all they do.
- 23:56They don't know that there is you know, Gmail, there's photos,
- 24:00Google Photos, there's Google Google Docs. As you said, you know Google
- 24:04Drive. You want to share files, it's a great way to do it.
- 24:07My kids have been sharing photos that they have when they were kids,
- 24:11you know, and I'm putting those into there as well. Oh here did
- 24:15you have this one? So that's a that's an actually great idea. So
- 24:19Google, and you could do it just with your Google account, yeah,
- 24:22or if you don't have one, just create one. It's super easy.
- 24:25Yeah, right, all right, and Google you I mean, it's just
- 24:26it's it's user intuitive. You can download the apps on your phone. So
- 24:30if you like, if if you're out and about and you're like, oh,
- 24:33I need to add a note to that sheet. Google Sheets at it,
- 24:36Google Docs at it. It's all synced up, ready to go.
- 24:38Perfect. All right, We're going to take a quick break. We come
- 24:41back. What was ranked as the best game of the year by the folks
- 24:45over at Steam. A lot of people like that. And there's a new
- 24:48app that is available now not only for your Android, by your iOS devices.
- 24:52You might want to take a look at. We'll do that when we
- 24:56come back with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda,
- 24:59Weird Dan, I'm Slick. Check out our website. It is tech
- 25:02talk radio dot com. Now back to tech talk Radio. If any of
- 25:10you used Microsoft co Pilot, which uh I don't even know what that is,
- 25:15so it used to be bing chat. So if you open up,
- 25:17uh so now he is actually is you are an Apple guy? We could
- 25:27do a thirty minute segment between him and me and me and Sean right now,
- 25:32yeah, one day about Apple, not because because I have Apple experience,
- 25:37but now Sean, I don't want to get I don't want give it
- 25:41all away, but I got a lot more Apple experience. What it is
- 25:44is bing Chat has been renamed Microsoft Copilot, and last week they made it
- 25:48available the app for Android devices and now it's available for iOS devices. Microsoft
- 25:53wants to get Copilot in front of everybody. Basically what it is, if
- 25:57you can imagine, what is going to be the big apps for twenty twenty
- 26:00four anything that uses AI. Anything that uses AI. I got to say,
- 26:06looking on social media, I'm seeing so many people using the the photos,
- 26:11the AI photos, you know, where they create a photo based on
- 26:15something and it's like, okay, okay, it's getting old pretty quick.
- 26:18But if you already have the chat GPT app, basically it's the under you
- 26:22know, the underbelly of it. It's similar to that. However, Copilot
- 26:26actually uses chat GPT four without having to pay the subscription fee for it,
- 26:30so you know, it's basically you could chat with it. You could talk
- 26:33with it this AI and it'll give you the answers that you might need.
- 26:37And that's you know, a lot of people are happy about that. I
- 26:40love your response, though, Sean Big Chat. Yeah no, I mean,
- 26:45yeah I did. I didn't even know it had been rebranded as Copilot,
- 26:48and I know that everybody's trying to get into the whole AI thing,
- 26:52and there's that whole chat GPT or whatever the Microsoft was going to buy them,
- 26:57and then all that create chaos, and it's just it's too much for
- 27:02me to hate. Like, I just don't want to pay attention to that
- 27:03stuff. I know it's going to be important, and I know it's going
- 27:04to be shape shape the future, shape my job and all stuff, but
- 27:08it's just too much right now. Man. There were there were stories this
- 27:11past six six or seven months about AI, and I'm not sure if you
- 27:18know, if we're talking about co pilot or chat GPT or one of the
- 27:22other many AIS that are available out there, And there are some choices that
- 27:26was actually not giving people the responses that they needed by actually telling them do
- 27:32the research. It was telling them to do the research rather than please write
- 27:37me a paper on mass physics or write me a paper on how to make
- 27:42you know potatoes. Chat GPT works pretty good when you take what you've written
- 27:47and you put it into it, say can you rewrite this? Can you
- 27:48reword this? And honestly, you could kind of spot when chat GPT does
- 27:55some of this stuff because it uses words that nobody uses to describe something.
- 28:00We've talked about this before it's there. They're gonna have to come up with
- 28:03a term for it. And it can't be uncanny valid because you're not seeing
- 28:07it. Yeah, yeah, there's there's there is an uncanny Valley like term
- 28:12for reading something you know as AI generated right exactly because you read it to
- 28:18go that just seems off. But you know, so reading it, the
- 28:22cadence is off, the inflection is off. You're just like, this is
- 28:25not written by a human but you can take it though. You can actually
- 28:27take what Chad GPT spits out or any of the others, and you can
- 28:33reword it. You can work a little on it. I thought that's what
- 28:36the idea was, not that it was going to do all the work for
- 28:40you. It was gonna do human race is lazy. We are going to
- 28:45if I can push a button to do my job, yep, nine out
- 28:49of ten times, I'm going to push the button to do my job,
- 28:52Yeah done. Everybody else is gonna do it ten out of ten times.
- 28:55That's the big worry for educators too, you know, is that that they're
- 28:56gonna, you know, have assignments. Are the kid's gonna learn from those
- 29:00assignments or is it going to be like having cliff notes all the time with
- 29:04them? But they're like, you're you read all these other news, these
- 29:07articles and stories about how there's all these fact checkers for AI and you know,
- 29:14a kid could write their own and the the the fact checker may push
- 29:18it back as a false positive, and then now this kid has to battle
- 29:22with his teacher because you're lying. You used a I right, and no
- 29:26I didn't, Yes you did. Because it proves there's this whole. It's
- 29:29like it's just so stress, Like I would not want to be a student
- 29:33today because there's so much stress to have this example. Well yeah, but
- 29:38it's like there's so much stress to have all of this technology and all this
- 29:41stuff at your fingers, like you have to know everything. Well, no,
- 29:45you just defend your paper, you know, you defend your writing.
- 29:48Yeah, but uh, but again, are you learning if you haven't written
- 29:53it? You know? Uh, that's the thing, you know. Whereas
- 29:56if you copy Johnny's paper or Little Sues paper, you copied it and there's
- 30:02gonna be proof. Or if you copy your all the older brothers that graduated
- 30:06a couple of years before, but which with AI, chat, GPT,
- 30:10whatnot. It's not gonna be the same every time. It's not gonna use
- 30:12the same wording. I could take a paragraph, pop it into CHAT GPT,
- 30:18say please rewrite this. I could take the same paragraph, pop it
- 30:21in, say please rewrite this again, and it's gonna come out differently.
- 30:25You know, it's gonna hit on different points in different you know, different
- 30:27features. But you have to prove it. You have to prove it otherwise
- 30:33it's gonna again, it's gonna be uncanny. It's gonna be not realistic,
- 30:37and the reader is gonna get fatigued because yeah, no, I can't,
- 30:41you can't it. It doesn't hold the same as when somebody actually writes it.
- 30:47This surrounds me of being in college when he had four hun and fifty
- 30:49students, like they all turned in papers and oh yeah, it's just a
- 30:53you know, just pick one. Let me see if this one, Let
- 30:56me see if this one's gonna be all right? Can you imagine the birth
- 31:00of the Internet in school, like Sean, I think you still. I
- 31:03mean, so like the birth of the Internet, it existed before I was
- 31:10in school. The Internet, it took hold while I was in middle school,
- 31:18right, So in middle school, sixth seventh, it's sixth seventh,
- 31:22eighth, ninth grade, right, everybody wanted to play on the internet.
- 31:27You know. We had we had some PCs. We had some of the
- 31:32fruit Max, the colored ones, remember those. And it was interesting to
- 31:37everyone because it was entertaining. It was fun to go on and see what
- 31:42you can find on the internet. It was fun to share things with your
- 31:48friends on the internet if you could. It was fun to sit in chat
- 31:52rooms and chat with your friends on the Internet late at night until somebody picked
- 31:55up the phone and kicked you off the internet. Right I was. My
- 32:02knowledge of the Internet was shaped by the Internet. Right. I was part
- 32:07of the If you go back to my early years, it barely existed,
- 32:10right, you had everybody was trying to live wire and Napster and lime wire
- 32:16and Kazah and whatever the barely one was, right, All these things existed
- 32:22For me. I was the target audience for a lot of this stuff.
- 32:25Hey, go download the popular songs. Here's four trojan horses to go with
- 32:29it. Who remembers Michael Angelo? Yes, so the Internet is so ingrained
- 32:43in me. But I also grew up with not good internet. So it
- 32:50was a lot of me going to the library after school to do homework,
- 32:52to research. It was a lot of me spending extra time in the computer
- 32:55lab at school because we had a T one connection. Cool, And not
- 33:02until I got into college did I have good, reliable internet. Yeah.
- 33:08I remember when I first started playing game more games online. Right now.
- 33:13I was able to play some games on my forty four kilo bit connection,
- 33:17but it was Diablo too, yeah, or it was Elder Scrolls online,
- 33:23and I was lucky if it worked you couldn't even afford to fifty two,
- 33:28even though well we had the fifty two k to them, right, but
- 33:30we maybe on a good day we got forty eight. Maybe on a good
- 33:35day connected at forty eight. Gosh, and you think about how fast we
- 33:37moved on. Think about it for communication though, I'm gonna say say this,
- 33:42and it probably people are gonna hate me for this. For those that
- 33:45wanted to communicate with others. You know, you wrote letters back, you
- 33:47know in the old days, then you wrote postcards that you have the Internet,
- 33:52but in between, what did you have? You had the CB radio
- 33:55ham ra kb Ob eighteen sixty nine. Yep, ham rate, Yeah,
- 34:00you had that, all right. I got to ask Balder's Gate three.
- 34:05You've played it, Sean, it's awesome. Do you agree it's been named
- 34:09Steams Game of the Year for this year by Yes, So yes, I
- 34:15agree that it is game of the year because it is a a well fleshed
- 34:21out, well made, visually appealing, dramatic, it's just a it's an
- 34:29overall great game. Right. It captured my attention, it kept me going.
- 34:35There will be people that say there was too much sex in it.
- 34:37Yeah, I've heard about them. With screen caps and stuff. People.
- 34:42There are romantic interests storylines that happen in in the in the in the game,
- 34:47and it's kind of hard to avail kind so there are options. So
- 34:52some streamers got booted originally because there was an option to show nudity. Not
- 34:59show nudity, wow in a game, Oh my lord. So and the
- 35:05graphics are really good, let's just put it that way, all right.
- 35:08So there's a great storyline. But some people have said the the the erotic
- 35:14portion of the game was a little too much. You can avoid it kind
- 35:17of. Some of the storylines intertwine and they have to part, you know,
- 35:22they kind of have to intertwine to make this the whole storyline work.
- 35:25But overall, the game was great. I put in several hundred hours right
- 35:30playing it, and I did I believe. I read an article that said,
- 35:37if you want to get all of the content that is in the game,
- 35:39all of the storylines, all of the character interactions, somebody said you
- 35:45had to play it through, play the game through like nineteen different times to
- 35:47get all of the because I like a different every decision you make, every
- 35:53character you meet or kill or don't kill, or save or banish whatever.
- 36:00But it's a parallel universe, right. That universe now only exists on that
- 36:05branch until you make another decision, and then you're off on that bridge.
- 36:08And so if you came and you made the different decision, say you didn't
- 36:13kill this character and did you save their life, that character could then later
- 36:16on come back and act free and say, oh, yeah, my dad's
- 36:19the king, you save my life. Right, So there are overarching storylines
- 36:23that impact the game much later on, and I think a lot of people
- 36:29were surprised by that, like the depth of the game in terms of like
- 36:32character development and progression through the game. That it caught a lot of people
- 36:37off guard because they were, like, this game is so linear, you're
- 36:39but it's not linear. You can there is a storyline, but you can
- 36:43branch off and kind of do all these other things, but then you all
- 36:45end up back in the same spot at the end. I want to try
- 36:51it out. But you know, one of the things that with games these
- 36:53days, and I kind of wonder because it's so epic, right, is
- 36:57I would love to have a game that I could sit maybe play for half
- 37:00an hour, not one that I'm gonna sit to have to play for three
- 37:05four hours. Is is this one of those games? Or is this one
- 37:07you really got to dedicate time to me. You're not gonna get through the
- 37:10character selection screen in a half hour, wow, oh man. You're gonna
- 37:15go through. You're gonna build a character, you're gonna figure out what class
- 37:16you want to play, you're gonna assign some of your skills, and then
- 37:20you're gonna go through the tutorial. And I think the tutorial not the tooryal
- 37:23but like the opening narration, you have to play through a specific set of
- 37:27scenes. That alone took probably an hour. Oh my gosh. Now it
- 37:31said the best game on steam Deck, which you know seam deck is still
- 37:35selling. That went to Hogwart's Legacy, and I think you've played that one
- 37:38too, right, just watch people play it. I didn't. I did
- 37:42not actually play Hogwarts Legacy. I watched people play it. Not my style
- 37:46of game. I like fantasy games, but the Hogwarts Legacy game just didn't
- 37:52appeal to me. So I didn't play it. But a lot of people
- 37:54really enjoyed it. But a lot of people said, yeah, once you
- 37:58get through, like the nostalgia and the hype of like you're in Hogwarts you
- 38:01get to go to these places, the mechanics and the gameplay felt repetitives.
- 38:07Ah, all right, we get fine, it is fun. We got
- 38:09to take another break. We come back. CES is next week above him.
- 38:14We're not all going to CEES, but the Consumer of Technology Association.
- 38:16You're going to join us. We're going to talk about what to expect that
- 38:20this year's CEES, some of the different booths there there, the innovation village,
- 38:24all of that. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird, and I'm
- 38:29slick knowing that those first Fruity Max that Sean was talking about were the first
- 38:32Imax YEI young whipper Schnapper. Yeah, well they were, weren't they?
- 38:38And now back to tech Talk Radio. We are always excited when another year
- 38:45comes around and it's the Consumer Electronics Show. This is a haven for those
- 38:50that love technology, not just gadgets, but it's about the technology that surrounds
- 38:55all of these gadgets. And CES twenty twenty four is just around the corner,
- 39:00which kicks off officially on Tuesday, and we'll run through Friday in Las
- 39:04Vegas. More than thirty five hundred companies are going to be a part of
- 39:07it, standing by with us on the phone is the director of Research with
- 39:09the Consumer Technology Association, Jessica Booth. They produce the Consumer Electronics Show.
- 39:15Jessica, it's great to talk to you. Thanks for having me on.
- 39:17Andy. Are you excited about another CEES going to be taking place because there's
- 39:23so much to see, especially if you love technology. Oh, I am
- 39:28thrilled. It is always exciting to head to Las Vegas to see what all
- 39:32the companies are bringing together, you know, hearing all the keynotes, seeing
- 39:37all the innovation. There is no other experience like going to Vegas and seeing
- 39:43everything in real life. Tell us a little bit about the Consumer Technology Association
- 39:46that puts on the show. Hard to believe, but it is a big
- 39:50anniversary for them for the twenty twenty four show. Yes. So, the
- 39:53Consumer Technology Association is an association that really helps support technology. It's helping innovators
- 40:01of all sizes grow their business and really supporting technology that is changing people's lives
- 40:07for better. It is a big year for us. We are celebrating one
- 40:10hundred years as the Consumer Technology Association, the producers of VS. We're really
- 40:17excited about twenty twenty four. One hundred years that really tells you how far
- 40:22that we have come when it comes to this technology, because you know,
- 40:27technology was a little more simple back then when it started out. But they
- 40:30saw that there was a need for having a CTA consumer technology association with what
- 40:37we were going to be running into, and boy, that was some great
- 40:39thinking. And when you look at last year compared to this year, you
- 40:45still see so many advancements when it comes to AI, healthcare, transportation,
- 40:51even you know, smart home solutions. All of this is going to be
- 40:54shown at CES twenty twenty four. I'm wondering, Jessica, like, who
- 40:59were some of the keynotes this year. That's always kind of a good indication
- 41:02of some of the technology trends that we're seeing. Oh yeah, so the
- 41:06keynotes that we're expecting this year, we're having Larel, Walmart, Demens,
- 41:13Elevants, Health, eh G, Hondi, Nasdaq Best Buy, Intel,
- 41:19Snap. We really are bringing the entire you know, enterprise to the Consumer
- 41:28Technology Show. Everybody's coming and we're really showcasing the entire life cycle of the
- 41:36technology landscape, if you will. Yeah, you really excited to see all
- 41:38of those different players in the market you do have, Yeah, I mean
- 41:43you look at a Snap who would have thought, you know, and representing
- 41:45I guess the social media aspect of technology, which drives a lot of tech
- 41:51too, doesn't it. It does. We recently looked at a study of
- 41:54gen Z and you know, we were really kind of looking at their social
- 41:59media habits as well as the technology that they're interested in using compared to older
- 42:04generational cohorts. And yeah, there's a lot of social media habits among that
- 42:08generational cohort. But even myself as an older generational co coort, really interested
- 42:15in social media and how we're using it to see what new technology is out
- 42:21there. Yeah, so it's really exciting to see Snap at the show as
- 42:25well as la'rel. You know, we're really seeing that beauty tech comes of
- 42:30the show, which I'm really excited about. Does that mean we might see
- 42:34Eva Longoria there, you know, any Chad, you know, I think
- 42:39it's always great, would be really exciting. Last year's last year's CES show,
- 42:45I remember it was cool because I got any invitation from Paula Abdul to
- 42:49go meet her, you know, and I always just thought that was so
- 42:52cool because you do get a lot of celebrities, you know, on that
- 42:54side that attend, many of the companies will bring them in as spokespeople for
- 43:00their product or service. They're always talking about the technology advances for the company
- 43:04they're representing. And at that time I think was Paula Abdul had some bluetooth
- 43:08glasses sunglasses that were very stylish that they were talking about. It was pretty
- 43:14amazing stuff. But you know, in the realm of all the in the
- 43:16realm of all the technology that's out there. We look at some of the
- 43:21themes for this year's CEES Tech for Good and human Security for all, I
- 43:24think we're kind of going on beyond what many of us have thought about when
- 43:29it comes to security, you know, our personal devices, passwords, et
- 43:31cetera. We're talking about kind of a worldwide venture when it comes to just
- 43:36making the world better. Can you kind of tell us what this is all
- 43:39about? You know, thinking about Tech for good, I really kind of
- 43:44think about sustainability and inclusivity and really kind of looking to that broader space.
- 43:51That's how technology is helping make sure that people don't have food. Insecurity,
- 43:57it's how people have access to technology, have access to more basically, and
- 44:06some of the technologies that I'm really excited about seeing specifically in the sustainability space,
- 44:10is you know, alternative energy sources such as jaggery. They're going to
- 44:15be displaying a solar Mars Spot, which is a robot with extendable solar panels
- 44:22that can power camp sites that serve as emergency power sources. Oh well,
- 44:28I kind of mentioned those glasses that you talked about. From the inclusivity standpoint,
- 44:35We're going to see Lexotica, which is going to be having a really
- 44:38stylish, chic design of a herrible technology of glasses. So again having that
- 44:45accessibility for all, which is really exciting as we kind of think about that
- 44:50human security for all standpoint, as we kind of look towards the future,
- 44:54and I haven't even touched on food tech. Oh my gosh. Food.
- 44:58Yeah, food tech, because food tech could be used. The technology can
- 45:00be used to help create food sources that can be then applied to those that
- 45:07are in countries with food insecurities or where people aren't getting enough food in those
- 45:13areas, or even find better in new ways to help produce and manage some
- 45:17of this food correct. So we see like there's another phase of like next
- 45:23gen food, whether it be like the food prep itself, or just to
- 45:28make sure that you know, there's sustainable food waste management. So we see
- 45:32that there's innovations in terms of reducing food prep time as well as a sustainable
- 45:39technology called mid bar air form or play a really big play in agriculture with
- 45:46harsh climate. Oh nice. Well also, let's face it, Jessica,
- 45:51one of the things I love about this is when you see all the stuff
- 45:53and yes, this innovation, this technology is amazing stuff. But when you
- 45:59see this stuff that we may be able to use in our home, that
- 46:01we may see on the market, you know, when in the next six
- 46:04months to a year that can help us and whether it be in the kitchen,
- 46:08whether it be in the garage, whether it be you know, anywhere
- 46:12throughout the house. We've even seen technology used that will help build homes and
- 46:15no matter how it's being applied, it's going to make life easier, faster,
- 46:22fun and in some cases can even send save you some money, absolutely,
- 46:27you know, And I think that's going back to the purpose. You
- 46:30know, we are looking at the future of technology and what consumers want and
- 46:35you know, what is the need out there? And one of those areas
- 46:38that I think about is the TV and how the TV, which is a
- 46:44perennial favorite at CS. Everybody loves to see the pictures of the large screens
- 46:49at TV, but we're really looking to see the TV as it advances to
- 46:54like a smart connected media device, really becoming the smart home connection in the
- 47:00home where people can do more than just stream entertainment. But it's going to
- 47:05connect to it, like you said, the kitchen, the launder room,
- 47:08the garage, and it will really enable consumers to be empowered in the center
- 47:14of their home, which I think is a really fantastic idea. And think
- 47:17about it, how our lives have been changed by this technology. You know,
- 47:23we saw the first the videotape, and then Betamax with the Big Battle,
- 47:29and then you had DVDs, CDs and then digital digital media just everywhere
- 47:35you look around. We've got so many sources for content that you've got now
- 47:39companies that are creating their own channels so you can actually log in on the
- 47:44web and be able to watch it on your television. So the TV has
- 47:46been transformed not only because of its size, but because of its capabilities listening
- 47:52to music, getting your news twenty four to seven, having your weather right
- 47:57there, all any time you want, so that TV has become like a
- 48:00home hub of that. But with that, you also have the Internet advancements,
- 48:05whether it be Starlink or any of the others, you have a technology
- 48:07that's going to bring all of that into your home. We're going to see
- 48:12some companies displayed there, not only there throughout the show floor, but also
- 48:15at Eureka Park. I know that we'll be new and upcoming technologies. For
- 48:21those that don't know about Eureka Park, can you tell us a little bit
- 48:22about that. Yeah, So Eureka Park is our way of kind of bringing
- 48:28the startup place together. So we have over a thousand startups coming to the
- 48:35show to really show the innovation on the show floor. So it is a
- 48:40great way for everybody to kind of see the up and coming technologies or the
- 48:45new inventions. So we'll have over a thousand of them this year. So
- 48:51really excited to see those new technologies coming to the show at CS twenty twenty
- 48:57four. My friends have always talked about the the auto autos. I remember
- 49:01the late Jim Barry, you know, a rest in peace, just a
- 49:05great guy from CTA that would I remember coming on and talking to me about
- 49:09it, and he said, you know, it's funny CS started and then
- 49:12a car show broke out. You know, basically you have this big auto
- 49:15show because technology is a big part of our cars. Will there be more
- 49:19vehicles on display this year? Absolutely, We're really excited to see the future
- 49:24of mobility with electric and self driving, and we'll see BMW or Strainings will
- 49:32be demonstrating their electric development and accelerating, and there's other technologies and inventors that
- 49:39are showcasing their self driving technologies. You know, Jessica, I'm wondering,
- 49:44though, with these trends that we're seeing in vehicles, are we going to
- 49:50see other forms of transportation also on display? The mobility trends are extending beyond
- 49:54the car with advances with the ke bikes and electric motorcycles, in boats and
- 50:01even flying cars. So I'm really excited to continue to watch the vehicle also
- 50:07the larger mobility trend at the show this year. Wow, I forgot about
- 50:12the flying car. They I mean, they had a demonstration last year.
- 50:15I can't imagine what they're going to be doing this year. It's going to
- 50:16be a blast. If our listeners want to keep on track of what's happening
- 50:21at ce S. What should they do? Is there a website? Absolutely
- 50:23so everybody should go to cs tech so ce S dot tech t e c
- 50:32H to follow along with us and or follow us on social media. So
- 50:37we'll be making sure that we keep up with posting what's happening at the show
- 50:40for and obviously I think Andy you'll be keeping up with us as well.
- 50:45Of course we'll be talking about it. You'll be able to follow some of
- 50:49those updates on our blog blog tech talk radio dot com, and of course
- 50:52we'll be talking about it as well on the next week show. Jessica,
- 50:58thank you so much for coming on Tech Talk Radio. So great stuff and
- 51:00looking forward to another CEES for twenty twenty four. It's going to be some
- 51:04amazing technology. Thank you, tan By. We'll be back with more of
- 51:07tech Talk Radio. And now back to Tech Talk Radio. We decided to
- 51:14bring something back to the show that a lot of people like. It's sixty
- 51:16second Tech. And what is sixty second Tech? Well, basically, each
- 51:21one of us has sixty seconds to talk about a tech story that we found
- 51:24kind of interesting for this week, and to kick it off, it's Sean.
- 51:29Are you ready Sean, I'm ready. Time for sixty second Tech begins
- 51:34now. Slipper zero. It's a penetration testing tool that came out about a
- 51:40year ago. It has become insanely popular and because of the Internet, things
- 51:45are very easy to get hands on for firmware and visitbch the downside, people
- 51:51use it for nefarious reasons, one of them being a Bluetooth overload. What
- 51:58do you want to call a DDoS attack? You know on masks like route
- 52:00forcing something which using this little device which fits in the palm of your hand,
- 52:05you could walk through Times Square wherever running this device and essentially shut down
- 52:13any device capable of taking Bluetooth because it just spams Bluetooth notifications to these devices,
- 52:17which then forces them to shut off. iPhones will reboot, insulin pumps,
- 52:22anything Bluetooth will get shut off or force it to reboot because basically just
- 52:25overloads it and then the device does don't have to do so reboots. iOS
- 52:30seventeen point two patches that issue out You're done anything? All right, slick?
- 52:39Are you ready? I am ready? You're gonna buzz me out?
- 52:43Yes? Sixty second Tech begins now. First a rant if you're gonna send
- 52:50me an email, Please in the subject line, put the most important thing
- 52:52at the front. If there's a date and the time into do date or
- 52:55something like that, put it up there. Because if you put it like
- 52:58twenty words down and I don't see your email that you sent me back in
- 53:01April, and then you wonder why I didn't show up at the meeting,
- 53:04that's why. Okay, now here's something I learned about and it kind of
- 53:08caught me by as a president. I was like, what really? So
- 53:13a lot of Apple Mac people may be aware of this now, but maybe
- 53:16not Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is free on the Mac. I actually stumbled across
- 53:24this information, so got it, got a Mac, installed it, no
- 53:30problem using it. So if you put this all together, the Microsoft tools,
- 53:35you get Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft to Do, and Microsoft Teams, and
- 53:39all three are free and they're on the Mac. It kind of neat.
- 53:45Well, no, I'm not going that far. I'm not going on that
- 53:49right now. Did I get a buzz out? Yeah? Okay, right
- 53:52out of here you go with mine. Mine is a bit of a rant.
- 53:55I'm upset because of the public domain. The public domain, as once
- 54:00again has called the life of another character we have loved, and it's only
- 54:06being turned into crud. It's being turned into doo doo by those that want
- 54:12to take something that we have enjoyed so much at our youth, and now
- 54:15we don't have it anymore. We saw it recently this past year with Winnie
- 54:20the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh goes into public domain, and what do they
- 54:23do. They stick a mask on him and make him a killer in a
- 54:27low budget movie that people spent money on, so much so that there's a
- 54:32sequel to Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh too. They couldn't even be creative
- 54:37with the name. And now Mickey Mouse is now the next victim with the
- 54:44Mickey Mouse Trap, a movie that has planned a live action film that as
- 54:49soon as it was announced the first day of January, the copyright was going
- 54:52away. That was announced. I've just clair byus, not all the Mickey
- 55:00Mouse options. It's only the steamboat Willie. Yes, and so the mask
- 55:05looks like steamboat Willie. People will do anything. It's the Internet, it
- 55:08exists. Please stop watching this stuff seriously, Well, I ain't paying for
- 55:15it. Hit up our blog, hit up our website. Slick said he's
- 55:16going to be doing some blog stuff this week too. Say I'm sticking.
- 55:20I'm making you stick to it. Now, I just noticed that. Yeah,
- 55:23I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm slick. Tech
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