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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hi.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Rick Darringer, Rock and Roll hoo Chiku, and you're
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  Speaker 1: listening tech talk Radio. Welcome to another episode of tech
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  Speaker 1: Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm justin let me whoa, We're back. Everybody back. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, we're all back and safe. Sean almost did
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  Speaker 1: not make it back safe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I swear, Andy, every time you decide to pick
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  Speaker 2: a day that we're going to record a show, I'm
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  Speaker 2: under some sort of threat of severe weather. That's why
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  Speaker 2: global warming. Because Tornado Alley is shifting north and north
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  Speaker 2: and east right over my house.
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  Speaker 1: I got a I got a place across the street
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  Speaker 1: here in Denver. You can move to there you go.
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  Speaker 1: We don't get that kind of stuff here. It'd be
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a commute to get back to Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, well you fly on private jets now, apparently, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what's this story?
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  Speaker 2: I was like, hey, wait, so we're doing our big
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  Speaker 2: upgrade Dick Summer and vendors are catering, they're flying us there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're visiting vendor sites and visiting places that
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  Speaker 2: have equipment that we're looking at. So vendors are whining
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  Speaker 2: and dining us at this point, so it's kind of nice.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you flew on a lear Jet. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: been in one of those before? No, I threw I
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  Speaker 1: flew on a citation Assessa citation today. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a lear Jet. Yeah. The last time, the last time,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, mister high flyer.
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  Speaker 2: The last time we went up to this vendor, which
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  Speaker 2: was a year and a half ago, I think we
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  Speaker 2: flew on their their king Air twin turbo prop.
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  Speaker 1: Which was here's a pretty awesome plane. Yeah. I think
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  Speaker 1: you say lear Jet and you compare it to Cessna.
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  Speaker 1: Sessna made some really good jets and some good aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, oh yeah. The first plane I ever flew
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  Speaker 1: was and there there's a great plane. Question is Sean.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to go through TSA, No, just customs? Yep,
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  Speaker 1: right yep, because you got a private terminal, right yep.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I literally pulled right up, walked in. Fifteen to
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  Speaker 2: twenty minutes later we're on the plane. It's a doodle one.
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  Speaker 1: That is that is awesome. But no, getting back to
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  Speaker 1: the whole weather thing, yeah, I was I was concerned
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  Speaker 1: and justin you know, we had sent a group chat
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  Speaker 1: to everybody and we were talking about it, and you
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  Speaker 1: had mentioned take a look and see at this weather thing.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at I was like, oh, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Shun's going to be doing the show tonight. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So all the storms rolled through about three or
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  Speaker 2: four o'clock this afternoon. We didn't get back until almost
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  Speaker 2: almost seven.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching that thing until like from like eight am. Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Chicago got hit hard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Chicago got hit pretty hard. And then Lake County,
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  Speaker 2: which is the last county before you get into Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: which is where Gary, Indiana is, got hit the hardest. Right,
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  Speaker 2: ninety five percent of the residents in Lake County are
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  Speaker 2: without power.
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  Speaker 1: That's like, that's that's like one.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred and twenty thousand homes.
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  Speaker 1: The only five percent left is what data centers. That's
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  Speaker 1: funny how I have.
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  Speaker 2: No idea, right, but they got hit with what's called
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  Speaker 2: a direcco, which is sustained thunderstorms with straight line winds
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  Speaker 2: averaging so many miles an hour, but they're peak recorded
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  Speaker 2: via the National Weather Service was ninety nine miles an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, So that's pretty bad. That's almost that's like
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  Speaker 2: almost EF one tornado level if you if you right winds,
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  Speaker 2: but constant and over an extended period of time. So
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  Speaker 2: peak was ninety nine, but it had to average. You'd
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  Speaker 2: have to look up look it up. But if you
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  Speaker 2: look up Lake County, Indiana, Gary. But then it traveled
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  Speaker 2: over to Laporte County, which is one county to the
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  Speaker 2: west of US, it produced a couple of small tornadoes
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  Speaker 2: and then which triggered a tornado warning. So you would
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  Speaker 2: think that because we were in Canada, I was in Toronto,
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  Speaker 2: near Toronto, we would be not getting weather alerts, but
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  Speaker 2: because all of us were members of the university, we
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  Speaker 2: got the nd alert. Say, there was the Tranada warning.
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  Speaker 2: So all of our phones started going crazy during the
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  Speaker 2: vendor meeting and really they're like what's happening. We're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a tornado warning. They're like what, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, back back home, back home. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then then the then the guy, our sales guy,
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  Speaker 2: was talking to the pilot who was saying like they
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  Speaker 2: might they were trying to shift whether or not we
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  Speaker 2: had to shift our flight to our flight around because
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  Speaker 2: trying to avoid the weather.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But it went south instead of north, which was good
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  Speaker 2: because then we had a quit clean air flying back.
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  Speaker 1: One question though, you mentioned that you were in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get poutine while you were there? What the
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  Speaker 1: heck is poutine? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: My god?
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  Speaker 1: Poutine is well, what is poutine? It is like the
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  Speaker 1: food in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very it's a very Canadian thing. It's basically
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  Speaker 2: fries and gravy.
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  Speaker 1: And cheese, geese. Really, yeah, God, brown gravy, French fries
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  Speaker 1: and cheese. Curses like is God's gift to food?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes you can someve some substitute mash potatoes instead
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  Speaker 2: of French fries.
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  Speaker 1: Where do they have restaurants that serve up this poutine?
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  Speaker 1: You talk about every Canadian restaurant in the world. Really
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  Speaker 1: in Canada, I mean never had it? Did you get it?
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  Speaker 2: Shown? No?
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  Speaker 1: No, Oh my god, you gotta have You go to Canada,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have poutine.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is listening that wonders how why we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: different food from different places. Right, all three of us
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  Speaker 2: live in different different demographics of the US, Right, I
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  Speaker 2: live in I live in north central Indiana, so there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing here. Justin lives in Denver, where everything has whed
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on and.
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  Speaker 2: Where everything tastes drier than a biscuit.
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  Speaker 1: The entire listener base of this show. You need to
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  Speaker 1: come out, Sean, and we'll give you a Sonoran hot dog.
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  Speaker 1: You'll change your mind. Wait, just for our listeners that
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  Speaker 1: here he is talking about weather. Where is this website
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  Speaker 1: you guys go to to get like this because they
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  Speaker 1: have it available everywhere, even here in Arizona. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I look at I look for Weatherwise, which is Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Hall is a YouTuber. He kind of pushed this Weatherwise app.
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  Speaker 2: He got sponsored by them. It's turned into this pretty
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  Speaker 2: good platform. And Justin has another one. I'm not doing
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  Speaker 2: what he had.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, well, actually I use a couple of different ones.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm looking at on my own, I use Zoom
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  Speaker 1: dot Earth. Zoom Zoom dot Earth is amazing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: sponsored by any of these big storm casters. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: thing Sean mentioned Ryan Hall. I like Ryan Hall, but
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  Speaker 1: he is an entertainer. He's not a meteorologist, correct, he is.
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  Speaker 1: He is an amateur weather enthusiast. So if I want
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  Speaker 1: to know what's exactly going on, I'm watching max Velocity
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. Max Velocity is a degreed meteorologist, and he
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  Speaker 1: uses a couple different ones, one of them zoom dot earth,
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  Speaker 1: but not so much because he has tools that are
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  Speaker 1: way more stronger than zoom dot earth. But I like
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  Speaker 1: zoom dot earth because it has a mobile app, it
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  Speaker 1: has a desktop app. I think it's like twelve bucks
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  Speaker 1: a year, and you get some amazing quality, uh imagery
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  Speaker 1: on satellite imagery, radar imagery, forecasting not so much. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to know what's going on right now, I
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  Speaker 1: would say zoom dot earth is my favorite. Can they
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  Speaker 1: also do that by location? So like somebody here in
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  Speaker 1: Selwodeita Green Valley could look that up? And absolutely, it's
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  Speaker 1: like Google.
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  Speaker 2: I'm at right now. It's like Google Earth. You just
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  Speaker 2: scroll around and I can look at it. I scrolled
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  Speaker 2: back to two o'clock today and looked at what the
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  Speaker 2: weather was today.
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  Speaker 1: It's frustrating because honestly, you know, we have three sources
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  Speaker 1: that I know of. You've got Underground, which is you know,
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  Speaker 1: Weather Underground. I would not recommend Underground. There Acuweather, which
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  Speaker 1: is is pretty good. There's weather dot Com, but then
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  Speaker 1: really it's all weather dot gov. I mean, whether it
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  Speaker 1: is where I get my stuff from. So I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned whether dot gov because honestly, all these websites
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  Speaker 1: are getting their data from weather dot gov. Now I
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  Speaker 1: use weather dot gov as well, because it is raw data.
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  Speaker 1: All you're getting when you go to weather dot com
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  Speaker 1: or you go to acuweather or what was the other
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  Speaker 1: one you mentioned underground, you're just getting that same data
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  Speaker 1: overlaid with advertisements. Yeah, there's a lot of ads. That's it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: go to weather dot gov if you want straight up weather,
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  Speaker 1: weather dot gov, and then you want this guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's got to be getting it from weather dot gov.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's using whether dot god, but he's got tools
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  Speaker 1: that overlay certain things like tornado warnings, tornado pass I
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  Speaker 1: think it's radar Omega. Radar Omega I found from Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Hall that Sean mentioned. Radar Omega is also really, really
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  Speaker 1: really good, So I would say zoom dot Earth or
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  Speaker 1: radar Omega. All right, Sean, One of the things I
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  Speaker 1: know you also did during our our break here is
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  Speaker 1: you did gen Con. Right, that's the big gaming conference.
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  Speaker 1: How was that this year compared to like last year?
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  Speaker 2: Unsurprisingly, we survived a tornado warning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're kidding me. This is starting to become a
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  Speaker 1: thing with you. It surroundsed this show and places I go.
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  Speaker 1: So wherever I go, I'm just a whirlwind. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this big show, So gen Cabra go on the whirlwind.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So if if you didn't notice, everything me is a mess.
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  Speaker 2: Right if you're looking at the video right.
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  Speaker 1: Your house getting hit by a tornado.
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  Speaker 2: No, but two days before I left for gen Con,
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  Speaker 2: Kaitlyn woke up no water pressure in the shower, taking
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  Speaker 2: the basement to find that the well pump had separated
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  Speaker 2: from the regulator and was spewing well water into the basement.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, western half of my basement doesn't have anything
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  Speaker 2: in it right now because it's all packed in behind
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  Speaker 2: me so that they can come and redo the pad
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  Speaker 2: and the carpet on that side of the basement. That happened.
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  Speaker 2: What got a do you? A couple of industrial de
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  Speaker 2: humidfiers from Home Depot rented them. We had a crew
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  Speaker 2: come in to put to humidifiers and fans and stuff
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  Speaker 2: down here, and it took several days to dry out stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're waiting for the contract to come to
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  Speaker 2: finish whatever. So it ended up Wednesday night going out
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  Speaker 2: to gen Con it was good. I wish I could
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  Speaker 2: show you everything, but I don't have anywhere to put
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  Speaker 2: it down here, so it's all upstairs in our spare bedroom,
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  Speaker 2: just laying up there toil somewhere to put it. It
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  Speaker 2: was good. Played a lot of Dagger Heart, which is
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  Speaker 2: another tabletop RPG similar to D and D, but it
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  Speaker 2: uses a different dice system. Kaylen came down on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: We played, We played Dagger Heart, we played a couple
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  Speaker 2: other board games, went I went out for dinner in
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  Speaker 2: that timeframe of we played Dagger Heart, went head lunch
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  Speaker 2: right her friend. We met her friend and walked around
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  Speaker 2: and got stuff signed by artists and bought some games
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. And her friend's husband had an event that
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  Speaker 2: ended at four, so we ended up going to check
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  Speaker 2: into the hotel with with my friend Steve, and we
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  Speaker 2: walked to the restaurant to get a table. And then
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  Speaker 2: kayl and her friend and her friend's husband were walking
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  Speaker 2: to the restaurant and got caught in the torrential dowpour
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  Speaker 2: and tornado warning all right, so they were walking for
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  Speaker 2: the convention center only like a block and a half
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  Speaker 2: got caught in the really heavy rain. And then while
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  Speaker 2: we were sitting and he did any dinner. The whole restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's phone in the restaurant lit up with the emergency
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  Speaker 2: Action warning, you know, and tornado warning. So tornado went
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  Speaker 2: through the south side of Indianapolis, maybe six or seven
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  Speaker 2: blocks from the Conventionous, and had had enough crazy wins
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  Speaker 2: that between the Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium, if
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  Speaker 2: you're familiar with NFL stadiums, that's where all the food
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  Speaker 2: trucks were with all their tents and chairs, and so
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  Speaker 2: that all got swept up and tumbled and tents got
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  Speaker 2: destroyed and all that stuff. So, so you can imagine Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: because this was on Saturday of jen Con, the busiest day.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody had to cram into like the hallways and then
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  Speaker 2: like not being around the glass, so like everybody was
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  Speaker 2: kind of crammed up. And then there's part of the
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  Speaker 2: convention hall that decided to you know, spring a leak,
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  Speaker 2: and a curtain of water was coming down. Gosh, uneventful
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  Speaker 2: for everything else. Just a little bit of water, no
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  Speaker 2: big deal. Yeah, And then I came home Sunday, and
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night came home. I was home for less than
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  Speaker 2: twelve hours before I got on a flight to Charlotte,
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina for the annual School Control Room ESPN conference. So,
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: for those of you who don't know, I worked for
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  Speaker 2: the University of Our Dame doing broadcast media and live
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  Speaker 2: events for the university and athletics. So we have we
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  Speaker 2: have a yearly conference where we go and talk about
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  Speaker 2: what all the other schools are doing and and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. And it was fun because there was an
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  Speaker 2: engineering breakout where I got to talk with all the
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  Speaker 2: other school engineer guys and ladies and the team members
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  Speaker 2: and stuff from ESPN, and they were asking about what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing with stream decks and so there were a
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  Speaker 2: couple of good ideas and I was like, wait, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing this, this, this, and this and this and
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  Speaker 2: so more of this and ye tying this in and
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  Speaker 2: tying that in. And they're like, oh, what are you
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  Speaker 2: going to set tell us next time you're controlling the
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  Speaker 2: lights and you're the lights and other stuff. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: well yeah, And they're like, well, why don't you just
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  Speaker 2: come up and talk about it then, and so like
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  Speaker 2: I ended about it for a little bit about what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing and what we're what we're integrating and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And well that's you know what. A sales perspective is
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  Speaker 1: always great, but from a user perspective that is getting
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  Speaker 1: the full use of it, that's even better.
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  Speaker 2: So the guy form ESPN that was running it made
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  Speaker 2: it made a really funny joke. He's like, hey, you guys,
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  Speaker 2: you heard that nor name has a new sponsor, right
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  Speaker 2: because the name has the sponsor tabs on their jersey
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, And he'sa like, hey, it's stream Deck. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a good time. So I got to
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  Speaker 2: meet a bunch of guys from other schools that are
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  Speaker 2: doing similar things that we're doing, that are doing upgrades
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  Speaker 2: that we're doing, which led into me being able to
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  Speaker 2: ask a couple pointed questions to our vendor this week
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  Speaker 2: where I was because I was in Canada the last
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  Speaker 2: few days. We're doing a big upgrade NEX summer, so
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  Speaker 2: we're we're in the thurroughs of vendors coming on site
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  Speaker 2: to demo stuff. We're traveling to vendors to look at stuff,
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  Speaker 2: We're getting demo equipment in, we're in and out with
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: demo equipment, and we just finished an installation of all
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: of our audio stuff this summer, which is phase one
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: of two parts. The last six weeks have been just
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: a whirlwind. It's like I've been gone, I've been home.
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  Speaker 2: I've been gone, I've been home. Plus we did our
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  Speaker 2: trip to the UP in that timeframe too, so I
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  Speaker 2: was gone for days to the UP.
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  Speaker 1: For those of us that don't live in that area,
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  Speaker 1: what is the UP?
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  Speaker 2: The UP stands for the Upper Peninsula, which is the
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  Speaker 2: upper part.
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  Speaker 1: Of Michigan, basically Canada.
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  Speaker 2: So I was actually further north on that trip than
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  Speaker 2: I was the last two days in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of comedy. We were watching ID Channel
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  Speaker 1: the other day and there was a scene where they
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: were talking about having to go to the UP. At
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  Speaker 1: Gloria Alexiby, she goes, what is the up a goo?
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  Speaker 1: Upper Peninsula? Okay, I told you, Yeah, Oh yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: So before I, before I went on the trip, we
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  Speaker 2: had haven't I haven't had a chance to talk on
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  Speaker 2: the show about it is. You guys know that I
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  Speaker 2: have an inverting generator for the camper, which I have
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: tied into the house when we have emergency power.
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  Speaker 1: Which company manufactures that one.
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  Speaker 2: Predator, which which is sold by Harbor Freight and if
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for a relatively inexpensive inverting generator, the predator
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  Speaker 2: line from Home Harbor Freight is very good. It's a
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  Speaker 2: Honda ei icloned, a fuel injected line eiclone, which is quieter,
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  Speaker 2: whisper light, the quiet stuff, so it's not the huge,
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  Speaker 2: loud construction ones. But I've always been looking for a
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  Speaker 2: solar generator. So I had the opportunity to purchase a
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  Speaker 2: Anchor Solix Home battery back up, which is a rolling, rolling,
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  Speaker 2: little rolling kit, nicely little, but it weighs one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and thirty seven pounds and it's a seventy eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: damp hour, so it's huge. It's huge. It's massive. It's
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  Speaker 2: a big battery backup that I can run acy off of.
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  Speaker 2: I can run forty off of it. Ac I can
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  Speaker 2: run one ten.
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  Speaker 1: How about refrigerator a fruit fridge freezer easily?
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  Speaker 2: Oh easy. But it will run our water pump, which
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  Speaker 2: is two twenty. That was that was the selling point
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  Speaker 2: was I want something that will run the well pump.
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  Speaker 1: So you get your water from a well pump, not
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  Speaker 1: from a city.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Where we are is not annexed by any city. We
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: don't have We're part of a township, right, Everything that
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: goes to everything here goes through the county. We're not incorporated,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: so no sewer. We have a septic and we have
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: a well. Oh wow, so two twenty will run my
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: well pump. So that was the goal, right. The inverting
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: generator only does one ten. My well pump doesn't run
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: at one ten. So if we don't have power, I
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: can power everything but the well pump and the AC.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: What's cool about this is that when I bought it,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I got it bundled with the portable foldable four hundred
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: solar panels.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Nice. Those are a pretty good size, so they're all massive. Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got four of them, so I have the things. Yes,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: because I got I got a bundle that was I
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: bought two, got too, so it was like there was
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: no reason not to get four. So I wanted to.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I wanted to try it right. I got it three
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: days like I ordered it and got it in two days.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: It was crazy, like all this stuff just showed up
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: in my front door. It was the huge boxes and
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I was like, poor ups guy was using a hand
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: DOLLI to bring it all up to the front door.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: So it's the anger SOLX.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: You had to look to set them up and try
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: it out.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I set it up in my backyard and
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I was able to plug it into the house and
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: run whatever I needed to.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Where where does it plug into in the house? Does
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: somebody have to I have?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I already had it wired, right, I had it wired
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: for my Inverty generator, so he wired it for two twenty.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: My Inverty generator only uses one of the two legs,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: so he uses one ten. So I can plug my
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Inverty generator to that and it'll power everything that's running.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: One ten oh cool.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I can then plug in the battery the solar generator
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and it'll provide forty wow, so I can then power
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: other devices. So I had to then mix. I had
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: to get some cables, some extension cables for the solar panels,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: and then I laid them out in the yard and
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: tried it. I only laid out two because I didn't
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: want to get all four out because they're massive, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I'll say I'm a little disappointed in the power. In
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the power output of the solar panels, there are four
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: hundred watts and in series I was only getting about
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: three hundred watts total off two panels, so packed it
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: all up, put it in the camper because we took
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the camper to the UP this year. It will run
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the AC in our camper for about three and a
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: half hours on the battery only if not, if I'm
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: not plugged into solar, it will run the camp or
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: AC pulling pulling about two thousand watts. It's a lot
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: for about three and a half four hours. It was hot,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: we were fighting the wildfire smoke, so we didn't want
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to be with the windows out, so we ran the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: AC four while and then once we got up to
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: the UP then I was able to get it out,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: lay out the panels and continuously charge it. But we
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: didn't have to run the AC, but we did charge.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: We did run everything off of the battery in the
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: camper and the solar. I put out two panels and
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: it charged up between four hundred and six hundred watts
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: during the day and it kept ustriggle charged and we
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: were self sufficient, which was nice.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: What type of investment is if somebody wants to get
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Because I was in Costco the other day in Generak
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: was there, you know selling there as they come out
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and they install it the whole bit. What type of
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: investment does somebody need to get something like what you
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: had there? Uh shine, I.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Think all in all, everything combined was close to forty
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: five hundred bucks.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So the bat ate mind.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it gives me the peace of mind. I can
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: run the well pump and if I don't have solar
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: like if if it's the middle of the night and
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: we need to run the well pump, like the well
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: pump doesn't run continuously, right, it just runs, then you
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: can you're not going to be running the well pump continuously.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So is the well pump in your house? Yes, it's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Closet right there, and that's where it was speeling all
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the water from.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Like oh wow, so.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: The well pump is in the house. So you know, theoretically,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: if we don't need the ace and we run the
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: well pump when we need to to pipe charge up
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the lines and then needs the pressure to do what
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: we need to indefinitely because the sun right so with
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: four panels on, I haven't done it in four panels
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: in parallel or anything like that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: From what I heard about solar shoon is it can
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: be completely phenomenal to have when you just don't have
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that ability. And even just for your devices, whether it
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: be you know, your smartphone or a tablet and you
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: just want to give it a charge, they can be great.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: You just be able to direct to the sun. You
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: could charge your devices like that. Right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's like I said, it's at full charge,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: it's gonna last. If I just need to run my
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: house without the well pomp or anything, I'm gonna get
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four hours easy. It has like a time remaining,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: like based on draw. Right, So if I plugged in
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: the fridge, I'd have to look at what the draw
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: was when I had the fridge and the freezer plugged
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: into it. But I mean, I'm not gonna be running
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: my compute in an emergency. I'm not gonna be running
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: non essentials and drying power for no reason. You just
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: have to do a budget. But I can supplement, right.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: So let's say it's overnight and we need to run
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the AC for some reason. We can run the AC
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and then if the battery gets too low overnight, I
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: can then flip over to the inverty generator and charge
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the battery off the invert e generor while I'm charging
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the house or running the house too, so very cool.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: All right, listen, we got to take a quick break
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: we come back. I got something brand new to show you,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: guys that I think you might like. It's an upgrade
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to technology that was out. I got it in the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: mail one day. I had no idea what was coming
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to me, and so i'ms gonna be sending it back soon.
• 22:34
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• 22:36
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• 22:39
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• 22:44
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• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I really enjoy listening to your show. It's really cool. Well,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: thank you very the informative US rookie. Are you a rookie.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm very much a rookie. Okay, guys, I want to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: show you something I thought was kind of cool. Asus
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: has been great to us. You know, we've looked at
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: some really cool stuff over the last couple of years,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and I got something the other day, you know, sent
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to me, and I thought, the heck is this? Because
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you know none of that I get maybe a little
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: less say, here's what's coming up. You wanted to surprise
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: me with this one. This is from Asus. This is
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the Asus zen Book Duo. The Asus Enbook Duo is
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: basically and I'm showing it on the camera if you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: want to check out our video. Basically, it's a it's
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: a laptop a little beefier, right, It's got those These
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: are fans, uh for the design. The Sarah aluminum finish
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: resists scratches and fingerprints. It's kind of a mix of
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: ceramic and aluminum used in the aerospace and luxury watch
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: industries for strength, lightness, and luxurious tactile feel. And over
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I've look at a lot
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of laptops that have been real thin, real light, and
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: this feels good again to hold something that's kind of beefy.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: This is a professional laptop. Somebody said it's a grown
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: up back to school laptop because it could be used
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: with that. I mean, you got USBC, You've got you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: just a USB three point one, You've got HDMI, you've
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: got audio out, get another USB C which is cool.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But when you open it up, what you see is
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: a fourteen inch three K OLED screen, which is nice.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: You've got this trackpad here. It's a haptic track pad.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: But what's really cool, And if you've never seen the duo,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you can lift up the Bluetooth keyboard on it. What
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: look that aside, and what you get is two three
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: K OLED screens you can then it comes with a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you know a little little stand there. You could stay
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: on your desk and you could have a screen here
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and a screen here. And I demoed this on TV
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: actually using the I had Da Vinci resolved down here
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and I had your regular Windows operating system appear where
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I could pick files and drag them down into Resolve.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty amazing. It will also pagnate this way,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: so if you want to be able to look at
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it like a book, you could do that. And it's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a Bluetooth wireless keyboard, which is great. It has abrasion
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and resistant codd keys.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: That was crazy. You just literally just I didn't really
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: you had. If nobody looked at that and said that
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: keyboard comes off, it gives you a display underneath, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: would never have known that, just right, I mean, that's right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty one of the things they fixed on
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the two thousand and four when twenty twenty four When
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: it first came out, you had this hump here so here.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Now it's almost undiscernible. You can't really tell that it's there.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So they've kind of in describable. Yeah, that that thing
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: would that word, I don't have. The word. Word is
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: long battery life even with the you know, dual screens. Uh,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and it just I was very pleased with it. It
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: has the Intel, It runs the Intel Ultra nine with
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: it also features a neuroprocess. It's kind of graphics card.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: It is the Intel graphics card that is on it. Okay,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: so it's not a gaming PC, but it's a productivity Yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I mean you could use it. And that's what's truly
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: cool is you know it's on right now. Once you
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: take that keyboard off, Uh, it should basically light up
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: this other one. Maybe I haven't.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Probably have to log in for it to show for
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: it to be able to do that.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: But it is pretty it's pretty amazing and that is
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: really cool. Really pleased with it. Uh.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: You never seen designed like that.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: It also comes with one terabyte SSD thirty two gigs
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of RAM. It comes with a sleeve that you can
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: carry it in and a stylus as well. So you
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: get a pen style of said, if you want to,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: you know, draw on the screen, use the bottom one
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for art. What's the MSRP on this twenty five hundred bucks?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So but for you know, the Ultra nine processor, that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: much memory. The features of the two the previous screens
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: were led. This is OLED. The three K two three
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: k l ED OLED screens makes it real nice. I'm sorry,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: but I got to say for what did you say,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred rugs? Yeah, yeah, twenty five thirty two
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: gigs a RAM is worth two thousand alone. It's crazy,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: isn't it. It's uh, you look at you look at
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the price of the systems now and you go, well,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I want to I want to build a system, and
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I wanted to have memory, and Sean and I talked
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: about building your own is not even feasible anymore. No,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the cost of RAM and the cost of the storage
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: So we just came from a vendor who deals with
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: storage and media and they said six six to eight
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: months ago they had a vendor that just didn't deliver
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: their storage. Oh no, So they were relying on storage
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: from a vendor to put in their product and ship
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: it to customers. And they just didn't deliver, oh, because
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: they didn't have it, so they had to scramble. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: you know, you said something about they were looking for
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: servers under couch cushions like that. Kind of the scenarios comical,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: but it's crazy how wide impact this memory shortage and
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: supply chain issue has become. And there's even articles saying
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: that all of twenty twenty seven RAM is allocated already.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Wow, it's it, I believe it. It's not good. I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: heard that while DDR five right now is very pricey,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: that it's actually now affecting DDR four because people are
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: going back and using DDR form memory now in maybe
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: previous generation motherboards and they're having a hard time getting
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: those now. Yep. And it's you know, I'm sitting on
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a gold mine over here. I've got like sixty four
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: gigs of DDR four. I should probably sell that.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. I upgraded like a year, like maybe
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: eight to months to a year before Crucial decided not
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: to sell RAM anymore. So it's like I got in
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: right under the right under the wire, And I feel
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: bad for anybody's trying to build a piec of right now.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of upset because you remember when I bought
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the ASIST motherboard and the Intel processor, like two hundred
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and fifty bucks for both of them, which was great.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: They had DDR five and I didn't buy it and
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it was unclear it's and I should have bought it
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: because the price, I think the price on it was
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: one fifty as well for I want to say, thirty
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: two gigabytes, and I just passed on it, and that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: was idiotic. But yeah, just it's just the way that
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the the industry is going right now. You never know
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in the future. Yeah, I know, is
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: it gonna level out? Are they gonna make it? But
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: now we're saying twenty twenty seven, we're not gonna see
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: any relief, you know, and graphics cards also going up,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: so it's it's better to just buy it, just buy
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a pre bad.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see trend backwards a little bit in terms
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: of video development and we won't see so many high
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: powered games that are just requiring bleeding edgepcs does maybe
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: we'll actually get some quality development done that's not gonna.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Happen, Yeah, exactly, all right. One of the things we
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: were talking about, you know, with generators and everything, and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I know that some people in Green Valley. I know
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a woman that has sort of looking at this in
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the term sometimes brings up I don't want to say
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: negative connotation, but it makes you go prepping. And I know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: justin you've been kind of delving into the whole idea
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: of this. Can you tell us what that is about? Well,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I mean I kind of just alluded to it just
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: a moment ago when I said that the comment you
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen in the future, Yeah, and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that that's kind of what it was. A couple of
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. I would just sit around watching some YouTube
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: videos with Mysa and my wife, and I was just
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: watching some videos about this, like you know, like like Yellowstone,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you know, you know in the future is gonna blow up,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and then like you know, the San Andreas fault line,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and there's another fault line in Missouri that nobody knows
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: about that's gonna blow up at some point, you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: like there's all these natural disasters. And my wife was
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: kind of freaking out a little bit, and she was like, hey,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: don't you think that you know what happens to something
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: like this happens like she for her first question was
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: is the power wall gonna hold up? Because we have
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the Tesla power wall, right, and if you don't know,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the Tesla power wall is like a giant whole home
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: battery system. We got a power wall, but the reason
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: behind it was because we have testsa solar and the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: solar is generating power during the day and we're not
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: home during the day, so that power that's being generated
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: is being sold back to the grid at pennies on
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the dollar. So I said, why am I doing this?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I should just you know, put it in a battery,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and so I bought a battery from Tests. So now
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: what happens is is the solar panels charge the battery.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: The battery powers our house at night, so we don't
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: have to use the grid. So that was kind of
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the first step. And I told her, I said, yeah, well,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the power wall will hold up for maybe twenty four hours,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you know, if we go really you know, easy on it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: But after that I said, no, we're screwed. I was like,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I don't have any plan after that, and then we
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: started talking about it. I said, you know, honestly, it
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: probably would be good to just have I don't know,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: thirty maybe sixty days of backup supplies, you know, in
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the case of a really bad blizzard or you know,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: an e MP or something that. You know. But I said,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: you know, if there's a major disaster, Yeah, let's let's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: have some sort of a backup. So we started talking
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: about it, and I started watching some of these prepper
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: There's thousands of prepper videos on YouTube, and a lot
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of these guys are like really crazy into prepping, yeah,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm not like that. I just was like, look,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I just want a basic prep kid. So we came
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: up with this idea. We're like, okay, fine, So we
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: go to Costco and one of the things we buy,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I bought a couple of these you know those big
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: yellow uh black black u yeah, with yellow lids on them. Yeah,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: those are so I bought a couple of those, right,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: So those are just going to store supplies. Then we bought,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you know, we always buy big, huge, like thirty two
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: packs of toilet paper. Okay, fine, we bought another one
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: of those because we need it, and I threw like
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: five rolls of toilet paper in one of those pails.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Here go. Then we bought a thirty two pack of
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: bottled water, and and that we're not gonna use that,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna drink that. That is gonna be stored
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: in the basement. And so next time we go to Costco,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy another thirty two pack of water, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the next time another thirty two pack of water. Because
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: water is the most important thing you're gonna need. So
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: if you can't use your own drinking water, if the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: water system fails, you're gonna need a backup so to have.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I think they say it's one gallon per person per day, right,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: minimum minimum minimum. Yeah, So if I have five or
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: six packs of thirty two packs of water or a
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: thirty two count water, that's gonna last us a couple
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: of weeks maybe, okay, but that's not counting washing yourself.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna use drinking water for that. So on
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: top of that, I'm gonna buy some just standard old
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: jugs of regular water, whatever's the cheapest on the shelf,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: because that's gonna be used for washing and uh like
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: washing ourselves, washing our dishes, whatever. Then I bought some
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: led solar lanterns. Oh simple, I mean Costco, there were
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: like fifteen bucks for like a solar led lantern that
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: does have a battery backup in case you want to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: use it. You can put d batteries in it, but
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: otherwise otherwise it has built in solar and a built
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: in battery. So about a couple of those. Then I
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: bought some flashlights. Then I bought some canned food, just
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: simply going to Walmart. Just get some canned food, canned lentils,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: canned vegetables, some dried pasta long shelf ice type stuff. Yeah,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: long long shelf light. Just simple stuff like I'm not
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: going out and buying crazy MR packets or the you
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: know four paid Those mrs are good though, ere right now,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: are you kidding me? MRIs are good. I liked them. Yeah,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: because you've never been in the military. I used to
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: go to the surplus No I was until air patrol. Oh,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: we would eat m ras. But I would watch the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: video here folks quote unquote military. Okay, we would go
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to the certain the surplus story. We would buy them,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: and I love them. I thought these are good. You
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: know you're crazy anyway. Yeah, so back to my point,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: No MRIs, but if I need to, yes, I would,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I would buy some MRIs. Yes, they are edible You
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: can survive on them and they last a long time,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: but they're my least favorite options. So I would buy
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: like pasta, rice, canned vegetables, canned meat, right, uh, you know, lentils,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: things that I can survive on with that first, and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: that's what I would store in these bins. Then yeah,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: if I need to, I'll buy some memories packs or
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: whatever like that. But then on top of that first
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: aid kit, you know, and not just a basic first
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: ay kit, I'm talking about like an extreme first aid
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: kit with like splints, bandages, like tourniquits, right, you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: all the stuff that you would need in an actual emergency.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of my my prepper kit is just
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's not going to be crazy. I'm
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: not looking to survive for like six months to a year,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: because at that point you've got a whole nother situation
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: on your hands, you know. Okay, So justin I'm wondering though.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: During the at the beginning of the pandemic, a lot
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: of people obviously we kind of you can't really joke
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: about it, but you know, toilet paper paper, Oh, we
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: can joke about it all day long. It was hard
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: to find a lot of this stuff. And you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: luckily Gloria was a coup hunter. We have a room,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a bedroom that is just basically already a prepper I
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: get in a way, yes, because she would buy stuff
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: with coupons, which a lot of stories just don't do
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: any more like they used to. But we would stock
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the shelves. So it was during that time it was
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: like never had to worry about running to the store.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I had dry goods, I had water, we had paper,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: so we could use that. Do you think people became
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: more aware of that because of the pandemic. I do.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I think that was a thing. And Sean please chime
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: in here, but I do think that was kind of
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: an enlightening moment for people.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean before the pandemic, all you had was
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: when there was like a threat of bad weather or
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: a blizzard, and we would go buy milk and eggs.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: And then you saw the pandemic when supply chain stuff
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: came and people were like, oh, I'm not gonna have
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: access to the favorite thing that I always get. And
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: people started hoarding those things because they're like, I don't
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: know when the next time I'm gonna get X or why,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: And it was hilarious because places like Costco, walmart Meyer
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: whatever put a put the slap down on people trying
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: to return profitable items during pandemic. So somebody would go
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: in and buy thirty packs to toilet paper because they
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: had no limit, Like they didn't care. The corporations are
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: making their money, they don't care who buys it. And
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: then people were trying to sell it outside of you know,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: for resale right, and people were like, I'm not paying
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: your scalping prices, and then they'd take it back and
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: try to get refunded. You know, people would have thousands
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: of dollars worth of toiletry products or napkins and paper
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: towel and all that stuff and Costco nah, and they'd
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: be stuck with it. And then people would just buy
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: it it. Then they can't get rid of it, so
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: they have to rock bottom of their prices. And it
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: was good. They good good because scalping is is a scourge.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm wondering it's always gonna be. We have
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: to take a break. But I'm wondering is it better
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: to do you're doing justin and buy, you know, get
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: those storage containers are great. I've got a bunch of
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: those to do it that way and just kind of
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: slowly build up rather than going out to the store
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: in one thing. We're buying everything today.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: You gotta do it slowly.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: You got it slowly, right, put it together? Is that
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: what you think?
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Sean, Well, that's what I've done, and I'll talk about
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: it after the break.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: But all right, and I will tell you my thoughts
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: right after the break. All right with tech Talk Radio.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Daward, and I'm justin. Let
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: me tweet us at tech talk Radio. We'll be right
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: back and now fact to tech talk Radio. Hi, this
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: is a Colin Macria whose line is it? Anyway you're
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: listening to tech Talk radio. I don't know how it works.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: It's all magical stuff.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: To me, So Ady asked before, like, should you start
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: slow on building your prepout bag or bug out bag
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: or bugging bag or whatever. I just recommend you do
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: it right, because it's a it's a process.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: You don't just want to go and buy one thousand
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: dollars worth of food or perishable goods or non perishables
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: right and then realize that like everything still technically has
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: an expiration dat right, You got to rotate things in
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: ro do things out, use your stock, but replenish it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: So like Justin said, we're not going to break into
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: that water. Well, if you do break into that water,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: if you open it, you replace it with a closed
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: pack right away, so that you never have a non
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: closed pack of water. So that way you're always refilling.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: So starting slow, And I think one of the biggest
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: misconceptions of like prepping is people are like, oh, where's
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: my bug out bag?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bug out bag, that's the next bag. Yeah, the
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: com go.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Bags, right, that's important to have if you need to
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: get out of your house in a hurry, whether it's
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: a wildfire, natural disaster, or whatever. Ninety percent of the
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: time I've done a lot of research to the prep stuff.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I've I've gone down the rabbit hole videos, which I'll
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: explain something else about videos in a second year is
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: that more often than not, you're not going to need
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: to bug out, you're going to need to bug in.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: So you're going to be needed to stay in your home,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: away from the chaos, away from the disaster, whatever. So
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: having a plan for both is important. You have a
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: go bag that you can grab and go with important
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: documents of flash drive with everything you need on of
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: for your house, et cetera, clothes and food, but you
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: should keep that together with stuff that can maintain you
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: for a minimum of seventy two hours. Right, seventy two
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: hours is kind of the crisis timeline where you either
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: have mutual aid coming or mutual destruction. So it's like
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: you then change your plan based on that. But again
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I recommend watching some YouTube videos. FEMA actually has some
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: really good resources on prepping and guidelines and stuff like
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: that too. Yeah, but this whole time, Justin was talking
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: about the prepping in the Doom and Gloom like he
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: was pretty doom and gloom. If you can see the video,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Justin has this huge TV behind him. It's rolling, always
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: rolling through fancy looking videos and flowers and whatever backgrounds.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: It's been skulls.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: And doom and mushroom clouds, but it's all if you
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: don't pay attention, you just think it's like nice rainbowy
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: flowery colors like which which usually is because it reacts
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: to your head.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I want to see the screen.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Were trying to get it set back to where it
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: was when were that, But it sounds like a delic
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: but then all of a sudden, these big skulls roll
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: in and then there's a big cloud and it's like
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: it was the perfect scenario, the perfect scenario for Doom
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: and Gloom. So skip back to the before the last
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: break and check it out because it's hilarious.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when I was talking the last break, yeah that's
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: where you want to look at. I can't find it
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: right now on the screen, but yeah, that was That
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: was kind of funny that Sean mentioned that during the break.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: All right, we have answered a couple of questions from listeners. Uh, well,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: you know, we kind of been away, but we got My.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Favorite part of the show. I love it answer the
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: questions because it just connects us with our listeners and
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: allows us to answer.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: All right, this one is from Diana, says, my sister
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: who lives in Tucson, got a new laptop computer and
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: gave me her old Windows ten machine. That's pretty nice.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Right when I turned it on, I was shocked the
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: screen was full of icons. I asked her, and she
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: said each one was a programmer, even photos she had
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: downloaded from the internet. And she wants to know a
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: virus or yeah, our virus, should I get rid of them.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I've been told once too many icons was bad. Thanks
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Diana in seboudiita wipe it? What wipe the computer? What
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: if you're on Windows ten with those, Sanya, What if
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: there's valuable programs on there that she wants to use, Sean.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: What's her sister's computer, She's gonna want to cater to
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: her own needs. Like if your sister doesn't want to back,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: wipe it and build build it yourself.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: What if she has like Adobe on there, or she
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: has Office and it's likely sister's account, not hers.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say, first off, if it's Adobe, the first
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: time our sister logs in our new computer's gonna boot
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: her out, right, So wipe it, start over, start fresh.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: That's my that's my suggestion.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Right, you don't know what kind of stuff your sister downloaded, viruses, malware,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: you don't know. You wipe, wipe, clean it up, and bacteria,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: do the whole thing.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Ew.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: So that's my suggestion. Like, you can go down, you
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: go to Window. You can just Google for the Windows
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Media Creation tool. You can download a new copy of Windows,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: put it on used flash. Right, follow the steps. You're
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: back to a Windows ten base edition with all the bloat.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: But you should not be on Windows ten.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: You should not be on Windows ten if the computer
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: is moving to Windows eleven. Sure, great, there are options
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: for getting the Windows eleven without a computer that is
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: technically compatible, so look for those options if you want
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Windows ten. They did extend the deadline for Windows ten
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit for there, right, so you'll still get
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: support for Windows head.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: But however, yeah, uh, hold on, hold on, hold on,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: we're quick. Hold on, guys, I'm talking to Diana right now. Oh,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: if you want to be dangerous, put linux. Oh there
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: you go. There, Linux Mint problems you could tell people,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: so you're blue in the face. Hey, give Linux a try,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: and honestly, i'm sorry if you don't follow that up
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: with a model or a you know, a version. It's
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: so confusing. Linux Mint, you're right, Linux Mint, Yeah, Linux mints.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Linux Mint is literally Windows and you can still run
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of your program.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: That's free, and you can still use their u I.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: So it's say, okay, everybody freaks out in Linux because like,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: oh my I have to use terminal, I have to
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: download stuff, I have to pseudo install Bash whatever, blah
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: blah blah. No, you don't. There's a graphical interface that
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: you can go and click on the program and to
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: downloads it. Just like Windows.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Like Windows, Linux back in the day was so hard
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: to use, it is not anymore. And as a matter
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: of fact, I'm kind of on the fence whether or
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: not I want to upgrade to the next Windows. I
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: might even myself go straight Linux, right, can you can
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: you get on Reddit? Does Reddit have some Linux groups
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: for beginners?
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Linux and your best Friend and this is it's
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: good for this chat chatbots, chat shept Rock Claude. They're
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: good at helping people get into Linux. Linux for basics.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: You can get asked for the basic commands from it.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: It'll help you out if you're interested in becoming a
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: little bit more of an advanced user. There's plenty of
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: resources for it. And it's it's it's it's a little
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: daunting at first because it's not, oh, I can just
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: do everything I did in Windows, but you have there's
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: it's a little more purpose driven, right. It's it's like.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Going from like an Apple iPhone to an Android, Like
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: it still does the same thing. You just kind of
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: have to learn the ways around it. Yeah, Linux, the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: l I and UX you can look it up and
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: if you're on some of the groups, or you want
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: to ask your your AI system if you're if you're
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: using one, what it's all about, it might be able
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: to help you. I got to tell you a story.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I got a laptop end the other day. And this
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: came from a friend of mine I've worked with in
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: radio before, not at the station.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: But anyway.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: The laptop is a del It's an I five, and
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a pretty cool system. But he said
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: it couldn't open any browsers. He was having a hard
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: time opening anything, couldn't save anything, couldn't understand what was
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: going on with it. And so I opened up the
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: lid and you know, fired it up, gave me the code,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: so I was able to get into it, and right
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: away I got the message, you know, low storage, and
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: I opened up a Windows Explorer to take a look.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: He had nine megabytes left of a two hundred and
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: fifty gigabyte drive. Oh my gosh, that's it. And you know,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: if you can open a browser, browsers use cash, they
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: use all this stuff to open up. You know it's
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: gonna fail. Things are going to crash. You're not go
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: You're just try and save anything. The thing is, now
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you have to make a decision. And here's here's my question.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: What do you guys think this guy's got to make
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: a decision. I was able to move about one hundred
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: gigabytes off onto some removable storage. But now he's in
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: a situation he's got a two hundred and fifty gigabyte
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: drive with one hundred gigabytes of removable storage that he's
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: going to keep filling up two fifty that's just not
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of storage. I just want to ask one question. Yeah,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: about this two hundred and fifty gigabyte hard drive? Yeah,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: are you living in the year twenty fourteen? What do
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: you mean because that's what it was in twenty fourteen. Yeah,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the two hundred and fifty gigabyte was good in twenty fourteen, right,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: exactly we are in twenty twenty six. What do I
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: tell him five go to go to a five twelve?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: It might go to one terabytor, but one terabytes are
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: about four hundred and fifty bucks.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: But it also depends on what type of storage is
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: in his computer? Can he upgrade it? Is it soldered on?
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Is it is it? Yeah?
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Is it upgradeable?
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Is it is SSD. I looked it up. So if
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: it's an.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: SSD, you can clone it to a five twelve or
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: a one terabyte like I would go to a one
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: terabyte SSD and slap that scene. We're done in there.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: One terrorbyt will be more.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: The laptop's only worth five hundred bucks, so.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Then buy a new computer with more storifically than at
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: that point.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Buy a new computer like there, you go, wipe in, put.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: A Linux on it. You'll never get to tour. Yeah,
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: you'll be able to run Firefox in twenty minutes and
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: put Linux.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: All right, we take a break, come back. I want
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: to show you something real quick that folds. When we
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: come back with tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sean to red wipe and put a Linux on.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: It, and I'm justin leme. I'm not even gonna follow
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: that up. And now back to tech talk Radio. Andy,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: you said you had something that folds. Yes, here it is.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: This is pretty cool. A little small right, a cell phone,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: not a cell phone.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like it could be like a laptop camera.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Right, it is a mouse. This is the new Logitech
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: mobile phone, and it basically works just like a mouse, left, right,
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  Speaker 1: click buttons, but it folds completely up and instead of
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: a wheel, it's a scroll feature, so that's kind of
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: ergonomic too. It does have an ergonomic feel. It's kind
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: of claw. Yeah, yeah, you cut the claw go there,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: but you can run your figure over the little pad
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  Speaker 1: here and it will give the scroll features, which is great.
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  Speaker 1: It connects via Bluetooth. You can switch between three different
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Bluetooth devices, so you can have it on your PC
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: and then oh, you get your tablet over here, hit
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  Speaker 1: the button and then connect to your tablet and use that.
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  Speaker 1: This is what's amazing is the battery life in this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty days thirty two days for a whole charge. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. It's USBC. So if you plug it
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: in because you really quickly forgot to charge and you
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: need to charge, you plug it in one minute, we'll
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: give you twenty two hours. Oh gosh, that's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a battery you want to
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: carry in your laptop bag and if you don't have Bluetooth,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a mouse, a mouse save, you don't have blue tooth,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: you can go ahead and plug into a with a
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: USBC USBA adapter. You could do that if you wanted to.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: But form, you're gonna send me this, right, this is great.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I ended up buying this. You're gonna you're gonna send
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: me this, right, I ended up buying it. So you
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: want this on your Christmas gift list? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, they're about seventy nine dollars. Oh that's little price
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: here for a mouse. So we could buy you know,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: one of these for like twenty bucks. But it's again
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: very comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Justin can use it when he has to work
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: the dipp Dots stand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you work at the ice cream do stand, which
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you've been doing. And if I thought we could get
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: through the whole show without having to talk about this.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: If you go to water World and you get ice cream, Justin,
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  Speaker 1: who is an IT specialist and engineer, might be certain
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: excuse me, it manager manager might be serving you up
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: the dippin' dots. Yeah, it's no album. You guys, do
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: right real quick before we end the show. Yes, every year,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: right when the kids go back to school, because the
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: kids run the park. I mean we have a multitude,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: like over one thousand kids that run the park. But
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: when they go back to school, we keep the park open.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Certain parts of it, not the entire park, and the
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: full time STAF have to run the park, so we
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: can have We can be attractions, which means we're basically
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: pushing people down the tubes with the big you know,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: like kind of like lifeguards, but we're not really lifeguards,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: but you're standing in the hot sun all day and
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: I can't do that. We can also be park attendants,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: where we're basically just taking out trash and sweeping up,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: and I don't really deal with trash. We can also
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: be guest services, where we're taking people in, working security,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: checking bags and dealing with angry customers, which again I
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: really don't do. Or we can be food services. So
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: food services you're basically flipping burgers, slanging glizzies, or serving
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: ice cream, and we don't know what we're doing from
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: day to day. So yesterday I slang lizzies. Today I
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: was slinging ice cream, and I took two showers, and
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I have washed my hands seventeen times and I'm still sticky.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear ice cream anyway. No
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: more ice cream. Do they have a Poutine flavored ice cream?
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Just shut it up?
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Poutine?
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: All right? Well, thank you for tuning into this week.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got a question, drop us a line. Uh
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: tech guys at tech talk radio dot com. I'm Andy Taylor,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin. Let me find
• 55:19
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• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Have yourselves a great week. We'll see you next time.