Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
Speaker 1: I'm Sean de Weird.
Speaker 2: It's just us.
Speaker 1: It's just the two of us today. But you know
Speaker 1: it's probably pretty good because, well, let's face it, Justin
Speaker 1: is not a fan of the Apple.
Speaker 2: And neither's Matt.
Speaker 1: Matt. Really, I thought Matt was kind of like, kind
Speaker 1: of like, no, not at all, man, boy.
Speaker 2: He tolerates it.
Speaker 1: Justin.
Speaker 2: You know, Justin is a cynic for Apple, so real, well,
Speaker 2: he is Apple's biggest critic.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he just doesn't like anything Apple has done.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think the.
Speaker 2: Only thing that he likes that Apple's done is the
Speaker 2: poop emo g. That's how it feels about Apple.
Speaker 1: Well, the cool thing is is I've actually gone back
Speaker 1: to Apple, So I'm kind of like reinvigorating my side
Speaker 1: business that I used to do a lot, graphics and
Speaker 1: design and scanning and all that stuff. I had my
Speaker 1: Skype number, which was a great number, and then of
Speaker 1: course Skype went away Skype. But yeah, exactly, but I
Speaker 1: had paid for my stype's Skype phone number for a year.
Speaker 1: I paid for it and then within two weeks is
Speaker 1: when Skype said, well, we're going away, so I still
Speaker 1: have the phone number, but it said I have to
Speaker 1: have it ported by April of next year or I
Speaker 1: lose it or whatever. So I just decided, you know what,
Speaker 1: I've got this iPhone fourteen Promax that is just sitting here.
Speaker 1: I carry around my you know, Pixel all the time,
Speaker 1: so why not put that Skype number onto the iPhone
Speaker 1: and start carrying that around me. That's a business phone.
Speaker 1: So I'm back into the world of Apple, and I
Speaker 1: gotta say I'm kind of happy about it too. So
Speaker 1: so far, I've not had any spam calls.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So on the topic of Apple, A couple months
Speaker 2: ago they did their software They announced OS twenty six
Speaker 2: and Tahoe and a couple of things. But on the
Speaker 2: ninth they announced this is a hardware announcement, so a
Speaker 2: couple of the big the big key things was new
Speaker 2: AirPod Pro threes oh three new models of Apple Watch,
Speaker 2: three base models of iPhones iPhone seventeen, iPhone Air and
Speaker 2: iPhone seventeen Pro and Promax oh wow, and man it
Speaker 2: some of it's really cool.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering though, like, Okay, on the watches I've got,
Speaker 1: you know, the I Watch. I got one before I
Speaker 1: had switched to the pixel smartphone, and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: glad I still have it. I mean, I use it
Speaker 1: for keeping control, keeping an eye on the heart, and
Speaker 1: you know the blood oxygen which was gone for a while,
Speaker 1: but it's back and it's got Mickey Mouse on it.
Speaker 1: I like it. How can they improve on a watch?
Speaker 1: That's what made me kind of huh. Watches.
Speaker 2: So they had the Watch se which is like their base,
Speaker 2: base level watch, and these all launched September nineteenth, by
Speaker 2: the way. So they had the Watch se which was
Speaker 2: it's they're calling it their budget health conscious watch. Basically
Speaker 2: it's got a budget with all the health features.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: They have the Apple Watch Series eleven, which they added.
Speaker 2: The new thing they added was hypertension tracking, so if
Speaker 2: you have hypertension, it can track and aid you in
Speaker 2: understanding when you're having hypertension or if you're encountering hypertension.
Speaker 2: They added sleep tracking, oh wow, so it can do
Speaker 2: a bigger overall picture of your sleep health. And then
Speaker 2: they have the Watch Ultra three, So the the third
Speaker 2: series of the Ultra which it has satellite messaging, so
Speaker 2: the SOS messaging, but via satellite, so you can do
Speaker 2: satellite messaging from it. And they're touting that the Ultra
Speaker 2: three has a seventy two hour battery life.
Speaker 1: Really on the watch, seventy two hour. So this is
Speaker 1: great if somebody is stuck in the wilderness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this, this one would be if you're
Speaker 2: if you're doing some outdoorsy stuff and you know you're
Speaker 2: out there for a couple of days, you can't recharge
Speaker 2: some stuff. Your your your your watch is going to
Speaker 2: be doing a good job. My watch is pain to me.
Speaker 2: But so those are the watches, right, So those three
Speaker 2: and I don't see the prices on this. I'll have
Speaker 2: to look at the prices again here in a second.
Speaker 2: The first thing they announced was the AirPod Pro threes,
Speaker 2: the third generation of the AirPod pros. I have the
Speaker 2: second gen. I love them. The noise canceling is fantastic.
Speaker 2: They improve the active noise canceling. It can track your
Speaker 2: heart rate through your AirPods. Wait what the AirPods have
Speaker 2: heart rate monitoring built in. So if you don't have
Speaker 2: an Apple watch, but you want to track your exercise
Speaker 2: and your heart rate, the air pods using some sort
Speaker 2: of spatial audio and sensing in your ears can track
Speaker 2: your heart rate.
Speaker 1: Oh that's amazing. Well all right.
Speaker 2: The other cool thing was it's using Apple Intelligence. It
Speaker 2: does live translation. You speak Spanish to me, the AirPods
Speaker 2: will translate it to English.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Now, I've seen some third party devices that have been
Speaker 1: doing this, but this is all going to be included in.
Speaker 2: That, just with the AirPods. So I don't know if
Speaker 2: you have to have a specific version of iPhone for
Speaker 2: it to work. But it was a flagship feature of
Speaker 2: the AirPods standalone. Wow, which was really cool. Now they
Speaker 2: touted that into the iPhones also that you can do
Speaker 2: live translation stuff. So it's got to be paired with
Speaker 2: Apple Intelligence. So you probably have to have an iPhone
Speaker 2: that runs Apple Intelligence. But I don't know. It's to
Speaker 2: be determined whether or not it's it has to I
Speaker 2: don't know, but it's really cool.
Speaker 1: So somebody could be having a conversation with you. You
Speaker 1: just hold up the smartphone and say they're speaking, you know,
Speaker 1: speaking Spanish you don't speak Spanish, or they're speaking you know, Japanese,
Speaker 1: and it would take it and translate it while you're
Speaker 1: wearing the.
Speaker 2: So you speak Spanish to me and then it's like
Speaker 2: a delayed translator in your ear. It translated the Siri
Speaker 2: or whoever your voice will speak to you in your
Speaker 2: native language or whatever language you choose. Right Automa like
Speaker 2: real time, and if both people have AirPods, it apparently
Speaker 2: knows and we'll do it bi directionally.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: So it was pretty impressive to see. I mean, I
Speaker 2: knew it was coming.
Speaker 1: They actually demo because you were able to watch the event,
Speaker 1: which they called the awe Dropping Event a dropping event. Yes,
Speaker 1: you were able to watch the event. Did they show
Speaker 1: that demonstrated?
Speaker 2: I mean they showed some canned videos of it being done,
Speaker 2: but they didn't do anything live. Right, So it's like
Speaker 2: skeptical until I try it. I'd be very intrigued to
Speaker 2: try it. You know, we get some international students and
Speaker 2: it'd be cool to seed we work right, right, So
Speaker 2: the three watches the air pods, and then they announced
Speaker 2: three new versions of the iPhone.
Speaker 1: All right, so you had the.
Speaker 2: iPhone seventeen, which is using the A nineteen chip. It's
Speaker 2: literally a great entry level phone. Everybody's saying, like, there's
Speaker 2: no reason if you're an Apple user and you want
Speaker 2: a great phone, The iPhone seventeen, just the base model
Speaker 2: is going to be fantastic. Everybody was rumored that there
Speaker 2: was gonna be a super thin iPhone, the iPhone Air.
Speaker 2: It's got a five point three millimeter thickness fine point.
Speaker 3: Wow, what really, that's tiny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very very thin. And they're they're touting that
Speaker 2: both sides of the phone, the front and the back
Speaker 2: glass are got this ceramic coating at the atomic level
Speaker 2: or something, so it's super scratch resistant. Super you know,
Speaker 2: they dropped, you know, they were showing them getting smashed around,
Speaker 2: and they had some videos of them getting hit by stuff.
Speaker 2: But then then wounce the iPhone seventeen right, which has
Speaker 2: a redesigned battery for super long battery life. Then they
Speaker 2: announced the iPhone seventeen Pro and the Pro Max, the
Speaker 2: iPhone seven. So the iPhone seventeen has two cameras on it.
Speaker 2: It's got a wide angle and a telephoto. They're all
Speaker 2: all of the cameras on the seventeen. The Air and
Speaker 2: the seventeen Pro are all forty eight megapixel sensors, so
Speaker 2: they bumped up the sensor size significantly in these cameras,
Speaker 2: and there's just a load of features. But the seventeen
Speaker 2: Pro and the Pro Max are all aluminum body design
Speaker 2: because the battery is ginormous in this thing and the
Speaker 2: processing power is huge. They're running the eight the A
Speaker 2: nineteen s or something like that, like the pro version
Speaker 2: of the AA nineteen chip, and you can do so
Speaker 2: much with the camera. You can record four K, one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty frame, you can do pro resira, you
Speaker 2: can do tons of stuff. You can add a black
Speaker 2: Magic Design accessory that will give you genlock, it'll give
Speaker 2: you time code, it will if this is a low
Speaker 2: end cinema camera basically like they are touting this to
Speaker 2: a broadcast level a camera quality. They shot the whole
Speaker 2: presentation on the iPhone seventeen's. All the Apple stuff they
Speaker 2: did was shot on the iPhone seventeens.
Speaker 1: I remember some years ago when they were showing I
Speaker 1: want to say the fourteen and they actually shot an
Speaker 1: entire film using the fourteen and presented that.
Speaker 2: A Yeah, I mean they're all doing it now. Every
Speaker 2: time they launch a new iPhone, somebody shot a movie
Speaker 2: with it. But yeah, so it's got a larger battery
Speaker 2: and it they're saying it'll do up to like thirty
Speaker 2: two hours of video playback. It's crazy how big this is.
Speaker 1: What would be the biggest reason, Sean, just from watching
Speaker 1: this for somebody like you're on the thirteen right, thirteen
Speaker 1: Pro thirteen Pro and I've got the fourteen, What would
Speaker 1: be the biggest reason to update or upgrade from somebody
Speaker 1: who had, you know, a device that was maybe just
Speaker 1: a little a little older.
Speaker 2: Just to get the current gen hardware. I mean, I
Speaker 2: really don't have a desire to move. I don't like again,
Speaker 2: the last phone I had before the thirteen Pro was
Speaker 2: a seven S and that was five generations. I waited.
Speaker 2: Now I'm at the same point where I'm on this.
Speaker 2: I'm on the thirteen. I don't have a reason. But
Speaker 2: the price of the iPhone seventeen was just seven ninety
Speaker 2: nine flat okay for a two hundred and fifty six
Speaker 2: gig based storage, so that they bumped up the minimum
Speaker 2: storage for the iPhone seventeen to two fifty six. Maybe
Speaker 2: a seventeen would have been back go. I don't think
Speaker 2: I don't need the Pro or the Pro Max. I'm
Speaker 2: not doing any of that creative content. I wouldn't need
Speaker 2: to spend twelve hundred dollars on a phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you think these are going to be priced
Speaker 1: for quite higher than what we've already seen. We haven't
Speaker 1: seen the pricing on the smartphones yet, right, or did
Speaker 1: they go ahead.
Speaker 2: The iph the iPhone Air. I was surprised. It was
Speaker 2: just high, to be honest. But it's nine to ninety
Speaker 2: nine for the iPhone Air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think people are used to that now.
Speaker 2: I think the iPhone seventeen Pro was ten ninety nine,
Speaker 2: the air pods were two forty nine, and the watches
Speaker 2: were around the same price there now for current gen
Speaker 2: phone for watches. So, but I mean overall, they touted
Speaker 2: the cameras. The cameras were a big push, right. They're
Speaker 2: all all at this baseline forty eight megapixel. They all
Speaker 2: have two camera more than two or more so. The
Speaker 2: iPhone seventeen and the iPhone Air have the two cameras,
Speaker 2: the one wide angle and the one telephoto so optical zoom.
Speaker 2: The iPhone Air had some other fancy stuff in it
Speaker 2: that just seemed to be five point six milimeters. It's
Speaker 2: titanium six point five inch screen with the one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty hertz refresh. Oh this, the Air has this feature,
Speaker 2: but I don't think the other cameras do dual filming mode,
Speaker 2: so you can record both the front and the rear
Speaker 2: at the same time.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's cool.
Speaker 2: So you can have like you could be filming vertically
Speaker 2: but have your reaction also like a FaceTime almost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll have your little box square. Well, that'll be good.
Speaker 1: Creators will love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's this. They kind of mentioned like this is
Speaker 2: for creators, like the Air was designed for creators because
Speaker 2: it's so slim, it's sleek.
Speaker 1: It's Are they doing anything battery wise with those did
Speaker 1: they mention? I mean, you mentioned that you get some
Speaker 1: pretty long life, so I would have to think that
Speaker 1: they increased it. One of the things I loved about
Speaker 1: the as US phone that I looked at recently that
Speaker 1: one had two batteries in it, so it just really
Speaker 1: gave you long, long battery life for the power you'd
Speaker 1: be consuming on it. I'm wondering if Apple is going
Speaker 1: to be doing the same thing with their they.
Speaker 2: Touted they touted battery life pretty life. They said, Apple
Speaker 2: sites up to twenty seven hours of video playback via
Speaker 2: the internal battery.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: They also now have a rechargeable mag Safe charger. Rechargeable Safe,
Speaker 2: You're chargeable. You can just basically mag safe it to
Speaker 2: the back of your phone and it'll charge your phone
Speaker 2: from the mag Safe right, So you can set it,
Speaker 2: set it down, you know, have it on your desk
Speaker 2: and just drop it on there while you're going or whatever.
Speaker 1: So it's to be plugged in. It could just be
Speaker 1: it's you've charged your mag safe device, you take it
Speaker 1: with you and then you just connect them up and
Speaker 1: it's gonna charge off of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna charge off of the mag Safe device.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it says that you can stretch up the air
Speaker 2: can stretch up to forty hours when you're paired it
Speaker 2: with the mag Safe the mag Safe charger.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: It says the size is a thirty one hundred million
Speaker 2: million battery all day twenty seven hours video playback. And
Speaker 2: size who knows it's probably on like zero percent brightness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, zeros, Yes, size in six inch screens six inch
Speaker 1: and that's on the air.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What about the Pro the seventeen Pro Max, So.
Speaker 2: The I our own seventeen standard is a six point
Speaker 2: three inch OLED display. Promotion one hundred and twenty hertz,
Speaker 2: and this is the ceramics shield. They're called tauting. This
Speaker 2: ceramic shield too, whatever that is where they code it
Speaker 2: with some sort of ceramic thing. Not thirty thousand, three
Speaker 2: thousand nit peak brightness. Thirty thousand would be would be
Speaker 2: blown your face off.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The iPhone seventeen Pro is also the six point three inch,
Speaker 2: matching the size of the standard model super REDNA xdrled
Speaker 2: promotion one hundred and twenty hertz hasn't always on display,
Speaker 2: and a massiveness of the same three thousand nit peak brightness,
Speaker 2: so they're all about the same size. So in terms
Speaker 2: of screen size.
Speaker 1: We talked about AI, and there was word recently that
Speaker 1: Apple was going to be looking at possibly what Google
Speaker 1: is doing with its devices and maybe even integrating the
Speaker 1: Gemini kind of overflow into Apple AI. Today even mentioned that,
Speaker 1: or the only.
Speaker 2: Apple Intelligence mentioned was for the live translation.
Speaker 1: That's it, really, that's it. Well, so I kind of
Speaker 1: I wonder if that would be a letdown for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. That's one of the things about the
Speaker 1: Google Pixel device is the AI capabilities on it have
Speaker 1: been great. I don't get that with Siri, and if
Speaker 1: they were able to take Siri and have that same
Speaker 1: type of experience. And I think maybe some people who
Speaker 1: have already been using you know, whether it be Samsung
Speaker 1: or Google Pixel or whatever, and you're getting the UI
Speaker 1: the AI use out of that would be happy to
Speaker 1: come back to Apple in some cases if they were
Speaker 1: able to, you know, up their game when it came
Speaker 1: to that. But maybe they don't think it's that much
Speaker 1: of an issue.
Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, like I said, the only AI
Speaker 2: mantel for Apple Intelligence was part of the heart reymoditoring stuff,
Speaker 2: just because they've been using it to learn. They did
Speaker 2: a study of like some two hundred thousand Apple users
Speaker 2: for one of the studies, and five million hours of
Speaker 2: heart rate content. The AI can scrape and do all
Speaker 2: this stuff with, right, But yeah, there was nothing Flagship
Speaker 2: except for the translation he was using the Apple Intelligence.
Speaker 2: So there's nothing about chat GPT or any other app
Speaker 2: integration with with AI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking whether it's anthropic or you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's chat gptory. I mean, I have chat GPT as
Speaker 1: an app on my phone, so I mean Sam can
Speaker 1: have that on any device as well, so you could
Speaker 1: always go third party. But I just wonder if Apple
Speaker 1: would gain a little more market share if they were
Speaker 1: to do that. I think they'll still do well and
Speaker 1: especially would this still would not be something to make
Speaker 1: you want to upgrade, upgrade from your thirteen.
Speaker 2: Well, they did say at the end that anybody with
Speaker 2: a thirteen pro or higher can get a significant amount
Speaker 2: of money at Apple towards an iPhone seventeen.
Speaker 1: No, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: So I think it was something like you get like
Speaker 2: seven one hundred dollars for an iPhone thirteen. Wow, But
Speaker 2: I'll look that one up because I don't remember, but
Speaker 2: it was. I was it was kind of like a
Speaker 2: oh yeah, a significant amount of money towards an iPhone seventeen.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: So they covered phones that covered you know, the AirPods.
Speaker 1: Did they go anywhere when it came to max or
Speaker 1: even tablets or that's completely.
Speaker 2: And then I was surprised because there was a there
Speaker 2: was a really really big rumor because they they designed
Speaker 2: a new Uh, all of these phones have their new
Speaker 2: motive in them, their new five G modem. They developed
Speaker 2: their own five G modem. So even the watches that
Speaker 2: have cellular are running their new five G modem. There
Speaker 2: was a big rumor that they were developing a MacBook
Speaker 2: with five G so that you could just have a
Speaker 2: cell phone plan on your MacBook and that's all you needed.
Speaker 2: So and it would be designed around probably the A
Speaker 2: nineteen pro chip also, so it'd be like a a MacBook.
Speaker 2: Everybody's rumoring is gonna be called the MacBook or the
Speaker 2: MacBook light, right or because you can't call the air.
Speaker 2: But but it would be a MacBook five G MacBook. So,
Speaker 2: but I I was disappointed it wasn't anything besides like
Speaker 2: wearably porpherials, watches, air pods, and the phones. But that
Speaker 2: means we're going to get another Mac based keynote at
Speaker 2: some point, right because we had the software one earlier
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: This is this is do those in October?
Speaker 3: Like? But I mean, I mean, I don't know, but you.
Speaker 1: Know, they could have they could have ended it alluding
Speaker 1: to something coming because during the holiday season, that's when
Speaker 1: you know, October you want to hit for Christmas. These
Speaker 1: Friday are going to be out in just days that
Speaker 1: they'll be available for people to purchase. Uh, and again
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's gonna be pretty big. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I definitely want to take a look at it. I'm
Speaker 1: very happy with the fourteen Pro Max that that was
Speaker 1: a great device.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very happy with the with the thirteen Pro.
Speaker 2: It's it's It's done me really well. It does everything
Speaker 2: I needed to. You know, I don't have Apple intelligen
Speaker 2: so I can't do some things. But right, because this
Speaker 2: was the version, it's like the fourteen you can get
Speaker 2: Apple Intelligence.
Speaker 1: But really, I don't know, I just don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm running I'm still running the Developer beta
Speaker 2: and everything's been great. I mean, obviously the first couple
Speaker 2: of days were a little rough with the with the
Speaker 2: issues I had doing that, but other than that, it's
Speaker 2: been great.
Speaker 1: And I have a question though, whatever happened to the
Speaker 1: vision Apple Vision, whatever, whatever happened to the wearable?
Speaker 2: It's going the way of three D TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, nobody.
Speaker 2: Wants to wear have a wearable to watch their content.
Speaker 2: Sure it's immersive and it's cool, but how often is
Speaker 2: it feasible? You're not doing it every time you're watching content, Right,
Speaker 2: You're not watching it when you're watching content with your friends.
Speaker 2: You're not doing it when you're watching content with your family.
Speaker 2: So you're watching all this content by yourself. With the
Speaker 2: wearable on and then you're limited to the that's available
Speaker 2: for it because there's nobody creating the content because there's
Speaker 2: nobody watching the content. So that's the same thing with
Speaker 2: three DTV. Right Everybody got a super hyped because they
Speaker 2: wanted to watch three D sports, but then they realized
Speaker 2: you had to wear the glasses and if people came
Speaker 2: over to watch sports, because sports is social, everybody had
Speaker 2: to wear three D glasses. But then if you sat
Speaker 2: at the wrong viewing angle, it was crap. If you
Speaker 2: stood up, people got sick because the motion. And then
Speaker 2: if the TV wasn't set up right, then it just
Speaker 2: went away. It was the hype. I mean, ESPN did
Speaker 2: World Cup in three D or you know, and they
Speaker 2: had to tune out all the vuvuzelas and like I mean,
Speaker 2: there was this whole thing surrounding like three D three D,
Speaker 2: three D, three D three D, and then it just
Speaker 2: went by.
Speaker 3: Bi Yeah, it was there and it was gone.
Speaker 1: Stopped hearing about it. You know. I've had the question
Speaker 1: in the past two about the Apple Watch. Can somebody
Speaker 1: get an Apple Watch, maybe go into Verizon or motor
Speaker 1: Rope wherever. What if store they shot at and get
Speaker 1: a watch with phone service on it, a cellular service,
Speaker 1: and not have to buy a brand new iPhone.
Speaker 2: I believe you have to have it set up via
Speaker 2: an iPhone. I don't know, right, because I know that,
Speaker 2: like I have my old watch still paired to my
Speaker 2: phone and when I repaired it, it said set up
Speaker 2: this watch for somebody else, right, But it's like, what
Speaker 2: do I You still have to have an Apple ID
Speaker 2: you still have to have the whole thing because it's
Speaker 2: still gonna do I'm messaging and all that stuff. So
Speaker 2: I don't know. I honestly don't know. But it's interesting
Speaker 2: you're not buying an Apple watch if you don't have
Speaker 2: an iPhone, Like that's just not something people are doing.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about the big Apple event. What did
Speaker 1: they call it again? What was it? The awe dropping
Speaker 1: the odd dropping event?
Speaker 2: Based on Justin's reaction that it was pretty minimal awe droppings.
Speaker 1: If you missed any of the event and you want
Speaker 1: to watch it Apple dot com, you go to the website,
Speaker 1: you'd be able to watch it there. We could take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We got a couple of questions on
Speaker 1: the show as well, with more of Tech Talk Radio
Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2: I'm Sean de Weird.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. You can find us on the
Speaker 1: web at tech talk radio dot com.
Speaker 2: Now back to tech talk Radio. Welcome back to tech
Speaker 2: talk Radio. During the break, we had Justin join us
Speaker 2: so he could poo poo all over the Apple event.
Speaker 3: Guys, I have I had the most amazing nap today.
Speaker 3: It was like eleven am until like two pm my time.
Speaker 3: What happened during that time?
Speaker 1: Apple had their big to do event. They're big, you know,
Speaker 1: oh awesome, draw dropping.
Speaker 3: Gosh, darn, I missed it. I was taking a nap. Darn.
Speaker 1: Was there anything you have heard though that made you say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's cool?
Speaker 3: Not a single thing, honestly, I'm not even joking. Honestly.
Speaker 3: I just everything that Apple does. I've said this over
Speaker 3: and over. No, dude, everything that Apple does, Android or
Speaker 3: Samsung or whoever, they've done it before, and Apple's is like, oh,
Speaker 3: that sounds cool. Let's just take it and like put
Speaker 3: a shiny new coat on it and call it ours.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, So they have this translation now going to
Speaker 1: be available in the air the AirPods, which I thought
Speaker 1: was kind of cool, but as so you put it
Speaker 1: you put it, and I know I have an app
Speaker 1: Google Translated app that works, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: it works the same way. But these are designs so
Speaker 1: that if somebody is talking to you, and you know
Speaker 1: your wife Japanese, so if you're talking to somewhat of
Speaker 1: her relatives, that you'd be able to understand what they're
Speaker 1: saying and if they're wearing and they So it's built
Speaker 1: into the the AirPod. Now that sounded pretty ground break.
Speaker 3: Was this? Was this like something they announced today that
Speaker 3: they were being okay? So, uh, three years ago, when
Speaker 3: I first started working at Highland Hills, the very first
Speaker 3: thing I did was we had a trip scheduled to Japan,
Speaker 3: and I went to Japan and I brought along my
Speaker 3: brand new pixel buds. I had just gotten the picks buds.
Speaker 3: It was like the first iteration of the pixel buds.
Speaker 3: Guess what they had Live Translate. I could put a
Speaker 3: pixel bud in. I could put a pixel bud in
Speaker 3: my ear and I have my phone set on Google
Speaker 3: Translate and just do Live Translate, and I would just
Speaker 3: set the phone on the table and the pixel buds
Speaker 3: would repeat back to me in English what was being
Speaker 3: said in Japanese around me. So yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Since twenty seventeen, three years ago.
Speaker 1: More.
Speaker 2: Wow, have supported real time translations.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, breaking news, guys, Apple, Apple invented the
Speaker 3: live translate.
Speaker 1: Breaking Yeah, well we do. Justin might bring us down
Speaker 1: to earth on that excitement. Sorry, it's okay, it's okay
Speaker 1: that that certainly happens.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I mean, I'll be the first person.
Speaker 3: I'll be the first person to give Apple a congratulatory
Speaker 3: you know, rundo of applause if they actually invent something. Again,
Speaker 3: everything they do is been done five ten years ago,
Speaker 3: and they just put a shiny coat on it and says, oh,
Speaker 3: look what we invented. No, you did it.
Speaker 1: So nothing yet that is going to make you say
Speaker 1: I said I got to get an Apple. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: still stick with it. Now, are you getting the ten
Speaker 1: for the Google Pixel? Because I know I have the
Speaker 1: nine and I wasn't sure if I wanted to update,
Speaker 1: and I was telling Justin you, I was telling Sean
Speaker 1: you missed that. I went in and set up a
Speaker 1: second business line and I'm using the iPhone I want
Speaker 1: and use the iPhone Pro Max that I have and
Speaker 1: doing that and the decision, and Glory even asked me,
Speaker 1: she said, well, do you want to go with the
Speaker 1: Pixel ten? I'm thinking, I don't know if there's anything
Speaker 1: that made me say I really want to.
Speaker 3: Well, I normally skip a generation or two. I mean
Speaker 3: I did have the eight pro and then when the
Speaker 3: nine pro fold that's the foldable screen. When that came out,
Speaker 3: I was like, I have to have this. So I
Speaker 3: went against my you know, intuition in my past experiences,
Speaker 3: and I went ahead and I upgraded the very next generation.
Speaker 3: Now do I want to have the ten?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Will my wife kill me if I get the ten? Also? Yes?
Speaker 3: So not gonna get the ten.
Speaker 1: We were hoping to have Matt on because we know
Speaker 1: Matt ordered it, and Matt probably by now has it.
Speaker 1: Has he said anything to you about it?
Speaker 3: Like I haven't talked to him in a couple of days. No,
Speaker 3: I don't know if he actually has it or not.
Speaker 3: But if he does has it, does have it, I'm
Speaker 3: assuming he would probably be reaching out to us and
Speaker 3: saying that you know, hey, this is so cool, or
Speaker 3: you know, oh this this sucks about this or whatever.
Speaker 3: But no, I mean, don't get me wrong, I would
Speaker 3: like it. Now when Google releases a new phone. It's
Speaker 3: kind of the same thing about Apple. There's not a
Speaker 3: lot that they release when they come out with their
Speaker 3: big releases of their flagship phones. It's not like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, all this stuff is new. Google is kind
Speaker 3: of known for just introducing features along the way and saying, oh, hey,
Speaker 3: by the way, we're gonna do live translate now, and
Speaker 3: or or you know, hey, you can buy a pixel
Speaker 3: Watch and not have to have a brand new pixel
Speaker 3: phone like Apple, so that, you know, answer your question earlier, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can buy a pixel Watch and just get service
Speaker 3: on it. You don't have to buy the phone with it. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's kind of interesting. But no, I mean yeah,
Speaker 3: I watched the the Google event and I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's cool, but there's not much else.
Speaker 3: And now I did see something on X. I saw
Speaker 3: a post on X earlier. It was a guy in Chicago.
Speaker 3: I think, what is it. What's that big concert that
Speaker 3: goes on in Chicago every year la Lallapalooza. Yes, Lollapalooza.
Speaker 3: There was a guy who was I want to say,
Speaker 3: probably a mile and a half two miles away in
Speaker 3: a big upper story condo me and he was filming
Speaker 3: the Lollapalooza concert. Zoomed in all the way and it
Speaker 3: said can Apple do this? And it was a pixel phone,
Speaker 3: it was a Pixel nine phone, and they zoomed in
Speaker 3: almost I would say, probably at least a mile, if
Speaker 3: not a mile and a half away, and it was
Speaker 3: really I mean, yeah, obviously a little bit pixelated, but
Speaker 3: it was you could make out what was going on,
Speaker 3: you could make out the crowd, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 3: that was amazing.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is pretty amazing. I will say that the
Speaker 1: camera optics on the Google Pixel are pretty amazing. It's
Speaker 1: funny though, and I don't know if you've seen the
Speaker 1: meme on this. As we get older, the zoom feature
Speaker 1: on the smartphone is super important because that's what we
Speaker 1: used to read labels. Yep, it's true. I don't know
Speaker 1: when when's the expiration date on this? I am constantly
Speaker 1: going to the fridge taking a picture zooming in. You know, Okay,
Speaker 1: got to throw this thing away. You know, I should
Speaker 1: probably do that more often. Actually, what I've been doing
Speaker 1: is I just I look around him, like, where's my
Speaker 1: nearest pair of reader glasses? Because I've got like seventeen
Speaker 1: pairs around the house, like strategically placed.
Speaker 3: Wherever I need him, right exactly, And I just grab
Speaker 3: my reader glasses and do it. But yeah, no taking
Speaker 3: a picture and then to zooming in on it, that
Speaker 3: makes more sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, best way to get you to that, seun.
Speaker 3: No, oh that's right, you're young, all right.
Speaker 1: We did get a listener question, and I want to
Speaker 1: help this guy out, real cool guy. He actually called
Speaker 1: the station while I was on the air, and I
Speaker 1: called him after I got off the air. So he's frustrated.
Speaker 1: He keeps getting pop ups from McAfee on his computer.
Speaker 1: Been that way for a couple of weeks, he said,
Speaker 1: and to the point where it's almost thirty a day
Speaker 1: and it's asking for him to click and pay to
Speaker 1: remove a virus on his system. So he doesn't want
Speaker 1: the program. So he said that he knows he has
Speaker 1: seat cleaner and AVG on the system. So I kind
Speaker 1: of talked him through and when we went to the
Speaker 1: ad removed programs so he could get rid of McAfee.
Speaker 1: It's not even installed on his computer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that's he's obviously got a piece of malware.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I reached back out to him after, you know,
Speaker 1: talking to you guys, and I told him, I said, well,
Speaker 1: if anything malware, but it could also be a browser extension.
Speaker 1: And there have been some reports lately on browser extensions
Speaker 1: being abused and people getting you know, getting scamped by these. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm wondering, can we what would be your best
Speaker 1: exploited explanation for somebody who doesn't know what is a
Speaker 1: browser extension.
Speaker 2: It's like a plug in for your browser. I can
Speaker 2: add on it. Does they do certain things like you
Speaker 2: can get them for ad block, you can get them
Speaker 2: for paywall, you can get them for dark mode, you
Speaker 2: can get him for all sorts of stuff. But browser
Speaker 2: extensions are this generation's starch engines, search engine tabs, or
Speaker 2: whatever you call. It's like when people would download the
Speaker 2: search engine extension for your browser and you'd have a
Speaker 2: Yahoo want an excite wana? Oh yeah, you know, you'd
Speaker 2: have four search bars at the top of your browser.
Speaker 2: So extensions are just kind of a new version of those.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I'd go that far behind it,
Speaker 3: but I see where you're going with it, and I
Speaker 3: somewhat agree. But extensions consider multiple purposes. And the thing
Speaker 3: about extensions, though, is you know, I don't know what
Speaker 3: browser you're using, Firefox, Edge or Chrome. Most of these
Speaker 3: extensions should be already vetted by the browser the company
Speaker 3: that makes the browser, whether it be Google or Mozilla
Speaker 3: or Microsoft. However, if you're getting extensions from random places
Speaker 3: or going to a website and it's like, hey, this
Speaker 3: website has an extension, do you want to install it?
Speaker 3: And you click yes, you could very well be getting malware.
Speaker 3: And that's obviously what's going on here. You've got a
Speaker 3: piece of malware that is pretending to act as an
Speaker 3: antivirus and it's not, and you need to get rid
Speaker 3: of that that malware.
Speaker 1: What is the best way to clear a kind of
Speaker 1: an extension is actually just to go into your your management, right,
Speaker 1: I mean it's or or I recommend him getting malware bytes,
Speaker 1: and there's a tool that malware bite has that that
Speaker 1: can root out some of the evil extensions that are
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now, some of these, some of those malwares, I'm
Speaker 3: not saying all of them, but some of those malwares,
Speaker 3: if you try to put on like malware bytes or
Speaker 3: something after the fact, it can actually interrupt the installation
Speaker 3: and prevent the installation from happening. So you got to
Speaker 3: be careful about because so if you have a sophisticated
Speaker 3: piece of malware, which likely what you got is probably not.
Speaker 3: It's one of those just simple, you know scams where
Speaker 3: you're gonna call somebody and andkay, we'll remove this malware
Speaker 3: for a fee of you know, one hundred dollars, and
Speaker 3: then they're actually just going to get in and steal
Speaker 3: your money. So I would obviously not call the phone number.
Speaker 3: I would not do anything with that. I would try to,
Speaker 3: like Andy said, get malware bytes or something like that.
Speaker 3: You can even if you have a friend that is
Speaker 3: good with computers, you could even have them install on
Speaker 3: a safe, brand new you know, flash drive malware bytes
Speaker 3: so that it could be installed and bypass the actual
Speaker 3: you know, downloading, which can then redirect. So you've got
Speaker 3: to be careful about that, and careful about some of
Speaker 3: the websites you're going to if you're going through this,
Speaker 3: because those websites could be redirected by whatever malware is
Speaker 3: sitting in your browser. Extension extensions could be handy. I
Speaker 3: mean I use one pass.
Speaker 1: It's great to be able to you want to pull
Speaker 1: up your password, you could open open up your browser
Speaker 1: extension and do it that way, you know, and grab
Speaker 1: that and always have access to that. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: could be. That could be a little challenging. And he's
Speaker 1: noticing it and he's not clicking on it, and that's
Speaker 1: what you never want to do. So that's that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. So hopefully Dick is a guy's name. It
Speaker 1: lives out here in Green Valley, So hopefully this will
Speaker 1: will help them. And I told him to let me
Speaker 1: know what the next step is for him. We had
Speaker 1: another one from Nancy, but we're actually out of the
Speaker 1: almost out of times.
Speaker 3: Well, I was just gonna say something else, a totally
Speaker 3: another story here. Yeah, let's go for it. It's a
Speaker 3: little bit technology related. But as of this recording, today,
Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos announced they're building a brand new stadium
Speaker 3: that's going to be top of the line. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be every top technology everywhere. It's going to make Sofi Stadium,
Speaker 3: which is the most technology technologically advanced stadium. It's going
Speaker 3: to make it look like abandoned warehouse.
Speaker 1: Now, this is what is the one in Vegas, right.
Speaker 3: No, Sofi is the one in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: In La Okay, Vegas.
Speaker 3: They just built No, no, no, and no, that's that's
Speaker 3: for the A's. Yes, the one that's built for the
Speaker 3: Raiders is an allegiant stadium.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So this new one in Denver is
Speaker 1: going to be. Now where is it going to be.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be just right across the street from the
Speaker 3: current one mile. They bought a big, massive facility called
Speaker 3: Burnham Yard, which is an old, old, old train station
Speaker 3: rail line. It's actually older. Burnham Yard is older than
Speaker 3: Denver itself. And so that rail yard is now going
Speaker 3: to be repurposed into not only just a stadium, but
Speaker 3: an incomplete district. It's going to have housing, it's going
Speaker 3: to have restaurants, it's going to have entertainment. It's going
Speaker 3: to have and the stadium all by the way, is
Speaker 3: going to be retractable roof. So then we can have
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl, we can have the Final Four, we
Speaker 3: can have WWE, WrestleMania, we can have all kinds of
Speaker 3: other stuff that can happen year around and make Denver
Speaker 3: once again an entertainment destination, not just oky let's go
Speaker 3: to the mountains and go skiing. But this venue is
Speaker 3: going to have amazing technology behind it. And honestly, you
Speaker 3: got to look at is if you don't know who
Speaker 3: owns the Denver broncos it is the richest owners in
Speaker 3: NFL history. It is the Walter Penne Group. Now Walton
Speaker 3: who Walton, Sam Walton, the owner of Walmart. It's her,
Speaker 3: It's his daughter who's married to Greg Penner, and they
Speaker 3: are the richest owners. I think it's a net worth
Speaker 3: of eighty seven billion dollars.
Speaker 1: This chunk a change, yeah.
Speaker 3: And there there's this stadium is estimated to be between
Speaker 3: four and six billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Amazing. All right, we'll come back. We'll take Nancy's question
Speaker 1: with more of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm justin.
Speaker 3: Let me send us an X at tech talk Radio.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back and now back to tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: And in this week, in the latest episode of the
Speaker 3: Internet Never Loses. So a couple what was it last week?
Speaker 3: Last week there was a Marlin's Phillies baseball game, and
Speaker 3: there was a wholesome moment where a dad, a dad
Speaker 3: caught a foul ball and gave it to his son
Speaker 3: and was hugging his son. And it was kind of
Speaker 3: a cool father son moment. And then Karen, which I
Speaker 3: think that's her name, we're just gonna call her. Karen
Speaker 3: walks over to the guy and demands the ball and
Speaker 3: says that that's my ball, and the father's like, what
Speaker 3: are you talking about? It didn't it didn't you didn't
Speaker 3: have it. It wasn't yours. It came from the field.
Speaker 1: And she got right in his face.
Speaker 3: She got right in his face, yelling and screaming at him,
Speaker 3: and he was like, you know what, fine, just take
Speaker 3: the ball, take the ball and leave. Go, go go.
Speaker 3: And so she got the ball and she walked away
Speaker 3: all happy that the.
Speaker 1: Little boys to celebrating his tenth birthday.
Speaker 3: Yes, look on his face, yeah, he was so he
Speaker 3: was so deflated about it. Well it ends in a
Speaker 3: good story though, because after that happened the Marlins, even
Speaker 3: though he was a Phillies fan, the Marlins actually went
Speaker 3: up to there and gave him a goodie bag and
Speaker 3: gave him forgot about that. Yeah, he gave him a
Speaker 3: goodie bag of all kinds of Marlins gear and everything.
Speaker 3: And then after the game he got to go backstage
Speaker 3: or behind the scenes in the player's tunnel and meet
Speaker 3: Harrison Bader, the guy that hit the home run that
Speaker 3: the kid would have had, and he gave him a
Speaker 3: signed bat, a batch better than the ball. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: And and but here's the the best part about this.
Speaker 3: Though the Internet never loses, the Internet has went after
Speaker 3: this woman tried to figure her name out. I think
Speaker 3: they actually did figure her name out, but I don't
Speaker 3: know it, and we're not gonna say it on air here,
Speaker 3: But all of the memes that have been going out
Speaker 3: over this, it is so hilarious. Like, for one, they
Speaker 3: released a picture of a spirit Halloween costume and it
Speaker 3: was called Baseball Karen and it was literally a Karen
Speaker 3: haircut with glasses and a Phillies a shirt and a
Speaker 3: pair of ripped jeans and it says, ball not included.
Speaker 3: You can't tell me we're not going to see a
Speaker 3: kid come into the house on Halloween dressed in that.
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 3: I would love to see that, to be honest, I
Speaker 3: would get I'd probably give them all my candy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then and then also somebody actually redid the the
Speaker 3: cover of Angels in the Outfield, a movie from Disney,
Speaker 3: and put Karen's in the outfield and put her picture
Speaker 3: on it, and then I see another picture of Charlie
Speaker 3: and what was that.
Speaker 1: Willy Way the original Willy.
Speaker 3: Walker when when Charlie pulls out the golden ticket and
Speaker 3: he's looking at it, somebody superimposed an image of the
Speaker 3: lady tapping him on the shoulders saying, give me back
Speaker 3: that golden ticket. Trouble, you took it from me.
Speaker 1: I saw another one with they, uh, you know, dogs
Speaker 1: play frisbee, you know, coster frisbee and the dogs will
Speaker 1: catch it, and it was her catching a frisbee and
Speaker 1: the dog jumping in the air next room with this
Speaker 1: surprised look on his face. Yep, it's just like you said.
Speaker 1: The Internet doesn't give up, and people have been really
Speaker 1: creative and some of these memes, the AI that they've
Speaker 1: created with this has been like, wait, did that really happen?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 1: What the heck is that?
Speaker 3: It's yeah, this is this is crazy, but there's so
Speaker 3: much it's so it's so entertaining. The Internet just never loses.
Speaker 3: I saw a basically uh an AI reenactment of it.
Speaker 3: Somebody posted the video to AI and said and said,
Speaker 3: I want you to redo this in the style of
Speaker 3: Lord of the Rings and so it showed the lady
Speaker 3: taking the ball from the guy, and then the camera
Speaker 3: artificially zooms in on her face as she's walking back
Speaker 3: to her seat, and the lady transforms into Gollum yes,
Speaker 3: and then takes the ball and looks at it and says,
Speaker 3: my precious.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing though, all right, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it, maybe I'll get some hate, but it did
Speaker 1: look like the ball was right where she was.
Speaker 3: It landed the roque.
Speaker 2: It's called the spirit of baseball, right. Everybody knows if
Speaker 2: there's empty seats and a file ball comes, you're running
Speaker 2: over to try and get it right. Just every time
Speaker 2: a baseball goes into the stands, you have to expect it.
Speaker 2: Everybody's going for it.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. She claims that she owned those
Speaker 3: seats in front of her, even though nobody was sitting there.
Speaker 3: She said, those were my seats. That's what she said,
Speaker 3: Those were my seats. Tough bleep, yeah exactly, Like I'm
Speaker 3: sorry nobody was sitting there. I don't care if you
Speaker 3: owned the whole stadium, like tough, the ball is there,
Speaker 3: nobody's there. It's it's first come, first served. But but
Speaker 3: the thing is is everybody's talking about this father, the
Speaker 3: one that got the ball for his son, and they're
Speaker 3: saying that took the.
Speaker 1: Ball out of his glove. Yeah, well I took He
Speaker 1: took the ball out of the glove and he handed
Speaker 1: it back to the lady and was like, get out
Speaker 1: of here.
Speaker 3: They're all saying the same thing. They're saying, the guy
Speaker 3: handled it. Well, the guy handled it with clasped, with dignity.
Speaker 3: He taught his son a lesson about how to just
Speaker 3: you know, deal with situations that arise like this and
Speaker 3: how to remain calm. And all I could keep thinking
Speaker 3: was I would not be handling it the same way.
Speaker 2: No way, man, I would not.
Speaker 3: God love this guy, but I will getting in that
Speaker 3: lady's face.
Speaker 2: You run up to me, put your hands on me,
Speaker 2: and start yelling at me. Oh yeah, oh that's a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is exactly what.
Speaker 3: We're gonna fight. We're gonna fight.
Speaker 1: I almost think she grabbed his arm.
Speaker 3: I don't know, she grabbed his arm and kind of
Speaker 3: pulled him over, and that's why he was like what
Speaker 3: what what? And he kind of like because he had
Speaker 3: his eyes closed and he woke up and he's like, well, whoa,
Speaker 3: what's going on? Because he was surprised, because who's grabbing
Speaker 3: my arm and pulling me away? Like she didn't get
Speaker 3: cold cocked? Oh, I mean that's what I was just
Speaker 3: about to say. I was like, if that was me
Speaker 3: and somebody pulled on my arm like that, I'd be like, bam,
Speaker 3: oh sorry.
Speaker 1: Imagine though, this little ten year old, even though that
Speaker 1: he was bummed out for for a bit, he's gotten
Speaker 1: much better than he would have got. I mean, the
Speaker 1: ball would be one cool thing, you know, but now
Speaker 1: he's got a bad he's got you got a chance
Speaker 1: to meet his favorite players.
Speaker 2: Off the spirit of baseball, right, It's like these things
Speaker 2: happen and to get the fans engaged. These are little
Speaker 2: things that help people remember the sport.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so ask you how long will it take the
Speaker 1: Internet to leave her alone?
Speaker 3: It was just, oh, they won't do every meme. It's
Speaker 3: she's canceled like literally hashtag it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It's gonna it's gonna be a Phillies meme for the
Speaker 2: rest of the Phillies existence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even at the end of the year. Easily easily.
Speaker 1: I tell the other, the other the one that maybe
Speaker 1: kind of laugh was the the cold Play the guy
Speaker 1: who was at the cold Play concert that was obviously
Speaker 1: not doing what he should be doing, right, and he
Speaker 1: was hugging somebody that worked for him and they just
Speaker 1: looked too clot something or other. Yeah, they put they
Speaker 1: put her in his arms.
Speaker 3: In the Seriously, I gotta find that one.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a page dedicated to these beams.
Speaker 1: You know, something happens the next thing, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just like again it does not forget a very good
Speaker 1: point on that. All right, let's see if we get
Speaker 1: to if we get to Nancy's question really quick that
Speaker 1: she had, it.
Speaker 2: Better be about baseball. Nancy.
Speaker 1: It's not sorry, Nancy's in an old stomping ground, a
Speaker 1: ranchom arg She said. Help. You've mentioned in the past shows,
Speaker 1: and now I finally decided to take my music off
Speaker 1: my CDs. Is there a way to do this that
Speaker 1: I could do myself?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Built in built in really.
Speaker 2: When just the built in media player just rip click rip.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if she's running Mac or Windows,
Speaker 1: but it's say, if she's running Windows.
Speaker 2: Is there is the real question is does your computer
Speaker 2: have a CD drive?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, forgot about that point?
Speaker 2: Is it. Is it a laptop? Is it a desktop? Right?
Speaker 2: You can get portable USB CD drives. They're not. They're
Speaker 2: relatively inexpensive the Mac. The Mac super Drive will work
Speaker 2: on a PC if you have a Mac super Drive.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean you're looking at maybe spending thirty
Speaker 2: forty bucks on a USB CD drive that you can
Speaker 2: just pop.
Speaker 1: It makes one too pop in the.
Speaker 2: Disc you open up the media player. I'd have to
Speaker 2: look at it specifically. But that's how I did it.
Speaker 2: It's how I ripped allmine. I have a tower on
Speaker 2: the back with a CD drive in it. Dropped it
Speaker 2: in Rip hit rip. It takes six seven minutes to
Speaker 2: rip it out. It's connected to the internet. It'll pull
Speaker 2: down album information for you and everything you get. Rip go,
Speaker 2: rip go, rip go.
Speaker 1: No, I want to. I do want to recommend, though,
Speaker 1: if anybody is going to be doing this, not only
Speaker 1: save it on your your drive. You could save it
Speaker 1: to cloud if you have the cloud storage to do that.
Speaker 2: Drive it or get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean I guess you could, but or
Speaker 1: get a one TERRORBYT or two terrorbyte drive or even higher,
Speaker 1: depending on how many songs or how many CDs you have,
Speaker 1: and you could do that as well and be able
Speaker 1: to save that so that we always have a redundant copy,
Speaker 1: because nothing worse than doing all that work and then
Speaker 1: something happening to your computer and losing the hard drive
Speaker 1: and you lose all of those images or those the
Speaker 1: the audio.
Speaker 2: Windows Media Player, well rip so if Windows eleven, uh,
Speaker 2: Windows Windows Media Player VLC, you can also rip them
Speaker 2: from VLC.
Speaker 1: Oh. VLC is great. I've actually I had all these
Speaker 1: old flash videos, you know, shockwave Flash, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: how am I ever going to look at these again?
Speaker 1: And then somebody said, well, wait, just use VLC. I
Speaker 1: had no idea VLC. Well, Bobby does it. I know that,
Speaker 1: but you got to pay for that VLC, don't.
Speaker 2: Vlc's the Swiss Army Nets, the Swiss Army Knife of
Speaker 2: the Internet, and that's what they call it. It'll play
Speaker 2: literally almost every video or audio FI you can think
Speaker 2: of that exists.
Speaker 1: I want to say again some time here, I've been
Speaker 1: delving deeper into Riverside FM, and I got to just say,
Speaker 1: that's the program we use. It's not an FM radio station.
Speaker 1: Riverside FM is what we're using for the video production
Speaker 1: of the show. We used to use well, we've used
Speaker 1: many over the years, but recently we were using Skype,
Speaker 1: and then we use Zoom, and then we would take
Speaker 1: Zoom and we'd put it into Opus clips and we
Speaker 1: would pay a lot for zoom in low quality. And
Speaker 1: we're not even talking you know standard.
Speaker 2: Don't like three sixty p.
Speaker 1: It was awful. It was like an old webcam and
Speaker 1: how people would take videos of this and then we
Speaker 1: would pay, you know, a fee per month to opis.
Speaker 1: We found Riverside does all of it, does editing, does
Speaker 1: the whole bit. But recently we had a situation and
Speaker 1: where on the show, and I got to figure out
Speaker 1: way I could post this. Uh, you guys, Amanda has
Speaker 1: been on the show. I cent her the video on it.
Speaker 1: We've been. She's been trying to get me to watch
Speaker 1: that new show you guys were talking about a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, the one the musical that is on Netflix
Speaker 1: that everybody's talking about. Yeah, I still I still haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet. Right. She every day is asked me,
Speaker 1: have you seen it yet? Have you seen it yet?
Speaker 1: So I said this with her. We did a show
Speaker 1: and I remember, Sean, you were in the back of
Speaker 1: the room. Uh, and we started the show and you
Speaker 1: had to run back to the microphone. And during that
Speaker 1: she started laughing. We were all laughing, and she said,
Speaker 1: you know, at least I didn't and she used an expletive,
Speaker 1: we can't say here, mess it up or she said,
Speaker 1: didn't do that this time, and it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: we just started from scratch. Well I still had that clip,
Speaker 1: so I put it in the Riverside FM and I
Speaker 1: took that bad word that she said that we can't
Speaker 1: repeat here, and I changed it to mess it. Ai
Speaker 1: took her voice, recreated it and replaced that word with
Speaker 1: the word mess and completely fixed it up.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: I tried it again on justin you said one a
Speaker 1: few weeks back, did the same thing. Yeah, completely cleaned
Speaker 1: it up and it was you can't even tell.
Speaker 3: I want to see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Riverside FM is is pretty amazing. And he will
Speaker 1: even clean up audio. So if you're doing audio, do transcriptions,
Speaker 1: you can do it. I can do a teller prompter
Speaker 1: on it. I mean the whole bit. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a program to use for doing any kind
Speaker 1: of podcasting or video, it can work for you.
Speaker 3: That sounds it's awesome. Hey, remember, uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: bought this the camera that I'm using right now this
Speaker 3: He asked me, what are you using? So it's the
Speaker 3: Sony A seven Mark four. I bought it last well,
Speaker 3: actually no, I bought it earlier this year. It is
Speaker 3: probably like April.
Speaker 2: Or something like that.
Speaker 3: M hm, no, no, I'm sorry, No, I bought it
Speaker 3: last last last anyway, yeah, last year. Yeah, I did
Speaker 3: great camera. It's a really nice mirrorless full frame camera.
Speaker 3: Got an extra lens on eBay that was really nice
Speaker 3: for it. Anyway, during that process, I registered the camera
Speaker 3: with Sony because you know, they're like, hey, extra warranty
Speaker 3: register you get a Sweepsteaks. Well I won a five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars gift card and I was like, wow, this
Speaker 3: is crazy. So I actually used it. I don't remember
Speaker 3: what I bought with it, but I bought some stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Come fast forward to early July. I get another email
Speaker 3: from Sony Sweepstak saying, hey, you just want a gift card,
Speaker 3: a five hundred dollar gift card, and I'm like, wait,
Speaker 3: what can I win?
Speaker 1: Twice?
Speaker 3: So I responded back and said yeah, I'll take it,
Speaker 3: and they're like, okay, cool. Allow six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: So what do you give with the five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, this five hundred dollars, I actually just bought a
Speaker 3: new piece of tech and it's actually going to be
Speaker 3: here tomorrow. I bought a new three D printer.
Speaker 1: Oh, but now, what happened to your last one?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I still have it, but it's old.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like the one I had was an
Speaker 3: Ender three. It was kind of probably second generation of
Speaker 3: three D printers. I mean it was, you know, no
Speaker 3: no auto bed leveling, which is a big thing, only
Speaker 3: one piece of filament per I had to upgrade the
Speaker 3: crap out of it just to be able to make
Speaker 3: it work right, right, Anyway, this new one is much better.
Speaker 3: It's not quite as big as the end of three,
Speaker 3: but it does automatic bed leveling, which again is very
Speaker 3: very important. If you want your three D print to
Speaker 3: turn out proper, the bed that it rests upon has
Speaker 3: to be one level at all times, and so this
Speaker 3: will automatically do it for you, and so that's nice. Also,
Speaker 3: it's completely enclosed with its own filtration system, so I
Speaker 3: can do not only just PLA printing, which is kind
Speaker 3: of the weaker more hobbyist quality of filament. I can
Speaker 3: do ABS, which is more industrial strength. If I want
Speaker 3: to put some really good quality builds out there, I
Speaker 3: can use ABS, and I can use it in an
Speaker 3: enclosed space without having to worry about filtration.
Speaker 1: Wow. Pretty good stuff. So if you decided what's gonna
Speaker 1: be your first project.
Speaker 3: Uh, well, my first project is to figure out where
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put it. Because my old computer desk that
Speaker 3: I had had a nice little side area that I
Speaker 3: could have my three D printer on. But now with
Speaker 3: this new layout, I don't have anywhere that I can
Speaker 3: put a three D printer. So I am just not
Speaker 3: sure what I'm gonna do with it. But my first
Speaker 3: print in the bedroom yeah yeah, right, well the right
Speaker 3: in the kitchen table. Yeah, mice is gonna love that.
Speaker 1: What I used to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, So I think my first print that I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do, I think I'm gonna do probably some more
Speaker 3: like towel hangers, or like a doorstop for the house,
Speaker 3: because I got a bunch of doors in the house
Speaker 3: that we like to keep the windows open and the
Speaker 3: door's automatically shut because of the windflow. So having some
Speaker 3: more doorstops would be nice.
Speaker 1: But then I want to.
Speaker 3: Use it for just random random things I find on
Speaker 3: thing of verse and three D printable printables dot Com
Speaker 3: is another website. So yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Or we'll have to talk more about that next week
Speaker 1: on the show.
Speaker 2: The benefit is that somebody else has already designed it right,
Speaker 2: so you don't have design it like the That's that's
Speaker 2: the beauty of the Internet. You can just search for
Speaker 2: it cool, download the download the s A or whatever,
Speaker 2: the sl T, s TL, STL, yep, put it, put
Speaker 2: it in the slicer, print.
Speaker 3: Yep, exactly, and and and I don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about design, like you said, but if I want to,
Speaker 3: I might start dabbling an auto fusion or something like that.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, all right, we're gonna take another quick great week,
Speaker 1: come back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
Speaker 1: all right'm sewing to weird and I'm justin Let me
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Speaker 3: We'll be right back and now factor tech talk Radio.
Speaker 3: Every week, Andy's always asking us, you guys got a
Speaker 3: website of the week, A website of the week, website, website, website, website, website,
Speaker 3: I Browns the same, like ten websites like every single day.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't go and scour the internet like Andy does. No,
Speaker 3: but I did. I actually came across a website that
Speaker 3: I wanted to share with you all. And if you
Speaker 3: are old school video gamers, I'm talking like Dossor or
Speaker 3: Windows ninety five or Windows ninety eight, there's a website
Speaker 3: that has digitally recreated the boxes for all of these
Speaker 3: video games that came out I think right now, as
Speaker 3: of now, he's got over one thousand boxes filling up
Speaker 3: his quote unquote nerd wall into shiny three D. So
Speaker 3: if you go to a website called Big Box Collection
Speaker 3: dot com again, it's Big Boxcollection dot com. These games
Speaker 3: back in the day, back in Windows ninety five, Windows
Speaker 3: ninety eight, they came out in these like basically like
Speaker 3: dictionary sized boxes. That's huge. They were huge. I mean
Speaker 3: they were like, yeah, like dictionaries. So what he's done
Speaker 3: is he's taken all of these old video games and
Speaker 3: digitally scan them, and you can actually move the box
Speaker 3: around and if it has like one of those opening
Speaker 3: cover flaps, you can actually open the cover flap and
Speaker 3: look at it. But he has scanned everything, not just
Speaker 3: the front and back, but it is a full three
Speaker 3: D rendering of all like over a thousand different classic
Speaker 3: games like Privateer. My God, there's Hecks, There's Diablo, Wizard Warriors,
Speaker 3: the original Doom.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite? Did you have a favorite box?
Speaker 3: I'd have to say, well, Diablo. Diablo two was really
Speaker 3: really cool, I'd have to say otherwise, besides that grand
Speaker 3: Theft out of Vice City for me was this different
Speaker 3: because it had all these cartoon looking characters on the
Speaker 3: front of it, but it was just such an unimposing box.
Speaker 3: But when you actually played the game, you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: my god.
Speaker 1: To of mine, to of mine, need for speed And
Speaker 1: then I even put this on my wall at the
Speaker 1: station that I worked at, Redneck Rampage. Oh oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I just absolutely loved that one.
Speaker 3: They even have the original Zork like Zork, which was
Speaker 3: Did you have.
Speaker 2: Favor Diablo too? The Diablo, the Diablo series books boxes
Speaker 2: are really cool. I mean I still have my Diablo
Speaker 2: two boxes.
Speaker 1: Right, So, what's a website address? Again?
Speaker 3: One last time? It is Big Boxcollection dot Com.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for this week's Tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2: I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin.
Speaker 3: Let me find us on the web at tech talk
Speaker 3: radio dot com. Have yourselves great week. We'll see you