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Episode 465 - Ugly Sweaters, Pricey RAM, Indie Music and Scams That Sleigh Your Wallet · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 3: It's all magic and stuff to me.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm teaning to wear and I just saw something very
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  Speaker 2: frustrating because we've talked about in the show before.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I was so excited too at this because we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about the fact that we've not been able
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  Speaker 1: to find any information out about Microsoft's ugly sweater. Now
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  Speaker 1: you've bought one before, right, you've.
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  Speaker 2: Actually bought one last year. I bought one.
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  Speaker 1: Right. They do this ugly sweater around the holidays, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a you know, Christmas sweater, and usually it is
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  Speaker 1: something to do with Microsoft, and they put it for sale.
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  Speaker 1: They usually sell out.
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  Speaker 2: It finally is available, but it's eighty bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty dollars for a sweater.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it was that expensive last time I
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  Speaker 2: bought it. I thought it was like closer.
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  Speaker 1: To fifty Yeah, I think it was. I think it was.
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  Speaker 2: But this is it's cool, but I don't think it's right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it does look pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll buy it, all right, So if you get
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  Speaker 1: the ugly sweater, which one would you get? They have
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  Speaker 1: one that is the Zoon logo if you remember Zoom
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of Microsoft's answer to the iPod. There's
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  Speaker 1: another one that's in there, which is Xbox Xbox one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's an Xbox one and it's just great and
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  Speaker 2: black and looks like the Xbox console.
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  Speaker 1: The one that I want is the hideous one. It's clippy.
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  Speaker 1: Other artifacts like the MS logo.
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  Speaker 2: Or MSN logo, MS DOS notepad paint. I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know if that blue one is cop Is that co Pilot?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a co pilot. Why would they have
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  Speaker 1: that on their pilot? They got a market it's Microsoft Cobie.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's an old That doesn't look like
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  Speaker 2: an old logo to you, does it?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, that definitely is two rounded if you want to get,
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  Speaker 2: definitely co Pilot. That's definitely worthy of getting it. For
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  Speaker 2: the ugly sweater. Mine Sweeper's on.
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  Speaker 1: There, Mine Sweeper Hearts. Did you play mine Sweeper or Solitaire?
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  Speaker 2: Mind Sweeper? Yeah, mine Sweeper is the best.
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  Speaker 1: Mind Sweeper was good, but I like solitabe.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little disappointed they don't have ski free on here.
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  Speaker 1: Ski free What is that one?
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  Speaker 2: That's the one where you ski down the hill and
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  Speaker 2: you get chased by the abominable snowman?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is the copile logo?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that isn't so why would they put
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  Speaker 1: that on there? They get marketing, it's everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's they got to put it into everything. But like,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that does a disservice to everybody that's
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  Speaker 2: done all these cool things with the fiftieth anniversary, Microsoft,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna just slap a copile logo on there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now if you want to go beyond that, and
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  Speaker 1: if you do this, Sean, you have to send a picture.
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  Speaker 1: Microsoft is also selling the fiftieth anniversary crocs.
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  Speaker 2: So not only yeah for seventy five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, seventy five bucks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not buying a pair of crocks, a serwenty five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And it looks like this stuff is just stuck on
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  Speaker 1: to the top of the croc. So I'm wondering if
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  Speaker 1: that'll come off.
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  Speaker 2: Well. So having friends who have kids, you can buy
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  Speaker 2: charms for your they're basically like pins you put in
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  Speaker 2: the holes rocks, and they have a plethora of them
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  Speaker 2: for sale on here right there. They're like, they're not
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  Speaker 2: that cheap. If you go to Microsoft Merchandise dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: They have a whole store. Now that's different than last year,
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  Speaker 2: right because it used to be the Microsoft Store, But
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  Speaker 2: this is a whole new website and everything. They have
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  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of cool looking fiftieth anniversaries of backpacks, mugs,
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  Speaker 2: an Xbox Series S toaster I have that.
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  Speaker 1: I still have that toaster, an.
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  Speaker 2: Xbox Area rug which looks pretty cool, a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: bunch of co Pilot.
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  Speaker 1: Merch Microsoft Merchandise dot Com. That's the website to go to.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to order your ugly sweater, you
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  Speaker 1: can go ahead and do that. Now. That's yeah, pretty
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  Speaker 1: amazing stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Xbox Controller, Stress toy plushies. But I don't know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of I'm kind of mythed that they put the
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  Speaker 2: copile lug on there right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's supposed be classic theme because it's got all
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  Speaker 2: the classic beams within co Pilot right there on the arm. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Uh, we're gonna talk about technology and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's the you know last last show before Christmas? Really?
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  Speaker 1: So again, have you put together your list of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that you would like to get? I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: you've bought stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Right, let me pull up my Christmas list.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there we go. Sean has pulled it up. The
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  Speaker 1: Christmas list, Now I do.
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  Speaker 2: I made a Google doc for Caitlin because that's she
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  Speaker 2: asked before I've got here's I'm just gonna run through
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  Speaker 2: my list real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Right, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Wireless N sixty four controller for the Analog three D
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  Speaker 2: made eight bit do o calyx for i Kiya, which
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  Speaker 2: is the sixteen inch by sixteen inch. It's a wall
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  Speaker 2: mount storage fits. It's like every every board person who
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  Speaker 2: plays board games or owns a lot of board games
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  Speaker 2: has these because it fits perfectly like most of the
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  Speaker 2: size sports. Right, I need more space.
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  Speaker 1: You need more space for the games.
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  Speaker 2: I need another one. I ran out of space in
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  Speaker 2: my board game. Hot Air rework station for soldering. Oh cool, yep,
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  Speaker 2: Meryl shoes, Bortec shoes, socks, a flipper, zero flippers, zero
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  Speaker 2: dga evada. If I if somebody wants to spend big
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  Speaker 2: money on.
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  Speaker 1: Me, how much is the evada going for?
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  Speaker 2: Let's look thraight here.
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  Speaker 1: I got a link that is a drag.
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  Speaker 2: Available in my country or region.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you can't even get it.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't even get it. Apparently everything's out of stock,
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  Speaker 2: so not surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Can you buy it? So is there a way that
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  Speaker 1: you can buy it?
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  Speaker 2: I know it says I can buy it now, BSW
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  Speaker 2: I they're a lot of stock, right, but I said,
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  Speaker 2: I can't clearly buy it.
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  Speaker 1: But what's the difference between the Avada and say they're
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  Speaker 1: they're magic?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? The size significantly size difference is this is the
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  Speaker 2: Evadas below the two hundred and fifty gram weight limit.
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  Speaker 2: This one comes with the goggles if you buy the kit,
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't have an actual like controller like a
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  Speaker 2: two hand controller, just comes with like a joystick, like
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  Speaker 2: you hold onto it and fly with the joystick controller.
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  Speaker 2: You could pair it with the pro controller, but this
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  Speaker 2: one is more designed for single handed use. FPV flying
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  Speaker 2: and it's tiny, I mean it's really small.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, FPV flying. In case you don't know, is
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  Speaker 1: you wear goggles and.
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  Speaker 2: First person view first point, first point of view. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: first person view.
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  Speaker 1: I've never done that before, but everybody that has have
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  Speaker 1: you have you ever had a chance to do that FPV. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well I built my own remember, Oh that's right, Yes
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  Speaker 1: you did, so I have my own.
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  Speaker 2: That's a little it's made by company called flight Test
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  Speaker 2: m H which is a group of guys that just
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  Speaker 2: decided to build an RC plane company in their backyard
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  Speaker 2: and it's probably one of the biggest RC companies in
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  Speaker 2: the world. And I built it's called a gremlin. It's
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  Speaker 2: a build drone. You get the whole kit. You have
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  Speaker 2: to build the whole thing from scratch. And then I
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  Speaker 2: just bought a pair of five point eight gig received
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  Speaker 2: goggles shark goggles, fat shark I think it's what they're called,
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  Speaker 2: and wired it up so I could view it there
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  Speaker 2: from there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, very cool.
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  Speaker 2: And to it with, I have a spectrum controller that
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  Speaker 2: I sinked at all too.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, how much how often do you get out
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  Speaker 1: and fly it?
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  Speaker 2: Never? It's I mean it's with This was all built
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  Speaker 2: and bought before I had kids, right, and that's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a pain to It's winter time now,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't want to take it outside and.
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  Speaker 1: Fly it, right.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's still something that I got to build
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  Speaker 2: and and flow like Max will get the player that
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  Speaker 2: maybe down you know, down the road, but I definitely
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  Speaker 2: don't fly now, it's not it's definitely not a it's
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  Speaker 2: not GPS sync, it's not doesn't have it doesn't have.
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  Speaker 2: The only camera has on it is for the FPV
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  Speaker 2: and so it's designed just to fly. It has some
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  Speaker 2: stabilization on it, but it doesn't have like there's no.
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  Speaker 1: There's no avoidance on it or anything.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, this is literally four motors, a d
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  Speaker 2: s C for all the motor controllers, four scs for
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  Speaker 2: the motor controllers, a small GPS board that will just
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  Speaker 2: keep it level. But yeah, there's nothing stopped from crashing
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  Speaker 2: it A bunch all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So what else? What else is on your list?
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  Speaker 1: What else is on the list? S?
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  Speaker 2: An AC DC power supply so I can power my
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  Speaker 2: hand radio stuff from an AC outlet instead of having
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  Speaker 2: to use either my DJA power or lead acid battery.
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  Speaker 2: H A signal stock signal stuff, HAM radio antenna ruck.
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  Speaker 2: Right A I Keia gaming chair because this chair is
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  Speaker 2: a piece of wrap or grower and I'm probably gonna
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  Speaker 2: break it. I've had this chair for since I moved
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  Speaker 2: back to Michigan in twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So this chair is seen better days. It's relatively comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I hate I hate to say it. I would love
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  Speaker 1: it though, if it just broke while we were on
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  Speaker 1: the air.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty creaky. Yeah, A Steel Series
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  Speaker 2: gaming an Arctics seven plus, so it's the same version
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  Speaker 2: I have the Artist Seven's right, the which I've had
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  Speaker 2: since since before.
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  Speaker 1: I mean great headphones.
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  Speaker 2: I've had these for over a decade. I mean they've
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  Speaker 2: had them for they got bought them at twenty four No,
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  Speaker 2: I buy bottom well before that. I would have bought
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  Speaker 2: these when I was in San Diego. So I've probably
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  Speaker 2: had these since twenty eleven, twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, yep, so ye a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And then I have a T shirt on here that
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  Speaker 2: is called uh it's a company called Forefathers. They make
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  Speaker 2: all these fun shirts and this one it's a Christmas one.
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  Speaker 2: It's called pop the Hood, right, and it's just a
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  Speaker 2: step in repeat pattern of different check engine light symbols
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  Speaker 2: on your car. So it's got all that's great usher fluid,
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  Speaker 2: it's got the fan, it's got the defrost, it's got
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  Speaker 2: the thermostat oil pressure symbol. It's it's just like a
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  Speaker 2: Christmas color, you know, because it's all yellow, orange or green.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that is great.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like a step it's a stepper.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, who makes this again?
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  Speaker 2: What's called Forefathers?
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  Speaker 1: Forefathers?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, they make all sorts of If you
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  Speaker 2: go to their website, it's called Shopfourfathers dot com. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they've got hilarious ones. You would like these. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So it's got like it's got a turf. It's called
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  Speaker 2: turf dad. Right, it's basically a little lawnmower. It's driving
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  Speaker 2: stripes across his shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's great.
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  Speaker 2: They've got one that's got it's like stars. I bought
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  Speaker 2: one that was like a camping dad. So it's got
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  Speaker 2: like it's like a step repeat. It's got like tongs
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  Speaker 2: and a camper and a grill and a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: other stuff. And it's my camp it's my camping polo
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  Speaker 2: because it's a nice polo.
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  Speaker 1: Do they make a do they make the motherboard one?
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  Speaker 1: Because I've had people comment on my shirt where did
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  Speaker 1: I get it? And it was a company in Phoenix
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  Speaker 1: that were selling them a butt it online. But they're expensive.
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  Speaker 1: They're like sixty seventy bunchs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, these are not cheap. I think this is like
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  Speaker 2: sixty five bucks. They've got a ton of different ones
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  Speaker 2: now since before I went basketball. Tacos, yeah, stars and stripes,
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  Speaker 2: lawn dad, wow, I mean yeah, so forefathers. Uh look,
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  Speaker 2: check them up. But the one, the one that I have,
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  Speaker 2: is called Happy Camperol send a link to it.
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  Speaker 1: But all right, cool, Yeah, I wanted to share this
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  Speaker 1: with you. There is a website that's out They're called
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  Speaker 1: find My Past, and apparently they went through fourteen billion
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  Speaker 1: documents over the last five hundred years looking for people
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  Speaker 1: with holiday themed names. All right, now, what would you
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  Speaker 1: think Sean would be the most common name Christmas? Christmas
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  Speaker 1: people have named their kids Christmas? Actually, it was like
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  Speaker 1: first names or last names. First name, first name? This
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  Speaker 1: is first name?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, like so like for holiday names Joy or Noel.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, let's see what else would I think for holidays?
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of anyone that aren't going to be
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: like what what this generation is called tragedies called incorrectly
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  Speaker 2: because of everybody naming their kids with words that don't
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  Speaker 2: make sense.
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  Speaker 1: The most common name was Ivy ivy y.
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  Speaker 2: Oh all right, that's not what I would have thought
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  Speaker 2: about for Holly.
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  Speaker 1: There was thirty two hundred kids that have been named Reindeer,
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  Speaker 1: actually reindeer, five hundred and seventy nine. Apparently according to
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  Speaker 1: this info I got named their kids Snowman, which would
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  Speaker 1: if you think about it. Snowman was a name in
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  Speaker 1: Smoky in the band. Remember it was called Snowman, but
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  Speaker 1: that was a nickname that wasn't an actual Regal names.
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  Speaker 2: Are nicknames, not actual. These are nicknames, not binding names.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty three people they named their kid eggnog, eggnog.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I like some I love some nog, but
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  Speaker 2: not ye kid.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine you go to school? What's your name? Eggnog?
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  Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? One?
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  Speaker 2: Not sitting here? Kid up for bullying at all?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Maybe middle named nutmeg eggnog Nutmeg. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Going with a holiday theme for the show this week. Actually,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: there is something that we wanted to tell you about CISA,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: which is the Cyber Information Security Administration. They're part of
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: the Homeland Security and they've gotten together with the FBI
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  Speaker 1: and they're letting everybody know, and especially if you're listening
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  Speaker 1: right now, that they're calling this dangerous December, because what
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  Speaker 1: is happening is they're finding that a lot of attacks
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  Speaker 1: are being carried out on our browsers and our mobile systems,
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  Speaker 1: both iOS and Android, reminding everybody to update your systems.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it, right, like the amount of online shopping
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  Speaker 2: is happening right now. Even people that don't typically use
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: their computers for shopping are shopping on the internet right now.
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  Speaker 2: They may have pulled out a device that hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: updated in a while. They oh, I got to go
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  Speaker 2: my Christmas shopping done, and now they're an old, outdated browser.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, vulnerabilities on outdated browsers are vulnerabilities, They
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  Speaker 2: are risky well people.
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  Speaker 1: And some people believe that, and we've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 1: You never click a link, you know, whether it be
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  Speaker 1: in an email or a pop up that pops up.
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  Speaker 1: But some people don't even realize that just going to
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  Speaker 1: a website, typing in the wrong name of a website,
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: because they can be set up quickly, and you think
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  Speaker 1: you've typed in the right name, you had entered and
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: that couldn't be enough to infect your system. And if
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: your browser is not updated, that could even make you
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: more vulnerable. So just real quick, if you're on Google Chrome,
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to the show you know on the radio
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  Speaker 1: if you come back to listen to us after you
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  Speaker 1: do this. But if you're on a Google Chrome browser,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: if you're logged in, you click in the three dots
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  Speaker 1: in the top right and you'll see them. They're you know,
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  Speaker 1: stacked up above each other. Scroll click on those, scroll
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  Speaker 1: down to the settings on the left side. You will
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  Speaker 1: see about Chrome. Click on that and it will run
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  Speaker 1: your update. And the Edge browser works pretty much the
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  Speaker 1: same way. It's three dots except there in a row.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is just take that. It does not
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  Speaker 1: take that long. If you're doing something, log out, stop
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing, and then do your updates, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be on your Edge or Chrome or any of the
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: browsers that are up there. Make sure you're updated safari.
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  Speaker 1: The whole bed so far is a little different to
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: your update on but you can certainly do it. But
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  Speaker 1: they're just saying that even on your smartphones, make sure
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  Speaker 1: your smartphones are updated. They've been going after Android, they've
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: been going after iOS as well.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you may think, well, how what are
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  Speaker 1: they going to do right now? They're going to try
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  Speaker 1: and take They'll try and take money try and take persona,
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  Speaker 1: try and take credit credit, you know, use your credit cards,
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  Speaker 1: get your buy stuff, you buy stuff for them, the
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  Speaker 1: whole bets. You gotta be really careful about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, just it's important to keep your stuff up
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  Speaker 2: to date, just to be safe. And there there's incentive
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: for people to attack vulnerabilities, like there's there's a monetary
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: incentive and they don't give a rats behind about you
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: or your data. They just want to make money.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: That's it. So don't care who you are, what you do.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: As long as you've got you've got a way to
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: give them the money, they'll take it.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to just be safe on the Internet
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: and not click on stuff and just you know, just
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: got to protect yourself as much as you can because
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: the internet, the Internet doesn't care.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: The other thing they've talked about too, the FBI is
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: reminding people the months of December can be lonely. It
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: can be lonely for some people. And you know, romance
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: scams are on the rise. And if you don't know
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: what a romance scam is, that somebody who comes in,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: they start sweet talking you, they make a connection. They
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: may even act like it's a wrong number. That they called.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: They do it via text or I'll do it via
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: an online message, and next thing you know, they're making
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: a connection. They're talking to you. Oh yeah, and don't
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: forget your information that you have online about your name,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: which you may have your full name available on Facebook.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Can give a lot of info about you and tell
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: where you live. Next thing, somebody can find out what's
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the street nearby you. And next thing they say, oh,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I used to live on this street. And they create
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a confidence scam is what it is, and a romance
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: scam is no different. Next thing you know, they are
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: needing some money or they're needing you to do something
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: for them, and again they're sweet talking you. A friend
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: of mine that lives I think they live back in
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Kentucky had told me about this and then I said,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: you have a picture of this person, and she sent
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: me a picture. They've never talked, they can never video chat.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: She sent me the picture that was sent to her.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I took that picture and started doing some research on it,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and I found out that picture belonged to a doctor
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: that was in England, not somebody who lived in that
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: same state.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: And it's scary, it's scary how easy it is to
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: assume somebody else's persona on the internet, and there's no
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: credible way to really verify that without meeting somebody in
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: person or providing information. But the big red flags are
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: they don't want to be on video, they don't want
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: to meet up in person, which I would highly right,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: which you don't meet up with people on the internet
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: that you don't really know exactly a long standing relationship
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: with outside of the internet. But yeah, it's just you
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: gotta just be careful. And they prey on the week
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and the vulnerable, which is again scary and unfortunate, but
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: that's this scamming over romance scams are not They're not
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: just on the Internet, right, they exist outside in the
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: real world. Also, they have for the history of time.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's just.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Unfortunate that they have. They can be more predatory online
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: with people.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So absolutely all right, we're gonna take quick break. We've
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: got a listener question about a broken laptop, so we'll
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: talk about that when we come back. I'm Andy Taylor,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I'm Seanda Weird.
• 19:22
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• 19:24
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• 19:26
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• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And now back to tech Talk Radio.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: So before the break we mentioned a listener question and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and read this one and I'll
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: see what you guys think. This is from Cecilia and Tucson.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: She said, listen to you guys when I can. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, my son dropped his laptop.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Ooh, ooh ouch.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: It's an ACEUS fifteen vo Vivo Vivo book and the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: screen shattered. I can make out windows starting and they're
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: on a spot on the screen that didn't shatter.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Oh that's good.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: And I just can I just add a monitor to
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: this before go buy one, just wondering if it could work.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it could, Yeah, from Sicilia in Tucson, So thank you.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So more often than not, you can just plug
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: in a display if it has an HDMI port or
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: whatever port is available. I don't know how what a
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: what a Asus Vivo book has, but I'm sure it's HDMI.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: You can just buy any HDMI monitor, not any HDMI monitor,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: but something within the resolution specs of that computer nineteen
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: twenty ten eighty probably is fine, and then plug it
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: in and it should automatically set to mirror the display,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: meaning it's gonna show you what's currently on the desktop
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: and allow you to work. Sometimes on laptops they don't
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: automatically enable displays.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Sometimes on your keyboard you have a row of your
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: function keys, and then above those function keys is another icon,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: like a mirroring icon or a print icon.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: It might look like a little monitor, might look like.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: A little monitor. Sometimes you have to press that with
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the function key pressed. Also to enable screen sharing, I
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: would just google the Asus fifteen inch VVO and see
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: how it enables screen sharing more often than not. By default,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you plug in an HDMI monitor, it's going to already
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: add the second display. That's just how most computers are
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: built in. But laptops are a little bit different. So yes,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: you could run it in desktop mode and not actually
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: have it as a laptop. And we've talked about this
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: before where people have their laptops and they mostly use
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: them on the desk, they even plugged in. Leaving a
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: laptop plugged in is not going to harm your computer.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: It's no, it will over time, it'll it'll keeping a
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: battery at full charge will and not cycling it all
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the time, cycling it down. It's like up will degrade
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the total life of the battery over time, so in
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: two three years you may see a fifteen percent in
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the total battery capacity, meaning at one hundred percent, it'll
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: tell you it's one hundred percent full, but it really
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: only has seventy five percent of its original total charge,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: which is significant, which is less obviously, but it's having
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: it plugged in is not going to It's not going
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to destroy the battery. It's not going to catch on fire,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna explode, et cetera. So you could run
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: it just sitting on a desktop, plug into a monitor
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: of the mouse and a keyboard wired in, or Bluetooth,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: et cetera.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Well, you know that that kind of breaks up a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: good question, Sean, though, And I wonder like about you,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and I know how I operate, But do you shut
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: down your computer tonight? I know some people leave them on.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I shut mine down every night, even.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I my this the rig that I'm
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: on now, I shut down every night. I don't shut
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: down my plex server every night, because that would just
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: be one lest thing I'd have to remember, and then
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Kate would want to go watch something and should be mad.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Becauson is off right, so I don't reboot, I don't
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: reboot my Plex server, and I don't turn off my
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Mac Minie.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Really, why is that?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Because I just forget. Oh, to be honest, it's it's
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: over there, plugged in another screen. The screen's off. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: don't think it's on. And the macs are good about
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: sleeping on their own and they're not probably maybe drawing
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: a couple of watts of power at the most. But
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: you know, my big, my main rig would draw more
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: power if it was idle. But I shut it down
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: every night because, for one, it gets me in the
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: habit of if there's updates, I just tell the update
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: and shut down. Which is the biggest lie in the
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: world of computers, is doing an update and shutting down
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: because you know it's gonna reboot.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, it's gonna be on.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be on at the splash screen for logging
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: in when you come back, because it didn't actually shut down.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: My Microsoft has been a direct trying to address that recently.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I know that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's it's just a funny. It's just in
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the world of computers, like somebody, it's the biggest lie
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you can be told, like the computer world right now
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: is update and shut down. Yeah, yeah, but it keeps
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: in the habit of keeping up to date. Now again,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I don't really care about like finding new bugs and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: new versions of software. Like it's fine for me. I'm
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a little bit more patient with technology than most people.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And uh so a lot of people don't like auto
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: updates because if you're on a version of Windows or
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: a software that you like, and they update it and
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: take away a piece of quality of life thing you liked,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: or they removed a feature, or they added a feature
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: that does something that breaks a piece of software or
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: a piece of hardware. So like on my personal stuff,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't have that much that's tied together.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: That's that's like it' stop mission critical for me. So
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: it's like if I have to revert or reinstall Windows
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: like that, whatever, I'll be fine. But at work, we
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: there's been there's our computers that accept like major power
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: outages or planned outages haven't been rebooted more than a
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: dozen times since I've been there in eight years. So
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: some computers are designed to stay on some or not.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: But like for my home rings, that guy turned them
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: off right now, there's no reason for him to be on.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I had somebody the other day asked me about
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: building a system for them, and it was funny because
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you talk about you know, people are using their systems
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: from twenty ten is what his system was. And he
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: said finally, he said, hey, can can you build me
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: a new system? I thought, yeah, But then I started
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: thinking about it. Right now, it's not a good time
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to build, is it is?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It is not a good time to build computer right
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: now because of the RAM prices right right, So the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: last four or five years, even a little bit longer,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: it's been predominantly video card supply, right yeah, keeping up
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: with you know, started with the twenty sixties and the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: thirty sixties and the you know, the thirty eighties, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: then then the forty eighties, and now we're into the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: fifty eighties and the fifty nineties and all that stuff,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: and you know, exorbitant prices, lack of supply, et cetera,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: drove the GPU market up very high. Right well, now
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: with all the AI stuff coming in and all these
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: data centers being built, there is a significant demand on
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: the current d d R five RAM supply. And we
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: haven't talked about this yet on the show. But so
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: you know what's going on with with Crucial, right YEA.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: They eliminated the Crucial brand. Micron eliminated the Crucial.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Micron, who is a has been a predominantly successful, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: mean very very successful OEM and consumer supplier for RAM
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and solid state drives, said we're out of the consumer business.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: We're taking we're no longer providing any RAM or solid
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: state drives the Crucial brand.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I have a Crucial, Yeah, I've got.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that was one of the first solid
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: state drives ever bought because it was cheap. They just said,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: we're out of the consumer business. Done. Unless you're an
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: OEM vendor, we're not selling to you. And it it
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: lit a big fire under the industry. And RAM prices
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: just they're up like six hundred percent. So if you
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: go to buy like thirty two gigs of RAM six
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: months okay, this is I.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Mean, this is this price, this is different.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Happens so fast. If you can go onto new Egg
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: and Amazon and look at the price tracker and see
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: just see this huge spike. Six months ago, thirty two
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: gigs of RAM would have cost you eighty nine.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Dollars one hundred dollars one hundred bucks.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: DDR five maybe not the fastest clocking speed right for
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the fastest frequency, But now you're looking at three hundred
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: and fifty four hundred dollars for thirty two gigs of
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: RAM because the supply is so tight right now. So
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I feel like all of my friends that I've helped
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: build their computers in the last six months to two years.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Built their computers at the right time because now every
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: good level.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Because we you know, I always said, like, let's just
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: get you thirty two gigs. I know it's gonna be
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: a little bit more now, Like you maybe spend one
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty bucks on thirty two ks, but that's
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: gonna last you for five six years. Well you could
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: rip that out and sell it and buy a whole
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: new machine.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: That's that. It's that high right now.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: It is that high. It's ridiculous.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering though, Like, Okay, so you look at some
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: of the vendors like Dell and you know the other
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: ones that are building computers HP. Are they are they
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: absorbing some of that in the cost or are we
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: seeing towers now that they're putting out those prices are
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: going up as well.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Well, So so the the oem like it's it's weird,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: right because I was talking to a friend who's very
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: good with economics and this kind of stuff. He's like,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of these vendors probably already have their prices
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: locked in for five six years, right Like Apple, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: guarantee already has you know, with microd or whoever their
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: ransom buyer is probably said, you know, for the next
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: five years, we're gonna buy this many units of RAM
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: at this price. The contract change, even if the price
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: is changed, we get them at this price. So I
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: don't know if you're going to see you're gonna see
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: some change in price because obviously there's a demand for it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: So why wouldn't a vendor charge more money for it
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: if there's a demand for it, because it's all about
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: making money. But you're still seeing actually a pretty steady
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: stream of supply of pre built machines that are still
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: decently priced, but people are buying them, taking the RAM
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: out and then reselling the RAM for more money people,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: which is which is weird because it's not always you know,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: pre built machines don't always have what their options are
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: and stuff. I think you're going to see a trend
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: upwards and price but gaming PCs specifically are going to
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: be driven up prices wise. Now, what does this mean
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: for the Steam machine? Right? So think about it, right,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Steam machines are mostly they're already built. So is Steam
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: gonna say, well, maybe we should raise their prices because
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: of the cost of the RAM we put in them,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: or do they keep their prices at for for my
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: opinion is if the Steam machine costs more than eight
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars, it's gonna be an ultimate failure for Steam.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna buy a Steam machine that's gonna play majority
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: of games at ten ADP. Nobody's gonna buy that for
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: more than eight hundred dollars like I would. Just but
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: you can't build your own computer for one hundred dollars
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: right now because of RAM prices. Yeah, so what are
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: you gonna do? And so what does that mean for
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Steam sale? Because if somebody's looking at building your computer
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: to play most of their Steam library, which is most
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: of the games that are out there right now. Anyways,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: why wouldn't you buy a Steam machine? Yeah, if you're
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: looking for a decent gaming computer that could play most
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: of the games you're already going to be playing that
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: are outside of steam. Why wouldn't you buy a machine?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: People are gonna have to really be careful shopping, I mean.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Right, and the typosca of buying something. There's a scam
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: right now. Right, we talked about this last week. Somebody
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: bought a fifty nine d and got a box of rocks, right,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: so they think about it, Right, you buy a four
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: two sticks of ram and you get Yeah, I'll just
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: slip in old RAM or something that looks similar, ship
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: it back, hopefully it doesn't get conton returns, may get
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: my money back, and then somebody else down the line
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: gets pack of socks or whatever, a pack of bricks, whatever.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: That scam is just going to exist. We're taking advantage
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of the Amazon return system, which is we take back
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: anything and give your money back because it's cheaper for
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: us to just do that than to try and fight
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: it or deal with it or put a human on it. Right. So,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: but that scam is happening across a lot of online
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: retailers that just are churning out content. Right. It's like
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: you get a return in, it gets scanned, it gets
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: shipped right back up to the next person that bought
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: it without a human touching it, which is why people
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: are getting bricks.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So you say so, I mean you say, like, you
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: know these data centers that are requiring more, you know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: are we also going to see this in storage? I mean,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: we're seeing ram but I'm just wondering is there storage
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that it's going to be affected by this? And people
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: are already talking about digital rot now with SSDs, you know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if we're going to see this with
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: M two's and other forms of storage.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think we will yep.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Or you're just gonna have a piece of hardware that
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: interfaces with the cloud and you're not gonna have any
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: storage on your machine.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Gonna stream it off from the cloud, which sounds awful,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: but that's what people are doing with video games right now, right,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: So think about it, right, if you lived in a
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: world where you could just have a screen and a
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: keyboard and a little bit of processing power, no storage.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: It just connects to the internet and you stream all
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: of your files from the internet.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: All right, we go, we gotta take quick break. We
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: come back. We're gonna be talking with Linda Chorney. Linda
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: is an author, she's a songwriter, a performer, Grammy nominated
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: artists that is also a filmmaker, director. I've usually got
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a lot under her belt. It's a great person, good
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: friend of mine. We're going to be talking about her
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: new audiobook which is now available today on this Saturday,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the twentieth, and it's all about independent music and what
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: she did that was a little different. When we come
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: back with tech talk Radio, I'm Andy Taylor.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to warn emails your questions and we'll read
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: them on their give me an answer tech guys at
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: tech talk radio dot com. Hold back now back to
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: tech talk Radio.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: We talk about so many cool things on this show.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: And you know, yes we talked tech. We talked the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: latest products, the latest gadgets, but we also talk about
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: how this technology impacts our lifestyle and how there's so
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: many people that are using technology now to kind of
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: broaden their audience. You know, we've had directors on the show.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: We've had actors, actresses, producers, we have had just about
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: everybody on the show. And it's so cool to have
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a friend to come on the show that is using
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: technology that is well helping her expand her reach as well.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: And I want to welcome to the show Linda Chorney,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: who is a writer, an actor, a director, a singer, songwriter, performer,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Grammy nominated artist, and I love her profile. Actually calls
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: her a rebel.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Linda.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: It's so good to have you on the show. Thanks
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: for coming on Tech Talk Radio.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: But most importantly, I say I'm a jacks of all trades, yes,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: which means I'm.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Technologically challenged, are you.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Well see I've been technologically challenged as well. I can't
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: even say the word, but it's.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: I know, let's say it five times past technological technological, technological, technological, technological.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: You knocked it out of the park. Actually, and that's
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: what we're hoping to see with your brand new book
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: available today, which is great. People can go on and
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: get this audio book, which is you know, it's kind
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: of a journey. It ain't over till the indie things
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in your world of music. Now. First off, Linda tell
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: us a little bit of background for our listeners that
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: maybe have not been able to understand what has happened
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: over the last twenty years when it comes to your music.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: What I'm not a household name.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Well you are for us, but you.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Know I'm not first.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I want to say hi to your audience. And is
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: everybody a techie who listens pretty much?
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: No, we have people that are just you know, getting
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: into computers technology, smartphones, or people that like to get
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: online and find really cool websites or find books. You know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: We've got great book clubs in Green Valley, Tucson and
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: all over the United States where they listen to this
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: show and around the world that want to be able
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to learn more about the people behind the books. And
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: we've had many authors on and it's great to have
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you on because you take a look at the world
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: of music that has changed so much in the last
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: twenty years.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: It has Yeah, so basically my story and the reason
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: I was full of myself enough to make a book
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: about my life story is because something remarkable happened to me.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: I'm not a spoiler alert, but I played in bars
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: for forty years and tried to make it to the top,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: just like everybody else. And my biggest fear was to
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: end up on a cruise ship singing Jimmy Buffet tunes
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: in my eighties. Wearing depends so miraculously through amazing circumstances.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: My sixth album, My Man at the time, I'm not
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: going to give everything away, forced me to put my
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: sixth album into the Grammys, where I used technology to
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: spread the word of my album.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and that was really that's really when people were
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: finding that they could use social media, that they could
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: use ways to get there.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: That really wasn't it actually wasn't social media. This is
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: the way this was back in the day.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: This is even before that.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: This before that.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Uh, the the Recording Academy slash Grammys set up their
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: own website, you know, where they're the masters and could
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: monitor so you're doing everything on the up and up.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: They enabled fellow members to share their music, and so
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: I when I was on with Huge Stars, I'm like, oh,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: this is impossible, but my name is on the list.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: So if it's on it, I'm in it, and I'm
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: going to be in it to win it. So I
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: figured out mathmatically. By the way, my dad is a
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: PhD from MIT in EE. He's a technical guy, so
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: maybe I got just a tiny bit of it, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: I dropped out of.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: College, so it's a little different.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Anyway, I figured well, statistically speaking, the more people I
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: reach out to the more chance I'm gonna have of
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: them listening to my music and potentially voting for me.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: And because of that, I unfortunately am a procrastinator and
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: did not do what I was told. Apparently, you need
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: to have the contacts that accepted, just like in Facebook,
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: in order to communicate with him, And somebody told me
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: six months before, well, Linda, first, you're gonna have to
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: get contacts on this particular site in order to communicate,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: and I didn't do any because I thought the whole
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: idea was far fetched. I'm like, what are they have
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: a menopausal music award? It's like I might have a
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: chance at that I was fifty years old. So anyway,
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: three weeks left before the ballots are due, I spent
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: every waking moment reaching out to people and lo and
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: behold and not to sound full of myself, but it
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: was a really good album and people responded to the music,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: and basically all help broke loose with the gatekeepers of
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: the industry after my nomination and if their guy didn't
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: get in, it was my fault.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I got death threats.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that is part one of the trilogy
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: is that whole thing. And then part two of the
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: trilogy is basically, what do I do with this Grammy
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: nomination that I think is gonna launch me? And the
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: entire industry just tried to ruin me, made up stories
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: about me. I'm not gonna spoil it, so it's all
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: in the book, but I made a movie about it
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: because to get the story out if it's the last
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: thing I do technically speaking. Now, so I'm a DIY
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: all the way. I mean, the only way an independent
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: artist can put out their stuff without a big budget
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: is to do whatever they can buy themselves, even if
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: it kills them. So when I made this movie, which
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: I'd never made a movie before, and part two talks
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: about how the hell do you make a movie when
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: you've never made one before and end up having it
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: be multi award winning, which it was.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Now, is this is it a documentary movie? I mean
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: when I sing, is the actual story about you changing
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: the system and saying this is what I'm gonna do,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get noticed?
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well this is the story. No, it's more about
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: It's not about getting noticed. It's more about being in
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: my shoes thinking this was going to be my big break,
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: and the industry planting a really not too nice publicist
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: on me and doing all sorts of stuff. And so
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I made the movie now, not knowing how to make
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: a movie. We're talking technical there's I had a producer,
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: I had adults in the room to help me make
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: this thing. But we dropped a lot of money. I
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: put my own cash into it, and so but I
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: saved money. I wore a lot of hats. Now, the
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: one thing the guy says, Linda, you have to have.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: A script supervisor. If you don't have a script supervisors
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: and no good. I'm like, what do I need that for?
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Why can't I do it? Now?
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: The script supervisor make sure that your drink is filled
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: exactly at the same spot, make sure your hair is
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: at the same thing. For continuity, you have to have that.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: So I said, okay, we'll pay for that now. Later
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: on in the film, I managed to score the location
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: of the century, which is Fenway Park. I won't tell
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: you why, but I was able to get in there
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: and recreate.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Me singing the national anthem at Fenway Park.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: And so I got the footage back and realized that
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: I had a snot flake in my noise.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: In my nostril.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Now you had to pay a special effects guy to
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: take that out.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: I I had frame by frame. Yeah, I learned how
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: to edit. That's some of the technical stuff. And if
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: I did it on other issues with editing, we got
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: a professional editor. Yeah, but I actually did a great
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: deal of the editing myself. And I learned how to
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: sink sound right, which is not the easiest thing in
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: the rook.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: So you learn the process. Although you know me, the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: tech side of me has to ask Youlinda, and we
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: talked to filmmakers Ted Sally not long ago put together
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the Postal documentary. Did you find a preference when it
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: came to editing? Got the Adobe Premiere pro, You've got
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Final Cut? Of course you're in the the Apple ecosphere,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: but you've also got Da Vinci. Did you have a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: preference when you know kind of picking that up?
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: I Final Cut pro, so part of I actually made
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: another documentary before I made the fature film.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: But I mean I.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Went and took classes at the Apple Store, and then
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: if I was stuck, I would just go for tutorials
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: online which are fantastic and they tell you, okay, click
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: this and click that and pretty much any.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: More on can make a movie, right, I am living proof.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Of it now this did this give you the kind
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: of hoot spot to say I want to make a
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: comedy series, which you did, which I was able to
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: be a part of, and of course I got a
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: pie in the face think and delivered by you. So
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: that was good in Saving Bernie, which a lot of
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: people have been able to see. They can I think
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: they could still see it. I saw it on Vimeo.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Did that kind of give you the idea I want
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: to do a series and just say, you know, throw
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: caution to the wind. I'm going to do this. That's
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the thing. The technology scares a lot of people that
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: they do don't jump in, but you did.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what to do with myself after the nomination,
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Thinking it was going to launch me. I made the
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: movie which is on Amazon. You can still see what
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: I'm seeing on Amazon, yep. And then I made Saving
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Bernie because I bought this Bernie doll.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: And I started looking like Bernie Sanders. I do believe
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: every independent, all this should be entitled to healthcare.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, And so I made up this whole crazy story
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: about how a mad Russian scientist mad moment of sugar
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: shrunk Bernie into a six inch Bernie and it goes
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: from there. And Andy, you were kind enough to be
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: in the opening scene, Yes, yes, and take a pie
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: in the face for the country.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: It was a good tasting pie, so that was very good.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I was happy to be a part of it. And
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: thank you. You have this book and a lot of
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: people were reading it, people that want to get into music,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: that have been doing music, that said, boy, this book
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: can help me. What made you decide then to say
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take my story and put it as
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: an audio book.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: For me, it's just therapy, and I believe it's.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: It's you know, it's it's not a tutorial of how
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: to Okay, it's there, but that's not my objective. My
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: objective was just to tell an unbelievable story where so
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: many people will relate. Whether you're an athlete and an academic,
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: or a musician or an artist, anyone's going to relate
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: to the ups and downs, the rejection, how you get
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: up again.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's not about making it to
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: the top.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: It's about hanging off the edge of a cliff and
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: mooning the bad guys at the same time and having fun.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Really, it's just a real honest story.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: And part three the reason I had one book already,
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: but it was not an audiobook. I had such a
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: blast doing the audiobook, and by the way, I did
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: it all myself on pro tools at home. But then
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: I had the wonderful Jordan Rich from WBZ who's now
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: on iHeartRadio. Incredible voice, great voice. Yeah, he was part
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: of the narration. We kind of play play with each other.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: He has chart productions. They did the mastering because there's
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: something called ac X. ACX is the volume levels that
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: have to pass the test in order to get on
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: to I have it on Apple Books, I have it
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: on Spotify. I did not put it on Audible. Why
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Audible A requires a seven year contract. Audible also requires
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: you to print have the print book available. I feel
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: my audiobook it can't be translated because I'm going who, like,
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: how do you spell that? And there's there's a lot
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: more prov in the book, like off the coff I
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: say stuff, and there's music in the book. But anyway,
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: I had it mastered, even though I did the editing
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: myself and the whole thing.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: But my dad was one of the editors of the book.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: Joyce Mackenzie was an editor of the book and then
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: of the audiobook content, which is different from the print book.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: It goes way out there.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: I had Lee Shanon, who teach the teaches at the
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: u of A, and A is a brilliant writer.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: EJ.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: Willlette from Massachusetts and Trevor Suul from the UK.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: They they tried to pull the reins back.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: On me a little bit on the audio content editing,
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: and then Chart Productions did the professional, polished job on
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: the end. So in part three you're not going to
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: believe is stranger than fiction, which is why I even
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: bothered having.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: A second book, because I'm not going to give it away.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: But it's nuts. What happened to me after the ten
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: years after my first nomination. More nuts than saving Bernie.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Awesome. I am looking forward to this. It's available today
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: an audiobook. Linda Chorney of course give us the full
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: title of it.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: It's called it Ain't Over Till the Indie Sings right
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: now until December thirty.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: First, it's only fifteen bucks, then it goes up.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, the other thing, Audible doesn't let
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: you price it yourself, Spotify and Apple, Yeah, Cobo.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: They let you put your own price on it as well.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: So that's why I didn't go to audible.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not a crazy price as well. Again,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: our listeners can can check that out and they'll have
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun reading that. I want to thank
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: you so much for coming on. It's great to see
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: you again, great to talk to you, and we'll look
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: forward to you know again. Out now, Pie in the face.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Every time I eat pie, I think of that seat.
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: I love you.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: It's great, so much fun.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know how technical this was, but.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I want to remind our listeners that
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: when they have a dream, when they're thinking I want
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to write a book, or I want to I want
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: to perform music, I want to make a movie, you
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: have done all of those. So I think that that's
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the best advice you could give to somebody that is
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: thinking about it. Yeah.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to steal from Nike, but yeah,
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: if you really.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Want to do it, you can't. Doesn't mean it's.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Gonna be good, but give it a shot.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: But have fun doing it. We only have we only
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: have one ride here.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: That's right, So if you want to tell your story,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: tell your story. Don't let anybody here's don't let anybody
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: else control your stuff. Yeah, number one, Number two, don't compromise.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Number three, don't suck up to anybody to get ahead you.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: If you if you sense a yellow flag when you
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: talk to somebody, even though you know they can further
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: your career or your whatever your objective is, run away.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, say like.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: There's something wrong with this person. Just trust your gut,
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: do it by yourself. Don't go for the carrot, the
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: dangling rotten carrot.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, then, once again, thank you Linden. We'll definitely
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: keep a touch looking forward to the sequel. And if
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I have to take a pie, I would do it
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: for you any day.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: That is the nicest thing anyone's ever said.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: We'll be back with more of tech Talk Radio and
• 50:17
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  Speaker 2: action RPG, right, It's like it's it's a very fun game,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: and for the time, it was kind of a mind
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: blowing game style that didn't exist, and the scope of
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: it and the size and the breadth, it was just
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: There'll be another one called Catalyst that will also be
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: available for all those platforms that'll come out not till
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. So again, two Marator fans, some of
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: you got to see that there's a trailer available already
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: for Legacy of Atlantis is what it's called. You could
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: find that online and check that one out. You had
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: a good weekend. You gotta connect with some friends, and
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: that sounds like that was a good time.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: A friend of mine is turning forty this year. And
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: then towards the end of this of December, and he said,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: I want to get a couple guys together and just
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: marathon Lord of the Rings, play video games and playboard games.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm in. So the last two days
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: actually I just got be before we started recording the show.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I had just driven back from Wabash, Indiana nice where
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: we rented a small cottage with three bedrooms three beds,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: and we just hung out, put on Lord of the Rings,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: played a couple of board games. We all had our handheld,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: so I had my Switch, Sonny had his Switch to
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: my friend Ben had his ace ace us Rock handheld,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: and we were playing Steam games. We played a couple
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: of multiplayers. We were just talking about these are the
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: games that I'm playing. Oh, by the way, here's this
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: old retro handheld that I have that plays all the
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Game Boy Advance games, et cetera. Like three technical dudes
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: just sitting in a room talking about the things that
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: they love, what they're doing with their home labs, what
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: they're working on at home, what games they're playing, what
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: their kids are doing. Because we all have kids that
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: are on the same age what did the kids want
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: to play? What are their experiences are with video games
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: and kids and movies, And because they're both film professors
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: at Ball State, they were talking to death about Lord
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: of the Rings and why this scene was cool and
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: why that scene was cool, and just a great time
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: being connected while playing games and doing other things like
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: that are mentally stimulating, but like just having conversation, just
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: be with each other and experiencing. It was a great time.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Ate too much pizza, drank too much soda, you know,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: your typical stuff that you did when you were teenagers. Yeah,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: and now my body is paying for it. Right. It
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: was just a great time. And you don't get that
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: type of connection when playing games anymore. Right, it's either
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: your online you're not face to face with somebody. You're
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: talking over the computer.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Which is still good and still community.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: But like growing up as a kid and playing these
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: multiplayer games where you were the four of you or
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: the eight of you or whoever many people were all
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: in the same room, all sharing a shared experience and
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: making those memories and doing this, so you don't get
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: that anymore. So it was very reminiscent, very nostalgic, and
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: nostalgia's a hell of a drop, right, And the last
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: month I've been on this nostalgic kick. I bought an
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Analog three D. I've been playing Times Splitters Rewind, I've
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: been playing Sue Code like. I've been playing all these
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: games that brought me joy back when I was younger. Yeah,
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: that I can't find right now in the current gaming sphere.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: So I went backwards to find the joy and things
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: that I found fun in video games that have been
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: playing those again, and it's been great. It's been a
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: great experience.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: That's cool.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: That's kind of what we were working on this past
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: couple of days, was just reconnecting playing games that we
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: knew and loved, sharing those with each other, saying, oh,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that game existed. I didn't know there
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: was a gay Boy Advanced version of Crash Bandicoot that
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: existed on Gayboy Advance.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't even play.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: I got to play, right, It's a different game type.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: It's not your typical platform, right, but it's different and
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: it's it was unique, and I got to play it.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I know it existed.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: That is so cool.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Like finding some hidden gems and playing some games and
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: just hanging out talking about life and reconnecting with old
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: friends is just good time.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I hope you get your Christmas sweater this year.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Have yourself a wonderful Christmas for all our listeners. Thank
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: you for tuning in again. If you've got questions, drop
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: us an email tech Guys at tech talk radio dot
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: com at the meytime, Merry Christmas to you, your wife,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: your children, h and to everybody on the show, thank
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: you so much. And and the.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Next the next episode will share off what we got
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: for Christmas, and we hope that you guys can email
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: us and tell us what you guys got for Christmas,
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: what you didn't get, what you wanted to get, what
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: you wished you got but you didn't get, and maybe
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: even some blunders. Maybe you got something you really didn't want,
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: or maybe maybe maybe the gift you gave was bad
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: like we want to hear those stories.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, have yourselves a great week, Merry Christmas, Happy holidays.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Shond to Weird. Have a happy holiday,