Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network.
Speaker 1: This is Alice Cooper, the original Techno Todd, and you're
Speaker 1: listening to tech Talk Radio. Welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Weird, and I'm Justin Lemey.
Speaker 1: Welcome. Well, it's good to have jo justin back. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, god, I almost forgot how to do this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't forget.
Speaker 3: How to do I forgot the Colorado existed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, what really bothers me? As we were
Speaker 1: talking pre show here and Justine says it's warm in Colorado, Like,
Speaker 1: how how could it be warm in Colorado?
Speaker 2: It's been like sixty degrees almost every single day since
Speaker 2: the beginning of December. We had one minor storm come
Speaker 2: through where the Denver metro area got maybe half an
Speaker 2: inch in snow. Yeah, but the mountains got maybe like
Speaker 2: six or seven inches. But it doesn't really affect us
Speaker 2: down here. I've I've had to actually go out and
Speaker 2: hook up my water spigot and water my plants and
Speaker 2: trees three times since October. Late October when we first
Speaker 2: turned off the sprinklers. I don't water the grass. The
Speaker 2: grass you wanted just to stay dormant, but the trees
Speaker 2: and the plants and stuff, I water them. It's gotten
Speaker 2: so warm that we're actually having tulip buds out, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, no, no, no, in the.
Speaker 1: Winter to sleep, go back to sleep, please. How about you, Sean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that you're in Indiana, so you
Speaker 1: get like really weird weather there, don't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've we've already received like sixty inches of snow
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: What wow? Sixty we had?
Speaker 3: We had We had at least eighteen inches of snow
Speaker 3: week the week before Thanksgiving. We got dumped on and
Speaker 3: then it stayed and continued to snow, and then a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks later we got another fourteen inches.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean, and it was.
Speaker 3: The heavy, thick, wet snow, so it's like it was
Speaker 3: icy and then it's just been icy and cold and
Speaker 3: freezing rain. And then four days ago was sixty degrees
Speaker 3: and then four hours later it was thirty eight degrees.
Speaker 2: We got during the day, but then we'll get down
Speaker 2: to like thirty or twenty five at night.
Speaker 3: Right, Andy, here's a weather term. Have you ever heard
Speaker 3: of freezing fog?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it gets the ground temperature is still
Speaker 3: warm enough that it creates a bunch of fog, and
Speaker 3: then the air temperature drops and it freezes, and then
Speaker 3: it freezes on the roads.
Speaker 1: Wow, you could have been in Las Vegas last week
Speaker 1: where it was. You know, well, if you would have
Speaker 1: sent us there, Andy, next year, next year, next year,
Speaker 1: we got to go. I mean when I was, I
Speaker 1: was kind of wondering because you know, the CS is
Speaker 1: wrapped up. It wrapped up last week. Everybody heads home.
Speaker 1: They get to disseminate all of that info for the
Speaker 1: different ideas, different products. I was surprised because Justin and
Speaker 1: I talked about this last week. We were talking about
Speaker 1: everything's AI. You know, everything is going to be integrated,
Speaker 1: that is true AI into technology. But we saw some
Speaker 1: things that were a little different. One of the things
Speaker 1: that kind of made and we've talked televisions before, but
Speaker 1: in OLED was the thing. Now it's this micro RGB
Speaker 1: technology that everybody's talking about and I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: They just say it's brighter, more clarity with text when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a text on the screen. What did
Speaker 1: you what did you call it? Micro RGB more clarity?
Speaker 1: I don't know, have you guys had a chance to
Speaker 1: look into this at all.
Speaker 2: I've not heard that, you know, not seeing the micro
Speaker 2: RGB thing yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently Samsung announced a Giants one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: inch television using that technology, and there's no idea on
Speaker 1: the pricing. But when they pull one out at one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen inches last year, the price tag was
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, even if you look up micro RGB on the
Speaker 2: internet right now, you're gonna see pictures. The pictures don't
Speaker 2: do it justice. No, you're not going to be able
Speaker 2: to understand the true scale of this unless you see
Speaker 2: it in person.
Speaker 1: That's why I think, you know, Best Buy was smart
Speaker 1: to do their Magnolia Home theater so they could put
Speaker 1: the technology because you can't I'm sorry, you cannot buy
Speaker 1: a television online. People say, yeah, you can't, but honestly,
Speaker 1: I think you have to go somewhere and see it.
Speaker 1: And even then it's difficult because it's not going to
Speaker 1: be in the same environment that maybe you have at
Speaker 1: your home. You look at Sean, you look at having
Speaker 1: a TV in there would be different if it was
Speaker 1: injustice or if it was in mind you you have
Speaker 1: different color settings, a different pattern, where the room is,
Speaker 1: where it's going to fall. That that's why they do they.
Speaker 2: You know, there's there's a small subset of specialists that
Speaker 2: will actually come out to your house and they will
Speaker 2: fine tune your television to your viewing environment.
Speaker 1: Right if you will.
Speaker 2: You basically meet with them. They'll say, okay, how do
Speaker 2: you normally like the lights? You know, let's set the
Speaker 2: lights at the right level, and then they use all
Speaker 2: these like really fine tune tools. I guess you can
Speaker 2: say to just fine tune the TV to make sure
Speaker 2: that it has the perfect picture for that particular environment.
Speaker 2: But you're also paying a lot of money for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember when the first one hundred inch television
Speaker 1: came out. Me and Jim Barry mayhe rest in peace.
Speaker 1: We were at CEES that year when they introduced that
Speaker 1: one hundred inch television, and that was one of the
Speaker 1: things you would have to pay. Somebody from I think
Speaker 1: it might have been Sam Sung. They would come out
Speaker 1: and they would install it. They would go ahead, you know,
Speaker 1: and they would set it for the room, the whole bit,
Speaker 1: because they wanted you to be like a showroom for them.
Speaker 1: Because people going to come over to your place and
Speaker 1: see this TV that you've dropped a lot of money on,
Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll end up wanting to buy one. The
Speaker 1: same thing goes for audio.
Speaker 2: I mean, you get a nice surround sound system, you
Speaker 2: can actually pay somebody to come out and just place
Speaker 2: those speakers perfectly.
Speaker 1: And then even if you can't place the speak it
Speaker 1: perfectly perfectly, they will.
Speaker 2: Fine tune those speakers to where you can place them right.
Speaker 2: But it also costs a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Isn't there like when it comes to audio in like
Speaker 1: television rooms and stuff. Isn't there audio now where it
Speaker 1: can replicate the sound of a surround like a five,
Speaker 1: you know, six speaker type of system or is that
Speaker 1: just really that's really not going to do it a
Speaker 1: little bit? I guess.
Speaker 2: I mean yes, yes, the answer is yes, but it's
Speaker 2: not going to be true. Like you, you're never going
Speaker 2: to be able to replicate true surround sound with like
Speaker 2: a soundbar. You can get close, right, but you're not
Speaker 2: going to replicate it truthfully.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you may hear left and right, but the stuff
Speaker 1: that's going.
Speaker 2: On behind you even that you know, no, even that
Speaker 2: you can replicate stuff behind you or on the sides, right,
Speaker 2: But again it's it's not gonna be truthful to the
Speaker 2: truth around sound.
Speaker 1: If you can now sean, you have a home theater
Speaker 1: where you're at, You've got a big screen that's to
Speaker 1: your left that we kind of see a little taiale
Speaker 1: of that in the background. What kind of sound did
Speaker 1: you put in there? So when you watch in a
Speaker 1: movie in this TV room, you've got you know, full sound.
Speaker 3: So I have an Ankio receiver right have all my
Speaker 3: device is going in and it's a five to one,
Speaker 3: and so I've got the sub on the floor of
Speaker 3: the center is just at the bottom of the screen.
Speaker 3: I've got two satellites that are to the left and
Speaker 3: the right of the screen. And I didn't I didn't
Speaker 3: put any rare in, right, I just have it as
Speaker 3: a four point one or a three point one right now?
Speaker 2: Why why why did you not put rear speakers in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd have to run.
Speaker 3: I just never got around to running.
Speaker 2: Why not just use like rocket fish or something to
Speaker 2: do wireless?
Speaker 1: Oh there you go.
Speaker 3: Hm, never got around to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rocketfish that gives you the ability to expand that
Speaker 1: almost like what it's like a Bluetooth connection. Eh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess in a way he.
Speaker 2: Uses Wi Fi, so it's a little bit a little
Speaker 2: bit less latency because obviously, when you're talking about audio,
Speaker 2: you don't want any latency at all.
Speaker 1: So Rocketfish uses Wi Fi. I believe I could be
Speaker 1: wrong for that, but but yeah, Rocketfish is a good
Speaker 1: I used to use.
Speaker 2: Rocketfish back in San Diego, Sean, when we had the
Speaker 2: houses back in San Diego, I used Rocketfish for both
Speaker 2: of those setups because in the apartment and in the
Speaker 2: town home, I didn't want to run wires. I couldn't
Speaker 2: run wires right right.
Speaker 1: And I could.
Speaker 3: I mean, I literally the wires are run. I just
Speaker 3: never put the speakers in.
Speaker 1: Oh no, okay, okay. So what you're saying is you're
Speaker 1: just lazy, yes, or you gotta buy a ladder. That's
Speaker 1: always my excuse.
Speaker 2: You got a drop ceiling, don't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't want to.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you have no excuse, Sean, no excuse
Speaker 2: that justin you've been out for almost five six weeks.
Speaker 1: It's been a while. In the meantime, you did end
Speaker 1: up buying yourself a brand new mixer for the audio
Speaker 1: version of this, And I know there are people listening
Speaker 1: that are saying, yeah, I want to start a podcast,
Speaker 1: I want to do a video cast, I want to
Speaker 1: do something you guys do. It may have looked into
Speaker 1: Riverside FM or you know, they might still be there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that are still using
Speaker 1: Zoom for doing you know, remote type of things. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you decided to you needed to invest in a
Speaker 1: mixer just to bring the sound up a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the mixer was. The mixer that I
Speaker 2: had was a Barringer mixer. It was starting to kind
Speaker 2: of fail. Yeah, every time we would do pre show
Speaker 2: and he's like, hey, turn up your mic, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: I can't go any higher.
Speaker 2: Captain Like, I'm just like, yeah, the mixer was dying.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I went ahead and I bought this. Well,
Speaker 2: actually I didn't buy it. I got it for Christmas.
Speaker 2: It's a what is it called pup pup g SISU pgsis.
Speaker 2: It's a tiny little mixer. It's got two MIC inputs,
Speaker 2: it's got a music input. It's USB controlled, so everything
Speaker 2: is going through USB right now, even your microphone. I
Speaker 2: plugged this mixer in and I have a sure microphone
Speaker 2: like an actual true radio DJ microphone. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: plugged it in right, and I'm like, I'm not hearing anything,
Speaker 2: Like why am I not hearing anything? And then it
Speaker 2: come to find out that the shore requires forty eight
Speaker 2: volt phantom like it does it requires per your set hour? Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: And the Barringer mixer provided that, but this one doesn't.
Speaker 2: So I had to buy another like forty dollars pre amp.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, preamp.
Speaker 1: There is the word, yeah, primp.
Speaker 2: And so I bought this pre amp and I just
Speaker 2: literally hooked it up tonight because I haven't been around
Speaker 2: tech talk so for a while, so I had needed
Speaker 2: to but and he's like, hey, we're doing tech talk
Speaker 2: and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, let me go hook this up.
Speaker 2: So I hooked it up and this is what you're
Speaker 2: hearing me on. So the mixer itself is just a
Speaker 2: little four channel mixer.
Speaker 1: It looks like a little honestly, it looks like a
Speaker 1: little gaming audio mixer. It really, honestly is.
Speaker 2: It's not a professional mixer that you would probably find
Speaker 2: in a in a true podcast or a radio DJ.
Speaker 2: But I don't need that. I mean, I'm only doing
Speaker 2: this and I don't really use this computer pretty much
Speaker 2: for anything else except for doing tech talk radio. I
Speaker 2: use my laptop for pretty much everything else. But anyway,
Speaker 2: so the mixer has the microphone input.
Speaker 1: It has music.
Speaker 2: Input, which is basically any sound from the computer. So
Speaker 2: if I want to listen to you guys, obviously it's
Speaker 2: coming through the computer. It has to go through the mixer.
Speaker 2: And then I have a monitor. But here's the coolest part.
Speaker 1: I got this.
Speaker 2: I got a reverb reverb, reverb, reverb, reverb, and I
Speaker 2: also have all right, let's hear this roll.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the best one. That's like a dayline episode.
Speaker 1: I can also do this one a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit deeper than me. You know, I had a
Speaker 1: pretty deep voice as well. But yeah, I think this
Speaker 1: one's better. And then I have this one.
Speaker 3: This is a female voice author.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah, welcome to chat.
Speaker 2: The world.
Speaker 1: Wart voice which change? You just changed this on the
Speaker 1: fly with an effects bank, Right, that's it? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you're scaring people now, Okay, there's some kids saying, Mommy,
Speaker 1: turn off the radio. The monsters on the radio.
Speaker 2: I do have I do have a little bit of
Speaker 2: like cool features on that, but I'm probably not going
Speaker 2: to use them unless I play games and I want
Speaker 2: to troll somebody that I might change my voice a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: You have, dude, you could do like twitch games or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, you just yeah, I could do that. It
Speaker 1: just wear oh we're a hoodie, you wear wear like
Speaker 1: a hoodie and then do that voice and the next
Speaker 1: mister peanut when yeah, I think that's the name of
Speaker 1: the show this week. The next mister peanut. Oh, man,
Speaker 1: don't you love technology that came with the mixer? You're
Speaker 1: having justin you're having way too much fun with this,
Speaker 1: way too much. Yeah.
Speaker 2: O man, Hey, the whole setup, I mean, the mixer
Speaker 2: mixer was like probably fifty sixty bucks. About a pre
Speaker 2: amp was like forty, right, And obviously the credit goes to.
Speaker 1: The Sure microphone. Sure.
Speaker 2: This Sure SM seven B microphone is one of the
Speaker 2: best microphones ever made.
Speaker 1: Now Sure also has for podcasters. If anybody's thinking it's
Speaker 1: doing doing this, they have the MV seven, which is
Speaker 1: weird at the podcast or they have two models. One
Speaker 1: is USB and XLR. XLR is what a lot of
Speaker 1: professional mixers will, you know require as an input you're
Speaker 1: gonna get you're gonna get better with the xl R.
Speaker 1: Yeah you I think you do. Although I have a
Speaker 1: fine USB. I have a couple of the USB micro
Speaker 1: and they don't sound bad, you know, for somebody who
Speaker 1: doesn't want to invest four hundred dollars into a microphone.
Speaker 1: And now Sure has uh An s M seven that
Speaker 1: actually has the cloudlifter pretty much built into it. And
Speaker 1: for people don't understand cloudlifter, Matt on the who's been
Speaker 1: has been a while since you've been on the show,
Speaker 1: But Matt actually has a cloudlifter where it gives you
Speaker 1: just more base, it gives it a little more resonance,
Speaker 1: and it just it pumps up the audio much better.
Speaker 1: And that's that's in their newest uh SM seven. So
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about a microphone to have you cut
Speaker 1: our commercials, yeah, that would be great. Glad you got
Speaker 1: that set up. Sean is still doing his build of
Speaker 1: his studio. You know, we're just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: the lighting and then we found out that his desk
Speaker 1: is so far away from the microphone that he had.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you a megaphone so that way we
Speaker 1: can hear you. Sean, give a wireless mike, you know,
Speaker 1: I the d G I Mike. Don't you have one
Speaker 1: of those? Can't you just use that?
Speaker 3: I probably could. I don't have it here.
Speaker 1: Do you actually have a Dji Mike? Really?
Speaker 3: We use them at work.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know that. So now why why would
Speaker 1: somebody you use a Dji mike? All right?
Speaker 3: Convenience?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, placement, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean they're they have the Dji minise.
Speaker 1: Now, the Mike minis. They're only like half.
Speaker 3: Inch maybe just over a half inch by half inch really,
Speaker 3: and you can you can get them with the little
Speaker 3: windscreen on them and they just clip on there, you know,
Speaker 3: discreet enough, you can clip them right to a lapel.
Speaker 1: Right, let me ask you, guys, do do you get
Speaker 1: up set when you're watching somebody that's doing a video
Speaker 1: cast on YouTube or or Instagram or TikTok or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they're talking to somebody and they're holding that little
Speaker 1: lapel mic.
Speaker 3: That's the stupidest thing in the history of the world.
Speaker 3: It's just lazy journalism. It's not even journalism, it's just
Speaker 3: lazy production. It's that and not taking the time to
Speaker 3: hide a wired lob mic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hold on, hold on, okay, Look, I don't want
Speaker 2: to get too deep into this. But journalism's changed, bro.
Speaker 2: It's not like you can just it's not like you
Speaker 2: just go up to somebody and say, hey, I want
Speaker 2: to put this microphone on you and ask you some questions.
Speaker 2: You just got to walk up to them and to
Speaker 2: put the microphone in their face and be like, hey,
Speaker 2: what do you think about this? So journalism's changed a
Speaker 2: little bit a lot in that. But I get what
Speaker 2: you're saying, don't get me wrong. But it doesn't bother
Speaker 2: me as much as I think it bothers you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seriously bothers me because the number of so
Speaker 3: because I got in trouble for doing stuff like that.
Speaker 3: If I didn't like somebody yelled at me.
Speaker 1: And now it's bad.
Speaker 3: Because of the level of productions that we did at Fox, Fox,
Speaker 3: earun Rabbits, Fox, and San Diego, there was a level
Speaker 3: standard level that we had to meet, right and in
Speaker 3: our productions for ESPN and NBC, we have to continue
Speaker 3: to meet that level of standard because of how visible
Speaker 3: it is now. Every local news market is different. If
Speaker 3: you go to all the smallest news stations, nobody's gonna care, right,
Speaker 3: They're they're all just mmj's. They're all doing it by themselves.
Speaker 3: They don't have time, they don't care, and it.
Speaker 2: Shows, Yeah, I'm not getting paid enough to care.
Speaker 3: So the production quality has gone down because the expectation
Speaker 3: of the viewer has also gone down.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3: A lot of that, A lot of it was stemmed
Speaker 3: pre COVID. COVID changed everything. People just wanted to watch content,
Speaker 3: they didn't care what it looked like. And we've never
Speaker 3: recovered from that mantra.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to recover changed.
Speaker 1: It's changed, and.
Speaker 3: Because right the way content is ingested now, you don't
Speaker 3: watch local news anymore. I can't tell you the last
Speaker 3: time I turned out a local news channel here locally.
Speaker 3: And if I do, it's because I'm at a bar
Speaker 3: or a restaurant and I'm just making fun of it
Speaker 3: because of how bad it is. But every YouTuber does
Speaker 3: jump cuts, every YouTuber does a lave mic that's not dressed.
Speaker 3: Every YouTuber just does man on the street with a
Speaker 3: sticklike or a love mic and holds it up with
Speaker 3: the wired dangling. It looks terrible. It really, it literally
Speaker 3: looks terrible from a production standpoint, but people just don't care.
Speaker 1: This is new this is the way journalism is now.
Speaker 3: I also think too, people don't care well, just if
Speaker 3: they can see it and hear it, that's all they
Speaker 3: care about.
Speaker 1: I also think too a lot of the journalism for
Speaker 1: today it's not not necessarily what we're going to get
Speaker 1: on our television screens. It's what we're gonna get on
Speaker 1: the website. It's what extra content? What? How are we
Speaker 1: going to drive people to our website to watch content
Speaker 1: there and get an ad, you know, which is revenue generating.
Speaker 1: So in that thirty minute block of a newscast, let's
Speaker 1: have them watch what's going going on on our website.
Speaker 2: See this is this is this is the problem. And
Speaker 2: I'm not I want to preface this with saying that
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get political with this, but however,
Speaker 2: this is the problem that happens what you said, Andy,
Speaker 2: is it absolutely true you want to drive content to
Speaker 2: your website. The problem is when people go to the website,
Speaker 2: people do not have the attention span to sit there
Speaker 2: and watch through thirty to sixty second ads before they
Speaker 2: get to the content. Nor do they want to see
Speaker 2: half of the content interrupted by an ad and then
Speaker 2: the rest of the content.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done that You're watching a story and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden boom, there's an ad. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is why people don't. They don't.
Speaker 2: They don't go to local news anymore. They don't even
Speaker 2: go to CNN or MSNBC or Fox or whoever they
Speaker 2: go to. They go to platforms like TikTok.
Speaker 1: Or even x.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and this is where people are getting
Speaker 2: their news from, right, And this is the way journalism
Speaker 2: is being reshaped. It's it's no longer the mainstream media anymore.
Speaker 2: And I don't care what side of the political platform
Speaker 2: you're on, you hear the same rhetoric that nobody trusts
Speaker 2: the mainstream media anymore because it's all about clicks, it's
Speaker 2: all about engagement, it's all about ads. Well, it's about
Speaker 2: how can we get people to click on this link. Well,
Speaker 2: let's let's talk about the most crazy thing ever just
Speaker 2: to get them to click on this link.
Speaker 1: One of the things I've seen a lot, and I
Speaker 1: work in media, television media as well, and I understand,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's got a generate revenue, right,
Speaker 1: But one of the things that I just gets me angry,
Speaker 1: and I think it gets a lot of our locals angry.
Speaker 1: I don't know if your stations do that. We're in
Speaker 1: Denver or in South Bend. But you'll have a just
Speaker 1: a graphic just what happened here blah blah blah, But
Speaker 1: they would say anything or what television star just died
Speaker 1: blah blah. They don't give you that info. Click in
Speaker 1: the comments. Now, I don't know why does that generate something,
Speaker 1: because then you have to click, generate clicks, go to
Speaker 1: the so just just.
Speaker 3: It generates time on the website, right right, Because my
Speaker 3: understanding is that you go to a website, attracks how
Speaker 3: long you've been there, that information gets aggregated. Okay, oh
Speaker 3: I clicked twice. Now an ad servers, Oh they were
Speaker 3: here for forty five seconds instead of thirty seconds. It's
Speaker 3: how we can serve them two more ads on top,
Speaker 3: and then we can charge more.
Speaker 1: It's even more than that, all right.
Speaker 2: I work very closely with our marketing director at my company. Now,
Speaker 2: my company doesn't do as much as like an ad
Speaker 2: like a.
Speaker 1: TV station would. Okay, right, she tells me.
Speaker 2: She tells, He's like, look, not only do we track
Speaker 2: when you go to the website, Not only do we
Speaker 2: track how long you spend on the website, we can
Speaker 2: track what section of the website you're on. So if
Speaker 2: you scroll down and you want to read a certain
Speaker 2: content piece that's a little bit might like let's say
Speaker 2: three quarters down, the page will track that you've been there.
Speaker 2: Then what they do is then they turn that into
Speaker 2: what ads can we place in these sections of the
Speaker 2: website because this section, section two, out of three whatever
Speaker 2: is the most visited, So now we can charge more
Speaker 2: money for advertising on that section versus the top section,
Speaker 2: which just says welcome to the website or whatever.
Speaker 1: So like, if you're scrolling, all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: little Johnny is hung gray, so you gotta go give
Speaker 1: little Johnny lunch and usually leave it there, that's gonna
Speaker 1: screw up the algorithm.
Speaker 2: Yes, everything you do every website, every second you spend
Speaker 2: on a website, every position of that website you're on,
Speaker 2: is being tracked.
Speaker 3: And where you came from and where you.
Speaker 1: Went, Oh, where you came from too, it's gonna geographical.
Speaker 2: Let's sEH, where you came from unless you're like if
Speaker 2: you go to let's say best Buy and you're searching
Speaker 2: Laveler microphones and then you go to target The first
Speaker 2: ad you're going to see is for Laveler microphones.
Speaker 1: That is why when you look for a product, you
Speaker 1: may notice when you're on the web, like just Google Baby,
Speaker 1: you might suddenly start seeing all those ads or if
Speaker 1: you click on something that is interesting, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: fed that info.
Speaker 2: Right, even if you're on a website, and let's say
Speaker 2: you have YouTube TV as your TV provider, what's gonna
Speaker 2: happen in the middle of the NFL game. You're going
Speaker 2: to get an ad for what you were searching for
Speaker 2: on the internet.
Speaker 1: We think you'd feed direct ads to your customers, Sean
Speaker 1: shaking his head. Yes they can, Yes.
Speaker 3: Of course, so anytime they go to it.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's just like think about it, like.
Speaker 3: From a broadcast perspective, Right, you used to have natural breaks, right,
Speaker 3: you used to have local breaks. So when you did
Speaker 3: a local break, you gotta served local content. So instead
Speaker 3: of getting served national content or local content during those breaks,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna use getting served targeted content during those breaks.
Speaker 1: All right, let's speak in the breaks. We got we
Speaker 1: gotta take hold on, we got to take a break,
Speaker 1: we come back, We'll get your we'll get your thought
Speaker 1: with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
Speaker 1: Sean come your ad for lovel microphone? Yes, and I'm
Speaker 1: justin let me.
Speaker 2: Alb now back to tech talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I really enjoy listening to your show. It's really cool. Well, thanks,
Speaker 3: very informative.
Speaker 1: Rookie. Are you a rookie? I'm very much a rookie.
Speaker 2: So before the break, we were talking about how advertising
Speaker 2: and like local TV and national TV.
Speaker 1: So let me let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2: Why is it that when you turn on your local
Speaker 2: TV channels, whether it be in Tucson, Arizona there or
Speaker 2: myself here in Denver or in South Bend, Indiana, why
Speaker 2: do you see so much more local news then you
Speaker 2: would see syndicated programming?
Speaker 1: Why do you think that.
Speaker 3: Is syndicated program It costs money.
Speaker 2: And when you're in local programming, you can sell your
Speaker 2: own ads.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: When it comes to syndicated or what Sean was mentioning earlier,
Speaker 2: national national.
Speaker 1: Has to sell the like.
Speaker 2: So like Fox Fox Primetime you're talking about like Mass Singer,
Speaker 2: or CBS with Survivor or NBC with whatever the hell
Speaker 2: they got, they're having to sell national ads.
Speaker 1: So they don't get paid for that, got it?
Speaker 2: But then they might, they might get thirty seconds on
Speaker 2: the back end. That's why you'll see all these sky
Speaker 2: Rizzy and all these other.
Speaker 1: Like no Razzy, not sky Rizzy, ski Rizzy, sky Rizzy,
Speaker 1: sky Rizzy, I don't care. So it's like a guy
Speaker 1: I used to hang out with Las Vegas. Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: These medical ads to make you think you have a
Speaker 2: disease you probably don't. And then at the very end
Speaker 2: they'll be like, Hi, I'm ed from Ed's TVs down
Speaker 2: the street, and then they go back to the corner,
Speaker 2: they go back to the show.
Speaker 1: So that's where they've made their money, or that's where
Speaker 1: they made their money. So why do you think now?
Speaker 2: So like, for instance, my my station I used to
Speaker 2: work for here in Denver, Fox thirty one. They used
Speaker 2: to have morning news from four thirty until ten.
Speaker 1: Now now, even then, even then.
Speaker 2: They were still local because if you look at CBS
Speaker 2: or NBC, they cut to CBS Morning, or they cut
Speaker 2: to the NBC Today show, Good Morning America or Good
Speaker 2: Morning America on ABC.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Sure on at like eight am they cut to the
Speaker 2: national So now they lose all this profit. Fox thirty one,
Speaker 2: they stayed in local from four thirty until ten. Now
Speaker 2: they're staying local from four thirty till twelve.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow.
Speaker 2: And because because this is how they can earn money,
Speaker 2: they cut out shows like Judge Judy and I think
Speaker 2: they were showing Jerry Springer at one point, I don't know,
Speaker 2: at whatever, Yeah, but they were showing these syndicated shows
Speaker 2: because they didn't have talent to be on the air
Speaker 2: all that time. The longer you can be on air local,
Speaker 2: the more money you can make locally.
Speaker 1: A lot of the stations I've noticed, and I was
Speaker 1: talking with guy actually who you know I work with
Speaker 1: here the same thing. We've noticed a lot of young talent.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of young reporters and it and they're
Speaker 1: they're learning, you know, they're they're good. But we're seeing
Speaker 1: a lot more younger talent that is being featured through
Speaker 1: those time slots and they're getting invaluable experience and it
Speaker 1: really they truly are. Yeah, And so I mean that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. We've had a few from Tucson that have
Speaker 1: gone off to the bigger markets, you know, and and
Speaker 1: working in New York, LA and other towns.
Speaker 2: I've got to say, I got two quick little things
Speaker 2: to say about this. I love being that I've worked
Speaker 2: in big markets. I've I've worked in television in San.
Speaker 1: Diego with Ron Burgundy, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Rob
Speaker 1: Burgundy station.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've also worked in television in Denver. Sean, you've
Speaker 2: worked in television and Grand Rapids, which is a smaller market,
Speaker 2: but you also worked in San Diego with me. Now,
Speaker 2: let me ask you this, Sean, simple yes or no?
Speaker 2: Can you tell the difference between a large market talent
Speaker 2: and a small market talent?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Really, I I absolutely can too, because when I go
Speaker 2: back to visit my mom or something, and I see
Speaker 2: the local news there and I see these.
Speaker 1: People, they look like they literally just got to a
Speaker 1: high school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they can barely speak on air, like I mean,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, They're doing their best, but they're
Speaker 2: they're young, they're green, right, Yeah. You go to places
Speaker 2: like Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Chicago. These people are experienced.
Speaker 2: They know exactly like me, me doing this show, Sean
Speaker 2: doing the show. Andy, You've been a radio DJ so
Speaker 2: many years. We know how to present ourselves in our
Speaker 2: particular format, right right. It takes time to learn that.
Speaker 2: But yes, when you go to a small market and
Speaker 2: you watch the local news, these people who are just like, so, yeah,
Speaker 2: today it's gonna be like forty degrees and we might
Speaker 2: get a little bit of snow.
Speaker 1: That's a great, great weather forecast. I think we need
Speaker 1: to inject more humanity and more humor. But then again,
Speaker 1: we're talking news. Sometimes you can't be humorous. But I
Speaker 1: mean maybe maybe I don't know if that because that's
Speaker 1: what people are getting online. You know, they watch somebody well,
Speaker 1: they want they want quality content, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And they want familiar and likable.
Speaker 1: People, right exactly. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: It's hard to like somebody who's just like literally out
Speaker 2: of college who was doing weather, and I'm like, why
Speaker 2: am I listening to you?
Speaker 1: We got him listening. We got a guy out here
Speaker 1: that does weather. And I remember the first time I
Speaker 1: saw him on a later cast, I had not met
Speaker 1: him in person. I thought, oh, my gosh, he looks
Speaker 1: like a kid. I mean he really looked like a
Speaker 1: fifteen year old kid. And then I met him, the
Speaker 1: most eloquent, smart, savvy, hardworking kid I'd ever met. And
Speaker 1: he you know what, Once I got past that.
Speaker 2: And got to know him a little more, I thought
Speaker 2: this guy's really good. So again, I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to discount these people. I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to say they suck. It's just they're they're they're new,
Speaker 2: they're green. They don't It's like when I first started radio.
Speaker 1: Like, oh I remember, so I was there and burying
Speaker 1: Andy or coming on a little bit late, driving in
Speaker 1: and listening and going oh boy, yeah no, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the way I was when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean I get it, I get it. But
Speaker 2: with life comms experience. But exactly, you can definitely tell
Speaker 2: small market talent from big market talent.
Speaker 1: All Right. We wanted to get some listener questions in
Speaker 1: because we've had some good ones that have come in.
Speaker 3: Linda is so yeah, we've really had some good questions,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, yeah, and I want to thank you.
Speaker 3: We've gotten feedback, We've had people respond to the answer
Speaker 3: to our questions. We've gotten likes on our videos that
Speaker 3: we've posted about those questions. So they keep sending the
Speaker 3: questions because they've been awesome.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and this one from Linda here and Salwadita said
Speaker 1: last month, I listened and heard Sean, there you go.
Speaker 1: Sean mentioned he wanted a Flipper zero. I looked it
Speaker 1: up and now my feet is full of flippers zeros.
Speaker 1: Thanks Sean. See, we were just talking about this, she said,
Speaker 1: just kidding, but I want to know are they illegal?
Speaker 1: And what is really so good about them? My son
Speaker 1: has asked for one, but really wasn't sure about this
Speaker 1: technology and do I need to be a genius to
Speaker 1: set it up? Linda? First of how old is your son? Yeah?
Speaker 2: She didn't say, yeah, your son is Linna didn't say
Speaker 2: how old are Yeah, Linda. If your son is young,
Speaker 2: and let's say I don't know, ten to sixteen years
Speaker 2: old and wants a Flipper zero, they're probably going to
Speaker 2: be doing some illegal stuff.
Speaker 1: With really okay?
Speaker 3: Oh right, So the flipper zero is basically a hardware
Speaker 3: hacking tool. Right. It will replicate Wi Fi signals, It'll
Speaker 3: capture RFID tags, NFC like all this.
Speaker 1: It can control bar TVs with like r no with
Speaker 1: oh god, got it.
Speaker 3: It's got an IRD transmitter in it. It can be
Speaker 3: programmed for all sorts of stuff you can get. You
Speaker 3: can get add ons for it. It's not something you
Speaker 3: want to give children.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me put it this way.
Speaker 2: The Flipper zero is an amazing device period. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's a great learning tool for cybersecurity. It's a great
Speaker 2: tool to learn just technology in general. However, with that
Speaker 2: being said, with great power comes great responsibility.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, and you want to know the one thing
Speaker 1: I was going to do with it?
Speaker 3: What if I got it? But is replicate all of
Speaker 3: the ambos for the Nintendo Yep, Oh, you could do that.
Speaker 2: Then you can just call them up and set it
Speaker 2: out on thousands of dollars of ambos, right, so you
Speaker 2: can just scan the ambos.
Speaker 3: Okay, stores it and then you can put it on
Speaker 3: your switch and it'll recall the AMBO like you can
Speaker 3: store RFID.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 2: Okay, first off, people don't understand what the heck you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what it is. These are little RFID.
Speaker 2: Figurines that you can buy that will if you play
Speaker 2: the game that the character is represented inside of the game,
Speaker 2: it'll give you an extra feature or a new clothing said,
Speaker 2: or just a new power or whatever you want in
Speaker 2: the game. What Sean's talking about is basically taking thousands
Speaker 2: of dollars worth of amebos, which you can buy a
Speaker 2: game stop and other in Amazon and things and just
Speaker 2: replicating them on a single device, so whenever he wants
Speaker 2: to use them, he can just whip out the flipper
Speaker 2: and scan the you know, quote unquote a meebo and
Speaker 2: get the benefits of that amoebo without actually having to
Speaker 2: pay for it. Right, So again, illegal content?
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, I know I've seen people say you could
Speaker 1: control like gate arms, but does it mean you can
Speaker 1: you can get out without paying attention? Is that what
Speaker 1: they're talking about? Okay, okay, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, there are just Spencer ton on the internet. You
Speaker 3: can look it up yourselves. But there are plenty of
Speaker 3: legal things you can do with them. There are plenty
Speaker 3: of gray area things you can do with them, and
Speaker 3: there are plenty of illegal things.
Speaker 1: You can do. So basically a computer, yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: it's more for r F r F I D.
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: There's there's plenty of legal things you can do with
Speaker 2: the computer. There's plenty of great things you can do
Speaker 2: with computer. Okay, plenty of illegal things you can do with.
Speaker 1: All right, if somebody like if so. Last night, as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I was checking my camera before
Speaker 1: I went to bed over the driveway and I saw
Speaker 1: I thought, is that the cat again? A black cat
Speaker 1: comes by? Right? And I saw it look walking instead
Speaker 1: of heading into our pushes with a flipper zero. No,
Speaker 1: what a zapp cat. But it walked. It walked to
Speaker 1: the end of the sidewalk, and I thought, let me
Speaker 1: see on the doorbell camera. And I looked and it
Speaker 1: was a poor little mangy dog like I thought it
Speaker 1: was a cat. It was so skinny and it was
Speaker 1: a dog. If this dog would have had an a microchip,
Speaker 1: I could use the the flipper zero to read it
Speaker 1: and figure out who it belonged to.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, no, it would just give you the microchip data.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, we'll tell you it belongs to John. You
Speaker 1: would read it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would give you a readout of here's the
Speaker 3: information on the RFID and then you can use that.
Speaker 1: It depends on what type of tag.
Speaker 2: Because my cats had tags that literally just read out
Speaker 2: an RFID chip number. That number meant nothing to anybody unless.
Speaker 1: You took it to a vet. The vet could access
Speaker 1: a database.
Speaker 2: Now there are other chips out there that would act
Speaker 2: as like an actual name tag. So if you scan
Speaker 2: the chip it'll say it belongs to Andy Taylor at
Speaker 2: such and such address, But normally the chips just read
Speaker 2: out a number.
Speaker 1: Is it worth it? So obviously for Linda it sounds
Speaker 1: like if her son is wonning it, we don't know
Speaker 1: how older son is.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe I would say not no, all right, no,
Speaker 2: let let them let them become an adult and let
Speaker 2: them do that yourself, because I'm sorry, Linda.
Speaker 1: Liability, Yeah, exactly, Let.
Speaker 2: Them become an adult. Be be careful of what you
Speaker 2: do with the flipper zero. Let them know the dangers
Speaker 2: of it. Let them know that this thing is a
Speaker 2: very dangerous tool if used in the improper ways, and
Speaker 2: then absolve yourself of that liability by letting them become
Speaker 2: an adult and doing what they.
Speaker 1: Want, which is your child. If you think about flipper zero,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing we do with our kids on
Speaker 1: the internet, right. I mean, you don't just put a
Speaker 1: seven year old or eight year old in front of
Speaker 1: a computer and say, here, go ahead, go online, have fun. Wait,
Speaker 1: I mean you're not sposed to do for me. I
Speaker 1: I did that. The internet was a little different back then, Sean, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it took you an hour to load up a website.
Speaker 2: I let my son on the internet, but at least
Speaker 2: I watch him. I watch everything that he does on
Speaker 2: the internet. Yeah, so with a flipper zero, you can't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: All right, I got a joke before you for you guys,
Speaker 1: before we go to break, I wanted to share with you.
Speaker 1: I was so confused last night as my printer started
Speaker 1: playing music, the paper was jamming. No, I got a
Speaker 1: better one.
Speaker 2: What I call a rooster staring at a piece of lettuce?
Speaker 1: What do you call a rooster staring at a piece
Speaker 1: of lettus?
Speaker 2: What is it a chicken sees a salad. We'll be
Speaker 2: right back.
Speaker 1: And now back to tech talk radio.
Speaker 3: So I didn't get to sell a joke because Joe
Speaker 3: Yes entered it on a mic drop.
Speaker 1: That was a good joke.
Speaker 3: So did you know that dogs can't do MRIs but
Speaker 3: cat scan?
Speaker 1: My god? Okay, d that was actually pretty good.
Speaker 3: Here here's here's my all time favorite joke that he
Speaker 3: told me.
Speaker 1: All right, why are.
Speaker 3: There pop tarts but no mom tarts?
Speaker 1: Why are there pop tarts but no mom like? You know?
Speaker 2: Actually, I went on on a walk yesterday and my
Speaker 2: wife asked me how long a you be gone? I said,
Speaker 2: the whole time.
Speaker 3: Wait, I wonder know.
Speaker 1: Why they're no mom tarts.
Speaker 3: So the joke is, why are there pop tarts but
Speaker 3: no mom tarts? Right, the answer is because of the patriarchy.
Speaker 1: Oh go lord, Oh oh okay, that's hard, all right.
Speaker 2: Some of the funniest things I didn't let that one land, Shawn, Yeah, sorry, Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's all right. Some of the funniest things about cs
Speaker 1: were the the ideas that that happened, and they put
Speaker 1: stuff out and they say people are gonna love this,
Speaker 1: and then people just go, are you kidding me? One
Speaker 1: of those that I wanted to mention, and you can
Speaker 1: find it now. It's a non reusable lollipop that plays
Speaker 1: music through vibrations in your jaw. It's called the Lollipops
Speaker 1: Star from Lava Tech and the amous Tasty Sounds Audio lollipops.
Speaker 1: They use bone conduction. I had to send music vibrations
Speaker 1: through your teeth. Oh that's just great. All my crowns
Speaker 1: are gonna break and jaw directly to your inner ear.
Speaker 1: I've used the bone conduction headphones from Mojaba, which are great.
Speaker 1: They're nine bucks for a lollipop. But if you want
Speaker 1: to have a song play while you're having your lollipop.
Speaker 2: There you go, Yeah, I don't want to spend nine
Speaker 2: bucks to have that and have to spend one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty bucks to get my crown replaced.
Speaker 1: And you you get a dumb dumb for what twenty
Speaker 1: five cents? Yeah, or by no tuting in to me?
Speaker 2: I know we're talking about cees, but I want to
Speaker 2: mention last week we took my son to a Great
Speaker 2: Wolf Lodge.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh, I want to check that place out that
Speaker 1: looks in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: It's a good place. It definitely is more like family friendly.
Speaker 2: I would highly recommend you take your grandchildren over there.
Speaker 2: But it's definitely family friendly. But we went to the
Speaker 2: bar area and I was sitting down and I was
Speaker 2: looking at the bartender and he was wearing these pair
Speaker 2: of glasses that just looked a little bit different. And
Speaker 2: I asked him, I said, are you are you wearing
Speaker 2: the Meta Yeah, I had a glass of the Meta
Speaker 2: ray bands and he's like, yeah, actually I am, And
Speaker 2: so I asked him about that. He goes, well, these
Speaker 2: are the first edition, so they don't do like the
Speaker 2: what do you call? Yeah, there's the onscreen display like
Speaker 2: in your lens, the hud. Yeah, they don't do the hud. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they don't do the hud. But he's like, they do
Speaker 2: offer obviously recording. If I press the button, it'll start recording.
Speaker 2: And then he did that, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the light turned on and I'm like, oh, you're recording me.
Speaker 2: And then he's like, also, the best part about it
Speaker 2: is listening to music. He goes one of the company
Speaker 2: policies here was that we're not allowed to wear earbuds.
Speaker 2: So he's like, I just bought the Meta ray bands
Speaker 2: and I can. I can listen to music and they
Speaker 2: don't even know because they think I'm just wearing glasses.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, no way, let me see that. And
Speaker 2: he's like, I'll let you wear them. So he wiped
Speaker 2: him off for me, gave him to me, and I
Speaker 2: put him on, and I swear to god, it sounded
Speaker 2: like I had earbuds in in the crazy, even though
Speaker 2: it was just simply bone conduction from the the ear arm.
Speaker 2: I guess you could say of the of the glasses
Speaker 2: going behind my ear bone.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The Majawas were like that, but they were a little
Speaker 1: tinmy I thought.
Speaker 2: This sounded great, This sounded great, and he said these
Speaker 2: were only like three ninety nine. The new the new
Speaker 2: Meta ray bands, the ones that with the hud Sean mentioned,
Speaker 2: those are like eight ninety nine and they come with
Speaker 2: a little wrist thing where you can do like wrist
Speaker 2: movements and then it will like make the screen change
Speaker 2: or whatever. I don't know, but I gotta say, just
Speaker 2: listening for a couple of minutes with the original rate
Speaker 2: of Meta ray bands, the sound quality was actually really good.
Speaker 1: To make you want to get one. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: not quite. There's so many privacy things with those though,
Speaker 1: I mean is Iniry.
Speaker 2: Though, well yeah, because he's like, well, the whole recording thing.
Speaker 2: He's like, uh, you know, people sell these stickers that
Speaker 2: you can put over the lens or not the lens,
Speaker 2: but the.
Speaker 1: Light that shines up.
Speaker 2: But the thing is is Meta has actually a they
Speaker 2: have an IR sensor inside of the light itself or
Speaker 2: some sort of a sensor that determines if you're blocking
Speaker 2: the light, it won't allow you to record.
Speaker 1: H Okay.
Speaker 2: So all these people that are selling these things like, hey,
Speaker 2: buy these stickers to block the lights, and people don't
Speaker 2: know you're recording. It doesn't work because Meta blocks you
Speaker 2: from doing that.
Speaker 1: So but I do like that.
Speaker 2: I do like the ability, Like if I'm out on
Speaker 2: the street or whatever and I need to record something quickly,
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily have the time to grab my phone,
Speaker 2: you know. And yes, I get it, okay, Oh, doubletop
Speaker 2: the power button to bring up the camera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I get it. Okay.
Speaker 2: But field is tap your glasses once and then being
Speaker 2: able to look at whatever you're looking at is being recorded.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. I know somebody that is using
Speaker 1: it as a replacement for a dash cam, which you know,
Speaker 1: reallys are great. But when he goes for a drive,
Speaker 1: if it's during the day, it'll just pop pop the uh,
Speaker 1: the Meta's in and that becomes his dashcam. And I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess that works pretty good. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would anticipate that we're going to see more of
Speaker 1: that technology and they're going to make a better, better
Speaker 1: batteryly life. I know that the newest metas you get
Speaker 1: a longer battery life with them, so and that works
Speaker 1: out pretty good. Here's a couple of silly ideas though.
Speaker 1: At ces Samsung as part of its update to the
Speaker 1: Family Hub where there's no there's no handles on this refrigerator.
Speaker 1: So now using oh boy, big spe remember big sb Uh.
Speaker 2: You know I don't remember big spe because busy sucks.
Speaker 1: Bigsby was just you could tell it open the door
Speaker 1: or shut the fridge door. You know, I could see
Speaker 1: it telling me that I shouldn't be eating anymore and
Speaker 1: not opening it for me anymore. I want the left
Speaker 1: umber pizza though, please, Big sb No.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: The other one is coffee makers that are now voice enabled.
Speaker 1: I see a benefit in this one. When you don't
Speaker 1: want to get up, walk to the fridge, push the
Speaker 1: brew button. Now you could just be laying in bed saying,
Speaker 1: you know, brew me a coffee. Okay, coffee on its leg.
Speaker 1: If it sounds like that, I don't need the coffee.
Speaker 1: And then this is the most ridiculous one. Apparently they're
Speaker 1: working on it. Not available yet. The AI robotic barber Okay, no, no, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: I mean one could go wrong. You have a robot
Speaker 1: cutting your hair.
Speaker 2: Sweet imagine if the barber that the AI barber got
Speaker 2: a got a razor shave license.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, you're not getting.
Speaker 3: We're just when I saw though, it's called a toilet
Speaker 3: mounted computer that uses cameras and microphones.
Speaker 1: No, are you kidding me? One more time? One more time?
Speaker 1: Say that one more time, please.
Speaker 3: A toilet mounted computer that uses cameras and microphones to
Speaker 3: analyze your bowel movements. Designed to establish a personal baseline
Speaker 3: for your bathroom habits.
Speaker 1: You can't get more personal than that.
Speaker 3: But you just talked about you know you're gonna see
Speaker 3: more technology cameras everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there you go. Oh yes, you're having too
Speaker 1: much fun with that, all right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean outside outside of the weird stuff, right, It's just
Speaker 3: there was AI in just about everything, yes, and well.
Speaker 2: They were, they were having what was it the Jensen
Speaker 2: Jensen Wang, the CEO of Nvidia, all right, went on
Speaker 2: stage for like a keynote, and he said the word
Speaker 2: AI like twenty five times in like five minutes.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it was. It was ridiculous. Yeah, like, enough
Speaker 1: with the AI.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, people don't realize this, but like when
Speaker 2: you're talking about AI, you're thinking, oh cool, this is
Speaker 2: this really cool assistant where I can just ask a
Speaker 2: question and blah blah blah. You don't realize the footprint
Speaker 2: of the data center that has to power this AI. Yeah, this,
Speaker 2: I mean these things take up like hundreds of acres. Well,
Speaker 2: obviously get smarter as humans going on that right now.
Speaker 2: This is just it's not energy efficient. Like if you, okay,
Speaker 2: h Alexa, give me a recipe for you know, chicken catchatory.
Speaker 2: Well that's good it okay, fine, sure you got a
Speaker 2: recipe for kitten chicken catchatory. But you realize that you've
Speaker 2: just taken up about the amount of power it would
Speaker 2: take to power a small African village for six weeks.
Speaker 1: I still't know if it's that just for asking about catchatory.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, regardless if you're using AI or not, the
Speaker 3: data is getting like the powers on at those data centers,
Speaker 3: and we have one that's potentially coming down the road
Speaker 3: from us here in Indiana.
Speaker 2: Right Well, the power is on, but it's not being pulled.
Speaker 2: When these GPUs get used and they're being processing a
Speaker 2: request from a user, they're going to be taking more power.
Speaker 2: The more requests that come in, the more power has
Speaker 2: to be drawn.
Speaker 1: Got it all right? Here's one from Larry Listener, question
Speaker 1: Larry and Tucson said, wondering if you guys is very
Speaker 1: quick to the point, wondering if you guys had checked
Speaker 1: out this game Stardu Valley. Oh, I'm I I know
Speaker 1: nothing about it, I said, I will ask the guys
Speaker 1: because I know nothing about it. Sean, you played that right.
Speaker 3: This is one of those hold on, well, this is
Speaker 3: one of those games that I have.
Speaker 1: I've bought you bought it? Wow, I did, But I am.
Speaker 3: No, I will. I refuse to play it because I
Speaker 3: know I will get sucked in and it'll be everything
Speaker 3: I want.
Speaker 1: To do for the next thank you. Ah. So it's
Speaker 1: an addictive fun is it fun game?
Speaker 3: It's it's yeah, I've heard nothing but great things. It
Speaker 3: falls in line with some games I love growing up
Speaker 3: Harvest Moon sixty four for example, And I know just
Speaker 3: the way I am. I would spend a ridiculous amount
Speaker 3: of time that I don't have in playing this game.
Speaker 1: So I own it.
Speaker 3: I own it, and at some point I will play it,
Speaker 3: but not right now because I don't have time.
Speaker 2: I got Okay, Sean, do you understand that the basis
Speaker 2: of Stardow Valley was okay? First off, the game was
Speaker 2: made by one guy It was made by one person,
Speaker 2: and it continues to this day to be made by
Speaker 2: one person. This person created that game out of frustration
Speaker 2: for Harvest Moon not coming out with a new game.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: He wanted the new Harvest Moon and they would not
Speaker 2: release it, so he said, fine, I'm gonna make my
Speaker 2: own game based on a Harvest Moon yep, but with
Speaker 2: an extra story. So yes, this game was created by
Speaker 2: one person. Sean is correct. This game is so addicting.
Speaker 1: I've put.
Speaker 2: About one hundred hours into the game.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: My mom, however, I introduced her to that game. She
Speaker 2: this game was the reason why mom bought a Steam deck.
Speaker 2: You have a PC or a console, she bought a Steam.
Speaker 1: Deck for this game. My mom has put over seven
Speaker 1: hundred hours into Stardow Valley. All right, Stardu Valley, Our
Speaker 1: listeners can want to look it up. One joke before
Speaker 1: we go to a break. Are you ready? Why did
Speaker 1: the computer go to the dentist because it tooth hurt?
Speaker 1: Which kind of tooth.
Speaker 3: Because it took a micro bite no to.
Speaker 1: Get his bluetooth checked. Oh, we'll be right back. I'm
Speaker 1: Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2: And I'm justin Let me have plenty more better jokes
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 1: But we'll be right back and now fact to tech
Speaker 1: talk radio. Be sorry, really bad one.
Speaker 3: Here's another one of my favorites. All right, out of
Speaker 3: all the nights of the round Table, who is the
Speaker 3: least recognized?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 3: Sircumference?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Okay, you know what I'm done? Good night, guys.
Speaker 1: All right? Wait, do you guys get ridiculous text messages? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right? And how do you handle it? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: I got one today. It says hello Andy Taylor and
Speaker 1: there was no space between hello, So obviously you know
Speaker 1: that was just a notes. No, that was the way
Speaker 1: why you're way you're looking at I put it in
Speaker 1: the notes says happy New Year? Are she still at
Speaker 1: Tucson of America?
Speaker 2: What the heck is Tucson of America?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Maybe we should get together sometimes. And the thing
Speaker 1: is I have friends that are always so proud that
Speaker 1: they were able to interact with these obviously spams, And
Speaker 1: they say, how I treat you? Treating a skimp, scammer
Speaker 1: and a spammer. However, this is not a good idea.
Speaker 1: You get these texts, don't reply to it, even to
Speaker 1: say stop refly replying means that that's a real number.
Speaker 1: They don't know. It just goes goes out. Obviously they
Speaker 1: have info they've bought, they've got on a database somewhere.
Speaker 1: Do not click any links, definitely don't do that, and
Speaker 1: do not provide any personal infos such as address financial details,
Speaker 1: social media handles, and do block the senders number immediately.
Speaker 1: You can call it spam, all right, Just yeah, totally
Speaker 1: something to think about.
Speaker 2: Obviously, my pixel phone handles most of my spam for me,
Speaker 2: so I don't Pixel good. And that's what I love
Speaker 2: about the phones. They're so good at screening calls. They're
Speaker 2: so good at screening spam, right, I hardly.
Speaker 3: Use Usually mine comes up that says possible spam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same here, possible spam when yeah, But mine, I've
Speaker 2: got mindset a little bit higher where obviously if it
Speaker 2: says possible spam, it just automatically denies it. Now I
Speaker 2: have gotten legitimate phone calls that have gone straight to
Speaker 2: spam from people at my office and they finally get
Speaker 2: a hold of me some a different way and they're like,
Speaker 2: every time I call you, it goes straight to voicemail.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, well, because your number is coming
Speaker 2: up as spam and he's like, yeah, I bought this
Speaker 2: phone and it used to the number used to belong
Speaker 2: to some Oh never thought of a flower company or
Speaker 2: whatever that went out of business or you know, something
Speaker 2: like that. And I'm like, well, like I can't help that,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: I found a website, flash museum dot org. Be careful
Speaker 1: of the website you visit when you see those videos
Speaker 1: online on Facebook. Here's a website usually UTA know about,
Speaker 1: but I did check this one out. Games you can
Speaker 1: play online. One of the games I played was Tuper
Speaker 1: Tario Tros. It's basically Super Mario Brothers. But again all
Speaker 1: flash games. But again, careful of these websites. What was
Speaker 1: it again, flash museum dot org. And is my childhood
Speaker 1: right there? Right? All right? So many games on here,
Speaker 1: and then they got Jack Smith.
Speaker 3: There are so many games on here that I used
Speaker 3: to play Flash Gas. Oh, I know what I'm doing
Speaker 3: for the rest of the night.
Speaker 1: Now, oh great, all right, that's it for this week's
Speaker 1: Tech Talk Radio. While Sean goes off and plays game
Speaker 1: Justin looks for new jokes, and we'll have more of
Speaker 1: tech Talk Radio next week. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
Speaker 1: de Weird and I'm Justin.
Speaker 2: Let me find us on the web at tech talk
Speaker 2: radio dot com.
Speaker 1: Have yourselves a great week. We'll see you