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Episode 362 - An Ode to Hee Haw! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Welcome to another
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episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Justin LEMMI man,
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we have the show that talks about computers technology. Wait, where's Sean?
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Wait, Sean is having to get her to trouble. Oh, that's why
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we did this this way. It's really difficult to do a tech show when
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your guy's having internet out. It's this is this is the life of being
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a tech guy. Like we're like, hey, we're gonna record the show,
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and he's like, oh, yeah, I got internet issues. I'm
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gonna reboot my modem and then he comes back. I don't know what the
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problem is. Guys like, yeah, it's probably your ISP. Well,
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I'm wondering. Wasn't he supposed to they were putting fiber in his neighborhood.
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I'm kind of wondering. Did he finally? Was he gonna Was he gonna
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show up today and say I got fiber, I'm faster than any of you,
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And now he's dead in the water. Yeah, well, you know
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that very well could have been. But then I would just send him a
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screenshot of my speed test because as I actually have true gigabet fiber. As
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a matter of fact, at work, it was funny we put in dual
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fiber internet circus. So now we've got two gigs up and down, which
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is what he's supposed to be getting, right, Yeah, it's supposed to
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be I think he said, yeah, two gigs up and down. He
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couldn't find like a where you got a gig up and a gig down.
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It was always you know, gig up and maybe three hundred down. I
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ended up. You know what, this is a good I think then that
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is still amazing. It really is. I mean I I you know,
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I have an Exfinity and you know, they kept telling me, oh,
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it's faster, it's faster. It's like, where is it faster? So
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I went ahead and I did a hard reset on the modem, you know,
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completely shut out the modum, disconnected everything, shut down the router.
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Then brought the modum back after a good but ten minutes, then brought the
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router back and yeah, my speed increased to one point one point three.
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So I'm yep. I'm like, well, you know, honestly, I
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have kind of the same issue in my home, Like I don't even use
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the Bilton Wi Fi router of my century Link or I guess now they're called
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Lumen, right, I don't know, but what they're giving. They actually
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gave you one with your account, So if you wanted to use that as
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a Wi Fi router with the modem, you could, Oh yeah, sure
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you definitely could. But I I I'm basically putting my WiFi modem or I'm
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sorry, internet modem slash Wi Fi router into like a bridge mode and then
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it connects to my A sous router, and the A sous router acts as
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my wired router slash gateway and also the wireless router slash gateway. Um.
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But I even find that probably every two weeks or so, I need to
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reboot the modem by routed by Lumen, and I need to reboot my A
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sous router. It just it helps, I don't know, man, It
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just something about it, like you just have to reboot your stuff every once
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in a while and on that and that includes your computer too, all right,
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I mean, oh yeah obviously, because I'll go a week and a
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half two weeks without rebooting the computer unless the window Windows pushes an update where
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I have no choice. But I mean, I've gone that route. I've
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never even thought about this idea of rebooting the modem and the router. I
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speaking of just rebooting your computer, I actually ran across this at work.
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Somebody called me. I'm not going to mention names, okay. Somebody called
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me and said, hey, I just can't open up any programs on my
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computer. Like every time I try to do it, it just nothing happens.
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Right, And I'm like, all right, all right, let me
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check it out. So I jump onto like the screen Connect, which is
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our software that we use to do remote control. And every computer is registered
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to screen connect, so the computer reports its data to screen connect, so
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I can see it like it's IP addressed its computer name. How long it's
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been up. That's where the problem was. Oh no, how long had
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had his computer been up? This computer had been up for seven hundred and
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sixty two days. I want to say, oh my lord, really,
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And I was like, dude, do you ever reboot this computer? He's
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no, no at all, because it runs our sprinkler system. I'm like,
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okay, yeah, but is the sprinklers running at this very moment?
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No? Right, So probably you could go ahead and reboot the computer.
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And then the sprinklers will run at the same time next morning. Yeah,
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it's all automated, right, Yeah, seven hundred and sixty two plus days.
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Wow. Well, the good news is Sean has just popped into the
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show. We're hoping his microphone is working, is it, Sean? Give
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us the thumbs up or thumbs down? Yeah? Except one. Oh you're
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using your phone? Are you? So? Okay? So we've been talking
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about you know, the fact is you're getting fiber in your neighborhood, which
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is a great thing. We thought maybe you bit the bullet and you said,
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that's it. I've got fiber two gay up, two gigs down,
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and now it's something. Is that the case. I'm not sure. I
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turned it back over to Exfinity because I still have ex City right now.
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So I think I'm connected now. I'm just don't checking, but uh yeah,
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not sure. I just came downstairs. We head intern earlier and it
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was working, and now I'm back on Exfinity. It looks like I have
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connectivity now. So all right, so do you do you want to you
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want to try us back because your phone connection in the audio is just really
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awful. It's not good. Well, he's in the baseball so, yeah,
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seven hundred and sixty two days or something like seven hundred and sixty two
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days something crazy. I don't remember exactly, but I really wanted to like
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go off in this guy, like, dude, you got to reboot these
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computers, like I just it goes back to my other point being an IT
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person my whole career, I've been an IT person. Older people were ray
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in a generation where there's not a lot of computers, and I give it
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to them. I give it. I understand, Okay, you got a
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problem with your computer, I'll help you out. But these young people that
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have been raised in a generation with computers, and I've said this before,
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there is no excuse for you not to understand how to operate a smartphone or
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a computer. Because you were raised in that generation. You know how to
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turn off a computer or to reboot a phone. But yet people's stupidity amazes
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me. But you know what worries to me about this situation. But this
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guy keeping in computer on so long, and any of you listening to this
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that have not rebooted your computer in it now a great amount of time or
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wait, wait, wait till after the show. Yeah you might wait if
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you're listening to this online. Yeah, but here's the deal. You're you're
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also then at telling me you haven't done secarity updates. Yeah, you haven't
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done some of the things that you need to do to make sure your system
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is running at optimum. Most of those Windows updates require a restart, most
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all of them, and sometimes it will autodo. So I don't know how
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you've been able to bypass that for so long. But again that's saying other
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other kind of issues that that has been up that long. Let me give
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it the ending to this story. Oh there is an ending? Is it
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a happy ending? No? Guys, well, it depends on how you
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look at it. All right, this computer was also running Windows seven,
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okay, And so I said, all right, you know what I'm taking
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this computer with mere stating it. I'm confiscating it. I'm the it manager.
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Yeah. And the guy's like, no, no, no, we
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need it to water our lawns. I'm like, well, I guess you're
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doing it by hand, right, he's talking about the automation. No,
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come on, And I said, it's also a security liability. Give me
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twenty four hours, I'll reimage it and we'll give it back to you with
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a you know, brand new installation of Windows eleven in with a software blah
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blah blah. Sure there'd be a way to bypass that in most cases.
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I mean, do you mean that's well to bypass that? Maybe? Is
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there are another way? Because obviously it's switching on and off the waters throughout
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the golf course. It's controlled by a computer program. Really yeah, I
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mean there's a specialty. There's a specialty. Uh, I think I want
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to say PCI probably not even PCIe, but PCI card and it. Oh
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that's got a lot of dongles attached to it. Well, hopefully talk to
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the different with the updated system it would work, because they will find out
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tomorrow. That's you know, that's the problem. A lot of you listening
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that have businesses that maybe you're using a software program to maybe print T shirts
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or to run certain machines within your business, and they haven't grown with the
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times, or you decided I bought it one time and I'm not going to
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upgrade the license because it's too expensive. But see, that's the problems you
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can run into if you're running off us well, or even government institutions or
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educational institutions. We saw the big ransomware attack here in Tucson, and now
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they're finding out all kinds of stuff, and they're finding out that the budget
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that they had is not allowing them to upgrade them to today's standards, which
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they need to be because they are a prime target. There are just an
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absolute prime target for that. So again, I mean, that is a
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good reason to upgrade the systems. And if it means upgrading and having to
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pay for the software upgrade for a specific software program you're using, that's probably
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going to be worth it now, it will say. Though, on a
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side note, if you're running a system that has special network connections that does
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not go out to the Internet, and it works on specialized softwares and it
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is still running maybe under Window seven or even older OSS, then sometimes you
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don't have to begin if it's not reaching out to the internet, but it
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always something is something that should be thought of. But if it is a
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system that goes out onto the internet, yeah, without the security updates,
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you're running into all kinds of problems. I mean, you think about it.
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You could be down for a day or two while your computer gets upgraded,
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reimaged, whatever it is, or you could pay a million dollars to
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have your computers seized by hackers demanding ransomware or else. They won't let you
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have your system back, which controls a multimillion dollar facility, and there goes
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your operation. Yeah, so think about it. Yeah, you upgrade it
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while you can keep it updated, keeps security practices in place, and then
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you shouldn't have to worry about this kind of stuff. I'm doing this,
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matter of fact, in the next week or two for a gentleman that actually
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does own a printing company. And I went and I've done a hard drive
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upgrade for them before, where they had a hard drive die and it turns
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out the plastic was broken on the hard drive, so I switched one out
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where got all his data go and he was fine. But to my horror,
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they're running Windows XP and he was complaining because he said he couldn't get
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onto any browsers that you know, Chrome wasn't working anymore, and Internet Explorer
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of course wasn't working anymore, and he was having no luck. And now
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I think I recommend it. I said, well, I think you may
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get some luck. I've used Opera and I think he may have tried it
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for a little while and now that's not working. So they finally decided they're
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gonna They're gonna update their system. And it looks like what we're gonna do?
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You know, they're big concerned. Is this software program that works.
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They weren't sure if it would work under Windows ten, but it works under
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Windows XP. They weren't sure. So I told him, I said,
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well, your your I could come give you a loaner system. You could
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test install your software on it and go that route. But why bother,
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why don't we just go the other route. You're gonna need to upgrade your
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system anyways, buy a new computer, which they're doing, so I'm I'm
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specking one out for them, and then we're gonna try PC mover. I've
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had good luck with that in the past. We're gonna try and see if
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we can just move the files over that way, see if that'll work.
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If not, we'll do a reinstalled and see and if it means him having
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to spend more money to keep his operation going, he's ready to do that.
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Finally, Sure, good, So that's gonna be the way to go.
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I think we might have Sean back, but she's right now, yeah,
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all right, I'm back, all right, good. Good to have
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your back. Nothing's a lot of stuff is not working right now in my
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house. So now any idea what happened? No lights? Yeah, well
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right now, I'm on Axfinity, so I'm not on metro Net all right,
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So Metronet not giving the ideas, not giving me out, not giving
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me an output. But it really upset my wise light bulbs apparently that's why
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I'm not blue that you're sitting on the video. I'm not I'm not sitting
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in the dark. But you know, honestly, this this actually looks better,
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it really does. It focuses more on your beautiful face in the background.
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Yeah. No, so we you know, we we were having some
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issues like with our phones earlier and I didn't think anything of it, right,
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so, you know, just defaulted to our you know, five G.
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But the cell phone coverage in our neighborhood has gotten significantly worse, significantly
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worse over the last Yeah. So I'm talking one bar sometimes no bars and
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service. So and it's it's come up in our HIA meetings, has come
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up in our neighborhood meetings, has come up in our county meetings. Is
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it on next door? I'm sure you're finding that on next door it's face
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the Facebook group. Well, kay, lets sees it on the Facebook group
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next door. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I'm not sure what no,
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no, I am, I'm sorry. I get on there now just
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to read. I just think it's funny just because I'm not I'm not getting
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any so as I go over to Metronet, it gives me nothing. So
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now what met they're not quite ready Metronet is this new service you're going to
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be jumping over to correct? Yeah, my Metronet is is a fiber provider,
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at least in this part of the country. Um, and it's been
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great for the last week that I've had it, right, Oh, so
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you've already had it for a week and then it just oh yeah, yeah,
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I've had it for you know. Uh, you know, we didn't
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do a show last week, and uh I did. I got I got
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it two days after the last show that we recorded. Sorry being Sean didn't
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do it. Yes, I were not available last week. I had show.
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I had to do my own all right, Dad, did you test
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the speeds on the Yeah, I was getting about eight ninety up about nine.
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Well, um, that's okay. You know what I was going to
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make fun of you. But that's actually pretty close to what I was getting.
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I usually get about nine and about eight. Yeah, so it was
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it was almost reversed back a little backwards. But um, the two gig
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service is not available in my area right now? Now what do they have
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to do now? Not what the online portion told me. Oh, the
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guy told me that the two gig service wasn't available here yet because it's they
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haven't rolled everything out here yet, so they can't. I don't know.
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He gave me some bs, but um, it went fine. You know,
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the guy came and ran the line to my neighbor's backyard, which is
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where the hub is. So my neighbor is really upset. He's also a
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coworker mine. Right when I told him I was getting metured at, he
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was visibly upset because he metured At has to get his permission to come into
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his backyard because that's where the hub is for our type. Oh oh wow,
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that's where the affinity boxes. Apparently that's just where the infrastructure. I
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have no idea. I mean, legally, that's your property, right,
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so like if they have their stuff on your property, do you like?
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I'm sure at the County easement. I'm sure it's an easement. It was
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considered an easement for the county. For a while, it was great and
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I was getting great up, great down, and today we just started having
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some weird you know, our phones weren't connecting. I didn't think anything of
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it, you know, I'll put Max down to bed, was doing some
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stuff around the house, and then came down to get ready for the show
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and nothing. Well, you're neighbor probably disconnected. You Yeah, this kind
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of thinking. You're lucky you're able to switch over to Exfinity though. That
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makes great well because I have it until you know, least I just paid
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my Exfunity bill, so I've got it. I'm you know, not going
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to turn it in until at least my services up. But um yeah,
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so I just flipped it over to Exfudity and pop it up. So I'm
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gonna have to There's no outage map recorded, so I'm gonna have to call
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them and see what's going on. So you can jump on down to down
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Detector if anybody is ever looking to see if a service is down, whether
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it be cable service or even even apps or even um yeah, it's a
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great resource. You go on to downdetector dot com and basically type into a
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search of what you're looking for, and it can even triangulate for your area,
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so you gotta let them know you know where you're at. But either
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way, I mean, that's a that's a great resource, very easy to
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Yeah, all right, yeah that works out. I'll take I'll take a
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look. But yeah, exits up and working well. Good, good to
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have you. I don't know if you guys heard. We got a chance
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to listen to the playback of the show last week, but um, and
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then the week before that, which actually just got posted as well. Um.
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Of course Eric makes his debut in that show, so justin you're gonna
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have to actually have to listen to one of our shows to hear that in
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the second segment. But come on, I do the show. I have
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to listen to it. Yes, you gotta listen to it as well.
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But uh, pretty cool. Last week we talked about this and it's so
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bizarre. So we talked about having Ben Sawyer on from an interview I found
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that we did back in I want to say it was nineteen ninety nine,
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our ninety seven, somewhere around there, said Ben Sawyer, Yeah, Ben
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Sawyer who wrote this book with Justin Frankel, all about um uh when MP
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three power and it was all about the power of MP three using Winamp of
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course, and then shout casts and we aired that interview and it's a great
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interview. So if it's up on the archives, if you missed it,
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that interview has been hidden. We found a hard drive with that on there.
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And then Michael Giacchino, the guy who does the music for some great
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video games, called it duty Star Trek movies. He's done those. The
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show Lost in the Whole Bit had him on the show, but it was
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it was really cool because I'm I just jumped online like the next day and
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zd net had a story that MP three players are still viable. People are
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still buying MP three players even if you can, you know, carry your
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smartphone with your music. Some people just like to have the MP three you
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copy of from your computer and there you go and carry him with you.
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Those people are called normal well in the old days, yeah, yeah,
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because I mean everybody now wants to you know, well, I guess maybe
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I should say everybody. Maybe they're not normal, but everybody wants to carry
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their cell phones everywhere, but you know, people go on jogs or bike
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rides or whatever. They don't want to have to carry a bulky cell phone,
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no matter how small it is. Yeah, it's still bulky to have
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like a tiny little MP three player that I could load up, you know,
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twenty thirty songs and just go on a run. Right, that's the
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market for that, I think, Yeah, I think it makes it easy.
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I had one of the first MP three players, that Diamond Real PMP
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three hundred, which I still had to You had that too, That was
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a great little MP three player, had n ST card on it. You
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could easily change it out, copy of music, you had skip features.
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I mean it was super, super well designed. Diamond was huge back then.
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They had the video cards. They had had this this MP three player,
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and they never happened to them. You know, Diamond's still around,
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but they don't make the products like I don't think they produced the products like
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they used to. I mean they used to really have high end of an
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audio cards, video cards maybe audio cards sure, but like even you said
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a couple of shows ago, audio cards are kind of a dying fat unless
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you like an audio file. But I haven't heard the name Diamond and twenty
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years Diamond Multimedia. Diamond MM I think was their original website. And I
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don't even know. You know, it was funny because when Ben was on
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the show last week, he was talking about websites that you know, I
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pulled him up at websites gone, MP three power is actually available if somebody
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wants to buy it. But you know, I guess, you know,
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we've come a long way. It's it's kind of like, dude, we
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should totally buy that and redirect it to tech talk radio dot com. Wouldn't
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that be great? We have a couple of sites out there that do that.
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Like one of the one of the domains I bought when Anne Wilson of
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Heart. I'll be honestly, I own it. And Wilson of Heart you
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know she uh somebody Heart like yeah, the group like yeah there, like
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the singing group. Yeah yeah. They So somebody had commented she had held
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up a shirt and it was like, you know, it was Anne Wilson
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for President, right, So what do you think I did? I one
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online and said, oh, look this domain is available. So I bought
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the domain and Wilson for President dot com. Uh. And but I was
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a nice guy. I wasn't a jerk. I went ahead and pointed it
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too, of course, her website, and I mean, but then she
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got rid of that website, her own personal website, and now it just
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goes nowhere in them. I'm thinking I should renew it and pointed to ours.
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So I don't know if Wilson Wilson is this part of the Wilson Sisters
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or whatever. Again, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart so so so Anne.
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I'm sorry we're kind of diving into music here, but we understand Anne
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Wilson was a part of Heart. But what was her sister's Nancy? Was
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she also a part of Heart? Yes, it was Anne and Nancy.
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Nancy was high, okay, okay, But then they formed the Wilson Sisters
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as a different group. No, your way off, No, the Wilson
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Phillips will do you think of Wilson Phillips. Yeah, yeah, that's a
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different group. That's a totally different group. And that's what the that's what
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the daughter of um Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. There's just too many.
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Darmond and China Phillips, the daughter of Papa John Phillips, seriously,
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Yes, really, I would love it if you would have ever met the
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Wilson Phillips and said I liked it when you were in arts. I probably
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would have, and then you would have just you just probably just sitting background
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way face planted. Yes, yeah, but yeah, so yeah, domans
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domains are cool. I mean planted. Wasn't he the lead singer of led
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Zeppelin? Oh you guys are way after track now he's great. Hold on,
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I gotta turn this bust around. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm done.
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I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. Diamond Multimedia or Diamond MM
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dot com right still they dive, they still exist, they still exist.
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What they mostly do They mostly do wireless a V like wireless, HDMI cap,
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video capture cards, docking stations, USB adapters, a little bit more
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of a niche market. Yeah, I don't know. I remember they used
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to do a TV card and it was kind of cool because then TV capture
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card and then you could watch TV on your PC. Then hapeg you know,
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was was out there competing with them, and I think a Peg put
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out a pretty good product and help Gato. They had a really good TV
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tuner that you could you know, connect to your PC the via USB.
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That made it a lot easier. But I think Diamond was doing a lot
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of that too. And I can't remember the name of their capture card,
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but I had one and it was good. You know. People would come
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over and they'd be like, oh, you're watching TV on your computer.
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They didn't understand that technology. Everything's done with stream technology and innovation. All
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right, we got a lot of stuff talk about today on the show.
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Um FBI sending out a warning. Uh, they're finding out that AI is
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uh the ultimate password cracker and so if you do not have a password manager
24:00
that will allow you to do long characters, you need to start thinking about
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it because artificial intelligence and is using computing power to crack passwords now and boy,
24:14
howdy do I have a password protector for you. We come back more
24:18
of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Weird, and I'm
24:22
justin. Let me find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com.
24:25
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio. So before
24:30
the break, we talked about the need for password managers. And we have
24:33
mentioned password management before on the show. I mean many times we've talked about
24:40
the need for this. Now you can always store your passwords and your browser,
24:45
which is not recommended any browser used, Edge, Chrome, Firefox.
24:52
Every time you go to type into password, it's like, wha, would
24:55
you like me to store your password? It's super secure? Not yeah,
25:00
but what happens if Google crashes the password manager, which is what happened to
25:06
mine and I was suddenly forced to listen to you guys finally and get a
25:11
password manager, And that's exactly what I did. And you what what?
25:17
You just finally listen to us? Yeah? Yeah, a while, it's
25:19
a couple of years. Love you too, buddy. All right, but
25:22
here's the deal. Here's the deal. Have you noticed Google is running ads
25:26
now about hey, store your password with us story in our browser because it's
25:33
easy because we have enough of your information. But we're just missing that fin
25:36
a little. Why is this not a good idea other than you know,
25:40
maybe crashing and losing half of your passwords or all of them. Um,
25:44
it's a security risk, isn't it. First off, you don't want to
25:48
trust Google with every bit of your information. I mean, they have enough
25:53
information about us already. Now you're gonna give them your passwords to your bank
25:59
and to everything else. I mean, this is this is just wrong in
26:03
so many ways. All it takes us for you to click on one bad
26:07
link and somebody can get all that information for your Chrome. That's right,
26:11
I mean somebody. It's it's a lot of people think that, oh,
26:15
it's not that hard to store your stuff in Chrome or whatever. Well I
26:18
can sit down if you're logged into Chrome, and I can go in into
26:22
Chrome and see all your store passwords and click a button and then reveal those
26:26
passwords. You can also export them as a CSV file, which once you
26:30
have that exported file, you're taken with you. You pop into Excel or
26:33
or even you know, open Office in the spreadsheet programming. You could see
26:37
it there. You give you all the passwords. The thing is people,
26:41
Yeah, it's just people will trust Google too much. Just keep stuff secure
26:45
when it's not. The thing is is browsers. You know Firefox. I
26:48
know we're here talking trash about Chrome, okay, because that is the world's
26:53
wideliest widelyest There you go, that wiliest used browser. I can't spell it.
27:00
Don't even ask you a world why leader? Sure? Why not?
27:04
The number one browser? Sure, let's go with that. But the thing
27:07
is Google Chrome or Firefox or Edge or whatever brave. They are kind of
27:15
like a password manager for you, right, because you store your passwords with
27:21
them, but you have you have a Google Chrome account, which happens to
27:25
be your Gmail. So in essence, your passwords to your entire digital life
27:32
is only as secure as your Google password. Yeah, if you use if
27:36
your Google password is password one two three, but then you're using the Google
27:41
password manager to come up with like twenty three character long hyphenated special character ask
27:48
keys, it doesn't matter because everything can be hacked with your Gmail password,
27:55
which happens to be password one two three. And yes, Frank, you're
27:59
listening. I know that's your password. Frank, Frank, what are you
28:03
doing here? Here's a really scary note about this. So AI can be
28:08
great, right, Well, have you heard about Wonderful. Wonderful is an
28:12
AI that can crack the most common passwords almost instantly. Now I have a
28:21
program from a company that can help crack a password to be able to access
28:26
like access the actual password system of the computer, can access RAR files,
28:33
zip files in case that forensics are needed for that. Right, and it
28:37
works, It works great. It can take a while. Been working three
28:41
months on a pretty complex password as well, So three months mind you now
28:45
wonderful. This AI password cracker can figure out the most common four to seven
28:49
character passwords in a matter of seconds. Seconds, and that includes here's the
28:59
field you guys might be thinking about. That means password one, two,
29:02
or three four right. This includes passwords with upper and lowercase letters and numbers
29:08
in really seconds. So but but no special characters though. Yeah, I
29:15
don't know if once you start throwing the alphae, you know the alphae in
29:18
there, you've got the pound signed, the exclamation point, the dollars signed,
29:21
the it's yeah, it's gonna take. It's going to add a little
29:25
to that. But the fact that it can work this fast because of the
29:29
computing power we have today has got to be very scary, and that is
29:33
why it's worth the investment for a password manager to get one that's reliable.
29:38
We all like one pass that has been really good. One password dot com.
29:45
That is the one I recommend by far, because what I love about
29:48
one password is not only do you have to sign in to your account on
29:53
a browser, but if it is a new browser or a new computer,
29:59
even if it's the same browser. You will store a backup or whatever.
30:03
When you signed that browser and you download the one password extension, right,
30:07
it's going to ask you not only for your master password, but it's going
30:12
to ask you for your account master key, which is not short at all.
30:18
It's not short at all. No, it's ridiculously long, like gosh,
30:22
thirty two characters in No, let's say thirty five characters in like seven
30:29
seven blocks. Yeah, that makes sense, like five characters seven blocks.
30:34
You have to have that all that information. So even if somebody were to
30:38
even get your master password to your one password, they could never sign in
30:44
to your one password unless they had the master key to also decrypt that vault
30:49
on their computer. So it's really really secure in my opinion. So somebody
30:56
listening to us right now, all right, Frank, hopefully you'll do it.
30:59
But anybody else listening to this, thinking, William, I hear these
31:02
guys talking about it, Maybe it makes sense, especially now I'm telling you
31:04
this info on AI. So say they have it already integrated into Edge,
31:08
or they already have an integrated into Chrome, can they go in and delete
31:14
all those passwords? Once they go ahead and reset up everything and then be
31:18
good to go or is it automatically going to store them? And because one
31:22
pass, it will take a little while for you to really get up to
31:25
speed on it and understand it. And one pass does have a browser extension,
31:30
Yes it does. They do. Yeahah, so I'm thinking, you
31:33
know, should they should definitely not keep those passwords in the browser itself.
31:38
Could go in and remove those. Yeah. So if you download the browser
31:42
extension for one password, and again there's also other password managers that do roughly
31:48
the same thing, but we're talking about one password. If you download the
31:52
browser extension to one password, whenever you're on a website that requires your log
31:57
in information, one password will prompt you to say, hey, I know
32:02
that I have something here in my vault. Should I use it? That
32:07
that that you might need here? It's like, hey, I got something
32:12
you might want, but but if you want it, you got to unlock
32:15
me first. Yeah, here, what do you have to do? That
32:17
voice? I don't know that was a really badly bad Brooklyn accent. Um,
32:23
Hey, I just watched the Super Mario Brothers movie. Okay, yes,
32:28
um, we'll talk about that later. But no, I mean yes,
32:30
so you you have to you have to unlock the password manager to make
32:36
it work first. So hey, now costwise, Sean, I know you
32:39
kind of covered it this last time we talked about it. One month for
32:45
five for five users. It's easy to do, right, and I'm gonna
32:47
tell you right now, So don't lose your master password emergency kit. I'm
32:52
trying to log in down my desktop, which I haven't done before. If
32:54
it requires my secret key, which I just had to go get from a
33:00
secured PDF file that I had saved, don't lose that because otherwise I wouldn't
33:04
build a log in. I actually with my secure key, I actually printed
33:08
it out and I put it in a bank vault and then I deleted any
33:12
reference to it. So if I ever have to get on a new computer
33:16
to launch my one password, I literally have to go to the bank to
33:22
get that out of the document. I take the computer with me, I'll
33:27
log in, I'll put the you know, the master key on it,
33:31
and then I will save it, and then I will put that document back
33:36
in my bank and then you won't be able to find my master key on
33:38
any of my computers. Don't make the mistake that some people have made in
33:42
years passed around their office computer or their desktop computer where they take a piece
33:46
of paper and they write their lug in password next to the computer. I
33:52
put it under the monitor or even under the keyboard that way. Well yeah,
33:55
so it's it's like it's like at work, right, we get we
33:59
get yelled for sharing emails. Like some people will still say, hey,
34:04
I'm logged out of this machine. Here's you know, what's the password?
34:07
And I'll send them a one password thing. It's like, hey, I
34:08
can't get into my one password. Can you just email to me? No,
34:12
figure it out. I'm not sending a plain text and email. It's
34:15
things like that that internally they will scan emails and if you're sending passwords in
34:20
plain text, they'll flag those and you'll get a nasty gram saying hey,
34:23
don't send emails a plain text. Yep. Yeah, So have the most
34:28
elaborate password for you, especially you know, I'm just connecting your bank self
34:30
security, I mean all of that. Whatever you're using, make sure it's
34:35
an elaborate system. That's why you want to use the password manager, and
34:37
well, we recommend one past there may be others out there that will work
34:42
for you that you might want to try, but Honestly, if you're gonna
34:45
go, we think that's one of the best routes to go. Couldn't this
34:47
help in a legacy situation where somebody unfortunately passes away and that happens that if
34:53
they had that master password, they had that stored in a safe deposit box,
34:59
and somebody gets that, somebody has the authorization to go to that safe
35:01
deposit box and has access then to the password. That would enable them to
35:07
then do whatever they needed to for the family. With bank accounts and you
35:12
know, maybe retirement accounts, they would be able to do that. So
35:15
that's honestly not a bad way to go to get that Get that master password,
35:19
you know, get it installed in your systems, and then take that
35:22
and go put it in a safe deposit box. A lot of people have
35:23
them. So I mean because the thing is this, Yeah, I mean
35:27
that, that's exactly That's exactly the reason I did what I did is because,
35:32
you know, God forbid, I should mean an early demise, right,
35:37
I want to be able to have my family be able to access everything
35:40
on my computer except for my browser history. Um and took this second on
35:47
that way, Yes, yeah, I was waiting for it. Hello,
35:52
this is your cue to laugh. Um, No, but I'm I mean
35:57
yes. I want them to be able to access every thing that I would
36:00
be able to because then it'll make the transition to the next stage a lot
36:07
easier. Right, Um, yeah, you have you have so many different
36:09
ways. What about what about digital currency? I don't know if you sold
36:14
all yours to have all that? No, I have all that in a
36:16
safety deposit box as well. That is also something to think about it.
36:20
And I have it actually sitting in my trust for my son Eric. Right,
36:25
hopefully it'll be it'll still be worth money when after it'll be worth a
36:30
lot of money by then. Yeah, there's been able to buy so many
36:32
legos. There's there's been a lot of talk recently too about how bitcoin could
36:38
could happen, could be going up, not not that we're recommending it quite
36:44
in a bullmarket yet not yet. We come back. I gotta tell you
36:47
about this new Massive Arcade game, which is pretty cool, and why the
36:52
FBI is sending you a warning. Will do that with more of tech Talk
36:55
Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird, and I'm justin let me
37:00
this is TikTok Radio. Wow, that's good. Will be right back now
37:06
back to TikTok radio. So it's back to the movie. COVID took a
37:12
really big hit on the movie, right, and yeah, there's spent some
37:15
big blockbusters that have come out this year. I just recently saw the Dungeons
37:19
and Dragons movie, which was pretty incredible in my opinion, but justin just
37:22
saw the Actually, my son and I went to go see the Super Mario
37:27
Brothers movie, and honestly, I heard a lot of really bad things really
37:32
about the movie. I just heard that it wasn't really good and blah blah
37:36
blah. But you know what, we've got somebody who's the best critic of
37:39
them all. Eric, What did you think about the movie? Good?
37:45
Like critic? Good? Yeah, you liked it. What was the best
37:49
part of the movie when when toads it don't touch that match? Well,
37:53
do touch the what? Don't touch the mushroom? Okay the mushroom? Yeah?
37:58
But but did you like Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario? Yes?
38:02
Yes, okay, okay? Is he spelling something from the movie.
38:09
I haven't seen that. No, he's spelling poop oh and you're gone.
38:15
And there we go. We try it out that was great. Actually,
38:20
no, right, we we we we we enjoyed it. We actually enjoyed
38:22
it. I heard a lot of stuff time for heehaw. What do you
38:28
make it this kid watch? Seriously, you make him watch bad television shows
38:34
from the seventies he and he haw. Yeah, I would never. First
38:37
off, you could call child support or child protective services for that, because
38:43
I would never let him watch he haw. Okay, that's that's his cruel
38:47
as kind. No, yes, but no, we went. We went
38:51
to the Mario movie. I I heard a lot of aboud things about it.
38:54
He doesn't been good. Everybody keeps saying how good it is. It
38:58
is now it's the blockbuster hit of this last week. I mean it are
39:02
just grossing animated movie of all time. Yeah wait wait, wait, hold
39:07
up, you didn't hear that. Yeah, it's it's the highest grossing animated
39:12
movie of all time. Now. See, I'm starting to wonder if all
39:15
of these people that are doing these hate things on like movies and IP like
39:22
intellectual property, think back to what was it, like a month and a
39:24
half ago, all these people were bashing that new Harry Potter video game.
39:30
All of a sudden it becomes the greatest, like one of the fastest selling
39:34
video games of all time. Everybody that I've heard has been talking bad about
39:37
the Mario movie, saying it's not true to character, blah blah blah blah
39:43
blah. Sean is telling me it's the fastest selling animated movie of all time.
39:47
Well, all right, here's what people need to think about when,
39:51
and I don't think enough people think this way. Guys, we are in
39:55
a circle and everybody that gets onto Twitter, that gets see into Facebook,
40:00
that gets into any of the social media sites out there, you put yourself
40:06
in a circle. Now you might not put yourself there, but it's the
40:09
people that are around that circle. That's why it's important to be very careful
40:15
of who you accept as friends, whether it be on Twitter, on Facebook,
40:20
Instagram, Snapchat, the whole bit, because you get put in that
40:22
circle, that is the info you're going to be fed. A difference of
40:25
opinions is always good, but remember if they're with that circle that is negative,
40:31
negative, negative, Nancy, and you're overhearing, You're like, I
40:35
just want to experience it, Like I want to see the movie from myself
40:38
and make the opinion. I agree with you on so many different factors.
40:44
But here's a different point of view on one of those is personally with my
40:49
social media, I like to invite all different types of people, yeah,
40:52
to my social media. I don't want to be called because I'm conscious of
40:58
that circle. If you say, right, yeah, because there is that
41:01
is there's definitely truth to that. You will align yourself with people that you
41:06
agree with. I like to align myself with people that I disagree with as
41:10
well, right because I kind of want to see their point of view.
41:15
And so I guess, you know, not to get into political discussion,
41:19
but that kind of puts me in the middle because I'm willing to listen to
41:22
the other side. Whereas what you're saying is you can find yourself getting in
41:27
that whirlpool of the same type of people and the same type of content,
41:34
and before you know it, you're already down the drain. But don't forget
41:37
it is important that no matter what somebody says online, no matter what opinion
41:43
they share or something they say, I know this to be true, to
41:46
take it all with a grain of salt, even if it's coming from some
41:50
of the closest people that you know, so that you form your own opinions
41:54
and you don't let them straight be an individual. And I've told my kids
41:59
that for years, to be themselves. And that's it's really important, especially
42:04
when it comes to social media. Like say, somebody in that circle that
42:07
you maybe don't always interact with and you don't really always like, and they
42:13
say something there's some sense to that, you click on the like you're gonna
42:16
get fed more of that opposing side, so be ready for it. And
42:22
you know that's that's really like the sad thing about it is it's you've got
42:27
to be kind of visually careful about what you're commenting on, what you're liking,
42:30
what you know, what you're seeing out there online. Now, the
42:35
reviews i've heard, like your your review is good. Eric's review is good
42:40
as well, even though he likes Hehaw. I'm looking forward to see what
42:44
Sean thought of Dungeons to Dragons because everything has been Mario, but it's not
42:47
been Dungeons to Dragons. I was just gonna say, you notice how Sean
42:52
had been silent this whole time while we were talking about social media. It's
42:54
because he's not on social media, but I'm not. Yeah, yeah,
42:59
so did you how did you get the reviews about the movie. What made
43:01
you say I want to go see it? Oh? I still look,
43:05
I still actively search for stuff on the internet when I'm interested in it,
43:07
right, and you still used Reddit, so I'm not off all social media?
43:12
Right? Well, real quick, before we find out about Duntons and
43:15
dragons, Sean, when it comes to Super Mario Brothers, you've got to
43:17
think about it. With the success of the movie, this is a this
43:20
is good. It means we're gonna see merchandizing, We're gonna see sequel.
43:24
Hello, we already have merchandizing, it's called Nintendo. Yeah, but I
43:28
mean we're gonna see further stuff tied to the movie, which, you know,
43:31
the kids are liking it, the adults are liking it. It's kind
43:35
of a bit of nostalgia. It's kind of a shame that there dogging's so
43:38
bad on the nineteen ninety three you know, Super Mario Brothers Live action movie
43:44
with it sucks. It was pretty bad with the late Bob Hoskins and John
43:47
Legazamo. It was flat. It was like hard to like follow. Did
43:53
you hear he's like trash talking this one, John Legazamo, Yeah, he
43:58
said he won't see it, which which shame. I'd take. Go see
44:00
it, you know, draw your opinions afterwards. I don't even know exactly
44:04
what he's talking about, but he's just like trash in this movie, like,
44:07
oh, it's not blahlah blah blah or whatever. I'm like, yeah,
44:09
did you even see it? See it for your He hasn't seen it,
44:13
said he won't. You gotta see it for yourself. Like again,
44:15
Dungeons and Dragons. All right, I didn't play it. I want to
44:19
see this. My co worker said she didn't want to see it because she's
44:22
never played I said, I dabbled in Dungeons and Dragons, but the movie
44:25
is a fantasy film based on that Dungeons and Dragons from what I understand,
44:30
am I sean help me out here? Dug Dragons? I miss the first
44:32
part. I was reading more about the movie. I was reading into the
44:37
ratail. Tell us your review. Let all right, give us your review
44:42
of Dungeon Dragons the movie. Yes, the Dungeon Dragons the movie was great.
44:46
And I would have to bring in my co worker to kind of because
44:51
I was one song with a co worker right. I had a day off
44:52
last week and I called him up so let's go see this movie, and
44:57
I will tell you that the storyline felt it was very They did an action
45:05
scene and then they were at the next part. They did an action scene.
45:07
Then there there was no like transitioning between places. There was no right
45:12
time, kind of like the game. Yeah, so if you were sitting
45:14
and playing Dudgeons Dragons, right, You're not going to spend a whole session
45:17
traveling from point A to point B. You're just gonna be like, you
45:21
traveled seven days, you ate this much food, you drank this much wine,
45:23
you got this fire. But yeah, yeah, so the movie felt
45:28
very segmented. It was like, hey, action scene, all right,
45:30
next story, next story element, action scene, next story elements. It
45:35
felt like you were watching people play Dudgeons and dragons. Really okay, that's
45:40
yeah. The way the characters interacted with each other, it felt like you
45:45
were in the dialogue. So you got like different personalities in the actors too,
45:52
right, because those are like there's like a smart alec and then there's
45:54
like the brute and then there's like the shy person. Right. Yeah,
45:59
I mean everybody kind of placed their own style, right, which is which
46:04
is good and it takes that's an element of the game. Right, every
46:07
player character brings that element to their in game character, right, So,
46:14
and it was good, right, And there are elements of the game where
46:15
it's like, as as somebody who has been a dungeon master and who has
46:20
played as a character, as played played as a player character, there are
46:23
elements of this rego, oh yeah, I can see how they came up
46:27
with that, because they're trying to describe this creature. And this creature looks
46:30
miserable on the screen, but that's how somebody might have described it in the
46:34
game, right at the specific scenes in the movie. As as somebody who
46:38
has been a dungeon master who's had to come up with stuff on the fly
46:40
and be creative, it's like, oh, I can see how if I
46:45
described this that that's how it would look to somebody. So now, okay,
46:49
so I'm kind of understanding it. So people are playing dungeons or dragons,
46:52
but now the what they're doing in the game is now being related to
46:57
on the big screen. Is that it? Yeah? Now, Chris Pine,
47:00
I know is in it. Uh, And I'm trying to think who
47:04
else is a part of it. Well, let let's Sean look up.
47:07
I am dB. Yeah, that's a great. Honestly, this is this
47:10
is a really good movie. I mean you think about it, you think
47:15
Dungeon Dragons. Uh yeah, I'm not gonna see that. No, this
47:17
is actually a really cool movie and I can't wait to see it. I'm
47:22
gonna go see it this weekend. You know, it's it's it's really good.
47:24
And even if you don't like or if you're like you're hesitant because oh
47:29
it's dungeons dragons, I'm not gonna do a thing about dungeons dragons, like
47:32
I don't I don't know. I don't play dungeons dragons. My co worker
47:36
doesn't play dungchets dragons. Right, he's interested in playing Dustons dragons. And
47:40
he's now more interested. He's like, that was fun, Like I enjoyed
47:44
that movie. Is this what it's like playing It's like, yeah, yep,
47:47
what you watch is how it feels playing Dustess dragons. Like the chaos,
47:52
the fun, the crying, the you know, I cried during the
47:54
movie because it's you. They got you so invested. Wait wait, hold
47:59
on a cry like a laughing cry or like a sad cry, sad cry?
48:02
What? Oh? Yeah? Yeah, And there was laughing, crying
48:06
too, right there there's some moments that they're just like so unbelievable, but
48:09
that's dumpet and dragons, right there are there are scenarios and games that are
48:14
just so unpredictable and so out of control of your mind, right that you
48:20
just can't think of the possibilities how your your mind can come up with these
48:23
ideas and stuff, right, and those are relaid on the silver screen,
48:28
right. So it's it's really fun. And I'm pulling up the castle list
48:30
because you're gonna I'm gonna read these castle lists off, right, like,
48:35
just give us like the first four. Who's the first four on them?
48:38
So Chris Pine, right, michell Enriquez igaan page, Oh yeah, from
48:46
Bridgerton. He's he's a guy, this guy that was in the first season.
48:50
Everybody fell in love with him. And then he's like, okay,
48:52
I'm gone, Yeah, he's gonna go fight dragons now, Justice Smith.
48:58
Who's that? So Sophia Lillis all right? Grant Grant? Oh yeah,
49:01
you Grant. He does great interviews. Four Weddings in a Funeral, Yeah,
49:09
behind Blighters, but those are kind of the big ones. But it's
49:15
really good. I want to go see it so bad? All right,
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we're gonna have to maybe make that a plan. Can I can I just
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give it work quick? About that Mari movie, Yeah, it really was
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pretty cool. I mean, yes, we're missing so many different facets of
49:30
the movie, but honestly, there were so many little like little background behind
49:35
the scenes type of thing. If you if you're not watching the main character,
49:37
you're kind of looking off to the side of the screen and you'll see
49:39
coming off easter egg and there's stuff going on. And the cast was not
49:45
that bad. Everybody was given Chris um, oh my gosh, now you
49:49
say Chris Pines and maybe you think that Chris Pratt, thank you. They
49:52
were giving so much grief about his character. He didn't do that bad of
49:55
a job just because he didn't speak like mad didn't. It's me. It's
50:01
it's me, you know, it's they took They got an a list cast
50:06
to do the Yeah, yep. And a lot of people have mixed feelings
50:10
about Chris Pratt because he's been in so many different movies recently. Everybody's burned
50:15
out. They're like, oh, you could have found somebody originally could have
50:17
found the original voice. Oh oh, they got they wanted that. I
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like Jack Black is in it as well. He plays a decent job.
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Yeah, he plays bowser. He did. Now. The only person that
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I didn't recognize from the cast, honestly was Princess Peach. She's kind of
50:34
an I mean maybe maybe from my generation, but an an unknown. Was
50:37
it Anna Taylor Joy? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, she's good?
50:44
Is she? She was in Um? She was in a really good
50:47
series on Netflix that I just loved. And I'm trying to remember what the
50:51
what that series was, Sean, you're the master of the IMDb right now?
50:54
What was it? He is? Um? She did Queen's Gambet?
50:59
Queen's Gambit? Did you ever see the we started watching that sheep? Wait
51:02
does she play She's She's the main character of Queens Gambit? Oh my god,
51:07
yeah, seriously, yeah that's her. Yeah, Oh my god.
51:10
My wife is gonna blow her mind right now because oh yeah, she's washed
51:15
Queen's Gambit. No, she had no idea. Oh my god. All
51:17
right, let me tell you about Let me tell you about this kind of
51:21
ties in to Super Mario Brothers, one of my favorite arcade games. When
51:24
I used to go to the arcade, the way in Park Mall and drop
51:27
quarters in was Donkey Kong. I love Donkey Kong of course. The Strong
51:31
National Museum of Play and you can look this up, it's in New York
51:36
has unveiled a massive Donkey Kong arcade cabinet that's nearly twenty feet tall. Uh.
51:44
The cabinet will be available for actual play because if you're standing, the
51:47
controls are right there, like near your chess level. But um, when
51:53
it's fully installed on June thirtieth. If you want to see the pictures,
51:57
you can check out Strong Museum on Twitter to see the photos of the largest
52:01
Donkey Kong arcade game. Oh wow, that you're gonna be able to play.
52:07
We're looking at I'm showing them rendering right now from from the from Polygons
52:10
website, and it's got a three D rendered person in front of this.
52:15
It's ginormous. We'll ahead and pop the photo up on our blog. As
52:17
a matter of fact, you could subscribe to our blog blog dot tech talk
52:22
radio dot com and check out the photo there to see what this massive arcade
52:24
looks like. Quick FBI warning where we come back with more of Tech Talk
52:29
Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de weird and I'm justin let me
52:32
send us a tweet at tech talk Radio. We'll be right back and now
52:37
back to tech talk Radio. So I've been kind of teasing this whole FBI
52:42
thing, and not for We've just been having a fun discussion about stuff.
52:45
But the FBI is warning. We have talked about this before here on tech
52:49
talk Radio. Correct me if I'm wrong, guys. FBI is warning against
52:52
using public phone charging stations. They are finally saying, now bad actors have
52:57
figured out ways to use this public speed ports, introduced malware and monitoring software.
53:02
They're saying, this goes for airports, hotels, shopping centers. So
53:07
why is this. I mean, you go to your favorite coffee shop and
53:09
there you see a charging station. You don't want to use that because somebody
53:14
could have changed it. You could plug it, it could be plugged into
53:15
a computer. On the other end, it could just be sucking the data
53:19
off your phone. It could have like a little brick charging station that looks
53:22
like it's part of the coffee shop. Could have like a raspberry pie with
53:24
a storage unit on it that could be copying everything you do on your phone
53:29
or everything. Not even a lap you do, yeah, passively, laptop
53:32
whatever, you do. Not want to plug anything into a public charging station
53:38
period. Do you remember this happened a few years ago. We talked about
53:42
it back then, where people were dropping USB courts. So somebody sees a
53:45
USB court and it's like, oh, that's kind of cool. Oh it
53:49
has it has a lightning connector, or it has a USB you know,
53:52
B or C or A or whatever, and they would plug their devices in.
53:55
But that small little connector that was on there was an to capture keystrokes
54:00
or you know, information or data being passed through, and people were getting
54:06
hacked and getting aware from that. And see the thing is is even if
54:09
you have that little USB chord or whatever and you're like, oh, you
54:13
know, it's just a USB chord, it's got a computer chip inside,
54:15
and once you plug it into your computer or your phone, it's gonna use
54:21
your phone's data plan or your computer's Wi Fi connection or whatever it is to
54:27
send all that information back to it's it's it's parent or whoever you want to
54:31
call it's home. I was telling uh my boss about this and he asked
54:36
me, he said, well, should I be careful about buying USB chords
54:38
at yard sales, and I said, yeah, you should be careful about
54:44
buying USB chords on Amazon. Period. Yeah, some good points. Now.
54:47
What they're they're advising, though, is for you to carry your own
54:52
charger. Remember that, pack it before you get away on vacation. Carry
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your own charger, USB chord and use an electrical let instead. Don't plug
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the USB chord. You carry your own chord, don't plug it into a
55:05
USB outlet that's on maybe a table somewhere. Take your own, you know,
55:09
take your own electrical plug it into an absolute outlet. Yes, so
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yes, something to think about. All right, that's it for this week's
55:15
Tech talk radio guys, have a great week now. Sean's gotta go see
55:21
Super Mario Brothers, Justin's gotta go see Dungeons and Dragons. We'll talk about
55:25
it next week. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm shin to weird, and I'm
55:28
Justin. Let me don't worry. Andy's gonna watch his Hallmark channel. But
55:30
have yourself a great week.