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Scented Dice, AI Lies & Bubble Pop Addictions on TechtalkRadio | Ep 480 · 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 what's up.
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  Speaker 1: This is Tom Arnold and you're listening to tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 2: They're really great and I love them.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how about a copy of Windows? Can we get
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  Speaker 3: a laptop?
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and we are
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  Speaker 1: the show that talks about computers, technology and of course
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  Speaker 1: the Internet and all the gag games and games and
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  Speaker 1: game matter of fact. Coming up, We've got a great
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  Speaker 1: guest that Sean told me about and he said, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta talk.
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  Speaker 4: We gotta talk to this guy.
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  Speaker 1: You've met up at gen Con, which is a big
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  Speaker 1: like it's a role playing conference. I mean four days
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  Speaker 1: and four days of gaming, four days of gaming. Do
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  Speaker 1: they have video games or.
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  Speaker 2: It's very very very light on the video very very
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  Speaker 2: light on the video games, if anything.
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  Speaker 4: Games you use your imagination.
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  Speaker 2: And board games, tabletop barbigs, card games, trading card games, collectibles, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you name it.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of that, I gotta ask you. So last week
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  Speaker 1: we talked to about Bubble Pop Origin. Did you get
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  Speaker 1: started on it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Andy, I hold on, I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll load it right I did say it's a little
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  Speaker 1: addictive a little, but Bubble Prig is a Vailia.
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  Speaker 2: You are a lie. You are a liar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am on level one hundred and fifty. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I've been playing it. It's incredibly addicting. So for those
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  Speaker 2: of you who like these types of games, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a puzzle ish game, right. It is the perfect mix
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  Speaker 2: between three games that I love, Pegel.
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  Speaker 4: Pegel okay, Zuma Zuma all right, and Bejeweled.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Bejeweled. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: If you take those three games and you mashed them
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  Speaker 2: up and said make me a new game, you get
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  Speaker 2: Bubble Pop. I can't. I can't tell you how Like,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, it's another game. It's and you're like, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's like Candy Crush, And I was like, okay, I
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  Speaker 2: like Candy Crush. Now this game is a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: However, I got to level three hundred and fifteen, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's cool because you can play free. There's
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  Speaker 1: only ads if you want to get extra lives, right,
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  Speaker 1: you only buy Luke Crate if you want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of get the extra benefit. I thought, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play this Bubble Pop Origin without any of that,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to level three fifteen pretty good, and
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  Speaker 1: I did watch some ad.
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  Speaker 4: I did watch some ads, so I will do that.
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  Speaker 1: I had like two bubbles left and I could get
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  Speaker 1: five points by watching some ads, and I did do that,
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  Speaker 1: but I gave up on three point fifteen. I finally
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  Speaker 1: said it's not it's not there's no way, so I
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  Speaker 1: just said deep. So I removed it from my smart
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  Speaker 1: device and I downloaded another Bubble Pop game.
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  Speaker 2: So I could start all over. I mean, they're fun,
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  Speaker 2: it is fun. It is fun again it you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those games where they make them purposely
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  Speaker 2: frustrating so that they force you into trying to buy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you only have two bubbles left if you spend
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  Speaker 2: a dollar ninety nine and you're missing the next level.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So but I'm I mean, I don't have that type
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  Speaker 2: of personality that's like I have to do it, I
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  Speaker 2: have to win, so I don't spend money on it.
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  Speaker 2: But I could see how it's predatory in that way
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  Speaker 2: for people that are having adductive personality. But it is
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  Speaker 2: fun and I'm trying to swipe through just to look
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  Speaker 2: at it now.
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  Speaker 1: But they'll get uh, they'll get compensated through the ads
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  Speaker 1: that they run, you know, I yam yeah, a pretty
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  Speaker 1: strong user base. And the other one I'm playing now
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  Speaker 1: is also a.
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  Speaker 4: Bubble pop game.
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  Speaker 1: They're calling it Bubble Pop different developer, and I'm having
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  Speaker 1: fun with it, and I figure, if I get to
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  Speaker 1: that point, then I'll look for another one. Because there's
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  Speaker 1: so many titles that are out there. As long as
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  Speaker 1: you get them from your store, whether it be your
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  Speaker 1: you know, Apple store or your play store, you should
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  Speaker 1: be fairly safe.
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  Speaker 4: But always check it out, do a little research on it.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing I wanted to ask you, Sean, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of games, did you get a chain to put together
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  Speaker 1: the snap Circuit Socker shot?
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  Speaker 2: Have not yet? I know, I know the World Cup's
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  Speaker 2: coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Now that we're through with all the graduation stuff and
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  Speaker 2: I'm free, like I'm not stretched out at work, I
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  Speaker 2: will have time to sit with Max and build it.
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  Speaker 4: Max.
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  Speaker 2: Every time Max comes into the basement, he goes, what's
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  Speaker 2: this got soccer ball on it? I want to put together?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's big, it's a it's a bigger game than normally.
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  Speaker 2: It's bigger and it's gonna be a little bit more complicated,
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  Speaker 2: I think, but I'm excited to put together. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to and I will do it with Max and I'll
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  Speaker 2: film it, record it and do a little time lapse
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  Speaker 2: or show it when it's complete and show Max playing
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  Speaker 2: with it, because it does look cool. So I do
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  Speaker 2: have it, and I think if we push it down
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  Speaker 2: the road just a little bit to get to the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup, it'll have a little bit better of a
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  Speaker 2: because the World Cup's coming up. So my friends are
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  Speaker 2: going to the World Cup games because here it's here
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  Speaker 2: in the US. Well it's here in North America, right,
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  Speaker 2: so it's in Mexico, Mexico, US and Canada.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this though, because I did a segment
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  Speaker 1: on tel Vision about it and it was it was
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  Speaker 1: cool and I started putting it together. The documentation is
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  Speaker 1: not the best when you're trying to figure out redwire
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  Speaker 1: goes here. And if for those listeners don't know snap circuits,
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  Speaker 1: they're products they make.
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  Speaker 4: They have so many great ones. There's no screws involved.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to screw drive anything in,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to solder anything. The only outside part
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  Speaker 1: is batteries. So this one uses three triple A batteries.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like a soccer stadium and you could play
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  Speaker 1: one on one with somebody. They can shoot a soccer
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  Speaker 1: ball by putting it in the little spinnies and then
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  Speaker 1: somebody has to be the goalie and block it from
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  Speaker 1: going in.
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  Speaker 4: But I will say the documentation was a little rough.
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  Speaker 1: However, if you jump online and you get this on
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  Speaker 1: the Alenco website for snap circuits, you'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: see it step by step.
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  Speaker 4: They do a step by step video. This cable goes here,
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  Speaker 4: this one goes there. I'd recommend that, hopefully I don't
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  Speaker 4: get too frustrated by I was getting there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think a four year old could do it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was like I was scratching my head
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  Speaker 1: the whole bit. So yeah, no, that was that was
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  Speaker 1: kind of scary. But that'll be cool once you Once
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  Speaker 1: you get into that, that'll be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: I did get something in this week and it was
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  Speaker 4: really weird.
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  Speaker 3: Seohn.
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  Speaker 1: Normally my buddies at AESUS when they they have something new,
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  Speaker 1: they'll tell me, hey, we got something. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: want to take a look at it, And I'll say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cool. I was sitting outside on the front porch,
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  Speaker 1: just enjoying the sunshine and the wind, and suddenly there's
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  Speaker 1: a UPS guy there with a gigantic box or FedEx
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  Speaker 1: anyway either way, and I'm like, what's this?
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  Speaker 4: But I could tell. I mean, this was a huge box.
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  Speaker 4: It was from Aesus.
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  Speaker 1: So I brought it in and I'm thinking, going through
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  Speaker 1: my email, No, he didn't send me anything to say
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  Speaker 1: what they're going to send me, So I'm thinking, this
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  Speaker 1: is cool, right, So I did unboxing video, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't like it, so I went ahead and just featured
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  Speaker 1: it on YouTube. You can find on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: But it is this is what I got, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: show you Sean. The Asus zen Book A sixteen Now
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  Speaker 1: is I mean it?
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  Speaker 2: Look? Look how thin this is? It's I mean like
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  Speaker 2: it looks like a MacBook Air.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's And a lot of people are comparing it
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  Speaker 1: to the MacBook Air. It's a sixteen inch three K
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  Speaker 1: OLED screen, which is great. It has a lit keyboard,
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  Speaker 1: which is also great.
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  Speaker 2: Which the MacBook Neo does not have. If it doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: does it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, but it also has a seventy one hour battery inside.
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  Speaker 1: Some reports are saying you could expect twenty one hours,
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  Speaker 1: but again, depending on your use, it might be more
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  Speaker 1: like fourteen or fifteen. It comes with a massive one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty watt charger, which is great, pretty big.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty good port wise.
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  Speaker 1: I wish it'd had more ports, but I think we
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  Speaker 1: all kind of wish that it has two USB c's.
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  Speaker 1: It's got HDMI, it's got a headphone jack. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people like that, and then on the other side
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  Speaker 1: it's got USB.
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  Speaker 2: Three or either way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's pretty amazing, very fast. It's a
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  Speaker 1: snap Dragon x two. That is the processor that AS
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  Speaker 1: is using with their their own NPUs, So it has
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  Speaker 1: an eighty NPU that's part of it, so you can
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: do basically co pilot or any other they have a
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  Speaker 1: SUES also has its own AI programs that are a
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  Speaker 1: part of it. But again, I just love just how
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  Speaker 1: thin it is and how light it is, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of comparisons between the MacBook Air.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it looks it looks really nice. And you said
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  Speaker 2: as a three K LED screen, Yeah, O led o
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  Speaker 2: led that's nice. Do you know what it retails for.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the hard part.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it retails for some some are saying sixteen ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: but from Asus twenty one ninety nine.
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  Speaker 4: So but if you're looking and it comes with forty
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  Speaker 4: eight gigs of.
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  Speaker 1: RAM ok okay, okay, pretty good one terabyte hard drive.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, if you're, you know, looking for a
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  Speaker 1: system that could do it all, this one may be
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  Speaker 1: able to do.
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  Speaker 2: It, which is good.
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  Speaker 1: Also as a pretty powerful I believe gaming video processor.
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  Speaker 1: That's a part of it as well. So something to
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  Speaker 1: check out. But again, yeah, a little pricey.
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  Speaker 2: The life you live Andy, when ups strops you have
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  Speaker 2: something you don't even expect.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even expecting it, and I haven't even reached
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  Speaker 1: out to him say hey did a video and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna show it on TV next week. So it's uh's grainy,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's that is pretty cool cool. I know
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to send it back, but still makes it
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  Speaker 1: pretty neat. I'm very happy with it. Oh one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty one hundred and twenty hers refresh rate as well.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 4: Have you heard anything about WWDC.
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  Speaker 2: That's I've not. I know that one of my coworkers
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  Speaker 2: is going. His brother does development and they get to
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  Speaker 2: go every time, so he'll be going to whatever they
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  Speaker 2: have out in San Francisco for that.
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  Speaker 1: So WWDC for our listeners, is the Apple puts it on.
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  Speaker 1: It's their Worldwide Developers Conference. Yeah, they got the the
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  Speaker 1: dates down for June eighth through the twelfth of keynote
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  Speaker 1: State of the Union platform. When it comes to Apple products,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be talking about AI and advancements. So
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people say, well, Apples just forgotten
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: about AI. It'll be interesting to see if they come
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  Speaker 1: up with something that is just oh, that's something new
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  Speaker 1: that that could be good if they do, because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are looking for that now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's becoming so ingrainded in everybody's life.
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  Speaker 2: They're kind of accepting that it's going to be everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: So now that it is, more companies are probably going
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  Speaker 2: to just adopt it, hopefully not do it as poorly
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  Speaker 2: as Windows has with Copilot and reco call and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. It's just again, we're a weird spot with AI,
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  Speaker 2: where yeah, it's just weird. We're a weird spot, man,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to say it right right.
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  Speaker 1: This week also opened well yesterday at showtime yesterday, Mandalorian
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  Speaker 1: and Grogu are you planning to see that Thursday night
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  Speaker 1: as you're going into like an advanced screening.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to Thursday night screening with a couple co workers.
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  Speaker 2: It comes out Friday, whatever the day Friday is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but one of my coworkers said, hey, they're showing it
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  Speaker 2: at this time on Thursday night. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: see it.
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  Speaker 3: I have.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard good and bad things, of course, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's discopter.
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  Speaker 4: Anything bad about it yet, so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Grogu adds that kind of cuteness to it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's one right over my shoulder. You can
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  Speaker 2: see it on my couch right there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Max will come down here and rearrange these, so I
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  Speaker 2: never know what I leave them where he puts them,
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  Speaker 2: so you never know what you're gonna get back down
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  Speaker 2: on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: So well, you mentioned, you know copilot, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you are on a laptop or a desktop
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  Speaker 1: that is running you know Windows eleven. Uh do you
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  Speaker 1: prefer to if you have to use AI? Will you
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  Speaker 1: go to chat, GPT or anthropic or do you just
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and use the integrated copilot?
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  Speaker 2: The only two AI models I have used on purpose
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  Speaker 2: are chat GIPT and so no, those the only two.
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't. I don't do enough. I don't
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  Speaker 2: vibe code.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I don't. I don't do enough to warrant
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  Speaker 2: chat GPT, to use chat GPT for a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And occasionally, and more often than not, with the stuff
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing is so specific to a piece of hardware
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: from a vendor that it gets it wrong. So and
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  Speaker 2: I don't and I'm not going to correct it. I'm
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: not gonna. I'm not gonna spend my time correcting their
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  Speaker 2: model like you're not paying me. I'm paying you like
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  Speaker 2: I get it, and I get it can scrape the
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  Speaker 2: entirety of the Internet, but not everything on the Internet
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  Speaker 2: is correct.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, double check, I mean I I yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Stuff with Gemini. If I'm doing something real
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  Speaker 1: quick and I just need a bit of information, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll go, wait a minute, that doesn't sound one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: and I will correct it and tell it no, no, this
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  Speaker 1: is the information, and it will say, oh, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: And does it update their database?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, I don't know, idea, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not gonna correct it. If it's wrong,
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: it's wrong. It's gonna be wrong for everybody else till
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: somebody else decides to spend their hard earned energy on
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: correcting a multi gazillion pajillion dollar company or whatever they're worth.
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  Speaker 1: Now, yeah, because when they when they take over the world,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: you don't want them company.
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  Speaker 4: You're going you kept correcting me, Yeah, right right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not one of those people that says thank you
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  Speaker 2: every time either, because I know that people have the
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  Speaker 2: theory that well, if you thank your AI every time,
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  Speaker 2: when they do take over, they're gonna be like, you
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  Speaker 2: thanked me.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're spared because you are thanking me. It doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: But that's you know, one of the ways to get
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  Speaker 1: more people to use the AI is by giving them
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  Speaker 1: kind of a personal like you know, oh that's great,
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  Speaker 1: or a great idea, or give you some kind of
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  Speaker 1: reinforcement so that way you feel like that bond with there.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't understand that, but that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it's programmed to do, right, Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to listen a question and from Dave, and
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about this one, but
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: it says, hey, guys, there are so many different Blue
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Tooth speakers on the market. If the's some better than others,
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  Speaker 1: and that's dave. I mean, yeah, you yes, you could
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  Speaker 1: go to a discount store and I mean I've seen
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  Speaker 1: them in Dollar Tree and buy a Bluetooth speaker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you know, yeah, yes there are. You get what
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  Speaker 2: you you pay for. Let's put it that way. If
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  Speaker 2: you go to a Dollar Tree, dollar General, dollar whatever, right,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get a dollar's worth of crappy audio. The
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: fidelity is not gonna be great, the battery is gonna suck.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Might not even have a battery in it at all,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: might be powered, yeah, might not have a good range,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: might not might have awful range. I have had really
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: really good success with JBL wireless speakers. I'm actually I
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: have one sitting right here in front of my desk.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I have a mobile, I have an UP, I have
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: to actually I have the JBL Clip three and the
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: JB the JBL Something five.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I have the JBL Clip as well, and it puts
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: out great sound and it's nice because you know, if
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: you're out the outdoors, you can hang it, you know,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: on the side of the barbiekee. Well, I don't know
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: if I do that, but you can hang it on
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: a table or a clip outside.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: And it's it's rated I P eighty six, so you
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: can dunk it if you if it dunked on accident,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna get completely destroyed.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: What I do like about the jbls is you can
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: run them while they're plugged in. So I run them.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I use them for my like I have this this
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: the JBL flip five, I think that's what I have.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: It's a little red one. It's about seven inches long,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: and I use it for listening to my computer. Like
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I'll flip it over so I can just hear it
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: out of that speaker Bluetooth, right, and I don't want
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: to have to clutter my desk with a whole nother
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: you know, wire it and plug it in. And then
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I use sound switch, which is an application you can
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: get for your computer, tied into my stream deck, and
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I can just switch back and forth between this mic,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: my headset mic those that speaker, the headset speakers, the clip,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: and I can I can quickly change those arounds. So
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: now for but then I can also take it and
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: move it to my laptop. So if I go up
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: to edit or something, or I could take will go
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: on a trip and the boys want to watch a
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: movie on the iPad and the the you know, the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: iPad doesn't have the greatest speakers in it, and we
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: can just toss it connected Bluetooth boot boot boom connect done.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: It's planned so very portable. The battery life is great.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: So that's JBL Pioneer makes a bunch of good ones.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Anchor makes a few. There are the big brands, the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: big audio brands that you trust. Bo's JBL Pioneer. Those
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: are going to have good quality, long lasting, high fidelity
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Balluetooth speakers.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Now, for for Dave and Tucson, if he wanted to have,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: you know, a speaker, but also have it so that
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: it has the ability to take a phone call, it
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: would be able to be able to interact with the clip.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever tried that, but the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: clip you should we should be able to take a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: phone call and they'd be able to hear us.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Right, I would. I don't know the answer to that,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: but there are some that do have a microphone in them.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Just don't expect a great sounding microphone, right, Yeah, people
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: don't really that. The smaller the microphone, the more compressed
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: it has to get right. And it's like, if you
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: try and jam it into a Bluetooth speaker, for one,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: you're compressing it. It's getting compressed to Bluetooth, so it's
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: gonna sound like a Bluetooth speaker. It will work, it
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: will sound okay, but it's not gonna be the same
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: quality as of your actual phone headset or a wired
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: headset of some sort.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: But yeah, here's a good question that I saw on
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: threads and I don't know if do you use threads
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: at all? Sean, No, that's the Instagram kind of their
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: version of Twitter or x. What's one piece of old
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: tech you refuse to give up? Is there one thing
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: that you've said?
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: One thing I have and I'm just not giving up
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: because nobody wants it is the original Diamond Rio MP
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: three player, which actually came out before the iPod and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you could play MP three's on it, and I still
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: have it. Diamond gave it to me back in the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: early nineties and just held onto it and I still
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: have it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: It runs on one I think.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Uh double a battery and you know it would be
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: just a matter of putting the stuff on a card
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and putting it in the device.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, it still works. That's a really good question.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that, because.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Man, if people were saying, like MP three players, yeah,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: wired headphones, because I've.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Got I've got my old I've got an old Sony
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: walk Yeah, walkman, I've got a old Sony Walkman, I've
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: still got I've got an old Sony CD player. I've
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: still got. I'm a digital I I'm a technology hoarder. Andy,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that's a hard question. I don't give. I don't like
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: to get rid of anything.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: How about keyboards, because many people now are using wireless keyboards,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: but an old physical keyboard, I mean, you can't go
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: too far back because the connectors were a little different.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: That's a hard question, Andy, I have too many. I've
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: got mechanical I've got uh the whatever, the membrane ones,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I've got the butterfly keys, I've got I've got ones
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: that require a P two PS two port or a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: P two sort whatever they call that port anymore. I
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: can't even it's called. I've got mice that have balls
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: in them, Like, I mean, I've got you I still
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: have a mouse with a.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Ball in it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a two. Yeah, I've got.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I would say though, like if a piece of old
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: technology I don't even call it's not even that old
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that I use on a day to day basis right.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I've got my Hero the Hero three plus for my camera.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got my old game Boy that I still play.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I've got I mean, I've got old tech that just
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: serves a purpose.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: How about a desktop PC?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: A lot of people, a lot of people do this
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to go, I don't know what to do with my
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: PC because you know, they they went and bought a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: new Dell, or they bought a system they don't know
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: what to do with.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Here is my address you can send it to. I mean,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: we live in it. It's weird, right. I feel like
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: only people that play video games on computers have desktop
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: computers anymore. If you're not playing video games, why do
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: you have a desktop? Yeah, nobody buys a desktop anymore
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: because everybody wants to be mobile. Everybody can do what
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: they need to do on their phones. They're not doing
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: word processing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: A serious gamer will get the you know that has
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: maybe not have to worry about spending too much money.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: They will put together like the highest end graphics card
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: for now, and you know, play games on their computer.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: But more people I guess are playing among consoles right, not.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Necessary consoles, but just not playing or streaming them from
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: their Xbox or you know a lot of console players still.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: But Steam decks are a big thing. The ross the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: act the access ally or whatever it's called, the other
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a couple other handheld devices out there that play PC
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: games through the Steam Library. So being mobile and having
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: longevity are the big key factors there, right, So you're
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: seeing again most people had desktops in their homes to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: do email and processing email and work processing. That was like,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: that was it. That's all my grandparents did on it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And my dad just plays free Cell on his desktop.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Free Cell was great though, so he doesn't even do
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that anymore. He plays it on his iPad. I mean,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: desktop computers aren't going away, but they're not as prominent anymore.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm kind of wondering what's the oldest
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: os that you have that you could still fire up
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: today and run.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Something that's currently installed.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: On a tower, or or that you can actually hit
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the button and run it. If you wanted to because
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: my daughter, my daughter wanted me to buy because I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: have tons of cases. She's like, could you believe build me?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: You know, Windows ninety five so I could play you
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: know what is a game with two motorcycles and you
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you fought each other as you were going down the road,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: which that was real friendly Redneck rampage and some of those.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was one that Rednick ram Page was one
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Speed. Yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Some of those older games. Uh, there's there's the motorcycle
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: one that's gonna escape me but has to do with chains.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I can't remember that one, but I believe currently right
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: now the oldest one that I have would boot would
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: be Windows XP XP.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I do have a bill I don't think it would
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: come on right now that has Windows ninety five. I've
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: got at least a hard drive and a mother board
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: put in a case, right that would run Windows ninety five,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: and another one that run Windows ninety eight, right, Because
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I do believe at one point you guys channels mead
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: to build a Windows aty eight, build and see if
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: we can get it and get on the show with it,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: which I still would like to try and do. But
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: how about Doss. I haven't built a Doss.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Machine in a very long time, yes, which you know
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: was cool.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean growing up we had Doss base. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: had Doss based computers, right, and then we went and
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: then it was Windows street point one and then you
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: know the evolution of Windows from there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I remember the original flight simulator which was it wasn't Microsoft,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: it was a different company.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: And I remember my mom's boss had me over for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: lunch one day. We were just you know, talking about things,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and it was showing me his flight sim on his
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Doss computer.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: You know, remember the yellow screen and of its just but.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Then he said, if somebody comes in and he don't
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: want them to see see that you're not working, he
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: hits a key and a spreadsheet comes up.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: That's the tails all his time, because that's that was
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the thing that was very that's popular for every generation
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that has one of those. Yeah, you gotta hit the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: F the F nine key. We'll bring up a spreadsheet
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: that I was working on.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: All right, Listen, we have a special guest standing back,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and this is somebody that you've met, and they just
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: kicked off a I guess you could say, what a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: kickstarter and it's for something that you have that you.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Want everybody to know about. So yes, our guest. His
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: name is Brent Critchfield. He is the owner of a
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: company called Studio Woe, which is a gaming company. He
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: has created a He created a game called Gruff back
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: in the mid two thousands, which I got to play
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: at gen Con and then kickstarted and have been playing it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And I met him at gen Con when we're doing
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: his game, and we've kind of just remained connected over
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the years. Stop by his booth every year, and I
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: think three years ago now, we stopped by his booth
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, you guys are here. This is great.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I want I'll show you this new thing we're working on.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And he hands me this tin and if you're watching
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the video, look just like this. Hands me this tin.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: He goes open this and smell it. I'm like what.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I open it up and I don't remember what scent
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: it was at the time, and I smell and I
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: was like WHOA.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: I was like, man, it's like so it's scented gaming dice.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: So it's called Barren Smelly Bones scented dice. It's a
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: set of infused dice with a different sense. So like
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: this one's called Dark Brows Ritual, so it smells like coffee.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: This one is called Healer's Balm, so it smells like
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: fresh linen and floral. But he's kicking off a new
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: kickstarter and we'll talk to him after the break about
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: that new kickstarter and the process behind how he got
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to creating scented dice.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: That is standing by.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to where you can find
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: us on the web at tech talk radio dot com.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back now back to tech talk Radio. WHOA,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: we have an episode for you today And I called
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Andy this morning with this idea and he gave me
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the green light and we set it up in motion.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I know you're pretty passionate about gaming, which I
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: think is pretty cool, and you know, you've talked about it,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and then I've had people that I've run into, you know,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: at station events, that have said, Hey, what was that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: game that a guy Sean was talking about? So, yeah,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: it's cool because people want to get into it, they
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: just don't know how, you know.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: So gen Con is a show that I go to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: every year in Indianapolis. It's the best four days of gaming.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Is they dub it and over a decade ago, which
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: is hard to believe. Brent, by the way, we have
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: a guest with us. His name is Brent Crinchfield. I
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: met Brent. I met Brent at gen Con in twenty
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: fourteen or twenty fifteen when he we demoed his game
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: called Gruff, which is an amazing two player an amazing
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: two player game where you played goats that are hybrid goats,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and it's an incredible game. It's called Gruff. It's really fun.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I was doing all my gen Con stuff this past
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: weekend because is coming up, getting all my tickets and stuff,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and then I got a notification for a kickstarter for
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Brent's new dice, smelly dice.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Waits, is it smelly or scented?
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: There?
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: It's called Barren Smelly Bone scented dice. But so the
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: dice that is smelly, then they're probably my So I'm fan.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I'm fan growing a little bit here. But two years
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: ago at gen Con we went by. We stopped by
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: his booth every year just to say hello, see what
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: he's got, Bruin, And he's like, hey, check these out.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I've got these scented dice and he handed them to me,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: and I couldn't believe how good they smelled. For one uh,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: and then I immediately bought some, of course. And now
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: he's during a kickstarter for some five new scents yep
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: that you guys are launching called the Mystic Magic. Is
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that correct?
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: It's the Wild Magic Scented Dice. I was like thinking
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: about the like, I don't know if you're familiar with
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: dungeons and dragons, but but you have different magic spells
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: that you can cast, and they come from different schools
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: of magic, and so I was thinking about, like if
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: you were gonna charm someone, or chance someone casts a
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: spell on them, what would that smell like? Versus like
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: if you got to throw a lightning bolt at someone,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: what does that smell like?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: And you know if.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Wow, oh that's kind of cool. So you've tied that
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: all into the game.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's the two that I got
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: and these. One of these ones for Caitlin was there's
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: a dark Roast ritual. So it's like if you're brewing
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: coffee yep. And I mean you open these up and
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I've had these in the container, but you smell them
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and it's it's coffee it's or you have roasted char
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: which is like a fireball. You've got grass, a grassy
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: smelling one for grass, and tell me about some of
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: the new smells that are coming with.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: So actually the coffee and the grass, this is the
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: first time they're going to be available on Kickstarter. They're
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: going to be like primary add ons on them. So
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: that's two of them. And then then we have this one.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: This is Glacial Blast and uh it's like a like
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: a winter mint, so for like when you're like freezing
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: people with your ice spells and dungeons and dragons, you
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: can roll your your icy ones. And then this is
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: the lightning Bolt one. This is uh called tempest Evocation
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and it's it's it's weird. It's like like kind of
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: that like ozone smell that you smell right before a thunderstorm. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: So it's kind of like that ocean breeze kind of
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: electric smell.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: And then this one.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Is uh called Lavender Enchantment, and it's it's very cozy,
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: it's like lavender. It's got magnolia notes to soften it
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: up a little bit, and yeah, it's it's really cool.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Now, the idea for this I mean, it's it's it's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: funny because you know, I know people that played a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Dungeon of Dragons of course Sean and then Traveler and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: some of the other games, you know, with the dice,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they were always just like kind of an accessory, you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: your roll the ice, check the you know, check the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: number out and whatnot. What made you decide, you know what,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: let's make the device a part of the game other
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: than just what the score is going to be.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Well, people put a lot of time and attention into
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: their character inside of Dungeons and Dragons, like they draw
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: their pictures, they write their backstories, and I was thinking
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: about it in terms of, like how can you add
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: a layer of customization inside of the space of Dungeons
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: and Dragons, like and what better way to do this?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Because smell is so connected to memory, like it immediately
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: brings you back into those moments, and so that kind
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: of like drives my vision of how to do it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: But if you want to know about, like what the
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: genesis of the idea was my partner of Virginia and
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: my wife, she was having she had a dream that
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: she was playing Dungeons and Dragons with do you know
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: critical role. It's like a podcast about dungeons and dragons.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: She was playing D and D with those guys and
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: they pulled out their dice in between turns and Lim
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: O'Brien's dice smelled like ice cream. And she had this
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: dream like three nights in a row, and I was like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: we should just do this, Like why hasn't somebody done this?
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: And so I had already like made gruffin so I
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: knew a little bit about manufacturing and all this stuff,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: and so I called up all these people in manufacturing
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: that I knew and realized, like, oh, the reason why
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: no one's done this is that it's extremely hard. And
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: it took me like two years of like prototypes and
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: failures and like different ideas, and it was it was
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: during like it was during the pandemic, and I had
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: kind of set it aside because like nothing would work
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: either either it would smell like garbage for a really
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: long time, or it would smell good, but it would
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: they it would last so short that by the time
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: they mailed the samples to me from the factory, it
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: was gone. And it was literally a shower thought. It
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: was in the shower, and I was like lathering myself
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: up and I was thinking like, oh man, what if
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: I it's too bad? I just can't do it this way.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: And then I was like, oh wait, like why can't
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: I do it that way? And so did a prototype
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: and it worked finally, like it's like the fiftieth prototype,
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: but it worked.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: So the year you first brought them to gen Con
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: and we sat by your booth, I could see how
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: excited you were when you're like, oh my god, it's
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: you guys. You gotta see this, you gotta come see this.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: And you showed us the dice, and you have smelled.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I could not believe. I believe. The first one I
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: smelled was the fireball one, which smells like a fireplace. Yeah,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and like the burning fire. I couldn't believe how good
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: they smelled. And I was like, give me whatever, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: got to buy them all. So how well was it
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: received when you finally brought it out into the public.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I know that every year at gen Con says you've
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: brought them. They've been a huge hit.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Last year sold out of like the coffee dice were
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: sold out on like day one, So yeah, sold out
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: of a lot of stuff.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: How they've been received extremely well.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: The one thing that people ask me is is like
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: how long do they last? Because they want to be
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: sure that this isn't some sort of skim because like
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: it's like, oh yeah, like it's smell, but it's like
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: a scratching, stiff thing and it'll go away in a
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: couple of days. And like I tell them, like, no,
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: like it made my first prototype five years ago, still
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: going strong.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Uh so, uh yeah, the last for years and years.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: You just need to you know, store them in their
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: little tin when you're done playing with them, and it
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: keeps them fresh.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: How's the set? How well?
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: How's the process been?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: You know, taking a product and saying because you could
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: either you know, ship it to gaming stores if they
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: have it, you know, popping onto Amazon, but actually doing
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: a Kickstarter that helps you mass produce like your vision, right.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And we are in retail stores now and
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: and getting a much broader imprint of it in like
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: big national chains and and and uh and even internationally
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: at this point. But Kickstarter does like really magical things
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: when it comes to giving you the leverage to to
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: like just do the manufacturing run that's necessary to kind
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: of get that sort of reach because it's it's extraordinarily
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: expensive to print the these things, and so it's really
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: kind of a wonderful thing from the Internet, the ability
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: to kind of reach people directly that way.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I've thought about too, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I've I've played with these and my wife has played
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: with them too, is how well they play, how good
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: they smell, but how they don't leave any residue on
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: the table?
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Can you can you talk? I mean, is that was
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: that a Bay concern?
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Did you? Did you have some protypes that just wear
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: a mask?
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I uh, well, because it's important because if
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: you're playing dungeons and Dragons on the table, you've got
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: your character sheet right there. If there's any like oily
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: residue on it whatsoever, like even a tiny bit, it's
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: gonna leave marks on your sheet, right yep. So designing
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: a process that wouldn't do that, like, wouldn't even leave
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: it drop on any of your surfaces was crucial. And
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: the process of doing that like like no joke, literally
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: like I tried to. I tried to make a set
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: that smelled like bacon, and it melted them. It melted
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: the dice. So lots like I said, like fifty prototypes,
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: like at least like tons and tons of the prototypes
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: of things that we tried and and and didn't work
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: until we found the method that you.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: Actually have to remind people not to eat the dice.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: It's all over the tents.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: One of the things we're doing in the kickstarter is
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: we've got a We've got a tiro on the Kickstarter
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: that's that you specifically get called out to not eat
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: the dice, like, well, we'll put your name on the ten.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Have you had a lot of input from people with
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Wild Magic now available on Kickstarter, have you had like
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of input from people saying, hey, we like
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: this smell. Has it opened the doors to maybe some
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: some new kind of smells?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely?
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: In fact, lavender enchantment uh is part of this kickstarter
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: because people would would frequently bring up like I love
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: the smell of lavender, Like I'd love to have a
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: lavender one. And I was like, you know what, like
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: a lot of our smells are like it's like ancient armory,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: which is like leather and steel and fireball char and
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: old forest and like kind of these kind of more
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: like rugged smells. And I was like you know what,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: it would be really nice to get something that was
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: kind of a softer note.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: I think that would be lovely.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: It took a while to get it, though, but but
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: when we found the right fragrance, it really worked out.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: My favorite, my favorite ones by far and is the
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the linen one that even just smelling it in the
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: box smells so good. Smells like a I don't know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: fresh day.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: What was the toughest scent that you you just it
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: just you kept having to work it till it finally
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: hit that right note with your nose.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Uh, Lavender lavender was the This one actually was extremely
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: difficult because lavender lovely fragrance, but it's used in a
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: lot of common household products and so like, it was
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: very difficult to find a fragrance that that smelled lovely
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: but also didn't smell like four and nine and and
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: so uh that that actually like was a weird lined
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: across of Like, So what ended up being the secret
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: was actually like blending the lavender and the magnolia as
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: kind of like it kind of created this sort of
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: soft thing that muted it down and took it out
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: of that sort of cleanser sort of smell, right, Yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: So what's been the what's been the most positive feedback
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: you've gotten from people that have picked up these dice?
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: That's a well, people threatening to eat them. That's the
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: reason why we have to do this special warning.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Watch out for the steak one too.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I do have to keep them away from My
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: four year old loves to play with my dice, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: he does. He does know they smell, but so these
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: have to stay high up or he definitely won't put
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: them in his mouth.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Don't don't do that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Starter, How does somebody, how does somebody get involved in
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you know, somebody listening right now and we go, you
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: know what I want to do.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: I want to get some of these.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: These because maybe they're they're playing or they're starting to play.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: How do they go ahead and you know, participate in
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the Kickstarter.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: You know, I actually like help people with this periodically.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: Just like just this morning, one of my friends referred
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: to a friend that wanted to make a video game.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: And I've I've been making video games for decades as
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: well as this stuff. And and it's actually very different
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: depending on the product. So dice go to Kickstarter a
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: different way than board games and board games go to
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: a different have different things than than video games by
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: a long, long margin. But the main thing is you
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: need to come prepared with your audience like that that's
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: really like the bedrock of it. So make your thing,
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: share it with people, like, don't be too afraid about
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: protecting your idea. Take it to conventions. Like when I
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: showed them the dice to Sean the first time, they
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: weren't actually for sale that year, like like we were
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: still kind of in the demoing sort of space, right,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: and and so being comfortable with doing that.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: In fact, I think I showed you Gruff before it
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: was available too. Well.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, we demoed Gruff in the first exposure
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: playtest all that.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Sure, And then we came back and I was like,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: how do I buy your game, dude? Because this is amazing?
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: And then we've just been you know, my friend Steve
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: and I have been playing it, and I don't know,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I just I love supporting Brent in his work. And
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: like I said, I saw how excited he was about
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: these dice and he's like, they're not even for sale yet,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: and I was like, well, how do I buy him?
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Because we have to wait until next year. That is
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: super cool.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Now, is there a website, Brent where people can go
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to or do they do a Kickstarter and then use
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: their name?
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: Definitely going off searching Barrens smelly Bones on Kickstarter, We'll
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: get you to the kickstarter for the Wild Magic campaign.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: That's the one that's live right now. And our website
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: is Studio Woe dot com. And you can also do
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: Smellybones dot com and that'll that'll also redirect you to
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: our website.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: But the company is called Studio.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: Woe and uh and yeah we do that that goat
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: game and and the Scented Dice game.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I have to ask you, what is the greatest game, Brent?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: You've ever played the greatest game?
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: So probably not.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Fair, but I've ever played oh man that So that's
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: rough because I do make make games as my day job,
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: and they probably want me to say their game. But uh,
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: I'll say that my favorite video game was Legend of
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Aulda Link to the Past. I think that that one
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: is just a real feel good, happy.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: One of Sewan's on Shawn's list, too, isn't it. Well,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: that's one of the ones that I beat while I
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: was waiting for Daniel to be born, oh on my
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: switch and then I played through that on my switch,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: So yes, I do like link the past, but Operating
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: of Time is definitely oh.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: If you want a recommendation for one that just carried
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: me out fairly recently and you like that kind of
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: old school type type of game, Claire obscure, Uh, that
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: one game of the year last year, that that game
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: is fantastic.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: So that is that is great?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: All right, So they can find you on the web,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: of course it can get in on the kickstarter right now.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: What's next for you?
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Brent?
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Have you have you decided yet?
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Well after that, I uh, we're doing another line
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: of uh of dice actually shortly after so that there
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: was a couple of years gap between our last Kickstarter
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: in this one, but we're gonna follow up with this
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: one pretty quick line of anti hero dice. That one's
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: gonna be fun, including oblivion absinthe that smells like black licorice.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be awesome and.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Oh my god that you yeah, please please tell me
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: you I can smell that edge.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'll have the sample.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my god, because black liquorice is my all
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: time favorite candy, my all time favorite food. Like it's
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: black liquoricees. My wife hates it. I love it. Oh
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: my god, black liqusse. That's gonna be fantastic.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Brent.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: We're exciting for you again. Kickstarter launch this week. Find
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: it on the world Wide Web. Of course, Studio wo
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: LLC get those five brand new scented dice in the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: kickstarting Now, how can they purchase it through Kickstarter? They
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: just make it and then they would get one set,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: or they would get, you know, all of the ones that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Are at How does that work?
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's a tier where you can get one
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: of your choice of the base three new ones. There's
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: one where you can get all three of the new ones.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: There's a tier where you can get all three of
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: the new ones and then the two most recent ones.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: And then there's tiers that actually give you access to
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: archive packs from our previous sets, some of which have
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: been sold out for years. So yeah, so because we're
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: doing a big reprint at the same time that we're
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: manufacturing this, so a lot of new, exciting stuff is going.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: To be available on there. And then there's that one tier.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: I would tell you about where where it's only for
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: like three people, but if you back at that tier,
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: we'll call you out specifically to not put them in
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: your mouth.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming on tech Talk Radio,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Brent again. A great idea, and I know Sean's really
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: happy about it too, so well, I know he'll be
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: spinning and smelling.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta take you another quick break. Come
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Sean de Word.
• 44:14
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• 44:16
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back and now back to tech Talk Radio.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: COVID brought upon a lot of Internet time, a lot
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: of time spent in Zoom, a lot of time spent
• 44:26
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  Speaker 2: long ago, and it was replaced by teams. Out of
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: all the options that have been available, teams has been
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: the worst.
• 44:34
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• 44:37
  Speaker 2: So then they shuddered it and created teams and teams.
• 44:41
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• 44:45
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• 44:48
  Speaker 2: not nearly as big as two twin brothers. So there's
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: a story that came out last week of twin brothers
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• 45:01
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• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Is this was after a while. Yeah, this was after
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  Speaker 2: the call was over, but they didn't close teams. Oh no,
• 45:44
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• 45:48
  Speaker 2: And they decided to go on this little spree of
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: wiping databases and trying to cover their tracks and using
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  Speaker 2: AI to try try to figure out how they were
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: going to cover their tracks. And then they closed teams
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: or close their computer or whatever, which then sent a
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: fully AI transcribed script of everything they had said during
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: their little interaction at post being fired. So not only
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: is their transcripts, but it's detailed, like it's they would
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: do it. But you know, like in this on our call,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: when I speak, it brings me up and it says
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Sean's talking. When you talk, it goes to you and
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  Speaker 2: it says, and he's talking. This is detailed to the
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: point where it's this person's talking, that person's talking. So
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: you know which which brother is talking about which thing?
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: So can you imagine you're just doing this. You still
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: have VP and access, you get in, you want the database.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: You think you're scott free, and then you get slapped
• 46:48
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• 46:50
  Speaker 2: know it's us, and they're like, wait, this is you
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: telling us exactly what you were doing in an AI
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: transcript of teams. So everybody hates teams until until until
• 47:04
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• 47:08
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• 47:12
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• 47:21
  Speaker 2: how they were going to cover up their tracks. I
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: mean these guys were idiots, so I.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Would assume though, So what probably happened is whoever was,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: you know, lead the meeting, it just kept recording on
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: these guys side probably paid no attention to that that
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: they're probably not there talking to each other. But once
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: they exit, it sends the transcript to that person. Right
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: then they're like, oh, wait a minute, so why is
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: this why was this called?
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's said, the funniest part about it is
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: like the HR personnel left the meeting approximately two minutes
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: and forty seconds into the recording, right, so two minutes,
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: two minutes and forty seconds. Basically they got up a
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: call and said you fired. Yeah bye boy not good. Oh,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: And then they had an hour of interactions between the
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: two brothers talking about they're still connect to the VPN
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: daily backups, We're doing this petty stuff. I'm gonna wipe
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: my computer. I mean, they go into detailed about like
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I'm going to RDP in to their system Remote Desktop
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Protocol to their system, and it's like they're talking specifics
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: about this is what I'm deleting.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't condone their actions, but it's a good
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: reminder that cameras are everywhere, and cameras could be recording.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I've heard stories of people sitting down at the computer
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: and their webcams got a light on, and they've asked me,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: should I be concerned? I said, yes, you should. If
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: your camera's got a light on, that means it's on
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: and you know somebody could be watching it.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: So it's like it's like my favorite. It's one of
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: my favorite scenes in the West Wing when he has
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: the Council's office says a recorder on his desk and
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: the president comes in and says, I need to tell
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: you something that could you know, I could get in trouble,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: and he just grabs a gavel and smash smashing the
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: recording device just to make sure it wasn't recording.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you about a game I saw
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  Speaker 1: online and I don't know what it is about the game.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: I want to play it now.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I found out it's available on Steam for twenty nine bucks,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: and I believe it just came out last week. It's
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: called Mouse Pi for Hire, and it just it has
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: like a Mickey Mouse feel to it, where this mouse
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: is the pi and he's going around trying to Solve
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Crimes PI Private Investigator and it just looked like a
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. But again, it's one of those that's
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: available on Steam, so you know, if you have a
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Steam account, you could play it just about anywhere.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: But it looks like a cross between Dick Tracy, Mickey Mouse,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: and who Framed Roger Rabbit? Yeah, and watching this video,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not joking, like it's got the big taxi with
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: the big wheels and it's this is great. I'm watching
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: the video off the Steam web page and this looks great.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: It looks it kind of has a kind of has
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: a cup head vibe to it if you're familiar with
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: that game at all.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Right now, if I was to get this shun on Steam,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I would be able to play that with my Steam
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: account on my PC.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Right, Oh, yeah, you download it. Yeah, you can play it.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: It's Windows only, so it's not available for Mac. But yeah,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: it's twenty ninety nine for the game. Right, they have
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: a Digital Digital Deluxe Edition which has the original soundtrack,
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the first DLC.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: For it, and a comic book at a nine. I
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: think this could be good, you know, now we don't.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: It's kind of funny because we don't get E three anymore.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: E three went away during COVID. They were going to
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: do it and then they stopped. E three was like
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: the Cees of gaming basically.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Really, the only big gaming show you get any more
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: is the Game Show Awards, and that's it. That's it.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Not very many people watch it though, but this one
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: looks like it could be fun. Mouse Pi for hire
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: if you want to look that up and give it
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: a try on Steam. We're gonna take a quick break.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: We'll be back with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Andy Taylor, I'm Sean To. We'd send us an X
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  Speaker 1: at tech talk Radio.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: We'll we're back and now back to tech Talk Radio.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: I really enjoy listening to your show. It's really cool.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks, very very informative.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: US rookie, Are you a rookie.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: I'm very much a rookie.
• 51:28
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• 51:30
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• 51:32
  Speaker 1: All right, I got a big question for you, Sean,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: and you would know because you're a Plex user.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: You use Plex and I got a thing the other day.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Hey, we're renewing your Plex account and I thought I
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: have a Plex account. I thought, wait, I do have
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: a Plex account, and I pay for the little extra
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: fee to be able to stream my content, but I
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: don't even have a setup anywhere like I had it
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: at one time. I had a drive that had Okay,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: this is my content. If I ever want to stream
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: it and show somebody, I could do that. But I'm thinking,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: let me ask you your opinion. Would you renew Plex
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: if it came up to that?
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Are you?
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: Are you two in you know ingratiated into the Plex platform.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I bought a lifetime Plex pass like eight years ago,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: right for lifetime for lifetime, so I don't have to renew.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: I just bought it, and I'm trying to think how
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: much it costs me then, but I think it was
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: like somewhere like one hundred and eighty five bucks or
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know how to look up.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: The rate has gone up too, and I haven't canceled yet,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: but I'm thinking maybe I'm just trying to decide if
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I want to keep it. You know, I'm doing more
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: videos now and I'm thinking that might be a good
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: way to share a video so they could see it,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: so I can't put it on YouTube if it's you know, it's.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: Their work, So I don't know.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if you have a PLEX server and
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: you wanted to reach the outside world, you have to
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: be careful, right because you have to keep you updated
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: because a lot of people don't remember that. Remember last
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: pass we've talked about last past four, That's how they
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: got breached was through one of their guys connecting on
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: a VPN with a unpatched PLEX server that somebody got into.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: So if you want a outside reaching PLEX server, you
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: just got to keep up to date and make.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: Sure you're not doing you know, yeah, make sure all
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: the updates are.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: The content that's on people's Plus servers is not always legal,
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: so you've got to remember to keep that in mind. Wait,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: if you're trying to host stuff outside of your own home.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: So I paid one hundred and nineteen dollars for my
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: plex pass and that was eight years ago or something.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: It is now two forty nine.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I notice it'd gone up. So you still lifetime?
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah you can if you want it for two
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: nine right, all right, So I thought, you know, I'm
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: gonna ask Sean and see what he thinks about that.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I would I mean, if I was paying month to
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: month I would, but I saw the benefit of doing
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: the plus past a long time ago, because I just
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: it's it's you're going on well word at the cost
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: So all right, all right, next week if you go
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: see it Mandalorian and Grogu give us a review.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, if.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: If I can just see it before next week, I
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: will definitely. I'm definitely gonna go see it this week weekend.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Just not sure with memorially weekend if I'll see it
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: before I go camping or when I come home.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Well, that wraps up this week's tech Talk Radio. Thank
• 54:39
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• 54:54
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• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Those could be fun too.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Sehn Uh and Justin is in Japan if in case
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: you were wondering, Uh he said that he did say
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: that he might call next week, so we'll see.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see maybebe we'll get him from Japan.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm sean to.
• 55:14
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