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EPISODE 386 - Slapping Your Daddy! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey everybody,
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it's comedian Brad Williams and I'll see you February fourth for my show at the
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Fox Theater right here in Tucson. But right now you're listening to tech Talk.
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Enjoyed the show. Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm
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Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones, I am Slick,
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and I'm justin Lemme. Oh my gosh, the whole crew is here.
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It only took us, like, what, six weeks a little more
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than that. I think you've been gone since Thanksgiving, haven't you. No,
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I've been in. I've been in one or two since then. Are
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you sure? I don't know. I'm pretty sure. How was your Christmas?
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That we don't know? Yeah, No, it was fine, it
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was it was good. We we went to southern California. We actually,
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uh, oh my god, dude, we flew JSX. Have you guys
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ever heard of JSX? Oh? I saw your photos and I'm like,
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what airline is that? JSX is kind of like a it's like a boutique
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airline. They don't fly out a day, which is Denver International Airport,
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which is you know, where everything flies out of. They fly out of
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Rocky Mountain Metro, which is only like fifteen minutes from our house. It's
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a small little airport. The thing about JSX is what they build themselves as
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is halfway between commercial and private. And so when you get on a JSX
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flight, it's like one of those little CRJ jets, like the regional jets,
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which is normally like about fifty to sixty people. This one. The
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way they have it out, the way they lay the rows out is from
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from right to left is a seat, a cocktail table, the aisle,
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and then another seat, so you're actually never sitting next to somebody. You
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have your own seat, and every seat is like spaced out like business class,
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so you have all the business class room. So honestly, when we
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took the flight from from Denver to Burbank, California, it was a total
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of like thirty two people, which is great because it's you know, there's
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not a lot of people there. You also get free drinks, free snacks,
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all that other stuff. Anyway, but so we flew right into Burbank
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and then we picked up our Turo. We rented a Turo which is another
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rental service, but it's by privately owned people, kind of like an Airbnb.
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But we got a Tesla, So we drove the Tesla from the Burbank
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Airport down to San Diego, which took forever because La traffic sucks. It
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took us about three hours to get what normally you should take an hour and
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a half maybe the most. Yeah, it took us like three three hours.
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We finally got downe San Diego. We did a you know, hung
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out in San Diego for a few days. Then we went up to back
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up north to Oceanside, went to Lego Land. Lego Land was great.
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It's for my son's seventh birthday. Yeah, Lego Land was fun. It's
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obviously made for more younger kids and everything, but there are some cool things
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for adults, especially many Mini Town USA, which is they got like scale
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now I don't want to say scale replicas, like maybe like one on sixth
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scale replicas of Las Vegas, New York City, San Diego, so you
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can like walk down the strip of Las Vegas and the Luxore only basically stands
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up to your chest level. That's cool. But but yeah, but it's
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cool. I mean, it's really detailed. And then after we did Lego
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Land, we went back up to Burbank and went to Universal Studios Hollywood.
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They have the Mario there, don't they The Yeah, the Nintendo World,
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Yes, so we yeah, we went to go see Nintendo World. We
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got into Nintendo World. It was fine. We you know, it's kind
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of small, to be honest. I mean you think about it, it's
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you know, I'm used to like things like Disneyland or Disney World whatever.
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Nintendo World, even Universal Studios, even Lego Land was very small compared to
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what I was thinking it was gonna be, you know, like like Disneyland.
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Yeah, but Nintendo World was especially small. And we got in.
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We we did, we we did. We got early access, so we
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did the ride. Like we had to wait like twenty minutes. It wasn't
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a big deal. But after we got out, that's when like everybody else
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got in the and everybody obviously rushed Nintendo Land or Nintendo World, and so
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all the lines were like seventy five minutes plus. Wow, that's could do
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anything. Yeah, And so we were like, uh, let's go back
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up. So we went back up the way the way. Uh, Universal
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Studio sits like if you imagine the mountain that where the Hollywood sign is.
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Yeah, Universal Studio sits just to the left of the Hollywood Sign like on
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the actual mountain. To get art where Nintendo World is, and we're all
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actually where all the movie studios are, you have to go down like seven
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escalators just to get down there. So we got all the way back up
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to the top. We went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and which
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was actually pretty cool, which yeah, Sean's like wearing his Harry Potter h
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oody. We went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. That was pretty
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cool. We did a little roller coaster ride there and then Eric wanted a
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wand and the one that he wanted was one of those that has a censor
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at the end where you can walk around the Harry Potter World and you can
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do your little magic tricks and then something will happen, you know, in
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the window or whatever. That's kind It's well, yeah, if you're six,
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Hey, I'm I've been perpetually six, so I would love it.
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So I'm sorry. I mean, I'm in my thirties and I thought that
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stuff was really cool in Florida, So yeah, there you go. Yeah,
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so seventy five dollars later, Yeah, seventy five dollars later. Oh
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boy, Eric is walking around with this wand and he goes and does three
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out of the fifteen spots that you can do, and he's like, all
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right, I'm done, And I'm like, we're gonna do all fifteen of
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these spots because I just spent seventy five dollars on this blond. Yeah.
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So yeah, we walked around to that, and then we went to Simpson's
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World and did most tavern. Yeah. I got to have a beer with
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with with the Barney. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Uh. And
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then you know I did before you move on from that. I saw something
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the other day. Somebody has taken a I and recreated the Simpsons as how
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they would look as real people. Yes, and it's actually pretty darn terrifying.
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Homer little bit Bart. You know the white Marge is hot. No
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she's not. She's horrific to get. You're looking at the wrong one.
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You're looking at the wrong one, the wrong the one I saw Marge was
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hot. No, I didn't think so at all. I'd rather see a
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family guy, which you know that would be better. But no, no,
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you could you could. Okay, A let me ask you, all
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right, let me ask you real quick. Everybody, no, no,
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no other thing except for the answer I'm asking you for. Okay, Andy
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Marge or Lois Lois Marge Marge from Simpsons, or Lowis from Family Guys.
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Lois Lois, he slick Lois case Sean no Us, Matt Lois. She's
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just the coolest, you know. She just seems like she'd be a lot
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of fun to hang out. Yeah. We got back on the JSX flight
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to go back home, and sitting behind me I'm in the first seat,
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was Coach Prime Dion Sanders. Yeah. I was freaking out. I was
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like, wait, hold on, because the first thing is I saw him
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and I can tell by this facial because he had his sunglasses on, his
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hat on, he has headphones on, but I can tell by his like
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nose and mouth and everything. I was like, that's familiar. And then
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I see the Colorado hat. Then I see the coach, I see the
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Prime the chain that he was wearing it says Prime, and I kind of
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get his attention a little bit and I kind of mouthed the words I'm like
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coach Prime and he's like he nods his head and I'm like, oh,
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I give my thumbs up on a big fan. And then at the end
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of the flight, I was like, hey, coach, sorry to bother
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you, can I can I get a quick picture? And he's like,
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yeah, man, let's make a quick real quick because as soon as this
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door opens, I'm out of here. So I got a quick picture.
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But actually, as we were seating, we were having trouble finding mo where
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my bag was going to go. And he turns to my wife and he
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says, sweetheg do you want this seat? And she's like, oh,
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no, Coach, I'm okay, I'm okay, Coach, thank you because
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she knew who he was too. But yeah, we flew with coach Prime.
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That's cool. I saw him sure, and I thought that was pretty
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neat. And the flight attendants said to me, you'd be surprised how many
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celebrities fly JSX because they don't want to fly private and they don't want to
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fly commercial. This is halfway in between. That's cool. I'd never heard
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of it. How do you book a flight on JSX JSX our website?
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Yeah? Wow? And now is it more expensive than maybe booked? Oh?
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Yes, you know Alaskan Airlines. Oh yes, yeah, round trip,
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well, round trip from from Denver to Burbank for the three of us
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was two thousand dollars. Lord, and we are already but we had already
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budgeted to go to Japan this year and we decided not to, so we
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already had the money. If this was a random trip, we wouldn't do
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that, but we already had the money saved up. So we're like,
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it's fly private. Wow. Now did you think about driving at all?
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Heck no, Yeah, that's a long trip, isn't it Colorado? No?
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Hell no, no, absolutely not. Yeah, speaking of Okay,
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that's where I kind of want to get into the story a little. The
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only person on this show that drives an electric, I believe out of Matt,
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I don't think you'd drive an electric, right, No, is justin.
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There's been stories that have been coming out it's been so cold that people
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have not been able to charge their electric vehicles. Have you experienced this yet?
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Yep? Just tonight, Wow, till just tonight. Explain your listeners
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what that's all about if you don't mind if I don't know a lot about
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it, but I do know that when it becomes extreme cold temperatures. EV
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batteries, they don't they don't show you the true range that you have left.
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Like if you're a gas tank, if you're a gas car, it's
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like at your gas tank and it says you got a half tank full,
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but then you start driving and all of a sudden, it says empty,
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Like wait, wait, hold on, I thought I had a half tank.
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That's the battery just does not hold the charge as well when it's cold.
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So we had just charged Mesas Tesla two days ago. We charged to
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eighty percent and she only drove to work two days today. When she got
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home, we had twelve percent battery, which is insane. We should have
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had at least forty percent battery. She had twelve percent battery. So we
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went out to dinner tonight. We just got back from dinner. Actually,
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on the way to dinner, I actually stopped at a supercharger for twenty minutes
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just to top us off, just to get us to like thirty percent battery.
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And that thirty percent took us to dinner and got us back home,
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and now we're still sitting at fifteen percent battery. I was reading there was
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one guy who told the story about chargeing for eight hours just to get because
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it's not holding in. This is something that a lot of people you didn't
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know about. But if you have a doorbell camera or a you know,
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battery doorbell camera or a even a camera that is monitoring your garage or whatnot,
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if it gets too cold, they will stop working. Yep. And
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a lot of people ran into that. Dude, I've got a hardwired doorbell
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camera, hardwired Gen one Nest doorbell, and it's not working right now.
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It's like, I understand you would like to see what's at the front door.
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However, in this frozen hellscape that you live in, I'm not going
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to work. Yea. How cold did it get for you guys? Okay,
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I'll tell you right now. It was actually colder in Denver than it
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wasn't Antarctica. Oh wow? Yesterday? Yeah. And I got home to
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that from going out to Carson City, Nevada, oh Data, to visit
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my parents. We were supposed to come home on Sunday and Southwest was like,
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yo, dog, it's not happening. You're flying home Monday. So
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we get the notice for that and they put us on like a seven am
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flight, So we're up already way before God nature and airline should let people
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be awake. You know. Alarm went off at like four point thirty and
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I couldn't fall asleep till like one am the night before. And you know,
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we get on the flight. We were surprised. We actually like made
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it. People were like, you're not getting home till like Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Just get over it. My parents were thrilled. I had a great
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time, but I want to come home and see my dogs. Yeah.
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So we get here. We as we're landing, I'm looking out the window
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because I've just woken up, and I'm looking out and all I see is
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white. I was like, ah, where are we welcome home. As
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we were taking off, the captain of the plane was like, so it's
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gonna be a toss up whether we end up in Denver, Colorado Springs,
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or Albuquerque, just letting you all know. And I was like, ha
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ha ohow wait, he's serious about the Albuquerque thing. So we land and
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as we land, there's like snow and everything on the landing on the runway,
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and we land and I feel the back of the plane kind of fish
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tailing a little bit, and I'm just sitting there like fully embracing the millennial
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nihilism. I was just like, well, maybe we'll finally just call it
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a day. Oh man, Wow, this is how I go. None
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of my friends are gonna be surprised. Oh man, that's that's in style.
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So we get there, they open the jetway and every ounce of heat
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that was on this plane is just gone, Oh my gosh, yes,
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vanishes. And I'm just sitting there like, ah, yes, home to
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a frozen now escape. This is fantastic. Let's let's go see what this
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is like. You couldn't see more than like maybe one hundred and fifty feet
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outside of the terminal, and I'm just like, oh, and I get
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to drive home in this yes, yeah, shut. It was like negative
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twenty sean is in South Bend, where I know you. You get pretty
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cold there too, don't you. It was ten below zero Saturday morning.
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Oh my god, that's it. Oh that's warm. That's warm compared to
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what we had I think are low with that negative thirty five thirty hour winds.
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Oh the win show was so cold. It's the same and celsius as
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is in fahrenheit right, good lord? Oh man, negative forty negative forty
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two or something like that. So it was cold. Now I understand both
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Mesa and Sean have an oudie. I have never heard of these things before
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that I'm the one who told you about them. Did you tell us about
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duty? I bought it just while we were on the show. Yeah,
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dude, that's the reason we bought it. About this, I'm the original
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dude with Eddie. You're getting really old, Andy, thank you? Well,
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why aren't you wearing yours mat? Because I'm in a smart wool and
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it's up because you ran down there even come down here like, I'll go
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get it if you want. Oh, you guys gonna hate me for this.
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I think it's that's the heat affecting me because it's what seventy nine yesterday.
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Maybe that drew you from the bottom of my heart. Here we go
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from the bottom of it is it is one degree right now? Am I
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here? Oh? Yeah, I think we got we got like twenty right
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now. So sorry, guys, so sorry, all right, So the
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for the udie you've told us about it, refresh as Sean, your yours
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is a Harry Potter udie. Yeah, this is the Harry Potter one.
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It's big if you're watching the video. You can see it right on tech
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talk radio dot com. Yeah. I got it for Caitlin, let's get
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it. She has well. See I got Mesa a Barbie one for Christmas.
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But there's no way I'm gonna wear that. Yeah, that's a good
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idea. Come on, man, modern modern masculinity, you can do it.
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Yeah, but it is very comfortable to wear around the house if you're
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just lounging. It's got the front pockets. You can put stuff in it,
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right it, you know, the the the advice if I had for
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them would be to make a pocket that passes through. So like if you're
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wearing pants or shorts, you can put something in your pocket, or you
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can, you know, just reach in whatever you're gonna say, so you
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can scratch your stomach or something, your stomach whatever else stomach. But nice
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choice. You know. My basement is typically almost ten degrees cooler than upstairs,
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so I think it's so when I'm sitting down here, my computer generates
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a little bit of heat, but it's I'm really comfortable in this right now,
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Like I have the hood up. I'm not too hot, not too
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cold. But where did you find this? These? Uh? Like many
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things that I have bought since my wife converted me from the ways of Reddit.
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I found it on Instagram. Really yeah, yeah, Sean. I'll
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give you one tip with it. The the cuffs that you got in there,
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they suck. Rotate them in. Oh there you go. And why
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why is that just more comfortable? If you rotate them in then you just
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got Then it puts the tension here instead of on that so much better that
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what I recommend it. And that's our show, folks, all right now,
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speaking of speaking of questions, we do have listener questions this week.
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You know, we've been telling you drop us an email tech guys at tech
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talk radio dot com. You could call and leave a message. Nobody's done
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that yet five two oh seven seven seven ninety five eighty. But we actually
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got one from somebody who's listening to us online in Palm Springs, where the
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show originated from. This one from Dave. Dave sent in a note he
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says, we see a lot of smart cameras at work and at home.
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I know they are also available in the car, but that's when driving.
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You know, I know you have a camera in your car justin and you
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know, I think most of us have had at some point, he says
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about what about when the car is parked? Is there a way to monitor
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even if Wi Fi isn't available? Tesla, And for those of us who
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live in the regular economic bracket, thank you? Come on the model?
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Why is cheaper than your g C? I shut up, don't? Don't
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you dare talk about the green Goblin like that? You take that, you
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take my car's name out of your mouth. You slap me. Uh,
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I'll walk over to your house and slap you. Don't think that will block
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away? You can lock the door if you want, Erical let me in.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know I'm here to slap your dad,
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Daddy. Uncle Matt's here, Dad, Uncle Matt, just your daddy.
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And now Uncle Matt's leaving smiling. I'm very confused child, all right,
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So now what what is a way that I know them away? What
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is your your suggestion? So it's it hasn't gotten the best reviews since I
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last looked at it, but I know Ring came out with a car camera
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that plugs not in the USB, but the it plugs into the diagnostic port.
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So it's pulling far that way, and then Trickle pulls it for up
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to I think like three hours when you turn the car off. If it
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detects of a bump, it'll record auto record yep. And it's got camera.
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It's got a camera facing out and a camera facing into the car to
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kind of like look out, look at you slash the rear view and that
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one comes in like a little slim plastic so it actually slides in like mates
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between your dash and the windshield. So I know that was one. And
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I saw another. I can't remember the name of it off the top of
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my head, but it's got the front camera and an actual rotating second camera
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so you can choose like kind of what angle you want looking back. So
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I know that was another one. Tesla's got nine cameras. Just want to
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mention you and what if somebody bumps into the car will automatically record? Just
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oh absolutely and it will. It'll let you know too. Yeah all right,
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Well can you smell the smug from Justin by the way there, because
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that's like, yeah, all right, the problem with the ring and I
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love the ring. When I was first announced last year, I thought this
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is great because it was going to work on the theory similar to alcam,
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where it would always be available, but the problem is they have not been
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able to keep it available. They have that they've not mass marketed it.
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And this is from the this is from ring And if you go to the
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if you go to the website, you can't order it. It's actually they're
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not even taking more orders. They've and when they first announced it, it
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was two months out, then it was three months out, then it was
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four months out, and now you can't or you can't order it. I'm
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hoping that they focus on this and find this as a viable way for people
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to protect their vehicles when they're not with it. I mean I do.
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I do have an actual, an actual recommendation, not Tesla. In my
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other vehicle. I do have a Nexsar uh and and that is a really
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good camera. It's a it's a it's a cloud based camera, so you
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connect it with your phone, so when you get in your car, you
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know you got Bluetooth turned on your your camera will connect to your Bluetooth uh
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on your phone and it will upload the clips. But Netsar has a couple
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of different styles of cameras. They got a front facing one, they got
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a dual front and rear They've also have a front with a actual rear camera
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that you can run a cord uh back to the rear of the car and
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and it records everything. But now in terms of watching it from after you
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get out of the car, I don't think NEXSAR does that. I think
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they they do have the ability to do it. I don't think I have
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mine turned on. But also it's plugged into the cigarette lighter or well,
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it's just well it's this USB. Actually it's USB, but a lot of
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cars USBs will turn off after you get out of a car. So to
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try to find it a power source that'll stay on, that's dependent upon what
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kind of car you have. That's gonna be The ODB two port is going
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to be sure. Yeah, that's gonna be probably the best way the outcom
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that I had. I really loved it and it did that. I never
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forget taking my car to a shop and it being worked on and having a
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detection go off and turns out there was a cat sitting on top of the
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car and it was enough to set off the camera. And I'm here at
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home and this is like, you know, five miles away and I'm looking
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at it because it used a four G connection at the time. I don't
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know what they're up the now. Cool, but the problem is they're expensive.
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When they started, I think they went to twenty bucks a month for
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the service, and I just thought, you know, I can't justify this.
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It just wasn't worth it for me. But I'm hoping there'll be more
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cheaper alternatives, you know, for what you're trying to get. I think
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the ring is probably gonna be the next best bet they just like you mentioned,
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Matt, they just need to get it into mass production. So there
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are some there are some other vendors that also have, you know, cloud
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based ones. Carmen has a cloud based one. Ye cam why I Cam
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has a cloud based one. You like the E brand, don't you.
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Uh, Yeah, that's what I have. I've been with those first their
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first yeah, their first version and then uh they had an issue. But
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sounds like Chinese. It is Chinese, and and and there's a there's a
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lot of things going around right now with the Chinese, like with with like
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their products, saying that you know, don't trust the Chinese products because there's
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likely a back door, you know, from them. Now yeah, well
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I know, but now it's really coming out. I would like to take
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this moment as we have raised Chinese technology, to remind you all to not
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install TikTok on any of your devices. Still is that still? We'll get
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you by the CCP. It'sh TikTok is, yeah, right, TikTok is.
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It's it is a social media No, it's a data mining platform.
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No. And people are like, well, social media itself is a data
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mining platform, and I'm like, yes, accurate. If you're not paying
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for anything, you are the product. However, if you look at all
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the background data that TikTok sends off, even when it's not open, it's
24:26
literally gigabytes of data. And if you actually troll through to what the permissions
24:32
and everything you're branding it access to, you might as well just fly to
24:37
China and hand somebody your phone and be like here you go. Figured we'd
24:40
save some time, all right, We got to take a break. We
24:41
come back. We've have some more listener questions, more news of stuff that
24:45
has been announced Apple Vision. You can be able to test it out and
24:49
we'll tell you how you can do that. Coming up. I'm Andy Taylor,
24:52
I'm Sean Demird, I'm Matt Jones. I'm sick and I'm justin.
24:56
Find us on the web the tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right
25:00
back now, back to tech talk Radio. I I know that we we
25:07
all have like smart devices all over our house, you know, being what
25:11
it is. But have you guys heard about this LG LG washing machine things?
25:18
Trying to figure out what's going on? And he looks in his LG
25:21
washing machine has uploaded like three point eight gigabytes of data. Well, I
25:26
mean that's yeah, all the all the smart connected devices. I've seen this
25:30
before with the uh well just like a smart dishwasher or whatever. Yeah.
25:36
Uh And that's a lot of data for a washing machine. I I don't
25:40
know how many loads of whites this guy was doing, but I delicates,
25:45
Well, it's got to be the delegates and the permanent press cycle. Man,
25:48
That's that's where the money's at. Yep, That's that's where it is.
25:52
Yeah. It's one where as we bring more and more of these smart
25:55
devices into our house, the thing that is consistently overlooked for so many of
26:00
these things is security for IoT Internet of things, whether it's your your thermostat,
26:07
your doorbell, your washing machine, your roomba. Yeah, security is
26:12
not baked into so many of these things that I actually had a buddy who
26:18
is over at a mutual friend's house and he was able to just connect via
26:23
Bluetooth to his buddy's smart switch to turn his lamp on and off. When
26:29
he went home, he realized at home, not at this dude's house.
26:33
At his house, he was still connected and was like, I wonder and
26:37
started turning the lamp on and off, and his buddy, our mutual buddy
26:41
called him back when was like, yo, stop screwing with my lamp,
26:45
and like it's funny, but it's also terrifying because he was able to connect
26:51
to Bluetooth without a password anything like that, and now he's on his own
26:55
home WiFi sending commands to this dude's password protected Wi Fi and it just slips
27:02
right by everything and it's like, oh, okay, turn the lamp on
27:06
it off. Okay, I put the lamp on it off. That's a
27:07
big problem for a lot of these IoT things that you're forced to put them
27:11
on the cloud. If you want something reasonably priced, that's what you're gonna
27:17
get. Yeah, if you want to pay more to be to be local,
27:19
that you're gonna pay more, they're gonna sell your data. That's that's
27:22
the way it goes. I have a an LG refrigerator, and I remember
27:26
I was pretty excited when we we got it because it was a little different
27:30
than what we had. And I found out it was Internet connected, and
27:33
uh, when I when I looked into it to see, you know,
27:37
what is the benefit of it, I thought maybe it would be it's one
27:40
of those refrigerators that will tell you, oh, you're low on milk,
27:42
or I can look inside while they're in the grocery store and they have this.
27:47
You could look inside the refrigerator and see, Okay, I need I
27:51
need eggs, I need this, I need that. No, this was
27:55
just to tell me when to replace the filter, and I thought, you
27:57
know, I don't need that. I don't need to connect to the internet
28:02
for that. And there's a lot more going on before. Yeah, I
28:06
just I didn't even enable that. But I've got an l junk. I
28:08
got an LGTV that does the same thing. And now it's becoming really a
28:12
pain because it's always asking Yeah. So it just helps. A neighbor set
28:17
up on ILGTV and she was forced to log in and create an account.
28:22
It is ugly install an app. What's the old joke? Regular it guys.
28:30
I've got Google, a home, a smart thermostat, smart light bulbs,
28:33
this that security guy. I've got a printer from two thousand and one
28:40
and I have a gun next to it just in case it starts acting up.
28:44
Yeah, these these internet connected devices I have have what what what people
28:48
know? I've mentioned on the show before. It's called a pie hole,
28:52
right, and it's a It's a DNS black hole system. So I run
28:56
that as my DNS and when I connected up my I have a Samsung TV
29:00
and I have an LGTV and both of them are just freaking out on the
29:06
pie hole. When I go to the pie hole dashboard, the top two
29:10
talkers, the things that are sending the most requests are my LGTV and my
29:14
Samsung TV because the pie hole is blocking their ability to call home because they're
29:21
stealing my data. These TVs are watching, they're looking at what I'm watching,
29:25
what apps I'm using, and they cannot report back, and they're desperately
29:30
trying to report back to Samsung and LG. This is what justin Lemmy is
29:34
watching and what he's using, but they can't because I have a pie Hole.
29:38
So if you're interested, look into pie Hole. It's free. All
29:44
you got to do is buy a raspberry pie. It's like thirty bucks and
29:47
you set up a pie hole and put on your network and that will block
29:49
a lot. Not only does the block that it blocks ads on almost every
29:55
single website you visit. It blocks almost all ads. There is this analogy
29:59
docker for right, So if you yeah, I won'talogy, you just have
30:06
to have something that is capable of running. Synology is way more expensive than
30:08
a Brasberry pie. But anyway, Yeah, what did they determine to be
30:12
the issue with this this washing machine sending up three point seven gigabytes of data?
30:18
It was hacked. It's a botnet. A botnet is is basically two
30:21
parts. You've got a command and control node that is like your your general
30:26
and you go out and compromise all these devices and you turn them into bots
30:30
that respond to the command and control node, and then you can use all
30:33
these devices for whatever you want, for going to us A lot of people
30:37
when you do like EDOS attacks uh distributed denial of service where they're just flooding
30:45
it with too much traffic, and it takes a website or a service down.
30:48
A lot of times. It's people with botnets that you know, they've
30:51
got their command and control node and then they tell their army of bots of
30:55
compromise devices, Okay, go flood this place with traffic, go flood this
31:00
with a whole bunch of spam comments, whatever they want to do with it.
31:06
And yeah, adding an LDG washer to a bot net, Like,
31:11
I'm just imagining this hacker in a forum talking to his buddies and like,
31:15
I got thirty thousand nodes on my bot net and he's like, yeah,
31:18
I got a washing machine. Why? Yeah? Yeah. You know,
31:22
CS did a study that they put out just last week and they found that
31:29
in our homes. And this is a good question, is what you you
31:30
mentioned, Matt, As far as you know, you have a gun at
31:33
a printer, right, seventeen connected devices in the average US household to me,
31:40
that seems low, Yeah, very low. Yeah. They have like
31:44
fifty sixty six percent have a smart TV and that's one, and most people
31:51
have three or four smart TVs. Forty two percent have at least one smart
31:55
home device that would be thermostat or maybe a light thirty one percent have a
32:00
security system, thirty nine percent have a smart watch, and eighty nine percent
32:06
have a streaming video service. And again, I think seventeen connected seems way
32:09
low. You said, yeah, way low, fifty fifty at least fifty.
32:14
Yeah, Hey, Andy, are you were you afraid of that refrigerator
32:16
might be sending back your diet plans to your physician. No, I never
32:22
cannet, I never connected it. It just reminds me of the story of
32:25
that the younger girl who got grounded from her computer. Right, So she
32:30
went to her phone to tweet and then took her phone away. So then
32:34
she went to her three DS tweet, and then they took her three DS
32:37
away. So then she went to the fridge and tweeted from the fridge.
32:40
So somebody's addicted the device. It was just funny. She just kept saying,
32:45
they took my phone and then she went to the next device. And
32:46
its this really funny story that ended up being a viral story that reminds me
32:51
of that. It's like all these connected devices that can get out and reach
32:53
the Internet, people don't think about what can reach back in. Apple is
32:58
going to be doing demas how many of you you are into the idea of
33:01
getting yourself the thirty five hundred dollars Vision Pro. Anybody seriously asking me this
33:07
question? Yeah, yeah, I am yep. Slick is the only one
33:13
that really wants this, Yes, I do. Yeah, Well, if
33:16
you want to, you want to check it out, you want to try
33:19
it out, And the people listening are saying maybe they want to give it
33:22
a shot. Apple. Apple Vision Pro will launch on February second. The
33:28
pre orders are this weekend. It will cost you thirty five hundred bucks.
33:34
If you want prescription lenses, it's an additional one hundred and forty nine dollars.
33:37
But here's a thing. You can actually go into an Apple store and
33:42
do a demo. You'll have to schedule it first come, first serve.
33:45
They're only going to do it for a limited time. But you're going to
33:47
be able to learn how to manipulate, how to be able to work everything
33:52
in augmented virtual reality, and it's going to be interesting. And I don't
33:59
know if the demo we'll get people to actually spend the money on it,
34:01
But thirty five hundred bucks is a lot of money. But when you think
34:05
about it in the terms of Apple it's not that much money. It's Apple.
34:09
It's not a consumer base. And I can say that because I worked
34:15
for them. It's a cult. They will spend the money. They say
34:19
though, that you'll be able to use this instead of a computer or an
34:22
iPad. So basically you're buying that OS with the these this virtual vision pro
34:31
right, yeah, And I mean it will work with like a MacBook or
34:36
whatever. Just the fact that I could put that thing on and people will
34:39
look at me and go, oh, I can't talk to him now?
34:42
Why they already do that? Not enough? All right, Dorothy in Tucson,
34:50
This would be a good one for you, justin She wrote in saying
34:53
there's so many ads on TV for finding great deals for traveling. We see
34:58
all the ads all the time. Mister obvious or Captain obvious? Is there
35:02
some sites that are better than others? Can I really save by using these
35:07
sites? Used to be you'd go to a travel agent? Right? Well,
35:12
the thing is, I honestly I okay, please somebody else chime in
35:15
here, But I honestly think that we have become so flooded with travel sites
35:22
that promise to save you money when in reality you know you're again we we
35:28
just we just talked about this a couple of minutes ago. What you're doing
35:31
by saving all this money is you're giving up your data, and they're selling
35:36
your data. So they're gonna sell your email address, they're going to sell
35:39
your phone number, they're going to sell your destinations, they're gonna sell you,
35:43
they're gonna sell everything about you to their advertising, you know, people,
35:49
whatever their contracts. Honestly, I think that travel agents are starting to
35:54
see a resurgence because they don't do that. They will book your trip and
36:00
they will protect your privacy. And I think that's where we need to go
36:05
now. To answer her question, Yeah, sure you can save by using
36:08
these travel sites, but you're gonna lose your privacy. So I vour you.
36:15
I would go to a travel agent. Yes, go to a travel
36:17
agent for me. The sites I have never found, never never found a
36:22
travel website that I found appealing or I a don't want to say easy to
36:27
use. Dad looked at it. I was like, you know what,
36:29
it's easier for me just to call the travel agent and they find me.
36:31
I believe the better. When I could find a fifty dollars ticket from Duissant
36:37
to New York because they got to turn that plane around. Yeah yeah,
36:43
uh, not only that, but yes, you're saving a couple of dollars,
36:47
But you also don't realize what you're losing in the process by going through
36:52
those third parties. You're losing if anything goes wrong. You're losing your right
36:58
to say I'm flying you and I bought my ticket through Kayak or something.
37:02
I got to deal with Kayak instead of United, same with hotels, anything
37:07
like that. And you're not gonna get your eligible points, You're not gonna
37:12
get most your loyalty rewards, all those things that would be back in that
37:16
can either build up over time or have benefit right there at the gate.
37:21
You're not gonna get any of that. And imagine you're in a foreign country,
37:25
you're you don't speak the language, or you'll you know, you're having
37:30
to try and communicate back and forth with partial understanding of both, and you
37:34
can't deal with those people to fix your problem because you saved an extra ninety
37:38
bucks by buying your airline ticket on cheapoair dot com, which is a real
37:44
website. Is so nine times out of ten, what I've discovered lately is
37:50
like slicking Justin said Yeah, either go through a travel agent because they have
37:53
the relationship with those various companies and you still get your points, perks,
38:00
gizmo's and gadgets, or just booked directly through so many of the different resorts,
38:06
airlines, hotels, things like that. They they will have deals if
38:09
you book directly through them. Yes, I remember when I worked at Disneyland
38:15
and Disneyland Hotel. Walt Disney Travel was actually at Disneyland Hotel, and you
38:21
call that number and you'd be able to get them to book your tickets to
38:24
get into the park at a discount. You've got a bonus for staying at
38:29
the hotel, your airfare, your car rental car while you were in town,
38:32
or they'd come pick you up at the airport. They'd arrange all of
38:35
it. So yeah, again, I think travel agents are still out there.
38:39
There's still a great way to save money. I have used Travelocity.
38:44
I've used I was gonna say Expedia. I think it's is it? What
38:47
is it? Travel people? No, you're you're right. I thought that
38:52
was a I thought that was a dictionary. Wait, travelocityexpedia dot com is
38:59
a travel you're thinking of encyclopedia. Yeah, maybe that's it. I don't
39:01
know, but yeah, I've used them. But again, you know,
39:06
you'd never know. I think you know. And here's the other thing.
39:08
If you ever noticed you go online to one site and you're looking up airfare
39:13
and maybe a hotel deal, and then you go to another website and it's
39:16
a little more expensive. You need to when you do these searches. You
39:22
need to use an incognito browser. Ah. And the reason, oh my
39:27
god, yes, close and reopen with each one, because when you're searching
39:34
on these sites, they put a little cookie on your machine, and each
39:37
time you go back and search, they just tack a few more dollars,
39:39
few more dollars, few more dollars. So if you don't believe me,
39:43
you go ahead and do some searches for travel on your regular browser. You
39:45
know, go through it a couple of times, reboot your machine, open
39:50
up an incognito window, and then check it again, and you'll see a
39:52
drop in price. Are you Goodtory pricing is huge on the internet, right.
39:55
It's you go to a website and they know you come and look at
40:01
you, they know you came and looked at it. You go away,
40:04
you come back now might be fifty eight ninety nine because they want you to
40:08
buy it right. It's they're tracking you, they're keeping you on, and
40:14
then when you go to it, then they start adding on extra fees.
40:15
It's it's terrible how the internet is priced out, like just anything. All
40:21
right, we got to take another quick break. Come back. We've got
40:22
more of tech talk Radio. Find us on the facebooks at Facebook dot com
40:27
forward slash tech Talkers. We'll be right back and now back to tech talk
40:31
Radio. A couple of years ago, I got myself a present when we
40:37
were doing COVID and I was doing the online trivia for Bruce Bears and I
40:44
was doing these like you know, doing the online trivia with everybody watching,
40:46
and I would try to use my keypad to fire off little gifts or you
40:52
know, little little things for my live stream, and I found it very
40:54
cumbersome. Anyway, all the people that were watching for my fortieth birthday,
40:59
they actually pitched in and got me like a I think it was like a
41:00
four hundred dollars gift card. And I bought myself a stream deck. And
41:06
if you don't know what a stream deck is, it is a extension to
41:09
your computer of a set of uh well, I mean, well, there's
41:15
there's a couple different models. There's the one I got is the fifteen key
41:17
model. So it's like, think about adding a ten key. You know,
41:22
your your one, two, three, four, five, six,
41:24
seven, eight nine, whatever, adding an extra ten key to your system.
41:29
But this is fifteen keys, and these are all programmable, like you
41:34
can do whatever you want with them. You can make them just do a
41:37
simple hot key where you press it and it does something, or you can
41:39
make it a macro where you press it and will do a B, C
41:44
and D. You can do all kinds of stuff with this. So ideally
41:50
it is designed for people that do live streaming where they want to add effects
41:54
to their live stream, where they want to toss up a different camera shot,
41:59
or they want to put a graphic on the screen, or they want
42:00
to switch where their camera position is, they can just hit a hot key
42:05
and it will do that. But there's so much more you can do with
42:07
a stream deck. And in fact I found out after having one for so
42:13
many years, three years whatever, I finally just I don't use I don't
42:19
really use this PC as much anymore, and it sucks. It's a total
42:23
other story. But I don't use my desktop PC even after upgrading it.
42:28
So I grabbed my stream deck and I took it to work, and I
42:31
was like, let me see what I can do with it at work.
42:35
So what I did at work was on my fifteen key stream deck. I
42:37
have a couple of different buttons and they're all they're all illuminated, and they're
42:43
led screens behind them so you can see what you're looking at on the screen.
42:46
So I have a couple buttons that have different time zones because I deal
42:51
with people in every time zone. So I have like New York, Chicago.
42:55
I have one for Tokyo just because you know, my family's in Tokyo.
42:58
Whatever. But I also have one called work and it's a it's a
43:04
macro hockey. All I have to do is press work and it opens up
43:07
my outlook, It opens up Firefox, and it opens up four different tabs
43:14
of the most common things that I use on those tabs. It also opens
43:17
up Microsoft Teams. Then after that's done, it then positions the windows exactly
43:24
where I want them to be automatically with one press of a button. It
43:30
does all of that. Wow, now here's the here's the really cool thing.
43:35
If I decide that I ever want to play a game at work.
43:40
Let's say it's a it's a slow day and I'm not really doing nothing right,
43:45
and I want to play a game at work. But uh oh,
43:49
the boss walks in. I have a button on my stream deck called emergency,
43:54
and I press that button and it minimizes the game, it minimizes whatever
43:59
the active window is, and it throws up an Excel spreadsheet. Oh nice,
44:04
that's where I thought you were going with this. Yeah, yep,
44:07
So a stream deck. They're not expensive. So the fifteen key stream deck
44:13
is like, I think it's like one hundred and fifty dollars. The thirty
44:15
two key stream deck is like, uh, I don't know, two and
44:20
ten, two hundred and fifty forty nine. And then there's a mini stream
44:24
deck that's only six buttons. But again, these six buttons can be you
44:30
can make folders out of these buttons. So you can press one button and
44:34
it opens up a virtual folder with another set of six buttons. So in
44:40
reality, even a six button stream deck you could have thirty six different buttons.
44:46
You have to really be really proficient at this stuff to be able to
44:50
set it up. No, it's not that hard. You just have to
44:52
basically click and drag where you want the button to be and then you tell
44:57
the button what to do. And it's very it's the software is very intuitive.
45:00
It's super easy to figure out. Now, yes, you can get
45:05
very advanced with it if you really want to. Like my uh my work
45:09
one is not that advanced. I just basically have it set to do a
45:15
macro where it's like I press this button, You're gonna do A, then
45:19
B, then C, then D and that's all it does. It just
45:22
does it in the order. So it's not very difficult to use. And
45:27
so now I've got two stream decks. Actually I bought a second one just
45:30
to stay at work, and then I have a I have one that travels
45:35
with me wherever I go because I like to play train simulator. And don't
45:39
judge me, but with train simulator there's a lot shut ups, Like there's
45:45
a lot of hot keys on train simulator a little too, there's a lot
45:51
of hockeys on train simulators. So I like to have them set up on
45:53
the stream deck so I can just hit the hot key instead of having to
45:57
hit control shift H to open up the doors of the train. I just
46:01
hit one button and it does it. Can you do that with the goat
46:04
simulator to No? No, not really you know, no no ghost stimulator.
46:09
Yeah, Like that's that's the whole different story. They're they're very simple
46:15
to use, Like it's very easy for somebody to get one, plug it
46:19
in and start doing things. The broadcast industry has latched onto the stream decks
46:24
for a multitude of reasons. Either they're they're incredibly powerful. There is a
46:30
open source software that you can buy or not buy. It's open sources.
46:37
I know, I was Focus Bit Focused Companion. It is a software you
46:44
can download and it is developed by like six guys and it is a control
46:49
software for a large number of professional level broadcast equipment. So they have tied
46:57
in the stream deck and you don't have to have a stream deck to use
47:00
it either. You can just use the web the web emulation side of it,
47:02
but you can have a physical surface so that software will work with the
47:07
stream decks outside of the Algato software that comes with it. But I can
47:12
tie it and we use them all the type of work. We use them
47:14
in all of our control rooms. We use it to play audio, but
47:16
I can set it up to control our video switcher. I can I can
47:21
run macros, I can run audio, I can trigger graphics out of our
47:25
expression machines. I can set it up andy. You could set it up
47:29
to run your A ten Mini, so you couldn't even if you wouldn't even
47:31
have it on your desk, and you could fire commands with it. It
47:36
works with OBS, It works with all of the streaming platforms that are out
47:38
there. If you don't want to use if you want to be a little
47:43
bit more on the on the bleeding edge of that stream deck type stuff,
47:46
bitfocused companion. It's incredibly powerful tool and it is used worldwide in the broadcast
47:52
industry. So so the broadca industry, this standard is black Magic design.
47:58
Yeah, and black Magic Design and would charge you probably twenty five to thirty
48:02
thousand dollars for something what Sewan is mentioning that you could buy for one hundred
48:07
and fifty dollars with some open source software yep. So a lot of people
48:12
are using like VMA, like a lot of broadcasts. This happened during COVID.
48:15
Right stream decks came out right before COVID, and then people started using
48:20
them to do simple streams. A lot of churches using v mix and a
48:23
couple other platforms wirecast, streamyard, you know all those other ones, and
48:28
we are able to then use pro presenter. So then now all of a
48:31
sudden, you have a little mini switcher, two buttons to switch cameras,
48:34
I can put up a graphic and pro presenter, I can run through slides.
48:37
I can you know all this stuff and it's it's it became very a
48:42
very powerful tool and it's almost a necessity now to know how to use bit
48:46
focused in a job like mine. All right, one more question before we
48:50
go to break here. Darren and Celadita. A few years ago, we
48:52
were talking about a British TV show that's centered around people working in it.
48:58
I think Amanda was the one who told told us about this, and it
49:00
was supposed to be funny. But I can't remember the name of the show.
49:04
It's supposed to be funny. I can't find anything that looks like this.
49:08
Is there any idea of what this show would be? It's British,
49:12
bad knows, Matt. It's it's the IT crowd. Yes, it is
49:15
the I T crowd. You should know that because you look like one of
49:19
the characters. Yeah, he does, actually he does. I'm sorry,
49:25
hello, I t if you try turning it off and on again. Thanks
49:30
for having all right now, we'll be up there in just a minute.
49:32
I don't know where you could find it. I don't know if it's a
49:35
pretty good British accent or or Netflix, but it's the IT crowd is the
49:39
one you will to look for. All are gonna take quick break. We'll
49:42
be back with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
49:45
de Weird, I'm Matt Jones, I am Slick and I'm justin Lemme and
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right back and now back to tech Talk Radio. So during the break,
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I did a quick Google Food. Yeah, and the It the IT Crowd.
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The crowd is on Netflix at least in the US. All right,
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so on Netflix It Crowd are they like long episodes like half an hour half
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an hour normal TV show episodes. But it is British humor based in the
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UK, perfect which makes it like two hours. It is because you have
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to keep rewinding and figure out what they're saying. It is a very well
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done show, and it is if you like or know somebody that likes technology,
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they're gonna like the show. Can if you like TikTok radio. Slick
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is the main character. Yeah, basically yeah, yeah. I want to
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quickly mention, just real fast, a show that I've been watching on Netflix.
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My wife got me into. It's called Vivant and it's on Netflix.
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It is a Japanese thriller, Vivant viv A n T. It involves the
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CIA, It involves all kinds of like crazy organizations. It is super super
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cool and it's got so many twists and turns. It's like it's like,
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uh, what's that movie with Kevin Spacey, The The Usual Suspects Usual Suspects?
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Yeah, all right, Uh, now I got something for you justin
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h last year you told us about barbecuing that you were like smoking your meat
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and yeah, doing all kinds of crazy stuff to it. At CES.
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This year, I saw this and I thought of you right away. How
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about having the perfect steak cooked in ninety seconds? Last for me? Yeah,
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last me. It is the world's first AI powered grill. Sheer grill?
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Nope, perfect, But you bet money I can make a better steak
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than that grill. Right, you're on if we're gonna have to get one
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to try it. But here's the deal. The grill operates at one thousand
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and six hundred and fifty two degrees. Oh my gosh, how many how
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many houses are going to be lost? So it basically nukes it in ninety
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seconds. Okay, like you know that does. The food does not cook
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that way, but it's AI powered, so it's got to work. Right.
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Oh yeah, use this chat GBT, which we all know that's accurate.
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Perfect this, I promise the steak it's it's it's blackened. No,
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it's burned. Yeah about your fast food and it's still frozen in the center.
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Is there is there a tech company that is making products that are easier
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when it comes to cooking I mean that was a big thing at CES this
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year. But which one? Ava? A Nova? I use them for
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SUV cooking, connects via Bluetooth to my phone, and I use their app.
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It's just it's literally a I'll be honest, when you look at this
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thing, it looks inappropriate. Yeah, it definitely does look inappropriate. It
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looks horribly inappropriate. But it just clips to like a plastic thin or a
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pot or something, heats up the water to the right thing, and I
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don't have to be like, oh I need this temperature at this long.
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I just go beef steak medium rare. Wow, all right, and then
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my phone lets me know it's done, take it out, had it dry,
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finish it in a cast iron like God intended? Yeah, all right,
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yeah, Ninja Ninja Grill. I personally like Ninja Ninja does a lot
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of good stuff. The air fryers, they're blenders, they're food processors.
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They're really good. All right. Well, that's it for this week's Tech
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