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EPISODE 385 - People Are Gonna Die...Wow, thats Cheery! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. My problem is,
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I've got my pointer in the middle of the screen and I need to
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you. Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
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I'm Sean Duird, and I'm Slick. Good to see you all. A
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big tech week this week, Consumer Electronics Show Last Vegas it's going on.
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It's always a good time to see what comes out, and the articles are
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abundant. Oh my, I think there's been. It seems like there's been
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more coverage this year than we saw last year. I don't know. I
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don't know if I'm right about that, but it just seems like there's more
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stuff, more news coming out from some of the companies that have been showing
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off at see Yes this year there does anybody remember what they were showing last
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year? Nope. I think they finally recovered from COVID and just it's all
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in now. It's like everybody wants their tech. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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I think now we're finally at that point where a lot of people were
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going to see us and really just going for the full all inexperience. Last
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year, if you remember, I think one of the big things last year
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was the flying car, which oh, yeah, you know, I don't
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know, is that really Is it something people really are going to be like
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into. I think yes, because it's going to be relatively affordable for the
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upper middle class. One hundred and fifty two hundred thousand dollars. You're gonna
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be able to buy one of these self flying drone card things, right,
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and they're they're what they've seen, what I've seen from online is they work
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really well and you could land on your own little helpad and fly into you
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know. But I mean, what regulations are going to come with that?
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Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get up fly into Manhattan, No,
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no, exactly. You're gonna have to follow the rules. You're probably
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gonna to get a pile's license, You're probably gonn have to do all this
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stuff. But it's gonna be there, and people are going to die just
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there's no, there's nothing. How did we make that turn? What it's
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it's a technology that it's if if it's just so readily available, it's gonna
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be cheap ish, right, Like, Yeah, you could go get your
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piles license and spend eighty or ninety grand on a Sessna, but then you
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have to learn how to fly the Sessa. This looks like you're just gonna
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be able to get in. It's gonna be like if you're flying a drone,
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right and it's people are gonna do dumb stuff with it. I kind
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of wonder too, if if you think about this, law enforcement is then
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going to have to have the same type of craft. I mean, we're
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gonna see chipsuns in the air, you know what I mean? U over
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the pal Oudam of twelve bloy and read take to the Skies. I mean,
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you're gonna this is going to be an issue now because then you're gonna
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have to have you know, you're gonna have to have a state, you'll
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have a local, you'll have a county all regulating that airspace and you know
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somebody's in it, because if you're on the ground and somebody is in a
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you know, a flying car. I don't know how speed is gonna be
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regulated in this thing. They're gonna be able to get away, it's all
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gonna be It's all gonna be regulated in the FAA, just how it is
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now. Oh boy, But how do you manage if somebody like does every
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like if I, if I get one, does my home now become a
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certified airspace that I can have a landing zone in? Now? Does that
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mean people around my apartment, around my home can't fly a drone within so
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many feet in my house because I have to have a designated landing zone?
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Right? Like? There's that's what people who are staying. It's not like
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this is just gonna happen and you're gonna be able to go buy a DRUP
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one of these car drone fly car flying car things and hop it in your
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backyard and take off. That's that's so unrealistic. It's gonna be so heavily
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regulated that you might as well just go get a regular plane. Well,
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or are a car. I have a hard time looking at cars that are
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forty five fifty thousand dollars now to buy a car. I mean, I
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grew up in the where we had a Vega. You know, in a
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Vegauld cost you twenty six hundred bucks to be That was like, that's what
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a car should be. But now you look at cars can be pretty pricey
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because they have so much technology in them. You know, I know that
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some of the cars, some of the technology we're seeing these cars. You
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know, it's it's like I mentioned last week when he spoke to Jessica,
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Jim Barry, the late Jim Barry had told us, you know, it's
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it's like you have this big tech show and an auto show breaks out because
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this is where we're seeing a lot of technology. You know, Mercedes Benz
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getting together with Will I Am because they want to have the best sound system
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inside their vehicles. You know, we're going to see other vehicles as well
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that are going to be on the market that are going to be different autonomous
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vehicles. You know, that's still a big thing. I'm really surprised that
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like old time players like ken Wood and companies like that get ignored when it
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comes to sound systems anymore. I mean, they spend a whole lot of
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time and resources, and I just it's kind of weird. Well, it's
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all about the exclusive market, right it's like GM, Ford, Chrysler,
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whoever. They're going to go with whatever they can get in there. Right.
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So, now there are trim packages that you can upgrade, like some
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have Bow's Rock with Fosgate types of things. Yeah, so you can buy
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your trim package and get those exclusive, more premiere packages. But we're back
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into the they don't want to get they don't want to keep building multiple models,
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so they're just going to put in whatever and maybe you can unlock higher
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quality sound fidelity because you could pay more. That's what's going to come down
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to. So can you get an AM radio in there? Yes, Well,
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we've talked about that. We've talked about that on the show, that
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the auto manufacturers have been discontinuing AM radios, but they got pushed back from
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the government basically saying in the event of a national emergency or an emergency,
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AM is going to be a saving grace for a lot of people, and
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if you don't have an AM radio in your car, people are gonna get
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stuck in traffic jams or in potentially in wilderness and not have the ability to
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know what's going on. It's not legal pushback, they're just giving them pressure
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to keep AM and radio in there. Correct, Yeah, yes, there's
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no legal precedent for them to continue to manufacture AM radio. You know.
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One of the things that it kind of scares me a little because you know,
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I'm in the radio industry, this is my job, and you know
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I've been doing it for thirty plus years. But I just I see a
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lot of people on social media sharing, you know, videos where their cars
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are going down the road and it's a song and that song, and I
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always look when it's playing, who's playing it. It's Pandora, or it's
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Spotify, or it's one of the streaming services in their vehicles because the vehicles
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are all tied now. I mean you can have I mean, my car's
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got a hard drive in it. I can put music on there and just
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listen to that, you know, or you could connect your phone up and
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be able to do that. I'm just I'm worried about radio because you know,
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radio is the one that you get the information, you get, the
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news, you get the you can you can talk to the DJ that's there
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at the station. You can't do that on a streaming service. I just
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wonder if is there hope. Yeah, I have a different theory about that,
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and we talked about it again. We love radio. That's if the
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reason, if not part of the reason, we got into it. I
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have noticed, to my sadness lately, not just lately, but well,
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I'm going to say within the past year, heavily in the past year,
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that you know, when I'm taking let's say an uber or a lyft or
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taxi, as you say, they're not listening to the local radio station,
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they aren't. They are not. They are not. And I believe it
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is my belief because my brethren in radio might peer. We have ignored our
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listeners. We have not sup super served them. When I gotten ready,
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we were super serving. You had I mean you every everything had to count,
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every second had to count. And now they're just all they'll listen because
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they're where they're gonna go. Well, they're gone. I think there were
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a lot of programmers like that, you know, and the ones that we're
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talking a big, big, huge programmers uh that made those decisions that that
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said, you know, uh, well it doesn't matter, you know,
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just just play that song because that song is researched and that song is doing
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number one. It's serving the listeners. What I love about this station is
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that they serve the local community with the interviews that they have, they kind
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of give a And there's other stations in the Chiosun market that do the same
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thing, you know, that that actually really do serve it. But I
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think, well, you know what I miss. I missed the ability to
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call a radio station and hear somebody calling that station, you know, hearing
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somebody who lives in that community, or the DJ given a weather check or
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a time check, you know. And I I just worry. We have
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so much technology around us now, and I don't know if the same thing
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is happening to television Sean, but we just kind of just figure, oh,
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everybody will be there anyways. Well it is, of course the same
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thing's happening in television. The problem is nobody wants to watch ads anymore.
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Yeah, yeah, So how did TV stations make money? I'm not so
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sure about that because I was in a I was in a car and maybe
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it's more n a and they did listen let the ads play. So I
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think this is this is from a programming standpoint back in the day, from
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you know, when I started there. I remember I worked at water radio
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station in particular, where the ads were. If it wasn't a good enough
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ad, it did not get on the air. We will where it's not
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the advertiser, it is that ad, that particular ad. We'll will will
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redo it ourselves, or we'll do it ourselves. But that bad ad that
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well could call somebody to tune away, will not go on our radio station.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you're right about television though,
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Sean. In that same respect, I tried to watch and this is not
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Some people might like this show. They said it was the most anticipated show
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in the new season on NBC, And I tried to watch this show Extended
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Family. Now. I like John Cryer, I like them from Two and
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a half Men Days is good in that, and I like the rest of
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the cast. But honestly, I couldn't get into it. And I'm thinking,
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what is it with network television shows, the laugh track and everything else.
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I just couldn't. It didn't grab me. But yet I could put
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on Peacock, which is the streaming service, and watch this doctor death series
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and at least it held my attention. And you know, there's still recovering
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from the writer's strike and the actors strike, so now they've been airing episodes
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of Doctor Death season two on NBC stations. So I don't know, you
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know, it just is it's a confusing time because I again, I like
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to think that radio and television is going to survive. And as this technology
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comes out, we see more channels, we see more content, we see
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a variety of stuff, but yet we still don't have a tech tech channel,
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which we need. Yees, yes, yes, yes, we need
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to bring that back. I talked to a guy I will just say this
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this week, and my ears lit up. He was a listener he called
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in. His last name was mon. If he's listening right now, thank
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you. I had to ask, are you related to Olivia? He said?
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He said kind of. Oh. It was like, oh oh,
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oh oh did he have a number? I was that was gonna be my
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next question. I thought that I'll wait until we build a rapport. You
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know, we're talking about cees and uh, you know, the big thing
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was a you know, watching all these news reports and stuff like that,
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and it's all been about a I A. I dominated A. Yeah.
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I don't know you guys have any comments on that because the thing that cut.
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But beyond that, what caught my attention was the the two bills,
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one in Tennessee and one in Congress about AI. What now, what are
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they? What do they referred to? Okay, so there's the Tennessee.
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Let's say, Uh, Tennessee has an Ensuring Likeness, Voice and Image Security
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Act. It's called the ilva's Act mm hmm. And it is to protect
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the rights of people uh and and their their likeness so in in essence and
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and it actually extends to radio somewhat, which is I really love So somebody,
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somebody can't take our voices and throw it into an AI system and then
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make money off of it, which is very easy to do. A lot
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of listeners may be listening to this and think, oh, no, that
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would take a lot of work. No, there is enough raw audio when
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you work for a station one of the last stations I worked for before I
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came back. All that audio it's still on my computer. It's all dry
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audio without music. But I was talking over music. That audio could all
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be taken put into a service and they could actually use AI to learn every
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inflection, every tone, and I could become a DJ for that station again,
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except without getting paid yep. And there's no protection. Uh, just
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just like news anchors. You know, they're gonna be using AI to recreate
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the news. I have seen it used and it's pretty amazing. Uh.
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I'm trying to remember that there's a company out there that's doing this with people
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there. You know, they licensed their their likeness to be used and they
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get paid a few bucks, but it's going to be used and perpetuity,
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you know, or or however the long contract will be to be creating these
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instructional videos. So you got to wonder, like what level of terms of
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service we're gonna have to read through now for ever ever app that uses your
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camera, every app that uses your microphone. Well, if you get a
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chance, check out this. This the bill in Congress, the billing Congress
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that they're thinking about putting through is the no Artificial Intelligence, Fake Replicas and
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Unauthorized Duplication, call it the AI Fraud Act of twenty twenty three. But
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it looks like I'm looking at a draft where they stroke it and it looks
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like it's going to do put twenty twenty forty end of it, and within
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it, it's not very long, but within it they're talking about you know,
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damages and compensation, like if somebody snatches. You know, our likeness,
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whether it be image or audio, we we own the rights to that
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and we could come back at them later legally, right, I get that,
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right, But every app is going to redo their terms of service,
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Snapchat whatever, all these apps that use your microphone and your camera, and
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they're going to bury it in there so that when you accept those terms of
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service, you're giving the the rights to all that have ever happened. Yeah,
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have you ever had a new service that that launches like TikTok uh Snamptat
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and some of these they'll launch it and you're just so excited to be able
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to be on this platform. There is a terms of service the TOS that
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usually comes up when you sign up for an account. Who reads it?
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Most people don't read them. They just go, I just want an account.
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Yeah. That's what's scary about this is that people like I said,
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this act will pass and then right, it'll trump the you lis and the
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term and the tos. Right, Okay, No, I can't imagine it
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would If you sign a terms of service that says you give us the rights
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to your image like this, all that stuff, you can't come back and
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then say, oh I didn't know. No, no, no, I'm
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not saying that I didn't know. I'm saying that this this legal bill law
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passed by Congress would force them to not be able to even put that one
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put it in those terms, and to enforce it. There's just no way.
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Yeah. Possibly, but it's just it's the world that we live in
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where people don't return the service and give up a ton of digital rights if
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you think about it. You know, for the kids that are thinking about
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what to take in school. Uh, online marketing, it's gonna be huge.
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That's gonna be another one still is now. But I mean I think
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we're going to a whole different area there. Uh cyber law, illegal law.
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You know. We we talked to that gentleman a few weeks ago that
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has a book out on law as it applies to a I. That's gonna
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be huge as well. And then of course, you know those air traffic
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controllers directing all the cars to go to the right place. You can't.
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It's there's a lot of planes in the sky already. Yeah. Oh yeah.
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We take a look at that picture from last week's show to go to
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ADSP Exchange and just look, it's just there's hundreds of thousands of flights empty,
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right, and just trying to add in the chaos of some rich CEO
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that wants to fly off as manhatt And high Rise and go to the Hampton's
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just wants. You're not gonna be able to do that because you're gonna you're
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gonna fly through so many restricted or class not classified, but classifications of airspace
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that you're gonna have to get. You're gonna have to be a pilot,
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or you're gonna have to have somebody that's gonna be able to ferry you in
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it or something. Right, So I just don't, I don't I get
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it. It's cool, it's flashy, it's the future we've all seen on
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TV and in the movies, but it's not a realistic one. The same
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thing with all these the same thing with all these stupid Amazon Amazon drawings,
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Youmazon drone deliveries and stuff. In what world does somebody like everybody's just gonna
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go out with a net or a sling shot and take the season out of
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the sky and get free packages. I just same thing with that. It's
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like, how do you regulate that? You don't It's the pie in the
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sky dream that everything is cool. And now we've gone from drones to AI
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anyways, so the drone race is over AI nowas yeah, and AI is
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going to control just about everything. So yeah, it's going to be very
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interesting how that plays out. All right. We do have a couple of
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listener questions and we invite you if you have a question, to drop us
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an email a tech guys at tech talk radio dot com. And it's cool
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because since we've started sharing some of these more and more people are feeling more
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comfortable about doing this. I've even had a phone call at the station during
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my afternoon show somebody wanting a question answered, and I said, just drop
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us an email, so bestly that way. I have it. First one
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from jail. This Jill's in Tucson. She said, I may have not
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thought this one through. My niece is going to be going to ASU,
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that's Arizona State University SEAN for business studies. And she told us she needed
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to get a computer. Thinking that, would you know, not be that
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much, I said I would get it for her. Turns out, according
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to her dad, she needs a top of the line MacBook. Now we
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we're looking at over twenty seven hundred dollars Now for what I thought was going
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to be a lot cheaper. Should I listen to her dad and get what
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we can afford, which is in the twelve hundred dollars region suggestions? What
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should I do in this case? Wow, she's going on, you can
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get you can get a dcent MacBook for a lot less than twenty zons box.
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Well, see, and that's the thing. There's if you've looked at
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MacBooks and well we got this question. I went looked. You know,
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you've got the M two you've got and then they have it broken by years.
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You have, oh to twenty twenty three, Model twenty twenty four,
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Model twenty twenty two model you know, how do you know which one is
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going to serve you the best? I mean, twenty seven hundred dollars is
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not out of the park for a MacBook. But honestly, can you even
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get a MacBook for around twelve hundred? Yes? Really, yes, yeah,
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you can get you know if you're even if you're looking at like the
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MacBook errors right, if you're just doing business it says business school, right,
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yeah, business studies, So you would think there's not a lot of
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graphics. She's not doing major video editing. She's not doing major photo editing.
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She's not going to be doing three D rendering, three D modeling,
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no Blender, none of that stuff, right, Right, twenty seven hundred
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bucks is ridiculous for a computer for business school. Do you think maybe Dad
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just wants to mach That's what I think. Maybe, But you can get
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you can go to Apple and price out and you might pay a little more
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than twelve hundred bucks. I would say probably closer to fifteen hundred for a
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decent M one or even maybe an M two MacBook Air. Right, So
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even some of the MacBook Pro the bottom, like the thirteen inches, right,
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you're gonna be able to find one that's got an M one, maybe
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an M two for that price with a five hundred or a five hundred terriby
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five hundred gigabyte hard drive, and you're gonna be fine. What is the
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difference for our listeners who don't know when they're they're building and we're talking now
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about a Mac. You know, you don't build a Mac. You buy
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a Mac. You can build a PC. You can't build a notebook.
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Really, I mean they've they've tried, but you can't. What's going to
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be the difference when they're looking at the say an M two versus an M
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one. Is that processing power? And I mean, are they going to
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notice it if they're just using text documents or you know, uh, spreadsheets
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and whatnot, I would say no, Yeah, you are you using a
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Mac at all, Nail Sean, Yes, So I use at work more
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specifically at work, but I do have some older Macs that I use here
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at home for editing and stuff. I do not have an M an M
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chip at home, oh okay, but I do have an M two chip
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in my work laptop. Right, go ahead. I went from the I
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seven I think tenth gen to the M two, and I saw a significant
22:03
increase and I saw a huge performance increase from working on my older laptop with
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the I seven on Final Cut, Light Room, Premiere, rendering and exporting
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stuff I saw visually and just from a feel and time wise, saw an
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increase in performance. I've had a confession. I wanted to make you guys,
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but and this is probably not the show to get into it because I
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want to really go off. But hold on, my father son, I'm
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ready, all right, here we go, Okay, I am in the
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macworld. Now really yes, wow, yeah, welcome. Yeah, well
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I'm not real happy. Like I said, we probably don't have time this
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entire show. We just say everything I want to say about the comparison.
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So you got a fruity Mac, Windows, Mac, and Lennox. So
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I have I have a MacBook Pro sixteen okay? Uh I nine processor?
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Wait does that mean twenty sixteen? No, sixteen inch? Okay? You
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know what. To be honest with you, I could. I'm just trying
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to pull up the specs. I thought I had to pure my specs somewhere,
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but I don't. I couldn't tell you what year it is, all
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right, but it's a Mactook Pro sixteen inch screen and it has the I
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nine processor and ninety six gigabytes of RAM? Does it? Does it use
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all of that? Do you remember that? Choking it? I'm choking it.
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And this was reminded. This reminds me of when you and I and
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used to get those gaming machines from Alienware Alienware desktop, and they would at
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the time it had the twelve gigs of RAM and the dual hard drives,
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and I crashed it. Yeah, there was there was Windows. There were
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Windows limitations too, and how much how much memory you really could benefit from?
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You know? But wow, will will Apple use all of that?
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Slick? I mean, if you have ninety six gigbytes of memory, if
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you're doing something crazy intensive like doing massive high resolution three D rendering, absolutely
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it'll not even know. I no multimedia. I have way too many browsers
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open, with tabs open, with windows open, with apps running in the
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background. I thought a mac could handle it. Yeah, well let me
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put it to a Sorry, I'll take this back. I thought the MacBook
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I purchased could handle it, and I was wrong. Wow, all right,
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So so how what are you going to do to get more performance out
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of it? Well, the reason I went ahead and and got this one
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is because of the I nine processor, because I'm looking forward to putting Linux
24:32
on it one day. Can you do? Did you put Linux? And
24:34
it's an until processor? Okay? All right, yeah you they You can
24:38
do hackin Tasha's or you can get Linux kernels that will run on the older
24:45
Unix kernel that Max ran on. So yes, you can run Linux if
24:48
you're tex savvy enough. All right, we gotta we gotta take quick break.
24:53
We got another question. Also, it's a big week in history and
24:56
Slick. You can answer a question for us about that with more of tech
25:00
talk radio. I'm Aye Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird Dan, I am
25:03
Slick tech talk Radio dot com. Now back to tech talk radio. But
25:08
I don't want to buy just the absolute primo system out today that usually wastes
25:12
money. So I'll be doing some digital photography, maybe some video editing.
25:17
Don't do any gaming at all, so I don't have that demand on the
25:19
computer. It's wondering what you guys would suggest, either in brands or just
25:22
in general speed and where do you go to get the maximum bang to the
25:26
buck right now? Sounds like you want to Mac turning the break. I
25:33
went to Apple dot com and I built a macwik air. Oh cool with
25:37
the one with the M one chip. All right, So the M one
25:40
Apple dot com and you can go in right there and click at build it.
25:41
It's really easy, all right, with the Apple M one chip,
25:45
which is their first processor they built one day after they left Intel, with
25:51
eight gigabytes of RAM, which is a good amount of RAM for somebody that's
25:55
not going to be doing a toll lot of intensive stuff. And I even
25:56
bumped up to the five hundred and twelve gigs of storage, and that puts
26:00
us right at twelve hundred bucks. Well, that's not bad. That's exactly
26:03
what her budget was. So that if they wanted to increase their budget a
26:07
little bit, they could add more ram, more storage, or even bump
26:12
it up to the M two chip if they wanted to, for closer to
26:15
fifteen hundred bucks, so they don't have to spend the twenty seven hundred bucks
26:19
on a laptop. Now, MacBook Air versus mac Book, what is going
26:25
to be the big difference there? Size, the form factor. It's thinner,
26:30
it's got the two thunderbolt uspfore ports, it's got the USBC power charger,
26:37
so it's all USBC adapters. So you'd have to buy a dongle if
26:41
you want to go to USBA. But that's just the way Max are.
26:42
You're going to do that with any Mac, but any Mac or Mac product
26:45
you buy, except for the desktops. But it's slim, it's thirteen inches,
26:52
it's tiny. If you go to Apple, go to best Buy and
26:56
get your hands on one, right, see if you like the size,
26:59
right, because not everybody a small laptop like that. But if you're going
27:02
to pisiness school. If you want to be portable, you want to take
27:03
it to your lectures, you want to do homework while you're sitting at home
27:07
in your bed or on your couch. Right, this is going to be
27:10
a great little laptop for you. Yeah, I'm older. If you guys
27:12
remember when it came up with the MacBook are fifteen, Remember I wanted one
27:15
of those. Oh yeah, that's right, yep, because because they're so
27:18
thin. Yeah right, it's they're they're super thin, they're super lightweight,
27:22
they hold the battery charge forever. Anybody that I've talked to that has a
27:26
MacBook Air has loved it. And Caitlin has a MacBook to one of the
27:30
first original MacBook Airs back from twenty fourteen, that I just replaced the battery
27:36
in and I had that's about our blog. I did no time laps video
27:38
of that replaced the battery in that. That's right. I remember that it's
27:42
brought another life of you know, raised more life into that for her and
27:45
she still uses it around the house. You know. The It's funny because
27:49
when you're thinking about the MacBook Air and how thin it is, you know,
27:55
recently, Ace who's had sent us over there there thirteen s and that
28:00
we took a look at. Man, it was amazingly thin. I couldn't
28:04
believe it. And a lot of people said, well, this is just
28:07
like the MacBook Air. Of course it's the PC. It is an Asius
28:11
they just introduced at ce S. They're fourteen inch oled which I'm looking forward
28:17
to. Hopefully you get a chance to check out and kind of let you
28:19
know what they think about it. But they're they're on that right track.
28:22
I think people are wanting thinner. You know, Lenovo introduced one that is
28:26
a laptop that converts into a tablet, and there people are saying it's you
28:33
know, it's an Android tablet at a Windows laptop and people are loving it
28:37
because it's two and one that that is something I'm want to I want to
28:41
get more in phone that was shown at CS. You might be able to
28:42
look up Lenovo and you'd be able to see see that. All right.
28:45
We got a question in speaking of Lenovo from carl In Sabota. This one
28:51
says, for the holidays, I bought myself a new laptop, a PC
28:53
from Lenovo's. The problem is it didn't come with a CD DVD drive and
29:00
I have archives on discs and haven't put them in the cloud. My old
29:04
computer works, but it's slow, I mean slow, and you have beside
29:11
it with a bunch of o's. He said, what are my options?
29:14
Do I have any? All? Right? For Carl and Celwadita, what
29:17
can he do? He's got all these CDs, all this, you know,
29:21
physical media. It's not in the cloud. But he gets his new
29:25
laptop and he didn't realize it doesn't come with a drive. Does his new
29:29
computer have USBC? Probably would if it's a new buy an external DVD,
29:36
DVD Blu ray burner. And they're not that expensive, right, like thirty
29:38
bucks thirty to forty dollars on a quick Amazon search. So just go look
29:44
and redo a little bit of research. It's going to be way faster than
29:47
your old machine. Because I'm assuming he's got if he if he's talking about
29:51
his old machine and it's slow, it's probably like an eight X write read
29:55
or something, right, it's probably a six sixteen read rite, right,
29:59
So, but you can get hortible CDDVD, blu ray right and burn for
30:06
relatively inexpensive. I think that would be my solution. I think I've seen
30:08
those in Target too that they have those. You probably still some out there
30:12
where they use the USBA which is the bigger plug as well. So yeah,
30:17
yeah, you're still USB three right, But it's just saying they make
30:19
them USB three or USBC USB three at speeds. And then I'm going to
30:25
pitch the Mac side. Right. If you have a Mac and you need
30:27
a DVD burner, go buy the super Drive. It's not Blu ray app
30:32
will never support a Blu ray in any of their products. Wow, But
30:36
the super Drive will do read write for DVD's multi layer. I just did
30:40
a project where I burned some DVDs. It was crazy. We can talk
30:42
about that later, but it burned. I burned a DVD for a project.
30:45
I probably haven't burned a DVD in over a decade. Oh yeah,
30:48
it's been a while, right, because we just throw stuff into the cloud.
30:51
But he never got it this, kay, Carl never got a chance
30:53
to do that. Now he's he wants to be able to look at these
30:56
disks, so yeah, external is going to be the best way for him
30:59
to go. So it gonna be the easiest, it's gonna be the most
31:02
efficient. Rather than trying to resurrect an old machine and pop it into likely
31:07
was a very slow would you recommend? And I kind of wonder if this
31:11
so somebody has this and then they get this, would you recommend them putting
31:17
it into the cloud at that point? You know, yeah, like he's
31:21
got and he's got these photos, go ahead and throw them in the cloud.
31:25
Well I won't go with one hundred percent. Now ahead, go ahead,
31:27
Well I'm saying one hundred percent of the idea of putting them in the
31:30
cloud. Right, don't don't. Don't get rid of the physical media,
31:33
obviously, but my solution I did my whole family archive right right, tvds,
31:40
VHS photos. Right. I still have all the physical media. It
31:45
exists on a hard drive here in my house, and it exists in the
31:48
cloud. That's the way I do it. So if a relative ever says
31:52
to you, oh, I need to find that picture from you know,
31:56
nineteen seventy four at Disneyland, no problem, you know where to find.
32:00
It exists in my Google Drive and Google Photos. I have a specific account
32:04
that I made for my family called the de Weird Archive that they could just
32:08
log in. I provided my family with the user and password and they can
32:12
go in and search to their hearts content. It's tagged filtered. I've got
32:15
most things have names, and I went through geotech stuff. I went crazy
32:21
during COVID on the start. That was a big project. Now, slick,
32:23
why would you be kind of a little leery about putting stuff with the
32:28
cloud. This is only because this is for my poor, broken, cheap
32:30
people. Okay, where are you? Raise your hands? Show me your
32:35
empty wallets. I'm raising mind. If you know, if you're not willing
32:42
to continually pay for storage for service, I mean Google Drive, one Drive
32:49
from Microsoft, even iCloud from Apple. Okay, then you need to look
32:53
around to find out who gives you the most free storage available. One of
32:59
them, which I'm not recommending, I'm just saying, just for conversation,
33:04
the largest one I know of at the moment is just a company called Mega
33:07
Mega Mega. They're out of New Zealand and huh, I've really I've never
33:12
heard of them. I've been using them for a long time. I'm trying
33:16
to remember. I want to say this is probably wrong, everyone, so
33:21
please you know if I'm wrong and wrong. The first the name that comes
33:23
to mind is Kim dot Com and it is probably not him, but a
33:28
guy that reminds me of kin dot com started. This service started out of
33:31
fifty gigs free, and I've just kept my account. I think they cut
33:35
it down now to twenty five gigs free. Even twenty five gigs is pretty
33:38
good. Well, now we Google, you get how much five? I
33:42
think they starts you out with fifteen I think for free, all right,
33:46
But being deep in the Google verse, Google universe, using a lot of
33:50
Chromebooks and Google services and stuff. Every year, once a year, I
33:55
pay the twenty let's say, twenty five bucks, okay, for the they
34:00
now call it Google one, Yeah, the Google one plan, right,
34:05
and that gives me one hundred gigabytes of free storage for the year and that.
34:09
But you know that includes they take everything into consideration your Gmail account,
34:15
your Google Photos account, and your Google Drive account, which is not bad.
34:19
I'm just saying before they had broke, they had it broken out.
34:22
Now it's all inclusive, right right. I have noticed it's very easy to
34:27
fill a Google Drive account. I don't know about you guys, but when
34:30
you put filled fifteen gigs is the start fifteen Google account. Fifteen gigs fifteen
34:36
pretty good? I pay for the two terabyte plan. It's I think it's
34:39
like two hundred dollars a year. I still become a member of your family.
34:45
Yeah, all, I add your email to my list. Now,
34:47
So do you share this with the family, and they'll y sh shared with
34:52
my family. They can put they you know, like all my photos on
34:54
my phone are back on to my Google drive, Kaitlin's photos, my mom's
34:58
photos, my dad's photos, pretty much any of my anybody that wants to
35:00
back up their photos, they can just use their Gmail account and it uploads
35:06
it to their Gmail. But their Gmail storage is tied to mine. Right,
35:09
It's not like you can't go in and see what they have. No,
35:13
no, no, no no. But I can see that my brother's
35:15
using the x amount. I would have to look. But my brother's using
35:17
xmout storage. My mom's using x amount. But I'm big on archiving photos
35:22
and digital family folks, family stuff. Yes, so I paid for it.
35:28
It said, this is my treat to the family, Like just I
35:30
want to save all of this stuff. I want to be able to archive
35:32
this so that Max can see it and other children and my family can see
35:37
it, my cousins, my nephews, all this stuff. So and it's
35:40
been widely popular because my family will come to me and say, oh,
35:44
it's Christmas time. Do you have any pictures of Nana when she was you
35:46
know, back in the day. Yeah, sure, just go on and
35:49
find it. You just search for them. Here's it's been a it's been
35:51
a great personal pleasure for me to do that and then have my family come
35:55
to me and say, thank you for putting this up there, thanks for
35:58
letting me see it. It's you know, it's it's been great. But
36:00
here's something right, you were right, Kim dot com was the megaphone?
36:04
All right, cool? Now what is that again? Kim or ken?
36:07
Kim dot com? Kim dot com? All right, cool, all right,
36:10
Now here's something though. We talked about Sean uh and it's like,
36:15
I don't know if you've seen the movie Leave the World Behind yet with Julia
36:20
Roberts Mahashala Ali. Yeah, it's it's it opens up a lot of questions,
36:27
and there were a lot of questions at the end of this movie,
36:29
which is kind of bleak and Uh. The problem is nobody has access because
36:35
something is going on. There's been a hack that's going on. Nobody has
36:37
access to uh, the television, radio computers, they're smart devices, only
36:45
what's locally on their smart devices? And it brings the question up. There
36:50
was a story recently about best By eliminating their physical media, So you're not
36:54
gonna be able to buy in the UK in the UK, oh you okay?
36:59
But thing about it. If we eliminate physical media, if anything like
37:02
this happened, solar flare takes out you know, television broadcast, the whole
37:08
bit. How will we entertain ourselves if everything is in the cloud and we
37:14
don't have any local media. Oh yeah, let me be out in real
37:17
quick, everybody. Before we even started the show, Sean de Weir was
37:21
talking about D and D. Hold on, I'm going a wrong constitution.
37:25
Say I got my dice here. I literally came from a D and D
37:30
session right into the show. So some people have told me, like,
37:32
uh, you know, we've been using plex where we'll take our own media
37:37
and I'll go ahead and encode it and put it and save it so if
37:39
I ever want to watch it easily, I can. Some people have told
37:44
me that they've done the same thing, but then they get rid of their
37:45
their media. They take it to you know, a place where they can
37:50
sell it. They donated selling. But number one, it makes it cheaper
37:55
for me to go buy it. Yeah, exactly, And I don't know
37:58
the legalities also the involved You know, you've already you own it, you
38:02
digitize it, you probably should have a physical copy, I'll bet you.
38:07
I'm thinking though, I think it's important to still have that physical copy.
38:12
You know. It was the time. Yeah, remember there was a time
38:15
when the optical disc had a life expectancy of ten years, right, yeah?
38:21
Is it? Are we still about there about that? I would say
38:23
early CDs, early DVDs from maybe the late nineties early two thousands may have
38:30
had some degradation, like if you use it a bunch, right, Yeah,
38:32
the data is not permanent on these discs. That that's something that people
38:37
didn't really understand. DVDs and optical media are not prime long term storage solutions,
38:43
right right, They have it self life. So we are in a
38:47
situation where in thirty forty years you might go to play a DVD and it
38:52
just might be not play because the data has eroded enough that it can't be
38:57
read. So what are your options? Right, you digitize it, or
39:02
you buy it a newer version that has a more guaranteed shelf life of many
39:07
more years based on the technology. Yeah, it's interesting on the things I
39:10
did, But I buy physical beating and I still to this day. I
39:14
still love dv I still love CDs, DVDs, dvda's Blu ray disc.
39:22
The copy when I buy a copy, it also comes with a digital copy.
39:24
I hunt, I search for those. I have a hard time buying
39:29
any Blu ray disc or DVD disc that does not include a digital copy.
39:34
You shot the bin at Walmart. If I do, I'll flip through it
39:37
real quick looking for you know, uh, smoking the bandit stuff like that,
39:42
right. I love the fact that now with services like two B and
39:45
I know if it's getting off track two B and FREEB, you can now
39:50
watch movies you can never buy on DVD or CD or whatever, and now
39:53
you can watch them for free. And if you're sharp and you're running,
39:58
maybe you know the U the software for capturing, you can capture it then
40:02
burn it to DVD yourself. Again. I don't know if the legalities on
40:07
that we talked about, like keeping physical media right right, But now you're
40:14
running into issues where you have Amazon Prime, You've got Prime Video, and
40:17
you come across the video that says buy for four ninety nine. Yeah,
40:22
no, I bought it. I own it until they take it away and
40:25
say, yeah, we took it away, Well, I paid four night
40:29
for it. I bought it. Well, you bought a perpetual you bought
40:30
a license for it, not a perpetual license that says you can watch it
40:35
whenever you want, on or offline. So a lot of people are getting
40:38
frustrated that they're saying, well, what did I pay the four ninety nine
40:42
for. I've heard that before too, on top of my whatever I'm paying
40:47
for Prime. Wow, And now you're even getting it to where Prime is
40:53
gonna say, well, we're gonna serve ads in front of your videos now
40:57
unless you pay us an additional two ninety nine on top of your I'm subscription
41:00
right, how much money they did last year, It just doesn't it doesn't
41:06
make sense like they're they're frustrating their user base and these these these you're seeing
41:12
a lot of people going back to sailing the high seas. Yeah, they're
41:15
throwing that black skull and cross bones up and saying, you know what,
41:20
I'm just going to a lot of people are canceling their subscriptions to most of
41:23
their services and resorting to piracy and it because they're so frustrated that these billion
41:31
dollar companies are nickeling diming us for content that we just want to watch.
41:37
Yeah, yeah, we don't own it because of all the licensing and d
41:40
m c A and all this stuff. Right, So I've said this before
41:45
the show, but I feel like we're either going to have a digital revolution
41:50
where people are going to get so frustrated with all of the digital that people
41:53
are gonna want physical media again. Exactly exactly. That's then, That's what
41:59
I thought of when I all that movie Leave the World Behind, which is
42:01
available on Netflix. Streams that or is it Amazon? It's it's on Netflix.
42:07
It's Netflix, all right, But all it's gonna take is a major
42:10
Internet outage for three four, five days or you know, uh, you
42:15
know, or if you're in an area that's impacted by a natural disaster,
42:19
you're stuck without power or internet for a week. Right, what are you
42:22
going to like people that don't have physical media, what are they gonna do?
42:30
And what happens when the internet goes out? Exactly? Everybody goes to
42:34
stream on their phones or their iPads. And now now we're just clogging up
42:38
the five G pipe with people trying to you know, stream Thomas the Train
42:45
for their kids or whatever. So's physical media, man, it's you gotta
42:50
you gotta get it. And I know a lot of people in my age,
42:53
maybe even a little younger, aren't used to having physical media. They're
42:58
not used to it. They don't own a d player or a Blu ray
43:00
player, right, and they're even buying consoles, video game consoles that don't
43:05
have them in it. So you're they're really constricting you and forcing you to
43:08
do digital only, and that's frustrating as hell to me. We will teach
43:13
them how to make fire, and we will be back after we take a
43:15
quick break here on tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de
43:19
Weird, and I'm Slick tech talk Radio on the X, on the threads,
43:22
on the Facebook and the Instagram and all the YouTube's at tech talk Radio
43:28
and now back to tech talk Radio. Right. This week kind of a
43:31
big week. Not only you got to see es going on, but in
43:35
history back in two thousand, Slick, I know you can add some to
43:38
this. America Online agreed to buy Time Warner for one hundred and sixty five
43:45
billion dollars, and some have speculated that it was one of the worst decisions
43:51
in corporate history, AOL buying Time Warner Slick, You worked for AOL?
43:57
What was that? Like? I did? And I left just for Steve
44:00
bought everybody a letterman's jacket, so I didn't get one of them. They
44:05
were nice to. Now, was there was the entire operation here in Tucson
44:09
or was it just a call center? No? One of the call centers
44:14
was here in Tucson. And and one of the major call centers was here
44:16
in Tucson, right, a tech support centers, I should say, what
44:21
was that like? Being somebody that would answer calls from people? I mean,
44:23
what were some of the biggest questions you would get? It was?
44:27
I mean to be first, let me just say it was. It's always
44:30
been fun working for tech companies like AOL and Microsoft. It's just my people.
44:35
And bumped into a guy to day used to work in Microsoft. Some
44:39
of the let me just tell you one of the strangest calls I remember,
44:44
and and this is just support called from any industry. You know, A
44:49
guy calls sir, I can't get on AOL. Well, it's the problem,
44:52
sir, well, I don't know how okay. And then as you
44:55
get deeper into the call, you go, well, what kind of computer
44:59
is this? Is del okay? And and what model is it? Like,
45:02
Oh, okay, that's great. Put the disc in the computer.
45:07
Well I can't, why not, sir, because it's still in the box.
45:10
To take the CD out of the box, sir, to go ahead
45:13
and open up the no, no, exactly, Andy is about to follow
45:16
it. Oh my gods. Oh yeah, yep, yep, yep,
45:21
that's one of those great Are you telling me that the computer is still in
45:24
the box. Yeah. Oh, but he wanted to get on AOL right
45:30
away right away. Oh boy, Sean, you were you were talking about
45:34
something that you had seen and you had sent me a photo of it regarding
45:37
AOL as well, you know, taking a look back twenty four years ago
45:40
this week, and it's hard to believe they actually made this. Yeah,
45:44
it's a AOL branded uh CD cleaning kit. So you can got you got
45:50
the you got the spray, the little little diamond pad, a little scrubber,
45:55
oh like the mister disc or whatever pad. You know, they had
46:00
them at family, you know, the the family all the Okay, now
46:06
I understand you know the you know, the little polisher that you can take
46:07
to it, so you know, if you scratch the disc you can get
46:10
life back out of it. Yes, it's al branded sealed in the box.
46:15
Yeah, one of my old mentors from high school had it in his
46:17
collection of stuff. We'll put a photo of that up on our blog blog
46:21
dot tech talk Radio dot com. Looking back at this week though, for
46:24
CS you wanted to kind of cover what is some of the coolest things that
46:29
we saw this year at cees that that were you know, in the media.
46:32
One of them though I hadn't even I hadn't even heard about it.
46:35
I'm hearing it from you and I'm thinking, this is pretty amazing. Transparent
46:38
TVs. Okay, how does this work? Yeah, last year we saw
46:45
a transparent olity concept from l G. Now you're seeing them and Tom's Guide
46:51
dot com has a great write up on some of these. That's we're kind
46:53
of one of my go to hardware blogs. Yeah, they're good. They
46:58
have these really cool you can see you can put your hand behind it and
47:00
see through it. Oh, and you can make it look like a fish
47:05
tank. It's it's you have to go to just check it out. But
47:07
it's called the LG signature, oh led t all right, and it just
47:14
looks cool. I can't. You have to kind of see it to understand
47:16
it. Yeah, so just go to the CEES web page check them out.
47:21
But it's LG and it just looks cool. It's going to be more
47:27
of a like show piece, I think then, but it's still gonna be
47:30
a TV. What happens now when you turn it off? Though, it
47:34
just disappears like I mean, basically you don't notice it at all. Yeah,
47:37
it's just kind of like, maybe it looks like a little bit of
47:40
a darkness. But they have different transparencies apparently, some that look a little
47:45
bit darker, but it just changes based on the model you get. But
47:50
it basically said, you're not gonna work, probably gonna want to play video
47:52
games on it, but it's most likely going to be kind of like a
47:57
ambiance piece in your house, not necessarily a TV you're gonna to watch.
48:00
That's not the one that jumped out to me though, Wait what TV?
48:04
I thought you were thinking? Think about this other one that I saw,
48:06
all right with? What is the one you liked? Okay, guys,
48:08
everybody, everybody Okay, go to CC dot com. So it's the letter
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C and then the word seed s e e d dot com C s e
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e d dot com. All right, I'm doing it. There. The
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world's first unfolding indoor TV, the sculptural screen. Wow, Oh my gosh,
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that's crazy. The world's first unfolding micro l e ed t V.
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Oh my, so if you have one, Scott come, it's coming out
48:39
of a pool. Yeah. If you have it outdoors, it could come
48:42
out of the ground and then you have a oh my, how much is
48:45
this they gonna go for? Alright, don't don't remember. Oh wow,
48:51
I'm looking at their website right now. This is crazy. Yeah. That
48:53
is way cooler than the transparent TV. I don't think you can install this
48:57
yourself though, No, I don't think so. Wow. And guy,
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I feel so weak because mine. The product that I thought I really want
49:07
is Clicks. Have you guys heard about Clicks Love it? Yeah, it's
49:12
an iPhone keyboard case that will work with you know, your iPhone fourteen Pro
49:19
or iPhone fifteen Pro or iPhone regular fifteen. They have three options, two
49:24
usbc's, one with a lightning connector, and they're sold from one hundred and
49:29
thirty nine bucks if you go to Clicks that Tech. But what it is
49:32
you put your smartphone inside this case and it's like yo BlackBerry. You've got
49:38
the little keyboard down to the bottom so you don't have to you know,
49:43
touch the screen. You know how many times when I'm sending a note and
49:45
I'll accidentally hit the return and send half a note. It's just so frustrating.
49:51
Well, this you could do it all with that keyboard, and I
49:52
don't know, I hope it catches on. I don't know if it's you
49:55
know, worthy enough for one hundred and thirty nine bucks, will people do
49:59
it? But Clicks that Tech is one that you can you can check out
50:02
there, so it is also they did also just launch today or closer today
50:07
is the history of the launch of the iPhone. That's right, Yes,
50:12
yeah, I watched the keynote, the original keynote earlier today and Andy,
50:15
they legitimately in that you just talked about re adding to keep a physical keyboard
50:20
to your iPhone. Right in that in that keynote they literally said we are
50:24
getting away from the thing. They literally just like deleted the bottom of like
50:28
the Blackberries and everything is we're getting rid of this. So here you are
50:30
twenty something years later almost saying I want to read add this physical keyboard,
50:35
when they're like in two thousand and seven, we're like, now this is
50:38
out. It's funny how that works. It's funny because it's like I just
50:43
watched that Redwatch that keynote today because it's it's such a good keynote about the
50:46
history of iPhone and yep, it was how hype people were for that this
50:50
week in two thousand and seven is when when that happened? Was that Macworld?
50:53
You know, and and you know Apple doesn't. Apple doesn't generally go
50:58
to see I mean, they're they're at ces. They've product have products that
51:00
are at cs from manufacturers, but Macworld is there big. That's always been
51:05
their big one. But I'll tell you something I bought this week, and
51:08
there's a video up on our website at tech talk radio dot com. I
51:13
bought the Xbox Toaster. It's the Xbox series S officially license of you floating
51:20
around with an Xbox and something popping out of it. I was like,
51:23
oh wait, and he'll he'll tell me what you know. It's really sad.
51:25
I don't even have an Xbox. I've got the Xbox one, the
51:30
old one. It heats bagels, it defrosts bread if you put bread in
51:36
the fridge, and it can make a slice of toast and we'll put the
51:39
Xbox logo on that slice of toast. So you have this and the fridge
51:43
now right. I don't have the fridge. I ordered the fridge, and
51:45
I basically I was scammed a little because this fridge was tiny. And the
51:51
actual Xbox fridge that you can get in retail, I know, Target tells
51:54
them when you can find them, they're pretty big. And the one I
51:59
got, I paid one hundred thredy nine dollars for it. It turns out,
52:00
no, it was a it was a scam, so I got my
52:02
money back on that one. So all I have now is the toaster.
52:06
But thirty nine bucks, that's not a bad deal. Are you an Xbox
52:09
fan boy? No, I'm not. I'm like I tell you, all
52:12
I got is an Xbox One. I just thought this is a cool thing,
52:15
so I got it. All right, we take another quick break.
52:20
We'll be back with more of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
52:22
shan to Weird, and I'm slick wondering if he's gonna get a PlayStation thing
52:27
and something shirt jacket, car or something. Eh, PlayStation schwag. I
52:30
like that. That'll be next. Be sure to check out our YouTube page
52:34
at tech talk Radio. We'll be right back and now back to tech talk
52:37
Radio. All right, one of the things that we had fun with last
52:40
week, we're bringing back just me and Sean this week. Sixty second tech
52:45
Sean, go ahead, We're gonna just spew a bunch of stuff at you.
52:47
Ready, all right? If you use twenty three and meters, it's
52:51
your fault. Your data got breached. That's what they said. If you
52:54
got a right aid and you feel like you got unfairly treated or something happened
52:59
where you got charged, they were using AI to track you and using that
53:02
data against you as a customer. NTC says, you're out, no more
53:07
AI for you. Microsoft is adding a new button to the keyboard for the
53:10
first time in I don't even know how long prices before I was alive.
53:15
It's the dedicated co pilot key which you talked about last week. I didn't
53:17
even they didn't even know what it was. So yay. The Alaska Airlines
53:22
flight that had the door blow off this flight at sixteen thousand feet. They
53:25
found two phones from that flight in the in the debris field right that.
53:30
We're still working, so find out what case they had. Because the the
53:34
NTSB is being tight lipped on that, they won't tell you what case it
53:37
is. The RTX forty super Series has launched, so if you're looking for
53:42
a CPU a GPU upgrade, maybe look into the super Series for the four
53:45
thousands. You're done? Okay, you ready for find? Here we go.
53:52
I got mined? Did you get yours? You know, I've always
53:54
thought maybe it was a bit of a scam. When you get that thing
53:57
in the mail that says, hey, would you like to participate in a
54:00
class action lawsuit because there's a class action lawsuit going around, and turns out
54:05
you owned one of these products. Well, this product was an iPhone.
54:08
And now I remember when I got my iPhone and it started slowing down.
54:15
Well, turns out it was enough to get people upset and file this lawsuit,
54:19
which they called battery Gate. The other day, I logged in my
54:22
bank account and I saw an extra ninety two dollars in my bank account,
54:25
wondering what the heck is that from I mean we're talking years ago. I
54:30
had filled out this form. Well, Apple is pip paid iPhone. Yeah,
54:35
Apple is paying users now in this settlement of battery gate after the company
54:38
they say slowed iPhones roughly seven years ago, because well it was time to
54:45
upgrade your phone, and why not do it when your phone is running really
54:47
slow? And that is my sixty second tech are you doing? Time to
54:52
tell you that I picked up a couple of checks. I got Welcome Yonder
54:54
to working Prince Court. Actually, I got a couple Facebook Holliday wait talk.
55:00
I had like how many twenty different Gahoo accounts? What was the deal
55:04
with Yahoo? Oh? I don't remember what it was. Maybe using user
55:08
data and not telling them about it, you know. And I think the
55:12
average of each check was about one hundred bucks. Not bad, very nice.
55:15
All right, Well, we had a lot of stuff to talk about.
55:17
We're gonna talk more about cees next week, but some of the cool
55:21
products that we've seen as well when we continue in the meantime, have yourselves
55:24
a great week. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm
55:29
Slick tech talkRADIO dot com. Have a great week.