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Episode 424 - We Think We Heard Shawn's Shoulder Snap! (That's Hard to Say) · 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 guys, this is Al Petrelli from the Transient Orchestra.
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Speaker 2: Normally I'm not a nerd, but I am a tech
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Speaker 1: Say, welcome to another episode of tech talk Radio. I'm
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Speaker 1: Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm justin.
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Speaker 3: Let me welcome.
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Speaker 1: Holidays are in full effect. The Black Friday, Cyber Monday
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Speaker 1: is over. Did all right? So the big question is
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Speaker 1: we know that Sean got something he picked up. You
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Speaker 1: were out justin did you buy anything? Were you were
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Speaker 1: you looking at anything for you know, buying for that time.
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Speaker 3: I bought some bitcoin, some Shiva in news, some cardonos,
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Speaker 3: some Solona. Yeah, I bought some stuff.
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Speaker 1: Did you get in in the right time? That's the
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Speaker 1: big question.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I I you know, we talked
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Speaker 3: about the a few shows ago, about the new camera
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Speaker 3: that I got, which is the one I'm using for
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Speaker 3: broadcasting right now. If you want to, you know, watch
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Speaker 3: the podcast, you can always go to tech talk radio
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Speaker 3: dot com and you can see it. But the new camera, yeah,
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Speaker 3: so I bought that with crypto. But yeah, I mean
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Speaker 3: I've just been buying some crypto.
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Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, you made a statement at the other
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Speaker 1: the day. Now we go, we had to bind listeners.
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Speaker 1: Whenever we talk about the crypto, we have to say
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Speaker 1: we're not experts, We're not an investment company. This is
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Speaker 1: just our own experiences that have been involved with it.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's always risk involved with anything you do.
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Speaker 1: But for those of us that purchased crypto a long
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Speaker 1: time ago and have held on to it, those huddlers,
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Speaker 1: they've been pretty happy with it. Now it hit one
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand, which was, you know, pretty good because I
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Speaker 1: think you know, we remember the days we were waiting
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Speaker 1: for it to hit twenty the twenty five.
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, I was waiting for it to hit like
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Speaker 3: I was waiting for it to hit sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it did. Now there's some people are saying
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Speaker 1: that's not it, that it could even go further. Oh
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Speaker 1: it will.
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Speaker 3: And now that you've gotten the attention of major corporations
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Speaker 3: made countries, you know, I mean, you got United States
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Speaker 3: of America with the incoming Trump administration talking about how
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Speaker 3: they're going to want to make a huge bitcoin reserve,
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Speaker 3: and then you've got Russia talking about wanting to make
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Speaker 3: a huge Bitcoin reserve and the UK Bitcoin Reserve, and
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Speaker 3: then not only that, but then you've got major companies.
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Speaker 3: And then, just as the time of this recording, the
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Speaker 3: Microsoft shareholders voted not to make a bitcoin reserve, which
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Speaker 3: I think is a ridiculous decision on their part. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: you've gotten now the attention of so many people. And
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Speaker 3: it's not just regular people like you and me. I mean,
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Speaker 3: these are organizations, these are countries. This is the entire
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Speaker 3: world right who is now interested in bitcoin? And this
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Speaker 3: is just the beginning.
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Speaker 1: Some people are saying that it's a little confusing, that
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Speaker 1: they may want to get into it, they don't know
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Speaker 1: where to get started. And you know, we've had Joe
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Speaker 1: Blackburn on the show before, We've had others from crypto
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Speaker 1: coin Trader, which is a Facebook group which provides a
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Speaker 1: lot of info. We've had O'Neill on that. O'Neill, Yeah, O'Neil,
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering. You know, if somebody was to come to you,
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Speaker 1: and you know, your cousin or your your nephew would say,
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Speaker 1: you know, hey.
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Speaker 3: I want to have.
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Speaker 1: I want to get into this. So what do I do?
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Speaker 1: What do you do? What do you what would you say.
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Speaker 3: What I do is I tell people the same thing
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Speaker 3: kind of what you just mentioned a little bit ago.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's like you got to do your own research.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not going to tell you what to buy.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you what I believe in in
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Speaker 3: terms of the coins, because I mean, obviously there's bitcoin,
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Speaker 3: but bitcoin is like gold, right, people don't just simply
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Speaker 3: I mean some people do, but people usually don't just
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Speaker 3: buy gold. They buy stocks. And so you could compare
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Speaker 3: bitcoin to gold, and then stocks you could compare to
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Speaker 3: like alt coins, like I said, shiba Inu or or
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Speaker 3: Cardono or Solana, you know those are those are like
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Speaker 3: the alt coins, and that's where you really make your
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Speaker 3: money or you could lose a lot of money because
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Speaker 3: as they're very volatile. But I would say you just
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Speaker 3: simply open up a coin base account and and and
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Speaker 3: people are like, well, I can't afford a bitcoin because
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Speaker 3: it's one hundred thousand. You don't need to twenty bucks,
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Speaker 3: ten bucks, five bucks, you know, it doesn't matter what
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Speaker 3: you can put. You can put like a minimum of
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Speaker 3: like five bucks in and just let it grow from there.
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Speaker 1: And see what happens with it.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think from when we talked about
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Speaker 2: crypto pretty specifically four years ago. Five years ago, even
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Speaker 2: I had started putting in ten bucks a week. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: oh I've been doing that ever since.
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Speaker 3: I've been putting in five hundred dollars every two weeks
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Speaker 3: for the last like six years.
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Speaker 1: Oh. Man. The all coins like etherrem and Etherorem also
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Speaker 1: has room to grow as well, doesn't it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you were to if it going going
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Speaker 3: back on my analogy, right there, ethereum would be like
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Speaker 3: compared to like the silver of gold, right, Bitcoin is
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Speaker 3: the gold, Ethereum would be the silver, right and and
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Speaker 3: ethereum is right there with it. But ethereum really doesn't.
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Speaker 3: Not a lot people are talking about Etheroeum right now.
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Speaker 3: It's a separate chain. It's a separate blockchain. It does
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Speaker 3: its own thing. I mean a lot of stuff happens
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Speaker 3: on ethereum, but right now it is Bitcoin's moment. You know,
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Speaker 3: this is a bull market. You know, we can I
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Speaker 3: guarantee you if we were to get O'Neill back on
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Speaker 3: the show, because remember O'Neil was called the Bear Moon.
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Speaker 3: He was the guy that was always against bitcoin, and
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Speaker 3: he still is even at bitcoin one hundred thousand. He's
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Speaker 3: still He's like, I don't like bitcoin. I don't like it,
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Speaker 3: but he loves crypto. He loves what it can do
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Speaker 3: for people, and so he talks all about the alt coins.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, ethereum is out there, you know, Like I said, Cardono,
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Speaker 3: you got shiba Enu, you got doge. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: made a killing on doge just because I happened to
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Speaker 3: make a bet. It was literally just like a gamble
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Speaker 3: on doge. I bought a bunch of doge coin right
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Speaker 3: when Trump announced the whole or elon Musk and the
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Speaker 3: whole VIVA recently, yeah about the whole like they're they're
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Speaker 3: forming this new Department of Government Efficiency also aka DOES,
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Speaker 3: which has nothing to do with the crypto coin Doge.
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Speaker 3: But I made a bet, I said, you know what,
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Speaker 3: I think people are gonna think this has something to
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Speaker 3: do with this, and so they're gonna buy it. And
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Speaker 3: sure enough, the price skyrocketed, and I made a killing.
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Speaker 1: Right, people can follow it, and they can even believe
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Speaker 1: they can even follow it and not make an account,
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Speaker 1: but yet still find out like oh how much would
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Speaker 1: I have made or where would it be now, just
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Speaker 1: to see if it I mean it eventually might be
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Speaker 1: something you may want to do it again. It's all
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Speaker 1: this is all personal choice, but you got to do
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Speaker 1: your research.
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Speaker 3: I would say the best website for you if you
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Speaker 3: just want to like look at it and not necessarily
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Speaker 3: invest coin marketcap dot com. Very simple website. It just
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Speaker 3: simply lists all of the cryptocurrencies and it tells it,
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Speaker 3: you know, what their price is, what the one hour,
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Speaker 3: twenty four hour, seven day, what the market cap is,
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Speaker 3: what the volume is, and you can just simply just
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Speaker 3: kind of watch it and see for yourself.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to talk about shopping. You actually started buying
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Speaker 1: or selling. I'm not sure which one it was on
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Speaker 1: one of the sites that I really haven't thought about
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Speaker 1: in a long time that is still out there and
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Speaker 1: people are still going there. They're still selling and they're
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Speaker 1: still buying. eBay. Yeah, was it? How was this experience
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Speaker 1: for you? Because you know, people kind of moved from
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Speaker 1: eBay to Facebook Marketplace, you know, for selling locally, and
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Speaker 1: there have been horror stories about selling and buying on
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Speaker 1: Facebook marketplace, so you know, are the same conditions available
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Speaker 1: on eBay? Is it a better experience? How was it? Well?
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Speaker 3: I think eBay is a little bit more protect. You
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Speaker 3: got a lot more protection when it comes to eBay.
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Speaker 3: You know, Facebook marketplaces. A lot of times it's a
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Speaker 3: place for people to be able to meet up and
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Speaker 3: trade what they need to get traded or sell in person.
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Speaker 3: And that's where the security aspect comes into play because
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Speaker 3: a lot of people, not a lot of people. Some
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Speaker 3: people have had stories where they're trying to sell let's
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Speaker 3: say a PlayStation or whatever, and they go to meet
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Speaker 3: up with the person and they get robbed at gunpoint. Okay,
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Speaker 3: with eBay, not so much, because a lot of times
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Speaker 3: you're usually shipping the item. In my case, I sold
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Speaker 3: my one wheel.
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Speaker 1: And did you that you bought it? What about a
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Speaker 1: year and a half ago? I remember we talked about that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I haven't wrote it, And honestly,
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Speaker 3: I was like, you know the price, I mean, I
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Speaker 3: paid fifteen hundred dollars for that, and it's arge it
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Speaker 3: and it only had about twenty five miles on it,
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Speaker 3: Like I mean, it was virtually brand new and upgraded.
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Speaker 3: I mean I upgraded. I upgraded the pads, the sticky
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Speaker 3: uh sandpaper pads on it. I mean I did a
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Speaker 3: couple of things to it. So yeah. I mean I
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Speaker 3: really took a hit. But what I did was I
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Speaker 3: posted on eBay for a starting bit of eight hundred
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Speaker 3: dollars and I wanted to try to see a buy
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Speaker 3: it now price of like, I don't know, twelve hundred.
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Speaker 3: And it didn't sell the first time. But then it
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Speaker 3: relisted and somebody bid eight hundred and I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 3: here we go and nothing, and sure enough the guy
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Speaker 3: got it for eight hundred dollars and I'm like, dang it.
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Speaker 3: I was like, I really and then okay, then this
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Speaker 3: is where it went down south From here, the guy
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Speaker 3: buys it. Okay, the one wheel is heavy. I mean
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Speaker 3: it's like thirty five forty pounds.
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Speaker 1: Wait, y, don't tell me you didn't include shipping.
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Speaker 3: Well, no, what I told eBay on my listing was
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Speaker 3: that I will calculate shipping and the buyer will pay
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Speaker 3: a calculated shipping. No. No, eBay just decided to go
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Speaker 3: ahead and charge him sixty eight dollars for shipping. And
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Speaker 3: I'm like, uh, that's not even going to cover half
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Speaker 3: of it. So yeah, sure enough, I take it over
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Speaker 3: to the UPS store. They have to do a custom
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Speaker 3: box first off, so I have to pay for a
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Speaker 3: custom box and then I have to pay for shipping.
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Speaker 3: It was one hundred and twenty two dollars. I contact
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Speaker 3: the guy, I contact him via eBay and I'm like, look, man,
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but you know I'm I'm first off, I'm
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Speaker 3: losing a ton of money. You guys, you got a
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Speaker 3: killer deal because I wanted to sell this for twelve hundred,
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Speaker 3: thirteen hundred dollars because it's basically brand new. You got
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Speaker 3: it for half price. And on top of that, I'm
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Speaker 3: getting screwed on shipping, and not to mention, eBay took
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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty dollars for their fee.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 3: I was literally I was literally going to walk out
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Speaker 3: of there with like four hundred and fifty dollars. Oh
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Speaker 3: that's out rated fifteen hundred dollars one wheel that is
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Speaker 3: going to get that Wow. So I contacted the guy
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Speaker 3: and I'm like, look, man, I'm sorry. You know, I'm
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Speaker 3: a little upset. I'm not going to ask you for
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Speaker 3: anything because obviously you know you got a hitge deal.
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Speaker 3: The guy was super cool. He was like no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: no no, I've got like two of these already, and
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Speaker 3: I know how much of that I know how expensive
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Speaker 3: they are. I know that I got a huge deal,
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Speaker 3: and I know the shipping's gonna is going to hurt you.
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Speaker 3: So just send me a send me a screenshot of
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Speaker 3: the of the shipping receipt. He paid me one hundred
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Speaker 3: and twenty dollars on top of the eight hundred and
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Speaker 3: sixty eight dollars that you know that he had to
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Speaker 3: pay for eBay, So he covered the entire charge of shipping.
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Speaker 3: So I ended up making about six fifty right off
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Speaker 3: off of a fifteen hundred dollars one wheel.
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Speaker 1: I forgot that eBay will take a portion of that.
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Speaker 3: Oh god.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And they hide it. They don't tell you this, but
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Speaker 3: they hide it. They advertise your product for you, and
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Speaker 3: it's a tiny little check box that if you don't
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Speaker 3: uncheck it, they're gonna charge you a ten percent fee
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Speaker 3: for advertising.
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Speaker 1: So once you got a box top and shipped off,
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Speaker 1: did you feel okay it's done? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: No, because now it is somewhere in Montana, because this
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Speaker 3: guy lives somewhere in Montana, and eBay will not give
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Speaker 3: me my money until it actually gets to his house.
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Speaker 3: And he goes to eBay and says, yes, the product
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Speaker 3: has arrived and it is working as intended. Then I
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Speaker 3: finally get my money.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's outrageous. Yeah, it's crazy.
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Speaker 3: I hate it. So I just I don't think I'm
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Speaker 3: ever gonna use eBay.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ask you for buying. Sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't sold anything at an eBay never maybe
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Speaker 2: something back in like the Eero two thousands.
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Speaker 3: Right, I mean I used to sell all the time,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, not anymore.
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Speaker 2: It's good for buying collectibles now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I bought I bought that lens. I told
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Speaker 3: you guys, I got a new lens for my Sony.
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Speaker 3: It's a thirty five millimeter F one point eight. I
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Speaker 3: bought that on eBay. So basically I just used the
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Speaker 3: money that I made from the one wheel to buy
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Speaker 3: the lens. Because the lens, I think was I was
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Speaker 3: in a bidding war and I ended up walking out
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Speaker 3: of there after taxes and shipping. I think it was
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Speaker 3: like four hundred and ten dollars.
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Speaker 1: How should somebody protect themselves though on eBay? I mean
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Speaker 1: we know about you know, the safety items, the safety
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Speaker 1: things you should think about with marketplace. Never have somebody
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Speaker 1: come into your house if you're selling something. I don't
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Speaker 1: care how convenient it is. Don't have somebody come to
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Speaker 1: your house, make it in a public place. But what
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Speaker 1: about you know, with eBay? What are some things people
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Speaker 1: should do to protect themselves because this brings up a
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Speaker 1: good question about buying and selling online.
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Speaker 3: Well, I would say one of the things, and I'm
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Speaker 3: sure Sean you can chime in here too, but I
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Speaker 3: think one of the things is you do all communication
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Speaker 3: through eBay. Do not do it, yea, do not do
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Speaker 3: any personal communication like, oh, let's just take this offline,
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Speaker 3: call me on my cell phone and we'll discuss the details. No, No,
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Speaker 3: you do all communication via eBay because if that person
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Speaker 3: decides to try to scam you, or they make some
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Speaker 3: sort of a deal with you that they end up
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Speaker 3: not wanting to hold up, if there is no chain
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Speaker 3: of evidence via eBay, then eBay is not going to
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Speaker 3: protect you with it. They're not going to give your
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Speaker 3: money back. As long as you can do everything through eBay,
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Speaker 3: eBay can review all chat logs and say okay, yep,
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Speaker 3: we see what's going on here. We'll protect you. But
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Speaker 3: if you take it offline, you're on your own. Buddy.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, So I had something very very interesting this
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Speaker 1: past week, I had sent a piece of equipment from
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Speaker 1: our studio that needed to be repaired in for repair.
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Speaker 1: It was not under warranty, but a brand new one
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Speaker 1: would cost me two hundred dollars. The repair on this
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Speaker 1: item would be one hundred and twenty five bucks. So
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Speaker 1: I went ahead. I just said, you know what, I'll
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Speaker 1: send it in. So I sent it into the company.
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Speaker 1: They were nice. They sent me a label to send
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Speaker 1: it in, and then I got an email saying, the
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Speaker 1: product's been repaired. This is what was wrong with it.
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Speaker 1: They replaced the a motherboard that was a part of it,
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Speaker 1: and to call this number. So I call a number
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Speaker 1: and it was very obviously. I received an offshore agent
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Speaker 1: not here in the United States, and she said, okay, great,
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Speaker 1: do you do you have the number? And I gave
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Speaker 1: the number she said, and she said, okay, how would
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Speaker 1: you like to pay? And I said, well, can I
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Speaker 1: do this online? And she said no, we don't have
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Speaker 1: that option for you to do it online. You could
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Speaker 1: give me a credit card number over the phone.
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Speaker 3: No, thank you, And.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, wait a minute, wait, why would I Obviously
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Speaker 1: it's offshore. I'm going to give my credit card number
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Speaker 1: to a operator, and I'm going to hope that they're
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Speaker 1: not writing down somewhere else.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. So I was perplexed,
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Speaker 1: like what am I going to do to get this?
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Speaker 1: And I asked, can I send a check or money
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Speaker 1: order or cashier's check? And they said no, They sent
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Speaker 1: me to the email said no, they can't do that. So,
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Speaker 1: actually it was interesting because I was talking to my buddy,
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Speaker 1: a buddy of mine that used to be in law enforcement,
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Speaker 1: and he said, this is easy. Why didn't you think
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Speaker 1: about it? Go to the like Walgreens, or go to
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Speaker 1: a supermarket that sells the pre paid visa cards that
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Speaker 1: you can buy a pre you know, a pre amount
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Speaker 1: on a visa card and that works just like a
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Speaker 1: credit card. You could say this is what I want
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Speaker 1: on this card and you could use that and that way,
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Speaker 1: it's not tied to a credit account that you use
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Speaker 1: in the long run.
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Speaker 3: Yep. That's a good idea that that touches upon the
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Speaker 3: whole gift card scam. Though it sounds similar to one
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Speaker 3: of those gift card scams. Not it's not. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know, I get I get what you're saying, but
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Speaker 3: it does it doesn't bring back memories of the gift
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Speaker 3: card scam. It's like, hey, you need to go pay
15:51
Speaker 3: us where the I R s And you need to
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Speaker 3: go pay us in Apple gift cards. It's not quite
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Speaker 3: the same thing. What you're talking about is more like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: I have to repair an item, and it's where the
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Speaker 3: repair cost is seven hundred and forty two dollars. Right,
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Speaker 3: instead of using your card credit card, you go buy
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Speaker 3: a prepaid.
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Speaker 1: Visa card for exactly seven hundred and forty two dollars exactly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And that that way I don't have to worry about it. Also,
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Speaker 1: another here's a word word of warning to you. Also,
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Speaker 1: and he told told me this, never pay with a
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Speaker 1: debit card your debit God, no, you'll use the debit
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Speaker 1: card anywhere ever, Yeah, your debit liability limits are less
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Speaker 1: or are high, so like there's there's only fifty dollars
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Speaker 1: that they'll cover apparently with a credit card. Like if
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Speaker 1: you used American Express or Discover, you may have you know,
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Speaker 1: greater security, greater protection on that. So again you gotta
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Speaker 1: be careful of that.
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Speaker 3: Well real quick. Here's the thing about the debit card
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Speaker 3: is if they get your debit card and they somebody
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Speaker 3: hack you know, takes your debit card number, they can
16:50
Speaker 3: literally drain your entire bank account. Yeah, and then your
16:53
Speaker 3: bank account is going to be frozen and you're not
16:55
Speaker 3: going to have any money until the bank figures out
16:57
Speaker 3: what's going on. So don't ever use your debit card anywhere.
17:01
Speaker 3: I don't care, gas, pump, convenience store, Target, Don't ever
17:05
Speaker 3: use your debit card period. Use a credit card because
17:09
Speaker 3: a credit card who cares if they get it, If
17:12
Speaker 3: they get it, make a charge. You just call a
17:13
Speaker 3: credit card company and say, yeah, I didn't do this,
17:15
Speaker 3: and damn they'll take they'll take it away.
17:17
Speaker 1: All right, So we know what you got. You got
17:19
Speaker 1: coin Sean. You did something a little different. You told
17:23
Speaker 1: us about it, and we I didn't think you were
17:25
Speaker 1: gonna see this honestly for like another week or two.
17:28
Speaker 2: But it has got it two days or after I
17:31
Speaker 2: ordered it. Two days, Oh wow, two days I got it.
17:34
Speaker 2: I ordered it on the second of December. I got
17:37
Speaker 2: it on the fifth of December.
17:38
Speaker 1: All right, give me.
17:40
Speaker 2: This is if you're watching the video, this is the
17:43
Speaker 2: DJI Power one thousand.
17:44
Speaker 1: You're gonna break your shoulder putting that. I know it's heavy.
17:47
Speaker 1: I feel like I.
17:48
Speaker 2: Should do a workout with the thing, and then I'm
17:50
Speaker 2: gonna look up the total way. I think it's about
17:52
Speaker 2: twenty five pounds ish. This is the DJ powder one
17:56
Speaker 2: thousand it is. They call them solar gen raiders, right,
18:00
Speaker 2: that's that's not really what they are. It's just basically
18:03
Speaker 2: a big inverter, a dced AC inverter. But it also
18:08
Speaker 2: so it's got on the on the front. It's got
18:10
Speaker 2: two U one ten plugs, two USB A and two
18:16
Speaker 2: USBC on the front.
18:17
Speaker 1: Plus it's got the.
18:18
Speaker 2: Ability to charge it with you know, I can plug
18:20
Speaker 2: it into an Edison plug on the wall, and I
18:23
Speaker 2: can also then plug in I can't really see it.
18:27
Speaker 2: I can plug in my solar panel and it'll it'll
18:30
Speaker 2: draw power. It's basically a big solar controller, so I
18:33
Speaker 2: can charge it with my solar panels on the go.
18:35
Speaker 1: Did you get did you get? Did you get solar
18:38
Speaker 1: panels with it?
18:39
Speaker 3: No?
18:39
Speaker 2: I did not, because I've already got four hundred watts
18:43
Speaker 2: worth of solar panels on top of my camper, which
18:46
Speaker 2: I can tie into this while we're camping if I
18:49
Speaker 2: needed this right now. Now, I've got a lithium lithium
18:52
Speaker 2: whatever they call light life po lithium iron phosphate battery
18:56
Speaker 2: in my camper. So this is going to be in addition, like, hey,
19:00
Speaker 2: we're over by the campfire and we want to have power.
19:02
Speaker 2: We don't want to run an extension court from the
19:04
Speaker 2: camper or you know, we're going out for a picnic
19:06
Speaker 2: at the beach or whatever.
19:08
Speaker 3: You know, if you're sitting by a campfire and you
19:10
Speaker 3: pull that thing out, you better be pulling out like
19:12
Speaker 3: sub wolfers in a DJ set because that thing is massive.
19:17
Speaker 1: Uh.
19:17
Speaker 3: You could you could hold a rave with that. Yeah.
19:19
Speaker 2: If I would have if I would have had more
19:21
Speaker 2: time tonight, if the boys would have been asleep a
19:23
Speaker 2: little bit earlier, I was gonna run my entire setup
19:26
Speaker 2: on this tonight.
19:27
Speaker 1: Oh that would have been interesting. Oh wow, Yeah, because
19:29
Speaker 1: this has been halfway through.
19:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably this this this will do uh twenty five
19:34
Speaker 2: hundred peak and I think twenty two hundred watt consistent,
19:38
Speaker 2: which is way more than what my rig is set up. Right,
19:41
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna pull that much power, but I'm curious
19:44
Speaker 2: to see what I can do with it. It's it's
19:49
Speaker 2: mostly just for a little bit of self self security.
19:51
Speaker 2: You know, power outages, that kind of thing. You know,
19:55
Speaker 2: I'll use it when we're camping, for sure, you know
20:00
Speaker 2: I'll use it. A good example would have been when
20:03
Speaker 2: we went and shot the eclipse. You know, I had
20:06
Speaker 2: my camper there, but you know, Steve, my buddy, Steve
20:09
Speaker 2: had he is set up his power telescope. I had
20:11
Speaker 2: my cameras going, Dustin had his cameras going. You know,
20:14
Speaker 2: we wanted to listen to the radio. You know, this
20:16
Speaker 2: would have been perfect for that. How do we not
20:19
Speaker 2: hit my camper or other things like that? So the
20:22
Speaker 2: portable generator that's gonna satisfy most of my you know,
20:28
Speaker 2: most of my needs. And it kind of came out
20:30
Speaker 2: of nowhere. I know, we talked. I talk about a
20:32
Speaker 2: lot about DJI on the show because there's such a
20:35
Speaker 2: great The products that they've put out have been really,
20:40
Speaker 2: really good over the last two decades, and this one
20:46
Speaker 2: kind of came out of left field. We were talking
20:47
Speaker 2: about it, and I think we had a drone launched
20:50
Speaker 2: a week before that and then but if you can
20:52
Speaker 2: find it on Amazon, I think they're still going for
20:55
Speaker 2: nine ninety nine right now.
20:58
Speaker 1: You ad but how much did you get it for?
21:00
Speaker 2: Right? Right? So this is what we talked about last
21:02
Speaker 2: week was I had texted Ady because I was like,
21:05
Speaker 2: there's no way I got this for this kind of
21:06
Speaker 2: a deal. I got an email from dj I saying, Hey,
21:09
Speaker 2: Black Friday pre sale, take up to forty percent off,
21:12
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. I was like, cool, I click down
21:14
Speaker 2: the link and I was like, Oh, it's on sale
21:17
Speaker 2: on Amazon for fifty percent off already. So it was
21:20
Speaker 2: already like four ninety nine or something. So I was like,
21:24
Speaker 2: there's no way that if I put this code in,
21:26
Speaker 2: it's gonna apply another forty percent discount. Sure enough, it
21:30
Speaker 2: dropped it to three forty nine or I think I
21:32
Speaker 2: ended up paying with shipping like three eighty or three seven,
21:35
Speaker 2: three seventy five or three eighty for this, which was incredible.
21:38
Speaker 2: And you know, on the show, we looked up other
21:40
Speaker 2: comparable bottles, like Anchor has one that was comparable, Jackerie
21:44
Speaker 2: Rock Pals, There's a couple other good vendors that make these.
21:48
Speaker 2: But I couldn't pass this up because I was literally
21:50
Speaker 2: sitting on the couch when I ordered it because I
21:52
Speaker 2: saw it. I was like, Kay, I'm buying this. She
21:54
Speaker 2: goes what I was like, I told you I wanted
21:56
Speaker 2: to buy this when it went on sale.
21:58
Speaker 3: That's what I was just about to say. How many
22:00
Speaker 3: rose pedal baths and back roaths that you have to
22:02
Speaker 3: give Caitlin to to let her let you buy this.
22:07
Speaker 2: As long as it's not like a several thousand dollars
22:10
Speaker 2: purchase or several you know, it's over one thousand dollars.
22:14
Speaker 2: We just trust each other with their money, so.
22:16
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's really cool because uh, I, you know,
22:20
Speaker 1: I would never thought of buying something like this, and
22:23
Speaker 1: I got the anchor. It's a little smaller, it's a
22:26
Speaker 1: lot smaller. It's about half the size of that, But
22:29
Speaker 1: there is some kind of peace of mind that goes
22:31
Speaker 1: with it just to have it here and have it
22:34
Speaker 1: charged up, to have it ready to go, that you
22:37
Speaker 1: know that if something happens, you could tune to turn
22:41
Speaker 1: to this power generator and run an appliance or run
22:45
Speaker 1: something that you may need off of that. And mine, honestly, Sean,
22:50
Speaker 1: mine was two hundred bucks. You got that for maybe
22:54
Speaker 1: just a little more than that, and you've got double
22:57
Speaker 1: at least double the power, if not more.
22:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna been an pull up the stat sheet
23:01
Speaker 2: and let risk list rattle off a few things after
23:04
Speaker 2: the break, But I just don't have it pulled up
23:06
Speaker 2: right now. But yeah, I like this is just I'm not,
23:09
Speaker 2: by any means a doomsday prepper, right, I just like
23:12
Speaker 2: I'm I'm prepared to be comfortable. I'm not a boy scout.
23:16
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm just I like being prepared a little bit, right.
23:19
Speaker 2: So my dad always instilled in me that you should
23:23
Speaker 2: be prepared to survive for seventy two hours in any
23:27
Speaker 2: situation while you're driving traveling just you know, motoring around
23:31
Speaker 2: seventy two hours without aid. It's just kind of that.
23:34
Speaker 2: That's kind of that if you look it up, that's
23:35
Speaker 2: kind of the standard because by seventy two hours, it's
23:39
Speaker 2: either gotten way beyond the need for aid or help
23:42
Speaker 2: us come. Yeah, yeah, p seventy two hours. Like it's like,
23:46
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've just become a little bit more
23:49
Speaker 2: paranoid over the last decade.
23:50
Speaker 1: All right, We'll tell you what. Maybe you can look
23:52
Speaker 1: up some of those stats. We have to take quick break.
23:54
Speaker 1: We got a couple of listener questions in I asked
23:57
Speaker 1: this week for any questions, and we got some. So
24:00
Speaker 1: we will do that with more of tech Talk Radio.
24:02
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24:12
Speaker 2: So during the break, I pulled up the stat sheet
24:14
Speaker 2: for the DJA power one thousand. It's it's pretty good, right,
24:18
Speaker 2: So did quick some quick math. Right, it has at
24:22
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty vol one hundred to one hundred
24:24
Speaker 2: and twenty volts. That's the standard American power consumption. It
24:27
Speaker 2: has a continuous output of twenty two hundred watts. Oh wow,
24:31
Speaker 2: if you do if you do the math on that
24:33
Speaker 2: at one hundred and twenty vaults two hundred twenty watts,
24:35
Speaker 2: you do the math. That's ten amps of total capacity
24:39
Speaker 2: I could put. I could run up to ten amps
24:42
Speaker 2: of power through this thing. So if and I Andy
24:48
Speaker 2: would say something, well, they could run your freezer. So
24:50
Speaker 2: I looked it up. What is the average power draw
24:52
Speaker 2: on a freezer? Obviously a kupresso startup draws more power,
24:56
Speaker 2: so about four and a half amps on startup, But
24:59
Speaker 2: then it can continuous draw of about one and a
25:01
Speaker 2: half to two amps of power. This could power my freezer.
25:04
Speaker 2: For several hours.
25:05
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's good. So that was on top of that.
25:09
Speaker 2: If you know, if we have a sunny day when
25:11
Speaker 2: we have power out, I can just extend my solar
25:13
Speaker 2: panel out into the front yard and you know, just
25:16
Speaker 2: let it, let it trickle charge back in while it's
25:18
Speaker 2: also powering my my freezer, my fridge, or you know,
25:22
Speaker 2: it's even enough to run the blower fan on my furnace.
25:26
Speaker 2: So if we have a power outers in the wintertime
25:28
Speaker 2: it would blow, it would power the blower motor on
25:30
Speaker 2: my furnace, which is great. So just just some peace
25:35
Speaker 2: of mind stuff happening. That looity of live stuff.
25:38
Speaker 3: And you said that you've got that for three and
25:41
Speaker 3: fifty bucks, I mean, I guess.
25:42
Speaker 2: So as of this recording, it is still half price
25:46
Speaker 2: on Amazon. You can still go to Amazon and get
25:48
Speaker 2: it from Amazon through the DGI store half off. So
25:52
Speaker 2: if you can get a code from DJI, you could
25:55
Speaker 2: probably get the double dip discount that I got. So
26:00
Speaker 2: just checking if if you're interested in these, just go
26:01
Speaker 2: check it out, right, dj I I have brand loyalty
26:04
Speaker 2: a little bit there, right, Yeah, there are there are
26:07
Speaker 2: other brands are cheaper than dj I. I'm just putting
26:11
Speaker 2: that out there.
26:11
Speaker 3: I'm not what I'm What I'm trying to say to
26:13
Speaker 3: you is I don't think anybody's gonna get d g
26:15
Speaker 3: I code because you are mister d J I like.
26:21
Speaker 2: I get a lot of d j I uh promotional emails.
26:25
Speaker 1: Right, Hey, did we ever find out if there are drones?
26:28
Speaker 1: What's going on with that legislation?
26:30
Speaker 2: You know, I will continue and ask chat gypt because
26:34
Speaker 2: I have a trending topic with them on that. I
26:37
Speaker 2: will ask for an update and I'll get back to
26:39
Speaker 2: you after after the next break.
26:40
Speaker 3: The thing is this, you can't ask CHATTYPT because chatty
26:42
Speaker 3: BT's knowledge based cutoff is like a year ago.
26:47
Speaker 1: I wonder.
26:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's been pretty good about it when I
26:50
Speaker 2: ask it for updates. I also have the paid version,
26:54
Speaker 2: so that might be a little drunk.
26:55
Speaker 3: Okay, well, Jen, I've been I've been using.
26:58
Speaker 2: It and I'll get it because I've prompted it several
27:01
Speaker 2: times over the last year on this topic.
27:03
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've been using Gemini. Sometimes I'm happy with it.
27:08
Speaker 1: Other times I'm like, no, no, you're way wrong Gemini,
27:11
Speaker 1: and you could tell it and it will then give
27:13
Speaker 1: you the corrected info like, well, didn't you have that
27:16
Speaker 1: info in the first place for you to correct me
27:18
Speaker 1: with it? But either way, all right, we got questions
27:21
Speaker 1: listener question. This one is from Ron in Tucson said, hey, guys,
27:25
Speaker 1: love your show. Have been listening for years. I say, guys,
27:29
Speaker 1: but I do miss hearing Amanda on your show. She'll
27:32
Speaker 1: be happy to hear that. I said, I have a
27:33
Speaker 1: small business and have about six computers that I want
27:37
Speaker 1: to get networked so I could share files and printers. Now,
27:41
Speaker 1: if I was to run the cables, I have two
27:44
Speaker 1: offices and a computer upfront in the lobby. Could I
27:47
Speaker 1: just buy a router and connect them? Is it difficult
27:50
Speaker 1: to set up? And again that's Ron and Tucson.
27:54
Speaker 2: I feel like this is right up Justin's alley because
27:56
Speaker 2: this is daily.
27:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, every day, every day you're doing with this.
28:01
Speaker 3: Oh man, could you repeat the question one more time
28:05
Speaker 3: because I want to make sure that I understand exactly
28:07
Speaker 3: what he's.
28:08
Speaker 1: Trust six computers, he wants to have them networked, Yes,
28:12
Speaker 1: so he could share files and printers, and he was
28:16
Speaker 1: to run the cables. He has two offices obviously they're
28:20
Speaker 1: closed off I guess, and a computer upfront in the lobby,
28:23
Speaker 1: So there must be like a you know, a lobby,
28:26
Speaker 1: a waiting room or whatnot. And he was to know
28:28
Speaker 1: could he just buy like a router and connect them, And.
28:31
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you've got if you've got internet
28:34
Speaker 3: in your office, I mean probably through you know, your
28:37
Speaker 3: local ISP. The modem that they give you is also
28:40
Speaker 3: acting as a layer three gateway slash router, so it
28:43
Speaker 3: is going to do everything for you in terms of
28:45
Speaker 3: handing out IP addresses to each of your devices on
28:48
Speaker 3: your network. I would say probably the only thing you
28:52
Speaker 3: really need to do is just buy a layer two switch.
28:57
Speaker 1: Okay, and just like a like.
29:00
Speaker 3: A net gear maybe at like a Linksys or an
29:03
Speaker 3: f S f S is a little bit nicer f
29:06
Speaker 3: fs dot com. Just by a layer two even maybe
29:10
Speaker 3: even a layer well actually layer three switch. Really they're
29:16
Speaker 3: not expensive, like one hundred bucks for like a ten
29:18
Speaker 3: port maybe you know for one ten ports, right, well,
29:21
Speaker 3: you don't even really need ten ports, but like a
29:23
Speaker 3: managed layer three switch that you can get in and
29:26
Speaker 3: you can set each port to be on a particular
29:28
Speaker 3: VLAN if you want to like isolate printers from computers
29:34
Speaker 3: or isolate security cameras from your computers or whatever like,
29:38
Speaker 3: you could have multiple v lands on a Layer three switch. Honestly,
29:41
Speaker 3: that's all you need a switch. You need your your
29:43
Speaker 3: data at providers providing you with a Layer three router.
29:47
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, would you need a managed switch or is
29:50
Speaker 1: that really not necessary?
29:52
Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, the only reason to haven't
29:54
Speaker 3: managed is if you want to isolate, you know, devices
29:57
Speaker 3: on your network from not talking to each other. Like
29:59
Speaker 3: I said, security cameras. If you've got a bunch of
30:01
Speaker 3: security cameras that are wired and you want to keep
30:04
Speaker 3: them separate from the computers, then you want to manage
30:07
Speaker 3: switch because then you can put the cameras on vland
30:09
Speaker 3: one hundred and your computers on vland two hundred, so
30:13
Speaker 3: that way they never actually talk to each other. They
30:15
Speaker 3: can talk to each other if you want them to,
30:18
Speaker 3: but it's just like in everyday general traffic. They're not
30:22
Speaker 3: going to be talking to each other.
30:23
Speaker 1: But they can all be plugged into that switch, and
30:25
Speaker 1: then your internet connection we come into the back of that.
30:28
Speaker 1: The other thought is if he didn't want to do
30:30
Speaker 1: any wiring. Now I have a power line network here,
30:34
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely enthused about it. It's not the fastest
30:38
Speaker 1: option in the world. But could he also do this
30:41
Speaker 1: with a mesh network Wi Fi mesh network or when
30:44
Speaker 1: you're in a business, is that maybe not the best
30:47
Speaker 1: idea to you know, I mean, most of your connections
30:51
Speaker 1: you're going to do, like I know in your situations
30:53
Speaker 1: justin are going to be wired. But in a mesh system,
30:56
Speaker 1: you have you know, a router like io lynksyst makes,
30:59
Speaker 1: some ACE who has them, a lot of company net gear,
31:03
Speaker 1: and then you have throughout the building. So you know,
31:07
Speaker 1: what would what would be the solution there? What?
31:11
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm not I'm not even really exactly sure how
31:14
Speaker 3: to approach this part of the question with a mesh network,
31:17
Speaker 3: because you're really opening up a can of worms when
31:20
Speaker 3: you get into like a mesh network. I think this
31:24
Speaker 3: would be something to answer this part of this question.
31:28
Speaker 3: I think this would be better taken offline, to be honest,
31:31
Speaker 3: because there's so much to talk about. There's just there's
31:34
Speaker 3: so much to talk about when it comes to a
31:35
Speaker 3: mesh network.
31:36
Speaker 2: At this point, you're you're at that you're at the
31:38
Speaker 2: line of hiring a professional. Yeah, at the line of
31:43
Speaker 2: you know, you don't need to necessarily pay a firm
31:45
Speaker 2: to manage it for you, but like to to draw
31:47
Speaker 2: it out, architect it, to get it on paper so
31:50
Speaker 2: you know exactly what you're doing and what you're getting.
31:53
Speaker 1: You're at that line, I would I would almost recommend
31:56
Speaker 1: maybe doing a flow chart of okay, where is the
31:59
Speaker 1: you know, they could uters, you know, a flow chart
32:02
Speaker 1: showing the wiring, because a lot of people forget you
32:04
Speaker 1: don't just run the wire on the floor.
32:06
Speaker 3: You get to run the wire.
32:08
Speaker 1: You want to have it run properly and sewan your point,
32:11
Speaker 1: maybe hiring somebody to actually install the cat, you know,
32:15
Speaker 1: the cat six jacks or whatever to get get them
32:19
Speaker 1: done properly.
32:20
Speaker 2: Because because what's gonna happen is if we tell them
32:22
Speaker 2: how to set it up. Hey, here's how you share files,
32:24
Speaker 2: then he's going to come back and say, hey, I
32:25
Speaker 2: need your help. I unplunk something and now it's not
32:27
Speaker 2: working anymore. Please fix it? Right, So who's going to
32:30
Speaker 2: maintain it for you?
32:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I'll be what it breaks like.
32:34
Speaker 2: It's basic technical support, sure, but beyond that, it's that
32:40
Speaker 2: this is this is your at the point where you
32:42
Speaker 2: need to hire somebody who's day job that can come
32:45
Speaker 2: and support you at your shop in person and give
32:48
Speaker 2: you the knowledge that you want.
32:49
Speaker 3: This is kind of what I was leading towards. I
32:52
Speaker 3: didn't really want to say that because I didn't want
32:54
Speaker 3: to put us on the hook for it. But but
32:56
Speaker 3: I mean honestly this, Yes, if you're looking to get
32:59
Speaker 3: something that complex, you really need to hire somebody to
33:02
Speaker 3: do that for you.
33:03
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that would make sense and it could be
33:06
Speaker 1: kind of a Dante task. I don't know if you
33:08
Speaker 1: guys ran the latest STO Windows update. They just you know,
33:11
Speaker 1: they ran another update for Windows eleven and unfortunately the
33:16
Speaker 1: update has taken away a lot of things. Number one,
33:19
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys noticed, but word pad
33:21
Speaker 1: is gone now. So what word pad is gone? Yeah,
33:25
Speaker 1: in the latest STOW Windows update. If you use for
33:28
Speaker 1: Windows eleven still has it. Yeah. You may say you
33:31
Speaker 1: may not have run the other update that that is
33:34
Speaker 1: the one that's taking it out. Uh, so word pad
33:37
Speaker 1: has gone for many. The other one is they had
33:39
Speaker 1: a problem with the file sharing, so some people who
33:42
Speaker 1: were able to normally share files over a system suddenly
33:46
Speaker 1: those shared folders were gone, so they had to be
33:49
Speaker 1: reshared and it was causing some headaches, which is very interesting.
33:53
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys noticed, but uh, there
33:56
Speaker 1: was a story that I saw just just actually couple
34:00
Speaker 1: of days ago that Microsoft has now got a kind
34:05
Speaker 1: of an upgrade path for you to upgrade to Windows
34:09
Speaker 1: eleven from Windows ten, even if you do not have
34:13
Speaker 1: TPM two point zero or maybe or maybe your system
34:17
Speaker 1: is not ready. PC World had the original story and
34:21
Speaker 1: they have official instructions. Now they're warning you though. They're
34:24
Speaker 1: saying that it includes, uh, you know this, you could
34:28
Speaker 1: have problems like system crashes, the lack of crucial security
34:31
Speaker 1: updates that otherwise keep the PC safe. And this is
34:34
Speaker 1: because in October, you know, Windows ten will no longer
34:38
Speaker 1: be supported. So the idea was get everybody to Windows eleven.
34:43
Speaker 1: And some people are not like me, I'm not able
34:46
Speaker 1: to do it on one of my systems that was,
34:49
Speaker 1: you know, a pretty expensive processor and a motherboard. Couldn't
34:52
Speaker 1: do it. And now maybe we'll give it a try.
34:54
Speaker 2: We're in the market so over Thanksgiving, the man laws
34:58
Speaker 2: and they said, we've got this laptop and it's telling
35:01
Speaker 2: us we need upgrade to Windows eleven and what do
35:04
Speaker 2: you think? And I was like, well, let's check it out.
35:07
Speaker 2: And sure enough, it's just old enough to not be
35:11
Speaker 2: supported by Windows eleven, not necessarily because it doesn't have
35:14
Speaker 2: TPM too, but the processor is an early early Gen
35:18
Speaker 2: I three that is just beyond the boarded, which, to
35:22
Speaker 2: be fair, it's time for them to get an upgrade. Yeah,
35:26
Speaker 2: so we I get to go computer shopping with my
35:29
Speaker 2: in laws to kind of get them an idea of
35:30
Speaker 2: what they want. So now it's you know, trying to
35:35
Speaker 2: figure out what they want versus, Okay, here's what I
35:38
Speaker 2: think you should get. Because if I give them a
35:40
Speaker 2: computer laptop that I think they would want, they're gonna
35:42
Speaker 2: hate it because it's it's not gonna look right, it's
35:44
Speaker 2: not gonna feel right, it's not gonna be wide enough,
35:46
Speaker 2: it's not enough. So I'm going to take them shopping,
35:50
Speaker 2: like right, go to mess Buy. We're gonna look at computers.
35:52
Speaker 2: We're gonna get an idea of what they want, what
35:55
Speaker 2: they want to see, the feel that, do you want
35:57
Speaker 2: the number pad like all that stuff, because they're very
36:01
Speaker 2: particular when it comes to their computer. So I don't
36:03
Speaker 2: want to just get them a computer and say here
36:05
Speaker 2: you go, because then I'm gonna be on the hook
36:07
Speaker 2: for well, hargarment doesn't have a number. Bad, Now I
36:09
Speaker 2: need any keyboard.
36:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, well all this now here's one of the things too.
36:13
Speaker 1: After installing this, this would drive me nuts. You know.
36:16
Speaker 1: It says if your device doesn't meet the requirements before
36:19
Speaker 1: doing Windows eleven, you'll see a water mark added to
36:23
Speaker 1: the desktop and then you'll see a notification of the
36:26
Speaker 1: settings app and they can only be removed with registery tweaks.
36:31
Speaker 1: That's it. Now, I have kind of an add when
36:35
Speaker 1: it comes to notifications. If I see a notification, I
36:38
Speaker 1: want it to go away. I want that little dot.
36:40
Speaker 1: I want whatever that is popping up to not to
36:43
Speaker 1: just go away. I don't want to look at it,
36:45
Speaker 1: and I get I get really upset when I have
36:47
Speaker 1: these notifications. So this could drive some people very like, uh, frustrated.
36:52
Speaker 1: And can you go back to Windows ten? You can,
36:55
Speaker 1: but you'd only have ten days to do so, and
36:57
Speaker 1: if you don't, you're stuck with what you got. So well,
37:00
Speaker 1: if you want to go for it support dot Microsoft
37:02
Speaker 1: dot com, you can do a search for installing Windows
37:05
Speaker 1: eleven on devices that don't meet SYS minimum System requirements
37:09
Speaker 1: and you may be able to find that there.
37:11
Speaker 2: Well, what I think What I think happened was like
37:13
Speaker 2: they had and I think they approached this the business way, right.
37:19
Speaker 2: They said, they scare tactic, We're not going to support
37:22
Speaker 2: Windows ten anymore. You have to upgrade, blah blah blah.
37:25
Speaker 2: And I'm sure they're getting a kickback from every vendor
37:29
Speaker 2: that installs. You know, all these companies that buy volume
37:33
Speaker 2: licenses from Microsoft probably said, well, if you just make
37:36
Speaker 2: it so it seems like our stuff won't run on
37:38
Speaker 2: Windows eleven, maybe people run Windows ten, they'll upgrade to
37:41
Speaker 2: Windows eleven, and we'll give you a little bit of
37:42
Speaker 2: the kickback. Because then coming back a year and a half,
37:47
Speaker 2: two years later after Windows eleven, was saying, well, maybe
37:50
Speaker 2: your processor could have ran Windows eleven. We just didn't
37:53
Speaker 2: know at the time. Of course you knew. It's just
37:56
Speaker 2: you were getting more people onto your platform to accept
37:59
Speaker 2: your user terms of agreements because they've been so much
38:02
Speaker 2: more updated. Plus you get Copilot and all this other stuff.
38:06
Speaker 2: And you know what has fallen off the radar that
38:08
Speaker 2: you haven't heard about? What's the AI backup?
38:12
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, what happened with that?
38:13
Speaker 2: Where did it go?
38:15
Speaker 1: Interesting?
38:16
Speaker 2: Be such the the I don't remember what it was called,
38:19
Speaker 2: even because it's it's it was, so it hit the
38:22
Speaker 2: internet saying that Windows is going to capture your desktop
38:26
Speaker 2: every second so that you can you can go back
38:31
Speaker 2: and you can search for where did I put this
38:33
Speaker 2: important pdf on my desktop? And it's gonna be like, oh,
38:36
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use AI and analyze your dah.
38:37
Speaker 3: I think I think that the backlash on that just
38:40
Speaker 3: they kind of quietly just said, you know what, We're
38:42
Speaker 3: just gonna not do.
38:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they couldn't answer basic things like where's the store,
38:47
Speaker 2: where are all these images stored? Is it in the cloud,
38:49
Speaker 2: where is it? And it's just how often they it's
38:54
Speaker 2: just wild that happening.
38:56
Speaker 1: We got to take another quick break. We come back.
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39:15
Speaker 3: All right, we got another listener question from Mary in
39:17
Speaker 3: Oral Valley says, I'm thinking about getting some new speakers
39:20
Speaker 3: from my desktop computer. Is there a brand that you
39:22
Speaker 3: would recommend a coworker said, to get a Bluetooth so
39:26
Speaker 3: I can connect other devices to that. Does that make sense?
39:28
Speaker 3: It does, Mary. However, if you're looking at getting computer
39:32
Speaker 3: speakers for your desktop, honestly, I would just go with
39:37
Speaker 3: the simple old Logitech three speaker system. It's two satellite
39:42
Speaker 3: speakers and a tiny subwoofer that sits under your desk.
39:45
Speaker 3: They work great, they have great sound, and I believe
39:49
Speaker 3: you can probably get those for about fifty bucks on Amazon,
39:51
Speaker 3: maybe sixty.
39:52
Speaker 1: Five and maybe even less.
39:54
Speaker 3: Would maybe even less. Really, I mean, I would not
39:56
Speaker 3: go with like a super cheap knockoff brand because you're
39:58
Speaker 3: not gonna get a good sound. I person only have
40:00
Speaker 3: I've had the seven point one surround Logitech. I now
40:03
Speaker 3: have the three point one, which I mean, I'm sorry,
40:06
Speaker 3: the two point one, which means two speakers in a sub.
40:09
Speaker 3: I love the quality just for for being able to
40:12
Speaker 3: listen to regular music. I mean, I'm not I'm not
40:15
Speaker 3: an audio file right right, I don't. I don't need
40:17
Speaker 3: I don't need lossless quality with speakers. But for the
40:21
Speaker 3: price that I paid, I think it was like sixty
40:22
Speaker 3: five dollars for a two point one Logitech wired system
40:27
Speaker 3: for your desktop. I think that's great. Now, Bluetooth is
40:29
Speaker 3: great if you want to be able to connect your
40:31
Speaker 3: phone to it. Now there are some I mean, you
40:34
Speaker 3: can get a wired system that will plug into your desktop,
40:37
Speaker 3: but it also has the ability to connect Bluetooth to
40:40
Speaker 3: it in case you want to connect your phone temporarily
40:44
Speaker 3: and play music off of that. So I would take
40:46
Speaker 3: a look. But my recommendation the Logitech two point one system.
40:50
Speaker 1: I've at one of the best I ever had, and
40:52
Speaker 1: I've I've got Logitech as well, But one of the
40:54
Speaker 1: best I ever had was Altic Lancing and all tic
40:57
Speaker 1: Lancing had this this system. It was a two one,
41:00
Speaker 1: but oh my gosh, was that amazing? A great sub
41:04
Speaker 1: bloo for the whole bit. What have you got?
41:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I agree that having a setup with a
41:10
Speaker 2: two point one or you know, two speakers in a
41:12
Speaker 2: sub would be great. This I got this as a
41:15
Speaker 2: gift last year for Christmas at work. It's a jbl
41:18
Speaker 2: clip Clip two point l or something right, it's called
41:22
Speaker 2: a clip three. It's a Bluetooth. It's just it's waterproof,
41:26
Speaker 2: I can, you know. But I just wanted a quick
41:29
Speaker 2: Bluetooth speaker that I could just drop down by my computer.
41:32
Speaker 2: It's a low profile, it sits right in front of me.
41:35
Speaker 2: I have it plugged in power. It connects Bluetooth to
41:39
Speaker 2: my computer. I turn it on, it connects automatically to
41:41
Speaker 2: my computer. But I could take it away and plug
41:43
Speaker 2: it into my phone, or you know, it's got an
41:45
Speaker 2: oxport on the bottom, so I could plug it into
41:48
Speaker 2: a different, different device, my laptop, et cetera, or connect
41:51
Speaker 2: be a Bluetooth.
41:52
Speaker 1: So that's JBL.
41:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had really great success with JBL products over
41:57
Speaker 2: the years professionally and personally. Is not a bad brand,
42:01
Speaker 2: and just a quick a quick Google best Buy has
42:05
Speaker 2: a set of JBL two point oh that just means
42:08
Speaker 2: two speakers, no sub two point oh. When you say
42:10
Speaker 2: two point one that he means two speakers and a
42:13
Speaker 2: sub that has a powered Bluetooth speaker set with a
42:19
Speaker 2: with a single speaker and a satellite. So two right,
42:22
Speaker 2: excuse me, two decent speakers. So there are options for
42:26
Speaker 2: desktop Bluetooth speakers that look like desktop Bluetooth speakers that
42:30
Speaker 2: you can then connect your phone to your laptop, et cetera,
42:34
Speaker 2: but also have looking more like a desktop setup. If
42:37
Speaker 2: you will.
42:38
Speaker 1: Now, for Mary in oral Value, you ask a question.
42:40
Speaker 1: One thing you're gonna have to think about though, if
42:41
Speaker 1: you'll have a desktop that maybe does not have a
42:44
Speaker 1: Bluetooth key, you may have to invest in a Bluetooth
42:47
Speaker 1: key which you can buy and they plug into a
42:49
Speaker 1: USB slot on your your computer, and that would then
42:53
Speaker 1: of course give the ability to connect to those speakers
42:56
Speaker 1: via Bluetooth.
42:56
Speaker 2: So that might I feel like I feel like you're
42:59
Speaker 2: gonna be hard pressed to find motherboards that don't support
43:02
Speaker 2: Bluetooth these days. Yeah, now you go back five years,
43:06
Speaker 2: if your computer's five years old, laptops one hundred percent
43:09
Speaker 2: are gonna blue shooth it just that's just part of it.
43:12
Speaker 2: But desktops you're gonna be I think it's most most
43:17
Speaker 2: current generation motherboards and maybe even one generation or two
43:21
Speaker 2: generations older have Bluetooth support on them.
43:23
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love Bluetooth. I've got a Bluetooth pop mouse
43:27
Speaker 1: from Logitech. I love it because it's Bluetooth connects to
43:31
Speaker 1: my laptop and I don't use up a USB port
43:34
Speaker 1: for the mouse says wireless, So I could you use
43:36
Speaker 1: it that way without having to to use that So
43:38
Speaker 1: anytime you could use it, why not. It's a it's
43:41
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea.
43:42
Speaker 2: I mean the advantages of Bluetooth are just fantastic. Right
43:45
Speaker 2: at work, when you've got four server racks and you
43:49
Speaker 2: don't want to have to you know, screen one screen
43:52
Speaker 2: for multiple computers, A Bluetooth keyboard can save you so
43:55
Speaker 2: much hassle in connecting, in connecting and getting one computer
43:59
Speaker 2: on a keyboard of mouse.
44:01
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, now, justin we know that you have
44:04
Speaker 1: a Tesla. We've talked about Tesla before, and you've been
44:09
Speaker 1: going through a little issue recently. Now I don't know
44:12
Speaker 1: if it's with the Tesla or the Ford, but what
44:16
Speaker 1: is the situation now with this? Well?
44:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I my my my car is a
44:21
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen Ford Explorer. I've had it, you know, before
44:24
Speaker 3: Eric was born. It's been a great car, you know,
44:27
Speaker 3: And I don't I didn't really drive it all that much.
44:29
Speaker 3: I mean obviously twenty twenty, twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty two,
44:33
Speaker 3: I barely even drove it because I was working from
44:35
Speaker 3: home the entire time. So a twenty seventeen Ford Explorer,
44:38
Speaker 3: I've got forty two thousand miles on it. I mean,
44:40
Speaker 3: that's that's that's not very much for and I've got
44:43
Speaker 3: brand new tires, brand new breaks. Problem is the head
44:47
Speaker 3: unit is starting to fail. What is that head unit is? Well,
44:50
Speaker 3: the head unit would be typically you would think of
44:52
Speaker 3: your radio, right, but it's not. It's not just the radio.
44:56
Speaker 3: I mean I would be fine if it was just
44:57
Speaker 3: the radio whatever, not a big deal. But the this thing,
45:00
Speaker 3: this head unit is the brain of your car. I mean,
45:02
Speaker 3: it controls the GPS, it controls the backup camera, it
45:05
Speaker 3: controls the climate, it controls the radio, it controls all
45:09
Speaker 3: the other settings. It controls your door locks, it controls everything.
45:11
Speaker 3: Oh so if this head unit fails, the car is
45:14
Speaker 3: basically a brick. Yeah, and the service to no, well, no, no,
45:20
Speaker 3: you have to buy another one. And they're about one
45:21
Speaker 3: thousand dollars.
45:22
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
45:23
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I don't want to do this because
45:24
Speaker 3: I wasn't planning on keeping this car for more than
45:26
Speaker 3: another year or so, because that was my my deal
45:29
Speaker 3: is I buy this and I keep it for ten
45:31
Speaker 3: years and then I and I get a new car. Well,
45:35
Speaker 3: you know, unfortunately it's starting to fail a little bit
45:37
Speaker 3: sooner rather than later. So I was gonna buy another Tesla,
45:41
Speaker 3: and I was telling me, says, I want a Tesla,
45:44
Speaker 3: and right now is the great time to do because
45:46
Speaker 3: the incentives are gonna are gonna go away at the
45:48
Speaker 3: end of the year, right and mesays like, no, no,
45:50
Speaker 3: we're not We're not doing another Tesla because we need
45:53
Speaker 3: to have one gas car.
45:55
Speaker 1: Okay. She does make sense there, though, though, well.
45:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it does. I get it. I get it.
46:00
Speaker 3: But I was like, but I want a Tesla. So yeah,
46:04
Speaker 3: she said, fine, take my Tesla.
46:08
Speaker 1: Oh and put her in a gas vehicle.
46:11
Speaker 3: So she is most likely going to get a twenty
46:15
Speaker 3: twenty five Toyota Corolla.
46:17
Speaker 1: She's getting a new car out of it. I like it.
46:19
Speaker 1: She's not a new car.
46:21
Speaker 3: Two new cars in two years, but I get the Tesla.
46:25
Speaker 3: So yeah, but no. The thing is is, like I said,
46:28
Speaker 3: I don't want to have to pay the extra money
46:30
Speaker 3: to try to repair this head unit. If I'm just
46:32
Speaker 3: going to sell it in the year, I would rather
46:34
Speaker 3: try to sell it now before the head unit fails,
46:37
Speaker 3: you know, So that way I get a little bit
46:38
Speaker 3: extra money out of it because it's not failed yet,
46:41
Speaker 3: it's just start. So what happens is every single time
46:43
Speaker 3: I turn on my vehicle, it has to go through
46:45
Speaker 3: the initial setup process again every single time. Yeah, and
46:49
Speaker 3: looking it up online it says that, yes, this is
46:51
Speaker 3: a sign of your head unit the computer failing because
46:55
Speaker 3: it can't keep It's like a memory issue or something.
46:57
Speaker 3: It can't keep the memory in place. So I'm looking
47:01
Speaker 3: at just getting rid of it while I can taking
47:04
Speaker 3: over the Tesla. Let go get mesa car. We went
47:08
Speaker 3: out less last weekend. We went over to the Toyota
47:09
Speaker 3: dealership in Colorado here is like two minutes, five minutes
47:13
Speaker 3: away whatever. On a Sunday, they're closed.
47:16
Speaker 1: Oh they do, say Sunday. Yeah, they do it Sunday.
47:19
Speaker 2: What the what the heck?
47:20
Speaker 3: Bro I mean, not everybody can buy a car on
47:22
Speaker 3: Monday through Friday. I would think they would be closed
47:25
Speaker 3: Monday Tuesday, you know, and then and then open through
47:28
Speaker 3: weekend because people want to buy cars on the weekend.
47:30
Speaker 1: I never understood that. But if you think about it,
47:34
Speaker 1: most people are financing a new car. Most people are
47:36
Speaker 1: going to do that, and finance companies, banks gonna be
47:40
Speaker 1: hard for you to make that purchase on a Sunday,
47:42
Speaker 1: So I think that might have something to do with it.
47:45
Speaker 1: They do it here in tu I never thought about that,
47:47
Speaker 1: so that could be it. You know as well. But
47:51
Speaker 1: were you able to walk around the lot at least
47:52
Speaker 1: or with all the cars?
47:53
Speaker 3: Well, I mean we walked around the front of the
47:56
Speaker 3: lot to the point where we could without having to
47:58
Speaker 3: get behind fences. And I tell you right now, at
48:01
Speaker 3: the front of the lot was literally just was four
48:03
Speaker 3: erunners and and tundras.
48:07
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people have told me they like
48:08
Speaker 1: the way a Tesla drives, that they enjoy it. I mean,
48:12
Speaker 1: would she be fine?
48:14
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, she I think. Well, I mean that
48:16
Speaker 3: was our goal on Sunday was just to go get
48:18
Speaker 3: a simple test drive, you know, not to buy it,
48:20
Speaker 3: but just to go get a simple test drive. But yeah,
48:24
Speaker 3: we couldn't even do that. So I think we're going
48:25
Speaker 3: to try to go again on Saturday of this week
48:28
Speaker 3: here and maybe go do a test drive, and who knows,
48:31
Speaker 3: maybe we walk out with a new car. I'm about
48:33
Speaker 3: a hybrid, Well, that's what it is. It's it's a
48:36
Speaker 3: it's a plug in hybrid Camry with intelligent all wheel drive.
48:41
Speaker 3: That was one thing she wanted was all wheel drive.
48:44
Speaker 3: Been around forever, you know, But I told her, I said,
48:47
Speaker 3: you can't get an all wheel drive unless you go
48:49
Speaker 3: SUV and she's like, I don't want an suv, I
48:51
Speaker 3: want a car. So finding the Camri was one of
48:54
Speaker 3: the only ones that we could find that had an
48:56
Speaker 3: all wheel drive in a sedan.
49:00
Speaker 1: You hate buying a car though, I mean no, I
49:02
Speaker 1: do nothing against the car dealerships.
49:04
Speaker 3: Well, that's why I love Tesla.
49:05
Speaker 1: Tesla.
49:05
Speaker 3: They don't give a crap. They're just like, this is
49:07
Speaker 3: your car, do you want it or not, Like, we're
49:10
Speaker 3: not gonna we're not gonna negotiate. This is the price
49:12
Speaker 3: and take it or leave it. But when you go
49:14
Speaker 3: to a typical car dealer, they're like, well, you know,
49:16
Speaker 3: we got incentives and we got a deal, and here's
49:19
Speaker 3: the four square. It tells you what your payment might be.
49:22
Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, first off, if you pull a
49:24
Speaker 3: four square on me, and anybody that that's been to
49:26
Speaker 3: a car dealership recently knows what the four square is.
49:29
Speaker 3: What if this is their way of trying to get
49:33
Speaker 3: you to make the deal look good. Okay, when you
49:36
Speaker 3: go to a car dealer, if they they it's they
49:38
Speaker 3: call it a four square. Literally, they draw a cross
49:40
Speaker 3: on a piece of paper and they put the different
49:42
Speaker 3: payments with the different aprs in each of the squares,
49:46
Speaker 3: and they say, well, if you put down this amount
49:48
Speaker 3: of money, this is what your payment will look like.
49:50
Speaker 3: But if you put down this amount of money with
49:52
Speaker 3: this interest rate, this is what So they basically it's
49:54
Speaker 3: smoking therrors. And if they if they pull out a
49:57
Speaker 3: four square on me, I'm walking out. I'm gonna tell
49:59
Speaker 3: them right awa, I'm gonna tell me right off the bat.
50:00
Speaker 3: I'll be like, all right, now that we're on the
50:02
Speaker 3: test drive, let's go talk price. And if you pull
50:03
Speaker 3: a four square on me, I'm gonna walk out of
50:05
Speaker 3: this place.
50:06
Speaker 1: And you're looking you're looking new, so you don't have
50:08
Speaker 1: to worry about car facts or anything like that.
50:10
Speaker 3: Right, No, it'd be it would definitely be new. But yeah, again,
50:13
Speaker 3: I just I don't like dealing with car dealers.
50:16
Speaker 1: How much more life does the Tesla have on it?
50:18
Speaker 1: Do you think?
50:19
Speaker 3: Oh? God, I would say probably another ten years, if
50:23
Speaker 3: not more.
50:23
Speaker 1: And but she wants she doesn't want you to be
50:26
Speaker 1: an all electric car a household. So the idea of
50:29
Speaker 1: pitching her Rivian or any of.
50:31
Speaker 3: The other Rivian would be great, except Rivian doesn't make
50:34
Speaker 3: any cars. They make SUVs. And again, she doesn't want
50:36
Speaker 3: an suv. Ah, all right, and Rivian is too expensive.
50:42
Speaker 3: I even picture of Volvo and she was like, well,
50:44
Speaker 3: it looks beautiful, but it's way too expensive.
50:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. They're very safe cars though, Volvos. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well I don't know much about Bulba. I've never driven
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Speaker 3: a Volvo, but what I've heard from people that own Vobo,
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Speaker 3: once you buy Volvo, you never buy anything else.
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Speaker 1: I do know that Rolls Royce is just put out
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Speaker 1: a phantom. Oh that's that's an electric Okay, Andy, I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna sell my bitcoin, Okay, I mean you can
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Speaker 1: do it for five hundred grand.
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Speaker 3: You know, well, I'd had to sell some big I'd
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Speaker 3: have to sell a little bit of bigcoin for that.
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Speaker 2: Hey, this is Deetrich Bader for Batman, and you're listening
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Speaker 1: So I'm wondering, did you guys play Fortnite at all.
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Speaker 2: I've probably played two minutes worth of Fortnite.
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Speaker 3: I probably played about twenty hours total.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Fortnite was kind of geared at maybe a younger
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Speaker 1: set of gamer. Well, Epic Games who put that out,
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Speaker 1: you know that there was some They said that there
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Speaker 1: was some stuff going on where people were kind of
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Speaker 1: forced into our coerced into buying loot and they didn't
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Speaker 1: have to to be able to play the game. So
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Speaker 1: there was a big lawsuit and we're talking a lot
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Speaker 1: of money. And yeah, the Federal Trade Commission and their
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Speaker 1: settlement with Epic Games, those payouts are coming now. The
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Speaker 1: thing is, I wanted to make sure we mentioned this
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Speaker 1: because there's still time to claim if maybe this happened
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Speaker 1: to you. You were charged for in game currency or
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Speaker 1: items you didn't intend to or buy between January twenty
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Speaker 1: seventeen and September twenty twenty two, your child and I
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Speaker 1: know this has been the case for some of you
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Speaker 1: made unauthorized charges on your credit card between January twenty
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Speaker 1: seventeen and November twenty eighteen, or your Fortnite account was
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Speaker 1: locked after you disputed charges to your credit card company
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Speaker 1: during the period from twenty seventeen of January to September
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, the deadline. Yeah, and we're talking.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're saying could be some good money for people.
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Speaker 3: This sucks because Eric just started playing Fortnite. I'm thinking, well, hey,
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Speaker 3: I can get my money back.
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Speaker 1: But no, now you have to be eighteen years or
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Speaker 1: older to submit your claim. The deadline I want. This
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Speaker 1: is why I wanted to mention it is January ten
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Speaker 1: of next year, which is not that far away. You
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Speaker 1: go to the FTC's official refund page for Fortnite refunds.
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Speaker 1: You can find it at FTC dot gov and they'll
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Speaker 1: go ahead and take care of that. So yeah, just
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Speaker 1: a little something.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the thing is is it's not just
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Speaker 3: it's not just Fortnite. I mean Roadblocks does this. Minecraft
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Speaker 3: does it to a certain extent, but not nearly as
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Speaker 3: bad as Roadblocks and Fortnite. But yeah, I mean they
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Speaker 3: they entice children to make these purchases because I mean constantly,
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Speaker 3: Eric is always begging me, a dad, dad, dad, I
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Speaker 3: need five dollars for this roblock skin. No, no, the
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Speaker 3: heck you don't because it doesn't do anything for you.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna buy a five dollars skin for
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Speaker 3: one single game inside of Roadblocks. It's not Roadblocks as
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Speaker 3: a whole. It's one game inside of Roadblocks that you
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Speaker 3: are gonna play for the next seventy two hours, and
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Speaker 3: then you're gonna move on to the next game, and
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Speaker 3: you're gonna want another five dollars and another five dollars.
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Speaker 3: This is predatory in my opinion, and Roadblocks not even
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Speaker 3: don't even get me started on Roadblocks. I just told
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Speaker 3: Eric today he's no longer allowed to play with Role.
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Speaker 1: Well. One thing is remember your smartphones. If the game
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Speaker 1: is free and there's loot crates, you're probably that's how
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Speaker 1: they're gonna That's how they're gonna pay for it.
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Speaker 3: So again it's the old adage. If you're not paying
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Speaker 3: for it, you are the product. I blame candy Crush
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Speaker 3: that's started at all, I blame I blame Salesforce.
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Speaker 1: Salesforce, what is that? Yeah, they started the whole software
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Speaker 1: as a service. Did they all these subscription models?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I watched a great YouTube video on it. Maybe
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Speaker 3: we'll link it on the blog. It was a great
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Speaker 3: video about how Salesforce started this whole thing with Netflix
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Speaker 3: and all this other streaming and software as a service
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Speaker 3: with the HP Inc. Cartridges and all this. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: Salesforce was the one behind it, and I think they
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Speaker 3: really honestly had a hand in the whole thing. With
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Speaker 3: the micro transactions on video games, I'm so.
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Speaker 1: Bad at Candy Crush Too and Clash of Clients. Ohts,
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Speaker 1: I spent like two thousand dollars in that game. All Right,
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