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Episode 394 - The Worst Car You Ever Had? · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Hey, good
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by the science guy here whatever. I am listening to the radio, especially
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tech talk Radio. It's just at a party. Welcome to another episode of
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tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm shying to weird man. I'm
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Matt Jones. It's good to see you, Matt. It's been a while.
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It's been a really interesting start to twenty twenty four. Lots going on
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in a short amount of time, and I've decided this decade kind of sucks.
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Sorry to hear that. I'm laughing with you. I'll take it.
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Three weeks ago, it was like seven twenty five or something in the morning
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on Friday, and we're right off like the main drag of our neighborhood,
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and my wife has her jeep parked out front because her ceramics kill and lives
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in the garage, and we hear this loud bang. Now, the guy
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who lives kind of patty corner to us, he works on cars and stuff
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a lot, so I was like, oh, maybe it's just working on
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that trailer he's been renovating kind of early. Oh cool, Get up,
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walk into the master bath, which looks out onto the road, look down
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and notice my wife's jeep, which had been parked under the street light,
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was now parked on the sidewalk. Uh oh, there were cones all around
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it. And it was like the great start of the weekend. And being
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like, honey, get up, I think your car's totaled. We go
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out front and this now. The other thing to know about where I live
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in the neighborhood is I live directly right where the school zone ends. Like
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there is a crosswalk for the school at the end of my block and the
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school starts at eight am, so like this was kids are in the crosswalk,
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things like that. According to our nest doorbell shout out to Nest,
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this lady came flying down the street, all gas, no breaks, and
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just plows directly into the back left corner of my wife's jeep. All caught
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on the ring doorbell, all caught on the ring doorbell. Amazing technology in
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it. State Troopers sitting there, we're watching it together, and it was
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one where you're like, uh huh uh huh, yeah there it is.
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Oh the grima's face, yeah, she like And the thing for how hard
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this car got hit. It moved about one and a half car links forward
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and to the right. It was a jeep Renegade with a heavyweight roof rack
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on it and like a three hundred and fifty pound rooftop ten and this thing
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just got moved like it was nothing. You know, Thank god your wife
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was not leaving to go to work or or anything like that, and sitting
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in it waiting to leave would have been terrible. Oh, that would have
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been absolutely terrible. Like her response was like very level headed, like I'm
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sitting there, like I haven't had coffee, I don't even have pants on
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yet, Like this is not how I wanted to start this, right,
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But she was like, hey, I'd rather she hit my jeep than somebody
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else farther down the street or god forbid, she hit a kid. Yeah,
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Like the the principal from the school came to check on like the accident
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site to make sure none of her kids were involved in it. And I
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thought that was awesome. Wow, was a person who hit her or were
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they injured? Were they I mean hitting that hard Sometimes Just remember, folks,
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sometimes karma comes for us very very quickly, especially when you don't believe
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in seatbelts. If you can picture the most Hollywood perfect spiderweb crack right in
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front of the driver's side where she tried to yeat herself out of the car.
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Oh my gosh, wow, so't we didn't deal with her because like
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we were the crash and we're like, oh, it's fine, we'll lie
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back down. Like I got up like ten fifteen minutes later, and that's
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when I saw the aftermath. She is apparently okay, some lacerations. Ended
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up going to the hospital and such determined she was absolutely at fault. But
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yeah, she's very lucky. Yeah for how bad that could have gone.
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Now, the big question is does she have insurance? You know what?
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Some times it works out, well, she had Geico. Oh there you
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go. They totaled out the entire car. Pretty much everything associated with a
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car got totaled out. So we are going to be a one car household
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until you know, fingers crossed car prices come down towards election time like they're
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want to do. So we're just gonna one car it for a while.
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You know. My daughter has just gone through us. Her other half was
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driving her car to go to work he works for Amazon, and making a
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turn. The cars came together and basically totaled out her car, which she
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had one more payment on. That's one more payment. That's like the car
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version of the cop being two weeks from retirement exactly. And she had to
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I think it's Geico as well. And they ended up paying out fourteen almost
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fourteen thousand dollars for her vehicle, which wasn't that new. But used vehicles
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are quite expensive now they're holding their value pretty good, especially hers was a
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I believe a Honda. She was talking about like what she wants to do
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when she wants to buy a car. And she's telling me she's online looking
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at cars on Facebook. And I told her, no, absolutely not,
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you don't want to do that. I mean, I don't know. But
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then I talked to somebody else and they told me they bought a car off
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Facebook, the Facebook groups, and they got a really good deal. But
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she was talking about buying a car in Utah, that it was a good
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price. But the problem is she would be buying a sight unseen, would
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have to go out there, pick up the car, and drive it back.
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The only trick that I've seen for that that makes it work well is
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if when you're buying the car, you know I mean, obviously if it's
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in Utah and you don't live in Utah. That makes it a bit more
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dofficult. Yeah, but you make it contingent with the buyer, like,
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hey, I'm gonna buy this, my mechanic has to check it out first.
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Yeah, and you know, if you got a family mechanic, you
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know, a grease monkey that you're friends with, are something that they can
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come check it out and be like yeah, go do go or you know,
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hey you could, but it's missing this bolt right here and it's going
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to fall apart in the middle of the highway. That's never good. Yeah,
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I don't know. You know, I do see a lot of people
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doing that, going to the Facebook marketplace and they'll take their car and they'll
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list it there because they're not going to they're definitely not going to get the
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traded that. Let's face it, you're not going to get a traded So
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you may end up getting an extra grand two grand, depending on what you're
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selling. I have a friend of mine that's selling one of his cars on
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marketplace now, an old Lincoln, and the price was like right around fifty
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six hundred bucks, and I'm thinking, yeah, you couldn't get that on
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a trade in but somebody might want to buy it for that price, but
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I still would be very leary. But your idea of finding a family mechanic,
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Grieven, why not pay somebody to take a look. Don't use their
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person, use your own that can go take a look at it and give
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an honest appraisal. Yeah, just like spend like find a mechanic and be
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like, listen, you know five hundred bucks, just give this car the
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once over. Tell me if I'm buying a good deal or a death trap.
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Yeah. What do you guys think about Carvana? I mean no,
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no, hard, hard, no, no, even Sean is this if
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I've heard, it's has been a nightmare experience for anybody that gets a car,
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they drop it off, things are wrong with it, you get the
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wrong car. I mean, I've heard all sorts of namer of stories from
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Carvana. I've never personally known anybody that has done it, but just from
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seeing stuff on Reddit and just in the news in general, it's just it's
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been a nightmare fast casual for cars. Yeah. Now, carfax, I
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think is great. If you can get a car fax on a vehicle,
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I think that's that's pretty good. I've rarely seen stories. Oh but but
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Matt is cringing. I've seen stories. I'm not cringing, but go ahead
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and then i'll tell you what I'm laughing. But I've never really seen stories
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of people saying, no, my carfaxt said this, but it was something
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else. I know what I perfects will be accurate. Yeah, and I
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can tell you why. All right, Well, why is that? In
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a previous job, I worked for what I jokingly called the least sexy nonprofit
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no one's ever heard of. Really, what is that? The American Association
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of Motor Vehicle Administrators And I worked there for six years. And AMVA has
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been around since nineteen thirty eight. I think every state has a Motor Vehicle
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administrator a person, and that person is in charge of the statewide mv MVA,
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whatever your state decides to call it. And those people are amva's clients.
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Well, AMVA has been responsible for creating license plates, creating driver's licenses,
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creating the very first driver's test. They were the initial pioneer on US
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digital driver's licenses and digital IDs, and they had they have a product called
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nimvidis n m v TIS And I know that because I ran security for it
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the National Motor Vehicle Titling Information System, and anything that is ever log in
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for a VIN was saved to NIMVIDIS, and nimvidis is where Carfax for the
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longest time got their data. So it's going to be accurate. Yeah,
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it's going to be accurate. But I never had to pay for a car
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fax while I was there because I just log into the system and function in
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the VIN. Matt, did you make a nyvidist transaction? Yeah, testing
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reasons. Yeah, there you go, perfect excuse. Well, I've heard
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I've heard stories of people, you know, or different agencies might try and
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sell a vehicle that had been involved in a flood. You know, you
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had flooding, you had fires recently in California, Might you know, transport
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it and then try and sell it off. Or if you're buying a car
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from the East Coast you live on the West coast, you might run into
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a little more rusting. I've heard that could be an issue. At least
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with carfacts, you're going to get kind of a real authentic Here's where the
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car was, Here's how I was driven, Here's how many owners. So
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I looked up the n n VINOUS website right, and they have a list
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of here are the websites you should go to to check your car report.
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Check that VN dot com, CLEARVN dot com. It was just these are
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ones that are recommended by them to check the status of vehicles. But you're
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so shout out to AMVA. Hi, guys, I'm not dead, I
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remember, but you're you're gonna stay one car for now? Would you buy
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from a dealer? Would you buy from a you know, somebody that's just
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selling their car. And if anybody's selling you can just send a note to
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Matt Well. It depends. Because what we were debating doing is we we
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loved that rooftop tent the one time we got to use it. Yeah I'm
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not bitter at all, I promise, And it made camping really easy.
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You know, got there to set up the campsite was literally just unfold the
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tent, put down the pegs, lock it in place. Done. We
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had an old roommate who had converted a cargo van to a camper van and
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we were looking at going to the Facebook marketplace and you know, so many
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people who did van life through COVID are now trying to unload these things and
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we're looking at uh, spending the insurance payout, which was very generous,
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thank you, Geico. UH, and buying one of those camper vans and
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then you know, go one car for daily driver and then have that.
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But if we're going to do like an actual car, we'll probably do a
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dealership. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense.
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My daughter ended up buying a car. She did get it from a
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private party and she didn't have a mechanic look at it, and she got
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a pretty good deal on it, so she's happy now. But I'm I've
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always bought. I've always bought from a dealer, sometimes a smaller dealer.
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When it comes to the car, it's funny because one of the worst cars
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I ever had it was a I'll tell just say it was a Jaguar XJA
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twelve. Worst car ever. Was always breaking down and when I finally got
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rid of it, it was just taking up space. Fuel had been contaminated.
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So basically I sold it the first person who came up with six hundred
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bucks, and I had bought it for like twelve grand. And this is
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years later. You know, I got some use out of it, but
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it was sold to somebody here in Green Valley An XGJA twelve back back in
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probably two thousand, I want to say two thousand and eleven, maybe twenty
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twelve is when I sold it. But yeah, that was just that was
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an awful car. But it was funny because that car. I bought it
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from a small dealer that was off Oracle Road in Tucson. And when I
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decided to look for the car that I'm I now own, I did shopping
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because it's a special car, and I went looking and I found a dealer
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that had a different model in Scottsdale. So I thought, okay, let's
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drive up and go take a look at this car. So I guess,
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So me and Gloria get in the car and we drive all the way to
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Scottsdale to take a look at this thing. And the dealer comes out and
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he says, yeah, I'm sorry, I sold it already, and oh
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okay, he goes, but I got these other ones you can look at,
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and he starts walking me around and I'm thinking there's something about this guy,
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right, And then I told him I said about my worst car experience
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being the Jaguar, and he goes, he says, oh, you're from
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Tucson, I used to have a dealership with Tucson. Oh where was that
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right off Oracle? And I looked at him and I said, you sold
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me my XHA twelve, the worst car I ever owned. And he looked
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at me. He goes, oh, yeah, you're the radio guy.
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And then Gloria Gloria walks up and looks at him and says, oh,
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you're the I can't even repeat what she said. That sold us that piece
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of crud. It was great. I didn't end up buying a car from
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him, but he had moved to relocate it there. I ended up finding
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it at a Mitsubishi dealer, but it was It was a pretty funny story
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when he came to running into the going hey, you're that guy. Worst
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car I ever owned was a I got this in two thousand seven, two
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thousand, no, two thousand and seven. It was a two thousand BMW
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three twenty three cis a key word in they're supposed to be And I got
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it from this little dealership in Fairfax, Virginia, And I mean, uh,
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that car spent more time in the shop than on the road. So
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it it definitely falls into like do your due diligence and if you get that
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that hinky feeling like trust it. There's there's a great Reddit thread I was
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reading and it was like, what what seems like it's uh an unnecessary expense
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but never actually is. And the top comment was anything between you and the
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ground, shoes, chairs, mattress, tires, cars, that is where
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you spend your money. That makes sense, That makes sense. I remember
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I don't know what your car would do, but I would hit the brake
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on mine, you know, to slow down or stop, and the side
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mirrors would move. It was like there was some electrical thing. It was
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the first sounds like an electrical fire awaiting to happen exactly. I think it
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was the first car that Ford, you know, Ford of bought Jaguar.
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It was the first one that they had produced. The engine was awesome.
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If I could have taken that engine out and had so much pep. But
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when you'd hit the gas on that thing, you'd see the gas cage go
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from like say it was half down to quarter. It got eight miles of
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the gallon. It was the x J twelve, So it was terrible.
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Yeah, those that series of Jags. I remember reading about how they were
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just terrible. Ford bought it and attached the moniker of found on roadside dead
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slap that right on the jag. It's like everyone's like it's engineering and therefore,
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Sean, what about you? Sean? What what was your bad experience?
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Was your worst part? So? My first car was a hand me
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down for my brother, which my dad had picked up at an estate sale.
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It was a herd Brown seventy seven Chevy Malibu. The description I'm not
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doing I will dig a picture and send it to you. Turd brown it.
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Yeah, it was a hand me down, real drive, three fifty
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big block. It was an awesome car to drive, Yeah, because real
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drive in the snow in Michigan. It was a blast drive. Plowed through
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all the snow banks, all the you know, all the snow drifts and
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stuff. It was great. Then I moved on from that to my parents
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ninety eight Ford Windstar. You had a van. Oh yeah, yeah,
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so I had. I had an Arrowstar. We had we had an arrow
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Star before my parents had an arrow Star growing That's what we had when I
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was growing up. My parents sold the van to my brother. My brother
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went into the Marine Corps. He deployed, didn't take the van with him,
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sold it back to me. So I drove that. That got me
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through college. Right. Then I bought a way you went to college and
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you had to drive a van. Dude, I could pack my whole dorm
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room in my van. Dude. I love the van, don't get me
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wrong. It was awesome. I could pack my whole dorm room in one
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trip in the van. Yeah, fantastic. So then then that blew up
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little in two thousand and eight, so it was a pretty decent timeframe for
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that van. And then it blew the head gaskets at three hundred and twenty
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eight thousand miles. Oh yeah. So then I went to a eighty eight
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Honda Civic four door, all wheel drive, five speed manual, an amazing
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car. Yeah, and then the clutch blew out on that. I had
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a handful of escorts, which my buddy Steve and I swapped transmissions in because
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I blew up a transmission. Man, I'm trying to think what else I
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had. I had Ford Ranger for a while, the Danger Ranger, YEP,
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which I loved. I drove that to California and back when I lived
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down in California, and then I traded that in for a two thousand Dakota
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V eight, which was a fantastic truck, trans cooler, the V eight.
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It could tow twelve thousand pounds. It was learning. I loved it.
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You kind of needed the trucks for living up there in Michigan and all
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of that, doesn't you. Yeah, the all wheel drive, the four
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wheel drive was great. I was able to tow my camper with it,
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so tony camper's camping all stuff. My Ranger couldn't toe squat right. It
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was just a little V six. It wasn't good toning. Then in twenty
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nineteen, I traded in the Dakota for my current twenty seventeen Colorado, which
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I absolutely love. I love my Colorado. That's my quick history of car.
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It's kind of funny because you think about it, with all the technology
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we have in cars today, it's and I've talked to a guy from Sorrow
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Automotive here and you know we've talked about that that it's different. It is
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different. You have to you have to go through training a lot more now
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because you're dealing with you know, the electrical hand handling pretty much everything in
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the vehicle, and then all your add ons in the vehicle too, So
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mechanics have to be up to date on some of that stuff. So it's
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almost like you're taking computer classes as well as, you know, learning how
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to repair cars and sell cars as well. And did you see it now
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they're putting some of those add ons behind paywalls. Yes, what are you
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kidding me? Subscriptions? Oh god, no, yeah. BMW is doing
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it with seat warmers. Hey, your car might have seat warmers, but
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you're gonna have to past twelve bucks a month to put seatwarmers on. Oh
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my gosh, Mercedes Benz is doing it. I saw Audi is doing it
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with their intelligent smart climb control. So you know, it's like the one
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where it's like, oh I just want fresh air or I want my feet
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to be warm. They're like, Nope, that's going to be extra.
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Otherwise you just could use the dumb thermostat. Wow, that's ridiculous. Well,
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I mean it make it makes sense. It makes sense from a production
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standpoint, right, you make one version of the car that has all the
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bells and whistles, right, and then you just software block things out and
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sell it as different tiers of software based for your car, So you could
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have a car with all the features but you're getting the bottom end of the
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software package. Game. We're unlocked things. Where would you put their credit
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card slot on your vehicle? Right there in the dashboard your butt. You
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just sit down, it starts charging your wallet. You you sit down,
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it's it's NFC right, there's there's more money going in right there. Well,
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I know, you know, the radios have been a big thing,
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and uh, I know that if you want to have like navigation, I
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can understand that might be something that you would be behind a pay wall.
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But the features like that are normally you spend the money on because it has
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that, like the seat warmers or you know, the massage massaging backs in
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the seats. It seems crazy to charge for that, you know people,
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And the problem is people will still say okay, I'll get it. They
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just won't say no because they want that, So it becomes the norm,
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yep, which stinks. I never said my worst car, Well my worst
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car I said was that. But I also owned a Vega if that tells
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you anything, But I do I do miss that car. That car it
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was it was It was created by John Dolorean, the same game, you
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know, Dolourian And they always said it had a fifty thousand mile life on
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it. It was buying It's like almost like buying a disposable car because it
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had the aluminum head gaskets that would warp over time. And I did go
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through two of them. One of them, though, was a guy rain
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into it. But either way, yeah, that was a fun car to
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have. While I love my gtis right, I do very deeply. My
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first car was a ninety four Chevy Caprice Classic. Hey five point seven liter
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V eight engine. Ooh, for those listening, don't give that to a
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teenager. It's a terrible, terrible idea what I'm saying, right, I
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got the keys handed to me with a three fifty big block. Yeah,
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that thing would just roast the rear tires. I mean it just I know
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that from personal experience. I'm just saying. My first ticket from Honey to
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Beach Police Department came when I popped the clutch and I squealed the tires right
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in front of a motorcycle officer who pulled me over all and I never forget
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what he said to me. He looked at me, he said, son
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in a vega, are you kidding me? The upside of the Caprice driving
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at night was they were still being you by law enforcement. So people who'd
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memorize the headlight pattern, cops would just get out of my way. Yeah
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I'm driving. They'd be like, oh nope, and pull over. And
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as they see like this seventeen year old zoom in past him, you just
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see a look on her face, their faces of like, oh come on.
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There used to be a company called Ugly Duckling Rental, and I remember
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a couple of times when my car was in the shop or whatnot, I
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rented from Ugly Duckling and I got an old Malibu which is out near Los
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Angeles, Malibu County sheriff or Malibu's Sheriff's vehicle, and it was the uh
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it was a Malibu. And now that I think about it, but that
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thing adds so much pep. And I always thought, one day, I
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want to buy myself, you know, one of these cars that get sold
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at the police auctions. You know, they put them out the pasture after
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a certain amount of mileage. And I thought that would be so much fun
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to have. But I've seen people driving around. They got the full They
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got everything except the top lights on them. They keep them black. And
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white. They still have the you know, the road thing on the front,
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the ramming unit or whatever. Yeah, and I'm thinking, well,
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that's that's taking a little too far, isn't it? Or is it taking
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it just far? Now? All right, listen, we got to talk
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about the eclipse which is coming up. We are on a special time because
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starting up at three o'clock we're gonna be broadcasting the station kgv Y is gonna
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be broadcasting from a fist the annual event. It's gonna be a lot of
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fun. So you want to keep it right here. That's why we're on
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at a different time. But when we come back, we're gonna find out
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about the eclipse which is happening on Monday. And now Sean is actually gonna
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be having a lot of fun with that, and that's coming up. By
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Yeah, I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Matt Jones. Find us on the web
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at tech talk radio dot com. And now back to tech talk Radio.
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But I want to overshadow the show. Yeah, oh, aren't you being
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big creative there? Monday the eighth at three six pm, that's your Indian
25:02
indianap Yes, Eastern standard time, daily whatever time, Eastern time, three
25:08
oh six, so six pm full totality in Indianapolis, Indiana. Oh,
25:12
we're only so we're only getting I think sixty eight percent here in Arizona.
25:17
Matt, you're in Denver in that area. What are you getting sixty four
25:21
point nine? Oh? Man, but you're getting one hundred percent shown,
25:26
one hundred percent totality. Yeah, and it'll be full totality for four and
25:32
a half minutes I think three minutes and forty seven seconds full totality. Isn't
25:36
that the length of time that the song totally eclipsed of my heart is.
25:41
Oh, I'm gonna look that up. That's amazing you say you that?
25:45
Yeah, just play that during the eclipse. Yeah, I will speak full
25:49
blast. I should do that. So in twenty seventeen, we were in
25:56
Indianapolis for the solar total eclipse that happened. Then we had about ninety six
26:00
percent totality. And I will share those pictures of the Indy so we can
26:03
put them on the blog, so you'll see the pictures they took from the
26:06
clip slasher. I'm already kidded out right. I've got the solar filters,
26:08
I've got the lens, the filters from my lenses from my video camera.
26:12
So I'm ready to go. I've got the glasses, I'm ready to go.
26:15
My buddy Steve's got a six inch telescope that he's got kidded out that
26:19
he's gonna shoot the sun with we We're stoked. We're stoked. We're ready
26:25
to go. So the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, So if you're in the area
26:30
the region, right, I will tell you, just come to the Indianapalis
26:33
Motor Speedway, pay twenty bucks for general admission, hang out wash the eclipse
26:38
because a lot of people are just gonna try and go somewhere. They're just
26:41
gonna try to go to a city center. They're gonna try to go to
26:42
a town and they're they're not gonna find anything because all the hotels are booked.
26:48
It's gonna be jammed. People are just gonna be driving in multiple hours
26:52
because they just happened during the last eclipse in twenty seventeen, right, all
26:55
these towns just got overrun by people coming to watch the clips. Wow.
26:59
Yeah, so like an influx of solar tourism. So I planned ahead.
27:07
At the Indiana's Motor Speedway, they have a huge event. It's actually one
27:11
of NASA's broadcast sites, because they're broadcasting in like San Antonio, Indianapolis,
27:18
and then somewhere up towards towards Canada somewhere. So I believe that it's correct.
27:26
Why is this such a big Why is this such a big deal?
27:30
I mean, they're conspiracy theorists already on the web that are saying, you
27:33
know, because because some schools have decided we're going to take the day off.
27:38
So a big event like this, right, it's a cool event,
27:42
and it's not gonna happen again. I'll have to look up the executive it's
27:45
not going to happen for like over one hundred years. That crosses the US
27:52
right, And there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there that because the eclipse
27:56
of twenty seventeen most of the US right starting from starting from up by Seattle
28:02
and down, then this one, which is coming from the south over Mexico
28:10
up north towards New York. They're saying that because they're going to cross in
28:15
the middle of the country and it's the most longest of coverage across the country
28:21
from point to point that we've had in thousands and thousands of years, or
28:23
record you know since the record was taken that there's some astrological event that's gonna
28:29
happen. So you got people that are freaked out because twenty seventeen across the
28:33
country, twenty four crossed over and now we're gonna have an X. People
28:37
are saying avoid being right at the X, Like, don't know, but
28:42
I will say. So we're camping. We're driving down Sunday morning, camping
28:48
all day Sunday overnight into Monday. The eclipses at three in the afternoon,
28:52
We'll pack up a drive home Monday evening. It's gonna be over in like
28:56
four minutes. It's like, you know, the the whole process take.
29:00
The whole process starts like you gradually. It's not like, oh, suns
29:04
out, okay, right, You watch it gradually come over right, and
29:10
then you get what they call the the the diamond or diamond flair. So
29:15
as soon as it gets just about ninety nine, you get a huge flash
29:21
of light off one corner of the sun. They call it the diamond.
29:23
Oh wow, it's a really cool phenomenon. I've seen it before. I
29:27
saw eclips back in like the early nineties in grade school. But it's just
29:33
if you can get to full totality. It's highly recommended because it's just an
29:37
unreal experience. What are something what are some things you have to think about
29:41
though, Sean, because you're you're going to try and take photos of this,
29:42
right, do not do not take pictures of the eclipse with your camera
29:48
without solar filter on it. You will melt. You will melt your sensor
29:53
in your camera. Oh okay, all right, and you are literally you
29:56
are literally okay, you know you have to You have the childhood thing of
30:00
the magnifying glass. You burned ants, right? Yeah? No started fires
30:04
that right? Or you started fires with a magnifying glass, right, pitpoint,
30:10
That's all a lens is. A lens is focusing a beam of light
30:12
onto your sensor. If you're if you're trying to shoot the clips for four
30:15
and a half five minutes, you're just shooting the sun and focusing all of
30:19
that UV right onto your your lens. So you can't destroy your camera if
30:26
you do it. So buying a filters you don't want you don't want to
30:32
look, don't want to do that. So find a reputable place that will
30:36
give you solar glasses. Uh, find solar filters for your cameras, solar
30:42
paper for your so you can put over UV filters. Just you know,
30:47
don't be stupid, right, that's just don't go out and the stand of
30:48
the sun and go I'm staring and then you're blind. So don't you just
30:53
make the cautions. But it's supposed to be a cool experience. It's supposed
30:57
to be you know everything, all the bird get quiet and all this stuff
31:00
so excited to see it. That's that's the creepiest thing during an eclipse,
31:06
is the whole area goes yeah's silent, lee And I got lucky we weren't
31:11
at totality for the twenty seventeen eclipse, were we were close to it.
31:17
We were in Shenandoah National Park, and the whole area just goes, yeah's
31:22
silent. And if you're in a national forest and all of a sudden everything
31:25
stops making noise, like the hairs on the back of your neck go up,
31:30
It's it's awe inspiring and creepy as hell. Well, is that because
31:34
the animals are wondering what the heck's going on too? You think there's some
31:38
connection between the animals and the moon phases and they just know something's weird and
31:45
oh wow, all right, So I mean the Indians thought this was like
31:49
a sign, right, this was a astro astrologic apocalyptica, remember that?
31:55
Yeah, I mean yeah, so o boy are records of people thinking this
32:00
is some sort of yeah, I think about it before we had the internet
32:04
and we had the news, and you know, they probably thought it was
32:06
some kind of you know, crazy doom thing that was going on, and
32:10
that it dis passed in four minutes, it'll be done, so that all.
32:15
The other thing to think about that in terms of like ancient populations is
32:20
they also didn't have any of the solar filters and stuff Sean was just talking
32:22
about, So how many people then were struck down blind? And just imagine
32:27
being the first guy to look up and see that and being thinking like,
32:30
ah, that can't be good. Yeah, why am I still seeking the
32:32
sun when my head? Where's the priest? Yeah? Not good. So
32:37
the other thing you can do too, right, and this is a cool
32:39
thing for for grade school kids to do, is make a pinhole pinhole camera.
32:45
Ah, all right, so you could take a cardboard box a bunch
32:46
of pinhole in it, point the pinhole to the sky, towards the sun
32:52
and you can use it as a fake. You can emulate a lens and
32:58
it'll project the image of the solar eclips onto the back of the cardboard box.
33:01
Oh that's kind of cool. So you could get that image as it's
33:05
reaching totality. You can see it on the reflection, you know, you
33:07
see it just like you just point the box with a pinhole in it and
33:10
it will spread the beam out of light onto the back of the cardboard box
33:15
and you'll be able to see the image of the eclipse. Can you get
33:19
us some of the images that are captured just even from the event too,
33:22
and we can put them up on our blog out Yeah. I mean,
33:27
you've got four videographer photographers that are going on the strip. I think we're
33:30
gonna come up with something. Yeah. The other cool thing with eclipse is
33:36
that it kind of gets ignored. Is look at the shadows on the ground
33:39
as it's happening the eclipse. It was like it was last year. I
33:45
completely forgot that it was happening. Luckily I still had leftover glasses from twenty
33:50
seventeen. But all of a sudden, I'm like walking around the house and
33:52
my wife looks at me and she's like, what's up. I was like,
33:54
the light's wrong. She's like, okay, it's daytime. Are you
34:00
is this it? Are you finally stroking out? And I was like no,
34:02
seriously, like the light's wrong. And I went outside and looked on
34:07
the ground and the light coming through the trees in the backyard. All the
34:10
light was little crescents instead of your standard just like shadow. I was like,
34:15
oh no, ran upstairs, found the glasses, ran out, popped
34:19
them on. I was like, yeah, it's the eclipse is going on.
34:22
So while enjoy the eclipse, but like, while it's traversing the totality,
34:27
also look at the shadows on the ground and you'll see it. It's
34:30
definitely something different. Oh, that's gonna be cool again. It's a trip,
34:35
right. I saw it in twenty seventeen at ninety eight percent totality and
34:37
that was awesome. Yeah, to be able to see it at full totality
34:40
is going to be awesome. That'll be Monday for you. It's just a
34:45
little after three o'clock for us here. That'll be the noon noon, right,
34:51
it were three hours. I got to blink in the chat. So
34:52
andy, if you could put that on the blog. There's a map that'll
34:57
give you exact times and totality numbers and all that. Sorry for listeners that
35:00
want to write this down, can you tell us what that is? Again?
35:04
Here it's called it's Eclipse dash Explorer dot s MCE dot Nasa dot gov.
35:12
Eclipse Dash Explorer dot Sierra Mike Charlie Echo dot Nasa dog gov. And
35:19
you go there. You put your your zip code, uh, and it
35:22
will tell you how much totality you'll get, what time to to to not
35:27
take a look, but what time to experience that. Yep. Again,
35:30
that's that's gonna be cool. The dead center of that X is Carbondale,
35:36
Illinois is apparently the epicenter of the two paths crossing over each other, and
35:43
it's the dead center of the X. So some weird stuff happens. It's
35:46
going to be in Carbondale, Illinois. Wasn't that like the setting for Stranger
35:51
Things carbon Oh? Yeah, it was in the man wearing the Stranger Thing
35:57
shirt, he is, aren't you what do you do? What are you
36:01
gonna wear? Sean, We gonna ask you what do you gonna wear to
36:04
this? Because you're gonna have people dressed up in costumes. Right, I'm
36:08
gonna wear normal clothes. I don't know. I'm not gonna be like you
36:13
know the people on the rooftops and Independence Day saying take me, take me,
36:19
and then they get nuked by the Yeah that was that. That didn't
36:22
work out too well for them. Uh, that's cool. And there's probably
36:25
gonna be a lot of coverage online as well. You'll have news. Are
36:28
there gonna be news cruise there you think? Yeah. So one of my
36:31
old coworkers from the Fox affiliated they worked at texted me it's like, Hey,
36:36
they're talking about the solo eclipse. Where should they go? What do
36:40
you mean where should they go? Like, yeah, they don't know where
36:43
they should go to see the eclipse. I was like, go to the
36:45
Indianato's Motor Speedway. It's like five hours from gut Rapids. And they're like,
36:49
all right, that's what they're doing. There's gonna be a ton There's
36:52
gonna be tons of media coverage right right. Plus NASA is doing a multi
36:55
state live broadcast of the eclipse as is happening multi site from the southern part
37:01
of Texas all the way up into Canada. So I think people should do
37:06
with. You know, Matt is suggesting everybody go to Carbondale. I don't
37:09
know how big Carbondale is, but everybody go there see see what's going on
37:13
there. I'll grab a ticket, I'll go. If something weird happens,
37:16
it is no worse than the timeline we are currently living in. If I
37:20
get nuked, I don't have to stay around for the rest of it.
37:22
Perfect. All right, listen, we're going to take another quick break.
37:25
We'll come back if you have a question. We've got listener questions. We're
37:30
gonna go over and I've got a pair of headphones. I gotta show you,
37:32
guys, the most comfortable headphones I have ever put on my head.
37:37
I'll tell you more about that when we come back of tech Talk Radio.
37:40
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seana Weird. I'm Matt Jones. Find us on
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Excet tech Talk Radio. We'll be right back now back to teep talk Radio.
37:49
So jumping to listener questions, Tricia and Vail shout outs to Colorado.
37:53
Actually that's been in Arizona. I believe just got to crush my dreams.
38:00
Tricia in veil not Colorado, asked whatever happened to the defragmentor I remember when
38:05
I used to have to do that quite often. Is this something I should
38:07
be doing? Fortunately, Tricia, because I too remember having to defragment my
38:14
hard drive and not be able to use the computer for hours on end.
38:19
You are actively doing it. You don't have to choose to do it anymore.
38:23
Windows incorporated a lot of that to where now it actually does most of
38:29
that on its own, because they realized it needs to be done to work
38:32
better. Defragmenting was basically much more prevalent and necessary with old school platter drives,
38:40
which now we would just call HDD hard disk drives, And what it
38:45
was doing is moving that data to a different physical location on the disc,
38:51
so as it's reading, all your documents live in this spot, all your
38:54
programs live in this spot, so it was consolidating everything where it belonged.
39:00
Now that we've moved towards SDD solid state drives or the new one NVMe drives,
39:07
which just look like a little flashtick, defragmenting isn't as necessary because you
39:13
don't have a physical needle moving to read magnetic data off a metal disc.
39:20
So please do not worry about defragmenting anymore. Your data is where it's supposed
39:24
to be. I always had stories too, Matt about defragmenting and if you
39:30
had larger files like maybe video files. A lot of us have large video
39:34
files or even audio files or even large you maybe shoot camera raw and you've
39:37
got these photos that you could actually do damage to some of these files if
39:43
you're trying to defragment those, you absolutely could. That is why the people
39:47
that I grew up with, who were you know, dabbling in video audio
39:52
audio editing, they had it on a separate drive that never got defragged,
39:55
never got touched. If they were having issues with the drive, move everything
40:00
off to something else, nuke the drive, move it back over. And
40:04
you know that was could be considered like a quick and dirty defragmenting because you're
40:07
fresh writing everything on there. Yeah, defragmenting could be detrimental, all right,
40:14
So something not to not to be doing. I know Dale in Pond
40:16
Desert had one. I thought, you know what, this is a good
40:20
one for you, Sean too. Dale listens to us online. He said
40:23
he had a large property and he would like to run a camera that would
40:28
be able to zoom in on the back shed from his house. So I
40:31
guess he's got a shed on his property and he wants to be able to
40:36
maybe mount the camera at his home and then zoom in on it. Is
40:39
there a brand that's good because he without worrying about you know what what you're
40:46
maybe it's going to be too blurry. Yeah, So I don't know if
40:50
any security cameras that really offer much zoom outside of the higher end ones like
40:58
the Ubiquities or the Unify stuff. I know, the Wise stuff can punch
41:06
in digitally. It'll take the two K and give you a ten ADP image
41:09
from it, but that's not the best I don't I don't know what he
41:17
could do if his Wi Fi reaches that far. Nest has their indoor outdoor
41:24
wireless camera and you could just move it physically closer to that shed. The
41:31
mound is just basically a big fat magnet with a plastic cover and a dimple
41:37
on it. Just mount that to like a tree or something and then slap
41:39
the camera on there. Charge it once a month and you don't have to
41:45
zoom into it because it's it's there. But it's dependent on if Wi Fi
41:49
reaches that far. Now sure, and you could recommend the outdoor. Why
41:52
the why is outdoor cam? Also if at that point right now, one's
41:54
rated IPv sixty five, so it can be outdoors. I've used it outdoors
41:59
in pretty severe weather doing comelapses, and that just connects to a base station,
42:06
so you could extend your base station out to the edge of your house
42:08
and hopefully it would reach Sean. You did something not long ago too,
42:15
and I remember this. You took an old smartphone. I think it was
42:19
an old iPhone or I don't think it was an Android and you had actually
42:23
set it up where you were able to capture stuff with a smartphone. Could
42:28
that be something Because some of the smartphones have pretty good zoom capabilities on them,
42:32
could that also be something? Yeah, I mean yes, But if
42:37
you're looking to be able to see it in the cloud or capture motion events,
42:42
right, there's nothing for a phone that would do that right right.
42:45
If you're looking to stream something from your phone, you can get NDI tools
42:52
or your phone the NDI app connected to your Wi Fi ndihx will stream at
42:58
about five to six men for a ten eightp stream, and you could use
43:02
that to stream all over wherever your WiFi connext to works out pretty well,
43:07
and then you could pull that in your computer as an NDII source using NDIA
43:10
tools and view it that way. But you don't have zoom functionality from that,
43:15
right, I like your idea. Just just move the camera closer to
43:19
what you want to capture and hopefully the Wi Fi will will work out in
43:22
that area. Yeah, just without knowing how far the shed is away and
43:27
stuff like that. But yeah, there are other there are other higher end
43:32
brands that can do Century mode right where it could set you could set way
43:37
points because they have pan tilt zoom options, right, so you can set
43:42
it up to do a century mode where it's like wide shot of the yard,
43:45
medium shot of the yard. Oh, let's focus on the shed,
43:49
tight shot, and it'll rotate through a preset set of shots. But you
43:52
pay a premium for that. Okay, Yeah, that's the whole thing.
43:55
You pay a premium. The other downside for like if you do like the
44:00
wiser than Nest cameras, is once you get to certain lower and upper temperature
44:06
ranges, it is going to affect the battery life the like here and I've
44:09
got two of them mounted outside here in Denver, and when it was getting
44:15
you know, sub ten degrees and colder. I'd actually get to notice.
44:19
It was like, hey, it's so cold, your battery life is going
44:21
to start suffering. Oh wow, Yeah, I've heard that with the heat
44:24
as can Like for us in Arizona, the heat can also be an issue
44:28
as well. Elect For sure. Electrons don't like widely varied temperatures. They
44:36
tend to start having problems. Yes, thinks slow faster when they're hot.
44:40
They flow slower when it's cold. So well, I have to show you,
44:45
guys. I got these in from our friends at Logitech. These are
44:52
the Zone two Wireless Zone Wireless two headphones. My crons, you mean cookies.
45:01
They look like macrons. They do, don't they right? But I
45:05
will tell you these are the most comfortable headphones I have ever put on my
45:09
head. These are replaceable. They're nice and soft and cushy. They've got
45:15
a very nice pickup arm that's on these headphones. They connect via Bluetooth or
45:22
you have a USBC cable connector on the bottom. You can plug it in
45:27
and it will actually charge then while you're using it, and the sound quality
45:30
is great. The microphone is four microphone has actually four different microphones that are
45:37
built into it and it features AI. There's that keyword again, AI to
45:42
actually isolate the noises, So it will isolate your voice using that AI and
45:47
remove background. So if you've got a dog bark and a you know,
45:52
if a kid's crying, you would attend to it. But baby crying or
45:54
maybe even an ac or some other sounds in the background, it can act
46:00
using the AI block those out. And if you're doing a like a conference,
46:05
a zoom call or anything like that, you're gonna get really clear audio.
46:09
And I've tested it hooking it up. We have Bluetooth to my phone
46:13
and it was really amazed. But again, yeah, they look like they
46:15
do look like cookies, you're right shown, but it's they do as soon
46:20
as you hold up. I was like, they look like BlackBerry mccrons or
46:22
what. It's well built aluminum construction. You could turn the cups on them
46:30
pretty easily. And it comes with a nice bag from their friends at Logitech.
46:36
This will set you back about two hundred and fifty bucks. So do
46:39
you think you could wear a hat over them? Because Stephanie was asking one
46:45
of our listeners, Stephanie was asking for a comfortable pair of headphones that would
46:49
allow them to wear a hat. You know, I know, the actual
46:54
this part right here, that's the part you got to look for. Is
46:58
not that thick that actually might work? That? Yeah, it might actually
47:02
I have a hat over here. Let me hold on, let me get
47:05
this hat. Let's see how this would work super comfortable. Uh no,
47:09
no, that that wouldn't Well what about that hat underneath? Oh hat under
47:15
the headphones? Yeah, that that would work. All right, there we
47:22
go, There we go. It took me a second, not the smartest
47:25
man of the world, but yes, that did work out pretty good.
47:30
So so Stephanie from Sita, I hope I'm somebody. Yes, thank you.
47:37
Look at the Logitech headphones you know, for her question too, couldn't
47:40
you also use earbuds? But that you could absolutely use earbuds. Yeah,
47:46
earbuds would sound pretty good. You could do that too. Uh. And
47:50
I don't know if you guys saw the story, but Apple is supposedly going
47:52
to be putting out a lower priced AirPod that will be a lot cheaper than
47:58
the bax it's going to be coming out or the pro version they're saying AirPods.
48:04
Airpod's light. So if you're you know, if your budget is affected.
48:07
That is something you might want to be thinking about as well. Once
48:12
again, Apple copies Google late in the game. What do you send it
48:16
for? You're sending it for? Justin this week on the Apple Bash,
48:22
i worked for them and I bashed them. I've bashed them on the show
48:24
multiple times. Google release the pixel Buds a series years ago before the pixel
48:30
Buds pro right, all right, speaking of this Google, Speaking of Google,
48:35
they've caught some flak recently when it comes to our security and our data.
48:39
Sean, you had more of that story too about this private privacy is
48:43
always a big concern on the Internet, right and you you hope that every
48:47
company has your best interest in mind. That's rarely the case the big ones.
48:53
Right now, everybody knows, at least most people know incognito mode.
48:59
That's you can you can search the web and it doesn't track what you're doing.
49:04
Right about that? Wrong? Oh? Wrong? Wrong? So every
49:08
most people thought incognito mode means all right, Google, you're not listening.
49:13
I'm going to google naughty stuff or I'm gonna you know, be promiscuous on
49:16
the Internet and you're not gonna track anything. Incorrect. The only thing incognito
49:21
mode does is when you close the browser, it wipes your browser history,
49:23
clears your cookies, and you know, doesn't let the missus know what you've
49:28
been doing on the internet or mister or mister yeah or whatever. Yeah.
49:34
Google still takes all of that data and they serve you ads and they've been
49:38
keeping all of that data. Well, so okay, let's let's not use
49:43
it for a salacious type of event. What if I'm shopping for my my
49:47
other half and I go online and I'm going through different websites trying to find
49:52
the perfect gift and then I want to clear my path and not you know,
49:57
so okay, so that way she won't see it. Google, though,
50:00
even in incognito mode, was actually tracking that and then saying this person
50:05
shopping, let's feed the mads. Google ad Sense was sitting there going thank
50:09
you for that. Yeah exactly. Yeah. So there was a lawsuit brought
50:14
back in twenty twenty and it's finally come to fruition and Google has to pay
50:17
five billion dollars. Ooh, and it's if you want a piece of the
50:22
money, you got a file acclaim and I'm sure we'll get info about that.
50:28
So they are saying that we are going to delete delete. I'm doing
50:34
air could year because nothing ever really goes away. Yeah, they're sure they're
50:38
going to delete all that data that they've collected from incognitobook. All right,
50:43
well, something that's good to know about. If we get more info,
50:45
will certainly pass that along. Well when we come back, I've got a
50:49
couple of websites for your kids you might want to check out. We'll tell
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you about that coming up. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Shan Weird. I'm
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mad Jones. You can find us on Facebook at tech Talkers. Will be
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right back and now back to tech talk Radio. Hey, this is Scott
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Kelby and you're listening to deck doc Radio. So we're just talking about Google
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incognito mode anonymity, and I think that's that's a good jumping off point to
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issue kind of a warning to everyone. There's this lovely website called glassdoor dot
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com, right, and for years glassdoor was where you know, if you're
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applying for a job, you check them out on Glassdoor, because they'd have
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reviews of the company from employees being like, this is what's good, this
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is what's bad. They could review the CEO, you could just they would
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talk pay scales, everything like that. But it was entirely anonymous, so
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there was no real risk like, yeah, you'd have some toxic manager being
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like we're down to two stars on glassdoor. Everyone pump out good reviews.
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Well, Glassdoor has decided that it doesn't need to be anonymous anymore, and
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now they're attaching names to stuff. Oh little good names. But it's the
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way they did it is shady because they scrounged the Internet for personal information from
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other websites and applied it to their website. So they went and said,
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oh, this person, say Matt Jones posted on Glassdoor. They went and
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saw found your Facebook and found all of your personal information and put it on
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classdoor. They have no right to do that, right, Well, there's
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there's they did it two different ways. They did do what Sean talked about,
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but there's also uh Samuil integration, which is when Samuel is when you
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go to a website and it's like hey, log in with Google and you
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click on that, and basically like Glassdoor would reach out to Google and be
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like, hey, is Johnny lived dangerously Matt Jones? And Google will be
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like, yeah, I confirm Matt Jones is Johnny lived Dangerously, and then
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my Google Johnny lived Dangerously, which is not my actual thing. I don't
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trust any of you would go out to glassdoor and all my reviews would be
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under that name. So they just went in all the samal data and was
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like, oh, Johnny lived dangerously, that's Matt Jones. We're Okayip,
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Wow, there you go. So now you have all these toxic men,
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all these hr people, and you're like, if you went to a company
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and trashed it and you're still working there, that's now tied to your name.
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Wow, that could cause big problems. That can cause so many problems,
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like we're talking about firing, loss of employment. This is just like
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a huge lawsuit just waiting to happen. I can hear class action lawyers here
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in Denver salivating its chance to get at this. Any word on them taking
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this down or has been challenged in the courts or anything. I haven't heard
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anything but the fact that they haven't backed off yet. I'm just waiting for
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them to double down on it. Wow. Not good. All right,
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that's good to know though. At least if you're thinking you're going to be
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safe from you know, and be anonymous, you're not always anonymous. All
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right, here's a website for kids, a password generator for the kids.
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It's good to get them to learn that not we can teach the kids about
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security and to learn the password is not a viable password or admin is not
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or you know, uh, your your middle name. Actually, that could
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give up too much info, so you might want to have them take a
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look at Dino pass that's d I N O P A S S. That's
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a good website for kids to kind of understand passwords and how they work.
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Also, coding for kids is also pretty good. And we've talked about this
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before with Justin. You know, he says something he wants to do with
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his son as well. And I don't know, would you want to introduce
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coding to your kids? Shun, Yeah, probably. I already bought Max
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a book called Computer Engineering for Babies. Really yeah, it's a it's a
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button book that has base basic computer commands, you know, on off and
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X r X or latch all that type of stuff. Oh that's great,
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all right. Yeah, So I mean it's being coding is being considered a
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language for high school or so that's amazing. If you learn a computer language
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that will count towards your language like French, Spanish or German or whatever.
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Perfect I was a kid, Yeah, exactly right. All right, here's
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the website code Moji m o j i dot com again, codemoji dot com
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and again coding for kids. That's it for this week's Tech Talk Radio.
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Have yourselves a great week. It's good to see you again, Matt,
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glad to be back. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm sewn to weird. Hopefully
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I don't get sucked up by the eclipse. Oh no, I'm Matt Jones.
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I will let you know if Sean does get sucked up by the eclipse.
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Thank you. Have a great week.