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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird, and.
Speaker 1: I'm justin leme.
Speaker 2: Oh good to see everybody. Uh, how's everybody doing? Like
Speaker 2: you survived Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Look at that we did? Yeah we did? I think
Speaker 1: you did.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wait wait it was Valentine's Day. Oh my god. Oh no,
Speaker 1: You're just gonna kill me.
Speaker 3: Between work and the flu going to our house, I
Speaker 3: don't think we even noticed it was Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: To be honest, Yeah, you still you sound like you
Speaker 1: still have a little bit of that cold too.
Speaker 3: Hang out. It's yeah, I can definitely tell I'm still
Speaker 3: congested a little bit, like I'm a little horse. It's
Speaker 3: been Caitlyn got sick, I got sick, Max got sick,
Speaker 3: Kitlen got sick Max. It was just a rotating Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's been going around our community. There are schools
Speaker 3: that closed because over sixty percent of the class was
Speaker 3: out sick.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: So it's it's definitely going around this area pretty hard
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 4: You know Valentine's Day for me, I just I never
Speaker 4: believed in Valentine's Day, right, I think it wasn't it?
Speaker 4: What is?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 1: Wasn't Valentine's Day a manufactured holiday.
Speaker 3: It's all Hallmark Holiday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they you know, Hallmark has like twelve hundred
Speaker 2: skews plus of different greeting cards for Valentine's Day, you know,
Speaker 2: l gift bags, gift gift wrap cards, the whole bed.
Speaker 2: We always like to share when we get like a
Speaker 2: new piece of technology. Sean, you decided to go ahead
Speaker 2: and buy some tech.
Speaker 3: I decided to buy that printer for myself.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's not okay, So it's not a printer.
Speaker 2: It's a scanner.
Speaker 3: Sorry, it's a scanner. It looks like a printer because
Speaker 3: it's a printer. It scans photos. It's I haven't got
Speaker 3: it plugged in yet. I did open the box. But
Speaker 3: I'm excited to get it. But we talked about it.
Speaker 3: It's the same one than Andy talked about about a
Speaker 3: month ago. Its steeps and Fast Phototo Fast Photo six
Speaker 3: hundred or something sixt eighty. Yeah, I'm excited to get
Speaker 3: it because I've got a ton of the four by
Speaker 3: sixes that didn't have negatives with them from my family's archive.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I can now just pack in about sixty to
Speaker 3: seventy photos and let it just go scan scan.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: If you're doing them, it's gonna cycle through. If you
Speaker 3: do them at three.
Speaker 2: Hundred DEPI I mean, it's super fast. If you do
Speaker 2: them at six hundred, I mean it's a little slower,
Speaker 2: but it's still better than lifting up the flatbed, you know,
Speaker 2: and putting them on there and then having to resize them.
Speaker 2: The software does it all. I even took I don't
Speaker 2: know why, but my family from Burma, they would do photos,
Speaker 2: but they were like thumbnails almost. I mean they were
Speaker 2: like stamps and uh, that's the size of the photos.
Speaker 2: You put them in an album and I'd had to
Speaker 2: take them out of the album. But I got a
Speaker 2: bunch of those and I scan them with the EPSOM
Speaker 2: Fast Photo and they handled it without jamming or anything.
Speaker 1: It was really cool.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to do it. It's just gonna get the
Speaker 3: project finished because that's all that I've left. Anything that
Speaker 3: had negatives or positives that I scanned, It all done
Speaker 3: right now. It's all categorized by at least what I
Speaker 3: know by year or what information was provided to me
Speaker 3: by my family, And I've just got to go from
Speaker 3: the sixties all the way up through the early to
Speaker 3: the mid two thousands.
Speaker 2: So are you gonna do the Maida data because you
Speaker 2: can put the Maida data in just I will be
Speaker 2: put like.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be sorting it by year and then
Speaker 3: by event hopefully like this is what I think the
Speaker 3: event is and some of the people that are in them, right,
Speaker 3: But with some of the software, you can photo tag that.
Speaker 3: I'm going to dump them into Google Drive and Google Photos,
Speaker 3: which will then tag the people that have already tagged
Speaker 3: in other albums with my family's archive, and it should
Speaker 3: populate the same use the same data already existing. This
Speaker 3: is a project that I've been working on since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: You guys have kind of been following along the whole time.
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's weird that it's taken five years,
Speaker 3: but it's just a lot of work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're preserving it for the future generations because oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's are they paying you for this?
Speaker 3: They bought me, like they bought me the the Wolverine
Speaker 3: film scanner. They bought me the epsent flatbed scanner. So
Speaker 3: they bought all that equipment for me knowing that it
Speaker 3: was gonna take me time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Good, Yeah, at least at least you're not just having
Speaker 4: to like invest for like no return. Besides, you know,
Speaker 4: obviously you know archiving this stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Return, the return for me is seeing my family enjoyed
Speaker 3: the pictures.
Speaker 2: Some years ago, we used to have a place out
Speaker 2: here called Flickos and they had a super eight millimeter
Speaker 2: camera projector rig and I took one of my eight
Speaker 2: millimeter films in and I had a transfer. And it's
Speaker 2: great because I have it. It's not the best looking thing.
Speaker 2: And now I understand, like our buddy Mitch, Mitch Goldstone
Speaker 2: who is at scan my photos. They have an eight
Speaker 2: millimeter film scanner. But what it doesn't frame by by frame.
Speaker 2: So it will take a frame of that eight millimeter film,
Speaker 2: you know, scan it, then another frame, then another frame
Speaker 2: and it photo correct, city color correct. It does all
Speaker 2: this amazing work. I'm I'm wondering now VHS is a
Speaker 2: little different, you know, bottle of wax. I got a
Speaker 2: question from GYM this week too, asking, hey, question a
Speaker 2: good system program to dub VHS to hard drive and
Speaker 2: is that something that you've done, I mean, and what
Speaker 2: did you end up using.
Speaker 3: I bought a RCA to HDUMI converter, which then will
Speaker 3: upscale it to either seven twenty or ten a D
Speaker 3: depending on Whateveryone wasn't the most ideal way to do
Speaker 3: it because it kind of botched the resolution a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think on the upscale, what really you need is
Speaker 3: is some something that will retime it because it tapes
Speaker 3: are need to be timed, so you need somebody that
Speaker 3: has a time based corrector in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What I would look into and there is getting a
Speaker 3: VHS DVD combo that can write to hard drives because
Speaker 3: you can put the tapes in and it'll copy it
Speaker 3: as you're going into the hard drive. Oh nice, that's
Speaker 3: a way to do it. Otherwise, I just was playing
Speaker 3: out of the VH to put the tape in RCA
Speaker 3: out to this device that was clocking it, and I'd
Speaker 3: have to look at I don't remember what it's called.
Speaker 3: I'd have to I bought it off Amazon HDMI to
Speaker 3: a black Magic H two six four encoder. Right it
Speaker 3: was going out analog getting converted to digital and capturing
Speaker 3: as an H two six four because a lot of
Speaker 3: people have the ability to bring capture cards in, but
Speaker 3: they're either going to capture at a much lower resolution
Speaker 3: or a much higher resolution, because if you just go
Speaker 3: out and buy, say like a black Magic deck link
Speaker 3: card or a capture card from Alcado four K or something,
Speaker 3: you still have to have a program that will record,
Speaker 3: either bring it in and record it with OBS that
Speaker 3: then you can do some H two six four encoding.
Speaker 3: You're gonna need a processor that supports HG six four encoding,
Speaker 3: or you're gonna use like the black Magic software, but
Speaker 3: that's gonna capture like pro reds or ABC you know,
Speaker 3: or DNxHD like the much higher lossless codecs that are
Speaker 3: going to take it with no more space.
Speaker 2: I was, I told him, because the one I bought
Speaker 2: ended up buying when I and doing it a little
Speaker 2: later on was the Diamond VC five hundred SE. It's
Speaker 2: a kind of a one touch VHS camcorder a digital
Speaker 2: file converter, so it does that and it's not bad.
Speaker 2: It has a little screen on it. The problem is
Speaker 2: finding a good VCR to do it. I had a
Speaker 2: VCR with some you know, head issues, so you had
Speaker 2: a little noise on it. I'd almost recommend buying a
Speaker 2: brand new VCR if you don't have one, or have
Speaker 2: one that has just got very low life on it,
Speaker 2: and trying it that way. And also, don't forget if
Speaker 2: the tapes have been sitting around a long time, like
Speaker 2: they can actually have some of that that problem on
Speaker 2: the tapes themselves, and there's no way to get to
Speaker 2: really get around that, not really. So I mean, that's
Speaker 2: that's one thing to look at. And the one from Diamond,
Speaker 2: it's not that expensive. I think you can find that
Speaker 2: on Amazon for I want to say, like around fifty
Speaker 2: or sixty bucks.
Speaker 1: We got to touch on something that I figure is
Speaker 1: so cool.
Speaker 2: So we talked a few weeks back about Zomboid Pro
Speaker 2: Project Zomboid Project Zomboid. We had a couple of comments
Speaker 2: from the opus clip that we had put on our
Speaker 2: social media on TikTok and and Instagram reels and Facebook.
Speaker 2: People liked it. One guy said it's his most favorite
Speaker 2: game ever. And then I get this audio file from
Speaker 2: Justin and I'm listening to this and he goes, oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, I might be a voice in the game,
Speaker 2: And so here. We're gonna play the clip from you
Speaker 2: for you so you could hear justin in Project Zomboid.
Speaker 1: Here you go.
Speaker 4: My name is Pastor James Hartnell. I am in what
Speaker 4: was once a place for radio broadcast. It is now
Speaker 4: a mausoleum. Hey, walking mausoleum. I have been bitten. I
Speaker 4: am not long for this world. I came here to
Speaker 4: this room to pray with you for our souls, our
Speaker 4: father who art?
Speaker 1: Oh, but here they do not worry. I am ready
Speaker 1: for this. God bless you, get back, get back who
Speaker 1: art in heaven?
Speaker 3: How it be.
Speaker 1: Thy name? That is awesome?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: You gotta tell us the story behind this that you
Speaker 2: may be one of the voices in the game. Kind
Speaker 2: of recap a little bit about this game.
Speaker 4: This is a game. It's on Steam. It's a PC game.
Speaker 4: It has been around since twenty thirteen, as I think
Speaker 4: it was when the very first iteration of this game
Speaker 4: came out. But it is as a zombie survival game,
Speaker 4: and it looks a lot like the original SIMS.
Speaker 1: I think it's generated interest in SIMS again, hasn't it.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't really necessarily go that far because I know
Speaker 4: the SIMS just also re released their twenty fifth anniversary
Speaker 4: edition of the same Yes, but the game does look
Speaker 4: a lot like SIMS. And I'll be honest, a lot
Speaker 4: of times I'll be over at our neighborhood brewery and
Speaker 4: I'll be playing Project Zomboid and I'm walking. People walk
Speaker 4: by me and they're like, oh, you're playing the SIMS.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, No, I'm not. I'm playing Project Zomboid. Basically,
Speaker 4: what it is, it's a survival game. You are a
Speaker 4: survivor in an apocalyptic event that takes place in Knox County, Kentucky.
Speaker 4: You will not survive the game because the game actually
Speaker 4: when you start the game, it actually says this is
Speaker 4: the story of how you died, and and you will
Speaker 4: die in the game because the zombies will get you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just how long can you survive and what can
Speaker 4: you accomplish during that time before the zombies get to you.
Speaker 4: So I've been playing the game a lot, and it
Speaker 4: recently had a resurgence and popularity because the developers, Indie Stone,
Speaker 4: they came out with a new update called Build forty two,
Speaker 4: and they basically revamped everything in the game. They made
Speaker 4: the combat better, they made the AI of the zombies better,
Speaker 4: they made a lot more stuff you can do as
Speaker 4: a character. It's just it's like basically a completely revamped
Speaker 4: game and people are loving it. And as of the
Speaker 4: recording of this show, everybody's talking about it. PC game,
Speaker 4: PC gamer, all kinds of different websites are all talking
Speaker 4: about this is the best zombie survival horror game you
Speaker 4: can get right now on Steam and it's only twenty bucks.
Speaker 4: So I'm playing it right And there's a lot of mods.
Speaker 4: You can add a lot of mods because the developer,
Speaker 4: it's a very small team and they can't fix all
Speaker 4: the bugs. So there's a huge modding community out there.
Speaker 4: And one of the mods I believe was called better
Speaker 4: TV Radio because there are televisions and radios in the game,
Speaker 4: like stations, right yeah, yeah, and you can get a radio,
Speaker 4: you can tune into a station. But the thing is
Speaker 4: is the radio stations and even the TV they all
Speaker 4: sound like the old Peanuts.
Speaker 1: Characters, like the Woom.
Speaker 4: So this particular mod decided, hey, let's get some voice actors,
Speaker 4: let's let's re let's redo the lines, because the lines,
Speaker 4: the text is on the screen, it's just.
Speaker 1: The voices are just like we.
Speaker 4: So they said, let's go ahead and let's let's let's
Speaker 4: do this. Let's make a professional. So I went to
Speaker 4: their discord channel and they said, hey, look, we're hiring
Speaker 4: voice actors. Here are all of the lines that we
Speaker 4: need to recording, and a lot of them were already taken,
Speaker 4: including the one that you just heard was taken by
Speaker 4: this but it was called Pastor John. And so I
Speaker 4: saw this and I said, you know what, I have
Speaker 4: all the equipment, you know, because we do tech talk radio,
Speaker 4: I have a studio in my house, and I've got
Speaker 4: a lot of experience. I said, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give this a shot. So I went home and I
Speaker 4: took one take what you just heard right there, took
Speaker 4: one taken, and I recorded the voice and I sent
Speaker 4: it in to the discord channel. And the admin of
Speaker 4: that particular mod that was running the discord, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: he goes, where have you been? I needed you like
Speaker 4: six months ago. That's awesome, he goes, there, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of the lines that I've already given away. We've
Speaker 4: already put him into the game. But you I'm giving
Speaker 4: you this one, even though I already gave it to
Speaker 4: somebody else. I'm given you this one and I want
Speaker 4: you for other things. And on top of that, he
Speaker 4: also mentioned that he is in talks with Indie Stone
Speaker 4: to make his mod part of the Bass game. Oh
Speaker 4: very nice, right, So if that happens, then I will
Speaker 4: be in the base game. That's because a voice, and
Speaker 4: it's just a random voice. But they are going to
Speaker 4: be doing in the future. Their plans are to do
Speaker 4: not only just more TV more radio voices in the game,
Speaker 4: but also they're going to introduce NPC characters, right. Those
Speaker 4: characters are gonna have voices, So I may end up
Speaker 4: doing a lot more voiceover.
Speaker 2: You might be an nc that's awesome, I might be
Speaker 2: an NBC. How much is this game to play?
Speaker 4: Me? Well, for for projects on Boyd it's twenty bucks.
Speaker 4: Twenty bucks and it provides hours and hours of entertainment.
Speaker 3: If you have a PC, can you can you get it?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's on PC.
Speaker 4: It's on Steam, so if you can, if you got Steam,
Speaker 4: I think you can even get it on Mac. If
Speaker 4: you have a Mac and you have Steam Client, I
Speaker 4: believe they have a version for that now. If you
Speaker 4: have a PlayStation or an Xbox. Unfortunately, no, this is
Speaker 4: only a PC game, but I would highly recommend projects
Speaker 4: on board. It doesn't require a huge amount of graphics
Speaker 4: power or processing power. It is a very old school
Speaker 4: looking game, but it is super super good.
Speaker 2: All right, speaking of PlayStation, can't do this and not
Speaker 2: talk about it. I know that justin you do play PlayStation, Sean,
Speaker 2: do you? Oh you don't anymore? No, okay, because I
Speaker 2: was wondering if you were affected by this twenty four
Speaker 2: hour outage, which is apparently gonna cost Sony some money.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, they went down and they're they're gonna
Speaker 2: be doing payouts.
Speaker 4: The funny thing was that they never they never they
Speaker 4: never said what was the cause. They said, oh, it
Speaker 4: was a equipment maintenance or something like that. A lot
Speaker 4: of people are thinking, hey, this was probably a hack.
Speaker 4: I mean, because you don't have equipment failure like that
Speaker 4: on that kind of scale for that long unless it
Speaker 4: was a hack. Now that that harkens back to what
Speaker 4: was it twenty eleven, right when they had the famous
Speaker 4: Sony hack where they were down for like three straight
Speaker 4: weeks or something like that, where.
Speaker 1: They stole the people's data. Why.
Speaker 4: I was living in San Diego at the time. I
Speaker 4: remember that happening, but the twenty four hours and they
Speaker 4: were basically radio silent, like they were just coming out, Yes,
Speaker 4: we are aware that some people are having a problem.
Speaker 4: We are working on it.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I'm sorry some people, everybody.
Speaker 2: They kind of took like what Microsoft did in this lap,
Speaker 2: remember that the last Doubt outage that they had that
Speaker 2: was really bad. They just really didn't say anything for
Speaker 2: a long time because they.
Speaker 1: Were trying to figure it all out.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I really think there was a lot more
Speaker 4: of the story than what they were even leading on.
Speaker 4: And I really think it was some sort of a
Speaker 4: breach in their system and they were trying.
Speaker 3: To Usually usually when it's radio silence is because they
Speaker 3: don't know, right, Yeah, Usually it's like, oh, here's why,
Speaker 3: and it's either some facade or it's half truth.
Speaker 1: But nothing Yeah, wow, Yeah, there was something going on.
Speaker 3: The twenty eleven outage lasted twenty three days.
Speaker 1: Twenty three days, okay, and.
Speaker 3: It compromised seventy seven million PlayStation user accounts.
Speaker 1: Yeah are people still now?
Speaker 2: When you think about this, okay, you go back to
Speaker 2: think of some of the big hacks where it's been
Speaker 2: medical systems, you know, hospitals, medical data.
Speaker 1: I don't know banks have been ever hit.
Speaker 2: You know, schools have, one of our school districts here
Speaker 2: have when something like this happened. How long can those
Speaker 2: repercussions affect the customer base that has data, whether it
Speaker 2: be phone numbers, email?
Speaker 1: How long is that stuff going to be floating around decades?
Speaker 3: Who knows? Who knows where the data went?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it goes to the dark web, goes
Speaker 1: to the gets.
Speaker 3: Sold, and then it gets resold and resold and resolved.
Speaker 4: Now, I mean this is this is how you get
Speaker 4: This is how you get these these these scam emails
Speaker 4: and the scam text messages and things like that is
Speaker 4: because your information was exposed onto the dark web to
Speaker 4: the highest bidder, and a lot of times those highest
Speaker 4: bidders are from foreign countries like North Korea, China, Russia.
Speaker 4: You know, those are the top three biggest hacking countries
Speaker 4: out there besides the United States. But you even got
Speaker 4: countries like Czech Republic there's actually a pretty decent size
Speaker 4: hacking community and the Czech Republic, but the biggest ones
Speaker 4: are you know the first three that I mentioned. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: once your data is in the on the dark Web,
Speaker 4: it's out there forever.
Speaker 2: Would you recommend that people take that offer that they'll
Speaker 2: get usually they'll get an offer for free credit monitoring
Speaker 2: for a year to be able to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Would you recommend they do that?
Speaker 3: Or so you have to be really careful with that,
Speaker 3: because do you remember the experience hack? Yeah, right, the
Speaker 3: credit model, the credit whatever, the one of the big
Speaker 3: credits place. Right. So they released almost like immediately this
Speaker 3: police signe. You know, here's this customer agreement. It'll give
Speaker 3: you X amount of free stuff from us. But it
Speaker 3: negated a bunch of the court stuff like liability and
Speaker 3: like and it went around like wildfire because people were like,
Speaker 3: this is the answer. It's gonna protect your data that
Speaker 3: they're saying, it's gonna be so good for you, But
Speaker 3: it ended up being well, hey, a class action lawsuit
Speaker 3: got filed two months later, and people were like, well,
Speaker 3: I can't be I'm not part of that. I can't
Speaker 3: be a part of that because I signed this agreement before.
Speaker 3: All right, you have to be very careful when companies
Speaker 3: come very forward, very quickly with these ye too good
Speaker 3: to be true offers, because they're just looking out for
Speaker 3: their back end.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, totally. Ye never.
Speaker 4: I never signed those. I mean, I've been a victim
Speaker 4: of multiple and they're always like, hey, we're offering you,
Speaker 4: you know, three free years of credit monitoring, and then
Speaker 4: you read the fine print. Yeah, exactly what Sean said
Speaker 4: is you sign this, you take this offer, you lose
Speaker 4: your right to sue us in the future or even
Speaker 4: be just become part of a class action lawsuit against
Speaker 4: us by taking this offer. So I'm always like, nope,
Speaker 4: somebody would. I'm gonna sit back and see what happens.
Speaker 2: Somebody wants to ask me when you sign up for
Speaker 2: stuff online, whether it's you know, maybe maybe through a
Speaker 2: vendor of a product that you like and you want
Speaker 2: to sign up to get information, that you use a
Speaker 2: social media email account that's not tied to a main account,
Speaker 2: like say you have an account through your ISP, whether
Speaker 2: it be Infinity or Cox or you know, any of
Speaker 2: the cable services Google Fi, that you use one that
Speaker 2: is separate and just like.
Speaker 1: A Gmail or a Yahoo or even AOL.
Speaker 4: So there there are a lot of people that do
Speaker 4: and a lot of people that do this, and this
Speaker 4: is kind of where I would love to have Matt,
Speaker 4: you know, if he was here tonight, Simon, because he
Speaker 4: is the cybersecurity expert. But I do know that a
Speaker 4: lot of IT professionals, and especially cybersecurity professionals, they have
Speaker 4: fifteen twenty twenty five email addresses.
Speaker 1: Right because I mean you can sign up for them.
Speaker 1: They're free.
Speaker 4: I mean they're all free, yeah, right. And what they
Speaker 4: do is they assign those email addresses to particular types
Speaker 4: of things that they do on the internet. For instance,
Speaker 4: online shopping, they'll use one particular email address. Then for
Speaker 4: any type of registration of products that they buy, they'll
Speaker 4: use a different one because then they can track who
Speaker 4: is selling the information. Because if they go to register
Speaker 4: a brand new email address that has never been out
Speaker 4: there before, and they register a product and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, bam bam bam bam bam, they're getting hit
Speaker 4: with spam emails. They're like, yeah, this company just sold
Speaker 4: my information even though they said they wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Interesting stuff. Are we gonna take a break. We come back.
Speaker 2: We've got a couple of listener questions. We got some
Speaker 2: news of some tech as well. We'll be back with
Speaker 2: more of Tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 4: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de weird and I'm justin.
Speaker 4: Let me find us on the web at tech talk
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back and now back to tech talk radio.
Speaker 1: All right, So we have a listener question here.
Speaker 4: It says I have started a new home based business,
Speaker 4: and I was looking for ways to get the word out.
Speaker 4: A buddy of mine told me not to bother with
Speaker 4: a website. He says most people use social media to
Speaker 4: get the word out. I wanted to get your thoughts
Speaker 4: on needing a website. Oh that's a yeah. No, I
Speaker 4: disagree with what your buddy says. I think everybody needs
Speaker 4: to have a website.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, But the cost of a website
Speaker 1: has gone up.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it depends on what you're putting on there,
Speaker 2: and it depends on how much you want on the website.
Speaker 2: You know, there are some people put everything they do,
Speaker 2: you know, the deep have a blog, baby have?
Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But like, all right, so you started a website, uh,
Speaker 2: for your your DJ business?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And but that that probably wasn't too much of
Speaker 2: an investment. What I did was I basically I use
Speaker 2: Wix like a build your own kind of Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: like Squarespace.
Speaker 4: Wix, you know, stuff like that. They also have an
Speaker 4: e commerce platform built in, which I you know, obviously
Speaker 4: I didn't need to use the e commerce, but I
Speaker 4: what I did was I use the Wix program or
Speaker 4: process to buy the domain, which obviously you have to
Speaker 4: buy the domain name, right, and then the hosting of
Speaker 4: the actual website, which I believe. I think I get
Speaker 4: five website pages on my platform.
Speaker 3: Is it on?
Speaker 1: Is it on Wix?
Speaker 2: Are they the hosting company or well, they're the hosting company,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't have a Wix domain. It uses my
Speaker 2: personal domain. Okay, who's theirs?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 4: So, uh yeah, it's my own personal domain, but it
Speaker 4: is hosted by Wix. And I also get an email
Speaker 4: address so if I want to, you know, people want
Speaker 4: to email me, that goes through Wix as well. And
Speaker 4: I used a little bit of their social media tool
Speaker 4: which just kind of helps promote my website to search engines.
Speaker 4: It's called SEO Search engine optimization, right. And then I
Speaker 4: what I did was I think I bought I bought
Speaker 4: the three year package because it was a better deal
Speaker 4: because I knew I was going to have the website
Speaker 4: for a while. Yeah, and I think I want to say,
Speaker 4: I think I paid five hundred dollars for three years
Speaker 4: all of this, which means hosting domain, name, email, everything,
Speaker 4: all all of it for like five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the idea of just putting it on
Speaker 2: social media, if you're just on Facebook or Instagram, doesn't
Speaker 2: it just kind of really it doesn't say too much
Speaker 2: about the professionalism or you know that you could be
Speaker 2: a trustworthy I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Also, also, content on social media disappears. I mean you're
Speaker 4: not going to be able to go back and visit
Speaker 4: that content very easily. I mean, yes, if you follow
Speaker 4: the person on social media or whatever, you might, but
Speaker 4: a lot of those social media what he's talking about,
Speaker 4: this home business, he's probably talking about things like advertising
Speaker 4: on social media, which means he's going to be paying
Speaker 4: for advertisements which are going to reach a lot of people.
Speaker 4: But most people just skip right by the advertisements.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So, to have your own website, which is like a
Speaker 4: home base for your business, you know that that that's
Speaker 4: that's gonna be where.
Speaker 1: You wanted to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course with the email address, with your own domain, Uh,
Speaker 4: you know, you'd be justin at you know, tech talk radio, right, right,
Speaker 4: you know, that's that's that's that's a more personal way
Speaker 4: of doing it. Actually, you know what I forgot to
Speaker 4: mention part of that Wix deal was I actually got
Speaker 4: five hundred business cards as well. Oh, actual business cards,
Speaker 4: actual business cards.
Speaker 2: That's a great it's a great idea. Actually, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that is good. I you know, I find having that
Speaker 2: email address is also a certain benefit because somebody give
Speaker 2: it has their own bay business.
Speaker 1: It's just look so much better, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean you've got a business and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I have a home business.
Speaker 1: I do I don't know.
Speaker 4: Let's say I do home painting and and and you
Speaker 4: can reach me at Justin at gmail dot com. Ah,
Speaker 4: it just doesn't seem professional. Yeah, you know, when you've
Speaker 4: got a Gmail dot com or an Aol dot com
Speaker 4: or a Yahoo dot com, it just doesn't seem professional.
Speaker 1: Sean, what do you think I agree with Justin?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think having a presence where somebody can
Speaker 3: come and look at your content. It also depends on
Speaker 3: what you're selling or what you're doing, right, if it's
Speaker 3: it all depends. But like if you want to you
Speaker 3: have to use some of those tools, Like you can
Speaker 3: try and do all your own search engine optimization and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. But it's like it's a job on itself,
Speaker 3: Like it's about what about of work you want to
Speaker 3: put into it to get out of it, because you
Speaker 3: can put as much time and effort into it, but
Speaker 3: if you're not going to get any return in your investment,
Speaker 3: have somebody else build it for you.
Speaker 4: Now, let me take this in a completely different direction.
Speaker 4: Though Now I don't know what this person's business is.
Speaker 4: They didn't mention everything in a question. There is a
Speaker 4: couple different people that I particularly watch on YouTube that
Speaker 4: I just happen to naturally find within the YouTube algorithm,
Speaker 4: and they are landscapers, right, and they do these videos
Speaker 4: where they do a time lapse of them like mowing
Speaker 4: a person's lawn and making it look all nice. And
Speaker 4: I've seen those ing like a storm drain or something
Speaker 4: and they're doing like a time lapse. Those are like
Speaker 4: organic social media because you're not really putting a lot
Speaker 4: of effort into it except for just simply recording the
Speaker 4: video and then putting it up on YouTube and hoping
Speaker 4: somebody finds you. That's one way of doing it. So,
Speaker 4: like if you're a landscaper, and you want to showcase
Speaker 4: your work, why not throw up a YouTube channel, But
Speaker 4: the algorithm is going to have to pick you up,
Speaker 4: and that's almost impossible nowadays, right, So to have a
Speaker 4: website where you could, you know, you could take those
Speaker 4: videos that you've made of you doing your work and
Speaker 4: put them on your website, which then drives traffic to
Speaker 4: your YouTube channel, which then gets you more subscribers, which
Speaker 4: then in turn makes the algorithm pay more attention to you.
Speaker 4: Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, and now next thing.
Speaker 1: You know, you're a millionaire.
Speaker 2: Well the other idea, too, would be that if you
Speaker 2: have the website, still invest in social media by having
Speaker 2: your presence and that's where you put a lot of
Speaker 2: content and again drive it back to your website. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: that would make sense. So don't just say both ways,
Speaker 2: Yeah dude, do do it both ways. Don't just say okay,
Speaker 2: I got a website, I'm good and not paying attention
Speaker 2: to it and not do any updates to it.
Speaker 1: Do the do both of them.
Speaker 2: Social media and that and you know that that's probably
Speaker 2: a better way.
Speaker 1: Or even radio advertising.
Speaker 4: Yeah, radio advertising too, and link link link your YouTube
Speaker 4: channel to your website. So people go to your website,
Speaker 4: they see your videos that are hosted on YouTube, which
Speaker 4: then brings them to the YouTube channel, which then gets
Speaker 4: them to subscribe to you, and then it affects the algorithm.
Speaker 4: So I mean, there's all. There's it's a it's a
Speaker 4: big game, man like. It's it's really hard to get
Speaker 4: noticed on social media anymore, to be honest.
Speaker 1: All right, So having having a website is the best
Speaker 1: thing to do.
Speaker 2: Great question there, Sean, do you want to do? You
Speaker 2: want to handle the next question you.
Speaker 3: Want to do? Because I've been reading that question. I've
Speaker 3: been looking at options because I have several that just
Speaker 3: came right off the top of my head. All right,
Speaker 3: the next listener question, And for one, I'm going to
Speaker 3: comment on this because it says I found a flash
Speaker 3: drive with a bunch of Windows media video files on it.
Speaker 5: I hope it was there, right that that that is
Speaker 5: I saw? Yeah, you found it outside. I hope it
Speaker 5: was your street.
Speaker 3: Don't plug it at anybody, don't know, like, well, clearly
Speaker 3: you did because you know it has movie files on it,
Speaker 3: right right, I'm going to give good faith here and
Speaker 3: trust that this is your flash drive that you may
Speaker 3: have just had laying around in your house. There are
Speaker 3: good options, all right?
Speaker 1: What they want? They want to know what?
Speaker 3: So the best one is free? All right?
Speaker 1: So they wanted to, so they want the question is
Speaker 1: they wanted to? They want to? Way to convert these
Speaker 1: right easily?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, sorry, I didn't read the rest of the question.
Speaker 3: My fault. I found a flash drive with a bunch
Speaker 3: of Windows Media video files on it. Is there a
Speaker 3: way to convert them easily? I don't mind spending a
Speaker 3: few dollars? Or is there a free option? There are
Speaker 3: several free options for this, all right. Handbreak is the
Speaker 3: number one video transcoding piece of software. I could recommend
Speaker 3: it anybody.
Speaker 2: I always thought that Handbreak was just for you know,
Speaker 2: a way for me to get my DVD movies into
Speaker 2: a file.
Speaker 3: Then that is probably the one number one reason I
Speaker 3: use it for is you can put a DVD in
Speaker 3: and rip it and it gives you a file. It
Speaker 3: will take essentially any media platform you can think of
Speaker 3: within reason. Right, Obviously, your computer has to have the
Speaker 3: CODEC to be able to do it. Windows Media files
Speaker 3: Windows wmvs are one of them. You can then convert
Speaker 3: it to just audio as an MP three. You can
Speaker 3: convert it to a HT six four. You can do
Speaker 3: all sorts of stuff with it. The other one that
Speaker 3: I recommend, and this is something I recommend to everybody
Speaker 3: that's install on their Nuke Fresh and stuff, Windows whatever,
Speaker 3: VLC Player.
Speaker 1: VLC player, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: VLC player is probably the most They call it the
Speaker 3: Swiss Army Knife of media players. It's free, it's open source,
Speaker 3: it's it looks like a little traffic cone. It's it's
Speaker 3: it's cool. They can convert with that. Also, it's a
Speaker 3: little bit more complicated, it's a little bit more you
Speaker 3: to kind of have a little bit more technical knowledge
Speaker 3: to understand exactly what you're trying to do with the
Speaker 3: the software self. But that one's also free. Okay, but
Speaker 3: it'll play pretty much any media format on the planet,
Speaker 3: which is incredible. And then if you are very tech
Speaker 3: savvy and you want to try to do it yourself
Speaker 3: with a little bit of Python coding, f fm peg,
Speaker 3: f f m peg, all right, ffm peg is it's
Speaker 3: it's this. It's an open source process that runs in
Speaker 3: the background on your computer, so it doesn't have a
Speaker 3: web interface. It's built into a lot of other products
Speaker 3: you can use it. And then run either a Python
Speaker 3: script to say I want to transcode this file to
Speaker 3: this file. Except we use it at work all the
Speaker 3: time to transcode nd I and base bay. There are
Speaker 3: certain processes that we use it for that are way
Speaker 3: more advanced than the general users that we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: All right, One question I'm wondering about, Sean. Why would
Speaker 2: somebody want to move from Windows Media video files to
Speaker 2: maybe another format?
Speaker 1: Uh? What would be the reason for that?
Speaker 3: If for space compatibility?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So.
Speaker 3: If I send you a Windows Media file, how are
Speaker 3: you gonna play it.
Speaker 1: On my computer?
Speaker 3: Will it work?
Speaker 1: I think so?
Speaker 5: If you have Windows Media Player installed.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: It might It may or may not be installed. You
Speaker 3: might have to go to the place or downloaded.
Speaker 1: So what the best place to play a file would be?
Speaker 1: What format? MP four or so?
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's like if you think of it from a
Speaker 3: phone level, right, most phones record in H six four
Speaker 3: and PIG four because that's the most compatible with existing
Speaker 3: devices in the world. Right now, if you have it
Speaker 3: set to most performance, you're gonna get HVC, or you're
Speaker 3: gonna get a pro res or something or whatever. The
Speaker 3: Google's shoosing pro res ra or black Magic raw or
Speaker 3: whatever format there are. So H two six four or
Speaker 3: H six five here hopefully soon will be the most compatible.
Speaker 3: Meaning it, most software and devices are going to be
Speaker 3: able to read that codec and play it back. If
Speaker 3: you send somebody at WMV a Windows media file and
Speaker 3: they're on a Mac or an iPhone or an Android,
Speaker 3: they're probably not gonna be able to play it straight away.
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 3: If you send them an MP four that's encoded H
Speaker 3: two six four, they'll be able to play it because
Speaker 3: those devices are licensed to play those codecs and can
Speaker 3: can can play those back video and audio.
Speaker 2: And in some cases the compression algorithm may work a
Speaker 2: little better with a different file format, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: so you're going to save space.
Speaker 3: So Windows media files are less compressed than H six fours,
Speaker 3: but depending on how big the file is, it could
Speaker 3: be a worse looking in compression though than H twx four.
Speaker 3: Got it, H two six four and H six five
Speaker 3: are more efficient codex They may and they could create
Speaker 3: can create smaller file sizes, but at greater quality. So
Speaker 3: you start getting into you know it's w mvs, A
Speaker 3: v I S and certain other file structures. You get
Speaker 3: more data less compression, but the file sizes are bigger,
Speaker 3: all right. You know, it depends on what flavor of
Speaker 3: the codec is. It might compress things differently.
Speaker 2: But and Adobe, what do you think do they have?
Speaker 2: They have software that's free.
Speaker 3: So there are a couple Adobe products. You can get
Speaker 3: Adobe Express, which is not one that I've used in
Speaker 3: a long time. But then they have the Adobe Media
Speaker 3: Adobe Media Encoder. So if you were part of an
Speaker 3: enterprise level Adobe Suite, or you have access to the
Speaker 3: Adobe Suite, if you're paying for like the video package
Speaker 3: or the photo package, you might have the ability to
Speaker 3: get Adobe Media Encoder. Again, it's very simple to open it,
Speaker 3: say here's my file, and then tell it what you
Speaker 3: wanted to give you and it'll spin out the file
Speaker 3: usually usually no time at all.
Speaker 2: It's been a while since I've looked at it, but
Speaker 2: I've used Roxio Easy Creator in the past and Roxio Studio,
Speaker 2: and they have a They have a conversion program for
Speaker 2: video on there as well, which works pretty good, but
Speaker 2: you gotta buy the program. I mean, that's the thing
Speaker 2: you got versions versus that.
Speaker 3: You know, back back in you know, the early two thousands,
Speaker 3: when ripping DVDs was popular, right, and this is where
Speaker 3: the term toaster came from, because people would burn, yeah,
Speaker 3: DVDs and then they would pop out like toast. That's
Speaker 3: kind of where the key where term toaster came from.
Speaker 3: So it was kind of a funny thing. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you had roxyo, Nero, a handful of other ones that
Speaker 3: were popular at the time. But then it kind of
Speaker 3: all fell back in And if you if you look
Speaker 3: into the kind of the internet side of burning DVDs
Speaker 3: and blu rays, the two you're gonna find for DVDs
Speaker 3: is handbrake.
Speaker 2: And for hand raise awesome, make make MKV, make mgv's good,
Speaker 2: very good too, but handbreak is absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea.
Speaker 3: All Right, we got to.
Speaker 2: Take another quick break. We come back with more of
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Speaker 2: I was asked a question the other day, and it's
Speaker 2: a good question. We've been talking about tariffs. That subject
Speaker 2: has come up and it's not you know, the subject politics,
Speaker 2: but the question has been if you've been wanting to
Speaker 2: get maybe something that's tech wise that is not made
Speaker 2: here in the United States, and that it's a variety
Speaker 2: of products, motherboards, graphics cards, of the Nintendo's switch to
Speaker 2: which is going to be you know, be out. Could
Speaker 2: tariffs affect the costs of some of the technology that
Speaker 2: we may be wanting to buy because they're going to
Speaker 2: be going both ways.
Speaker 3: It definitely will. I mean, there's no way that a
Speaker 3: ten tariff increase in China is not going to increase
Speaker 3: product costs. Yeah, of course it is. How much stuff,
Speaker 3: how much technology is made.
Speaker 1: In China, Yeah, all of it. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: It's weird to say, but I would say seventy more
Speaker 3: than seventy five percent of the world's stuff. Yeah, it's Maine, China.
Speaker 2: Well you got you've got other countries like Vietnam and Thailand.
Speaker 2: And but I mean what technology has made here in
Speaker 2: the United States. You know, you think about that when
Speaker 2: it comes to other boards. Uh, there are companies out there.
Speaker 2: We think of HP, We think, oh HP, right, great
Speaker 2: American company, Hilda Packard. Most of their products are probably
Speaker 2: coming from offshore.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: Maybe if you look at if you look at just
Speaker 3: how much impact there was just from COVID shutting stuff
Speaker 3: down for a period of time. Then that didn't increase
Speaker 3: the cost at all. It just disrupted the supply chain.
Speaker 3: So if you increase the cost and that offsets the
Speaker 3: supply chain, that's going to have a domino effect in
Speaker 3: the same direction. So it's gonna there's going to be
Speaker 3: a price ke on everyday goods and every day technology
Speaker 3: and consumer technology. That's people are going to see.
Speaker 4: So go ahead, justin looking at to chime in here
Speaker 4: real quick with this, I mean, what is what what
Speaker 4: is the what is the end goal here? Because I mean,
Speaker 4: I know, saving money, Well, we're gonna we're gonna eventually
Speaker 4: have to dive into a little bit of politics on this,
Speaker 4: which was out trying to get too deep into politics.
Speaker 4: But I think the end goal is that Trump wants
Speaker 4: to have more of these companies bring back these products
Speaker 4: into America, to have American companies manufacture these products. I
Speaker 4: think the problem with that is we don't have the infrastructure.
Speaker 1: I don't believe.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe maybe I'm wrong, but I don't believe
Speaker 4: we have these types of factories that Taiwan and China
Speaker 4: have where they can manufacture the silicon to make the
Speaker 4: nvidiate chips and the you know, the CPUs and the
Speaker 4: motherboards and other things like that. I just don't think
Speaker 4: we have that. But then on top of that, it's
Speaker 4: all about paying the living wage.
Speaker 1: You're going to drink.
Speaker 4: Bring jobs back to America. Sure, that's the end goal, right,
Speaker 4: but at what cost? Because now these companies are getting
Speaker 4: this stuff made for pennies on the dollar, and this
Speaker 4: is just the way the world works. You bring these
Speaker 4: back to America, Now you're gonna have to pay these
Speaker 4: people that do this stuff at a living wage unless
Speaker 4: we go completely automated and we just have robots make everything.
Speaker 2: Right, which some companies would love. Intel does have a
Speaker 2: plant in uh Tempe Arizona, a silicon processing plant for
Speaker 2: you know, the processors and whatnot. So there is there
Speaker 2: is some manufacturing that goes on here in the United States,
Speaker 2: and it's probably beyond that. There's other products that we've seen.
Speaker 2: But it does make you wonder, should that then people
Speaker 2: start thinking about, Okay, I've been saying we're gonna update
Speaker 2: my computer, I'm gonna get new motherboard, I'm gonna and
Speaker 2: they like.
Speaker 1: To do it themselves.
Speaker 2: Should they be just going ahead and buying them now
Speaker 2: rather than waiting because the price is gonna go again,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah.
Speaker 3: If you can. And you know, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I would be spending a lot of my reserve cash
Speaker 3: right now. Yeah, you don't know what the market's gonna do.
Speaker 3: Like with these tariffs, it's gonna unsettle so much. There's
Speaker 3: so much uncertainty that investing in a new a big
Speaker 3: technology debt, of like buying stuff, it might not be
Speaker 3: the most wise decision right now.
Speaker 1: There are other products too.
Speaker 2: We think about Apple as well, a smart watch. Didn't
Speaker 2: want to buy one like an Apple watch, but you
Speaker 2: want to monitor your heart justin you went with the ring.
Speaker 1: How's that been working out for you? I actually really
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: I have the pixel Watch three and I got that recently.
Speaker 4: When I got the pixel nine fold, I got a
Speaker 4: free pixel Watch three.
Speaker 1: I really, honestly don't even use.
Speaker 4: The pixel Watch three for what it is mostly used for.
Speaker 4: I mean, I get the vibration on my wrist and
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I got something I gotta respond to.
Speaker 4: But personally me, my eyesight's not the greatest, so I
Speaker 4: have to wear reading glasses. I can't read my watch.
Speaker 1: Oh I can't. I can't look at it.
Speaker 4: I mean I can't put it far enough away from
Speaker 4: my face to be able to read the tiny little
Speaker 4: print on the watch. And I don't wear my glasses
Speaker 4: all the time. I only wear them when I need
Speaker 4: to look up something close. So for me, the pixel
Speaker 4: Watch just really doesn't do the trick, whereas the Aura ring,
Speaker 4: I just set it and forget it. And the pixel
Speaker 4: Watch has to be charged basically every day. The Aura
Speaker 4: ring is once every eight to ten days.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. And it only takes sixty minutes to charge.
Speaker 2: Now, and it's a cost wise versus the pixel Watch. Well,
Speaker 2: the pixel Watch was a good deal. You've got it
Speaker 2: with the full thing. It's it's, it's, it's it's equivalent.
Speaker 4: I would say it's about three fifty to four hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty dollars, depends on which finish you want, If
Speaker 4: you want the gold or the silver finish, it's obviously
Speaker 4: going to be more. But yeah, it's about But here's
Speaker 4: the cool thing about the r A ring, and it's
Speaker 4: not applicable to the pixel Watch or the Apple Watch
Speaker 4: or anything else, is that the r A ring is
Speaker 4: actually FSA eligible.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 4: So if you have an FSA through your health insurance company,
Speaker 4: they will pay for the ring and they will pay
Speaker 4: which this is now this is the funniest part about it.
Speaker 4: They will pay the monthly subscription to the or A ring.
Speaker 4: They will not pay the yearly subscription, which makes no
Speaker 4: sense to me because you're actually saving money if you
Speaker 4: do the yearly subscription. Right, but at least with my
Speaker 4: particular health insurance company, which is through UMR, They're like, look,
Speaker 4: we don't make the rules. We'll pay for the monthly
Speaker 4: at five ninety nine a month, but we're not gonna
Speaker 4: pay for the yearly at fifty bucks. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 4: you're just you're literally you're literally wasting money because like
Speaker 4: fifty bucks for the year or six bucks a month, right, Like,
Speaker 4: what the heck with the smart watch, though, you don't
Speaker 4: pay a monthly do you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, smart Watch, No you don't.
Speaker 4: I mean well, unless you got LTE, if you got
Speaker 4: this cellular connectivity then obviously yeah, but that's usually tied
Speaker 4: in with your phone plan or whatever.
Speaker 1: You don't really notice it. It's kind of just there.
Speaker 4: But with the R ring, you need it. It's like
Speaker 4: a five or six dollars a month subscription to get
Speaker 4: the extra benefits. But what I like about the R
Speaker 4: ring is it's way more accurate. I'll be working out
Speaker 4: or doing something and then my R ring is like, hey,
Speaker 4: we detected you're doing a workout. Thirty minutes later, the
Speaker 4: pixel watch is like, hey, you just did a workout.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, like thirty minutes ago. All right.
Speaker 2: So Apple is doing something kind of different, which I
Speaker 2: thought was cool. They're putting out the power Beats Pro too.
Speaker 2: These are earbuds. Basically, you wear them in your ear. Right,
Speaker 2: It's not just music though, this is kind of this
Speaker 2: is different. So you imagine you're working out in the gym, right,
Speaker 2: so you put these in, You're listening to music. It's
Speaker 2: monitoring your heart rate, so it can tell if you're
Speaker 2: getting a good workout, if you're you know your your
Speaker 2: heart is accelerating or your heart is running at a
Speaker 2: good workout pace. So if you're doing a workout.
Speaker 1: I thought their Apple Watch was supposed to do that.
Speaker 2: Well, say you don't say you don't want to wear
Speaker 2: an Apple Watch, but you can wear these these power
Speaker 2: Beats Pro listening to music and it's going to twofold
Speaker 2: also monitor your heart, which is some people may go
Speaker 2: if that's kind of cool. Now they're set to retail
Speaker 2: for about two hundred and forty nine dollars. Although just
Speaker 2: from what you're saying, justin I think the ring would
Speaker 2: probably be a better alternative.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're looking for a true health benefit,
Speaker 4: like a health tracker, I think the Aura ring is
Speaker 4: right up there with along with like the Garmin or
Speaker 4: or a couple of the other ones out there. But
Speaker 4: like when it comes to just overall general like it
Speaker 4: does everything. Yeah, the Apple Watch is a great watch.
Speaker 4: The Epixel watches is decent, but I don't know much
Speaker 4: about these these new earbuds you're talking about.
Speaker 1: But yeah, for like a.
Speaker 4: True and true, set it and forget it health monitor, the.
Speaker 1: Aura ring is great.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I have the Apple Watch and it monitors sleep apnea,
Speaker 2: which is this too. Mike Cardiologist wanted to he's, you know,
Speaker 2: keep an eye on that, and I did and I
Speaker 2: don't have an issue, which is kind of cool that
Speaker 2: my Apple Watch was able to see that. So you
Speaker 2: do the same thing with the ring. You get the
Speaker 2: sleep appia notification or.
Speaker 4: Sleep apnea notification. It also can do other stuff for cardio,
Speaker 4: like a arrhythmia. Yeah, yeah, it can detect a rhythmia.
Speaker 3: It also attracts can track episodes of hyper attack of cardia. Yes, right, right,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you guys something Chrome extension plug ins.
Speaker 2: What do you guys think about this? I mean, some
Speaker 2: people say, don't do plugins. Don't plug into your Chrome
Speaker 2: browser or your Edge browser or whatever browser.
Speaker 1: Are you using.
Speaker 2: Don't use Chrome period. You're you're not a fan of Chrome,
Speaker 2: not anymore. No, Like what made you kind of say
Speaker 2: I'm done with Chrome?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, just take a look at your task manager,
Speaker 4: you know, after you install Chrome and you put a
Speaker 4: couple of these extensions on. Look at how much resources
Speaker 4: Chrome is taking up on your computer. I mean, it
Speaker 4: is absolutely ridiculous how resource intensive Chrome is. And then
Speaker 4: you might say, oh, well, then that's fine, I'll just
Speaker 4: go use I'll go use Microsoft Edge. Edge is Chromium based,
Speaker 4: It's gonna use the same amount of resources.
Speaker 1: Firefox.
Speaker 4: I've never really been a Firefox fan until about the
Speaker 4: past two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people say Firefox is great.
Speaker 4: Well, no, Firefox is great, obviously, I love Firefox, and
Speaker 4: Firefox doesn't use half of the resources that Chrome does.
Speaker 4: But the thing is is that you've got all the
Speaker 4: big tech companies now that are coming after Firefox. Because
Speaker 4: Mozilla is the company that makes Firefox. They're a nonprofit organization.
Speaker 4: They don't have a lot of money to advertise, they
Speaker 4: don't have a lot of money to you know, fend
Speaker 4: off lawyers and things like that. It's actually way better
Speaker 4: I think Firefox. I've used Opera, I've used Brave. Okay,
Speaker 4: first off, don't ever, ever ever use Brave.
Speaker 2: Originally we thought it was good, and then Brave was
Speaker 2: supposed to be the privacy browser.
Speaker 4: It is the exact opposite. If I were to rate
Speaker 4: my browsers, I'm gonna ask Sean the same question. But
Speaker 4: if I were to rate my browsers from first to fourth,
Speaker 4: I would say Firefox first, Edge second, Opera third, and
Speaker 4: Chrome fourth John Chrome.
Speaker 3: For compatibility at work and with devices that are mass produced,
Speaker 3: Chrome is the most wide probably the most widely used,
Speaker 3: so it has the most compatibility with software and development
Speaker 3: and things that we use. I would say for personal use, mose, Firefox, right, Chrome, Safari.
Speaker 2: Edge, Oh, forget so far, the Apple one. So I
Speaker 2: found a plug in, so we've been trying to troubleshoot
Speaker 2: an internet provided signal lots of dropouts, and they kept
Speaker 2: saying it was not that bad. I checked at twenty
Speaker 2: nine disconnects in one day with an extension that a
Speaker 2: Chrome extension that helped me that I was able to
Speaker 2: get in the Google Store called Internet Connection Monitor. I
Speaker 2: checked out the privacy statement developer disclosed that it will
Speaker 2: not collect your use your data. They declare your data
Speaker 2: as not being sold to third parties outside of the
Speaker 2: approved use cases, not being used for transferred for purposes
Speaker 2: that are unrelated to the item's core functionality, and not
Speaker 2: being used or transferred to determined credit worthiness or for
Speaker 2: lending purposes. Why they had to say that, I had
Speaker 2: no idea, but Internet Connection Monitor basically will sit in
Speaker 2: the background if your browser is open or even minim
Speaker 2: it will then track your Internet connection. You can click
Speaker 2: on it and it will tell you how many times
Speaker 2: you dropped out, how long the dropout was, And I
Speaker 2: just I found it to be very helpful because this provider,
Speaker 2: this ISP who is based here in southern Arizona, was saying, well,
Speaker 2: it's not dropping out that much.
Speaker 1: And it was was able.
Speaker 2: We were able to actually show them that versus what
Speaker 2: I was getting with Exfinity where it would stay on
Speaker 2: for you know, days at a time. So again, I
Speaker 2: like this. I like this plug in. I you know,
Speaker 2: I want to say Internet connection monitor. But again, it's
Speaker 2: a Chrome plug in plug in that you can get
Speaker 2: from the Google Store. Don't get it anywhere else. Only
Speaker 2: get it through Google Store if you're going to get it.
Speaker 2: But that one was pretty good for us to be
Speaker 2: able to say, no, we've been up this long, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Interesting, All right, all.
Speaker 3: We extension for Chrome that I use is ad block plus?
Speaker 4: Is it ad block plus? They're they're blocking all of
Speaker 4: those like YouTube and all those things. They're blocking all
Speaker 4: of those ad blocking extensions on Chrome. However, they're not
Speaker 4: blocking them on Firefox. Oh really yep, Oh I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna have to look into that, all right.
Speaker 3: Keep it's kind of a battle of attrition, right YouTube
Speaker 3: will block it, ad block will put on a patch,
Speaker 3: YouTube will block it, ad Blocker put it'll keep fighter.
Speaker 3: They're fighting back and forth.
Speaker 4: On Well, yeah, that that has been the historical case.
Speaker 4: But now YouTube has come out with a way that
Speaker 4: basically just shuts down ad block plus permanently. I don't
Speaker 4: know how they're doing it, but the thing is is
Speaker 4: if you use Firefox doesn't affect it.
Speaker 2: All Right, now the quick break, We'll be back with
Speaker 2: more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird.
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Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: I don't know about you guys, but there was a
Speaker 4: certain sporting event that happened last Sunday.
Speaker 1: All right, the puppy Moe was called.
Speaker 2: The Super Bowl, the Puffy People, Super superb.
Speaker 3: Superb Owl, superb Owl?
Speaker 4: What did you what Owl? What did you think of it?
Speaker 4: First off, I hate both teams. I mean, I'm a
Speaker 4: Denver Broncos fan, so obviously inherently I have to hate
Speaker 4: the Kansas City Chiefs, all right, But I also hate
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles because I think their fans are terrible.
Speaker 2: Where where was it in four K? People were saying
Speaker 2: I was supposed to get it in four K?
Speaker 1: Well yeah you have to.
Speaker 4: Well, first off, you have to have the ability to
Speaker 4: get four K. So, uh, I have YouTube TV and
Speaker 4: I have the four K plan. The four K feed
Speaker 4: was on Fox Sports, okay, the actual Fox Sports four
Speaker 4: K channel. If you were trying to watch it on
Speaker 4: your local Fox affiliate, you were only going to get
Speaker 4: seven to twenty p as the resolution. Now, some people
Speaker 4: were saying to b was offering it in four K,
Speaker 4: which I did not touch it out.
Speaker 1: It could be too, B's like, it could.
Speaker 2: Be a free like a free service like Pluto and
Speaker 2: some of the other ones that are out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling they would charge for that one.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, but.
Speaker 3: I I did.
Speaker 1: I watched it.
Speaker 4: I watched it on the four K feed on on
Speaker 4: my televisions. And I think the NFL finally realized that
Speaker 4: people were onto them about the referees helping the Kansas
Speaker 4: City Chiefs over the course of the last few seasons,
Speaker 4: because it was a huge social media thing. Everybody's talking
Speaker 4: about the refs and how they're helping the Chiefs. And
Speaker 4: then we get to the Super Bowl and Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 4: the quarterback of the Chiefs, gets blasted in the face
Speaker 4: with an obvious face mask, and the Chiefs and the
Speaker 4: refs are like, I didn't see anything, oh man, And
Speaker 4: so I think the refs are like, hey, look, we
Speaker 4: got you here.
Speaker 1: Now you're on your own.
Speaker 4: And it really honestly showcased how bad the Chiefs really
Speaker 4: are when you don't have the refs working for you.
Speaker 2: You know, upset the Chiefs fans, we're already upset. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, technically though, we're watching the we're watching the
Speaker 2: halftime performance and then into the game afterwards.
Speaker 1: Oh that was good.
Speaker 3: There was a.
Speaker 1: Scene where Gloria said, is that a drug? Do they
Speaker 1: actually fly? And Sean, you would know this.
Speaker 2: Do they fly drones over the playing field or is
Speaker 2: these the ones that are on wires that you're not
Speaker 2: supposed to see?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have to do some research. It's likely
Speaker 3: the skycam. They likely rid multiple skycams. Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: can't imagine they would have gotten permission to fly a
Speaker 3: drone inside the stadium during.
Speaker 4: Well, I think there actually was a it's a I
Speaker 4: think it's a it's a law or something. Well, obviously
Speaker 4: it's a law without drones, but I think there was
Speaker 4: a there's that safety thing. That's why those sky cam
Speaker 4: they they are drones, but they are attached to a
Speaker 4: tether so that the drone can't fly off and hit somebody.
Speaker 3: There there there there. There are four wires right and
Speaker 3: certain spaces of the stadium, and then it's all tracked
Speaker 3: by which reel is pulling in that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of times they'll use multiple so that
Speaker 3: certain ones get certain zones. And it's actually interesting because
Speaker 3: working with in the stadium at nor a name, they
Speaker 3: use skycam or spider cam depending on who's paying for what.
Speaker 3: But they if they're using multiple, they actually have the
Speaker 3: software that maps out by regional values so that they
Speaker 3: can't cross over and cross the lines and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, best commercial for me before we get out
Speaker 2: of here, I gotta say it's got to be the
Speaker 2: Matt Damon commercial, which was just I love that one.
Speaker 1: Did you guys have one?
Speaker 4: The case of the Mondays the Monday Light, the course
Speaker 4: light with the sloths, Oh my gosh, yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: speed Chase and the guy walks in the apartment. He
Speaker 4: throws the can of course light at his friend who's
Speaker 4: a slop and the can goes right by him as
Speaker 4: he's slowly raising his hand. That was my favorite one.
Speaker 4: Or or the Seal, the Seal doing the Mountain Dew
Speaker 4: commercial as an action as seal.
Speaker 1: That a great one.
Speaker 3: You know, I saw a couple in the first half. Yeah. Then,
Speaker 3: like I said earlier in the show, it's been a
Speaker 3: rotating week, multiple weeks of sickness in my family. After
Speaker 3: the halftime show, we were all out. It went right
Speaker 3: right to bed.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Well, I will say that in the in the TV community,
Speaker 3: they're all talking about the score bug, score bug with graphic,
Speaker 3: with the graphic with the score. Oh yeah, how totally
Speaker 3: out of left field that came.
Speaker 1: That was ridiculous with the.
Speaker 3: Everybody thought it was wrong because of the the opacity
Speaker 3: level behind the numbers and the fonts coming off or
Speaker 3: like the text was way bigger.
Speaker 1: It's just so bush league.
Speaker 3: Every tech blog or discord channel that I'm on was discussing, discussed,
Speaker 3: discussing how awful the score bug looked from a TV person, like,
Speaker 3: that's all I was focused on.
Speaker 2: All right, listen, Uh, we're hoping that everybody feels better,
Speaker 2: sean in your household, that they get over this bug
Speaker 2: and that uh, we'll have to next week talk about
Speaker 2: the spy kits that you both got if you had
Speaker 2: some fun with that, So we'll save that for next week.
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Speaker 3: I'm Seonda Weird, and I'm Justin.
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