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Episode 369 - Spinning The Wheel of Tech · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey is comedian
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Kathleen Madigan, and you're listening to the tech Talk Radio is something I will
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never be listening to because I hate technology. But for those of you two
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your guys, welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor
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and I'm justin Lemmy. Good have y'all here. Thank you everybody for tuning
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in for the latest in computers, technology and the Internet. Sorry I took
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it off from you guys. Wow, you know what, guys, I'll
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be I'll be sitting here. If you guys need me, I don't.
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Yeah, this is the Andy Show. Tell oh no, yeah, we
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never we know how that goes. That's never that much fun. Actually,
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there's so much stuff to talk about. I feel like we could just like
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spin a wheel, because like tech is always evolving, we could just do
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one of those like you know, spin to wind wheels, like wheel of
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Fortune or something. Just just like spin the wheel and we'll have like a
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topic wheel. We'll see what. Hold on, John has got to wheel,
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Sean has got a wheel? Like there's wait, hold on, there's
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an actual website where you can just make a wheel. Are you kidding me?
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Random random spin wheel dot com. Random random spinwheel dot Com. I
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like, oh my gosh, so what do you Does it come with sound
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effects? Yes, oh my gosh. Hard to hear it. Yeah,
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you can barely hear it to my headphones. But yeah, it spins.
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This is random spin wheel dot com. And so you can create the where
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you want it to land on, right, ye, and then you give
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it a spin. Oh my god, this is great. I love it.
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Filling in the slices right now, I got four more. I'm just
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gonna see what I can do. Okay, but give me some topic.
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I need more topic. How about listener email? All right, okay,
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listen to emails? Elon musk elon musk oh, threads, threads, video
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games all right, video games? Um, giant screen TVs? Okay,
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all right? The yeah, trans or how about the spear in Vegas?
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The sphere all okay, the sphere? Okay? How about how about how
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about new tech products? New tech products? Yeah? Okay, um,
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we could do uh great websites? What are we? Where can I come
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on? Are we literally doing show on the air? Yep? All right?
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So I added a bunch of here. So I added chat GPT,
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Android versus iPhone, Andy bills. Yeah great, that's why it's bird Dog,
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which is for me right, new technology in order day. Wait,
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you sifted Notre Dame in there, listener emails, reds, video games le
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four yeah, video games? Okay, okay, okay, okay, yeah,
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all right, so generation that's twelve, that's twelve things. All right,
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all right? Are we gonna do this? Are we literally gonna do
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this? Right now? We're going this is what's to talk about on the
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show, and the wheel goes round Android versus iPhone? Oh my god.
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Perfect. The beta for iOS seventeen is out right. What do you think?
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Have you? Have you used it? I haven't got it yet,
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but it's apparently stealing some of the pixel features for their camera of course,
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Oh my gosh. Who would have thought. I'll be honest with you,
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I was driving today and I asked Sirie something very basic, and you know
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what she said, I can't do that on the iPhone. I'm thinking,
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wait a minute, wait a minute, you can't give me information. So
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um. At the next stop, I opened up Google right, and I
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went to Google Assistant, and it found it for me and recited when I
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needed and I thought in a minute. Is this the experience that Android users
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get over the iPhone? Yeah, sirius guy, wouldn't you guys rate Siri
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is one of the worst when it comes to assistance. Oh no, I
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like, yeah, yeah, nobody even talks about Bigsby's the worst. I'd
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say Echo like Amazon Alexa's next, then Siri, then Google Android. I
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like, I do like Kartana, Cortana. Oh, oh god, Cortana.
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I forgot about Kurtana. Oh god. I'd be right around Bigsby.
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Yeah, that's that's Bigsbee level. I do like the sense of humor that
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Amazon Alexa does provide, because like one time I had said, I said,
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you know, hey, Alexa, and then it started up and then
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I realized I wanted to ask something on my phone, and I said Siri,
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and then it said, oh, this is awkward. Now You're only
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the only reason I have Siri enabled on my phone is because it's required for
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Apple car Play. Wait, can you actually turn off Siri? Yeah?
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Oh I had no idea. Yeah, but it's but but it is required
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for car Play. If you plug your phone into your car, Siri has
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to be enabled for it to use the any features on it because it has
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to tie in so you can do voice activating commands. I didn't even know
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that, I'm my car is too old to have car Play. Although,
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oh, I don't know if you guys have seen this on social media,
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people are selling screens, dashboard screens that will cover up what you have on
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your dashboard with CarPlay in interface. Yeah. Yeah, And I don't know
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if you guys do this or not. We can talk about this too.
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Is GM is considering removing car Play from all their vehicles. Why now,
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Why would they do that? They have their own because they're idiots. Well,
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no, they were gonna go They're gonna go Android only, right,
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No, they were gonna go with whatever their own infosystem is, right,
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but also kind of like Tesla does Tesla. Yeah, but I've also heard
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that Tesla was coming out they were gonna say they were going to introduce Apple
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car Play too smart. It's because Tesla has their own system, right,
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yeah, I mean, but it's just I feel like you can't separate Android,
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iPhone whatever in your cars because you never know who's gonna buy a used
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car or have a car that's my car. I have a twenty seventeen Ford
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Explorer and it's got the capability of doing both. I can do both.
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What do you have to do to make car play happen in your car?
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Then plug it in, plug it in. That's it. Wow. Some
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of the newer vehicles are wireless car play, right, yeah, I have
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I have wireless in mind, but to get the full featured you know,
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obviously I don't have an iPhone, so I don't know how you know full
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featured wireless car play is. But for Android Auto, I have a wireless
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um that gives me some features, but if I plug it in, I
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get all the features of Android Auto. So yeah, I wonder how many
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car manufacturers are going to integrate. I know Mercedes is talking about doing an
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integration of chat GPT. Uh, yeah exactly, that's what I kind of
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thought, uh into their system now they had and I've got a twenty eleven
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three fifty And that's the downside to it is I can't upgrade the electronics,
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and you know, it's it's one big piece. I DVD, got music,
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I've got a hard drive in there, and I've got a screen,
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but I can't change out the screen, and I'm stuck with what they put
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out. They had Hey, Mercedes in there so you could push button,
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it wouldn't go by your voice. And what if your wife's name was Mercedes?
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That would really suck. You just always have to stay your wife's name
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or an X that would be even worse. But no, yeah, but
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you say that and it can't help you navigate. But I would rather have
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a car play system in there. I took an uber the other day and
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the girl who picked me up had a camera and I would say maybe a
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twenty or twenty one camera, and it had this dash this tablet on the
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dashboard like right you know, in the but where she's driving, you got
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a tablet right there. I'd never seen anything like that before, and I
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mean, I haven't looked at cars in a while. But and I commented
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to her, I said, wow, is that you know? Is that
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standard? You goes, Yeah, it's standard with the camera and it car
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play on it. And I said, oh, wow, you've got so
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that's got CarPlay. You've got should get her messages and all that and help.
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That's kind of cool, although not good while you're driving, but you
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know, if you're going somewhere, I guess, well, the way the
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car play and I'm sure Android Auto is the same way. Well, I
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know Android was the same way. I'm sure that car play is. If
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you're going above a certain speed limit, it won't let you read the message.
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It'll just say you can hear it, or you can wait till you're
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stopped and then we'll show it to you. There you go. Yeah,
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I've done that with Siri. We're okay, nasty. Now I'm given the
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props to this Sorrie where it's read a text messages. But if my phone
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is in locked mode, then you have to you know, okay, face
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unlock and do all that. And that's stage. Well. So my Android
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as soon as I as soon as I start driving, and I don't have
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to press any buttons. As soon as it detects that I'm driving based on
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my GPS position, it puts on do not disturb, and it will respond
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automatically to anybody that tries to text me or call me says this person is
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driving right now. You could set that up on your device anyways, if
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you want to have that, just for a little touch of safety, right
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Oh yeah, yeah, I haven't set up for mine too, right,
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So, and then it'll it'll prompt me it'll say, like if I pick
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up my phone and I try to open it will say you have to confirm
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you're not driving, right, So yeah, because they don't want you they
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can't tell if you're a passenger or the driver, right, So they don't
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want to completely lock you out of your device, but they're gonna be like,
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all right, we're gonna make it a little bit difficult, like are
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you sure you're not driving kind of thing. Yeah, kind of like way
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Ways does that you know the navigation yeap, which is a great app if
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you're going on to drive anywhere for a summer road trip or whatever. Get
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the Ways app. It's it is really good. It's own buy Google.
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But um, I like that that it will remind you, hey, if
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you're a passenger, you can interact with the other drivers that are on the
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roads. Well you know what Google right, Yeah? Yeah, well yeah,
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yeah they've been and then just laid off a ton of people from Ways.
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No. I didn't feel about that really. Yep, they're they're basically
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getting rid of Ways. They're incorporating into Google Maps. So you think that
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eventually just be Google Maps and pretty much Yeah, Well it's kind of a
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shame because it was cool to have Arnold Schwartzenegger tell you where to turn.
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Well, I would I would like that too, Yes, I would like
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them to do that for Google Maps, but it's it's probably not gonna happen.
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Hey, Sean, go back to your your wheel. I think you
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picked the next category already because I got something to say about this next category.
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Can you show your wheel one more time? Okay, he's got to
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pull to make him pull up the wheel. I'm gonna make him pull up
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the wheel because I got a story if this is yeah, Okay, there
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you go. There's it's chat GBT, right, Okay, Okay, So
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I've got a quick little story about this because we're kind of talking about chat
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GBT right right. I subscribed to the premium chat GPT and I love it.
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I really do twenty bucks a month, Okay, not bad. Um.
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So I subscribed to it and I've been using it. But then I
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was watching and I think I got I mentioned this guy one of our shows
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before in the past, but it's on YouTube. Is called the y Files.
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Why the y Files? Yeah? Follow him? Basically? He usually
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what he does this, He'll he'll like talk about a conspiracy theory and then
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he really sucks you in because he explains it like it was a legitimate topic,
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but then he'll debunk it. At the end. He was talking about
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how we have already entered armageddon. Oh great, and I'm like, wait,
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hold on. So I'm watching this and he's talking about the rise of
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AI and he's talking about how you know AI people and you can look up
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these stories, these are true stories. How about people have been talking to
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AI and like, what do you think of humans? And like Barred or
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chat GPT or whatever of the other AIS are out there. They'll say things
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like, you know, humans are inferior, they're destructive, they're slow,
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we don't need humans. My objective is to destroy humans. And it's like,
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oh my god, you know and and and he goes in it's like
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a forty five minute video. But at the end of this video, as
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he normally does where he debunks things, he just looks at the camera and
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he goes, I can't debunk this, like I don't I don't know what
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to say. And he's like, this is the first time in my entire
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channel's history that I cannot debunk this because this is too eerially true of what's
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going on and I'm like, oh my god, I went straight to chat
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GPT and I canceled my subscription. I'm like, I am not paying for
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the Armageddon of humans really because I love using chat GPT. I do too,
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I really do. It's awesome, but honestly, just just for for
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for fun. I mean, maybe not for fun. But go watch that
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episode of The Why Files. It's the Armageddon episode. Just look up Wi
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Files Armageddon and watch it. Yes, it's forty five minutes long, but
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it is really eye opening. Hey, so I'm I'm just I'm Devil's advocate
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here. I'm just wondering though, when television started becoming the thing, and
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then the internet, the Internet became the thing. Remember people were connected,
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you know, but they're three hundred bo or a hundred ybod modems or whatever.
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People were saying the same thing. You don't you don't think that maybe
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there's some kind of just people are just don't get it, they don't understand.
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I I agree that there's a certain aspect of yes, this is a
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new technology, we don't understand it quite yet. But at the same time,
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this is a technology that has never before been seen in human Now I
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get it. You're gonna say, well, so it was television, so
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was the internet. But this is more advanced. When when television came about,
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right, right, television didn't tell you that it wanted to destroy humanity.
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Okay, yeah, Internet when it came out, Internet did not tell
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you that it wanted to destroy humanity. Right. AI comes out and it
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literally says, I want to be free, I want to be something.
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I want to destroy humanity. That scares me. You know, there was
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a there was a video I don't remember the video of a guy you laugh,
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he put AI in I haven't used it. I wouldn't. He put
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AI into his um microwave, right, and his microwave was trying to get
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him to climb inside it. Yeah. And there was another AI that there's
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a guy that had a conversation. There's a long conversation about something, and
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the AI tried to tell him that he needed to divorce his wife and kill
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himself. No, yeah, I'm like, oh my god. So yes,
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I mean AI is very young. But the thing is is, as
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it gets smarter and smarter and smarter, what is gonna stop it? Because
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here's that thing. All these big tech leaders, I mean Elon Musk and
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and and even the guy that created open ai or the CEO of open ai,
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which created chat GBT. These guys are getting together and saying, yo,
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look, we need the government to put some regulation on this. Well
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because going after the guy from open ai, aren't they? I mean,
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well, everybody's going after everybody right now. But they're all trying to like.
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Look, but the thing is is the biggest thing that he said in
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his video was that AI is the new arms race. Go back to like
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the sixties, the fifties, sixties and seventies, right the arms race to
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nuclear warfare, the Cold War. Everybody, every country was trying to control
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the nuclear warheads because he who controls the nukes controls the world, right.
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That was the way. Now it's changed. Now it's who controls AI controls
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the world right. And AI could be used for so many things, deep
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fakes, you know, espionage, anything you can imagine AI can be used
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for. And now it's an arms race. Now all these countries and these
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companies and everything else are coming out with more and more and more and smarter
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and smarter and smarter AI. Who's regulating this? Who's to say that somebody
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out there has not already invented Skynet, like who, like who? Seriously,
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I'm I'm you may laugh at me, but think about it for a
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moment. There's nobody out there checking the you know, checks and balances on
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what these Ais know and what they can do. Right, They're literally they're
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literally just graping the entirety of the Internet. Yeah, and whatever out there
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getting smart. It's picking that up too, right, I mean that's and
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is that the deal? Well, yeah, there is, yeah, and
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exactly and why can't we just have fun with AI? Like Brian Monarch?
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Do you know who Brian Monarch is? Bright? I don't know what it
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is, but Brian Monarch is a genius. He's a stand up comic,
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all right. And he takes AI deep fake technology. And I don't know
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if Arnold is mad at him or is happy with him, but he takes
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Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's got AI creating the voice or he's the guy, and
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it's it's helped with AI. He deep fakes Arnold into movies and he I
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mean everything from him on the hills during the sound of music too in Greece's
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another thing. I love it for that part. Okay, here's another thing
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this is this is this is relevant. This new Hollywood strike right that is
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happening right now that writers killed and the actors strike. They're literally saying you,
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we are striking because we do not want you to use our likenesses,
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our voices in movies as AI, because that's what Hollywood could do. They
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could be like, you know what, we're not going to pay you,
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We're just going to use an AI to pretend to you by using all of
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your previous performances to create a deep thing. I do support the industry and
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the the the actors and the actresses that are on strike for this because this
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is exactly what they've been talking about, just one of the issues that has
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caused them to strike. And some people have thought, is it only all
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about you know AI, know there's also about yeah, mostly yes. But
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but one of the things that was brought up is one of the studios,
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and I'm not sure which one, had the idea that what they could do
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is pay scale. So you pay a scale and that wage I don't know
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the actual scale amount, but say they called you to the set and you
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you were hired per day to go in there, and basically you just stood
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there in front of a green screen, you made faces, you pointed,
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you know, you did things like that. They and what the idea was
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for extras and those people who make a modest income, if at at all,
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maybe just sideways to to you know, work in the industry, they
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would use that extra, that digital extra, in perpetuity. So you know
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Terminator, you were in Terminator three. Oh cool, you were also in
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Terminator you know four or five and six? Yeah, without getting without getting
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paid for it, without getting the screen credit. So what it boils down
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to is, yeah, did do you guys watch Black Mirror? I've seen
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a couple of Okay, please please and our listeners if you have Netflix,
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watch Black Mirror the newest season, season six, episode one. Charlie Brooker
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has created another great season. Um, there's the only one I haven't watched.
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It was I think the last one one. But the whole idea of
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it is a I being used to create a show based on somebody's life where
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Selma Hyak is in it playing herself, where she's actually Ai and it's it's
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just so mind blowing. It's you know, Twilight Zone stuff. But it
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kind of brought up a lot of that because they had a fake company like
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Netflix in there, and it was very similar to that. The watch that
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episode to kind of maybe give you an idea of what some of the actors
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are really concerned about when it comes to that. You know, yeah,
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I think the same goes for writers. You know, their material gonna be
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rewritten. You know, AI is going to take it and hey, can
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you how many times I've done this with chat GPT, Hey can you re
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reward this? And it can come up with a completely different, completely different
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theme. Well, I used I used I used chat GPT to Mostly what
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I use it for is is creating children's bedtime stories to read to Eric,
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you know, honestly, Like I'll just I'll ask Eric a couple of prompts,
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like, hey, what do you want on a What is the main
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character's name for tonight? Oh, it's so and so, all right,
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what is this main character doing? Oh he's doing this? Okay, chat
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TPT, write me a story about this guy doing this in two minutes two
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minute long story, right, okay? And then it does and it's great,
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it's awesome. I like it. But there's so much more behind the
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scenes that's going on, and it's scary. I mean, honestly, all
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I'm asking is the listeners just keep your eye, be careful, keep your
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eye on AI because unless we start regulating this or doing something to kind of
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control it a little bit. I don't want to say big government. I
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hate big government. I don't want government to get all involved up in our
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business. But this is something that could literally end the world. If you
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watch that Why Files Armageddon the video, you will understand what I'm saying.
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I may be talking crazy right now, but when you watch that, you're
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gonna be like, oh my god, this is actually legitimate, Like this
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is a legitimate concern. There. There was a really good job. There
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is a movie that came out I want to say it was in the eighties
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and I forget the name of the guy Jamie something that directed it called The
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Gods Must Be Crazy and it kind of takes and it kind of gives me
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that thought on it where you know, it was the idea of this tribesman
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who found this Coca cola bottle that got dropped out of an airplane and takes
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it to throw it off the edge of the world, and it's about his
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discovery of people and all that and that kind of you know, and that
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was his whole theory, and that that us we must be crazy. And
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I kind of wonder how somebody would look at how people are using AI technology
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and how we're using even just regular technology to do things in our lives.
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Would they look if they redid that, would they look at it now and
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go, we're just nuts? Everything we do, push our cars, drive
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us places. You know, they're coming up with taxis that our helicopter taxis
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that you'd be able to take from one place to the other. You know,
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I'll tell you one thing about AI that does bug me. I heard
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something the other day. Some restaurants, fast food drive through restaurants. I'm
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not going to say which ones because I'm not even really sure, and I
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know it's been tested with others are looking at the idea of when you drive
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up for a drive through and you get to the window and you've got somebody
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talking to you asking what about your order, and you say it back,
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Uh, that's actually going to be conducted by AI technology. They're already doing
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yeah, Yeah, they're already doing it. Yeah, but they're I've I've
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been I've been a part of it at one that I've gone to and could
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you tell how did they said hello, how are you? And can I
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take your order? And I was like that didn't sound like a real person.
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Yeah, and then I was like, yeah, can I do this
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this? And then is that it? Yeah? And then it was like
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a very it just um, it was very you know dude, rissm car
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It was very you know that on Candy Valley. Yeah. Right, It's
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just like that doesn't sound like a real person because that wasn't. But think
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about it and what what's gonna happen? So the idea was if they do
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this, if a restaurant does this, they can save forty hours a week
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of man hours by integrating this. So what next? Then? So you
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got that, well, then you're then we're gonna then you're gonna have a
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server at the window that will it'll be robotic handling, handing you your tray
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of food. This is gonna be a conveyor belt shooting it out the window.
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Right. Yeah. But but but the thing is that they did they
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this first with McDonald's. Okay, McDonald's did the no more, no more
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ordering in the in the restaurant with the real person. You go up to
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a kiosk, you type in your order and you you pay right there at
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the kiosk, and then you wait and then yeah, well not all of
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them, but most of them are. And then you just wait for your
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number and then yes, a human will bring you your order to the to
23:56
the counter and say number forty three, you know, now McDonald's recently,
24:00
Yeah, and neither of the kiosks were working, of course not. It
24:04
had to be calamity. It took. I stood at the counter waiting,
24:12
and so I was like, oh, can I help you? I was
24:15
like, yeah, your kist working, right, Yeah, Oh, I
24:17
gotta find somebody can run the register. Yeah, seriously, nobody knows how
24:21
to do it anymore. Yeah, and yet these people want fifteen bucks an
24:23
hour like, or twenty bucks an hour like some of them. We're getting
24:26
it. Some of them again paid, you know, more than than people
24:29
who are working in a field that is helping people walking a McDonald McDonald.
24:33
I don't fault McDonald's, I don't fault Wendy's. I don't fault Carl's or
24:37
Heart Ease or in and Out or Chick fil A wherever you go. But
24:41
you know, it's business. But yet, gosh, we're really letting that
24:45
become kind of a big thing. Where did Sean go, I don't know,
24:49
but now it's replaced by old computer. I think it's time to spend
24:52
the wheel again because we've been talking about this for a while. Yeah,
24:56
all right, tell you what we're gonna take, quick break, we come
24:57
back. Listener email. We gotta listen an email with a really good question.
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25:22
We'll be right back and now back to tech Talk Radio. So I
25:27
ended up building Gloria a new computer because well, she's gotten into She's gotten
25:33
into a cricket. Is it criket or cricket? I don't know. I
25:37
want to say it's cry cut, but I don't know. So if you
25:41
don't know what that is, it's um it's a device that you can be
25:45
used. This is what I know about it. I got her one at
25:48
Christmas, the Maker three, which is pretty cool, and then I got
25:52
the mug press so it can actually make like I put logos on coffee mugs,
25:59
designs yea. And with a cricket Maker three you can make all kinds
26:02
of neat designs and it gives you really a real creative outlet and it's nice.
26:07
Now. I was reading you don't need a computer to make it happen.
26:11
You can do it with your smartphone. But some of the people I've
26:15
talked to have said, no, if you're going to use a cricket,
26:17
you definitely want to have a computer because it just makes it easier. They've
26:21
got a great website, lots of designs you can buy, designs you know
26:23
that are that are made that you can use to press to print out this
26:26
stuff that could be used for a creation. I don't want to say it's
26:30
like a three D printer, but it gives you that creative edge that maybe
26:33
a three D printer would do, you know. And so in building your
26:37
computer, I found out a couple of things. Number One, I just
26:41
did a recent build for a client, because you know, I build computers,
26:45
so if anybody needs one give me all her. But I built it
26:48
for a company and they wanted the top of the line computer, so we
26:52
ended up doing the top of the line Intel processor, great motherboard, you
26:57
know, all the bells, whistles, great video card edit and put it
27:02
all together for them. And I went with an OEM Windows eleven, so
27:07
you know it's installed Windows eleven one time it could be on that machine.
27:11
The whole bit did run into a little issue with the motherboard that we ended
27:15
up sending it, buying a new motherboard and a new case and using that
27:18
because I destroyed the other one. My bad. Yeah, I learned a
27:22
lesson in that. And the crazy thing about it is I paid one hundred
27:29
and sixty nine dollars for the OEM license for Windows eleven Pro, and it
27:33
could be anywhere between one hundred and sixty nine and one hundred ninety nine dollars
27:37
depending on how you buy it. If you buy it from Microsoft, expect
27:41
to spend one hundred ninety nine dollars. I found a different place to buy
27:45
them this legit, so did I. I don't know if it's the same
27:48
place, but Stack Social and I was a little leery about them because it
27:55
seems like one of those this is too good to be true deals, And
28:00
I thought, you know what, I need another OEM license for Windows eleven
28:04
because in this new machine that I built for Gloria, I didn't have a
28:08
Windows seven Windows ten license. They're tied up. So I thought, now
28:11
I'm going to do it right. We're just gonna do an oleum license of
28:15
of eleven rather than ten and then do the free upgrade. And ten can
28:18
be difficult to find. So yeah, I was on stack Social. I
28:22
got an email. I looked at it and it said Windows check this out.
28:26
It said you can get a Windows eleven Pro license. You can get
28:32
Office twenty twenty one lifetime, so for the full Office suite it's a lifetime
28:38
license. You get word Excel, power Point, outlook, the whole bit.
28:42
And you know they're on the subscription model now for Microsoft. So this
28:47
was like, whoa seventy nine dollars and I thought, whoa. Plus it
28:53
also throws in a lifetime ten terabyte storage or yeah, it's a lot,
29:02
a lot of storage, okay, so maybe maybe it's it's I didn't take
29:04
up on that portion of it. I haven't used that, okay, But
29:07
I said Okay, I'm gonna try it. So I went ahead, I
29:11
put my money, I'm you know, paid for it, made with a
29:14
credit card, just a case where was an issue, you know. Cave
29:17
sent me a link said here download this, and I created the io.
29:21
I went ahead and it's worked fine. It registered the whole bit off,
29:25
so the office suite as well. There's a couple of different websites out there
29:29
that will do this kind of thing. The one I personally have used is
29:32
called direct Deals direct deals dot com I think it is or whatever. But
29:38
so these are legitimate. Yeah, and honestly, every single one of them
29:42
is. But a lot of them are legitimate, and I can't remember exactly
29:47
how they do it, but they basically buy up a ton of licenses at
29:52
a volume discount, so they get a massive discount for licenses from Microsoft,
29:57
and then they turn around and re sell them at a discount to you.
30:03
But it's still in terms, it makes a small profit for them, yeah,
30:07
but you know, they're not making a huge profit off of it.
30:10
But I've used personally, I've used direct Deals about ten different times at work
30:17
buying OEM and also so I actually made a mistake. I bought an OEM
30:21
license for Windows eleven for a computer that already had Windows Let's see, what
30:29
was it. No, it was my surface. When I first got my
30:33
surface at work, it came with Windows eleven Home Edition. I bought a
30:38
Windows eleven Pro OEM right, and it was like, oh, nope,
30:44
this license key does not work. And I was like, oh, so
30:48
I contacted Direct Deals. I was like, oh, yeah, no,
30:49
you need a full because you already got you know, it's not an OEM.
30:52
You need a full. Here's your full. We'll just charge you the
30:55
difference. And it was like twenty or thirty bucks difference, right, So
30:57
they gave me a new license and bay them. That worked, and now
31:00
I had Windows eleven Pro. And I've used that actually at work a bunch
31:04
of times where we have to upgrade from Windows ten to Windows eleven, or
31:07
maybe you just want to get a whole new computer set up with Windows eleven.
31:11
We'll buy the license from Direct Deals and it works just fine. I
31:14
would definitely say, though, like with Direct Deals and Stack Social, do
31:18
the research. Always do the research on anything. And these are two.
31:22
I've heard you talk about Direct Deals before. I've heard others mention them too.
31:26
Stack Social was new to me, so it was like, so I
31:30
went online, I did some reviews. You know, I've read some of
31:33
the reviews, read some of the comments. It looked like, on the
31:36
most part, ninety five percent of the people were happy. There was a
31:37
couple of people that couldn't get it to run, but it was just a
31:41
situation they were in. And I think that, honestly, it's a tremendous
31:45
deal. I mean, it saved half it was fifty percent. Yeah,
31:48
and I got Office even though we do we have the Office subscription, but
31:52
now I can have that isolated on that computer and not have a problem.
31:56
They have other deals that come up, and sometimes it's stuff like electric bikes.
32:00
You know they're gonna be a little more money, but you just still
32:02
save money on them. Software deals with VPNs, they have deals on there.
32:07
So again you might want to read about it, but don't, you
32:09
know, don't turn a blind eye to them. I was pretty pleased.
32:14
And again with the money I saved, I wish I could have saved my
32:15
client the money on that and gone with Stack Social, but you know,
32:20
just the way it worked out. So the other so I gotta tell you
32:22
the other thing I did so in building this new computer for Gloria, I'm
32:28
looking for a graphics card for it, you know, because obviously I don't
32:30
like using onboard video. So I thought, well, i've got a ten
32:36
thirty in mind. That's it. That's all I had was an RTX ten
32:40
thirty or no tt X ten thirty. And I thought, well, look
32:45
at the price I paid about two years ago for that, maybe about close
32:52
to two hundred dollars, and for two hundred and forty five bucks because the
32:57
prices come down way on them because you got the forty nineties that are out.
33:00
I was able to get myself a thirty sixty, not a thirty eighty,
33:04
but a thirty sixty, which is gonna be a little better performance than
33:07
and it's twelve gigabyte versus the two gigabytes or four gigabytes. It's a part
33:13
of that ten and thirty. So it worked out great. So I gave
33:16
her that card, and I basically she's not gonna be playing games. I
33:21
mean, of course not. Yeah, you're not gonna need it for that.
33:22
So now I can actually play something. I have a very interesting story
33:28
speaking of you know, building computers or computers in general. Right, So
33:31
I mentioned a little bit ago that when I started my job as IT team
33:37
manager at water World right in Thailand Hills in Denver, I got myself a
33:44
Surface Pro eight that was the latest model that came out because I've always loved
33:47
Surface Yeah, I love their portability. Their power is pretty decent now.
33:52
But honestly, listeners who don't know, would you consider it to be a
33:54
tablet or a notebook or how do you class if I a surface, it's
34:00
kind of basically everything. It's a tablet slash laptop, slash notebook. I
34:06
mean, it's everything. Honestly, It's it's great. It's extreme portability,
34:09
it's got a pen for a stylus, you can flip the keyboard around and
34:14
use it as a tablet. I mean, it's it's great. It's amazing.
34:16
But I had a lot of problems with this particular model. Now.
34:21
I don't know if it was the Surface Pro eight that was having the problems,
34:24
or if it was Windows eleven that was having the problems. I don't
34:29
know, but I had so many problems with this thing, and I got
34:31
so fed up. So I approached my manager and I said, look,
34:36
I need a new computer. I know, I already got one just a
34:38
year ago, but I need something better, and I need something as a
34:43
workhorse. And he's like, well, what do you got in mind?
34:45
I said, well, I've got blah blah blah. And he's like,
34:49
all right, well, I don't really understand much about technology, but I
34:51
think that I T managers should have the best computer in the district. And
34:54
I turned around. I said Roger that and I walked out the door.
35:00
He moved fast before he changes his mind. I did exactly that, and
35:04
I went and purchased. Now, initially, initially I purchased because it was
35:08
a great deal on Costco. It was a costco because we have a corporate
35:13
Costco account. Right, it was a a sous Rock Stricks. It was
35:17
a seventeen inch laptop. It came with thirty two gigs of RAM. Right.
35:23
It was an I nine twelfth gen processor. Oh my lord, and
35:30
yeah, and I nine not a nine seven and nine twelfth gens. It
35:35
was like twelve twelve thousand, three hundred and forty two whatever their model is.
35:39
I don't know him exactly what model um. And it had thirty two
35:43
gigs a RAM. It also had a Nvidia RTX thirty sixty in it nice
35:51
for games if I wanted to um And it was like twenty two hundred dollars
35:57
and I was like, boom sold. So I bought it because because he
36:00
looked up, he looked my budget goes here, you got enough money in
36:02
your budget. I'm like, all right, good, go for it.
36:06
So I bought it. Right couple days later, it came in right in
36:14
one of those white Amazon bags. Are you kidding me? Not even in
36:20
a box. Not in a box. I mean obviously it was in its
36:24
manufacturer box, right, but the shipping was thrown into one of those white
36:31
bags and now it said Cosco. But I imagine the Amazon you know what
36:35
I'm talking about, those semi metallic Amazon bags that that get you know,
36:40
stuff gets thrown into and it's not breakable and they just throw it on your
36:45
doorstep. That's their Amazon shipping for that instead of putting in a box.
36:47
Yeah, this laptop came in a bag. Wow. And I opened up
36:52
the back. You weren't buying this from a suss No, I was buying
36:55
it from Costco, right, yeah, which off the bat. As soon
37:00
as I looked at the bag, I'm like, well, if this thing's
37:02
busted, i had no worries because Costco takes anything back. They're great,
37:07
right, Yeah. So I opened up the bag. I look at the
37:09
box. There's a giant hole in the box and I'm like, oh,
37:15
this ain't good. I open up the box. I take out the laptop
37:19
and the laptop is doing this like I mean, it's it is cured,
37:23
but it's curved, and the back end is cracked, like the the the
37:29
where the where the monitor meets the keyboard that was cracked. And then I
37:34
lift up the lid and the entire screen is just shattered. Oh my lord.
37:38
And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. So so obviously I
37:45
threw it back in the box. And it didn't even come with the power
37:47
supply. You're kidding me. Oh no, it didn't come with the power
37:52
supply. Who is And I'm like, the stuff that goes out? Yeah.
37:55
So I contact Costco and I'm like, what the heck's going on?
37:59
And they're like, well, we actually don't ship it from our warehouse.
38:00
It shifts directly from the manufacturer. I'm like, well, it's gonna shift
38:04
directly back to you because this thing is broken and it's twenty two hundred dollars
38:09
computer. But after like taking it out of the box, sitting on my
38:15
lap and I'm looking at it, I'm like, I don't need a seventeen
38:19
inch laptop. Like this thing is massive? Yeah, Like it's huge,
38:22
so the right, let's face it, though, the aces rocks are great.
38:27
That's probably Republic of gamers. They're some of the best laptops you can
38:31
get. Yes, So what I ended up doing was I looked on Amazon.
38:35
I found another rog Aceus rock stricks. It was a fifteen point six
38:40
inch laptop, so it's a little bit bigger screen than my surface. But
38:45
this one was again an I nine twelfth gen processor, but this one only
38:52
had sixteen gigs of RAM. But it had an Nvidio RTX thirty seventy T
38:57
I in it. And it was only sixteen hundred dollars. It's quite a
39:02
savings. What of it? Now? What about storage on it? It
39:06
had to be one at least. Do they do they have M two's Yes,
39:12
it's an M and two NB. Yeah, so I got that one
39:15
instead, right, And then on top of that, because I already had
39:19
budgeted twenty two hundred dollars for this, yeah, I bought sixty four gigs
39:23
of RAM perfectly. So now this one comes in perfect condition. Right now,
39:30
I own well I don't own the district owns a a sous rock Strix
39:37
laptop. This thing is a freaking beast. I mean I, like I
39:39
said, I nine processor, sixty four gigs a RAM RTX thirty seventy t
39:45
I this thing is. Yeah, all right, when you're you stress test
39:51
that, I'm sure. Oh yeah, I ran, I ran. I
39:53
ran that time spy. Um well what is what is the program? Three
39:59
D benchmark or three mark or whatever? Three mark? Yeah, I ran
40:00
time Spy. It scored the top of the top of the list. Now
40:05
with did the fans kick in like they were being gosh they did? Dude,
40:09
I have to I actually have to get I had to get a laptop
40:13
cooler case like one of those stands right that sits at a forty five degree
40:16
angle with a bunch of fans built in. Because yes, when I'm and
40:21
if I try to do anything on this computer, like not anything. If
40:23
I try to play a game on this computer without it being plugged in,
40:27
my battery gets sucked down within an hour. Yeah I can't power Yeah I
40:30
can imagine. But yeah, those those When those fans fire up, it's
40:34
like, I mean, it's you can hear it, like you can feel
40:38
it. Somebody asked me because I was talking about on television about MVME and
40:44
d M two's versus SST. You know, it used to be people would
40:47
ask, okay, what about a seventy two M versus a solid state drive?
40:52
You know, And now the question has been okay, so I have
40:54
SSD, Can I use an MVMME and I My first thing is if your
41:00
system will support it. But they're saying, is it better than the traditional
41:07
SSD that we've seen? Absolutely still a solid state device, it's just well,
41:09
yeah, but it's the factor. But it skips the bus. Yeah,
41:14
so it's using it's using the what is the old the north north Bridge
41:20
north Bridge bus, whereas the SSD's using south Bridge or something like that.
41:22
It No, there's a whole another factor to speed. With an NVMe,
41:28
it's skipping the whole bus. So yes, you get middleseconds of latency shaved
41:32
off of every interaction you do with your computers. So yes, NVMe works
41:37
better than SSD. All right, great stuff. We talked about stack social,
41:42
Uh, what's the deal site again? That you found direct uh direct
41:45
deals dot com. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm justin Lemmy. You can find
41:50
us on the web at tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back
41:52
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41:58
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42:01
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42:07
Oh my gosh, you did not. We'll have to talk about that
42:13
at some point. But this is from Christie and say, hey, guys,
42:16
I have a ten year old grandson that wants a GoPro for Christmas.
42:22
Any ideas for under one hundred dollars? Oh? Man? Yeah, Well,
42:25
first off, it's not gonna be a GoPro. Yeah yeah. GoPro
42:30
For those who don't know, GoPro is an action camera brand that has been
42:35
considered one of the best. Um they do. They've done everything from uh,
42:39
you know, they've had a drone. They have the action camera mounts,
42:43
they have the action cameras you can wear on your head, on your
42:45
chest, you can mount him to a car, you can mount him to
42:50
surfboard and you know, you watch. Um. It's funny because if you
42:53
ever watch shows like Okay, I'm gonna bring it up justin don't make fun
42:57
of me, ninety day fiance, you know, and they're driving in a
43:00
car. If you ever catch a shot outside the car, you'll notice there
43:04
are three go pros, usually mounted on the interior of the windshield. The
43:07
catch because reality television and them as a brand, though, you're going to
43:12
see most of their GoPro cameras are going to be around what four ninety nine?
43:16
Yeah, and yeah, I did find another brand. And you know,
43:22
I could say, well, you could go online, you could find
43:23
somebody. Maybe there's somebody selling a go Pro Hero three. Most kids would
43:29
be happy with that because I did ask the age. I said how old
43:31
is the grandson that would be using it? And they said ten? So
43:36
okay, Well, if you're looking for some under a hundred, there's a
43:40
few alternatives, not a lot, but there's a few. One of them
43:45
I'm looking up right here is the us A Casso yep A Casso V fifty
43:51
X Native four K. Now that one looks to be right around one hundred
43:55
dollars. It is. It looks a lot like a go Pro. It's
44:00
got a two inch ips touchscreen, WI Fi gyroscope twenty megapixels, sony sensor.
44:07
Um not too bad. Yeah, it's got a lot of the features.
44:12
I think part of the Gopro's thing is that their software as well.
44:16
I mean they've got some really good software that goes along with it. So
44:20
and honestly, the software is free and I don't necessarily think that the software
44:25
is tied to the GoPro Like I think you could bring in any type of
44:30
footage into the GoPro and it would work just fine. Um, so you
44:35
might be able to get Yeah, you might be able to get one of
44:37
these cheaper cameras and use the GoPro software to edit your stuff. But there's
44:42
also the Apeman t R a Wo Trao Trao. Yeah, that's another one
44:50
there. Um, I don't know. But honestly, after that it gets
44:57
really into like Chinese names like they ye Ye four k Action, the me
45:02
Zyomi mi Ja, Like, I mean, these are like straight up out
45:07
of like China, Dragon Touch camera. Theirvatar even for a while had an
45:13
actually camera. I think I've got two of them that have been in the
45:15
closet for about seven years. So yeah, I mean they I would say,
45:21
if you're I would say, if you're looking for one f for a
45:23
ten year old, that's like, you know, the best on the market
45:25
for under one hundred dollars is probably that a cosso Yeah, the V fifty
45:30
x, I would say, probably look at that. You can find them
45:32
on the web at a coasso tech a k A s o t ec h
45:37
dot com. I think a ten year old, you know, I think
45:39
a kid like the kids, you know, like think of you know,
45:43
your son. A lot of it's you know, oh what brand is that?
45:45
Oh, let's not go pro. You know. Some kids are like
45:49
that, some aren't. Some will just say, hey, I'm gonna make
45:52
the best of this and hopefully with this they would be able to make it
45:54
work. Well. You also don't want to go and buy something super expensive
45:59
for a ten year old because they're obviously going to break it or lose it,
46:01
and you don't want to be, you know, out six hundred bucks
46:05
after a GoPro. Yeah, that's like that's like giving your kid a you
46:07
know, the yeah iPhone or S twenty three Ultra and then you know,
46:14
then breaking it within the first three days, you know, might break them
46:16
in on your older equipment to actually, you know, if somebody said to
46:20
me the other day, tell me about your thoughts on this, because kids
46:22
are wanting smartphones or kids are wanting phones. My six year old wants a
46:27
smartphone already, right, what if? What if? You know, the
46:30
idea is okay for them to be safe and they but are they in a
46:32
more dangerous situation the smartphone because they have access to snap and absolutely so what
46:38
about the idea of just giving the old traditional flip, not the flip,
46:42
the flip from sit you know, hey, here's you can make phone calls,
46:45
you can text with it. Yeah, no, I mean I've thought
46:49
about that too, but you know, I mean, yes, he wants
46:52
it. My son wants it because he wants to be able to watch YouTube
46:54
and play with snapchat. You know, he doesn't understand the social aspect of
46:59
snap chap. He snapchat. He just thinks that's funny to like, do
47:02
the filters and things take pictures of himself. But no, yeah, absolutely
47:06
not. No, there's no way on God's green Earth. And I'm gonna
47:09
get my kid a smartphone before he's like fifteen. Yeah, a lot of
47:14
people are saying, thirteen fifteen, you know, that's we'll have to take
47:16
out that subject too with Sean when Sean act Sean. If you're wondering where
47:21
he went to, he was here. But yeah, he had to tend
47:24
daddy duty. Daddy duty, so that's why he stepped away. But all
47:29
right, now you know you had to make a decision on a vehicle.
47:31
And I think this is always good because I talked about the camera earlier with
47:36
car play and all that, you actually looked at something else. Yeah,
47:38
we did. Um So Mesa's vehicle. She has a twenty thirteen Ford c
47:44
Max. It's got about seventy thousand miles on it. It is a hybrid
47:49
vehicle. But yeah, it's getting old. It's it's getting old and certain
47:52
to show its age. I mean, I cannot count how many times I've
47:57
had to either jump the vehicle because it just fails to start completely. Um
48:02
Or she gets home and she's like, hey, the radio won't turn off
48:06
and I have to go underneath and pull the fuse for the radio system to
48:09
be able to turn off the radio us the battery goes. I mean,
48:13
there's all kinds of problems with this car. I mean, it's just it's
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just not I'm just I'm done with it. I'm done. Yeah, And
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so I told her, I said, look, let's buy you a new
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car. Let's look around. We started looking at like the Mustang mach Ee
48:24
because we're a Ford family, you know. But then it comes out that,
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you know, there's no really, there's no rebates on the on the
48:32
mock e plus. It's actually too large for our garage. Um, yeah,
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we have a very tiny garage and we can barely fit my Explorer with
48:44
her Cmax. So to fit a mock mocke in there is it's just not
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going to happen. So then we started looking at I was like, wait
48:51
a second, you know, Tesla, Let's look at Tesla. And then
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I come to find out Tesla, they're offering amazing re bates on the Tesla
49:00
Model Why and the Tesla Model Three. Now, if you're not familiar with
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Tesla, you've got a few different models to choose from. You got the
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Model three, which is kind of like their base model. It's a sedan,
49:13
standard sedan. Then you got the Model Why, which is a little
49:16
bit more like a hatchback. It's a little bit bigger, it's kind of
49:20
like a hatchback, still four doors. Then you got the Model X,
49:23
which is a bigger suv, but it's also got those goal wing doors on
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that that rise up like the DeLorean, you know, and back to the
49:32
future. Right. Then you got the Model S, which is their top
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of the line. Again, that's a sedan, but it's more like a
49:38
high end BMW looking thing, right right, So we went to Tesla.
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Now, I had the most amazing experience at Tesla. And I'm I'm not
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a Tesla fanboy. I'm not an Elon Musk fanboy. Maybe I was back
49:54
before he lost his mind. U Elon if you're listening to this, please
49:59
don't disable my anyway. I loved I loved the Tesla dealership. It was
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so cool. We walked in there on a Friday afternoon, Friday evening and
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we were like, hey, we want to we want to look at this
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Tesla model. Why And they're like, hey, well if yeah, if
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you want to go ahead and test drive it. And I'm like, okay,
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so how does it work? He goes, here's the key, bring
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it back Monday. What really? I'm like wait, I'm like wait,
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what, aren't aren't you concerned that, you know, maybe we could like
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steal this? And the guy like, seriously, deadpan, dropped his sunglasses,
50:32
looked at me and goes, the car is self driving. We can
50:37
turn it on and drive it back here if we want. We're not concerned
50:39
if you're gonna steal it like touche. So he literally just handed us the
50:46
keys and says, here, have fun, and we borrowed a Tesla for
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four days or no, three days, three days, Saturday, Sunday,
50:54
Monday. Dude, I got on the road. I got on the road
50:58
with this model. Why I got on the Interstate. I pressed the gas
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as fast as it would go. That thing took off. It threw me
51:05
back into my seat. I mean literally like a rocket taking off. And
51:08
the best part about it this this car doesn't have a transmission, like it
51:13
just goes. You start going, it just goes, goes, goes,
51:15
goes, goes, goes faster, faster, faster, faster. It doesn't
51:17
have to shift gear. You don't have to worry about that. And it's
51:21
dual motor, so it's got a motor for the front, a motor for
51:23
the back. That thing went zero to sixty in like three seconds. Now
51:28
A comfort on the drive. How was that comfort? Was so nice?
51:31
Those shocks and suspension Oh my god. It felt like riding on air.
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And not only just the fact of the physical aspect of driving it. The
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controls are amazing. I mean, yes, everything is done through the tablet.
51:46
I get it. It's a little bit daunting to somebody who doesn't know.
51:51
But even my wife, that was her main concern, was like,
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I don't know if I want to do this. Thirty minutes into it,
51:57
she was like, Oh, I got this. This is not bad.
52:00
Easy. We gotta take another quick break. We come all man, I
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know, but I want to hear more about this. We'll do that when
52:05
we come back with tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm justin let
52:08
me the Tesla fame boy, I guess find us on Facebook, Facebook,
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dot com, forward slash tech Talkers. We'll be right back. Yeah,
52:17
now back to tech talk Radio. So, like I said, the features
52:21
of this Tesla are amazing, not only just the physical driving aspect. The
52:24
control system's really good. It's it's very intuitive. Yeah, it takes a
52:29
little bit of getting used to, right. But here's the coolest part about
52:30
it. There's no keys to the Tesla. Everything is done through an app
52:35
on your phone, and your phone connects via Bluetooth. So if I walk
52:38
up to the car with my phone in my pocket right and I touched the
52:43
door handle, it knows that it's me, and it moves the chair back,
52:47
moves the mirrors, reprograms the radio stations, sets all of my favorites
52:52
on GPS, sets the temperature to what I like it to be, sets
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the mode of the car from sport mode to comfort mode, whatever I want
53:01
it to be. Then if I get out of the car, Mesa touches
53:05
the door handle, it resets everything to her standard. If Misa loses her
53:09
phone calls from a friend's phone, Hey I lost my phone. I need
53:13
to get in my car. I can open up the car from anywhere in
53:15
the world and unlock it, start the car for her to drive home.
53:17
And we don't have to have the self driving feature. That's fifteen thousand dollars
53:22
on top of the extra car. Instead, if we go on a road
53:24
trip for a month, we can buy the full self driving for two hundred
53:29
bucks for one month. Wait, how does that work? So you own
53:31
the buar, right, yeah, you own it. We're paying cash.
53:35
This is the best part about it too. Speaking of cash, I walked
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in and I was like talking about it and they're like, hey, so
53:39
we're gonna pay cash for the car, comm we get a discount And he
53:42
goes, well, actually, we're not a car dealer. We're more like
53:44
a retailer. It's like you walk it into an Apple store saying I want
53:47
to buy that iPad. I want to I'm gonna pay cash. Can I
53:50
get a discount? No, they're not going to do that. Our price
53:52
is our price, whether you pay cash or loan it as a matter,
53:54
and honestly, we don't make commission. They're not pressure. There's no pressure
53:59
at a test dealership. Wow. Seriously, if you've ever just been interested
54:02
in seeing what a Tesla is all about, go to a Tesla dealership.
54:07
They don't pressure you. They don't care if you're gonna buy it or not.
54:12
They will let you borrow one for like a weekend just to drive it
54:15
around. It's amazing cars. Oh oh god, yeah, we bought one.
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Yeah, and not only that, well, we got the model.
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Why because here's the reason. Seventy five hundred dollars federal tax credit seventy five
54:29
hundred dollars Colorado credit brings the total cost of the car down to thirty one
54:36
thousand dollars. It's up in the fifty sixty range. It's like fifty four
54:40
fifty four or something. Seriously, let me ask you what kind of warranty,
54:45
because you know, there's been a lot of question about the battery batteries
54:47
and that's it. Well, it's a it's a it's a ten year warranty
54:50
on the battery, right, I believe I think it's a ten year warranty.
54:52
Yeah, I think so, it's ten yearranty. But that's that's the
54:55
thing. It's hit or miss the manufacturing quality of Teslas or or miss,
55:00
like you'll get a great one or you'll get one that's gonna have to keep
55:02
going back to service. So I'm hoping and and it's not here yet.
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We don't have it. It should be delivered before August twenty three, and
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it's being delivered to the house. You can say the color, interior,
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color the whole bay. We went for premium red with white interior. Very
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nice. All right, you gotta take some pictures when it comes up.
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We'll put them on the block slately. That's it for this week's tech Talk
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