WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.279 The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:05.839 Hey, it is Deatrich Vader for Batman and you're listening 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:06.879 to TikTok Radio. 4 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:10.759 Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. 5 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.120 I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de weirdt Slick, and I'm justin. 6 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:17.359 Welcome to have you guys here. 7 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.039 Yeah, welcome. We missed you last week, justin you were. 8 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:25.359 In Viva Las Vegas thinking about Viva Los Vegas obviously 9 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:25.920 did not win. 10 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:28.480 Oh god, no, do you think I'd be here? 11 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:31.879 Do you you remember the last time all three, well 12 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:34.880 three of us, Sean, unfortunately, we missed you. It was 13 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:36.799 during CS that we went to Vegas. 14 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:38.399 I was doing do you know what? Do you know 15 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.960 how much Vegas has changed since then? Really it's not 16 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.759 even recognizable anymore to when we were back what was 17 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:51.359 at twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, whatever, I mean, it's yeah, 18 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:53.840 I mean, just so much has changed. Uh, you know 19 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:56.159 when I was there the morning, the morning that I 20 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:58.799 arrived obviously was before I arrived because they did it 21 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.280 at like two o'clock in the morning, but they imploded 22 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.039 the Tropicana. 23 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:04.400 I was just gonna ask if you you saw them 24 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.319 do that, or at least I didn't see it, but 25 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:07.599 my co workers who were there. 26 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.840 So I was there for a conference, the World Water 27 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.959 Park Association conference at the Paris Las Vegas. But some 28 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.200 of my co workers who had been there, you know, 29 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.480 arrived the day before. They walked out there and at 30 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.239 literally like two in the morning and went and watched it. 31 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.400 They said, it was really really cool. But yeah, the 32 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.879 Tropican is gone, and that's right across the street from 33 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.280 the Luxor. That's that's where we were staying when we 34 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.519 were there for ces. But what's going in its place? 35 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:36.040 Can you guess? 36 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.599 Oh? Is it gonna be a ball the ballpark right? 37 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:41.719 Yeah, the new ballpark for the Athletics. 38 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:44.120 Wait, so you're gonna be driving down the strip and 39 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.599 you're gonna have a baseball stadium right. 40 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:48.760 There right there. 41 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:50.319 That's that's kind of weird. 42 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.680 And then you'll have the lux sore, and then behind 43 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:57.079 the Luxor you'll have, uh, what is that Allegiant stadium? 44 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:02.439 That really horrible NFL team that's like Tom Brady partially 45 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:03.079 owns Now. 46 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:07.760 Don't sugarcoat your feelings there. But from what I understand, though. 47 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:09.280 Matt's not here, so I can talk about it. 48 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:10.000 Oh, there you go. 49 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:13.280 But from what I understand is you're gonna get a 50 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:17.360 great view of the baseball stadium from the lux Is 51 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.800 it the Luxor or whatever hotel is there, or they're 52 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:20.560 building a hotel. 53 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.840 Well, MGM Grand is on one corner, Luxor is on 54 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.719 the other, and then I guess. 55 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:28.120 Ex Caliber, I guess. I don't know. 56 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:30.360 I think they said that the views are going to 57 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.759 come from the Luxor because that's the taller of the two, 58 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.280 But I'm not exactly sure how the stadium is going 59 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.000 to be laid out. If I were a guessing person, 60 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.840 I would think that they're probably gonna have an open 61 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.719 air back and they're going to face the back to 62 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.879 the northwest, which will then overlook all of the hotels 63 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:50.759 in the strip. So like when you're sitting at home Plate, 64 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:53.639 you know, or whatever, you're looking out and you're seeing 65 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.039 the strip. That's that's my guess. 66 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.879 Did you know when you go to Vegas, Sean, have 67 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:00.800 you ever been in Las Vegas twice? Where do you 68 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.000 normally stay that everybody has their preference. 69 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:06.719 I honestly don't remember where we stayed because it was 70 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:14.080 no It was off Fremont Street, Dishkow. I went twice 71 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.039 and it was once was it was on my way 72 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:19.400 to San Diego when I moved out there in twenty eleven, 73 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.240 so I was with my mom. So as exciting as 74 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.520 that sounds, right, it's like what was my mom? And 75 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.120 then the second time, the second time I went, it 76 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.840 was when I moved back from San Diego in July 77 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.360 of twenty thirteen, and we got caught in a monsoon 78 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.400 and more than like it was impossible to do anything, 79 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.400 like our hotel had like a foot of water in 80 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.240 the in the lobby, like I remembers, like we didn't 81 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.080 we didn't have It was a worthless experience, like we 82 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.000 went eate dinner and went to sleep. That was it. 83 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:58.719 Well, you know what, that's probably the best thing that 84 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.360 could happen to you in Vegas to be on us, 85 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.039 probably because I mean, but when I would mentioned that 86 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:10.960 Vegas was unrecognizable, it is also unattainable. I mean picture this. 87 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.120 I mean I'm staying at the Paris, which is right 88 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:16.720 on the strip, you know, so so yes, obviously everything 89 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:18.759 on the strip is going to be more expensive. A 90 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:26.199 bottle of Dasani water seven fifty for a bottle of water. Yeah, 91 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:30.079 for a pack of smokes, which I don't smoke anymore, 92 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:31.399 but I just happened to be in line and the 93 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.800 guy got a pack of smokes. Twenty three dollars no way, 94 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:40.160 Yeah for a pack of smokes. Wow, It's it's ridiculous. 95 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:40.720 Didn't it used to be. 96 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.920 I mean I remember going to you know, going with 97 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.959 my my parents when I was a kid, and we'd 98 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.279 stay at the well heck, I think we would stay 99 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:51.480 at the Tropicana. 100 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.800 I remember Sid Sanna or the Filamingo or the Sahara, 101 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:56.040 maybe Circus Circus. 102 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:00.199 I remember meeting Sid Cherie, you know, the famous you 103 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.079 know dancer from the time period, and her husband was 104 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.560 an actor at one of the pools, and it was just, 105 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:08.120 you know, it was an experience. But one thing you 106 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.399 could always count on that two dollars ninety nine cent breakfast. 107 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:12.120 You know. 108 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:14.279 It was like that is yeah, there's no way in 109 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.920 heck you're gonna get that anywhere. I had a breakfast 110 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:20.839 sandwich at the Paris from Bobby's Burgers, so the famous 111 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.199 chef Bobby Flay. Oh yeah, yeah. Now, I gotta say 112 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.439 the sandwich was amazing. It was like a brioche bun. 113 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:33.279 Soft scrambled egg folded over with crispy bacon and like 114 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:38.079 a thousand Island dressing and potato chips on the burger, right, 115 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:40.279 and it was like sixteen dollars. But I'll tell you 116 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.959 right now, that thing that was actually worth it. I 117 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.519 mean that that that that tided me through lunch. I 118 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.839 mean I didn't even have lunch, but I mean just 119 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:51.240 the price of everything, Like I bought a Starbucks canned 120 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.120 coffee that what is that double shot thing? Yeah? Yeah, 121 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:58.360 nine dollars my gosh, you know yeah, I mean it's 122 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:02.199 just it's ridiculous. And then try to gamble, Yeah, good luck. 123 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.319 There's there's I mean, the minimum bet on anything you 124 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.720 play there is fifteen dollars. What and that's that's the 125 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:13.319 court of Spots. Oh well, I mean I down, yeah, 126 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:16.879 I place. I play table games, so craps, blackjack, you 127 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.600 know whatever, fifteen dollars minimum. And that's when you're playing 128 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.920 at like one pm, when it hits like six pm. 129 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.879 The minimum tables twenty five dollars, like per bet. 130 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.079 I remember playing the two dollars tables, you know? 131 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.120 Yeah, well I remember I remember you playing the two 132 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.519 dollar tables. Yes, Andy, Andy, you know what time it 133 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:37.959 is Andy, and. 134 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.079 I lost a couple hundred bucks, you know. I mean, 135 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:43.639 I didn't really have a lot of time because I 136 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.319 was there for a conference and we did the other things. 137 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:46.839 But I made a little bit of time. I walked 138 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.879 down go to the craps table, five minutes later, walk 139 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:54.199 back up to my room one hundred dollars for But yeah, 140 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.720 but here's the cool thing though. The room that I got, 141 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:58.800 I don't know how I got it. It was booked 142 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.399 through my company, but it was on the twenty fifth 143 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:08.240 floor facing the sphere. Oh oh to see that, well 144 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.680 kind of it was behind the Horseshoe because the Horseshoe 145 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.160 is adjacent to the Paris So I only got to 146 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.720 see the top maybe maybe the top quarter of it, right, 147 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:25.480 But that's all I needed. That thing is so insanely bright, 148 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:27.680 Like I had to close. I had to do the 149 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.839 blackout curtains, and I thought, you know, I thought, no, 150 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.199 no worries, this thing will turn off at midnight. Nope, no, 151 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:35.920 three in the morning. It is still going strong. 152 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:38.040 Vega. 153 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:40.160 Yeah, I mean, I I wake up. I woke up 154 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.279 at three in the morning. I look out the window 155 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:44.720 and I see the top of the sphere, and just 156 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:48.560 so happens at that exact moment was the big smiley 157 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:52.079 face winking at me, and I'm like, I said some 158 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:53.920 choice words. I can't see him on the radio, but 159 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:55.519 I said some choice words at the sphere, and I 160 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:57.360 went back to bed and I closed the blackout curtains. 161 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.879 You know, I don't understand how they can heap are 162 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:04.199 are going to be able to maintain the luminosity of 163 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.920 the spear with the heat that they have in Las Vegas. 164 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:11.360 I mean, we're talking about the heat that just does 165 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.959 not give up. I don't know, Slick Sean, Maybe is 166 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.240 there special because you work with outdoor screens and and 167 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:22.160 that stuff. Is there special material that they have on 168 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:22.720 this stuff? 169 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:26.959 You have no idea to be money money, money, it's 170 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:27.800 coded in money. 171 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:32.159 They're they're gonna have to just they're probably replacing panels 172 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:33.200 every day on that thing. 173 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:39.120 Yeah, a special on Uh was it Times Square and 174 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.039 us specially when they were putting up the billboards and 175 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.200 all that kind of stuff Electure and they were talking about, uh, 176 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.279 they literally you know, they have all these spare panels 177 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.919 and have to replace them constantly, and it's it's literally 178 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:52.399 plug and play. 179 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.960 Yeah, definitely plug and play. But I'll tell you right now, 180 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:56.919 I bend a Times square and I'm sure you know 181 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:00.000 some of you have too. I remember walking through Times 182 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.840 We're in the dead of winter, and when those LED panels, 183 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.360 those billboards would light up, you could feel the heat 184 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.440 off of them. And we're talking led. I can't even 185 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.159 imagine standing next to the sphere and what that would 186 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:19.440 feel like, like the feeling of the solar radiation from 187 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:19.759 that thing. 188 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.799 You know, It's funny because in developing the sphere, I 189 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.759 don't know, do you guys remember I don't remember any 190 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.600 discussion about it, any talking about it. This is it 191 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:29.720 just all of a sudden boom. 192 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:30.279 It was there. 193 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.000 You two was going to be the opening act and 194 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.519 this thing was going to be able to change. And 195 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.720 I've seen the yellow face people flying out of Vegas 196 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.480 with the looking at them while they were flying. 197 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:44.080 Well, there's there's you know it faces the golf course. 198 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:48.240 I think it's the wind golf course, and it perfectly 199 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.039 lines up with the eighteenth hole. And so what they 200 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:54.039 did is they actually programmed the sphere to have the 201 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:57.879 blink the smiley face look down at the eighteenth hole. 202 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.159 Green oh and laugh, oh. That's great. 203 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.000 So if you're on the eighteenth Green and you miss 204 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:04.840 a putt, you look up, the thing's gonna be laughing 205 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:05.080 at you. 206 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:08.960 It's I mean, it's pretty cool. One of the things 207 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.320 you don't have to pay for in Vegas to see it. 208 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:11.799 It's there. 209 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.600 Sure, yeaeah, no, it's cool. But I mean, honestly, I mean, 210 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:19.519 Vegas is Vegas, Vegas is is is It's It's like 211 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:21.919 nothing I've ever seen in my life. I mean, Vegas 212 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.559 is a unique place. And granted, they are trying to 213 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:30.720 rebrand themselves as instead of the debauchery capital of the world, 214 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.200 it's trying to become more of the family friendly entertainment 215 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:38.360 capital of the world. And right they're slowly getting there. Yeah, 216 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.679 but you know, you don't see the kind of stuff 217 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:43.159 that you used to see on the side of the 218 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:45.279 strip where they're handing out you know. 219 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:47.000 Yeah, the night. 220 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.159 You're walking, you're walking with your wife or husband and 221 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.240 someone hands you a card. It's got you know, somebody's 222 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.639 not wearing very much clothing to come see them at 223 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:59.639 some club where they dance, or. 224 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.240 To give them a call and they'll come visit your rooms. Yeah, 225 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.200 I mean, like, yeah, you don't see that very often anymore. 226 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.960 But still you still see some stuff like that. But 227 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.639 you also don't really see the debauchery on the streets anymore, 228 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.759 like people just walking around drunk or whatever. Like the 229 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:16.759 police do a pretty good job. And I'll tell you 230 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:20.759 the Las Vegas Metro police, yeah, do not look like 231 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:23.960 police officers. They look like a military. 232 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:27.120 Oh wow, God, these guys are wide. 233 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.120 Around with full ar fifteen rifles strapped to their chest, 234 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:34.080 body proof, you know, armor everywhere, tactical helmets, I mean, 235 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:35.720 and that's just their daily ware. 236 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:36.360 Wow. 237 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:40.039 I've heard like like last time I went there, last 238 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.159 few times, I said, it's a stratosphere. 239 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.240 Uh and you know, I liked it was. It was nice. 240 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.519 It's comfortable skits down away from a lot of that activity. 241 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.159 But I've heard like polics like Bolaggio and Venetian and 242 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.799 all of that, you can go and not even leave 243 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.200 that property, oh and have you could be fine, you 244 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.039 know the same with the Paris. 245 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:02.360 I mean, so so some of these, some of these 246 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.799 places are actually interconnected because I mean you think about it. 247 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:11.120 One company owns blocks, ye like MGM owns MGM. It 248 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.600 owns the luxel Vally caliber, the New York, New York. 249 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:17.919 You've got you know, you've got win Owns, you know, 250 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:22.720 the win the uh gosh aria Y, you know other places, right, 251 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.840 So they interconnect these places, so like the Paris is 252 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:30.559 interconnected to the Venetian and the Horseshoe which used to 253 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.879 be Bally's. And then you got like, you know, Bellagio's 254 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.279 connected to I don't know whatever's next door to that one, 255 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.240 but I'd tell you one cool thing that is actually 256 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.679 really cool is leaving when we're coming back, coming from 257 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:47.600 the airport to the hotel, they're getting set up for 258 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:51.240 the F one Grand Prix, which they signed a ten 259 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:55.399 year agreement to have F one in Vegas. So it 260 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.799 is completely transformed the strip because now half of the 261 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.919 rip is shut up, like for instance, the famous Bolagio fountains. Right, 262 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.519 you can no longer just walk right in front of 263 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:10.279 the Bollagio. It's a giant grand stand, a permanent like 264 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:13.000 a permanent stand. Oh that's gonna be semi permanent until 265 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.320 the half one leaves ten years from now. But you 266 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:17.360 cannot just walk the strip and walk right by the 267 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:19.679 fountains and go, oh look the fountains. No, because there's 268 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:24.320 a like a four story grand stand that is semi 269 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:25.840 permanently put in place. 270 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:27.000 Oh wow. 271 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.039 And in all the roads too, Like the roads they 272 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:33.200 have the permanent you know, concrete dividers with the chain 273 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:36.360 link fences you would think like that are getting set 274 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.159 up for an F one race. They've got those everywhere. 275 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.360 And so when it's normal traffic, normal day, people are 276 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.720 literally just driving on the track that is going to 277 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:48.080 be an F one track. 278 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:49.080 Wow. 279 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:50.559 For the race weekend they shut it down. 280 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.559 Let me ask you coming up of course, got another 281 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:56.440 CEES consumer electronics show put on by. 282 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.080 The happening Oh yeah, oh yeah. 283 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:02.039 And they're they're already they're already taking pre redg and 284 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.720 doing that all because it will happen in January of 285 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.440 twenty twenty five. But when do we go We're going, right, 286 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.440 That's That's what I'm wondering. I mean, is that something? 287 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:15.679 Do you think it still serves a huge purpose to 288 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.000 go to CDs that question? Sean? 289 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.279 Yeah, I think it does. I mean, consumer electronics aren't 290 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:24.039 going away right, search Amazon for what you want now? 291 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.519 I mean, yeah, but you think it's worth it to 292 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.799 put your hands on these things and these prototypes and 293 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:29.840 see this kind of stuff. 294 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:34.559 Yeah, I do from a consumer. From a consumer standpoint, 295 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.879 I mean, let's be honest, right, the Consumer Electronic Show 296 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.879 is about networking, and it's about businesses getting their hands 297 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:43.159 on the new stuff that they're going to sell out 298 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:46.279 their stores, right, that's what CS is. But it's a 299 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.440 great place for the tech enthusiasts to get their hands 300 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.600 on new stuff and play around with it. And that's 301 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.759 an invaluable it's invaluable, right, I think it's not as 302 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.320 valuable as it once was where the information was his 303 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:06.799 widespread agree where you had to source your information a 304 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:11.480 little bit more strategically. Yeah, well, but now you've got 305 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.919 you know, we're a podcast. They're a podcast. Everybody is podcast, right, 306 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:19.000 So it's like everybody and their brother a podcast. Okay, 307 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:23.159 everybody and their brother is a tech reviewer. And it's 308 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:27.240 in the world of the internet. And even from the 309 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:31.240 time you guys went back in twenty seventeen, whatever, how 310 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:35.759 much technology in the landscape of tech review has changed. 311 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:38.279 I'll tell you one of the best time, Slick. I'm 312 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:41.279 sure you remember as well back and. 313 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:42.200 Justin I think you were. 314 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:44.639 Were you in San Diego in two thousand and nine 315 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:47.399 or two thousand and eight actually and eight. 316 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:49.600 Yes, yeah, the Navy in two thousand and eight went 317 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:50.600 straight to San Diego yep. 318 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:52.960 So yeah, so it was two thousand and eight for Cees. 319 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:57.720 We were just goofing around with the idea and Slick said, 320 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.000 why don't we try and get one of these companies 321 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.399 used to give us a car to drive to Vegas yep? 322 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.759 And Ford said, sure, here you go. They gave us 323 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.399 a Ford Flex that we drove from from Tucson to 324 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:14.519 They have somebody deliver it to my house and we 325 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:16.440 drove it from Tucson to. 326 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:18.200 And then what did you have to do in return? 327 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.200 Just kind of like review it? Just reviewed it. 328 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.399 I drove it to the TV station when we got back, 329 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:25.000 and we showed the inside, showed what it looked like, 330 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.399 talked about talked about the drive and. 331 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:28.519 It was good. It was great. 332 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.279 Can you can you talk to your boy Elon and 333 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.159 get us a cyber truck? That's what I was about 334 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.440 to say, robotaxi. 335 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.399 But there now there are quite a few electric vehicles 336 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:41.840 out there is we don't have to just talk to Elon. 337 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:47.159 We can talk. Yeah, there's the one at cast A 338 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.480 Grand what's a I'm trying to remember the name of 339 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:52.960 their Yeah, they built am a castle grand I'm. 340 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.000 Just saying, we can get a cyber truck though, and 341 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:57.000 we could start hear me and Slick. 342 00:16:57.720 --> 00:16:59.200 I don't I would not want one. 343 00:16:59.240 --> 00:16:59.720 We could drive. 344 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.799 We could drive to Indiana, pick up pick up Sean, 345 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.960 then drive to Colorado, pick up justin, then drive to Vegas. 346 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.680 He sounds like that sounds like a logistical nightmare. 347 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.720 Yeah, here's a problem with the cyber truck. Let's let's 348 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:16.400 say we were parking somewhere we're not supposed to be 349 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:20.519 and Elon finds us, you know on the satellites. Did 350 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.119 you hear about him disabling that cyber truck? 351 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:23.960 No? 352 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:28.480 Really, yeah, yeah, he remotely disabled the cyber Sean's as 353 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:29.200 Google foo out. 354 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:30.240 He's like, yeah, I want to see this. 355 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:32.759 Yeah, but this was I don't remember what country it is, 356 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:36.319 and it's but it was, uh, some guy. It was 357 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.079 you know, one of the military countries if you. 358 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.559 Will, oh that it was the Russian warlord guy. And 359 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.160 then what they did is they put a fifty cal 360 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.480 machine gun on the back of the cyber truck and 361 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:48.279 they were like, yeah, look at the new cyber truck. 362 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.119 And it was like a Russian forces like the back vehicle, 363 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:54.519 and Elon's like, yeah, that's a big nope. Yeah, like 364 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:56.200 this disabled the car, and. 365 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:58.640 This thing was Elon gave this to me. And Elon 366 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.799 was like, I don't know, one, we don't know if 367 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.359 he really gave it to him. He never denied. But 368 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.279 as soon as it got out, like the guy Eli 369 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:08.200 gave this to me, well, let me just turn that off. 370 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:11.720 I honestly, I'm not getting into a war political discussion, 371 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.960 but I think that's kind of funny that everyone could 372 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.720 just be like, yeah, nope and then just disabled the car. 373 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:18.599 You know what I think is really hilarious. 374 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.799 One of the stories I've heard about the self driving 375 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.960 vehicles and the electric vehicles that we've never really thought about. 376 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:26.799 And there has been times, of course where people will 377 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.960 get a car and it's just not all that, you know, 378 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.319 not what they can afford, and time goes and they 379 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.519 miss a payment here or miss payment there. These cars 380 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:41.960 can repo themselves, yeah, and that they will basically if 381 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:44.559 think about it, you know, if the person you bought 382 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.960 it from or the dealer just says, well they haven't 383 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:50.400 made a payment in two three, you know months, we'll 384 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:52.599 repo the car themselves and it'll. 385 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:53.200 I mean go home. 386 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.720 Tesla's got that new feature. Now what is that actually 387 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.839 smart summon But that is what they would use to 388 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:01.839 if you want to summon your vehicle from the parking 389 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:04.759 lot or whatever. But that but that also means that 390 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.240 the car itself can then just go nope and go 391 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:08.359 right back to the dealership. 392 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.599 All right, So if each one of you could drive 393 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:13.720 a vehicle to go to Vegas for CS, what would 394 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:14.519 you want to drive? 395 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.440 Justin? I mean you already have a Tesla, would you want. 396 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.359 To I would want to drive a Tesla model S plaid. 397 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:23.920 A plaid What is that? 398 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:25.640 That's their top of the line. It's their best of 399 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.440 the best, most luxurious, fastest, best. 400 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:31.599 Car they of a you shun man. 401 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:32.160