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Planes, Plugs & Photo Restoration Rabbit Holes on TechtalkRadio | Episode 479 · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin Lemme.
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  Speaker 2: That's good to see all I did.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta say we're a little sad because
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  Speaker 1: today we'll be Justin's last show for ever for a No, actually,
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  Speaker 1: Justin is getting ready for a vacation.
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  Speaker 2: We just caused like five car accidents by way, not
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  Speaker 2: the water World guy. Sorry, we damaged your car. We're
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  Speaker 2: not held responsible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, I you've got to be
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to this. I know, I can't remember the
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  Speaker 1: last time I traveled internationally, and I've been to Australia,
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  Speaker 1: I've been to England back, you know, to the mother country.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be exciting as you consider the mother country.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm curious, well, because you're half Indian,
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  Speaker 2: half English, right, So oh man, I've got I got.
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  Speaker 1: A story for you guys today. But yes, my mom
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  Speaker 1: was born in Burma. I was born in England, so
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  Speaker 1: when you know, she met my dad there and then
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  Speaker 1: we came here to the States.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, so you you consider England, what part of
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  Speaker 2: what well part of England.
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  Speaker 1: It's a place called Bedfordshire. And uh, it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: My sister was born in Luton and there's.
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  Speaker 2: A big zoo. There is your dad English?
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  Speaker 1: He was, Yes, he was actually born in Wales. But
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  Speaker 1: when he talked to he sounded like Michael Caine.
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  Speaker 2: He had that. He had that kind of British accent.
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  Speaker 2: And how come you don't have is because you you
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  Speaker 2: moved to the States who I was too.
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  Speaker 1: But it was weird because growing up, like when we
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  Speaker 1: would go on vacations together to Vegas, we came out
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  Speaker 1: here to Arizona, went to the Grand Canyon, I would
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  Speaker 1: like start talking with that, you know, that kind of
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  Speaker 1: the kind of sound that had the kind of the
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  Speaker 1: British sound, and and he time i'd go back and
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  Speaker 1: you know, spend time with my mom as well.
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  Speaker 2: My dad passed in eighty four.
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  Speaker 1: It would be like I would start talking like her
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  Speaker 1: because she had a British accent as well.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was it was a trip. Do you
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  Speaker 2: do you have any like natural Indian accent at all? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I do, yes? And it's so funny because people skit
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  Speaker 2: to me. You know that some people find that offensive. No,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm half Indian and you're allowed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I found out that my grandfather this week was my
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  Speaker 1: great grandfather was actually born in India, so I mean
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  Speaker 1: not Burma, but India. So it is quite okay for
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  Speaker 1: me to do. But that's how my uncle's all talked. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I remember one time I had really bad acne.
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  Speaker 1: You know, growing up it was like, you know, fifteen sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: we've all been there. Well, yeah, my uncle Kemp showed
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  Speaker 1: up at the house and first thing he looked at me,
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  Speaker 1: he says, so, what.
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  Speaker 2: O burned your face?
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  Speaker 1: I looked at him and I said, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: had acting. I really that's what he's saying. I looked
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  Speaker 1: at him and I said, what happened to your hair?
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  Speaker 1: It was gone?
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  Speaker 2: That shut them up real quick, right it actually? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: going to Japan? Though, What what do you like? What
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  Speaker 2: do you plan for technically, because.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people always they they're listening to this
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  Speaker 1: going yeah, I want to make an international trip or
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  Speaker 1: even just getting on a flight to Vegas or New
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  Speaker 1: York or wherever. You know, what are some things you
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  Speaker 1: have to consider when you come to your laptop, to
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  Speaker 1: your tablets, to your smartphones.
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  Speaker 2: I can go on for hours and hours about you know,
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  Speaker 2: the tech that that you want to do when you
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  Speaker 2: go to Japan. But there's two main things that I
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  Speaker 2: want to mention here. One is when you go to Japan. Now,
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  Speaker 2: other countries are different. You have to look up your country.
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  Speaker 2: But in Japan they only do one hundred volt, So
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  Speaker 2: in America is one twenty. Right, So I knew this
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  Speaker 2: back when I was you know, even in the military,
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  Speaker 2: you would buy electrons at the store and they would
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  Speaker 2: say there would be like warning signs on these that
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  Speaker 2: would say, this is an American product. Be careful, you know,
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  Speaker 2: using it outside of the military base. So the military
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  Speaker 2: base right ups their voltage to one twenty, but when
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  Speaker 2: you live outside, you're at one hundred volt. Now what
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  Speaker 2: that means for electronics is that everything doesn't quite operate
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  Speaker 2: maybe as fast as advertised. Like you're talking about computers, right,
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about televisions, you know, Like for instance, I
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  Speaker 2: know for a fact, I bought a brand new television
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  Speaker 2: and I lived outside the base. I plugged it in,
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  Speaker 2: turned it on, and I noticed I'm like, wow, this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of laggy. Doesn't seem to be as quick
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  Speaker 2: as I would want it to be, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was just a bad television. No, it's just because
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  Speaker 2: it's operating off one hundred volt, which I know there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be people out there were going to say, wow,
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  Speaker 2: you know that's not that much of a difference. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit of a difference. There is, And
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  Speaker 2: especially when you come to computers and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: things don't operate as fast as they would. So I
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  Speaker 2: would just consider the fact that when you go to
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  Speaker 2: a foreign country, look up what their voltage is. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to Europe, you're gonna be on a different
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  Speaker 2: set of what pretty much anywhere actually outside of the
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  Speaker 2: United States, you're gonna be on a different voltage than
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  Speaker 2: you would be inside the United States.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just the voltage, right, the frequency in
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  Speaker 3: the UK it is fifty herds set here were sixty herds.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, stuff just doesn't play nice.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Not only that, that's also the physical connections. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a lot of like, if you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: a PC, it's gonna have a three prong in America,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna have a three prong adapter, right, that only
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  Speaker 2: fits in America. You try to go to Europe and
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  Speaker 2: plug in your PC, it ain't gonna work because their
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  Speaker 2: plugs are totally different. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Now is that why sometimes in your kits, depending on
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  Speaker 1: where you're getting it from, you'll get something it's got
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  Speaker 1: this weird looking two prong prug.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's yeah exactly. Now that brings me to my
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  Speaker 2: second point. Now, my second point is something that I
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  Speaker 2: actually just learned a couple of days ago. When you
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  Speaker 2: go on an airplane that goes across international borders, most
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  Speaker 2: of the time they will have electric outlets on each seat.
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  Speaker 2: Majority of those flights come from America. A majority of
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  Speaker 2: the people that are plugging things in are Americans, right,
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  Speaker 2: So they're plugging in the two prong not the three.
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  Speaker 2: Problem with just the two pronged standard you know thing
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  Speaker 2: that you plug in like a cell phone charger, those
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  Speaker 2: outlets are worn out because you have so many people
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  Speaker 2: every single day plugging things in, taking things out, plugging
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  Speaker 2: them back in, taking them back out. So when you
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  Speaker 2: try to plug in your device, it's probably just going
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  Speaker 2: to fall out of the socket because that socket is
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  Speaker 2: so worn out. So here's what I learned by a
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  Speaker 2: Europe to America adapter. So when you go on the
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  Speaker 2: air plane, you're gonna plug in with those two prong
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, Andy does European too prong. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: plug into the European part of that airplane electrical outlet
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  Speaker 2: and then convert it into what you want to plug into,
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  Speaker 2: so that way your device doesn't just simply fall out
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  Speaker 2: of the socket. Right, because nobody uses the European adapters
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  Speaker 2: on an American based plane, So you're gonna get kind
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  Speaker 2: of a snugger fit. Yeah, you're gonna get it. Yeah, literally,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get a snugger fit. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: buy one of those European adapters and have that for
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  Speaker 2: the plane. So only other thing I can think of is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when I go on a plane. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: this flight we go direct from Japan or from Denver
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  Speaker 2: to Tokyo Narita. It's twelve hours. It's a long flight.
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  Speaker 1: LA to New Zealand to Australia. Oh yeah, no twenty hours.
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, he's never gonna do that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm good. But anyway, so yeah, so taking us
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  Speaker 2: twelve hour flight, I gotta have stuff to do. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm bringing my steam deck one and I'm loading up
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  Speaker 2: on you know, steam deck games, things that don't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: drain the battery too fast. But as long as I
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  Speaker 2: have it plugged in, it's fine. Right. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at is if my flight has starlink.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, some planes are incorporating that now, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: The planes are incorporating in starlink. However, there is a website,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll have to see if I can find it
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  Speaker 2: during the break. Maybe it might be our website of
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  Speaker 2: the week. But there is a website somebody built that
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  Speaker 2: tells you if you're on a United flight, type in
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  Speaker 2: the flight number and it will tell you if it
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  Speaker 2: has starlink or not. Oh no, that's cool, right, The
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  Speaker 2: flight that I'm going to be on has less than
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  Speaker 2: a one percent chance. Oh that's number. Yeah, bummer, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you look at it this way. You're fine.
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  Speaker 1: You got to find the silver lining and everything. It's
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  Speaker 1: not spirit right, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, well, yeah, exactly. Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys ever use the flight aware app all
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  Speaker 1: the time?
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  Speaker 4: All the time? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You see a plane flying if you're listeners. If you're listening,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have the flight aware app. It's very cool
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  Speaker 1: to have. You ever hear a plane and you want
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  Speaker 1: to see what it is. If it's non military, generally
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  Speaker 1: you can pull it up and you can see they've
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  Speaker 1: been having an influx of the Spirit Airline planes flying
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  Speaker 1: into Panel Airpark. Otherwise it's kind of like a mothball place.
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  Speaker 2: The plays go there. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, But
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  Speaker 2: now let me let me give you one. Let me
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  Speaker 2: give you one even better website. If you're just a
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  Speaker 2: plane spotter and you want to just know what's above you.
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  Speaker 2: Adsb dot org. It is better than flat aware. Now,
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  Speaker 2: flight aware is good if you want to check your
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  Speaker 2: flight right, if you want to check my flights on
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  Speaker 2: time or oh when is my family coming in whatever?
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  Speaker 2: I get it like flightware, But flight aware is just
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  Speaker 2: full of ADS on the side. And every ADSB is
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  Speaker 2: straight up raw data shows you exactly what plane, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's commercial, private, military, experimental, any of those things. As
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  Speaker 2: long as they're broadcasting their transponder, it will show up
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  Speaker 2: on ADSB and it.
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  Speaker 3: Just just to clarify, it's not ADSB dot org, it's
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  Speaker 3: adsb exchange dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, thank you, ADSB exchange. Is there a dash at.
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  Speaker 3: It Just ADSB exchange dot com gives you live tracking.
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  Speaker 3: It You'll be blown away when you zoom out and
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  Speaker 3: you see how many planes are Actually.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever seen that?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen that site sean before?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Oh yeah, I use it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're watching our stream, if you watch the video,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm on ADSB Exchange right now and all my lord,
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  Speaker 2: I mean this is just upside yeah. This this shows
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  Speaker 2: everything around you. And I'm zooming into Denver obviously because
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  Speaker 2: i want to see because Denver is the third busiest
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  Speaker 2: airport in America. Right, So look at how many planes
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  Speaker 2: there are just right now in the sky.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's just over the US.
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  Speaker 2: That's just over the US.
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  Speaker 1: That's that is a little better than flight.
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  Speaker 3: But what's cool about what's cool about ADSB is you
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  Speaker 3: can get They will send you a kit with an
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  Speaker 3: antenna you can run and plug in and submit data
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  Speaker 3: to them for better, more accurate tracking.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And then you get some parks and free access to
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  Speaker 3: a couple of things. But you can get they will
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  Speaker 3: send you a kit that you can install at your house.
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  Speaker 3: There are some requirements you have to meet, but it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: You have to buy that kit from them, so you
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  Speaker 2: have to the charge.
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  Speaker 3: It some depends on if you're in an area where
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  Speaker 3: there is limited connected.
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  Speaker 4: Like, it depends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so if I'm in Denver, I probably
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  Speaker 2: have to buy it because there's plenty of them around.
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  Speaker 2: This is Tucson, right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is Tucson. He's showing us two son.
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  Speaker 2: Where's everybody? Yeah, exactly right now, zoom out a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: go to Phoenix. Oh yeah, yeah, there's a lot that's true.
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  Speaker 2: That is really cool. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be sitting outside and we'll hear an airplane and
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  Speaker 1: I'll say, because they used to make fun of me
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  Speaker 1: in high school because.
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  Speaker 2: We'd be I was in civil Air.
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  Speaker 1: It still make fun of you, I know, but I
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  Speaker 1: was a civil Air patrol and I just loved airplanes.
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  Speaker 2: Baba BlackSheep was the best show on television.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd be out on the playground, you know, we'd
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  Speaker 1: be taking our break or whatever, and they'd say, you know, hey, Andy,
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  Speaker 1: what plane is that? And I would listen and I'd
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  Speaker 1: be able to say, Oh, that's DC nine, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's an L ten eleven or whatever, even just looking
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  Speaker 1: at it and stuff. And then the vintage aircraft that
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  Speaker 1: would fly around Orange County. We'd be able to pick
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  Speaker 1: those out. But it was just so much fun. Having
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  Speaker 1: a tool like this growing up would have been neat.
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  Speaker 1: So kids that like aviation they may have some fun
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  Speaker 1: with this too. Yeah, and this is also a mobile app.
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  Speaker 1: You can get this on a phone. You can pinpoint
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  Speaker 1: your location. Well actually, as soon as you launch it
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  Speaker 1: on the phone, it knows your location and it will
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  Speaker 1: show you everything that's around you. So if you see
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  Speaker 1: something in the sky you're like, what is that, launch
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  Speaker 1: the app on your phone. Boom, It'll tell you exactly
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  Speaker 1: what it is. It'll say what the tail number is,
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  Speaker 1: what the registration code is, what the altitude with the speed,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff that is.
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  Speaker 4: Origin, airport, destination, airport, flight plan, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Any kid that likes in aviation or adult listening, they
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  Speaker 1: would probably find it to be pretty neat.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely this is this is probably one of the best
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  Speaker 2: websites for aviation geeks.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, back to you going to Japan, though,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, so you take do you take your laptop
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  Speaker 1: with you when you go or is it.
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  Speaker 2: Just well that was that was a topic good discussion
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  Speaker 2: between me and my wife. We decided that I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: gonna bring my laptop with me. However, all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden then she's like, oh, well, we're gonna want to
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  Speaker 2: edit some photos and do all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, now I'm bringing my laptop right now.
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  Speaker 1: You have a problem charging it though, if you get I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Bringing a converter, I'll bring a converter.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Granted, the laptop is not going to run it full capacity.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's going to be decreased performance throughout
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  Speaker 2: the time because of the fact that it is requiring
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty volts. I'm only gonna get a
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  Speaker 2: hundred out of it, So it's gonna be decreased performance.
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  Speaker 2: But I should still be able to edit photos, do
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  Speaker 2: whatever else I need to do on it while I'm there.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any precautions? When is this something you take
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  Speaker 1: in your carry carry on? Do you have to pack
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  Speaker 1: it or you know what type?
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  Speaker 2: You can't? You can't pack it, No, because it has
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  Speaker 2: a lithium ion battery, so no, you have to you
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  Speaker 2: have to carry it on. Yeah, when I'm on the plane,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to touch my laptop because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: first off, I don't have room. I'm not flying first class,
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  Speaker 2: although I would like to. I'll be sitting in coach
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  Speaker 2: and I'll probably just have my steam deck and a
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  Speaker 2: couple you know, jack and cokes in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll be good.
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  Speaker 1: It makes the flight go so much quicker. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the steam deck of course, yes, yeah, that's what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: The jack and cokes help too.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, well that's cool now, Sean. You had
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  Speaker 2: a busy week as well.
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  Speaker 3: Sean, it's been May is always busy, you guys know that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you were doing some concert thing and honestly, you
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  Speaker 1: showed me the setup and I was pretty impressed by this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there are people that go to church services
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  Speaker 1: that listen, they go to concerts, you know, put on
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  Speaker 1: by Sapack and all that stuff. You live streamed that.
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  Speaker 1: What is it an eight hour event?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's more than that. It's it's two days.
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  Speaker 3: So the only live stream two days. But it's a
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: multi day chamber music competition. So strings wins. It's a
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  Speaker 3: it's the largest chamber winds competition in the world in
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  Speaker 3: terms of the volume.
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  Speaker 2: What's it called again? The fish Off Fish Off? All right?
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  Speaker 3: It was founded and started here in South Bend and
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  Speaker 3: it's affiliated with the university they hosted. They host the
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  Speaker 3: finals here every year, well at the semi final, they
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  Speaker 3: host the whole competition here. Yeah, So on Saturday we
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  Speaker 3: started live streaming at eight thirty and there was pretty
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  Speaker 3: much constant group, I mean, and I think they went
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  Speaker 3: through thirty groups, right, And so we were live from
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  Speaker 3: eight thirty till almost eight pm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, it seems like.
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  Speaker 4: Eleven and a half hours.
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  Speaker 3: And then Sunday Mother's Day was the finals. So it
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  Speaker 3: was the top three. Because there's a juniors category and
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: then there's a seniors category. So juniors are pretty much
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: kids that are in grade school to high school, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: then the seniors group is college and upright, right, but
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: old collegiate you have to be in college. It's some
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: of the top classical music talent at the collegiate and
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: junior level in the world.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: And coordinating like the live stream for this, is it
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: like a really difficult task or is it being made
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: easier over the last five years?
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, streaming, it's streaming. This kind of stuffs made is
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: incredibly easy now. The production value changes based on how
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: much you want to put into it. We ran it
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: so not to name studios typically handled the live streaming
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: and the production for this we did not do it
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: this year. It got bid out to wn T, which
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: is the.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Local PBS affiliate here in South Bend.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: And I've worked on it every year since I've been
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: at her name, So this is my eighth year doing
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: would have been my eighth year doing Fishoff with Durn
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Studios now at varying levels. Right the first couple of years,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: I was just doing engineering, just being the in venue utility,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: so just sitting in the concert hall waiting for something
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: to happen with the equipment or whatever. And then as
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: time went on and they reduced the number of people
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: they wanted on it to reduce costs, I ended up
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: doing directing, technical directing, and then producing. This year I
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: did all three for WNT.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: They reached out to you and they said, hey, you've
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: done this.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Oh I reached out to I reached out to them
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: to be honest, because I like doing it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I like chamber of music. I like classical music. I
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: have a long bread the history of classical music in
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: my family, Caitlin's family, so classical music is important to
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: me and it's something I enjoy. None of them had
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: ever done none of them at WNAT had done it,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: so they didn't know the format. They didn't know the routine,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: they didn't know the timing, they didn't know kind of
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: the whole thing because it's kind of a rinse and repeat.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: It's been the same kind of format for the last
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: couple of years. So I reached out and said, hey,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I've done it. Here's some clips I did last year.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Let me know what you think. They're like, yes, we
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: want you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, very cool, Wow cool.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: So I went in and did it. I thought I
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: was just going to TD Direct.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I got dropped into it and they're like, oh, where
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: do you want to set up these cameras? Where do
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: you want How do you want to do these interviews?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: How do you want to like this? How do you
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: want to And I was like, oh.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Man, executive producer, I'm doing all of it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Got it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: So I ended up doing not the front end producing,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: but I ended up was like the in venue producer
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: for the live stream. So I I made sure it
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: was not I made sure that it was on time,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I made sure.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I did get paid for it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: But again, I'm doing it because I liked it, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I like PBS and I support the bottle of PBS
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: and the public education stuff. So I did it for
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: a lot less than I could have made, Let's put
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: it that way. Came in not knowing what switcher I
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: was using, what cameras I was getting. They're not set
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: up to do remote broadcasting in the way that I
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: do it in our name with sports and you know,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: so there were some creature comforts that I didn't have.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And thankfully I had two camera operators that work with
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: us a lot in our name and they were rock solid,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: and the guys from WNT were great, and everything went fine.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: He sent us the video, the eight hour video, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I like, comment, do I have to watch all of this?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I said, cool, but I'm not watching all
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: eight hours of.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: This, So I just sent them for those of you
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: that are listening, I just sent them a link to
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: the YouTube channel YouTube video which you can timestamp to
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: a specific time, which I set to the last the
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: final performance when.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: You timestamp that. I started watching it and it was
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: an empty auditorium for about thirty seconds, and that is
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: all my tension span could handle. And I was like, cool,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: an empty auditorium. Awesome, great job, Sean. You could have
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: timestamped it better.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, I probably couldn't timestand right to the must have
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: been I must have time said, I.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Was like, yeah, I'm done, too bad.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: I'm glad. I'm glad your atock addiction is getting you.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: What happened to watch too much TikTok? Justin? Yeah?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Right? Uh, It's funny because I showed Gloria I was
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I was listening to it and watching that that clip
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that you paid a timestaf But I finally got into
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the music portion of it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: See keyboard, keyword finally, yeah, keyword Finally.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Gloria said to me, she said, what's that instruments? It's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: like a long tube? That was like, really big, it's
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the I told her it was a Digerie doo.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: It's funny you mentioned that because over the years I've
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: had cam rappers that had known nothing about classical music.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: And I'm directing, and like I said, I've got a
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: lot of classical music experience in my life, and I
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: know this is going we're doing it. It's a quartex
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: saxophone quartet, so you have a tenor saxophone, an alto,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: a berry and a soprano right right, And I'm just
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: like camera one, get the soprano, and they're just like
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: painting it around trying to find it. And I was like,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I was like, camera to get the berry and they're like,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: they ken't quietly which one is that one.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I'm like, it's the big one, and they're.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Like, which big one.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I was like, okay.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I ended up having to give them a little bit
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: more of a description of this is what a Barry
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: saxophone looks like, this is what it pursuon looks like.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: This is an Obo, this is an English or this
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: is a French.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: One great experience fishoff dot org if you want to
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: check it out.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Andy, you say, if you just have been fish off,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: it's probably gonna end up a tournament.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: It's not.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: My brother in law thought shop I was doing, which
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: was shooting a fishing competition.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Well, when you say fish off, I mean it sounds
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: like you're going fishing.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: How do you spell it? Fis c h off?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: All right, you're gonna take quick break. We come back.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you about the rabbit hole I fell
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: down this week. Also, some great savings when it comes
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to shopping, and we got a couple of listener questions.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: We'll be back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin. Let
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: me find us on the web at tech talk radio
• 22:28
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• 22:31
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• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Remember the story about the woman in Ohio, the ninety
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: one year old woman we talked about that was playing.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the one that got the swat called on her
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Bubble Pop, the Bubble Pop gamer.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I just gotta say.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I started playing Bubble Pop and it's so addictive.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Pop.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It's you know we talk about video games. Yeah, we
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: play so Bubble Pop Origin. It's available on in your
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: app store. After the story about this woman playing, and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking what would cause this woman to be so
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: into playing bubble Pop? It's like, what are they? What
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is that thing called ASMR? What is that?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah? The sound, the sound, the satisfying sounds.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds and with no talking, it's just the sounds
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: of whatever you're doing.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like Candy Crush. If you played Candy
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Crush ever good you know that game. This this Bubble
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Pop Origin game, it's like so addictive and I'll play
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: like three or four levels and then Okay, I'll put
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: her away, but I find myself like an hour later,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: take the phone out and playing it again.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah and yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: It gives you ads and it wants you to spend money,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: but I would spun.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Downloading it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I swear you're gonna if it's one of those it's
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: one of those games that you when you get a
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: few moments to yourself, you know, you just want to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: play the game.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: And folks, just let you know. This is the last
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: show that Sean will be on for a long time
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: as well, because he's now downloading Bubble Pop. That's what
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: he would be playing. All right. I got to tell
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you a story. Let me but first let me ask you.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Have you guys gone into genealogy at all? I mean,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the Internet has kind of made a little easier.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I know, shot has Sean you have? Right? I tried it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I got yeah, a certain amount of time, but I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: didn't go that far back.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: So I didn't, but my brother did.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: My brother probably seven or eight years ago, did a
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: full genealogy, like went back into Germany and got like
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: our family coat of arms, like from a gazooion years ago.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Pretty sure the earth wasn't around a gazillion years ago.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, but no.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: So my brother did a like did a full and
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: got paid paid for like a submarine and stuff, which
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: is pretty cool to see.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So you mentioned earlier Burma, right, and if you know
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the history of Burma, you know it's a country right
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: now that had They had a military coup and pretty
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: much everything's locked down in the fifties. When the government
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: fell the first time, people scattered and we have relatives
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that went to England, relatives that went to Australia.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I had an uncle that went to France. They just
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: got out of Burma.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And one thing I knew about Burma is I knew
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: my grandfather owned he was a pharmacist, a chemist for
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: being a Burma Francis is not a very common name.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: You have names like Foo or Zin or very Chinese
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: sounding names, but theirs was Francis.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: So I just thought that was kind of cool last week.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know why.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I just I have photos family photos of the house.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: They had a beautiful house. During the World War II
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: occupation of Japan, Japan occupied Burma as well, you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: there were stories about the house and they sheltered British
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: pilots and the whole bit.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: But I just decided to go a Google Foo.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: And you know the thing is, I did Google Foo
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: about five years ago and I typed in my you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: grandfather's name, and for sale on eBay was a letter
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: from the Francis Medical Hall to some person in England.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Somebody was selling it postmarked letter from the Francis Medical Hall.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I just I was.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I thought, that's my kin, that's my grandfather that sent
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that letter. It was sold for one hundred and seventy
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: five pounds British on eBay, Like why would somebody want that?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I always thought that was kind of neat. So the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: other day I thought, well, here we are, we're five
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: years later now onto the internet. What's out there now?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Because as people post stuff and I do a search
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and I find this photo and it's a colored photo,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a retouch photo.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: That's this guy that's on Facebook.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Does these photos from Cylon, India, Burma, Pakistan, all those
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: areas that over over the years he has corrected. So
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I went ahead and I do this search. In this
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: picture pops up and I'm reading the picture and it
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: said Merchantile store nineteen oh two shows these people standing
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in the store. It's a Cadbury sign above them, and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: they're in the traditional Burmese garb, and it said photographer
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: John Francis. And I'm like, wait what And I'm looking
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: going wait a minute. And so I'm looking at this
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: thinking wait, how could it be? My grandfather would have
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: been four at the time. Right, So I start doing
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: a deep dive and I go to family search and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I start looking and apparently I don't know what was
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: up with my family, but my great grandfather was John
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Lazarus Francis. And John Lazarus Francis apparently was a photographer
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and he owned a merchandise store and he would go
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: around and take photos. And I was like, what approximately
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: what time? This was in the early nineteen hundreds, all right,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: John L. Francis. But here's the crazy thing. He would
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: name his kids John Francis. He had two sons and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: named them both John, which they how does that work exactly?
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: They both have different middle names. Hey, one, come over
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: here to go to your room.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Thing.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at this picture and this is really kind
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: of cool.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: So a friend requested the guy that has his page,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: he's got a lot of followers, a lot of people
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: like it. And I was reading some of the comments,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and I see a comment and it says, this is
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: my great grandfather.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I would love to get more information.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: About this, and I'm thinking, wait what, And it's this
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: this woman on there named Angela. Now I have a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: cousin named Angela, but that didn't have the same last name.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait a minute, I'm looking at it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: So I sent her a note. I said, hi, cousin,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: just you know what the heck. So she sends me
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a note back and she says, are you related to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: this that, because that's my great grandfather, And I said,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: he's mine too. So it turns out he is. We
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: start heard, I become friends and we start talking. She's
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: exchanging photos with me. I'm exchanging photos with her. Her
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: grandfather was the other John. My grandfather with John, hers
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: was John B. We share the same great grandfather. So
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: now I'm learning about a whole different family I didn't
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: even know about. My mom had never I think she
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: had mentioned something that were they were they Burmese or
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: were they England? Well they were Burmese. And then I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: found out my grandfather, great grandfather was born in India,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Hyderabad or something like that. So, I mean just being
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: online and just seeing this info, I've been able to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: reconnect now and she photos I didn't know exists.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: It's so cool.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: That's cool, and it was there's there was some qualifying
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: she did. She sent me when she said, asked me about, you.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Know, being related.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: She said, oh, so your mom is this person. She's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a sister to so and so. And I'm like, no,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: those are not the names of the people. And I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: think she was qualifying me to make sure I wasn't
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: some kind of because you gotta be careful when you're
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: giving out information, you know.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: And so I was able to confirm that. And all
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the trying to.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Get her mom's maiden names.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: She can hack her credit, you know, stuff like that happens.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: So again I was able to you know, we're able
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to qualify each other. Now we are sharing pictures we've
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: both never seen. She's sent me one and I'm like, oh,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: there's my grandfather, there's my grandmother. And I sent her one.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: She's like, I think that's my aunt Patsy in the back. So,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: because they would gather at the house. So it's been
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a really awesome journey and now I'm finding out about
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: genealogy research. You know, I'm finding out you know, the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: family search one anceestry dot com. But I'm thinking, should
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I be a little concerned about putting info up there
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: because I'm not on there. I found out that my
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: my sister who's no longer with us, she's on there,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: but I'm not showing nor is my other sister. And
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you know, are you opening yourself up when you put
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: up information on these days?
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Always are?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow, Sean.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what my brother put out
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: when he was searching for this.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: But yeah, have you looked to see if you're up there?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: I have not.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I I mean, just do your due diligence, be a
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: little bit careful, Maybe ask for some sort of a proof,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you know, if you're talking to this person who you
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: think is your cousin, right, you know, one thing you
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: could say is, hey, write my name on a piece
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: of paper and take a photo of you next to it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting too, and and and yeah, AI might
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: still be able to do something like that maybe, but
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: at least it's one step closer to understanding whether or
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: not you're talking to the real person, or do like
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: they did back in the way old days call them, yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: ask them to get on a phone call, right, But
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: you can stay the other way. Now, there's there's ways
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: around that, Like especially if you're talking to somebody and
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: there's a good long delay before they respond to every
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: single one of your questions and typing, well, I mean
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: that you could be talking to a chat bot voice
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: chat bot. But still if there's a long delay before
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: they respond to your question, chances are you're talking to
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: an AI. But if you talk to somebody you're like, oh,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: hey remember yesterday, and they're like, oh yeah, right, yes,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of course right away. Yeah, probably talking to a real person.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, there's there's certain things you gotta do.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: But I understand what you're saying, honestly, it sounds legit
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: to me. But you gotta be careful. You have to
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: be careful in this day and age. You've got to
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: be careful with everything you do online.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Well it's been a great experience. So again,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: hopefully I'll have more photos and maybe I'll even share
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a couple of which brings me up to good point.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Sean.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: As you as somebody that has kept track of your
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: family photos and digitized them, how do you feel about
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: when somebody gets a photo that a circa nineteen thirty,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty that has been you know obviously weather time
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: through time. People are now taking them and putting him
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: into Gemini or Nano Banana and fixing them. Is that
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the right way to leave our legacy? Or do you
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: think it's better to have just those original pictures and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: that's it.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I mean I went.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Through and cleaned all the slides and scanned them and
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: did only and only did color correction, lighting, exposure correction.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Right, and a little bit of aid noising.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Have you tried colorizing them or were they all well?
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: I just I just did light room.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't do any I didn't do any AI coloring
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: or I didn't tell AI to do anything with them.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I just scanned them, looked at I went went through
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the whole library. I think it was like forty two
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: hundred or something around forty two hundred individual slides that
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: I scanned.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: And then categorize them.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: And then as I was categorizing them, made copies of
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: ones that I wanted to I was like, oh, this
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: was cool. I'll i'll edit this one to make it
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: look better. And I ended up with like four hundred
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: and fifty edited keeps finals that I kept that I
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: turned into a book for my grandparents.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: And no, I don't. I don't I get it. AI
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: is nice.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: I I've just been I've been dabbling with it a
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: little bit in Photoshop to remove backgrounds or remove images
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: and things like that, and it's it's really fast and
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: and it works really well.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: It's gotten better too over the last it has.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: But I just don't.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: I don't in my personal artistic philosophy. Don't see a
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: place for AI in my art I don't.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: How about how about you?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: When it comes to preserving family photos.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of with sewn on it. Yeah, I mean,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I guess it depends.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Isn't there something about holding a polaroid?
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, sir? Yeah, But I mean if I have
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: a really damaged photo and I go to Reddit and
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I say, there's there's plenty of subreddits that will actually
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: restore photos using Photoshop. The problem is a lot of those.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: If you got a really, really damaged photo, it's going
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to cost you a couple hundred bucks yep, to have
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: a professional restore it. If you're not in the budget
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: for that, fine, go use AI. See how good AI
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: can do. Maybe you'll get lucky, maybe it will turn
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: out great, but you're.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Not selling it. It's gonna be in your own personal
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: wall or whatever.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, and that's why I look at it like.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I don't look at it and say, oh, I can
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: only see my grandpa because AI redid this. No, I'm
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: not gonna look at it like that. I'm gonna look
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: at it like, hey, I got this photo and I
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: didn't have to pay somebody five hundred dollars for their time.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I just had to use AI for thirty seconds and
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: it restored it.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm good, Sean. You were gonna make a point
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: about Polaroid.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: No, I just it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Justin mentioned that there are subreddits for photoshop requests you
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: can and it's a great resource. You can say here's
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: a picture, please do this to it, yeah, and people
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: will say, all right, for five bucks, here's a I
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: did it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Give me five bucks, you can have everything.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: So I used it to clean up a picture of
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Kale's grandma to put up at her funeral. They wanted
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: a nice like headshot for her funeral, and I paid
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: someventy five bucks to crop her out of a really
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: nice image. And put a black background on it.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: It looked.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: It turned out really good, So there's good resources for that.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: You can also request no AI.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Now it's the honesty game here at that point, right,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: whether or not they did use AI or not, I'm
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: giving the benefit of the doubt if I say, please
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: don't use AI. It's a very simple request. But again,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: could I have done it? I tried. I tried using
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: background remover. I tried doing it and photos of myself
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and it looked terrible every time. So in thirty minutes
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I had somebody on the internet do it and it
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: looked one hundred times better than I would have done it.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, and I have restored photos using AI and
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I've been very pleased with the result. I am to it.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: But I've also done the old school Walcom tablet photo restoration.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I took a photo of nineteen twelve of my stepfather
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: his family, well he was in the military, and fixed
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the photo and it was great. The other day I
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: found that picture that I had corrected using Photoshop, and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I remember taking several weeks to do and I was thinking,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: let's see how fast I can do it and how
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: accurate it is with AI. But I haven't done it yet. Hey,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: we got to take another quick break.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: We come back.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: We've got more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm justin.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Let me send us an X at tech talk Radio.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: So during the break, Andy asked me to read a
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: list of question and I'm going to read it.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Because I have the same problem. The question is from
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Sharon in Green Valley.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: She writes, once in a while, be online and some
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: of the people I see will post a scene from
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: a movie that looks really good. Takes me forever to
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: find out the name of the movie, and then I
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: fall down a rabbit hole looking for where I can
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: watch it.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Is there an easier way, Sharon, if you find it.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I want to know, because if I'm on YouTube shorts
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: and I see a movie I haven't seen, or I'm like, ooh,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: I know that's an old movie, but I can't remember
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: the name of it, I don't know there is There
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: is a subreddit called.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: The Tip of my Tongue which you can submit requests like.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: This is the genre, this is an actor, this is
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: the scene, and somebody will immediately know what it is,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: but that takes time and you never know what you're
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: gonna get back.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: But I don't know. There's not a Shazam for movies.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: No, so well, actually no, actually there is. IMDb Internet
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Movie database is pretty good.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: They're pretty accurate. All they're kind of accurate.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I interviewed Tony Curtis once and I remember asking him, so, Tony,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: you were in this movie and he goes, no, He goes,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: where'd you get that? And I told him IMDb and
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: he said they're always wrong. But I think they've fixed
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: it since then. But IMDb is owned by Amazon. What
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you could do is you go in there, you type
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the actor that you see in a movie, and it
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: may give you a list of the movies it shows
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that they were in.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Have you guys ever heard, well, obviously you've heard of
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: six degrees of separation. Yeah, that's a famous like for lot.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you call it, philosophy or whatever.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: You know, everybody's related to each other within six degrees, right, yeah,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: the whole Kevin Bacon one. Have you heard of the
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: seven six degrees of Kevin Bacon?
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I love it. So if you if you're listening to
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: this and you're like, what are you talking about. Kevin
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Bacon is an actor, right. This is a famous internet
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: game where actually it was even before the Internet, where
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: you can name an actor right, and every single actor
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: you name can be connected to Kevin Bacon within within
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: six or seven steps. I think it's seven degrees, yes,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: seven degrees with Kevin Bacon within seven steps, like for instance, oh,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: George Clooney to uh somebody somebody, and then somebody to
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: somebody else, and then somebody was in this one and
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: that person was in this one with Kevin Bacon.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy because Eric Roberts is the actor with
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: the most amount of screen credits. He's also been on
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: this show before Tech Talk Radio. But no, it's true that,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: but you would think, but it does work that way. Yeah,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: most actors will find them. They've been in a movie,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: even in a small part. They worked with somebody who
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: was one of the big stars in that movie and
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: they've got that credit.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So it is called the six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Six degrees, and it's they repeatedly try to find the
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: shortest path that leads to the prolific actor named Kevin Bacon,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: which is a reference to the six degrees of separation,
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: a concept that posts that two people on Earth are
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: six or fewer acquaintances links apart.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Is there? I wonder is there a website that will
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: just automatically connect you to Kevin Bacon. I bet you
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: there is.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we should. We should Google search that one.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I also wanted to mention for sharing real good.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: The oracle of bake dot org, the oracle of vacant God.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: God, you're so fast with your Google.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Kevin Bacon two blank find the link.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: You're kidding me? Right, wait, wait, do one in here?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Type in Kevin Bacon Doris because I worked out a
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: film with Doris Roberts. So put Doris Roberts in there
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and see what comes comes up.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Doris Roberts. Yeah, she played. Uh if I'm on a
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: website called six D O B six degrees two links,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: two links to Doris Roberts. You're kidding me.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Kevin Bacon was in Kevin Bacon was in the Big
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Picture with Elliott Gold who was in Little Murders with
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Doris Roberts.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I'm three degrees of separation from Kevin
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Bacon now right, Well, could I worked on that film
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: with Doris Roberts. No, you were, You have to be
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: in the film. It doesn't matter about the I'm in
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: it now a minute. It's called actor a documentary and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: she's in it too, so I'm actually in it. I'm
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: in but I meant it and that doesn't count it.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: I was animated, but ad it all right?
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Real Good r E E L G O O D.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I do like this site when you're looking for that
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: name of a movie, maybe you know who's in it. Uh,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you go to Real Good you can find out where
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: or when that movie is going to be playing. But
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: if you really want to find out more on the
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: movie itself, IMDb dot com. That's a really great one
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: to get information about, you know, about movies.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: So that was a question from Sharon. So I just
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: typed in random on this on this six Degrees of
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Bacon dot one. Yeah, I typed in Morgan Freeman, which
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: was probably a stupid, stupid one to put in easy
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: right one? What was it? What was he in with
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Kevin Bacon? Morgan Freeman who was in the Eastwood Directs
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: The Untold Story with Kevin Bacon.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, here's one. See if you can do this without
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: even looking?
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Okay on John Belushie on Belushi? Okay, well, John Belushi
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: was in the Bruise Blues Brothers with with dan Aykroyd.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: He was, But that's that's not the closest, well closest. Gimme,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: can I can I work this out? Well, let's see
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: if you could do this here?
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Help me here, it's it's you and me against him.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Uh, Kevin Bacon and John Belushy.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: You link them together?
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: M oh man, I don't know.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I don't even know, going to give it up.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: I'm trying trying to take the guy's name.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: God, it's one. It's a one. It's a one off.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: It's a one off. It is Animal House.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Animal House is correct, Kevin Bacon's first released film. And
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: then of course it was Friday at thirteenth. But yeah,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon was in the Animal House.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: He was an extra.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: He was a soldier who gets flattened at the end
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: of the movie. If you remember where they go over
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and he uh. And then he went to the screening
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: at Animal House and nobody recognized him. They didn't let
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: him in to the screening yet. In the back of
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: the theater with everybody else.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: That's funny. So there's your one degree of separation. All right.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: We had another question too, and I like this one
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: from Ryan. Uh, you guys have experienced with this. Is
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: it time to cut the cord? What should I consider
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: before getting out of Cock's cable? Not a slam on if.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: You haven't cut the cord already, what are you waiting for?
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Really? Yeah?
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: Seriously, I mean people, I mean change, you know, yeah,
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: but you're you're stuck with if you have cable or dish,
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: you're stuck with the agreements that Dish or your cable
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: provider have with your local news stations and they can.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: Be like, nah, we want you to pay more to retransmit,
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: and you're out.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: So, Sean, I understand what you're saying. Yes, that is
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: becoming more and more kind. But I have to interject here.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: YouTube TV has done the exact same thing. If if
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: that's the route, I know, no, I know, I agree
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: with that, right, you're going YouTube TV is basically online cable.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: If that's the route you're going. Now, if you're talking
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: about just Netflix paramount whatever, okay, fine, whatever, But if
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: you're talking about we should put a caveat. If you're
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: trying to go from standard cable to something like YouTube TV,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have those exact same problems.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Correct, Okay, But if he wants to get away from
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe he's got uh, he's on Cox cable,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: maybe he's got a fiber provider that could provide it,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: and he wants to get it, but he doesn't want
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to be paying for that those channels. You know they say,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: out of two hundred channels, we only at the most
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: watch seventeen.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's it. Here's here's the thing back about
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: let's say, I don't know, ten years ago, everybody was
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: talking about ditching cable, cutting the cord. We're going streaming.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And now it's almost like we've come full circle because
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: we're coming back to like, okay, most people have Netflix,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Disney Plus, Hulu, Paramount, Peacock, AMC Calling Work for Andy's sake.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, everything's got their own streaming service. So when
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: you add all those up, you're paying nineteen dollars here,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: twelve dollars there, fifteen dollars here, nine ninety nine here.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: You're paying the exact same amount or more for cable subscription.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: So we've kind of come full circle now. Ten years
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: ago this would have made sense. You're like, wait, why
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: am I paying a two hundred and fifty bucks a
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: month for cable when I can do nineteen ninety nine
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: and have everything I want.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Netflix was for their lowest tier at that point was
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: around nine bucks a month.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, I remember that. And now their lowest
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: tier is nineteen thirty thirty two. It's ridiculous.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: So is this why fast television, which is you know,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: free ad support of television is becoming so popular with
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: people who buy Roku TVs or Roku devices because they're
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: you know, and then they.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: You're never going to get ads unless you pay.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, even if you pay, say, even if you pay,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I mean some even if you pay, you still get ads.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I pay over one hundred dollars a month for YouTube
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: TV and I still have to watch ads.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I pay for Netflix. I get the ads on Netflix.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: You know that's the same thing. But I mean, is
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: that because Roku is the the they say it's the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: biggest streaming channel that's out there right now because it's free.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Basically if you've got a Roku TV or Roku device,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: and fast television means it's free, but it's ads supported,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: so you'd be watching if you feel like watch it
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Bewitched or watching shows that they're saying they give to
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Roku but there's ads in them.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Then they get that they get the money for the ads. Sure.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, A lot of times I like to watch a
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: show while I eat, whether it's lunch, lunch at work,
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: or lunch at home.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: I'll sit down with my meal and I'll start a show.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: If I have to sit through a two and a
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: half minute ad break, I'm moving to something else.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: I avoid Amazon Prime for that reason. Yeah, because I'm
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: don't know why I'm still paying for it. The only
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: thing I'm paying for is because you get better shipping
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: on stuff. But they're serving you ads on your video.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: It's annoying. I hate it. There's no way around it.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: That's just the nature of television.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: All Right, we got to take a quick break. We
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: come back. We've got more tech talk radio for you.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: As we'll wrap up the show and we'll say farewell
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: to Justin. How long is it gonna be?
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Good? Lord? Is this for a couple we It's not
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: like I'm going in forever.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: And then we will put in our request for stuff
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: he has to bring back for us. That's more of
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  Speaker 1: tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Seond Weird, and I'm justin leme Conchiwa. Wait no, that
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  Speaker 2: means welcome, and now back to tech talk Radio.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: This is Stephen first Flounder from Animal House and here
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  Speaker 1: from Babylon five.
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  Speaker 2: And you're listening to tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I gotta tell you I found a deal
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  Speaker 1: while shopping. I feel like somebody on PVC. All right,
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  Speaker 1: but here's the deal. I'm in Walmart the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I know Walmart, right, you know, Walmart started getting in
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  Speaker 1: Walmart getting into selling hardware, you know, for building your
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  Speaker 1: own And I walked by their glass case and I
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  Speaker 1: look and I did a double take. I got myself
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  Speaker 1: and I'm showing it on the camera right now. The
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  Speaker 1: Tough Gaming Z ninety PC building. I thought you were like, DIY,
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  Speaker 1: like building your own house or something. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not that one yet. Plus Wi Fi I have. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have the Tough gaming board. I have another one
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  Speaker 1: of the Z seven nineties, this normally board. I have
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  Speaker 1: seen it for two hundred and forty. I picked this
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  Speaker 1: board up for one hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Rollback prices baby one hundred bucks for clearance unopened.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a return for that motherboard.
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  Speaker 2: And year was that released? I think it came out
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  Speaker 2: two years ago. Okay, that could I could explain a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I got myself an I nine. This is
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  Speaker 1: the fourteen nine hundred K until on I nine this
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  Speaker 1: is marked down for four forty nine down to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: That's a that's a deal.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't pass it up. Then I went
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  Speaker 1: to go find some memory, and now I can't do anything,
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  Speaker 1: of course, not no memories cutting through the roof. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Selan, you want to tell us really quick
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  Speaker 1: about this.
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  Speaker 3: This care so so last week at work, we got
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  Speaker 3: an urgent cybersecurity notice from the IT Department saying Canvas
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  Speaker 3: is down. Canvas is a online platform that is used
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  Speaker 3: by teacher.
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  Speaker 4: Students around the world. Approximately nine thousand or more institutions used.
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  Speaker 3: It was completely out and this was during finals, and
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  Speaker 3: the email said teachers and faculty should resort to using manual.
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  Speaker 4: Methods to release grades and collect homework.
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  Speaker 3: So can you only imagine during finals or during your
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  Speaker 3: trying to get your grades in so you can determine
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  Speaker 3: whether you're not going to graduate or just move on
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  Speaker 3: or get it, get your final grade, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: and the whole system is just down. A hacking group
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  Speaker 3: called Shiny Hunters breached systems connected to Canvas.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it's an online land.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, it's an online learning platform connected to
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  Speaker 3: thousands and thousands of schools. So I mean it was
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  Speaker 3: relatively it was down for most of one day for us,
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  Speaker 3: but some schools are either still down or haven't got
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  Speaker 3: regained full access to their Canvas platforms. I mean, this
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  Speaker 3: is not just universities, this is grade school systems. This
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  Speaker 3: was colleges, other academic institutions. And it's just during the
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  Speaker 3: literally the worst time good the good have well the
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  Speaker 3: best time for them, I think, because I'm sure some
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  Speaker 3: of these schools went, well, what's the ransom, We'll pay
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  Speaker 3: it because you're you're, you're in finals and it's just
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  Speaker 3: so disruptive, and so what do you do at that point? Right,
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  Speaker 3: You're so in this. You don't have a backup plan
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  Speaker 3: for posting stuff, do you? I mean I wouldn't if
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  Speaker 3: I was relying on it. But this is again, the
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  Speaker 3: whole everything's in the cloud and you're at risk. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like every day there's a new This is hacked,
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  Speaker 3: that's hacked, This is vulnerable, that's hacked, this is hacked.
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  Speaker 2: Justice computers run in malware, Yeah, we got it.
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  Speaker 1: Got to keep up on that definitely, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: be careful of what you're clicking on and stuff with
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  Speaker 1: in an organization. All right, So justin you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: out for a few weeks going to Japan. But he's
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  Speaker 1: putting in request. I don't know what I would want.
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  Speaker 2: You're not getting anything, nothing at all. I love you,
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  Speaker 2: but you're not gonna dude, I have such a big
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  Speaker 2: list of things that people want. Honestly, I was just
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  Speaker 2: mentioning during the break, we're bringing four large suitcases with
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  Speaker 2: us to Japan. Only one of them is going to
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  Speaker 2: have anything in it, because when we come back, all
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  Speaker 2: four of these large suitcases are going to be full
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  Speaker 2: to the brim full of gifts and things like that. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: that's not If I do happen to find something interesting
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  Speaker 2: that might be small, I might be able to tuck
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  Speaker 2: it away for you guys. But what will you do
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  Speaker 2: is a favor though.
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  Speaker 1: Take a couple of pictures that we post them on
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  Speaker 1: our blog of Justin's travels.
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  Speaker 2: Make them techy. Well, I'm gonna take some good pictures
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  Speaker 2: with that new Tamaron lens for this sunny camera right here,
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  Speaker 2: and I will send you some pictures of a couple
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  Speaker 2: of places. We're gonna go to Osaka. We're also gonna
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  Speaker 2: go to Hiroshima and see that, So I'll take some
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  Speaker 2: pictures of that stuff and I'll send it to you.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds good, all right. It wraps up this week TikTok Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great week. Sean will be back with us
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  Speaker 1: next week. In the meantime, I'm Andy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin. Let me have
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  Speaker 2: yourselves a great week. We'll see you next time.