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Episode #429 - Would You Like One Monitor or Two...or Four? · 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 Alice Cooper, the original Technoe Todd, and you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to tech Talk Radio. Welcome to another episode of
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  Speaker 1: tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a d Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm justin Lemme.
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  Speaker 1: Last week on the show, we kind of left on
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  Speaker 1: a cliffhanger, and the cliffhanger was all about uh Dji
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Sean has kind of been our DGI guy,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, DJI has still been in the news
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  Speaker 1: and there was word that, you know, you wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: able to buy certain DJI products.
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  Speaker 2: Before we go to that, though, I just want to say, Sean,
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  Speaker 2: I am so very very sorry.
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  Speaker 1: What what happened? What happened Notre Dame, Notre Dames.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. You know, as of last show, Notre Dame was
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  Speaker 2: about to go and play for the national championship and
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  Speaker 2: it was just this crazy because they were just getting
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  Speaker 2: stomped on it. And I'm texting Sean and I'm like, Sean,
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  Speaker 2: is there's like a but you can press to like
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  Speaker 2: make Notre Dame wake up or something, because this is
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  Speaker 2: just really.
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  Speaker 1: Not Oh that's so good. Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they kind of had a rough end of the
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  Speaker 3: first and second quarter and then a really bad beginning
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  Speaker 3: of the second half, and then the second half was better,
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  Speaker 3: but they just didn't get there.
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  Speaker 4: It was too far gone.
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  Speaker 5: Oh man, Sean, I will say that.
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  Speaker 4: I feel your pain.
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  Speaker 2: I was rooting so hard for Washington and then Washington,
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  Speaker 2: which can run like eighteen little plays, versus a team
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  Speaker 2: that has Sei Kwon barklay. He's talk well professional now,
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  Speaker 2: but yes, yeah, but that was that was all they needed.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't need anything else. They just needed one dude,
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  Speaker 2: and Curb stomped Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Will you guys be watching the Super Bowl? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: I have to.
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  Speaker 3: I will. I will watch it because it's on and
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  Speaker 3: I like commercials, But other than that, it's just going
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  Speaker 3: to be on in the background.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's funny because if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: in the last few years, whenever they were talking about
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  Speaker 1: a commercial, we would usually see that from before the game.
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  Speaker 1: They you know, they would run and they've been pretty
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  Speaker 1: quiet this year when it comes to what commercials we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be seeing during the game.
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  Speaker 2: I've been seeing a lot of teaserst like the Dorrito's
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  Speaker 2: one where they're like interviewing players from the Chiefs and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, oh, which which commercial did you like the best?
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  Speaker 2: And they're like, well, like that one and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: stay tuned for the Doritos super Bowl commercial. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's just one example. But I've been seeing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these teaser commercials.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, do you do you have a favorite over
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  Speaker 1: the years, a commercial that stands out? I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: been some good ones. My favorite. Budweiser's were always like
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  Speaker 1: one of the ones that I thought were pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I really like the Dilly Dilly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Budweiser medieval ones, but.
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  Speaker 3: Bud like, yeah, yeah, I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the Dorito's always is a good one. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they they put a lot of money into it
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  Speaker 2: every year. I really enjoy those. I really can't say
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  Speaker 2: of a particular one, but yeah, it's gotta be.
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  Speaker 4: I I did care.
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  Speaker 3: I did like the e Trade baby once.
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  Speaker 1: For a while, yeah, right, once, Yes, those are always good.
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  Speaker 1: The Breaking Bad ones from a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: those were pretty good if you remember those, and that
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  Speaker 1: was wasn't that Dorito's. If I'm not mistaken, the raise.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: It's Laise Yeah or Pops Pops the yeah, the pop
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  Speaker 1: they they the chips and you had everybody at them.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, going going back to what you were talking about,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, we gotta have a tangent there, but Sean, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what uh Andy talking about the dj I stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? You you were you were teasing about this drone?
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  Speaker 1: Uh what is the latest legislation that you know of
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  Speaker 1: that you could tell us when it comes to dj.
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  Speaker 3: I, it's it's all buried under all the executive orders
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  Speaker 3: that have been signed. So I have no idea. It
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to be talked about before President Trump took office,
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  Speaker 3: but now it's being held back. Nobody really knows. It's
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna get wrapped up in some sort of tariff
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  Speaker 3: that he's gonna sign in. Who knows, But for now,
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  Speaker 3: like we've been talking about it, probably for the past
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  Speaker 3: six months, right, I think in the last six months,
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  Speaker 3: DJI has released at least four different flavors of drones. Right.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of them have been iterations of the Mavic
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  Speaker 3: Pro the Mavic Air, but this one is a new version.
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  Speaker 3: This is a new one that they have. This is
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  Speaker 3: a brand new line of DJA drones called the DGI Flip.
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  Speaker 3: If you remember the DGI Spark, which was probably twenty
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  Speaker 3: fifteen twenty sixteen, it was really really tiny. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the it had the rounded propeller blades on, it had
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  Speaker 3: a really short flight time, had single single single camera,
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  Speaker 3: no gimbal. So this is a parent version of that.
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  Speaker 3: That's what kind of my take on it is the
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  Speaker 3: Spark with a little bit of an upgrade called the
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  Speaker 3: DGI Flip, starts at four hundred and thirty nine bucks.
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  Speaker 3: It's foldable, so when you store it up, the blades
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  Speaker 3: actually fold down flat, so it actually has a flat profile,
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  Speaker 3: so it could like fit like in a laptop bag, like.
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  Speaker 1: In like, oh nice, slitch your laptop in.
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  Speaker 3: It could slide in like a laptop almost into a bag.
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  Speaker 3: So that's kind of the the benefit of this one
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  Speaker 3: is that it's super collapsible, but it's got your you know,
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  Speaker 3: similar flight times, thirty forty minute flight times, it's got
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  Speaker 3: all of your similar resolutions and camera pixels and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. So there's not much different in terms of
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  Speaker 3: the technology. It's just the form factor and for four
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty night Bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get it with.
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  Speaker 3: Just the controller and the drone, you use your phone
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  Speaker 3: as the screen, or you can get it with the
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  Speaker 3: RC two, which is six hundred and thirty night Bucks
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  Speaker 3: that comes with the remote with the screen on it
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  Speaker 3: so you don't have to use your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Is that would this be a good Would this be
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  Speaker 1: a good one for somebody who's never flown a drone
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  Speaker 1: that wants to play a drone to get.
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  Speaker 3: I will I will. I will say that any of
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  Speaker 3: the DJI models that are reasonably priced are good for
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  Speaker 3: beginners that did. The DJI system is so good at
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  Speaker 3: flying itself that when you're up in the air, you
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  Speaker 3: can just let go of the controls and it kind
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  Speaker 3: of just hovers that right. You could obviously manipulate that
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  Speaker 3: and get into some trouble if you're flying recklessly. But
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  Speaker 3: if you're being patient and you're being smart and you're
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  Speaker 3: flying safe, you're gonna have no issues flying these dj
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  Speaker 3: A drones.
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  Speaker 1: And that price, that's a good price. I remember when
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's go back about five six years, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even a little longer. If you wanted to get a
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  Speaker 1: drone and you wanted to spend five hundred dollars on
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  Speaker 1: a drone, you would get twelve minutes maybe ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: flight time. I mean they were it was pretty bad
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  Speaker 1: back then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I look back to when I bought
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  Speaker 3: my first drone, which would have been which was mid
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  Speaker 3: late twenty thirteen, right, I paid sixteen hundred dollars for mine,
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  Speaker 3: and I got twenty minutes maybe twenty minutes on a battery.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that justin? I think he ended up getting the
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  Speaker 1: Phantom four as well, But didn't I think he crashed it,
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  Speaker 1: didn't he?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, I I had the fact honestly, you know, before I,
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  Speaker 2: before I went and bought a DJ, Sean was the
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  Speaker 2: first person I ever I talked to about it, because
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  Speaker 2: I was I was in the market for a Phantom four,
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  Speaker 2: which was the one that obviously really didn't fold down
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  Speaker 2: and it required a backpack size case to hold it
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  Speaker 2: and carry it. But I remember talking to Sean going, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm about to spend this kind of money.
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  Speaker 2: Is is this actually something I can fly?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 2: I'm concerned that I might be biting off more than
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  Speaker 2: I can chew and and Sean I remember texting me
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  Speaker 2: back and was like, dude, these things literally fly themselves like,
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  Speaker 2: they will hover, they will return to home. They are
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  Speaker 2: the smoothest, easiest thing to control. And so I was like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, well, I guess I'll try it.
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  Speaker 4: And sure enough.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was great, but the Phantom four, it
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  Speaker 2: was a great drone. It's just that it was so bulky, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and the flight time wasn't the greatest. So I ended
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  Speaker 2: up I ended up selling it on eBay to some
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  Speaker 2: guy in Indiana somewhere, not Sean, and then eventually, you know,
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  Speaker 2: down the line, I ended up buying myself. I think
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  Speaker 2: it was a Mini three.
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  Speaker 1: Right right there. I mean, they are a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Now under a certain weight limit, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: get a license. If somebody is thinking about fifty.
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  Speaker 3: Grams or something like that, it's half a pound, I
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  Speaker 3: believe so. And this one does make note of that.
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  Speaker 3: It's under the two hundred and fifty gram mark two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine. So they're really fine tuning these
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  Speaker 3: and reducing as much weight as possible to stay below
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  Speaker 3: that limit, to have them registered with the FAA and
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  Speaker 3: things like that. Now, who knows what the new whatever
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  Speaker 3: the fa comes out of all these executive orders and stuff. Right,
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  Speaker 3: who knows what the drone legislation is going to look like.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you were paying attention, Trump was already
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  Speaker 3: asking his security advisors, like he wants to know about
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  Speaker 3: all this drone stuff and he wants it public. So
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna hope we'll see what comes of that. Right,
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  Speaker 3: So who knows what comes for private drawne operators in
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  Speaker 3: the drum business. It's to be determined. But I think
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  Speaker 3: dj I is just is is doing a good job
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  Speaker 3: of keeping pressure on the market and releasing content where
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  Speaker 3: maybe others aren't being as bullish, and you know, if
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  Speaker 3: their name stays out there the most whenever something turns
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  Speaker 3: around and you can get back into the market. I
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  Speaker 3: mean outside of dj I, can any of you name another.
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  Speaker 1: Competitor, uh not sharper image right right right, they're out there.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the Ukrainians are using, I don't know comes with
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  Speaker 2: extra licenses and some it tar stuff with import export
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  Speaker 2: another top secret.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was in best Buy and they had they
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  Speaker 1: had a few other ones that were available other than
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  Speaker 1: the DJI. They had taken down the DJI display and
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  Speaker 1: then when I asked about it, they just said, oh no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're just you know, we still have drones and we're
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  Speaker 1: still going to have carry the new ones when they
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  Speaker 1: come in. And then that was about it. But they
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  Speaker 1: had some others that were on display, and I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember the gosh the name of the manufacturer, but they
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  Speaker 1: were inexpensive. But just something told me they just didn't
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  Speaker 1: have that startiness that you're gonna find with Dji's drones.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's just it's if you go to any amateur
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  Speaker 3: professional photographer, they want consistent, reliable flight time with quality imagery.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the only company that I know of that
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  Speaker 3: it can produce that is Dji. I mean, you have
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  Speaker 3: Skydio is another one that makes it reasonable.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Parrot, if you remember, Parent was actually probably one of
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  Speaker 3: the first ones to make a drone. They made a
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  Speaker 3: styrofoam one that had the wrapped blades that was pretty
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  Speaker 3: pretty widely popular because it fit under that weight limit
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  Speaker 3: and flew with an app on your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Parent had. Parent had that drone that had big wheels
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  Speaker 1: on it and you could roll it and then it
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  Speaker 1: would take off. It's kind of a trip.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean there's some other ones, but like
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  Speaker 3: outside of the consumer and an and prosumer market. You
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  Speaker 3: get you start getting into the agricultural business, and that's
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  Speaker 3: when you start seeing the other, the other, larger, moretancy optimus. So, really,
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  Speaker 3: dj I, if you're not flying a DJI drone, you're
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  Speaker 3: kind of shooting yourself in the foot.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of camera system is on the flip one
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  Speaker 1: at that price, it's probably not going to be four
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  Speaker 1: K or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's got it's got. I have the specs up here, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's got the let's see the camera image. It's a
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  Speaker 3: one and one third inch sensor. It can do forty
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  Speaker 3: eight megapixel. It does let's see video resolution. It'll do
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  Speaker 3: four K at twenty four twenty five thirty forty eight
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  Speaker 3: fifty sixty and one hundred frames. Wow, it'll do full
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  Speaker 3: HD Soen nineteen twenty ten eighty at twenty four thirty
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  Speaker 3: forty eight, fifty sixty and one hundred frames. So it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have any high speed except one hundred one hundred frames.
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  Speaker 3: So it doesn't do one twenty to forty or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Right, that's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: You can shoot, you can shoot log, so if you're
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  Speaker 3: a professional, you can shoot in log. Yeah, it's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, it's it's not a downgrade from like
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  Speaker 3: the Mavick three, maybe in pixel count on the total
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  Speaker 3: image like sensor size, but this is all way more
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  Speaker 3: than the average Joe is gonna need for TikTok or
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  Speaker 3: YouTube or anything like that. Right, if you're doing it
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  Speaker 3: just for fun and you want to post videos to
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  Speaker 3: your kids or your your trip, like this is gonna
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  Speaker 3: be more than enough.
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  Speaker 1: There's a guy on next store in my community that
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  Speaker 1: I live in that keeps putting putting up drone videos
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  Speaker 1: flying over the neighborhoods of the neighborhoods that people live
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  Speaker 1: in on next door. But it's interesting, you know, Well.
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  Speaker 3: So I will measure he said, he's flying in your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say.
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  Speaker 3: Please do not violate temporary flight restrictions over wildfires in California.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like this.
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  Speaker 3: There was these these fires in California. They have all
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  Speaker 3: this aerial firefighting, and a drone got hit by one
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  Speaker 3: of the Canadian whatever Canadian fire a hole in the way.
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  Speaker 1: So would it be the drone hit that or the
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  Speaker 1: plane hit the drone which at that speed out of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but ground airplane, but it grounded.
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  Speaker 3: All flights in that area for a period of time,
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  Speaker 3: so they lost significant you know, containment on the fire.
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  Speaker 3: All because this one guy was being stupid and he
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  Speaker 3: got caught because he was posting it online. Yet all
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  Speaker 3: these pictures of the area of the fires and stuff like,
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  Speaker 3: and they recovered the pieces of the drone they showed
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  Speaker 3: pictures of if you look, just google it, you'll find it. Right.
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  Speaker 3: They showed them the damage it did and all that
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  Speaker 3: stuff too. So just just don't be stupid. Like, that's
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  Speaker 3: what I tell everybody when I tell them, can I
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  Speaker 3: shoot this video? Can I shoot this? Just don't be stupid.
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  Speaker 3: Common sense goes a long way with flying drones. Don't
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  Speaker 3: be stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, isn't there restrictions to flying over neighborhoods in
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  Speaker 1: some cases where you know, you don't fly over someone's backyard,
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  Speaker 1: you know and see people lounge.
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  Speaker 3: Again, Well, there are expectations of privacy, right, But don't
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  Speaker 3: let people tell you that they own the airspace over
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  Speaker 3: their homes because that is incorrect. You do not own
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  Speaker 3: the air space above your homes. I am legally, legally
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  Speaker 3: available to fly over your home in the airspace above
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  Speaker 3: your home. Now I can't fly over your home and
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  Speaker 3: snoop on you and invade your reasonable ex spectation of privacy.
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  Speaker 3: But if I'm flying above your home, in my above
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  Speaker 3: my home and I happen to see your house.
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  Speaker 1: Totally legal, right right. I don't shoot.
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  Speaker 3: Down my drone because that's also legal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would not be good to prove that one. Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So this sounds like a good deal. Is
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  Speaker 1: this available now? The dj I flip?
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  Speaker 3: I I mean, I just wanted to put one of
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  Speaker 3: my cart and see at a cost it's available right now?
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to get it? No? No, not gonna
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  Speaker 1: get it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have time or the effort to renew my
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  Speaker 3: license and get back into drones like.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, maybe this doesn't require a license.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if I got one, I would get my license
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  Speaker 3: because then I could fly for work.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: There are reasons why I would get my license back,
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  Speaker 3: but it I just don't have the time of the
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  Speaker 3: effort to put into another hobby right now. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: maybe once Max gets old enough and wants to get
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  Speaker 3: into flying my drones or my RC planes and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I'll get back into or get him one that's reasonably.
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  Speaker 1: Sized okay, all right, all right. We had some good
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  Speaker 1: comments last week from the show when we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about something that apparently touched a lot of people. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the removal removal of DVD Blu ray
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  Speaker 1: drives out of laptops. And we were talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the reason being is better cooling. Uh, they would use
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  Speaker 1: that space for cooling, better battery. Uh. And the fact
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  Speaker 1: is that a little bit warn't using that kind of media.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the comments were a little angry, Uh, some
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  Speaker 1: of them were, uh, yeah, we had one, we had
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  Speaker 1: one show.
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  Speaker 3: I want to I want to make a comment to
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  Speaker 3: John Dell over here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So John, because you had mentioned they needed more
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  Speaker 1: room for graphics cards. I know what you meant.
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  Speaker 3: Right, everybody knows you can get gaming laptops with graphics
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: cards in them. Right, they still don't fit a DVD drive.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: They're big and they're bulky, but they still don't fit
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: a DVD drive in them. And yes, they make mobile
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: versions of GPUs take up a PCI Express slot like
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: get on board. Dude.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand there's no graphics cards that are
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: in laptops, you know.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's he's he's thinking that we're talking
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: about like an HP that's got integrated graphics on the chip.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Well, sure there are those, but they're also dedicated graphics cards.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, I have an Aceus rog Strix ally with
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: a you know, an I nine processor, but it also
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: has a thirty seventy TI graphics card in it. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you're telling me that that's just one single chip solder
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: to the motherboard. No, no, John Doe, You're wrong.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody somebody else wrote might as well be a
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: GPU discrete graphics, but legit GPUs with real power requirements
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: can take up substantial PCB real estate. And Matt, Matt,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you weren't that happy with that one.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean like it kind of went back to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: what John Doe wrote of like you know, oh, it's
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: not in there. It takes up substantial real estate. G
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: let's look at the size of desktop graphics cards that
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: can't fit in some cases nowadays. No flying monkey farts
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: that it takes up space. Yeah, and that's because I
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: can't say what I'm really thinking.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it takes up space. It's a shocker.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah woo, but no, I'm sorry, like sitting there being like, oh,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: there are no graphics cards and laptops.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Bro.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, they just take up a lot of space.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Bro, what I need you to do first off is
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: go outside and touch some grass.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: And then do like the most minute bit.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Of research possible because gepus have been in laptops for
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: over a decade. My laptop in college almost oh my god,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: almost twenty years ago. Anyways, that had its own graphics
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: card twenty years ago. Like, I'm sorry, you've got you've
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: got four tech professionals telling you this, but you the
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: couch quarterback of John Doe is like, no, man, you're wrong. Well, John,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: you're wrong about us being wrong.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I think what they're doing is they're they're picturing that
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: old idea of that big graphics card and that you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a lid opens up and there you slide it into
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a slot. And no they I.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Mean they do have something like that, which is an
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: external enclosure that you can put those desktop graphics cards
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: in and then hook that to your laptop and then
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: hook your display up there and it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Those do exist.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Yep, we've heard those.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: And also they you know, the laptop cards aren't quite
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: as powerful as the desktop cards. I mean, they're getting
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: closer to it, but You're never going to get the
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: performance out of a fifty ninety desktop card and a laptop.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: It's just not going to happen. Maybe maybe in twenty
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: years time it might figure out a way. But I
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: do seriously have a thirty seventy TI in my laptop
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and on my desktop. I have a twenty eighty TI,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: a whole generation bef that and my twenty eighty obviously
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: would not fit in my laptop. But I'll tell you
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: my laptop with the thirty seventy I can't keep that
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: thing unplugged. I need to have power on that all
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the time. If I try to run a game, a
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: very graphically demanding game on battery, yeah I got about
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a half an hour.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's it. I like what Nick's said. I said,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I don't want a smaller, thinner laptop. I wanted to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: be big and heavy enough to bludgeon someone who with
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: give me a disk drive, more USB ports and than
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: anyone cool actually a cool actual use, and a headphone jack.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people want that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: If yeah, yeah, if I'm swinging my laptop and a coworker,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I don't want them getting back up, Like if I'm
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: gonna go to HR for it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I want to go to HR for it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Or zombies. You'd never know, right, I mean zombie could
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: be coming in through the window, and I do like that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: We get a little bit further down the comments, we
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: start getting conspiracy theories about big media.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, big media was doing it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Media got rid of the DV drives because anybody that's
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: fancy with the computer knows how to rip DVDs exactly.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I definitely want to talk about that.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: One a handbreak and make MKB Can Mountain.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Or Auto GK Auto Gordian not if you want to
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: go old school with it. Uh.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Cannon Mountain had the comment though, that I identified with
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: nobody is wondering this except for my parents.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: It's okay, so if you think back, right, I have
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: vivid memories of my mom buying.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: A new CD burner, Oh yeah, man.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: And me wondering what the heck the numbers meant on
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the box, right, because it was sixteen x three x.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Two x thirty two x Yeah, what all those numbers mean?
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: And then I what the heck is LightScribe?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Right? So it's like, so my parents, my mom understood
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: all that, and like that was the beginning of like
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: my interest in like what that actually means, and then
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: learning about write and read speeds versus you know, all
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: that stuff. So it's just kind of a fun memory
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: for me.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: It was was pretty good, So it's good comments again
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: both sides of it. And I want to thank everybody
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: for watching the video. And again you could see that
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you could find the link on our YouTube page to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: be able to check that out. We also had a
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: comment about Project Zomboid, which was a good one and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I liked it because justin you're you're getting more into
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that and t bone Terra said my favorite game of
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: all time and people are people are liking that and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: with that, I don't know if you heard this week
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that they're talking about re releasing SIMS one and two
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: for the PC, so people and I think it's created
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: so buch excitement and that type of gameplay that now
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: people are saying, I want.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: To play SIMS.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I mean the Project Zomboid is is very SIMS esque.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you will, I mean it looks a
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: lot like the original SIMS with like the kind of
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: a three quarter view. And we talked about it last week,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and you know, since the last show I mean, I've
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: been playing it almost every single day, and you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I it's it's interesting because when one of my characters
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: will die, because eventually, again, as I mentioned in the
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: last show, your character will die. It's just a matter
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: of when, not if. And my character will will die
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: to a zombie or or maybe he got scratched by
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: a bush and bled out. But once you, once your
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: character dies, you can continue in that persistent map and
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: then create a new character. So I thought, oh, I'll
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: just keep doing that. I'll just use a character for
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: a couple of days, have him run around, gather but
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a bunch of loot. I don't care about his health,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I don't care about remember where he started it. Yeah,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: and then as soon as that person gathers up all
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the loot and puts it back in my quote unquote
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: safe house man, then I'll kill him off, and then
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I'll go create a new character, and then I'll do
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: the same thing Rinson repeat until I got all the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: loot that I.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Need to have. Yeah, but there's there's one thing I
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: didn't realize.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: What's it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I was playing my latest character, and I was
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: running around doing my thing right during the evening, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I was going in through like I think it was
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: like a video store next to like a strip mall whatever,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden I heard the age old
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: sound of.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: What was it?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, all the power went out.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Uh oh, And I was like, wait, what what's going on? Sure? No,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I had to go finally look it up because I thought, oh, whatever,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: maybe this little building whatever the power went out.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: After a certain amount of time, the power in the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: entire game shuts off, and so does running water. So
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: now my refrigerator that is and freezer that is stocked
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: full of fresh food and frozen food is all spoiled
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and I have no running water, and so now my
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: characters are all dying left and right because.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I did not plan for that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: So now I'm just I'm starting a whole new game
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: all over again. Oh man, because I didn't realize about
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: after about eight days in game time, right, the power
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and the water shut off. And it makes sense because
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: it's a zombie apocalypse. Who's running the power station and
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the and the plumbing, right, And I was like, oh,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: they must have just forgot about that and left it
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: on auto, and it just you know, it'll have power Forever.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Nope, nope.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Oh boy. All right, so it's Project Zomboid, which is
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: available for you able to play out twenty bucks on Steam.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: All right, I gotta take a quick break.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Come back.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: We do have some listener questions, and I got a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: question for you guys, if you're going to be camping
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: out for it, I'll tell you about that coming up
• 25:35
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• 25:36
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• 25:41
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• 25:44
  Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And now back to tech talk Radio. So I've been
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: wondering all week when I heard the news if any
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of you are going to be camping out for the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: big event that is that it has taken place now,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: or if you camped out because the brand new graphics
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: So we were talking about graphics cards earlier. The brand
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: new ArtX fifty ninety launched this week, the fifty ninety
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and the fifty eighty, and they said people are actually
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: sleeping intent outside Microcenter. You know, they used to be
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: concert tickets or like Revenge of the Jedi or Return
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of the Jedi.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Call of Duty, Call of Duty.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now for graphics cards, the thing is, and I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: kind of wonder, do you think people are buying these
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: just to turn around and sell on Some are some
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: are well, remember back, you know, a couple of years ago,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it was you could buy as many of them online,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: like when the PlayStation five got released or the Xbox
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Series X. You get all the scalpers that would write scripts,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: that would log in and buy every single one that
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: they could possibly get because there's no limit, and so
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: now then then and they would turn around and scalp
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: them on eBay for three times the price. Well, people
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: started wising up to that, and retailers started wising up
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and said, no, you need to buy them in person,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna get one or maybe two with the most.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And so now we're going back to those days where
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: people are camping out waiting for their opportunity to get it,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: which is awesome.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: I would I.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Called it like four years ago when all this was happening.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I said, you're gonna you're gonna see retailers selling at
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: the brick and mortar because people are gonna get soaked
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: about not being able to buy graphics they're just not
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: gonna buy them.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and you're gonna.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Have all this stock sucked up by scalpers. That's just
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: gonna sit there stagnant and not getting sold, not getting
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: off the shelf. And nobody wants that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, the the the the vendor is making their money,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: but then their product's not getting out there. They're gonna
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: get a bad reputation. It's bad publicity. So now you're
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: seeing you canmp out for this stuff just like you
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: used to. Like I think the last thing I camped
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: out for was I went to a Best Buy at
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: like three in the morning to get the Super Nintendo Classic.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember that fast.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Have you guys seen the this is uh it's been
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: about a week or maybe two weeks old right now
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: at this moment. But if you go to YouTube and
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: just look up Costco Pokemon, there is an amazing amount
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: of videos of it. Looks like Black Friday. People are
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: rushing into Costco and and buying these uh you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: buy the case of Pokemon cards and and I guess
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: so there's a new there's yet another edition of Pokemon
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: coming out. Uh can remember what it's called wrapped the
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: top of my head. But the thing about Costco is
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: that they're they're selling them. They mean, they got these,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: they got palettes full of them, and people are rushing
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: in and they're fighting each other over these things. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: so I went to my local Costco and I asked
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: one of the employees. I said, hey, you all got
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that uh Pokemon? Did I miss it? And he's like, oh, no,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: we haven't gotten ours in yet. And I said, uh,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: have you seen any of these videos of people just
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: you know, do in these crazy things And he's like no.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: And this this was actually the manager of the Costco
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: that I was at, and he's like, no, I haven't
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: seen anything. I said, dude, you really need to look
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: this up because this is really bad publicity for Costco.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is liability on Costco's part
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: if somebody gets injured in your store trying to get this,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: you know, I said, you know, I was looking at
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: all these comments on the videos and some of the
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: costcos are wising up and what they're doing is they're
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: basically putting the limit that you can buy pre made
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: in a cart and lining up all the carts and
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: saying take a cart go, like this is your take
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: a car go? You know, more rushing no more running
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: to the back to get the cards. This is what
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: you can buy, take it and go. But it's the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: same ideas people are rushing in. They're not buying them
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: for themselves. They're buying them so they can open it up,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: find the legendary mythical cards, and then go around and
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: sell them on eBay for ten times the price.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Do you remember during the pandemic it was was it
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the thirty ninety that came out, and people were selling
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: them for four or five times the price and then
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you know, now a couple of years later, people that
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: have them are like, yeah, it's okay.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I think what they did.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: They'd also discompared the new fifty ninety that just came out.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: They said, the fifty to ninety, a single fifty ninety
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: overclocked would beat like two or three thirty ninety. Tis
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: wow an SLI or whatever they call it now now
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: those SLI it is Anthia does sl I, AMD does crossfire.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Spiking of that am D. I mean, AMD is still
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a viable opponent when it comes to video cards. I
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: mean we get a lot of press with the you
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: know RTX GTX, but when you look at the you
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: know what they're doing with the the am D cards,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: those are.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Just as good, right I'm I'll chime in on this
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: one because I'm running an am D card when, as
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: our listeners know, I rebuilt my whole PC stack a
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: couple of months ago, so I've got a Radion seventy
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: nine hundred XT in mind, and you know, I run
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Space Marine two on Ultra everything and I'm still getting,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: you know, over. I think when I was running it
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: with my buddy the other day, I was getting over
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty frames a second.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: The lot of time I'm playing right, one of the
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: main reasons.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I was talking to one of my other buddies and
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: he was talking about how he has to get He's
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: getting a new Nvidio card and I was like, why
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: aren't you grabbing an art A radio an ARTIX card
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: and he was like, well, the reason why is because
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the AI stuff that I'm doing at home, I need
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: the coudacors and that that is where AMD is lagging
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: behind in video and video is starting to dump all
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: of their money into AI.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Although it's very interesting with the story that came out
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: this past week that China is developing their AI and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: they're using less resources than what we seem to be using,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and they're seeing that they may have found the niche
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: right there while all of us are saying, you gotta
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: have the you know, you gotta have this type of
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: card and this type of system put together that what
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they're doing is much better and runs less. There was
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: a story that just came out today as of the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: recording of this show. You know that it was I
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: think it's called deep search or deep what is it
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: called deep deep seek?
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Deep seek?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Deep seek is the Chinese AI version they There's a
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: couple of stories going on around this. First off, Andy,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: you're right, Deep Seak came out and said, hey, we
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: can do this for pennies on the dollar, and that
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: caused Invidia stock to lose six hundred billion dollars of
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: worth because of the people freaking out going way, hold on,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: we don't need Innvidia to do this, and and then
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Vidia stock took a massive hit.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Second, deep what do you call it again? Deep seek?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Deep actually suffered a massive cybersecurity attack today and write
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: it down. Yeah, so there's a massive cybersecurity deck and
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I have a good feeling I know who is behind it.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we can't say that but still this is
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: very interesting, especially when they say we can do this
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: you know, less resources.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: So in video put put out a response to that,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: right saying, Yo, you guys still use our chips for
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: your like you're still using our stuff to do your
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: deep seek so like.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Chill, yeah, but sure, but for a heck of a
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: lot cheaper than what open ai and other companies are
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: saying is required to be able to do this. Did
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: you see there was there was a I saw another
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: article value, I saw another article come out about this.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: That Meta not one of my favorite companies, but Zuckerberg
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: is He's got war rooms set up with all of
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: his top engineers being like, figure out why they're able
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: to do this so much better and faster than us,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: like dedicating tons of man hours to just being like
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: figure it out well.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Open Ai also made some kind of announcement that they're
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: going to work on kind of a uh it's an
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: AI that if you are used door dash or if
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you use any of the delivery services, you would be
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you know, interacting with AI to handle all of that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: And from what I'm hearing, it's not that great. It's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: not working out that great. There's been issues and problems,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and I'll be honest with you, and I kind of
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: wonder if any of you ever had to make a
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: phone call somewhere to try and get support. It's ridiculous
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: now what you go through because of the AI. I
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: liked it even Yeah.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: You pull on McDonald's, You're like, first thing is hi,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: we coome McDonald's would be using the app today, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: you're like no, And then all of a sudden it's yeah,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: how can I help you?
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: The uh the.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Two too quick things on that one tying back to
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: deep seak for a second, they're the other thing about
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: deep seek is that it's open source and uh open
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: AI started to make some comments about like, yeah, well
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: you know they're minding all your data, and they're like, uh,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: or I can unlike chat GPT, I can just run
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: it locally on my own hardware. So there's that and
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: uh something for our listeners that I love this website
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: so very much. If you have to make a call
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: and it goes to AI or a phone tree or something,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: go to the website. I think it's uh, dial a
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: human or talk to a human and you can put
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: in like the company you're trying to reach and it
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: will give you the direct steps. Yeah, dial a human,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: It'll give you the direct steps for how to get
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: to a person, even if that's just like the switchboard. Actually, no,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I take that back. It is talk the number two
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: human dot com. Talk to human dot com now that
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: talks to human dot com. Now justin you had told
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: us one before where you can actually find the bosses
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: and that's more of an mail things called email the
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: boss email email, and that's still around what Matt saying.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, uh, that's kind of the same thing.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: If you're looking to try to bypass all the the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: levels of support and you just want to go straight
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: to the CEO to complain. Uh yeah, email the boss
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: dot org is a great place.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: And I don't I don't think it's going to get
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: any better. I mean, I I really don't see it
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: as more and more companies rely on AI. Uh. I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: just I don't think it will get any better. I
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: worry for the radio industry because there are you know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: radio DJs in a studio where now it won't let them.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: It won't let callers talk to the DJ, it'll let
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: them talk to the AI that has taken the request
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: they've taken the you know, what do you want to
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: need to know about? Blah blah blah. That's being being
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: in radio over thirty years, that's been like one of
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the best things about it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the connection with the people and and and
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and I'm finding that uh less and less. I'm listening
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: to terrestrial radio. I mean, even with the Spotify the
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: about two years ago they released the Spotify DJ and
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: that guy. I mean, it's it's an AI voice, it's
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: an AI system, but it sounds just like a real person.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: It's more like kind of like a top forty hip
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: hop DJ. The way the person, you know, the AI sounds,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: that's the same person the way AI sounds. But I
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: can totally see that coming to a local radio station
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: near you. I mean, I do still listen to like
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: morning show radio because you know, they interact so much
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: with the audience, But when it comes to like afternoon
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: drive or anything else, a lot of times maybe it's
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: still done by a person, but a lot of times
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: it's tracked. Yeah, there is no DJ even in the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: studio now, not in this station, the one we're on.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I come here every afternoon. I'm here, and it is
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: rare because I've worked in other buildings. I've been in
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: other buildings while you know, radio has been going on,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: and yeah, that seems to be a common practice to track.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I did it for Westwood One. I was on you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: seventy stations across the country, and it's just it's the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: way the way the industry works. They got to make
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: their money. And there they go.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: And you can totally tell when the station is being
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: tracked because the DJ will start to talk and they'll
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: have the incoming song underneath them. Yeah, but the incoming
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: song is actually louder than the DJ, and the DJ
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: just keeps talking and you're like.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: That's just bad equipment. That's yeah, that's distract that's just
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: bad equipment. That's not good.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Jensen Wang, the CEO of Nvidia, he said, and when
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: all the AI stuff started to pop off, he was like,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: we are in the new industrial revolution. He goes, this
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: is going to disrupt everything. If you think it won't,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: you're wrong. It's going to disrupt everything. There was so
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: reading an article. I can't remember the guy's name, so
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I apologize. I can dig it up later. But I
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: checked his bona fides. He's been a writer in Hollywood
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: for decades, and he was like, you know, normally when
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: you want to do a new movie, like a really
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: new movie, not a remake or a sequel or something
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: like that, waiting six seven, eight months for a fully
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: fleshed out script from one up to a team of writers.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: He went on to chat GPT and said, I want
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: five brand new movies, not remakes, nothing like that. I
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: want five brand new movies, and I want a script
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: for all of them. And he went back about an
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: hour later and he was like, I had five movies
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: across multiple genres, with fully fleshed out scripts, plot points, everything.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: I was actually talking to my wife about this the
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: other night and he took one of them and read
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: through the whole thing, and he was like, I had
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: to make like three edits then that was it. That's it,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: and were my wife and I were talking about that
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: and we're like, well for movies, yes, I can absolutely
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: see that happening. That was definitely one of the big
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: sticking points during the Writer's Guild strike when they're going
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: through is you know, talking about AI and using their
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: data and their property and things like that. The question
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: when for me was when is AI going to be
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: able to write a TV show because a movie is
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: a self contained unit and you can go all the
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: way through and you're done. But when is a AI
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: going to be able to write a multi season long,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: twenty episodes a season TV show with character development, plot points,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: twists and turns. Because when that happens, and you can
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: and a studio executive can just be like, we need
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: a new sci fi show. Somebody go punch that into
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: the computer. You don't need to go shop around for it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: They can just be like, Nope, don't like that one,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: generating new one. Nope, generating new one.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Imagine this too. You have you start your own network now,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I mean you can have you can have your own
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: TV channel. There are companies that can make it possible
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: for you for you to stream content the whole bit.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: You can have a hit show that could become grassroots
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: people love it. And this is crazy. You don't even
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: need to use a cast. You can have it all
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: created by AI, the people in it, everything, And you
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: know the thing that's the whole thing about this, It
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: said's changing so much in the world. Some saying we
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: don't like it. I don't even like using the self
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: checkout when I go to the store.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Can I play Devil's Apoget just fine? Moment?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when it comes to like a TV show or
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: a movie, when was the last time, and be honest,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: all three of you, all right, when was the last
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: time you actually cared about who wrote a particular episode
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: or who was the technical director or who was the
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: executive producer of a particular show. When was the last
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: time any of you cared about that?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Uh no, no, it's more for me. It's always about
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the cast.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Probably the Mandalorian Okay, oh yeah, when when you had
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: a lot of really good, famous writers and directors doing it?
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Sure, and I can see that.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: The one that I can go back to is Dallas Howard,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: the episode that she directed, which if you go back
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: and watch this episode that she directed, there there is
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: almost a scene by seeing replication of Apoll thirteen that
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: her dad. Oh yeah, when the when the back through
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Ron Howard, when it came when when the Apile thirty
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: came back to the atmosphere and tracks through the atmosphere.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Look it up. It's really cool. But that that's really
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: that's why the last time outside of Star Wars stuff.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: With mine, mine's a cheat because it's based off a book,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: but Dune because I needed somebody to have the appropriate
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: vision of grandeur and scale and the sheer misos that
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: is wrapped up in this book. I didn't care who
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: the executive producer was. I cared who the director was going.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: To be for that.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I wanted somebody who could really gnaw the meat off
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: of that down to the bone. And Dennis Villano did
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: an amazing job.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Now did you see the first one, the very first
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Dune that came out back? I want to see it.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Was it the eighties or nineties, nineteen eighty four, David
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: lynch rest in Peace Save Us?
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: It's Outside of the don Cosmos. It's a fun movie.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But if you're comparing it to the book, I'm
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: just like slamming my head into the wall. I'm like,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: you had Patrick Stewart as Gurnie Hallick and this is
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: what you give me.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Kenny McMillan man was so good in that love that
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: sting and just great.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: So I do you know, you guys were able to
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: provide a few examples, and that's awesome, great examples of that.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: But I would still stand by my point. For the
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: most part, people don't care about who writes it, who's
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: the executive producer, who's the technical director, right, heck, who's
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: even the director. They care about who's in it and
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: the plot. And so if AI starts writing these shows,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: and as long as we can still maintain human actors,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't think people are really gonna care
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: all that much.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: That was actually part of the.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Sag the Screen Actors Guild. Their strike was about in
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: their contracts. It was your likeness can be used in
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: any future project via AI, and they were like, even
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: after your death, well, well that's money out of my pocket.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: And it was actually the first time this ever came
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: into play. Here's a random, weird bit of trivia for you.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Crispin Glover did.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: Not want to come back for.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Back to the Future too, right, He didn't, So they
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: used computers at the time to recreate his presence in
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: the movie.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: He sued them and won.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Did he win at that? Due that you won?
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: He did one?
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: And after that it was a actor's likeness cannot be
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: used without their explicit permission, because they he didn't give
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: them permission to use his That was the whole Robin
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Williams with the Aladdin genie, he offered to do Aladdin
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: for free or for the minimum amount, as long as
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: they didn't use his likeness in any type of advertising
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: or marketing purposes, and Disney did. And then Robin Williams said, also,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: by the way, I'm never doing another movie for you
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: ever again.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Wow, did not even know that? All right, listen, we
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: got to take a quick break. We come back with
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm justin.
• 45:11
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• 45:15
  Speaker 5: We'll be right back now back to tech talk Radio.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Rick from so Rita, Did I say that?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Correct?
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: That right? Yeah?
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: You might as well move here now it's great, sweet,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I got right.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Rick says, Hey, guys, my twenty seven inch monitor is
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: about to go to the monitor Heaven and I'm trying
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: to decide what to replace it with. I do a
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: lot of different things on my screen at the same time.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Is a big screen better or maybe two screens? Thoughts
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: and what's a good brand? So I have done a
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: couple of different iterations of my displays over the years,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: and it really depends kind of on what you're doing.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: If you need something that.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: You need really accurate colors, Like you're doing a lot
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: of photoshop creative stuff like that, you definitely want to
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: go for a monitor that And we'll touch background monitors
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: in a second exactly if you don't need that, if
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: you don't need the pure accurate color recreation things like that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: For years, I ran off a forty two inch LG
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: flat screen TV as my monitor. Four years.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: Eventually I decided to change it. It was actually I
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: remember when I changed it.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: It was when I turned thirty and I replaced it
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: with a thirty two inch Samsung curved monitor for gaming,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: and it was better. For gaming, it was, and the
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: colors popped more, But for everything else I was doing,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: it didn't matter. If you're doing a lot of things
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: on your screen at the same time, what is going
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: to be the biggest thing for you is going to
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: be screen real estate. So you have the like the
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: thirty nine forty nine inch ultra wide monitors, that's just
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: this big old arc curving in front of you, and
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: you can break that into two screens. So really what
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: it's coming down to is like what you're doing and
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: what's your budget, right, Because if you don't have a budget.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: All right, We're going to talk about my dream here
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: for a second. Is the Samsung Arc two. It is
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: like a fifty five inch monstrousity. The controls come in
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: a separate attached puck and you can put multiple inputs
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: to it if you want, but it's built and baked
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: into it that you can break this fifty five inch
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: monstrosity down into two screens, four screens, or just one
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: big one, and you can also rotate the whole thing.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: So if you're playing like flight sims, it looks like
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: you're in a cockpit. So I know this is a
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: big dump of information for you, Rick. So mainly what
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: it's going to come down to is like, do you
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: need a lot of screen real estate? If yes, go
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: for a bigger monitor. Are you doing creative stuff go
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: for a monitor. Do you have a tighter budget and
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: you need a lot of real estate, go for a
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: flat screen TV's.
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: That's kind of my advice on.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: That, because sometimes when you're mounting multiple monitors, which is
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: the other thing that can also get frustrating as well.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I've been using a Curve thirty nine LG for about
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: a year and a half, and honestly, I came from
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: two twenty seven inch screens. I actually liked it better
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: when I was using the two screens than the long
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: curved screen. It was easier for me to move info.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Now I did find. You know, with Microsoft I've running Windows.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: If you mouse up, say you grab your document and
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: you go to the top of the page, you'll see
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: different layouts. So you could do two by two or
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: one two three, and you could set those and just
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: drag and drop and drag it'll set those. But I
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: liked it when I could just drag it across over
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: to that screen and that's always there and then what
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I'm working on right there. That's the benefit of two screens.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: But if you get a big enough screen, like you
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: get that monstrosity, this huge one fifty five A, you
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: got a lot of real estate to work with.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Right Yeah.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Personally, I'm running to Samsung thirty two inch curved monitors and.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, justin what are you running there?
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I have just a single Asus fourteen to forty p
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: monitor for the center, and then I just have two
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: cheap Dell twenty three inch monitors on the side, one
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: being vertical, one being horizontal. Because I really don't care
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: too much about what's on the side. It's more just
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: for extra real estate to put on like a web
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: page or outlook or whatever. It's the main monitor in
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: the center, the one that I'm staring at the most,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: needs to be the better quality, how about you, Sean.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: I'm running a twenty four inch Acer one hundred and
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: forty four Hurts on the left and just a straight
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: up Dell twenty four inch on the right, so nothing fancy.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: They're mounted to my desk, got a stand so they're elevated,
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: so they've there's no stand on my desk, so I
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: can underneath and stuff.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can't do that. You can buy stands
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: that will hold both monitors if you're gonna go with two.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: And the other thing I've seen is people that go
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: with these thirty nine inch curves that there's stands available
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: that you could put it on top, put one on
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  Speaker 1: top of it.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: So I.
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  Speaker 4: Did that for my wife.
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  Speaker 2: Really, they gave she had a thirty nine inch Ultra Wide,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: and her new job gave her another monitor to use
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: at home.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: It was about the same size. And I know the company.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: It's called the Aries, like Ares, the god of War,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: the Aries Wing and it was a little fun to
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: put together. I blame my dogs more than the construction.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: But she's now got like right in front of her
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: is her work MacBook Pro, so the webcams like directly
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: in front of her. And then just to the right,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: she's got this ultra wide and stacked on top of
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: it is another monitor, and it's got articulation, So the
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: one on top is actually canted about forty five degrees
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: so that when she looks, she's not having to look
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: way up. It can't just right, so with that angle,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: she just looks over and gets the full experience of
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: the monitor right there.
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  Speaker 4: Like perfect, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect, Okay, real quick. Here is something to consider though,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: if you're thinking about doing dual monitors in that type
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: of situation, if you were thinking about doing a new monitor,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: you want to check what you currently have as far
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: as your graphics card or even maybe you have integrated
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: graphics on this computer that maybe you're using, make sure
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: it can support that. Not every system is going to
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: be able to support two monitors because of the inputs
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: or i should say outputs of that video card to
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: that bigger monitor. So again something to consider. There are
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: graphics cards that can do you know dual head so
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: you can connect those there are some that you use
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: now DisplayPort or HDMI. Maybe you could do dual HTMI,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: but certainly want to check that out first. We could
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: take another quick break. We come back with more of
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: tech talk Radio. You can find us on the way
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: of at tech talk radio dot com. I'm Andy Taylor,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm justin Leme.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be right back and now fact to tech talk
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: Radio over the.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Break, and he was showing the rest of us that
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: he got a shiny new USB hub for five dollars
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: at a shop.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: The thing that I love about this is he was like, look,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I found it for five dollars. And the first question
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: to all of us asked her, do you know what's
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: inside of it?
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: So like for those not for those who don't know,
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: and what I mean by what's.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: Inside of it?
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: There was a thing done by the FBI a few
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: years ago where they bought a whole bunch of random
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: cables off Amazon and they tore them apart and found
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: out that some of these cables had a chip in there.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: Now I was copying and sending off the data that
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: went through it. Really Yeah.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: So when people are like, oh, I got this great
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: new thing for like five dollars, we're like, yeah, what's
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: the company, where's it made? Do you know what's inside
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: of it? Are you going to crack it open and
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: take a look. I'm gonna have to now right, Oh
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: you absolutely, you're gonna have to do it and send
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: pictures to us so we can be like, Andy, you're
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: not safe.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: It is a made in Thailand, and it has a
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: USBC and it has three usbas I thought, wow, this
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: is great. A USB hub USBC hub right.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: There, and also a chip to report everything you're doing
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: back to the CCP.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: It's great.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: So what we're trying to say with this is not
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: like scaring people like don't buy discount electronics. It's more
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: that you want to know the brand that you're buying.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I want to know where it's made, you know, to
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: try and keep yourself safe. Everyone is getting sneakier. Justin
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: brought up the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party. They're getting sneakier.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Russia is getting sneakier. Hey, shocker, America is getting sneakier too,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: and we are not immune to all of this. So
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: it's really one with these cool devices. It's like, I
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: got it for five bucks. It's a cool microphone. It's like, okay,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: what's in your microphone?
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: Man? What's going on with that?
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: All right, let me show you guys something ridiculous to
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: wrap the show. See this thing it pulled out, It
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: folds all right, and then you can put your phone
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: on the slot in the back and it's a magnifier.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: It magnifies your smart phone.
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: Saw that on a Disney show like three years ago.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: I've seen that before. Yeah, this is crazy.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: It was only Andy spent a little too much time
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: overnight watching QVC. Yeah, twenty bucks for that thing said
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: he has are the late night things you see on QVC.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Andy's favorite channels are QVC and Hallmark. I was about
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: to say he had to be on QVC because the
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Hallmark channel must have gone down or something. I didn't
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: get you.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Guys Christmas present. So he's gonna get you each a hub.
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: I'll pass on, all right, you though, Yeah, there you go,
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: so that counts all right.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Well, that's it for this week's Tech Talk Radio. I'm
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: gonna crack this thing open. We'll see what's in it,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: and we'll report it next week on the show. All Right,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor.
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: I'm Sean dea Weird, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm Justin.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: Let me once again find us on the web tech
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: talk radio dot com. Have yourselves a great week.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: We'll see it.