Latest / TechtalkRadio / Episode 447 - The Battle of the Thumbs!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Good by the science Guy here whatever I am listening
- 0:07Speaker 2: to the radio, especially tech talk Radio. It's such a party.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
- 0:18Speaker 1: I'm Sean Twird. We are the show that talks about computers,
- 0:22Speaker 1: technology and of course the Internet and all the fun
- 0:25Speaker 1: gadgets that are a part of that. Just Sean and
- 0:27Speaker 1: I four this week. Actually, Justin took his son to
- 0:31Speaker 1: the movies to go see the new Superman movie in
- 0:35Speaker 1: what he's seeing Imax? Right?
- 0:37Speaker 2: Yeah, ix I saw. I saw last week the F
- 0:40Speaker 2: one movie in Imax. How was that? Which was incredible? Yeah?
- 0:44Speaker 2: It was. It was a unique opportunity. So for Mother's Day,
- 0:47Speaker 2: I had gotten Calen tickets to go see Wicked, and
- 0:49Speaker 2: so I took her and her sister down to Indianapolis
- 0:51Speaker 2: to go see Wicked, and I drove so they didn't
- 0:54Speaker 2: have to drive late at night. And during that time
- 0:58Speaker 2: they had a showing for F One at the Indiana
- 1:02Speaker 2: State Museum in their Imax theater. So I just popped
- 1:05Speaker 2: in for two and a half hours and watched the
- 1:08Speaker 2: movie and then got out and drove them back home.
- 1:10Speaker 2: It was a cool movie. The practical the way they
- 1:12Speaker 2: did it, with the practical effects, and they drove, actually
- 1:14Speaker 2: drove cars in actual F one races and took a
- 1:18Speaker 2: lot of actual F one race content. It felt like
- 1:21Speaker 2: you were watching a documentary about an F one race.
- 1:25Speaker 2: You literally felt like it. Just the way it was shot,
- 1:29Speaker 2: the way it was handled. It was very very well done.
- 1:31Speaker 2: The music is incredible. Hans Zimmer did the score, of course,
- 1:35Speaker 2: so that's gonna be incredible. It was good, so I
- 1:39Speaker 2: think it lived up to the hype. I'm a big
- 1:41Speaker 2: motorsports fan, so it was kind of fun to see.
- 1:43Speaker 2: On the topic of F one, right, the big controversy
- 1:47Speaker 2: around F one is F one or Apple is vuying
- 1:53Speaker 2: very hard for the media rights for F one. Really
- 1:57Speaker 2: they the Apple's is in the range of one hundred
- 2:01Speaker 2: and fifty million a year, Wow, significantly higher than the
- 2:05Speaker 2: ESPN's current eighty five to ninety million a year. So
- 2:09Speaker 2: it'd be interesting to see how that would play in
- 2:12Speaker 2: because if Apple takes it over, then it would be
- 2:14Speaker 2: on Apple TV, so I then wouldn't have to have
- 2:17Speaker 2: an Apple TV account and an F one TV account
- 2:22Speaker 2: or you know, so it'd be interesting to see and
- 2:25Speaker 2: you know, Apple was a primary stakeholder in the F
- 2:28Speaker 2: one movie. It's gonna it'll be on their platform and
- 2:32Speaker 2: they just kind of have been branding around the F one.
- 2:35Speaker 2: So it'd be interesting to see how that comes up
- 2:38Speaker 2: and if ESPN can keep it or not. Right So,
- 2:40Speaker 2: the reason why I like it on ESPN right now
- 2:42Speaker 2: is that it's commercial free right there. They're flag to
- 2:45Speaker 2: flag coverage right there's no which is incredible compared to
- 2:49Speaker 2: the other the other motorsports that are on TV, Nascar,
- 2:53Speaker 2: in DYEA, ARCA, you know, those those other other series.
- 2:57Speaker 2: So the production value is so much different.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Now do you do you have Apple TV currently?
- 3:04Speaker 2: I do?
- 3:04Speaker 1: What do you think of that? Because I don't have
- 3:06Speaker 1: Apple TV. I had an Apple TV box for a
- 3:09Speaker 1: while and then I gave it to my daughter and
- 3:11Speaker 1: you know, I don't know whatever happened. But uh, I mean,
- 3:14Speaker 1: do you as a service comparing it to the say
- 3:16Speaker 1: Netflix and Hulu or Paramount Plus, how does it rate?
- 3:21Speaker 2: We probably don't watch it as much as we should
- 3:23Speaker 2: for what we pay for it, as we do with
- 3:25Speaker 2: every other service we own. But it's got the content.
- 3:29Speaker 2: You know, there were specific shows who Caitlin wanted to
- 3:31Speaker 2: watch Severance. There were a couple of other shows that
- 3:34Speaker 2: are on there that are good, and to be honest,
- 3:37Speaker 2: sometimes the movies that we want to watch, and you know,
- 3:40Speaker 2: when you search for a movie on the Roku, it
- 3:42Speaker 2: tells you which apps are on. Sometimes the movies we
- 3:45Speaker 2: want to watch are only on Apple TV or the
- 3:47Speaker 2: only on Amazon, or the early on Netflix or the
- 3:50Speaker 2: Paramount Plus. We kind of spread the wealth around our
- 3:53Speaker 2: family with the with the with the Apple Apple Idea
- 3:57Speaker 2: accounts and stuff. So it's right. Netflix is shared, Disney
- 4:01Speaker 2: Plus is shared. The Disney Plus one is included in
- 4:03Speaker 2: our Horizon bundle, so that works out really well for us.
- 4:06Speaker 2: That's good.
- 4:07Speaker 1: I do a bundle with my provider, which is Infinity,
- 4:12Speaker 1: and I get like Peacock Peacock Premium, which is kind
- 4:17Speaker 1: of cool. I get HBO or Max as it is.
- 4:21Speaker 1: I don't get HBO itself. I get Max, which you
- 4:24Speaker 1: know is online.
- 4:25Speaker 2: They're rebranding back to HBO by the way, HBO back.
- 4:27Speaker 1: So so I wonder if it's I mean, how yeah,
- 4:30Speaker 1: what is that going to change? What is that going
- 4:32Speaker 1: to mean? I mean, I don't get it.
- 4:33Speaker 2: It's just back to HBO Max. I don't know. They're
- 4:37Speaker 2: rebranding back to what they were.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Sometimes these companies do these things like what does that
- 4:44Speaker 1: all mean? Hopefully maybe they'll get people back, I don't know.
- 4:49Speaker 1: And then we get Hulu. We get Hulu with that
- 4:51Speaker 1: as well, so Hulu, Disney and Max. But it's funny
- 4:55Speaker 1: because you mentioned that, you know, maybe you don't want
- 4:57Speaker 1: it as much it I can't tell you the last
- 4:59Speaker 1: time I'm I've logged into to Max to see something.
- 5:03Speaker 1: You know, most of the time it'll be Hulu or
- 5:05Speaker 1: you know, Disney. I don't even know.
- 5:07Speaker 2: I think the current climate for a lot of the
- 5:10Speaker 2: streaming stuff is the streaming platforms are vying for Internet eyeballs. Right, So,
- 5:16Speaker 2: do you know the famous YouTuber miss Rachel?
- 5:19Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, oh gosh, you know she's on Netflix now, right? Yeah?
- 5:22Speaker 2: Absolutely, So you're gonna see I think you're gonna see
- 5:26Speaker 2: more and more of this where you're gonna get these
- 5:28Speaker 2: popular YouTube content creators and then they're gonna leave the
- 5:31Speaker 2: YouTube platform for other platforms because then they're going to
- 5:34Speaker 2: be able to take those subscribers from you from YouTube,
- 5:37Speaker 2: off of YouTube to other platforms.
- 5:39Speaker 1: I was still I'm sorry, Sean, but I was still
- 5:42Speaker 1: trying to figure out. And I found her content compelling,
- 5:46Speaker 1: you know, the kids seemed to my my grandson seemed
- 5:49Speaker 1: to like it. How does she make ten million dollars
- 5:52Speaker 1: a year doing that? I don't get it.
- 5:55Speaker 2: It's just it's the sheer volume of content that she like,
- 5:57Speaker 2: the sheer volume of views she gets on you Tube.
- 6:00Speaker 2: It's I mean, every every video she's putting out is
- 6:04Speaker 2: getting hundreds of millions of views, just breaking in and revenue.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:10Speaker 2: And when I can attest to this, right when Max
- 6:15Speaker 2: and Daniel sometimes we just veg out and we just
- 6:18Speaker 2: put on YouTube. We put it on a kids channel
- 6:20Speaker 2: and a loop for two or three hours in the
- 6:22Speaker 2: afternoon while we're doing around, while they're playing with legos,
- 6:25Speaker 2: or they're reading books or playing puzzles or doing whatever,
- 6:28Speaker 2: or while we're eating lunch or eating dinner. So sometimes
- 6:31Speaker 2: YouTube is on our TV five or six hours a day.
- 6:35Speaker 2: We're not always there watching it, but it's just one
- 6:37Speaker 2: we paid for YouTube premium, right, so I don't I
- 6:40Speaker 2: don't get ads served to us anymore because trying to
- 6:44Speaker 2: do that without without YouTube premium was a real pain
- 6:48Speaker 2: in the red.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Now there is a difference between what YouTube premium and
- 6:51Speaker 1: YouTube TV, right, I mean correct? Yeah, okay, So YouTube
- 6:54Speaker 1: premium just means you're just not getting ads, or do
- 6:57Speaker 1: you get access to other content?
- 6:58Speaker 2: You get access to some other premium content on Netflix,
- 7:01Speaker 2: on YouTube get access to other movies, some other content
- 7:05Speaker 2: gets unlocked. But it's just the ad. The experience on
- 7:08Speaker 2: YouTube without premium was awful, trying to stream the content
- 7:13Speaker 2: that Max wanted to watch, or the content that Richmas Rachel,
- 7:17Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you're getting these ads.
- 7:19Speaker 2: So you get these ads that play because people just
- 7:22Speaker 2: leave their TVs on looping for background noise whatever, and
- 7:27Speaker 2: all of a sudden it's playing an ad every five
- 7:30Speaker 2: to ten minutes, right, right, So every five to ten minutes,
- 7:34Speaker 2: Max would come over with the remote and say uh oh,
- 7:36Speaker 2: and he knows there was an ad to skip.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Right, there was. It's funny though, because I've noticed that
- 7:44Speaker 1: as the kids get older, and I think Max is
- 7:47Speaker 1: the same age, are near the same age as my grandson,
- 7:51Speaker 1: they tend to like the quality of like they number
- 7:55Speaker 1: Blocks was big, Number Blocks was huge, right, and he
- 7:59Speaker 1: has tended to Now I can put on PBS Kids
- 8:03Speaker 1: and he'll love PBS Kids and loves the programs, and
- 8:07Speaker 1: I noticed it just grabs his detention and not Sesame
- 8:11Speaker 1: Street per se, not you know, Elmo or any of
- 8:14Speaker 1: these other shows. It's more of the different content that
- 8:17Speaker 1: they put on there that's scared at the children. And
- 8:20Speaker 1: as they getting older, I noticed that the educational programs
- 8:23Speaker 1: are better, and Miss Rachel seems to have tapped into
- 8:27Speaker 1: that young market as well as the older you know,
- 8:29Speaker 1: the older kids, they seem to really enjoy watching that,
- 8:33Speaker 1: and parents watch it with the kids because they feel safe.
- 8:36Speaker 2: It's not awful content to watch. The music is catchy, yeah,
- 8:40Speaker 2: you know, and it's not like it's people that don't
- 8:45Speaker 2: know what music is.
- 8:46Speaker 3: Right.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Some of the people on her show are actual Broadway
- 8:49Speaker 2: actors and actresses, you know Broadway. They have lived on Broadway,
- 8:53Speaker 2: so you know, some of her friends and family have
- 8:56Speaker 2: been on the show that are real professional musicians. So
- 8:59Speaker 2: you have a production quality to it, and her production
- 9:03Speaker 2: quality on the camera side and the editing side has
- 9:05Speaker 2: gone up significantly compared to the earlier. But that's every show.
- 9:09Speaker 2: Every kind of the track for every YouTube person that's
- 9:12Speaker 2: gotten popular over the years is you know, they start
- 9:14Speaker 2: with a crappy webcam and a micro crappy microphone, and
- 9:18Speaker 2: then they get a little bit of money and they
- 9:19Speaker 2: buy some better equipment, and then they get better. I
- 9:21Speaker 2: don't know, it's just it's just wild to see the
- 9:23Speaker 2: transition of what we're watching on YouTube compared to two
- 9:27Speaker 2: decades ago.
- 9:28Speaker 1: And now you think about what you grew up watching.
- 9:32Speaker 1: What was kind of like a big influence for you.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Do you look back.
- 9:36Speaker 2: We actually, we actually talked a little bit about this
- 9:38Speaker 2: with some of my family. Is what is the shared
- 9:42Speaker 2: internet experience these days?
- 9:44Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, right, good?
- 9:45Speaker 2: Yeah, So for me, I grew up, my internet experience
- 9:50Speaker 2: started in the late nineteen nineties, so ninety seven, ninety eight,
- 9:54Speaker 2: when the internet kind of really started to be a thing, right, yeah,
- 9:57Speaker 2: into the early two thousands, so grade school, through middle school,
- 10:01Speaker 2: and through high school. So primarily from two thousand to now, right,
- 10:06Speaker 2: it was what the intern is. So when the Internet
- 10:09Speaker 2: was first round, everybody had the same shared experience. You
- 10:12Speaker 2: all went to the same flash websites, you all went
- 10:15Speaker 2: to the same humor websites, you all went to the
- 10:18Speaker 2: same video websites, LiveLeak, YouTube, Ebomb's World, you know what.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Everybody had the same shared Internet experience. So when I said, oh,
- 10:26Speaker 2: I saw this funny thing on Homestar Runner. Everybody goes, oh, yeah,
- 10:29Speaker 2: it was great, you know, strongbad open up emails, and
- 10:35Speaker 2: but that today is different because the kids, you know,
- 10:39Speaker 2: the kids we get in our program at the university
- 10:41Speaker 2: are all talking about, oh, I watched this TikTok, or
- 10:45Speaker 2: I watched this this influencer, or I watched but then
- 10:48Speaker 2: this this kid over here said, well, I don't know
- 10:49Speaker 2: who that is, right, I've never heard of that person
- 10:52Speaker 2: I watched. I watched this electrical engineering YouTube channel, I
- 10:56Speaker 2: watched this you know, marble racing YouTube channel or whatever.
- 11:00Speaker 2: No kids now growing up with the Internet will have
- 11:02Speaker 2: a shared Internet experience. It's all going to be different.
- 11:05Speaker 2: It's all siloed, all based on what you give the algorithm.
- 11:11Speaker 2: It's all based on what your interests are. So it's
- 11:14Speaker 2: interesting to see. So like for me, I grew up
- 11:18Speaker 2: watching a lot of storm chasing videos because that was
- 11:21Speaker 2: that interested me. When I was growing up, I watched
- 11:23Speaker 2: a lot of Red Timber. Well. Red Timber is now
- 11:26Speaker 2: probably one of the largest storm chaser YouTube channels that exists.
- 11:30Speaker 2: He's a little eccentric, he's you know, he's probably not
- 11:33Speaker 2: the most popular by a lot of stretch. So I
- 11:36Speaker 2: watched him and then I mean, there's not really any
- 11:39Speaker 2: other YouTube creators that I followed that's outside of my
- 11:43Speaker 2: motorsports connections. I like to watch a lot of VA
- 11:46Speaker 2: Supercars because they post a lot on on YouTube, a
- 11:49Speaker 2: lot of motorsports videos. Other than that, I don't really
- 11:52Speaker 2: have a set number of people that I follow or
- 11:55Speaker 2: content creators that I followed. Especially for the last like
- 11:58Speaker 2: five years, I've been off the internet a little, off
- 12:00Speaker 2: the social media a little bit. So it's been interesting
- 12:04Speaker 2: to see how I get my content, whether it's from
- 12:11Speaker 2: what Caitlin shows me, or what I get through Reddit right,
- 12:15Speaker 2: or when I get shared via my friends.
- 12:17Speaker 1: Do you know I do this with mcgrandson? Do you
- 12:21Speaker 1: do with your your kids like you might? I heard
- 12:24Speaker 1: about this channel, I want to little check it out
- 12:27Speaker 1: and you might look at it and just to see
- 12:29Speaker 1: is this something that would interest them, you know that
- 12:31Speaker 1: kind of thing, or do you just go with what
- 12:34Speaker 1: you know the most popular ones.
- 12:36Speaker 2: I mean, we kind of just let it. We kind
- 12:38Speaker 2: of just let it go right Max. You know, he
- 12:41Speaker 2: had some interests. He liked trains for a while, like airplanes,
- 12:44Speaker 2: So we watched a lot of like live streaming of airplanes,
- 12:47Speaker 2: train videos, and then he kind of got into hot
- 12:49Speaker 2: wheels and legos. We did a lot of hot wheels
- 12:52Speaker 2: and legos, and now he's more into a couple of
- 12:55Speaker 2: just you know, silly animated ones, some some animated panda
- 12:59Speaker 2: bear ones that are funny with songs that are catchy.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Were you able to keep them away from Baby Shark?
- 13:08Speaker 2: No?
- 13:09Speaker 4: No.
- 13:09Speaker 2: So one of the shows is called baby Bus by
- 13:13Speaker 2: the people who made Baby Shark. So there's a lot
- 13:18Speaker 2: of the songs in there for that, which is fine.
- 13:20Speaker 2: But it's fine. Yeah, But we've with the YouTube premium
- 13:24Speaker 2: side of it too. We've allowed it allows us to
- 13:26Speaker 2: curate it a little bit on the side, so we're
- 13:30Speaker 2: not getting into the It's not unfettered access for him, right.
- 13:33Speaker 2: He doesn't just have the remote to watch forevery once.
- 13:36Speaker 2: He's also only three and a half, so he doesn't
- 13:38Speaker 2: he doesn't really know what he wants. He just knows, Oh,
- 13:40Speaker 2: I want to watch cars, or I want to watch YouTube,
- 13:43Speaker 2: or I want to watch cars legos. That was big
- 13:47Speaker 2: for him. Those are the two. Those are the two
- 13:49Speaker 2: big ones. Like he likes to watch people unboxing matchbox cars.
- 13:55Speaker 2: He likes to watch people build legos, like spaed building
- 14:00Speaker 2: things like that.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Yeah, we ended up we ended up getting I'll tell
- 14:03Speaker 1: you we got August number blocks because he watches number blocks.
- 14:08Speaker 1: We got him the number blocks. So that's got to
- 14:10Speaker 1: be huge revenue for them to be able to sell
- 14:13Speaker 1: the toys that are branded based on the So he'll
- 14:16Speaker 1: be watching the number blocks and building the number of blocks.
- 14:21Speaker 1: They all kind of plug into each other and put
- 14:23Speaker 1: a number on the top of them and everything else.
- 14:26Speaker 1: And then this is kind of cute. I gotta tell
- 14:28Speaker 1: you about this. I'll post post a photo up on
- 14:31Speaker 1: our blog. We got him the alphabets. They're you know, ABC,
- 14:35Speaker 1: d FG. We got got him those. They're in a
- 14:37Speaker 1: wooden like a little little wooden platform and they fit
- 14:40Speaker 1: in there. And he could create words. Well, now he's
- 14:43Speaker 1: watching like he'll watch TV and see the bug and
- 14:48Speaker 1: the bottom of the right screen and it says PBS,
- 14:51Speaker 1: and he'll create PBS with the letters. So the other
- 14:56Speaker 1: day I had recorded my Fox segment and and it
- 15:00Speaker 1: was on, and what did he create?
- 15:02Speaker 2: Fox?
- 15:04Speaker 1: Of course, I said to the producer of the show.
- 15:06Speaker 1: She thought that was cute. But yeah, so, I mean
- 15:09Speaker 1: there are so many kids are learning so many different ways.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Whereas before you think about this too, if you had
- 15:16Speaker 1: to do any research, you had to have mom and
- 15:19Speaker 1: dad drive you to the library. That's what my mom
- 15:22Speaker 1: and dad would do if I needed to do research
- 15:24Speaker 1: for product project. There wasn't the Internet when I was
- 15:30Speaker 1: growing up. That didn't come along un till I was
- 15:32Speaker 1: having kids already. And you know, as far as educational TV,
- 15:37Speaker 1: I actually worked in high school. I was the student
- 15:42Speaker 1: advisor to our local KOCETV for educational television. I don't
- 15:49Speaker 1: know how I got into that, but I ended up.
- 15:51Speaker 1: I ended up going to meetings and I would say, yeah,
- 15:54Speaker 1: the kids would like this, or the kids wouldn't like this,
- 15:56Speaker 1: the kids would like this. And we saw a lot
- 15:58Speaker 1: of three to one contacts of the other shows that were,
- 16:01Speaker 1: you know, uh available on that local PBS type station.
- 16:07Speaker 1: And it's funny because now I just think, man, kids
- 16:10Speaker 1: have got it great. They have to do studies, they
- 16:12Speaker 1: can pull it up. And now you've got AI that
- 16:15Speaker 1: is doing things. There's even course that I think we're
- 16:18Speaker 1: gonna try and get this guy on the show that
- 16:20Speaker 1: actually has a website that helps educators learn how to
- 16:24Speaker 1: use AI in the classroom and you know, not to
- 16:28Speaker 1: use it incorrectly, because use it incorrectly that that that
- 16:31Speaker 1: can't be great for the students. So again it's I know,
- 16:34Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting. I like to see where we have
- 16:37Speaker 1: come from and where we're going.
- 16:39Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see in for four more years
- 16:44Speaker 2: when Max is actually in grade school, first second grade,
- 16:47Speaker 2: how this all pans out? Yeah, like what h it's
- 16:53Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting right So right, No, don't
- 16:56Speaker 2: really know where it's going to go. And it's so
- 16:58Speaker 2: hard with how fast technology is going to anticipate where
- 17:03Speaker 2: it's going to go or what do we need to
- 17:06Speaker 2: prepare for? What do we need to be encouraging him
- 17:09Speaker 2: to do? What do we not want to be doing?
- 17:13Speaker 2: What impacts does? Though? Are these technologies going to have
- 17:17Speaker 2: on his social life growing up? On his mental aptitude
- 17:21Speaker 2: growing up? Like how are these going to impact him?
- 17:23Speaker 2: So it's just trying to we're encouraging. You know, we
- 17:28Speaker 2: do a lot of book reading, We do a lot
- 17:30Speaker 2: of puzzle We do a lot of puzzles. We are
- 17:33Speaker 2: not doing tablets in the car right so whenever we're traveling,
- 17:38Speaker 2: it's books or toys or they can stare out the
- 17:40Speaker 2: window if they throw their toys around or throw their
- 17:42Speaker 2: books that they don't get anything. So we're you know,
- 17:46Speaker 2: at least for a point right up unto a point
- 17:48Speaker 2: where they can understand what they're doing and why, you know,
- 17:51Speaker 2: they're not just aimlessly staring into a tablet and swiping
- 17:54Speaker 2: while we're driving, and we're just being present with them more. Yeah,
- 18:00Speaker 2: and we're doing a lot of outdoor stuff. It's really
- 18:02Speaker 2: nice out here. The weather's really nice, so we've been
- 18:05Speaker 2: doing a lot of hiking on the weekends. We've been
- 18:07Speaker 2: doing We've done camping five times this year already. So
- 18:10Speaker 2: just being more present with them with less screen time. Now.
- 18:16Speaker 2: It's interesting because I like to talk about this because
- 18:19Speaker 2: it's like sometimes when we come home from work, we
- 18:22Speaker 2: just want to we just want to relax, We just
- 18:24Speaker 2: want to do what we want to do. I know
- 18:25Speaker 2: the feeling, and I have to remind myself our day
- 18:30Speaker 2: Our daycare has been fantastic. So when Kaitlin and I
- 18:33Speaker 2: are both working, our daycare is so good about engaging
- 18:36Speaker 2: our children in things, and we get updates and we
- 18:39Speaker 2: have feed we get feedback, and we can provide our
- 18:41Speaker 2: feedback to what we want our kids to be able
- 18:43Speaker 2: to do, and they're engaged from the time we drop
- 18:46Speaker 2: them off till the time we pick them up. No screens, activities,
- 18:50Speaker 2: gym time, all that stuff. So sometimes I have to
- 18:52Speaker 2: remember they've had a busy day too, right, they need
- 18:56Speaker 2: some mental unload time, right to just process the day.
- 19:01Speaker 1: Good point.
- 19:02Speaker 2: We don't want to necessarily force them to not have
- 19:04Speaker 2: screen time at home with limits, right. We're not gonna
- 19:08Speaker 2: just let them watch TV for six hours until they
- 19:10Speaker 2: go to bed, right, But we have to remember that, like,
- 19:14Speaker 2: they've been engaged all day long mentally, and that their
- 19:19Speaker 2: brands still need a break just like ours.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, you know, I'm I had somebody ask
- 19:23Speaker 1: me about about AI and they were wondering, you know,
- 19:26Speaker 1: like what do I think about it? And you know,
- 19:29Speaker 1: I'm very honest. I do use it and I think
- 19:32Speaker 1: it's important to understand how it works. But they said
- 19:35Speaker 1: they're going to keep their kids away from AI. They're
- 19:38Speaker 1: gonna get and I told them, I said, you know,
- 19:40Speaker 1: I said, that's like the parents that said they didn't
- 19:44Speaker 1: want their kids involved in computer education back in the eighties,
- 19:50Speaker 1: that they didn't want their kids to understand how computers work.
- 19:54Speaker 1: They were that actually can be a detriment. I think
- 19:57Speaker 1: it's important that they they un understand how AI can work,
- 20:04Speaker 1: not to do the work for you, but to understand
- 20:07Speaker 1: that you're gonna have to understand how to prompt it,
- 20:10Speaker 1: how to get the correct information. Some parents will probably
- 20:14Speaker 1: disagree with me, but I think it's important that they
- 20:17Speaker 1: understand that it is something that is being used.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Parents have to take the responsibility to help educate future generations.
- 20:26Speaker 2: You have to you have to be involved. The people
- 20:29Speaker 2: that said I don't want my kids involved in computers,
- 20:31Speaker 2: they just didn't understand how computers were going to help
- 20:33Speaker 2: shape the future. They just didn't. They just they didn't.
- 20:37Speaker 2: They were scared of it. They thought it was gonna
- 20:38Speaker 2: take away jobs, which they did. It did, but it
- 20:42Speaker 2: generated so much more on the back end in terms
- 20:44Speaker 2: of technology, generational wealth, generational knowledge. So the people that
- 20:51Speaker 2: are saying, like AI is garbage, We're not gonna keep
- 20:53Speaker 2: let our kids use AI. We're not gonna let our
- 20:55Speaker 2: kids use screen time. We're not gonna let our kids
- 20:56Speaker 2: do this. There's they cannot function in society with if
- 21:01Speaker 2: you're limiting them on how they are going to perceive technology.
- 21:05Speaker 2: If you're just saying AI bad, I'm not gonna learn
- 21:08Speaker 2: it because I think the as bad. You are setting
- 21:11Speaker 2: your kids up for a technological failure in the future.
- 21:14Speaker 2: You have to take the responsibility to understand even if
- 21:17Speaker 2: you don't agree with it or don't use it, you
- 21:19Speaker 2: as a parent have to understand how it works, how
- 21:23Speaker 2: it is treated as a tool, so that you can
- 21:26Speaker 2: a avoid the bad AI. Don't let your kids get
- 21:30Speaker 2: unfettered access to it so they just go in and
- 21:33Speaker 2: start searching willing nilly on whatever they want. Show your
- 21:37Speaker 2: kids how to use it. Show your kids the benefit
- 21:39Speaker 2: it can provide them. Show them how to foster it
- 21:43Speaker 2: into a tool that they can use to help themselves
- 21:45Speaker 2: down the road. Because if you don't, they're gonna learn
- 21:48Speaker 2: from their neighbor, They're gonna learn from their friends at school,
- 21:50Speaker 2: They're gonna learn from the internet. They're gonna learn from
- 21:53Speaker 2: all of the places you wanted them to avoid in
- 21:55Speaker 2: the first place. Engage with your kids in the in
- 21:58Speaker 2: the technology and the tools you want them to learn in,
- 22:00Speaker 2: and they are going to love it. Going to be
- 22:03Speaker 2: so much better off if they're learning it from you
- 22:07Speaker 2: as a parent and you have the understanding of it.
- 22:10Speaker 2: And just you need to just get the knowledge yourself
- 22:12Speaker 2: so you can then pass it on to your children,
- 22:14Speaker 2: even if you don't agree with it.
- 22:16Speaker 1: I remember my twelve year old son, Ricardo would sit
- 22:20Speaker 1: in the kitchen with me, and that's where we had
- 22:22Speaker 1: a little kitchen table, and I would build computers, and
- 22:26Speaker 1: that's you know, when I was really getting into it.
- 22:28Speaker 1: I would build like a three eighty six, you know,
- 22:31Speaker 1: you build the first the two eighty six, three eighty
- 22:34Speaker 1: six and put the memory in and I would show
- 22:36Speaker 1: him what we were doing. And I have pictures of
- 22:39Speaker 1: him like watching they watching this thing put together, and
- 22:44Speaker 1: even had him help once in a while. Little did
- 22:47Speaker 1: I know that, you know, years later he was learning
- 22:50Speaker 1: how to code, he was learning how to write, you know,
- 22:53Speaker 1: scripts and do all this really cool stuff with technology,
- 22:56Speaker 1: and that's, you know, part of what he does now
- 22:59Speaker 1: as his profet. Just that time to understand what was
- 23:03Speaker 1: being done was very it was very helpful to maybe
- 23:08Speaker 1: help him and what he would do in the future
- 23:10Speaker 1: and continue to express that desire for it. So again,
- 23:13Speaker 1: I think you're right, it's important you do all that
- 23:16Speaker 1: stuff with them and help them along.
- 23:19Speaker 2: AI is a tool. It's just another tool. It's like
- 23:21Speaker 2: I said, we talked about it in the break where
- 23:23Speaker 2: we were saying, this is how I use AI. Right,
- 23:26Speaker 2: I'm using it to search. You know we were talking, Hey,
- 23:28Speaker 2: when you wanted to look something on in Linux? Yeah,
- 23:30Speaker 2: well previously, how would you do that? You look it
- 23:33Speaker 2: up in a book?
- 23:34Speaker 1: Right, You go go.
- 23:35Speaker 2: To the shelf, pick the book off, look in the
- 23:37Speaker 2: index what you wanted for, search, search page by page, Go, okay,
- 23:40Speaker 2: here it is, and then you go to your computer
- 23:42Speaker 2: and you try it. All I'm doing with AI is
- 23:45Speaker 2: now instead of going to the shelf picking up the book,
- 23:47Speaker 2: I'm asking the prompt, Hey, this is what I'm trying
- 23:50Speaker 2: to accomplish. How do I list all of my hard
- 23:53Speaker 2: drives in Linux?
- 23:54Speaker 1: Right?
- 23:55Speaker 2: If it's out of command and I can type it in,
- 23:57Speaker 2: and I've now learned a.
- 23:58Speaker 1: Thing, yeap could be totally helpful, totally helpful.
- 24:02Speaker 2: So instead of me having to go to a book. Now, great,
- 24:05Speaker 2: it's great to have books, it's great to be tactile,
- 24:07Speaker 2: it's great to have the feelings. But this the way
- 24:10Speaker 2: I'm using AI is a tool to help me learn
- 24:12Speaker 2: the little things like how to do small commands and Linux,
- 24:16Speaker 2: or searching for manuals searching in manuals, like, Hey, I
- 24:20Speaker 2: have this piece of hardware I need to know how
- 24:22Speaker 2: to do X, Y or Z. Please find me the
- 24:25Speaker 2: manual for this and show me in the manual where
- 24:27Speaker 2: it is, and then I can go read the manual.
- 24:28Speaker 2: It'll pull it up for me, or it'll guide me
- 24:30Speaker 2: so I can download the manual, or it'll provide provide
- 24:33Speaker 2: it for me as a PDF, and I can then
- 24:35Speaker 2: search with the manual.
- 24:35Speaker 1: All right, we had to take a break, but I
- 24:37Speaker 1: will also say this for those that are listening right now,
- 24:40Speaker 1: and maybe you're not working with Linux, or you're not
- 24:43Speaker 1: working on your computer. Maybe it's something else around the
- 24:46Speaker 1: house you need to figure out how to do. Maybe
- 24:48Speaker 1: you know a brand name that doesn't seem to be
- 24:51Speaker 1: working right. You can actually ask your AI in most cases,
- 24:56Speaker 1: how to do something, or what is the meaning of something?
- 25:00Speaker 1: You get an error code on something, or my TV
- 25:02Speaker 1: isn't a channeling right? How do I fix that? You'd
- 25:05Speaker 1: be surprised at how we can answer and respond to it.
- 25:08Speaker 1: So again, give it a shot. You might be happy
- 25:10Speaker 1: with what you get. We're gonna take that break. We'll
- 25:12Speaker 1: come back with more of tech Talk Radio find out
- 25:14Speaker 1: why Sean has got all these computers sitting around laying
- 25:18Speaker 1: on the floor in his studio. I'm Andy Taylor.
- 25:22Speaker 2: I'm shying to wear and find us on the web
- 25:24Speaker 2: at tech talk radio dot com. Now back to tech
- 25:28Speaker 2: talk Radio. My basement is covered with computers.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Why is yours?
- 25:35Speaker 2: That's not abnormal for my basement. Let's be honest, but
- 25:38Speaker 2: it's extra messy. Right now. If I rolled backwards, i'd
- 25:40Speaker 2: tip over my pluck server because it's it's on the
- 25:42Speaker 2: floor behind me running.
- 25:44Speaker 1: You've got several computers behind you.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a shell of one. There's a shell of
- 25:48Speaker 2: another one. A coworker of mine just one day decided
- 25:52Speaker 2: getting out of the PC world. He's gonna go Mac only,
- 25:54Speaker 2: just real, right up, said I'm getting rid of all
- 25:56Speaker 2: my PCs. I'm going Mac only. And just I'm done
- 25:58Speaker 2: with Windows. I'm done with the PC life. I'm going
- 26:01Speaker 2: Mac only.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Wow.
- 26:03Speaker 2: And so he said, if anybody wants PC stuff, I'm
- 26:06Speaker 2: giving it away from dirt cheap. So, of course I
- 26:08Speaker 2: can't turn down cheap computer parts. So I obtained a
- 26:12Speaker 2: small collection of computer parts, processors, motherboards, you name it.
- 26:15Speaker 2: Built my niece a computer out of It got her
- 26:17Speaker 2: super happy running Minecraft on a thirty sixty TI. She's
- 26:21Speaker 2: loving it, and she's super happy that she wants to
- 26:24Speaker 2: get into computers. Anyways, But then I was able to, finally, finally,
- 26:28Speaker 2: thank God, upgrade my plex server.
- 26:30Speaker 1: Oh great, Now what were you running before?
- 26:32Speaker 2: It was running an old I buy power micro atx board.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Oh wow, running an I three twenty eight.
- 26:40Speaker 1: Hundred okay wow, and only sixteen.
- 26:43Speaker 2: Gigs a RAM. It was originally a Windows Vista machine
- 26:47Speaker 2: I think, or Windows seven machine I think, maybe even.
- 26:50Speaker 2: But it was an old I buy power pc that
- 26:53Speaker 2: I had ripped out of a box, shredded it apart,
- 26:55Speaker 2: took the micro atx board out put it. It was
- 26:58Speaker 2: running a very low went I five or an I
- 27:01Speaker 2: three inchel So I finally migrated to a current gen system.
- 27:06Speaker 2: So now I'm running I seven nine series. Oh wow?
- 27:10Speaker 1: Really I jumped way up.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm running a thirty sixty in there, an
- 27:15Speaker 2: Nvidia thirty sixty. I went from a ten to seventy
- 27:17Speaker 2: to a thirty sixty the benefit And this is what
- 27:20Speaker 2: was cool. I tried this. I was running running Linux
- 27:22Speaker 2: Mint twenty two. Linux Mint is probably the best version
- 27:24Speaker 2: of Linux I've used. It's just got a great UI.
- 27:26Speaker 2: It's super easy to use.
- 27:27Speaker 1: I thought when bo when boontu was the thing until
- 27:31Speaker 1: I installed Linux bin and played around with that, and
- 27:33Speaker 1: I said, nop, this is this is it?
- 27:35Speaker 2: H I mean, I I've played with Debian, I've played with Ubuntu,
- 27:37Speaker 2: I've played with Elementary, I've played with a handful of
- 27:40Speaker 2: other Linux distributions. Linux Mint is by far the best
- 27:44Speaker 2: and easiest one that I've had inexperienced using. So everybody's
- 27:48Speaker 2: gonna have their own opinion. Yeah, but I was curious,
- 27:51Speaker 2: so I asked. I asked one of my coworkers, and
- 27:52Speaker 2: I was like, do you think if I went from
- 27:54Speaker 2: a Intel processor to an Intel processor and an Invidia
- 27:58Speaker 2: GPU to an Invidia G if I could just migrate
- 28:02Speaker 2: the OSH into the new machine? All right? He's like,
- 28:05Speaker 2: he's I gotta know, never tried it. So I just
- 28:08Speaker 2: moved the hard drive over and plugged it into the
- 28:10Speaker 2: bio on the motherboard, booted to it. You had no
- 28:12Speaker 2: problem with it, zero issue loading into it.
- 28:15Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's pretty It detected that there was
- 28:17Speaker 1: a change right and I don't remember what it said,
- 28:20Speaker 1: but it booted, so I figured it was gonna be fine,
- 28:23Speaker 1: that's all.
- 28:23Speaker 2: And I haven't had any issues, right, And that was
- 28:25Speaker 2: off the integrated graphics on it, and then I put
- 28:27Speaker 2: in the thirty sixty, downloaded the Linux and video drivers,
- 28:31Speaker 2: loaded them and it's been running fine. Now it's still
- 28:33Speaker 2: sitting right behind me because I haven't had a whole
- 28:34Speaker 2: lot of time to actually put it back in the
- 28:36Speaker 2: rack in my workshop and remount it and get everything
- 28:39Speaker 2: back in. Plus, because the old micro ATESX board only
- 28:42Speaker 2: had four state of ports on it. Now I have
- 28:45Speaker 2: eight state of ports on this motherboard. Oh man, I
- 28:47Speaker 2: can Now I can populate it with four more two
- 28:50Speaker 2: terrible drives and put them in RAID and get six
- 28:52Speaker 2: terriboids of storage in a RAID. So now I'll have
- 28:55Speaker 2: a little bit more RAID space, which I wanted originally.
- 28:57Speaker 1: For listeners that don't understand show al server, can you
- 29:01Speaker 1: quickly tell us what is that?
- 29:04Speaker 4: So?
- 29:04Speaker 2: Plexus is a media server that plays media off of
- 29:07Speaker 2: a computer that you can then stream via the app
- 29:11Speaker 2: or the the the Windows application and play media back movies.
- 29:16Speaker 2: So I've ripped all of my DVDs digitally, so I
- 29:18Speaker 2: rip I have used handbrake or make MKV to rip
- 29:23Speaker 2: my DVDs in my Blu rays Digitally, it basically pulls
- 29:25Speaker 2: the media files off of and stores them on my computer.
- 29:27Speaker 2: PLEX is then basically a library for that where I
- 29:30Speaker 2: can put those files into PLEX and then view them
- 29:33Speaker 2: on the app and play them.
- 29:34Speaker 1: So it's almost like having having your own Netflix or
- 29:37Speaker 1: your own.
- 29:37Speaker 2: It's a home theater system, right, it's it's it's a
- 29:39Speaker 2: home it's a PLEX, it's a media player. There are
- 29:43Speaker 2: many like it. U use Alternative to to find out
- 29:47Speaker 2: another one if you don't want to use PLEX. But
- 29:49Speaker 2: it allows us to put media on the network and
- 29:52Speaker 2: then be able to watch it on your iPhone, watch
- 29:54Speaker 2: it on your Android, watch it on your Smart TV,
- 29:56Speaker 2: watch it on your Xbox, your PlayStation, your PC. But
- 29:58Speaker 2: it's great because I've also put all by home movies
- 30:02Speaker 2: on there though all my family stuff is in there.
- 30:04Speaker 2: And then what you can do is, if you're smart
- 30:07Speaker 2: enough about it, you can make it accessible outside of
- 30:10Speaker 2: your home. I tell my family, hey, download PLEX, connect
- 30:12Speaker 2: to my server. Here's my log in, you know, connect
- 30:15Speaker 2: to this IP address, and then they can watch all
- 30:17Speaker 2: of the home movies that I have on my plextir.
- 30:19Speaker 1: You can choose what they're able to see. So that's
- 30:21Speaker 1: kind of cool. Yeah, So then then I.
- 30:22Speaker 2: Don't have to you know, they don't have to go
- 30:24Speaker 2: to a Google Drive and download a Google Drive folder
- 30:26Speaker 2: or a link and watch it there. They can just
- 30:28Speaker 2: go to Plex and they can watch whatever they want
- 30:31Speaker 2: and it treats it. You know, you can put thumbnails in,
- 30:33Speaker 2: you can give a descriptions, et cetera, et cetera. So
- 30:36Speaker 2: that's what you see behind me is kind of a
- 30:38Speaker 2: a PLEX upgrade graveyard with PC parts kind of strewn
- 30:43Speaker 2: all over the place.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about starting your own business? How
- 30:46Speaker 1: about a business in the tech world? Creating a website
- 30:49Speaker 1: that will bring visitors and create conversations. That is exactly
- 30:54Speaker 1: what Anna Belch did with her website, Leamie. We're gonna
- 30:58Speaker 1: be talking to her about the creat of this website,
- 31:01Speaker 1: who it's geared to, and why it has finally come
- 31:04Speaker 1: to fruition and it's seeing some really great results. That's
- 31:07Speaker 1: coming up with tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
- 31:10Speaker 2: I'm sean to weird send us an X at tech Talk.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Radio and now back to tech Talk Radio. Hey, this
- 31:17Speaker 1: comedian Kathleen Meddigan, and you're listening to tech Talk Radio's
- 31:21Speaker 1: something I will never be listening to because I hate technology.
- 31:24Speaker 1: But for those of you, the two these are your guys,
- 31:29Speaker 1: no doubt. When you are looking to make a friend,
- 31:34Speaker 1: sometimes you go on to Facebook and you might find
- 31:36Speaker 1: somebody in your circle that you know you could connect
- 31:39Speaker 1: with that maybe you have the same interest. When it
- 31:42Speaker 1: comes to dating, there have been so many dating apps
- 31:44Speaker 1: over the years for connecting, whether it be sites like
- 31:48Speaker 1: you know, Tinder or even some of the other sites
- 31:52Speaker 1: that are out there. And I've even seen some people
- 31:54Speaker 1: jump on the LinkedIn and you know, try and establish
- 31:57Speaker 1: friendships there. But there is a new website that is
- 32:02Speaker 1: really making a great connection with the female audience. And
- 32:07Speaker 1: Anna Bilch is the founder of les Amiss if I
- 32:11Speaker 1: pronounce it right, and it's with us on tech Talk Radio,
- 32:14Speaker 1: and I thank you so much for coming on the show.
- 32:17Speaker 4: Absolutely thanks for the invitation.
- 32:19Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about this idea on ley
- 32:22Speaker 1: Amiss and how it is redefining how women make meaningful
- 32:27Speaker 1: friendships in twenty twenty five outside of possibly the dating world.
- 32:33Speaker 4: Sure, absolutely so.
- 32:35Speaker 3: First of all, how Lesendie was created and why Lezenmie
- 32:39Speaker 3: was created is basically from my personal story in general,
- 32:44Speaker 3: I moved countries twice. So first I'm from Estonia originally.
- 32:48Speaker 3: Then I moved to Dublin to work at Paper as
- 32:51Speaker 3: a product manager, and then after a couple of years,
- 32:54Speaker 3: I moved to Barcelona, and I was absolutely surprised that
- 33:00Speaker 3: it's actually so hard to find like minded people in
- 33:04Speaker 3: the new city, especially if you're not a student anymore,
- 33:08Speaker 3: you're working from home, or maybe you're working like in
- 33:13Speaker 3: the office, or like with the colleagues who is for example,
- 33:17Speaker 3: much older than you, or only like male dominated companys.
- 33:23Speaker 4: And then I tried I.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Think, all the apps, all the websites, and you were absolutely.
- 33:29Speaker 4: Right mentioning for example, Facebook groups.
- 33:32Speaker 3: There was also meetup, evan Bright, bumblebff, and so try
- 33:38Speaker 3: them all and unfortunately didn't find any friends, even though
- 33:43Speaker 3: I was like, wow, like I'm absolutely normal person, why
- 33:47Speaker 3: it is so hard to find new friends? Even though
- 33:51Speaker 3: I would say, like in my mind was that finding
- 33:56Speaker 3: friends is kind of just like a basic Yeah, it
- 34:00Speaker 3: sounds very easy, but in reality it's not at all.
- 34:04Speaker 3: And you're also absolutely right that there's like one hundred
- 34:08Speaker 3: apps for dating for like bumble, Tinder, hearing, Raya, and
- 34:13Speaker 3: there's like literally hundreds of them, and then from like
- 34:18Speaker 3: my personal experience of using gold apps for friendship and
- 34:23Speaker 3: I kind of noted why it didn't succeed for me
- 34:28Speaker 3: basically and try to fix all the problems.
- 34:32Speaker 4: That's kind of I had.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Well, if you think about this on there, there's a
- 34:38Speaker 1: certain amount of guard. You know, you put up a
- 34:41Speaker 1: wall when you're online on social media in many of
- 34:44Speaker 1: these situations, especially with Facebook, in Instagram and snap even,
- 34:49Speaker 1: you have to have a kind of a wall for
- 34:52Speaker 1: protection number one of your assets, but also your person
- 34:58Speaker 1: who you are. Finding a group though, where everybody really
- 35:02Speaker 1: has the same kind of I don't want to say goal,
- 35:05Speaker 1: but yeah, that would be right goal. That's the same
- 35:08Speaker 1: idea of meeting some people would like mind that you
- 35:11Speaker 1: could be friends with and learn from and share with.
- 35:14Speaker 1: That's that's got to be the challenge, and that's exactly
- 35:17Speaker 1: what leam meets has kind of set forth with this
- 35:21Speaker 1: whole friendship economy. It's kind of you know, you may
- 35:24Speaker 1: have been, you know, a real trendsetter and trend starter
- 35:27Speaker 1: here finding what was lacking in the others and being
- 35:30Speaker 1: able to put it all into one.
- 35:33Speaker 3: Absolutely, you're totally right, because what is like special for
- 35:37Speaker 3: Les I mean, first of all, we're meeting and groups
- 35:41Speaker 3: usually the groups of like women is ten or maximum
- 35:44Speaker 3: twelve people. Why so, first of all, of course safety,
- 35:49Speaker 3: meeting in the groups are way safer than meeting one
- 35:52Speaker 3: on one. And also in terms of just as you
- 35:56Speaker 3: mentioned the goal or for example, I call it, that
- 35:59Speaker 3: everyone come with the same intention intention of finding friends.
- 36:04Speaker 3: Then also the conversation goes way more like smoother when
- 36:08Speaker 3: it's like ten people than just one to one, because
- 36:12Speaker 3: especially if you're an introverted person, it's actually really hard
- 36:17Speaker 3: to come to this one to one meeting because you
- 36:20Speaker 3: know you will feel like awkward, maybe like you won't
- 36:24Speaker 3: be able to figure out which question to ask and
- 36:27Speaker 3: so on. It's like small talk and the first talk
- 36:30Speaker 3: with stranger. It's always hard. But what we do in
- 36:34Speaker 3: Lezamie is that first of all, yeah, you meet in
- 36:36Speaker 3: the in small group, and second there's also an event
- 36:41Speaker 3: like in place kind of in the middle of this meeting,
- 36:44Speaker 3: and it can be everything. So right now we do
- 36:47Speaker 3: over five hundred events per month, and it can be
- 36:51Speaker 3: like pottery, book and making, just like branch.
- 36:57Speaker 4: S by evenings. Any beauty is skin gear.
- 37:01Speaker 3: Like talks and song with the host with the expert
- 37:05Speaker 3: that is like teaching you how to use for example,
- 37:08Speaker 3: carrying cosmetic and song. And then usually event these two
- 37:13Speaker 3: hours and after these two hours, it's because it's went
- 37:17Speaker 3: so smoothly, and then nobody were pushed to let's say,
- 37:22Speaker 3: remove the silence and say something, because there's always something happening.
- 37:26Speaker 3: And then in the meantime you can also have the
- 37:29Speaker 3: conversation the girls. And that's like one way how we
- 37:33Speaker 3: connect our users. And the second way works a bit different,
- 37:39Speaker 3: is that we build our own algorithm like AI model,
- 37:44Speaker 3: which basically calculates the connectivity score between women based on
- 37:52Speaker 3: their profiles. So basically like for example Anna and Emma
- 37:57Speaker 3: they have many things on common the city scoreless ninety
- 38:02Speaker 3: two percent, for example, and then we create a chegger
- 38:04Speaker 3: for them and explain why you got connected, which also
- 38:08Speaker 3: really helps because then they have this kind of theme
- 38:13Speaker 3: for a small talk because that like it says, okay,
- 38:17Speaker 3: of course you both live in the same city, and
- 38:20Speaker 3: you both like play tennis and love something else, and
- 38:24Speaker 3: then as an easy question can be already asking like oh,
- 38:28Speaker 3: like for how long you're playing tennis and where you're playing,
- 38:32Speaker 3: Maybe let's go together to play tennis, and that's how
- 38:35Speaker 3: we meet and that's what we see from like all
- 38:38Speaker 3: the feedbacks from this like AI feature that we built
- 38:42Speaker 3: in the app.
- 38:43Speaker 4: That there's actually the feedback is really really good.
- 38:46Speaker 1: So you can actually group this geographically as well. So
- 38:49Speaker 1: if you have like a group that isn't like Green Valley,
- 38:53Speaker 1: Arizona or Phoenix or possibly you know, another part of
- 38:57Speaker 1: the world, or maybe even they have they're from those areas,
- 39:02Speaker 1: they can actually connect with those that have those same
- 39:05Speaker 1: interest based on the area as well with these events.
- 39:09Speaker 1: That's a great idea.
- 39:11Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, that's how it works.
- 39:14Speaker 1: What was it like on a for you to get
- 39:17Speaker 1: this great idea and then get it made? Was it
- 39:22Speaker 1: a challenge to get done? Did you find a lot
- 39:24Speaker 1: of people that said, no, we can do this, we
- 39:26Speaker 1: can do this, we have this capability.
- 39:29Speaker 3: It is definitely a challenge, and it's still a challenge
- 39:33Speaker 3: even though we're building Lezbie for three and a half years.
- 39:37Speaker 4: For sure, I.
- 39:38Speaker 3: Can say the first year is the hardest because first
- 39:42Speaker 3: of all, like I started with my copounder Olik, there
- 39:46Speaker 3: was just two of us in the beginning. At that time,
- 39:50Speaker 3: I was like the in playing big corporation. Olik was
- 39:55Speaker 3: also like at Google for almost ten years, and for
- 39:59Speaker 3: us jumping into something uncertain and very questionable. Of course,
- 40:05Speaker 3: it's hard because once you have like your job in
- 40:10Speaker 3: a big corporation, you're feel absolutely let's say safe and secure.
- 40:16Speaker 3: You have guaranteed paycheck in a certain day of the month,
- 40:21Speaker 3: and you always know that everything is covered. Maybe you
- 40:24Speaker 3: also have some perks as an insurance and so on,
- 40:27Speaker 3: which is like awesome. And then one day, like you
- 40:30Speaker 3: decide to build something by your own and there will
- 40:34Speaker 3: be just for in our case, two of us, and
- 40:37Speaker 3: we need to cut everything. There is no insurance anymore,
- 40:41Speaker 3: no paychecks. It's only you, your knowledge and your savings,
- 40:47Speaker 3: and you don't know like when will it work out,
- 40:50Speaker 3: or will it like work out.
- 40:51Speaker 4: At the end, like in general or not.
- 40:55Speaker 3: And in addition to that, even though it's always the sense,
- 41:00Speaker 3: but in addition to that, you have an imposter syndrome
- 41:05Speaker 3: because right now there's only two of you. But imagine
- 41:08Speaker 3: there's about like your idea, there's just an idea. The
- 41:13Speaker 3: company is not incorporated. There's no website, there's no log
- 41:16Speaker 3: no branding. You don't even know how it will look like,
- 41:19Speaker 3: how it would work. There's no app there's no clients,
- 41:22Speaker 3: there's no ads about you, and like there's like literally nothing,
- 41:26Speaker 3: which means two of you need to do all that
- 41:30Speaker 3: stuff and you become a marketing manager, a product manager, designer,
- 41:36Speaker 3: a lawyer, accountant and like everything. And of course I've
- 41:42Speaker 3: been only a product manager all my life basically, so
- 41:45Speaker 3: this is something that I'm doing good and I know
- 41:49Speaker 3: I have knowledge, and then like within a day you
- 41:53Speaker 3: become like ten more roles, and of course you feel
- 41:58Speaker 3: quite awkward. Of course you have like something like depressions,
- 42:03Speaker 3: or of course, since you start to work like fourteen
- 42:08Speaker 3: twelve hours per day absolutely every day, without any weekends
- 42:13Speaker 3: and vacations, Like my first vacation was only two years
- 42:17Speaker 3: after it started. That was the time when we're like, okay,
- 42:21Speaker 3: now we have a team of six and probably they
- 42:25Speaker 3: can manage one week without me.
- 42:29Speaker 1: You're hoping, yes, yeah, we're just hoping.
- 42:32Speaker 3: And you don't know because also what I understood, if
- 42:35Speaker 3: you kind of go to vacation but you're still working, like,
- 42:40Speaker 3: for example, three four hours per day just to check
- 42:42Speaker 3: it out, then it doesn't help you to really like
- 42:46Speaker 3: relax and recharge. You need to like shut it down
- 42:51Speaker 3: absolutely without any messages.
- 42:53Speaker 4: And so on.
- 42:53Speaker 1: You know, I love the message of the website and
- 42:57Speaker 1: I've been on the website. I can't sign up. I'm
- 42:59Speaker 1: a guy. But we enable women to achieve more by
- 43:04Speaker 1: bringing them together. And you know, that's that empowerment phase.
- 43:09Speaker 1: And I've talked to a lot of women business owners,
- 43:12Speaker 1: young women that are saying, hey, what should I do
- 43:14Speaker 1: here or what should I do there? This is a
- 43:16Speaker 1: great way to get that input from other women that
- 43:19Speaker 1: have like yourself, that have experienced starting a business from
- 43:23Speaker 1: scratch or even maybe have succeeded in many other businesses
- 43:28Speaker 1: in the past.
- 43:30Speaker 2: It's not just.
- 43:31Speaker 1: About the arts. It's not just about relationships. It's about
- 43:35Speaker 1: also learning from many others that can be help and
- 43:39Speaker 1: a great way to start a valuable friendship. When you
- 43:42Speaker 1: think about it and you look at it and you say, well,
- 43:45Speaker 1: social tech and again we've talked about some of the
- 43:48Speaker 1: other sites there, it's not just about making that match.
- 43:52Speaker 1: It's about having that feeling of belonging. And that's what
- 43:55Speaker 1: Limis kind of brings to everybody, isn't it.
- 43:57Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And that's what we wanted to and like
- 44:00Speaker 3: this message reconnecting, we enable you to achieve more by
- 44:06Speaker 3: connecting you together. Is actually came also from my personal
- 44:10Speaker 3: experience because for example, once I joined PayPal, I was
- 44:14Speaker 3: just twenty one, actually one of the youngest, and then
- 44:18Speaker 3: there I was like I got multiple mentors also only
- 44:24Speaker 3: women in the company who were like pushing me and
- 44:28Speaker 3: like showing me the path where should I go. And
- 44:33Speaker 3: then also once for example, I was just twenty four
- 44:38Speaker 3: once I became I see you and a co founder,
- 44:41Speaker 3: also very young. And then to overcome a lot of challenges,
- 44:46Speaker 3: I also got some coaches also actually the only women,
- 44:51Speaker 3: it just happened like that who really helped me to
- 44:56Speaker 3: go through through the challenge of.
- 44:58Speaker 4: Like finding myself.
- 45:00Speaker 3: And also you can imagine, and you're just twenty four,
- 45:04Speaker 3: you do these tons of like different hands, hats, you're
- 45:08Speaker 3: wearing different heads, and then you go to conferences and
- 45:13Speaker 3: you need to speak with investors and of course they're
- 45:16Speaker 3: only men, and they see this twenty four years old,
- 45:20Speaker 3: very young girl, and of course they don't like really.
- 45:27Speaker 1: They don't give you a full ear. Yeah, yeah, it's.
- 45:30Speaker 3: Like, okay, you're just doing something. Okay, you're a nice girl,
- 45:34Speaker 3: but let me talk with like real men and real businesses.
- 45:40Speaker 3: Of course, now tables have turned and like you can
- 45:43Speaker 3: see like the result and the product and so on,
- 45:46Speaker 3: but it's a really hard time, just like.
- 45:51Speaker 4: To show yourself, to show what you can create.
- 45:56Speaker 1: The website is lay a miss dot see it's l
- 46:00Speaker 1: E S A M I S dot c C. The name.
- 46:06Speaker 1: How did you come up with the name and how
- 46:08Speaker 1: it represents the brand?
- 46:10Speaker 3: So we wanted, like we wanted to create a stylish
- 46:14Speaker 3: brand but which also will be kind of playful and
- 46:20Speaker 3: a beautiful name.
- 46:22Speaker 4: And that's how like, that's how we decided.
- 46:26Speaker 3: That maybe it can be something French unless I mean,
- 46:31Speaker 3: for example, it.
- 46:32Speaker 4: Just means friends in French.
- 46:36Speaker 3: But the funny thing, we actually consider it as the
- 46:40Speaker 3: first name. It was the first idea of us friends.
- 46:43Speaker 3: But of course, as a business owner, the first thing
- 46:46Speaker 3: what you do once you're choosing the name, you're just Google.
- 46:49Speaker 3: You go to the Google search and put the name.
- 46:52Speaker 3: See like what's happening. And you can imagine there was
- 46:56Speaker 3: at least like ten pages only about Friends, the TV series,
- 47:01Speaker 3: and we're like, okay, it's impossible to beat them in
- 47:05Speaker 3: the search, so let's do. Let's think about another idea.
- 47:10Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I think it's perfect. It fits really well,
- 47:13Speaker 1: it's a great looking website and I hope our listeners
- 47:15Speaker 1: take a look at it and recommend it to you know,
- 47:18Speaker 1: their daughters, their friends, their coworkers. Had a great way
- 47:22Speaker 1: to continue to build and you've seen really great growth
- 47:25Speaker 1: since the site has been officially launched.
- 47:29Speaker 3: Actually yes, and we didn't expect that because just within
- 47:33Speaker 3: the first month we got almost two thousands applications just
- 47:39Speaker 3: in one city and it was like wow, because in
- 47:42Speaker 3: the beginning, I was, of course questioning, is it like
- 47:46Speaker 3: the problem just for me in terms of finding friends,
- 47:51Speaker 3: because I never heard anyone complaining about that. But like
- 47:56Speaker 3: when we started, they're I mean, in the world in general,
- 48:02Speaker 3: there was no such a movement of communities or different
- 48:06Speaker 3: apps or like even talking about friendship at that time.
- 48:12Speaker 3: Only like government, like different countries started to talk about
- 48:18Speaker 3: loneliness lowness epidemic in general, and that year, for example,
- 48:24Speaker 3: England decided to have Minister of Loneliness.
- 48:29Speaker 1: Really, oh wow.
- 48:31Speaker 4: They have this role.
- 48:33Speaker 3: They have like a particular budget to like overcome the
- 48:37Speaker 3: lonness epidemic and that's free, so which means that within
- 48:42Speaker 3: the stry and health years, we I mean, we started it,
- 48:46Speaker 3: but now there's a lot of companies like similar ones
- 48:49Speaker 3: to talk more about lowliness, about finding friends, and that's
- 48:53Speaker 3: actually normal to have your like third place, third community,
- 48:58Speaker 3: not only like family work, but then there are also
- 49:02Speaker 3: something else.
- 49:03Speaker 4: For example, before.
- 49:06Speaker 3: Right now it's not really the case anymore, the third
- 49:10Speaker 3: place was church.
- 49:11Speaker 4: Actually church was connecting people.
- 49:13Speaker 3: Very well because everybody like true like neighbor Woods are
- 49:19Speaker 3: coming to the church on Sundays. They know they will
- 49:21Speaker 3: meet a lot of people, make friends. And so now
- 49:24Speaker 3: the new era of communities and something like lessami, where
- 49:28Speaker 3: you have your community, you belong to something and you
- 49:32Speaker 3: have your circle around you.
- 49:34Speaker 1: Well, it is great. Continued success to Youanna. I want
- 49:37Speaker 1: to thank you for coming on the show and telling
- 49:38Speaker 1: us about the website. I want to tell our listeners
- 49:41Speaker 1: to check it out. L E. S, A, M. I,
- 49:44Speaker 1: S dot C C and I hope we get a
- 49:46Speaker 1: chance to talk to you again and again continued success
- 49:50Speaker 1: with the site.
- 49:50Speaker 4: Thank you very much for this conversation.
- 49:52Speaker 1: We will have more of tech talk Radio that is
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- 50:07Speaker 1: Apple has announced that they have their iOS twenty six beta.
- 50:13Speaker 1: Now they change the name being Pattern of their iOS.
- 50:16Speaker 1: So now, of course it's coinciding with the year. So
- 50:18Speaker 1: I guess they're looking ahead for the next year, which
- 50:21Speaker 1: will be you know, twenty twenty six. So my question
- 50:25Speaker 1: for Sean today was, of course, did you get the beta?
- 50:29Speaker 2: I always like getting the betas. Everybody thinks I'm crazy
- 50:32Speaker 2: because they're like, oh, you're gonna get a buggy mass
- 50:33Speaker 2: it's gonna be annoying. Well, that's how you help. I
- 50:37Speaker 2: can now help develop a little bit, right, I can
- 50:40Speaker 2: help cater to the things that I want to see.
- 50:44Speaker 2: So I upgraded to the Developer Beta, which is great, right,
- 50:47Speaker 2: but it includes the new liquid Glass update.
- 50:50Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, there was a lot of talk about
- 50:53Speaker 1: that when they made the announced.
- 50:54Speaker 2: It's just it's just a way for them to look
- 50:56Speaker 2: at the icons and make them more rounded and shiny
- 50:59Speaker 2: and look like glass. And I'm not a big fan,
- 51:03Speaker 2: to be honest.
- 51:04Speaker 1: Is it just getting used to it you think? Or
- 51:05Speaker 1: is it No, it's not.
- 51:07Speaker 2: It's just it's just not it's not a good look.
- 51:09Speaker 2: I don't I don't care for it. It rounds a
- 51:11Speaker 2: lot of things. They made the icon. The certain icons
- 51:15Speaker 2: are way bigger. Menu options are way bigger, even with
- 51:19Speaker 2: my font sizes the way they were, and the icon
- 51:21Speaker 2: size is the way they were. Some things just you're like, whoa,
- 51:24Speaker 2: that's in your face. Oh, and they move some things around.
- 51:28Speaker 2: They changed the icons for a couple of the core apps.
- 51:32Speaker 2: So just some muscle memory getting used to some muscle memory,
- 51:34Speaker 2: some more customization options. The big one is they moved something,
- 51:37Speaker 2: like they said, they move some things around. Some of
- 51:39Speaker 2: the big ones are the search function. Really normally, like
- 51:44Speaker 2: on an iPhone, you would swipe down from the top
- 51:46Speaker 2: and the search bar would be at the top near
- 51:48Speaker 2: the island. If you have a newer phone, now all
- 51:51Speaker 2: the searches are at the bottom above your keyboard, and
- 51:54Speaker 2: the search bar kind of floats there above the keyboard.
- 51:57Speaker 1: I have that with a pixel. They have it down
- 51:59Speaker 1: to tour to the bottom.
- 52:00Speaker 3: Two.
- 52:01Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's it's just different. Right. So now I'm
- 52:04Speaker 2: getting used to where my eyes are trained to the
- 52:06Speaker 2: use or my thumb, where my thumbs are because they
- 52:09Speaker 2: moved a lot of the the the excess to close
- 52:13Speaker 2: things to the to the bottom next to the search bar.
- 52:18Speaker 2: So getting used to that, and I I think I
- 52:22Speaker 2: mentioned it like this, right more often than not a
- 52:25Speaker 2: lot of times. When we were first getting smartphones, everybody
- 52:28Speaker 2: had it in one hand. Everybody wanted one hand operation
- 52:32Speaker 2: of their phone, being able to reach across with your
- 52:35Speaker 2: thumb to keep you. But now that phones are so big,
- 52:38Speaker 2: everybody's gone to a two handed operation. So where are
- 52:44Speaker 2: your thumbs? Right? If you hold your phone with both hands, everybody,
- 52:48Speaker 2: I want, I want people. If you hold your phone,
- 52:54Speaker 2: your index fingers are typically on the on the sides
- 52:58Speaker 2: and your thumbs are at the bottom right. So now
- 53:01Speaker 2: try hold of your phone like that. Try to close
- 53:04Speaker 2: a menu with an ax at the top.
- 53:06Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what are you doing?
- 53:08Speaker 2: You're moving your you're moving your whole hand yep, or
- 53:10Speaker 2: you're moving your right hand or your left hand. Right.
- 53:14Speaker 2: Most people I've seen using phones now are double handed.
- 53:17Speaker 2: Everybody's using double handed yep, not single handed anymore, and
- 53:22Speaker 2: the UI is adapting to that.
- 53:24Speaker 1: Unless you're styling and you've got the old school flip
- 53:26Speaker 1: phone and you swept that thing out, flip it all ten.
- 53:30Speaker 2: Warning, still off to YouTube two thumbs.
- 53:33Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so, Yeah, that's true.
- 53:35Speaker 2: Yep, that's we're kind of going back to that right,
- 53:37Speaker 2: That's how you held your old phones. Now a lot
- 53:39Speaker 2: of people could teenine and order with one thumb if
- 53:41Speaker 2: you were smart enough, or you had the sidekick, you
- 53:42Speaker 2: slipped it open, you had a full keyboard. I had
- 53:45Speaker 2: a sidekick. I loved it.
- 53:47Speaker 1: Those were good.
- 53:49Speaker 2: But it's interesting to see I'm now a two hand
- 53:54Speaker 2: phone holder, like I'm now seeing the UI and the
- 53:58Speaker 2: user experience is now for seeing me to be the
- 54:00Speaker 2: two thumber. Whereas before I would do one hand and
- 54:04Speaker 2: reach across or reposition my hand, I'm doing a lot less.
- 54:09Speaker 2: It's actually a lot less hand movement.
- 54:12Speaker 1: Yeah, but when you're holding it with one hand.
- 54:14Speaker 2: It's it's weird to think about, but it's it's it's
- 54:16Speaker 2: it's drawing me into the two handed, two thumb interface.
- 54:22Speaker 1: Kind of like exercising to be a thumb wrestler. Let's say, hey, yeah, one.
- 54:27Speaker 2: Two, three, four, thumb wore five six, seven, eight. Yeah,
- 54:30Speaker 2: there you go. All right, we are so yeah, we are.
- 54:34Speaker 1: Out of time.
- 54:35Speaker 4: Uh.
- 54:35Speaker 1: You covered a lot of stuff, and there was a
- 54:37Speaker 1: lot more stuff we wanted to cover. Hopefully next week
- 54:39Speaker 1: I'll be able to talk a little bit about that.
- 54:41Speaker 1: With the Lenovo Legion Wi Fi thirty that I have
- 54:45Speaker 1: been having major issues with and I want to find
- 54:49Speaker 1: out your thoughts save this. Maybe some listeners can let
- 54:51Speaker 1: us know too what they think about one.
- 54:53Speaker 2: Yeah, we have some great listener questions that I wanted
- 54:55Speaker 2: to get to. BOE ran out of time, so I
- 54:57Speaker 2: just we always love your listener questions. Call us, email US,
- 55:01Speaker 2: text us, FaceTime US. Yep, we'll answer your pulse.
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- 55:06Speaker 1: Andy Taylor, I'm suan to Weard.
- 55:08Speaker 2: Have a great week.