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Hail, Apple, and Why Is This Still 1080p? - TechtalkRadio | Ep 477 · TechtalkRadio

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Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to tech Talk Radio and Hey, this is
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Speaker 1: Duke newkeom Hail to the King, Baby, Welcome to another
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Speaker 1: episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
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Speaker 1: de Weird, and I'm justin Lemme. It's good to see
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Speaker 1: you all. A pretty busy week.
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Speaker 2: I survived, brought away.
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Speaker 1: What storm is affecting Sean this week?
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Speaker 3: I feel like every time we record an episode, I've
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Speaker 3: got some sort of either I'm under thread of sphere
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Speaker 3: weather or I just survived a threat of sphere weather.
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Speaker 1: And this one you actually did kind of survive, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So we were we went camping this past weekend, got
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Speaker 3: the camp route for the first time this year, and
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Speaker 3: I was with my parents and my friend Steve and Kate.
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Speaker 3: Caitlin was in Lafayette, Indiana, which is done by Purdue
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Speaker 3: in a wedding, and we.
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Speaker 2: Were the boys were asleep.
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Speaker 3: This is about twelve thirty Friday night, Saturday morning, and
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Speaker 3: we knew there was weather up in Michigan, and so
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Speaker 3: we were watching Ryan Hall on YouTube just to make
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Speaker 3: sure that there was no threat of severe weather. And
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Speaker 3: there's the theory is that if Ryan Hall mentions your
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Speaker 3: town or the town you're in, you better be heading
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Speaker 3: for a shelter.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 3: So when he went when he mentioned Laporte, Indiana, which
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Speaker 3: is just north of where Potato Creek State Park is,
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Speaker 3: my mom came out of the motor home, was like,
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Speaker 3: all right, get the boys, we're going. We're gonna take
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Speaker 3: them over to the bathroom shelters and piling your truck.
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Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, the sirens started going off,
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Speaker 3: our phones started going off, and it was like, I
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Speaker 3: was like, oh, and then it just kind of got wild.
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Speaker 2: We were watching the storm come in.
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Speaker 3: The lightning was getting intense and like we didn't think
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Speaker 3: it was gonna be that big, that big of a deal.
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Speaker 3: But it turned south pretty quick, like it it it was.
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Speaker 2: It was all of a sudden, it was hailing. It
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Speaker 2: like the wind picked.
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Speaker 1: South like literal south, or turned.
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Speaker 2: Out like it just turns south.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you got, you gotta fill us in here.
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Speaker 3: The weather turns bad very quickly, Like we were watching
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Speaker 3: it come from the west. It was heading west to east,
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Speaker 3: and I mean it was a matter of one or
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Speaker 3: two minutes and there was marble size hail coming down
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Speaker 3: the wind picked up to I don't even know what
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Speaker 3: it was.
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Speaker 2: We were all soaked.
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Speaker 3: We piled into the bathroom for about half an hour
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Speaker 3: forty five minutes, and then the oh yeah, there was
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Speaker 3: probably two thousand people in there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh wow, oh whoa. So if you weren't monitoring
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Speaker 1: Ryan Hall, y'all right, well.
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Speaker 2: We would have we would have just duck and covered
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Speaker 2: into the camper.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: I mean it was it was.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we were watching the storm come in, and
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Speaker 3: I'm grateful that we had enough cell service to be
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Speaker 3: able to stream Ryan Hall. Like, if you don't know
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Speaker 3: who Ryan Hall is, he's a I don't think he's
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Speaker 3: actually a meteorologist.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's an amateur.
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Speaker 3: He's a he's YouTuber who tracks storms and has a crew,
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Speaker 3: a staff of people who are actual meteorologists track storms
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Speaker 3: for him, and he predicts where they're going to go
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Speaker 3: and tracks tornado warnings, thunderstorm warnings, et cetera. And then
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Speaker 3: kind of is like a he's a YouTuber and it's
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Speaker 3: he puts on a pretty good production.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of that, I mean, I've I've watched Ryan Hall
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Speaker 4: in the past, and I appreciate his production value, right, However,
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Speaker 4: he's got a lot of flack from people on the
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Speaker 4: internet about the fact that he is not a meteorologist.
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Speaker 1: He is just a hobbyist. He's an amateur, and he's
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Speaker 1: making light of I can't remember that.
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Speaker 4: I think there might have been a specific example, but
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Speaker 4: he made light of somebody who died in a storm
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Speaker 4: and made a joke about it, and I guess he
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Speaker 4: caught a lot of backlash for it. I don't know
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Speaker 4: all the different but he is one of the major,
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Speaker 4: major YouTubers that deals in meteorology.
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Speaker 1: There's a handful of mouth, but you look at it
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Speaker 1: in this point though, I mean, here's a real, real
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Speaker 1: world example. Sean was monitoring it, and I've seen his
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Speaker 1: his stuff. Nothing like that has really affected us too
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Speaker 1: much in Arizona. But I've seen his stuff. I watched
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Speaker 1: after Sean told me about him last time, and I
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Speaker 1: was like.
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Speaker 4: This guy's really good. I like his presentation. He's got
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Speaker 4: great presentation. And have you seen the behind the scenes
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Speaker 4: of his studio or his house whatever. No, No, So
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Speaker 4: it's actually two houses, like he lives on like a
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Speaker 4: cul de sac, and his main house that he actually
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Speaker 4: lives in is at the end of the cul de sac,
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Speaker 4: and he takes a little golf cart down to another
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Speaker 4: house that he bought down the street, and the living
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Speaker 4: room is that that what you see when he's sitting
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Speaker 4: there with the stuff in the background. It's the living room.
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Speaker 4: And then his actual like meteorologist, the younger, nerdy looking kid,
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Speaker 4: I guess, sits off to the side. He sits in
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Speaker 4: the kitchen of that house, a little set up like
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Speaker 4: a desk in the kitchen. They don't do any cooking
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Speaker 4: or anything in that particular house. It's literally just a studio,
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Speaker 4: but it is a residential property.
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Speaker 1: I thought about doing. My neighbor wants to sell her house.
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Speaker 1: I've thought about that. I thought, hey, I could just
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Speaker 1: turn it into a full fledge, you know, living room
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Speaker 1: set up for a studio. You could do you know,
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Speaker 1: the garage could be a full on, big huge that
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Speaker 1: would be I'm glad somebody did that. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: would be fun, but go ahead and have fun with that.
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Speaker 1: Gonna be expensive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to gain a few more subscribers, ye
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Speaker 2: undred thousand more.
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Speaker 3: That buttet Now I will say that there's another one.
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Speaker 3: There's max Velocity is another YouTube streamer, and they kind
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Speaker 3: of went back and forth for a while before they
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Speaker 3: got big and pulled in by sponsors. Ryan Hall's primary
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Speaker 3: sponsors Weatherwise and the other I don't know what the
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Speaker 3: other Max Flosities weather app is Radar Omega, I think.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I use I get the Radar Omega from Ryan Hall.
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Speaker 4: That's what I started subscribing to it.
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Speaker 3: Outside of their live content, I don't watch any of
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Speaker 3: their prediction and stuff because a lot of their prediction
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Speaker 3: stuff is just sensationalized being on the live broadcast side
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Speaker 3: of things. Like, from my perspective, I appreciate the live content.
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Speaker 3: He does a good job. He does a great story
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Speaker 3: and keeps people informed and up to date with real
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Speaker 3: time weather tracking data.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The benefit for Ryan is that he's got all
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Speaker 1: these people stringers basically, that are in other cities, other
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Speaker 1: towns across the US that they can give him the
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Speaker 1: real because the thing is with radio and TV weather,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're kind of limited. We get the information
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Speaker 1: whoever you're subscribing to, whether it be National Weather Service,
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Speaker 1: you know, Acuweather, or any of the others that are
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Speaker 1: out there, You're not seeing what's really going on because
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Speaker 1: that can change. You know.
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Speaker 4: It's funny that you mentioned that, you know, you mentioned
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Speaker 4: National Weather Service or acuweather or true weather or whatever,
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Speaker 4: weather underground, weather channel dot com, you know all those things. Right,
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Speaker 4: here's the thing I learned about this. Every single one
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Speaker 4: of those websites gets their data from weather dot gov.
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Speaker 4: And that's free, that's open, that's open to all US citizens.
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Speaker 1: It's free.
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Speaker 4: So all you're doing is by going to like acuweather
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Speaker 4: or I don't know what, I'm sorry picking on ACU
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Speaker 4: weather here. But if you're going to the website, all
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Speaker 4: you're doing is getting served ads. You're getting the same
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Speaker 4: data that you could get for free without ads if
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Speaker 4: you just simply went to weather dot.
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Speaker 1: Gov, whether dot gov. Okay, that's good to know because again,
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Speaker 1: there's so many sources out there, and this Ryan Hall
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Speaker 1: has done just a great job with it. That's a
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Speaker 1: good example of a YouTuber that, you know, it's just
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Speaker 1: gained a following because of the service that he has.
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Speaker 1: I've seen some really good YouTubers too, and you have
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Speaker 1: different ones too that do it in so many different
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Speaker 1: you know, veins. So there's a new guy I've been
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Speaker 1: watch it lately. He's an old prop guy for for
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Speaker 1: motion pictures and I've noticed his count is going up,
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Speaker 1: and he shows how to make this is how we
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Speaker 1: make fake ice cubes, or this is how we do
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Speaker 1: the you know, the the arrow through the through the
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Speaker 1: stack of newspapers or something. It's it's there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of great content creators that are out there. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: should do it kind of like a content creator of
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Speaker 1: the week or something like that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there there's a there's so many. I mean, it's
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Speaker 4: it's it's it's starting to get rare to come across
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Speaker 4: somebody who is a good content creator and has a
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Speaker 4: unique idea. It just seems like YouTube just kind of
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Speaker 4: kind of keeps rehashing the same old stuff over and over.
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Speaker 4: But Sean, I got to ask you one simple question.
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Speaker 4: Do you have a yellow meter?
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Speaker 2: I do not pay for anything related to Ryan Hall.
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Speaker 1: What is a yellow meter? What is that?
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Speaker 2: There's you can pay you can get specific te or
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Speaker 2: you can pay.
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Speaker 3: Like a subscription model to get activate y'all mode or
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Speaker 3: whatever he calls it, where you get specific things tracked
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Speaker 3: or Oh, but I don't have I don't have one
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Speaker 3: of his weather stations.
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Speaker 1: No I'm talking, I'm talking. Yeah, I don't have is
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Speaker 1: a meter?
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Speaker 4: It's a snow meter and it says Ryan Hall, and
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Speaker 4: it's the Yallow meter, and you put it out on
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Speaker 4: your patio when you get a snowstorm, and then it
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Speaker 4: shows how much snow you've gotten. And then you're supposed
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Speaker 4: to take a picture and you send it into Ryan
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Speaker 4: Hall and he may be like, oh, yeah, this is
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Speaker 4: from Sean and Indiana. It looks like the yallowmeter's showing
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Speaker 4: six inches out there in Indiana. Like it doesn't count
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Speaker 4: for drifts, It doesn't count for any of that. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's just a it's just a prop and he's just
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Speaker 4: making money off of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey you got you gotta make it where you can. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you got a hustle, baby. Somebody who has made a
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Speaker 1: lot of money for Apple is stepping down Tim after
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Speaker 1: fifteen years of running Apple, Tim cook is announc is
9:54
Speaker 1: stepping down. A CEO, John Turnis is going to be
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Speaker 1: taken over. Tim will apparently become executive chairman of Apple's
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Speaker 1: board of directors. Turnus is the current senior vice president
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Speaker 1: of hardware Engineering. He's not stepping down. Cookie is getting promoted.
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Speaker 1: You think you think that would be a promotion, Well, dude,
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Speaker 1: who's in charge of the CEO, the board of directors.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, he got a good point there. He'll
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Speaker 1: be on the board. Yeah. During Tim's tenure at Apple,
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Speaker 1: he oversaw Apple Watch, which is still pretty good. I
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Speaker 1: mean I like it. There's options, of course, AirPods, Apple
10:33
Speaker 1: Vision Pro, Apple Silicon, and that's all. During his some
10:41
Speaker 1: of the big failures, people will note Apple Maps. I
10:46
Speaker 1: always I don't even remember Apple Maps. It's assessments. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's really bad. The Apple Car Project Titan. And then
10:56
Speaker 1: probably one of the biggest things is they did not
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Speaker 1: take the AI push enough seriously enough to really jump in.
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Speaker 2: They didn't have the hard ware to support it.
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Speaker 3: They couldn't acquire somebody fast enough before they got too big.
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Speaker 3: That's what it came down to.
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Speaker 1: Like so and so, like I'm still waiting for Siri
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Speaker 1: to get better. I mean seriously, I've thought about, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna I'm gonna get back
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Speaker 1: into the Apple you know ecosystem. Think maybe maybe get
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Speaker 1: a seventeen. I don't know. I love my I switched
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Speaker 1: to you know Pixel and I like it. The thing
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Speaker 1: that I would miss the most right now is how
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Speaker 1: we I'm able to use the Google on this. I
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Speaker 1: can't do it with Siri, I've tried, don't. I don't
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Speaker 1: get it. Same with Alexa, you don't get it. But
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Speaker 1: it seems like Google got it.
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Speaker 4: And have you seen this big movement now though that
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Speaker 4: people are talking about where it's called you know, well,
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Speaker 4: it's effectually known as de googling.
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Speaker 1: Yes, no, what is that? So?
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Speaker 4: I mean you think about it. I mean it goes
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Speaker 4: back to the app old adage. If you're not paying
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Speaker 4: for the product, you are the product. Yeah, right, So Apple, Google, everybody,
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Speaker 4: like these Pixel phones, they're tracking everything you do. Every
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Speaker 4: website you visit, every app you have on there, every
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Speaker 4: text message you send, every email you send, they're tracking it.
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Speaker 4: They're figuring out who you are, what you do, where
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Speaker 4: you're going. It's all there. So people are saying, you know, what,
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Speaker 4: enough is enough? We want our privacy back. So what
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Speaker 4: they're doing is they're saying, you know, you can't really
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Speaker 4: do this with iPhones iPhone, you know, Apple locks it
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Speaker 4: down at a hardware level. But Android you can get
12:42
Speaker 4: certain Android phones, not necessarily every Android phone, but like
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Speaker 4: the Pixel is one of them. You can wipe it
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Speaker 4: and install graphene OS, which is an Android alternative that
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Speaker 4: is truly focused on privacy. They don't track anything. It's
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Speaker 4: open source. You're not gonna get all of the creud
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Speaker 4: that Google tries to shove down your throat. There's alternatives
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Speaker 4: like we won't always mention that website alternative to dot net.
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Speaker 1: I think it was right.
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Speaker 4: There's alternatives to everything on an Android phone, whether it
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Speaker 4: be Google Photos, Google Gemini, everything you can imagine. There's
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Speaker 4: alternatives too with the GrapheneOS, And this gives you that
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Speaker 4: little bit of privacy back because Google is tracking everything
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Speaker 4: you do, and he'd be like, oh, I don't use Google,
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Speaker 4: I use it, or I use Apple. Apple's doing the
13:31
Speaker 4: same thing.
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Speaker 1: Well, is the carrier also doing that? I mean I
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Speaker 1: would think, you know, if you're whether you're on T
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Speaker 1: Mobile or Verizon, sure to a certain extent, I mean
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Speaker 1: I would think you can't really get away from the tracking,
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Speaker 1: can you.
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Speaker 2: Well, unless you went to a full Mike meshnet or something.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you went to like a full VPN and
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Speaker 4: you just had VPN turned on your phone every single
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Speaker 4: minute of every single day, then yeah, your carrier is
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Speaker 4: probably not going to be able to track anything you do.
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Speaker 1: Because all traffic is encrypted. But who does that?
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Speaker 4: Nobody? Nobody does that. They just feel like, oh yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's a cellular network.
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Speaker 2: It's too inconvenient.
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Speaker 1: To be honest, it's too a convenient. Sean, you're you're
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Speaker 1: in the Apple ecosystem. What changes would John Turnis need
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Speaker 1: to make. Let's face it, though, you know we mentioned
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Speaker 1: a couple of failures, the company has brought in more
14:19
Speaker 1: money than ever during Tim Cook's rainy operationally, the guy
14:23
Speaker 1: was a genius. But what changes would they have to
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Speaker 1: make for them to continue to grow and stay with
14:30
Speaker 1: where we are with technology?
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Speaker 3: No, that's a loaded question, but I think they have
14:35
Speaker 3: to the problem is they're too big for their bridges, right.
14:39
Speaker 3: They know that, they know that people will pay, so
14:41
Speaker 3: they'll never drop their price to a competitive level.
14:43
Speaker 2: They'll just they'll always charge more than the market value
14:46
Speaker 2: for stuff.
14:47
Speaker 1: Except for the Neo.
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Speaker 3: Well, I was surprised by the Neo, but that was
14:51
Speaker 3: somebody looking at a pile of scrap going what are
14:55
Speaker 3: we going to do with all this?
14:56
Speaker 2: What can we make? What can we make with this? Right?
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Speaker 3: And they took a lot of quality of life features
15:02
Speaker 3: out packed in decent hardware and made it run and
15:07
Speaker 3: it runs good. I've used one, my coworker had bought one,
15:10
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking about Gettingkaylin one for her birthday slash
15:12
Speaker 3: Christmas if they're available, because they sold incredibly well with
15:18
Speaker 3: the most recent release of the Neo, and they've even
15:22
Speaker 3: talked about okay, well, they're about to release whatever they're
15:25
Speaker 3: going to announce the next iPhone, you know, in this fall,
15:29
Speaker 3: and they're talking about building another version of the Neo
15:33
Speaker 3: with the I seventeen pro chip and twelve gigs of RAM,
15:36
Speaker 3: because that's what's on the iPhone seventeen prochip is twelve
15:39
Speaker 3: gigs of RAM, so that would be the next instance
15:42
Speaker 3: of the Neo.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what they have to do.
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Speaker 3: It's hard because people aren't into a physical industry right now.
15:49
Speaker 3: They're trying to disconnect from physical devices. They're trying to
15:55
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, everything's going cloud based, software
15:59
Speaker 3: as a service. I mean, I just don't know.
16:03
Speaker 1: It seems like the key for a lot of these
16:05
Speaker 1: companies like Apple, Adobe, Microsoft has been subscription models. What
16:10
Speaker 1: subscription models could they do the other than you don't
16:15
Speaker 1: own your you don't own your Mac anymore.
16:17
Speaker 3: It's all well, so look look what they did with
16:19
Speaker 3: Final Cut right, they created the Content Creator Studio, which
16:23
Speaker 3: took AI and professional features to put it behind a paywall,
16:27
Speaker 3: so you.
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Speaker 2: Don't get everything.
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Speaker 3: When you buy Final Cut Pro for whatever it is
16:32
Speaker 3: now three ninety nine or whatever. Then you can, on
16:35
Speaker 3: top of that, subscribe to a bonus feature and get
16:40
Speaker 3: constant updates. Well, I'm gonna get constant up dates anyways,
16:43
Speaker 3: at least for now right right forward, but I'm not
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Speaker 3: gonna get I don't care about the AI enhanced features
16:49
Speaker 3: for my editing stuff.
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Speaker 2: I don't use them, but a lot of people do.
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Speaker 2: But at what costs?
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Speaker 3: Right, I don't think if I'm buying again, it's the
16:58
Speaker 3: software as a service model that kind of stinks, Like
17:01
Speaker 3: I don't I want to buy the product, and if
17:03
Speaker 3: I want to upgrade, let me upgrade later at my
17:05
Speaker 3: own costs, Like I don't care, but I don't want
17:08
Speaker 3: to pay monthly for a perpetual, continued upgrade release. I
17:14
Speaker 3: want something that's going to work now the way I
17:16
Speaker 3: need it to. And if I want to upgrade, let
17:17
Speaker 3: me upgrade at a cost on my own terms, at
17:20
Speaker 3: my own tea or if you will, Because constant upgrades
17:24
Speaker 3: also mean constant problems. Right, they're pushing out constant updates
17:28
Speaker 3: if you have auto updates on I run into this
17:30
Speaker 3: with apps all the time.
17:30
Speaker 2: I like my apps be cut.
17:31
Speaker 3: Update on my phone because it just you get the
17:34
Speaker 3: most use out of them when they're up to date.
17:37
Speaker 3: But sometimes when they update, they take away a feature
17:40
Speaker 3: that you liked, that you may not have noticed you liked,
17:42
Speaker 3: or that it's so buggy because they're just constantly pushing
17:46
Speaker 3: content for because people are consuming content at I hate that,
17:50
Speaker 3: and not just in media content, but just content in
17:53
Speaker 3: terms of productivity, content at such an alarming rate that
17:57
Speaker 3: they have to keep up and already wants the new thing,
18:00
Speaker 3: the new shiny thing, the new updates, new new new,
18:02
Speaker 3: new new new, progress forward. And that's a weird culture
18:05
Speaker 3: we're in right now, where it's like, if you're not
18:07
Speaker 3: making progress, you're not going and you're not doing anything.
18:11
Speaker 3: People aren't happy with the status quo just being making
18:15
Speaker 3: a product that works and stable for a period of
18:18
Speaker 3: time like they had been.
18:20
Speaker 1: You know, do you think it's too late for Apple
18:22
Speaker 1: to get into the AI game? Yeah? Well, or users
18:26
Speaker 1: just using other sources now.
18:27
Speaker 3: I mean they've already, I mean they they tried with
18:29
Speaker 3: the Apple Intelligence and they immediately it wasn't even six months,
18:34
Speaker 3: seven eight months, They were like, nah, we're going a
18:37
Speaker 3: different direction. Here's open AI, here's you know I I
18:40
Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if they partner with somebody else, or
18:43
Speaker 3: they ride out the wave and don't go with you know,
18:45
Speaker 3: generate someone smaller the AI stuff built in, bake it
18:48
Speaker 3: in and release it slowly over time as it becomes
18:52
Speaker 3: more refined. But I mean, the weird the A bubble
18:58
Speaker 3: was so weird. It's so hard to keep track, but
19:00
Speaker 3: I hope it bursts.
19:02
Speaker 1: Let me ask, okay, so let me ask when it
19:03
Speaker 1: comes to streaming content, and we have different ways of course,
19:08
Speaker 1: Plex is one of those we've talked a lot about
19:10
Speaker 1: on the show. But when it comes to like Roku
19:14
Speaker 1: or Google or Amazon, is there any preference you guys
19:19
Speaker 1: have when it comes to this stuff? Do you use
19:21
Speaker 1: any of those?
19:23
Speaker 2: Well?
19:23
Speaker 3: I mean I don't stream from Plex, right, I mean
19:26
Speaker 3: the big ones I have are Disney Plus and Netflix. Right,
19:29
Speaker 3: he's with my Verizon subscript, Like what I pay for Verizon,
19:33
Speaker 3: that's all all that's bundled into my Verizon cell phone bill.
19:37
Speaker 3: So I pay a Verizon bill at I think it's
19:40
Speaker 3: like one hundred bucks a month for both me and
19:42
Speaker 3: Kaitlin to have our phones. Plus we get Netflix, Disney
19:45
Speaker 3: plus ESPN who all wrapped in and I don't have
19:49
Speaker 3: to have a separate subscription for those.
19:52
Speaker 1: Right, so h there was a what about justin what
19:56
Speaker 1: about you? Like, I mean, I use mostly YouTube TV.
20:03
Speaker 4: I'll use Amazon Prime Video if I have to, like, right, well,
20:09
Speaker 4: I mean I've got the Googles, I got the Google
20:11
Speaker 4: TV streamer, so like it's got all my apps built in.
20:14
Speaker 4: I don't use the apps built into the TV, but
20:17
Speaker 4: if I have to watch, if I'm trying to look
20:19
Speaker 4: for a sports event that I can't find, I go
20:23
Speaker 4: to an app on my phone. It tells me where
20:25
Speaker 4: to find it, and I'm like, oh, oh, Amazon Prime TV.
20:28
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, I'll go to Prime.
20:30
Speaker 4: I'll launch it up, sign in because I haven't signed
20:33
Speaker 4: in forever, and I'll watch the show. And other than that,
20:36
Speaker 4: it's like Netflix and YouTube TV pretty much.
20:40
Speaker 1: The So Amazon just announced this week that they've got
20:43
Speaker 1: a new fire TV stick HD streaming device that'll be
20:47
Speaker 1: out a matter of fact, could be out in the
20:48
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, and there's no power adapter. So if you've
20:51
Speaker 1: ever had a fired TV stick, you know that you
20:53
Speaker 1: had to you know, plug an adapter in and plug
20:56
Speaker 1: it into the the fire stick, which was kind of thick.
20:59
Speaker 1: They've slimmed it down. It can now run off a
21:02
Speaker 1: USB port on the television, so you'd plug it in
21:05
Speaker 1: to your you know, HTMI port and then you'd have
21:09
Speaker 1: an adapter that would come off and plug in. But
21:12
Speaker 1: it plugs into USBC, and I'm thinking, are there TVs
21:17
Speaker 1: out now with USB C Nope? I mean I know
21:20
Speaker 1: High Sense has got one, but I don't see it
21:22
Speaker 1: mass being mass produced. No, there's no reason to.
21:26
Speaker 4: No, there's no reason to I mean, uh, first off,
21:29
Speaker 4: I can't even count how many times I've seen one
21:32
Speaker 4: of these clickbait websites that are like, oh my god,
21:35
Speaker 4: it's five reasons you should be using your USB port
21:40
Speaker 4: on your television that you weren't aware of. Nobody uses
21:44
Speaker 4: the USB ports on their TV, so like you know
21:47
Speaker 4: all these articles talking about that.
21:48
Speaker 1: No, yeah, I don't think there's any reason for anybody
21:50
Speaker 1: to come out with the USBC.
21:51
Speaker 4: However, if this is a USBC UH plug, you just
21:56
Speaker 4: get an adapter a USBC to USBA.
21:59
Speaker 1: They have a USBC USBA AA adapter that comes with it.
22:03
Speaker 1: It sells for like thirty four bucks just for the adapter,
22:07
Speaker 1: No for the for the entire new fire TV's just
22:10
Speaker 1: gonna say, but okay, so it also has a new OS.
22:14
Speaker 1: So they're now using a Linux based OS, the Linux
22:18
Speaker 1: Vega OS that is that is going to be a
22:20
Speaker 1: part of that. But you know, when I saw it,
22:22
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, this is great. I want to get it.
22:24
Speaker 1: The thing is, if you hear about it, think about this.
22:27
Speaker 1: If you've got a four K TV, this is ten
22:29
Speaker 1: ADP Oh my god. Yeah, it's only would they do that?
22:34
Speaker 1: And I don't know why they they're not updating their
22:37
Speaker 1: four K device which is still going to run on
22:41
Speaker 1: Fire OS, even though they've got new fast channels that
22:45
Speaker 1: are coming out that means free and AD supported that
22:48
Speaker 1: will be out as a part of this new fire
22:50
Speaker 1: TV stick HD. So if you got a four K,
22:53
Speaker 1: you're not gonna benefit from it. If you got an
22:55
Speaker 1: older you know, ten ADP TV, you want to stick
22:58
Speaker 1: something in there for thirty five bucks, get those fast
23:00
Speaker 1: channels with ADS there you go, all right, tell you
23:04
Speaker 1: what we got to take a quick break. We come back.
23:06
Speaker 1: We do have some listener questions that we will share
23:08
Speaker 1: when we get back. A couple of good ones on
23:10
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23:14
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23:17
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
23:18
Speaker 4: So this last weekend, we went downtown Denver and uh
23:23
Speaker 4: went to go to a Rockies game rock Colorado Rockies Baseball.
23:27
Speaker 4: And when we went down there, we were taking the
23:30
Speaker 4: train and as the train approached, the conductor was leaning
23:33
Speaker 4: out the window. One trains fall standing room only, standing
23:36
Speaker 4: room only.
23:37
Speaker 1: We're like, why what is it? Or is it a train?
23:41
Speaker 1: It's a it's a I mean it's more than a trolley.
23:45
Speaker 1: It's it's an actual railcar. Yeah. Nice, but it's you know,
23:49
Speaker 1: it's kind of like.
23:50
Speaker 4: Any other big city, you know, uh, you know, the
23:53
Speaker 4: Los Angeles or New York or Chicago with the rail systems.
23:57
Speaker 4: But anyway, so we get on, We're like, why why
23:59
Speaker 4: is this train so busy? You know, because there's not
24:02
Speaker 4: that many people go into a Rockies game. I mean,
24:05
Speaker 4: come on, face it, it's the Rockies and yes they're
24:07
Speaker 4: playing the Dodgers. Yeah, it's whatever. But anyway, so we
24:14
Speaker 4: get on the train, we get down there, and we
24:15
Speaker 4: go to the Rockies game, and then I start reading
24:18
Speaker 4: about these things and I'm like, oh, wow, actually there's
24:20
Speaker 4: a lot more going on. So you got the Rockies
24:23
Speaker 4: versus the Dodgers, You've got the Avalanche we're playing.
24:28
Speaker 1: I think it was the Kings, I want to say,
24:30
Speaker 1: I think it was the Kings.
24:32
Speaker 4: So the Avalanche were playing in Denver Hockey. Then you
24:35
Speaker 4: had Colorado Rapids the MLS Major League Soccer playing enter
24:40
Speaker 4: Miami Football Club, which is a big match over at
24:43
Speaker 4: the Broncos Stadium. There was a lot of sporting events
24:47
Speaker 4: going on. As a matter of fact, I was listening
24:50
Speaker 4: to somebody to talk about it. They were saying, Hey,
24:51
Speaker 4: this is the first time in history that the four
24:55
Speaker 4: top players in their respective industries, their respective sports have been.
25:00
Speaker 1: In one place at one time. So you think about it.
25:04
Speaker 4: You got sho heey Otani from the Dodgers, right best
25:07
Speaker 4: baseball player in the league right now, Nathan McKinnon from
25:10
Speaker 4: the Avalanche, best hockey player in the league right now.
25:13
Speaker 4: You've got Nikola Jokic from the Nuggets, even though they
25:16
Speaker 4: weren't playing that day. He was in Denver because they're
25:19
Speaker 4: playing tonight. And then you also had Lionel Messi, the famous,
25:26
Speaker 4: you know, football soccer star. Right now, he also plays
25:29
Speaker 4: for Inner Miami now so he no longer displays for Argentina.
25:33
Speaker 4: He plays for Inner Miami Major League Soccer. So anyway,
25:37
Speaker 4: he was in town. I didn't know all this right
25:40
Speaker 4: until way after. So after the game was over, we
25:42
Speaker 4: went to a restaurant and then we started walking back
25:45
Speaker 4: towards the Union station to get on the train to
25:47
Speaker 4: go home. And as we're passing this random restaurant downtown
25:51
Speaker 4: with a bunch of glass windows, Eric my son points
25:55
Speaker 4: into the window and he.
25:56
Speaker 1: Goes, messy, Oh are you kidding?
26:00
Speaker 4: And I'm like I look over and I see this
26:01
Speaker 4: guy sitting at a table. Okay, he looks a little
26:05
Speaker 4: bit like messy. But I'm like, Ahna, the beard is
26:08
Speaker 4: a little bit too long, that dap, that's not messy.
26:12
Speaker 4: He's like, oh, well, it looks like messy. I'm like, yeah,
26:15
Speaker 4: it's not.
26:15
Speaker 1: It's not. Your son's a celeb spotter. I like that.
26:19
Speaker 4: So this morning I'm going to work. I'm listening to
26:21
Speaker 4: the radio and they're like, yeah, Lionel Messi was in
26:24
Speaker 4: town and right after the game, he went up to
26:26
Speaker 4: a restaurant right outside the Dairy Block in downtown and
26:29
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, that's exactly where we were,
26:34
Speaker 4: and yeah, that was messy. That was messy, And your
26:37
Speaker 4: son picked him out. Yeah, I just randomly, we're just
26:40
Speaker 4: walking by this restaurant. He just looks in and goes messy.
26:43
Speaker 4: And so I told him that. Today after school, I
26:46
Speaker 4: picked him up and I was like, hey, remember that
26:47
Speaker 4: guy you pointed out and said I was messy And
26:49
Speaker 4: he's like yeah. I was like, apparently that really was messy.
26:52
Speaker 4: He's like, what, Oh my god, my friends are gonna
26:55
Speaker 4: be sober girl.
26:56
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I saw a messy.
26:58
Speaker 4: I wish I could have gone to meet on And
27:00
Speaker 4: I was like, well, you never know, like when it
27:03
Speaker 4: comes to celebrities, like some celebrities are cool, I would
27:07
Speaker 4: rather just be left at Hey, I got to see
27:09
Speaker 4: Messy up close. Then Hey, I got to meet Messy
27:13
Speaker 4: and he was a complete a hole.
27:15
Speaker 1: Like So, there was a website years I don't know
27:18
Speaker 1: if it's still around. It's like something like within ten feet.
27:21
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be people running with celebrities. That
27:24
Speaker 1: whole bit and they would tell stories about celebrities that
27:27
Speaker 1: were mean and celebrities that were nice. You've when you
27:30
Speaker 1: guys worked in TV in San Diego, you you met somebody.
27:35
Speaker 1: Were there any that were like that stood out as
27:37
Speaker 1: being Okay, this person's not very nice. The the one
27:41
Speaker 1: that first comes to mind by far Kenny G. Kenny G.
27:46
Speaker 2: Who would have.
27:47
Speaker 1: Thought he seems like it would be such a nice guy.
27:50
Speaker 4: No, this guy was just I mean, I really wish
27:53
Speaker 4: we weren't on radio right now because I would really
27:55
Speaker 4: tell you the words I'm thinking of describing him with.
27:58
Speaker 1: Wow.
27:58
Speaker 4: No, this guy was so mean, so standoff ish. I mean,
28:01
Speaker 4: I walk into the green room, which is you know,
28:03
Speaker 4: where the celebrities go to before they go on set
28:06
Speaker 4: to go do the TV right, and I'm just like, hey, mister,
28:09
Speaker 4: you know, mister Kenny G. My, my, my parents, we
28:12
Speaker 4: all love you. We've listened to your music for so
28:14
Speaker 4: many years. I was hoping I can get a picture
28:16
Speaker 4: with you. And he just looked at me and was like,
28:19
Speaker 4: oh okay, quick, wow, And I'm just like, oh okay.
28:24
Speaker 4: So I hand the phone over to his you know,
28:26
Speaker 4: producer whatever or whatever handler and he cracks half of
28:32
Speaker 4: a smile and he's just like whatever, and I'm just.
28:34
Speaker 1: Like okay, thank you, and he's like U In the
28:37
Speaker 1: picture it almost looked like he was trying to walk
28:38
Speaker 1: out of the frame.
28:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, And as soon as the picture was over, he
28:41
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, take your phone, get out. I'm like,
28:43
Speaker 4: excuse me. I was like, I was like, I so
28:46
Speaker 4: wanted to tell him all. I'm like, this is this
28:48
Speaker 4: is my house. You're in my house right now. Don't
28:52
Speaker 4: tell me to leave.
28:53
Speaker 1: What about you, Sean? Do you have it?
28:55
Speaker 2: I can't think of any bad ones. I've got some
28:58
Speaker 2: good ones.
28:58
Speaker 3: But I think one of the coolest ones I got
29:02
Speaker 3: to interview Jane Goodall when I was in San Diego.
29:04
Speaker 1: See that's amazing, Jane Goodall.
29:08
Speaker 3: With her one on one with Obama, one on one
29:12
Speaker 3: with Trump when he was running for president back in
29:15
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen.
29:16
Speaker 1: Really Mitt Romney, because I mean, there's a lot of
29:19
Speaker 1: this happened.
29:20
Speaker 3: I was in San Diego, right, so yeah, true, yeah, yeah.
29:23
Speaker 3: I met so many Comic Con, was you? I did
29:25
Speaker 3: so many at Comic Con because we covered Comic Con
29:28
Speaker 3: when I was there, and I've just.
29:30
Speaker 2: Met We interviewed tons and tons and tons of people.
29:33
Speaker 4: So there's a couple of people that I've met before that,
29:36
Speaker 4: like Tribune Tower, you know in Chicago, just going there
29:39
Speaker 4: just randomly, I met uh uh, what's the uh the
29:42
Speaker 4: guy from Iron Chef.
29:44
Speaker 1: That the the judge, h Ramsey. I don't even know,
29:49
Speaker 1: not Ramsey. He's not a chef. Well he was a chef,
29:52
Speaker 1: but he's like the host of Iron Chef. Anyway. Yeah,
29:57
Speaker 1: I met him just randomly in the lobby and I
29:59
Speaker 1: was like, oh.
29:59
Speaker 4: Can I get a quick picture. And then on another
30:01
Speaker 4: time at the Tribune Tower, I met Bruce Campbell.
30:04
Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of cool.
30:05
Speaker 4: Yeah with the boom stick. Yeah, oh can I get
30:09
Speaker 4: a picture? And he's like, yeah, I me your phone
30:10
Speaker 4: and he takes a picture, hands it back to me.
30:12
Speaker 4: He says boomstick. And I'm like, oh my god, I
30:15
Speaker 4: need to change all right.
30:16
Speaker 1: Who was the coolest celebrity that you ever Stanley Stanley.
30:23
Speaker 3: Anthony Anthony Daniels who plays Seats Revial.
30:28
Speaker 4: You met Anthony Daniels. Wait, he was a cool guy.
30:31
Speaker 4: I've heard so much bad things about him.
30:33
Speaker 2: Cool when I met him.
30:34
Speaker 1: Wow, that's kind of I've never met anybody that has
30:37
Speaker 1: met Anthony Daniels.
30:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, he came and did we did Star Wars, they
30:41
Speaker 3: did he m Seed Star Wars and concert when it
30:43
Speaker 3: came to Gun Rapids in twenty sixteen, twenty fourteen, right,
30:48
Speaker 3: and we got to get all behind the scenes and
30:50
Speaker 3: see I'll to go to rehearsal and see it.
30:52
Speaker 2: It was pretty cool.
30:53
Speaker 1: That is pretty and for me and I don't know,
30:57
Speaker 1: you know, I lived in La so I went to
30:59
Speaker 1: Hollywood a I worked for a while in the business
31:02
Speaker 1: and I met people. I was just I don't know
31:04
Speaker 1: what it is, always running to people like Frank Orschin
31:06
Speaker 1: and uh Muhammad Ali. That was kind of a cool thing, uh,
31:11
Speaker 1: mister t some of those people at the coolest I pitied.
31:14
Speaker 1: The coolest celeb though ever met was here in Tucson
31:19
Speaker 1: was Azzy. Ozzy Osbourne was, you know, and I heard
31:23
Speaker 1: so many things about Ozzie was the nicest guy in
31:26
Speaker 1: the world. He was nice to my kids, which is
31:28
Speaker 1: what you know, I kind of appreciated. I still have
31:30
Speaker 1: my signed Bark at the Moon Ozzy Osbourne lunchbox Metal lunchbox.
31:35
Speaker 1: But uh, he was he could take it to work
31:37
Speaker 1: with you every day. Yes, I do it right here, yes, uh.
31:43
Speaker 1: And I've played Ozzie once here played on the day
31:46
Speaker 1: that he had passed away at kgv Y. So I
31:49
Speaker 1: don't know if the bosses knew that I did that,
31:50
Speaker 1: but it was it was good. I played what they
31:52
Speaker 1: don't know. Don't hurt him? All right? We got a
31:54
Speaker 1: we got a good question in uh from the show
31:56
Speaker 1: and it tied into something we talked about not long ago.
31:59
Speaker 1: Justin it's from Let's see Larry says level listening to
32:04
Speaker 1: your show was intrigued by your discussion a digital signage.
32:07
Speaker 1: That's just from a couple of weeks ago. Is I
32:09
Speaker 1: think it's a great idea, and I have a business
32:11
Speaker 1: I'd like to have a digital sign in. Do you
32:14
Speaker 1: know of services or companies that could do this? Could
32:17
Speaker 1: I just run a DVD of our services and pay
32:20
Speaker 1: a one time production cost. Also, if I do something
32:23
Speaker 1: like a digital sign could it be hacked? And that's
32:26
Speaker 1: from Larry and Tucsign right sign?
32:28
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, well, I was gonna mention we're using bright sign.
32:34
Speaker 4: It depends on what your use case is for. I mean,
32:37
Speaker 4: if you're talking about a static image that you want
32:41
Speaker 4: to display on a television.
32:42
Speaker 1: Let's take like a menu of.
32:44
Speaker 4: Sorts or something you don't even need You don't even
32:48
Speaker 4: need to do a DVD. I mean, first off, there's
32:50
Speaker 4: no television players that have DVDs built into them.
32:53
Speaker 1: I mean, just use a USB stick.
32:55
Speaker 4: Just take a USB stick, load up all of your
32:59
Speaker 4: images that you want it, and then on your smart TV,
33:02
Speaker 4: go to the USB device and just hit shuffle or
33:05
Speaker 4: or play with a loop on, loop on, and it
33:08
Speaker 4: will just keep looping through all.
33:10
Speaker 1: Of those photos you need to. Roku TVs have that
33:14
Speaker 1: capability with the USB stick plugged in to the USB
33:17
Speaker 1: port and there you go. You could use it that way.
33:20
Speaker 4: You can definitely do that. So I guess it really
33:22
Speaker 4: depends on how much content do you want. Do you
33:24
Speaker 4: want your content to be dynamically updated when you like
33:28
Speaker 4: you need it. Let's say, for instance, you are running
33:30
Speaker 4: a restaurant and you run out of hot dogs. Do
33:34
Speaker 4: you want to be able to cross hot dogs off
33:36
Speaker 4: the list on that menu right away? If so, then
33:40
Speaker 4: you're gonna want a digital signage solution. Now, Andy, you
33:43
Speaker 4: mentioned Roku, Sean you mentioned bright Sign. Not a lot
33:46
Speaker 4: of people know this, but bright Sign is Roku. Roku
33:50
Speaker 4: spun off bright Sign many many years ago. That and
33:53
Speaker 4: their devices look like a Roku. They're the same purple color.
33:58
Speaker 4: And and what bright sign allows you to do is
34:01
Speaker 4: it allows you to put some dynamic content on there.
34:03
Speaker 4: So what personally what we do at my position, at
34:06
Speaker 4: my company, we run bright signs, and then what we
34:10
Speaker 4: do on the bright sign is we design the landscape
34:12
Speaker 4: because you get like a blank canvas. It basically like, okay,
34:16
Speaker 4: what size is your TV? You say, I don't know,
34:18
Speaker 4: like a fifty five inch TV? Okay, here's the space
34:22
Speaker 4: that you have to work with. You can put static images,
34:26
Speaker 4: or you can put little widgets like a weather widget
34:29
Speaker 4: or stuff like that. Or what we do in our
34:31
Speaker 4: case we subscribe to a third party content that literally
34:35
Speaker 4: just puts up a web page and that web page
34:38
Speaker 4: is like a menu of our items that we're having
34:40
Speaker 4: for sale at that particular spot. This allows us to
34:43
Speaker 4: not have to deal with the bright sign because if
34:45
Speaker 4: you go into a bright sign and you let's say
34:47
Speaker 4: you update it and then you publish that content to
34:50
Speaker 4: the bright Sign, it has to reboot and then display
34:55
Speaker 4: the content.
34:56
Speaker 1: Yeah.
34:56
Speaker 4: So by having a third party that runs an HTML,
35:00
Speaker 4: you know, website, the bright sign is literally just pointing
35:03
Speaker 4: out a website saying here whatever's on this website. Read
35:06
Speaker 4: all of it right, and so we put our menus
35:08
Speaker 4: on the website, and then the website then is displayed
35:11
Speaker 4: on the bright sign. So if we run out of
35:13
Speaker 4: an item, we can easily go to that website's uh
35:17
Speaker 4: you know, user portal, admin portal and just say cross
35:20
Speaker 4: this item off the list and instantly it's displayed on
35:24
Speaker 4: the bright sign.
35:24
Speaker 1: One of the apps for Roku TV is a is
35:28
Speaker 1: a basically a slide show, so depending on his needs.
35:32
Speaker 1: I know that some real estate agents have been doing
35:35
Speaker 1: this where they put like a TV like in a
35:38
Speaker 1: home that they're showing that will show other like the
35:41
Speaker 1: features of the home in like a slide show. You know.
35:44
Speaker 1: Maybe not usually those are just USB sticks. Yeah, I
35:47
Speaker 1: would think so, so that might work. I found that
35:49
Speaker 1: there's another company I just looked it up called XCO
35:53
Speaker 1: and that's Xogo dot Io. Uh, they'll give you a
35:57
Speaker 1: chance to even try it out. But bright sign sounds
35:59
Speaker 1: like that might be one. Xogo dot Io would be good.
36:03
Speaker 4: The other the other question that he had there was
36:05
Speaker 4: can this be hacked? If I'm using a digital signage thing.
36:10
Speaker 4: Anything you put on the Internet can be hacked, period. Sorry,
36:15
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. Could yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter what
36:18
Speaker 4: you're doing. Anything you put on the Internet can be hacked.
36:22
Speaker 1: All right, good points, All right, Coming up, we haven't
36:24
Speaker 1: talked to her for a while. Yesterday we were going
36:27
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36:30
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36:33
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36:38
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36:40
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36:43
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36:44
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36:46
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36:49
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36:52
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36:54
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37:02
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37:04
Speaker 1: You know, not long ago, we had one of our
37:06
Speaker 1: listeners send adulte to us, going what happened to that
37:10
Speaker 1: girl that was on the show. She was great, that's
37:13
Speaker 1: so much info and you know, we knew all you're
37:17
Speaker 1: talking about Amanda. Yeah, okay, Well it was great because
37:20
Speaker 1: I was able to reach out to Amanda and wanted
37:22
Speaker 1: to get her on to talk about something that's very
37:25
Speaker 1: important to so many of his parents' grandparents, you know,
37:28
Speaker 1: anybody that has children that are attending school to find
37:32
Speaker 1: out what is the latest really with technology and education.
37:35
Speaker 1: And Amanda's with us here, one of our tech talk
37:38
Speaker 1: radio hosts. Although you know she runs busy, so she's
37:41
Speaker 1: always welcome anytime. It's good to see you.
37:45
Speaker 5: Thank you. It's so good to see you.
37:47
Speaker 6: It's going to be back and kind of get in
37:49
Speaker 6: the swing of things because a lot has happened since
37:51
Speaker 6: we last talked, especially in the AI realm and the
37:54
Speaker 6: ed tech realm for sure.
37:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and there are a lot of people
37:57
Speaker 1: wondering about that merging Amanda about AI and education and
38:03
Speaker 1: you know, does it come into play. There have been
38:07
Speaker 1: some that have said keep AI out of the classroom,
38:09
Speaker 1: but you know, my thoughts on that are that they're
38:13
Speaker 1: missing out then because it's rolling along and we have
38:16
Speaker 1: to be a part of it. How is how is
38:19
Speaker 1: public education looking at that?
38:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's different everywhere right now, and so The biggest
38:25
Speaker 6: thing that I've noticed in the space is there are
38:30
Speaker 6: so many different frameworks that are being created from ed
38:34
Speaker 6: tech people and people with expertise in different areas. There
38:39
Speaker 6: are so many different definitions that are coming out right
38:42
Speaker 6: now about AI literacy, and so like that's where I
38:45
Speaker 6: spend the bulk of my time when I'm doing some research,
38:48
Speaker 6: because this is not new technology. I think we think
38:51
Speaker 6: this is very very very new. And when we look
38:54
Speaker 6: back from like the web two point oh where we
38:57
Speaker 6: are from web web one point oh, going way back then, right,
39:01
Speaker 6: we have lots and lots of different AI versions that
39:04
Speaker 6: have been out. So when we're looking at generative AI,
39:07
Speaker 6: which is normally what people are talking about, the chatbots,
39:10
Speaker 6: the you know, uh chat jpts, the co pilot, all
39:14
Speaker 6: those those other anthropic yeah, all of those other tools
39:17
Speaker 6: that are out there, Claud, it's really like almost like
39:22
Speaker 6: when Web two point zero started being like ReadWrite.
39:25
Speaker 5: Is how I look at it.
39:26
Speaker 6: And so looking back in the past and going how
39:28
Speaker 6: did we do this back then? How did we write policy?
39:32
Speaker 6: What is transparent or not? And how does that look
39:36
Speaker 6: for student data privacy? What families are you know, how
39:40
Speaker 6: are families getting involved? In this and how that privacy
39:43
Speaker 6: policy may or may not be as transparent as some
39:46
Speaker 6: of these ad tech companies might be selling to us.
39:48
Speaker 1: You know, it seemed like when we first started hearing
39:51
Speaker 1: about AI and the classroom, you know, the big concern was, well,
39:56
Speaker 1: a student could just create a report, you know, using
40:00
Speaker 1: one of the many services out there, even notebook LM,
40:02
Speaker 1: which is really good for stuff like around education, but
40:05
Speaker 1: they could just create a report not even understand it.
40:09
Speaker 1: Are you finding that to be an issue or are
40:12
Speaker 1: educators becoming, i want to say, maybe geared up for
40:16
Speaker 1: how to tell when something is not being studied and
40:19
Speaker 1: instead just being generated.
40:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a really good question. Our students are very smart.
40:28
Speaker 5: I won't say that.
40:30
Speaker 6: I feel like I was, but maybe I wasn't as
40:34
Speaker 6: smart as I thought back then. But every time it
40:38
Speaker 6: seems like there's a new tool that comes out, right,
40:42
Speaker 6: there's another tool that gets shared of how to go
40:45
Speaker 6: around that barrier. So it's that every evolving tech issue
40:49
Speaker 6: that we have, not just an education but in general.
40:52
Speaker 6: For example, there's AI humanizers and things like that that
40:55
Speaker 6: are out there now that you know, we used to
40:57
Speaker 6: be able to look on Google while students were typing
40:59
Speaker 6: and see what it looked like when they were typing.
41:02
Speaker 5: Live into that thing.
41:04
Speaker 6: So now you can actually put a bod on there
41:07
Speaker 6: that mimics human typing, so it makes it kind of
41:11
Speaker 6: trick the educator.
41:12
Speaker 5: So we really have.
41:13
Speaker 6: To be informed citizens, not just educators, but families as well,
41:18
Speaker 6: and just do our diligence the best we can to
41:21
Speaker 6: support one another in this work. Because every time somebody
41:25
Speaker 6: says there's a plagiarism checker that works, that has been
41:28
Speaker 6: proven research, research, research, you can do it out there
41:32
Speaker 6: has proven that's false. There have been friends who put
41:35
Speaker 6: like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for example, into these plagiarism checkers
41:39
Speaker 6: and it's like eighty nine percent. I also have some
41:42
Speaker 6: friends that have had Like I have a friend that
41:45
Speaker 6: has a daughter at USC currently here in southern California,
41:49
Speaker 6: and some of her work got flagged for plagiarism, but
41:53
Speaker 6: they he knows that they worked on it together. So
41:56
Speaker 6: it's really hard to use these pieces of technology and
41:59
Speaker 6: to acern is this student created or is this something
42:04
Speaker 6: that's generated with AI. So we really have to be
42:07
Speaker 6: creative as educators and be mindfuls at home. You know,
42:12
Speaker 6: our students sitting on a computer creating something, or do
42:16
Speaker 6: we have to like maybe pull out some patent paper
42:18
Speaker 6: once in a while and use that as our draft
42:20
Speaker 6: or as our check so really being diligent. And also
42:24
Speaker 6: do I put a little disclaimer at the bottom, like
42:26
Speaker 6: this was edited with AI? You know, do I need
42:29
Speaker 6: to put something in my email if I'm generating it
42:31
Speaker 6: with AI? Those kind of questions come up, for sure.
42:34
Speaker 1: I remember when I used to get home from school,
42:36
Speaker 1: and you know, my my mom or dad that was
42:38
Speaker 1: home would would tell me, okay, home mark. I'd go
42:41
Speaker 1: sit at a table, I got a book. I'd have
42:44
Speaker 1: to read a couple of paragraphs, you know, a couple
42:46
Speaker 1: of pages from a book and write down what I had.
42:50
Speaker 1: And that's how it was. And of course when computers
42:53
Speaker 1: came along that made it a lot different. Before that,
42:56
Speaker 1: you even had typewriters, you'd have to type it out.
42:59
Speaker 1: We see all this progressing, but I honestly feel that
43:03
Speaker 1: in many ways, the kids are getting more. They're getting
43:06
Speaker 1: they're getting smarter, they're I think maybe they're absorbing it better.
43:12
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you, you know, let a computer
43:14
Speaker 1: screen take over from a book, but I think I
43:16
Speaker 1: have a feeling they are, and I don't know if
43:18
Speaker 1: that's because of being using you know, using tools like
43:22
Speaker 1: anthropic or or chat GPT or some of the others
43:25
Speaker 1: that maybe there might be some more absorption of that information.
43:29
Speaker 6: I think it just depends on how we're defining reading
43:34
Speaker 6: right for first and foremost, because for me myself as
43:38
Speaker 6: an adult, I prefer listening to audiobooks. And yes, sometimes
43:42
Speaker 6: I might have that chapter book next to me, you know,
43:45
Speaker 6: or look through it and go and highlight it like
43:47
Speaker 6: I used to do in college. But really it depends
43:51
Speaker 6: on it. It's kind of opening up the opportunities for
43:54
Speaker 6: our students that learn differently, think differently, maybe process differently.
43:59
Speaker 6: I'm thinking of students specifically that are neurodivergent, have ADHD,
44:04
Speaker 6: or maybe they are, you know, dyslexic in some ways.
44:07
Speaker 6: Also multi lingual learners, like if you're learning a brand
44:11
Speaker 6: new language, it's it's a lot of cognitive load just
44:14
Speaker 6: to try to study that language, you know, I mean
44:18
Speaker 6: from experience, right, And so it is lessening some of
44:22
Speaker 6: that initial cognitive load for students and then helping them
44:26
Speaker 6: access what that curriculum or what that content is so
44:30
Speaker 6: I get the idea that yes, if we're using AI
44:33
Speaker 6: every single day, all day long, of course that's not
44:37
Speaker 6: going to build the muscles in our brain. And one
44:39
Speaker 6: of my buddies, Scott Bricker, he talks all the time
44:42
Speaker 6: about this. He's like, if you're not building muscle by
44:45
Speaker 6: pumping iron and you're just applying I don't know, some
44:49
Speaker 6: kind of technology filter, you're probably not going to build
44:52
Speaker 6: that muscle. And I think of our brain like that too,
44:55
Speaker 6: So we're not making connections with things. But if you do,
45:00
Speaker 6: you have learning needs that are different than the general population.
45:03
Speaker 6: I see it as a huge benefit. You mentioned notebook LM.
45:08
Speaker 6: I recently took an assessment for my administrator's credential and
45:11
Speaker 6: I use Notebook LM to help me study and I passed,
45:14
Speaker 6: so you know, I didn't have to go out and
45:16
Speaker 6: pay all these extra fees to go to all these
45:19
Speaker 6: testing companies and all these things. So it is really
45:21
Speaker 6: making in some ways education more accessible for some people.
45:26
Speaker 6: But we still have that digital divide. Not everyone has
45:29
Speaker 6: access to equity, the internet, all of those things, right,
45:33
Speaker 6: so we still have to consider that it depends on
45:36
Speaker 6: the community, and it depends on the users and how
45:38
Speaker 6: they're using it.
45:40
Speaker 1: Do you think it's important, Amanda for parents that are
45:44
Speaker 1: listening that also need to understand, and you know, they
45:48
Speaker 1: have to kind of jump into it with them. You know,
45:51
Speaker 1: cliff notes growing up, and you'd have to look through
45:53
Speaker 1: those and parents would look my mom would look through
45:56
Speaker 1: those with me and help me. But with parents understanding
46:00
Speaker 1: how this can work for their benefit and understanding what
46:05
Speaker 1: it's all about, is that hard to do it?
46:08
Speaker 6: It's kind of it's a challenge because sometimes I'll just
46:15
Speaker 6: be real, when you're looking at videos and you're looking
46:17
Speaker 6: at content online right now, it is really hard to
46:21
Speaker 6: tell a deep fake image from a real image right now.
46:24
Speaker 6: I mean I even a still image. You know, at
46:27
Speaker 6: the very beginning of all this, people had like six
46:29
Speaker 6: fingers when you would generate things. But now it's like
46:32
Speaker 6: it seems like, wow, that looks really authentic. And so
46:37
Speaker 6: it comes down to our discernment and our ability as
46:41
Speaker 6: adults to realize how important critical thinking is and being
46:46
Speaker 6: able to say, oh, you know what, let me think
46:48
Speaker 6: about that before I make a decision or jump on
46:51
Speaker 6: the bandwagon of oh that's that's going on, you know,
46:53
Speaker 6: like clutching your pearls kind of thing. But really like
46:56
Speaker 6: for families. It's important because you know, all of us
47:01
Speaker 6: are going to be kind of forced in some ways
47:04
Speaker 6: to use AI in some capacity, I think, and that's
47:08
Speaker 6: just my opinion, but if we're being forced to use it,
47:11
Speaker 6: then we need to know how to use it, how
47:13
Speaker 6: to use it responsibly, and how to figure out how
47:16
Speaker 6: to make it work for us so it doesn't just
47:18
Speaker 6: consume all of our data, if that makes sense.
47:21
Speaker 1: It's interesting because when I got into this Amanda nineteen
47:25
Speaker 1: seventy nine, I took a computer class at the high
47:28
Speaker 1: school I was going to. We had to write code. Yeah,
47:31
Speaker 1: and you know, now we can have our AI write
47:34
Speaker 1: the code for us, but again you still have to
47:36
Speaker 1: have an idea of how to implement that code. And
47:39
Speaker 1: still it won't give you everything. And that's and of
47:42
Speaker 1: course I don't know if you've run into it for
47:45
Speaker 1: us in radio, you know, we'll maybe ask it to
47:48
Speaker 1: tell us about something that's going on, and you know,
47:51
Speaker 1: after maybe wait a minute, something doesn't seem right, we
47:54
Speaker 1: do a double check, we find out the information was wrong. Yeah,
47:57
Speaker 1: and I'll tell the AI hate you were wrong. Oh yes,
48:01
Speaker 1: sorry about that. Yeah, good catch.
48:03
Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, it's very affirming.
48:06
Speaker 6: Right, it always wants to like make you feel good
48:08
Speaker 6: because it's it's wanting you to engage with it, right,
48:10
Speaker 6: I get it. That's tech, But yeah, we have run
48:14
Speaker 6: into that in education as well. So that's when the
48:17
Speaker 6: term AI slop comes into play, because is it giving
48:21
Speaker 6: you great input because you're prompting it correctly, or is
48:26
Speaker 6: it giving you output that's just combined with all the
48:30
Speaker 6: stuff that's on the internet, because that's where it's pulling from.
48:33
Speaker 6: So it's really important to like anchor in those sources
48:36
Speaker 6: of information. Like, for example, when I was studying using
48:39
Speaker 6: nobook LM, I could add some sources to my repository
48:43
Speaker 6: inside of noebook LM and it would give me a podcast,
48:46
Speaker 6: it would give me a quiz, it would give me
48:48
Speaker 6: a couple practice tests so I could study a little
48:51
Speaker 6: bit more. So yeah, I think even a mind map
48:54
Speaker 6: that it gives you. Now, it's like so cool all
48:56
Speaker 6: the different things. And you know, you know how much
48:58
Speaker 6: I love Minecraft. I talk about co pilot all the time,
49:02
Speaker 6: and I just learned last week actually, just at a
49:05
Speaker 6: training with our district on a co pilot lesson planner
49:09
Speaker 6: for Minecraft that's inside of there now. So it's kind
49:12
Speaker 6: of cool that educators can go in and look at it,
49:14
Speaker 6: but you do have to still keep that human in
49:17
Speaker 6: the loops. So when I talk about ed tech at all,
49:19
Speaker 6: it's always human first, like people pedagogy for education like
49:25
Speaker 6: educational practice, and then the product, right, I like, how.
49:29
Speaker 1: You know you tag a couple of the prompts that
49:32
Speaker 1: I saw them on Facebook. Play matters and I think
49:36
Speaker 1: it's important that with all of this stuff, we need
49:38
Speaker 1: to take a moment that this education can be also
49:44
Speaker 1: used to have some fun with and to play. Definitely,
49:48
Speaker 1: it does matter. I have to ask you now, you
49:50
Speaker 1: were recently actually nominated and you know, given the the
49:56
Speaker 1: the claim as one of the top educator's influencers in
49:59
Speaker 1: it to watch in the top thirty. That is very cool,
50:03
Speaker 1: and like how did that come about?
50:06
Speaker 5: I don't know, Actually I don't.
50:09
Speaker 6: It's one of those things that's like, wait, people are
50:11
Speaker 6: watching what I'm doing kind of thing. I kind of
50:14
Speaker 6: got a message from a friend here locally in southern
50:19
Speaker 6: California and she's like congratulations, and I'm like, what did
50:23
Speaker 6: I do?
50:24
Speaker 5: Like did I post something?
50:25
Speaker 6: So I'm going back through my media feeds like looking
50:27
Speaker 6: saying like what it was it that I did, and
50:30
Speaker 6: she goes, look and she sends me this link and
50:32
Speaker 6: I will be completely transparent here. I thought it was
50:36
Speaker 6: AI I did. I literally I was like, this is fake,
50:40
Speaker 6: this is not true. And then after I start going
50:43
Speaker 6: down the list, I'm like, oh my other friend was
50:45
Speaker 6: on here. Oh another friend was on here. So I
50:47
Speaker 6: contacted them and said, hey, how did this happen? And
50:51
Speaker 6: they kind of gave me the rundown of how that happened.
50:53
Speaker 6: They're just I guess they just kind of observe out
50:56
Speaker 6: in the social sphere.
50:59
Speaker 5: I guess all was say the edge you sphere.
51:01
Speaker 6: I guess we'll call it and just see like who's talking,
51:04
Speaker 6: who's discussing, who's sharing. And I'm always one to share
51:08
Speaker 6: with anyone who has questions, anyone who wants to learn
51:12
Speaker 6: about it.
51:13
Speaker 5: I don't know everything.
51:14
Speaker 6: I won't consider myself ever an expert because I'm constantly learning,
51:18
Speaker 6: but I think it's important that we do this work
51:21
Speaker 6: together and we constantly like evaluate, look at critique question.
51:27
Speaker 6: I'm not an AI optimist by any chance, but I'm
51:29
Speaker 6: also not super against it, So I'm sort of like
51:33
Speaker 6: in this middle ground, depending upon use cases, trying to
51:36
Speaker 6: figure it out too.
51:38
Speaker 1: I think Amanda, a lot of people in your field
51:41
Speaker 1: and education are the same way, where they might be like,
51:45
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of maybe not on the fence,
51:47
Speaker 1: but they'll use it, but they want to be sparing
51:50
Speaker 1: with it. But then as new you know, we see
51:53
Speaker 1: new generations, new platforms coming out that can do even more.
51:58
Speaker 1: I do think notebook LM is perfect for the student
52:02
Speaker 1: in my respects because I found I could put stuff
52:05
Speaker 1: in and then add stuff, and I tend to respond
52:08
Speaker 1: pretty good with an audiobook. And if I'm listening to
52:11
Speaker 1: this data and I'm listening to maybe a podcast that
52:15
Speaker 1: was generated from some of that information that was prompted,
52:18
Speaker 1: I tend to just hold on to it just a
52:20
Speaker 1: bit longer. And that could be a good benefit for studying.
52:24
Speaker 1: There is a book that's going to be coming out
52:25
Speaker 1: next month by a guy named Pritten Shah who is
52:28
Speaker 1: a Harvard scholar. The book is called Ethical ed Tech
52:33
Speaker 1: How Educators can Lead on AI and Digital Safety in
52:35
Speaker 1: K through twelve. It'll be out May eighteenth. We're hoping
52:39
Speaker 1: to get him on and I would love to have
52:41
Speaker 1: you come on and talk with us, you know, the
52:44
Speaker 1: three of us about like what education and technology is
52:49
Speaker 1: doing right now? And I have to ask you, is
52:53
Speaker 1: are the school districts themselves? Are they behind this? Are
52:57
Speaker 1: they you know, really for education and you know technology?
53:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think education and technology we kind of don't
53:05
Speaker 6: have a choice at this point.
53:07
Speaker 5: Like it's like you're either on or you're off, right.
53:09
Speaker 6: I think there's different pockets of brilliance and different systems,
53:13
Speaker 6: and the way that it looks is just dependent upon
53:17
Speaker 6: the community and what those leaders that are in those
53:20
Speaker 6: spaces really are putting their intention into. Currently, in our district,
53:26
Speaker 6: we have policy, not policy, sorry, a plan going on
53:30
Speaker 6: for AI.
53:31
Speaker 5: It's not a policy. We're not reader writing policy.
53:34
Speaker 6: We already have policy, so you don't need to rewrite
53:36
Speaker 6: an entire policy around AI. But in our district, like
53:40
Speaker 6: we're right now writing a plan of action so that
53:43
Speaker 6: we can put some guardrails on AI because, like you said,
53:46
Speaker 6: there's hallucinations out there. We don't want students getting misinformation
53:49
Speaker 6: or disinformation that's out there or creating that even more
53:53
Speaker 6: so because that's just more slop, right, So we want
53:57
Speaker 6: to make sure that we're being very responsible ethical.
54:02
Speaker 5: Users of the technology. And some districts, as we know
54:08
Speaker 5: like have just banned AI. They're like, no AI.
54:11
Speaker 6: Some districts have like mine, are kind of taking that
54:14
Speaker 6: cautionary approach. But also, let's jump on this right now
54:17
Speaker 6: because this is something that we know our students are using.
54:20
Speaker 6: Let's make sure that we're educating them about it. Let's
54:23
Speaker 6: make sure we have space for our community to come
54:25
Speaker 6: in and share their voice about it. And so I
54:27
Speaker 6: really enjoy the way that our committee has them doing
54:31
Speaker 6: the work in the last year and a half or so.
54:33
Speaker 6: But there's more behind the scenes work, of course, in
54:36
Speaker 6: anything else, but we are having those conversations.
54:39
Speaker 5: And then there's some districts that are just like.
54:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're going to use AI, We're going to use
54:42
Speaker 6: open AI, and this is what we're doing. So it's
54:45
Speaker 6: really dependent upon the community and how people want to
54:50
Speaker 6: choose to use it, choose not to use it, that
54:52
Speaker 6: kind of thing. Our system we give the agency to
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Speaker 6: the educator because we want to make sure our students
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Speaker 6: do have access to it in a responsible manner, and
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Speaker 6: also based upon the age ranges and guidelines. For my work,
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Speaker 6: I work in elementary, so we're really not using it
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Speaker 6: outside of the educator chatbot experience. And then using it
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Speaker 6: with like applications like Adobe Creative and things like that
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Speaker 6: with our students, but those are all safe applications that
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Speaker 6: have been vetted through our district. So for the older kids,
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Speaker 6: they might be using things to code robots or vibe
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Speaker 6: coding you probably heard of before. Lots of different tools
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Speaker 6: out there that are using it, and we're kind of
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Speaker 6: in the play space right now, but safe play, I will.
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Speaker 1: Say, play matters. Well remember that too, Amanda. Great to
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Speaker 1: talk to you and I know we will talk to
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Speaker 1: you again soon. And you got busy until you know
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Speaker 1: the end of the year for the school year. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for everything you do.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: So there was a really great story this past week
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Speaker 1: about a woman in Ohio, ninety one year old woman.
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Speaker 1: It apparently missed check in calls to you know for
56:00
Speaker 1: people who check in on her and so please respond
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Speaker 1: to check her wellness. They entered the garage and it
56:08
Speaker 1: was almost like watching an ID channel thing because he
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Speaker 1: didn't know what was going to happen. And through the
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Speaker 1: garage they were able to get into the house and
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Speaker 1: they found her in her bedroom. What was she doing.
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Speaker 1: She was playing a bubble pop game. Shep bubble Pop
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Speaker 1: and trying to beat her high score. Those are the
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Speaker 1: game where you just like, all you do is pop bubbles, right,
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Speaker 1: isn't that the case? I think so?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought she was playing like Call of Duty
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Speaker 4: or something. No, no, no, no, she played bubble Pop
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Speaker 4: on that.
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Speaker 1: Now. The woman that plays Call of Duty is Her
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Speaker 1: name is Hamako Mori. She's from Japan. She's a YouTuber.
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Speaker 1: They call her the game of granty. Now. This woman
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Speaker 1: in Ohio playing bubble Pop is ninety one. Hamako was
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Speaker 1: born in nineteen thirty, so that tells you just how
56:57
Speaker 1: young she is. She holds a Guinness World Record for
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Speaker 1: the oldest utube gamer uh and her games are are
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Speaker 1: Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto. There right, and I
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Speaker 1: was thinking about it. Yeah, she streams on YouTube. She
57:14
Speaker 1: was way for three years because she she was she
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Speaker 1: had a fall and she was like going through rehab
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But she's telling all her fans
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Speaker 1: she's going to be back playing the newscape, which I'm thinking,
57:24
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. It's probably she's probably living even
57:28
Speaker 1: longer because rock Stars taking so long to put out
57:31
Speaker 1: the new Grand Theft Auto title, which they say now
57:34
Speaker 1: is in November for PS five and Xbox we're not
57:38
Speaker 1: going to see it for PC till twenty twenty seven,
57:42
Speaker 1: so you want to check out her page. Hamako Moury
57:46
Speaker 1: is her name. When you go back to Japan next month,
57:50
Speaker 1: justin you should you see if you could you know,
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Speaker 1: find her, oh.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and just randomly ring her doorbell and be like, hey, uh,
57:57
Speaker 4: can I watch you play some games? I mean, I
57:59
Speaker 4: don't know what am I supposed to say to that
58:02
Speaker 4: that works?
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Speaker 1: You know, that's gonna cool though. I mean, I've I've watched.
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Speaker 4: There's a couple of people that I watch, not so
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Speaker 4: much anymore being that I'm so busy, but I do.
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Speaker 1: There was a couple of different ones that were like,
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Speaker 1: you know, Grandma.
58:16
Speaker 4: There's like a grandpa gamer who plays strictly just like
58:20
Speaker 4: Battlefield and he is an amazing sniper. And somebody I
58:24
Speaker 4: remember watching one of his streams. I mean, and the
58:26
Speaker 4: funny thing is this guy I sort of got it.
58:28
Speaker 4: He looks like what I'm probably gonna look like if
58:30
Speaker 4: if I make it to seventy five, right, he looks
58:33
Speaker 4: like me, Like I think he's gonna I'm gonna look
58:36
Speaker 4: like him.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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Speaker 4: Anyway, I was watching one of his streams and people
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Speaker 4: were like, hey, why do you only play Battlefield? And
58:42
Speaker 4: when you do, why are you only a sniper? And
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Speaker 4: he's like stopped his game and looked at the camera
58:47
Speaker 4: and was like because I was a sniper in the
58:50
Speaker 4: Vietnam War.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
58:52
Speaker 4: And he was like I've done this. This is the
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Speaker 4: thing because he you know, a lot of people when
58:58
Speaker 4: they play games, especially if they're a sniper, we're just
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Speaker 4: using the crosshairs, right, and they're just aiming right at
59:03
Speaker 4: where the crosshays are. No, this guy is using in
59:06
Speaker 4: the air and all that. Yeah, he's using the little
59:09
Speaker 4: dot you know, the little lines above the crosshairs to
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Speaker 4: calculate his distance and he can shoot somebody from across
59:15
Speaker 4: the map and it's just like every single time, and
59:17
Speaker 4: he'll just look at the camera and be like boom,
59:21
Speaker 4: Like I mean, the guys, the guy's hilarious.
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Speaker 1: That is awesome. Uh. I don't know what kind of
59:27
Speaker 1: it makes you wonder though. Think about it when we're
59:30
Speaker 1: in our nineties, you know, we make it to our nineties,
59:33
Speaker 1: what games are we gonna be wanting to play? We're
59:35
Speaker 1: gonna play Left Tott six. I hope it comes out
59:37
Speaker 1: by then. But you Sean which game, Probably Diabo two, Diablo.
59:45
Speaker 4: Two, Project Zomboid. I am been I've been playing. I've
59:49
Speaker 4: been playing so much of Project Zomboids. For the invit
59:53
Speaker 4: to the server, what do you you do it?
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Speaker 1: Okay?
59:56
Speaker 4: First, first off, I've invited you to almost every single
1:00:00
Speaker 4: game I've ever played, and us accurate.
1:00:04
Speaker 1: This is accurate.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, you're like, oh, one of these days I'll
1:00:10
Speaker 4: get on and play.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, yeah, I'll play. All Right, that's it for
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Speaker 1: this week's show.
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Speaker 4: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm trying to weird and I'm justin lemme.
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Speaker 2: See you next time.