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Episode 395 - Duct Tape Fixes Everything! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Everybody out there
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in radio land, This is James Young from the rock band Stick. If
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you are technically challenged, if you got trouble with that computer yours, because
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Lord knows I do you need to listen to tech Talk Radio. Welcome to
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another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Shad Toward,
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I'm Matt Jones, and I'm justin. Oh my god, we're all together,
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all four of us, and none of us got taken away by the
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eclipse. We're all here. We all survived. Man, I was hoping
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to get taken away. This timeline sucks. Last week's show was good because
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we were talking about what we were expecting, but now we know what has
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happened and the amazing footage that Sean got from the event. Sean, I'm
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sure you could fill us in on this, but I've had a lot of
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people that have asked me how did he get these shots? Yeah, so
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I'll walk you through the whole trip. Saturday, my friend Stephen Dustin came
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down and we went and got by camper as we were camping at the Indianapois
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Motor Speedway for the eclipse, and we brought it back to my house.
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We're getting it ready where we hook up the hose to the house to fill
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up the water and you know, getting everything ready and everything's packed up.
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It took us like two and a half hours, almost three hours to get
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ready, an we're gonna crash out for the night and get up early and
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go. So we're like, all right, let's go play games downstairs.
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We walked down to the basement. Wow, it smells really damp in the
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basement. Oh no, take take one step into the basement. Squish,
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squish. Oh uh Oh what happened is the first time I used the outdoor
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spagott since winter time. Oh so it was like a like a crack,
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right I had I went. I went into the shop, my shop,
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which is just if you're watching the videos right here. Yeah, and there
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was about probably i don't know, half an inch of water across the whole
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floor of the shop. We literally spent the next two hours three hours moving
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and you can see if you look behind me right, my basement is an
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absolute disaster. Right now, I have stuff everywhere. It's wait. But
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you didn't just text Caitlin and tell her, hey, there's a flood.
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I'll see you later. We eight o'clock Sunday morning, right, We went
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to home depot and runted an industrial dehumidifier. It does like twenty four gallons
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a day of water. Wow, it'll pull twenty four gallons of water out
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of the earth. Gale's parents were here to hang out with her while we
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went to the eclipse, so he sucked up about eight gallons of water with
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the shop factor in the day. You put her dad to work. That's
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awesome. He that's what he likes to do. But so we finally got
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out of here about noon on Sunday. We wanted to leave by like nine
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am. So we got out of here at noon, drove down to Indianapolis,
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got there about four o'clock, set up camp, cooked some burgers,
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cooked some brats. I don't think I sent you guys the picture, but
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it was raining really hard when we got there. Oh yeah, I sell
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the rainbow stuff. And then the sun came out and there was a huge
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double rainbow over the state, over the over the speedway, which was awesome.
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Rainbow. What is it to lo rainbow? And then you know,
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we played a couple of games in the camper crash off the night. We
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got up around nine and went into the speedway, saw some of the stuff.
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They had some NASA events going on, so they charge you for getting
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in, so they actually let you get in on the field. Right,
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Yeah, we went, we went into the infield and like walked around,
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went up saw the grand stands, and it was twenty bucks for general admission
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to get in and walk around and see because they had like NASA symposiums,
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They had astronauts, indy car drivers, They had all sorts of stuff,
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signings. You know. Yeah, if if Max was six or seven years
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old, he would have been losing his mind, he would have been wanted
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to go see all the space stuff. And I hope he wants to see
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all the space stuff. But there were a lot of younger kids there that
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were doing you know, they had a bunch of stem stuff and also so
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there was a lot. There was a lot to do if you just wanted
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to come in and watch the eclipse, if you just wanted to come in
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and she clips to your glasses. Right. They also had areas in the
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infield where you could have brought your stuff in, set up your tripods and
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all that stuff in the infield and done that, we set we had a
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space by our camper that we set up. So about twelve thirty one o'clock
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we ate lunch inside the stadium, inside the speedway, went back up to
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the camper, got set up and kind of just sat weighted and just kind
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of prepped. So now we're gonna we're gonna get photos of all of this
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that we're talking about, including your camera set up, up on our blog
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so that people can actually go there and take a look not only at the
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equipment but also some of the really dynamic shots that you were able to get,
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which they are pretty great. You've got some really good stuff. Yeah.
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So I'm I'm mostly happy with what I got what you saw in terms
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of like the pictures, I didn't get a whole lot of pictures. I'm
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mostly focused on getting video with So I shot with three cameras, and so
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I'm a big night guy. Right, and the cheapest and oldest camera got
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the best content. Wow. Right. I shot with a Nikon cool pix
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P nine hundred. Right. If you look that up, you're gonna be
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like, what the hell is that? Right, You're gonna look at that
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camera, gonna be weird looking camera. Yeah, it's not. It's the
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weird looking camera. I shot with a Nikon D seven thousand, which is
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a crop sensor camera. I think they stopped making him in like twenty thirteen.
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And then I also shot with my Nikon D eight to fifty, which
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is a full frame, so I used two lenses on those cameras. I
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shot with a twenty four to one oh eight, which I obviously used at
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full zoom, and then I put a full frame lens on my D seven
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thousand, which actually like increases it by a baggage of half, so it
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was a twenty four to one twenty, so it became a thirty six to
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eight. So I shot at one eighty bio the Nikon cool Pix P nine
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hundred. I bought this in twenty seventeen. For the clips that happened in
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twenty seventeen, I bought it you used. I bought it on eBay because
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it had a zoom issue, got it on eBay for super cheap, did
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a for more update and it fixed the prop so I bought it for sup
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so I actually had a full ninety nine percent solar filter for this, so
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I was able to get those types of shots that you guys saw with the
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video and the pictures that I sent earlier. But so the two nightc the
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two bigger nikons, I set up and just ran time lapses like they were
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taking a picture every ten seconds. I had to go move them every three
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or four minutes and recent because the sun's moving oh moment right if you if
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you set it up and frame, after about six or seven minutes, you
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have to go readjust so it stays in frame. I don't, I don't,
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I don't, I don't. I don't have an astral tracking tripod one
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of those tracking they actually make tripods for this. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
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So if you look at the picture that I sent you of like the
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my my friend Steve's set up, his pictures are ten times better than mine.
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Wow. My buddy Steve was running six inch Newtonian telescope with a E
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type cameraount. So he's got he's got a seventy D cannon seventy D full
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frame that he was running on that, and then he's got a eight hundred
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millimeter prime, so an eight hundred millimeter it's the only focal link that does
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eights. And then he put a double on that. So he had sixteen
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hundred milimeters prime for his cannon R five, which is their Candis flagship mirrorlest
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Gieslar. So he shot a ton of really crisp like the you can see
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the flares and the diamond ring and the these orange It looked like just orange
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spots around the sun. And when you look zoomed in on him, you
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can actually see the curls of the plasma and stuff off him. It was
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incredible. Were those called solar prominences. That's the thing. That's the word
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I could number prominence. That's the word I was looking for. The whole
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experience was just surreal. What I loved about it, Sean when the diamond
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takes it, because you hear everybody just begin to just roar with applause because
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it's amazing. We like, we were like seventy hundred yards away from the
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speedway, right, so there were I think about eighty thousand people in the
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stadium watching the eclipse across you know, various parts of the stadium. Can
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you explain what I don't understand? The diamond? What does that? Yeah?
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What does that mean? So take it take a ring like the sun
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right and imagine a spot of light. As the Moon leaves the path of
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the Sun, you get a bright spot of light. Oh yeah, it
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looks like a diamond ring. That's the term that you used to watch the
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diamond ring. Right, Okay, so there's you're supposed to be able to
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get one when it transits and when it like as it's leaving and coming off
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the Sun or whatever going across the Sun. And then you used to be
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able to see that. Twe you got one when it was coming off.
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And it was funny because all of a sudden you hear you yelling time to
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change a filter, Time to change a filter. So I was gonna mention
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this. So my friend Steve had an app for his phone that somebody had
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made that just said solar eclipse timer. That was a countdown, right,
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and it had different cues, like five minutes until start of the solar eclipse,
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five minutes before full totality. Right at full totality, remove solar filter.
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It would tell you. It was like say, it would tell you
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these things, like for your solar filters, because it was prompting you,
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like once it went to full totality, you couldn't see a thing with your
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solar filter. On right because the amount of light went. They called it
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the three hundred and sixty degree sunrise because if you looked around you all you
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saw was it looked like sunrise at three hundred and sixty degrees when you were
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in full totality. If you looked around, was everything dark? I mean,
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yeah, I did a time lapse of us. I put it on
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the roof of my camper and I shot down at us and it just goes
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from light to dark. Can't we post that on our blog as well?
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Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna whatever I send you you can put
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on the blog. My other friend, Dustin, actually put his drone up
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and recorded about eighteen minutes of video of the same thing, and we're pretty
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sure you can see the shadow come across the ground, totality comes across.
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We're really excited to see that. I don't know if he was high enough
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to see it really great right, but you'll definitely be able to see it
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transition. There was a family that was behind us that their kids had paidhole
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cameras and stuff, and we're looking at through that and they kept coming over
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to see the because I had the live view on on my camera and they
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kept coming over, and when the sun was about halfway over, the kid
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comes running over and goes, it looks like pac Man because it was an
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urge and you could see part of the sun. I was like, yeah,
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I guess it looks like pac Man. My cousin, Maria lives in
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California. She took some photos and I said, you took that off the
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TV, didn't you? And she's no, I really took him with her
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and she said, I love my Samsung. She's got an S twenty I
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think it's the S twenty four. But what she did is she actually got
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the glasses, the solar glasses and put them over the lens and was able
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to get photos. And I guess people were doing that and they were coming
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out great. They really looked good. That in twenty seventeen with my Google
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pixel is, it actually has a dedicated astronomy mode. If you get the
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pro models, it's got like I think it's like a hundred x zoom on
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it. Right. So I did the same thing where I was like,
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honey, I'm gonna need to borrow your glasses for a second, and she's
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like, but I'm watching the eclipse. I'm I'm memorializing it. Just let
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me see your glasses for a second. So I got mine on and you're
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like when you're doing it, you're like, your glasses on, look up,
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glasses off because I can't see stuff on my phone. So you're like
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trying to whittle through everything. And then you're like and photo. God,
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I hope that comes out. So Sean, I like your style a lot
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better. Yeah, sitting there fussing with a phone in two pairs of glasses
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like man, and I hope this turns out. Well. It's funny because
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they said that the internet pete, the time people were spending on the Internet,
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was down during the the that entire morning. So this is what it
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takes. Yeah, exactly. They got people outside to try and experience that.
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I couldn't find glasses anywhere. I was told that glasses that were made
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for Arizona were actually being shipped to Texas because everybody wanted to experience it there.
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We got them at the local library. I walked through the local library
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and they were like, yeah, here's three pairs, ma'am done. Yeah,
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no, I went look your local library. Yeah. Always a good
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shout out, you know. And that's the thing is I went ahead and
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built. I took a cereal box. I watched NASA's Goddard video and I
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did a segment for Fox News thirteen and I made, you know, the
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box, the aluminum foil on it, put the little hole in it,
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and I looked at it and I'm like, I'm not impressed. It was
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like, yeah, I could see it looked like a little round dot with
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a little peace taken out of it. It was like, that's not as
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impressive as what I saw coming out of Sean's camera. That's that was pretty
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impressive. It was really cool. Yeah, I'm very glad you got a
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chance to do that, Sean. I want to do like a director's cut
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of the whole, of the whole, because it had to break it up
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in chunks because the camera can early record for thirty minutes at a time,
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but track trying to track the sun, like trying to get it locked in
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where I want it in the frame and then waiting and then having to move
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it because I'm pi like you can you can watch my heart rate go like
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my watch, I tracked it right and I see it went up to like
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one eighteen for a period of time and like back down the backup and the
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back down of the backup, because like I was trying to get different stages
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right, so I would be set prepped for this one shot of it crossing
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the sun at the first point, and then you have to wait twenty five
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minutes for it to be half totality, and then you had to wait because
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the whole process took like two and a half hours, right right from and
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tip to tip, So people trying to get those key moments cause key moments
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was very stressful, and full totality only lasted four and a half minutes,
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right, Oh my god, it feels like such a long time. And
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then it was over. It was like, oh, oh, I guess
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we missed. Hopefully we got something good. Yeah, so amazing again.
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We'll put all of these photos the video up on the blog of the diamond.
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And hearing the people cheering, I know that I was watching YouTube and
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YouTube the NASA channel had the festivities. They had discussions about this, the
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importance of it, the safety features about it. But also you know,
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starting in mazt Lan where I guess you know, they had crews down there,
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and then all the way up until you know, it passed through Indy.
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They were there in Indianapolis. Did you see a lot of news crews
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that were out there? So there was a lot and I'm trying to find
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it, but I'm fairly confident there is some National morning broadcasts in the US.
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That was about one hundred yards from where we were camping in one of
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the other open camp spots. And when I walked out of my camper in
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the morning, they were set up and I could read the teleprompter right.
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Oh, I know that they were shooting right at my camper. So I'm
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pretty sure my camp is probably how to focus in the background, but it's
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I'm pretty sure I'm in the background of some national Did you did you have
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to like reserve that spot, like nine months in advance or did you just
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show up? I was looking at like we were looking at places to go
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right, and He's like, all right, let's take the camper down.
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You know, this was probably six months ago, Like we were trying to
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come up with a plan, like, hey, you know, it's gonna
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be crazy, it's gonna be busy. It's indies and ful totality. Like,
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so I was himminging huhing and what we were gonna do. We were
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just gonna drive down and pull into some farmer field or pull into their house
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and say, hey, can we post up here for a couple hours.
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But then I saw a friend of mine went to something down in Indianapolis and
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said, hey, they're doing some of the Indie Speedway. They're offering eating
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camp there. So two hundred and fifty bucks for camping. And we could
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have gone down Saturday and stayed Saturday night, Sunday night, and Monday night
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if we had wanted to, but we only stayed just Sunday, just Sunday
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night into Monday. So right, uh, Matt, where you were You're
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in Denver as well, did you get a chance to experience anything along this
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line? I mean we had, we had like a sixty five percent totality,
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So ours just went from like the sun to a fat pack man to
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like an anime chiv smile to a skinny pac man and then back the other
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way. But right, I looked it up and twenty years from accurate,
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which, oh God, sounds like such a long time. Twenty years yep,
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twenty years from now. The next uh solar eclips that will have totality
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that cuts through the US will go directly through Colorado. Oh right directly over
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Denver, actually directly over Denver. So all I could do is just walk
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outside and go ooh. So when the in the when the twenty seventeen eclips
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came through, there were a couple of photographers that I found they got some
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amazing stuff in like the Washington area, some crazy I can only imagine what
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they're gonna be able to get through the Colorado like. Well, I was,
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and I mean we watched the twenty seventeen eclipse, you know, and
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Denver. I mean I was. I was downtown at Fox thirty one,
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my old job, and we were on the roof watching with all the other
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staff there, and that was amazing. I mean we even had a little
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baby Eric there with us, you know, because he was not even a
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year old at that point. Was it so totality in twenty seventeen for you
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guys, I'm pretty it was either fulltality or like ninety percent totality. It
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was. It was really close, but it was. Yeah, it was
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amazing. But I've only seen gosh, I think I don't know if I've
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ever seen a complete full totality before. I mean, I want to say
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the twenty seventeen one was because it got really dark, but it might have
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only been like a ninety percent right we were we were up in My wife
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and I are still back in the East Coast. In twenty seventeen, we
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went up to Shenandoah National Park. We ended up camping up there that weekend
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and it I know, we talked about it last week, but it was
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still crazy because it hit that certain point where just enough of the sun was
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covered and to be in a national part, in the part of wilderness,
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I mean literally when we drove up, We're like, why are all these
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people pulled over? And we rolled down our window and looked out and there's
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just a whole troop of bears, like two hundred yards out, and I'm
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like, okay, well that's cool, but we're leaving. I don't want
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to be that close to bears. It got to just that right point of
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dark and it just goes ed silent. Oh that's so. It is weird.
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It happened here too, where I walked outside and was like, why
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is it so quiet? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, so all the animals
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are freaking out about Yeah, about fifteen minutes before before the before the eclipse
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started, we heard. You could hear it in the in the footage I
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was shooting as it was starting. You heard birds sharpaying and all stuff.
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And there's just a a significantly noticeable just nothing. The wind stopped. It
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dropped fourteen degrees in Indianapolis, dead silent. This is why the ancient people
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were freaking out when this happened. Oh yeah, oh yeah, could you
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Yeah, without any knowledge of this happening, you would think the world is
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ending. Okay, So let me ask why were people so goofy with all
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of the predictions that, oh, we're all going to be sucked up into
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outer space social media, that's why. What But we had social media in
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the last in twenty seventeen, it seems the same. It was the same
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thing. If was it back then, I don't remember being a wacky yeah.
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So okay, So the big part of it was right, So the
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big conspiracy. If you want to get into the whole like mega conspiracies,
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please don't because this is this is the last. It's for twenty years,
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right until twenty forty four. The last. The last two eclipses that cross
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the US form an ex that met in almost the middle of the United States.
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Harbon Dad yeah, right. So people Carbondale, Illinois was like the
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set of Spot for all the crazies. They were like, this is this,
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this is gonna be the end of the world. There's a funny story
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about a lady was giving away money saying like, I just want to make
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sure that I'm a God's good graces. When I gave away all my money
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and she tipped like three hundred dollars at at a restaurant, I was just,
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Oh, she came, she came back today. I saw this on
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Reddit. What's her money back? You guys charged my credit card for three
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hundred dollars. I didn't authorize that charge. I want my money back.
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And it gets better because it wasn't even just three hundred dollars. She came
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in and tipped one server three hundred dollars, then came back in later and
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tipped another server seven hundred and seventy seven dollars. And the best part the
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guy who was like, I don't know why she wants her money back because
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we hand them the credit card machine and they type all this stuff in themselves.
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So she was like it was proudulant and they're like, we don't have
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a hand in it. Oh man, you did all this yourself. And
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by the way, hay rules already ran since then, so your money gone.
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What are you? So here's one thing I heard somebody told me,
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and tell me, does this make any sense? She said that she had
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a migraine because of the eclipse and it was it was affecting her. Uh
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mattah, ma's crazy. I'm not there is. There is not a scientific
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correlation that they have found, but there is a documented phenomenon during total and
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solar eclipses that people randomly get headaches. And I was right after we hit
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maximum totality here in Denver. I was like, all right, that's cool,
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but it's still a workday and I got to go do stuff. And
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I walked in and sat down at my computer and it just felt like somebody
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had hit me right between the eyes with a hammer. Like all of a
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sudden, I was just like, oh, okay, well you know where
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anyone's like, you didn't have enough caffeine. Trust me, I had had
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enough caffeine. I'd had breakfast, I drank water, I do all the
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That's why you have that. I don't know, man, I don't know.
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But well, something Sean said made me think about it. When you
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said it dropped fourteen degrees, that sudden temperature drops could do some with that.
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Interesting Also, if you I saw on Reddit that searches for why do
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my eyes hurt? Went up on Google like one thousand percent right after the
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solar cliffs. Now, granted, I'm sure a lot of those spirits at
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the sun yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, people are probably
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being stupid understand the sun. But I guess if you're talking about that,
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there may be something to say about that, Like if your eyes hurt,
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maybe it's not your eyes, maybe you are having a headache or a migraine
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or something like that, and so maybe there's a little bit of a correlation
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to that. But without actually looking at the Sun. One of the NASA
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exposes they were doing, they were talking about the pressure changes during solar eclipses,
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and they actually send up rockets to blow them up. Yeah, that
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have sensors in them called sounding rockets, to test the pressure changes during and
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eclipse. Yeah, there is. I mean, what causes a lot of
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seasonal allergies or seasonal like headaches. Pressure change between weather phenomenons. So that
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has to be the best day to work at NASA Red. What are you
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doing today? I'm gonna send up a rocket and blow it up. You're
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one, Yeah, man, Today's a good day. All right. Listen,
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we had to take a quick break. We come back. I want
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to ask Justin about something that is very near and dear to his heart.
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Will we come back with tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm showing
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to Weird. I'm Matt Jones, and I'm Justin. Let me find us
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on the web at tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back now
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back to tech talk Radio. At the beginning of the show, Sean was
23:48
kind of talking about like this water leak that unfortunately happened to him, and
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when he was talking about it, reminded me of something that actually happened to
23:55
us a few years ago, almost the same situation. When we built our
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house. You know, we trusted the builders to do the right thing,
24:04
and they installed obviously the the outside spigot that's on our side yard that you
24:11
know, we used just water the lawn or whatever. And during the fall
24:17
season, we we you know, we shut off the water, we disconnected
24:21
the hose as we're supposed to do, and then springtime comes around and I
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go to hook up the back, I hook up the hose, I turn
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on the water, and I'm like, why am I not getting any water
24:32
pressure? Like it's just it's kind of dribbling out, like that should be
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filling up the hose right now. And so I run downstairs into our our
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spare bedroom downstairs, and it is just raining, like raining from the sea.
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Oh no, And I was like, uh oh. And thankfully the
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master shut off valve for the house was just like fifteen feet away from me.
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It's like, actually, it's right behind where I'm pointing in the camera,
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right here. So I run over there, I shut off the main
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water valve, and I'm like, uh oh, we got a problem.
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So yeah, So it was kind of the same thing, but it didn't
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actually soak through the carpets all that much, like you know, Sean was
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mentioning, you know, walking around and it's squishy and everything. We were
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able to stop it most of the way, but it still cost us twenty
25:18
five thousand dollars wow to fix because they had to completely tear out all of
25:23
the drywall in that entire spare bedroom downstairs and rebuild some of the frame because
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they you know, the wood got soaked. They had to relay the pipe,
25:33
and they've come to find out when the builder put it in, they
25:37
did not install the outdoor spigot with a downgrade, which allows the water to
25:42
just gradually, you know, drain out after you shut off the valve.
25:48
So they didn't install it with the downgrade, so the water got trapped in
25:51
that pipe. Now they were telling us, oh, well, well,
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you know we built the house. Oh yeah, your pipes will never freeze
25:56
because we're all using pecks. Yeah, they use pecks up and till eighteen
26:00
inches to the outdoor spigot. There's eighteen inches of copper that that comes from
26:06
the outside into the house and then they connect the PEX pipe. That eighteen
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inches is what burst, right, And so we obviously we got the insurance
26:15
company to take care of it for us. But it was, it was.
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It was very eerially similar to what Sean said. But thankfully we were
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able to catch it before we had that much damage. So, Sean,
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I was gonna ask you a question. Yeah, I was gonna ask you.
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It is it's it's it's insane. I was gonna ask you, Sean,
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do you have like any concerns about like mold or anything like, did
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you tear up your carpet? I mean, no, we haven't. We
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haven't tow anything out right, it's only been the the dehumanifier is pulling a
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ton of water out right, and so it's almost completely dry. It's damp
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still, so we have the I mean, it's a huge de humidifier that's
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pulling a ton of water out right. So we're just gonna leave it running
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for the week. Obviously, if we need to keep it running longer,
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will be fine. But I'm not concerned with mold or anything as long as
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the relative humidity stays low enough for what I'm comfortable with. My concern is
27:08
is there's a trend right now with insurance companies. If you're making a homeowner's
27:14
claim that is worth X amount of dollars, they may come back and say,
27:19
yeah, we're we're not gonna renew your insurance after this because there is
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a trend. And this is from the advice of our financial advisor. If
27:29
you don't have to make a homeowners claim or an insurance claim, try to
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avoid it because insurance companies are trying to find ways to not renew your contracts.
27:37
Where you're yearly is because they want to get you out because of the
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cost. Well, you know, I talked about this on a previous show,
27:45
how we recently also had a water leak from our shower or master shower,
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and it was dripping into our dining room, and so I called out
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a plumber, I called out a restoration company. They pinpointed the location of
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the leak, and it turns out it's it's actually the most likely cause is
28:06
the shower drain gasket has come loose from the drain pipe, and so the
28:11
water's leaking out, and then it it kind of runs down with gravity over
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to the tub drain and then it finds the path of least resistance and it
28:21
drips down into the sheet rock or the dry wall below us into the dining
28:25
room, and that's where it's dripping down onto the floor. And so,
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as I mentioned in the previous show, we decided to just go ahead and
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get a complete renovation. We're just gonna spend the money. It turns out
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this is going to cost us like thirty five thirty eight thousand dollars thirty eight
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thousand dollars to do a renovation of our bathroom. But it's gonna be our
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dream bathroom. But I did get the insurance company involved, and they actually
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came out today, like as of this recording. They came out today.
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They took pictures. They were saying, Okay, we need, you know,
28:55
an official document of the loss or the cause of loss. So I
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called the handyman that did all the work on it, and he's like,
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you know, I explained what the insurance company's looking for, and he wrote
29:04
it up. And so I'm gonna send it over to the insurance company and
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they're gonna hopefully approve at least a portion of it. I'm I'm kind of
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expecting to be ten to fifteen thousand dollars just to restore it back to what
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it was because of the way they have to remove everything to get to the
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damage. But now that Sean is saying this about this trend of insurance companies
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wanting to drop you, I mean, I use i'm usaa, you know,
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being a foreigner veteran. Yeah, they're a good company. But I'm
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just I'm hoping now that Sean is saying that, now it makes me a
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little bit nervous, Like I'm hoping that they don't try to drop us because
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we used the claim a couple of years ago when we had that water damage,
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like I just talked about, and then we're using the claim again for
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water damage again. I've never heard of USAA dropping people. I used that.
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They're good. They I mean, part of it is they have kind
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of like a captive user base, like they only serve people who meet the
30:00
criteria can get USA. So I wouldn't see them dropping because if you start
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spreading word to that user base, like hey, hey, remember how they
30:10
used to be really really great. Well then this happened. Yeah, hot
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water in the media recently so well, speaking of USA, Yeah, they
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were in the hot water because they actually a couple Yeah, they they decided
30:25
to open up the registration for USA to the public. They were like,
30:27
no, we're not gonna We're not gonna serve just the military anymore. We're
30:32
gonna serve everybody. And they got such a huge backlash from the military community,
30:37
basically people saying, you know what, go kick rocks. We're out.
30:41
We're we're leaving your bank. We're gonna drop your bank, we're gonna
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drop your insurance company, We're gonna leave USA because we feel like this is
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a perk of being in the military is that we get access to USA.
30:53
So then USA quickly backtracked and said, okay, fine, fine, fine,
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fine, We're we're only gonna serve the military community. And that's that's
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what they're known for, is serving the military commits and their family because I'm
31:03
a member, but and their families as well, so that that makes it
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pretty good. All Right, we got a question justin I want to know
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how you feel about this. All right. First of all, Apple was
31:14
first. I will say that Android users are soon going to be able to
31:21
locate matter of fact, that you do it now locate phones, smart watches,
31:25
earbuds, and trackers, courtesy of Google's new Find My Device network.
31:32
This means I'm sorry, Yeah, we've had this past Monday. Google finally
31:38
launched what they're calling is to Find My Device Network, geared towards locating devices
31:44
even if they're offline, so that that's the thing you can find them.
31:48
Of dead battery, I've heard the dead battery. It uses Bluetooth to track
31:52
down missing phones and other devices that are disconnected from a Wi Fi or sell
31:57
network. And apparently it's gonna be different now. Some people have said to
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me, yeah, sure, you could say, Apple, was first.
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But this is better than what the find my phone, which is exact opposite
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of what usually happens. It is usually Google has it first and Apple goes
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and makes it better, right in this case? Yeah, yeah, I
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don't know. I mean, I mean I've I've had to find my device
32:21
on my Google, you know, products for a long time. But yeah,
32:24
I the whole idea about having it when the device is turned offline.
32:30
Yeah, I guess I could give that to them, that that they're taking
32:34
a page from Apple and they're they're finding a way to do this when the
32:38
device is not connected to cellular or Wi Fi. Basically probably just using the
32:44
technology where uh a Google phone or whatever Android phone can ping another Android phone
32:52
that is online and report its location saying hey I'm lost, you know,
32:58
uh, here's my last note location or something like that. So kind of
33:01
like what what Apple does with the air tags and stuff like that. So
33:06
yeah, I could see that. I I like that idea. Yeah,
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it's not not a bad idea too. Now you have a pixel you have
33:12
the pixels one right, yeah, pixel eight pro. Yeah, is this
33:15
something you would start using on this? I mean no, because I don't
33:20
lose my phone you're knock knock on wood. But I mean, I'm not
33:25
that. I'm I'm sorry, no disrespect, but I'm not I'm not that
33:29
dumb. Well, my phone, my phone is in my hand or in
33:32
my you know, I mean if I lose my phone, it's if I
33:35
lose my phone, it's in the the side cushion of the couch. That's
33:38
that's where it's at. Yeah, I will definitely be using it because my
33:45
wife's trademark phrase is wait, I don't know where my phone is anymore.
33:49
Oh, I have a habit. It's always. It's always somewhere, maybe
33:52
maybe in a car. Don't let her listen to this episode after he's sitting
33:58
next to me, justin I'm all be a dead man. Shoot. I
34:01
have a habit of when I go to the grocery store, I'll put my
34:06
phone down. I've walked away and then mister, mister, your phone.
34:09
And then one time I did this, I put it in the shopping cart.
34:13
They have a little holder, right. I put it in the shopping
34:15
cart, got my groceries out, put it in the car, took the
34:19
shopping cart, put it in the rack, went back to the car,
34:22
got in the car, drove home. I get home, get the stuff
34:24
inside, and I'm like, wait a minute, where's my phone? And
34:29
then I thought, oh, oh, so I drove back to the market,
34:30
which is right right, bet in the house, right I start.
34:35
I go inside, Nobody's turned to the phone, and I'm thinking, then
34:37
I remember the shopping cart. I go to the carts and there's about like
34:42
six or seven deep. Now there is my phone sitting stick it out in
34:45
the cart. Nobody took it. Was like, I could take this,
34:53
yeah, but I know he's gonna be back sure enough. I was all
34:59
right, we have a list. Her question from Estella in Tucson. She
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says she was gifted some air pods over the Christmas holidays. She said,
35:07
you got the pro version. That's good, But I have had them pop
35:12
out of my ears while cleaning. She's cleaning her ears or cleaning the house.
35:15
I think, yeah, okay. She wants to know if we know
35:20
of any ways that you could get them to stay in your ears. Well,
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can I jump on this one? Yeah? Yeah, please? Okay.
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So I my family has a lovely genetic mutation on my father's side to
35:34
where my right ear is actually deformed. The in the reis why I bring
35:38
this up? Yes, I am the worst. I am the worst mutant
35:43
in the X Men. I'm just half deaf in one ear. I'm the
35:47
one they leave at the mansion. They're like, you know what, just
35:50
go ahead and like dust up the room and we'll see you when we're doing
35:53
Did you get us a picture of your ear and we could put it with
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sean stuff of the eclipse? My god, yeah, that's this is a
36:02
random picture, just like eclipse eclipse weird ear eclipse clips. But so my
36:10
right ear, the cartilage for the bowl in your ear is actually flipped and
36:15
it made the ear canal grow, it actually develops it about half the diameter
36:20
that it's supposed to be. So I've always had earbuds just continually pop out,
36:24
and sometimes they just like fall out. Sometimes they're like shrawsh inking for
36:28
freedom and just fly off to the side. Right. But I finally figured
36:31
out, and I figured it out with freedom. I'm sorry, can we
36:37
just revisit that a second? What the heck does that even mean? Josh
36:42
Ank Redemption, I'm listen, it's been a long day. It's been a
36:50
long day. So you're you're you're you're having the same problem that it's having
36:53
the same issue. And what I finally figured out is that you you have
36:57
to change the tips that you're using for the earbuds. So a lot of
37:01
times when people think, oh it's popping out, so I need to go
37:05
to a larger earbud size, go smaller. I I would always go up
37:10
to like the large and like jam it in there and be like, all
37:13
right, now it's fitting, went all the way down to the small,
37:15
popped it in and I swear it was like I felt that earbud lock into
37:21
place. I'm sarting to shake in my head like a dog. Even my
37:24
dogs are looking at me like those are some pro moves. Man, what
37:27
are you doing now That earbud just stayed completely in place. Yes, we
37:31
can do duct tape, but duct tate's yeah, it's never coming out.
37:36
Smaller tape, a smaller tip. And because I do believe when you get
37:39
the the air pod prows they have different sized tips in there, but you
37:45
probably go online, you'd probably order them. There's others that have obviously been
37:47
going through this as well. Oh yeah, there's also I've found some really
37:52
good ones that because the ones that we normally have now are just like that,
37:55
the folded little plastic sheath that just clicks into place and comes and domes
38:01
over. There are some other ones out there. I can look it up
38:05
on the break and try and find the name. But they click onto the
38:07
ear PUDs, uh, ear pods, earbuds, yeah, buds whatever.
38:14
Bud's a movie dude. Like I said, I haven't been sleeping dog letting
38:19
you have this. But you roll them like the little foam earplugs. You
38:23
roll them and set them in place, and then they expand just that little
38:27
bit inside your ear. Okay, they and that's a really solid fit.
38:31
And not only is it good for like the stability of keeping it in there,
38:36
but any ambient sound isn't gonna sneak in otherwise, so you get kind
38:38
of like a dorouble noise cancelation. All right, we're gonna take another break.
38:43
We come back. Sean is going to share a listitor question from Bob
38:46
for us. Bob's here in Saladita and he's trying to help his parents with
38:52
their computer. We've all, I think a lot of us have been through
38:55
that. So we'll do that when we many times. Yes, I'm Andy
39:00
Taylor, I'm Sean duird. I'm Matt Jones and I'm justin. Let me
39:06
you can send us an X at tech talk Radio. We'll be right back.
39:10
And now back to tech talk Radio. So we listened to the question
39:16
from Estella last segment about the hair pods, and now we've got a question
39:20
from Bob and Sajtay. Yes, yeah, he did. You knocked it
39:24
out of the pop. Bob says, I have been helping my parents with
39:28
their computer. Yeah, running a Windows ten machine they got a couple of
39:31
years ago. They have a bad habit of putting everything on the desktop.
39:35
I've been trying to tell them this is not good for the best computer performance.
39:39
They listen to you guys, and I'm hoping you can help them explain
39:42
it for help. They listen to you guys, and I'm hoping you can
39:45
explain it to them. It's one of those takes like stop, he's telling
39:49
them, but they're saying no. I've never heard the tech talk radio guys
39:52
say that, Yeah, now you are stop. Stop. If I if
39:59
I had a newspaper, just no, all right, that why we know.
40:05
But actually it takes extra processing power to render all the little icons,
40:10
and if you have a million icons on your desktop. It has to process,
40:15
it has to show them to you. I have this problem at work.
40:19
There's a lady who is one of my coworkers who keeps her in time.
40:23
She's got three monitors and they are all full of icons. Oh my
40:30
god, like I want to throw up. I'm like, and she's like,
40:36
my computer is so slow. I'm like, oh my god. I
40:38
keep telling you stop putting stuff on your desk. Well, but I know
40:43
where they're at. I just I just know where everything's at. Stop,
40:47
like seriously put them into folders at like I don't know datum, like April
40:52
of twenty four, put everything in there for that one, But then what
40:55
are you still putting them on the desktop? Right, It's like, yeah,
40:58
but at least at least you can put like a hundred different items in
41:00
a folder or whatever for that month, like whatever, But just stop putting
41:06
everything on your desktop, every single file, every single picture, every single
41:10
play, single shortcut that you created. So she's got three monitors, yeah,
41:19
you need to change her background to each monitor, just so the whole
41:22
wallpaper it just says, put it away. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well
41:27
I can do that because I'm the admin. I can put a group policy
41:30
and force it to her computer. But yeah, I you know the thing
41:32
with this is you can tell people to do it, and will they start
41:37
doing it? And uh if if, Bob, Bob, if your parents
41:40
are listening, he's trying to help you, and he's actually making some sense
41:44
here that yes, it can actually help with your performance. There is nothing
41:47
worse when somebody who is in it or even understands computers walks in, they
41:52
turn on the monitor or the monitors still on because you never turn it off.
41:55
And there it is one hundred icons going all across and you know where
42:00
each one is. But I kind of blame Microsoft in this because Microsoft has
42:06
changed the way we find programs so many different times, from XP to ninety
42:12
eight to ten, seven, eight eleven, ten, all of that,
42:16
they keep changing it. Let me ask you guys a question, every one
42:21
of you rapid speed fire here Andy, how many icons do you have on
42:24
your desktop? I have? I probably have about forty or fifty, but
42:30
they're in actions. Okay, Matt Brow, Okay, Sean, about forty
42:36
probably, Okay, I have three, that's it. So what are what
42:40
are the three you have? Like my computer, I have my documents and
42:45
I have the recycled then. Yeah, and when you need a program,
42:49
you know, just go to all all apps, right, Yeah, but
42:52
I was I was kind of hoping that Sean and Andy didn't say forty.
42:58
It kind of defeats the Purple guys. Yeah, yeah, I've got them.
43:00
I'm looking at it right now, Bob's parents who are listening to the
43:05
show. I have been in it for oh my god, I've been in
43:07
it for sixteen years. That's been for twenty two years. So first off,
43:15
that was a sobering moment for me. But I've been in it for
43:19
sixteen years. When I go to help someone and I turn on their machine
43:23
and it looks like Windows has vomited on the desktop, yeah, I cry
43:28
on the inside, sometimes on the outside, sometimes on the outside. Yes.
43:34
Yeah, So just I mean rule of thump. Just try to put
43:37
everything off your desktop. I mean it, honestly, it's going to speed
43:38
up your computer a little bit, if not a lot, But just stop
43:43
putting everything on your desktop. Yeah, I've seen there's there, Andy started.
43:49
There's also there's also a backup element to that, because if you've got
43:53
your computer set up to like back up my documents, things like that,
43:57
and you you're not backing up all this crap that you're leaving on your desktop,
44:02
and you know, you dump a word file and it lives there and
44:06
your backup runs, it doesn't back up that document. Yeah, right right,
44:10
that's true. So it's kind of a safety feature, that's uh,
44:15
that's a part of that as well. Yep. Yeah, And I've seen
44:17
people that have their downloads, you know, their downloads go right to the
44:22
desktop rather than you know, into a download folder. And next thing you
44:24
know, you've got all these downloads that have been done, whether programs,
44:30
maybe even programs they've bought installers, and they're still there even after they've been
44:36
installed because they don't know what to do with them. So next thing you
44:38
know, you've got or even photos, which is not good. You hook
44:42
up your phone and you drag you know, you drag your photos and you
44:45
leave them on your desktop. That can also be a problem there because then
44:49
what happens if yeah, what happens if you you accidentally delete your desktop,
44:53
which could happen. So yeah, that's something to think about. So Bob,
44:58
yeah, keep you know, you got to keep keep telling the good
45:01
fight. Man. Yes, we're with you of that one. I'm sorry,
45:06
I lied. I do have one item on my desktop, but it's
45:09
a shortcut to Hell Divers too, so I'm I'm allowed that I'll forgive you.
45:14
Is that is that a new game? Is that the new game?
45:20
You have no idea what you just did? Yes, Hell Divers one was
45:23
originally made by Arrowhead Studios. It was a top down dual stick shooter and
45:31
they dropped Hell Divers too, and honest to god, they they've caught lightning
45:37
in a bottle with this. It's the easiest way to think of it for
45:42
people who have no idea. What I'm talking about is this is like Starship
45:45
Troopers the video game. Like you are fighting the bugs, you are fighting
45:50
automatons. There are probably gonna be some aliens that show up because we've had
45:53
all the signs of it. And there is one dude in Arrowhead Studios who
45:58
is my current nemesis along with all the other hell Divers. His name is
46:00
Joel. His sole job is to be the game master of the continuing narrative
46:06
of this game. But you are a hell Diver, which is like an
46:09
orbital drop trooper for Super Earth, spreading managed democracy and freedom. I'm doing
46:16
my part. Yeah, I'm doing my part democracy. Hey guess what we
46:21
are not the good guys? Oh wow. But they lean into that so
46:27
hard, and they lean into that with the story and the lore and just
46:30
the continuing story that expands through what they call major orders, which are the
46:36
community goals to get done because we're all we're all fighting for democracy and freedom
46:40
there wink wink, nudge nudge, so you know, everyone's trying to do
46:45
the same thing. And yeah, it's it is an amazing game. They
46:50
went from a top down to nowadays third person with some first person aimed down
46:54
the sites if you turn that on. But the game's ridiculous. It's kind
47:00
of like what Rocks started with the Grand Theft You remember Grand Theft Auto.
47:02
It was originally a top down it was category yeah, yep, same thing.
47:07
And the glow up this game had. It's just gorgeous, Sean,
47:12
I saw it on your desktop. Are you with me on this? And
47:14
that game is just gorgeous the small mount I've played of it. Yes,
47:17
it's been pretty awesome. All right, here's a question. Here's a question.
47:22
For lots of rumor and speculation about this one. Windows twelve could be
47:25
out before the end of the year. Even though Microsoft is being kind of
47:29
tight lipped about this one, here's a big question for each of us.
47:32
What would you want to see with a new Windows twelve a little more zero
47:39
and go back to Windows ten? Yeah? All right, So I like
47:45
Justin's no more blue screens, matt less, less, less ads, less
47:52
directed connected content, Like, give you that's going to happen. I know
47:57
it's not, but I would give me an option to turn off all of
48:01
the ad content. I don't want to see search. I don't want to
48:05
click on the Windows button and see ads, right, I don't want That's
48:08
gonna cost you four and I would pay it. I don't want to stop
48:14
and type in hell divers and get ads for YouTube videos and stuff in my
48:20
search bar. I hate it. It's annoying. Yeah, I'm going to
48:22
second that with Sean. I want the old search back, where like if
48:27
I type something in my search bar, it did not double as a web
48:30
browser search. I want it Like, if I can't find a random file
48:36
and I'm digging for it, let me type in the search bar and actually
48:38
search my dang system and find it for me. That has got to be
48:43
so fresh, That is so frustrating. Yeah, and I was suddenly a
48:46
pull because, oh what am I doing? Am I searching the web or
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I'm searching my computer? Because it really doesn't, you know, outline it.
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But I'm thinking with with all of this the AI stuff, they're going
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to be adding to it. Even Facebook right now. I don't know how
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many of us are still on Facebook, but you want to do a search
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on Facebook, it's going to give you a meta search first, so it's
49:06
not nothing, no results at all for what I was looking for. Yeah,
49:12
nobody searches meta for anything exactly. So again I think we're you know,
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now they're talking about the new Xbox. The next Xbox would have AI
49:22
incorporated, so you would have a buddy that would talk to you and so,
49:24
oh, what do you want to do today? So there was a
49:28
speaking of the next Xbox they were talking about. Phil Spencer was kind of
49:30
hinting at the next Xbox console might not even be a console at all.
49:35
They're heavily leaning into this game Pass, which is I think is the future
49:38
of Xbox. It's going to be game Pass, and they're also hinting at
49:43
the possibility that the next actual physical console for Xbox might be a handheld and
49:52
because you know, the handhelds are all the rage right now. I mean
49:54
we talked about my Steam deck that I just got, you know, recently,
49:58
we got the a Sus, we got the Legion, we got all
50:00
those other handhelds right now. It's that's the new rage. And so I
50:06
think if Xbox were to release its next console as a handheld with game Pass
50:12
embedded in it, oh my god, over PlayStation a Microsoft handheld console.
50:17
I don't know. PlayStation tried that. Remember you brought one over when you
50:22
were visiting me once. I know, but that's been That was like twenty
50:25
years ago. So much has changed since then, and game Pass wasn't around
50:30
a game pass With the cloud gaming, I mean, imagine you could have
50:34
a console that has very minimal storage on your handheld because everything is cloud based.
50:40
Yes, people are gonna be like, well, not always done Wi
50:43
Fi okay, fine, integrate five G, integrade of five G chip in
50:47
it. And now you've got on the go gaming with a thousand or more
50:53
games at your hand, at your fingertips anywhere you want to go. It
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could be interesting. All Right, we're gonna take another quick break. We
51:02
come back a product That made me laugh because now it's kind of replicating a
51:07
film of Steve Martin's I'll tell you about that. We come back to Jerk.
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Yes, I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
51:14
and I'm Justin Let me again find us on the web at tech talk
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radio dot com. We'll be right back and now fact to tech talk Radio.
51:22
So there is a big story that came out this past week about Apple
51:27
vision Pro. Mac Rumors put the story together that owners have been dealing with
51:31
health issues related of the headset. Now, according to a report from MarketWatch,
51:38
they're saying that the site talked to owners of the Vision Pro who said
51:44
they had headaches, neck pain, and other issues of this fun anyway,
51:50
Apple vision Pro, and it kind of reminded me of the Jerk with Steve
51:52
Martin, because you remember how he became, you know, the richest man
51:57
in America. He created something, if you remember what it was called,
52:00
I don't remember what it was called, but it was like a little pinch
52:02
on the front for glasses. Yeah, it would stop the glasses from sliding
52:07
down your nose. It's called the Opti grab. So it's like, is
52:10
the is the Apple Vision Pro apples OPTI grab it. Just it makes you
52:15
wonder. I mean I still want to try one. I still definitely want
52:17
to try it. I don't. You don't want to try it, you
52:20
don't even want to experience it. No, I don't like Apple Come on,
52:23
that's the only thing. I'm literally I am. I am putting my
52:28
foot down. I'm putting the flag in the sand. No, somebody gave
52:32
me an Apple Vision Pro, I would probably be like no, no,
52:35
thank you, and I probably just smash it, please cod dude, at
52:38
least sell it and get some money. Shut you want to try it,
52:43
right? I would try? Yeah, definitely. Also, the founders of
52:47
Instagram they launched artifact. Have you guys checked that out yet? And yeah,
52:52
we talked about AI. We were just telling a story behind this,
52:55
the original founders. Yeah, the original founders of Instagram launched the artifact and
53:00
it was cool. It was AI delivered news, So if I would look
53:02
at stories that were tech it would feed me tech stories, and if I
53:06
looked at stories that were tech servers, it would feed me tech server stories.
53:10
And they'd made the decision a couple of months ago that that was it.
53:13
They had the run and they were going away. Yahoo has come in
53:16
and bought them, of course, so y'ahhoo famed for great business decisions.
53:23
When you think of great technology innovations, you think of Yahoo. So I
53:28
want to make one quick comment about Instagram because you mentioned it. I just
53:30
reminded myself. When Facebook bought Instagram, a big revelation was that Instagram users
53:36
could message Facebook users and vice versa. Right, yeah, they took that
53:39
away. Instagram users can no longer message Facebook users because Caitlin would send me
53:45
because I don't have Instagram and I still use Facebook Messenger because it's tied to
53:50
you know, all my family and stuff, and I can at least chat
53:52
with some people. She would be able to send me reels to my Facebook
53:55
Messenger and I'd be able to go to the web and view them. Can't
53:59
do it anymore. You know why they want you to use WhatsApp, which
54:01
Mata also owns it. What's weird is if you browse Facebook, you'll see
54:06
a bunch of like reels on Facebook, and then you want to click on
54:08
comments. It says, oh, to view the comments, you have to
54:12
go to Instagram click here, and it will take you to Instagram, So
54:15
it's like a one way street here, Like you can view it on Facebook,
54:19
but then you have to go to Instagram for that, but then Instagram
54:21
can't view Facebook stuff. Yeah, it's really weird how they've got that all
54:23
laid out. But I think, Sean, I think, honestly, the
54:27
real reason is they want you to use WhatsApp and for messaging between the two.
54:31
All I get on WhatsApp is scams. I'm starting to get scam calls
54:36
from th Oh my god, it's all the time. It's just scam after
54:38
scam after scam. WhatsApp is horrible. I stopped trusting them when Facebook bought
54:45
them because they were the original like end to end encrypted messaging platform. And
54:50
then Facebook was like, we promise not to use the power of the holder
54:53
of the encryption keys to read any of your messages. Wait, nudge,
54:58
nudge. I want to Telegram after that, and I'm still there, like,
55:01
I don't trust WhatsApp whatsoever. I've never looked at Telegram. I'm gonna
55:06
have to check that one out. Telegram is still kind of a spammy thing,
55:09
but it's not as bad as What's happen. That wraps up this week's
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