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HIGHLIGHT POD 30 MINS: The Woody Show January 8th 2026 Podcast · The Woody Show

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  Speaker 1: The Woody Show. And since it is a throwback Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: I got something here. You know, the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: nineties was thirty five years ago. No way, that's a lie,
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  Speaker 1: and life was a lot different back then. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of those people where asks things where they asked
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  Speaker 1: a question, what's something that was socially acceptable in the
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  Speaker 1: nineties but not today? Good question, not being reachable? It
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  Speaker 1: was a very common answer.
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  Speaker 2: True, yeah, like you just weren't.
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  Speaker 3: If you text somebody and you don't get a response
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  Speaker 3: in ten minutes, they freak out.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this thing and this guy I think he's
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  Speaker 1: in the Netherlands. He works for a US company, a
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  Speaker 1: US based company, but they have an office in the Netherlands,
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  Speaker 1: and so I guess in the Netherlands, like at five o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: people log off and they don't log back on or
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  Speaker 1: check work emails or about un till nine am the
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  Speaker 1: next day. They're not available after five pm on a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Next time you're gonna hear from them Monday at nine
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  Speaker 1: there was there was this new manager, US based manager
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  Speaker 1: that was hitting this guy up and he was upset
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  Speaker 1: because he wasn't available. The guy the Netherlands wasn't available
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  Speaker 1: for a like one of those like team building Zoom,
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  Speaker 1: and it was at one pm New York time, but
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  Speaker 1: it was like, I forget what time it was seven
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  Speaker 1: six or seven o'clock, you know in the Netherlands, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the time difference is. So he wasn't on it. He goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we really need you to, you know, have
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  Speaker 1: more of like whatever goes attitude and blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. And he's like, no, many, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you understand how it works here. And he's just trying
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  Speaker 1: to explain, you know, we see it as if you
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  Speaker 1: are doing things after hours, it just means that you're
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  Speaker 1: not being efficient with your time while you're at work
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  Speaker 1: like that, and it also means that you don't have
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  Speaker 1: good time management. And I'm neither one of those things. Interesting,
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  Speaker 1: and the guy didn't like that answer, and so he
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  Speaker 1: sent like some you know things like hey, well, if
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  Speaker 1: you're looking to get ahead in the company and blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, this is the mindset you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to have. And so he gave that to his
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  Speaker 1: Netherlands based HR department for the company, and they like
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  Speaker 1: slap this guy's wrist and he's not fired or anything.
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  Speaker 1: But they, dude, there are different there are different labor
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  Speaker 1: laws here. Yeah, and so you can't be basically threatening
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  Speaker 1: this guy. I'm saying that if he doesn't answer your
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  Speaker 1: emails on Saturday or doesn't show up to your team's
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  Speaker 1: meeting at you know, after hours for the net like
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  Speaker 1: he's here in the Netherlands, he's not in the States.
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  Speaker 4: Like people try to have that attitude in America. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: in in the workplace, and it just doesn't fly. Here's
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  Speaker 4: the thing me personally, I don't have that attitude. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not a punching at you know whatever, time, clock out, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: and you can't reach me otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not that person. I've never been that person. I
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  Speaker 1: do feel that it is beneficial. Could you do it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Do I think you should do that? Probably not exactly,
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  Speaker 1: not not the way that most business is. Well, then
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  Speaker 1: not consider you for any things down the road, because
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  Speaker 1: they want somebody who is quote.
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  Speaker 2: All in or you know, like legally can you do that? Sure?
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  Speaker 1: Legally?
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  Speaker 2: Do you look like a douche pretty much? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the minute I leave here, I'm not opening up
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  Speaker 1: forget it.
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  Speaker 4: Like yesterday they asked me, like, hey, we really need
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  Speaker 4: you to record this commercial. I was at home in bed,
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  Speaker 4: and I go and I don't have my home studio
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  Speaker 4: setup because I'm moving, So I drove back here recorded it, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and then drove back home.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't necessarily fault the people who are that way, because
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  Speaker 1: you're right, and this the other point this guy was
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  Speaker 1: making is like, hey, I'm compensated for forty hours a week.
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  Speaker 1: I do the forty hours. I do what I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. I'm meeting my deadlines or whatever. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the business is. I'm meeting my deadlines. Like
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  Speaker 1: what I'm I'm holding up my end.
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  Speaker 2: Of the agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's that's fair enough. Now, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to feel bad for him if he does get passed
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  Speaker 1: over for things because they have their own things or
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  Speaker 1: criteria that whether what they're considering. Fine, but you can't
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can't complain at that point. But they
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  Speaker 1: also they also can't complain if you decide that you're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna do what you are, you know, to the
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  Speaker 1: penny of what you're competated for anyway, So not being reachable.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the original thing. What's something that was socially
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  Speaker 1: acceptable in the nineties but not today, Just not being reachable.
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  Speaker 1: Leaving kids in the car while you went grocery shopping.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, we left in the car.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, lived in that car.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would get worried my mom would be in
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  Speaker 5: the store for so long.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, if you remember, that's what happened to
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  Speaker 1: Punky Burster, Like mom went into the grocery store and
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  Speaker 1: never came back out. Yeah, Punky, you had to go
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  Speaker 1: live with Henry Warnamon.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot that part. Did her mom died or she just.
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  Speaker 1: No, she took off her at the grocery store.
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  Speaker 4: No, we used to do.
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  Speaker 6: My brother and I used to think horrible that. I
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  Speaker 6: don't think I was. We were the only kids who
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  Speaker 6: did this, And now I would. I feel so bad
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  Speaker 6: just thinking about it. But let's when mom gets back,
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  Speaker 6: Let's have everything turned up, the air conditioner, the radio.
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  Speaker 7: The car.
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  Speaker 5: That one time, me and my sister were in the
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  Speaker 5: car when my mom was in the grocery store and
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  Speaker 5: we thought, like, she's taking forever. We're going to go
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  Speaker 5: in and find her. As soon as we went to
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  Speaker 5: open the door, the alarm started going off to the car,
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  Speaker 5: and then we just hid the rest of the time
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  Speaker 5: with the alarm going off.
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  Speaker 1: Socially acceptable in the nineties, not so much today. Showing
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  Speaker 1: up at someone's house unannounced to hang out. Oh I'd dreaming.
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  Speaker 1: Smoking in a restaurant. There were still anywhere smoking. You're
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  Speaker 1: not smoking. You get that question when you walk in smoking,
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  Speaker 1: You're not smoking.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't heard that in what twenty five years?
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  Speaker 1: How about hiring ten year olds the babysit Oh.
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  Speaker 6: My god, they were always only like two years older
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  Speaker 6: than you.
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  Speaker 5: Babysitting at ten.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I remember when you know, we were kids,
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the girls like in my class, when we were like
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  Speaker 1: eleven twelve, ten eleven twelve, like they started getting babysitting jobs.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, made like three dollars an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, making plans with someone multiple days in advance,
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  Speaker 1: not talking to them about it again, and just showing
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  Speaker 1: up without having to con firm the plans were still on.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what something socially acceptable in the nineties
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  Speaker 1: been not so much today. Mooning people that was just fun,
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  Speaker 1: a list, Yeah, a road trip in the back seat.
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  Speaker 1: You end up on some kind of like watch list,
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  Speaker 1: the sexual offenders list. We used to going by pressed
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  Speaker 1: hand up against them, fun and I'll give you one more.
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  Speaker 1: This has brought up a number of times. There were
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  Speaker 1: even those announcements on the television right before the late
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  Speaker 1: news would start, like it's eleven o'clock. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: where your kids are? Yeah, not having any idea where
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  Speaker 1: kids were because you get home from school. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like there were cell phones or ways to check in.
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  Speaker 1: No I would. I would come home, let myself in
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  Speaker 1: the house, drop up my backpack, out the door. I went,
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  Speaker 1: and you didn't see me until dark. Well that's gone.
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  Speaker 6: You were a latchkey kid.
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  Speaker 4: I was a latchkey kid. You just let yourself in.
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  Speaker 1: But even still, the parents who were at home like
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  Speaker 1: to stay at home, moms and stuff. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: my friend's parents like we would just be out and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't know where we were going. We're going out today,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go play football and then because then you
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  Speaker 1: played football for maybe like forty five minutes, then it'll
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  Speaker 1: be onto something else and then up to somebody else's
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  Speaker 1: house made to play video games. But like your parents
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that you went over to so and so's
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  Speaker 1: house to play video games.
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  Speaker 2: You just went.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't care.
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  Speaker 4: We would ride our bikes to like two cities over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah a Coketo.
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  Speaker 2: Woodie.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for the first time here in the new year
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  Speaker 1: and with great purpose, today we bring you Rich Timiro.
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  Speaker 1: He's a tech reporter, he's got a radio show, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a TV presence that he does. He's the official
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  Speaker 1: tech correspondent for not just The Woodie Show, but for
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  Speaker 1: KTLA Television in Los Angeles. The rich on Tech radio
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  Speaker 1: show is heard coast to coast everyone a ton of stations.
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  Speaker 4: You could also.
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  Speaker 1: Subscribe to Rich's free newsletter at rich on Tech dot
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  Speaker 1: t find him on social media at rich on Tech.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you rich on Tech.
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  Speaker 8: Wow, that was quite the intro.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: I'm how much you from Las Vegas?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, looking at the sphere which is always glowing with
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  Speaker 9: something quite wild, illuminating my room all night long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, happy New Year. How was your was your break?
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  Speaker 1: Do you do anything cool?
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  Speaker 9: I went to New Jersey, where I'm from, and my
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  Speaker 9: kids hit the vacation lottery because it snowed not once,
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  Speaker 9: but twice, and they were just loving it, soling, that's
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  Speaker 9: cool it.
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  Speaker 1: Gina went to Minnesota for her her in laws and
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  Speaker 1: there was adult sledding that happened there too. That sounds
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  Speaker 1: like that would involve a cocktail. But yes, right, but
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  Speaker 1: back fun right right back at now. What we love
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  Speaker 1: about Rich be I just being a super nice guy
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  Speaker 1: and super helpful when it comes to all this tech
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  Speaker 1: stuff is that it's a it's very approachable. It's a
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  Speaker 1: it's consumer tech. It's not like the stuff that you
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  Speaker 1: get like when tech guys get together and talk amongst
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  Speaker 1: each other, like.
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  Speaker 4: What driver do I need for it? This is?
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  Speaker 8: This is this is what's the refresh rate on that TV? This?
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  Speaker 1: This is stuff that we as just average people like
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  Speaker 1: you know, who like technology, you like the things that
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  Speaker 1: it can do for you, but just kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: a real insight into it. And this is the super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl of tech. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: I went one time, and as a guy who loves
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff, I got admit I was kind of overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 4: There's so much.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know where to start. I'm like, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: I'm missing out on something good and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: Medicin and I were just kind of like wandering around
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  Speaker 1: checking out different stuff. But what are you seeing there, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: What do you like? What? What's some cool stuff to
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  Speaker 1: look forward to?
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  Speaker 9: Well, just to set it up, I mean, you did
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  Speaker 9: explain how how massive this show is. It is huge
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  Speaker 9: the convention center. It takes over the entire convention center,
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  Speaker 9: but not just that, but also a lot of the hotels.
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  Speaker 8: In the surrounding areas.
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  Speaker 9: There's a Venetian, they have a big expo center there,
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  Speaker 9: and then a lot of the suite companies that don't
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  Speaker 9: even go to the show will rent out like a
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  Speaker 9: giant suite and show off stuff there.
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  Speaker 8: So it is massive.
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  Speaker 9: It's impossible to see everything, probably over like four thousand exhibitors.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: But I go to a lot of the events. I
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  Speaker 9: wander the floor all day long. I did like twenty
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  Speaker 9: two thousand steps yesterday. You know, looking for this stuff,
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  Speaker 9: you know, the TVs and all that stuff kind of
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  Speaker 9: grab your attention, But I'm looking for the little things
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  Speaker 9: that you know every day people are going to use.
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  Speaker 9: So here's some interesting ones. Let's start with. You want
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  Speaker 9: to start with the weirdest thing that I saw?
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  Speaker 3: There's something that I think you saw that I with
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  Speaker 3: absolutely no exaggeration, no hyperbole, I have dreamt about my
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  Speaker 3: entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Can I guess what it is?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I did see something about this, this smart
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  Speaker 1: hair clipper. Yes? Is that it?
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  Speaker 2: I know? I thought this would never be a real
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  Speaker 2: Is that real?
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  Speaker 7: Rich?
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about this? It's like an AI guided hair clipper, right,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about it?
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  Speaker 8: So funny.
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  Speaker 9: I almost started with that one because that is okay.
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  Speaker 9: When I was a kid, remember those commercials on TV
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  Speaker 9: the flow be yes, yes, and they were this kind
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  Speaker 9: of like the AI equivalent of that. So it looks
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  Speaker 9: like a hair clipper, but it's got this like guide
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  Speaker 9: on it that is AI, I guess helpful. So the
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  Speaker 9: guide actually adjusts as you run this thing up and
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  Speaker 9: down your head, and the AI keeps it at different
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  Speaker 9: lengths so you can get like the perfect pace.
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  Speaker 2: Constantly kind of going up and down or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, if it's like shorter on the sides of the
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  Speaker 1: and then it gets to the top of your your
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  Speaker 1: haircut short on the sides on the on the side,
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  Speaker 1: but on the top, there's a little bit more likely
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  Speaker 1: they would know to adjust itself.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: What, Yeah, this is greg because I'm about to pass out.
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  Speaker 1: How often do you get your hair cut?
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  Speaker 3: Preferably once a week, once a week, but usually like
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  Speaker 3: every two weeks.
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  Speaker 8: Guy that would trim his hair all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 9: I saw this in action, and honestly I was tempted
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  Speaker 9: to have them try it on me because I could
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  Speaker 9: use a cleanup, and I was like, what do I
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  Speaker 9: have to lose? It kind of be a fun story,
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  Speaker 9: but they weren't doing it that night, so yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 9: I may go back to the booth. But yeah, this
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  Speaker 9: is AI guide it It's called glide and ID if.
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  Speaker 2: You want to look it up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, is it kind of I'm excited When you go
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  Speaker 3: to a car show they have concept cars. Is this
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  Speaker 3: a real thing that's available now or is this a
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  Speaker 3: tease of what's to come?
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  Speaker 8: This is supposed well.
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  Speaker 9: Nailing down whether these things are real or coming out
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  Speaker 9: is always tricky with these companies.
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  Speaker 7: They always say I have a launch day, and then
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  Speaker 7: sometimes it gets to push back. I am on their website,
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  Speaker 7: it's smarthair clipper dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Smart hairclipper dot com. You want to check it out
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  Speaker 1: and sold? What else?
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  Speaker 8: Rich?
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  Speaker 1: What else do we need to know?
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  Speaker 9: About Oh, this is interesting this VVU. This is a
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  Speaker 9: device you put in your toilet and it tests your
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  Speaker 9: urine every time for hydration and wellness.
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  Speaker 6: That's fascinating is the diversion that tests for drugs.
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  Speaker 9: I asked if they're going to test for more stuff
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  Speaker 9: in the future. She said absolutely. So this is one
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  Speaker 9: hundred dollars. You know, it's supposed as opposed to test strips.
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  Speaker 9: They say that hydration is such a big part of life,
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  Speaker 9: and it's you know, a big part of a wellness marker.
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  Speaker 9: So I just thought it was interesting that you would
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  Speaker 9: have that you're so obsessed with your hydration that you
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  Speaker 9: would put this thing in your toy.
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  Speaker 1: We have somebody here on the Woody showed Gina Grad
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  Speaker 1: who was dehydrated to the point where she had a
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  Speaker 1: seizure and passed down her bathroom had to be taken
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital via ambulance over the holiday break.
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  Speaker 6: So I'd very much like to know without having to
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  Speaker 6: pee in a cup at a doctor's office, if I'm
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  Speaker 6: fully hydrated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I just thought, you look at the color. It's like,
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  Speaker 9: if it's bright, yeah, right, okay.
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  Speaker 1: If it's pale, that's good.
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  Speaker 6: I saw something that I'm dying to know if you
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  Speaker 6: taste tested.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see the lollipop Star?
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  Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, Okay, I was trying it this morning
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  Speaker 9: because they gave me a bunch of them.
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  Speaker 8: Oh lucky. This thing is so crazy.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, if you're not familiar, Lollipop Star is basically a
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  Speaker 9: lollipop that plays music.
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  Speaker 8: In your mouth when you suck on it.
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  Speaker 1: It uses like a bone induction technology.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, what yeah, bone conduction, So conduction.
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  Speaker 9: Basically, it was a little tiny electronics in the base
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  Speaker 9: of it, and then it looks like a regular lollipop.
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  Speaker 8: I got the I think of a salted lime.
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  Speaker 9: And you suck on this thing and as you're you know,
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  Speaker 9: nothing to do with the sucking, but it just as
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  Speaker 9: your teeth are on this, they vibrate your bones and
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  Speaker 9: make you hear this music.
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  Speaker 8: And it really works.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about something actually useful. And I did
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  Speaker 1: see that you would post this again. You can find
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  Speaker 1: a rich on social media at rich on tech and
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  Speaker 1: it's this stair climbing robot vacuum.
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  Speaker 4: Who blowing up on all the tech.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I keep saying, like I'm not just Rich
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  Speaker 1: talking about but like this seems to be getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of attention there at the Consumer Electronic Show.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: And there's multiple versions, right.
• 14:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a bunch of a bunch of companies working
• 14:39
  Speaker 9: on this. This is probably the most trending video on
• 14:42
  Speaker 9: my Instagram at rich on Tech right now.
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: I've just been posting a ton of stuff. But this
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: is Dream d r E a m E.
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: They're a pretty well known maker of vacuums and robotics stuff.
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: But yeah, they have this bionic quad track vacuum cleaner
• 14:57
  Speaker 9: that climb stairs.
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: But here's the deal. It's still a prototype.
• 15:01
  Speaker 9: It doesn't use wheels, it uses like these tracks. It
• 15:04
  Speaker 9: almost looks like like a tank, like the tracks underneath
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: the tank.
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: But here's the weird part.
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: It's got the standard room buck kind of like you know,
• 15:13
  Speaker 9: circular vacuum, but it goes into this like shell and
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: then the shell goes up the stairs and then it
• 15:21
  Speaker 9: goes down the stairs and it goes back out. So
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: it's like getting into like a little armored car almost
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: to go up the stairs.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Since we're talking this is a robot vacuum. Since we're
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: talking robots just in general.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: I posted a comment on one of your videos and
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: it was a it was a robot like one of
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: the you know, the things is going to eventually.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Kill us humanoid and it was showing.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: It was showing it like shadow boxing and stuff, and
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I go, why are we teaching these things to fight?
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Question?
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: I don't know, But.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Like, okay, fold laundry great, because there is another thing too,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: there's that folding that laundry folding robot.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 15:58
  Speaker 9: I spent the I'm not kidding, I spent the entire
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: second half of the day yesterday just looking at robots
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: because they're so fun.
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: They had okay, they had.
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: Robots that are like a puppeteer, like puppet hands, puppet
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: robot hands doing like little robot puppets.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: That's number one.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: Okay, they had an entire chorus of robots. I'm talking
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: maybe three dozen robots sitting in chairs, all just moving
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: at the same time. That was number two. They had
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: the laundry folding robot. There's two of them. I saw
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: one is from Dina d y and A and I
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: watched it fold this towel. Now, it would have taken
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: a human like three seconds to fold. It took this
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: thing like a minute to figure out how to you know,
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: But they couldn't do it twenty.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: Four hours a day.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: But he was a thing like you walk you walk away.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: That's like you could do all the dishes, that's right,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Like but Moore, you just throw them the dishwasher, walk away,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: do your other things, come back and the dishes are done.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Same things like this can can take all your laundry,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: fold it even if it takes longer. Who cares you
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: have to do it?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: You can sit and watch TV.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw the actually fighting robots as the see
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: why That's what I want to know, Like, what's the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: one that you're getting menace? The one ex technology Richard
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Menisa put the money in from one of those things.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: He's getting one of those things. Uh Like, So it's
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: it's that type of robot that I'm talking about. Why
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: are we teaching those things to fight humansoid?
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: I don't even know why it would do that demo
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: because it's just like asking for trouble. Why showing this?
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: Why are we even why are even showing that We've
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: explained to these robots that we need to fight. You know,
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: there's gonna be a robot army that comes across and
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: just thousands of these things that come through the door,
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: and there is no hiding, there's no avoiding it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: We are done as a humans.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Uh. Talking about other stuff that is there at CEES,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, you know, the TV seemed to get a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: lot of the attention, like like attention grabbing kind of thing.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Is there anything that kind of stood out this year?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Like how much more can we do with televisions? Is
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: there something that stood out to you from the TV stuff?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: You know, Well, there is one thing I saw.
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: I mean, obviously they all continue to get bigger and
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: lighter and you know, better contrast.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: That's yeah, yeah, we've heard that forever.
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: What I think is interesting is actually AI is helping
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: people hear the dialogue better. I don't know if you've
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: ever been doing this for you watch a movie and
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: you're like what.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: They just saying?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah every day?
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, what is up with that?
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: Like we figured out surround sound out the you know, gazoo,
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: but we can't figure out how to hear these people.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: So AI can now separate the audio track from the
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: background and you can kind of turn that up so
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: you can hear people better. And I'm seeing that across
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: a bunch of different TVs, not just Ye, but.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: Rich we're allowed to talk about it now because we're
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: under NDA. We have that secret meeting where we got
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: to see those new displays with TCL, because they have
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: so you're out of CES. You're going to hear all
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: these TV companies talk about RGB, which is red green blue,
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: but and the like the new age of red green
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: blue is the micro RGB. But TCL like jumped the
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: gun and now they're like going ahead of that, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: they're coming out with s QT, which is super quantum dots,
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: which is like ultra color.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, so this is work. There's a disconnect, right yeah, yeah,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: which is what which is just like high definition even
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: like even our higher definition.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: And the reason that they can do that, because we've
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: talked about this before, because TCL versus all these other
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: companies that are already behind with r GB, is that
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: they have to buy parts from other companies, which TCL
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: can do. They make their own parts. Okay, so they're.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Able to advance like Space SpaceX is like three D
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: printing a lot of stuff they need for their rockets
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and stuff right there and hawthorn at their at their facility.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're able to advance faster than anybody else.
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: Can I just try to explain TV technology and like
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: a little bit like what makes a TV better. Basically,
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: every TV is made up of like display pixels, right,
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: And so the more that you can illuminate those pixels
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: individually and with different colors, the better the picture is
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: going to look. Because let's say you have a picture
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: of just a moon. You don't want to see the
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: moon with like you know, clouding around the edges or
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: you know, bleeding the color out to the rest of
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: the screen. You want to see just that moon and
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: the rest of the screen is completely black. Right, So
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: the more pixels you have, the more control you have
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: over lighting them, the better your screen looks, the better
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: your picture looks. And that's really what all these manufacturers
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: are trying to do without going to o lead, which
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: is very expensive, and it's just you know, these companies
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: would rather use you know, the older technology that still works,
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: but it looks better depending on how you illuminate it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: And then moving on from television because I know we're
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: running out of time. Rich On Tech is on with us.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: He is at CEES in Las Vegas checking out all
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: these different gadgets. I mean it is like, dude, this
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is this is like getting to go to Wonkas chocolate
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: factory when you're in the tech and just seeing all
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: this stuff. So I'm really interested in finding, you know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: something I think I would get a lot of use
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: out of it. We always have to do these videos
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: for different things where the company here for advertisers or whatever,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and they always have all this you know, copy for
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: us to read and and do it looking directly into
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the camera. And I keep seeing all these glasses that
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: have like teleprompter kind of features and stuff in it,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the smart glasses things like that. There seems to be
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a ton of them out there. Rich, is there one
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: that you recommend, like one that looks like that doesn't
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: have to be sunglasses, I know, the ray band stuff,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: but like that, just like just like regular you can
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: put a prescription in eyewear that also would have like
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: say that like sort of like teleprompter type of feature.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: I tried out two pairs of these. Uh, and I'll
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: tell you what the problem is in a second. But
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: the market leader is clearly called Even Realities, So I yes, okay,
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: they are really good. They invented this whole genre of
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: the display glasses. And I tried the teleprompter yesterday and
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: it was easy to read. And the second version, by
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: the way, is way better than the first version of these.
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: They also came out with the smart rings so that
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: you can navigate on screen with your fingers. Rocket R
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: O k I D is another brand doing the same
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: exact thing. But here is the problem. And you know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: because the idea is I'd love to give a speech
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: where I can just read it off my glasses and
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: talking to an audience. That'd make life so much easier.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: But here's the thing. When you move around, the screen
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: that you're looking at is also kind of jumping around
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: just by the natural movement of your body, and so
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: it was very distracting to me to try to read
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: off of this thing because you're you're just moving and
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: so still exactly when they can figure out how to
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: make this thing sort of float in front of you
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: instead of being locked into the lenses, I think that
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: is going to be a game changer for that technology.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Interesting, all right, So, but between the two even realities
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and then the is it ro our Rocket R O
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: K I D. Which which one? Which one do you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like the best? Which one right now is the is
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the better one?
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: Even realities, I think is the to me when I
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: try to both on even realities was easier to see.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: But I think, you know, the rocket, I think, you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: don't discount them just yet the same very early.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: So which ones look sexier?
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: Right?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Which ones should you look hotterer?
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: And you know, yeah, I haven't gone through my video yet,
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: so I got to see which one I look sounds like.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Something that would be good for motorcycle riders for navigation,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: you know, Oh yeah that'd be a good idea.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, rich, thank you, uh for getting into some
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: as I know, it's a it's very busy when CEES
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: is going on. The good thing is like you get
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to go on I'm sure before the general public though, right,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: like cause you get that kind of.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like VIP right right, uh huh.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we get like two days before the general kind
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: of because.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Then I saw they did it was essentially you know
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: they do the rope drop at the theme parks and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: stuff and then everybody rushes they did that with the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: public going into CEES and it was looked like a madhouse. Yeah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it's very well intended, I mean very well at a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: lot of cool stuff going on. Well rich on Tech.
• 23:54
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• 23:57
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• 23:59
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• 24:10
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• 24:12
  Speaker 8: Rich on Tech. Everybody, Thanks guys.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: All right, dude, Happy New Year and we'll talk to
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you next time.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: Sounds good?
• 24:19
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