Latest / TechtalkRadio / Episode 380 - The Shiny New Thing!
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- 0:00The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey guys,
- 0:04this is Al Petrali from the Transient Orchestra. Normally I'm not a nerd,
- 0:08but I am with my brother Andy on tech Talk Radio. God bless me,
- 0:11dame. Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
- 0:19I'm Sean d Weird, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm justin Lemme.
- 0:22I'm just glad we were all able to get together. Yeah, we tried,
- 0:26like the holidays, right, we tried last week and you know,
- 0:29it was before Thanksgiving and people were sick. Oh my god, people were
- 0:34traveling, people were cooking. So he said, all right, well we'll
- 0:37just we'll hold off for you know, another week and talk about all this
- 0:41fun stuff that's going on. So we get questions once in a while to
- 0:44the show. We got one from Lou and he says, hey, my
- 0:48fourteen year old is looking at a gaming computer and I wanted to get your
- 0:52opinion on it. It's called Capital n z x T Player one and we
- 0:59put link in there. So of course I never click on a link in
- 1:03a text. I went online just to yeah, it just went online just
- 1:07to do a search. Of the company, and then I found the company,
- 1:10found they had a website, went and looked at their their model,
- 1:14and the kid's fourteen. Now you got to remember this. And the thing
- 1:17is for the price of what they were looking at, there's a player one.
- 1:22There's like a secondary version. I think you're looking at that shown right
- 1:26now. I've got to pulled up so whatever you right, So you've got
- 1:29the one. That's what six ninety nine for. So the player one that
- 1:33you mentioned is six ninety nine, right, And here's the specs real quick,
- 1:37Intel Core I five, twelfth Gen thirty fifty RTX sixteen gig, DDR
- 1:42four five hundred gig and VMMEM two and six hundred and fifty watt PSU kind
- 1:48of like, I mean, other than the thirty fifty that's really kind of
- 1:52bear, isn't it. I mean, that's not that great specs though for
- 1:57six ninety nine. I mean, okay, depends on what you wants to
- 2:00play. Right, did he mention it's a boy or him? Sorry?
- 2:02Sorry? Did what? What is he? What does he want to play?
- 2:06If you want to play Minecraft, I mean, yeah, sure,
- 2:07that's fine. But if he wants to play Call of Duty or whatever,
- 2:12No, that's not going to cut it. Well, it'll cut the mustard,
- 2:15but he's not going to be playing anything on ultra I mean but ultra
- 2:19settings. Yeah, for like for a fourteen year old that that ain't bad.
- 2:23But for that amount, I'd be like, well, timmy, you
- 2:25get to build your first computer. Here's your budget, go by the part.
- 2:29That's exactly what I would suggest. Yeah, that's what And again PC
- 2:34part picker is one of those Yeah, great. And honestly, this is
- 2:38this is a skill that people should be teaching their kids. And I can't
- 2:40wait for the day that I can build, you know, with Eric build
- 2:44his computer. I mean, honestly, it's it's a it's a it's a
- 2:47lifelong skill to be able to learn how to build a computer. And you
- 2:51can get so much more bang for your buck by building your own computer by
- 2:54using parts, you know, like going to pcparkpicker dot com, finding the
- 3:00motherboard, finding the CPU, finding the GPU, finding the power supply,
- 3:04you know, and and and the case and the RAM and just and put
- 3:07it all together yourself. Do you think though, it's important that parents talk
- 3:10to the kids about like when they talk about gaming, like what type of
- 3:15games what how do they how do they want to play? Because let's face
- 3:19it, you've got consoles out there that could actually do pretty good, and
- 3:23in some cases, if they're going to be playing console games, wouldn't that
- 3:27be better than dropping all this money onto a computer? I mean six p
- 3:30ninety nine versus four ninety nine for an Xbox. You know, yeah,
- 3:34I would, I would, I would agree. I mean, Xbox dude.
- 3:38I could go on for hours about this, but honestly I am.
- 3:40I'm right back in the Xbox camp. I mean, when I first got
- 3:44my Xbox Series X with game Pass, I was kind of like, eh,
- 3:46whatever, I don't even play my PlayStation anymore. I would actually rather
- 3:50trade my PlayStation five for another Xbox if I could right now, because Xbox
- 3:55game Pass with the PC game Pass that comes with it is just none your
- 4:00best best bang for your buck, and you can play so many games on
- 4:05the Xbox right now with game Pass that I don't even play PC games anymore.
- 4:10Like, literally the games that I play are Xbox game Pass. Like
- 4:15It's just it's ridiculous. It's they got so much stuff going on. They
- 4:18are killing it. This This generation. PlayStation's always won the war when it
- 4:24comes to generations, not anymore. Xbox has won this generation. Okay,
- 4:30now, now here we go. Got off his soapbox here swinging for Sony.
- 4:33All right, Oh you're gonna swing out with Spider Many. Okay,
- 4:39so I'm gonna come out swinging for Sony because I first off, I will
- 4:43completely agree with Justin that the Xbox Game Pass is phenomenal. I am not
- 4:47gonna say. I'm not gonna say otherwise. The fact that you can go
- 4:50between console and PC for those games is a phenomenal value and it really is
- 4:57a great service saying that they one. However, I'm gonna disagree, and
- 5:02here's why, because I can also play my PlayStation anywhere on a phone.
- 5:12But on top of that, not only through PS plus, uh do you
- 5:16have access to you know, the modern games, but you have access to
- 5:18classics all the way back to the PS one. Same with Xbox. Okay,
- 5:24I didn't interrupt you, so you can go on. Sorry. Wow,
- 5:28he's the first person to ever telling that. Recovering my time, recovering
- 5:31my time. I worked for the House of Representatives for like a year.
- 5:35I got real good at listening to recovering my time, recovering my time,
- 5:40which is the plight way of being like, shut up, I'm still talking.
- 5:46So yes, they PlayStation has a gigantic catalog. You get three free
- 5:49games every month. I know that Xbox has all of this as well.
- 5:54However, PlayStation just recently released a brand new handheld that Xbox does not have
- 6:00anything like. It has a screen equivalent to most tablets, with an integrated
- 6:04PS five dual sentence controller and all the full functionality that comes therein And Andy,
- 6:11did I just see you pick one up? No? Actually, I
- 6:14showed this on television. This is Yeah, the acis rog Asis rog ally
- 6:19extreme. This is the extreme model, so it's a little more be fear.
- 6:23This is amazing. And again I'm not an intense gamer. I used
- 6:27to be, but obviously with work and everything, I might I don't know
- 6:31if I would be able to get this would drag me back into the games.
- 6:35I think it would. A seven inch screen, Xbox, You've got,
- 6:40I can guarantee you it will. I bought my wife a Steam Deck.
- 6:45I didn't see her for a while again, like this switch immediately started
- 6:53gathering dust right when that came in, and she was like, oh,
- 6:56I can play game like I can play like the PC games on this that's
- 7:00kind of cool. And then I shared my porter's nightmare of a Steam library
- 7:05with her, and all of a sudden, she's just burning through games faster
- 7:10than I am. And the one that finally broke, like finally broke her
- 7:15and she was like, I need a PC. It was Balder's Gate three.
- 7:17Oh oh yes, she's playing that on the Steam deck and she's like
- 7:20trying to roll the dice, like tapping on the screen and she's like it's
- 7:24not working. And for those who don't know, Balderskate three is basically D
- 7:28and D the video game, so rolling dice is kind of a large part
- 7:32of that. I would just like to interject real quick because I think we're
- 7:35getting off on a tangent here. I want to circle back to your PlayStation
- 7:40handheld. Okay, yes, let me let me finish on that real quick.
- 7:43So because I want to interject after that. So handheld, built in
- 7:46screen, built in battery, built in PS five old dual sense, it's
- 7:53dual sense now right, yeah? Yeah, du sense yeah, because it
- 7:57was like Duel Shock six axes. Yah. Yeah, okay, enough with
- 8:03the duels, guys, pick something new, but all of that built in
- 8:07together easy portable interface, can use over Wi Fi and your house can be
- 8:11used remotely anywhere else. Yes, justin you're gonna tell me that you can
- 8:16pair a Xbox controller to a tablet. No, the only way you can
- 8:20use the PlayStation is if you have Wi Fi, so you cannot use it
- 8:24anywhere. It only works if it has Wi Fi. It is not standalone.
- 8:28You cannot install games to it. I was. I wasn't saying it
- 8:31a stand alone I was saying that you had to use it over Wi Fi
- 8:35somewhere in your house or elsewhere that it had Wi Fi. I wasn't saying
- 8:39it was a stand alone system. Okay, I apologize if I put that
- 8:41No, no, no that way. I just want to make sure you'll
- 8:43understand it's not stand alone you have it only remotely connects to your PlayStation.
- 8:48Now, other downside of that, possibly potentially maybe a small downside of that
- 8:54is if your PlayStation loses power, Now your portable handheld is like dud.
- 8:58You know, you can't use it because your PlayStation at home maybe doesn't have
- 9:01an Internet connection at home, or the power went out or whatever. Now
- 9:05the same thing goes for the Xbox if you're trying to stream your Xbox from
- 9:09home. But what game Pass has is that you don't have to have you
- 9:13don't have to stream your games from it. You can just play them.
- 9:16You can play them from the cloud. And you do have that. Well,
- 9:20okay, I'm going to leave that we have that. I want to
- 9:24double check before I commit to it, because if I commit to it and
- 9:30I'm wrong, Justin's going to rap me over the coals because I know never
- 9:33let you forget it. I will double check and get back to you on
- 9:37that, either later in the show or next week. But there also is
- 9:41a large portion of that PlayStation catalog that you can play that is cloud streaming.
- 9:46It puts like a three hundred and seventy five kilobyte file on your system
- 9:52and that's it. Yeah, but I'm gonna say that I've said my part
- 9:56for Sony, Justin said his part for peace for Xbox uh slash yeah,
- 10:03PC adjacent, but also the lineup, feel free, please feel free to
- 10:07make up your own minds. The line up. The lineup this generation though,
- 10:11the lineup this generation Xbox has so many more games. PlayStation has what
- 10:16Spider Man for like the fifth time that's the only thing Spider Man is.
- 10:20His back is breaking carrying the entire Sony lineup. Look at that. You
- 10:24keep Spider Man's name out here, all right, you know. So here's
- 10:31the thought. So for lou who's thinking, okay, and here we've thrown
- 10:35these other options out. A console, whether it be PlayStation, whether it
- 10:39be Xbox, we haven't. And then we talked about the handhelds. You
- 10:45know you've got that. You've got Nintendo Switch as well, which I don't
- 10:48know if people don't need Nintendo Switch to me, feels like the Wei.
- 10:52When the Wei came out, it was great, everybody wanted it, it
- 10:56did so much, and then the Nintendo just kind of sit. Yeah,
- 11:00they don't do anything with it. Yeah, they're just milking it to death,
- 11:03and there's nothing good about the Switch anymore. The other thing I want
- 11:05to say about a PC, if for a fourteen year old kid giving them
- 11:09their own PC. Now, I'm I have to talk about this with my
- 11:11own son when I do this. But you're talking about opening up a whole
- 11:16world of possibilities for your kid that might not be ready for it. We're
- 11:20talking about getting online on the internet, viewing websites, that they may not
- 11:26should be viewing, such as possibly pornography or anything like that that they should
- 11:31not be viewing. You can't do that, well, you kind of can,
- 11:35but not really on a console. So like, if you want to
- 11:37talk about more about protecting your child let them play games, maybe just get
- 11:43them a console. Yeah, or the other thought here and this, but
- 11:46this kind of doesn't really fit with what your comment there about going into a
- 11:50console instead of a PC is a laptop and I'm thinking, investment wise,
- 11:56is it better than for him to invest in a laptop up for a son,
- 12:00like an Asus Rock for a fourteen year old kid? I want to
- 12:03know, because they're gonna break it. They're gonna break it in a month,
- 12:07right. If they're not gonna break it, their chucklehead friend is going
- 12:09to accidentally break it and then be like, oh sorry, man, my
- 12:11bad. You remember, don't you remember? Guys, like years ago,
- 12:16when you wanted to go to your friend's house, you'd have to pack up
- 12:18that big old tower. Oh my gosh with the big old Crteam monitor.
- 12:22You love that. That was the workout? Yeah, land party, And
- 12:26who was it? I think it was Steel series put together put together a
- 12:30It was almost like a strap that you would wrap the tower in and you
- 12:35could wrap it over your shoulder. So you know I had one of those.
- 12:37Yeah, I'm sure I don't walking around now with like a little bit
- 12:41of a hump because they were carrying around their seventy pound you know tower.
- 12:46Yeah I did that. That was me, dude, that was literally me.
- 12:50Yeah. All right, listen, we got to take a quick break.
- 12:52I will tell you justin next week on the show, we're gonna be
- 12:56talking with the guy who runs pretty much the product marketing for Canopy and Canopy
- 13:03is a it's basically a service where they help protect the kid's eyes, protect
- 13:11the kids when from even adults, protect adults from content that they don't want
- 13:16to see online. So again, we're going to do that next week,
- 13:18but we are going to come back here. You took a trip in an
- 13:22electric vehicle. That surprised. That kind of blows me away because I'm thinking
- 13:28of all the things that could go wrong. But you'll tell us what went
- 13:31right. Coming up. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Dear, I'm Matt
- 13:33Jones, and I'm Justin. Let me find us on the web at tech
- 13:35talkRADIO dot com. We'll be right back and now back to tech talk radio.
- 13:41In the effort of fairness, we referenced PC part picker. I went
- 13:46online and built a system to complete parody to the the NZXT player one right,
- 13:52like identical specs. And it was like three hundred dollars more to build
- 13:58it yourself. Oh, three and a dollar more. Really wow, Wow,
- 14:01it was more. It was already the same cost before he even threw
- 14:05in the operating system of the graphics card. But it's the experience of building
- 14:09it with your child. It's the experience of having those extra zeros in your
- 14:13Here's something else to think about now, I think on the on that system,
- 14:18if you buy it from nzxt right, they give you a three months
- 14:22of PC game Pass, which I believe they say is the equivalent of basically
- 14:28one hundred bucks. So you knock that off three months. No, dude,
- 14:33Xbox game Pass PC is like twenty bucks a month. So so set's
- 14:37only sixty dollars. Yeah, so sixty bucks off, right. You won't
- 14:39get that if you build it yourself. No, I'll get that. If
- 14:43you build it yourself, No, and you don't get the os, you
- 14:46don't get the well, you'd have to buy the OS separate. You only
- 14:48have the individual parts warranty and going through RMA for any dead parts is a
- 14:54nightmare. Yep. So you don't have any builders warranty, which that alone
- 14:56throws in some value to be able to call customers board or just I mean
- 15:01my buddy when he was visiting I want to say about a year ago,
- 15:05it was like, I haven't upgraded my PC in years, It's time to
- 15:07do it. We built him a monster machine and he got it and it
- 15:13was dead on arrival. Ride maybe. And another company also want to look
- 15:18at besides nz XT. NZXT, you know, they started as case manufacturer,
- 15:22then they started doing cooling and other parts like that. But there's also
- 15:26another company ze ax x I d AX and as anywhere from like very bare
- 15:33bones beginner systems up to like no, I don't have to respond to my
- 15:37wife about what my bank statement says like that level of customization. I actually
- 15:43had the pleasure of meeting I'm pretty sure he's the president of zide Ax on
- 15:48a vacation last year. And the fact that it went from just like this
- 15:54tiny little like I like to build PCs, this massive, like huge success
- 15:58story. Now they still stay really in touch with the roots of what they
- 16:03wanted to do at the start, and I might have to spend a little
- 16:07more over n ZXT to do his id acts, but I'll do that just
- 16:10for a company that remembers where they came from, you know, stays in
- 16:14touch to the roots of what they were trying to do originally, and really
- 16:18loves the the community that they're they're providing this service for. I have a
- 16:25feeling. Do you guys remember Abanda on the show a couple of years ago.
- 16:30I think I have a feeling she bought one of those and she was
- 16:33really happy with it. So that's that's good. She bought a laptop for
- 16:37Yeah. Are you guys still feeling it when it comes to Alienware, I
- 16:42mean not at all. No, No, stopped feeling that as soon as
- 16:47Dell bought them, right, yeah, because Dell bought them out. And
- 16:49then next thing, you know, and then HP is their Voodoo system,
- 16:52which I again I have not had a chance to check that out. We
- 16:56looked at Alienware when it was owned by Alienware, and we were pretty impressed
- 17:00by you know, the specs and everything else. The price usually was a
- 17:03little higher than what you would buy, you know, on a rack system.
- 17:07Now I just don't know. I have no idea, like, there's
- 17:10no no reason to go alienware. Alienware is dead to me. It's not
- 17:15just that, it's also that I'm with you. It's dead to me.
- 17:18Same with Voodoo. They were another alienware competitor until HP bought them. But
- 17:25the super cool cases that they put everything in have like such poor thermal flow
- 17:32that reports are coming out that it like parts are just cooking inside of the
- 17:37PC. They bought a brand, gutted everything that made it special, and
- 17:41then added an extra zero to the price tag. I used to buy the
- 17:44cooler Master all the time, and I love Cooler Masters still do, still
- 17:48love them. Their stack which was basically two computers one on top of it.
- 17:52You know, one could be a server, one could be you know,
- 17:55a basic station, and then you'd have the full system down below that.
- 18:00I love the cooler Master half nine thirty two's but then I started buying
- 18:03fractal fractal designs g case and I'm really I'm really happy with the airflow in
- 18:12that the fan system is great. It doesn't come with a rear fan,
- 18:18but I or a top fan, and I'm not doing like justin over there
- 18:22with the liquid cooling. But I was really impressed with Fractal. Not too
- 18:26expensive too, a little cheaper than Cooler Master. I think sixty nine bucks
- 18:30for the non RGB model, and then if you want the RGV model,
- 18:34it's like ninety nine dollars. And I've been really happy with those. Fractals
- 18:38are good. What Sean, what do you have you built a computer recently?
- 18:42I bought a I mean I have a cooler Master case because I had
- 18:45to panic buy one when I upgraded that ten seventy tis old. Oh yes's
- 18:49right, because it didn't fit. That's right, So I panic bought just
- 18:55a cheap case, and I'd still have it. I think it's just a
- 19:00cooler. It's a cooler Master. So I have an upgradeed my case.
- 19:03I mean, I've upgraded the motherboards, mother things since then, but I'm
- 19:07just running a cooler Master. I like the thermal take ones. Those were
- 19:11those were pretty good too, but again I just found that you got better
- 19:14airflow out of the out of the Fractal. And the cooler Masters were great
- 19:18too, but they just they're a little more priceier. If you're thinking about
- 19:22going that run. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I migrated all
- 19:23my fans and stuff over, so I definitely am running proper temperatures and I
- 19:27don't have any I don't have any cooling issues. But yeah, I didn't
- 19:32go I didn't spend more than like fifty or sixty bucks on my case,
- 19:37so right, yeah, yeah, but that's one of the things you got
- 19:40to think about when building. The other is the OS. I'll be honest
- 19:42with you. I think the first system I built recently, I went ahead
- 19:47and I did the full you know, Amazon buying the license from Amazon.
- 19:51It was one hundred and I want to say fifty nine dollars for Windows eleven.
- 19:56I think it was, yep, it's Windows eleven Pro. Then the
- 20:00second one I did, I thought, well, let's do this dack social
- 20:03thing and I was really happy with it, and it was it was good.
- 20:07I went I downloaded the media, made you know, burnt the io
- 20:11ISO very easily, and I saved a lot of money because it I think
- 20:15it was I think twenty three dollars for Windows eleven. Wow. So I'm
- 20:22you know, I'm good. I'd rather put that extra, you know,
- 20:23one hundred and twenty bucks into maybe a more ram or bigger, hard drive,
- 20:27the whole bit. So that's something to think about if you're going to
- 20:30be building building a system at any point. Yeah, all right, now
- 20:34we know that justin you took a trip, and I'll be honest with you,
- 20:38I was like, really wondering, how is this going to pan out?
- 20:41I pictured you sitting somewhere in you know, in South Dakota, sitting
- 20:47there waiting because your your e vehicle was not getting any you know, any
- 20:52juice. Oh yeah, well no, we did. We we actually took
- 20:56the Tesla. For those of you don't know, I bought my wife a
- 21:00Tesla Model Y twenty twenty three. We bought that a few months ago and
- 21:04we decided to take our first actual road trip. And so, honestly,
- 21:11the way up there, the way we drove from Denver North we went up
- 21:15to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and then we cut over to on the state highways
- 21:18up to Lusk, Wyoming. So we had to stop at Cheyenne first.
- 21:22The day we left was a Wednesday, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We couldn't
- 21:26sleep. I mean we were waking up at one thirty, two, thirty
- 21:29three, thirty four to thirty. Finally woke up at five am. We
- 21:32were on the road by five thirty. We got to Cheyenne by seven and
- 21:37the supercharger at the Cheyenne area was at the mall and there was nothing else
- 21:42around there. I mean, like there's like an olive garden and what target
- 21:45whatever, but everything was closed, but the mall was open just for like
- 21:49people that want to walk the mall. You know. We charged throughout forty
- 21:52five minutes. We walked the mall just to get a little exercise, and
- 21:55then we got back in the car. And then we drove the state highways
- 21:57up to Lusk, Wyoming, and there was a little a roadside motel that
- 22:02actually had a five bay Tesla supercharger there at the motel, so we plugged
- 22:07in there for about twenty minutes. We let Eric play in a little playground
- 22:12that was at the motel, and then we drove up to Custer, South
- 22:15Dakota, and we stopped there at the gas station which was also a Tesla
- 22:18supercharger, and we stopped there for about fifteen minutes and charged, and then
- 22:23we got to Rapid City and we still had about thirty percent battery left.
- 22:27And then at the hotel they had a third party charger. It was called
- 22:33charge point, and you had to use the adapter. Now the adapter actually
- 22:37comes with the Teslas and it's a J one twenty two adapter, and so
- 22:42we would plug the Tesla in it. And now that one is not a
- 22:45supercharger, so that one charges only at two hundred and twenty volt versus the
- 22:49supercharger which charges at four hundred and forty volt. So obviously it was a
- 22:52lot a lot longer to charge, but we would just plug it in overnight
- 22:56and with the superchargers, each charge that we did, like and Chyenne for
- 23:00forty five minutes was like eighteen bucks, Lusk was like ten bucks, Custer
- 23:07was like eight bucks, and then the charger at the hotel was a dollar
- 23:14per hour, and then after the car would get charged, it would stop
- 23:18charging. So that ended up being around twelve dollars, and so we got
- 23:22all the way there. So in retrospect looking back at it, would you
- 23:26say it was a cheaper experience? It was pretty It was definitely cheaper than
- 23:30gas, although you have to you know, obviously time and I guess if
- 23:36you want to go by that ad old adage, time is money. Sure
- 23:38it may be me more expensive then, but if you have the extra time
- 23:42to spare, it was definitely cheaper on the pocketbook. And then the other
- 23:48cool thing about it was we basically I let I drove the entire way.
- 23:52Well, I mean I was in the I was in the driver's seat.
- 23:56Put it that way. I let the Tesla drive itself the entire nice and
- 24:02it it handled it like a champ. I mean it was great. Every
- 24:06every thirty seconds or so, it would ask me to put a little bit
- 24:08of forced feedback on the steering wheel just to make sure that I'm still there
- 24:12and I'm paying attention. About about an hour and a half into the drive,
- 24:15I literally just stuck a water bottle into the into the steering wheel and
- 24:19then it took over from there because the water bottle. The water bottle provided
- 24:23that extra balance because if you if you it's hard to explain it, but
- 24:30if you're driving on autopilot and a Tesla, the steering wheel will constantly jerk
- 24:36about one degree to the left or to the right, and that is not
- 24:41the car correcting itself, that is it figuring out if you're still there.
- 24:45Were you surprised though, that there were so many charging stations along the way.
- 24:49Were you happy with this? I was very happy with that. Yes,
- 24:52No, I know there's a there's a ton of places that still can't
- 24:55do it. I know our neighbors they wanted to buy a Tesla, but
- 24:57they could it because they have family in rural Kansas and there's no charging stations
- 25:02that way. Now Tesla is expanding, and also SOA's third party chargers.
- 25:06They're expanding. It's just gonna be a matter of years before we have coverage
- 25:10pretty much everywhere you want to go. But I want to talk about that
- 25:12auto, that self driving. I mean, honestly, it was so easy
- 25:17to fool the self driving by literally just sticking a water bottle into the steering
- 25:22wheel to provide that little bit of one degree feedback that it was asking for
- 25:29to make sure that I was still there. I put the water bottle in
- 25:30it, and I just sat back with my hands on my head, and
- 25:33I was like just driving, and the car was driving itself through the black
- 25:37hills of South Dakota, whereas turn after turn after turn, and it was
- 25:41perfect. Wow. Now, granted, on the way back, it was
- 25:47a different story because we had weather that rolled through over Thanksgiving on Friday.
- 25:51We had a snowstorm that rolled through Wyoming, South Dakota, a little bit
- 25:56of Colorado. Wyoming. They don't take care of their roads after a snowstorm,
- 26:02So driving through South Dakota was great, but they won't be hit Wyoming.
- 26:04There was ice patches all over the road. Now, the one thing
- 26:07about Tesla is Tesla is is it's a one pedal driving experience. You don't
- 26:14necessarily need the break. It breaks on its own. If you let up
- 26:18off the accelerator, the car starts to break and it uses that regenerative technology
- 26:26to put energy back into your battery from the brakes. The problem is when
- 26:30it's icy, what's the worst thing that you can do on an icy road
- 26:33to the brakes? Hit the brakes. So the moment I would see an
- 26:37icy patch coming up on the road, I would let up on the accelerator
- 26:41and it would start to break and the Tesla would start to fishtail. Oh
- 26:45that's not good, And I was like, no, no, no,
- 26:47no, no, no, no no, no, don't do that.
- 26:48But yes, granted, the abs would kick in, the regenerative break would
- 26:52kick in and it would say, oh, we're sliding, and it would
- 26:55stop and it would correct itself. But I did not allow it to drive
- 27:00itself back on that time. First off, that and second off, I
- 27:03was getting splashed by so much road debris with the snow and the slush that
- 27:10all the camera systems of the Tesla got blocked, so the cameras couldn't even
- 27:15see the road. So it wasn't going to allow me to do self driving,
- 27:21so I had to drive the whole way back. But I also decided
- 27:23and we got down to Lusk, and instead of going straight south down to
- 27:27Torrington and back down to Cheyenne, which would have saved us time, those
- 27:33are state highways, and again Wyoming does not take care of the roads,
- 27:36I decided to go west from Lusk all over to I twenty five and then
- 27:38just take I twenty five straight south to Denver, which added an extra hour
- 27:42and a half. So our seven hour drive with charging seven hours turned into
- 27:48an eight and a half hour drive, and that sucked. We left at
- 27:51seven in the morning, didn't get back to almost four. All right,
- 27:53Now, I wanted to find out about that, and I'm glad it was
- 27:56a good experience. But this past week we were kind of going back and
- 28:00forth about open AI and there is some strange stuff that has happened. And
- 28:08if you've been following this, the CEO uh and the partner that got founder,
- 28:14the founder of the co found founder and the co founder co founder UH
- 28:18well got bounced. Well, sam Altan got bound bounce out of there.
- 28:21And then the co founder said I'm out too, and he went over to
- 28:23Microsoft. Microsoft said yes, we'll take you, and you know, we'll
- 28:26make you a part of Microsoft, and blah blah blah. Then a few
- 28:30days later they fired the board at open AI and they brought sam Altman and
- 28:34Brockman back. But there's a little bit more to that. Yes, the
- 28:40board fired sam Altman, okay, because they had disagreements, and it was
- 28:45unknown at the time what the disagreement was. They fired sam Altman. Then
- 28:49then yes, Greg Brockman also quit, and Microsoft said, hey, we
- 28:55invested eighteen billion dollars into your company. If you don't want them, we'll
- 29:00and we'll take Greg Brockman with them, and we'll take all seven hundred of
- 29:04your developers. And all the developers are like, yeah, okay, we'll
- 29:08go to Microsoft. And then the board was like, well, hell,
- 29:11if this happens, we don't have a company anymore. We're done. So
- 29:15the board said, all right, we're gonna bring Sam Altman back. We're
- 29:18gonna bring Greg back. And then the board was got The board got fired,
- 29:22the board of directors got fired. But here's the kicker. I actually
- 29:26agree with the board what really because when it comes down to it, what
- 29:33happened was the board was concerned about expanding too quickly and recklessly creating artificial intelligence
- 29:45that will destroy humanity. Sam Altman wants to just create artificial intelligence and expand
- 29:52make more money capitalist bs as usual, and he did not want to have
- 29:56anything to do with the the the responsibility that comes along with this AI,
- 30:06and the board was deathly afraid of creating what we might know as Skynet.
- 30:11And Sam Mountain's like, now, screw that, We're gonna make money.
- 30:15So I actually agree with the board the fact that Microsoft was so eager to
- 30:18bring Sam and his developers onto them. I literally thought that Microsoft would be
- 30:25the creator of skynet. We've got an interview we did last week, but
- 30:30of course we didn't do the show before all of this really kind of imploded.
- 30:34With a specialist in legal when it comes to what happened at open AI,
- 30:40Colin s. Levy, who's written books on technology and legality. You
- 30:45think of things like intellectual property, you think of how this all played out.
- 30:49So even though you know, lots changed since we talked with him,
- 30:53we're going to talk with Colin Levy all about what happened at open AI.
- 30:57And that's standing by. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Shawdward, I'm Matt Jones,
- 31:00and I'm Justin. Let me send us a tweet or an X at
- 31:04tech talk Radio. We'll go back now back to tech talk Radio as we
- 31:10talked about a little earlier. No doubt the drama that has enfolded at open
- 31:15AI is pretty amazing. Justin was going back and forth with me on the
- 31:22day that this all happened, saying do you believe what's going on? And
- 31:25then I would tell him yeah, and and his co founder is out too,
- 31:29and he's like, everybody's gonna leave. And there's so many people speculating
- 31:33and looking at this, but you know, it's a it's a whole new
- 31:36world now when it comes to technology, and of course, as you can
- 31:38imagine, this has created many inroads in the world of legal and of course
- 31:45technology, combining them together. An illegal practitioner and author who's written some great
- 31:49books on this as well. Colin s Levy is with us on the line.
- 31:53Colin, great to talk to you. Great to be on the line
- 31:56with you. Great to have you on tech Talk Radio. You have a
- 31:59couple of books, The Legal Tech Handbook and the Legal Tech Ecosystem, which
- 32:02is innovation advancement in the future of law practice. Let's face it, in
- 32:07the last you know, thirty forty years, we have seen technology come up
- 32:12and I think some people just sit there shaking their heads, going how do
- 32:15we control this? Yeah, there's a lot going on, and I think
- 32:19that the legal industry in particular has been both resistant to change in technology as
- 32:28well as at least historically perhaps intimidated slash fearful of technology. And I think
- 32:37we've seen that change, particularly recently with the sort of widespread rise and use
- 32:45of interatve AI solutions. Oh absolutely, Colin. I'll tell you a really
- 32:49good example of this. And this played out with a combination of technology and
- 32:53legal So last year I worked for a huge radio corporation. They're one of
- 32:59the big and it was interesting because when we started to see AI develop,
- 33:05sure, you had salespeople that were interested in using it to help create and
- 33:08generate commercial content, you know, as far as scripts for a commercial.
- 33:14But us in programming we were like, oh, this is going to be
- 33:16cool. We saw some really neat aspects of it. One of those was
- 33:22a voice called voice AI, and so we started using it to create contests
- 33:27where we would have a celebrity voice and doing a contest you had to figure
- 33:31out what movie he was doing or she was doing. And it's funny.
- 33:37Once legal got a hold of it, though, they said stop it,
- 33:39stop it right away, even though this was personally available and we weren't saying
- 33:45it was that celebrity. The line is, we don't know how this is
- 33:49all going to be regulated, and it could get us in a lot of
- 33:52financial trouble for the company. So suddenly Voice AI was no longer going to
- 33:55be available to us. Yeah, I mean, I think that that the
- 34:00problem these days with AI, particularly with a respect to the sort of use
- 34:05of people's voices, is it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between what's real and
- 34:10what's not because it's becoming even more just. It's sounding more and more authentic,
- 34:16and in addition, they're also to your point has largely been a lack
- 34:22of any type of regulatory framework with respects to the legal use of AI and
- 34:28all that. So we've had to rely on existing laws in terms of copyright,
- 34:30in terms of impersonation, and I think largely the impersonation argument, it's
- 34:37what's largely been driving sort of the pushback against AI generated voices, particularly those
- 34:45of known celebrities, politicians, and other figures that are well known and could
- 34:52likely you know, are very sensitive to the use of their voice and their
- 34:57likeness. Now, corporate legal departments really gonna have to make some changes,
- 35:00aren't they. I mean, when it comes to regulating some of this technology
- 35:06that maybe their employees may use that could again get the company in financial trouble.
- 35:09Yeah, there's definitely going to be, I think, and we've already
- 35:14seen I think a rise in the focus on developing policies with respect to use
- 35:19of AI tools, by whom, when, where all that. And it's
- 35:24not just simply I think in terms of potential use cases like using someone's voice,
- 35:30but also in terms of sharing data, particularly sensitive data, because we've
- 35:35seen that can sometimes lead to trouble like what happened Samsung and employees sharing very
- 35:39sensitive data with ar official intellergent solution, and that solution then used it to
- 35:45sort of train itself. So certainly, I think we're going to see more
- 35:49and more policies being developed by legal departments around use and around sharing of data
- 35:54and all of that. Uh. And also largely I think we're going to
- 35:58see also revision into existing privacy whiles to govern sort of the sharing of data,
- 36:02use of data, and storage of data. Buy companies, including but
- 36:07not limited to artificial intelligence creators. Well, Colin, I have to ask
- 36:12you, what made you decide that this was kind of a road. You
- 36:15know, there's so many different aspects of law that somebody could go into.
- 36:20I grew up knowing a municipal court judge and her husband was a trial attorney.
- 36:25What made you decide that technology is really something that is going to be
- 36:29on the forefront in the coming years as you were growing up. Well,
- 36:32you know, it's funny. When I was a kid and using kind of
- 36:37my first computer and all that, I found it actually fairly intimid and fear
- 36:40inducing, and so at first I kind of actually was a little bit afraid
- 36:45of technology. But as I grew older and then saw technology become easier and
- 36:51easier to use, and also saw impacting other industries. I thought to myself,
- 36:54you know, this is perhaps something really worth paying attention to. And
- 36:58then fast forward working for a big law firm in New York City prior law
- 37:02school, was a paralegal doing some eDiscovery works of using tools or trunk tools
- 37:07to create databases of documents for use in litigation, and saw then and there
- 37:13the application of technology to law, and that really sparked my interest. And
- 37:16I saw how technology really could be impacting the practice and business of law and
- 37:22thought, you know what, I really want to learn more about this because
- 37:24I see the right on the wall. Technology is continuing to grow and its
- 37:28influence and power run other industries. The legal industry is not immune to these
- 37:32changes and will undergo them, and I want to be at the forefront of
- 37:36that because I want to you know, I don't want to become outdated by
- 37:39the time I'm really fully practicing. So that really sort of started me off
- 37:44on this journey. That's kind of actually a smart way to think, especially
- 37:46with business now, we need to be able to understand what is going on
- 37:51in technology so that you know, as the businesses change and adapt. We
- 37:54can also go with it, but again knowing the boundaries when it comes to
- 37:59the legal app aspects of what we may be doing within a company. This
- 38:02whole opening and eye think that's been going on, isn't the first time something
- 38:07like this has happened, is it? Yeah? No, There's always been
- 38:09I think tension between the advancement of technology and sort of the boundaries of what
- 38:15that should be and the ethical use of it and all that. So I
- 38:20don't think that this tension between sort of experimentation and learning and commercialization is anything
- 38:25new at all. I think that the problem really is just that technology has
- 38:30advanced so far so quickly that I think it's caught perhaps some off guard and
- 38:36also perhaps caught some by surprise in terms of just how powerful these technologies are.
- 38:42And so I think you know that there's this increasing tension in terms of,
- 38:46well, we don't want to inhibit innovation, but on the other hand,
- 38:49we also want to make sure that we're innovating safely and properly, not
- 38:52putting ourselves or others at risk while doing so. Well, Colin, if
- 38:57you could tell us a little bit about your latest book, Legal Tech,
- 39:00Ecosystem Innovation, advancement and the future of law practice kind of takes a look
- 39:05at all of this, how is this laid out? And who would be
- 39:07reading this book? Sure, so the book really is intended to be a
- 39:10thematic, antdotal overview of sort of world legal tech, and the way it's
- 39:16sort of framed is indeed as an ecosystem, because I look at legal tech
- 39:21is it's not just about technology or people or businesses. It's really about all
- 39:25of them becoming interdependent one another, influencing the path of one another. And
- 39:30so really, because they're all interconnected, it's important see things through that multifaceted
- 39:37lens. And that's really kind of the approach the book takes. But it
- 39:39also incorporates stories from those that I've had conversations with and those I've learned from,
- 39:45because I really think it's important to sort of hear the stories of those
- 39:50who have themselves explored this space, learned about it, and then ultimately been
- 39:54successful in either creating their own solutions or teaching or both. And really it's
- 40:00meant to sort of what your appetite and be inspiring and help you, you
- 40:04know, become sort of more versant in legal tech and really in that you
- 40:09know. In that case, it's really aimed at legal professionals, whether you're
- 40:13a lawyer, a law student, a more experienced attorney, or someone who
- 40:19frankly hasn't even you thought about law, but is interested in the intersection of
- 40:23law and tech because I think that you know that relationship impacts so many different
- 40:28areas that you know, it's important to be aware of it regardless of what
- 40:31your background is. And it's meant to be very super you know, accessible.
- 40:36It's not really taking a very tech heavy approach. It's not sort of
- 40:38some kind of you know, how to guide. It's really just sort of
- 40:44your introduction to the space and allows you to kind of see the different aspects
- 40:49of the space and then once you're done with the book, pursue whatever area
- 40:52within it you want to based off of what you've gotten excited about from reading
- 40:55the book. Have we seen Colin that the higher age canations establishments are kind
- 41:01of delving into this now and when it comes to you know, legal practices,
- 41:06are they also looking at how it applies how the you know, Internet,
- 41:09intellectual properties and all of this stuff will apply to to law. Absolutely.
- 41:14I think we've seen law firms and legal departments of life both really start
- 41:19taking a hard look at sort of how technology is impacting all these different areas,
- 41:22and as a result, we've also seen the increasing companies that are aimed
- 41:27at helping legal departments and law firms assist with various matters, whether it be
- 41:30a system of managing intellectual property, managing patterns, looking at analytics from a
- 41:37litigation perspective in terms of whether it makes sense to actually litigate this matter or
- 41:43settle it or whatever based off of prior court data and prior decisions that have
- 41:46been that have come out. It's also assisting with the management of contracts.
- 41:52You know, there's a number of companies that assist company legal departments with managing
- 41:55contracts and kind of drafting them, negotiating them, viewing them, even providing
- 42:00feedback on them. So I really think that, you know, legal departments
- 42:06and law firms, at least the smart ones are really taking account of this
- 42:08and trying to take advantage of it to better sort of assert themselves and be
- 42:13more attracted to their clients, who are likely very tech savving aware of these
- 42:17things and expecting their legal folks to be aware and be using some of these
- 42:22tools. Oh, absolutely, when it comes to some of these tools that
- 42:23are available, What are like some of the big mistakes that you've seen And
- 42:28I'm you know, I don't I don't want to see a face palm when
- 42:30when you hear about it or do you see it? But what are some
- 42:32of the mistakes that are made when evaluating some of these tools when it comes
- 42:37to legal technology. Yeah, well, I think one of the biggest mistakes
- 42:39I see is people going straight for a certain tech solution without fully understanding what
- 42:46pollowm it is they're trying to solve. So what happens is they end up
- 42:51kind of getting afflicted with what I'm what I would call shiny key syndrome.
- 42:54They see a shiny piece of tech think that, oh, this is so
- 42:58cool, it's so pretty, it's you know, advanced and modern. Surely
- 43:01this can help me. Well, that may not necessarily be the case,
- 43:05because it ultimately depends on what it is that you're trying to solve for.
- 43:09So my advice really is to start with before you even look at tech,
- 43:14understand what problem it is you're trying to solve, because if it's a people
- 43:16problem, if it's a culture problem, technology can't necessarily help with that that
- 43:22may be something that you just have to deal with internally with people and processes
- 43:25and what have you. So it really comes down to making sure you know
- 43:29what problem you're trying to solve for. So that's I think one you know
- 43:32mistake I see people making. I see another one, which is all right,
- 43:37So you already so you've got this tool, You've done your due diligence,
- 43:39you've selected you want, you're putting it in place, except you forgot
- 43:45one thing. You include your users and stakeholders along the way. So now
- 43:49you have this piece of technology that you've spent all the time and money putting
- 43:52into place and expecting people to use. But the people you're expecting them to
- 43:57use it, this is the first time they're hearing about it, and so
- 43:59they're kind of wondering themselves, why do I have to do this just because
- 44:02someone's telling me to do it? And what that ends up creating is basically
- 44:07shelfware, where you have software just sort of theoretically sitting on a shelf somewhere
- 44:12not being used because there's no sort of interest or ownership of the users in
- 44:17using the tech. And so that's why I think it's super important when you're
- 44:22evaluating potential tech solution, to have your stakeholders and users be part of that
- 44:27process from day one in terms of evaluating, in terms of using, because
- 44:31you want them to be invested in it as well, because ultimately, technology's
- 44:36power comes not just from the technology itself, but from those who use it.
- 44:39Right exactly now, when you look at this situation with open ai,
- 44:44and that sounds similar what you just talked about, You've got a board and
- 44:47you've got these two guys that you know founded this company, and suddenly one
- 44:52of them's out. Can you kind of, you know, in a nutshell
- 44:55explain maybe what happened right that share? I'm laughing because basically what happened was
- 45:02the opposite of what should have happened, right, you know. I think
- 45:08that the board a was unusual in that it was relatively small and mostly composed
- 45:15of insiders, meaning employees of the company. And normally, when you are
- 45:20enacting a leadership change, especially with respect to someone who's kind of a super
- 45:25high level, very prominent leader, you have a transition plan in place.
- 45:30You know, you have idea, you have a set idea of Okay,
- 45:32this person's stepping back or moving on this person's going to take over, this
- 45:37person's going to do this, that person's going to do that. You've got
- 45:42kind of a good pr approach in terms of how you're going to announce it
- 45:45and how you're going to frame it. You've got you know, different documents
- 45:50in terms of board resolutions supporting decision making and showing that it was done in
- 45:54a proper systematic way. And ultimately what happens here was none of that happened
- 46:00from what I can tell, at least based off of the women of information
- 46:04available the board, A small one basically just keeps Altman out, you know,
- 46:09because of a disagreement in terms of the direction of the company, with
- 46:15no clear transition plan in place, with no clear sort of idea of exactly
- 46:21how things would proceed further, it just created this really massive soap opera that
- 46:25no one wanted along the company by sort of this strip group of just negative
- 46:30news, rumors, misinformation, and so you know, it's really kind of
- 46:35not just put a big hole in the open AI ship, but it's also
- 46:38in some ways disigaretting the ship. So I would say that the new CEO,
- 46:45you know, Heaven help them in terms of him writing the ship,
- 46:47because he has to rebuild the ship as well as write the ship, and
- 46:52that's really tough, particularly for someone like the new CEO, who from all
- 46:55accounts does not have a super strong background in an AI at all. It's
- 47:00gonna be interesting because now with the move of Altman going over to Microsoft,
- 47:07is there also now the look at the legal ramifications of possibly coding he's I
- 47:15mean, he's got created it, you know, with his company. Can
- 47:19he do that? Can he actually go to Microsoft now and help them develop?
- 47:22By all accounts, I don't think there's a huge amount of issue there,
- 47:25in part because Microsoft is a minority partner of open Ai. They've invested
- 47:30billions of dollars and haven't been at least agreed to termined to invest further.
- 47:34So they're very close partners. So in terms of agreements that exist between the
- 47:37two, I'm sure there's a lot of data shared. So I don't really
- 47:40think there's a huge kind of legal issue with Altman working now for Microsoft,
- 47:45and likely Microsoft is wanting to hire him more from open AI because I think
- 47:51as far as Microsoft is concerned, well, if open ai is wan apart,
- 47:54why don't we just establish sort of a new Open AI within Microsoft,
- 47:59which I think is a shrewd and pragmatic approach for Microsoft to take, and
- 48:02it looks like they're moving in that yeah direction, not to mention the fact
- 48:07that they because of the they're a huge investment, they want to see a
- 48:10payoff on that obviously, and this open Ai drama I think has shifted their
- 48:15perspective in terms of, well, we invested all this money in open Eye,
- 48:17but you know, let's get a return on that investment by because they're
- 48:22falling apart by just hiring their employees and so, you know, I don't
- 48:25think there's really a huge issue there. The only thing that potentially could be
- 48:29an issue would be if there's any kind of noncompete clause with employees between Microsoft
- 48:34and open Ai, but that doesn't seem to be much of an issue from
- 48:37all accounts at this point. Yeah, I'm sure the Microsoft lawyers would have
- 48:39looked at that first before you know, announcing that he was yeah, big
- 48:44but part of that team. Now I'm I'm kind of wondering that where's Apple
- 48:47in this? And you know, Justin and I talked about this earlier that
- 48:52could Apple come in then and buy open Ai, But with Microsoft being such
- 48:57a big investment on that, I don't know how that would play out.
- 49:00I don't think Apple sees this as a huge concern, primarily because I'm sure
- 49:05they're developing their own thing, and you know, I don't think they're really
- 49:07wanting to kind of get involved in this at this point. Undoubtedly they've got
- 49:13their own plans, So I don't think there's a huge kind of issue there
- 49:15right now. That being said, you know, given that Apple Microsoft have
- 49:22long been sort of direct competitors in front of these at times, I think
- 49:27that you know, Apple is certainly thinking about, Okay, how does this
- 49:30impact us in what should we be doing? But I don't see them really
- 49:34trying to make a move on open Ai at this point. But as we've
- 49:38seene already over as few days, the soap opera, like any other soap
- 49:43opera, is you know, somewhat unpredictable. Well, The Legal Tech Ecosystem,
- 49:49Innovation, Advancement and Future of Law Practice is available now and Amazon wherever
- 49:54books are sold. You also have the Legal Tech Handbook, And honestly,
- 49:58Colin, I love your website. All in slev dot com c O L
- 50:02I N s L e v Y dot com You've got great video up there,
- 50:07great content for anybody who wanted maybe wants to get a better explanation of
- 50:10the law and how it applies to technology. Again, callin slev dot com.
- 50:15Yeah you know, I mean really, my goal in terms of legal
- 50:19tech is inform, inspire others, and support the community. And anything I
- 50:23can do to do that, I'm all for. So you know, that's
- 50:27why the website is there, That's why the books are there. So you
- 50:30know, I'm just doing what I can to help support and grow the community.
- 50:32Well, thank you so much Colin for coming on tech Talk Radio,
- 50:36and of course we want to tell our listeners make sure you sign up on
- 50:38the website. You could follow the website there, and if you have any
- 50:42interest at all seriously in the world of technology and legal and how that all
- 50:47kind of combines, definitely pick up the book The Legal Tech Ecosystem, Innovation,
- 50:52Advancement and the Future of Law Practice. Thank you so much, Thank
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- 51:15tech Talk Radio. And now back to tech Talk Radio. And this is
- 51:20the time of the year. We started thinking about some of the cool things
- 51:22that we might want from the holidays, and Sean brought something up and I
- 51:25was like, oh my god, I have been wanting this for like two
- 51:30maybe three years since they started doing this. It's not a graphics card,
- 51:34it's not a processor, it's not a big screen, it's not a curve.
- 51:37It's an ugly sweater. It's an ugly sweater. Yeah, buddy,
- 51:40the last couple of years, Microsoft has been putting out these epic ugly sweaters.
- 51:46Right, last year it was clippy and this year it's the Windows XP
- 51:52background that it looks so landscape, right, is that land it's the landscape.
- 52:00Yeah. I put it in the chat. You can see it.
- 52:00It's got a big old mouse cursor on it. It looks fantastic. I
- 52:05bought it and I will wear it. I'm gonna be wearing it for the
- 52:08next show. And it's gonna be fantastic. I did not even notice the
- 52:14mouse cursor that's on that though. Yeah. The story behind this this photo
- 52:17is pretty cool. It was a natural geographic photographer was just out driving around.
- 52:22He stopped snapped a picture in Ireland. No, it's in California.
- 52:28Yeah, and he showed it. He showed it to Uh, showed it
- 52:30to a friend of his. He's like, that looks like a Windows background,
- 52:34and he sent it to Windows and they paid him some money in there.
- 52:37That's just it's literally the history of it. I could have sworn that
- 52:39was in Ireland or something. And it's one of those pictures that everybody has
- 52:43seen just every every day when that came out, every day people would look
- 52:49at it, and we're talking hundreds of thousands of people would see that screen.
- 52:52So they saw that that man's picture screen Hill in Sonoma, California,
- 53:00off Highway twelve. That's where it's at, Sonoma, California. That's awesome.
- 53:04I want one of these sweaters. Are they very expensive? Shun because
- 53:07they say it was like sixty if. I think it was like sixty five
- 53:09bucks. But they set out if they don't have they don't have smalls,
- 53:13mediums, larges like, they're out of all the smaller sizes, so thankfully
- 53:17I'm a little bit of a bigger guy like my sweaters to be big.
- 53:20Anyways, So wait, that doesn't make any sense. What does it make
- 53:24sense the fact that they're out of the smalls and not the largest because it
- 53:29guys are usually bigger, right like, and they would be the ones to
- 53:32buy this, right so you'd think that all the large and extra large would
- 53:36be out of stote. Okay, anyway, whatever are you generalizing there?
- 53:38Justin Yes you're in shape. Yes I am not in shape. So I
- 53:45thought I saw it. I was like, this is excellent. I put
- 53:47it on my Christmas list. But then I couldn't wait because I didn't want
- 53:50to sell out, so I bought it. Where can I? Where can
- 53:52I find this shun? You can buy it from the Xbox gear Shop,
- 53:57Xbox gearst, xbox dot com, all Esdow Xbox All right, there you
- 54:01go. I love it, and hopefully by next week you'll have it and
- 54:05you'll wear it on the show if I if I get it in time,
- 54:07but it said it would be here by like the math buying one right now?
- 54:10Did you get one for all of us? I can see it in
- 54:15his window in the background. Yea yeah, I can see the reflection of
- 54:19his eyeballs. He's buying it. That is it for this week's tech Talk
- 54:22Radio. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de
- 54:25Weird, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm justin. Let me once again find
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