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Episode 461 - Comedy Wildlife, OpenShot & The Midwest Freeze: Tech You Need This Week! · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Hey is comedian Kathleen Meddigan, and you're listening to tech
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  Speaker 1: Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Who's something I will never be listening.
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  Speaker 3: To because I hate technology. But for those of you
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  Speaker 3: that do, these are your guys.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: I live in a frozen tundra shon de weird.
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  Speaker 1: No joke about that, Okay, So for those who don't know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in Green Valley, Arizona, just outside of Tucson. Sean
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, is in well in your South Bend, Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to our ABC DUWS feed on our
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  Speaker 1: Record Day today and they mentioned like one of the
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  Speaker 1: hardest hits was South Bend, Indiana when it came to weather.
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  Speaker 1: That was like pretty bad when it comes to snow
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  Speaker 1: and ice and all that. You're living it right now.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're a college football fan and you were
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  Speaker 2: watching the Order Name game on Saturday, right it's started
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  Speaker 2: to snow pretty good in the third quarter or fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: like we had got we got quite a bit of snow,
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  Speaker 2: about probably three inches two and a half three inches
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  Speaker 2: of snow throughout the football game, and overnight while it
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  Speaker 2: continued to snow Sunday it kind of loosened up. But
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  Speaker 2: overnight Sunday and Monday, we got six inches of snow here. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: And it just was made for a pretty awful commute
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  Speaker 2: into work. And it kept snowing all day and probably
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  Speaker 2: snowed a couple more inches. If you go about three
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  Speaker 2: hours north of here to my parents' house in Lunnington, Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: they got almost fifteen inches of snow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my lord. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So and he will put the Andy will put the Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he'll put the pictures on. My mom sent me a
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  Speaker 2: picture of their of the back deck. And if you
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  Speaker 2: want to see what the current conditions look like here
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  Speaker 2: in south in Indiana or at on campus in our name,
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  Speaker 2: go to earthcam dot com search for the University of
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  Speaker 2: our name. There's a camera that is in the in
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  Speaker 2: the spire on top of our main building on campus,
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  Speaker 2: and you can see all the snow that's that's on
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  Speaker 2: campus right now. It's it was a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it surprised me. Okay, so talk about this this
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  Speaker 1: rugby game that you sent me video for and I
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  Speaker 1: had seen like it's in a really great shot of
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  Speaker 1: the ice covering the lens on one of the cameras.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was that.
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  Speaker 2: So we have we have cameras that live on top
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  Speaker 2: of the stadium for getting beauty shots around campus, and
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  Speaker 2: this morning we were gonna use it. So Monday morning
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  Speaker 2: we were gonna use it. And uh, it has a
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  Speaker 2: wiper on it because it's outside and it was just
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  Speaker 2: so coated with snow that the wiper could barely break
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  Speaker 2: all the ice and snow off of it. So I
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  Speaker 2: sent Andy a picture of this of the camera with
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  Speaker 2: like half of the ice broken off, and you can
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  Speaker 2: see the Golden Dome in the basilica. But just then
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  Speaker 2: this ice picture. He's gonna put all these together and
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  Speaker 2: put him on the blog.
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  Speaker 1: But so is the rugby match.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So Sunday we hosted the big ten collegiate rugby
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  Speaker 2: tournament here on campus. We do it every year. It
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  Speaker 2: always is in November. This is the first time we've
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  Speaker 2: actually had snow. Holy cow, did it snow? It probably
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  Speaker 2: snowed four inches during the day and they played from
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  Speaker 2: ten am to almost ten pm.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Andy, we'll put this on the YouTube channel. You guys
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  Speaker 2: can go watch it, or if you want to, just
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  Speaker 2: go to YouTube search nor name rugby go to almost
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  Speaker 2: like with like six minutes left in the broadcast, and
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  Speaker 2: you're just gonna see it was a blizzard, winds were
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  Speaker 2: blowing and they were still playing, and Notre Dame ended
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  Speaker 2: up winning the Big Ten Championship. So now they're going
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  Speaker 2: to play in the National Collegiate Cup in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks. It's it's great for Notre Dame. But man,
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  Speaker 2: was the weather? Did the weather suck?
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  Speaker 1: What blew me away is I'm watching this this rugby
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  Speaker 1: match and I'm seeing the snow progression. At one point
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  Speaker 1: it looked good and then all of a sudden it
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  Speaker 1: just wouldn't stop. These guys are wearing shorts. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: how do you play a game like rugby or any
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  Speaker 1: game where you're outside in shorts in a blizzard? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you were dealing with. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: We're born differently here in the Midwest. I guess, well, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it's just still snowing right now, as right as
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  Speaker 2: we're recording the show. If I were to show you
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  Speaker 2: a camera outside, I'll try and get one hooked up
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  Speaker 2: to see if you guys can see what looks like outside.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still snowing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's just crazy. Would you what weather sites you
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  Speaker 1: go through, because you have to keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: the weather, especially with sports at Notre Dame, just to
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  Speaker 1: kind of see what's going to be moving in the
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  Speaker 1: whole bit to decide, Okay, what cameras are cameras at
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  Speaker 1: are risk?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we have a couple of outdoor cameras.
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  Speaker 2: Thankfully some of them have heaters, the ones that Rugby don't,
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  Speaker 2: but they're on so they're generating heat and they've been
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  Speaker 2: outside for four years at this point, so wow. Other
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  Speaker 2: other gear, i mean, electronics don't hate the cold. They
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  Speaker 2: performed better in the cold. But for football this past weekend,
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  Speaker 2: we just had rain gear on and protected it from
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  Speaker 2: the snow right and everything seemed to work okay, and
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  Speaker 2: we tried it out after the game. It's just cold.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the operators can plain more than the gear does.
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  Speaker 1: Being here in Arizona, we you know, we won't. We've
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  Speaker 1: had snow a couple of years ago. We got some
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  Speaker 1: snow and my i'd been last year and today rain,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and just at least that's what was predicted.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's funny because I had gone to
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  Speaker 1: help some friends of mine move up to Rexburg, Idaho
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  Speaker 1: some years ago, and it was fun and drove up
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  Speaker 1: there and it was nice. It was June, it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: There was a light rain that was coming down. I
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  Speaker 1: remember saying, Gosh, I really like it here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'd like to move here one day. And
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  Speaker 1: their first winter there, they told me you really still
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  Speaker 1: want to come out here, sending me pictures of the
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  Speaker 1: snow piled up at the walmart where they you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have the trucks that come in and clear the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot and they just make big, gigantic piles of snow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's usually betting in this area around when will
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  Speaker 2: that snow be gone? So you bet, like you bet
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  Speaker 2: over under. Is it going to be before April, before Easter,
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  Speaker 2: or is it gonna be after Easter? Is it going
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  Speaker 2: to be into February? You know, is it going to
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  Speaker 2: be into March, April into May. You'd be surprised how
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  Speaker 2: long those big piles of snow last?
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  Speaker 1: Have you found? Okay, So going through talking about the
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  Speaker 1: tech angle on this in the weather, have you found
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  Speaker 1: one website that delivers better when it comes to weather?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many out there. There's your weather
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  Speaker 1: dot Com on acuweather, you know underground, which is one
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  Speaker 1: that I kind of like, Is there one that's better
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  Speaker 1: than the others.
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  Speaker 2: Depends on where they get their data from. Most of
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  Speaker 2: them get their data from the same source as the
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  Speaker 2: Noah's Weather Doppler stuff. ACU Weather seems to be the
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  Speaker 2: most accurate for us. It's what we used to track
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  Speaker 2: weather on campus for sports, for if we have to
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  Speaker 2: delay for weather related things. Yeah, ACU weather, I mean
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, some of the local the local like
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  Speaker 2: ABC affiliate there, the weather radar on their app for
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  Speaker 2: their phone is actually really good. Yeah, it's about the
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  Speaker 2: only thing I use ABC fifty seven Weather for is
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  Speaker 2: the app. But yeah, just ACU weather is where I go.
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  Speaker 1: To Ularry who so work here, who I've seen him
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  Speaker 1: in a while, But Larry worked at ACU weather, So
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  Speaker 1: he's the one to turn me on ACU weather and said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to check out this source. And
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  Speaker 1: I do like it. It seems to be the most
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  Speaker 1: close to what this real situation is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd be surprised right now because you get a
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  Speaker 2: lot of to talk about the tech technology side of this, right,
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  Speaker 2: you get a lot of the tornado streamers, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the guys who chase tornadoes. The big thing now
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  Speaker 2: is also just following severe weather, So you get these
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  Speaker 2: guys that are tracking blizzards now too, and driving through
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  Speaker 2: and trying to get content of blizzards in different parts
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  Speaker 2: of the country. So I didn't check to see if
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  Speaker 2: anybody was out last night because it kind of sprung
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  Speaker 2: up on us. Right we had this winter warning. The
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  Speaker 2: weather was favorable, like it was forty degrees most of
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  Speaker 2: the day Saturday until it plummeted and then started snowing,
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  Speaker 2: and then Sunday it kind of got nice again, and
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  Speaker 2: then Sunday night it just the temperature dropped and it
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  Speaker 2: just big fat flakes to drop it out of the
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  Speaker 2: sky and it didn't stop. I mean it was still
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  Speaker 2: snow when I went to work Monday morning. It was
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  Speaker 2: still stone when I came home Monday evening.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, we're in it.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody's saying this winter is gonna be you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've been had a lot of mild winters. I only
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  Speaker 2: think I had to use the snowboard twice last year,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I haven't even dewinterized it yet, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's still sitting in the shed.
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  Speaker 1: So we get a lot of people that we called
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  Speaker 1: some people call.
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  Speaker 2: Them snowbirds, that's what I call.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they come here during the winter to get out
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  Speaker 1: of that extreme cold. So I'm sure you know for
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  Speaker 1: anybody that is from that area or where your parents
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  Speaker 1: are from, how do your parents deal with this? But
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  Speaker 1: what do you do? I mean with the snow? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean how do you stay warm in your house?
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  Speaker 2: You turned the heat on. I mean it's everybody acts
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  Speaker 2: like it's like this big is this big deal? It's
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  Speaker 2: like at the apocalypse where it gets cold. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: not that cold, right. I think it got down to
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  Speaker 2: the mid twenties today. Right, that's coold. Okay, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: want to be outside, right, right, as long as you
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  Speaker 2: have a good a decent house with decent insulation and
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  Speaker 2: like you're running the heat and you're wearing a sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 2: If you get cold, you gotta make sure you have
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  Speaker 2: a snow brush and shovels in your car. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: be prepared, Like, don't just go out and go hillbilly
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  Speaker 2: and drive around without it being prepared. Be prepared. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be stupid. Give yourself extra time to get there. Oh
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  Speaker 2: the biggest pet peeve for me in the winter time.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Brush off your car?
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  Speaker 1: Now? When we had our snow here, I was driving
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  Speaker 1: around with it proudly. I was like, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting in the little well there, I've got snow on
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  Speaker 1: the the the hood. It was like, I've been through
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  Speaker 1: snow in Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So you get a little dusting and it's cool
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  Speaker 2: you have snow in your I'm talking about the jabbrownis
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  Speaker 2: that don't brush off their back window. They don't brush
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  Speaker 2: off their roof, they don't brush off their license plate,
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  Speaker 2: they don't brush off their tail lights, they don't brush
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  Speaker 2: off their head lights, they don't brush off their hood.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing right. And so when you're saying, you're driving down
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  Speaker 2: the road and you get in the left turn lane
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  Speaker 2: to turn somewhere, and all a sudden, this guy in
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  Speaker 2: front of you, who's got his completely car covered the snow, decides, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta turn left here. He can't see you. It's
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  Speaker 2: like he doesn't see you. It's it takes two seconds
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  Speaker 2: to brush off your car in the morning. Don't be
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  Speaker 2: lazy brush off your car because For one, it's illegal
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  Speaker 2: because you can't see walking your tire. And if it
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  Speaker 2: if it's been days, like if you go days where
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  Speaker 2: it's melted and frozen and melting, now it's chunks of ice, right,
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  Speaker 2: It's it's hilarious. Sometimes you're driving down the freeway and
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  Speaker 2: you get these big semis that have all this ice
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  Speaker 2: and snow on top and all You'll be driving and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it just let's lose a four by
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  Speaker 2: eight sheet of ice off the roof. I saw that
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  Speaker 2: can kill people, right, So you get these people that
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  Speaker 2: are driving with the snow on the top of their cars,
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  Speaker 2: right on their back windows, and all a sudden they're
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  Speaker 2: losing ice chunks and it's falling, and you're it's hitting
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  Speaker 2: in your car, and just brush off your car where
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna find.
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  Speaker 1: You while you're at it. What we talked last week
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  Speaker 1: about the new Coca Cola commercial AI a big part
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: You talking about semis murdering people on the Co Cola commercial.
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  Speaker 1: People are finally seeing it. However, I did see an
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  Speaker 1: edit of that commercial now for those who haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 1: it's up on YouTube. I forget what the what the
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  Speaker 1: name of that commercial is they actually gave it a name.
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  Speaker 1: But the where they edited out the people at the
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  Speaker 1: end that were at the end of the street walking
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  Speaker 1: across as the big Coca Cola trucks were moving through
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  Speaker 1: that obviously they would have run over. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: they didn't edit and they did remove those people. However,
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  Speaker 1: I did see another commercial and they're they're just leaving
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  Speaker 1: it as is. I couldn't I couldn't quite see how
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  Speaker 1: goofy the people were walking though in this AI commercial,
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  Speaker 1: was there some like goofiness there?
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  Speaker 3: Yo?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were walking. Some people were walking forward. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. You couldn't tell because they were just
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  Speaker 2: like these weird amalgamations. They weren't even look like people,
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  Speaker 2: just different colored blobs. Some were going this way, some
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  Speaker 2: were going that way. They just looked like they had arms,
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  Speaker 2: something looked like they had legs. It was weird. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, it just it just there were so many
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  Speaker 2: Like justin saw it, he said, all looked fine. Like
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  Speaker 2: He's like, it's supposed to be quirky and animated and
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to look fake. It did not this fake.
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  Speaker 1: It did have that Coca Cola like heart string feel
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  Speaker 1: to it for the holidays until it gets to the
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  Speaker 1: end and it runs over those people which you brought up,
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  Speaker 1: and he had the same reaction to it. It was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: how could you How could you guys do this Coca Cola.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading some stories about it. They're saying, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it costs a lot of money to do this, to
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  Speaker 1: do this AI. We think because of the tools that
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  Speaker 1: we have available like open AI and Sora, which I've
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  Speaker 1: been playing with. And I created my my very own
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  Speaker 1: movie trailer for Revenge of the Nerds Reunion just to
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  Speaker 1: see how it would work. And it worked great. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was cut off a little, but it still looked good.
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  Speaker 1: People see that and they just think, oh, that's easy
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's easy to do. What they do at
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  Speaker 1: Coca Cola is a little different. Is it cheaper than CGI?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, or you know, traditional animation as we've
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  Speaker 1: seen it, but this was created by you know, artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's large companies at the c level
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  Speaker 2: just saying what's cheapest? Right, what is except let's just
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  Speaker 2: throw it out there. See what sticks on the wall.
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  Speaker 2: See what people complain about. If they don't complain about
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  Speaker 2: it too much. Maybe we'll do it again. Maybe we'll
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  Speaker 2: do it again the next year. If people don't complain
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  Speaker 2: about it too much, maybe they'll forget about the last
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  Speaker 2: time we did it and it was awful. And but
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  Speaker 2: I just it's companies doing it on the cheap. There
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  Speaker 2: are talented people out there that you can hire to
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  Speaker 2: do CGI. We know there's good CGI. People watch movies like.
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  Speaker 2: But it's these companies that just not willing to spend
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  Speaker 2: the money on good marketing. Well, okay, good marketing, right
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  Speaker 2: is this good? Is this considered good marketing? It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a gorilla marketing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you exce a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just make it. Let's just make it. Let's make
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  Speaker 2: AI and get all this press. No matter what, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's good or bad, we're talking about it, we're giving
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  Speaker 2: it the time of the day. We hate it, and
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  Speaker 2: we're still talking about it. We're still talking about Coca Cola.
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  Speaker 1: And everything that you're gonna go watch the ad or
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna see it because it's gonna be on TV
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna look for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to believe that this is the way marketing works. Like,
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  Speaker 2: let's just make something controversial, soevery we'll talk about.
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  Speaker 1: It, which is exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is all right, here's something that's real. And
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to mention this last week of the show,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't get a chance to. The twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five finalists of the Comedy Wildlife Photo Contests have been announced.
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  Speaker 2: This is always so good. This contest racks up there
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  Speaker 2: for me as the Katami National Park Fab Bear.
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  Speaker 4: Contest, the Fat Bear Contest and the Comedy Wildlife Photos
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  Speaker 4: Contests are two of my favorite things to look forward
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  Speaker 4: to in the photography world.
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  Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is put together by Nikon Nikon's Comedy Wildlife Finalists.
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  Speaker 1: There are about forty individual images and what these are.
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  Speaker 1: These are wildlife that has just caught in just strange
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  Speaker 1: poses situations that put a smile on your face because
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  Speaker 1: you see them and they're just absolutely adorable. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing is you can vote for them as well. Sean
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  Speaker 1: is showing us one in the video feed right now. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the one with the frogs. It's a frog and there's
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  Speaker 1: another frog on its back looking over the top of
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  Speaker 1: a like a bowl or something.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I feel like as a sibling,
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  Speaker 2: I did this with my brothers. Like my brothers like
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: I want to see with the fence, get on your
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: hands and knees out standing in your back exactly exactly
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: what this looks like. Yeah, So it's just hilarious to
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: go through these.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: They're so funny that it was like, oh my gosh,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: that one's great.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Oh that was a seagull, uh dumping on a dumping
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: on an eagle there. And some of them are cute,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: some are funny. But I mean, you can go back
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: through the history of these contests and see and just
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: see the history of these photos because they're just they're good.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: It's good, it's good fun, it's good to look at.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: It's it's comedic, it's it's a little more heartfelt and
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: in a hard time.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: So all right, we want you to take a look
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: at them. You go to Comedy Wildlife Photo Dot comed again.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: You can vote for them there as well. We've been
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: talking about a lot about video editing and audio editing,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: and there's so many tools now to make this stuff easier.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I will say, and you know, I know I was
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: a little rough on Adobe because you know, just their
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: business model and the way they moved to a subscription platform,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: the whole bit. But man, I've been watching videos form Adobe.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: It's just amazing what they can do now. Their Adobe
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Premiere Suite is just phenomenal, to the point where I'm like, gosh,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: do I want to do that? Do I want to
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: spend the seventy nine dollars a month and you know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: go ahead and have these tools available because it is
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: so well done. They did a video and one of
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the videos I saw, and you can find this on
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the Adobe website or even on their YouTube page, they
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: took a kid running through a field and they were
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: able to and it was kids in this video explaining
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: how this worked, sponsored of course by Adobe, and they
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: were able to mask the kid running, change the entire
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: background out of this kid running and you know, every
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: his hair, the whole bit. They were able to fix it.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Just it's amazing stuff. So if you, you know, get
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: a chance to take a look at that. But there
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: is another one I wanted to mention that is, uh,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I guess it's an open source I don't know if
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: you've heard of this one yet, Sean. It's called OpenShot
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: dot org and it's not familiar. Yeah, open Shot. It's
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: a free, open source video editor for Linux, mac Os,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and Windows designed to be easy for use for beginners,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: offering features like trimming, scaling, transitions, and audio mixing. Uh
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: some people have told me that have gone to da Vinci,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: which I'm on. I use da Vinci. Is sometimes it's
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: a little tough to know I want to have this
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: fade out here, or I want to, you know, do
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: this kind of transition. Once you learn that though, it
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: just the same way with Premiere. Once you learn it,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: it will become common. With da Vinci. It's it's super easy,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: but if you're looking for another step, this one might work.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: It can be downloaded from the website at open shot
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and even off for a cloud API for you to
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: integrate video editing in your application. So if you're a
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: developer and you want to have this as a feature,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you can do that, and if you want to find
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: out more about it, you just go to OpenShot dot org.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I haven't tried it yet myself. I want to do that,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: but as it is, I've learned to do pro tools
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and learned to do da Vinci. Coming out of the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Adobe world. Now I want to go back into the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Adobe world and play with some of the some of
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: those toys.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'd be interesting to get this and
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: see how well it performs. I mean interesting to see
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: how well it handles ten ADP or four K. Just
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: be curious to see. Right, doesn't really give you much
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: of a few feature screenshots, doesn't give you much of
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: a preview.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I want to do more like the business
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: videos where you go into businesses and we show the video,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: show their business, the whole bit. I love that Da
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Vinci has a whole bunch of credits that you can
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: use lower thirds titling. I did a Western for guy
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the other day, This guy Larry, he's an actor that
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: does westerns and apparently his real disappeared. So he sent
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: me the DVD and I said, you know, I can.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I can go ahead and get it and coded digitally
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: for you. But I wanted to have something in there
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: as a transition. And there's even the burn away like
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: remember the I don't know if you ever watched Bonanza
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: where they would do the fire effect on the map
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and it would burn away, And they had that effect
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: available on Da Vinci. So I just thought that was
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: kind of cool. So yeah, I mean Da Vinci has
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: if you if you've not looked into Da Vinci, there's
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: a free version of it. If you want to play
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: around with video editing. I'd recommend it. It's really easy
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and fun to use. Just like I said, there's a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: learning curve.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like any any software, a little bit of learning
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: curve never hurt anybody.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's a nice thing about it. You can
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: go online. You watch YouTube videos now from creators that
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: will teach you how to do that. We'll teach you
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: how to and.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: It's like it's like anything else nowadays. You can just
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: figure it out on YouTube.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Everything you're talking about ads with Coca Cola and their
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you know, big AI ad. There's a new term that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard about now. I know
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that you have you you have Apple TV, don't you.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I do have an Apple You do Apple TV. One
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: thing you don't deal with is ads? Right? No, all right?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Have you tried pausing something you were watching? And yeah,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: an Apple TV when you pause it, I guess something
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: that they want to start doing or there's talk about
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: it is a term that they're calling pause ads, and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I know that they have it on some of the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: different apps like I've got the TLC app when I'll
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: admit and I watched a ninety Day Fiance. But when
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I'm watching the app and on the TLC app and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I hit pause, it will pause, but a screen will
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: pop up with an AD and it's not a moving ad.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: It's just an AD highlighting something that's coming up that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you can watch on peacock or something you could buy
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: at a store locally, the whole bit. So pause ads
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: are becoming like the new thing.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: To be fair, a lot of people, if you're watching
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a show back in the nineties, you would just go
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: during comrocer breaks, right, maybe the one maybe the one
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: person that didn't have to go to the ad. It
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: only makes sense that if you're pausing something, you're doing
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: it to step away from the TV for a second.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Well, when you come back they hit play, it will
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: be on that ad, so it gets in somebody's face.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: So if you're gonna serve me ads, well it's pause,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you better not serve me ads while it's playing.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Disney was the first one to do this. Apparently
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I was doing some reading on this. They did it
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: on Hulu back in twenty eighteen. They started to do that,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: so if you hit pause, you would get some kind
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of an ad. I don't know if it was within
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: their same realm of Disney, you know, or Hulu, but
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: either way, that's what they were doing back then.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't get how it's frustrating how greedy
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: these streaming companies are getting. No people will pay to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: not have ads right now.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And then they will raise the price accordingly too.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So like it's like, think about it, right, if
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you could look back at your entire Netflix history, right right?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I think I started with a Netflix account in two
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: thousand and five. When I went to college. I got
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: three DVD shipped to me.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of what is dreaming, and I could just.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Ship them my back right. Actually caused people like dorms
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: to have issues with you had to have it delivered
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: to a specific campus at that point, because it was
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: just every ra was dealing with just putting DVDs in mailboxes.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you funny story. I once left a DVD
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: at a restaurant I Gotten to Eat, picked up my mail,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: took it was showing my friend Gotten to Eat left
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the DVD there and I didn't realize until a couple
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of days later, somebody had mailed it back for me,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: which was kind of cool. So yeah, so.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Have you seen we're talking about Netflix, right, do you
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: remember red Box?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, totally red Box gone now yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Well it is gone. Little internet community that is dedicated
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to finding and opening the red boxes. Red Boxes abandoned it, right,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you can't, you can't do anything with it. But there's
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: a community that is dedicated to tracking the red boxes down,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: getting them. People have three D printed the keys, They
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: are able to open them, get out all the movies
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and games that were in it. And people have actually
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: gotten to hacking the os so that it will can
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: play the it's got the whole kiosk. Guy's got the
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: TV up top, it's got the display, and people have
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: gotten them hacking so they can put their own DVDs
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: in there and spin them out like you're actually renting
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the DVDs from the constant the system.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Again, why and I don't understand why they just bailed
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and just left everything.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: The company went out of business right up to the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: individual business I what to do with it, scrap it,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: junket whatever. So there's a community dedicated to tracking down
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: and restoring or taking Red boxes it's kind of just
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: go to reddit and go to the red box subreddit right,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and you will find all of this stuff. It's kind
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of comical to see and people like people have them
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: in their living rooms, in their basements, their man caves, dens, whatever,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: and there's all these tips and tricks on how to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: do and referb and a lot of us still have
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: had DVDs and games in them.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We come back.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Something that Microsoft is doing that actually is kind of cool.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: We'll tell you about that when we come back with
• 24:20
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• 24:27
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• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I really enjoy listening to your show.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It's really cool, well, very informative. US rookies. Are you
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: a rookie. I'm very much a rookie.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Typically before the show, I say the words no night,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: and that's usually to my toddler when I'm trying to
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: put her to sleep.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: You actually say nine night. You actually call it the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: brand name, go.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: To sleep please. I could do show yes fall sleep please.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Now it's it's me falling asleep and Andy's calling me saying,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: are we doing a show to there?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Are you?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Are you awake? Yeah?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Uh just so so those who don't know, like Andy's
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: two hours behind me, three hours during day that saving time.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: So it's like sometimes I'm put in my boice to
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: beleeve and I fall asleep. But night Night is an
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: app that we've we've talked about on the show. I've
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: used it, Justin's used it, Matt used it. I don't
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: know if Andy's used or not, but.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Use it yet.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: It's a website you can go to and you can
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: pick like it's got all these great apps for your computer.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: It's got messaging apps and web platforms and web browsers
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and text editors and social media sites and social media stuff.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: You just curate what you want to pick the ones
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: you want, hit download and it installs a package and
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: it downloads a packager.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: So you download this packager, you run it and it
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: just goes through. It installs the a dozen softwares and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: it's just hey, they're installed. It's great.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: People say, it's like, it's like great, if you bought
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a new computer you did, do you know any kind
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: of transfer of that whether PC mover or the other
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: does the install it works out pretty good that you
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: just get up and running.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but just like Microsoft, they're probably gonna root it
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: because they have their own.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently they came up with what one this week?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it looks like Microsoft has one.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: It's called the uh app pack.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Multi Yeah app Pack multi app Install Windows. It's it
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: actually looks mysteriously just like non nite.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Yep it does you have.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Your productivity tab? You have your creativity tab. I mean
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: it's it's clearly a non Night competitor built by Microsoft
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: for Microsoft for Windows users. Right, So it's got a
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: lot more niche softwares, it looks like, whereas nine Night's
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: more like your run of the mill. This is what
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: you're gonna need for a clean install kind of thing,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: right now. What this doesn't do that nine Night can
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: offer for a cost is keeping things up to date
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: and installings multiple.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Machines, oh, nine Night.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: With nine Night, you can subscribe to their bundle and
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: allow it to update multiple machines, keep things updated, download
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: packagers that you can send to people, and install things
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: like that. So it's like this is for just me
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: on my computer. The app store but it's right here
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: on the App Store in Windows looks pretty straightforward. It's
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: got quite a bit. It doesn't look like I can
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: do more than what I've already just got right or
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: what's just here. So it looks like it might just
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: be these apps that are on here in this list.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't look like there's more than what's on this
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: list list, which looks like it's about a handful a
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: dozen couple dozen, which I'm surprised they have Rufous on here,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: because yeah, they have Rufous on here. I'm surprised because
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I thought they didn't want people trying to install their
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: own version of Windows without the I feel like they're
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: enabling people to do that and then so they can
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: just take their videos off the internet.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like tools and utilities, right, You've got
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: speed Test, Rufus, a couple other ones that I've never
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: heard of.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Wow, Personalization, Open obs Studio. I thought was that was
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: kind of cool to see that in that Microsoft bundle
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: that was showing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still feel like I still feel like OBS
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: is hands down the number one platform for content creators
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: on the Internet. It's lightweight, it's super custom as well.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: It's open sourced, it's community driven, it seems to be
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: just and there's not really an OBS killer that's out
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: there that does what OBS does for the price.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, Riverside to me is probably one of the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: best that's been around.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, right, OBS is a content creation tool. Right,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: OBS is a content platform. So I feel like you're
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: paying for the content piece on Riverside, and then if
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: you're doing live content, you would you still use OBS.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: So I think either it's great, I think but OBS
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: is kind of like the it has the biggest foothold
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: on the streaming community.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I am starting to see some adu that are being
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: focused on telestream wirecasts, and I'm sorting to seeing ads
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: focused on them, I think getting back to getting their
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: their you know, users to come back that may have
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: left and gone to OBS for live shots to lift riverside.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: So it's like it's interesting because like we could never
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: get wirecast to work.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a hard we had a hard time.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: We had a hard time. Like it just like you
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: had a different version or I had a different version,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: or the browser didn't support it. It was so difficult.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Like I feel like I don't want to say bad
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: things when we did. When it did work, it looks great.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: It just felt like it was extra steps in that
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: they didn't take the opportunity to develop. And then all
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, a handful of all the ones came
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: up and people dumped ship and now they're trying to
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: offer it as a as a as a lower cost.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I still have not like jumped in to Riverside FM,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: which is the platform we use for live streaming. I
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: haven't tried that yet. Now. I I went ahead and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I renewed my license for Wirecast just in case I
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: get a live stream event. I did an event once
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in Phoenix with the author Stephanie Meyer, who wrote Twilight,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and that was a huge event and streamed. I needed
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to have that, and I'm nervous that, you know, if
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: we do something like that again, Riverside wouldn't be able
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to support it. I've got to I got to put
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it through its spaces. We need to do a live
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: at some point, just to try to see if it's
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: if it can handle it. You know, not like we're
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: gonna have the bandwidth that we had with the Wirecast one,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: but still it would be cool.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I don't do much streaming anymore anyways, right, just work
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: just for work work stuff. But that's all through nor Name.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: So right, well, you know, I'll have to see how
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that plays out. But again, if you want to, if
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you want to access this, it was a little hard
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to find at first. You go to this is the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: website link that you can go to to get the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: app pack. That's part of the Microsoft Store. Again. It's
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: in the Microsoft Store. Again, it's free to do. If
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you've got Windows, you're running that apps apps dot Microsoft
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: dot com forward slash app pack and that's a p
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: P P a c K and you'll be able to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: get it there.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: So it's not on the front of their website at all.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: They don't make it easy to find things sometimes, you know.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I find a lot of things like that, like Peacock
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: all right, the streaming service. Right, they just added Dalton
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Abbey all right. Gloria is a big fan of Dalton
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: abby So it's the grand finale. I wanted to watch
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: it in the theaters, but you know, we just couldn't
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: get the time to go. So okay, cool, we'll watch
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: it on Peacock. I go to the website to the channel,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I can't see it. I have to do a search
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: for it. I'm thinking, if it's brand new, why did
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you just put it on the front page.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: But well, because you're not tagged into the algorithm, right,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: it doesn't know what to serve you, so it just
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: gives you the generic.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Homescreen, right, just kind of a pain in it. All Right,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: we have a couple of listener questions. I want to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: get to one of those if we can. So let's
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: go ahead and let's share the one that we got
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: in from Louri in Tucson says, hello you cheery tech guys.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe Sean's not that cheery because it's a little cold.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Maybe chili, yeah, cheery, maybe it's.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Chilly, Hello you chili tech guys. I'm wondering if you
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: get answer to this. I'm on social media Facebook, Instagram,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and YouTube. Now I keep getting message requests to connect
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: from people on Telegram. What is that? And is it safe?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Louri in Tucson Telegram.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I think I don't know. I honestly don't know, and
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's a social media platform. I honestly don't know.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Tell it's basically like what's app it it seems to be.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Telegram is a cloud based messaging app that let's use
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: your send text, voice, mesage, photos, videos. It's cross platform
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: end encryption right cloud storage, groups and channels. So it's
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: just it's in short telegrams like what's Apple Signal, but
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: with larger group capabilities.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I want to remind you though, Lourie, uh And I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: don't know how you feel about this one, Sean. When
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you get message requests from strangers that are on flat Facebook,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Instagram or YouTube and they say, I'm hardly on this,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: but I would love to reach out to you and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: carry on a conversation, you know, find me on Telegram
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: or what's your telegram? Gotta be really lary about that.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: That's a setup for a scam if.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: It's I mean, I feel like if it's people you know, yeah,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: more often than not, you're gonna get asked outside of
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: social media like hey, I got this new app, let's
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: connect on Telegram or let's start a group chat on Telegram.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna just be like some rando on Instagram
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: or Facebook's gonna message you and say let's chat on Telegram. Yeah, scam.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: That's clearly clearly if you're getting asked to connect with
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: people on Telegram, maybe it's somebody you haven't talked to
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: in thirty years, twenty years, ten years, whatever. Be leery
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: of those types of connections because it's gonna you know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: if they send you a link that says, hey, log
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: into Telegram, and you click on it and you log
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: in to a website that you might think looks like Telegram,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: well now you might be logged into a fishing site.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Now they have your information. So just or you know,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of sites will ask you to if you
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: click out a link and it'll say connect or log
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: in with Facebook, or log in with Google, or log
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: in with Apple. Right, just be careful if you're clicking
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: on nefarious links, because they may prompt you with a
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: very familiar looking website that says connect with Google, connect
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: with Facebook, you log in with your Facebook crerentials that
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: you've just provided them with your Facebook login. So yeah,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I would say, if somebody's reaching out to you to
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: connect on Telegram and you haven't talked to them in
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: a long time, reach out to them via another or
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: advert Yeah, reach out to them another way, confirm with
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: them that they're actually Telegram.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Do use what'sapp.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: I mean I have used WhatsApp to connect with some
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: people in Poland and in Germany and a couple a
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: couple relatives in German and we used it when we
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: went to the UK just.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: To get some free messaging, right right, it's interesting, all right,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: So Laurie, just be be very wary. There is there
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is telegram out there, you know, if it's worth your time,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: look it up and then make that decision there at
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: that point that you know that might help you out
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: with that. So I don't know, or send a real telegram,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: send a real what a real telegram?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Like you go?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: And boy, all right, I I want to share this
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: with you. I don't know if you've seen this yet.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: There's there's a YouTube video on Tom's hardware page and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I mentioned Tom tom is they have some great stuff there.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It's a guy named Vimpo who uh took an Ali
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Express led light bulb and took it apart. Uh He
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: disassembled the bulb then desoldered it's micro controller and the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: video shows you all the step by step. So what
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: this guy did this? This actual micro controller can run
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: up to a hunter ninety two megahurtz. It's equipped with
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty two hundred and seventy six
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: K of ram one hundred and twenty eight k of
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: ram and what he did with it. He created a
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Minecraft server out of a light bulb and the video
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: shows how to do it. More and more people are
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: trying to do different things with it, you know, whether
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: it's servers, the whole bit.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's a there's a trend of a lot
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: of people that are trying to do video games.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: They're taking video games and trying to run them on
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: anything that has a microprocessor in or a controller. The
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: big one is can it run Doom? People have tried
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: to get if it can run even at one frame
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: per second, right, they will they will count it as
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a win and it's something that can run Doom.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I mean they've gone as far as Randoom on a
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: pregnancy test. I'm not joking. Wait what really they got
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: it to run? They got they got it to run
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: at one frame or half a frame per second or
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: something silly Doom. There's people try to run Doom on
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: literally anything, right, So I'm assuming that this is very
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: similar to that, where what is the the stupidest thing
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: you can run Minecraft on? And it doesn't have to
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: run well, it just has to run compile and run
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: on and give you any sort of video output mind blowing.
• 37:26
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• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Got a chance this week to take a look at
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a new keyboard. And you know, you think about keyboards,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: keyboards and keyboards, they've been around for a long time.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: You know, with a cordy style of key board that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: it can I mean you remember the old plugs that
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: you had for your keyboard, and then you had USB
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: came along and it was cool, and then wireless and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: then blue tooth, and then the keyboards got smaller, it
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: became more portable, and we've seen some great ones, even
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: you know the Logitech K four eighty which I really like,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: where you could switch between you you have a small
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: little keyboard, you could put an iPad or a tablet
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: in there and control it with the keyboard switch it
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: maybe to your phone which is over here on the side,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: or even your computer. Well, they've introduced this new one.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: It's a Logitech signature Slim Solar plus the K nine eighty.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: They have a business model and then they have, you know,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a personal use consumer model, the consumer model. The only
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: difference really is that the consumer model does not come
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: with a USB dongle or the USB key, you know,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the lodg of bolts, that's what they call it. But
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: most people have blue tooth on most of their devices,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So there you could do that, or you could buy
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: a Logia bolt as well. It's powered by light by
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: light by light, there's no batteries, you don't plug it in,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: there's no cable that connects to your computer, connects via Bluetooth.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: All powered by the light and not solar light. It's yeah,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: you could use it outside, but it could be the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: ambient light in a room. And with the Loaja Options app,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: it's kind of cool. You download the Outlaga Options app
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Options app. It's free from Logic Attach. It will tell
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: you what kind of charge it's getting and say you
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: use it in a room that's pitch black, right or
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: pretty dark, and you've got the screen lighting up the keyboard,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: because I don't think the keyboard light's up itself. But
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: if you do that, it will still run, and it
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: can run for about three years. It's got a ten
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: year they say a ten year battery life or ten
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: year use of this. But I mean pretty amazing stuff.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: And it can all be customized with a lodg of
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: options at So whether it's PC, tablet, mobile, Apple, you know, Mac,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: you can you can have some fun fun with this one.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: And again it sells for about one hundred bucks. If
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: you buy the business model, that one sells for about
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten dollars, but you can find out
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: more at logitech dot com. But yeah, lad had a
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: lot of fun with that.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're talking about this new keyboard, and yeah,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: if you ever wanted a keyboard so bad that you
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: went and bought it and you got home and you
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: plugged it in and it didn't work.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: What happened I wanted?
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: So go back me. Yeah, two thousand and seven. I've
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: got a nice Mac Pro from two thousand and seven,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: So it's a it's a two thousand and six Mac Pro,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: like bought it from my old workplace two thousand and
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: seven running power PC. Love it right? Playing World of Warcraft.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Steel Series.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Comes out with this zfold World of Warcraft. It's a
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: zfold key board. It folds out, it's got.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I remember those, it was just the top folds out right.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, it's a it's a it's a z
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: fol but it's like it's got custom buttons on the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: side for roller World of Warcraft stuff. It's got a
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: a Bernie Crusade's module. It's gotta it's got a a
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Wrath of Liz key module. So I went to GameStop
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm gonna spend one hundred, one
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen dollars when bought it, drove all the
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: way home, super excited, got my computer around, went plugged in.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Doesn't support mac os.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: You're kidding me.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I was so mad. There's because I just I just
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: didn't pay attention. But you're talking about keyboards, and that
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: fat memory just comes flooding back of how mad. I
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: was right. It didn't support mac oes. So a lot
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: of things that it's weird, like you don't think that USB,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: but it's like specific drivers for all the extra buttons
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: and the functions and max big about not letting keyboards
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: do certain function controls and stuff like that. So it's like,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: I get it now, but at that point I was
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: just it's just an angry twenty something year old video
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: gamer that just wanted to play World of Warcraft and
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I couldn't with my new Nati keyboard.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Did they take it back? Were you able to take
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: it back?
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: They did, but of course they couldn't give it to me.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: You know, I couldn't get the whole because I had
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: opened it, so that was an open box and so
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I got only got like seventy five percent of my
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: money back, and it was I was mad all the
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: way around. But anyways, that's my little rant about keyboards.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Now I know better. Now I have a nice Steel
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Series mechanical keyboard, ten key lists, but I like a.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Lot of detech. You'll find most of my equipment is
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of detect. Steel Series They've been around a
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: long time. Bruce Hover used to be the CEO of
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the company. He's been on the show. I've introduced him
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: at a different events. Steel Series makes. They still make
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: some great products, and you know, I know, I know
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: that people compare Steel Series with Corsair because Corsair makes
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of gaming stuff there, but I don't know.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I think I honestly think Steel Series still comes ahead
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the ranks also in there as well.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think those are the top trendy brands.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Matt would be mad at me because I completely forgot
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: about the keyboard that he has that he told us about.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: The website. There's a website. He knows. There's a I
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: can't remember. I should probably just text him and ask him.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of great hobby mechanical keyboard sites that
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: you can go to and customize your own and build
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: your own get the right switches you want. Do you
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: want loud and clackie? Do you want quiet and subtle?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Do you want aggressive? Do you want high rebound? I mean,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: you don't think about this right. You think, oh, it's
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: a keyboard, like there's only one switch. There's one Like, No,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: if you want to light the world on fire, go
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: into a mechanical keyboard subreddit and say cherry blacks are
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: the best or something silly. Right, You're gonna get You're
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: gonna get a million people with different different reasons why
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: their switch is better than this one, and all this
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: stuff and did you like I said, masks canna be
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: mad at me.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I forgot two keyboards that I've had that I liked.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: One of them. I think it was a company called Burke,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: and it was geared at video editing, and it was
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: kind of cool because it had a jog wheel on
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: it so if you were editing, it had lights that
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: went above it. It had keys that could be customized
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: for different tasks like you know, cut for editing, for
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: you know, for splicing, transition, that whole bit. And again,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's still around, but this is
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: many years ago when I was, you know, working around
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: with Premiere that I got a chance to play with
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: this and it was great.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I found it. I found the website that Matt was to.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Key Cron, Key kronn all Right.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: A lot of times custom mechanical keyboards can be pricey
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: and two hundred dollars are up or whatever, but you
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: can get some of these relatively inexpensive k E y.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: C A E y C h RO and key Kron
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: like he loved those.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: He did. Yeah, so it looks like I mean, you
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: can get relatively I mean the keyboards aren't actually ninety
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: nine dollars for this one that's up, and you can
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: pick which switches you want between reds or browns, or
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: you can pick if it's a ten keyless. I mean,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: it's just keycrun dot com. If you're looking for a keyboard.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: We're talking about keyboards here. We're talking about keyboards we've
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: had all throughout our days. Yeah, but I know that
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Matt really likes these key crowns. And whether you want
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent board now, when I'm saying the percentages, right,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: it's whether or not it has all of the keys
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: that you know we would get. Ninety six percent would
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: be something that's missing a couple keys. But then it
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: goes down from there, right, and you know, seventy five
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: percent is basically the board without the ten keys, right,
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: sixty is spread out a little bit more and it's
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: missing the function keys. You gotta go and look. But
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: like I'm running a seventy five ten keyless. It's like
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I don't have the number pad off to the right.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: See I like that. I like to have it, well,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I do. So.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I I didn't have a much I didn't have a
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: whole lot of space on my desk, right, so I
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: thought I deduced it I five inches or so. But
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: the number of times that I've I'm typing and I
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: go to type in a number and I'm like a man,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I have to go to the top row. Then I
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: get mad because I have to go to the top
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: row and I'm lazy.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: You know. Programmable keyboards are a lot of fun too,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: because you can mess with people. If you know your
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: co workers, you can get in there reprogram their keys
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: so the A is actually typing something else or I
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: mean you that's what's fun about programmables. But I will
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: tell you the keyboard I never liked was the ergonomic keyboard.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: And those are the ones that had kind of a
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: kind of a bump in the middle of it, and
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: they say it was good for your hands and the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: whole bit. Just never a big fan of the ergonomics
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: on those keyboards. And if you remember those.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you had the ones that split your hands.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: So yeah, typing more split and then you have if
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: you if you're ever interested, right, the standard for most
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: keyboards that the most number of keyboards you probably if
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: A are QW E R T Y querty. Yeah, right,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: But have you ever seen a devorge at keyboard. I
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: don't get it. It's everything's laid out differently. Everything looks weird,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: like all that muscle memory you learned, Like I guess
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: if you learn. They say, if you learn it that way,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: it's better. It's faster, more more ergonomic than a curity keyboard.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm seeing a lot as people
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: are learning the shortcuts. They're learning that you know, you
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: could type windows you or you know when I or
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: you type all it's it's made it easier. And it's
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: so funny because honestly, ten years ago I couldn't convince
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: anybody to do shortcuts here at work. You know, oh
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: we'll do this, or you know, you teach them control
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Z and it's like, oh wow, really that can repair
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of my stuff. But people are now actively
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: looking for those shortcuts on their keyboards, and that makes
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: life just so much easier when you're.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: And again we've talked about this before too. It's like
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: it's interesting with this current generation of people learning, a
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: lot of them don't know how to operate computers. They
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: don't know keyboard shortcuts. They don't know what's control C,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: what's v X, you know, all the keyboard shortcuts that
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: you needed to know because they're so used to doing
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: it on their phones, right, and it's like you just
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: say copy instead of control C yeah or thatch command
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: see or whatever. So it's interesting to see the trends
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: across keyboard shortcuts. And you know, you're either a clicker
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: or you're a keyboard shortcut, right, either a right clicker
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: do the command, or you're a keyboard clicker. It's interesting
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: to see just how different people use computers.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: We were talking before the show though, and to switch
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the subject of keyboards about security, and there is a
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: story that I don't know if you've ever seen the
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: meme where everybody is just hitting their head at the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: same time because it's like, are you kidding me? It's
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: one of the craziest, most ridiculous security stories that I've
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: read in a while.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: You would think a place that has some of the
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: most important art and history in the world would have
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: decent security, right, So take for existence, the Louver. It's
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: in France, it's a big, important place, it's got a
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: lot of people coming there all the time. You don't
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: think that their password would be louve.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: That is just so mindful for those who haven't been.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Paying attention to world news in the last three months
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: or so. It's been that long. There was a heist
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: at the Louver where where some heisters took a cherry picker,
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: which is a truck with a boom on it, raised
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: it up to the second floor, opened a window, climbed in,
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: stole a bunch of French royal jewels and scanandled nop
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: and they got away. And they literally did a review
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: of the security at the Louver and found fake cameras.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: The password was the password was love. They were running
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: a unpatched security software from two thousand and three, running
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Microsoft Server two thousand and three.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Oh so?
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Like just yeah, the love was still This is what
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: this is from a PC game article. Documents indicated that
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: in two thousand and five, the Louver was still using
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: security software purchased in two thousand and three that's no
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: longer supported, and running on hardware using Windows Server two
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: thousand and three. So you think that your work policies
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: I'm getting from Windows tend to will live in Windows
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: eleven are bad. Try showing up with a computer running
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Windows two thousand Server two thousand and three and see what.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Happens and having that type of password. Uh, just's ridiculous.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: That's like just that's just like using your first name
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: as a password or your dog's name, like something that's
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: so fundamentally simple to solve. I feel like they got
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: fished by, like what's the first place you visited today?
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Loof?
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite place to view art? The loof?
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: The Loof.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: So it's like it's like silly to think that such
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: an important place, Like those are places that you think that,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: like it's the security looks and feels so lax because
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: it's so strong, Like it's it's like one of those
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: things where it's like out of sight, out of mind. K. Yeah,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I don't see the security, so it's got to be
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: that good. Yeah, But then it's like you can just
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: open up the cabinet and take the piece of art.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Just crazy. All right, we're gonna take another quick break.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: We come back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weird.
• 51:31
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• 51:33
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• 51:36
  Speaker 3: But I don't want to buy just the absolute primo
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: system out today that usually wastes money. So I'll be
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: doing some digital photography, maybe some video editing. Don't do
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: any gaming at all, so I don't have that demand
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: on the computer. It's wondering what you guys would suggest,
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: either in brands or just in general speed and where
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: do you go to get the maximum bang for the
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: buck right now sounds.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Like you want to max.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: We're just talking about security and stuff, but have you
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: ever had a device and we talked about some of
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: these device to the fort where you're using it for
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: a couple of years and then all of a sudden
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: they make a plan change. It goes to a subscription model,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: you lose a feature, right, We've talked about them before.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Right outcam for me, it was a card camera. Yeah.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: So Bo's is not one of those companies that you
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: think would do this right. Bose is a manufacturer of
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: high end sound systems, but Bose is officially announced it
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: the cloud support end of cloud support for all of
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: its Sound Touch products, so Soundtuch bars, Soundtuch speakers. The
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: benefit of those products is that you could tie them
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: together with speakers in multiple rooms and tie through the app.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: And they're just getting rid of it. They're saying it's
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: not gonna work anymore after February eighteen, twenty twenty six
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: year device is essentially going to become a dumb speaker
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: in the sense of losing its smart wireless cloud you know, connectivity, right, Like,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: if you rely on this for streaming the device's Wi
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Fi or from the mobile app, that's all gonna go away.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: So if you're using it to play Spotify, using it
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: to play tune In or Pandora or probably things like that,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: you're no longer to be able to stream those services
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: to the speaker. You can still use Bluetooth to stream
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: from your phones app, but not from the device itself. Yeah,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: So people that have been using them to connect multiple
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: rooms in their homes, that's gonna go away. Yeah. So
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: it's like one of those another one of those things
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: where it's like they're just gonna stop. It's gonna become
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: a dead product.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: And why would they do that after people have invested
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: in an embody because bus isn't cheap, let's face it.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just and they're saying that even
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: like in the future for newer versions of the software,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna be supportive for these older versions, so like,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: even if you get a new version of software, it's
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: not gonna support your older versions of hardware. So it's like,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious to see why Boast said to just
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: probably a security concern, I would imagine because of the
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: lack of like changing over the support. But I don't know.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I just I don't like that companies leave dead products
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: like this, where you get so ingrained with a feature
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: or a streaming platform, or you know, you rely you're
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: so ingrained in this platform, and then all of a
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: sudden it's like we're not doing anymore, forces you to
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: buy something new, forces you to buy something different. I
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: don't know. My in laws have one of these, so
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: I'm curious to know how they're going to be affected.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Wow, all right, we'll talk more about that next week
• 54:22
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