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Tech Talk with JD for November 26th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Uh yes, it's uh okay, it's time for it's time
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  to talk to Jonathan Deezing, or JD as we call him.
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  He's the host of the three Big Gamer Show. Are
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  you there, JD?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Nice, Yeah, nice to hear your voice. Can you hear us? Okay? Yeah,
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  well we've got that all settled. Nice talking to you.
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  What's happening? Yes? What do we got?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So a weird month because I have two games
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  that I can't stop playing, of all things, on my phone.
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  I usually don't play a lot of games on my phone.
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  It's just I don't know. I have a small phone,
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  so it's it's just not the best vehicle. But right
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  now there are two games that I can't stop playing.
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  The first one is Pokemon trading card game Pocket. If
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  you if you remember the nineties, and you remember the
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  Pokemon cards and how kids were you know, they were
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  getting banned from having them at school, and.
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  Speaker 3: Believe me, they are they are still a thing. Yeah,
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  COmON cards.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I have nieces who don't even play the game. They
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  just want me to bring them Pokemon cards and then
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  they put them in it in a loose leaf and
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  keep them you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, so this is the game for them, Terry. This
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  is amazing because this is it's you know, because they
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  cost like five six bucks a pack, right, you probably
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  bought one more recently than me. So this game allows
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  you to. It has a more stripped down version of
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  the actual game itself. So normally the game you play
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  with sixty cards in a deck and it's got all
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  these complexities. This game reduces that down to a twenty
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  card deck, and the game and the battles are a
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  lot faster because you know, they can take ten fifteen
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  minutes in person, you know, playing the real game, but
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  this game you can get through a battle in like
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  two to five minutes. So that part's really nice. But
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  what's the cool part is the packs. You get two
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  free packs every day to open. You get like every
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  twelve hours essentially, and so and that's it. I mean
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  there's no ads, there is, I mean, there's obviously ways
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  to spend money, like micro transactions. I don't even felt
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  like the pressure or need to because I mean, quite frankly,
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  I mean I love Pokemon cards growing up as a kid,
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  and if I were able to open to if you
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  told me today, current present day, every morning and every
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  evening you just hand me two Pokemon card packs. I
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  would be over the moon.
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  Speaker 1: And you get to open them.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I would get open them, and.
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  Speaker 1: This might be a game. It does this cost? Does
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  this cost something for you to put it on your phone?
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  Speaker 2: Nope, it's free to play. It's on Android and iOS
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  and you can jump in. You don't have the battle.
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  I mean there's not even that much pressure to battle,
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  and lots of people just just and and there's ways
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  when you start playing, because all these mobile games work
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  the same way. You open like twenty packs like because
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  they're just throwing packs at you to try to get you,
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  you know, on the drip.
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  Speaker 3: I got nieces and god children who this is perfect
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  for because great because they don't play the game.
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  Speaker 1: They just like the game.
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  Speaker 2: And when you get when you get the really cool
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  cards they come with, like these awesome animations and stuff
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  like when the card like is revealed from the past. Oh,
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  it's just so cool. So Pokemon Trading Card Pocket. It's
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  free to download on phone. I would just I would
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  just this is a no brainer for me. If you
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  like those games, I'd play it for like five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: To day sometimes Dungeon coller.
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  Speaker 2: Uh is my goodness, this game I cannot put down.
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  Very basic. Uh. The idea here is that you are
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  filling a claw machine, and this is you know, it's
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  got the physics of the claw machine. Because you drop
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  the claw, it grabs things and sometimes it drops them.
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  Sometimes it grabs more things than you anticipate it.
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  Speaker 3: But you're no, like, is this this trailer starts out
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  with a tragedy. Ye, a rabbit getting his foot cut
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  off and turned into a key chain.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, right away, this is traumatic. It's like a little
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  Pokemon looking rabbit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but still but he's got to go into the
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  claw machine to get his foot back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, feeling for characters to have motive, that's what I find.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose there's count clawula.
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  Speaker 3: It's a claw machine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So you fill the claw machine with uh
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  you know, weapons, shields, trinkets or whatever. And then when
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  you you drop the claw down. So say you have
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  a bunch of knives in your claw machine, you drop
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  the claw down, you pick up three knives. Will those
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  go down and into the hopper, and then the enemies
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  you're facing, those three knives worth of damage will apply
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  to them. And so if you know, the enemy is
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  going to be attacking you on the next turn, you
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  might want to grab it, try to try to grab
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  a shield. But the randomization of the actual like claw
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  machine element of the game is what makes it just
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  so addictive. And it's a it's a roguelike, so it
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  gets rder as you play, and they're you know, you're
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  not really committed. If you lose, if you got you
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  just start over and you just see how far you
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  can get.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds pretty fun.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, I'm just glad that the one, the main
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  handed rabbit defeated.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot in there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Mario and Luigi Brothership.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so this is uh, this is the latest Mario
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  in Luigi game. This is that series, and it is
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  very basic. You're you're you know, it's it's what you'd
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  expect from a Mario and Luigi game. You're exploring these
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  different islands with your with your brother, and you're solving puzzles,
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  you're fighting bad guys, doing a lot of jumping. If
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  if you are waiting for a new Mario game, if
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  you have a Nintendo Switch. The one thing that I
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  will say that's kind of a knit against this is
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  a single.
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  Speaker 3: Player game I'm fine with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought this would be a co op game.
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  I thought you'd be able to play this, like on
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  the couch with your with your your brother or something.
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  But that's kind of my only knock against it. But
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  people seem to be liking this one, especially for like
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  a new Mario game. It seems really solid and the
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  art style is unique for Mario. It doesn't look like
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  all the other Mario games, which is kind of nice. Yeah,
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  all right, so internet snuff. Do we have time for this?
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  Speaker 1: We do? This?
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  Speaker 3: Is? This is this actually is a site.
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  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with this one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool. So this is called Sounds of Disneyland.
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  I haven't seen this before, Sounds of Disneyland dot com.
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  And if you guys are big disney fans, Disneyland fans,
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  I should say, if you're in the park a lot
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  enough to recognize the sounds and songs that they play
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  over the loudspeakers over and over again, this website lets
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  you listen to those, which is the coolest thing because
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  it goes by time period, so if you want to,
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  you know, I feel like you're walking around Disneyland in
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  the eighties. Oh, you can take that track, and you know,
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  you'd be like, oh, yeah, when I was a kid
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  at Disneyland, this is what it sounded like when I
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  was walking down Main Street, USA or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's Main Street, USA nineteen seventy six in here.
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  There's you know, the main gates from different years there.
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  But but he's right because they programmed different music throughout
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  the years. There's even a Club thirty three soundtrack in
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  here too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's strange.
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  Speaker 2: And I wasn't. I'm not like, I think I've been
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  to Disneyland maybe four or five times in my life,
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  but when I put this on, I was like, oh, shoot,
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  I'm in Disneyland, like you're transported.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, it really starts their storybook land, the sounds
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  of the I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Going to do it then, because I love the way
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  those women that dress like Alice in Wonderland talk, you know,
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  Gina for you. There's the Tiki Room in the Country
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  Bear Jamboree.
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  Speaker 3: The original Country Bear Jamboree is on there, so you
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  can listen to them.
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  Speaker 1: I will do it, yeah, and then finally land out. Finally,
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  this is really interesting. This is really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this last one here, Cloud Hiker, It's cloud hiker
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  dot net and they've got twenty thousand just random old
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  school websites and you can just browse them. You just
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  go to cloudhiker dot net and it'll just take you
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  to a random website. You know, they're not all winners
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  and kind of weird. But every once in a while
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  you run on a website and I was like, I
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  was like, this feels like an a website that I
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  might come across in like the nineties when I was
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  a kid, just just clicking on links and browsing the Internet.
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  Speaker 3: This is essentially like flipping flipping your TV channels, but
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  with websites.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just websurfing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but I mean I feel like we don't
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  have that anymore. That used to be such a part
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  of the Internet. Now your web surfing is essentially going
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  on like Facebook and scrolling through abs until you find
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  a link to click on. Yep, if you're lucky to go.
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  But yeah, cloud hiker dot net for some old Internet experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Do they curate them a little bit and make sure
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  you don't land on anything that's you know, gonna gonna
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  screw up or screw up your computer.
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  Speaker 2: Or I don't think they're yes. To answer your question,
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  I do think they do a pretty good job of curating.
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  I do think some of these sites go down, and
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  so there may be uh deactivated sites that you run across,
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  or sites that.
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  Speaker 1: Are okay, all right, Thank you, Jonathan Deezing. You can
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  find all of these things that we talked about, games
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  and websites and so forth at X ninety six dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we got all those legs will be posted there,
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  if not right now, a little bit later.