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Episode 375 - That's Entertainment! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Right is it
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Colin Mackrie? Of whose line is it? Anyway you're listening to tech talk
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Radio. I don't know how it works. It's so magical stuff to me.
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Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
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Sean de Weird. I'm justin Lemmy and a lot to talk about. I
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want to say that Sean, thank you for telling us about Alternative two dot
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net, which we talked about on the last program. I actually used it
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as one of our subjects for the television segment that we did on camusp Fox
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eleven, which you could see every Monday, we do a segment because we're
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starting to see now software and services prices are going up. Just just a
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couple that I have found out about. I got a notification from Nest because
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you know, we have the next system, and I decided to go ahead
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and put everything Nest. I mean, I do have a couple other cameras
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that are doing our home security, but outdoor camera. I bought a doorbell
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camera. I was going to go ring again and give it another shot,
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and I went with Nest and they have a sixty dollars annual, and that
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sixty dollars annual covers you for as many cameras as you have, you know,
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as many, and then you know, you can get video and the
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whole bit. And it was like sixty bucks a year. Well now they're
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going up twenty dollars to eighty bucks a year. Yep. I've been using
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into eight QuickBooks for the longest time. Matter of fact, I want to
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say from the early days of QuickBooks, I mean the very early days,
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and this is this is the time where you could go out and you could
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buy a copy of QuickBooks and you would have it for years. And then
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if you wanted another feature, or maybe they upgrade dated the OS and you
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needed to update then you know, printer drive, the whole bit, then
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you would go ahead and you'd pay for that update, which is usually going
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to be you know, two to three hundred dollars, right. And then
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they went to a subscription model a few years ago. And I remember it
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was a couple of years ago. I got a notification I went to log
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into my desktop and suddenly it wasn't working. And so after getting to talk
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to a tech support, they said, oh, because your subscription, which
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I wasn't a subscription is no longer valid. We're not supporting the desktop version.
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You need to pay for a subscription. Okay, how much is it?
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It was three hundred and something dollars and I thought, wow, that's
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kind of pricey, but okay, I need it already have everything integrated into
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quick Books. I'll do that. Well, no notification at all. Last
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week there was a almost seven hundred dollars deductions drawn from QuickBooks, and I
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thought, wait, what is this? And so I'm looking for it.
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I call the bank, they can't cancel it, log online and I look
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and sure enough, there it's telling me the day before I was charged for
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renewal of subscription that went up. Now it was like six hundred and fifty
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dollars, and it went up six hundred two, six hundred and fifty dollars
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from I think what I had paid previously was three hundred and something dollars and
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I succept forget it. You know what I could do? I also subscribe
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to quick Books Small Business, which is an online service which also tracks mileage.
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I'll just I'll just create an invoice in that. I don't do that
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many invoices for the side stuff that I do. I'll just do it that
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way, and I dropped the service. I will say, you know,
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getting a live person on the phone so you can like disconnect a service that
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can be a real difficult option, which was the case. Getting somebody that
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I could actually talk to that I could drop, you know, drop the
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service or find out more about the dilemma that I was I was dealing with.
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That that would have been key. And I know that you know quick
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Books is based in Tucson. Their support team but down there, and all
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right, I will say, honestly, though, even though it took a
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while, did get somebody that did help me, who who was kind enough
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to tell me they've had a lot of complaints about their their price increase.
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Gee you think, yeah, Mine, more than anything was I wasn't notified
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that it was going to be happening. Are you sure you weren't. I
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went back. I went back and I looked at the emails. Nothing.
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There was nothing that I ever received that said price will be increased and you
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will be charged in this day. With that, you know, I did
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end up canceling and they did issue a refund. It took them a couple
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of days, but I did get a refund of the amount that they took
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off, and I'm looking at other sources now again, I could just do
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it with the quick but I'm still paying them ten bucks a month for the
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app, or even just generated the invoicement bill dot com. Sean, while
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we're talking, you're you're so fast at Google Foo? Is there an open
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source option to two quick books? I saw a couple of others. There's
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one called fresh Books, but they're charging quite a bit twenty five bucks a
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month for the s That's still better than I would love to just buy software
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just be able to use it if I'm into it. Open source, Yeah,
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like quick book quick Yeah, on alternative two dot net that's to dot
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net, you know, and I don't you know there's there's some home bank.
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I mean just yeah, like he said, that's the whole point.
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Is Andy brought up alternative too. Yeah, so it gave me a chance.
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There's a bunch of options. Yeah, they gave me a chance to
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talk about them and how they they offer an alternative. Also, you know
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a lot of people went through the same thing when Adobe really kind of you
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know, change their model from having a software program. Now although people that
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use Adobe have not been pushed you know, they're using Adobe five. They're
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not being pushed into Creative Suite. Yeah. Sure, if you want to
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get the new benefits of Generative fill you know, yeah, yeah, then
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why not. But they at least let you still use the program. You
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know, I was basically told, well, you can't use the program anymore.
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You know. That's but I don't like anything about that. Adobe is
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doing something new though, if you want to check that out. And the
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second part of our discussion is Adobe Photoshop Express is now available for free.
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It's not at thirty day trial. It's not a sixty day trial free version
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you can use. You can get you'll you'll be issued tokens right away to
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use some of the generative filling techniques. You get access to thousands of templates
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so you can create with Adobe Photoshop Express or they'll be expressed right away and
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your own AI images. Yeah right, and but you have all this.
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But the nice thing about it is if you want to pay the ten bucks
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a month to get the premium version with you know, thousands more templates than
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you can so it was a it was a great way to kind of focus
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that even though some companies are increasing prices like uh, you know Google accreasing
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prices of home security. Disney is going to be Disney Plus, it's going
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to be raising their pack kids price. Again, it's gonna be almost twenty
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bucks a month if you want the Disney Hulu bundle. You know, some
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people going, I just I can't afford to pay all these subscriptions. So
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you know, there are other sources, other choices that you have for number
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one, watching content, creating content, So don't forget alternative too. So
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that was a good subject on The Great Website on last week. Yeah,
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we talked about it a lot last week too, So one of the it's
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been a website I've used for a long time and that's how I ended up
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finding Gimp and a couple other great softwares that I used. So it's just
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yep, I know we've talked about it from We talked about it once every
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six months, I think on the show, because it's just it's just awesome.
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Like I don't mind like I do the Microsoft Office subscription. I don't
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mind spend spending the you know, one hundred nineteen dollars a year for that
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for five users. But when they raise it, and they don't tell you
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they're going to be raising it, and then they raise it to quite a
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substantial increase. That's when you say, wait a minute, do I really
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need this? And don't feel bad about stepping away preventing there are other sources
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out there for you to use software, you know, I mean speaking of
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stepping away from things honestly, Uh, you know, there was there was
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some like breaking news recently that Sean Sean had pointed out to us. I
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mean Sean, why we reached out to Sean? Like, I mean you
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you are widely known on the show as the wise Man, and I don't
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mean like Wis. Yes, you are very smart, but the wise as
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in wise Cam. Right, there was some huge news and it was like
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it was a security breach, but what was the extent of it because I'm
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a little confused here. They say that it only affected like ten users,
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but it was just kind of the way they went about not telling people is
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what really got them in trouble, right, Yeah, so it's it's really
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hasn't got them in trouble, but it's just kind of shady, Yeah,
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because there's been no real information. We're talking about shady stuff. So why
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not you kind of you kind of have to dig to find it. And
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I think the only reason it's gotten any sort of publicity is because the New
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York Times and their tech blog The wire Cutter put out an editorial basically saying,
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we're not where you're pulling. We're pulling all of our recommendations for Wise
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except the well yeah, because they're not cameras. Yeah no, and then
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you're kind of explaining a nutshell yeah the reason why. So yeah, I
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came across this, I think either the day it happened or the day after
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it happened on Reddit. On the Wise forum, somebody said, hey,
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I just logged into the view dot wise dot com portal to view my cameras
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and I'm looking at somebody else's camera feeds. Oh wow, that's not good.
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So imagine logging in to view your cameras at home and you're looking into
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somebody else's bedroom, somebody else's living rooms, my first yard, My first
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though, I would be like, wait, wait, who's looking into my
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cameras? Then? Correct? Right? So Wise says, hey, so
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this was the September thirteenth. They said ten users were affected, so there
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was a period of time on Friday, the twelfth of September or whatever.
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The twelfth just is Friday, doesn't give a day. During a brief period
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of time, ten users whose camera events may have been viewed by others who
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were logged into the view dot wise dot com portal. A lot of people
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don't know that you can view your cameras on the web. I had no
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idea it was. It was in beta for a long time, and it's
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not widely publicized that you can view your cameras on the web because they want
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you to use the app and all the tracking informationalism. Yeah, it's so.
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For about thirty minutes on Friday afternoon, a small number I'm reading directly
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from their Wise post which is on their forum. You can just google it
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on their or just search on their forums for it. For about thirty minutes
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on Friday afternoon, small number of users who used a web browser to log
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into their cameras on view dot yse dot com may have seen cameras of one
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of the other ten users who also logged in through the view dot wise dot
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com port during that timeframe. Issue did not affect the Wise app or users
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that did not log into the view dot yse dot com during that time period.
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So when I saw it on Reddit, I logged in, I saw
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my cameras, right, that doesn't mean somebody else didn't see my cameras.
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Yeah, you're not. You're not seeing anybody else's. But is somebody's seeing
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yours. Yeah, there's been no technical debrief of what happened. And this
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comes right, But this isn't the first time that Wiss had this problem.
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Back in twenty twenty two, they had a data breach and bitdefender. In
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March of twenty twenty two, they put out a study that said WISE took
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nearly three years to fully address specific security vulnerabilities that affected three models of their
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cameras and basically called Why's out And a lot of people were like, I've
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done with Wise. So for them to not be proactive and say like,
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here's what we did, here's what we found, here's what happened, here's
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why it happened, here's why it's not gonna happen again, is a little
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bit bs. Yeah, So, and you're telling me that in the thirty
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minutes of this issue happening, that only ten users logged in, Yeah,
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exactly, Yeah, that that right, there is just smells like nasty fish.
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Right. So there's a couple other updates in this post eight days ago
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as at the time of its recording, they've identified those ten users some other
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but there's like just no, like, Hey, I'm the leaded lead of
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the security at Wise. Well, here's what happened, and here's what we're
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going to remediate it. There's no Yeah. Part part of this too is
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okay, look look at the business model of Wise. Right. They undercut
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the competition by giving us the cheapest possible cameras that are good. Then they've
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they're good that are good, they're good cameras, and then they've upgraded their
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their infrastructure by allowing us to have you know, web viewing after so many
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years of people asking we want web viewing and they finally built it. Right,
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So on the Devil's Advocate a little bit here. They probably don't have
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enough money to pay for like a public relations firm to handle these kind of
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issues. They're probably putting all their money because again they are undercutting the competition.
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They're not making money. Handover Fist is their community manager. Why is
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is Gwendolen? The company is making a lot of money no matter what how
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you look at it, they are making good money. They're making good money,
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but they're not making like billions of dollars or whatever like you think of
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a meger. Okay, you just get this deadpan. It's just these deadpan
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responses like. We are continuing to investigate the issue, and we have implemented
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multiple technology, technological and policy measures in an effort to prevent this from recurring
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in the future. Again, this experience is not refused to do commitment to
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users for the investments we've made over the last few years and hand security.
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We apologize for this incident. Here's the thing, Sean. The next time,
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the next time it says, what measures did you enact so this cannot
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occur again? Yeah, no response. Let me ask you, sean,
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dude. Is this the kind of thing though when you look at it,
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you can buy a camera that is generally almost one hundred dollars cheaper than what
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you could get, you know, anywhere else. The services as well is
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going to be is is seriously ten percent of what you would pay for maybe
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another service for monitoring so you can monitor it with your app, the whole
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bit. Would this enough? With this alone? New York Times saying we're
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not going to endorse them or at least say that, you know, they
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should be included. Would that be enough for people to go, yeah,
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I'm not buying him, I'm not going to do it. Yeah it should.
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But didn't. Didn't Ring go through the same thing? Correct? They
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actually they in that article they posted. When that happened, they stopped promoting
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those and reviewing those things too, and they said, well, now they
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went through this whole thing, and they have this whole new security remediation plan,
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and so they're ready. They're now read you know, back into Ring.
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So trial by fire, right, But again, Joy just said,
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why is is making money? Hand over fist? Well, I said,
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there weren't, but okay, I guess maybe, well there, why is
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is making a lot of money? Yeah, there's a lot of people that
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buy buy those You're not seeing the money turned around to help support the security
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of the infrastructure. Okay, yeah I did make that do yeah exactly.
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So that's what's frustrating to me, because this isn't the first time it's happened.
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It's not the second time it's happened. So woom we once foomy twice.
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That whole mantra, right, so what is why is going to do
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so? I think the editorial from the New York Times is going to put
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a lot of public pressure on them to either figure it out or they're gonna
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be out with Monday's trash. Mm. Yeah, it does make you one.
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I'll tell you what. We've got a couple of great guests standing by
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then we're gonna come back. We're gonna be talking about probably one of the
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big games that has talked about, kind of touched a little bit upon it
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last time. Yeah, it's it's pretty big. Not Balder's Game three,
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it's it's something else. So we'll do that. But we're gonna be talking
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with Al Patrelli from Trans Siberian Orchestra, you know, of the group they
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tour. They've got a new touring schedule. They are going to be coming
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to Phoenix, So we'll talk with Al friend of the show, and we're
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gonna talk with the folks from Nimbus ninety nine. If you've been wanting to
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have your own streaming channel, whether it be on maybe Crackle to be or
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even just set up your own channel and have it streamed on you know online,
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you can have full control of that and they've got a great infrastructure or
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program to make that happen and a way to make it happen for you that
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is a content creator that is looking to show your product on something other than
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Vimeo and YouTube. So Nimbus ninety nine, we'll have a representative from the
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show, the CEO, talking about that when we come back with more of
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tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird, and I'm justin.
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Let me find us on the web and tech talk radio dot com.
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We'll be right back now back to TikTok Radio. One of the things I
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look forward to the most during the holiday season is Trans Siberian Orchestra and always
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good to know are they going to be touring? Where are they going to
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be playing? And it's so exciting because I always get it to opportunity to
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talk to my friend Al Patrelli, who is not only you know, one
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of the founding members of the group, is the musical director, one of
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the guitarists and gets to live his passion out for music and having a lot
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of fun alves with us on the line. Good to talk to you,
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good to hear your voice for my brother, and thank you for that wonderful
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introduction and very truthful. Man. I live every day with the guitar around
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my neck. You know, it's just a dream come true every day.
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The fact that Paul Niel's music is a vibe and well we're coming back through
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town. Yeah, little rock show coming. I love that. Now.
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Let me let me ask you all, how long have you been working with
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TSL? I mean as one of the founding members? You know, I
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remember when you got your start. Suddenly people were talking, Hey, have
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you heard this? Have you heard this? Just a mind blow? Yeah,
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twenty eight years. Wow, it was twenty eight years ago, this
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past February of March where the first time Paul called me up. I had
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been friends with him for about ten years prior. Yeah, but it was
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a late winter, early spring of ninety five when he called me up and
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he said, you know, I got this thing I'm working on. Would
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you mind coming into the studio putting ears on it with me and see what
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we can do? And I'm like, I'll be right there. Yeah.
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And I remember him explaining the story about, you know, the song that
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was to become Christmas saray Avo twelve twenty four, history behind that song and
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we shared a couple of stories. I said, hi, brother, press
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record, and you know, I played that opening, kind of sad sounding
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little guitar motif in front of it, and we had a CEO coming to
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play God Restumery and Gentlemen over the top of that, and then the song
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kicked in and I looked. I was like, you know, you're onto
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something here. So I don't know if the world's ever going to hear,
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and I don't know who's ever going to play this, but this is awesome,
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and he goes, I just want to make great art here we are
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to do twenty eight years later, and you would think with somebody had different
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choices of music out there, with pop and rock and metal and everything,
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people would have their own kind of flavor of music. But yet everybody,
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whether they like country with it like oldies, they love the music you guys
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create and Chris Christmas Eve, Sarajevo told twenty four According to Newsweek, I
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was just reading is now one of the most downloaded Christmas songs ever? Is
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in the top ten. Yeah, it's crazy, it's crazy to think about
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it. When I was a kid, you know, it was Nat King
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Cole's the Christmas song or White Christmas by being Crosby or you know, you
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know me being me, you know, being an rb Evan Donnie Hathaway's this
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Christmas and then all of a sudden to be part of there when it was
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creative, when it first opens its eyes, if you will, like a
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child being born, and here that child is twenty eight years old and still
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important and still growing and still getting stronger and better. Man, I could
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be. You know, I'm as proud of this as my own children,
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you know, and I love it just as much al you were talking about
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the Christmas Eve sary A twelve twenty four and the story behind it. A
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lot of people who maybe I've never been to a show, They've heard the
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song, but they really don't know like what it means. Can you tell
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us a little bit about the inspiration for that. We're going back to that
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that evening, you know, with Paul. The long story is put the
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faders up on this track, you know. And I looked at him and
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I kind of tilted my head to one side, like when your dog looks
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doesn't really understand what he has happened. Yeah, yeah, I swear to
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God man, And I looked at him and said, my brother, what's
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what the Christmas song? And he laughed and then he told me the story.
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So what this? He said, it's not really a Christmas Songs songing
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depicting events that took place on Christmas Eve during the war. I was like,
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all right, you got my attention. What do you mean? So
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he told me that during that war, there was a cellist who lived in
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that town who would grab his cello and go down to town square every night
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every you know, he knew when the bombing raids were coming, and he
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would sit down and play pieces by Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Bach,
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whatever, whatever in protest to these bombings. And the hair on my arms
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stood up, because let he pulls up. What's the matter? I said,
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Well, I was Alice Cooper's md or musical director in nineteen eighty nine
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through nineteen ninety and I played in what was Grubb and Belgrad before the war.
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I said, I was in the town square that you're you're talking about
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in your story. Oh wow, And he looked. He looked at me,
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and that's when he said, you know, hit record, and you
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know, there was opening about Doo Doo Doo Doo doo doo doo, you
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know, and it just said a tone. He said yes, and he'd
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come to planes in the distance and the cellis was playing God Rescue married Gentleman
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on Christmas Eve. And then you know, and we stook some Astanado's in
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this and guitar fig It was such a powerful evening in the studio because that
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instrumental tells a thousand tales of that that moment in time, you know,
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And like you had just said, everybody doesn't matter what music you gravitate towards,
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will really like more than others. Everybody loves that piece of music,
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I think because if it's honesty and the vulnerability which was presented, you know,
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you know, you got to hit on your hands when talk radio is
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playing your song exactly, or it's being used in commercials. I mean,
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it's been used in commercials all the commercials. Yeah, everywhere you look,
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you know, I remember, like not too long, I don't know what
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it was, but you know Paul's music, you know, like Elon must
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programmed the Tesla to have its own like light show, the headlights and the
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blinkers to one of the TSL songs. People just really love it. You
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know, and it's awesome sending your child out into the world and everybody's gonna
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want a great kid. I love to say. Well, we talked about
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the late Paul O'Neil, a good friend of yours, and really just uh
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mind blowing inspiration there from from Paul. Do you think he had any idea
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of just how big TSO was going to continue to grow? I don't know
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if he had an idea on how is going to grow. I knew that
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once it caught on and people realized that they loved his art form that he
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created, he wasn't going to let it up. He was, you know,
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pedaled down, you know, And that's when he decided I'm going to
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write an entire story and record around this one song. And I looked at
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him, was like, count me in. You know, I don't know
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who's gonna buy it. I don't know who's gonna get it. But I
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enjoyed the artistry so much and watching him work and create stuff on the fly,
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Oh my god, it was incredible. I think that once I started
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to kind of take hold, like you know, we did a couple of
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records in the late nineties and they sold a couple million copies each and then
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we did the movie The Ghost of Christmas Eve and PBS was playing it,
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and the reaction was extraordinary, and people started, you know, making us
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part of their holiday tradition. You know, Like I think you and I
23:52
probably talked about, you know, in previous conversations like when I was a
23:56
kid, you know, a miracle on thirty fourth Street or Charlie Brown or
23:59
if it's a wonderful life or whatever. Yeah, you know, this was
24:00
becoming one of those, and that's when like, Okay, the horizon,
24:06
you know, that's where he's going with this, you know, And it's
24:08
been an extraordinary journey for almost three decades now. The idea of you know,
24:12
cutting a cutting a record, you know, recording and laying down the
24:17
tracks a whole bit. It's one thing. But going on a tour and
24:21
being a tour that just knocks everybody outs is another thing. And that's what
24:26
you guys have been able to accomplish with the Trans Siberian Orchestra. The tour
24:30
people will talk about it forever. Yeah, well, listen, I appreciate
24:33
you saying that, and I'm going, yeah, because kind of half of
24:37
he's hoping that You're right, you know. You know, Paul always said
24:41
he wanted this thing to live out. We'll live long past all of us.
24:44
If you go back to ninety nine when we did our first show,
24:47
yeah, or first series of shows, excuse me. You know we had
24:49
there were seven cities on the itinerary, you know, I think three nights
24:52
in Cleveland and night in Philly and night in Boston, New York, Chicago,
24:56
whatever, you know, And we had a twenty four footbox truck,
25:00
two buses, and a fog machine. Right, this is awesome. You
25:07
know. I had no idea who was going to come and see these shows?
25:11
Had no idea. You know, we sold five or six million copies
25:14
of the records. Who bought these records? Dude? And I don't know
25:17
if I ever told you, I felt like I was in the Christmas version
25:18
of Steely Dan, Like all we do is record and sell records and never
25:22
have the tour, right, yeah, you know, And if I told
25:26
you the story, cut me off. But if not, it's really interesting
25:30
because it was foreshadowing, you know, what was to come for the next
25:32
twenty something years. Tower Theater and Philly was opening night on that first tour,
25:36
and it was sold out. In like forty five minutes. I was
25:37
like, wow, dude, who bought all these seats? You know?
25:41
And while I found out because the house slights went down, curtain came up
25:45
and the stage lights came up, and I could see the front couple of
25:48
roads of people, and right in front of me was this older couple my
25:52
grandparents age, wearing those crotchet reindeer sweaters that people wear on occasion. I
25:56
got right next to them. Right next to them, my brother was a
26:00
dude wearing a Slayer hoodie. Oh man, And basically I kind of would.
26:07
I had a half a heart attack, you know. It was like,
26:10
how don't turn up? Turned out? Who am I playing too?
26:12
You know? And I just remember, like I heard Paul's voice in the
26:15
back of my head, just just just play the songs, play the story,
26:19
let them in on what we're talking about. And I put my head
26:22
down for an hour and a half and just did my job, and we
26:25
got the most incredible standing ovation. And that was the foreshadow that was to
26:29
become. You know, when you look at the audience, you know there
26:33
everybody's out there, every walk of life, different right and again, and
26:37
it's grown up one twenty four foot box truck. You know, the last
26:41
year I had twenty one track to trails and twelve buses and a lot more
26:44
fog machines. So it has grown up over the years. It didn't happen
26:48
overnight. It took a long time because Paul put everything back into the band
26:51
and the organization and the company. He didn't care about money. He wanted
26:55
to make a statement, and boy did he and he continues to do so,
26:57
even during the pandemic, which you know, of course it was a
27:00
few years back. You you still did a show, but you did it
27:03
and you streamed it online. You had a lot of people that partook and
27:07
watched it. Right. Yeah, If that's as bad as my year was,
27:11
is that I couldn't go to work that year. You know, I
27:11
have nothing to complain about comparing to how many people suffered horrible tragedies and losses.
27:15
You know, you know, my present feels still go out to all
27:18
those people. And this thing's still you know, annoying, it's still floating
27:21
around, you know anyway, But yeah, I remember it was like the
27:23
middle of the summer, and you know, Paul's wife and his daughter,
27:26
you know, the family and our managers you know, they're like, this
27:30
is just nothing's happening this year. You know, it's like, okay,
27:33
wow, you know, never did I hear think I was gonna hear those
27:36
words come out of everybody's mouth. But here we are in this global pandemic
27:38
where we're kind of it's funny, we're all on the same boat, you
27:41
know, when forced to be. But that's a conversation for another day.
27:47
And then I don't know, a month went by and I remember my manager,
27:49
corn Up says, you know, what do you think about a live
27:52
stream? And I'm like, what's that? I think it's what we're going
27:53
to set up in a very you know, closed environment, you know,
27:57
in a vacuum if you will, all most and we're gonna perform this once
28:02
live and people are gonna scream it into their living room. So I'm like,
28:06
you're giving me a chance to have one swing at the plate this year.
28:07
I'll take it. You know. Yeah, exactly. The tour was
28:10
canceled. You know, I love doing this, dude, and it was
28:12
just like, wow, you know, there's a pretty big hole in my
28:15
heart right now. But it is what it is. Again, it compares
28:18
to other people, it's not that big of a deal. But so they
28:21
said, all right, we're gonna set up outside of Nashville. We found
28:23
this facility and h there's gonna be sixteen HD cameras. We're gonna play you
28:27
know, the story and its entirety with the narration, and there's not gonna
28:33
be anybody in that building except the band and some cameraman. Wow. Okay.
28:37
Again, My job was to kind of like whip the band together,
28:41
like, let's put this together. Obviously, we don't have an arena stage
28:44
to do our thing on. You know, it's just a small and more
28:45
intimate setting kind of like where we started. And I rehearsed the band,
28:49
rehearsed the band, rehearsed the band, got everything going. And you know,
28:52
I didn't ask. It wasn't none of my concern, is it anybody
28:56
buying us? You know, didn't care. I was just grateful to be
28:57
doing what I loved. Yeah, and we did it. So instead of
29:03
sixteen thousand people, I had sixteen cameras, you know, And I remember,
29:07
you know, the band played beautifully and everything was cool and nobody got
29:10
sick, you got hurt us cool. And about a week later, Adam,
29:15
our manager, called me, and he goes just to let you know,
29:18
two hundred and fifty thousand households purchased that stream. Wow, that is
29:23
awesome, And I'm like, what if you do twenty thousand, that's a
29:26
lot. I'm alright cool. Whatever wrote it. Ye, so from a
29:30
financial standpoint, and I don't care about the money side of it, that's
29:33
not my thing. Let them figure that part out. But it meant so
29:37
much to me because if you got four people in each household, there's the
29:41
million people that usually buy tickets to come see us, And that meant that
29:45
it was so important to them to have Pole's story in their home during holidays.
29:48
They wanted to celebrate. Even under this the worst of times, with
29:52
the global pandemic and people dying, they still took time out to spend an
29:56
hour. They wanted their tradition intact. And I got real emotional that that
30:00
is like one of the most important things that's ever happened to me, knowing
30:03
that something is so loved even if they can't be with you in person.
30:06
Tran temporary orchestra is tradition at the holidays. I can't tell you how often
30:11
we get the request for the music, not just Christmas even Sarajevo, but
30:15
other tracks off the music, which of course our listeners can purchase. But
30:18
the listeners can now actually go see a live show if they haven't, or
30:22
even if they have, they're to want to go check it out again.
30:26
The Ghost of Christmas Eve the Best of Tso and Moore is the name of
30:29
this winter tour. This is going to kick off what in November. November
30:32
fifteen is opening night, you know, and we're going to rehearse probably about
30:37
a month prior to that, you know, with full production. We're gonna
30:40
run the show twice a day every day until opening night because I want that
30:44
opening night to be a perfect first show. And then I'm going to see
30:47
you when we're going to see you, yeah third right, Hey, I
30:52
got on my calendar. Yeah, brothers, so maybe I got twenty shows
30:56
in by the time I see you. Yeah you go. But it's your
30:59
first show. It'll be your first show, therefore to be another perfect first
31:02
show because every time we play once a day, twice a day, did
31:04
the matter, It's going to be a first show because it's brand new every
31:07
time we hit the stage, and it's perfect for our listeners to make the
31:10
drive from Tucson Green Valley to Phoenix to be able to go see this at
31:14
the Footprint Center. Two shows you're doing three, three pm and seven thirty
31:18
pm for the night show, and we're really looking forward to it. Honestly,
31:22
this is something for the entire family to do and they're gonna love it.
31:26
Every show is always great, but you gotta ask al any surprises this
31:30
year, there are new surprises, the production, the look of it all
31:33
that I just don't know what it is. I won't know. They don't
31:34
let me see it until I get to production rehearsals at Almah, you know.
31:38
So it's cool for me because I get excited until I get at the
31:41
airport and all behind I drive across the Rivet Council blufts. I would walk
31:45
into the arena. I don't even go to the hotel first. I want
31:48
to walk in and see what this is. And I feel like a fourteen
31:49
year old every time I do that. So, you know, it's the
31:52
most amazing thing ever to see it for the first time in person. Goo,
31:55
this is gonna be awesome. What is the website addresser? Our listeners
31:59
can't get more information on this, and of course if they want to get
32:00
tickets, they can find more info on the website as well. Exactly,
32:06
it's a trans dash Siberian dot com. Very cool. You just mentioned something
32:10
earlier. I want to kind of reiterate. Tickets are on sale, and
32:15
Paul O'Neil and his family it was always paramounts for them to keep the ticket
32:19
prices down. But if you want to bring your family, we're not gonna
32:22
jam you up for money. I mean, in the economy we're right now,
32:25
it's a hot mess out here, you know, and you know,
32:29
a lot of you know, sporting events, a lot of concerts. It's
32:30
a mortgage payment for a seat. You know, got us. You know,
32:34
we've been coming through town forever and I want to stay coming through town
32:37
forever and bring you know. When you know, I look out and I
32:38
see three generations of family sitting together. That's like one of the greatest things
32:43
I ever did. Plus you you donate a lot back to the communities,
32:45
over eighteen million dollars since the shows have begun to charity throughout North America.
32:51
So you know, seriously, I'll thank you man. In the legacy of
32:53
what Paul has left behind, you guys continue to do great work. No,
32:58
his family is carrying on that leg to see you know, pulls.
33:00
You know, he kind of lives in my heart and on my right shoulder
33:04
all the time. Every time there's a Pyro hit that goes off, chuckle.
33:07
He's such a Pyromanny. I gotta love that guy. You know,
33:10
nothing says Merry Christmas quite like Pyro. There you go, exactly. Alfa
33:15
Trelli always great talking again. We'll see you December third in Phoenix as Trans
33:21
Siberian Orchestra tours. Thanks again for coming on always, my brothers actually having
33:24
me. Much respect to you and your family. I'll talk to you soon.
33:27
Trans Siberian Orchestra puts on a great show again for the entire family.
33:30
Great visual effects, great music all combined. If you want to get more
33:35
info, be sure to check out their website Trans Siberian Orchestra and be sure
33:39
to tell a friend about this. They can listen in to hear what they
33:43
can expect with Alpa Trelli and t s O. We're gonna take a quick
33:46
break. We'll be back with more of tech Talk Radio. If you want
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We love to support Arizona business and the tech world is constantly looking at
34:09
our great state. We're here in Arizona. One company that is global but
34:15
based in Arizona is a company that I've learned about called Nimbus ninety nine.
34:21
Now. Tim Preris is the CEO and co founder of Nimbus ninety nine and
34:23
just with us on the line to kind of tell us the solution that they
34:28
offer to people, businesses, corporations, entertainment platforms, just about anybody that
34:35
wants to use OTT. Now, if you don't know what OTT is,
34:38
that's over the top streaming. Tim, thanks for coming on tech talk Radio.
34:44
Hey, thank you so much for having me and ya I really appreciate
34:45
it. You know, means a lot to everyone at Nimbus nine nine to
34:50
be on the show today. Well, you know, we're seeing so many
34:52
opportunities when it comes to us streaming, and the hard part has been you
34:58
know, people have only had a couple of choices you can whether it be
35:00
Vimeo or YouTube or you know, they might even have a full channel that
35:06
they they could actually stream on something that they're passionate about or it can you
35:12
know, find ways to bring in revenue, and Nimbus ninety nine is making
35:15
that possible for people to have their their streaming solution. Yep, that's correct.
35:20
So we have essentially commercialize OTT technology. So Nimbus ninety nine is a
35:27
full end to end OTT platform offers a CMS for video management and then is
35:35
a scheduler player so you can drag and drop your video assets seamlessly onto our
35:40
timeline. And then we design web apps, mobile apps, TV apps,
35:47
more TV apps where you can distribute this content. And then as you mentioned,
35:52
we do offer a kicker with our services, which is we offer a
35:55
distribution and connectors to really broaden our customers channels visibility and then also make an
36:05
URI like you mentioned. And the unique part about this distribution is it's not
36:09
a one time you know, or deal where we just pitch them once.
36:13
We have a content acquisition team that reaches out to our entire network of about
36:17
a thousand FASTS, which is free ad supported UH streaming television, We do
36:25
CTV and also all the smart TVs, and it's a full process where we
36:30
go weekly due to the demand of the type of content that these providers that
36:37
we can go to are updating and need. Right. So it's a really
36:40
unique aspect. How we kind of came up with this idea, my co
36:45
founder and I we came from the newswire space, so we worked, you
36:49
know, for a newswire and we are always curious on how we could get
36:52
more big views on the videos, right because as you mentioned, you know,
36:57
anyone can go make their own YouTube, you know, post on their
37:00
social pages. Right. But you know, every time you post a video,
37:05
the next one that you post drops that video down. So how often
37:07
is that video going to get actually get seen? Even if YouTube? Right?
37:12
So even if YouTube has a broad network, you know, businesses aren't
37:15
seeing multimillion views, right. You have to be like a content creator to
37:20
really see a lot of return on investment. Right. So that's why we
37:24
really we were like, you know, how can we commercialize this ott right,
37:28
because this is where viewers are going. It's free, it's compatible to
37:31
any device, and why aren't brands and content creators you know, utilizing this
37:37
right, And you know a lot of aspects kind of go into it,
37:40
right, you know complexity and layers of the OTT platforms that are out there,
37:45
right, you know, the infrastructure being uh, super complex, and
37:51
you really have to have a broadcast you know, experience to use it,
37:54
right, And and that's what we changed, right, We made it easy
38:00
for anyone that's never done this before to be able to use our platform and
38:04
take advantage of this. Right. We believe content marketings big, even for
38:07
brands. So yeah, that's a little bit about you know, Austin what
38:10
we're doing there. So Tim, if somebody is a creator, uh,
38:15
and but their creation is not you know, in the short form that we're
38:19
seeing now with you know reels and with you know other services on social,
38:24
but they have this idea, like because I saw I saw something the other
38:28
day. I was in a hospital waiting room and it was a thirty minute
38:32
program on wellness and it was I couldn't I couldn't figure out where this was
38:38
coming from. And I realized it was and I looked it up. I
38:42
went ahead one online and I found out there was a content creator there.
38:45
They were based in Carl's Bad, California, and they were creating this and
38:50
it was actually being offered to stream through the hospital, and I thought that's
38:55
pretty amazing. It's almost like you know, I'm watching you know, a
38:59
channel, but there they've created like their own type of channel for distribution that
39:04
would kind of focus and target that specific user. Is that kind of what
39:08
Nimbus ninety nine can offer somebody that has an idea not in the short form
39:14
but maybe creating full programs. Yes, absolutely, we want to make it
39:17
where you can just focus on making great content right like you know. Another
39:22
nice aspect of what we are doing if you don't have the time and you
39:25
know, what we learned was content creators they're constantly working and recording and putting
39:31
out content, right, so they don't really have time to manage a channel
39:36
for say, right, because it's like an extra platform or system. So
39:38
we do offer managed services so where we would go and manage your channel for
39:44
you, and all you have to do is uploaded to the system, and
39:46
then we encode videos to every platform, browser, device and any platform that
39:53
we would connect in thirty seconds or less, right, so you can so
39:59
yeah, so you can take a video, schedule it immediately. We do
40:04
also do live right, so that's an nice aspect that we add and we
40:07
do offer So with our timeline, there's a base timeline for playlists, and
40:12
then there's a priority so you can add a live feed, so then you
40:15
can do a live broadcast as a you know, a content creator where you're
40:20
you know, working in the field and you want to broadcast here, you
40:23
know you're following, right, so you can set that up easily with us.
40:28
Right. So we've pretty much made it where you know, whatever you're
40:32
looking for, whatever your bandwidth is, we just want to give you access
40:37
to this, right, So if you need us to manage it for you,
40:39
right, build it for you, you know, troubleshoot for you,
40:45
you know we're here. And then another unique aspect about us, so we
40:47
offer twenty four seven customer support, so if you if you need anything done
40:52
whenever, you know, in any country, we're available to help you.
40:57
Right. And that's a unique aspect that we brought from the news wire space.
41:00
Where we came from was we noticed that the customer service with a lot
41:05
of our competition, you know, it's hard to get in touch with someone
41:07
right or even get an update or you know, how do I fix this?
41:12
You know, And and we saw an opportunity to disrupt with a offering
41:15
like twenty four seven support and bringing a new level of support to this space,
41:21
right. So you know, I think that you know, those aspects
41:25
are making it easier for these content creators to you know, show it on
41:30
screens in a hospital, right. And it shows you that these connectors are
41:35
looking for this type of content, right, they need original content, right.
41:39
And there's a lot of great content creators out there, like you know,
41:43
even independent filmmakers you know that are making content you know that's never going
41:49
to be seen, and they put their life savings into it, you know,
41:52
and we want to give that then that opportunity to get that out there,
41:55
right, yea, Arizona, we have some really great film festivals.
41:59
You know, you've got the two Sun International Film Festival. This would be
42:01
a great opportunity for somebody like this and then to be able to hit these
42:05
these films seem by just about everybody. And it could all be done through
42:09
you know, ads supported streaming television that somebody could set up a channel for
42:15
what where would And I know a lot of people are probably asking this question,
42:19
so say you get something like that or like that show I saw the
42:22
other day, or even hey, we you know, we I'd love to
42:25
seeg four tech TV come back tech television. So somebody wants somebody wants to
42:30
do that. Where is that content scene? Then it's not only seen on
42:36
streaming web is it? Is this also available through some of the uh,
42:39
you know, services that somebody would pay for or something like two B or
42:44
something like that. Oh yeah, yeah, So we go to two B.
42:47
We go to to all the smart televisions as well, so Phillips,
42:52
LG, Samsung TV Plush, so all the smart TV's. And then we're
43:00
also mobile rights and devices that we can go to so we can design iOS
43:05
app for you Android app, and then we can also build you web apps
43:12
on top of that. Right wow, So those aspects are really nice and
43:15
we can do it really fast. That's really nice thing about us as well.
43:17
So like apps take us about at most sixty days, depend on customization,
43:22
and then linear and bod channels they take us two weeks maybe last right
43:28
to get customized up and running and then get those feeds customized to the partners
43:35
that we can secure, you know, and advertising deal for our clients.
43:37
It is amazing. Plus to like you said, it's drag and drop,
43:39
You've made it pretty much super easy for the end user that when they're busy
43:45
creating the content, they don't want to have to go through hoops and jumps
43:50
to be able to just get this content out there. It can be done.
43:53
They've got it scheduled, ready to go. It's just a matter of
43:57
dragging and dropping it into the Nibus ninety nine kind of controlled playback, right,
44:01
that's correct. Yeah, So our our player, the Nimbus ninety nine
44:05
player is is super innovative to where the videos, like I mentioned, you
44:08
uploaded, it's encoded. Then from there it's literally a dragon drop to a
44:15
timeline where we do offer features also for monetizations, so that's another nice aspect
44:20
about this. We do offer subscriptions right, rentals, right, so if
44:24
you want to create like a you know, a premium channel that's you know,
44:30
people have to pay two ninety nine, we can set that up for
44:32
our clients as well. We actually have one client now with the private private
44:36
channel that we created, so that's a nice aspect. And then we also
44:40
offer ad insertion features in the timeline. So like if you're a you know,
44:46
a content creator and you're selling ads direct on your you know, you
44:50
put your own brand you you keep one hundred percent of that. You know,
44:54
YouTube, I think it's like they take forty five percent from ad revenue
44:59
on the on direct ads, so you know, with us it's one hundred
45:04
percent. So you can monetize it in several different ways. And then the
45:07
ad insertion teacher, you know, you could put three four five ads in
45:09
each video super easy in the timeline and then from there, yeah, it's
45:15
just saving it. We have a preview. And then the nice thing is
45:19
is we give analytics, right, so we give you a lot of great
45:22
uh information on your viewers, which our clients love, right, you know,
45:28
being able to prove it is a big part of it, right and
45:30
seeing the results, and and the nice thing about you know Ott, like
45:36
you mentioned earlier, you know, being through the internets, right, you
45:38
get really good data on on just usage and Jael, Yeah, where where
45:45
it's being watched, how long they're watching, when are they when are they
45:47
bumping out if they are. That can help the content creator in maybe changing
45:52
the way that the flow of the program is exactly. And the other thing
45:58
is is you know when you're using platforms like social media and YouTube, right,
46:01
and so you're restricted to like thirty seconds or a minute on your videos,
46:06
right, Like how much can you really, you know, get out
46:08
there that much right in a minute. So you know, this is another
46:13
way to do content marketing right and get creative right and not restrict yourself to
46:19
short videos either, right, really getting your full message across with a video
46:24
instead of you know, hyperlink that drags you to like, you know,
46:30
a PDF or something. Right, It's just doesn't keep people there. So
46:34
I mean, it's it can It's really great with that too. I love
46:37
the idea too, the fact that somebody could go live. Before I got
46:40
into radio back in the eighties, I worked for the city of Norwalk out
46:44
near or Los Angeles, and my job was production coordinator and we would produce
46:50
the city council meetings of all things. But I can totally see city government
46:54
now that actually has kind of stepped away from some of that coming back to
47:00
this and making this available for residents in their community to be able to launch.
47:02
They could totally make it available and it would be easy public service programming
47:07
within the city. I could see this being really good because I see some
47:10
cities doing podcasts, now, why not put it on video so everybody could
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see it and through Nimba's ninety nine, they'd be able to actually, you
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know, schedule it, get it up there. They have a channel,
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they're they're good to go. Yeah. And another great thing it's it's the
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content is really compatible to every device browser. Yeah, you know, so
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there is no restrictions on how you can access it right either. So it's
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it makes it easier to really, you know, get engaged in it in
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that manner as well. Well, Tim, I really love the idea.
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Now our listeners that you know, I know somebody that's creating or they have
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had this idea for a while, they need to log onto the website and
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get more information about that. But I also want to remind them that you
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offer some of the best customer service. You have customers service team. You
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have this white glove service self service for those that you know, the kind
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of got are like, kind of cool and just want to keep rolling.
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Uh and twenty four seven on this what is the website address? So it's
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Nimbus ninety nine dot com is our our marketing site and you can get all
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the information about each of our services, product lines and learn about you know,
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what we're doing obviously for in the industry as well, right through our
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resources that we offer to Nimbus ninety nine dot com. Tim want to thank
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you for coming on tech talk Radio and letting our listeners go about it and
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if if they know somebody, make sure they point them to the show and
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give them a chance to check it out. They'll be able to check out
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the audio as well on our website at tech talk radio dot com. Tim,
48:43
great to talk to you. Hey, thank you so much again Andy
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for having me and Nimbus nine out of show. We really appreciate it.
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Thanks Tim. Sean and Justin will be rejoining us for the segment we're gonna
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talk to you talking about a brand new title that Justin has got a chance
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to experience and why you might want to check that out as well. With
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more of tech talk Radio, find us on the web at tech talk radio
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dot com. And now back to tech talk Radio. All right, I
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finally put a sideballders Gape and I'm playing I'm playing the new one. I'm
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playing the new big game out there. It's Starfield. I've heard a lot
49:15
about this one. Yeah, that's the Xbox exclusive, so it's it's exclusive
49:19
to Xbox and PC. But you guys, remember like uh, sky rim
49:25
Or or Fallout series, those those games. By Fallout was really kind of
49:30
the week. The last Fallout was kind of week. The last one was
49:34
a little bit weak. It's got a lot better in the years since.
49:37
But but yeah, but like fall Out three, fall Out four. So
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Bethesda is the company that makes this Starfield, right, and so it's basically
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it's basically fall Out in space, okay, And but the thing was is
49:52
they really did hype it up. They hyped it up massively. They were
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like, oh my god, this this universe is going to be huge.
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You can go visit a thousand different planet and and and everything. You no,
50:04
no, you get in, you get into the game. Okay,
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First I'm coming from like, I'm a Star Citizen player, well former slash
50:12
semi retired Star Citizen player. I'll go back and play it. Star Citizen
50:17
is the ultimate. Star Citizen is the goat when it comes to space games
50:23
with all their bugs. Yes, they're gonna get better. But Starfield tried
50:27
to piggyback on that and say, look, we took the best of No
50:31
Man's Sky and the best of Star Citizen and put him into one game with
50:36
with our you know, ingenious, uh social interaction that that was with Fallout
50:40
and Skyrim and everything, and and that's kind of what it is. It
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feels like No Man's Sky meets fall Out. But but when they say you
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can visit a thousand planets, no, absolutely not, and is gonna be
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really that's gonna be Tailc's you know, well maybe maybe in the v yeah
50:57
I think so, yeah, in the future maybe. But but the thing
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is is like, you can't fly to the planets. I mean, yes,
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you technically can, but it's not fun. I mean, there was
51:07
this one lady who was on Twitch. No, there's a lady on Twitch
51:10
who was like, hey, look there's Pluto. I'm gonna fly to Pluto.
51:15
She put her plane on autopilot and stepped away from her stream and went
51:20
to sleep and woke up the next morning and her plane was still flying towards
51:23
Pluto. And when it finally got to Pluto the next morning, it was
51:27
just a flat bitmap image. It wasn't even a planet. It's not it's
51:31
not it wasn't a true planet. So there are definitely predefined planets you can
51:36
visit, and again you can't actually fly to them. You you cut scene
51:40
to them if you will. You click on the planet, you say I
51:44
want to land here, and it goes boop and it goes shows a short
51:45
little loading screen and bam you're at the planet and you're like, oh,
51:49
that was fun, Like that was awesome. I just jumped to a planet
51:54
and now I'm standing on the planet's surface. Great, awesome, cool.
51:59
But it's yeah, when you get on the planet, it's a lot like
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No Man Sky. I mean, there's procedurally generated stuff and you're walking around
52:07
killing these random like creatures that are obviously procedurally generated. But there's something about
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it though. It's still a good Bethesda game. I like the storyline,
52:16
I like the social interaction. This is this is the first game under Microsoft's
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flagship. Yes, right, I think so? Yes, because it is
52:27
again it's exclusive to Xbox and PC and PlayStation fans are going nuts. They're
52:30
just like, wait, come on, this is this is not right.
52:34
We should be having this. Well, maybe you should get an Xbox.
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But I do enjoy it. I do enjoy it. I do think it's
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not the best game of all time. I would love to see some more
52:45
Star Citizen built into it. I'd love to see some more flying, more
52:49
better combat, maybe like Elite dangerous combat style. But it is a fun
52:53
game. It is. It is definitely fun. What's the cost on this
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one? It's free actually if you have an Xbox with game Pass. If
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you have game Pass, it is free on game Pass. So I have
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it. I actually have it loaded on my PC and on my Xbox Series
53:08
X and it runs beautiful just game Pass per month. It expense, it's
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like fifteen bucks a Month's not bad yet, It's right Starfield all right.
53:19
Again, I've been hearing a lot of people saying I thought it was going
53:21
to be a huge world. Then they're finding out, Man, it's not
53:22
as big as we thought. But it's Can you create an avatar that looks
53:27
like you? Oh? Absolutely yeah. People have been creating some really funny
53:30
avatars. As a matter of fact. Astronaut Chris Oh gosh, the guy
53:37
with the mustache, he's like the he's he's been all over nasty, he's
53:39
been on the space station multiple times. Chris Hadwick or something like that,
53:44
can his name exactly? Anyway, he actually played Starfield and he made a
53:47
character that looked exactly like him with the mustache and everything, and he's like,
53:51
Wow, this looks a little bit uncanny. You know, he's like
53:54
an astronaut flying around. I guess that's me. Well, you have to
53:58
send us a picture of yours, and uh maybe we'll give it. Oh
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no, no, I'm not all right. Mine is a pink haired punk
54:05
rockers perfect, big, big, big obese man. Yeah, that's that's
54:09
perfect. Yeah. Also, don't forget. I wanted to make sure we
54:13
mentioned you guys played stray right with the cat a little bit. Yeah,
54:16
did you have fun with that? Did you do that one? Shun I
54:20
did not? Yeah, and Perrina put that one out well and Purna not
54:24
Perina Pera? Did you just call it? Perna? They are turning that
54:30
into a movie, so they you if you had us a good time with
54:34
that? Yeah, that'll be a film. All right. That's it for
54:37
this week's tech talk Radio. I hope you enjoyed it. We'd look forward
54:38
to hearing from you tech guys at tech talk radio dot com. I'm Andy
54:43
Taylor, I'm sean to Weird, and I'm justin. Let me find us
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