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Episode 378 - Do Not Adjust Your Antenna! · TechtalkRadio

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The following programs produced the Tech Talk Radio Network. We've had some guests over
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Of course with you coming to your house Sean just read no you're not,
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that's Pokemon cost go ahead, badgets beyond all the anti you have great content
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theme well, and yours is is yours is a product and and service that
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a lot of our listeners have no idea how uh you know where are Unfortunately,
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sometimes until and that's happens going on? They happen put on there a
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flood or a fire or something devastating that happens where years it could be long
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digitized the Halloween you know, candy giving again they have in the past.
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I mean I remember I remember growing up single house in my neighborhood where I
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lived in Orange County. Every house gave your way. It was very rare
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for you to find a house that had the lights off unless you went out
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super late. I remember we would go out starting at six and we wouldn't
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be done until eight. And I had like a pillowcase full of candy.
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Oh yeah, we always had I mean grew up in there, like in
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the city and need the beach. It was, you know, I mean
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a suburb but of Orange County, but I mean it was the neighborhood community.
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We specifically go into town. Actually years remember the oh yeah, yeah,
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you came in that care they would be you'd put them in the carousel
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and you would sit and watch them projected onto a curtain. Yes, wow,
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that's right. I grew up on. You know, when you did
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go trigger treating, there was always those neighbors that that kind of stood out
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there. Used to be a dentist, but you would go to his house
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and he would give you toothpaste and toothbrushes because he was the dentist. But
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you know what, ye yeah, we'd still go. I knew I was
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going to get I would still go because it was like, cool, I'm
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getting something cool for this guy's house. You know. That was kind of
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the cool thing. As a parent, I always loved taking the kids around
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and there were I remember one year somebody on the street. I guess for
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a year they've been colecting on the ao L one point four four floppies,
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you know, the install definitely as they were more than I should do exactly.
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I'm sure your listeners, I'm gonna I'm gonna show this if you can
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recognize that and tell everybody what it is. Okay, okay you lower decks
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that no, well no that lower decks discovery uh start trow discovery shut.
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Basically while you you are, hadn't someone gave that to me, and that's
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been my folloween costome with the really yeah, because I'm too cheap to dress
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up? Where will you? What was the best Halloween custom were profile?
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What would it? Because when I was a kid, my great grandparents mentioned
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with the face masks and everything. I think I remember Casper. I think
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one that Casper the friendly girls right just help Me, which was good,
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and my favorite that goes street opening comments about people to wait and as happened.
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That was good everything. And there's some other ones they dressed up like
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the really happened like he was I was holding my head. Oh they were
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great. Yeah, Oh I like that. I just up as several of
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them. If our listeners want to check out the article, I remember Michael,
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like my mom and dad had find that there's a link on the Weren't
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page of our website. It's about his experience of having starline just about ser
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they didn't have what then be done. I think most people they did it
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was super easy. Vader man a lot of that work because there are people
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that will see it was enormous scanner, right, I mean, honestly,
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it looked like the printer guy they start doing this. That was a lot
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more that I always had fun with that time of the year, and I
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feel bad for kids now because again just not too many homes to it.
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We have a house across the streets for the past first probably for six years,
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which I had been doing his front yard, and he would start in
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September and he'd have brilliant displays and you know, light the street would fill
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on the folloween and kids would line up into this guy's hunted house the first
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year not doing it. That's what I don't even know if we're going to
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get kids this year, they're going to come up and down the street.
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I still set a table out when I usually sit outside, just you know,
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as the kids come by. But also here's the problem, everybody,
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I started doing some brains, here's what I think we should do. Is
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tech talk. Okay, all right, we give away floppy disks which for
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any reason, yeah day, and it's uploaded to your in box and load
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them up the same way so somebody is able to get you the photos.
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Suddenly. Remember we've got a memorial service. We want to have you presentation
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that is in the background while we're you know, being prepared for speeches and
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you know eulogies. Uh, this could be running on the back. They
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can get that to you in the morning that day. The strange USB drive
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in your computers and you're going to give kids USB dru I would give away
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everyone else discovered to see how many actually follow through and put something into their
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computer. Actually that would be from us. Don't prout know what happened?
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I don't know. You've got to be really these days, John Doll.
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You never never and you know now you know you speak as a parent.
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You'd have to check the kids candy when you always union did that. My
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parents should check are candy and I would check my kids candy. But you
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also have to check now things like this. If your kid gets a US
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big drive, don't you have the discussion with them memories not to put the
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memory will being able to see them again. Be careful for the entire family.
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Never used to be, you know, sitting down with you know,
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the grandparents, because I remember Sue with my grandma the Techti Grandma Francis and
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Apples photo Android. She would show me the pictures having their house in Burma,
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and they've kind of ball that went, like, you know, if
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you want to be able to thinking these photos, here's the deal. Be
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a little. Over the years, if you're in the Android world inside shape
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and it used to be you can have a photo on the side of stamp
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and they have been older people have found other than worrying about being used the
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wrong way like when you used to post right way your life easier to see,
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has actually worked out quite well. So Samsung has the smart tag devices
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and it looks like we're going to see other alternatives now with the Android platform
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for tracking. Tring into that and looking at what Apple is doing. There
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is an event that is going to be happening on Monday this coming Monday that
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our listeners may want to check out. It's called Scary Fast and Apple announced
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this uh this week, giving you really a week just to get ready for
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this event. On Monday, that's going to be happening at five pm Pacific
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time, so you think about it for the East coast, that's they're going
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to be watching it eighth. But this online event their second event that they're
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doing for the fall. A lot of people are thinking they're going to be
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unveiling the new Man and somebody may be listening right now, have has a
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look attack it. That's a procrastination. They get it to you, all
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right, Uh what what is this process for for getting them to you?
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Number one and getting them back? Which the easiest for the design for photos
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about here picture because little was like two hundred and twenty dollars, but I
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think he would even everything scan. She's next to all of that are designed
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to car bundle it. He'll give that. He's even piles stacks but going
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in about one hundred and so using putting a file right down, coating it
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but in the birthday anniversary specially and just put a rubber band around those you
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know, going back in thousand were messages on it. We could even scan
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that we were having still messages and before you get it back, and really
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cool thing because we get everything back. Big people uploaded services like Google Jumping
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and had on your phone. Now so you see, so you see the
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benefits and Premiere or are you see the benefits in you know, our final
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but I mean you would basically with that, you're going to see the benefits
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in any kind of graph or audio editing program or pretty much anything word everything
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Everything was snapped, I mean just just transcoding, you process. If you
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click on a picture of Transcot will find similar just ba the challenge through them.
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It's so funny because you know, I've been a long time user of
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on the on the the window side of a Premiere pro and now I remember,
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I know somebody I don't have Mac. You're not sitting there at a
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machine lifting the cover of a photo down, and that's not how you operate,
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like you said, thirty years and a final Uh, this is amazing
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because you have I was afraid of a little timid about machinery and to get
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this done to give you the best similar to Premiere and or or those in
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the Mac world might say that Premiere is so much similar a final cut,
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but as far as the layout and how you do that. But even then,
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you took a file on your in your Windows platform, and I took
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a file on the Apple platform and you went to render. For the listeners
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who don't know what that means, it means you're taking all of these cut
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images, audio video, et cetera, fade results, and then you're bining
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it down. You're mixing it down to that one final that final cut,
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right, you do that on the max still apperformed the PC and again I
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love Adobe and I still use Premiere Pro. But with final Cut, it
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really did perform well and I can imagine is pretty amazing. I love it.
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And this article from AP also is great. And once again you can
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find that at tech talk radio dot com. If our listeners want to find
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out more mitch about the service, what's the best thing for them to do,
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just go to the Apple a message about the Associated Press article uh and
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the support reporters. All five people filled the industry meeting in the TV World
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Industry reading photos for recording. Importantly, right afterwards you couldn't needively shoot that
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everyone lot and important final key Premiere said twenty but that supports handle just scan
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my photos. Um. Everyone here is just so they supported that, they
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support that native. I know that having you know, one stop shop for
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for doing this, whether it be small photos, large photos. You do
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it all. I do know that there are listeners, and I've had listeners
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have asked you in the past that have been very happy with your service.
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But one where they're super heads or even let's go back even further before super
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believe or not, they were shooting at sixteen millimeters? Is that something that
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you are before are doing or something that you kind of looked at We don't
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want well on the website, all the difference to use progress for eight millimeters,
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That's what That's what were really there. Phnology the one of this we
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don't switch and it's we're not all this money hardware progress. So what that
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means is you can watch you support a cop that pause it. How do
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you feel okay with with Apple doing this big event that's coming up, which
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again it's not gonna be nobody's going to be attending this thing to be able
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to watch it online? If it is the M and I mean these are
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performance boosted like we saw the M two o versus the M one, I
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mean, and that was pretty much a big jump. Could the threes be
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even more of a have y? How those memory the inclements? Well,
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we've and we've exactly. You know people that have downsized, especially here in
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Green Valley, they're downsize and maybe move into develop you know, uh uh,
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whether it be assisted living or living independently. But they don't have as
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much space. Maybe they had so they put stuff in storage for photos.
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This could actually not be a good thing. But this is the expect to
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a new generationship beyond it seems like them twos have not been around that long
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enough for people to save up their pennies and be able to go out and
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afford to buy one. But I mean, is their development process? People
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every expect year to year fire development returns, like uh, their damage that
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all this money and you your listeners are really also I kind of want to
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important. I don't. I don't see how they're developed. Take kicking by.
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I kind of wonder, uh, Sean, It's like we've heard me
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talk about Intel and you know with their processors, their new their new processor
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being able to hit you know, six giga hurts steady. You know,
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I just watched the Gamer next to many videos keep the series right. We've
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heard from people who had digitize every day all the photos as well as they're
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basically saying we did now we have a backup service as well, but work
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people because it's going to be really expensive. I bought the thirteen night everything,
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and I got to say it. I love that. The door photos,
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that's always great que and you know, if you're looking for the gift,
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it was the holidays and I love the great somebody pretty able to take
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seven? Those been really film a presentation. That's why I'm thinking, where
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where will the well? Where this fourteen go? Is it just another way
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to keep the sale is going the momentum. Here's the motherboard that, here's
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video card. You know, here's all of these things, all that up
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to create the PC. You know, when will you say what if God
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is great? This will ask me for about five or six years before its
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time to update and all your relatives. Yeah, I mean because you need
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to like the video production, right, yeah, yeah, okay, all
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right card because you know I'm imagining with Apple. I mean, we're heading
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for holidays. That's a great idea. I love it. Well, let's
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get mitcha. It's great to talk to you again. We look for talking
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to you again into the new year, and have a wonderful holiday, and
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then thanks so much for for what you you do as it's an amazing police
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SpaceX. I will be people would say, you know what, I think
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I'll pass on that one. I don't think they'll they'll want to have a
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chip embedded in their SYS to to say. I think I think a lot
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of people would go for it. I think I think in this day and
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age, we're already in dystopian society. Why not make some money and risk
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it. Right, if it fries your brain, it's over. But if
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it, if it works, it's gonna be sweet, and you're gonna be
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there and you're gonna be one of them. I don't think that. I
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don't know. Yeah, Yeah, you're gonna have people on both sides.
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You're gonna have the people that are not gonna touch it with you know,
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from orbit. You're gonna have people that are jumping on every opportunity to advance
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themselves bionically, right. It's just it's just the way humans are. You're
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gonna have one side that wants to push the envelope and you're gonna have the
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other one that says, no, I'm good back here, back in the
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forties or whatever. Yeah, well, I know more and more people now
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are are delving into that AI world. We've talked about that before a lot,
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you know, even even and Sean over there has been playing around with
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the graphics. Did you do when you did your graphics? Did you use
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a open AI to do that? I did, Dolly two point zero,
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okay because now which it worked out, okay, But I did just read
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an article that there is a new tool that can put corrupt data into images
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so that when AI reads it, it doesn't know how to properly interpret it
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and it will give you bad images. Oh wow, really, so you
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can upload your images with a basically I'm assuming it's some sort of digital watermark,
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right, yeah, that when it's scanned by AI, AI doesn't know
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how to decrypt those bits, so it can't learn from your images. Oh
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that's interesting. I don't know. You know, now if you go to
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open dot AI, I know that you will get a prompt for actually creating.
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And so now their focus seems to be less on the textual type of
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imaging and now it's more the graphical and I don't know, I've been pretty
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pretty pleased with the results, and more and more people now are trying it
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and finding it to be normal. But I think what some of these companies
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are doing is they're saying, come try this, Come try this, get
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used to it. Now, let's charge you. I mean we saw that
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with the models of Chad GPT, where you had a model that's free and
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some people are still using that, and then you have a paid version.
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People, as Slick and I were talking before the show, people are putting
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it now on their resumes saying that you know, I can do this,
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I know how to work the AI because that's becoming what companies want to have.
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They want somebody, do you understand it? Can you run this?
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If I give you a paper? Can you create something with this little game
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for everybody to play at home? Guess which one of us three has it
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on their resume? All right, we gotta take a break. We got
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we get some great guests lined up. We're gonna talk with our good buddy
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Mitch Goldstone from scam My Photos. If you're looking for a perfect gift for
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the holidays or you want to preserve those images. Mitch is always great on
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the show, and he's gonna tell you about what they're doing and how they
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can make it super fast to get your photos and your film digitized to preserve
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it and keep it safe. We're also gonna be talking about your antenna and
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a DVR. You want to be able to record off air television, not
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not with over the air television, not with maybe a VHS cassette, but
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digitally and then be able to watch it anywhere. Tableau TV is the company
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that does that. We're gonna be talking to you want it already, We're
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gonna be talking with the CEO of the company of Tableau TV. That's all
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back to tech talk Radio. You know, sometimes I catch the old person
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in me saying, these kids have no idea how easy it is today,
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because I mean I used to love watching shows like Starsky and Hunch and Adam
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twelve at Emergency. And the thing is, if I watched them on TV
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and maybe I missed the ending, that's it. I was done. Unless
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they played in reruns, I couldn't go back and see what happened. Well,
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what's really cool about that is we've seen technology kind of change now over
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the years, and now DVRs they're commonplace. But the thing is, what
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if you want to be a cord cutter, but you still want to have
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that capability to maybe watch your favorite show at another time? There are some
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great choices of programming and you may say, well tonight I want to watch
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this and maybe I want to record this. Well, the old days of
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the VCRs they're gone, but even then they made it difficult to be able
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to record one, watch another and do all that. Well, there was
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a company called Nouvio that is the maker of Tableau TV and you may have
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seen their social Their marketing department has been doing great because you see them all
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over social media, but really, what is it all about? And we
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decided let's get them on the show. And Grant Hall is the CEO for
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Tableau TV Neuvio and it's with us on the line. Great to talk to
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you, sir, Yeah, great to talk to you. Thanks for having
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me on the show. Well tell us, you know, we're talking about
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a product that was introduced back or at least the concept back in twenty ten.
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How long is it obviously thirteen years now, but how has that development
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stage happened and what was the original idea for this? Well, core cutting
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was the original idea. And you know, one thing that you know happened
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just before twenty ten was the US changed to a digital you know, over
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the air transmission standard. So most people out there don't realize that, you
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know, with a simple antenna, but the size of a piece of paper,
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you know, on your window, you can get stations in better quality
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than a cable and satellite. They're all digital. They're all you know,
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high def. They look gorgeous. So what we want to do is enable
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people to enjoy that content. And the best part of it is it's free.
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You know, you don't pay for it. So we we build a
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device that you just connect this little antenna too. You put it up in
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your window and then it connects into your Roku, your Apple TV, your
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your Android TV, whatever device you know, mobile phone, tablet you're using
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to watch TV on, and it gives you access to all that over the
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air content and gorgeous high death. Well that's I think that's what surprised a
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lot of people because I think we've thought of this traditionally in the past.
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As you know, with an antenna, you're tied to that television. If
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you were at work it suddenly wanted to see something, nop, you had
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to have an antenna on your TV at work. If you had something like
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this. With this, once it's recorded, you have that access to be
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able to stream it to whatever device that you're watching it on with the with
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the Roku or et cetera, and watch it anywhere. Yeah. Absolutely,
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and with live TV as well. It's not just recorded TV, so and
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it's every device and multiple devices at the home at the same time. So
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somebody in the bedroom, living room, kitchen can all be watching different shows
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or recordings and enjoying that content on whatever device they want to. So that's
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the nature, and it allows you to put the device, you know where
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the antenna is the best place to be, you know, which is typically
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a pie you know, it's not next to your TV and maybe in a
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bedroom. It maybe in a window facing the towers at the top of your
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house, so you can put the antenna where you get the best reception.
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Just connecting the device and we connect wirelessly into your home network and then the
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magic happens. Now we have told listeners in the past that have wanted to
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connect to some of our local channels that there's antenna TV that gives you the
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ability to be able to look and see what is the closest towers, which
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direction you want to point them to. Do you use that same type of
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resource? Yeah. Absolutely. If you go to our website tableautv dot com,
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it has resources exactly like that. You can put in your zip code.
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It'll tell you exactly where the towers are, what kind of channels you
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should expect to get. You know, it's a great resource to go to
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first to see is this going to work for me where I live? You
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know, Grant, I know that yourself and a lot of your staff have
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done trade shows and showing the actual product and how it works. What it
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seems to be the biggest surprise that people have when they see Tableau TV.
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I think the big surprise is one equality, right, you know, for
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us, so they're a bit older. We kind of remember the old days
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of antenna's where you know, ghosty picture you had to move the antenna around,
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dance on one foot to get it. This is all digital. It's
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it's better quality and cable and satellite, you know, the breadth of the
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content. All your major you know, stations are typically available in your in
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your location, know, ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS. And then
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one of the innovations with this new law launch or the latest product is we're
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adding a bunch of channels that come over the internet. So we call those
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fast channels free ad supported TV. So we have about sixty channels today,
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we'll have about one hundred by the end of the year. And that together
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with the over the air content gives you just you know, pretty much whatever
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you'd want. And both those fast channels to come over the internet and the
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OTA channels can be recorded and time shifted and plane back, you know,
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whenever you want to enjoy them. And that's pretty much revolutionary. Well,
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yeah, the other fact grant has got to be to the ease of use.
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Let's face it, some people have been a little timid about number one
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setting up antenna because they're thinking it's going to be too difficult, and especially
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if you start telling them DVR. I mean, I remember on Parents,
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they didn't even want to do the VHS Betamax whole thing because my dad just
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thought it was going to be too difficult. But with this, you have
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the ability to set this up very easily, and most most of us are
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using smartphones so that we can or even smart TVs that we can watch this
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content in a different room. If we recorded on the system that's in the
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living room, we can go to our room where maybe we didn't have that
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same kind of reception. Let's face it, it works that way. You're
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going to be able to see it there. Yeah. Absolutely, it streams
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to every TV in the house, you know, a fantastic quality. You
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know. One of the things we've really focused on with this new release is
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a whole new user experience. So the interface is gorgeous. You know,
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it's kind of better than Netflix or competitors. We think. We have a
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homepage, services, tons of content that's currently playing or that you may want
28:03
to record. You can look through different genres. You know, we have
28:07
a traditional grid guide. If that's what you want to look at, just
28:08
what's on right now. So we prought tons of tools really to allow you
28:14
to find that content is just new content and then instantly one click recorded or
28:18
watch it. Well, Grant, one of the things about cork cutting is
28:22
you're trying to eliminate costs. The cost of cable. Let's face it has
28:26
gone up quite a bit, quite dramatically, but a lot of us will
28:30
keep the Internet. We have that so we can use some of those streamek
28:33
services that are out there, whether it be Netflix, Hulu or some of
28:36
those Crackle, et cetera shows like that. But the fact is is that
28:41
that we want to get away from subscriptions. How is the cost model on
28:45
Tableau TV? Is it you buy it? Is there a subscription? How
28:48
does that work? There's absolutely no subscription. So you buy the product,
28:53
you know from then that's the only expense you have. You've set it up.
28:57
It's going to use some bandwidth over the internet to get those internet based
29:00
fast channels. But all the OTA channels come in, you know, gorgeous,
29:04
you know, high def, great quality surround sound, you know,
29:08
absolutely for free. Now is it recording on the in the cloud or is
29:11
it recording on SD type devices inside the tables, some solid state storage in
29:17
it, so it has enough to do about you know, fifty hours of
29:21
high DEF you know, but you can also plug in like a simple USB
29:25
hard drive you know, that you can buy for like fifty bucks with two
29:27
terabytes and that will give you, you know, hundreds of hours of recording
29:33
capability. So so either way, you know, lots of storage available now.
29:37
One of the things I know about this grant is that it has the
29:41
ats C one tuners in it. As ATSC three continues to evolve, is
29:45
this something that we all see and maybe future Tableau TV models, Yeah,
29:51
we're looking at that in new models. Unfortunately, the technology today is not
29:55
completely backward compatible. But ATC one is going to be around, you know,
30:00
at least five years. You know, lots of people say probably ten
30:03
years. So the current you know, TV is not going away. It's
30:07
going to be around with us for a long long time. So if you're
30:11
worried about making the investment, you don't really need to worry about it.
30:14
ATSC three is just in the very early stages of launch. You know,
30:18
it still covers I think they're saying now, but seventy percent of households in
30:22
the US, but it largely duplicates the content you have on ATC one exactly,
30:26
So exactly you're not missing anything at this point in time. But yes,
30:30
we're also looking at, you know, incorporating the lace technologies and future
30:34
products well of course, and plus that you've added this new kind of service
30:40
where people can actually get some of these shows that are available online all within
30:42
that one so it's not like having to go back and forth. This can
30:47
be their main unit that they watch their content on. Yeah. Absolutely,
30:51
I mean, a channel is a channel within kind of our user interface.
30:55
So whether it's coming over the air through an antenna or whether it's coming over
30:59
the internet, you don't know, it looks identical to you. You record
31:03
it, you watch it the same way. It just means you've got suddenly,
31:06
you know, one hundred channels where you know, essentially for free,
31:10
no subscription. Yeah, plus do you get the local channels And that's you
31:14
know, that's what's important to a lot of people. There are some services
31:17
out there that people pay for they don't get access to CBS, NBC or
31:22
ABC locally, and thus they're missing out on news. Yeah, absolutely,
31:26
I think you know, that we hear that from all of our customers,
31:30
right, you know, having that connection to their local community to see the
31:33
local news and you know, more importantly the sports, you know, is
31:37
critically important. So that's why we think combining the over the air experience with
31:41
you know, the internet, that the experience is really the best way to
31:45
do things. Now, go online to the website and take a look at
31:49
Tableau TV. Now, is there a couple of different packages, like if
31:53
I want to get maybe I've got an intenta, maybe I'm old school and
31:57
got it off the roof, or you know, I want to go get
32:00
one of those new flat antennas that you know work pretty good, or do
32:04
you is there a bundle with an antenna in it? Yeah, there are
32:07
both products. So if you go to our website or Amazon dot com,
32:09
you'll see that there's an unbundled product which is just a product, and you
32:15
know, you buy your own antenna. Again, it has flash storage on
32:19
board, so there's no need to buy a hard drive unless you really want
32:22
to have a lot of storage. You just plug it in, you know,
32:25
pull up them obile app, set it up. It's very easy and
32:29
quick to do. But we also have a bundle that includes a flat antenna,
32:32
you know, with a really good quality coax so that you know,
32:37
if you're in a metropolitan area where you're resentably close to the stations, that's
32:40
going to give you a great experience. Exactly. Now for setting it up,
32:45
it's a piece of cake to go through. People can go online,
32:49
they can see the step by steps. They get that with the with the
32:51
product that they buy, and then of course the DVR features. What are
32:55
some of the different we get some our TVs. What are some of the
32:59
other devices they'd be able to stream to? Well, right now, we're
33:02
supporting Android you know TV ecosystem that includes Google and you know in video Shield
33:10
those products. We support the Amazon Fire TV ecosystem. We support Roku very
33:19
surely. We'll have an Apple TV app, we have an iPhone mobile app,
33:22
we have an iPad app, and we have an Android phone and tablet
33:27
app, and we'll surely be releasing some more smart TV apps. You know.
33:31
Right now we supports Roku smart TVs, Android smart TVs like Sony's and
33:37
we'll expand that over the next you know, six months or so. Now,
33:39
Grant you mentioned it. You know, I remember the old days I
33:43
was the remote control. Dad would say, get up, Jade the channel.
33:45
You only had a few choices, and then if the picture quality wasn't
33:49
that great with the antenna, I am the one who had to hold it,
33:52
and sometimes all of a sudden the picture would be good as soon as
33:53
I touch the antenna. Just stay there. I want to watch this show.
34:00
Yes, you know, it brings back some good memories. But the
34:02
quality of the picture that you get now is pretty amazing. Like you said,
34:07
high definition. Some people don't have no idea that TV stations actually put
34:12
up this content with the best picture quality, and sometimes when they switch back
34:15
to antenna, they're pretty amazed with what they get. Absolutely. I mean
34:20
the cable stations, you know, in satellite need to fit a lot of
34:23
stations into a small space, so they tend to compress them, which can
34:28
compromise the image quality. We're over the air, you don't have that problem
34:31
as much, so you can use you know, much more spectrum, higher
34:36
bit rates. You can get a much better you know, experience and a
34:39
much better picture. Well, you've come a long way, and again Nuvio
34:43
has got a great product with the Tableau TV. Again, I'm helping our
34:45
listeners check it out. All they need to do they can go to Amazon,
34:49
they can find more info there, but of course Tableau TV they can
34:52
get all that info right there on the website. Grant, I want to
34:54
thank you so much for taking the time and talking to us about Tableau TV.
34:58
It's been my pleasure. Thanks. We'll be back with more of tech
35:00
talk Radio. Now back to tech talk Radio. We've had some guests over
35:07
the years that have returned to the show because they offer a product to you,
35:13
the listener, the consumer that can benefit them greatly. And one of
35:16
those that I am always proud to have on the show is the folks that
35:22
scan my photos. Mitch Goldstone, who is standing by with us on the
35:25
line. Mitch, how you doing today, Andy, Great to be with
35:29
you again. Congratulations and everything with tech talk Radio. I just read your
35:35
blog. I think it was like from last month about safeguarding your gadgets beyond
35:38
all like the anti virus software. You always have such great content that you
35:43
know we all learn from, so thank you well. And yours is Yours
35:46
is a product and service that a lot of our listeners have no idea how
35:52
invaluable you you are to them. Unfortunately, sometimes until an accident happens,
36:00
and they do happen, whether it be you know, a flood or a
36:05
fire or something devastating that happens where all those images over the years captured could
36:10
be lost if they haven't been digitized. Indeed, you know, and you
36:15
have a really interesting story and updates since we last spoke. It's been in
36:22
business over thirty years, but nothing has ever happened like this, And I
36:27
don't know for any other tech companies if there it's more aspirational. The Associated
36:31
Press did a feature profile. It was picked up in five hundred media outlets
36:37
about exactly this topic, about their urgency of protecting and digitizing your photos,
36:44
slides, home movies, and it was it was so emotional, but it
36:47
was it was kind of frustrating to the tech reporter for AP was procrastinating.
36:55
It was actually years he had all of his dad's remember the thirty five slides.
37:00
Oh yeah, yeah, they came in that care. They would be
37:02
you'd put them in the carousel and you would sit and watch them projected onto
37:06
a curtains. That's right. We actually updated a service we have just for
37:13
slide carousels. It's fifty nine dollars for the entire slide carousel, and people
37:17
have dozens, but with this reporter, it was so sad because he procrastinated
37:23
and his dad passed away, and then he had us digitize all of his
37:29
dad's photos. He was an avid photographer and handy the story. It took
37:35
seven months and it got so big. We had profiled five of our customers,
37:40
ones an executive at Chevron that had a scan about one hundred thousand of
37:45
his slides. But you remember, remember I'm dating myself. But Mary Tyler
37:50
Moore show, Oh yes, definitely, with that Ed Asner and all and
37:53
Barry Tyler Moore, the whole cast exactly. I'm sure your listeners do too,
37:59
and of course with Lou Grant afterwards. Well after ed Asner passed away,
38:04
his son had us digitize his dad's entire lifetime of photos that no one's
38:12
ever seen. Matt had posted them on social media, got tens of thousands
38:17
of admiration. You'll love everything from it, and Matt and was in the
38:23
story and a lot of his dad's most favorite photos just spanning decades were profiled
38:32
too. But the story I'm sharing is is I mentioned it's aspirational when the
38:39
AP story hit, it changed everything or everything we had kind of crashed.
38:45
We had to redesign the website modernize it, which was good, and that
38:52
goes into your opening comment about you know, people just wait until something happens,
38:59
but it was it changed everything for us being featured in the Associated Press.
39:06
So really happy that so many people finally jumped on board, gathered all
39:13
of those photo slides, carousels, movies and all. If our listeners want
39:16
to check out that article from Michael Leikey, they can actually find that there's
39:22
a link on the front page of our website where they can go through and
39:24
read about his experience of having to find this as a service and what needed
39:30
to be done. And I think most people, Mitch, they find out
39:35
that it is super easy that you take a lot of that work out of
39:38
it. Because there are people that will say, oh, I've bought myself
39:42
a scanner, right, you know, one came with the printer, and
39:45
they they will think, okay, I'll start doing this. But there's a
39:49
lot more that goes into that. There is you know, you could purchase
39:53
a do it yourself scanner. You know, you're out hundreds of dollars before
39:58
digitizing your first photo. But for me, my passion has always been about
40:02
helping people preserve their memories. And competition's great, it helps raise the tide
40:07
of awareness for it. But what we did remember the old Kodak motto,
40:14
you press the button, we do the rest. Yes, yes, right,
40:17
right, And that's that's what we did at scanmyphotos dot com, where
40:24
all you do is you go to the website, click whatever you want,
40:28
any product, and send us all of that. It's digitized. But what
40:34
we're excuse me, what's crazy now is we have scan fast, which is
40:39
same day scanning, and people need that from memorial services for any and every
40:44
reason. So your entire order is completed the same day and it's uploaded to
40:50
your inbox. Oh wow, the same day, so somebody is able to
40:54
get you the photos they've got it on this Suddenly, remember we've got a
40:59
memorial service. We want to have, you know, a presentation that is
41:01
in the background while we're you know, being prepared for speeches and you know,
41:07
eulogies. This could be running in the back. They can get that
41:10
to you in the morning and still have it by later that day for them
41:15
to or in the evening, say that's it. Well, yeah, we
41:17
did it for CBS News Correspondence was had the coolest project. He too,
41:22
like everyone else, discovered it was about one hundred boxes, so he sent
41:28
them to us. It was done the same day. He got it that
41:30
night, and he actually reached out and thought that there was a problem because
41:35
he got an email and was wondering what happened. I had explained to them
41:39
that click. They clicked, and John Dunn responsored, all it's all done,
41:45
and he flew out to surprise his mom. It was a big family
41:49
reunion. They did just that. They did a giant screen and they showed
41:53
the entire what do you buy a parent that's ninety You can't. This is
41:59
what you buy them. The memories, Yeah, the memories being able to
42:02
see them again, and for the entire family. It used to be you
42:06
would sit down with, you know, the grandparents, because I remember sitting
42:08
with my grandma, Grandma Francis, and she had the photo album and she
42:14
would show me pictures of you know, the house in Burma and the Governor's
42:19
ball that they went to. I am thinking, now, these photos and
42:22
here's the deal, Mitch. We've seen over the years, photos have changed
42:27
in size and shape and look. And it used to be you could have
42:30
a photo of the size of a postage stamp and that would be okay for
42:35
some, but for older eyes that might be difficult to see. Can you
42:38
take some of these small photos that are the size of like two postage stamps
42:44
and increase them in size so they're easier to see. That's a great question,
42:49
absolutely, And that's what scam my photos is all about because they're traditional
42:52
JPEG files, so you can watch all of them on a giant screen television.
43:00
But what a lot of people are doing now because we're content providers for
43:04
every photo sharing app, whether it's Instagram, Facebook, Snap, threads,
43:09
now, TikTok x, all of that snap where people are just uploading their
43:16
recent pictures from their smartphone, their camera roll of if they're like me,
43:21
you know, like the food you ate last night, but not those nostalgic
43:25
decades past pictures that have so many amazing stories behind it that you need to
43:32
share and narrate and explain who's in it, what they're doing, where you
43:36
were. Now, how are these collated So somebody maybe listening right now has
43:42
a box of photos and they're looking at them right out going. I keep
43:45
saying I'm going to attack it. That's that procrastination. They get it to
43:50
you, all right, What is this process for getting them to you?
43:53
Number one and getting them back? Sure, the easiest one. The most
43:58
popular services are the prepaid fill the box service. So for photos, it
44:01
holds about two thousand pictures as little is like two hundred and twenty dollars and
44:07
everything scan shippings included all of that, and to prepare it, bundle it
44:14
in piles stacks of about one hundred or so, use an index card and
44:20
write down what the topic is, what the theme, the birthday, anniversary,
44:23
special event, holiday, and just put a rubber band around those hues.
44:29
Scan in order so the index card with your message is on it.
44:32
And we could even scan the back of photos if there's handwritten messages. And
44:37
then you get it back now. And here's the really cool thing, because
44:42
once you get everything back, people upload it to services like Google Photos,
44:47
and then it's on your phone. And at the very bottom of Google Photos
44:53
on the lower right is a little magnifying glass so you could type in car,
45:00
dog, each anything you want, and it's going to use its image
45:05
recognition tools to sort and categorize all of those topics at a man, if
45:13
you click on a picture of a parent relative, it will find all the
45:17
other similar ones. So basically they do the magic. But the challenge is
45:22
how do you get not just one or two, but thousands, tens of
45:27
thousands of those pictures and slides negatives done so that that's where scanned my photos
45:32
comes in. Now, Mitch, I know for a fact that you're not
45:37
sitting there at a machine lifting the cover of the head scanner putting a photo
45:42
down, and that's not how you operate. Over the years, and like
45:45
you said, thirty years you and Carl have been doing this. This is
45:50
amazing because you have invested in top quality machinery and imaging equipment to get this
45:55
done, to give you that best look. Indeed, and Carl I pioneered
46:00
this service. But the only ones in the world that have this technology,
46:04
and it is insane. So for photos, we digitize one thousand photos in
46:09
five minutes. For slides, now each thirty five millimeters mounted slide is scanned
46:16
one every second. And way back in two thousand and eight, there was
46:22
a reporter for The New York Times that I've reached out to and I explained
46:28
that we could scan photos that fast. They said, I don't believe it,
46:31
and we showed them what it does. And two weeks later it was
46:36
the feature article on scan my Photos in the New York Times and that's what
46:42
really put us on the map. That is great. I love it,
46:45
And this article from AP also is great. And once again you can find
46:47
that at tech talk radio dot com. If our listeners want to find out
46:51
more Mitch about the service, what's the best thing for them to do?
46:57
Sure, just go to scan my photos dot com and at the very top
47:00
there's a blue crawl with a message about the Associated Press article and the quote
47:07
from the reporter that all five people profiled, including the reporter, had a
47:14
great experience with Scanned my Photos. And most importantly right afterwards is that promo
47:21
code that everyone loves. It's AP as an Social Press AP twenty and you
47:27
just type that in at checkout. But to handle everything, just scan myphotos
47:30
dot com super easy. We have support. Everyone here is just so passionate
47:36
about helping the nation preserve all their memories. I know that having you know,
47:40
a one stop shop for doing this, whether it be small photos,
47:45
large photos, you do it all I do know that there are listeners,
47:49
and I've had listeners that have asked me in the past that have been very
47:52
happy with your service, but want to do their Super eight films or even
47:57
let's go back even further before Super eight. Believe it or not, they
48:00
were shooting that's sixteen millimeter. Is that something that you are are doing or
48:06
something you've kind of looked at? We do, and on the website we'll
48:10
see all the different services for eight millimeter sixteen millimeter. What's really cool about
48:16
our technology though, is we don't just scan the reels of eight millimeter film.
48:23
It's individually digitized every frame. So what that means is, as you're
48:30
watching it, you could stop it, pause it, and that image is
48:35
crystal clear, sharp digitized. So it's not doing it the old fashioned way.
48:40
So that's a really important feature for it, especially for everyone has the
48:46
eight millimeter boxes and those little boxes of movie film, but they're just sitting
48:52
and they're starting to fade away. If they're stored in an attic where you
48:58
have heat, mildew all, garage, basement, all those memories are being
49:04
fading away. Well, and we've had, you know, people that have
49:07
downsized especially here in Green Valley. They'll downsize and maybe move into you know,
49:15
whether it be assisted living or you know, living independently, but they
49:19
don't have as much space. Maybe they had so they put stuff in storage
49:22
for photos. This could actually not be a good thing. It's not beyond
49:30
all those issues. The others are, of course natural disasters, and it's
49:37
so emotional when we hear stories from people that lost everything from an earthquake,
49:43
fire, flood, hurricane, all of that water damage, smoke damage,
49:47
and there are no copies. But Andy, your listeners are really smart techies
49:52
also, so they know the importance. Once you get everything back, it's
49:58
on DVD data akigabyte thumb drive for the instant upload. Please please please make
50:06
backups, store them in the cloud Google photos, and give them to friends
50:09
relative safety deposit box. These files aren't locked. You have full access,
50:16
so you can make as many copies as you want, but keep them off
50:21
site. We've heard from people who had us digitize everything. All the photos
50:24
were destroyed as well as the work we did. So now we have a
50:31
backup services as well, which is kind of cool. Where people say I
50:36
lost everything, we press a button and they get everything saved. And sent
50:40
to them. I love that once again, scam my photos, Mitch.
50:45
Always always great to talk to you. And you know, if you're looking
50:47
for the gift for the holidays, this could make a great gift for somebody
50:52
to be able to take those images and give them a presentation. Indeed,
50:58
and of course on the website, I one of the popular ones, especially
51:02
during the holidays when you don't know what to give and you don't want to
51:06
do the normal standard gifts that really don't have any emotion. Just click on
51:12
the e gift certificates, order them, everyone gets them instantly, write a
51:17
customized message and all your relatives then can place orders and they just type in
51:23
the code they get so it's all automated. But the e gift cards are
51:30
biggest during the holidays. That's a great idea. I love it. Well.
51:34
Once again, Mitch, it's great to talk to you again. We
51:36
look forward to talking to you again into the new year and have a wonderful
51:39
holiday. And thanks so much for for what you you do. It's an
51:44
amazing service. Thanks ay you are you are the best. You are the
51:47
amazing service. But if you make us all so much smarter, thank thank
51:52
you. I will be back with more of tech Talk Radio. And now
51:55
back to tech Talk Radio. WHI Guy reporting in Oh, wise Guy,
52:00
he's the wise guy. New video doorbell Video Doorbell version two. Who all
52:07
right? It is a two K camera with local micro st storage, which
52:12
the first video doorbell didn't have. I have the first video doorbell, and
52:16
I will say that I'm not going to get this one. Why no,
52:20
Why wouldn't you get it? Because it will nullify my current video doorbell,
52:24
which works just fine and I'm super happy with it, and I would have
52:27
to buy new chimes. This one will work with your existing chime. It
52:30
includes the transformer that you put into your existing chime that will trigger your original
52:35
existing chime. If you have a house that was built with a transformed chime.
52:38
I want it to work with the three chimes, to have one of
52:40
the basement, one of the main floor, one upstairs. Okay, just
52:45
make sure I understand we're talking about like real, live physical chimes. Yeah,
52:49
the new V two version two will work with your existing in house chimes
52:53
before like mine, it's wired so it runs off the same transformer, but
52:59
I had to bypass the courage. However, it worked internal circuitry talks to
53:04
the cloud. It shines the ones that said it doesn't actually push a signal
53:07
to the internal chimes. This new version two includes pieces to mount in your
53:14
internal chimes. You push the button at ding Dong's you know, home phone
53:16
style, right, it's cool and the price is guess like the prices fifty
53:22
nine for the camera plus one chime thirty nine ninety nine. That's a good
53:25
deal now morbell chime and one hundred and twenty eight gig memory card fifty four
53:30
nine. All right? Now? Can you have it stream to the web,
53:34
so if you're not home, you'll get the notification on your smartphone and
53:37
you could answer it. Is it a two weeks really? Same same same,
53:42
same as the V one. If somebody triggers the alarm, I'll get
53:46
a notification on my phone. It goes to the it's all through the cloud.
53:49
You could then see it on your phone. Is there a monthly charge
53:52
for that? Well? So I don't think so, because mine doesn't qualify
53:55
for camp plus you can get if you if you do get it into campus.
54:00
I'm scrolling to their website right now. You can get their AI detections
54:06
for so person package pet detection. If you enroll it into Camplus. Yes,
54:13
you can for an unlimited number of cameras, paid ninety nine dollars a
54:15
year for an unlimited number of cameras for Camplus. Now. You can find
54:19
this at wys dot com Wyze dot com. Uh a lot cheaper than the
54:24
Google Nest doorbell that I bought, which was one ninety nine. Uh.
54:29
And then I pay I have to pay them basically an annual fee to be
54:32
able to access all of this this data. Wyse's plan is what what does
54:38
it costs? Again? Should so the camera plus a chime so a yeah,
54:43
so the the door up plus the chime controller thirty ninety nine. If
54:46
you already have multiple cameras like I do, you would just enroll it in
54:51
your Camplus. Because I've got seven cameras that are already enrolled in camplus for
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ninety nine dollars a year. This would be the eighth if I added it.
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So you guys can still see me set the bag on fire in your
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doorstep. That's what you're saying, right wearing your Halloween costume. Well that's
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it. We hope everybody has a a great week, a great Halloween,
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Green Valley. We don't get as many kids that come out here, I
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still say they need to take it and make it for adults. Make it
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a special day where you go to the neighbors and you return all the tools
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you've borrowed over the years from your neighbor. That's it for this week.
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Tek Doc great Yo. I've Athy Taylor, I'm Shon Weird, and I'm
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slick. Have a great week.