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Episode 390 - Radio Daze! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. This is Alice
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Cooper, the original Technoe Todd, and you're listening to tech Talk Radio.
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Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor and I'm justin
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Welcome. We did kind of a best of last week. We didn't really
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get a chance to talk after the super Bowl game. But I'm just wondering.
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I don't want to talk about it. The only thing I want to
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talk the only thing I want to ask, did you do the door dash
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contest? Or did you give up after you entered the I didn't even see
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it. I didn't even see the commercial. I was waiting for it.
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I must have ran upstairs to get another drink or something. But I did
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not see the door Dash commercial. I was watching it and I have a
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DVR, and I watched it and it said, you know, here's the
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code, and I didn't realize the commercial. He says and there's more,
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and then all of a sudden it just goes off. I'm not kidding.
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You had to be over one hundred something words, just words, And the
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problem is it wasn't what he was saying on the narration. It was the
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words on the screen, so he had to go back play it, back
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play it, back play it, and go back. I eventually got him
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all in because when you entered him in, it would tell you because I
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first entered what I saw and it said thirteen percent. You know, dumb?
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Would you like to try again? I'm like what? And then I
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found out from my kids who were doing it that you had to enter all
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these words and it was just ridiculous. The only way you could do it
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is if you had a translation program or you had you know, the ability
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to pause, pause, pause, and then you had go back, and
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it was just crazy. Finally, my DVR gave out instead of not giving
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you anymore, so the kids had to help me. But they did pick
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a winner. It was a guy in San Antonio that won all of that
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stuff and all did he win all right? He won fifty thousand dollars towards
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a down payment for a home, twenty thousand dollars for a dream vacation,
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BMW I five six, a Kia EV nine to three electric suv, Volkswagen
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electric vehicle, a twenty twenty four Toyota truck, and a Kawasaki off road
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vehicle, and tons of coupons to go for restaurants. My question is,
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first off, who needs that many cars? And second off, he's gonna
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have to pay taxes and licensing and registration for every single one of those vehicles.
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I wonder do they give him the cash value if he doesn't want the
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vehicle? Can they do that on TV? You know you watch TV?
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Price is right? Yeah, yeah, price is right. They always give
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you the cash value if you don't want it. I've been well, I
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have been on Prices right before, not like on the stage, but I
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was in the audience, right. But but the thing is, so,
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yeah, my big gripe about Prices right, and I'm getting on of a
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tangent here, why do they always offer cheap cars? Like it's like,
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oh, it's a brand new car Toyota Yaris, Like oh great, it's
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worth twelve thousand dollars like rs yeah, right, Like come on, give
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me like I just once, I would love I watched I watched Prices right
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every single day? Still do I still watched every single day? That your
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face? Would you just say once that's your favorite game show? Oh?
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Absolutely? Really yeah, yeah absolutely yeah, I would just love it just
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once. If they could be like and it's a brand new car. It's
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a Tesla model s right, and I'd be like, oh wow, that's
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one hundred thousand dollars car. Okay, cool? Yeah, lifetimes to play
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of Campbell soup, Yeah, Barker. I mean, I don't know what
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you're expecting out of that show. Now. I really do think Drew Carrey
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is doing a good job. Yeah he has, he has, but again
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we're getting on. My favorite game show is a Family Feud with Steve Barb.
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See. I love he is. Just the answers he gets are absolutely
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hilarious. So that's your luck is another one I love. That's the No
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Wammis one. Right, Yeah, I like the Big Money, Big Money
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Noammis and stop. The original with Peter Tamarkin was was really good, right,
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I mean I don't remember that. I used to watch that when he
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come home from school. It was a fun show, you know, the
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little animation's going and that was always kind of neat. But yeah, that
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was a good one as well. My mom was on a game show.
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She was on a game I can't remember the name of it, but it
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had a pretty big host, you know, like he was very poppeting game.
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No, No, No, no, but I'm just wondering it would
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explain a lot. Thanks Justine, no problem. She and you know what
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she won. She won that clock radio that all of us had growing up
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in the seventies. You know, I'm talking to Slim a MFM clock radio,
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and I under the countermount. It all goes into a little cobby behind
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your bed. So if you had a you had a dresser, you know,
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you'd put it right there. But that's what I remember she won.
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I never found out. I've always thought that was kind of cool. Yeah,
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yeah, digital it was a digital clock. I mean it was pretty
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big in like seventy one seventy so yeah, that would be like top of
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the line right there. I remember going with her, Me and my sister,
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we were there all of this, the whole family was there and she
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got picked from the audience and that's you know, that's what she ended up
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winning. Was like la, Yeah, we had to go to Los Angeles.
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We lived in California at the time, so that worked out pretty good.
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Do you do you guys want to know like a very quick little synopsis
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of my time on Prices right how it went? Yeah, Like what was
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the whole what happened. Well, So I was in the Navy, and
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I was I happened to be in San Diego for training, and I had
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a couple extra weeks of leave, so I decided to drive up to Los
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Angeles. I got free tickets. You know, everything's you know, the
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tickets are free. Yeah, And I stayed across the street from CBS Television
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City and it was a little motel called the Farmer's Daughter Motel. And it
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was actually famous because a lot of the people that were in prices right would
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go to this motel because it's right across the street, and they actually had
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a at night, they would have a guy who would sit down with you
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as a big group and let you know what to expect, right. And
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so we all woke up at like three thirty three forty five in the morning,
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we all walked across the street. We lined up outside of the gates
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of CBS Television City and there was a little convenience store across the street.
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I remember this guy was renting folding chairs for ten dollars a pop. This
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guy was making a killing wow doing this because and at three forty in the
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morning, because you don't want to stand we had to stand in line until
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seven thirty in the morning, so like basically three and a half four hours
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we were standing there in line and they would open up just to get in,
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and it would come out and it would start handing out numbers bam bam,
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bam, bam, bam bam, all the way down the line,
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and then they would get to the point where you were the last one and
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be like, ollkay, that's it, no more everybody else, thank you,
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have a nice day, bye oh man. And I got like I
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would think I was like one of the last five or whatever. So they
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let us in. They let us into the stage lot, and they were
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like, hey, guys, okay, at this point, you guys are
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going to be on the show, but we need you to go back.
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Go ahead and go back to your hotels, get dressed in the outfit that
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you want to wear. Come back at ten am. So we all left,
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got breakfast, you know, dressed up. I dressed in my navy
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whites because I was a Navy guy and I wanted to get on the show.
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And I know Bob Barker was a Navy guy, right, So I
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dressed up. What they did is then they lined you up and they got
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you in like groups of like ten, and they would line you up against
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the wall and Okay, when I say this, it sounds like it sounds
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really uh macab I guess you could say the word is cattle, but it
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almost like it was. It was like it was like a firing squad line.
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Like you would line up against a wall and there'd be a producer that
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would come out with like two pages and he would be like and within like
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two seconds he'd be like, he'd come up to you and shake your hand.
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Hey, what's your name? Oh, I'm Justin. Oh where are
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you from? Justin? Oh I'm a Tucson, Arizona. Hey what do
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you do? Oh you're in the navy. Cool? All right, do
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you do? Like what kind of stuff do you do in the navy?
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Oh I'm in it. Oh oh cool? Are you doing like all that
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satellite imagery stuff? Yeah? Okay, cool, thank you, And then
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you'd go to the next person. Within that five ten seconds, he would
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decide if you were the one to be called up on stage, and he
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would he would he would he would do a little signal behind his back to
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the page, and the page would then write down your name and number,
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and they did that to me, and the guy next to me was like,
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this is our fifth time here, and we know what the thing is.
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You just got picked to go up on stage. And I'm like,
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what, seriously, what really? And he's like, yeah, yeah,
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you're gonna be good, man, you're good. So then they march you
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into the studio. The studio is ice cold, right because they have to
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turn on the lights. They turn on the lights. They film it in
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real time so that during the commercial breaks. The commercial breaks are literally the
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length of your break in between the recording. They don't stop the recording.
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So then they tell you, everybody start cheering. Bob Barker's about to come
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out. Start cheering. Everybody cheers Bob Barker comes out. They can't hear
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anything. So the first five people that they call up on stage, they
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have a page on the side of the of the stage with their name on
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it because you can't hear anything because there's so many people yelling and screaming.
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So the guy's like, and Andy Taylor, come on down. You're not
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gonna hear that. You're gonna see a sign with this, says Andy Taylor,
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Oh my god. Camera. And so then you come up and you're
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like yeah, okay, and you come up on stage anyway. So I
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was in this audience and I did not get called up the first round.
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They go through the whole game, second round, didn't get called up,
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the third round, didn't get called up, fourth round. During the break,
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Bob starts to ask questions on the audience and he sees me and he's
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like, hey you, and I'm like, oh, hey, what's up,
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Bob. And he's like, you're in the Navy. I was in
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the Navy too, and I'm like, I know, that's why I came
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here. And he's like, get this guy on stage? What oh?
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And I was like, wait, should I should I get up on my
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seat or whatever? And the producer was like no, no, no,
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no, sit down, sit down, sit down. And I thought,
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okay, maybe I'll get called up this next one. Nope, didn't get
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called up anyway. At the end of the show, I went back to
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the hotel, spent the night. I had tickets for the next day and
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I was like, you know what, I'm gonna do this again because I
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think I'm gonna get called up again. But at that point, this was
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in July. I was in my navy whites in the middle of summer of
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Los Angeles. I was dirty and and and all the benches and the railings
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were painted red. So when I would lean up against it, my now,
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my my navy whites were stained kind of pink. Oh my god.
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And so my uniform was dirty. And I woke up the next morning at
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three thirty in the morning, I looked out the window. I saw the
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line. I said, you know what, forget it. I'm just I'm
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gonna go back to Tucson. And I drove from LA to Tucson the next
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day. How can I did that have been though? I mean, oh
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my god, it would have been crazy. It would have been great.
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Yeah. I probably would have getten called up the next day. That would
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have been so cool. You know, it's funny if you think about great
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moments in game show history. Uh, if you go back, we mentioned
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family Feud, Family Food with Steve Harvey. I will never forget the time
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watching the show The Blevins Family is on there, Oh yeah, Ninja and
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Tyler Blevins. Yeah, And Tyler tells as Steve Harvey says, oh what
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do you do? And Tyler says, I play video games? And the
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look on Steve Harvey's face, like, well that's stupid. It was like
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he didn't understand it. Yeah, he probably makes Tyler makes more money than
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Steve does. Oh I'm pretty sure he did at this time. But it
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was like it was hilarious to see his reaction and knowing now just how well
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Tyler did in get I mean he was up and coming at this point,
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but how well he ended up doing well. I mean at one point,
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Tyler or aka Ninja, was making five hundred thousand dollars a month a month.
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Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It was considered one of
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the top personalities, and that was the thing because he had personality. He
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was good in the games. But you know what, honestly, he didn't
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really have the personality. Because I've watched this so much. He never really
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talked about He never talked to his chat. You know, the chat is
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what makes you as a streamer, Like if you interact with your viewers,
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yea, they feel special, they feel that you're there to talk to them.
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He would never talk to his chat. He would just be talking to
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his guys that he's playing the game with. Every once in a while he'd
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look over and talk the other guy that does it really really well is Doctor
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Disrespect. I mean Doctor Disrespect. You know, he was huge and then
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he took a break from streaming for a while, and then he came back
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and now he's on YouTube. Well, no, he got banned from Twitch.
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That was a huge thing, right, and then he came back it
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was on YouTube. This guy does it right. I mean, yes,
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he plays his games. He's he plays a character. He doesn't play himself.
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He plays the character of doctor Disrespect, and so the way he does
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it is perfect. And he interacts with his chat. He looks at the
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chat and I've I've watched Doctor Disrespect stream and the chat is just going by
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so fast, Like I don't even know how he can look at it and
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see any particular message. I wonder if he has handlers basically that we'll see
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a text and point push it to him, you know, or something.
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Yeah, he's got a staff. He's got a staff behind him. I
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mean his wife helps him out. The funniest part is when he's actually playing
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a game and he's like in the middle of a game and you see like
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this hand come in on the on the on the screen with a sandwich and
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it's his wife. She's like literally hand feeding him while he's playing the game.
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He's just like he's like, Oh, I'm not I'm gonna get you.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna get you. You know, I'll tell you who
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else is good. And we've had him on the show. I mean,
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ry a stream because he's funny. I mean, I'm gonna watch somebody I
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want. I want to watch somebody who's gonna be funny and interact. But
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you know, you make a good point justin. I think a lot of
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people in they're watching a streamer play guy somebody dire girl. But women are
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grated in as well playing a video game. They want to be acknowledged.
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They they like that. You know, Oh, here's this person. But
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his heart gets back to slick knows when I'm talking about to radio. Yeah,
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I mean the old days of power, when you were at power of
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fourteen ninety. That was the days where you could put people on the phone
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and put them on the air, or even if not that mention their names.
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People want to hear their Oh that was the biggest thing. Yeah,
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you know I liked it too. I mean you remember, justin we worked
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together at stations. People loved it. You know, they would call in
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and it's always fun to say, and it's fun for the jock. It's
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fun to say, oh, you know, thanks to you know, Laura
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who's listening to us while she's working her or a Bob who's listening while he's
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mowing the lawn. I don't know. I don't know if this guy is
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still around with us today. But I remember back when I was on Fat
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Night, right, I would I would. There was this guy that would
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call in almost every night and he'd say, I need to hear queen fat
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bottom girls because I've got some fat bottom girls over here. And he would
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always say that. And I can't remember his name. But if you are
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still out there and you happen to be listening to this show, I still
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remember you. Yeah, oh yeah, you do remember. You end up
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remembering some of the listeners that are out there. I mean my time here
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KGVY, when I was doing mornings and now I'm on afternoons. I there
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are people I just love hearing their voice and I know their names, and
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we've lost some over the years, some of those. And you you think
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about that, there's a guy who used to actually call Gosh, I don't
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think he ever called here, but he used to call some of the other
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stations and I would hear him, and I can't remember. I'm trying to
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remember his name. I went to his funeral last year. When I heard
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that he had passed away, I thought, oh, you're kidding me.
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He called it went by the name of Andrew, and you know, again
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he was. He was just so over the top and just a great person
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on the radio when you would hear him. But that's just the way it
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is, you know, podcasters, I don't know if podcasters do that.
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Do you hear people? Do people call in? Like on podcast shows like
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First First Off? Podcast shows are usually recorded, pre recorded, so they
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don't really do a lot of live podcast shows. Some of them could go
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live. I mean, we're in the works, we're working on that,
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you know. I mean that works that kind of cool. So I just
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kind of wonder. But yeah, well, there was a time we were
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set up and able to do that. There was a time, yeah,
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we were doing it live. We were doing this show live, taking the
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phone calls, the whole bit. Now we take phone calls, but you
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call our telephone number five two zero seven seven seven ninety five eighty you leave
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a message and then we might even call you back, and all of us
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will talk to you, but we'll talk to you at you know, another
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time. But to bring it back to full circle, I mean we're talking
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about, you know, video game streamers and and how people interact with them
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and they want to hear their name, they want to have their comment read.
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And I am the same way. Especially I don't watch any other streamer.
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I watched RYA's stream, and Ryan knows me because even though on on
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YouTube I go by Donnie Narco, he knows when he sees my comment,
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he'll be like, hey, Justin, you know, Justin says so and
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so because he knows me, he knows who I am. But I love
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it when he reads my comment, you know, and it makes me feel
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special. It's the same thing going back to the days of radio, like
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you just mentioned, where people would call in they were hoping they would get
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on the radio. I remember when I was a little kid, I called
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I think it was called Hit one hundred. It was in Rapid City,
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South Dakota. It was like the top forty station back then. And I
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called and I hear it ring and ring and ring, and all of a
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sudden, the DJ picks up and he's like hit one hundred FM, and
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I'm like, I love him one hundred love it, I love it,
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I love it bye. And I hung my phone because I didn't know what
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to say. I didn't know if he was recording it. I just was
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like, I love hit one hundred FFM, thank you for it, bye,
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and I hung up the phone and I was hoping that he record it,
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and he was like, uh. He went on the air a little
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bit later and he was like, Yeah, that kid that just called me
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said you love Hit one hundred. I definitely appreciate you listening. Thanks,
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And that was it. That's all he said. And I was like he
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talked about me, Oh my god, you know, like it was I
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felt like a celebrity. Yeah. Well it was funny because when I worked
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for Westwood One, which was just up until last year, and I would
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do shows across the country. One of the stations that I really loved and
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they're still out there, wamp FM, the great sounding station. The guy
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that runs the name as Johnny Oh, And he'd be on in the mornings
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and I'd be driving into work be remember the time difference two three hours,
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right I'd be driving into work to do the morning show here at KGVUI,
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and occasionally he would throw a shout out to me, you know, oh,
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because he knew you were listening and I was doing the app he knew,
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you know, I was out here and I was doing their afternoon show
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you know, from here, and he would do a shout out, and
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I've got all giddy like, you know, because it was so much fun.
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Yeah, it's what was that? Womp? Yeah? Wamp FM.
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So great story about that station and how it's it was. It was a
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station that was originally there. They went away, they had another station in
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place, and I used to be on that station, and then they changed
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and went back to this WANMP to kind of relive the heyday, be like
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Power fourteen ninety coming back to live the heyday of that, and it's been
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very successful. I've got a question for you guys. You guys are both
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radio veterans, right, let me ask you this. Do you know what
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is the most valuable asset a radio station has? It's listeners? Nope,
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No, I'm talking about in monetary value. Is listeners could be a monetary
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value? But no, what do you what do you say slick. Are
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you talking about the land the antennas on MMM close license? Oh? Yeah,
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yeah. The license for the broadcasting is the most valuable asset. Without
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that, you're nothing. If you don't have that license to broadcast on that
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particular for you can see, you are nothing. That's true. That's true.
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And there have been stations that have lost that license. Oh they didn't
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handle it correctly. So and that that does. That does people said,
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some people said some poopoo words on there one of those stations country k I
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K is that what happened next to the last jock on that station? Waitsck?
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I knew you were over there. Jessica Han was over there, wasn't
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she? No, she was with me at one ninety five in Phoenix.
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In Phoenix. Sorry, so you're on this station. Somebody said something they
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shouldn't have said. No, what happened was I was, I was on
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my way out here. I had just got back from West Germany. I
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was. I was in high school with my family in West Germany. Uh.
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We had transferred to Illinois. I met someone there. We came out
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here. My first station. I applied to stations, but the first station
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to call me was KICKS country k I k X five eighty right, I
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didn't know the history. Yeah, they called me it was a country station.
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I mean we were both like, they really put me on it.
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You're not a country guy. Well, here's the thing. My My first
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station back in the States was wrt L M and FM and ran to Illinois
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just outside of Sneud Air Force Base, which was m O R. Middle
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of the Road, and played a lot of country music. Now with all
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that hair, how could you wear a cowboy hat? Yeah? Right,
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you know what I need to send your picture of the one that I have.
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It's it's called an open crown, all right, and get all my
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hair in my head in it now? Think Billy Jack got it? Got
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it all right. So when the first station I was on was an easy
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listening station. I was playing Montevani and and Tysher yep, Oh my god.
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So what happened with this the southern station that was here. So I
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came out to kicks Country and so I'm doing overnights and uh, this was
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from the time I started to the time it ended. It was a couple
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of years. So about a year through I find out that a year before
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I got there, a morning guy decided to go and vaca. You know,
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he's going with on vacation. Everybody was going to vacation. But the
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guy that is sitting in for him says he's been kidnapped. That was here,
22:00
that was here, that was here. I remember that, Oh,
22:04
kidnapp wasn't Wasn't Kimmel involved in that somehow? Yeah. I used to go
22:11
up against Chris in Pump Springs. We did, we did very well.
22:15
But he's doing very well. Now, what do you mean Chris? Chris
22:21
his real name is Chris Kimmel. Yeah, seriously, Yeah, yeah,
22:25
at least that's the name he went by in the radio out there. But
22:27
so maybe that could could be, could be. All right, So so
22:32
a different, different kidnapping story. But I know Chris was out here when
22:34
he was working, and that's that's what that happened. So what so what
22:37
happened this kidnapping thing? So apparently the authorities called the radio station, you
22:42
know, because you told her about the kidnapping, they call the radio station.
22:45
What the the on air personalities did not do was say it's a bit.
22:52
They did not admit to it being a bit. So at some point
22:55
they realized it's found out that the guy's coming back to vacation. He's on
22:59
the I don't know how the license was challenged or you know, I'm sure
23:03
people follow complaints with the FCC, and uh so the FCC uh said we're
23:07
going to pull your license. It went for another year of just lawyers and
23:11
court cases and stuff could have been even maybe even long because of a bed,
23:15
Yeah, because of because of a horrible pad pit. You know,
23:19
they thought it was Yeah, he's kidnapped. Yeah, we got to take
23:25
a quick break. We come back. We actually have a listener question.
23:27
We'll talk more about tech because there is a lot of big stuff that's been
23:30
going on. More of that on the way. I'm Andy Taylor and Slick
23:36
and I'm Justin And I forgot this is tech talk Radio, not Reminiscent radio.
23:41
But I love it. I hope you did too. And now back
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24:10
have? Okay, it says their tech talk radio. This is from from
24:15
dianan Ora Valley by the way, Okay, all right, yeah, I'm
24:18
a digital doesn't even say dearie, I just do that. I'm a digital
24:22
hoarder, and I want to start we eating down the data and duplicates what
24:26
I have, especially here. I know where we're going with this one,
24:30
especially photos spread out on my original PC and three different backup drums. Oh,
24:37
it's so frustrating, but I want to delete the duplicates and save time.
24:41
Okay. There we have discussed over the many many years we've been together,
24:45
so many different options. Where do you want to begin at the simplest
24:51
and maybe even the most current. I think the scariest thing is when you're
24:55
doing something like this. You've got so you got all these photos spread out
24:57
on you know what he said, three different You've got your main photos,
25:03
you've got and then you're afraid you're going to delete something that maybe you do
25:07
want to have because you're trying you're trying to delete, and sometimes stuff gets
25:11
named differently. It can be it can be a real chore. How what's
25:15
the best way to manage something like this? I don't use software as much
25:19
as software software that manages images and photos as much as you do. So
25:25
that's why I was looking for you to lead into this discussion, because I
25:29
personally, you know, because you have to take into consideration the name of
25:33
the file as well as what the file really is, and then the meta
25:38
meta information within the file. And I didn't know if you had come across
25:42
something andy in particular that you well prefer or would initially recommend, because I
25:48
do it all manual, I really do. How do you do it though?
25:52
When it's on three different drives? Do you put them on one drive?
25:55
Do you move all of that? Well, all images one drive?
25:59
Okay, Well, well I have a I have a different method of doing
26:03
this. If you've got three different drives or four different drives, you're gonna
26:07
need to connect them all up at the same time. So you're gonna need
26:11
some sort of a dongle like us B to SETA or us B to you
26:15
know, ide whatever your drives are, but you really want them to be
26:19
connected at the same time, and then you're gonna want to use a software
26:22
to the search all of those drives at the same time to find those duplicates.
26:29
Now there's a couple different softwares out there. I don't know how uh
26:33
technically inclined this Dean from Oral Valley is, but there is one called doup
26:38
gurudup Guru. It's aupe g u r u. It's open source, but
26:45
it's on GitHub, so it's kind of like one of those things where you
26:48
kind of have to like read about it and figure out how to install it.
26:51
Doup Guru is free, it's open source, clock cross platform, and
26:56
it can also do folders as well. But if you're looking to just make
26:59
it easy, make it like you know, paid software, Power Automated Desktop
27:06
is a good one. And also beyond Compare is another really good beyond Compare
27:10
and I remember that one one of the ones I have used for something similar,
27:15
and I did it with audio files because I had audio files that were
27:19
spread out is roxio Creator NXT nine pro and it has a tool in there,
27:26
and it actually has quite a lot of tools bulk renaming. It has
27:30
the ability so if you've got files, say you find all the pictures from
27:34
Slicks Barbecue, right, and you you know, at the lake, and
27:38
you want to call them Slicks Barbecue, right, So you could go ahead
27:42
and do a bulk renaming of all those photos, so that way you have
27:47
them, and it will bulk rename, it will bulk delete, it will
27:52
do duplicates. So you say, you know, take this folder and look
27:56
for duplicates throughout this drive or folders, and it will pull up all of
28:02
those and then you can decide which ones you keep, which ones you delete.
28:06
But again you'll be careful about that. But here's the problem. What
28:10
a lot of these you know, digital uh cameras nowaday, even if it's
28:14
your phone or even a just a regular digital camera, they all have the
28:18
same naming convention IMG or yeah, well not not even just the the extension,
28:23
but just well yeah, yeah, you're right, yeah, like IMG
28:26
underscore, you know, one, two, three, four, five,
28:29
sixty seven, whatever it is. So you might erroneously find some images that
28:36
have the same name, but they're not the same. And that's the downfall
28:41
of the one I mentioned first, that free one the doup guru is because
28:45
it's CLI based and so you're not gonna be able to see. Uh,
28:48
you know, you're not gonna be able to see thumbnails of the image.
28:52
So if you want to make it real easy, if you don't mind paying
28:55
a little bit, I would say something like those other ones that I mentioned
28:57
a little bit ago are probably going to be your best bet. You might
29:02
have to pay for them, but you're probably gonna be able to see thumbnails
29:04
of the images, just to make sure that it's the same image or not
29:08
one of them. By the way, everybody justin when he says celia means
29:11
command line interface here keep board, okay, Just so you know. One
29:15
of the things that I've have have heard over the years too is something like
29:21
this, where you have a two hundred and fifty gigabyte drive, a one
29:25
terrorbyte drive, a two terabyte drive is now we have capacities going up to
29:29
twenty two terabytes, right, So say you go ahead and you buy yourself
29:33
a ten terabyte or twelve terabyte drive. It's not gonna be overly expensive.
29:38
I mean, so you get that and then you move the what you want
29:42
to that drive. So everything from these drives onto there that will help you
29:48
in management of these. Like you said justin, some of them are named
29:52
the same and they may be different files, so you've got to be careful
29:55
to keep them in the same structure and then go through and look for duplicates,
29:59
look for or and it's not not all always does it look depending on
30:03
the program, does it look for names. It may look for me to
30:06
to you know, the meta data, where it's going to look for the
30:08
data was taken, the image itself, the size of the image, what
30:14
to the meda day data is also going to be very important. So again
30:17
that's that's another theory. But one thing I want to say is for for
30:21
Dean, you want to you want to, you know, bring your collection
30:25
of digital images, digital files down, but remember always have a backup,
30:32
you know, make a backup of the backup and in a backup of a
30:36
backup of backup. Just a joking. No, he's not, he's not.
30:41
You know some people are they're taking digital copies of putting them on you
30:45
know, on the cloud, and they can do that right, but again,
30:48
you can do a you have a backup. You're like, oh,
30:52
here's all my photos. Be happy you've got them. Make a backup of
30:55
that, just to be safe, you know. It's just the best thing
30:57
in the world. And don't. That's certainly keep your back up with you,
31:02
I mean, no site, keep it off site, you have you
31:04
have safe at work that you can put it in. Be careful how you
31:08
move drives. If it's not an SSD, you know you don't want to
31:11
drop them. I've made that mistake before. I keep a backup of some
31:15
very sensitive documents and also my crypto. I keep that in a bank vault,
31:23
a safety deposit box, Like I literally have a safety deposit box that
31:29
uh that we we uh my wife and I have to access together to get
31:34
into it. Wow, that makes sense. But you know there was This
31:37
is a good question because somebody asked me this the other day and I,
31:41
you know, I should have said, hey, I want to use this
31:42
as a question on our show when it comes to crypto. If somebody has
31:47
a digital wallet that they've stored on a drive right they die, they've they've
31:52
died, but that digital wallet is on that drive, how can they access
31:59
that with that that they know that crypto's on there, How can they access
32:04
that to be able to transfer those funds or have access to those funds.
32:07
There's only two ways. You're gonna need to know the master password of the
32:12
crypto wallet. So if like for instance, if they're using something like ledger
32:17
Live or whatever, you're gonna need to know the master password. And if
32:22
you don't know that master password, the only other way to access that crypto
32:27
is to get the key, the seed key, right, and that seed
32:30
key is something like twenty six words, and they're all random words, not
32:37
just random letters, but actual words that if you type those into a new
32:42
wallet and you've typed in those exact words in order, that'll unlock that wallet
32:50
for you and open. But if that, yeah, but if that person's
32:52
died and they have not left some sort of a ledger. And I say
32:59
that because I'm talking about the software, but I'm talking about a ledger as
33:01
a piece of paper that has their master password or their seed keys written down,
33:07
the crypto's gone. That's there's no way to get it. That's important
33:09
to think about if you are holding that or any kind of documents to happen.
33:14
I have it, I'm I have it, my will right have a
33:16
way that somebody, you know, if you're leaving this behind, is going
33:20
to be able to access that. Otherwise that that investment you've worked so hard
33:23
for to pass down is not going to be passed down. Will. That's
33:29
a great So it actually not my will. I'm sorry, Will. So
33:31
here's the thing. That's another thing. We think it's a good idea,
33:34
you should do it. No it is, yeah, but will will is
33:37
not what you're talking about. Everybody says, oh, I need a will
33:39
that's going to tell everything about me. No, no, no, it's
33:42
not. It's an estate plan. That is the document like a trust plan.
33:46
Yeah. Yeah, the will doesn't really do anything for you after your
33:51
diet, it's not. Okay. The estate plan is what you need.
33:53
And I have an estate plan with my wife, and we have that also
33:58
stored in our bank fault. So if I were to pass on, Mysa
34:01
would be able to access the vault only with my death certificate, and then
34:06
she'd be able to access that. But that that vault and a bank contains
34:12
my seed keys for my wallet, my crypto wallet. It contains our estate
34:16
plan. It contains all the instructions for if both of us were to die,
34:21
what happens to Eric, where he should go. It also has a
34:24
document for Eric when he becomes of age that he can read by me that
34:29
says, hey, sorry, can't be here, but here's what I want
34:32
you to do with this money, and blah blah blah. But all of
34:36
that is stored in a bank vault. You know, I'm wondering if you
34:38
know, with our technology the way we are now, are people recording videos
34:44
and saving them somewhere like h And also, should we not have should people
34:49
have a plan for their digital life? We? You know, it says
34:52
as maybe more, but as it sounds, you know, our digital life
34:58
when we you know, we pass who has control of that? That can
35:01
all be done? I know Facebook makes it possible for you to have somebody
35:05
that can then control your page as a memorial page, the whole bit.
35:08
But if you don't keep up on that, what happens to that? That's
35:13
a good question because I was thinking about setting up my Google Verse. So
35:16
it's going to be like a data dub on one of my sons. He's
35:20
going to get that email here and it's going to click on the link and
35:22
you have access to all of this stuff and he's gonna look at it.
35:24
He's like, I'm not going through all of his Yeah, well, I
35:29
mean, yeah, it's a good question really honestly. So this goes back
35:35
to when I an old show that we talked about where we have we talked
35:37
about password managers. Yeah. So, so one of the things that I
35:40
have, one of the things I have in my bank vault is my master
35:45
password for my password manager. And if somebody were to get that, like
35:50
my son or my wife, if I were to pass on without her,
35:53
they'll be able to access everything everything that I store in my password. And
35:59
they might even not they might not even know what to access. But if
36:02
they look through all the passwords that I have saved, they're gonna be like,
36:06
oh, okay, he had an account here, Oh he had a
36:09
Oh I should probably log into Discord with this and let his Discord friends know
36:14
that he passed on or whatever. I mean. All of that is in
36:17
the master password. And again, if you don't have a password manager,
36:22
it's very secure. It's so much better than just writing down your password and
36:28
putting it underneath your keyboard, thinking that nobody's gonna look there, because guess
36:30
what they're gonna look for someone, it's the first place I'm gonna look.
36:35
Absolutely, yeah, And that's that's the problem I think we with our digital
36:38
lives, We've not thought about what happens and that next step, you know.
36:45
And again, I know there's a lot of people listening that that have
36:47
made those plans, but it is something to plan for, as much as
36:51
we maybe don't want to do it, it is something to think about.
36:53
Oh I hate it. I hated having to do this. I hated having
36:57
to plan for this. Like we would sit down and talk about and my
37:00
wife, like we would we would like get like one hour into it and
37:02
then we'd walk away and just like, I'm just too depressed to deal with
37:07
this right now, Like it is not a fun topic to talk about,
37:09
but it is inevitable, so you're gonna have to deal with it. Yeah,
37:14
And Andy's aware of this because I'm dealing with this right now. I
37:17
have a neighbor who I've known for for months that you know, her health
37:25
wasn't getting any better, and all of a sudden she had to go to
37:29
the hospital and now she's in the hospice and I have the key to her
37:32
apartment and I'm trying to help her, you know, wrap up things,
37:37
if you will. So I've actually been working on a computer, salvaging everything
37:43
off of it, resetting it so that can go to where she wants to
37:45
go as well. As her televisions, which she's really now that's interesting.
37:52
Televisions do have a certain amount of data depending on the year that that television
37:58
was made and whatnot that it may have in that too. What what do
38:01
you mean? I don't understand exactly what you mean by that, Like a
38:05
smart TV may have Yeah, yeah, but what do you what are you
38:07
doing with her TVs? What do you mean? What do you I do
38:10
hard resets? Okay? So, like, are you trying not to like
38:15
show that she's been watching a particular show or something. No, just not
38:19
leave any traces of her information on those devices. You know. I've got
38:22
grabbed her tablets. There may be some more coming my way, like phones
38:27
and things like that. She's she's she and I still communicate. She She's
38:30
still doing well, but not well enough. She cannot live on her own
38:35
anymore at Allay, that's over. Woweah, wow, some things to think
38:39
about. All right, you gotta take another quick break. We come back.
38:42
Some fun stuff to talk about, please, Yeah, and we talk
38:45
about TVs because one of the big manufacturers of televisions being bought by somebody.
38:52
Will tell you about that. Coming up with tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy
38:53
Taylor. I am slick and I'm justin le Me and you can tweet us
38:59
on x at Tech Talk Radio. Will be right back now back to Chief
39:02
Talk Radio. So before the break, we were talking about that Walmart.
39:08
Yeah, Agreen to buy something big they're doing. They're making another move.
39:12
Yeah, they're agreeing to buy smart TV maker Visio. Wow, that's pretty
39:19
big too, that's a huge one for two point three billion dollars. But
39:23
this is actually sending sending shockwaves through the industry because Roku, who also makes
39:30
I mean they they've they're very well known for making OTT devices, over the
39:34
top devices that are like the fire TV stick, right, so they have
39:37
the Roku stick and the Roku players, but they also have their own line
39:40
of TVs Roku and Walmart was one of their biggest distributors of Roku TVs.
39:47
Now, if if Walmart's buying Visio, that means Walmart's gonna be pushing Visio
39:53
or pushing or pushing Roku out the door and pushing video as their their primary
40:01
product. And what about what about the other brand that they do? Was
40:05
it you called it O n N? I think yeah, on O n
40:07
N is another brand you see a Walmart quite a bit. So what's gonna
40:10
happen to them? Here's what good thing's gonna happen. I think the Visio
40:14
name could potentially go away if I want Walmart and I've already got O N
40:19
N, just call it first, call them. Why you don't you think
40:24
video is a better name? Oh my god? Okay, first off,
40:28
I've never heard of O N N. Okay, I've heard of Visio.
40:30
So I would think you would keep the Visio name and get rid of the
40:34
other one. Yeah, that's possible. Well, the problem here's the problem.
40:37
I see the O N N brand extends beyond televisions with Walmart. Yeah,
40:42
so, I mean there's a lot of stuff on on it. Think
40:44
about this to it on tablet. If you if you go into a Walmart
40:49
and you look at the Roku section, you're gonna see, Yes, you're
40:52
gonna see the the their their Rocu stick, their voice remote, their speakers,
40:57
but you will also see the products they've co branded with Wise and so
41:01
under the Roku name. So does that mean would Roku just say, Hey,
41:05
you're not gonna carry our TVs? Then we're just gonna We're gonna likely
41:09
I think Roku would say that. I think Walmart, if any if you
41:12
know anybody's Walmart would kick him out. But I don't think Roku would say
41:15
that. I don't know, yeah, might maybe a death sentence. You
41:21
like this brand, though, Visio, don't you justin? I mean,
41:22
I mean I've used I've used him before, right, Definitely. I ran
41:27
it this problem recently with misreporting the frame rates on their televisions. If you
41:31
remember that we talked about a few weeks ago. Well, I I had,
41:37
I had a Visio television. It was one of my big first,
41:39
you know, big purchases once we got our own place, and it was
41:43
a Visio. I think it was a sixty five inch or a sixty inch.
41:47
I don't know one of the two sixty or sixty five. But the
41:51
thing was is they they touted and this is part of leading to your comment
41:54
there, Andy, was they touted it had a four hundred and eighty hertz
41:59
refraind rate. Everything would look amazing with this whole hundred and eighty heirs refresh
42:04
rate, but yet it was still just ten adp and and granted it looked
42:08
pretty good, but like you were saying, that they were misreporting their their
42:14
their refresh rates. Refresh rates don't mean jack Yeah, yeah, I mean
42:20
when it gets to a certain point, I mean thirty thirty thirty hirts per
42:22
second versus sixty versus one hundred and twenty. Okay, yes, there's a
42:25
big difference, but after one hundred and twenty, there's you're really not gonna
42:30
be able to tell a difference. I mean, if you're like me and
42:32
I watch a lot of Hallmark movies, there's not a lot of action you
42:37
do. There's hope you're gonna say that because I was gonna interject, there's
42:42
not a lot of action that happened to these Hallmark movies other than you know,
42:45
somebody getting slapped in the face or something that's about it, or or
42:52
the car driving away leaving the person on the side of the road waving.
42:54
Yes, that happens too, But I mean when you're looking at action in
42:59
you know, you you watch it an action movie or sports or sports even
43:02
you want to have you want to have that good refresh rate. Yeah.
43:07
Sports, sports is like the biggest thing, like especially with NFL, right,
43:10
you want the best refresh rate you can possibly get. But at a
43:15
certain point it becomes you can't even tell the difference, Like I said,
43:19
four hundred and eighty even two and forty refresh rate is you really can't tell
43:25
the difference on it. When you get to a sports game like football or
43:30
baseball football mostly really because it's such a high, you know, fast paced
43:34
game, you're gonna want to high refresh rate. However, now going back
43:37
to what you mentioned earlier, the super Bowl, right this last super Bowl.
43:39
Yeah, I actually paid an extra ten dollars to get the super Bowl
43:45
in four K because I have absolutely, absolutely for ten dollars. I paid
43:50
extra ten dollars to YouTube TV. I got the super Bowl in four K,
43:53
and it was fantastic. On the over air broadcast, I noticed some
44:00
some artifacts, some weird stuff going on on the broadcast signal. Yeah,
44:06
but everything about the Super Bowl and four K was great, except for the
44:08
outcome of the winner. You have visio. I had a visio. I'll
44:15
be honest with you. I had a visio. Still. I had a
44:19
fifty inch video and the back light went out on it. So a calm
44:22
down on me too. Somebody gave it to me. That's that's how much
44:24
I paid for this video. Yeah, I had I had one video that
44:29
the panel I had one video that the back light went out. I had
44:32
one video that had a yellow line vertical line come through it. Uh.
44:37
And then I still have one visio up in our master bedroom that's a smaller
44:39
one, like a twenty inch TV or whatever. That thing has been going
44:44
strong since two thousand and nine. Do you remember the older televisions how they
44:49
would last forever? I mean I remember number one. My parents had this
44:53
television that sat in the corner that was enormous, but yet the screen was
44:59
small. It was like a nineteen inch television, but the but the console
45:04
that it was in was just but it weighed like a weighed amount as a
45:07
small car. Yeah, nobody would steal it. They that was one of
45:12
the benefits. Now they can just take it off the wall and you know,
45:15
and run with it because there they're lights. They looked great and they
45:20
got a bigger screen, So people do that. But those TVs, those
45:22
big ones that they We had a Packard Bell television, a third Packard bellion.
45:29
Oh yeah, yeah, Packard television. Packer Bell had thirteen channels and
45:32
some UAHF and it was black and white. And I remember that television just
45:37
lasted forever. See I'm old enough to remember the age of before cable,
45:43
you know, like with the VHF UAHF. I remember that we had one
45:46
of our first TVs was like that way. But after that then we got
45:50
cable. But I do remember the big, huge sets. I remember having
45:53
gosh it was a fifty five inch I think, and it was massive.
46:00
I mean this thing. You had to have a crane to put this thing
46:04
in your house. Now a fifty five inch you could lift it up with
46:07
one hand. Oh yeah, yeah, seriously, they don't seem that big
46:09
anymore. But you know, now you can go out and buy the ninety
46:13
inch television, which I feel like you put it in that's only two foot
46:16
wide. Really, go ahead, yeah you would have go on o rand
46:23
is about real quick. As as an early early audio file. I got
46:28
a problem with these combo TVs. You got Zoomo in a TV, you
46:31
got Amazon Fire TV, you got your uh uh, what's the what's the
46:38
other one that's coming? I think? Uh uh? Anyway, Yeah,
46:42
I think Zuomo is gonna be on Inxfinity, which is gonna be interesting.
46:45
That's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, expindity, the problem is
46:47
gonna and I've dealt with a lot of these teats, these combo TVs.
46:51
After a while, they're just like any other cheap device, which is they
46:55
don't have enough space, they don't have enough RAND, they don't have enough
46:58
storage, and they don't process the information fast enough. It's time for you
47:02
to get another TV. Why do people see I have outboard units. I
47:07
have an outboard firestick. I have an outboard uh uh zoomo unit. Uh
47:14
huh. They're gonna last longer they get the two uh two gigabytes ram in
47:17
it. I mean, you know, I never use I never used the
47:21
built in features on a TV. I have all those, like you said,
47:22
outboard. I have a Chrome cast or Chrome TV, Google TV they
47:27
call it now. Yeah, uh, I use those all over the place.
47:29
I got the Xbox I got you know whatever. But yeah, I
47:30
don't use the built in Do you use Android TV? That's that's an outboard
47:35
unit. I haven't tried yet. Well that that's what Google TV is is
47:37
Android TV basically. But this was from Nvidio. They've got their own little
47:40
standing. Oh yeah, no, no, I don't use shield. I
47:43
don't use shield. I've had a Google TV and I loved it. You
47:46
want to know something very interesting though about the smart TVs, how smart they
47:52
really are, and I think we might have talked about this in a previous
47:53
show. I have a DNS uh server in my house. It's called the
48:00
it's a weird name. It's called a pie hole, okay, but it's
48:05
it's made. It's using a Raspberry pie the little cheap little computers and run
48:08
Linux. But this is my DNS server and all the units in my house
48:14
talk to this before they get access to the internet. Once I put the
48:19
pie hole on the top of fenders of DNS entries DNS requests where my Samsung
48:27
TV and my LGTV, they were sending out thousands of requests per hour and
48:36
most of it was tracking purposes. And so once I am finally installed using
48:40
the pie hole, you can install these like DNS black hole lists, where
48:45
if it tries to access this particular domain, it black holes it and in
48:50
the TV or whatever the device is is like, hey, I'm still here
48:53
waiting for my response, and it never gets a response. These TVs are
48:59
insane how much they take of your data. They watch they know every app
49:04
you're using, how long you're using it, what the volume of the TV
49:08
is, what your color settings on the TV is what your resolution of the
49:13
TV is. It reports all of that data back so it can be sold
49:16
to data brokers. This is why large TVs that are considered smart TVs are
49:22
so cheap, because they're making their money. Hold on, They're making their
49:27
money by selling all of your data of everything you watch. Yep, I
49:32
got a confession to make. What I haven't told you guys about. I
49:35
signed up for Telly t e L y all right? I ever heard of
49:38
it? Nah? That's the company that's sending out free television. Oh.
49:45
Yes, they have a thing at the bottom of it that runs ads.
49:49
Ye. So oh, I haven't gotten it yet. I haven't gotten it
49:51
yet, but I signed up for it because I'm nosy. I want to
49:53
know. I want to see this thing, all right. I want to
49:55
tell you about something really cool on television this past week. I saw are
50:00
we watching over the error on a cable? Slick? Because you saw the
50:02
segment? Yes? Which one? Would you? Over the error cable over
50:07
the air? Oh? Yeah? Okay? So I showed the Atari,
50:12
my Arcade Atari. It's a handheld device with about one hundred game titles.
50:16
You can buy it for about thirty eight bucks. Uh, they're the eight
50:19
bit you know graphics. It's kind of fun if you don't want to type
50:22
your phone and play with this. But I found this website in doing some
50:24
research. Aa r P. That's the you know AA No, listen to
50:30
me. If you go to games dot a ARP dot org. Yeah,
50:36
Forward Slash Category, Forward Slash Atari Dash Games, you could play these games
50:42
right there on your computer, absolutely free. You don't even have to be
50:45
an a ARP member. Just just ignore, ignore the sign up. I'm
50:51
sorry, but that's almost a little bit of an insult people. Well,
50:54
because if you're if you're old enough to remember Atari, you're old enough to
50:59
qualify for AP which is me. They have games like Asteroids, Missile Command,
51:04
fun games, and again you can play for free right there in front
51:07
of your computer games dot AARP dot org. I think you'll have fun with
51:12
that. Quick break, we'll be back with more of tech talk Radio.
51:15
We got this woman to tell you about who's pretty amazing. Standing by here.
51:19
I'm Andy Taylor, I am slick, and I'm justin again. Find
51:22
us on Facebook at facebook dot com. Force Slash tech Talkers were right back
51:27
and now back to tech Talk Radio. We saw this story this week,
51:31
and we just thought it was pretty cool justin you actually wanted to tell us
51:35
a little about her as well. Maria a Ravallo And why are people talking
51:39
about her? Well because she this Maria is eighty one years old, all
51:45
right, and she plays a game called free Fire. Now she's a gamer
51:52
at eighty one, eighty one years old. Nice free free Fire is a
51:55
popular online video game in Chile, and she plays it in her home.
52:01
And the reason behind it was she said that she was kind of feeling a
52:06
little bit sad and empty after the death of her husband, but her grandson
52:09
introduced her to gaming. Oh ye, she loves to play this game and
52:15
it kind of in a way, it kind of reminds me of my own
52:17
mom because my mom played Xbox for many years. I don't think she doesn't
52:22
play it anymore, and she's not that, you know, as old as
52:25
as Maria here. But my mom's gamer tag on Xbox is Granny Gunsmith.
52:31
I like that. And she used to play Call of Duty. She would
52:37
mop up the floor with people and it would be Granny Gunsmith at the top,
52:42
and people would like be on voice chat with her and she'd be like,
52:45
yeah, I'm like sixty years old and I'm playing games and they're like,
52:49
what the heck? Yeah, you know this Maria eighty one years old
52:52
plays a game called free Fire in Chile. Yeah. I mean that's amazing.
52:55
I think gamer Granny. She even has people that kind of follow her
53:00
now to watch her while she's playing these games or to actually interact with her
53:06
while she's playing the games, and it's like open her up to a whole
53:09
new community of really accepting people. Well, there's a we were talking earlier
53:15
about streamers, right, there's another streamer and I I'm sorry, but I
53:19
forget her name on the top of my head. I don't have time to
53:21
look at it right now. But she's also a grandmother, and she's probably
53:25
around sixty sixty five years old, but she's a live streamer. She streams
53:30
herself playing games. I think it's on Twitch or maybe it's on Facebook or
53:35
whatever, but she and she's pretty popular. I mean, she's got,
53:37
you know, hundreds of people that watch her every single day play these games.
53:43
But what they love about her is it's like she's like their grandmother.
53:47
Like she'll talk to them like their grandmother. She'll do the best part is
53:52
that she'll be playing a game and she's like, oh, hey there,
53:55
Mark, how you doing. How's the wife? Oh my god, I'm
53:59
gonna get your get out of my Oh sorry, Mark, I'm here,
54:04
Mark. You know, I'll tell me about this game free fire this.
54:07
I mean, what kind of game is this she's playing? No, I
54:10
think it's a for what I understand, it's a kind of a first person
54:14
shooter. Oh yeah, yeah, looks like it. And she has she
54:16
has a lot of fun with that. So before we get out of here,
54:20
I wanted to mention Blue Sky is now open. Uh. Now,
54:23
Blue Sky is an alternative to x or Twitter. It's been was invitation only
54:29
for the longest time. Now it's fully open. So if you go to
54:31
b s k y dot a p P you could sign up for free account.
54:37
I did. The thing is I don't know anybody that's on there yet,
54:40
and uh, it reminds me of Twitter. Right away. I got
54:45
hit with politicals Oh boy, that's all we need. Well, there's another
54:50
one out there that was just a little bit ago when Elon took over Twitter,
54:52
and it was called Mastodon. Oh yeah, they call yeah. Mastadon
54:57
was the other one that was out there and that that kind of competed with
54:59
the Blue Sky because Blue Sky again was invite only, whereas Mastodon was open,
55:04
like anybody could sign up, and I signed up for Macedon and the
55:06
same thing. I don't want nothing to do with it. Oh well,
55:08
I have a count I follow one person, and that is Blue Sky.
55:12
But if you want to try it out, send me a note, let
55:14
me know. I'll fall in and you know, maybe we start our own
55:15
little circle. But either way, it's bsky dot app. All right,
55:21
Well, that's it for this week tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
55:24
I am Slick, and I'm Justin. Find us on the web at tech
55:28
talk radio dot com. Have yourselves great week. We'll see you next time.