WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.200 The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:06.480 This is Alice Cooper, the original Techno Todd, and you're 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:11.679 listening to tech Talk Radio. Welcome to another episode of 4 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:12.599 tech Talk Radio. 5 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.120 I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Weird, and I'm Justin Lemey. 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.679 Welcome. Well, it's good to have jo justin back. Oh 7 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:21.920 my gosh, god, I almost forgot how to do this. Yeah, 8 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:22.719 you can't forget. 9 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:24.559 How to do I forgot the Colorado existed. 10 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:29.079 Yeah, yeah, right, what really bothers me? As we were 11 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:33.039 talking pre show here and Justine says it's warm in Colorado, Like, 12 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:35.240 how how could it be warm in Colorado? 13 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:39.719 It's been like sixty degrees almost every single day since 14 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:42.640 the beginning of December. We had one minor storm come 15 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:47.960 through where the Denver metro area got maybe half an 16 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.759 inch in snow. Yeah, but the mountains got maybe like 17 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.280 six or seven inches. But it doesn't really affect us 18 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.000 down here. I've I've had to actually go out and 19 00:00:56.119 --> 00:01:00.000 hook up my water spigot and water my plants and 20 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.159 trees three times since October. Late October when we first 21 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:06.840 turned off the sprinklers. I don't water the grass. The 22 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.840 grass you wanted just to stay dormant, but the trees 23 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.640 and the plants and stuff, I water them. It's gotten 24 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:18.400 so warm that we're actually having tulip buds out, and 25 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.280 I'm like, no, no, no, no, in the. 26 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:23.920 Winter to sleep, go back to sleep, please. How about you, Sean, 27 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.079 I mean, I know that you're in Indiana, so you 28 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.799 get like really weird weather there, don't you. 29 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.599 Yeah, we've we've already received like sixty inches of snow 30 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:34.000 this year. 31 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.040 What wow? Sixty we had? 32 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:39.120 We had We had at least eighteen inches of snow 33 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:42.680 week the week before Thanksgiving. We got dumped on and 34 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:44.920 then it stayed and continued to snow, and then a 35 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.959 couple of weeks later we got another fourteen inches. 36 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:49.879 Yeah yeah, I mean, and it was. 37 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:52.640 The heavy, thick, wet snow, so it's like it was 38 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.079 icy and then it's just been icy and cold and 39 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:58.760 freezing rain. And then four days ago was sixty degrees 40 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.840 and then four hours later it was thirty eight degrees. 41 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:06.640 We got during the day, but then we'll get down 42 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:08.599 to like thirty or twenty five at night. 43 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.719 Right, Andy, here's a weather term. Have you ever heard 44 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:13.240 of freezing fog? 45 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:14.240 Oh? 46 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.599 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it gets the ground temperature is still 47 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.840 warm enough that it creates a bunch of fog, and 48 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:25.439 then the air temperature drops and it freezes, and then 49 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:26.400 it freezes on the roads. 50 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:29.879 Wow, you could have been in Las Vegas last week 51 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:32.280 where it was. You know, well, if you would have 52 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:36.800 sent us there, Andy, next year, next year, next year, 53 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.360 we got to go. I mean when I was, I 54 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:41.639 was kind of wondering because you know, the CS is 55 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.360 wrapped up. It wrapped up last week. Everybody heads home. 56 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.919 They get to disseminate all of that info for the 57 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.159 different ideas, different products. I was surprised because Justin and 58 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.719 I talked about this last week. We were talking about 59 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:57.199 everything's AI. You know, everything is going to be integrated, 60 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.520 that is true AI into technology. But we saw some 61 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.240 things that were a little different. One of the things 62 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.840 that kind of made and we've talked televisions before, but 63 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:11.520 in OLED was the thing. Now it's this micro RGB 64 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:15.800 technology that everybody's talking about and I don't understand it. 65 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:19.960 They just say it's brighter, more clarity with text when 66 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:21.879 you're looking at a text on the screen. What did 67 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:26.240 you what did you call it? Micro RGB more clarity? 68 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:28.680 I don't know, have you guys had a chance to 69 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:29.560 look into this at all. 70 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.879 I've not heard that, you know, not seeing the micro 71 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:32.800 RGB thing yet. 72 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:38.639 Yeah, apparently Samsung announced a Giants one hundred and thirty 73 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:45.240 inch television using that technology, and there's no idea on 74 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:47.360 the pricing. But when they pull one out at one 75 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.599 hundred and fifteen inches last year, the price tag was 76 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.719 thirty thousand dollars. Yeah. 77 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:56.840 See, even if you look up micro RGB on the 78 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.840 internet right now, you're gonna see pictures. The pictures don't 79 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.759 do it justice. No, you're not going to be able 80 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.919 to understand the true scale of this unless you see 81 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:07.479 it in person. 82 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.919 That's why I think, you know, Best Buy was smart 83 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.960 to do their Magnolia Home theater so they could put 84 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.240 the technology because you can't I'm sorry, you cannot buy 85 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:22.920 a television online. People say, yeah, you can't, but honestly, 86 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.519 I think you have to go somewhere and see it. 87 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.439 And even then it's difficult because it's not going to 88 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:30.879 be in the same environment that maybe you have at 89 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.199 your home. You look at Sean, you look at having 90 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.759 a TV in there would be different if it was 91 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.120 injustice or if it was in mind you you have 92 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.519 different color settings, a different pattern, where the room is, 93 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.199 where it's going to fall. That that's why they do they. 94 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:51.959 You know, there's there's a small subset of specialists that 95 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.639 will actually come out to your house and they will 96 00:04:54.879 --> 00:05:00.360 fine tune your television to your viewing environment. 97 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:01.000 Right if you will. 98 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.720 You basically meet with them. They'll say, okay, how do 99 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:07.720 you normally like the lights? You know, let's set the 100 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:09.879 lights at the right level, and then they use all 101 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.120 these like really fine tune tools. I guess you can 102 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.399 say to just fine tune the TV to make sure 103 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:20.160 that it has the perfect picture for that particular environment. 104 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:22.600 But you're also paying a lot of money for that. 105 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:27.199 Yeah. I remember when the first one hundred inch television 106 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:31.199 came out. Me and Jim Barry mayhe rest in peace. 107 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.959 We were at CEES that year when they introduced that 108 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:36.680 one hundred inch television, and that was one of the 109 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:41.199 things you would have to pay. Somebody from I think 110 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.360 it might have been Sam Sung. They would come out 111 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:45.839 and they would install it. They would go ahead, you know, 112 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:47.720 and they would set it for the room, the whole bit, 113 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.560 because they wanted you to be like a showroom for them. 114 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.600 Because people going to come over to your place and 115 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.160 see this TV that you've dropped a lot of money on, 116 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.160 and hopefully they'll end up wanting to buy one. The 117 00:05:58.240 --> 00:05:59.360 same thing goes for audio. 118 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.959 I mean, you get a nice surround sound system, you 119 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:05.319 can actually pay somebody to come out and just place 120 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:06.560 those speakers perfectly. 121 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.240 And then even if you can't place the speak it 122 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:11.120 perfectly perfectly, they will. 123 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.480 Fine tune those speakers to where you can place them right. 124 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.720 But it also costs a lot of money. 125 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.360 Isn't there like when it comes to audio in like 126 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.040 television rooms and stuff. Isn't there audio now where it 127 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.000 can replicate the sound of a surround like a five, 128 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:31.000 you know, six speaker type of system or is that 129 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.519 just really that's really not going to do it a 130 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:34.920 little bit? I guess. 131 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.920 I mean yes, yes, the answer is yes, but it's 132 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:43.199 not going to be true. Like you, you're never going 133 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.279 to be able to replicate true surround sound with like 134 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:51.160 a soundbar. You can get close, right, but you're not 135 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:53.000 going to replicate it truthfully. 136 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.800 Yeah, you may hear left and right, but the stuff 137 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:56.319 that's going. 138 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:00.079 On behind you even that you know, no, even that 139 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.800 you can replicate stuff behind you or on the sides, right, 140 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:08.560 But again it's it's not gonna be truthful to the 141 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:10.240 truth around sound. 142 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.279 If you can now sean, you have a home theater 143 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.720 where you're at, You've got a big screen that's to 144 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.000 your left that we kind of see a little taiale 145 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:19.879 of that in the background. What kind of sound did 146 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.560 you put in there? So when you watch in a 147 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.279 movie in this TV room, you've got you know, full sound. 148 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.319 So I have an Ankio receiver right have all my 149 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.160 device is going in and it's a five to one, 150 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:34.199 and so I've got the sub on the floor of 151 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.560 the center is just at the bottom of the screen. 152 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:41.079 I've got two satellites that are to the left and 153 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:42.759 the right of the screen. And I didn't I didn't 154 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.240 put any rare in, right, I just have it as 155 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.519 a four point one or a three point one right now? 156 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.199 Why why why did you not put rear speakers in? 157 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:52.680 Yeah, i'd have to run. 158 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:54.279 I just never got around to running. 159 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.519 Why not just use like rocket fish or something to 160 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:57.600 do wireless? 161 00:07:57.879 --> 00:07:58.439 Oh there you go. 162 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:00.920 Hm, never got around to it. 163 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:04.319 Yeah, rocketfish that gives you the ability to expand that 164 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:09.040 almost like what it's like a Bluetooth connection. Eh. Yeah, 165 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:10.279 I guess in a way he. 166 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:11.959 Uses Wi Fi, so it's a little bit a little 167 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.920 bit less latency because obviously, when you're talking about audio, 168 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:17.240 you don't want any latency at all. 169 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.800 So Rocketfish uses Wi Fi. I believe I could be 170 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:25.639 wrong for that, but but yeah, Rocketfish is a good 171 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:26.600 I used to use. 172 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.079 Rocketfish back in San Diego, Sean, when we had the 173 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:34.759 houses back in San Diego, I used Rocketfish for both 174 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.000 of those setups because in the apartment and in the 175 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.600 town home, I didn't want to run wires. I couldn't 176 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.080 run wires right right. 177 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:43.799 And I could. 178 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.240 I mean, I literally the wires are run. I just 179 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:47.200 never put the speakers in. 180 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.679 Oh no, okay, okay. So what you're saying is you're 181 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.960 just lazy, yes, or you gotta buy a ladder. That's 182 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:53.639 always my excuse. 183 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:55.320 You got a drop ceiling, don't you. 184 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:56.240 Yeah, I didn't want to. 185 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:02.159 Oh my god, you have no excuse, Sean, no excuse 186 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.200 that justin you've been out for almost five six weeks. 187 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.240 It's been a while. In the meantime, you did end 188 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.240 up buying yourself a brand new mixer for the audio 189 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.559 version of this, And I know there are people listening 190 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:17.320 that are saying, yeah, I want to start a podcast, 191 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:19.080 I want to do a video cast, I want to 192 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.000 do something you guys do. It may have looked into 193 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.279 Riverside FM or you know, they might still be there's 194 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.000 a lot of people out there that are still using 195 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:29.279 Zoom for doing you know, remote type of things. Okay, 196 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:33.080 but you decided to you needed to invest in a 197 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.000 mixer just to bring the sound up a bit. 198 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.399 Yeah, I mean the mixer was. The mixer that I 199 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.440 had was a Barringer mixer. It was starting to kind 200 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.720 of fail. Yeah, every time we would do pre show 201 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:45.799 and he's like, hey, turn up your mic, and I'm like. 202 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.279 I can't go any higher. 203 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.759 Captain Like, I'm just like, yeah, the mixer was dying. 204 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:57.120 So yeah, I went ahead and I bought this. Well, 205 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.000 actually I didn't buy it. I got it for Christmas. 206 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:06.720 It's a what is it called pup pup g SISU pgsis. 207 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.919 It's a tiny little mixer. It's got two MIC inputs, 208 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:14.480 it's got a music input. It's USB controlled, so everything 209 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.120 is going through USB right now, even your microphone. I 210 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.519 plugged this mixer in and I have a sure microphone 211 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.840 like an actual true radio DJ microphone. Yeah, and I 212 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:29.279 plugged it in right, and I'm like, I'm not hearing anything, 213 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.399 Like why am I not hearing anything? And then it 214 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:34.519 come to find out that the shore requires forty eight 215 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:39.440 volt phantom like it does it requires per your set hour? Yeah, yeah, exactly, 216 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.519 And the Barringer mixer provided that, but this one doesn't. 217 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:47.639 So I had to buy another like forty dollars pre amp. 218 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:48.799 I guess, yeah, preamp. 219 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:50.600 There is the word, yeah, primp. 220 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:53.120 And so I bought this pre amp and I just 221 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.399 literally hooked it up tonight because I haven't been around 222 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.360 tech talk so for a while, so I had needed 223 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.759 to but and he's like, hey, we're doing tech talk 224 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:01.240 and I'm like. 225 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.279 Oh, okay, let me go hook this up. 226 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.799 So I hooked it up and this is what you're 227 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.440 hearing me on. So the mixer itself is just a 228 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:09.639 little four channel mixer. 229 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:11.519 It looks like a little honestly, it looks like a 230 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.360 little gaming audio mixer. It really, honestly is. 231 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:17.919 It's not a professional mixer that you would probably find 232 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.679 in a in a true podcast or a radio DJ. 233 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:25.600 But I don't need that. I mean, I'm only doing 234 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:28.080 this and I don't really use this computer pretty much 235 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.879 for anything else except for doing tech talk radio. I 236 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.240 use my laptop for pretty much everything else. But anyway, 237 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.879 so the mixer has the microphone input. 238 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:38.360 It has music. 239 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:41.519 Input, which is basically any sound from the computer. So 240 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:44.000 if I want to listen to you guys, obviously it's 241 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:46.200 coming through the computer. It has to go through the mixer. 242 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.600 And then I have a monitor. But here's the coolest part. 243 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:50.200 I got this. 244 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:57.120 I got a reverb reverb, reverb, reverb, reverb, and I 245 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:04.559 also have all right, let's hear this roll. 246 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:14.480 Oh that's the best one. That's like a dayline episode. 247 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.480 I can also do this one a little bit, a 248 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.240 little bit deeper than me. You know, I had a 249 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:23.120 pretty deep voice as well. But yeah, I think this 250 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:25.200 one's better. And then I have this one. 251 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:28.919 This is a female voice author. 252 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.879 Yeah exactly. Yeah, welcome to chat. 253 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.039 The world. 254 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:38.600 Wart voice which change? You just changed this on the 255 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:43.399 fly with an effects bank, Right, that's it? Oh yeah, 256 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:45.919 you're scaring people now, Okay, there's some kids saying, Mommy, 257 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.919 turn off the radio. The monsters on the radio. 258 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:52.159 I do have I do have a little bit of 259 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.279 like cool features on that, but I'm probably not going 260 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:56.440 to use them unless I play games and I want 261 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.360 to troll somebody that I might change my voice a 262 00:12:58.399 --> 00:12:58.759 little bit. 263 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.720 You have, dude, you could do like twitch games or whatever. 264 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.200 You know, you just yeah, I could do that. It 265 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:06.960 just wear oh we're a hoodie, you wear wear like 266 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.399 a hoodie and then do that voice and the next 267 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:16.639 mister peanut when yeah, I think that's the name of 268 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:24.840 the show this week. The next mister peanut. Oh, man, 269 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.200 don't you love technology that came with the mixer? You're 270 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.720 having justin you're having way too much fun with this, 271 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:35.080 way too much. Yeah. 272 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.080 O man, Hey, the whole setup, I mean, the mixer 273 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.879 mixer was like probably fifty sixty bucks. About a pre 274 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:45.320 amp was like forty, right, And obviously the credit goes to. 275 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:46.399 The Sure microphone. Sure. 276 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.759 This Sure SM seven B microphone is one of the 277 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:51.639 best microphones ever made. 278 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:56.080 Now Sure also has for podcasters. If anybody's thinking it's 279 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.120 doing doing this, they have the MV seven, which is 280 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.000 weird at the podcast or they have two models. One 281 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.399 is USB and XLR. XLR is what a lot of 282 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.759 professional mixers will, you know require as an input you're 283 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:12.639 gonna get you're gonna get better with the xl R. 284 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.559 Yeah you I think you do. Although I have a 285 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:21.000 fine USB. I have a couple of the USB micro 286 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:23.480 and they don't sound bad, you know, for somebody who 287 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.799 doesn't want to invest four hundred dollars into a microphone. 288 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.879 And now Sure has uh An s M seven that 289 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.120 actually has the cloudlifter pretty much built into it. And 290 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:37.840 for people don't understand cloudlifter, Matt on the who's been 291 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:39.360 has been a while since you've been on the show, 292 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.080 But Matt actually has a cloudlifter where it gives you 293 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:46.080 just more base, it gives it a little more resonance, 294 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.440 and it just it pumps up the audio much better. 295 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.799 And that's that's in their newest uh SM seven. So 296 00:14:53.879 --> 00:15:00.600 if you're thinking about a microphone to have you cut 297 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.759 our commercials, yeah, that would be great. Glad you got 298 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.480 that set up. Sean is still doing his build of 299 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.240 his studio. You know, we're just trying to figure out 300 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.799 the lighting and then we found out that his desk 301 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:15.320 is so far away from the microphone that he had. 302 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.000 We're gonna get you a megaphone so that way we 303 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.639 can hear you. Sean, give a wireless mike, you know, 304 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:22.600 I the d G I Mike. Don't you have one 305 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:23.919 of those? Can't you just use that? 306 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.120 I probably could. I don't have it here. 307 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:28.320 Do you actually have a Dji Mike? Really? 308 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:29.279 We use them at work. 309 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.600 Oh I didn't know that. So now why why would 310 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.080 somebody you use a Dji mike? All right? 311 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:35.879 Convenience? 312 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:40.519 Yeah, yeah, placement, Yeah. 313 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.120 I mean they're they have the Dji minise. 314 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.799 Now, the Mike minis. They're only like half. 315 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:49.200 Inch maybe just over a half inch by half inch really, 316 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:50.720 and you can you can get them with the little 317 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.279 windscreen on them and they just clip on there, you know, 318 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.320 discreet enough, you can clip them right to a lapel. 319 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.759 Right, let me ask you, guys, do do you get 320 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:03.559 up set when you're watching somebody that's doing a video 321 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.360 cast on YouTube or or Instagram or TikTok or whatever, 322 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.360 and they're talking to somebody and they're holding that little 323 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:11.039 lapel mic. 324 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:14.200 That's the stupidest thing in the history of the world. 325 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.919 It's just lazy journalism. It's not even journalism, it's just 326 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:21.200 lazy production. It's that and not taking the time to 327 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:22.679 hide a wired lob mic. 328 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.639 Yeah, hold on, hold on, okay, Look, I don't want 329 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:31.120 to get too deep into this. But journalism's changed, bro. 330 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.879 It's not like you can just it's not like you 331 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.720 just go up to somebody and say, hey, I want 332 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.000 to put this microphone on you and ask you some questions. 333 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:39.799 You just got to walk up to them and to 334 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.720 put the microphone in their face and be like, hey, 335 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.000 what do you think about this? So journalism's changed a 336 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.360 little bit a lot in that. But I get what 337 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.399 you're saying, don't get me wrong. But it doesn't bother 338 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:53.960 me as much as I think it bothers you. 339 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:57.879 Yeah, it seriously bothers me because the number of so 340 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:00.799 because I got in trouble for doing stuff like that. 341 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.119 If I didn't like somebody yelled at me. 342 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:06.119 And now it's bad. 343 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:09.960 Because of the level of productions that we did at Fox, Fox, 344 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.319 earun Rabbits, Fox, and San Diego, there was a level 345 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.559 standard level that we had to meet, right and in 346 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.599 our productions for ESPN and NBC, we have to continue 347 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:21.960 to meet that level of standard because of how visible 348 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.680 it is now. Every local news market is different. If 349 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.440 you go to all the smallest news stations, nobody's gonna care, right, 350 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.000 They're they're all just mmj's. They're all doing it by themselves. 351 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:34.079 They don't have time, they don't care, and it. 352 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.480 Shows, Yeah, I'm not getting paid enough to care. 353 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:42.240 So the production quality has gone down because the expectation 354 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:43.759 of the viewer has also gone down. 355 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:45.440 Yes, yeah, I think you're right. 356 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:47.599 A lot of that, A lot of it was stemmed 357 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:51.839 pre COVID. COVID changed everything. People just wanted to watch content, 358 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.400 they didn't care what it looked like. And we've never 359 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:57.839 recovered from that mantra. 360 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.319 I don't think we're going to recover changed. 361 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:01.200 It's changed, and. 362 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:06.680 Because right the way content is ingested now, you don't 363 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.160 watch local news anymore. I can't tell you the last 364 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:12.240 time I turned out a local news channel here locally. 365 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:14.160 And if I do, it's because I'm at a bar 366 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:15.799 or a restaurant and I'm just making fun of it 367 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:21.440 because of how bad it is. But every YouTuber does 368 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:27.200 jump cuts, every YouTuber does a lave mic that's not dressed. 369 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.240 Every YouTuber just does man on the street with a 370 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.880 sticklike or a love mic and holds it up with 371 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.240 the wired dangling. It looks terrible. It really, it literally 372 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:40.359 looks terrible from a production standpoint, but people just don't care. 373 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.200 This is new this is the way journalism is now. 374 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.119 I also think too, people don't care well, just if 375 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:47.400 they can see it and hear it, that's all they 376 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:47.759 care about. 377 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:50.279 I also think too a lot of the journalism for 378 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:54.680 today it's not not necessarily what we're going to get 379 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.440 on our television screens. It's what we're gonna get on 380 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.319 the website. It's what extra content? What? How are we 381 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:03.920 going to drive people to our website to watch content 382 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:08.200 there and get an ad, you know, which is revenue generating. 383 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.960 So in that thirty minute block of a newscast, let's 384 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:14.640 have them watch what's going going on on our website. 385 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.200 See this is this is this is the problem. And 386 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:21.799 I'm not I want to preface this with saying that 387 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.400 I'm not going to get political with this, but however, 388 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:29.599 this is the problem that happens what you said, Andy, 389 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.960 is it absolutely true you want to drive content to 390 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.680 your website. The problem is when people go to the website, 391 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:39.160 people do not have the attention span to sit there 392 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:42.599 and watch through thirty to sixty second ads before they 393 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.559 get to the content. Nor do they want to see 394 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:48.759 half of the content interrupted by an ad and then 395 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:49.720 the rest of the content. 396 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:51.279 Have you ever done that You're watching a story and 397 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:53.640 all of a sudden boom, there's an ad. Yeah, and 398 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:55.319 this is why people don't. They don't. 399 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:58.160 They don't go to local news anymore. They don't even 400 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:01.240 go to CNN or MSNBC or Fox or whoever they 401 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:04.519