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Episode 367 - I'm Kind of a Big Deal! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. All Right,
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people, pick out your notebooks and pencils, and you're listening to the tech
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Talk Radio with true geeks. And by the way, I'm Styler and I'm
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a kick too. Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy
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Taylor, I'm Sean D. Weird, and I'm Justin Lemmi. And it's
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good to see Justin you around last week. We missed you. Yeah,
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well, just preparing for opening season at water World. Opening season that's where
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they hunt down the swimmers and they're released. The sharks gotta be fed.
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And it's been six months the shark's been fed. So so we're listeners don't
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know, Um, Justin works at water World. Has nothing to do with
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the Kevin Costner epic film. It's uh, how long has this water park
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been there in the Denver area? So well, water World? So first
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off, I don't work for water World. I work for High and Hills
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Parks and Parks and Wrecked Districts, which owns water World. Okay, I'm
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the manager of it, um, but yeah, I'm I'm My office is
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at water World and water World has been around the nineteen seventy nine is when
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it opened, right, and it is famous for it is the largest water
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park in America, really bigger than say, by oh god, dude,
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six Flags doesn't even hold a candle really wow. Yeah, no, I
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mean, but technically it is the largest, but it doesn't have the most
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slides. Now, like I don't remember Schlitterbon or whatever they have more slides.
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I think there's one in Ohio that has more slides too, but by
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area, by size, square square miles or whatever, we own the largest
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waterforlds, like the Disneyland of water parks, I guess you could say that,
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yeah, But also also what what what? What? The claim to
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fame for water World is it was the very first multi person slide in the
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world. So before that there was no I mean everybody they would just go
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down by themselves on their butt, you know, or maybe like a single
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person inner tube, like a like an actual like tractor tire inner tube.
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They didn't have multi person inner tubes, so they made a slide at water
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World that could contain up to four people, but they didn't they didn't make
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inner tubes then, So what they did was they actually went to like all
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the I think they went to like all the local kmarts and targets around the
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Denver metro area and bought up all the kiddie pools. So you go down
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the slide to the kiddie pool. Well, at the time, that was
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the only way to do it, so they would buy it. But but
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the kiddie pool would only last like three or four rides and then it would
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it would break because it's like hard plastic. So they had to buy like
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thousands of these things just to be able to survive the season. But during
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that time, then they contacted a company and said, hey, we want
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to make an inner tube that can support like two to four people, and
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they did. That's inter right there. Yeah, So I want to say,
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I mean, maybe I could be wrong, but I want to say
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that water World or something like they hold a patent on that or something.
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I can't I might be wrong. I'm not exactly sure. I could have
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swore I heard somebody saying something about that. But I find it a little
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bit odd if that is the case, If you do truly hold a patent
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on the multi person or do you go down on these things? Do you
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do this? You go go on these things? Oh? Yeah, A
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whole time. Yeah, I mean I went there. I went there yesterday.
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So like, so, well, I tell you gotta tell this story.
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Like first day, Sean he he's ends a video, he posted a
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video first day. He you know, they open it. It's a grand
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opening, and Justin is kind of happy because they've they've he is now the
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official voice of you go to a ride and his voice is blaring over the
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speaker. You must be this tall, you must be blah blah blah,
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and you did a good job with it. Well, so i'll yeah,
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I'll expand on that. So initially I was the voice of Highland Hills because
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we got a new phone system and they wanted me to do the phone system
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and using the studio that I'm talking to you guys now on I recorded all
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the stuff, you know, like, you know, thanks for calling Highland
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Hills Administration office. But then like for water World, I'd be like,
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thanks for calling water World, America's largest water park, you know, like
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and that's that's what I would, you know, please stand by. We'll
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take your call as as soon as we can. Oh man. But but
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then but then they came out and said, hey, we're gonna do this
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thing. Where like at the beginning of each ride, when you get in
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at the top of the slide. We want to be able to take that
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load off of the lifeguards from having to repeat the same things over and over
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and over again. So we're gonna put it on you and you're gonna record
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these intros. So I mean, initially I was like, this is cool,
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I get to do this. I spent like four hours recording all of
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the intros for each of the rides, and it would be something like,
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um, you know, welcome to Voyage to the Center of the Earth.
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You must be forty eight inches to ride. This ride requires a red family
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sized tube. You must keep your hands and feet inside the tube at all
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times wait for the sign from the ride dispatch before going script, which is
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amazing. I'm kind of remember, well, I spent four hours doing it.
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Almost every single ride was the same, but the one that I had
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the most fun with because I tried to be serious for the most part on
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all of them. But the one I had the most fun was Pirates Plunge,
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And I was like, I was like, welcome to Pirates Plunge.
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Did not yes, I did. I was like, you must be forty
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eight and just tall and all jump starts. Remember be safe, have fun,
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yar. So the morning that we opened, I went up to the
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top of Pirates Plunge and there's a lifeguard sitting there because they have to stay
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up at the top, and I was kind of like laughing. I was
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pointing at the speaker and I was saying and they were kind of like and
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I was like, yeah, it's me. And she goes, oh,
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yeah, that is you. I can tell you by your voice. And
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I'm like, yeah, you're gonna hate me by the end of the season.
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She goes, oh, I already hate you because and then and then
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it's so funny, like it was walking around the park before anybody came in
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the park that morning they had all the rides open. I could hear my
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voice echoing from every direction because you know, slides all over the park,
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and I could just hear my voice all over you know, just forty eight
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forty two inches keep your hands and feet and said, oh, welcome to
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Pirates Plunge. It was just all over the park. And I'm like,
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oh my god, I'm even annoyed at my own voice. Now. Monday,
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when I took the day off Memorial day and I went to the park
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as a guest with a friend of mine. We were getting into one of
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the rides and my voice was playing right behind me and I didn't say anything
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right off the bat, but the life girl was like, Hi, welcome
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to water World. Have you guys ever been here before? And I'm like
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yes. She's like, oh, well, well, welcome back. And
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I'm like, I actually work here, and she goes, wait, say
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that again, and I'm like, I actually work here. And then she
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kind of looked over at the speaker and then looked back at me and I
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go, you must be forty eight in just tall to ride this ride.
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She goes, oh my god, that's you. You know what, you
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know what I'm picturing right now? I have pictured you as Ron Burgundy saying,
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you know, I'm kind of a big deal. I don't know how
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to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal. I had a
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my office smells of rich mahogany when when I was a bouncer in the early
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days in the nightclubs after I was I was a bouncer, believe it or
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not, and I um, the guy that was a DJ and the DJO
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was a guy named Mark Farrell was great. He's still out there and still
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does stuff now. He trains DJ's, he has seminars in the whole bit.
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Oh wow. But um, I don't know how he did it,
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but well, guys talented. He was the voice to the monorail at Disneyland.
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He might have been some other voices too, and he just had that
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booming, you know, enthusiastic but very firm. Have you ever heard of
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Alan Roach. He is the voice of the Nuggets, the Avalanche. Yes,
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I mean, but this guy, I mean, this guy was this
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guy when he was born. He was born to be an announcer. I
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mean, this guy's voice is unbelievable and Mama, I weave my buddle.
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Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, seriously, this guy's voice is insane.
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Look up Alan Roach on on YouTube real quick for our listeners. You
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just need to hear this guy's boy, Alan Roach. Did you just look
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up Alan Roach. He sounds a little like Mark Farrell, the guy that
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I was telling you about that did Disneyland. But yeah, Alan Roach man,
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big name. Could you imagine if Alan Roach was doing those Welcome to
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water work? Now, why didn't you you know why? I'm thinking,
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why didn't you use voice AI and have like Johnny Depp doing the you know,
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the Pirate Ride. Well you could. I don't know, I mean
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that might be there might be some like legality issues. I don't know.
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I mean, i'd be funny. That'd be funny. Now, what is
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this documentary about Alan Roach? Where where people finding this? Well? I
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just went to YouTube and just typed in Alan Roach and it was the voice
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heard around the world. The dude are super famous. I saw nuggets,
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Yes, the Nuggets, but I saw it a Nuggets game. One of
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the guys from South Park when the creators was there, and it got everybody
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else. They were both there, Yeah, and they got everybody excited because
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they thought, oh, this means that maybe finally this restaurant which we talked
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about a couple of years ago, is finally going to open. Yeah yeah,
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Casta Bonita. Well, you know that's the funny thing because everybody,
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everybody in Denver's been talking about this because they've got they've cast Okay, first
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off, if you don't know what Castabanita is, you need to look it
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up. Casta Bonita is a super super famous that's actually a National Historic Landmark
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now m but it is in a strip mall, which is so funny.
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But it is famous because it has inside it's got like cliff divers, like
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a giant pool, and they got this like it's a Caribbean island, you
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know, a theme where they have cliff divers and pirates and stuff. But
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I think it's more famous for having just horrible, horrible food. It's great
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for a restaurant, right, Oh my god, it's it's no, it's
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become super famous because it has such horrible food. But it got really,
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really famous back in twenty fourteen when South Park the cartoon. Since the creators
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of South Park are from Colorado, they know about Castabanita because again it's famous
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to the locals and it's famous all over the world. But they had they
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made an episode where the kids from South Park get to go to Castabanita,
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and Cartman wants to go at all costs. He doesn't care how he gets
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there, he just has to go. But they end up going. But
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it made Cassabonita even more famous. But then the pandemic hit the owners of
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Castabanita filed for bankruptcy, and then Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators
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of South Park, came along and said, we would actually like to buy
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Castabonita and turn it around and make it good. And so that's what they
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did. They purchased Castabanita. They spent the last three years renovating it,
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and they hired a Michelin Star chef to make the meals, and they're all
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still super simple, and it's still cafeteria style where you place your order at
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the front and then you walk through the line, you pick up a tray
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and your orders waiting for you. But they're saying that now the food is
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actually good, the drinks are actually good. They kept the decor inside pretty
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much the same. You still have the cliff divers, you still have black
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Bart's Cave, you know, the arcade, all that stuff, but it's
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got this whole new, refreshed field. So anyway, people I've been talking
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about this, like when is it going to open. They've passed all of
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their their licenses and their inspections, they've got the parking lot repaved and ready
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to go, and then people are like, well, wait up. In
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the show, Kyle, one of the characters, his birthday when they went
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to Cassabanita was May twenty sixth, So they were like, oh, it's
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gonna open on May twenty sixth, right, it didn't, so yeah,
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nobody knows. Nobody knows now that Okay, that time is coming past.
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Yeah, it could open any day. I say that when they do open,
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Sean, maybe if you get a couple of days, we could even
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go out. Should all go do a show from we should do a show
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from there? Or even First off, it's gonna be months, do you
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think so? You think they've already they've already they're already booked out eight months.
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I'll just call up my buddy Matt and Trey and have them come along
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and sit with us. A lot going on in the world attack. First
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off, we kind of touched upon this last week, Sean. The DJI
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drone for the professional DGI has a pro I call it prosumer line. They
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have a consumer line, they have a professional line, and then they've got
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it like an industry line, right right, And they just announced their new
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version of the Inspire, which is there and I would call it entry level
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professional grade drone right now? What makes it professional? I mean, oh
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man, so it does eight and a half k it does all the cinema
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d and g raw foremasts, pro resera. It does cinema D and G
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at eight and a half K, eight K, four K, five K,
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you know, all the way down to second it'll do four and a
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half K at sixty frames per second? Wow, what do you mean by
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sorry? But what do you mean by four and a half I've never heard
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of four and a half k? Four point one kse right, four point
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one? What does that mean? It's just a little bit. It's not
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sixty by nine. It's a different aspect ratio. Different aspect because you're getting
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into because it's got because it's got it's a full frame sensor, right,
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So it's a larger sensor size, and then you can pick kind of your
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resolution within that sensor. So you're maybe not using all of the sensor to
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get that because the resolution the sensor is larger than four K or as large.
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Okay, so it's got a full frame sensor on it. It's not
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for the average user, right, this is a you are going to be
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making feature films with this, right, You're going to be you are this
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is a line item in a feature film. Right. It's not a Sean's
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budget for his documentary. He's shooting the summer, right, So this would
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be something Sean like, um, you know, if your your name is
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Joe Rigglebotto, I just pulled that name out of the air. But your
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name is I think that's an actor, Joe Rigglebuto. Right, and you're
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known for being a drone cinematographer. If you know, Mission Impossible or another
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film projects coming along and they say we need a really good drone shot.
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They called Joe Rigglebotto and he bring his wriggle bottom, Yeah, riggle Bottom.
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They he would bring his his drone in and he would film it for
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them as as like a contract. Right. Could you just imagine being that
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guy, Like, yeah, you're talking about like you gotta film this like
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a massive explosion scene or something, and you get one chance and then you're
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drone like you don't get that shot, like because you're the one single guy
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that can capture it on cinema and you mess up your shot and you're like,
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well, sorry, guys, let just waste a ten million dollars.
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And you know, more than likely that has probably happened. Now when it
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comes to this the inspired drone and the camera system. Can you mount your
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own DSLR or mirrorist camera on this drone. This one actually has a camera
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on it. It's got a gamble camera on it. Oh this is not
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mount your own. Oh okay, say it's it's a full frame its Z
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Yeah. DGI has known for including I mean that's what they're known for.
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They're not known just for the flight. They're known for the onboard computer on
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the camera built a bit. Yeah. Yeah, so this is a zen
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Meuse zef. I think it's a Z five. Try to see what the
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actual Cameron model is on it. Now. It's because they have this is
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like the thirty year inspired three zenmuse x nine where they're inspired two was the
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zenmuse x seven, right, So um, yeah, they're they're they're touting
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it as their eight K full frame professional cinematography drone that now I do believe
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and I haven't seen it yet, that they have a YouTube channel highlighting the
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features of this drone as well as you know, like what they did with
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the TGI Mini three when they put that out that made me say I wanted
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Ji dot com. And then it's right out the front page. You click
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on it and you'll be able to get right into it. So yeah,
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they had one word. The camera was flying next to birds and it was
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like so amazing the footage that they got. I mean, so here's a
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question for you, Sean. Maybe you know this one now. A few
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years ago, I did photography and I do video videography of photography on the
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side, and I had a real to her that reached out to me and
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said, could you do video and take photos of this house that they had
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on the market. It was just a little over one point I think one
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point one and I said sure. So I went out there with a camera,
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took some great shots of this beautiful house that had a theater in it,
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the whole bit, and then took some great exterior shots, went back
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at night, took some shots of the fireplace out there, and I was
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really really pleased with them, and they used them. But then they reached
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out to me and say, do you have a drone because they wanted shots.
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They wanted shots from above showing the property, and I didn't at the
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time. I didn't have it. I said, iven if you did,
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you couldn't. Well, And that's my question is how does somebody then make
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that move like say I want to I'd like to do that again. Photography
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of homes and cars. But I would like to integrate the drone, which
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the drone I have takes great video and great stills. If you are looking
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into doing work that you make money for, right with your drone, you
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have to be a what they call a certified remote pilot. That is the
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Part one oh seven number. That that's the FAA s. It's through the
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FA, right, it's it's all through the FA's. It's an aircraft right
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government. Um. If you just go to the FA website and search for
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a Part one on seven, there's a there's a list, it's I'll link
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its ad you can put in the blog. But it's you just got to
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kind of learn the rules. You take test. It used to be really
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hard, right, used. Oh my goodness, So like flight school,
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right, yeah, you had to do ground school. You had to learn
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actual ground school. Right. So I got my Part one oh seven in
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two thousand and ten, all right, and I had to study and do
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a test, and I actually had to go to an airport m HM,
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take a test in front of it, in front of a certified instructor,
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and he had to sit there and watch me take the tests. But no
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fly, you just just edit it the fly. Yeah, I did the
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demonstration, but I then like it was like a big deal. They had
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to notarize it and everything. It was crazy, like it was through the
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airport and through the it was. It was like a lesser version of the
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actual pilot's exam, right like they was when it first came out. It
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was very difficult to get. Um so I got that in two thousand,
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But but it has gotten now. You got it more like twenty twelve,
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because remember I started at the TV station in twenty ten and and you had
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started in twenty eleven. You're right. I didn't get it until I went
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back to get rappage in twenty thirteen. Okay, yeah, that's what it
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was. Yeah, yeah, so I thought I got it before I went
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to San Diego. But anyway, but it got easier, right to get
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the almost seven andy, if you wanted to to cram for this and do
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it and you get your drone, you could probably do it in three or
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four days. Oh that's not bad. Oh wow, Yeah, that would
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be cool, because I think that would be that would be neat to be
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able to do. But that's the thing. If you're gonna if you're gonna
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say I'm gonna two photos of your house and you're gonna charge them, then
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you need to get that one oh seven right, First off, you got
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to get permission. Yea, I will do it. I will tell you
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this right now. The guy at the fa that I worked with because I
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managed all of the drones for Fox when I was there, Right right before
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I left, the guy at the FAA said, use common sense and you
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won't have a problem. Yeah. Yeah. So if you're out there and
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somebody says, well, you know, i'm a realtor, I want like
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two shots in my house, you know, don't fly over four you know,
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don't fly over four hundred feet, don't fly near an airport, don't
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fly over people, don't you know, don't be stupid. Yeah, you'll
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be fine. This is the problem that I had with my drone is like
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you remember, Sean, I asked you before I got that DGI. I
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had the Phantom four, right, the big old sucker. Yeah, And
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I asked you about it and I was like, well, my thing.
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My first question was is it hard to fly? And you're like, no,
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these things basically fly themselves. I mean yeah, and it's it's true.
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I mean everybody. They've got me that. Well, no, it
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really is true, because they have auto leveling, they have returned to home
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um, automatic takeoff and landing. I mean, it's it's it's they're really
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really simple to fly. But I remember asking Sean about that, and then
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once I got it, it was just I felt like I was breaking the
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law anytime I flew it, no matter where, because they made it so
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difficult for different places to fly, like, well, you can't fly in
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an open park because there's people there. Oh well, nope, nope,
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nope. You can't go and fly in the mountains because there's there's trees and
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stuff. Oh nope. You can't fly over neighborhoods because there's people in cars.
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Oh well, now you can't. Okay, okay, where can I
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fly like legally? And and you got to the point where you had to
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use this this FAA app that you would say, you'd have to go to
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this app which barely ever worked because it's a government app, and you would
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have to say I'm gonna be flying a drone at five hundred feet from this
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time to this time, and then you had to wait for approval or whatever
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before you would you know, be allowed because they had to check to make
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sure no other aircraft would. I mean, it was just ridiculous. And
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I got to the part I was like, I can't even fly anymore.
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It was very complicated. Did you go through a lot of hoops, especially
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if you worked for a legit news operation right right, a company that aired
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content live right. So in twenty twenty one they announced the new rule.
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They called it the Operations over People Rule. So as of April twenty one,
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twenty twenty one, drone pilots operating under Part one or seven, may
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fly at night, may fly over people, may fly over moving vehicles without
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a waiver, as long as they meet the requirements for the airspace. Got
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it? Okay? What's the requirements for the airspace? Don't fly by an
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airport, don't fly within five miles of a helicopter pad, you know like
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those landing zone. Yeah, yeah, you know. But can you fly
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downtown between buildings? Because you used to not be able to do that either,
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that's not that's a common sense. No. Right now, how are
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you going to get a shot of a downtown accident or something going on downtown?
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How are you gonna get a drone shot? You can't do that.
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Go stand on skyscrapers. We got skyscrapers there are a thousand feet tall.
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You can't go about a thousand feet like. So again, it's just like
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it's like when and where you know I fly. One of the things I
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noticed on the dj I Mini three Pro and I got the one with the
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remote control. I'm not using the phone for it, but I did notice
23:15
that there is zones that will that will show you you're will actually check to
23:22
see if you're an improved zone, that you're okay in that area, at
23:26
least I guess maybe on the surface. I don't know. I have to
23:29
look more into that. I am going to look into this one oh seven
23:32
and Sean has provided a link for us, and I'll put it up on
23:34
the website too for anybody else that's take it about doing. I honestly would
23:37
love to have another drone and I would love to be part one oh seven
23:41
just because then if I ever needed to, I could legally make money with
23:45
it. But I just find it so intimidating and convoluting that I can't figure
23:52
out when and where to fly. Well, it's probably a lot you need,
23:55
I think I think you need to give it another go. Yeah,
23:56
it's probably a lot thought that was several years ago and they have really refined
24:00
to the process. Well, I've left a really bad taste in my mouth.
24:04
I'm not joking when I said it would take any three or three or
24:07
four days of studying getting the laces. No, I'm not talking about that.
24:11
But the fact again, I can't just take my drone out and go
24:12
fly around the neighborhood. Well, it's gonna be tougher for you, because
24:15
you're in a big city in Denver. Right, you got Denver International not
24:21
that far away? Right, No, I mean I would not. I'm
24:22
nowhere near. First off, you have not been to Denver. If you
24:26
don't know where Denver International is, it is like another city compared to Denver,
24:30
Like it is that far away. But no, I mean, seriously,
24:33
there's nothing around me. But yet I cannot fly in a neighborhood because
24:36
it's a neighborhood residential area. Oh, I didn't know you couldn't do that,
24:38
because I've done that many times in front of my hand, and it's
24:41
illegal. I just told you about the rule. Right, as long as
24:44
you have as long as the air, you're eligible to fly in the airspace,
24:47
you can fly over the neighborhood. Yeah, if I'm a part one
24:49
oh seven. No, I don't think you have to be a part one
24:52
of the to be a part one oh seven. Yes, Oh there you
24:55
go. Oh so I broke the law. Great, I'm gonna get a
24:59
fine now. So so basically, if I give another shot, I have
25:03
to well, first off, obviously buy a drone. Then I have to
25:06
get my part one o seven. Then it kind of opens up the world
25:08
to me. Right, is that what you're saying, Sean? I would
25:11
say I would suggest if if you're interested in getting get drone, get the
25:15
one on seven just because just get in all right. The other how long
25:18
does that last? Good question? Yeah. The other The other thought is
25:22
get a drone that doesn't weigh a certain weight because mine is actually below a
25:26
weight class, so I don't have to get certification on it for something.
25:32
So if it falls out of the sky and it hits a person, it
25:33
doesn't kill them. It just causes brain damage. No, it's not what
25:37
I mean. I just mean the legalities of where you where you can fly
25:41
it. Yeah, from what I understand, Yeah, those are like the
25:45
radio shack drones. It's not a shack drone. I'm sorry it Brookstone,
25:52
give me Broostone, those gods Brookstone, the mall, the airport lounge,
25:59
the ones Instagram for thirty nine dollars. Yeah. Yeah, We're stuck in
26:03
a layover in Las Vegas and there's a Brookstone and I bought a drone there
26:07
and I'm thinking this is gonna be good. Nope. At an airport,
26:10
Yeah, I bought an air was stuck in a layover. Oh boy,
26:12
all right, one oh seven. I'll put the link up on our website.
26:17
Uh, some other things that you've been looking at, Sean, I
26:18
know that. Oh wait, Chel, what are you showing us address clear
26:22
for takeoff? Oh wow? He actually looked at my address because I gave
26:26
it to him recently, and he put it into the app. And then
26:29
okay, well, then I'll dig out my non existing drone and go fly.
26:33
What did you do with your drone? Did you give it away?
26:36
Or what I sold? It really wasn't well because I wasn't using it ever,
26:41
and it was still worth money at the time, So get rid of
26:44
it while I could. I have computers from nineteen eighty nine. I have
26:48
not sold this is this is this is why you have a problem. Yeah,
26:52
so justin like if you wanted to get like the Mavig Mini, like
26:55
spend four hundred and five hundred dollars and get them little find your neighborhood,
26:59
totally doable. Yeah I could do that. Now this tells you also,
27:02
like there are some helicopter pads nearby, you know, say an Anthony snrm.
27:07
Yeah, yeah, I know there's there's a fight common sense, right,
27:11
but this thing, this tells you exactly where I'll take the lesson on
27:14
this that. Yes, it's drastically improved since twenty seventeen when I last floated
27:19
a drone. Now, look, I mean you're you can't fly much further
27:22
sat Like there's the if you look at if you go to the before you
27:25
fly, put can't fly in that big circle, right, those are the
27:27
yeah basically all of Denver. Yeah those seriously, it's pretty much all of
27:33
Denver. You can't fly. Can you fly a water world? No?
27:38
What if? What if you did when they're closed, like to get footage,
27:42
to get footage? Yeah, and watch what happens Then my drone crashes
27:45
and I can't get in the park to get it. It's like a common
27:52
sense Andy episode of the Goonies. Don't fly places where you can't retrieve your
27:56
drone into a cactus. That would be by all right, now, obviously
28:03
Calorado spragues is out. Oh yeah, all the Military Air Force Academy.
28:08
Yeah, I kind of wonder at Davis month and two here we have that
28:11
issue pretty much. That would be uh, that would be pretty funny.
28:15
Um, all right, I wanted to tell you guys what I showed on
28:18
Fox eleven this week. It's kind of cool. Um, got a chance
28:22
to connect with my friends at Ruku. Uh. And I think every one
28:26
of us has a Roku streaming stick. You have one, No, I
28:30
have a Google Chrome Cast with Google TV, and I have an Amazon Fire
28:36
TV stick. All right, I used to have. I used to have
28:37
a Roku four k. Yeah right, that we don't have that anymore.
28:41
We went to Apple TV and just the Apple TV. Our TV is smart
28:47
enough now. So so I have two Rokus. I have the Roku and
28:52
then the regular Roccu and then have Roccu four K and they send us over
28:56
the four K plus to look at and it's like, you know, it's
28:59
kind of cool. Has the voice control on the controller. If you lose
29:03
the controller, it will make a sound. You can send a ping to
29:07
it and it will ping, so you can find the controller, which is
29:10
very nice. You can also tell it hey play classic rock or play oldies
29:15
and it will find a music channel that will play that for you. And
29:19
again I'll connects to your big TV. But what they're doing now, and
29:22
we kind of saw this last year Sean where they partnered with Wise and basically
29:30
branding Roku camps for security cameras. Now they're getting into home security monitoring.
29:37
And so what they've got now, which is actually pretty cool, is they've
29:41
got a home security monitoring kit called the se and it comes with a control
29:47
hub, comes with two entry devices, so you could put it on a
29:52
door, and it's got a little magnetic piece and if that magnetic is broken,
29:56
like somebody opens a door or opens a window, can send an alert
30:00
to your smartphone or your television if you're happy to be watching TV. Comes
30:06
with two of those, comes with a control pad so you can disarm the
30:10
alarm system. And it even comes with a sensor you can put in the
30:12
corner. All for only ninety nine bucks, which is pretty good. Yeah,
30:18
it's not bad if you've got a wired system, you know, and
30:22
you're not using it. And if we talked with the company a few years
30:26
ago, you remember, justin you actually turned us onto them and they take
30:30
your old systems, like whether it be a Honeywell system or something like that,
30:34
and they kind of work it so you could control the wiring on it
30:38
and control the y and but this one is completely wireless. It's battery powered.
30:45
They send all the batteries out with it. Then they also, you
30:48
know, they'll integrate with a webcam. So if you not a webcam,
30:52
but a you know the camera, the ROCU cam. So say you're sitting
30:56
watching a TV you get a notification that your camera has somebody at the front
31:02
door, or your camera sees movement in the backyard, depending on wherever you
31:07
put you know, these cameras, or if you're in a TV room somewhere
31:11
and you want to know if that front door opens, you get a notification
31:15
that front door is opened. And again, it can all be installed quickly,
31:18
very easy. It comes with all the tools. It's only ninety nine
31:22
bucks. That's not bad. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I'm
31:26
not gonna say that's pretty good. Yeah, it's cool that Roku's doing that,
31:30
and they said it's just a way to kind of bring all of the
31:33
home stuff together. So like the whole segment was just featured on Roku smart
31:37
bulbs and the wireless rope lights, which I won't be able to try.
31:41
I wanted to hook them up and see, but I gotta send the stuff
31:45
back. But it would be kind of cool to see how well they light
31:47
up because I've been looking for a solution like something to go under the cabinet
31:51
that would light up the cabinets. We have those motion ones right now and
31:55
they'll light up and it's you know, it's kind of a kind of a
31:57
pain. Yeah, I want to do more of and all speaking of that,
32:00
I gotta reach back out to U. You know the guy that I've
32:04
been talking with on he's on a YouTube. He's a smart homesolver. This
32:08
guy is like, if you haven't been to YouTube and checked out smart Homesolver
32:13
channel, really good. I mean, he just automates every single thing in
32:16
his home. And I really want to get him on the show to talk
32:20
about, you know, just some of his inspirations and things that he's done,
32:22
because it's it's it's truly, it's it's his whole house is just it's
32:28
my dream home. I mean, it's like so smart. You know everything
32:30
about it is this smart? Has you got the new one where you come
32:32
home and it has voice detection on the door. I think Ring is doing
32:37
this one has it has basically detection so it will look and see who it
32:43
is, and if it's somebody that recognizes like somebody that lives in the home,
32:45
it'll say welcome home as you walk in the door. Yep, he
32:50
has that, and he'll it'll turn on certain lights for him versus his wife,
32:53
and it will play certain music for him versus his wife. I mean,
32:55
it's like, yeah, the whole thing is just insanely automated. Did
32:59
you it'll turn on his wife? Oh? Can we say that? I
33:05
can't we say that? I don't know. Did I say that? No?
33:07
I said turn on lights for his wife? I didn't, Wow,
33:10
putting words in my mouth. Bro boy, that's great technology right there.
33:16
All right, we're taking a break. We gotta take a break. We'll
33:20
be back with the Moore of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
33:22
shot the Weird and I'm justin Let me find us on the web at tech
33:27
talk radio dot com. We'll be right back and Matt back to tech talk
33:31
Radio. So I am extremely upset right now. You're very angry. Your
33:37
ears were red. You were telling, well, well, that's just the
33:39
sun. I've been getting a lot of sun lately, you know, working
33:42
at water World and all you were telling but telling us about something that went
33:45
wrong earlier this week. And it's still it's not gonna be available till Tuesday.
33:51
But you paid some money. I definitely paid money. So I'm talking
33:55
about Diablo four. It's a video game. It is a legendary video games
34:00
series. The last time Diablo got released, Sean, correct me if I'm
34:04
wrong, but it was twenty twelve, right, okay, twenty eleven,
34:13
Yeah, so it put on long Blizzard Blizzard, Yeah, yes, Blizzard
34:16
put this game out. And they're a huge company. I mean, Blizzard
34:20
makes World of Warcraft, they make StarCraft, they make what else do they
34:23
make, Sean? I mean StarCraft Overwatch? Overwatch. Yeah. Microsoft is
34:29
trying to Yes, Microsoft is trying to buy them right now, you know,
34:32
like their Activision Blizzard deal. Um. But anyway, so, so
34:37
I paid one hundred and twenty bucks. I think it was to get Diablo
34:42
for a pre release, which which was released on June first, for the
34:47
pre pre release orders. It doesn't. It didn't become public until the sixth,
34:52
right, so Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, so so it Yeah so
34:58
I paid for this early act this and it got released at five pm my
35:04
time on the first. Okay, And I jumped on my PlayStation because I
35:08
want the reason I bought. Now. I'm a PC gamer at heart,
35:12
but I can't play PC remote like I can with the PlayStation or even the
35:16
Xbox. Now. I have an Xbox Series X the latest, you know,
35:21
the top of the line console. I also have a PlayStation five.
35:23
And with the Xbox remote play where I can go to like my local brewery,
35:29
and I can bring my computer and bring an Xbox controller and play it.
35:34
Xbox remote play is hit or miss. I mean, it'll work one
35:36
day and it won't work the next. PlayStation remote play just works. It
35:40
just works. And when you say computer, do you take like the whole
35:45
you take the whole thing there, the whole place. And no, I
35:49
don't have a surface. No, I have a surface pro my laptop,
35:52
right, you know. And I and there's an app of the PlayStation remote
35:54
app, and same with the Xbox. There's an Xbox app as well.
35:59
Um but you just launched the app and you click connect and it connects to
36:02
your PlayStation or Xbox from home wherever you're at, even or even in the
36:07
world. I actually tested out the remote play of the Xbox, which my
36:14
Xbox is in Denver, Colorado, and I tested it from Tokyo, Japan,
36:19
and I was able to play. I was able to stream my Xbox
36:23
from Tokyo. Now, granted it wasn't the greatest and the lag was a
36:28
little bad, but it was it was playable. I was I could play
36:31
some games. I couldn't play any games like Call of Duty or whatever because
36:36
that, you know, it requires split second decision making and you can't really
36:39
do that when you get that kind of lag. But anyway, anyway,
36:43
I got the Diablo on PlayStation because I like their remote play much better.
36:51
And I go to launch it and it's like que for I mean, you're
36:55
in the queue for entry and it's like two minutes. I'm like, oh,
36:59
okay, that's not bad. Two minutes, so two minutes passes.
37:01
I'm waiting. More So, it's like it's like a total of five minutes,
37:05
and then it says failed to find license and then already paid for it,
37:12
Yes, after I've already paid one hundred and twenty dollars for early access,
37:15
it says failed to find license, and then it kicks me back out
37:19
to the main screen. And then I'm like, Okay, let me go
37:21
back in the queue. Maybe that was a one off, Nope, over
37:23
and over. So then I go to check Twitter. Twitter is blowing up,
37:28
and of course the devs of the game, the guys that actually make
37:31
the game, are posting screenshots of them playing Diablo four on Xbox or PC.
37:39
It just kind of none of little assault in the wound, right,
37:43
None of them are meant yeah, none of them are mentioning anything about the
37:47
PlayStation having a problem. Not a single developer tweet that mentions anything about the
37:53
play all the customers that are mentioning it like it's it's it's the number three
37:59
trending top on that day was was the PlayStation Diablo for not a single word
38:06
from Blizzard about it, And so I couldn't get in. I couldn't get
38:08
in, and I'm like, I'm so livid because you think about this twenty
38:15
some years of failed game launches. I mean, look at look at um
38:20
uh no Man's sky, look at all the different call of duties. Look
38:22
at Sean helped me out here with some of these a Star Citizen um uh
38:29
where they have these elite dangerous Yeah. These all these online games, right,
38:37
every single one of them failed and every single time it was the same
38:39
thing, is is not enough server capacity. Okay, well, you know,
38:43
after twenty years of you guys having these problems, don't you think you
38:47
would learn from your mistakes and say, okay, we expect this many servers.
38:53
And not Before I even continue with that thought, about two weeks to
39:00
the launch of Diablo four, they had what they called a server slam where
39:04
they invited everybody to play Diablo for forty eight hours and they said, here,
39:09
come stress test our servers. Let's make this break so we can make
39:15
it so way on launch day it's gonna work. Everybody streamed. I mean,
39:19
there was millions of people playing that game, and yet on the day
39:22
of launch nobody can play it. It's like, you guys, you gotta
39:27
be kidding me. After this many failed launches, you guys can't get your
39:31
heads out of your butt. Think think about how much money that they've generated
39:37
with this? Now? Could this mean? I mean, obviously they're probably
39:43
going to get it fixed. But here you are, with the time you
39:45
have, this time, you've put it aside, you've got the nuggets that
39:49
we're playing, you have this Diablo four, you've paid the extra money.
39:52
Will they give them people a refund? I highly doubt it, But I'm
39:58
I'm you know what, I honestly at this point, I would not surprise
40:00
me. It would not surprise me. Excuse me if the people that had
40:06
the pre order access that couldn't get in are going to file a class action
40:09
lawsuit because we have paid extra money for that. I mean, somebody actually
40:15
had a tweet earlier. It's like it's like, um, what they compared
40:19
to you? They said, it's like paying for a seat on an airplane
40:22
and then getting on board and being forced to stand, or worse, like
40:25
sitting in the lavatory. Yeah. I mean, you're you're expecting to get
40:31
something and then you don't get it. Get the red ring of death on
40:35
your legs. Dude. But seriously, I mean, this is this is
40:40
ridiculous. I mean, I can't believe after all this time, of all
40:45
these failed games. They still can't figure it out. Now, I know
40:47
Sean has been looking up some of the stories around it. And you know
40:50
what really ticks me off justin is we started, you know, you told
40:52
me about this situation. We started looking into it and there are a lot
40:57
of publications. What they were doing, uh, these are online publications is
41:00
getting stories and then they were putting on their fix solution. So you think,
41:07
oh cool, this is a fix. You click on it, you
41:09
read exactly what you've just said, every article the same thing, and then
41:14
you get to the end it said, now it's just a matter of time
41:16
for Sony or the PlayStation network to go ahead and get their system running.
41:22
No fix, nothing that knows you're miraculously going to get through, except they
41:25
just made a couple of bucks off. You go to all the ads.
41:28
Yeah, and this is ridiculous. Yeah, it's really crazy. One of
41:31
them said, you may trade try checking to see if their servers are up
41:36
by clicking here, And it wasn't down detector. It was clicking another web
41:40
page within their same the same company that was full of gain off clickbait.
41:45
Because it ad is in your face. This is why, this is why
41:50
I use piehole to like the DNS black hole, right, I use piehole
41:54
and other ad blockers because ads have just gotten so ridiculous and and and and
42:00
truly, you know, and this is going to go off on a whole
42:04
other tangent and we don't really have to go dive into it. But this
42:07
is why I got out of the media industry, because journalism as a whole
42:10
is just all it is is just clickbait. There's a lot of that,
42:15
and it's it's it frustrates me. There is a there's somebody else that does
42:17
a radio show like we do a tech show, and it's a huge show.
42:22
But you go to the website and I have gone to the website just
42:24
to see, hey, what are they doing, and yeah, they're doing
42:27
better, much better than this show when it comes to you know, the
42:30
followers and stuff. But it's nothing but clickbait, like ads like everywhere on
42:36
it. And yep, I'm just thinking, wow, this is like it's
42:39
yeah, okay, she's making money or that show's making money. Oh,
42:45
but yeah, there's so much clickbait and I you know, I guess maybe
42:49
they're they're thinking what they're thinking. It's it's awful. I just went to
42:54
it it is. Yeah, you're looking at it right now, right clickbait,
42:58
clickbait, clickbait, clickbait. Yeah, big mistakes you're making cleaning your
43:01
TV. Yeah, it's all that's that's that's not even a tech show.
43:07
I mean well, I mean, yes, that's a tech show, but
43:08
that's not even tech shows that do that. Everybody does that and not to
43:12
mention, look, think about um. When you go to look for a
43:15
recipe, Yeah right, you gotta go. You gotta sift through like seventeen
43:19
novels of life stories about how your great grandmother used to make this thing before
43:25
you can finally get to the bottom of the page. And then there's the
43:29
recipe and it's like it's so full of ads. It's just dulous. Like
43:32
one of my favorites on Snapchat is what the Fork and it's really well done.
43:37
But again they'll start with the first thing with ingredients. You get about
43:42
maybe two minutes in and boom, it's an ad and then you got how
43:44
to watch the ad and then they go back to it, but they recap
43:47
what they've done and then another ad and it's like, oh, come on,
43:52
just give me the recipe. So if you were just following us.
43:55
We just discussed this. We'll be right back, all right, So what
43:59
what what's next for you? Justin? I mean, what can you do
44:01
in this case? You can't do anything. I mean, honestly, I'm
44:04
just gonna be waiting to see I'm gonna be searching Twitter for class action lawsuit
44:08
hashtag class action lawsuit. In my quick search, it's found that apparently if
44:14
you download a PlayStation Plus, oh and they've got a Diablo ad on the
44:17
TV. So now what was that, Sean? If you download one,
44:22
if you download one of the free PlayStation Plus games and then launch Diablo while
44:25
that's downloading, apparently that's silly. Really no, no, there's no way.
44:34
So now Sony wants you to go and buy another game. No,
44:37
no, not buy one of the free ones, to buy one of the
44:39
free PlayStation Plus games. All right, this is yeah. I'm hopefully by
44:45
next week Justin will have had a shot, because he's not gonna do it
44:50
for the end of the show, so we'll we'll have to see if he
44:52
has been able to get in to Diablo for If I'm not here next week,
44:57
it's probably because I had an aneurysm trying to get in. All right,
45:00
take quick break, but come back. I've got something huge to show
45:04
you from a company with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
45:07
I'm Seanda Weird, and I'm Justin Lemmy. You can find us online and
45:12
actually get to our website at tech talk radio dot com. No clickbait.
45:16
Now back to tech talk Radio. When I lived down in San Diego with
45:21
Justin, he introduced me to this website Reddit reddits. Oh yeah, I've
45:23
read it. Oh yeah. For those of you who don't know what it
45:27
is, Reddit is considered to be the front page of the Internet. It's
45:30
basically just a collection of the Internet with different subcategories or subreddits that literally any
45:39
topic you can think of exists. Right, So there's pretty much cats,
45:44
dogs, cars, trucks, planes, uh, microphones, radios, amateur
45:50
radio, hamburg. Yeah, if there's a there's a topic for everything.
45:52
You can literally find anything on Reddit. Sometimes I notice you can do like
45:55
a you know, a search, an online search, and you'll see Reddy
46:00
show up as one of the you know, one of the fines where it
46:02
will help you. Yeah, it's a it's a great it's a great place
46:05
to find information on things you may not know about or if you're researching things
46:08
like flashlights, Like there's a flashlights subreddit if you really interested in flashlights.
46:13
I went on their research and found a flashlight that I liked and bought it.
46:15
Anyways, there is a third party app called Apollo. Okay it is.
46:22
It is hands down the best third party Reddit app that allows you to
46:25
access Reddit using the application. Right. It's it's been voted number one app
46:30
on the App Store. It's got millions and millions of downloads, it's got
46:34
millions of users. Great, it's just it works. You can pay a
46:38
subscription, you can pay Lifetime, Ultra, you can pay you know.
46:42
It's it's really great. Do they have a free version of it too?
46:45
Yeah, you can pay for a free version also. Yeah, there's things,
46:49
there's there's tiers that you unlock obviously with the paid versions. But um,
46:54
it's it's really great. And Reddit has decided they're going to start charging
47:01
or their API access. Basically, what that is is an API is a
47:06
is a a door for your app to access the content on Reddit. You
47:13
say, all right, Reddit, I want to display this subreddit on my
47:15
app. It opens the door. It gives you the subredd Reddit is going
47:20
to start charging for that. Wow, And oh my god. The Reddit
47:23
founder, Christian Selling, basically said, I'm not very happy with what they
47:29
said. What they you know, he's had calls to them and he's just
47:30
trying to work it out. But the new cost would be twelve thousand dollars
47:36
per fifty million requests. Oh my god. Okay, that's that's a that's
47:40
a that's a big number. Yeah, but you have to remember, it's
47:44
like there's a lot of there's a lot of things happening on the back end,
47:46
right, Okay, but Apollo again, is it's charging people to use
47:51
their app to a certain extent. Yeah, but to a certain extent.
47:54
But Reddit, you know, to give you an example of how many API
48:00
requests Apollo does last month, it did seven billion. Oh lord, how
48:06
much is that? Which would cost him one point seven million per month or
48:12
twenty million a year. Oh my god, wow, to continue to do
48:17
his app the way it is working now. And the Internet has blown up
48:22
about it because a lot of people are just like, yo, Reddit,
48:25
your website stinks, your main website stinks, your your app is atrocious.
48:32
We use other apps because they work better, and we want to use your
48:36
site. So figure it out. So it's just it's it's gonna be a
48:39
bummer if if I can't use Apollo. I don't really know if I'm gonna
48:43
be on Reddit anymore. But I like Reddit. So what is that going
48:45
to do to the communities that I follow? What is that going to do
48:49
to the people that use Reddit? What is that going to do to the
48:52
ad revenue for Reddit? You know all that stuff. So it's it's gonna
48:54
be interesting to see what happens. But so far it doesn't seem like third
48:59
party apps are going to be the way to you Reddit. Wow, it's
49:00
it's interesting. I just went ahead and downloaded the Apollo app. I did
49:05
not have that. And first story I see there is now that Reddit is
49:08
killing third party apps July first, what are great alternatives Reddit? So they're
49:14
already looking there's gonna be something else out there that people can use. There's
49:17
there's already been other apps that have coming on because Reddit has either bought them
49:22
out or made their app a was identical to that. It was easier to
49:27
just use the normal Redda app than it was to use the third party app.
49:30
So this is just kind of a I don't want to say it's a
49:32
bully tactic, but it's it's a way to force people to use the normal
49:37
Reddit site to drive up their numbers the normal Reddit app to boost their their
49:42
public IPO offering. Wow. Oh wow, Well yeah, that plays out
49:45
July first is when they're gonna start charging them. So you're gonna see if
49:47
Apollo sticks around or if they start charging for everything. Yeah, he said,
49:52
even if he only kept the subscription users, those numbers would have to
49:55
double to keep him the float. Yeah. Wow man. And will the
50:00
quality of Reddit go down then? Because you know what I'm saying, this
50:05
is going to be less people that are going to be able to use that.
50:08
So it's gonna be less popular to do that because they're charging an exorbitant
50:13
fee. Maybe they'll they'll work out their fee structure. Who knows. Um.
50:16
I had a great question this week. Maybe you guys can help.
50:20
And first, this came to us from one of the directors at Fox eleven
50:25
that they have century Link, which is of course you know DSL basically right,
50:30
it's not cable, it's DSLU. And they were asking me they wanted
50:35
to get rid of their motem or they wanted to get rid of having to
50:37
pay for modem rental because with Century Link you get a motem, you get
50:42
a router all in one, and that's what you get, but you pay
50:45
for it every month. So you want to know can people do that?
50:47
And I know with Exfinity I've done that where I don't pay a monthly.
50:52
I went out and I bought my own neck gear modem Docsis three three one
50:55
or three three and you know, got my own linksis sixty router, which
51:00
you know, I love. You know that it can be kind of pricey,
51:01
but then you take away that monthly cost added to your cable bill that
51:06
that makes it kind of nice. But now he's wondering can it be done
51:08
with DSL? And I told him myself, I'm gonna have to look and
51:13
see if there are any offerings. I know zyke Cell is one of the
51:15
companies that offers a DSL type of modem, and then it depends if you
51:22
have voice services and the whole bit. But I thought, I'm gonna ask
51:24
the guys on tech talk radio to see if they have a solution. What
51:29
would be the best way to go. Now I have Central Link not well,
51:37
yeah, I was gonna say Central Link not so much. I have
51:38
Central Link gig Internet and it's amazing. But yeah, DSL yeah, no,
51:44
now are you? Are you? Is it considered like a DSL for
51:46
you justin even though it's Central Link or it's fiber. Oh no, I
51:50
got fiber. You have fiber. Central Link does both DSL and fiber,
51:53
right, so obviously fiber is not available certain areas they'll have DSL lines,
51:58
right, so it's unfort if they mean do they have other options? Right?
52:01
Yeah, I don't have to stay. It was Injurylink. Now I'm
52:04
gonna see them on Monday and I'm gonna have to talk to him. And
52:07
speaking of that Monday, I will tell you Next week on the show Netgear,
52:12
We're gonna have a representative from Netgear on talking about some of their products
52:16
that might be good ideas for Father's Day that's coming up. You want to
52:20
get down a new router or a new model, which is cool, but
52:22
I want to show you something they sent. This is the new router from
52:28
Netgear. Uh it's pretty big, dude. That's the size of like a
52:32
movie poster. What are you trying to start like a forty eight port?
52:37
Which, No, it's actually something new that they've got. It's called mural
52:42
and I haven't unboxed it yet, but it's m e U R A L.
52:45
You guys got to look at this, uh, and it is from
52:47
Netgear. But what it is is imagine being able to put up a huge
52:52
frame in the in your home that you can select whenever you want to.
52:58
You pay a subscription for it. I want to have the Maybe I want
53:02
to have a decal or I want to have Da Vinci, or I want
53:06
to have Mona Lisa, or if you have this artwork that can then be
53:09
put into this frame and it's all digital, you can have your fighting family
53:15
photos on it and it's huge. I mean it's I mean, you guys
53:16
see this box nor from from Hohogan Netgear. It's net Gear at muro Emmy
53:22
you are a l it's it looks incredible on their website. Yeah, and
53:27
they have three You download an app and you can set it up to pull
53:34
stock art. You can have it pull uh. If you have a subscription,
53:38
you can have it pull subscription art uh NFTs NFTs AI generated probably.
53:45
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it looks pretty awesome. And they're
53:49
and they're they look like they're digital displays built inside of a campus structure.
53:53
Yeah, so how much does this go for? I'm don't even know that.
53:59
Come, I am the There are three displays. They have a thirteen
54:05
point thirteen by thirteen and a half by seven and a half, so like
54:08
a normal desktop size one sixteen by twenty four or in nineteen by twenty nine.
54:15
That's big. Yeah, so let's see the thirteen points. The thirteen
54:19
by seven five is three hundred forty nine ninety nine. Right, mereal smart
54:23
WiFi photo frame fifteen point six hten display for photos art NFT. That's three
54:29
forty nine ninety nine. The other one is shop now. The sixteen by
54:36
twenty four is doesn't say a price five ninety nine five ninety nine for that
54:42
one, right, and then the larger size and knew. Oh you can
54:45
even pick different color frames for it. Standard mounting swivel mounts. You can
54:52
hid a safe behind it. Yeah, it's nineteen by twenty nine is sixty
54:57
seven hundred dollars sixty nine six ninety nine ninety nine. Black. You can
55:02
get it. Oh, I can get it tuesday. I can get it
55:05
in a couple of days shipping. Well, we're gonna show it on TV
55:08
on on Fox eleven on Monday. So for our listener, these are these
55:12
look these look really cool? Yeah, so you'd be able to I just
55:15
gotta figure out how to get to display it. But but how wait?
55:17
Hold on holding by by by an artist easel? Yeah, an artists.
55:25
We'll just rent one from the library or barn one from the library. No,
55:29
an artist easel, that'd be good. I think I might even have
55:30
one. But but here's the thing. Nobody's talking about this. Where does
55:35
it get its power from? No? Oh good good, yeah it maybe
55:40
look it's gonna look great on a wall chord for the power chord draping down
55:47
from it. We're gonna have none of these. None of these pictures look
55:50
like they have power. Maybe it's battery. Oh so you gotta take it
55:53
off every couple days and charge it? Probably all right, I mean that's
55:59
that's I will have that all figured out this weekend as well. So all
56:02
right, we're gonna take come back. Just has got something to share with
56:07
us, that'll be more with tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
56:10
seand Weird, and I'm justin. Let me send us a tweet at tech
56:15
talk Radio. We'll be right back and now fact to tech Talk Radio.
56:19
There's a new website. I'm not sure exactly how new it is, but
56:23
it's pretty cool. It's called zoom dot Earth, Okay, and it is
56:28
like live or semi live satellite imagery of weather. And it's not as accurate.
56:35
It's not as detailed as like accu weather or Weather Underground or whatever.
56:39
But what it does give you is it gives you real satellite imagery of Earth
56:44
and the daytime, nighttime. You know where the sun position is, where
56:49
the storms are coming, you know certain storms. It's actually really cool looking
56:53
and you can it's really quick to load. You can zoom in and out
56:57
zoom dot Earth or if that could be handy with a hurricane season coming now
57:00
to you know, the eastern coast. That many good and it tracks the
57:04
hurricanes. Absolutely it does, and it's it's pretty cool. I'm looking at
57:07
it. It's this it's a cool like visual representation of the world and what
57:12
the weather looks like all over the world. Zoom dot Earth is the website.
57:15
We'll check it out, all right. Cool. That's it for this
57:16
week's Tech Talk Radio. Don't forget next week, ntgarre gonna be on the
57:20
show. We'll be back talking more about tech. If you've got a question,
57:23
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Lemmy. We'll see you next week. Have yourselves a great week.