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From Monster Vision to AI Monsters and THE Game Coming Soon | EP 488 · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: This is Stephen Wright. You're listening to Tech Talk Radio. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Something along that line. Yeah, I guess that was it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'll say it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Stephen Wright, and you're listening to Tech
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  Speaker 1: Talk Radio. But, you know, I've already been saying this.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you here. Lots of great stuff tech-wise.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a couple of questions. I've got something new.
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  Speaker 1: I've been so excited to show this to Sean since
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  Speaker 1: you are a true road warrior. So when you go
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  Speaker 1: camping and you pull up in your RV and you
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  Speaker 1: decide to set up a little campground outside, Do you
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  Speaker 1: take along with you a giant flat screen TV?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: How do you watch content if you're sitting outside around
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  Speaker 1: a campfire?
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  Speaker 2: You don't.
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  Speaker 1: You don't. Okay. That's the point. You don't do that
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  Speaker 1: at all?
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  Speaker 2: You don't. No.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you did. I thought you had something to watch.
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  Speaker 2: So my camper did come with like a 22-inch TV
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  Speaker 2: mounted in the camper. The only time it's on is
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  Speaker 2: around bedtime when we put a movie on for the boys.
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  Speaker 2: I hook up my iPad. via a lightning to HDMI cable.
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  Speaker 2: And I stream a myriad of YouTube videos that I've
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  Speaker 2: put on my iPad or a handful of movies that
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  Speaker 2: are on my iPad. That's it. It doesn't go outside.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't get disattached. Like if we're camping, we're either
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  Speaker 2: outside doing something or we're inside getting ready for bed.
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  Speaker 2: We don't, we're not in our camper that much. We're either,
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  Speaker 2: we're not living in it. We're living out of it.
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  Speaker 2: What you're referencing is called, is what I like to
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  Speaker 2: call glamping, which is glorified camping.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: Which is, and I've seen it, right? I've seen it all, right?
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  Speaker 2: People roll up back in their rig and they just
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  Speaker 2: get out everything. They put up their, they have this
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  Speaker 2: big TV. They mount to the side of their camper.
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  Speaker 2: They hook up a DirecTV dish. They point it south.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden they're watching Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: In the great outdoors. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever they may be. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I was thinking, though, that would be kind of
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  Speaker 1: dangerous if you're carrying, you know, a flat panel somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: because the idea of it falling or bumping against something,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the screens, they don't take that much anymore
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  Speaker 1: to damage them. So I thought, I found something that
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  Speaker 1: I thought Sean would like if you were sitting outside
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  Speaker 1: around a campfire and you wanted to just enjoy maybe
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  Speaker 1: a movie or what local television is, or it even
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  Speaker 1: has the purpose of in case of an emergency and
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  Speaker 1: there's no power, you'd have the ability to keep up
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  Speaker 1: on your local TV news As well as radio. And
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  Speaker 1: I did that with this product. That's right here. I've
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  Speaker 1: got it on. If you're watching the video, you can
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  Speaker 1: see it. It is called the Monster Vision 2.
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  Speaker 2: Monster Vision?
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  Speaker 1: Monster Vision 2.
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  Speaker 2: And it's about. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: It looks.
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  Speaker 2: It's about 27 pounds.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a briefcase. Yeah. It's pretty big. It's
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  Speaker 1: all enclosed. It's heavy. On the back of the unit,
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  Speaker 1: you've got the ability. You've got a door here. And
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  Speaker 1: inside the door, microphone's kind of covering it. But you
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  Speaker 1: can plug HDMI into it. You can plug an antenna,
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  Speaker 1: which comes with it. And then on the front of it,
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  Speaker 1: you have got this nice 15-inch screen that is 1920
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  Speaker 1: by 1080, so full HD. And you can watch local
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  Speaker 1: television content. But with the HDMI ability and USB ability,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually watch content that you've put onto a
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  Speaker 1: flash drive. So if you, you know, you have a
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  Speaker 1: favorite show or you have content, like you say, YouTube view,
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  Speaker 1: they'd be able to watch it on this 15 inch
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  Speaker 1: screen here. And the sound is actually really dynamic on this.
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  Speaker 1: It does sound good. If I change a source. So
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  Speaker 1: you have all these different features that you could change
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  Speaker 1: it with. And I mean, it's a little heavy to
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  Speaker 1: carry around. But it also has a microphone port. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Sean, if you were sitting around. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So you were sitting around with the kids outside and
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  Speaker 1: you want to do karaoke and scare off the bears.
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  Speaker 1: This would be a good way to do it. It
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  Speaker 1: does have a battery as a part of it. You
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  Speaker 1: can listen to about 24 hours of music with it.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to watch video content, you're watching
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  Speaker 1: about about eight hours where you have to recharge.
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  Speaker 2: That's still pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: They run about 250 bucks.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually way less than I thought it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and the thing is, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to carry a big TV with you, this is
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  Speaker 1: a lot heavier than a, you know, a 32-inch television.
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  Speaker 1: But it is something that has some... It's all-in-one. It's all-in-one. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some people have told me they like the idea of
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  Speaker 1: using this around a pool or an outdoor barbecue. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you all want to watch a game and you
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  Speaker 1: want to barbecue outside, this can be a really good
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  Speaker 1: way to do it. And, you know, Monster, it's the
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  Speaker 1: same company basically that puts out all the cables, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Monster cables.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the gold-plated ones and all that stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. I've actually, so I actually met Mr. Lee.
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  Speaker 1: He's the, he's like the grand poobah. He started the company.
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  Speaker 1: And I did a presentation once at CES years ago
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  Speaker 1: on accessories, and he was one of our guest speakers
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  Speaker 1: on that. It was really kind of cool to meet him,
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  Speaker 1: but This company makes all kinds of really cool things.
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  Speaker 1: And this is just one of them. And again, a
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  Speaker 1: little heavy, but.
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  Speaker 2: I can definitely see people bringing that camping. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it takes up less space than a TV. It's all
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  Speaker 2: in one.
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  Speaker 1: You can listen to local radio. You can also listen
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  Speaker 1: to prerecorded music. You can listen to, you've got streaming,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Pandora or Spotify. You've got movies. You can
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  Speaker 1: play your own movie content or photos. You just want
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  Speaker 1: to watch a slideshow of photos, which is pretty neat. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: about $ 250 for that.
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  Speaker 2: It's heavy.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll turn it off now. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. I still don't think, like, outside of,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, bedtime usually. It's like getting ready for bed,
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  Speaker 2: taking a bath, brushing our teeth, whatever. We have something
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  Speaker 2: on just in the background just so they distract it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit so it's easier. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have content on.
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  Speaker 1: One of the benefits for this Monster Vision 2, though,
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  Speaker 1: that I do like, is say you're in a situation
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  Speaker 1: and you lose power, inclement weather, or who knows, and
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  Speaker 1: you want to keep an eye on what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with the local TV news.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that could be great for me here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is the first time we've recorded in
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  Speaker 2: like the last five months where I haven't been under
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  Speaker 2: the threat of inclement weather. So maybe I need to
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  Speaker 2: put that in my prep kit.
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  Speaker 1: For all that don't know that Sean is in South Bend, Indiana, where, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you have taken a brunt over the last few months
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Illinois and Indiana have the highest number of tornadoes in
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  Speaker 2: the country right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Well, it's kind of neat too, because again,
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  Speaker 1: you can, you get battery with it. And then if
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  Speaker 1: you can find a place to charge it up, but
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get 24 hours of audio, and
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  Speaker 1: then of course, eight hours for, if you're watching a
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  Speaker 1: lot of video content, that's good. And then people like
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you can plug your Roku in it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or you could plug, you know, anything and
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  Speaker 1: then get, you know, if you've got it connected to
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  Speaker 1: the net, You know, maybe you're watching it with your smartphone,
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  Speaker 1: your phone.
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  Speaker 2: Does it have a Wi-Fi connection to it? Could you
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  Speaker 2: connect it to the internet? No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: So you'd have to use your smartphone to plug it in,
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  Speaker 1: get the Wi-Fi connection off that. But you can connect
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  Speaker 1: your phone directly to it. And I believe you can
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  Speaker 1: mirror your screen too. So that's something as well. I
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  Speaker 1: have to look into that one.
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  Speaker 2: That's a neat little product. I mean, you don't usually
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  Speaker 2: see them that compact with all those features in it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was the only thing that's so heavy. To
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  Speaker 1: carry around. That's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the screen itself, the battery itself probably weighs
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  Speaker 2: the most.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's probably better than this. So when I was
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  Speaker 1: doing a segment on TV, I showed the Monster Vision 2.
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  Speaker 1: But I showed this for somebody who wants to have
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  Speaker 1: it look like TV. This is from Ciancher. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a magnifier, basically. So it basically sits like this, and
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  Speaker 1: then you open it up, right? And you slide it open.
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  Speaker 1: And then you could take your smartphone, we'll go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and take mine here, right? And you can drop it
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  Speaker 1: in and it magnifies the screen.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it look like a TV. That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: So you could watch content on here and have it magnified.
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  Speaker 1: People put this on their desk. These are about $ 16, $ 17.
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  Speaker 1: People like it as a novelty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely a novelty one. It seems like as
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  Speaker 2: soon as you pull those baffles out of the back,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to break.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes those cheap plastic things, yeah, one time out and
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  Speaker 2: then it's done.
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  Speaker 1: You take it to work, you leave it there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's how it is. I don't know if you could
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  Speaker 1: put up a tablet. I think you could in here
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  Speaker 1: if you had a tablet and do it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And then these are just for show, obviously. But I
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  Speaker 1: just thought that was kind of neat. And that's from Ciancher.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're looking for something like that, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: You've got all sorts of fun toys, Andy. I've just
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  Speaker 2: been working a lot, so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you got the games going on? Notre Dame?
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  Speaker 2: We're back to school. So it's like we've done a
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  Speaker 2: ton of soccer, a ton of volleyball games already. Students
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  Speaker 2: are back. And it's just we're back into the grind.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, boy. Well, I wanted to talk about this because
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  Speaker 1: it's a story that has been gaining some foothold. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know anything about it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about content. and TV and whatnot. LG has
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  Speaker 1: drawn some fire for a story that was put together
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  Speaker 1: on the web by Gizmodo did part of the story.
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  Speaker 1: There were some others. There's one guy who said he
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated it.
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  Speaker 2: Gamers Nexus did it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gamers Nexus was, I think, the one that kind
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  Speaker 1: of broke it. Yeah. It's all about privacy. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I have an LG TV, so it made me
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  Speaker 1: kind of, you know, do a Scooby-Doo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I just watched the Gamer Nexus breakdown of
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  Speaker 2: this last night, where they had a very good IT
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  Speaker 2: guy come in and actually break down the data coming
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  Speaker 2: off the TV. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: It was recording video, it was recording audio, and it
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  Speaker 2: was doing it even if the device was offline.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand how it can record video.
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  Speaker 2: Good question.
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  Speaker 1: Do they have cameras inside the TV?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you're interested in learning... Gamers Nexus is
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the best consumer tech advocates out there.
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  Speaker 2: They go after every scummy company and just rake them
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  Speaker 2: over the coals.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah, they... Yeah, it's scary what these LG TVs
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  Speaker 2: are pulling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gizmodo said smart TVs, I'm going to quote them,
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  Speaker 1: smart TVs are built to siphon your data and sell
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  Speaker 1: it to advertisers. We know that. They've been doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I had actually terms of service that
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  Speaker 1: I had to agree upon and read to be able
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  Speaker 1: to watch my LG TV, which that really, this was
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  Speaker 1: about a month ago, maybe two months ago, I turn
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  Speaker 1: it on, and it said, you must agree to this
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  Speaker 1: before you continue. And I'm thinking, wait, what? How does
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  Speaker 1: that work? But it says, LG's screen maker, already coming
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  Speaker 1: off a monitor adware scandal, has reportedly given its screens
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  Speaker 1: the ability to capture audio from your living room, even
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  Speaker 1: if the TV seems like it's turned off. So we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about this. Yeah, we've talked about this before with
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  Speaker 1: smart devices, you know, whether it be your... Amazon devices,
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  Speaker 1: your Alexa devices, your Gemini, your Google Home, the whole bit,
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  Speaker 1: that they're always listening. Justin has talked about how he
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  Speaker 1: made that a point by talking about one thing for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. And then sure enough, he started getting
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  Speaker 1: the ads for it. We've all experienced it. And you think,
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  Speaker 1: is it just coincidence?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not coincidence because it's happening to me. So
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  Speaker 2: In a little bit of the project, you know, my
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  Speaker 2: Suno AI project I've been playing with, right? I've been
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  Speaker 2: playing with that and I've been doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: listening to Suno on my phone because I'm just trying
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  Speaker 2: to get some ideas and generate some new stuff. I
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  Speaker 2: get Suno ads on YouTube all the time now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I get Suno ads in Pandora. I get Suno ads
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  Speaker 2: in my YouTube feed. I get Suno ads. When I'm browsing,
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  Speaker 2: it's crazy. So it's just like, it's looking at not
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  Speaker 2: only what you're doing, but it's what's listening to you.
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  Speaker 2: It's learning from you. It's taking, it's just, it's gross.
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  Speaker 1: So now, I don't know how the algorithms work on this,
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  Speaker 1: but say you're on Facebook, you're scrolling, there's a video,
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  Speaker 1: it catches your eye and you pause the scroll on it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you go, ah.
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  Speaker 2: You're tagged, you're flagged. You've flagged interest. It's in your
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  Speaker 2: algorithm now.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to show, okay, this person might be interested
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  Speaker 1: in this. So we're going to feed you a couple more. Now,
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  Speaker 1: LG made a statement. They said the claims made in
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  Speaker 1: the recently published video are not true. LG TVs process
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  Speaker 1: voice data only when the voice button on the remote
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  Speaker 1: control is pressed and held. Or when a wake word
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  Speaker 1: such as hi LG is recognized. I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: my TV could do that. After the user has activated
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  Speaker 1: the far field voice recognition feature. Other than these instances,
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  Speaker 1: according to this article, LGF says the TVs do not
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  Speaker 1: collect or record ambient conversations. If the wake word is
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  Speaker 1: not recognized, no voice data is transmitted to the server.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't have Alexa or a Google device, right?
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  Speaker 2: No, but Siri is enabled on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: You know many times where we'll just be sitting there
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  Speaker 1: watching TV and all of a sudden the thing will
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  Speaker 1: come on and it'll say something? You're like, what the
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  Speaker 1: heck is going on there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it registered something that it triggered it to listen.
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  Speaker 2: But I just did a quick search for the Gamer Nexus,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a summary. Right. Gamers Nexus is claiming that
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  Speaker 2: they found content recognition tracking what viewers watch, even through HDMI,
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  Speaker 2: along with network scanning that identifies phones, watches, and other
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  Speaker 2: household devices on the same network. They also uncover security
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  Speaker 2: vulnerabilities capable of turning the television into a listening device.
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  Speaker 2: LG denies routinely recording ambient conversation and says voice audio
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  Speaker 2: is processed only when voice features are activated. The takeaway
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  Speaker 2: is buying the screen does not necessarily mean controlling the
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  Speaker 2: data the screen collects.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So if you tend to watch shows on a
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  Speaker 1: certain channel, it will probably feed you content that would
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  Speaker 1: align with what that viewer may purchase.
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  Speaker 2: Right, but it's even saying that if I plug in
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  Speaker 2: my Blu-ray player and watch Lord of the Rings, it
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  Speaker 2: knows that I'm watching Lord of the Rings and it's
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  Speaker 2: sending that data off to LG.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also scanning my net. If you watch the
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  Speaker 2: Gamer Nexus video, it's a crazy breakdown of they actively
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  Speaker 2: found it looking at your network and looking at other
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  Speaker 2: devices that are connected to the network. Why does it
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  Speaker 2: need to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it shouldn't need to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Can you even buy a dumb TV anymore?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. All of them want to be
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  Speaker 1: smart TVs, don't they?
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  Speaker 2: Can you even buy a TV? You might just have
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  Speaker 2: to buy a laptop or a computer monitor at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't think I can go buy a TV
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  Speaker 2: that has just analog or digital inputs that doesn't connect
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  Speaker 2: to the Internet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's face it, though. Say you want to
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  Speaker 1: watch something and it's on a laptop and you're connected
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  Speaker 1: to just an HDMI screen. It's still getting that information
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  Speaker 1: from your laptop. Right. So no matter what, and let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, the advertising has gotten just even worse. You
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  Speaker 1: look at 10 years ago, we didn't see that much advertising.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not even worse.
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  Speaker 1: It's been kind of crazy. Yeah, to even watch a content,
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  Speaker 1: you now pay for it. You want to watch Netflix,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: but you don't want to watch ads, right? You got
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: to pay more. You want to watch ads? There you go.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: You're still paying for it. Which brings me to mention Tubi.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Have you watched anything on Tubi? Yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: It's one of those free apps you can get that
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: has the generic movies and some A-list, some B-list, some D-list,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: some Hallmark. It's kind of a myriad.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: It's got some great stuff on there. And I was like,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: why have I not been watching Tubi? I'm paying for Netflix,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: paying for HBO, paying for Disney, paying for Hulu, paying
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: for Paramount +. And then I thought there was a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: movie I wanted to watch. I checked all of those services.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: It's not there. It's a movie, The Party, with Peter Sellers.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: It's a great movie. And I thought, I want to
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: see this movie again because it just recently would have
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: been another year old or it would have been 101
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: like this past week. And I thought, I want to
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: see this movie again. The only place it had it
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: was Tubi. The thing is, if I want to watch
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: it on Tubi, you don't have to pay for it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: You pay for it by watching it and you get
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the ads. So you'll get ads. There's another documentary called
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Getting Lost. It's all about the making of the television
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: show Lost, which I was a big fan of. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: it was on Amazon, but you could rent it, you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: or you could purchase it. And I remember I kept thinking,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: maybe I will, maybe I will. I just found out
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: it's streaming for free on Tubi with ads. So, you know, Tubi,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: if you're in that position where you're like, I don't
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: want to pay the services, I don't want to pay Max,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I don't want to pay, you know, Paramount, and you
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: want to watch something, see if Tubi's got it. they
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: might be a pretty good source for you to be
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: able to do that. I know Roku, you know, Roku
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: TV is really big. Sling TV is good. You know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: there's other ones that are out there that are also great.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Everybody has their favorite, but I found that Tubi is
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: just continuing to gain its viewers. They're also pretty active
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: on social. So if somebody posts something about entertainment or whatnot,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: they'll come in and say, why pay $ 3. 99 for that movie?
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: We've got it over here for free. Yeah. Yeah. So.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: boy content all right i'm speaking okay we have a
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: list of questions we're going to get to those i
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts on this speaking of content
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: uh there is a a new show that's going to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: make its debut on investigation discovery on september 30th uh
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: it is called unmasking a monster eileen warnis it's a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: three-part true crime docuseries that takes ai and digital replication
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and has digitized Eileen Warnes' likeness onto an actress, Morag
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Peacock is her name, who performed the movements and vocals
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to visualize documenting first-person accounts, legal transcripts, and testimonies. So
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: while they have, what, seven, I think she killed seven
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: men in Florida and eventually said, yes, you know, I'm guilty, whatnot.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: They've taken her likeness and how this is kind of terrifying.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: They've now made it so she is the one you're
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: watching in the video. Not somebody who looks like her,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: somebody that is performing these crimes and they'll be acting
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: them out according to transcripts from this. No, thanks. I'm just,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: is it, I don't know.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Is this going too far? Yes, it is. You know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, cause you don't, now you don't get to
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: watch the terrible dramatic reenactments.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Right. Like lifetime.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I mean, that's where it's coming to.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to just be they want it as real
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: as possible or they want it to look and sound
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: and feel as real as possible. But it's just weird.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Why do you want to like people get so engrossed
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: in these true crime things and they want all the
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: details and they want to win. They want to if
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: they could be a fly on the wall while these
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: murders happen, they would. So the people that are watching
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: these are the the ones you have to be worried about,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I watch that kind of stuff. I mean, I do.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I'm worried about you too.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I watch true crime. I do watch ID channel
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: quite a bit. This though makes it, this just makes
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: it just kind of scary. It's crossing a line. It is.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: That's what I feel.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: It is crossing a line.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: And I feel like it's a line that can't be
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: uncrossed once it happens.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And yeah, because once this is done, now it'd be
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: expected to be able to be done with other big
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: cases that we've seen. Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: And then what happens if somebody thinks, well, how do
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: you know is it real footage or is it not
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: real footage? What's the difference between real footage that was
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: captured versus fake footage? How are you going to know
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the difference? Do they have to tell you? Right.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering also if the victims, she was executed in 2002,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I believe, or maybe 2002. I'm wondering if family members
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: for those that were victims of her, the seven people,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: killed men will their families be receiving compensation for for
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: this i mean i would i would hope so yeah
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: it's uh it's something to look i know a lot
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of people gonna watch it and the trailer alone just
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: made me go oh that's that's really scary because she
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: had a very you know monster was played by uh
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: what's her name um charlize theron uh she played her
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in the movie monster And I'm thinking, this is like,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: really looks, this is like her. It's, you look at
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it and you say, well, that's Eileen Wuornos. And is
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: it just taking it too far?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I think so. I won't watch it, but that's not
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: my genre anyway, so.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You won't watch it for the technical aspect of the AI?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll see all the controversies surrounding it. I'm
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: sure I'll end up watching some part of it anyhow,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: just to go, oh, yeah, I, yep, not my cup
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: of tea.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Now, Sean, do you get online and you might see
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: a video where it's obviously AI? Do you scroll past it?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Usually.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Does it lose you right away on that?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Especially on YouTube with the kids' stuff. Some of the
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: stuff from overseas, stuff that has lesser copyright enforcement. There's
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a ton of stuff that has copyrighted AI content. A
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: lot of Disney content, a lot of Pixar content. And
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: you're watching videos of somebody just showing random like toy
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: cars from like the Pixar Cars movie.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden there's AI generated scenes
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: of that car in Japan or Tokyo or somewhere else
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: in the U.S. driving around and interacting with stuff. It's
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: all AI generated. It looks terrible. We usually skip them
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and block that channel.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Well, let's face it. If you look at the last
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: even five years for AI creation, it's gotten really good.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You can't tell me that the AI isn't
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: impressive in what it's doing. It's not a... I don't
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: think it's a great thing, but it's impressive in what
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: it's doing. It's pushing the boundaries of what we know
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: as technology, and it's... I still don't like AI to
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: an extent.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I think it has a purpose as a tool, but
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: what it can generate has been pretty impressive.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: But again... It's that uncanny valley. They're even doing docu-stories now.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Whereas you used to listen to audio stories, now it's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: video stories with AI actors. And that has that fake
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: look because obviously the budgets aren't as big, but people
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: still absorb it. And as long as people are absorbing it,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: they'll keep creating it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, again, I've dabbled with AI a little bit.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I found that video generating is still too much for me.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: But the music generation has been a lot of fun
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: to play with.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: So I've been generating World of Warcraft parody songs.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Have you been upset that Suno is now limiting your downloads, though?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I pay for the pro version, and I
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: think I get like 30 downloads.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Now it's been reduced to 20. So I'll create maybe...
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: four or five different songs based on a project. They
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: did a project for a video for somebody. And I
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: just downloaded the one that I said, okay, that's the one.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: And that doesn't, so you could create as much, but
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it's whether you download or not. And if you want
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to download it later next month or whatnot, you could.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: But again, suddenly we're starting to see, and I'm wondering,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we're seeing with Suno, will we see it with other
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: AI platforms?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: So you're, you're seeing it all across the industry, right?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Especially in the cloud-based like storage markets for video and stuff.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: You're seeing companies go, whoa, hold on. You mean it
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: costs how much to store this online?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And they're like, oh yeah, you uploaded five terabytes worth
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: of data. You've got to store it somewhere. So you've
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: got to pay the bandwidth and the storage. Well, now
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I want it. I want it back. Well, I got
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to pay to get it back.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And tokens, the token prices have changed. You're no longer getting,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: you know, early entry fees. You're no longer, it's, it's,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: they're trying to make their money back and they're, it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: crazy how dramatically the industry has shifted, not completely away
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: from AI, but not everything in the cloud is making
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: sense for everybody now. So people are shifting back to
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: on-prem solutions. A lot of people are focusing on, well,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: just give me, let me buy a Dell server that's
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: got a gazillion CPU cores in it and put a
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: language learning machine on it and I do it on
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: my own cloud. I put it on-prem and I let
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: my own, I'd use my own power, I use my
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: own and I use my own compute power to do
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: it on-prem. That's where the industry's going, at least for broadcast.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: It's like, I can do a ton of stuff in
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the cloud. It's very easy.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: But if it's expensive, there's no benefit. But if you
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: can bring the cloud, it's just another person's computer doing
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the processing, right? If you can bring that into your
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: own infrastructure, you save on bandwidth, you save on storage costs,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you save on A ton of stuff. So a lot
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: of places are bringing it back on-prem, but just the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: concept of cloud is just my own cloud, just my
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: own data center, basically.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: All right. We've got to take a quick break. We
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: come back. A couple of listener questions we'll do for
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: you at Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd. Find us on the web at techtalkradio.com.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Now, back to Tech Talk Radio.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. We were talking about cutting the cable, cutting
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: the core digital platforms and all that stuff before, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: we had a listener question come in, and I feel
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: like we fielded a few of these before.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: We may have, yeah.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: But I'm surprised there's still people on cable, to be honest.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But the question is from Martin in Sajarita. He says,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping you can provide some insight. I pay about
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: $ 125 a month to the cable company for TV, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: $ 12 for each DVR. I have two, so it's $ 24
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: additional a month. And I don't get every channel. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: hear about YouTube TV. Is it worth keeping the internet
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and changing to YouTube? I do like to record stuff
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and watch it later. Is that still available on YouTube TV?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have YouTube TV. YouTube TV is...
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I'm one of those cable guys.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: My in-laws pay for YouTube TV.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And we share it with them because we're close enough,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: which is great. And we get everything we want on it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: We still watch Netflix. We still watch Disney plus because
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: we have kids. So not everything's on YouTube TV, but
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: if you want your local channels, that's harder because depending
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: on where you are, not every local channel gets rebroadcasted
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: to YouTube TV. But they have the majority of everything.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And you can, I even think you can get different
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: bundles now on YouTube TV. So you can bundle in
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: NFL network and you can bundle in other sports networks
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: and stuff. So we're just coming full circle to, an
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: online cable provider versus a coax cable provider. Um, so
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: cable provider, that doesn't really make sense if it's on
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the internet anymore, right? It's not a cable provider. It's a,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: it's a broadcast provider.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Um, but yes, you can record, you can set schedules,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: you can, you can set it to record an entire series.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: And when the series is done, it will play back
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: you to, it even allows you to download to your TV.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: So if you wanted to watch offline or watch on,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: on your phone, um, You can download certain things to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: your phone from YouTube TV and play them back on
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: your phone. It ties in great with Google.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: How's the quality? I mean, great.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you can get, you can get YouTube for,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: you can get 4k. You can pay a little bit
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: more to get the 4k bundle. If you have a
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: 4k TV, I will say that, you know, we bought
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: a new TV three or four months ago after Max
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: and Daniel destroyed our other one.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: And we bought a, it's 4k ultra, ultra HD, um,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: 120 Hertz. It's good.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: HDR.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I had never had an HDR 4k TV before. Like
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I've always just had 10 ADP, whatever. I didn't care.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I will never go back to just a regular standard
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: SDR TV. The color quality and the look and the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: views of movies on this TV, even from my Plex
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: server and even from movies I've downloaded and stuff, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: watching 4K, I think we watched the Super Bowl in 4K.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: It was incredible, the difference. Even just from using it
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: on the internet. Now, granted, I have MetroNet fiber, so
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: my internet is really good. But, yeah, the quality difference
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: between what we had, which was a 55-inch Roku TV, 1080p,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: not HDR TV, to a TCL Google Home TV or
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: a Google OS TV, whatever. 4K HDR, 120 hertz. Stark difference.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: It was incredible. Even Caleb was like, why does this
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: look so much better? And I was like, oh, because
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: we're actually viewing it in HDR. It's not downsampling it
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to SDR.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Now, will most cable companies like Cox Cable, which obviously,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: if he's in Saorita, if they're using the cable company
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to provide both TV and internet, they could stay with
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: them for the internet or even maybe choose a fiber
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: company to go with because fiber is available. Will the
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: regular cable company internet, will that be fine in most
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: cases for watching content?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Most cases, yeah. Most cases, right, is with cable, you're
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: guaranteed a certain amount of download speed. You're not guaranteed
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the same upload. But if you're watching TV, you're not
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: uploading a ton. So more often than not, if you
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: already have cable, you're getting a decent speed that is
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: going to allow you to watch. Now, you might not
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: be able to get five people at your house all
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: pulling down a 4K stream at the same time, right?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: But you're going to have no problem doing one or
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: two streams at the same time.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: How does that work, too, with the YouTube TV? Say
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: your kids are watching it in their bedroom. And you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: want to watch it in your living room.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I would have to look into that. I think you
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: have to have a smart TV, obviously, that can receive
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: or log into the YouTube TV app. You can also
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: get the YouTube TV app on your phone, so you
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: can watch TV on the go.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Is it available on devices? Like if you've got a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Roku stick?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Most.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I can't confirm that everything has it, but it's on
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Apple TV and a couple other devices, so. But it's good.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've not had any issues with it and
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it gives us what we want. And we used it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: We used it to watch. I use it to watch
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: some racing, NASCAR, Formula One, some of those things. So
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: it's available, but.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good. And it doesn't give you any of
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the features YouTube Premium does. Whereas, you know, you want
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to watch the videos by content creators on YouTube. It
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't have any. If you buy YouTube TV, that's still separate,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Either way, YouTube TV sounds like it could be a
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: way to go. Now, Hulu does it as well, but
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I've never looked into Hulu. I've never looked into YouTube TV.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: If somebody wanted to try it, I think YouTube TV,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: if you've never done it before, they'll give you a demo,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a trial.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: It's like a seven-day trial, right? And it's worth it
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: if you want to try it for a big event
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: or just try it just because. It's worth trying. See
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: if it works out for you. I do know that
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: like everything else in the world right now, you get
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: it at a price. And then in three months they say, nah, sorry.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Now it's instead of 1899, it's 2299. And then five
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: months later, like, well, it's 2599 now. Plus you lose
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: some of these features, but yeah, we're just in that market.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: So that's happened with everything. Paramount TV went up this year. Telestream,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: you know, we have Wirecast. We use Wirecast once in
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: a while and, that went up like almost $ 50, you know,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: for a year. And I even thought about, I thought
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: about dropping it, but then Gloria told me, well, what
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: if you need it? And it's like, that's the problem
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: with all of this, you know, cause you'd never know.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: That's how it works.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: You never know.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. All right. So hopefully that'll help Mark Martin
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: check to see if they have a demo, see if
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you like it first, you know, just go ahead and
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: try it with the internet connection and, See how that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: works for you.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: But you'll definitely, so I definitely think, so when my
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: in-laws did it, they reduced their bill by about $ 60
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a month.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: $ 60?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: They dropped their DVRs because they had three DVRs, I think,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: in their house.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: And then it was going from, you know, they just
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: paid for their cable internet bill, which was maybe $ 45
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: a month or $ 60 a month, something like that, on
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: top of their subscription, which was at the time like
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: $ 25 a month for YouTube TV. Now it's upwards of
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: like $ 60 almost.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: So in three, three and a half, four years of
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: YouTube TV, they're almost quadrupled their price for YouTube TV,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: which stinks, but the quality is, is better. There's more
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: content available. They're paying retransmission fees for all this stuff.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: So that's where the cost is in broadcast television right
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: now is retransmission fees. So it's just, that's the world
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: we live in.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, um, because I figured you
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: would know I've got, and this is my question to Sean.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I've got a Google, I've got the Google app. kind
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: of cameras. I have a Roku. I've got a couple others,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: but the ones that I have for, for Maine is
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a Google nest outside. I've got a, another Google product indoors.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I've got a Google door cam and I'm just not
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: happy with the outdoor one because like the other day,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: somebody was getting their car repossessed at two o'clock in
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the morning. And of course I jumped on them. I,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I got a notification. I jumped on my camera. I'm like, Oh,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: that's not good. That's not good. And before they even left,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: it just said, oh, no activity. And then I didn't
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: get them driving away or anything like that. So I'm
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: trying to find what could be good. And I was
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: thinking about WISE and this solar cam that they've announced.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: And I thought about getting this because you're the WISE guy.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: It's a solar cam that does a pan. So I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: could actually tell it, look over the left, look over
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the right. And it's 2K HD. And it has a
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: solar panel. I thought maybe this would be something good
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to try.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Don't do it.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Why not do it? So they have a voluntary security
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: safety recall on the wise solar camp pans.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: And it's not because of a defective product. It's not
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: because it doesn't work the way it intends. It's installation
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: error by the user, which you're like, wait, how does
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: an installation problem indicate a security risk or a security concern? Well,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: it's not a security concern. It's a physical security concern
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: because it comes with two sets of screws.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Okay. A set of flat head machine screws to mount
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the camera to the solar panel. And then a set
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: of longer wood screws to mount to a surface. So
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: one would think, one would think, right, that most people
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: would understand or follow the directions not to use the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: wood screws. to mount the camera to the solar panel. Right.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Because what, what wise found out was, Oh, these screws
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: are long enough to puncture the lithium ion battery in
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the camera. If they're used to mount the wrong piece,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: causing fires, causing damage, causing injury.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: That's so they had to ladder while you're putting it up. Yeah.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: So the wise solar campaign security cameras, incorrect assembly instructions
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: can lead to consumers to accidentally puncture the lithium ion batteries,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: metal casing, causing the battery to rapidly overheat, posing a
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: risk of seriously injury, serious injury or property damage from
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: a fire and burn.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: So if you bought it before April 3rd, 2026, which
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: you would not be buying, you'd be buying it new.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: The solar panel was attached to the top of the
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: camera using the incorrect long flat head wood screws instead
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: of the short pan head machine screws. So if you
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: bought this and decided just to, you know, I skip
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: steps sometimes when I install stuff, right? Oh, these screws
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: will work, right? Fire. So you can get a free
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: replacement camera with this. If you bought it, if you
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: return it in the voluntary free recall, you can get
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: a replacement for free. Right. Um, Obviously, you have to
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: wait for the return, but yeah.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: All right. It's still a good camera, right? Everything about
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: it is great.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: It's really good. People can check it out at WYZE.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Except when they tell you there's no instruction on which
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: screws to use, right? So people just assume they can
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: use whichever screws they want or their own longer screws
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: to mount it somewhere else. Fire.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: But Sean, that's the job of a YouTube creator. Do
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: you know how many YouTube videos are out there right
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: now for any task you want to get done for anything?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: You know, I, I'll just, I don't even, okay. I
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: don't read the manuals anymore. I will go ahead and ask,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: you know, Gemini to, Hey, what's, how do you do this?
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: And it will give you the step-by-steps even link it
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to the video. So, I mean, let's face it more
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and more people are doing.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: So anybody that's listening, if you bought a wise solar campaign, right.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I would go check to see if you used the
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: launch screws or not. Because if you did, you might
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: be sitting on a ticking time bomb.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Take care of that. So take care of it and
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: get a replacement. But I have nothing... bad to say
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: about wise. They, they've been a good, a good vendor
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: for me for cameras. I actually just bought a new
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: version two doorbell because mine finally kicked the bucket after
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: seven years of living in this house, being outside that
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: whole time. Right. So, um, I don't know if it
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: just got too hot or whatever, but it ended up
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: just not, not connecting after a power outage. Um, so
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: it lost his brain, but I bought another V2, had
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: it the next day because it got shipped via Amazon
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: from the Y store, which was fantastic. And so I
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: was out a doorbell for less than 48 hours and
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: the new one came in. The new one works with
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: an existing chime. I didn't know that because the original
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: one didn't. So I have the virtual chimes plugged in
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: around the house. But this one ties in directly to
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: the doorbell chime, the existing transformer for my doorbell. So
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: I actually get the traditional ding dong in the house, right,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: which the kids love. which is cool. And it looks better.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: It gives me a wider field of view. And it
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: still was less than a hundred bucks. So the wise
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: camera stuff has been great. I'm a big proponent of them.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I know they had some security issues early on, but
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: they're just like any other vendor that everything that's, anything
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: that's popular is going to have some sort of security
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: risk uncovered. It's just a matter of how the company
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: treats it. And from there, but all right.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Got to take a break. Come back. We got another question.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: We'll share that. And I want to share some really
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: cool creators that I have found on social. I want
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: to give them a mention that if you're there, you're
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: looking for something a little different. I'll tell you about
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: that coming up with Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd. Find us on X at Tech Talk Radio.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: And now, back to Tech Talk Radio.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Hey, Bill Nye, the science guy here.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Whenever I am listening to the radio, especially Tech Talk Radio,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: it's just such a party. We got another question in
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: this one from Lauren in Tucson. Lauren says, I guess she's,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: she's a little perplexed. She said, hi guys, I'm wondering,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I got myself a windows 11 laptop not long ago.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: And my coworker says it takes a picture of what
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I'm doing to help train AI. Is this true? And
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: can it be stopped?
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Not a hard question to ask. It's a hard question
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: to answer because you're going to get varying answers on that.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: So when Windows 11 rolled out, they sneakily tried to
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: put a platform on called Recall.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Which took snapshots of your computer and uploaded it into
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: the cloud.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Was it like every three seconds?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: It was whatever Recall was, and it analyzed your desktop.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: So it looked at what you were doing.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: And then used that information to help you guide yourself through, oh,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: You're doing a word processing today. Here's how I can
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: help you do that quicker. Oh, you're playing World of
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Warcraft today. Here's five websites that might help you. Oh,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: you're doing this today. Oh, you're editing today. Here's how
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I can help you. It was basically using your motions
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: to track and then predict what you were going to
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: do and then serve you better by being predictive.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: That got roasted on the internet terribly because it was
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: awful because nobody could confirm or deny that. that Microsoft
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: could see that content.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: And what they were doing with it. And you know
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: what that means? That means they saw it and they
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: knew what they were doing with it. They just didn't
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: want to tell you they weren't doing anything with it.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: That's the world we live in.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: But they say it will help us.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: So yes, to an extent. Now, whether there's any truth
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: to that is to be determined. So the recall function,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: as far as we know, doesn't exist in Windows 11.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Windows 11 also runs Copilot. if you let it, um,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: there are safeguards you can put in place to not
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: let those things run. So I would do a little
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: research into turning those things off. But for her, your
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: friend to say, AI is taking pictures of your computer
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: and teaching it AI. Yeah. That's a little extreme, but
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: they're not far off base with what, what recall was
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: trying to do.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: So. Right. Um, if you want to check to see
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: if it's on there, you can, I know one of
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the things you could do is, uh, you could, do
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: a search, turn Windows features on or off in the
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Windows search bar. Top result, you then scroll down to recall,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: uncheck the box that's next to recall. And apparently, I
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's changed. They say, then you click OK,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: restart your laptop. And hopefully it will be gone.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: But I mean, if you're using ChatGPT or your own stuff, right,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: and you're voluntarily giving it information, we can't stop that.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: But I'm going to do a little research here and
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: see exactly if the recall stuff still happens or what.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: But this is a great time to tell you to
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: switch to Linux.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: People, you know, I've seen comments on threads and X
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: where people just right away, they'll have that same kind
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: of inquiry. Hey, my computer did something weird. And everybody says, well,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: switch to Linux. And it's easy to say, and we've
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: had questions come in before about it. It's just a
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: matter of just jumping in and doing it. And some
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: people are a little hesitant about doing that. So again,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: it could be great. You might really love it. And
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: you might get frustrated with Windows and Windows slowing down
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: and some of the things that happen with Windows that
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: we've experienced. And that might.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Be an alternate. So Windows Recall is an optional Windows
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: 11 feature for Copilot plus PCs. It regularly screenshots your
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: activity so AI can search what you've seen. Microsoft says
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: it's encrypted locally behind Windows Hello. I don't know what
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: that is. Though privacy concerns remain. No kidding.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: All right. All right. I wanted to ask you, do
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you ever get on TikTok? No. Okay. I know there's
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of people who don't, but I will say
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I have seen some really great creators on TikTok recently.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: We're on TikTok. We share our videos there. We share
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: our clips. Please give us a follow.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think I knew that.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we are. Yes.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Good for us.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Good. Now you get on. You got a reason. No,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: there's some creators. And I will tell you, you know,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: if you've thought TikTok, if you've heard of TikTok and
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: you've thought there's nothing on there that's worth anything, there's
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: some really great creators on here. I was like, wow.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I watch YouTube videos. I watch Instagram reels.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: You know, I watch Facebook videos, YouTube shorts, the whole bit.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: But honestly, I've been in the scrolling process for TikTok.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I've been like, OK, that's creative. I really like that.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to name four of the people that
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I have seen on creators on TikTok. If you want
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: to write these down or whatnot. But first one is
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Planet Antonio. Planet Antonio does something so different, unique. And remember,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: this is live so you can interact. with Planet Antonio.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: So you're watching the content, but what does he do?
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: He takes you back to 1946. He's looking like Edward R. Murrow.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: He's in an old newsroom. It's black and white. He's
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: got an old RCA microphone that's sitting in the middle
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: of the room. The audio is also processed with that
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: type of sound. You know, the one where they sounded
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: very nasally. And he answers the people. They have questions
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: for him. You know, and it's just, he's messing around that, hey,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: he's back in 1946. Tell me what's going on. And
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting because they'll ask questions about 1946.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Did you have buses back then? Oh, yeah, we had
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: buses and we have buses here and blah, blah. So
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: it's like you're watching him stepping in time. It's creative
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: and it's kind of fun to watch. So Planet Antonio.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: The next one is Bobcut21weck, W-E-K-K. I was watching one
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: day her dancing to the song that I love that's
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: done by chemo sounds called rise slow. And I'm watching her.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: She's like, you know, old woman, it's gotta be like,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: you know, eighties dancing. And she's dancing to the song
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: perfectly and lip syncing. And I thought this kind of,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: it's kind of compelling. It's kind of interesting. Right. And
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: then after watching more videos of her do different songs
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: and really like, I'm like, wow, how does she do this?
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Babka 21 is actually a 41 year old woman from,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: I want to say, I want to say it's like
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Ukraine or Russia or whatnot, but she creates these videos
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: in tribute to her grandmother who has been very ill.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: And she just does these and she changes her look.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Sometimes she'll go young. Sometimes she dresses up in makeup
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: and clothing old. She's a lot of fun to watch.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: And the other one I wanted to recommend, and this
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: guy is amazing. Again, another one, taking the song Rise
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Slow that I like by Kimo Sounds. His name is
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Kale Brown. That's C-A-L-E Brown. And he was doing these
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: videos with his friends. And there was like 12 of
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: them all dancing to this song. I remember thinking, man,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: they got the moves down. They're looking great. Look at
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: a move. This is so cool. All in unison. They've
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: got it nailed. And I'm thinking this is, you know,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: like a show you would see, you know, on television
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: or something. And I was watching other videos. Oh, that's
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: really good. And then somebody made the comment in the
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: comments on there. How come they all look alike? And
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: then I went back and I looked at it. Wait
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. They did.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: It was all one person. 12 people, all doing a dance,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: all looking great. One person, not using AI, but using
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: camera tricks and using, you know, the ability to add
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: somebody in digitally. And it's just so well done. And
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Cale put together a three-minute video that's available on his TikTok.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Since you're not on TikTok, I can send it to you, Sean,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: so you can watch it on how he did this
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: using tools like Premiere Pro. Pro and some of the
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: other tools that are out there. And the other one
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: is one I just found recently called the Liz Effect.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: You know, what we do on radio, I love. I
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: love being able to connect. The best part about the
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: job in radio, you've said it, Sean, is when we
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: get listener questions or when I'm on the air and
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: somebody calls in and they tell me the story, they
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: tell me a song request they have or, you know,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: they want us to do a shout out. The Liz
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  Speaker 1: Effect is somebody who's never been a DJ, but she
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: plays music. And I see more and more content creators
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: playing music. So it's like Spotify, but yet you're not
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: playing the songs you want. You're just getting a hodgepodge
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of maybe 80s, 90s, rock, pop, R & B, dance,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the whole bit. But she plays music, but interacts with
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the people that are making comments. You can make requests.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: You can send her hearts, roses, stars, so that they
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: can actually be reimbursed because there can be some advertising
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: in that or whatnot. or they're staying on the platform.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: But again, very entertaining. And I thought, hmm. So those
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: are the four, Planet Antonio, K.L. Brown, Bobcut21, W.E.K.K., and
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the Liz Effect. So Sean, you've got a project. Since
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: you're not on Twitter, for next week, you've got to
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: find some YouTube reels that you like. And maybe we'll
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: give them some love and mention them.
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  Speaker 2: You should go to the channel I created for all
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: of my stuff.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. That's one. We'll have to include that. We'll
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: talk about it next week. We've got to take a break.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: We come back with more of Tech Talk Radio. I'm
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Andy Taylor.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd. You can find us on Facebook at
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Tech Talkers. We'll be right back.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: And now, back to Tech Talk Radio.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Andy, you just talked about creators that you follow on TikTok.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: So we've talked about this before where I was generating
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: parody songs for World of Warcraft through Suno. I know
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: it sounds silly, right?
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Is BlizzCon coming up?
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: BlizzCon is coming up, so I got inspired to do it.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Talked about the idea I've had for parodying these for
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: a long time, and you showed me Suno when I
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: said I had the perfect plan for this. I've spent
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: the last five months building a backlog of songs that
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: are parodies of events and themes in world of warcraft
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: set to a handful of iconic songs so.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: You're using what names that people would know okay this
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: is world of warcraft if.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: You know world of warcraft you know this stuff right
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: if you know the song you know the song you
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: may not know both but it's kind of a cool
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: if you know both it's kind of even better but
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: so in the movie euro trip there's a song called
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: scotty doesn't know matt damon sings and it's fantastic in
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: world of warcraft in wrath of the lich king which
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: came out 2008 there is a boss it's a vikral
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: like a ancient you know, vikeral boss. His name is Scotty. S-K-A-D-I.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: He's vikeral. So he's like, you know, Viking type characters.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: And I told my friends at that time, this was
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: a long time ago. This was almost 25 years ago.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: And I said, you guys, this would be the perfect
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: song to parody with this. Like, Scotty doesn't know. Scotty
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: doesn't know. And so, but then whatever. I'm not that
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: musically talented. I can't write lyrics. I can't, Right. So
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: I took the idea. I took what I kind of
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: wanted it to sound like. I took, took a lot
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: of themes that I wanted to do it. And I,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I generated it with Suno.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: And Andy, you listened to it.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: And we're going to, we're going to, we're going to
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: share it and I'm not going to spoil it for
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: anybody that wants to watch it. But if, if you
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: like parody songs like we're now on a couple other
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: things like that, like I think you'll enjoy these. If
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: you're into world of Warcraft at all, I know this
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: really isn't our listener base for world of Warcraft, but right.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Um, But you can find it at blog.techtalkradio.com.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or you can just search DeWeirdy, D-U-H-W-E, DeWeirdy on YouTube,
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: and it'll take you to the channel that I created
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: for these.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: And that's D-U-H?
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: D-U-H-W-E-I-R-D-Y. It's a play off my last name, DeWeirdy. It's
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: my gamer tag, whatever.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Tell me though, Sean, how one of the videos that
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: you have has how.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Many million views? So if you go to this web,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: if you go to my YouTube page, this was a
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: page I created back when I worked at Fox and
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I uploaded a viral clip that went viral on Facebook
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: over a decade ago. We were shooting an interview for
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: work and there was a street behind us and there
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: was a fender bender on camera. Like the car, rear
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: end of the car pushed it into the intersection.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: It all happened on camera.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: It all happened on camera. I uploaded that and... it's
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: got like 3.8 million views or something.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Wow.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: So it's not the only viral video I've had go
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: viral from when I worked in news. I've got one
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: of a kid falling asleep behind president Obama at his
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: high school graduation. I've got, I've got the, I've got
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: the Mecosta County rave video, which we've talked about on
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: the show before, which had, which had the guy who
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: threw the huge house party and had dancers and flames
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: and all sorts of stuff. So, Uh, check out, check
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: out my YouTube page to weirdy, uh, like, whatever. I'm shaming.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I'm shaming. Like, like, and subscribe. Oh my God. I'd
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: never said it.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: You could do it to us too. Tech talk. Subscribe
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: to us.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. Uh, in the meantime, have yourselves a great week.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with more. I know Justin
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: will be out next week as well.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: And I'll be able to tell you everything about BlizzCon.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Cause there, apparently there's mega, mega crazy stuff happening in
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: the world of Blizzard. So I'll talk about that next week.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: All right. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd. Have a great week.