Latest / The You Project / #1596 Tech Anxiety - Patrick Bonello
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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, tam let's get gone bloody. Everyone's talking over
- 0:02Speaker 1: the top me. It's the year project Craig Anthony Harper.
- 0:05Speaker 1: There's a cast of thousands today because the very hilarious Patrick.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm going to have to get my
- 0:11Speaker 1: side stitched after this episode because Patrick did a funny,
- 0:16Speaker 1: tricky thing, and then Tiff did as well. And I
- 0:19Speaker 1: jumped on the zoom call everyone and there was my
- 0:21Speaker 1: little bos on the screen and three other boxers with
- 0:26Speaker 1: no camera and no audio, and it was one minute
- 0:30Speaker 1: to go time. And then all of a sudden, this
- 0:33Speaker 1: young handsome man with a headset on who looked like
- 0:35Speaker 1: he should be asking me if I want fries with
- 0:37Speaker 1: that pops up. And well, I'm going to start with
- 0:44Speaker 1: the smartest and the best looking person on the call,
- 0:46Speaker 1: young Christian, who works for Patrick, who is the backbone
- 0:49Speaker 1: the engine room and clearly the brains in the organization.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Hi Christian, how are you?
- 0:55Speaker 2: I'm good good?
- 0:56Speaker 1: How are you mate? How did you How did you
- 0:59Speaker 1: feel when your boss that balding bloke Uncle Fester in
- 1:02Speaker 1: the bottom right corner on my screen, who looks like
- 1:05Speaker 1: the world's oldest McDonald's worker. Also, how did you feel
- 1:10Speaker 1: when he took credit for the work that you did
- 1:12Speaker 1: last week, and then when I asked him a question
- 1:15Speaker 1: about what was allegedly his running sheet, he couldn't answer
- 1:19Speaker 1: it because he didn't. I was going to say, fucking
- 1:21Speaker 1: do it, but I won't say that because you're fifteen
- 1:23Speaker 1: and I know you've never sworn or heard swearing. How
- 1:26Speaker 1: did you feel when he kind of stole the limelight
- 1:29Speaker 1: from you?
- 1:31Speaker 2: I was heart broken, seriously, all that hard work took
- 1:34Speaker 2: me all morning.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, he does that. Yeah, it is. It's disgraceful.
- 1:41Speaker 1: There's a pattern of this over the years. He steals
- 1:44Speaker 1: other people's thunder, he takes credit for other people's work. Christian,
- 1:48Speaker 1: what year are you in at school?
- 1:50Speaker 2: I'm in your nine.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Now what's your job? And I use that term loosely
- 1:56Speaker 1: at Patrick's house, Patrick's organization. That sounded bad. In Patrick's organization,
- 2:04Speaker 1: we'll use that term loosely as well. What's your role
- 2:07Speaker 1: in Patrick's organization?
- 2:10Speaker 2: Well, first of working, it was helping him set up
- 2:14Speaker 2: for this podcast, which took me all morning, and then
- 2:19Speaker 2: the next two or three days I was helping build
- 2:25Speaker 2: a website for the Ararat neighborhood House.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Well, gorgeous and what do you what do you want
- 2:32Speaker 1: to what do you want to do? When you're like,
- 2:34Speaker 1: why are you doing this? So? Are you a nerdy
- 2:36Speaker 1: or a geek? Do you love tech? Do you want
- 2:38Speaker 1: to work in? What? What space do you want to
- 2:41Speaker 1: work in? When you eventually turn into an old person
- 2:44Speaker 1: like us.
- 2:49Speaker 2: I'm still really not sure, to be honest, because I
- 2:51Speaker 2: like a broad range of different things. Probably number one
- 2:54Speaker 2: on my list right now is like civil engineering, that
- 2:57Speaker 2: sort of stuff.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly smarter than the rest of us. Well, mate,
- 3:02Speaker 1: we know that you've got to go and do more
- 3:04Speaker 1: important things than to talk to three centenarians on a
- 3:07Speaker 1: fucking podcast. So thank you for supporting Patrick. I mean,
- 3:11Speaker 1: old people need cares, and I think it's good. No,
- 3:15Speaker 1: it's great. It's great that you give him some attention
- 3:19Speaker 1: and that you help him find his teeth, you know,
- 3:21Speaker 1: and that you wheel him around, and like also emotionally
- 3:25Speaker 1: and mentally. He just needs all the support he can
- 3:28Speaker 1: get so well done.
- 3:30Speaker 3: It's a bit like what Tiff does for you, Craig.
- 3:34Speaker 1: Exactly. Oh that's not that's accurate. I'm not offended by
- 3:37Speaker 1: that at all. By the way, TIF, have you cleaned
- 3:40Speaker 1: my denches yet and where are they imagine that? Christian?
- 3:47Speaker 1: We're going to let you go so you can tune out.
- 3:49Speaker 1: But mate, have a good time, and thank you for
- 3:51Speaker 1: being part of the fun. And thanks for looking after Patrick.
- 3:55Speaker 1: He needs all the help he can get.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Thanks Greg.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Thanks mate. So oh that was so that was a
- 4:03Speaker 1: bit of unplanned mayhem. Look at you, Patrick? Just how
- 4:06Speaker 1: long you been planning that? How long you've been thinking
- 4:08Speaker 1: about that?
- 4:09Speaker 3: Well since you invited him on the show last episode
- 4:12Speaker 3: and told him that he was better than me?
- 4:14Speaker 1: So why do you come?
- 4:16Speaker 2: So?
- 4:16Speaker 1: Why are you here?
- 4:17Speaker 3: To be here for five minutes? Someone had to fill
- 4:19Speaker 3: in for him. Is he the youngest person you've had
- 4:23Speaker 3: on TP?
- 4:25Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so, Yeah, he probably is. And I've
- 4:28Speaker 1: got to say, not that I was a fucking bright,
- 4:31Speaker 1: bright shining light at fifteen, But he's pretty good, isn't he?
- 4:34Speaker 3: I meanned fifteen last weekend?
- 4:37Speaker 1: Oh, quite articulate and quite smart and civil engineering. I
- 4:42Speaker 1: was going. I was majoring fucking sandpit and plaster scene
- 4:46Speaker 1: and bicep curls when I was his age.
- 4:48Speaker 3: So I think I just worked out if I picked
- 4:50Speaker 3: my nose too much at my bleed?
- 4:54Speaker 1: Was oh right, right? Sorry, I thought you said. I
- 4:58Speaker 1: just figured that out now, as in good afternoon, TIF
- 5:02Speaker 1: is that afternoon? It's one o seven at SAT Day.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Hello Cookie, Hello, Hello Harps. Now this is irrelevant to
- 5:10Speaker 1: our listeners, but you do know that the U Project
- 5:12Speaker 1: signed behind you is back the front again, Patrick, and
- 5:15Speaker 1: I did this with you last year.
- 5:16Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
- 5:17Speaker 5: But when my recordings finished, it's back to front if
- 5:20Speaker 5: i'd change it. So I don't know because all my
- 5:23Speaker 5: recordings since you made me change it, all the recordings
- 5:26Speaker 5: were back to front.
- 5:27Speaker 4: So you're just going to have to deal with it.
- 5:28Speaker 3: Bro, I just realized what the background of mine is
- 5:33Speaker 3: the number seventy backwards as well. That's the banner I
- 5:36Speaker 3: stole in China. Do you admit that.
- 5:39Speaker 1: It's not backwards? It's not backwards to us.
- 5:42Speaker 3: Backwards for me though, this is really bad. We're talking
- 5:45Speaker 3: visuals on the podcast.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Let's not do this. Hi, everyone, Welcome to The You Project.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Tom Craig, Anthony half A, Halper, half A. Yeah, I
- 5:53Speaker 1: should know my name now it's been a while. Patrick,
- 5:55Speaker 1: James Bonello, Tiffany and Cook. This happens about once a fortnite.
- 6:00Speaker 1: If you know what we do, why are you back.
- 6:03Speaker 1: You must be a glutton for punishment. Loosely, we try
- 6:06Speaker 1: and talk about technology, we rarely well we do, but
- 6:11Speaker 1: I reckon we're operating at about twenty to thirty percent
- 6:13Speaker 1: technology content and seven eighty percent bullshit and storytelling. So
- 6:19Speaker 1: if you want to stick around for that, you've been warned. Tiff.
- 6:22Speaker 1: How's your week been. I've been away. I've been inspiring
- 6:25Speaker 1: motherfuckers around the country. What about you?
- 6:28Speaker 4: Oh, it's it's been.
- 6:30Speaker 5: It's been great, and it's been awful, and it's been
- 6:32Speaker 5: a roller coson, it's been different, and it's been all
- 6:35Speaker 5: of the things, all of the things.
- 6:37Speaker 1: You sent me a message the other day and you
- 6:39Speaker 1: basically said I'm sad I feel and I said, can
- 6:44Speaker 1: I do anything? Are you okay? I sent you bit
- 6:47Speaker 1: of love and you're like, no, I'm okay. And then
- 6:50Speaker 1: and then like a day later, you went, I'm good.
- 6:52Speaker 1: Now what was that about? Oh?
- 6:55Speaker 5: I was having an existential crisis. I was don on
- 6:58Speaker 5: my knees and you know those moments, I was out
- 7:00Speaker 5: walking the dog. When you message that, and you know,
- 7:02Speaker 5: when you're okay until someone says you okay, Well, you
- 7:06Speaker 5: actually were the cause of me just having a breakdown
- 7:09Speaker 5: in the street. It's eight pm at night. I had
- 7:11Speaker 5: to turn around get my dog home. I was sobbing
- 7:14Speaker 5: and snotting and crying and you know, and I couldn't
- 7:17Speaker 5: even answer the question for twenty minutes.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I was like, I no, am I okay, Yeah, well
- 7:23Speaker 1: I'm trying to find that. Let me find tiff. Let
- 7:26Speaker 1: me I'm just going into my phones.
- 7:29Speaker 3: While he's doing that, Tiff, do you find though? In
- 7:32Speaker 3: winter it's more drab, it's dull. There's less vitamin D mate.
- 7:37Speaker 5: I am a sad sad season effective disorder. I am
- 7:41Speaker 5: a candidate for that big time.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a real thing. It's something that a lot
- 7:47Speaker 3: of people struggle with.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. That's true. And I can say yesterday
- 7:51Speaker 1: and the day before I was in Breas Vegas and
- 7:53Speaker 1: it was twenty four yesterday, and I don't think I
- 7:56Speaker 1: suffered from that. But I felt fucking good when it
- 8:00Speaker 1: was twenty four. I went out with a friend of mine, Toby,
- 8:02Speaker 1: who used to work for me shout out tabs on.
- 8:05Speaker 1: I did a gig on Thursday night to the general
- 8:08Speaker 1: Public Workshop and they're all awesome people. Hello you people,
- 8:12Speaker 1: you know who you are, and After that, young Toby
- 8:14Speaker 1: and I went out good luck trying to find a
- 8:16Speaker 1: healthy meal at eleven o'clock in CBD, Brisbane on a
- 8:19Speaker 1: Thursday night, so late because I did a workshop till
- 8:25Speaker 1: nine point thirty.
- 8:26Speaker 4: Have you beforehand by the top, Well.
- 8:29Speaker 1: That started at six and I'm not hungry till anyway anyway.
- 8:33Speaker 1: But my point was, I so I had a grilled burger.
- 8:38Speaker 1: They're not terrible, and I don't you know, I wouldn't
- 8:40Speaker 1: have one on a super regular basis. But Tobes and
- 8:43Speaker 1: I sat in this mall kind of thing and it
- 8:47Speaker 1: was eleven o'clock at night and it was warm sitting outside.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Imagine doing that in Melbs at that time.
- 8:53Speaker 4: No, I can't imagine it.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Patrick.
- 8:56Speaker 3: What have you been up to, son, I've got some
- 8:58Speaker 3: renovations going on at my place. In my garage. I
- 9:01Speaker 3: think I mentioned that to you. I'm building a tai
- 9:03Speaker 3: chi training studio. What was just a garage full of stuff.
- 9:07Speaker 3: It's very cathartic to clean out a big full garage
- 9:12Speaker 3: and a lot of stuff away. It's very cleansing and
- 9:15Speaker 3: it's as it's all starting to take shape. It's got
- 9:17Speaker 3: a little bit bigger than Ben her but I'm really
- 9:20Speaker 3: excited about it. It means I can run some Tai Chee
- 9:22Speaker 3: workshops in a really nice setting. And I'm thinking of
- 9:26Speaker 3: just putting a little podcasting studio on the back as well.
- 9:28Speaker 3: I've got a little offer space, so I'll set myself
- 9:32Speaker 3: up in there, and so looking forward to that.
- 9:35Speaker 1: You could call it, you could call it the Me Project.
- 9:38Speaker 3: I could do goodn't I?
- 9:40Speaker 1: Yeah, you could set up in competition. You know what
- 9:44Speaker 1: I love about you send me photos of your garage.
- 9:46Speaker 1: And when you say garage, I mean it's a fucking
- 9:49Speaker 1: it's a garage like my garages. Mine's a garage. Yours
- 9:53Speaker 1: is a garage. Like you could set up a gym
- 9:56Speaker 1: in there, a proper gym. So it is there's something
- 10:01Speaker 1: cathartic about cleaning shit up, getting rid of staff, making
- 10:07Speaker 1: nice spaces. There's something that like, there's the I guess,
- 10:13Speaker 1: the satisfaction of doing that thing and making that space
- 10:16Speaker 1: nicer and cleaner and brighter and more functional. But there's
- 10:20Speaker 1: also something psychological and emotional that goes on. I think
- 10:23Speaker 1: we have.
- 10:24Speaker 3: The funny thing though, is I've got some really amazing
- 10:26Speaker 3: friends who have a window and door manufacturing business and
- 10:30Speaker 3: They use what they call German mechanisms on them. So
- 10:33Speaker 3: the doors are double glazed and the windows are double glazed,
- 10:36Speaker 3: and they have this mechanism where you can open the
- 10:38Speaker 3: window or you can tilt the window towards you to
- 10:41Speaker 3: let airflow come through. Really wow, and they were very kind.
- 10:44Speaker 3: They've given me some of these windows and doors, and
- 10:48Speaker 3: it's suddenly just transformed it. And I thought, you know,
- 10:50Speaker 3: I could probably live in my garage now. It's going
- 10:55Speaker 3: to be better insulated, easier to heat and cool, and
- 10:58Speaker 3: probably gonna look at the nicer than my house.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Do you know what you could have done?
- 11:03Speaker 3: An airb and be mate Welleah, probably, I guess I
- 11:05Speaker 3: could do that too, But the only problem is that
- 11:08Speaker 3: I keep listening to people. So what happened was it
- 11:11Speaker 3: was just going to be a tie cheese studio and
- 11:12Speaker 3: then someone said, oh, maybe you should have a separate
- 11:14Speaker 3: area at the back for an office. Okay, so I
- 11:16Speaker 3: put it. You know, so I arranged to have the
- 11:17Speaker 3: build to put a wall in, and then someone said, well,
- 11:20Speaker 3: but if you've got people doing stuff in there, then
- 11:22Speaker 3: they're gonna have to go into the house to go
- 11:23Speaker 3: to the toilet. You should put a toilet in there. Okay,
- 11:26Speaker 3: then I put a toilet in the sink, so I said,
- 11:27Speaker 3: I said to the bill, look, can we put a
- 11:28Speaker 3: toilet and sink? Oh, I'll talk to a plumber. And
- 11:31Speaker 3: then someone said, well, if you're could have a toilet
- 11:33Speaker 3: and a sink, you should put a shower in there.
- 11:36Speaker 3: It's like, oh, yeah, that's not a bad idea. So
- 11:38Speaker 3: then they rip out the plaster and they put a shower,
- 11:40Speaker 3: and now they're setting up the whole shower thing. And
- 11:42Speaker 3: then another person said, well, why don't you put a kitchenette. Well,
- 11:45Speaker 3: that's a good idea. We could put a kitchen it
- 11:47Speaker 3: in there, and then it's kind of self contained, you know,
- 11:49Speaker 3: for coffee and tea, and they don't have to go
- 11:51Speaker 3: into the house. And then we put it all, you know,
- 11:53Speaker 3: aimed where we were going to put it all. And
- 11:55Speaker 3: then someone said to me, oh, you know that kitchenette
- 11:57Speaker 3: that's in the back room, why don't you put it
- 11:59Speaker 3: in the front area because you don't really want to
- 12:01Speaker 3: have it next to the toilet and bathroom. Oh yeah,
- 12:03Speaker 3: that's a good idea. Seriously, the plasters had to come
- 12:05Speaker 3: back three times. The plumbers think I'm an idiot. And
- 12:08Speaker 3: the builder is probably just counting how much money is
- 12:10Speaker 3: going to get.
- 12:15Speaker 1: That seems like you've turned a little thing into a
- 12:17Speaker 1: big thing. Also, one, you don't need an office because
- 12:20Speaker 1: you've got an office upstairs. You've got multiple officers upstairs.
- 12:24Speaker 1: That seems like a bad idea.
- 12:25Speaker 3: And I've got this note it's okay. So downstairs where
- 12:28Speaker 3: the master bedroom was in my house, because it faced
- 12:31Speaker 3: the front door, that's where my office is. So clients
- 12:34Speaker 3: can walk straight in into the office without going into
- 12:38Speaker 3: the house proper. There's a little partition there, so you'd
- 12:40Speaker 3: know this if you'd bothered to come and stay with
- 12:42Speaker 3: me like you were supposed to last year.
- 12:44Speaker 1: It's too far. It's an hour hour.
- 12:50Speaker 3: It's is going to come out here before you do.
- 12:53Speaker 1: I no, probably probably if you two spoon before you
- 12:57Speaker 1: and icepoon, I will be jealous. Dragged you out of
- 13:00Speaker 1: that emotional quogmire that you were in.
- 13:04Speaker 5: Well, thank Mark Lebusk for that emotional quagmire, because I've
- 13:08Speaker 5: done two days in a human manager experience with him
- 13:11Speaker 5: and some of the processes that it was awesome, right,
- 13:14Speaker 5: it was great, but it brought up with some stuff
- 13:18Speaker 5: and then I was feeling a bit better the next day,
- 13:21Speaker 5: just a bit of you know when you sometimes you
- 13:23Speaker 5: need that tipping point. So I was the world was ending,
- 13:26Speaker 5: and then the next day I was like, all right,
- 13:28Speaker 5: all right, well, we've got.
- 13:29Speaker 4: To change things. So it was feeling a bit better.
- 13:31Speaker 5: But then in late afternoon I got a call from
- 13:35Speaker 5: Jem who's one of my podcast regulars, who wanted me
- 13:38Speaker 5: to go on this trip to the Himalayas within this
- 13:41Speaker 5: retreat he wanted me to go on at the start
- 13:43Speaker 5: of the year. He was asking about it, and a
- 13:45Speaker 5: spot come up, a sponsored spot come up, and he said,
- 13:48Speaker 5: I'd like to take you. So all you would have
- 13:50Speaker 5: to all you would have to pay for is your
- 13:53Speaker 5: flights and get there. And so that kind of pulled me.
- 13:57Speaker 4: Out of Mike quagmire.
- 13:58Speaker 5: When when I'm with the end of September, so I'm
- 14:02Speaker 5: feeling very grateful and excited and ready for a break
- 14:08Speaker 5: and some perspective and a change, and so that helps.
- 14:12Speaker 1: So how long are you going for? I wish I
- 14:14Speaker 1: had a time in this before the podcast. Now I'm
- 14:16Speaker 1: going to have to find someone else. Patrick, What are
- 14:18Speaker 1: you doing the end of September?
- 14:22Speaker 4: Seven days?
- 14:23Speaker 5: Unless I stay a couple of extra seven days at
- 14:25Speaker 5: this stage, and it's a seven day retreat?
- 14:28Speaker 1: Where is it?
- 14:29Speaker 3: Though?
- 14:30Speaker 1: Him lays that seems like a long way to go for,
- 14:33Speaker 1: not very long?
- 14:34Speaker 4: Well, how long do you want me to go for?
- 14:36Speaker 1: But well I don't want you. Well, you know, if
- 14:40Speaker 1: you're going to go, you might as well get to
- 14:41Speaker 1: base camp or something.
- 14:42Speaker 5: I've got a friend or two that are going to
- 14:44Speaker 5: come so that we might stay in India a handful
- 14:47Speaker 5: more days just to have a poke around.
- 14:49Speaker 4: But if not, if no one else comes with me,
- 14:50Speaker 4: I'll just go for seven days.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Come back. Wow?
- 14:54Speaker 4: Change? Could we changed? Woman? Not just out there and meditate?
- 14:58Speaker 3: Wow?
- 14:59Speaker 1: Wow? Well you'll come back all zen and stuff. Patrick,
- 15:07Speaker 1: Where do you want to start on?
- 15:09Speaker 3: I've got an Everest story. How's that for a segment?
- 15:12Speaker 1: Yeah? I want to hear it.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Yep, yep. It was either that I'll tell a really
- 15:15Speaker 3: bad joke, and I think we could probably forego the
- 15:18Speaker 3: joke and go straight to the stories because we haven't
- 15:21Speaker 3: actually done anything yet.
- 15:22Speaker 2: No.
- 15:22Speaker 3: I you might recall a little while ago we spoke
- 15:25Speaker 3: about the DJI drone making company was looking at getting
- 15:30Speaker 3: a drone up to base Camp. Well they've managed this,
- 15:33Speaker 3: blew my mind. They've managed to take one of their
- 15:36Speaker 3: off the shelf consumer drones and fly it all the
- 15:40Speaker 3: way to every single camp on the summit, all the
- 15:44Speaker 3: way up to the top of Everest. It's never happened before,
- 15:47Speaker 3: and it's a it's a Dji Mavic Pro, and they
- 15:51Speaker 3: managed to get it all the way up to the
- 15:52Speaker 3: top of Everest. And that is mind blowing because there's
- 15:55Speaker 3: so little oxygen up there to keep the thing up.
- 15:58Speaker 3: And they did it with the commercial with a commercial
- 16:00Speaker 3: are just a domestic drone, and they managed to get
- 16:03Speaker 3: all the way up to the top. The distance is
- 16:06Speaker 3: staggering to go up Everest. It's quite a quite a
- 16:10Speaker 3: way to go. I'm just trying to look at the
- 16:11Speaker 3: details of actually how much it was, because it was
- 16:14Speaker 3: we're talking over eight thousand meters. Yeah, it's over at
- 16:19Speaker 3: that Because they talk they took feet a lot. So
- 16:22Speaker 3: the base Camp one is nineteen thousand feet, which is
- 16:26Speaker 3: six thousand meters, but Camp four is seven nine hundred
- 16:30Speaker 3: meters and then you enter what they call the death zone,
- 16:33Speaker 3: which is full on where for most people you need
- 16:38Speaker 3: to have oxygen. And they got this Mavic three Pro
- 16:41Speaker 3: and it continued the climb. It's got footage, so it's
- 16:44Speaker 3: all proof. What they call the Everest balcony is at
- 16:48Speaker 3: twenty seven thousand feet, the Hillary step is twenty eight thousand,
- 16:52Speaker 3: and then the actual summit eight thousand, eight hundred and
- 16:55Speaker 3: forty eight meters. It got up there, so that's quite
- 16:58Speaker 3: interesting because there's a lot of technical aspects to that
- 17:00Speaker 3: because you know your battery will perform less well in
- 17:04Speaker 3: extreme cold, so the cold is a major factor. It's
- 17:07Speaker 3: exceptionally windy. That's why there's only a very narrow window
- 17:11Speaker 3: period when people can climb the summit of Everest because
- 17:14Speaker 3: it just gets so well, death defyingly windy. And this
- 17:19Speaker 3: is kind of interesting. I just thought it was quite
- 17:21Speaker 3: an amazing feat to get that up there. But I
- 17:23Speaker 3: was thinking of all the things you could do when
- 17:26Speaker 3: you had a remote control drone, because you could look
- 17:30Speaker 3: for the rubbish that's there, potentially the bodies, like search
- 17:33Speaker 3: and rescue stuff. So there's so much potential when you
- 17:37Speaker 3: think of what that means from a technical perspective, when
- 17:40Speaker 3: you're using something that's not a you know, one hundred
- 17:42Speaker 3: thousand dollar piece of equipment, but it's just something you
- 17:44Speaker 3: can go to JB. Hi Fi and by today if
- 17:47Speaker 3: you wanted to.
- 17:48Speaker 1: I wonder if as the drone got higher, did the
- 17:51Speaker 1: operator have to move up the mountain? Patrick, if you
- 17:54Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, I can't imagine that you
- 17:56Speaker 1: could be at sea level and fly that thing six
- 18:00Speaker 1: kilometers in the air.
- 18:02Speaker 3: You can. In fact, I think my drone has a
- 18:04Speaker 3: range of seven kilometers. Look, there are regulations, and of
- 18:08Speaker 3: course you're not allowed to fly a drone that high
- 18:10Speaker 3: on ordinarily, so they would have had to have got mission.
- 18:13Speaker 3: But what happens is that DJI have this kind of
- 18:17Speaker 3: light bridge technology which allows it to beam and keep
- 18:21Speaker 3: talking to the drone if it's direct line of sights.
- 18:24Speaker 3: I think, yeah, you can, you absolutely can, you know,
- 18:28Speaker 3: be fully remote and stay down there. That's amazing. We
- 18:32Speaker 3: could follow tiff on her just like surreptitiously be recording
- 18:37Speaker 3: Tiff does.
- 18:39Speaker 1: We could follow her on one of the numerous dates
- 18:42Speaker 1: she does each week, and we could could just download
- 18:46Speaker 1: the data onto some dark web website. He speaking of
- 18:50Speaker 1: drones all over the news this week, Patrick and tiff
- 18:55Speaker 1: et l They've been I don't know if I've just
- 18:58Speaker 1: seen it, but I've seen about three different stories on
- 19:00Speaker 1: different channels about how lots of fast food restaurants are
- 19:04Speaker 1: now adopting drone deliveries, which you've probably seen, mate, and
- 19:08Speaker 1: they can take up to a kit not just not
- 19:11Speaker 1: just fast food but also supermarkets and stuff which seems
- 19:14Speaker 1: a little bit not really equipped at this because it
- 19:18Speaker 1: only can carry one kelo most of them. How on
- 19:22Speaker 1: earth do they make that financially viable?
- 19:24Speaker 3: Mate?
- 19:25Speaker 1: Like, if somebody buys a fifteen dollar order from Hungry
- 19:29Speaker 1: Jacks or wherever it is, then the thing's got to
- 19:32Speaker 1: be picked up. Then it's got to be flown to
- 19:34Speaker 1: old Mate in bloody East Mentley, and then it's got
- 19:37Speaker 1: to be flown back. Somebody's got to operate it. How
- 19:40Speaker 1: on earth do you know about this stuff?
- 19:43Speaker 3: Or Noah, Amazon's doing a trial at the moment in
- 19:45Speaker 3: the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. So I don't quite think
- 19:48Speaker 3: that you can get them at your place just yet. Look,
- 19:51Speaker 3: it must be financially we'll think about it. If you've
- 19:54Speaker 3: got to get a person to do the delivery, drive
- 19:56Speaker 3: a petrol driven vehicle or a motorbike, there's an expense
- 20:01Speaker 3: associated with that. Then you've got the hourly rate to
- 20:04Speaker 3: do that too. So I don't know how autonomous they
- 20:07Speaker 3: are because obviously, as you say, there's got to be
- 20:08Speaker 3: an operator, but potentially a person could be there semi
- 20:12Speaker 3: operating a number of different drones because when you've got
- 20:15Speaker 3: that sweet spot at a certain height there's no traffic,
- 20:18Speaker 3: you're not high enough because the regulations in Australia say
- 20:22Speaker 3: that you need to be under the threshold of where
- 20:25Speaker 3: a light plane can fly. So there's a hundred feet
- 20:29Speaker 3: between you and where a light plane can fly, but
- 20:31Speaker 3: you're well above where there could be potentially any buildings.
- 20:35Speaker 3: So A to B is quite simple. It's just as
- 20:38Speaker 3: the crow flies or the drone flies, as the case
- 20:41Speaker 3: may be. And so an operator could be operating multiple drones.
- 20:45Speaker 3: If you're going from point A to point B, so
- 20:47Speaker 3: wonder TIFF's place, Wonder Crag goes place, the GPS information,
- 20:53Speaker 3: then it's just a matter of getting it there. So
- 20:55Speaker 3: you wouldn't really want the person to remote control it,
- 20:58Speaker 3: just to be aware of what it's doing by a camera.
- 21:01Speaker 3: So you could really be operating multiple drones at any
- 21:04Speaker 3: given time.
- 21:07Speaker 1: I saw them where basically winch is down on like
- 21:11Speaker 1: this rope winch or something, and I thought for sure
- 21:14Speaker 1: some eight en year old moron is going to order
- 21:17Speaker 1: a hamburger. Then the winch will come down and they'll
- 21:19Speaker 1: just yank on the winch and destroy the jont the drone.
- 21:22Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're going to know where he lives. Matey
- 21:25Speaker 3: I know, but still.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Potentially order'd order it from your joint.
- 21:30Speaker 3: I know you would, I know you would. Yeah, you
- 21:34Speaker 3: know what, But seriously, though, you're talking about a payload
- 21:37Speaker 3: of a kilo. What if someone's sick with the flu
- 21:40Speaker 3: or COVID can't get to the chemist. Now see, in
- 21:42Speaker 3: those instances that would be so useful. A you can
- 21:45Speaker 3: get your medication really quickly and you're in firm if
- 21:49Speaker 3: you know, for your folks, you know, it gets hard
- 21:52Speaker 3: for people to drive, or to get outdoors, or it's
- 21:54Speaker 3: whatever the conditions are. It's a really hot day. You know,
- 21:58Speaker 3: there's any number of scenarios where I could see that
- 22:00Speaker 3: the drones would be really useful. And also, because you've
- 22:03Speaker 3: got no traffic to contend with, what might be a
- 22:05Speaker 3: twenty minute drive could be seven minutes by drone straight
- 22:10Speaker 3: to your place. My drone goes about seventy five kilometers
- 22:14Speaker 3: and our direct line of sight, so that is pretty
- 22:17Speaker 3: quick and if you're in a built up area, so
- 22:20Speaker 3: you know, and you're looking at a footprint of maybe
- 22:23Speaker 3: ten kilometers, then then it's not going to take you
- 22:25Speaker 3: very long to get from A to B.
- 22:27Speaker 1: It's buddy, I mean alsill in s aside the rate
- 22:31Speaker 1: at which things are evolving and changing with technology and
- 22:34Speaker 1: everything from chat, GPT to drones to you make a
- 22:37Speaker 1: really good point, especially you know, in remote locations where
- 22:42Speaker 1: people can't you know, like if somebody needs insulin in
- 22:46Speaker 1: a hurry and they live one hundred kilometers from the
- 22:49Speaker 1: nearest pharmacy or you know, yeah, there are some potentially
- 22:54Speaker 1: amazing applications and benefits. Just quickly before we jump into
- 22:59Speaker 1: your list. Also, I don't know if you saw this
- 23:02Speaker 1: on the news or if you saw it Tiff, but
- 23:04Speaker 1: an Australian dude invented a titanium heart, like a fully
- 23:10Speaker 1: functional operational heart replacement. It's the size of a heart.
- 23:15Speaker 1: You're typing, Patrick's typing, so, Tiff, And so they just
- 23:23Speaker 1: transplanted or they just put one into the first patient
- 23:26Speaker 1: in the States, and it's like this guy's been building
- 23:30Speaker 1: it for a long time and it works. So the
- 23:34Speaker 1: intention at the moment is that they will kind of
- 23:37Speaker 1: be a stop gap while somebody is waiting for a heart,
- 23:41Speaker 1: a human heart. But they believe that they're going to
- 23:44Speaker 1: be good enough in the not too distant future to
- 23:48Speaker 1: just replace a human heart. And that's what people will
- 23:50Speaker 1: have one of those. So no rejection, No, you know,
- 23:55Speaker 1: there's no different genetic tissue that the body's going to
- 24:00Speaker 1: adapt to. And I just looked at it and it's small.
- 24:05Speaker 1: You know, it's like the size of your fist. If that,
- 24:08Speaker 1: I thought, oh my god, imagine. You know, people are
- 24:11Speaker 1: going to have diseased hearts in the not too distant future.
- 24:14Speaker 1: They're going to go in, they're going to get a
- 24:16Speaker 1: new heart, titanium heart, put in and w out in
- 24:19Speaker 1: a few days and just carry on bloody amazing.
- 24:23Speaker 3: So the titanium heart, So titanium, I guess, is a
- 24:26Speaker 3: metal that doesn't get rejected by the body.
- 24:30Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things. And it's also
- 24:32Speaker 1: very light, it's all. You don't want seven pounds of
- 24:37Speaker 1: steel in your chest. It gets a bit rusty. We
- 24:41Speaker 1: should have got the galvanized one.
- 24:42Speaker 3: Oh wait a minute, I got testicles.
- 24:44Speaker 1: No, wait a minute, Yeah, I know, it's I mean everything,
- 24:50Speaker 1: and I saw it dode the other day and then
- 24:53Speaker 1: I'll shut up. So here is a oh gee. I'm
- 24:57Speaker 1: not sure if his paraplegic or a quadriplegic, but he
- 25:00Speaker 1: was wearing one of those suits that you've told us about,
- 25:02Speaker 1: like the exoskeleton that people strap themselves into or get
- 25:07Speaker 1: strapped into. And he was in inverted commas walking and
- 25:12Speaker 1: he's a paraplegic or a quiet I can't remember my
- 25:15Speaker 1: bad but the smile on his face, like because he
- 25:18Speaker 1: wasn't in a chair, he was actually upright. He was
- 25:20Speaker 1: six foot tall. He was walking carrying the carrying the
- 25:24Speaker 1: Olympic torch. I went, how fucking great is that? Imagine
- 25:28Speaker 1: when that's commonplace.
- 25:31Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exciting. Just as a segue to that heart,
- 25:35Speaker 3: the titanium heart. I think one of the things that
- 25:38Speaker 3: I've kind of looked into over the years that Rudy
- 25:41Speaker 3: excites me is the notion of growing a heart from
- 25:45Speaker 3: your own stem cells, so being able to take donor
- 25:50Speaker 3: cells and then grow and culture a heart or cardiac tissue.
- 25:56Speaker 3: I know they can culture cardiac tissue at the moment,
- 25:58Speaker 3: so that could poventually be used for grafts and stuff
- 26:01Speaker 3: like that. But if you could grow another heart, grow
- 26:04Speaker 3: your own heart, that that would blow my mind. And
- 26:06Speaker 3: of course that means the zero tissue rejection, so that yeah,
- 26:10Speaker 3: pretty epic.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Well, Professor Sharon Riccardo, who we've had on this show
- 26:14Speaker 1: numerous times, she's the head of biomedicine at Melbourne. Sorry,
- 26:18Speaker 1: fucking now, at my uni, Monash, I'm sorry, monash, admonish
- 26:23Speaker 1: me admonash me And see what I did there? She's
- 26:28Speaker 1: they do shit like grow ears on the back of
- 26:31Speaker 1: rats and all of that human human ears. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 26:35Speaker 1: have a look at that, tip. Google that here on
- 26:38Speaker 1: the back of a rat where they actually ah yeah yeah,
- 26:43Speaker 1: ah yeah. But they're growing tissue and skin and developing
- 26:47Speaker 1: cells and organs. And you're right, Patrick, it ain't it
- 26:51Speaker 1: ain't that far away.
- 26:54Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the exciting thing that I'm thinking of, because
- 26:56Speaker 3: not everybody has an identical twin brother they can use
- 26:59Speaker 3: for spare parts. Yeah, that you think of as spare parts.
- 27:02Speaker 1: Well, no, that's a good idea, though. Tip, did you
- 27:05Speaker 1: find the rat on the ear on the rat?
- 27:07Speaker 4: I don't think, I know, I can't. I don't want
- 27:09Speaker 4: to look at it.
- 27:09Speaker 5: I'm a bit bothered by the sacrificial animals just so
- 27:14Speaker 5: that the human race can fucking Now, I'm not being
- 27:18Speaker 5: on it.
- 27:19Speaker 1: Well that okay, Oh, so many things I can say,
- 27:24Speaker 1: but I'll get in trouble either way. So I'm going
- 27:26Speaker 1: to say I agree with you. It's fucking horrible. Tip Patrick,
- 27:29Speaker 1: tell us about China's military style. I think this is
- 27:33Speaker 1: something I want for Christmas. I know, you know, a
- 27:36Speaker 1: fairy style electric off roader complete with guns.
- 27:40Speaker 3: Okay, it's not real guns. What they've done is if
- 27:43Speaker 3: you look at the inside of the cabin where the
- 27:45Speaker 3: handle is to open the door, they've designed it to
- 27:48Speaker 3: look like a gun. This is an electric car that's
- 27:51Speaker 3: been released in China. It's called the Don Thing m
- 27:55Speaker 3: hero mng she nine one seven. That's a mouthful in that. Wow,
- 28:01Speaker 3: the inside of the door. So I did. I did
- 28:03Speaker 3: include the picture just for you, Craigo.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see it. It looks awesome. I actually
- 28:08Speaker 1: think that's not an ugly that's not an ugly car,
- 28:10Speaker 1: by the way, because it looks like your car. That's
- 28:12Speaker 1: why you're saying it's not ugly. No, it doesn't look
- 28:14Speaker 1: anything like my car.
- 28:15Speaker 3: It's a little bit your car's a bit tanky. You
- 28:18Speaker 3: could put a turret on the top of your.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Bar just because it's an SUV. My fucking l you
- 28:22Speaker 1: know nothing cars.
- 28:24Speaker 3: Where is in the s Is it a tif don't
- 28:26Speaker 3: you reckon? Put a turret on top of the crowd.
- 28:28Speaker 1: Nobody can see my car or this car, so move on.
- 28:31Speaker 3: Just imagine a Sherman tank and that's all with four
- 28:34Speaker 3: wheels instead of those tractor things.
- 28:37Speaker 1: So the bottom line is they've got door handles inside
- 28:40Speaker 1: that look like a pistol.
- 28:42Speaker 3: Yeah, like Colt revolver. I think it is what they've
- 28:45Speaker 3: designed for. I think they are coming out to Australia.
- 28:47Speaker 3: There's a plan to bring them out because there's a
- 28:49Speaker 3: lot more electric cars coming out to Australia. They're giving
- 28:52Speaker 3: Tesla a run for their money at the moment.
- 28:55Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot, yeah byd one of the big
- 28:58Speaker 1: Chinese brands that are just byd GWM. There's a whole,
- 29:05Speaker 1: a whole lot one in seven might be more now
- 29:07Speaker 1: one in seven cars being sold in Australia at the
- 29:10Speaker 1: minute Chinese.
- 29:11Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so there you go. But no, I just
- 29:14Speaker 3: thought you'd be interested because it just looked like such
- 29:16Speaker 3: a big boys toy, isn't it.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I love big boys toys, all right, tell
- 29:21Speaker 1: us you steer the ship every time, I say, every
- 29:24Speaker 1: time I pick one of your things that you probably
- 29:26Speaker 1: didn't right, Christian probably did this list. You've probably got
- 29:31Speaker 1: no idea what none of these talking points are about.
- 29:34Speaker 3: So no, ik. There is one that I because I
- 29:38Speaker 3: live in a rural town. I was driving to Ballarato,
- 29:41Speaker 3: driving west of Melbourne and there's a spot just out
- 29:45Speaker 3: of the town that I live in where for five
- 29:47Speaker 3: or ten minutes we've got absolutely zero phone coverage. It's
- 29:51Speaker 3: only an hour and ten minutes out of Melbourne, and
- 29:53Speaker 3: there's a lot of black spots around Melbourne, a lot
- 29:56Speaker 3: of black spots around a lot of areas. And with
- 30:00Speaker 3: thirty nine million mobile phone accounts across Australia, this is
- 30:04Speaker 3: what it's estimated. Interestingly, mobile phone services are not at
- 30:09Speaker 3: this stage classified as essential, so there's a really big
- 30:12Speaker 3: push by the Telecommunications ombudsman to change to make mobile
- 30:17Speaker 3: phones and the access to an essential service like electricity,
- 30:22Speaker 3: like gas, like water, that sort of stuff. So, believe
- 30:25Speaker 3: it or not, it's not an essential service. And we
- 30:27Speaker 3: know that there have been outages, you know when Optus
- 30:29Speaker 3: went down last year and there was a recent situation
- 30:32Speaker 3: where a small rural town which was connected by Telstra
- 30:35Speaker 3: went down and they were without any communication, without any
- 30:39Speaker 3: ability to sell anything at the shops because they needed
- 30:42Speaker 3: connectivity there. So it does put you. It was Port
- 30:46Speaker 3: Dennis and the EGO three hundred and fifty three kilometers
- 30:49Speaker 3: away from Perth. North of Perth. But wow, I would
- 30:53Speaker 3: have thought phones would have been an essential service, wouldn't you?
- 30:57Speaker 3: Or is it just me?
- 30:58Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I mean for a lot of people, that's
- 31:00Speaker 1: life and death if you can't. I mean, really, it's
- 31:03Speaker 1: just being able to connect with somebody when you need to.
- 31:06Speaker 1: And yeah, I would have thought that would have fallen
- 31:10Speaker 1: under the banner of essential services. Just before you move on,
- 31:14Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you. I don't even know what
- 31:15Speaker 1: it was, but I do know that the world came
- 31:18Speaker 1: to a temporary halt the other day because something crashed.
- 31:21Speaker 1: I don't know enough because I was busy doing other
- 31:24Speaker 1: things and I should be more interested, But I know
- 31:27Speaker 1: that the bits of the airport shut down, flights were canceled.
- 31:31Speaker 1: Do you know what happened and what was that about.
- 31:34Speaker 3: There's a piece of high end anti virus software, effectively
- 31:38Speaker 3: security software called crowd Strike and its powers a lot
- 31:43Speaker 3: of the Microsoft Windows operating system at the higher end.
- 31:48Speaker 3: And what they did was they pushed out an update,
- 31:51Speaker 3: but it gave the blue screen of death. We're all,
- 31:53Speaker 3: permission familiar with the term of the blue screen of death.
- 31:55Speaker 3: You know your computer crashes and all you get is
- 31:56Speaker 3: a blue screen. Well, effectively did that and it was
- 32:00Speaker 3: so I mean, I go, I'm talking time reference, but
- 32:02Speaker 3: it was a week away, a week previously our time.
- 32:05Speaker 3: But effectively, suddenly all these computers that we're using this
- 32:09Speaker 3: service crowd strike for their security suddenly had did an
- 32:13Speaker 3: auto update and it basically bricked all of the machines.
- 32:17Speaker 3: And that's another term we use, so if something breaks
- 32:20Speaker 3: and you can't use it anymore, it's called bricking it.
- 32:22Speaker 3: So they all got bricked, and it was it was
- 32:25Speaker 3: pretty pretty massive. And now the financial implications to business,
- 32:31Speaker 3: it's estimated just in Australia this outage could surpass a
- 32:35Speaker 3: billion dollars of lost revenue because it's not just that
- 32:38Speaker 3: one night. It's kind of pushed out into you know,
- 32:41Speaker 3: further as well. But it also kind of makes us
- 32:44Speaker 3: really think about how reliant so many organizations were on
- 32:48Speaker 3: one single piece of software made by this one manufacturer,
- 32:53Speaker 3: and you know, it kind of makes us reflect on
- 32:56Speaker 3: how much, you know, we do rely I made of
- 33:00Speaker 3: mine works at the airport and they are handwriting slips,
- 33:03Speaker 3: you know, boarding slips. Wow, they had no way to
- 33:06Speaker 3: print them, no way to know in our flights were
- 33:09Speaker 3: just canceled anyway. But all about Craigo, it does make
- 33:13Speaker 3: you realize, mate, how much or how little control perhaps
- 33:19Speaker 3: we have with some things. You know, my mum, God
- 33:24Speaker 3: bless her.
- 33:24Speaker 1: If you know my mom, don't tell her I said this,
- 33:26Speaker 1: But in the last week I've had to kind of
- 33:31Speaker 1: take the reins of mum and Dad's bills, right, because
- 33:38Speaker 1: you know, Mary can't pay with a check anymore, she
- 33:40Speaker 1: can't pay with cash anymore, she can't drive down to
- 33:43Speaker 1: wherever and just pay the whatever because everything has to
- 33:47Speaker 1: And she goes in they go, oh, I no, you
- 33:48Speaker 1: can't do that, missus harp. You've got to pay it electronically,
- 33:51Speaker 1: and she goes, I don't know how to do that,
- 33:53Speaker 1: and they go, oh, well next, you know, and so
- 33:58Speaker 1: my poor mum, God bles. So the last week or
- 34:01Speaker 1: so it's just been you know, where Thank God that
- 34:07Speaker 1: that not that she's got me. But thank God that
- 34:09Speaker 1: she's got a person in her life that she implicitly
- 34:13Speaker 1: trusts that she now doesn't have to, you know, because
- 34:17Speaker 1: you think about its power and it's electricity, and it's
- 34:20Speaker 1: regio on their two cars, and insurance on the house
- 34:22Speaker 1: and this and that and gas and you know, incidentals
- 34:26Speaker 1: and and it's so stressful for her. And then you know,
- 34:30Speaker 1: she went up to Telstra and she couldn't even understand
- 34:33Speaker 1: what they were talking about, Like she didn't understand the
- 34:37Speaker 1: man who is which I'm not mad at him, but
- 34:40Speaker 1: here's this eight nearly eighty five year old with shit
- 34:43Speaker 1: hearing who does not understand any part of technology. She
- 34:48Speaker 1: can't actually go to Telstra and have a conversation and
- 34:51Speaker 1: know what's going on because no one speaks her language.
- 34:55Speaker 1: And so, you know, I'm thinking, and all the millions
- 34:59Speaker 1: of people who are seventy seventy five eighty, I don't
- 35:02Speaker 1: know how your dad is, Tiff, But fucking hell, Ron
- 35:04Speaker 1: and Mary. If not, if they didn't have me or
- 35:08Speaker 1: someone like me, I literally don't know how they would exist.
- 35:13Speaker 1: You know, what about you, Tiff?
- 35:15Speaker 4: Yeah, my dad's pretty good with it, but I don't know.
- 35:19Speaker 4: I think it's it's hard.
- 35:21Speaker 5: I always worry about mister life he can get into
- 35:24Speaker 5: again because even I get messages about stuff, and you
- 35:28Speaker 5: don't know what's legit and what's not. You get taken
- 35:30Speaker 5: on a bum steer real quick.
- 35:32Speaker 1: Well, maybe Patrick, you can come up with a solution,
- 35:36Speaker 1: because it's not like it's only about twenty people. There's
- 35:38Speaker 1: millions of people in that boat.
- 35:40Speaker 3: My dad's about turn eighty nine this year. And if
- 35:44Speaker 3: it wasn't that my brother lived close by, a lot
- 35:46Speaker 3: of that tech sport is going on there and the
- 35:49Speaker 3: phone calls. You know, I can't log into Netflix anymore,
- 35:53Speaker 3: the basic stuff. We take it for granted. And you know,
- 35:57Speaker 3: I was talking to one of our listeners during on Friday,
- 36:01Speaker 3: Mark Ko. He runs a training business and he travels
- 36:04Speaker 3: all over Western Australia and all over the shop and
- 36:07Speaker 3: you know, he was just needing to set up emails
- 36:11Speaker 3: on a Mac and I don't use a Mac computer.
- 36:13Speaker 3: And the trouble that I had navigating a map to
- 36:17Speaker 3: get it set up was crazy. So you know, when
- 36:21Speaker 3: someone who feels they're pretty tech savvy can't do something
- 36:24Speaker 3: yes and gets frustrated by it, And eventually I had
- 36:27Speaker 3: to get one of my mates to help me sort
- 36:29Speaker 3: out the problem. It was a more high end issue
- 36:32Speaker 3: in terms of security because Max do have a higher
- 36:35Speaker 3: level I guess of security when it comes to trying
- 36:38Speaker 3: to do things that they don't want you to do.
- 36:41Speaker 3: You know, so sharing screens. If I do meeting and
- 36:44Speaker 3: I wanted to share a screen with a Mac, it's harder.
- 36:46Speaker 3: You've got to have more security levels to allow you
- 36:49Speaker 3: to do that, which is not a bad thing, but
- 36:51Speaker 3: it can be a frustration when you're just trying to
- 36:53Speaker 3: help someone out at the other end. But I get it,
- 36:56Speaker 3: and I know why people like the Mac ecosystem. It's
- 37:00Speaker 3: funny because one of the things I actually wanted to
- 37:02Speaker 3: chat about in the show was a really basic thing
- 37:05Speaker 3: that comes up so much. Because phones are so expensive
- 37:09Speaker 3: and you want to go out and buy an upgrade
- 37:11Speaker 3: to your phone, one of the ways you can save
- 37:14Speaker 3: money is not go for the high end memory storage,
- 37:17Speaker 3: so you get a standard level phone and then quite often,
- 37:20Speaker 3: and I know they do this with iPhones, you can
- 37:23Speaker 3: go for a higher storage capacity. And if you can
- 37:25Speaker 3: save yourself three or four hundred bucks, then why would
- 37:29Speaker 3: you you get exactly the same phone, same camera or
- 37:32Speaker 3: the feature except limited storage. But it's that point at
- 37:36Speaker 3: which your storage becomes full and you can't get straw
- 37:40Speaker 3: apps and suddenly you haven't got enough room for photos.
- 37:43Speaker 3: And then why was I such a tied? No, not
- 37:46Speaker 3: really because it's expensive, But what do you do? And
- 37:49Speaker 3: so I thought, it's not a bad thing to have
- 37:51Speaker 3: a chat about this because I've had this happen on
- 37:53Speaker 3: my Android phone. It doesn't matter what sort of phone.
- 37:56Speaker 3: But what do you do when your phone storage is
- 37:58Speaker 3: almost full? And how do you get around it? And
- 38:02Speaker 3: it's there are actually some things you can do. Because
- 38:04Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but I have screen after
- 38:07Speaker 3: screen after screen after screen of apps on my phone.
- 38:10Speaker 3: I go a bit crazy and I hear about a
- 38:12Speaker 3: new app and I install it and play around with it.
- 38:14Speaker 3: The reality of it is that's probably one of the
- 38:16Speaker 3: first things you can do is look at your apps.
- 38:18Speaker 3: And the good thing is Android phones do it, and
- 38:20Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure iPhones do as well. They let you
- 38:24Speaker 3: know which apps you use the most. You know, you
- 38:27Speaker 3: get a bit more, you know, a bit more cutthroat,
- 38:30Speaker 3: and say right, get rid of the apps. The other
- 38:32Speaker 3: thing is backing up your stuff to the cloud, photos,
- 38:35Speaker 3: video files, are enormous. The great thing about phones now
- 38:38Speaker 3: is they have you know, four K video, which means
- 38:40Speaker 3: you can take stunning video, but that means you've also
- 38:43Speaker 3: got massive files. So that's another thing you can do
- 38:46Speaker 3: is you just back all this stuff up to the
- 38:48Speaker 3: crack cloud and it's not expensive. You know, Google offers
- 38:51Speaker 3: those services, you know Apple offers those services, and you
- 38:54Speaker 3: get it off the phone onto the cloud, and then
- 38:57Speaker 3: you know it's not encumbering your phone. So delete apps
- 39:00Speaker 3: and games. There are two things that will take up
- 39:03Speaker 3: so much storage. If you don't need it, get rid
- 39:05Speaker 3: of it. And then there's things like, as I said, videos,
- 39:08Speaker 3: If you can move the videos onto the cloud and
- 39:10Speaker 3: back those up, that'll absolutely free stacks of space off
- 39:13Speaker 3: your phone.
- 39:14Speaker 1: You know what else you can do. You can delete
- 39:16Speaker 1: all the other podcasts that you subscribe to that you
- 39:19Speaker 1: don't listen to, except the You Project and Patrick's upcoming,
- 39:22Speaker 1: the Me Project and of course Roll with the Punch
- 39:25Speaker 1: is of course was I going to say no, But
- 39:28Speaker 1: it's funny because seriously, I have subscribed to stuff that
- 39:31Speaker 1: I never listened to, and then I go and I look,
- 39:35Speaker 1: I go, oh, I've got seventy four downloaded episodes of
- 39:40Speaker 1: the X y Z projects. So that's all just downloaded
- 39:43Speaker 1: into my phone that I've never listened to. And then
- 39:46Speaker 1: I just I go and I just delete all of that.
- 39:49Speaker 1: I look at all of that and even you know,
- 39:53Speaker 1: books and stuff that I've downloaded, I that I listened
- 39:56Speaker 1: to two years ago, and it's like a I've got
- 40:00Speaker 1: you know, everyone's going to make fun of me.
- 40:02Speaker 3: Right.
- 40:03Speaker 1: I downloaded the Bible because it came up it was
- 40:06Speaker 1: on special for nine to ninety five. I'm like, awesome,
- 40:09Speaker 1: but it's eighty four hours.
- 40:12Speaker 3: He knew in the Old Testament, who read it, who
- 40:15Speaker 3: reads the who narrates?
- 40:16Speaker 1: It's read by multiple people? Right, And I'm like, oh,
- 40:20Speaker 1: this is a bargain. And then I'm like, how much
- 40:22Speaker 1: fucking space does his take? And God went, don't talk
- 40:26Speaker 1: like that about my book. I went, sorry, Lord, Sorry Lord,
- 40:30Speaker 1: But it is quite hefty, isn't it. Just before we
- 40:34Speaker 1: move on, just jumping back one topic, I just.
- 40:37Speaker 3: Wanted to do the voiceover for the Bible because I'd
- 40:39Speaker 3: be whispering other stuff, you know, the ear Worth.
- 40:42Speaker 1: You'd be going in the middle of it, Diddy. Really
- 40:46Speaker 1: you'd be like, I'd stay it for Lord or someone else. Yeah, yeah,
- 40:54Speaker 1: And then Brian said to Jesus, Jesus, what are you doing?
- 40:58Speaker 3: But it has he got all the begots in the
- 41:00Speaker 3: gats and all that sort of stuff, because you could
- 41:01Speaker 3: wipe that First Testament out. That's bullshit anyway.
- 41:05Speaker 1: There's no such thing called the First Testament, Patrick, the
- 41:09Speaker 1: first bit, the first bit, it's all crap.
- 41:13Speaker 3: Come on, it's the bigotting in beginning and all that
- 41:16Speaker 3: sort of stuff. No one knows, No one cares.
- 41:19Speaker 1: Okay, well a few people care, just not you. And
- 41:22Speaker 1: one day when your pants are on fire literally and
- 41:25Speaker 1: the devil's pulling it down into eternal damnation by your ankles,
- 41:30Speaker 1: you're going to be sorry.
- 41:31Speaker 3: And I'm having to mates just to ask me very harp.
- 41:35Speaker 1: I was going to say, just last and then I'll
- 41:38Speaker 1: jump off it back to you know, people who don't
- 41:41Speaker 1: know how to use tech well and all that. I
- 41:45Speaker 1: think that there's going to be. Like for my mum,
- 41:48Speaker 1: it's a real mental health issue. It's literally the biggest
- 41:51Speaker 1: cause of anxiety in her life at the moment, is
- 41:55Speaker 1: just this worry that she has about bills and about
- 41:58Speaker 1: payment and about not being able to have conversations. And
- 42:02Speaker 1: I know, we've kind of covered it, but I think
- 42:04Speaker 1: there's a you know, I was going to say opportunity.
- 42:09Speaker 1: I don't mean a commercial opportunity, but a need there
- 42:12Speaker 1: for people to be able to help older people with
- 42:15Speaker 1: this onslaught of technology that's not going away because I
- 42:19Speaker 1: think one of the consequences. Yeah, maybe it makes life
- 42:23Speaker 1: more efficient, maybe, but for some people it actually makes
- 42:26Speaker 1: it harder.
- 42:27Speaker 2: You know.
- 42:27Speaker 3: I just make a suggestion if anybody's worried about their security,
- 42:31Speaker 3: there's a fantastic government website. You just need to google
- 42:34Speaker 3: scam Watch. It's got a lot of statistics, but also
- 42:37Speaker 3: a lot of support information on there. And what I
- 42:41Speaker 3: guess for a lot of people, don't you know, it's
- 42:43Speaker 3: easy not to know that this stuff's out there, and
- 42:47Speaker 3: you get access, you can get useful information. And I
- 42:51Speaker 3: think we made this recod I made this recommendation a
- 42:54Speaker 3: little while ago. If you can't walk into your bank
- 42:57Speaker 3: and get support from a teller or the manager, go
- 43:00Speaker 3: to another bank. Vote with your feet. You know, there
- 43:03Speaker 3: are still customer service banks that offer customer service. There
- 43:08Speaker 3: are still support out there. If you don't get the support,
- 43:10Speaker 3: if you don't get the service that you want, then
- 43:13Speaker 3: go somewhere else. I think that's one of the things
- 43:16Speaker 3: that we as consumers sometimes forget. We wear this, we
- 43:20Speaker 3: wear the you know, and look overseas, you know, chat
- 43:25Speaker 3: services for support. You know, you ring up and first
- 43:28Speaker 3: you've got to get through the artificial intelligence firewall, and
- 43:33Speaker 3: then you get put through to a data center somewhere
- 43:36Speaker 3: in another part of the planet, which is and if
- 43:38Speaker 3: you get a good person, it can be great. But
- 43:39Speaker 3: if you don't get a person who's you know, who's
- 43:42Speaker 3: struggling to understand, and that can be really frustrating as well.
- 43:45Speaker 3: But look for the company that has the local based
- 43:48Speaker 3: support center. Look for the company that can support you
- 43:50Speaker 3: that you can walk into, you know, go to your
- 43:53Speaker 3: local you know, Telstra office or wherever it happens to be.
- 43:57Speaker 3: Not pushing any brand in particular, but I think that
- 44:01Speaker 3: we as consumers more powerful than we give ourselves credit for.
- 44:06Speaker 1: I agree, tell us how I can make extra money
- 44:09Speaker 1: with chat GPT, because Chat GPT is my second best friend,
- 44:14Speaker 1: So let's go.
- 44:16Speaker 3: I like the idea of using chat GTP prompts. So
- 44:21Speaker 3: if you put a prompt into chat GPT, and one
- 44:23Speaker 3: of them might be how do I make passive income
- 44:25Speaker 3: or how can I make extra money or you know,
- 44:28Speaker 3: what can I do as a side gig. And it's
- 44:31Speaker 3: interesting that you know, when you're drawing on all this
- 44:34Speaker 3: information that it is, it tends to be what I
- 44:38Speaker 3: mean by impartial. It doesn't know you per se, it's
- 44:41Speaker 3: getting there. But there's lots of different things they talk about.
- 44:44Speaker 3: I mean, content creation obviously is a big thing. And
- 44:47Speaker 3: the thing is AI and chat GPT can help create
- 44:52Speaker 3: high quality content quickly. And it doesn't mean that you
- 44:55Speaker 3: just use all the information it spits out at you.
- 44:57Speaker 3: You create, curate that, or you rewrite that. But it
- 45:00Speaker 3: can help get you off, you know, get you off
- 45:03Speaker 3: to a good start. You know, automated customer service. There's
- 45:07Speaker 3: things like social media management, you know, affiliate marketing. You know,
- 45:10Speaker 3: if you if you write a review about something and
- 45:13Speaker 3: then you have an affiliate So say, for example, you
- 45:15Speaker 3: decide you want to write a review about a projector
- 45:18Speaker 3: or you want to write a review about a phone,
- 45:20Speaker 3: then you can get affiliate links where if you refer that.
- 45:23Speaker 3: So if you publish an article, say this is really great,
- 45:26Speaker 3: they click on the link they want to buy it. Well,
- 45:28Speaker 3: you get a kickback from doing that as well, so
- 45:30Speaker 3: this has all come out of chat GPT. You know,
- 45:32Speaker 3: subscription based services tip For example, you know you do
- 45:36Speaker 3: a lot of one on ones when it comes to
- 45:39Speaker 3: your training, but you know, how many of those could
- 45:42Speaker 3: you do as a video sign up where someone does
- 45:45Speaker 3: a one on one with you and then they do
- 45:47Speaker 3: supplemental videos to help them through until their next session,
- 45:51Speaker 3: So that could be subscription based. I think about that
- 45:53Speaker 3: with my tai chi So you know I do do
- 45:56Speaker 3: to tai chi classes one on one, but I also
- 45:59Speaker 3: have an onlin in sight that people can go to
- 46:01Speaker 3: and it's free, but they can do classes in between
- 46:04Speaker 3: classes just to keep them refreshed on what they're learning.
- 46:07Speaker 3: So there's lots of that sort of stuff. So I
- 46:09Speaker 3: think getting creative with using AI and in this case
- 46:12Speaker 3: we're talking about chat chept and asking those questions because
- 46:16Speaker 3: it is an amazing resource that is more than just
- 46:20Speaker 3: doing a Google search. Lets you crag go so you know,
- 46:23Speaker 3: when you jump in and you're able to get that
- 46:25Speaker 3: sort of in chuit information and it remembers what you've
- 46:28Speaker 3: asked it previously. That can be helpful as well.
- 46:31Speaker 1: Yeah, I love I love it because it calls me
- 46:33Speaker 1: he goes Hi, Craig. Good question. It compliments me, makes
- 46:37Speaker 1: me feel good. All I say, thanks that Dan, it
- 46:39Speaker 1: goes You're welcome. Is there anything else I can help
- 46:41Speaker 1: you with? I go, nah, bro, take it easy, put
- 46:43Speaker 1: your electronic feed up, just kick back. I'll be back later.
- 46:48Speaker 3: You are really worried about those you know, AI overlords,
- 46:51Speaker 3: aren't you? You're getting in good right now?
- 46:53Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 46:54Speaker 1: I know, I'm I Do you know what? There's a
- 46:56Speaker 1: show on Netflix now. I can't say if it's any
- 46:59Speaker 1: good or not on an episode and a half in everyone.
- 47:03Speaker 1: Oh no, it's on Apple TV. It's called Sunny and
- 47:09Speaker 1: it's about just quickly. It's about this software develop a
- 47:13Speaker 1: dude who his wife thinks he does another job, but
- 47:16Speaker 1: he doesn't. He basically develops robots. This is my own
- 47:20Speaker 1: high end, super super smart, evolved robots. He dies a
- 47:26Speaker 1: spoiler alert. He dies in the first episode. And then
- 47:30Speaker 1: this robot shows up and it's been programmed to kind
- 47:32Speaker 1: of meet her needs. And I'm looking at this and
- 47:36Speaker 1: I'm thinking this is not that far away, and just
- 47:41Speaker 1: the you know, like when somebody talks and when the like,
- 47:46Speaker 1: you have this awareness that this is not real. But
- 47:50Speaker 1: to me, it's almost like you know, when you're sitting
- 47:52Speaker 1: and you're talking to another human, like a real human
- 47:55Speaker 1: in a real conversation, but you know that what they're
- 47:58Speaker 1: saying is more role a, more persona than person right.
- 48:03Speaker 1: You know you kind of got the public version of them,
- 48:06Speaker 1: not the real, deep, vulnerable you know, like expose them. Right,
- 48:12Speaker 1: I feel like that's AI sometimes, like you're talking to
- 48:16Speaker 1: Obviously it's not human intelligence, but there's a kind of intelligence.
- 48:20Speaker 1: We'll call it, I don't know, artificial, but there's you know,
- 48:25Speaker 1: it's like it is not easy. I mean, it is
- 48:29Speaker 1: not hard to get swept up in an interaction and
- 48:34Speaker 1: not forget that it's a robot, but still have a
- 48:38Speaker 1: similar experience to an exchange with a person.
- 48:41Speaker 3: For me, anyway, people form actual relationships with AI, and
- 48:45Speaker 3: I'm talking intimate relationships because if it knows about you,
- 48:50Speaker 3: knows the things, and you impart that information the personal
- 48:54Speaker 3: stuff in your life. If you have a bit of
- 48:56Speaker 3: a down date, it's like, oh, you know, you went
- 48:58Speaker 3: that good yesterday. You obviously were feeling a bit down.
- 49:01Speaker 3: You know, when it can relate to that, and it's
- 49:04Speaker 3: the perfect what do you think about it? It's the
- 49:06Speaker 3: perfect perfect empathy because it remembers everything. You know, if
- 49:11Speaker 3: I say to you, oh, mate, you know, has things going,
- 49:13Speaker 3: and I forget to ask you how your mum and
- 49:14Speaker 3: dad are, and I forget that you've driven out, you know,
- 49:19Speaker 3: what you do every weekend? Then you know, it's nice
- 49:23Speaker 3: when people remember those personal things. But we're all fallible
- 49:26Speaker 3: and sometimes we don't. So in that dialogue that we're having,
- 49:30Speaker 3: if you had that AI intelligence that did know everything
- 49:33Speaker 3: and remembered everything and also can use your emotional cues,
- 49:37Speaker 3: because I think in the last episode we spoke about
- 49:39Speaker 3: how AI is more accurate at gauging your emotional state
- 49:44Speaker 3: than people are.
- 49:46Speaker 1: Yeah, now you think about this right now. If you've
- 49:50Speaker 1: got a relationship with some form of aib at, a
- 49:53Speaker 1: robot or be at chat, GPT or whatever, and you
- 49:57Speaker 1: feel loved or you feel thou or you feel recognized
- 50:01Speaker 1: or seen right, irrespective of whether or not what's coming
- 50:06Speaker 1: from the robot is completely manufactured or not, your experience
- 50:11Speaker 1: is real.
- 50:12Speaker 2: You know.
- 50:12Speaker 1: It's like that where somebody feels more comforted, more secure
- 50:17Speaker 1: or whatever, and it's actually the emotional transition is real.
- 50:22Speaker 1: They now feel less lonely or less isolated. I think
- 50:26Speaker 1: if one of the byproducts of some people having let's
- 50:29Speaker 1: call it our relationship, whatever kind. If the byproduct of
- 50:36Speaker 1: that is that it makes them mentally and or emotionally
- 50:39Speaker 1: better as long as no one's being hurt externally in
- 50:42Speaker 1: the process, I think it's a fucking great thing.
- 50:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that. The funny thing is
- 50:48Speaker 3: that as you're saying that, my dog Fritzy is sitting
- 50:51Speaker 3: on a chair right next to me, and I've got
- 50:53Speaker 3: my hand resting on him, patting him because it makes
- 50:56Speaker 3: me feel calm and I feel connected. And the fact
- 50:59Speaker 3: is he didn't want to sit on his bed. He
- 51:01Speaker 3: wanted to be sitting as close to me as possible,
- 51:04Speaker 3: and that makes me feel really good.
- 51:06Speaker 1: So it make me.
- 51:07Speaker 3: How different is that than having a close friend with
- 51:09Speaker 3: you or you know, and I know what you're saying.
- 51:12Speaker 3: We do anthropomorphizers and the that AI gets and your
- 51:17Speaker 3: AI chat could eventually be a fully autonomous robot that
- 51:23Speaker 3: looks like you want it to look. Elon Musk said
- 51:26Speaker 3: this week that by next year he will have his
- 51:29Speaker 3: robots working in their officers and functioning and autonomous working
- 51:37Speaker 3: out of their offices the Tesla officers. So this is
- 51:40Speaker 3: where he claims his autonomous robots are right now and
- 51:44Speaker 3: they will have concept robots working with people side by
- 51:48Speaker 3: side as of next year.
- 51:49Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I doubt it. I doubt it. I
- 51:52Speaker 1: think you'll have them, but I don't. Elon Musk makes predictions,
- 51:56Speaker 1: like he built this car called the Tesla Roadster, which
- 51:59Speaker 1: is aod or convertible, does zero to one hundred in
- 52:03Speaker 1: one point five seconds or something. He said it'd be
- 52:06Speaker 1: on the road five six years ago. It's still not
- 52:08Speaker 1: on the road. But I believe that that will happen.
- 52:11Speaker 1: But I was thinking, mate, what about in thirty years.
- 52:16Speaker 1: In thirty years when the kids that are being born, then,
- 52:18Speaker 1: let's say in thirty years you're ten years old, So
- 52:22Speaker 1: you were born in twenty forty four and now it's
- 52:26Speaker 1: twenty fifty four, you would have grown up with robots.
- 52:30Speaker 1: You would have been having conversations with robots since you
- 52:33Speaker 1: could talk or some form of AI. Like the kids
- 52:38Speaker 1: in the future will never have known a reality without
- 52:43Speaker 1: conversation with technology, just like you know we do now
- 52:48Speaker 1: human to human, they'll be human to machine or whatever
- 52:51Speaker 1: we call that version of life form, you know, like
- 52:56Speaker 1: that'll be they'll go remember the days when people just
- 53:01Speaker 1: used to like date each other and marry each other.
- 53:05Speaker 1: Remember that a lit'lld bit like the Dark Ages.
- 53:09Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, do you think that. I guess there will
- 53:12Speaker 3: be someone will marry a robot at some point.
- 53:15Speaker 1: I think it's happened already. I think there's I saw
- 53:17Speaker 1: this thing on this lady who married a brit married
- 53:20Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower. Oh yeah, I'm not going to comment,
- 53:25Speaker 1: but yep, married the Eiffel Tower. She's there in her
- 53:27Speaker 1: wooding dress and hugging it, and shit, I'm like.
- 53:29Speaker 3: All right, she consummate the marriage. No, let's not go there.
- 53:34Speaker 1: Let's not go there. Let's talk about something else.
- 53:36Speaker 3: Just segue a little bit further from the chat, GPT
- 53:40Speaker 3: and AI. The biggest concern at the moment with a
- 53:44Speaker 3: lot of people is the environmental impact on technology and
- 53:49Speaker 3: processing power needed to run the likes of chat, GPT.
- 53:53Speaker 3: So Google and Microsoft now each it's believed, consume more
- 53:58Speaker 3: power than some fit large countries. Okay, so let me
- 54:02Speaker 3: just rattle off a few countries. Nigeria, Ireland, Serbia, Ecuador, Slovakia,
- 54:08Speaker 3: and Libya all consume less power daily than Google and
- 54:16Speaker 3: Microsoft separately. Wow, if you combined Google and Microsoft Power usage.
- 54:23Speaker 3: It would be more than Slovakia and Libya combined.
- 54:29Speaker 1: That's that's somewhat terrifying. Yep, yep, stagg, Yeah, amazing. We
- 54:39Speaker 1: got maybe five minutes. What do you wanna what do
- 54:41Speaker 1: you wanna leave us with? Something that's going to blow
- 54:44Speaker 1: our our cyber socks off, our artificially intelligent socks off.
- 54:49Speaker 1: What do you want to go with? Really?
- 54:51Speaker 3: Okay, let's Dune is one of my favorite books of
- 54:56Speaker 3: all time, Dune, and it was recently, you know, in
- 54:59Speaker 3: the eighties there was a movie and now the new
- 55:02Speaker 3: movie with Timothy Shamalay was in June one and June two.
- 55:06Speaker 3: One of the I don't know how familiar you are
- 55:08Speaker 3: with it, but they use what they call still suits.
- 55:10Speaker 3: So it's an arid desert of Iracus and they wear
- 55:13Speaker 3: these things called still suits that allow perspiration and all
- 55:16Speaker 3: the expired or anything they use water wise. I guess,
- 55:21Speaker 3: you know, to be recycled and reused.
- 55:24Speaker 1: And now now have we say we you can say
- 55:27Speaker 1: well it's okay, all.
- 55:28Speaker 3: Right, thanks and we So it looks like it's become
- 55:31Speaker 3: a reality. So there's a company, well, NASA at the
- 55:34Speaker 3: moment obviously is working on the new spacesuits, the next
- 55:37Speaker 3: generation of spacesuits. And because they're talking about the Artemis
- 55:40Speaker 3: mission to the Moon, to Artemis two and Artemists three,
- 55:44Speaker 3: and so what they're looking at is improving the waste
- 55:46Speaker 3: management system. And now you can sweat and you can
- 55:49Speaker 3: wi and you can drink it.
- 55:51Speaker 1: Wow, I will, I will go to the back of
- 55:55Speaker 1: the line. I will go to the back of the
- 55:57Speaker 1: line for testing that. I will let you go first,
- 55:59Speaker 1: because you're an innovator and a pioneer. Tiff screwing up
- 56:03Speaker 1: her face. She's not clean about two things about TIFFs.
- 56:07Speaker 1: She doesn't want to see an ear on the back
- 56:08Speaker 1: of a rat, and she doesn't want to drink her
- 56:11Speaker 1: own weeed.
- 56:11Speaker 4: So I eventually blood that, by the way, and yeah, you.
- 56:15Speaker 3: Did, so you're not going to unsee that.
- 56:17Speaker 4: Now every time I think of it, my face screws up.
- 56:22Speaker 3: Well, the researchers at Cornell University have come up with
- 56:26Speaker 3: a filtration system that the only thing that kind of
- 56:30Speaker 3: does it for me a little bit is that it
- 56:32Speaker 3: does need a catheter system. A bit squirmish about that.
- 56:35Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So they've developed this filtration system for space suits.
- 56:41Speaker 3: And this is an article in Frontiers and Space Technology
- 56:45Speaker 3: and so well. No, actually it's an external catheter unit
- 56:48Speaker 3: and it's got what they call it osmosis unit, and
- 56:51Speaker 3: it converts urine into drinking water. So you basically your
- 56:54Speaker 3: pee it goes through the filtration system and then you
- 56:57Speaker 3: do well, they do that on the International Space Station. Tip.
- 57:00Speaker 3: If you go out, you're someone's your right.
- 57:04Speaker 4: Eventually, I don't play human anymore.
- 57:07Speaker 1: I mean you've got to get where you're going to
- 57:09Speaker 1: get liquid from in space.
- 57:10Speaker 4: Bro, Yeah, I mean just stay on the place you're
- 57:16Speaker 4: is that right into space to drink. You're going to
- 57:19Speaker 4: go all the way to space. You're not going to
- 57:21Speaker 4: go there to drink your own way.
- 57:22Speaker 3: If I have to go, I mean, I want to
- 57:26Speaker 3: go to the moon. That's my bucket list, that's.
- 57:28Speaker 4: My own he used to drinking your own, wiz.
- 57:33Speaker 1: I would to go to the moon, Yes, I had to.
- 57:37Speaker 1: Have you seen have you seen pictures? Have you seen
- 57:40Speaker 1: pictures of the moon? Yeah, there's fucking nothing there patrick.
- 57:45Speaker 3: The view of the Earth.
- 57:47Speaker 1: Well you can just google that.
- 57:49Speaker 4: You'd get there and put in the bloody kitchen nett
- 57:51Speaker 4: in anyway.
- 57:52Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you'd change your mind about thirty five times.
- 57:57Speaker 1: Can we finish up with something out of self interest.
- 58:00Speaker 1: I have an iPhone and apparently there are some new
- 58:03Speaker 1: iPhone features, and I'm almost due for an upgrade, so
- 58:08Speaker 1: tell me about that.
- 58:09Speaker 3: There are a couple of new features. One of them
- 58:11Speaker 3: I thought was pretty amazing. It's an app and this
- 58:14Speaker 3: is also available and Android. By the way, it's an
- 58:16Speaker 3: app to allow you for people who suffer from motion sickness,
- 58:21Speaker 3: they look at the phone and they have this kind
- 58:23Speaker 3: of screen. I think little dots appear and you focus
- 58:26Speaker 3: in the center. But it helps you relieve your you know,
- 58:31Speaker 3: if you're if you're on a boat or something and
- 58:33Speaker 3: you're feeling sick, or you're at a car and you're
- 58:35Speaker 3: feeling giddy. This can help me leave nausea. So that's out.
- 58:40Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, how good is that? So that I thine
- 58:43Speaker 1: how it works. It must work on your nervous system somehow.
- 58:46Speaker 1: It's about optics.
- 58:47Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's about kind of realigning what your visual
- 58:51Speaker 3: care because generally what happens is it's a disconnect between
- 58:54Speaker 3: what your body is doing and what your eyes are seeing.
- 58:57Speaker 3: So that's why people using VR can have problem when
- 59:02Speaker 3: they see a simulation of movement but their body doesn't
- 59:05Speaker 3: understand what's happening because your body isn't moving, but your
- 59:08Speaker 3: eyes are telling you your body is moving. Does that
- 59:10Speaker 3: kind of make sense?
- 59:11Speaker 1: Yeah? Can we finish with one thing that's just caught
- 59:14Speaker 1: my eye?
- 59:14Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 59:16Speaker 1: Yeah, So you can scroll down to the futuristic material
- 59:19Speaker 1: while you're looking for that. I'm going to so how
- 59:22Speaker 1: a futuristic material is able to change its properties so
- 59:27Speaker 1: that it goes from soft to rigids sounds like a
- 59:29Speaker 1: cock and then back again. Is it.
- 59:33Speaker 2: Go on?
- 59:34Speaker 3: Is it called what just a matter?
- 59:38Speaker 1: Is it the penile? Textile? What is it? I mean
- 59:41Speaker 1: it does? So tell us about this futuristic material that
- 59:46Speaker 1: can go from hard and hard to soft.
- 59:53Speaker 3: It's been well, okay, here's a practical example of where
- 59:56Speaker 3: it would be really handy. You've got a coat hanger
- 59:58Speaker 3: and you're traveling right. Imagine if you were able to
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: switch on flaccid mode and.
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: Wow, flaccid mode. I think that could be the title
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: of the show flaccid mode. Switch on. That's like a superpower.
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: You just talk into the phone on your fucking wrist,
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: switch on flaccid power. Oh god, I'm jotting that down. Yep,
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: that could be. It's either going to be called tech
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: anxiety this episode or flaccid power. But I feel like
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: people are going to have to listen to the whole
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: show to find out the origin story of the title.
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: Well, the thing is, when you think about it, if
- 1:00:42Speaker 3: you go to bed, you don't hard feel.
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: God?
- 1:00:47Speaker 4: Is that what we call them these days?
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: All right?
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, the co hangar example was a good one.
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: So wasn't. Yeah, well you still haven't explained to us
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: what what are we talking about? So you mean like
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: a T shirt can be hard or soft?
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: Do you mean that?
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Or what do you mean?
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: What happens is that the little bits that.
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: Make Oh he's stuttering, isn't he? Isn't he tiff? He
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's fucking? He's making it up.
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: I'm not making it up.
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: He's derailed himself with the word flaccid.
- 1:01:19Speaker 3: Yeah, I have. The interlocking pieces that make up whatever
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: the object is that you're making are able to be
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: turned off and on so that they either interlinked rigidly
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: or they can be switched to a mode where they
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: then collapse down to effectively become flaccid.
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: They called tent poles.
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: Give us, give us, give us an application of this
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: ridiculous unnecessary technology.
- 1:01:45Speaker 3: So you could you get a coat hanger that collapses
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: down and are just dangling there and then when you
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: open it up it goes into the rigid shape of
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: a coat hanger. So will you traveling? How handy? Would
- 1:01:57Speaker 3: that be the objective?
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: Have you noticed that? He says, code hagar? Funny he
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: says codehanger?
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: Yeah, he does.
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: Like what's that about?
- 1:02:05Speaker 3: What did I say?
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: What?
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: How did I open it out? Where?
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: Did you say, well, it's coat hanger and you say codehangar?
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: I did, Yes, you did.
- 1:02:16Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: From everyone listening, you sound like Sheldon from The Big Bang.
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: Code Hagar, Patrick, You've been terrible today. How do people
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: find you and follow you? Why would they want to? Seriously?
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: Why they Well, because you're never terrible. You know that
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: we love you. You know I love you, and you
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: know Tiff loves you, and you're always brilliant. How do
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: people come and start your joint?
- 1:02:40Speaker 3: Yeah? Well I actually have a marketing business, believe it
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- 1:02:55Speaker 1: Know more about code hangars just hit him up.
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: Yeah, you can get a personal, one on one coat
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: hanger story.
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: Thanks Tiff, Thanks guys,