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Pikachu Pays for the Gas… Almost! | EP 494 · TechtalkRadio

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Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
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Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd.
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Speaker 1: And I'm Justin Lemme. Welcome.
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Speaker 3: It's good to have you back with us, Justin. It's
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Speaker 3: been a crazy couple weeks, yeah.
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Speaker 1: We've been very excited because last week in the show,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about the fact that Justin couldn't be
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Speaker 1: with us because he was out buying an RV. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I did talk about that. I talked about it a
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Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Yeah, we ended up buying it. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right. So tell us what made you finally decide
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Speaker 1: you were going to go ahead and just bite the bullet?
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Speaker 1: I know you were really looking into it, right? We
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Speaker 1: went to go look at it for the very first time.
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Speaker 3: And I actually used AI to come up with a
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Speaker 3: third party inspector checklist, like everything that an inspector would
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Speaker 3: look at. Now, obviously, I am not a professional inspector.
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Speaker 3: I don't have that ability to see those things that
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Speaker 3: they would, but it gave, it gave me a really,
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Speaker 3: really good checklist of things to check out things. I mean,
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Speaker 3: from like, check out the AC, make sure the AC works,
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Speaker 3: make sure the generator works, make sure the heater works,
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Speaker 3: make sure the engine starts, drive it around, uh, make
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Speaker 3: sure the tires look good. Make sure that, um, The
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Speaker 3: refrigerator works. I mean, just, you know, every little thing
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Speaker 3: around it.
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Speaker 1: Make sure there's propane.
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Speaker 3: Make sure all of the sensors are working in the
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Speaker 3: RV where it tells you, you know, how much liquid
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Speaker 3: is in the black tank, the gray tank, and the,
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Speaker 3: you know, all that stuff, right?
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 3: We went and looked at it, and I just couldn't
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Speaker 3: see any red flags. Granted, this is a used RV.
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Speaker 3: It's a 2020, which is still pretty young. But the
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Speaker 3: fact that it only had 20,000 miles on it.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Now, what kind of price difference do you get
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Speaker 1: from somebody buying a brand new, you know, right at
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Speaker 1: the dealer lot to buying a used? I mean, is
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Speaker 1: it significant?
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Speaker 3: It's a significant amount. You're taking a massive... hit in
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Speaker 3: depreciation as soon as you roll that vehicle off the lot.
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Speaker 3: I mean, even more than a new car. So we're
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Speaker 3: getting like the real true value of that RV at
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Speaker 3: this point, I think. As a matter of fact, I
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Speaker 3: did look it up on the Blue Book. The going
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Speaker 3: rate was between 40 and 43. We paid 43 for it. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, we're on the high end. But again, with
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Speaker 3: the mileage on it, the engine was barely broken in.
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Speaker 3: The generator just got redone because the previous owner, the
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Speaker 3: one I just bought it from, did fail to maintain
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Speaker 3: the generator. He let it sit for over a year.
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Speaker 3: And so when he went to go start it up,
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Speaker 3: the generator just wouldn't kick in. So he had to
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Speaker 3: get a new carburetor, new spark plugs, some new fuel lines.
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Speaker 3: things like that, because that was just all gunked up. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean, that felt like it was a brand new generator.
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Speaker 3: The generator worked fine.
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Speaker 1: But then I did.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I was talking to Sean about this and
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Speaker 3: Sean's dad and other friends. And they're like, yeah, you're
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Speaker 3: going to want to get a third party inspection. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: it just wasn't in the books for us because all
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Speaker 3: of these inspectors were saying late December, early January. And
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Speaker 3: I was like, I just I can't wait that long
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Speaker 3: for this. Like, And I did have a conversation on
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Speaker 3: the phone with one of those inspectors. And he said, look, I.
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Speaker 1: Can't be there.
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Speaker 3: However, if you've got 15 minutes, I'll go over the
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Speaker 3: phone with you and ask you these questions.
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Speaker 1: And so we went over. He's like, did you check this?
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 1: Did you check that?
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 1: Et cetera, et cetera.
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Speaker 3: And he's like, well, you pretty much just kind of
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Speaker 3: run through everything that I would run through. And if
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Speaker 3: you feel confident in it, the only thing I would
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Speaker 3: say is, you know, maybe if you're really really wanting
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Speaker 3: to know for sure is have me come out sometime
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Speaker 3: next year. And, uh, you know, I'll look at the, the, the, the,
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Speaker 3: the roof, the seals on the roof, make sure that
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Speaker 3: those still look good. But he said, if all the
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Speaker 3: other equipment is working, he said, I think you found
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Speaker 3: a diamond in the rough and I think you should
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Speaker 3: jump on it. And so that's what we did. We
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Speaker 3: just decided to bite the bullet, like you said, and
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Speaker 3: we jumped on it.
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Speaker 1: We bought it.
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Speaker 3: And it took a few days. We had to get
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Speaker 3: funds cleared. We looked into various financing options. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I even asked the guy, I said, hey, do you
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Speaker 3: take Bitcoin? And he's like, I don't even know what
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Speaker 3: that is. And I was like, well, there goes that idea.
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Speaker 3: And so I thought, well, I mean, I could sell Bitcoin,
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Speaker 3: but then I got to pay capital gains tax on it.
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Speaker 3: I said, well, we could also just get a loan
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Speaker 3: and finance. But then I looked at the loan, even
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Speaker 3: though we have excellent credit, if I were to get
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Speaker 3: a loan and pay that off over the next, you know,
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Speaker 3: 10 to 15 years, it would have been between 65
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Speaker 3: and $ 73, 000 total paid. So I was like, that's ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: So we ended up just using savings and we just,
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Speaker 3: we used our savings account and we just bought it
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Speaker 3: straight cash. So it is now currently sitting in storage.
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Speaker 1: That is cool.
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Speaker 3: We did get it delivered to our house. He wanted
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Speaker 3: to meet way down south of Denver. And I said, look,
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Speaker 3: with our schedules, with Eric and school and gymnastics and
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Speaker 3: all these other things going on, I said, look, man,
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Speaker 3: I'll buy you a beer at Brews, you know, which
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Speaker 3: is our local little brewery. And I'll give you 20
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Speaker 3: bucks for gas if you can just take it to
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Speaker 3: our house.
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Speaker 1: And he's like, okay. So he came up. We had
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Speaker 1: a couple beers.
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Speaker 3: You know, his wife drove up with him because obviously
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Speaker 3: he had to get home. So His wife drove the
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Speaker 3: other car. We had a couple beers. We had a
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Speaker 3: good time. We signed over the paperwork. We had the
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Speaker 3: money transferred, and bam, it was ours. We handed over
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Speaker 3: the keys, and we pulled it.
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Speaker 1: It was funny.
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Speaker 3: We pulled it right in front of our house, and
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Speaker 3: we've got some sort of a tree out front of
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Speaker 3: our house. I don't know what kind of tree it is,
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Speaker 3: but the branches were a little bit low. And as
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Speaker 3: we were pulling it in, parking in front of our house,
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Speaker 3: it was like, I mean, just.
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Speaker 1: Scraping and scratching.
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Speaker 2: You are going to realize how much you don't notice
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Speaker 2: driving a smaller car once you get into this thing
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Speaker 2: and drive it around.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, I did.
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Speaker 1: We drove around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's comical how people, when they start driving an RV,
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Speaker 2: they go, oh. I didn't notice that before.
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Speaker 3: Well, actually the next day I had to take it
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Speaker 3: up and get emissions done on it, which was actually
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Speaker 3: very good because I didn't realize normally emissions testing in
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Speaker 3: Colorado takes forever because there's a big line of people.
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Speaker 3: I just happened to go on a day. First off
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Speaker 3: for regular cars, there was hardly anybody there, which was excellent.
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Speaker 3: But on top of that, they have a dedicated RV lane.
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Speaker 1: So I got right. I was in and out within
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Speaker 1: 10 minutes.
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Speaker 3: And I had the emissions done, which was the best
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Speaker 3: part about it was I could not pull through the
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Speaker 3: bay because the RV is so large.
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Speaker 1: I had to pull in. They did the check. I
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Speaker 1: had to back out and then cut across all the
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Speaker 1: other cars, all the cars that were in line. They
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Speaker 1: had to back up and let me come through because
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Speaker 1: I had to exit through the front of the building,
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Speaker 1: if you will.
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Speaker 3: So then I had to drive it over to the
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Speaker 3: DMV to get my tags and registration done. And on
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Speaker 3: the way there, there's like a thrift store or something.
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Speaker 3: And they had these party streamers from their front, the
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Speaker 3: facade of the front of their store hanging out to
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Speaker 3: the streetlights. And as I'm driving in, I'm like, ooh,
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Speaker 3: those look pretty low. Sure enough, I caught every single
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Speaker 3: one of those streamers and knocked them down.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, whoops. Well, shouldn't have put them so low.
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Speaker 1: It's a learning curve, right? It's a learning thing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's not my fault.
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Speaker 3: You shouldn't have put them so low. But I spent
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Speaker 3: about two and a half hours in the DMV. And
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Speaker 3: that was a sticker shock because when I did finally
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Speaker 3: go to the DMV and got to talk to the lady,
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Speaker 3: she's like, oh, congratulations. You're going to have this RV.
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Speaker 1: It's so great. You get to go camping.
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Speaker 3: But you know, I'm going to have to collect the
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Speaker 3: sales tax on that.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 1: And I was like, wait, what? How much is that?
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Speaker 1: And she's like, well.
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Speaker 3: Your registration is 470 for the year. Do you want
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Speaker 3: the state park pass for 29? I'm like, at this point,
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Speaker 3: just put it on there.
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Speaker 1: I don't care. She's like, okay, grand.
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Speaker 2: Total is $ 2, 300.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, here's my credit card. And she's like, yeah,
8:10
Speaker 1: about that. Um, we charge a 2.5% fee on credit
8:12
Speaker 1: card transactions. Oh my God.
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Speaker 4: Oh my God.
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Speaker 1: I was like, just, just shoot me now. Just whatever.
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Speaker 1: Get it over with. Wow. So anyway, it is, it
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Speaker 1: is free and clear. It is ours. It's in my name.
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Speaker 1: It is registered. It is licensed. It's insured. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that was a big question. I have insurance. Oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: It can be tough to insure a car. You buy
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Speaker 1: a brand new car. Oh, I did in five minutes.
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Speaker 1: Is it, is it, is it pricey though? I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was like 550 bucks for six months. It's reasonable.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: My RV insurance is reasonable.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they also, they asked me the most important
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Speaker 3: question was how much, how many years do you have
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Speaker 3: experience driving an RV? And I said, 15.
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Speaker 1: No, no, I did not say that. I said two.
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Speaker 1: I said two. I was like, okay, I'll go with two.
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Speaker 2: My buddy Sean's got ten, so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: But, I mean, if I were to put zero, they'd
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Speaker 3: be like, okay, it's going to be $ 2, 500 for six months,
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Speaker 3: you know. But, no, I do have experience driving big vehicles. So,
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Speaker 3: I was like, I feel comfortable saying that. Right.
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Speaker 1: But, yeah, I mean, it is. It's ours. It's in storage.
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Speaker 3: We finally got a hold of the storage guy that's
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Speaker 3: literally three blocks away from us.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: We put it in his backyard along with a bunch
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Speaker 3: of other junk vehicles that people are paying him to
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Speaker 3: store that don't even run. He literally has to use
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Speaker 3: a forklift to lift up certain vehicles to move things around.
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Speaker 3: So that way I have the best parking spot because
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Speaker 3: he's like, well, you want to come in and out, right?
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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I want to take it in
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Speaker 3: and out. He's like, okay, well, none of these other
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Speaker 3: vehicles run. So let me get the forklift and lift.
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Speaker 1: His cars up.
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Speaker 3: So that was kind of interesting that people are paying
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Speaker 3: him to store junk in his yard.
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Speaker 1: Amazing.
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Speaker 2: Exciting.
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Speaker 1: Have you decided yet? And, you know, we talked about
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Speaker 1: this with Sean last week. Where is the first place
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Speaker 1: you're going to go? Not sure yet, but obviously I
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Speaker 1: think it's going to be somewhere close. I think it's
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Speaker 1: going to be somewhere close.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's got to be somewhere close. There's you don't
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Speaker 2: do a shakedown. A long ways away. You do something
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Speaker 2: that's within like a 15 minute drive or less. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be more than that. But I mean,
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Speaker 2: there's a place down south of Denver. It's really close
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Speaker 2: to Larkspur, Colorado, which Larkspur is about halfway between Denver
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Speaker 2: and Colorado Springs. And it is an RV resort called Jellystone.
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Speaker 2: And it's after- Yogi Bear.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yogi Bear.
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Speaker 3: But this place has like 200- Full hookups, like sewer, power,
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Speaker 3: and water. It has three heated pools, water slides, mini golf, pickleball, volleyball, basketball.
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Speaker 2: It's a direct KOA competitor.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 3: And it even has a restaurant and bar on site.
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Speaker 3: Like you could go literally restaurant and bar.
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Speaker 2: We've got one not that far from us too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just look up Jellystone Larkspur. And that's probably where
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Speaker 3: we'll go for the first one because if I do
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Speaker 3: forget something or something doesn't work right, It's going to
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Speaker 3: be super close for me to get home or super
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Speaker 3: close for me to call somebody and say, hey, come
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Speaker 3: and help us.
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Speaker 1: Right, right. What kind of gas does it take? It's unleaded.
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Speaker 1: It's not diesel.
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Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. But it's, oh, oh, that's, oh, oh, God.
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Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
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Speaker 1: That's another thing. Uh-oh.
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Speaker 3: We were on almost, we were almost on the E
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Speaker 3: of empty. And I took it up to the, you know,
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Speaker 3: petrol station, if you will.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I put 50 bucks into it. I barely got
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Speaker 1: an eighth of a ton.
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Speaker 2: I say it didn't even move the needle.
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Speaker 1: It didn't even move the needle, dude. I was like, wait, what?
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Speaker 1: Is this working? Always be curious when I see somebody
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Speaker 1: pull up to the pumps with an RV to see
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Speaker 1: how much they're putting in. What kind of tank is
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Speaker 1: that guy?
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Speaker 3: This is going to take $ 250, $ 300 at the current rate.
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Speaker 2: Here's a question for you. You probably don't know the
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Speaker 2: answer to this. Is your generator a self dip or
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Speaker 2: is it a full dip for the generator? So will
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Speaker 2: the generator run your tank out of gas? No, it'll
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Speaker 2: only go so low.
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Speaker 1: No, it'll only go so low. It'll go 25% and
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Speaker 1: it will stop.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Is that, is that what you call a self dip?
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Speaker 2: Self dip is just, that's what I call it, but.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Whatever. Yeah. No, it will stop at 25%. All right. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're tech talk radio. Uh, what, uh, what
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Speaker 1: kind of tech do you have in it? Radio Sirius XM.
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Speaker 3: It does have, it does have radio, but the thing is,
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Speaker 3: which is weird is that the coach radio, which is
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Speaker 3: operated off the dash unit of the vehicle itself is
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Speaker 3: actually operated off the coach batteries. So for me to
12:44
Speaker 3: be able to use the radio, I have to not
12:46
Speaker 3: only do I get in the driver's seat, I have
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Speaker 3: to back the driver's seat up, walk back into the coach,
12:52
Speaker 3: turn the battery disconnect on. Then I can use my radio.
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Speaker 3: And here's the worst part about it is when you
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Speaker 3: use that battery disconnect, it kills all power to the radio,
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Speaker 3: which means no memory presets, no volume control, no backup
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Speaker 3: camera if it's not on. So yeah, every time I
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Speaker 3: turn it on, I have to reprogram it. Now I
13:13
Speaker 3: did look it up on AI and I said, Hey,
13:15
Speaker 3: is there a way around this? And it said, Oh gosh,
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Speaker 3: this is a super common thing with Thor motor coaches.
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Speaker 3: This is the way they wired it. It's a super
13:22
Speaker 3: easy way to wire around it. You just got to
13:24
Speaker 3: do this, this, and this, and you'll be able to
13:26
Speaker 3: put a memory wire into it just to keep that trickle.
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Speaker 3: And the trickle can come off the coach batteries. It's
13:33
Speaker 3: not going to hurt it, but that will keep your
13:35
Speaker 3: settings in place if you want.
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Speaker 1: But right.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I got that. The only other technology upgrade
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Speaker 3: is it does have tank heaters. So if we want
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Speaker 3: to go boondocking, it does have a black tank, gray tank,
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Speaker 3: and a freshwater tank heater to keep those lines from
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Speaker 3: freezing if the temperature drops down too low.
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Speaker 1: What is boondocking?
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Speaker 3: Boondocking means you're just going off, off, off. You're not
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Speaker 3: having any connections, no power, no water. You're running off
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Speaker 3: only what you have in the camper.
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Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: All right. That sounds like fun, though.
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Speaker 2: I told Justin I'm very envious of his adventures he's
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Speaker 2: about to have because he's so close to so many
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Speaker 2: great places within a day or two.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when are you coming out to Rocky Mountains?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. As soon as I can.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about this. I had no idea that
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Speaker 1: people convoy. Sean was talking about driving his RV out
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Speaker 1: to you. then you guys can just go on a
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Speaker 1: convoy trip. Yep. If you have any friends, have any
14:37
Speaker 1: of your coworkers or friends that are, you know, have
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Speaker 1: they looked at this and said, I might want to
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Speaker 1: do that. Could there be a resurgence among your group?
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Speaker 3: I don't know about Sean's friends or whatever, but I
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Speaker 3: can tell you right now, I've had about at least
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Speaker 3: four different friends that said, hey, would you think about
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Speaker 3: renting this to us for the weekend? I said, let
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Speaker 3: me have a chance first.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: So there's actually, it's very popular for people that have
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Speaker 2: decent sized campers to rent them to their friends. There's
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Speaker 2: actually a business around this too, where I could rent
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Speaker 2: my camper, go set it up at a campground. The
15:14
Speaker 2: people just drive their car to the campground, camp in it,
15:17
Speaker 2: drive their car home. I go pick it up. There's
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Speaker 2: a business in that. People do that all the time.
15:21
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is really interesting. I don't think I would
15:24
Speaker 1: ever do that. I mean, this is ours.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 3: And part of it also is a little bit of
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Speaker 3: that Japanese culture. You know, that's like allowing somebody to
15:31
Speaker 3: stay in your home, you know, on vacation or whatever.
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Speaker 3: And in Japanese culture, people barely even get to go
15:38
Speaker 3: inside of Japanese houses of other people, even to visit,
15:43
Speaker 3: even when they're there. So to let somebody stay inside
15:46
Speaker 3: of your house on your bed, it's probably not going
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Speaker 3: to fly.
15:50
Speaker 1: How is Misa responding to it? Is she pretty excited?
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Speaker 1: And of course, Eric, how does he feel about it?
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with Eric. Eric is definitely excited. He
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Speaker 3: can't wait to go. Misa, on the other hand, she
16:03
Speaker 3: has created an Amazon wish list that is like 40
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Speaker 3: or 50 things long already of things that she wants
16:09
Speaker 3: to buy for the camper.
16:10
Speaker 1: And that's going to be the cleanest camper ever. That's
16:14
Speaker 1: going to be the cleanest motorhome that exists.
16:19
Speaker 3: What is that thing, the Black & Decker, the little vacuum?
16:23
Speaker 1: She's already got one of those on her wish list.
16:25
Speaker 3: She's talking about color coordinating the bed sheets to the
16:28
Speaker 3: shower curtains. I'm like, yo, come on.
16:32
Speaker 2: We've talked about the nuts and the bolts of the RV.
16:35
Speaker 2: Misa and my mom need to now have a talk
16:38
Speaker 2: about how they organize their RVs. My mom, their RV
16:42
Speaker 2: is immaculate. And everything's got a place and everything's in
16:46
Speaker 2: its place. So I think Misa and my mom now
16:48
Speaker 2: need to talk about and share stories about how they
16:50
Speaker 2: organize their RVs.
16:51
Speaker 1: Well, bring your mom and dad out here. We'll do
16:53
Speaker 1: one of those convoys and we'll all just sit around.
16:55
Speaker 2: They'll probably be there before we can get out there.
16:56
Speaker 2: You tell them to drive out there. They'll be on
16:59
Speaker 2: the road in six hours.
17:00
Speaker 1: We'll go camping with your parents then. Come out. Forget you.
17:02
Speaker 1: We'll go camping with your parents. Come out to Green
17:05
Speaker 1: Valley too. That would be a lot of fun. Well,
17:07
Speaker 1: we do want to go to Santa Fe, so maybe
17:08
Speaker 1: we'll make it over there. That would be good. This
17:11
Speaker 1: is a very interesting show this week because Not only
17:14
Speaker 1: do we have this kind of personal story, you know,
17:16
Speaker 1: Justin is exploring this. We've talked about it. Sean has
17:20
Speaker 1: also been talking about something that we're going to be
17:22
Speaker 1: talking about coming up here in another segment. We were
17:25
Speaker 1: able to do this a little earlier, but Sean finally
17:29
Speaker 1: got in his Nintendo Switch 2, and we're going to
17:32
Speaker 1: unbox it. So you're going to be able to see
17:34
Speaker 1: what that looks like. I've got something personal as well.
17:37
Speaker 1: Some of you know that in 1964, my parents, they
17:40
Speaker 1: got two big metal crates. And they took these two
17:44
Speaker 1: big metal crates, loaded up with everything they could. They
17:47
Speaker 1: hopped on a boat and they made it to the
17:49
Speaker 1: United States of America. We became citizens in 72. And
17:55
Speaker 1: my dad loved this country. He's no longer with us,
17:57
Speaker 1: nor my mom. But that boat was the SS United States. Oh,
18:01
Speaker 1: my gosh.
18:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
18:02
Speaker 1: Yep. And the SS United States will be sunk, I believe,
18:06
Speaker 1: next week. And coming up later on in the show,
18:09
Speaker 1: Tyler Butler, who is the anchor for KMSB Fox 11
18:13
Speaker 1: and KLD TV News 13 is going to join us
18:16
Speaker 1: about his podcast that features everything about cars. Maybe we'll
18:20
Speaker 1: talk RVs, boats, trains, the whole bit. So we'll be
18:24
Speaker 1: doing that coming up a little later on as well.
18:27
Speaker 1: But you had something else, too, that you wanted to
18:30
Speaker 1: share with us. And so it's like the some of
18:32
Speaker 1: the biggest news, the things to tell us here. So
18:35
Speaker 1: we told you, don't don't give us any hints.
18:38
Speaker 3: I'm not going to give any hints, but I've got
18:40
Speaker 3: exactly six minutes to tell you this story. So this weekend,
18:44
Speaker 3: Eric and I, we, we, it was a family. We
18:45
Speaker 3: went to Costco to get our Costco run and we
18:47
Speaker 3: happened to notice that they were releasing some Pokemon cards, uh,
18:53
Speaker 3: you know, and they have the big boxes where you,
18:55
Speaker 3: it's like 40 bucks. You get like 10 packs and,
18:58
Speaker 3: and whatever. So those have become really popular.
19:00
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:01
Speaker 3: And, and a lot of times scalpers will just buy
19:03
Speaker 3: the entire crate. And, but, but Costco's now said, Nope, Nope. One,
19:07
Speaker 3: one pack per person, one pack per member. And so
19:10
Speaker 3: we're like, okay, let's jump in line. Let's get a pack.
19:12
Speaker 1: Right.
19:13
Speaker 3: So we're standing in line. There's a guy in front
19:15
Speaker 3: of us. We get up to the counter and the
19:17
Speaker 3: guy says, Oh, Hey, I'm not ready yet. Go ahead
19:19
Speaker 3: and go in front of me. Didn't think nothing of it.
19:22
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, okay, no problem. We got up,
19:24
Speaker 3: we got our pack. We walked out to the car.
19:26
Speaker 3: We get in the car. Eric starts opening packs. I, uh,
19:30
Speaker 3: I said, let me, let me take one of those
19:31
Speaker 3: packs and we open it up.
19:33
Speaker 1: I opened up the pack and I'm going to put
19:37
Speaker 1: this on the screen. Oh my. We pulled this card
19:42
Speaker 1: right here. Oh, that's supposed to. Oh, wow.
19:46
Speaker 3: This now, if you're not watching the podcast, this is
19:49
Speaker 3: what they call. a tree. It's a Pikachu, but it
19:53
Speaker 3: is a special edition Pikachu. Now, the biggest part about
19:56
Speaker 3: this is down here at the numbers. It tells you
19:59
Speaker 3: how many cards are in a set.
20:01
Speaker 1: There's 217 cards.
20:01
Speaker 3: 217.
20:01
Speaker 2: This is 276 cards.
20:09
Speaker 3: Of 217 with two stars next to it. So I immediately,
20:14
Speaker 3: I knew this card was rare. I knew there was
20:16
Speaker 3: something about this card. I took a picture of this
20:20
Speaker 3: card and I put it up on Grock and I said,
20:23
Speaker 3: how much is this card worth?
20:25
Speaker 4: Right.
20:26
Speaker 3: Grock said, you're not going to believe this, but you
20:30
Speaker 3: just pulled the most rare card in Pokemon history.
20:34
Speaker 1: No way.
20:35
Speaker 3: Of the current, excuse me, sorry, not in history, of
20:38
Speaker 3: the current set. They said, as it is right now, raw,
20:43
Speaker 3: which means it's not been graded, this card is worth $ 600. Dude,
20:49
Speaker 3: and how much was the investment?
20:52
Speaker 1: Hold on.
20:53
Speaker 3: If we get it graded, and it turns out to
20:56
Speaker 3: be a perfect 10, which I did take this to
20:59
Speaker 3: Level 7 Games, which is our local card shop, They
21:03
Speaker 3: pulled me in the back room and said, do not
21:05
Speaker 3: show this to anybody. And the guy took a close
21:09
Speaker 3: look at it with a magnifying glass and said, this
21:11
Speaker 3: is a perfect 10. Put this in a hard sleeve
21:13
Speaker 3: and get it graded. This is worth $ 2, 500. Oh, my God.
21:17
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
21:21
Speaker 1: Off a $ 40 investment.
21:23
Speaker 3: This is why the scalpers do this. Now, I mentioned
21:26
Speaker 3: earlier in the story that there was a guy in
21:28
Speaker 3: front of us in line. If he would have been
21:31
Speaker 3: the one to buy, he would have gotten that card.
21:35
Speaker 2: But you don't know that he didn't get a bomb
21:36
Speaker 2: in his either, right?
21:37
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
21:38
Speaker 3: And he doesn't know that we got this because we
21:40
Speaker 3: never saw him again. But here's the thing. I did
21:42
Speaker 3: look this up and I asked the level seven guy.
21:44
Speaker 3: I said, how rare is this? He says, well, this
21:47
Speaker 3: is about one in 15,000 packs.
21:51
Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
21:51
Speaker 3: Now, if you do the math, there's 10 cards per pack.
21:54
Speaker 3: That's one in 150,000 cards.
21:57
Speaker 2: So what do you do?
21:58
Speaker 3: Do you sell or do you hold on to it? Well,
22:00
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the question. I mean, you get it graded.
22:04
Speaker 3: Let's say it turns out to be a perfect 10. Yeah,
22:06
Speaker 3: you could hold on to it. Now, when this card
22:09
Speaker 3: first came out earlier this year, the going rate was $ 1, 000 raw, $ 4, 000
22:11
Speaker 3: graded perfect 10. The price has gone down. It's now
22:13
Speaker 3: 600 or 2,500. So the price will fluctuate, especially as
22:24
Speaker 3: more and more cards enter the market. Because again, when
22:27
Speaker 3: the first card got pulled, it was the most rare
22:30
Speaker 3: card ever because there's no other cards like it. This
22:33
Speaker 3: is probably the hundredth card or whatever they got pulled.
22:36
Speaker 1: I don't know.
22:37
Speaker 3: So the price has gone down. So I asked Eric,
22:39
Speaker 3: I said, look, man, hey, this is your card. What
22:41
Speaker 3: do you want to do with it? And he says, well,
22:43
Speaker 3: if it comes back a perfect 10, I'm going to
22:45
Speaker 3: sell it.
22:47
Speaker 1: That's cool.
22:48
Speaker 4: Yep.
22:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we pulled one of the most rare cards
22:51
Speaker 3: in Pokemon history.
22:53
Speaker 1: Isn't it great, though, how Grock, and I know Jim
22:56
Speaker 1: and I will do the same thing, or even Chad GPT,
22:59
Speaker 1: now you can take a photo of something and say,
23:02
Speaker 1: tell me about this, and it will tell you. Although
23:05
Speaker 1: it's interesting because it used to be, before you would
23:07
Speaker 1: go onto Google or whichever search engine you use, you'd
23:11
Speaker 1: have to type it in. I heard a story this
23:13
Speaker 1: week that Google is facing a bit of a problem
23:17
Speaker 1: Because Google, when you do a search on Google, you
23:20
Speaker 1: get fed ads. When you use Gemini and you use
23:24
Speaker 1: the AI assistant to give you the information, you're not
23:27
Speaker 1: being fed ads, at least right now. And so they're
23:31
Speaker 1: actually losing money by people moving over to AI searches
23:35
Speaker 1: like Grok and Google or Gemini or Google Assistant to
23:39
Speaker 1: get the results of something they would normally look up.
23:42
Speaker 1: Even Google themselves are shooting themselves in.
23:45
Speaker 3: Wait, hold on.
23:46
Speaker 1: That was redundant. Even Google is.
23:47
Speaker 3: Shooting themselves in the foot because when you go to
23:50
Speaker 3: Google something, their Gemini AI assistant answers you before any
23:55
Speaker 3: of the ads that they're trying to sell you. So
23:58
Speaker 3: they're shooting themselves in their own foot. It's interesting how
24:01
Speaker 3: that works. But a lot of people, if you're listening,
24:04
Speaker 3: you know what Justin was able to do, you can
24:06
Speaker 3: do this stuff.
24:06
Speaker 1: You find something. I found a coin collection, but my
24:11
Speaker 1: stepdad used to collect. I was like, oh, what's these?
24:13
Speaker 1: And I looked them up and there's some value to them.
24:15
Speaker 1: Not a lot, but value. over to them being the
24:17
Speaker 1: face coin. So, I mean, you can use that to
24:20
Speaker 1: help find out a rare stamp, rare photo, rare postcard.
24:24
Speaker 1: You know, you might be able to find all kinds
24:26
Speaker 1: of stuff.
24:26
Speaker 3: We are going to send this in to get graded.
24:28
Speaker 3: We spent $ 120 from a website, not PSA. PSA has
24:32
Speaker 3: been really hurting lately. We're going through a company called Tag,
24:36
Speaker 3: and it's $ 120, 30-day turnaround. We're hoping it's going to
24:39
Speaker 3: be a perfect 10.
24:41
Speaker 1: All right. We're going to take a break. We come back. Sean,
24:45
Speaker 1: his unboxing. And if you're watching this on the video,
24:49
Speaker 1: I hope you are. You can follow us on YouTube
24:52
Speaker 1: at Tech Talk Radio. Subscribe and like right there. But again,
24:54
Speaker 1: Sean's going to be showing the brand new Nintendo Switch. 2, right, Sean?
25:00
Speaker 2: It's the Zelda 40th anniversary special edition Switch 2.
25:05
Speaker 4: All right.
25:05
Speaker 1: We'll do that when we come back with more of
25:07
Speaker 1: Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
25:09
Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd.
25:10
Speaker 1: And I'm Justin.
25:11
Speaker 3: Let me find us on the web at techtalkradio.com.
25:13
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
25:15
Speaker 2: Now, back to Tech Talk Radio.
25:18
Speaker 1: This has been a moment we've all been waiting for.
25:21
Speaker 1: I know Sean has actually been waiting for it longer
25:24
Speaker 1: than Than we have, but Sean, you finally got everything in.
25:28
Speaker 2: It finally all got here. Right. Except the game hasn't
25:32
Speaker 2: released yet, so I don't have the physical game.
25:34
Speaker 4: Oh, man.
25:35
Speaker 1: I have to get it Wednesday at midnight. So this
25:37
Speaker 1: coming Wednesday at midnight, by showtime.
25:39
Speaker 2: By showtime, by showtime, I will have had it.
25:41
Speaker 1: We're talking about Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, which,
25:45
Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting because, you know, we post these on...
25:47
Speaker 1: TikTok and YouTube and Reels and the whole bit. And
25:51
Speaker 1: a lot of people are really excited about the title.
25:53
Speaker 1: They can't wait for it.
25:54
Speaker 2: It's very hard to avoid spoilers right now because some
25:57
Speaker 2: European countries, it's already been released by game stores. So
26:01
Speaker 2: there's already live actual game content out there available. I'm
26:05
Speaker 2: not watching it. I'm trying to avoid it as much
26:07
Speaker 2: as possible because I'm going to play through it with
26:09
Speaker 2: just like my Nintendo Power Guide. Like what I had
26:12
Speaker 2: when I played it when I was 12. I haven't
26:13
Speaker 2: opened it yet. I was going to unbox it in
26:15
Speaker 2: this segment later.
26:16
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, though, when it comes to
26:18
Speaker 1: game titles, I know I remember when I played a
26:20
Speaker 1: lot more games. Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, played
26:23
Speaker 1: a lot of those. Red Dead Redemption 2, I was
26:26
Speaker 1: so excited when that one came out. But I'm wondering,
26:28
Speaker 1: has there been any other title that you, as somebody
26:32
Speaker 1: who games, was really excited about?
26:35
Speaker 2: The Halo series, the original couple, Halo 1, 2, 3,
26:38
Speaker 2: the OSDT, a couple of the other Halo games. The
26:42
Speaker 2: Ace Combat series, which they just released, Ace Combat 8.
26:45
Speaker 2: Wings of Thieves, which is really good. My brother's been
26:48
Speaker 2: playing a lot of that. So there's so many games
26:50
Speaker 2: that are releasing in the next two and a half weeks.
26:52
Speaker 2: You know, for me, it's the Zelda series are always good, right?
26:55
Speaker 2: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, all of
26:58
Speaker 2: the other ancillary games you've had over the years. But
27:01
Speaker 2: this game, Ocarina of Time, just is so nostalgic for
27:06
Speaker 2: me because it's one of the... The Zelda series as
27:10
Speaker 2: a whole has been a part of my life The
27:14
Speaker 2: entirety of my life. My mom played it when she
27:16
Speaker 2: was pregnant with me. Wait, your mom played this game?
27:18
Speaker 2: My mom played the original Zelda. The original Zelda on
27:23
Speaker 2: the original Nintendo. Because it came out in 86 and
27:27
Speaker 2: I was born in June of 86. So she played it,
27:31
Speaker 2: hand drew her own maps.
27:34
Speaker 4: Right.
27:34
Speaker 2: And the whole thing. So I attribute that, my mom,
27:37
Speaker 2: to why I love Zelda so much because she just
27:40
Speaker 2: played it a bunch when I was young.
27:42
Speaker 1: Right, right.
27:44
Speaker 2: And then, obviously, you know, the Link to the Past
27:47
Speaker 2: on the Super Nintendo was really, really good. Ocarina of
27:49
Speaker 2: Time is just such an incredible game for its time.
27:53
Speaker 2: I never played Majora's Mask. I wasn't super into Majora's Mask.
27:57
Speaker 2: I didn't have a 64 at the time. I played
27:59
Speaker 2: mostly on my cousins. And then I kind of got
28:01
Speaker 2: out of the Nintendo. I started playing more PlayStation games
28:03
Speaker 2: and stuff and got into more JRPGs and other action
28:06
Speaker 2: RPGs at that time and some other RTS. So I've
28:09
Speaker 2: been waiting for a long time. When they announced the remake,
28:12
Speaker 2: I said, Everybody's like, oh, you're going to get a
28:14
Speaker 2: Switch 2 to play it. I was like, yeah, but
28:17
Speaker 2: I'm going to wait. They're like, why are you going
28:18
Speaker 2: to wait? Just get a Switch 2 now. You can
28:19
Speaker 2: get other games. I was like, no, I know they're
28:21
Speaker 2: going to announce a special edition. They're like, no, they're not.
28:24
Speaker 2: And then they did, and everybody was like, oh, I
28:26
Speaker 2: should have waited to buy my Switch.
28:27
Speaker 1: So the things with special editions, they're putting it out
28:30
Speaker 1: It's basically, and we're going to see it here in
28:32
Speaker 1: just a second, but it's got all the accoutrements that
28:37
Speaker 1: a fan of the game would like. So Sean right
28:40
Speaker 1: now is going through what we call an open box.
28:42
Speaker 1: He's basically doing this live. How were you able not
28:46
Speaker 1: to open this box the last couple of days?
28:48
Speaker 2: It's been tough.
28:49
Speaker 1: Now, if you're watching our video, oh, you've got to
28:52
Speaker 1: see this packaging.
28:53
Speaker 2: Look at this.
28:54
Speaker 1: This is the packaging.
28:55
Speaker 2: This is the box. So this is what the dock
28:58
Speaker 2: looks like and the Joy-Cons. So this is the box.
29:02
Speaker 1: Can I ask how much this particular special edition cost you?
29:08
Speaker 2: It actually wasn't that much more than the Mario Kart
29:11
Speaker 2: World bundle. So it was only $ 519. So $ 560 after
29:15
Speaker 2: taxes and blah, blah, blah, whatever. So this is the box, right?
29:18
Speaker 1: Oh, look at that.
29:19
Speaker 2: The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition Nintendo Switch Plus.
29:23
Speaker 1: Would you be keeping this box for keepsake?
29:26
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
29:27
Speaker 1: I know all the fans right now are going, did
29:30
Speaker 1: that guy just ask that?
29:32
Speaker 3: Right.
29:32
Speaker 2: So I'm trying not to show serial numbers and stuff.
29:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
29:36
Speaker 2: So it comes with the Switch.
29:38
Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
29:39
Speaker 2: All right. way they, I don't know if you remember
29:42
Speaker 2: when the original Switch 2 came out, they had issues
29:46
Speaker 2: with people stapling the receipts to the top of the box.
29:49
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, it would go through the screen?
29:50
Speaker 2: Again, this is like, if somebody staples something out of
29:52
Speaker 2: the front, it's going right into the screen.
29:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, not good.
29:55
Speaker 2: So I'm just looking, I'm just opening this, so I'm
29:57
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what's in here. The Nintendo online pamphlet.
30:00
Speaker 1: There you go.
30:01
Speaker 2: Safety and seizure warnings. HDMI cable.
30:04
Speaker 1: HDMI cable. All right. So you can hook this Switch
30:07
Speaker 1: 2 from Nintendo in the docking station and to your
30:11
Speaker 1: big screen TV, right? Yeah. Is that the deal?
30:14
Speaker 4: Yeah. All right.
30:15
Speaker 2: So you can play it handheld or drop it on
30:17
Speaker 2: the dock and it'll come up. I'll end up plugging
30:19
Speaker 2: it in so I can play it on my second
30:21
Speaker 2: monitor right here so I can just sit at my
30:22
Speaker 2: computer and then stream it. Right.
30:25
Speaker 1: Now, does this come with any games that are a
30:28
Speaker 1: part of it?
30:29
Speaker 4: No.
30:29
Speaker 1: No. No games.
30:30
Speaker 4: No.
30:30
Speaker 2: No games. So. All right.
30:32
Speaker 1: Don't.
30:33
Speaker 2: I was a little disappointed that it didn't. So Joy-Con holder.
30:36
Speaker 1: What does a Joy-Con holder do? So the Joy-Con.
30:39
Speaker 2: The Joy-Con just slide in to the side so you
30:41
Speaker 2: can hold like a regular controller. Oh, cool. So instead
30:43
Speaker 2: of having them on the edges of the, on the
30:45
Speaker 2: edges of the screen, you can just put them on
30:47
Speaker 2: a controller if you're in docked mode or.
30:49
Speaker 1: See, I don't have a switch too. So this is,
30:51
Speaker 1: this is new for me.
30:52
Speaker 2: So USB power supply.
30:54
Speaker 1: Right.
30:55
Speaker 2: So it's actually just a little tiny brick now. It's
30:58
Speaker 2: not even. It is a 5-volt, 9-volt, 15-volt, 20-volt, so
31:04
Speaker 2: it's smart. It'll provide the voltage that's required by the device.
31:10
Speaker 1: Now, the switch to itself also has battery power. You
31:13
Speaker 1: can charge it.
31:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, correct. If you undock it, it's got battery power.
31:17
Speaker 1: Okay.
31:18
Speaker 2: USB-C for power.
31:19
Speaker 4: All right.
31:21
Speaker 2: And then here is dock. Here it is.
31:22
Speaker 1: So, I don't know if I said that right. All right.
31:29
Speaker 2: Oh, this looks so cool. So, oh, and it's very shiny.
31:35
Speaker 1: Oh, that is really shiny.
31:36
Speaker 4: That is.
31:37
Speaker 1: Wow.
31:38
Speaker 2: So, yeah. So it's got the triforce and a couple
31:41
Speaker 2: of the symbols on there. Right.
31:43
Speaker 1: Um, and that's prevalent in, in the title, in the
31:46
Speaker 1: game itself.
31:46
Speaker 4: Yeah.
31:46
Speaker 2: The triforce is the whole, the triforce is the, the
31:49
Speaker 2: life force of Hyrule basically.
31:51
Speaker 3: Cool.
31:51
Speaker 2: Um, it's got air holes on the bottom for breathing.
31:54
Speaker 1: Good ventilation.
31:55
Speaker 2: Good ventilation. Um, And then on the back, I saw this.
31:59
Speaker 2: This was spoiled already. There's a little Easter egg on
32:02
Speaker 2: the back with the original sprites from the original game.
32:05
Speaker 1: That's cool.
32:06
Speaker 2: Pulling it up and then hearts for your ace for power, right?
32:08
Speaker 2: It's power. It's got the hearts for the AC on there.
32:11
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
32:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this looks really awesome. So just the back
32:14
Speaker 2: pops off.
32:16
Speaker 1: I want to remind our listeners that are listening to
32:18
Speaker 1: this where you could see this and see what we're
32:20
Speaker 1: talking about on our video, which is available on our website, blog.techtalkradio.com.
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Speaker 1: Just scroll down and you can see it. on the
32:27
Speaker 1: main page as well, and of course, YouTube channel at
32:30
Speaker 1: Tech Talk Radio.
32:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this is just so shiny. It's crazy.
32:34
Speaker 1: That is really cool.
32:35
Speaker 2: I was not expecting it to be this shiny, but
32:37
Speaker 2: this looks really good.
32:40
Speaker 1: Now, that is a protective cover, right? Is that the deal?
32:43
Speaker 2: This cover just comes on the back, too, but it's
32:47
Speaker 2: got a hole in the bottom, so your power and your...
32:50
Speaker 2: So this is just where your HDMI plug and your
32:54
Speaker 2: power and your LAN port are. Because the Switch 2
32:57
Speaker 2: has a wired LAN port where the original Switch, the
33:01
Speaker 2: original Switch had a, you had to buy a dongle,
33:04
Speaker 2: USB dongle for Ethernet. Because it was only wireless. All right.
33:09
Speaker 2: So then here's the Joy-Cons.
33:10
Speaker 1: So if you want to, or you can use it wirelessly, right?
33:12
Speaker 2: You can.
33:13
Speaker 1: Yes.
33:13
Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:14
Speaker 1: Okay.
33:15
Speaker 4: Good.
33:15
Speaker 2: But, you know, you get better speeds and stuff. All right.
33:18
Speaker 1: So here are the Joy-Cons.
33:20
Speaker 2: So the Joy-Cons are green.
33:22
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.
33:23
Speaker 2: Got the Zelda icons on there. So this is the
33:27
Speaker 2: right Joy-Con.
33:28
Speaker 1: It's kind of a good coloring on that.
33:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the green is really cool. So then the Joy-Cons,
33:33
Speaker 2: and then here's the actual.
33:37
Speaker 1: Now there's another piece out of this.
33:38
Speaker 2: Well, this is the actual switch.
33:41
Speaker 1: Oh, that was just the docking station. This is the dock. Okay,
33:44
Speaker 1: all right, cool.
33:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's the actual switch.
33:48
Speaker 1: Oh, look at that.
33:49
Speaker 2: So it's got the, you know, so you can set
33:53
Speaker 2: it down.
33:53
Speaker 4: Wow.
33:54
Speaker 2: I'm out there, so it's got the OLED screen on
33:56
Speaker 2: the front.
33:56
Speaker 1: It's big.
33:57
Speaker 4: Nice.
33:58
Speaker 2: It's bigger than my iPad Mini, I think.
34:01
Speaker 1: That is good.
34:01
Speaker 2: The cool thing about the Switch 2, and this is
34:03
Speaker 2: not a new thing, right? When the Switch 2 came
34:05
Speaker 2: out two years ago or whatever, they're magnetic Joy-Cons, right?
34:09
Speaker 2: So you just, you click them in.
34:11
Speaker 3: Right.
34:12
Speaker 2: So they're not, but they're kind of a, they're not
34:15
Speaker 2: slide down like on the original Switch.
34:17
Speaker 1: Right, and snap, yeah. Okay.
34:20
Speaker 2: So then there you go. I'm playing, I'm off, like
34:22
Speaker 2: I can, So there they are mounted in there.
34:25
Speaker 4: Right.
34:26
Speaker 2: And I've got the full functionality of playing it. I mean,
34:29
Speaker 2: this screen is big.
34:31
Speaker 1: That is pretty neat. I like the coloring on it, too.
34:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, the coloring is great. So then, you know, when
34:36
Speaker 2: you want to play it on the dock, you just
34:37
Speaker 2: drop it in.
34:39
Speaker 1: Now, there is a Nintendo store you can go to.
34:41
Speaker 1: You could play some of the classic games. You could
34:43
Speaker 1: play Mario on that, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:46
Speaker 2: So you have to have a subscription to their online
34:48
Speaker 2: service to play original Nintendo, Super Nintendo 64. you know,
34:55
Speaker 2: Game Boy, Game Boy DS, whole bunch of stuff.
34:59
Speaker 1: Now, when you get Ocarina of Time Wednesday, you've already
35:03
Speaker 1: ordered it, right?
35:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
35:05
Speaker 2: I got to go pick it up from Best Buy
35:07
Speaker 2: at some point on Thursday. They are doing a midnight release.
35:11
Speaker 2: So this is the first time Best Buy has done
35:12
Speaker 2: a midnight release in a long time. Wow. So I
35:15
Speaker 2: could go get it at midnight Wednesday night, but I won't.
35:19
Speaker 2: All right. Because I've got kids and I'm tired.
35:22
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:23
Speaker 2: So I'll go pick it up at some point Thursday.
35:28
Speaker 1: But they won't sell yours out.
35:30
Speaker 2: I sure hope not.
35:33
Speaker 1: That would not be good.
35:33
Speaker 2: I'll probably get it Thursday. I'll probably, after I drop
35:35
Speaker 2: the boys off at daycare, go get it and come
35:38
Speaker 2: home and play for a couple hours before I go
35:40
Speaker 2: to work.
35:41
Speaker 1: Right. Now, are you going to power that up? And
35:44
Speaker 1: how long will it take to do a full charge?
35:45
Speaker 1: Once you unbox it.
35:47
Speaker 2: I'd have to see. I could plug it in and see.
35:49
Speaker 1: Do you have to plug it into the dock? No,
35:52
Speaker 1: you don't. It's handheld, right?
35:53
Speaker 2: I can just plug it in.
35:55
Speaker 1: Now, again, this is the Nintendo Switch.
35:57
Speaker 2: It's got a good battery on it. All right.
35:59
Speaker 1: It's available pretty much anywhere you can. Yeah, I mean,
36:04
Speaker 1: you got to go.
36:05
Speaker 2: You actually have to go to store. You're not going to.
36:08
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time trying to get it online.
36:12
Speaker 2: I got it from Nintendo. Oh, I also got one
36:15
Speaker 2: more thing.
36:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
36:17
Speaker 2: Hold on.
36:17
Speaker 1: Here we go. Oh, look at this.
36:19
Speaker 2: Forgot I bought this, too.
36:20
Speaker 1: Even more to show in this special segment of Tech
36:24
Speaker 1: Talk Radio. Again, don't forget, you can follow this, watch
36:27
Speaker 1: it at Tech Talk Radio on YouTube. Give us a like,
36:31
Speaker 1: subscribe while you're there. I also got the Pro Controller. Now,
36:35
Speaker 1: what is the difference between that?
36:37
Speaker 2: This is actually like a controller.
36:39
Speaker 1: A separate controller.
36:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, a separate controller, but it's got the design.
36:43
Speaker 1: Right.
36:43
Speaker 2: Let me pull this out of here so we can
36:45
Speaker 2: show this to you.
36:46
Speaker 1: And this is, you still have to this date not
36:49
Speaker 1: watched the trailer I sent you.
36:50
Speaker 2: No, so I watched the original release trailer, like the
36:53
Speaker 2: announcement trailer, and I haven't watched any. I've avoided as
36:56
Speaker 2: much as humanly possible.
36:58
Speaker 1: Right.
36:59
Speaker 2: So USB-A to USB-C.
37:01
Speaker 1: Good.
37:02
Speaker 2: So you can charge it on the back of the Switch.
37:04
Speaker 2: And then just the controller itself, which is themed.
37:09
Speaker 1: Wow.
37:09
Speaker 2: Oh, I almost knocked over my soda. So it's the same,
37:11
Speaker 2: same thing, same.
37:13
Speaker 1: Nice. I like the look. So. That is cool. Ocarina
37:18
Speaker 1: of Time, Legend of Zelda. It's the special edition available now.
37:23
Speaker 1: Now you've got it. Now you just have to wait
37:25
Speaker 1: for Thursday. Do me a favor. Take pictures when you're
37:29
Speaker 1: there just to see if people are still getting.
37:33
Speaker 2: I'm on the fence about... A buddy of mine wants
37:35
Speaker 2: to go to the midnight release to pick his up.
37:37
Speaker 2: I would. I might. I think the last midnight release
37:41
Speaker 2: I went to was in 2008.
37:42
Speaker 4: Oh, man.
37:42
Speaker 3: So.
37:45
Speaker 2: I'm excited about this. It's powered up. It's ready to go.
37:49
Speaker 2: So I got to sign in and link it to
37:52
Speaker 2: my Nintendo account and all that stuff. But yeah, it
37:54
Speaker 2: took me a minute. I was hard pressed not to
37:57
Speaker 2: do it without you because we talked about doing it
38:00
Speaker 2: on the show.
38:01
Speaker 4: Right.
38:02
Speaker 2: So great. Perfect.
38:03
Speaker 1: So coming up, Tyler Butler, who is the anchor for
38:07
Speaker 1: KMSB Fox 11 and KLD TV News 13. They are
38:10
Speaker 1: doing podcasts, video casts. And everybody pretty much on the
38:14
Speaker 1: staff is doing them. I like Tyler's because it talks
38:17
Speaker 1: about some of the fun stuff, vehicles. It talks about trains.
38:20
Speaker 1: It talks about ocean liners. We're going to talk about
38:23
Speaker 1: him actually going to where the USS United States is
38:28
Speaker 1: going to be sunk at and more reporting from that
38:30
Speaker 1: all coming up on Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
38:33
Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeerd. Find us on the web at techtalkradio.com.
38:36
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
38:38
Speaker 1: And now, back to Tech Talk Radio.
38:40
Speaker 4: All right, people, break out your notebooks and pencils and
38:43
Speaker 4: slide rules. You're listening to Tech Talk Radio with true geeks.
38:47
Speaker 4: And by the way, I'm Dee Snider, and I'm a geek, too.
38:52
Speaker 1: So, no doubt, this week's show has been kind of personal.
38:56
Speaker 1: I've Justin talking about him buying the RV, and then
39:00
Speaker 1: Sean unboxing his new Nintendo Switch 2, the Ocarina of
39:03
Speaker 1: Time Legends of Zelda Special Edition. And for me, to
39:07
Speaker 1: be able to talk with my friend Tyler Butler, who
39:10
Speaker 1: is with us, who produces a video podcast for KLD
39:15
Speaker 1: TV News 13. Of course, he's the morning anchor for
39:18
Speaker 1: that and KMSB Fox 11, which we do our segments on.
39:22
Speaker 1: And it was funny because one day I had seen
39:24
Speaker 1: a post from Tyler and it featured one of the
39:27
Speaker 1: things I've been passionate about over the years, the SS
39:30
Speaker 1: United States in the background. I'm like, hey, wait, I've
39:33
Speaker 1: been on that. And it was really cool to be
39:36
Speaker 1: able to interact with Tyler and find out he's been
39:39
Speaker 1: to the ship, of course, took photos. And there's a
39:42
Speaker 1: lot been going on in the last few years for
39:45
Speaker 1: a ship that entered service back in 1952, went out
39:48
Speaker 1: of service in 1969. So you're thinking about 16, 17 years.
39:52
Speaker 1: A lot of us have cars that have lasted longer
39:55
Speaker 1: than that. A lot of these ships back in the day,
39:57
Speaker 1: they were built for 30, 40-year lifespans, not 15, 16.
40:01
Speaker 1: Your podcast, videocast, is called Wheels, Wings, and Rails. And
40:05
Speaker 1: it focuses, what, on pretty much everything transportation?
40:09
Speaker 5: Planes, trains, and automobiles, man. So we did, of course,
40:14
Speaker 5: the United States is a passion project of mine. I've
40:16
Speaker 5: been on board twice now. I'm envious of you because
40:19
Speaker 5: you got to go on board when it was, you know, functioning. Yeah,
40:23
Speaker 5: I've only been on board while it's been stripped post-asbestos
40:26
Speaker 5: removal and there's nothing in it. Did an episode on that,
40:29
Speaker 5: the SR-71, because there's some talk about Are they potentially
40:32
Speaker 5: reactivating one? The steam engine we've got in downtown Tucson.
40:36
Speaker 5: So if it's got a motor, we want to do
40:39
Speaker 5: the podcast about it.
40:40
Speaker 1: That is perfect. You know, over the years when, you know,
40:44
Speaker 1: it obviously was docked and there were so many different
40:47
Speaker 1: things going on, we had the opportunity. We've had two
40:50
Speaker 1: people involved with the SS United States on the show.
40:54
Speaker 1: Ed Cantor, who was an owner at one time, who
40:57
Speaker 1: got it back in the late 90s. It's like been sold. auctioned.
41:02
Speaker 1: People couldn't pay the fees for it to be at
41:05
Speaker 1: the dock. The S.S. United States Conservancy has had it
41:09
Speaker 1: for a while. It had to be tough, especially for you,
41:12
Speaker 1: as passionate as I am about it, too, when you
41:15
Speaker 1: got the news that, yeah, they're going to finally put
41:18
Speaker 1: it to rest. Yeah.
41:20
Speaker 5: And, you know, I remember being at a book fair
41:24
Speaker 5: as I think seven or eight years old and You know,
41:28
Speaker 5: the highlight of that was the Wienermobile was there, so
41:30
Speaker 5: I got to see that. But my mom also, she
41:32
Speaker 5: got a book. And it was kind of, it was
41:35
Speaker 5: aimed a little younger than me, but it was a
41:37
Speaker 5: book from the fifties. And it was about the SS
41:39
Speaker 5: United States. Cause I was, you know, I'm one of
41:42
Speaker 5: these nineties kids that grew up with Titanic and that
41:44
Speaker 5: being the zeitgeist. And then that started spilling into other ships.
41:48
Speaker 5: And so I'd never heard about the United States until
41:50
Speaker 5: this book. And so then I kind of forgot about it.
41:53
Speaker 5: And then I find out as I start my journalism career,
41:56
Speaker 5: that it not only still exists, but it's like two
41:59
Speaker 5: hours up the road in Philadelphia. And, uh, So at
42:03
Speaker 5: that point was about the time the Conservancy, I believe
42:06
Speaker 5: they'd just taken control of it. And they were trying
42:09
Speaker 5: to find any number of options of places to move it,
42:13
Speaker 5: dock it, turn it into a museum. There was a
42:15
Speaker 5: period of time where Crystal Cruises had a contract and
42:19
Speaker 5: they did surveys of the ship and studied the hull
42:21
Speaker 5: and found that I think it was like 95% of
42:24
Speaker 5: its hull integrity was still intact after decades of neglect.
42:29
Speaker 5: But it was just too costly for them to refurbish it.
42:32
Speaker 5: Because again, as I mentioned earlier, they gutted this thing
42:36
Speaker 5: because of all the 1950s miracle material asbestos. And they
42:40
Speaker 5: just did it everywhere because the designer, Francis Gibbs, was
42:43
Speaker 5: so paranoid about fire for good reason. They had a
42:46
Speaker 5: number of bad fires in World War II that cost
42:49
Speaker 5: the Normandy beautiful ship destroyed by fire. You put water
42:53
Speaker 5: on a fire on a ship, gets top heavy, it capsizes.
42:56
Speaker 1: The pictures are horrifying of that one on its side. Oh, yeah.
43:00
Speaker 2: It's horrible.
43:00
Speaker 5: And that was one of the great losses of the
43:03
Speaker 5: war just in terms of ships. And that didn't have
43:05
Speaker 5: to happen. They had to remove all the asbestos. There's
43:08
Speaker 5: nothing inside of it anymore. And it was just too
43:11
Speaker 5: costly for Crystal to, you know, put all the modern
43:14
Speaker 5: plumbing you'd have to and then the interior and stuff.
43:16
Speaker 5: And then, yeah, it got to a point where I
43:18
Speaker 5: think the dock up in Philadelphia like doubled their rent
43:21
Speaker 5: or something like that.
43:22
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
43:23
Speaker 5: Because they were tired. They had that thing there since
43:25
Speaker 5: the 90s. They wanted to get rid of it. Okaloosa
43:27
Speaker 5: County comes in, says, we'll buy it. We'll turn it
43:29
Speaker 5: into the world's largest artificial reef. There is a lot
43:33
Speaker 5: of discourse online, as I'm sure you have seen, of
43:36
Speaker 5: people that this is the worst thing that has ever happened.
43:39
Speaker 2: And it's unbelievable.
43:41
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, realistically, I think it just got to a point
43:44
Speaker 5: where you had two options. And one is you send
43:47
Speaker 5: it off to India. It gets cut up into pieces
43:50
Speaker 5: and razor blades, and there's nothing left. Or you turn
43:53
Speaker 5: it into something that, yes, it's not accessible to the
43:56
Speaker 5: general public. But if you have a scuba certification, and
44:00
Speaker 5: there are companies that are already selling trips out there,
44:03
Speaker 5: you can go out and you can see the ship.
44:05
Speaker 5: And it provides an ecosystem out there in the Gulf.
44:09
Speaker 1: During this process, though, Tyler, it's been kind of interesting.
44:12
Speaker 1: We've seen them preserve some of the elements, like the stacks.
44:17
Speaker 1: Those stacks were very unique looking compared to, say, the
44:20
Speaker 1: Queen Mary ships. or the other Cunard ships, you look
44:23
Speaker 1: at the stacks, they were streamlined, they had something about them,
44:26
Speaker 1: they've been able to save those. And some other things
44:29
Speaker 1: that they have saved over the years that I guess
44:31
Speaker 1: are going to be put into some kind of a
44:33
Speaker 1: museum that the Conservancy is putting together.
44:36
Speaker 4: Yeah.
44:36
Speaker 5: And that's the plan when I go to Mobile. I'm
44:40
Speaker 5: going to be in Mobile this weekend. And the plan
44:42
Speaker 5: is on Monday, the weather cooperates. I'll be out there
44:45
Speaker 5: on the Perdido Queen as they tow the United States out.
44:49
Speaker 5: It's going to take them a couple of days to
44:50
Speaker 5: get it set. But while I'm in Mobile, I'm going
44:52
Speaker 5: to drive down to do the peek through the fence
44:56
Speaker 5: thing to see the funnels because they preserve the funnels,
44:59
Speaker 5: the mast. I think the last thing they took off
45:01
Speaker 5: was like the last remaining anchor that's truly from the ship.
45:05
Speaker 5: It wasn't just thrown on there to give it an anchor.
45:08
Speaker 5: Propeller too, right? Propeller, yeah, they had one on the
45:12
Speaker 5: stern that if you look at pictures, the rear deck was,
45:17
Speaker 5: the railing was all bent and twisted because when they
45:19
Speaker 5: did the work, which I believe was in Odessa in Ukraine,
45:23
Speaker 5: they just dragged the propeller across the stern of the
45:26
Speaker 5: ship to get it in position. So they did that
45:29
Speaker 5: and then it looks like they've added on the front
45:32
Speaker 5: of the bridge, there's I think three plaques there now
45:34
Speaker 5: for like paddy, and a couple other scuba organizations, Ocaloosa County.
45:40
Speaker 5: And I believe that's where the builder's plaque was. So
45:43
Speaker 5: I think they took the builder's plaque off.
45:45
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
45:46
Speaker 5: Maybe I'll find out if I happen to get on
45:48
Speaker 5: there on Sunday, but I think they preserved that.
45:51
Speaker 1: This is amazing, Tyler. You're actually going to be there
45:55
Speaker 1: when they start this process to put it underwater. I mean,
46:00
Speaker 1: Have they released any information of how they're going to
46:04
Speaker 1: do that?
46:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
46:04
Speaker 5: So the plan is and I'd love to. The plan
46:08
Speaker 5: is Thursday of next week and I'd love to be there.
46:11
Speaker 5: But we've got a live show that I that my
46:13
Speaker 5: my wife's in charge of the station. And so I'm like,
46:16
Speaker 5: I have to be there for Friday. So I'm missing that.
46:20
Speaker 5: I can't be like, sure, I'll be there Friday. Let
46:23
Speaker 5: me just go do this thing that may or may
46:25
Speaker 5: not take eight hours. So they're going to tow it
46:28
Speaker 5: out on Monday. They're going to get it out to
46:30
Speaker 5: this site, which is about 20 to 30 miles offshore.
46:33
Speaker 5: And they're going to spend a couple of days there,
46:35
Speaker 5: I think, getting it positioned just right and doing some
46:38
Speaker 5: final checks. The big worry, of course, is that you
46:42
Speaker 5: need this thing to sink in. level you can't do
46:45
Speaker 5: a big titanic stern rise up and because then it'll
46:48
Speaker 5: it'll hit the bottom it'll roll and you want it
46:51
Speaker 5: to be sitting there nice and level and upright so
46:53
Speaker 5: people when they're diving on it you know know what
46:56
Speaker 5: they're looking at and so uh take them a couple
46:59
Speaker 5: days and then yes thursday they plan to i guess
47:02
Speaker 5: punch the final hole or whatever it is they're going
47:04
Speaker 5: to do and then the plan is to slowly have
47:06
Speaker 5: it just kind of settle in the water so it's
47:08
Speaker 5: not going to be dramatic. There was some movie back
47:11
Speaker 5: in the day, I think it was with the Ile
47:13
Speaker 5: de France, that they sunk, they partially sunk the ship.
47:18
Speaker 1: It was called The Last Voyage with Robert Stack. It's
47:23
Speaker 1: one of those I love to watch. And then, you know,
47:25
Speaker 1: as a kid, it was just amazing because I knew
47:27
Speaker 1: I'd been on an ocean liner. I'd been on a boat.
47:30
Speaker 1: And then you find out it was a real ship
47:32
Speaker 1: that they went ahead and just got rid of, the
47:34
Speaker 1: Ile de France.
47:35
Speaker 4: Yeah.
47:35
Speaker 5: And so they're trying not to do that. And They
47:38
Speaker 5: haven't removed the funnel, so they can't do this weird
47:40
Speaker 5: gimmicky half the funnel snaps forward thing.
47:42
Speaker 2: That they did in that movie.
47:44
Speaker 5: But so they say they're going to live stream it.
47:48
Speaker 5: Thanks to Starlink these days. I mean, you know, say
47:52
Speaker 5: what you will about the company and the man and
47:54
Speaker 5: all that. The fact that the technology exists, that you
47:56
Speaker 5: can have live, that you can be live on the
48:00
Speaker 5: Internet streaming out in the middle of the ocean. Five,
48:02
Speaker 5: 10 years ago, that was.
48:03
Speaker 3: Wow. Unreal.
48:05
Speaker 5: So, yeah, they plan to have it so you can
48:07
Speaker 5: live stream and watch it sync, which, yes, that's what
48:10
Speaker 5: I'm going to be doing.
48:11
Speaker 1: It's going to be it's going to be pretty amazing.
48:14
Speaker 1: And I like the fact that, too, with your passions,
48:17
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you because you you created
48:21
Speaker 1: this for me. This is when we talked about the S.S.
48:24
Speaker 1: United States. You did this with a 3D printer and
48:27
Speaker 1: this is really great work. It came out fantastic. But
48:31
Speaker 1: what is a process like this? Was it was it difficult?
48:35
Speaker 2: Not too bad.
48:35
Speaker 5: So what's great about 3D printing is like, you know,
48:38
Speaker 5: I've got this Majora's Mask thing. You were talking about Zelda.
48:41
Speaker 4: Yeah.
48:41
Speaker 5: The Majora's Mask thing here. That's all 3D printed. And
48:45
Speaker 5: the 3D printing community is phenomenal for just free stuff.
48:50
Speaker 1: Yeah. Templates.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 5: The template for the SS United States was just there.
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Speaker 5: And so I had to just load in the colors
48:56
Speaker 5: and print away. And I tried to scale it. I've
48:59
Speaker 5: got four or five of these ships now at my desk.
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Speaker 5: So I'm trying to keep them all in like a
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Speaker 5: one to, I think it's one to 2000 scale is
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Speaker 5: what I've got.
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Speaker 1: That is great. And then, of course, you have a
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Speaker 1: passion for autos. You know, Justin will talk about his
49:13
Speaker 1: Tesla that he loves. Now he's got an RV to
49:16
Speaker 1: go with it. Sean just bought himself a truck. But
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Speaker 1: come on, you got a DeLorean. i just i absolutely
49:22
Speaker 1: love that i watched the show the other day i
49:24
Speaker 1: saw a delorean in it and i said i gotta
49:26
Speaker 1: tell tyler about that.
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Speaker 5: It's i've had that car for 20 years as of
49:31
Speaker 5: last week uh and i did not win coolest car
49:34
Speaker 5: in high school i lost to some kid whose parents
49:36
Speaker 5: bought him a bmw z4 uh.
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Speaker 2: Not cooler.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's cooler. No, no.
49:42
Speaker 5: But no, it's it's been that car gets such a
49:45
Speaker 5: bad rap from people that are like, oh, it's terrible.
49:47
Speaker 2: And it is slow. I will say that.
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Speaker 5: But it's like, oh, yeah, it's it looks fast.
49:53
Speaker 1: It's slow.
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Speaker 5: But once you kind of sort through every car's got
49:57
Speaker 5: its reliability issues, once you sort the reliability issues on
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Speaker 5: that car, it's just like any other old car, except
50:03
Speaker 5: it gets a lot more attention.
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Speaker 1: Well, DeLorean helped develop my first car, which was a Vega.
50:10
Speaker 1: There's something there. Another coincidence, too, is the fact that
50:14
Speaker 1: I ran a store in the Pointy Hills Mall. And that,
50:18
Speaker 1: of course, when it was a bumping, busy mall, that
50:21
Speaker 1: was the mall where they filmed Back to the Future,
50:24
Speaker 1: which is kind of neat. And there's usually a track.
50:26
Speaker 1: The mall's gone now or closed. But there's a track
50:29
Speaker 1: that goes out there. They're turning it into a data center.
50:31
Speaker 2: Oh, no.
50:32
Speaker 1: Is it really?
50:33
Speaker 5: Turning it into a data center. And they just had,
50:38
Speaker 5: I guess, the 41st anniversary of the Back to the
50:41
Speaker 5: Future date.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
50:42
Speaker 5: And they typically do it at the mall. I was
50:43
Speaker 5: out there last year for the 40th and rode my car,
50:45
Speaker 5: and it was fantastic. But this year, the mall threw
50:50
Speaker 5: up fences, blocked them out. So last year was the
50:53
Speaker 5: last year they're doing it, and now it's going through
50:55
Speaker 5: that whole.
50:56
Speaker 1: Demolition or whatever. People could definitely keep in touch and
51:00
Speaker 1: keep an eye on some of this stuff happening. Are
51:03
Speaker 1: you going to be live streaming at all or doing
51:06
Speaker 1: this stuff on Facebook or social media?
51:08
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So I'll be doing the hope is, again, we'll talk
51:13
Speaker 5: with the company behind the sinking of the ship. I'll
51:16
Speaker 5: be doing that interview on Sunday. So I'll have that
51:18
Speaker 5: as a podcast should be by next Friday. And then
51:22
Speaker 5: Monday morning, I'll be live on air with 13 News
51:26
Speaker 5: and KMSB on Fox 11 to do that there as well.
51:29
Speaker 5: And then I probably will do some Facebook live streaming
51:32
Speaker 5: at some point because it's like this is the last
51:34
Speaker 5: chance to see one of the last great ocean liners,
51:38
Speaker 5: not under our own power, but moving and alive in
51:43
Speaker 5: a sense.
51:44
Speaker 1: Well, we want our listeners to check it out. Wheels,
51:46
Speaker 1: Wings and Rails, Tyler Butler. Great to talk to you,
51:49
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to seeing the coverage from this.
51:51
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show.
51:53
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
51:53
Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
51:54
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back with more of Tech Talk Radio.
51:57
Speaker 1: Standing by. And now, back to Tech Talk Radio.
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Speaker 3: All right, we have a listener question from Catherine in Tucson.
52:06
Speaker 3: She says, I have a son who's a gamer and
52:08
Speaker 3: is super.
52:08
Speaker 1: Excited about GTA 6. Oh, yeah. Everybody is.
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Speaker 3: She said that he knows it's going to be a
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Speaker 3: large download. Is there a ready-made solution for storage? For
52:18
Speaker 3: PlayStation and Xbox, there is. You can buy basically a
52:23
Speaker 3: solid state drive that plugs in. There is an expansion
52:27
Speaker 3: port on the back. Now, it depends on which Xbox
52:29
Speaker 3: we're talking about. If we're talking about the latest generation,
52:32
Speaker 3: the Xbox Series X or Series S, yes, there is
52:36
Speaker 3: a port on the back that you can plug in
52:39
Speaker 3: an officially licensed Microsoft extra storage. I think they come
52:43
Speaker 3: in one terabyte, two terabytes even. And I believe there's
52:47
Speaker 3: also the same for the PlayStation. It is an external
52:50
Speaker 3: drive that plugs directly into the back of that.
52:53
Speaker 1: Now, real quick, I think the most recent PlayStations, they
52:58
Speaker 1: have an M2 slot that you could also... This is
53:01
Speaker 1: basically an M2 slot. Yeah, yeah.
53:02
Speaker 3: So that's right. The PlayStation has an M2. Xbox is a...
53:07
Speaker 3: It's a proprietary connector on the back, but it's kind
53:11
Speaker 3: of the same idea. The one thing about GTA 6, though,
53:13
Speaker 3: is if... he's thinking that he is going to play
53:18
Speaker 3: that game on the launch day. You may want to
53:22
Speaker 3: tell him it's not going to happen because when it
53:25
Speaker 3: gets launched, historically, this happens.
53:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.
53:28
Speaker 3: Well, first off, historically, it's going to happen, but you're
53:30
Speaker 3: going to have millions, tens of millions of people trying
53:35
Speaker 3: to download this game at the same time. And again,
53:38
Speaker 3: like you said, Catherine, it is a large download. It
53:42
Speaker 3: is going to take if not the entire day, to download.
53:49
Speaker 2: This is why all the data centers have been built,
53:50
Speaker 2: so people can download the game.
53:52
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Rockstar, yeah, absolutely. I've heard 230 gigabytes. Yeah,
53:58
Speaker 1: and it is going to take forever to download. And
54:01
Speaker 1: with all those people trying to download it, you're not
54:03
Speaker 1: going to get the fastest speeds. So if your son
54:06
Speaker 1: is expecting to play it on launch day, it's probably
54:09
Speaker 1: not going to happen. All right, quick question. Why doesn't
54:11
Speaker 1: a manufacturer come up with Here is a drive and
54:15
Speaker 1: it's got the game loaded, ready to go. Is it
54:18
Speaker 1: just because you've got a software company and a hardware
54:20
Speaker 1: company that are separate? Like Rockstar couldn't get into something
54:25
Speaker 1: like this? That'd be kind of an idea, wouldn't it?
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Speaker 4: A one-off?
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Speaker 3: You're basically talking about releasing a disc like we used
54:33
Speaker 3: to do. where you could just take the disc, put
54:36
Speaker 3: it in your system, and play it. No, everything has
54:38
Speaker 3: gone digital now, where you have to download it, and
54:40
Speaker 3: you can't download it until it's officially released. Now, there
54:44
Speaker 3: is a caveat to this, and I don't recommend it,
54:47
Speaker 3: but on the PlayStation, I'm sorry, on the Xbox, if
54:51
Speaker 3: you set your console's time zone to New Zealand, you
54:56
Speaker 3: can play the game 18 hours earlier than everybody else.
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Speaker 3: On PlayStation, you have to create a whole new account
55:03
Speaker 3: and set your time zone to be New Zealand, then yes,
55:07
Speaker 3: you will be able to access the game download 18
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Speaker 3: hours before anybody else does.
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Speaker 1: We're not guaranteeing this, but something to check out. All right,
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Speaker 1: that is it for this week's Tech Talk Radio. So
55:19
Speaker 1: much great stuff. I'm Andy Taylor.
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Speaker 2: I'm Sean DeWeer.
55:22
Speaker 1: And I'm Justin Lemme. Send us a tweet at Tech
55:25
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