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Buc-ee's, Budget Macs and The AI Photography Debate on TechtalkRadio | EP 483 · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this comedian Kathleen Meddigan, and you're listening to tech Talk
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  Speaker 1: Radio is something I will never be listening to because
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  Speaker 1: I hate technology. But for those of you, the two
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  Speaker 1: these are your guys, and this is tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor. I'm shying to weird and we are
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  Speaker 1: the show that is here to talk to you about computers,
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  Speaker 1: technology and the Internet and games. Games gotta be the games.
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  Speaker 2: Board games, video games, games, games, games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you getting ready now? Game Con? Is that big? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: What are you making big plans? Are you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? It's yeah, it's it's July thirty first to August fourth, right,
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, something like that. It's Thursday to Sunday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're playing on going now for our listeners. Don't know
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  Speaker 2: if Sean is in Indiana? Is it in Indiana or
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  Speaker 2: do you have it?
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  Speaker 1: Is?
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  Speaker 2: It is in Indianapolis, So it's about two and a
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  Speaker 2: half hours directly south of where I live. It's the
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  Speaker 2: largest United States board game, board game, video board game,
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  Speaker 2: card game, tabletop RPG convention in the US.
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  Speaker 1: No, you say board game, You're not talking monopoly. Your
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  Speaker 1: life Nobody well exactly, but oh.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just generic board games. It's it's your typical
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  Speaker 2: it's Catan, it's you know the nerd stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna do you know, segment from there like
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  Speaker 1: we did last year? Sure, that would be cool. That
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  Speaker 1: would be Now you have to try and come out
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  Speaker 1: for our Tucson Comic Con, which they've been announcing, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's been good. They get like pretty good
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  Speaker 1: names come out. But this year William Shatner aloof for
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  Speaker 1: Reigno so far announced un I mean the Hulk. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's it's pretty good, you know, for coming to
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  Speaker 1: Tucson for you know, big comic con.
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  Speaker 2: Oh they're all they're all old and does isn't that
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  Speaker 2: where all the old people retires to Son?
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  Speaker 1: Oh hey hey watch it. Know it should be good though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm you know the guy that puts it on. Have
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  Speaker 1: known him for years, you know, in decades actually, and
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  Speaker 1: they just they get a bigger turnout every year. So
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  Speaker 1: I think having Shatner there would be something that just
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  Speaker 1: appeals even not the science fiction fan, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think, I mean just the general general science. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's Shdner of course to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the guy's been to space. He actually didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He go up, Yeah, went up with what's her face,
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  Speaker 2: Katy Perry or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Katy Perry. That's a video right there. Well, we're happy
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  Speaker 1: to be back. You know, we were almost going to
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  Speaker 1: do because this week has been one of those weeks again.
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  Speaker 1: We were going to do the show where we were
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  Speaker 1: focusing a couple of years ago we talked about BUCkies
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  Speaker 1: and you had gone to BUCkies my mom.
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  Speaker 2: My mom is legit probably has a psychological disorder about
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  Speaker 2: how much she loves BUCkies.
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  Speaker 1: Really, she goes. There are a lot well, so she travels.
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  Speaker 2: She travels a lot to the central part of the
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  Speaker 2: country for the gymnastics stuff that she does. She runs
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the gymnastics camps for USA Gymnastics. This
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  Speaker 2: travels into the middle of the country a lot, so Texas, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky like those areas. I think my kids have more
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  Speaker 2: BUCkies shirts than not one for every major holiday. I
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  Speaker 2: have an entire I have a full BUCkies suit. You've
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  Speaker 2: seen me wear I've worn on the show. Yes you should,
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  Speaker 2: I should wear it again. That there. Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 2: a BUCkies button down shirt, I mean you name it,
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  Speaker 2: I've got it. BUCkies. Every time my mom travels, the
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  Speaker 2: boys get BUCkies T shirts.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they opened the very first BUCkies in Arizona. We
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  Speaker 1: had talked about it back in twenty twenty four when
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  Speaker 1: we heard it was coming here, and they finally opened
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  Speaker 1: it last Monday. Traffic was absurd getting through Goodyear, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: which is just on the other side of Phoenix. Between
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix and I'd say, you know, California is the next
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  Speaker 1: big spot. But they expected fifty to seventy thousand people
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  Speaker 1: attending that grand opening. People were booking hotels because they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say they went to the BUCkies uh in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently now they did an interview with one of
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  Speaker 1: the grand pubas there from BUCkies. And that's not the
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  Speaker 1: last spot that they will probably be. They're looking at
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  Speaker 1: other places throughout the state and continuing to so.
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  Speaker 2: There also has been rumored that they're looking at one
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  Speaker 2: in Elkhart, which is just east of here. Oh, because
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  Speaker 2: there's not one in Indiana either. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, So at least I don't think at least
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe this other part of the state.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to look, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But el Khart would be crazy because it'd probably be
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  Speaker 2: like their biggest one that could take RVs and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: because we're the RV capital of the world right, Like
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  Speaker 2: people don't realize that from a fifteen to twenty mile
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  Speaker 2: radius from my house is where ninety five percent of
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  Speaker 2: the world's RVs are made. Campus trailers, boats, you name it.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is where their main you name it,
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  Speaker 2: Lippert is here. All the big manufacturer's Forest River thor Coachman,
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  Speaker 2: They're they're all here, Jacob, they all are within twenty
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  Speaker 2: miles of my house.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, So that would go over very well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can come and it could it'd be like
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  Speaker 2: really probably really close to the motorhome and motorhome and
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  Speaker 2: RV Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: I went to. So I went to California last week
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  Speaker 1: and was driving back. This is a few days before
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  Speaker 1: they did the reopening lot and I'm Gloria had never
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  Speaker 1: heard of Bucki's before, and she was like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: get it. What is it?
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  Speaker 2: It's an experience, what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when we were driving to California, you couldn't see it. It
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  Speaker 1: was on the other side of the freeway. But driving
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  Speaker 1: back you could and you could see. I'm massive and
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, you know about you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Pilot truck stop or the Triple T truck stop. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you know about some of the quick trips. Love, look
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  Speaker 1: at the size of this thing. Yeah, it's the size
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  Speaker 1: of a Walmart.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are some of the buckets. Some are some
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  Speaker 2: BUCkies are bigger than rural walmarts. Yeah, like in terms
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  Speaker 2: of volume, groceries whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And you can do so much shopping. So if anybody
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  Speaker 1: is going out, you know, you're listening to this and
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking, I'm gonna go to good Year, I want
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  Speaker 1: to go check out this BUCkies. It's about about almost
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  Speaker 1: two I want to say, maybe a two hour drive
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  Speaker 1: to get out there, but you know, plan to have
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  Speaker 1: your lunch there, your dinner, and do a lot of shopping.
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  Speaker 2: But you can do beaver nuggets. Nuggets, Oh that's what
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  Speaker 2: they but yeah, it's they're also you know, planning to
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  Speaker 2: famous the cleanest bathrooms on.
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  Speaker 1: The road and that kind of really so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have more gas pumps than any other
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  Speaker 2: gas station in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what about brisket. Brisket's supposed to be big too, right,
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  Speaker 1: I sure I don't need briskets, so I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well it's certainly. You know, if you're thinking
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  Speaker 2: of a summer trip, BUCkies, you're gonna go to Cali,
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  Speaker 2: you want to definitely make your stop. All right, next week,
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  Speaker 2: I'm definitely gonna wear the BUCkies onesie.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta do that, the onesie. No, don't worry, don't
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  Speaker 1: you have just a shirt.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna wear the one with the hood and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I think it's great because they were interviewing No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't even that it was a it was an
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  Speaker 1: ID channel thing. It was like, you know, homicide, the
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  Speaker 1: thing on the ID channel, and they were interviewing people
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  Speaker 1: on the streets, you know that had heard the sounds.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody walked up and they blurred the shirt. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm sorry, you cannot blur a Bucky's shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows what the BUCkies character looks like. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty weak. Oh boy, it's an experience.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'm telling you. But my mom again, my mom
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  Speaker 2: is obsessed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she likes it. And the grandkids have all the
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  Speaker 1: BUCkies stuff, right.
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  Speaker 2: They I swear, I swear they probably have a dozen
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  Speaker 2: Bucky shirts. Really wow, every time she goes, and she
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  Speaker 2: goes five or six times, or she goes travels a lot.
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  Speaker 2: They have a ton of buncky shirts. They probably have
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  Speaker 2: a dozen different bunky shirts.
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  Speaker 1: Do they have like a tech section. I'm just wondering,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I don't know that might be.
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  Speaker 2: I've not been to one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well I thought you had, so Justin's the only
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  Speaker 1: one who's actually been to one. Yeah, you guys didn't stop. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: well it wasn't open yet. We drove through and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't opening for like three days. The freeways were already
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  Speaker 1: starting to get messed up. They already started to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, signs all over the road saying this is
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  Speaker 1: where you know, grand opening on Monday. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to stay off the freeway. So it was and
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  Speaker 1: it apparently was like that, you know that people doing
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  Speaker 1: drones in the air. Local the Tucson TV stations were
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  Speaker 1: there doing coverage. So yeah, it's it's now officially open. Though,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy Bucky's fever going on. I can't believe you
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  Speaker 1: have a Bucky's onesie and you haven't been yet. That's awesome, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, it's kind of funny because
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  Speaker 1: you're wondering if they have a tech section. I we
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  Speaker 1: stop at the pilot in court site, and that's like
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  Speaker 1: that's the first the last stop, I should say, leaving Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: So I was get the gas in Arizona because it's cheaper.
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  Speaker 1: Even just going across the border to blythe which is
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  Speaker 1: the next city over, it's a little more expensive. But
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  Speaker 1: I Gloria's laughing because here we are sitting at this
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  Speaker 1: truck stop.
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  Speaker 2: What do I do?
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  Speaker 1: I go right for the tech section. Let's see what
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  Speaker 1: they got.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, it's it's wild to think about. I
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  Speaker 2: went to the mall here not that long ago. So
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  Speaker 2: I guess I had to get my something at the
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  Speaker 2: Apple store, right, and I had to go through the mall. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I'll get lunch there or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: so I ate of the food court. It was weird, man,
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  Speaker 2: But like growing up, you went to the mall, you
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  Speaker 2: went to you know, you everybody shopped to the mall,
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  Speaker 2: so you either went for clothes, right toys or tech. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you went to you went to either get movies
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  Speaker 2: and games, toys, right clothes, or you went and saw
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  Speaker 2: the movies at the movie. So it's just wild to
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  Speaker 2: think that that mall culture has just gone.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's gone now shopping shopping in general. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you look at this week. It's been you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Amazon Prime week, you know, as a way to get
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  Speaker 1: and the benefit for many shoppers though is yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: You may think, well, Amazon's doing these deals. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them are great, others are like, yeah, that's okay. But
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  Speaker 1: it's also forced other retailers like best Buy, like Target,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to actually come down on some of their
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  Speaker 1: prices and also do specials. So you know, while their
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  Speaker 1: Amazon is not a storefront, best Buy and Target are storefronts,
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  Speaker 1: they still want to get you in the door. So
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  Speaker 1: they know that everybody's budget shopping right now looking for
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  Speaker 1: that deal, and you know that's it's been good for
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  Speaker 1: some of those. I had a friend that asked me,
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  Speaker 1: She said, well, I want to buy a laptop. Should
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  Speaker 1: I buy it on Amazon? And I said no, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go into go into your local computer store, whether it
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: be Mom and pop or whether it be Big Box,
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  Speaker 1: and see what kind of deal you can get. Actually
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  Speaker 1: hold the laptop, touch the laptop before you buy it,
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  Speaker 1: so you know what to expect. So, and we had
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  Speaker 1: a question a couple of weeks ago about that same thing,
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  Speaker 1: wanting to know about laptops versus tablets. Always, if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to buy technology, be real. Okay, if you know
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  Speaker 1: what it is. That's different if you're gonna buy it
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  Speaker 1: from Amazon. And I'm not saying don't buy anything from Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, if it's something you're not
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  Speaker 1: sure of, feel it, get it in your hands, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go go and look at it. And if you look
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  Speaker 1: at Amazon, you see it's cheaper and it's the same product. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: but at least you can you could touch that and
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  Speaker 1: get a feel for that, because you might get something
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  Speaker 1: that's like, oh, this is not what I expected. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's ever happened to you with
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  Speaker 1: ordering stuff off Amazon, or you get it in you go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't really what I thought it was gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. You know, I bought a little audio mixer from them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I have an analog audio mixture that I'm
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  Speaker 2: running this micro stuff through, but I bought this digital
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: one that was like some Chinese.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a fine yes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it was garbage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The pre episode of Terrible had no gig control. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't function. It was awful. I sent it back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a couple of fine mics that I
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: actually bought at the Amazon, the store that they do,
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: the super sale bin store. We have one here in
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  Speaker 1: Green Valley. Got one to two son and I, I
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: mean for ten bucks. I think I got it for
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: ten bucks. It was a great deal. But I bought
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: that mixer and I did the same thing, ordered it
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  Speaker 1: from Amazon. I got it in I was like, the
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: sound output wasn't that great. They do have good return policy,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll give them that. So that ended up helping
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  Speaker 1: and I was able to send it back. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: just something to think about when you're when you're shopping
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  Speaker 1: and you're look at these great deals. Speaking of that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you just had a birthday finally, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't I don't know. Yeah, I don't feel forty except
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  Speaker 2: now that now every day I wake up something new hurts.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to my world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, I turned. I turned the big four.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so we we took a trip up to the
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: northern part of Michigan and spent a day on Mcinaw Island,
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: which is a small island that's in the Straits of
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  Speaker 2: Mcinac near mcadaw City. It's a historical landmark for the
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  Speaker 2: state of Michigan is that there's a fort there that
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: was part of the you know, goes way back to
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: the found founding of the US and all stuff. And
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: oh wow, it's kind of a time because they don't
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  Speaker 2: a lot cars on the island still, so it's all
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: horse and buggy and bikes and stuff. So there's no
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: cars and stuff. It's like, I mean, it's not a
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: very big island. It's only like eleven miles around or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. If you if you drove around the edge,
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: rode your bike on the edge.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Do people actually live on this island.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are. There are some permanent residents, but mostly
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: it's hotels and airbnbs or not airbabies, but hotels and
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: ben breakfasts and touristy stuff. But it's it's a tourist thing.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: There's a there's a hotel on it called the Grand Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: which has one of the largest hotel decks in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you want to look up the Grand Hotel,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: it's you'll see pictures of it. It's pretty cool, but
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  Speaker 2: it's every year around Father's Day, they have a festival
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: on the island, the Lilac Festival. Right, all the lilacs
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: are blue main and they do a big festival and
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  Speaker 2: the group that my dad and my brothers and I
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  Speaker 2: play in always performs on the island for the Lilac Festival.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: So growing up, my dad's been My dad's been in
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  Speaker 2: this group since the early nineties. So I've done all
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: of my milestone birthdays on or around macn Island. Sixteen
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  Speaker 2: eighteen twenty one, so you know, I said, why why not,
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  Speaker 2: let's do forty. So we packed up the camper, we
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  Speaker 2: drove up. We stayed up there for a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days and did a day on the island with the
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  Speaker 2: boys and stuff. And there's this cool little place in
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  Speaker 2: Saint Ignace, Michigan, which is across the bridge in the
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  Speaker 2: Upper Peninsula, called the Mystery Spot.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's it's a tourist trap. It's just what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice.
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  Speaker 2: But but they but they claim they claim that there's
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  Speaker 2: this mysterious, uh geomagnetic ish thing that happens there and
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: they built this like it's like a little not a
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: f I don't want to say a fun house, but
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  Speaker 2: it's like a cabin in the woods that they do
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  Speaker 2: all these optical illusions and stuff for. So it's like, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hey, stand on this block, and you stand
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  Speaker 2: on this block their level, but you look taller on
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: this block than that block. And and then like the
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  Speaker 2: building slanted so like gravity. It's it's really cool. It's
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  Speaker 2: I loved it as a kid because it was fascinating
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  Speaker 2: as a kid. So Max is old enough to understand
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  Speaker 2: that this is kind of a cool thing. So he
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: got to do it for the first time, and you
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  Speaker 2: got to see it and stuff. So it was like
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  Speaker 2: living vicariously through my kids doing the the the mystery spot.
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  Speaker 2: So that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like fun.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Did you did you get your switch to and for
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: your birthday or not yet?
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: No?
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: All right, so I believe we mentioned it last show. Yeah,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: but they had the Nintendo Direct on June ninth, I think,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: and they announced the Operative Time remake.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: That's one of the games you like playing more than
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: anything else, right, I mean.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: It's a game I grew up playing on the ntend
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: sixty four. It's a game I've replayed recently when I
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: got my Analog three D. There's it's probably it's considered
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: to be one of the best video games ever made.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: It's an action AIRPG from Nintendo in the Zelda series,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: and it's incredible. So, you know, I didn't buy a
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: switch To because there were some things that I didn't
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: agree with that Nintendo was doing in terms of user
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: rights and digital platforming and DRM and stuff like that.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: But there's nothing in this universe that will stop me
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: from buying the Accurative Time remake.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: So I have a dilemma because they've announced that the
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: prices of the switch Too are going to go up
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: based on the RAM prices and this, you know, the
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: hardware st of But I know, I know if I
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: buy one right now, if I went online at bought
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: one right now, that in because they said it's gonna
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: release before the end of the year, so twenty twenty six, right,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: so it's probably gonna release around Thanksgiving or Christmas time.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I know if I buy one right now, they will
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: have a special edition switch To with the Operative Time remake.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be something fancy and it's in it. I'm
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: gonna want it. Yeah, So I'm hesitant to buy now.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: But I might pay more later to get the special edition,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: but I want it. Yeah, yeah, so I'm gonna wait,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: but I will be buying a Switch too because I
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: want the Operative Time remake. Plus you know the Star
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Fox remake that they just made. It looks incredible. Plus
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I want to play Mario Kart World, and there's a
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: couple other things I want to play also, But.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: It's really good things about Mario Kart World too.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: It's it's incredible, Like there's you know, Nintendo is is
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: really in its own class of video game consoles, right
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: they don't compete with Xbox to PlayStation. They just don't.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: You have the people that get Nintendo because they want Nintendo,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: and then you know the people that play Xbox or PlayStation,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: they may also play Nintendo. But there's some people that
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: just do Nintendo games. Right. So, but I think the
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: switch was a revolutionary change in video gaming handheld gaming,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: handheld device game, portable gaming, and then the switch to
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: just made it better. I don't know, I'm excited for
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: it again. It's a game that I've spent a lot
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: of my childhood playing. My brother's played it, my friends
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: have played it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: It's got a lot of hype around it, Sean, What
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: would you say, though, is out of all the consoles
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that are out there, because at my house that I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: had to go to after my son had moved to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: another state, he left behind a bunch of stuff he
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: just didn't want to take it. Yeah, go ahead. Whatever.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: One of those was a PS two. I have never
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: had a PlayStation and they're up what what are up to?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: PS five? But it's a PS two and there's even
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a game in it. I thought, well, that's kind of cool.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So I was thinking, you know, okay, I could maybe
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: have some fun with this. But I go out and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: buy some PS two games, probably over at Bookman's or
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: get them online or whatnot. You know, what game should
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I have?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: For the PS two?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Oh boy? Oh yeah, that's a hard that's a hard question.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's so many.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Good ones PlayStation two games.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I recently unboxed my old Nintendo
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Wii and it turns out I had a couple of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: unopened games there, so that was. Yeah, that was kind
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: of cool. And though I think anybody that's going nostalgic
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and you understand this, don't expect it to be the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: best gaming experience ever.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Oh no, we the we experience was it was It
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: was different because it was just so radically out there,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: because remember you went from the the sixty four, the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: sixty four to the Wii. Yeah, and it was all
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: a sudden like, oh you have a handheld Joel like it. Yeah,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: so weird. It was so the nunchucks and.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: The Yeah, the next next playground perfected that. If anybody's
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: thinking about getting some cool next any x, I love it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: You your kids would love that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you mentioned before. But going back to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the PlayStation two, man, Andy, that's there's so many good games.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I can't narrow it down like you've got it. Just
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: was saying that, you know, the the Grand Theft Auto
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: games were good on it because they had the first
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Grandstottle three, Great Sandreas Vice City, right, those are all
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: on PlayStation two, so calm for the you know, Medal
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: of Honor games were good, but the Crash banded good games.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: There's are PlayStation and PlayStation two, but that's PlayStation two
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: specific titles, like I can't really think of any can't
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: narrow it down.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Who would you say? Who would you say? Though he
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was winning in the console Wars. Is it PlayStation nobody
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: or Microsoft nobody neither? Because I saw an article the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: other day. But so Cliff Blazinski, who's actually been on
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: this show. He's been on tech Talk Radio when they
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: put out Unreal back in nineteen ninety eight. He's the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: guy behind Gears of War. And he actually was part
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of an article at Eurogamer that said that he believes
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that Xbox is steering the ship back into the right
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: because it kind of it angered a lot of people
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the way that Xbox was doing their marketing and you know,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: how you would get your games and the whole bit.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And he says, no, that they might be going back
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: in the right direction.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Now maybe I'm not sure, you know, I think it
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: was so split, right Xbox and PlayStation. You had exclusives
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: on both, you had a good mix of exclusives on both,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: had a lot of third party games that were available
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: on both. I mean, I don't know, I I was
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I was always on the PlayStation side. I never really
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: had Xbox. I had I end up, I do own
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: them now, right, But I had friends that had Halo
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and all that stuff. But in college and I had
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the PlayStation two and the PlayStation three, but mostly it's
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: been PC's or Nintendo, So that experience is so.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Much better, I think, But but I don't know.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: There's So this is such a loaded question because you're
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: gonna get so many different answers from so many different
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: people on which platform they liked best. Because well, I.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Did Xbox because of Microsoft flight Sim, and I wanted
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to do the Xbox. I want to do the flight
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: sim when they made that part of the Xbox Xbox
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Game Pass, which was great because then I got a
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: chance to play it didn't have to go and invest
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: like I had previously for previous copies of flight sim
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: because it could just got so much better and continues
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to get better, and I just thought that that was
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: something that would be cool to have.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Well, the flight Syneme is incredible. Yeah, I don't have
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: time to play anymore.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, although there was a company that just put out
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: of something and it's like a flight sim. I want
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to say it's Google Maps. I might be wrong. I'll
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: have to look this one up, but apparently there's something
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: new that you could actually fly and it might might
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: be Google Maps, and it's like a flight simulator that
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: you're actually flying over.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: It's the Google AI Studio.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Google AI Study. Okay, there you go, so you.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Can actually fly around and do and.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You can access that all through your Google account, right,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I think so. I'm trying to log it right now,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: so we'll see.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, you got to do that, all right, listen,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: we got to take a break. Anyways, when we come back.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I got something to share with you, Sean, I got
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a chance to look at and I want to get
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: kind of your thoughts on it. I can't remember the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: password to log in, so you might have to tell
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: me how to reset it because I did this on TV.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I get there, I open it up the password Oh
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, and I couldn't remember it either way.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We'll do that when we come back with tech talk Radio.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Duerg.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: You can find us online at tech talk radio dot
• 25:26
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• 25:30
  Speaker 2: now back to tech talk Radio.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: During the break was actually pretty cool because we talked
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: about Google, Google Earth and some of the things they
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: were doing to give you almost a feel like you're
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: flying in a flight simulator flying over your town. So
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Sean during the break has pulled this up and if
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you see the video, you could watch it, but this
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: is something you can do yourselves as well. Sean tell us,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: tell us how you got here, and how at home
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: listening could do this.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: So somebody at work showed this to me and I
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: was like, well, this is pretty cool, but it's Earth,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Google Earth, but it's They have a studio program now
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: where you can render like a clip of Google Earth,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: but it you can actually get in and like make
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: a sweeping flying video of like if you're watching the video.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: This is in nord Day's campus right where I work.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: This is pretty awesome. You can key frame it and
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: you can pay it and tilt and do all this
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: cool stuff. And it's pretty up to date.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you when you when you first get
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: into the screen, you see the globe, so then you
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: can pick where you want to go on that globe.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Just you're pretty good at geography, so you were able
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to find you know, uh, Indiana pretty pretty easily. But
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: uh and then you just kind of what zoom in.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just if if you ever use Google Earth, it's
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: just like you know, you scrowl over the mouse wheel
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: or you drag around and it it's pretty wild. Because
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I want to start let's say, let's say start way
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: out here, boom, let's maak this new keyframe.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And again you can see the video up on our website.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Apparently you can do Moon, you can do Mars. Right.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I have no way of knowing that that's exactly
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: what it looks like, and I've never been there, but
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: it is still neat to see, so people have control.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I do believe that there is a and.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Actually I can show you mcna Island now, right if
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: they're starting back an island, right, so you go to
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the you go to the up Oh my god, this
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: is gonna be so cool. Here's macanaw Bridge. If I can,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: if I can pan this down, I don't know if
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I can get in far enough.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Again the video again, you could find it google bridge.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: The bridge is pretty weak, weak sauspect right, yeah, now
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: it's not the best up here.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I do believe there, and we'll have to researches. I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: do believe there's a company that has incorporated this type
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of stuff into a flight sim and I remember, you know,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Microsoft was trying stuff for a while, doing real world
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: mapping and something something along that line. But either way
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: it is you're having just way too much fun with this.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but this is not it's not the greatest,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: like this is the great hotel. This is not doing
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: it justice. This looks terrible up here.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: But right, that's that's pretty cool. And there's no cost,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: no cost to do this. If you want to just
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: jump on to Google Earth and play around with that,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of cool. I like that I got
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: something to show you, Sean that we've talked about it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And it was cool to be able to connect with
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: my friends over at Apple and get myself the MacBook Neo.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You got one.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: They sent one in so I could take a look
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: at and I showed it on television and you know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the thing is, it's super light. I'm showing it on
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the art camera right now. Super light. You've had a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: chance to experience it as well. Small thirteen inch rent,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: no display on it. Go ahead and open this up,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: which is really cool. Track pad is not haptic. I
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: noticed that.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Yep, it's not.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: So you know with the because you have the MacBook
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Air or mach I have.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I have a I have a MacBook Pro.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: MacBook Pro all right, so that's got the haptic keyboard.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's the actual physical butterfly like press, physical keyboard, physical.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Touch bad you feel it? Yeah, this one is you know,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a little harder you you know, when you click on it,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you can feel that. The other thing about this one, now,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: this is the the base model, which is this sells
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: for five five ninety nine, and if you're a student
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: or with a registered educational address as a teacher, you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: can get it for four ninety nine. So you would
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: be able to pick this up for four ninety nine. Yes,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: with the with the work you do, if you want
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to spend one hundred dollars more, this has two hundred
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and fifty six gigabytes of storage, five twelve gigabytes of
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: storage for one hundred dollars more for uh for six
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: ninety nine. But you also with that six ninety nine,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: tell me if you think this is worth it. You
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: get the lock screen, so the lock key, so it's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: almost like a you know, a password key, a hardware key.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: You could use your fingerprint to log in and log
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: off of different you know programs.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: That you may use.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: The biometric yep, biometric Now, I don't know about that one.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I think they just set the same number of ports.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: You get two ports. That's it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: That's the USB C U three and USB C two.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: So it's good enough to power up maybe one monitor
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: if you want.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Well, you know you, I believe you only get one
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: extra like one display with it, one external display. I
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: think that's it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was It's okay.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: People don't realize, like, this is not traditional laptop. This
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: is running off of a the iPhone sixteen pro phone chip,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the A eighteen. Yeah, so that's it. It's running a
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: phone CPUGPU combo a phone, right, It's crazy.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: People have been super happy with the professors that it
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: puts out for.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Basic computer functions. It works great. It is the it is,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: and it is sent the budget PC market into shambles,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: and it became one of their best selling products. It
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: sold out, and they found a hidden jam that they
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: can just say, well, you've got all these old eight
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: what are we gonna do with all these old phone chips.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Why don't we just slim them into a thirteen inch
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: MacBook and called something cool? Yeah, and they did that,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: and they gave it a couple of cool colors. And
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: there's nothing stopping him from doing it with all the
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: old A nineteen pro chips or whatever chips are coming
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: out with next.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: And they did it.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: They did it at the right time, and people that
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: bottom up bottom at the right time because now the
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: ramp prices are crazy, they increase the price on them.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: So it somebody, I don't know if it was Tim
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Cook or whoever, had a great idea and they executed
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: it at the right time, and he just disrupted the
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: budget the budget laptop market, and you can't get comparable
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: specs on a PC without spending upwards of a figure
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: that has a COMMA in it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: So one thing I noticed Sean about this is, you know, yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: it's slim. There's no fans on it. Nope, there's it's
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a fanless design. And the aluminum is I want to say,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: sixty percent recycle aluminum to put it together. But it
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: feels sturdy, and uh, I mean it's not a touch screen,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: so you know, you're not going to get the touch
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: screen feature out of it. But for somebody that's going
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to school, for somebody that wants to use it that
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: does basic work like documents, I put Libra Office on it.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Although you know, because again I haven't used a Mac
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: in years, so I had I have to become familiar
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: with what prod What programs would I use right out
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: of the box if I'm a PC user, you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: but PC users have have migrated to this for the price,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: you know, And well, I mean it's even, it's even at.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: The price point where for education it's almost it's almost
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: as good as some chromebooks cost. Chromebooks are in the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: two ninety nine range, but an educator that can afford
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: a little bit more can get MacBook neho's and they're
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: gonna just blow the payants off a chromebook.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so twice. And the speakers are on the side right,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: which like you said, which.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Which I said this last time when I when I
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: did it, I am a I don't know what you
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: call it, but like I am a My arms are
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: stuck out like a butterfly when I when I type right,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: and my fat arms sit on the the edge of
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: the laptop. So it was to store. It was changing
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: the dynamic, the sound dynamics of the laptop because they're
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: side firing speakers, so the audio comes out the side,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: but when my arms are down. Because I kept doing
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: this when I was I was like, why does it
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: sound so different when I'm typing versus when I'm not,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and it was just changing the dynamic of the sound
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: based on how my arms were on it, which I
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: didn't like at all, Like it just completely disrupted the
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: user experience for me, Like I wouldn't get one solely
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: because of that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Well, now here's one thing you could do. Uh, Logitech
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: puts out and I know you know Apple has them
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: as well, the Canical Mini for the Mac. So if
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: you want to, you know, push this back a little
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and use this for your typing, you could do that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: There is no ten key on it, so if you
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: were thinking, oh, I want to I like to have
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: ten key that you don't get with that, I have
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: this one as well. This is a Lodgy as well.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: This one does have ten key and it connects you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: via Bluetooth. That one works out pretty good too. But
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: here's something else I was going to recommend. Oops, there
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: we go, all right. Something else I was going to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: recommend is from easy Quest And actually I got this
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: for you, Sean. I'm gonna be sending this to you,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: but because I don't get to keep the Neo, I
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: do have to set it back. But this is a
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: USB C multimedia hub built upon mac so.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Which I need. I need one for my Mac Minie,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: which is preferably mounted under my desk.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Then yeah, you would love that because it plugs right
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: into the two spots yep. And then you have the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: ability to have HDMI. You have USB you know, USBA
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: or USB three I should say USB c's and you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: have an SD card reader and Ethernet and a vgah
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: a VGA. So I would recommend if you're going to
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: get a Neo, get one of these products from easy
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Quests as well the hubs. They make all kinds of
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: great hubs. This one would be good. So yes, I yeah,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I got this out of a box, the box that
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I had to send to Sean. So I was like, oh, yeah,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Sean will use this, he's got a he's a Mac.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: And then this one came in and I took it
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: out of the box said oh no, you got to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: have this one too.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: You got our listeners need to understand occasionally I just
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: get random boxes that I don't know where they come from,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and it's andy having a vendor shited be something that
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: we were trying out, or it's like I just get
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: a box from some unknown person and I opened up
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: and it's oh, it's a fun piece of technology. I
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: But did you build the soccer I'm doing?
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah this week because this World Cup, I get this
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: s weep with Max, and I think next week we
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: should be able to have something.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: To show that is pretty cool. But yeah, so I
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: get a chance. So the crazy thing is is you know,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: setting it up. And I set it up the weekend,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you know before, on Saturday before I went into the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: studio and started playing around with it, and I thought
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it was cool. And then I get to the studio
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and I open it up and you know, it's powered up.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I had powered it up. Make sure you get about
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: sixteen hours battery life of that too. Battery life is
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: really good on the Neo. And I couldn't remember the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: password to get back, so basically I had to show
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: it without going into the different screens. I'll tell you this,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: if you have an iPhone, if you're an iPhone user,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: it pairs perfectly with your iPhone. So if you want
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: to be able to read your messages on your Neo
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: or send messages and then get them on your iPhone,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that was also a cool feature. So Sean, is iMovie
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: come with this stuff? Or is that stuff you have
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to go into the Apple Store and get I think
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you have to download from the Apple Store. But it
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: doesn't come preloaded anymore like it used to with Garage
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Band and Keynote and all that stuff. I mean, I'm
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: sure there's some of those apps still on there.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: You could do some light video editing some like if
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: you're not doing anything four K or anything like that,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: you can do some light room classic or you know,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: some light photo editing.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe even some canvas stuff you can probably do with
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: that maybe.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: But the thing that the thing that I the thing
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: that I thought Apple should have done is I think
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: they should have also it's a cell phone chip. Yeah,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I think they should have put a SIM in it.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: We thought that they were going to do that, right,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: we talked right right, that was one of my like
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: wish list pre order, like, this is what they should
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: do because just think about that, right, how cool would
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: that have been if you could take if you could
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: just take your laptop and have internet wherever you have
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: cell phone service.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been to be a content content
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: creator on the go instead of doing something with your phone.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, I'm sure some marketing person
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: thought about that. And they did some study that spent
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: my yearly salary costs more than my yearly salary to
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: do a study on why that wasn't gonna work. And
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: then the shan'san idiot for thinking about that, But I
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: think it'd be pretty cool.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah, all right, we're gonna take a break, come back.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: We got a couple of listener questions. We'll do that
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: when we come back with tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
• 39:29
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• 39:31
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• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Back and now back to tech Talk Radio.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: So this is one of my favorite parts of the show.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: And we get every week. We get people writing us,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: calling us, emailing us, tweeting us, whatever, saying questions.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: A lot of Facebook too.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's fun because we get to answer real
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: questions about tech. So I'll read one of these from
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Gina and Tucson. My husband sends me photos and when
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I download them, they are HGIC format. What is that?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: It just seems strange and I figured you might know.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I asked him and that was his answer.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, so he's probably sending them to Google
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: like he's probably is he emailing him or.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: We also by default on the iPhone, it's set. This
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: is a it's high hg C stands for High Efficiency
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Image Container, all right, It's basically Apple's photo format. It's
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: just the way Apple wraps their pictures in there. It's
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: a format. Okay, So it's Apple's default photo format on
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: the iPhone because it provides smaller file sizes than JPEG.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: So it's basically more compression, but it's a higher efficiency.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: So by default, you take a photo on your iPhone
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: and you send it to someone, it's HIC. You can
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: go in and turn that off. So they are JPEGs,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: but they take a little bit more storage. Now it's
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: negligible in terms of size, but as you can more
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: and more thousands of photos, et cetera. But it's not
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: always natively viewable on Windows. Okay, So a lot of
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: times if I send a photo or I air drop
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: a photo from my phone to my computer and drag
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: it from the messaging app to the desktop, it's h
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: g i C. Meaning if I drop it into our
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: server stuff that like our our playback system at work,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: it doesn't know what to do with it. Because it's
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: it's a Linux based system. It doesn't It's like what
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: is this? It can't read it, et cetera. So I
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: have to convert it from h C to jpeg. So
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: how do you do that? Right? So, if you're just
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: viewing the photos, right, if you're just viewing them native
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: support on Mac, whether you're on Mac, os iOS, et cetera,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: so preview can do it. This is one of my
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: favorite features about Mac is if you highlight something on
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the desktop and you hit space bar, it'll open it
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: in a like pseudo preview window, meaning you can preview
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: it at size, you can look at it, inspect it,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: et cetera. But if you open it in preview, then
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: you can actually view it and then actually export it
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: from preview as a JPEG.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, got it.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Windows eleven, you can view them if you have installed
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: the HIF Image Extensions installer from the Microsoft Store.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: So if you're going to be getting a lot of these,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: which it sounds like maybe Gina is going to be doing,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and she's just wondering, I'm not sure if she's on.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: A different platform, whether she's not. She could be on
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: a Mac, she could be on but it's just it's
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: just another file format like jpeg, PNG, BMP, bitmap.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: You'll obviously get a reduced file size. I wonder if
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: you get a better quality out of each h G
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I C than you do with JPEG.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe, I mean you might. I'm just not sure if
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: it's better file size, if it's just a better compression.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: But you know, JPEG is a standard, right, so right
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: people have to realize that when you take a photo
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: and it's saving it as jpeg, Apple has paid a
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: license to Jpeg for that codec. Just like H two
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: six four, just like H six five. Those are all
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: codecs that Apple has paid licenses to to support those codecs.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: So hi C is their own, which means they don't
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: have to license it.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: They can just do it, right.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: So, but if you want to be able to view them,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: you have to have a platform that can view them,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: whether that's a Mac based platform or a software that
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: can read h gacs.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: We Photoshop I believe can do that.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Photoshop, Gimp, Linux can do it if you have the
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: AHAF libraries are installed.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if that helps Eugena, But now
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: maybe you know at least what that is. And if
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: you're thinking you know something there is, it's going to be.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: It's all it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Is is it's a photo from an iOS device, Okay,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: typically of iPhone typically.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: So right, here's what we got from Rick, and I
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: like this one because people ask this question all the time,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: and you know they're they're curious. They have no idea
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: that how it can work. For him says, I've heard
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: you guys talk about AI and fixing photos. Now we
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: got this photo. This question actually a couple of weeks ago,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and we couldn't fit it in last time. But he says, well,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I am not a fan of AI. I like a
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Rick had to say that. He said, I do want
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to give it a try.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Of course you do.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Everybody does, right, What would be the best way to
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: start out? I have a PC, but everybody wants a
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: subscription do this stuff. And that's from Rick and Tucson
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Boy, I mean he's right, everybody wants the subscription to
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: do it. Yeah, I I you've done it, you've played
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: with it at AI.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have better. It's got.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: I have a moral artistic dilemma with Photo AI with photos, right,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: I will not use it to manipulate my photos. I
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: will not use it to remove stuff. I will not
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: use it to change colors. I will not use it
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: to ad stuff. I will not use it. The only
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: AI that I've used in my images is AI noise reduction.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: So it's just processing the image, looking at the noise
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: and interpolating and give me a little bit of clean
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: It's built into light room, it's built into Photoshop, and
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: it does a really good job. They've had AI and
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: they've had noise reduction for decades, so I don't feel
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: that bad about it. But it's gotten so much better
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: that it cleans up the noise a lot and a
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: lot of images and gives you a sharp image. But
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not using Firefly. I'm not using anything to I
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: have always had and I'm standing by this as my
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: artistic principle. I don't. I don't use photoshop on my
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: images except to do some some color balancing, some exposure
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: various as histogram changes, et cetera. But I'm not using
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: it to add remove I'm as production. I'm not doing it.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: It's funny because you're you're you know, you're saying I
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: won't use photoshop. And there were a lot of photograph
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: first about ten years ago that would say I'm not
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: using photoshop. I would go to you know, Photoshop World
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: conferences that you know that were put on and they
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: were great, but you would run into the photographer say,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I'm here, but I you know, I'm a photographer. I
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: won't use photoshop, and you know, it's a thing there.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: There were certain things that photoshop could do that were great,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: and if you shoot raw, there were things in light
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: room that were amazing to make that picture pop even more.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: But then now you have the people that are saying,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not even a photographer, but I want to take
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: photos like it sounds like maybe Rick wants to do
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and fix them and take photos. And I've done this
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: where I get an old photo and I'll just say,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: let's see what GEM and I can do, and I'll
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: do it. I had one recently a friend of mine
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: who was going to be moving across the country, and
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: she had a picture of her and her mom, but
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: there was a big blash of light coming in over them,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: and so she said, hey, I know, you you know
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: do the stuff. Can you try it? I'm sure I did,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: and it got rid of that big wolf swash of
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: light and it looked very natural, and I was happy
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: with it, except I looked at the picture and I said,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: they're washed out, the faces are just two doesn't have
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: any natural color. So I put it in the light room,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: so I didn't expect Gemini did do. I went in
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: a light room and I started adjusting the color settings
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: in light room to experience that and play around, and
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: it came out perfect. So again, it's like, the tools
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: are there. You know, Rick does sounds like it doesn't
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: want to use them. I know if Sean you're like, yeah, no, no, no.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: But when you get something and you say, I want
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: to see if I can make this look better, I would.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: If I was going to tell Rick a starting place,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: it would probably be Gemini. Chat GBT does it as well,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: but I would say Gemini if it's just photos. If
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: you're looking to create full graphics. Again, I don't know
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: about that one because they all look alike. Now, every
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: graphic you see, every ad for a restaurant, they all
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: look the same. They have the same little boxes under it.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: You know. It's just like, I don't know. If it
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: became the standard, you could have maybe more flexibility if
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: you want to use Canva even then there's some elements
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: in there, or if you want to create it an
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: illustrator or created in photoshop, you know, maybe just using
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: what you see, what you like and what you don't like.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: But again they all look the same. But I would
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: say Gemini first. Maybe if you're and you are allowed
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: certain generations in Gemini without having to get a subscription,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: if you have a Google account, but even if you're
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: not paying for it, give it a try for a
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: couple of see how you feel about it, because you
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: might have you know, I don't know, Sean, You've got
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: those photos that are from you know, nineteen thirties, nineteen forties,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. Some of them have damage to them.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm not putting them through. I'm not doing it.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: You just keep on that singing.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: I will put them into. I would rather pay somebody,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: a professional to not use AI to do it and
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: do it by hand rather than do AI. I just
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: those photos mean that much to me that Yeah, I'm
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: sure it's cheaper for me to do AI, but I
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: just don't know. Plus they're being uploaded, yes, so then
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: do I is it? What? Am I training the model
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: with my photos? Now? So now it's up there, so
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: I mean it's on Google Photos. I'm sure it's up
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: there already. But you know what I mean. But I
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: don't out of all those pictures that I scanned, right,
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: I just ran up through lightroom and I adjusted exposure,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: white balanced a couple of things. I didn't do anything
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: else besides that. I didn't touch anything up. I didn't
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: clean them up. I didn't dust or move. I didn't
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: do any of that. So I just I've had a
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: you know, I started shooting on film back in the
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: early two thousands, well way before that. My mom was
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: shooting on film wait before. Clearly my grandparents were shooting
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: on it back in the fifties. So there's just and
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: this is just me. I'm not being anti AI, I'm
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: not being you know, Doomsday or whatever. But there is
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: a human element to art that is slowly going to
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: the wayside, and it's depressing and I'm mad about it.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell people I'm mad about it because
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: you start taking the human element out of art, but
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: you're going to get slop. You're gonna get there's gonna
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: be no emotion, there's gonna be no it's just gonna
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: be stuff. And I really think that's a thing. I'm
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: gonna stand by is you can't take the human element
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: out of art, you know.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: I think one of the things I've been seeing right
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: now Sean on social media is there putting up stuff
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: that is completely wrong and then blaming it on AI.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: But the stuff they put up is so wrong, like
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: you would never in your right mind post something like
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: this knowing it's blatantly wrong. The guy who discovered comet
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: hale bop right, it's named that because his name was
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Alan Hale. Right, he passed away and somebody posted this
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: brilliant dedication to Alan Hale and the photo they used
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: was that the skipper from Gilligan's Island that Alan Hale.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: But the thing is, what did it do? Rather than
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  Speaker 1: somebody just scrolling over it? It generated a lot of
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  Speaker 1: interaction on this guy's post, and I'm thinking he had
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  Speaker 1: to have known that that's not the guy. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but gosh, it was great reading the comments from the people.
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  Speaker 1: The skipper did not invent comet al bup. All right,
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  Speaker 1: He lay the cable guy and you're listening to tech
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  Speaker 1: cock Radio. I got a good question for you, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody was to ask you, what's one piece of
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  Speaker 1: technology you couldn't live without?
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  Speaker 2: I just asked me to see O today, really, and
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't think of it.
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  Speaker 1: Really, you couldn't, like.
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  Speaker 2: What is what should I not live without?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you think of technology, technology that you have
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  Speaker 1: at hand that you say, now, I couldn't live without,
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  Speaker 1: what is it? What would it be?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I don't know. If I say my phone,
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  Speaker 2: Well then what if if it's just my phone? What
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  Speaker 2: do I have? The Internet? Reddit? Do I have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to read?
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  Speaker 1: Do you use your smartphone more than you use your computer?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? I do for day to day stuff computer at work.
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  Speaker 2: I use my laptop all the time at work, I
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  Speaker 2: use my phone a ton. But I can't do everything
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  Speaker 2: I need to do on my phone in the web
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  Speaker 2: browser or things like that. They're making me easier. Man,
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  Speaker 2: p times, I can't can't live without. It has to
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  Speaker 2: be the music. It has to be radio of some
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  Speaker 2: sort I listened to the radio. I mean, everybody think
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  Speaker 2: about it, right, That's something you get in the car
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  Speaker 2: and you listen to some form of content on the radio,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a podcast or or the radio, actual radio,
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  Speaker 2: or this show for this show, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 2: been around for a long time, you know, it has
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  Speaker 2: to be some sort of radio, whether it's my ham
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  Speaker 2: radio stuff or just radio. Just being able to listen.
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  Speaker 2: I find a lot of value in just being able
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  Speaker 2: to scan the radio waves and listen to whatever's coming in.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I've got a short wave radio, which is cool.
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  Speaker 2: I can bring in all stuff, stuff from all over
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  Speaker 2: the world. I'm just gonna say radio and leave that.
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  Speaker 2: It's vague as vague as humanly possible.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, I should say radio because it's
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  Speaker 1: it's my living But no, for me, I think it
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  Speaker 1: would be internet, because uh, we just become so tied
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I think as a fundamental human thing,
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  Speaker 2: like if the internet went out, how screwed would everybody be?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how would you communicate? How would you How many
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: people do you think don't have maps in their car?
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: I have an Atlas in my car. It's burned into
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  Speaker 2: my brain from my mom. My mom always drove with
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  Speaker 2: an analysis. My ali was always my in laws. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my mom.
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  Speaker 1: My mom always still to.
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  Speaker 2: This day, draws out her root mn wow. When we
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  Speaker 2: do a big trip, big family trip, she would always
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  Speaker 2: draw out our trip in highlighter and trip map our
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  Speaker 2: stops and do all that stuff. And that's how I
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: first learned how to calculate gas mileage was by reading
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  Speaker 2: the mile markers on the rab McNelly and then doing
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  Speaker 2: the You know, every time we got gas, my mom
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: will hand the receipts and say how many miles did
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  Speaker 2: we go? How muchould we pay for gas?
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  Speaker 1: And there is somebody listening right now that is agreeing
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  Speaker 1: with you on.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely all right listen. That wraps up this week's show.
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  Speaker 1: When to remind you everybody, one of my new favorite shows,
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't even seen it yet, is on HBO.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness. It's
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Larry David, the guy from Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld
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  Speaker 1: taking a look at us history one episode every every
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  Speaker 1: Friday night. It might be a lot of fun. So again,
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  Speaker 1: hopefull you get a chance to check that one out
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