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Episode 422 - Zips Ties, Velcro and a Whole lot of Cables! · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Bill Ry, the science guy here.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever, I am listening to the radio, especially tech talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: It's just such a part. Welcome to another episode of
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  Speaker 1: tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm justin Lemy. Welcome. That's good to see all.
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  Speaker 1: I I know Matt is out today. Then the Matt.
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  Speaker 1: The story of Matt though, is it is something for
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  Speaker 1: Matt that I think has probably happened to each one
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  Speaker 1: of us at some point where.
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  Speaker 2: I think he said, I think he's hints that he
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  Speaker 2: had computer spaghetti is proper.
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  Speaker 3: I think the I think the actual quotes that he
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  Speaker 3: looks like a bomb went off in my office because
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  Speaker 3: there's cables and computer parts everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So he decided to try something different. I remember, you know,
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  Speaker 1: asking him, really he took his gaming computer his rig
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  Speaker 1: and moved it into a rack mount computer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he got a couple. So he moved his gaming
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  Speaker 3: computer and he put it into a rack mount chassis
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  Speaker 3: and then bought a rack. And then he also bought
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  Speaker 3: parts for his wife to have a gaming computer in
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  Speaker 3: that same rack. So now they've got two gaming computers.
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  Speaker 3: In rack mount chassis.
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  Speaker 1: Now for the desktops first, those who don't know, rec
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  Speaker 1: bounds are great because they're space saving. You can have them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all in one place. I mean, I've got
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  Speaker 1: an actual rack computer that I've got nothing in it.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to use it for a while. I
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  Speaker 1: think when I first built my office computer here, I
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  Speaker 1: had it in there for a little bit and I thought, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's taking up too much space for me at that time,
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  Speaker 1: and my concern was do you get good airflow with it?
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  Speaker 1: And he was saying it's great, it's actually better.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean if it's design, I mean, depending on
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  Speaker 2: where it's at, right, you get the airflow from the
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  Speaker 2: rack itself, and if you have it in a you know,
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  Speaker 2: not stuffed in a closet with a ton of other gear,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, Well that's it's pretty good. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the problem he ran into. He got it all pulled
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  Speaker 1: apart ready to put in and oops, well it's not
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  Speaker 1: only just the computer too.
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  Speaker 3: Like I mean, he is having some issues with the
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  Speaker 3: computer as we speak here, but he's also mentioning that
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  Speaker 3: he's taking this opportunity to just rewire everything like cable
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  Speaker 3: management and all that stuff. So he wants to do
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  Speaker 3: it correctly, kind of like how I redid this after
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  Speaker 3: my basement flooded.
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  Speaker 1: I took that extra time. You saw.
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  Speaker 3: The pictures are on the website about how I did,
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  Speaker 3: like cable management, where you could basically not see any
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  Speaker 3: cables anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Is there products that will help you in that, because
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  Speaker 1: I know there's probably listeners right now they're going I
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  Speaker 1: need to do my rewiring, whether it be you know,
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  Speaker 1: network cables, audio cables, you know whatever. Is there products
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  Speaker 1: to make that easier?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, they're called zip ties, valcrocro zip No, seriously, I
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  Speaker 3: mean I didn't use any specialty. I mean, yes, there
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  Speaker 3: are specialty cable management products products out there, but I
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  Speaker 3: literally just use zip ties.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a special place in a deep dark
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  Speaker 2: dungeon somewhere for those who don't flush cut their zip
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  Speaker 2: ties in racks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yes, that is a special If.
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  Speaker 2: You are going to rack equipment and you don't flush
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  Speaker 2: cut your zip ties, I will hunt you down.
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  Speaker 1: Yes I have.
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  Speaker 3: I have gotten so many like punctures on my hands
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  Speaker 3: from reaching into a rack to grab a cable and
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  Speaker 3: my hand gets punctured by like a sharp edge of
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  Speaker 3: a zip tie that was not flush cut. I always
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  Speaker 3: make sure to flush cut my zip ties. I want
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  Speaker 3: to experience that.
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  Speaker 2: So there are a specific style of cutters called flush
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  Speaker 2: cutters that will cut flat.
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  Speaker 4: And you can get right out on.
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  Speaker 2: The back end of the zip tie and cut it
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  Speaker 2: for the square park won't You won't even.
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  Speaker 4: Be able to feel it. So if you if you
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  Speaker 4: just cut it, and.
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  Speaker 2: You leave a millimeter of jagged plastic right, and I
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  Speaker 2: reach into the back of the rack and scrape my
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  Speaker 2: arm along that, and now I've got a four inch gash.
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  Speaker 4: On my forearm.
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  Speaker 2: Now because you didn't take the time to flush cut it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come punch you in the face.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, I'll do one better. I'll just come and bleed
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  Speaker 3: all over you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it used to be you we get cut by
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  Speaker 1: the metal on the side of the cases. Remember that
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  Speaker 1: were built pretty bad.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's never that's never going away. If you don't
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  Speaker 4: bleed building a computer, you're doing it wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I've always said that too.
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  Speaker 3: Every single computer I built has a drop of blood somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: In my case. The sacrifice to the piece of cuts
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  Speaker 1: you've given your DNA. It's a sacrifice part of the build.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I saw something this week too. Do you
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  Speaker 1: guys remember the old cases that were like you put
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  Speaker 1: them on your desk and they had two you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe five and a quarter drives that were on it,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of bays, and you know, it was just
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  Speaker 1: a big square and it was ugly and it was beige,
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  Speaker 1: and you couldn't see anything on the system itself. You
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  Speaker 1: remember those the older ones. Oh yeah, yeah, Well, apparently
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  Speaker 1: Tom's Hardware had a story. It was actually in April
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  Speaker 1: Fool's joke about them, you know, selling this this retro
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  Speaker 1: Beije PC case that looked like a two to eighty
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  Speaker 1: six computer, right, And apparently the company Silverstone, said we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make that, and they they have made it, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently I'm hoping it'll be available here. They're a Japanese manufacturer,
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  Speaker 1: I believe. But the drive, the floppy drives, the big
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  Speaker 1: floppy drive case you could flip it up, and then
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  Speaker 1: there's USB ports. There is an optical drive that is
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  Speaker 1: hidden by that. I mean, it's pretty amazing that they're
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  Speaker 1: doing this. I think that would be kind of cool
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  Speaker 1: to have on your desk because people come over and
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  Speaker 1: look and go, oh, look at that ancient thing.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's always fun to have a sleeper, right that.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of a there's a niche market for that
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  Speaker 2: where people take old Beije beasts and retro fit new
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  Speaker 2: motherboards and new you know things into it. Yeah, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's fun to look at it. And this one
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  Speaker 2: from Silverstone looks like, you know, it looks like you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna steck the monitor right on top of it, just
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  Speaker 2: like you would have the big seventeen inch or eighteen
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  Speaker 2: inch CRT exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Those are always kind of fun to have around. But
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  Speaker 1: I always wondered like, what was the what would happen
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  Speaker 1: and how and why? Because the coloring on that case
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  Speaker 1: would always go like a dingy yellow. It would just
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  Speaker 1: get like.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, just the plastic getting just oxidizing.
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  Speaker 1: Basically because back then people used to smoke in their homes. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you ever you ever taken apart a system of a smoker?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's yes, yes, I have.
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  Speaker 2: It's mostly been it's mostly been gaming consoles from a
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine whose parents, yeah, pretty pretty heavily, and
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  Speaker 2: they'd be.
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  Speaker 4: Like, oh, the fans in my PlayStation to quit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're taking apart. Oh, it's it's awful. Archy and Tar,
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  Speaker 1: one of our old producer for the show, she had
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  Speaker 1: a system and it was because she would play games
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  Speaker 1: on it and stuff, and she she told me that
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  Speaker 1: it was just like overheating and shutting down. So I
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  Speaker 1: told her I would take a look at it for her.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember I opened up the case and number one,
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  Speaker 1: it was just dust. But it's a weird dust because
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  Speaker 1: it's covered in that that tobacco like it just kind
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  Speaker 1: of melds to it. But the fan that was on
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  Speaker 1: the graphics card couldn't spin at all. I couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: physically move it. It's how how caked on that got.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're if you are a computer user, even
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  Speaker 1: today's computers and all electronics, it's your TVs, your stereos,
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  Speaker 1: all of that. It will affect your electronics. Gross, justin
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing there? Justin you look, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just messing around like you're trying.
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  Speaker 4: With with What are you messing around with?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Look at that? What did he do? Then?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta check out our camera there. Look at dude.
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  Speaker 1: I like that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that that's my new camera. So do we want
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  Speaker 3: to get into this set.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's talk. So Justin Justin went down on the
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  Speaker 1: last show that we had, Justin was talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking a look at mirrorless technology when it comes to cameras.
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  Speaker 1: We had talked about the SLR mirrorless and you know
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  Speaker 1: the kind of the benefits of both. And you saw
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  Speaker 1: a video that said mirrorless is the way to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well, I mean obviously I got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of my information from Sean. I mean, Sean is
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  Speaker 3: the videographer the photographer of of US, right, and I've
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  Speaker 3: I've been looking to get something different, and I I
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  Speaker 3: I hedged a bet on some crypto recently. I actually
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  Speaker 3: bought a bunch of doge coin before the election. Actually
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  Speaker 3: was funny because it was before I bought a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of doge coin, right when they announced that Elon Musk
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  Speaker 3: was gonna do this whole department of government efficiency, which
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  Speaker 3: it does, right, Yeah, but it has nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with the actual cryptocurrency.
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  Speaker 1: It's just whatever. It just happens to have the same
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  Speaker 1: that a coincidence.
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  Speaker 3: Well apparently apparently nobody else thoughts so because people started
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  Speaker 3: buying dose like crazy, and the price shot up and
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  Speaker 3: I made a considerable amount of money, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna buy myself something nice. So
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  Speaker 3: I went out and I bought, uh, the Sony A
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  Speaker 3: seven mark four Wow, which is a twenty eight hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars camera. I got it on Black like an early
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  Speaker 3: Black Friday deal for like twenty three hundred. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a really nice camera. I mean, lenses amazing. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 3: lens is really nice. That the quality is really good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm I can't stop staring at myself
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  Speaker 3: actually watching this.
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  Speaker 4: I know that your other cameras a Nikon, right, Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The other cameras a Nikon, but it also that one,
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  Speaker 3: the Nikon that I used, it doesn't do the streaming
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  Speaker 3: it does with this one does. So the Nikon would
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  Speaker 3: do like up to five minutes of streaming and then
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: it would just shut off. This one will do four
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  Speaker 3: So not only will it take mirrorless full frame images,
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  Speaker 3: it will do four K video at sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Frames a second.
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  Speaker 3: It's got two memory slots in it, so I have
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  Speaker 3: on the memory slot one, I have a five hundred
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  Speaker 3: and twelve gig SD card that I shoot raw, so
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  Speaker 3: raw images if you don't know what raw is. Raw
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  Speaker 3: is literally just raw. I mean it is all of
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  Speaker 3: the data that the camera can get. No compression. There's
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  Speaker 3: no compression compressions. It is uncompressed raw images. Obviously it
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  Speaker 3: takes up a lot more space. But the benefit of
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  Speaker 3: shooting in raw is then when you go and you
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  Speaker 3: import those into let's say light Room Adobe light Room,
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  Speaker 3: you got a lot more to work with because there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot more data there, so you can adjust the
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  Speaker 3: lighting effects and and other things that you would you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to do with a normal JPEG. Now
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  Speaker 3: and slot number two of the camera, I have a
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  Speaker 3: sixty four gig memory card that I shoot JPEG on,
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  Speaker 3: So if I need to do a quick JPEG shot
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  Speaker 3: and just hand it off to somebody, I've got those
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  Speaker 3: images on JPEG. Another really cool feature of it is
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  Speaker 3: that the camera is Bluetooth and Wi Fi. So on
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: my phone, I have an app from Sony called Creator
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: I think it's called Creator's Club or something like that, right,
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  Speaker 3: And so if I shoot a photo, I can instantly
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  Speaker 3: transfer it to my phone and then I can just
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  Speaker 3: text it to somebody and say here's your photo.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I gotta say, I'm not kidding. For
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  Speaker 1: our listeners that are are are intrigued by this, they
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  Speaker 1: may want to stream one day or do something. This
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  Speaker 1: is the best image I have ever seen for a stream,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that our session that we post online
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  Speaker 1: will do a justice because really, justin this is a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous picture. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm looking at the three of us here,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously I've got the best quality image now and
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  Speaker 3: then Sean, I would say, Sean's number two. Andy, You've
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  Speaker 3: got to step up the game, bro.
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  Speaker 1: I'm running a Logitech four K.
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  Speaker 3: Well the Logitech. My other camera is a Logitech here.
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  Speaker 3: Let me switch back to the other camera for the
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  Speaker 3: for let me go back the other camera. It's good,
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  Speaker 3: it's good, It's okay. I mean it's a webcam. But
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  Speaker 3: like going back to the other I think I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I got to go back to the other one. This
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  Speaker 3: one's so much better.
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  Speaker 2: It's a softer right, It's like there's a lot there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of factors here, right, Like it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a better angle. I think you have more depth of field.
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  Speaker 2: So like your your backgrounds just out of crispy. It's
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  Speaker 2: not crispy, like you're the one, the other one. Everything's
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  Speaker 2: in focus, right, we can see your back, your background.
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  Speaker 2: This just adds a little bit of a more intimate element, right,
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  Speaker 2: It's like we're in your space, but we're not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yeah, it looks like I'm actually there
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Yeah? It really like.
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  Speaker 3: Now I don't have my tripod set up. Otherwise I
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  Speaker 3: would have actually put this up on the tripod, and
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  Speaker 3: I may do that. I may go out and buy
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  Speaker 3: a second tripod just for this camera and then use
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  Speaker 3: this as my primary sobcam, how is it?
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  Speaker 1: Now? How is this? This is an A seven right?
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  Speaker 1: It is hey seven? Mark four? How is this connecting
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  Speaker 1: to your computer? For this stream? Just USB? I just
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  Speaker 1: plugged a USB cable into it. That's all I did.
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  Speaker 1: So is it htm I out to USB or no?
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: They they do.
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  Speaker 3: It does have an HDMI output on it. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: literally just going USBC right into my computer.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it is. That is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot a lot of the manufacturers like so
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the manufacturers during COVID released beta versions
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  Speaker 2: of USB Control. Right, so Cannon said, oh, here's a
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  Speaker 2: USB version for all our EUS cameras. Sony said, we've
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  Speaker 2: been doing it, but here's a better version.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nikom was like, no, screw you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nikon pretty much said, you know, Kick Rocks, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want your crappy cameras on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we don't want it to don't.
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  Speaker 3: Want our we don't want our amazing cameras to be
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  Speaker 3: used for webcams.
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  Speaker 1: They really were.
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  Speaker 4: They were worried.
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  Speaker 2: They were worried about the quality over USB, right, they
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  Speaker 2: were worried about the little bit rate, the low you know.
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  Speaker 2: But with USBC and the speed you can get over USBC,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's been fine. I mean, just look at Justin's Cambra.
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  Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the camera is fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I do have to say, I can notice a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a delay when I move my hands
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  Speaker 3: or whatever. I notice a little bit of a delay,
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  Speaker 3: which is fine. That could also be because I literally
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  Speaker 3: just plugged this in without letting it reboot the computer.
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  Speaker 3: Like maybe I mean, obviously it installed the driver or two,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe I need to reboot the computer to make
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  Speaker 3: it better. But I would say, I'm I'm I'm truly impressed.
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  Speaker 1: I am noticing too. It is adjusting automatically. To the
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  Speaker 1: light in the room, so as you yeah, as you
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  Speaker 1: kind of focus. Yeah, it's that's really a great look.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna takes, it's gonna take some tweaks, but it's Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the light balance isn't quite right. But again, if I
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  Speaker 3: put it up where my main light is, I think
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  Speaker 3: it would be even better. But right now I just
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  Speaker 3: don't have that ability.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna as you get more comfortable with the
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  Speaker 2: set things right, you're gonna be able to say, especially
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  Speaker 2: with the with the A seven's right, you're gonna be
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: able to to find tune. You're gonna be able to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: here's my face. Yep, I want you to always expose
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  Speaker 2: from my face.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay.
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  Speaker 3: And this this actually has that future built in. You're
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  Speaker 3: taking photos, it'll actually do eye tracking, so it knows
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  Speaker 3: when a person's looking at the camera and it will
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  Speaker 3: actually automatically take the photo when the person's looking at
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  Speaker 3: the camera.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: So like we get like the AI stuff that's coming
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  Speaker 2: with some of the newer versions of cameras is fantastic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can, you can with the canon version. My buddy
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  Speaker 2: Steve has the new version. For the new version for
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  Speaker 2: the his R five, and it actually has intelligent facial tracking,
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  Speaker 2: meaning you can take a picture, go into that picture
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  Speaker 2: on your camera, say this is my primary target.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever you see this target in frame, take a picture.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow wow.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't see that person, but you see
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  Speaker 2: this person a secondary target, take a picture instead.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So and now obviously you didn't get this
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: for just webcamming and using it for like this show
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and some other projects that you're working on. You want
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: to take photos with it. Have you had that ability
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: to experience going out taking a photo in different environments?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I haven't had a lot of experience.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: I've only had it for a couple of days now,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: but I did post a bunch of photos on Facebook.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: We went out to Adventure Golf, which is a property
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: that Highland Hills owns, that company I work for. It's
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: a mini golf course, so they have like this holiday
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: lights where everything's lit up in Christmas lights and you
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: can go and play mini golf. And so I took
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: it out there to test what the low light capability
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: was and I was, I was, I was pretty impressed.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I mean it's not it's I wouldn't say it's excellent.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: It's it's good.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I would probably give it like a seven or eight
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: out of ten in terms of quality. But then I
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: also took it out to see U Boulder, which is,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: you know, the university right up north of Denver there
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: up and we went up there and we walked around
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: and I took a few photos of Mesa and Eric,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: and then Eric actually took a couple of photos of
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Mesa and Io. And you know, even the photos themselves
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: are good. But I really, honestly, I've never played around
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: with light room until yesterday or the day before.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm working with raw images and light room. It's amazing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Lightroom is absolutely fantastic. If you are a photographer of
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: any sort. You don't have to be a professional photographer,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: even if you're an amateur photographer, lightroom works wonders. I mean,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: it is amazing what you can do with light room.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: You can do touchups, you can adjust the gamma, the color,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: the vignet, I mean, all the other. This is so
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: many things you can do with light room. And that's
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: why when I posted those photos online, you know, some
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: people might think, wow, that's an amazing camera. Can take
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: some amazing photos. Yeah, but I used lightroom, you know,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: and so lightroom really kind of fills in the gaps,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: if you will, where the camera can't, but the data
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: is all there on the photo. So the camera captures
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: all the data. You just have to massage it a
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: little bit to get those those those those images the
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: way the way you want them to look.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It's it's funny because you think about it in the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: last few years about adjusting photos, and Sean, I know
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: this is right up your alley as well. Everybody always
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: this photoshop. You gotta do photoshop, you gotta do a photoshop,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: gotta know you know, the different AI topaz. But honestly,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: lightroom is what people should really learn to work with
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: when it comes to I mean, photoshop's great, don't get
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: me wrong, but light room is really the first step.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Totally absolutely, Sean. I mean you have experienced with light room, right, yeah.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I mean I don't think I'm exactly the person to
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: talk to about editing photos, right.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I do bare minimum editing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Of my photos, Like, yeah, a lot of my editing
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: is obviously post processing, but it's just to bring out some.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Highlights that that room is.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: That's what light room is bring you know, but I'm
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: not doing any manipulation to I'm not removing anything, I'm
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: not adding anything, I'm not doing any AI stuff. So
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: but there's a lot of there's a lot of tools
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: that I don't utilize. Those features just.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Detract from what I feel like my art is.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: So one of those pictures that I took from CU Boulder,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: there were people in the background, and when I went
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: into light room and I just hit the auto button
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: just to see what the auto button would do. It
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: automatically detected Mysa and I as the primary subjects because
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: we were in center frame. But then it highlighted all
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: of the people in the background. It would just put
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a silhouette around them automatically. And
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: then it asked me, do you want to get rid
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: of these people? And for a moment there I'm thinking, wow,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: that's a little dark like the way like you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: but I was like, uh yeah, and it was like okay,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: and it boom, just it got rid of all the
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: people in the background and it kind of fills with
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: the way and it just yeah, it mixes it all in.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: It makes it look like a real photo. It doesn't
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: like just put like a weird blurry image or whatever. No,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: it just completely removed the people in the background and
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: perfectly filled it in, and I was like, wow, this
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: is pretty cool.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: We have seen like the AI that's involved in the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: editing process in our smartphones. Now I've not I mean,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I still have my iPhone. I've been using my Google
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Pixel nine, which I'm pretty impressed. I am pretty impressed
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: with it. There are sometimes where I get a little
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: let down by it, but I mean, the AI has
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: gotten so much better in our smartphones, Like I'm sure
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the sixteen from iPhone has got to be pretty good.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And to see what's going to be coming out in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the next couple of years is gonna be pretty amazing
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: when it comes to taking a photo, the editing process
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and really giving it just a great look. Yeah, I mean,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it's just gonna get better here, to be honest, yes,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: And I have come a long ways from my two
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: years ago.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I'm never gonna do AI, right, I was very anti
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: AI and I'm still anti some AI.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: I'm in a pilot at Notre Dame for the Chat
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Gypt stuff and it's been fantastic for what I'm using
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: it for, and I'm utilizing it for a lot of
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: things at.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Work, which is great. What I'm still not going.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: To do with it is I've been using it a
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: little bit to create some synopsis of my D and
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: D sessions, which has been great. But I still feel
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: like that's pushing the boundary for me on being creative
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: with AI, allowing AI to do art for me, because
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I still feel like AI, you know, as people create
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: things and into AI can do it for free or
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: for cheap, we're just going to get a weird We're
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: gonna hit a weird plateau of.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Generated art.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just feel like we're taking the human
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: element out of art, and that's the whole point of art,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: is the human element.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: When I agree with you. Back in the nineties, I
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: actually started a company that we did computer we did graphics,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: desktop publishing us. We would use you know, all this
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: PageMaker and then the ad W PageMaker and we would
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: use that and we would create flyers and we were
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: always busy folders the whole bit. Now somebody could go
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: on to Canva and they could create that just by
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: telling you this is what I want and it's done,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you know, And you know, I always thought maybe I'll
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: get back into the business. There's no point now, I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: mean honestly, because people can do it themselves and they're
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: finding that out.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we use Canva at work. I don't
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: personally have a license for Canva, but I know that
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: we have a bunch of people that do. And Yeah,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: it makes their life a lot easier when they can
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: just go to Canva and say, I want to create
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: a promotional image for this particular event, and here's the information,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: and fam it just does it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm really one. Do you think, Sean, at
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: some point we're going to get into a feature film
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: or even a TV series that's done with AI.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine we were not seeing stuff generated already
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: that we just don't know about.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's plenty of it in movies right now.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: But it's this is where a lot of the SAG
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: strike came from.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, A lot of the SAG.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Strike came from they weren't getting enough money from streaming
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: rights and things like that, but also they wanted the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: film industry to basically commit to not using AI generated
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: content for X amount of years or whatever.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: What the ultimate Bargaining Rights came out to be. But
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I know that AI was a big part of it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And so for any any SAG movies, right, you're not
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: gonna see that kind of stuff. But the independent films
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: are just gonna be it's gonna be rife with AI content.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: It's just that's just what it's going to be. Now,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: who can win awards when it's a.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I generated Oh wow, yeah, exact point?
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Right, think about it?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I created this film that just is so good,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: everybody loves it, and now all of a sudden it's
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: up for Best Best Actors.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yet Best Picture? Who? Yeah?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Who is it?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Good point? But if you look at most of the well,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: if you look at the Marvel films, you know, now
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: it's all about you know, the visual effects and what
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: they're doing in that, and that could be that could
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: be huge. Anyways, you still have you still have a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: human element. But if you take out all that human element,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: what do we what are we going to be left with? Yeah,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be scary.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: It's like I said, it's we're gonna be at this
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: weird place where AI is going to get so good
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: that you're not really sure, it's.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: The uncanny Valley.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this before. It's a term that not
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of people knew about, but it's going to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: become more and more prevalent. It's that weird, uneasy feeling
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: that you get when you watch something that you think
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: is real but it's not.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I will say, while we were let down by Luke Skywalker,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Mark Hamill's appearance in The Mandalorian.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, really bad.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: That was cgi and it was so bad. However, Harold
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Ramis that was in Ghostbusters his because he had been passed,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: he had passed away. They recreated it, but it was
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Harold Ramis's character coming back as as if he was
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in the Other Afterlife. It was so well done. I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: remember watching it going, oh my god, did he shoot
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: this before he died? I mean, obviously not, but it
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: was just so amazing. So it can be depending on
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the artist that's creating it that believability and you know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe taking a step out of the young Count
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Cannon Valley.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, I mean, And to kind of answer Sean's
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: question about like who would get an award, I guess
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you would say, you know, it'd probably be the technical
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: it would be a lot more technical awards given out
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: instead of you know, instead of artistic awards, it'd be
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: a technical award.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I feel like there would be a whole new category
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: of just here. But what's stopping somebody from submitting? Like
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the proving that it's AI is going to be difficult
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: down the road, right, right, So I could submit a
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: film and say, no, this is a real actor, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: then they could be like, prove it or not? Right, So,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just think it's it's going to be
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: a weird next decade for consuming media.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, are we going to take a quick break?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Come back. I do want to ask Justin another question
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: about his camera again. Well, we'll give you that camera
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that will tell you what it is in case you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: missed it. But it's pretty amazing. See the video on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: our blog blog tech talk radio dot com. I'm Andy Taylor,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Let me find us on the web tech talk radio
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: dot com. As Andy just said, be right.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Back and now fact to tech talk Radio. So we
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: have been spending the first segment of the show just
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: eyeballing Justin's aging. How do you pronounce it? Eyeballing? Works too. Okay,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: what do you think, Sean Ougling? What are we doing
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: googling googling drooling? Yeah, and it's not you, sorry, justin,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: it's not you. It's the camera is pretty all pretty amazing.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Did you go with the standard lens? Uh? And and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: what camera is it? Again? For our listeners that maybe
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: didn't catch the first segment, and we tell you, hit
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the blog, watch the video. It's on our YouTube. You
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: can subscribe as well.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the camera is a Sony A seven mark four,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: so a seven M four. It does with the kit lens,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: and I don't without having to interrupt the video stream here,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I can't really tell. It is a three point five
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: to five point six twenty eight to seventy millimeters separately,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: or it came.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: With it, No, it came with it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Now you can buy the body by itself for like
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: like well see let's see the Black Friday deal had
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: the camera by itself for twenty one or the kit
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: for twenty four, and that was like with six hundred
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: dollars off on both, so you know, add six hundred
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: to it for the for the full price. But yeah,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: so twenty four hundred.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Is what I paid.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: It would have been closer to three thousand out the
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: door if it wasn't a Black Friday sale. But it
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: is one of the upper line Now, it's not the
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: top of the line Sony. Now, the top of the
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: line Sony is like the A one or even the
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: A nine, depends on which way you want to go
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: with it. But the A seven Mark four is about
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a year old. It's it's got released last year. But
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: it is a very very good I would even say
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: entry level. It is like a more of a mid
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: level camera.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: It's at the bottom end of the professional level.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Right, It's it's not prosumer, right, it's it's a tier
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: above prosumer.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: That's where I'm gonna put.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: It, right, it's a it's an entry it's an entry,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: entry level professional camera.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: That's where I'll put the A sevens.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Now you were you were kind of impressed on by
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the lighting, uh even right now what we're looking at.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Right, So, uh, we're talking about in the break and
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I said, justin I'm really impressed at how there's no
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: chromatic abrasions or aberrations whatever the end.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no idea what that means.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: In the green and the blue lights behind you, right.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: So it's it's the lens and the camera are doing
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: a good job of identifying that that's actually green and
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: not like if you oversaturate a pixel with a certain color,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: it starts to get weird. I like to tell people
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: it looks like when you try and shoot it's something in.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Low blue light.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Right, we try something, the blue.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Starts to get like blocky and kind of just muddy. Yeah,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: And that's that's kind of what that is. And it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: just the camera not interpreting the.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Colors very well. What do you think Justin's trying to
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: change the color to his lights.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Trying to change the color of the room. Oh, look
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: at that. That's pretty amazing too. So for those listening
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: not watching, he just changed the color of his lights
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: because you what are you using?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Whys are you using? Tasa teepeling kasa. So I went
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: from like a blueish green on some of the lights,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: now I'm doing straight red across the board, right, and
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: that that looks pretty good.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: And then let me try this. This is more of
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a purplish blue. Wow.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: And then here's straight green all the way across.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Just it's so nice. It's got a warm feel to it.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty darn good camera. I'm wondered, Sean, if
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I was the hook of my Canon seventy or even
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: my Rebel T one, could I get.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you might have to update the firmware right to
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: get the to get the USB support.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: But you ain't gonna get good. You're not gonna look
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: as good as this.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry you just you just not speaking of because
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: that look darn good.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Speaking of lighting, we haven't touched.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: The battery I had. I had to adapt my lighting.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Look, no, my camera just shut off.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Oh no, it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Just it turned It's Oh my god, my battery is dead,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Is that? Why? Oh you'd have to plug You're gonna
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: have to plug it in.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Now, the joys of plagued with new technology.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what's funny is I'm still talking to you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: You can't see me, but I.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Don't have I don't know if I have, no, I
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: have fifty three battery left, So.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: What would happened? Did overheat? I don't know, I don't know.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Hold on, let me let me switch it back on. Now.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: If it overheated, that'd be actually yeah, it is actually
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: kind of it is actually kind of warm.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: So I'm sitting on top of your computer.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, there you go. All right, you're back. Yeah,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: there we go. I'm back, all right. Which I want
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to bring up another point too. We didn't talk about
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: this lighting. You know, you're adjusting the lighting tepee link,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you're using i O Sean, you're using WYS. We didn't
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: talk about your outdoor lighting, which kind of hinted to
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: that last week. For anybody that is thinking about doing
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: permanent crisp, we'll call them permanent Christmas lights. This is
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, you could use them year round, of course.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: How did this whole process go?
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean I've been thinking about doing permanent lights
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: for many years. It's been cost prohibitive. I mean, I
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: think the main player in the permanent light system was
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I want to say, it's Jellyfin or Jellyfish, one of
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the two. I'm kind of ly in toward more jelly Finn.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: But anyway, when I looked at how much it would
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: cost to do Jellyfin, it was like ten thousand.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Dollars, Oh my lord, oh wow.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: But I mean they obviously have a lifetime guarantee and
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: whatever and they come out and install it. But I
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: was like, that's just that's ridiculous for what it is. Now,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: I do have a neighbor who went jellyfin and it
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: looks amazing, but for that price, I was just like,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it's just ridiculous. Now fast forward four years
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: from that initial conversation with that guy, this guy bought
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: a different house and he actually went with and Brighton
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: on the new house. So he left the jellyfin on
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: the old house and went with and Brighton. Now and
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Brighton is e n Brighton in Brightenme dot com is
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: the website. Costco is selling hits of in Brighton permanent
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: outdoor holiday lights in one hundred foot strings for about
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: one hundred.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: And sixty bucks.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Wow, all right, and they come They come in black
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: if your house is more of a darker color. They
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: also come in white if the house is a whiter color,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: so that kind of blends in with the fascia the
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: overhangs the eaves of your home.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: So this way it will pass more HOA.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Maybe it would be more likely to pass HOA if
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: it kind of more blended in with it. So the
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: process is actually pretty simple. So when you buy these
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: and brightened kits, they actually come in four sections of
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: sixteen and a half feet and they come with these
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: little round mounting brackets that have three ms sticky tape
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: on it. So what you do is you get up there,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: you mount the very first one, you take off the
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: three m tape, you stick it where you want it
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: to go. Then you take a screw and screw it
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: in there so it sticks permanently. Then you take the
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: light and you pop it into the socket, and then
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: you just kind of stretch it out to see where
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: the next light's going to go, and you know exactly
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: where you got to put the next one.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Then you put the next sticky thing.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Screw it in, pop it in, next light, sticky it,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: screw it in, pop it in.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: It goes really quickly. I was able to do a
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: little bit of it.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I don't really like to do ladders all that much,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: so I did what I could with a six ladder.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: But then I hired a guy to come out and
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: he did the rest of it, and he hooked. He
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: got up on like thirty five foot ladders, went all
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: the way up to the top of my house, did
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: all of the eves, all the way around the side,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: all the way through the back.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Everything.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: He did all of it, and I think he charged
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: me like three hundred and eighty bucks to do it.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: But now I don't have to worry about holiday lights
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: ever again.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: And if, like during Halloween, you want to put up
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: orange and black, you could.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: They all they actually had, Yeah, there are They are
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: rb are hold on red green, rgb IC W rgb IC,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: so they're individually controlled, so you can change every single
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: light to what you want it to be. But that
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: also means that the lights can chase each other, they
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: can all change colors, they can do all these effects,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: so like they have presets on here. So for instance, Halloween,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: we did a mode called lightning, and what it would
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: do is it would have it kind of like a
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: be of a like a dark purple with a little
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: bit of orange, and then all of a sudden it
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: would go boom and it would flash and all the
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: lights would turn on really bright, like a lightning strike,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: and then it would go dim. Or we can do
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Fourth of July where all the lights are red, white,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: and blue and they all just chase each other around
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: the house. Or we can do Christmas where they're red, white, blue,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: and green. Or you can do Saint Patti's Day where
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: they're going to be mostly green, but you can do
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: all these different effects where they're chasing, they're fading, they're blinking,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: they're flashing, they're solid, or I can just simply do
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: white and just have the house illuminated in white. Wow,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: it's so cool and it's all done through an app.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: So the lights themselves costco. Somebody could pick them up.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: They go online, find out more info about them, and
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: then maybe find if you don't feel like getting up
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: on the ladder, like, just find somebody that wants to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: make a few extra bucks and we'll climb up there. Now,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: what happens though, if one of the light bulbs go
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: goes out?
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean for and Brighton does have a lifetime
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: guarantee on their lights, so I'm assuming when they say
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: lifetime guarantee, I'm assuming like ten years or so, because
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: there's no way LEDs are going to last literally a lifetime.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: What would happen is, again, they come in sixteen foot lengths,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: so I can simply go to the point where the
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: light has failed, unscrew with the weather proof cap, unscrew
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: that strand pop it out of the molding bracket or
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: the mounting bracket and just pop in a new set
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: of sixteen and a half foot lights and then I
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: just reboot the system. It recognizes the new string of
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: lights and bam, we're off.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: To the races. That's pretty good stuff. I like it.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: We'll put the picture of Can we put a picture
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: of the house up on our on our block? B
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: blur out my address? All right, blog tech talk radio
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: dot com. We'll do that. All right, we do have
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: a listener question. I thought we'd go ahead and see
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: we can get to. Before we have taken a break,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: my son has already given me his list of stuff
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he would like for the holidays. I like it. He's being,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: you know, proactive. I like that. So one of the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: things he asked for was a mechanical keyboard with a
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: question mark. He has a keyboard with his computer, and
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: he said it's not mechanical and it would help him
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: type better with a question mark. Is this true? Question mark?
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Because I listed every weekend to your show, and I
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: try to pick it all up, but I'm lost to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: this one. Is there a brand better than the than
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the others? That's from Melody and Staita. All right, it's
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a good question. Mechanical keyboard versus say just a Logitech
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: keyboard or a or a keyboard you may find in
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Walmart or best Buy.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: So as we're talking about this question, I'm rebooting my
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: cool camera and it just happens to be looking at
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: my mechanical keyboard. So I have the Corsair mechanical keyboard.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Now I have to say I used to be the
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: same type of person where I was kind of like
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know about mechanical keyboards, Like I don't see
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: what the.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Big deal is, It's just a big fad whatever.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: No, once I got a mechanical keyboard, it is game changing.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: And I don't mean game as in video game. Yes,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: it helps with video games, but the tactile feedback that
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: you get from a mechanical keyboard is you cannot match
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: that with with a whatever digital keyboard or whatever you
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: want to call it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: It just feels better, I mean, And that's the clicking.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: He said it would help him type better? Could it
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: actually this? Yeah? Absolutely?
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: And think about it as as a parent. Now I'm
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: assuming this is the you know, the parent talking here.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Imagine going back to like the early nineties or even
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: the eighties, when you were on a keyboard, those keyboards
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: that were everywhere on every computer. Those were mechanical keyboards.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: The loud clickity clackity clickity clack keyboards, they were all
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: mechanical because that's how they started. They started with mechanical,
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: and then somebody came up with this whole idea of
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: let's make them digital, which is great. They're silent, but
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: you don't get that tactile feedback that you would with
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: a mechanical So yes, I highly recommend a mechanical keyboard.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And brand wise, Uh, I know Logitech has a mechanical keyboard.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Uh, of course, there's They're all over the place, and
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think one brand is particularly better than the other.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Right, you just kind of maybe get an idea of what.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: He wants to do with his mechanical keyboard, Right, does
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: he want it to be fancy and light up? Does
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: he want it to simply be super loud? Does he
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: want it to be Ask him.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: What brand? Yeah?
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Best Buy has him.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they can actually try and type them. Yeah, exactly.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. Walmart has a lot of them.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: They got a couple. Yeah. Yeah, all right, Well good,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: we gotta take another quick break. We come back with
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: more of tech talk radio. We got some good stuff
• 41:03
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• 41:06
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• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Now back to tip Talk Radio.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: So I'm not sure what you guys were up to
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: this last Friday, but I tried an emphasis on the
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: word try. I tried to watch the spectacle that was
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Jake Paul on Netflix.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Friday before last. Yes, definitely, yeah, Oh my.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Gosh, what a horrible, horrible showcase of technology that was.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, you couldn't watch it. I mean there were
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: so many people. It was the number one trending topic
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: on x which is formerly Twitter, right that people just
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: could not get in. They could not watch it. Netflix
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: has kept buffering and they would just if you could
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: watch it. It was completely pixelated. There were just a
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: handful of people that were that I've talked to that
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: said I didn't have any issues, And I'm like, well,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: you should go buy a lottery ticket because you're one
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: of the lucky ones because the rest of us, the
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: millions and millions of people couldn't do it. Now, my
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: concern is, so somebody brought up a point today my
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Boss actually brought up a point. He said, well, I
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: don't understand why Netflix couldn't do this because Amazon Prime
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: they do it all the time. They got you know,
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: live TV. They do the Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: They never have any buffering alerts. And I said, well,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: there's two things to that. One, this was a worldwide event.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Everybody knows who Mike Tyson is. Right, you have people
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: all over the world trying to get into Netflix versus
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Thursday Night Football.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Eh, you're not going to get that many people.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Two. Amazon owns Amazon Web Services, which is their server farm,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: basically their data centers. Right, that's what they use to
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: do Thursday Night football or any other type of live
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: TV that they do.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: They own that. Netflix, however, is a customer of Amazon
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Web Services. They have to pay for servers. Like if
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: you ever go if you ever dig into the technical
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: data of your Netflix stream, you will see that the
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: server that you're hitting is always going to say something
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: about like one two three, aws dot something right or
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: aws AWSL something whatever, because they're using Amazon Web Services. Now,
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: my point is, though, you're talking about the number one
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: streaming platform on planet Earth that could not figure out
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: that this is going to be a huge deal. If
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: your engineers come to you and say, hey, we need
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: one hundred servers, don't give them a hundred servers, give
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: them two hundred services. This has happened time and time
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: again for the past decade. Anytime there was a major
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: release of like, let's say, an online video game or
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: a major release of a streaming service of some yes,
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, it always fails and nobody ever learns their
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: dang lesson. They come on, how hard is it to
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: know that, Hey, this happened in about two years ago
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: and it failed. We should probably double our infrastructure.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: So you mentioned Thursday night Football and you mentioned the
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: viewership numbers, and I just looked them up.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Andy and Justin you guys can both guess what do
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: you think the viewership of Thursday night Football is?
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Oh? Boy, I don't know a seven million?
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Close?
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Really I would I would have to go rout about
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the same seven or eight million.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: So averaging twelve point six million viewers for Thursday night Football. Okay,
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: so on a week to week basis.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Now, how how many how many watched Netflix's Tyson Paul Fight?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I know this answer?
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: Sixty million?
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Sixty million people.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, sixty.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Million people were streaming. Yeah, that's a lot of bandwidth.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: But the thing is is you talk about these companies
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: like Amazon Web Services or Netflix or whoever, right, they
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: have the ability.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: To scale immediately.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like they can spin up virtual machines, they can
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: spin up virtual servers at the click of a button.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: If they're like, oh man, we're at one hundred percent capacity,
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: spin up another couple servers, Bam done.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I don't understand how.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: They could not just spin up another one hundred servers
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: or whatever. Maybe it wasn't even the servers that were
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: the problem. It could have been their internet connection, Like
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: maybe they just didn't have a big enough internet pipe
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: to serve all these people.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: So we tried watching it. It was four times that
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: it would start to pixel eight and then we would
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: just get the ring, you know, where it was like
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: trying to reconnect. I would just exit and then go
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: right back into it. And we were able to watch it.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: And now this is funny because I've never sat and
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: watched to Fight because normally they're on pay per view,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: you know, or something like that. But it was because
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: it was on Netflix. I thought, hey, let's check this out.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: You know, and I I Mike Tyson's gonna just clean
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the ring with this guy, and wow, there were some
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: big surprises that night. Yeah, I don't know, Sean. Did
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: you try and watch it? Did you have buffering? Yeah?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: So I was on and we were actually streaming some
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: of the earlier fights right because we wanted to watch
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: the featherweight fight, which the fight before Tyson.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: And Paul was actually women was Yeah, such a good fight.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like if if you're a boxing fan, that fight
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: was way more entertaining than the Tyson and Paul fight.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: That fight was great. We were all trying.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: There was about a dozen of us trying to watch
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: it on individually, trying to stream individually, and then it
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: all came down.
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: To it, we can't get it, he can't get it,
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: he can't get in.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Finally, one of the guys were watching was just like
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: I got in, and then he tried to stream it
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: on Discord, but Discord DMCA just a black screen. Oh well,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: so when I was in and I tried to stream
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: as for OBS, but OBS d m C A Chrome.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Now I have dmc A, so if you try and
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: view it inside of another application, it just shows you
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: a black screen. Finally somebody was able to find an
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: illegal stream. I was able to put it into discord,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: and we all watched it on his stream, not that we.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: So I actually watched it somewhat legally because I went
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: When I was I was basically I was on X.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: I was complaining, I was tweeting that Netflix, I was
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: calling them names, I was saying some things that probably
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: don't want to repeat on air. But I found the
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: former wide receiver Antonio Brown. He was at the event
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: in a suite and he was like he could he
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: could see all the people talking on X, like, hey,
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: this is not working, is not working. He goes, you
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: know what, I'm just going to go live. So he
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: went live on X and and and mounted his phone
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: on the railing overlooking the field of of of the
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: AT and T Stadium because you know, they have that
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: massive jumbo tron in the center right. So he was
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: basically streaming the fight on X from his point of view,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: and it was totally legal because it was just his
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: point of view. It wasn't like it was taking the
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: stream or whatever. It was his point of view. When
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: I tuned in, it was one point seven million viewers
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: when Tyson Paul took the ring. There was nine million
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: people watching his live stream.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Because people were calling people going, hey, it's gonna start,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: It's gonna start, and that's when people were kind of
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: tuning in for that. I missed. I missed the whole
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: thing with Tyson's backside that I didn't see, and I'm
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: probably glad I found out about it afterwards. But either way,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: it was interesting, you know, speaking of this too, and
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: the amount of people Twitter, A lot of people said
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that that's it. They were done with Twitter, so they
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: were moving over to Blue Sky. And Blue Sky, if
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: you don't know, was created by the guys that started Twitter,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: and apparently it's open source. Uh so you know, people
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: go to and I remember when Blue Sky was first announced, I'll,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of sign up for this. And the
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: thing is they were complain People have a need on
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: social media to complain about something, So they complained about Twitter.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: They complained about the environment they were feeling that they
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: that was on Twitter and what were they doing. They
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: go on to Blue Sky and I start getting connections
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: on Blue Sky and people are you can follow us
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: tech talk radio. But the right away it was political
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: there and I just I didn't.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: I just do not want any of the politics left right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: I don't want.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I wanted to this experience to on Twitter. I would
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: like that to go away. And uh for for being political,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: and the same with Blue Sky, but Blue Sky became political.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: But on the other it's like facing more to the left.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: And it was like, come on people.
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  Speaker 3: So so I actually had a conversation with somebody because
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: I was mentioning that I was on X and they
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: were like, oh my god, you're what of those right wingers?
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, what are you talking about? Like X
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: is not you know, well, I was told that this
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: and this person was obviously leaning towards the left and
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: we're not going to get political with this thing. But
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: I told him, I said, no, you're wrong, it's not
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: It's it's what the content that you want to curate exact.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: And the thing is is that if you interact with
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: those posts, if if you hover over those posts, you
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: click on those posts, or you look at those comments,
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: it's gonna think that you want to know more about that.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: It's gonna show you.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: So what I've done on my personal X account is
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: I've curated it. I've blocked and not blocked. I've just
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: I've said I don't want to see this content, or
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: I don't want to work content, yeah yeah, or keywords.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: And I've curated my x feed now to be exactly
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: what I want it to be. And I very rarely
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: see any political content. So it's just people that are
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: complaining over nothing. They're just too lazy to do that.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that just love to complain
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: and on. This is both sides of the aisle. But again,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Blue Sky is there. If you are on there, connect
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: with us and uh, you know, we will talk games,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: we talk tech, we just don't talk politics. Now that's
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: take another quick break. We come back with more of
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: and I'm justin.
• 51:14
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  Speaker 1: Dot com, forde slash. Tech talkers would right back and
• 51:21
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  Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, this is Gary ho ho hoy, and you
• 51:31
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: So Randa emailed us a question, all right, and she said,
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: she said, and this, I think I'm the right one
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: to answer this, all right. She said, I have some
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: old VHS tapes in the garage and they don't have labels. Oh,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: what's the best way to get them converted to DVDs?
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Is it expensive? Randa from Ducson all right, well, Ronda,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: for one, I'm gonna tell you not to convert it
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: to DVD. No really, I'm just gonna tell you to
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: get it converted a digital format that you can play
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: on your computer.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: Don't get a DVD. DVD's are just gonna take a space.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: You're gonna have to dig out the DVD player to
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: put it in, because the one's last time you put
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: a DVD in a DVD player?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Would that be?
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: What if I gonna say what I want to show
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: it on my TV? Right?
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Most TVs come with a USB slot now, so you
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: can put a USB stick in the USB slot and
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: show your pictures that way.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Be like what m MP four format? Yeah, that's for video.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah you could.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: You could work that out and I'm sure the people.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: So there is a service that I would recommend called
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Legacy Box. You tell them I have X amount of
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: content that I want to be digitized. They'll send you
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: a box based on the amount of stuff you've told them.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: You've pack it in the box, you ship it.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: To them and they digitize it for you and then
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: they send you back the original tapes.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Anyways, right, I believe you can either I'm sure you can't.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Either tell them to destroy it or you can get
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: it all ship back to you, depending on what you
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: want to do with it. But they are doing a
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: sale right now. I just went to their website because
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: as I was looking it up, eight dollars a tape.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, that's not bad. Yeah, So if if.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: You want to do it, get on there. Check it out.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: Legacy box dot com. I've not personally used them.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Because I do my own digitizing, but I've had friends
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: and family that have used legacy Box and they've had
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: great success.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: So legacy box dot.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Com I wanted to mention too. You know, we recently
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: took a look when it comes to photo scanning at
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: that EPSIN Fast photo six eight W which I finally
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: sent back to Epsin. Loved it. I scanned so many
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: pictures and it is pretty fast a little slower if
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: you're doing it six hundred dpi, and you're right, Sean,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: it did go up to twelve hundred dpi. But I
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: sent you a picture today apparently Visioneer has got one. Now.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: You sent me a link.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Earlier today and I checked it out, and I'm gonna
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: try to either get it for Christmas or convince somebody
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: in my family to buy for me.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: It's the pH seventy high Speed Photo scanner and it's
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: about one hundred dollars cheaper than the epsin Now, I
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm gonna try and actually see if we
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: can get in touch with the company, try it out,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: and then we could kind of compare the quality of
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the scans and the speed of that as well. But
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: again B and H Photo had that from Visionaire and
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I've used. Matter of fact, I think I had a
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: flatbed scanner that was a Visionaire and absolutely loved it.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Well, so I did a little research today because I'm seriously,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: I have so many pictures to scan out of my
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: family's archive, right, So this is a going to be
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: a solution for me. But it's whether it's the absence
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: or the Visionaire. The Visionaire if you buy it from
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: their website, you get a year subscription to the software
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: that will face that you can you can tag people's
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: faces and as you scan, it will tag the metadata
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: with those people. In there. So if you scan a
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: ton of photos, it will automatically tag them with the
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: people that are in them that you've identified. It's like
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: saying like my uncle, tom My, aunt Kathy, my mom
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: my dad, etcetera, etcetera. Then as you scan future pictures
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: will have that data tagged.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Oh I love it. That's great. All right, we've run
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: out of time for this week's show. Definitely hit up
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: our blog blog dot tech talk radio dot com. We'll
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: have more content up there. In the meantime, have yourselves
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: a great Thanksgiving, of course that's gonna be coming up.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: And then don't forget Black Friday. Maybe next week we
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: could share some tips for safe shopping with cyber Monday.
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm sean.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: To weird, and I'm justin. Let me have yourselves a
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: great holiday week. We'll see you next time.