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Episode 428 - So You Want to Start a Podcast? · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is Harold Parano and you listen to the geeks
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  Speaker 1: on the radio tech Talk Radio. Welcome to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean too Weird, and I'm Justin
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  Speaker 2: Lemme and I'll be twenty twenty five. Oh yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is the first show for the new year.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I think it is. I think so, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think it is. We've been We had to run a
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  Speaker 1: couple of best ofs. We had so much stuff going on,
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  Speaker 1: it's been crazy. Justin you've been doing all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: fun stuff and Sean you as well.
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  Speaker 3: With all football's finally over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, are you happy?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Do you like?
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  Speaker 1: What's your favorite sport at Notre Dame that you that
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  Speaker 1: you kind of do?
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  Speaker 3: Hockey?
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  Speaker 2: Hockey?
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  Speaker 3: I've been the primary lead on hockey since twenty nineteen, right,
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  Speaker 3: So I actually gave it up a little bit this
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  Speaker 3: year because of being down an engineer. I had to
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  Speaker 3: do a little bit more of a basketball role. But
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  Speaker 3: hockey is my favorite sport to watch in general. So
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  Speaker 3: getting to do Notre Dame cocky and being an avid
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  Speaker 3: college hockey fan. Right, So the school I went to
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  Speaker 3: Farris State in Northern Michigan had a has a Division
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  Speaker 3: one hockey team, right because hockey, there's not many schools
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  Speaker 3: that have hockey in the college world. So they played
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  Speaker 3: in the CCCHA when I was there, So we played
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  Speaker 3: Michigan State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Bowling Green, we played all
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  Speaker 3: the big name hockey teams. So college hockey gets to
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  Speaker 3: be excited the chance to you know, when I first started,
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  Speaker 3: not name, I got to be in the venue, I
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  Speaker 3: got to do the broadcast from the venue side, and
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  Speaker 3: now I'm in charge of it, and you know, it
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  Speaker 3: went from being on NBC Sports Net to Peacock and
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it's just kind of a cool progression
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  Speaker 3: for me. And it's just it's something that I'm proud
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  Speaker 3: of and I like hockey.
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  Speaker 2: So it's got to be a blast to do. The
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  Speaker 2: other thing.
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  Speaker 1: We'll got a touch on this. You actually are part
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  Speaker 1: of a new podcast. And I think this is super
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  Speaker 1: cool too, because I did an event last week and
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  Speaker 1: people walking around the event would come up and they
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  Speaker 1: would talk to me, and then, you know, it was amazing, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: how many people want to do a podcast now, and
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  Speaker 1: how many people want to record. One guy was talking
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  Speaker 1: about doing something on his favorite foods. Another said, you
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  Speaker 1: know places he's traveled to. Another woman said she wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do you know, advice tips and thought maybe I
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  Speaker 1: could have a podcast and do it. But all of
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  Speaker 1: them said, oh, but I know, it's super hard to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they are difficult to do, right. It's the number
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  Speaker 3: one reason it's hard to do is content.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: You have to be willing to create content. That's what
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  Speaker 3: That's what podcasts are. Content. Somebody has to come up
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  Speaker 3: with the idea. You have to have a producer, Somebody
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  Speaker 3: has to do the technology, somebody has to do the
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  Speaker 3: publishing right. So there's a lot of work. I will say.
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  Speaker 3: The athletics department at the university, the football team started
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  Speaker 3: a podcast called Wake Up the Echoes. It started two
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  Speaker 3: years ago, I believe just over two years ago. Now
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  Speaker 3: that took off like that format took off like crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Then some other people wanted to come into a podcast
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  Speaker 3: because they saw that. Then another department wanted to do
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  Speaker 3: a podcast. I think we're producing out of our space
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  Speaker 3: seven podcasts a week right now, wow, using our using
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  Speaker 3: our podcast studio, because we have a studio. That's built
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  Speaker 3: just for video podcasting, and then we have a vo
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  Speaker 3: booth which is where I recorded the behind the Screens
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  Speaker 3: it at ND podcast, which is because I'm part of
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  Speaker 3: the Office of Information Technology. Nor Name Studios is under
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  Speaker 3: that umbrella. They invited me on to talk about just
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  Speaker 3: kind of what I do in terms of uh, supporting
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  Speaker 3: the university and the video and the live streaming and
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So I will link it to
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  Speaker 3: our blog, but take us and do it. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool. It just talks about just my experience at
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  Speaker 3: the university over the years and kind of like what
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  Speaker 3: the technology looks like on campus and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: This is also for those of you who aren't part
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  Speaker 3: of the university or unders know about. Noted, there was
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  Speaker 3: a large fire on campus right after the playoffootball game
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  Speaker 3: on the twentieth of December, Oh that destroyed some of
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  Speaker 3: our fiber and network infrastructure. So this last two weeks
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  Speaker 3: since Christmas, since the beginning of the new year, we've
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  Speaker 3: been working with Networking and the fiber team to reconnected
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  Speaker 3: and get our infrastructure back on campus to support all
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  Speaker 3: of our events. So work has been very busy for
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  Speaker 3: me while also supporting ESPN events, NBC events, and all
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  Speaker 3: the other academia events that we do.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, we were talking about the podcasts, say
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  Speaker 1: versus radio. This is you know, a radio broadcast that
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  Speaker 1: we do make available as a podcast, and I mean
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  Speaker 1: we're one of those that have been around a long time,
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety six. We were doing that before podcasts
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  Speaker 1: were podcasts. The guidelines though, for us are still a
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  Speaker 1: little more stringent because Number one FCC rules, so we
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  Speaker 1: do that. Number two timing we have to fit into
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  Speaker 1: radio station's timing. And a radio station obviously has its
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  Speaker 1: commercials just like they do here. We've been on other
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  Speaker 1: stations across the country as well, same thing.
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  Speaker 2: We tall it. Okay, here you go to.
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  Speaker 1: A commercial break, Here you go to get So it
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  Speaker 1: has to fit with a podcast. You don't really have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about that, do you. I mean, do you
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  Speaker 1: ever just like you open the mic and just go.
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  Speaker 3: Well you do because you don't want to bore the
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  Speaker 3: listeners out of their skulls.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, yeh.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said this earlier, it's content. You have to
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  Speaker 3: have interesting content that people want to stick around and
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  Speaker 3: listen to. Engaging content too. I mean that's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And that's not an easy thing to do because there's
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  Speaker 3: the way the Internet is and how worldwide it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's so saturated with people that know a lot about
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  Speaker 3: the specific things you're going to talk about. So you
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  Speaker 3: have it's very, very very competitive.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell people if they are thinking about it,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know where you direct people to because
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  Speaker 1: some people will say, well where do I put it?
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  Speaker 2: Where do I store it?
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  Speaker 1: Speaker which is it's owned by iHeartMedia, but Speaker is available.
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  Speaker 1: We're on Spreaker and how that works that you get
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  Speaker 1: a free account, absolutely free. You go in there as
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  Speaker 1: long as you know it's one podcast you're doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not just one episode, but one theme, one one name.
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  Speaker 1: You could do that and work the Speaker podcast to
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  Speaker 1: get your stats, get your shows posted, all of that,
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  Speaker 1: and they do. They make that available for free, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll learn the importance of a SEO and writing up
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  Speaker 1: what did you guys talk about or what did your
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  Speaker 1: girls talk about when you were doing your podcast? If
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for a start. They even have tools that
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  Speaker 1: may be available for your smartphone. So some people don't
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  Speaker 1: have a microphone, like you Sean or you justin or
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  Speaker 1: like we have here in the studio, you could record
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  Speaker 1: it on your phone. Some people are doing that, but
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  Speaker 1: again I think your right shun content and you do
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  Speaker 1: have to plan that.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just go off and just start talking. I
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  Speaker 1: mean unless you're really good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean you can He's gonna listen. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's like what they say, It's like everybody in
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  Speaker 2: their and their brother has a podcast, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: only the you know, the the strong survive. I guess
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  Speaker 2: you could say.
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  Speaker 1: If you were gonna do one, justin like a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: where would you would you go music?
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  Speaker 2: Because I know you.
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  Speaker 1: Love music life in the navy, you know, after the Navy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what what would be like something maybe you would think
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  Speaker 1: about doing.
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  Speaker 2: I think I would probably be talking about video games.
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  Speaker 2: I think I just you know, discussing current video games,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because I'm always bouncing around from game to game,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, games don't really hold my attention for
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  Speaker 2: a long period of time, so I'm always trying new things.
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  Speaker 2: So something that would be like, hey, what am I
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  Speaker 2: playing this week? Or you know, what's this new game
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  Speaker 2: that came out or whatever. I think that would probably
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  Speaker 2: be a good podcast that I would do.
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  Speaker 1: We've had some people on the show like Riya stream Still,
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  Speaker 1: Mountain sixty four, and you know some of the artist
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  Speaker 1: four two nine, Yeah, Darkness, Fortune nine, great stuff. They
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  Speaker 1: and they've been really good, but they do something a
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  Speaker 1: little different live video casters. Is there are there more
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  Speaker 1: of a market now for live video than there is
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  Speaker 1: like the recorded podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah. People people want to be visually entertained as
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  Speaker 2: well as audibly entertained too. I mean, you know podcasts,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you could you can listen on the go
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  Speaker 2: when you're walking or when you're working or in your car.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, people, people really this is that day
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  Speaker 2: and age of short form. You know, people they just
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  Speaker 2: doom scroll. They just want, you know, two minutes here,
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  Speaker 2: five minutes there. They don't want to have an entire
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  Speaker 2: hour or more that they have to listen to. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Rogan, I know, I know his podcast is absolutely
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  Speaker 2: just the number one podcast in the world. I just
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  Speaker 2: can't get into it. Yeah, because I don't like this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my ADHD I can't sit there and listen
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  Speaker 2: for a whole hour of a topic like I want
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  Speaker 2: short form content. So to have something like what we
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  Speaker 2: have right here, you know, putting it on social media.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know, I don't know what's going to
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  Speaker 2: go happen with TikTok or whatever, but yeah, putting clips
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  Speaker 2: of of interesting topics that we might be talking about,
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  Speaker 2: putting that up on Instagram or TikTok or Twitter x
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  Speaker 2: you know or feven Facebook. Really that's kind of what
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  Speaker 2: people want to see. Yeah, and that's grown a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And I've seen our you know, we use Opus.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell people use Opu's clip for that, and we
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  Speaker 1: pay a monthly and we can get we can throw
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  Speaker 1: stuff up and it will create a clip based on
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  Speaker 1: what it feels could go viral. But it's also brought
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  Speaker 1: people back to listen to the actual podcast itself, to
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  Speaker 1: actually subscribe. Our subscribe accounts going up. So if we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about something that maybe makes them go, oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: he's got Justin's talking about games, I like this, or
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  Speaker 1: Sean's talking about picking up a satellite dish on a
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  Speaker 1: roof in the snow. Sorry, Sean, I've done it exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna find
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  Speaker 3: a great clip. So back when I work at Fox,
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  Speaker 3: I strapped a GoPro to my head. Well, used to
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  Speaker 3: go pro strap from my Yeah, and actually recorded myself
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  Speaker 3: one night after a huge snowstorm scraping off all of
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  Speaker 3: the satellite dishes at Fox. No, they had to go
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  Speaker 3: out because we could, because you know, once they get
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  Speaker 3: covered with snow, they don't they don't receive for transmits.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're kidding. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: So well, yeah, I can't get through the snow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'll find that clip and share it so we
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  Speaker 3: can put it on the blog.
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  Speaker 2: We get one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to see that and tie it to
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  Speaker 1: the do you know who that guy is there? Who's
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  Speaker 1: that guy lying on the floor? Your famous?
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  Speaker 2: So yeah YouTube video.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't make this kid drink you know the
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  Speaker 3: Macsta Google Micosta County Rave twenty sixteen. That was cript
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  Speaker 3: that I shot when I was looking at at Fox.
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  Speaker 3: That dude.
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  Speaker 2: They made it on Jimmy Kimmel and yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It made it. Yeah, it made Jimmy Kimmel's top five
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  Speaker 3: news clips of the year.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome. That was really good.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you mentioned it justin you said it, and
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  Speaker 1: we can't be a tech show and not.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about it. Ticked.
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  Speaker 1: I know we all have different views on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Let's face it, Sean, you have a very limited, very
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  Speaker 1: limited footprint on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Reddit and snapchat are the only two that I actively use.
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  Speaker 1: I found myself using Reddit a little more because you
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  Speaker 1: guys talking about it so much, and then when I
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  Speaker 1: need to look up something, I go, oh, wow, look
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  Speaker 1: at that. I've found good advice, products not to buy even,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or products to get.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I I think with social media though,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like you know, you're you're gonna get what
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  Speaker 2: your deepest, darkest, you know, unknown desires want to give you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there sounds like a late night movie on Cinemax. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean think about it. You know, people people sit
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  Speaker 2: there and tell me they're like, well, I don't use
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  Speaker 2: blah blah platform because it's just full of you know,
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  Speaker 2: uh stuff that I don't agree with, whether it be
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  Speaker 2: politically or just you know, in a general like snap
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  Speaker 2: yeah or yeah anything really and it's just like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I I hear what you're saying, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't agree. Like I'll give you an example. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I tell people I use X a lot more often
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  Speaker 2: now than I ever did before, and people are like Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe you would use that. It's so horrible.
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  Speaker 2: It's so horrible, and it's not I mean, it's the
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  Speaker 2: it's the content that you have engaged with. Is the
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  Speaker 2: algorithm is going to keep serving you that content because
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  Speaker 2: it wants you to stay on the platform. So if
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  Speaker 2: you you know, if you find stuff that you don't
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  Speaker 2: agree with, whether it be politically or whatever, and you
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  Speaker 2: sit there and doom scroll through it, or or you
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  Speaker 2: click through it and you're looking at comments and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: the platform is going to think that you want to
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  Speaker 2: see more of that content. You can curate your social
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  Speaker 2: media to what you want it to be. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: you know X, I don't get any of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, occasionally i'll get something I'm like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: really don't want to see that, and I just scroll
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  Speaker 2: by it, or or if it's really bad, I'll just
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  Speaker 2: say block or whatever. But honestly, my you know, X
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  Speaker 2: feed is full of technology, it's full of crypto, it's
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  Speaker 2: full of local news, games, video games, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't really see all the stuff that maybe
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  Speaker 2: somebody else might pull up backs and say, look at
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  Speaker 2: it's all it is is talking about you know, Trump
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, you know, it might be. I don't see
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff because I curate it. Same thing goes
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  Speaker 2: for Reddit, you know Reddit. I use Reddit every single day.
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  Speaker 2: But Reddit, for me is starting to get to the
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  Speaker 2: point where it's just an echo chamber of like minded
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  Speaker 2: individuals that I may not agree with, and I just
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  Speaker 2: constantly see that same content over and over. But again,
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  Speaker 2: you can curate it. Yeah, And I try to stay
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  Speaker 2: away from the main subs and subreddits. I try to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, stay in my little zone of technology, video games, golf,
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  Speaker 2: disc golf, you know whatever, and I just visit those communities.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, yeah, social media it can be good
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  Speaker 2: for certain things, but it can also be really bad
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  Speaker 2: if you're not really sure what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I know, people like Sean you did this. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that that's it. Pulling back. I'm not going to be
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  Speaker 1: on this platform anymore. And they have said that their
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  Speaker 1: quality of life is actually a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, So if I look back, i'd have to
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  Speaker 2: look to you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even remember what my last post was, but
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  Speaker 3: I believe it was late winter of nineteen twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 3: or early spring of twenty twenty. That was the last
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  Speaker 3: time I posted anything on Facebook. Yeah, and it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was weird at first, right, because if you don't
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  Speaker 3: have it on your phone or your muscle memories used
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  Speaker 3: to you scroll up in your phone, you hit Facebook,
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  Speaker 3: you scroll up in your phone, you get read it whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I was noticing that as soon as I'd pick up
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  Speaker 3: my phone, I'd try and where Facebook go. So there
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  Speaker 3: were things that I just found were little nuances that
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: were like, oh that that really that was just muscle memory.
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  Speaker 3: That was just me feeling that addiction of I needed
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  Speaker 3: to view that. I needed to see that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like walking in It's like walking into the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: and opening the fridge when you just did it like
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds ago, right.
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  Speaker 3: Content the contest didn't change, but you were expecting a
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  Speaker 3: different result. Yeah, And it took a little while, but
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  Speaker 3: I did notice that things just seemed to slow down
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. Right. I was able to take in
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  Speaker 3: more at home with Caitlin. I was able to do
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  Speaker 3: more meaningful things at home with the time that I
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  Speaker 3: would have done been scrolling on Facebook or whatever. Now
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  Speaker 3: some other things have replaced that, so I'm still not
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  Speaker 3: completely gone from that feeling, but I was getting projects
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  Speaker 3: completed that I wanted to get done at home. There
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  Speaker 3: were things that and it felt like they had more
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  Speaker 3: meaning to them. It was just this weird disconnect from
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  Speaker 3: technology back to a physical you know, I was reading books,
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  Speaker 3: I was reading magazine. You know, I was doing more
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  Speaker 3: not on my phone.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Right right now, there's options now too, and I found
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: and I have found recently, and I'm not going to
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: be one of those same I'm leaving to Facebook. I'm like,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I have found that. I don't know if it's an algorithm,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: but other people have said the same thing. As you're scrolling,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: it's more ads. It's gotten pretty it's gotten pretty ridiculous,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: where it's you get an ad, then you get hey,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: you might want to follow them, you have to remember
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: that that person is paying for that. Like if we
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: wanted to, we could say, I Facebook, I want you
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: to show everybody in this zip code that's within this
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: age group our page so they can like it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And that's what everybody's doing.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: And so you're being just inundated now with some of that.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: The other thing is you see a video under reels
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: and you may think, oh, that looks cool, click on it.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: You click on it, that you're gonna be fed the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: same type of content or this from the same creator
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: as well, even if you're not following them. So you
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: gotta got you have to kind of remember that. And
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: it's gotten their algorithm has gotten really bad.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Going back to your original piece about you know TikTok,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: you know TikTok. The you know, half of the country
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: or whatever believes that TikTok is getting banned because you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the Chinese government is collecting you know, sensitive data on
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: the users. Yeah, Byte Dance, they're collecting sensitive data and
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: it's a national security thing. The other half of the
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: country believes that they just are doing it because the
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: tech billionaires are colluding with the president to create you know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: one particular social media that everybody's going to use, and
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: that it's you know, it's I just don't, you know,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to believe. But you know, TikTok.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I never really use TikTok all that much, so I
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: really could care less whatever happens to it, to be honest,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I never really used Snapchat all that much, you know,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I use Facebook anymore.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I used TikTok for a little while. Yeah, I thought
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: it was great at first, right, I was able to
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: curate it a little bit, like most of it was
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: like monster trucks and trucks and dirt biking and you know,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: outdoors and stuff, which I like. But then I could
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: tell its slowly curated to my age group, my gender,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: some of my other ideologies and things that I follow
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: on other social medias. And it was interesting because Caitlin
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: and I compared are TikTok's at one point when she
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: still had it, and it was like Kate was like, oh,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I'm getting all this classical FM and music and theater
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: and arts and stuff, and I'm like, well, I'm getting
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: women trucks and Donald Trump.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: You dude, That's why I was getting weird TikTok dances.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: And so I just was like, this is not I mean,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: it just was a little too much. And I could
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: tell that I was definitely on it a lot, and
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: there were some of the creator there were some creators
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: that I really enjoyed watching and getting updates from and stuff.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: But I was just like it just it was eating
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: away at me, like I'm spending way too much time
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: scrolling on this and it's just I didn't care for
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: the way it just was automatically just pushing this type
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: of content into my face.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It's part of it.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It's really interesting Sean too, and justin we've taken our
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: content that we've created right and we put it on TikTok.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: And the numbers were always higher on TikTok until recently
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: we started to see that number growing on Instagram on
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the reels portion of that, so I think it's you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: as you do that, maybe it'll get better. But I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: always wondered, like, why are the numbers so high on
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: TikTok versus reels. I mean, you should be happy for them,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: but they weren't necessarily coming from you know, all my friends.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't have a I don't have a huge friends
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: list on there, so yeah, it was it was kind
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of bizarre.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: You know, Kerrie Morten, who I worked with when I
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: was in another station in town, she wrote something because
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: she was so glad that TikTok was going away when
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and when they first when it disappeared, she wrote this
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: long I mean, I want to say eight paragraph thing
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: about the data that they're taking and by Dance is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: giving it that of nothing holding the back and they're
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: giving it to the government and we might think, why
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I do they care about what I'm doing? But if
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you as a collective though, that could be damaging. And
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I read it and I thought, man, I really liked
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: what she wrote and there's some sense to it. And
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: then once, you know, the next day, Yeah, everybody woke
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: up and TikTok was back.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So was it a pr thing?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Did they?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: They? Yeah?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And then it was funny how many people were going,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: let's can we use our VPN? Can we use our VPN?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: No?
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Because these servers were based in the United States that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: held the US data.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: It's the data then was moving.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: You know, across the country, across the world. So yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that's that's one thing. So I don't know will it
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: will it survive? They got ninety days, according to what
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the new administration is saying, to come up with some
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: kind of a plan.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I thought it was seventy five days. Is it seventy five?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I thought it was nice maybe yeah, but.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Not enough work to go away forever. Unfortunately, I don't think.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I think I think it's just going
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: to be that they're going to try to, you know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: get it to be know, Elon Musk is gonna buy
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: it or you know, there's even talk of what's his name,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: mister beast, you know really, yeah, he was, he was
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: putting in a bid I know, mister wonderful Kevin Leary
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: from the Shark Tank. Yeah, so you know, I don't
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen with it. But but why you know, Well,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: that's the thing why. I mean, it's a it's a money.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It's a it's a money. I mean, it's it's it's
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: it's money. Just sitting there being people the money.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's money. It's so much money.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: People, they just don't want China involved in it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: People will realize how much money is involved in harvesting
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: people's data and pushing ads into your faces. They don't
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: get it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely are.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: It is a free product. As Matt would say, you
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: are the product. Yeah, because they are selling you. They're
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: selling your likeness, they are selling your images, they're selling
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: your videos, they're selling your content. China doesn't give a
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: rats petuit about your content. They will turn it around
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: and remarket it and sell it in China and in
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Asia and other parts of the world, and you will
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: never see it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is interesting because your content you're putting up there,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: then somebody else could be using it. So yeah, that
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: really does kind of make you wonder. And I still
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: want to know what is a petuit?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: There are no please, we talked about we talked about
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: it a little while ago. We're we have to abide
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: by the FCC rules and phrases.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: We can't say, yeah, all right.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: If you think of social media sites that have gone,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that have disappeared, is there one that stands out? I mean,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: think about it. We had twelve seconds. Twelve seconds was
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was short form video that could be twelve seconds or less.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: If you remember that one. You had my Space, you
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: know vine which went vine vie Vine Yeah, vibe journal
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: live journalist that DV and art d.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: V and art divan art is still around.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I guess it's still around, It's just not nearly.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: That actually a social media I thought that was just
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: a place to put it.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Was it kind of blood did the lines between art
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: and social media. People could put content on there, but
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: then it was easier to put content in other places.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: So a lot of people left.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I thought my Space was still around too. Plus Google Plus, yeah, yeah,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: hangouts or whatever. Yeah, you had AOL they had them.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeahoo had play chats yep, yeah.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Bro aoa instant messengers where it's at. That's where it
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: all began. That ICQ yep Q is ICQ.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: There's a there's a local one to my hometown that
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: we used to tell net into all the time growing up,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: called Luminet. We had a server local in Luddington that
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: we would always connect on and chat and boasting forums
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and stuff. So that was my early early days of
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: tell netting and learning how to do that kind of stuff.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: So I think a lot of us remember bbs is too.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You know, you'd find about a good local BBS you
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: could dial into and that was your that was your connection. Yeah,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: did you guys ever use BBS's or am I just
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: showing my age?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I can't say I used BBS but no, I mean
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I pretty much started right around the time like AOL
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: chat rooms and ICQ and ail and to Messenger and
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: even MSN Messenger used to come default with.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I mean ms Messenger really kind of revolutionized like the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: messaging chat platform right because they were the first ones
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: to do video chat calling, which eventually morphed into Skype.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Which Skype for what it was at the time and
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: still should be, was a very dominant video calling platform.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: It they had. They had the lowest latency, the highest quality,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and it was free. Now you could pay and you
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: could do international calling and stuff. But Skype, I don't
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: think Microsoft dropped the ball hard by not pushing Skype
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: a lot harder than whatever they rebranded teams whatever it's called,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: right like skyp They should have rebranded Skype and pushed
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Skype heavily back onto the masses.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: But Zoom came along and Zoom ate it up. Especially
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: during the pandemic. That was it was either Skype or Zoom,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and Zoom where it was.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: You look at it, look at it from education an
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: education standpoint, Zoom had a little tiny bit of a
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: foothold on the education market and then when the need came,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: they flipped on a switch and said here's five thousand
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: new servers go, and they were able to take out
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: as much capacity as possible very quickly. And I mean
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: education was the number one driver for for content online
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: during the pandemic. So that's where Zoom kind of got
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: its luck and draw from all right.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: We got to take a break.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: We got a couple of listener questions as well. You
• 25:35
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• 25:37
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• 25:40
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• 25:42
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• 25:44
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• 25:49
  Speaker 3: During the break, we were talking about let's do a
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: listener question. Yeah, right, question. I drew the short straw.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I am hoping you can help me. I use my
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: PC laptop a lot for everything. I've run out of slots.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I have two USB slots and I added a camera
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: and a backup drive. I need more.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Oh wow?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: The best way to add these ports? What do I
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: need to get? Valerie from Palms Desert?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: All right? Thank you? Get a powered USB hub?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of a lot of them
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: on the market. Belcan has them easy Connect They work
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a lot. Easy Connect I think works a lot with
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Mac but Belcan, Uh, just a little hub. How many
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: ports do you think somebody should have? I mean I've
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: always told people, if you're gonna buy a laptop, buy
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: one with at least three USB ports and one hgum
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: my port. I mean yeah, I would say three to four, right, Yeah,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: because the budget laptops you're gonna find have one to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: two USB ports and you're gonna run out quick. One
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: thing is if you're if you're using a USB mouse,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: like use a mouse instead of using that track pad,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: which I don't know anybody that would want to use
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the trackpad. But so you get a USB mouse, well,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that's gonna take up a slot, right because you've got
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to plug the transmitter key in there if your.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Laptop supports it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Get a Bluetooth mouse that will free up another USB
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a port because if you're already you know, broadcast at
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a Bluetooth signal, you could connect your mouse to that
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and it just it's great because it'll give you an
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: extra extra port. And if you want to use a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: camera and a backup drive though, then you're gonna you're
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: gonna need some kind of a hub.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean realistically, one USB output to a hub
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: will generate three to four more based on the peripheral
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: you buy, right, if you're buying one that can do
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: multiple things USB to Ethernet and USB or USB to
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Ethernet and DisplayPort or something like the USBC.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a multifunction hub. Yeah, yeah, I've got
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: one that will do I think what it is it
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: has an SD card slot, has an Ethernet port, three
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: or four USB ports, and it all operates off of
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: just a single USB and it doesn't even need to
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: be powered. It's not a powered hub. So stuff like
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: that you can find on Amazon for you know, fifteen
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: twenty thirty bucks at the most. But like a yeah,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: like a multifunction one. I really like mine the one
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I have because it does have that SD card slot.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: So if I want to put my camera, if I
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: want to put the SD card in, I don't have
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: to just connect the camera. I can just take the
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: SD card out, put it into the hub, and connect
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: it to my laptop. Bam, I got all my pictures.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I've got one that looks like a pistol grip, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you could put all your SD cards in there right
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: inside this device slides out.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: It has a.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Carabiner on there, so you can, you know, attach it
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to your laptop bag and the whole bit. And then
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: when you need to read an SD card onto your
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: laptop or you know, or you need one for you
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: your phone, or maybe you've got a regular phone to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: your or a camera, I should say, and you're walking around,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you just pull that out and plug it in and
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: it plugs into USBC. I love that thing and I
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: think I bought it for like forty bucks on Amazon,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and I wish you could remember the name of the manufacturer.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I'll put a link up on our on our blog.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: But that one's pretty good. Balcan you can never go
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: wrong with. There's usually all kinds of products that they
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: offer that. Logitech also has hubs as well, so you
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: could do stuff with Logitech device, you know, if you're
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: gonna go with the name brands. But there are some
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you know, third party brands out there that will will
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: work pretty good.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Anchor Anchor oh yeah, ank ctteries and stuff. Anchor is
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: good though, Yeah, yeah, I can't.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: I Can is one that like, I k A n
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: is one that makes a lot of dongles that I like.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Balcon Belcan is known for theirs. Yeah, there's there's tons
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: you can You can do a good search and just
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: read the reviews.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: How much a Valerie is gonna spend could be anywhere
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: from what fifteen to fifteen.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: To twenty bucks?
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: All right, you look up.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: The low end and if you're listening and you're thinking, well,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I've had great experience with my hub, feel free to
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: drop us a line so we could share that on
• 30:03
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• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Man, I I'll be honest with you.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I had like a crazy week when it came to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: backing up and data. So I have a So I
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: have a drive. It was a Seagate desktop hub and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I think I may have mentioned this at the end
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of our show a couple of weeks ago. And it
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: started making a weird sound and it would power on,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: power off, and I reached out to five Star. They're great,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: They're great data recovery company in Glendale. And when they
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: got back to me, they told me, Okay, it could
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: be this. Don't fire don't fire it up anymore. If
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: it's making a sound, don't just you know, you got
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to send it in. So I got to save up
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: my my nickels and dimes. But in the meantime, I
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: needed to find some data that was on this drive.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I had moved everything from a Western Digital to the Seagate,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and of course that Western Digital was kind of acting up,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: and so it was a matter of okay, how am
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I going to get How am I going to get
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: this data? And wouldn't you know, the Western Digital that
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I had originally moved it from I had pulled out
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of an enclosure and was sitting in a pile of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: drives and I found that drive, but I had deleted
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the data off of that. So I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: what am I going to do? I went I found
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I had a program years ago called Recover My Data
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: from I think it's get Data, an Australian company, and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: suddenly their licensing isn't working anymore. They've had some I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: think it's a Windows eleven problem. So I found this
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: software called ease us and that's e eas e US.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: They make a partition manager which can help you partition
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: your drives out. They make data recovery software, so I thought, well,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: let's run this data recovery software.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: So I run the software.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It goes through it looks for deleted files of type,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: so you can do video, photos, documents, or a complete
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Here's what we found that had been deleted that we're
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: able to see. And then I was able to do
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a recovery and I got probably eighty percent of my
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: files back just by running that software. It took almost
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: took almost two days, but I got it back and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I started on a drive. So I want to remind
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: everybody be redundant, store on more than one backup device,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: don't trust it. Just because you got a backup doesn't
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: mean you're safe, because if that backup goes, you're still
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: you know, up the paddle. You could do cloud storage
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: as well, but it was a lot, you know, that's
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of space.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Eight terabytes. We had four terabytes.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: To say, I probably still will go to five Star
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and I'll spend the seven or eight hundred bucks for
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: them to do the data recover if they can, and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: we'll see what they come up with.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's the US is actually a really good
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I mean I've used a lot of their stuff before
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: in the past. It was like, it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Surprisingly easy to run and it was quick, quicker than
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: recover my data. Sand Disk has their new desktop drive
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: which I absolutely love, and they have software that comes
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: with it so you can run that software, especially on
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: their extreme drives, and that's a data recovery software as well.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I found that the easy US worked a little better
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: in this case for me to be able to do
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the recovery. But if you ever run into that, take
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a look at easy US, I think you'd be pleased.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Now I have to run I have to run a
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: software because I did a five hundred gigabyte to a
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: one terrorbyte, so I have to run the partition magic
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: software so I can partition and get the rest of
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the space back.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that kind of stuff happens.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: We were talking about games earlier to Justin, and you
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: were talking about a game that you've gotten back into it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I wanted you to tell our listeners about it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: It involves zombies. Oh yeah, yeah, it's a game. It's
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: on Steam, it's a PC game. It came back out.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: It came out like I think it was a November
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of twenty thirteen. So it's a decently old game. And
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: the visual style of it looks a lot like the
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: original SIMS, where it's kind of like this, yeah, three
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: quarter top down view you're kind of looking at from
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the side, and the artwork, the style of it looks
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: a lot like the original SIMS video game. But yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it's basically a game where you are a random person
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: who has survived a zombie apocalypse and now you've just
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: got to see how long you can survive in the game.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And the best part about it is when you go
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: into the game, it tells you straight up, there is
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: no beating this game. You will die like you will
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: die in this game. This is this is the story
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: of how you die. That's exactly what it says. Great,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: but it's basically it's it's it's your character. You're running
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: around from building to building. They're all obviously abandoned, you know,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: some are zombie invested, some aren't. But you're you're just
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: simply trying to gather up supplies like food and bandages
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: and you know, gasoline for your vehicle or construction stuff
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: so you can build up defenses. And then you kind
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: of set up your your little base and you try
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: to just fend off the horde of zombies as long
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: as you possibly can, until you eventually will succumb to
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: the zombies. What's the name of this one again, Project
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Zomboid Zomboid and yeah, I d yeah, Project Zomboid again.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: It's a it's an old game. The reason I'm getting
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: back into it though, is because they just came out.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: The developer. It's an indie developer. I mean, it's like
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: it's this very small team people that have met working
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: on this game, but they came out with a new bill.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: They call it Build forty two. It's just like version
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: forty two the game, and it's made a lot of changes.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: They've really listened to the community over the past few years.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I want to say, this particular Bill forty two is
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: like five years in the making, wow, And so it
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: changed a lot of stuff. And the game is also
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: very very friendly to motyrs, so people can go in
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: and create their own mods for the game, like better
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: inventory management or maybe a texture update pack or something
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: like that. But it is a really cool game. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: what I also like about it is when your character
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: inevitably dies to the zombies, you can still continue playing
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: in that world with a fresh character. So if you
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: happen to remember where all of your loot from your
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: previous character was stored, you can take your new character
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and run to that location and bam, now you've just
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: got all this loot. So you can just kind of
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: keep building upon what your you know, Zombie Apocalypse survivor
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: ancestors have built for you and left for you, which
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: is actually really really cool. Which platform are you playing
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: it on. It's on PC, It's on Steam on Steam,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: and I want to say it's probably I think it's
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: like twenty bucks maybe maybe thirty dollars. I don't remember exactly. Actually, yeah,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: twenty bucks. Twenty bucks.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Somebody asked to buy the game, asked me the other
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: day because there was a story this week that Netflix
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: is going to raise its price again, we're seeing more
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and more of the streamers saying, you know, we got
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: we got to compete. We're paying more money for the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: content that you know, we're putting out there for you.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: If that's the case, they asked me.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Has Steam increased in price or value in the last
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: couple of years that to the point where it's also
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: we're going to see that eventually happening.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean a Steam has always
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: been so still, He's been reachable, hasn't it. Yeah, They've
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: never really raised their prices. And in fact, I mean
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: the Steam is very well known for having you know,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Steam quarterly, Yeah, quarterly Steam sales. You got the winter sale,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: you've got the summer sale, and then you've got these smaller, uh,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: spring and fall sales. But I think the community sets
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: the price for Steam because Steam is very reliant upon
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: its users and they will not pay a certain amount
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: of money. So like the community really sets the tone.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: If the community says, yeah, this games were twenty bucks.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Well that's what's gonna be two bucks. What what do
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: you think is more value? Game Pass or Steam? It's
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: hard to say yeah, because.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I say because because right, Steam is a PC Mac only,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: it's not console. Well they have their own handheld console
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Steam Deck.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: But sure, but also you don't get anything with Steam.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Like you can download Steam for free and have Steam.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: You don't get anything with it, right, you have to
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: buy those games. Whereas game Pass, like Sean was about
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: to say, I'm sorry, Sean, go ahead.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: No, you're gonna be like the game passes. It includes
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: a subscription to a library of content that Microsoft says,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: here's what you get with your subscription. Right now, they can,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: like any other subscription on the internet, they can yank
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: stuff out at a moment's notice and say, nah, you
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: don't get fours of five anymore, get a different version. Now.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: That is true though with the rising and prices, because
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Xbox game Pass did raise their prices, and so that's
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: why I was at last, I want to say his
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: last October. September October, there was a flash sale on Woot,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: which is like an Amazon subsidiary, and I bought three
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: years of Game Pass Ultimate for not only myself but
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: also for Eric. So I draw it like I think
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: it was like five hundred and fifty dollars. But now
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: we have Xbox game Pass paid up for the both
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: of us until like twenty twenty seven or something like that.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So if they did any price increases, you're you're safe,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: You're good.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Affect me, yeah, because we've already paid for our subscription.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so like Xbox game Pass, they will they will,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: uh potentially raise the prices on it. But Steam, it's
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: the prices are are unique to the game. I mean
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: some games are a dollar ninety nine, some games are
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: free to play, some games are fifty nine to ninety nine.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna tell you another quick break. We come
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: back with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm.
• 40:24
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• 40:26
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• 40:29
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• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Over this past weekend, I was able to get some
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: time off and I went up to main laws and
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: they were like, help, help, help, we have an ancient laptop. Oh,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: they got freaked out. When it popped up and said
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: coming soon in October, Windows is no longer going to
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: be supported, and they they were freaking out. Yeah, they went,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: they went, they went to best Buy and they're like
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: they they they were being told, like, you have to
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: buy a new computer right now. Yeah, you're not gonna
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: have support. And I was like, don't do that. Don't
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: go to Besty and tell them.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: I sat with my father in law and we looked
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: at a price range that they wanted, and we came
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: up with a plan and I texted you guys yesterday
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: and Matt got back to me and kind of gave
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: me some ideas, and I ended up getting them a
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Lenovo think bad.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I love Lenovo's, They're good. He was originally mentioning surface
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and I know, justin you've had experience with the surface too.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Sure the surface, though, you know, I was a little
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: bit surprised. And Matt's, you know, to mention the surface
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: because the surface is way more expensive than five to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: eight hundred dollars, right.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: That's what I've seen. You can get some in that
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: price range, but they're pretty weak. Yeah, and they're older generations.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: But you know, we ended up looking at Okay, what
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: what did they want? Right? What specks did they want? Well,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: they wanted something that they're not gonna have to buy
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: another computer, right, they want something that's going to last
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: four to five years, five to six years. They're gonna
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: have to buy another computer down the road anyways.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: But I mean for that price range five to five
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: to eight hundred dollars and they want to last five years. Yeah,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: good luck. Yeah.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So we ended up getting ended up getting the
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: think Pad T sixteen Generation two, which runs an I
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: seven thirteenth gen sixteen gigs of RAM one Teraby solid
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: state built Chipset graphics, Windows eleven Pro with Wi Fi
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: six and A sixteen is displayed. It's gonna be right
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: in their wheelhouse, you know. I don't know, like I
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: showed them the layout, because you know, the think Pad
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: has a very unique design where the buttons are on
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: the top of the track pad and you can use
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: the little red dot in the middle and use your
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: thumb and stuff. But they're primarily a Bluetooth mouse user,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: so it's mostly gonna sit on there there more often
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: than not going to type on it or not going
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: to use them onboard mouse and use the wireless mouse.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: So I think this is gonna be okay. It's a
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: slimmer profile than their older computer, it's less bulky. I
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: think it'll it'll travel easier if they want to travel.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: And I just we have Lenovo Thinks stations at work.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I've used them in the past. They're they're they're built well.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I like it.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: I anticipate that they'll have good success with it, right,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: I just I'm nervous that they're gonna get it and
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be like, this sucks. Why did you recommend that?
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Now? Are they?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Did you make sure it's not Windows s right?
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: It is Microsoft Windows eleven pro okaycific filtered out, so
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: it's not some version of Windows that they're not going
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: to be familiar with. Yeah, yeah, right, and they definitely
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: said no, Max. They don't. They don't want to. They
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: don't want to learn the Apple environment, and.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: So they'll probably okay, Yeah, I think they're gonna be okay.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be just blown away at
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: how fast it is. Yeah, because they're running an HP
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: from I think like twenty eleven or twenty twelve.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Are you going to do a data transfer from their
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: old system into the new one.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Well, that's that's I was going to bring that up right,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: because what what do we do for that? Do we
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: just buy a portable hard drive and move files over?
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, or do we do a disc close and
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: move it up. But then you have to do the
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: whole upgrade. Then you're upgrading the original OS to Windows
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: eleven Pro. I don't want to do that. I want
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: to do a clean Windows eleven install for them.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Well, PC mover.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: PC mover is a pretty good program for moving programs
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: and it will do programs and keep the newer OS.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: It can be a little pricey, but I've used that before.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I use that Actually, going on to a Windows at
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: the time, it was a Windows ten system and we
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: came from Windows XP and they had certain programs that
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: were licensed that it was for a print shop that
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: they needed to keep using. But they could use it
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: under the Windows ten you know OS, but the problem
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: is getting them to install it. We were able to
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: move that overused PC mover and they were able to
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: use it, so it worked out.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: It worked out really good.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Nice, that's you know, that's one of the ways to do.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they have enough to warrant not
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: reinstalling things new fresh right, Yeah, I don't think you know,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: they don't do their taxes on their computer. They don't
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: have quick books, they don't own a business, they don't
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: do any of that stuffy. They mostly are just gonna
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: want photos, music, images, documents, important that those types of things.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: If that's the case, then yeah, we just do it
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: onto a drive. And it's good. Get them a drive
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: and get them as as a backup so they'll be
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: used to backing up.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I mean that's what I told him. I was like, look,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: you know, and he was like, my father in law
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: has has always been very security conscious, like, oh, he's
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: always got to have an ANTIVIRUSS. But I was like
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: he's he's trying to He's like, I gotta download Viper,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: I gotta get, I gotta get. I was like, no,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: you can do it with just Windows Defender and malware Byes.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Did those two programs. You're going to be fine, right,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: So just try to keep the bloat down on their PC. Right.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to go with an HP or Adele
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: because I just know those things come with their own
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: built in blow where and Lenova has a little bit
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: of their own also, but not nearly as bad as
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: HPO Dell.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: And you know, I just, you know, it's got to
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: be hard because, like I have a situation where I've
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: just just given a laptop to repair. The problem is
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: that their screen went out. It's a Dell, an older machine.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: It was when it came out, it was twenty sixteen
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: and it was Windows ten or no Windows seven, and
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: they were able to upgrade it to ten.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: But now the screen has gone out.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: So the first thing I checked is make sure can
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: we run an extended screen so that HDMI port on it?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: And yes, there is a screen, so I know, it's
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: just in the screen panel itself. And I told her,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I said, you know, at this point, we could do
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the repair on it and it could be about one
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty bucks, you know, and that's with a
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: discount and labor. And that's the piece to repair it.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: But the problem you're running into is it's running Windows
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: ten in October, you know, that's when Windows ten and
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: earlier os is. I'm not going to be supported, I
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: would probably, you know, thinking she said the one reason
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: she is sticking with this is because it has a
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: DVD drive.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: And I said to her.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I said, well, you could buy an external DVD drive
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: that will plug into say you get a new computer,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: you spend four or five hundred bucks on it, and
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: you could plug a DVD drive in there. They don't
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: come with DVD drives anymore. But she said she didn't
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: want to go that route. She wanted to have it
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: as a piece of the hardware. So that's the crazy
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: thing is she's replacing the screen on it because of that.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: And that's how people are.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, Sean, if you ran into that
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: when you were telling your parents about Okay, maybe get this,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: get this, get that. They want to stay with what
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: they're familiar with.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: No.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: I mean I could see that a little bit. But
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: I feel like, oh, the older generations getting a little
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: bit better about not holding on to comfort, yeah, and
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: getting out of their shell a little bit technology wise.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: I didn't really run into that. I know that he's
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: adopted the no physical media aspect of Yeah, these you know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: they didn't have a lot of DVDs to begin with.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: It's not something he asked like, oh, we watched a
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: lot of DVDs in a computer, but can you even
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: get a laptop with a DVD drive.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think it can No, no, LG. Yeah, that
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: makes that external. It's only like thirty bucks. But but why,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's fast the question for anybody wondering,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: why don't they come with the DVD drives anymore space?
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: You know, a bunch of dv You know what space
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: a DVD drive takes up on a mother like that
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: could be used for cooling or storage or battery remember,
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: a video card memory anything. You want a smaller, thinner laptop,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: get the TV drive out of there, that yanked out,
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, that makes it. You know, a DVD drive
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  Speaker 3: is almost an inch thick in general by itself. Yep,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: and it's it's you know, four and a half inches.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: But you know the size of a DVD plus some
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: he takes up a ton of space. So and to
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: be honest, right, so, I'm gonna give you a fun
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  Speaker 3: stat here. The university is going wireless first, meaning they're
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: taking all of the hard lined phones out of the university.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: So I'm going kind of going analog analog technology, right
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: it right? How many times do you think the average
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: user at the university picked up their hard line phone
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: in a six month period?
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Oh? Well, a few times a days.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Twice tweaked the average. The average across campus for all
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: the hard line phones for a six month period was twice.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, business, When was the last time you put
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: in a DVD? Ask yourself that as a serious question.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: If you're looking to get a DVD player in your computer,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: when was the last time you put a DVD in?
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah? That's true, that's true. Only even my desktop computer
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: here does not have a DVD anymore, or a blue.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Mine my main ring doesn't. I have a computer dedicated
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: to ripping DVD's.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I mean I've got an external I've got the external drive. Yep.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think ripping a DVD for a friend of
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: what he made in high school was the last time
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: I put a DVD in.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: So we got to take another quick break. We come
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: back and I've got a great website for you to
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  Speaker 1: your face, we'll do that with more with tech Talk Radio.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean the Weird, and I'm justin.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Let me find us on the web the tech talk
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: radio dot com. We'll be right back and now fact
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: to tech talk Radio. So we kind of went a.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Little retro today talking about some things that were cool
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: at one point, some of the older games that were
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: out there. You know, you got an older computer, how
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: do you updated? How do you move from an old
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: computer into a brand new one. With Sean's parents, there
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: is a push right now for camera technology. And I
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: don't know if you heard about this, Sean, but you
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: know we have DSLRs, we have mirrorless justin you have
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a great camera. You took some great shots for your birthday.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: You did like a whole indoor like thing. Tell us
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: about this real quick.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was yesterday was my birthday and we
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: went indoor skydiving. It was just something. I mean, I've
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: I've been skydiving for real. Uh before I skydoved over
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: a Wahoo back in I want to say it was
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: twenty ten, twenty eleven something like that, right, This is
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: the first time doing it indoor, and I took Eric
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: with me. It was obviously Mysa came as well, but
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: she didn't want to do it. But Eric and I
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: we had a a ten jump package. Each jump lasts
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: like about a minute fifteen. It was really cool. You
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: you kind of just you go into this little chamber
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: and it's blowing air at around one hundred miles an
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: hour and it just lifts you off the ground and
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: you can just sit there and float and literally just
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: fly and it was really really cool. Eric absolutely loved it.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: It was so funny because I thought he was gonna
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: chick it out. He was the first one to go.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: He wanted He just he was like, no, I'm going,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: and he just jumps right into it and just like
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: starts flying.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: How would you.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Feel if he if he said, Dad, I want to
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: do a real jump, would you would you go?
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: I mean absolutely not. No. No, First off, he couldn't
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: even do it real jump if you wanted, Yeah, you
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: have to be a certain age to do that. But
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: but the endoor was great. We had a lot of fun.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: It's cool. It really honestly did feel like it. It was.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: It was a company called I Fly. I mean they're nationwide.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: They have them all over the run. The one in
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Vegas and yeah, they've got one in Vegas, got two
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: in Colorado, They've got I don't know, They're all over
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: the place. It was expensive, it really was. For ten jumps,
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: it was like five hundred dollars. Whoa wow. Yeah, Wow,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: ten minutes of flying. Ten minutes of flying really for
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: five hundred dollars.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Man, But it's still something you experience and that's what's great.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: You know, you have a camera, you take pictures, the
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: whole bit. But Jean, there's a story about the idea
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: now of the small cameras, like you know, the the
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: old cannons, the old pen tax cameras making a resurgence
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: just with the basic point, yeah and shoot camera. And
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not talking about the camp snap, which
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: we thought was kind of cool.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: These are digital cameras that are.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Coming back, and you're you're excited about this.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: I love I love this right because I've always i
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: will say, one of my biggest mentors always told me
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: the best camera you have is the camera in your hand.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, could be your phone, could be your DSLR, could anything.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: But the fact that people are detaching the idea of
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: taking photos from your phone is this is the key
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: part of it, right because you are now more physically
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: engaged with taking the picture. It's not on your phone,
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: it's not attached to your phone. You are now you're
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: framing it up, you're taking the picture. It's living on
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: the camera, you're touching it, you're feeling it. You're then
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: having to being thoughtful about it, taking the memory card out,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: putting it in your You're attaching more synapses to this picture,
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: which is the whole point of art. And we've talked.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: I've been big on this for the longest time. There's
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: going to be a not even necessarily an analog revolution,
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: but a digital, semi non internet connected digital revolution of
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: people wanting to be more connected to their photos. Well,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: because that, for one, it's nostalgic, right, it's it's therapeutic,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: it's art. You get to be creative and you get
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: to be a part of that process. And I don't know,
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: I got really excited about it because that is something
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: I have spoken a lot about. Is that's why I
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: love taking poot, doing photography. That's why I like shooting film,
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: because there is there's something about it, right, grabbing onto
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: the film, grabbing onto the picture, you know, going over
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: to my poster board where I've got pictures of my
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: family on it and reaching up and looking at and going, oh, yeah,
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: that memory or that you know, that polaroid or whatever.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: That's what it's all about. And that's something that this
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: like the current generation knows nothing about.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: With that thought.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: One of the images that is the overall winner of
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: the year of this not you this year is Nikon's
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Comedy Wildlife Award.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: They do this every year. You can see the picture.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: At Comedy Wildlife photo dot com is a squirrel stuck
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: in a tree and it is a quite the picture.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: There's also one of my favorite is a monkey that
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: it's deep in thought. But go to Comedy Wildlife photo
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: dot com you see all the photos are and put
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: a smile on your face of great thoughts though on
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: digital photography. That wraps up this week's Tech Talk Radio.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to hear one more thing. DJ has some
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: new drounal. We'll talk about it next week. Oh yes,
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: I'm shying to wear.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: It and I'm justin. Let me have yourselves a great week.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: We'll see you next time.