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Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de weirdt Slick, and I'm justin.
Speaker 4: Welcome to have you guys here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome. We missed you last week, justin you were.
Speaker 1: In Viva Las Vegas thinking about Viva Los Vegas obviously
Speaker 1: did not win.
Speaker 4: Oh god, no, do you think I'd be here?
Speaker 1: Do you you remember the last time all three, well
Speaker 1: three of us, Sean, unfortunately, we missed you. It was
Speaker 1: during CS that we went to Vegas.
Speaker 4: I was doing do you know what? Do you know
Speaker 4: how much Vegas has changed since then? Really it's not
Speaker 4: even recognizable anymore to when we were back what was
Speaker 4: at twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, whatever, I mean, it's yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, just so much has changed. Uh, you know
Speaker 4: when I was there the morning, the morning that I
Speaker 4: arrived obviously was before I arrived because they did it
Speaker 4: at like two o'clock in the morning, but they imploded
Speaker 4: the Tropicana.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask if you you saw them
Speaker 1: do that, or at least I didn't see it, but
Speaker 1: my co workers who were there.
Speaker 4: So I was there for a conference, the World Water
Speaker 4: Park Association conference at the Paris Las Vegas. But some
Speaker 4: of my co workers who had been there, you know,
Speaker 4: arrived the day before. They walked out there and at
Speaker 4: literally like two in the morning and went and watched it.
Speaker 4: They said, it was really really cool. But yeah, the
Speaker 4: Tropican is gone, and that's right across the street from
Speaker 4: the Luxor. That's that's where we were staying when we
Speaker 4: were there for ces. But what's going in its place?
Speaker 4: Can you guess?
Speaker 3: Oh? Is it gonna be a ball the ballpark right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the new ballpark for the Athletics.
Speaker 1: Wait, so you're gonna be driving down the strip and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a baseball stadium right.
Speaker 4: There right there.
Speaker 3: That's that's kind of weird.
Speaker 4: And then you'll have the lux sore, and then behind
Speaker 4: the Luxor you'll have, uh, what is that Allegiant stadium?
Speaker 4: That really horrible NFL team that's like Tom Brady partially
Speaker 4: owns Now.
Speaker 1: Don't sugarcoat your feelings there. But from what I understand, though.
Speaker 4: Matt's not here, so I can talk about it.
Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: But from what I understand is you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: great view of the baseball stadium from the lux Is
Speaker 1: it the Luxor or whatever hotel is there, or they're
Speaker 1: building a hotel.
Speaker 4: Well, MGM Grand is on one corner, Luxor is on
Speaker 4: the other, and then I guess.
Speaker 3: Ex Caliber, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think they said that the views are going to
Speaker 4: come from the Luxor because that's the taller of the two,
Speaker 4: But I'm not exactly sure how the stadium is going
Speaker 4: to be laid out. If I were a guessing person,
Speaker 4: I would think that they're probably gonna have an open
Speaker 4: air back and they're going to face the back to
Speaker 4: the northwest, which will then overlook all of the hotels
Speaker 4: in the strip. So like when you're sitting at home Plate,
Speaker 4: you know, or whatever, you're looking out and you're seeing
Speaker 4: the strip. That's that's my guess.
Speaker 1: Did you know when you go to Vegas, Sean, have
Speaker 1: you ever been in Las Vegas twice? Where do you
Speaker 1: normally stay that everybody has their preference.
Speaker 2: I honestly don't remember where we stayed because it was
Speaker 2: no It was off Fremont Street, Dishkow. I went twice
Speaker 2: and it was once was it was on my way
Speaker 2: to San Diego when I moved out there in twenty eleven,
Speaker 2: so I was with my mom. So as exciting as
Speaker 2: that sounds, right, it's like what was my mom? And
Speaker 2: then the second time, the second time I went, it
Speaker 2: was when I moved back from San Diego in July
Speaker 2: of twenty thirteen, and we got caught in a monsoon
Speaker 2: and more than like it was impossible to do anything,
Speaker 2: like our hotel had like a foot of water in
Speaker 2: the in the lobby, like I remembers, like we didn't
Speaker 2: we didn't have It was a worthless experience, like we
Speaker 2: went eate dinner and went to sleep. That was it.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what, that's probably the best thing that
Speaker 4: could happen to you in Vegas to be on us,
Speaker 4: probably because I mean, but when I would mentioned that
Speaker 4: Vegas was unrecognizable, it is also unattainable. I mean picture this.
Speaker 4: I mean I'm staying at the Paris, which is right
Speaker 4: on the strip, you know, so so yes, obviously everything
Speaker 4: on the strip is going to be more expensive. A
Speaker 4: bottle of Dasani water seven fifty for a bottle of water. Yeah,
Speaker 4: for a pack of smokes, which I don't smoke anymore,
Speaker 4: but I just happened to be in line and the
Speaker 4: guy got a pack of smokes. Twenty three dollars no way,
Speaker 4: Yeah for a pack of smokes. Wow, It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Didn't it used to be.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember going to you know, going with
Speaker 1: my my parents when I was a kid, and we'd
Speaker 1: stay at the well heck, I think we would stay
Speaker 1: at the Tropicana.
Speaker 4: I remember Sid Sanna or the Filamingo or the Sahara,
Speaker 4: maybe Circus Circus.
Speaker 1: I remember meeting Sid Cherie, you know, the famous you
Speaker 1: know dancer from the time period, and her husband was
Speaker 1: an actor at one of the pools, and it was just,
Speaker 1: you know, it was an experience. But one thing you
Speaker 1: could always count on that two dollars ninety nine cent breakfast.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It was like that is yeah, there's no way in
Speaker 4: heck you're gonna get that anywhere. I had a breakfast
Speaker 4: sandwich at the Paris from Bobby's Burgers, so the famous
Speaker 4: chef Bobby Flay. Oh yeah, yeah. Now, I gotta say
Speaker 4: the sandwich was amazing. It was like a brioche bun.
Speaker 4: Soft scrambled egg folded over with crispy bacon and like
Speaker 4: a thousand Island dressing and potato chips on the burger, right,
Speaker 4: and it was like sixteen dollars. But I'll tell you
Speaker 4: right now, that thing that was actually worth it. I
Speaker 4: mean that that that that tided me through lunch. I
Speaker 4: mean I didn't even have lunch, but I mean just
Speaker 4: the price of everything, Like I bought a Starbucks canned
Speaker 4: coffee that what is that double shot thing? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 4: nine dollars my gosh, you know yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 4: just it's ridiculous. And then try to gamble, Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 4: There's there's I mean, the minimum bet on anything you
Speaker 4: play there is fifteen dollars. What and that's that's the
Speaker 4: court of Spots. Oh well, I mean I down, yeah,
Speaker 4: I place. I play table games, so craps, blackjack, you
Speaker 4: know whatever, fifteen dollars minimum. And that's when you're playing
Speaker 4: at like one pm, when it hits like six pm.
Speaker 4: The minimum tables twenty five dollars, like per bet.
Speaker 3: I remember playing the two dollars tables, you know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I remember I remember you playing the two
Speaker 5: dollar tables. Yes, Andy, Andy, you know what time it
Speaker 5: is Andy, and.
Speaker 4: I lost a couple hundred bucks, you know. I mean,
Speaker 4: I didn't really have a lot of time because I
Speaker 4: was there for a conference and we did the other things.
Speaker 4: But I made a little bit of time. I walked
Speaker 4: down go to the craps table, five minutes later, walk
Speaker 4: back up to my room one hundred dollars for But yeah,
Speaker 4: but here's the cool thing though. The room that I got,
Speaker 4: I don't know how I got it. It was booked
Speaker 4: through my company, but it was on the twenty fifth
Speaker 4: floor facing the sphere. Oh oh to see that, well
Speaker 4: kind of it was behind the Horseshoe because the Horseshoe
Speaker 4: is adjacent to the Paris So I only got to
Speaker 4: see the top maybe maybe the top quarter of it, right,
Speaker 4: But that's all I needed. That thing is so insanely bright,
Speaker 4: Like I had to close. I had to do the
Speaker 4: blackout curtains, and I thought, you know, I thought, no,
Speaker 4: no worries, this thing will turn off at midnight. Nope, no,
Speaker 4: three in the morning. It is still going strong.
Speaker 5: Vega.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I I wake up. I woke up
Speaker 4: at three in the morning. I look out the window
Speaker 4: and I see the top of the sphere, and just
Speaker 4: so happens at that exact moment was the big smiley
Speaker 4: face winking at me, and I'm like, I said some
Speaker 4: choice words. I can't see him on the radio, but
Speaker 4: I said some choice words at the sphere, and I
Speaker 4: went back to bed and I closed the blackout curtains.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't understand how they can heap are
Speaker 1: are going to be able to maintain the luminosity of
Speaker 1: the spear with the heat that they have in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about the heat that just does
Speaker 1: not give up. I don't know, Slick Sean, Maybe is
Speaker 1: there special because you work with outdoor screens and and
Speaker 1: that stuff. Is there special material that they have on
Speaker 1: this stuff?
Speaker 4: You have no idea to be money money, money, it's
Speaker 4: coded in money.
Speaker 2: They're they're gonna have to just they're probably replacing panels
Speaker 2: every day on that thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a special on Uh was it Times Square and
Speaker 5: us specially when they were putting up the billboards and
Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff Electure and they were talking about, uh,
Speaker 5: they literally you know, they have all these spare panels
Speaker 5: and have to replace them constantly, and it's it's literally
Speaker 5: plug and play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely plug and play. But I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 4: I bend a Times square and I'm sure you know
Speaker 4: some of you have too. I remember walking through Times
Speaker 4: We're in the dead of winter, and when those LED panels,
Speaker 4: those billboards would light up, you could feel the heat
Speaker 4: off of them. And we're talking led. I can't even
Speaker 4: imagine standing next to the sphere and what that would
Speaker 4: feel like, like the feeling of the solar radiation from
Speaker 4: that thing.
Speaker 1: You know, It's funny because in developing the sphere, I
Speaker 1: don't know, do you guys remember I don't remember any
Speaker 1: discussion about it, any talking about it. This is it
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden boom.
Speaker 3: It was there.
Speaker 1: You two was going to be the opening act and
Speaker 1: this thing was going to be able to change. And
Speaker 1: I've seen the yellow face people flying out of Vegas
Speaker 1: with the looking at them while they were flying.
Speaker 4: Well, there's there's you know it faces the golf course.
Speaker 4: I think it's the wind golf course, and it perfectly
Speaker 4: lines up with the eighteenth hole. And so what they
Speaker 4: did is they actually programmed the sphere to have the
Speaker 4: blink the smiley face look down at the eighteenth hole.
Speaker 3: Green oh and laugh, oh. That's great.
Speaker 4: So if you're on the eighteenth Green and you miss
Speaker 4: a putt, you look up, the thing's gonna be laughing
Speaker 4: at you.
Speaker 3: It's I mean, it's pretty cool. One of the things
Speaker 3: you don't have to pay for in Vegas to see it.
Speaker 3: It's there.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeaeah, no, it's cool. But I mean, honestly, I mean,
Speaker 4: Vegas is Vegas, Vegas is is is It's It's like
Speaker 4: nothing I've ever seen in my life. I mean, Vegas
Speaker 4: is a unique place. And granted, they are trying to
Speaker 4: rebrand themselves as instead of the debauchery capital of the world,
Speaker 4: it's trying to become more of the family friendly entertainment
Speaker 4: capital of the world. And right they're slowly getting there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but you know, you don't see the kind of stuff
Speaker 4: that you used to see on the side of the
Speaker 4: strip where they're handing out you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the night.
Speaker 1: You're walking, you're walking with your wife or husband and
Speaker 1: someone hands you a card. It's got you know, somebody's
Speaker 1: not wearing very much clothing to come see them at
Speaker 1: some club where they dance, or.
Speaker 4: To give them a call and they'll come visit your rooms. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, like, yeah, you don't see that very often anymore.
Speaker 4: But still you still see some stuff like that. But
Speaker 4: you also don't really see the debauchery on the streets anymore,
Speaker 4: like people just walking around drunk or whatever. Like the
Speaker 4: police do a pretty good job. And I'll tell you
Speaker 4: the Las Vegas Metro police, yeah, do not look like
Speaker 4: police officers. They look like a military.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, God, these guys are wide.
Speaker 4: Around with full ar fifteen rifles strapped to their chest,
Speaker 4: body proof, you know, armor everywhere, tactical helmets, I mean,
Speaker 4: and that's just their daily ware.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: I've heard like like last time I went there, last
Speaker 1: few times, I said, it's a stratosphere.
Speaker 3: Uh and you know, I liked it was. It was nice.
Speaker 1: It's comfortable skits down away from a lot of that activity.
Speaker 1: But I've heard like polics like Bolaggio and Venetian and
Speaker 1: all of that, you can go and not even leave
Speaker 1: that property, oh and have you could be fine, you
Speaker 1: know the same with the Paris.
Speaker 4: I mean, so so some of these, some of these
Speaker 4: places are actually interconnected because I mean you think about it.
Speaker 4: One company owns blocks, ye like MGM owns MGM. It
Speaker 4: owns the luxel Vally caliber, the New York, New York.
Speaker 4: You've got you know, you've got win Owns, you know,
Speaker 4: the win the uh gosh aria Y, you know other places, right,
Speaker 4: So they interconnect these places, so like the Paris is
Speaker 4: interconnected to the Venetian and the Horseshoe which used to
Speaker 4: be Bally's. And then you got like, you know, Bellagio's
Speaker 4: connected to I don't know whatever's next door to that one,
Speaker 4: but I'd tell you one cool thing that is actually
Speaker 4: really cool is leaving when we're coming back, coming from
Speaker 4: the airport to the hotel, they're getting set up for
Speaker 4: the F one Grand Prix, which they signed a ten
Speaker 4: year agreement to have F one in Vegas. So it
Speaker 4: is completely transformed the strip because now half of the
Speaker 4: rip is shut up, like for instance, the famous Bolagio fountains. Right,
Speaker 4: you can no longer just walk right in front of
Speaker 4: the Bollagio. It's a giant grand stand, a permanent like
Speaker 4: a permanent stand. Oh that's gonna be semi permanent until
Speaker 4: the half one leaves ten years from now. But you
Speaker 4: cannot just walk the strip and walk right by the
Speaker 4: fountains and go, oh look the fountains. No, because there's
Speaker 4: a like a four story grand stand that is semi
Speaker 4: permanently put in place.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: And in all the roads too, Like the roads they
Speaker 4: have the permanent you know, concrete dividers with the chain
Speaker 4: link fences you would think like that are getting set
Speaker 4: up for an F one race. They've got those everywhere.
Speaker 4: And so when it's normal traffic, normal day, people are
Speaker 4: literally just driving on the track that is going to
Speaker 4: be an F one track.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: For the race weekend they shut it down.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you coming up of course, got another
Speaker 1: CEES consumer electronics show put on by.
Speaker 3: The happening Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And they're they're already they're already taking pre redg and
Speaker 1: doing that all because it will happen in January of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. But when do we go We're going, right,
Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm wondering. I mean, is that something?
Speaker 1: Do you think it still serves a huge purpose to
Speaker 1: go to CDs that question? Sean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it does. I mean, consumer electronics aren't
Speaker 2: going away right, search Amazon for what you want now?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, but you think it's worth it to
Speaker 4: put your hands on these things and these prototypes and
Speaker 4: see this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do from a consumer. From a consumer standpoint,
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be honest, right, the Consumer Electronic Show
Speaker 2: is about networking, and it's about businesses getting their hands
Speaker 2: on the new stuff that they're going to sell out
Speaker 2: their stores, right, that's what CS is. But it's a
Speaker 2: great place for the tech enthusiasts to get their hands
Speaker 2: on new stuff and play around with it. And that's
Speaker 2: an invaluable it's invaluable, right, I think it's not as
Speaker 2: valuable as it once was where the information was his
Speaker 2: widespread agree where you had to source your information a
Speaker 2: little bit more strategically. Yeah, well, but now you've got
Speaker 2: you know, we're a podcast. They're a podcast. Everybody is podcast, right,
Speaker 2: So it's like everybody and their brother a podcast. Okay,
Speaker 2: everybody and their brother is a tech reviewer. And it's
Speaker 2: in the world of the internet. And even from the
Speaker 2: time you guys went back in twenty seventeen, whatever, how
Speaker 2: much technology in the landscape of tech review has changed.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one of the best time, Slick. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you remember as well back and.
Speaker 3: Justin I think you were.
Speaker 1: Were you in San Diego in two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: or two thousand and eight actually and eight.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, the Navy in two thousand and eight went
Speaker 4: straight to San Diego yep.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so it was two thousand and eight for Cees.
Speaker 1: We were just goofing around with the idea and Slick said,
Speaker 1: why don't we try and get one of these companies
Speaker 1: used to give us a car to drive to Vegas yep?
Speaker 1: And Ford said, sure, here you go. They gave us
Speaker 1: a Ford Flex that we drove from from Tucson to
Speaker 1: They have somebody deliver it to my house and we
Speaker 1: drove it from Tucson to.
Speaker 4: And then what did you have to do in return?
Speaker 4: Just kind of like review it? Just reviewed it.
Speaker 1: I drove it to the TV station when we got back,
Speaker 1: and we showed the inside, showed what it looked like,
Speaker 1: talked about talked about the drive and.
Speaker 3: It was good. It was great.
Speaker 4: Can you can you talk to your boy Elon and
Speaker 4: get us a cyber truck? That's what I was about
Speaker 4: to say, robotaxi.
Speaker 5: But there now there are quite a few electric vehicles
Speaker 5: out there is we don't have to just talk to Elon.
Speaker 5: We can talk. Yeah, there's the one at cast A
Speaker 5: Grand what's a I'm trying to remember the name of
Speaker 5: their Yeah, they built am a castle grand I'm.
Speaker 1: Just saying, we can get a cyber truck though, and
Speaker 1: we could start hear me and Slick.
Speaker 2: I don't I would not want one.
Speaker 3: We could drive.
Speaker 1: We could drive to Indiana, pick up pick up Sean,
Speaker 1: then drive to Colorado, pick up justin, then drive to Vegas.
Speaker 2: He sounds like that sounds like a logistical nightmare.
Speaker 5: Yeah, here's a problem with the cyber truck. Let's let's
Speaker 5: say we were parking somewhere we're not supposed to be
Speaker 5: and Elon finds us, you know on the satellites. Did
Speaker 5: you hear about him disabling that cyber truck?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Really, yeah, yeah, he remotely disabled the cyber Sean's as
Speaker 5: Google foo out.
Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, I want to see this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but this was I don't remember what country it is,
Speaker 5: and it's but it was, uh, some guy. It was
Speaker 5: you know, one of the military countries if you.
Speaker 4: Will, oh that it was the Russian warlord guy. And
Speaker 4: then what they did is they put a fifty cal
Speaker 4: machine gun on the back of the cyber truck and
Speaker 4: they were like, yeah, look at the new cyber truck.
Speaker 4: And it was like a Russian forces like the back vehicle,
Speaker 4: and Elon's like, yeah, that's a big nope. Yeah, like
Speaker 4: this disabled the car, and.
Speaker 5: This thing was Elon gave this to me. And Elon
Speaker 5: was like, I don't know, one, we don't know if
Speaker 5: he really gave it to him. He never denied. But
Speaker 5: as soon as it got out, like the guy Eli
Speaker 5: gave this to me, well, let me just turn that off.
Speaker 4: I honestly, I'm not getting into a war political discussion,
Speaker 4: but I think that's kind of funny that everyone could
Speaker 4: just be like, yeah, nope and then just disabled the car.
Speaker 3: You know what I think is really hilarious.
Speaker 1: One of the stories I've heard about the self driving
Speaker 1: vehicles and the electric vehicles that we've never really thought about.
Speaker 1: And there has been times, of course where people will
Speaker 1: get a car and it's just not all that, you know,
Speaker 1: not what they can afford, and time goes and they
Speaker 1: miss a payment here or miss payment there. These cars
Speaker 1: can repo themselves, yeah, and that they will basically if
Speaker 1: think about it, you know, if the person you bought
Speaker 1: it from or the dealer just says, well they haven't
Speaker 1: made a payment in two three, you know months, we'll
Speaker 1: repo the car themselves and it'll.
Speaker 3: I mean go home.
Speaker 4: Tesla's got that new feature. Now what is that actually
Speaker 4: smart summon But that is what they would use to
Speaker 4: if you want to summon your vehicle from the parking
Speaker 4: lot or whatever. But that but that also means that
Speaker 4: the car itself can then just go nope and go
Speaker 4: right back to the dealership.
Speaker 1: All right, So if each one of you could drive
Speaker 1: a vehicle to go to Vegas for CS, what would
Speaker 1: you want to drive?
Speaker 3: Justin? I mean you already have a Tesla, would you want.
Speaker 4: To I would want to drive a Tesla model S plaid.
Speaker 3: A plaid What is that?
Speaker 4: That's their top of the line. It's their best of
Speaker 4: the best, most luxurious, fastest, best.
Speaker 3: Car they of a you shun man.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't been really following electronic car like anything pick anything.
Speaker 3: Hold In s s A Holden SS Really what is that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right, it's so Holden is really GM's Australian offshoot of GM.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so think.
Speaker 2: Of a lot of like GM cars in the US.
Speaker 2: They look like the same cars, but they're mate sold
Speaker 2: in Australia. It's their Va supercar basically will drive zillion
Speaker 2: horsepower right, but holding s want to Yeah, they made
Speaker 2: a version of it in the US. They made a
Speaker 2: version of the Chevy SS in the US I think
Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen. Maybe didn't sell well, but
Speaker 2: like what making it? But that that's my dream car,
Speaker 2: like you have and you drive a right hand drive.
Speaker 2: Holding SS.
Speaker 1: Wasn't the Holding the base model for Mad Max's vehicle
Speaker 1: in the original mad I think.
Speaker 2: It was, I think, But yeah, so the whole the
Speaker 2: whole SS is or for a Ford Falcon or a
Speaker 2: common or a Commodore. Oh boy, I like the Australian cars.
Speaker 2: I really followed the V eight supercars.
Speaker 4: For a long time. I'm looking at a picture shot.
Speaker 4: Is this your car your dreams?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Well, no, that's that's that's the ute version, right, there's
Speaker 2: there's there's.
Speaker 3: That's horrific looking.
Speaker 4: I mean it looks like the el Camino.
Speaker 2: It's probably the the ute SS. I have to look
Speaker 2: at that one.
Speaker 4: Well, that says the holding Carmodor Sorry, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's that's the Commoner. So the Commoore is like the
Speaker 2: al Camino.
Speaker 4: I mean that still looks pretty.
Speaker 1: Sick, but yeah, I think it looks sick as ugly.
Speaker 1: It's just that's horrendous.
Speaker 4: It's unique.
Speaker 3: Oh there you go. How about you?
Speaker 5: You know what I really did enjoy when we had
Speaker 5: the Ford Flex. I really did so either something very
Speaker 5: similar to it with all ticked out, with all the
Speaker 5: ports and all that kind of stuff, or if we
Speaker 5: could get it, or if I could get it like
Speaker 5: an electric motor.
Speaker 3: Home or something just you know, electric motory.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I'm just saying, you're saying if
Speaker 5: I could, if I had a car.
Speaker 4: It would be even feasible with the with the with
Speaker 4: the electric fan. Well, no electric van, sure, I think
Speaker 4: they got they got the toyotas. I think they have
Speaker 4: an electric vanmaz A motor home though, would be interesting
Speaker 4: to see. But I think just with the given state
Speaker 4: of how big the batteries are and how much torque
Speaker 4: and power a motor home would need, I think you
Speaker 4: would just end up like being over the limit of
Speaker 4: weight to your wander thrust ratio. I don't think it
Speaker 4: would be feasible. Maybe in the future it would be, right.
Speaker 5: I just want a bunch of captain chairs in it,
Speaker 5: with ports and you know, satellite link and all that
Speaker 5: kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they'll just get you the Star Trek thing.
Speaker 5: Oh you mean the shuttle, Sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could fly it there.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that sees it will probably
Speaker 1: see for twenty twenty five is the flying vehicles, personal
Speaker 1: flying vehicles taxis.
Speaker 3: Every year they kind of come up with a different
Speaker 3: iteration of it.
Speaker 1: We'll see a lot of electronic vehicles, you know, vehicles,
Speaker 1: we'll probably see I think this year we're going to
Speaker 1: see more technology geared at home entertainment that it's taking
Speaker 1: kind of a break in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: Do you think that will be the theme? Because remember
Speaker 4: the theme that was going on when we were there
Speaker 4: back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Was drones, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: It was drones? Yeah, everything drones. Sean would have just
Speaker 4: been like a kid in a candy store.
Speaker 2: I was, even though I wasn't there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was all I was.
Speaker 2: I was. I was in the thick of it, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is is, what do you think
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a I.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's integration with AI.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I think we're going to see like
Speaker 4: personal AI assistance, like the Tesla one.
Speaker 3: Did that really happen? Did they really have robots walking around?
Speaker 4: No way, No, they were being remotely controlled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see announcement of newer phones
Speaker 2: with AI. I think you're going to see advancements in
Speaker 2: whatever Apple does with their I don't want to even
Speaker 2: call it Apple Intelligence because I think that's stupid. But
Speaker 2: I think you're just gonna see, Like I think Justice
Speaker 2: is right, I think you're going to see a push
Speaker 2: on personal AI, personalized AI right, Like you can buy
Speaker 2: jat GPT and do more with it for the paid version,
Speaker 2: but I think you're going to get your own paid
Speaker 2: version that will learn more directly from you in your
Speaker 2: daily habits. And I think you're gonna be able to
Speaker 2: tie it into everything in your daily life. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be able to track you. It's gonna be able to automate.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be able to learn your life. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be able to track you. It's gonna be able to adapt,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be able to that's gonna be automate your life.
Speaker 3: Per Yeah, all right, tell you what we get the movie? Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna we gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We come back though, we've got listener questions. Uh, we've
Speaker 1: got more tech for you. You can submit your question
Speaker 1: tech guys at tech talk radio dot com. I'm Andy Taylor,
Speaker 1: I'm Sean de Weird, I am slick, and I'm justin.
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Speaker 4: All right, we have a listener question. It says, Hello, guys,
Speaker 4: this is from Bruce all right, Tucson. Does I need
Speaker 4: a device that I can hook up to my smart
Speaker 4: TVs so I can independently control the volume in a headset?
Speaker 4: I see some devices that make claims but have horrible
Speaker 4: consumer ratings. Any ideas?
Speaker 1: I got one for a product I just looked at, Uh,
Speaker 1: just looked at the new Roku Ultra, and I mean,
Speaker 1: if you have a pair of Bluetooth headphones, you can
Speaker 1: use the remote the new They've got a new two
Speaker 1: point zero voice remote to control the volume, and it
Speaker 1: would control the volume in the Bluetooth headphones.
Speaker 4: So I've got a pair of like bows right, like
Speaker 4: headphones that I use and I connect them up to
Speaker 4: my TV and I just use the volume control and
Speaker 4: the bows to adjust it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure if I understand. Now, are you
Speaker 4: a head set? Are you connected via Bluetooth to the TV? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that Yeah, a Bluetooth device rather than just
Speaker 1: a headset plugged into the TV should work fine, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to go bluetooth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you if you have a Roku TV,
Speaker 2: you can get the official This is on iPhone, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it works in Android. You can get the official
Speaker 2: app and you could do personal listening. Right so I
Speaker 2: could pop in my aarpods, open the app, control my
Speaker 2: phone and it controls the volume to my earbuds. Oh,
Speaker 2: I can take the TV volume right into my earbuds
Speaker 2: right right or whatever whatever Bluetooth headphones I have pointed
Speaker 2: in and then that way I can also control the TV.
Speaker 2: I can, you know, go to my all. It's really great.
Speaker 2: We use it all the time. When Max takes the remote,
Speaker 2: we don't know where it goes.
Speaker 1: I still didn't you buy him a remote, like for
Speaker 1: a twenty dollars remote, so you can have We just put.
Speaker 2: To Amazon and bought another Roken remote and took the
Speaker 2: batteries out of it.
Speaker 1: I have found this works great for kids because August,
Speaker 1: my grandson was over even just this morning. Give him
Speaker 1: a keyboard that doesn't even work anymore. They love keys
Speaker 1: and is teaching them abcdp.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's actually a really good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So if you've got like an old mechanical one, because
Speaker 4: then it makes sounds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they even like that more. I have an old
Speaker 1: Linux one as well that he's been having fun with.
Speaker 1: That's a Raspberry Pie based and it's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not connected to anything, but he just loves although he
Speaker 1: was putting a blueberry on the raspberry on the raspberry
Speaker 1: pie button, like, don't do that, kid, get ruined the keyboard.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, so, Bruce, I think honestly, I mean,
Speaker 4: if unless you're talking about like only wanting a wired headset,
Speaker 4: you know, in that case, I'm not exactly sure how
Speaker 4: to answer your question. But otherwise I would say just
Speaker 4: any Bluetooth headset because with that you're gonna have independent
Speaker 4: control in the volume from the headset itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he connecting to a smart TV, most of
Speaker 1: them will do Bluetooth, yes, Sean.
Speaker 2: I will say, I will say there are some. My
Speaker 2: father in law had one of these that took an
Speaker 2: analog out, so you can take a three and a
Speaker 2: half milimeter out to this transmitter and it was like
Speaker 2: a low, low, very low powered FM transmitter.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, all right.
Speaker 2: It would sit behind his TV and you could wear
Speaker 2: it right nearby the TV. If you went more more
Speaker 2: than fifteen or twenty feet away. I've had, I've seen it,
Speaker 2: would it would break up or whatever. But if you
Speaker 2: were within eyesight of the TV worked great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 4: Now what if he's talking about being able to control
Speaker 4: the volume and have the volume come out through the
Speaker 4: TV and a headset, that might be a different whole
Speaker 4: different topic.
Speaker 1: Well, he did say independently control the volume and a headset,
Speaker 1: so I would think maybe he's just worn. But you know,
Speaker 1: the thing is, it's like, if you want to watch
Speaker 1: it without bothering others, then you only have it isolated.
Speaker 1: But if you have it so, you're also turning up
Speaker 1: the volume, you know, for maybe maybe you have a
Speaker 1: little harder time hearing, so you're wearing headsets what I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: But if the family doesn't like it, you know, because
Speaker 1: I have to have the volume louder because I've been
Speaker 1: wearing headphones for what thirty plus years, so my ears
Speaker 1: are you know, pretty much the let the resistance is
Speaker 1: way down there. So people walk into the room and go,
Speaker 1: why you got it so loud?
Speaker 3: I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that could be the case, but I
Speaker 4: mean from based on the question that we received, I
Speaker 4: think Bluetooth is the answer.
Speaker 3: All right, going Bluetooth.
Speaker 5: Are you playing with that Roku ulter yet, the new one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Actually it's it's funny because they did a little test
Speaker 1: on it. So I have Exfinity and I've got, you know,
Speaker 1: a box, and I've got the ability with the Exfinity
Speaker 1: app to go to Disney Plus Hulu through all my accounts, right,
Speaker 1: and it's awful. It's awful using the Exfinity remote to
Speaker 1: be able to go.
Speaker 3: It takes forever. You will have to wait.
Speaker 1: It's awful hooking up the Roku Ultra and going directly
Speaker 1: to those services. Now, the Roku Ultra itself is about
Speaker 1: thirty percent faster, but just using that to get to
Speaker 1: Disney Plus, to get to Hulu, it's like it's like
Speaker 1: a major difference. So it made it so much faster
Speaker 1: for me. It made the experience better. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in that phase now where I may be cutting
Speaker 1: the cord. At some point pretty soon, the wireless or
Speaker 1: ting's service is going to be available in Marana. I'm
Speaker 1: maybe picking that up, and I may go ahead and
Speaker 1: go with YouTube TV like Justin and Sean have recommended,
Speaker 1: and then I'll just keep my subscription services and go
Speaker 1: that route. But having the Roku for those subscription services,
Speaker 1: it's night and day slick.
Speaker 3: It's seriously night and day.
Speaker 5: Does anyone played with the new Google TV streamer yet?
Speaker 4: I finally was able to get two of them. I
Speaker 4: don't have them, but they will be hopefully delivered sometime
Speaker 4: in November. It's so back ordered, but I was able
Speaker 4: to get my orders in.
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty cool that Google TV is
Speaker 1: going to include the Roku channel on their lineup, which
Speaker 1: they said they would do so because you know, Roku
Speaker 1: does offer a lot of offerings. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: don't have to just watch Pluto TV or some of
Speaker 1: the other services.
Speaker 3: Crackles gone, right, am I right?
Speaker 5: Yes? Yeah? They pulled off. Yeah, so that a matter
Speaker 5: of fact, I read the story on it just the
Speaker 5: other day. One company owned four different services. Crackle was
Speaker 5: one of them, and it just you know, just shut
Speaker 5: them all down.
Speaker 1: Right, what's the best, the best one. I think it's Pluto.
Speaker 1: You know, others will say free V. I don't know,
Speaker 1: what do you think.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say it depends is pretty good too, which
Speaker 5: is good. But the interface is ion ion Ion.
Speaker 3: I've never even heard of ion.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of science fiction if I remember correctly.
Speaker 4: Are you talking about streaming for like actual TV shows
Speaker 4: or just streaming services and.
Speaker 5: Like an aggregator?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, creator, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: I was going to highly recommend Nebula.
Speaker 3: Nebula I've heard of that.
Speaker 4: Amula is an amazing So a lot of YouTubers got
Speaker 4: fed up with YouTube's algorithm and they make like science documentaries,
Speaker 4: engineering topics. I mean, you know, actual educational videos that
Speaker 4: are interesting. So they all came together and formed Nebula.
Speaker 4: And I think Nebula is like thirty bucks a year
Speaker 4: and it's all high quality, good content. It's all, you know,
Speaker 4: engaging interesting content. I love Nebula.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to look into that one an I
Speaker 1: on this book. I have always wanted to recommend Plex
Speaker 1: because plex a TV, because I want Plex to be
Speaker 1: around for a while. Because if you think of is
Speaker 1: there any other ballgame in town when it comes to
Speaker 1: your own media. To be able to rip your DVD
Speaker 1: and then put it on your codey uh, but rip
Speaker 1: your DVDs, put it on a service or a drive,
Speaker 1: and then be able to watch it anywhere, which I
Speaker 1: know all of us pretty much do.
Speaker 4: The thing about Plex is I'm sorry, but Plex they
Speaker 4: just can't get out of their own way, right. They
Speaker 4: could be so good, but they just keep screwing things
Speaker 4: up internally and they just can't get out of their
Speaker 4: own dang way.
Speaker 2: Like what the most the most recent one is hilarious
Speaker 2: because they they rolled this out and it was not
Speaker 2: an opt in. It just was you were in it.
Speaker 2: So let's say the four of us you all shared
Speaker 2: my PLEX server, right, okay, and maybe I have some
Speaker 2: adult content on there that you wanted to watch, right,
Speaker 2: and it would give you recommended viewing based on whatever
Speaker 2: other people were watching.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, that's not good.
Speaker 2: It would it would, It would tell me. Here's a
Speaker 2: recap of what Andy watched. Here's a recap of what
Speaker 2: justin watched.
Speaker 5: Oh we don't need to know what Andy watched, but
Speaker 5: people were.
Speaker 2: It was not like I was saying, it was not
Speaker 2: an opt in. It was automatically enabled on every so
Speaker 2: whoever updated to whatever whatever version, it was so all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, all these people were like, why is
Speaker 2: like why am I getting told that my brother's watching
Speaker 2: this video? Or why is you know it? So all
Speaker 2: these the people were so mad that this was enabled
Speaker 2: by default. Right, so you can just imagine, you know,
Speaker 2: could be shot. You know, justica is a show. Sean
Speaker 2: watched fifteen hours of Lord of the Rings or whatever. Right,
Speaker 2: it's like you to see what other people were watching.
Speaker 2: Just just there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, excite a good laugh. But that one my point
Speaker 4: being plex is an amazing platform. Yeah, but it's just
Speaker 4: they keep screwing things up.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, all.
Speaker 1: Right, here's another listener question. Let's go ahead say if
Speaker 1: we can get to this one before we have to
Speaker 1: go to break. But says I always seem to think
Speaker 1: of taxes late in the year. Yeah, it is kind
Speaker 1: of late, isn't it. Are we in October already?
Speaker 3: Says uh, but I we're.
Speaker 4: Talking about taxes. Yeah, gosh, I don't start talking about
Speaker 4: taxes until like end of March.
Speaker 1: So, but I started my own business and realized I
Speaker 1: could write off mileage when it involves work.
Speaker 3: That's a great line. You gotta be careful of that one.
Speaker 1: It says, I don't want to do it in the
Speaker 1: old fashioned way writing down the mileage. I had a
Speaker 1: friend that used to have to do that in a ledger,
Speaker 1: would write down every time he got in a car,
Speaker 1: where he was going, where you'd go, the whole bit.
Speaker 3: Uh. They say, is there a way to track my mileage?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm kind of familiar with it. I've been doing this,
Speaker 1: So there is a couple of options. One of them
Speaker 1: has been letting me down a bit.
Speaker 3: Uh. It's funny.
Speaker 1: That would be the Quick Book Small Business program with mileage.
Speaker 1: And what it does is it allows you to do
Speaker 1: some basic invoicing. But the cost on this is fourteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine a month. Last year it went up from
Speaker 1: nine dollars a month to fourteen ninety nine a month.
Speaker 1: And it does allow you to track your visits when
Speaker 1: you go to one place and then you could say, okay,
Speaker 1: that's personal, that's business by swiping left or rights.
Speaker 3: Like the tender way of doing it right.
Speaker 1: The problem is is that they've had issues lately that
Speaker 1: I do know of, and that's working with both iPhone
Speaker 1: and Android smartphones for tracking the mileage. I dropped quick books,
Speaker 1: but I've kept this and now I'm seeing fourteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I had called technical support who told me that, yes,
Speaker 1: the engineers are having a problem, they're aware of it
Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll have an update soon. It hasn't been
Speaker 1: working for two and a half weeks. I pay fourteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine a month.
Speaker 4: It sounds like you need to get your money back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just I'm wondering if I'd got to do
Speaker 1: that now I did. I've been looking into the options,
Speaker 1: so this is a good this is a good question.
Speaker 1: Mile I is another one sounds interesting. So mile iq
Speaker 1: has three different pricing options. They do one that's absolutely free,
Speaker 1: So if you're a small business and maybe you do
Speaker 1: forty drives every month, you can get it for free
Speaker 1: and you can classify it just like that personal or business.
Speaker 1: I'd recommend if you're doing a personal one, you like
Speaker 1: shut the app out so it doesn't do that. Monthly
Speaker 1: plan is five ninety nine a month for unlimited drive
Speaker 1: tracking and mileage logging, or the annual plan of fifty
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine a year. It's kind of saves you
Speaker 1: about twelve dollars per year. By doing that and that's
Speaker 1: all they do.
Speaker 4: That is just like, that's almost like a no brainer.
Speaker 4: I mean, QuickBooks small business with mileage fourteen ninety nine,
Speaker 4: it's not even working and you're paying fifteen bucks a month,
Speaker 4: whereas mile iq is six bucks a month or this person.
Speaker 3: You could save money and just do it manually.
Speaker 1: But isn't it better if you get some kind of
Speaker 1: log isn't there like car systems like cameras that all
Speaker 1: log for you as well.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that Cobra maybe offers something.
Speaker 4: Well, actually, you know what, if you've got a I
Speaker 4: don't know about I don't know about Apple, I'm assuming
Speaker 4: Apple probably does something very similar. But the thing is,
Speaker 4: if you got an Android phone, or even if you
Speaker 4: just use Google Maps, you can visit, revisit your location
Speaker 4: history anytime in a web browser. And a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't even really realize this.
Speaker 3: Check this out.
Speaker 4: If you use Google Maps or an Android phone or
Speaker 4: even on an iPhone with Google Maps, go to like
Speaker 4: what is it?
Speaker 5: It's your trips or your places.
Speaker 4: Or so next time you're at a computer, literally try this.
Speaker 4: This is really cool. Go to timeline dot Google dot com.
Speaker 4: You can type in any day of the any day,
Speaker 4: any month, any year, and it will tell you where
Speaker 4: you've been. Oh wow, and it will tell you down
Speaker 4: to like the centimeter of where you were. I'm looking
Speaker 4: at mine right now. Obviously I see a bunch of
Speaker 4: mine in Colorado, because that's where I'm at. But I
Speaker 4: also see my old trip back when I went to
Speaker 4: visit my mom in South Dakota, went over to Minneapolis.
Speaker 4: I see my trip to Las Vegas. I see my
Speaker 4: trip to Japan.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: I mean, what is that address again? Timeline dot Google
Speaker 4: dot com?
Speaker 3: Perfect?
Speaker 1: All, are we gonna take another quick break? We come
Speaker 1: back with more of tech Talk Radio. Brand new drone
Speaker 1: in the market, and who's gonna tell us about that?
Speaker 1: And Sean's raising his hands and Justin is thinking about
Speaker 1: getting into something once again, going back to the classics,
Speaker 1: and Sean will have the answer on that one as well.
Speaker 3: With more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
Speaker 3: Sean de Weird.
Speaker 4: All right, slick, and I'm Justin Send us an X
Speaker 4: at tech Talk Radio. We were right back.
Speaker 2: Now back to tiff Talk Radio. Another day.
Speaker 3: Another drone, Oh, another drone? Who's who put this one out?
Speaker 2: DJ? I again, I really think DJI is just cramming
Speaker 2: drones down people's throats to get them into the market
Speaker 2: before any potential passage of the anti drone bill. Because
Speaker 2: the anti Drone Bill, or as they're calling it, the
Speaker 2: Anti the Countering CCP Drones Act, it passed in the
Speaker 2: House and it's up in the Senate, but they're not
Speaker 2: sure when it's gonna actually get discussed in the Senate
Speaker 2: because that could impact any new drones that come on
Speaker 2: the market. Testing drones on the market won't be affected
Speaker 2: by it. So I really think dj I is just
Speaker 2: trying to get as many of their new or like
Speaker 2: they're just on a blitz of just trying to get
Speaker 2: as much hardware in the States and in people's hands
Speaker 2: before this. Billard Pitchers pass.
Speaker 1: Okay, so recently, so recently, Sean, they put out the Neo,
Speaker 1: which people are saying, you could fly it inside.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's my.
Speaker 2: Neo is tiny, It's got the bumpers on, it's very tiny.
Speaker 2: You can fly it inside. You can use gesture commands,
Speaker 2: like you could get that model even without an RC
Speaker 2: for it or a WoT control for it, so you
Speaker 2: can just use gesture and voice commands to fly it.
Speaker 3: What's this new?
Speaker 2: But they just announced on the fifteenth of October the
Speaker 2: DJI Air three S. So they've had the Dji Air,
Speaker 2: then they announced the DJIR two. This, then the three
Speaker 2: This is this is the three S. The big upgrades
Speaker 2: from this one are the new one inch sensor camera.
Speaker 3: Whoa wow.
Speaker 2: So a one inch sensor on a drone is a
Speaker 2: big deal, right, because that's a big sensor for a
Speaker 2: small package, And this actually has two different cameras on it.
Speaker 2: It's got the one inch Simas sensor which offers a
Speaker 2: fifteen to fifty megapixel resolution, and then they have a
Speaker 2: medium telephoto camera with a one and one third inch sensor,
Speaker 2: so significantly smaller, providing up to nine nine times zoom.
Speaker 2: So you have a zoom lens and a static wide angle.
Speaker 2: So the benefit of that is you get the advantages
Speaker 2: of having both right instead of just one doing both functions.
Speaker 2: Improved low light performance one in censored DUH enhanced LIGHTAR
Speaker 2: so a lot of the newer drones have lighter on them,
Speaker 2: which is laser detecting, so it can they're touting that
Speaker 2: this can map and learn your area so that it
Speaker 2: can avoid it's they're saying it's the best avoidance on
Speaker 2: any drone that exists outside of the way way super
Speaker 2: expensive ones. They're touting that this has their best high
Speaker 2: speed tracking, which it says it can track objects up
Speaker 2: to thirty one miles an hour.
Speaker 3: Wow, man, so this thing is quick. What's the flight
Speaker 3: time on it? Do they have it listed?
Speaker 2: They don't see the flight time on this web page,
Speaker 2: but I would imagine it's probably close to thirty this
Speaker 2: says UH, with the intelligent battery, forty five minutes of
Speaker 2: flight time.
Speaker 3: Wowly man, that's good.
Speaker 2: So that they're they're they're good, They're they're key right
Speaker 2: off their website. They're key points right one inch SEAMAS camera,
Speaker 2: seventy milimeters medium tell Us tell A camera, UH, the
Speaker 2: dual camera, four K, sixty fps, panorama mode, nightscape, omni
Speaker 2: directional obstacle sensing, next gen smart are returned to home
Speaker 2: with light R forty five forty five minute flight time.
Speaker 2: And then they're saying this is this has never been
Speaker 2: a realistic expectation for any drone. They're saying, twenty kilometer
Speaker 2: video transmission.
Speaker 3: No way, that's pretty far.
Speaker 2: No, there's no Yeah, that's I've never trusted anything above
Speaker 2: line of sight for any of my drones. So anybody
Speaker 2: trying to push those line of sight things is.
Speaker 4: Tykilometer is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yeah No, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's in perfect conditions.
Speaker 4: So with with a real plane twenty.
Speaker 2: So, uh yeah, it looks it looks pretty sweet. It's
Speaker 2: it's priced to be competitive, right. So the drone plus
Speaker 2: the controller.
Speaker 3: Eleven hundred bucks, that's about what I've spent for my my.
Speaker 2: The fly More combo which has two bad two intelligent
Speaker 2: flight batteries, the controller of the drone fourteen hundred The
Speaker 2: fly More combo with the RC two which has the
Speaker 2: built in screen sixteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: I wonder if the if DJ guy is going to
Speaker 1: have an issue trying to get people to understand you
Speaker 1: can buy this drone, own this drone and nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: come take it away from you, that you're gonna be okay?
Speaker 1: Is that something that is there misinformation you think that
Speaker 1: they have to be concerned with.
Speaker 2: I I think so. I mean I think anybody as
Speaker 2: especially as if this gets into the Senate and starts
Speaker 2: getting discussed in passed, there's going to be some you know,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have the fear mongering, right, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: the Oh, China's watching all of our stuff, right, Well,
Speaker 2: yeah they are. It's just the nach, it's just the
Speaker 2: nature of it, right. But it's they're not worried about
Speaker 2: me flying my drone over my house, right, What these
Speaker 2: what the concern for all these drones is that they're
Speaker 2: worried about people getting them near populated areas. They're worried
Speaker 2: about people getting them near top secret sites, right points
Speaker 2: of interest, high target things, things like that.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that, I mean, what was that news story?
Speaker 4: All those drones, those high speed were like going over
Speaker 4: air force bases really, and they were they were saying
Speaker 4: that they were coming from either China or Russia, but
Speaker 4: they could not track them because they were all in
Speaker 4: a line. They were all like just like a line
Speaker 4: of drones, and they were all one after another, and
Speaker 4: they were going at like top speed, like one hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty kilometers an hour, and they were flying over
Speaker 4: US military installations and and the military could not do
Speaker 4: anything about it because they were not under attack, so
Speaker 4: they were not going to shoot them down. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's all never I had never.
Speaker 5: Heard of that, really, I did hear I heard a
Speaker 5: little bit about it.
Speaker 2: It happened on December sixth of twenty twenty three. The
Speaker 2: drones ranged in size. It happened over Langley Air Force
Speaker 2: Base back in December of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's some kind of jamming that they
Speaker 1: could take them down out of the sky by electronic
Speaker 1: electronic jamming or I means.
Speaker 5: Don't they go on auto. I mean if you lose signal,
Speaker 5: you just you know this program.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are electronic nets that can be deployed. There
Speaker 2: is there is countermeasures for drones and things like that.
Speaker 2: Stuff we're never going to know about because they don't
Speaker 2: want you to know about it.
Speaker 1: I know this has been this has been an issue
Speaker 1: for law enforcement in the Southern border. I know that,
Speaker 1: you know they've had drones flying over that they believe
Speaker 1: were cartel you know, cartel controlled drones. So I mean
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of issues when it comes to these drones.
Speaker 1: But again, if you're like you know, you're like us,
Speaker 1: We love these for the ability to fly takes some
Speaker 1: great photos. I heard the airs the air three s
Speaker 1: is going to be great for like real estate for
Speaker 1: those that are looking to get photos and video of
Speaker 1: real estate properties that are being sold that that could
Speaker 1: be a great model for it.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's easy for it's since drones became
Speaker 2: a thing, right twenty ten, twenty eleven, drones just kind
Speaker 2: of dropped into the market. Everybody wanted to use them, right,
Speaker 2: but they were so restricted. When I got my Part
Speaker 2: one oh seven license, I was two weeks away from
Speaker 2: getting my pilot's license essentially by what the training I
Speaker 2: had to do to get my I had to go
Speaker 2: to the airport, I had to take a flight certified
Speaker 2: test with a flight instructor. Like it was crazy how
Speaker 2: much regulation I had to go through to get my
Speaker 2: drone license. And then I was still restricted on where
Speaker 2: I could fly it, based on my location, based on
Speaker 2: how close we were to the airport, based on if
Speaker 2: I was using it for a work or not. So
Speaker 2: a lot of that has been streamlined. So now if
Speaker 2: Justin wanted to go shoot stuff for his DJ business,
Speaker 2: he could just pop his drone up more often than
Speaker 2: not anywhere.
Speaker 1: Right as long as he's doing an outdoor party or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, first off, I couldn't do that if if
Speaker 4: I'm not if I'm making money off of an event
Speaker 4: or whatever. I can't use my drone because I need
Speaker 4: on part one O.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, But what I'm saying is it's very
Speaker 2: easy to get your part one oh sevens now. It's
Speaker 2: the steps involved and then the process of getting the
Speaker 2: applications to fly where you need to fly are very
Speaker 2: much more streamlined now than they were a decade ago.
Speaker 4: Doesn't seem to make sense to me. Why would they
Speaker 4: make it easier to get your part one oh seven
Speaker 4: but then be like, oh, but then, by the way,
Speaker 4: have fun trying to find a drone. We're gonna ban
Speaker 4: them all.
Speaker 5: There are some.
Speaker 1: Drones that have been made in the United States or
Speaker 1: US friendly countries, so you know, we'll have to see
Speaker 1: what develops from that.
Speaker 3: Listen, I know that you are thinking.
Speaker 1: Justin about DSLR, and you are thinking about Babe getting
Speaker 1: back into that with mirrorless cameras, and we've talked about
Speaker 1: film cameras that Sean has been having fun with.
Speaker 3: So what is your thoughts you're reasoning for that?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I'm gonna have to keep this kind
Speaker 4: of short and sweet, but I've been I've been a
Speaker 4: nikon guy, right, I mean, when I bought my first DSLR.
Speaker 4: I went Nikon and Sean, I think you helped me
Speaker 4: pick that thing out back in San Diego. Sure did,
Speaker 4: but obviously I've never really expanded upon that. I got
Speaker 4: the starter lens, right, I don't have any I'm not
Speaker 4: invested into Nikon, right. So my question is I was
Speaker 4: talking to a photographer and I'm like, yeah, I'm kind
Speaker 4: of thinking about getting back into it. What do you
Speaker 4: shoot on? And he's like, well, I used to shoot
Speaker 4: on Nikon, but now all the pros are shooting on Sony.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, Sony really like Sony, Why, Like they're
Speaker 4: not even a camera company. He goes, Sony is making
Speaker 4: the censors for Nikon and for Cannon and Fuji Fujitsu
Speaker 4: or whatever. Like, Sony is the one making those sensors,
Speaker 4: So why would I go with another company who's just
Speaker 4: gonna mark that price up? Why not go directly with
Speaker 4: the company that makes it and go Sony. So this guy,
Speaker 4: I mean, he's a professional photographer. He went out and
Speaker 4: spent like twenty five thousand dollars, got himself a really
Speaker 4: nice Sony camera body I don't know what model, and
Speaker 4: then got himself like like five different lenses, one for
Speaker 4: each type of you know thing that he might need
Speaker 4: it for like macro portrait, landscape, wide angle, you know, telephoto.
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on it? Like, what would you
Speaker 4: go with if you were to get into the industry
Speaker 4: right now, notwithstanding what you already own completely new?
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't buy a DSLR, really, what what? I'd
Speaker 2: buy a mirrorless Okay?
Speaker 4: Well? Sorry, wow, yes, mirrorless, Yes, I'm right. Should I
Speaker 4: say DSLR, I mean like professional photography?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, right, so let's let's what's clarify right there,
Speaker 2: there's a there's a big difference, right, There's a huge
Speaker 2: difference in price, there's a huge difference in quality, and
Speaker 2: there's a huge difference in what's being developed right now. Right,
Speaker 2: So when you say DSLR, right, that that to me
Speaker 2: says you're looking at a digital single lens reflex.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I should say digital photography.
Speaker 2: Say digital photography, right, because there's a difference in in
Speaker 2: the capability. There are advantages and disadvantages to both, right,
Speaker 2: I would tell you right now, if you're getting into
Speaker 2: it to get mirrors, go into mirrorless.
Speaker 4: That's where.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so you have your big three, Right, You've
Speaker 2: got your Sony's, You've got your Nikons, You've got your Cannons.
Speaker 2: Each of them are going to be reasonable compared comparatively.
Speaker 2: If you're looking at Sony, I mean, you can spend
Speaker 2: as much or as little as you want. There are
Speaker 2: there are your consumer level, there are your prosumer level.
Speaker 2: There there are your hobby professional, and then there are
Speaker 2: your professional levels. It all depends on your budget. That right,
Speaker 2: You're not gonna get bad quality from any of them.
Speaker 2: If you're looking for fast, reliable, speed quality, Sony is
Speaker 2: gonna be your best bet because of it. It's price point,
Speaker 2: it's lenses options, it's autofocus system, and you're you just
Speaker 2: can't go wrong. I mean their mirrorless system is.
Speaker 4: I'll take that right there, Sony. I mean, like like
Speaker 4: I said, the other guy said Sony, and Sean says, Sony. Hey,
Speaker 4: maybe I'll just go with Sony.
Speaker 3: Here you go, all right, we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to look at Sony down. We'll be
Speaker 1: back with more of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 4: I'm sure the weird all right, slick, and I'm just
Speaker 4: remember when I said to go to our website. Have
Speaker 4: you done it yet? Oh? Tech talk radio dot com.
Speaker 4: Now I'm there and now back to tech talk radio.
Speaker 5: So I get this message from Andy today and it
Speaker 5: starts out with it starts out with this, It says, Hey,
Speaker 5: we're doing the show tonight. Yeah, And then about three
Speaker 5: minutes later, I get a follow up message from Andy.
Speaker 5: I should say this is on Facebook Messenger, by the way,
Speaker 5: right right, And the follow up message for many says,
Speaker 5: did you thumb up the wrong message? Yeah, exactly. So
Speaker 5: he's looking at a thumb up from days ago. Oh,
Speaker 5: so I send him another thumb up, but this time
Speaker 5: I send it on the first message, Hey we're doing
Speaker 5: the show tonight with the thumb up on it? Am
Speaker 5: I the only one having problems communicating with Andy in
Speaker 5: social No?
Speaker 4: No thing is Baby usually does voice to text all
Speaker 4: the time. He's lazy to actually type, so he just
Speaker 4: like does and then you'll and then you'll come back
Speaker 4: and like edit and be like, oh sorry I meant
Speaker 4: to say, And then you'll screw that one up, and
Speaker 4: then he'll do it again, and so like about four
Speaker 4: messages into it, I'll finally understand what he's trying to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate that, and I hit send and it
Speaker 1: just drives me nuts. Now I have been using the
Speaker 1: Google Pixel nine, which I ended up keeping. You know,
Speaker 1: I kind of I'm not good. I'm not still carry
Speaker 1: my my iPhone with me because not everything is completely
Speaker 1: ported over yet, so I still still can do I
Speaker 1: turned off my message, but I can still use it
Speaker 1: for the Wi Fi features that I may need. But
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's a little different typing on this thing.
Speaker 3: And the voice to voice to text is like, it's okay,
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so sorry, is he sending you voice messages? Because
Speaker 5: I finally got him to use some voice messaging on Facebook?
Speaker 5: He wouldn't. He hadn't used it like at all ever
Speaker 5: until like this year.
Speaker 1: Right right, Sorry, it's like, but but it gave me
Speaker 1: a notification that I had a comment on the message
Speaker 1: our message thread, and that's what I thought they were thought.
Speaker 3: Did he send me a thumb on that previous message?
Speaker 5: You know you can scroll it on that screen, right andy,
Speaker 5: if you take your finger, you put another thing.
Speaker 1: I know how to text Sean, and Sean, I have
Speaker 1: I given you a weird text?
Speaker 2: It depends, It depends if I respond directly to you.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you respond in the group chat. Sometimes you respond
Speaker 2: directly to me, So sometimes I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: meant for me or if the group chat. So I
Speaker 2: have to check the group chat to make sure that
Speaker 2: I didn't respond to the wrong thing before I respond
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, all right, I'll.
Speaker 5: So if you ever get a message from Andy to everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great.
Speaker 5: It's gotta be clear the right thread. All right.
Speaker 1: I want to remind everybody it is cybersecurity Awareness month.
Speaker 1: If there's one tip that you could give, just one
Speaker 1: basic tip, what would it be?
Speaker 3: Uh, just don't submit.
Speaker 2: Don't submit your data to twenty three and meters.
Speaker 3: Oh there you go, Yes, just bury his face.
Speaker 4: One tip, use a password manager and stop using the
Speaker 4: same password on every website. And use a password manager
Speaker 4: and generate long cryptic passwords. Uh it, manage it for you.
Speaker 5: How about use like breathe pause, take a breath. You
Speaker 5: don't have to respond right now, think it through. Not
Speaker 5: everything needs an immediate response or action.
Speaker 1: Great stuff. All right, we'll cover more of that stuff
Speaker 1: next week on the show. In the meantime, thank you
Speaker 1: for tuning in to this week's Tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2: I'm Seanda Weird, I'm slick, and I'm Justin Lemme.
Speaker 4: Once again, go to our website, tech talk radio dot com.
Speaker 5: We'll see you next week.